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<title>Frances Rivetti: Off The Cuff: Comments</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Frances Rivetti scribbles daily on-line and for a variety of magazines, periodicals and newspapers throughout Northern California wine country and beyond. Trained as a general news reporter in rural Cambridgeshire, England, back in the late 80s, she duly discovered a very personal preference for uncovering the peculiarities of daily life over the deliverance of scandal and scoop. With some twenty plus years of international freelance &apos;lifestyle&apos; journalism and public relations shaping the way she looks at community life, this long-time British American is deeply rooted along the edge of rural West Petaluma, juggling the daily adventures of her three school aged sons, antics of a hobby winemaker husband, wine country cooking and catering to a unruly menagerie of assorted family pets. &apos;Off the Cuff&apos; is Rivetti blogging in her own backyard!]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Blogger's Backyard]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Back on board for New Year 2009, Petaluma writer, Frances Rivetti is blogging again in her own backyard......]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Karen Nau: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Wecome back, Frances!  I love to read what you, the boys and that Italian husband are up to!  Happy New Year's!</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:39:10 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Packing Away Petaluma's Holiday Heritage]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2312179</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Twelfth Night's done and dusted - finally time for the festive deco to take a break!]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Maureen: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>I am so glad to see you back Frances!  Your story tells of a great tradition - one my family waits for each year.  It just isn't Christmas until you see their display up in all its glory.</i>]]></description>
<comments><![CDATA[http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2312179]]></comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:28:09 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Flight of the Green Fairy]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2313188</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Almost a decade after its ban in the United States, the legendary &quot;Green Fairy&quot; may be fluttering her mysterious wings over Foundry Wharf in the near future....]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Frank Simpson: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Oh My! You have triggered a long ago college memory...a memory that attaches one more word to absinthe...>> frappe. A delicious but almost "lethal" refreshment, if you get my drift.</i>]]></description>
<comments><![CDATA[http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2313188]]></comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:07:31 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[A Blogger's Backyard]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2312172</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Back on board for New Year 2009, Petaluma writer, Frances Rivetti is blogging again in her own backyard......]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Frank Simpson: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Yikes! I had to rub my eyes.  Nice to see you here again...though I followed your blogging exploits elsewhere.</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:20:29 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Asphalt City]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2316252</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Last chance to take action as a community against an invasion of industrial grade factory smoke, non-stop noise and a never ending rumble of heavy truck traffic.]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Carol: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Once again the NIMBY's have struck.

It is very evident that there are some people that have only looked at half of the pie as mioptic people do.

This plant will NOT operate 24/7, there aren't that many paving jobs going on now or in the future.  Can it operate for a 24 or longer period? Yes.   ...</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:10:04 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Petaluma Parking Etiquette]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2315584</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Taking two wheels is one way to combat an over-zealous city parking ticket campaign, just don't stop frequenting downtown biz.<br />]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>DA: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Don't complain about a ticket, if you do the crime, you need to pay the fine!
It has nothing to do with City Hall shortfalls, it has to do with &quot;everyone&quot; having the chance to park near a store they want to go to. If you are parked over the time limit, you are taking my right to park away.  ...</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:16:05 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[A Blogger's Backyard]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2312172</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Back on board for New Year 2009, Petaluma writer, Frances Rivetti is blogging again in her own backyard......]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Heather Irwin: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>I'm so glad you're back Frances. I love reading your blog. Now, can we get Meloni back too? :)</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:10:24 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Paper Chase]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2317949</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>What's the skinny on the slimline new Press Democrat?]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Dan Lyke: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>The last time I bought a Press Democrat, we needed wrapping material. We started with the advertising sections, and the rest of it hung around for a week while we claimed that we were going to get around to reading it, but eventually it ended up in recycling.

And yet here I am reading your blog post,  ...</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:01:12 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Asphalt City]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2316252</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Last chance to take action as a community against an invasion of industrial grade factory smoke, non-stop noise and a never ending rumble of heavy truck traffic.]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>saltman: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>Yes, blinders. Well, you brought the subject up. are you talking about the kind of blinders the Bush administration has used for the past eight years to deny global warming? Or just the kind of blinders that continue to allow people to find a new industrial use for the rivers which used to have Salmon,  ...</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:19:36 GMT</pubDate></item>
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<title><![CDATA[Raising The Age of an American  Rite of Passage]]></title>
<link>http://rivetti.petaluma360.com/default.asp?item=2319973</link>
<description><![CDATA[<b>Summary: </b>Last weekend's tragic death of a Petaluma teen in a road traffic accident poses more questions on raising the age of an American rite of passage.]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Commented By: </b>Dude: ]]><![CDATA[<br/><b>Comment: </b>First, drivers education needs to go back into our school system and the money diverted from the program must be returned to the program.

I am not opposed to a graduated license system.  I am opposed to raising the age limit for a license.  Kids need experience, which translates to better drivers  ...</i>]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:53:18 GMT</pubDate></item>
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