Author Archives: saleh

We have more than ever

When he moved to Eureka, he and his friend Herman Foland bought into a whaling station in Fields Landing. They bought a pair of Navy vessels the Dennis Gayle and the Allen Cody and whaled until about 1950 when the station burned down for the second time. So they turned the boats into fishing boats and started the Hunter and ...

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You left out Colin

The Worldwide Cost of Living is a bi annual (twice yearly) EIU survey that compares more than 400 individual prices across 160 products and services. These include food, drink, clothing, household supplies and personal care items, home rents, transport, utility bills, private schools, domestic help and recreational costs. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, ...

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The single core

The single core performance is all that matters in DX11 and in games that were based on the PS3/X360 programming paradigm. With examples like Mantle, and in the future with Vulkan and DX12, and the developers being forced to use 6 threads on consoles due to the weak CPU cores, the FX 6300 will not lose to the i3. Hell ...

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“We’re doing

“We’re doing pretty well. It’s been fun so far,” offers veteran centre Adam Taylor, 26, who has played for the Salmon Kings in each of the last five seasons. He also has had stints with the Pensacola Ice Pilots, China Sharks, Florida Everblades, Rochester Americans and Edinburgh Capitals, which is where he began this season before the team’s financial problems ...

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Good eats: This

Good eats: This historic district, the site of the annual Selby Avenue Jazz Festival, stores some well kept dining secrets. Get the taco shaped hole in your heart filled at Homi Mexican Restaurant where the tamales are moist and steamed in banana leaves, the mole spice lingers on your lips, and almost everything comes covered in a light dusting of ...

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And there was

And there was this one time I even ate healthy food, which drove home something I knew intellectually before writing Cheap Eats but never understood on a gutlevel: Nutritiousfood doesn’t come cheap. You’d think the simplest foods would be the cheapest, but it’s almost the opposite. I found way more bacon cheeseburgers for under $10 than salads, and it’s mucheasier ...

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“The good

“The good news is that, with the things that Corner Brook has going for it, this mill could be a first quartile producer (in the industry),” he said. “It needs to improve its efficiency and productivity and it needs to lower its costs significantly. If and when we do that, that will give us the ability to manoeuvre in the ...

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As an example,

As an example, there is a Chinese manufacturer that ripped off some of the swimming pool steps and ladders that we currently make. The look, feel, design, and even the assembly manuals were all copied to a “T” except for the name and our one patented portion of the products. Some would say that imitation is the sincerest form of ...

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One great deal we found

One great deal we found? A $282 nonstop, round trip on Delta from Detroit to St. Louis over $400 if you fly the reverse. Hello, big Arch.. Started to make them, embellish them, and it blossomed into this store. Two room shop in Burbank is bursting at the seams with tools and fabrics to make the ugliest of the ugly ...

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First Day on South

First Day on South Georgia Island. One of the most amazing places I have ever been. I have travelled a lot. Barriers to credit are easing for first time homebuyers. Fannie Mae, which buys mortgages and packages them into securities, began purchasing loans with down payments as low as 3 percent in December, a drop from its previous floor of ...

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