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By The Gazette Editorial Board
At first glance, many of a task force's recent recommendations to streamline Iowa's civil court processes make sense.
Establishing a two-tiered system and a one-judge, one-case policy to ensure more consistent rulings, help with case management and costs, might help expedite cases. Tweaks such as capping expert witness fees and using video and teleconferencing could save the system considerable time and money. They're worth careful consideration.
We're intrigued by one proposal in particular: A business court pilot for handling highly-complex commercial or business litigation.
The pilot would create a parallel civil track within the existing civil court system for high-dollar, complicated matters: technology licensing, intellectual property rights, breech of contract, trade secrets and similar cases. Cases would be assigned to specific judges with particular interest or expertise.
Business and complex case courts already are being piloted or used in about half the states in the country, including neighboring states such as Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Such states generally have found that judges within those tracks develop a much greater baseline understanding of complicated issues, which helps to move cases through the system that much more quickly, says Deborah Saunders of the National Center for State Courts, an independent, non-profit court improvement organization.
Saunders, who studies the issue, told us that modern business courts have become increasingly popular since they were begun in Chicago and New York nearly two decades ago. Every system is a little different, she said — tailored to meet local caseloads.
"It's really a way for the court to manage their docket," she said.
Not much research has been completed about how much such courts save in terms of money or resources, she said, but it only stands to reason that increasing efficiency will cut costs, so long as the caseload supports a business court and attorneys use it.
According to the task force's research, Iowa has enough complex civil cases to justify a business court. We think it makes sense to establish a pilot project and track efficiencies in time and money.
Whatever savings are gleaned surely won't be enough to make up for all the cuts our state's court system has endured, but it's a good step. And judicial leaders will be able to make an even stronger case for legislators to restore some sorely needed funds.
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Leadership Failures Are Usually Character Failures
Leadership is a blend of competence and character.
BG (Retired) Jim Anderson, my father, taught me that. In 41 years in the Army, including two tours in Vietnam, he saw a lot of great leaders and a lot of leadership failures that formed his philosophy.
I started this website with this post. I have learned a lot since then. Thank you for joining me and contributing. Every time you comment on a blog, you make me better. Thank you for that!
At work, in the news and in the history books, failures in leadership are almost never a result of failures in competence. They are failures in character. Here is a short list of examples I've seen and the character trait that was exposed in those failures:
- Bernie Madoff lied to his clients and stole millions. He lacked integrity not competence in handling money. He is doing time.
- A sales manager I know who badgered sales people to sell more so "I can win this year's award trip." He was selfish not incompetent. His people were disgruntled and low performers. He was fired.
- Leaders at Penn State were unwilling to speak out or act when the allegations of abuse were first reported. That is cowardice not the inability to run an athletic department. That story isn't finished.
So what is character?
- Begins with our thoughts.
- Our thoughts become our words.
- Our words lead to our actions.
- Our actions become habits.
- Our habits determine our character.
I believe our character is our habitual way of operating. My habits, the good, the bad and the ugly ones paint a pretty clear picture of my character.
So how can I become a leader of character? I am going to unpack that more on my 2/29/12 post. I'd love to hear your thoughts on character or your stories about great leaders of character you have encountered. Share them here.


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By Andrea Peyser (New York Post)
May 24, 2012
There exists in this city a group of unparalleled perverts that's wrapped in Teflon — more resistent to charges of sexual exploitation than John Travolta.
I'm not talking about Hollywood nimrods or Catholic priests, but a sect not generally associated with serious crime — ultra-Orthodox Jews.
A scandal of epic proportions is brewing in Brooklyn as District Attorney Charles Hynes uses kid gloves to handle creeps and demons charged with, or convicted of, sexual abuse that too often brutalizes children.
While monsters of other faiths are paraded in shame through the public square, Hynes this week refused to reveal the identities of Hasidic scumbags.
Some of the deviants committed crimes from rape to sodomy to incest in sex attacks on kids.
Some have enjoyed sweet plea deals. Others are out there as we speak — preying on the weak in blessed anonymity.
"We're talking about thousands upon thousands of victims,'' said Ben Hirsch, co-founder and president of Survivors for Justice — and a Brooklyn-bred Orthodox Jew.
"He is very reluctant to prosecute these cases and only does it when forced to by the media spotlight.
"He's made a pact with the devil.''
So mothers — are your babies at risk from men wearing yarmulkes and side curls?
Hynes, who enjoys lavish support in the ultra-Jewish community, admits he treats people of the chosen faith differently.
"I departed from the policy of identifying defendants,'' Hynes told me. "The reason is that, within days, people within this relentless community would identify the victims. Then, the intimidation would start.''
Sexual-assault victims, especially kids, said Hynes "would be thrown out of summer camp, arranged marriages would be stopped. Kicked out of the yeshivahs. It's the only community that has this kind of problem.
"If the Amish were living in Brooklyn,'' he said, "maybe I'd have something like that."
Hynes' chief of sex crimes against children, Rhonnie Jaus, said her office has prosecuted 97 Jewish pervs since instituting Kol Tzedek — or "Voice of Justice'' — three years ago.
"We treat these cases very aggressively,'' Jaus said.
But advocates for victims call that politically motivated rubbish.
Awarding perpetrators anonymity "runs counter to the fundamental concept of Megan's Law'' — which requires sex offenders to be identified publicly, said Hirsch.
"Society can only protect itself from child molesters if it knows their names,'' Hirsch said.
One such deviant is Michael Sabo, a 38-year-old nurse who got a 20-year-to-life sentence this week after he admitted molesting a Hasidic boy and girl over several years. The girl's family was threatened in synagogue by Sabo supporters, who vowed to pack the courtroom if she testified.
Still, Sabo's name became public only after he was hauled into court. Why did Hynes protect the perv?
Here's a real head-scratcher: Hynes declined to give out the name of a sex offender — who failed to register as a sex offender! This negligence deprived the Orthodox community of a tool to protect its young.
The media rooted out the man's name anyway.
The Orthodox community is alone in policing itself — sometimes to horrifying results. Last year, 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky disappeared in Borough Park, but his mom didn't call the cops. She called Brooklyn South Shomrim, an unarmed and untrained civilian patrol.
Cops were finally called by the boy's dad nearly three hours after Leiby vanished. It was too late. Leiby's dismembered body was found in the freezer of mad man Levi Aron, and in a nearby Dumpster.
"This is a community that operates under a parallel justice system right under Charles Hynes' nose, with Shomrim in place of the police and religious tribunals/rabbinical courts in place of the criminal- justice system,'' said a source within the Jewish community.
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Hi can anyone give me some info on engines like these:
They are Mack switchers but I would like to know more about them. How much did they weight, etc.
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Hi can anyone give me some info on engines like these:
They are Mack switchers but I would like to know more about them. How much did they weight, etc.
Don't know too much about a specific Railroad switcher, but the 'noses are definitely copies of the old AC Mack Truck. dating from the early 1900's and used pretty extensively in WW1. Not to mention they played a major roll in the Army's First attempt at a Transcontinental Truck Trip of 1919. This was an exploratory mission to see if it would be possible to drive from Washington,D.C. to the West Coast.
It was ordered by then Gen of the Army John " BlackJack Pershing, and then Cavelry Lt. Dwight D. Eishenhower went along in the role of observer. Many feel it was this trip that caused Gen Eisenhower to push the plan in the 1957 for the Interstate and Defense Highway Network across the U.S.
If you go to this link you can seee photos of the distinctive Mack AC hoods:
1916The famous AC model was introduced in 1916. With its chain drive rear axle, the AC model earned an unparalleled reputation for reliability and durability, and was called on to help accomplish nearly impossible military and civilian tasks. The AC model was manufactured continuously through 1939 -- a remarkable 24 years, and 40,299 were built. The AC is not only credited with giving Mack its famous Bulldog identity, but also with achieving a degree of success and international fame that has never been accomplished by any other motor truck in history.
Mack built a military armored car on an AB Chassis for the New York National Guard. During World War I, Mack delivered approximately 4,500 AC model trucks of 3-1/2, 5-1/2, and 7-1/2 ton capacity to the US government. During that same period, Mack delivered over 2,000 units to Great Britain. These trucks did an outstanding job under very difficult conditions.
The story goes that the British soldiers ("Tommies") would call out when facing a difficult truck problem, "Aye, send in the Mack Bulldogs!" The primary, and generally universal, story is that the British engineers testing AC's and the Tommys in France said that "the Mack AC's have the tenacity of a bulldog." At that time, the symbol of Great Britain was the bulldog, and this was high praise for the trucks. American "Doughboys" expressed the same opinion of the truck.
A new holding company, the International Motor Truck Corporation, is formed; it assumes the notes payable obligations of the International Motor Company and owns 98 percent of its stock. The International Motor Company, through its ownership of the Mack Brothers Motor Car Company, the Saurer Motor Company, and the Hewitt Motor Company, becomes the operating organization, with its main plants in Allentown, PA (Mack), Plainfield, NJ (Saurer), and Brooklyn, NY (Hewitt).
The International Motor Company also owns the International Mack Motor Corporation, which had been set up in December 1915 to run most of the company-owned branches. However, by the end of World War I, the title of this company is changed to the Mack-International Motor Truck Corporation.
1918The Saurer nameplate is discontinued in the United States.
Mack became the first truck manufacturer to apply air cleaners
Dug a little deeper and forund this link to some actual MACK Locomotives: http://www.mchugh4macklocomotive.com/history2.html
Actually pretty interesting about the WK&S RR ( In Penna) that had Mack Locomotives, unfortunately, I think the adaptation of the Mack AC hood was a toy designer's wishful thinking
Hope this will help you!
( Sorry could not pull the photos to this site.)
Look at the locomotive pictured on this website;
Mack Truck Locomotives
Fourth row down, third picture to the right, click onit to enlarge.
There has been one sitting along the Black River and Western RR in Ringoes, NJ for years but I have never seen any indication that it runs.
I wonder if there is any video anywhere showing them running.
They appear to be garden railway locomotives, so I would guess about 2#. Mack Truck had a dismal record building railway equipment. New York Central bought the gas car #M-14 for use on the Putnam Division in 1928. It was way under-powered and was sold to the Washington & Old Dominion (their #45). Mack also built a bunch of "Rail Buses" for the New Haven. They, too, didn't work out. I think only two were ever used in revenue service. Another case, like Boeing, of a company that should have stuck with its expertise. Being, now, a French-owned company, I would hate to see any of my tax dollars go to future Mack efforts.
You are correct about those being GR loco's. They are in 1:24 scale. (I'm a Garden Railroader)
Thanks, Beaulieu!
Got in a hurry and missed looking at N.E. Rails website they are a thorough reference area. The WK&S was one I remembered from some time back.
I guess it goes to show that life often replicates itself even where locomotives are concerned. The Garden Rails engines pictured in the original post are pretty much true to the prototypes pictured in the NE Rails website.
The AC MACK was one tough truck and wonder how much of it was actually used to create the loco pictured?
The WK&S website - ''Projects'' page - says [note - date not specified]:
What's Gone from the WK&S..
The Mack was sold to JC McHugh and has been refurbished and is awaiting motive repairs at their facility.
- Paul North.
McHugh's page about the Macks.
The opinions expressed here represent my own and not those of my employer or any other railroad, company, or person.
In New York City, "Colonial Sand & Stone" used lots of Mack 'AC's, even into the 1970s, on their transit-mix, sand, cinder, and aggregate trucks, supplying the building industry. The dwindiling coal delivery companies did, too. IIRC, they were all chain-drive. Cool old rigs -- some of them still had solid rubber tires! Not much operator comfort or weather protection. What drive-train did the Mack locomotives use? Chain?
They remind me of a picture I had as my desktop background. The caption was "1931 Mack Truck company 15T gas-el." Can't find the pic, but think I got it from Trains Mag newsletter, possibly Photo of the Month.
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Damascus, Nov. 16: India today strongly opposed Israeli action against Syria, which reciprocated by supporting a bilateral resolution of the India-Pakistan problem.
In a joint statement, issued here at the conclusion of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayees visit, India emphasised that action against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Syria as happened last month is not acceptable. This was a direct response to the Israeli bombing on the outskirts of Damascus in October.
If this was the give on Indias part, the take was in Syria condemning all acts of terrorism of which they (India and Syria) have been victims.
There was some disquiet in Indian quarters that President Bashar al Assad, at his iftar banquet, had called for a just solution in South Asia respecting the rights of all sides.
Any worry that Syria might be equivocating on Pakistan and Kashmir was, therefore, set to rest today.
Syria ended up welcoming Indias peace initiative with Pakistan.
It went on to say that the issues between India and Pakistan should be settled bilaterally through a dialogue and in the framework provided under the Simla Agreement of 1972 and the Lahore Declaration of 1999.
This is what India wanted and this is what it managed to get from one of the most important Arab countries.
The visit also helped Vajpayee and Assad, 40 years younger, to strike a rapport, adds PTI.
The President reflected the warmth in the ties by driving to the Prime Ministers hotel to see him off on a sightseeing tour. Vajpayee took time off his schedule to visit top tourist destinations the great mosque in the heart of Damascus and the ancient ruins at Palmyra to which he flew in Assads special aircraft.
Prime Minister Mohammad Naji Otri and all his cabinet colleagues saw off Vajpayee, the first Indian premier to visit Syria in 15 years, at the airport in a break from protocol.
Referring to his extensive talks with the Syrian President on West Asia and Iraq, Vajpayee said: We remain concerned at the continuing cycle of violence and counter-violence in the region.
In a statement before flying back home after his six-day trip to Russia, Tajikstan and Syria, Vajpayee said it has given a fresh impetus to bilateral cooperation with these important countries in regions of great political, economic and strategic significance to India.


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A Labor MP and former economics professor says income inequality in Australia reflects larger global forces at play and there may be little that policy can do to change it, amid a local and global protest movement calling for governments to arrest rising income inequality.
New research by former Australian National University economics professor Andrew Leigh, who is now a federal Labor MP, shows that you need a minimum of $190,216 in annual income to qualify for entry to the 1 per cent, the target of the Occupy movement. This figure was down 3.5 per cent on account of the financial crisis.
Entry into the top 0.1 per cent got a lot harder though, with $627,948 of income needed, or double the amount a decade ago. The figures, which are based on 2009 tax data, show the share of income accruing to the top 1 per cent fell due to the financial crisis. The 1 percenters reaped 8.6 per cent of the total income pool in 2009, after peaking at 10 per cent a few years earlier, as the effects of the financial crisis flowed through to the 56 per cent of their income that did not come from wages or salaries.
But Mr Leigh said he expected income inequality would continue in the coming years, and questioned whether there was much that could or should be done about it.
"You need to be fairly realistic why this has happened and how much of a role policy plays," Mr Leigh said.
"A lot of it reflects technological advancement, as well as the globalisation of the labour market. Now Australia competes with the rest of the world for CEOs, and so they are getting paid more than they once were."
But in Australia those lower down the income distribution had still experienced good rises in incomes.
"We are not at the levels of inequality that are seen in the United States; our levels of income distribution are about where the US was in 1980," Mr Leigh said. "Certainly income growth accelerates the higher you go up the income distribution but there has been middle and bottom income growth."
Higher education average attainment and a balanced industrial relations system led to more equal distribution of income in Australia, Mr Leigh said.
Inequality hasn't always been growing in Australia, nor indeed is it occurring throughout the world, as some in the Occupy protest movement may suspect. In Australia, income inequality fell from the 1920s until 1980. From there, cuts to the top marginal tax rate by prime minister
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Security concerns in Sochi. The U.S. military announces it will move two warships into the Black Sea during the Olympic Games in case of a terror attack.
This, as many U.S. Olympians ask their families to stay home.
Meghan McCorkell has more on what's being done to keep athletes safe.
Pentagon officials confirm the U.S. and Russia are discussing security plans at the Olympic Games.
Hockey stars Ryan Sutor and Zach Parise are heading to Sochi to compete for Team USA, but they've asked their families to stay home.
"It's nerve-racking, that's for sure. You see that stuff going on, it's not very comforting," Parise said.
"You hear all these stories about different things, and it's definitely a concern," Sutor said.
Islamic militants are threatening to strike Sochi during the games.
Just last month, a suicide bomber detonated a bomb inside a train station that provides service to Olympic venues. The next day there was another attack in the same area.
"You know, we're there to represent our country," said Olympic gold medalist and Maryland native Michael Phelps.
But Phelps says he knows Sochi is a different situation.
"When I was talking to my mother the other night, she was saying how nervous she was to go over because she didn't know what was going to happen," he said.
Security experts say Sochi is a challenging location because it's bordered by the Black Sea on one side and mountain ranges on the other.
"It does complicate the security equation just a bit because there has to be preparation for high-speed sea vessels, as well as mountainous terrain equipment," said Rob Weinhold, The Fallston Group.
Russian officials say they've built a "ring of steel" around Sochi, but concerns remain.
"I think folks are right to be concerned. The fact of the matter is that the Olympics are a target-rich environment for terrorists," Weinhold said.
Some 100,000 Russian security personnel will be working the games.
The U.S. National Team is one of many that have received threats warning not to bring athletes to Russia.
The State Department has released a travel alert for Sochi, warning Americans traveling there to be vigilant.
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Several Hill City residents want Hamilton County school board members to remember a commitment made to them that their children could attend Normal Park Museum Magnet School.
"The bottom line is we'd like them to follow through with the promise," said Nelson Barrios, a Hill City resident and father. He and other residents recently met at the North Chattanooga Recreation Center to discuss their desire for their children to attend the North Chattanooga elementary.
Board of Education members Joe Galloway and Rhonda Thurman, who attended the meeting, said they are willing to revisit the issue.
"I think we should do what we said we were going to do," Thurman said.
Galloway, who represents the Hill City area, said he wouldn't have any problems talking about the issue again. However, the school board's first priority is tackling next year's budget, he said. The fiscal year starts July 1.
He said a board member will need to request that the board revisit the Normal Park issue, then another board member will have to sign off on it.
Hill City resident Mitta Chestnutt said she felt betrayed by the school board.
"We elected you because we trusted you," she said. "Right now we feel like our little block doesn't matter."
Normal Park's attendance zone has been an issue for several years. In 2007 school board members voted to expand the zone to include all of Bell and Spears avenues in Hill City for this school year, according to newspaper archives. Interest in the Hill City area picked up. According to Assessor of Property records, more than 30 properties were sold in the area between 2007 and 2009.
But last year, Superintendent Jim Scales said because more families moved into the school zone, he would not expand the boundaries as promised.
"The problem is that our population grew tremendously. It has tripled in the past three years," Principal Jill Levine said.
School board member Chip Baker said sometimes projections don't materialize as expected.
"The thing I've always tried to emphasize is a projection is just that. When things actually take place then you have to adjust on actual performance," Baker said.
Levine said any Hill City student who wanted to attend Normal Park was given an opportunity to come. She said Hill City students all received letters sent home by the schools central office and by Red Bank elementary and middle schools.
But only 38 children chose to attend Normal Park, Levine said.


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1. American presidents seem to be dog people. Two famous dogs of presidential renown were Scottish terrier Fala and cocker spaniel Checkers. Name the two presidents with whom they were associated.
2. What is the name of the author of the long-loved book "Black Beauty"?
3. Where do we find the famous line "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"?
4. What is the title of a recent best-seller, which was also made into a movie, about a young vet student who drops out of school and joins a circus? It's by Sara Gruen.
5. It was a film and a hugely successful stage play about a lion cub's journey to adulthood. Two characters in it are named Mufasa and Scar. What's its name?
6. Who wrote "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats"?
7. Where do we first find the line "a hair of the dog that bit us" — advice for treating a hangover?
8. Name Donald Duck's three nephews.
9. Who wrote about "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"?
10. Perhaps the Great American Novel? Anyway, Captain Ahab went seeking him — continuously. His name and the title of the book?
11. The Cheshire Cat is a character we meet in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Who is the author?
12. Who was the winner in the duel between the cobra and the mongoose in Rudyard Kipling's "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"?
13. Why was the line "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" practiced by students learning to type on a typewriter?
14. Name the famous horse of Greek mythology who was captured by Bellerophon.
15. Name the author of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof."
16. I'll be proud of you if you can name the American humorist who was author of the line "It is difference of opinion that makes horse-races." Clue: Do you know Pudd'n Head Wilson?
17. His large ears made him the target of laughter from many around him, but those large ears enabled him to fly. Name the Disney character.
18. What girl lost her sheep?
19. "Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog!" is from a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier – and I used it in a recent quiz. Let's see if you paid attention. Name the poem.
20. In "Peter Pan" we meet the Darlings' dog. What is the dog's name?
Bonus: Name the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Answers: 1. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Richard Nixon; 2. Anna Sewell; 3. "King Richard III" by Shakespeare; 4. "Water for Elephants"; 5. "The Lion King"; 6. T.S. Eliot; 7. Proverbs, the Bible; 8. Huey, Dewey and Louie; 9. C.S. Lewis; 10. "Moby Dick." 11. Lewis Carroll; 12. The mongoose; 13. It contains every letter of the alphabet; 14. Pegasus; 15. Tennessee Williams; 16. Mark Twain; 17. Dumbo; 18. Bo Peep; 19. "Barbara Frietchie"; 20. Nana.
Bonus: Pestilence, famine, war and death.
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Nagoya Grampus manager Dragan Stojkovic insists he never considered quitting after a traumatic 2012 season for the former J. League champions, preferring instead to concentrate on reclaiming the crown over the coming campaign.
Grampus went into last season with high expectations having missed out on the 2011 title only on the final day, but it soon became clear that whatever could go wrong for Stojkovic's side, would go wrong in spades. Defeats to relegation strugglers Consadole Sapporo, Albirex Niigata and Gamba Osaka torpedoed Nagoya's title challenge over a miserable summer, before an injury to star striker Josh Kennedy made matters worse as the team limped over the line in seventh.
Amid the gloom, however, Stojkovic has remained upbeat. The Serbian enters his sixth campaign at the helm of the club that he led to its first-ever championship in 2010, and with the new season wiping the slate clean, title ambitions are back on the agenda.
"Last year was not good, of course, but this year is a new year," Stojkovic said ahead of Saturday's season-opener at home to Jubilo Iwata. "Everything is new, we want to improve our game, we want to improve our results, we want to be much better than last year. I hope we don't have the same situation as last year regarding injuries. I hope to have all the players fit to play, and then we will see.
"We have a group of players who are able to play good football and fight to be candidates, to be in the group of two or three teams at the top. I think we can do it."
Stojkovic will have to cope without two important performers from recent years, however, with forward Kensuke Nagai leaving for Belgium's Standard Liege and attacking midfielder Mu Kanazaki joining German side Nuremberg.
"Sometimes for the manager it is very difficult to control the situation about departures and arrivals," said Stojkovic. "Of course you decide, but sometimes it is difficult to control because both of them had offers from Europe.
"So it's very difficult to tell them to stay here. It's a challenge for Japanese players to go there and I understood very well that this was the situation. But we have to live with the reality. This is our reality now, and our group of players should be able to get good results this year."
Grampus will have to be more ruthless than last season if they are to regain the title, however, with 5-0 defeats to Albirex and Gamba and a 2-1 loss to rock-bottom Consadole giving Stojkovic plenty to think about over the winter. The manager admits to enduring a dark night of the soul after that last-minute defeat in Sapporo in July, but quitting, he insists, was never an option.
"I never thought about it," he said. "I was very disappointed after the game against Sapporo. OK, one thing was the referee's mistake canceling out our goal, and offside for another goal. This is one thing, but as a team you have to finish the game.
"It was a big disappointment for me. I didn't sleep all night. I went out the front of the hotel. Many things went through my head, but finally I thought don't give up and continue."
Having spent 12 years with Grampus as both a player and manager, Stojkovic's determination to carry on is understandable.
"I'm here," he said. "I like this country very much, I like this football very much. I don't know why, but this is the truth. I don't have a dream to go to Manchester United or Juventus or Real Madrid. My dream is to do something important here."


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New York State of Mind: Central Park -- The New Yorker's (Not So) Secret Garden2013-05-17 2 5 Share Tweet
It's a classic — a must-see tourist place. But even the true New Yorkers love it and spend time on its many amazing spots. Central Park is a 341-hectare park, filled with trees, flowers, ponds, zoos and statues. If you're a Lomographer, here are the reasons why you SHOULD spend time in this green rectangle.
Central Park is an amazing playground for photographers. If you are running out of ideas, here is what you should try to do in this gigantic park:
- Flower Shooting: In Central Park, you can find more than 21,500 trees from more than 152 species and thousands species of flowers. Don't tell me you have already shot them all! You can try close ups, multi-exposures with flowers… Grab your camera, it's time to make your film bloom!
- Sunset Capturing: All my favorite sunset pictures come from this place. You can either have a sunset on the trees with beautiful back-lights of branches, on the amazing skyline or on the lake so you will end up with a gorgeous reflection of the landscape on the water. See you there!
- Tourist Playing: Since I lived in Japan, I kept a little "Japanese" way of visiting places. I like to have a picture of me and my friends saying "cheese!" in front of memorable places. Central Park is definitely one! So New Yorker or not, don't be snobby and show us your best pose!
- Skyline Stealing: Yes. Stealing. Because you are going to appropriate yourself with this beautiful skyline and build something with it. You can try a simple back-light shot to end up with a Chinese ink style picture, or if you are lucky enough to have a Spinner 360, you can do an amazing panorama, or you can try to experiment with a panorama in Fisheye or a horizontally-split picture with the Diana splitzer.
- Animal Photo-Hunting: In the park, there are also animals. Tons of them. Either in the zoo (adult ticket price starting at $12 for the Main Zoo), where you can approach and capture red pandas, sea lions or even a polar bear with your camera! O perhaps in the park, where ducks, squirrels and swans roam free.
I am currently developing three rolls shot during this spring and I'll update this post as soon as I get them scanned! And if you got some Central Park photos that you want to share, Leave them in the comments section, I can't wait to see your pictures!
So go ahead and put some nature in your daily life!
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In an exclusive interview with Ann Curry, newly elected Iranian President Hassan Rouhani spoke about Israel, his views on previous president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the Iranian people's access to the Internet.
Rouhani blamed Israel for causing "injustice to the people" of the Middle East and said Iran is not "looking for war" in the wide-ranging interview which you can watch in its entirety here. Rouhani deflected a question about whether he believed that the Holocaust was "a myth."
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Food Revolution seems to have hit a few challenges, and even on my blog I'm surprised that this series isn't getting as many people talking as I originally hoped it would, so this week, I'm issuing you all a challenge.
Expose yourself!
No, not THAT part of yourself! I mean your lunch! For one week, as often as you like, take a photo of your lunch. Upload it to the Notes From the Cookie Jar Facebook page. Each photo uploaded will be considered as an entry to win a Baker's Essentials pack from the Vanilla Food Company.
Don't worry about lighting, or if it's healthy, or some ridiculously gourmet lunch. It can be YOUR lunch, a lunch out, your pre-schooler's or baby's lunch. Just snap a photo and upload every day between today and February 18, 2011. You may be surprised what I eat some days in comparison to my teenager, and in my line up I'll include the school hot lunch. This week I ate Multi-grain Cheerios every single day. If your teenager eats hot lunch, encourage them to snap a photo of their school lunch and upload it.
There will be no judgment, no kudos for the healthiest, no criticism for the most unhealthy. I just want to know what you eat for lunch! Be proud! Be loud! Let's make some noise, people!
EXPOSE your lunch!
(ps..if you are desperate for a linky, leave the link to your articles in the comments and I'll drop by!)
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In May 1970, McNears Beach on the shores of San Pablo Bay was purchased by the county to create McNears Beach Park. Brothers E.B. and J.A. McNear acquired the site in 1868 (their old stable is now used as a park ranger office), and around 1930 L.P. McNear turned the beach into a public resort, offering everything from picnic tables to boat rentals. Access to the beach became even easier when San Pedro Road was paved in 1934. (J.A. McNear had sold the road to the county in 1894 for about $150.) In 1955 the McNear family, which operated one of California's oldest brickyards, sold off more land, leading to the development of the Glenwood and Peacock Gap neighborhoods.
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|Health-related quality of life and treatment burden in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis treated with cyclophosphamide or azathioprine/ methylprednisolone in a randomized controlled trial.
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OBJECTIVE: To study prospectively the effect of treatment with cyclophosphamide pulses (CYC) or azathioprine with methylprednisolone (AZA), both for 24-month periods, on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with proliferative lupus nephritis (LN) in a randomized controlled trial. We expected better HRQOL during AZA treatment. METHODS: HRQOL and disease activity were measured at start and after 12 and 24 months. Generic questionnaires [patient's visual analog scale (VAS), Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36), Profile of Mood States] and a disease-specific measure [Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) Symptom Checklist] were used. Treatment burden was assessed at 24 months. Disease activity was measured with the SLE Disease Activity Index (SLEDAI) and physician's VAS. RESULTS: Complete questionnaire data were available from 47 of the 87 patients included in the trial. These patients were representative of the whole group, except that completers were more often Caucasian. HRQOL scores improved significantly during treatment, particularly during the first year, on both generic and disease-specific outcomes. No statistically significant differences were found in HRQOL between the CYC and AZA groups, except for the SF-36 mental component summary scale, which showed more favorable scores in the AZA group. The mean reported treatment burden at 24 months was significantly higher in the CYC group. HRQOL scores did not correlate with the SLEDAI and physician's VAS. The disease activity measures correlated positively with each other. CONCLUSION: Treatment of patients with proliferative LN with immunosuppressive drugs and corticosteroids improves HRQOL, particularly in the first year. Due to the small groups studied, the absence of differences between AZA and CYC for most HRQOL scales should be interpreted cautiously: our data suggest that there may be no significant differences. Differences were a higher perceived treatment burden and worse mental HRQOL in the CYC group.


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Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery. So I wonder if Sean Brodrick, author of "The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide," was flattered by yesterday's Wall Street Journal article, "Profiting from Disasters." In the Journal piece, reporter James Altucher hits on several of the potential disasters covered in Brodrick's book. Coincidence?
At least Altucher focuses mostly on stock picks instead of the commodities and ETFs discussed in Brodrick's book. In the event of a water shortage, Flowserve and Tetra Tech should do well, Altucher says, since they manufacture equipment for or design water treatment facilities. If a pandemic looms, two pharmaceuticals that may show vigor are vaccine developers GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi-Aventis. Uranium refiner Cameco Corp. is a global warming play. And for the upcoming hurricane season, predicted to be particularly active, consider Campbell Soup, whose stock reacts favorably when food hoarders prepare for the storm.
Pick your crisis
Sean Brodrick, who is Weiss Research's small-caps and natural resources specialist, takes the subject of impending disaster much more seriously and to far greater lengths than does Altucher. The first part of his book focuses on the types of events that can turn our lives upside down: economic depression, natural disasters such as flood or fire, an oil or food crisis, climate change, shutdown of large portions of the U.S. energy grid due to hackers, civil unrest, terrorism, etc.
Personally, I'm concerned about the rapid disappearance of honeybee colonies, which will adversely impact crop yields. I heard the tail end of a radio show in which it was predicted that at the rate they're dying off, honeybees may be extinct by 2012. You know, 2012 -- the year of the apocalypse. The same year Nostradamus predicted the world would end. The year in which the "Long Count Calendar" of the Ancient Mayans ends. The very year Bankrate alludes to in a story about penalty-free 401(k) and IRA withdrawals.
OK, let me go on the record to say that I'm not really that spooked about the end of the world. But I am concerned about a possible upcoming food shortage.
Prepare for the worst
Regardless of the crisis, Brodrick says you have three options. You can ignore the problem, buy a goat farm or become a smart suburban survivalist. I was most interested in reading his investment tips, though the book delves far beyond investing into practical advice about which water purifiers to buy, how to store foods in bulk and cook without electricity, whether to buy a gun, sanitation considerations and, well, you get the picture. It's a survival guide.
So what type of investments do survivalists like? "Gold provides protection against a currency collapse or government collapse -- both of which we could experience in the next decade," writes Brodrick.
In your 401(k) plan, he says, you might stash half your money in the safest fund available (a money market fund) and the rest in a mix of precious metals, bonds, ETFs that track sectors or commodities, and U.S. and foreign stocks. "The hard truth is that the market changes constantly -- there is no one investment to fit all people all the time. And depending on market conditions and business and market cycles, there may be times when you want to put money to work."
My opinion: Since it's difficult, if not impossible, to predict whether or when a gloom-and-doom event may occur, 401(k) investors should probably stick to the investment plan in place, assuming they have one. You can also protect yourself in ordinary ways, by getting out of debt and getting sufficient insurance coverage.
Nevertheless, "The Ultimate Suburban Survivalist Guide" is a well-written eye-opener. You'll learn that there's a huge market out there with all types of gadgets for every imaginable calamity.
And if you're the type who likes to be prepared for anything, it's indispensable.
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A comic book spin-off from Jim Munroe's An Opening Act of Unspeakable Evil, see here for more details. "While I was touring with Unspeakable Evil, Bush took the election in the States and it seemed hard to get weirder and more sinister than real life. But it made me think about the Rapture, the biblical end of the world as foretold in Revelations, and how a lot of the religious right believe that it will literally happen. What if it did happen? It'd be a pretty wild post-apocalyptic tale straight out of the comic books."
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Italian monk Niccolo Zucchi proposed (1616) a concave mirror to replace the refractor's objective lens. The poor shape of his mirror, added to the lack of means of viewing the image without blocking the mirror, caused Zucchi to give up on the idea.
French astronomer Marin Mersenne proposed (1630) developing a reflector that used two concave mirrors, the smaller secondary mirror to reflect the light through a hole in the center of the larger primary mirror. Unfortunately, he was dissuaded from working on it further by French mathematician RenŽ Descartes.
Scottish mathematician James Gregory proposed (1663) a two-mirror reflector with a concave, paraboloidal primary and concave, ellipsoidal secondary, the secondary bringing light to a focus inside the telescope tube and a convex eyepiece delivering light to the eye. Sadly, he did not construct a working version because he could not find a craftsperson skilled enough to grind and polish the required mirrors.
English mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton (1648-1727) designed and constructed a two-mirror reflector (1668), a concave primary delivering a converging cone of light to a flat secondary mounted at a 45ˇ angle to the optical axis which directed the light to a focus outside the tube where an eyepiece could be placed. A second such reflector was built and presented to the Royal Society in January of 1672.
Frenchman N. (or G.) Cassegrain proposed a two-mirror reflector (1672) with a concave, parabolic primary mirror and a convex, hyperbolic secondary, the secondary directing a converging cone of light out the centrally perforated primary like the Gregorian and to a focus outside the telescope tube. Subsequent analysis revealed that surface errors in the Cassegrain secondary can be made to cancel those in its primary, while this cannot be done in a Gregorian. Newton analyzed this system incorrectly, and his criticisms caused Cassegrain to withdraw the idea and sink into obscurity.
British astronomer John Hadley (1682-17XX?) produced the first reflector (1721) equal in performance to the 123 foot refractor f 7.5 inch aperture donated to the Royal Society by Christian Huygens in 1692. Mirrors for this and a few later reflectors by Hadley were manufactured from metal alloys prescribed by British astronomer Samuel Molyneux. Hadley is remembered more for construction of the first navigation sighting device (the octant) which permitted position estimates accurate to one nautical mile, a device upon which the modern marine sextant is based.
Scottish minister and optician James Short (c. 1708-1768) constructed the highest quality reflectors to that time, most of Gregorian design, from 1734 until his death in 1768. While he regarded as proprietary his techniques for parabolizing primary mirrors, his optical workmanship served as a standard to match or exceed in instruments constructed by others after his death. After Short's death, English physician John Mudge (17XX-17XX) and English minister John Edwards (17XX-17XX) perfected metal alloys for mirrors and created and published information on casting and polishing them, information Short must have possessed but which he destroyed before his death.
William Herschel (1738-1822), who became the greatest observational astronomer of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, was born in Hanover, then an independent port city, to a father who taught his sons to be musicians in the band of the Regimental Guard. Loss of Hanover to the French in 1757 propelled William and his brother Alexander to England, where in 1766 William became organist in the Octagon Chapel in Bath. His fortune made with plentiful concerts given and students instructed, William was able to devote some of his energy to his hobby of astronomy and could bring his sister Caroline to England in 1772.
Herschel constructed four refractors of increasing aperture and length in 1773. Using a rented Gregorian, Herschel showed this telescope superior to the refractors in ease of use, so William tried unsuccessfully to make one himself; The results being poor, he instead made a Newtonian that worked very well on Saturn and the Orion Nebula. By 1774, two more Newtonians were constructed and in use, the first of 4.3 inch aperture and 6.5 foot focal length, the second of 9 inch aperture 10 foot focal length.
Because his new telescopes produced images ten times smaller than those delivered by telescopes used to catalog star positions, Herschel began a survey of all cataloged stars to identify those which were truly single whose positions could be trusted from those which were multiple whose positions would have to be remeasured. Also he sought close pairs of extreme brightness difference to find evidence of stellar parallax that would yield a distance to stars exhibiting the effect.
On March 13, 1781, he discovered what he thought was a new comet but which, on calculation of its orbit, proved to be a planet outside Saturn's orbit. This discovery got the attention of professional astronomers whose telescopes proved inferior when compared directly with Herschel's. This discovery also got the attention of the King who made him "Royal astronomer", freeing Herschel from ever again having to make his living in music.
Shortly thereafter, Herschel completed a 12 inch aperture telescope of 20 foot focal length, followed by a 19 inch aperture telescope also of 20 foot focal length. These he used to continue his double star research as well as to catalog all visible nebulae -- the latter triggered by the publication in Paris of French astronomer Charles Messier's catalog of 103 nebulous objects -- and begin a star counting project which would yield a picture of the structure of the stellar universe around the Sun.
During his double star survey, he discovered "binary stars", stars that formed at the same time and were close enough to be orbitting one another. He extended our knowledge of the solar system by defining the direction of rotation of Mars and refuting claims of mountains on Venus. Herschel added to his meagre income as the King's astronomer by constructing reflecting telescopes for wealthy patrons. In 1786, Herschel began the construction of his largest telescope, one of 48-inch aperture and 40 foot focal length. On 27 August 1789, it was completed. On its second night's use, Herschel discovered the sixth satellite of Saturn, now named Enceladus.
While the 40 foot remained the largest telescope in the world, Herschel completed most of his remaining research with the 20 foot and with a 24 inch aperture reflector of 10 foot focal length. The work completed by Herschel with these instruments was unprecedented in scope, volume and quantity: a second catalog of nebulae in 1789, a third in 1802; the seventh satellite of Saturn located as well as the determination of Saturn's rotation period; measuring the true brightness of stars, including the study of stars that vary their brightness; the first observation of spectra of stars beyond the Sun; the discovery that nebulae consisted of at least two classes, one consisting of stars and that appeared gaseous; study of the comets of 1807 and 1811; the discovery of infrared radiation; and finding the Sun was moving among the stars in the direction of the constellation Hercules.
His sister Caroline played an essential part in most of Herschel's telescopic discoveries, writing down his observations as they were made and freeing him to remain at the eyepiece; Caroline made important observations in her own right, having discovered six comets in her own work and having corrected many errors in Flamsteed's star catalog when they were discovered to be discrepant with Herschel's own.
Herschel contributed to the discovery of minor planets ("asteroids" as he called them) by constructing a telescope used and copied by Johann Schršter, a minor official in the Hanoverian suburb of Lilienthal who started the Societas Lilientalica with the expressed purpose of discovering the "missing" planet predicted by Bode's Law between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Between 1801 and 1807, the minor planets Ceres, Pallas, Juno and Vesta were discovered by members of this society.
Herschel appears to have been the first to investigate the resolving power of the human eye and that of telescopes. Given limited instrumentation, he found that telescope resolution was inversely proportional to aperture diameter; he did not determine resolution's dependence on the wavelength of the observation.
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Hardcover)
When Walker Percy penned these prophetic words in his foreword to the first edition of A Confederacy of Dunces, he could not have known just how wide Toole's "world of readers" would become. Released by Louisiana State University Press in April 1980, A Confederacy of Dunces is nothing short of a publishing phenomenon. Turned down by countless publishers and submitted by the author's mother years after his suicide, the book won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Today, there are over 1,500,000 copies in print worldwide in eighteen languages.
Toole's lunatic and sage novel introduces one of the most memorable characters in American literature, Ignatius Reilly, whom Percy dubs "slob extraordinary, a mad Oliver Hardy, a fat Don Quixote, a perverse Thomas Aquinas rolled into one -- who is in violent revolt against the entire modern age". Ignatius' ire explodes when his mother backs her car into another automobile. The owner of the damaged vehicle insists on payment; Mrs. Reilly demands that her son cease watching television and writing in his Big Chief tablet and get a job.
Set in New Orleans, A Confederacy of Dunces outswifts Swift, one of whose essays gives the book its title. As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presences -- Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levy Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones, the jivecat in space-age dark glasses. Satire and farce animate A Confederacy of Dunces; tragic awareness ennobles it.
Louisiana State University Press celebrates A Confederacy of Dunces' twentieth year withthis anniversary edition, which includes a new introduction by Andrei Codrescu that examines the relationship of this modern-day classic to the city whose pulse it so brilliantly captures.
About the Author
John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. After graduating from Tulane University, he received a master's degree from Columbia University and taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College. Much of the first draft of Confederacy was written while he was in the army, stationed in Puerto Rico teaching English to new recruits.


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Stage 2 Meaningful Use security expectations
- If nothing else, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was very clear in the Stage 2 Meaningful Use final rule on security expectations for 2014. Much of what HHS outlines goes along with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), but security and privacy is still a portion of the rule that healthcare providers will need to stay on top of as they prepare for Stage 2.
Get to know 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1)
HHS wants providers to "conduct or review a security risk analysis in accordance with the requirements under 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1), including addressing the encryption/security of data at rest in accordance with requirements under 45 CFR 164.312 (a)(2)(iv) and 45 CFR 164.306(d)(3), and implement security updates as necessary and correct identified security deficiencies as part of the provider's risk management process."
While HHS also maintains that this isn't much different than Stage 1 security measures, it pointed out recent data breaches and how they could've been prevented had there been encryption. This part of the rule specifically calls for data that is stored in Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT) (data at rest) to be encrypted. It said that it proposed this measure because the implementation of CEHRT has privacy and security implications under 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1).
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We do not agree that this objective should not be included in meaningful use. Although we recognize that many issues concerning the privacy and security of electronic health information are subject to HIPAA requirements, we believe that establishing an objective to provide online access to health information is within the regulatory purview of the EHR Incentive Programs and consistent with the statutory requirements of meaningful use.
Some commenters thought 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1) was overkill because of similarities to the HIPAA rules. But HHS thinks that that security, by nature, is a huge part of meaningful use. And with the recent breaches in mind, there can never be too many encryption reminders given to healthcare providers.
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We do not believe that secure electronic messaging poses greater risks to exposure of protected health information than other mediums such as telephone messaging, paper records, etc. In some cases secure electronic messaging can provide even greater protection of health information. We note that many patients grant access to health information to family members and caregivers to facilitate care, and we expect the same access to continue with secure electronic messaging. Nor do we believe that secure electronic messaging exposes providers to greater liability (for example, in areas of privacy protection or malpractice) than other mediums such as telephone, mail, paper records, etc. Previous research has demonstrated that better patient-provider communication reduces the likelihood of malpractice claims being filed.
Secure electronic messaging is reasonably priced, but requires security beyond that of common email services while maintaining ease of use. HHS refers to patient portals, PHRs, or other stand-alone secure messaging applications as the type of data providers need to encrypt for secure messaging.
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I have a question for those of you that run a small bakery, like a one person decorator. I am considering renting a place within a few miles of my home for a bakery and my only concern is how many cakes should I take on in a week's time. I have my daughter that will be helping me with things like making cookies and running the front desk, but she doesn't know how to bake or decorate them yet so I will be doing it all myself. I have done some out of my home in the past so I am pretty use to baking and decorating them alone. I would appreciate any advise or tips to help me with running one! I am excited about having my own bakery but at the same time I don't know if i am taking on more that I can handle.
I have no advice to offer, but I just wanted to wish you good luck!! Have faith!!
First, you can't gauge how long it will take you in a comm'l kitchen by how long it takes you in a home kitchen. You get done WAY faster in a comm'l kitchen.
Instead of making 3 or 4 batches of icing in a KA (2 lbs of p.sugar per batch), I can make one big batch (using the 7lb bag of psugar from Sam's).
Instead of baking 1, 2 or maybe 3 cake pans at one time in a small home oven, you can bake an entire wedding cake in one baking batch. I've baked two entire wedding cakes in one baking batch ... one hour's baking time.
Instead of dreading clean-up, it's an absolute breeze with a commercial dishwasher that washes every utensil I've used, plus the 20qt mixing bowl in 55 seconds. Yes .... SECONDS!
Instead of baking 12 or 24 cookies at a time, I can bake 24 on one cookie sheet and can bake 5 to 10 baking sheets at one time (5 with a single comm'l oven .... 10 with a double). This means I can actually bake up to 240 cookies at one time ..... about 20 minutes and they're all baked.
Instead of having to make cookie dough "as needed", I am able to make lots of cookie dough, scoop it into dough balls and put it in the big comm'l freezer. So when it's time to bake those 240 cookies, I just pull them from the freezer to baking sheet and 20 minutes later, I'm done. No clean up, since I didn't have to fire up the mixer.
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wow, you just lifted a load of worry off of me. I had no idea it would be that much faster in a commercial kitchen. I feel like i have more confidence now with what you said. I had no idea you could actually bake that many cookies at one time. The only other concern that I have is if I am making a large cake like a 16 inch can i just double my cake recipe to fill my pan?
I'm a mix-baker, so I can mix 10 cake mixes in a 20qt mixing bowl at one time. However, if you're a scratch baker, my understanding is there are adjustment you need to make for larger batches, but I will wait for the expert scratch bakers to pop in and advise you on that. THe only scratch cake recipe I make is the one on the Hershey Cocoa can ... and I double-double that one all the time.
Thanks so much Indydebi for responding. I do make my cakes from scratch, just something I can't stop doing, LOl. I have doubled a few scratch cakes before and they turned out fine. I just wasn't sure about some cakes like white cakes where it calls for so many eggs to be folded into the batter.


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Opening The Bunny Bunch Orange County has been a dream of Caroline Charland's and volunteers at her Bunny Bunch rescue in Montclair, California, for more than a year. The search for a building in Orange County, California, began in early 2011. "It's been like a roller coaster ride," Charland said. "We find the right building and then something goes wrong. That's what's been happening over the past year."
The Bunny Bunch began rescuing rabbits in 1984, and it's been active in Orange County for more than 15 years doing rescue, having foster homes, holding adoption events and more. But Orange County doesn't have a rescue facility like The Burrow in Montclair. "We've been [in Montclair] four years this year," Charland said. "It's been very, very successful as far as helping a lot of rabbits." It's open to the public five days a week so people can stop by to adopt, pick up supplies, etc.
Charland expects the same success in Orange County. "We're calling it Bunny Bunch OC. We'll be able to do so much more," Charland said. "We'll be able set up more programs to help people, working a lot more with Orange County vets, we'll have a store there, we'll do bunny sitting, we'll be doing grooming — everything we do up here we'll be doing there."
Currently, The Burrow takes in rescue rabbits from shelters in San Bernardino County, Los Angeles County and Orange County. If Bunny Bunch OC opens, it can handle all Orange County rabbits and free up space at The Burrow for rabbits from the other two counties.
Another plus to the Orange County location is that people who live closer to it than Montclair will have easier access to adopt rabbits or get rabbit supplies. "A lot of the people that are donating are from Orange County because they want us to be there," Charland said. "So they can get their supplies, get help, if they want to adopt, do bunny dating — any of that stuff. Everyone's really, really excited. People keep asking and emailing me all the time about it."
And at last the Bunny Bunch seems to have found a suitable building at the right price in the city of Fountain Valley. The task of finding a building is more difficult than you might think. "A lot of landlords do not want to rent out to people that have animals, that animals are going to be in the building, especially when you're dealing with rabbits," Charland said. "People that don't know rabbits just think of hutches and rabbit poop everywhere, and it's not like that at all."
After months of working with real estate agents and going through loads and loads of buildings, Charland said they found some that allow animals. The next major hurdle was the cost of applying for a conditional-use permit from the city to allow them to have animals in the building. The cost of this varies from city to city. It's a one-time fee, but there's a catch. The cost is to apply for it. "If you don't get the permit, you don't get your money back," Charland said. Fortunately, Fountain Valley's fee is within the Bunny Bunch budget.
Then, after going this far in the process, they can be outbid by someone else who wants the building. That's why Charland is so set on raising the final funds to get the Bunny Bunch into the building in Fountain Valley. "We need to really have $10,000 by July 13th."
The Bunny Bunch received a $2,500 donation last week, which brings the total needed to $7,500. Charland calculated that if only 200 people donated $37.50, they would reach their goal. "You spend more than that to go to dinner; eat at home and help the bunnies," she said.
She's already received donations through the mail and people are sending via PayPal. The Bunny Bunch website lists other donation options.
And Charland got more news that gives her hope for the Bunny Bunch OC dream. Starting today, July 9th, if the Bunny Bunch raises $2,000 by July 13th, someone has pledged to match that $2,000. She's desperately hoping people will donate so they can get those matching funds.
"As soon as we've got the $10,000 we're going to sign the lease," Charland said, "and then we'll be working with the city to get everything up to code so we can start rescuing rabbits and open the doors."
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The Arai XC series of open-face motorcycle helmets is yet another example of Arai's decades-long tradition of the improving on what works, not simply change for the sake of unproven change. Arai changes are functional. The design intent has always been singular and unbroken: a better helmet with better protection and performance for the riders who choose it.
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