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Africa, 1863. Sir Richard Francis Burton, an explorer, a linguist, a scholar, and the king's agent - or is he a puppet being manipulated by forces he cannot understand? A race to find the source of the Nile! Algernon Charles Swinburne - a famous young flame-haired poet, thrill-seeker, and follower of the Marquis de Sade. For him, pain is pleasure, and brandy is ruin! Back to where the adventure began!
It is 1863, but not the one it should be. Time has veered wildly off course, and moves are being made that will lead to a devastating world war. Prime Minister Lord Palmerston believes that by possessing the three Eyes of Naga he'll be able to manipulate events and avoid the war. He already has two of the stones, but he needs Sir Richard Francis Burton to recover the third. For the king's agent, it's a chance to return to the Mountains of the Moon to make a second attempt at locating the source of the Nile. But a rival expedition led by John Hanning Speke stands in his way, threatening a confrontation that could ignite the very war that Palmerston is trying to avoid!
Caught in a tangled web of cause, effect, and inevitability, little does Burton realize that the stakes are far higher than even he suspects. A final confrontation comes in London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time—Spring Heeled Jack!
Burton and Swinburne's third adventure completes the three-volume story arc begun in The Strange Affair of Spring Heeled Jack and The Curious Case of the Clockwork Man.
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"Almost, but not quite."
In the words of our hero, Sir Richard Francis Burton, "Bismillah!" This book was...not as good as the first two. I hate to say it. It hurts me to say it. I loved the other books so much that I couldn't imagine where the third could even go. I was giddy. But rather than stomp around England, we spend ~75% of the book traveling from England to the Arabian peninsula to eastern Africa to the mysterious Mountains of the Moon, and maybe 10% dealing with what happens when we actually get there. There's plenty of action, but also a lot of repetition.
And when we finally get to the end, it just falls a little short. Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe the author had a tough time wrapping up his myriad storylines into one discreet package. I was disappointed, because I wanted to love this one as much as the others. All that being said, I would still recommend the trilogy to everyone and anyone. Narrator Gerard Doyle, you are my hero.
"and destiny comes full circle"
This trilogy was so great it started out as an adventure turned into a mystery and then ended up a statement on fate vs destiny. Nature vs Nurture in its extreme form. Do the choices we make just change us or theworld. What started out as light fantasy became very deep thought provoking novel on the meaning of it all.
The whole trilogy came full circle and now I have to listen to it all over. Do the choices we make change our fate or are they just different choices that take us down the same path. Burton and Swinburne will never know.
I love gerard Doyles voice I can and did Listen to it night and day. I feel like I felt everything the characters felt. with all of my senses. This trilogy is exciting, funny, thought provoking and at last heartbreaking.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
I am a huge audible listener with over 70 books in my library. This trilogy by Mark Hodder is so far is my favorite listen.
"Unrelentingly grim, depressing ending"
The performance is excellent, and the book is very well-written and colorful, which is why I gave it so many stars. However, it has serious problems.
- The overall plot lacks the fun and adventure of the previous books.
- Africa seems so horrible, I don't know why anyone would want to go there. It makes the explorers seem totally barmy. It's also not much fun to read about bugs and ulcers and watch the horses die one by one.
- Bad thing after bad thing happens, with no relief (except the parakeets), making for a tiring listening experience.
- The author switches focus to the Eugenecists and their plant machines. That's fine, except... they are impossible. It isn't genetics that keeps a tree from reaching 30' maturity in 2 days, it's plain old physics. I could ignore the tech-y impossibilities, imagining they found some way around it (Fornby coal), but the existence of the plant-things broke my suspension of disbelief repeatedly.
- All the female characters in this series have 2 purposes: Serve the hero's supper, and/or die for the hero. Really? In 2012? We can do better.
- The ending. Without giving anything away, I can tell you that it is a complete non-ending. Nothing is resolved. Also, disappointingly cliche.
Reading back, it does sound like I hated the book. I ... guess I did. Thing is, I know myself and I know that I object strongly to things many people actually like. For example, I hate Game of Thrones for most of the same reasons (grim, dark, women are stupid, animals are abused and killed, everyone dies). I think, if you can enjoy books despite, or because of, unrelentingly grim storylines, then you will probably enjoy this book.
Ending still stinks, though.
SPOILER-ISH WARNING: (Lots of characters die here, so brace yourself, or don't read it if that kind of thing ruins a book for you.)
"Ended too Quickly"
I think even Mark Hodder could agree that these Characters and their steampunk adventure could have gone on for several more books. The only reason I gave this story four stars is because it was too much information in one book, it was hard to keep up! But, it needed an ending and he tied most everything together.
See my review on the first book for my overall thoughts of the series.
"If you like travel-logs then this book is for you!"
He could have eliminated 50% of the trip from England to Africa. We get it, safari's back then sucked and everyone gets sick!
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great voices and nuanced narration
I really wanted to like this series. #1 wasn't great, #2 was WAY better but this one was just terrible. I listen to books while I travel to pass the time. I don't want to listen to someone else's travels while I'm traveling!
"Fine escapism,great fun"
Third in the series starting with Spring Heeled Jack. Great fun and excellent performance. Quite the adventure.
"Another Fantastic Adventure"
In this third installment of the Burton and Swinburne steampunk/alternate history adventures, we follow two timelines of Burton. One, in his present as he sets forth to find the African Diamond, and two, when he finds himself transported in time to the Great War.
This is an ambitious plot, but Hodder pulls it off well, bringing both timelines together nicely, then adding one of his breath-taking twists to leave the reader gasping at the end. As in the first two novels, this world is amazingly detailed, and the technology, science, and literature imagined by Hodder is perfectly believable. The characters are well-fleshed, the plot gripping, and the overall story a fascinating read.
Gerard Doyle is simply amazing. Through this series, he's become one of my favorite narrators!
"getting harder to follow"
I like the twists and turns but sometimes it makes my head hurt trying to figure it out☺
"Terrific Steampunk Thriller!"
If you are a steampunk fan you will love this time-traveling, huge-scaled sci-fi novel. It picks you up from the first page and never stops until the last. Loved it.
"First two were good, but this one was a real slog"
The first two books in the series were refreshingly different, and time travel stories always appeal to me. But this one, in which our heroes are trudging across Africa not just once, but concurrently in two different times, undergoing mind-numbingly incessant privations, became a chore to finish. It was a big relief to make it to the end. And now I find that there is a fourth book! I will give it a fair chance, but I don't know if I can wade through another 15 hours if it's going to be another downer story. Good thing audible is reasonable about letting you return books you don't like.
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I prefer Elodie. Ariella is very pretty, but it reminds me of other names that are similar in rhythm and share some of the same sounds: Arabella, Arianna, Avianna, Aria, etc. That tips the scales towards Elodie, but again, Ariella is pretty and not a bad choice by any means!
I like Elodie Kate the best.Baby #2 due April 2016
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(Angie's List) - After fading from popularity decades ago, wallpaper is making a comeback. But it's nothing like what you remember seeing in your grandma's kitchen. In today's Angie's List report, how wallpaper can change the look and feel of a room.
It can be a nightmare to remove and even more difficult to apply. That's why many homeowners turn to an expert when dealing with wallpaper. Contractor Jim Stevens is hanging new wallpaper in a client's home – he had to remove the old paper and prep the walls.
"Well she stripped some of the outer coating on the bare drywall which is a problem. The wallpaper was hung over a bare drywall and that's something you never want to do. Even sizing won't keep that wallpaper from tearing that paper off the drywall when you go to strip it."
Susan Colvin, an interior designer, says if you are looking for an alternative to paint, wallpaper can bring color and texture to any room.
And some of today's wallpaper is also easier to remove.
"You can get pattern, multiple colors, and so there's a lot of style in wallpaper and you can express some individuality that you're not necessarily doing just with paint," says Colvin
Angie Hicks from Angie's List says, "Wallpaper is making a comeback, but it's not the same wallpaper we have thought of over the years. There is some really neat trends, but one thing hasn't changed and that's wallpaper is a commitment. Putting it up and taking it down can be tricky."
"If you don't like tedious stuff, you want to stay out of the stripping business. Hanging wallpaper is a tedious process too. A lot of times you get what you pay for. A professional will put it up right and take it off right too," says Wallpaper Contractor Jim Stevens
The most common wallpaper types are vinyl and fabric.
"A lot of wallpaper is made with vinyl coatings, to make it easier to clean. Not all wallpapers are that way, but a lot of wallpaper you can actually wash down fairly well. So there are a little easier to maintain than perhaps some paint," says Colvin.
Hicks says, "Take it from me, taking down wallpaper is not the easiest task in the world. After an entire weekend of removing wallpaper in a kitchen I have to admit I really wish I would have hired to have it done."
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In the evening of Wednesday, January 15, 1992, Bluebonnet Savings Bank (BSB) in Dallas, Texas, got to demonstrate first-hand a key DR maxim: a "disaster" should not be thought of only as an external event that strikes computer operations. Rather, a disaster is anything that interrupts the continuity of business operations. And when disaster struck, Bluebonnet was ready.
The 3725 is Down!
That evening, at this multi-billion dollar bank (with 34 branch offices spread around Texas and a mortgage servicing company in Atlanta), MIS operations came to a halt. An attempt to re-IPL the bank's IBM mainframe failed when the 3725 communications controller would not load. In addition, operations was experiencing problems with bad tracks on the disk drive.
Like most financial institutions, communication with branches and customers is key to continuing effective business operations at Bluebonnet. Anything that removes that communications link is disastrous. "We have to be able to allow customers to withdraw money, get information on account balances, and the like. You just can't tell people that they can't withdraw money because you don't know how much they have in their accounts," says Chuck Littleton, Disaster Recovery Planner for the Bank. "So it is standard policy for us to declare a disaster on anything that will knock us out for 24 hours or more."
Therefore, when it became obvious that the problem was not going to be fixed immediately, that is exactly what the bank did. Bluebonnet Saving's Bank declared a disaster with their IBM hotsite in Tampa, Florida, and activated their business contingency plan, automated with Strohl Systems' LDRPS software, at 4:15 p.m. on January 16.
By 8:00 that evening, key bank employees were on a plane to Tampa, and by 12:15 a.m. they had begun recovery operations. At 6:00 a.m. the Tampa alternative site system was up and running successfully with all databases loaded.
Back in Dallas, recovery was in progress. By 3:00 a.m. the same morning, the communications controller had been brought back up. "After testing it and solving some communication problems with a few of the branches, we were able to determine that we could switch operations back to Dallas, and we did so at 9:00 a.m. In fact, we were only running live at the hot-site for about three hours," says Littleton. "But if the problem in Dallas hadn't been solved, we were ready that Friday morning to be in full operation in a way that would have been transparent to our branches and customers and in a way that would have preserved the continuity of business operations."
The role of the Plan
Having the hot-site agreement in place was key to Bluebonnet's ability to react and recover quickly. But just as important, noted BSB's Disaster Recovery Coordinator Patti Smith, was having an automated business continuity plan that the bank had developed last September.
"We realized that in the event of a disaster, there was a lot of information that we would need to assess quickly," says Smith. "Things like the names and phone numbers of people we needed to contact, organizational plans, task plans, equipment inventories, and the like. That kind of information is critical to have at your fingertips if you are going to keep doing business and servicing customers."
So last fall, using plan development software, Smith and the unit managers automated the bank's recovery plans. They analyzed the needs and functions of their business units and collected the information necessary to ensure the continuity of each key business function in the event of a disaster. "It was the availability of this data from the database that allowed us to react so quickly and efficiently," says Smith.
The real World Test
"Because we were actually up and running again by 9:00 a.m. Friday in Dallas," says Littleton, "this experience served as a thorough test of our disaster recovery and business continuity plan." And there are several key lessons that both Littleton and Smith point to as a result of the experience.
"First," says Smith, "you absolutely have to have an automated planning tool in order to maintain the data that is needed to effect the recovery process efficiently. There is simply no way, realistically, that anyone could control and update that much information in a simple written plan."
Littleton adds, "The second lesson we learned is that it is so critical that the data in the database be current and valid that we will now update our continuity plan on a daily rather than a weekly or monthly basis. All staff changes, CPU or other equipment configuration changes, etc. will be input to the database immediately. It has to be current."
Finally, both agree that the position of Disaster Recovery Coordinator, Smith's function, must be made clear and the lines of communication kept open for all who are in any way involved in the recovery. "It is really important in order to minimize confusion," says Littleton. "We had far too many people calling all over the place to ask questions when they should have been dealing directly with Patti. But we've cleared that up now. If anything like this ever happens again, everyone knows that Patti is 'central control' for all information regarding recovery operations." In fact, Bluebonnet Savings Bank now regards the position as so important that Smith has been assigned an assistant.
Looking Back—
And Ahead
Although Dallas was back up and running on Friday morning, the disaster recovery team that had flown to Tampa stayed on over the weekend to troubleshoot the problems with the modems and communications lines. They returned on Sunday night, tired, but justifiably proud of a job well done.
This time, the disaster was short-lived. But the experience was an important one. It allowed Bluebonnet Savings Bank to test and refine, under fire, the value and quality of their contingency plan. If there ever is a "next time," they will be prepared.
Mary Lou Roberts is a free-lance writer and industry consultant with more than 25 years of experience in information systems.
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Is that an oxymoron?
Anyway i have been buying lot of games on gog.com and few old/indie games via all the bundle sales. I am wondering if the new windows tablets will be any good at playing them? I am not talking bleeding edge graphics games but say 4+ year old games like jade empire, kult, BG2, divine divinity etc. Maybe some new indi games like Legend of Grimrock, Fallen Enchantress etc.
Most tablets seems to come with Intel atom cpu. How good is it? There are some top end tablets with dual core i5 cpu as well. I guess the i5 should be good enough?
Most of the tablets don't seem to have good graphic chip. I think they come with Intel integrate graphic chip. Not sure if its any good.
Anyway ignoring the shortcomings of touch interface, can the new windows tablets be used for gaming?
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Have you ever wondered what you could do with that leftover pizza box when all the pizza has been scarfed out of it? Most of us will just toss it in the trash or recycling bin but next time keep it for a fun project that can teach kids about solar power and is fairly simple to put together. While you won't be using the pizza box as your new oven it will be fun to see how it works and kids will love making simple things like hot dogs or even s'mores.
The Things you will need:
- 1 empty pizza box
- Scissors
- Aluminum foil
- Black paint and brushes
- Shredded paper
- Clear plastic wrap
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- Simple food (ex. Hot dogs, s'mores that leftover pizza that needs warmed up)
- Cut a flap in the top of one pizza box. The flap should be cut on three sides, with the fourth side being closest to the lid's "hinge." Cut the flap quite large so that there is only 1 to 2 inches of lid surrounding the flap.
- Line the entire inside of the pizza box with foil (shiny side up), then spread the shredded paper across the bottom.
- Seal the shredded paper layer with another foil layer, shiny side up. This creates insulation to trap the heat inside the solar oven.
- Paint the top layer of foil with black paint. Let it dry completely. You can also paint outside of pizza box or even cover the whole box with foil
- Bend the lid flap up. Cover the underside of the flap with foil, shiny side up. Use the duct tape to secure the foil around the back of the flap. Pull the foil as smoothly as possible.
- Create a tight seal over the opening in the lid with the plastic wrap. Secure it with duct tape on the underside of the lid. Pull the plastic wrap tight so that the covering is smooth and wrinkle-free.
- Place the food inside the pizza box on the black-painted foil. Close the lid and ensure that there are no gaps for air to escape. If desired, lightly tape the lid seams with duct tape.
- Angle the lid flap towards the sun, so that the sun's rays are reflected into the plastic-covered opening. The solar oven will reach approximately 200 degrees on a sunny day
Now all you have to do is wait for the snack to warm up and viola your very own pizza box oven. A little side note: Your pizza box oven takes about twice as long to cook something as a regular oven so patience is a virtue with this project. Also make sure it is above 60 degrees and sunny or the oven will not work as well or maybe not at all.


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"I'm really proud of her," Athens Christian coach Tim Cummings. "She just went out to and made a statement."
Candice Homer took 14th, Anna Aube took 41st, Samantha Crawford placed 58th and Hope Boggs took 83rd. The Lady Eagles finished with 300 points.
Lassiter won the girls and boys races.
Athens Christian's Brandon Griffin claimed fourth in the boys race with a 16:33, and the Eagles finished in third with 123 points. Lassiter won with 75 points and North Hall took second with 78.
Taylor Kellogg took 13th, Colin Bishoff claimed 15th, Joey Hill placed 40th and Andy Zuniga was 50th.
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Senior Brianna Streetman struck out seven and had two hits to lead the Bulldoggs against North Cobb 3-2 in Game 1.
Letha Montague and Jessica Montague each had two hits and two RBIs in Game 2, a 6-1 victory against Thomas County Central.
Senior Katie Garren added two RBIs, Vee Johnson had a hit and an RBI and Ashley Herrin and Shelby Reed each had hits. Jennifer Nesbitt earned the victory.
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Newport tight end Drew Sample verbally commits to Washington
Newport tight end Drew Sample commits to Washington, reneging on an earlier verbal to Boise State.
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Newport tight end Drew Sample committed to Washington on Friday night, reneging on an earlier verbal to Boise State.
A three-star player, Sample had committed to Boise State this past June, but reopened his recruitment after former Broncos coach Chris Petersen was hired by the Huskies.
"Ever since I got the offer I've been definitely talking to my family about the different opportunities I have at UW," Sample said. "We think it's the best place for me, not only football, but [also] getting a great education."
At 6 foot 5, 235 pounds, Sample has developed into a blocking tight end this season after Newport's offensive philosophy shifted. Sample had eight receptions for 265 yards and five touchdowns this season in helping Newport to the state playoffs.
Sample said he thinks he can provide both aspects to the UW offense and that Petersen likes his versatility.
"It definitely was tough because Boise was always good to me," Sample said. "It was more about me and different things. It was nothing against Boise, it's a great program."


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I've magically managed to put myself in another fun financial bind because of poor planning. When I went home to visit in February I didn't budget very well. With my last AEON paycheck and bonus, I was thinking that I'd have plenty of money to last me until my first Interac paycheck. Big mistake!! A round-trip plane ticket, a U.S. shopping spree and little bit business investing, can take the wind out of your financial sails rather quickly.
I was expecting only to have the month in the hole and then get paid at the April. At the latest I figured mid-May. There were several things wrong with my reasoning. First the unexpected, Great East Japan earthquake meant that training had to be postponed. I erroneously assumed that training was the start of my working contract, but unfortunately that was not the case. My contract started on April 1st, 2011. What does that mean exactly? It means I won't receive a check until May 2011!
But may 15th isn't so far away, right? Well that would be manageable. The other assumption I made (can you see what happens when you make too many assumptions?) was that Interac's payday was the same as most companies in Japan. Many companies pay their employees on the fifteenth of each month. Have you ever seen a Japanese bank on the 15th of the month, especially if it falls on a weekend? Usually there are more people there than normal. Unfortunately, for me, Interac pays employees on the last day of the month. So I'm looking at May 31st before getting any income from my job. Ummm….crap!! So that's February 28th to May 31st, no additional money. I am going into financial hibernation for a few weeks to say if that will help me to get by.
I'm worried but I'm not worried. This isn't the first time I've been in a financial bind. Roll up your sleeves, there Merlin, it's time to work some money magic!!
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Step right out of Charas and leave the runners to balance up the sketchy wall. A Direct Start is a bolder E4 5c.
The direct start was soloed in 1985 by myself. This was when the route was done without the bolt and side runner.
I liked this direct route up the face, although you really need to ab down to check/clean holds which can get filled up with dross from the tree above. The way I did it was the direct start, then lean left from the ledge to fit side-runners in Charas (quite awkward and scary); this is probably the most fun and ethical way of doing it (other than solo, of course).


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if you look at my page http://www.softfocus.co.za/photography/ (Purchase code hidden if logged out) -race-2012/ and scroll down to the bottom you'll see facebook comments, but there is a continuous wheel that spins over the app, how do i get rid of this?
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Thank you for your reply. I tried the first code in custom.css, but it totally removed the iframe.
The second didn't do anything. What do you mean by "try to use each selector one at a time" maybe I'm missing something
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I think he means to break down each css selection into its own entry however I'm not sure that will solve the issue for you. I believe this is a conflict with one of the themes javascript files and the plugin used to load in the facebook content. I know when others have run into this, they found the easiest solution was to just remove the spinning circle loading gif from the theme files so that it did not get attempted to load by the javascript.
The file to be removed is at flashlight/images/skin-minimal/loading.gif.
a different work around, but did the trick :)
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Farmers dodge dairy cliff
While the nine-month extension of the 2008 Farm Bill that was passed late Tuesday night by Congress as part of its "fiscal cliff" legislation prevented a near doubling of U.S. milk prices, many local dairy farmers note that it was a temporary "band-aid" on a problem that needs a long-term solution.
"The frustrating part is that there was so much work put into this (proposed 2012) Farm Bill, and basically, everything was in place," said Kristine Spadgenske, who along with her husband Mark, operates a 150-cow dairy farm eight miles west of Menahga, on the east edge of Becker County.
"Unfortunately, when we finally came up on the 'fiscal cliff' and Congress needed to start doing some heavy duty decision making, they could not come to an agreement on the Farm Bill -- so basically, it (a final decision) was extended for a year."
In the past, the one thing that legislators on both sides of the political divide had usually managed to come to an agreement upon was the Farm Bill, Spadgenske added -- but not this time.
"Historically, they have always managed to put away their party hats when it comes to the Farm Bill, and come together to get something accomplished -- this is the first time that really has not happened," she said. "For the dairy industry, this has been a pretty frustrating ordeal."
While extending the 2008 Farm Bill legislation did avoid a steep hike in milk prices, and gave both houses of Congress more time to reach an agreement, it also put many of the provisions included in the proposed 2012 Farm Bill legislation back onto the negotiating table, Spadgenske added.
"They had done so much leg work to get to where they were at, and I worry about having to start over -- what effect that's going to have," she said. "This (extending the 2008 Farm Bill) is just a band-aid over the wound. At some point they're going to have to sit down together and come to terms again."
One of the biggest problems with this is that not even the dairy farmers themselves agree on what the best solution may be, Spadgenske said.
"Maybe we would do fine without a Farm Bill -- there are definitely some dairy producers out there who feel that way," she added.
One of them is Philip Rotz, who along with his father, brother and their respective spouses operates a 50-cow family dairy farm two miles west of Dunvilla.
Rotz said that he had not been in favor of many of the provisions in the proposed 2012 Farm Bill legislation.
"We don't believe in government farm payments -- we've never taken a payment," Rotz said. "Personally, I would rather see them do away with the farm payments and put dairy on the global market -- instead of the dairy industry spending money on a farm bill, we should try to promote milk consumption around the world and get more global partnerships -- more worldwide consumers who would consistently contract with us and buy the product. Let's work on expanding that -- instead of spending the money on the farm bill, try to expand the global demand for milk.
"We've done a good job of promoting milk here in the U.S. -- the average person here in the U.S. consumes 600 pounds of dairy products a year," Rotz said.
By comparison, "the average person in China consumes about 100 pounds of dairy products a year," he added. "If we could get them up to even 200 (pounds)...we've got 350 million people, they've got close to a billion. To create almost double the (current) demand -- that's a lot of dairy consumption."
Spadgenske agreed that maintaining and expanding the dairy export market was an important part of the industry not just in Minnesota, but the U.S. as a whole.
"We're exporting 16 percent of everything we produce in the U.S.," she said. "That's a big part of our industry, and we need to keep exports at that level while continuing to grow that (global market)."
Allowing the 2008 Farm Bill to lapse would not have achieved that goal, however -- in fact, it may have had the opposite effect, she cautioned.
If there had been no extension on the 2008 Farm Bill legislation, "the reality of that would have been, yes, we would have had almost $40 a hundred-weight milk, but at the same time, consumer prices in the grocery store would have followed suit."
While some consumers may not have had a problem paying $6, or even $8 for a gallon of milk, many would have balked -- and the U.S. might even have ended up importing milk and other dairy products from other countries, where it would be cheaper to produce them.
"Keeping consumption (of U.S. dairy products) up is crucial to our industry," Spadgenske said. "It ($40 per hundred-weight milk) would have been a huge detriment to the U.S. dairy industry."
"In the short term, it would have been great -- in the long term, it would have killed us," said Brian Willie, who along with his son, Aaron, operates a 100-cow dairy farm 4 miles north of Detroit Lakes.
"Under the $38 to $40 (per hundred-weight) price, we would have been making good money ... but in the long term, it would destroy our milk market," he added. "We're competing globally, not just in the U.S. That would have taken us out of all our exports (markets)."
In fact, many U.S. grocery suppliers might start importing their milk and dairy products from New Zealand and other countries, where they could be produced more cheaply, he added.
At the same time, maintaining the status quo indefinitely is not going to work either.
"The present Farm Bill is not an acceptable (long-term) policy," Willie said. "It's not helping us any. There has to be some kind of support program -- we're running out of dairy farmers in a hurry."
Though he's not quite sure what form that support should take, one thing he does know is, "it can't keep going the way it is. The price of milk has to go up, one way or another."
Currently, the base price for milk is $18.50 per hundred-weight, Willie said - but the cost of production (grain, fuel, etc.) is $24 per hundred-weight.
"Grain prices are at record high levels," Willie said. "Hay is in short supply because everyone plowed up their hay to plant corn and beans. That's just natural -- that's where the money is.
"But that's where our biggest problem is, because you can't afford to feed the cows. It has to turn one way or the other. Milk (price) is going to have to go up, because we can't keep producing it for that cheap of a price at the current expenses. We can't keep losing money. You have to be able to make a profit somewhere along the line. There needs to be something done."
One possible "fix" that was included in the 2012 Farm Bill legislation was something known as the Dairy Security Act.
"It would have provided margin protection insurance for farmers," Spadgenske said. "There's a lot of disagreement over whether that was the right program or not."
Part of that legislation would have included a "supply management" provision, where farmers who were covered by this insurance would have to agree to cut production by a certain percentage during times that there was an overabundance of milk and dairy products flooding the market.
The problem that Rotz sees with this legislation is that it favors larger dairy operations.
"If you're giving these larger producers a guarantee of at least $4 (per hundred-weight) profit above feed costs, I think they're going to be expanding quite a bit, and eventually, they're going to drive out the little guys," Rotz said. "I don't think you're going to see any little guys starting up, and eventually, they're all going to disappear."
"There needs to be some kind of better pricing system, or some kind of better way to take away those peaks and valleys (in profits) for producers," Spadgenske said. "There were a lot of people who didn't agree with the Dairy Security Act, but the general consensus is that there needs to be something done. I'm not sure what the answer is, but we're losing farms every single day -- Minnesota is losing farms every single day. We've now slipped below 4,000 dairy farms (statewide). "Milk production continues to go up, but the number of farms is going down ... that's a huge concern."
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Man who witnessed killing of Mountjoy inmate re-imprisoned following jewellery heist
A man who witnessed the killing of Mountjoy inmate Gary Douch has been re-imprisoned for four years for smashing up a jewellers' shop with a sledgehammer and robbing over €15,000 worth of goods.
William O'Neill (27), of Durrow Road, Crumlin, Dublin 12, told gardaí he robbed the Balbriggan premises along with three others because he was "in a panic and needed a few bob".
O'Neill pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to robbing Goldsmiths' Jewellers, Drogheda Street, Balbriggan, Co Dublin on May 10, 2013.
He further admitted to attempted robbery at Rush Newsagents, Keeper Road, Drimnagh, on November 10, 2013, and to possessing a Taser gun at St Mary's Road, Crumlin on March 30, 2014.
Garda Ian Farrell told Fiona McGowan BL, prosecuting, that jewellery store proprietor, Anthony Murphy, was upstairs when he heard a massive bang and immediately ran downstairs.
He saw a gang of four men with one running at him shouting and wielding a claw hammer and wearing a balaclava.
Mr Murphy retreated up the stairs and saw the man and O'Neill, who was armed with a sledgehammer, smashing up display cases and removing items of jewellery.
The gang left the shop in a Toyota Corolla and were tracked down by gardaí with the help of members of the public.
They had stolen jewellery worth €15,357 and caused a total of €2,800 in damage to the shop.
In a victim impact statement, Mr Murphy said he had been concerned and upset for the safety of his children and his wife who were in the premises at the time.
O'Neill was arrested and identified himself on CCTV at the scene. He apologised to Mr Murphy and said the weapons had been simply to smash glass, not to hurt anybody.
O'Neill said the gang wanted to sell the jewellery and split the money four ways.
Detective Garda Eamon Rooney told the court that while O'Neill was on bail for robbing the jewellers, he tried to rob a newsagents armed with a wheel-brace and a blade.
O'Neill was arrested at the scene after a struggle with an employee during which both men were injured.
O'Neill struck the staff member over the head with the wheel-brace and demanded money. He later apologised to gardaí and said he had owed a drug debt of €600 to his dealer.
While on bail for these two offences, O'Neill was caught in possession of a Taser gun, claiming it was for his own protection.
Pieter Le Vert BL, defending, said O'Neill had a difficult upbringing and served his first sentence aged 15 in Mountjoy.
He said O'Neill has suffered severe post-traumatic stress disorder ever since he witnessed the killing of fellow inmate, Gary Douch, in his prison cell.
A letter from Fr Peter McVerry recommended urgent, intensive and regular counselling for O'Neill.
Passing sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court, Judge Martin Nolan noted that O'Neill had a serious criminal record with 68 previous convictions. They included drug offences, assaults, public order and criminal damage charges.
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Moffat County residents treated for possible carbon monoxide poisoning
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Twenty-four patients were treated Sunday at The Memorial Hospital in Craig after visiting the Jorgensen Event Center in Gunnison.
There was a report of carbon monoxide poisoning at the event center, where the Moffat County Bulldogs club hockey team played a doubleheader Saturday and Sunday against Gunnison and Crested Butte.
After learning of players and fans from the Gunnison area being admitted for carbon monoxide poisoning, Christine Balderston, a parent of a Bulldogs player, started letting people know about the problem, Bulldogs coach Mark Samuelson said.
"All the players on our team that played in Gunnison went and got checked out at the hospital," Samuelson said. "Everyone was treated with oxygen and tested for their exposure level."
Jennifer Riley, TMH chief of organizational excellence, said all 24 patients were tested and released.
"The carbon monoxide poisoning was not limited to the players on the ice," she said. "We tested the people for their exposure and gave them oxygen, but no one was critical and everyone was released."
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Riley said none of the patients were admitted to the hospital, but some came back Monday to be re-examined for safety precautions.
When the parents and coaches in Gunnison found out about the potential carbon monoxide poisoning, Riley said calls were made to coaches and parents in Craig to get checked out.
"It was a big incident for the hospital because we got a large number of people in just three hours," she said. "Everyone got the care they needed and it all worked out well."
The Gunnison Country Times reported the causes behind the poisoning were a mechanical failure in the building's ventilation system and the rink's Zamboni machine.
Samuelson said he felt players were more affected than fans and coaches because of their exertion on the ice.
"Our coach that was at the game, Mark Bangs, did get checked out, but the players seem to be affected more," he said. "They seemed to have breathed more of the carbon monoxide in while playing."
Channel 9 News reported two Denver players were flown back to Denver for hyperbaric chamber treatment and have since been released.
A few Bulldogs players were also cared for and released from hospitals in Grand Junction and Montrose.
The hockey team will practice this week, Samuelson said, but participation will be at the discretion of the players.
"The guys are a resilient bunch of kids," he said. "We will have practice, but we will take it easy and see how everyone feels."
Samuelson said he is happy everyone is healthy and the incident is now behind his team.
"It was a terrible accident and just one of those things you don't plan for," he said. "It's something you don't want or expect to happen, so we are fortunate nothing horrific came out of it."
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So my other thread asking for names similar to Cleo got me thinking, what about longer names that could get me to the nickname Cleo? I already had Colette suggested, any other ideas?
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You could use Cliona- who, in some Irish myths, is the goddess of love and beauty. Other spellings include Cliodhna, Clidna, Clionadh, Cliodna or Cleena. I think it's lovely.
I just read that the mother of Angelica Kauffman (18c. painter) was named Cleophea; I've also seen Cléophée (=the French equivalent?).
There's also Cleome (a flower), Cleodora (a Greek nymph, mother of Parnassus), Cleodolinda, Cleolinda, Cleïs (name of Sappho's daughter), Clélie (Latin: Cloelia; could also be "Clell")...
Cléophée is an option.
I love Cleo/Clio a lot better as full names. ^_^ I also love Cleopatra (and know one) and wish it would come back, but I understand it's not everyone's cup of tea.
How about:
Cleodal (a glorious woman)
Cleodora (gift of god)
Cleofe (clee-oh-fee -- she who shows signs of glory)
Cleone (clee-oh-nee -- famous/father's glory)
That's all I got >.<
Thanks for all the ideas! I'm still trying to convince my DH to take Cleo just as it is, but its good to have some other options to present him with. Recently he said he might like Cleo better if we spelled it with a K, so Kleo. I for some reason just don't like that as much, I sometimes think he just wants to have had some hand in the name picking, if that makes sense.


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I am struck by how fast this situation in the North Africa and the Middle East (Egypt, Libya, etc) has occurred and why. What keeps going thru my mind is how similar it is to a virus – a pandemic. And, of course, the irony is the fact that one of the primary causes of the situation is the Internet, which as we all know, is like a giant Petri dish designed to incubate and nurture viruses – digital viruses.
How long will this upheaval go on? What country is next? How will it be stopped? Where will it end and why – all questions that are important to you, me, and the rest of the world.
The problem is what to do about it. There is no leader. There is no group really that "started" it. There is no specific cause that is driving it other than a general idea about "Democracy". There is really no organized conspiracy and no conspirators. There was no specific "beginning" and other than the general idea of removing the existing government, there really isn't a goal or an agenda. There is no traditional set of tangible factors and in their stead, there is only a kind of a mass convulsion – a spontaneous combustion – a seemingly random release of unstoppable energy moving in no specific direction other than any direction where a barrier has been erected or exists.
It reminds me of water. In "normal" times it is benign and can be manipulated (bridges, dams, irrigation systems, dykes, pump stations, mops, dryers, etc) but in abnormal times it is impossible to control or direct (hurricanes, floods, tsunamis, etc).
So, if you agree with the idea that this uprising is similar to a virus-driven pandemic, one is then called to ask, "how do you contain a pandemic" . And the answer, for all intensive purposes, is that you don't. Not really. You can do a number of small things but nothing that substantially alters the course that has already been set in motion.
You essentially sit on the sidelines and watch it run its course and hope that it doesn't get you or your loved ones. And that, I think, interestingly enough, is about where I see us standing at the moment – bystanders on the sidelines of a world-wide event that is growing and spreading and which we are relatively powerless to influence.
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For me, the happiest place on earth…in the Little Tokyo Arts District.
This is what I love about this sorta-kinda-job of mine. Going to places I haven't been before, that are in places that I thought I knew pretty well. Thus, we come to Wurstküche.
Yeah, I know. I'm flailing with the pronunciation too.
Wurstküche is an old fashioned German Brats and Beer Hall with a modern twist.
The modern twist being…that it's all sleek and modern.
What? Where you looking for? The wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen and a bunch of St. Pauli Girls?
Oh, know I'm late to this dance party, but I'm in paradise. This is my new Happy place. This may be my new Birthday meal (standing alongside Philipe's and Mambo's).
You walk in, wait in a short line (slightly longer if it's lunch), and look over the menu.
As your waiting there, one of the lovely waitstaff offers you Beer, BEER I say.
No, it's not free, but does that matter? You're having a freakin' beer as you're waiting in line. In my case a good German Weihenstephan, dark and sweet.
You order your food, and then go into the…well, very functional, and thus…in it's own way…very Hans Ritcher (he's an Artist — look him up) German Dining Hall. Don't worry, there's a Bar in there too. There you wait, sipping on your brew and waiting for your Sausages to arrive. It doesn't take long after that. The Sausages arrive good and hot. From there you can pour on any varietal of mustard you see fit (there are plenty) scattered around the communal and non-communal tables. Afterwards, you can turn to the bar for your continued Beer drinking and Ice Cream Sandwich needs.
Yes, there are Ice Cream sandwiches.
There's a small outdoor patio, about three tables. Still, with summer coming on (as I write this) it's better to be inside, with all those magical sausages, just waiting on someone to chomp down on them.
WHAT SHOULD I GET?: Well, since this is a Sausage House, and that's pretty much all they serve. That an Belgian fries.
I myself went old School with a Bockwurst, which is just Veal, Pork and spices. Someone in line with me vehemently, vehemently demanded I get the Rattlesnake and Rabbit Sausage. I didn't know how to tell him that this was my first visit, and that that may have been a bit much for anyone's first visit.
Seriously, why do people get insistent that you have what they have?
After that, I needed to keep it simple. I wanted to see if Wurstküche could handle the basics, which for me, includes a Louisiana Hot Link.
They can. It was a good and spicy. It packed a decent punch without burning out the inside of your mouth. It's going to be hard to resist getting it again on visits: two, three, four and beyond.
On the side, I rolled with a single order (the Eine) of Belgian Fries with a Sundried Tomato Mayo dipping sauce. Wonderful complement. Of course, one Weihenstephan was enough for my whole meal.
After that, I sauntered up to the bar (I did mention the bar in the Main Dining Hall, right?) and ordered me, not another beer, but a Toasted Apple Pie Ice Cream Sandwich. Ohhhh, sweet Lord yes. They apparently cooked up some kind of pie crust, cut 'em into cookie and slapped some good ice cream in the middle. You will leave happy.
IMPORTANT SAFETY TIP, PEOPLE: I think the first question you're going to face is what kind of beer you might like. There are going to be a lot of brands on the menu that frankly you may not recognize. Try something that isn't Budweiser or Sam Adams, and go forth unafraid. The Ladies who are attending your Beer needs in line know their stuff. Go ahead and ask 'em for a recommendation. They'll match you nicely with something that'll taste great…for you. It's how I wound up with my Weihenstephan.
Oh, and this is one of those places that serves each of their beers in their own particular and unique glasses.
BTW, Steins are available for double the price of the normal size. But be warned, that's a lot of beer.
Next question is how many you should get. I was able to swing two Sausages, and a single order of Belgian Fries, and still had room for a Toasted Apple Pie Ice Cream Sandwich.
There are vegetarian options…three of 'em…in the Classic Sausage menu.
The Restaurant is approximately four blocks from the Japanese American National Museum.
Some of the neighbors around Wurstküche apparently aren't thrilled they're in the neighborhood. They've set up a Website, and it's…uhh, well…something.
I have no idea what's going down with all the strum and drang depicted on the website, all I can ask any reader of this site is…just make sure you're a good neighbor when you visit the neighborhood. People do live and work here. Don't make whatever's going on between Wurstküche and the neighborhood worse by anything you do. Let them hash it out. You just enjoy your meal…
…and be sure make use of the Tip Jar by the Register!
PARKING: There is a lot of metered Street Parking around the Restaurant. I went on a Saturday afternoon at peak Lunch Rush, and still found a spot a half a block away. If you're willing to hoof it, you'll get yourself a space, particurally along Hewitt. The meters are set for $4 bucks, but that's for four hours. That's good if you want to hit the Japanese American National Museum and get a bite to eat. But if you just want to eat, dial it back to and hour and a half.
There is a Parking Lot charging $5, about a half block from Wurstküche on Traction, as a backup.
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|Versailles, France, 48n48, 2e08
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French diplomat, engineer and builder of canals. From 1825 to his resignation in 1849, he worked in the French consular and diplomatic service, serving as minister to Spain 1848–1849.
While serving in Egypt a few years later, he conceived the idea of a Suez Canal, and on 30 November 1854, obtained from Said Pasha, viceroy of Egypt, the concession to open a passage through the isthmus of Suez. He was the chief figure in organizing the canal company and raised, by popular subscription in France, over half the capital needed. He supervised the actual construction (the first blow of the pickax was given by Lesseps at Port Said on 25 April 1859); and ten years later, on 17 November 1869, the Suez Canal was officially inaugurated. Lesseps achieved world renown when the venture proved successful.
In 1878, at age 74, he reluctantly accepted the Presidency of a French company to build the Panama Canal and work was begun in 1881. Lack of funds forced the project into bankruptcy seven years later, amid charges of corruption. Lesseps was brought to trial for misappropriation of funds and was convicted of Panama fraud 9 February 1893. Together with his son, he was sentenced to prison by the French government when he was aged 87. The sentence, however, was not carried out, and most objective observers, then and since, have held Lesseps to have been guilty only of negligence. He and died the following year on 7 December 1894 in La Chenaie, France.
Lesseps is the author of "The Isthmus of Suez Question," 1855, "The Suez Canal: Letters and Documents Descriptive of its Rise and Progress in 1854-1856," 1876 and "Recollections of Forty Years," 1887.
- associate relationship with Dervillé, Stéphane (born 4 May 1848)
- parent->child relationship with de Lesseps, Jacques (born 5 July 1883)
- compare to chart of Historic: Suez Canal Opening (born 17 November 1869). Notes: important role in building the canal
- Financial Crime Perpetration 9 February 1893 (Convicted of fraud with the Panama Canal contract)
chart Placidus Equal_H.
Source Notes
B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher (Lescaut quotes Gauquelin for November 21, 1805, the date when the birth was registered)
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Thief/ Financial crime (Accused of misappropriation)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 89)
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Engineer : Civil (Construction)
- Vocation : Politics : Diplomat
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Problem Solving
- 1805 births
- Birthday 19 November
- Birthplace Versailles, FR
- Sun 26 Scorpio
- Moon 8 Scorpio
- Asc 11 Taurus
- 1894 deaths
- Passions : Criminal Perpetrator : Thief/ Financial crime
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs
- Vocation : Business : Top executive
- Vocation : Engineer : Civil
- Vocation : Politics : Diplomat
- Notable : Extraordinary Talents : For Problem Solving


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Hot on the heels of the passing of the Late Dynastic Period, Sierra Studios is releasing Pharaoh, a game by the creators of the Caesar series. A chat will be held this Thursday, November 4 at 7pm PST to "allow fans and press to find out everything that they ever wanted to know about Pharaoh." The chat will include several important members of the Pharaoh team including designer Chris Beatrice, art director Darrin Horbal, QA manager Jon Payne and producers Greg Sheppard and Ken Parker. Sierra is hoping that Pharaoh will be a huge hit for the company, or in the words of Sierra Studios VP Jim Veevaert, "a monumental success." Whether that comment is meant as a joke, we've chosen not to take it as such. When asked what features of Pharaoh will be responsible for the success of Pharaoh, Jim says that it offers "the best in graphics, gameplay and historical authenticity" without slaves.
To get a "behind the scenes look at Pharaoh," check out the chat at the Pharaoh site.
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Fedora 14 !stuck in many issues . .
well, i had installed fedora 14 and everything was fine.But I needed to enable 3d acceleration and for that i installed nvidia drivers using help of the below link
I skipped the second step in it.
and I used this command to install the drivers ::::: yum install akmod-nvidia xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-libs
Since then, I wasn't able to boot in GUI mode. Fedora freezes at splash screen.
my xorg log >>>>>>>>>>> ( kindly adjust ) >>>> m unable to post my xorg.log as my post count < 15
at last when I tried to switch to runlevel 3 by command "init 3",
I get following error >>>>>>>
Dir missing :
/usr/modules/184.108.40.206.45.fc.14. . ./build/
when I navigated through the above path, kernel version showed different. (kernel-220.127.116.11-92.fc14.i686)
$rpm -qa kernel
(i guess my kernel somehow got updated )
I want to boot into gui mode with 3d acceleration effects .
Can any1 help me here ?????
Thanks in advance
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Have you tried the Linux drivers from Nvidia's driver download website?
Whenever I'm dissatisfied with either the nouveau or nv drivers, I end up trying theirs. You do need the kernel sources in place, though (yum install kernel-devel or kernel-PAE-devel).
In any case, you should probably rpm -e whatever nouveau drivers you installed and start over, either w/Nvidia's binary or the Xorg/Fedora nvidia driver package.
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I was having same problem with Nvidia. After replacement to ATI Display card everything is fine. In my 7 years experience with Mandriva Linux I am of opinion that Nvidia cards are not working properly in Linux as Nvidia do not give free & proper Linux drivers.


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MIAMI (AP) -- A jailed Boston mob leader is expected to testify Monday for the prosecution in the murder trial of former FBI agent John Connolly.
Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi is serving a life prison sentence for 10 murders.
He's expected to implicate Connolly in the 1982 murder of gambling executive John Callahan in Miami.
Prosecutors claim Connolly helped set up the murder and Flemmi knows about that.
Connolly insists he is innocent.
The 74-year-old Flemmi is serving a life sentence for 10 murders in the witness security program of the federal prison system.
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It's all we are about. For a generation with an attention span about the size of a pea we sure know how to do a whole lot of things at once.
For instance... On any given night from the hours of about 9-12PM i will be sitting in my bed with my MAC on my lap, watching whatever TV show I must watch that night while I have my trusty blackberry right by my side just incase I get a call which I can put on speaker and then text at the same time.
So I may not be able to walk and blow bubbles at the same time but I can sure do a few other tricks!
We thrive on multi-tabbed browsing! Again with every network we belong to... Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, oh not to mention the three email addresses you hold!... all must be monitored and god forbid we miss a single friend request!
I think this gives us a huge advantage to the past generations! I've found in the office I can sit, I can do my excel sheets, I can twitter about the museum I work at and at the same time find out everything that is going on in the world. Now, by being apart of all these networks you can reach out to the "friends" you have acquired and who knows who may help you along the way.
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SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Most of the drought-stricken Western Canadian province of Alberta received a sprinkling of rain between Thursday evening and Friday morning, but patches of the region got as much as 30 millimeters (1.2 inches).
Within a 100-km (62-mile) radius of Edmonton, the provincial capital, spotty rainfall ranging widely between 5 and 30 mm (0.2 and 1.2 inches), said Ralph Wright, soil moisture specialist with the Alberta government.
But other dry areas received little rainfall, with the southern city of Calgary getting just 2 to 3 mm (0.08 to 0.12 inches), Grande Prairie collecting less than 2 mm and Red Deer receiving 4 to 6 mm (0.16 to 0.24 inches).
"What we need is a system to park over Alberta and drop moisture for four to five days," Wright said.
However, relief may be on the way. Two U.S.-based meteorologists say the Prairies are in for a wetter month, with average to above-average precipitation [ID:nN02452400].
Environment Canada is forecasting rain for most of the next week across most of central Alberta.
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DURHAM � Mikie Mahtook and Jayson Nix hit back-to-back sacrifice flies in the sixth inning as the Durham Bulls overcame the Pawtucket Red Sox in a 5-2 victory in International League baseball Tuesday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
It was the first meeting between the teams since Durham won the Governors� Cup last September.
Cole Figueroa�s RBI double added an insurance run during the Bulls� four-run sixth inning.
Adam Liberatore (2-1) was the winning pitcher in relief. Bulls starter Nathan Karns allowed only Corey Brown�s home run across five innings, though he escaped a base-loaded mess later in the fifth.
Durham relievers C.J. Riefenhauser and Kirby Yates didn�t yield a run, though the game ended with the bases loaded on a called third strike. Yates notched his 15th save.
Justin Christian scored two runs and Mahtook had two RBI.
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We've released BUG Mod 3.6! Major new features include - In-game dot-mapping tool for laying out city BFCs - EventSigns shows effects of random events on plots - BUG Charts lets you view multiple charts at once - BUG Finance Advisor with detailed line items - Min/Max Commerce Rate buttons for binary research - Field of View slider - Improved Foreign Advisor INFO page - Smaller multilingual installer with more options Plus many small imrprovements, bug fixes, and much more! Here is the full change log: Changes in BUG Mod 3.6: New Features: - Added map script "Maze" by Sirian - Field of View slider on the main screen - Improvements to stats tab on info screen - Tick Marks for selected progress bars (tech, food, production) - Tick Marks: Added whip threshold indicator to city production bar (look for yellow center tick mark) - Added FoodAssist: net food added to stores per turn and turns until starvation - Added EventSigns: plots whose yields change due to random events marked on the map with signs - Added BUG Finance Advisor with detailed line items for Commerce and Income - Added Min/Max Commerce Rate buttons: set any commerce rate to 0% or 100% with one click - Added Gold Rate Warning: yellow gold rate when negative but not enough to go below zero - Added Strategy Overlay: create a multicolored in-game dot map - Log the current turn slider values (gold, science, culture, espionage) Improvements: - Customizable Domestic Advisor (CDA) now also resizable based on 2 new BUG options - CDA: Added a "whip anger" column to CDA (not added to any pages) - CDA: coloring options now allow reversed comparisons (i.e. higher numbers are worse) - Show attitudes in leaderhead hovers in Exotic Foreign Advisor (EFA) Info tab and Military Advisor (MA) - EFA Info tab: Added Domestic Trade total and correct detection of possibility of trade routes - EFA Info tab: Added second trade column (for number of trade routes) to EFA Info Tab - Advanced Scoreboard: option to show Civ ID number; 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|Duck a l'orange with wild rice at Sel et Poivre
Open since 1989, Sel et Poivre is a neighborhood gem that obviously has a regular clientele. The setting is more upscale than the standard bistro, with candles on white tables and elegant sconces on off-white walls with wood paneling. The restaurant was busy on a Tuesday night, with a mix of older couples, younger groups, and families enjoying some French favorites. We noticed two customers contently dining solo.
The restaurant offers all the classics you would expect to find at a traditional French bistro. There are bowls of French onion soup, dishes of garlicky escargots, and servings of moules mariniere with frites. Entrees include trout almandine, frogs legs a la provencal, and duck a l'orange. The wine lists offers a mix of French and international wines, with a generous selection of wines by the glass.
|Aged New York sirloin steak served with Roquefort or poivre sauce
|Striped bass with artichokes and fennel
Steak featured lots of poivre, in a good way; it was juicy and peppery and delicious. We tried it with a mild Roquefort sauce and an excellent poivre sauce, which was creamy and peppery. We fought over which sauce was better with fries (my vote was the poivre).
|Veal kidneys with mustard cream sauce
|Molten chocolate cake with ice cream
Desserts were the usual classics, done right. Creme brulee was set well with a great charred crust. The chocolate dessert was your basic (delicious) molten chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream.
Sel et Poivre
853 Lexington Ave. (between 64th and 65th)
Tel. (212) 517-5780
Disclaimer: My meal was paid-for as part of an organized press dinner. The opinions expressed in this review are my own. No restaurant is ever promised a positive review.


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Q. We're being sued for discrimination. What circumstances would open us for punitive damages? —L.C., Massachusetts
A. When Congress amended Title VII of the Civil Rights Act in 1991 to allow employees to claim punitive damages, it made such damages available only when an employer engages in intentional discrimination. That standard became clearer after a 1999 U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Kolstad v. American Dental Association), which said employees must prove that an employer acted with either reckless indifference or actual malice. Courts will look at internal documents, e-mail and management statements to make the call.
Punitive damages are awarded to punish employers, so those awards can be huge, but federal law caps punitive damages in Title VII cases at $300,000.


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dahsiung wrote:It's not my favorite but I always liked the story my very first (terrible) Chinese teacher told me about "美"
She said, "The top part is goat and the bottom part is big. Because in ancient China ... if you had a goat and it was big ... then that was beautiful"
Yeah, class was fun. She was serious, by the way - not just giving me a mnemonic device.
How beautiful you are, my darling!
Oh, how beautiful!
Your eyes behind your veil are doves.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
descending from Mount Gilead.
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