The eco-friendly pair renovated much of the home, updating the property with green amenities like solar power.

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Rooms are filled with local art collected by the current matriarch, Dagmar Meneghello, whose daughter Romina manages the property, and this pair of friendly eccentrics lend the place lots of character and soul.

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At their last conference, they showed off a special pair of Internet friendly glasses.

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But pair a Windows-friendly smart phone--such as a Palm Treo 750--with a foldable keyboard, and you're almost in road-warrior nirvana.

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The outfit just introduced a pair of touch-friendly, Win 8-ready all-in-one desktops, the 23-inch Aspire 5600U and the 27-inch Aspire 7600U. As you can see in the press shots, the design here is fairly minimal, with an edge-to-edge display, a transparent panel at the bottom of the bezel and a thin frame measuring less than 1.4 inches thick.

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Now you can pair up any bluetooth-friendly keyboard with your iPhone.

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The Cost understandably finds the band harboring more commercial ambitions than usual, even re-casting a pair of Swell Season songs as radio-friendly mid-tempo ballads, but no one involved has forgotten Hansard's odd ability to sound sweetly romantic, big-hearted, self-deprecating and emotionally stunted at the same time.

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European data were euro-negative, while the U.S. data certainly were dollar friendly and this has added some strength to the greenback side of this pair.

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