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The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. Or they stay complacent and boil. The Bush Administration has turned the heat up on us, explaining why nearly 75 percent of Americans believe their country is on the wrong track and 70 percent think the economy is worsening.
Mexico is the richest Latin American country but has extreme economic inequality, which measures social temperature. Mexicans are jumping out of oppressive waters en masse, right into the U.S., exacerbating our rising inequality. The Chinese have learned to offset oppressive communist forces with materialistic capitalism – like our affordable materialism keeps Americans distracted and docile (with help from Chinese imports). In colonial America the greedy British motivated our Revolutionary War, but with oppression now coming from within, will Americans wait too long?
Some Americans keep warning us – people like Michael Moore, Cindy Sheehan, Aaron Russo, Dennis Kucinich, Lou Dobbs, Ralph Nader, Ron Paul, Bill Moyers, Jon Stewart, and Keith Olbermann. They entertain complacent "frogs" and preach to the choir of alert "frogs" that also know the temperature is rising dangerously. Many of the former keep hoping that putting better Democrats or Republicans in office will get us back on the right track. Many of the latter are ready to jump to what our Constitution offers us: an Article V convention.
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And once you know that plutocratic elites from both major parties have for decades opposed the Article V convention to propose constitutional amendments, YOU should favor what THEY oppose.
We frequently see a knee-jerk fear reaction to an Article V convention. Such fear is misplaced and baseless. Only the rich and powerful elites running and ruining our nation should fear a convention.
It is fatalistic to fear that a convention could make things worse by removing valued parts of the Constitution or adding terrible things. Naturally, no one knows with certainty what a convention might propose. But we do know with certainty that whatever a convention proposes must satisfy the Constitution's rigorous ratification requirement. That two step process is part of the genius of the Constitution. Recall that a convention is the alternative to Congress proposing amendments. And what do Americans think of Congress?
A measly 23 percent view Congress positively. Expecting Congress to enact really good laws, spend our taxes wisely, and keep the president and executive branch agencies from abusing us is like a joke on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It is laugh-at-loud funny to put trust and faith in Congress. It matters not whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress. Nearly all members are under the thrall of moneyed interests. Congress is a national embarrassment. Our misrepresentatives are partners in corruption, dishonesty and oppression. Over decades they have allowed the presidency to accumulate imperial powers. Do you really believe they are worth $165,200 a year, with generous health and pension benefits?
Still, we live in a great nation. But great nations rise and fall.
America is no longer close to what it should be – or once was. It no longer fairly serves and protects all Americans. Too many Americans are working poor, hungry, homeless, poorly educated, imprisoned, debt-ridden, crime victims, facing economic insecurity, nonvoters, and lacking health care.
What we have is a plutocracy run by and for the Upper Class that sucks up a huge fraction of the nation's wealth. Lobbyists ensure that public policy increases economic inequality and rewards corporate interests, even if it requires preemptive wars like the Iraq fiasco, sanctions massive illegal immigration, and sends good jobs overseas. That so many people escaping other nations (with hot or boiling water) want to come to the USA should not blind us to the creeping decline of our democracy and the heating of our social waters.
How much worse does American democracy have to get before public outrage demands what the Constitution's Framers gave us in case citizens lost confidence in the federal government? Haven't Americans lost enough trust to use what elites have fought and feared? Can't we trust ourselves to have a peaceful populist rebellion through an Article V convention before we boil?
If America's distracted citizen-frogs stay glued to their large plasma TVs, SUVs, electronic devices, and obese-friendly foods they may find themselves boiled. Our constitutionally protected freedoms will be gone. George W. Bush has shown how easily that is done. Our middle class will be gone. Our national sovereignty will be gone – sold out through globalization chicanery. For all but the rich, our quality of life and standard of living will be gone. The Upper Class will be richer and happier in their opulent gated McMansions and private entertainment and vacation spots, protected and pampered by their private police and servants.
If Congress finally obeys the Constitution some fear that convention delegates will be corrupted through special interest money just like current politicians. That is highly unlikely.
First, many Americans will actively watch and influence how state legislatures select one-time delegates. Second, the incredible novelty of the nation's first Article V convention will ensure intense coverage by domestic, foreign and Internet media. Third, that novelty will also engage enormous numbers of Americans – especially school and college students – now rightfully turned off by our political system, ensuring citizen oversight of delegates and the convention. Fourth, the only group working for the first convention – Friends of the Article V Convention – has committed itself to creating and ensuring strong oversight of the convention process.
Imagine our first Article V convention under intense scrutiny in today's techno-media world. It will be the ultimate reality show, enticing Americans to use their brains over shopping and mindless entertainment. Conversations about possible amendments will flourish. Surveys and polls will constantly determine what Americans support and oppose. The convention will remind Americans that citizenship requires civic engagement. Convention delegates will know that they are being scrutinized. They will know that their proposals must be ratified by three-fourths of the states. They will be listening to US. In sum, we have more than enough safety nets to prevent the convention harming our Constitution.
Why not dream about a restorative convention with hundreds of smart, patriotic Americans as delegates? We have enormous numbers of brilliant, wise and honest Americans – just not in politics anymore. If we can trust the lives of people to juries, we can trust carefully selected convention delegates to find intelligent ways to improve our government and political system through amendments. In the last part of the process, we can tell our state legislators whether we want them to ratify specific proposed amendments.
Will the first convention be mesmerizing and entertaining? Will it help educate and inform Americans about our Constitution and government? Will it put Ruling Class elites on notice that we the people are seriously pursuing governance we can trust? Yes, yes and yes.
Should we wait until 95 percent of Americans think the nation is on the wrong track? Until just 5 percent approve of Congress? Until we belatedly find ourselves boiled? No, no and no.
Support the effort to get the nation's first Article V convention, especially if you sense our societal waters becoming hotter – sometimes faster, as under Bush. Sign up at www.foavc.org. Don't let self-delusion and false hope in Republicans or Democrats blind you. Let freedom ring. Make Thomas Jefferson proud.
Joel S. Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy www.delusionaldemocracy.com and a founder of Friends of the Article V Convention www.foavc.org. This article responds to the hundreds of comments on his previous article Americans Unready to Revolt, Despite Revolting Conditions that received enormous attention, with over 100,000 readers.
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Jimmy Montague said:
You're running in circles, Joel.
You write: "It is laugh-at-loud funny to put trust and faith in Congress. It matters not whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress. Nearly all members are under the thrall of moneyed interests. Congress is a national embarrassment. Our misrepresentatives are partners in corruption, dishonesty and oppression."
If you delete every reference to "Congress" in that paragraph and substitute "state legislatures," it would be every bit as true. Thus you hope for reform from an Article V convention, delegates to which are elected by those laugh-out-loudly corrupt state legislatures.
You say it's "highly unlikely" that delegates elected by corrupt legislatures will themselves be corrupt. You say that public interest and media scrutiny will combine to prevent or at least to minimize the possibility. Yet your years in government should tell you that people are selected for such posts on the basis of what happens behind closed doors. Floor debates are a sham, as you well know.
You say: "Naturally, no one knows with certainty what a convention might propose. But we do know with certainty that whatever a convention proposes must satisfy the Constitution's rigorous ratification requirement. That two step process is part of the genius of the Constitution."
You say so even though you know that the American electorate these days is largely comprised of people who believe that the Founders were too much enamored of "Enlightenment Thinking" and that the Founders ACTUALLY founded a government on Christian principles. And you know the fact that those two ideas fundamentally contradict each other simply does not occur to the yahoos who believe them both.
The upshot is that you're playing with fire. Good news for the rest of us is that you'll probably never get burned because the possibility that you'll be able to provoke an Article V convention is about as remote as it can be anywhere short of Mt. Everest.
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If you've always dreamed of cycling pastoral bikeways along lazy canals, nourished along the way by fine French cuisine and some of the world's most beloved wines, then dream no more. VBT's splendid sojourn into the heart of Burgundy feeds body and soul. You'll trace languid waterways to famed vineyards, stop for tastings, and follow the renowned Route des Jardins, France's beautiful Garden Route. Glimpse the lives of locals when we pause for a friendly game of pétanque with a welcoming family. And indulge in the history and renowned cuisine of two of France's culinary capitals, Lyon and Dijon.
Cultural Highlights
- Cycle through Burgundy's famous vineyards, including a stretch listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site between Beaune and Dijon.
- Play pétanque and enjoy dessert at a local home
- Tour the famous 15th-century Hospices de Beaune
- Explore the protected historic buildings of Dijon
- Trace the Garden Route along the Canal de Bourgogne
- Celebrate over dinner at a Dijon restaurant
- Cycle to the village with a name that is linked worldwide to dry white wine: Chardonnay.
- Enjoy wine tasting at La Banque des Grands Crus
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This tour offers a combination of easy terrain mixed with moderate hills. Our VBT van support shuttle is always available for those who need assistance. Ideal for beginning and experienced cyclists alike.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Fred Couples and Bernhard Langer briefly made round two of the Masters seem like "Old Timers Day."
The two former champions fell back on years of experience to navigate the tough, windy conditions Friday at Augusta National, climbing steadily up the leaderboard as many of their younger, stronger rivals lost their grip headed in the opposite direction.
Couples, 53, who won his green jacket in 1992, followed up an opening 68 with an up-and-down round of 71 Friday to get to 5-under and one shot off the lead. Langer, 55, who won twice and whose first green jacket (1985) is older than more than a few of his opponents, notched his second consecutive 71 to reach 2-under and a tie for 14th.
"I mean, I'm surprised," Couples said, "but I'm not going to freak out over it."
Langer wasn't buying the surprised angle at all.
"Fred loves this place," he said. "He's played here 28 times and he's only missed one cut by one shot. This is his second home."
So much so that Couples, who was in much the same position after two rounds just a year ago, renewed his threat to retire on the spot if he won at Augusta National again.
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The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, according to the poetry of William Blake. Alas, for the shifty denizens of "Jerusalem," which was inspired by Blake, that road also takes a detour into the land of squalid trailer parks.
Jez Butterworth's Tony-winning drama swashbuckles from Shakespeare to the "The Lord of the Rings" in its long-awaited West Coast premiere at San Francisco Playhouse. While this sprawling epic needs a bigger jolt of electricity to sweep us away for more than three hours, there's no denying the majesty of Butterworth's language and the startling scope of his vision. The first act drags, the carnal undercurrents lack pop and the sprites need more wonder, but none of this diminishes the lure of "Jerusalem," directed by Bill English through March 8.
"Jerusalem" is nothing if not ambitious. This three-act narrative juxtaposes ancient and modern, mythic and tawdry in a bittersweet ode to things that get lost along the way during life, from youthful haunts to innocence. The playwright may be pining for his personal paradise lost, the despoiled beauty of the English countryside, but that sense of nostalgic yearning is as universal as it is piercing.
At the center of this trailer park opera is Johnny Byron (Brian Dykstra), a sleazy latter-day Falstaff peddling drugs and booze to teens while he slides into oblivion. Dubbed "The Rooster," this middle-aged antihero struts and bellows around his seedy mobile home, holding court to a coterie of party girls and lost boys. He's a former daredevil gone to seed, a subversive pied piper rallying the youth of the Shire with the siren song of the lord of misrule.
Among his merry band of misfits is the wannabe DJ Ginger (an incisive turn by Ian Scott McGregor), the befuddled professor (a wry Richard Louis James), the numbed-out slaughterhouse employee Davey (Joshua Schell), the dreamer Lee (Paris Hunter Paul) and Tanya (Riley Krull), the lass who fancies Lee.
On the eve of St. George's Day, this tribe of outcasts descends on Johnny's dilapidated trailer (a wonderfully fetid set by director English) to snort coke, chug hooch and celebrate the few rituals that still tie them to the history of rural England. The festival will be lame, they proclaim, but they're drawn to it nonetheless, harboring the desire to shed the trappings of civilization for a few precious hours. Even Johnny's burned-out ex, Dawn (a compelling Maggie Mason), can't resist the tug of the revels.
Nymphs, vigilantes and a wrecking ball all converge on this patch of "green and pleasant land" when Johnny receives an eviction notice from the city council. If he's not out of his encampment in 24 hours, they will bulldoze it.
Dykstra nails Johnny's power as a bard, spinning tales of giants and Druids and curses that entrance one generation of kids after another. He assures them he was born with a bullet in his teeth and a cape on his back. It's an intelligent performance that captures Johnny's smarts and his sins. If he misses some of Johnny's charisma, the gravitational pull he exerts on every woman in town, he evokes the combination of hubris and luck that a man would need to make his living cheating death astride a motorcycle.
Certainly Butterworth ("Mojo") taps into something primal in this odyssey. If this production doesn't give the supernatural elements of the piece (from fairies to ley lines) enough spark, the themes remain potent. Johnny embodies the call of the wild, the impulse to fight back against a world that would trample on an ancient forest to make a few bucks on real estate.
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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- The flowers are blooming, temperatures slowly rising and that can only mean one thing: Golf, guests and good times are just days away.
"It's an honor to have the Masters in Augusta, but it's also an honor to have those guests and those golfers come visit North Augusta, too," said Rep. Bill Hixon of North Augusta.
But Hixon says there's a problem in South Carolina that needs to be fixed. The South Carolina Department of Revenue plans to tax people who rent their homes during Masters week. Hixon says it's not just for renting this year, but the 7 percent tax would apply for 2011 and 2010, too.
The Masters Housing Bureau of the Augusta Metro Chamber of Commerce first found out about the plan. The SCDOR summoned renters' personal information from them, and they've since complied.
"I described it as fishing," Hixon said. "They were trying to catch some fish, but what I want to do is cut the line."
Hixon recently dropped a bill (H. 3767) that would toss the tax. The bill would let people rent their homes tax-free for 15 days, just like the IRS lets homeowners do already.
"I took the time, and I have 53 people, 53 House members from all over the state, that signed on my bill," Hixon said.
Hixon hopes it passes. He says the SCDOR is playing games with important tourism dollars.
"We don't want to lose our tourism in South Carolina and North Augusta, because we're now charging this accommodation's tax and Georgia's not," he said.
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Romon was born June 3, 1968, in Grand Junction. He is the son of Isidoro and Flora Rivera. Romon is survived by his mother, Flora; his beloved son Rayman Rivera; and his brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces: Jose, Joe Jr., Justin, Jessica, J.J., Sierra Rivera, Andrita, Becky Levi, Isabella, Adrian Rivera, Carlos Rivera, Kathy, Lexi Rivera, Manuel Martinez and the late Crist Rivera, Jane Rivera and Lonnie Rivera.
Pepper enjoyed being around his son - he was the light of his life. If you knew Pepper, you know what a good man he was. He was a very funny person to be with - he could make anyone laugh.
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A workshop for home gardeners and would-be gardeners on how to build a small worm farm in a self-contained bin will be held on Tuesday, August 14, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. At the Transition Community Garden on the grounds at Ellen Memorial Health Care Center, Golf Hill Road, north of Honesdale. A donation is suggested to take this class; pay what you can.
"Breeding earthworms is easy and very inexpensive, and the payoff for your garden is huge," says Alex Perry-Giblin of The Anthill Farm, who will teach the workshop. "Once you learn to establish and maintain a worm bin, there is very little maintenance involved. The worms do all the work of creating a nutrient-rich, organic fertilizer for your garden." "And here's the thing—why pay for a commercially available worm bin, when you can make your own from items you already have lying around your house?" he continued.
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It happened around 7 o'clock Friday night... A small fire in a dust filtration tunnel at Avondale Mills.
Officials say sparks must have ignited some cotton in that tunnel, causing circles of smoke and even more - an evacuation.
News 12's Kate Tillotson was on the scene.
First and foremost, no one was hurt tonight. Employees were all led out safely and told to go home... but in light of what's happened in the past, all eyes were on these emergency lights.
"You see a bunch of smoke," said Elaine Hazel, one of 62 employees forced to evacuate tonight during her shift. "That's all you can see right now, is smoke. There's no big fire but you can see a lot of smoke."
The smoke was not visible from outside the building because the small fire started in the mill's dust filtration tunnel, an underground system in its weave room.
"There must have been a small spark that ignited some of the lint, the cotton, that accumulates in those tunnels and a little bit of cotton will cause a whole lot of smoke."
And a whole lot of smoke and emergency lights at a place like Avondale Mills draws a lot of attention... especially after an eighty ton chlorine spill last year.
"Certainly the events of January 6th 2005 are still very fresh in all of our minds and it's always a scary situation when you feel like you potentially have an emergency situation."
"In light of what we've been through we try to be prepared for the worst. I mean hope for the best but you always try to be prepared for the worst."
Officials insist this was not the worst. Instead it was a small and isolated fire that caused no damage to equipment or personnel. In fact just one worker with asthma was taken to the hospital for precaution.
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WE MEMORIALZE: I want to invite you to a mock Funeral for Democracy on THIS Monday, May 28, 2012. It begins at 11:00 AM. Michigan has emerged as ground zero for the fight for economic recovery. The current state government has decided that suspending the vote is the key to financial stability. In truth, Democracy has been put to death by public act 4. On Memorial Day we will funeralize democracy in an attempt to dramatize the sad truth that the Snyder administration has single handedly silenced the vote and voice of 50% of the African Americans in Michigan, disenfranchised 75% of the African American elected officials and made the vote in Michigan null and void. Beyond this there has been no plan for economic recovery for Benton Harbor, Flint, Detroit, Highland Park, Hamtramck and other cities in the state. There is no exit plan for emergency managers and no tool kit for elected officials and community stakeholders to guide the development of a coordinated response to the economic and public safety crisis we face. I want to invite you to this historic event where we will mark the silent death of democracy in Michigan.
WE MEET: At 12:30 PM, Immediately following this mock funeral we will host an organizing meeting. The agenda of this meeting will be Save the Vote and Stop the Violence. We seek to organize ourselves against the destruction of democratic institutions and fight to stem the rising tide of violence. We believe that any public policy like public act 4 that destroys democratic institutions also contributes to the growing level of low morale and apathy in our communities. When citizens are disenfranchised they lose the will to fight, to build and to grow. We meet to develop a plan for enlisting regular citizens in the fight for the vote and against violence.


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KePP wrote:I've never really bought into the "bad shot" argument.
You aim to throw the disc up by the basket. If its a good shot, it does just that... and if you're lucky, it hits the chains and goes in. A lot of fly-bys still leave a decent putt within the circle.
"Oohh, what would you rather? A shot that slides right under the basket or a shot that flies past it 30 feet?"
You've made my argument.
Well if I'm so precise I can control that everytime, I'll just throw it in the chains and not worry about putting.
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We've been having more fun with plant dyes! All of the materials were pre-mordanted with Alum and Creme of Tartar so the color won't wash out. The most fun part of it all was seeing the different colors the same dye created on cotton and wool.
A neighbor lost her beloved Black Walnut tree to a demented arborist so we decided to put the leaves to work before they headed back into the earth. The results were beautiful!
On wool yarn tied with rubber bands:
On a cotton dish towel tied with marbles and rubber bands:
We walked over to another neighbors yard and volunteered to prune her purple-leafed plum tree. With those leaves in an old metal bucket heated on our rocket stove we got our biggest surprise. At first the dye was a gorgeous magenta and we thought we'd get a similar color.
Well, after simmering for a while we took a look at the dye bath to find it almost black. Cotton t-shirts became a lovely slate grey. Wool yarn we tied off with rubber bands to get a resist affect.
Here is the resulting color combination:
Tumeric (a little goes a long way), does a bang up job on everything. I did a dish towel wrapped with rubber bands and popsicle sticks (Shibori technique). Wow!
Here is a picture of the towel with some Calendula soap we made with color from the Tumeric dye too:
More to come. I'm teaching 5 weeks of classes for kids this Summer. NATURE CRAFTS, HERBS FOR KIDS, NATURAL DYES, COOKING FROM THE GARDEN, URBAN HOMESTEADING. I'll post the highlights as we go along.
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More Fun with Plant Dyes
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Hey There-
We're fellow Petaluman homesteaders. I've got a pretty interesting plant growing in my yard which I'm pretty sure will give you a nice blue or purple dye. Dianella Nigra http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevex2/4354446631/
When the berries are squished they dye fingers indigo.
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Let us know when the fruit is ripe and we'll try it out. It's common name "Ink Berry" sounds promising. Let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com. We'd like to meet you anyway!
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By: Martha Tice MS, RN, ACHPN, Clinical Nursing Editorial Director, Nurse.com
Joan was so short of breath from end-stage pulmonary disease she could barely get the words out: "This is the best care I have ever had!"
During my 15-year career in hospice and palliative care, I heard many variations of those words from patients and families. It didn't matter the age they were or the disease process bringing their lives to a close, people were amazed that their physician, nurse, social worker, chaplain and aide all listened to what was important to them, worked together to manage symptoms and achieve a sense of completion in relationships with family and friends. Most importantly allowing them to validate the meaning and purpose of the lives they had lived.
When I ask myself why people identified their last weeks and months of life as a time of quality care, I believe the answer lies not just in the expert use of medications, treatments, grief counseling and anticipatory teaching about what to expect as their disease progresses, but also in the way the care is provided—as an interprofessional team. You have likely heard the terms multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary.
Entering stage right is a new actor: continuing interprofessional education. It has emerged as the term used to identify a method of educating professionals together to deliver better care. The goal is to develop team members who understand and value one another's strengths. The result is a collaborative approach to working with patients and families to address the goals of care they have identified.
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Denver beer festival honors 2 Sierra Nevada brews
With demand growing, company says work at Mills River plant is 'full-speed ahead'
Published: Sunday, October 14, 2012 at 11:58 a.m.
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DENVER ̶ Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. brought home two medals this weekend at the Great American Beer Festival, the largest commercial brewery competition in the world.
The Chico, Calif.-based company, which is in the process of building an East Coast expansion facility in Mills River, earned a gold in the new Fresh Hop Ale category for its Estate Homegrown Ale, made from 100 percent organic ingredients grown on the Sierra Nevada property in Chico. It also captured silver in the Imperial Stout category for Narwhal, a brand new addition to Sierra Nevada's "High Altitude" line of specialty brews.
Both beers were recently shipped for sales across the nation, and the are expected to hit store shelves in North Carolina any day now. The Estate Homegrown Ale is packaged in wax-sealed, individual 24-ounce bottles, while Narwhal is packaged in 12-ounce four-packs.
Sierra Nevada Head Brewer Steve Dressler said the awards are reflective of a commitment to "enhanced creativity" during the past few years for the nation's second-largest craft brewer, whose flagship product ̶ Pale Ale ̶ continues to grow in sales since Sierra Nevada founder Ken Grossman officially launched the brand in 1980.
"Obviously we're very established, and have been very successful because of products like Pale Ale and Torpedo (IPA)," Dressler said following the awards ceremony Saturday at the Colorado Convention Center in downtown Denver. "But (beers such as Narwhal) are brand new styles that we've never explored before, so these awards legitimize the fact that we are a cutting-edge craft brewery."
Dressler added that he created both award-winning beers in a collaborative effort with Scott Jennings, Sierra Nevada's head of research and recipe development, who has been named head brewer for the Mills River facility once it is up and running next year.
An estimated 50,000 beer enthusiasts attended the three-day festival, which sold out this year in a record 45 minutes. Visitors came from around the world to sample more than 2,500 beers from nearly 600 breweries across the U.S.
Among them were Toni and Mark Whaley of Alton, Ill., about 30 miles outside St. Louis, who were among those who sampled Estate Homegrown Ale, Narwhal and several other specialty offerings at the Sierra Nevada tent on Saturday.
"We have a Sierra Nevada-themed bedroom back home, decorated with all Sierra Nevada mirrors and posters," Toni Whaley said. "We definitely look for any new Sierra Nevada beers that come out, so this (tent) was high on our list to visit here at the festival."
Dressler, who accepted the awards along with Sierra Nevada's Steve Grossman, Terence Sullivan and Kimberly Bacigalupo, was especially excited about the silver medal for the newly created Narwhal. Dressler described it as a well-balanced beer that is quite drinkable for such a strong brew (10.2 percent alcohol by volume), while the dark-roasted barley gives it a "really deep, complex malt character."
The Estate Homegrown Ale, meanwhile, was produced from barley grown on 30 acres of Sierra Nevada farmland and three varieties of hops that were added to the tanks within hours of this year's harvest. That qualified the beer as a "fresh hop" ale, one of 84 beer styles judged by 185 certified beer judges from 11 countries.
More than 4,300 beers from 666 breweries entered the competition. According to the Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association, which sponsored the event, dollar sales for craft beer were up 14 percent in the first half of 2012 and the industry has seen an increase of 350 new breweries since mid-2011. There are now 2,126 breweries in the U.S., the most since the late 1800s.
As for Sierra Nevada, sales continue to soar, keeping the Chico brewery running at full capacity while the company awaits the opening of the Mills River plant next summer.
Brian Grossman, co-manager of the North Carolina plant, said in an interview in late September that the project is moving along very well.
"We're full-speed ahead, all hands on deck," he said. "Last week was a big week for us: We purchased our boiler system, our chillers, our grain-handling system, we purchased our waste-water system, and we had some final discussions on water and making sure the water in North Carolina is going to do what we need it to do in comparison to the water in Chico."
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September 30, 2005
The Aiken Center for the Arts has almost doubled in size. The new renovations mean more classes and more performances for the community. The Center's Executive Director Kristin Brown is excited to show off her new space.
After three years of work and $1.5 million, the center now offers a second floor full of options.
"We are a source for the community, is the way we look at it, and with this wonderful building completed and in such a wonderful shape we hope to see everyone here," said Brown.
The Art Center has gone from one classroom to seven. Already art classes have doubled. Twenty classes including watercolor, cartooning, drama and even yoga are available.
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There's also extra space for artwork. While the downstairs space will continue to hold local and national artwork, upstairs will often feature the work of Aiken County school kids. An 8th grader at Schofield Middle School drew the current jungle exhibit.
Perhaps the most exciting addition is the Brown Performance Pavilion. There, you can watch a variety of performances including dance, music, drama and a film series. The pavilion seats 150 people comfortably in reclining chairs. Now Kristin wants to fill the seats and hope you help her out.
"We are a mainstay of the main street of Aiken and hope to be where everybody would like to be and participate," said Brown.
Admission to the Aiken Center exhibits is free. You're also invited to the Art Center's Grand Opening from 3 to 6 p.m. on Saturday. It's free and includes crafts, caricatures and more. You can also sign up for art lessons and meet the instructors.


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Ten Minute Tutorial: XDS Logger Plugin for Determinations Server (JDeveloper)
By Andrew Higginbottom on Jan 19, 2014
Welcome to another TMT. This time we will create a plugin for Oracle Determinations Server to log incoming SOAP requests in the Oracle Policy Automation XDS (eXplicit Data Set) format - not to be confused with XSD. You can take this and load it into the Oracle Policy Modeling debugger to track down issues with specific SOAP requests. DISCLAIMER: This might take you longer than 10 minutes, depending on how fast you can click and how fast your PC is!
Last time we used Eclipse but this time we will be using JDeveloper to build and test the plugin. Again there are some prerequisites:
- Oracle JDeveloper (I used 188.8.131.52.0)
- Oracle Policy Automation Runtime Components for Java (I used v10.4.4.21.0)
- SoapUI (I used 4.6.4)
Once downloaded, install JDeveloper, extract the OPA Runtime Components to a convenient location and install SoapUI.
Now we begin. Start JDeveloper and accept the "Studio Developer (All Features)" role.
Select Application > New... from the main menu to create a new application workspace.
Give the application a name "ODSXDSPlugin"
Accept the default Project1 and Finish.
Having set up the Application, we now import the Determinations Server WAR file. File > Import... from the main menu, then select > WAR File. Call the project "determinations server".
At the next step Browse... to the location where you extracted the OPA Runtime and select /determinations-server/determinations-server.war.
Right-click determinations-server project, New..., General > Java Class.
Enter Name "XDSLogger", Package "com.opablog.aeh".
Add the "OnBeforeThinkEventHandler" interface. This event is fired for every request, after the request has been parsed into the session but before the rules are executed.
This time I've provided the code to copy and paste in, replacing the entire contents of the new XDSLogger.java file:
package com.opablog.aeh; import com.oracle.determinations.engine.SessionUtils; import com.oracle.determinations.server.assess.extensions.AssessPlugin; import com.oracle.determinations.server.assess.extensions.AssessPluginRegisterArgs; import com.oracle.determinations.server.assess.extensions.events.OnBeforeThinkEvent; import com.oracle.determinations.server.assess.extensions.events.OnBeforeThinkEventHandler; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.StringWriter; import org.apache.log4j.Logger; public class XDSLogger implements OnBeforeThinkEventHandler { private Logger log = Logger.getLogger(this.getClass()); public XDSLogger() { super(); } @Override public void handleEvent(Object object, OnBeforeThinkEvent onBeforeThinkEvent) { try { StringWriter w = new StringWriter(); SessionUtils.exportSession(onBeforeThinkEvent.getSession(), w); log.debug(w.toString()); } catch (IOException e) { log.error(e); } } @Override public AssessPlugin getInstance(AssessPluginRegisterArgs assessPluginRegisterArgs) { return this; } }
Edit Application Sources/config/application.properties to configure ODS to load the plugin by updating the plugin.libraries parameter to "plugin.libraries=com.opablog.aeh.XDSLogger"
Edit Application Sources/log4j.xml to increase the logging level by setting <level value="DEBUG"/> under the <root> element. Don't do this in production!
Copy in the PocketMoneyComputation.zip rulebase from the \examples\rulebases\compiled folder in your expanded OPA runtime location. Use Windows Explorer to copy the file into your JDeveloper project. For me the destination folder is located at C:\JDeveloper\mywork\ODSXDSPlugin\determinations-server\src\rulebases.
Now we can deploy the plugin to our local server.
Select Run > Start Server Instance (IntegratedWebLogicServer) from the main menu and enter credentials of your choice to use for server setup.
Wait for domain to build and server to start up. Once completed you should see "IntegratedWebLogicServer started." in the Log window.
Now we can deploy our Determinations Server with XDS logger plugin.
Right-click the determinations-server project and Deploy > "determinations-server...". Select "Deploy to Application Server", click Next, then IntegratedWebLogicServer, then Finish. Ignore any warnings logged during startup - they are only there because we turned the logging up to DEBUG.
In the deployment tab you should see that deployment has finished and you are given the URL in the Deployment - Log window.
Finally we can test our plugin by sending a request using SoapUI.
Open the URL in your favourite browser and you will see the familiar page listing the OPA services available. Grab the full URL to the specific Assess service WSDL.
Start SoapUI and select File > New SOAP Project from the main menu. Give the project a name and paste the WSDL URL for Initial WSDL. Make sure Create Requests is checked.
Open Request1 under the Assess node and paste the following minimal SOAP message to replace the default content:
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:typ="http://oracle.com/determinations/server/10.4/PocketMoneyComputation/assess/types"> <soapenv:Header/> <soapenv:Body> <typ:assess-request> <typ:global-instance> <!--You may enter the following 6 items in any order--> <!--Optional:--> <typ:base_rate> <typ:number-val>2.50</typ:number-val> </typ:base_rate> <typ:person_name> <!--You have a CHOICE of the next 3 items at this level--> <typ:text-val>Parent</typ:text-val> </typ:person_name> <typ:total_money outcome-style="decision-report"/> <typ:list-child> <typ:child id="1"> <typ:child_name> <typ:text-val>Bobby</typ:text-val> </typ:child_name> <typ:child_age> <typ:number-val>7</typ:number-val> </typ:child_age> <typ:child_money outcome-style="value-only"/> </typ:child> <typ:child id="2"> <typ:child_name> <typ:text-val>Betty</typ:text-val> </typ:child_name> <typ:child_age> <typ:number-val>9</typ:number-val> </typ:child_age> <typ:child_money outcome-style="value-only"/> </typ:child> </typ:list-child> </typ:global-instance> </typ:assess-request> </soapenv:Body> </soapenv:Envelope>
Press "play" (the green arrow pointing to the right) to submit Request1. You should see a response that looks similar to the request, but with calculated values returned along with the inputs used.
In addition to processing the Assess request as normal, our new Determinations Server plugin has logged the inputs to the application log in the OPA XDS format.
You can now copy this XML into a text file and load it up in OPM to debug!
There are obvious improvements that could be made to this, such as logging each request to its own file, but I will leave those as an exercise for the reader. This is supposed to be a TMT after all!


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