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I've mostly seen people peel a potato after it has been boiled and then cutting it to pieces if required. Given it's muddy exterior, I find it cleaner (and probably takes less heat) to remove the skin with a peeler before boiling. Am I losing anything when I use my method? What do you suggest?
A lot of us just eat the peel, but assuming you don't want to...
Certainly it's going to be a lot faster to boil a potato that's already been cut up than to boil a whole one, so between boiling whole and peeling, dicing, then boiling, I'd certainly pick the latter. It doesn't really have much to do with cleanliness, though; a good washing leaves the peel plenty clean and safe (and like I said, I eat it). You're not losing anything with your method, besides the nutritional value of the peel.
I imagine the reason a lot of people boil their potatoes whole is to be able to peel them without a peeler. You could sort of have it both ways. If you partially cut the potato (thick slices, probably), you could boil them in not much longer than it'd take to boil small cubes, then peel the slices by hand, and cut further if necessary. Not sure it'd really save you a ton of time, but if your peeler is dull/broken/missing/stolen, it'd be a decent fallback. (You could probably also partially boil them whole, peel, chop, then finish cooking, but that's starting to sound like it just makes more work.)
It's very easy to peel a boiled potato. You just rub it a bit and the skin falls off. I've seen this recommended in recipes for potato salad that use red potatoes. Since the red potatoes are smaller, they are more of a pain to peel, but they do cook relatively fast, so it end ups being easier to boil, peel, cut instead of peel, cut, boil.
I would suggest washing your potatoes. This link has a fine step-by-step. I typically use a brush with a medium-hard bristle, meant for scrubbing vegetables.
Boiling potatoes with the skin on leads to much less absorbtion of water. This is particularly desirable when making mash.
And I'm not sure who upthread said mud isn't water-soluble or why. Do you know what mud is made of? Dirt and water. In what universe would that not be water-soluble?
Scrub your taters, toss 'em in cold water, bring to boil. Peel if needed (personally I love leaving the peel in mash I make at home, nice texture).
If I HAVE to boil potatoes, I prefer boiling them whole, with the skin on. This keeps them from getting too water logged and "soggy". This may also help with your "Muddy water" problem, since the inside of the potato is protected by the skin. Give them a good scrub with an old tooth brush, under running water.
If you're making a small quantity, microwaving potatoes works really well.
It depends on the result you're after. If you are going to eat it boiled or steamed, just go ahead as you already do.
However, if you want to make mashed potatoes, then it's recommendable to leave the peal on. That way, the potato takes less water and absorbs the milk, butter, nutmeg, or whatever...
Where I live (my household, the households of my family & the households of my friends), people always peel potatoes before boiling them. Most don't use a peeler, but a kind of paring knife (for more information, but not in English: link).
I think this is the case because a lot of people still buy potatoes from farmers, so the potatoes are really really dirty. Washing them could be too much work. Even when the potatoes are store bought, people peel them before boiling. I think it's just a habit.
The only thing I've heard is that it's better to not cut the potato in pieces before boiling, because you lose nutrition. I have no idea whether this is true.
Once in a while, people here do boil potatoes with the skin on, but only if these are 'new potatoes' (the first potatoes of the new season).


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Do you feel angry, full of hate, aggressive, f****ing scared. Well, you ought to be. You have been brainwashed, duped, scammed, and played for fools by your candidates, their parties, your elected officials, your country. America is no longer great, it's the world's entertainment center. America has become a clown convention. And now we're forced to decide which super-clown is to run our country over the edge, into oblivion. A sneering brute or a political pole dancer.
There's nowhere to hide, people. When a whole country of more than 300 million souls becomes a tool for corporations and their hired guns, our government, those 300 million souls become sheep moving towards the butcher's blade. Sure, the Hispanics are surging to the polls. The Blacks are killing cops and burning down their own neighborhoods. Whites are doing what they always do: run, hide, point fingers, and hate each other. Obama and his kind, like Hillary, are perverting the human race and giving away the nation right from under us. Trump is a hate monger who is throwing full gas cans on an already out-of-control wild fire. Feel desperate, America? Are you thinking about your Second Amendment rights? Well, when you haven't used your brains in so long, your only alternative is to grab for a gun. You've been turned into mindless, frightened neo-Nazis by your leaders. And you know where all of this is going, don't you?
The family has taken a fatal long walk off a short pier…We have no families any more.
There's a saying that "All politics begins in the home." Well, when the family has taken a fatal long walk off a short pier, there is no home. We have no families any more. We have social media that is killing our humanness and giving you a virtual world that can be shut down any minute. Social media is a very clever way to learn everything about you so that it can be used against you, and you dumb shits love it! Keep looking down at your tiny stupid screens. Don't look up even when you're crossing the street. Too bad the driver's also looking at her screen. Who cares? You've become just a number, just another stream of data for Google or Facebook to sell off to a corporation…or your government.
America has become a joke gone bad, thanks to the Obamas, the Cuomos, the Hillaries, the Trumps, the Kardashians, the talk shows, the social media corporations. It's gotten to the point where there is only desperation, frustration, anger, rage, and hate. But who ya gonna hate? Yourselves for getting yourselves into this mess? Of course not! You have to finds some "other" to hate. And that's when we have another Kristallnacht! Remember your history, America: On November 9 to November 10, 1938, in an incident known as "Kristallnacht", Nazis in Germany torched synagogues, vandalized Jewish homes, schools and businesses and killed close to 100 Jews. Who will be the "Jews" in America in 2016?
Those who are ignorant of history are forced to repeat it.
We have always urged people to vote because we do not think that voting is merely a right, it's a sacred duty and responsibility to ourselves, our neighbors, our world. But we urge people to vote when there is a candidate to vote for. We have no candidates in 2016. We have CLOWNS and we are all in a horrible nightmare circus. Where do you turn, America, for a savior from this diabolic situation? Who is going to wake you all up? Are you all DEAD already? Mentally, morally, spiritually? We still urge you to make your choice known. Forget the candidates and write in FAIRPLAY in the write-in space on the ballot for every position! FAIRPLAY! Don't just vote for the choices that are not choices. Don't give them numbers! Don't feed their egos! FAIRPLAY and Justice may not win the elections but if enough of us vote for FAIRPLAY as our write-in, maybe someone, somewhere will wake up and smell the coffee before it burns us.
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Start with local politics. Just look at your local selections, the selection of the political parties and their local caucuses. Do you know any of those reptiles running for public office? Do you know anything about them? Of course not! You know only what they tell you and that's steaming bullshit! If you don't know them and don't know anything about them WHY? would you let them make life or death decisions for you? That's crazy!!!
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Ypsilanti Township asks judge to order a stop to 'overwhelming' marijuana odor
Tom Perkins | For AnnArbor.com
Ypsilanti Township has filed a lawsuit against a man and a woman accused of pumping a strong marijuana odor from their home.
According to a verified petition filed in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, the odor is so "overwhelming" that it has regularly disrupted next door neighbors' life over the last year.
Police and township officials say they have smelled the odor outside the home at 1397 Crestwood Ave. on multiple occasions. That constitutes a violation of a zoning ordinance that states that the "creation of offensive odors shall be prohibited" in any zone, attorneys contend.
The township is asking a judge to order the defendants, Deborah Klochubar and Michael Engle, to stop pumping the alleged marijuana fumes out of the home.
Engle declined an interview with AnnArbor.com.
Officials aren't sure what exactly is happening inside the home to produce the odor, which is especially prevalent between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. It is coming from a metal piping protruding from the basement window, according to the petition.
Township officials and attorneys stressed that the case has nothing to do with a violation of the state's medical marijuana laws, but is about the violation of the township's zoning code relating to odors.
"It's the noxious odors that's really the nuisance and that's the bottom line," Township Attorney Doug Winters said.
Township Attorney Dennis McLain said the smell is so extreme that one neighbor has been physically sickened, it has disturbed neighbors' sleep and prevented them from opening their windows on warm days over the summer.
"The neighbors are just beside themselves because of this over the past months. It's an unacceptable situation," McLain said.
In May, Engle entered into a plea agreement in which he agreed to stop the emissions after he was cited for a civil infraction in March. Officials say that agreement with the 14-B District Court has gone ignored. Winters said Engle admitted that there was a disruptive odor being pumped from the home by entering into the agreement.
The verified petition also questions whether Klochubar and Engle live at the property and states that it believes a grow operation or dispensary is being run out of the house. Neither is permitted in a residential zone per the township's zoning ordinance.
It also states Engle told Mike Radzik, the township's community standards director, that he was not in violation of the township's local zoning laws because they were "unconstitutional."
Debbie K Engle-Eller
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 9:35 p.m.
funny how this editorial board can publish private medical information and then censor posts that detail the names of the actors in a public record of a court proceeding. The names of the neighbors who brought the complaint and signed the affadavits alleging a foul odor from our home are public record but when I name Ken Foster and his family as possible defendants in a defamation suit based on their conduct and the subsequent conduct of other actors like this paper in perpetuating this lie.
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:34 a.m.
There has NEVER been any cannabis odor coming from this address. 2 firemen, 2 paramedics and a neighbor can now attest that on the night of 1/21/13 when officer morrison of WCSD knocked at this address at 520 am that the only odor anyone other then her and officer yie could smell were the sulphorous thiol compounds found in the anal gland sacs of the wild North American Skunk. I repeat, Officer Morrison stated that she could smell cannabis when everyone else could only smell SKUNK in the area and there are witnesses to the lie she put in her police report.. The township lied to the reporter in this article as this has always been about Ytowns illegal ordinance that clearly infringes on the MMMA and they state it is only about the odor. There was never any odor released at this house. There are only patients living there who publicly stated their position on Cannabis in an Mlive article. The township inspector who came in May 2012 to look at the basement said they got onto the house due to the article posted on Mlive. He then counted my plants and left. The township was back a month later and said at that time there was again no odor and on both visits they noted my air scrubbers. The township has always been about trying to enforce their ordinance and are willing to lie and break the law to do so. They are facing the judge tomorrow when Newburg Law LLC of Lansing argues that the MMMA preempts their ordinance at about 130 pm in front of Judge Brown at Washtenaw Trial Court on Huron. There will be Medical Cannabis Activists present as well as reporters from the Detroit Free Press, the last real journalists in town.
Debbie K Engle-Eller
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 9:07 p.m.
As the victim of the vicious lies and unsubstantiated rumors contained in this article and the article of 9/4/12 I can now state that Ypsitown Never had an odor complaint as it was all based on the "mistaken" confusion between a wild animal odor (A Skunk) as opposed to a growing cannabis plant (THE Skunk) Judge Brown would not take up the issue. it just disappeared from the docket. The hearing today as argued my Eric Misterovich re: patient caregiver rights and Ypsilanti townships MMMA infringing ordinance was the only matter argued today. The "odor" allegations have JUST DISAPPEARED. We are now talking to our lawyers about CIVIL Defamation suits
Fri, Dec 28, 2012 : 8:45 p.m.
Any chance a local authority take a peek inside and find out for sure where the smell is coming from?
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:34 a.m.
they got to peek twice and now there is proof that there was never any plant odor just the odor or a wandering wild North American Skunk
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 3:14 p.m.
How bout an Oreos and Cheetos party!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 12:21 p.m.
I am sure these a just sick people smoking pot to get well again. Isn't this what we voted for?
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:35 a.m.
the patients who live do not smoke, they primarily use topical or edibles.
Robert Granville
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 12:17 p.m.
Two words: carbon filter.
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:37 a.m.
one bit of advice. Believe not at face value what a corporate rag like this will do or say for profit up to and including Defamation. Please note that the newspaper that published all those legal gun owners addresses is now in some trouble for that very act. do you see any similarity here, particularly when the MMMA provides specific privacy protections.?
Craig Lounsbury
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 11:38 a.m.
"...... a zoning ordinance that states that the "creation of offensive odors shall be prohibited" That seems like a pretty vague ordinance. If I'm frying up some bacon and my neighbor is a vegetarian and a card carrying dues paying member of PETA am I violating the ordinance? Don't get me wrong, if the odor is that strong i sympathize with the neighbors plight.
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:39 a.m.
It is a seven letter one sentence ordinance and is unconstitutional at first and last read HOWEVER the odor they allege is being created at this residence is actually that of a wandering wild skunk and the wild imaginings of silly city slicker named Officer Morrison.
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 11:33 a.m.
Wonder how many people will be lurking around there now.. This article could make em or break em. Business may sky rocket or confiscated and not by the police either.
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 4:30 a.m.
These people most certainly aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer. Forget about the neighbors. Forget the town authorities. If these people don't quit pumping out the smell they're going to be the victims of a home invasion by gun thugs. Controlling the smell just isn't all that much effort.
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:40 a.m.
Critical thinking must be hard on your fragile brain. There has never been any plant odor coming from this house. It is a lie. The odor is that of A skunk as reported By The Polecat Morrison of WCSD.
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Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 1:01 a.m.
free smells.... oh, whait, that's jimmy john's
Michigan Man
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 11:57 p.m.
Looks like the front lawn could use a little attention? Apparently not enough $ left over after buying weed to buy a used lawn mower? How about a neighborhood kid?
Tom Todd
Mon, Dec 24, 2012 : 12:04 a.m.
Might be manufacturing it. Although is that more trouble then it's worth?
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 10 p.m.
Say, what was that grow house address again?
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 10:49 p.m.
You would never make it over the fence.
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 9:30 p.m.
Didn't notice the first half dozen times I saw the headline so I'm not sure what that means but check the spelling of the word "marijauna".
Rod Johnson
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 11:33 p.m.
Not to mention "Crestwoood."
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 9:16 p.m.
It looks like a fine place. The chain link fence in the front yard is a nice touch.
Tom Todd
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 9:55 p.m.
Good Fences Good Neighbors
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 9:24 p.m.
I would have to agree. The upholstered chair on the porch, illegal in uppity Ann Arbor, gives an air of sophistication. Yet, the rust on the fence and the neglected lawn suggest the occupants are refined, but not pretentious.
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 8:14 p.m.
"It also states Engle told Mike Radzik, the township's community standards director, that he was not in violation of the township's local zoning laws because they were "unconstitutional."" Well I almost wanted to defend him...until I got to this part. Know what's "unconstitutional" there guy? You FORCING other people to smell your stank. Period. The simple fact that this guy thinks he's ENTITLED to do this means he should have the book thrown at him. Go git em Ypsi....
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:43 a.m.
SO if the odor is not coming from here and IT ain't because there is now proof that a cop mistook the smell of A skunk for the smell of THE skunk and coupled with the fact that the owners are known advocates and now known patients I must ask you What say you now about Ypsi "gittin' em? The Detroit Free Press will have the truth soon.
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 8:18 p.m.
. . . township
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 7:41 p.m.
It's just them damn skunks
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:44 a.m.
Yes that is exactly what it is along with some polecats in Ypsitown like Razdik and Stumbo and at WCSD Like Morrison and Yie, silly city slickers.
Dog Guy
Sun, Dec 23, 2012 : 7:03 p.m.
It would be neighborly to keep a couple of yard dogs to cover the odor from their basement.
Alfred Edward Newmann
Thu, Feb 14, 2013 : 3:45 a.m.
the dogs keep the cops and skunks out of the yard.


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Google's attempts to go carbon neutral be the year's end are noble, to be sure, but is the world's favorite search company doing more harm than good? Consider this: according to one source (on the always reliable Internet), a computer monitor uses 74 watts to display a black background, whereas a screen with a black background uses 59 watts. According to further calculations, a black Google homepage would save 8.3 Megawatt-hours (Mwh) a day, on a global scale.
Enter Blackle, a site which is, essentially just a black version of Google. The site is powered by Google, and looks just like the site, but is black. Yep, that's it. Now go search darkly, for the good of the planet.


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City Hall may boast an impressive Christmas tree, but our neighbors to the north in Altadena have the Rose City beat when it comes to holiday displays. Christmas Tree Lane and the colorful lights of the Balian Mansion have become beloved parts of area tradition. Near December 24th, Santa Rosa Avenue, as it is known the rest of the year, can become as congested as the 405 at rush hour.
Originally planned as a private drive for John Woodbury, the street was laid out in 1885 and planted with 140 small deodar seedlings. The deodar, originally from the western Himalayas, is known as devadāru in Sanskrit, which translates as "tree of God." Woodbury was thought to have been the first to plant the tree in Southern California, returning from a trip to Italy in 1883 with seeds, which he planted on his brother Frederick's Altadena ranch.
Deodar Circle in Pasadena and Deodara Drive in Altadena, which runs perpendicular to Santa Rosa, were both named for the tree.
Before its majestic light displays became an annual occurrence, Santa Rosa Avenue was used for several years as a course for an uphill car race, which began at the corner of Villa Street and Los Robles and went all the way to Altadena Drive. Early drivers who took part in the race achieved speeds of "from fifty to seventy miles an hour," according to a 1906 L.A. Times profile of the race.
Christmas Tree Lane was inaugurated in 1920, after Fred C. Nash, a Pasadena businessman, proposed the idea. "Following out a plan proposed some weeks ago," explains a December 4, 1920 L.A. Times article, "the beautiful deodar trees on that street will be festooned with colored lights and trimmings, the Kiwanis Club having voted to share the expense with the city."
Originally, only a small portion of the street was decorated, but as the street's popularity soared among locals and out-of-towners alike, more lights were added. Today 10,000 lights adorn the deodars on the street each Christmas. The street itself is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Balian Mansion, at 1960 Mendocino Lane, offers stiff competition in the decorations department. For 55 years, the Balians' displays, which often feature a full nativity scene, have also been an Altadena fixture.
Habib A. Balian was born in Syria in 1890 and emigrated to the United States in 1909, first working for a wool manufacturer and then starting a rug cleaning company in Brooklyn, New York. Eventually he relocated to Los Angeles, where he learned the ice cream trade and opened his own ice cream business, the "Alympia Ice Cream Company"—later renamed the Balian Ice Cream Company.
According to Michele Zack's Altadena: Between Wilderness and City, the Balian Mansion was designed by the Postl architectural firm and built in 1922. Habib Balian acquired it sometime in the 1940s or 1950s.
The Balians were not without their quirks. They used to print the Pledge of Allegiance and the Preamble to the Constitution on the wrapping of their specialty ice cream bars, and in 2004, they displayed a massive banner in support of George W. Bush that nearly put to shame their Christmas decorations.
Regardless of the Balians' political beliefs, however, the Christmas lights at their mansion have been a hit for 55 years.
In more recent years, Upper Hastings Ranch has become a worthy competitor to Altadena. For years, its "Holiday Light Up" has inspired homeowners to pull out all the stops, with themed decorations. Various prizes for best display have been awarded since the tradition began in 1952, and Peanuts characters have been a recurring motif. (A "Snoopy Award" and "Snoopy Parade" feature in this year's celebration.) It's a real community happening: Neighbors pool money and resources, agree on themes, make work teams, and set timers so lights go off and on simultaneously. The display started on December 11 and will run until New Year's Day.


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Auto leasing, a casualty of the economic crisis, is making a comeback.
So far this year, almost one in five vehicles, 19 percent, are leased rather than purchased, according to figures from J.D. Power & Associates. In fact, the number of lease deals has surged from a low of 10.2 percent last summer, the Power data show.
European models, in particular, account for a significant portion of leases, according to Power: 51.2 percent of deals for European brands in the first quarter of 2007 and 42.6 percent in the first quarter of 2010. Even during the financial meltdown, the percentage never got below 37.4 percent, which it hit last summer.
Jack Ferry, a spokesman for Daimler Financial Services, notes that of the retail transactions Mercedes-Benz financed in 2009, two-thirds were leases.
"We never really got out of leasing," said Ferry, noting Mercedes' continued popularity in the high-end segments it inhabits. It's so popular that Daimler Financial has begun underwriting leases on its tiny and not-so-high-end Smart car.
Asian carmakers also have increased leasing in the last three years, as the Japanese and Korean companies have used it to raise market share. Leasing by Asian brands rose to 17.4 percent in first quarter of 2010 from 12.9 percent in the first quarter of 2007.
General Motors Co. and Chrysler Group LLC, on the other hand, have cut leasing dramatically since the summer of 2008 as the financial crisis closed in on both.
Leasing of domestic models dropped from 19.2 percent of the vehicles sold by GM, Chrysler and Ford Motor Co. in the first quarter of 2007 to 2.3 percent in the second quarter of 2009, as GM and Chrysler entered into bankruptcy.
Ford, which avoided Chapter 11 by lining up sufficient credit before the bottom fell out, managed to use that stronger financial position to continue offering leases. That has been one factor in the company's increase in market share last year, the first since 1995, according to Ford sales analyst George Pipas.
Overall, the lease penetration among domestic brands climbed to 8.4 percent in the first quarter of 2010, according to Power data.
Improved residual values, or what the car is worth when it comes off lease, also have driven Ford's gains.
"Our profit and consistent, solid support of Ford Motor Co. dealers and customers in a very challenging economy demonstrate our unique value as Ford's financial services company," said Mike Bannister, chairman and chief executive of Ford Motor Credit Co. "We remain well-positioned to help put people behind the wheels of Ford products as the economy improves."
Susan Docherty, GM's new vice president of sales, service and marketing, said that leasing accounts for 5 to 6 percent of the automaker's sales.
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Veteran actor Michael Douglas was honored by the United Nations Children's Fund on Tuesday in recognition of his long-running campaign for the disarmament of nuclear weapons.
The actor, who has been a United Nations Messenger of Peace since 1998, received the Danny Kaye Humanitarian Peace Award to mark his determined effort to have the bombs eliminated.
After taking to the podium at the UNICEF Ball in Beverly Hills, Calif., Douglas noted how the first atomic weapon hit Hiroshima, Japan, a year after his birth in 1944.
He told the star-studded crowd, "I was born in 1944, one year before the first bomb went off, and I hope in my lifetime to see the elimination of the weapons."
Douglas also insisted he will continue to aid UNICEF efforts to reduce countries' nuclear arsenals, despite the slow speed at which talks can take place.
He added, "Sure, it's painful. We were gearing up just a few years ago for… talks with President Obama and the Russians and there was a reduction in warheads.
"But things have gotten cool now again between Russia and the U.S. and it has slowed down. I think it will happen again. We will have an increased reduction."
The accolade is named after entertainer Danny Kaye, who devoted himself to helping children around the world through the charity.


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Birth Date: August 20, 1961
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2010 was Lincoln's finest season to date placing 22nd in the World Standings, which qualified him for his first career Calgary Stampede Rangeland Derby in 2011. Lincoln won his first career day money on the WPCA Pro Tour at the 2009 Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship which briefly held up as the track record. He started his career with the Western Chuckwagon Association (WCA), and won top rookie driver honors in 2006 and qualified for the winner–take–all championship final heat at the WCA's Dawson Creek show in 2007. Prior to driving thoroughbred chuckwagons, Lincoln drove pony chuckwagons winning 3 British Columbia Pony Chuckwagon Championships, 4 Fraser Valley Pony Chuckwagon Championships and nearly 25 show championships along the way. Lincoln is a member of the Cheam First Nation, and owns K & L Contracting - a successful gravel pit in Rosedale, British Columbia. He played premiere soccer for many years, and enjoys race horses and basketball. Lincoln, his wife Sandy and their 2 children - Christine and Kirk - make their home in Rosedale, British Columbia located on the Fraser River east of Chilliwack.
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As soon as the redesigned 7-series hit the ground as a 2009 model, we knew we wanted to subject one to a 40,000-mile long-term test. But we decided to wait for BMW to introduce its xDrive all-wheel-drive system on the big sedan before starting our affair, which allowed us to take delivery of our long-term 2010 BMW 750Li xDrive right in the middle of a cold and snowy Michigan winter.
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Although the 750Li with xDrive starts at $91,075, including an $875 destination charge and $1300 gas-guzzler tax, BMW went a bit nuts and sent us a nearly loaded example with $29,600 worth of luxury, performance, and technology options. The rundown: M Sport package with 20-inch wheels ($7800); Luxury Rear Seating package with massaging, cooled, and adjustable rear seats ($3700); Luxury Seating package, including heated rear seats, a ski bag, heated steering wheel, active and ventilated front seats, and power rear and rear side window sunshades ($2800); Rear Entertainment package ($2200); Premium Sound package ($2000); Convenience package with automatic opening and closing trunk, soft-close doors, and keyless ignition and locking ($1700); Driver Assistance package including blind-spot detection, lane-departure warning, and automatic high beams ($1350); and the Camera package with rear- and side-view cameras ($750). Whew!
The result of this option opulence is a breathtaking 7-series and the most expensive long-term vehicle we've ever had. Although some of the options have generated a few complaints, most of the extra gear only enhances the fabulousness of the already luxurious 7-series.
In addition to the 400-hp, twin-turbocharged V-8 of our 750Li, BMW also offers a 535-hp twin-turbo V-12 in the 760Li, and a 320-hp twin-turbo inline-6 in the new-for-2011 740i/Li. With our 750Li managing a 0-to-60-mph time of 5.1 seconds, we wonder why anyone would need the more powerful 760.
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So far, a few logbook gripes have concentrated on the odd placement of the interior door pulls. Located just below the door glass, the pulls hide behind some wood trim and, as a result, where to grab to close the door isn't immediately apparent. It's an annoyance that fades as one spends more time with the car, but was anything really wrong with a traditional handle?
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Given a marked lack of winter traction with the stock rubber, we quickly swapped out the Bimmer's 20-inch wheels and performance tires (part of the M Sport package) for snow-friendly Pirelli Winter 270 Sottozero Serie II run-flat tires on 19-inch BMW wheels.
We noticed that the new Pirelli winter tires introduced a minor but annoying vibration at highway speeds. A second and third balancing didn't change the problem, as the vibration persisted. Wheels and tires were checked, and checked again, but there is no obvious reason as to why the tires continued to vibrate. The folks at Pirelli were as mystified as us and are sending a new set. As soon as we receive the new tires, we'll be sending the old ones back to Pirelli for testing.
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As you'd expect, our loaded-to-the-gills 750Li has every electronic-nanny technology available. Lane-departure warning, blind-spot monitoring, collision warning, and radar-based cruise control that can slow the car down to a complete stop are all present on our tester. All of the systems can be shut off, with the exception of the radar cruise control. Like all radar-cruise systems, the radar detects objects and cars in front and adjusts speed accordingly. The option costs $2400 and the radar portion of the cruise control cannot be switched off. Set the cruise, come up on a car going about five mph slower than the 7-series, and the big BMW starts slowing down to the speed of the car in front way early, about 10 car lengths behind. The solution is to intervene by keeping the speed steady with the throttle, but what's the point of cruise control if we're using the pedals?
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The Society of Bluffton Artists presents "Eyes on the Lowcountry," a collection of photographs by two artists, Tom Korbutt and Wes Grady. This show, featuring images of the compelling natural beauty of our area, will be on display until Feb. 3.
Korbutt's passion for photography started during his working career which included worldwide travel. His journeys exposed him to photo opportunities which developed his love of nature and wildlife. His background in design/engineering blended his artistic talent and discipline to bring out the beauty of nature through the eye of his camera.
Grady is a retired attorney from New York and has been involved in photography for nearly 60 years, starting with a box camera given to him by his great-great grandfather. He progressed into professional photography operating a photo studio while attending law school. After retiring to the Lowcountry from law practice Grady has been documenting his love of nature through photography. He displays his work locally and has won numerous awards including First Place in the 2012 SOBA Black & White competition.
Both men are members of various local, regional and national camera clubs.
Korbutt and Grady's collection of spectacular work in this show is not to be missed. A reception to meet the artists is planned from 3-5 p.m., Sunday at the SOBA Gallery. Refreshments will be served. The gallery is located at the corner of Church and Calhoun Street in Old Town Bluffton. Call 757-6586 or visit sobagallery.com for more information.


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My textbook says that solutions for the equation $y'=-y^2$ must always be 0 or decreasing. I don't understand—if we're solving for y', then wouldn't it be more accurate to say it must always be 0 or negative. Decreasing seems to imply that we're looking at a full graph, even though the book is talking about individual solutions. Can someone explain this?
Secondly, it gives that the family $y=\frac{1}{x+C}$ as solutions for the equation. It then tells me that 0 is a solution for y in the original equation that doesn't match the family, but I don't quite understand that. How can we know that y' will equal 0 if we're specifically looking outside of the family of solutions it gives?


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Minnesota's own guide to great gardening and landscaping. A State-by-State Gardening Publication
A Painted 'Forest'
Try this cool idea this winter for long-lasting color
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Since I come from an area that receives an average of 44 inches of rain a year, you may be surprised to hear me touting waterwise garden design. Out West, this is a way of life. However, on the East Coast, we have experienced long periods of drought in recent years. If Raleigh's annual rainfall came as 1 inch every week, there would be little need for waterwise design. But it doesn't. Summers, in particular, can be hot and dry. It wasn't until we experienced the worst drought in 100 years, with outdoor watering restrictions and no major rain in sight, that I began to take note ... >> read article
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But a few weeks later, the flowers faded, petals fell to the ground, the stems were bare and there was only leftover foliage to watch wither away. Not so exciting. >> read article
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Does this sound familiar? I used to be really bad at over purchasing seeds and plants. I figured that since I have room, it would be OK to just let the garden size creep another foot or two. Until this got out of control and I had an epiphany one summer a few years ago: A lot of the produce that I was planting was just going to waste. So I started planning my vegetable garden according to what we would consume ... >> read article
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The Navajo Nation says it will end its wild horse roundups and reverse its public support for a return to domestic horse slaughter after talks with former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly said Tuesday that he met with Richardson over the weekend and they agreed to work together to find more long-term and humane solutions to the horse overpopulation problem.
Richardson and actor Robert Redford created the Foundation to Protect New Mexico Wildlife this summer to fight efforts by a Roswell, N.M., company and others to slaughter horses.
Shortly after the foundation was announced, the Navajo Nation came out in support of the company, saying it has 75,000 feral horses drinking wells dry and causing ecological damage to the drought-stricken range. It has also been rounding up and selling horses, knowing some would likely end up in horse slaughter plants south of the border.
But in a statement issued Tuesday, Shelly said the tribe will pull back its support for the plant and suspend horse roundups while it works with the foundation and other groups to develop and implement alternative policies to manage feral horse populations. Possible solutions include equine birth control, adoption, land management and public education.
"Our land is precious to the Navajo people as are all the horses on the Navajo Nation. Horses are sacred animals to us. Both the land and the animals must be responsibly managed," Shelly said in a statement. "For too long, this issue has gone unaddressed putting us in the situation we are today where chapters are facing real problems with uncared for animals damaging local land and domestic livestock. I am thankful we can partner with agencies that have resources to help us find real long-term solutions."
Richardson said that persuading Shelly to change his position on horse roundups and slaughter "is exactly the outcome horse advocates, such as myself, had hoped for."
Congress effectively banned horse slaughter by cutting funding for plant inspectors in 2006. The ban was lifted in 2011, and Valley Meat Co. of Roswell has been battling ever since for permission to open its converted cattle slaughterhouse. The USDA issued a permit this summer, but litigation by animal protection groups has delayed its planned August opening.
The return to domestic slaughter has divided horse rescue and animal welfare groups, ranchers, politicians and Indian tribes about what is the most humane way to deal with the country's horse overpopulation. Much of the debate also focuses on whether they are companion animals or livestock.
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Last Sunday in San Antonio, as Will MacKenzie played into contention at the Texas Open, he tried to keep thoughts of the Masters out of his head. He was tied for second after a final-round 70, and then waited for the leader, Steven Bowditch, to finish.
MacKenzie, a 39-year-old PGA Tour journeyman, knew that a win would mean his first trip to Augusta National. But Bowditch, 30, won by a stroke, earning a berth in his first Masters.
"It's a dream of mine, to play in the Masters, sure," MacKenzie said two days later by phone from his home in Jupiter, Fla. "But I guess it's a dream that's going to have to wait at least a year."
MacKenzie skipped this weekend's Houston Open, where a victory would have secured his place in the season's first major tournament.
"It had been my plan all along to take this week off," he said, "but I didn't know I'd have come so close to getting into the Masters, and my hand is somewhat hot. But I'm sticking to my plan, and I've got huge weeks of golf coming up and I'm going to prepare for those. I've got a chance to play in other majors, and even though Augusta would be my favorite, I'm going to have to try to get into it next year somehow."
MacKenzie is trying to add discipline and structure to his game. In 11th place in the FedEx Cup standings and second on the PGA Tour with five top-10 finishes, he has put together the best season of his career. He has earned $1,782,250, which is more than $600,000 better than his previous best money-winning season, 2007.
But after 2007, his earnings declined each year until he lost his PGA Tour card after the 2011 season. Playing on the Web.com Tour in 2012, he earned less than $50,000.
"Until about six months ago, I was broke as a joke," he said. "I was living in a $2 million house with an epic view on the water in Jupiter and getting run dry. Living a PGA Tour lifestyle on Web.com money.
"I'm back to living in a little townhouse. It's fine. It's perfect. I'd like to upgrade just a little bit here in the future so my boys can have a yard to play in, but I need to be normal."
MacKenzie has rarely taken a normal path. Although he was a terrific junior golfer in Greenville, N.C., he quit playing seriously at 14 after missing two short putts that kept him from winning first-place trophies. He was a star soccer player and football place-kicker in high school but chose to be an action sports vagabond rather than stay at Lees-McRae College in the mountains of North Carolina. For five years, he lived out of a van, bouncing from ski destinations to surfing outposts and white-water kayaking hot spots. At one point, he lived in a snow cave in Alaska, he said, going 30 days without showering.
"It was a pretty soulful thing to do at the time," MacKenzie said. "Except for the broken bones, bumps and bruises you get along the way from those types of sports."
In 1999, while trying to heal, he watched on television as Payne Stewart won the United States Open at Pinehurst, and then went to the range to hit a bucket of golf balls. Six years later, he was on the PGA Tour, making hundreds of thousands of dollars. He married a swimsuit model, Alli Spencer, had two sons, Maverick and Nash, and seemed to be on his way.
"It's almost like being a drug addict who has to go to the brink before they go to rehab," MacKenzie said. "They almost have to die first. For me, it's almost like I had to be broke to realize, well, I need to be smarter and think about my children's future. I'm just hoping I make the right decisions this time with the money I'm making now."
MacKenzie credits much of his 2014 success to putting his life in order off the course. He and Alli are divorcing. When MacKenzie is not on tour, Maverick and Nash live with him full time.
"In 2010, Alli and Maverick went to 24 events with me," MacKenzie said. "That was a huge undertaking, and it took its toll. I love my family more than anything in the world, but traveling around on the PGA Tour with toys and strollers and all that became unmanageable for me. I couldn't be selfish, but that meant I couldn't get the reps I needed to play well.
"This year, I think I'll have the boys with me at five events, and I'll have people there to help me."
MacKenzie earned his way onto the PGA Tour last year through the Web.com Tour finals, which replaced the qualifying school last year, and he credited his coach, Jeff Leishman, who works out of the Dye Preserve in Jupiter, with helping him adopt what they both call "the plan."
Leishman said: "Most of what we talk about is just repeating the same stuff. We have one thing for his putting. One thing for his pitching. One or two things for ball-striking. We agreed there's not going to be a lot of indecision on the course. When we're together, we check to see that everything is O.K.
"There's been no rebuilding of his golf swing. That wasn't needed."
Part of their plan is for proper rest, which is behind MacKenzie's decision to pass on the last event that could have taken him to Augusta. MacKenzie, who is 84th in the world rankings, can rationalize.
"Last year, I felt like I was playing some pretty good golf," MacKenzie said with a laugh, "and I think I was ranked No. 700 in the world. I would say to friends: 'Man, I've got to be more like 400th, don't I? Maybe 500th? Not 700th.' Well, now I'm in the top 100, so something's working. I'm licking my chops right now, ready to go higher, but I'm not going to change what's working."


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