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Summary Report for:
47-4011.00 - Construction and Building Inspectors
Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.
Sample of reported job titles: Building Code Administrator, Building Inspection Engineer, Building Inspector, Building Official, Combination Building Inspector, Construction Inspector, Construction Materials Testing Technician, Elevator Inspector, Inspector, Plumbing Inspector
Tasks | Tools & Technology | Knowledge | Skills | Abilities | Work Activities | Work Context | Job Zone | Education | Credentials | Interests | Work Styles | Work Values | Related Occupations | Wages & Employment | Job Openings | Additional Information
- Inspect bridges, dams, highways, buildings, wiring, plumbing, electrical circuits, sewers, heating systems, or foundations during and after construction for structural quality, general safety, or conformance to specifications and codes.
- Inspect facilities or installations to determine their environmental impact.
- Monitor installation of plumbing, wiring, equipment, or appliances to ensure that installation is performed properly and is in compliance with applicable regulations.
- Measure dimensions and verify level, alignment, or elevation of structures or fixtures to ensure compliance to building plans and codes.
- Maintain daily logs and supplement inspection records with photographs.
- Review and interpret plans, blueprints, site layouts, specifications, or construction methods to ensure compliance to legal requirements and safety regulations.
- Evaluate project details to ensure adherence to environmental regulations.
- Conduct inspections, using survey instruments, metering devices, tape measures, or test equipment.
- Inspect and monitor construction sites to ensure adherence to safety standards, building codes, or specifications.
- Monitor construction activities to ensure that environmental regulations are not violated.
Tools & Technology
Tools used in this occupation:
|Circuit tester — Circuit analyzers; Continuity testers; Electrical circuit testers
|GFI circuit testers — Arc receptacle testers; Ground fault circuit interrupter GFCI testers
|Levels — Automatic levels; Electronic levels; Lock levels; Optical levels
|Liquid leak detectors — Refrigerant leak detectors; Ultrasonic leak detectors
|Multimeters — Clamp-on multimeters; Digital multimeters
Technology used in this occupation:
|Accounting software — Intuit QuickBooks software; Intuit Quicken software
|Compliance software — Automated permit system software; NorthWest Builders Network Plan Analyst; OptaSoft Commercial Building Inspector
|Internet browser software — Microsoft Internet Explorer *
|Spreadsheet software — Microsoft Excel
|Word processing software — Inspection Depot Home Guide System; Microsoft Word; New construction inspection form software; Residential home inspection form software
* Software developed by a government agency and/or distributed as freeware or shareware.
|Building and Construction — Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
|English Language — Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
|Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
|Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
|Law and Government — Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
|Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
|Mathematics — Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
|Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
|Mechanical — Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
|Active Listening — Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
|Reading Comprehension — Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
|Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
|Speaking — Talking to others to convey information effectively.
|Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
|Judgment and Decision Making — Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
|Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
|Writing — Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
|Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
|Monitoring — Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
|Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
|Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
|Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
|Oral Comprehension — The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
|Oral Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
|Written Comprehension — The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
|Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
|Written Expression — The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
|Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
|Category Flexibility — The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Work Activities
|Getting Information — Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
|Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material — Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
|Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards — Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
|Documenting/Recording Information — Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
|Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge — Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
|Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates — Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
|Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others — Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used.
|Communicating with Persons Outside Organization — Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
|Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events — Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
|Making Decisions and Solving Problems — Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
Work Context
|Telephone — 92% responded "Every day."
|Face-to-Face Discussions — 88% responded "Every day."
|Outdoors, Exposed to Weather — 79% responded "Every day."
|Freedom to Make Decisions — 75% responded "A lot of freedom."
|Electronic Mail — 63% responded "Every day."
|In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment — 71% responded "Every day."
|Letters and Memos — 50% responded "Every day."
|Importance of Being Exact or Accurate — 42% responded "Extremely important."
|Wear Common Protective or Safety Equipment such as Safety Shoes, Glasses, Gloves, Hearing Protection, Hard Hats, or Life Jackets — 50% responded "Every day."
|Contact With Others — 42% responded "Contact with others most of the time."
Job Zone
|Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
|Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
|Related Experience
|Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
|Job Training
|Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
|Job Zone Examples
|These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include food service managers, electricians, agricultural technicians, legal secretaries, occupational therapy assistants, and medical assistants.
|SVP Range
|(6.0 to < 7.0)
Percentage of Respondents
|Education Level Required
|Post-secondary certificate
|Bachelor's degree
|Some college, no degree
Interest code: RCI
|Realistic — Realistic occupations frequently involve work activities that include practical, hands-on problems and solutions. They often deal with plants, animals, and real-world materials like wood, tools, and machinery. Many of the occupations require working outside, and do not involve a lot of paperwork or working closely with others.
|Conventional — Conventional occupations frequently involve following set procedures and routines. These occupations can include working with data and details more than with ideas. Usually there is a clear line of authority to follow.
|Investigative — Investigative occupations frequently involve working with ideas, and require an extensive amount of thinking. These occupations can involve searching for facts and figuring out problems mentally.
Work Styles
|Integrity — Job requires being honest and ethical.
|Attention to Detail — Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
|Dependability — Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
|Independence — Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
|Analytical Thinking — Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems.
|Self Control — Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
|Initiative — Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
|Adaptability/Flexibility — Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
|Persistence — Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
|Stress Tolerance — Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
Work Values
|Support — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical.
|Independence — Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy.
|Working Conditions — Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions.
Related Occupations
|Energy Auditors Bright Outlook Green
|Environmental Engineering Technicians
|Soil and Water Conservationists
|Occupational Health and Safety Technicians
|Fire Inspectors
|Fire Investigators
|Agricultural Inspectors
|Airfield Operations Specialists
|Traffic Technicians
|Freight and Cargo Inspectors
Wages & Employment Trends
|Median wages (2014)
|$26.94 hourly, $56,040 annual
|State wages
|Employment (2012)
|102,000 employees
|Projected growth (2012-2022)
|Average (8% to 14%)
|Projected job openings (2012-2022)
|State trends
|Top industries (2012)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics 2014 wage data and 2012-2022 employment projections . "Projected growth" represents the estimated change in total employment over the projections period (2012-2022). "Projected job openings" represent openings due to growth and replacement.
Job Openings on the Web
Sources of Additional Information
Disclaimer: Sources are listed to provide additional information on related jobs, specialties, and/or industries. Links to non-DOL Internet sites are provided for your convenience and do not constitute an endorsement.
- Construction and Building Inspectors . Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition.
- American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) , 932 Lee St., Suite 101, Des Plaines, IL 60016. Phone: (800) 743-2744. Fax: (847) 759-1620.
- Association of Construction Inspectors (ACI) , 21640 N 19th Ave., Suite C-2, Phoenix, AZ 85027. Phone: (623) 580-4646. Fax: (623) 580-9656.
- Housing Inspection Foundation , 21640 N 19th Ave., Suite C-2, Phoenix, AZ 85027. Phone: (623) 580-4646. Fax: (623) 580-9656.
- International Association of Electrical Inspectors (IAEI) , 901 Waterfall Way, Suite 602, Richardson, TX 75080-7702. Phone: (972) 235-1455.
- International Code Council (ICC) , 500 New Jersey Ave. NW, 6th Floor, Washington, DC 20001. Phone: (888) 422-7233. Fax: (202) 783-2348.
- National Academy of Building Inspection Engineers (NABIE) , P.O. Box 522158, Salt Lake City, UT 84152. Phone: (800) 294-7729. Fax: (801) 583-1531.
- National Association of Certified Home Inspectors (NACHI) , 1750 30th St., Boulder, CO 80301. Phone: (303) 502-6214. Fax: (650) 429-2057.
- National Association of Home Inspectors (NAHI) , 4248 Park Glen Rd., Minneapolis, MN 55416. Phone: (800) 448-3942. Fax: (952) 929-1318.


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The History of Celeborn and Galdriel
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Working together with his son, he cleared the ground for a small orchard, and sang the young trees into sturdiness. Taking solace in the company and the simple, useful task, they laid a hedge of hornbeam to enclose and shelter the field where Nimrodel would tend the shining lembas corn. Amroth spoke little - such a change from his boyhood prattle - but his smile rarely faltered, and his contentment was a balm in itself. It was enough to labour side by side, to lie in the noon sun and watch clouds, eat and drink, in quiet companionship, and then return to work. By the time the hedge was putting forth crinkled, beech-green leaves, and the honeysuckle and dog-roses had twined its length in sweetness, Celeborn had begun to feel both happier and more restless, and Amroth's joy was increased at the knowledge that his father was beginning to heal.
At times Celeborn would take care of young Celebdir, while Nimrodel wove or baked. Then she would tell them both tales of her long wanderings in Middle-earth, when she journeyed - lost, seeking for Amroth - into the hot South. There she strayed, where the stars were strange and the Men scarlet-clad, proud, lovers of splendour and music. Many strange and wondrous things she had seen there, searching for her lover and unable to find him.
"But then they began to whisper against me," she said, "fearing that I was an uncanny creature, who remained ever young while they withered. I was come, they said, to suck the life out of their villages, out of their corn and cattle. And at the last, when I came to the edge of the great desert, the people there stoned me and drove me away."
She beat a line of glimmering hithlain into place with one hand, caught the shuttle with the other, and smiled at the memory of her own death. "I wept so, for the cruelty of life, for my bones were broken, and I dared not come back out of the barren sand to seek for water. It seemed to me then that I would never find my love, nor tell him how I regretted taking him away from everything he desired. It was my quest for safety which had brought me to that hard end, and I railed at fate, at the Valar, and at myself most of all."
"Bad Men!" said Celebdir in sympathy, his round, toothless face fierce. "Bad Men to hurt Nana!"
At the protest, Nimrodel laughed, as merrily as a brook tumbling, leaf flecked under sunshine. "It proved a blessing in the end, my little Celbeg. For your Ada had long waited in Mandos for me, refusing a new life until we could live it together. He was all my healing and my help in that place." She smiled warmly at her husband's father, "Then I knew that, though I deserved him not, I would be a fool to put further conditions on our union. We were married the same day we were returned to our hroa. And that is not long ago now, though it seems we have always been wed." Her dark hair had slithered out from beneath her cap of lace and hung among the threads of the loom. She wound it up once more and tucked it back, where it gleamed like crow's feathers against the stitched pearls.
"It is as though all our lives before were taken up into our union - as though it worked backwards, into the past, so that we had never been separate..." Laughing again, she turned back to her work, "Alas, I wax nonsensical, as all lovers do. No doubt the giddiness wears off in time?"
Celeborn peeled and cored an apple, and - fetching a mortar - let his little grandson help him to mash it to a paste that the elfling was supposed to eat, but would doubtless just rub into his mop of silken, silver hair. Nimrodel's words stirred a carefully warded ache and hollowness in him, making him think of his own wife - of how, once he had first seen her, his life before Galadriel seemed suddenly to have been merely a long preparation for her arrival. "It does not," he said, "Only it grows deeper and quieter, like a great lake, so that those longest married speak about it least - for they can no longer imagine what it would be like to be alone."
"Yet you are apart."
"But not severed. Her soul and mine are still united, for Iluvatar made it so, and it cannot be undone."
True to expectation, young Celbeg ate a spoonful of apple, and then painted the floor with the rest. Nimrodel laughed again and added a shuttle of dusk-green silk to the weave. Deep in thought, Celeborn helped the boy trace out the cirth for his name in the mess before cleaning it away.
With the weight and wriggling vitality of a child in his arms the simple knowledge of indivisible union no longer seemed quite enough. Marriage was unbreakable, true, but its joy was so enhanced by presence, by touch, that he was almost ready to take the risk of being together once more. Perhaps he and Galadriel would discover that there was no more between them but an oath - love having worn away in too much distance and time. Yet he was no longer quite tired enough, quite weak enough, not to take the chance that something salvageable remained. It was time, maybe, to take his life in hand, and - if he could not rule a country, at least to rule himself.
Evening lay steel and turquoise over the rustling canopy of the talan when Celeborn returned from a successful hunt, with a deer lying limply over his shoulders and a back that - had it not been under his conscious control - would have been aching from bearing too much weight. He dropped the prize onto the foot of Daerbronwe's round hill, and put his hands to his mouth, calling up to the talan's occupants to come down and help him with the meat. But Amroth answered his hail with one of his own, turned, silhouetted in grace against the sunset, to point into the darkening sky.
Looking up, following the gesture, Celeborn beheld a great eagle come soaring out of the glimmering clouds. The sinking sun outlined each feather in gold, and seemed to dwell, captured, in the wild, fierce eyes. Greater than Landroval or Thorondur, greater than Gwaihir the Windlord himself, the blast of its wings flattened the meadow grass, made, for one moment, even the hurrying stream stand smooth as glass. As it swept overhead - a shadow, dark as a dragon's scudding beneath it - he saw on its back two elves, clinging, wide eyed with speed and danger, their faces - though many years apart in wisdom and lordship - alight with identical grins.
It banked, the huge wings tensed, driving it back now as it slowed. Feet like a cage of scythes spread and grasped the ground, and with a silent rush, a disproportionate lightness, the enormous eagle landed next to him. It folded its wings, raised its gilded, fearsome beak to the sky and cried aloud in triumph. It was as tall as he at the shoulder, and had to bend and angle its proud, bronze-feathered head, to look him in the eye.
"I am Aglarhir, son of Gelluidur," said the harsh, metallic voice. "Friend of Elladan of Tol Aduial. You are the one my friend seeks?"
"I am Celeborn of Ennor. Be welcome here, Aglarhir, friend of my grandson." He did not look beyond the boiling orange eye to see the elves who now slid down from their airy seat - he knew the prickly temper of eagles better than that. "I know not whether Elladan seeks me, or Amroth, but he will find both of us here, and both equally delighted to see him."
"It is well." Aglarhir's head cocked, tilting from side to side so that he could fix first one eye, then the other, on the carcass of the deer. His beak snicked open, and he ruffed his feathers thoughtfully.
Celeborn smiled, "By happy chance I may at least repay you for your long journey with a meal - take it with our thanks."
The eagle's curved neck arched down, and Aglarhir blinked, thin eyelid white and snake-like over his mad gold eye. There was a cold, magnanimous laughter in the depths of its alien glare. "Your eyrie is a little flimsy for me, and elvish stomachs too weak to dine beside my table manners. I will return later. Await me."
He took the stag easily in both claws and gathering himself burst upwards, rising heavily into the sky and wheeling away. Then Elladan and Amdir embraced Celeborn one by one, and they laughed together over eagle-pride, and reunion, and new life.
This time, holding Amdir by the shoulders, looking into a face he had not seen since the Last Alliance, Celeborn barely recalled the watery grave in which his kinsman's last body lay. He could not help but wonder if Amdir's fair face and his shining, pewter-dark hair floated still in the Dead Marshes, twisted over by corpse light. But now the memory had less power than the reality, and he did not recoil from it. Indeed, it was a reminder of victory - for Sauron was fallen, but Amdir was returned. "Come in!" he said, "Come and have supper, though I cannot offer you venison."
"I will not apologize for him," Elladan chuckled, taking off the circlet that now perched precariously on wind-blown hair and neatening himself, "He was the youngest fledgeling of his clutch, and so always hungry. Indeed, that is how we became friends - I stumbled upon their nest while climbing in the Pelori, and as his parents were over stretched, finding meat for three, I hunted for him."
"One might consider the gift of flight cheaply bought at the price," said Amdir, his cheeks aglow from the wind, and his charcoal-grey eyes alight with enjoyment, "Though the price be a lifetime of loyalty and responsibility."
"He is my friend, not my steed," Elladan bristled for a moment before he relented and punched the King of Lorinand teasingly in the arm, "Though I admit we travel often far together, and he will take me where I wish to go, if he deems it interesting enough."
"And now the mountains of the Pelori are infested with young elves, hoping to make the same bargain?" Celeborn asked, amused and perhaps a little envious - such freedom must be a wondrous thing.
Elladan laughed, and hugged his grandfather once more, as if to be sure he was indeed solid. "Gelluidur complains that the youngsters these days are so taken up with their eldar friends they know not how to hunt for themselves," he said, and grinned, "But such are the sentiments of all fathers. I have heard my own say many a similar thing in his time."
Amdir led the way to the great talan with the familiarity of one who is at home, running lightly up the ladder and being received with the warmth and lack of ceremony of one of the family. As a close friend of Celeborn's he had always stood as something of a second father to Amroth. Being, it seemed, permanently unwed, it had not been a surprise when - as King of Lorien - he named Celeborn's son as his heir, and Amroth - who at that time had been called Galadon - took a new epessë to reflect the gift.
Now Amdir marvelled at young Celebdir as at his own grandson, and beamed on hearing the name so carefully chosen to honour them both. Leaving him space to meet the child, to question the eager parents on the minute details of infant achievements and glory, Elladan and Celeborn stood quietly together to one side, and basked in reflected happiness.
"How is Elrond?"
"He was well, when I left him," Elladan hooked a foot around a nearby stool and pulled it close to sit on. He had a wry look, and was leaner, more athletic than he had been when he left Ennor. "But that was some months ago now. Just before the day of your arrival, in fact. For it occurred to me then that Daeraneth might have regretted so summarily dismissing Thingol's escort, and changed her mind. She might, I thought, be now wishing that she could come to meet you after all. And so Aglarhir and I flew to Tirion to carry her to Alqualondë, if she so desired."
"She did not."
"No," Elladan took the glass of wine his grandfather offered and shook his head in disbelief. Anger and humour warred in his eyes, as though he could not decide whether his grandmother was truly serious in this, or merely jested in poor taste. Seeing that the news was bad, Celeborn folded himself to his knees on the hard deck and relaxed as best he could to take the blow.
"She felt that as you had left her to build a new life alone, and did not come to her in her need, it was only justice that you suffer the same. 'I have lost count,' she said, 'of the years I spent praying that this day would bring his ship; the nights of disappointment and the stubborn hope for the morrow. But at length my patience wore out, and my grief became anger, and my loneliness solace. He has made it clear that he wants no further part in my life, and I am now resigned to that. I will not go to him. Nor will I receive him now, even were he to lower himself to come to me.'"
Bitter words, and hurtful. Unlike Elladan, he had no doubt she meant every one. And yet some part of him was reassured, strengthened by her haughty tone, her implacable anger. This was not the weary, saddened woman who had left him, so long ago. No, judging from this statement, Galadriel too was healed, her pride and power restored. He was glad she had regained her self, even at such a cost.
"She sent you to tell me this?"
Elladan grimaced, "Not in so many words, but I did not conceal from her where I was next headed. It may be I am her messenger. I did not mean to bring you grief, additional to what you suffer at leaving your land. Forgive me?"
The expression of sympathy awoke once more a familiar pain in Celeborn's heart - it did not grow easier to open and hear, instead of the ancient, varied and troubled song of Ennor, this innocent symphony of the new world. But he turned his thoughts from it as he had learned to do of late, and faced a closer fear as he asked, heart pounding in his ears. "By what name is she known?"
"Her own," said Elladan, without understanding, his eyes downcast. "Galadriel, as always."
Celeborn sighed, relieved, and reached out to touch his grandson's shoulder reassuringly. "Then there is hope. Thank you, Daerion, for bringing me her words. It is good to hear more than silence from her. When I visit, I will be sure to mention it."
"She will not see you! Did you not hear me say so?"
The sound of platters being brought out of their bench, and the moving of furniture brought their attention back to the scene within. Preparations were being made for the evening meal, and though there were three kings and no servants in the room still the table was laid swiftly and with good humour. There was jugged hare, bullrush roots and hot chestnuts, white bread and butter, hazelnuts and honey, and a mound of small, intensely sweet, wild strawberries. There was wine, traded from the settlements upriver, and home-made perry to drink, though Nimrodel chose fresh, cold water from the stream.
"Nevertheless, I will visit," said Celeborn, and felt himself stir awake once more at the thought of this challenge, "And she will see me. I must just plan my tactics first."
"Ah," Amdir laughed, "Now I am minded of the Second Age. I had thought this was your strategy, as you did then in Imladris, to stay here and wait til she comes to you."
"This was but a pause in the game, ere the match began anew," Celeborn smiled in return and reached over to relieve Celbeg of a chestnut that looked dangerously large for his small throat. "Nor can I use the same manoeuvre a second time - she will have expected and planned for it."
"But if I know mother," Amroth buttered a piece of bread while he thought, "She may have issued this warning, intending that it will provoke you to go to her."
"Then, when you do go," Nimrodel put in, with some small enthusiasm, "She will send you away again, unseen and humiliated. That's what I would do - to pay you back for not following me in the first place."
Amroth looked rather startled at this, and then relaxed, taking his wife's hand and gazing at her fondly, as both remembered that he had indeed followed, giving up everything else to do so. She reached up and smoothed a lock of his golden hair, with such an expression of adoration that everyone else at the table looked away, fearful of intruding on so private a moment.
"Yes," Celeborn agreed, breaking the silence. "That is probably her plan, and I must counter it somehow. I will give it some thought, ere I act."
"I am glad you are here at last, my friend," Amdir laughed, "If only because watching this courtship will give our folk something better to talk about than the Troubles. The more I think on them, the more my heart begins to truly misgive me."
At Celeborn's sharp glance of curiosity, his face clouded in surprise and regret. "I had forgotten you would not already know. Forgive me, I did not wish to trouble the serenity of your retreat."
"Ah, do not treat me like a flower that will wilt under too much rain!" He could not help being annoyed, though doubtless Amdir had been justly warned of his fragility from those who had seen it at its worst. That time was past. "What goes forth?"
"It is nothing," said Amroth, dismissively, "Fools, who cannot let the past go."
"Father says," Elladan contradicted his great uncle with polite uncertainty, but no real doubt in his eyes, "That those born in Aman need more challenge than they find here. The making of Ardh-in-Eledhil kept us occupied for many Long years, but now that it nears completion we do not know what to do with ourselves."
"There has been fighting between Noldor and Sindar in Alqualondë, and in Cirdan's havens at Calenlond," Amdir summarized. "There were riots in Tirion - some of my folk and Oropher's, with some of Denweg's Nandor, making their displeasure known at being called 'moriquendi' to their faces. And in reprisal the young firebrands of the Golodhrim took out their anger on the boatyards."
Nimrodel broke in, her face full of Silvan ferocity; "Galathil did not tell you they tore up his new sail? The one he spent years working on, which he said could be filled by sunlight and drive a boat windless through the Void? He was so furious I think he would have gone and burnt down their workshops, and ruined their treasures that they work on in secret at dead of night, did Galadhon not hold him down til Ulmo had forbidden it."
Picking up his mother's mood, the baby let out a shriek of anger and threw his spoon on the floor, and all there - who had died violent deaths, or seen loved ones do the same - sobered at the sound. Picking Celbeg up, Amroth took him out of one of the windows, where they might sit together on a swaying branch in the quiet starlight and grow settled once more.
"No one has yet been killed," Amdir finished, more quietly, "But I fear that if there is no new task ahead of us, nothing to unite us in one purpose, we will come to warfare at last, if only for something to do."
Sipping his wine, Celeborn studied the dance of candle-flames above the tablecloth and thought of Doriath, and Sirion. It occurred to him that Elu had hinted of this, with his veiled talk of unpleasantness between the clans. He understood now why Celebrian had named her residence the Half-Way house, for she and her husband were in all things half way between the Amanyar and the Ennorim; living embodiments of all that was good about unity. And at the same time, the request that he come and live in Thingol's court bore now a more practical interpretation. Less of nostalgia than a move to have at least one warleader available in the centre of his realm, for Melian had proved she would not put his people first, and thus for his folk's sake Elu could no longer risk himself if it came to battle.
With the example of the kinslaying at Alqualondë before him, he could not blame Elu for discounting the Valar's control of events and preparing for the worst. "I have been idle too long," he said at last, bracing himself to set his back beneath the burdens of life once more, "If you will take me, Elladan, I will go to Dor-Eden and put myself at my lord's service. Then we will see what we will see."
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Ardh-in-Eledhil = 'Realm of the Star Elves' - the name of the whole continent ('Star-elves' being a less offensive name the so called 'Dark-elves' have given themselves.)
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But what's the 2D performance on pure Mir? Faster, same, worse than on X.org?
After all, we're all looking forward to use pure Mir or Wayland as much as possible, with X.org on top of them as little as possible.
Phoronix: 2D Performance Also Impacted By Unity On XMir
Earlier today I delivered the first benchmarks of Ubuntu's Unity 7 running over XMir to run the current X11 desktop atop the Mir Display Server via this compatibility layer. These benchmarks documented the performance impact of running OpenGL games when having to deal with XMir rather than just a clean X.Org Server running on the hardware. The extra step in the rendering process did result in a measurable performance impact, especially when the performance of the open-source Linux graphics drivers is already lower than their proprietary brethren. The benchmarks to now show illustrate that the 2D rendering performance also takes a hit when running Unity on XMir.
But what's the 2D performance on pure Mir? Faster, same, worse than on X.org?
After all, we're all looking forward to use pure Mir or Wayland as much as possible, with X.org on top of them as little as possible.
Also, that's what will be used by default in both 13.10 and 14.04, so that comparison is much more interesting in the short term than the native one, from a user's perspective.
Those results should be interesting.
Pure client side rendering also has higher memory overheads as what the display server does cache between multiple clients, is now allocated separately in every client.
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Unfortunately proprietary nvidia drivers performs really poor when it comes to draw gradients through cairo.
...At the point that if you scroll a webpage containing native widgets (firefox) and your theme uses gradients for them, you have a very choppy scrolling.
Cairo needs then to be patched to explicitely rely on CPU only for such operations.
Works good with OSS drivers instead.
anyone with G945 intel driver should be aware that due to the newly gained features of mesa 9.2 (opengl 2.1) it takes about half a minute to open unity dash (pushing the super key) ... i guess..
and its quite interesting that on the intel driver the SW mouse popinter does not move whereas it does move on nouveau nv50 and radeon r500


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March 18: Franco decided to begin his first day in governing a united Spain by meeting with his ministers and deciding where to steer his country. He decided to maintain his cabinet intact, despite the fact that some parties were over represented. This was the group that won him the war, and they would take the country to a new, prosperous era.
He decided to begin with internal matters. He invited the Armament Minister, Juan March Ordinas into his office to discuss economic plans and production. What he saw was a scary picture. The country was short more than 22 tonnes of coal every day, over 28 tonnes of metal, and about 16 and a half tonnes of rare materials. But acquiring more would be a job for the foreign minister.
March Ordinas noted that the country, after the new economic laws were put into place, had a rather limited industrial capacity of about 57. 57 of what? asked Franco.
57 . . . just 57. Its a number that our economists have abstracted. Lets just say that its not great. Were not a big country, you know, replied March Ordinas.
What can we do to improve our situation? asked the new leader of the country.
Ah, excellent question sir. As you can see, we require over 19 units just to produce enough consumer goods to keep the people happy. We also need over 11 units to supply our units with ammunition, clothing, etc. Right now, we need about 2 and a half to arm reinforcements.
But that doesnt leave much left. How can we reduce our numbers to leave more for production and upgrading our equipment? Franco asked.
Well, as for the consumer goods demand, there is one thing that we can do. I recommend that we gear our economy towards consumer goods. This will reduce demand. It will take longer to build other things, but right now, CG demand is right at 1/3 of our economy. We cant sustain that kind of thing for long. As far as supply goes, sources in the army tell me that we might be able to reduce wasted supplies with a reorganization, replied March Ordinas. There are also technologies that we can research that can help as well. There are technologies to make our overall production more efficient, some that can boost our output, and others that can help us make more supplies.
Franco nodded and sent his Armament Minister away. He would summon him again after he had more information as to the state of the army.
Next, he invited his Foreign Minister, Jose Yanguas Messia. However, he did not ask Yanguas Messia any questions. Instead, he told him that trade was his mission. He needed to do two things (since they were already aligning towards the Fascist Alliance or Axis or whatever it was called that the Germans were hyping). The first was to arrange to trade to supply our factories with the raw materials they needed, as well as build surpluses to make sure that if trading partners were alienated, they would not have to shut down their factories. The second job was to sell supplies and generate a reasonable surplus. Spain would need to buy production licenses from their allies, since the country only had a limited number of great minds to dedicate to research and development of new military and industrial technologies.
His Air Force and Navy chiefs entered and basically told him the same thing that they did upon the outbreak of the war. They had 6 combat vessels (ranging from a single heavy cruiser down to destroyers groups) and 4 transport squadrons. The air force had 2 squadrons of interceptors, and an additional 2 of tactical (medium) bombers.
Next, the great victor of the battle of Madrid, General Jose Enrique Varela Iglesias entered, and Franco greeted his old friend with a huge hug.
Jose, tell me what state our army is in, said Franco.
Francisco, my old friend, when replenished and reorganized, it will be not bad at all. We have 45 infantry brigades, 4 cavalry brigades, 1 Militia brigade and 1 Light armoured brigade. Depending on what you would like our army to do, we can reorganize accordingly. I would recommend adding artillery support, since we only have a relatively small amount of manpower (under 90 units) after replenishing. My recommendation, to make a powerful army is to add artillery to create divisions of 2 infantry brigades and 1 or 2 artillery support brigades. This would give us over 20 divisions with which to fight. I suggest disbanding our armoured division. We have no fuel left, as you can see, and we will need it for the navy and air force. Our problem is that we need to modernize. Our technology is no better now than it was at the end of the last war, and even then, much of our infantry does not even have those 1918 model weapons."
Thank you, Jose. I will take all of this into account. You will hear from me shortly with my instructions, Franco replied.
Franco sat in his office, the hush contrasting with the barks of gunfire that echoed for the past month. He began to think about the shape his country would soon take...
Sad to say, I've got to put this AAR on hold (I know... just when it was getting interesting, at least for me). Apparently, I've encountered some kind of bug that renders the game completely unplayable. Perhaps some of you have encountered it, or know how to fix it?
When I got the "Spanish Civil War Victory!" event card, immediately I lost all my stockpiles of supplies, cash and fuel. Once this happened, no matter how many supplies I was producing, I would lose supplies, and then my supply trades would be put on hold with the game telling me that I didn't have enough supplies to sell to whomever I was selling to.... following this, I would lose the money from those trades, and finally, would not be able to afford the raw materials, and thus my IC would drop to nothing and my entire economy would spiral out into the ground.
Does anyone know how to fix this? I think it's a problem in the event writing, but I'm not comfortable modding the event.
How is your leadership? May be it's an issue there?
Leadership is fine. Officer ratio is super low, but that's normal.
From what I can gather from looking at the event script, it only affects Nationalist Spain. Because a "new country" is formed with the Spanish Civil War event (Republican Spain already exists), the new country (Nat. Spain) is "given" resources, supplies, money, etc. My assumption is that when the "Spanish Civil War - Victory" triggers (which is part of the Spanish Civil War event), those boosts to Nat. Spain are removed, leaving you with next to nothing. The economic collapse is then the result of this strange coincidence that occurs when the Spanish Civil War event chain completes with the Victory.
The only thing that I can think to try (which I will) is to cancel all trades, and try to rebuild from scratch.
I would use the cheat codes to replace the amount of resources you lost and that will straighten things out. You already have a screenshot of the amounts so it should be easy.
Franco Spain exists in many games and it does get resources. I wonder what ishappening with your game.
Ok, after a test run with the supplies cheat, things worked pretty smoothly after that. Will be updating tomorrow.
Franco reconvened his cabinet later that same day. He looked at each of the men in the room and met his eyes with his own, trying to decide whether the men had the courage to see his vision through.
Gentlemen, you all know of the vision I have of a grand Spanish Empire that we will have within a decade from now. Im sure some of you have seen a glimpse of this vision yourselves. But the reason Im in this position is because I know exactly how we will achieve it. The only way that this will be is if each one of you can flawlessly put my plans into effect. It is like a puzzle, only with each piece in place, can we complete it.
We must modernize and increase our industrial, military and intellectual power. Our military must be geared toward both offense and defence, as the War that shall decide who will rule will be difficult and will involve all the worlds major powers. I will enact certain laws, such as Consumer Product Orientation. We will dedicate our finest minds to researching ways to increase industrial output, train more leaders, improve our agricultural technology, which will allow us to have more fighting men under arms. Our army will use the most modern weaponry which will allow the world to see our innate superiority of fighting spirit.
But first, let me tell you about a conversation that I had with a bright British prisoner who was fighting for the Republicans. His name was Eric Arthur Blair, and he impressed upon me a notion that if a country always had an enemy to fight, and could exist in a state of constant war, then we would be benefit from a populace who would be willing to give their all and make supreme sacrifices that would mobilize our economy to its ultimate power.
Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name, George Orwell
This Blair had a keen mind. Therefore, by keeping Spain in a constant state of war, we could not only conquer more territory to expand our empire, but keep our factories running at a higher capacity, our military recruitment at higher levels and make sure that our populace would be willing to give up creature comforts for the greater good.
Jose Yanguas Messia, the foreign minister, stood. An excellent idea, but there are two questions. First, the majority of our people still want us to be neutral, they are tired after a civil war. How could we get them to allow another war, and an extended war, so quickly? Second, who would we go to war with?
Franco smiled. Jose, your questions are to the point. He turned to his Minister of Intelligence, Luis Orgaz Yoldi. Luis. We will be allocating you the bulk of our leadership toward recruiting spies. You will send them to France and make it look like our neighbour is making threatening advances upon us. This will lower our peoples fear of going to war again in the face of the French threat.
As for who we shall wage war against, the answer is simple. Our weak neighbour in Iberia, Portugal, will be our target. Even when we take their Iberian territory, they still have enough colonies on their islands, in Africa, and the far east to keep from capitulating until we decide to finish them off. Thus, we can continue to reap the economic benefits from continuous war, without being seriously threatened in any way.
As far as our production and technology strategies go, we will first upgrade our industrial base. Then we will upgrade our military. For the next three months, very little will happen, but we will be paving the way for a new and glorious era for Spain!
The men applauded their leader and rushed out the door, inspired to begin work on creating the new Spain.
The first task for Francos new Spain was to import enough raw materials to use in the factories. While Yanguas Messia was working his diplomatic magic, it was time to reorganize the army to minimize the use of supplies, and relieve confusion. While Franco chose to demobilize the army, enact the Consumer Product Orientation policies, he would still need to reorganize.
The army was reorganized, for the time being, into 1 army group with 2 armies (although these armies would be reorganized again later). The first contained 4 infantry corps with 4 or 5 divisions. It also contained a corps with our cavalry units. Each infantry division would consist of two brigades, and would have an artillery brigade added when its construction was completed. The second army had one corps of 3 infantry divisions. Our air and naval power was incorporated into Vidals 1st Army Group chain of command.
On April 2, final victory was declared, loans were paid back to Italy and Germany, while the capital was moved back to Madrid from Burgos.
While he didnt particularly want to deal with the communists, difficulties in dealing with Germany and the West were forcing his hand. Through deals with the Soviets primarily, Yanguas Messia was able to balance the ledger and feed the factories by April 18th. Now to sell supplies to increase the amount of cash resources that would be used to buy production licenses from our allies in the future.
On May 11, after 10 spies were recruited, the intelligence services unleashed them into France to increase their threat.
The leadership of the country was rearranged to be able to fully fund 4 research projects Construction engineering, Agriculture, Education and Industrial Production. These would be followed by Industrial Efficiency and Supply production. Some of the excess spy recruitment effort would be put into recruiting officers for our army.
Additionally 30 more convoys were ordered to be produced, given the potentially dire situation. This affected the ability to make overseas trade agreements. However, the one thing that was being starved to fun the production of the convoys, some artillery and supplies were upgrades to our infantry. This would certainly be finished by the time the army was needed again.
By the 2nd of July, the French counterintelligence services had whittled our spies down to 4, so more effort was made to replace them.
On August 9th, the first of the Artillery brigades were available to be attacked to infantry divisions. It was at this time that Franco ordered the divisions to be renumbered. They would simply be called by their number (1st Infantry Division, etc.). Thus the first 3 artillery brigades were attached to the 1st to 3rd Infantry Divisions by August 11. 3 more artillery brigades were put into production, and an air base was put in production for the province of Vigo along the Atlantic coast.
On August 12, the first Garrison division was deployed to Vigo. Our diplomatic overtures toward the axis had been successful. However, Franco was not ready quite yet to join the axis.
On a lark, to test out Hitlers willingness to court Spain, Franco asked to buy a production license to build fighter planes in Spain. Surprisingly, Hitlers foreign minister agreed, and production of the Messerschmitt fighters began!
On September 5th, Franco discovers that the British were also trying to court Spain to join the allies....
Finally, on the 24th of October, Franco received reports from his cabinet that the people were sufficiently frothing at the French! The populace was ready once again for war! Franco ordered the army to the Portuguese border, the leadership redistributed to support the officer corps, instructed his generals to prepare for war!
Be very careful doing Education: when you have very low Leadership as you do here, it takes many levels of research before you gain back the 1 point of Leadership you lost just getting the tech. By my calculations you have to complete Education level 4 before it pays for itself. You might be better off waiting until you've gained some more Leadership via conquest.
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I may not research more than one level, but since Franco is hell bent on modernizing and upgrading his backwards little country, he seems to believe that every little bit counts!
Franco ordered his generals to move their men into position for muster before declaring war on the Portuguese.
Lt. Gen Orgaz Yoldis I. Corps would be sent to Castuera to gather up. Because they had the most powerful divisions (already given artillery support), their task would be to take the Portuguese capital of Lisbon.
Lt. Gen. Millan Astray y Terreross II. Corps would go to Valverde y Camino and assist by securing the southern coastal provinces on Orgaz Yoldis left flank.
Lt. Gen. Goded Llopiss III. Corps would head to Bejar to make up the northern part of the line stretching from the border in the north down to the Atlantic Coast.
Lt. Gen. Saliquet Zumetas IV. Corps would go to Ourense in the North and be responsible for collapsing southwards towards Porto.
Lt. Gen. Lopez-Pinto Berizos Cavalry Corps would head to Truillo in the center and serve both to shore up the lines and penetrate to separate the north from the south.
Finally, Roattas V. Corps would head down to Cadiz to be loaded into the transports to take the Portuguese Island possessions in the Atlantic. Eventually, all of the North African/Eastern Atlantic islands would have to be taken to ensure that the Portuguese Fleet (if Franco couldnt destroy it first) could not be a threat to our shipping.
By November 1, the 5 corps were in place, and the army was mobilized.
On November 10, Francos research team had announced a major breakthrough in Construction Engineering which would allow the nation to build new industrial plants to support Francos grand visions. Immediately, he ordered 3 new plants to begin construction.
On November 17, Franco ordered the army deployed, and the fleet recalled to Cadiz from La Coruna.
On November 24, with the army in place, the combat fleet was ordered to scout the coastline to try to find the Portuguese fleet. The next day, Admiral Agacino Armas reported seeing a fleet in port, but the numbers were unknown. After sailing up to Porto to find no ships there, the fleet returned to the coast of Lisbon in preparation for the assault.
And at 5am on November 27, 1936, Spain went back to war, this time as a unified country against a common enemy.
Here's wishing you a short one! But I suspect you'll have to go up the east coast of Africa as well before they surrender.
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Well, if you don't sink their fleet the minute it leaves Lisbon, they still might make your life miserable with Convoy raiding. Be prepared!
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November 27, 1936:
Franco woke early. He couldnt sleep. He had received word that his fleet was back in place. It was time. He now trusted his generals and had asked Field Marshal Mola to draft the plan to conquer mainland Portugal. Mola then passed objectives down to his army commanders, with the newly created 3rd Army under the command of Martinez Anido tasked to take Porto, and the 1st Army, under the command of Cavalcanti tasked to taking Lisbon.
1st army and their objective of Lisbon3rd army and their objective of Porto
With more opposition feared in the north, the Cavalry corps was detached from the 1st Army and and attached to the 3rd. Mola himself would oversee the fleet and air elements.
With the plan set (and Franco confident his generals could handle this fight without his personal intervention), he instructed the foreign minister, Jose Yanguas Messia to deliver the declaration of war to the Portuguese Embassy.
Mola ordered the tactical bombers to attack the enemy ships in port, and since our outdated fighters could not reach Lisbon, they were ordered to fly air intercept missions in order to cover our ground troops.
The first shots of battle erupted. The tactical bombers discovered 2 destroyer groups, 2 transport groups and 1 submarine group in the Lisbon port.
The sub was of primary importance due to the damage it could cause Spains limited shipping capacity.
Troops along the front reported that the Portuguese had been caught by complete surprise, with the enemy troops unmobilized. Thus, speed was of the essence, to allow the units to be capture before they could achieve their peak fighting strength.
The enemy troops are only at 25% strength.
To power the increased capacity of our war-time industry, a trade was made with the USA to import enough coal, steel and rare materials.
On the 28th, we had taken another province in Estremoz without a shot, yet the battle still raged in Braganca where the defenders, the lynchpin of the line were holding out despite small odds of success.
On the 29th, we took Braganca, but the number of casualties was bothering Franco.
On the 30th of November, the hoped-for agricultural advances had been achieved. On this day, only two battles raged. The Portuguese had decided to contest our claim to Estremoz, and another battle was being fought in Meda.
On December 2, Mola ordered the tactical bombers to undertake a runway cratering in Lisbon to deny the Portuguese air force anywhere to take and land from. Mola already had a division in Porto, and now was the time to close in around the enemy divisions, with 2 divisions in Meda surrounded.
On the 4th, Molas units achieved victory against the troops in Meda, causing 6875 soldiers to surrender.
By the 5th, the battle for Lisbon had begun. Although the outcome looks bleak at the beginning, only two divisions had entered the battle.
On December 10th, Franco decided to exploit the Portuguese industrial resources more by instituting a military government over the occupied territory. Franco was also informed that the first attempt to take Lisbon had been rebuffed by the enemy.
On December 12th, the Second Battle of Lisbon was victorious.
On the 13th, Mola gave orders to surround the Portuguese divisions and encourage their surrender. If they would be willing, they would help to contribute to Francos new united Iberia!
Dec. 15: Now that the Portuguese Fleet had been flushed out of harbour it was time to begin the next stage of the plan. Troops would be ferried from Cadiz to capture The Azores, Madeira, the Cape Verde Islands, and Bissau, effectively taking the Portuguese Naval bases within striking distances of the Spanish convoys out of play.
On December 21, Franco was informed of the loss of the battle of the Azores. He would try again after eliminating the last pockets of resistance on the mainland.
Before years end, on December 30, the final 19634 Portuguese troops surrendered. The first army was then ordered to the outskirts of Madrid, and the third army ordered to Lisbon to prepare for the island hopping.
Thus the year ended, with the bulk of the ground troops' work done, and Franco rested knowing that even the small Portuguese Navy would be little threat soone enough.
On January 12, two more artillery brigades were attached to the 4th and 5th Infantry Division, and the researchers were ordered to put once again put effort in the Operational Level Organization technology. The Officer corps was still far too low, and thus it received more attention than it might have otherwise.
On January 13, another push to the Azores was made, this time, using the entire III. Corps. While the battle took several days, this time, it was successful. The 11th Infantry Division was left as a garrison (until a dedicated garrison division could be trained), and the rest of the corps pushed south to Madeira.
On the 23rd, a 6th artillery brigade was completed and attached.
On the 24th, Madeira was taken, and the Portuguese fleet was caught and attacked, with a transport flotilla being sunk.
On the 25th, the research minds announced a breakthrough in the education of our young men and women! Like in the Azores, the 12th Infantry division was left behind, and the rest pushed on to Cape Verde Islands.
The assault on Cape Verde began at midnight on the 1st of February, without much resistance.
The fleet was sent to the Bissagos islands off the coast of Bissau, where it headed off the remnants of Portugal's fleet. The ensuing battle resulted in the sinking of another transport group, which pretty much marked an end to the Portuguese's ability to reclaim any territory.
Once again, the 13th infantry division was left behind at Cape Verde, and the last 2 divisions (14th and 15th) were sent to Bissau to make the final landing. Again, Bissau fell without much resistance. The 14th Infantry division was left there and the 15th was then taken back to Spain for the welcome of heroes.
With Portugal suppressed, but having not completely capitulated, Franco could still foment the taste for war against the Portuguese villains, yet be able to sleep soundly knowing that his men would not be in harm's way. He would reap the economic benefits of war, without any more destruction. At least for now.
Thus the war became a "paper war," with the enemy in no position to be a threat, yet the country still mobilized against the hated Portuguese. This ushered in a much quieter era of relative peace for the country.
On the 26th of February, Franco received word of another Portuguese destroyer group sunk! This action against the remaining naval forces would further cripple the enemy!
On March 9, the country's industrial production made an advance.
On April 28th, Spain received a boost to the industry!
On May 2, the first two Garrison divisions were completed and deployed via transport ship to the Azores and to Madeira, allowing the 11th and 12th Infantry Divisions to return home. The last two main fighting divisions would be returned in August.
What's the composition of those Garrison divisions?
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4 truths from Wembley: King Kane, great crowd, forgotten hero
We look back on a night that witnessed the birth of a new England star - and an all-too-quiet farewell to a retiring one. More »Eurosport - 4 hours ago
Premier League - Raheem Sterling expects to be fit for Liverpool's trip to Arsenal
Raheem Sterling has left the England camp after having an injection in his toe, but the Liverpool winger expects to be fit for Arsenal. More »Eurosport - 1 hour 1 minute ago
Motorsports - Spectator killed in horrific crash at Germany's Nurburgring
A spectator has been killed and several others injured in an accident involving Jann Mardenborough's Nissan in the VLN Endurance race at the Nurburgring. More »Eurosport - 2 hours 16 minutes ago
Liga - Barcelona's Jordi Alba sidelined for 10 days
Barcelona left-back Jordi Alba will be out for around 10 days after sustaining a hamstring injury in Spain's 1-0 Euro 2016 qualifying win over Ukraine. More »Eurosport - 3 hours ago
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How To Achieve And Maintain Peak Performance In Dressage
Often called equine ballet, dressage can be just as intricate to understand as its human counterpart. The purpose of this article is to provide a quick glossary to some of the more frequently used and heard terms around the barn, training arena, DirectStarTV, and show ring. Impulsion: The releasing of a horse's energy as it carries itself forward in a seemingly eager and desirous manner. Lightness: Simply stated, the horse's lightness on its feet in relation to movement, carriage and gaits – a sign of willingness, eagerness, and obedience. Continue Reading »


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Golden Age
UPDATE: This game has been shutdown and is no longer available
Golden Age Overview
Golden Age is a browser MMORPG with multiple modes of progression. Not only do you level up your cities, but you also level up your "sire," which serves as your own personal avatar in the game. You can also hire heroes, which can be appointed to various tasks such as defensive garrisons, conquering armies, or administrative tasks for your cities, depending on their specializations. Every hero and your sire can be outfitted with gear that enhances performance, and the opportunities for growth are many.
There are three factions to choose from in Golden Age, each with unique units, special buildings, avatars, and castles.
Knights Templar: This faction is the most militant of the three factions. Their special building is the arena, which increases the number of troops you can recruit each week, giving you a noticable advantage in military endeavours. Your units in general will have more attack power, but consume more population to produce. Your mages and infantry will also have slightly higher attacking power – this is a faction for the offensive-minded player!
Ibero Alliance: This faction is more focused on science and defense. Their traps and wall enhancements are fantastic, and they are allowed access to unique defensive tech for their walls, making their cities difficult to breach. It's also unwise to underestimate their offensive capacity, as their cavalry are strong and swift.
Rhine Commerce Guild: This is a merchant faction mostly focused on resource production, able to eclipse other factions in terms of sheer productivity with the help of their special guild buildings. They can also trade with other players more efficiently. Though they aren't as good at fighting as the other factions, they can upgrade and train very quickly thanks to their high production rates.
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Golden Age Full Review
By B. Olivia
Maybe it's just me, but there seems to be quite a few of these browser-based strategy MMOs popping up lately. Golden Age follows this trend by, well, popping up. I've played more than a few of these games in the past, and I generally like them, being a fan of strategizing in general, but Golden Age seems to take the genre to previously unseen heights. It's a game full of customization and freedom, with a hell of a lot more to do than most of the games from this genre I've played. It's by no means perfect, but compared to its competition, it definitely approaches the ceiling of quality. It's a game you could easily lose hours of your life to, and best of all, it's easy to pick up and play, in bite-sized chunks, making it the perfect way to distract yourself at work or school. Hooray!
Faction Matters
In a lot of these games, your faction choice doesn't have too much bearing on your gameplay, but in Golden Age, the difference is massive. Each faction has a distinctly specialized role to play in the game world, and each one has plenty of unique differences that makes one feel distinct in their choice. It helps the player have a sense of factional pride, because not only is your gameplay augmented and specialized, but your appearance, special units, and even capital city (we'll get into that next) are different depending on which faction you choose.
I chose to be a part of the Knights Templar, because I like wearing armor and beating people up in the name of righteousness. I was pleased to discover that this was, indeed, the correct choice! My special units were often pretty girls with red crosses on their tabards, or maybe wings strapped to their backs. Sweet. Having a big aesthetic difference between factions is important to me. Obviously.
Of course, you can pretty much carve out your very own little kingdom by founding cities and expanding on the map, being a faction unto yourself. This goes even further when you join an alliance with other players. Suddenly, the players themselves are defining the factions, and even battling eachother over resource points and prime real estate. How cool is that?
Expand, Expand, Expand!
One thing I really loved about Golden Age was the fact that you could not only build more than one city, but that every day new things popped up on the map for me to attack with my armies and use to enhance my resource production or gather unique treasures. There's a lot more to this game than simply building up a city and getting lots of resources. Leveling up your sire (your personal avatar) and your heroes, as well as outfitting them, take splenty of time and effort. Best of all? You really don't have to spend a dime of real-life cash to make a lot of progress. In fact, using the game's premium currency is really only useful when you want to rapidly expand or enhance a new city. It's hardly necessary.
So much to do, so little time!
Unlike so many browser-based strategy games, Golden age is full of things to do while you wait for your buildings to construct themselves or your resources to recharge. The game has a great quest system, and navigating your capital city to find quests and get accquainted with the game is a breeze. There are even special "instances" you can go into, which are basically large maps your army (lead by the hero of your choice) can plod along, getting into battles until they reach the end. This is on top of your being able to form multiple armies and send them out to conquer wilderness, or just explore your capital city and trade/socialize with other players.
Battle: Can't someone else do it?
Fitting of your role as a noble of the land, the actual battles your troops get into are largely outside your control. All you do is move armies around the map and tell them where to go, the actual outcome of the battle is determined by the stats of your troops, their makeup, and the gear/level of your hero and their stats/skills/specializations. Customizing all of those numbers is a full-time job, so if you're a natural born min-maxer and gear-fiend, this game is going to be heaven for you. If you like a bit more of a hands-on approach to gameplay, like me, you might be a bit disappointed. However, this is to be expected of a game that operates at the scale of entire kingdoms, so it's really only a matter of personal taste.
In the end, regardless of your skill as a player, every fight as going to come down to stone-cold numbers. So, manage your troops well, and don't overextend! This is an empire building game, not an RTS. Keep that in mind and you'll enjoy yourself. Or you'll not enjoy yourself, because you're the kind of person that can't stand constantly swimming through menus and spreadsheets. But if that's the case, you shouldn't be playing this kind of game!
Final Verdict: Great
Of all the browser-based strategy MMORPGs I've played, Golden Age ranks right up there at the top. There's plenty to do, not much waiting around, a thriving community, and lots of fun goals you can set for yourself within the game. The ability to found multiple cities and build at a generally faster rate than most strategy MMOs makes this game a real keeper, and one that can either be a perfect supplement to a full-time gaming habit, or even a complete focus in its own right. Best of all, if you get bored and want a break, you can apply for a vacation, and put your city in stasis! No major complaints here – another great title from Aeria.
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Why should Nokia put tons of money into desktop Qt, they only really needed Qt for symbian and meego and now that they do not they are downsizing. There is no point in keeping Qt. With Digia they care about embedded and desktop as well as mobile so more work will go into Qt.
Now none of this would happen if Nokia didn't shoot themselves in the foot, I am not denying nokia has gone downhill and Elop is a total loser. That doesn't make Qt non free software.


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AUSBUY believes that the legislation and enforcement governing labels in Australia is inadequate. Research conducted by Ausbuy would suggest that Australian consumers wish to support Australian companies and are concerned about the problems which they find in identifying truly Australian products. Ausbuy believes that the labels should indicate whether the product is produced in Australia by an Australian owned company.
At this point in time the Ausbuy logo is the only identification which appears on a label and identifies the product as being produced by an Australian company. We would welcome the support of government in making such identification mandatory, and would support any plans which they have to enable the Australian consumer to make an informed choice.
Ausbuy also believes the ACCC should be stricter on labelling infringements. At present it often takes Ausbuy, or a concerned member of the public, to point out to the ACCC when a formerly Australian owned company have not updated their labelling. In the case of The Natural Confectionery Company (TNCC), it took more than one year and three letters from Ausbuy for the ACCC to ask TNCC to remove "proudly Australian owned" from their packaging. In the meantime millions of consumers had been duped. This change of packaging should happen within a matter of weeks of the ownership transfer.
Foreign owned companies should not be allowed to mislead consumers through the use of Australian iconography on their packaging. In the case of Heinz Baked Beans, this is the use of the map of Australia, and it presents the product as Australian when in fact it is not. The Australian flag is often used to promote the product as Australian whilst being produced by a foreign owned company, often offshore. Consumers see the flag and choose the product, believing their purchase will leave profits in this country and support Australian jobs. The opposite is often the case. This is blatant misleading by multinational companies and should be addressed. To control the misuse of national symbols, the Federal Government should register them and control their use.
The public want clear and concise labelling to allow them to make purchasing decisions that are important to them. At present the labelling laws do not reflect this. It is not helpful to our manufacturers and farmers to present the public with many different labels that claim different things, none of which are regulated. Ausbuy would like the government to act in introducing stricter legislation in terms of labelling and identifying country of ownership. In the meantime the only way to identify truly Australian products and services is through Ausbuy's logos and the Ausbuy Guide.


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Teddy Bear Picnic
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Come to our annual Teddy Bear Picnic! For kids under the age of 5 years old with a parent, caregiver, or group. Bring a blanket, some snackies, and your favorite teddy bear. The Yampa Valley Boys will play great sing-along tunes and there will be face painting and bear's ears to take home. This year, there will be the Fun Times Photo Booth, where you can take adorable pictures of your child and their teddy bear. The photo booth fits 6-8 people takes four shoots and prints two strips in either color or black and white. Free, courtesy of the library.


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Max's 22 Whitehouse Station Pre-Super Bowl 2013
Friday, February 01, 2013 4:46 PM
Beer and pizza are two of the items on the menu Super Bowl Sunday at Max's 22 Restaurant and Bar near Whitehouse Station. The game will be on in the bar, with specials including 50-cent wings. Fans can also order from the regular dining room menu.
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LED technology is the most efficient alternative to conventional lighting. LED fixtures can help you save up to 90% of energy, compared to fluorescent or incandescent lamps. With various sizes and designs of LED fixtures they become great for installing in under cabinet locations. This guide will help you select the perfect option to fit your needs.
The first thing to consider when selecting LED under cabinet lighting is the type of the fixture. Among all of the options that exist today, push lights are the most affordable. Despite their low price, they offer the same lighting features as other types do. If you are looking for more complex and stylish fixtures, there are plenty of options to select from.
The next factor that requires your attention is the amount of light that you need your future under cabinet lighting to offer. Since kitchen counters and other common locations where such lights are usually installed don't require much light, LED lamps become the best option for them.
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Color temperature of the light or as it is also called, ССЕ rating, is other factor to consider before selecting a LED lighting fixture for your kitchen. By choosing the lamps with various color of light you are able to create a lighting ambiance of your dreams. The LED lights can provide warm white color as well as the cool white options. To know the color of your future LED lighting fixture, look for the Kelvin ratio in its description. The higher such ratio is the cooler is the white color that the fixture provides. If you have wooden furniture in the kitchen, LED lighting with warmer color would be the perfect choice for it. For glass or steel shelves and cabinets select the fixtures with cooler light color.
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There is a difference between playing shit and being shit. You said I think RVP is shit, where I'm saying he'll play shit... His ability will still be there but it just won't have a bug effect on UTD.
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Town manager post attracts 26 applicants
Sunday, February 10, 2013
There was some discussion regarding the three boards/commissions, recreation, economic development and conservation, comprised of members appointed by the selectmen. It was noted that the conservation commission and the recreation commission are governed by state statues. Bridges noted that the recreation commission has not had a full board for some time. Each commission is to prepare a mission statement for the selectmen to review.
It was reported that the trustees have received a sum of $50,480 from the town representing the cash balance of the Durgin Fund. The Fund also owns 132 shares of Consolidated Edison. The trustees will be working with the town and the attorney general's office to determine the principal value of the Fund. In the interim, The Funds assets will be invested by the trustees in accordance with the trustees' investment policy.