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'"I think when a new owner steps in and says that, that's a very strong message," said Lindy Ruff, the Sabres' head coach since 1997. "Terry has an incredible passion for the game, he has an incredible passion for the Sabres, and that has given us that little extra push."'
Archives for March 2011
Pegula not subtle about expectations
Tuesday's Toronto Coverage
Leafs' MacArthur staying positive (Toronto Sun)
Leafs' Reimer knows Miller well (Toronto Sun)
MacArthur laments recent goal drought (Toronto Sun)
Leafs still hold on to playoff hope (Toronto Star)
Same old story: Leafs' late push doesn't equal playoffs (Toronto Star)
Leafs' youth leads way in second half (Toronto Globe and Mail)
Sabres relish chance to 'bury' the Leafs (National Post)
Destiny beckons (National Post)
Pegula not subtle about expectations (National Post)
Leafs vs. Sabres: season in review (National Post)
Leafs float hope: to win six you have to win one (Hamilton Spectator)
Time running out on Maple Leafs season (CP)
Buffalo (38-28-9) at Toronto (34-32-10) (AP)
Buffalo Sabres (38-28-9) at Toronto Maple Leafs (34-32-10) (The Sports Network)
Last gasp for Leafs, who play host to Sabres (NHL.com)
Final Chapter Of Season Not Yet Written (MapleLeafs.com)
Tuesday's Portland Coverage
Portland Pirates today (Portland Press Herald)
Gragnani recalled to Buffalo (Maine Hockey Journal)
Gragnani Recalled by Sabres (PortlandPirates.com)
Miller honored for big week
'"It's nice this time of year to have a little stretch where you're recognized like that, but I guess it kind of depends on the way we've been playing as a team, too. Really paying attention to detail, I think we have good emotion in the game and I think that's exactly what we need this time of year," Miller said.'
Sources: NHL downsizes 'Premiere'
'The NHL's original plan to have six of its teams open the regular season overseas next season has been downsized to four, sources told ESPN.com on Saturday. The Edmonton Oilers and Washington Capitals, part of the original six teams asked to participate, are no longer in the mix for the Premiere Games, the sources said. The New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks and Buffalo Sabres remain slated to open next season in Europe.
Sabres generating plenty of offense
'The Sabres are eighth in the NHL and third in the Eastern Conference with 217 goals (not counting shootout winners). That's 16 more than the Alex Ovechkin-led Washington Capitals, eight more than Pittsburgh and even with Steven Stamkos-led Tampa Bay.'
Miller time again for Leafs
'The recipe for success against Miller is simple: Get traffic in front of him. It was on the board prior to the previous meeting between the teams two weeks ago, a message the players obviously took to heart.'
Sabres' desperation turns into ambitious quest
'"If we play the right kind of game, we can play with anybody and we can win hockey games," said Miller, who made 30 stops. "It's a matter of keeping that attention to detail and keeping that work ethic up there. We've been seeing the rewards for playing solid hockey, and by reward I mean we're getting the wins."'
Simple philosophy led to Sabres' resurgence
'Buffalo's win was hardly keeper for the postseason DVD. The Sabres didn't score any fancy goals with tick-tack-toe passing. Ryan Miller was solid in making 30 saves, but he wasn't required to stand on his head. The Sabres were disciplined defensively and controlled the game from nearly start to finish. In that sense, it was a masterpiece.'
Hand injury will keep Leopold sidelined
'"It's not day to day. It will be weeks," Regier said in a brief meeting with reporters in the press box.'
Sunday's New Jersey Coverage
Little left for Devils but to fall on pitchforks (New York Post)
Devils continue to slide out of playoff picture with 2-0 loss to Sabres (Newark Star Ledger)
Jacques Lemaire wonders if Devils played like their season was over (Newark Star Ledger)
Devils look like they're out of gas in 2-0 loss to Sabres (Bergen Record)
Patient Zach Parise (Bergen Record)
Photo gallery (NewJerseyDevils.com)
Photo gallery (Sabres.com)
Photo gallery (AP)
Miller stops 30 shots, Sabres beat Devils 2-0
'"I'm happy with our progress. We're on the right path," Miller said. "But I'm not going to be happy so to speak until the job's done."'
Sabres' Leopold out indefinitely with broken hand
'General manager Darcy Regier says the team will know more about the extent of the injury–and whether surgery is required–after the player meets with a specialist Monday. Regier says it's not clear when Leopold could return if the eighth-place Sabres qualify for the playoffs.'
Buffalo 2, New Jersey 0
'Buffalo now has 85 points and sits five points ahead of Carolina, which lost to Tampa Bay on Saturday, for the final playoff spot. Also, the Sabres are two points back of both the Rangers and Canadiens.'
Sabres D Leopold out with hand injury
'Sabres general manager Darcy Regier said the team will know more on Monday when Leopold sees a hand specialist, adding the nature of the injury will put the blueliner out for weeks.'


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Captain Ronald Warwick, master of Cunard Line's new Queen Mary 2, has been awarded the rank of commodore, the highest position a cruise line can bestow on one of its captains.
This year, 328 million (metric) tons of cargo was handled in the port of Rotterdam, an increase of almost 2% compared to 2002. The former record year 2000 was beaten with 6 million tons (mt).
The U.S. Coast Guard is making permanent its current temporary safety and security zones at the Cove Point Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal on Chesapeake Bay.
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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System issued a Press Release stating that the St. Lawrence Seaway has closed for the 2003 navigation season. It carried approximately
Kvichak Marine Industries, Inc. recently expanded its Seattle facility by erecting a 130' x 50' sectional enclosure on its waterfront property. This new addition creates enough space for Kvichak,
Todd Shipyards Corporation announced today that the US Navy has reduced the scope of work requested to be performed by its wholly owned subsidiary, Todd Pacific
Remtech Services, Inc. (RSI) division of SCB Computer Technology, Inc. has won a subcontract from CACI to provide information technology support services to the U.
Martin Midstream Partners L.P. has completed the
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subsidiary of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation,
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The UK Environment Agency (EA) posted on its Internet site Supplementary Evidence that it provided to the Parliamentary Committee on Environment, Food and Rural
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Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:25 pm
Post subject: "This is chess, it ain't checkers" Mock
Pretty simple breakdown, I'd add pics if I knew how damn it ~
FA's retained
Phil Dawson
Ben Watson
Josh Cribbs (I think the owner likes him & the guy has earned his stripes here, gotta give him that)
current RFA's retained
FA's added
Martellus Bennett (6-6. 260) TE - Chud & Norv make use of TE's that create mismatches. Ben's retained so he and Bennett make a nice 1-2 combo. JC has to prove that athleticism equals production.
Louis Vasquez (6-3, 320) G - Replaces Lauvao, who while improved, is not a consistent starter.
Brian Hartline (6-2, 200) WR - Ohio boy comes home, helps create a very solid WR corps. Good hands are always a good thing.
Derrick Anderson (6-6, 230) QB - NOT saying I like it but he knows Chud's system and has the arm to handle the winds & weather.
Given the lack of true cutting edge talent in the top 10, this is nonetheless a solid draft overall, with good depth at rush backer. Without a top flight QB to bait, I envision a Mangini-style gradual trade down from #6 to the bottom end of round 1 (you guys all know the possibilities are too numerous to calculate, but safe to say it can be done), the goal being to pick up a 2nd (also towards the latter part of that round) perhaps an additional 4th but most importantly, a 2014 1st - there should be a few marque players we'd have an interest in, be it Manziel, Bridgewater, Clowney, etc - pick your poison, but I think given the depth of rush backers and the overall strength of this draft, trading down makes the most sense, especially given a scheme change on defense.
1 - (20th-25th territory)
Jordan Poyer (6-0, 182) CB, Oregon State - Impressed at the Senior Bowl enough to move into late-1st consideration. Trufant also impressed, but Poyer seems to have that "it" factor despite less than blazing speed - a solid compliment to Haden.
2 - (latter part of the round via trade-down) -
Alex Okafor (6-4, 260) DE, Texas - Solid career, solid SB showing - didn't display a dazzling array of moves but did what he did with power & good technique. This position is key for an attacking 34 D and frankly we don't have much.
3 - TJ McDonald (6-2, 212) S, USC - Rangy fluid safety who hits with authority, he played on a ~meh~ defense but looks to be the FS we've been lacking for quite a while now.
4 -
a) Lonnie Pryor (6-0, 230) FB, Florida - I know most want a pure smash-mouth FB, but Pryor blocks like one and can also run & catch - as much as FB is a weapon in a vertical passing game, his versatility is something Chud could use.
b) (via trade down) - David Bass (6-4, 270) DE/OLB, Missouri Western.
Ansah draws all sorts of "raw but athletic freak" comments/reviews, but Bass could also fit that bill. DE in college, OLB for us. Several scouts compare him to Aldon Smith only stronger - dominated lower division, worth a shot at his point in the draft at a position of need for this team IMO.
5 - Tyrann Mathieu (5-9, 177) CB, LSU - Could he be the next news-making headcase? Sure could. BUT, the kid is a football player with intangibles that are off the charts, in the slot he could be lethal. Plays bigger than he is and is tough as they come. How do you not take a shot?
a) Ray Allen (6-2, 215) P, LA Tech - so long Hodges
b) Shamarko Thomas (5-9, 217) SS, Syracuse - Speed, play-making ability, tenacity and depth for a position in need of it. Ward's a key player but he's missed time enough to warrant taking Thomas here.
Well, my 1st mock of this year - have at it!
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Is Paul Vazquez supposed to be Louis Vazquez?
I like it a lot, although I believe we some how get a 7th (comp or we own someones?) and Thomas won't last that long. Actually swamp Thomas and Pryor and it's really good!
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Good catch Marky - I live/work in Bangkok and it's late here hahaa
As for where drafted. I basically used CBS sports and a few other cross references for a best guess as to who goes where. But you could well be right, especially given where FB's usually go.
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StewieRules wrote:
Good catch Marky - I live/work in Bangkok and it's late here hahaa
As for where drafted. I basically used CBS sports and a few other cross references for a best guess as to who goes where. But you could well be right, especially given where FB's usually go.
Well we did draft Marecic in the 4th, so I guess it is possible
Love getting a 1st in 2014 btw.
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Post subject: Re: "This is chess, it ain't checkers" Mock
a few comments from me... I dont hate any of it, and its actually pretty good for a first swing.
StewieRules wrote:
FA's retained
Ben Watson - simply too old now, and his production is weak at best.
Josh Cribbs - he is older for a returner, and his production is just above average... not a wr... has came out publicly complaining more than once... time to walk away.
FA's added
Brian Hartline - i dont know why I dont like him? just me I guess...
2 - (latter part of the round via trade-down) -
Alex Okafor --- many in Atlanta are looking at him as one of their top targets in the first.
I could never go to Bangkok.... way too many temptations there.
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All good except Anderson. I'd rather sign Alex Smith.
Everything happens exactly the way it is supposed to happen...otherwise, it would happen some other way
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Been here in Bangkok 6 months now, fly all over SE Asia - gotta admit, its pretty awesome
About Smith - I just don't see him in a vertical game. I know he had a good year last season & was doing well this season up intul his injury, but Harbaugh saw something in the mix that lead him to go with Kaepernick - and I don't think it was just mobility. Smith lacks something. As a number 2 he'd be great in the right system, but in a vertical attack I don't see it any more than I liked Weeden in a WCO.
I'm no real fan of DA (although I was grateful for '07) but the guy knows Chud's system and as a backup, in Cleveland, I think he'd be a better fit.
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Haslim says we will bring in a q.b. to compete with Weeden. God help us if it is Derek Anderson. Hardly anything would make me lose faith in our new front office than bringing in Anderson. Been down that road before.
Your draft is fairly decent. Watson I would sign for one year. Can't go with all youngsters at tight end. Cribbs probably not unless it was a very friendly contract. Now if we sign Bennett at tight end I'd forget about signing Watson.
I am starting to like T.J. McDonald more and more.
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Jay Sonic is a founding member of LA hip hop group Time Machine, as well as tiny label Glow in the Dark Records. Today, he speaks with Converse.com about growing up in Miami, moving to LA, making music, and running an independent label.
Where did you grow up? How did you come to live in LA? What do you like about it?
JS: I was born in Providence, RI and my mother and I moved to Miami when I was 5. I moved to LA with the other guys in Time Machine in 2003, because we were previously living in separate cities and all agreed that we needed to be in the same place to give our music the attention it needed. We had been to California to do a few shows, and we liked the way LA felt.
I like that LA, more than maybe any other place I've ever been, is truly what you make it. You can live a very private secluded life, or you can be out and around people all the time. It's still the Wild West in the sense that anything goes. People complain about LA being full of phony people, but I think those who say that are just surrounding themselves with the wrong folks. There are good and bad people anywhere you go.
How did you first get into hip hop? What about it grabbed you?
JS: Just being around older kids in the apartments where I grew up in Miami. Miami is basically New York south – a lot of Caribbean people, West Indians, Jews – and the music reflected it. In the late 80s and early 90s it was old school hip hop and all of that. And of course there was more local music. It was all just really exciting to me from a young age.
I was an only child and creatively inclined, so around 6th grade I started writing my own songs. My mom took me to some big pop and rock tours in Miami when I was real young, and then the first hip hop show I went to was in December 1991 when I was 13. I still have the ticket stub.
How'd you come up with the name Time Machine? Is it a conscious nod to being retro?
JS: Um, I think at first it was a combo of being a nod to older music that influenced us, and also a reference to a pattern that we noticed that a lot of our songs were about the concept of "time" itself.
What are some of Time Machine's influences? Non-musical influences?
JS: I guess it would be Hip Hop of the 80s and early 90s. All kinds of Soul, Jazz and electronic music are in there too. And drums are foremost. DRUMS all day. Non-musically… girls, travel, attitude, physics, loss, honesty, discovery, and so much more; just the parts of life that make us stop, take notice, and comment.
How do you feel about all the lo-fi hip hop groups that are making music right now? Where did that trend come from?
JS: I assume you mean groups with real simple 808 drum beats, real rhythmic, not much melody? I think there's room for all that and everything else. I like a lot of it. The beauty of music, and all art forms for that matter is, if you don't like it, you don't have to pay attention to it. I'm not sure exactly where the movement you're asking about comes from, but it's definitely a retro thing that comes from the same place as a lot of the fashion trends we've seen in the past few years.
Is it tricky to switch back-and-forth between making music and the practicalities of running a label? What do you look for in potential groups to work with?
JS: We figured out running a record label as we went along. For a while it really felt like my calling. I have entrepreneurial tendencies, and most importantly, it allowed us to make, release and market our music however we wanted. There were times when the business and the music conflicted, but more often than that, I think it created opportunities for us. After a while, the label stopped feeling like my calling and started feeling like a pain. Now that the label is alive but less active, it feels pretty good again, and we're doing pretty well with having our songs used in TV shows and commercials.
When we were signing new artists it wasn't about anything at all but loving their music. Panacea and The Project were completely unknown outside of their local scenes, and it was important to me to get as much attention as possible for music that I thought was so good. Going forward, we'll probably only put out music by Time Machine.
As a record label, how do you feel about the prevalence of online downloads? I noticed you put some free downloads on your blog.
JS: It seemed really problematic for us at first. You have to keep in mind that for a label of our size, anything that sells 5 figures of units is considered a big success. So when the whole world woke up one morning and decided to stop buying CDs and records, the forecast was grim. The plant where we had our vinyl pressed went out of business. Now we do a decent amount of business every month with paid downloads online. Not having to manufacture, store or ship anything is a beautiful thing. We like putting up free music now and then on our site www.glowlikethis.com… old and new mixes by DJ Mekalek, lost songs that never saw the light of day, promo tracks, etc.
You've done some fun music videos. Are there any stories you'd like to tell me about the making of a video?
JS: We were really resourceful (and lucky) when it came to music videos. For a group with basically no financial backing, we have some really creative and compelling videos. A few times we were hit up by people out of the blue, like, "Hey, I make videos and I like your music. Wanna work together?" That's how "The Unfortunate Twist" video came about… it's like a top-notch animated video by a guy from England named David Whittle. He just hooked it up. All we could do in return was promote the video as best we could and take him out to dinner when we were on tour in the UK.
The video "Night Lights" from our first album Slow Your Roll was directed by my ex-girlfriend, and we still had to work together on the post-production immediately after we broke up. The video for "The Groove That Just Won't Stop" was the only one that I directed myself. The whole thing was made of thousands of still photos animated in a rapid-fire slide show, and brought together with cartoon-y segues by our friend Evan Guidera (who saved our ass a number of times). Making videos was a lot of fun, although really stressful at times, and we were really lucky to have some good people in our corner.
What's next for Time Machine? What's coming up that you're excited about?
JS: Time Machine is working on new songs now. I'm not sure what shape it's going to take… if we'll put together a whole album, a series of singles, or what. Whatever it is, it'll be on several paid download sites.
We are also releasing some old music for the first time digitally. The album Hot Air that I was talking about earlier from 1999 will be in wide release for the first time this year, and so will a 2-song 7″ vinyl-only release I did around 2001 or 2002 called "Apple Pie". Both are under the artist name Jaysonic.
I'm also doing a photo site called calledleisurecult. It's all from my phone, and it's about the things that I see that make me stop and take notice; not about me being a photographer.
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Justin Timberlake & Britney Spears among 'People's Choice' winners
Listen to Justin Timberlake on iHeartRadio | Listen to Britney Spears on iHeartRadio
Justin Timberlake is adding three more People's Choice Awards to his collection. On Wednesday night, the star was on hand to pick up the fan-voted award for Favorite Album for The 20/20 Experience. He closed his speech with a word of relationship advice.
Justin's wife Jessica Biel wasn't in the audience at the awards show - but one of his famous ex-girlfriends was. Britney Spears was a guest, and was also voted this year's Favorite Pop Artist, beating out Justin, Bruno Mars, Demi Lovato and Katy Perry. Wearing a black-and-nude-colored dress, she took the stage for a short speech thanking her fans, two sons and management team. It was Britney's first-ever People's Choice Award.
Not all of the categories were presented during the two-hour ceremony, but the winner's list also included Katy Perry for "Roar," One Direction, Demi Lovato, Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande.
Sara Bareilles was the first performer of the night, singing her Grammy-nominated hit "Brave." OneRepublic was also there to perform "Counting Stars," which reached number two on the Hot 100 this week.
Jennifer Hudson was awarded the night's Humanitarian Award for her work with the foundation named for her late nephew Julian D. King. She accepted the award with her older sister, and got emotional speaking about their mother's belief in family coming first.
The "People's Choice Awards" took place at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles with hosts Kat Dennings and Beth Behrs.
Check out who else won!
Favorite Male Artist:
Justin Timberlake
Favorite Female Artist:
Demi Lovato
Favorite Breakout Artist:
Ariana Grande
Favorite Pop Artist:
Britney Spears
Favorite Country Artist:
Taylor Swift
Favorite R&B Artist:
Justin Timberlake
Favorite Band:
One Direction
Favorite Song:
Katy Perry- "Roar"
Favorite Album:
Justin Timberlake - "The 20/20 Experience"
Favorite Music Video:
Katy Perry- "Roar"
Favorite Music Fan Following:
"Lovatics" - Demi Lovato
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Autopwn exploit
Connection reset by peer.
BackTrack 5 R3 is set up on a virtual machine.
Apache started.
I also downloaded SET(social-engineer toolkit).
First of all, I deactivated all av in the machines in my LAN to perform the test. All of them are running on Windows 7.
1)I launched the first pen-test with the autopwn exploit. It didn't work at all.
2)I set up on SET an attack based on Java. It didn't work at all.
3)I set up a java signed applet on msfconsole. It didn't work at all.
1. it keeps sending data to the victim repeatedly. No shell is returned.
2. It shows up java dialog box repeatedly. I(as victim) click on accept and run. And again it shows up java dialog box. I click on accept and run and the same thing happens again. No shell is returned to my BackTrack on virtual machine.
3. When it doesn't show up java dialog box many times even when I(as victim) click on run, msfconsole on my BackTrack on virtual machine keeps waiting for the user to click on run on java dialog box forever and never returns a shell.
Sorry for my english.
Autopwn exploit
Connection reset by peer.
They work. Make sure you are using them right and now firewalls or antivirus is blocking.
Check on bypassing Antivirus
your "virtual-network" is set correctly?
your "victim" is Vulnerable to attacks made?
your "vict-java-version" is "" buggy "" FOR the exploit used?
I did ulcune tests with my OLD-BASIC-TEST "machine-vunerabile" in my "" virtual-network "and they gave me success!
# scan-localnet & ping "vict-ip" by PING NMAP
# java_applet_attack by SET
# java_signed_applet by MSF


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Viewed from across a wind-swept cove on Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the weekend residence Suman Sorg, FAIA, is completing looks like a cluster of Monopoly houses: three tall, gabled buildings with tin roofs and glass walls facing out over the water. The serene yet bold, contemporary forms are clad in marine plywood panels, limned in metal flashing that glints in the powerful sunlight. Up close, the retreat's logic reveals itself. Sorg detached the house's two bedrooms from the soaring living space. The house and twin pavilions are connected by a wood walkway, "so you're not sneaking around inside the house," she explains. Those scattered buildings--and two additional pool houses to be built this fall--surround a large entry courtyard, a pool, and a tangle of silvery grasses.
This is only the second custom home the Washington, D.C., architect has designed. The other house sits just across the way, part of a 25-acre soybean farm Sorg purchased with longtime friends James van Sweden, a well-known landscape architect, and Marilynn Melkonian, who heads a community-development company. While the buildings in Sorg's compound stand tall and vary in height, like those on surrounding farms, the other house, designed for van Sweden, has a low profile that floats on the land. Its flat roofs and utilitarian forms were inspired by boat sheds and chicken coops. "I was interested in the kind of Eastern Shore buildings that are not meant for human habitation," Sorg says, "agricultural buildings that aren't bombastic, aren't screaming out at you, and yet if you look closely are interesting and subtle."
Many architects start out building beach houses and move on to larger, more complex projects. Sorg, who founded Sorg and Associates in 1986, took the opposite route. Her passion has been institutional and public projects, not custom homes. But if the best architecture comes from an intimate understanding of culture, climate, and environment, Sorg is uniquely equipped to design a wide variety of projects.
Her search for a fulfilling career, in fact, takes her around the world. Now in her early 50s, Sorg has designed multimillion-dollar U.S. embassy housing in Kuwait, Uzbekistan, and Barbados, and is working on another U.S. embassy in a Central Asian country much in the news. Her portfolio ranges from award-winning historic preservation projects, such as the Lincoln Theatre and the Georgetown Post Office in Washington, D.C., to a Hope VI master-planned community in Bradenton, Fla.
Sorg's stylistic range is just as fluid. She values community-based projects that preserve the fabric of urban neighborhoods, but also seeks out eclectic work that frees her up from historical constraints. One of her current projects is a state-of-the-art Materials Testing Laboratory for the D.C. Department of Public Works, a clash of glass and masonry and deconstructed forms. "We like projects that are off the beaten track," she says. "These buildings below the radar screen can give architects freedom."
the doctor is in
If Sorg hadn't been an architect, she probably would have been a doctor. As a teenager in northern India, Sorg saw herself practicing medicine. But because she excelled at drawing and math, her father, a physicist and a diplo-mat, suggested that she study architecture. Sorg enrolled in the University of New Delhi's architecture program, and then transferred to Howard University when her family came to the U.S. in the late 1960s.
After graduation, she and her new husband, Scott Sorg, set out for Morocco and the Ivory Coast with the Peace Corps. They lived in small villages, where she built market stalls and other civic buildings--projects that explored the social aspects of design. "I realized how important it was to have things in pedestrian scale and neighbor-friendly," she says, "and to have a communal sense of the village. I got to know the mango vendor. That kind of connection to community stays with you."
Indeed, Sorg approaches her work as if she were the village doctor, even though she's lived most of her life in sophisticated urban settings. "My practice is like a doctor's office. You go where and when you're needed," she says, apologizing for an unexpected trip out of town. And she has a calm and gentle, unassuming surface--call it a bedside manner--that belies her intellectual intensity. Practicing something as culturally dependent as architecture, Sorg returned to academia to understand idiosyncrasies that weren't hers. In 1978 she enrolled in Cornell University's master of architecture program in historic preservation, never intending to do period architecture. "I wanted to figure out the real DNA of American architecture," she says. "When I came out of the program, I took restoration and preservation projects because I knew about them. But my intention was always to contribute to the continuum of architecture. Now the ball is in our hands. We have to pass it to the next generation."
Those diverging interests in modernism and restoration have made Sorg almost clinically aware of the delicate balance between preserving a building's history and contributing something new. Her restoration motto is "do no harm," meaning that if the historic context is fragile, one should avoid intruding with contemporary forms. On the other hand, it's permissible to introduce contrast when a strong historic vocabulary exists. "I always feel responsible for what is needed in terms of one thing or the other," she says. "Sometimes the historic fabric could be overpowered by a modern move. You have to make that judgment."
urban outfitter
Sorg's richly varied experiences nudged her toward the generalist practice she espouses today. Her education at the University of New Delhi was rooted in Bauhaus. There, she made furniture and cabinetry and learned to use a forge. By contrast, her studies at Howard and Cornell focused on the big picture--urban design, planning, and context. After Cornell, Sorg caught the eye of Chicago-based Harry Weese Associates. Its Washington, D.C., office recruited her in 1979, and during her six years there she worked directly with the renowned architect himself on several projects, including the master plan for D.C.'s Federal Triangle. Sorg absorbed Weese's philosophy of custom-crafting each building he designed. "He was doing many different building types at any given moment, and never had a cookie-cutter response to anything," she says. "I've tried hard to do the same."
That ability to fit the right solution to a particular context has endeared her to clients, the D.C. Fine Arts Commission, and community groups alike. Over the past 20 years, van Sweden, of the landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates in Washington, D.C., has partnered with Sorg on a variety of projects in the U.S. and abroad. He also happens to live across the street from a recent collaborative success: the new town houses at Georgetown's Phillips Row. When a developer first proposed building infill housing on the playground and parking lot of an old school and turning the school into condominiums, the neighbors were ready for revolt.
"People hate change, and I must say I was against the buildings as well," van Sweden admits. However, Sorg's creative vision for the 14 town houses won them over. She designed five very detailed groupings of homes, each cluster representing one of the neighborhood's distinct architectural periods. The neighbors were also impressed when she and van Sweden proposed two separate side entrances through a garden gate for the school condos--a move that restored the original separate entrances for boys and girls--rather than the double front staircase someone else had proposed. "There was this terrible meeting in the school," van Sweden remembers. "Then Suman presented her buildings and also the fact that we'd taken the major entrance off the front of the school. Some of my neighbors said, 'Now we can sleep for the first time in several months.' That was a turning point."
Architecture is ultimately a cultural statement, a way to express a community's identity. And Sorg's focus on urban living includes a deep commitment to social issues--designing meaningful housing for low-income residents, not displacing them by simply obliterating the blight. While working on a design for Kentucky Courts, a low-income apartment complex on Capitol Hill, Sorg observed what the neighborhood women wore and how they carried themselves. She was impressed by their proud stature, how they had persevered under grim living conditions and were finally getting something done. In response, she gave them tall buildings with turrets that look like necks with dainty heads. "I stretched the necks of those buildings just like them," she says. "They recognized themselves."
She has the gift that marks all great artists: the ability to see with a fresh eye and to make creative connections between disparate ideas. When Sorg inspects even the newest contemporary buildings, she sees the influences of Henry Hobson Richardson, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, all the way to Harry Weese and Richard Meier. These days, though, Sorg mostly looks inward for the muse. She says she sees new designs as a movie in her head. Her weekend house has an office in the loft overlooking the bay, but she works in silence, oblivious to the view. And while Sorg admires a lot of new architectural work, she doesn't study it in magazines. "It confuses me," she says, professing a loyalty to the legacies of Mies, Le Corbusier, and Wright. "I look always to the older architects. I told a developer, 'Don't talk to me about an architect unless they're dead.' But I do like Richard Meier."
A shadow, a reflection in a pond, a piece of music or clothing--all are inspirations for Sorg. Some of her current designs focus on courtyards and what it means to use buildings to break down outdoor space into smaller pieces. Those ideas are explored at the Eastern Shore houses, and on the U.S. embassy buildings in Kuwait, where housing units face each other across a sheltered green courtyard--the transplanted American lawn.
Another strand evident in the firm's current work is order vs. chaos. At the Materials Testing Lab, where objects are broken to test their properties, Sorg conceived an orthogonal building made of masonry with punched openings. Intersecting the rectangle are glass-and-metal, angular forms that are exciting and dissonant. Her design for an apartment building at 14th and P streets explores the same idea. The building, called Sign of the Lamb, will be marketed to young adults who are "working on ordering their disordered lives, like my daughter," who just graduated from Cornell.
Sorg's unflappable faith in her own instincts serves her well when it's time to argue the finer points of design in front of review boards and community groups. Behind her quietness and poise lurks a very tough woman. Says van Sweden, "She'll drift into a room full of people quietly without separating the air, sit down, and be in total command of the meeting. She comes in perfectly dressed and cool as a cucumber. And she's very flexible and has a good sense of humor, which is very important in this profession."
creative chaos
Sorg is like that with her staff, too. At the helm of an office of 40 people that is brimming with work, she thinks in broad strokes and allows others to follow through on the details--albeit with her mentoring oversight. With 10 to 12 senior project managers, the firm currently has a dozen projects under way ranging from $25 million to $40 million--but she would like to trim the number of projects to eight. The firm owes much of its recession-proof stability to the mix of work Sorg seeks out--60 percent for the public sector, 40 percent for private interests.
The office has a steady staff roster, too, thanks to a non-hierarchical structure that Sorg calls creative chaos. With the exception of Scott Sorg, the chief financial officer, "there isn't anyone just crunching numbers or pushing papers," she says. Five years ago, she made a smart move when she declined the advice of consultants to pattern the firm on a corpo-rate model. Rachel Chung, an associate at the firm, says people like working there because they experience all parts of the design process. "We charrette with Suman on different projects and have a wide range of responsibilities," she says. "We're not isolated doing just working drawings or models. Everyone has access to her."
Sorg's leadership style is not surprising, considering she spent her first 18 years in India, where community and extended families are highly valued. "There's not as much isolation there," she says. "You never see a for-sale sign, because houses are handed down." Whether it's embassy apartments gazing toward each other across a common space, or an elegantly simple compound on the Eastern Shore, Sorg still designs in ways that encourage human connections.
Cheryl Weber is a contributing writer in Severna Park, Md.


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Rolling into Redmond, Ore., as part of a Facebook-led tour of its new data center in nearby Prineville was like stepping into an episode of "Leave it to Beaver." Airport employees greeted people warmly and even TSA agents sent folks off with a cheery, "Have a good day!"
Facebook will tell you it's been an economic gift to this rural area of central Oregon. Some people who make their homes here are quick to agree.
[ Also on InfoWorld: Check out 8 data center lessons from Facebook. | Get the latest practical data center info and news with Paul Venezia's Deep End blog and InfoWorld's Data Center newsletter. ]
"They are bringing jobs. We love Facebook," exclaimed Sandy Pupo, a 61-year-old resident who works part time in an airport gift shop.
(You can see a video tour of the Facebook facility here.)
But Prineville's enthusiasm could be due to it being such a new player in the Northwest data center game. About five hours away, across the border in Washington, some residents of another rural Northwestern U.S. town don't feel as happy about data centers.
"My house looks out toward the Beasley Hills and it's a rare day that you can see those clearly now," said Patty Martin, who is concerned about pollution in Quincy since six companies began operating data centers there, with construction beginning in 2006. Martin served as Quincy's mayor from 1993 to 1997. She is leading an effort to challenge the environmental practices of some of the data centers in Quincy, claiming particulate from diesel running backup generators has an adverse effect on public health. There are six data centers in town, run by Sabey, Dell, Microsoft, Vantage, Yahoo, and Intuit. Martin and other supporters have filed complaints with the state against Microsoft, Yahoo, Dell, and Sabey's Intergate facility.
The difference between public opinion in Quincy and Prineville may come down to a concerted effort in environmentally friendly data center design, a shift that's only recently become popular.
"In the olden days, two or three years ago, it was redundancy that [technology companies were] looking at," said Ken Patchett, the Facebook data center manager in Prineville. "Today, we're looking at resiliency."
Facebook has been able to save money by designing the airflow in its Prineville facility to take advantage of the climate's cool temperatures, a major draw for companies looking to build in the Pacific Northwest. One of the largest expenses in traditionally built data centers is from the energy it takes to keep the servers from overheating. Facebook has also redesigned its server racks and electrical components to use less energy, just another environmental friendly bit of design that also saves the company money.
Data center analysts believe the shift in data center design is a fairly new phenomenon coming from a handful of tech companies, specifically those with the capital to invest in building new data centers. Facebook reported that it spent more than $600 million on data centers and servers in 2011.
"The benefit is if you put the efficiency in at the design point, not after the fact, there's a lot more to gain," said Rick Villars, vice president of data center design and cloud research at IDC. "A few big players are defining those changes and the industry will have to respond to that."
Prineville and Quincy are among the most popular U.S. locations for data centers, according to Rachel Dines, senior analyst at Forrester Research. The climate, power costs and tax breaks make them highly desirable.
"Grant County, where Quincy is, has among the lowest electrical rates in the country. That's why people are so interested in it," Dines said. "On the other hand, Prineville doesn't have sales tax, and they have a pretty significant property tax abatement."
Prineville's data center boom is just beginning. Facebook is nearing completion of its second large data-center hall alongside its first facility and Apple, following in Facebook's steps, is building a data center in town too.
In Quincy, Martin has helped bring environmental complaints about data centers to the state environmental board. A hearing about a complaint against Yahoo is scheduled for Nov. 19, while hearings about the complaints against Sabey and Dell are scheduled for next year. But Microsoft was the victor in a recent decision investigating complaints about pollutants from its backup diesel generators. The Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ruled that there are no health threats to residents of Quincy by generators.
However, Martin is undeterred and praises a technology company that recently built a data center in Quincy and voluntarily made changes to its back-up generators that were not required by law. "Vantage put diesel particulate scrubbers on its generators," Martin said. "They said it's the right thing to do."
Microsoft was contacted for this story and provided a link to a year-old blog post detailing a plan for Microsoft's Quincy data center to transfer its water treatment plant to the municipality of Quincy, as a gift.
Asked for comment, Dell said in a statement that its data center is cooled using "heat-wheel technology," which maximizes use of outside air and reduces the facility's overall energy and water demands. Dell declined to comment specifically about the data center's generators.
Washington environmental authorities have taken air quality measurements in Quincy and said while pollutant levels have gone up since the data centers were built, pollution levels are still much lower than would be found in nearby cities. The Department of Ecology has taken measurements for several years in Quincy and recently found that Intuit's generators gave off the most exhaust.
Intuit and Sabey didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
Patchett said Facebook's Prineville facility has six generators in its first building, but adds that the building was designed to rarely use them.
Facebook is continuing to build data centers around the world and expects its data center in Sweden to come online next year. It worked with the local Swedish power company to redesign access to the utility grid, which allowed Facebook to go without backup generators completely.
"One thing we're really proud of is being able to get rid of generators there, because of the upstream design," said Jay Parikh, vice president of Facebook's infrastructure engineering.
"I hate to sound cynical but the motivation for environmental design is usually not just about being a good corporate citizen ... it tends to be less being green for the environment and more being green like money," Forrester's Dines said.
Prineville's mayor, Betty Roppe, sees the data center boom in a more favorable light, pointing out that before the data centers were built in Prineville, the unemployment rate was one of the highest in the state. It's down to about 14 percent now, which is still high, but she expects even more jobs to come out of Facebook and Apple's data centers. Currently Facebook estimates about 60 people work full time at its data center, not accounting for the influx of construction workers.
"It's given the community a real sort of optimism and we're just tickled pink to have [Facebook]," Roppe said. She hasn't heard any concerns about back-up-generator diesel exhaust or other environmental issues.
Jim Hemberry, Quincy's mayor, declined to comment on the environmental complaints leveled at some data centers by Martin and her supporters, but says the data centers have brought significantly more money to the city in property taxes.
"Prior to the first data centers being built, Quincy had an assessed value of $265 million. Now we are at $1.1 billion," he said.


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I'm stuck in step where I'm typing startx, after running this command nothing happen only blackscreen and lighting capslooks.
I see the next message: "system information disabled due to load higher than 4.0"
When I try to install on VM I install without any problem.
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UTRECHT, The Netherlands -- Sara Lee Corp. has acquired Expresso.Coffee, an espresso coffee retailer that supplies the out-of-home small business, vending and bakery segments in Brazil. Terms of the deal were not undisclosed.
Espresso.Coffee is licensed to sell coffee under Sara Lee's Pilao brand in about 1,000 venues in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
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Sara Lee is in the midst of dividing into two publicly traded companies.
The company focused on the international coffee and tea market will be named D.E Master Blenders 1753. Based in the Netherlands, its operations will be spread across Europe, Brazil, Australia and Thailand, and will include such popular tea and coffee brands as Douwe Egberts, Senseo, L'OR EspressO, Pilão and Pickwick. | SEE STORY
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Many of the steps you've taken so far in filing also are important in helping you determine just what your ultimate tax bill or refund will be.
Although it often seems like Uncle Sam taxes every last dime you make, your IRS bill is actually figured only on your taxable income amount. And that income amount will fall into a particular tax bracket.
For the 2012 tax year, there are six income tax rates that help determine what your tax bill will be. They range from a low of 10 percent up to a high of 35 percent. The amount of income taxed at these rates depends upon your filing status; that is, whether you're a single taxpayer, a married filer sending in a joint return, head of a household, etc., that we discussed in another Tax Basic. The dollar amount subject to the various tax levels is adjusted for inflation and for each filing category.
Beginning with the 2013 tax year, there will be seven tax brackets and rates. A new 39.6 percent rate will apply to individuals earning more than $400,000 and married couples filing jointly who make more than $450,000.
These brackets aren't absolute, however. U.S. taxes are progressive. That means the more money you make, the more tax you will pay. But don't turn down that raise just yet. The progressive nature also means that all levels of income aren't taxed at the same rate. You're only taxed at each rate on the income in that range.
For example, if you're a single taxpayer who's lucky (or good) enough to earn $180,000, that whole amount isn't taxed at the 33 percent rate just because your total earnings top out in that range.
Instead, only the portion over $178,650 (the beginning of the 33 percent bracket for the 2012 tax year) is taxed at that rate. The rest of your income is taxed at the lower rates shown in the tax table. This breaks out, for a single filer, as:
As the table illustrates, only a portion (and in this case the smallest amount) of your hypothetical $180,000 income is taxed at the highest possible rate.
Going a step further, when you figure your tax bill using the raw rates above (not counting personal exemptions or any deductions or credits, which we'll discuss in upcoming Tax Basics), you'll come up with a total tax bill just under $43,928 or around 24 percent. This is known as your effective tax rate. (Note: This calculation is for demonstration purposes only. If you use the actual IRS tax rate schedules, your bill will be a bit smaller because the IRS calculations take other factors into account.)
A tax bill of nearly $43,928 does sound like a lot -- until you consider the alternative computation. If the full $180,000 had been taxed at 33 percent instead of on the progressive rate basis, your tax bill would have been $59,400 or more than $15,000 higher.
So even though your income may put you in a high tax bracket, your actual personal tax rate is lower. The progressive rates system means that your effective tax rate -- what percentage of YOUR money you owe in taxes -- is actually much lower than the highest rate you pay. By knowing what your effective personal tax rate is, you can calculate just how much of any raise you, not the IRS, will get to keep.
And remember that the percentage of tax owed is figured on your taxable income, not all income. The tax system automatically gives you a personal exemption (and one for each of your dependents) to help reduce your gross income to its taxable level. Then, if you have a lot of deductions or adjustments that can further reduce your taxable amount, your tax bill will be even lower.
For a quick look at your effective tax rate, simply pull out last year's return and divide the tax you actually paid by your taxable income. If nothing in your tax status has changed significantly, that'll give a simple ratio for determining your own personal tax bracket.
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INDIANAPOLIS, IN -- The Amusement and Music Operators Association-National Dart Association elected three new directors during its annual meeting, held in conjunction with the League SMART educational conference at the Crowne Plaza Hotel & Suites near the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport.
Joining the board are Dusty Hall, league coordinator for Lorain Music & Vending (Lorain, OH); Mary Lavine, owner of Bullseye Games (Madison, WI); and Stefan Reichert, president of DSAB-e.v. (Waldalgesheim, Germany).
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Uncounted ballots found from November election
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a resident of Woodside: other
on Apr 19, 2013 at 12:14 pm
While misplacing ballots is totally unacceptable, I was also taken by this comment: "The 65 ballots, which came from the Redwood City voting center, included 35 from eligible voters, with the other 30 coming from people who were ineligible or had already voted in the election."
Of the 65 ballots, only 35 were from eligible voters! Seriously?
I wonder if this reflects the overall voting profile where so many ballots are either repeats or from ineligible voters. That ratio is alarming.
a resident of another community
on Apr 19, 2013 at 12:28 pm
Of the 65 ballots, only 35 were from eligible voters! Seriously?
That's Huge how does that happen.
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Apr 19, 2013 at 12:38 pm
They're provisional ballots. As I understand the system, Provisionals usually exist because of oddball circumstances such as someone showing up at the wrong precinct, or other unique reasons. They are not allowed to vote due to the descrepency, and offered a provisional ballot, and the voter's 'validity' is judged afterward. Therefore, the likelihood of a batch of provisional ballots having some that are judged or ruled invalid may seem high.
Curious to know specifics on the batch: how many invalid, in broad terms the reasons for such and in even larger terms how many the county ruled as invalid overall, vs the total number of provisional ballots, etc..
IMO, to cast a suspicious light on the whole system is inappropriate. If ineligible voters were required to use a provisional ballot at the polling place, which was later judged to be a valid vote, or not, is good. That's the way the system is designed to work.
And apparently worked correctly.
Voting early eliminates some of this, as I imagine does absentee.
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Apr 19, 2013 at 12:40 pm
I'm a little surprised at the reaction from two posters I would have assumed understand the system better than most. Perhaps I am in error.
a resident of Atherton: other
on Apr 19, 2013 at 1:05 pm
Poll workers have to accept votes and it is up to the election board to sort out. Often, people from a different county would drop off vote by mail or demand to vote in SM County although they had moved out of county. If people would vote electronically, which has a paper verification, lost envelopes would be a thing of the sixties.
Given the millions of votes collected and properly counted, it is a miniscule amount. However, credit goes to Mr. Church and staff for the transpareancy.
Noteworthy is that many of the poll workers are volunteers that receive barely minimum wage for hours worked. Let's have positive support for the system and constructive comments for improvement.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Apr 19, 2013 at 1:12 pm
No, I understand the system pretty well and I know perfectly well what a provisional ballot is. But thank you for the poorly worded tutorial.
My point is that 30 of 65 ballots were either ineligible or duplicates. I think any reason person would be alarmed to discover that nearly half (46%) of the ballots cast in an election were either duplicates or ineligible.
That seems absolutely extraordinary to me... but it may explain how we end up with the cast of characters that we have in Sacramento.
a resident of Woodside: other
on Apr 19, 2013 at 1:13 pm
* reasonable
a resident of Atherton: West of Alameda
on Apr 19, 2013 at 2:17 pm
"But thank you for the poorly worded tutorial." You are welcome, it was poorly worded, due to lack of education and limited time available this afternoon to reread and edit. You are so kind to share your thoughts.
Speaking of poorly worded - Pogo: "I think any reason(able) person would be alarmed to discover that nearly half (46%) of the ballots cast in an election were either duplicates or ineligible."
What a pile of you-know-what, though 'worded' well. Casting suspicion on all ballots based on a ridiculously small sample that by it's very definition is riddled with questionable ballots, is disingenuous, at best.
For example: let's take a sample of adults who are in a rehab facility, find out that half are in for boose, and declare that half the county are alcoholics.
Golly, I'm not, and since one of two are....
Yes, your point borders on the absurd.
Please, continue to point out my deficiencies with the written word if it makes you feel better. You should see what it looks like before the spellchecker.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Apr 19, 2013 at 7:17 pm
" that nearly half (46%) of the ballots cast in an election were either duplicates or ineligible."
@VoteEarly - you are quite generous to label that as only 'disingenuous'
a resident of Woodside: other
on Apr 20, 2013 at 7:51 am
There was nothing in the article that indicated that these 65 ballots were a skewed sample.
I would think that the percentage of ineligible or provisional ballots would be in the low single digits. I'm not going to do a survey but I stand on my statement that I believe a reasonable person would be alarmed to learn that nearly half of the ballots fell into that category.
a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Apr 20, 2013 at 10:52 am
They were provisional ballots, of course they are a skewed sample. Perhaps Pogo can give us an elegantly worded tutorial on the very nature of provisional ballots.
That request outstanding, it is nice to see Pogo amending (slightly) his original statement from
"that nearly half (46%) OF THE BALLOTS CAST IN AN ELECTION were either duplicates or ineligible."
"that nearly half of the ballots fell into that category."
Soon, he will have completely modified it to an accurate statement, such as - that nearly half of the PROVISIONAL ballots fell into that category.
One could have chalked it up to a simple misstatement, if pogo were not so vociferously defending his misstatement.
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Apr 20, 2013 at 10:19 pm
Maybe absentee voting is only going to be the HONEST way!
a resident of Portola Valley: Los Trancos Woods/Vista Verde
on Apr 25, 2013 at 12:27 pm
361,486 votes in November 2012. That makes about 150,000 of the ballots cast in an election either duplicates or ineligible.
150,000 duplicate and ineligible voters. We have to do something!
Doesn't anyone understand?!?
This is ridiculous!How come people are not up in arms!
46% of votes are wrong!
a resident of Portola Valley: Los Trancos Woods/Vista Verde
on Apr 25, 2013 at 12:30 pm
I looked at the national results for November, 2012.
Turns out 47.2% of the votes cast were wrong.
a resident of Woodside High School
on Apr 26, 2013 at 2:54 pm
Thats funny, 46% defective ballots for the 47% for Mitt 47% Romney. Too bad he doesn't pay closer to 47% in taxes, rather than the 13%.
If the description above is wrong, what then is a provisional ballot?
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EVERETT — Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped a felony drug charge against a man accused of operating a marijuana garden.
The man instead pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor. He won't face any jail time if he remains crime-free over the next two years.
Christopher Healy, 46, told police in 2012 that he was growing medical marijuana for patients. He and his wife were operating a marijuana collective garden in Shoreline. Police found hundreds of marijuana plants in a storage building in Marysville, according to court documents. The majority of the plants were starters, not ready for harvest.
Healy came to the attention of police after officers reportedly received a tip about a possible growing operation. Officers were able to raid the building after obtaining a search warrant based on their reports of smelling a strong odor of marijuana coming from the area.
That sniffing tactic likely will see challenges now that voters legalized the recreational use of a marijuana for adults. State officials are developing rules to govern how marijuana can be legally grown and sold. State-sanctioned sales could begin early next year.
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Well, that was unexpected. Aaron Sorkin does romantic comedy.
In a move that surprised everyone from here to Genoa, straight-faced Sorkin relented to romance, turned the schmaltz up to eleven, and gave fans the rousing, sitcom-esque marriage proposal that we never expected (but may have secretly wanted).
Can we really talk about anything else with this recap? The election just got colossally shoved aside to make room for the new power couple in News Night. Mackavoy? Willenzie?
They came, they saw, they clashed and they squabbled, but Will and Mack, after two seasons of intense mind games, have finally tied the knot, and sent the newsroom into raptures in the process. We all knew it was coming, but not like this.
I had to check I was on the right channel and hadn't accidentally flicked over to a re-run of Ally McBeal. Rousing backing music, office hugs galore, champagne corks flying. It was all there.
And the cherry on top, straight out of the playbook of Along Came Polly and Dan in Real Life, comes everyone's favourite closing anthem to romance, Let My Love Open The Door; but at least they had the nous to rework the overused Pete Townshend original.
In truth, this wasn't the only sexual tension resolved in the finale. Sloan and Don (Slon?) became the other newbie Newsroom couple, leading to Don delivering the ripper line of the season with impeccable comic timing ("What I have can't be taught" – I'm still chuckling at that one).
Meanwhile, couples are stabilising relationships all over the place. Jim, who shared the mantle of Sorkin-incarnate this season along with Will, shared a moment with Hallie to reassure balance in the relationship, and quizzed her over whether he makes her feel dumb in the relationship (remember what I said a number of episodes ago regarding Sorkin taking storylines from his critics?).
And Maggie and Lisa patch things up after months of silent feuding as well, with Lisa literally clattering her way back into the series. Even Charlie and Leona share a moment of mutual respect – their scenes together continue to be some of the best on television, full stop.
Let my love open the door.— Will McAvoy (@WillMcAvoyACN) September 16, 2013
Oh, wait, what? There's an actual narrative plot, you say? Yes, the season-long Genoa arc also gets its due. New man-in-charge Reese Lansing finally steps out of the shadows of mummy dearest, puffs his chest out, folds his arms, and decrees that News Night acted appropriately and without institutional failure, and refuses to accept their resignations. That is, if Charlie hadn't already retracted their resignations, because it seems everyone had the simultaneous epiphany that News Night were right after all.
Yes, all is well in the world, and all roads have intertwined with effortless ease. But what can we glean from this quite surprising finale to the sophomore season?
And now, for the final word...
Newsroom fans will either love or loathe Sorkin's saccharine send-off to the show's second season. It carries all the hallmarks of a crowd-pleaser, but something tells me the true fans of the show have never really cared about what pleases the crowds. The diehards love the moralising drama, and the contrast between the first and second season finales epitomises the difference between the seasons themselves – descending from his high and lofty perch of Republican bashing, Sorkin has taken to an arguably more formulaic breed of dramedy.
In a way, it echoes the finale of another much-maligned second season this year, that of Girls, which saw in its closing scene on-again off-again boyfriend Adam racing through the streets of New York to rescue the increasingly unstable Hannah in the complete thematic reversal of all that Girls had strived to achieve thus far. Lena Dunham copped a lot of criticism, and no doubt Sorkin will too.
It is interesting to note, though, how perfectly everything was resolved. It bore the mark of someone who was perhaps a little worried about the future of their baby, and so sought to install peace in the fictional universe in case it was all coming to an end. The episode did see Sorkin resemble something of a tailor on death row: sewing up loose ends and patches under the impression he may never again be presented with storylines to stitch up. Perhaps the longer the seasons roll on (and we hope that they do!), the more confident Sorkin will feel in leaving questions and character arcs in limbo come season's end. But at very least it gives Sorkin a blank canvas with which to redefine the game next season.
Twitter went into meltdown after the show aired in the US, equal parts love and hatred for the finale as one would expect. The cynics may say he hasn't taken the advice he's espoused in The Newsroom; sacrificing your core principles for the sake of mass appeal. But, ultimately, nothing has changed: The Newsroom does, and will continue to, divide audiences vehemently like nothing else on our screens. It's a preciously divisive pearl in a sea of homogonous television.
And with that, the Greater Fools recaps takes its leave, and we will see you this time next year (quite literally; Season 3 will be set in 2013, after all).


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