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It was an economic bombshell heard across America. In January 1993, the automotive world focused on the Detroit Auto Show, one of the auto world's premiere events where car makers unveil their newest models and latest technologies. But it wasn't that year's expected top-selling vehicles that captured the spotlight. It was a news conference by Mercedes-Benz.
It was an economic bombshell heard across America.
In January 1993, the automotive world focused on the Detroit Auto Show, one of the auto world's premiere events where car makers unveil their newest models and latest technologies.
But it wasn't that year's expected top-selling vehicles that captured the spotlight. It was a news conference by Mercedes-Benz.
The German luxury automaker announced it would build its first auto plant in America and would conduct a nationwide search for a site where it would make an initial investment of $300 million to $350 million.
The announcement got everyone's attention — the year's biggest economic development project was up for grabs.
"Initially we screened proposals from almost all 50 states," said Linda (Paulmeno) Sewell, who in 1993 was the director of communications for Mercedes' site selection team.
Working with site selection consulting company Fluor Daniels, the team winnowed down the list to 20 states, then 12 and finally six.
"I still remember the final six we were looking at — Alabama, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia and Nebraska," said Sewell, now vice president of external affairs for Energen Corp. in Birmingham.
Mercedes' announcement of plans to build a U.S. plant came just months after its German luxury-car rival, BMW, announced plans to build its first American auto plant in Spartanburg, S.C.
BMW's announcement, however, was different. It picked the site for its plant and then announced its decision, said Dara Longgrear, executive director of the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority, which recruits new industry. There was no advance fanfare, no advance notice, he said.
Mercedes, on the other hand, got everyone's attention by offering the year's biggest economic development project as the prize.
Nationally, there were some early front-runners for the site. Alabama was not among them.
In fact, Alabama seemed an unlikely candidate at the start of 1993 because the state was in turmoil. Republican Gov. Guy Hunt was under indictment for converting some of his inaugural funds to personal use. In April, a jury found him guilty, and he was removed from office.
Lt. Gov. Jim Folsom Jr., a Democrat, became governor and quickly installed his own Cabinet.
"I asked Billy Joe (Camp) to become director of the Alabama Development Office," Folsom recalled last week. Camp, a longtime aide and confidant of former Gov. George Wallace, resigned from his elective post as secretary of state to join Folsom's team.
Camp, who is now semi-retired but still does some economic development consulting, said last week that by the time he joined the Folsom administration, Mercedes already had set up an office in Chicago for its site selection team and had hired the company Fluor Daniels to handle the initial site selection screening.
Shortly after taking office, Folsom invited Elmer Harris, then president of Alabama Power Co. and a major voice for recruiting new industry to the state, to meet with him and Camp in Montgomery.
"When I got there, the first thing the governor said to me was, 'Do you think we should go after the Mercedes-Benz project?' " Harris recalled. "I said: 'Yes, but the first thing you have to realize is that we are not even on their potential site list. To get on it, we have to organize and be able to make decisions on the spot.' "
There wasn't enough time to call the governor for every little decision, Harris said.
Folsom agreed and delegated Camp to be the state's point man, who would keep him advised of developments.
"It really was quite an exciting time," Folsom recalled.
Alabama now needed to get Mercedes' attention quickly.
One thing it had going for it was that it had made a pitch a few years earlier to get the new Saturn auto plant that ultimately went to Spring Hill, Tenn. The state had shown the Saturn team a site between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa along Interstate 20/59 near Vance. That nearly 1,000-acre site's plan had to be updated for Mercedes. A small group of Tuscaloosa County leadership was brought into the project.
"It was clear the consultant from Fluor Daniels would help find the site," recalled Longgrear, the long-time executive director of the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Authority. That's the person he had to reach, he said.
Two things were known about the consultant, Bill Dorsey — he was going to be attending a business-development convention in Atlanta, where Alabama industrial recruiters planned to host some events, and he liked college football.
Tuscaloosa County had a trump card — UA football coach Gene Stallings' Crimson Tide was the reigning national champion college football team.
"We asked Coach Stallings to be our guest at the Atlanta convention," Longgrear said. "The goal was to have him lure Bill Dorsey to our (hospitality) suite."
Dorsey came to meet Stallings and the state's industrial recruiters got to meet him.
Camp recalled that the word on the street then was Mercedes already had settled on a site in North Carolina.
"I remembered I asked Dorsey if it was a done deal for North Carolina," Camp said. "Dorsey said, 'North Carolina is a good place to do business, but it is not a done deal. If Alabama is interested, we would like to receive your proposal.' "
That got the ball rolling. Information was supplied to Dorsey and the Mercedes site selection team; each request for more information about such things as taxes, roads, infrastructure and education systems was quickly answered as more people were added to the state's recruiting effort to make sure deadlines for getting the information was met.
Harris meanwhile asked Anthony Topazi, then head of Alabama Power's Western Division based in Tuscaloosa and chairman of the Tuscaloosa County Industrial Development Authority, to work full-time on Project Rosewood, a code name for the Mercedes project, which got its name from the rosewood paneling used in the interiors of Mercedes cars.
"I told Anthony if he got Mercedes, he would have a good, long future with the company," Harris recalled.
Topazi later became president and CEO of Mississippi Power, a sister company of Alabama Power, and later retired as chief operating officer of Southern Company, the parent company of the two utilities.
During the recruiting process, the Alabama recruiters learned the Mercedes site selection team might be able to view the Vance site.
Harris arranged for Alabama Power's corporate jet to fly to Nebraska to pick up Andreas Renschler, who was heading the search team.
"We have a corporate policy of no smoking on our planes," recalled the now retired Harris. "But I know a little bit about the German culture, and I knew many Germans like to smoke."
He said he called the jet's pilots aside, told them to buy some ashtrays and put them in the cabin. "I then told them, 'When we are flying back to Alabama, if there's cigarette smoke and it bothers you, say nothing and just open the windows if it bothers you.' "
During the flight to Alabama, Harris was chatting with Renschler when the German executive asked if he could smoke. "I told him, 'Of course you can. No one will care,' " Harris said. "Now, what do you think would have happened if I said 'no'?"
Camp also was on the jet and recalled there had been some bad spring floods that year along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
"As the pilot flew over Nebraska and some of the other states we knew they (Mercedes) were looking at, he might have stayed over some of the flooded areas a little longer than normal so everyone could get a good look," Camp recalled.
The Alabamians talked up the state's advantages and never spoke ill of their competitors, Camp said. But the views of the floods in other states below didn't hurt Alabama's case, he said.
As the Mercedes team became more interested in Alabama, more people were brought into the state's team.
"From late May into September, the (TCIDA) staff got into working seven-day weeks. We were coming in early in the morning and leaving late in the evening, and it was all about Mercedes," Longgrear said. "... A lot of it was new to me then, but we made sure we met all their deadlines for information."
Privately, some of the recruiters wondered where Alabama stood.
"I finally asked one of the people we were dealing with, 'How would we know if we are making progress?' He said, 'You will know when you stop hearing from us.' "
That never happened.
Meanwhile, options to buy the land in the proposed site were obtained and incentive legislation passed in Montgomery.
In the final month leading up to the announcement, the competition among the final states intensified. Folsom said he sent Camp to Stuttgart, Germany, where Mercedes is headquartered, to keep track of developments and quickly counter the offers coming from the other states.
Then about a week before Mercedes planned to announce its decision, The Washington Post reported Mercedes had picked North Carolina.
The report caused a media frenzy. Sewell, who was designated as the sole Mercedes spokesperson regarding the site search, said she got repeated calls at 2 and 3 a.m. from reporters at The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times wanting her to confirm or deny the report — something she refused to do. The Alabama press was less aggressive, she said, and seemed surprised that Alabama was still being considered.
Meanwhile, at the Tutwiler Hotel in downtown Birmingham, Topazi and the team of state negotiators were hammering out the final agreement to bring the plant to Tuscaloosa County.
One participant said Topazi asked a Mercedes negotiator if the report was true. The negotiator said it was false and suggested they finish the agreement that was made public a few days later.
"Without question, we knew the Tuscaloosa County site was a superior site," Folsom said. "It really fit what the company (Mercedes-Benz) was looking for."
In the weeks before the announcement, the thinking across the nation was that the Mercedes plant would go to one of four states — North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee or Georgia, Folsom said.
"What was different for us is we did not have an auto plant, whereas the others did," Folsom said. "I think we were hungrier and worked harder, and I think the (Mercedes) search team and Andreas Renschler saw that, and they trusted us more. They had more faith that we would deliver on what we promised in our incentives package."
In the end, Alabama's incentive package totaled $253 million and was "very similar to what was offered by the other finalists," Folsom said.
The money came from the state, Tuscaloosa County, area cities and businesses. Much of it paid for preparing the site for construction, improving roads serving the site, extending sewer and water lines and other infrastructure improvements. There also were tax abatements on the improvements Mercedes would make in building on the then-vacant land, and the nearly 1,000 acres of land was sold to Mercedes for $100. That increased the incentive offer.
Those incentives were widely criticized. Some accused Alabama of buying itself an auto plant. The incentives even became an issue in the 1996 governor's race, which Folsom lost to Republican Fob James.
But Folsom, who now works in investment banking in Birmingham, said last week that he never regretted what the state did and considers recruiting Mercedes to be the hallmark of his governorship because of what it meant to the state's economy.
"During that time you could not invest too much to make that happen," he said. "I felt it would be a positive breakthrough opportunity for the state and would attract other industry to the state. ... It made a great statement of what Alabama and its people could do and showed Alabama to be a great place to locate and do business."
The day leading up to the Sept. 30, 1993, announcement saw some state newspapers reporting Tuscaloosa was the choice. But Mercedes remained mum, advising the national media covering the story to report to the Detroit airport where a chartered jet would fly to the chosen city. The reporters did not know the destination until the plane landed in Tuscaloosa shortly before the announcement, Sewell said.
On a sunny, balmy Thursday morning, crowds filled Bryant Conference Center for the announcement that marked the birth of Alabama's automotive industry.
Reach Patrick Rupinski at email@example.com or 205-722-0213.


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VATICAN CITY — The North American College's soccer team, the Martyrs, won 2-0 against the College of St. Paul on Saturday. It was their second game and their second victory since the Clericus Cup priestly soccer series kicked off Feb. 20.
Victor Ingalls, a second-year seminarian from Montgomery, Ala., plays stopper for the Martyrs. He and fellow seminarian/teammate, David Santos, spoke with Catholic News Service at a news event launching the cup's fourth season. Read about it here.


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Magnus ille Alexander multos scriptores factorum suorum secum semper habebat. Is enim ante tumulum Achillis olim stetit et dixit haec verba: "Fuisti fortunatus o adulescens, quod Homerum laudatorem virtutis tuae invenisti." Et vere! Nam, sine Iliade illa, idem tumulus et corpus eius et nomen obruere potuit. Nihil corpus humanum conservare potest; sed litterae magnae nomen viri magni saepe conservare possunt.
Here's my translation: "...Indeed, he once stood before the grave of Achilles and uttered these words: "You were lucky, young man, because you discovered Homer, the chronicler of your courage. And verily! For, without that [epic] Iliad, the same grave and its body and name could bury [you?]...."
With especial regards to the sentence in bold, I expect a direct object given the transitive verb obruere [to bury, overwhelm]. So why am I having so much difficulty finding it? Have I got the cases wrong or is the direct object only implicit? I think the sentence means the same grave and its body could bury your name, but if that's the case, shouldn't "et nomen" be "tuum nomen"? Please help.


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Nights of drama in Brussels as Sarkozy confronted Irish
This newspaper's then European correspondent recalls the drama in Brussels as Ireland teetered on the brink of an abyss
Focus of attention: Ireland's finance minister Brian Lenihan is surrounded by media as he prepares for an emergency meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels in November 2010
Another day, another step on the road to ruin. I was in a press room in Brussels waiting for Brian Cowen and Brian Lenihan to come on the radio for a joint press briefing in Dublin. My phone lit up: text in from a trusted European contact of high rank. "Taoiseach speaks in five minutes."
This was September 2010, the time Cowen declared on the steps of Government Buildings that he was not "on probation". A week had passed since the devastating "Garglegate" interview. Feverish talk of a Lenihan-led coup followed. Irish borrowing costs were rocketing. As the then taoiseach put on an uncomfortable show of unity with his minister for finance, Lenihan said the only relevant rumbles were those on financial markets. They would battle on together.
In every drama there comes the moment when the truth dawns. For me it was that text message. It was past teatime in Brussels yet they were poring over the ructions in Leinster House. It did not matter whether they were tipped off about Cowen's statement or whether they too were simply listening to Irish radio. What mattered was that they were watching very closely. Everything.
The next morning I ran into an affable frontiersman of the euro-zone crisis. "So?" I ventured speculatively of the performance in Dublin. The reply was unsparing. "So one guy says I'll drink less – and the other says I'll talk less."
The abyss
Ireland lurched toward the abyss. Lenihan soon revealed that the rescue bill for banks was now €45 billion and might hit €50 billion. Finance ministers were in Brussels that day, followed as always by hundreds of reporters. At the main press conference I was surprised to have the microphone thrust into my hand for the first question. In its own way, this was a portent of distress.
Le Monde the next afternoon carried news of a nascent assault on the Irish corporate tax regime, setting in train many months of pressure on that front from France, Germany and their allies.
In the tense weeks that followed, a familiar sense of dread and discomfort returned. The situation was gripping, but appalling. Olli Rehn, the Finn who remains commissioner for economic and monetary affairs, emerged as a key figure in Irish debate.
Much as the collapse of bank shares in 2008 carried with it ever-deepening concern that there would be brutal consequences for all Irish people, the same sour feeling prevailed as Ireland entered the bailout zone. There was a palpable sense that something as precious as national sovereignty, which hitherto seemed immutable, had been lost.
The deal itself brought yet more turmoil. The Fianna Fáil-Green partnership collapsed in January, the first full month of the bailout. Events spun out of control as Cowen botched a cabinet reshuffle, thereby losing the party leadership. "Is there looting going on over there?" quipped a Brussels colleague as reports came through about the political chaos in Dublin. The rescue, Europe's second after Greece, was off to a very shaky start.
The election was brought forward to February, so an EU summit early that month would be Cowen's last. There he faced a withering full-frontal attack on corporate tax from Nicolas Sarkozy, the gung-ho French president. That night a diplomatic source described the engagement as something of a "bloodbath", with Sarkozy saying he had helped save Ireland. "Sarkozy criticised the Irish choice of the American model. Cowen made clear the toxic system was not due to the American model."
In the circumstances, Cowen was said by non-Irish sources to have to have acquitted himself relatively well. But he was on the way out, a spent force. The threat to Ireland's corporate tax regime was ever present. This was as much a target for German chancellor Angela Merkel as it was for Sarkozy. The "Merkozy" alliance, then in its prime, was pressing strongly for a euro zone competitiveness pact with common business tax rules at its core.
'Gallic spat'
Ireland remained badly out of favour when Enda Kenny when he won the election. Two days after he took office, the new Taoiseach went to his first EU summit. Five weeks had passed since Cowen's clash with Sarkozy. While a cut in the interest rate on the rescue loans was under discussion, there was a push for a quid-pro-quo on tax. Unhappy at the refusal to bend to his will, Sarkozy took aim immediately at Kenny. This was the infamous "Gallic spat".
These were low points, demonstrating both the totality of the reputational hit and the daunting scale of the challenge to be overcome. If this was the very essence of diplomatic isolation, it was abject enough too. No one ever suggested to me that any other premier or president had spoken up in support of Cowen or Kenny when Sarkozy went for them.
But the volatile man from the Élysée palace was as mercurial as he was strident. At the next summit a couple of weeks later, he was transfixed by the situation in Libya and the necessity for military action to topple the Gadafy regime. At his midnight press conference, there wasn't a jot about Ireland. As Sarkozy left the room, I was waiting at the door to ask if he would be bringing up the Irish situation the next morning. "I don't think so, because they're waiting for the results of the stress test," he said.
True, the word on the official circuit was that the interest rate discussion was on hold pending a new examination of the Irish banks needed yet more money. The mood overall was grim. "I'll be perfectly honest with you," Merkel said. "I'd rather take care of Europe's growing competitiveness than continually spend my time taking care of rescue programmes for other countries."
While there was no little frustration at continual revisions to Dublin's bank bailout bill, Ireland was no longer the main event. The government of Portugal had collapsed. The country would soon need a bailout, Europe's third. The crisis was advancing steadily yet EU leaders could hardly agree on anything. Simply to stay afloat was a struggle. It was policymaking on the fly, exhausting, exasperating. Weeks turned into working weekends, working weekends turned into weeks. Everyone had bleary eyes.
With the Greek rescue in constant jeopardy, four more months of unrelenting turmoil would follow before a deal was done to cut the Irish interest rate. This was July 2011, six months after the election. Kenny committed Ireland to a "structured discussion" on tax issues, but there was no move to dilute the Irish system. While the concerns of France and Germany remained, Sarkozy had pulled back. "It's over, c'est fini," Kenny said of the conflict with Paris.
The reality was that an escalation of the crisis had played into Irish hands. Spain and Italy were under pressure, raising the spectre of doubt over the credit worthiness of major euro-zone countries. Action to pacify the situation was required. Still, the deal stood as the first substantial piece of good news for a very long time.
Looking back now, the end of the attack on the corporate tax front provided an opening to step up demands for bank debt relief. If this was a turning point, however, it didn't immediately feel like. Although EU leaders had already started to praise the Government's execution of bailout programme reforms, a renewed attempt to target senior bondholders ran straight into a reinforced brick wall at the European Central Bank.
It was not the first Irish effort on this front and not the ECB's first refusal. Having publicly expressed frustration at the frequency with which the issue was raised, the then ECB chief, Jean-Claude Trichet, was no more enthused when Michael Noonan first raised with him the possibility of a transaction to recast the Anglo Irish Bank promissory notes.
In the Minister for Finance's own account, Trichet was "pretty non-committal". This was September 2011, in Wroclaw, Poland. The deal was not done until February 2013, fully 17 months later. Trichet was long gone at that point, but his successor Mario Draghi didn't exactly rush into the new arrangement.
Attitudes had changed markedly by then, but it was an incremental process. Although Kenny and his crew developed a reputation for workmanlike competence, it is difficult to pinpoint when exactly the notion of Ireland as the euro zone's "success story" emerged. But the idea stuck nonetheless, even when action on the banking debt was not forthcoming. As Trichet slapped down Noonan on the senior bonds, he said Ireland was gaining credibility regularly. This was attributable in the main to the fact that the Kenny administration was more or less doing everything required of it under the programme, including the delivery of onerous budgets and the achievement of tough fiscal targets. The contrast with Greece's inability to execute major elements of its own plan was stark. Relations between Athens and its sponsors are in perpetual frenzy.
It helped immeasurably that the economy slowly began to turn around, and that notional borrowing rates on markets improved. Yet there was more. The October 2011 referendum on judicial pay impressed Merkel in particular. Of greater importance still was the resounding majority for the fiscal treaty referendum in May 2012, something cast by Kenny as a message to Europe from the people of Ireland that they wanted a settlement of the bank debt question.
The next month, it was amid fear Spain might need a full-blown bailout that a big breakthrough seemed to be come. At a summit the leaders resolved to give powers to the ESM bailout fund to directly rescue stricken banks. Kenny secured the promise of a review of the Irish bank bailout and a pledge that similar cases would be treated equally.
All of this was settled in the dead of night, an occasion that finally seemed to herald the prospect of a speedy deal to claw back some of the billions ploughed into the banks. In the days that followed, however, doubts soon set in. Before long, Germany, Finland the Netherlands said they would not allow the ESM to take on the "legacy" debts of other countries. Even now, this slippery question remains unresolved.
With the bailout at an end, recovery remains a work in progress and there is a long way to go yet. There is plenty of risk on the horizon too. But we push on. When the debacle was at its worst, an incident on Merrion Street was like an international incident. With luck that day is done.


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Chesters Roman Fort and Museum - English Heritage
Chesters Roman Fort was built to guard the Roman bridge which carried Hadrian's Wall over the River North Tyne. The entire foundations of the headquarters building are visible and, down by the river, the bath house is extremely well preserved. The newly-refurbished museum displays a collection of Roman finds retrieved by local antiquarian John Clayton.
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Discover why the Romans came to Britain and what life was like on the frontier. Meet Roman officer Centurion Maximus and take on the role of a recruit. Through drama and role play, recruits will learn more about the arms and armour of a Roman soldier, take part in a military drill and explore the fort.
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EFF Reminds Us That Open WiFi Isn't A Bad Thing... And Should Actually Be Encouraged
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The EFF and others have been trying to remind people that there are also tremendous benefits to open WiFi in increasing connectivity for everyone. As part of this, they've launched the Open Wireless Movement encouraging people to purposely leave their WiFi networks open (and to take appropriate security precautions). They're pointing out that especially in times of crisis, such open networks can be tremendously useful.
Hopefully we can finally get past the myth that open WiFi is automatically bad and get people moving towards a better understanding of how to use the internet safely while still offering up open access in a reasonable manner.
The Open Wireless Movement envisions a world where people readily have access to open wireless Internet connections—a world where sharing one's network in a way that ensures security yet preserves quality is the norm. Much of this vision is attainable now. In fact, many people have routers that already feature "guest networking" capabilities. To make this even easier, we are working with a coalition of volunteer engineers to build technologies that would make it simple for Internet subscribers to portion off their wireless networks for guests and the public while maintaining security, protecting privacy, and preserving quality of access. And we're working with advocates to help change the way people and businesses think about Internet service.
We're also teaching the world about the many benefits of open wireless in order to help society move away from closed networks and to a world in which open access is the default. We are working to debunk myths (and confront truths) about open wireless while creating technologies and legal precedent to ensure it is safe, private, and legal to open your network.


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- jill8:20 AM
Carol, the Tarte aux Poires looks burnt but the strawberrys and rasberrys look to die for, over here the strawberrys this summer were terrble and cost a bomb so didn't have much this year. Have you ever had Egyptian cheerries as the beat the lot in taste and there pale yellow and pink . Fantastic !!ReplyDelete
Jill xx
I'm sure that's the way it should lookReplyDelete
The Parisiens are perfectionist at their tarts
OMG, it all looks so amazing. No doubt this is the most delicious blog I visit. I want the raspberry one and that caramel looking treat. Yummy!!ReplyDelete
ohhhh....lovely. Now breakfast here is going to be boooooring. Maybe I will eat with eyes closed and visualize these. :))ReplyDelete
Hi Carol-ReplyDelete
I came across your blog on 'Places I Have Never Been'.. and find it mouth-watering. I miss Paris so much! Truth be told, I was never a dessert fiend until I spent time there. To this day, I'm still not sure if that was a curse or a blessing!
Suz (a.k.a. Lil' Boozie)
Hi Carol...my friend BJ sent me to check out your place...so I am addicted already...what a wonderful post...these photos are wonderful!!!ReplyDelete
the Parisienne delights ....wow!!!
Yum--that shop looks to die for. Soon, you'll be there again Carol! Counting the days? I'm in SeaTac airport browsing while I wait now--fun to see PB inbetween flights. ;)) have a good one.ReplyDelete
Cannelés are also delicious, but I prefer the famous macarons!ReplyDelete
Great images!ReplyDelete
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I'd hate to be sent to the principal's office at PB! Your stern warnings have made this dog owner get the dog's hat off his bed!ReplyDelete
As for the film - that young man could make shredded newspaper sound tres tres delicieuse!
Looking at your blog tonight was just what I needed after a long day at work. Ahhhh, Paris. Ahhh, your blog :)ReplyDelete
The third best eclair according to a Figaro survey. They have the article glued to their door and I studied it at length and even took a picture of it!?
- Jayme5:08 AM
Just a few questions...ReplyDelete
Are you taking Macaron orders??????!
Do you know of any place in the US that you can order the French macarons from that will mail them?
Have you seen these?
A, j'ai dro^lement faim. J'epelles aussi mal en francais qu'en anglais.ReplyDelete
Oh yes I have been there and done that. You need to take a tissue to wipe away the droolReplyDelete


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CNN Money reported today that restaurant wine lists are huge rip-offs. I think we all knew this. But just in case you weren't clear on the facts:
Restaurants mark up cheaper bottles by an average of three times the retail price, while the prices of higher end wines are typically doubled, says Ronn Wiegand, a master sommelier who runs the industry newsletter RestaurantWine.
Last week, I got to eat at the wonderful (and amazingly expensive) new restaurant Sage in Las Vegas's new Aria / City Center complex. My friend and I picked a $44 bottle of Argentinian Malbec off of the wine list, and proceeded to enjoy two bottles, but I was aware that the bottle probably retailed for around $15. We made a decision to "not think about it." That said, we both felt we got off lucky with the $44. Mixed into the French listings was a bottle of Domaine de la Romanee-Conti La Tâche, which was listed at over $9000. Per bottle. Ouch!
The CNN article continues, with tips about wine by the glass:
Think that's rough? Prices for wine sold by the glass are tripled or even quadrupled, Wiegand says, since restaurants have to account for the chance that they won't sell the whole bottle before it spoils.
I hate ordering wine by the glass, but occasionally, that's all I want and I bite the bullet. If I'm with a group though, or if Kevin and I actually want the same glass, I'll tend towards a bottle. Back when Tonic was Twist, I would always order a bottle of the Gruet Sparkling Wine from New Mexico as opposed to just a glass. The difference between an ~$14 glass and a $40 bottle seemed negligible when people were sharing. I recently noticed that Tonic still offers the Gruet on their list, so if I can ever tear myself away from cocktails, I might resort to the full bottle again.
Many restaurant wine lists have a sweet spot – that spot where you can find several bottles of wine in a similar price range that is actually affordable and not so far off from the retail price to give you a heart attack. At Sage, we found that spot in the Argentinian section. At the Wine Cellar at Las Vegas's Rio, that spot was located in the Spanish wine section. So if you have to shop by price, look for the sweet spot.
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You Are A Mashup Of What You Let Into Your Life
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You are a mashup of what you let into your life.We keep hearing from people who seem to think that the only "real" art is art that is wholly original. And, yet, they can't point out anything that really is original. All art builds on the works of others. There's simply no getting around that. The second line that caught my attention:
Imitation is not flattery. It's transformation that is flattery.I'm not sure I agree with that statement, but it made me think. I actually believe imitation may very much be a form of flattery, and furthermore that imitation very often is what leads to transformation. In many cases the first step of transformation is, in fact, imitation. But I fear the situations where we make it illegal to imitate in large part because without being able to imitate, we often lose the ability to transform and build and create something special.
I'd never heard of Kleon before, but it appears that this presentation is a short version of a longer talk that he's actually turning into a book. Should be an interesting one to watch out for.


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Greetings Linux fans from around the world. We are here again to witness the clash of two ultra-lightweight distributions. As you may know, these two distros have collided in the past and have fought until the end. One ended up victorious, while the other one was not as fortunate. So today, we shall give the losing distro a chance to even the score. Now, without further delay, let's welcome our two fully loaded distro warriors!
On your left is the challenger, weighing in at exactly 48.5MB, armed with the latest weapon version, please welcome the totally upgraded DSL 4.2. On your right is the defending champion, now leaner than ever and weighing in at exactly 87.1MB, put your paws together for the newly trained Puppy Linux 4.0.
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Distro Name:Damn Small Linux (DSL)| Weight:48.5MB| Country Origin:USA| Distro Origin:Knoppix| Package Mgt.:DEB| Default Desktop:JWM| Distrowatch Rank:#9
Distro Name:Puppy Linux| Weight:87.1MB| Country Origin:Australia| Distro Origin:Slackware| Package Mgt.:PET| Default Desktop:JWM| Distrowatch Rank:#16
Speed Test:
Download Time- Winner, DSL!
Boot/Start-up Time - Winner, DSL!
Responsiveness- Draw!
Decoding: The time it takes to download DSL is obviously less due to its smaller size, so it has an advantage over Puppy. DSL is again the clear winner for "Boot/Start-up Time" (measured from boot menu to desktop) because it took only around 29 seconds for DSL to reach its JWM desktop. Puppy meanwhile was slower and took about 36 seconds to boot. It is another draw for "Responsiveness" because the two distros are both nimble, and I cannot really decide which has the clear edge.
Default Theme- Winner, Draw!
Extras- Winner, Puppy!
Artwork- Winner, DSL!
Decoding: Since both are using JWM as their window manager, I gave a draw verdict for "Default Theme" in the aesthetics category. "Extras" went to Puppy Linux because it is now utilizing the more advanced GTK2 engine. For "Artwork", I have to give it to DSL this time because I love the new darker theme. Puppy won last time because of that cute Puppy wallpaper. I just love dogs, I guess :-)
Pre-installed Applications- Winner, Puppy!
Available Packages from Repo- Draw!
Ease of Use- Winner, Puppy!
Decoding: Puppy Linux is feature-packed and has plenty of pre-installed applications. I know it's unfair because Puppy is bigger hence it has more packages out-of-the-box than DSL. But as I always say, we are just having fun here, so be it. Puppy is also the winner for "Ease of Use" because of its much- improved overall GUI, like it's user-friendly package manager.
Hardware Detection- Draw!
Software Maintenance- Draw!
Error Handling- Puppy!
Decoding: Since both Puppy ad DSL have no trouble in detecting and configuring my test machine's hardware, it's a draw for "Hardware Detection". It's another draw for "Software Maintenance" because their package managers both performed well on several tests that I made. DSL's occasional failure to switch between window managers made me gave "Error Handling" to Puppy. I've never encountered a serious bug while in Puppy.
Final Score:
Puppy = 4
*Winner Puppy!
The final score was close, with Puppy Linux emerging triumphant yet again. However, DSL should not be underestimated because it showed us that it has the capability to beat distros that are much bigger in size. Maybe I will give DSL a smaller opponent next time, like SliTaz. What do you think?
That concludes our battle for today. This is all just for the spirit of fun; I hope you enjoyed this one. As always, I am the sole judge of this so-called Distrowar, therefore your opinions are greatly appreciated.


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It's not as though the summer recruiting scene never changed before. In the past 30 years, the place for college basketball coaches to see the best prospects has morphed from Five-Star to the Nike Camp to ABCD to the LeBron James Skills Academy.
This feels so much different, though. Once a headlong dash from one end of July to the other, summer recruiting in 2012 will be restricted to three long weekends. The LeBron camp is open to the media, but not to college coaches because it does not coincide with the open periods. The gradual decline of the Vegas tournaments means there's nowhere one may travel and be assured of seeing all the best prospects in the same city, let alone on the same court.
There is much to anticipate, though, as this year's summer recruiting enterprise launches Wednesday evening, with major camps and tournaments in Indianapolis (adidas Invitational), Philadelphia (Reebok) and Alexandria, Va. (Nike Global Challenge).
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More free agency
In November 2007, 81 percent of Rivals.com's top 100 senior prospects chose colleges in advance of the early signing period—and five of the top 10 sophomores, did, as well. Committing to a college early almost was a status symbol.
As July dawns for the 2013 class, only three of the top 20 have committed, and just 33 of the top 100. Players ranked between 51-100 have been a bit more eager to lock in offers, but those with the most options are in no rush to exercise them.
"I think what happened was, a lot more truth was told in the spring," ESPN recruiting analyst Dave Telep told Sporting News. "What you had in the past, some guys got pushed by schools to commit because the schools didn't see them all spring and they were worried they didn't have any commitments.
"Coaches being out in the spring put a restrictor plate on it. They made better decisions. I think the quiet message has been: Let these guys earn it a little more. When you've got a higher number of early commitments, you've got a higher number of bad commitments."
With two-thirds of the top prospects still seeking schools, competition among the players should be enhanced, and coaches will be forced to do more scouting and evaluating and less baby-sitting.
A legit No. 1
The inevitable consequence of being erroneously proclaimed as the best high school player since LeBron James—Jabari Parker is, rather, the best since Greg Oden—has been the assertion Parker is really not all that.
Playing with a foot injury that kept him out of several earlier games in the FIBA U17 World Championships, Parker showed in just 14 minutes of the gold medal game against Australia why he's the best in his class. A 6-7 wing from Chicago's Simeon High, Parker scored on a couple deep 3-pointers, a couple sweet jumpers and a follow-dunk. He scored 12 points to help turn a competitive game into a blowout, then rested as the U.S. ran the Aussies off the floor.
We may not see a ton of Parker this summer. If he rests his foot, that'll be our loss. But his absence should not be misinterpreted.
"To me, a healthy Jabari Parker puts a little distance between himself and the field," Telep said. "We may not get to see that guy until the HS heat back up. I don't have any concern about Jabari.
"He came to the NBA camp beat up, just because he loves ball, to try and play a little bit before heading to USA Basketball. And it's not like he hung out at the trainer's table."
Some nice challengers
Big point guard Andrew Harrison (of Richmond) has surpassed high-motor power forward Julius Randle (of Plano) as not only the top Texan in the recruiting rankings but also the primary challenger to Parker as the must-have player of 2013.
That's according to Scout.com and analyst Evan Daniels, who contends Harrison has closed the gap that once appeared to exist between Parker and his classmates.
"Everybody's talked about JP and how great he is, and he's awesome. He's so advanced for his age," Daniels said. "But Andrew Harrison and Julius Randle aren't making it easy."
Randle excelled for USA Basketball in the FIBA Americas U18 championships. He doesn't have as diverse a game as Parker or Andrew Harrison, but Randle's relentless energy has created a legion of fans among coaches.
Harrison has a twin brother, Aaron. Each is 6-5 and weighs in the 210 neighborhood. Aaron also is considered a top-10 prospect.
"Andrew Harrison—his combination of size, strength, athleticism and his passing ability—at the NBA camp he put on a clinic passing the ball," Daniels said. "It was just fun to watch. He can really pass. He was averaging, at the NBA camp, double the assists of any other PG there. It was ridiculous. He's had a terrific spring and I'm looking forward to see how he builds on that in July.
"These guys at the top, this is not like a landslide. "
Programs in need
Given the roster turnover that occurs so often at Kentucky, it's obvious each July is essential for coach John Calipari. But another bunch of Wildcats—at Villanova—also need a big haul, according to ESPN college basketball analyst Fran Fraschilla.
"Talking to Jay Wright, they need a pro," Fraschilla said. "Right now they have a collection of nice players—I like their pieces—but the skill level is not where it was with Curtis Sumpter and Allan Ray and Kyle Lowry.
"They're involved with the Harrison twins, and that kind of layer is exactly what the doctor ordered. I'm not sure there's an NBA player on the Villanova roster. Until this past year, you could say they had NBA players or near-NBA players on their roster. They need a guy that can allow them to compete at the highest level in the Big East every night."
Fewer overhyped "showdowns"
One of the less tasteful elements of the summer recruiting process from last decade was the individual matchup between two highly rated players that fans, recruiting analysts and even college coaches rushed to see. "It doesn't go down like that anymore," Daniels said.
This is not an individual sport, but it started to feel like one given all the hype surrounding LeBron James vs. Lenny Cooke in 2001 or O.J. Mayo vs. Derrick Rose in 2006. There's still more talk about those head-to-head battles than the ridiculous 2005 Reebok Big Time championship game featuring Spiece Indy Heat against the D-1 Greyhounds. That game included four top-10 NBA draft picks, six overall first-rounders, including Mayo, Eric Gordon, Mike Conley and Greg Oden.
With players more spread out at various competitions, we likely won't see as many of these circumstances this summer. Good.
Some undiscovered gems
This always has been the challenge and charm of July—finding the great player who is underrated, or overlooked.
Maurice Harkless was rated in the 90s by recruiting analysts before the summer entering his senior season of high school. He surged up the charts with a strong July in 2010 and became a top-10 NBA draft pick after one season at St. John's.
In 2005, James Harden was named second-team All-Tournament at the Rebook Big Time. There were 30 players on the first team. Russell Westbrook was on the third team, the last of 90 players mentioned. He wasn't even the highest-ranked Westbrook.
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The Lehman College Student Child Care Center is committed to providing the children and families of the College's student body with the highest quality early child care programs and support possible.
The Child Care Center's philosophy is to provide an environment where a child's growth is supported and stimulated in all areas of development. Our program is rich with experiences in art, music, movement, science, language arts, and math, with plenty of room for nurturing individual interests. The teachers feel it's important for the children to build their understandings through their own individual experiences, thus enabling them to think for themselves and question thoughtfully. In this way, the children know they are competent to learn, to grow, and to trust themselves as well as others.
Your child's eligibility for the Child Care Center is contingent upon your status as a currently enrolled, matriculated Lehman College student. If at any time you should stop attending classes, your child would no longer be eligible to attend the Center. Child Care services are available ONLY for class-related times and activities on campus. The Center cannot make provisions for times that parents are off campus working or involved in non-class activities.
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The county commission last week OK'd guidelines for monuments on the courthouse lawns.
We have one at the Chiefland City Hall. It's a huge black and white monolith. It's there because the Chiefland Commission expressed the need for more prayer in the community.
I pass it at least once a day during the week.
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Clean up begins after powerful California earthquake
A major clean up operation has begun in northern California after it was struck by a powerful 6.1 magnitude earthquake.
Dozens of people were injured, two of them seriously and buildings were damaged after the earthquake hit the city of Napa.
California governor Jerry Brown also declared a state of emergency after water mains were damaged and gas leaks reported.


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TCU coach Gary Patterson may not have much to say about the suspension of quarterback Casey Pachall right now — that could change come Tuesday — but Texas safety and Pachall's former high school teammate Kenny Vaccaro sure does.
Vaccaro said he spoke with Pachall on Sunday and that Pachall told him that he was going to "take some time off and get everything together." Pachall was suspended indefinitely last week after being arrested on a suspicion of driving while intoxicated. Pachall has previously admitted to failing a drug test and using cocaine.
Here's more of what Vaccaro had to say about Pachall via the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:
"I told him after a couple of times of getting in trouble, 'You've got to stop. You're a quarterback. You represent your program. You represent yourself. You represent Brownwood.' And now it's just like, 'Man, you've got to make better decisions.' He's like, 'I know. I know. I think Casey can get it turned around because in high school, he was a different kid. I think he just got to the big city … kind of like me. I haven't been perfect since I got here. But I think I've progressed and matured. I told Casey the same thing. So he's going to take some time off and get everything together. And he'll be fine, I think. He'll be fine in the long run. He's a great player.
If Pachall is using this time to get his mind right and think about the choices he's made, good for him. If Patterson votes to keep Pachall suspended and/or off the field, good for him. That's the right call. The bottom line is Pachall has put himself above the team on multiple occasions. Football shouldn't be the biggest priority in this situation.
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Pontiac is launching a totally new Grand Am for 1999 with new exterior styling, a redesigned interior, a re-engineered chassis and suspension, a bigger optional V6 engine, and more convenience features. Dealers are moving the '98 models out as fast as possible to make way for the new one, which is beginning to arrive in showrooms and roll out onto the streets now.
Bold, new styling with aggressive ribbed body work is designed to draw even more attention to this sporty compact than before. Redesigned interiors make it more comfortable, while new convenience features make life a little easier.
But the best news for the Grand Am is its re-engineered chassis and suspension tuning, which improve handling and ride comfort substantially over previous models.Walkaround
Last year's Grand Am offered look-at-me styling, but the 1999 model takes this a step further with Pontiac's trademark ribbed body cladding. Ribs are everywhere. They start at the front bumper, wrap around the front fenders, along the doors, down the rear fenders and around the rear bumper. The design is carried through the side mirrors and even the optional rear spoiler employs the rib theme. It all works together, making the new Grand Am a sportier, more attractive car than the '98 model. Body-colored door handles and side moldings enhance the sporty look. Add cats-eye headlamps, a twin port grille, round driving lamps and that wide track stance and there's no question this is a Pontiac.
That wide-track Pontiac stance is even more athletic this year. The front track--the distance between the left and right tires--is a significant 3.3 inches wider, yet the width of the car has increased only 1.5 inches. Likewise, the wheelbase has been stretched a substantial 3.6 inches, while the overall length of the car is slightly reduced. In effect, the wheels have been pushed farther out toward the corners of the car. This gives the Grand Am a more aggressive, sporty appearance. It also increases stability at high speeds, in corners and in cross winds. Grand-Am's 107-inch wheelbase is the longest in its class.
Beneath the Grand Am's sporty appearance is a structure that is 32 percent more rigid than the 1998 model. Pontiac says the new unitbody structure is more rigid than either the Ford Contour/Mercury Mystique or the Nissan Altima. That's good news for drivers and passengers because the stiffer unitbody on the 1999 model allowed GM engineers to design a new three-link rear suspension for more precise control of the wheels and better noise and vibration damping. That adds up to improved handling and ride quality, areas where previous Grand Ams left something to be desired.
More good news: Bigger front brakes have reduced braking distances by 14 percent, according to Pontiac. New aluminum brake calipers reduce unsprung weight, which should improve handling in bumpy corners. All Grand Ams come standard with antilock brakes (ABS) and electronic traction control, both of which make the car easier to control in limited traction situations.
Pontiac is proud of the new Grand Am's rear cornering lamps. Small round lights positioned on the corners of the rear bumper are designed to complement the standard backup lights by directing light at 45-degree angles to the sides and rear of the vehicle. They should help illuminate obstructions and ditches when backing up at night.
Two-door coupe and four-door sedan versions of the Grand Am are offered. The extra two doors cost $200 at all trim levels and the sedan offers slightly more rear headroom, but otherwise they are nearly identical.
A 150-horsepower 2.4-liter twin-cam 16-valve 4-cylinder engine comes standard. An optional 170-horsepower 3.4-liter V6 offers substantially more power than last year's 3.1-liter V6. All Grand Ams come equipped with electronically controlled four-speed automatic transmissions.
Three trim levels are available, SE, SE1 and SE2. Base SE trim comes with air conditioning, aggressive P215/60R15 tires mounted on 15-inch wheels and many other standard features. Grand Am Coupes in SE trim start at $16,395.
With cruise control and alloy wheels, a Sedan in SE1 trim retails for $17,995 and should be very popular.
At the top of the line is the $19,495 Sedan in SE2 trim, which includes the V6 and low-profile P225/50R16 tires on 16-inch alloy wheels.Interior
Grand Am's bold exterior is carried through inside with a sporty retro-dash. Circular hoods shroud the instruments and ventilation ducts and remind us of sports cars past. It's an attractive look that adds to the sports appeal of the Grand Am. Warm, red light illuminates the instruments, which are large and easy to read. Audio and climate controls are angled toward the driver for easy access and heating, ventilation and air conditioning are adjusted with big round knobs as God intended.
Strapping on the new Grand Am reveals that the seating position is slightly higher than before. Coupled with a lower cowl and thin A-pillars, that makes it easier to see out front. The Grand Am we drove was equipped with a four-way manually adjustable driver's seat, which we found to be comfortable during our stint around greater Miami. A six-way power driver's seat is optional with SE2 trim and Grand Am engineers put a lot of effort into its adjustable lumbar support.
Several features add convenience to the Grand Am. Automatic lighting control can be set to switch on the headlights at nightfall, then turn them off 20 seconds after the ignition is switched off, giving the driver some time to unlock a house or garage door. Battery rundown protection automatically turns off all accessory lights after 20 minutes in case they were left on by mistake.
A delayed locking feature can be programmed to automatically lock the doors within seven seconds of closing the last door. That eliminates the need for trusting passengers to lock their doors and permits quick retrieval of forgotten items. When the driver removes the key from the ignition, three chimes indicate the system is activated. It locks the car seven seconds after the last door is closed. If a door is opened before that time, the timer stops and starts over when the door is closed again. Exterior lights flash twice and the horn beeps to confirm the doors are locked.
A related system automatically locks the doors when the shifter is moved out of the park position. They automatically unlock when the shifter is placed in park and the ignition is turned off.Driving Impressions
A day spent driving around greater Miami revealed that the 1999 Grand Am offers a smoother, more controlled ride quality than the 1998 model. There's a noticeable absence of shimmy and shake and rattles over potholes. It's also much quieter inside.
Miami's busy roads provided little opportunity to fully explore chassis dynamics, but compared with the previous model, the new Grand Am feels taut. It provides sharper steering response and makes the driver feel better connected to the road.
We focused on driving a sedan equipped with the standard 2.4-liter engine and the SE1 trim package as that's what most people are expected to buy. With its relatively flat torque curve, this engine delivers plenty of power around town and offers good acceleration for tackling freeway on-ramps. The four-speed automatic offers smooth, positive shifts and seems a good match for the engine.Summary
The 1999 Pontiac Grand Am is a vast improvement over the previous model. Ride quality has been improved substantially and, though we did not get an opportunity to fully test its handling dynamics, the suspension seems to control the wheels more precisely than before. Its new interior is more attractive and more comfortable and new features add convenience.
All this comes at little cost as prices for the 1999 model have essentially remained unchanged over 1998 levels. When that is weighed against the improved driving experience, the all-new 1999 Pontiac Grand Am has a lot to offer.
Bold new styling makes the 1999 Grand Am look even sportier than the 1998 model. Now it has the hardware to back those looks up.
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Michigan loses to Louisville 82-76 in title game despite big games from Burke, Albrecht
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ATLANTA – Spike Albrecht shined while Trey Burke sat.
After all that, Michigan and Louisville were still pretty much even. Then the Wolverines couldn't stop Louisville in the second half.
With Burke on the bench in early foul trouble, the seldom-used Albrecht scored 17 points in the first half, and the Wolverines led by 12 in Monday night's national title game. But that lead was only one at halftime, the Cardinals went on to win 82-76.
Albrecht and Burke both played plenty in the second half, but Michigan couldn't stop Louisville from converting around the basket. Albrecht went scoreless after halftime, leaving Burke — the national player of the year — to try to rally Michigan. He did his best, finishing with 24 points, but it wasn't enough.