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A unanimous vote by Wichita Falls city councilors Tuesday put the ball in motion for cloud seeding operations to begin March 1.
Councilors also approved measures that included an Austin-based company regarding the Lake Wichita development project, elections, acquisitions and more.
Russell Schreiber, Wichita Falls Public Works director. told councilors the city has gone through all traditional options to counter the four-year drought and either slow down the loss of or retain water in the supply system. He said cloud seeding provides an opportunity through science to potentially increase rainfall if the right types of clouds and storms move through the area, specifically over the watershed.
He said the anticipated change from La Niña to El Niño means more moisture, and if the area does receive its normal rain amount, the lakes would only fill to 40- to 45-percent capacity.
"We think it's time to take one more shot at trying to produce some additional rainfall in our watersheds," he said.
Cloud seeding is a process by which a meteorologist looks at weather events and cloud structure to determine if seeding it with silver iodide would increase rainfall production, he said. He said an aircraft is sent up with flares fixed to the wings if the cloud is prime for seeding, and when the flares are ignited, updrafts carry the silver iodide particles in the cloud.
Gary Walker of Seeding Operations and Atmospheric Research out of Plains, Texas, said silver iodide has a chemical structure similar to that of ice. He said moisture in the clouds are attracted to the particles, forming ice.
He said the water droplets continue to get bigger in the clouds until they eventually begin falling in the form of rain.
Walker was quick to point out that cloud seeing is not a project that will end the drought.
"Is it a silver bullet? No," he said. "We're not going to be able to put 20 inches of water in the lake. It's just another tool. You can get 10 or 15 percent more water out of a suitable cloud by cloud seeding that you can out of a suitable cloud that's not seeded."
Schreiber said the coverage area for the project includes Knox, Cottle, Foard, Baylor and Archer counties. He said they are working with those entities and others to share in the cost since they stand to benefit from increased rain production.
Wichita County Water Improvement District No. 2 and American Electric Power — the Oklaunion power plant — have each committed $30,000 to the $300,000 cost. Schreiber said he will continue to work with others to help reduce cost to the city.
Another water-related project that was on Tuesday's agenda was about the redevelopment of Lake Wichita, a once-pristine recreational lake for residents. Councilors approved entering into a consulting services contract with Austin-based RPS Group for no more than $5,500. RPS Group would determine what the Army Corps of Engineers 404 permit to begin the project.
Steve Garner, chairman of the Lake Wichita Study Committee, and Tom Lang, an ex officio member of the committee and director of the local Texas Parks & Wildlife Department Inland Fisheries office, provided a short presentation on what the committee has looked at in the proposed two-phase project.
Lang discussed the first phase which would be restoration of Lake Wichita, including an excavation and development of beach areas component that would cost between $36-$42 million. It also includes improving trails and piers, boat ramps, a bridge over the spillway, brush control in the watershed an restocking the lake with a variety of fish.
He said the silt in the lake has built up over its 112 years of existence, and the lowering of the spillway took away another 4 feet of depth.
If we're going to have a lake that again supports recreation, fisheries (and) potentially even the water supply — looking at some of the research ... we're looking at probably 7 million cubic yards of material to remove," he said of the dredging project.
Garner spoke to councilors about the second phase of the project including a water sports complex on the east side of the lake. He said there could also be a structure similar to the old pavilion built in the commercial area.
"If we have this option available to us and an expansion mindset of the business community, this could snowball and be an incredible asset to the community," he said.
Councilors also approved measures including:
■ Details on the May 10 Joint General Election, agreements for joint elections with the Wichita County Water Improvement District No. 2, Wichita Falls ISD and City View ISD.
■ The purchase of three police motorcycles for more than $70,000 and three 72-inch Toro mowers for more than $68,000.
■ Entering a contract with Geograph Industries, Inc. for the city's master signage project not to exceed $1,089,473.
■ Balancing out the cost of the temporary pipeline project with Bowles Construction for the amount of $53,888.64.
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Since many Dodge D-series pickup parts fit my '66 A100 van I'm always on the lookout for members of the species while visiting the junkyard. Today's D100, which I found in a Denver self-service wrecking yard a couple of weeks back, is a little too new to offer many bits for my Dodge, but it's still interesting enough for this series. (Read More…)
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The Dodge Tradesman cargo van of the 1970s was quite popular among customizers back in the days of 20% annual inflation and talk-box guitar solos, as we saw with this '72 Tradesman Junkyard Find last year. In the very same San Francisco Bay Area wrecking yard, here's a Slant-6 Tradesman that doesn't quite qualify as a custom van— not with just tinted glass and aftermarket wheels— but is still a nice time capsule. (Read More…)
After yesterday's 1972 Dodge Tradesman van, we might as well stick with Dodge trucks of the Nixon Era for another day. Big simple pickups remain relevant long after their car counterparts get discarded, but sooner or later every 11-miles-per-gallon old work truck develops some expensive problem and becomes worth more as scrap than as a vehicle. This Dodge held on for 41 years before washing up in this San Francisco Bay Area self-service wrecking yard. (Read More…)
I've been finding quite a few vintage D-Series Dodge pickups in Denver-area self-service junkyards lately, which reminds me that I've spent too long ignoring Detroit pickups of the 1960s and 1970s in this series. I see them, but (unless an old truck has a GMC V6 and a bunch of ancient Deadhead stickers) I usually don't photograph them. So, the Dodges: I shared this '74 D-200 Club Cab and this '73 D-100 Adventurer last week, and now we've got a '68 Adventurer that shares quite a few components with my '66 A-100 van. (Read More…)
Dodge's D-Series trucks of the 1970s are still on the roads in large numbers, since there's always someone who needs a simple work truck and doesn't care if that truck is 10 or 40 years old. Still, you can always find another sturdy (if thirsty) Detroit pickup if something expensive breaks, so this Adventurer is now Crusher-bound. (Read More…)
You find some interesting historical documents in junked cars, and sometimes they're glued to an engine's valve cover. (Read More…)
The street-parked old cars I photograph in my Denver neighborhood live at one mile elevation, give or take a few feet. Drive about 100 miles southwest from here, however, and you'll end up in Leadville, which stands at two miles above sea level. Last weekend, I ventured out to Leadville and found this painfully original 1947 Dodge brush fire truck parked downtown. (Read More…)
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YIELD: Makes 8 servings
IngredientsFor Rub
- 6 whole black cardamom pods
- 1 tablespoon coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns
- 2 teaspoons cumin seeds
- 1 teaspoon whole allspice
- 2 whole dried Thai chiles*
- 2 tablespoons kosher salt
- 8 (1-pound) bone-in lamb shanks, tied**
- About 1/4 cup corn oil
- 4 medium onions, coarsely chopped
- 4 whole cloves
- 4 Turkish bay leaves
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 9 cups lamb stock or water
- 3 tablespoons tamarind paste***
- 2 whole sprigs fresh rosemary
- 2 whole sprigs fresh thyme
- 4 tablespoons (packed) light brown sugar
- 1 medium celery root (celeriac), peeled and cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 2 tablespoons fresh ginger, finely chopped
- 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped (about 2 tablespoons)
- 1 tablespoon kosher salt
- *Dried serrano chiles can be substituted.
- **Use kitchen string to tie each shank at the top, middle, and bottom. Alternatively, have your butcher do this.
- ***Tamarind paste is available at Asian and Middle Eastern markets. For best results, look for it in block form.
- Special equipment: kitchen string
Make Rub
In a heavy, dry skillet over moderate heat, toast cardamom, coriander, peppercorns, cumin, allspice, and chiles, stirring often, until fragrant, about 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from pan and let cool. Using spice or coffee grinder, grind spices and chiles to semi-fine powder. In small bowl, stir together spice powder and salt.
Make Lamb
Pat lamb shanks dry. Measure 1 teaspoon spice mixture into separate small bowl and set aside. Rub remaining mixture over shanks and refrigerate at least 6 hours and up to 24 hours.
Make Lamb
Preheat oven to 350°F.
In 8-quart heavy pot over moderately high heat, heat 1 tablespoon oil until hot but not smoking. Working in batches (wipe pan clean and add 1 tablespoon oil between batches), sear shanks, turning occasionally, until brown on all sides, about 5 minutes per batch. Transfer as browned to large roasting pan.
Do not clean fat from pot. Lower heat to moderate and add onions, cloves, and bay leaves. Sauté until onions are soft, about 8 minutes. Stir in reserved teaspoon spice mixture and sauté until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Whisk in wine, lamb stock, tamarind paste, rosemary, thyme, brown sugar, celery root, ginger, garlic, and salt, then raise heat and bring to boil. Pour mixture over shanks, cover tightly with foil, and braise in middle of oven until meat is very tender, about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.
Transfer shanks to large plate and cover loosely with foil to keep warm.
Pour braising liquid through fine-mesh strainer into 6-quart heavy saucepan, pressing on solids with back of spoon. Place saucepan over moderately high heat and bring to boil, then lower heat and simmer, uncovered, until sauce is reduced by half (to about 4 cups), about 25 minutes.
Remove string from shank and serve with 1/2 cup of sauce.
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Nutritional Info
- Calories1,104
- Carbohydrates24 g (8%)
- Fat69 g (106%)
- Protein92 g (183%)
- Saturated Fat30 g (151%)
- Sodium3,521 mg (147%)
- Polyunsaturated Fat6 g
- Fiber3 g (13%)
- Monounsaturated Fat27 g
- Cholesterol299 mg (100%)


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Overnight, his simple life is shattered and he is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. With only an ancient sword and the advice of an old storyteller for guidance, Eragon and the fledgling dragon must navigate the dangerous terrain and dark enemies of an Empire ruled by a king whose evil knows no bounds. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the legendary Dragon Riders?
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yes but not with this narrator
when Saphira parted the fight between eragon and Murtagh
kerry shale or some one more animated
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Gerrard Doyle reads so excellently that I can imagine I am reading the book - as I did before getting the audio.
Stephen Fry does the same superb job of bringing a book - and its characters - to life in the Harry Potter series.
His dramatisation enabled me to follow at all times who was speaking when, and how they were feeling at the time.
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Eragon, seeing how he has to grow up and mature to face the challenges he has to face.
Best series ever!!!
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Everything, he is a brilliant narator. Each caracter has their own voice, which is incredably suited for the specific caracter. The way that he narates bring acros the emotions and really enhances the story.
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November 19, 2008
In the spring of 2007, long before Sarah Palin became a feminist icon, before Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers reared their unreconstructed heads, before Hillary Clinton ever questioned his readiness to be president, Barack Obama's greatest nemesis was a 29-year-old paralegal named Joe Anthony. Anthony had attracted tens of thousands of fans to a MySpace page he'd set up for Obama—a testament to the legions of new voters the candidate was inspiring. But, back in Chicago, all Anthony's site inspired was indigestion.
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November 17, 2008
In case you weren't monitoring our site this weekend, I have an online-only column about Larry Summers' feminist critics and the reason Bill Clinton had a miserable first two years in office. (The two are related.) The jumping-off point is a Politico story from Friday reporting, "Intense backlash from women's groups may have pushed former Clinton Treasury Secretary Larry Summers off the short-list to lead Treasury." I'm not at all sure Summers is really off the short list -- Politico has a crucial "may" in the sentence that stops short of such a definitive claim.
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November 15, 2008
Asking Hillary to head the State Department might create some headaches for Obama, but could help him in at least one extremely important way: by giving him cover to appoint Larry Summers as Treasury Secretary. As Jon Chait notes, some feminists are already pushing back against a Summers appointment--saying impolitic remarks he made while President of Harvard should disqualify him for the job.
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November 05, 2008
The next Larry Summers ... or Larry Summers.
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October 24, 2008
Yes, I actually do know who you are. Basically nothings. Oh, and at least one of you is crackers.If there is one indispensable person who should be presiding over the disentanglement of of our economic shipwreck it is Larry Summers. And also presiding over the reconstruction of our financial institutions with an emphasis on sound investment, transparency, public need, democratic ethos, far-reaching insight and simple downright honesty. Frankly, Summers is among the two or three most brilliant people I know.
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June 10, 2007
I forgot to report that, at Harvard's commencement exercises on Thursday, as Larry Summers rose for his brilliantly merited honorary degree, the students rose as one--not just those from the College but from the graduate schools as well--to cheer him, to cheer him lustily, to cheer him authentically. They knew he was on their side. He wanted tough intellectual standards for them ... and, alas, for the faculty of arts and sciences. That's where his trouble started. Frankly, I have never heard such applause and approval at any graduation.
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It's been a year since Harvard President Larry Summers uttered some unfortunate speculations about why so few women hold elite professorships in the sciences. During Summers's speech, a biologist, overwhelmed by the injustice of it all, nearly collapsed with what George F. Will unkindly described as the vapors. Since that odd January day, Summers has been rebuked with a faculty no-confidence vote, untold talk-show hosts have weighed in, and 936 stories about the controversy have appeared in newspapers and magazines (according to LexisNexis).


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In February, after former Missouri defensive end and likely NFL draft pick Michael Sam announced he was gay, representatives from GLAAD and the You Can Play Project met to discuss a media-centered game plan for a transformative moment.
GLAAD, which promotes a positive and accurate media portrayal of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals, helped You Can Play and its executive director, Wade Davis, craft a message on the importance of LGBT visibility and acceptance in sports.
"It was a time where GLAAD really stepped in there and said, 'Hey Wade, let us handle the media aspect of it, and we'll really work as a team to talk about messaging,'" Davis said.
Today, five weeks after Sam's announcement, the two organizations will christen an official partnership that will marry one of the nation's leading gay advocacy groups with an organization in You Can Play designed to promote equality for athletes regardless of sexual orientation.
With Sam as the latest example, it's vital now more than ever that organizations such as GLAAD and You Can Play unite to help lead the discussion on what has proved to be a controversial topic, Davis said.
"One of the biggest things is that there are so many LGBT athletes who are now stepping out and announcing their sexuality," he said. "Let's make sure the reporting on this is done in a way where the story about sports can be told as it intersects with LGBT athletes."
Said Davis: "I've always been a firm believer that sports is a space that is accepting of people who are different, whether it's someone of a different race, a different class, a different religion. So one of our biggest goals is to really shine a light on what effect sports can have on creating better understanding of LGBT individuals."
For GLAAD, the collaboration with You Can Play marks the first full-scale foray into the world of sports -- an arena wrongly labeled as inhospitable to the gay community, GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis said.
"One of the things that we'd love to do is debunk some of these myths around the locker room issues and the myth perception that the professional sporting world is homophobic, when in fact it's a very inclusive world, and it has been," Ellis said.
"I think that played out with Michael Sam. But that trickles down, that myth perception trickles down to the local level, to the soccer fields and the baseball fields in our local communities. We want to make sure that we're changing that conversation."
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Police have released the results of the latest phase of the ongoing Operation Tiger.
The campaign, which was launched last October, has seen further arrests in the past few weeks.
Officers have detained 35 people on suspicion of involvement in crimes such as drug dealing, burglary, possession of an offensive weapon and driving while disqualified.
Officers also seized more than £3,000 in cash, class A and B drugs and what they believe to be stolen property linked to five burglaries.
The number of arrests since October is now almost 600, the force said.
Assistant Chief Constable Phil Kay said: "Yet again we've had a great result from pulling together all resources and targeting those areas affected by crime and antisocial behaviour and those causing the most harm to our communities.
"We are committed to driving down crime and we will continue to run Operation Tiger as we keep seeing great result after great result.
"People who are known to the police know of this Operation and we know that it is still having an impact."
As part of the campaign, officers used automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) cameras to trace suspects on the road.
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As a result of that aspect of the operation, 15 vehicles were seized and five people arrested for suspected drug offences
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio on Monday called on Attorney General Mike DeWine to halt local and state law enforcement's use of facial recognition software, arguing proper privacy protections and protocols have not been put into place.
Law enforcement officers have been able since June 6 to automatically match photos against a database of driver's license, state-issued ID cards, arrest mugshots and other state photo records to find names and contact information. Officers have been able to access those photos for years, but previously had to search by name, address or other identifiable information.
Law enforcement officers using the Ohio Law Enforcement Gateway have utilized facial recognition 2,677 times between June 6 and Aug. 21. DeWine said Monday he should have announced the new facial recognition function when the system first went live in early June. He said his office did not publicly announce the new tool because more than half the states use it and it is an extension of lawful procedure.
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The attorney general's office announced the news conference Sunday, after the Cincinnati Enquirer first reported the new technology and discussions among DeWine and staff members about whether to make it public knowledge.
ACLU Associate Director Gary Daniels said press conferences and advisory boards should have been convened months ago.
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DeWine said the database and facial recognition feature can only be accessed for "lawful purposes" and no new protocols or privacy protections were added when the system went live. He has since convened a panel of judges, the public defender, chiefs of police, sheriffs and other law enforcement officers to review the use of the new technology and suggest policy changes. DeWine has set an Oct. 25 deadline for the panel's recommendations.
Daniels said that without specific limits on the technology, use will spread to Ohioans who are not criminal suspects.
"This is not speculation," Daniels said. "It is a foregone conclusion when government thinks of law enforcement first and its citizens' right to privacy last."
Cincinnati attorney David Pepper, who has announced his candidacy to run against DeWine in 2014 on the Democratic ticket, was quick to criticize DeWine for not publicly announcing the new technology and examining privacy issues.
"I see the law enforcement benefits, but I also see major risks and concerns and the bottom line is you should be transparent about what this is and what you're going to do with it," Pepper said.
DeWine said no new photos are added or new databases created. Facial recognition software measures and compares the distance between points and human facial features, such as between the eyes. The technology could be used to identify a bank robber caught on security camera or a lost elderly person with Alzheimer's disease.
"I don't hesitate for a minute to tell you I'm proud of this technology, I'm proud of what we're doing and we're going to save lives," DeWine said.
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Ed. note: This is the latest installment of Inside Straight, Above the Law's new column for in-house counsel, written by Mark Herrmann.
This just in: Corporations have matched the Cravath bonus scale!
Correction: The preceding sentence is not just false, but unintelligible.
Several folks have told me that a good way to juice readership of this column would be to publish a salacious post about bonuses paid to in-house corporate counsel, so readers could complain about how one corporation is stingy and another generous, or how corporations pay bigger or smaller bonuses than law firms. But I can't write that post.
Why not?
First, I'm ignorant. I really don't know very much about this topic, and I'm really not that interested. Even if I knew a lot, I'm old-fashioned on this topic, so I wouldn't be inclined to blab about people's compensation on a blog.
It gets worse. Even if I were knowledgeable and inclined, I still couldn't write a decent post about in-house compensation, because the data aren't available. Corporations don't send out bonus tables based on years of employment, and many bonus decisions are confidential. So it's essentially impossible to say anything about bonuses paid to in-house counsel that would be meaningful across (or even within) corporations. The most salacious statistics that I've managed to find on-line (and I didn't really look that hard) about bonuses for in-house corporate lawyers come from Vivia Chen over at The Careerist:
According to Corporate Counsel, 'the 2010 average base salary across all levels of in-house lawyers was $174,000.' But before you big firm lawyers get all snotty, it's worth noting that in-house lawyers got an average cash bonus of $57,000. And the very top — meaning chief legal officers/general counsel — 'took home average bonuses of $539,000,' reports CC. (The average total cash compensation for CLO and GC exceeded $1 million. See Corporate Counsel's 2010 GC Compensation Survey.)
I suppose that's salacious, because it includes salary information, but don't get yourself too worked up. When you talk about base salary of all levels of in-house lawyers, you've cut an awfully broad swath, from folks right out of law school to the general counsel of the country's largest corporation. This would be like talking about the average pay of a lawyer at a law firm, without differentiating between first-year associates and the global managing partner. (Or Warren Buffett walking into a bar, so the average net worth of folks in the bar is $3 billion each.) Even if that number is accurate, it doesn't mean very much.
There's another reason why information about corporate bonuses doesn't compare easily to bonuses at law firms. In-house lawyers typically receive a base salary, which is often below what a comparable lawyer could earn at a law firm. The lawyer will also be assigned to a bonus tier, and the target bonus may be a big chunk of the lawyer's cash compensation. To cover for my own ignorance here, I'm relying on a recent post at Law Shucks, which explains that "cash bonuses tend to start at 10% [of base salary] and run higher with seniority. Bonuses in the range of 25-35% of base aren't uncommon, and depending on how the employer does they can run much higher."
But those bonuses are not set in stone. Individual lawyers can receive more, or less, than the target bonus depending on other factors. Those factors vary by corporation, but they may include corporate performance in the year, law department performance in the year, and individual performance.
Finally, some in-house lawyers have a third piece of compensation. Again, from Law Shucks: "Senior lawyers get some sort of equity compensation (stock options, SARs, phantom stock, whatever), and those grants are almost always more than 10% of base. So after three, four or five years, depending on vesting, bonus season is when those grants start rolling in (and they're usually taxable at a lower, long-term rate)."
That equity compensation may be used to encourage in-house lawyers not to change jobs. Equity compensation may vest only over time (in, say, the lawyer's second through fifth years of employment), and the tax advantages of holding appreciated stock may also improve over time. The combined effect is that compensation ties an in-house lawyer to his or her employer.
I'm afraid my post was ultimately more boring than salacious. But maybe it performs a public service by educating folks interested in moving in-house about the nature of in-house compensation. That subject is often a brave new world to people who have worked only at law firms.
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Authorities have confirmed that Donald Wichelns is the man whose body was found behind his former caretaker's home in Little Falls this month.
Forensic pathologist Michael Sikirica on Friday used dental records from 2001 to positively identify the human remains as Wichelns, who would have been 71 if he was still alive, police said.
Wichelns' decomposed remains were found May 1 wrapped in a crate behind 59 Flint Ave., but the man's cause of death is still a mystery and awaiting future toxicology results. He was last seen alive in 2004.
"We were at least able to positively ID him, and now we're still working the case, we're still following leads, we're still trying to determine what happened to him," said state police Senior Investigator Timothy Blaise in Herkimer.
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Idaho has long been known for its local beef, lamb, pork, trout and elk…but now you can buy locally grown and processed turkey for your holiday feast.
Several Idaho Preferred® members are making turkey available for area Locavores. A+ Turkey Ranch produces organic free range turkeys on the southern slopes of the Picabo hills near Richfield, Idaho. The ranch has been in the family for more than thirty years and consists of 120 acres of certified organic land dedicated to turkey production. You can find A+ Turkeys in Boise at the Co-Op or by contacting Morning Owl Farms. In the Wood River Valley check Atkinson's Market and Idaho's Bounty.
Robbins Family Farms also raises turkeys in Melba. They have partnered with Tri-City Meats to help them get their turkeys fresh to you and your favorite restaurants.
Vogel Farms also raises turkeys for the holidays. Vogel Farms Country Market allows you to choose fresh from the farm, local all natural grass and grain fed beef, pork, chicken and turkey. With over 70 years of experience, Vogel Farms produces some of the tastiest meat in the valley. Vogel Farms turkey production is limited and pre-orders are almost always necessary.
M&M Heath Farms in Buhl is a family-run farm which has been cultivating Idaho soil for over 25 years. Headed up by Mike Heath, the farm was one of the first to receive Idaho organic certification. Mike now farms close to 500 acres in the Buhl-Castleford area growing several types of potatoes, winter squash and dry beans as well as organic beef, pork, chickens and other poultry. M&M Heath Farm turkeys are available while they last through Idaho's Bounty.
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The guys of One Direction sure do love to interact with each others crotches.
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Peaches for Father Francis by Joanne Harris (2012)
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I picked this up to read strictly based on my love of the book Chocolat. There have been others by the author that I have picked up for the same reason, and liked with mixed results. This story features many of the same characters from Chocolat, with many of the same delicious flavors and overtones, but little of the magic that grabbed me in the original (published in 1999). It was a good enough story, but hasn't touched the memory that is still strong in my heart after 16 years, several re-reads and a wonderful screen adaptation.
True, Harris has managed to create (and maintain) some remarkable characters, and touch on some very key elements of human nature, both good and bad. But I wanted magic, too.
Yes, I struggled with the large cast of characters. Yes, I would probably have got more from the story if I had re-read Chocolat immediately beforehand.
Nonetheless, Harris' storytelling was captivating and her handling of delicate, traumatic topics was pitch-perfect. Father Francis (Monsieur le Curé) emerged as a protagonist whom I was surprised but delighted to love. And for vivid imagery which enthralled all five - no, six - senses, I can't give this anything other than 5 stars.
It isn't often you receive a letter from the dead. When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the village in south-west France where, eight years ago, she opened up a chocolate shop. But Vianne is completely unprepared for what she finds there. Women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea, and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the square little tower of the church of Saint-Jerome like a piece on a chessboard - slender, bone-white and crowned with a silver crescent moon - a minaret. Nor is it only the incomers from North Africa that have brought big changes to the community. Father Reynaud, Vianne's erstwhile adversary, is now disgraced and under threat. Could it be that Vianne is the only one who can save him?
Vianne Rocher, the woman who set up shop in Lansquenet in Chocolat returns to the town at the request of one of her friends - now long dead - via a letter left for her to be handed over on her grandson's 21st birthday.
She brings her two daughters Anouk and Rosette (and their not-quite-invisible friends) with her, but her partner Roux remains in Paris on their house boat. His anger at how the boat people were treated the last time has not disappaited enough for him to return. Vianne returns to find things have changed significantly - Father Renaud is no longer saying mass in the church, and is in some kind of disgrace and the old tanneries outside of town is now packed with Muslims from North Africa. The influx of these second and third generation immigrants - barely keeping inside the law with respect to their mosque and schools - is causing tension within the community and Vianne has returned into this tension between the two communities.
Vianne uses her charm and special skills in an attempt to bring some form of calm to the community. She comes across some of her old adversaries, many of whom are in various levels of success or disappointment. The young Muslim women, who previously had enjoyed a level of western freedom of dress, are taking to the veil and removing themselves from community, and it is seen to be the effect of another recent arrival in town, who remains under the veil since the day she arrived.
Finally things come to a head, where people have gone missing, the river-rats (including Roux) have arrived back in town, and it seems there have a lot of accusations, misunderstandings, and secrets are exposed on both sides that mean the story reaches a crises point, and it is only a meeting of both groups around the river (that metaphorically and physically runs between the two sets of people) that brings things to a head and allows it to be resolved.
There is the usual magical realism in this, where Vianne uses her skills (Chocolate, Tarot cards, reading colours/auras) to try and work out what's happening. Vianne's lack of self confidence kicks in when she sees the son of a friend, who was born after Chocolat, and whose father just might be Roux. The story is told from a French atheist (pagan?) woman and the local Catholic priest, rather than that of any Muslim, so this can only be told from their point of view. Each woman is portrayed as a human first, rather than a stereotype, and the story goes some way as to show how things are handled according to the strict rules of each person's community…
This is/was a well timed book, having been published in 2012, when there were still questions over whether the Niqab was to be banned in France. I have seen some reviewers complain that perhaps Muslim women should be allowed to tell their own stories their own way, but until Western readers and publishers are open enough to publish (buy, read, promote) books by Muslim women, then we will have to make use of those who can handle the story adequately.
Chocolat, book three.
I've been a fan of Joanne Harris for many years now (though not of her newer Young Adult fantasy series), and another book in the Chocolat series is a treat. I did wish I'd read Lollipop Shoes (The Girl with No Shadow) before reading this book though, as there were definitely some gaps caused by jumping straight from Chocolat. Unfortunately I didn't have time to read both before the discussion.
The subject matter is highly topical, particularly in France, where it has been declared illegal to wear a face veil, or niqab. The sleepy village of Lansquenet, where Vianne had opened her chocolaterie eight years before, is now home to a growing population of North African Muslims. A community has sprung up on the far side of the river and animosity has developed on both sides. A mysterious letter draws Vianne back, along with her, now teenage daughter, Anouk and her younger sister, Rosette. Meanwhile, Roux awaits for their return on a houseboat in Paris.
The animosity between Vianne and Father Reynaud is still there, but he has changed and no longer has the power over the village that he once had. Several other familiar faces take their place in the narrative, like old friends returning.
Eight year old Rosette is a lively addition to the Roche family, she is such a character, and she plays an important role in events. The descriptions of the village are just beautiful and the whole flavour of France is wonderfully evoked.
There are misunderstandings to be tackled and a question lurking in the past that must be addressed, and Vianne stays longer than she had originally planned.
I was surprised when my book group slated this book, as I'd enjoyed it, maybe not quite as much as Chocolat, but it was a solid 4 stars. They criticised it for being too unbelievable, but I think you expect to need a little imagination for Joanne Harris books.
Ms Harris handles the racial tension with a deft hand, raising a subject that is rarely written about in contemporary novels. This seems a natural progression for an author who wrote about Catholicism in Holy Fools, and she handles it with discretion.
I sincerely hope this is not the last we have seen of Vianne and the little village of Lansquenet. The author will be at the Dubai Literary Festival in March, hopefully she will have good news :)
Also read:
Chocolat (5 stars)
Blackberry Wine (5 stars)
Sleep, Pale Sister (4 stars)
Gentlemen and Players (5 stars)
Runemarks (2 stars)
Coastliners (5 stars)
Holy Fools (4 stars)
Five Quarters of the Orange (5 stars)
Peaches for Father Frances is also a carefully constructed, thought-provoking novel exploring faith, the personal meaning and ways of worship, and the evolution of fellowship and religion in a community struggling to endure tensions between Muslims and Christians.
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The bestselling author of Chocolat and The Girl with No Shadow returns to Lansquenet in this enchanting new novel, Peaches for Father Francis (in the UK called Peaches for Monsieur le Curé)
When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she has no choice but to follow the wind that blows her back to Lansquenet, the beautiful French village in which eight years ago she opened a chocolate shop and first learned the meaning of home.
But returning to one's past can be a dangerous pursuit. Vianne, with her daughters, Anouk and Rosette, finds Lansquenet changed in unexpected ways: women veiled in black, the scent of spices and peppermint tea—and there, on the bank of the river Tannes, facing the church, a minaret. Most surprising of all, her old nemesis, Father Francis Reynaud, desperately needs her help.
Can Vianne work her magic once again?
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Vianne Rochet returns to the French village of Lansquenet with her daughters, Anouk and Rosette, before allying herself with a desperate Father Frances Reynaud to reverse disturbing local changes.
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