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Joined: 07 Jun 2005
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Location: Birmingham, UK (via Essen, Germany)
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:54 pm
Post subject: Bordeaux region
Hi fellow foodies!
I'm going to Bordeaux for a few days and I'm wondering whether there are any regional specialities I should try (apart from the wine
). Maybe someone even knows a restaurant they can recommend?
Thank you very much
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 8:15 am
Post subject: a restaurant in bordeaux
i just went to bordeaux in march and i loved it. although i didn't think much of them then, i'm regretting not eating more caneles. i think they grow on you.
one restaurant my family really enjoyed was restaurant les grenadines. i had an excellent
gigot d'agneu
there. there are a lot of restaurants on that street (it's off of rue saint remi, just keep walking down that major pedestrian street towards the river) and it leads onto place du parlement, where there are three restaurants next to each other. i think we ate at the one on the right, but my memory is a little hazy now. that was also very good.
i don't know how long you'll be there but if you can get ahold of renting a car i would really recommend driving down to san sebastian. it was amazing - old town was quite the foodie paradise.
have a great time!
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Thank you so much starchmouse, this is exactly the sort of insider info I was hoping for! I shall certainly try to eat at one of the restaurants. Were only going to be there for 4 days, so I dont know whether we can fit San Sebastian in, as we probably want to go to St. Emilion for one excursion... (though it sounds very tempting!)
Im certainly going to try the infamous can(n)elés, now that I have found out so much about them! (see separate topic)
I also had a fantastic reply from Aude (of épices et compagnie) who asked une copine bordelaise. Im going to share this survey with you and anyone else who might be interested.
le tourin
mainly tomatoes and onions
la garbure
with meat and vegetables
le canard
[confit*, magret (roasted fillet), aiguillettes (strips/slices), foie gras]
with cèpes (porcini mushrooms)
les huitres du bassin d'arcachon
(not very good at the moment though due to toxic algae)
le cannelé
(little, rather dense and somewhat candied little cakes made in the southwest of France; as described on another food board; also: see topic
from Landes: le pastis landais
(a brioche, flavoured with aniseed)
la tourte aux pommes
(without much dough; presumably called tourte gasconne)
My French teacher suggested:
And from one of Clotildes articles:
(goats cheese; she mentions it as something she bought in the Southwest of France)
* which Clotilde says tastes best with pommes salardaises (sautéd in goose fat; see The Paradoxical Duck Confit)
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Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 6:29 pm
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looking at that list reminded me - we paid a small supplement in one of the restaurants for a side of cepes, and it was worth it. also, somebody instructed us to try gateau basque while we were there. as far as i can tell, it is some kind of almond tart, and also very good.
gute reise!
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oh goodie good! will definitely look out for ceps then.
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I just saw this post just now, are you going to bordeaux before Prague?
Lucky you. I don't remember Bordeaux as having anything special to offer from the touristic point of view, so if you have time, St/ Emillion and other little wine towns around are the best thing ( San Sebastian is another story, and I strongly recommend it - but not if you are so short-timed). You can try your luck with one of the great wineries, who knows, maybe Chateau Margaux or Chateau Lafitte just had a cancellation and you can fit in?!
If You have spare time , direction Sarlat- Rocamadour is very very interesting. Cassoulet is indeed one of the specialties, though I wouldn't dare to eat it if it's too hot. It's really heavy. Foie gras, yes, always and a lot!
No more war, more foie gras, we live only once and damn cholesterol!
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I know... I hardly dared to put both queries out in case somebody noticed... I would have preferred to have those two things spread out further, but my college friends (we're having a 25th anniversary, so-to-speak!) could only make this time (far too hot for me by July, I should think, I'm already dreading it!!), and as I said, I can't change my wedding date post-event... We did consider going somewhere for longer in September but then we probably would have had to spend our anniversary apart, as my husband works away from home during the week...
I appreciate your thoughts on Bordeaux. Yes, Rocamadour would be nice, I saw a photo in my French lesson recently. We'll see how the girls feel about renting a car - after all, I learnt to drive on the continent and still do it frequently, so driving on the right doesn't scare me (though French drivers might...).
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Okay, I'm back, and I'll just quickly add my/our experiences.
[b]Food:[/b] well, it was very difficult as one of us is Vegetarian, which as anyone will know poses quite a problem in France. So, we had to choose restaurants which had the best choices for vegetarians - unfortunately, your recommended restaurant, starchmouse, Les Grenadines, was only able to offer a salad with fresh vegetables when asked, so we gave it a miss. Much to my regret, as it did look excellent. Unfortunately, my friend doesn't even eat fish, so we couldn't stop at the great looking restaurants specialising in fish either. Nonetheless, thank you starchmouse for the description, we found our way to this area immediately because of it, and ate there every evening. There are a huge number of restaurants to choose from and all seem to have set meals (formule), starting from 11, which I thought was very reasonable for a three-course meal. I had a gorgeous confit de canard, and slices of duck breast in a peach sauce on another occasion, and I also had foie gras as a starter. It came with very sweet fried bread (brioche?), and the foie gras seemed to contain big pieces of sea salt, which made for a very strange combination. My feeling was that this might well be a traditional way of serving it, and could have been spectacular in a higher class restaurant. The best restaurant for Vegetarians was one called 'Paradox', which is situated in the little side street off to the left of place du parlament. The more ethnic places like the Turkish and Morroccan restaurants also had a better choice of Vegetarian dishes. Don't order the Mozzarella, tomato and Basil salad though - this was served, believe it or not - with dried basil!!!
We took the first opportunity to try caneles, even though we knew those might not be the best; we bought some at Baillardan, which were better, but we still weren't conviced. I think starchmouse is right, they grow on you... at the airport, the cup of coffee came with a mini one, and mine was extremely dark, and therefore very chewy, and I think, I know now what they should be like, ideally, but of course, now I can't get any... and I think that's part of it...
[b]Sightseeing:[/b] Bordeaux is a huge place but we managed to see an awful lot by just walking. There is a lot more to see than I anticipated (hardly any info on the net, and I could not even track down a guide in England). The fountain around the Monument des Girondins, for instance, is as impressive as anything I've seen in Italy, and it will be even more so when the restauration is finished and the scaffolding comes off (April '06). And there are many more interesting places; the whole city seems to undergo a restauration project, and it will be fabulous when it's all finished. Completely by chance, we came across a small statue of liberty (like a stunted, 'real woman' version) one night, but unfortunately, we didn't note down the place and couldn't find it again. And even in the guide I bought from the tourist information, there is no mention of it.
Anyway, well worth the visit for a few days if you can get a reasonable flight and/or accommodation.
St. Emilion ( aworld heritage site), of course, is definitely worth it, if somewhat touristy; but that's to be expected. We made our own way there, by bus (coach); we also visited two vineyards, Sauternes and Graves. It was a half day trip at 27, and included wine tasting.
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The latest statistics on Washington's Death with Dignity Act show a steady increase in the people who have legally ended their lives under the law. Seventy terminally people hastened their deaths in 2011 with the help of a doctor's prescription. That's according to a new report out Wednesday from the state Department of Health. Since 2009, a total of 255 terminally ill adults have ended their lives in this way.
Meg Holmes of Seattle held brain cancer at bay for 16 months. Surgeries and radiation couldn't keep her down. The family's blog about the experience shows happy images of hikes, bike rides, encouraging MRIs. But her husband, Andrew Taylor says in March last year, she had an ordinary MRI.
"And with these MRI's, you always go and see the doctor immediately afterward. And typically the doctor bounces through the door. And this time he didn't," Taylor says. "And we pretty much knew what was coming."
Over the next seven months, Meg lost her ability to see and move around. And then suddenly …
"She told me out of the blue that she had been thinking about the Death with Dignity Act and now that was something she was really interested in," Taylor says.
According to the latest numbers from the Washington Department of Health, Meg Holmes is typical of the 70 terminally people who hastened their death with a doctor's prescription. Most were white, lived west of the Cascades, had health insurance and suffered from cancer. Seventy in 2011 is up from 51 in 2010 and 36 in 2009. One of the law's advocates, Robb Miller of the group, Compassion and Choice Washington, says despite the increase, this procedure is rare.
"We're talking about a minuscule number of people," Miller says.
The Washington Death with Dignity Act requires participating physicians to report information about patients to the state Department of Health. But opponents of doctor-assisted suicide, such as Margaret Dore with the group Choice Is An Illusion, want more intensive oversight.
"What's not included is whether or not these people acted voluntarily. Did the people consent? We hope they did. Was in their choice? We hope it was. Do we know that? No. Does anybody know that?" Dore asks.
Andrew Taylor says no one who spoke to his wife in her last few days believed it was anything but her choice. He says the day after Meg received the medication, her family gathered around her bed.
"She drank down the half cup of liquid. And she was literally asleep by the time she … by the time she finished drinking the half cup of medication, she was unconscious," Taylor says.
He says ten minutes later, she was dead. In her final hours, Taylor promised his wife he would take her favorite hiking staff with him up rugged Northwest trails. He plans to take that trip this spring. Taylor says he'll take some of her ashes too.
The latest numbers from Oregon's Public Health Division says a total of 71 people in Oregon used the state's Death with Dignity Act in 2011.
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In British Columbia, bankruptcy law has exemptions to allow you to retain assets such as clothing, tools, cars and furniture. While you may have to part with some of your assets in order to pay back some of your debt to your creditors, your assets are protected up to a certain amount. Find out more about bankruptcy exemptions in British Columbia.
These exemption amounts were current as of December 1, 2015, but our debt experts can advise you if there are any other recent updates and will be able to answer any questions about what you can keep during the bankruptcy process.
We understand that for many homeowners, their house is their greatest asset and the source of many memories. Not only is it possibly the most valuable, in terms of dollars, but the emotional attachment you have to your home is priceless. The good news is that you don't automatically lose your home during the bankruptcy process. However, there are some important factors to consider. First, we'll help you figure out how much equity you have in your home. Then, depending on how much equity you do, or do not have, we will be able to advise you what impact a bankruptcy would have on your ability to stay in your home.
It matters because the amount of equity you have in your home will determine whether you will be able to keep your home. What is home equity? Home equity is your share of the value of your home—what your home is worth on the market minus what you owe on it. We can help you determine the market value of your home (we'll look at real estate listings for homes similar to yours), then subtract the amount you still owe on your mortgage, as well as any property taxes you owe.
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In response to the Fukushima meltdown — which did $50 billion in damage to Japan's economy — Germany aims to close all its reactors by 2022.
Germany, the world's most aggressive adopter of renewable energy, is taking a bold leap toward a future free from nuclear energy. In March, the German government announced a program to invest 200 billion euros, or approximately $270 billion, in renewables. That's 8 percent of the country's GDP, according to the DIW Economic Institute in Berlin.
Last year, in response to the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced a plan to close down all 17 of Germany's nuclear reactors and replace them with renewable energy, mostly solar and wind power.
Germany has already closed eight nuclear reactors, and the rest will be shut down by 2022. For now, natural gas is filling the void left by nuclear power, which formerly produced 20 percent of the country's electricity. Under Merkel's plan, 80 percent of Germany's energy will come from renewables by 2050, according to the German Advisory Council on the Environment. Studies by the council show that 100 percent renewable power is a realistic goal for Germany.
In contrast, the United States has been much less ambitious. The president's "New Energy for America" plan aims to supply the country with 25 percent renewable energy by 2025.
Eighty percent of German residents want to see their country abandon nuclear power, but some Germans have also opposed new energy projects in their backyards. The website for "Wind Power Opponents," Windkraftgegner.de, lists more than 70 protest campaigns, most of which are regional, grassroots groups organized to stop specific projects.
Germany's renewables plan will be expensive, but so was the Fukushima meltdown — it did $50 billion in damage to Japan's economy by some estimates. Dealing with the effects of climate change won't be cheap either. Even German nuclear power companies are investing in the plan. Not only will it make Germany's energy infrastructure among the safest in the world, it should provide many chances for economic growth, according to press statements by Philipp Rösler, Germany's economics minister.
Oliver Lazenby wrote this article for Making it Home, the Summer 2012 issue of YES! Magazine. Oliver is a freelance writer, former YES! intern, and farm laborer.


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"It's the only thing that makes any sense," LaPierre said of the gunrunning "sting" operation that resulted in thousands of U.S.-purchased firearms ending up in the hands of violent Mexican drug traffickers. LaPierre noted that "over a period of two or three years they were running thousands and thousands of guns to the most evil people on earth," while government officials were claiming that 90 percent of the guns used by the Mexican cartels were coming from the United States. However, said LaPierre:
That [90 percent] was a phony figure from the very start. Even the Wikileaks cables from our own State Department prove they are coming from Central America; they are not coming from the U.S. Every police officer will tell you that they're coming from Russia, they're coming from China, most of them are coming from Central America and a lot of them are coming from defections from the Mexican Army.
The NRA president charged that President Barack Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wanted to make it appear that guns were coming from the United States, "so they could stick more gun [control] legislation on honest American gun owners of the United States." LaPierre claimed it was only due to the killing last December of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry by armed Mexicans in Arizona that the government-sanctioned gunrunning operation ever came to light. Two assault rifles recovered at the scene of the shooting were reported to be linked to the Fast and Furious operation and a Fox News report last month claimed a third rifle used in the shootout might also have arrived in Mexico via the Fast and Furious scheme. According to unidentified sources cited in the report, information about the third rifle has been concealed by the FBI to protect an informant. "Sources close to the Terry case say the FBI informant works inside a major Mexican cartel and provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry," Fox News disclosed. The FBI, which is investigating the Terry killing, declined comment.
"We wouldn't know about this at all if [Terry] had not been killed and some of the good, honest, decent federal agents down the line had enough of the stench coming out of Washington and started to use the Whistleblower Act to go public and call the Justice Department out on this whole rotten, stinking scheme," LaPierre told Newsmax. "Otherwise thousands of guns would still be going over the border into the Mexican drug cartels and the President and the Attorney General and the Secretary of State would all be running around going, '90 percent of the guns come from America' in an attempt to seek political advantage and in an attempt to enact more gun control laws on honest American citizens and use this whole issue politically against the Second Amendment of the United States."
The government effort to conceal the truth about the Fast and Furious operation is the biggest cover-up since the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974, LaPierre declared, adding,
Look at what has happened. We had our Department of Justice under the Obama administration running thousands and thousands of guns over the border and watching them go directly into the hands of some of the most evil people on earth, the Mexican drug cartels.
At the same time they were letting the reputation of good, honest, decent Americans, law-abiding American gun dealers, be ruined.
They ordered these sales to be made — they even overrode the InstaCheck system and ordered the dealers to make the sales. Then, when it all starts coming out, there's a massive cover-up.
The operation was conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (still known as ATF) in the Department of Justice. LaPierre added his voice to those of a number of Republican members of Congress who have called for the resignation of Attorney General Holder and the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the gunrunning operation.
"My gosh, Valerie Plame gets a special prosecutor," LaPierre exclaimed, referring to the CIA agent whose name was leaked during the George W. Bush presidency. "And all we get on Fast and Furious — where people are dead, a federal agent is dead, hundreds of crimes are being committed — is an Eric Holder cover-up." He contended that the actions of the U.S. government resembled those of a banana republic: "Doesn't that sound like something that would happen more from a South American dictatorship than what we expect in the Good Ol' USA?" He continued,
This can't be allowed to stand. What has happened in Fast and Furious is the equivalent of our Justice Department becoming willing co-conspirators with the Mexican drug cartels in their crimes. If any citizen in this country had sold [guns] to the Mexican drug cartels and then those cartels had used those guns to kill good, honest, decent people, any U.S. Attorney worth his salt would indict that citizen for accessory to murder. That's what's happened here.
In the same interview, the NRA president warned that a second term for the Obama administration would result in the appointment of Supreme Court justices who would "erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the Constitution of the U.S." The 2012 election will be "the most dangerous election in our lifetime for the Second Amendment freedom that American citizens have," LaPierre asserted. "A second term by President Obama will break the back of that freedom in this country."
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The bid to bring renewable power to the U.S. is facing a tougher time this year than in previous years.
The New York Times reported earlier this month, in "Cost of Green Power Makes Projects Tougher Sell," that "even as many politicians, environmentalists and consumers want renewable energy and reduced dependence on fossil fuels, a growing number of projects are being canceled or delayed because governments are unwilling to add even small amounts to consumers' electricity bills."
Year-to-date installations of new wind power dropped 72 percent from 2009 levels, according to a press release from the American Wind Energy Association.
As authors Matthew Wald and Tom Zeller Jr. note, "Electricity generated from wind or sun still generally costs more — and sometimes a lot more — than the power squeezed from coal or natural gas." That gap in price "can pit regulators, who see their job as protecting consumers from unreasonable rates, against renewable energy developers and utility companies, many of which are willing to pay higher prices now to ensure a broader energy portfolio in the future."
One example: "The state public utilities commission in Rhode Island rejected a power-purchase deal for an offshore wind project that would have cost 24.4 cents a kilowatt-hour. The utility now pays about 9.5 cents a kilowatt hour for electricity from fossil fuels. The state legislature responded by passing a bill allowing the regulators to consider factors other than price. The commission then approved an agreement to buy electricity from a smaller wind farm." That decision is being challenged in the courts.
"One of the problems in the United States is that we haven't been willing to confront the tough questions," Paul Gipe told the Times. Gipe sits on the steering committee of the Alliance for Renewable Energy. "We have to ask ourselves, 'Do we really want renewables?'" he said. "And if the answer to that is yes, then we're going to have to pay for them."
A new group out to articulate that tradeoff is the Progressive Business Leaders Network, self-described as "business leaders committed to socially and environmentally responsible economic growth and the public policies that advance it."
Its Energy & Environment Working Group has, according to the website, "addressed the economics of wind energy, the impact of buildings on the environment, and increasing energy access, efficiency and affordability. Their current focus is the role business can play in addressing climate change and the economic and environmental implications of doing nothing."
The working group is chaired by Mitch Tyson, CEO of Advanced Electron Beams, Inc., and coordinated by Roger Freeman, CEO of Solventerra LLC. The website lists policy positions and encourages business leaders to sign any or all of the statements, which PBLN may use publicly in its campaigns.
"A lot of our people feel like the business agenda of 'cut my taxes and cut regulation' has contributed to the economic disaster," said Andy Tarsy at an event held by PBLN last month and covered by the Boston Globe. Tarsy cofounded PBLN and is now its executive director. "There's a lack of vision of what's good for the country, as opposed to narrow business interests," he said. "Business has to be more creative and think about the long term."


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The first Garden Club tour of the Vineyard was 4 years ago. The winery wasn't built yet. This year the vineyard is 4 times larger. Three events will be offered: Vineyard Tour, Winery Tour and Wine Tasting event. Tickets will be available at the event, and may be pre-sold. Price will be posted very soon.
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12:33 AM on September 20, 2010
Congratulations Bob and Marilyn!!! You've worked so hard to get to this point and now....the world is YOURS!
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12:59 PM on August 14, 2010
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So, is this tour open to everyone, or just members of the Garden Club?
This is open to everyone, Bart. If you are interested, by all means come!
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12:45 PM on August 14, 2010
So, is this tour open to everyone, or just members of the Garden Club?


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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update April 2008
By the end of the first trimester of the year, the activities at the Coastal conservation center have started to increase and the maintenance activities give the volunteers the opportunity to do some hard labor and at the same time join our conservation programs.
The activities at the crocodile farm have intensified as the mating season has already started. By catching several specimens we managed to find more females for our breeding studs, the task was not an easy one and it is difficult to determinate if the trapped specimen is a he or a she! By the end of the night, we could house two females in the pools with the males. Now it is a matter of wait and see the results that come out of the pairings.
From the biometric data gathered from our 2006 and 2007 offsprings, we have observed an amazing rate of growth showing in the 2007 specimens of more than a meter of length, and in our 2006 offspring specimens reaching as far as 35 cm. The construction and remodeling of the crocodile breeding center has been a success and the approval of more economic resources for the center assure all our work in the area, and leave us with much satisfaction!
At the Marine turtles conservation site we are finishing the last maintenance work before the high season starts, we are just waiting for the rains to come...then it's all go!
Our Biodiversity study of the Lagoon also has been giving some interesting results and now we can start to compare migration patterns and soon we will be able to send our results for the new environmental impact study that is going to take place in the lagoon. In addition we have been approached by the Environmental office in Colima regarding a new mangrove reforestation program, there is still a lot of logistics involved in order to start, but there is a much enthusiasm from both parties!
It has been a really interesting first part of the year, lot to do still though!
Oliver Garcia
Conservation Director
April 2008
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Welcome to the Team Brandon! Undeniably talented and all around good dude. Checkout some of his videos below
and don't forget to Follow and Subscribe to his channels for upcoming DKL Griptape Footy.
Brandon's Creds: Majer Skateboards, Es Footwear, Futura Sunglasses, DKL Skateboarding
Youtube Channel: Brandon Moore | Instagram: @brandon_moore_
Brandon Moore
Welcome to the Team Brandon! Undeniably talented and all around good dude. Checkout some of his videos below
and don't forget to Follow and Subscribe to his channels for upcoming DKL Griptape Footy.
Brandon's Creds: Majer Skateboards, Es Footwear, Futura Sunglasses, DKL Skateboarding
Youtube Channel: Brandon Moore | Instagram: @brandon_moore_
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text: Anyone besides me going to the Rule the Roost Breakie event in St. Stephens this weekend? It's going to be confusing. We set the clocks back an hour for the time change. So making it later that we have to leave. But Atlantic Canada is an hour later so we have to leave an hour sooner. Right? I guess I should go now and make sure I'm there on time.


text: Hey Everyone! My name is Hunter, I'm a fresh addition to the PRS team (started in July) and I'm fortunate to be able to produce a lot of the content you see on our Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/Blog/etc.. I met a few of you at Experience 2013, but for the others, I'm pleased to make your acquaintance. :shakehands: Friday (November 1st) marked the beginning of "No Shave November." In celebration, we want to have a little contest! We want a lot of people to be involved (not just men with uncanny abilities to grow facial hair). So, here are the brief contest rules: 1. Post one photo containing your face and your PRS to this forum thread by November 30th, 2013. 2. Beards are encouraged, but certainly not mandatory. The length of your facial hair will have no bearing in your chances of winning. 3. We will choose the winning image at random and announce the winner on December 2nd, 2013. 4. Feel free to get creative: draw on your face, give your PRS a paper mustache, whatever, just have fun! You may be thinking to yourself, "what is the point of a no shave November contest if you don't need to have any facial hair to enter?" I don't know, we just want to give you free stuff! The winner will receive a cool PRS prize pack containing: 1. A hollowbody cut-up. 2. A PRS bar stool. 3. 3 PRS Stickers 4. 3 PRS Decals 5. 3 PRS Lanyards As always you can find our official contest rules in fancy legal jargon: http://www.prsguitars.com/forum/showthread.php?4621-Official-Contest-Rules. Happy "No Shave November!"


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A Spanish clothing retailer came under fire after several people complained that one of its shirts resembled the prison uniforms Jewish concentration camp prisoners were forced to wear during the Holocaust.
Zara pulled the children's shirt that featured navy blue and white horizontal stripes with a six-pointed yellow star on the upper left embossed with the word "sheriff," reported the International Business Times.
Holocaust victims were once mandated to wear vertical striped shirts and pants with a yellow Star of David in the same position seen on Zara's shirt.
Zara apologized in a statement for promoting the shirt and has since removed it from its website.


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Lamborghini's aren't known for their storage capacity, but buy one from Asus and you'll get plenty.
Asus' Lamborghini VX5: a 1TB SSD on board
That's because the firm's new Lamborghini VX5 laptop will come with a whopping 1TB of solid-state storage, a capacity that Asus' claimed is currently the world's largest available SSD density.
That'll raise the laptop's price hugely, but right now Asus isn't saying what it plans to charge for the VX5.
Underneath the hood is an Intel Core 2 Quad processor and 4GB of memory, while the PC's "speed key" is designed to let the user accelerate CPU and GPU performance.
Speaking of the GPU: visual content's displayed on a 16in 1920 x 1080 screen by a dedicated Nvidia GeForce GT 130M graphics chip with 1GB of GDDR 3 video Ram. A Blu-ray combo drive is also included.
Asus hasn't forgotten that style is central to the lust for a Lamborghini though, and so has included a chiclet-style keyboard that automatically lights up in low-lighting conditions.
Asus hasn't said when the Lamborghini VX5 laptop will go on sale. ®


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There's no need to pipe the meringue but I'm obsessed with piping everything at the moment:
Rhubarb provides the same tart contrast as lemon does to the sweet sticky meringue and, as the CCD (Caked Crusader's Da) had harvested the last of the summer's rhubarb crop it seemed wrong to look a gift horse in the mouth.
Here's the rhubarb waiting to be covered in a duvet of meringue:
Rhubarb, left to its own devices, is very tart – mouth puckeringly so. What interested me with this recipe was that you use a combination of sugar and orange juice to sweeten the rhubarb. The orange juice worked beautifully and seemed to bring out a delightful depth of flavour in the rhubarb. It was intriguing as the first 'hit' of flavour was the tart rhubarb then the sweet orange came through and left you with a fresh citrus taste.
The rhubarb filling sets very firm allowing lovely crisp slices to be cut:
I served it with thick cream, but in truth, it didn't need it (believe me, this is not a comment I make lightly!).
For the pastry:
173g plain flour
120g unsalted butter
3 tablespoons icing sugar
2 egg yolks - keep the whites for the meringue!
Plus, a further 2 egg yolks for sealing the pastry after baking blind – keep the whites for the meringue!
For the rhubarb filling:
675g rhubarb, chopped
75g caster sugar
Juice of 3 oranges (if you want to use bottle juice, this amounts to 250ml)
75g cornflour
1 egg yolk
4 egg whites – saved from the stages above!
175g caster sugar
To serve: whipped cream
How to make:
- First make the pastry. Place the flour, icing sugar and butter in either a food processor or mixer and blend until the texture fine breadcrumbs.
- Add the egg yolks and mix until the dough comes together.
- Using your hands, make the dough into a smooth ball. Flatten slightly then wrap in clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
- Grease a 23cm fluted flan tin and then roll the pastry out and use to line the tin. I roll my pastry out between two sheets of baking paper as this eliminates the need to dust the surface with flour.
- Once in the tin, cover the pastry with either baking paper or non stick foil and weigh down with baking beans.
- Bake for 15 minutes, then remove the baking beans and paper and brush the pastry with the two beaten egg yolks. This will seal the pastry and stop it becoming soggy from the juicy rhubarb.
- Return the pastry, uncovered, to the oven for a further 15 minutes, or until the pastry is crisp and golden.
- Leave to cool on a wire rack.
- While the pastry is cooking, make the rhubarb filling. Put the chopped rhubarb in a large pan with the sugar. Cover the pan and cook on a low heat for five minutes. Then remove the lid and keep cooking until the rhubarb softens. Rhubarb collapses when it cooks and that's what you're aiming for – you don't want any hard lumps left. Stir every now and again to encourage the rhubarb to break down.
- Mix the cornflour with the orange juice. Remove the rhubarb from the heat and stir in the orange juice/cornflour mixture.
- Return the pan to the heat and bring to the boil stirring all the time. This will thicken the rhubarb.
- When the rhubarb is at boiling point, cook it for a further 2 minutes then remove from the heat.
- Allow to cool slightly before beating in the egg yolk. If you do this straightaway the egg might scramble so be patient!
- Pour the rhubarb into the pastry case. You can make the dish up to this point the day before serving. Let the rhubarb cool in the pastry case then cover and chill. If you make the meringue the day before it might weep.
- Finally, make the meringue topping. Whisk the three egg whites until the soft peak stage.
- Preheat the oven to 150°C/fan oven 130°C/300°F/Gas mark 2
- Continue to whisk and add the sugar gradually until it is fully incorporated.
- Whisk until the stiff peak stage before spreading or piping over the rhubarb.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until the meringue is crisp on the outside and golden brown.
- Serve either warm or at room temperature but definitely with cream!
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
- Eat.


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Today, five companies no longer are listed after posting losses for five straight years: General Magnetics, Chuan Soon Huat Industrial, ASA Group, Fastech Synergy and Ionics EMS.
These delistings show yet again the danger of buying on NTA.
One, even if a firm has the cash for a buyout, most shareholders will not benefit. Ionics EMS's exit offer of 1.5 cents per share, for example, was a 23.86 per cent discount to the 12-month volume-weighted average price (VWAP).
And as BT reported on tuesday, "With most of the companies experiencing drastic sell-offs since the de-listing notice was issued on March 2, their counters' last-traded prices have fallen significantly below net asset value (NAV). General Magnetics' case is the most vivid, with a $0.19 NAV per share against its last-traded price of $0.085."
And as BT pointed out, "Should VWAP feature more prominently than NAV in determining the exit offer, the price may end up being ridiculously low and shareholders of the five companies that face de-listing may find the options to stay or to go are not really options at all."
But some gd news for value investors: the investors in Lion Asiapac have gotten something — 15 cents a share via special dividend. Gd for them and great that they stood up and shouted for the money. And all without that self-proclaimed small shareholders' champ.SIAS


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IGG recently revealed plans to launch its first vampire-themed MMORPG, Moonlight Online, offering unique game features giving players power over world creation and demolition plus characters with superhuman abilities. The few details released so far have left gamers wondering what kind of enigmatic universe they can look forward to exploring. Now it's time to take a peek behind the veil of secrets as the epic tale of Moonlight Online unfolds.
Having slain the Dark Dragon Nasselgepar, the victorious King Cruz brought peace to the land and founded the Monarchy of Cruz. He formed an alliance with Christiano, the noble lord of the Kalimarov vampires, and Mourinho, the mighty chieftain of the savage werewolves, signing the Peace Treaty of Ansgarde.
This unprecedented time of peace would one day end, after a demonic fourth faction emerged from the depths of hell and brought mayhem to the world. They schemed to fan the flames of hatred and lust, manipulating a romance between a vampire and a werewolf that turned the two races against each other. A massive war broke out between them, and the delicate peace that had lasted eons was thus destroyed by the vile trickery of the demons. Chaos and turmoil spread throughout the land. Even the neutral human race was not spared the horrors of war.
Now that the Great War has ended, vampires, werewolves and humans are left with the daunting task of rebuilding their empires on their war-torn lands. To do so, they must annihilate the dark demons that continue to ravage their homes.
In Moonlight Online, vampires harness elemental energies and possess astounding abilities of speed, equilibrium and power. Beneath their ashen faces and piercing crimson gazes lie mysterious and profound forces. Descended from the purest and most noble bloodlines, vampires are proud and lonely fallen angels of the night.
The natural enemies of vampires, werewolves are fearsome beasts with amazing restorative powers. Their ability to explode into a berserker fury increases their attack power against vampires, fueling gripping PvP battles that feature the colossal clash of claws and fangs.
Not to be taken lightly, humans are powerful beings in their own right. King Cruz received blessings from all the gods for destroying the Dark Dragon, endowing his people with great intelligence and courage. With its many schools of might and magic, the Monarchy of Cruz has raised generations of legendary defenders.
Players will have their choice of any of the three earthly races as they immerse themselves in the moving tales of Moonlight Online. From vampiric hunters that prowl the blackest night to the righteous and fierce guardians of the land, whether they take the role of conqueror or defender, players will harness amazing abilities as they explore the world of Moonlight Online.
Visit http://www.igg.com to learn more about IGG's growing stable of online games and watch this space for more Moonlight Online news as new details emerge from the shadows.