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The town of Watertown Planning Board granted West Carthage developer Michael E. Lundy conditional approval of his plans to build a 4,720-square-foot building adjacent to the NY Heart Center on Summit Drive at its meeting Tuesday.
The board told Mr. Lundy that it needed to receive color architectural renderings with elevation information before the project could proceed.
Mr. Lundy said that he was planning to spend the rest of the summer working on the renderings with his design team before breaking ground in September and turning the property over to the tenant in the spring.
Mr. Lundy did not release the name of the tenant Tuesday but said that it will be a medical practice.
After receiving conditional approval for the Summit Drive project, Mr. Lundy told the board that his firm was no longer under contract to build a planned 64,000-square-foot FedEx facility in the Jefferson County Industrial Park.
Mr. Lundy had developed the plans for the project and seen them through the planning board process, winning approval for them in March.
However, SunCap Property Group, a Charlotte, N.C.-based commercial real estate development firm that will develop and own the FedEx facility, has opted to bring in Zirkelbach Construction, Inc., Palmetto, Fla. to build the project, Mr. Lundy said.
Zirkelbach Construction was recently awarded the FedEx Ground in Watertown, NY, read a July 1 post on the firms Facebook page.
Mr. Lundy said that he was kept on with the project as a consultant and that Zirkelbach was chosen because they have built four other FedEx facilities around the county and were able to meet the demands of the proposed schedule for the project.
All applicable plans and permits had been conveyed to the new developer, said Mr. Lundy, who still owns the land on which the facility will be built.
The FedEx plans were originally developed by Mr. Lundy for a 72,000-square-foot Eagle Beverage distribution center before Eagle Beverage backed out of the project in January, citing a changing corporate strategy.
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Oracle Customer: Netshoes
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Industry: Retail
Employees: 1,800
Annual Revenue: $100 to $500 Million
Video: NetShoes Finds Success Using E-Commerce Solution
NetShoes Finds Success Using E-Commerce Solution
Oracle Customer: Netshoes
Location: São Paulo, Brazil
Industry: Retail
Employees: 1,800
Annual Revenue: $100 to $500 Million
Video: NetShoes Finds Success Using E-Commerce Solution
Netshoes is the largest sporting goods and leisure e-commerce site in Latin America. With operations in Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico, its mission is to offer the best online shopping experience, supported by technology and constant innovation.
The company was founded by Marcio Kumruian who opened the first São Paulo store in 2000. Two years later, he decided to launch the first online, sporting-gear store in Latin America. Today Netshoes is 100% online, and it distributes the National Basketball Association (NBA), Oakley, Puma, Havaianas, Timberland, Topper, Mizuno and Globo Esporte brands. It is also the official soccer club store for several teams, including Corinthians, São Paulo, Palmeiras, Santos, Bahia, Cruzeiro, Vasco, Coritiba, Chivas, Pumas, Monterrey, Club America and Cruz Azul.
The company has been gearing up to meet increased demand as Brazil prepares to host two of the sporting world's biggest events—the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics. As part of these efforts, Netshoes' IT department is restructuring to enable the company to grow rapidly without compromising service quality.
The online retailer implemented Oracle ATG Web Commerce and has increased its sales conversion rate by improving the customer shopping experience. To support this solution, the company decided to migrate to Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, which ensured a highly scalable, available, and robust environment.
"Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud proved to be much more efficient and stable than the hardware platform we had been using. Our server response time, for instance, is 20% faster. Another major benefit is that the solution delivers contingency features, such as data load balancing, software and mission-critical virtualization that further ensure the availability of our Oracle ATG Web Commerce environment and security for our operations." – Jesus de Francisco Garcia, Director of IT Infrastructure, Netshoes
"We chose Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud due to the possibility of reducing our total cost of ownership (TCO) and improving our Oracle ATG Web Commerce application performance, which is now vital to our operation. In addition, Oracle has actively participated in the migration process, supporting us and allocating resources from Brazil and abroad to conduct concept testing and to help us comply with the timeline." said Jesus de Francisco Garcia, director of IT infrastructure, Netshoes.
Netshoes migrated to Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud in less than three weeks, without any downtime, and it immediately realized benefits.
"To reduce risk, we performed a concept test in which we created a test environment to carry out the migration. This required high-level planning and was only possible thanks to the great support we got from Oracle," Garcia said.
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"The Object Edge team was very competent and involved in our business, helping us to define and guide all stages of the migration and with a high level of knowledge to support the successful implementation and operation of our new hardware platform. This has enabled us to run more effective sales campaigns and continue to increase conversion rates" Garcia said.

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How Exactly Do They "Dig for Dirt" on Politicians?
July 7, 2010 8:33 PM
Veteran Democratic Consultant Jason Stanford (pictured) joined me tonight to talk about the various ways in which political operatives try to find ammunition for their campaigns. Some of the tricks are surprising and Jason points out that "opposition research" may not mean exactly what you think it does.
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Working with physicians to advance initiatives that enhance practice efficiency, professional satisfaction and improve the delivery of care.
The AMA'S STEPS Forward™
Innovative strategies for physicians and their staff in the new health environment.
The AMA's STEPS Forward™ practice transformation series is a collection of interactive, educational modules developed by physicians to help physicians address common practice challenges and to achieve the quadruple aim of:
1/Better patient experience
2/Better population health
3/Lower overall costs
4/Improved professional satisfaction
The real-world strategies, tools and resources presented in AMA STEPS Forward ™ are based on the key insights of the AMA-RAND Study on Physician Professional Satisfaction, "Factors affecting physician professional satisfaction and their implications for patient care, health systems and health policy."
Physician Professional Satisfaction
AMA-RAND STUDY on Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy
One of the AMA's core strategic objectives is to advance health care delivery and payment models that enable high quality, affordable care and restore and preserve physician professional satisfaction. Such changes could yield a more sustainable and effective health care system with highly motivated physicians. To that end, the AMA asked the RAND corporation to identify the factors that lead to physician satisfaction.
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What are the implications of these factors for patient care, health systems, and health policy?
- The importance of delivering high-quality care
- The promise and challenges of electronic health records
- The value of income stability and fairness
- The cumulative burden of regulations
The AMA-RAND study highlights major contributors to higher professional satisfaction, including: providing high-quality patient care, autonomy over day-to-day work and sharing values with practice leadership. Major contributors to lower professional satisfaction are also highlighted, including perceived barriers to delivering high-quality care such as ineffective electronic health records (EHRs).


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Many phone users are currently being subjected to a new money making scam involving mobile phones. The scam, known as the "Missed Call" scam is extremely simple and effective, relying on one single thing: the curiosity of mobile phone users.
It is also very easy to explain how it works. A computer will pick up numbers from a list and automatically initiate a call. After the phone rings once, the computer will hang up, thus ensuring that the handset will indicate that a call has been missed.
Scammers will then rely on the owner of the mobile phone returning the call. And if you stop to think about it, there are few people who will not return the call when they see an unknown number in the missed call list.
When the person returns the call to find out the origin and purpose of it, he/she will be redirected to a premium rate telephone service without his/her knowledge. One of the scammers will attempt to keep the person on the line for as long as possible by entering a lengthy conversation, talking about some bogus prize or competition, because more talk time means more money for them.
Most people realize that they have been subjected to a "Missed Call" scam and charged excessive rates for the premium rate service only after they have received the monthly statement.
At the moment, it looks like little can be done about this type of scam, but there are several ways to avoid it. It is best to return calls only to numbers that you recognize. Someone who needs to get in contact with you will almost always call back, so there's really no need to call; the best solution in this case is to wait until the person calls again.


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'HelloFlo' Campaign Adds Hilarity To Puberty [VIDEO]
Though it's just an ad, this may be the best parental response to a kid lying... period.
Though it's just an ad, this may be the best parental response to a kid lying... period.
After her sudden death from complications related to Pneumonia, Taylor Smith's father reads this beautiful letter the 12-year old had written to her future self.
A new and dangerous game on the west coast has led to the death of a high school quarterback. Details here.
Keep in mind while your reading this that it was written by a 14-year-old girl. Take a look.
Governor Rick Snyder today signed Kelsey's Law to help protect Michigan's young, inexperienced drivers and other motorists.
Senate Bill 756 bans cell phone use for anyone driving on a Level 1 or Level 2 graduated driver license in Michigan...
This is a conversation that I never had with my kids. It was just understood that having sex under my roof while I was home was a big fat no-no. As for outside of the home? Ignorance was bliss. Now that I think about it, there are pros and cons for each school of thought. Watch the video, and see what you think.
Do you think kids should have friends over when the parents aren't home? We had a listener who emailed us and said her 14-year-old son wants to have friends over when she and her husband are out of town. Good or bad idea?
Sexuality among teens has always had a challenge being addressed by parents and educators. Stopping teens from being sexually active takes many forms, preaching abstinance, sex education and scare tactics have never really worked. Now, some schools in the UK are trying a different approach
A report from the British National Health Service announced that many girls were given long-term contraceptives at school.
Can you believe this, another way teens are getting high. An important alert for parents about a dangerous way that teens are trying to get high; huffing freon. Seems like parents will need a score card soon to keep up.
Learn the rest of the story and watch the video after the jump.
One fed up mother in Connecticut called the cops on her son after he swore at her during an argument about his messy room. When police arrived the mother told them that her son constantly leaves the house messy and has strangers over when she's not home. The son became aggressive when cops went to his room to find out what was going on.


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I need to eliminate a 'race' condition in my application where submitting from 2 windows created using 'Ctrl+N' uses the same session object.
Is it wise to synchronise the session object in the servlet to prevent concurrent access?
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text: Since there have been around 80-odd messages on chandler-dev@ on the subjects of architecture, testability, and What Do We Do Next, it seemed like a plan to try to summarize the story so far. I've kind of grouped things under several themes; hopefully this will be. In the summary below, the *Agreement* parts indicate, roughly, 2-3 or more people concurring without any significant disagreement. If you feel your dissent has been ignored, or you didn't register it, feel free to say so. There are also a couple of topics I'm explicitly not covering, since they have already become (recent) history: * 0.7.1 feature set and timing * frequent releases Overall direction and requirements for the project -------------------------------------------------- Katie's original email stated the next goal as being "to build a user base and a working community". *Open Issues*: At the time was what, specifically, this means. E.g. how do we prioritize courting users vs developers, or short-term bug fixes and feature work vs longer-term rearchitecture. More generally, the issue of making the project sustainable (i.e. finding revenue opportunities, or building a developer community to maintain Chandler in the long-term) came up. Prioritization issues are covered by Katie's recent email: http://tinyurl.com/2eph43 Also, for PPD's take on what they would like addressed, see Mimi's design list posting: http://tinyurl.com/ypq5hn Rearchitecture vs End-User Feature Development ---------------------------------------------- There was some concern (e.g. from Brian K, John, Andi) that a major rearchitecture/rewrite will time away from developing end-user features, and fixing bugs that impact end-users (i.e. being responsive to our users). This would in turn hinder adoption, which could have disastrous consequences for the project. *Agreement*: Having everyone "drop tools" to work on rearchitecture (i.e. longer-term goals) would not be good. *Agreement*: There was some support (Jeffrey, Morgen, PJE, Heikki, John) for having a smaller group attack architecture on the side, possibly starting out with CPIA. PJE pointed out that this could be done similarly to previous work of his at OSAF (schema API and EIM), where a couple of developers were involved initially, before others moved over to the new architecture as needed. *Agreement*: (PJE, Paul) Focusing only on getting end-users will not be enough to make the project sustainable once funding expires. Testability ----------- PJE: Testability is a requirement for the goals laid out in Katie's original email, and is therefore a "wedge issue" for the whole discussion. Testability is also necessary to build a developer community. Morgen: Testability has been vital for development and ongoing maintenance and feature development of syncing code. Heikki: Testability has not been a requirement in the development of a well-known family of open source web browers whose process he happens to be familiar with. There was some discussion of testability in the thread following Aparna's "Desktop Test Automation Project" email. In the standard layered approach, we could tackle testability of presentation layer code with a mock wx. Architecture and goals ---------------------- PJE's desirable architecture: (i.e. separated layers, for testability and pluggability) is the old spike project he did a couple of years back. (Some of these ideas have since been incorporated into Chandler): http://svn.osafoundation.org/chandler/trunk/internal/Spike/src/spike/ overview.txt PJE's 3 architecture process options, quoted: > 1. Start with the current architecture and evolve it in-place > 2. Define a new architecture in terms of "off-the-shelf" Python > components > 3. Develop an architecture specifically to suit Chandler's current > goals The first minimizes upfront costs (rearchitecture) vs less apparent later costs (time to stabilize releases). Andi, John, Heikki: Favour incremental vs more radical architecture changes. CPIA/Persistence in the UI -------------------------- Katie's original email suggested that we shouldn't be persisting so much of the UI structure of the app. John noted that transparent persistence was a refreshing contrast to other systems he'd worked on, where you had to write SQL queries every time you needed to persist something. Philippe pointed out that having everything be persistent is confusing for new developers: it's hard to make sense of all the attributes that get tied to even simple items when displayed in the UI. PJE: What we need is to separate out visual presentation (not persistent) from application logic (e.g. which items are selected in which collections, etc). That leads to greater testability (you can test the application logic without the UI). Ideally, you could separate out persistence as well, which means you can run tests of the application without the repository. Greater separation means more opportunity for parallel development (i.e. of views vs interaction model vs persistence) of features. *Agreement* (Philippe, PJE, Reid, Andi, John, Mikeal): Cleaner separation of UI from the rest of the app. *Agreement*: (Philippe, PJE, Andi): Not persisting redundant/constant UI data. *Agreement* (John, PJE): The current template mechanism in Blocks is confusing and mostly a historical artifact, so it should be removed. Performance, Scalability ------------------------ *Open Issue*: (Grant, Andi, Brian K) Unclear what the goals are w.r.t. email beyond what we have today. Need measurements of how Chandler performs in the presence of many items (and/or collections), as well as explicit performance goals. Timing of 1.0 Release --------------------- Davor: Shouldn't a "1.0" release happen pretty soon (a few months) after a "0.7"? Piero: Not necessarily (depends on what needs to be addressed). Project needs some kind of a roadmap.


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Berlin's painted ladies: Porn actresses representing the German and Ghanaian national football teams play football during "Sexysoccer 2014," a promotional event in Berlin that preceded the German-Ghana match.
Mad Alan greets the longest day of the year: A well-illustrated reveler called Mad Alan (his real name, he says) celebrates the summer solstice with the rising of the sun at Stonehenge, near Amesbury, Englad. He was joined by modern druids and other pagan individuals at the prehistoric landmark.
Jolly Jerries: Military history enthusiasts dressed as German troops stage a re-enactment of the 1941 battle near the village of Ivanovskoye, about 20 miles from Moscow, during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. They are in particularly good humor considering the Wehrmacht advance will never capture the Russian capital.
Who will win? Elementary, says their dear Watson: At the zoo in Amneville, France, Watson the sea lion chooses from among three boxes containing flags representing the possible outcomes of the France-Honduras World Cup match. The pinniped picked the French flag as he previously did in the France-Switzerland match, which France won. Mais bien sur! Like he's not going to back the home team.
Zoom photography: Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen of Finland speeds down a straightaway during a qualifying session of the Austrian Formula One Grand Prix in Spielberg.
Pilot soloing: Tyler Joseph of Twenty One Pilots crowd-surfs standing up as he sings during the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del.
Kalpesh gets the glory, his assistants get sore ribs: Kalpesh Modi jumps his motorcycle off a human ramp while practicing for the Lord Jagannath Rath Yatra festival in Ahmedabad, India.
Verdun nears century mark: A torchlight is placed next to a soldier's gravesite at Douaumont's Boneyard
during an annual event known as "The Four Days of Verdun." Veterans paraded at night to
commemorate the 98th anniversary of the Battle of Verdun in eastern France.
Russian big shot: Despite a cease-fire, pro-Russian separatists roll out a big gun in the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk. (The cannon is a copy of the Moscow's Tsar Cannon.)
Raiding party: History buffs dressed as Native American tribesmen re-enact the raid of the Fort Harrod Settlement in
Harrodsburg, Ky., more than 200 years ago.
Pride Week kicks off in Turkey: A public display of affection breaks out on Istiklal Street, the main shopping corridor in Istanbul, during the Trans Pride Parade, part of Trans Pride Week 2014.
Lamppost labyrinth: Marcus Bergkvist, visiting from Sweden, takes pictures of his girlfriend inside Chris
Burden's outdoor sculpture "Urban Light" in front of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Baby's first wallow: A day-old newborn Indian rhinoceros rests his head on his mother's while cooling off in the mud at the Oklahoma City Zoo. The male calf is 7-year-old Niki's first.
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The Drifter - Maeve Pulse Exclusive
A name associated with cutting edge deep house, Mano Le Tough has found fans from Ben Watt, to Anja Schneider, his latest release on Permanent Vacation seeing him going to work on Roisin Murphy with a remix of Simulation. The launch of his own label was highly anticipated and following feedback from debut release with Baikal - Just You And Me, the anticipation was rightly placed. Much more than a one man show, Mano is joined by label partner The Drifter, who not only features on the title track, but has also been kind enough to provide Pulse with an exclusive mix. Featuring heady, atmospheric house music perfect for late mornings and early nights ALA Panorama Bar. The Drifter say's of the mix...
"The idea behind the mix was to showcase some of the types of sounds i enjoy and feel fit in with our Maeve imprint. A mix that builds, with melodic music for the dancefloor. I also wanted to showcase both Baikal tracks from the first Maeve release in the mix. Hope you enjoy it!"
Baikal - Just You And Me is out now on Maeve (Get It Here)
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Readership: Academics and researchers in Management and Organization Studies, Sociology, Economics, and Political Science.
Inge Lippert, Head of the Department of Industry Policy, Services, and Structural Policy, The German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB), Tony Huzzard, Professor of Organization Studies, Department of Business Administration, Lund University, Ulrich Jürgens, Senior Research Fellow, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, and William Lazonick, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Inge Lippert has a PhD in Sociology and is now at the German Confederation of Unions (DGB) where she took responsibility as head of a department for
sustainable industrial policy and services. Previously she worked as a Senior Researcher at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin (WZB). As a member of the research group 'Globalisation, Work and Production' she conducted several international comparative research projects on global restructuring and industrial dynamics in different sectors and countries. Her main fields of interest are the reorganization of value chains, varieties of capitalism and institutional change, corporate governance, labour voice, and innovation in different industries and countries. She was also engaged as a Research Fellow at the Free University of Berlin (1998-1999), Department of Economic Analysis of
Political Systems, and at the VDI/VDE Innovation and Technology GmbH as a project leader for a wide range of projects.
Tony Huzzard is Professor of Organization Studies at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University School of Economics and Management. He is also Visiting Professor at the Centre for Healthcare Improvement, Chalmers University of Technology. He has a PhD in Business Administration from Umeå University, Sweden. His research interests are organizational learning, change and development, industrial relations, and the sociology of work. He has also worked previously in a post-doc position at the National Institute for Working Life in Stockholm and
as a Visiting Research Fellow at the National Institute for Working Life in Malmö. From 2010 to 2012 he was a member of the evaluation committee (economics) of the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and is a member of the Steering Group for the Centre for Applied Working Life Research at Malmö University. He is also a member of the Special Advisory Group for the journal 'Action Research'.
Ulrich Jürgens is Senior Research Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre in Berlin where he heads the research group 'Globalization, Work and Production'. He is Adjunct Professor for Political Science at the Free University Berlin. He has been carrying out extensive
international comparative research in the fields of industrial relations, work organisation and personnel policy, systems of innovation, and industrial policy. He is a member of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA), member of the Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherches Permanent sur l'Industrie et les Salariés de l'Automobile (GERPISA), and member of the Steering Committee of the International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP).
William Lazonick is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where he directs the Center for Industrial Competitiveness. He is also co-founder and president of The Academic-Industry Research Network. Previously, Lazonick
was Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Harvard University, Professor of Economics at Barnard College of Columbia University, and Distinguished Research Professor at INSEAD in France. He also holds an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University (1991). He is a visiting professor at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. Lazonick's research focuses on the social conditions of innovation and economic development in advanced and emerging economies. His book, Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy? Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States (Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 2009) was awarded the 2010 Schumpeter Prize by the International
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1: Introduction
2: Towards a Conceptual Framework
3: The Automotive Supply Industry: Global Trends, National Systems and Development in National Supplier Industries
4: A Differentiated Industry - Types of Enterprise and their Governance Regimes
5: Paths of Development I: Sheltered Firms: Adapting to the Old Path
6: Paths of Development II: Unsheltered Firms: from Old Paths to New Models
7: Paths of Development III: Private Equity-Backed Firms: Radical Turnaround in Unstable Structures
8: The Diversity of Corporate Change: Summary of Case Study Results
9: Conclusions and Outlook
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How do envision yourself after a little while with the new QL?
I will continue/start to subscribe and will keep playing.
I will unsubscribe, but will keep playing.
I will continue to remain a free user, and will keep playing.
I will stop playing entirely/play MUCH less.
Undecided, we'll see how this all pans out.
How do envision yourself after a little while with the new QL?
It will be more dead with this update. I'll just have to wait for people to host games in order to play.
Won't change much for me since I already have my friends network and play almost all of my matches on premium servers with them. Oh, I will have new maps to play on.
I will not select any of your choices you have
Amd 8350 - 4816.08 MHz on air
Crosshair V
Asus GTX660 DirectCU
Uhh what about the demos you idoits!
ill duel every once and a while i guess if not quit
If many people stop playing because of this update, maybe they will rethink their strategy of "pay us or get a crappy game".
I'll just leave this here:
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What did I miss? All we had was an update as far as I'm concerned.


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While we hold true to time-honored traditional brewing processes, we're anything but conformists. Ours is a brewery where, rather than blindly adhering to methods and styles simply because "that's the way it's been done for hundreds of years," we make a practice of regularly taking a step back, clearing our minds of all we know and contemplating simple but essential queries like "why not?" and "what if?" Our beers are founded on the logic gained from centuries' worth of brewmasters who mashed in ahead of us, but their true flavor and character is a result of our inquisitive, experimental nature. A poignant example of this is presented in our Belgian-style India pale ale, Stone Cali-Belgique IPA.
Stone IPA
Chill Haze…The More You Know
Some of our fans may have noticed that our Stone IPA has not had its usual bright, golden, clear appearance lately. We have seen it ourselves: we are having issues with 'haze formation' (AKA 'chill haze') in this beer…and even some possible occurrence of so-called 'floaties.' We thought it might be useful to present an explanation so that everyone knows what is going on.
Some important things to know about chill haze and floaties:
- Chill haze will not affect beer taste at all. The chill haze has no flavor.
- There may be a slight increase in foaming as the beer is poured. The haze particles form nucleation points for CO2 bubbles. Again, this is not a flavor issue, as there is no taste difference.
So, what exactly is chill haze? (Hold on…we're gonna go in deep! If you're not interested in brewing science, it's safe to stop here.)
The phenomenon known as chill haze is a colloidal haze that forms when proteins from the malt form a loose bond with polyphenols from hops. Without being overly technical [Too late Mitch! –ed.], this haze compound forms at colder temperatures (hence the name). And normally, when the beer warms back up, the haze disappears. You can observe this after you pour the beer into a glass and watch it clear up as the beer warms. Or take a bottle out of the refrigerator and let it warm up, and it will also get clearer. But eventually, especially if the beer is stored refrigerated (as it should be) the haze particles will not dissolve as the beer warms, and it then becomes known as permanent haze. Permanent haze tends to clump together in the beer and stay there. The scientific technical term for this permanent haze that clumps together is "floaties."
Normally, our beers do develop a little bit of haze as they age. This is perfectly normal, and nothing to be concerned about. However, we don't like the amount of haze that is forming in Stone IPA right now. It is too much, and we are working hard to get the situation back to normal. We especially do not like to see floaties in our beer! Here are some things that we are looking at to resolve this situation:
- Because chill haze is formed from protein and tannins, any change in composition in your brewing ingredients can result in a change in the amount of haze that forms. Thus, in years where malt has higher protein or beta glucan levels, we can see more haze form in our beer. Dry-hopped beers tend to form more haze, because the increased hopping adds more polyphenols to bond with the protein. So we are intensely studying our incoming malt to evaluate the changes in protein, beta glucan, and other factors that might be contributing to the haze.
- Chill haze can usually be effectively removed from beer before it is bottled. The traditional brewing procedure is to chill the beer after fermentation close to freezing, and age it several days or weeks before filtration, which forces the chill haze particles to form in the beer. Then, when the beer is filtered, the haze particles are trapped on the filter bed, leaving the beer clear and haze-free. That is what we normally do here at Stone, and up until now, it has been effective. However, one issue we are struggling with as we've grown is our chilling systems cannot keep up with our production, and some tanks are taking too long to reach chill temperatures. We suspect that these tanks are not getting good chill haze formation prior to filtration, and so the haze forming compounds are still in the beer after filtration and form haze and the dreaded floaties as the bottled or kegged beer is kept refrigerated.
- There are other techniques that can be used to reduce chill haze, including adding Irish Moss or other types of protein flocculants in the brewhouse. These compounds bond with the proteins during the kettle boil, creating larger, solid particles that are settled out as "trub" in the whirlpool. They are added to enhance the trub formation during the kettle boil, which is important, because wort needs to be good and clear before adding yeast. Excess protein in wort can impact yeast performance and beer flavor. An added benefit is that the decanting of clear wort off the trub effectively removes much of the protein that would otherwise go on to form chill haze in the finished beer. At Stone Brewing Co., we use a product called Whirlfloc in the kettle boil, which is used by many, many brewers. But as the beta glucan level of our incoming malts change (thanks to Mother Nature), we need to regularly re-evaluate the amount of Whirlfloc we are adding, and we are conducting those tests right now.
- We are also auditing and evaluating our filtration process and centrifugation process to make sure there isn't something there that is contributing to the increase in haze formation.
- And there are other, more severe methods that can be used to remove chill haze components, such as adding silica gel, PVPP, or papain to the cold beer as it ages. These products react with either protein or polyphenol and form large haze particles that are easily filtered out. This is the kind of technique that is used by bigger brewers because it is generally foolproof. But it's just not us to resort to these methods. We've never added anything like that to our beers at Stone. We don't want to over-process our beers, nor do we want to start adding anything now that could affect flavor. We will get this solved without resorting to adding chillproofing agents. Interesting that a chill haze beer can actually indicate a purer beer (even though the novice might interpret the opposite).
We're telling you all this because we don't mind just laying it on the table. Even though there's zero flavor difference, we love the look of a crystal clear Stone IPA just as much as you do (and also realize the potential for a hazy one to be misinterpreted in our often over-sanitized and processed world). Please bear with us as we work diligently to solve this situation, and in the meantime, enjoy your slightly hazy Stone IPA just as much as any other time.
137,088 Bottles of Beer on the Wall, 137,088 Bottles of Beer…
If you read the blog, you know that Steve Via broke our keg line record a few weeks ago. Well, Keg Masta Steve isn't the only one around here kicking ass and taking names. Our bottling line crew recently set a new record by bottling a staggering 137,088 12-ounce bottles of Stone IPA and OAKED Arrogant Bastard Ale (95 pallets and 12 cases) in one day!
The previous record was 130,728 bottles (90 pallets and 47 cases), set on December 17, 2008, with each person clocking thirty minutes of overtime that day. Not only did the bottling line break the old record by 6,360 bottles, but they did it with significantly less overtime.
Our bottling line has come a long way since Ben Lee, our Production Coordinator, started on the bottling line over six years ago. "A 21,600 bottle day was a huge deal back in the day," said Ben. Ben remembers having to place bottles onto the line manually, and then load them into boxes by hand after being filled. Bruised and swollen hands weren't the only fun side effect. "We had to wrap our fingers in duct tape to avoid getting shredded by the bottle caps." After one person loaded the bottles manually, another person had to stamp the boxes, load them onto the pallet, and repeat.
Though our bottling line was still pretty rudimentary during Ben's days on the line, he was at least lucky enough to start right after we bought our first Filler machine. Before the Filler, we employed two old "Maheen" bottling machines (one for 12oz. bottles and one for 22oz. bottles), which required a minimum of two people to operate. We taxed the Maheens to their limit, running them for two shifts a day. "We were doing about 60 cases an hour with them," said Stone President & Brewmaster Steve Wagner, recollecting the "rudimentary, highly manual" pieces of machinery. "We thought that was a huge amount of beer at the time."
A lot has happened since Ben or Steve worked on the line (most notably, the extinction of the dinosaurs). The crew has doubled in size, and the level of automation has increased exponentially. As mentioned before, we eventually installed a Filler, which we bought used from the Molson plant in St. John, Newfoundland. We acquired a second used filler from Pyramid Brewing on August 20, 2007, and later installed a Climax Uncaser and extra Accumulation Conveyors on July 19th, 2008.
The newest addition to the line is a Slitter-Sealer machine, which we obtained from Abita Brewing in Louisiana. The gently used Slitter-Sealer was installed last Friday (the day after the bottling crew broke the record), and it makes the crews' lives a hell of a lot easier. Instead of having to manually break tabs, fold, and seal about 20 boxes per minute, the machine will take over, sealing about 50 boxes per minute (once it's running at full speed). Bill Sherwood, our Facilities Manager, likes the "chop-chop, flip-flap" action of the Slitter-Sealer, calling it a "Dr. Seuss kind of machine."
According to Packaging Supervisor, Kris Ketcham, breaking the bottling record was "a perfect ending to the last day that we will probably ever have to manually break box tabs, fold, and seal." Breaking the record was indeed a fitting end to the last day ever manually sealing boxes—but not the end of the story. We're sure our stellar bottling line crew will continue to rock our socks off, and we can't wait until they reach their next milestone.
-Matt Steele
Cali-Belgique: The Untold Story
Starting last August you may have noticed a mysterious, hyphenated newcomer lurking around the more familiar Stone Brews at your local retailer. Being a Stone fan, you would have found this joyous and remarkable, as the last entirely new bottled Stone release was OAKED Arrogant Bastard Ale back in 2004. Fans are used to anticipating a unique Stone Anniversary Ale or Stone Vertical Epic Ale each year, but this is something entirely different and unexpected. What's the story, here? Just what is Stone Cali-Belgique IPA, and how did it come to be included in such an exclusive lineup?
Here's the skinny: Whenever we brew a Belgian-style beer, such as one of the Vertical Epic Ales, we need to culture up a large amount of Belgian-style yeast, without which none of those distinctive Belgian flavors and aromas will emerge. Ordinarily our yeast is grown in a miniature batch of Stone Pale Ale, then separated and transferred to one of the big fermentation tanks. Because Stone 08.08.08 Vertical Epic Ale was going to be so pale, our brewers worried that residual Stone Pale Ale mixed in with the yeast might noticeably darken it, so they used Stone IPA wort instead.
See where I'm going with this? After the yeast was removed, our brewers sampled the (now fermented) brew left in the yeast tank and found that it was good. Really good. We had done a pilot batches of Belgian-Style IPAs (or Belgian inspired california style IPAs) in the past with great results, and had thought of doing something like that on a larger scale. Head Brewer Mitch Steele saw the left over beer as an opportunity for a larger batch and a dry-hop trial (For those of you that don't know, dry-hopping is soaking hops in fermented beer, rather than boiling them into the wort.) Greg liked the result enough to challenge Team Stone to come up with a name for it, and to create a whole new category of Stone releases accommodating its semi-regular production: The year-round limited release. This means it might not be around all the time, but at least you won't have to wait a full year for the next release (the next one will probably be out by late March). Ben Lee, our production coordinator gets credit for coming up with the name. Stone ('cause we made it) Cali (designating California origins) Belgique (French for Belgium) IPA. To honor northern Dutch-speaking Belgians we printed half of the bottles with the moniker Stone Cali-België IPA.
So is a Belgian yeast strain the only thing that makes this beer special? Not quite. We finish Stone IPA with Centennial hops, which gives it that distinctly floral, grapefruity quality that it's known for. Without these particular hops, Stone IPA would be a very different beer. Stone Cali-Belgique IPA is finished with Chinook hops, which have somewhat heavier, spicy qualities. Our brewers changed hops because the exotic flavors produced by Belgian yeast compliment the complex character of Chinook hops, and because we were already making two beers (Stone IPA and Stone Ruination IPA) showcasing the glory of Centennial. It may seem like the difference is trivial, but IPAs are all about hops, and changing the variety of finishing hops can have as much of an effect as changing the grape varietals in a wine. We've thought it over, and have decided to update the text on Cali-Belgique bottles to reflect this difference.
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Java.net Community Corner 2009 Begins Today (Monday)
Java.net's Community Corner 2009 gets started Monday afternoon at the java.net booth in the JavaOne Pavillion. Sun's Reggie Hutcherson will be welcoming the java.net community leaders at 3:00; and Aaron Houston and Java User Group (JUG) leaders will follow at 4:00.
Reggie attended Saturday's Java.net Community Leaders Weekend event, speaking about a variety of topics related to Sun developer communities (java.net and SDN), Java, Sun, and more. His background is interesting: he worked on Sybase (which is the basis of Microsoft's SQL Server) before coming to Sun. Besides having experience as a developer on the back-end server side, he also clearly perceives the continuum that stretches from the high-availability highly secure server side all the way out to the tiniest potential clients (for example, mobile devices). Furthermore, his current role at Sun makes him responsible for providing the developer communities that grow around specific areas or nodes of that hardware and software continuum with what they need to better accomplish their objectives. It was very interesting listening to Reggie's brief opening statement and listening to and participating in the Q&A that followed. I also had an opportunity to chat with him briefly during the break that followed.
Aaron Houston is the Java User Groups Program Coordinator. He did not attend the java.net community leaders weekend event on Saturday, but the JUGs were well-represented there.
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GlassFish 2009 Unconference: Sunday, May 31, 1:00 - 7:00 PM: The GlassFish 2009 Unconference is happening Sunday afternoon: "with topics related to the application server, (GlassFish/Open)ESB, Hudson, Portal (WebSpace), WebStack, and more..." Location: Moscone Center (Unconference space, Hall A). You need a Community One or JavaOne badge to enter, but you can get a Community One badge on the spot at the Unconference. As of just before the unconference, 83 people said they are attending. Topics suggested thus far include: Hudson plugin development - architecture, deployment, examples; Glassfish Open ESB Clustering; Hudson with Maven, NetBeans and Eclipse; GlassfishV3 with JavaFX.
OpenSSO And JavaOne!: Sid just published a schedule of OpenSSO events during JavaOne week: "Join us Sunday May 31st, for OpenSSO Community Day at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. It's our 'unconference' before the main conference and discussions will include OpenDS and Identity Connectors. Just show up prepared to talk about any topic related to Sun's open source identity projects. As always attendance is free. Join our Meetup to participate in this discussion..."
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Jean-Francois Arcand, High Five from JavaOne: High Five from JavaOne, of 5 chances to listen to an ugly Quebecois accent.
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Terrence Barr, Java Device Test Framework released: Today marks the release of the Java Device Test Framework (JDTF) project into the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. JDTF is a test framework based on Sun Microsystems Java Device Test Suite (JDTS) product. JDTF is a general purpose, fully-featured,...
John O'Conner, JavaOne 2009: Top 10 Sessions: Choices, choices...so many choices and so little time. Here's my list of Top 10 Sessions that you must attend at JavaOne.
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BUFFALO, N.Y.-Between periods of the Sabres scrimmage Friday afternoon at the First Niagara Center Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier met the media.
Regier was asked about Ryan Miller and Thomas Vanek. Both are in the final year of their contracts and certainly can't be thrilled with the Sabres going through a rebuilding phase. Regier said "We've had some discussion regarding both those players but obviously there here and they're part of our organization and nothing's changed in that regard."
Regier also addressed the return of veteran defenseman Henrik Tallinder. "We traded away a couple of defenseman at the deadline and it was an opportunity for us to bring back a defenseman that we were very familiar with. He is obviously someone who is very good defensively, can move the puck and is experienced and we think knowing what we know about him we think he'll fit in very well with our core and the young guys coming."
There has been widespread speculation that the Sabres brought Tallinder back to help out struggling Tyler Myers who has play has gone downhill since his tremendous rookie season when Tallinder was a mentor to him. Regier said "We didn't go into this re-acquiring Hank specifically for Tyler but I think it can and could help him."


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The Orchestra of Scottish Opera
The Orchestra of Scottish Opera plays at all Scottish Opera performances in Glasgow's Theatre Royal, Edinburgh's Festival Theatre, Inverness's Eden Court and Aberdeen's His Majesty's Theatre. The principal players within the sections also form an ensemble that accompanies tours to smaller theatres round Scotland.
The Orchestra leaves the pit and takes centre-stage for its annual series of Sunday afternoon concerts at the beautifully restored Georgian church, St Andrew's in the Square, in Glasgow city centre and more recently Paisley Abbey. Here the musicians get the opportunity to flex their musical muscles in non-operatic repertoire, ranging from Haydn and Beethoven symphonies to contemporary works.
In addition to its work with Scottish Opera, the Orchestra is in increasing demand for concerts, working regularly with Children's Classic Concerts and Celtic Connections, as well as with choral unions and societies around the country.
The Orchestra celebrated its 30th birthday in 2010, having been formed by Scottish Opera's founder and first Music Director, Sir Alexander Gibson. The conductors John Mauceri, Sir Richard Armstrong and Francesco Corti followed in Sir Alex's footsteps. Read more about our Music Directors.
Many of the more than 50 players in the Orchestra have musical lives away from Scottish Opera, either engaged as Visiting Tutors to the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow – ensuring that their skills and experience are passed on to the orchestral players of tomorrow – playing in chamber ensembles, or as soloists or section principals with orchestras throughout the UK.
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Philadelphia archdiocese's Jersey Shore home for priests auctioned for $4.1M
Catholic World News - September 19, 2012
A Jersey Shore home for elderly and vacationing priests, owned by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia since 1963, has been auctioned for $4.125 million. The proceeds from the auction of the 21,875-square-foot mansion will help the archdiocese reduce its budget deficit, projected at $6 million this year.
Cardinal John Krol, who served as archbishop from 1961 to 1988, acquired the property; the buyers, Steve and Ilene Berger, have pledged to hold an annual reception for priests.
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Good move. But unfortunately the Catholic bishops are still blind to the issues that drive people from Catholic parishes, including the acceptance of homosexual priests. I have the utmost respect for the cross that homosexuals carry and pray for them daily. But they should not be priests.
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Posted: December 10, 2007, from the December 2007 issue of GCI Magazine.
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The need to go green isn't simply a culturally based lifestyle trend—the Wal-Mart effect is a key factor that affects the bottom line for all CPGs that do business with them. Sustainability received a great boost when Wal-Mart introduced its sustainable packaging initiative last year, a move that will have a ripple effect on the entire packaging industry. The retail giant's packaging scorecard, designed to measure its 60,000 suppliers on their ability to develop packaging that is good for the environment, will be implemented in February 2008, with the goal to globally reduce packaging by 5% by 2013, a move that could save Wal-Mart $3.4 billion.
The world's largest retailer is instituting the packaging reduction program to both promote the use of recycled materials for packaging and to reduce the amount of material used in packaging, which is where the cost savings is realized. With a smaller package, more product fits in shipping containers and on trucks, which lowers the amount of energy and fuel used in transportation. More product also fits on store shelves, which cuts human resources used to stock them. The less-is-more philosophy is spreading as other major retailers are introducing similar initiatives globally, including U.K.-based Tesco. Over time, traditional excess packaging commonly used in the U.S. will become impractical, decreasing the on-shelf footprint and requiring the need to reinvent an impactful, competitive appearance at shelf.
While U.S. retailers are now moving rapidly in the world of sustainable packaging, U.S. exporters have been aware of the role Europe and Japan have taken as leaders in this arena. Many countries, particularly the members of the European Union (EU), have passed packaging and recycling laws in the past 10 years. Needing to comply with European packaging regulations, U.S. exporters must follow the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, which took effect in 1994 to reduce the overall impact of packaging waste on the environment. The EU's eco-label is required by member countries to demonstrate that a product is environmentally friendly.
Specifically, Germany established legislation with certain rules for the disposal of packaging materials. A cooperative effort for the collection and recycling of packaging materials was initiated in response to the legislation. The group uses the "green dot," a recycling symbol that is found on packaging of virtually all products in Germany. While packaging material for products sold in Germany is not legally required to carry the green dot, it is almost impossible to market a product in Germany without it, and other European countries have initiated similar programs.
In 2000, Japan's government began full implementation of a packaging recycling law that requires manufacturers to pay the associated collecting, sorting, transportation and recycling costs for all paper and plastic containers and packaging. Beauty brands that have been marketing globally have been managing packaging requirements of individual countries for years. However, laws and requirements for sustainable packaging will continue to change as scientific information continually redefines what materials and processes yield the most favorable, least harmful results.


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How wonderful that the San Ramon Valley United Methodist Church has taken a step to get people to expand their thinking. The church is presenting a series of workshops called "Bridging the Gap: Overcoming the Cultural Divide" to find out what groups better known for their differences have in common. The topics include the economy and the environment; science and religion; liberal and conservation issues; Christianity and Islam. The pastors at the church said the purpose of the dialogues is to bridge the differences between people who are diverse. They said they want to built a community rather than tear it apart.
In a similar vein, the American Association of University Women had scheduled a speaker who opens dialogues with people around the world, hoping to help everyone break down stereotypes and recognize their similarities. She refers to the young women in one international study as "the first global generation of women." The generation now in its 20s is the first to have the world at its fingertips, so to speak, thanks to technology.
The technical ability to communicate can only lead to resolving differences if the minds of the communicators are open enough to truly hear what the others are saying and to reach solutions together. Despite technology, chaos caused by the differences in the world continues unchecked.
What we do in Danville and Alamo may not cause a ripple on the world scene but at the very least it can help us respect each other and form our own opinions with an open mind. Kudos to the San Ramon Valley United Methodist Church for responding to the grim state of the world with a positive step. For more information, call 837-5243.


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Foreign Military Training: Joint Report to Congress, Fiscal Years 2006 and 2007
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
August 2007
This chapter has been broken up into three parts due to its large size. Part 1 contains the numeric list of programs and those beginning A through C; Part 2 lists programs D through L; and Part 3 lists M through Z. Please click the sections that interest you.
[This is a mobile copy of V. Course Descriptions]
Short URL: http://m.state.gov/md92091.htm
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