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CRESTVIEW � Former Crestview High School baseball star Blake Dean was home on April 23 to watch his brother, Dakota, and the Bulldogs face Niceville in the District 2-6A tournament. Blake hung up the spikes last spring after a stellar career at Louisiana State University and two years of minor league baseball in the Los Angeles Dodger organization.
CRESTVIEW � Former Crestview High School baseball star Blake Dean was home on April 23 to watch his brother, Dakota, and the Bulldogs face Niceville in the District 2-6A tournament.
Blake hung up the spikes last spring after a stellar career at Louisiana State University and two years of minor league baseball in the Los Angeles Dodger organization.
The Dodgers drafted Dean in the eighth round of the 2010 draft; he was having a strong spring when he decided to call it quits last year.
"Pro ball just wasn't for me," he said. "I enjoyed college ball a lot, but pro ball was just too much. I enjoyed playing baseball and I enjoy being around the sport, but I just like to have a life outside of it as well.
"Once you get into pro ball, it's like they basically own you. Whatever they say, you do. I just got tired with that aspect of life."
Coaching a possibility
Dean � a 2006 Crestview graduate and All-American for the Tigers � ranks in the top five in school history in several offensive categories. He is still involved with LSU�s baseball program as an undergraduate assistant coach while finishing his sports management degree. He said he could end up coaching baseball as a career.
"I enjoy it and keeps me in the game, so it's definitely a good option right now," Dean said. "I played it my whole life and it's nice to just see a different side of it. So it's new to me and, as far as the game, it gives me something else to try and accomplish."
Blake said he couldn�t see Dakota play football last fall, so when the Tigers had a day off, it was important to make the trip from Baton Rouge to see the Bulldogs face the Eagles.
Joining Blake was LSU assistant coach Javi Sanchez, who was also there to watch Dakota, who has signed to play baseball at LSU next year.
"I didn't get to see him for his senior football games or anything like that so I was talking to coach Sanchez and he said, 'Let's go make a trip and get to go watch him and see him play a little bit.'
"He's not just here looking at my brother. He's watching both the infield and outfield, and he's watching the hitting. You never can tell when you will find another guy."
Brotherly advice
Having transitioned from high school baseball to college baseball, Blake knows what it takes to succeed at Louisiana State. He is more than happy to pass along his wisdom to Dakota.
"I guess the biggest advice is you just have to know how to do the fundamentals of baseball," he said. "You've got to know how to bunt. You have to play the game hard.
You can't make mental mistakes. (LSU head coach Paul) Maneri looks for his guys that can do stuff � and he doesn't have to teach them � because they already know the game.
Blake said Dakota � and any other player who plays for Crestview High baseball coach Tim Gillis � has learned to play the game the right way.
"Coach Gillis most certainly prepares those guys for the next level well," he said. "He's been around the game so he knows what to do with them."
High school memories
Blake doesn't get to come back to Crestview much these days, but when he does return home, the memories come flooding back to those early years when he was learning the game.
He said many of his old friends and teammates are still in town, and it's always nice to get together with them and remember the good times they had at Crestview High School.
When recalling his favorite high school baseball memory, he quickly points to his senior season in the spring of 2006, when the Bulldogs lost to Pace in the region finals.
"We made a pretty good run there, but we fell a little short," he said. "I had a great time with ... all my friends: Trey (Hayes), Anthony (Brown), Chase (Jaramillo) � all those guys.
"You could go on, but I had a great time my senior year. We had fun and we went far."
Randy Dickson is the Crestview News Bulletin�s sports editor. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com, tweet him @BigRandle, or call 682-6524.


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I honestly never expected my wife to truly become addicted to WoW. I always knew she would enjoy it because of the types of games she plays and the themes she likes on her reading and movies. I did not expect her to get addicted beyond the level that I play, but I am glad she is having a blast. The interesting part is that she is a better player than most that I have seen, and she will be raid ready probably as soon as she hits 80. Funny thing is that from watching me raid, I think she is looking forward to her first raid, and as soon as she hits 70 I think to Kara we will head.
I have raid many of the people that were downing bosses on 40 man raids talk about how getting a piece of gear now feels like entitlement. That has always bothered me about the game when I started playing it. So many people I encountered had terms that would put down people if they did not know their little "secret" terms about raiding and being inside of a dungeon. The thing is that getting to do a dungeon was difficult and most high level players would only help you with the places that were either quick or they would know very well so they could maximize their playing time. Someone run you through Mara? forget it.
Getting into a dungeon in previous iterations of the game required that you had at least one experienced player. Someone needed to know where the stone was and direct at least one other person to get here. If you had no FPs close to it you would be waiting there for a long period of time. Most of the time you were stuck doing the same dungeons that most people knew how to get to, Deadmines, Scarlet Monastery come to mind. So you really did not get to see a lot of the content when it came to dungeons, you were pretty much stuck leveling through doing quests and killing pigs over and over. That is how people used to level.
People would hit cap and want to go into a raid, and that is where the problem started. Most people had done dungeons with a very experienced player, and at times levels above them. This created the illusion that dungeons were a simple thing and you did not have to pay attention… then BAM, you go into a raid and the difficulty level goes through the roof. You die, or make a mistake and people don't invite you to raids anymore, or you simply get discouraged… your raiding career is over before it even started. That used to happen a lot in the old days of WoW. Most of the people I met playing the game had never been in a raid and were just terrified of the whole idea.
I wonder how many of the wannabe top raiders realize about what it really takes to get a world first. You have to prepare for content way in advance of it being released and the PRT is where they probably spend a lot of time… I wonder what the actual % of the top guilds is on PRT vs live Realms is. I don't get how someone that is simply following a strategy from a place like tankspot can feel entitled to look down at any other player… when they just basically did what a 5 year old does when they buy a guide to a game they cannot figure out by themselves.
Trust me, the jerks that still talk down to people for their simple mistakes are still there in every realm. I just will not ever get that mentality because if you wanted robots (or an IA) to run a raid with you, simply play a solo game. The human factor is what makes the game fun for me, the mistakes that the group compensates for and make everyone laugh after is what makes thing enjoyable. The kill after several wipes is what makes things feel like an accomplishment.
Now the dungeon tool lets people make mistakes with other toons around their level. They start learning about aggro, DPS, DOT, healing, situational awareness and yes move out of the fire very early on. My wife is a better player at 60 thank I was even after months of playing as a 70. Part of it is that she has a great guild behind her with people that have advice and lend a hand when she needs it, but it has mostly been that she has had to learn through just pugging with people and learning to DPS.
Titles, legendary weapons, world firsts are all fine and dandy for those that want to pursue it. Sure it would be nice to get a realm first with our guild some day. Being able to play with friends and now family and still see some awesome content is making the game better for me. I enjoy this game quite a bit, and the changes that are coming are making me even more excited. So keep on nerfing blizzard, I welcome the opportunity to have fun.


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Last month, we noted that the movie industry in the US might want to steal a few pages from the playbook of the Chinese movie industry. While the American movie studios whine and complain that they'll never get people to come to the movies, the Chinese movie industry (where counterfeiting movies is a much, much, much bigger problem than in the US) decided to compete by recognizing that movie-going is a social experience and coming up with ways to improve that overall experience. Would you believe it worked? The latest studies show a huge increase in the box office take in China last year. Movies are entertainment -- but it's not just the content. If the industry worked on ways to make the movie-going experience, itself, much more enjoyable, it wouldn't matter if even they, themselves, made the content available for free download. People can drink alcohol at home, and they do, but they still go out to bars, and pay much more to do so, because it's part of the social experience. You don't see the liquor (or bar) companies freaking out about all this "home drinking."


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Birth date: December 19
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The argument for the Federal Reserve to introduce another round of stimulus, and its reasons for hesitation, can both be summarized by a single number: 3.53 percent, the average interest rate last week on a 30-year mortgage.
The cost of mortgages and other kinds of loans remain well above zero, a chief reason that many Fedofficials are confident the central bank still has some power to increase the pace of economic growth by continuing to reduce interest rates.
But those rates also are lower than they ever have been before, raising questions about how low they can go, and about the eventual consequences of such huge and enduring distortions to the normal workings of the financial marketplace.
Top Fed officials are coming to the conclusion that the economy is not growing fast enough to reduce the nation's high rate of unemployment, and several members of the Fed's policy-making committee have said additional action is needed if the economy is "stuck in the mud," as Ben S. Bernanke, the Fed chairman, has said.
The question vexing officials as the committee prepares to meet Tuesday and Wednesday is whether the available actions would do more good than harm.
"They repeatedly say that they have additional tools to use, but they haven't done it," said Tim Duy, a professor of economics at the University of Oregon. "That leads one to believe that they're not particularly confident in the tools that they have."
The concerns are focused on the most aggressive option available to the Fed, a further expansion of its investment portfolio. They fall into two broad categories: Is the Fed disrupting markets by removing assets from circulation? And, in reducing interest rates, is the Fed pulling on a rubber band that could snap back quickly and painfully, sending those same rates soaring with disruptive consequences?
In part because of those concerns, Fed officials have said that they want to be sure of the need for additional action before they decide to make the attempt.
"I don't think they should be launched lightly," Mr. Bernanke said of asset purchases at a June news conference. "There should be some conviction that they're needed."
Mr. Bernanke controls the Fed's decision-making process, but he is unlikely to act without the support of a significant majority of the 11 other officials who hold votes on the committee. The resolute opposition of one, Jeffrey M. Lacker, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, is unlikely to make a difference. But more moderate officials, including Sandra Pianalto, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, also have stopped short of clear support for new actions in recent speeches, citing uncertainty about the economy and concern about the costs.
Some Wall Street analysts have concluded that the Fed is unlikely to act before its September meeting, once it has seen data on job creation in July and August.
The Fed already is engaged in a huge campaign to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers. It has held short-term interest rates near zero since late 2008, and it has said that it expects to maintain that policy at least until late 2014. To put further pressure on long-term rates, it has acquired almost $3 trillion of mortgage-backed securities and longer-term Treasury securities — an effort that it has already said will continue until the end of this year.
The purchases drive down interest rates by reducing the supply of assets like long-term Treasury securities. Scarcity raises prices, meaning that investors are accepting a lower rate of return. It also pushes some investors to move their money into other assets, with much the same effect of lowering rates.
The policies, along with a weak economy that has reduced demand for loans, have helped to push a wide range of borrowing costs to the lowest levels on record.
In addition to the low level of mortgage rates, investors effectively are paying the federal government for the privilege of financing the national debt.
Borrowing costs for companies with good credit fell to an average of 3.04 percent Wednesday, the lowest level on record, according to an index compiled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Rates have dropped 22 percent this year.
The Fed's efforts also have pumped up the stock market and held down the cost of American exports by pushing down the value of the dollar.
The extent of economic benefits from these lower rates remains a subject of considerable debate, but the basic mechanics are clear enough.
Lower mortgage rates, for example, encourage people to buy homes, allow them to afford more expensive homes and let existing homeowners refinance. The benefits do not directly reach homeowners who are underwater or borrowers who cannot qualify for loans. But the Obama administration estimatesthat refinancing alone has saved homeowners some $27.7 billion over the last three years.
Companies also have taken advantage. The industrial conglomerate United Technologies in May staged the largest bond sale since the recession, raising $9.8 billion to finance its purchase of the aerospace firm Goodrich. The brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev raised $7.5 billion in mid-July toward its purchase of Grupo Modelo.
But corporate bonds also highlight the difficulties confronting the Fed.
The increase in total borrowing has been modest. Issuance of domestic corporate bonds increased by 2 percent in the first half of 2012, as compared with the first six months of 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
The Fed's ability to reduce the cost of government debt has only partly translated to the private sector. Rates on corporate debt have fallen much more slowly than on Treasuries, more than doubling the difference between corporate and government interest rates before the recession.
Mortgage rates remain similarly elevated in comparison to Treasuries, although some Fed officials say they believe this could be addressed by purchasing mortgage securities. The Fed is forbidden by law from purchasing corporate debt.
The disappointing reduction in rates, and the muted response to those lower rates, may be seen as a reason for the Fed to increase the scale of its efforts.
But some economists are concerned about the possibility that additional purchases will impede the use of Treasuries as a kind of global currency.
"By reducing the supply of Treasury bonds, the economy is deprived of extremely safe and liquid assets," the Northwestern University economists Arvind Krishnamurthy and Annette Vissing-Jorgensen wrote Tuesday. They suggested that the Fed should buy mortgage securities with money raised by selling Treasuries.
The Fed also does not want to own such a large share of Treasuries that the volume of buying and selling becomes too small to produce reliable prices.


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The recent explosion of electronic information has far outpaced the availability of automated tools to manage it effectively. As the amount of accessible electronic information increases, the cost of accessing this information also increases. End users must spend their valuable time wading through masses of irrelevant documents to get the information they require. Accordingly, communities unfamiliar with library science are beginning to grapple with metadata and the organization of large collections of data. Most notably, several Internet search providers now offer services beyond simple searching. For example, Yahoo! now presents information in categories to try to reduce information overload.
Historically, librarians have successfully organized the world's information by creating surrogates to manage, classify and filter information of many types. For instance, to manage an item, a catalog entry is created to describe the item. Then, the patron need not have the item in hand to know what it is about, who created it, where it can be found, etc. Creating metadata about an item makes searching, filtering, organizing and retrieving the item very efficient. This is true of traditional materials as well as new electronic resources.
If every electronic item had a catalog entry or its equivalent, then interfaces could more effectively provide access to the raw content (the free Internet search service model) and the metadata (the library model). Unfortunately, librarians are so overburdened that they can barely keep up with their traditional workload, let alone begin to catalog and organize the vast amounts of information available electronically. All electronic resources will never be humanly cataloged; it's just too expensive. We need automated tools to apply library science ideas like classification to electronic resources at high speed and low cost.
Subject Assignment via Scorpion
The two most popular classification schemes in the world are the Library of Congress Classification and the Dewey Decimal Classification (Dewey for short). Classification schemes partition the world of knowledge to describe resources succinctly. They have mostly been used to shelve items in libraries, not to describe the complete subject content of an item.
It is important to note that the primary topic used to classify an item is not necessarily the most important (or only) subject of the item. While the use of primary topics for classification has proven extremely useful, few resources are seldom about a single topic. Thus, librarians denote subject content when cataloging an item using subject headings from an authoritative list like the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
While traditional catalog entries contain a wealth of metadata, the subject portion is arguably the most important when it comes to building advanced search and retrieval interfaces. Tools to access and display electronic resources more effectively could be built if there were some way to assign subject headings or concept domains automatically to electronic items. That's where Scorpion comes in.
Scorpion is a research project attempting to combine indexing and cataloging, based on the observation that these are complementary activities. Scorpion specifically focuses on building tools for automatic subject recognition by combining library science and information retrieval techniques. A thesis of Scorpion is that Dewey can be used to perform automatic subject assignment for electronic items. That is, Dewey can be used to classify an item and denote subject headings. The basic idea behind Scorpion is that resources to be cataloged can be treated as queries against a special Dewey database that returns a ranked list of potential subjects.
While Scorpion cannot replace human cataloging, Scorpion can produce tools that help reduce the cost of traditional cataloging by automating subject assignment when items are available electronically. For instance, a list of potential subjects could be presented by Scorpion to a human cataloger who could then choose the most appropriate subject.
Scorpion Overview
Dewey is maintained electronically via the Editorial Support System (ESS) at OCLC Forest Press. The corresponding ESS records contain all the raw information used to produce the printed Dewey Decimal Schedules and Tables. ESS records comprise a variety of labeled fields. Some or all of these fields can be used to build ranked retrieval databases for automatically assigning subject codes to documents. By treating documents as queries against such a database, the result set can be viewed as possible subjects for the document.
Figure 1 contains an overview of this process. First, a group of selected ESS records are identified for inclusion in the ranked retrieval database. Then, selected fields from these records are used during the build process to build the database. To assign subjects automatically to an electronic resource, the resource can be turned into a database query with the ranked results being treated as a list of potential subjects for the resource.
While the initial ideas of Scorpion were easy to prove, we have spent a great deal of time refining the ranked retrieval databases and working on pre-processing of the input data and post-processing of the result sets. For instance, we have built over 30 different databases trying various combinations of ESS records, ESS fields, stemming and other characteristics.
An interesting result that we have found is that different collections require different pre-processing and post-processing. For instance, a pre-processing step for an HTML collection of documents might be to remove HTML tags except for META tags. Other collections may need different pre-processing. An encyclopedia with structured articles might necessitate splitting the articles up by sections and sending each section through Scorpion so that subjects could be assigned to each individual section and not just the article as a whole.
A good example of pre-processing data for Scorpion was performed by Jean Godby at OCLC. (Figure 2.) She was interested in automatically extending Dewey with new concepts. As an example of this, she took a set of articles with the term "AT&T" in them and assumed that the collection of articles constituted a general definition of AT&T. (Given enough example articles, one can see how this would be true.) She then took this collection of articles, collapsed them into a single article and submitted that article to Scorpion. Scorpion returned good, general results, but she thought she could do better. So, she ran the raw data through her natural language processing tools to create a surrogate of the important phrases contained in the raw text. This surrogate was then run through Scorpion. The surrogate results were better, more specific than the raw data results. Note that Scorpion did not change, just the input to Scorpion.
As mentioned earlier, it may also be important to perform some clean up of result sets. This post-processing of Scorpion results has become a major research effort for us. While we are already producing good result sets, we are continually seeking ways to remove the occasional entry that humans immediately note as unwanted. For instance, we once got "forest exploitation" returned as a possible subject for OCLC's homepage because the page mentioned "OCLC Forest Press." Clearly, cleanup of this type is important.
Scorpion is a research project. While many initial tools have been built and evaluation has begun, there is still much work to be done. We have several ideas for improvement and expect many more suggestions from external users of the Scorpion tools. Some anticipated results include
where additional documentation explaining the Scorpion tools and experimental results will be posted. At the time this article was written, the Scorpion Web demonstration required an ID and password. Anyone desiring to see the Scorpion tools in action should contact the author for an ID and password.


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by Punchy » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:36 amSince reading #1 of this title last month, I've started reading one of China Mieville's novels, Perdido Street Station (which is excellent so far by the way), so my brain is more in gear with Mieville's unique mind, and as such, I enjoyed this issue a lot more, even though there was probably too much going on. There's two ways to judge this book, one is to just admire Mieville's imagination in coming up with all of the weird different superheroes. This issue featured 8 heroes (and another was mentioned but not seen) and each of them was hilarious, I think my favourite was Shamanticore, but I also liked the one we saw the most of, Iron Snail. These characters are just funny. But as I said, there's more to this than just silly characters, there's serious stuff going on here too. Nelson's friend Darren is brutally murdered by a strange villain, The Squid, who is a pretty big mystery, he seems to be in control, but he's doing what XN says. And what was with his speech patterns? Hmm. I'm also interested in the red-headed doctor, is she also the masked red-head? Is she XN? What's her deal? This book is full-to-the-brim with stuff, and I think I'll need to give it a re-read to fully comprehend what's going on. But even when you don't understand, there's still the fun of Pelican Army and Ctrl-Alt-Del. Mateus Santolouco's art was brilliant once again too, he's given a lot to do by Mieville, and he can do it all.
by e_galston » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:53 amI'm really surprised how much i love this book. I love how the "heroes" the main character turns into, are the most off the wall heroes.
by Stephen Day » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:33 pmI liked this issue to, it should be interesting to see just what is up with the Squid, not to mention the woman in the silver mask and purple cloak.
by Stephen Day » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:35 pm
I've been enjoying that aspect too, I laughed at Hole Punch. I have to say that my favourite of all of them was Double Bluff.
by alaska1125 » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:37 pmI really didn't warm to the first issue (and I thought Kid Chimney was a cool concept). Is this more of the same?
by Chesscub » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:23 amAs a fan of the Dial H concept, I love this series. I'm looking forward to seeing where China goes with this.
by LoganRSA » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:38 amI hope this series makes it. The worst part is seeing glimpses of characters that sound fascinating as throwaways, but that's par for the Dial H course. Always leave 'em wanting more!
by Chesscub » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:42 am
It's a rotary dial. There's no redial button.
by LoganRSA » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:46 am
That's the best explanation I've ever heard
by IvCNuB4 » Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:00 pm"Perdido Street Station" is next on my list. The City and The City" was confusing at first but turned into a total page-turner. He's excellent at writing suspense and action scenes.
I'm thinking he's like Morrison. He throws out weird one-off lines and references that go over your head at first but later on it all comes together. I think once he hits his stride with this title it should be tons o' more fun !
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Many traders do not know this, but if one looks at the profit/loss (P&L) chart of a covered call and a cash-secured put on the same strike, they are borderline identical (save any differences in margin use). This is proven in a formula called put-call parity.
Put-Call Parity
Put-call parity is kind of like the duct tape of the options world; it holds the entire options universe together. No matter how complex the model is in the programmed trade, if this simple formula isn't taken into account, the complex model is likely to cause its operator a lot of problems.
Put-call parity proves that if a call is trading at a given price, then the put has a direct quantifiable value that the trader can calculate. The formula for put-call parity is:
C = call
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This likely sounds crazy in the day and age of computers, but up until about 2003, floor traders spent a majority of their floor time looking up at the option screens and converting calls into puts and vice versa. If the trader found a call or a put that was mispriced, the trader would then trade that option. The idea was the trader was trying to lock in "edge." "Edge" is a term professional traders use for the value the trader enters an option trade above or below its theoretical value.
Here is an example. Suppose stock XYZ is trading at $56, the April 55 call is trading at $4, there is 5 cents in interest to collect (we are pretending rates are a lot higher than they currently are), and the stock has a 25-cent dividend between today and expiration. What should the value of the put be?
Using the put-call parity formula, the equation is:
The put should be worth $3.20. If the put is $3.30 bid or $3.10 offered, the trader knows that one of the options is mispriced. The trader would then typically look at the screen and see a public bid or offer in either the call or put that was throwing off the parity between puts and calls.
This is all well and good, but how can retail traders use this formula to their advantage?
Certainly, retail traders do not have the ability to sit in front of a computer and scan for mispriced options, but there are actually a few ways that traders can use put-call parity to their advantage. I am going to present the simplest ways, credit and debit spreads.
Credit and Debit Spreads
If there is a formula that holds puts and calls together, then put and call credit spreads are also held together by the same formula.
Take a moment to look at a long IBM May 130/135 call spread. Now compare the spread to a short May 130/135 put spread. Once inspected, the trader should notice that they are exactly the same spread. And a long 125/130 put spread is the same as a short 125/130 call spread.
Here is the simple rule: The difference between the strikes, less the value of the call spread, should equal the put spread, and vice versa.
How can traders use this knowledge to their advantage? Throw out the idea that a trader should only trade credit spreads or only trade debit spreads. Traders should understand that they are exactly the same thing!
Take a little time to do some math before entering a particular debit or credit spread. There may be an opportunity to take advantage of a mispriced spread (and yes, this happens often).
Back to IBM. Suppose I decide that I want to get long a debit spread. I look at the IBM May 130/135 call spread. If I can buy that spread for $1.50, what price should I be able to sell the IBM May 130/135 put spread at? The answer is $3.50.
But what if I could sell the put spread at $3.55 instead of $3.50? I would be getting long the exact same spread at five cents less per spread. The same holds on the put side if I wanted to get long an IBM put spread.
This may not sound like a lot, but it adds up over time. While the savings at first might pay for a foot-long sub, if the trader repeats this process and can save that five cents many times in a year, he or she will be able to pay for dinner for two at a very nice restaurant relatively quickly.
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Valerie Confections
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Things I'm Not Going to Get Around to Reviewing
I'd say that I don't review about half of the candy that I acquire. Some is for personal consumption or gifts, but a good proportion I just never get around to. Most of that you'll never even see. These shown below are ones I at least took photos of, yet I still couldn't muster a review.
Do if you've had any of these, please feel free to chime in with your thoughts so that at least other folks can get some feedback on them.
Brix Chocolate - Special milk & dark chocolate blends made just for eating with wine. It comes in huge blocks that seem like they'd be difficult and messy. I picked up these tasting squares at the Fancy Food Show. I photographed them, I ate them. I read some other reviews.
These are Valerie Confections liquid caramel eggs in a dark chocolate shell with a dusting of gold flakes. They were divine and I ate a half a dozen of them in a matter of three days. (Along with a fabulous box of my favorite Lemon & Hazelnut Nougat.)
I bought this in Pennsylvania last year at the grocery store near my sister's house. Eurocrem Blok - it sounds like it could be the name of any number of products. A brand of butter. A solid deodorant stick. Maybe a fine chocolate.
I bought it because of the name and the package design, not because I thought it'd be good. Even though the package clearly says it's good until October 2009, it was bloomed. Could have been my fault, could have been something that happened in my luggage. Could have been the store. But it wouldn't be fair to review it and I'm not really into eating chalky chocolate.
Brandini Toffee has been suggested for review several times by readers. I thought that the Fancy Food Show was a perfect opportunity to do that. They gave me these itty-bitty samples (mostly because I visited them on the last day, not because they were stingy or anything ... not that any candy company is obliged to give me free samples just to get reviewed, because that's also not true).
Not really the way to review toffee. One of these days I'll find it in stores and buy a real-sized portion, not these sugar-cube-sized stuff made for Barbie dolls.
I diligently picked out these samples of the missing flavors in my set of Lake Champlain truffle eggs when at the Fancy Food Show.
These are the Java Truffle Eggs.
Then I ate them. They were good. I did actually intend on getting more of them, since they were already photographed at the Whole Foods by my office, but sometimes I get lazy.
These are little plain dark chocolate tasting pieces of Frey Swiss Delice Dark Chocolate in 72% and 55% cacao.
I picked them up because I thought it'd be interesting to taste the chocolate base for the bars that seem to be so popular at Target and come in a bajillion flavor combinations except just plain chocolate.
I never got around to it and then I lost these eensy little pieces. (Seriously, you think they're small, but they're actually smaller than that.)
I thought this was a fabulous little bite of caramel.
Goat's milk is a little gamier, a little tangy and sometimes a little musty tasting compared to cow's milk. These Beurre et Lait de chevre were no exception. It was like eating a bit of cream cheese with my caramel.
At the point where I ate them after the Fancy Food Show, I'd completely forgotten where I got them from. Then I found the second one a few weeks ago and I have to say that I think they're product best eaten fresh.
So there you have it, if not full reviews, at least lots of eye candy.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:34 pm Candy • Lake Champlain • Valerie Confections • Featured News •
Friday, January 30, 2009
Valerie Confections: Pour Homme and Pour Elle
I check in with Valerie Confections from time to time, they're about a mile from my house. The crazy little secret is that I go there for their teacakes. Especially in the summer, when I want something with a touch of chocolate but can't bear a whole piece, the bottoms are dipped in chocolate. The cakes are moist, dense & lightly infused with flavors.
At the Fancy Food Show, however, Stan & Valerie were excited to show me their new Valentine's collections. There are three:
The set called Pour Homme is for the gentleman. It has 11 pieces and comes in the dark brown box. Visually it's dominated by large flat dark milk chocolate hearts that have fleur de sel and little almond toffee bits in them. It's filled in with dark chocolate hearts with flowing caramel centers.
The set called Pour Elle is geared towards the gals and comes in the classic ivory box. This features large flat white chocolate hearts with rose petals and the small bittersweet chocolate hearts filled with rose petal and passionfruit ganache.
Both have 11 pieces and retail for $30.
For folks who want to share or prefer a different assortment there are boxes of various sizes (9, 18 & 36 pieces) that hold the bittersweet ganache hearts, gianduja rocher, and bittersweet chocolate with almond toffee bits.
I'll just run down a few of the items I tasted:
Bittersweet Chocolate with Almond Toffee Bits (the smallest dark chocolate hearts shown above) - a simple pleasure. A mix of smooth bittersweet chocolate that has a glossy and smooth melt with little toffee chips and almonds. Sometimes I felt like I wasn't getting enough toffee ... but then again, if I wanted chocolate and toffee, I could just order the chocolate covered toffee, so this piece is more about chocolate.
Bittersweet Chocolate Hearts filled with Liquid Caramel - a little taller and wider than the other filled hearts, this one has a wonderfully thick and gooey caramel. Lightly salted, it has all the flavor of a toffee but the smooth texture of a custard. Lightly salted, the dark chocolate lends the perfect container and dark woodsy sweetness.
Bittersweet Chocolate Hearts filled with Rose Petal Passionfruit Ganache - a little petal graces the top of these pieces, but just sniffing it I could tell from the fragrance that it was the rose. The center is a white butter ganache with the tangy and tropical bite of passionfruit. The slightly soapy rose took some of the passionfruit earnestness away. There is a bit of a lingering aftertaste, kind of like jasmine. I suggest eating these last. Your dessert's dessert.
Large Rose Petal White Chocolate Hearts (shown in a small version in the picture above) - this one was a little bland for me, and I did eat it first in my tasting session because I know that white can be a bit delicate and finicky. The white chocolate was smooth and not overly sweet, with a slight malty taste of cocoa. But the floral infusion didn't quite hit me, but did leave a fresh aftertaste.
Gianduja Rocher - a sweet milky explosion of salt, buttery toffee chips and creamy sweet chocolate. It's not a pasty, sticky gianduia. It's a solid form that gives a soft and silky melt to the chocolate and a punch of roasted hazelnut flavor. It is sweet though, luckily the toffee chips and the salt cut through that.
Darkened Milk Chocolate Hearts with Almond Toffee Bits and Fleur de Sel - I want this in bar form year round. The "darkened milk chocolate" tastes like a cross between bittersweet and a European dairy milk chocolate. The dairy notes are complemented well by the toffee chips and the whole thing is set off by powerful zaps of salt in liberal reservoirs throughout.
Bittersweet Ganache in Bittersweet Shells Finished with 23 Karat Gold (the picture here is of a round version of the same truffle - the uneaten one is above). Delicate mix of flavors, as this is all about the chocolate. The ganache is soft and smooth. There's an immediate acidic bite that gives way pretty quick to some dark charcoal and alcoholic notes like fine cognac and tobacco. The gold version has a bit more chocolate to it, because of the geometry ... the gold flakes do nothing for me, except distinguish it from the toffee chip dark heart.
The attention to detail in the items, with their perfectly placed decorations and well tempered chocolate is exquisite. No bubbles or voids, everything glossy and gorgeous. On the personal side of things, I go all weak in their knees for their nougat and am a little disappointed they don't have it again this year for Valentine's (as that's what my Man gave me last year). But I like it when they try new things and enjoyed the darkened milk with toffee chips most of all. (So I guess I'd have to opt for the Pour Homme ... luckily the box doesn't say anything about it being geared for fellas.)
I like supporting a local business and that everything is made fresh ... not last year and has been sitting in a warehouse. If you go to the store you can get the petits fours and the tea cakes by the piece.
Valerie Confections
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:45 am
Friday, October 12, 2007
Mori Ex Cacao Gift Set
A couple of months ago I got an invitation from Valerie Confections to preview their Mori Ex Cacao gift set. It's a set of three skull-shaped chocolates. Rather than a little flat piece of candy, these are large and three dimensional with crisp and freaky details on the skulls, which are then filled with a premium truffle ganache or caramel.
The fissures in the skull can be made out easily, as can the individual teeth and with the three-dimensions of the skull, even the back of the head continues these details down to the base and roof of the mouth.
The Skulls were designed by Modern Alchemist Douglas Little and are about the size of a hefty plum. The design is based on DL&Co's Memento Mori Collection, which features a similar looking skull candle and other small statuary pieces. A little bit more upscale than the traditional pumpkins and witches, this rather macabre take also features some incredible attention to detail.
First, the confections are hand "cast" with premium Felchlin Chocolate. Then each is filled with one of three centers. The chocolates are created in a three dimensional silicone mold, based on an original design by Douglas Little. After unmolding the chocolates are then airbrushed by hand with a cocoa-butter based "paint" which results in three different confections - one charcoal-black, one cocoa-brown and one bleached-bone white.
I didn't get to eat the "real thing", instead they created some tasting portions, which looked an awful lot like regular old chocolates (probably better for me that way). This means that my tasting notes are not based on the actual proportions of chocolate-to-filling you may get with the ultimate product, but all the other elements were the same.
Scorched Caramel
I had my doubts, mostly because the caramel was so dark, I was afraid it'd be bitter and though it did have some burnt tones to it, it was complex and not too sweet. It went wonderfully with the chocolate.
Bitter Brandied Cherry
I say I don't like cherry flavor, but these were real sour cherries, not some crazy artificial extract. The deep fruit flavors went really well in the ganache, a slight bitter note which I think tied into the macabre tone of the confections quite well.
Curious Chili
Oh, this really lived up to its hype. The chocolate flavors were not overpowered by the spice. There was definitely a bit of throat burning going on, but again, it fit very well with the design and presentation as a whole.
Would I buy these? Certainly not for $100 a set ($40 for an individual skull of any flavor). I understand that the ingredients are premium and they're really labor intensive. So it's not that I don't think they're worth it, but the whole skull thing just isn't really that big of a draw to me. I like my candy pretty and I never quite got how skulls and bones celebrate life. But if you are a fan of this type of design, and if you're looking for something purely decadent to arouse all of the senses (this would be great to share as a couple) then this would be an excellent gift.
They can be purchased directly from Valerie Confections or from Dean & Deluca (they only carry the full set but also have some companion products that might complete the effect). They come in a lovely black silk box.
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Friday, April 20, 2007
Valerie Lemon Hazelnut Nougat
Valerie Confections has another seasonal nougat. This one is Lemon Hazelnut Nougat Covered in Dark Chocolate.
It's heavenly looking stuff, with a good dark glossy sheen and sparlkling little slivers of candies Meyer Lemons from June Taylor. The chocolate is a buttery smooth dark Valrhona and the nougat itself is studded with organic hazelnuts from Trufflebert Farms.
I'm in heaven.
The price is, well, pricey. But Mother's Day is around the corner, so if your mum is as nuts for nougat as I am, she might think you appreciate her or something if you were to show up for Sunday Brunch with a box of these. And maybe she'll let you have a piece.
I think I was a little more fond of the Holiday nougat, which was orange and almond, but the fresh flavor of the lemon is really refreshing. There isn't a trace of bitterness in the lemon zest, it's just pure flavor and the chewy texture.
UPDATE 4/20/2009: I've just finished another box of this. I don't know if it was the seasonal variation in the candied lemons, but this was divine. The bittersweetness of the chocolate and the bittersweetness of the candied peels was just spot on. I've bumped this up to a 10. I had a lot of fine candy around the house to eat, but this was what I kept going for. The price has also come down.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:43 pm
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Valerie Toffees & Nougats
Part of the fun of Candy Blog is going around town buying sweets because it's, you know, for the blog. But even with my wide travels, there are still things in my very own city that I've never heard of. And shame on me for not seeking them out! I got an email from a blogging friend of mine who wanted to hook me up with a candy making friend of his. (Any candy making friends of yours are always welcome as friends of mine.)
Thus I was introduced to Valerie Confections. I'll skip right to the point. It's freaktastically good.
I've been introduced to a lot of toffee and I wasn't that keen on finding yet another toffee company, but they currently have a seasonal Holiday Nougat. The nougat is in the soft French style, with a mellow flavor, soft chew and intense orange flavor and then studded with crunchy almonds. It's all covered in excellent bittersweet chocolate and dusted with some flakes of real gold.
The nougat is firm but very soft with small candied orange pieces that give a burst of zest to it all over again.
The pieces are large and generous (about 1.75" square) and drop dead gorgeous.
I was so excited at how beautiful and tasty they were that I invited over my neighbor who has been around the world and shared a piece with her, saying that it was "really, really, really good." She instead corrected me saying that it was "really good, really good, no, really good."
I shared half that box of Holiday Nougat, which is often the way I feel about great candy. Part of me wants to hoard it and gobble it up and part of me wants to give as many people as possible the same experience I've had. The latter usually wins out. The nougat experience, however, was also encouraging for the toffees that were still sitting in my studio.
Like the Holiday Nougat the toffees were just lovely. The packaging is amazing. The boxes are soft looking and the simple grossgrain ribbon give an air of sophistication that is seldom imparted to the pedestrian toffee.
The toffee assortment that engaged me most, of course, was the The Debut which was all bittersweet chocolate - Almond, Almond Fleur de Sel, Ginger, Mint, Orange and Classic Toffee.
Let me just say this about the the toffee itself. Imagine butter that's been sweetened to the point that it's crisp and caramelized. That's this toffee. It cleaves in the front teeth in a way that almost crumbles, but without all those flecks that toffees sometimes leave.
The pieces are thin, unlike many rustic toffee planks out there. It's incredibly buttery. Each of the toffee squares is a different flavor. They were all perfectly balanced with the Ginger as a special standout in my mind because of the way the earthy notes of the ginger blend so well with the burnt sugar flavors.
The Peanut Assortment was rather different from the toffee. It was crunchier and less obviously sweet. Half the pieces were milk and half dark, all were sprinkled with fleur de sal and topped with a single red-skinned peanut. The salt dominated here and brought out the very smoky and roasted notes of the peanuts. It was like a peanut brittle that was completely integrated (the nuts were crushed so it was more the flavor than texture). It's little grainier than the regular toffee but very satisfying.
Valerie Confections also features a Milk Assortment which is more than just a milk chocolate version of the Debut, it features two flavors unique in this set: Hazelnut Toffee - plus Gianduja Rocher as well as the Almond, Almond Fleur de Sel, Mint and Classic. Nut fans may also be intrigued by the The Almond Assortment, Gianduja Rocher Assortment or Hazelnut Assortment.
High quality ingredients, attention to detail, freshness and spectacular presentation all mark these as premium candies. They're expensive at $20.00 for a six piece box (96 grams) of Toffee and $50.00 for the insanely delicious Holiday Nougat. Great presents or hostess gifts. Also keep them in mind if you're one of those people who are angling for a high-end wedding favor since they do custom orders and packaging. I can definitely see myself buying the Holiday Nougat again, but I think I'd only pick up the Toffee as a gift or for a special occassion ... unless I found a store that let me buy just one piece (then I'm in trouble).
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:22 am
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• Was named the NBA Coach of the Year with the Seattle Supersonics in 1987.
• Has a career regular-season coaching record of 415-517 (.445).
• Made five trips to the playoffs – three with Seattle, one with Denver, one with Washington – for an overall record of 12-21 (.364)
• Began his NBA coaching career with Washington in 1973 as the league's youngest assistant coach.
• Was a player, assistant coach and head coach at the University of San Diego, which is also Mike Brown's alma mater.
• Played for Toreros from 1964-1966 and was team captain and MVP his senior season.


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Today's Activity- a Great Activity for Every Day of the Week
At Ziggity Zoom we have lots of activities, games, coloring pages,fitness and searching games and educational worksheets. We also have great ideas for easy dinners and snacks. Come check out our daily tips, ideas and activity every day for a new idea to inspire you to have fun and teach your kids new things!
We will focus on providing ideas for play, games and worksheets that help your kids grow (by having fun of course) through observation and experiments, and games that improve listening skills and some ideas that are about having fun and family time. And ideas for healthy living and getting your kids up and moving which is so important for kids to do.
With Today's economy, parents are looking for ways to save money and still keep their kids busy and entertained. We want to give you a few ideas to keep your kids busy and have fun too!
Fun Toy to Make for Free
Sock Puppet Toy-Dog
To Make a Sock Puppetgather a few socks, spare material or paper and glue and make this cute dog puppet and a few your child can play with.
Pretend Play and Dress Up
Knight Costume-Dress Up
Make this Knight Costume for Halloween or for pretend play and dress up. We also have many other easy, fast costumes you can make with a pillowcase, such as, Hula Girl, and Princess.
Family Fun- Free Games and Toys
Mermaid Puzzle
Make this Mermaid Puzzle-it is a perfect activity to keep your kids busy one afternoon that helps their hand-eye coordination and logical thinking skills. We also have a Pirate, Dragon,Robot, Surfer, Goodie Twoshoes Puzzles for your family to enjoy and for Free!
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Make this Bean and Veggie Whole Wheat Wrap in 5-10 minutes and serve with fruit for a healthy, balanced meal.
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As you were for Gulls
Martin Ling has no fresh injury concerns as he looks to end a five-game winless run against Devon rivals Exeter at Plainmoor.
Striker Ryan Jarvis made a goalscoring return to action in the defeat at Burton on Saturday after a month out with a cracked rib and punctured lung while centre-back Brian Saah started after serving a three-match ban.
Winger Billy Bodin returned to action as a second-half substitute having not featured since Boxing Day due to an ankle injury which further boosts manager Martin Ling's options ahead of the clash with the club where he began his career.
Ian Morris (Achilles tendon) and Lloyd Macklin (broken metatarsal) are the Gulls' only injury absentees for a match which was originally due to take place on December 22 but it was postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.
Torquay now sit in 16th place in npower League Two, only seven points clear of the relegation zone, but they have lost just two league games at home this season.
Exeter boss Paul Tisdale could name an unchanged line-up at Plainmoor as his side look to move within five points of leaders Port Vale.
The Grecians ran out 3-0 winners against fellow promotion hopefuls Southend on Saturday to move into the top three in npower League Two for the first time since September.
New signing Myles Anderson was an unused substitute against Paul Sturrock's side on Saturday and is set to be in the matchday squad once more along with homegrown winger Jake Gosling who impressed on his full debut for the club as a second-half substitute.
Liam Sercombe (ankle) remains City's only long-term absentee after Spanish striker Guillem Bauza came through a behind-closed-doors friendly with Cardiff unscathed last week.
Top scorer Jamie Cureton will serve the final game of his three-match ban for a first-half red card against Wycombe and will be available to face his former club Bristol Rovers on Saturday.
The Grecians have the third best away record in the division ahead of the short trip to Torquay, the only match in the division on Tuesday.
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Sony: 'Almost all PS4 games will be playable on Vita with Remote Play'
Gamers will be able to play the majority of PS4 titles on their Vita using Remote Play.
Players will be able to stream PS4 titles from the console to their Vita using their Wi-Fi connection, even if they enter a different room.
Sony demonstrated Remote Play with Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed IV, and emphasised the seamless transition between the two consoles.
The platform holder didn't offer further information on which games would not be compatible with the streaming service, but it's safe to assume that the majority of PS4 launch titles will be useable with Remote Play.


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The bitter part of the Bittersweet news
That is the word that I would use to describe the work done by my fellow engineers at Canonical over the past 2.5 years. However, it is time to move on.
Its not an easy thing to move on from what is truly the best job I've ever had. However, it is time. I'll discuss more here after my last day at Canonical, which will be very soon, December 5th. Suffice to say, I won't disappear from Ubuntu, so stay tuned!


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cp123 wrote:So - I'm up for it - praise the lord for no debt!
anyway - is this what'll do the job? I couldn't find jumbo 808 #16. But would this do instead? is is comparable?
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8GB-HD-lens- ... 2326f95b81
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/1200-mah-ext ... 2567d28382 - the long life battery thing and this:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/New-Stand-bi ... 256ae9b05a
sorry guys if i'm a technological goob - i was getting a bit confused between 4 gb and 8 gb, as well as the diferences between cameras #11, #18 etc.
All up you're looking at about $90 plus shipping. Not bad.
The 8GB means it comes with an 8GB memory card. This will probably fill in about 90 - 100 minutes of recording. You'll probably want to buy a larger card (maximum size 32Gb for this camera) later on.
The lens has me a bit worried as this really is more of a "spy" camera. You use it to film people when you don't want them to know. This is why it looks like a car key. Say leave it on your desk to see if someone's touching you stuff when you're away from your desk. What this means is the focal depth may not be very good.
Let me know how it turns out if you decide to go ahead with it. I deal with security cameras as a part of my job. I've had to install spy cameras near safes before. This one's an interesting one.


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Now THAT'S original! And amusing!
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Real Madrid winger Angel Di Maria says the 2-1 victory over Atletico can be the catalyst for Champions League redemption against Borussia Dortmund.
The Spanish champions were humbled 4-1 by Jurgen Klopp's men in the first leg of the semi-finals, but fired an immediate reply to their doubters by silencing the Vicente Calderon.
And Di Maria, who was excluded from the starting line-up to face the Germans on Wednesday owing to the birth of his daughter, believes the derby win can set them off on the right foot to turn the result around next week.
"Winning this match is extra motivation and will help us to be at our best on Tuesday," the 25-year-old underlined to reporters. "We do not take that match as lost.
"The league, however, does not let up and we knew that if we lost they would draw level with us, so we did things as well as we could to get a decent gap between us and them so we can be calmer.
"The truth is I needed a goal to dedicate it to my wife and daughter and I managed to get it. We did everything right and the way we wanted tonight. The coach put out the team he thought would get the result."
Starlets Nacho and Alvaro Morata echoed their team-mate's opinion, with the former quick to declare: "Madrid is the best team in the world. The team is very confident and hopefully can go on to the final."
Morata added: "Against Dortmund the team have to be united and the supporters also have to give all they can. We know the game will be dfficult, but we'll try."


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Marguerite E. (Carberry) DeLuca, 82, died September 14, 2012 at home. She was the loving wife of Anthony L. DeLuca for 66 years.
A daughter of the late Robert J. and Bridgette V. (Bishop) Carberry. She was devoted to her family and one of her greatest joys was having family and friends gather for Sunday dinners.
She was the mother of Frank R. (Linda) DeLuca, Robert A. (Deborah) DeLuca, Julie A. (Francis) Finn, Anthony P. (Juliann) DeLuca, Edward J. (Sarah) DeLuca and Margie A. (Paul) White; sister of Adaline King, Robert Carberry, Jr., and the late George Carberry, Sr., Janice Games, Marie Simcoe and Gloria Carberry. She is also survived by twenty five grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
Her funeral will be held Tuesday, September 18, at 9 a.m. from the Thomas & Walter Quinn Funeral Home, 2435 Warwick Ave. with a Mass of Christian Burial at 10 a.m. in St. Kevin Church, Sandy Lane. Burial will be in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Providence. Visiting hours Monday 4-8 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, contributions to St. Jude Children's Hospital, P.O. Box 1000-Dept. 142, Memphis, TN 38148 will be appreciated. Information and condolences, visit TheQuinnFuneralHome.com


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I use 'helped', because I work with you to ensure you get the website you need.
Before I even think about the design of your Cuckfield website I first need to understand your business. To help with this I've a set of questions designed to get the right information with the minimum of effort. After a quick discussion I can then generate an accurate brief and estimate. Once agreed I can then start work on your Cuckfield web design project knowing I'll fulfill your requirements.
I take the brief and explore all the possibilities, I'll generate ideas about how's best to promote your Cuckfield business and come up with suitable solutions that will get results. I'll then discuss my ideas for your website with you - how the site would be structured, layout designs and colours. Once we're all happy with the design direction it's time to start building your Cuckfield website.
Whilst building the website for your Cuckfield business I'll keep you updated and send you links to its temporary home. You'll be able to see for yourself how your website is progressing and get a feel for how it will function. Once the site is finished and we're all happy with it I'll then upload it to its permanent home on the web to start working for you.
GDS Web Design: a small and lean web design studio based in Hampshire offering an affordable, professional web design and website development service to Cuckfield businesses and individuals. I don't have the overheads of the large Cuckfield agencies, so we can offer very competitve prices.
Increasingly your website is likely the first impression that potential customers receive of your business. I design professional websites that set you apart from the competition and attract the right kind of customers to your Cuckfield website.
Having an effective website for your Cuckfield businesses is still one of the most cost effective ways you can advertise your business today. Increasingly, more and more people are choosing to search online for products and services in Cuckfield. This makes it impossible to ignore the benefits that having a professional website brings to your Cuckfield business. Your Cuckfield website is always open for business, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Brochure or static style websites offer an affordable, low cost solution to get your Cuckfield business established online and to start connecting with potential customers. Brochure or static websites are great for promoting your Cuckfield businesses online if your range of products or services remains fairly static.
Content managed websites are great for Cuckfield businesses when your range of products or services change fairly frequently or new services and products need to be added. These dynamic websites provide you with a content management system (CMS) giving you the ability to create new and edit existing pages, add new photographs and images etc. Keeping your Cuckfield businesses website updated has never been easier.
E-commerce websites are designed with the sole purpose of selling for your Cuckfield business. You'll have the ability to add new products with photographs and details, create special offers and promotions, manage stock levels and of course take credit card payments for your Cuckfield business 24 hours a day.


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R3D.CRAFT, pronounced "Red Craft", is a high quality texture pack that can be applied to the game, Minecraft. Based on the default texture that belongs to this game, R3D.CRAFT tries to bring more realization, with high quality textures, smoother gradients and shadows, artificial lighting, small details or new details + so much more.
This texture is made for those who seek more quality in-game, but also want to keep the default design and feeling. Therefore, this texture tries to stay close to the original outlook, by matching the correct colors and shapes.
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How to install R3D.CRAFT Texture Pack for Minecraft 1.4.5
- Download the texture pack.
- Install lastest version of MC Patcher HD fix or OptiFine.
- Move the downloaded file into your Minecraft texture packs folder.
- Enjoy!


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Excerpted from "Managing Your New Life: Tips and Timesavers for Survivors", Stroke Connection November/December 2003 (Last science update March 2013)
Getting Dressed
- To survivors: The general rule is to use your unaffected arm to dress the affected side first. To undress, take the garment off the unaffected side, then remove it from the affected side.
- To caregivers: When you are helping someone dress, always tell them what you are doing first so you don't startle them.
- Return to your normal daily dressing routines as soon as you can.
- Loose-fitting clothes and silky fabrics are easier to slip in and out of than polyester or flannel.
- Lay out your clothes before dressing.
- Dress while sitting. It is easiest.
- When dressing, use your strong arm to dress your weak side first.
- When undressing, pull your strong arm or leg out of your clothes first.
Shirts and Jackets
- Coats and jackets lined with slippery fabrics like satin, silk or nylon are easier to put on than unlined garments.
- Knit fabrics wrinkle less than woven fabrics, so they require little or no ironing.
- Practice buttoning and unbuttoning, with the shirt on your lap.
- Put your affected arm in the sleeve first.
- Start buttoning a shirt from the bottom.
- Button the sleeve for your strong arm before you put the shirt on. To unbutton that sleeve, grab the corner of the buttonhole with your teeth and maneuver it until the button slips out.
Socks and Shoes
- It's easiest to put on socks and shoes if you sit and put your foot on a footstool (or box).
- To avoid confusion, write an "R" inside the right shoe, and an "L" in the left shoe.
- Buy slip-on shoes.
- A shoe repair store can insert Velcro closures in place of shoelaces.
Nylon Stockings
- While sitting, cross your affected leg over your strong leg. With your strong hand, gather up the stocking and pull it over your toes and foot. Then uncross your legs and pull the stocking up to the knee.
- Put on your second stocking the same way.
- Stand to pull both stockings all the way up.
Belts and Suspenders
- Thread the belt through the loops before putting on pants or a skirt.
- Attach suspenders to trousers before putting them on.
Jewelry and Wristwatches
- Wear bracelets that can be slipped onto your arm.
- Clip-on earrings are easier than post earrings. If you have pierced ears, try the wire-style earrings that just slip in. (Many pierced-ear earrings can be converted to wire earrings. See your jeweler.)
- Put a watch on the wrist of your affected arm using your strong hand. For ease, wear a watch with a stretch band in a slightly larger size than you normally wear.
Adapting Clothing
The following features make clothes easier to put on and take off:
- Rings or strings added to zipper pulls.
- Velcro in place of buttons and shoelaces. (Remember to close the Velcro tabs before washing the clothing. This prevents lint from collecting on the tabs.)
- Elastic waistbands.
- Snaps and grippers.
- Button hooks.
- Clip-on ties.
- Pullover or front-closure brassieres.
Additional tips for daily activities:
Shelley Peterman Schwarz, Dressings Tips and Clothing Resources for Making Life Easier, Attainment Company, ©2000
This content was last reviewed on 03/18/2013.