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How One Man's Hobby Brewed Up a Business Idea
For many entrepreneurs, a local trend can spark a business idea.
That's exactly what happened for Peter Kinslow in the South Carolina Lowcountry outside of Charleston.
After being laid off from his 25-year IT career, Kinslow knew it was time for something new. He began to renew his love of home brewing, and after a career of "working for others," he says, "I wanted to try my hand at running my own business."
The craft-beer scene in Charleston had exploded, and he thought it only natural that the homebrewing hobby would surge alongside it. "It was really the perfect time for a dedicated homebrew supply shop here in the Lowcountry."
Yeast – Everything Homebrew is a specialty retail store selling equipment and ingredients for homebrewing beer, wine, cider, mead and soda. The shop provides introductory homebrewing and winemaking classes.
Planning on paper supports small business success
Kinslow had experience with business development, planning and proposal writing in his previous career, so he knew the value of a solid business plan. He turned to SCORE "to see if the idea worked on paper before I spent any of my family's money on this venture," he recalls. "This was going to be self-financed, and we would be putting a lot at risk. I needed to show my wife how it was going to work and get her to buy in."
He first attended "Are You Ready to Start a Business?" a local seminar that covered all the basics of business ownership. "This workshop exposed me to the resources available through SCORE as well as those that partner with SCORE," he says.
SCORE mentor Rick Norman served as a sounding board and cheerleader as Kinslow explored his business options. Norman listened to each of the small business ideas Kinslow was considering, and supported Kinslow's development of a homebrew supply shop business plan in the months to come.
"My mentor was instrumental in helping me complete my business plan — being a good sounding board, checking for omissions, reviewing the financials, etc." Kinslow says. "Once my wife and I decided [we were] committed to the business plan, it was less than a month from getting the lease to opening the shop."
Kinslow also took an introduction to QuickBooks workshop that "was very helpful in clarifying my understanding of the accounting side of my business," he says.
When being CEO means Chief Everything Officer
"As a sole proprietor and only employee, keeping up with all the details of running a business is never ending," Kinslow admits. "Partnering with a bookkeeper took a giant weight off my shoulders. You have to know when to rely on others and when the cost of having someone else is worth it in time, money and stress."
Kinslow's wife and college-age children help when they can, but Kinslow knows he can't always rely on them to lend a hand with the business. "I have had to close the shop a couple of times due to illness or other issue," he says. "This year's goal is to add a part-time employee or two I can rely on to cover for me."
Even after several years in business, Kinslow is still learning how to sustainably grow his business. He realized, for example, that homebrewing slows during the hot summer months. Kinslow met with Norman to discuss cash flow challenges and potential new revenue streams, which led Kinslow to add beekeeping products to Yeast's lineup in 2016.
Notice a local trend you'd like to adapt into a small business? Contact your local SCORE chapter to meet with a mentor and talk about your ideas!
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Now, creating keystores with the Java Keytool turns out not that hard. And generating the Certificate signing requests and importing the certificates are also a walk in the park, nowadays. The internet world is full of example so I'm not going to do that here.
But lately, our Service Bus developers found that they needed to replace the configured demo identity and trust key stores with Custom Stores. But this broke the connection between the AdminServer and the Nodemanagers, resulting in TLS/SSL Handshake errors. By default, the nodemanagers work with the demo-identities when running in TLS.
This drove us to work out an infrastructural configuration of TLSin our FMW environments, in a way that the SB developers can extend that with their certificates.
In this article I want to describe how to configure TLSin Weblogic using the KeyStore Service, and also how to reconfigure the nodemanagers to have them running TLS using the custom stores.
Keystores and the KeyStore Service (KSS)
When implementing in TLS in Fusion MiddleWare 12c you have the choice to use the new KeyStore Service for creating keys and certificates directly in the KSS, or the Java Key Tool.Until now WebLogic preferred a Java Key Store (JKS) for storing certificates. This is a file that functions as a vault to store your keys and certificates savely. You can use the commandline tool Keytool that is delivered with the JDK. But there are several graphical tools, like Portecle, that can make your encrypting life even more simple.
Since a keystore is a atomic file, you need to copy it or put it on a share to have a complete multi-node clustered domain use the same store.
Per Fusion MiddleWare 12c Oracle introduced the KeyStoreService. The KSS is part of the Oracle Platform Security Services, and stores the keys in so-called Stripes in the MDS. For some components it is necessary to sync them to a keystores.xml file in the domain. But we'll get to that.
The KSS enables you to create, delete and manage keystores from the Enterprise Manager/FustionMiddleWare Control.
As said, you can start with creating your keys using the KSS. We however did choose not to. We started with creating a JKS using the KeyTool. The reaons for that were:
- Using the keytool, you can already create a store and a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) before configuring your domain.
- We wanted to make sure we had the configuration of Weblogic and Nodemanager correct, before transition to KSS.
- With a JKS you have a backup of your identity in case you mess up your configuration. Keep in mind that you need to import the CSR into the keystore from where you generated the key. Even a new JKS created the exact sameway won't work.
- Using OraPKI, you can migrate your certificates from a JKS to a wallet. We are still in the 'figure-out-phase' of implementing OHS with KSS.
- Oh, and we wanted to have scripts and easy to document commands for creating and importing the stores.
Identity and Trust Store
So we started with creating an Identity Keystore with the Java Keytool, created a CSR and had it signed.We had several virtual hostnames refering to the hostname (darlin001.org.darwin-it.local) loadbalancer (o-dwn-1.ont.org.darwin-it.local), managed servers (o-dwn-1-dwn-1-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.local), Admin Virtual host (o-dwn-1-admin-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.loca), etc. To have them accepted with the same certificate, you need to create the Certificate Signing Request with an extention called 'Subject Alternative Names'. This can be done with the -ext parameter including the SAN keyword as follows:
... -ext SAN=dns:darlin001.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-admin-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-dwn-1-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-dwn-2-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-ohs-1-vhn.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-internal.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1-admin.ont.org.darwin-it.local,dns:o-dwn-1.ont.org.darwin-it.localThis is a comma seperated list, with each addres need to be prefixed with dns:. See also the keytool documentation.
Don't forget to add the Common Name (CN) to the SAN, since clients are supposed to ignore the CN, when using a SAN. Also you need to add the -ext SAN parameter to the CSR. You can use it when creating the Key, but that's not enough for the CSR.
For the Trust Store, I copied the cacerts from the JDK. I changed the password and imported the CA and root certificates. But you need to consider if you want to accept all the JDK's trusted certificates. Or only those you really need to trust.
Scope of the Keystore
We choose to have the domain the scope of the keystore, not the host. So as a CommonName I choose the loadbalancer address. The thing is that we want to have the managed servers use the same keystore. And with a whole server migration, a managed server could migrate to a new host, that is not yet in the certificate. Although we add the known hosts, we could be forced to use a new host. And with whole server migrations, you can't way for your CSR to be signed.As name of the keystores and the identity alias I choose a reference to our domain name. As an environment shortage I choose 'dwn', that could also refer to the type of environment. Like BPM, OSB, SOA, etc. The first letter ('o') denotes the development environment (Dutch: 'ontwikkeling'). And the digit denotes the environment number, where you could have multiple development or test environment.
Import KeyStores into KSS
Having created your KeyStores and made sure Weblogic works with them, you can import them into the KSS. The UI (EM) does allow you to create a keystore, and import certificates. It does not allow you to import a complete JKS. But you can do so using WLST. This caters also for my quest to script as much as possible.The commands are executed in WLST Online mode, connected to the AdminServer. So start wlst and connect to the AdminServer.
In the following command commands, I use the following environment variables:
- $JAVA_HOME: refering to, yes, you're right....
- $JKS_LOC=/u01/oracle/config/keystore
- $JKS_NAME=o-dwn-1.jks
- $JKS_TRUST_NAME=o-dwn-1-trust.jks
wls:/o-dwn-1_domain/serverConfig/> svc = getOpssService(name='KeyStoreService')
With the handle you can import the Identity keystore:
wls:/o-dwn-1_domain/domainRuntime/> svc.importKeyStore(appStripe='system', name='o-dwn-1-id', password='<password>', aliases='o-dwn-1', keypasswords='<password>', type='JKS', permission=false, filepath='/u01/oracle/config/keystore/o-dwn-1.jks') Already in Domain Runtime Tree Keystore imported. Check the logs if any entry was skipped.
The parameters aliases and keypasswords contain a comma-separated list of key-aliases and corresponding key-passphrases.
My advise would be to use the same password for your key as for your keystore. Many products (like Oracle B2B) allow you to provide only one password, that is used for both.
Importing the Trust Store, works similar: svc.importKeyStore(appStripe='system', name='o-dwn-1-trust', password='<password>', aliases='ca_dwn_org,our-root-ca', keypasswords='none,none', type='JKS', permission=false, filepath='/u01/oracle/config/keystore/o-dwn-1-trust.jks') Already in Domain Runtime Tree Keystore imported. Check the logs if any entry was skipped.
One thing with Trusts: they don't contain Keys. So no keyprases are applicable. But the keypasswords property is mandatory and also need to contain the same number of passphrases as there are aliases named to be imported in the KSS. Apparently it is sufficient to use 'none' as a passphrase.
A wallet can also be imported the same way. For a type then choose 'OracleWallet', and in filepath a reference to the wallet folder.
To check the content of the keystore, we can list it:
wls:/o-dwn-1_domain/domainRuntime/> svc.listKeyStoreAliases(appStripe="system",name="o-dwn-1-id",password='<password>',type="*") Already in Domain Runtime Tree o-dwn-1
And for the trust:
wls:/o-dwn-1_domain/domainRuntime/> svc.listKeyStoreAliases(appStripe="system",name="o-dwn-1-trust",password='<password>',type="*") Already in Domain Runtime Tree ca_dwn_org our-root-ca
Now the keystores are in the KSS. You can see them in EM. But some FMW components like nodemanagers, (but it appeared to me even Weblogic Servers), don't work right away. They can't look into the KSS, but use a keystores.xml file in the ${DOMAIN_HOME}/config/fmwconfig. This turns out to be an export of the keystores. To synchronize the KSS with that file you need to do:
wls:/o-dwn-1_domain/domainRuntime/> syncKeyStores(appStripe='system',keystoreFormat='KSS') Already in Domain Runtime Tree Keystore sync successful.
List the content of KSS with FMW Control
To list the KSS within FMW Control, logon and navigate to Weblogic Domain -> Security -> Keystore:This brings you to the content of the KSS with the particular Stripes. For Weblogic we used the system stripe to import our custom keystores:
Select a store, and click the manage button in the bar. It will ask for the keystore password (the one you used creating the JKS with the keytool). Then it shows:
Here you can import, export certificates, create keypairs and generate a CSR for it.
Reconfigure Weblogic
Now we can proceed in configuring Weblogic and the nodemanagers.For the weblogic servers, logon to the Admin console, navigate to the particular Server, tab Keystores and select 'Custom Identity Keystore and Custom Trust keystore' in the pop-list.
Then enter the following values:
Custom Identity Keystore | kss://system/o-dwn-1-id |
Custom Identity Keystore Type | KSS |
Custom Trust Keystore | kss://system/o-dwn-1-trust |
Custom Trust Keystore Type | KSS |
For the passphrases, use the passphrases used earlier.
Then on the SSL tab you can provide the Identity alias and the key-passphrase.
Restart the Server (or at least Restart the SSL, under the control tab).
Reconfigure Nodemanagers for KSS
For the nodemanager, navigate to the nodemanager.properties file in ${DOMAIN_HOME}/nodemanager.At the top of the file add the following properties:
KeyStores=CustomIdentityAndCustomTrust CustomIdentityKeyStoreFileName=kss://system/o-dwn-1-id CustomIdentityKeyStoreType=KSS CustomIdentityKeyStorePassPhrase=CustomIdentityAlias=o-dwn-1 CustomIdentityPrivateKeyPassPhrase=
Restart the nodemanager and check if it succesfully loads the kss://system/o-dwn-1-id as a keystore and starts the listener in SSL mode.
Then in the AdminServer console, under Domain Structure -> Machines -> <Machine_Name> check if the NodeManager is 'Reachable'.
That's about it. Don't forget to Sync the KSS in wlst, when the nodemanager does not restart properly and the managed/admin server could not start SSL properly.I hope I'll soon be able to write down the directions to reconfigure SSL in OHS to use the KSS. But as said we're still in the 'figure-out-phase'.

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Friday, February 13, 2009
I've written before about our experiences with a baby at church. We, with our oftentimes vampirish schedule, preferred the evening service. Since it had no childcare, our only choice had been to sit with Mikko in the cry room when he got too noisy for the sanctuary, which was generally right after the songs ended and the prayer began.
For various reasons, including feeling completely disconnected from our church due to our isolation in the evening service, we've lately been seeking out one of the morning services instead. (Yes, it's the later of the two.) But, because it offers full child care, I'm feeling pressure to succumb to the norm of dropping our child off downstairs and taking myself alone into the service (with a pager should he scream for more than 10 minutes). I'm feeling very conflicted.
On the one hand, Mikko doesn't seem to mind the toddler room. He doesn't interact with any of the other kids or the volunteers. He mostly plays with a truck that's just like the truck he has at home, and he might eat a bite or two of the snack. He doesn't do the art project or listen to the story. At least he hasn't been knocking littler kids over, as has happened in the cry room. (Ahem.) Despite making him sound autistic the way I've presented it, I think he's just not yet used to being around other little kids, but he does all right with it. He's calm being dropped off and being picked up, and we haven't yet been paged. I hope this is some sort of testament to his trust in us, that we got him nice and attached as a little baby so he feels confident in going to other people we trust.
OK, but herein lies one of my multitude of problems with child care at church. I don't know these people he's going off with. I mean, I trust that they've been screened and trained and that they love kids. But it's beyond weird to have my 20-month-old making friends that I don't know! I'd feel much more comfortable if the volunteers were adults that Mikko, Sam, and I were already friends with, so that there was a natural continuum of care. Mikko would recognize them and know that we were connected. This objection I could solve by getting to know the volunteers, which I am trying to do.
My next issue is more theological or philosophical or some sort of -ical. I just plain don't believe children and adults should be separated as they worship. I don't know why the modern church segregates everyone. In the Sunday service, the adults and the children are separated, and then even the children are separated. I know that one-room schoolhouses are seen today as at best quaint and at worst (and usually) as chaotic inefficiency, but I would actually like children's church better if all ages of kids were together. How fun for Mikko to witness littler babies, perhaps some being breastfed by their mothers, and to be coddled by some pre-teens, and to screw up the courage to participate in some elementary schoolers' roughhousing. But, of course, each age is with its own. And outside the Sunday service, we segregate even more. There are college groups, and moms groups, men's prayer breakfasts and family outings. I love getting to know people who are unlike me. Well, no, I'll try to be more honest -- sometimes it makes me uncomfortable. But that's a good thing. I need to rub up against people who are other, who are at different stages in their lives, so that I can grow. How do I change if I see only people who are just like me?
To continue the philosophizing, it just doesn't seem helpful to separate out the children. The whole point of raising children in the faith is that they see what their parents do at church, that they have a place with us before God. I was a Communion server the other week, and my favorite moment was when a young girl and her mother approached together. I bent down so that the 5-year-old or whatever she was could rip off a hunk of bread, and I was able to say to her, "The body of Christ, broken for you." Because she was my sister, and we were eating at the table together.
I don't want to over-Bible verse you, but you probably got the idea that this is a post about churchiness and signed off long ago if you don't feel like reading it. That's cool. I do think it's relevant to include this quote, though, since it's from the text our faith purports to follow.
"And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today. Repeat them again and again to your children. Talk about them when you are at home and when you are on the road, when you are going to bed and when you are getting up." (Deuteronomy 6:6-7, NLT)
How do I talk about God again and again with my child if the church separates us at the door?
I'm not the only one thinking of this, since Kate Wicker recently posted similar thoughts on Momopoly. But I do feel like I'm in the minority. I was talking to a friend without children last night, and she was talking about how nice it must be to drop Mikko off and be able to enjoy the service for once. And I think that's the general impression, that coming to God is primarily personal and emotive and needs to be done in solitude. But the whole point of a church service, of a body coming together, is to be messy and noisy and all sharing together. The Western church is so very much quieter than I think synagogue services were in days gone by. We're so very intolerant now of whatever disrupts us from our own connection with God, even if it's a fellow congregant singing off key or a rustling of a mint wrapper. But we're missing the point if we think it's all about us as individuals.
Here's a quote from Kate's post: "[K]eep in mind the words of a wise priest who told his congregation that construction can be noisy and that children are Christians under construction."
I've been thinking about this topic a lot lately in terms of Mikko's burgeoning skills and independence. I remember the wise parenting counsel not to do anything for your child that he can do himself, whether that's putting on socks or eating soup. It means slowing down and letting mistakes happen. If I'm washing the dishes, I get Mikko up on a stool with me, take off his clothes and my socks, and lay down towels all along the floor beneath us. And then we get to it. It takes longer. He'll pull clean dishes out of the drying rack and put them back into the dirty water. I have to spirit away sharp knives and glass to save for later. It hurts my back to lean over him, and he hogs the water spout and steals my sponge, even though I give him his own. But the fact is that he doesn't learn how to do dishes by hearing me talk about it offhandedly every once in awhile. He doesn't learn how to do dishes by having a good fairy (that would be me) finish them up while he's asleep. He learns to do dishes by doing dishes.
Children learn your faith by being present with you as you practice it.
Another, perhaps more selfish, qualm I have about sending Mikko to Sunday school and children's church is that I don't know what he's learning down there in the church basement. Probably something simplistic and potentially something theologically questionable. I wish I could be part of the learning process with him, so that we could discuss it together as he grows, but what he learns and what we learn up in the sanctuary above are two completely different things.
All right, so what am I going to do? I really don't know. The cry room is stuffed full at the morning services, and there's no one in there over a few months old. I'd like to spend some time in the toddler room with Mikko to get a feel for how it works, but I'm not allowed in. (Seriously.) I feel reenergized about church in general, though, for the first time in months and months, and I think the energy of the earlier service is one reason, as is the fact that many of our friends attend that one, so I don't want to switch back to evening.
My tentative plan is to keep Mikko in the service with us through at least the opening worship songs, where things are necessarily noisy. Then we could bring him down late to the toddler room if he starts making a scene. That's a half-hearted way to protest, but it's the best I've come up with for now, short of reconfiguring the whole church culture to suit what I think is best for everybody. Wouldn't that be cool!
We're in the midst of planning Mikko's baptism. Yes, we're a little slow. Sam and I come from a tradition of infant dedication over baptism, but our denomination leaves the choice to the parent, so we had some decisions to make. I won't go into why we chose one over the other right now. I do imagine that we'll have the oldest "baby" being baptized. We put it off for so long because we felt distanced from this church, and pledging our baby to God within a congregation that felt unwelcoming just didn't sit right. We're trying to start again, and be more charitable and accepting, with hope that others will extend the same grace back to us. As we in faith give our child over to God (not as if he was ours to begin with!), and affirm God's ongoing relationship with Mikko, as we formally welcome Mikko into our congregation as a (little) brother, it makes me long even more to share our communal faith journey with him, side by side.
Here's another translation of the first passage that I enjoy:
"The people brought children to Jesus, hoping he might touch them. The disciples shooed them off. But Jesus was irate and let them know it: 'Don't push these children away. Don't ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God's kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you'll never get in.' Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing on them." (Mark 10:13-16, The Message)
Jesus sounds fierce and protective, and those disciples knew they had been put in their place. And their place was with these children.
Photo of Spanish children flocking to church courtesy of Josep Patau Bellart on stock.xchng
14 comments:
- Jenny said...
Our daughter is 20 months old, and we are having the same issues. Our nursery is not in the church building. It's in the annex, which is across the churchyard. I hate taking Suzi there for several reasons. First, our church is near a busy road and on Sunday mornings there are sometimes questionable characters roaming around. One time a woman came into the annex feeling ill--no one knows why--and our pastor's wife offered to help her in some way. She ended up vomiting in the bathroom and left. I was watching the children at the time (before Suzi was born) and didn't see what happened, but we were concerned she may have had an illness and spread it to the small children. Other people have turned up there as well, asking for money and whatnot. Because the annex is totally separated from the church, it presents a safety issue. Someone could come in with a gun, or in a drunken stupor, etc, and the one or two adults present would be trapped with no way to get help. I don't feel God intended for our children to be placed in an outbuilding like they are a third or fourth priority. I feel the babies at LEAST need to be in one of the main Sunday School rooms! They have talked about moving the nursery, but are dragging their feet. Also, Sunday is one of the few times my husband and I both get to spend time with Suzi. We don't want to drop her off in the nursery for church. We want her to worship with us. We have brought her into church before; however, she gets disruptive and I'm not sure what to do about it. No one has said anything about it so far--except one man who told us she was entertaining him and he was sorry when we took her out... :-) Also, she still likes to breastfeed at odd times and that's fine with me, but I'd rather if she didn't let everyone in the church know by shouting "BOOBIE!" The church is so small and echo-y that if a paper rumples, every single person hears, and there is no cry room. As a result, we just haven't been going to church :-( This is the church I've belonged to my entire life, so I don't feel like moving is an option. Perhaps when Suzi is a bit older things will be different. Let me know if you come up with a solution!
- February 13, 2009 at 4:19 PM
- Lauren Wayne said...
Wow, Jenny, that sounds like an untenable situation! Our church is in a somewhat shady neighborhood as well, so I know a little about how delicate it is to balance being safe and being welcoming. But when the babies are in a completely different building with so few adults, safety has to be a priority. Yipes.
Thanks for bringing up breastfeeding. I was going to mention breastfeeding in my post, but it had already gotten so long ;) -- but we have the same situation. One reason I don't like dropping our son off downstairs is that I know no one will recognize his signs for wanting to nurse, or think it's a big deal at his age. I know he can go several hours without, but I don't want him to have to if he wants to feed. At the same time, I'm aware that it's unusual to breastfeed a toddler, so I can't help but wonder what people think when I feed him in church, considering I got some strange looks breastfeeding him in church when he was a newborn.
If you've been going to your church your whole life, maybe everyone secretly loves getting to see and hear Suzi? Maybe you could pretend, anyway... We also had been doing the not-going thing, which was the best solution we could come up with at the time. But we've started leading a new Bible study so need to be present on Sundays, so we'll see how it all goes. Tomorrow's our next chance to try something out. I think I'm going to see how long I can keep him in the service with us before all holy heck breaks loose. :) If I think of anything better, I'll let you know, and you do the same for me. - February 14, 2009 at 11:42 PM
- Wilderness Mama said...
I've had a problem with most modern day churches as well. One of the biggest things I love about the church we recently joined is that they actually closed down the nursery so that families would worship together, and the pastor and his wife both have told me that noise does not bother him while he is preaching. I love it and really appreciate what they are doing. So there are churches out there who have are more family oriented. That 2nd verse from Deuteronomy is on the header of my blog! I totally agree with you on this. It's a shame that so many people look at it differently. So many are eager to get rid of their kids so they can have a couple of hours of silence or adult time or whatever. What a totally wrong perspective!
- February 16, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- Rambling Rachel said...
I remember sitting on my mom's lap and hearing her sing. I remember feeling part of a community when I went to church. When faith was hard, it was community that kept me going to church. If we segregate our children, it's just another social occasion for them.
I don't think they need to try to site and understand a sermon. Child level "sermons" are appropriate. Dismissing kids for their own sermon is a good idea if you ask me. Keeps church interesting for the kids. - February 17, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Susana la Banana said...
I LOVED this post! I have been struggling with The Church Dilemma for a long while, and you said just about everything I've been thinking. Including the part about not having baptized the baby yet because you don't feel so connected to the church as a community.
Also, my dad was a minister when I was a kid, and in pretty small towns, so I was always at the big people service, ALWAYS. And there were times when it was boring but now I definitely wonder how the heck the kids are supposed to know what church is all about if they don't come. And I HATE when people give you the evil eye for opening a snack for your kid in church.
So thanks! Thanks for saying just what I was thinking. =) If enough parents just start incorporating the kids into the services, maybe the crankies will have to adjust? ;) - February 18, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Lauren Wayne said...
cindy: I'm jealous! Everything's still as a (church) mouse in our service, so any little noise stands out. We knew a couple pastors in the Midwest who started churches that were like you described, but now we don't live anywhere near them. We actually thought about starting a similar home church, but we weren't up for it yet.
rachel: I also have memories of singing in church with my parents. We didn't have a family-friendly church then, either, but I was very quiet as a child and would draw on the bulletin or read the hymnal if I didn't want to go to children's church. I agree that sermons are boring for kids, but I have issues with sermons for adults as well! I'm not sure how the modern church service became so regimented and centered around the sermon, which is so detached from what people are doing during the week. It's just a random lecture, no follow-up. In a class, if you had a lecture, at least there'd be a quiz to see if you'd been paying attention. But there's no relevance connecting the average sermon to the churchgoers' daily spiritual lives. Those pastors I was talking about in the Midwest use a church model where everyone reads the same Bible chapters during the week with their families, and then the sermon time is half teaching, half communal sharing about what they've all been reading -- it's relevant to everyone, adult and child alike, and it's only boring if you haven't been doing the reading, so there's accountability there. Sorry, that was my sermon just then!! :)
susana la banana: Yes! Last Sunday, our kid's thing was scratching his nails down the backs of the chairs. (The church took out the pews, and now we have these textured churchy chairs.) He thought it was excellent -- the people in the row ahead were not as amused. And my husband was getting antsier and antsier about being judged, so down Mikko went into the nursery again, to play with his favorite truck there. I felt really sad, almost sick to my stomach. I don't know what to do. Maybe recruit some more families to keep their kids in the service, and we could all sit in one section? Like a smoking section, only it would be a Noisy Section. Actually, before they remodeled (and took out the pews), the cry room was huge, and all the parents would sit in there and hear the sermon piped in and could chat and stretch out. Now the wall's been taken out and it's been replaced with seating space, so the new cry room is closet-sized and just for newborns basically. But the old cry room had that vibe of a Noisy Section. I miss it. - February 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM
- Joel said...
First, I have to say that I LOVE your blog! You have wonderful information and resources--I came across it looking for information on Mei Tai carriers and ended up getting a lot more out of it than I was expecting.
I really appreciate your insights as a mother. I believe that you are spot on in your feelings for how you should care for your son. Do not let anyone allow you to question your personal inspiration as a mother.
I really enjoyed the Bible verses you shared, and the quote from "Kate." I would add this bit from Joseph Marie DeMaistre: "A child is an angel dependent on man."
Your post regarding children and church services brought this quote to mind. I believe, as you do, that children should worship with their parents both in home and church settings. My personal conviction of this belief was fortified further when one of the upper clergymen at our church stood to address the congregation (probably 25+ of whom were babies and toddlers) and noted the hum that filled the chapel. He had us pay particular attention to the children's noises(which made some of the parents a bit anxious as to what his point was going to be). After a thoughtful moment, this leader thanked the parents for bringing their children to church with them because all children should participate with their families in worship services. He made the specific point that children are the most pure beings in the whole congregation, and it touched his heart to hear their sweet sounds. He went on to explain that we can learn many valuable lessons from children about what it means to be true followers of Christ.
It is heartening to know that there are people who understand this often unspoken truth. As mothers this knowledge seems almost innate. We understand that our children have much more to teach us, than we will ever teach them. They are an unspeakable blessing in this world--so simple, so meek, so submissive, so forgiving, so full of unconditional love--so divine. They are angels in our midst. I believe they should be celebrated every day--and yes, even at church!
Thanks again for keeping a wonderful blog. I have enjoyed your thoughts and the information you have presented. I'll probably check back in the future!
Kindest Regards,
Taryn--Bellevue, WA - March 1, 2009 at 2:35 AM
- Lauren Wayne said...
taryn: What a wonderful experience you had -- I'm laughing thinking about those worried parents when the noise of their children was pointed out. :) But that's perfect. I'm glad you found your way here -- thanks for sharing your story and that lovely quote!
- March 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM
- Lisa C said...
I really enjoyed reading this post. I belong to a church that is pretty much the same all over the world...whether you attend a service in Spain or California, you know what to expect.
I have visited churches of other denominations (being invited by a friend--I'm definitely not looking for a change!). I found it strange that there weren't children in the chapel. At my church, families sit together in the chapel during the main meeting. Yes, we all worship together. If a child gets too loud, the parent will take them out till they calm down...not to segregate...just to be courteous. I do think it is important to take a child out when they are too loud (and that is something the Yequana do!). One time I was irked with my BIL because his 18mo daughter started crying during the closing song. He didn't take her out. She continued to cry during the closing prayer. I am certain that no one in the entire congregation heard that prayer. So there are definitely times to take them out. But families should definitely worship together!
We have separate classes after the main meeting: Primary for ages 3-11 meeting all together for 45 min then in age-specific classes for 45min. Age 12-17 have Sunday school in their own classes then split for young men and young women. Their is adult Sunday school and then Priesthood for men, and Relief Society for women. I like that we are together for some, separate for others, because let's face it, we have different needs. Nursery starts at age 18 months, and you can stay in there if you like--they like the extra help! No one has a problem if you keep your child with you throughout the different meetings. In fact, I saw a mom with her sleeping 4 year old in Sunday school and thought it was sweet.
As far as church activities go, they have some for children, some for women, some for everyone, etc. We end up all getting to know each other and feel like a big family.
Does it sound like I'm trying to "sell" my church? Sorry! I just love that we are so family-oriented. In fact, we are taught: first, God; second, family; third, church. Church does not come before family. I think your heart is definitely in the right place. - March 5, 2009 at 4:51 PM
- Nichole said...
Great post. I recently found your blog and am enjoying it. I just became a mom in Sept. 09. I am also on staff at our church. My husband is a pastor and my FIL is also a pastor. Before becoming a mom I was very pro-kids church. I thought that it was great to provide an environment where kids can learn on their level and give parents an opportunity to enjoy service by themselves. I would even inwardly dislike when parents kept their kids in the service. But NOW, that has all changed. Afterall, what did I know, I didn't have kids and I wasn't a mom. Now, that I am my hubby and I are asking ourselves the same questions. We both have responsibilities during service but we have been keeping our son with us during worship and even during some of the message. If he gets loud (and he is very verbal :) we'll take him out either to the nursery (if need be) or one of us will stay with him. We both feel that we want to experience God together as a family. God loves my son and his normal noises are delightful to Him. I find it so funny how God has so changed our views now that we are parents - He's showing us what really matters to Him - family! For some they enjoy the kids church availability but for other they want to stay together and I now think each needs to be respected. Thanks for sharing.
- July 9, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Lauren Wayne said...
lisa c: Your church sounds like such a great culture for family. Thanks for sharing how it works, so I can get some ideas for what could be done differently. (P.S. I don't why it took me from March to respond to your comment.)
nichole: It's so interesting to hear the perspective of a pastor's family. It's fascinating how having kids changes your mind about what's best for families! And thanks for the reminder that kids church works for some people; at the same time that I want my wishes to be respected, I have to remember that what I prefer isn't necessarily ideal for everyone else. I hope there's a way to combine the two, similar to what Lisa was describing. I just wonder if the change (to allowing families to worship together as they wish) is so fundamental that an established church can't make the shift? I hate to be pessimistic, though. Maybe with you and your husband and FIL in a position of authority, it would be more possible for you to make such a huge change in the culture of your church. I feel like when I talk with the authorities in our church that it falls on deaf ears — not that they're disrespecting me, but that they just don't see the need the way I do, and how can I change that?
Just as a follow-up, my husband's thinking that it might be best for us at some point to move to a smaller church, so small that it doesn't have a children's ministry yet and therefore has no choice but to allow children into the service. I hate switching around churches, though. Bleh.
Lately, we've been going to church only every few weeks, and I've been spending most or all of the service in the nursery with Mikko, because the usual leader of the toddler nursery doesn't follow the rules and kick me out! At least it means I get to see what's going on down there. It's not too bad, but it's very regimented (kids needing to sit still for certain times, not allowed to play with toys during story or craft time — and we're talking 1-3-year-olds), which surprised me; it's stricter than Mikko's regular preschool, which is much more laid back. Mikko doesn't like it if I try to leave him in the nursery alone, so it's either stay there or sit with him in the lobby upstairs during the service and help him get water from the water jug the whole time (he finds it very tempting!), because the cry room in the morning service is full of actual little babies. All in all, it's still not ideal, but we're just kind of putting in our face time occasionally and considering our two small group Bible studies during the week our real "church." And Mikko gets to go to those! - July 19, 2009 at 9:56 PM
- Laura said...
I'm just now reading this almost a year (yikes!) after you posted it, and you've probably already made up your mind about what how you will worship with Mikko, but I wanted to let you know that you aren't alone in your theological and philosophical reasonings about worship and children. My husband and I attend a very small church, but our little munchkin stays with us during the service. He nurses when he needs to, and we feed him cheerios or have quiet toys for him if he gets antsy (which is common for a one year old.) We have never taken him to the nursery for an entire worship service, only if he is very upset and crying. No one seems to mind that he's in there. In fact, we get comments on how well-behaved he is and how cute he is. Along with what you wrote, another reason for us keeping him with us is that he needs to know and learn how to sit still in worship. He needs to see how you act in a setting like that. By keeping him out with us now, he'll never know what it's like to not be with us, and we'll never have to "unlearn" that worship is about arts, crafts, and snacks.
- January 4, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Michelle said...
I've had all these same thoughts. It's very isolating, being the only mom with the noisy toddler in church. THankfully, I went to a church that didn't mind noisy babies. But just the fact that they HIRED a lady to come in for Sunday School (all 4 or 5 of them - small church) made me feel like a rebel and awkward when I'd deny the service, knowing full well Ella would not appreciate being stranded to the back of the church without us, mainly without the boobie :)
We just moved and are back the at church my husband and I were married in. It's the same denom, Anglican and they are far more accepting than even my previous church was. They have a nursery, but it "closes" at communion, encouraging all the children to be in the church for communion until the end of the service. THe pastor and a few others in the church have Eastern (orthodox) leanings, and one unique thing about that denom's particular beliefs is that children should always be in the service. So there's a little cry room with a window looking into the service, couches and a bathroom, but all are encouraged to be in the sanctuary. And they STAND for their service instead of sitting (though have chairs available). The one time we went to a service I was awestruck by the ease of it and Ella loved it. I felt free to let her be a baby, to crawl around (reasonably). Judgement free.
My husband's family, on the other hand, are all baptists, fil is the pastor. In a big church of 600 (I think?) they of course have a lot of childcare, and Ella is the ONLY toddler in the service. In that kind of environment it's very awkward being offered the childcare multiple times upon just arriving. Why would I let my child stay with people I have never met in my life?
I'm raising the next generation of Faith and she's not going to learn as much about living that faith from anyone but her daddy and myself. Who cares if the service is over-their-heads? I fully appreciate that each Sunday she necessarily hears readings from 4 huge chunks of scripture. In three year's time at our Anglican church she will have heard 90% of the Bible read to her. She's learning and taking Him in by hearing. We pray together, we kneel together, we commune together; she's learning by DOING. We smell incense, we watch baptisms, we see annointings with oil; she's learning by experiencing. I love it.
Um. Book anyone? :) Thanks for letting me rant. I wonder how your adjustments have gone over the years and now with another little one. I've been trying to put together little quiet church activities. Books get her pretty far...for now. - December 14, 2011 at 6:05 AM


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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Syria's civil war is worsening and there is no prospect of a quick end to the violence, international envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said Monday in a gloomy assessment to the U.N. Security Council.
The new envoy leavened his message, however, saying he was crafting a new plan that he hoped could break the impasse, but refused to give details or say when it would be ready.
Despite President Bashar Assad's refusal to end his family's 40-year grip on power, some tentative hope of a solution remained, Brahimi said in his first briefing to the council since he took over from Kofi Annan on Sept. 1 as the U.N.-Arab League special representative for Syria
"I think there is no disagreement anywhere that the situation in Syria is extremely bad and getting worse, that it is a threat to the region and a threat to peace and security in the world," Brahimi told reporters after the closed-door talks.
Activists claim nearly 30,000 people have died in the uprising which began in March 2011, including in attacks Monday by Syrian warplanes in the northern city of Aleppo.
Brahimi had just returned from Syria and refugee camps in Jordan and Turkey. His gloomy report of a looming food crisis, battle-damaged schools and shuttered factories, contradicted his insistence that he saw grounds for optimism, including "some signs" that the divided Syrian opposition may be moving toward unity. That is key for any political negotiations Brahimi would oversee.
"I refuse to believe that reasonable people do not see that you cannot go backward, that you cannot go back to the Syria of the past. I told everybody in Damascus and everywhere that reform is not enough anymore, what is needed is change," said Brahimi, who has met with Assad and other regime officials in Damascus.
"Paradoxically, now that I have found out a little more about what is happening in the country and the region, I think that we will find an opening in the not too distant future," Brahimi said.
Brahimi said he wanted to hold further discussions before disclosing precisely what action he plans to propose. "I do not have a full plan for the moment, but I do have a few ideas," he said.
According to a diplomat inside the council's private briefing, who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly to reveal details, Brahimi was also reluctant to discuss the proposals with the Security Council. "He kept his cards very close to his chest," he said.
In the private talks, Brahimi urged Security Council members to overcome the diplomatic deadlock which has paralyzed their ability to help end the crisis.
The Security Council is the only U.N. body that can impose global sanctions and authorize military action. Russia, Syria's key protector, and China have vetoed three Western-backed resolutions aimed at pressuring Assad to halt the violence and open talks with his opponents on a transition of power.
"If I do not represent the entire council, I am nothing. I need to be seen to represent a united council and a united League of Arab States," Brahimi told reporters.
Brahimi told the council that he believed Assad's goal was to return the country to "the old Syria," in which he and his father had ruled as dictators for four decades, the diplomat said.
He said Brahimi claimed Assad's intention was to portray the uprising as fueled by outside nations in a bid to discredit his internal opponents.
The envoy told the meeting that food shortages are likely in Syria because of a poor harvest and citizens fear seeking hospital treatment when injured. Brahimi said about 2,000 schools had been damaged and others used as shelter by those who had lost their homes. Many factories and pharmaceutical laboratories were destroyed or falling into disrepair, according to the diplomat.
Despite a call from Germany's Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle to maintain backing for Annan's six-point peace plan, which starts with a cease-fire and ends with a political transition, Brahimi said only that the ideas would remain "elements in my toolbox."
Brahimi said it wasn't yet clear how his new proposals might incorporate Annan's plan and a June declaration by world leaders in Geneva backing the peace process.
Annan's plan never took hold and was largely ignored by the government and the rebels before it ultimately collapsed.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, said that Iran is neutral in the Syrian civil war, and denied allegations that Tehran is providing weapons or training to Assad's regime.
"We like and love both sides, and we see both sides as brothers," he said. He referred to the conflict in Syria as "tribal" fighting and said that international "meddling from the outside has made the situation even harder." He refused to say whether Iran would accept a government not led by the Assad regime, which for years has been Iran's closest ally in the Middle East.
Ahmadinejad also alluded to the U.S.-made amateur anti-Islam video, accusing the United States and others of misusing freedom of speech and faiiing to speak out against the defamation of people's beliefs and "divine prophets."
The Iranian leader also called Israel a nuclear-armed "fake regime."
Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer and John Daniszewski contributed to this report from the United Nations.


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With the annual Hajj pilgrimage having officially started, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has announced the arrival of 2 million pilgrims to the Holy City of Makkah.
Saudi Arabia shoulders the responsibility of organising and conducting the pilgrimage, under the supervision of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, as well as Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman.
"Hosting Hajj each year is an honour and a great responsibility for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one we hold dear to our hearts. We spare no effort when it comes to the well-being of pilgrims and our number one priority is to welcome individuals from all over the world as they seek to fulfil their religious and spiritual duty," said HE Dr. Awwad Alawwad, Minister of Culture and Information.
Welcoming the world
This year, pilgrims have come from over dozens of countries. Among other nationalities, Saudi Arabia has to date welcomed:
184,000 pilgrims from Pakistan
170,000 pilgrims from India
127,000 pilgrims from Bangladesh
90,000 pilgrims from Turkey
41,200 pilgrims from Malaysia
23,500 pilgrims from Russia
12,700 pilgrims from China
6,000 pilgrims from the Philippines
3,500 pilgrims from South Africa
Hajj by the numbers
About 94 per cent of pilgrims have arrived by air. In order to reduce congestion and facilitate smooth passenger movement, the airports in Jeddah and Madinah have built dedicated terminals for pilgrims.
Some pilgrims travel by bus, minivan and car. This year, more than 30,000 vehicles have arrived. There are over 17,000 special buses operated by more than 22,000 drivers that transport pilgrims within the venue.
During Hajj, over 2.64 million meals are distributed daily. More than 2,000 Saudi Red Crescent Authority personnel have been deployed in Makkah, Madinah and other holy sites to provide ambulance services for pilgrims.
According to the Saudi Ministry of Health, more than 2,100 free medical procedures have already been performed on pilgrims.
Humans of Hajj
Beyond the impressive numbers and the logistical endeavour that managing the logistics around Hajj represents, the pilgrimage is both a deeply individual and a communal spiritual moment, as Muslims, regardless of their age and background, come together to observe their faith.
One of this year's oldest pilgrims is 104-year-old Mariah Marghani Muhammad from Indonesia. For her, as for others a wide range of services has been made available to ensure their comfort during their stay in Saudi Arabia.
Modern technology
Even though Hajj is one of the world's oldest pilgrimage, it incorporates modern technology to enhance the experience of pilgrims and ensure their safety and well-being. To this end, every pilgrim has been given an electronic identification bracelet containing personal and medical information to enable the Hajj authorities to identify individuals and provide necessary care.
The water-resistant and GPS-enabled bracelets that inform the pilgrims about prayer times also feature a multi-lingual help desk for non-Arabic speaking pilgrims.
Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Culture and Information has launched two portals – Hajj2017.org and SaudiWelcomesTheWorld.org – to provide further assistance to pilgrims, as well as keep the rest of the world, including global media, informed and updated during this period.


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You might as well get what you want in this lifetime. Why not attract it?
Whether it's money, a house, or Twin Flame Love, according to the Law of Attraction, you can have it. We are co-creating everything that exists; YOU are creating this lifetime for yourself. This is YOUR storyline, your script, despite what it may appear to your conscious mind.
To become a victim in the plot is simply an experience from which we can learn. I should know… I have been a five-star victim at times. A few years ago, I was desperate, depressed, broke, and heartbroken. I cried out in heartache for almost 2.5 years straight… "Why was I left so coldly by a partner who I thought would marry me!?" That was the victim-record playing on re-play in my head. I blamed him for not loving me.
I hated the Universe for providing me with a "fool's gold Twin Flame." I was brutally humiliated. I was sad. I was pissed! But what I didn't know is that I was attracting this situation through the Law of Attraction.
Owning Your Reality Helps You Attract What You want
I CREATE MY REALITY! And moreover: I AM LOVE! Once we realize this, we can live in our scripts the way we like them, in affinity with our soul. It gives us the power to create what we want, versus creating from unconscious fear.
We must first accept what we have created, and realize the gift within it. I now see that my Twin Flame Counterfeit actually gave me the biggest lesson of love.
Thus, we Must Create From Love
The biggest secret to the Law of Attraction is creating from love. It's a feeling, an emotion from a deep loving place inside of you. When I help my clients attract their partners, we first must tune into deep soul love. Self-love, and unconditional and infinite Divine Love. Then we ask, What do I TRULY WANT? The answer is always some form of "I want love. Real love. Unconditional that comes from within."
And I want it in pink. I want it with a bow on top, and a cherry too. And abundance, financial wealth and bliss, and love for all my friends, clients, family, and tribe! You can use specific things that you want to entice you, such as X kind of car, X tall person with X job, but in the end it is the energy that counts. The energy and love are the only thing that are real, after all. Everything else is simply an illusion.
The Secret to Twin Flame Law of Attraction
I have helped hundreds of single spiritual women attract their divine partner, sometimes even within hours using the Twin Flame Law of Attraction. The key secret is simple really: it's tuning into love. Release the fear, and tune into love. Simple as that! Once you truly turn into deep Divine Love, all belief systems that slow down magic and attraction become obsolete.
I believe that we're all meant for living Happily Ever After. YOU are love, and so am I, and so is she, and so is the rock over there. From my own experience and witnessing many others, I can attest that all love attraction starts from within. Further, surrendering to HOW it happens while still commanding the Universe that it MUST happen that it WILL is important as the Universe is fluid and works faster than your brain's desires. I know that this whole Divine Love thing can be scary, especially if you've fallen off the horse once or twice and ben severely let down in your life by a loss, trauma, heartache, or death.
Since my victimhood, I have begun to command my reality. I actually enjoy seeing why I have created flops, mistakes, and disappointments. I am weaving together a beautiful life that I absolutely love. I am traveling the world, connecting with soul family, working as a high-end healer, making an abundant income while working very little, and eating the best food ever, every day! This is a dream I've always wanted to live out before meeting my Twin Flame and having Starchildren.When I am ready to attract my Twin Flame, I know I can do it because I have helped so many others do it, and I have enjoyed using the Law of Attraction to find loving soulmates to keep me fueled up on love! We just have to be ready for whatever we ask for. If I can do it, so can you. Because, seriously, I was the worst case of victimhood energy I can imagine!
I wrote a blog article How Do I Know if Someone Is my Twin Flame? in order to help you ask the right questions to determine whether or not he or she is the one. You are an ancient master, the answers lie within, and you have a big love sitting at your center: your Divine heart!
Love to you!
Dr. Amanda Noelle, The Twin Flame Matchmaker, helps single stellar women align with their Twin Flames so they can birth Starchildren.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew his guilty plea Monday to lying about efforts to thwart an FBI investigation into abuses at the jails he ran, saying he wants to "set the record straight" at trial before he declines from Alzheimer's disease.
The decision came after negotiations to reach a new sentencing deal collapsed because there was no certainty what kind of term Baca would face after a judge rejected a plea deal as too lenient because it called for no more than six months behind bars.
Defense lawyers said they offered to have Baca serve a year, but they believed the judge wanted a sentence of several years and that was too much given the 74-year-old's prognosis and his desire to emerge from incarceration without having lost too much mental capacity.
"We have a very, very small window of time that we believe Mr. Baca's life will be normal," attorney Michael Zweiback told reporters. "There's a good likelihood that he'll be suffering very dramatically from the disease at issue. So if there was a possibility that he was going to go beyond his good years in prison, then he should go out and fight."
Judge Percy Anderson set a trial date for Sept. 20 in U.S. District Court, although that's likely to be postponed after prosecutors seek an indictment that could allege more serious offenses.
Zweiback said prosecutors told him they would seek obstruction of justice charges if Baca decided to withdraw the plea and go to trial, though he said their evidence is weak.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney declined to comment on future charges or the plea deal because the case is pending.
Jurors in the case will not be able to hear about the guilty plea, but widespread publicity about it could make it harder to seat a jury.
The prospect that Baca will face a public trial as he declines from Alzheimer's is another dramatic twist in a corruption scandal that blossomed after deputies discovered an inmate was an FBI informant gathering evidence about civil rights abuses by jailers.
Even as his underlings were being charged with crimes ranging from assault to conspiracy to obstruct justice, Baca remained steadfast that he played no role in the corruption.
Baca, who resigned abruptly in 2014 after a wave of indictments were announced, said his faults were limited to being out of touch with the day-to-day operations of the nation's largest jail system that he ran for 16 years.
But earlier this year, as prosecutors prepared for trial against his top lieutenant, Baca pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators and acknowledged he had played a role in trying to derail the probe, even telling deputies to intimidate a female FBI agent with the threat of arrest.
Two weeks ago, a remorse-filled Baca said in court that he had failed to lead and had let down the department and the public.
That wasn't enough for Anderson, who has overseen four trials related to the corruption and sentenced Baca's second-in-command for five years in prison. Anderson said it was "one thing to lie ... another thing entirely" for the county's top cop to be "involved in a wide-ranging conspiracy to cover up abuse and corruption."
That left Baca three options: cut a new deal with prosecutors and hope Anderson would accept it; allow Anderson to sentence him up to five years in prison; or withdraw the plea and go to trial.
Baca, who wore a gray pinstriped suit, white shirt, pink necktie and matching handkerchief in his breast pocket on Monday, took exception with the judge's remarks as he addressed reporters outside court and explained his reasoning for withdrawing his guilty plea.
"I made this decision due to untruthful comments about my actions made by the court and the U.S. attorney's office that are contradicted by evidence in this case," he said. "While my future and my ability to defend myself depends on my Alzheimer's disease, I need to set the record straight about me and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department on misleading aspects of the federal investigation while I'm capable of doing this."
Baca's condition will play a role in his defense because the "arc of the disease started well before" he lied to the FBI and federal prosecutors in 2013, Zweiback said. "We will be able to prove that in court," he said.
Prosecutors said in court briefs that they do not think that Baca's condition had any impact on his lies. Baca lied to authorities in April 2013 and didn't consult a physician about memory issues until a year later, Assistant U.S. Attorney Brandon Fox wrote in a sentencing brief.


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This diary is failing as a diary if I only update it once every two weeks, because for me the whole point would be to augment my generally terrible memory. But my memory is so terrible that after 2 weeks I haven't the foggiest idea of what went on.
We were on vacation from November 12-17, so presumably the 3-11 were spent working extra-hard to get ahead of things before leaving. Right? Nowadays basically all I do is work & then read alternating entries in the Elvis Cole & Parker detective/crime/noir series, so it's a safe bet there was some of that going on.
And watching episodes of Master of None along with literally everyone else I read on the internet. Not much to be said there that hasn't already been said. It's good. Watch it if you have Netflix. If you don't, you'll probably survive.
Saturday the 7th, at least, I went out in public & saw Too Many Friends at the Pinhook for the debut of my friend Reese's new band (and their excellent album). It was good. It wore me out.
We went on vacation on Thursday the 12th, and I did a reasonably good job of ignoring social & other media, so I felt like I was watching people react to the terrorist attacks in Paris from a distance. I don't know that this added any clarity to my perception of any of it. You can zoom way out & it becomes a story about 500 years of imperialism (or 1000 years of European Christian hegemony). Or you can zoom way in & it becomes a story of disaffected unemployed young people in the suburbs of Paris.
People talk about the Internet as the greatest democratizing force the world has ever known, and it's true. It's just as full of lies and propaganda as all the other media, but it positions that stuff alongside truth in a way that heightens the power of both.
It's easy to tell people that nihilistic violence isn't the solution to the problems that confront them, but too often it seems like the only alternative presented is to continue living exactly the same life, forever.
Our vacation was to Savannah and Charleston, prompted by a national Masters division weightlifting competition in Savannah. M lifts; I watch.
It was interesting to get to compare the two cities back to back. Savannah is kind of like Charleston's drunker cousin, I guess. It has all those beautiful squares, but it also has booze in go-cups, insanely complicated one-way streets, and largely forgettable food. (With the exception of The Florence, which I can wholeheartedly recommend).
Charleston is the neat-freak who studies hard & gets good grades & still likes to booze it up after dark. Amazing food, a surfeit of cocktail bars, and a shitton of white people who love some historical markers and who would just as soon not talk about slavery if they can avoid it.
Seriously. We took an impromptu guided tour of one of Charleston's architecturally significant homes. 45 minutes, a dozen rooms, endless monologue about the furnishings & the marriages of the family who owned it — and a single small room off the gift shop that provided the only mention of the fact that the guy who built the house was an importer of dry goods, lumber, and, oh yeah, people. And that he had 8-12 people enslaved in his household to make his beds & cook his meals.
I have the impression that some other museum-homes do a better job of presenting the whole picture, but the only way Charleston could truly convey the Whole Picture would be to replace every one of the literally hundreds of historical plaques on half the buildings downtown with new ones that say "built by enslaved people; paid for by profits from buying and selling enslaved people, and stealing their labor." I mean, that wouldn't be nearly enough, but it would be a start. Because you're swimming in it down there, and thus everyone ignores it as much as they possibly can.
Like literally: Are you down in the historic district? Is the house bigger than a breadbox? Was it built before 1865? Enslaved people built it, and probably worked to maintain the white people who lived in it. Would it be redundant to put a sign on every single pastel building down there? Yes. That's the whole point.
But man they have some good restaurants. The Ordinary was the best meal of the trip (better than Husk! albeit not by much). The cocktails at the Gin Joint were outstanding. We may not go back anytime soon, but I'll remember those things as well.


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Hi everyone Tammy Here!
I hope you enjoyed the Digital Inspirations
Our Rubber Team Designs are showcasing Whimsy Stamps.
Our topic this week is:
Anything Goes
Remember, you don't have to use a Whimsy image on your challenge creation,
although it would be great if you did!
Also, your entry doesn't have to be a card - we welcome all paper projects!
Our Prizes this month are:
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Don't forget ...as well as random winners being chosen each challenge, one lucky player who has used a Whimsy Stamps image (rubber or digital) will have the opportunity to be a guest designer for a future challenge. If you have used a Whimsy Image and would like to be a future guest, please add GDT to your name when entering. The guest designer will be able to choose a digi stamp of their choice from the store to create their guest card too!
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Ruby client that supports all of the GitHub API methods. It's build in a modular way, that is, you can either instantiate the whole api wrapper Github.new or use parts of it e.i. Github::Client::Repos.new if working solely with repositories is your main concern. Intuitive query methods allow you easily call API endpoints.