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Migrate an application based on Backbone.js, Node.js, and MongoDB from Amazon Web Services
Previous section: Provisioning cloud resources when migrating from Amazon Web Services
This scenario describes the migration of a Backbone.js, Node.js, and MongoDB application from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to the Rackspace Cloud. It takes an estimated 30 minutes to complete, if you follow the instructions step by step.
The topology of the application in this scenario is presented in the following figure:
- Application stack on AWS with root access or appropriate privileges for individual instances and services
- Valid and enabled account on Rackspace Cloud
- Identify the resources to migrate, including application and database resources.
- Create a list of all the necessary software packages that are installed on your EC2 instances other than Backbone.js, Node.js, and MongoDB.
- Create a list of all additional Amazon services that are being used in your application - for example, Simple Email Service (SES) for email or Relational Database Service (RDS) for databases.
- If you have not already, create a Cloud Server instance and any supporting Rackspace Cloud services.
Install software packages
This section provides instructions for installing the required and optional software packages.
Install Git and cURL
Git and cURL are needed to get dependent components such as Node.js.
Run the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install git curl
Install Python (optional)
Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS includes Python 2.7.2. If you need a different version or an alternative version, you can install it. Instructions for installing a different version are located at http://www.python.org/download/.
Install OpenJDK
Using SSH, connect to the Cloud Servers instance by using the PublicNet URL and the root password.
Install OpenJDK 7.
sudo apt-get -y install openjdk-7-jre
ll /etc/alternatives/java
Following is example output in which
/etc/alternatives/java -> /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin/java*
Install Tomcat 7 on the cloud server
To install Tomcat 7, use
sudo apt-get -y install tomcat7
Alternatively, to install a different version of Tomcat, or install it manually, select the version from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi.
Copy the URL of the tar.gz file (for example, http://www.us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz).
Change directory to
/usr/share(or your directory of choice) and download the binary.
cd /usr/share sudo wget http://www.us.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.39/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz
Change permissions.
sudo chmod 775 apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz
Extract file contents.
sudo tar zxvf apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz
After Tomcat is extracted, remove the tar.gz files to save space.
sudo rm apache-tomcat-7.0.39.tar.gz
Set environment variables in catalina.sh.
cd /usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin sudo vi catalina.sh
Add the following line immediately after #!/bin/sh:
Save and exit.
Automate the startup of Tomcat.
cd /etc/init.d sudo vi tomcat
Add the following information to the file. Ensure that
START_TOMCAT, and
STOP_TOMCATrefer to the correct directories.
#!/bin/bash # chkconfig: 234 20 80 # description: Tomcat Server basic start/shutdown script # processname: tomcat JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jre-1.7.0-openjdk.x86_64 export JAVA_HOME TOMCAT_HOME=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin START_TOMCAT=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/startup.sh STOP_TOMCAT=/usr/share/apache-tomcat-7.0.39/bin/shutdown.sh start() { echo -n "Starting tomcat: " cd $TOMCAT_HOME ${START_TOMCAT} echo "done." } stop() { echo -n "Shutting down tomcat: " cd $TOMCAT_HOME ${STOP_TOMCAT} echo "done." } case "$1" in start) start ;; stop) stop ;; restart) stop sleep 10 start ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" esac exit 0
Save and exit.
Set file permissions, set up Tomcat as a system service, and test the setup.
sudo chmod 755 tomcat sudo /sbin/chkconfig --add tomcat sudo /sbin/chkconfig --level 234 tomcat on sudo /sbin/chkconfig --list tomcat
The expected output looks as follows:
tomcat 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:off 6:off
Because Tomcat is running on port 8080, ensure iptables will not interfere with connectivity.
To learn about iptables, see Introduction to iptables.
Test Tomcat by looking up the cloud server IP from the Rackspace Cloud Control Panel and opening the URL in a browser (for example,
The Apache Tomcat landing page should appear.
Note: You can start and stop Tomcat with the following commands:
sudo /sbin/service tomcat stop sudo /sbin/service tomcat start
Install MongoDB on your cloud server
Instructions for installing MongoDB on the Rackspace Cloud are located at http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/platforms/rackspace-cloud/.
For a production deployment, you should use at least a 3-node replica set.
For a simple single-node installation, perform the following steps:
Add the GPG key to apt-get to create a "trusted" source.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
Create a custom 10gen repository file containing the location of the MongoDB binaries.
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list'
apt-getto pick up new packages.
sudo apt-get -y update
Install MongoDB.
sudo apt-get -y install mongodb-10gen
Verify that MongoDB is running.
ps aux | grep mongo
Note: MongoDB uses
/var/lib/mongodb as the default data path. If you want to change this path, you can shut down the MongoDB instance and update
Set up a Node.js server
If your services are backed by Node.js instead of Python, use the following steps to set up a Node.js server on your cloud instance:
Install Node.js.
sudo apt-get -y install nodejs npm
Test the installation by getting the version of Node.js that you are running.
node --version
Install OpenStack swift (optional)
If you will use Cloud Files to transfer your data, install the swift client to enable access from your server.
sudo apt-get install python-novaclient glance-client swift
Set the necessary environment variables by running the following commands, substituting your username and API key:
export ST_USER=<yourLoginUsername> export ST_KEY=<yourApiKey> export ST_AUTH=https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.0/
You might want to define these variables in .bashrc or .bash_profile, then reload the file with the
source .bashrc
swift listand ensure that you can see the container you've created to hold your data.
Back up data from AWS to Rackspace Cloud Files
Retrieve your data from EC2. You can transfer the data directly via rsync or sftp, or you can use the OpenStack Swift client to transfer your data to Cloud Files, and from there transfer to the Cloud Server.
To use Cloud Files, follow these preparatory steps (this example uses an existing container named AppData):
Using SSH, connect to your EC2 instance.
ssh -i your_private_key.pem firstname.lastname@example.com
Perform a dump of MongoDB.
Use the
-portoptions if MongoDB is running on a different instance.
mongodump --host mongodb1.yourdomain.com --port 3017 --username $USERNAME --password $PASSWORD --out ~/backup/mongodump-2013-05-03 tar czvf backbonedb-2013-05-03.tar.gz ~/backup/db/mongodump-2013-05-03/*
Back up your application and any other resources needed by the application, including logs and other directories of interest.
# Backup backbone resources sudo tar cvzf ~/backup/app/backhone.tar.gz /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/YOURAPP/* # Backup node.js resources sudo tar cvzf ~/backup/app/nodejs.tar.gz /usr/local/nodejs/YOURAPP/*
If you are using Cloud Files to transfer your files, use one of the following methods to perform the transfer. If you will transfer directly via rsync or sftp, skip to the final section of this article after the transfer.
Upload your archives to the Cloud Files container via the swift client.
swift upload AppData backbonedb-2013-05-03.tar.gz swift upload AppData backhone.tar.gz swift upload AppData nodejs.tar.gz
Upload your data into Cloud Files through the Cloud Control Panel.
Open your container (Cloud Control Panel > Storage > Files > containerName).
Click Upload Files.
Click Browseand select the files to upload.
Note: When you click the Browse button, you can select multiple files.
After you have selected the file or files, click Open or Select (depending on the browser and system).
Click Upload File.
Restore data from Cloud Files to Cloud Servers
If you uploaded your data to Cloud Files, transfer it to your Cloud Server with the following steps.
- Using SSH, connect to the Cloud Servers instance by using the PublicNet URL and the root password.
- Install and configure the swift CLI as described in the "Install software packages" section.
- Ensure that you can execute the
swift listcommand and see the new container that you created in the results.
Download the database dump from the backup that you took in the "Back up data from AWS to Rackspace Cloud Files" section and restore it locally.
swift download AppData backbonedb-2013-05-03.tar.gz gunzip < backbonedb-2013-05-03.tar.gz | mongorestore --host mongodb1.yourdomain.com --port 3017 --username user --password pass
Download the data (Backbone.js and Node.js) and restore it.
sudo service tomcat7 stop #stop tomcat server swift download AppData backbone.tar.gz # restore / deflate backbone cd /usr/share/tomcat/webapps sudo tar xvf backbone.tar.gz # restore node.js swift download AppData nodejs.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/nodejs/YOURAPP cd /usr/local/nodejs sudo tar xvf nodejs.tar.gz
Start the application services.
sudo service tomcat7 start cd /usr/local/nodejs/YOURAPP/ sudo node server.js
Test your application
Browse to
http://<cloudServeIpAddress>/<yourApp> to access and test your application.
Next step
Post-migration considerations when migrating from Amazon Web Services
For other migration scenarios, see the following articles:
- Migrate an application built on a LAMP stack from Amazon Web Services
- Migrate a .NET application from Amazon Web Services
- Migrate a Java web application from Amazon Web Services
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In observing the Year of Faith, the pope urges believers to put their faith into action.
14. The Year of Faith will also be a good opportunity to intensify the witness of charity. As Saint Paul reminds us: "So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love" (1 Cor 13:13). With even stronger words – which have always placed Christians under obligation – Saint James said: "What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, be warmed and filled', without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. But some one will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith" (Jas 2:14-18).
Faith without charity bears no fruit, while charity without faith would be a sentiment constantly at the mercy of doubt. Faith and charity each require the other, in such a way that each allows the other to set out along its respective path. Indeed, many Christians dedicate their lives with love to those who are lonely, marginalized or excluded, as to those who are the first with a claim on our attention and the most important for us to support, because it is in them that the reflection of Christ's own face is seen. Through faith, we can recognize the face of the risen Lord in those who ask for our love. "As you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me" (Mt 25:40). These words are a warning that must not be forgotten and a perennial invitation to return the love by which he takes care of us. It is faith that enables us to recognize Christ and it is his love that impels us to assist him whenever he becomes our neighbour along the journey of life. Supported by faith, let us look with hope at our commitment in the world, as we await "new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells" (2 Pet 3:13; cf. Rev 21:1).
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UC Hastings students have quietly resurrected an old college mascot, dubbing their Student Commons "The Shark Tank," which, in addition to a ping pong table and a motley collection of mismatched institutional furniture, contains a mounted plastic shark.
The theme fits with perhaps the first-known meme, that lawyers are sharks. And the concrete plaza in front of Snodgrass Hall at 198 McAllister is inexplicably named "The Beach," and has been so for decades.
In 1988, the Hastings Society for Esprit de Corps announced that students had overwhelmingly selected the shark as the college's "official" mascot. Less popular choices included "The Reasonably Prudent Persons," "The Concrete Commandos," "The Winos," and "The Frank Watsons." (Editor's note: No, I don't know what most of those mean. Please don't write in to ask. And don't call. Really.)
In the campaign to elect a mascot, one student writer noted that "inanimate objects can be just as lovable as any animal," and pointed to the success of the Singing California Raisins. Other students begged their peers to adopt nontraditional mascots, in homage to the UC Santa Cruz Banana Slug. "We can learn from Santa Cruz's experience with do-gooders who thought they knew what was 'appropriate' for a mascot," reported college newspaper staffer writer Daniel Torrance '89. "Students there suffered with the panty-waisted Sea Lions for five years before the edict was overturned by a mass uprising."
The UC Hastings mascot campaign lasted a grueling five weeks, just shy of that year's presidential campaign.
Matthew Davis '89, the executive editor of the college newspaper, wrote that the administration "has yet to give the mascot any bite," nor had it appeared on any college letterhead. The shark logo did eventually make it on stickers, mugs, shirts, etc.
Davis's report contained this dubious quote from a UC Hastings official who did not want to be identified: "We are studying the issue to make sure that the image conforms with the very positive image of the school which we're trying to convey. There's so much good news coming out of this place, and we want to make sure our selection of a mascot helps to depict this." (Editor's note: Please ignore the poor grammar. We assume this official has since retired.)
Davis, now a top San Francisco litigator with Walkup Melodia and numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts under his belt, said he is still pro-shark. He notes, in other shark-related news, that there are about 10 UC Hastings alumni who regularly swim at the South End Rowing Club, at Aquatic Park. Burk "Buck" Delventhal '69, who is also an adjunct professor, is credited with recruiting most of them. Delventhal has been swimming daily in the Bay since 1978.
Rising 3L and ASUCH President Joy Siu was a proponent of naming the student lounge in the 200 Building the Shark Tank. "I love that our mascot, official or not, is a shark," she says. "To me, adopting the shark as our school's mascot was a step towards embracing a typically disparaging analogy and treating it with humor. Although lawyers are not typically known for their sense of humor, I think demonstrating that the UC Hastings community has one is a good thing. I'm proud to be a shark!"
Ashli Weiss '14, founder of UC Hastings' Fashion, Art & Design Law Society, featured a shark in her winning design of a T-shirt to promote Student Engagement & Philanthropy Week. "In designing a t-shirt for UC Hastings, I latched on to the idea of utilizing a shark, because it is a symbol of strength, instinct, confidence and fearlessness."
Editor's Note: There is also rumored to have been at some point in UC Hastings history an actual shark tank, possibly stocked with at least one small shark. This rumor could not be substantiated.
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Remarks of Senator Russ Feingold to the Ninth Annual Awards Dinner of the Death Penalty Focus, held in Santa Monica CA on April 18, 2000
When Anthony looked at the calendar, he could see that he had only two days to live. Where must your thoughts run when you taste your own death in your mouth?
Do they turn, to paraphrase Jonathan Larson, to sunsets, to midnights, to cups of coffee? To inches, to miles, to the roads you will not travel? To laughter, to strife, to the smiles you will not see? To mothers, to loves, to the children you won't embrace? To 2,000, 800, eighty minutes? Of what do you ponder, when you think of your last two days on earth?
Anthony Porter came to that place in September 1998, on death row, in Cook County, Illinois. Sadly, in the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century, the organized citizenry of thirty-eight states and our nation itself will almost certainly this year put one hundred people in that same place, wondering of what to think, with two days to live. And sadder still, Anthony was innocent.
At the dawn of a new millennium, after 5,000 years of recorded history, the time has come to reconsider whether government-sponsored killing should stop.
For Anthony, with two days to live, the Illinois Supreme Court stayed his execution. A team of journalism students then tracked down the truth, that another man–who confessed on camera–actually committed the crime. An judge ordered Anthony released, after nearly seventeen years in prison.
Since 1973, Illinois has executed twelve people, and has lifted the death sentence from thirteen. The manifest uncertainty with which Illinois sentenced people to die led Governor George Ryan to impose a moratorium while he examines the system.
Nationwide, since 1973, courts have freed eighty-five people from death rows–one for every seven executed. Just as the proverbial thirteenth stroke of a clock calls into question not only itself but the twelve other chimes that preceded it, this scandalously large number of demonstrated errors calls into question the entire enterprise of killing.
Because as long as there are executions, fallible humans will never to a certainty be able to avoid executing the innocent, the killing must stop.
In 1972, the Supreme Court held that the imposition and carrying out of the death penalty in the cases before it violated the Constitution's prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishments." But then in 1976, the Court reinstated the death penalty.
I remember the day in 1979 when the first involuntary execution took place. That morning, I finished my last law school exam. Later that day, I turned on the television to see that Florida had just executed John Spenkelink. I was overcome with a sickening feeling. The legal education I had just completed had filled me with the belief that our legal system was advancing inexorably. Instead, I beheld a throwback to the electric chair, the gallows and our nation's violent past. I will never forget that day.


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Apple Trick - Pinterest Pass or Fail
I save all my pins that make me say "Doh!" on my Great "Doh!" Moments board. You know, those tips that make you say, why didn't I think of that?!?
Sometimes the tips are a little too good to be true.
One of the first things I pinned was a tip for making an Apple Puzzle for school lunches. You were to cut up the apple then reassemble it using rubber bands to hold it together.
The theory was that it wouldn't turn brown because the interior wouldn't be exposed to the air. This pin originated at @ Home with Real Food blog.
So, we went for a little bike ride this weekend and I packed some snacks, and some apples:
We biked for about 2 hours then stopped for a break. We pulled the band off the apple with anticipation...
Brown. Darn. Pinterest fail.
What Pins have YOU tried this week?
Test for Stroke
I attended a dinner last night with The Big Guy and the man next to us slowly began to sink toward the table top. Soon his head was resting on the table and he was hard to rouse, had lost control of his bodily functions, and was slurring his speech. My first thought was that I have been meaning to come up with a card to slip into my purse to help me recognize the signs of a stroke. I was kicking myself for not doing it sooner.
Stroke.org explains that treatment for stroke depends on time, time, time! If clot busting medicines can be administered within 3 hours of the event, long term disability can be avoided.
I don't know the outcome of the man beside us last night, but I did come right home and make my printable reminder card.
Print out the card above and slip it into your wallet, laminate it if you wish, you never know when you may need it.
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Anyway, at some point he started talkin' about Beer Butt Chicken. I can remember the one sentence clearly "The beer gets aaallll buuubbly inside...mmmm..." That's it - I was in love and would never forget about how sexy he just made chicken preparation sound. The way he pronounced the word "bubbly" has stuck with me all this time.
Time passed and I never got around to making this chicken until last month's issue of Country Living came out with a recipe for Champagne Can Chicken. I was back on track and followed their recipe using the beer that Matthew talked about. You should try it, it's my new go-to for roast chicken:
2 T. herbes de Provence
1 whole chicken (6-7 lbs)
1 1/2 T. butter
1 can of beer
2 cups chicken broth
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F with a rack set in lower third of oven. In a small dish, combine herbes de Provence, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 3/4 teaspoon pepper. Set aside.
Remove neck and giblets from chicken; set neck aside and discard giblets. Rinse chicken inside and out, then pat dry with paper towels. Rub chicken cavity and skin with butter, then rub cavity with reserved herb mixture. Tuck wing tips under bird and set chicken aside.
Open beer and stand can in center of a medium roasting pan and place chicken's cavity over can so that the bird sits upright in pan. Place neck in pan.
Roast chicken, basting every 20 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer reaches 167 degrees F when inserted into thickest part of thigh, about 1 1/2 hours. Keeping chicken and can upright, remove both from pan. Carefully remove and discard hot can. Transfer chicken to a cutting board and let rest for 15 minutes before carving.
Meanwhile, pour pan drippings into a fat separator, or alternatively skim, and discard fat. In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine defatted drippings, neck, and chicken broth and bring to a boil. Continue boiling until liquid is reduced to 2 cups, about 20 minutes. Strain jus, discarding neck bone. Serve chicken with jus on the side.
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Saying Goodbye to the Mountain
Our ski slope officially closed for the season last week and we said goodbye in the usual way with a fun spring ski and goodbye party! Though the snow gets slushy, it's always fun to ski in shorts and t-shirts near the end of the season:
We did a few last jumps:
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Thanks for another great year, Hidden Valley!
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Lemon Buttons
I found this delicate cookie at Madison Bistro blog and knew I had to try it - a cute little button of a cookie with a tart lemon frosting is a perfect treat for an afternoon with my Soul Sisters!
¾ cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter
1 teaspoon lemon zest
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 ¼ cup flour
½ cup cornstarch
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar
Cream butter, lemon zest and juice until fluffy. In separate bowl, sift dry ingredients and mix into butter on low speed.
Divide in half. Shape each half into an 8×1 inch log and roll in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 2 hours (I stuck them in the freezer for 20 minutes because I'm impatient!).
Cut into ¼ inch rounds. Bake at 350 F for 12 minutes or until edges are just turning golden. Cool and frost.
I switched up the original frosting to a Tangy Lemon Frosting that gave the cookies more flavor:
Tangy Lemon Frosting:
¼ cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups powered sugar
½ tsp vanilla
3 tablespoons lemon juice, fresh
1 Tbsp. lemon zest
Cream all ingredients together until mixture is well blended, light and fluffy.
Warning, this entire batch is easily eaten in one sitting of chatting with the girls!
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The idea came to them after a discussion about what to say to girls when they asked why they wear make up. Neither of them had an answer to that question they felt comfortable with giving to a young girl, so this project was born to learn why they wear make up and how they would feel if they gave up their usual beauty routine.
I have gone sans make here a few times here. Once when I was describing my make up routine: Get your face on and once while reviewing a DIY Facial Peel from Pinterest. I wasn't 100% comfortable but it was easier the second time. It is worth considering however, why I wasn't comfortable.
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What would you miss more - Make up, Shaving, Hair products, or Jewelry?
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My Computery Stuff Pinterest Board helps me organize all those little computery things I'm totally clueless about for my blog. I pinned a tutorial the other day to help me Add a Reply Button to my comments section for more interaction with comment-ers. The tutorial I used originated at Spice Up Your Blog and was a Pinterest Pass!
The instructions were simple and I had no trouble finding and entering codes (even while still learning my new computer!) to get the reply box installed. Blogger doesn't offer an option for the reply to go to the person's email like WordPress, but it is nice to have my reply line up under the correct comment.
**The only thing I will mention is that your comments need to be set up so they appear at the end of the page instead of in a pop up box, in order for the code to work (I cussed a few times before I figured that one out!).**
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Button Flowers
So, this springing ahead has me a little lost for a tutorial for today. It's kind of "spring-ish" (47 degrees) out my window, so I'll bring back an old tutorial with a spring vibe from my archives:
A Baby Boy! Feedback Friday...
One of my son's previous teachers contacted me last month about a frame. She mentioned that she was about to deliver her second child any day. Before we communicated again, I heard through a mutual friend that she had indeed delivered a son and that he was born with Down's Syndrome (a diagnosis they were unaware of until birth). The mother had sent out an email explaining the situation to her friends and colleagues soon after birth.
When it was time to contact the mom I was conflicted about what to say to her. I knew I would congratulate her on the birth of her son, but should I also mention the diagnosis? How would I do it and what words would I use? My intent was to congratulate her and maybe acknowledge the diagnosis without sounding like I was sorry, because it isn't like a disease. This child could become the joy of her life.
Is it better to let her tell me personally before mentioning it? Is it even any of my business to worry about???
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I have been following Joy the Baker's blog for quite some time and have tried several of her recipes, like her Cinnamon Pull Apart Bread.
Well, Joy came up with this awesome idea called Enjoy! that is Brill. I. Ant. You subscribe to receive a surprise gift delivered to your door every three months. Simple, right? It's so fun! I mean, really people, once you pass the age of 12 it's hard to be genuinely surprised!
I got my first box this week and sat on the floor tearing it open like a deranged 5 year old at a birthday party while my husband looked on in confusion. I pulled out all my goodies and though they are fun and useful, more importantly they surprised me and I loved that feeling of anticipation. I can't wait for my next surprise!
Thanks, Joy. :)
Chick-Fil-A Sandwiches - Pinterest Pass or Fail
I have Chick-fil-a down the street - waaaay too close by - and my kids are always asking to have it for dinner. Always. Asking.
I came across this Pin for making Chick-Fil-A Copy Cat Chicken (originating at the From Away Blog) at home and pinned it to my Copy Cat Recipe Board. I figured it couldn't hurt to try it.
Pinterest Pass! We loved it and though it's a bit different that the original, it was very tender and delicious. We used chicken tenders and whole wheat buns and will definitely try this recipe again. You get the slightly sweet batter by adding powdered sugar - brilliant!
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Displaying Found Objects
Last week my friend Joy had some of the Soul Sisters over for lunch and I noticed a little vignette in her kitchen that drew my attention...because I'm nosy like that. She had arranged several "ordinary" objects under a glass cloche with a sketch behind it.
Simple but interesting and it made me want to look and learn about the objects displayed. She explained they were things they had found in and around her 100+ year old home, an old medicine bottle, a silver serving spoon, a little glass container, a porcelain figure...
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Author Notes: When I first saw the "Best Leftover Turkey Recipe" theme, I knew immediately what I would submit. My grandmother, Bammy, has been making these waffles for us before I could say, waffle. It was inspired by repeated family pilgrimages to a Pennsylvania Dutch restaurant where they would scarf down waffle upon waffle made in cast iron skillets and cooked in the fire, slathered in gravy.
An actual recipe has never existed until now. This week's theme and Thanksgiving with Bammy forced her to indulge our pleading to make the gravy and waffles of our youth again. It is still unclear why she had been denying us for the past twenty years, but with all of us in the kitchen, we recreated and documented this family treasure.
You will need to stretch your leftover gravy to about 7 cups (including the added turkey and hard-boiled eggs) for 12 waffles. I have included a recipe for turkey broth, which you can use to make your holiday gravy as well for stretching your holiday gravy to enjoy with the waffles the next day for breakfast or dinner.
Note: If you are gluten-free, thicken the gravy with a corn starch slurry and pour it liberally over corn bread. You may have waffle enthusiasts join you- it is so good this way!
Serves: 6
quarts water
lg white onion, chopped
celery stalks, leaves included, chopped
carrots, peeled, chopped
sprigs parsley
small sprig rosemary
bay leaves
teaspoons chicken base (bouillon)
Turkey neck and giblets
Left-over gravy
Left-over turkey, cut into chunks or shredded
hard boiled eggs, chopped
tablespoons flour, sifted
Homemade waffles, made table side (make them crispy to hold up to the gravy)
- For the broth, combine the first nine ingredients in a pot and let simmer for a hour.
- Pass broth through a fine strainer and reserve broth. Trim off all usable meat from the neck. If desired, with a small paring knife trim giblets well. Cut neck meat and giblets into bite-sized pieces and add to broth. Discard all other vegetables and herbs. Covered and put in refrigerator, this step can be done a day ahead.
- To make the thickener, put the flour and 2 cups of the turkey broth in a jar and shake it until it is well mixed.
- To make the turkey waffle gravy, put left-over gravy and turkey in a sauce pot on the stove.
- In order to stretch the gravy, add some of the turkey broth and add the thickener until you reach the desired consistency. You will need about 7 cups of gravy for 12 waffles. Wisk while adding the thickener and let boil until thick.
- Taste the gravy. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Make the waffles tableside (make sure they are crispy) and pour 1/2 cup of gravy over each waffle.
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Asparagus Recipe
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Recipe for Turkey Leftovers
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Block Party
by Sandi Rosner
Many knitters are puzzled when they come across this sentence at the end of a pattern: "Block to finished measurements." Do you really have to block your work? Should you block before or after assembling the pieces? What is blocking anyway, and how should you go about it? In this article, we'll take a look at the transformative process, using examples from this issue.
The Error of Our Ways: A Knitter's Guide to Fixing Mistakes Part 2
Part 2 Average Gaffes
by Robin Melanson
In part one of this series, we discussed various methods of fixing minor knitting errors in ways that did not involve ripping out a whole lot of work. I am perhaps a lazy knitter; I do not like tearing out hours of effort (who does, really?) when there is a clever shortcut that will produce the same result with less of a headache. When I read Franklin Habit's Process This, I immediately recognized myself as a product knitter, not a process knitter (exception: colorwork—I love to knit colorwork). Once is enough for me; I just want the darn sweater, thank you very much. If you too would like to reach the finish line faster, read on. We will focus on the mistakes that are usually made in cabled patterns and colorwork, and the best timesaving tricks to fix them.
You Should Totally Teach Me to Knit
by Lee Ann Dalton
Knitting is one of those wonderful skills that just begs to be passed along. It's a craft that's been handed down and handed over, from friend to friend, throughout families, in craft workshops, even over the cubicle walls. Knitting is undoubtedly contagious; at the very least, no one ever sits next to a knitter without forming an opinion about what that knitter is doing, and they often loudly covet something warm for their very own selves. It's almost magnetic, the clickity-click of needles, the flash of yarn, the fabric that just seems to magically grow in a knitter's hands.
Swatch it! Fall 2013
by Clara Parkes
For me, nothing is as satisfying as a quick pair of fingerless mitts. Pair them with a hat and I'm over the moon.
You can use pretty much any yarn you like. After all, what's the worst thing that can happen? The hat might lack sufficient elasticity to hug your head (or give you that dreaded hat hair). Or the mitts might stretch out or pill over time. But by then you'll be on to the next hat, the next set of mitts.
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What happens when knitting inspiration meets scientific method? A rare thing of pure beauty. Inspired by a pattern she found in an online knitting magazine, Karla Stuebing paired the mathematical expertise she uses as a statistical methodologist and research professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Houston with her passion for yarn and needles. The result—a technique that's been dubbed planned pooling—is awe-inspiring. Here's a look at how she does it—and how you can too.


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A Guatemalan citizen, living in Carthage illegally, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to taking part in a $5 million scheme to use a drivers license bureau office in St. Joseph to provide more than 3,500 fraudulent IDs to illegal aliens across the U.S.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Guatemalan citizen, living in Carthage illegally, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to taking part in a $5 million scheme to use a drivers license bureau office in St. Joseph to provide more than 3,500 fraudulent IDs to illegal aliens across the U.S.
David M. Ketchmark, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that Nelson Dariseo Bautista-Orozco, 26, a citizen of Guatemala who is unlawfully present in the United States and resided in Carthage, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Gary A. Fenner to the charge contained in a Jan. 10, 2012, federal indictment.
By pleading guilty, Bautista-Orozco admitted he participated in a conspiracy from November 2009 until Jan. 10, 2012, to transport illegal aliens, to unlawfully produce identification documents, to unlawfully transfer another person's identification, and to commit Social Security fraud. He also pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated identity theft.
During the conspiracy, thousands of illegal aliens traveled from across the United States to obtain either a Missouri driver's or non-driver's license at the St. Joseph license office by using unlawfully obtained birth certificates and Social Security cards. It is estimated that more than 3,500 licenses were issued to illegal aliens by the Department of Revenue license office in St. Joseph. The state licenses could then be used by the illegal aliens to remain unlawfully in the United States, to unlawfully obtain employment and for other unlawful purposes.
Bautista-Orozco received packages in the mail from co-conspirators who sent him identity documents, such as birth certificates and Social Security cards. Those identity documents were used by illegal aliens to obtain Missouri driver's or non-driver's licenses. Bautista-Orozco also received payments from the illegal aliens who purchased the identity documents from his co-conspirators.
Co-defendants Stephen E. Vanvacter, 25, and his sisters, Jessica M. Gonzalez, 21, Sara M. Gonzalez, 21, and Christina Michelle Gonzalez, 24, all of St. Joseph, have also pleaded guilty to their roles in the conspiracy.
The attorney representing Ranfe Adaias Hernandez-Flores, 22, Carthage, filed papers seeking to change his plea in a hearing on Oct. 15 before Judge Fenner.
Federal court records say Carthage resident Elder Enrique Ordonez-Chanas, also known as "Flaco," 30, still faces trial in November on the case.
Vanvacter and his sisters admitted they accompanied illegal aliens to the St. Joseph license office, under the guise of being translators, in order to assist them with obtaining a Missouri driver's or non-driver's license.
Those licenses used the names of persons who were listed on unlawfully obtained birth certificates and Social Security cards. Other co-defendants sent the birth certificates and Social Security cards to their residences via express mail packages.
They instructed and assisted the illegal aliens to practice memorizing the information on the birth certificates and Social Security cards and to practice signing the name on those documents so that the signatures would be similar. They also assisted the illegal aliens to prepare for potential questions from the license office employees.
They also assisted the illegal aliens who did not live in Missouri by providing them with a Missouri residential address to use in order to obtain the Missouri driver's or non-driver's license.
The illegal aliens were usually charged between $1,500 and $1,600 for the document sets and the Missouri driver's and non-driver's licenses. The conspirators in St. Joseph collected money from the illegal aliens, which they paid to Bautista-Orozco or other co-conspirators. It is estimated that more than $5,250,000 in gross proceeds was paid by illegal aliens to members of this conspiracy.
Under federal statutes, Bautista-Orozco is subject to a sentence of up to five years in federal prison without parole, plus two years of consecutive time for aggravated identity theft, plus a fine up to $250,000. Sentencing hearings will be scheduled after the completion of presentence investigations by the United States Probation Office.
This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jess E. Michaelsen. It was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations, the Buchanan County, Mo., Sheriff's Department, the St. Joseph, Mo., Police Department, the Platte County, Mo., Sheriff's Department, the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the Missouri Department of Revenue Investigation Bureau, the Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Security.


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American political humorist Will Rogers once famously advised an audience, Buy land. They aint making any more of the stuff. While that advice sounds a little quaint in the wake of the popped housing bubble, it might be said of banks today. Over the last two years, not a single new bank has been chartered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), while over that same period of time FDIC regulators have shut or forced the takeover of nearly 200 failing banks.
Yet while analysts have been predicting a big wave of consolidation in the industry for two years now, so far the waters have been calm. Pre-crisis, in the 2000-2006 period, whole bank acquisitions were averaging close to 300 per year, with the deal values averaging a total of $100 billion a year, but in since 2010, theyve been closer to 50 acquisitions totaling about $10 billion annually. This has left people wondering, Will 2013 be the year?
I think well see more M&A in the banking industry this year than last, says Erik Oja, banking analyst with S&P Capital IQ. But I dont think it will be a huge increase. Maybe 75 deals involving maybe $15 billion in assets.
The banking space is definitely going to get smaller, predicts Robert Bolton, president of Rochester, NY-based Iron Bay Capital, which runs a long-short fund that invests exclusively in financial institution stocks. Youve got a lot of things that argue for consolidation, he explains. Theres tougher regulation, after a recent history of regulators sleeping at the switch. And youve got a lot of banks under pressure from a continued lack of new loan business.
Bolton argues that eventually the US banking industry will see a lot of merger activity, both cases of mergers of equals, and of regional banks buying up smaller community banks. But he cant say when that will start to happen.
Youll also see the big banks selling their poorer performing units, which makes business sense, he says.
Amy Sullivan, an analyst with Mendon Capital Advisors Corp., also in Rochester, agrees. People were expecting 2012 to be a big year for bank mergers, she says, but it didnt happen. I think bank owners were waiting to see what the outcome of the presidential election would be. Now that thats out of the way, you may see it start to happen.
On the one hand, suggests Andrew E. Boord, an analyst with Fenimore Asset Management, there are a lot of private bank owners and board members who are just worn out from the last few years, and who are saying, Were done! Lets sell this thing! The trouble is, they are remembering what their banks were worth back in 2006 and 2007, and theyre not happy with the price they can get now.
He suggests that these bank owners may try for a while to rebuild their lending business and build up their fee income in hopes of boosting their banks price, but he says, Thats hard to do, so eventually I think youll see them starting to accept reality and sell.
Sullivan predicts that bank M&A activity will stay on hold at least until Congress has dealt with the next debt ceiling limit crisis, probably sometime in March. Then in the second and third quarters, as bank owners realize theyre not going to be able to generate any loan growth, you could start to see some real action, she says.
Were not going to see a return to 1998, predicts Boord, but bank M&A activity is going to pick up.
What all this means for the financial advisors in the bank channel is not so clear.
Fewer banks and fewer branches, on its face, would seem to mean fewer positions for advisors. And when banks mergeparticularly when two regional banks merge that have overlapping service areasclearly some competing advisors will have to be let go.
On the other hand, for those who have solid books at solid banks, losing the competition is a good thing.
But its also not clear that the tight margins in the mortgage business and the paucity of new lending are bad for the advisory business. As Boord explains, If youre a bank and your loan business is flat, one thing you will probably want to do is work on growing your fee business, and that would include your investment program. So you will probably see bankers hiring more financial advisors and making more resources available to them. Senior bank managers are looking much more favorably than they used to on operations that will generate fees for the bank.
Sullivan agrees. A lot of the banking management people weve sat down with are reappraising their wealth management and advisory businesses, looking for more fee income. Also their insurance business. They dont want to be so dependent upon loan growth. It will be a better time for financial advisors, for sure, with more resources and with better deals when they are hired.
Earlier this year, Kehrer Saltzman Associates, a research firm that studies the financial advisory industry, found that during 2010 and 2011, even as the number of banks partnering with a third-party marketing firm to run their financial advisory business declined because of mergers from 2,958 to 2,760, the percentage of banks offering investment services by one of the 12 largest TPMs actually rose slightly from 24.8% to 24.9%.
With the focus on trying to build fee income, Steve Saltzman, a managing principal at the research firm Kehrer Saltzman Associates says, I think youll only see advisors losing their positions where branches are closed because of overlapping jurisdictions.
In any event, theres plenty of room for the advisory business to expand, even if the number of banks does start to shrink seriously in 2013 through mergers and acquisitions. According to the Kehrer Saltzman study, 75% of financial institutions in the country still have no investment program.
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5 cannon raised from wreck of Blackbeard's ship
5 cannon raised from wreck of Blackbeard's ship
Archeologists have recovered five more cannon from the wreck Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge.
The largest of the guns raised Monday weighs about 3,000 pounds. The wreckage of the ship is in Beaufort Inlet.
Project Director Billy Ray Morris says historians think the largest cannon was made in Sweden, indicating that Blackbeard had guns from different countries. State officials say about 280,000 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck.
The Queen Anne's Revenge ran aground in 1718.
The wreck was located in 1996.


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A stroke occurs when blood supply to the brain is interrupted or there is bleeding in the brain. Within minutes, brain cells begin to die. It is urgent to get emergency care at the first sign of a stroke. Early treatment saves many lives and reduces the effects of stroke.
After emergency treatment for a stroke, medical treatment aims to prevent the stroke from getting worse. It also aims to prevent other problems that can develop from the stroke. These types of problems are called complications. The doctor continues to monitor the stroke patient. The doctor may also prescribe more tests for the patient. The tests help to find what caused the stroke and how to prevent another one. These tests are called diagnostic (die-ag-NOS-tik) tests.
The most common type of stroke is ischemic (iss-KEY-mik) stroke. This type of stroke occurs when a clot blocks a blood vessel and stops blood flow to the brain.
Drug therapy may be given to patients with ischemic stroke or those at risk of having ischemic stroke. The medicines that are used most often fall into 2 groups: anticoagulants (an-tee-ko-AG-you-lents) and antiplatelets (an-tee-PLATE-lets).
Drugs in this group help to keep blood clots from forming. Sometimes these drugs are called anti-clotting agents or blood thinners. They work by making your blood take longer to clot. There is some risk for bleeding when you take anticoagulants, so your doctor will monitor you closely.
HeparinWhen a CT scan of a stroke patient's brain shows no signs of bleeding, heparin may be prescribed. Heparin may not dissolve a blood clot that already exists, but it helps to keep the blood clot from getting bigger. This drug also helps to prevent new clots from forming. Heparin is given by intravenous (IV) line or by injection.
When you take heparin, you may have some risk for bleeding. You need frequent blood tests to check how clotting is affected. A dose of heparin is active for only 4 to 6 hours, so it is easy to control.
Tell your doctor right away if you have any signs of bleeding:
Low-Molecular-Weight HeparinThis type of heparin may give you less risk for bleeding. It is given 1 or 2 times a day. This form of heparin is given by injection under the surface of the skin (subcutaneous). Some common brand names for this type of heparin are Lovenox and Fragmin.
CoumadinCoumadin can help patients who have high risk for having a stroke. This includes patients who have had a mini-stroke (TIA) or have abnormal heart valves. It also includes patients with an abnormal heart rhythm called "AF" (atrial fibrillation). Coumadin is the brand name for this drug; warfarin is the generic name. Coumadin comes as a pill that is taken by mouth.
This drug works by reducing the effect of vitamin K, a vitamin that helps your blood to clot. Because many foods contain vitamin K, it is very important to keep the same amount of vitamin K in your diet every day when you are taking Coumadin.
Foods that are high in vitamin K include:
You must take Coumadin exactly as your doctor prescribes. You will need frequent blood tests to check if the dosage needs to be changed. Tell your doctor right away if you notice any signs of bleeding:
Whenever you go to any kind of dentist or doctor, be sure they know that you take Coumadin. You should also wear a medical alert tag that says you are taking the blood thinner Coumadin.
AntiplateletsPlatelets are blood cells that are sticky and help the blood to clot. Antiplatelets are drugs that keep platelets in the blood from sticking together. This helps to prevent blood clots that could cause stroke. These drugs can help patients who have had a mini-stroke (TIA) or a past stroke. These drugs may also be given to patients who are at risk for a stroke. Take these drugs with food because they may irritate your stomach. Antiplatelets give you less risk for bleeding than anticoagulants do.
AspirinAspirin helps to keep platelets from "clumping" in patients who have some risk for ministrokes(TIAs) or stroke. Aspirin is also an anti-inflammatory drug. Inflammation in the arteries seems to play a role in stroke. So this is another reason why aspirin helps prevent stroke. You must take aspirin for about 8 days before it starts to slow "clumping."
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Author Notes: I've discovered that pretty much any vegetable can be cooked in this manner—lots of olive oil and garlic, and long, slow cooking—and it will turn out well. Great for grown-ups, great for babies, great for all. —Merrill Stubbs
Serves: 8 as a side dish, baby for about a week
cup olive oil
pound carrots, peeled and sliced into 1/4-inch rounds
fat cloves garlic, peeled and smashed
- Combine the olive oil, carrots, garlic, and a couple small pinches of salt in a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Set it over medium heat and bring the oil to a simmer. Give the carrots a good stir, cover the pot, and turn the heat down as low as it will go.
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Forget Florida—Flip the Electors!
Assume when all the Florida overseas ballots are counted that Bush is still the winner, and thus the candidate with the most electoral votes. Warren Christopher and his phalanx of lawyers plan to mount legal challenges to the Florida vote that could drag this thing out for weeks or even months with no conceivable result that will be accepted by the country as legitimate. No matter how appalling Florida's voting irregularities may seem, there's a better option for Gore, for Democrats, and for the nation: cede Florida to Bush after the recount and urge a handful of Republican electors to switch their vote Dec. 18 to give the presidency to the candidate, Gore, who has won the nationwide popular vote.
Among the many civics lessons thrust upon us surreally this week is the reminder that the "electors" who make up the electoral college actually don't cast their vote, which finalizes the presidential election, until Dec. 18. These electors are normally party loyalists, and the issue of whether they might choose not to vote for their party's nominee would in normal times be a matter of trivia. But constitutional law gurus Akhil Amar of Yale, Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of Southern California, and Trevor Potter, a Republican election lawyer who chaired the Federal Election Commission, all tell me that electors unquestionably have the discretion to vote as they please. "The Constitution contains no restriction on electors' votes," Potter e-mailed me. "Electors were supposed to exercise their own judgment in the framer's scheme of things."
Half the states, it turns out, have laws requiring electors to follow the popular vote of the state, though for obvious reasons there's never been any need or attempt to enforce them. Yale's Amar thinks such laws are unconstitutional. And, to be sure, elector discretion has never been relevant in the real world: Less than a dozen of the 16,000 electors in U.S. history have been "unfaithful." (In 1960, a Republican-pledged elector from Oklahoma who "could not stomach" Nixon lobbied his colleagues unsuccessfully to go for ultra-conservative Harry Byrd of Virginia. A Democratic elector in 1988 impishly flipped the ticket, voting for Lloyd Bentsen for president and Michael Dukakis as No. 2. Click here for a handful of other such tales. And click here for a "Chatterbox" item on how author and elector James Michener flirted with faithlessness.)
Still, the fact of elector discretion is not in dispute; it was even the centerpiece of Jeff Greenfield's 1996 novel, The People's Choice, a book now hitting 170 on amazon.com's sales ranking (versus 786 for Gores' Earth in the Balance and 2,486 for Bush's autobiography A Charge To Keep.). As Alexander Hamilton argued in Federalist 68, "the immediate election should be made by men ... acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice." A small group selected by the general population, Hamilton added, "will be most likely to possess the information and discernment requisite to so complicated an investigation."
To see why an appeal to Republican electors to honor the popular vote is now the best course for everyone, consider the disaster that Bill Daley and Warren Christopher's legal crusade will set in motion. Suppose Gore's side somehow succeeds in reversing Florida's vote because of the infamous "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach County, or suppression of black voters, or whatever. Does anyone think the Bush team will then say, "Oh, well, OK, then I guess you win"? Karl Rove's peddling of butterfly ballots in other states this afternoon is only the beginning. The Bushies will naturally launch an investigation of voting irregularities in other states where modest shifts could make a difference.
Earth to both campaigns: You do not want to open this can of worms. For one thing, there is no logical or practical stopping point once such tit-for-tat investigations get going. But worse, they will turn up nasty facts about the world's greatest democracy that are better left unknown.
As anyone who's been around politics knows, voting "irregularities" are a feature of every election. Some, like today's hapless (or idiotic?) Palm Beach voters who can't properly punch their ballot, are relatively benign. Others, like the "walking around" money commonly passed out by Democrats to boost black turnout, shade toward the suspect. Both sides could spend from now until 2004 highlighting each other's borderline practices in ways sure to kill confidence in the overall integrity of our system. Do Democrats really want the real deal in cities like Detroit or Philadelphia closely scrutinized? Does anyone benefit from having the nation's many innocent but nonetheless disturbing electoral snafus widely broadcast?
The answer to these questions should be a resounding "no," a lesson in discretion our political and media elites should have learned from the Lewinsky affair. First, as with the details of Bill Clinton's adultery, and offensive as the notion is to many morally confused journalists, some truths are better left unknown. Second, as we learned at great cost from the Lewinsky drama, innocent-seeming calls to rely on "the rule of law" in such crises guarantee a cultural meltdown. As most Americans intuit but most elites do not, "law" as practiced in the year 2000 is simply not fit to resolve such partisan showdowns, where suits and countersuits could leave this going indefinitely. We need wisdom, not law, to get out of this mess. Ordinarily, that's what a society's establishment is supposed to supply, but, as Monicagate proved so depressingly, there's little hope that even well-intended mandarins like Warren Christopher and Jim Baker will avoid the spiral-unto-disaster.
Al Gore has the power to save the day. Imagine if, instead of pursuing every legal option, Gore said the following once the initial recount shows Florida still in Bush's corner. "There are challenges I could still make to the outcome in Florida," Gore would say, "but I believe that to pursue them would set in motion a series of partisan legal fights that could ensnarl the country for months in ways deeply damaging to our democracy. As the winner of the majority of the popular vote in this election, however, it would be morally unthinkable, and sure to deepen the next president's crisis of legitimacy, if I simply ceded the election to Gov. Bush. Fortunately, our constitution offers a third way that will resolve this matter by a date certain and which calls on the deepest values of our nation. I hereby appeal to the Republican electors who will finalize the presidential choice on Dec. 18 to honor the will of the majority and cast their votes for me."
Suddenly, the outlook would be transformed. Today, we're looking at endless legal and political maneuvering that assures a crisis of legitimacy for any eventually declared "legal" winner while the nation lists out of control. With Gore's appeal to electors, we would instead see a time-limited national debate, made possible by elector discretion, on whether in the year 2000 it is right to allow a candidate without a popular majority to become president.
The beauty of this plan is not only its avoidance of chaos and its proper framing of the question for the nation, but its fidelity to the Constitution. Right now, a predictable chorus has sprung up to scrap the Electoral College. But isn't that an overreaction? After all, if a structural feature of government causes a problem only every hundred years or so, let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Going to direct popular election of presidents could usher in a host of unintended problems that prove worse, more often, than today's system--hard as that might seem to believe at this moment. (For an inventory of these dangers, click here.)
Resolving this crisis through an appeal to elector discretion proves the paradoxical genius of our Constitution. A structure intended to insulate presidential selection from popular will 200 years ago is supple enough to become the vehicle through which popular will might now be honored.
Would a handful of Republican electors switch and vote for Gore? I don't know, but as a Gore supporter I'd rather risk his losing this way than see the nation implode on its current path. Even 271 party hacks could not help but feel the weight of history in ways that would lead most to go beyond partisan interest to consult their consciences. Yes, this would leave things in the hands of a handful of Americans, but that's what the Constitution requires. These electors would be aided and pressured by an unprecedented monthlong national debate on the question of majority rule, rather than the debauched carnival of legalistic wrangling that is unfolding. Whatever they did would be the right thing.
For Democrats, yes, this means rolling the dice, but for the country's sake, that's far better than scheduling the depositions.
Matthew Miller is a nationally syndicated columnist and senior fellow at the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
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We'd be remiss if we didn't talk about the incident between Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi at the Spanish GP (if you haven't seen the race yet, stop reading now). Charging to overtake Stoner at Turn 1, Rossi found himself going too hot into the turn, and too heavy on the brakes. With Stoner swinging wide to let Rossi through, the Italian went up the inside of Casey's line, tucked the front, and the rest is history.
While Stoner would later call the crash a "racing incident" in his press debrief, he still chastised his counterpart for making a rash move and an apology that seemed more like a media stunt than a sincere gesture. For the Australian that got shunned by the marshals in the gravel trap, and watched a few laps from behind the guardrail, this weekend certainly seemed like a rough result because of an incident where he made no fault.
Insult was perhaps added to injury as Rossi continued on with his race (Stoner clapping as the Italian came by Turn 1 the very next lap, a sarcastic gesture for Rossi's move and outcome), and then went on to finish the race with a fifth place result. Coming into the Repsol Honda garage with several TV cameras in tow, Rossi apologized to Stoner, with the following interaction occurring between the two riders (find it after the jump).


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- Because of a perceived increase in bricked HD-HG300's at a certain point in time, some people came up with the theory that there is a series of HD-HG300 LinkStations out there which are somehow inherently broken and can't be flashed. This is a theory, there is no proof of this. The thought is that some series of the 300 gigabyte HG Linkstations will always be bricked if you attempt to flash them with OpenLink or FreeLink, because these are thought to be defective. Kuroguy has revived one of these bricked boxes via JTAG, so if you brick your box, all is not lost. The serial numbers below are not number ranges, they are single serial numbers where the last three digits have been anonymised.
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One of the investigators who worked the NCAA's inquiry of Miami athletics wrote a letter on former booster and convicted felon Nevin Shapiro's behalf just days before he was sentenced two years ago.
In the same letter, dated June 3, 2011, Ameen Najjar even suggested that the NCAA could eventually hire Shapiro.
Najjar, who is no longer with the NCAA, told U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton that college sports' governing body could have utilized Shapiro "in the future as a consultant and/or speaker to educate our membership."
Najjar also said that Shapiro assisted the NCAA with investigations involving a number of schools. Najjar did not specify the schools - not even Miami, where Shapiro is the central figure in the scandal that has dogged the Hurricanes' athletic department for at least two years.
"Throughout the course of our interactions, it is my belief that Mr. Shapiro possesses a unique depth of knowledge and experience concerning representatives athletics interest ('Boosters'), agents and the provision of extra-benefits to student-athletes," Najjar wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.
Najjar left the NCAA last year and attempts by the AP to reach him in recent weeks have been unsuccessful. The NCAA did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment.
Najjar's was just one of a number of letters written to the court on Shapiro's behalf before sentencing, none of which appeared to sway Wigenton. Four days after the date of Najjar's letter, the judge gave Shapiro a longer sentence than prosecutors asked for on the securities fraud and money laundering counts he admitted to in a plea agreement in September 2010.
She also ordered him to pay more than $82 million in restitution to his victims.
Najjar wrote to Wigenton using NCAA letterhead, and did so when he had the title of director of enforcement. His role in missteps that the NCAA made during the investigation was detailed last month, when a probe that NCAA President Mark Emmert ordered found, among other things, that Najjar appeared to manipulate the investigation by hiring Shapiro's attorney, Maria Elena Perez, and having her use subpoena power to interview people related to the Miami case.
The NCAA does not have subpoena power. Two people were subpoenaed and deposed as part of Shapiro's bankruptcy case, though some of the information gleaned in those interviews was being used in the NCAA's case against Miami.
The NCAA said it was removing that ill-gotten information from the notice of allegations, which Miami was presented with last month and included the charge that the Hurricanes had a "lack of institutional control" when it came to monitoring Shapiro's access to the athletic department.
Perez, in a letter to the Florida Bar dated Feb. 21, said she "is not and has never acted, in the capacity of an attorney for the NCAA." She billed the NCAA for about $57,000 for work she performed related to the investigation, and records show she received about one-third that amount.
Perez told the AP last month that "had I realized I was dealing with, what is in my opinion ... such an incompetent regulatory institution, I would have never allowed Mr. Shapiro to have had any type of contact with the NCAA - period."


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Turkish-Islamic Union is the salvation for the Muslims in Burma, not NATO
Turkish-Islamic Union is the salvation for the Muslims in Burma, not NATO
Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9 TV dated July 25th, 2012
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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9 TV dated July 25th, 2012
DIDEM URER: Master, the Hong Kong Ambassador of Burma has sent a letter to the authorities of the countries in the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held a few days ago. In this letter, the Ambassador has belittled Muslims and claimed that these people are in fact not Burmese -in his own mind of course- said; "in contrast to handsome Burmese people with their soft, smooth skins, you see in their photographs that these people have dark brown skin." He thus drew attention to the dark color of Muslims' skins and physical attributes that are different than theirs. Master, forming concentration camps for Muslims is being discussed in Burma at the moment.
ADNAN OKTAR: As far as I see this man has a severe "itching". Muslims need to draw attention to this by constantly warning NATO and the United Nations and by making this agenda everywhere. However I also draw attention to the abnormality here. Even though it is the Union of Islam that needs to take action, even though it is the Turkish-Islamic Union that needs to act on this, they are expecting help from NATO, from the United Nations. Whereas even the existence of a Turkish-Islamic Union would fundamentally solve this matter, it would close the matter once and for all. That is why our brothers and sisters should continue to promote Turkish-Islamic Union, the Unity of Islam everywhere with patience and determination. This will take a while, this pain will go on for a while but they need to go on with insistence and determination. These will happen even if they do not go on. It will happen no matter what. But they will continue, this is how their destiny is and in the end there will be a beautiful outcome. Allah creates these disasters specifically so that people would ask for the Unity of Islam. Look at this man; saying that they have smooth skin, etc. He seems to be a peculiar, an abnormal person. Look at his style. Muslims are wronged there. Do these people there have a position to think about the color of their skins? They are living under the sun in the worst living conditions and they are living under oppression. They are being insulted every day, they are belittled every day. Would one's skin, one's bones, one's flesh be able to stand that? Eventually these are humans, they are not made up of stone and iron.


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