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Everyone is actually asleep while I write this post, and it's the only time at night where it's peaceful for me. I really should be in bed cuddling with Eric, but he's exhausted as well. He's working long hours and making the big money to ensure that I get to be a stay home mommy. Luckily Elena and Emilio sleep through the night, and give me a solid 8+ hours of sleep. I wasn't even sure that I wanted to write a food post until I read Courtney's post. My actual anniversary was a week or two ago, but as you can tell my life has been a little hectic because I'm a stay at home mommy.
But you know what, that's been the best part of my year - that I'm a stay at home mommy. I'm here everyday for Elena and Emilio. I hear their first cries in the morning, change their dirty diapers and make all the tears go away, and feed them. We play peek-a-boo and sing songs about monkeys jumping off the beds to make them smile. Or I make goofy faces and make weird noises so they can laugh at me. I take Elena to the playground so she can feel the air in her hair when she swings, and I see her big goofy smiles as she slides down the slide or laugh at her when she makes the silliest faces. I coo and ahh at Emilio's lovable face, and cuddle him close as I nurse him to sleep. I rock them both to sleep if need be and watch and sing along to Daniel Tiger and Mickey Mouse cartoons. I do all of this in a day and sometimes more because I'm a stay at home mommy. They bring me absolute joy and there's nothing else in life that matters more.
So on the occasion when I have a moment to spare, I will share a recipe that we have liked. Blogging has been my biggest hobby these past 5 years and now having two kids has prioritized my time. Nowadays, most recipes that you might see on the blog are meals that we have eaten or recipes that we have shared with family and friends. Most days I have been cooking foods for all three of us to enjoy and I will admit that there are foods that Elena will not tolerate. Not everything is blog-worthy, her favorite foods have been Greek yogurt, string cheese, bread and butter, nectarines, bananas and scrambled eggs. There isn't much recipe planning going on there, just simple cooking for my little foodie. She is definitely a picky foodie baby, and she's having a little trouble since she only has 6 teeth or so. However, I bet once all her teeth come in, she will be chomping on food without any hesitations.
This recipe is a summer hit in my books. This has been one of my favorite savory ways to enjoy tomatoes from the garden. Lately, Elena will walk around the garden with me and point at everything. She even ate dirt when I wasn't looking for the one second that I took my eyes off her, it's a rite of passage to eat dirt as a kid, right? I try and point and explain to her what everything is and let her hold the tomatoes that I have picked. It is important for me to prepare meals that our family will enjoy because I'm creating food memories for my family. These food memories will shape our paths as eaters further into the future than any of us really expect and will soon become great food memories in the years to pass. Maybe Elena will remember picking tomatoes with me and watching me work in the garden and quite possibly she will remember the food that I made along with it, too. Those are the memories worth treasuring.
Happy Labor Day weekend!
Adapted from The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook
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Yield: 4 servings
- Tomato Vinaigrette:
- 1 medium tomato, peeled (if desired), seeded and chopped
- 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- Fish:
- 6 to 8 ounce (4 each) halibut fillets
- olive oil to coat pan
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- Tomato Salsa:
- 4 medium Roma tomatoes
- 1/2 English cucumber, diced, seeds removed
- 2 bell peppers, red or combination of colors if available
- 1/2 cup small sweet onion, diced
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh chives (optional for garnish)
- Prepare tomato vinaigrette. In a blender or food processor, puree the tomato until smooth. Add the sherry vinegar. With the machine running, slowly add the olive oil. Taste for seasonings, add salt and pepper. Set aside.
- Bring the halibut to room temperature. Season with salt and pepper on both sides.
- Toss salsa ingredients together in a small bowl.
- Heat a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Once the pan is hot, coat the pan generously with the olive oil making sure that the oil is spread even. Once the oil is hot, place the fish in the pan and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, until the fish is golden underneath. If your pan is not large enough, cook fish in batches until all fish has been cooked. Carefully flip the fillets. Cook for a few minutes, until a fork cuts through easily and the meat is opaque white and flaky.
- Arrange the fish on the plate and drizzle with the tomato vinaigrette. Garnish with tomato salsa and chopped chives.
- If halibut is not available, try another flaky white fish like cod.
I also love to blog because I love sharing my stories to all of you and I plan on sharing all these recipes to my kids in the years to come, too. I have future sous chefs in the making!


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50 or 54
I bought my .50 CVA plainsman over 30 years ago.
I have used it for rabbits, when I needed to keep my expertise up (aim small miss small or not at all)
And on Antelope (got to be sneaky) Mule Deer out on the open plains of Wyoming.
And I had one very good shot at an elk less than 100yds.
The deer for most part didn't take more than a couple steps before they dropped.
The elk walked off couple hundred yards and stopped. 2nd shot dropped him
So yes the 50 is a good choice.
But like some others I would go with a 54.
Slight more wallop, no big difference in recoil.
My 50 is a 1 in 48 twist. But once sighted in the accuracy is good with both RB and conicals.
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"This isn't something that companies like Microsoft and Apple will undertake lightly,..."
What a scary world it'd be if we only had two choices. That is, those two choices.
International boffins have been enlisted to stop that most annoying of internet snafus, the buffering circle of doom right in the middle of your kitten video. The European Commission will splaff €3,569,000 over three years in an effort to reduce internet transport latency (the RITE project) without a requirement for new and …
"This isn't something that companies like Microsoft and Apple will undertake lightly,..."
What a scary world it'd be if we only had two choices. That is, those two choices.
Okay, I'm a right good socialist. I believe in centralised health care, employment insurance, emergency services, education and so forth. I even believe that certain things should be nationalised (like telecommunications infrastructure) because they are "natural monopolies." In addition, I - sin of sins - believe that governments should fund primary research (a-la NASA) because there are no private entities that are capable of long term thinking or willing to invest in raw R&D anymore. (R.I.P. Xerox PARC from the era of not sucking.)
But government money to develop new networking protocols/algorithms to reduce latency? What the twentyfold detonated hells? This is exactly the sort of thing we have a private sector (and free - if preferably regulated - markets) for! This is something with a clearly defined return on investment and a very short horizon on return. If this could be done for such a paltry sum of money, why aren't we leaving this up to the private sector to solve?
"This isn't something that companies like Microsoft and Apple will undertake lightly,..."
Like hell.
If Apple or Microsoft - especially Apple - thought for an instant they could solve this problem in a way that could be realistically implemented, they'd be all over that like white on rice. Microsoft would want the licenceing and Apple would find a way to sue someone with it.
To say nothing of how desperately Cisco would love to own something like that. (What with Software Defined Networking rendering the bulk of their business model irrelevant and all…) I am willing to bet you couldn't throw a rock in the valley without hitting some dude working on exactly this problem at some stealth-mode startup. Hell, I met a few of them last time I was there!
So what gives? What the heck am I missing here? How is this something any government at any level should be involved in? I am legitimately confused as to how this came about.
> certain things should be nationalised (like telecommunications infrastructure)
Trevor, grow the fuck up. I have worked in a nationalised telecom infrastructure provider exploiting its telecom infrastructure "natural monopoly". Yeah no. Enjoy your soviet-era mindset and permanent fixation on finding the next justification to not change anything and destroy any stirrings of progress. "Somebody wants a modem? Can't we make this illegal??"
Another problem entirely is that natural monopolies are about as real as pink unicorns and there is no reason to make a fantasm actual by then granting actual monopolies. This is the mindset that tries to "create jobs" by increase of the monetary mass.
And if you want that, I don't see why you would roll over some protocol research.
"Grow the fuck up" = "agree with my antiquated view of the world based not on provable facts and figures, but the fairy tales I was taught about economics as a child." Nice. Glad to see you are at least internally consistent with the stereotype.
The private sector is fucking pants at investing in primary research. That's something governments do well...or did. until the private sector became a "person" in some backwater stinkholes and started changing the direction of the large research institutions every two years via the application of ridiculous amounts of lobbying. Rapidly decaying clusterfucks that were once proud nations aside, there are plenty of examples where government funded primary research with long time horizons produces results that simply would never be funded by the private sector today.
That is where this money should be going. Not into items with definable markets and a describable, positive ROI. If you can build a near-term business case for it, then the government doesn't have any business poking it's head into it.
Which is exactly why nationalised – or at the very least regulated-to-be-shared telecommunications and power infrastructure is better. I'm sorry you had a shitty experience, but fuck your anecdotes with a lacquered bus. I've had a shitty experience: it is called "privatisation." The privatisation of our power and telecommunications industries have been horrible for the consumer…and worse for businesses!
Competition never emerged, and investment only occurred when backs were against the wall. Specifically, advancements only happen when enough citizens get together and threaten to create collectively-owned telecommunciations or power infrastructure and start banging on the regulator's door. At that point, the existing monopoly/duopoly providers will have an aneurism and send in a fleet of lawyers. Two years later an agreement will be reached to slowly advance the state of infrastructure (or drop rates) to the minimum possible level required to stop the citizenry from phoning the politicians.
It was a hell of a lot more efficient when this was more or less directly controlled by the politicians; when shit didn't move fast enough, we screamed like banshees and shit got done.
We could go toe to toe with anecdotes all day long, but since there seems to be a reasonable amount of evidence that backs up my personal anecdotes, I'll stick with my outlook on the world, thank you.
I'd much rather have the UK's telecommunications infrastructure than Canada's, or (heaven forbid) most of the US. That whole "being forced to sell bandwidth wholesale" thing sure worked out better there than privatisation did for us.
And don't get me started on North American cellular rates…
D-A-M, this is how we know we're getting old.
Those who weren't around at the time believe the socialist claptrap and start talking about how wonderful BT and British Rail were in comparison to what we have now. I'm sure that the only reason that they're not regaling us with how wonderful British Leyland was is that enough of their products survive to remind us how godawfully shite they were.
Those who refuse to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
"But government money to develop new networking protocols/algorithms to reduce latency? What the twentyfold detonated hells? This is exactly the sort of thing we have a private sector (and free - if preferably regulated - markets) for! This is something with a clearly defined return on investment and a very short horizon on return. If this could be done for such a paltry sum of money, why aren't we leaving this up to the private sector to solve?"
Err, the core TCP/IP protocols were developed under DARPA funding from the US Govt for military research needs. It's not exactly a novel funding model.
Let me suggest that companies (tend) to build point solutions to benefit themselves (anyone remember networking SNA style?).
Vendor lockin is still a popular strategy and Microsoft (to name one major but not sole culprit) record has not been impressive.
So yes chipping in some funding solely to develop a compatible protocol that can go to the IETF for adoption as an internet wide standard is not a bad idea. The real question will be wheather it will be too skewed to the telcos in the group and wheather this many partners will get bogged down in co-ordination issues.
The point about leaving this up to companies like Apple, Microsoft or Google to research and patent the buggery out of and then stifle development and improvement just seems to prove itself. If a government were to research and do this then the results should be given out free and therefore benefitting all, not just a few corporations.
I consider the development of TCP/IP to have been essentially primary research. Beyond that, there was a legitimate military requirement. There were all sorts of reasons that it made sense for that to be developed on the public dime.
In this instance, I can't really come up with a good argument why this should be developed by a government. There are lots of good market reasons for people to develop this technology in the private sector and make it interoperable.
The Storage Networking Industry Association's plugfests server to me as an example of how the private sector can even work together when there is a business case to be made for interoperability. I guess I just can't find a way to classify this as anything close to "primary research." It seems like this is exactly the sort of thing that we should have coming out of Cisco's R&D, proposed to a central standards authority, then pay Cisco the FRAND tithe on their patent for 10 years.
My gripe here isn't about spending a few million. We piss away more than that on those pointless perv scanners. My gripe here is that we have a government undertaking to develop a technology that there is no requirement for a government to develop, seemingly for no reason other than to prevent private industry from being able to milk it for patents.
I am no big fan of large corporations…but this strikes me as a terrible plan. If governments are going to run around and stat picking off the low-hanging IP fruit, then it strikes me that corporations are going to start reconsidering even the pittance they spend on R&D now.
Thus it seems to me that the narrow benefit to the people – dodging one round of patent payments that will probably add a buck tops to any new device – has the potential to be dramatically overshadowed by the chilling effect such efforts could very well have on private sector R&D spend. R&D spend which is – quite frankly – piss poor as it is.
I agree with some of what you said, Trevor, until you got to this:
"The privatisation of our power and telecommunications industries have been horrible for the consumer…and worse for businesses!"
I simply do not see how anyone can make that claim with a straight face. I worked for BT for several years on either side of privatisation. Privatisation of telecomms infrastructure is the only reason we aren't still sitting with a rented POTS phone on our desk, and paying through the nose for 56K dialup. Suggesting that it was better when it was controlled by the politicians sounds like that old saw about how Mussolini got the trains to run on time, it isn't exactly a point in his favour.
"The Storage Networking Industry Association's plugfests server to me as an example of how the private sector can even work together when there is a business case to be made for interoperability. "
Until someone notices that interoperability also means "the customer can swap our kit out for some cheap stuff", at which point SNIA discussions start to look very like the decision-making process in the EU. Manufacturer "X" fully supports the idea of the new protocol, but would just like to propose this tiny amendment which will make it sooo much better. Oh dear, yes, I suppose that will mean another few months of approvals rounds, but it will be worth it in the end. How many years has SMI-S been going round for, and how many manufacturers actually support enough of it to be interoperable? The company I worked for when it started gave up waiting years ago and cancelled the project that was going to use it.
I'm old enough to remember maybe 30 years or so of British Rail, and it wasn't nice. Same with the other huge nationalized monopolies - anyone who has to deal with BT today has some inkling of their attitude to consumers.
So naturally when Mrs Thatcher discovered Adam Smith and David Ricardo and started promoting the free market and private enterprise, I was all for it. Let's get some efficiency and profit motivation!
I think we can all see how that turned out. So the sad conclusion is that we have two extremes, public ownership and private ownership, and both stink considerably - although for different reasons. Nationalized industries don't tend to give their employees (or managers) any strong reason to do better or try harder (except for the milk of human kindness, which I have noticed does not flow strongly in everyone's veins). But privatization is just a way of handing the profits of arguably increased efficiency to executives and shareholders.
The first step is to understand that life is not a test. Trying to find the best way of running a country is not like Sudoku, where there is one correct answer and you can find it with enough skill and persistence. We need to recall Abraham Lincoln's very deep remark that "statesmanship is the art of exploiting individual meannesses for the general good". And then we need to find some people who can actually do that - a very difficult trick, as mean people are very ingenious in finding ways to avoid contributing to the general good. (Hello Amazon, Google, Vodafone, Starbucks, and the rest of you!)
Public projects of any kind need to be undertaken from an engineering systems perspective, and one of the ground rules must be that human material is specified and tested just as rigorously as concrete or steel. There are decent honest hard-working people out there with the necessary skills and experience, but you won't find them by interviewing, competitive tender (what a joke), or choosing "people like us" as in "Yes, Minister". Instead, "by their fruits shall ye know them". Go by performance and objectively documented results.
Now you could have a fine long argument about whether the Internet itself was the result of a government project. It was sponsored by ARPA, but much of the most important work was done by private firms. Perhaps the most important point is that it never had a high political profile, so the scientists and engineers were allowed to work in peace.
>Those who refuse to learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.
And those who don't know their history never know what hit them.
For all the faults of BT - and they were many - it was a nationalised BT who paid for the digital investment which later, private companies were able to enjoy, and which enabled the huge increase in services (and reliability) we now associate with telecoms.
Would a private corporation have done that? Maybe - about now, probably, not in the early 80s.
>Privatisation of telecomms infrastructure is the only reason we aren't still sitting with a rented POTS phone on our desk, and paying through the nose for 56K dialup.
Bollocks. The reason you aren't lumbered with that analog equipment is because of the money a nationalised BT spent on digital 60% of which was installed before privatisation.
@Phil O'Sophical Well, I guess it's different here. Canada still HAS a few government-run telecoms companies, and they provide as-good-or-better service to their customers at lower prices. And they do so in the places that have far lower population density and more hurdles to overcome than private offerings.
Privatisation simply did not spur innovation here. All it did was drive up prices. It sure as shit didn't spur any new investment in infrastructure.
"I'm sure that the only reason that they're not regaling us with how wonderful British Leyland was is that enough of their products survive to remind us how godawfully shite they were."
If they were that shite, how come so many of them survive?
My parents owned a Morris Marina. In winter, they would park it on a hill top, half a mile from our house so they could push start it when the battery would inevitably fail. Thirty years later I saw a similar vintage marina being driven in Malta. BL cars were very popular there at the time because they were cheap, spares were plentiful and they were surprisingly reliable in the dry climate. British Leyland didn't make shite cars, they just weren't suited to the British climate!
I really do not see what relevance Microsoft and Apple have in this scenario. Presumably, the problem lies in the routing that takes place between the server you are streaming from and your own internet connection.
As most of these servers run some flavor of unix or linux, most of the routers do the same, Microsoft and Apple are totally irrelevant here.
That sounds like "bufferbloat" - something Robert Cringely has been writing about for years.
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""It's a problem we all notice when you're using a program like Skype. If anyone else in the house is watching a video at the same time – your video connection becomes jerky and often crashes," professor Gorry Fairhurst, internet engineer at Aberdeen, said"
One solution is called QoS. Prioritise delay sensitive traffic, buffer less time critical traffic. Already standardised, widely used on private internets.So funding is presumably a way to re-invent that particular wheel without getting the Net Neutrality fanatics excited,
Not so practical on the internet though. For one thing, everyone would decide that their packets are by far the most important.
"One solution is called QoS. Prioritise delay sensitive traffic, buffer less time critical traffic. Already standardised, widely used on private internets.So funding is presumably a way to re-invent that particular wheel without getting the Net Neutrality fanatics excited,"
I know this is an option for some internet protocols but IRL is it actually used?
Sounds a good idea in theory so thumbs up.
But epic title is epic!
It has more to do with ISPs like VM using Akamai caching on Youtube videos to reduce their requirement for investment in network capacity at the expense of user experience.
Gamers - 1%
Vid-oip users - 1%
Kitten Fanciers - 4%
Porn Fanciers - 93.9%
Kitten Porn Fanciers - 0.1%**
*I just made up
**A small but vocal minority.
Would this be porn for kittens, or porn involving kittens?
...or porn for kittens, involving kittens.
Hmmm...I'm sensing a market gap here.
Rule 34
While I like both kittens and porn, only a perv would fancy kitten porn.
That often government fund the building of an infrastructure then sell it off to private companies who do nothing with it and keep it barely functional with little improvement investment, then, demand price hikes to modernize the aforementioned pre built untouched system all the while making massive profits for shareholders and board members every year, certain things need to stay in the public domain and be damned with making a profit... healthcare and public transport.
that said, I would like to see better business practices in place for government run services, we all know a contract with the government is a literal blank cheque for the contract holder.
we pay for the development of x system (fighter jet new form of energy whatever) we subsidise the company and give them breaks to develop it and it invariably goes over budget and takes a lot longer than it was originally projected, then after all is said and done we have to also buy the finished product at market price (i.e a cost analysis of how much it actually cost to develop divided by the number scheduled to be built) from the people we just gave all the breaks and help to design it.
pure government services unless it is all the black hat stuff (which costs a fortune and we have no clue what they are doing) are hard to regulate because no matter where you are, there are many layers of people who apparently do not communicate (similar things are found in huge manufacturing companies the difference is there are many interesting rules regarding who can talk to who in the government so someone gets away with fleecing the system and there is great resistance to give any one person the full detail of what is going on in order to fix it.
we are damned both ways, a good example of entirely private research patents and sales is pharmaceuticals, and we know how much brand name drugs cost
I've read at least two stories in the last couple of months on this site, about improving TCP/IP latency and bandwidth, so is this just another scheme to avoid a patent encumbered solution? Alternatively, there's CSMA/BA, just decide what traffic is bloody important and what's not.
If Subject == 'Kitten Pron" then Priority = 1
There, fixed it....
When I had to deal with TCP/IP prioritisation I was appalled to discover its limitations.
In a large corporations, what they ideally want is for IP packets to be prioritised according to the status of the employee using a service. A trader shuffling zillions around should have rather more priority than a newly hired temp. They want it to reflect the political structure of the organisation.
Sadly IP prioritisation schemes do not map onto this political requirement very well. They are hard pressed to identifiy and prioritiise constant bit rate data like video and voice over data that can hang on a bit like email. Working out the the relative willy size of the end user from their IP address is a challenge too far.
Whether a bung to some public or private concern to come up with an answer is a moot point. Both are quite capable of being ineffective.
On the one hand you have the undignified corporate patent wars huge companies try to stifle the opposition by making prior claims to innovation and exact a royalty payment for each sale. On the other we have a history of public organisations trying to develop grand frameworks that were so over engineered they were impractical. IEEE had one or two successes, but largely were often victim to the standards nobbling activities of corporates.
TCP/IP was a lame duck protocol put together by underpaid graduate students and used largely by academic types up until the mid 1990s. The corporate world used a medley of protocols from the computer manufacurers. Some of which were very good. But TCP/IP was patent free and open source and therefore one of the few viable candidates for the nascent public Internet. No large public or private corporations involved there. It was a grass roots thing.
The big issue at the moment is making the Internet able to deliver video streams as well as all the other traffic. One way of doing that is to require video content to be moved closer to the end user and that is something of a premium service at the moment done by CDN companies.
If this dosh is to work on an alternative built into the IP standard, it sounds like a good investment.
"So what gives? What the heck am I missing here? How is this something any government at any level should be involved in? I am legitimately confused as to how this came about."
Well, governments (and trans-governmental organisations) tend to invest public money in infrastructure projects in order to attract investment from multinationals. In the EU's case, however, I can't see how that could directly happen as any positive outcome from this project would surely be contributed back to the world in an open format. It *does* stand to benefit the involved institutions - as any advances they make might develop together might bring in R&D investment from outside the EU, leading to future intangible benefits etc.


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Final Fantasy X
Cactaur Sidequest Guide by Denouement
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This FAQ is a quick one, covering just the "Cactaur Catching" sidequest. This
is one of the less known sidequests in FFX, but it is an important one,
because you must complete it in order to get the Mercury Sigil. This key item
can be used to power Rikku's Ultimate (or Celestial) Weapon, the Godhand, up
to full strength. More information on Rikku's Godhand can be found at the end
of the guide, along with some FAQs.
SIDEQUEST: Cactaur Catching on Bikanel Island
REWARD: Mercury Sigil
NEW AREAS OPENED: Cactaur Valley on Bikanel Island
WHEN: Once airship is available
ITEMS, ETC. NEEDED: None :)
OTHER: It is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED that you equip one character (does not need
to be in your active group) with a No Encounters weapon before beginning this
To begin the sidequest, go to Bikanel Island after you get the airship. You can
start step one before you get the airship, but won't be able to proceed any
farther. Anyway, the first thing you must do is go to the Cactaur glyph
statue. Before that, however, let's get a little geography straight.
This is the first screen, with the pond, where the airship deposits you.
The menu describes it as "Sanubia Desert--Oasis."
This screen is a winding path, with open areas at each end, and a save point
near the center. The menu describes it as "Sanubia Desert--East."
This screen is the big open desert, and the ruins to the left. The menu
describes it as "Sanubia Desert--Central."
This is the last screen, which contains the sand pits and the big sandstorm.
The menu describes it as "Sanubia Desert--West."
All compass directions in this guide refer to the top of the screen as "North"
and the bottom as "South." That is, moving from screen one to screen four, you
will enter each screen at the south, and leave at the north.
Now, the Cactaur glyph is in screen four. Enter Screen Four at the rightmost
entrance (that is, from the desert in Screen Three, not the ruins). Then, go
straight North-East. You should arrive at a cliff overlooking a valley with
a sandstorm. Approximately in the center of this cliff top is a rock with a
picture of a Cactaur on it. Just stand in front of it and talk to it. It will
have words for you, and then your quest will begin. You cannot continue past
this point until you have the airship.
Now, you must catch ten cactaurs on Bikanel Island. In order to catch them, you
must first find them. Once you find them, you will play a little mini-game.
In this game, your goal is to sneak up on the Cactaur within a certain amount
of time. Essentially, while the Cactaur has its back to you, you can move
around, but when it is facing you, you must stay completely still or you will
lose. If you run out of time, you also lose. Should you catch it, you must now
fight it. I suggest this sidequest as a good opportunity to catch your ten
Cactaurs for the monster arena, if you haven't yet, so you might want to equip
Capture weapons. Don't worry, Cactaurs are pretty easy to beat by this point in
the game, unless you're playing a NSG game or something. You can also steal
Chocobo Feathers from them; a rare steal is Chocobo Wing.
Whether you win or lose, you get a sphere. If you win, it's a sphere with the
Cactaur's name on it. If you lose, it's a "Sphere del Perdedor" (Loser Sphere,
I think). Then you take the sphere back to the glyph, it takes it and gives
you a clue for the next Cactaur. Here's a summary for each Cactaur, in order.
LOCATION is where you find him; COURSE describes the area you will try to sneak
up on him in (the area of the mini-game); and then there is my assessment of
this mini-game's difficulty, plus any tips. NOTE: All difficulties are based
relative to the other Cactaur minigames; compared to the butterfly-catching,
these are all as easy as a warm apple pie.
Glyph Clue: Tomay's gone. Gone to fetch the water.
Location: At the oasis in the first screen. He is toward the right side of that
little shore, you really can't miss him.
Traits: Duties: Fetching water. Takes his time and, as a result, is often left
A little dim.
Time: 10.0 seconds
Course: You start off on a hill in the back left of the screen. Tomay is in the
front right, under a tree.
Difficulty/Tips: Easy. You just run straight toward him, watching his movements
and stopping when he turns around. Or, instead of watching his movements, you
can wait for the Al Bhed word "Needletime!" to appear onscreen. Stop when you
see it, as this word means he is looking at you. However, I recommend watching
his movements as the best strategy. Time is not an obstacle.
Glyph Clue: Rovivea's gone walkabout.
Location: You will find Rovivea in Screen Two. When you enter from Screen Three
there is a large open depression to the left side of the screen, it's not hard
to see Rovivea.
Traits: Has no patience for certain dim-witted friends.
Not a progressive thinker.
Time: 13.6 seconds
Course: Rovivea is at the very front of the screen, you are at the far back.
Setup is similar to Tomay.
Difficulty/Tips: Easy. Same strategy as for Tomay.
Glyph Clue: Little Chava likes big numbers.
Location: There is a narrow point in Screen Four. On either side of this narrow
area, there is a signpost facing each other horizontally. Go to the left sign
and press X to read it; it should say something about an Al Bhed 20% off sale.
(What a deal!) After you read the sign you will see little cutscene in which
you find Chava.
Traits: Recently learned to count to 50.
A little needy.
Attention deficit.
Time: 13.0 seconds
Course: You are at the back near one sign, Chava is in the front near another.
A straightaway.
Difficulty/Tips: Easy. Same strategy as for Tomay.
Glyph Clue: Alek and Aloja play tag in the ruins of men.
Location: They are running around in Screen Three, among the ruins on the far
left side of the screen. You will easily spot them in the lowest part of the
valley, running back and forth.
Traits: Two brothers, rarely separated.
They move as one, their closeness a paragon of brotherhood.
Time: 13.0 seconds
Course: The two brothers are at the front of the screen, you are in the far
back. A straightaway course.
Difficulty/Tips: Medium. Again, just run straight at them and watch their
movements; this is a little more difficult than previous ones, you have to use
your time to its fullest to reach them within the time period.
Glyph Clue: Vachella seeks the shining blue.
Location: The "shining blue" refers to a Save Sphere. Just go to the save point
in Screen Two (it's approximately in the center of the area, under a tent) and
examine the sphere. You will have the chance to save, etc. Once you cancel out
of the Save Sphere menu, Vachella will appear.
Traits: Loves new things.
Hard on others, easy on self.
Time: 14.0 seconds
Course: You are standing by the Save point, Vachella in the front of the
screen. Another pretty straight course.
Difficulty/Tips: Medium. Vachella likes to turn around very quickly. After he
turns for the first time, he will turn around three more times right in
succession. If you want to win, you must take full advantage of your opening
period to run, then take at least a small step between each of his next four
turns. He makes 8 spins total during the time; you'll need quick reflexes.
Glyph Clue: O, Robeya's stuck inside.
Location: Robeya is in a treasure chest, in the far southwest corner of the
main desert area in Screen Three. Just follow the south wall westward, or
follow the fence southward, it's up to you. Try to open the chest and Robeya
will hop out.
Traits: A real needle brain.
Likes cramped spaces.
Check out his great collection!
Time: 14.0 seconds
Course: A straightway course, but there are four treasure chests, two on each
side. The back one on the left is open. The back right one contains two Shadow
Gems. The front left contains two Shining Gems, and the front right a Blessed
Gem. You can open the chests to get the prizes; if you lose a trial, you can
still keep your prize, but you can only open each chest once.
Difficulty/Tips: Easy. The challenge is to get all three items, and still beat
Robeya. However, since this is quite difficult, I suggest you just choose two
of the three prizes, get them, and then beat Robeya with trial #3. I usually
grab the Shadow Gems and the Blessed Gem.
BUG ALERT!! Apparently, if you do not leave Screen Four after giving the glyph
Robeya's sphere, Isrra might not appear. However, don't worry, just leave the
screen and come back, and all will be well. (Thanks to CB! for the solution to
this bug, though I'm sure many others have discovered it as well.)
Glyph Clue: A fiery description--The lord of the hole is gone, Isrra thinks.
Location: In Screen Four, there are three antlion pits (little whirlpools of
sand). You will find Isrra running around in the middle one of them.
Traits: The philosopher about town. Today, he digs holes. Again.
A cautious sort.
Time: 15.0 seconds
Course: The course is a basic Isrra front/Tidus back setup, however your vision
is slightly hazy as it from the heat.
Difficulty/Tips: Hard. Isrra looks at you for seconds at a time, so you must
be very precise with starting and stopping--don't waste a single tenth of a
second that he is looking away.
There is a pit next to Tidus on the screen. Run into it when you first have a
chance to move, and once you are in just keep running toward Isrra, even when
he is looking at you. Apparently there is a tunnel connecting the two pits,
because after a few seconds you will be standing at the bottom left of the
screen, right next to Isrra! Then just run over and touch him and you will
have caught him.
Glyph Clue: Much-curious Elio has left on a journey.
Location: Go to the pond in Screen One again. To find Elio, you must simply
enter the pond area from the north (not the screen, just the area around the
pond.) Basically, if you morph in at the Save point, you need to go up and then
come back down again. After this, you will see a cutscene in which Elio beams
up to the roof of the airship. Head to the airship roof to find him.
(I love the cinematography, when you see Tidus' back, and then it rises up to
show Elio. Sorry, back to the guide.)
Traits: To what lies beyond the sands, he travels far to distant lands.
Hyper-reactive and a bad poet.
Time: 11.0 seconds
Course: You are at the door of the roof, and Elio, in the forefront of the
screen, is at the prow. Be warned, the ship will tilt when you are trying to
get to him, so be prepared and keep your reflexes sharp.
Difficulty/Tips: Hard. You just need to watch both Elio and the ship and
pray you will succeed. Even I, having had a lot of practice, still sometimes
fail to get him; 11 seconds is very short to achieve this in. Also, you
don't actually fight Elio. If you reach him, he just falls off the edge, and
apparently dies. Oh well.
PROBLEM WITH ELIO: If you have gone to the "Sin" destination on the airship,
but have not fought the battle with Sin there, you will automatically be forced
into that battle when you go outside to meet Elio. So, you have to fight Sin
and get that over with before you can continue with the sidequest. I don't know
of any other solution. If you haven't gone to the Whitebridge to talk with
the people in Bevelle yet, then you'll be fine, since you can't fight Sin yet.
Glyph Clue: Flaile is always behind.
Location: After you take Elio's sphere to the glyph, Flaile will automatically
jump out and initiate the minigame.
Traits: The guy you never invite but he always shows up anyway.
Time: 13.0 seconds
Course: A basic straightaway; you are standing be the glyph rock, he is in
the front ground of the screen.
Difficulty/Tips: Hard. Ignore the sounds and the words that appear onscreen, as
they are meaningless for this one. However, it is not that hard to just look
at his movements and time your running. Flaile gives you a special red sphere
when you are done with him.
Once you beat Flaile, take the red sphere to the glyph and there will be a
lengthy sequence in which the glyph repeats the clue for each of the 10
Cactaurs' locations. Then, the sandstorm in the valley will disappear.
Now that the sandstorm is gone, you can go get your prizes. There are two
treasure chests in the area revealed by the sandstorm; both are toward the
southern end of the valley. In the left one is the Mercury Sigil. The prize in
the second chest varies, depending on how many Cactaurs you successfully
1 Named Sphere= Potion
2 Named Spheres= Potion
3 Named Spheres= Elixir
4 Named Spheres= Elixir
5 Named Spheres= Elixir
6 Named Spheres= Elixir
7 Named Spheres= Megalixir
8 Named Spheres= Megalixir
9 Named Spheres= Friend Sphere
10 Named Spheres= Friend Sphere
NOTE: I've tested these results myself, and they assume that all the spheres
are worth the same. If anyone knows a contradictory result, contact me by
None of these prizes could be classified as great, so don't feel a lot of
pressure to beat every Cactaur, but it isn't difficult, and an extra Friend
Sphere never hurt anybody.
Where to find it: At the Airship Destination screen, enter the password GODHAND
and a new location will open up, called "Mushroom Rock". Go there,
and you will find a chest. To open the chest, you need to have the
Celestial Mirror in your Key Items menu. Inside the chest is the Godhand.
Power-up items: Mercury Crest and Mercury Sigil
Where to find the Mercury Crest: Go the the Fourth Screen on Bikanel Island.
Remember the antlion pits where you fought Isrra? You fought him in the
middle one of three. The leftmost pit is in a little side area, and in this
side area there is also a chest. This chest contains the Mercury Crest.
Where to find the Mercury Sigil: Didn't you read this guide? You get it from
the Cactuar minigame, silly.
How to power up the Godhand: When you recieve the Godhand, the only ability it
has is the No AP ability. You need to apply the two Mercury items to power
the Godhand up. Go to Macalania Woods. On the shining upper path, go to the
middle screen. Here, you will be able to take a turn to the north (top of
screen) that leads you to a dead end at a rock. Examine the rock, and it will
ask you to present Celestial Weapons. Select the Godhand. Now it will power
up with the Mercury Crest; after this power-up, it will have the ability
Double Overdrive as well as No AP. Present the Godhand again, and it will
power up with the Mercury Sigil. This will bring the weapon to maximum power.
It now has the abilities Break Damage Limit, Triple Overdrive, Double AP, and
Gillionaire. It does more damage the fuller Rikku's HP is. Truly, an
"ultimate" weapon!
Q: I need the Celestial Mirror to open the chest containing the Godhand. Where
do I find this item.
A: Okay, this is kind of extensive. First, go to Remiem Temple. This somewhat
hidden loaction is in the Calm Lands. Get on a Chocobo, then ride to the far
east end of that raised area to the far south of the Calm Lands. Here, you
ought to find a golden Choco feather sitting on the ground. Examine it while
riding a Chocobo, and the Chocobo will jump down into a new area. From this
area, you can leave the screen. Do so and you will be at Remiem. There is a
Chocobo standing outside the Temple, talk to it and you will enter a race.
Simply race to the center of the maze. You can get prizes by touching
treasure chests as you race, but for this purpose just win the race. You
will receive a prize item called the "Cloudy Mirror."
Now, go to Macalania forest. At the south end of the forest, you will
find a mother and son. Talk to them, then go off the screen to the east, and
you will find yourself at a campsite you visited earlier in the game. Here,
talk to the father and he runs away. Now go back to where you met the mother
and son, and notice that the son is missing. This family is a bunch of
idiots! Anyway, talk to them, then head up the shining upper path. Head to
the second screen of the shining path, where there is an inverted "T" shape.
Head up the T toward a dead end at a rock. Now the son, who is here, will
let you pass to reach the rock/plant/??? thing. This unidentifiable yet
helpful thing will turn the Cloudy Mirror into the Celestial Mirror. Ta Da!
Q: No Encounters is a useful ability to have equipped while completing this
sidequest. Where can I get this ability?
A: You can add this ability to an armor by Customizing 30 Purifying Salts. You
can steal this from Abadon in the Monster Arena, and from Hornet, though it
is a rare steal from him. When you unlock Fafnir in the Arena, the guy there
gives you 99 Purifying Salts. Alternately, if you fight Geosgaeno at Baaj
Temple, he sometimes drops weapons with the No Encounters ability. Another
monster you can kill to get an armor with the ability is the Ghosts found in
the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth (Sunken Cave) which are pretty easy to beat
but only drop it rarely.
Q: I want to capture Cactaurs while I do this. How do I get weapons with the
Capture ability?
A: You buy them from the manager at the Monster Arena in the Calm Lands. They
cost 9075 gil apiece and they are two slot weapons, one slot being filled
by Capture ability and the other is blank. The Capture ability cannot be
customized onto a weapon. Customize an ability into the other slot which
makes your battles easier, though at this phase of the game there should
be no trouble beating Cactuars.
Anyway, I hope the guide was useful to you. For a complete walkthrough of the
game, I recommend two excellent FAQs, the ones by ATadeo and CB!. Now go play
some Final Fantasy X.
No furthur updates of this guide are expected.
Not much in the way of credits for this one. Again, though, props to CB! and
ATadeo for their excellent FAQ/Walkthroughs.
Credit to Freydis for the tip on Ghost dropping No Encounters armor.
Credit to about a hundred different people for sending me the tip on beating
Thanks to GameFAQs, and especially to CJayC for doing such a great job there.
Most of all thanks to me, for the time it took to gather this information.
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In The Next Three Days, his third outing as director, filmmaker Paul Haggis (Crash, In the Valley of Elah) sets aside the socio-political commentary and hunkers down to craft a pressure cooker of a thriller. If only he had kicked the heat up a few notches. This remake of the 2008 French thriller Pour Elle is a half-hour longer, less suspenseful and hobbled by a slacker pace. Haggis wants to use the extra time to make the viewer invest more fully in the plight of his characters, but the story is so preposterous that the effort is wasted. This is a picture that should be constantly moving, not dawdling, from one thing to the next.
Still, the what-would-you-do? premise is hugely effective and sinks its hooks in early. John (Russell Crowe) and Lara (Elizabeth Banks) are a happily married couple with a bright 6-year-old son (Ty Simpkins) and a healthy sex life. In the film's opening scene, which shows the couple at a restaurant with friends, Lara becomes provoked and unleashes a fiery temper, but everyone gets angry from time to time.
Then, the next morning, as the family is having breakfast , the cops burst in and arrest Lara of murdering her boss. The physical evidence is overwhelming: Lara's fingerprints are all over the fire extinguisher used to bash in the dead woman's head; there's a large blood stain on the back of Lara's jacket, and co-workers had watched the women get into a heated argument earlier in the day.
To John's astonishment, Lara is convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison. Three years of appeals later, his lawyer (Daniel Stern) tells John they've run out of options: She's never getting out. But after she attempts suicide in her cell, John realizes that the court's ruling is simply not an option. He believes his wife is innocent, and he refuses to watch her rot in jail.
Some of the best sequences in The Next Three Days focus on John, a mild-mannered college professor, as he figures out exactly how you break someone out of prison. First, he contacts the author of a book about a man (Liam Neeson in a terrific cameo) who pulled the trick off nine times. John learns he's going to need passports, a gun, a willingness to turn violent and lots and lots of cash. Haggis strives to keep the early portions of the movie firmly grounded in reality: When John approaches a street drug dealer and asks if he knows of any way to score fake passports, the result probably resembles what would happen if you or I tried the same thing.
Like the best how-to movies, The Next Three Days also teaches you things you didn't know, such as the way to create a key that will open any lock (there's tremendous suspense when John tries to use a dummy key in full view of prison guards and security cameras, and it snaps inside the keyhole). Other moments stretch credibility far past the breaking point: When John is desperate for money, he raids the home of a crystal-meth dealer at gunpoint and suddenly becomes an action hero, dodging bullets and blowing away baddies like Bruce Willis in Die Hard.
Haggis makes some half-hearted efforts at making us wonder whether Lara may be guilty, but he's not much for dubiousness, so we never really question her innocence. The prison break, once it finally arrives, is admittedly exciting and filled with unexpected twists, but it's a bit of a slog to get there. The Next Three Days might have fared a lot better if the screenwriters had stuck to The Next Two Days.
Cast: Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Banks, Michael Buie, Olivia Wilde, Ty Simpkins, Daniel Stern, Kevin Corrigan, Liam Neeson.
Director: Paul Haggis.
Screenwriters: Paul Haggis, Fred Cavaye, Guilliame Lemans.
Producers: Olivier Delbosc, Paul Haggis, Marc Missonnier.
A Lionsgate Films release. Running time: 133 minutes. Vulgar language, brief violence, adult themes. Opens Friday Nov. 19 at area theaters


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) - CEO Tim Cook's keynote speech Monday at Apple's ( AAPL) Worldwide Developer's Conference was, as always, a major event. He and his leadership team spent two hours proudly bragging about all the new and wonderful things we should expect from Apple. Nonetheless, it was easy to come away wondering whether Apple can still innovate at the level that led the company to refine personal communications. In recent months, Apple-watchers have had the sinking feeling that the company is spending more time playing catch-up with its rivals. Despite new designs unveiled yesterday, crowd reactions were subdued. Watch the video replay and you'll get the idea. In short, we're getting mixed signals. Don't get me wrong, many of the new items looked impressive on the outside. The upcoming Mac Pro desktop computer - described by one blogger as looking like a shiny Mr. Coffee machine - is beautiful and boasts an amazing array of modern hardware. And the soon-to-be-released iOS 7 looks absolutely beautiful as well. The clean, full-screen redesign is lovely to behold, is sure to keep iPhone fans happy and probably attract buyers from other portable operating systems as well. Then again, once you look past the gloss you recognize features which users of those other operating systems already know full well. For instance, iOS's new Control Center - a slide-up screen with the most common user-adjustable switches. It looks a lot like the feature which Nokia included in their innovative (for 2011) but ill-fated N9 smartphone, or the similar slide-out screen from last year's Motorola/ Google ( GOOG) RAZR series or the similar feature on the new HTC One. There is the new multi-tasking feature. Previous versions of iOS provided limited abilities to run more than one app at a same time. iOS 7 changes that. But, Android and other Linux-based operating systems (such as Nokia's ( NOK) MeeGo) have been able to do that for awhile. iWorks for iCloud is not the best product name Apple has ever announced. This new cloud-based feature allows users to write/save/edit and share documents in Apple's iCloud - across other platforms (like Microsoft ( MSFT) Windows) and able to be displayed on a number of browsers (like Google Chrome and Firefox). If that sounds familiar, it should. Think of iWorks for iCloud as Apple's answer for Google Docs.
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03 Feb 2014 at 09:48
New speed cameras commissioned by the Highways Agency for variable speed limit 'smart' motorway sections may be used by the police to enforce 70mph on a more widespread basis, warns the RAC.
The HADECS3 (Highways Agency Digital Enforcement Camera System) cameras are designed to enforce speeds on the motorways that are set up to use the hard shoulder permanently or temporarily as a running lane, but the police could choose to use the new verge-mounted grey cameras, which can monitor all four lanes of traffic, on normal stretches of motorway.
The cameras are a replacement for the gantry-mounted HADECS2 which are currently used to enforce variable speed limits. These cameras, however, require white lanes on the road, whereas the new model does not.
RAC technical director David Bizley said: "We know that enforcement is needed on existing managed motorways with variable speed limits when the limit is set below the national speed limit of 70 mph. The new generation of smart motorways with all lanes running and no hard shoulder have far fewer gantries so enforcement of variable speed limits requires verge-mounted cameras such as HADECS3.
"Enforcement is a police responsibility and by installing HADECS3, the Highways Agency is providing the means by which the police can enforce the speed limits. Most forces with motorway responsibilities do not use permanent gantry-mounted cameras on managed motorways to enforce the national 70 mph speed limit but at least one force (Kent) has signalled its intention to do so. This may reinforce the belief held by a majority of motorists that many speed cameras are more about raising money than they are about improving road safety.
"Static Gatso-style speed cameras have become a regular fixture on our roads and are normally located in accident black-spots for safety reasons rather than being used for general speed limit enforcement. One of the key concerns about static speed cameras is there potential to create a dangerous 'stop start' driving style caused by motorists suddenly slowing down when they spot them.
"This is often seen on existing managed motorways with some drivers exceeding the limit between gantry-mounted enforcement cameras and braking sharply as they approach the next gantry. No doubt this will also be the case with verge-mounted HADECS3 cameras. One might expect this behaviour to lead to accidents though we are unclear whether the evidence supports this. The existing HADECS2 cameras require white line markings on the road which are also known to cause motorists to brake so their removal might possibly reduce the risk of accidents.
"The decision not to paint these new cameras yellow may possibly be influenced by a desire to discourage this 'stop start' behaviour, but there can be no doubt that motorists will soon learn where to expect cameras regardless of their colour.
80mph trial
"We have been supportive of trialling an 80mph speed limits on some sections of motorway where construction and usage patterns are such that the benefits to users would offset any detrimental safety or environmental impact. Unfortunately, the Government has stated there are now no plans to do such a trial which is disappointing.
"If the new HADECS3 cameras are to be used more generally we think that this will result in better adherence to speed limits. One of the objections to an 80mph limit was that motorists would be more likely to travel at 90mph or more. But with better enforcement, it would be appropriate to revisit the 80mph motorway debate given that the majority of motorists support raising the speed limit on motorways.
"The RAC Report on Motoring 2013 voiced drivers' frustrations that, despite Government announcements some time ago of plans for trialling of an 80mph limit so that the benefits and disadvantages could be quantified, nothing has happened to date and there are real doubts as to whether the current ministers have the will to proceed.
"Only 20% of motorists surveyed said that the current 70mph motorway speed limit should never be broken and 65% of motorists admit to breaking this limit while 92% of all drivers consider themselves to be law-abiding."
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Welcome. My name is XXXXX XXXXX would be glad to assist.
I have read the posting, and that can certainly be frustrating, having them out so many times and still not right on operation.
What exactly is this "block" you are referencing? One thing for sure, you never cut and remove strands on a wire. The wire size is what it is and must be used entirely. Removing strands to make them fit is not allowed
Not to say it is or isn't creating a problem, it is just not allowed.
If the AC starts and shuts down as you described, can you restart it again? What is the sequence to restart? Unplug and replug?
Turn it off with the selector and restart?
What size breaker is the AC on at the panel? Is the AC, the only thing on that breaker?
Let me know some of the info and we can continue, thanks.
Just reply.
I stated "then restarting about 30 seconds later, and then coming back on. Fan would start, then compressor would kick on; would run fine for 20 minutes or so and do the same thing again. (This usually happens during the hottest part of the day; not at any other time.) This by itself. no unpluging.
the electrician called it a block, it's how he attached the wires together. not wire nuts. metal with set screws in it. then taped inside the box he installed.
block is what the electrician called it. metal bracket kind of thing. wires go in a holes at each end then a set screw. he did remove strands. the a/c starts again by itself no unpluging or anything. cant turn it off when it's not on. cant turn it on when it's off. breaker is double 40. wire is 6 gage. a 110 wire also 6 gage runs off of one side to a utility room 10 feet away and connects to washing machine and lighting.
i want to remove window unit and install a mini split system. but i need to know wiring is ok.
a/c man would install system, but i want to make sure the electrical system is right.
40 amp breaker and #6 wire is very large for a window AC unit. That size is what normally operates a central ac unit for a 2000 sqft home. So it is large enough for a mini splt.
I would have concerns over any other 120 volt that is being fed from this line. The breaker will not trip before the 120 volt wiring would burn and melt. There should not be any 120 off of the 240 volt wiring without its own breaker.
how do i make sure this shut off thing isnt electrical. hate to put new unit in then have it shut off too.
guess i need to just call an electrician other than the one who came out. why wouldn't he have told me that? any other suggestions.?
The unit sounds like it is shutting down on high pressure or the internal controls. from the sequence. If the problem were in the electrical from the house, it would not stop/restart and operate the same way each time. It would be more random when there is aloose connection on the wiring/breaker.
I do not know why they would drop 120 line from the ac wiring, it is not allowed. The 120 volt in the home is #12 wire at the largest and only rated for 20 amps. That is the most allowed, 20 amp breakers for any lights and receptacles in the home.
guess i'll bite the bullit and call a new electrician
Your #6 is great on the 40 amp breaker, it is actually rated for 50 amps, so that is a plus.
ok thanks


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THE Whitsunday Whales Golden Oldies rugby union team had a whale of a time participating in the 19th World Golden Oldies Rugby Festival in Fukuoka, Japan, earlier this month.
A total of 20 players either living or connected to the Whitsundays travelled to the event with their wives and families to compete against 120 teams from throughout Australia, Russia, USA, England, Sri Lanka, Scotland, Cook Islands, Italy, Ireland, China, New Zealand and Japan. The total number of players and supporters at the event was estimated at about 3000.
There was a roaring reception at the opening ceremony of the week long festival and the parade saw the streets of Fukuoka lined with members of the public supporting the teams parading in front of them.
The Whales played two games against different Japanese teams and one game against a combined Asian team.
Everyone competing in the event was over 35-years-old, with the different ages groups identified by the colour shorts they wore and different rules applying to each age bracket.
Every team played three games, however individual players made the most of the situation and got a few extra games in, donning international guernseys to play for other teams.
Three Americans and four Argentinians proudly wore the Whales guernsey to have a laugh with the team all the way from the Whitsundays. The atmosphere of fun, fraternity and friendship was evident and all players thoroughly enjoyed the competition.
The carnival occurs every two years and brings new and old friends from all over the world together. The Golden Oldies festival lives up to the motto of "let the love of rugby take you places".
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Shazam said Monday that it recruited veteran interactive TV technology executive Daniel Danker, naming him chief product officer.
Danker, a former Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) executive who had been working on BBC's interactive TV products since 2010, could help Shazam expand its automatic content recognition (ACR) platform to cable networks and pay TV distributors. Several programmers and advertisers have struck deals with London-based Shazam that allow viewers using smartphones or tablets to watch interactive video and advertising that is synchronized with content running on a TV.
Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA) ran a demonstration at The Cable Show convention last year that showed how it could integrate Shazam with its Xfinity X1 platform to allow subscribers watching music videos to identify performers by pressing a button on the X1 remote, and search for related content in its Xfinity On Demand library. The MSO's NBC Sports subsidiary teamed up with Shazam last year to deliver interactive content to viewers watching the Summer Olympics on NBC, NBC Sports Network, MSNBC, Bravo and CNBC.
Danker helped develop Microsoft's Mediaroom and Xbox Music platforms before he was named BBC general manager of programs and on demand. He led BBC's interactive iPlayer and Red Button products and also helped it deliver online coverage of the Olympics last year.
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I've only been a member for a couple weeks but it's given me something fun to do while nursing my daughter at 2 am or during naptime. I have fun playing around with names I wouldn't actually use in the name games section.Mother to: Patrick Werner (3/10) , Mary Claire (06/12) and Margaret Rose (05/15)
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Welcome to Nameberry! @feberinLittle Bird- 11.6.15
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July 17th, 2013 10:36 PM #15
I've been obsessed with names ever since I was a child. I'd pull my mom's baby naming books off the shelf and pore over them constantly, especially this one about baby name astrology (which thinking back was a really odd thing for my hyper-conservative Christian mother to have, haha). I started countless "stories" and "plays" for the sole purpose of having an excuse to come up with an exorbitantly long list of "main characters" on which I could bestow all of my ridiculous name crushes. That's not something I ever talked to people about before Nameberry, which is odd because I was really vocal about all my other interests.
So Nameberry has provided a lot of firsts for me:
--the first time I ever truly opened up about my love of names
--the first time I realized I actually have a specific naming style
--the first time I ever actively participated in any sort of online forum...I didn't even do this for my wedding! I'm normally just a lurker
--the first time I made an "online friend," as in someone I've never met in person that I feel genuinely close to
I feel like Nameberry is genuinely a community, especially compared to Yahoo Answers and even other naming sites. There are so many people here that I connect with intellectually and empathetically; even though we're from a wide range of backgrounds and locations, we all share at least one thing: a love of names. It's so fulfilling to provide assistance to each other and follow each others' name journeys. I also have to say how much I appreciate the fact that even though I'm not TTC yet, I still get such thoughtful and helpful feedback on all my lists and my threads!
To sum up: Nameberry is awesome (Pam and Linda may you live forever), and Berries are the bomb diggityZion Nathaniel ~ Solomon Fable ~ Balthazar Wolf ~ Malachi Sparrow nn Kai ~ Tobias Rowan ~ Caspian _____
Alice Willow ~ Ophelia Wren ~ Juliet Snow ~ Lucia Pearl ~ Eve Wisteria nn Evie ~ Cosima Rose ~ River Seraphine ~ Elowen Briar
Narnia Rose, Astoria nn Story, Illyria, Serafina, Soraya, Faerydae
Orion Melchior North, Tobias Loki, Edmund, Frost, Oberon, Kenshin, Remiel, Atreyu
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Wow, thanks everyone. You made my day....or should I say, life? Really such lovely sentiments and so generous of you to express them! Thank you.Pam Satran
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Christmas Around the World
Out the back door of the condo there is beautiful blue water, it is warm and the sun feels great on my skin. It is Christmas, it's just Christmas where it's warm. I suffer from Chesney Syndrome, All I Want for Christmas is a Real Good Tan. I care nothing for snow or temperatures below 75 degrees, if you'd like to know a little more about celebrating the season where the only ice you'll find is in your cup, please take a trip around the world with me by clicking the link below.
There are nine Posadas. These celebrate the part of the Christmas story where Joseph and Mary looked for a room in an Inn. For the Posadas, the outside of houses are decorated with evergreens, moss and paper lanterns.
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The CAB is an objective, comprehensive, and highly reliable behavior rating scale that is closely aligned with current diagnostic criteria found in the DSM-IV-TR™ and IDEA.


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Dan Walczewski Named Director of Sales for the Growing Categories
Costa Mesa, CA (August 14, 2014) — Dainese USA today signaled a new
growth strategy and reenergized focus for the North American winter sports and
bicycle industries. The push will include expanded sales and marketing teams,
planned growth for its retail base, and a revitalized marketing program to support
new breakthrough 2015 product lines. The legendary Italian protection company
has also appointed winter sports and bicycle industry veteran, Dan Walczewski,
as director of sales for Winter Sports and Bicycle, to lead the efforts in these
"While mostly known in North America for our Dainese motorcycle line, our
Winter Sports and Bicycle lines have been a great success in Europe," said
Roberto Sadowsky, vice president of operations for Dainese USA. "Our winter
sports and bike infrastructure team has refocused in Italy and now in North
America to make this the next growth market for these categories."
The growth for Dainese multi-sport categories started at the company's Italian
headquarters and is a top-down initiative ignited by CEO, Federico Minoli. Under
Minoli's leadership, the internal team has been restructured to include a director
of the multi-sport division, a head of marketing and product management for
Bicycle and Winter Sports and also backed by an injection of new R&D efforts.
The Italy-based multi-sport team is steeped in North American culture, including
on-the-ground experience in these markets, and the addition of Walczewski will
help springboard market growth.
"I'm looking forward to activating a growth strategy for these categories. I've
spent my career in these industries and feel confident about our path," said Dan
Walczewski, Director of Sales for Winter Sports and Bike. "These markets are
ripe and ready for something new in North America. Dainese has a wellrespected
heritage as a maker of unique Italian protection, apparel and
accessories and the company, and its people continue to put forth industryleading
technologies and forge new trends in sports."
Dainese Winter Sports and Bicycle products maintain unique positions in each
industry: premium Italian protection products, apparel and accessories with a
European aesthetic, style and lifestyle appeal. The company's mantra, "Inspired
by Humans," reflects how advanced ergonomics and a non-restrictive experience
of Dainese's protection products make them feel second nature to consumers.
Many protective elements and products are hidden under garments or built-in to
the apparel. Dainese maintains its heritage and leadership in each category
having provided the first winter sports protection products two decades ago for
ski racing and the company actually created the category of mountain bike
protective products in 1993.
About Dainese
Founded in 1972 by company president Lino Dainese, Dainese produces
protective wear for motorcycling, mountain biking, winter sports and equestrian
use. In 2007, the company acquired premium race and sport helmet
manufacturer AGV. Dainese and AGV protective products showcase some of the
most innovative technologies in action sports and are used by the world's top
riders. Headquartered in Vicenza, Italy, Dainese is distributed in North America
exclusively by Dainese USA, which, along with Parts Unlimited, also distributes
AGV helmets. Visit www.dainese.com for more information.<