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Slide Deck: The True Meaning of the Voice-Enabled Web
Since the initial buzz of WebRTC, the ability to enable browser-to-browser applications for voice calling, video chat and P2P file sharing without plugins has been touted as a potential game changer for many industries. What are the parameters around this technology and its placement? Is it secure enough for prime time? Will WebRTC magnify OTT threat for telcos? Is WebRTC really that big of a deal for consumers?
In his session at WebRTC Summit, Keith McFarlane, Chief Technology Officer at LiveOps, discussed the future of WebRTC and its disruptive tendencies, specifically regarding monetization and customer service.
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At LiveOps, Keith McFarlane holds the role of Chief Technology Officer, Cloud Platform & Telephony. He has more than 20 years of experience designing and developing large-scale customer service solutions and CRM systems. McFarlane is an expert on the benefits of cloud computing technology for both enterprise and SMBs and recently made ExecRank's "Top CTO Rankings" list for 2012.
Prior to LiveOps, McFarlane worked for an on-premise contact center provider that is currently ranked number two among the top contact centers worldwide. It was there that he first began to realize the potential impact that cloud computing could have on the decades-old customer service contact center industry. He also realized that a software and hardware laden provider, such as his previous employer, would be challenged to move quickly into the cloud space. Making the move to LiveOps gave him the opportunity to be part of the team that developed the true cloud LiveOps Platform for enterprise use. Twelve years ago the LiveOps Platform was created for use only by the LiveOps community of 20,000 independent contractors to grow LiveOps' agent services business. In 2008, when McFarlane arrived at the company, LiveOps began evolving the platform for individual sale and use by other companies with their own agents. Under McFarlane's guidance, LiveOps is continuing to make industry-firsts, including the first fully integrated multichannel plus social agent desktop.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Secure Channels, a cybersecurity firm, will exhibit at SYS-CON's 23rd International Cloud Expo®, which will take place at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. Secure Channels, Inc. offers several products and solutions to its many clients, helping them protect critical data from being compromised and access to computer networks from the unauthorized. The company develops comprehensive data encryption security strategies that are tailored for the unique needs of each client; the team builds in an intuitive user experience to boost efficiency and effectiveness of its cyber security solutions.
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Andrew Keys is Co-Founder of ConsenSys Enterprise. He comes to ConsenSys Enterprise with capital markets, technology and entrepreneurial experience. Previously, he worked for UBS investment bank in equities analysis. Later, he was responsible for the creation and distribution of life settlement products to hedge funds and investment banks. After, he co-founded a revenue cycle management company where he learned about Bitcoin and eventually Ethereal. Andrew's role at ConsenSys Enterprise is a multi-faceted approach of strategy and enterprise business development. Andrew graduated from Loyola University in Maryland and University of Auckland with degrees in economics and international finance.
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Evan Kirstel is an internationally recognized thought leader and social media influencer in IoT (#1 in 2017), Cloud, Data Security (2016), Health Tech (#9 in 2017), Digital Health (#6 in 2016), B2B Marketing (#5 in 2015), AI, Smart Home, Digital (2017), IIoT (#1 in 2017) and Telecom/Wireless/5G. His connections are a "Who's Who" in these technologies, He is in the top 10 most mentioned/re-tweeted by CMOs and CIOs (2016) and have been recently named 5th most influential B2B marketeer in the US. His social media "Klout" score is 81 and rising!
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SYS-CON Events announced today that CrowdReviews.com has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 22nd International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 5–7, 2018, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. CrowdReviews.com is a transparent online platform for determining which products and services are the best based on the opinion of the crowd. The crowd consists of Internet users that have experienced products and services first-hand and have an interest in letting other potential buyers learn their thoughts on their experience.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that DatacenterDynamics has been named "Media Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 18th International Cloud Expo, which will take place on June 7–9, 2016, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. DatacenterDynamics is a brand of DCD Group, a global B2B media and publishing company that develops products to help senior professionals in the world's most ICT dependent organizations make risk-based infrastructure and capacity decisions.
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DXWordEXPO New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City and will bring together Cloud Computing, FinTech and Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Big Data, Internet of Things, DevOps, AI, Machine Learning and WebRTC to one location.
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DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that Telecom Reseller has been named "Media Sponsor" of CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO 2018 New York, which will take place on November 11-13, 2018 in New York City, NY. Telecom Reseller reports on Unified Communications, UCaaS, BPaaS for enterprise and SMBs. They report extensively on both customer premises based solutions such as IP-PBX as well as cloud based and hosted platforms.
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DXWorldEXPO LLC announced today that All in Mobile, a mobile app development company from Poland, will exhibit at the 22nd International CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO. All In Mobile is a mobile app development company from Poland. Since 2014, they maintain passion for developing mobile applications for enterprises and startups worldwide.
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From 2013, NTT Communications has been providing cPaaS service, SkyWay. Its customer's expectations for leveraging WebRTC technology are not only typical real-time communication use cases such as Web conference, remote education, but also IoT use cases such as remote camera monitoring, smart-glass, and robotic. Because of this, NTT Communications has numerous IoT business use-cases that its customers are developing on top of PaaS. WebRTC will lead IoT businesses to be more innovative and address current issues in the Edge Computing scenario. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Kensaku Komatsu, a research and development engineer in Department of Technology Development at NTT Communications, talked about the practical experience, activity and potential of WebRTC for IoT and Edge Computing scenario.
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It is of utmost importance for the future success of WebRTC to ensure that interoperability is operational between web browsers and any WebRTC-compliant client. To be guaranteed as operational and effective, interoperability must be tested extensively by establishing WebRTC data and media connections between different web browsers running on different devices and operating systems. In his session at WebRTC Summit at @ThingsExpo, Dr. Alex Gouaillard, CEO and Founder of CoSMo Software, presented a comprehensive view of the numerous testing challenges researchers have faced before arriving at the first release candidate of the WebRTC specifications.
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Recently, WebRTC has a lot of eyes from market. The use cases of WebRTC are expanding - video chat, online education, online health care etc. Not only for human-to-human communication, but also IoT use cases such as machine to human use cases can be seen recently. One of the typical use-case is remote camera monitoring. With WebRTC, people can have interoperability and flexibility for deploying monitoring service. However, the benefit of WebRTC for IoT is not only its convenience and interoperability. It has lots of potential to address current issues around IoT - security, connectivity and so on - based on P2P technology. It will become a key-component especially in edge computing use cases, in his view.
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WebRTC is great technology to build your own communication tools. It will be even more exciting experience it with advanced devices, such as a 360 Camera, 360 microphone, and a depth sensor camera. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Masashi Ganeko, a manager at INFOCOM Corporation, introduced two experimental projects from his team and what they learned from them. "Shotoku Tamago" uses the robot audition software HARK to track speakers in 360 video of a remote party. "Virtual Teleport" uses a multiple Intel RealSense Depth Camera to scan 3D and build 3D models in real-time, and display as hologram in front of remote participants.
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@DevOpsSummit at Cloud Expo, taking place November 12-13 in New York City, NY, is co-located with 22nd international CloudEXPO | first international DXWorldEXPO and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world.
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With 10 simultaneous tracks, keynotes, general sessions and targeted breakout classes, @CloudEXPO and DXWorldEXPO are two of the most important technology events of the year. Since its launch over eight years ago, @CloudEXPO and DXWorldEXPO have presented a rock star faculty as well as showcased hundreds of sponsors and exhibitors!
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DevOpsSummit New York 2018, colocated with CloudEXPO | DXWorldEXPO New York 2018 will be held November 11-13, 2018, in New York City. Digital Transformation (DX) is a major focus with the introduction of DXWorldEXPO within the program. Successful transformation requires a laser focus on being data-driven and on using all the tools available that enable transformation if they plan to survive over the long term. A total of 88% of Fortune 500 companies from a generation ago are now out of business. Only 12% still survive. Similar percentages are found throughout enterprises of all sizes.
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When Bipartisanship Is Good News
Usually when I hear that a policy proposal has bipartisan support, I instinctively check for my wallet. But I greeted with pleasure the news on Wednesday that two lawmakers — Rep. Scott Garrett (R, NJ) and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D, PA) — had introduced a bill to shut down the USDA's Market Access Program, which the congressmen rightly paint as "corporate welfare to big business."
I yield to no one in my abhorrence of trade barriers, here and abroad. But this program is less about addressing market access per se, and more about taxpayer funding of marketing campaigns, trade shows and other promotions, which surely are the responsibility of the firms/industries concerned.
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Dinner consisting of your choice of beef brisket or pork steaks (plain or BBQ) , your choice of 2 sides , bread & soft drink .
And no need to decide your food choice now, it will all be ready when you arrive, and can decide then what your in the mood for .
The tour is March 8th & 9th and you can take advantage of the bus tour or drive yourself and pay onsite by Cash / Credit .
Concessions will be available onsite if you prefer not to stop along the way .
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Some of you have visited Mr Bills in past years and know it really features our actors.
We pride ourselves on our actors, and spend a lot of time and effort on actor training !
Mr Bills Thrills is an intense trip through The Time Zone, The Haunted Barn, Cavern of Doom, The Black Zone, & Trail of Terror
Comments from Attendees of our 2012 Tour
>My wife and I really enjoyed your haunt. Once I entered your haunt I gave it my full attention , your haunt shows what can be
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I know you do it for your community and that is a great thing. The joy all of you bring to others is PRICELESS.
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Future haunters - which is how we feel about our kids.
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Silent Auction - Actually Sealed Bid Auction
Yes unfortunately, Mr Bills Thrills is closing the doors, and almost everything is up for sale .
It is actually more of a sealed bid type auction rather than a silent auction
I was recently explained the difference !
Interested parties will get a bid slip with ticket purchase , they can fill it out as they go through , then turn back in their highest bids . At the end of the event , all bids will be gone through & tallied , then winning bidder will be notified !
We are holding on to a couple of items , but they were not in pictures .
We will have a few items that we are not using , set up in ticket booth on a silent auction basis .
Some of the other items pictured will still be in storage , but will have pics of those for sealed bids also .
After this event , anything remaining will be posted for sale through several of the haunt forum websites .
Sorry for any misunderstanding ,
Thank You , Hauntingly , Mr Bill
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Software-Defined Networking Could Change the Way Applications Communicate
I've heard a lot of talk lately about software-defined networks (SDN). Just about every networking vendor is at least nodding at the concept, particularly as a way of handling more complex cloud-based environments. There have been a couple of high-profile announcements lately, and the technology is very interesting. While it seems like this is not quite ready for most businesses yet, it does offer the potential to change how complex networks work, and eventually to present some big changes for networks and customers of all sizes.
Today's corporate networks use open standards such as the IP protocol and Ethernet connectivity, but configuring the networks themselves often requires lots of manual tasks because each device on the network has separate policies and consoles. Making significant changes in the network—even with existing hardware—can be time-consuming, potentially taking a week or two. With the move toward server virtualization and cloud computing, this has gotten even more complex, which is one of the reasons why a number of organizations and companies have been focused on solving the issues.
The concept behind software-defined networking (SDN) essentially moves the "control plane" of the network away from each individual device on the network to a controller that works with all the devices, including both virtual and physical devices. This allows for a single controller to configure or manage the complete network, as opposed to each device managing its own functionality and being programmed individually. To accomplish this, you typically hear about the network using the OpenFlow protocol, which was created at Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley, but is now run by the Open Networking Foundation.
With SDN, a standard software program can control the network, specifically letting it manage the resources that it needs. I've often heard SDN talked about in terms of allowing network virtualization, which is certainly one application.
But, as Gartner Distinguished Analyst Joe Skorupa puts it, "SDN is not about network virtualization. It is about changing how we design and build and operate networks to achieve business agility." He notes that the big promises of SDN include allowing applications to be rolled out in hours instead of weeks, and potentially using lower-cost hardware since each device will not be doing its own control functions. This, therefore, could be a big market transition.
A number of companies have announced solutions using OpenFlow. NEC had one of the first switches and at the most recent InterOp show, HP introduced a broad line of OpenFlow products, including a controller and an application called Security Sentinel.
Big Switch
But no company has been talking about SDN and OpenFlow more than Big Switch Networks. A few weeks ago, it finally announced its product line, including its Big Network Controller platform and a couple of applications that run on top of it. One difference, the company says, is it that all of these products are generally available now.
Big Switch's controller is based in part on the FloodLight open-source OpenFlow kernel with extensions, and the company describes it as essentially a platform for running OpenFlow applications. Big Switch says its controller will work with products from 27 partners. These include hypervisors from Citrix, Microsoft, Canonical, and Red Hat; and physical switches from Arista, Brocade, Dell, Extreme Networks, and Juniper. In addition, the company says it has tested with IBM and HP switches, and says it has tested with VMware. (Big Switch has only limited support for VMware today, though it says it expects to have more robust support in 2013.)
Big Switch's first two applications, which go on top of that, are Big Virtual Switch, which provides data center network virtualization, and Big Tap, a network monitoring tool. Virtual networks is the topic I hear most about with SDN, as setting up and reconfiguring "virtual networks" is time-consuming, especially in a virtualized or cloud environment. Big Switch says its tool will make this easier, and will also allow more virtual machines per rack. It can work as an overlay on a traditional network, in a pure OpenFlow network, or most importantly, in a hybrid network.
But SDN is supposed to go beyond virtual networks toward applications, and the company's Big Tap unified network monitoring tool is an example of this.
Big Switch says it has nearly two dozen partners working on applications that can run on top of its platform; of these, the groups that seems most ready for it include the OpenStack and CloudStack platforms for running cloud data centers. Other applications include Cariden's traffic engineering application and a Coraid application for managing storage in multi-tenant environments.
Nicira, Midokura, and Other SDN Vendors
The other SDN company that is getting a lot of attention lately is Nicira, which was bought by VMware this summer. Nicira talks about its Network Virtualization Platform (NVP), essentially software designed to create an intelligent abstraction layer between hosts and the existing network—in other words, an overlay network. This is meant to be a series of virtual switches (which it calls Open vSwitch) and to be part of a Distributed Virtual Network Infrastructure (DVNI) architecture.
VMware has talked about Nicira being part of its "software-defined data center" concept, which seems to fit in with its Pivotal Initiative focused on cloud computing.
Another interesting approach comes from Midokura, a smaller Japanese-U.S. startup that is offering MidoNet. This is aimed primarily at virtualized hosts in an Information as a Service (IaaS) environment, and fits at the hypervisor layer. The concept is to provide network isolation and fault-tolerant distributed environments without an intermediating network. The company says this does not require any new hardware, but simply IP connectivity among network devices and is "truly scalable." This was announced at the recent OpenStack conference.
There are other alternatives to OpenFlow for separating the data plane and control plane, and cloud platforms such as OpenStack and CloudStack could work with or without OpenFlow controllers. But the concept is certainly pushing companies such as Cisco, Juniper, and Alcatel-Lucent to provide more open access to their networking products via APIs.
As I mentioned in that earlier post, Cisco has itself promoted the concept of software-defined networking, saying its switches support the concept of network virtualization and have for years, and will at some point support Open Flow. But the company sees the big benefit in software-defined networking as getting the applications to be more intelligent about the network and the resources it consumes.
SDN is often seen as a way of reducing the cost of networking, of making networks more open, and of making managing virtual machines and virtual data centers much easier. As such, it both provides opportunities and challenges for Cisco (the leading network vendor), VMware (the leading virtual machine vendor), and for many smaller companies that seem more likely to embrace the open-source and Open Flow concepts more fully, believing it gives them a new weapon against the more proprietary products that dominate the market today.
Overall, the concept strikes me as very intriguing, though probably not something most businesses are ready for yet, in part because the products are all so new and the standards are still evolving. Right now, the big beneficiaries will be organizations that run big cloud data centers, whether public or private, as they face the issues of dealing with network complexity and a need for faster changes. Over time, though, we could see more network-aware applications, which could be much more important. Placing the control with the applications rather than the administrators is a big change, and teaching programmers how to create applications for this—and indeed, figuring which applications will be able to really take advantage of—seems like it will be a challenge. Still, the concept has a lot of promise, even if it is still very early.


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NORWOOD, COLORADO (KKCO)--A Western Slope town is divided and parents on both sides of the issue are outraged after a hazing incident at a wrestling tournament lands two boys in juvenile detention.
KKCO 11 News Reporter Brian Shlonsky was in Norwood High School last night; he spoke with angry parents who are calling for the firing of the schools principal.
A hazing incident where two brothers, in 8th and 9th grade, supposedly wrapped a 7th grader in duct tape, pulled on his underwear, and sodomized him with a pencil.
The victim is the son of Norwood Principal Tom LaFramboise.
That call landed the two brothers in juvenile detention, something that has some parents and students enraged, saying hazing incidents happen all the time and the principal turns the other cheek. Only reacting now because his son was the victim.
Friends of the two boys who are in trouble declined to go on camera, but said they would never do something like this, that although there was some hazing… it was all in good fun, and are now afraid the principal will come after them without reason.
One student says 20 kids will transfer if the principal isn't fired, and that's a third of the school.
So last night, parents and students on both sides met with the Norwood School Board in small private groups, most of them calling for the principals firing.
While the victim's family says this is all a tragedy.
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Tsonga saves another match point to down Berdych
France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga celebrates after winning his match against Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic in the final of the Open 13 tennis tournament in Marseille, February 24, 2013. [Photo/Agencies]
MARSEILLE - Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga saved a match point before beating world number six Tomas Berdych 3-6 7-6 6-4 in the Marseille Open final to claim his 10th ATP Tour title on Sunday.
World number eight Tsonga, who saved five match points in his quarter-final against Australian Bernard Tomic, was trailing 5-6 in the second-set tie-break but hit back-to-back aces to push the Czech to a decisive set.
The Frenchman eventually put an end to his losing run against the top-seeded Berdych, having lost their three previous encounters including the latest in the ATP World Tour finals round-robin in November.
The local favourite had two break points in the third set's third game and broke serve to clinch his second title in Marseille after his 2009 triumph.
Tsonga said after the game he was proud of his resilience having struggled in the two first sets.
"I only focused on survival," he told a news conference.
"Nothing was going my way. He played far better than me in the first part of the match. He was serving well and my position on the court was bad. But I deserve credit because I never gave up. A lot of players would have done so."
Tsonga, who lost an epic Australian Open quarter-final to world number two Roger Federer in January in his first event under new coach Roger Rasheed, said this successful week has shown he was on the right path.
"I have been working hard for some time, I make sacrifices. I do everything I can to be on top and I still improve."


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There was a regal spectacle at the Bobbejaansberg Nature Reserve, near Johannesburg. It was an unusual part of the launch of the 458 Speciale, which was making its debut in South Africa. At the presentation to a select group of Prancing Horse customers, there were two guests that were unexpected to say the least: a pair of lions that are part of the 'Kevin Richardson Wildlife Sanctuary's' colony of big cats, which is run by a man know the world over as 'The Lion Whisperer.' The kings of the savannah therefore got a close up view of a queen of the road, even if, in order not to disturb them in this close encounter, the V8 in this latest creation from Maranello, did not roar as loudly as it could.


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Each year, a four-man crew strings 75 miles of lights in the country's largest ceremonial lighting display.
Some electricians may untangle a string of Christmas lights, crawl up on their rooftops and outline their homes with colorful bulbs, but few have 250,000 spectators flock to see their handiwork.
A quartet of electricians from Kansas City, Kan.-based Broadway Electrical Construction Co. spends nine months every year stringing lights around Kansas City, Mo.'s Country Club Plaza, an upscale, outdoor shopping district built in 1922 and modeled after the marketplaces of Spain. On Thanksgiving night, crowds cram into the streets and on the rooftops to see the Spanish-style domes, towers, courtyards and buildings illuminate with thousands of jewel-colored bulbs. At the flip of a switch, all the electricians' work lights up for all to see.
"It was amazing, especially since I was a part of it," said Apprentice Russell McNeal about his first year on the Plaza lighting project. "I kind of stood there and looked around. They told me that is what it would be like, but I couldn't believe it. Everyone was there just to see what we did. That's never happened to me before."
In 1925, the historic Plaza Lights ceremony had humble beginnings with a single string of lights.
"The first little stringer was hung over a single doorway in 1925 by a maintenance man," said Ivan Hendrickson, who worked on the Plaza lights from 1962 to 1965. "Mr. Nichols (the Plaza developer) liked the idea and had his people do some more Christmas lighting. It grew to encompass all the buildings that made up the Plaza at that time."
Broadway has been wiring the Plaza Lights since 1990 when it took over the project from Evans Electric, which went out of business. Two of Evans' electricians, including Hendrickson, came to work for Broadway and ended up retiring after spending more than 30 years together on the project. Foreman Kermit Kauffman said he would like to follow in their footsteps.
"How much longer would I want to do the Plaza lights?" Kauffman said. "I have about 25 years until I retire, so I'd say 25 more years."
Kauffman said he enjoys the challenge of the Plaza Lights, a $197,000 project that takes 3,000 man-hours.
"It's amazing what it takes to put them up and take them down in a year's time," he said.
On a sunny November day, the electricians were stringing lights and putting the final touches on the project. Project Manager Brian Root described what was ahead for the team during crunch time.
"We come down the day before the ceremony at four in the morning to test the lights, replace the bulbs and make sure everything is working," he said.
The Broadway team celebrates Thanksgiving Day with their families, but at 4 p.m., they're expected to report to the Plaza to take care of any last-minute tasks, such as setting up a low-voltage switch on the stage. The switch consists of candy canes with a piece of plexiglass and an old knife switch on top. Root said a lot of people think the switch is fake.
"A lot of people don't think it's a switch," Root said. "They think it is someone standing there plugging in a light.
Actually, in the 1960s, that's exactly what happened. Hendrickson said the maintenance workers stood by each building's electrical service and tried to turn them on as close as they could together. Today, the electricians wire the knife switch into the circuit so all the lights will come on at the same time.
When the clock strikes 7:30 p.m. and the special guest flips the switch, holiday revelers' jaws drop and heads swirl to look at all the lights around them. Meanwhile, the electricians make sure all the bulbs are burning bright. The electricians are appointed to different spots on the Plaza for troubleshooting.
"We're by the backup switches just in case something happens and there is a problem, which there hasn't ever been," said Foreman Joe Buffa.
The Plaza Merchants Association predicted a crowd of about 250,000 to 300,000 people for the 71st annual Plaza lighting ceremony.
"It's amazing how many people get crammed down there," Buffa said. "All you can see from the top of the building is hair. You can't even see bodies; it's so tight."
Not only Kansas Citians, but people from across the country travel to see the lighting ceremony. Buffa said many of the hotel rooms overlooking the Plaza are rented out years in advance. The event has also drawn attention from national media as well as a camera crew from IMAX Theatre, who filmed the Broadway team at work.
"Every year it gets bigger, and more people get involved," Buffa said. "It was live worldwide last year with CNN. There's also a trailer at the IMAX Theatre about the Plaza Lights. We had a 30-man camera crew down here off and on for two weeks."
BRAVING THE HEIGHTS TO HANG THE LIGHTS McNeal, an apprentice and Kansas City native, said he and his family used to come down to see the Plaza Lights, but he never thought he would be the one to make it happen. With a laugh, he recalls when Root asked him to get involved with the project.
"When I first came to work for Broadway, the first thing out of Brian's mouth was, `Glad to meet you, I'm Brian Root. Are you scared of heights?'" McNeal said. "He said, `We got a job for you. You're going to be doing the Plaza Lights.'"
Root said the project requires a certain kind of electrician.
"A lot of guys don't like heights," he said. "You need to find a fearless person."
Not all the work can be done off the roof, the lift or a ladder, Root said.
"There are places where the guys have to get on the domes that don't have much of a walking ledge," he said. "The Times Tower has an 8-foot, 2-inch piece of pipe with a decorative ornament and we put lights on it every year. That takes a guy walking up on the dome, strapping a strap around this 2-inch pole, walking around it and putting lights on it."
Buffa said he enjoys wiring the Times Tower.
"The Times Tower is my favorite tower because it's the hardest one to do," Buffa said. "Usually it takes three days, but it will probably just take a day and a half with the new lift."
This year, Broadway bought a 110-foot lift. For the first 10 years on the project, Broadway used ladders and a 62-foot lift, which wasn't tall enough to reach the towers, Root said.
"There are some towers that are more than 100 feet tall," he said. "They'd get up and use bosun's chairs or tie ladders to the towers and we'd put up lights. Now we've got this 110-foot lift. We can work almost everything off of this now."
The electricians can do the work in about half the time with the hydraulic lift as compared to the bosun chairs and ladders, Root said. Along with saving time, the lift makes the electricians feel more comfortable with the heights.
"I enjoy working on it more than standing on top of the roof," Kauffman said. "You can swing at things as fast as you can at 360 deg. at 110 feet in the air and it doesn't bother me as much as stepping down and looking over the side."
Seeing the electricians dangling off the edge of the roof and working off the lifts often draws comments from the passersby, Buffa said.
"People look up at you, shake their heads at you and tell you you're stupid," Buffa said. "We have someone up in the lift and one of us down on the bottom, but they don't know we work together. You get to listen to the whole story they tell about the guy in the lift."
LADDERS INSTEAD OF LIFTS While some Plaza shoppers might think that standing on the lift is risky, they would probably faint if they saw what electricians had to go through 50 years ago to get up the lights. The answer lies in Broadway's storage shed and meeting room. Tacked to the bulletin board, a yellowed newspaper clipping from 1937 reveals that it took six months to hang 45 miles of wiring. Although four electricians are responsible for the Plaza lighting project today, it used to take dozens of workers.
"The most labor intensive period was in the 30s and 40s, when there were 40 people doing a smaller amount of work," Hendrickson said.
When he first started in 1967, Hendrickson said the electricians used extension ladders and bosun's chairs to hang the lights. Buffa said a bosun's chair looks like a kid's swing.
"It's just a flat board that has ropes underneath the bottom that come up the side," Buffa said. "It was unsafe."
As Buffa picked up the bosun's chair from the ground, he pointed out the rope.
"It has ropes underneath so if the board breaks, you're still sitting on the ropes," Buffa said. "These electricians tied this themselves. These are two ends of a rope braided together."
Along with the chair, Broadway also kept the rope, which was coiled up near boxes of old, dusty bulbs.
"These are the old ropes they used when they dropped down the side and sat in their little chairs going up and down the big tall buildings," Buffa said.
The electricians and maintenance workers did all the work off of the scaffolding, Buffa said.
"They had to have the whole crew pushing the scaffold, which might be several layers high," he said. "It's pretty amazing what it took to put them up."
More than seven decades after the first Plaza lighting ceremony, the electricians are still hard at work checking lights in the final weeks before Thanksgiving and making new stringers in their shop.
Apprentice Jeff Wahlen said he is excited to see the lights come on during Thanksgiving night.
"I've always come down here as a kid and wondered what it would be like one day to do it," he said. "This is my third month, and I love it. The people are great. You couldn't have a better group of guys down here doing this."
Kansas City's Country Club Plaza was built in 1922 and designed as the country's first suburban outdoor shopping mall. A trip to Europe inspired Plaza developer Jesse Clyde (J.C.) Nichols to model the Plaza after the marketplaces of Spain. Kansas City later became a sister city of Seville, Spain, in 1967. Here are a few facts about the country's largest ceremonial lighting display:
- The first Plaza lighting ceremony was in 1929.
- 257,000 ceramic and transparent bulbs, in five different shapes and sizes, outline the Plaza buildings.
- 75 miles of lights are used in the project.
- Broadway Electrical Construction Co. spends about 3,000 man-hours on the project each year. The electrical team starts hanging the lights in August and then takes them down in early January. From about January until May, the team makes stringers in their shop and checks the lightbulbs.
- About 250,000 to 300,000 people were expected for the 71st annual Plaza lighting ceremony.
- As many as 10,000 bulbs can burn out during a holiday season.
1. Go slow and stay organized. "Take time with the lights," said Apprentice Russell McNeal. "They bundle them a certain way. Make sure you don't get out of order or you'll have tangled mess."
2. Try not to break any bulbs. "My biggest worry is breaking something and having it fall below on someone," McNeal said.
3. Take your time and relax. "You've got to relax because if you tense up hanging off anywhere, you're more apt to lose your balance," Kermit Kauffman said.
4. Make sure you get quality material. "Some of these stringers down here are 30 years old," said Project Manager Brian Root. "If you went to a store and bought a stringer of lights, you'd be lucky if it lasted you until next year."
5. Stay on top of safety. "You get accustomed to the heights," said Apprentice Jeff Wahlen. "Everything we do is safe, so we don't have anything to worry about."
Broadway Electrical Construction Co., a Kansas City-Kan. based contractor, has wired the Plaza Lights for the past 10 years. Here is the company's background:
Founded: 1983. Jerry Root, owner and father of Project Manager Brian Root, started the company after buying out Electric Service Contractors.
Company Growth: Broadway Electrical has bought out two contractors including Boese Hilburn Electric and Reynolds Electric. "Since we've been in business, we've moved three times and expanded from a $1 million company to $25 million last year," Brian Root said.
Markets: Broadway Electrical does commercial, industrial and communications work in the Kansas City area. "We're really starting to expand our data-voice department right now," Root said. "It's a never-ending market because of the technology that keeps coming out. There's never going to be a spot where technology is going to stop. Datacom is a major source of revenue."
Employees: 163 in the field, one full-time estimator, seven project managers, two employees in Broadway's service department and an in-house accountant and his staff.


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Finished the season with a 9-10 record ... Swept Alexandar Hsu of Brown in the season opener Nov. 19 … Beat Dartmouth's Robert Maycock 11-6, 11-9, 11-5 ... Came out on the winning side of a five-set match against Tashlin Reddy from Western Ontario ... Won matches by a score of 3-0 against opponents from St. Lawrence (Jan. 28) and Hamilton (Jan. 29) ... Helped Harvard capture fifth at the 2011 CSA National Team Championship ... Went 2-2 at the 2011 Individual National Championship.
2009-10 (Freshman):
Compiled a 7-5 overall record ... Owned a 6-4 record at the No. 9 position and was 1-1 at the No. 8 slot during rookie season ... Earned wins over Western Ontario and Cornell at CSA Team Championships.
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Seven-time letterwinner in tennis, squash and soccer at Horace Mann School … Ranked eighth under-19 in squash in 2009 and ninth under-17 in 2008 … Captained tennis team … Four-time all-conference selection in tennis … Named to all-conference second team in soccer in 2008 … Tutor for Citysquash.
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Yaaaaaaaaaaaawn. This is almost, but not quite, so weary-eyeroll-inducing that it's not worth the effort of typing it all out. (And the "almost" caveat is due entirely to my gleeful anticipation of the snarky Shapeling comments to follow.)
So first, Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams writes this about an ad campaign to designed to get British dudes to eat breakfast at Burger King.
Now, I know you'll all be thunderstruck to discover that the campaign is a comic and creative kersplat. (Something about how you visit a website and then you get to see a woman in a shower wiggle at you with eggs on her boobs, and then you want breakfast sausages, I don't know.) Equally unsurprisingly, Williams' send-up of the ad is vastly more entertaining and clever than the campaign itself.
I could go all blah blah blah offensive blah blah blah objectification of women blah blah blah nice nod to your voyeur pervs here, and in fact I will, but first, a reminder. We are all for sexy and witty and clever here. This, however, is not that. This is softcore to peddle hash browns…
Here's what really sticks in our craw like soggy onion rings, though: A Burger King spokesman told Advertising Age yesterday, "Our research showed that breakfast is a male-centric audience for Burger King; it doesn't resonate as well with women — we are targeting the people who are buying breakfast." In other words, sod off, wenches. You are mere bits shakers in the King's eyes, here to dance and sing with fried eggs on your boobs because we tell you to….We're busy reaching out to the fan base who can associate our products with their morning spank routine.
Reading that was fun, right? "Sticks in our craw like soggy onion rings"? "Sod off, wenches"!? Yes! Delightful! And correct! And, probably, all that needs to be said on the matter.
Except here comes Dan Mitchell from Big Money, rolling in on the Mansplain Express.* See, he likes Williams' Salon piece too. Likes it so much, in fact, that now he's going to instruct the rest of us in what it really means. Which, it turns out, is not all that close to what Williams actually, um, said. Citing the Salon piece approvingly, he says:
Exactly right. The problem here isn't really sexism, but stupidity…. [T]he campaign is at least equally offensive to men, and perhaps more so. It assumes, as usual, that men are idiots, that they'll somehow be drawn to greasy, horrid breakfast foods by some vacuous wet girl dancing in a bathing suit on the Web.
If some buffoon is sitting in front of a computer, pants down around his ankles, directing a woman in a shower to do his bidding, which of the two parties should feel more humiliated and exploited? At least the woman, presumably, is being paid.
Oh God. Dan Mitchell, the internet tells me you are some kind of official smart person, an expert on economics. Here's an econ word problem for you. Let's say that a whole bunch of people are taught to behave foolishly and ignorantly toward you, Dan Mitchell. They learn this in school. They get mentored in it by others. They are instructed in it in their houses of worship. Everywhere people go, they see messages that amount to, "Hey, everyone! Whenever Dan Mitchell comes around or is the subject of conversation, let's behave like immature, entitled, condescending, snickering, arrogant, leering assholes."
And some people REALLY take the message to heart, and some people don't, and some people are ambivalent, and some people don't see what the big deal is or deny that such messages exist. Okay? Still with me?
Do you think, within that scenario, you could find — indeed, might like and/or need to find — a way to turn that to your economic advantage? (Even if that means that some stranger might pompously call you… oh, 'vacuous' say?) Me too.
Do you think that your doing so would mean that you're responsible for turning some people into immature, entitled, condescending, snickering, arrogant, leering assholes? Me neither.
In this scenario, is it worth noting TO WHOM people are being taught to behave like jackasses? Or is it only pertinent THAT they're being taught to behave jackasses, and are thus clearly oppressed by some jackassery-making machine? No, you go ahead and think hard about that one. We'll wait.
I'd add more layers and more complexity, but I'm not convinced you're ready for them. If you're nice, the readers of Shapely Prose might bother to school you in the comments. I don't know, though — their time doesn't come cheap, and it's possible that many of them are too busy earning millions a year not being oppressed.
*-Typing "Mansplain Express" caused me to envision a douchebags-on-roller-skates Andrew Lloyd Weber extravaganza. This is possibly the best idea I've ever had in my life.


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Back To The Track
Originally intended as a one-off event, 2011 saw the 20th California Hot Rod Reunion at Famoso Raceway, near Bakersfield, presented by the Automobile Club of Southern California, and organized as part of the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum. Given that Steve Gibbs was the first executive director of the museum, and has been involved in drag racing almost all his life, from numbering cars, announcing and managing tracks, to running the staging at the March Meet at this very track in the mid-'60s, it was fitting that he should be named Grand Marshall for the 20th Reunion.
The Reunion was also Gibbs' idea, the event growing to become what must be the largest nostalgia drag racing event in the world, offering the chance to not only see, hear, and in some instances watch racing some of the sport's most famous cars, but to also meet the drivers, builders, and teams. Many old dragsters are restored, and while not legal to race any longer, are fired up to participate in the Cacklefest on the track on Saturday night, with over 50 at this event! The Reunion also includes the finale of the NHRA Hot Rod Heritage race series, and while Nostalgia Funny Cars weren't part of the event originally, at the 20th there were over 30 competing in qualifying sessions, 13 of them running in the 5-second zone.
But you don't even have to be a fan of nostalgia racing or old race cars (though it'd be hard not to once you've witnessed this event!) to enjoy the Reunion. While you'd not be able to ignore the sound of the action on the track, you could spend a full weekend at Famoso without watching a single car run, and still have a hard time seeing it all, what with the ever-expanding swap meet, the huge car show in the Grove behind the bleachers, and the opportunity to wander through the pits, getting an up-close look at the race cars as they're torn down between rounds.
Then there's the opportunity to talk to racing and hot rod heroes alike. We spotted John Force riding through the pits on a golf cart, "TV Tommy" Ivo being interviewed for, er, TV, and even Ed Iskenderian blasting down the return road in his iconic T roadster. They were all there enjoying the event along with everyone else, and happy to chat. With so much to do, it's no wonder the Reunion is a popular destination for attendees from literally around the world.


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"Before the coming of man, the rulers of that age were the ones known as the Ancients, that had overthrown the old gods, and begot an age of peace and plenty, when they built great cities and many marvelous things on Eternia. Theirs was the power above powers, drawn from the seed of creation, hidden at the shaping of the world. They were the sorcerers and warlocks of old. And by their pride did they lay the foundations of their demise."
-- Legend of He-Ro, fragment I
Books of Aeonia is something that started out as an attempt to write an ancient history for Eternia. Its roots go back to the year 2002, prior to the release of the MYP cartoon. I wanted to write down all the ideas I had been brewing about MOTU, and that involved putting together a coherent history for Eternia, it's places and races as well as individual character histories. In time it evolved into it's own separate canon with details that are clearly, sometimes glaringly, divergent from any other MOTU canon. For this reason I've dubbed the whole alternate universe as Metternia.
During the years, a lot has changed, but the basic outline remained the same. I've written down fragments of history starting from a time before Eternia existed and events relevant to the time and trials of He-Man. At a certain point I decided that just writing down history, laying all the facts bare, wasn't the ideal approach. I decided to write the histories as the works of scribes and scholars working from fragmentary sources of uncertain reliability, leaving it open when they were relying accurate facts, when myth or guesswork. This also allowed me to leave some details vague, so that I could return them if I chose to be more explicit, or decided things needed to be changed. This is what lead to the name "Books of Aeonia", Aeonia being the place all these legends and histories were being preserved and deciphered by a dedicated order of historians.
There's also more than just straight up accounts of events. Some texts handle subjects such as the origin and nature of some races, gods and descriptions of things that don't exist in other canons, such as the Gear Men of Eternos. Many of them are in dire need of rewrites just for the reason of switching from omniscient to unreliable author mode. Some are more problematic, as the assumed author needs to know things unknowable to most or even all of Eternians. There are also bunches of quotes and fragments from ancient manuscripts, like the (one at the beginning of this post) I've created both as notes of things I need to cover and to give an idea of what sort of data the author would be working from. I doubt I'll try to write entire chapters in this style, it would honestly be too tasking to try to imitate the style of ancient writers - and quite painful to read as well!
(My MOTU bios, also concerning the Metternian versions of characters, are a separate project. They will remain in a style where every statement is factual, even if this means revealing things the fictional authors of the Books of Aeonia are unaware of.)
As an example I offer you this account of the First Great War. Please, let me know what you think. This is your big chance of stopping me from posting any more!
The First Great War
It is told by Scribius in On Sorcery that at the end of their golden age the Ancient sorcerers found the very essence of all that is. They discovered patterns beyond time and space, matter and energy, which defined the shape of that which was past, that which was present and that which was yet to come. With this came the realization that if these patterns of being could somehow be influenced, they could gain power beyond that of even the gods. The Ancients became afraid of the consequences such a power could have in the hands of a mortal man, and they banned anyone from ever attempting such folly.
But there were those among the Ancients that would not easily give up the promise of such immense power. One of them was known as Ho-Ra'kul, the lord of the Viper Tower, and greatest of the warlocks of this time. When it was found that he still pursued the power to change the patterns of being, he was thrown out of the Council of Power that then governed all the practicers of arcane arts. It was thought that denied access to the Great Seals, he could no longer channel the magics he needed to achieve his goal.
Though defeated and humiliated, Ho-Ra'kul would not give up his quest. He feigned repentance and begged the Council for forgiveness, but continued his work in secret, and gathered a group of lower-level mages that would aid him under the pretense that he was merely teaching them in the arcane arts. With time the Council of Power began suspected Ho-Ra'kul's intentions and desired to keep an eye of him. A young sorcerer named He-Ka'tor was chosen to approach the warlock pretending to seek apprenticeship, but report back to the Council in secret.
Too late the Council of Power discovered that He-Ka'tor had betrayed them and joined Ho-Ra'kul. One of the warlock's closest disciples*, the magically changed Horned Ones, had seen the error of their ways and wanted to warn the Council that Ho-Ra'kul was about achieve the ultimate power beyond powers. As a proof he showed a book of spells, copied from the warlock's own grimoire. The Council of Power was outraged and demanded that Ho-Ra'kul and his followers end their activities and surrender to investigation. But Ho-Ra'kul had foreseen this development and prepared to war against the Council.
(*This was according to Scribius the warlock Ho-Res'kes, who it is said elsewhere chose to abandon his ways and train in the art of sorcery, taking the name He-Re'tos, and guided Ro Larr on his path to become He-Ro.)
The might of the warlock and his Horned Ones was terrible, and their first attack took the Council of Power by surprise. Entire cities were engulfed in flames and wiped out of existence by destructive magics. But though the Hall of Wisdom was destroyed and the Serpent Seal lost, the guardians of the Great Seals were not yet beaten, and they were joined by the Council of Knowledge who gave access to all the science and technology at their disposal to help the war effort. Together they joined the forces of science and sorcery to end the threat of the warlock and his disciples.
As the war raged, great and terrible forces tore the very fabric of reality. Mountains shifted, great yawning chasms between dimensions opened to swallow everything within the reach of the eye, and others spewed forth strange things and beings never seen before. Even time was bent and distorted, farthest future and most distant past blending together in an unnatural union. But neither the forces of the warlock nor the Councils combined could gain the upper hand. The great chaos strewn by the battles forced both sides to rethink their strategies. It became clear that all would have to end in direct confrontation, or all of Eternia would become undone.
A legend tells that Ho-Ra'kul took the Serpent Seal and forged out of it a great black sword, the Sword of Destruction. None could stand against the devastating power of the demon sword, wielded by the Warlock himself. But the Guardians of the Seals forged another sword to oppose it, the Sword of Protection, that would stand against the warlock's sword. It was made to channel the protective powers of the universe and answer to the destructive might of the demon sword to with an equal strength, so it could not be unraveled. The great blade was taken by He-Me'ros who was now the leader of the surviving sorcerers and according to some sources the guardian of the Skull Seal.
When Ho-Ra'kul came to claim the Viper Tower as his own, He-Me'ros challenged him to a duel. But when the Warlock tried to strike him down, his blade met that of the Sword of Protection. The primal powers channeled by the swords clashed together and engulfed the battleground in a brilliant flash of light and great peal of thunder. A wind strong enough to throw grown men into the air gushed forth from where the two adversaries had stood, but they were no longer there. The very ground below them had vanished, leaving a great bowl in the ground. And in the middle stood a sword, merged together from the two opposing blades, yet greater than the sum of its parts. It was the Sword of Power that many legends would be written about.
The loss of their leader was a great and unexpected blow to the followers of Ho-Ra'kul. Even his most trusted disciples, the feared Horned Ones, became confused and frightened and fell one by one. Yet there were two among his trusted elite that simply disappeared, the witch Sho-Ko'ti and the traitorous sorcerer He-Ka'tor, both thought to have abandoned their master even before he was defeated in battle. So ended the First of the Great Wars, and a period of rebuilding and reparation began.


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The Classic Automobilia Tour From Kalamazoo To Burlington
The NSRA Nationals North in Kalamazoo, Michigan, proved to be the perfect kickoff to the AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Classic Automobilia Tour. The September weather was great with clear blue skies and temperatures in the high 70s each day. The fairgrounds were covered with participants and spectators each of the three days of the event.
Sunday afternoon about 15 of the 20 street rods that were registered for the Classic Automobilia Tour gathered at the STREET RODDER hospitality tent and the trip to Burlington began. Our destination for Sunday evening was Milan, Ohio, near Lake Erie and the Cedar Point area. We arrived just before sunset, enjoyed some supper, and hit the hay in anticipation of a full day of fun on Monday
Monday started with a 7:30 a.m. driver's meeting where we went over the day's activities. It was a short 5-mile drive to Thomas Edison's birthplace, just off the square in Milan. From Milan we headed east on the Ohio Turnpike and Berea, Ohio, the home of the Flaming River Industries facilities. Flaming River has been the official steering component supplier to the Road Tour for many years. At Flaming River we were greeted by Sales Manager Brett Domin and the Flaming River staff. We were also greeted by a video crew who were filming footage to be used in a Flaming River promotional video. We were given a tour of the manufacturing facilities and then enjoyed some delicious cookies and coffee before setting out on our travels east.
The next stop was the Akron, Ohio, home of Gearstar Transmission. Gearstar has been the official automatic transmission supplier for the Road Tour cars for the last four years. We put about 20,000 miles on our Road Tour vehicles each season and the Gearstar transmissions have performed flawlessly every year. At Gearstar we were greeted by owner Zack Farrah and his staff of technicians. After a question and answer session with the experts at Gearstar we all enjoyed a great lunch before traveling on to Youngstown, Ohio.
The drive to Youngstown took about an hour and then we arrived at the Classic Automobilia showroom at 1 p.m. My wife Mary Ann and I started Classic Automobilia in 1989 and have been supplying automotive nostalgia items to folks for 20 years. The most recent addition to the Classic Automobilia line is the '34 Hot Rod pedal car that celebrates the 75th anniversary of that iconic body style. It is always fun to show everyone the items that I have collected over the years.
After our visit at Classic Automobilia the Road Tourians headed for the hotel and I headed for my own house for a change. Mary Ann and I had invited everyone to stop by for some refreshments before we headed to TP Tools for a visit. Also at our house we handed out the Road Tour participant goodie bags and T-shirts. Mary Ann also put together a special goodie bag for the tour participants. It was great to show everyone our home and collection of vehicles.
At TP Tools in Canfield we were greeted by owners Fred and Bob Zwicker. The showroom at TP Tools is of course filled with every type of tool and sandblast equipment that anyone would need for automotive work, but it is also filled with some great displays of items that Fred and Bob have collected over the years. The offices are lined with incredible antique wood cabinets, desks, and beautiful oak trim. We were shown the production facilities where the TP Tools blasting cabinets and HVLP spray units are manufactured. The newest addition at TP is the building that houses their classic car collection. We enjoyed some refreshments and everyone had a great time at TP Tools. It was a full day of fun on the Classic Automobilia Tour.
The Tuesday morning driver's meeting was exciting as we were joined by five very official and very serious Secret Service agents at the hotel where the Road Tourians were staying. They were the advance team for President Obama's visit to the local General Motors plant that afternoon. They seemed to notice our cars but there was definitely not a lot of chit-chat from them.
Our first stop on Tuesday was Rocky Hinge in Girard, Ohio, a suburb of Youngstown. Rocky Shamblin, his wife Carol, his son Brad, and the crew greeted us and we took a tour of their facility. Besides the hidden hinges they are famous for, they also produce some trick items, like bear claw assemblies, a billet cowl door lift, and a very cool electric '55 Chevy taillight/gas door opener, to name a few. Rocky Hinges is yet another example of American craftsmen manufacturing quality products right here in the United States.
It was a two-hour drive east across I-80 to DuBois, Pennsylvania. We had an invitation to see the amazing muscle car collection of Don Frezell. Housed in two adjoining buildings, Frezell's collection includes a cross section of some of the most rare and desirable high-performance vehicles of the last 50 years. Included are two early '60s Z-11 Chevys, one of which is the famous Old Reliable IV, which was built by Grumpy Jenkins and driven by Dave Strickler. Mixed in the collection are rare factory Mopar race cars and some Mustangs and Fords to keep things even. Frezell provided some great sandwiches for the group and it was another fantastic AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour stop.
Our afternoon drive was long as we traveled four hours to the town of Port Jervis, New York, where we were going to be guests of honor at a special monthly cruise being held in our honor. What we found when we arrived was really amazing. The main drag in the town had been blocked off for cruising and the streets were lined with cars, trucks, and motorcycles of all different styles. The cruising went on from 6-8:30 p.m. when awards were given out to winners of different classes. Many thanks to Harold Butler who helped coordinate our visit. It was a fun evening indeed.
Wednesday was a day I had been looking forward to all summer. We visited the Woodstock Festival site and the new and very beautiful Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. Forty years ago at the tender young age of 18, I made the trip to the hillside in upstate New York and became part of what was the defining moment of the '60s. I had made one return trip to the site in 1996 with the original Road Tour coupe but it has really changed since then.
After a beautiful 45-minute drive from Port Jervis were met at the Bethel Woods by Jodi Kane who is in charge of group visits. Kane did a fantastic job of showing us the grounds and the incredible facility that has been built at the original festival site. There are summer concerts each year at Bethel Woods but for me the crown jewel was the museum. It is an amazing collection of artifacts and items that tell the story of not only the concert itself but what events in our nation's history led up to that moment in August 1969. It really tells the story of the '60s. Our stop at Bethel Woods was a high point in our Classic Automobilia Road Tour week.
From Bethel we headed on to Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Wednesday evening we visited the home and shop of my good friends Sue and Dennis O'Brien of O'Brien Truckers fame in nearby Charlton, Massachusetts. O'Brien Truckers is famous for their cast aluminum car club plaques, license plate toppers, and vintage cast aluminum accessories for hot rods. Their home and facility are beautiful and we had a wonderful evening with many local rodders showing up to enjoy some pizza and beverages. We were also joined by automotive journalist Steve Magnante. Many of you may know Magnante from his in-depth work on the Speed Channel's coverage of the Barrett Jackson Auctions. It was yet another great evening on the Classic Automobilia Tour.
After our fun evening at O'Brien Truckers in Charlton we were up and rolling, as Thursday was the day we were to arrive in Burlington. Our first stop in the morning was at Intercity Lines terminal in Brookfield, Massachusetts. Intercity Lines is the official auto transport company of the AMSOIL/STREET RODDER Road Tour. Folks on the East Coast have expressed an interest in participating in our West Coast Tour and vice versa for our West Coast Road Tourians. Intercity provides a way to safely and conveniently get your vehicle across long distances worry free. At Intercity we were greeted by President Dave Wilson and the Intercity staff. While enjoying coffee and doughnuts we were given a demonstration of the care and preparation that goes into securing a vehicle for its trip on an Intercity carrier. Their services make it possible for more folks to enjoy Road Tours across the country.
Our morning drive took us across the beautiful hills of New Hampshire and onto our lunch stop at Queechee Gorge Village on the New Hampshire/Vermont border. After some lunch we posed for a group picture and we were on our way to Burlington and the NSRA Northeast Nationals. We arrived in time for registration and all settled into our hotels for three days of fun.
It was a great weekend at the Northeast Nationals. We all enjoyed the AMSOlL/STREET RODDER Road Tour hospitality tent. The weather was dry but as is the case in Vermont in September the morning can be very chilly. There was ice on the roof of the Road Tour Chevy one morning and it was the first "snowball" of the '09 Road Tour. We posed for a group picture on Saturday at the tent and I was surprised by everyone as they presented me with a Road Tour poster that they had all signed. They also give me some money to take Mary Ann out to dinner when I got home. Thanks folks, that was very nice!
The Road Tourians again took some top awards at the Burlington event. Dennis Gibson and Jim and Cindy Getter were presented with Reps picks and Chuck and Ann Shepler won the long distance award. It is always nice to see Road Tourians in the winners circle. Our cars are top-notch drivers who look great too.
As I pulled out of the fairgrounds I set my sights to the west. In five days I was scheduled to start the Sherms Plating Tour 3,000 miles away in Escondido, California near San Diego. I had to get rolling. I am driving the Road Tour Chevy on a cross-country run that will be "old-school" Road Touring with three 800-mile days. California here I come.


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Balsamic Chicken and Mushrooms
But you know how I am. I just never was that good at following directions! (I used to call myself *the woman who never followed a recipe in her life.*) I kept the ingredients similar to the original recipe, but used a very different method to make the dish. Luckily, it turned out great!
Balsamic Chicken and Mushrooms
1 cup sliced mushrooms (about 4 oz., I used baby bella brown mushrooms)
1-2 T olive oil (depends on your pan)
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 T 100% whole wheat flour
1/2 tsp. poultry seasoning (I like Penzeys.)
1/3 cup chicken stock or canned chicken broth
2 T good quality Balsamic vinegar (I like Fini Brand)
1 tsp. Dijon Mustard
1/2 tsp. garlic puree
Clean mushrooms and slice in thick slices. (I confess, I wash my mushrooms.) Heat a little of the olive oil in heavy frying pan and saute mushrooms 4-5 minutes, until starting to slightly brown.
While mushrooms brown, trim all visible fat and tendons from chicken breasts, then pound chicken until it is about 3/8 inch thick. (I put chicken in a small, heavy duty ziploc bag and use a meat mallet to pound one chicken breast at a time.)
Mix flour and poultry seasoning on a plate. Remove mushrooms from frying pan and put in small bowl. Add a bit more olive oil to pan and heat. Coat each chicken breast in a very thin layer of flour/poultry seasoning mixture, then add to pan. Saute over medium heat until quite brown on each side, about 6-7 minutes total. While chicken cooks, combine balsamic vinegar, Dijon, and garlic puree.
When chicken is browned on both sides and done, remove from pan and put on serving plate. Add chicken stock to hot pan and deglaze, scraping browned bits off the bottom. Cook 1-2 minutes, until stock is slightly reduced. Add balsamic vinegar mixture, and mushrooms, cook 1-2 minutes more. Pour over chicken and serve immediately.
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This would be phase two or three for the South Beach Diet, due to the flour. I think you could make it without flour with pretty good results, although I like the way chicken browns with a bit of flour coating it. This would taste great with Pureed Cauliflower with Garlic, Parmesan, and Goat Cheese or Roasted Butternut Squash with Rosemary and Balsamic Vinegar. Roasted Broccoli with Garlic would be a good side dish.


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Big, curly, straight, pouffed up, slicked down. Stylists from 10 salons gave the audience locks to love for the annual 303 Magazine hair show at EXDO Event Center. This amazing display of creativity was a benefit for The Center and its programs serving Colorado's gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities.
From the geisha-inspired hair, makeup and costumes from Berenicies to the knives, nails, files and spikes that gave an industrial-esque edge to the 'do's from The Parlour, the 25-minute show was both entertaining and enlightening, showing a packed house what Denver stylists can do when they're encouraged to let their creativity soar.
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The first time was bad. The second is even worse.
Joan Peay, a 73-year-old Nashville fungal meningitis victim who fought back from grave illness toward a normal life, lies in a hospital bed suffering from a relapse a full year later.
Just a few months ago, doctors had told her she was free from the deadly disease and no longer needed to take powerful and debilitating antifungal medications.
They gave her "a clean bill of health," said her son, Trent Johnson of Franklin.
In an interview this summer, a hopeful Peay said her life was beginning to return to normal and she was even able to drive.
But in August, Johnson said, she began to experience persistent headaches.
At first doctors thought the cause was nasal scarring, and surgery was performed in September, but that didn't help and the headaches got even worse.
Pain pills were prescribed in hopes the pain would abate, but it didn't.
Johnson said his wife, Shelley, was the first to begin "really questioning" whether the problem was in fact a relapse of fungal meningitis.
And the headaches just got worse, Johnson said, reaching a crescendo on the last weekend of September.
"The pain was so bad she missed her grandson's birthday party," he said.
Eventually a spinal tap showed her white blood cell count was up to 8,000, compared with a normal count of 10 or under.
He said that doctors at first thought she might have bacterial meningitis, but tests for that contagious form of meningitis proved negative.
While Peay's first painful encounter with meningitis included several hospital stays, her son says the relapse has been even worse.
He said the antifungal medications are "like being on chemotherapy."
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Event Archive - Quiz Whiz Trivia Night
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In July and August 2013, Todd Parr will be dropping in to many Oakland Public Library locations to read and draw with kids. Mr. Parr is the author and illustrator of dozens of books for children.
All of his Oakland Public Library appearances will include a short read-aloud and tips on how to draw. Additionally, a free, healthy lunch will be served to youths ages 0–18, as part of the Free Summer Lunch Program held at many Oakland Library locations. Free Summer Lunch is provided by the Alameda County Food Bank in partnership with the City of Oakland.
Mr. Parr suggested the series of appearances as a gesture of support for Free Summer Lunch and the Library's Summer Reading Program. Mr. Parr is donating his time free of charge. Come see him at:
Temescal Branch, Thursday July 18, 12:30pm (lunch served 12:30-1:30)
Dimond Branch, Friday July 19th, 1pm (lunch served 12:30-1:30)
Melrose Branch, Wednesdsay July 24, 1pm (lunch served 12-1)
César Chávez Branch, Thursday July 25, 1:30pm (lunch served 12:30-1:30)
Main Library Children's Room, Monday July 29, 1pm (lunch served 12:30-1:30)
Eastmont Branch, Tuesday July 30, 1pm (lunch served 12-1)
West Oakland Branch, Wednesday July 31, 12pm (lunch served 12-1)
Elmhurst Branch, Wednesday August 7, 1pm (lunch served 12-1)
And check out his books today!


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It's been almost a year since Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire, sparking a wave of protests in his country and ensuing events that led to what we now refer to as the "Arab Spring". Today, these events were remembered, and the future of the region debated, during a seminar MIGA co-hosted with the Financial Times in London on Managing Global Political Risk: Old Risks, New Moment.
Tunisia's Minister of Finance Jalloul Ayed spoke passionately, eloquently, and with tremendous insight about the challenges and opportunities facing his country, noting many look to Tunisia as setting the pace and showing the way. "So far so good", he noted, adding "democracy is now hopefully part of our political tradition." But there is a daunting road ahead, dealing with the priorities, creating jobs for the hundreds of thousands of unemployed youth, encouraging much-needed investment. His biggest concern? "We cannot lose focus; we have to reform and get the job done."
His comments touched off considerable debate about potential for true political reform and democratic governments and potential for investment, especially foreign investment, that can help lead the region onto a strong development path. Overshadowing the discussion of course was the euro zone crisis, what happens next in Brussels, and what happens with sovereign debt. Because in today's interconnected world, everyone at the event understood deeply that much of what happens in the region will depend on the ability to "get Europe right." The region needs investment, but that means sponsors and lenders have to be able to raise capital for the important projects that governments cannot fund in infrastructure and other areas.
And this completely ties in with MIGA's latest annual publication World Investment and Political Risk launched at the seminar. A survey for the report MIGA conducted with the Economist Intelligence Unit shows that events in the Middle East and North Africa have had a negative effect on foreign direct investment, but that a significant majority of global investors said they have not changed their investment plans. Charles Paradis of Bouygues Construction noted it is business as usual for his firm, though the constraint of banks pulling back on lending due to the current economic turbulence put a pinch on investment. So his company is turning to multilaterals, including MIGA, for assistance. The bottom-line hope amongst many on the panel and in the audience is that transition in the region is coupled with political stability, which in turn could help contribute to economic development.
Another panel debated expropriation, the legalities of it, risks to investors, how to mitigate against the risk. This also pertains directly to MIGA's report which notes the probability of disputes between governments and foreign investors is materially increased by an economic shock and/or significant political shift. Evidence also shows that investor disputes are more likely to be resolved—avoiding outright expropriation— by democratically elected governments rather than non-democratic regimes. Another interesting topic that prompted more debate well into the lunch hour.
The panels and the audience couldn't tackle everything at today's half-day seminar. There is so much to consider, so much change, risks, and possibilities on the road ahead for the global community and in particular the Middle East and North Africa region. But they certainly engaged to give it a good try.