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Q Re: getting rid of gophers, I used to have gophers, and a dog that would turn their tunnels into trenches in my yard, until I came up with a solution that solved two problems. Put the dog poo down the gopher hole and use the hose to push it down the …
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Their neighbor has a very lovely swimming pool with no fence around it and I'm afraid that my grandson will get out of the house and be attracted to the lovely water. Is the homeowner responsible for making his pool inaccessible to others? …
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Of course, this was very attractive to my brother-in-law, who is currently working at a fast-food restaurant. The man was very aggressive in convincing my brother-in-law to consider working for WFG. When my brother-in-law first told me about this, …
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The baseball team at Serra-San Mateo can give longtime coach Pete Jensen a going-away present tonight: His fourth Central Coast Section championship. The Padres (28-7), seeded fourth in the Div. I tournament, will play 10th-seeded Archbishop Mitty-San …
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Since she doesn't own a credit card, I purchased the Safeway American Express gift card for $100 for her travel expenses. I asked her to try using the card before her trip, and both times the message on the card read it was "inactivated. …
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All proceeds from the event benefit EMQ FamiliesFirst, which assists children and families in crisis situations by finding them medical aid, mental health treatment and temporary housing, among other programs. The Campbell-based group aids more than …
Boston Globe, United States
By Noah Bierman, Globe Staff Governor Deval Patrick asked his transportation secretary today to review last week's Green Line crash and the MBTA hiring policies that allow operators as young as 18 years old to control trolleys. "I have had 18-year-olds …
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Federal Telegraph and Telephone is founded by Stanford graduate student Cyril Ewell to commercialize arc transmitter technology developed by Valdemar Poulsen. Stanford's first president, David Starr Jordan, was an investor. The first Stanford doctorate …
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Ars Technica, MA
R&D spending for the quarter was up by $20 million, as it was last quarter. Of course, the company has managed its money so that it's now sitting on a bankroll of $29 billion, so raising R&D by a tiny fraction of that isn't all it might be. …
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San Jose Mercury News, USA
By Kurtis Alexander - Sentinel staff writer SOQUEL — The battle over rent control at the Alimur Mobile Home Park will come to a head this week, as will a test of a new county law designed to protect affordable housing. The owner of the Soquel Drive …