The connection in Hobart is a significantly different kind of connection. It's a much smaller pipeline and a much smaller fee.

The board felt that with the two connections being virtually identical, they ought to have the same price. They approved the fee of $28,000 based on the similarity of the connection in Francis Creek. The authority is prepared to absorb the difference.

There were two different contractors, two different projects and they bid different prices to do the same amount of work.

We're hopeful to keep Denmark as a potential future customer.

We think the demand is up because more and more consumers are making the connection between diet and health -- how what they eat relates to how long they live and how well they live. People have started to come back to red meat, but they're looking for a variety.

When you set up a connection between computers using VI, you give the application the ability to write directly to the networking hardware without involving the operating system. You call a routine that says I want to send this data, and the networking hardware does the job of moving the data rather than the operating system.