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Step one is putting the pieces together
The Labor Day weekend rain mostly skipped Chesapeake Country — at least my part — but tumultuous skies and soggy forecasts dampened a lot of parades. In Annapolis, First Sunday Arts Festival cancelled this month, and the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra moved its Labor Day Pops concert inside Maryland Hall, quashing plans for musical picnics in Quiet Waters Park.
Our personal parade changed locations, too. Instead of cruising the Chesapeake, Bay Weekly the boat stayed in port, and husband Bill Lambrecht and I pretended our marina was a destination rather than our home away from home. That's how we happened to be around when Mantra, the giant boat you'll read about in this week's paper, took to the water for the first time.
Week by week, we'd watched its construction. In the leisure of the weekend, as I worked Brushes with Flame, Bay Weekly's Labor Day crossword, I mused on how the path to achievement begins with putting pieces together.
So much depends on seeing how things are connected.
Connections build revelations as you unpuzzle the thinking of devilishly clever crossword writers like Ben Tausig, author of Bay Weekly's puzzles; Merl Reagle, author of the Washington Post Magazine crossword and Will Shortz, editor of the New York Times Magazine crossword. With clouds passing over Bay Weekly instead of Bay Weekly passing through water last weekend, Lambrecht and I tackled them all. Finished two so far.
Newly 12-year-old grandson Jack Knoll is making connections as he assembles the pieces of ever-more complicated Lego constructions, venturing now and again into creations of his own imagination. No wonder Lego's neat pegs and holes have cast a spell on him. They make connections so easy, and you can see where they're going.
You use the same skills, notched up a few grades, to make a boat. A crossword puzzle or a newspaper. Or the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Way back when, I watched from my front stoop in the short-lived community of Laclede Town as the Arch's two legs rose and, miraculously, touched and bonded.
The notches ratch up when you create the pattern yourself, cutting the pieces to your specifications. At that stage, you're still in the realm of fun, making a thing for its own sake because it can be done.
Lightning strikes when you imagine the connection you can make with other people. Then it's back to the drawing board, designing the steps that take you from hobbyist to pro. Somewhere along the way in that process, fun becomes work. Wherever that is, many projects die.
Going beyond fun takes superhuman effort. How many letters, stories, novels, imagined in my head, have never clicked into a character of type? I'm not going to count them. It would be too much work.
When somebody makes that superhuman effort, invention is born in the world.
That's what the hometown Tracys Landing business Weaver Boatworks has done. And all my crossword puzzlers. And all the hundreds of happenings we chronicle every week in Bay Weekly's 8 Days a Week.
Over our Labor Day holiday at Herrington Harbour North, Lambrecht and I watched another marvel of human effort rise from nothing more than an idea. For Smoking on the Bay, the Deale Elks managed to lure 40 or so barbecuing teams to yet another of the rash of Kansas City Barbecue Society-sanctioned competitions.
Arriving to 'que for points and prizes is no small effort. It takes putting together as many pieces as assembling a complex Lego pattern. You've got to master the smoking, create the sauce, standardize the preparation and proportions and love it enough to do it again and again.
You've got to name yourself — often a name playing on one of the prime cuts of 'que, butt — and design a logo.
To travel to compete, often many miles, you've got to assemble a rig. Many of the competitors drove massive RVs and towed 'queing rigs they'd designed, fabricated, custom painted and polished to a sheen. They bring their own meat, pay to compete and spend most of three days 'queing.
Around them, festivals spring up. If you build a festival, people come and charitable organizations — like the Elks last week or Parole Rotary again next May — make their money.
Make a really charged connection between what people long for and what you can do well, and you've got success on your hands. That's what Kansas City Barbecue Society has done.
That's why almost all Jack wants for his birthday, Christmas and every day of the year is Legos. That's why I buy $6 newspapers to work a fiendish crossword puzzle.
That's why Jim Weaver can now charge $6 million for a boat that buyers, like Mantra's captain, consider a bargain. Turn the page and read all about it.
Sandra Olivetti Martin
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Okay, so Nickelodeon did it again. They are coming out, or did come out with a new cartoon series called Rocket Monkey. It follows the lives of two monkey brothers named Gus and Wally. They are on a constant mission to defeat angry aliens that invade their habitat, (Earth). This lesson is going to be on "how to draw Wally from Rocket Monkey", step by step. Wally is one of the crazy, wild lovable characters that don't appear to be the hero until but is one inside. Instead of battling aliens, he would much rather sit at home and play games. He is also the lighter of the two, and he has an unstable appearance with the expression on his face. Have fun drawing Wally folks, and be sure to let me know if you heard of this series.
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It was French Fashion Friday night at Society Lounge and tonight
Ashley Cayuca was showcasing her Swimwear Collection for Summer 2012.
Everything was looking so perfect from the DJ making sure that the music was playing awesome music vibe, to the crowd that was looking flashy and fabulously excited for the show and down to the french menu.
Tonight I was having a good time with Vergil and my long-time girl pal, Dawn who was in the country for a vacation from Austria.
Amazing Night!
Verge and my long-time-girl-pal from Austria, Dawn!
sumptuous and very nice refreshments that we had. =)
Society Lounge and its Fabulous Patrons...
The hosts
The spectators of this collection went so crazy as soon as the show started.
Everyone, here's the collection...
with Ashley Cayuca... Congrats!
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D-Wave is using ANSYS to develop quantum computing
D-Wave Systems is designing and building the worlds most advanced quantum computers with help from engineering simulation solutions from ANSYS
D-Wave Systems is designing and building the worlds most advanced quantum computers with help from engineering simulation solutions from ANSYS
Through the use of cutting-edge simulation, software engineers are developing innovative new wind energy technology and increasing the efficiency and durability of wind turbines. The drive to find sustainable energy sources is one of the most pressing concerns facing society.
Dame Sally Davies, the outgoing Chief Medical Officer for England, pulls no punches when it comes to the threat of antibiotic resistance. She has called for an 'Extinction Rebellion-type' response to it, describing it as 'catastrophic' and 'as dangerous as climate change'
The Pistoia Alliance has been pioneering initiatives that will support organisations as they work to enable and engage Fair (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) principles of data management and stewardship in their organisations.
Achronix and Bittware collaborate on a new FPGA designed for cloud, AI and machine learning applications, writes Robert Roe
By increasing the energy efficiency of a supercomputer scientists can save huge amounts of money over the total lifecycle of the system. With ever-increasing core counts and increasingly large supercomputers, the drive for increased computational power comes at a cost.
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Teaser trailers are the cruelest of trailers when done right. A second teaser trailer follows yesterday's look at The Witcher 2 on the 360.
How much teasing do we need?! I'm already anxious to finally get my hands on the 360 version, as I've got no gaming machine to play the PC version on (I know, I know). In the interim, you can dismiss the anxiety with our suggestions of what to watch and play today.
- WATCH: Careful not to drool all over this The Witcher 2 teaser trailer above.
- WATCH: Our look at the "impressive" Ram Racing. You know you wanna.
- PLAY: Eufloria HD is our Gaming App of the Day.
- WATCH: We've heard the Pokémon love song, but how about a rap?
Did you see a particularly interesting video on the Internet? Know a friend who puts together awesome video game movies? If you have suggestions for Watch This, Play This, drop me a line at firstname.lastname@example.com and you may just see it featured here the next day.


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STAMFORD, CT - June 2003 Cuisinart, a leading producer of culinary appliances and professional quality cookware, has introduced the Cordless Electric Jug Kettle (model no. CJK-17BC), rounding out the company's extensive line of food preparation products.
Cuisinart's new electric kettle boasts 1500 watts of power and brings 1.75 quarts of water to a boil in seven minutes. The Cordless Electric Jug Kettle combines a variety of design and performance features that focus on key consumer trends in the housewares industry. For instance, the kettle has a brushed stainless design that is compatible with both traditional and contemporary home d�cor. It also lifts easily off the power base for versatility in serving from counter to tabletop.
Mary Rodgers, Director of Marketing Communications for Cuisinart and Waring, says, "According to our market research, convenience continues to be a critical issue for consumers. As a result, the new Electric Jug Kettle offers several practical benefits, such as its single-piece construction with a unique flip-top lid that is permanently attached to the jug. In turn, consumers can fill the jug with just the push of a button." She adds that the kettle has an integrated filter for ease of use when straining tea leaves, accommodating the needs of America's sophisticated tea drinkers today.
Other product features include a wide spout for easy pouring, an "on" indicator light and an easy one-touch on/off switch. In addition, the Electric Jug Kettle has a concealed heating element that prevents calcium buildup and minimizes clean up. The Kettle also has several safety features-- a cool touch power base which protects any surface in the home, and an automatic shut off feature. The product is backed by a three-year limited warranty.
Cuisinart's Electric Jug Kettle joins a vast array of other high performance coffee and tea preparation products from the company. These include the Cordless Electric Kettle; the CoffeeBar™ line of Automatic Coffee Makers, such as the Automatic Grind & Brew; the Premier Series Coffee Makers, including the Brew Central™; and the company's Thermal Carafe Coffee Makers.
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Cuisinart, universally known for introducing the food processor in America, is a leader in culinary appliances, professional quality cookware, and kitchen accessories. The company manufactures a full range of products under the tagline, "Savor the Good Life®." These products include cookware, cutlery, hand blenders, hand mixers, coffeemakers, toasters and toaster ovens, as well as food processors, electric teakettles, kitchen textiles and scales. Cuisinart's website is www.cuisinart.com.


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In France, it is illegal to show pictures of people accused of crimes before they have been convicted, because the French believe that this tramples upon the presumption of innocence.
So not surprisingly, there was widespread outrage at the perp walk of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, which, in the great American tradition, was a humiliation ritual and media circus.
Steven Erlanger and Katrin Bennhold in the New York Times:
The former French justice minister whose name is on the [no perp walk] law, Elisabeth Guigou, said she found the photos of Mr. Strauss-Kahn in cuffs indicative of "a brutality, a violence, of an incredible cruelty, and I'm happy that we don't have the same judiciary system."
Ms. Guigou, a Socialist like Mr. Strauss-Kahn and a member of Parliament, told France Info radio that the American system "is an accusatory system," while in France, "we have a system that takes perhaps a little more time but which is, despite everything, more protective of individual rights."
Another commentator, Max Gallo, said this was the" first time in the history of France that a top-level official is treated like a common criminal whose guilt is already established." But he also noted that the American system is more egalitarian.


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Is Your Press Line Out of Control?
Of course, addressing controls expansion upon acquisition of a press doesn't als occur, and the variety of line equipment added over the years may not be completely compatible with the existing control network. In these cases, a workable solution may be found inhouse that gets the line running. But productivity and efficiency may suffer. The press may run slower, faults may stop the line all too frequently and proper troubleshooting may be sacrificed.
A Control Cleanup is in Order
At some point on critical press lines—what press line isn't critical?—control issues must be addressed, and a control cleanup is in order. That's the message from Toledo Integrated Systems, Inc., Holland, OH, which provides controls and control-integration services to the metalforming industry. Company officials discussed with MetalForming the need for controls consistency across a press line and how that can be accomplished.
"In many cases, we'll get a call from a stamper claiming that its process or certain control component is obsolete, and repairing it in the past required a long wait on older-style and expensive parts," says John Eby, controls product manager. "The stamper also may want to place the equipment on the company computer network to monitor downtime, but the current setup does not enable that."
To rectify such unfortunate situations, the next step involves assessing the current state of the line to determine a plan of action.
"We provide a questionnaire that addresses a number of press-line issues," says Dan Falcone, Toledo Integrated's sales and marketing manager. "Maybe, for example, the line's clutch-brake controls are out of date, so we ask for details on that."
The questionnaire also assesses incoming line voltage, press main motors, shut-height adjustment, the press-lubrication system and other line equipment such as hydraulic overloads, feeders, transfer systems, robots, etc., and addresses future planning, too.
"Perhaps a stamper will need a specified number of die-protection inputs and different outputs to control certain processes," Falcone says. "Stampers may not need them right now but will in the future, and it is important to allow for expansion on automated lines."
Placing Line Components on the Same Page
Cleaning up press-line controls and integrating ancillary equipment comprise a sizable portion of work for Toledo Integrated Systems.
"The metalforming industry has moved more toward encompassing monitor and control functions into one system, which has been a tremendous growth segment for us," offers Falcone.
One recent Toledo Integrated Systems project addressed line integration and control cleanup at an automotive Tier One stamper in Ohio, which over the years added a decoiling unit and feeder to a mechanical press.
"The line employed two controls that each required different software to program," says Eby. "They could communicate with each other but not very smoothly. The customer asked us to place the controls on the same platform. In addition, equipment drives had faulted intermittently, which inhibited production. All of this affected the ability to troubleshoot."
Manage By Facts Instead of By Opinions
A controls upgrade can assist trouble-shooting by pinpointing the cause of press stoppage, according to Dave Buehler, Toledo Integrated's controls manager. "This directs the operator or maintenance personnel to the problem, and a fault log, usually available in upgraded controls packages, can help in decision-making," he says.
"'Managing by facts instead of by opinion' is how one stamper put it," says Falcone, describing the benefits of a fault log. "The better that we can present the problem or the fault to a stamper, the quicker it can correct the fault."
Specifically on the Tier One project in Ohio, the existing uncoiler drive was faulting out multiple times per day.
"Because control-communication problems hampered troubleshooting, the stamper did not know why the faults occurred, but would just reset and the line might run for another hour and then fault again and shut down," says Shane Steinhardt, applications engineer.
In addition, the line's looping pit would periodically encounter a tight-loop condition, also affecting productivity. And, adding on to the older control system over the years with equipment from various vendors further strained line operation and troubleshooting.
The cleanup included replacement of three human-machine interfaces with two units to simplify line oversight and incorporation of open-architecture communication to ease connectivity between line components and the overall control system. In addition, the stamper chose to replace existing older-technology DC drives and motors with new AC units. The installation of a shared DC bus between the uncoiler and the straightener axis helped share regenerative energy produced by the uncoiler during normal operation. The net result: less downtime leading to improved productivity, which illustrates the power of improved controls for cobbled-together press lines.
Control Your Future
Of course, stampers must decide if downtime is excessive to the point that it justifies the expense of a controls upgrade. When trying to justify that cost, remember that a controls upgrade also offers benefits should line expansion become necessary. The controls supplier and line integrator should assist the stamper in planning for future needs.
"When outfitting a press with new controls, the stamper should decide on a platform (hardware) that it wants to stick with," explains Buehler. "This platform should be easily expandable and accept a form of distributed I/O that isn't proprietary, such as Device-Net or Ethernet. When adding equipment to an existing press line, the stamper should select hardware from the same platform or select equipment that can hang on the same distributed I/O network selected for the controls upgrade."
That said, a control supplier can retrofit the right hardware on added equipment.
"If the equipment is in good shape mechanically, you can make it work electrically," says Buehler.
"A good controls upgrade is all about flexibility," adds Falcone. "Just because a stamper has a properly outfitted press line today does not mean it can take on what comes tomorrow. Perhaps a control system with eight inputs for die protection works for now, but a few years later the process requires 30 inputs. Control systems offer that expandability." MF
See also: Toledo Integrated Systems
Related Enterprise Zones: Automation


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Today is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Ike. When it swept through Houston in 2008 -- and was subsequently swept under the rug by national media thanks to a collapsing economy -- it packed much more punch than anyone expected. A massive storm that, at one point, filled almost the entire Gulf of Mexico, Ike was, by traditional measures, weaker than 1993's Hurricane Alicia but no less devastating. It confounded forecasters and helped to redefine the standard Saffir-Simpson scale for ranking hurricanes.
Houston Press photographer Daniel Kramer shot some amazing photos from Houston to Galveston in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, showcasing the devastation from boats in the middle of the street to dozens of flooded roads and highways; from downtown streets lined with shards of glass from blown out skyscraper windows to mounds of detritus washed ashore during the storm.
"I remember it so well," Kramer said. "It was exhausting but exhilarating week. I hated coming back in."
Despite all the deaths caused by the storm and the massive destruction, Kramer never saw a dead body and only one dead cow because he was not allowed onto Bolivar. He did, however, find that coastal residents had not lost their sense of humor.
"The people on High Island had erected a giant sign that said, 'Shit Happens' and had then set a half a dozen toilets below the sign," he said.
Recently, Kramer went back to the scene of these photographs, shooting the same spots he did in 2008, but this time with startlingly different results. Gone are the floodwaters that swirled around the streets near the Wortham Center that have long since receded and the piles of wood and boats lining Nasa Road One near Kemah have been cleaned up and returned to normal.
"In the 12 photos I shot five years later, only one - the shot of downtown Houston - seemed unchanged," Kramer explained. "In all the others, buildings were gone or substantially remodeled, Kemah rides were gone, everything was different."
The photos serve as a reminder of the life we've chosen, so close to the beauty of the ocean but also within reach of Mother Nature's fury. But, it also illustrates how resilient we can be.
"In New Orleans, you can still see Hurricane Katrina's high water mark," he continued. "With Ike, it's almost like it never happened."
Continue clicking to see Kramer's amazing series of then and now Ike photos.
This amazing shot was taken from the balcony at the University of Houston Downtown. Kramer had gone there to use their power and took this shot of a swirling Buffalo Bayou near the Wortham Center.
The incredible, award-winning then shot captured the leftovers from dozens of shattered windows on the exterior of Chase Tower in downtown Houston.
Historic Brennan's Restaurant in midtown burned down during the storm seriously injuring three people. Today, it's as good as new.
View More: Video of Oak Island After Hurricane Ike
For long-time Houston residents, a not unfamiliar site of I-10 under water. Today, it's traffic as usual.
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Today, Allen Parkway is just a way to get to and from downtown. During Ike, it was a place for crazy rugby players to do backflips into floodwaters.
View More: Hurricane Ike Slams into Houston
On his way to Galveston, Kramer stopped off in Kemah. This was taken along NASA Road One near the marina.
The Kemah Boardwalk would require massive renovations to rides, shops and the boardwalk itself.
View More: Video of Kemah Boardwalk After Hurricane Ike
Landry's in Kemah didn't fare well either, but today it's thriving again.
Rising tides left boats in the middle of Broadway on Galveston Island, blocks from the water.
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The Pavilion near Stewart Beach was completely underwater and surrounded by debris.
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No one was getting onto Stewart Beach during Ike, but today, with the exception of the new sign, it's like it never happened.
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Creamy Apple-Cranberry Turnovers (Adapted from CL)
1 1/2 tablespoons butter
4 cups coarsely chopped apples (I used all granny smiths)
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
1 tablespoon sour cream
1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 large egg white
12 circles of the Sweet Cream Cheese Dough
For the glaze
1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1 tablespoon sour cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a large skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in apples and cook until they are tender and start to turn a light golden - about 15 minutes. Mix in brown sugar, cranberries, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Cook just until the sugar melts and the mixture is well combined. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
In a small bowl, whisk together cream cheese, sour cream, flour, vanilla and egg white. Add to the cooled apples and gently fold to combine.
Using the chilled dough circles, place about 3 tablespoons of the cooked apples on the center of the dough. Fold one edge over to the other and seal with a fork. Set on a parchment lined baking sheet and repeat with the remaining filling and dough circles. Cover and set in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 425
Remove turnovers from the freezer and take off the cover. Using a fork, pierce each top once. Bake on bottom rack until the edges are golden brown - about 18-20 minutes. Remove and place on a wire rack to cool completely.
To make the glaze
In a small bowl, whisk together confectioners' sugar, milk, sour cream and vanilla. Evenly drizzle over each turnover.
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Creamy Apple-Cranberry Turnovers
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- Anonymous10/25/2006 12:10:00 AM
Joe, these are really gorgeous & mouthwatering turnovers.Happy halloween to you..:)ReplyDelete
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Calle Pinares de Venecia s/n
50007 Zaragoza (Aragón)
Tel.:+34 976 453 220
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- Amusement parks
Located close to the city centre, Zaragoza Amusement Park has a range of fun, modern attractions for all ages.
The park is open from March to October and offers a whole host of attractions: everything from The Rapids to the thrills of the Quetzal and Ramses, along with Gran Tikal, an amazing journey where you can discover the secrets of the Mayan civilisation. The park has extensive green areas and an Olympic-size swimming pool open during the summer months. There are also a range of modern hotel and catering facilities for celebrating a variety of social events.
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Peterson's pride: Leaving behind Ten, not 10
You've seen the green awnings, but you don't have the faintest clue what goes on inside. For many people, Region Ten flies under the radar– but its executive director, Jim Peterson, doesn't seem to mind.
Peterson sums up Region Ten's mission in 10 words or less: "We serve persons with major disabilities."
That means offering treatment for mental illness, mental retardation, and "substance use disorders"– the newest terminology for the now passé "substance abuse."
After 30 years at Region Ten, Peterson is retiring at the end of September. He reminisces about the good old days of social work, when the money flowed in LBJ's Great Society. He got a grant to do a community evaluation on poverty in Seattle. "The study even paid the respondents," he marvels. "Jobs were everywhere."
When he came to Charlottesville in 1968, "We couldn't believe the housing conditions one block from City Hall," Peterson says, referring to a now-demolished community on Garrett Street, which allegedly had outdoor privies and homes with no running water. "It was slum housing."
He organized what is now the Charlottesville Housing Foundation to provide housing for low and moderate income families– one of the many community pies Peterson has had his finger in. "Those were wonderful days," he smiles, describing how volunteers and churches came together to do something to improve conditions.
Peterson has seen a lot of change in mental health since the '60s. "Before, Virginia had 15,000 people in state institutions. The preponderance of mentally ill in the state were institutionalized for life. Now, we try to treat them in their homes and communities." The number of those in state institutions has dropped to 1,500– and those are short-termers, not lifers.
The biggest change in treatment? Definitely the meds. "Before 1950, there were no psychotropic drugs at all," he says. So if you were hallucinating, you went into an institution. Early drugs came with irreversible side effects, such as uncontrollable shaking.
"The drugs of the past 10 years are highly targeted," he says. "They don't hammer the person."
Housed in a former bank, Region Ten handles 5,000 clients a year for Charlottesville and surrounding counties, with a paid staff of 500. "Think of it as a hospital without walls," he suggests.
In Charlottesville, the most common mental illness is schizophrenia, says Peterson. The most common misperception about mental illness? "People are worried about violence," he says. "We've never had a problem in our group homes or apartments."
Peterson bristles when people refer to Region Ten as just another social services agency. "Nothing presses my button more than when people say we're a 'quasi-government' agency. We are an agency of local government."
That doesn't preclude fund raising, such as this weekend's 11th Softball Extravaganza pitting Democrats against Republicans and local media battling among themselves. Peterson will not be playing– "You could get hurt–" but will be there sweating it out with everyone else.
Where did the name Region Ten come from? Peterson explains it's a shortened version of the original government nomenclature from back when the county was in "planning district ten."
He had better luck transportation-wise, coming up with the snappy name JAUNT. But he insists on one thing: "We are Ten. Not 10, not X."
Age: 61
What brought you here? '55 Volkswagen with neat-o side flip-up turn signals... and a clinical appointment in pediatrics.
What's worst about living here? Unnecessary traffic congestion
Favorite hangout? I hope to find out after I retire.
Most overrated virtue? Humility– except in, say, Texas
What would people be surprised to know about you? I'm actually a very neat, orderly person.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? Effectuate the fact that I'm actually a very neat, orderly person.
What accomplishment are you proudest of? My contributions to the improvement of housing and human services
What do people find most annoying about you? I'm always right.
Whom do you admire? Franklin Bacon
Favorite book? Of Human Bondage
What subject causes you to rant? Charlottesville's traffic lights
What thrills you about life in the 21st century? Computers and the Internet
What creeps you out about life in the 21st century? The United States was positioned to see a thousand-year peace, but I fear we've lost the high ground.
What do you drive? '66 Mustang convertible... and a Camry
What's in your car CD player right now? What CD player?
What's your next journey? China
What's the most trouble you've ever gotten in? Pass
What do you regret? Not pursuing music after high school
Favorite comfort food? Sausage, eggs, and cheese
What's always in your refrigerator? Sausage, eggs, and cheese
Must-see TV? News
Favorite cartoon? Roadrunner
Describe a perfect day. A hot, low humidity day at the beach with all the family
Walter Mitty fantasy? To reduce environmental pollution and eliminate the dependence on foreign oil by setting the traffic lights on blinking except during peak hours
Who'd play you in the movie? Dan Aykroyd
Most embarrassing moment? Having the transmission go out while on the way to a Halloween party dressed as the Fruit-of-the-Loom grapes
Best advice you ever got? Everyone gets their time in the barrel. It will pass.
Favorite bumper sticker? I'm spending my kids' inheritance.
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The Deal from Hell
Publisher's Summary
In 2000, after the Tribune Company acquired Times Mirror Corporation, it owned the most powerful collection of newspapers in the world. How then did Tribune nosedive into bankruptcy and public scandal? In The Deal From Hell, veteran Tribune and Los Angeles Times editor James O'Shea takes us behind the scenes of the decisions that led to disaster in boardrooms and newsrooms from coast to coast, based on access to key players, court testimony, and sworn depositions.
The Deal from Hell is a riveting narrative that chronicles how news industry executives and editors - convinced they were acting in the best interests of their publications - made a series of flawed decisions that endangered journalistic credibility and drove the newspapers, already confronting a perfect storm of political, technological, economic, and social turmoil, to the brink of extinction.
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Be careful - this could happen to you. That's one of the central messages of former LA Times Editor James O'Shea's The Deal from Hell, which outlines how a bunch of intelligent, well-meaning industry professionals tanked what had, just 10 years prior, been a thriving American newspaper trade. O'Shea almost goes as far to suggest that if you're starting to hear the word "synergy" a lot in your office, you might want to think about a career change.
The "deal" initially referred to the bizarre take-over of Tribune Company by real estate cowboy Sam Zell, but more broadly came to refer to the merger of Tribune (The Chicago Tribune) and the LA-based Times Mirror (The LA Times). Using that deal as a prime example, the book tackles a wide range of problems that have befallen the newspaper industry in the last few decades. Through the lens of these specific mergers and acquisitions, we get a broad spectrum through which to view these problems in realistic ways.
On one level, The Deal From Hell is about all the problems in the modern American print journalism industry. First, the old newspaper families grow conflicted and unsure. Next, the bean-counters take over. Before we know it, management is demanding the demolition of the invisible wall between the business and editorial sides of a number of esteemed publications. Through it all, O'Shay guides us on a painful step-by-step process of what went wrong and how. Like watching a car crash in slow motion, we're given ample information at every turn to anticipate the arrival of all the most cringe-worthy moments.
On another, perhaps more significant level, this book is about how numbers-driven values are also eroding our world at large. At every turn, managers scheme to slice costs, fraudulently increase circulation numbers, and make cut after cut to the work force actively covering the news. Rome really starts burning with the arrival of the nutty Wall Street types, who ride in on a tide of big bank financing, office pinball machines, and sexual harassment suits. O'Shea subtly hints that it's not just the news at stake anymore, as our whole society becomes about profits and losses, zeros and ones.
The frank, honest narration of L.J. Ganser makes us feel as if we've been privy to the backroom wheelings and dealings of the business side, as well as the tense interactions of reporters on the newsroom floor. And, while The Deal from Hell might not be a comprehensive guide to the downfall of all western print journalism, it's definitely one hell of a story. —Gina Pensiero
What members say
- Amazon Customer
- 15-03-18
Great Listen
This is a great listen! The level of deal detail is great. The pictures painted of the people involved is worth hearing about all by itself!
- Lynn
- 18-09-11
A Sad Tale
Look around the country and there is no doubt that America's newspapers have been in a state of decline for sometime. James O'Shea, however, tells the story of this state of affairs from the perspective of a top editor. In The Deal from Hell: How Moguls and Wall Street Plundered Great American Newspapers, he relates how owners such as Sam Zell, Lee Abrams and Randy Michaels drove their papers into the ground. Along the way, he opens the curtains on what took place behind the scenes. This story will not be of interest to everyone, but will be informative to all who read it. O'Shea covers some old ground, but the review places this story in context. He spends a large amount of time on details which are tangential to the story, but extends the reader's understanding and adds a great deal of color. Anyone interested in the decline of newpapers in the US and in media in general in that context will be rewarded by reading this book. The reading of L J Ganser is excellent.
- Tim
- 18-04-13
Old Media
When I think about the newspaper, I always assume as old media, but most of the population in the world get their news on print. I am writing this a few days after the bombing in Boston. Ironically, the next day after the tragedy, I saw more people reading this headline on print, instead of viewing it on a glowing tiny screens.
Maybe the newspaper should only print the paper when something major happens in our society. Most day to day news are just fluff pieces that is just taking up space. Do we have to know last night's sports scores, outdated stock quotes, the weather, or Lindsay Lohan. How is this news worthy?
I can't remember when I bought the newspaper. You actually have to go out of your way to buy the paper and pay for a subscription and having to deal with the physical paper is just dumb. It's not worth my time to recycle the paper.
"The Deal from Hell" is a good read. I actually learned a lot for listening to James O'Shea's experience at running the newspaper. The newspaper is an old boys club, where ink on paper is becoming a dinosaur.
I just hope that a Postmaster will write a book on the Post Office and see how they have no business and where 100% of the mail that they deliver is just SPAM.
- Harbinger of books
- 18-10-11
The truth about the decline in newspaper
James O'Shea attempts to paint a picture on how the media has been transformed due to big business. I think he gives a face to what most of us already know. Personally I still recall how the white house leaked a story to a journalist.. then the journalist wrote the story …then the white house said the story was credible due to the news article – yep that type of circle represents what we seem to be losing, oh and if you are looking for that tale it is not in this book.
I found the book to have a good flow and it was well done. There were parts where I wished he went into more detail, like after the initial press room cuts what happened to reporters do they go somewhere else change careers? Are those that are left forced to write more? The tale Mr. O'Shea tells about how the Tribune Company started to fall in part due to the loss of advertising revenue and in part to the mismanagement of the paper itself. The book leaves one to wonder in times like these where we so desperately need unbiased news media if not papers who will fill that role?


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Humanitarian Issues: International justice begins at home
TitleHumanitarian Issues: International justice begins at home
Countries need to take more consistent national action against the perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, turning to international justice mechanisms only as a last option, policy-makers heard at the International Peace Institute last week.
In a meeting hosted by OCHA and Portugal's UN mission, ERC Valerie Amos said national justice was crucial to ensure genuine accountability for crimes, and to deter new violations.
While national authorities are the primary bearers of responsibility when it comes to investigating and prosecuting international humanitarian law and human rights violators, governments are conducting far too few prosecutions at the national level, policy-makers emphasized.
"Holding accountable those who commit horrific violations of humanitarian law and human rights – and offering some semblance of justice and redress for their victims - remains the exception rather than the rule," Ms Amos said.
To date, a lot of focus has been put on international justice, which is only meant to support, rather than replace, national judicial processes.
The UN Security Council has taken some important measures to enhance international accountability, including the referral of situations in Libya and in Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court.
The Security Council also established International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
But participants said the Security Council needed to do more to help national authorities (and not just national courts) to adopt laws and procedures to take more assertive action at home.
They cited the creation of Sierra Leone's hybrid tribunal as a valuable precedent – which comprised both national and international staff – as it bolstered the national legal system, and helped bring resolution to local communities.
Policy makers also called for a more consistent approach to fact-finding investigations to better meet victims' needs for justice. And they called for better reparations for victims - highlighting the work done by commissions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo, which dealt with property claims of displaced people and refugees.
Ms Amos said: "It is important that we focus on how to bring about more effective and consistent Council action on accountability, and in doing so ensure that scrutiny and accountability, and crucially justice, become the norm."


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|Oracle® Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle IRM Server
11g Release 1 (11.1.1)
Part Number E12326-03
|PDF · Mobi · ePub
Applications that want to process sealed content locally rather than sending the content to a server can use the IRM Java API. When using this API the sealed content cryptography is performed in the same process as the calling application. Cryptography keys are shipped from the IRM J2EE application and used in the process using the API.
Cryptography Keys:An application using the IRM Java API has the ability to obtain the sealed content cryptography keys. The IRM Java API stores these keys in the memory of the calling process whilst they are being used. Debugging the IRM Java API, or doing a memory dump could compromise the key material. Do not use the IRM Java API if the environment in which the application is running is insecure or untrusted (for example, a laptop).
The typical use for the IRM Java API is for trusted integrations that want to seal, unseal or examine sealed content where network latency or performance may be an issue.
The API implementation makes use of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) to perform cryptography operations. If use of AES 256 cryptography is required, the unlimited strength policy JAR files must also be installed. For the latest information about supported JDK/JREs, see the System Requirements and Supported Platforms for Oracle Fusion Middleware page on Oracle Technology Network at
When using the IRM Java API, the following jar file should be added to the compile time or runtime classpath:
irm-api.jar has a manifest entry that adds the following jars files to the classpath. These jar files need to be distributed with the
irm-api.jar and placed in the same folder as the
irm-api.jar file.
These jar files can be obtained from the IRM server installation, under the folder
ECM_ORACLE_HOME/irm/api/lib. These libraries are thread safe.
Configuration settings for the IRM Java API are read from an XML configuration file. The configuration settings tell the IRM Java API where to store the offline cache of licenses, classification and cryptography key information, and the device identity, as well as where to find the key store containing the cryptography key used to protect sealed content cryptography key material.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <core:DesktopConfiguration xmlns:core="http://xmlns.oracle.com/irm/core"> <storageFolder>/home/irm</storageFolder> <device>6f750242-c35e-4992-bb37-e160dba87779</device> <application> <name>sample-application</name> </application> <keyStore> <type>JCEKS</type> <path>/home/irm/irm_api.jceks</path> </keyStore> </core:DesktopConfiguration>
This XML configuration file can be stored in any location accessible to the process running the IRM Java API. The location is specified by setting the
oracle.irm.client.configuration system property. If this property is not set, the IRM Java API will throw an exception, informing the caller than the configuration settings have not been specified. Here is an example of a Java program running with the system property set to
java -Doracle.irm.client.configuration=/home/irm/irm-configuration.xml MyProgram
When the IRM Java API is used to seal, unseal, reseal and reclassify content, license and cryptography key details are requested from the IRM J2EE application for the authenticated user. Depending on the license rules these details may be stored in memory or on the file system and used for future requests to seal, unseal, reseal, or reclassify content. The storage folder is where this data is stored. This data is stored in encrypted form and is locked to the machine that requested the information.
Authentication:Once license and key material has been obtained from the IRM J2EE application, the process using the IRM Java API will be able to process sealed content, regardless of the user used to authenticate the original request. Unlike the sealing server, these details are shared per process rather than per user.
The following two files will be created the first time an operation is performed that needs to store license related details:
The UUID value
48ff59ab-be7a-4a2a-a093-65286f949909 will vary from installation to installation.
Backups:If the contents of the storage folder are deleted, the next time the IRM Java API saves information to the file system these files will be recreated. There is no need to back up the files generated by the IRM Java API.
Applications that perform sealing operations, such as Oracle IRM Desktop, sealing server and the IRM Java API, provide details about the where the operation is being performed. This information is provided in the form of a device. Each device has a unique value that is used to identify the location of an Oracle IRM client to the IRM J2EE application. This value is in the form of a UUID and is called the device UUID. When using the IRM Java API, a new UUID value should be generated and specified in the configuration file. It is valid to allow logically identical devices to share the same device UUID value. For example, a cluster of sealing services shares the same device UUID, so every member of the cluster can obtain the same licenses and the cluster is seen as one logical location.
The device UUID is used internally by IRM to track the location of licenses. When a license is used, it is typically checked out to a device (depending on the license criteria). This prevents the license being used on multiple devices at the same time. Sharing the same device UUID is however a simple way to relax this restriction when scaling or clustering an application that uses the IRM Java API.
The application name is a human-readable label for the application that is processing sealed content. The application name is part of the information provided to the IRM J2EE application in a content-related audit record.
When the IRM Java API obtains key material from the IRM J2EE application, the key material is encrypted using a key dedicated to the device. To be able to use the key material, the IRM Java API must have access to the appropriate cryptography key so that the key material can be decrypted and used to process sealed content. The key store type and location are specified in the configuration file. Passwords for the key store and key are not stored in the configuration file. Passwords will be prompted for on the command line when the IRM Java API first accesses the key store.
By default, the Oracle IRM J2EE application will only respond to requests from the Oracle IRM Desktop and the sealing server. To use the IRM Java API, additional configuration steps are required to add the application using the IRM Java API as a trusted application. Processing sealed content locally using the IRM Java API requires local access to the content cryptography keys. These keys are requested from the Oracle IRM J2EE application, which will respond with key material together with licenses. These licenses control what operations the IRM Java API is allowed to perform.
Without enabling the IRM Java API, requests to process seal content will result in the following error:
oracle.irm.engine.core.desktop.RepudiateException: IRM-01023: The desktop is repudiated
Peeking:If an application is only using the peek operation to extract sealed content metadata, there is no need to set up a trust relationship between the application using the IRM Java API and the IRM J2EE application. Peeking does not use sealed content cryptography keys while peeking content.
The first step in enabling the IRM Java API to use an IRM J2EE application is to generate a new AES symmetric key or RSA asymmetric key pair. This can be done with the Java
keytool command line tool. This AES symmetric key or RSA asymmetric key pair are used as a trust mechanism. The IRM J2EE application will encrypt data using a key, and the IRM Java API will decrypt data using the corresponding key.
Key Algorithm Choice:On AIX platforms using the IBMJCE cryptography provider, the AES key wrap algorithm is not supported, so a RSA 2048 bit trust key must be used. If the IRM J2EE application is using a JKS key store type, the IRM Java API is also limited to using a RSA key. In all other cases, generate an AES key which is at least the same size as the sealed content key sizes. For example, when using the AES128 cryptography schema, generate a 128 or 256 bit AES key for the IRM Java API.
The following is an example of generating a 128 bit AES key and storing it in a JCEKS file based key store. The key alias should be the device UUID specified in the IRM Java API configuration. In the examples shown, the device UUID is
b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 and the key store is called
keytool -keystore irm_api.jceks -storetype JCEKS -genseckey -alias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 -keysize 128 -keyalg AES
The following is an example of generating a 2048 bit RSA key and storing it in a JKS file based key store:
keytool -keystore irm_api.jks -keysize 2048 -genkeypair -alias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 -keyalg RSA
These commands all create the key store, generate a key, and prompt the user for a key store and key password. This key store is the one that should be used in the IRM Java API configuration.
Certificate:When generating the RSA key,
keytool will prompt for certificate details. The certificate details are not used by the IRM Java API or IRM J2EE application, so enter blank values for the certificate questions.
The symmetric key or asymmetric public key generated with
keytool must be added to the IRM J2EE application key store, using the device UUID value as the key alias. The IRM J2EE application then uses this key to encrypt key material before sending it to the IRM Java API. Without the key being added to the IRM J2EE application key store, the IRM Java API will not be able to process sealed content.
Location:The IRM J2EE application key store is typically located under the folder
If the IRM Java API key is an AES key then the
keytool -importkeystore feature can be used to import the key into the server key store. In this example, the IRM Java API key store is called
irm_api.jceks and the IRM J2EE application key store is called
keytool -importkeystore -srckeystore irm_api.jceks -srcstoretype JCEKS -srcalias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 -destkeystore irm.jceks -deststoretype JCEKS -destalias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410
When specifying the key store file name, the key store path may also be required, depending on whether the
keytool command is run in the same folder as the key store file.
The first step is to export the public key part of the asymmetric key pair from the IRM Java API key store. In this example, the IRM Java API key store is called
irm_api.jks and the IRM J2EE application key store is called
keytool -exportcert -keystore irm_api.jks -alias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 -file b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410.cer
The next step is to import this public key into the IRM J2EE application key store.
keytool -importcert -alias b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 -file b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410.cer -keystore irm.jks
When specifying the key store file name, the key store path may also be required, depending on whether the
keytool command is run in the same folder as the key store file.
The IRM J2EE application will need to read the imported key and so will need to know the key password for symmetric keys. For asymmetric there is no password associated with the public key, so this step can be skipped. The key password for the IRM J2EE application is stored in the Fusion Middleware Credential Store Framework (CSF). The WLST tool is used to add new passwords. A WLST shell should be launched from
ECM_ORACLE_HOME/common/bin. The credential is added using the
createCred command. The example below shows connecting to an admin server and setting the password for a key store called
irm.jceks to the value password for the key with alias
connect("weblogic", "password", "t3://adminServerHost:adminServerPort") createCred("IRM", "key:irm.jceks:b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410", "dummy", "password")
In this example, the key alias is
b2e1ea48-cc3e-44bc-ad9b-a214c62fd410 and the key store file name is
irm.jceks. Both these values should be altered to reflect the device UUID used and the actual IRM J2EE application key store file name. As keys do not require a user name, the value
dummy is used in place of a user name.
A sealed content operation that ends up requesting licenses and keys may involve a request to the IRM J2EE application, which in turn will require authentication. A remote call is made from the IRM Java API if the local memory and file cache of licenses and keys cannot satisfy the request. The peek operation does not require access to licenses and keys, and will never cause a request to the IRM J2EE application.
java.net.Authenticator can be used to specify the username and password. Any HTTP connection that requires authentication will call back to the authenticator to request credentials.
java.net.Authenticator.setDefault( new java.net.Authenticator() { @Override protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() { return new PasswordAuthentication("username", "password".toCharArray()); } });
This code sample uses hard-coded passwords and user names. In a production system, these details should be retrieved from a secure location or a user prompt.
The IRM Java API provides a plug-in mechanism that allows code to be augmented into internal processes. Two such processes are the code that provides the key store and key password for the wrapping keys, and the code that reads configuration settings. Both processes can be changed to use programmer-provided logic instead of using the default IRM Java API logic.
The configuration settings can be provided using code rather than using an XML configuration file. If code is used, there is no need to specify a location for the XML configuration file as a system property. The sample code below shows how configuration settings can be provided using code. The settings are hard-coded and are identical to the XML sample configuration file. In a production system this code could read the settings from an alternative location rather than relying on an externally created XML file.
import static oracle.irm.engine.core.desktop.DesktopApplicationFactory.createDesktopApplication; import static oracle.irm.engine.content.store.KeyStoreSettingsFactory.createKeyStoreSettings; import oracle.irm.engine.core.desktop.DesktopApplication; import oracle.irm.engine.content.store.KeyStoreSettings; import oracle.irm.engine.core.config.DesktopConfigurationSlice; import oracle.irm.engine.util.Aspect; import oracle.irm.engine.util.Purpose; import java.io.File; import java.util.UUID; @Aspect(Purpose.INTERCEPTOR) public final class DesktopConfigurationDemo extends DesktopConfigurationSlice { @Override public void construct() { UUID deviceUuid = UUID.fromString("6f750242-c35e-4992-bb37-e160dba87779"); File storageFolder = new File("/home/irm"); KeyStoreSettings keyStore= createKeyStoreSettings("JCEKS", new File("/home/irm/irm_api.jceks")); DesktopApplication application = createDesktopApplication("demo"); vthis.construct( storageFolder, deviceUuid, application, keyStore); } }
The following code sample shows how to specify key and key store passwords. In a production integration, these passwords should be obtained using an appropriate mechanism and passed into the construct method rather than using hard-coded values. The key parameter provides details of the key store and key being requested. This key parameter can be used if the key store path or key alias name are needed to choose an appropriate set of passwords.
import oracle.irm.engine.content.key.WrappingKeySlice; import oracle.irm.engine.content.store.KeySettings; import oracle.irm.engine.content.store.KeyStoreAccessException; import oracle.irm.engine.content.store.UnknownKeyException; import oracle.irm.engine.util.Aspect; import oracle.irm.engine.util.Purpose; @Aspect(Purpose.INTERCEPTOR) public final class WrappingKeyDemo extends WrappingKeySlice { @Override public void construct(KeySettings key) throws KeyStoreAccessException, UnknownKeyException { vthis.construct( key, "password".toCharArray(), "password".toCharArray()); } }
To activate code plug-ins, the XML file
META-INF/oracle_irm_deployment.xml needs to be added to the classpath. The easiest way to do this is to package this file in the same jar file as the plug-in code and add the jar file to the end of the classpath. This sample file
oracle_irm_deployment.xml tells the API to add in the
WrappingKeyDemo and
DesktopConfigurationDemo classes into the internal logic processes.
<system:Deployment xmlns:system="http://xmlns.oracle.com/irm/system"> <components> <name>demo</name> <plugins> <interfaceClass>oracle.irm.engine.content.key.WrappingKey</interfaceClass> <resourcePath>/oracle/irm/engine/content/key/aspects/classes/WrappingKey.xml</resourcePath> <slices> <implementationClass>WrappingKeyDemo</implementationClass> </slices> </plugins> <plugins> <interfaceClass>oracle.irm.engine.core.config.DesktopConfiguration</interfaceClass> <resourcePath>/oracle/irm/engine/core/config/aspects/classes/DesktopConfiguration.xml</resourcePath> <slices> <implementationClass>DesktopConfigurationDemo</implementationClass> </slices> </plugins> </components> </system:Deployment>
When adding your own classes, change the contents of the
implementationClass element to provide the package and class name of the class created. The name element can be used to give the plug-in a unique name: this could be the name of the company or application providing the plug-in logic. Also ensure the classes that are created are added to the classpath.


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The Revealer Lyrics
There's a fire above the sea with a flame that calls out to you and to me. The multitudes make their way, their sins are bricks in their hands, one more piece to add to the great wall of despair. We have seen this before, through the eyes of the prophet. This is how the end begins. The holy city ignites with a great noise. Heaven comes like a song that shakes the sun and the moon. The dead seek death but death flees from them.The judgment comes like the sea with eyes lit with a flame that gave birth to the ocean of time. I once was afraid to die, but I heard a voice call out behold I AM the One who was dead and is alive evermore.I AM He. Elohim.


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Troy presently ages up one more time. When children age up, his friends from school tend to age up with him automatically. This allows Troy to keep friends for his entire life, and it makes neighbors a bit more dynamic as a result.
Due to his success in school, Troy has earned a fourth trait. He's become Ambitious, and dresses in non-conformist clothes in an ironically conformist way to other non-conformists!
Teens have to go to school just like children do, but teens can also take part-time jobs just like adults. They cannot get full-time jobs, and low grades may lead them to being fired, so you'll have to maintain the balance of work and study in order to do both.
Troy still has a curfew as before, though it's an hour later: he can stay out until 11pm. He's also now able to break it, giving him a low-caliber buff while he's out past 11. However, this comes with a price: the cops patrol the streets looking for kids who break curfew, and will drag him back home if they find him. Once there, he gets lectured by Seth, replacing the Breaking Curfew buff with a Got Caught! debuff.
The skills Troy learned as a toddler start coming to fruition here as well. Remember that he managed to achieve Level 3 on the xylophone? This means the instant he does any music-related action, such as reading a book for the Guitar skill or actually using a guitar, his Guitar skill will immediately hit level 3. It's a great start to succeeding in school, or it helps them gain an early edge for jobs.
Because of this, it should be obvious that raising a Sim from childhood speeds development compared to starting with a young adult or adult Sim. Generation-2 Sims that are raised correctly in fact have such an advantage that you will probably see more success and rewards from them than their parents. Holly is pretty jealous, although Seth just flexes in the mirror to remember how awesome he is.
Time passes by, and Troy levels up to being a young adult. He gains another Trait, and he must now choose one of five possible lifetime wishes. He leaves school, and otherwise his next actions are up to him. He could stay in this house, or he could move out.


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The new math of deliciousness. Ridge Vineyards + Silicon Valley + Quattro = Edible!
How's it all add up?
You may remember a recent article from Jay McInerney in The Wall Street Journal:
"How To Out-Bordeaux Bordeaux in Silicon Valley"
In his article, Jay did a lovely job of completing the conceptual circle as regards Ridge Vineyards' unique relationship with The Valley, but tonight, we're going to go Jay one better, by not just seeing the circle completed, but enacting the encirculation!
Anyhow, the point is, another very great writer — one Ben Narasin — has written another lovely article for another lovely publication; a newly launched iteration of the Edible line: Edible Silicon Valley. And his lovely article is about Ridge Vineyards.
And as this is the launch of a new publication, there is to be a party!
And the party is to be held at Quattro, the very fine restaurant at the Four Seasons/Silicon Valley!
And Ridge is going to be there, sharing wine, mingling, and celebrating!
The new math of deliciousness. Ridge Vineyards + Silicon Valley + Quattro = Edible!
Here are the details:
For more about the event, please click here.
And to read Ben's very fine article, please click here.
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The National Weather Service says it has confirmed that small tornadoes were responsible for minor damage in portions of southwestern Illinois' Monroe County.
Meteorologist Mark Britt says both of the Saturday afternoon twisters southeast of St. Louis have been classified as EF-Os and caused no injuries.
Britt says one of the tornadoes toppled a tree onto a house in the tiny village of Fults. Another one three miles west of Red Bud caused minor damage to crops and some trees.
Britt says neither tornado had maximum estimated wind speeds exceeding 80 miles per hour.
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Unique Decorating Idea with Mums
Chrysanthemums usher in an appreciation of cooler weather, frosty mornings and cozy sweaters. With grace, they invite us to bid farewell to summer. At this time of year, we delight in oven-baked bread, thick, hearty stew and hot mulled cider—perhaps with a spot of spiced rum. You can dress your dinner party by beautifying each place setting with mums in two quick steps.Â
- Cut three or so stems of mums about 4" long. Use a single color if you need a unifying element to the table, and use complementary or contrasting colors of flowers if you desire a little change in the color palette.
- Tie flowers together—choose ribbon or twine to reflect the atmosphere of the event. A generous satin bow would be lovely for a formal dinner, while a more casual meal would do well with knotted twine. Place mini bouquets on each plate as a warm welcome to your guests.
Mums will be okay out water for the duration of the meal, but you can encourage guests to take home their little arrangement if they have a teeny vase. While flowers are typically used for centerpieces, use an assortment of candles instead this time. It will add to the cozy celebration of the changing seasons.


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The Canton Regional Chamber of Commerce congratulates leaders of local government in Canton, North Canton, Plain Township and Jackson Township for their Joint Economic Development District agreement. It will cause local governments to work together, not against each other, to encourage business growth.
As we see it, local governments work to attract new businesses for the tax revenue and jobs that those new businesses represent. There are two ways to increase local tax revenue: Increase the number of taxpayers through economic growth, and increase tax rates. The first way is better for everyone involved.
Under the proposed 50-year JEDD, specific township land adjacent to the two cities would be designed for shared development. If a company chooses to start a new business and enter into an economic development agreement or annexation, income tax revenue from the business would be shared by the cities and the affected township.
The annexed property would remain part of the township, and property taxes would continue to be collected by the townships. The townships would remain responsible for road maintenance. Automatic mutual aid in police, fire and emergency situations would be provided by both city and township safety forces.
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Emotional Sobriety
Emotional Sobriety: Emotions produce euphoric and intoxicating effects. They can produce a sense of ease and comfort and contentment. When we are operating under the influence of our emotions verses the influence of our intelligence -- we are Emotionally Inebriate.
The euphoric and intoxicating effects of Emotional Inebriation can produce a dependency and even an addiction to the emotional states. Withdrawal of Emotional Inebriation often results with the toxic feelings of guilt, remorse, depression, resentment, feelings of personal inadequacy, loneliness, restlessness, irritability, discontentment, and the similar physical symptoms in our body that are often associated with a "hang over" or withdrawal from being under the influence of alcohol and other drugs.
So, it isn't any wonder why -- a pattern develops of a return to "chasing the euphoria of the emotional state" that requires certain behavioral and psychological dependencies, scenarios, individuals, experiences and conditions -- to produce the desired emotional state.
Emotional Sobriety: By learning how to discipline, control & create our desired emotional states -- and eliminate our undesired emotional states -- we can turn Polar Bears into Polar Puppies without Pills, Pot or Alcohol.
Below, is the substance of a revealing letter which Bill Wilson wrote several years ago to a close friend who also had troubles with depression. The letter appeared in the "Grapevine" January, 1958. You can also find a re-print in the book, Language of The Heart, pg 236.
Bill W., AA — Emotional Sobriety
"I think that many oldsters who have put our AA "booze cure" to severe but successful tests still find they often lack emotional sobriety. Perhaps they will be the spearhead for the next major development in AA, the development of much more real maturity and balance (which is to say, humility) in our relations with ourselves, with our fellows, and with God.
Those adolescent urges that so many of us have for top approval, perfect security, and perfect romance, urges quite appropriate to age seventeen, prove to be an impossible way of life when we are at age forty-seven and fifty-seven.
Since AA began, I've taken immense wallops in all these areas because of my failure to grow up emotionally and spiritually. My God, how painful it is to keep demanding the impossible, and how very painful to discover, finally, that all along we have had the cart before the horse. Then comes the final agony of seeing how awfully wrong we have been, but still finding ourselves unable to get off the emotional merry-go-round.
How to translate a right mental conviction into a right emotional result, and so into easy, happy and good living. Well, that's not only the neurotic's problem, it's the problem of life itself for all of us who have got to the point of real willingness to hew to right principles in all of our affairs.
Even then, as we hew away, peace and joy may still elude us. That's the place so many of us AA oldsters have come to. And it's a hell of a spot, literally. How shall our unconscious, from which so many of our fears, compulsions and phony aspirations still stream, be brought into line with what we actually believe, know and want! How to convince our dumb, raging and hidden 'Mr. Hyde' becomes our main task.
I've recently come to believe that this can be achieved. I believe so because I begin to see many benighted ones, folks like you and me, commencing to get results. Last autumn, depression, having no really rational cause at all, almost took me to the cleaners. I began to be scared that I was in for another long chronic spell. Considering the grief I've had with depressions, it wasn't a bright prospect.
I kept asking myself "Why can't the twelve steps work to release depression?" By the hour, I stared at the St. Francis Prayer ... "it's better to comfort than to be comforted". Here was the formula, all right, but why didn't it work?
Suddenly, I realized what the matter was. My basic flaw had always been dependence, almost absolute dependence, on people or circumstances to supply me with prestige, security, and the like. Failing to get these things according to my perfectionist dreams and specifications, I had fought for them. And when defeat came, so did my depression.
There wasn't a chance of making the outgoing love of St. Francis a workable and joyous way of life until these fatal and almost absolute dependencies were cut away.
Because I had over the years undergone a little spiritual development, the absolute quality of these frightful dependencies had never before been so starkly revealed. Reinforced by what grace I could secure in prayer, I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed upon any act of circumstance whatsoever.
Then only could I be free to love as Francis did. Emotional and instinctual satisfactions, I saw, were really the extra dividends of having love, offering love, and expressing love appropriate to each relation of life.
Plainly, I could not avail myself to God's love until I was able to offer it back to Him by loving others as He would have me. And I couldn't possibly do that so long as I was victimized by false dependencies.
For my dependence meant demand, a demand for the possession and control of the people and the conditions surrounding me.
While those words "absolute dependence" may look like a gimmick, they were the ones that helped to trigger my release into my present degree of stability and quietness of mind, qualities which I am now trying to consolidate by offering love to others regardless of the return to me.
This seems to be the primary healing circuit: an outgoing love of God's creation and His people, by means of which we avail ourselves of His love for us. It is most clear that the real current can't flow until our paralyzing dependencies are broken, and broken at depth. Only then can we possibly have a glimmer of what adult love really is.
If we examine every disturbance we have, great or small, we will find at the root of it some unhealthy dependence and its consequent demand. Let us, with God's help, continually surrender these hobbling demands. Then we can be set free to live and love: we may then be able to gain emotional sobriety.
Of course, I haven't offered you a really new idea --- only a gimmick that has started to unhook several of my own hexes' at depth. Nowadays, my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
~ Bill Wilson
Emotional Sobriety
Emotional Sobriety: By learning how to discipline, control and create our desired emotional states -- and eliminate our undesired emotional states -- we can turn Polar Bears into Polar Puppies without Pills, Pot or Alcohol.
The 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous have proven to be an effective therapy in achieving personal, physical, mental and emotional sobriety -- if taken as directed, and then continued as "A Design For Living That Works."
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Emotional Sobriety: By learning how to discipline, control & create our desired emotional states -- and eliminate our undesired emotional states -- we can turn Polar Bears into Polar Puppies.
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Pseudoephedrine is a decongestant that shrinks blood vessels in the nasal passages. Dilated blood vessels can cause nasal congestion (stuffy nose).
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Dexchlorpheniramine and pseudoephedrine may also be used for purposes not listed in this medication guide.
Do not use this medicine if you have taken an MAO inhibitor in the past 14 days. A dangerous drug interaction could occur. MAO inhibitors include isocarboxazid, linezolid, phenelzine, rasagiline, selegiline, and tranylcypromine.
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Pininfarina describes the Cambiano as a "luxury environment-friendly sport sedan" which likely means that it's a) going to be either a plug-in hybrid or full-electric b) it's going to have four doors and c) it's going to be super sexy. The Italian design house knows how to make a nice concept car.
Headed to the Geneva Motor Show in March (in addition to being fiscally irresponsible, the Euros don't know how to call a car show a car show), this is the second teaser image released of the new car.
The house of car stye has been going down the matte finishes and light colors route for a while, so these teaser shots don't really reveal much in the way of newness. There's de rigeur LED headlights and the blanked-off grille that's quickly becoming a styling hallmark of electrification, it's as if filling in that area somehow states to the world, "Look, no radiator!"
The Cambiano will be a pure concept and Pininfarina is a design house, so this isn't a car that you're going to see in production at any point in the future. Instead, look at the creases and the panel and the shapes for an indicator as to where the company sees car design going over the next few years. And who knows, maybe we'll see something similar wearing an Alfa, Ferrari or similar badge if the Cambiano helps drum up business.


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Pretzel Buns with Grilled Dogs and Spicy Cheese Sauce
- For the Spicy Cheese Sauce
- 12 ounces pasteurized cheese food, such as Velveeta, chopped
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 tablespoon diced pickled cherry peppers in jar
- 1 tablespoon diced pickled jalapenos
- 1 tablespoon pickled jalapeno juice
- 8 natural casing all-beef franks
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- 1/4 cup pickled jalapenos, chopped for garnish, optional
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- 1 cup milk
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 1 packet active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 small cloves garlic, grated
- 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
- 1 cup bread flour
- 1/2 cup bicarbonate of soda
- Pretzel salt or coarse ground sea salt, for sprinkling
In a small saucepan, heat the milk, 1/2 cup water, sugar and honey to 105 to 110 degrees F. Add to the bowl of a stand mixer. Sprinkle the yeast over the water mixture and wait for at least 10 to 15 minutes until the yeast blooms.
In a separate saucepan over medium heat, add the butter and garlic and cook until the butter is melted and the garlic is fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes.
Combine the all-purpose flour and bread flour in a mixing bowl.
Add the flour mixture to the bowl with the blooming yeast, and then add in the melted butter and garlic mixture. Mix on medium speed until the dough has come together and is smooth and elastic in texture and pulling away from the sides of the bowl, 5 to 7 minutes.
Line 2 baking sheets with silicone mats.Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured cutting board and form into a ball. Cut into 4 equal pieces, and then cut those in half to form 8 equal pieces. Using your hands, roll each piece into a ball and place onto a prepared baking sheet. Cover with a dish cloth and let them rest in a warm place for 12 to 15 minutes.
Once rested, lightly dust your work surface again and roll the balls into 7-inch logs. Place onto the other prepared baking sheet, cover, place back in the warm spot and let rest for an additional 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Place one oven rack high and one low. Line 2 more baking sheets with silicone mats or parchment paper.
In a large pot, bring 8 cups water to a boil, and then add the baking soda. In batches, place the dough in the water and cook for 30 seconds on each side.
Using a slotted spatula, remove the logs and place onto the prepared baking sheets. Sprinkle the logs with pretzel salt as they come out of the water, to ensure the salt sticks. Then cut 3 diagonal slits on top of the bread, not too deep.
Bake for 10 to 13 minutes, rotating between the top and bottom racks of the oven halfway through the cooking.
For the cheese sauce: Add the cheese cubes, milk, pickled cherry and jalapeno peppers and jalapeno juice to a small saucepot and cook over low heat until melted and combined, 10 to 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.
For the franks: Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Grill the franks on the grill pan, making sure to turn and char on all sides. Cook for 4 to 5 minutes.
For the sandwich build: Split the Pretzel Hot Dog Buns in half, nestle the grilled franks in their pretzel blankets, pour over some spicy cheese sauce and top with some pickled jalapenos if you like. Enjoy!


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More than Shaken and Stirred: A bartender with the power to evoke memory, cure hangovers, encourage spending money, and "bring about stirrings of a carnal nature."
Veggie Manifesto: A vegetarian's account of why meat is murder, but plucking plants from soil is okay.
Three Stars: Veritas is reborn as a destination for wine geeks and food-lovers alike.
Priorat: Priorats are some of the biggest, boldest, and most expensive wines from Spain.
Modern Purim: If poppy seeds bore, find hamantashen stuffed with pistachio and rosewater, marzipan, and halvah.
SoHo Pop Up: John Fraser's restaurant will change its concept every thirty days, then close in summer.
Compose: "Compose is the kind of quirky, yet glossy place you would expect to find in Amsterdam or Barcelona, with the inventive food to match."
D.I.Y. Cooking: Cooking projects for the burgeoning cook, like fresh cheese and chocolate-hazelnut paste.
Food Stuff: Les Tartes de Françoise, a Belgian wholesale bakery, now sells retail; a chunky nut butter made with Marcona almonds by way of Spain; nesting babushka dolls double as measuring cups.
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