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The site is functioning now, but with limited availability, it says, thanks to the attack.
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Reddit came to national attention yesterday when the Reddit community helped identify the suspects of the bombing after the FBI released pictures of them.
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the honest old cause
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We'll fight for our country, our
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Irish historians have not followed English and French trends. The proceedings of two major conferences, held in 1989 and 1991, to mark the bicentenaries of the impact of the French revolution on Ireland and the foundation of the Society of United Irishmen, have now been published, and undoubtedly the two hundredth anniversary of the 1798 rebellion will occasion further gatherings and volumes. The foundation of the Orange Order in September 1795 has not attracted the same level of scholarly attention. This may be explained by the sheer scale of the radical movement. The United Irishmen mounted a more formidable challenge to the government than either its English or Scottish counterparts, while inversely Irish popular loyalism, mobilised by the Orange Societies, never achieved the nation-wide support enjoyed by the British 'church and king' associations. Yet the Orange Order survives to this day, it played a prominent and controversial role in the Irish counter-revolution and it offers a fascinating example of the dynamics of popular politicisation in the late 18th Century. Orangeism conformed to international patterns. As well as stimulating radical revivals across Europe and the British Isles, the French revolution polarised politics everywhere. In each country the revivified radical movements confronted conservative and royalist anti-'Jacobin' crusades. Sir Richard Musgrave, the loyalist historian of the rebellion, and himself an Orangeman, made the point: 'In the year 1792 when the dissemination of treason and the formation of seditious clubs in London threatened the immediate destruction of the constitution . . . loyal societies checked the progress and baneful effects of their doctrines. The institution of the Orangemen did not differ from them in the smallest degree'. It is true that in its devotion to the Protestant constitution, church and crown, as in its opposition to French principles, domestic 'Jacobinism', Thomas Paine and all his works, Orangeism paralleled British loyalist movements; but its roots lay deep in the Ulster countryside.
Because of their numbers Catholics appeared more threatening to their Protestant neighbours, than in counties such as Antrim or Down where they were a clear minority. The Presbyterian farmers of Antrim and Down who later embraced the union of Protestant, Catholic and Dissenter in the United Irishmen felt safe to do so; in Armagh it was different. When the Masonic lodges of Antrim, Down, Derry and Tyrone endorsed parliamentary reform in the winter of 1792-3, the Armagh masons condemned them. Reform – or innovation as they denounced it – touched the simultaneous campaign for Catholic relief too closely for comfort.
Whereas Catholic competition in the land market allegedly drove up the price of leases, Catholic weavers competing in the labour market aroused Protestant hostility by allegedly depressing wage rates. Certainly, substantial Catholic participation in the linen boom is not in doubt. Prominent Catholic radicals, such as Luke Teeling in Lisburn and Bernard Coile in Lurgan, were wealthy linen merchants. The brother of the Armagh priest, Defender and United Irishman, James Coigly, Bernard Coile employed up to a hundred 'hands' in the county. From the viewpoint of Protestant Ascendancy the Catholic menace included a threat to the livelihoods of Protestant weavers. During the 1780s, Peep O' Day Boys raiding Catholic homes (which were also their workplaces) in search of illegally-held arms, smashed domestic looms whenever they came across them. Again, the wholesale 'wrecking' of Catholic cottages by Orangemen in the winter of 1795-6 included the destruction of looms, webs and yarn. The breakdown of traditional social control lurched into sectarian economic warfare.
Arms raids were political. The disarming of Catholics in County Armagh amounted to a spontaneous and unilateral attempt by lower-class Protestants to reaffirm Protestant ascendancy by re-enforcing the penal laws. The Defenders, as the name indicates, began as Catholic bands formed to defend themselves from attack. But, as the movement became proactive and politicised and spread into south Ulster and the midlands, its standard tactic of raiding gentry houses for firearms echoed the original Peep O' Day Boy campaign, and in the context of the penal laws that tactic was likewise charged with political symbolism. In part arms raid represented an assertion by lower-class Catholics to equal status under the law.
As a form of participation in public life the volunteering experience raised levels of political awareness, but it did not predetermine the content of politicisation. In a way the mere act of associating was in itself just as important as the politics of a particular company. It is no accident that Freemasonry underwent one of its most rapid surges of expansion during the heyday of volunteering, or that it occurred above all in the Volunteer heartland's of Ulster and Dublin. Indeed in several cases Masonic lodges and Volunteer companies merged. Lodges and companies, with their regalia and uniforms, answered largely the same social and recreational demands, and the number testifies to the density and richness of popular culture in Ulster. By 1804 there were 43 recognised or 'warranted' Masonic lodges in Armagh, 92 in neighbouring Tyrone and 56 in County Down. Masonic secrecy applied only to the internal ritual and business of the craft, not to membership. For example, in October 1784 a Masonic funeral held at Loughgall – the site of the original Defender-Peep O' Day Boy feud – included 1,000 Volunteers and '300 Masons in regular procession'. Unsurprisingly such a common style of association provided others, sometimes Masons themselves, with a ready-made model.
The fledgling Orange Order (and the Defenders) borrowed wholesale from Masonic practice and terminology. Orange 'lodges', 'masters', 'grand masters', 'oaths', 'signs' 'degrees', 'warrants' and 'brethren' all have a clear Masonic lineage. The ubiquity of masonry impressed contemporaries. Sketching in the background to the Battle of the Diamond Musgrave alleged that 'in the year 1795, the Romanists, who assumed the name of masons, used frequently to assemble in the neighbourhood of Loughgall, Charlemont, Richill, Portadown, Lurgan . . . and robbed the Protestants of their arms'. On 18 September, three days before the battle, a local gentleman informed the Dublin government that 'the Protestants who call themselves Freemasons go in lodges and armed', while 40 years later a witness before a parliamentary inquiry recalled that the first Orangemen had employed secrecy 'to afford protection, if they could, to those who refused to join the United Irishmen; for every act of intimidation was used, and the fondness of the people for associating together, their attachment to Freemasonry, and all those private associations, gave a particular zest to this mode of keeping them to their allegiance.' James Wilson and James Sloan, who along with 'Diamond' Dan Winter, issued the first Orange lodge warrants from Sloan's Loughgall inn, were masons.
The 'fondness of the people for associating together', for joining, oath-taking and 'secret' collecting, also helps to explain the apparently baffling phenomenon of Orange and Masonic lodges defecting to the United Irishmen and vice versa. These crossovers, which can be accounted for at one level by local political pressures, intimidation and bandwaggoning, were at the very minimum facilitated by the popular 'fondness' for joining, belonging and secrecy.
The county elites and the government moved quickly to co-opt a movement, denounced by Lord Gosford as a 'lawless banditti', because it proliferated at such an astonishing rate. Some 2,000 Orangemen marched at the first 12 July commemoration at Lurgan-Portadown in 1796; estimates for the 1797 nation-wide membership may have risen to 80,000, many of whom enrolled in the government sponsored Yeomanry. According to the Authorised Version: 'the speed with which Orangeism spread proves its adaptability to the wants of loyal men in the period'. In Musgrave's view lower-class Protestants of the established church were 'actuated by an invincible attachment to their king and country'. Certainly, the totemic popular appeal of 'loyalty' and of the blessings of the 'Protestant constitution' – the 'great palladium of our liberties' – must not be underestimated. But Orangeism's greatest appeal was defensive and reactionary, the maintenance of 'Protestant Ascendancy' against the Catholic and Republican challenge: Croppies lie down!
Ireland's unstable sectarian landscape accounts for both the vitality and the weakness of early Orangeism. Like Orangeism, popular loyalism in Britain proudly proclaimed its Protestant character; unlike Orangeism the British associations' Protestantism reflected the religious affiliation of the majority of their countrymen. In Ireland inter-denominational strife and the size of the Catholic 'threat' drove thousands of lower-class Protestants into the Orange ranks. However, the same sectarian arithmetic permanently limited the movement's popular base. Still, the numbers were too impressive for a government confronted by a serious revolutionary challenge to ignore. Many an Orange Yeoman saw action in 1798.
Exclusively Protestant, the Orange Order was not, in its view, sectarian. It brand of Protestantism and anti-Catholicism (or, strictly speaking, anti-popery) was ostensibly political. Protestantism stood for liberty. All Protestants, whatever their doctrinal opinions, were welcome to join the order, although in practice Episcopalians outnumbered Presbyterians. 'Popery' stood for tyranny and a 'disloyal' allegiance to a foreign prince; Catholics per se were entitled to their religious beliefs. Not that that theory prevented the United Irishmen from inventing an 'Orange extermination oath', or Catholics from believing it. Nor did refugees from the Armagh 'wreckings' harbour any doubts about the violent sectarianism of the Orangemen.
The gentry take-over of the Order in 1796-7 and Orangeism's counter-revolutionary ideology seem to fit perfectly the Marxist interpretation of it as an instrument of class rule. That interpretation treats Orangeism, and sectarianism generally, as a variety of 'false consciousness', which divides the lower classes and side-tracks them from the pursuit of their 'objective' interests. General Knox, it is true, deliberately encouraged the Orangemen in their feud with the United Irishmen in Tyrone but on balance the manipulation/false consciousness thesis (which not all Marxists would subscribe to anyway) is patronising and too pat. Crucially, it fails to appreciate the self-generating capacity of popular loyalism. In Musgrave's words, rallying 'round the altar and throne, which were in imminent danger [the first Orangemen] united and stood forward . . . unsupported by the great and powerful.' The threat which Musgrave identified came from 'croppies', democrats and levellers. But to the government the original lower class Orangemen also represented a potential threat. The men of property hijacked the movement in order to contain it.
Jim Smyth is a fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge.
Further reading:
The formation of the Orange Order 1795-1798: the edited papers of Colonel William Blacker and Colonel Robert H Wallace (Belfast 1994)
DW Miller (ed) Peep O' Day Boys and Defenders: selected documents on the County Armagh disturbances 1784-1796 (Belfast 1990)
DW Miller, 'The Armagh troubles 1785-1795' in S Clark and JS Donnelly (eds), Irish peasants, violence and political unrest, 1780-1914 (Wisonsin 1983)
H Senior, Orangeism in Ireland and Britain 1795-1836 (London 1966).
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NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Visiting Wellesley scored three goals in the second half and went on to defeat the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's field hockey team, 3-0, in a non-conference match at Cressy Field Tuesday evening.
Freshman forward Nathalie Gruet (Acton, MA/Acton-Boxborough HS) broke s scoreless tie when she converted a pass from junior midfielder Allison Robbins (Bennington, VT/Holderness School) at 39:38.
Freshman forward Lellie Lukens (Falls Church, VA/Episcopal HS) made it 2-0 with a goal just under four minutes later, and Robbins capped the scoring when she re-directed a pass from sophomore midfielder Alex Azzi (Rye, NH/Philips Exeter HS) off a penalty corner at 47:11.
The match marked Senior Night for the Corsairs, and senior defender Maille Lynch-Gilbert (Petersham, MA/Quabbin Regional HS) was honored prior to the start.
"Part of tonight's strategy was to make Senior Night and our last home game of the regular season really about the whole team," said UMass Dartmouth Head Coach Nicole Castonguay. "We were able to play everyone, and we were thinking about prepping for our next conference game and celebrating our last home game. We played well in the first half, and we wanted to make sure that we were able to get everyone in. In order to succeed on Saturday and in the playoffs, we need to have everyone on board. We want to play smart and play together."
The Blue outshot the Corsairs, 14-4. Sophomore goalkeepers Lauren O'Brien (Rochester, MA/Old Rochester Regional HS) and Kelsey Gallo (East Greenwich, RI/East Greenwich HS) combined to make seven saves for UMass Dartmouth, while sophomore Brit Macisz (Topsfield, MA/Pingree HS) made four stops for Wellesley.
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After all, laws requiring insurance coverage for birth control are already on the books in 28 states.
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With Romney looking increasingly like the GOP nominee, Republicans need a way to fire up the parts their base who are less than thrilled about him. The slice of base voters that most despise Romney are evangelicals. And while these cretins may never be happy with a Mormon president, they seem to have an infinite capacity to show more hate for President Obama.
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The GOP wanted the women haters to know it stands with them, they just didn't want to take the flack for taking position against the views of the vast majority of the rest of the entire country. They had a small segment of voters to win and but a whole lot to potentially lose.
So, the Republicans got the Catholic bishops to take the position for them. These guys are so far to the right it was easy to convince the bishops to do the dirty work. Perhaps the Catholic leadership weren't able to make the same calculations as the GOP about how damaging their position would be. Either that or they were just so filled with hated for women that they didn't think it through properly.
Anyway, the GOP got the Catholics to run around screaming about how birth control was evil. To be sure, many Republicans did the same. But because the Catholic bishops were out in front leading the charge, the GOP could pretend to be fighting for "religious freedom" rather than against birth control. They could claim they were just standing up for the Catholics Bishops.
Though Republicans would like you to believe that the Catholic bishops were just defending their religion's tenets, there are a couple of clues that show that the bishops got duped here.
First, as the article linked to above points out, any employer who offers health insurance is simply paying wages and benefits to the workers who are the real policyholders. It's really your money (earned salary and benefits) that's paying for your health insurance, not your company's. It's your money, so the only objection that matters is yours. To suggest otherwise is to take the position that the Catholic bishops should police hospital employees at home to make sure they are following the Catholic religion with the rest of their wages.
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The more you think about it, the more you realize how damaging this fight will be for the Catholic bishops. The GOP has the bishops stomping all over any last shred of hope they had of attracting new members. In the Republicans defense, perhaps they thought they couldn't do any further damage to a group whose leaders last took the national stage defending themselves against child sex abuse lawsuits.


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With rain and chilly temperatures in the weekend forecast, Friday's tropical air seemed to provide an opportune time for the field at The Masters to take advantage of Augusta National.
For those with early tee times, it didn't happen.
In fact, a tricky wind continued to tighten the leaderboard through the early afternoon as Jordan Spieth opened with a pair of rough holes, and others like Matt Kuchar and Rory McIlroy slipped slightly, but stayed near the top of the scoresheet.
With the afternoon, however, came a reprieve from the wind. Patrick Reed and Marc Leishman pounced on the improved conditions, putting on a display of marksmanship through the dinner hour.
Here's a link to the entire leaderboard.
And here are a few storylines we're still watching:
1. Spieth came back to the pack
The worst thing that happened to Jordan Spieth was nightfall on Thursday.
After he got red-hot on the back nine through the first round, Spieth went 3-over on the first two holes of Friday's action. He pushed his opening drive right, then hit a second shot from the dirt that dribbled shy of the fairway. Watch the whole debacle right here.
He added another bogey on the second hole, and yet another on No. 7.
But Spieth came back strong with a 34 on the back nine to finish the day at 4-under-par.
"I just hit two really bad tee shots to start the day. I just didn't really have many good birdie looks," Spieth said. "I'm still in this golf tournament."
What was Spieth saying to himself on the third tee box?
"This is an easy tee shot, you can't screw this one up," Spieth said.
2. Reed gets it going; Leishman uses huge shot on No. 15
As the winds died down, Patrick Reed scorched his way to the lead, stringing together four straight birdies, beginning on No. 7. Reed became the first player with local ties to have at least a share of the lead since Vaughn Taylor in 2007.
Reed helped Augusta State win consecutive NCAA Division I golf titles, but he'd never broken 70 at The Masters prior to this week.
He followed Thursday's 69 with a 70 in Friday to move to 9-under-par, with a two-stroke lead. Reed was the second straight Texan to lead at day's end, taking over for Spieth, who led after the opening round. David Westin of the Augusta Chronicle talks more about Reed's round here.
Meanwhile, Leishman was playing a steady round, but then behind a huge second shot — arguably the shot of the day — the Aussie posted an eagle on No. 15.
"You have to take your chances when you get 'em," Leishman said of his shot into the green. "Where I hit my drive on 15 was not ideal, but I practice that shot every week. I thought it was a good time to give it a go."
Here's more on the leaders (and full second-round coverage) from David Lee of the Augusta Chronicle.
3. Tiger struggles; Rory looks hungry and healthy
As with others who were fighting the wind, Tiger Woods got off to a slow start on Friday, dropping a shot on the first hole.
Woods finished at 3-over-par for the day and is 4-over for the tournament, but he did make the cut. Barely.
Here's a slideshow of Tiger's day.
But Rory McIlroy looked surprisingly at ease in the tough conditions, using birdies on Nos. 13 and 14 to finish with a solid 71.
McIlroy said he feels more comfortable as a veteran, and rarely forces the issue like he did as a younger player. Here's a column from Scott Michaux of the Augusta Chronicle, explaining how McIlroy is finding inner peace.
"Golf is a game of making your misses not that bad and taking advantage of your good shots," McIlroy said. "So far I've been able to do that."
Here's a full slideshow of the day's action.
4. Beginning of Amen Corner is anything but peaceful
It takes a slight fade to hit the fairway, then a solid iron that flirts with a pond running along the left side of the green.
Oh, and it's just 505 yards in four strokes.
Sound fun? Then you'll love White Dogwood, the opening to Amen Corner, long considered one of the most beautiful, but dangerous stretches in golf.
The hole continues to play tough on Friday and Augusta Chronicle Sports Editor John Boyette explains in this piece what makes the hole such a pain in players' sides.
5. Westin reflects on 40 years of covering the tournament
For a newbie like myself, I can tell you the media members like to talk about two things — the food they consume here, and the veteran writers who have been associated with the event seemingly forever.
David Westin fits the second bill, as he was honored this week for covering The Masters for 40 years.
This is a great piece in the Augusta Chronicle that Westin penned about some of his traditions.
What impresses me most? He gets his own parking spot, complete with nameplate.
BONUS: Watching the weather
The weather could get dicey for Saturday's third round, as rain is expected and there's a even a chance of a thunderstorm. Forecasts don't have the wet weather hovering over Augusta, but Spieth said the rain could change things.
He likes his chances if there is a soft rain.
"If there's a delay, it will certainly soften up the course. And the one thing that this place, you've kind of got to look out for because the fairways are all mowed into the grain, everything is mowed into the grain, is you will see some mud balls over the next two days. Maybe not while it's raining tomorrow, but on Sunday," Spieth said.
"So you kind of have to be aware. There's nothing you can do about it. You've just got to be aware, and obviously it becomes a tactical golf course when the conditions get tougher or you're presented with kind of tough breaks like that, and I think that's an advantage for me. I feel like I tactically play this golf course very well."
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Norma, I have attempted to adapt to your Lehmann dough recipe (16 in. crust) using Reinharts epoxy method in the dough formula below. The method below has a two-stage build, mixing the soaker and preferment on Friday and mixing the final dough on Monday for Tuesdays bake. Reinharts traditional method involves a firm starter (biga) and soaker. I decided to move away from the firm starters for two reasons, 1) Firm starters in general are more acidic and sour in flavor than high hydration ferments, especially if they are held over multiple days. Therefore, I upped the hydration to 100% for the preferment. 2) Also, I in my personal opinion, it will be easier to get achieve a homologous dispersion of the preferment and soaker throughout the final dough during mixing. The amount of soaker in this formula I effectively tripled (50% of the total dough weight) to see if we could extract more flavor from the soaker itself. To that end, I have also noted that the initial water temp should be between 120-130F before refrigeration. At these temps, the enzymes in the dough will become more active, hopefully contributing more flavor to the overall dough without cooking the starches in the grain.I am hoping this formula will maximize the flavors in the dough without turning too bread-like, but you never know . Total Formula: Flour (100%): 308.21 g Water (64%): 197.25 g Salt (2.0%): 6.18 g IDY (.25%): 0.77 g Total (166.45%): 513.01 g | 18.1 oz | 1.13 lbs | TF = 0.09 Preferment:Flour: 15.435 gWater: 15.435 g IDY: 0.77 g or 0.26 tspTotal: 30.87 gSoaker/mash:Flour: 128.25 gWater: 128.25 gTotal: 256.5 gFinal Dough:Flour: 164.56 g Water: 53.61 gSalt: 6.18 g Preferment: 30.87 gSoaker: 256.5 g Total: 513.01 g | 18.1 oz | 1.13 lbs | TF = 0.09For the soaker, the water temp should be as hot a your faucet can achieve, ideally between 120F and 130F. Mix the dough, leave at room temp for 30 mins and refrigerate.For the preferment, mix and refrigerate immediately. If possible, try to keep your dough temp below <70F.For the final dough, mix together the water, preferment and soaker until evenly dissolved and homologous. Then added in the flour, salt and mix away. Let me know if you have any thoughts or concerns, or would like to take this in a different direction with other dough styles. If you would like to add in any oil, sugar, whey , etc to the formula, let me know as well, and I can calculate out the percentages for you.
What I dont understand is doesnt a preferment need to be somewhat active before it is refrigerated or incorporated into a final dough? At market when I make a preferment for the Lehmann dough I also let it bubble a little before refrigerating it for a 3 day cold ferment. I guess because of the mass of the larger preferment it does keep fermenting at the right rate for it to ferment enough after 3 days.
Norma, I am not sure it makes too much difference with IDY preferments, they are by nature pretty active strains. If you want leave it out until you see some activity, that is fine with me too. My principle concern is that the IDY will overferment the preferment during the three day storage period, which is why I dialed back the initial amount as well. But if you have good success with your method, by all means, go with what you know works best. I am still learning too. Regarding what flour to use, I will leave that up to you. I know you have been pretty successful with the GM Full Strength but if you would like to change it up, be my guest. Or if you would like to mix flours, that is fine too. For the oil, I am not sure if you have a preference for the amount but 1.0% would be approximately 3 g, 1.5% would be 4.5 g, 2% would be 6 g and 2.5% would be 7.5 g. Im glad you are on board too. This should be interesting to say the least to see how things will turn out.
Well... here is hoping the end results are worth the labor. I am going to start mine in the morning.
Following the dough recipe above, I created 1 preferment, 1 starter and two final doughs this morning. Protocol for the preferment and the soaker/mash were followed as outlined above. I also created 2 final doughs. One of the doughs was made without the soaker and preferment, so effectively a straight dough, following same hydration levels, salt and IDY amounts. The other dough followed the same proportions but instead, I hydrated the dough first with 127F water, allowed it to come to room temp before adding in the yeast, followed by the salt. In effect, not only do I want to see how the epoxy dough compares, but also I am interested in the affects of initial water temp and enzyme activation on final dough taste, texture and performance, assuming that the yeast are added in into the final dough at a temp of 73F. Interestingly, I observed right from the star, it took no time for the dough to fully hydrate (under two minutes) and that I barely need to mix the dough for to come together. I am curious if this will impact the final outcome, but only time will tell.
Norma,Sorry, I sometimes do not make myself clear enough after working on academic papers all morning. It is like shifting gears and forgetting to hit the clutch. It doesn't always turn out well. I made the preferment and soaker for the epoxy dough formula following what we prescribed above. In addition, I made 2 other dough formulas, without the using the epoxy method, but following the same water, salt and yeast proportions so I can compare dough formulas on the day I bake. One of the doughs were made without the soaker and preferment, so effectively a straight dough. To the other dough, I hydrated the flour first with water at 127F, and allowed this mixture to come to room temp before adding in the yeast, followed by the salt. So a 100% soaker/mash dough. I was planning on baking Tues. I wish I wish I had more time to extend the experiment, but Wed the temp is suppose to be in the mid to upper 90s and really don't want to heat up the house too much.
I checked the preferment and soaker this morning. Like you said above Norma, the soaker had a distinct sweetness to it. Also, the soaker had retained its strength from the gluten with no obvious signs of breaking down. The top of the preferment did not seem to show too much activity, however when I lifted the plastic film from the top of the starter, it appears that fermentation occurred over the past two days. I'll most like mix up my final epoxy dough over the noon hour.
Norma,Yeah, it sounds like may need to bring the preferment up to room temp to make sure it is fully activated. I keep my fridge temp at 44F rather in the high 30s, so that may have something to do with the activity of my preferment. I did notice a few bubbles too in my soaker too, but I am not sure whether it is due to air bubbles moving to the surface of the dough or if it is any sort of microflora activity? However the amount of bubbling was modest to say the least. I should note that the soaker, I thought, was pretty thick for 100% hydrated dough and there was quite a bit of strength to the soaker, which I think maybe due to the water temperature. The previous soaker was thick, but it did not have this much strength too it, it is almost like a standard dough. Ill have to wait to see how the final dough turns out, but I am curious now if this method may have some application for Pizzarium/Pizza bianca style of doughs utilizing higher hydration methods. Regardless, I look forward to hearing about your results.
Since I didnt think the preferment was bubbly enough, I did add a pinch of IDY to the final dough flour. I really dont understand why no IDY is added to the final dough in the formulation.
Unfortunately, it sounds like you had two soaker going this weekend, given that the preferment never fully developed. I think adding in some extra IDY is completely understandable. As I have come to learn, nothing in pizza making is ever set in stone.I didn't not adapt the final dough recipe for any extra IDY, as I assumed that the preferment would develop enough over the weekend that any extra would be over kill. In fact, I was a little concerned that the preferment may overly develop, which obviously was not the case for you. Oh, well, if worse comes to worse, we can chalk it up as another learning experience. While mixing over the noon hour I too noticed that this dough came together quickly, but was exceptionally sticky for a 64% dough as you observed. It wasn't necessarily a loose dough ball, but it was certainly tacky (which I did not attempt to correct for with extra flour nor did I add in any extra yeast). I am pretty sure my math was on but I may have goofed up somewhere. Nonetheless, below is the final dough ball. I did not add any oil to the final dough but I did lube up container.


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Hardy like the watch featured in her 1961 television commercial, Nellie the dolphin "keeps on ticking" as she celebrates her 60th birthday this week.
MARINELAND — Hardy like the watch featured in her 1961 television commercial, Nellie the dolphin "keeps on ticking" as she celebrates her 60th birthday this week.
"Nellie's remarkable longevity has amazed us all," said Kurt Allen, general manager of Marineland Dolphin Adventure. "We are beyond thrilled to celebrate her life, and we consider it a privilege each day our staff, volunteers and guests get to spend with her."
With a birthday Wednesday, Nellie has exceeded the life expectancy of dolphins under human care by 35 years, and in the wild by 48 years, said Jessica Fontana, spokeswoman for Marineland and its parent company, the Georgia Aquarium.
Nellie captured the hearts of plenty of people who came into her life by happenstance or purpose and they now marvel at her longevity.
Bob Pickering, an emergency management technician for Flagler County, worked at Marineland from 1983 to 1994 in various capacities, including directly with the dolphins.
"Nellie was part of the show in the early to mid-80s," Pickering said. "She would jump through hoops to Van Halen's (1983) song 'Jump,' but because of her age she didn't perform too much."
Pickering is amazed by Nellie.
"I went to Marineland last year as part of a program about (disaster) preparedness, and I got to see her," he said. "She was as healthy and vibrant as ever."
Nellie was named for park employee Nellie Mae Skinner Neighbors, who later retired to Ormond Beach and died in 2007 at the age of 99 in Franklin, N.C., according to news stories written at the time of her death.
She quickly became a star, Fontana said.
"At the dawn of the television era in the 1950s, Nellie starred in several shows filmed at Marineland's original dolphin stadium," she said, the commercial for Timex being one example.
Timex Group president Gary Cohen last week sent Nellie a happy birthday letter.
"It seems like only yesterday that you so boldly and playfully demonstrated (our watches) in one of out television commercials," he wrote. "Happy birthday, Nellie."
Later, Marineland produced elaborate shows for visitors, Fontana said.
"Nellie became a fan favorite by performing her famous hula hoop trick and other behaviors in front of crowds of adoring fans," she said.
Greg May, who is about three years younger than Nellie, was one of those adoring fans. He spent his eighth birthday in 1965 at Marineland, an event that changed his life.
May got to be "jumpmaster" for a day, which meant he got to hold a fish out for 12-year-old Nellie to jump and take from his hand. The Orlando native got a job working at SeaWorld right out of high school and stayed there for two years before moving into a career in television and writing.
"I will never forget the first time I saw dolphins," he said of the visit, which was the first of more than 100 trips he's made since. "Every Saturday night I would watch 'Flipper.' My parents figured out it would be easier to make the couple-hour drive from Orlando to Marineland than to Miami where Flipper was."
Visiting Nellie at Marineland meant more to May than just about anything else.
"I looked more forward to those visits than anything, even Christmas," he said. "Nellie was a familiar face. It was like coming to see a friend."
Sally Baskin Hooker, 70, said there was a time when Nellie was her best friend who knew all of her secrets.
"My parents ran the motel from 1947 to 1973. It was called Marine Village Port and later Marineland Motor Inn," Hooker said. "I was the only child raised at Marineland from 1947 to 1960."
After hours, she had access to most of Marineland and Nellie.
"When they built the stadium tank, that's where Nellie was kept," said Hooker, who went on to become a nurse and raise a family west of Gainesville. "That was late '59 and '60. I used to swim laps with her in the tank every day afterward. We had a good partnership, friendship. She knew all my secrets. People question me sometimes, but I have the pictures to prove it."
Both May and Hooker said it is testament to the care that Nellie has received at Marineland that she is still alive and going strong at 60.
"She has certainly earned her keep," Hooker said. "I'm so amazed, and glad, she is still alive."
May is a supporter of all oceanariums, but Nellie and Marineland are near and dear to his heart.
"Dolphins like Nellie are ambassadors for their species," he said. "She is certainly a living symbol of the world's first oceanarium."


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Calendar: Art Talk: Ulla von Brandenburg in Conversation with María Elena Ortiz
Event Description
In conjunction with her PAMM exhibition, It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Grey Moon, Ulla von Brandenburg will discuss her work with PAMM Assistant Curator María Elena Ortiz. It Has a Golden Sun and an Elderly Gray Moon explores the intersections of dance, color, textiles, ritual, and architecture to question the individual's condition in relation to social hierarchies.
About the artist
Ulla von Brandenburg studied Scenography and Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, and fine art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been presented at Secession, Vienna; Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; ACCA, Melbourne; La Fondrerie Darling, Montreal; Kasseler Kunsteverein, Kassel; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Kunsthaus, Hamburg; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Significant group exhibitions have presented in venues including Performa 15, New York; Musée National d'art Modern/Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAMCO, Geneva; 19th Biennale of Sidney; CAC, Vilnius; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 11th Biennale of Lyon; Schrin Kunsthalle, Frankurt; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; 53rd Venice Biennale; ICA, Boston, and Tate Modern, London. Her work belongs to several prestigious collections such as the Musée National d'art Modern/Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle of Hamburg; Musée National d'art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, among others. She lives and works in Paris.


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Auswalk is the pioneer of walking holidays in Australia. On their tours you will walk through national parks, progressing from one accommodation to the next. Your luggage is moved ahead while you walk. You can choose to go with a guide or try a fully supported "self-guided" walking holiday. You walk without a guide, following the comprehensive Walk Notes supplied and yes, they move your luggage.
Auswalk take care of everything so that you are free from the grind of organisation, leaving you to devote all your time and energies to thoroughly enjoying every aspect of the walking holiday. There's something for all levels of fitness. You will return home relaxed and revitalised in body, mind and spirit. Of course your safety is of upmost importance.
They have tours where you can choose your own the departure date, have own vehicle and guide and have a flexible itinerary.
Where else can you stand on top of a mountain and look over hundreds of kilometres of wilderness on a walking holiday tour, or have a pristine beach to yourself?
At Auswalk they know that the only way to truly experience a country is on foot.
Fraser Island is the world's largest sand island. It consists purely of sand and yet it supports large strands of lush tropical rainforest. You'll see an extraordinary array of buttress-rooted trees, strangler figs, rare primitive cycads and huge satinays.
The sands support more than 40 crystal clear freshwater lakes. Their favourite, Lake McKenzie is rightfully known as the jewel of Fraser Island. Don't forget to pack the swimming gear!
The island also abounds with wildlife. It's a bird lover's paradise with over 240 species recorded in the area. And you may even be lucky enough to spot a full-breed dingo in the wild.
This holiday begins with a cruise over to the island from Hervey Bay, watching for whales, dolphins and sharks en route. From here, your journey on foot encompasses an amazing variety of landscapes. Much of the walking is remote, taking you close to the tranquil beauty of the natural environment and away from the busy tourist routes.
The Tropical Hiker tour includes Daintree World Heritage Area - where the rainforest meets the reef; learn how the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people lived in the tropical rainforests; unique wildlife - azure Ulysses butterflies, platypus, cassowaries, crocodiles; and then unwind at beautiful Mission Beach - all rooms have ocean views.
This is a circuit trip from Cairns. Destinations include the Atherton Tablelands - home of the famous Millaa Millaa Falls. Rainforest walks will lead you away from the tourist route to remote gorges, cascading waterfalls and secluded lakes. In the Daintree World Heritage Area you'll learn about the importance of mangroves, walk to Cape Tribulation and enjoy a stay at a rainforest retreat. At Mossman Gorge you'll walk with the Kuku Yalanji Aboriginal people and learn about their bush foods.
This fabulous long distance walking track connects the two high plateaus of Lamington and Springbrook, progressing through magnificent World Heritage subtropical rainforests.
This untouched wilderness offers walking amongst massive strangler figs, ancient Antarctic beech, red cedar and booyongs tower overhead while lush palms, vines, ferns and orchids flourish beneath. This is your chance to hug a 3000 year old tree that stands as evidence of links to Gondwanaland. Climb the huge strangler fig tower to marvel at the upper forest levels on the Treetops Walk. Hike the Lamington Traverse on the famous Border Track that follows the New South Wales / Queensland border.
More than 160 species of sub-tropical birds will keep any bird-lover engrossed.
On the Springbrook side the rainforest is punctuated by cascading streams and plummeting waterfalls. Criss-cross pristine creeks and pick from the many waterfalls for a lunch spot.
The accommodations on this trip are just beautiful, world class in most instances, the views from both the Sky Lodges and O'Reillys make an amazing end to each days walking. The lodgings make up an essential part of this incomparable journey one that will leave you feeling inspired and delighted all at once.
The Gold Coast Hinterland Walk includes fantastic hiking in the Lamington and Springbrook National Parks, located inland from the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast is about one hour south of Brisbane.
On this trip you walk from one accommodation to the next while they move your luggage ahead for you. You will walk independently without a guide, using their marked maps and easy-to-follow Walk Notes. You need to form your own group of two or more people and can choose your own starting date.
This is a World Heritage Area where new plants are being found, classified and named even today. Massive strangler figs, ancient Antarctic beech, red cedar, rosewood and booyongs tower overhead whilst hundreds of different species of palms, vines, ferns and orchids flourish beneath.
Waterfall Way is an untapped, raw landscape which offers an abundant array of fauna and flora. A truly eclectic environment which includes World Heritage rainforests, waterfalls and escarpment country. The walking is stunningly diverse, expect hiking through mountain ranges, subtropical rainforests and beside delightful streams.
Dorrigo National Park, part of the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area offers stunning scenery that has been millions of years in the making. Venture onto Skywalk for a bird's eye view of the rain forest canopy. You can see over the remote Bellinger Valley and all the way to the ocean.
Waterfalls on the Guy Fawkes River plunge over steep basalt ledges into a vast wilderness area. Marvel at Wollomombi Falls, the highest waterfall in New South Wales and the second highest in all of Australia.
At Cathedral Rock you'll find Snowgums and huge granite boulders. New England National Park reaches 1564 metres above sea level and there's nothing to interrupt the view.
Of course as always with an Auswalk holiday, they can't think of a better way to reward a captivating day on the trail than a delicious meal, a glass (or two) of local wine and a comfortable bed.
Carnarvon Gorge is a magnificent outback oasis teeming with wildlife. Carnarvon Creek carves its tortuous route through the spectacular sandstone gorge, its permanent water nurturing stands of cabbage palms and pockets of remnant rainforest with rare king ferns with five metre fronds.
The steep overhanging walls of Carnarvon Gorge house some of the most vivid Aboriginal artwork anywhere in the country, with animals, humans, weapons and tools all clearly depicted in rich ochre patterns. You'll walk the length of the gorge, crisscrossing the river on stepping-stones many times. There are also fascinating side gorges for hiking into. Climb into the Amphitheatre and follow Warrumbah Gorge till it narrows to just a metre wide.
Another bonus is to stop at Cania Gorge, a little known and very isolated National Park with eucalypt forest, rugged rock formations and lots of amazing wildlife. It's hard to beat a campfire, so that's what they do at Cania.
Three distinctly different areas make this a holiday with lots of variety. And with two guides looking after you, a range of easier and harder walking options are available along the way.
This is not Queensland's answer to the Kimberley but potentially Australia's best kept secret. It's the ultimate winter walking escape in the heart of the Queensland outback. With towering cliff faces, prolific wildlife, breathtaking views and indigenous art sites, this is a world class walking destination.
Starting the walk in Roma makes it possible to bypass the usual 12 hour drive from Brisbane, this is an option unique only to Auswalk. There is no other way to get to remote Carnarvon but to drive, acting as a gatekeeper, creating an atmosphere of splendid isolation in a unique natural wonderland.
This is an opportunity to explore Australia's preeminent Gorge network on foot, stress and hassle free as every last detail is taken care of. The trip includes a la carte meals, cooked breakfasts and rooms in luxury glamping tents with ensuites. With two outstanding guides looking after you, it's easy to pace yourself with a choice of easier or harder pack free walking options along the way.
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The two agreed to meet. And so began an innocent outing that set in motion a killing that would horrify the world....


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SACRAMENTO, March 3 (UPI) -- John Salmons led a long-range Sacramento attack with five 3-pointers Sunday and the Kings drained 13 treys en route to a 119-83 pounding of Charlotte.
Salmons finished with 22 points while Marcus Thornton added 18 for the Kings, who outscored the Bobcats 70-32 over the middle two quarters in the rout.
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The credit is calculated as 6.2% of earned income.
The credit is not available for non-resident aliens, those who can be claimed as a dependent, or estates or trusts. You must have a valid Social Security number (at least on spouse on a joint return) to get the credit.
The credit is "phased-out" at the rate of 2% of the taxpayer's Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) in excess of $75,000 for singles and $150,000 for joint filers – the same phase-out range used for GWB's 2008 rebate checks and the second chance "recovery rebate credit" available on the 2008 tax return, although a smaller percentage (2% instead of 5%). The credit is completely phased out if AGI exceeds $95,000 or $190,000 respectively.
There is no additional credit based on "qualified" children as there was with GWB's "stimulus" rebate. The most a family can get is $800.00 ($400.00 if a single parent).
The federal withholding tables have been revised accordingly to reflect this credit – so workers will see about $13 per week extra in their paychecks. The IRS asks that employers start using these new tables as soon as possible, but no later than April 1, 2009.
Big whoop!
It is obvious that the 2008 rebate checks were a very expensive fiasco – costing the government billions of dollars both in actual out-of-pocket expense and in uncollected outstanding taxes (as the IRS had to take employees away from collecting back taxes to man the phones to answer the multitude of questions from taxpayers), and doing nothing to "stimulate" the economy. See my guest post at taxguy "That Was the Economic Stimulus That Was".
However, a lump-sum check of $1,200 to $2,100 or more (depending on family size) could be put to good use paying down bills or credit card debt or as an investment. Granted, as my mentor Jim Gill would say when discussing a small refund, "Better in your pocket . . . {than in the pocket of the government}", $13.00 per week will be simply "lost in the shuffle" and not make any significant impact on anything. What will it buy – a night out for the family at McDonald's?
At least this "stimulus" payment saves the government the cost of distributing the money - it is much more cost-efficient to have all the work done by employers. But making the pay-out through revised income tax withholding tax tables will result in many unintended consequences.
Andrea Coombes points out the major problem in her article "More Like a 'Make Work' Credit: New Making Work Pay Credit Makes a Check-Up on Your Withholding Essential" at MarketWatch -
"But withholding tables are a blunt instrument, unable to precisely assess taxes for millions of taxpayers' unique situations. And employers who use the tables don't know workers' complete situation, such as whether an employee has a second job or is married to someone who also works. That means some workers will end up with more cash than they're eligible for under the new credit".
She also points out that, "People claimed as dependents aren't eligible for the credit, but if they work it may show up in their paychecks."
Many taxpayers will find themselves unpleasantly surprised at tax filing time next year by an unexpected balance due to "Sam" resulting from under-withholding.
Also hit with unintended consequences are retired taxpayers who do not have earned income but receive pensions. I have seen the effect on several clients already. While some retirees request a flat % withholding on their pension distributions (i.e. 20%) there are also many who use the withholding tables, claiming "Married 0" or "Single 1" just as they would if they were working. These taxpayers are not entitled to the Making Work Pay credit – but the withholding on their pensions, often just enough to cover their tax liability, will be reduced by over $50.00 per month due to the revised tables.
A significant number of individuals, working and retired, will need to revise their W-4 or W-4P to request additional withholding in order to offset the MWPC adjustments.
Totally self-employed individuals would, in theory, adjust their quarterly estimated tax payments by $100.00 or $200.00 per quarter to take advantage of the advance payment of the credit.
The credit of 6.2% comes from an earlier, non-BO stimulus proposal known as the "payroll tax holiday". 6.2% is the tax rate for withholding for the Social Security component of the "FICA" payroll tax. The "payroll tax holiday" idea called for suspension of Social Security withholding on the first $XXXX of wages – sufficient to equal the specific dollar amount of the proposed rebate.
This method would not affect income tax, and therefore would not require a change in the income tax withholding tables. It would avoid the problem faced by retirees, but would not avoid "double-dipping" by employees with more than one job during the year or the problem of working dependents.
Recipients of Social Security, SSI, Railroad Retirement, and Veterans Benefits will receive a one-time "Economic Recovery Payment" of $250.00 sometime before the end of May (my parents just received a notice from SSA about this payment). This is a separate check issued by SSA, RR or VA. If your benefits are directly deposited to a bank account so will this $250.00. Those who are also entitled to a MWPC due to employment or self-employment must reduce their $400.00 credit by any such "Economic Recovery Payment" – so the most an employed Social Security recipient gets is $400.00 and not $650.00.
The ERP is for 2009 only. There does not seem to be any income phase-out for the $250.00 payment. It is available to recipients of one of the 4 sources who were eligible for benefits for any one of the three (3) months prior to the February 17 enactment date (i.e November or December 2008 or January 2009). Eligible ERP recipients are asked to notify the appropriate agency (SSA, RR, VA) if a payment is not received by June 4, 2009.
Again big whoop – but still "better in your pocket . . ."!
The IRS has a Q+A section for the Making Work Pay Credit at its website (click here), and the SSA website has a page on the Economic Recovery Payment (clock here).
So what are you going to do with your $13.00 per week "windfall"?


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- 2 Project Information
- 3 DOI and Associated Metadata Export
- 4 PKP as Sponsoring Entity
- 5 PKP Publishing Services clients
- 6 CrossRef Export/Registration Plugin (OJS 2.4.5+)
Project Contacts
- PKP: James MacGregor
Project Information
PKP and CrossRef are collaborating to help publishers and journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS) take better advantage of CrossRef services. As of 2014, PKP has become a Sponsoring Entity of CrossRef, and as such will be providing much improved CrossRef integration and overall support for the service. Additionally, PKP can now act as a sponsor representative for OJS journals wishing to apply for CrossRef membership, and is in some cases able to waive fees.
DOI and Associated Metadata Export
PKP is working with CrossRef to improve the level of overall DOI export support provided within OJS. OJS has included a basic manual export plugin for several years; this plugin will be extended in the following ways, and will be freely available to any journal using OJS (2.4.5+).
- automatic DOI deposit to CrossRef on article publication (2.4.5); – inclusion of other article metadata in the CrossRef deposit, including author ORCID iDs; article abstracts; and more (OJS 2.4.5); – inclusion of FundRef funding data (forthcoming); – support for the CrossMark publication record service (forthcoming); – and more.
PKP as Sponsoring Entity
As a CrossRef Sponsoring Entity, PKP can also act as sponsor and representative for other journals to join CrossRef through PKP. Journals from low-income countries may be eligible for sponsorship, allowing these journals to become CrossRef members and deposit DOIs into the CrossRef system at no cost.
Eligible countries
Organizations from the following countries (who are in the Low Income Country category, or in the Low & Middle Income country list and whose GNI per capita is up to $1,500) may be eligible for sponsorship.
|Afghanistan (LIC)
|Central African Republic (LIC)
|Gambia (LIC)
|Liberia (LIC)
|Niger (LIC)
|Sudan (LMC)
|Bangladesh (LIC)
|Chad (LIC)
|Guinea (LIC)
|Madagascar (LIC)
|Pakistan (LMC)
|Tajikistan (LIC)
|Benin (LIC)
|Comoros (LIC)
|Guinea-Bassau (LIC)
|Malawi (LIC)
|Rwanda (LIC)
|Tanzania (LIC)
|Benin (LIC)
|Congo, Democratic Republic (LIC)
|Haiti (LIC)
|Mali (LIC)
|Sao Tome and Principe (LMC)
|Togo (LIC)
|Burkina Faso (LIC)
|Cote d'Ivoire (LMC)
|Kenya (LIC)
|Mauritania (LMC)
|Senegal (LMC)
|Uganda (LIC)
|Burundi (LIC)
|Djibouti (LMC)
|Korea, Democratic Republic (LIC)
|Mozambique (LIC)
|Sierra Leone (LIC)
|Yemen Republic (LMC)
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|Eritrea (LIC)
|Kyrgyz Republic (LMC)
|Myanmar (LIC)
|Somalia (LIC)
|Zambia (LMC)
|Cameroon (LMC)
|Ethiopia (LIC)
|Nepal (LIC)
|South Sudan (LMC)
|Zimbabwe (LIC)
For further eligibility criteria and any other information, contact us.
PKP Publishing Services clients
PKP Publishing Services provides additional CrossRef support. All hosted clients can rely on our internal expertise to assist with plugin setup and support. Additionally, Enterprise clients will now have CrossRef represented membership and DOI deposits included as part of the Enterprise hosting package. For more information, please contact us.
CrossRef Export/Registration Plugin (OJS 2.4.5+)
The CrossRef Export/Registration Plugin can deposit DOIs to the CrossRef database for consideration and acceptance. This can be accomplished in an entirely automatic fashion; manually through OJS; or completely externally to OJS if need be.
How to Configure OJS for Automatic Deposits
1. Ensure that all Journal Setup steps that the CrossRef plugin requires have been filled in. Under Journal Setup Step 1, you will need the following:
- Journal Title
- Journal Initials
- Journal Abbreviation
- Journal ISSN (or electronic ISSN)
- Principal Contact (name and email)
- Technical Support Contact (name and email)
- Publisher (Institution and URL)
2. Enable and configure the "DOI" public identifier plugin at System Plugins -> Public Identifier Plugins -> DOI Plugin.
- First, Enable the plugin; then configure the plugin Settings.
- For plugin settings, ensure that you have only Articles and Supplementary Files checked for depositing Journal Content.
- You must also include a DOI prefix which you get from CrossRef, and additionally must configure the DOI suffix. We strongly recommend using the default patterns if you are a new journal and have not previously had DOIs issued.
3. Ensure that your articles have DOIs assigned to them.
4. Configure the CrossRef Deposit Plugin. This can be done from Import/Export -> CrossRef Export/Registration Plugin.
- The plugin will tell you whether the overall system requirements have been satisfied.
- Depositor name and email will be initially retrieved from the journal's Primary Contact information, but you can change this if you like.
- If you have your CrossRef login credentials, you can supply them here and enable automatic DOI deposit.
Depositing DOIs with CrossRef
If you have configured the plugin to work automatically, OJS will deposit DOIs as they are created without your intervention. You can check the Unregistered Articles page to confirm that DOIs have been deposited.
If you have not configured the plugin to deposit DOIs automatically, you can still register them manually yourself by using the "Register" button on the Unregistered Articles or All Articles page. Additionally, you can also Export the article or issue XML and deposit that to the CrossRef website yourself.
The CrossRef Export/Registration plugin will notify you of any configuration errors when attempting to deposit DOIs. The errors should be self-explanatory, and will usually indicate whether a configuration step has been missed; whether your CrossRef credentials are incorrect; or whether the service is for some reason unavailable.
NOTE that a status indication of "submitted" or "complete" does not necessarily indicate that a DOI has been successfully registered and is now available via CrossRef - these statuses simply refer to the state of the DOI within the CrossRef workflow. For complete status information, click on the status text.
Most deposit errors will come down to elements missing or misconfigured in your deposit XML. If you are seeing any XML validation errors when checking the status of a deposit, see if you can track the error back to eg. a missing component in your journal or plugin configurations, for example a missing ISSN.
Future Plans
The CrossRef Export/Registration plugin is still undergoing active development. We intend to focus on the following enhancements from OJS 2.4.5 onward.
- UI/UX review of both the Public Identifier Plugin and the CrossRef Export/Registration Plugin;
- Add the option to check current DOI status (rather than simply the deposit status), for example whether DOIs are currently "live";
- Extend the CrossRef deposit XML to include abstracts; reference lists; and more;
- FundRef; CrossMark additions


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With over 30 years of experience in Michigan's home construction industry, Steuer & Associates is Farmington Hills MI's leading source for new construction homes and construction loans. Our award-winning homes offer excellent design, construction quality, location and value.
We understand that purchasing a new construction home is a major investment and decision. We approach each construction project with unequivocal integrity, and pay strict attention to each detail.
At Steuer & Associates, we have cultivated a distinguished team of dedicated professionals and skilled craftsmen that are intent on creating state-of-the-art homes that enhance a homeowner's quality of life.
Steuer & Associates Credentials
In 1995, David Steuer formed Steuer & Associates and began focusing on residential home construction. Since he became licensed, Steuer has developed over a thousand beautiful homes for families throughout Oakland, Genesee and Wayne Counties.
- Licensed Real Estate Broker
- Member of the Michigan/National Association of Realtors
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- Founded the Real Estate Roundtable, a networking forum for professionals approved by the State of Michigan to provide continuing education classes for real estate licensees
New Construction Homes in the Farmington Hills MI Area
When you select Steuer & Associates to build your new home, you will have a dedicated team working with you through each step of the process.
A Sales Consultant will walk you through each step to specify your dream home. If needed, a Home Designer will customize an existing home plan.
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Walked in right around noon to find Skinny Lister on the main stage, and was immediately impressed by the British outfit's blend of Celtic folk and punk energy. Despite the fact that gates had been open only an hour or so, a large crowd had gathered to cheer on the band as if they were headliners. I also glimpsed a couple tunes from IO Echo, a Southern California-based indie band whose '80s-esque synth-pop produced feel-good vibes for anyone chilling in the Gobi Tent.
White Arrows, on the Outdoor Theatre stage, produced a sound right at home with the burgeoning blending of kinetic indie rock and electronica with melodic pop influences. The L.A. quintet's accessible approach went over well with those soaking up sun and breezy sounds, and right from the start, when they opened with the energetic, keyboard-heavy "Roll Forever," off Dry Land Is Not a Myth. From there, the set grew heavier, thick with guitar-driven grooves.
Equally successful at getting arriving crowds moving and dancing was the nine-member Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra, who nonetheless took a while to hit their stride on the biggest stage. The large Japanese ensemble mixed up ska, rock and jazz effectively but never elevated its many talents (a smart repertoire, virtuoso chops) into an artful whole – although their version of Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild" in the manner of Booker T was an interesting offering.


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