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bI don#039;t know if any of you ever saw, installed, any Nafco solid vinyl tile, but the kind that I have is 1/4quot; thick and when installed correctly looks like ceramic tile with a grount line. When the tiles were NOT butted up against one another it left a huge gap, butted together you could NOT see where they were joined, but be that as it may, I want to replace it and it has a texture like solid ceramic tile and I am not sure I can lay a floating floor over it as it seems that some of the image of the Nagco would sort of quot;bleed throughquot; the new floor. I have not talked to an experienced installer or seller of a product that can be installed over solid vinyl squares, so i don#039;t know where I stand on that. I know it sounds like it would be the way to go, but I don#039;t have but one opening to the kitchen that is of the dining room which is connected to it by a short hallway. These rooms are floored with Bruce engineered glue down herrinbone flooring. Right now there is NO height difference between the Nafco flooring and the wood flooring. I am quite certain that what ever I put in this kitchen would have the appropriate reducer strip to connect the two different floorings, but since I have not picked a flooring, I am at a loss to know how to handle that issue. I just want this stuff taken UP, and another floor put in my small kitchen that will be easy to clean and give me a normal , what ever normal will be, years of service for a really nice looking floor that is not too hard to clean and not too hard for a DIY to install. My hubby has taken on some really difficult DIY projects and they have come out very good, but he is not in a position at the present time to do much of any kind of flooring work. So I am just trying to find out what would be the nicest looking floor to put in kitchen that occasional splashes of water would not ruin and would be pretty easy for a DIY to install. My budget is not set, so for now price is not an issue, since I am not going to be installing marble, granite,onyx,or anything of that nature. So ANYTHING you all could suggest or point me in a direction that will eventually take me to a solution to my kitchen flooring needs would be gratly appreciated. Sorry for such a long post, Patricia in La. [FONT=quot;Franklin Gothic /bMediumquot;]

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pThe German finance ministry denied the reports on Saturday. Reuters news agency quoted a ministry spokesman as saying: quot;We are not aware that this is being planned.quot; /ppEuropean Commission spokesman Jonathan Todd said: quot;The commission stands ready to act if necessary. Technical work is ongoing and has not yet been concluded. All the rest is speculation.quot; /ppAlongside the relief package, the commission is working on tougher rules to monitor fiscal discipline among eurozone countries, said Olli Rehn, the commissioner for economic and monetary affairs. /ppquot;The Greek case is a potential turning point for the eurozone,quot; he told the Guardian newspaper, adding that failure would quot;do serious and maybe permanent damage to the credibility of the European Unionquot;. /ppThe deal would have to be constructed to get around rules governing the euro currency which prohibit a bail-out for a country on the brink of insolvency. /ppGreece#039;s austerity measures have sparked protests and nationwide strikes. /ppEuropean Union rules state that no nation in the euro bloc should have an annual budget deficit which is higher than 3% of its gross domestic product. /ppGreece has pledged to reduce its deficit from 12.7% to 8.7% during 2010. Its long-term plan aims to cut the budget shortfall drastically, to less than 3% by 2012. /pp/p

pKevin Watkins#039; article linking RBS to tar sands developments in Canada was highly misleading and ignored the billions of financing RBS has provided to renewable power projects (A fund for climate chaos, 5 March)./ppWatkins states: Since recapitalisation, has been bankrolling some of the world#039;s most ecologically destructive investments. RBS is a global leader in underwriting loans for companies such as Shell and Conoco Philips, exploiting oil tar sands in Canada#039;s Alberta province. Detailed analysis by People and Planet, the environmental organisation, documents a tar sand portfolio that has grown by $2.7bn since the government bailout./ppWe carefully assess the environmental credentials of the companies we do business with. RBS has no such portfolio and has not provided any finance directly to tar sands projects in the last three years ndash; contrary to Watkins#039; assertion that large parts of our energy financing go directly to tar sands. Watkins also states that RBS#039;s record in this area is an open and shut case ndash; a surprising claim given his lacknbsp;ofnbsp;discussion with us or consideration of our role in renewablesnbsp;financing./ppWatkins declares that RBS could be gearing its lending towards support fornbsp;anbsp;low carbon transition strategy fornbsp;Britain. If he had investigated further he would have found that over the past five years we have been ranked consistently in the top five lenders globally to renewables, well ahead of any other UK bank./ppIn response to Watkins claim that RBS is subverting national policies on climate change, I want to make it completely clear that RBS fully understands the problem and we are contributing to the solution. Since 1998 we have financed over 8,800MW of wind generation globally ndash; more than twice the total installed UK wind generationnbsp;capacity./ppAt the end of last year, we were chosen as one of three banks to participate in a wind financing scheme backed by the European Investment Bank that will make up to pound;1.4bn available to onshore wind power projects innbsp;the UKnbsp;over the next three years. These are not the actions of a bank intent on funding climate chaos, as Watkinsnbsp;putsnbsp;it./ppBut there are other issues to contend with. If we could treble our renewables financing overnight, we would. Unfortunately there are just not enough viable projects needing finance because of issues over planning, grid connections, cost and technology risks. We are closelynbsp;involved in helping to remove these barriers, as highlighted in our submission to the recent Environmental Audit Committee./ppThe reality is that, whether we like it or not, our society is currently dependent on hydrocarbons. The transition away from them will require co-operation between governments, power companies, local communities and ultimately the end consumer. We are determined to play our part but oversimplification of the issues will take us nowhere./p