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Winona Republican-Herald, The (Newspaper) - May 12, 1954, Winona, Minnesota Fair Tonight And Thursday; Milder Thursday River Stage sloon Today 13.20, Tuesday 13.95 NINETY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 146 SIX CENTS PER COPY WINONA, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 12, 1954 TWENTY-TWO PAGES Low Sections Of like the street inter- jection above, were flooded Tuesday by a five- inch downpour of rain. The rain was the heaviest since the eight-inch deluge that just one year ago to the day accompanied the tornado that killed 114 persons, injured 400, and resulted in property damage of more than 60 million dollars. (AP Wirephoto) France May Ask Aid in Indochina By LARRY ALLEN HANOI, Indochina put Indochina's vital Red River delta on top of the Indochina danger list today. A top French com- ____ _____ ____ _rr......__ mander warned that his forces may need foreign help if the Com- j .wprlt ;ntn nffiro tnrlav ViBtmmh ..nleash all fhpir nnwer against the defense Islate was swept mto olllce toclavi 'Investors Group' Wins Control enounces Giving McCarthy Sec ret Data Reds Demand Independence For Indochina Plan Ready for Consideration of Geneva Conference NEW YORK An opposition munist-led Vietminh perimeter. all their power against the defense TODAY Gen. Pierre Louis Bodet, chief aide to the French commander in chief in Indochina, Gen. Henri Na- varre, told a news conference last night: "The situation in the delta is serious but far from hopeless or desperate. We may need help from outside if the Vietminh attack the delta with all their means and with their forces from Dien Bien Phu." Bodet specified no country in hi mention of additional foreign aid The United States reportedly re- Ike Won't Bow to Reds Ur McLarthy iy JOSEPH and STEWART ALSOP helP to Dien WASHINGTON m these next fused a French days and weeks and months, there is going to be plenty of bad for not consider joint military inter vention until the outcome of the Geneva conference was known. Bodet's description of the situa nem stance If only for the sake of con- tion in the delta as "serious" wa a look Jt the hopeful side of ft. tort such estimate from an, member of the French high com mand in Indochina. Step Up Attacki Seeking to exploit their victor} last week at Dien Bien Phu, the rebels throughout the rich rice lands stepped up their attacks on thinly manned French and Viet namese defense posts. The French retaliated with mas _, sive bombing assaults yesterday what matters is not where you j on key centers Vietminh activ regjon. They reported current events is now in order. For there is a hopeful side, al- though few people see it, both to the grim crisis in Indochina and to the domestic political crisis that is currently spilling over in the McCarthy-Army hearings. The leaders o! the administra- tion and almost all other Republi- cans are plunged in darkest gloom by these two developments. Yet are, but where you are going. ity important and healthy changes Dornbers wiped out three vil- direction are already resulting from both the two crises that are now causing such unrelieved pes- lages in the southeast part of the delta. From these, the French claimed, the rebels had staged big raids on the highway and railway linking Hanoi and Haiphong. Though the Vietminh have an wese i estimated regular, regional when one of them returned from ohmit th. simism. If it is permissible to speak per- sonally, the gloomiest moment for an extensive journey of on-the- spot observation in the Far East. and guerrilla forces throughout the delta, their activity so far was still confined to the usual scattered Stand UP or Surrender At that time, all the signs at attacks on French communications home pointed to the conclusion Delated posts. that the administration must stand up to Sen. McCarthy or surrender to him utterly. And 'at that time, all the signs abroad pointed to i west of Hanoi. As yet there was no sign of any "human sea" attacks such as over- whelmed Dien Bien Phu, 175 miles the conclusion Bodet said he did not think the that Indochina____________ ___ __ __......_ would be lost to the free world Vietminh could hurl any of their without more active American in- j forces from Dien Bien Phu against tervention. the delta sooner than within six But at that time, the Eisenhower. {0 ejgnt weeks. Rebel losses in the administration was still refusing; sjege of the bastion have been es- to face up to these great and pain-, timated as high as killed ful choices. Too many people for- j ancj W0unded. get all new American admuiistra- j Despite the fall of Dien Bien tiojis must always learn by doing., pnu iast week, "France is making The new team had only finished I fresh efforts and is continuing the the first phase of this learning pro- j Bodet declared. He revealed cess. I that U. S. Air Force Globemasters Broadly speaking, the admmis- i are airlifting more French rein- tration had got thoroughly on top: forcements "to reconstitute the of the ordinary business of gov- j battle corps" hard hit by losses ernment. When it confronted the I at the fallen fortress. Congress, it was ready with a high. ly impressive, admirably well-knit moderate conservative program. In itself, this was groat progress from the disorders of the take-over (Continued on Paae 2, Column 3) ALSOPS WEATHER FEDERAL FORECAST Winona and Vicinity Fair to- night and Thursday. Rather cool again tonight, milder Thursday af- ternoon. Low tonight 46, high Thursday 68. LOCAL WEATHER Official observations for the 24 hours ending at 12 m. today: Maximum, 65; minimum, 43; noon, 63; precipitation, none: sun sets tonight at sun rises to- morrow at AIRPORT WEATHER (No. Central Observation) Max. temp. 63 at and p.m. Tuesday. Lmv 47 at a.m. today. Noon temp. 58. Scattered layer of clouds at feet, visi- bility more than 15 miles with wind calm. Barometer-30.13 fall- ing, humidity 50 per cent and dew- toint 39. To Move Wounded The French also went ahead with preparations to airlift the approx- imately wounded from Dien Bien Phu. The French high com- mand said its representatives were expected to fly to Dien Bien Phu by helicopter tomorrow to arrange with the Vietminh for the evacua- tion. Vietminh Gen, Vo Nguyen Giap announced by radio last night his approval of the casualty removal, agreed to by French and Commu- nist representatives at the Geneva conference. Giap told the French command to send its men to Dien Bien Phu by red-cross-marked hel- icopters, and to advise their time of arrival a day in advance. Bodet said the main airstrip at Dien Bien Phu was crisscrossed by trenches, dug by the Vietminh and the defenders. But he said it could be repaired quickly so that Dakota transports could land to pick up the casualties. Pending the start of the evacua- tion, French transports continued to drop hundreds of pounds of food and medical supplies on the con- quered fortress site for the wound- ed. Bodet said none of the mercy places had been fired on. as results were announced in a proxy fight for control of the Min- neapolis St. Louis Railway. The vote for opposition "invest- ors group" headed by Chicago at- torney Ben W. Heineman was 859 shares against shares for the incumbent slate headed by Lucian Sprague, board chairman. Heineman headed a slate of sev- en directors, all of whom finished ahead of tie incumbents. There were 11 seats on the board to be filled. Running immediately behind the seven opposition candidates were four management nominees led by John Devins, president of the rail- road. It was reported that Devins and three other management can- didates would serve on the new board. The results had been delayed since the annual meeting Tuesday for tabulation of ballots. Heineman said that upon taking control the new management would, engage outside railroad analysts to study the road's affairs, beginning in June. He said he would recommend that the office of the road's sec- retary, now in New York City, be returned to Minneapolis. Heineman said the cost of the secretary's office in New York was a year. Heineman said late Tuesday that his group had cast proxies for its seven-man slate a clear majority of the total out- standing common shares. Mrs. Mary Anesh, 21, weeps as she watches over her four- year-old son, Francis, as the tot was removed from a receiv- ing hospital in Los Angeles after being seriously bitten by a boxer dog. The mother also was badly bitten as she went to her son's rescue. Witnesses said the dog was let out of the door of a rooming house and attacked the child, playing in the yard. The boy was bitten on the face, head, legs and part of the body. Officials, said the owner has ordered the dog de- stroyed after it is determined whether it is rabid. (AP Wire- photo) GENEVA Viet Nam gov- ernment readied its own Indochina jeace plan for inspection by the Seneva conference today. The scheme, reportedly calling for complete independence, further complicates France's problems. Informed quarters said Viet Nam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh would premise his plan to end the Indochina fighting on independence demands for the three Associated Nam, Laos and Cambodia. Dinh was the only speaker listed for today's ses- sion. The French contend they al- ready have given the Associated States their independence. But many Vietnamese claim it is largely on paper and that they do not enjoy true, autonomy, eco- nomic or otherwise. French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault is going through one of the most trying phases of his long career. He is being pressed on one side by the Communists to accept terms which the Western Powers regard as surrender, and on the other by the United States to stand firm. In Paris Premier Joseph Lan- iel's government faced a new vote of confidence tomorrow on the In- dochina issue. Observers consid- ered it the most serious threat so far to the government. The shaky French Cabinet conferred far into the night. It reportedly moved to ask U. S. Secretary of State Dulles to clarify his statement yesterday that loss of Indochina would not necessarily bring the loss of all Southeast Asia to the Reds. Some Cabinet members, report- edly fearful the United States has written off Indochina, were said to be warming to the Vietminh peace plan for Indochina. They were expected to relay this change of heart to Bidault. The French have proposed (1) a halt in the- fighting, (2) with- drawal of all opposing forces in Viet Nam to zones set by the con- ference, (3) liberation, of war pris- oners and civilian internees, (4) evacuation of Vietminh forces from Cambodia and Laos and (5) inter- national supervision of the armis- tice. The Communist plan calls for (1) withdrawal of all foreign troops from Indochina, (2) countrywide elections to be held without for- eign supervision and (3) recogni- tion of the Communist "govern- ments" of Viet Nam (the Viet- Laos and Cambodia. Caught between the outspoken U. S. opposition to the Red pro- posals and the growing desire for peace -at home, the French dele- gation tried to appear conciliatory toward the Communists without ac- cepting any of their major de- mands. A French spokesman called a special news conference yesterday to emphasize that France had not rejected the Red terms but was willing to have them discussed along with France's own armistice proposals. A Red Chinese spokesman, ap- parently sensing a softening of the French attitude, immediately in- terjected that France had been compelled to "alter" her previous rejection of the Vietminh pro- posals. The spokesman, Huang Hua, of- fered no promise of compromise. The Indochinese talks recessed yesterday while the 19-nation Ko- rean conference held another ses- sion. Again there was no visible progress toward establishing a per- manent peace on the divided Ko- rean peninsula. St. Paul Firm Sued For Million Dollars ST. PAUL (fl Hot Spot De- tector, Inc. of Des Moines, Iowa filed suit in Federal Court here Tuesday for a million dollars dam- ages against the PTC Cable Co., St. Paul, and its president, Her- bert F. Dalglish. The Iowa firm charged the de- fendants conducted a widespread campaign of threats against a number of its potential customers for systems of measuring temper- atures in stored grain and other bulk' products. Half of the amount asked was described as a puni- tive assessment. Terrence De Mots, 15, left, looks at the 2x4 board he used as a club to fatally beat to death four-year-old Marion Jo Zobrovitz Tuesday in De- troit. Police said he confessed the kill- ing. (UP Telephoto) High School Student Admits Killing Child DETROIT unemotional high school student told police to day he fatally beat and slashed a 4-year-old girl, but didn't kno' why he did it. Marion Jo Zobrovitz was found yesterday by three playmates in garage behind her home, her body torn and bleeding. She died in a hospital after doctors fought 4Vi hours to save her. Police Lt. Edward Jocques said 15-year-old Terrence De Moss told him he had struck the girl with a 2-by-4 beam, then slashed her. Jocques said the boy gave no reason for the attack. De Moss is Michigan law a juvenile under and cannot be i he had been at school, but sh threatened to call his teacjjer. It was then, Mrs. De Moss tolc police, that he broke down anc said: "I don't know why I did it. Meanwhile, police, acting on a charged with a major crime in j tip from a policeman neighbor Criminal Court unless Probate Court waives its jurisdiction. Mrs. Doris De Moss, his mother, told police that she knew her son was the murderer, but police ar- rived before she could call them. In a formal statement to police, she said that Terry was fascinated by a newspaper account of the crime. She said that he left for school yesterday morning and came borne about p.m. She told police that he went to the bathroom and then to the kitchen, where he tried to clean brown spots off his grey flannel trousers. He told her that a girl had spilled something at school and he had gotten splashed. Later, she told police, he went to a show with her and his brother. When they got back home, she said, Terry grabbed their news- paper and began to read the story of the attack. Mrs. De Moss said he told her had already headed for the home Police said Terry had been treat ed three times at the Wayne Coun ty Child Study Clinic and had been arrested once for breaking and entering. His mother told police he had suffered pneumonia when he was 5 and the result was abnorma height and weight. She said the pneumonia had led to what she described as "brain fever." Marion Jo was one of four chil- dren of Morris and Julie Zobro- vitz. Zobrovitz, a truck driver, hur- ried home at the telephone mes- sage from his wife: "Come on horned-Marion's been hurt." He called his daughter "Cookie." "We moved to this address in he said, "because the house we were living in had rats. With Cookie and the new baby coming on, we were afraid to stay God, I wish we had." The Brutal Beating and slashing of four-year-old Marion Jo Zobrovitz, above, set off Detroit's most intense manhunt Tuesday, Six and one-half hours after she was found dying in her family's garage Marion Jo's killer, Terrence De Moss, 15, was in police headquarters signing a confession to the crime. (UP Telephoto) Anderson to Ask Laws to Halt Road Slaughter MINNEAPOLIS UP) A crack- down on traffic law violators will be a prime order of business for the 1955 Legislature Gov. Anderson said today after citing that public behavior on the highways has "gone beyond the point of reason." "No longer can the speed de- mons, the show-offs, the Immature, the incapable, the befuddled, in- toxicated or dangerously slow driven be extended the privilege of using our heavily-traveled high- the governor said. Speaking at his 'annual safety conference here, Anderson pointed out that never before in the state's 96-year history has "such a hor- rible record of slaughter" been written as in the early months of 1954. The highway death total stood at 213 today, 53 ahead of this date a year ago. And the governor em- phasized that the heavy, summer- time vacation travel was still to come. Despite education, warnings and stricter law enforcement, the gov- ernor said motorists are continuing to "take their own lives by their Army Officer's Action Termed 'Reprehensible' President Warns Free World Not to Write Off Indochina WASHINGTON El- senhower today called it reprehen- sible for any Army intelligence of- ficer to have supplied confidential FBI data to Sen. McCarthy without authorization. The President also told his news conference, in a comment on the international scene, that the free- world ought not to write off Indo- china. At the outset of the conference, a reporter told the President that Sen. McCarthy had testified last week that an Army intelligence officer supplied him with classified FBI material. The newsman went on to say that Atty. Gen. Brownell later said the material should not be made public. Eisenhower then was asked to comment on the "propriety" of the Army intelligence officer's de- livery of iuch data to McCarthy without authorization. Secret- Material The President said that in case where an individual officer gives away classified information, it is reprehensible. Eisenhower said that was espe- cially so in the case of security material which muit ba kept .se- cret. The President said that when enlisted men enter the armed for- ces they take an oath to obey the regulations and their superiors. Eisenhower then asked whether we are to assume that an enlisted man can adopt one kind at loyalty and an officer another kind. Answwing his own question, the President called that perfectly ri- diculous. Army investigating Later in the news conference, the President, said in reply to another question he did not know whether any investigation was be- ing made to try to locate the in- telligence officer who McCarthy said provided him with the FBI data. The Army has said it is conducting such an investigation. The FBI data dealt with an in- vestigation for passible subversives at Ft. Monmouth, N. J. McCarthy has contended the Army was lax In prosecuting its own probe there and produced a "letter" in the Army-McCarthy hearings, based on an FBI inquiry at Ft Mon- mouth. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent word he did not write such a letter as McCarthy first described, but that the document driving behavior." If these drivers [McCarthy produced contained cannot operate motor vehicles to some Oj the identical language in raan y-iiwri onrl teep their own and others' lives safe, Anderson added, "The harsh-- a confidential FBI memorandum of the same date, sent to the Ar- est and severest of treatment must my-g intelligence chief. id f Vio ma a Invf fr.f-i__, i _ the measure of last resort. "We must not permit these peo- >Ie to declared the gover- nor. "We shall keep them from securing driving permits. If they lave them, we shall take them away without yielding to sympathy or pressure. "No longer can the state give an attentive ear to hardships on amilies and individuals deprived of the use of a vehicle used to iolate the traffic Anderson paid tribute to many safety campaigns undertaken by newspapers and radio stations and aid that more were needed. But he added that such drives were more in the nature of long-range educational activities. He said further coordination of aw enforcement and educational ctivities could be expected with illing of the new post of state highway safetj director within next few days. 4-State Alarm Out :or La Crosse Boy LA CROSSE, Wis. UP) A four- tate alarm has been ordered by La Crosse authorities looking for a 5-year-old La Crosse high school tudent who was reported missing ince Sunday. Sheriff Robert Scullin said the _pouth is being sought for ques- ioning ia connection with the theft of a 1938 Buick automobile nd in coins from a gasoline tation in Shelby Township. The uto disappeared the same night. Authorities said the youth had record of running away from lome in the past. McCarthy refused to name officer he said gave him the docu- ment. Eisenhower, in his discussion to- day, did not mention McCarthy by name. The Cfhtr Matters President also dhcussed these other matters: Bipartisan Foreign Policy Eisenhower recalled that in the past he has ridiculed the idea that he would go along with charges by .some Republicans that the Democratic party is the party of traitors. He made that remark in re- sponse to a request for comment on former President Truman's statement that achievement of a true bipartisan foreign policy is impossible unless the President (Continued on Page 11, Column S) IKE ike to Sign Seaway Bill On Thursday WASHINGTON tfi President Eisenhower told his news confer- ence today he will sign the St Lawrence Seaway bill Thursday (7 a.m. The bill States participation with Canada in build- ing a waterway to carry ocean ship- ping from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes. He said a years-long strug- gle to win congressional approval of such legislation finally has end- ed in success and that he would put his name to the bill at the White House Thursday morninz. ;
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A review of Coming of Age
I'm the loud shouty type and the critical type so writing a review appeals to me especially of something I hate.
Any show that can make me hate someone as great as Stephen K. Amos and made me hate a channel that gave us the excellent Being Human should not exist. Admittedly BBC 3 is pretty bad and Being Human is its only watchable made in house show. Now what makes coming of age so bad well it's clearly aiming its sights at the Skins and Inbetweeners audience but not being anywhere near as good as either. Its main thing is expecting you to laugh at swearing, terrible rap from a character who should be put down and just being plain vulgar. It also copies Two Pints of Lager (another terrible show) just replaced all the characters with annoying teenagers with no acting ability or likability factor though with the script they had to work with you can almost feel sorry for them almost. I honestly mean this ladies and gentlemen this is the worst TV show ever transmitted in broadcast history well since 2000. Everyone even vaguely involved in this including the wombs of the mothers who sheltered these idiots should be flogged. You should avoid this at all costs unless you laugh at this "Fancy a game of Pull the Purple Party Popper" or "If you give me an A, I'll give you a B...lowjob!" oh hillarious.

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Musashi was a Sphinxian treecat who was bonded to Marcy Alcerro. He along with Seeker of Dreams, aka Dianchect, and Leaf Stalker helped prevent the assassination of Crown Princess Adrienne.[1] (HHA2.2: WPD)
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In July 2007, local government minister John Healey announced that district councils would be scrapped across five county councils, including Cornwall. Merging the six district councils with the county council is the equivalent of a £1.2bn merger and will create a raft of legal issues for the region.
In the report below, Foot Anstey's head of planning Gareth Pinwell, previously chief executive of Cornish district council Restormel Borough Council, discusses what challenges such a merger will pose.
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"Children in search of a unique answer to the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' will appreciate this book." School Library Journal
When I Grow Up: A Young Person's Guide to Interesting and Unusual Occupationsby Jessica Loy
What do you want to be when you grow up? Consider all your options. How about being a game designer and creating computer action games similar to the ones you play? Or, if you like chocolate, you could become a chocolatier and make delectable treats. There's even the possibility of studying fascinating bugs for a livingas an entomologist. The choices are
What do you want to be when you grow up? Consider all your options. How about being a game designer and creating computer action games similar to the ones you play? Or, if you like chocolate, you could become a chocolatier and make delectable treats. There's even the possibility of studying fascinating bugs for a livingas an entomologist. The choices are endless. So come read about fourteen professionals and the unusual and satisfying work that they do. Maybe some of these career paths will inspire ideas of your own.
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"Children in search of a unique answer to the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' will appreciate this book." School Library Journal
Gr 4-6
Children in search of a unique answer to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" will appreciate this book. Unusual occupations such as lobsterman, chocolatier, kite designer, and pet photographer are described. Each spread introduces someone in the trade (most are Caucasian), includes "on the job" photographs, and provides a brief, introductory description of what it is like to be an alpaca farmer, robotics engineer, etc. This title may spark some readers' interest with its quirky careers, but it includes very little detail. The contact information for special-interest summer camps might be its most helpful part. The "Virtual Apprentice" series (Ferguson) is a better resource for more in-depth information.-Christine Lindsey, Lake Superior Primary School, Ashland, WI
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When I Grow Up
A Young Person's Guide to Interesting & Unusual Occupations
By Jessica Loy
Henry Holt and CompanyCopyright © 2008 Jessica Loy
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Jerry Dievendorf
The study of bugs and insects is called entomology. This is Jerry Dievendorf, and he's been crazy about entomology his whole life. In fact, his license plate reveals his favorite insect. "Insects are vital to the health and well-being of our planet," says Jerry.
Insects make up 80 percent of the species on the earth. It is estimated that 85 percent of insect species have never been collected or identified. But insect habitats diminish as the human population grows, making it even more important to find new species before they become extinct. Insects are also closely tied to human food crops and other food sources. Understanding insects, both the good and the bad, is important to our own survival.
Jerry has a collection of 200,000 insects from all over the world and has collected from Central America, Belize, Trinidad and Tobago, New Guinea, and around the United States. "You don't need to go anywhere special, though," says Jerry. As a kid, he would collect insects off truck radiators.
Jerry encourages drawing as a good way to focus students' attention on insect details.
Not all insects have common names. Those without are known by their scientific name, which describes them by genus and species.
Jerry raises moths and butterflies by enclosing caterpillars in netting he wraps around branches of trees that they like to eat. The caterpillars feed on the leaves, pupate, and hatch into adults in captivity.
Kids are naturally curious about insects. Jerry enjoys working with them to teach an appreciation and enthusiasm for science and nature.
There are many ways to entice insects into a trap. This bait trap uses fruit on a bottom tray. Insects always fly up to escape, so once they feed from the tray, they fly up into the netting and can't get out.
This is a Malaise trap. Insects fly into the tent and up to the bottle, where they are collected.
Ending the life of an insect and then mounting it the right way is critical to displaying every detail of the species. This allows entomologists to preserve and study the many varieties and discover new ones.
The hard part of the job is the responsibility of preserving insects properly so that their sacrifice is for a good cause.
Jerry uses a spreading board and pins to spread out the wings and legs of insects.
Once the insects dry, they will keep their shape and can be put in a display box.CHAPTER 2
Riverside Alpacas began in 1996 and is run by three generations of the Meade/Gilman family in Jordan, New York. Their job is to breed, raise, and care for alpacas, shear their wool, mill the wool into a variety of yarns, and create garments. They also mill wool sent to them by other alpaca farmers and attend county fairs, where they display their work, teach people about alpacas, and show their beautiful animals.
Alpacas originated in Chile, Peru, and Bolivia. These gentle animals are raised for their fine, soft wool, which can be woven into clothing. Alpaca wool is considered seven times stronger and more durable than sheep wool, and it is as soft as cashmere.
Alpacas come in twenty-two natural colors and are shorn once a year in the spring. Shearing is a job for the whole family because it takes many people to hold the animal, shear its coat, and trim around the face.
Keeping the alpacas healthy and happy is very important.
Alpacas come in twenty-two natural colors and are shorn once a year in the spring. Shearing is a job for the whole family because it takes many people to hold the animal, shear its coat, and trim around the face.
It's a lot of work to care for a herd of animals, but it is a job the family loves.
Making Yarn
Chris runs the picker, which opens and loosens the alpaca fiber.
Next, the carder aligns the fibers.
The draw frame stretches the fibers to prepare them for spinning.
Fibers are spun into yarn on a computerized spinner.
Beverly uses a loom to weave the yarn for a sweater.CHAPTER 3
Andrea Lain
Andrea Lain is an archaeologist at the New York State Museum in Albany. When she was eight years old, her great-grandmother gave her a set of books entitled Wonders of the Past. They were filled with pictures of old treasures from around the world. She decided almost at once that she would grow up to study times gone by.
"Archaeology is important because it is one of the only ways we have to learn about human existence in the past," says Andrea. "History books give a basic outline of what people did, but they mostly focus on the wealthy or famous. Objects found in archaeological excavations can tell us a lot about average people's lives. Food remains can show what they ate; a button or buckle can show what they wore; and pieces of broken dishes can tell us their economic status."
Excavating (or digging up) a site can be slow work, but finding bits and pieces of history is very exciting. It's important to record exactly where the objects were found, including their relationship to other objects and their depth in the soil.
After the pieces are brought back to the museum or lab, the real work begins — trying to understand what the objects mean.
One of Andrea's jobs is to make sure everything at the museum is stored properly so that other archaeologists can continue to revisit and reinterpret artifacts and their meanings far into the future. The past can help us to understand the future, but our understanding of the past is always changing as archaeologists ask new questions and find new answers.CHAPTER 4
Master Cheese Maker
Jamie Miller
Meet Jamie Miller. He's the master cheese maker at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, Vermont. He and his crew make premium cheddar cheeses, which age for six months to three years. They make an amazing 125,000 pounds of cheese a year by hand. It is sold to people all over the nation.
Jamie was trained as a restaurant cook. Wanting to try something different, he became an apprentice to a cheese maker. Now Jamie is responsible for carrying on the Shelburne Farms tradition of creating award-winning cheddar cheese.
Cheese making is physically demanding. This hands-on job starts at 7:30 A.M. with driving the tractor to the dairy to pick up fresh milk. The milk is then hauled back and pumped into the cheese-making vat.
Creating top-quality cheese means making sure all the steps are followed to perfection. Jamie says, "It's rewarding to put yourself completely into a product and be pleased with the results."
There is a lot of science used for cheese making. Good-tasting cheese requires the maker to continually check acidity levels and control the work of the bacteria cultures.
Jamie loves cheese. "Cheese is like superfood. It's all the good stuff in milk, concentrated." The basic ingredients are milk, bacteria (the friendly kind), rennet, and salt.
Visitors to Shelburne Farms can watch the step-by-step process through a viewing window in the Farm Barn.
1. The cheese process begins with milk from Shelburne Farms' very own brown Swiss cows. The cheese makers collect the milk fresh every morning from the dairy.
2. A bacterial culture is stirred into warm milk to start the fermenting process. An hour later, rennet, an enzyme, is added to thicken the mixture.
3. The coagulated milk is cut. This cutting results in the separation of milk into curds (solids) and whey (liquids).
4. The whey is drained and used to fertilize the farm fields.
5. Stacking the curds helps drain the moisture and gives the bacteria time to multiply. This is called "cheddaring."
6. When Jamie determines that the acidity level is right, he mills the slabs into "fingers."
7. Salt is mixed into the cheese fingers to stop the bacteria from growing.
8. The fingers are poured into molds called hoops and pressed overnight.
9. The next day, solid cheese blocks are removed and wrapped up to begin the aging process.
10. Mark slices and weighs aged cheese ready to be packaged.
11. The packaged cheese is labeled.
12. The cheese is ready to be sold.CHAPTER 5
Research Biologist
Nafeeza Hafeez
Nafeeza Hafeez is a cell biologist and researcher at Infinity Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is working to find a cure for a variety of cancers.
Nafeeza is studying a protein called Bc12 that's present in all cells but is especially abundant in cancer cells. Bc12 prevents cancer cells from dying. If Nafeeza can find a way to reduce Bc12 in a cancer cell, then the cancer cells might be able to be killed.
Nafeeza works in a team made up of chemists who create the molecules that will reduce the protein, biochemists who look for molecule interactions with the protein, cell biologists who look at the effects of the molecules on the protein in cancer cells, and pharmacologists (scientists who study how drugs work) who look at the effects of the molecule in test subjects.
Nafeeza enjoys the challenges. Sometimes she finds successful solutions, but sometimes she hits dead ends. That's the gamble of research, but it's always intriguing.
"There is no better feeling," says Nafeeza, "than finding a cure for an ailment or helping to improve someone's life." Sometimes people even send her thank-you notes.CHAPTER 6
Peter Seungtaek Lee
Peter Seungtaek Lee has been designing digital and nondigital games for eight years, but he's been an avid game player all his life. As cofounder and president of Gamelab in New York City, he spends every day creating new games for kids and grown-ups.
Peter was educated both as a visual artist and as a programmer, but he says his love of games was the best training of all. "Creating a game requires many people with different skills. You need programmers, writers, project managers, designers, illustrators, and sound designers." These skills are used to create the story-boards, background art, character art, texture design, animation, 3-D modeling, and all the other complex elements that make up a digital game.
How is a game built? First someone comes up with an idea. Then a playable prototype is created, which begins to test the basic interaction and game logic to see if the game is fun. Once the game tests positively, full production begins by bringing in visual and audio elements. Throughout the process, people play-test the game many times. The hardest part is the problem-solving.
Peter admits, "The fun part of playing a game comes after long days of work. Making a game is very challenging, but it is also very satisfying."
The games Gamelab creates are played online or distributed over the Internet.
Peter's favorite game that he developed is Diner Dash. It's about a waitress trying to keep her customers happy. Gamelab also creates many games for the LEGO Web site.
"I love to hear how much people enjoy playing the games I helped to create."CHAPTER 7
Lissa D'Aquanni
"When I was young, my aunt Loretta had a chocolate shop. I remember it was a magical place ... a place I loved to visit," says Lissa D'Aquanni. Years later Lissa began experimenting with making her own chocolate and in 1998 started The Chocolate Gecko — with Aunt Loretta's blessing.
The best part of making chocolate, says Lissa, "is creating something special for people who are going through a difficult period. It is said that chocolate has medicinal properties and that, combined with the love that we put into our creations, helps to sweeten even the most bitter times." Lissa makes chocolates for happy times, too, such as weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and other special occasions.
The secret to her gourmet creations is play. Lissa starts by combining ingredients from favorite recipes until she finds a tasty new treat. Customer favorites are the Galapagos Turtles, made with maple syrup caramel, and her fruits, hand-dipped in white and dark chocolate.
Lissa says the hardest part of the job is keeping up with the demand of big orders. She once had to make 2,500 dipped strawberries for the governor's inauguration to be delivered the morning of January 1. It was a long New Year's Eve!
Lissa takes orders through her Web site, but she prefers when people come into the shop so she can meet them. Lissa likes to see people enjoying her treats. ]7CHAPTER 8
Donald Knaack
Donald Knaack is the Junkman. He is an accomplished percussionist who started his career in the Louisville Orchestra. One year every orchestra member needed to play a small scrap of metal for a contemporary piece.
Donald's job was to go to the junkyard and get the necessary metal. "It was my first time in a junkyard, and I was overwhelmed by the amazing variety of sounds that junk materials possessed." Donald found what he needed for the orchestra and a carload of junk for himself. He has been collecting and using junk to compose and perform music ever since — bringing an environmental theme to his work and to the world.
What kind of junk does Donald look for? "Unusual sounds — beautiful sounds like bells, ugly sounds like thunder, strange sounds like rasping a metal staircase." He finds it in all types of wood, metal, plastic, paper, glass, and cardboard. Then Donald puts the junk together to create an instrument that is both fun to play and to watch.
The Junkman tours all over the world. He has composed music for Twyla Tharp and the American Ballet Theatre, and performed in schools, colleges, universities, and big events such as Boston's First Night celebration.
Donald spends time at schools as a visiting artist, teaching kids about rhythm and recycling while helping them build their own Junk Music play station. The play station becomes a permanent part of their school, to be enjoyed for years to come.CHAPTER 9
Linda Greenlaw
Linda Greenlaw has been fishing most of her life. She began her career fishing for swordfish and eventually became captain of her own boat. After an adventurous seventeen years, she decided to fish closer to home in Isle au Haut, Maine. Now she catches lobster off the coast of the island. Her boat, the Mattie Belle, is named after her grandmother.
The lobster season runs from May to December. When the weather gets cold, the lobster move to deeper can no longer be caught. During the winter months, Linda prepares her gear and paints her buoys for the next season. "This is the hardest part of the job," says Linda, "because it's a lot of tedious work without the fun of being on the water."CHAPTER 10
Guitar Markers
Julius Borges and Steve Spodaryk
Julius and Steve love to play and build guitars. They produce only twenty guitars a year because each one must be perfect. Steve says the work is enjoyable since he is always doing something different, and Julius is proud of the unique sound people have come to expect from his instruments.
"Building instruments is a wonderful outlet for creativity. You start with a pile of wood and end up with a beautiful tool for making music — one that will give joy to people for generations to come," says Steve. But making guitars is also physically demanding work. You have to love what you do and work hard for many years to become a successful builder.
Guitar making requires excellent woodworking skills, problem solving, math and science, curiosity, patience, and a musical background. The best way to learn is by working as an apprentice with an expert builder.
Guitars are made from a variety of woods such as spruce, maple, mahogany, and rosewood. What makes a great instrument? The careful selection of wood and its processing to create the guitar parts. The soundboard (large top part of the guitar) is critical because it's responsible for the tone of the instrument.
Julius handles all the design and development. Steve's job is to assist Julius in the construction. This can include the body and neck, decoration, and inlay work. Selecting materials, voicing the instruments, and the critical finish work is what makes the instrument play properly.
Because the guitars are custom built, most are bought by collectors and professional musicians who have the skill to bring out the best in a great guitar.CHAPTER 11
Kite Designer
Mark Reed
Mark Reed is the owner and designer of Prism Designs. He creates single-line and two-line sport kites for people addicted to flying kites. Mark spent his early years working to understand the physics of sport kites, and he continues to refine his designs with each new project.
"I have always been a builder of things and for most of my childhood fancied myself either an inventor or a mad scientist," says Mark. "When I discovered stunt kites, the sport had barely gotten off the ground. It was exciting to experiment with design ideas knowing that I was making things that had never been built before."
Two-line sport kites are not the same as traditional kites, which go up on one string and stay in one part of the sky. Two-line sport kites are maneuverable, can fly up to speeds of 100 miles per hour, and do cart-wheels, somersaults, and backflips.
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Reliever Mike Timlin threw wildly to first base on a sacrifice attempt in the ninth -- Boston's second throwing error in the inning -- allowing Minnesota to score the winning run in a 4-3 victory over the Red Sox on Saturday night.
"Tonight I felt like something was going to give here," Gardenhire said. "Confidence and momentum are huge in baseball and hopefully we have it on our side now."
Michael Cuddyer led off the ninth with an infield single off Timlin (4-2), but third baseman Bill Mueller bounced his throw past first allowing Cuddyer to move to second. Nick Punto bunted the next pitch back to Timlin, who also fired his throw wide of first base.
"I threw it away, I lost the game," Timlin said. "There's no excuse -- no bad grip, no foot slippage."
Joe Nathan (4-3) pitched a perfect ninth for the victory and Joe Mauer drove in two runs for Minnesota, which won the first two games of the series. The Twins have won only three times in the last 10 games and are six games behind Oakland in the AL wild-card race.
"Hopefully, we've turned the page and got the ship in the right direction," Cuddyer said after the Twins won consecutive games for the first time since July 19-20.
"We still have a lot of fight in the clubhouse and plan on playing in the postseason," added Punto, who also said this was his first game-winning sacrifice bunt.
Johnny Damon and Jason Varitek each had three hits for Boston, which lost its second consecutive game after winning eight in a row. The Red Sox maintained a 3½-game lead over New York in the AL East.
"It's 162 games and you're going to have great, OK and all different types of games," Mueller said. "You don't want to lose any game in any way."
Damon extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a broken-bat infield single to lead off the game. Two outs later, Manny Ramirez walked and Varitek followed with an RBI single off Johan Santana to give Boston a 1-0 lead.
Damon singled again in the fifth to drive in Tony Graffanino, who led off the inning with a single and moved to third on Gabe Kapler's double. Edgar Renteria drove in Kapler with a grounder to make it 3-0.
Boston starter David Wells allowed one hit until the sixth inning, when the Twins broke through for six hits and three runs to tie it. With one out, Juan Castro, Shannon Stewart and Lew Ford singled to load the bases and Mauer followed with a two-run single. Matthew LeCroy's RBI single tied 3-all.
The Red Sox loaded the bases with one out against reliever Jesse Crain in the seventh, but Ramirez grounded into a 5-4-3 double play to end the threat.
Damon went 3-for-5 to raise his American League-leading average to .341.
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Alikiner wated from his spot in the alley as Vampires poured out of the Venetian Congress Center. It was like the best thing he could have wished for.
"That lackey I had crippled had probably made it back by now and the news he had delivered had probably been pretty fucking bad."
Alikiner waited for them to desperse before he started to leave. Just then he saw two vampires coming out together a young black man with long dreadlocks and a scruffy goatee. He seemed refined and well mannered made him think of puking just looking at him. He turned his gaze to the one beside him, He was just a fledgling still and from the looks of it not a very old one. This intrigued Alikiner. He started to spread the darkness making the alley seem like a void. He could tell they had already noticed by the horror on their faces.
"Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Saylor!"
The two of them held their ground. Alikiner stepped out of the dark void of the alley smiling.
"And just who do I have the pleasure of meeting tonight?"
The black man pulled a gun out pointing it at Alikiner, It just made him laugh uncontrolably. "If I were you friend I would save the rounds you have for everything else that will be hunting you tonight." Alikiner laughed some more. "Now then what are your names... You two seem fun, I want to get to know you better..."
Alikiner made his way across the strip and into the parking lot they were standing in. The black man spoke up first. "That is none of your business! I do not Give my name out to animals."
Alikiner shrugged smiling. "If I wasn't so intrigued by your young friend here I would rip that tongue out of your head and feed it to you."
Alikiner turned to the young fledgling the gun still pointed at him. "Will you at least be so kind as the share your name boy?"
The young fledgeling gave him a hard look. "My name is Ricardo Valente sir. It is a pleasure to make your acquaintance Mr..."
Alikiner smiled. "You can just call me Alikiner kid."
He watched as a sense of shock went through Ricardo's eyes. Alikiner laughed, I do love the sense of shock you are having just now, and I love how formal you are its so... well I don't really have a word for it now."
Alikiner stepped forward as they both took a few steps back. "you know I'm not going to hurt you. I'm in oo good a mood for that. See I just tip off the Sabbat, Clan Giovanni, and I may have screamed it at some vampire hunters that there was going to be a large number of Camerilla out and about tonight.
The black vampires face started to go a bit white. Alikiner laughed a bit more. His laughed was short lived though the fledgling punched him hard in the face. Alikiner could feel his nose break. He stumbled back a few steps and looked at him seriously. He noticed the slight finger movement ass the black vampire started to pull the trigger on his gun. Alikiner fell into the shadows that were on the ground Resurfacing behind the two and wrapping them both up in black tendrils. He smiled wickedly as they struggled to get free.
"Well that wasn't half bad at all boy. I actually like your spunk, as for your friend here I don't really like him, but I am not going to kill him because I want to see if you can survive the night tonight. You amuse me greatly young Ricardo. I want you to grow into someone worth killing. I suggest doing what I do. Killing your creator,and hunting other Vampires. Well I have a feeling that you are too tame for something like that." He turned to the black vampire now who had a wide eyed look on his face. "And you, if he doesn't survive the night and you do..well I'm sure you can guess who is going to be on my shit list."
Alikiner turned his back to them fixing his broken nose, he started to walk toward the building they had just come out of. "If you excuse me I have a meeting to keep with a certain person of Royal blood..."
Alikiner disappeared into the shadows leaving the two sitting on the pavement of the parking lot. He entered the Venetian Congress Center taking the elevator up. He smiled as he neared his destination. Things were only starting to get fun tonight. The elevator stopped and Alikiner got up looking at the large ballroom he was now standing in.
"Well I guess high society always gets the nice things."
He laughed out loud as to get as much attention as possible, and sure enough a couple of guards rushed at him. He trusted his hand into the first ones chest and grabbed his spine tearing it out though his chest. The second one he simply beheaded on the spot. Alikiner phased into the darkness and reappeared at the other end of the ball room.
He sighed, "It seems my query has already decided to depart. Guess I will have to have some fun on the streets for awhile, but before i go..."
Alikiner wrapped Tendrils of darkness around the pillars in the ballroom and destroyed them. The building started to moan. He laughed destroying the rest of the foundation letting the ballroom collapse in upon itself. Before he had left the room he had been sure to grab the corpses of the two he had kill. He impaled their bodies with his tendrils and wrote a chilling message in their blood on the front of the Venetian Congress Center.
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Arcade Fire kicked off the American leg of their Reflektor Tour in Louisville, Kentucky, last week along with openers Dan Deacon and Kid Koala. The band arrived at the venue in big bobble heads on a red carpet and greeted fans in the lobby before frontman Win Butler bought a cookie from the concession stand. During Dan Deacon's set, the audience took part in a dance competition, and someone tagged-in Win, who was wearing a mask. Photographer Ryan Muir was there to catch all the action.


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Kinross Chief Says Gold's Decline May Spur ConsolidationLiezel Hill
Gold's decline may drive an increase in consolidation among companies that mine and explore for the metal, according to the chief executive officer of Kinross Gold Corp., Canada's third-largest producer.
"You may see some consolidation within the industry around balance-sheet strength and margin and free cash flow and quality assets that need funding," Paul Rollinson said yesterday in a telephone interview from Russia, where he was visiting the company's new Dvoinoye mine. "You may see a gold price-driven wave of M&A activity."
Gold is poised for its first annual decline in 13 years after slipping into a bear market in April. Producers have responded by cutting spending plans, reducing dividends and trying to sell less profitable assets.
Kinross doesn't need to sell assets or make acquisitions, Rollinson said. The Toronto-based company, which suspended dividend payments in July, is focused on maintaining balance-sheet strength, operating its mines well and being disciplined in spending, he said.
Kinross achieved commercial production at Dvoinoye in eastern Russia this month, the company said yesterday in a statement. Kinross expects the mine will produce 235,000 to 300,000 ounces of gold equivalent, a metric that includes silver output, in its first three full years of production.
"It's nice to be opening up a mine in this tough environment," Rollinson said in the interview. "It's on time and on budget even though it's a pretty challenging, remote location."
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ELK RAPIDS WEDDING IN JUNEJune, 2011 in Elk Rapids
"Our "all Elk Rapids" wedding turned out to be exactly what we hoped for - a little bit classic and a little bit modern, totally our style and a beatiful week's vacation for our friends and family. Our guests loved the cottages, the beaches, and the wine tours. We used all local vendors, all northern Michigan wines and beers, and even chocolate covered cherries from Traverse City for the favors. Wedding Mapper was really helpful for our guests to find a place to stay and coordinate plans - I would definitely recommend it!"
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Reception: Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall
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- Caterer: Catering By Kelly's
- Photographer: Fairytale Photos
- DJ: Rolling Thunder
- Wedding Day Beauty Vendor: Hair Port
- Florist: Elk Lake Floral & Greenhouses
- Condos: Elk Rapids Beach Resort
- Hotels/Motels: Sleep Inn & Suites - Wedding Discount!
- Bed & Breakfast/Inn: Starboard Inn
- Campgrounds: Honcho Rest RV Park & Camping Cabins
- Bed & Breakfast/Inn: Cairn House B&B
- Church: Sacred Heart Church
- Bed & Breakfast/Inn: Country Hermitage B&B
- Hors d' oeuvres: Wright's Cottage
- Hotels/Motels: Camelot Motel - 2.5 Miles from Hall
- Reception Hall: Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall
- Hotels/Motels: Grand Traverse Resort - Wedding Discount!
- Down Town Elk Rapids: Down Town Elk Rapids
Catering By Kelly'sWilliamsburg, MI, United States
"I had multiple people tell me that this was the BEST wedding meal they had ever had. Dan Kelly brought a top-notch set of employees who provided excellent service, and set up and tear down was seamless even though we had hors d'ouvres in one location and dinner in another. Delicious food, world class service and all at a very reasonable price - you cannot beat Catering by Kelly's for a wedding!"
Rolling ThunderTraverse City, MI 49686, USA
"Nick came highly recommended by everyone in town and all in all, I was very pleased. He kept the party going and had great equipment. I am only giving 4 stars because my husband and I requested some songs that weren't played, but we had a great time dancing!"
Elk Lake Floral & Greenhouses8628 Cairn Highway
Elk Rapids, MI, United States
"Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful flowers for my wedding! Connie was so easy to work with, and gave me exactly what I wanted at a very reasonable price. She totally exceeded my expectations - I could not have been happier!"
Fairytale Photos152 River St
Elk Rapids, MI, United States
"Where to begin with this vendor... She showed up late because she was photographing something else that morning (even though in our contract it stated the wedding would be her only commitment that day since we purchased the most expensive unlimited package). The "second photographer" she brought was not trained at all and added no value whatsoever (she just stood next to April the whole time taking the exact same photos). She missed several crucial shots, including my father walking me down the aisle. At the reception she spent quite a bit of time just standing around, not photographing anything. All the pictures turned out too dark to see and full of shadows or blurry because of her crappy equipment and lack of external flash. There were guests at my wedding that brought nicer cameras than she did. It took several weeks to get my photos, which would have been fine if she was actually touching them up or doing anything with them, but as it turned out she refused to edit any of them and that's just the time it took for her to burn them onto the CDs. The photos were horrid, the experience was awful, and she charges WAY too much money (which she makes you pay up front, probably because she knows she isn't delivering a product worth what she's charging and doesn't want to risk not getting paid). It has been six months and we haven't even gotten any of our wedding photos printed because they were so bad. There is another very well trained photographer in town, Dre Photography (http://www.drephotography.net/about_dre.htm), and if I could go back in time and hire her instead, I absolutely would."
Wedding Day Beauty Vendor:
Hair Port404 Bridge St
Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States
"Did my nails, hair and makeup for my wedding beautifully! My hair is a little bit difficult to work with, and it turned out fantastic. Coming in from out of town for my wedding, and never having gone to the Hairport before, this was a big relief. I would definitely recommend the Hair Port to others."
Elk Rapids Beach Resort8975 N Bayshore Dr
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
Bed & Breakfast/Inn:
Starboard Inn110 Cedar
Elk Rapids, MI 49629, US
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Cairn House B&B8160 Cairn Hwy
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
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Country Hermitage B&B7710 U.S. 31
Williamsburg, MI 49690
Camelot Motel - 2.5 Miles from Hall10962 U.S. 31
Williamsburg, MI 49690, US
Grand Traverse Resort - Wedding Discount!100 Grand Traverse Village Blvd
Williamsburg, MI 49690
Sleep Inn & Suites - Wedding Discount!5520 U.S. 31
Williamsburg, MI 49690
Honcho Rest RV Park & Camping Cabins8988 Cairn Hwy
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
Sacred Heart Church141 Charles
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
Hors d' oeuvres:
Wright's Cottage141 Brand St
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
Reception Hall:
Historic Elk Rapids Town Hall401 River St
Elk Rapids, MI 49629
Down Town Elk Rapids:
Down Town Elk Rapids150 River
Elk Rapids, MI 49629, US


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The average selling price rose 11% to £200,000 in the second half. Debts have been cut to a lower-than-expected £30 million.
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- In a pan over medium high heat, cook the bacon, turning frequently, until crispy and cooked trough. Remove the bacon and set aside. Once the bacon is removed, add the crab cakes to the pan, cooking in the bacon grease until golden brown on the underside, flip carefully and cook on the other side until cooked through, about 3 minutes per side. Remove from heat.
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Gnome Crystal - Summary
This project is not part of the GNU Project.
Gnome Crystal is now part of the Gnome Chemistry Utils (http://gchemutils.nongnu.org) and is no longer available as a standalone project.
Registration Date: Wed Nov 13 07:05:41 2002
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
Development Status: ? - Orphaned/Unmaintained
posted by jean_brefort, Wed Feb 8 09:07:58 2006 - 0 replies
This is an important maintainance release. It adds compatibility with the soon available Gnome Chemistry Utils 0.6 branch.
To avoid such breakage in the future, Gnome Crystal code will be included in Gnome Chemistry Utils >= 0.7.0 and will not be maintained anymore as a separate package after 0.8 release, planed for early 2007.
posted by jean_brefort, Mon Jan 2 13:56:10 2006 - 0 replies
Fix a crasher:
GCrystal crashes when opening atoms, lines or cleavages dialogs after upgrading to gtk+-2.8.9 [#15351].
posted by jean_brefort, Fri Jun 17 10:28:42 2005 - 0 replies
This is a minor update which fixes several more compilation issues.
It is known to build with gcc-2.95.3, gcc-3.4.4 and gcc-4.0.0. Other recent versions should work as well.
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This a minor maintainance release. New features are (see ChangeLog for details):
- Attach gcrystal icon to all windows.
- Fixed more build/installation issues.
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Challenge 4: The Obstacle Course
I pulled up in the middle of the Broomfield football pitch after driving through the fence enclosing it, and then I began the procedure for getting out of a truck with a roll-cage, a surprisingly hard-to-achieve task that resulted to me falling onto my face on the wet and muddy grass. At this point, Fraser and Duncan's Wildcats hoved into view. They seemed to have no problems getting out of the trucks, which was rather annoying, and then Fraser announced he had the envelope. It said;
"Now you have arrived, you will go to the rugby pitch for a obstacle course. But first, you must decorate your cars with the paint supplied for you."
An hour later, we were ready. I had gone for a nice set of red racing stripes, simple and effective. Fraser had gone for a set of go-faster stripes on the side and some confusingly awesome-looking tribal paintings on the bonnet and rear flanks. But the freshly crowned king of excess was Duncan, who had apparantly attempted to paint the works of the great masters on the whole body, and for the final touch, his TheMW2EliteGamers logo on the driver's side window. Now it was time to go to the rugby pitch for the obstacle course, but first, there was a rather steep drop. Me and Fraser decided to take a long route around it, but Duncan, in the Haywain (as I had called it), drove straight off the edge and promptly onto his nose. When his car had reverted to being on it's wheels again, the damage, unbelievably, was minimal. We continued on to the pitch and saw our task. A starting post lead to a massive hill and several different sized pools of water, followed by a banked 90 degree turn and a finish post. Fastest one round it wins 10 points, second won 5 points, and last won 0 points. Easy. Or so it seemed.
I went first. A good start (which covered the Haywain with a thin layer of mud, much to Duncan's chargin), and then to the steep hill. A one in three slope always feels steeper in the car, and all I could see for a few seconds was sky. Then the slope dropped and I found myself rocketing towards the first pool. The splash made was simply huge and I couldn't really see where I was going. Then it was the banked curve. A beautiful sweep around and I roared across the line to a time of 30 seconds. The gaultlet had been well and truly thrown down.
Next, the Tribal Thunder (as Fraser had christened it) was off. Yet more dirt flew up and onto the bonnet of the Haywain, causing Duncan to turn the air blue with foul language. Fraser steamed straight up the hill at full throttle, shot over the top of the hill and was welcomed back to earth with a truly evil smash, causing Fraser to slow down a bit and come home in 30.9 seconds with a smashed front axle.
Finally, the Haywain was up. A patient start to prevent a further layer of mud on the body and a gentle ride up the hill to prevent a huge Fraser-style mechanical failure were rewarded by getting the body cleaned in the pools. He eased it round the banked curve and a steady run by Duncan gave a steady time of 31.4 seconds.
Later that night, after a few LAN games of Modern Warfare 2, we chalked up the scores. After the first round in the Wildcats, the scores stood at this;
1st: Alex Laird - 10pts
2nd: Fraser Young - 5pts (and a overnight repair job)
3rd: Duncan Bunting - 0pts
I recieved a text from Roy later that night to tell me that we weren't the only ones doing this. Jordan, Neil and Rob had been picked to do a bit of Ariel Atom 500 racing on the athletic track, and he, Julie and a freshly added Murray Gilroy had be chosen to do a old-car challenge and then to do the challenges at his house. This was getting very big very quickly.