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Proverbs 13-15 English Standard Version (ESV)
13 A wise son hears his father's instruction,
but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.
2 From the fruit of his mouth a man eats what is good,
but the desire of the treacherous is for violence.
3 Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life;
he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.
4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing,
while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.
5 The righteous hates falsehood,
but the wicked brings shame[a] and disgrace.
6 Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,
but sin overthrows the wicked.
7 One pretends to be rich,[b] yet has nothing;
another pretends to be poor,[c] yet has great wealth.
8 The ransom of a man's life is his wealth,
but a poor man hears no threat.
9 The light of the righteous rejoices,
but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.
10 By insolence comes nothing but strife,
but with those who take advice is wisdom.
11 Wealth gained hastily[d] will dwindle,
but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.
13 Whoever despises the word[e] brings destruction on himself,
but he who reveres the commandment[f] will be rewarded.
14 The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life,
that one may turn away from the snares of death.
15 Good sense wins favor,
but the way of the treacherous is their ruin.[g]
16 Every prudent man acts with knowledge,
but a fool flaunts his folly.
17 A wicked messenger falls into trouble,
but a faithful envoy brings healing.
18 Poverty and disgrace come to him who ignores instruction,
but whoever heeds reproof is honored.
19 A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul,
but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools.
20 Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise,
but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
21 Disaster[h] pursues sinners,
but the righteous are rewarded with good.
22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children,
but the sinner's wealth is laid up for the righteous.
23 The fallow ground of the poor would yield much food,
but it is swept away through injustice.
24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son,
but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.[i]
25 The righteous has enough to satisfy his appetite,
but the belly of the wicked suffers want.
14 The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down.
2 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
3 By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back,[j]
but the lips of the wise will preserve them.
4 Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
5 A faithful witness does not lie,
but a false witness breathes out lies.
6 A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain,
but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
7 Leave the presence of a fool,
for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
8 The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way,
but the folly of fools is deceiving.
9 Fools mock at the guilt offering,
but the upright enjoy acceptance.[k]
10 The heart knows its own bitterness,
and no stranger shares its joy.
11 The house of the wicked will be destroyed,
but the tent of the upright will flourish.
12 There is a way that seems right to a man,
but its end is the way to death.[l]
13 Even in laughter the heart may ache,
and the end of joy may be grief.
14 The backslider in heart will be filled with the fruit of his ways,
and a good man will be filled with the fruit of his ways.
15 The simple believes everything,
but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
16 One who is wise is cautious[m] and turns away from evil,
but a fool is reckless and careless.
17 A man of quick temper acts foolishly,
and a man of evil devices is hated.
18 The simple inherit folly,
but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
19 The evil bow down before the good,
the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
20 The poor is disliked even by his neighbor,
but the rich has many friends.
21 Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner,
but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
22 Do they not go astray who devise evil?
Those who devise good meet[n] steadfast love and faithfulness.
23 In all toil there is profit,
but mere talk tends only to poverty.
24 The crown of the wise is their wealth,
but the folly of fools brings folly.
25 A truthful witness saves lives,
but one who breathes out lies is deceitful.
26 In the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence,
and his children will have a refuge.
27 The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life,
that one may turn away from the snares of death.
28 In a multitude of people is the glory of a king,
but without people a prince is ruined.
29 Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding,
but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
30 A tranquil[o] heart gives life to the flesh,
but envy[p] makes the bones rot.
31 Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker,
but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
32 The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing,
but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
33 Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding,
but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.[q]
34 Righteousness exalts a nation,
but sin is a reproach to any people.
35 A servant who deals wisely has the king's favor,
but his wrath falls on one who acts shamefully.
15 A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
2 The tongue of the wise commends knowledge,
but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
3 The eyes of the Lord are in every place,
keeping watch on the evil and the good.
4 A gentle[r] tongue is a tree of life,
but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
5 A fool despises his father's instruction,
but whoever heeds reproof is prudent.
6 In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,
but trouble befalls the income of the wicked.
7 The lips of the wise spread knowledge;
not so the hearts of fools.[s]
8 The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him.
9 The way of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but he loves him who pursues righteousness.
10 There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way;
whoever hates reproof will die.
11 Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the Lord;
how much more the hearts of the children of man!
12 A scoffer does not like to be reproved;
he will not go to the wise.
13 A glad heart makes a cheerful face,
but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.
14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,
but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
15 All the days of the afflicted are evil,
but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.
16 Better is a little with the fear of the Lord
than great treasure and trouble with it.
17 Better is a dinner of herbs where love is
than a fattened ox and hatred with it.
18 A hot-tempered man stirs up strife,
but he who is slow to anger quiets contention.
19 The way of a sluggard is like a hedge of thorns,
but the path of the upright is a level highway.
20 A wise son makes a glad father,
but a foolish man despises his mother.
21 Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense,
but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
22 Without counsel plans fail,
but with many advisers they succeed.
23 To make an apt answer is a joy to a man,
and a word in season, how good it is!
24 The path of life leads upward for the prudent,
that he may turn away from Sheol beneath.
25 The Lord tears down the house of the proud
but maintains the widow's boundaries.
26 The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord,
but gracious words are pure.
27 Whoever is greedy for unjust gain troubles his own household,
but he who hates bribes will live.
28 The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer,
but the mouth of the wicked pours out evil things.
29 The Lord is far from the wicked,
but he hears the prayer of the righteous.
30 The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
and good news refreshes[t] the bones.
31 The ear that listens to life-giving reproof
will dwell among the wise.
32 Whoever ignores instruction despises himself,
but he who listens to reproof gains intelligence.
33 The fear of the Lord is instruction in wisdom,
and humility comes before honor.
Psalm 2 English Standard Version (ESV)
The Reign of the Lord's Anointed
2 Why do the nations rage[a]
and the peoples plot in vain?
2 The kings of the earth set themselves,
and the rulers take counsel together,
against the Lord and against his Anointed, saying,
3 "Let us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us."
4 He who sits in the heavens laughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.
5 Then he will speak to them in his wrath,
and terrify them in his fury, saying,
6 "As for me, I have set my King
on Zion, my holy hill."
7 I will tell of the decree:
The Lord said to me, "You are my Son;
today I have begotten you.
8 Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,
and the ends of the earth your possession.
9 You shall break[b] them with a rod of iron
and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel."
10 Now therefore, O kings, be wise;
be warned, O rulers of the earth.
11 Serve the Lord with fear,
and rejoice with trembling.
12 Kiss the Son,
lest he be angry, and you perish in the way,
for his wrath is quickly kindled.
Blessed are all who take refuge in him.


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nvarchar column in a table with some values. Most of the time it is a human-readable string, but occassionally it is XML (in case of some inner exceptions in the 3rd party comp).
As a temporary solution (until they fix it and use string always), I would like to parse the XML data and extract the actual message.
Environment: SQL Server 2005; strings are always less than 1K in size; there could be a few thousand rows in this table.
I came across a couple of solutions, but I'm not sure if they are good enough:
- Invoke
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- Write managed code (in C#), again exception handling and see if it is a valid string.
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Religion is supposed to be a private thing, a path on which you walk alone to find yourself. By making it a community affair, religious places often create disturbance for people who are going about their business. Rather than strengthening one's relationship with self, religion, today, has crassly turned outwards. More than bringing peace to people's life modern form of religions are creating more pollution in our already over-polluted country by using loudspeakers in religious processions, bursting firecrackers etc.
But to criticize a religious practice is India, no matter how inconvenient it is for the rest of the world, is never well-received. But breaking the trend is a Gurudwara in Ullahsnagar near Mumbai. The Amritvela Gurudwara has been holding satsangs over bluetooth headphones for more than two years now so that they do not add to city's noise pollution charts. How amazing is that?
"Earlier, we used to conduct the satsang over loudspeakers," says Hoshiar Singh Labana of the Amritvela Pariwar, "This would disturb the residents, as the locality is densly populated. So we introduced headphones and now people come to see this novel practice. We also use instruments that make a softer sound."
For the past two years, they have been distributing bluetooth headphones so that devotees are free to move around, and yet absorb the Gurbani and sermons.
Devotees also welcome the innovation. "We enjoy the same experience we would get through a loudspeaker. We are happy with the use of technology," a disciple says. "The effort has helped notably in reducing noise pollution and its definitely an example to others," says another devotee.
The municipal corporation of Ulhasnagar had suggested the Sikh community to distribute around 10,000 earphones to its devotees. Mumbai High Court has praised the corporation's effort and the community's support for this social initiative.
Sometime back Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam had tweeted against the use of loudspeakers by mosques for azaan calling it a forced religiosity, fetching him hate and threats. But he stood his ground and extended his comment to all religions. A few other B-town personalities like Javed Akhtar and Suchitra came out in support voicing similar thoughts.
It is vital to understand the need of cutting down pollution in this modern world. And religion being the biggest influencer on people can help shape this as a people's movement. People are free to follow their religion but in harmony with others and their comfort. We look forward to the day when all religious places adopt new methods and focus on the journey that is inward.


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Back in the 1950s and 60s, the paparazzi were a welcome group of photographers in Hollywood. Stars like Frank Sinatra would let them know where they'd be ahead of time and would show up, happily pose for photos and then be on their way. There were no high speed car chases or stalking involved, and both parties respected the other for their craft. Nowadays, that notion of mutual collaboration has gone completely out the window.
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10 Tori Spelling - 2011
9 Nicole Kidman – 2013
During New York Fashion Week in September of 2013, Nicole Kidman was entering an upscale hotel when a paparazzo named Carl Wu slammed into her on his bike at 20 miles per hour. He had been pursuing the actress' car in an attempt to get valuable photos of her. When she emerged from the vehicle, Wu's brakes failed and he lost control of the bike, knocking the actress off her feet. The paparazzo ended up paying a visit to the local police station and Nicole Kidman pressed charges against him.
8 Ryan Reynolds – 2015
Earlier this year, Ryan Reynolds was in Vancouver to film the movie Deadpool. Between February 28th and April 11th, he was stalked by a paparazzo named Richard Fedyck. The two ended up running into each other in a gated parking garage, where an argument ensued and ended with Fedyck hitting Reynolds with his car then speeding off. The actor suffered significant back and knee pain and has since filed a restraining order which prevents the paparazzo from coming anywhere near him or taking his photo.
7 Reese Witherspoon – 2005
In 2005, Reese Witherspoon was having a birthday outing for her six-year-old daughter at a Disney theme park when a paparazzo named Todd Wallace approached the actress to try to get a photo. Because there were several children around, Wallace shoved his way through them in order to try to get his shot – hitting a five-year-old boy across the face with his camera. He then began to push and shove Reese Witherspoon's friends and swear loudly in front of the kids. Wallace was subsequently arrested on six charges of battery.
6 Lindsay Lohan – 2005
While Lindsay Lohan is no stranger to controversy, an incident with a paparazzo in 2005 is probably the first and only of her legal woes that can be blamed on somebody else. After a high-speed rush hour pursuit, the photographer purposely crashed his car into the actress' Mercedes in an attempt to get a photo of her. Lohan was making a U-turn at the time and the photographer intentionally drove straight into the driver's side of her vehicle. Prior to the crash, the actress had called the police to say that she was being chased. The paparazzo had an outstanding warrant for his arrest on a narcotics charge and was later released on $35,000 bail.
5 Arnold Schwarzenegger – 1998
In 1998, a judge in California found two photographers guilty for falsely imprisoning Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife. The two paparazzi boxed the actor's car in with two of their own cars and would not let him leave for an extended period of time. Schwarzenegger felt as though they were about to be kidnapped and the two photographers took photo after photo of the couple as they were trapped. The actor had just underwent heart surgery a week prior and his wife was pregnant, so the U.S. court seem to have come down particularly hard on the culprits to set an example for the rest of Hollywood.
4 Jennifer Aniston – 1999
In 1999, actress Jennifer Aniston was minding her own business and sunbathing topless in her backyard when a slimy paparazzo made his way into her neighbor's yard by scaling an eight foot wall and took long-range photos of her through a high powered special lens. The pictures were then published in several magazines, prompting Aniston to sue the photographer. While the star made off with a half million dollar out of court settlement, she'll always have to live with knowing that there are photos of her in only her underwear floating around in the world. Invasive to say the least.
3 Sean Penn – 1986
In 1986, actor Sean Penn returned to his hotel room in Macau, China after a long day of filming for the movie Shanghai Surprise. As he walked into the room, a man lunged at him and Penn and his assistant grabbed him – suspecting that he was a burglar. They dangled him by his ankles from a ninth floor balcony before realizing that he was paparazzi. The two men were arrested on attempted murder charges but later ended up breaking free from their jail cell (true story!) and fleeing to Hong Kong, where they were later pardoned.
2 Justin Bieber – 2013
In 2013, a paparazzo named Chris Guerra was killed while trying to take a photo of what he thought was Justin Bieber's white Ferrari which had been pulled over for a routine traffic stop on New Year's Day in LA. While trying to get his shot, Guerra was struck by another car which sped off in a hit and run. The Ferrari in question didn't even belong to Justin Bieber and Chris Guerra had put his life at risk for the opportunity to get a valuable photo of the singer. Ultimately and sadly, he was killed for his reckless actions.
1 Princess Diana – 1997
Perhaps the most infamous instance of the paparazzi going too far is Princess Diana's death in 1997. After having sent out a decoy vehicle ahead of them in an attempt to evade the paparazzi, Princess Diana was being driven across Paris with her then boyfriend Dodi Fayed when a group of photographers realized which car she was in. A high speed car chase ensued, with seven paparazzi tailing the Princess' car. At the entrance to a tunnel, her driver lost control of the vehicle and collided head on with a cement pillar at 105 km/h. Diana's boyfriend and her driver were killed while a personal protection team member survived. The Princess later died at the hospital from her wounds and the photographers who had been pursuing the car were arrested at the scene. The incident is still considered the worst paparazzi incident of all time, even though the driver of Diana's car was intoxicated at the time of the crash.
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Deidre Brock, MP for Edinburgh North and Leith, has called for Edinburgh residents to join the campaign to dump the rape clause in tax credits. She said that people power was needed to help reject plans from the Tory government to restrict tax credits to two children and introduce a "medieval" clause for vulnerable women.
Last year the UK Government announced plans to restrict tax credits to two children and force women to provide evidence of exceptional circumstances, like proving the third child was born because of rape, for other children. After 15 months of SNP campaigning, there's been a partial climb-down from the UK Government as it has put the policy out to public consultation. Deidre is calling on constituents to have their say in the consultation to make sure the plan is scrapped.
Ms Brock said:
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"Limiting families to two children is a callous attempt at social engineering by this Tory Government. To ask a victim of rape to prove to bureaucrats that that's how her child was conceived is just disgusting - a child is a child and should be valued as such; they never chose how they'd get made.
"The policy is out to consultation now so the public has a chance to let the Tories know what they think of it. I'm asking everyone to respond, tell the Government that all children deserve our respect, and help defeat this appalling Tory proposal."
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Yes, I have a list of things that I want to do before leaving (it also includes places for trips). There goes that list making… I told you that I was Queen of Lists! 🙂
This last Tuesday night, I had my Junior League meeting and it was held at the Royal Overseas League in Mayfair. It was very pretty and the Drawing Room was gorgeous!
Our meeting didn't last near as long as they normally do… And let me tell you why!
We had a reserved spot at MAHIKI!!!! This is a place that I have wanted to attend for years (yes, even before moving here) in the Mayfair area. Here is a picture of the outside. There was a queue, but they opened the rope (no waiting) for us and it was free!
Besides all of the socialites going here and tons of paparazzi on the outside, it is also well known as the place Kate Middleton went when her and William first broke up to show she was back on the market.
I didn't stay very long (only ~30 minutes) as the next day was a super busy day at work and I still had some "homework" to finish. But, I did stay long enough to check out the floors and order a yummy champagne drink – their signature drink!
Even if I could have only stayed 5 minutes, I can say that I've been to the very posh MAHIKI. It was definitely a seen and be seen place to attend!
Today has been a somewhat lazy day… Okay, very lazy day. This potty training thing is NOT going well! Any tips, I'd love to hear them. Patience is definitely a virtue! 🙂
But, we are about to call it a day with the potty training and meet some friends at… You guessed it! Pizza Express! 🙂
First, Happy Birthday to my father! We called him on Skype this morning!
I meet my marathon trainer tomorrow evening… I'm looking forward to it! She is a Nike Master Trainer and co-created the Nike Training Club app. I think my bum will be kicked!
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By grafting a supercar engine in the pick-up F 150, Ford Performance has spawned an extraordinary gear, carved to sting a sprint through the large spaces.
The pick-up F 150 has been the best-selling "car" in the United States for decades. Good year, Ford runs between 600,000 and 900,000 copies. In Supercrew version, this truck can curl the 6 meters long, a template somewhat moved in our areas, but perfectly adapted to the large American stretches.
On both sides of the Atlantic, a pick-up is destined to play the beasts of the Somme. It remains that the engineers of Ford Performance, never short of imagination, decided to make it a sports car. Like those involved in the Baja 1000, a race in the Mexican desert.
This is how the monstrous F 150 Raptor was born: 5.61 meters long, 450 hp, and 2.6 tons empty! A beautiful baby we tried on a cross-country track east of Paris. That the amateurs of the genre do not rejoice too fast. The 2019 Ford F 150 Raptor will never be officially imported into the hexagon. Ford simply wanted to give us a glimpse of his know-how in the field.
For the spectacular side, it is successful. At the stop, the Raptor is already impressing. His generous dimensions make a Ford Ranger go for a toy. And again, we only had the SUPERCAB bodywork, with antagonistic rear doors, which is not the longest.
Unlike the European double cab pickups, the Raptor SuperCab, with a very large wheelbase (3.41 m), offers five real squares. Its 1.70-metre long bucket has a load capacity of 1495 liters and 500 kg. In Europe, this Ford of the halls can tow up to 3.5 tons.
Remains to evoke the choice piece of the Raptor, of course, we want to talk about its engine. The second generation we discover today is the fruit of an American downsizing. The 6.2-litre V8 of the original Raptor is replaced by a "small" V6 with a 3.5-L biturbo.
Ford announces a 23% reduction in consumption. The average value, according to EPA standards, falls from 18 L/100 km to 14.7 l/100 km. This modern block has a double direct and indirect injection. It was from this V6 that Ford motorists developed the engine of the GT supercar.
The two mechanics have 60% of common parts. In the pickup, the power is reduced from 647 hp to 450 hp. More importantly, the Maxi torque is 691 Nm at 3,500 rpm. A review of the torque curves shows however that the former atmospheric block was superior to it below 2,000 rpm. But this slight deficit due to the response time of the turbos is partly erased by an automatic gearbox with 10 gears.
At the wheel of a machine of this caliber, the difficulty is to find a ground to its extent. On our dear departmental side, when you cross another vehicle, you have to practically go down the ditch. Even the circuit made available to us seems too narrow.
We imagined ourselves "drifter" endlessly on the ground floor, but the owner of the premises, no doubt concerned about the state of his fencing, did not really let us. We still found that the Normal mode, in which the Raptor is propulsive, does not allow to completely disconnect the ESP. Frustrating.
So we switched to Weather mode, in other words in the 4-wheel drive on demand, and it was already better. Given the state of the terrain, we then opted for the Mud and Sand mode, with blocked central and rear differential blocking. If motor skills were ensured, the Raptor was undergoing excessively and refused to turn.
The few straight portions of the line allowed us to verify that 450 ch is not a demonic power when you have to take off a mass of 2,585 kilos. In these circumstances, it is also necessary to ensure that braking is anticipated. The four ventilated brake discs have a great deal to do to slow down the gear.
In the end, it is not the performance of the Raptor that impressed us, nor its behavior in curves, but its ability to absorb the difficulties of the terrain by preserving its passengers. Despite its rigid rear axle suspended by spring slides, this 2019 Ford F 150 Raptor flies over the holes and bumps with a rare ease. His secret boot is Fox shocks, an American specialist of the kind, providing great deflections: 330 mm in front and 353 mm in the back.
A word finally to clarify that the massive dashboard does not shine by the quality of its plastics. But, it seems that the average American is hardly focused on foam materials, and would be more interested in cup holders. He will therefore appreciate the volume of the large central console which allows him to embark an entire pack of his favorite soda.
If a pickup has a vocation to play the utilities, the 2019 Ford F 150 Raptor is a player and sufficiently inflated to provoke a GTI at the green light. If the offset side of the machine seduces you, you will have to go through a licensed dealer like American Car City. The bill may be salted. Count €100,000 TTC, compared to less than $50,000 without taxes in the United States. Small consolation at €10,000, in France, the pickups are exempt from Malus.
2019 Ford F 150 Raptor Technical data Specification
Engine: Biturbo V6, 3,497 cm3
Power: 450 hp at 5,000 rpm (SAE)
Torque: 691 Nm to 3,500 rpm (SAE)
Transmission: Propulsion and Integral, 10-speed auto Box
Dimensions (L/w/h): 5.603/2.192/1.991 mm
Tipper: 1,495 litres
Speed: 170 km/h (Limited)
Consumption: 14.7 L/100 km (EPA)
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This is the yearThrifty tips, ideas, news & experiences on anything around the home to shopping to re-cycling etc.
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well I dont know where the money goes.
I have arranged to pay money from the mortgage at the beginning of august but it is not as much as i expected it to be. Saying that though we have had to get a new wood stove for the small room. Its no good the sweep condemed the old one. It was burning more wood than giving off heat though, and atleast i had the money for the new one. To make sure that i cant fritter the money towards the end of the year I am also increasing my monthly payments to what they were before. This will make me feel better when i get the mortgage statments and see the capital being reduced.
Mr Spud said that the reason that we are not "rolling in it" was because that even though i am not getting anything new for myself or the house, it wasnt as if i had previously spent that much in the first place. He said that I make out that i spent a lot out of guilt, but in reality i only bought sale items that were really reduced in the first place. As i only got things in the sales my purchases were close together. therefore it just seemed like i was spending more... but i shouldnt be dissapointed by what i had saved.
Booter bargains dont count (A) if we need the item and (B) if its really cheap, at the last auction I managed to get myself a plate rack for the house for 18.00. As I have been after one like this for the past 3 years but wouldnt buy it as it was nearly 200.00, i think that 18 was a pure brilliant bargain!!!!
underwear draw is looking a bit sad though, and i have had to get a sewing kit. YES i finally managed to get the zip back into a skirt and sew a tear in another. I cant beleive that i have done it. If i was able to go out and buy then they would have been destined for the rag bag. That is a major achievment for me.
on a sadder note though Basil and Daisy got hold of my Tbar sandles gutted. I havent thrown them out though, i am using them as my chicken poo shoes as the others had really had it. Down to a very very slim range of shoes now, sometimes I long for my old life of surburbia, with its mod cons, shoes and take aways.....
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have had to get the flu lining and vitrious pipe thing too!!
Got myself a book (sorry richard not from amazon) got MR an audio book from his slush fund (abridged) fantastic so had to get the whole thing, but it is signed by the author (£15.00)
Its hard now as my fave shop has a really really good sale on, the bed linnen is on crash down prices. A freind got some last week ohhhh new bed linnen i love it, plus they have some floaty skirts too................drift of onto a dream
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Bettie, I wish that I could, but then I could justifyt he stash the items for everything that I want!
I am having a bit of a self pitty moment...
When I had a small suburban life my mortgage was small, even though I hated my jobs i had the perks of buying what i needed, eating out, take aways. Dont get me wrong we were not wasteful and managed to save. My gardens were how I wanted them and I had loads of shoes and noce things. (but the neighbours from hell)
We moved to the country trebled the mortgage but got land, now we have to work in the jobs that we hate (counting blessings though we have jobs however rocky they may be) to pay the mortgage, spend more time out of the house than in (so it feels like) and my gardens are ravaged by wild animals and those that arent are dug up by dogs
On the positive side we have 5 dogs (only 2 in the old house) so have given three other difficult dogs homes, and chickens rescued and given a good life. But they - the dogs have wrecked my shoes. It doesnt matter where i out them, they eat through the wicker shoe basket quietly, bye bye red or deads, marilyn aslem boots, strappy sandles x3, and numerous other pairs that I am too depressed to mention I am down to one work pair!
I always seem to be covered in something chicken muck or dog dribble and am constantly paraniod that i sticnk of chicken poo.
I still have neighbours that I dont get on with! and my old neighbours from hell were evicted about 6 months after we left!
Sometimes I think that although contry life is lovely it is not always as lovely as it is made out to be... sometimes I feel trapped. I do count my blessings and know that there are people who have loads to worry about but sometimes the drudgery of it all gets me down, especially when you see all your hard work going down a rabbits neck, or being dragged up the field by a dog you just think why do i bother. Sorry moan over.
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Sounds just like Liz Jones in the Mail on Sunday women's supplement. She moved from London to Cornwall, where she bought a farm, has accumulated a number of animals, and has a mutual hatred of most of her neighbours.
She is now trying to sell up and move to somewhere smaller and far away from people she doesn't like.
What's right with this country is the freedom to discuss what's wrong with it.
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I have loved reading this posting! and laughed out loud many times...the knickers!. Its happening to me but only cos I have lost weight..
I find it quite hard to manage now as I have had to give up work due to the rh arthritis. so have amended my spending drastically.. athough I suppose most of my money has always gone on the animals. Still it is satisfying to make do and spurn the whole got to have it society!
and dont get me started on Liz Jones! I read her online sometimes but had to stop...made me rage
live simply that others may simply live!
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Spudley, I know exactly what you mean. I only moved 25 miles and from a larger village, but there are times when I become nostalgic for street lights, wearing something other than wellies on my feet, and walking the dogs in winter without getting muddy up to my knees. It's a constant battle against pests, there seems to be at least four times as much weather here, there are always 100 things needing to be done, quite a few of my neighbours hate me just because I wasn't born in the village, and the mortgage still needs to be paid every month! Then my work colleagues sigh about how idyllic my life must be. There are those who think real life doesn't apply in the country. I don't think there's any such thing as an 'idyllic' life – even if you are rich (although I'm willing to try it as an experiment).
Ranting aside, I really wouldn't change back though. Above all, I'd miss going out into the garden after work to 'hunt' my dinner, and cooking it while still warm from the sun.
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We moved to the 'middle of nowhere' when I had 2 children under 3 and couldn't drive.
Cheshire is not as rural as some places, 3 towns under 10 miles away, 2 villages under 2 miles away. But it still felt a long walk to playgroup. And when they started school the children who lived on the housing estate in the village could make friends without any fuss, whereas ours had to arrange to have someone to play or go somewhere after school.
It suited us, but had its downsides.
Your shoes sound like the episode of the good life called something like "the last posh dress". OH tells stories of a destructive staffie they had.
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WendyP all my work mates think that I live a wonderful idylic life, how romantic that must be, and sometimes dont get me wrong it is. they do wonder though how i cope with the travelling and that in the winter often i smell of wood smoke but that is better than chicken poo.
Actually on my good days i wouldnt change it for a thing, and we dont have to strim the small garden now as a bunch of cows broke in and did it for us.
I agree about the weather, but sometimes watching the changes in the sky can be amazing. Noone believed me last year in the snow when i described having to drive between to walls of snow higher than the car. and I made it in everyday although on sometimes it was taking me three hours to get into work and the longest on the way home was 5 hours!!!
Irishwillow the undie situation has not changed. I have two sides to the knicker drawer now. upies and downies. It has tought me not to buy cheep pants. I have some that i have to pin into my skirt (use these for home only now due to a shopping trolly and getting over the road incident where I could only walk with my knees closed!!! its a good job i was wearing a long skirt) but then the other day i was with the dogs in the field messing around and before I knew it i had walked out of them and basil had them up the other ind of the field. I was quite glad that there was noone in the cottage that week. can you imagine what they would have thought!!! me chasing Basil aound with what looked like a white surrrender flag hanging out of his mouth!! (big to me is better in the pants department)
My older better quality pants that cost me more to start with have lasted well and in the end are going to cost less. So thats the first thing that I am going to get in the sales next year good quality pants.
I am not going to buy any tshirts though. I seem to have loads that are wearing well and some that i dont seem to wear at all. I dont know why i bought them. One of those false economy things I will get them while they are cheap. Why? i hardly wear them.
So although I am moaning on I am learning what I do and dont use, and what i should prioristise on my clothing list.
Athome the dogs and chickens dont care what i am wearing, and family have gotten in on the act by giving me a couple of pinnies-which i do wear. when you look at the state of the front of those on somedays I wounder how my clothes had survived before.
I have gone on a bit here, but I do like that people are reading the thread and are making comments (good or bad I dont mind) I find that the encouragement and the thought that others living this supposedly idylic life can sometimes feel the same helps. Roll on winter and the mud.
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Please, not you as well.
They are Christmas shopping on the last thread I read.
We are going to decorate our hall by Christmas. (Well, following a leak and flood we stripped the wallpaper so that we could decorate before Christmas - but that was last year!)
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Done really well last month, took a trip to the bank and paid some mortgage off. Clothes situation doing rather well, but I do really need new work shoes. the ones that i have now are less than a year old and are splitting already. The thing is though they were not that cheep really, Clarkes dont make them like they used to. I have even been taking them off when i get to work and slipping on a pair of sandles that I have been keeping under my desk so that I can get more wear out of them. The sandles were obtained a couple of years ago from a work mate who had stopped wearing them. They are now nearly dead too. I am going to have to buy shoes.
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Thanks ever so much for your postings spudley, I was having a down morning thinking about how much there is to do and its september already, then i sat down, had another cup of tea....such extravagence!!! read this post, and now I am ready to crack on.....thankyou.
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oh Spudley, it seem' s awful to be answering someones post with a grin on my face when the poor soul is obviously having one of 'those' spells when everything is all out of sorts. I've been going round saying that I am writing to the BBC to get them to do escape FROM the country , it was whilst the muck spreaders were out and about . You are so right about the cheap knickers though I thought about braces maybe! Hope you get the bounce back in your bungey really soon.
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have sort of had a splurge! it wasnt even on something practicle like shoes. I was given a family tea set a couple of years ago, missing the tea pot. Apparently mum could never remember the tea pot even when she was young. I have been looking around for one for years. I couldnt find the pattern anywhere and have never seen the pot or any other item for sale. Then I found one on Ebay. Well I had to have it. Mr Spud said that I should as i was so excited that i had finally found something that I had been looking for for years. So I bid and kept bidding. It was hard to weigh up what I needed and what I really wanted, and then to factor in how I had been feeling all year and the things that I had gone without. The tea pot would have added nothing to my life, but will be a future investment. Its not like it was a bill or a pair of shoes. It was and still is a difficult decision to justify for myself. Anyway the devil in me took over and I got the tea pot. I am really pleased that I have it but the guilt that i am feeling is quite bad. It was something just for me. Due to this I am not buying work shoes to make up for it. It has made me think though how much is too much for something that you have been wanting and looking for for years, when you have the money as you have been saving. Mr Spud says that I should just enjoy it, he has trawled around enough flee markets and anitque fairs to know that this was and has not been just a passing whim. I have decided that I am doing a booter this weekend to sell some other stuf and make the money back, after all you only need so many things to look at dont you.
I think that this year so far has taught me quite a bit about myself. I dont really care what I wear as long as it is clean, its the older stuff in my life that has more memories that are important to me.
On a lighter note, the muck spreading season is over here hurrahhhhhhhh. wellies are back on the feet and all those blinkinghorse flies seem to be dying off. The tourists are going home so the lane is quieter, harvest is nearly over so there will be fewer tractors out and about.
PLUS as the weather is getting cooler can start wearing tights which are holding the knickers up!!!! i am amzed that I have survived the summer without being arrested, although on Monday the tights that I wore were to short in the leg so had started to slip down, so maybe the mooning worries are not over yet.
Oh yes and Wendy P we also had a heard of cows get intot he small part of a garden and did a fab job of getting the grass down and left us a couple of payment pats. We then used these on the veggy patch. This was not such a good idea as we had to keep chasing the dogs away who decided that it was food to be eaten and rolled in. Bleuchhhhh.
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been pretty good lately, have gone through the tights and have finally started to get around to sorting out those with holes! and those that are too short in the leg that fall down taking the earstwhile undies down with them. then i put them all in a pile, forgot what i had done and put them away in the drawer with the good ones!!!!!
have made another smallish payment off the mortgage but that will probably be the last this year what with crimbo around the corner.
have found that I have not really needed to buy new clothes for the summer but have noticed that I am a bit short on the winter jumpers, but I managed last year! I think that its because I havent bought anything new that I am now sorely tempted to get the new winter coat, boots cardies and jumpers!
Oh and yes Last year I got myself some fancy rather dear sofa throws. How rubbish have they been. they are both thread bear now with holes and have rips in them. However my cheapo ones are still going strong. It sort of goes the wrong way from you get what you pay for.
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Well done Spudley. Regarding tights with holes in. I do what my mum used to do, cut off the leg with the holes in, and match it with another one legged pair, so you are wearing two tops if you get my drift. Holds your pants up better.
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The photos from Indiependence are going up a little earlier than planned, as I wasn't even supposed to be home from Mitchelstown until tomorrow. Indiependence is a gorgeous festival with one of the nicest, friendliest, most professional teams of staff I have ever met, a line-up that challenges a lot of the bigger festivals, and a lovely countryside setting.
Unfortunately, despite all of this, the weather won this time. A deluge the day before lead to the carpark and camper van parking being closed before the festival even started, and the weather was one step ahead for the whole weekend. The monsoon on the first night just capped off the muck-fest that Indie 2012 was to become. Apparently the sun has come out now but I can only imagine how wrecked the place is by now.
On the music front, I am obviously sad to have missed a lot of the acts that I headed down to see, including The Shoos, Le Galaxie, Scoobius Pip, Daithi, Elaine Mai and 2ManyDJs. But the acts I did get to see made up somewhat for the ones that I missed. Highlights were Raglans and Original Rudeboys, with Jape also hugely impressing. And getting to sleep in a warm bed last night definitely cemented my "No Regrets" attitude! One more camping festival to come in 2012, with Electric Picnic. Bring it!
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Day 4 in paradise, cherishing time with family and looking forward to ushering in 2019 with a tan.
Several people have asked if I plan on writing everyday on this trip, and whether I'll continue the MoaT past my original goal of 365 straight days. The answer's yes to both, though I'm embracing the aloha spirit and leaving the surface waters of my neuroses undisturbed, just for a little while anyway.
I'm enjoying this time of relaxation, reflection, and recovery, and a Buddhist proverb comes to mind as I'm writing this - if we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. If nothing else, after all these years of trial and error and gradual progress, I'm confident that my aim is true.


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At the end of your studies you will present the qualities you have developed to the professional field. You will show your expertise as an imaginative creator and present your teaching capabilities. You will do this together with your fellow students from the Fine Art and Design course in Zwolle, but also with those from the Art & Design and Interior Design courses.


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|Pete Hoekstra US Ambassador to the Netherlands and Donald Trump
Hoekstra, who was born in the Netherlands but raised in Michigan as a staunch social conservative, might find himself largely unwelcome in his parents' homeland, where even opponents of Muslim immigration, like the opposition leader Geert Wilders, typically cast themselves as defenders of liberal social values, like support for gay rights and abortion.
News of Hoekstra's nomination prompted stunned reports in Dutch publications about the shockingly racist, anti-Chinese campaign ad he ran in 2012, his repeated efforts, during an 18-year career in Congress, to deny gay couples the right to marry or adopt children, and his leading role in the fight against government-funded health insurance.
Most baffling of all, though, was Hoekstra's absurd claim, just two years ago, that the Dutch government had ceded control of sections of their country to Islamist radicals.
Martijn de Koning, an anthropologist at the University of Amsterdam whose research focuses on the Dutch debate over Islam, drew attention to video of comments Hoekstra made in 2015 at a conference sponsored by the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
Hoekstra's contribution to a panel discussion of Muslim migration to Europe was to claim that a "stealth jihad" was underway which had plunged the Netherlands into such "chaos" that "there are cars being burned, there are politicians that are being burned, … and yes, there are no-go zones in the Netherlands."
The former member of Congress went on to tell the conference that he and his wife had narrowly escaped from Budapest that summer, one day before thousands of Muslims seeking refuge from the war in Syria arrived in the Hungarian capital. "The little railroad station that we went through in Budapest,"
Hoekstra recalled, "the next day it was surrounded by 10,000 invaders, or refugees."
What should make Hoekstra's nomination to represent the United States in Europe alarming to Americans is that he is part of a far-right movement against the imaginary threat of Islamic Shariah law that uses the fear of terrorism to stoke hatred of Muslims.
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Lyon vs Marseille
France – Ligue 1
Date: Sunday 23rd September 2018
Kick off at 20:00 UK/ 21:00 CET
Venue: Stade Olympique Lyonnais (Lyon).
Lyon had a fantastic week as they stunned English champions Manchester City in the Champions League. Lyon not only beat Pep Guardiola's side but they beat them in England winning 2-1. But the game was never as close as the result shows and Lyon played their best game this year.
They will want to continue this as they return home and try to kick start their season after an average start has seen them trailing PSG by 8 points. At home they have won 2 and lost 1 which was a surprise against Nice who came into that game in poor form. But it is clear that Lyon will still be a force at home.
Marseille have started the season well with just 1 shock loss which came against Nimes. Apart from that they have played very good football although they tend to be at their very best when they are at home. On the road they did beat Monaco 3-2 in a classic match but normally they can concede goals and struggle and have conceded 5 goals already away from home.
Lyon vs Marseille: Head to Head
- In the league Marseille have not won away against Lyon since 2007.
- Last season this match ended 2-0 to Lyon.
- Lyon have scored 8 goals against Marseille in their last 3 league meetings.
Lyon vs Marseille: Prediction
Lyon and Marseille will be a very close match but we do expect goals, and Marseille have conceded many away. Our main bet will be to see the home side get at least 2 goals.
Nebil Fekir is in great form and so is Florian Thauvin for Marseille and they are both very good value to find a goal in this game. These two are great sides playing in the shadow of PSG and so they will go for this game and we should see a lot of space and chances for goals.
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Lyon to score 2+goals at 1.80 (4/5)
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Mike Tomlin has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
NFL Vice President of Operations Ray Anderson fined Pittsburgh Steelers HC Mike Tomlin $100K for interfering with on-field play. A loss of a future draft pick is a possibility.
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Most stock markets around the world fell yesterday, as persistent worries over the instability in Ukraine pushed investors to take profits with major indexes still near record levels.
In New York, financial shares fell following disappointing results from American International Group, while tech shares also ended lower spearheaded by the selloff at Twitter Inc.
Investors kept an eye on the unrest in Ukraine, where more than 30 pro-Russian separatists were killed in fighting near the east Ukraine rebel stronghold of Slaviansk. Russia announced plans to beef up its Black Sea warship fleet as the two countries seem heading for war.
Financial shares lost 1.4 percent as a group, the most among 10 S&P 500 groups. AIG tumbled 4.1 percent to $50.54. First-quarter net income dropped to $1.61 billion, or $1.09 a share, from $2.21 billion, or $1.49, a year earlier, the insurer said after the close of trading yesterday.
Discovery fell 3.9 percent to $74.71. The owner of educational television channels reported first-quarter revenue of $1.41 billion, missing the average analyst estimate of $1.43 billion in a Bloomberg survey.
European stocks also closed lower yesterday, as continued violence in Ukraine and mixed earnings results made investors uneasy.
The U.K. FTSE 100, German's DAX and French CAC closed lower.
The FTSE took a step back from a nine-week high after weak results from companies including Aberdeen Asset Management and Barclays.
Barclays reported a 5 percent fall in first-quarter adjusted pre-tax profit to £1.7 billion, as the fixed-income division of its investment bank slowed significantly consequently the share price closed 5 percent lower. Investment manager Aberdeen Asset Management closed around 2.6 percent lower, after results showed clients pulled money out of its core emerging market and Asian equity funds.
In Germany, better-than-expected earnings from Lufthansa and Continental helped offset fears over the Ukraine conflict.
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Saxena, N. and Grijalva, S., 2018. Efficient Signature Scheme for Delivering Authentic Control Commands in the Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 9 (5), pp. 4323-4334.
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Enabling secure delivery of control commands and alert messages is one of the critical requirements of smart grid communications. If adversaries were to gain access, they could alter or send malicious commands from the control center, intended to the Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs). These malicious commands could disrupt power system operations and cause damage to power devices. In this paper, we propose an efficient signature scheme for ensuring the delivery of only legitimate commands over the communication network. We propose efficient signatures using hash that are sent by the control center along with commands for protecting command alteration over the network, which also provide sender authenticity by verifying the signatures at the RTU/IED. By using the proposed scheme, both random and malicious commands sent by an adversary are discarded. The security analysis shows that the scheme is secure against replay, repudiation, and impersonation attacks. The performance evaluation and prototype simulation show that our signature scheme using SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 is feasible, and can be used for communications from the control center to the field.
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Grades: 2nd - 12th, Boys & Girls
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