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Firma Google wystartowała z własnym systemem płatności, który otrzymał nazwę Google Checkout. Nie jest on wbrew oczekiwaniom, konkurencją dla systemu PayPal, lecz ma za zadanie jedynie pośredniczyć pomiędzy użytkownikami Google a sklepami internetowymi.
Wystarczy, że raz zapiszesz informacje o numerze karty kredytowej czy dane osobowe w preferencjach konta Google, a firma automatycznie załatwi za ciebie wszystkie płatności online. Sklepy internetowe chcące współpracować z nowym systemem będą musiały dodać specjalną ikonkę Google checkout. Dzięki nowej usłudze Google internetowe tranzakcje staną się jeszcze bezpieczniejsze, ponieważ numer karty kredytowej nigdy nie wyjdzie poza konto Google Accounts.
Użytkownicy otrzymają również do dyspozycji szczegółową historię zakupów dokonanych w różnych sklepach. Nowy system płatności będzie również korzystny dla właścicieli e-sklepów - opłaty za tranzakcje mają wynosić 20 centów oraz 2% wartości zakupów, co jest sumą niższą od tych pobieranych przez operatorów kart kredytowych.
System rozliczeń firmy Google jest także połączony z systemem reklamowym AdWords - przy reklamach będą wyświetlać się specjalne ikonki informujące o współpracy z Google Checkout. Nowa usługa jest na razie dostepna jedynie na terenie USA, lecz zapewne w niedługim czasie zostanie udostepniona reszcie świata.

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Days are getting shorter, temperatures dropping and evenings are much cooler. Typical sign that the autumn is coming.
But who doesn`t love this beautiful season when it`s still sunny, leaves are changing colours and start to fall? The smell of autumn is in the air. Probably September will bring you such feeling. But what with other months like October or November when it`s closer to winter and weather, so as your comfort, is getting worse and worse? You get sick all the time, almost everyday your shoes are covered with mud, and you are seeking desperately for heat. Try to cope with that!
Autumn is a time to focus on preventing or responding to colds, coughs or sore throats. And for people already predisposed to lung problems, such as pneumonia or emphysema it`s necessary to take precautions to minimize vulnerability as we advance towards winter. To avoid getting sick, keep your neck, wrists, and ankles from being exposed to wind and drafts. This is a likely way for an illness to start.
You should keep in mind that the quickest way of getting cold is walking with your feet wet. In order to protect them from the water it`s worth to wear some waterproof shoes like wellingtons which you can change at work. And if you also have problems keeping your floor clean at home, buy a good door mat which will help preserving your floor from getting dirty.
It`s very important to drink lots of fluids to make sure that your skin doesn`t get dry because of the wind. Don`t forget about good diet, eat vegetables like carrots, onions, potatoes. Avoid spicy food that could irritate your lungs and make them more vulnerable to pathogens.
To support your immunology system try to keep your body fit. Start running or going to the gym. If you don`t have time for that just take a short walk.
But when you get back home, tired and totally wet because of the rain (that took you out of guard) take a hot bath that will make you warm. If it`s a fragranced bath you will feel relaxed. You will be also pleased to have a nice cup of ginger tea, with honey and lemon, and sit by the fireplace. Doesn`t have such a fireplace? Just light candles and sit on a comfortable floor mat with a person you love. this will surely change a horrible day into a romantic evening.
Do not forget about the entertainment that might cheer you up and during the weekends do anything you like. Sleep as long as you wish, and if the sunny Saturday or Sunday happens take as much as you can from it. Go for a trip to nearby park and delight warm you get.

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It`s obvious that everybody needs water to live. We all use it to drink, wash ourselves, make laundry. In other words: water means living. But many years ago people were not aware that water supplies need to be clean. Hygiene was at a very low level. Not before nineteenth century when the epidemics of cholera and typhoid started, people thought about ability of water to transmit diseases. After that scientists have focused on disease-causing microorganisms and the water treatment era started.
Throughout all the years, while human knowledge increased, we still care about our water to be clean, but the problems have changed. Nowadays, we need to deal with the various hard water issues. And what `hard water` is? This phrase is used to describe water with high levels of dissolved minerals, specifically calcium and magnesium. Hard water may cause many different problems. The mentioned minerals, during the heating process, form a visible scale in pipes, kettles and dishwashers. As a result, the scale is clogging the pipes and the efficiency of heat that it is needed to make water hot is increasing, therefore it can bring much higher bills. Other problem is that hard water lowers the standard of living. Clothes laundered in hard water usually feel harsh and scratchy. Dishes have spots when got dry. And after washing hair in hard water they might feel sticky.
Are there any tips on how to manage with that? There are few options that you might choose when you care about your water. For example you can change your water detergent for a special one which can be used on any level of water hardness. You might as well use more detergent as it was written on a box, which will give more suds. To remove scale from dishwashers and kettles the rinse agents or a vinegar will be a good solution. But if you want to do something more you have to buy a special appliance. It might be a water softener, that works by replacing the calcium and magnesium in the water with sodium. Although, sodium in a high level isn`t healthy, the appliance have to be refilled with salt, and it is relatively expensive.
An other method is buying a magnetic conditioner that treats water with a strong magnetic field. As a result, the chemical complexes, that could break down, remains in suspension and don`t form crusts on the surface. But to have benefits from it you have to install not one device but few of them. And it is working only partially in good conditions like ideal flow of water. An alternative to all of this might be such device as Scalewatcher, that works similarly to a magnetic one but sends much stronger signal, remains water treated for a few days, reducing the amount of scale and one unit might be used in whole house.
So think over your situation and choose the best method for yourself.

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You use them everyday and they are almost all around. In different shapes, sizes and colors with one name - table. Word `table` comes from Latin as it meant `a board, flat piece`. The shortest definition might say `furniture; piece of horizontal surface, standing on leg(s), used to hold objects`. Now designing and making tables became an art. It`s not only useful thing anymore but also an element of decoration.
Changes in social habits, industrial development brought many modifications in the look of furniture and tables, obviously. Early tables, made by Egyptians and Chinese, were platforms of stone used only to put something on them (not to sit around) or to practise writing or painting (in the second case). Romans and Greeks used their tables for eating so as monk`s in Middle Ages. But in this period tables weren`t popular. Mostly made of wood, designed only for aristocracy, kings, queens and of course for monk`s. There were four leged, big, heavy and rectangular oak tables in monasteries which served gatherings and eating. This usage left during the centuries and tables become more popular. And in 17th century, as it was common to eat in the dining rooms, tables changed their shapes. They started to be smaller and more comfortable, oval and round. In the same time appeared three leged tables. Next age brought a totally new usage of tables - they became a place of work for women who sewed.

Nearer our times tables started to vary. Altough the purpose of eating left, tables are used in other practical and unpractical ways, for example to put map, computer or puzzles on it; as a piece of art and sometimes even as a place of sexual intercourse. Different types of tables have their own unique names, shapes and functions like: low, designed for a living room, coffee tables; big drawing tables, for a technical drawings; chess tables, with a special boards to play, or small, standing against the wall console tables .
As it was said at the beginning, the attitude towards making tables changed. And it refers to all types of furniture. Now making furniture is not only an industry but it`s equal to any other kind of art. Closer to this century also some materials used for modern furniture changed. We have leather, fabric, mesh, metal, microfibre, and wood. Very popular is making furniture from glass, steal and metal. People are giving much more attention to what it looks like than what it was made for. More important became a special design of the furniture. In a result we have even seperate occupation as designer furniture , whose job is to make our tables more beautiful and original.

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The Christmas holidays in Scotland were different many years ago as they are now.
Christmas itself was until recent times a purely Religious festival (the New Year, now called Hogmanay, was and still is the main holiday for Scots). It was forbidden to celebrate Christmas until 1950. This ban lasted for about 400 hundred years because of John Knox, the religious reformer in Scotland, who had a big influence on Scottish Church, and probably because of him the ban was strictly enforced in law. Until the sixties last century Christmas wasn`t even a public holiday so people barely celebrate it. Adults were working although the children had their presents. It looked as if you could almost say: `Wanna have a real traditional Scottish Christmas? Go to work on Christmas day!` But most of people didn`t like that and nowadays Christmas looks pretty much the same as the US version.
And Scottish Christmas are a combination of different customers from Europe and USA. In result everything goes around shopping, food, Christmas tree and decorations.
Shopping heat begins very early - just before Halloween when shops start filling up with a variety of gift ideas. Shopping centres are decorated with fairy lights putted not just into the trees but almost everywhere. And also as in America Santa appears in shopping centre and children can stand in the queue to tell him what they want for a Christmas gift, and are given a small toy.
One of the signs that the Christmas are coming is that the neighbours are decorating their houses. They are doing it usually with light up musical Santa`s climbing into windows and fake snow being rolled out across roofs. The smallest one can join in the countdown by using advent calendars, which have little doors that opens for every day in December with a little chocolate in it and picture behind. The calendar is ending on Christmas Eve. Of course on this day children are thrilled with excitement of waiting for presents, usually left under the Christmas tree. Sometimes kids can find their presents the next day - in stockings filled by Santa during their sleep. On Christmas day all family is gathering around the table, eating turkey, pudding or chocolate cake (Swedish Yule log), drinking wine or champagne, and hopefully waiting for snow.
So as you can see it looks just like in any other country in Europe or in USA. The things that are unique for Christmas in Scotland are beliefs associated with Scottish Christmas like `Bees leave hives Xmas Morning` or a Black Bum cake. There are also scottish gifts. Only in Scotland you might get for a present: original scotch whisky, wool kilts (in Tartans or in solid colors), and even picnic Blankets or a Scotland`s Unique Cat Breed - the Scottish Fold. And also specific is that the presents are opened very carefully to make sure that the wrapping paper can be used once again.

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