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"We all have the ability to create our own successes by creating our own opportunities.Use your all of your strengths and resources and put them to work for you!"
About J. Cameron Gantt
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- I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God.
An oath. 73 words. Defined as "a formally affirmed statement or promise accepted as an equivalent of an appeal to a deity or to a revered person or thing; affirmation." And something serious to many, but not all.
It is easy to get lost in the horror of what madness can do. In the world of a 24 hour news cycle, people can often find themselves barely treading water in the rushing tide of blood libel unleashed by partisan media hacks pretending at neutrality and sanctimony, but we have the right to expect better of a select group among us. These are the people who put themselves forward as qualified to represent us, and they are set apart by the duty that we trust them with. It is good to remember that no one is perfect. Humanity at its best will still be flawed. Mistakes will be made, judgment will be clouded. Nevertheless, if one accepts the public trust, then one also has a minimum obligation to not to betray it.
And yet this is exactly what has happened in the wake of the attempted assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords, as several of her contemporaries have proposed legislation that offends the freedoms guaranteed by the document that they swore to support and defend.
One day after this tragedy, Congressman Robert Brady proposed legislation that would make it a Federal crime to to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress.
"Perceived as threatening" casts a very wide net. And then there is that little matter of the First Amendment that very plainly states "Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…" . In Congresses past, Representative Brady might have had an excuse for forgetting such a plainly written prohibition, but seeing as we were still on a media hue and cry about the stupidity/waste of time/waste of money that occurred when the incoming Congress read the Constitution and Amendments just last week when a mentally ill man succumbed to his urges, it seems to me that he loses this excuse. Maybe the Representative was in the rest room when the part of the Constitution that he is rushing to assault was read?
He isn't alone in this attack on a Constitutional pillar of our society. Representative Jim Clyburn has also taken up arms with his proposal to revive the long-dead "Fairness Doctrine" to insure standards to guarantee balanced media coverage. Even if I thought he meant it, I can see that what he proposes will hinder free speech, and since I'm fairly certain that his idea of "balanced" and mine are not the same thing, I'm even less in favor of such a proposal, especially since the Democrats' preferred method of achieving such goals is to altogether forego the legislative process and go straight to regulation by government agency. Having someone else do the dirty work at his suggestion doesn't relieve him of the oath that he took, either.
These two are not alone, however.
Representative Peter King has decided that further restrictions on firearms are an appropriate response:
"It is imperative that we do all that we can to give law enforcement the tools they need to ensure the safety of New Yorkers and prevent an attack before it happens," King said at a news conference with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "That is why, as chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and co-chair of the Congressional Task Force on Illegal Guns, I will be introducing legislation that would make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within a 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials."
Now I would be hard-pressed to think how this law would prevent an insane loner who thinks that he is being controlled by grammar from deciding that he is going to take a shot a Representative or Senator, but I can see that law-abiding citizens could get caught up in nebulous enforcement of "knowingly" carrying too close to a government official.
I suppose that we could think of this as a test. They failed, and its good that we know that now, because it tells us something important. These are people who by virtue of their position will be looked to for leadership. Emergencies and crises are trying times for all. That does not excuse forgetting their primary duty. And either by accident or design, these repositories of the public trust have either let themselves get carried away in the hysteria rather than remaining calm and providing an example to others, or they have seen an opportunity, and chose to act like people who rule, rather than people who govern.
Congress is a place where it is possible to find fame. There are those who have walked its halls, and are remembered as legends, and those who should be, and this is why it is easy for their focus to become misplaced. But in truth, the real stars of this process are the American People. They are the ones who, election after election, preside over a peaceful transition of power, regardless of the rhetoric or its tone, and present an example for the rest of the world, where change is often accompanied by bloodshed. This can only be possible because of the genius of the Constitution, and the freedoms it guarantees.
Anyone who lets themself get carried away by emotion to the degree that they would assault what they swore to protect fails those whom they represent. Anyone who purposely designs against it after undertaking the responsibility to defend it shows a contempt for the people who entrusted them with the duty, and an unforgivably cynical outlook by asking for that trust in the first place.
While it is disappointing to have members of a new Congress that is more filled with promise and an emphasis on the right things than we have had in a long time, we are fortunate that these failures have occurred so early, because it gives these Representatives ample time to redeem themselves, and us time to seek others to fill their offices if they don't.

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While I don't like political correctness and I personally boycott stores that advertise "holiday" sales rather than "Christmas" sales, I certainly don't see the "War against Christmas" as a meaningful public policy issue.
But I do appreciate clever humor, so this Jay Leno joke is worth sharing.
Al-Qaida is planning Christmas attacks in the U.S. and Europe. The U.S. government sprang into action and told al-Qaeda, "Hey, you cannot call them Christmas attacks, you have to call them holiday attacks."


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This is Week 7 in my Beyond the Internet series of topics in which I explore the sources of information beyond our computer screens. I'd love it if you wanted to join in with your own posts on this week's topic which is school histories, albums and newsletters. I'd particularly like to hear how people in other states and countries use these records so we can all learn from each other. If you do decide to take up this topic would you please leave a note in the comments or on Google+ as the Google alert is just not cooperating.
School histories
In Australia it's fairly common for schools of all shapes and sizes to publish histories on a school anniversary eg centenaries. I don't honestly know how prevalent this practice is overseas. These histories run the gamut from informal unstructured publications to books with high quality research. Some in the pre-computer era are rather basic productions while others are glossy bound books. Either way it's likely you'll find something that's useful if your relative attended that school…there's almost always some little anecdote that will let you flesh out your relative's school story "back in the day". Many that I have seen include a list of early student admissions and some have very early photos of teachers, students and the school. For example in the first Murphys Creek school history there's a picture of Maggie Kunkel among the students, even though the admission rolls no longer exist.
School albums or annuals
Have you been wondering what your great-aunt or uncle looked like? Or perhaps what a relative or ancestor's hobbies or skills were? School albums might just provide these clues…after all it works for Sue Grafton's detective extraordinaire Kinsey Milhone, who's sleuthing in the 1980s. Remember all those class photos that you had taken? Well they've been a tradition for a very long time and if your relative's school still exists, perhaps the school library retains copies of the annuals which you can trawl for clues and photos. You might find out they were superb singers, on the debating team, an excellent swimmer or football player – all those tiny details that add richness to the lives we're trying to recover from the past.
School newsletters
I think most large schools probably had school newsletters which again may be in the school library or perhaps a local heritage centre. This is where you'll get the more informal take on your ancestor if they make an appearance. A word of warning though, journalistic integrity may not be high and there may be outright fibs told for the sake of a good story. What you will get is the flavour of school life in the time period of the newsletter – all grist for the writing mill.
Admittedly I went to a large school in Brisbane and it has been around for a long time in Australian terms, so in years to come my descendants will find traces of my school life throughout these sources….but sadly they won't find a trace of singing or sporting excellence. I have a confession to make, though, as I have yet to visit the libraries to get my own parents' school photos and background. It's about time I took my own advice!
What about your family's school stories? Have you found anything interesting, exciting or just fun in their school's publications? What games and events were capturing people's imaginations? Their generation's version of Facebook, Twitter or Pinterest?


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Five years ago, my family left all our possessions in a shed at the other end of the world and arrived at an inner-city apartment with nothing but some clothes. Needless to say, for quite a while family friendly entertainment was hard to come by. One of the saving graces was the gift of a board game: Ticket to Ride. The game has become a family staple—it's challenging but not unwinnable for the older children, and entertaining for the adults.
Now, the Days of Wonder team have put together a $6.99 iPad version of the game. When the Ars editors were looking for a reviewer with Ben out of town, I had the happy combination of an iPad and familiarity with the board game. The physical game means a lot to me, so I viewed a software version with some trepidation.
Playing the game
For those of you not familiar with the game, here's a quick recap. Ticket to Ride is a railway track-building game, where you collect cards that allow you to lay track between cities on a map—there are regionalized versions, but I have only played the North American version. For each card that you play, you get differing points depending on the length of the track. The twist that makes it work is the route cards: each player has certain pairs of cities that they must connect. Do so and you obtain extra points, failure results in those points being subtracted from your final score.
With a limited amount of track available and various restrictions to the number of tracks that can be laid between adjacent cities, the game quickly becomes an ever-changing mathematical puzzle that will challenge everyone.
The iPad version of Ticket to Ride impresses right from the beginning. The play is directly translated from the board game. The cards and board have the same color and design, and the touchscreen is used to great effect: you pick up cards from the deck and place cards on track locations to lay track. When you complete a route, the game goes through a celebratory routine that leaves you in no doubt as to the brilliance of your accomplishment. The only downside is that the AI players go so fast that you can't keep track of what cards have been selected from the open choices. It is also hard to keep track of how many trains you and everyone else have left, since it is one of four numbers associated with each player.
The AI isn't great. The computer just seems to select one route after another and complete them. Young children do the same, but I would have expected the developers to have programmed some more nuanced strategies. Indeed, the in-game tutorial does an excellent job of teaching the mechanics of the game, but leaves the impression that completing routes sequentially is the best strategy to employ.
Network play
Clearly, Days of Wonder wants you on the 'Net, playing against other players. So I decided to make my online gaming debut and chose network play. After choosing the number of players you want to play against, you wait for a while and then some random Internet dudes gets matched up with you. The gameplay is the same, but the cards move a bit slower, so you can track what the other players are doing a bit better. The in-game chat turned out to be a tiny little speech bubble attached to your player's avatar, but, even with that, the whole experience was a bit... cold. A bit of a downer: when I play games, I want to play with friends. I should note that there is a train station restaurant where you can meet players and arrange games with people you know.
Luckily, Chris Foresman volunteered to be my friend for a day, and off we went. We discovered that the game is a little flaky in network play. The game crashed once and the server booted us a few times. It seems that the timeout period is quite short, so if you get interrupted, expect a bot to take your seat at the table.
Finally, the in-game chat is rudimentary at best. Chat messages show up in speech bubbles that stay on screen for about a nanosecond. If you notice the message, you won't necessarily be able to read it because they make up the lack of longevity by cutting off long messages. I have to say that went a long way to making a great game suck.
Get to the point: is it good or bad?
I love Ticket to Ride and I love the way the iPad version is laid out. Days of Wonder has come up with a fabulous ragtime theme from the end of the steam era. As a standalone game this is a good time, but it's not replacement for the board game, with its more social experience.


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Chrysler IPO: Marchionne's Plan B for merger with Fiat?
Chrysler IPO eventually would give Fiat's Marchionne 90 percent of Chrysler stock. Marchionne had offered to buy the stock directly from VEBA, but the union-affiliated health-care trust refused, leading to the Chrysler IPO.
Things have not gone exactly as planned for Sergio Marchionne.
As the head of both Chrysler and Fiat, he's been planning for some time to merge the two companies. Fiat already owns a 58.5 percent stake in Chrysler, and Marchionne had hoped to buy the remaining 41.5 percent that's held by VEBA, a healthcare trust affiliated with the United Auto Workers union.
Unfortunately, the undisclosed offer that Marchionne made for that slice of Chrysler's pie didn't sit well with VEBA management, so VEBA refused. And so, according to Reuters, Marchionne is going with Plan B.
Plan B involves taking Chrysler public without Fiat owning VEBA stock. Marchionne says that he plans to file paperwork for the initial public offering sometime this week.
An IPO gives VEBA some advantages. For starters, selling Chrysler shares in the open market gives VEBA the chance to land a higher price. Also, the threat of VEBA's shares being purchased by an investor who might be hostile to Fiat is some encouragement for Marchionne to sweeten his offer to VEBA before trading begins.
Then again, VEBA doesn't hold all the cards. It can only sell 25 percent of its holdings in Chrysler on the stock market, which works out to be just over 10 percent of the total. The remaining 75 percent of VEBA's shares must be sold to Fiat.
In other words, Marchionne and Fiat will eventually own the lion's share of Chrysler. The questions are: (a) how much will Fiat pay for that privilege, and (b) will it have full ownership, or just 90 percent?


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The Estes Park economy is all about tourism.
As soon as you top the hill going west on U.S. Highway 34 and drop into the Estes Valley, your are immediately immersed into the beauty of the Rocky Mountains – and a host of tourism-related businesses.
Tourism is everywhere you look.
Go karts. Miniature golf. Horseback rides. Motels.
And, when you drive a little farther west into the downtown district, you are surrounded by unique restaurants, outdoor dress stores, art galleries, t-shirt shops, and more.
It's a regular tourism smorgasbord.
It's also visible proof of an industry that drives the nearly $200 million annual Estes Park economy.
According to a Visit Estes Park study conducted by Summit Economics LLC in August 2012, the tourism industry in 2011 was responsible for $187 million in total sales and $154 million taxable sales.
That's big time tourism numbers for a community with a population just under 6,000 people.
Yet, that's what the town depends on – tourism. It provides jobs for workers and taxes for needed services for the entire community. Without it, Estes Park might be just another remote mountain town.
Of course, the nearby presence of Mountain National Park, which draws over 3 million visitors each year, insures that Estes Park will always have a steady stream of visitors and a tourism-based economy.
But, is it wise to place so much trust in tourism?
It's an interesting question, most agree.
Read on to see what experts and town officials believe.
A wake-up call
No one gave much thought about life without tourism until last September when a three-day flood event closed all but one of the main roadways into town. Tourists couldn't find a safe, reliable way to get here for nearly 60 days.
Many businesses also suffered some kind of damage. Word went out that Estes Park was "devastated" by the flood.
As a result, all of that had a dramatic impact on the local tourism economy.
That was further compounded by the closure of Rocky Mountain National Park as part of the nation's sequestering.
Eventually, businesses were cleaned up, roads were temporarily repaired, the park was reopened through an effort by the governor, and tourists began to trickle back into town.
While the town has recovered well, the effects of the flood brought the focus back to the original question: Is it smart or prudent to place so much trust in tourism, especially when we now know how vulnerable the town can be to natural events like fires and floods?
Jon Nicholas, the interim president and CEO of the Estes Park Economic Development Corporation, understands that question better that most since his role is to promote economic development in the community.
As a result, he realizes only too well what dangers await if a community becomes too dependent on one source of income for its economy.
"Any town that depends on just one industry is vulnerable," he said. "That was the biggest lesson (learned) from last fall."
That's a position shared by many statewide experts.
To make his point, Nicholas referred to a comment made by John Cody, a former chair of the Economic Development Council of Colorado.
Nicholas said Cody felt that "Estes Park is one lightning strike from economic disaster."
"We have recovered (from the flood) but we need diversification (in the economy)," Nicholas said.
The need for diversification
Many who keep a keen eye on the local economy agree with Nicholas about the need for diversification.
However, some see the potential to broaden the tourism industry as a way that will increase jobs and offer diversity, too.
"As the premier destination in Colorado for visitors, tourism will always be the major economic force supporting Estes Park," said Estes Park Town Administrator Frank Lancaster. "With that said, every economy is more stable with diversity. Even within the destination market, we can expand our product for our guests.
"By building on our strength as a destination market, for example creating a new destination product around wellness, fitness, and high-altitude sports training activities, we can attract a new niche market and a broader base of visitors who will want to return.
"We also need to look at events and destination products that will attract people to come to Estes during the slower times of the year. We also need to look at how we can capitalize on our strengths and assets beyond the tourism segment."
Estes Park Finance Director Steve McFarland is another who believes that you can strengthen and diversify the community at the same time by expanding opportunities to attract visitors year-round.
"Any efforts to increase Estes Park's visitation during the quieter seasons would strengthen and stabilize the economy," McFarland said. "This could include adding new facilities such as the events complex, and new products that draw new types of visitors.
"There's a lot of discussion about the potential to attract visitors interested in the arts, health and wellness and even high-altitude training.
"Tourism will always be the driving force behind our economy, but diversification is also key to a balanced economy. Estes Park has the potential to attract new non-tourism businesses (and thus residents) who could enjoy living here while in close proximity to major universities and an international airport."
Estes Park Mayor Bill Pinkham may have summed it up best during his closing remarks during his State of the Town report on Feb. 25.
Pinkham, after a 30-minute power point presentation which focused heavily on the community's recovery from the September flood, said that the community must start focusing on diversifying the local economy for its long-term sustainability. He also cited the need for creating new jobs and year-round employment by bringing in new businesses that are not tourism-based.
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(CNN) -- Yes, Americans are stressed over the economy.
A new poll finds that Americans are sleeping less because of economic stress and demands of modern life.
Our day seems shorter, schedules are crammed and precious sleep hours are sacrificed -- tossing, turning or working.
Adding onto that is Daylight Saving Time, which begins Sunday at 2 a.m. when Americans will have to set their clocks ahead by an hour.
Released this week, the National Sleep Foundation's annual poll estimated that Americans get an average of about 6.7 hours of sleep during a weekday.
The annual Sleep in America poll estimated the hours of sleep have gradually decreased.
Over the last decade, the poll indicates that a growing percentage of Americans is getting less than six hours of sleep and the number of people who get eight or more hours is dwindling.
The poll had a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. National Sleep Foundation is a nonprofit organization of researchers, patients and health care facilities. It said it does not solicit or accept funding for its annual Sleep in America polls.
"In the last few years, we've seen the economy take a nose dive, and more people are affected by that," said Dr. Raj Kakar, a medical director at the Dallas Center for Sleep Disorders. "More people are stressed. Stress is associated with sleep deprivation, anxiety, depression and sleeplessness. The economy is a major factor why people are losing sleep."
The findings echo a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, which reported last year that 52 percent of 7,000 respondents were losing sleep at night from stress.
Aside from financial anxieties, in just a decade society has become more around-the clock and more complex.
"This has been more insidious over two decades," Kakar said. "With the advent of the Internet, cell phone, Blackberries, we're seeing our society is increasingly 24-7. People are able to be active at any time from anywhere, and it causes people to be more active around the clock. This increased activity is essentially giving sleep less importance."
The mean hours of sleep on a weeknight dwindled from an average of 7 hours in 2001 to 6.7 hours this year, according to the Sleep Foundation's poll.
It could be that life in 2009 has more distractions, said Dr. David Schulman, the medical director of the Emory Clinic Sleep Disorders laboratory in Atlanta, Georgia.
So what's taking time away from sleep?
"It's been entertainment, Internet, playing games or TV. People have all sorts of distractions they didn't have back then (in previous years)," Schulman said.
Centuries ago, people routinely slept eight to nine hours a day, he said. But now, only about a quarter in the survey reported getting eight or more hours of sleep.
Doctors warn about the effects of sleep deprivation, such as car accidents, depression, anxiety and cardiovascular problems. Doctors recommend seven to eight hours a day. Schulman likened sleep deprivation to chronic alcoholism.
"When you're chronically drunk, you can't tell when you're drunk," he said "If you're chronically sleep deprived, you can't tell when you're sleepy. You lose the ability to detect how tired you are. It's not unusual to fall asleep behind the wheel."
But there is contradicting research on how much sleep Americans are getting. John Robinson, a sociology professor at the University of Maryland, challenged the notion that people are sleeping less in the 24-7 treadmill of modern life.
"There has been no decline in sleep. It's been sustained," he said, according to time-use surveys that date back to 1965.
Robinson, a past director of the Americans' Use of Time Project, monitored time-use diaries to track how people spend their day. Since 2003, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau have gathered time-use information that has consistently reported that Americans sleep 8.6 hours a day.
Dr. Neil Kavey, director of the Sleep Disorder Center at New York-Presbyterian at Columbia University Medical Center, said the statistic is difficult to believe, especially from his New York City practice.
"I can't believe that people get that much sleep in this busy world of ours," Kavey said. "I think a lot of people need 8.6 hours of sleep, but I think very few people get it."
The huge disparities in the results from the Sleep Foundation's poll and the government's time diaries could be attributed to different methodologies, experts on each side said.
The Sleep Foundation's annual findings are based on a telephone survey of 1,000 people in which the participants are asked to estimate the number of hours they usually sleep.
Meanwhile, the government's time use surveys ask people to detail hour-by-hour how they spent the previous day. Between 2003 and 2005, about 37,000 people were surveyed.
The time use surveys may overestimate sleep, because sleeplessness such as insomnia, tossing and turning and lying awake are categorized as sleep, said Dr. Chris Drake, clinical psychologist at Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders and Research Center in Detroit, Michigan.
"You may actually sleep four hours, but you're in bed for eight hours," said Drake, who is a board member with the National Sleep Foundation. "They're counting that as eight hours of sleep."
Despite differences in the average hours, researchers and experts agree that stress and work rob a person of sleep.
During tough economic times, people might work longer hours to avoid the risk of running behind on their workload and the possibility of a layoff.
If a person is working more, he or she borrows that time from sleep.
"That's a bad loan," Kavey said. "There's a lot of bad loans going around. Borrowing from sleep is a bad way to go."
And modern society gets some of the blame.
"Our society has valued people who brag about being able to function on very little sleep as a mark of someone who is aggressive, dynamic, successful," Kavey said. "Well, forget that. Admire someone who puts focus on sleep and is not making mistakes (from sleep deprivation)."
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This sounds lovely. How do we make it the best ever?
40 thoughts on "P & Q: Nectarine Upside-Down Chiffon Cake"
Im thinking about using pears or apples! This recipe looks amazing~
i used pears and it worked beautifully
Any advice if my springform pan isn't a 10-incher? I think mine is 9 inches….
i cut the recipe in half and baked it in a standard 8″ cake pan-it worked out perfectly
I made this tonight Beautiful!!!!
But–my pan was 9 inches so I put about 2 cups of batter in a small springform, it was a delicious mini cake. Be sure and wrap the bottom of the springform pan in foil as it does drip and put it on a sheet pan to bake. I had to bake my cake about 5-10 minutes longer. I had no problem getting it out of the pan, it did sink in the center but was still beautiful and delicious.
I only used about half of the streusel, I really think it would have been delicious minus the streusel. It's a cake I will make again.
Read the directions over several times and follow exactly–perfection.
After reading the information from the bakers above, I wiill consider baking the cake in a bundt pan….and I may use just half the streusel, like Cindy Harris did.
Sorry to read that for some it didn't work out…bummer.
Very good! I used apples and it turned out so good!
Here's a link to the video. Great tips on making merengue.
A clever way to separate eggs. I tried it…it works.
Clever indeed!
I have a 10″ cake pan and a 9″ springform; I want to use the cake pan. I'm curious of those that used parchment paper on the bottom. I'm concerned that the topping will settle under the parchment. How did it work out for you? Maybe if I cut the parchment a bit larger so it will come up the sides a bit to hold the topping???
I made it the first time: a disaster! (see my previous message) – I made it today for the second time and, I apoligise for saying that, but I did not like it at all!
I'm not going to bake it for a third time… sorry to let you down.
(Now I have to go and find some comfort…Mmmm a piece of chocolate may do!)
Hope you'll love it!
PS: Is the first time since February that I find a recipe I don't like…
I thought this was wonderful…I served it to a group of 10 to rave reviews. My only problem was the cake sticking to the sides of the springform pan. I should have run a knife around the edge before releasing it. One of my girlfriends especially adored the streusel layer.
Just finished making the cake…definitely a keeper. This cake on its own is delicious. Since it uses egg whites in the batter, it's a light cake. Simply beautiful.
I changed a few steps in my cake. First, I used a bundt pan.
For the brown sugar process, I melted the butter in a large measuring cup in the microwave. Cooled it slightly. Mixed the brown sugar with the butter.
Sprayed the bundt pan with PAM, an oil spray. Then added the brown sugar mixture in the bundt pan.
Added the nectarine slices, and sprinkled, toasted, finely chopped pecans on the nectarines slices.
My cake was done in 45 minutes.
After cooling the cake for 25 minutes, I ran a knife along the edges of the cake pan to ensure that the cake would come out of the pan when inverted.
The cake was delicious, soft and spongy…the topping, sweet and tasty. The pecans help cut the sweetness from the brown sugar. The cake is so good it could stand on its own without the topping or fruit.
Thank you bakers for your priceless tips…I omitted the streusel as other bakers did…it was not needed.
Thumbs up for this recipe..
~ Carmen
Okay, I have no idea how or why, but for some reason my cake tastes mildly like sweetened tofu, or it has some type of soy-ish kind if flavour.. The only modifications I had was using light brown sugar instead of dark and adding apricots in with the nectarines, and I'm just slightly confused.. It smells delicious though, and I might be the only one, but I actually really like the streusel..
I don't know if I'd try making this again just to see if it doesn't taste like soy the second time around..
Ugh! I wish I had read all of your comments before I started baking this morning! Mine was nowhere near done after 50 minutes in the oven, but I didn't realize it until after I let the cake cool and flipped it! Then I realized the whole center was still doughy. So I tried to transfer it back to a baking sheet, but it was so light the thing fell apart on me. Oh well. 15 additional minutes in the oven baked it through and we will just eat it "crumble-style" as it is still delicious.
welcome to the club, Beth … I had the same "dis-ADVENTURE" :-)
I should have read these comments before I started baking. I took mine out, even possibly against better judgement, because the cake was deep dark brown and smelled done. I also let it cool, came back to flip it and the center had sunk. Once I flipped I noticed it was still completely raw batter in the center. The outside of the cake looked perfect. I use an oven thermometer and my oven was at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, so it was not the oven. It's now back in the oven to see if it can be salvaged at all.
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I baked mine about 55 minutes and it came out fine and the center was done. When I pulled it out at 50 minutes, it jiggled a bit in the middle like a cheesecake, so I put it back in. I used white nectarines, so they weren't as pretty, but the taste is lovely. The whole cake dropped about 3/4 inch as it cooled in the pan.
Tuesday is almost over where I live and still no LYL post? :-)
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Shall we do the LYL here?
They will have it up soon, be patient :) It is early morning in the states.
Mine sank in the middle a bit, any idea why?


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GRAID3(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual GRAID3(8) NAME graid3 -- control utility for RAID3 devices SYNOPSIS graid3 label [-Fhnrvw] [-s blocksize] name prov prov prov ... graid3 clear [-v] prov ... graid3 configure [-adfFhnrRvwW] name graid3 rebuild [-v] name prov graid3 insert [-hv] [-n number] name prov graid3 remove [-v] -n number name graid3 stop [-fv] name ... graid3 list graid3 status graid3 load graid3 unload DESCRIPTION The graid3 utility is used for RAID3 array configuration. After a device is created, all components are detected and configured automatically. All operations such as failure detection, stale component detection, re- build of stale components, etc. are also done automatically. The graid3 utility uses on-disk metadata (the provider's last sector) to store all needed information. The first argument to graid3 indicates an action to be performed: label Create a RAID3 device. The last given component will contain parity data, whilst the others will all contain regular data. The number of components must be equal to 3, 5, 9, 17, etc. (2^n + 1). Additional options include: -F Do not synchronize after a power failure or system crash. Assumes device is in consistent state. -h Hardcode providers' names in metadata. -n Turn off autosynchronization of stale components. -r Use parity component for reading in round-robin fashion. Without this option the parity component is not used at all for reading operations when the device is in a com- plete state. With this option specified random I/O read operations are even 40% faster, but sequential reads are slower. One cannot use this option if the -w option is also specified. -s Manually specify array block size. Block size will be set equal to least common multiple of all component's sector sizes and specified value. Note that array sector size calculated as multiple of block size and number of regular data components. Big values may decrease performance and compatibility, as all I/O requests have to be multiple of sector size. -w Use verify reading feature. When reading from a device in a complete state, also read data from the parity component and verify the data by comparing XORed regular data with parity data. If verification fails, an EIO error is re- turned and the value of the kern.geom.raid3.stat.parity_mismatch sysctl is increased. One cannot use this option if the -r option is also speci- fied. clear Clear metadata on the given providers. configure Configure the given device. Additional options include: -a Turn on autosynchronization of stale components. -d Do not hardcode providers' names in metadata. -f Synchronize device after a power failure or system crash. -F Do not synchronize after a power failure or system crash. Assumes device is in consistent state. -h Hardcode providers' names in metadata. -n Turn off autosynchronization of stale components. -r Turn on round-robin reading. -R Turn off round-robin reading. -w Turn on verify reading. -W Turn off verify reading. rebuild Rebuild the given component forcibly. If autosynchronization was not turned off for the given device, this command should be unnecessary. insert Add the given component to the existing array, if one of the components was removed previously with the remove command or if one component is missing and will not be connected again. If no number is given, new component will be added instead of first missed component. Additional options include: -h Hardcode providers' names in metadata. remove Remove the given component from the given array and clear metadata on it. stop Stop the given arrays. Additional options include: -f Stop the given array even if it is opened. list See geom(8). status See geom(8). load See geom(8). unload See geom(8). Additional options include: -v Be more verbose. EXIT STATUS Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails. EXAMPLES Use 3 disks to setup a RAID3 array (with the round-robin reading fea- ture). Create a file system, mount it, then unmount it and stop device: graid3 label -v -r data da0 da1 da2 newfs /dev/raid3/data mount /dev/raid3/data /mnt ... umount /mnt graid3 stop data graid3 unload Create a RAID3 array, but do not use the automatic synchronization fea- ture. Rebuild parity component: graid3 label -n data da0 da1 da2 graid3 rebuild data da2 Replace one data disk with a brand new one: graid3 remove -n 0 data graid3 insert -n 0 data da5 SEE ALSO geom(4), geom(8), gvinum(8), mount(8), newfs(8), umount(8) HISTORY The graid3 utility appeared in FreeBSD 5.3. AUTHORS Pawel Jakub Dawidek <firstname.lastname@example.com> BUGS There should be a section with an implementation description. Documentation for sysctls kern.geom.raid3.* is missing. FreeBSD 13.0 January 15, 2012 FreeBSD 13.0
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Intel's Reader, developed by a dyslexic Stanford graduate, is a powerful device for dyslexic and visually impaired readers, allowing them to scan entire pages of text to audio for immediate playback or later review.
The book-sized device is capable of capturing text from a variety of sources, ranging from restaurant menus to academic journals. That scanned text can be magnified and read on the device, listened to via on-board speaker or headphones, or exported to MP3.
Intel's Reader packs a high resolution camera and an Intel Atom processor, allowing it to quickly and accurately capture massive amounts of text.
The Intel Reader made its debut at CES and will be available for around $1500. It's not cheap, but it could be a life changing gadget for the 55 million people whose reading is challenged by dyslexia or vision impairment. [Intel via Fast Company]


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Ever heard the one about how dinosaurs really became extinct? The punch line was apparently because they learned to suck their own dicks. Now, before you start picturing a brachiosaurus performing fellatio on itself, ignore the prehistoric humor and think about the serious damage the guys in Go Suck Yourself must be doing to the future prospects of the human race.
From Factory Extreme, the studio that brought us other kink classics like Foot Play, Hardcore Wrestling and Boxers N Briefs, Go Suck Yourself could easily be video documentation of our untimely end – though something tells me the stars of this film were unlikely to try breeding anytime soon.
The fun begins with Austin Joseph and the very cute, twinky and tattooed skater boy Kade – old friends who haven't seen each other in quite a while. As you might imagine, it's not long before they're getting reacquainted. But that's after Kade decides to use the bathroom for a bit of practice on his self-sucking skills. It's quite cute seeing him try to manage the feat in the cramped cubicle and it looks every bit as difficult as you'd expect. That tongue just can't quite seem to reach Kade's quite large cock.
Right on cue, Austin accidently walks in on him and Kade sees the opportunity to ask for some assistance. But it's not long before he has the hang of it himself and manages to wrap that tongue around his own dick. Such a talented guy, and such an inspiration to watch.
Then it's all on with blowjobs, rimming and a very nicely thought out bit of dildo-play on Kade while he returns to mastering his rare art. And what auto-fellatio scene would be complete without a guy cumming in his own mouth? Certainly not this one. Kade's even still hungry after gobbling up his own, and is happy to have seconds from Austin.
For all the potential for this film to simply become a series of solos showcasing these talented guys' skills, it's great to see they chose to include some three-ways. After all, how fun is a hearty meal without friends?
Tucker Jenson, Phil Easy and Nick Jarett (who fans will remember from Raw Entry and Shooting Bareback) join forces for the group rendezvous and get the balls rolling with some oral action. Greedy Nick can't help but switch between the daisy chain and simply sucking his own dick. Tucker clearly thinks that if Nick's so good he wants to suck himself, than he wants to see what all the fuss is about by fucking him. It's actually a very hot bit of anal. Tucker has some great rhythm going, bit of dirty talk too and Nick is enjoying himself immensely. He looks very hot lying there while being fucked and jerked by Tucker at the same time. That cute bit of chest fluff he's got going on is very endearing.
Tucker and Phil then jerk off while watching Nick continue to go down on himself (apparently they're as turned on and in awe of the skill as we are). When he's blown in his mouth, his buddies make sure he gets a face load of theirs too. This guy really should have thought about getting a bib before joining these fellas.
The threesomes continue outdoors with spunky Rod Spunkel (who has one very nice looking thick cock and cute goatee to boot) attracting the very handsome James O'Neil, who blows Rod and watches on as he blows himself. Jon Paulson then joins the fun before sucking up both the guys' loads and shooting his own on the pavement. If it weren't so hot it would seem like a waste with all these hungry mouths to feed.
Some more handsome lads with cute facial hair conclude Go Suck Yourself. Long-haired Kenji rivals Rod Spunkel in the goatee and auto-fellatio departments. It seems they've left the most talented self-suck performer till last. He presents his superior skills before we meet Dorian Jensen (and his hot sideburns) who comes in to help him out. Dorian then gets fucked by Kenji, but it's not long before he's back to showing off. He continues to suck himself until he cums on his face and his chest, there's even a little bit in his goatee... HOT! Dorian is a polite guest and cleans up the leftovers, then shows what he's learned from his buddy by blowing his own load into his own face, using his fingers to make sure none goes to waste.
As far as a presentation on the art of self-sucking goes, the guys over at Factory Extreme have certainly assembled an experienced and attractive cast. Whether you're looking for an extensive how-to or simply want to enjoy yourself watching these guys show off their mad skills, Go Suck Yourself will certainly fulfill your demands.


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INHABITAT: What inspired you to write Housing Reclaimed?
Jessica Kellner: I was inspired to write Housing Reclaimed after hearing stories on the news day after day about all the people losing their homes following the housing market crash of 2006 to 2008. In my work at Natural Home & Garden, I had seen many amazing homes built for next to nothing out of materials otherwise headed for the landfill. As people lost their homes after buying into a market in which housing prices had been falsely inflated, I began thinking about those homes as an alternative way that people could create shelter for themselves and their families without depending on the success of the real estate market and Wall Street. I saw it partially as a way to inspire hope in people's minds about creating their own affordable housing, and partially as a way to fight back against a system that I believe robbed many people of their homes and financial livelihood to benefit wealthy investors.
INHABITAT: How has your work as Editor of Natural Home & Garden influenced your opinions on sustainable housing?
Jessica Kellner: My work at Natural Home & Garden has opened my eyes to the many options in sustainable housing, but what I've found truly influential in my work are the stories of people who have taken their homes into their own hands. Those who have said, "I'm not going to do the conventional thing and have a little white box made of plywood and vinyl. I'm going to make something that is shaped by my lifestyle and my family and my needs."
Not so long ago, our homes were reflective of our families and they changed over time. You had a baby, you added on. Your parents got older, you added a story or a second structure. Today our "one size fits all" model doesn't have the heart of those hand built spaces. And what I really wanted to show in the book is that that spirit isn't just reserved for the wealthy who can afford a super-customized, architect-built dream home. We all have the power to do this.
INHABITAT: Finding adequate, safe, healthy and energy efficient housing should be a basic human right. What are some of the issues now in the US that prevent someone with a low to moderate income with finding and buying housing
Jessica Kellner: One of the ironies of the housing crisis, to me, is that the banks were shelling out money and huge mortgages to just about anyone beforehand, convincing them that they could pay their low introductory rates, then turn around and refinance or sell the house for a profit because housing values kept going up and up. Then after the market crashed because of their irresponsible lending practices (and in my mind, economists and the heads of major mortgage companies should be responsible for understanding market trends, not the average person trying to buy a home for her family), they reacted by tightening their lending practices so much that it makes it difficult even for qualified, responsible borrowers to obtain a mortgage.
We also face a situation in which housing within many city centers is either very expensive or dilapidated, leaving people with great jobs that don't pay a lot such as teachers and firefighters with no option but to move out to the suburbs, buy a little vinyl house and commute a long distance. That's what inspired Nancy Murray to found her nonprofit Builders of Hope, which I profile in the book. She says it seemed that the universe was continuously bringing people into her life who were hardworking people who worked in the city but were forced to move their families to the suburbs because of the lack of affordable, quality housing inside Raleigh, North Carolina, where she lives. She wanted to help provide nice, healthy and affordable housing to families who aren't rich, so she used a small inheritance to begin the nonprofit. Since 2007, she's created 10 neighborhoods in 6 cities, all of them built from renovated donated homes that would have otherwise been demolished, and all rehabilitated with a commitment to green and healthy principles. She's creating safe homes for many people who couldn't afford them otherwise, and she's creating a national, replicable model, as well.
INHABITAT: Many people assume that the only way to own a home outright is through a mortgage? What were the secrets of the families and projects you featured to own their home outright?
Jessica Kellner: The people in my book used a variety of methods to finance their homes. The biggest financial issue is always going to be land acquisition. You have to have land. Some people had inherited a small piece of property, others bought land with an affordable loan, others such as the people whose homes were built by the Phoenix Commotion were aided by a seed fund. Dan Phillips, the founder of the Phoenix Commotion, has a lot of really intriguing ideas about community investment. He uses a donated seed fund through a partnership with a local nonprofit to help finance the initial materials to start building a home. Then he saves tons of money by using mostly free waste materials and low-cost labor. After the home is complete, it appraises at much more than the costs that went into it. The homeowner takes out a small mortgage on the place, then pays back the seed money with it.
Pretty much everyone in my book avoided construction loans by doing the majority of the work themselves, and spent virtually nothing on building materials because they salvaged most of them from deconstruction sites or elsewhere. A couple of the people in my book used salvaged materials along with a straw-bale infill structure. Straw bale can be expensive if you hire it out, but it's incredibly cheap if you do the labor yourself. All it requires are straw bales and plaster for the walls, which you can make yourself. You can learn to construct a straw-bale home by volunteering on other people's projects. Many cities and states have straw-bale associations or organizations where you can connect with others. Then after volunteering, you build up a network of people who will come and help you build your house. It's a really fun way to build community while also accomplishing something great.
INHABITAT: There seems to be a growing trend of DIY home builders? What sort of knowledge or skills do they have? Or are these individuals largely learning as they go?
Jessica Kellner:Dan Phillips of the Phoenix Commotion talks a lot about the basics of building and how specialized skills aren't necessary for the majority of the work that goes into a home. For complex wiring or plumbing, you probably want to hire a professional, but cutting lumber, driving in nails or plastering walls are fairly basic skills. I think it's wise to do your research and to try to get hands-on experience before tackling any major endeavor, but I think we should get over the idea that there is no way your average person can build a home.
INHABITAT: For a family who either has no time, no building knowledge or little money, what would you suggest to them to find a way of owning their own home.
Jessica Kellner: A home is going to require the input of resources. Aaron Powers, one of the homebuilders in my book, made a great point by saying he and his wife used the resources they had available to them as young people—time and energy—rather than the resources they didn't have—money. Collecting salvaged materials takes time. But it saves a boatload of cash. As far as knowledge is concerned, there are myriad ways in every community that you can gain knowledge. Like I mentioned, join a straw-bale building association to learn how to build that way. Volunteer at a Habitat for Humanity house. Go volunteer at the Phoenix Commotion for a week or a month, or read all of Dan Phillips' educational materials on his website. Read up on building methods. There are tons of excellent books and websites out there. Building a home isn't rocket science—up until about 100 years ago, lots of people did it. The skills it requires are fundamental; it's a matter of taking the time and energy to learn them.
INHABITAT: What organizations are out there leading the charge in building affordable and sustainable homes?
Jessica Kellner: The Building Materials Reuse Association is a fabulous group that is encouraging the smart deconstruction (as opposed to demolition) of homes and hoping to institute a program of collecting and cataloguing valuable building materials for reuse. The more organized groups in my book, The Phoenix Commotion and Builders of Hope, have both created replicable models that help provide affordable housing to many people. Of course Habitat for Humanity ReStores collect and sell salvaged building materials, and the organization builds low-income housing, as well. There are also lots of architects and builders having fun exploring the notion of how to house our world's ever-growing population in small, affordable, well-designed units. We feature a lot of them in Natural Home & Garden in our "tiny house" series. Michael Katz's L41 house is one that comes to mind.
INHABITAT: What was one of your favorite projects you featured in your book and why?
Jessica Kellner: This sounds like a cop-out answer, but there are only six projects featured in my book, and they are all absolutely fascinating and inspiring in different ways. The Baker family in Alabama inspired me with the way their entire family—two parents and three teenage sons—came together and put their hearts and souls into this home. All the sons talk about the project so fondly despite the fact that they weren't necessarily thrilled to spend all their weekends as 16-year-olds working on a building project in the woods. They say it brought them closer as a family and made all three of them into confident young men. The Powers' house in Idaho is amazing because they included all these super clever space-saving techniques such as a sunken Japanese soaking tub under the shower floor and a formal dining table under removable planks in the living room floor, and they had a team of friends and family camp out for various lengths of time in a village of tents, trailers and tipis over the summer they built the place. The Colorado home I featured was built by a couple and more than 100 volunteers, and the homeowners incorporated their own personal artistry into it to make it a truly unique, artistic vision rather than just a house. And the organizations in the book are fantastic, too. The Phoenix Commotion's houses look more like something out of a fairy tale than a subdivision; Builders of Hope brings safety and community to families who thought they couldn't ever have it; and HabeRae has transformed whole areas of their city of Reno, Nevada, simply by updating one dilapidated structure in a rundown part of town. They're all just so amazing, and the people behind them are some of the funniest, smartest and most independent-minded people you could hope to talk to. Interviewing all of them was a joy.
Thanks for you time and the great book Jessica. We're huge fans of Natural Home & Garden Magazine and always look forward to the beautiful homes you feature.
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I've got an article in today's Observer about the unreliability of 'lie detectors' but why people still tend to spill the beans when wired up to them.
It turns out that polygraphs have a sort of placebo effect, where people are more truthful because they believe that they work. In fact, studies show that people are more truthful when wired up to a completely bogus 'lie detector' look-alike.
Worryingly though, law enforcement is staring to use this effect, which is based entirely on ignorance, to monitor sex offenders and evaluate their risk of carrying out other sexual assaults.
Needless to say, I feel this is foolish. Read the article for the full details.
By the way, this is the first of an every-six-weeks column I'll be writing for the paper. As my friends will tell you, I rarely manage to say anything interesting that frequently, so wish me luck.
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By Mark Sherman
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court appears likely to strike down a Massachusetts law setting a 35-foot protest-free zone outside abortion clinics, with liberal and conservative justices alike expressing misgivings about the law in arguments Wednesday.
The justices questioned the size of the zone and whether the state could find less restrictive ways of ensuring patient access and safety.
No one has been prosecuted under the 2007 law, which state officials and clinic employees have said has resulted in less congestion outside the clinics.
The court — which bars protests on its plaza, but allows them on the public sidewalks — last considered abortion clinic protest zones in 2000, when it upheld a Colorado law.
It seemed possible that there could be more than the five votes needed to strike down the law after Justice Elena Kagan said she was "hung up" over the size of the zone.
But it was hard to tell whether the court might also upend its 2000 ruling in support of the Colorado zone, which has been criticized by free speech advocates for unfairly restricting protesters' rights.
That's because Chief Justice John Roberts, normally an active questioner, did not ask a single question of any of the three lawyers who argued the case.
Painted semicircles outside Planned Parenthood clinics in Boston, Springfield and Worcester mark the spot beyond which abortion opponents are free to protest and try to persuade women not to end their pregnancies. Inside the line, protesters and supporters alike risk arrest.
The justices tried different comparisons in imagining the size of the zone. Kagan compared it to the width of the courtroom, which is 82 feet by 91 feet. Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggested two car lengths, which is roughly equivalent to the distance from the start of the zone to the building line at the Boston clinic, which has a recessed entrance.
Obama administration lawyer Ian Gershengorn compared the protest-free zone to the NBA's three-point line, 22 feet at its shortest point to the basket.
Eleanor McCullen, 77, and other protesters at those clinics sued the state over its 2007 law setting up the buffer zone, saying it limits their ability to encounter patients arriving for care. Federal courts in Massachusetts have upheld the law as a reasonable imposition on protesters' rights.
Mark Rienzi, representing the protesters, said the state could deal with congestion problems by asking people to move, "not dragging Mrs. McCullen off to prison." McCullen attended Wednesday's session as did Marty Walz, the sponsor of the 2007 law in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and now the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts.
Lawyers for Massachusetts and the Obama administration defended the law as a reasonable effort that still allows people to attempt to persuade women arriving at the clinics not to have abortions.
State officials and clinic employees say patients and staff feel safer and find it easier to enter the clinics. Abortion rights groups report that incidents of violence are down in states and cities that have buffer zones.
The last serious violence in Massachusetts was in 1994, when a gunman killed two employees at two clinics in the Boston area.
In 2000, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to uphold a different buffer zone in Colorado in a decision that some free-speech advocates, who also support abortion rights, have criticized.
Since then, four of the six justices in the majority have retired, while the three dissenters — Justices Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas, remain on the court. Thomas was silent Wednesday, as is his custom during arguments, while Kennedy and Scalia made clear their problems with the Massachusetts law.
Scalia objected even to calling McCullen and the others who challenged the law protesters. "This is not a protest case. They don't want to protest. They want to talk to women and talk them out of abortions," he said.
Kennedy questioned whether other state and federal laws could not be used to accomplish the same goal of keeping access to the clinics open. "What's wrong with the physical obstruction statutes as an answer to the problems Massachusetts is facing?" Kennedy said.
Two of the four newer justices since 2000 are Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, who both have voted to restrict abortion rights. Roberts also has written strong opinions in favor of protesters' rights, including members of a Kansas church who protest outside military funerals. Alito has been more willing to limit those rights.
But Alito appeared certain to vote to strike down the law, which he said treats people differently based on their point of view.
Assistant Attorney General Jennifer Grace Miller of Massachusetts failed to dissuade Alito that the issue was not what anyone was saying, but the state's desire to keep traffic moving in front of the clinic.
Before the case was argued, state Attorney General Martha Coakley said the current case should come out the same way as the Colorado case did 14 years earlier. The only thing that has changed, Coakley said, is the makeup of the court.
"The state has a huge interest in making sure that everybody is safe and that all rights are protected," she said. The Obama administration warned that limits on conduct near funerals, courthouses, polling places, homes and airports could be called into question if the court strikes down the law.
Massachusetts had a "floating buffer zone" law modeled on the Colorado law that was designed to keep protesters and patients apart. But Coakley said it was confusing and hard to enforce, prompting the state to adopt a fixed, 35-foot zone.
Notre Dame law professor Richard Garnett, who filed a brief in the case on the protesters' side, said the Massachusetts law is even more restrictive than the Colorado law. Garnett said the court should have struck down the Colorado law, despite "the temptation to silence unwelcome expression."
Garnett said free speech, not the right to an abortion, is at issue in the new case. The AFL-CIO, concerned about limits on picketing, also is calling for the law to be struck down.
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What Flannery O'Connor Got Right: Epiphanies Aren't Permanent
Author Jim Shepard's favorite passage from "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" highlights a sad truth: A moment of clarity only lasts a moment.
By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature.
Flannery O'Connor's classic short story "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" moves from satiric family comedy to brutal revelation as a grandmother leads her exasperated family on a wild goose chase in rural Georgia. While looking for the site of her girlhood homestead, she inadvertently brings her whole family to their deaths at the hands of a tortured killer, The Misfit. He displays an odd regard for the grandmother, who forgives him right before she dies:
"She could have been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been someone there to shoot her every minute of her life."
For Jim Shepard, author of Love and Hydrogen and You Call That Bad, this line has been cause to contemplate what it means to be good—and the value of goodness when it's merely fleeting. If human beings can muster startling flashes of selflessness and generosity, why do we revert so quickly to our flawed, limited selves? And does the fact that we do relapse into old patterns diminish what we are in our best moments? O'Connor's story helps Shepard wrestle with these questions as he crafts his own imperfect characters, who catch glimpses of how to become better—but are often not quite strong enough to change.
When I first encountered "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," I read it the way many people do when they first encounter the story—a kind of social satire that veers over into random violence, plus a little spasm of hard-to-sort-through theology at the end. But when you spend more time with it, it becomes clear the story is a hugely powerful acting-out of a theme O'Connor said was crucial to her work: the action of grace in territory held largely by the devil.
Writers talk a lot about epiphanies—what O'Connor, in her Catholic tradition, called "grace"—in short stories. But I think we're tyrannized by a misunderstanding of Joyce's notion of the epiphany. That stories should toodle on their little track toward a moment where the characters understand something they didn't understand before—and, at that moment, they're transformed into better people.
You know: Suddenly Billy understood that his grandmother had always gone through a lot of difficult things, and he resolved he would never treat her that way again.
This kind of conversion notion is based on a very comforting idea—that if only we had sufficient information, we wouldn't act badly. And that's one of the great things about what The Misfit tells the Grandmother in the line I like so much. He's not saying that a near-death experience would have turned her into a good woman. He's saying it would take somebody threatening to shoot her every minute of her life.
In other words, these conversion experiences don't stick—or they don't stick for very long. Human beings have to be re-educated over and over and over again as we swim upstream against our own irrationalities.
(There's a great line in Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane, where one of the protagonist's enemies says to him: "You're going to need more than one lesson, Mr. Kane, and you're going to get more than one lesson.")
Now, O'Connor really believes that we can flood, momentarily, with the kind of grace that epiphany is supposed to represent. But I think she also believes that we're essentially sinners. She's saying: Don't think for a moment that because you've had a brief instant of illumination, and you suddenly see yourself with clarity, that you're not going to transgress two days down the road.
I find this idea enormously useful in my own work. My characters are all about gaining an understanding of the right thing to do—and avoiding it anyway. That sense that we can be in some ways geniuses of our own self-destruction runs, in some ways, counter to the more traditional notion of the epiphany—which tells us that stories are all about providing information to characters who badly need it. Epiphanies are, in some ways, staged and underimportant.
But you still don't want to write them off. The fact that there's a brevity to human connection and human empathy—the fact that it goes away—might make you feel that we should not make a big deal that it was there at all. But of course we can't do that. We have to value the moments when a person is everything we'd hope this person would be, or became briefly something even better than she normally is. We need to give those moments the credit they're due. The glimpse of this capacity is part of what allows you to write characters who are so deeply flawed. Given that so much great literature is about staggering transgression, knowing that that capability of striving for something better is crucial for keeping you reading.
O'Connor's view of humanity in these stories is that almost everybody's going to be found wanting much of the time. And we are. But you still want to cherish those moments when someone shows you they have the capacity to be better.


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Letter Report: An Intensive Cultural Resource Survey of the Davis Oil Company Pelican Federal #2 Well Pad and Access, Converse County, Wyoming
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Betancur embarked on this project after he sensed his ghostly dog wandering around his funeral parlor. He told AFP:
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O'Brien, William Smith, 1803–64, Irish revolutionary. He entered Parliament from Ireland in 1828 and worked for Catholic Emancipation, Irish poor relief, and state support of the Irish Catholic clergy. O'Brien's political opinions moved steadily to the left. At first he opposed the agitation of Daniel O'Connell to repeal the parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland, believing that the British Parliament would grant some relief to Ireland, but in 1843 he joined the Repeal Association and rapidly became O'Connell's second in the Irish nationalist struggle. O'Brien's group, called Young Ireland, became convinced that only direct action would free Ireland, and in 1846, with John Mitchel, Thomas Francis Meagher, and Charles Gavan Duffy, O'Brien seceded from O'Connell's association to form the Irish Confederation. The aggravation of the famine and Mitchel's arrest and conviction in 1848 determined them to rise against the government. The revolt was abortive, and the only engagement was an attempt to attack a police detachment in Co. Tipperary. O'Brien was arrested and sentenced to death for treason, but the sentence was commuted to transportation to Tasmania. He received a full pardon in 1856. Afterward he returned to Ireland and traveled on the Continent and in America, but he was no longer politically active.
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"Count this among the 10 things nobody ever expected to see in their lifetimes: 700 Club founder Pat Robertson, one of the cornerstone figures of America's Christian right movement, has come out in favor of legalizing marijuana.
"Calling it getting 'smart' on crime, Robertson aired a clip on a recent episode of his 700 Club television show that advocated the viewpoint of drug law reformers who run prison outreach ministries.
"A narrator even claimed that religious prison outreach has 'saved' millions in public funds by helping to reduce the number of prisoners who return shortly after being released.
"'It got to be a big deal in campaigns: 'He's tough on crime,' and 'lock 'em up!' the Christian Coalition founder said. 'That's the way these guys ran and, uh, they got elected. But, that wasn't the answer.'
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"'I'm … I'm not exactly for the use of drugs, don't get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it's just, it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That's not a good thing.'
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"The segment, while significant for illustrating a key conservative stalwart's shifting opinion on the drug war, was mainly a plug for a new conservative group called 'Right on Crime,' which parlays the arguments of groups like the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) into conservative-leaning messages.
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The People's Republic of Sunnyside
According to local legend, the Southeast Portland neighborhood of Sunnyside got its name because it sits outside of the shadow of the West Hills. True or not, the neighborhood shines brightly as the city's uncontested champion of eco-consciousness.
In 2008, Sunnyside began pursuing an ambitious, district-wide energy plan. The carbon-slashing endeavor involves replacing a pair of century-old, oil-guzzling boilers in the basement of the local Sunnyside Environmental School with a solar-powered heat pump capable of independently warming (and cooling) as many as 350 homes in the neighborhood. If successful, the project—which has support from local green royalty like US Congressman Earl Blumenauer and State Senator Diane Rosenbaum—would trim 5,000 tons of carbon from the air each year.
The district's energy system could take years to realize. (Linking 350 homes to the heat pump presents a major challenge.) So residents have turned the focus to their roofs instead. This summer, when Southeast Uplift spearheaded Solarize Portland, a bulk-purchasing solar system program, more than 350 Southeast Portland residents, including 20 from Sunnyside, signed up. Little wonder. The neighborhood has one of the state's highest rates of participation in PGE's green-power purchasing program. The hit solarization effort has now spun off into Northeast Portland.
"Sunnyside has been a leader in initiative and engagement and willingness to try new things," says Tim O'Neal, Southeast Uplift's neighborhood sustainability coordinator. "That's definitely rippled through other neighborhoods."
Sunnyside made another splash last year when it became the first Transition Neighborhood in the country, a designation based on the national Transition Towns movement, which creates action plans to wean towns off of oil.
Anchoring this bastion of forward eco-thinking is the Sunnyside Environmental School (SES). Founded in 2004, the K–8 institution uses themes like River, Mountain, and Forest to teach healthy respect for the environment. Each year, some 120 Portland families pick SES as one of their three school choices, helping to nurture Portland's future green leaders.
But are Sunnysiders really all that different from most Portlanders? O'Neal doesn't think so. "Sunnyside has the label," he says. "But the values here, they don't recognize any sort of neighborhood borders."


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In what's believed to be the largest program of its kind, Southern California Edison has caught and stopped 47,000 running refrigerators as of October 1994. Edison's Spare Refrigerator Recycling Program, a three-year effort launched in November 1993, is projected to recover and recycle 177,000 spare operating refrigerators from the company's 3.7 million customers to realize more than 222 million kWh of energy savings and a demand reduction of 33.4 MW. Edison says the typical spare, or second, household refrigerator is 14 years old and uses twice as much energy as a 1994 model. As a customer incentive to unplug the guzzling spare and not replace it, Edison offers the option of one $50 U.S. Savings Bond per unit, or a $25 cash payment per unit. In addition, the utility promotes the fact that customers can save an average of $144 per year on their electric bill for each unit turned in. Edison also expects to remove a total of 44,000 freezers from service.
Edison is working with Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (ARCA) which opened a new Southern California recycling facility in Compton to service the program. ARCA has contracted with a number of utilities nationwide for similar recycling programs at its facilities throughout the country.
According to Edison's Mark Martinez, instead of randomly metering incoming refrigerators to project actual energy savings for the recycling program, the utility is using existing data to estimate savings. This includes test data from similar utility programs around the country, estimates based on metering studies done by ARCA, and book standards and values for different vintages available from the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM). Citing the potential drawbacks of in-house metering, such as the cost of setting up a lab, possible damage from transport that could affect refrigerator energy usage, and the variables of random selection, Martinez said, We found it would not really be cost-effective to meter refrigerators coming in off the line. Based on Edison program statistics and estimates as of August 1, 1994, 24,000 refrigerators and freezers had been picked up, saving customers the cost of 30 million kWh of energy (an average of 1,250 kWh per unit), with a demand reduction on the Edison system of 4,500 kW.
Edison kicked-off the program's promotion in conjunction with a similar Los Angeles Department of Water and Power program that started simultaneously. Two smaller municipal utilities in the region, the City of Pasadena and the City of Colton, have since started recycling programs as well. All contract with ARCA, with the utilities paying ARCA a negotiated amount per appliance unit recycled.
Another impetus for the recycling programs is a regulation that makes it illegal to dump large appliances in California landfills without first removing and recovering refrigerants (specifically CFCs) and certain other components. Edison's program is expected to recycle 27 tons of ozone-depleting CFCs, including CFC-12 in the form of refrigerant and CFC-11 collected from refrigerator foam insulation. ARCA also recycles metal cabinet components, and safely disposes of harmful PCBs found in capacitors, with an overall effect of saving landfill space.
Edison conducts a separate refrigerator rebate program providing cash rebates to customers who purchase new high-efficiency or super-efficiency refrigerators. The scope and size of the rebate program varies from year to year. It relates to how much we feel we can save during the peak load summer months and, to some degree, to budgetary constraints, said Edison spokeswoman Mary Luthy. The 1994 program ran from July 1 to September 30, and Edison gave cash rebates of $30, $50, or $75 depending on the efficiency level of the unit purchased, with the $75 amount going towards super-efficient models to make them more available to the utility's customers. Luthy said these models don't use CFCs and are nearly 30% more efficient than standard efficiency models.
To calibrate energy savings estimates for its high-efficiency refrigerator rebate program, Edison conducted a field-metered study of 96 of these refrigerators in households in 1992 and 1993 to compare their actual energy usage with U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) rated energy usage estimates. Refrigerators operating 16% to 20% more efficiently than the appliance efficiency standards were designated high-efficiency, and operating more than 20% more efficiently were designated super-efficiency. According to Martinez, Our conclusion was that on an average annual basis, the nameplate data is a good indication of actual energy usage for Southern California. On average, high-efficiency units used about 13% less energy than listed ratings, and super-efficiency units used about the listed amount of energy.
-- Ted Rieger
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