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NEW YORK, May 30 (Reuters) - The dollar retreated from recent highs against other major currencies and closed lower on Friday as traders braced for potentially market-moving meetings next week by the European Central Bank and other monetary policymakers.
The dollar, as tracked by the U.S. dollar index of a half dozen currency pairs, was last off 0.18 percent at 80.353. Earlier this week, the index was at highs not seen since early April.
Volumes were light as currency traders tidied up books at the end of the month, according to Lane Newman, director of foreign exchange at ING Capital Markets in New York.
The euro, which has lost 1.65 percent against the dollar during May, was also up on the day, 0.26 percent to $1.3637, after touching a daily low of $1.3599.
"There's caution ahead of the event risk coming in the form of the central bank meetings. With May ending, that will likely make for low volatility today," said Shaun Osborne, chief foreign exchange strategist at TD Securities in Toronto.
Attention in currency and other global markets is now firmly focused on next week's European Central Bank meeting, which is expected to deliver more policy easing.
It comes as conviction has been shaken that the Bank of Japan would also take more action this summer, underpinning a rise for the yen to almost four-month highs against the euro. The euro last stood at 138.76 yen, up 0.23 percent.
Likewise, while the dollar has gained earlier this week, U.S. Treasury yields have fallen, and dealers said there was talk of some substantial fund option bets on the yen strengthening to as little as 98 per dollar over the next month.
On Friday, the dollar traded at 101.75 yen, down 0.04 percent for the day.
The euro has fallen almost 3 percent against the dollar in just the past three weeks, hammered by expectations that the ECB will deliver a substantial blow by pumping more cash into the euro zone economy and lower market interest rates.
That euro move has left the market looking divided, however, on whether the single currency can fall further, whatever the ECB does next week.
Policymakers at central banks in Australia, Canada and Britain also meet next week, and America's sometimes market-rattling monthly employment data will be published on June 6.
The Australian dollar, this week's biggest gainer among the major currency pairs, on Friday bumped up against resistance around $0.9320 and last traded off 0.05 percent at $0.9302.
(Additional Reporting By Patrick Graham in London; Editing by Nick Zieminski)

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Building a dynamic SVG timer
I was working on a hardware project that required a simple display for confirming user input values and started experimenting with seven segment LED displays. That got me thinking, HTML table cells can be switched 'on' and 'off' using CSS and arranged like a seven segment display. So you could build a clock with HTML and CSS without the need for bitmaps. Better still you could use CSS to drive an SVG animation sequence, and have a resolution independent clock that's free of compression artifacts. The only questions were, could it be built efficiently and how gnarly would the CSS animation get.
Final SVG timer for email experiment, there's also a dark build and a couple with bg images just for fun.
Early table prototype
The first build used table cells to represent the elements of the digital display, I set the background color of each cell to give the illusion of being turned on or off. We've played with pixel art in email before and it was a quick way to get a prototype up and running. I did experiment with the layout but I was mostly working on the animation at this stage.
1st prototype used table cells, a list of on / off states used in the 42 synchronized animation sequences
The first task was to figure out the sequence, a simple list of on / off states represented by noughts and ones. This would give us a pattern that could be applied to the table cells to represent the numbers 0 to 9. A separate CSS animation sequence was then created for each of the 7 elements ( table cells ) that made up one digit. So for a 6 digit display we have 42 animations defined in the CSS.
7 table cells make up one digit each with its own animation = 42 total for a 6 digit display ( 00:00:00 )
It's straightforward enough to make a countdown sequence, but that won't tell you anything about the time. What's needed is to start the sequence at a specific value based on the current time, this means the CSS must be dynamically generated. The obvious solution was an external CSS file generated by a PHP script on a remote server.
CSS animation
The biggest problem with any of this is CSS animation. For some bizarre reason CSS animations are based on sequences defined in seconds and keyframes defined in percentages. This means, for example, that if you wanted to set a keyframe at three minutes and twenty two seconds for the ten minute digit you would have to calculate that time as a percentage of sixty minutes. As each digit is dependent on the state of the others there is constant conversion from one time frame to another. The math can get a bit complicated.
/* Example keyframes for top section of the ten hour digit */
@keyframes h10t-anim {
0% {fill-opacity:0.085;}
28.382499962% {fill-opacity:0.085;}
28.383333292% {fill-opacity:1.0;}
86.715833202% {fill-opacity:1.0;}
86.716666532% {fill-opacity:0.085;} /* Transition lasting 0.00083333% of 86400 seconds */
100% {fill-opacity:0.085;}
animation-name: h10t-anim;
animation-duration: 86400s; /* 86400 seconds = 24 hours */
CSS animations are based on sequences defined in seconds and keyframes defined in percentages, its nuts
With the keyframes for the hour digit sequences you are dealing with thousandths of a percent, and rounding errors can become a problem for synchronization. When the hour digit changes the 'tens of minutes', 'minutes', 'tens of seconds' and 'seconds' digits all have to transition at the same time, even though they are being driven by separate CSS animation sequences.
Unlike with dynamic images which grab the time from the server with each new request, here time is a construct of the CSS, so a few seconds of drift can occur when compared to the system clock over a period of hours.
SVG build
I had the basic animation sequence up and running when I switched over to SVG. The table layout worked well but it didn't look too convincing. Another problem was empty table cells don't scale well when set to percentage values, so it wasn't going to work well in a responsive layout. To create the SVGs I modeled them in the 3D editor Lightwave, then output them as Wavefront.obj files.
SVGs were modeled in 3D editor Lightwave, here you have the timer and 'Finished' on two layers
I then ran them through a 3D to SVG conversion tool I wrote a couple of years back called scVector, it culls any back-facing polygons so I didn't end up with 3D models. scVector crops to the 3D viewport, which then becomes the SVG viewBox dimensions. You want to crop the viewBox as closely as possible, otherwise the SVG becomes harder to position and scale.
Exported SVGs as .obj files and then converted them to SVG using an in-house tool
Time up
This demo is on a 24 hr loop, when you reach the deadline at 8pm PST it switches to a different SVG group spelling out 'Finished' for 30 min before resuming again. You can set the sequence to run once and then display 'Finished' indefinitely but for the demo it repeats. Getting this to work at the appropriate time was a bit mind bending.
Though the action itself consists of placing a white rectangular SVG polygon in front of the timer and revealing the 'Finished' group in-front of that. This slight of hand had less overhead then animating the transparency of each SVG element, the file size of all three SVG groups combined is 10.2 KB.
1 SVG containing 3 groups of polygons totaling 10.2 KB, each group displayed at a different time like a stage set
Email integration
We designed a baseline experience for those email clients that don't support external CSS or SVG. In place of the SVG there's a title spelling out, 'Timer' made up of table cells. We could have fallen back to dynamic images as Litmus did with their live Twitter feed which also features dynamic CSS, but preferred to give a nod to the table-based timer demo. The SVG is embedded in the HTML, and the animation that drives the SVG is delivered via a dynamically generated external CSS file. The external CSS also includes further checks such as querying if its a WebKit client.
By default you see this pixel art title, we then progressively serve up the SVG where supported
Originally we were seeing some blank screens in the native Android client as either the external CSS was supported but not SVG ( 2.3 ), or the SVG was there it just wasn't animating ( 4.0 – 4.3 ). We finally realized that Android 4.0 – 4.3 doesn't support fill color and so it appeared blank as the animation wasn't firing. The solution was to animate the fill-opacity property instead which has broader support. So we now had the full experience running in native Android 4.0 – 6.0 which only left 2.3.
Android native clients 4.0, 4.1 and 4.3 now render the timer after switching from fill color to fill opacity
Device detection
We still had the odd client loading the external CSS, but then not meeting all the criteria thereafter. We'd done a lot of work with dynamic images in the past using server-side device detection, so in the end we layered that on for those clients with partial support.
We layered on server-side device detection for clients with partial support
The PHP script now delivered the dynamic CSS based on the User Agent String of the requesting device. So we can say if you're Android 2.3 or less render the fallback. Device detection has its shortcomings — one is that some mobile apps don't have a unique UA string so they can't be isolated — but in this instance it fixed our most pressing issue which was 2.3.
Used device detection to render fallback in Android native 2.3 otherwise it came in blank
IE browser
Once we introduced the idea of device-specific CSS to deal with Android 2.3, we decided to also use it to improve the IE browser experience. IE supports SVG but not animation, as the first frame was a white SVG on a white background it appeared blank. At first we came up with a hack so a separate SVG group appeared on the first frame in IE spelling out 'Timer'.
Originally we tried a first frame fallback SVG for IE spelling out 'Timer'
This is similar to how we handle animated Gifs in desktop Outlook which only displays the first frame. The downside was it interfered with the animation elsewhere and we felt we could do better. With device detection we set up an IE build which displays the correct time on open, its just a static SVG rather than animated. It also means the CSS is significantly smaller in IE as there are no animation keyframes sent from the server.
Device detection allowed us to display the time in the IE browser via a static SVG
For this project we had to juggle support for external CSS, SVG and animation. When we'd previously looked into SVG support in email we went with a base64 encoded foreground image. However for this demo base64 encoding didn't work with the animation, so the SVG is just inlined in the HTML.
Full support for this technique breaks down as:
- Android 4.0 native client
- Android 4.1 native client
- Android 4.3 native client
- Android 4.4 native client
- Android 5.0 native client
- Android 6.0 native client
- iOS native client
- Odd iOS app like Sparrow and Malto
- Apple Mail
- Outlook 2011 (Mac)
- Outlook 2016 (Mac)
Webmail clients Outlook.com and Office 365 also support SVG but they didn't like the external CSS. We carried out the QA in our device lab and Litmus, here's the final QA. You'll notice we started out by going a few rounds in native Android. Android support roughly falls into three camps: 2.3 none, 4.0 – 4.3 supports basic SVG but not all properties and 4.4 onward has strong support. Android marketshare is still fragmented, but only 2.6% are currently using 2.3.
The external CSS file size started out ~400 KB and after some optimizations it's now ~60 KB, which isn't bad for something that runs indefinitely. In comparison a bitmap countdown is typically set to run for a minute on open, with the overall bandwidth usage potentially in the Megabytes.
As its email the HTML containing the SVG will already be downloaded. Playing it safe I then put a slight delay on the external CSS, otherwise you run the risk of progressive load of the animation sequences ( the client starts some of the animation sequences before others are fully loaded ). This can lead to poor synchronization of the transitions and failure of the fade transition at the start of the animation sequence.
Webpagetest for the Timer email
Omit obsolete animations
The numbers are made up of sections rather than whole shapes. To keep the animation keyframes down, I don't animate the SVG polygons that are already in the right position. So rather than switching all seven polygons from 2 to 3 we only need to change two of them.
Only two elements change when switching from 2 to 3
Output clean code
We used our own 3D to SVG tool which outputs clean code with no redundant data. There are other SVG optimization tools available, such this one by Peter Collingridge.
Take out Webkit prefixes
Without WebKit prefixes it almost halved the CSS file to ~30 KB, it still ran in iOS but didn't in Android. It didn't make it into this build, but a future optimization would be to send iOS an unprefixed version via device detection ( we'd want to do more testing around this first ).
There are a number of enhancements and optimizations that I didn't get around to testing; animation and user interaction capabilities which distinguish SVG from dynamic images. Now that I have the basic animation and email integration up and running I can experiment with the creative execution. I've been meaning to make a nixie clock for a while, and I like the idea of recreating one in CSS as well as a dot matrix build.
CSS animation is probably the most ill conceived animation system I've ever come across. It attempts to be simple to implement but provide broad functionality and fails at both. SVG's native animation system isn't much better, so good luck to anyone trying to implement dynamic SVG animation. Support for external SVGs in email is problematic too, so CSS driven SVGs may well prove the only viable option.
However, regardless of the limitations and complexities of this approach, I'm satisfied that it still has the potential to provide a better solution than dynamic images. SVG support has and will continue to improve and legacy devices will continue to decline making this a more attractive option.


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Manchester City need to beat Villarreal if they are to have a realistic chance of qualifying from group A.
After two games in the competition, they have gained just one point against Napoli in their opener, they may be flying in the league but the owners would be disappointed at being knocked-out of the competition early.
Villarreal have an even worse record in the competition, they have been beaten in both matches and they are struggling in La Liga. City are massive favourites and they are 3/10 to win, the draw is 4/1 and a Villarreal victory is 10/1.
City will be relying upon Aguero and Dzeko because Tevez is in exile and Balotelli is suspended. City take on their local rivals United in the league at the weekend but they cannot afford to not concentrate on Villarreal.
City have scored twenty-seven times in eight Premier League games . It equals the Premier League record set by Arsenal in 2009-10. Manchester City are 7/2 to score four or more but that price is too short for me.
City are 6/5 to win to nil and they face a Villarreal side that have failed to score a goal in the group stage yet this season. City have one of the best keepers in the world with Joe Hart and they can keep a clean sheet (3/4) at the Etihad Stadium.
Aguero has been struggling with a groin injury and he may not play the full ninety minutes. Dzeko has a point to prove, he looked petty and foolish when he was substituted against Bayern and had it not been for the 'Carlos Tevez affair', he may have found himself out with the rubbish.
Dzeko is 5/1 to score the first goal and he has improved as a player this season. The Bosnian didn't start against Villa at the weekend and he should be recalled for the match. He scored for Bosnia against France last week and his record for his country is highly impressive.
The Spanish side have won just two of their last fifteen fixtures in all competitions. You can back Man City -1 goal at 17/20, they should have no problem finishing off a Spanish side that will be concerned about their domestic form.
The Match Winner is David Silva to score anytime and City to win at 4/1. He has been a revelation since he joined the blue half of Manchester and he can help City secure their first ever Champions League home win.
Silva joined the club from Valencia and he has become one of the best midfielders in Europe. He is a World Cup winner and he will probably go on to one day play for Real Madrid or Barcelona.
City should have few problems overcoming the Yellow Submarine, they have lost their opening two games in the group and they are clearly not up to the task of Champions League football.


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#6637 May 8, 2013
Retard town. I am mentally retarded, it was not necessarily classified a derogatory slur, rather amuzing I was not brithed retarded does anyone know how I got a legal classification of:
Mental retardation
Brain Injury
Head injury
neck injury
spine injury
broken clavicle on right and left side
twisted nerve and muscle cords that I only have less then 20% of a normal womens bodily functions
a infant clitorus
a stunted growth development of my cervical cap
no tailbone
It is abuse, and parents refused to report abusers as they assigned them period for suicide or life insurence policy payoff for murder, or for incarceration or mental detention 2 years or longer to classify premature policy payoff with assumtion the life insurence policy will pay for duration of costs for detention.
Sad childhood and youth
here is something sicker, I had a dream as a child of spirits sexually assaulting me, NO it was bikers and a frat house in my late teen early twenties, playing head games to render me brain dead to get to a brain chmaber before parental installation, INFANTSY that way they can have sex with you while you are in infant mentallity so you have a inability to use your hands or feet during the experience drugged in a soda pop
Madison Wisc was notorious for these crimes still to this day, in olden days the old men wold have a little girl carry a cigar cutter to her purse or belt loop so the men knew that they would be casterated and a $ for a ice bag to carry their own sexual member to the hospital for child sex criems and rape and it was NOT ILLEGAL or crual and inhame by law they had to leave you with at least 3 1/2 inches for drs to do reconstructive.
I miss the "SIRS" I wish Puttin on the Ritz played nightly over PA sound systems for a ultimate avenger like ATWOOD AVENUE monster stories.
#6638 May 9, 2013
The JOB MARKET??? Beaver Dam itself is one big stagnant economic backwater.
#6639 May 9, 2013
Economic discovery is a grant to business market infomration and fraudulant claims of embessled accounts.
Madison Wisc Bridge Golf COurse is on my families property, they cant do a tresspassing clause becasue we owned the whole surrounding area and had a rare blood disorder, the military was my cousins doing medical discoveries on manimal projects to find a equalibrulizer or cure, we were one of the royal families. Bridges have diggers and homesteaders "PERMIT" they can not purchase without finding OWNERS they owe us 60% of all their wealth on our land and 12% interest of each year they refused to aquire the knowledge of owners, they can not put tresspassers fines on us, as a result we can dispute claim in court and take everything each FUnding holder has to own up to 75% of all their life worth and proerty for filing agaisnt us and prison for them.
Now along Algoma Road, which is a block away form the old emergency air strip, now residential zoning but still zones for emergency plane landing so all the homes will be distroyed in plane crash CHILD ABUSE for real to reside on that street taco bell and KFC is on. BUT that is one of the oldest neighborhoods, prior to development, they all lived on Atwood Avenue murders ran form their crime to a non-developed piece of land, 250 years ago was the last neighborhood but was it, Gandfather found the secondary basement as a result he was a miner so built his home, foudn the newspapers 250 years older then that once upon a time neighborhood was before the year 1200 ad when little people festered the papers headings, and septic tank births, YUP they had little people alright, Grandfather was grand pumba of VFW and ELKS club a COLONIAL was assigned to pick up local terrorist reports to indict in court and arrest, HE DEFECTED to AL CAPONE and they had a assasination mark on my Grandfather for the OLD NEWSPAPERS and little people Beckwith sold out H Drews SR AUnt Bessie husband Otto stole the Model T for Bonnie and DADS and Grandfathers military awards and honors out the garage Steve Otto and his gang. Granma died of egg beater poisening off balance and kept hitting her head, WHO BOUGHT a 2 year supply and threw out the fruit and food I bought her? They killed her. I loved my grandma Jeanette
#6640 May 9, 2013
Now you can made a sandwich,baaaaa hahahahah! Get off this thread Tard!!!!
#6641 May 10, 2013
Ol' one trick pony. Small vocabulary.
#6642 May 10, 2013
Hey Zipp, I'll bet if you go to Rio,Wi. and find the crabby old drunk at their only watering hole.
That would be our little one trick pony.
#6643 May 10, 2013
I know right? The guy is a unique bread and lives in a wind tunnel. He really has nothing to offer. He wont trouble himself with facts or intelligent debate. He can't. He won't explain where he really stands, he just puts out a lot of childlike, condescending, dumb rants. He is also a disturbing reminder of how misguided Wisconsin voters have become.
#6644 May 11, 2013
I need a Tard for srubbin my toilet,I guess I will have to go to Eau Claire,Wi. and get Zipper. Tard 4 life,so sad. Bahahahahaha!
#6645 May 13, 2013
Who are you?
#6646 May 13, 2013
One more time by popular demand:
Ode to Who to Who:
There once was and old creature that called himself who tee who. He was full of convoluted logic and didn't know what to do. Ole whooters thought only of himself, as life passed him by. Whooters tries to be witty,but falls short with his cries.
Like the guy who cheers for the bad guy in the movie, he is always trying to be relevant and pass himself off as common sense and whole heartily benevolent.
If you see the likes of ole whooters creeping around town, consider the source and try keep your vomit from spewing around. Do not rear in spite and give some thought that is due. Ole whooters is the last one to give advice to you. He is a regretful diminutive soul, let there be no doubt. Ole whooters is a symbol of what is wrong with some of the world, cast in a failed thinking devout.
So if you ask me what to do with the likes of who tee who and all of his rants; I'll tell you a thing or two that falls upon me in a rush. Spare all disappointment and don't give pause or hush, carefully approach your commode with guarded eyes and flush baby, flush.
#6647 May 13, 2013
Al Capone also met my other grandfather(Arnie Perkins), he made plum wine, grape and potato wine during the depression. Bootlegging
Capone purchased for a small amount for the wine and indicated not to bad, he had the potato wine tested and found it to be the actual ancients grassroot cure for hand foot mouth disease, the most potentent lost cure for pennician, his family made over a 7 diigt financial factor claiming it Capones family recipe. NO the bank beat up Capone and made him pay 75 % of a house sale and Grandpa was made a offer for a smaller amount of $35,000 for the purchase.
The best money is WHAT IS IN SSDB at VFW AND ELKS a list of family history of rape murder and embesslement crimes, home thefts, impoersonating another persons idienty while they buried the real family. Capone gave the list for Military over ride of all family and affilaite accoutns and a Date to when they remove funds and arrest of each member. He thought a spell was on him, he had the least murder of all family and wanted them down.
He gave the list to my other grandfather before he died, He called a General friend to see to the SSDB personally off Capones desire. BANK and ZIPCODE ordience groups pulled guns rushed into 518 Algoma st and killed Grandpa Drews, he is secured in the walls and rooms of the old foundation, a imposter taller and fatter took his sted
#6648 May 13, 2013
Our schools have failed another.
#6649 May 14, 2013
Get used to seeing that with the cuts Walker is making to education.
#6650 May 14, 2013
Public School was brand new as of when 1920s, it was all private, religious, crrespondence, just testing.
If they violated 1 crime and any parent complained the whole system was to be shut down and back to PAID testing as you go anyway. Public school opened to make public access testing scores and fashion trends and contest open to all public if they were ignorent they can entice and interrogate their school chum.
As for tard scrubbin toilets, each porcelin tub, toilet and sink comes with a cleaner... Hotel maintenece refuses housekeepers access to it NO SCRUBBING it wipes off lime and water deposits made for the purpose. They sell it instead on black market. Fire a housekeeper for damage of proerty though, but each institute can proof in court by law 1 cleaning agent is included with "each" product of purchase, tub, toilet, sink. Sue the crap owner is probably ignorent to the sales to begin with.
#6651 May 14, 2013
I left a brown trout in my bowl for your dinner,Tard.
#6652 May 14, 2013
Now a philosophy course,maybe?
#6653 May 15, 2013
you are a brown trout, gomer.
#6654 May 15, 2013
I caught a trout walleye hybrid back in early 1970s it was in DNA fish and game and can be found in State Historical society, first fish of its kind in local waters... No classfication, OR HUGE cirme of harvard and splicing genes for release in eco system by families living on coastal lake lines. 15 inches Looked bright olive green under water and white belly, on land brown and white.
Same day I was playing EHHH BARRACUDA with fish in water and took my mind to meet them, I swam as fast as my mind permitted back to body and got a muskie on dads line, and he jumped out of water saying ILL SHOW YOU BARRACUDA all the DNR freaked out did that fish talk... Yup and it bit dads hand open ontop, I smashed its head with a rock and knocked it out.
I was a Head injury and fell off a 2 story roof, so wierd kid trying to stay IN MYSELF
#6655 May 15, 2013
You can bob for brown apples in my toilet,Tard. It will be the only job you've ever had. Baaaaaahahahahahaahah!!!!!!!
#6656 May 16, 2013
this stuff is 3 years old.
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Slumping Sales for Factory Made Foods and Mixes
How is our friend, Betty Crocker? Glad you asked!
"The fictional homemaker General Mills invented back in the 1920s is not happy." From a Star-Tribune article, General Mills' Betty Crocker, Pillsbury cope with baking slump, "Sales of Betty Crocker baking mixes, a classic General Mills offering, have been in the dumps for over two years. Another major part of the General Mills baking business, its Pillsbury refrigerated dough line, has experienced weakness, too. Indeed, the entire U.S. baking mix market has been eroding. …'the biggest factor in our category is that people are just busy,' said Elizabeth Nordlie, vice president for baking at Golden Valley-based General Mills." The article goes on to state that, "On-the-go consumers are more drawn to ready-made cookies, cakes or pies."
Why is this important to us, the home-based food processor? Because this story confirms that sales of fresh baked goods are growing.
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An Ilkeston School has told the Advertiser it has dealt with staff following an 'incident' earlier this year.
Four teachers were suspended from Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy after an inappropriate image was allegedly posted on a social networking site.
A spokesman for the school on King George Avenue said: "We can confirm that a full investigation into staff conduct has taken place and the matter has been internally resolved.
"It was not a safeguarding issue and no children were involved.
"We respect the privacy of all staff, but assure parents that we continue to focus on providing the best possible care and education for Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy pupils."
But parents who have spoken to the Advertiser since we exclusively broke the story in February remain unhappy at the way the matter has been handled and say that rumours are still circulating among pupils about the incident.
One mum, who did not want to be named, said: "They never let us know what was going on in the first place and we are still in the dark."


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Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale take their boys furniture shopping in London on Friday (December 18).
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I have found myself married to one of those most amazing women put on this earth. She is truely a proverbs 31 woman..
When she speaks she has something worthwhile to say,
and she always says it kindly.
She keeps an eye on everyone in her household,
and keeps them all busy and productive.
Her children respect and bless her;
her husband joins in with words of praise:
"Many women have done wonderful things,
but you've outclassed them all!"
Charm can mislead and beauty soon fades.
The woman to be admired and praised
is the woman who lives in the Fear-of-God.
Give her everything she deserves!
Festoon her life with praises!
-The Message
She has blessed me in so many ways. Her presence is a treasure highly valued. Everyone wants to be in her presence. Her children each are a bright star in my night sky. They each in their own way have praticing the gifts that were instilled in them many years ago. Watching her with our grandson has given me the opportunity to see the mothering side of her i never got to see before.
One of the things I had asked for in my wish list for a wife was someone i could come home and "talk shop" with. Someone who was interested in the the weird stuff that i find exciting. When we are at church or an event she's noticing the technical stuff behind the scenes that i thought only i was interested in. She's edited all of the McHi band videos, she's built several websites. She was even the IT point person for her office in Edinburg.
She always brings out the best in me. She's an encourager and supporter. She stood behind me and helped me decide about this new job. She never complained or asked me to do something i wouldn't want to do. My family loves her, i think she talks more to myparents and sisters more than i do. I love you Patti. My prayer for you is that i can make you as happy as you've made me. That i can fill your life with as much joy as you've given me and that all our years to come will be even better then they already have been.


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Jake and Danielle held their wedding and reception at Casa Mare, an Emerald Isle Realty property located on Ocean Drive in Emerald Isle North Carolina. I was concerned while making the drive from my Newport, NC home towards the wedding location as it was raining heavily. As I neared Cape Carteret the rain started to slow and by the time I reached the beach house it had stopped. The weather gave us a a break long enough for the couple to do a "first glance" prior to the ceremony, get the wedding service completed and make some nice beach portraits of the couple their friends and family. It started raining again as we finished the portrait session but that didn't dampen the spirits of the celebrants. Below is an image from the "frist peek" meeting. Be sure to check out Danielle and Jake's slideshow.
An Emerald Isle North Carolina Wedding – Danielle & Jake, May 17
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Excellent bridal portraiture here.
This is a beautiful photo of the bride and groom about to see each other. I love how the bride is out of focus and approaching down the stairs. A distinctive photo of a special moment. Well done!
Beautiful wedding photographs. I love the shot of the bride & groom and their bridesmaids with the ocean as a backdrop.
Wonderful…truly inspirational work!


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Top-posting isn't inherently inaccessible. Neither is inserting responses below the text of the original (though the latter can become very complicated and difficult to follow when that text itself contains a chain of arguments and responses and all the garbage that email clients add to indicate quotd text, which in turn gets transformed by cutting and pasting, etc., etc.). If top-psting is well done, the writer takes care to summarize and/or quote the specific points she or is responding to, and makes clear the context of the discussion. Readers who choose to do so may then wade (or slog) through the chain of correspondence in the "original message." When top-posting is badly done, readers *have* to slog through all that stuff to have any chance at all of figuring out what the discussion is about. I think the same holds for responses that are interwoven with the original message. Do it well and you provide the context for the discussion. Do it badly, and everyone's slogging through anyway. So let's all just write as clearly as we can and get back to worrying about *Web* content instead of email. JohnReceived on Monday, 28 June 2004 16:40:26 UTC
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Dean Baker Co-director, Center for Economic and Policy Research :
Obama never clearly explained the economic downturn to the American people. He should have explained, again and again, that the crisis was due to the collapse of an $8 trillion housing bubble.
When the bubble burst we lost $600 billion in annual construction spending and $600 billion in annual consumption spending. This spending was not going to come back unless the bubble came back. This created a huge gap in demand that could only be filled by government deficits. Instead of being a problem, the deficit was exactly what the economy required to fill the gap created by the collapse of the bubble.
Obama had to explain this and repeat it endlessly. This is due to the fact that you have well-financed corporate campaigns, like the Campaign to Fix the Debt, which have been working for years to scare people about deficits so that they would support cuts to Social Security and Medicare. There is also the problem that many reporters, columnists and editorial writers have trouble with simple arithmetic (witness the outrage over Nate Silver's statistical analysis of polling data). This means that President Obama would have had to reach over the heads of the media and the political elite to explain the
simple economic facts to the American people.
Unfortunately he never did this. Instead he tried to play footsie with the punditry and pretended that their concerns about deficits had some basis in reality. As a result the vast majority of voters are completely confused about the state of the economy and believe that the deficit is somehow one of the biggest problems facing the country even when interest rates at a 70-year low.


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This dragnet approach is pretty pointless. All it does is cost people time and money.
With the amount of browsing I do I would probably be able to look at my entire history and find illegal things I have accidentally or unintentionally stumbled across over the years, not to mention what kind of traffic I have generated when I have got the odd virus/worm.
It doesn't really protect the community either as anyone who wants to go to the trouble of hiding what they do online can do so very simply so in sense something like this is akin to listening to everyone's phone conversations and not realising the people you are trying to get are sending each other letters.
Australia really needs a Bill of Rights created, and in this day and age of Communications and identity it strongly worded to protect peoples individuals rights online from government, corporate and other individuals.
2. No data revealing the content of the communication may be retained pursuant to this Directive.
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Letter: Officer deserved to be fired, not reassigned
Published 9:10 pm, Friday, November 30, 2012
After reading "Fired cop wins ruling," Nov. 22, it would seem the Albany Police Department was obligated to reassign Officer Brian Lutz to something other than his primary job, driving patrols, even though he allegedly broke the law.
If I can no longer do my primary job, my company would feel no obligation to reassign me in order to accommodate my stupidity.
It would seem the Albany Police Department is unable to fire bad officers even when it recognizes them as such.


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12/11/15: Barbecue celebrated and myths debunked at New Orleans' Food Museums: my latest for the San Diego Reader.
11/19/15: Timbre Press has just released Stories of Music vol 1! I'm proud to be a contributor.
11/18/15: The Smart Set just published my account of what I learned from Valparaiso's street art during a visit six years ago.
11/10/15: I'm stoked that my piece on the hats of Panama appears in this month's issue of Tales To Go, published by Travelers' Tales!
9/26/15: On today's blog, I attempt to explain how the marshmallow is a mindshare indicator.
7/13/15: In Panama, your hat can do the talking. I attempt to explain here.
5/21/15: Traveling to Martinique? When you encounter an ouassou, dont forget to suck the head.
5/10/15: Today's blog: this is how an Icelandic band impersonates a SWAT team in a New York City music venue.
3/13/15: Albino critter alert! In my first piece for Narratively, I narrate my journey at a depth of 2,000 feet underwater in a homemade submarine.
2/28/15: "Playing the Right Chord in the Rupununi," my latest piece for Unmapped Magazine, chronicles my time with the Makushi people of southern Guyana.
1/7/15: My story on Belize's lionfish invasion, published in Roads & Kingdoms last July, now appears in a travel anthology by World Traveler Press. It has been released today and is available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble!
12/29/14: Snout cam! The San Diego Reader just published my piece about hanging out with alpacas in Canada's Prince Edward Island.
12/5/14: I detail my thoughts on the intersection of zoology and street art on my latest blog entry: A Quiet Scene of Street Art in Astoria.
10/2/14: The biguine, the mazurka, and zouk become vehicles for a journey by music through Martinique in my latest piece for Perceptive Travel.
7/21/14: Bear sausage and wild boar steaks are just a few of the menu items on the game trail in Kvarner, Croatia.
7/16/14: Belize is dealing with lionfish, an invasive species, by eating them. I had to join in.
7/10/14: One of the things I found most surprising about Martinique was the island's thriving street art scene.
7/2/14: In my latest piece over at On A Junket, I explain how an icy two-step is part of Love, Death, and Protein in Panama.
5/23/14: Drunk rodents, anti-burek partisans, and snail sausages are all part of Istrias Edible Empires, my latest piece over at Unmapped Magazine.
4/30/14: I'm stoked that my piece on the demise of Panama City's hand-painted buses won first place in Transitions Abroad's 2014 narrative contest.
3/31/14: Here is car-centric Houston's take on street food: let's call it "park food."
3/3/14: I'm happy to announce that my travel writing has won two golds and two bronzes in the 2014 Travelers' Tales Solas Awards! Here is the list of all winners.
2/16/14: My appetite for frogs' legs scored me a bronze medal in the 2013 NATJA travel journalism awards! Here is the complete list of winners.
1/30/14: Subway riders: have you sampled someone else's reading material lately? Here are a few reflections on the public words on public transit.
11/5/13: I like em fat. Especially when their juice drips after I open em up. Im talking about Croatian oysters. GoNomad just published a piece about my experiences with them here.
9/12/13: Click here for my photo gallery of the street art of San Ignacio, Belize.
7/23/13: Today over at BBC Travel, I explore the frog fare of Croatia.
7/3/13: In Turkey, I got as close as I could to 1,700 degrees in an attempt to understand the powers of the evil eye. The story is up today at The Smart Set.
6/26/13: Today's blog: a travel magazine from 1933 tells readers about a forerunner to the bikini, a decade before the bikini was invented.
5/8/13: My piece about Serge Gainsbourg, involving cans of beans and graffiti, is the feature of the week at Carry On.
4/8/13: Today's blog: Arizona is where metal turns to wine (Tool's Maynard Keenan is now a winemaker).
3/7/13: My piece "Journey by Bottle," published in the winter 2012 issue of Gastronomica, won a gold medal in the 2013 Solas Awards!
3/1/13: Two flippers in every pot! Seal is on the menu in Montreal. My take is in the March issue of Perceptive Travel.
2/28/13: What is an Every Burger? A Watering Kissmint? My attempt to find out is on today's blog.
1/22/13: Have you ever wanted to travel to North Korea? At the NY Times Travel Show, I found out how. My highlights of the event are on today's blog.
12/2/12: Hey space nerds: this month's issue of Perceptive Travel contains my sneak preview of Panama's first astronomical observatory. Read it here.
11/26/12: My Gastronomica debut! My piece on cassareep, a versatile Guyanese flavoring sauce, appears in the winter 2012 issue on page 27.
11/17/12: Is social media killing the act of travel? My take is in today's blog.
10/30/12: Today's blog: hurricane Sandy delivers a tale of Astoriana.
10/11/12: Deep fried garlic and politically incorrect seasonings are analyzed in my review of the Garlic and Harvest Festival.
9/7/12: A recent visit to Ithaca revealed that the city is like both a smoothie and a jukebox. Today's blog explains how.
8/24/12: Street art fans: FatCap.com just published my piece on the street art of Panama City.
7/6/12: In March, I stumbled upon comfort food in an unusual place: Santiago, Panama. The Panama News has the story.
7/6/12: The San Francisco Chronicle just published my latest piece, in which I attempt to Search for the Golden Fleece in Guyana.
5/7/12: Yesterday, I roamed off the menu for a whole roast pig in Astoria, Queens.
3/27/12: The latest edition of The Panama News contains a piece I wrote about a visit to the Chocolateria y Bomboneria Sebastian in Panama City.
11/11/11: Juvenile delinquency or trendy fashion opportunity? I'm talking about stilettos hanging on a telephone wire.
9/14/11: Has goat meat just gone urban chic? At Matador Life, I discuss how the subjects of an experimental goat husbandry project in Vermont ended up on a spit in a Brooklyn, New York backyard.
9/12/11: On a recent visit to Montreal, I reunited with the Fresh Paint of the City's Street Art.
8/3/11: Got stencils and wheat paste? Matador Nights just published my photo essay on the Sick Street Art of Montevideo.
7/30/11: Reflecting on past travels in Texas, I explore the relationship between barbecue and crude oil here.
6/28/11: Panamanian langostinos find themselves on a Greek grill in my latest blog: Waiter, There's a Monster on my Plate.
5/28/11: My piece I Was a Thai Travel Trinket appears in USATodays travel section today, thanks to their partnership with Perceptive Travel.
5/3/11: My latest piece over at Perceptive Travel recounts a massage I received in an unexpected place in Bangkok. No, its not what you think. Really!
5/1/11: Asparagus have begun appearing at farmer's markets across the northeast. Why steam them when you can broil them with pine nuts?
4/11/11: A pepperpot says to a parsnip: "Where have you been all my life?" The recipe is here.
3/14/11: Observations from travel around Turkey: Whats so Funny about Death?
2/8/11: Here is what happens when a popular Guyanese sauce meets traditional American cooking: Baked beans with cassareep.
1/25/11: The geography of gastronomy reveals itself again during travels around Washington DC's East African communities: Washington DC's East African communities.
12/24/10: Reggae "Jingle Bells"? It must be Christmas season in Guyana.
12/7/10: The Chilean hot dog:too sexy for ketchup.
11/13/10: A walk through Hollywood farmers' market reveals killer snails and creepy lemons.
11/11/10: Today's blog: Curry and Karaoke in Long Beach's Cambodia Town.
10/31/10: Who says print is dead? Matador Travel Network just announced the launching of Beta, its new quarterly print magazine.
10/19/10: Over the weekend, I took a nostalgic trip down Connecticut's Pizza Belt.
10/11/10: Today's blog: thrills in a 99 cent store. Educational war toys! Something gained in translation?
9/30/10: Today's post goes out to all you Engrish hunters.
9/6/10: Anthropomorhic corn, dueling terrines, and beer made from carrots: that's what my wife and I found when we went locavoring in Quebec City.
8/26/10: Boring chicken dinner again? Try these four tasty rodents instead.
8/24/10: Food writer Alison Stein-Wellner interviewed me over at Perceptive Travel.
8/19/10: Get ready for green zebras, purple cherokees, and all the juice your belly button can hold: here are the Confessions of a Tomato Pervert..
8/5/10: Today's photo blog: Eye-catching warnings on Uruguayan cigarette packs. Collect them all!
8/3/10: Check out my new blog site, where I get a thrill out of sitting on Broadway.
8/2/10: Last week, I visited Pasadena without licking telephone poles.
7/8/10: Is There a Hole in the Boat? is now available on the iBookstore for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch.
7/1/10: Grab your thermos and start dancing: in my latest piece A Dialog of Echoes in Uruguay, the music comes to your doorstep.
7/1/10: Travelers' Tales featured my medal-winning piece Showdown at the West Esplanade Canal as an Editor's Choice pick for this week.
5/24/10: Is There a Hole in the Boat? is ready for reading on your iPad. All you need is a PDF reader like Goodreader (available at the iTunes App Store). Download the book here and go!
5/6/10: How many live chickens can ride on the back of a motorbike in Cambodia? Find out in my latest piece over at GoNomad.
5/4/10: Lobster: it's not just for indentured servants anymore.
4/5/10: Click here to read how having brunch in Panama City reminded me of Joe Biden's loose-cannon larynx.
3/1/10: My piece "Showdown at the West Esplanade Canal" just scored a silver medal in this year's Solas Awards!
2/28/10: Here's a defense against an ornery Northeastern snow storm: Smoky Pig Foot Pea Soup.
1/11/10: Rumors are true: you can now follow me on twitter!
1/3/10: Edible Sputnik part II: You didn't think I'd forget the kohlrabi globes themselves, did you? Here's a simple Cream of Kohlrabi Soup recipe.
1/2/10: Kohlrabi: it's the sputnik you can eat. First, we'll eat the antennae like this.
12/18/09: Forget the fruitcake -- go for a sweeter treat, like I did: Fried Tarantulas. Taste the free-range difference!
11/23/09: Click here to uncover the noble mission of the the sacrifical vegetables.
8/12/09: Sure, seafood paella takes a lot of work to make. But you know you want it. My take on the recipe is here.
5/20/09: Asparagus season is here! (At least for us folks in the Northeast.) Here's how you can make use of 'em.
3/9/09: Ready your camouflage outfit and your spit cup, because I just enlisted myself as a culinary patriot in New Orleans. "Showdown at the West Esplanade Canal" over at Perceptive Travel covers all the action.
2/28/09: This is my kind of breakfast: this morning, I found out I scored a silver medal in this year's Solas Awards for my piece "Subdued by Street Vendors."
2/10/09: Comic nerds and travel junkies have united forces! Sort of. My latest blog checks it out.
2/06/09: Do like comfy cargo pants? You might want to reconsider wearing them on the subway.
12/31/08: I finally added a bunch of new photos from around the States to my flickr account. More to come shortly. Happy New Year!
10/26/08: For all you farmer's market addicts out there: I bring you a recipe for sauteed vegetable crepes.
9/15/08: Look at the list of authors to appear at this year's multilingual New York Book Expo in Astoria, New York on October 3-4. Grab a souvlaki, have a beer, and stop by! See the events page for more details.
9/2/08: Unlike vice-presidential candidate Palin's penchant for moose stew, my taste-test of barbecued mealworms won't encourage any states to secede from the union. Check out my review of said snack in the latest installment of McSweeney's Reviews of New Food.
6/23/08: In an excerpt from Is There a Hole in the Boat? that GoNomad just printed, you'll read how I ended up eating dust for lunch.
6/22/08: Books and Beer: Who knew? Check out my events page for details on my appearance at the New York Book Fair Expo this October.
6/18/08: New York City finally has its own travel book store: Idlewild Books. And they stock Is There a Hole in the Boat?. If you're in NYC, check it out!
5/23/08: Grab a paper-thin complimentary bar of hotel soap. Nicaragua brought me adventures in hygiene.
3/20/08: I just found out I scooped up a bronze certificate and an honorable mention in this year's Solas Awards for "The Comb of Rebellion" and "The Peanut Fiends of Guayaquil", two of my pieces published last year!
12/26/07: Just in time for your New Year's feast, I posted a recipe for spiced tourtiere.
11/20/07: I'll be signing copies of Is There a Hole in the Boat? at the Independent and Small Press Book Fair, Dec 1 and 2 in NYC. Click here for details.
10/8/07: Is There a Hole in the Boat? won the silver medal in the Lowell Thomas Journalism Competition. I'm flattered to be in such medal-winning company as Paul Theroux and Tim Cahill.
9/9/07: Brooklyn area folks: I'll be at the Brooklyn Book Festival next Sunday, Sept 16. Stop by and say hola!
8/14/07: GoNomad just printed my article on Otavalo, Ecuador, where crabs remain on leashes, Castro hangs on strings, and guinea pigs fly (kind of).
7/5/07: There's nothing like hanging out with the locals, especially when they have three foot tails. Check out my latest piece The Peanut Fiends of Guayaquil over at Perceptive Travel.
6/2/07: Want to win an autographed copy of Is There a Hole in the Boat? Of course you do. Click here to enter the contest held by TCM Reviews. Hurry: the contest ends on June 30.
6/2/07: That's right, it's softshell crab season again. And to celebrate, I posted a beer-battered softshell crab recipe.
5/17/07: For all you librarians and booksellers: you will find Is There a Hole in the Boat? at Book Expo America (June 1-3) in the New Title Showcase.
5/17/07: Am I a fashion victim or a supporter of local economies? Here's an article about Panama City you mite—er, might—like over at The Panama Report.
4/30/07: Look what I found today. "an engaging read," says Terry South of Quality Book Reviews.
4/5/07: SALIVARY GLAND ALERT: Lisa Kisner over at ReaderViews just wrote "Mr. DuFord...makes even the most questionable meal, such as bush rat, sound delicious."
3/7/07: And now, the latest praise for Is There a Hole in the Boat?: check out what Levi Asher over at LitKicks had to say about the book.
2/27/07: I have two upcoming appearances in the NYC area--one on April 14, and another on May 8. Details on the events page.
2/23/07: According to TCM Reviews, Is There a Hole in the Boat? takes the best of two types of travelogues--funny and informative--"and makes them into an entertaining yet substantial whole." Read the entire review here.
2/22/07: Today's edition of the Queens Courier ran an article on me. In the article, you'll find out, among other things, what risks I will take for a slow-cooked meal.
2/22/07: Do you hate killing orchids? I have an article for you...
2/21/07: ForeWord Magazine has selected Is There a Hole in the Boat as a Book of the Year Awards finalist!
2/9/07: Armchair Interviews posted a review of Is There a Hole in the Boat?. Check it out here.
1/27/07: I just added a new recipe: Shrimp Pizza on Flatbread. Get your broilers ready.
1/2/07: I'll be signing copies of Is There a Hole in the Boat? at the Big Art Show in Brooklyn, NY on January 27. Check the events page for all the details.
12/12/06: If you missed my interview on Travel Hub Radio, sweat not, my friend: Travel Hub Radio saved it in their mp3 archives. Choose "Segment 1."
12/12/06: Alright, I've been a little tardy with adding new recipes. So if you've been waiting, this one is for you: Papas a la Huancaina.
12/6/06: Don't forget: tomorrow, Travel Hub Radio will be interviewing me live in streaming internet audio. Check the events page for details.
11/13/06: Click here to check out the review of Is There a Hole in the Boat? from BookPleasures.
11/6/06: Travel Hub Radio will be interviewing me on December 7th. Check the events page for more info...
11/1/06: Is it possible to find a decent glass of Venezuelan-made wine? I checked it out.
10/4/06: Exedra Books in Panama City will be holding a book signing for Is There a Hole in the Boat? on Saturday, October 14th. Check here for the details.
9/27/06: I will be reading from Is There a Hole in the Boat? at the Pink Pony in NYC on November 6. Get the details here.
9/20/06: Who wants some frequent flier miles? In his latest blog entry, Tim Leffel posted a URL to score 250 free miles from Delta by just answering a survey question.
9/18/06: What do lucky soaps and Spiderman have in common? Why, the Panamanian city of Chitre, of course.
9/15/06: I've uploaded a few dozen of my travel photos to my flickr account. You'll find shots of Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela. Check 'em out! I'll post some shots from Peru soon...
8/28/06: Click here to read the review of Is There a Hole in the Boat? in The Panama News.
8/6/06: Are you craving a frothy glass of chicha? You're in luck: GoNOMAD just published my article, Chowhounding Peru: from Anticuchos to Zaino. Go to the articles page for the link.
7/20/06: Earlier this month, I returned from Venezuela, a country more like America than one might think--an America of 25 years ago, that is. Read this to find out why.
©2016 Darrin DuFord


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8 bed semi-detached house for saleWrafton Road, Braunton EX33
This imposing Georgian residence offers tremendous accommodation which is very difficult to find in today's market and therefore we recommend a full internal viewing to appreciate the space and versatility which is sure to appeal to those persons ...
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- Barnstaple (4.6 miles)
- Chapelton (Devon) (8.4 miles)
8 bed terraced house for saleMary Street, Porthcawl CF36
**viewing by appointment only** Substantial 8 bedroom terraced property situated in the heart of Porthcawl Town Centre which was previously run as a hotel. The property benefits from being ideally located with the seafront promenade only a short walk.
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- Pyle (3.3 miles)
- Bridgend (5.9 miles)
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8 bed semi-detached house for saleNelson Road, Westward Ho! EX39
A stunning example of a former gentlemen's residence set in the heart of Westward Ho! On the beautiful North Devon coast. This outstanding 7/8 bedroomed property has been sympathetically updated over the years providing the most versatile ...
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- Barnstaple (8.0 miles)
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8 bed detached house for saleOverton Lane, Porteynon, Swansea SA3
Milan House, has taken its name from the Milan, a cargo ship which ran aground upon the rocks at Slades Foot, on the cliffs of Overton. A superb and characterful house with an additional attached cottage, offering versatile accommodation or business ...
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- Llanelli (9.2 miles)
- Pembrey & Burry Port (9.6 miles)
8 bed detached house for saleShillingford, Tiverton EX16
This character home, previously a public house and most recently a B&B has spacious accommodation with 8 bedrooms and 5 reception rooms, a large garden and a 0.6 acre paddock set in the popular village of Shillingford, surrounded by beautiful ...
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- Tiverton Parkway (7.3 miles)
- Taunton (15.3 miles)
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8 bed detached house for saleTavistock Road, Okehampton EX20
Unique and rare opportunity to acquire this set of four properties that currently allow both dual family occupation with two holiday homes run on the edge of the stunning and iconic dartmoor national park. Being so close, the views from the grounds ...
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- Okehampton (3.2 miles)
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Based on Tom Callaway's "Fail Scale" and inspired by a recent tweet by Ryan Rix I decided to measure just how much Fail does Android have in its project.
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Tuska Open Air 2013: SATURDAY
A young Swedish crossover quartet has caused a hyper acting interest due to the eccentric looking skullmasks, Suicidal Tendencies headwagon and above all unforgettable hyper activate performance. Dr Living Dead has outspokenly adopted the manners from the forefathers of the crossover genre Suicidal Tendencies for obvious reasons. The Swedish four-piece thrashed the stage down and the audience thanked and arranged one hell of a pit.
VON has a real colorful history behind, but the current renewed VON is slightly different compared to the older version of VON. Getting VON to Tuska was quite an unexpected surprise as these kinds of bands rarely appear at Tuska. However the four piece performed the raw blackish stuff with a bit bored performance. Without the mandatory speeches, the four-piece hammered the VON classic with the brutal grip thru the whole set. In the long run, it started sounding a bit dull.
An old Finnish punk band at Tuska..Well, that wouldn't have been believed to happen in the first place that the old Finnish punk band from the heyday of the 80's/70's would be seen at Tuska. The old punk put a good show with the simple and raw approach. The outfit did all the essential classic ones known in the Finnish rock/metal/punk fans. The performance by Lama was extremely freshed and raw.
Before Saturday's headliners, Testament, it was German's Kreator turn to take over the main stage of Tuska. Mille Petrozza and the gang opened up with a pair of new PHANTOM ANTCHRIST tracks followed by older "Coma of Souls" and "Endless Pain" which were now stapled together for a kind of medley. Kreator has always been for its furious appearances and this time made no exception here. Petrozza was totally "wrathful" about anything/everything and drummer Ventor hit the drums as the doomsday would be coming. The set list was built around the latest albums. There were altogether three songs played from PHANTOM ANTICHRIST and its predecessors VIOLENT REVOLUTION, ENEMY OF GOD and HORDES OF CHAOS were present with one song each. Maybe the band suffered a bit about short playing time but honestly it must be said that too many classics were now missing from the set. Also, the medley thing wasn't great at all. Of course the band can then play a bits and parts of more songs but I would prefer to hear complete songs instead. It's either "Flag of Hate" or "Tormentor" but not just a half of each, ok? All in all, this was just a routine gig from the Germans.
Phantom Antichrist
From Flood into Fire
Coma of Souls / Endless Pain
Pleasure to Kill
Hordes of Chaos
Death to the World
Enemy of God
The Patriarch
Violent Revolution
Under the Guillotine
Flag of Hate / Tormentor
The Dutch two men black metal created the eerie hymns in the club stage. Influenced by the older Bathory and other cult black metal gems, the two men's cult band was simple and sounded grim. Urfaust needs no gimmicks or other typical trademarks known and used in the black metal genre. The Dutch two-men outfit relied on the simply approach and stage performance. The band definitely draws influences from the eerie black metal approach ala Bathory and a few other older generation black metal bands.
U.S. thrash/metal legends Testament have been regular Finnish visitors in recent years and this show was the bands third appearance in Tuska -festival in nine years. Testament returned to the classic line-up of vocalist Chuck Billy, bassist Greg Christian and guitarists Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick in 2005 and established itself as one of the top metal bands of our time. The band released its latest masterpiece DARK ROOTS OF EARTH in 2012 and the album featured drummer Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad, Dark Angel etc) who is still sitting behind the kit today. Testament opened show with new album track "Rise Up" followed by "More Than Meets the Eye" and classic "The Preacher". There is no doubt that good-tempered and sympathetic Billy was the main conductor on stage. A big man sang convincingly and he seemed to be genuinely excited about performing in front of enthusiastic audience. Skolnick was a guitar virtuoso second to none and it now seems that, after spending years in Jazz music scene, the man has now found himself again on the stage as well and a man now waved his head like in the good old days. The set list was kind of divided into two separate sections. The band played mainly songs from the two most recent albums at the beginning whereas the end contained all the early day classics. An exception to the rule did the pair of excellent GATHERING albums tracks "D.N.R" and "3 Days of Darkness" and FORMATION OF DAMNATION album title track which surprisingly finished the set. During "Over the Wall" Billy commanded crowd to do built up a classic "wall of death" and the audience obeyed without any question. "Alone in the Dark" featured Swedish guest vocalist Bjorn Strid (Soilwork etc) and it must be said that a man's performance was almost catastrophic. He did not know the words at all and he looked like Fred Durst on stage… Not metal at all. But Testament was still as strong and convincing as ever. The show was energetic, entertaining, and the set list was cleverly designed to meet the different age and level of fans' needs. In fact, there's nothing to complain but maybe one thing… It's been over 13 years since the Testament has appeared in a club gig in Finland. Maybe it is time?
Rise Up
More Than Meets the Eye
The Preacher
Native Blood
True American Hate
Dark Roots of Earth
Into the Pit
Practice What You Preach
The New Order
The Haunting
Alone in the Dark
Disciples of the Watch
Over the Wall
D.N.R. (Do Not Resuscitate)
3 Days in Darkness
The Formation of Damnation


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|Empress of Ireland
1906 - 1914
the early 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. was indeed
one of the foremost companies operating steamships across the globe. The
companys global system of transportations ranked as the largest in the
world. Steamers sailed across the North Atlantic from Britain to Eastern
Canada and from there, rails stretched west all the way to the Pacific
port of Vancouver. Here ships continued the relay, crossing the Pacific
Ocean to reach the Orient. Canadian Pacific enjoyed immense success and
popularity among the travelling public, with their famous fleet of Empress-liners
as a trademark.
One of
|Although not as luxurious as the ships on the New York-route, the Empress of Ireland had a reputation of being a very fine liner.
|The Empress of Ireland's First Class Music Room.
|Passengers cling to the side of the hull as the Empress of Ireland goes down.
|The wreck of the Empress of Ireland, as it appears today. (Painting by Ken Marschall)
|The Empress of Ireland - Specifications:
|570 feet (174.1 m)
|65.6 feet (19.99 m)
|14,191 gross tons
|Quadruple expansion engines turning two propellers.
|Service speed:
|18 knots
|1,580 people


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Bret Michaels designing pet collection
Rocker Bret Michaels is expanding his brand by launching is own range of pet products.
The Poison front-man and animal lover is teaming up with bosses at U.S. retailer PetSmart to release the Bret Michaels Pets Rock collection next summer (2012).
He says, "As a musician who loves animals, I'm thrilled to be collaborating with PetSmart to create the Bret Michaels Pets Rock collection.
"As a dedicated pet owner myself, this is a natural partnership for me, and I can't wait to unveil the collection. I know my own pets rock, and I wanted to design a line of pet products every bit as fun and cool as they are."


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Preparing for the real estate exam can be nerve wracking. The exam is one of your first big steps on your journey to becoming a real estate professional.
There's so much to learn and memorize, especially when you are new to the field, that it can be a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, we have some great tips to help you prep for the real estate exam like a pro.
Study Tips
Study real estate exam prep material only. Your main goal right now is to pass the test, not become a real estate expert overnight. There's a lot of information out there and you'll have your whole career to learn all of it but for now, focus exclusively on finding study guides or real estate courses designed to help you pass the test.
Study the current Real Estate Candidate Handbook or Licensing Information Bulletin for your state. It will contain an exam content outline that you can use as the basis of your study materials. The outline will also familiarize you with the real estate terms and jargon.
Check off each topic on the outline of the handbook or bulletin when you feel you have it down.
Don't move onto the next section until you feel confident that you fully understand that section. This will prevent you from forgetting or skipping sections or rushing through others halfheartedly.
Take lots of notes. Writing down important information helps you commit it to memory and also helps you organize the info in a way that makes sense to you. Highlight and underline key ideas as well so you know what to focus on.
Use up-to-date study guides. Tests change over time and so do study guides. Check the date on all study guides to ensure that you are studying current, up-to-date information so there will be no surprises on the test.
Take lots of practice tests. Not everything from the test will be on every practice test so take as many as you can. Taking practice tests can also help alleviate any test anxiety you may be feeling by familiarizing yourself with the materials, language and process of the test.
Time your practice tests. The real exam will be timed, so do the same with your practice test. See how quickly you can complete the test while still remaining accurate. You don't need to finish it in record time, you just need to make sure you can finish it in the amount of time you are given. Any questions you skip or get wrong will highlight the areas you need to concentrate on.
Get info on the exam. Know what you are getting yourself into by finding out the specifics: what subjects are on the test, how many questions are on the test and how much time you have to complete the test.
Also remember to find out where and when the exam is and what time it is recommended that you arrive at the testing center. Most of this info can be found on each state's license requirements page on our website: http://realestatecareershq.com/ (either in the "Exam" section or the references at the bottom of the page.)
Make a study schedule. Set aside a certain number of hours each day or each week to sit down and study for the test. Without a schedule, you can quickly lose track of time and find that you have very little time to prepare for the test.
Cramming is the least successful way to study for a test so make sure to plan your study time accordingly. Study frequently for periods of 45 to 60 minutes. Concentration often wanes when studying for longer periods of time.
Sleep well. Although you may be tempted to hold an all night cram session the night before the test, don't. All this will do is tire you out, physically and mentally, and leave you unable to think clearly. Get a good night's rest the night before the exam and arrive early and ready to start.
Test-Taking Tips
Always answer the questions you know first and skip the ones you are unsure of. Don't waste time trying to answer the questions that stump you. Skip over any questions you don't know and come back to them after. You may often find that a related question later in the test jogs your memory enough to help you answer the ones you were stuck on.
Don't compete with other applicants during the test. It's a test, not a race. Take as much time as you need to finish. In fact, use all of the allotted time you've been granted. Don't worry if other applicants finish before you. A lot of students who finish quickly tend to fail.
Don't keep score. This will only cause undue stress and distract you from what you should be doing, which is answering the questions correctly. Don't waste time counting and adding up correct or incorrect answers. It might discourage you and affect your performance. If you really need to check how you did, wait until after you've finished to tally up your answers.
Don't change your answer. Once you've written down your answer, don't change it, even if you're unsure that you are correct. Statistically you are more likely to change an answer from correct to incorrect instead of the reverse. Unless you're certain you answered incorrectly, leave it alone.
Don't be afraid to choose many of the same options in a row. Sometimes a test will have five questions in a row where the answer is "A." If you are certain these are all the correct answers, don't worry about it and just answer them.
If you have to guess, guess wisely. There are a few tricks to guessing. If one of the answers is much longer than the others, choose that one. If two of the four answers are almost identical, choose the longer one.
Be suspicious of words like Never, Always or Except. These are greatly exaggerated answers which are rarely correct. The word Except is tricky and can change the meaning of a sentence, so read the sentence carefully.
General terms like "most," "some," and "usually" are more likely to be found in a correct answer. Answer every question, especially when guessing. Unanswered questions are marked incorrect. Even if you don't know the answer, if you guess, at least you have a chance of getting it right.
Don't take the test on an empty stomach. Your hunger will distract you and your blood sugar may drop which will cause you to lose focus and get confused easily.
Read each question twice. There's a lot of similar terms and jargon on the test and your eyes can easily play tricks on you when scanning the questions. Read each question carefully and then read it again to make you sure you fully understand what it is asking before you answer it.
Use the process of elimination. If you're stuck on a certain multiple choice question, look at all the answers first and determine which answers are blatantly incorrect. Then slowly narrow it down until you uncover the most probable answer.
Last but not least, relax! Test anxiety can rattle your brain and make it hard to think straight. Remember that it's only a test and you can always retake it if you don't do well. Just breath deeply, prepare ahead of time and do the best you can!


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RUFC - Robins 'it's an honour to manage this club'
Rotherham United Manager, Mark Robins, has already had talks at top level about next season and the plans for the club and he knows that his team will be expected to be amongst the challengers next season. 'Our challenges will be different next season,' Robins told The Star.
And so it should be! Last summer the club had no ground, no training ground and less than no points! And, it wasn't really until the day before the season began that we knew if there would be a club at all.
'No one outside the club can really judge what we had to do,' Robins carried on. 'We had to overcome all those challenges and it's only thanks to the great effort by everyone that we've done that.
'People talk about squad sizes and high budgets and we are no where near the highest budget in this division. It was hard, but we have balanced the books.
'It's a challenge, yes, but it's also an honour and privilege to manage this club and I treat the job with respect. I will do the best I can do and have done what I can within the parameters set.
'In the current financial climate who knows what effect it will have at our level. Players may become available earlier than they have been and we have a new flexibility in how we've been able to react to the market. But, as we know, things change frequently in football.'


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