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Mark O'Mara, the Irish American defense attorney for George Zimmerman, has made another appeal for people to continue donating funds to their defense efforts.
The Associated Press reports that O'Mara posted to his team's fundraising site, GZDefenseFund.com, asking people to donate more money on Thursday.
Additionally, a spokesperson said that O'Mara is looking to delay the trial from June to November citing that prosecutors have been slow to hand over evidence.
George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watchman, has so far pled not guilty to second degree murder charges of 17-year-old unarmed African American Trayvon Martin in Florida in February of last year.
As of January 2, donations had amounted to $314,099.17, but O'Mara is now estimating the costs could run up to $1 million.
"The state has virtually unlimited resources to prosecute George," O'Mara said on Zimmerman's defense fund website. "To finance his defense, however, George relies on the generosity of individuals who believe he is innocent."
Of the initial money that was raised, $95,000 was spent on bail, almost $62,000 was spent on Zimmerman's living expenses during the past eight months and $56,100 was spent on security, as the suspect has faced threats to his life after gunning down the 17-year-old boy.
According to the AP, Zimmerman's living expenses were so high due to the fact that both he and his wife, who are unemployed, were forced to live in extended stay hotels until they could find a place to rent in Seminole County in Florida as dictated by bail conditions.
O'Mara is now appealing to the public for a donation goal of $30,000 a month to support Zimmerman's legal fees, which would not include his attorney fee.
O'Mara is also looking to delay the trial until November as he claims prosecutors have been slow to turn over evidence. For example, O'Mara said that someone from the State Attorney's Office had removed Trayvon Martin's cell phone from an evidence locker and had it sent to California for analysis, but the state has refused to provide O'Mara with any information in regards to the agency and or type of tests being conducted.
O'Mara also said prosecutors had made it difficult to get answer to administrative questions from a chief investigative
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1. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Anil Saldanha Aug 31, 2010 5:28 PM (in response to Brian Krisler)
And why would you create your own custom PDP? I fail to understand why people want to reinvent the wheels themselves. This is a trend I am increasingly seeing at companies.
A PDP's job is to evaluate policies. If our PDP is not doing that properly then there may be bugs (I have not seen any major bug reports and I have run our PDP in complex policies' scenarios at various interoperability events).
I am pretty confident that our PDP is robust and can do good for the features we have advertised.
2. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Anil Saldanha Aug 31, 2010 5:41 PM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
In JBAS, you should be able to replace the entire xacml infrastructure with a custom stack by implementing a new PolicyRegistration interface and then writing your own XACML policy module. The JBoss Microcontainer can be used to add in your PR implementation.
Correction above:- If you are going to implement your custom xacml policy/authorization module, then you do not need to use the PolicyRegistration interface at all. You should be able to have custom logic to locate the policies applicable to your deployment.
3. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Brian Krisler Aug 31, 2010 6:08 PM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
I too am against reinventing the wheel and that is one of the reasons we selected Picketbox/Picketlink as a
staring point for our research. When we started, we reviewed all of the existing SAML/XACML
solutions in the open source and found that Picketbox/Picketlink put us close to our goal with minimal modification.
As far as why I need to create a custom PDP, there are two reasons, (if I missed something
that would allow these features in the existing implementation, a pointer would be great!):
1) We need to support attribute-based authorization. The current implementation appears to be
role-based authorization.
2) We need to support remote Attribute Authorities. From what I can determine, this would require
modification of the PDP to allow for configuration of a known/trusted attribute authority that
is not self contained.
Another requirement I have not started to investigate, however I think should be supported in the existing
PDP is the intergration of a custom rule combining algorithm.
At the moment, the custom PolicyRegistration approach is the route I took. This has allowed my
to extend and modify the existing PDP to meet my requirements. It is possible that what I am doing
is very specific and not worth modification of the existing implementation.
Hope this helps some in clarifying my intent.
4. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Anil Saldanha Aug 31, 2010 8:01 PM (in response to Brian Krisler)
Brian, thanks for the explanation. I am glad that you are open to making modifications to the OSS codebase rather than reinventing something.
Let me think more on what you said.
XACML is what brings in the attribute based authorization to the Java EE specification.
We can certainly discuss ways by which we can mutually get at a common ground.
Please go ahead and give some detailed description if you have and I should be able to see where we can adapt/change our codebase to achieve the goals. In the end, we both benefit.
5. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Brian Krisler Sep 7, 2010 3:10 PM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
What I mean by attributes for a subject is the following.
At the moment, this is a typical policy subject block from a request:
<Subject> <SubjectMatch MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal"> <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Manager</AttributeValue> <SubjectAttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:subject:role" DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" /> </SubjectMatch> <SubjectMatch MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:string-equal"> <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string">Developer</AttributeValue> <SubjectAttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:subject:role" DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string" /> </SubjectMatch> </Subject>
When a request is made against this policy, it would be in the form of a user id (Bob) and his roles (Manager), this is supporting role-based authorization. However for attribute-based authorization, the policy would look more like:
<Subject> <SubjectMatch MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:boolean-equal"> <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean">true</AttributeValue> <SubjectAttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:my-org:manager:attribute" DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean" /> </SubjectMatch> <SubjectMatch MatchId="urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:1.0:function:boolean-equal"> <AttributeValue DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean">true</AttributeValue> <SubjectAttributeDesignator AttributeId="urn:my-org:developer:attribute" DataType="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean" /> </SubjectMatch> </Subject>
When a request is made against the attribute-based policy the requestor would pass in a list of values as such:
urn:my-org:manager:attribute = true
urn:my-org:developer:attribute = false
In a review of the existing code (EJBXACMLUtil,java for example), it does not allow for such attribute-based values. Instead, it loops over the provided roles and creates the attributes based on the ATTRIBUTEID_ROLE constant.
List<Role> rolesList = callerRoles.getRoles(); if(rolesList != null) { for(Role role:rolesList) { String roleName = role.getRoleName(); AttributeType attSubjectID = RequestAttributeFactory.createStringAttributeType( XACMLConstants.ATTRIBUTEID_ROLE, "jboss.org", roleName); subject.getAttribute().add(attSubjectID); } }
An other issue is that the construction of the request is dependent upon the Principal for setting of the subject-id value. We are working on a model where there will never be a Princial object to extract a subject-id. In our case, we will instead pass in a set of attributes for evaluation.
Upon further review, it might just be the helper methods (EJBXAMLUtil and WebXACMLUtil) that will require much modification. The addition of a second method in the util objects for creating of these attribute based request objects might just work. I have not fully reviewed the policy application code in detail yet, but from a cursory glance it appears to be attribute-id agnostic and will just create a Set of attribute/value pairs and then upon validation, apply the proper attribute function.
Message was edited by: Brian Krisler -- Tried to fix XML formatting.
6. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Anil Saldanha Sep 7, 2010 3:58 PM (in response to Brian Krisler)
I think you should consider writing a separate XACMLAuthorizationModule that makes the decisions based on the information available from the subject, JDK (time/date/ip) etc.
In our case, we use it mainly for Java EE which is RBAC.
You know how to plug in your own authorization module at the security domain level. correct?
I would refrain from changing the EJBXACMLUtil/web...util because they are the core JBoss codebase.
It is best to write your own XACML authz module that uses our XACML api.
7. Re: Make JBossPDP an interface to allow easier insertion of custom PDP.Brian Krisler Sep 27, 2010 4:36 PM (in response to Anil Saldanha)
Upon further investigation, I am not sure creation of a seperate AuthorizationModule will provide me with everything I need.
For my implementation, the attributes used for construction of the authorization request will be part of the request. So the request
will be a SOAP request, containing the service requested and the header will have a SAML block containing the attributes associated
with the user requesting access.
From what I can see, the AuthorizationModule does not have access to the SOAP message request and thus cannot extract the
desired attributes. Is this true, or am I overlooking something?


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The '''Grey Mountains''' (or '''Ered Mithrin''' in [[Sindarin]]) was a large mountain range to the north of [[Rhovanion]]. They were the last remnants of the wall of the [[Iron Mountains]], which once stretched all over the north of [[Middle-earth]], but were broken at the end of the [[First Age]].
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The Grey Mountains (or Ered Mithrin in Sindarin) was a large mountain range to the north of Rhovanion. They were the last remnants of the wall of the Iron Mountains, which once stretched all over the north of Middle-earth, but were broken at the end of the First Age.
Description, and Geography
North of the Grey Mountains lay the Northern Waste.[1] This land was known as Dor Daedelos during the First Age, but most of it was destroyed in the breaking of Arda.
In the west, where the Grey Mountains met with the Misty Mountains rose Mount Gundabad, an ancient Dwarven holy site and later the capital for the Orcs of the north. The eastern end of the Grey Mountains was split into two chains, and in between lay the Withered Heath, where Dragons bred. After that was a wide hilly plain, until the Iron Hills continued the old line of the Iron Mountains again. Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, was not part of either range.[1]
From east to west the mountains stretched some 350 Númenórean Miles, and the sources of the Great River Anduin, the river Greylin, and the Forest River of Mirkwood arose in this range.[1]
Years of the Trees through the Second Age
Since sometime after the awakening of Durin the Deathless, the Longbeards had mined and colonized the Grey Mountains as part of their vast mountain territory. Through the First Age there was peace in the region, and the Dwarves explored and mined without hinderance. During the Second Age however after the War of Wrath, and the subsequent sinking of Beleriand, hordes of Orcs began to invade and make war against the Longbeards in the Grey and Misty Mountains as well as Mount Gundabad.[2] However the Orcs were eventually subdued for a time, and the Dwarves went back to work.
The Third Age
In T.A. 1980 a Balrog appeared in Khazad-dum and by the next year the Dwarves fled.[3] Durin's folk were scattered. Thráin I reestablished the Kingdom Under the Mountain but Thorin I went to the Grey Mountains where most of the Dwarves gathered.[4] Nearly six hundred years later Dragons began afflicting the Dwarves. In 2589 Dáin I was slain by a Dragon and the Grey Mountain strongholds were abandoned after the Wars of the Dwarves and Dragons. About 2480 Orcs had begun to infest the Misty Mountains[3] and spread to the Grey Mountains, such that by 2941 Gandalf the Wizard could say that the range was "simply stiff with goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description".[5] However, after the Battle of Five Armies the number of Goblins in the Grey Mountains were greatly reduced (some three parts of them had perished).[6]
It seems that some Dwarves still dwelt in the Ered Mithrin during the late Third Age, so it is likely after the War of the Ring, the Dwarves drove whatever Drakes and Orcs were left totally from the mountains, and reclaimed the rest of their halls and mines in the Grey Mountains.
Other Versions of the Legendarium
Another line of "Grey Mountains" in Middle-earth are seen on the Ambarkanta map.[7]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The West of Middle-earth at the End of the Third Age" [map]
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Peoples of Middle-earth, "Of Dwarves and Men", pp. 302-303
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, "The Third Age"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, "Durin's Folk"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "Queer Lodgings"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, "The Return Journey"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Shaping of Middle-earth, "V. The Ambarkanta"


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Obama's Re-Election: Perspective from Europe
The U.S. Presidential election was watched closely around the world, perhaps no more so than in Europe. WSJ London Bureau Chief Bruce Orwall joins the News Hub with European-focused foreign policy questions facing Barack Obama. Photo: Getty Images.
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Bruce Orwall who is joining us now praise good morning ... the risk in the three series ... there is a brisk morning so I wanna ask you ... how well he's obviously still very popular in Europe but in the red the reaction this time around is more muted than it really was into thousandeight ... of what is what you're looking for prom ... in terms of American leadership at this point ... a lot ... of course present Obama has is what was his election in two thousand ate there was that the very euphoric moment is new this time around a little bit ... you know there's a sense of congratulations to Mr President but they remember us we've got problems over here ... 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BUFFALO, N.Y. – University at Buffalo archaeologists have been digging to find the remains of the oldest grist mill in Erie County and they say that it may not be where everyone thought it was.
Excavation director Douglas Perrelli, PhD, RPA, director of the UB Archaeological Survey, says they now have evidence that the circa 1803 mill built in Clarence by Asa Ransom may have been located at a different site than the two grist mills that replaced it.
They derived this hypothesis from a brief summer excavation behind the Asa Ransom House on Main Street in Clarence, which was initiated by Perrelli and archaeologist Joseph McGreevy, a member of the faculty of Clarence Senior High School and a member of the board of directors of the Clarence Historical Society and the Clarence Historic Preservation Commission.
The project was funded by a 2012 E & W G Foundation grant awarded to the Clarence Historical Society that is administered by the SUNY Research Foundation.
The effort resulted in a two-day public demonstration excavation earlier this month in which workers, including trained community members and students from Clarence Senior High School, looked for evidence of the early mill. Information about the site history and the archaeological process was shared with visitors.
"We wanted those living here to realize the history and its artifacts beneath their feet and to appreciate the accomplishments of the town's earliest settlers despite the difficulties they faced," McGreevy says.
McGreevy understands those difficulties, having written one of the most accurate and detailed histories of this site. He points out that in 1799 the Holland Land Company, which owned vast tracts of forested wilderness here, offered 10 acres of land in Clarence to "any proper man who would build and operate a tavern upon it."
Asa Ransom, a 36-year-old Buffalo silversmith originally from Massachusetts, was one of the first to sign up.
"True to his word, in 1801 he built a large log house and tavern that could accommodate travelers along the main east-west route through that isolated part of Erie County. The house/tavern was followed by a saw mill in 1802 and then by the grist mill," McGreevy says.
He says the original small, water-powered grist mill could not grind much grain because it was located on a stream that offered insufficient water power.
"After the deaths of Asa Ransom (1825) and his wife (1837) the property was sold, and in the 1840s the old mill was replaced – possibly on a different site, we think – by a bigger grist mill powered by a stream whose flow was strengthened through the use of a large mill pond, now part of Clarence Town Park. A third mill built in 1895-97 burned down in the 1920s," McGreevy says.
"We've found artifacts associated with the two later mills," says Perrelli, "including building materials, parts of tools, pieces of pottery, glass, bottles and other material that survived more than 150 years of weather, fire and burial.
"Then, on the last day of the excavation," he says, "we did some shovel testing in another area behind the Asa Ransom House and found preliminary evidence that the earliest mill was located higher on the hill, closer to the (later) mill pond and on the opposite side of the stream from the later mills," he says. Perrelli and McGreevy hope to raise funds to investigate this site.
McGreevy points out that in addition to building a second, and then a third, grist mill, later owners razed the original Asa Ransom house and tavern, and in 1853 built a large brick house on the site. This building was expanded in 1975 and 1993 and today is operated as an inn known as the Asa Ransom House, although Ransom died long before the house was a twinkle in its builder's eye.
Douglas Perrelli has directed excavations all over Western New York, many in and around Clarence. He specializes in lithic analysis, gender archaeology, Iroquoian studies, the archaeology of the Northeastern United States, cultural resource management and historic preservation. He is currently overseeing other Archaeological Survey excavations in the neighborhood adjoining the old Erie Canal terminus in downtown Buffalo led by UB archaeological research analyst Nathan Montague, and the Warren Hull House outbuilding excavation on Genesee Street in Lancaster led by UB archaeologist Ryan Austin, PhD, RPA, and surveys in the towns of Concord and Ashford.
Joseph McGreevy is a professional archaeologist who works for the UB Archaeological Survey and was involved in work at the "Nursery Site," locus of a prehistoric palisaded village once situated close to the Tops Markets' warehouse on Genesee Street. He also has worked in dozens of other excavation projects in and around Clarence, including Hull House where he conducts a summer history camp that teaches archeological field techniques, and on Mayan and Aztec excavations in Belize and Mexico.
For further information, contact Perrelli at 645-2297 or McGreevy at 812-1727.
Patricia Donovan has retired from University Communications. To contact UB's media relations staff, call 716-645-6969 or visit our list of current university media contacts. Sorry for the inconvenience.


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We in the blue states hear from the talking heads on Fox News and MSNBC that many of you in the red states are so distressed about the outcome of the elections that you would like to secede from the Union. Now, it seems that at least six of you — Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina — have submitted enough signatures (25,000) on petitions to the White House website to merit a formal response, with more petitions on the way.
We wish you the best of luck with this. We feel your pain. If we can speak frankly, it's been coming for a long, long time. The question now is: What's next?
First, we're happy to report that most people here in Oregon, Washington and California think you're really on to something. This marriage has run its course. Too many niggling little things built up over time, driving us all crazy. So let's just stop. It's time to divvy up the china and draft a property settlement. In the spirit of fairness and goodwill, we propose the following as a starting point.
We'll keep the West Coast, Nevada and Hawaii, New York, the rest of the Northeast and all the other states that turned blue on election night. You guys get Texas, Mississippi, the rest of the Confederacy and all the other states that turned red on election night. Alaska can do whatever it wants. It does what it wants anyway.


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Today's rumor comes from a notably unreliable source, so take it with a pound of salt.
Digitimes is reporting this morning that Facebook and HTC are jointly working on a Facebook phone, to be released Q3 2012 at the earliest. While HTC has released the ChaCha and Salsa headsets, "Facebook" phones with a dedicated Facebook button, the current collaboration will likely result in a more deeply integrated product. Digitimes suggests that the device will have a platform exclusive to Facebook, which will grant HTC full access to the suite of Facebook functions.
While Android and Me readers tend to groan whenever we mention Facebook, the fact that Facebook has over 900 million worldwide users suggests that there is certainly a potential market for a Facebook-integrated device. While many of us have embraced the social age with our Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, and other social media accounts, many more out there solely rely on Facebook for their social networking needs.
If the rumor pans out, we should learn more details about the HTC Facebook phone in coming months. Any readers out there interested in a Facebook phone? What if it had the specs of the HTC One X? Can a true Facebook phone beat out the next Nexus phone, which has just been tipped for Samsung?


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 11th Feb 2014 23:08 UTC
The mysterious developer of the world's most popular free app, who drew global attention this past weekend with his sudden decision to remove it, tells Forbes that Flappy Bird is dead. Permanently.
This will go down as one of the craziest stories in what I reluctantly call "technology" of all time.


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Clyfford Still
1904, Grandin, North Dakota
1980, Baltimore, Maryland
After studying and teaching art in Washington State, Clyfford Still began his influential tenure (1946–50) on the faculty at the California School of Fine Arts, now the San Francisco Art Institute. There he turned a younger generation away from the social realism of the early 20th century and toward gestural abstraction.
He then spent much of the 1950s in New York, but he eschewed any association with the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. Still chose to develop his work independently, relying on the primacy of personal experience and the study and distillation of his own painting. Unlike most artists of his day, he ground and prepared his own pigments, applying them to canvas with both a palette knife and brush.
Still's mature style consisted of jagged-edged fields of pigment, heavily applied and worked into a thick, scabrous surface. He was an outspoken proponent of the idea that abstract painting could portray his inner psychic state, and he vigorously denied any direct associations with landscape imagery in his work: "I paint only myself, not nature." Nevertheless, Still's large-scale paintings often suggest primordial landscapes, rendered in the deep colors of the earth.


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House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced today that they will dedicate a statue of the late Dr. Norman E. Borlaug at a ceremony to be held on Tuesday, March 25 in National Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol.
Widely regarded as America's greatest agricultural scientist, Dr. Borlaug's groundbreaking work in wheat improvement saved starving populations around the globe and earned him our nation's highest honors. The statue will represent the state of Iowa, the birthplace and childhood home of Dr. Borlaug, as part of the National Statuary Hall Collection.
The ceremony is a ticketed event and is for Members and invited guests only.
More event details available on www.speaker.gov.
About National Statuary Hall Collection
The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol Building is comprised of statues donated by individual states to honor persons notable in their history. The entire collection now consists of 100 statues contributed by 50 states (Statue of Dr. Borlaug replaces current statue of James Harlan).
Thirty-five statues are currently located in National Statuary Hall, six in the Rotunda, 13 in the Crypt, 13 in the Hall of Columns and 24 in the Capitol Visitor Center. The remaining statues are located in various areas throughout the House and Senate wings of the Capitol. Learn more about the collection.


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Just as the land across Africa is vast and varied, so are the ecological and economic challenges. While some nations contend with political tensions, others must ease the struggle for resources between people and wildlife. Despite these issues, Africa is a continent of great potential. Opportunities abound for improving the lives of Africans and wildlife. At the African Wildlife Foundation, we're working throughout the continent to do just that and help Africans chart a course toward a sustainable future. For we recognize that while every country, community, and region in Africa has different needs, they all want the same thing: an Africa that's thriving for all.
Gray countries with texture denote areas of future engagement.
Wildlife knows no boundaries. So AWF has defined areas across the continent that are critical to conservation. These Priority Landscapes can cover public and private lands alike and often cross borders.
When the needs of humans and wildlife seem most at odds, African Wildlife Foundation brings its many resources to bear. We're far more than environmentalists. We're lawyers, scientists, policymakers, and more working on the ground to help address the issues that put habitat at risk—from land-use laws and agricultural growth to settlement patterns and political instability. Explore some of the areas we're working in now.
Engaging communities so that wildlife can wander
Spectacular scenery as far as the eye can see
A haven for chimps
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Securing protection for a national park
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Profile of Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature for his 1998 novel The Hours, a creative reimagining of Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway. Michael Cunningham grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He earned a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Stanford in 1975 and then an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1982. Two years later his first novel was published: Golden States (1984). He followed that with A Home at the End of the World (1990), which Barnes & Noble called "a heartbreakingly lopsided love triangle between two gay men and their mutual female friend." He won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993, published Flesh and Blood in 1995, and then in 1998 published The Hours. The book won both the Pulitzer and Pen/Faulkner awards in 1999, and was made into a 2002 movie starring Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman. His other books include the novels Specimen Days (2005) and By Nightfall (2010), and the travelogue Lands End: A Walk in Provincetown (2002). He has also been a lecturer in the English Department at Yale University.
Other candidates for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1999 were Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver… The movie version of The Hours was nominated for an Oscar as the best picture of 2002, but lost to Chicago. Nicole Kidman did win the Oscar as best actress for her performance as Virginia Woolf.
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Show your Pantograph
I've seen some great use of pantographs on this forum. Barry Lee Hands tutorial "Damascening and Elk" comes to mind. He has a vintage Cronite which is one of the best. As is with most pantographs my model went extinct with the advent of CNC and this one is no longer made.
Mine was made by H.P. Preis Co. of New Jersey, founded in 1923. It is good old American iron and is one of the most capable small pantographs you will find. attached, are some photo's after restoration. I am told that I am lucky to have three of the four spindles. The one on the machine is a diamond drag. the ones pictures by themselves are an air actuated diamond drag and a motor driven spindle which uses collets for up to 1/4th diameter cutters. I have the original Bodine motor and several replacement round braided belts. I still search for the micro drilling attachment which was originally used to drill etched circuit boards from a master pattern. If you know where I can get one for cheap, let me know. I also have a few font sets for lettering. For a site which shows the capabilities of this machine, go to www.kucers.com to see a craftsman who makes miniature firearms with this same pantograph.
Mr. Hands uses his Cronite to transfer wildlife images to gun metal before engraving (among other uses). I suppose it could also be used to engrave lettering on the some of the newer finished guns. The diamond drag cuts cleanly without chipping epoxy based coatings.
I was curious what others have. Not everyone can have or find a Cronite. This is my alternative, what's yours? If you got em, show em....
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I am using a Preis panto modified as shown. I have 2 rotating plates and I am cutting oval seats for inlay of niobium into Argentium. The work holder is driven and the template is linked 1 to 1 with it. The template is a polymer letterset plate. It is a very tight machine. The bell-crank arrangement on the arms lets me orient the skive tool as the work rotates. Gold Machinery in Pawtucket RI has some of these available http://www.goldmachinery.com. Is one of the spindles I see in your photos air driven? Very sweet!
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Years ago I went to a local engraving supply house.I had some cutters made and he sharpened all my New Hermes cutters for a very small fee, turns out he was the son or grandson of the founder preis co. He had a computer engraver he was working on and had trailers full of templates, the masters he used to cut the plates and lots of parts that were left after his factory burned. He was putting together machines to sell from the many trailers of parts. He was living in the warehouse unit and was shortly thereafter evicted. I still have some masters he loaned me but have never been able to locate him after he closed.
Keith Pedersen
Lincroft, NJ
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the 2nd foto you show is very interesting. the narrow rod that is attached to a collar arrangement rearward probably keeps a shaped chisel graver oriented in the same plane, regardless of the tracer movement. this way, direct "thick & thin" lettering could be produced from normal templates. very pretty calligraphic effects could be directly engraved on brass plates with such a technique. about 20 or so years ago, i had created a similar device that would fit my pantograph. it worked to a point. i could never perfect the graver orientation bar without resorting to xpensive machine shop work, so i abandoned the project.
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I just re-read this thread and you are correct on the bell cranks on top of the arms do indeed allow me to orient the tool in the cut which goes as deep as .020 inch. The back arm of the panto is fixed so that only the front 3 arms move in response to the template, other wise the tool would not be rigid enough to do the cutting. The ratio is set to 4 to 1. THe only draw back is you can get dizzy watching the crazy movement of the tool.
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For all you Preis Panto users here is the 1967 manual for the 3D-5.
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Here are photos of my "new" Preis. It appears to have been built in 1965 and hardly used. The 2nd photo shows an arm that slides on a milled way with clamps and has a hole that seems to align over the spindle exactly in the center of the y axis. I don't know what it is used for but I added a 6" read-out to the top. By engaging the top of the spindle with a nylon bushing thru the hole I can accurately set up my template at 2 points on the y axis.
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Have ever used a Dekel Machine?
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I own and regularly use a Deckel GK-21 3D machine. It is not operating at this time as I have just moved to Florida and have not set up the power supply for it.
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I have a Cronite Zero engraver, which is one of my favorite tools. I bought it used in 1995, and refurbished it. When I got it, there was about 1/8" of dirty brown dust on the aluminum arms under the worktable, and the big washer at the bottom of the column looked like it was rusty cast iron - it turned out to be polished bronze.
I dismantled the machine almost down to the last screw, and cleaned everything up nice. I repainted the castings, mixing 2 parts black Rustoleum paint with 5 parts green ditto, which mixture gave a much richer look than the Kermit-the-Frog green by itself would have produced. I glass bead blasted those bare metal parts that were out in the wind, and rubbed mating steel parts with steel wool and oil. I mixed brass powder and white glue to make a paste that looked like gold paint, and used the tip of a fine paint brush to carefully dot this onto the castings in imitation of gold pinstriping. The intent was to add a little decoration that was "...for looking at, not for smelling...', as the old sign carver told a customer who was inspecting his just-completed carved wooden sign with his nose about 6" from the sign.
The actual engraving is done by a diamond point, visible in the second-to-last photo. When the machine is not in use, the diamond point is covered with a little yellow rubber sleeve, visible in some of the photos.
In the last photo, you can see a typical hand cut master, made from 1/16" thick styrene plastic sheet. I have made 3 full alphabets, and numerous other masters for this machine. One such master was a 5" tall version of Ferrari's little prancing stallion. I have pantographed him down to just over 1/16" tall, at which point you can still see his eye - with a microscope.
(The machine is capable of infinite reduction, which is why it is called a Zero engraver.)
Sorry for such a long post - as I said, this machine is one of my favorite tools.
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I have a Cronite that is virtually identical to the one shown and described by Guy. I have just moved from South Carolina to central Florida and am faced with not having sufficient shop space. I would sell or possibly trade the Cronite to anyone interested. I also have a Gorton that has ratio capability of 1:1 to infinity, that I would consider letting go.
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I don't have all the details immediately in from of me, but I have 2 Deckel KF-1s, 1 Deckel KF-2, 2 Deckel GK-21s, 1 Gorton P2-2, 1 Gorton P1-2, and a Green 2D. I don't seem to have any photos of any of the machines right now.
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Spooky & Playful: The Best Halloween Treats for 2011
It's Halloween — which means we're all supposed to pull out vats of Jell-O and light 'em with black lights, and scrawl spiderweb icing over elaborate cakes. Right? Well, if you're short on time for such undertakings, or if you want to avoid the sugar overload of too many Halloween treats, check out this roundup. I've pulled together my favorite Halloween treats for this season, with a selection of health(ier) yet cute options, as well as a few spooky ideas, and some just plain cute treats for grown-ups and kids alike.
The best part: These are all actually do-able — nothing too challenging here for those of us who aren't great with a piping bag!
Here are some treats that are playful and cute and yet not overloaded with sugar.
• 1 BOO Halloween Milk Shooters at Babble - Just milk in a glass, dressed up with a drip of chocolate and some sprinkles. Cute, and so much more child-friendly than a bag of candy, I think!
• 2 Frozen "Boo"-nana Pops at Gina's Skinny Recipes - Frozen fruit, dipped in white chocolate. Easy and not too sweet.
• 3 Egg Skeleton at Cute Food for Kids - Get all the directions from Tiffany; she has really smart directions for doing this easily.
• 4 Cheese Pumpkin Appetizers at That's So Michelle - Skip the sugar and have some cheese — these are cuter than any sweet treat!
• 5 Apple Cider in Apple Cups at Babble - Another cute idea from Kelsey. Warm apple cider in an apple cup, with a marshmallow "eye".
But if spooky is your thing, then these are my favorites this year!
• 6 Chocolate Spider Web {Cake in a Jar} at I Am Baker - Such a smart idea! And could do this with really anything in a jar. (via not martha)
• 7 Tentacle Pot Pie at not martha - One of my favorite Halloween projects ever, especially since it can be savory and not sweet.
• 8 Skeleton Cut Out Cookies at Our Best Bites - Cute, simple even for the icing-challenged (like me), and repurposes the Christmas gingerbread men cookie cutters. (via Curbly)
• 9 Creepy Coconut Kiwi Panna Cotta at Kitchen Table Scraps - I am not usually one for the bloody gory stuff at all, but this panna cotta is just such a good recipe, so tasty — and so easy to make into something spooky. (also via not martha - she finds the best stuff!)
• 10 Bloody Eyeballs with a side of Worms at The Back Burner - CREEPY. (via Chez Us)
And here are five more playful treats that all look very easy to pull off.
• 11 Devils Food Whoopie Pies at Heather Christo Cooks - Who can't slap googly eyes on a whoopie pie, I ask you? Major bang for the buck, here.
• 12 Grown-Up Peanut Butter Cups at Gilt Taste - We have a larger roundup of homemade candy coming later this week, but for now, let's look at these. Smoky, caramelized peanut butter cups? Reese's, goodbye.
• 13 Sugared Candy Corn Cookies at A Little Bit Crunchy, A Little Bit Rock n' Roll - I simply find these adorable and irresistible.
• 14 Halloween Ghost Meringue Cookies at The Secret Life of a Chef's Wife - Again, easy to make, easy to do. Big bang for the effort.
• 15 Owl Smores at Living Locurto - Easy and quick to do.
OK, your turn. What's the cutest (or spookiest!) Halloween treat you've seen so far this season?
Related: Feast On These: Favorite Halloween Treats
(Images: Kelsey of The Naptime Chef/Babble; Gina of Gina's Skinny Recipes; Tiffany of Cute Food for Kids; Michelle of That's So Michelle; Kelsey of The Naptime Chef/Babble; Amanda of I Am Baker; Megan of not martha; Sara of Our Best Bites; Renee of Kitchen Table Scraps; Denise of Chez Us; Heather of Heather Christo Cooks; Victor Sizemore/Gilt Taste; A Little Bit Crunchy, A Little Bit Rock n' Roll; Tammie of The Secret Life of a Chef's Wife; Amy of Living Locurto)


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Interesting inside view of Pete Carrol.
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JKent82 wrote:"We're obviously running plays to gain yards, obviously," Nielson said. "But we're also running plays to see, OK, what are they showing us here? So next time when you've got that personnel up, or next time we go in that formation, we can do something different."
One of the more interesting thing to keep in mind while watching a game.
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"They're invisible" he said looking at me with wide eyes. "And..." <dramatic pause> "... they are always in your pocket, so you can pull them out when ever you need them!"
"Ok" I said, then asked curiously "So what are these tools?"
"One is called "stick-ability" and you use that one if you are finding something hard and you just want to give up.You pull it out and stick-ability helps you keep on going"
"That's a good one" I said."What else you got?" Hoping there was an anti-wrinkle cream that actually worked in there
"There's "distraction action" I use this one a lot. If something's distracting me, like a noise or a person, then I pull it out and it helps me ignore them."
"Cool! I need that sometimes" I said thinking about time spent on twitter opposed to time spent writing " Can I borrow it?"
"No!" He replied flatly "You need to get your own tools. These are mine."
I was tempted to reply... Well buster, I'm one step ahead of you. I've been carrying around my own pack of invisible tools since the day you were born.
But I didn't, instead I decided I would write a blog post about them. Hoping you would appreciate hearing about them...
Some of my invisible tools that get me through the week...
False SmileOk. We all have this one. Remember the false laugh we learnt as pre-schoolers to appease adults who don't know how to communicate with children? You don't know what i am talking about? Introduce you child to Uncle Knobhead and see what they do... A false laugh right?
Well, the false smile is how that little, wary false laugh has evolved. And when you become a parent the false smile is perfected. It is used for nearly every other parent (apart from the select few which you LOVE obvs) you see on the school run, in the supermarket and wherever else they may pop up, as they are everywhere right? It is used for every child that isn't your own that talks to you, asks you a questions or requires your attention in some way. It used for everyone over the age of 60 who comments on your child's size, attire or behaviour. And when you are a broken human being, after clawing an ounce of sleep from the depths of desperation, that false smile is was saves you from being arrested for punching a pensioner in the nose!
Tongue clipperI put this effective little clip on my tongue every time I go to playgroup. It stops me saying stuff like...
"You are full of bullshit"
"Your child's behaviour is horrendous"
"Please don't speak to me like that"
"I really don't give a shit!"
"I know you love your child desperately, but we don't"
"Does your voice always do that singsong thing or do you save it for when you are talking to me?"
"The Big Hummm"This is really useful to bring out every time anyone wants to give you some advice. It works with all ages; if they are 70, 7 or 37, it is still very effective. All you have to do is let them speak and listen. Then pause. Now, just when it's quiet, throw a big "hummmmm" into the air, Then pause again. They will think you are considering it deeply, when really you are thinking: "I will never ever do what you just said"
"It's OK (not really) face."When you say it's Ok, but your face is telling a very different story. Letting someone know, it is OK, but if it EVER happens again it won't be.
Very handy to have with you at all times.
Instances I have found it worthy of being used:
- When you pick your child up from nursery and they have been allowed to glue their hat to their head
- When your child breaks something VERY important, Like your phone, laptop, brother's favourite toy.
- When your child accidentally spills a drink down you
- When your own child spews up down your back
- When someone mistakes you for being pregnant and you are FUCKING not! Actually, that's never ok.
- When a stranger gets your child's gender wrong.
- When an acquaintance calls your child Johnny. It's Jonty!
- When you arrive to collect your child from somewhere and send out the wrong one!
So Mums, mums to be, Dads and the rest of the human race, share your secrets -what invisible tools do you carry around you?


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About a year and a half ago I studied for the LSAT examination, but due to various family obligations I had to put it on hold until now. I am wondering, since then, has the exam changed, for example harder LG's or RC, etc.?Thanks!
less people taking it just means same score equals different percentile. Test same level of toughness for the same score, but the percentage changes.


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With two wins to his credit, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is having one of his best seasons in the Sprint Cup Series this year.
With two wins to his credit, Dale Earnhardt Jr. is having one of his best seasons in the Sprint Cup Series this year.
Not since a decade ago has Earnhardt won more than one race in a season, and his devoted fan club, "Junior Nation," is in its glory right now. NASCAR's most popular driver (11 consecutive seasons) has become a strong contender for the championship this year.
Earnhardt claimed his second win of the season on Sunday at Pocono Raceway, passing Brad Keselowski for the lead with just five laps to go while Keselowski was dealing with an overheating issue due to a piece of trash that got stuck on his front grille. Earnhardt began the season with a victory in the Daytona 500 on Feb. 23.
After joining Hendrick Motorsports' No. 88 team in 2008, Earnhardt endured long periods without a win. He had just two victories in 178 races with the team prior to the start of this season. Both of those wins came at Michigan, where the series is scheduled to compete next weekend.
Earnhardt, who turns 40 years old on Oct. 10, can now shrug off the critics who have doubted his abilities and considered him overrated.
"I don't worry about that as much anymore," Earnhardt said of those who have criticized him. "I'm turning 40 this year, and the overrated talk is way behind me. That used to bother me when I was younger, but when you get old, you don't really care anymore about those kind of things. You just kind of go along and do your job and enjoy what you're doing, and I've got to really maximize what's left of my career and have as much fun with it as I can, try to enjoy it as much as I can."
With the win at Pocono, Earnhardt moved from fifth to third in the point standings. He is presently 22 points behind leader and teammate Jeff Gordon. Earnhardt also has finished in the runner-up spot three times this season (Phoenix, Las Vegas and Darlington) as well as a third-place run at Martinsville. Earnhardt finished 43rd at Texas, a race delayed one day due to rain, after crashing in the early going. He had dropped to sixth in points, his lowest ranking of the season.
"We've been fast every week," he said. "I don't think we have peaked as a team performance-wise, but we're certainly at our highest ceiling. We're doing some of our best work certainly right now. We have a lot of passion, and there's a lot of emotion, considering this is Steve's last year. I think that also adds some drive and determination to the team to do as well as we can."
The last time Earnhardt won more than one race during a season was in 2004 when he drove for Dale Earnhardt Inc. He scored six victories that year, including his first Daytona 500 win.
Earnhardt and his teammate, Jimmie Johnson, as well as Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano are those drivers who have multiple wins this season. All of them are guaranteed a spot in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship as long as they finish in the top 30 in points when the regular season concludes on Sept. 6 at Richmond.
"When we won at Daytona, it made the rest of the year a lot more relaxing, a lot easier, less stress and it makes it fun, because you can just go to the racetrack and just race and not worry about points," Earnhardt said. "Having two wins now is going to make it even easier, a lot less stress, a lot less stress on the team, and I think that could be a good thing going into the Chase."
Earnhardt has been in the Chase each year since he was paired with crew chief Steve Letarte in 2011. Prior to the start of this season, Letarte announced that he will leave Earnhardt's team at the end of the year and join NBC Sports for its coverage of NASCAR next season.
It appears Earnhardt and Letarte's last year together has become their best one with one another.
"We're having a blast. We're having fun," Letarte said. "We're winning races, and we enjoy each other's company. I don't think we have any internal issues within the race team."
But has Earnhardt's team become just as good as Johnson's No. 88 team, the six-time and defending series champions?
Johnson was winless in the first 11 races this season before claiming back-to- back victories at Charlotte and Dover. He finished sixth at Pocono, rebounding from an accident he had with Marcos Ambrose on pit road just before the halfway point.
"They (Johnson's team) just came off of two straight wins, and everybody was about to crown him the champion," Earnhardt said. "Two weeks before, they were wondering what the hell was wrong with him, and then two weeks later, he's the best thing on the block. We just got to keep everything in perspective. Jimmie is an awesome teammate. We're successful because of their success and vice versa. I think we really work well together.
"They're the 48 and we're the 88, and I don't want to be the new 48. I want to be the new 88. We'll definitely try to continue to work hard and try to win some more races and try to leave our own mark and not a mark similar to anyone else."
This coming Sunday at Michigan, Earnhardt will attempt something he has never done in his Cup Series career — win back-to-back races.
"That would be awesome," he said. "I haven't done that since the Nationwide days back in '99 (South Boston, Virginia and Watkins Glen, New York)."


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Event: Harman Baweja and Priyanka Chopra at the launch of LOVESTORY 2050 movie merchandise collection held at Cinemax, Mumbai.
Guest List: Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja, Harry Baweja, Pammi Baweja
Venue: Cinemax, Versova, Mumbai.
Date: 18-Jun-2008
Bollywood celeb Aamir Khan along with wife Kiran Rao were spotted at PVR.
Bollywood producers-directors Vidhu Vinod Chopra, Krishan Kumar, Ravi Bahl, Divya Khosla Kumar, Sajid Nadiadwala, Wardha Nadiadwala celebrate diwali with Bhushan Kumar
Bollywood celebs Kareena Kapoor Khan, Malaika Arora, Sonali Bendre, Nimrat Kaur among others were snapped by paparazzi.Bebo looked super cool in a casual look. She wore a white t-shirt with yoga pants...
Bollywood actress Shama Sikander celebrated Diwali festival at her residence.
Bollywood celebs Aamir Khan, Zaira Wasim, Fatima Sana Shaikh, Sanya Malhotra, Anil Kapoor, Nitesh Tiwari, Aparshakti Khurrana, Bhushan Kumar, Javed Akhtar, Shabana Azmi, Sachin Tendulkar, Rajkumar Hir...


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Beyond the Paper Parasol
An afterthought no longer, cocktail garnishes are bringing new dimensions to drinking
ITS' NOT THE ebony color that surprises drinkers most when they order a Black Glove cocktail at Metrovino in Portland, Ore. It's the curious frill straddling its rim. The garnish, a preserved green walnut wrapped in a strip of orange peel, embodies the flavors of the cocktail—the sweetness of rum, nuttiness of nocino (a green walnut liqueur) and sharpness of bitters—in one bite. "The walnuts bring out the flavor of the nocino and add a texture like chewy candy," said the Black Glove's creator, Jacob Grier.
Like Mr. Grier, many bartenders around the country are looking to get more than mere decoration from garnishes. Brad Smith of Maurepas Foods in New Orleans uses a frozen speck "cigarette"—that is, a thinly sliced, rolled-up, frozen piece of cured meat—in his peach vodka-based the Pig and the Peach. "As the cured meat melts into the cocktail, the salt permeates the drink and slowly changes the flavor," he explained. At Comme Ça, in Los Angeles, Tim Loden sought a garnish for his Choco Roco, a spin on the Brandy Alexander, that would likewise shape the overall experience of the drink. Chocolate Pop Rocks ringing the rim of the glass contribute more than sweetness: The tiny "explosions" set off when the liquor meets the carbonated candy engage the ears as well as the palate, further triggering, in drinkers of a certain vintage, a rush of nostalgia.
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Some bartenders are calling on chefs to custom-make their garnishes. Michael Shetler of Las Vegas's Sage said the pomegranate chip that accompanies his cognac, pomegranate and orange-flavored TGV cocktail came straight from their pastry kitchen. "It adds acidity, so you get tartness and sweetness. And then the chip dissolves so it becomes part of the cocktail. It's a cool textural interaction."
Del Pedro of Tooker Alley in Brooklyn, N.Y., is going as far as offering "extended garnishes" that break free of the cocktail glass entirely. A tiny side dish of grapefruit compote, for example, plays up the grapefruit juice in his Cherry Orchard, while a small plate of house-made apple-ginger chips complements an apple eau de vie concoction. Still, Mr. Pedro steers clear of any garnish too garish. "Don't forget," he said, "the drink is still the point."
—Kathleen Squires
Avant Garnish
A 'swizzle stick' of cured pork and a preserved walnut crown these original cocktails
The Pig and the Peach
Make garnish in advance: To prepare enough for several cocktails, take a few slices of speck (available at zingermans.com), roll each into a cigarette-size cylinder and place in freezer until hardened, 3-4 hours.
Make cocktail: Add ice and 1½ ounces peach vodka, 1½ ounces Young's chocolate stout, ½ ounce fresh squeezed lemon juice, ¼ ounce Luxardo maraschino liqueur and ½ ounce simple syrup to a cocktail shaker and shake. Strain into a tumbler. Stand garnish upright in glass.
—From Brad Smith of Maurepas Foods, New Orleans
Black Glove
Make cocktail: Stir 2 ounces dark rum, 1 ounce sweet vermouth, ½ ounce Nux Alpina nocino and 1 dash Angostura bitters with ice. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Use a peeler to take off a strip of orange peel about ¾-inch-wide, running from top to bottom of orange. Express orange peel over drink.
Make garnish: Slice a preserved walnut (available at harvestsongventures.com) in half lengthwise, and wrap with strip of orange peel. Secure with a cocktail skewer and place across rim of glass.
—From Jacob Grier of Metrovino, Portland, Ore.