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With the New York Knicks finalizing their agreement Friday to have Phil Jackson head their front office, a truth was revealed across the country that seemed unthinkable not long ago: Kobe Bryant has lost his clout with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Despite all that campaigning with fellow Los Angeles Lakers legend Magic Johnson for the return of the "Zen Master" and all those protests of disappointment and frustration in the post-Jerry Buss era that looks destined to become the worst in the franchise's storied history, Bryant's once-powerful voice fell on the deaf ears of the Buss brothers who are cutting off their proverbial nose to spite their fans' purple-and-gold faces. Again.
"It would be hard for me to understand that happening twice," Bryant, who is out for the rest of the season with a left knee fracture, said Wednesday in reference to Jackson's near-return as coach in November 2012 and now this. "It would be tough. I don't really get it."
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Oh, how 2007 must seem like so long ago in Bryant's maddened mind.
Those were the days when Bryant could rattle cages and expect results, when his trade demand that played out in the most dramatic of fashions resulted in the acquisition of Pau Gasol and a return to the title-contending status he was taught to expect by the late Jerry Buss. But the problem that isn't going away anytime soon now is that the two-year, $48.5 million extension given to Bryant, 35, in late November was not hush money. He'll keep banging on his bosses and calling a spade a spade from now until his end.
As well he should. The Tuesday news conference should be in Los Angeles, not New York.
Say what you will about the Knicks and all their well-chronicled warts. But as the Lakers careen even deeper into their abyss with the aging and hobbled Bryant as their lead recruiter and widely criticized Jim Buss as their chief decision maker, they were even more in need of a game-changing addition to the upper ranks than their flagship franchise counterparts in the Eastern Conference.
And say what you will about Jackson and all those fair questions about whether he'll be able and willing to keep up with the grind that is roster building. But his return to the Lakers would have sent the strongest of messages to prospective free agents and fans alike that the Lakers were in good hands again. That is to say nothing, of course, of how fiancée and top Lakers executive Jeanie Buss would have loved to have her beau in tow again.
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You would have thought they learned their lesson the first time.
The decision to hire D'Antoni over Jackson had a ripple effect that continues still, as it did serious damage to the Lakers' ability to hold onto big man Dwight Howard in free agency. Howard, who ultimately left about $30 million on the table to sign with the Houston Rockets, was known to hold Jackson in very high regard and, according to a person with knowledge of his thinking at the time, his outlook for the Lakers' future would have been much brighter with Jackson in tow. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation.
Make no mistake, the family dynamic that is clearly dysfunctional after Jerry Buss' Feb. 2013 passing had everything to do with this decision. Yet Jim isn't going it alone here when it comes to making these sorts of calls: Oldest brother Johnnie is executive vice president of strategic development, brother Joey runs the Lakers' NBA Development League team and is also an alternate governor, and youngest brother Jessie Buss is director of scouting. General manager Mitch Kupchak is doing his due diligence as always within that mix, working among the noise and walking ever so slowly down rebuilding road.
This will all make for another great Lakers book someday, and maybe then we'll find out if all the chatter is true that Jerry made Jim swear in his final days that Jackson would never return after he was gone. Jackson himself indicated in a recent interview with USA TODAY Sports that Jerry made the surprising final call to hire Mike D'Antoni as coach when Jackson's hiring seemed all but official last season. It would shock no one, then, if it turned out that the senior Buss' aversion to Jackson's return was extended out of respect to their father from there.
"(Jerry) has been gone for a year now, and (the Buss children) are still just kind of figuring out, 'How are we going to do this?' " Jackson said in the March 1 interview. "So I think they want to have an opportunity to do it. And Mitch, obviously, has a relationship with Jimmy that has been going on since, I think, 2004 or so, when he started becoming really involved. ... They've got a relationship, so I don't see that happening."
Even after Jackson's hiring Friday, hope remained in Bryant's camp that he would wake up from this nightmare and find Jackson by his side. But times are different in this Jackson-less version of Laker Land, and not for the better.
Kobe's clout isn't what it used to be.
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De-boned Turkey, Potato Flour, Apple, Pea Fibre, Pea, Potato,Tomato, Sun Dried Alfalfa,Canola Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E) , Chicken Liver (a source of natural flavor) , De-boned Salmon, De-boned Duck, Coconut Oil (preserved with mixed tocopherols, a source of Vitamin E), Whole Dried Egg, Flaxseed, Lecithin, Calcium Carbonate, Dicalcium Phosphate, , Sodium Chloride, Potassium Chloride, Fruit: ( pumpkin, bananas, blueberries, cranberries, raspberries, blackberries, papaya, pineapple), Vegetables: ( carrots, lentil beans, broccoli, spinach, alfalfa sprouts, garlic), cottage cheese, zeolite, Vitamins: ( vitamin A, vitamin E, Vitamin C, niacin: source of Vitamin B3 thiamine mononitrate: source of Vitamin B1, pyridoxine hydrochloride: source of Vitamin B6, Riboflavin : source of Vitamin B2, Vitamin K, beta-carotene, inositol: source of Vitamin B8, d-calcium panthothenate, vitamin D3, folic acid: (source of vitamin B9) biotin: (source of vitamin B7 or H, vitamin B12) , Minerals: (zinc proteinate, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, iron proteinate, copper sulfate, copper proteinate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, calcium iodate, sodium selenite) , Prebiotics: (chicory root extract, mannanoligosaccharides), Probiotics: lactobacillus acidophilus, lactobacillus casei, enterococcus faecium, bifido bacterium thermophilum), Glucosamine Hydrochloride, Ascorbyl-Polyphosphate, Digestive Enzymes: ( dried trichoderma viride fermentation extract, dried aspergillus niger fermentation extract, dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract) , Kelp, Taurine, DL Methionine, L-lysine, Yucca Schidigera Extract, Marigold Extract, L-Carnitine, Chondroitin Sulphate, Dried Rosemary.
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The first ingredient in this food is a named meat product. This is meat inclusive of water content (around 80%). Once this is removed as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh about 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in weight order, it is thus unlikely that this is truely the first ingredient in the food, but would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. Further meat ingredients (also inclusive of water content) do not occur until 11th - 13th on the ingredient list, below flavorings. This does not give us a great deal of confidence in the meat content of the food.
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Low Sugar Cherry Preserves
Despite a cold spring and a ton of rain, Colorado's North Fork Valley still managed to produce a beautiful crop of cherries, and within days of settling into the cabin, I bought my first case.
I was curious about how Jacques Pepin's slow cooking method—baking the fruit with sugar at a low temperature for a long time and then water bath canning–would work with cherries, so the first colander full of pitted fruit was put to the task.
The result was a preserve that was just sweet, allowing some of the natural tartness of the fruit to come through, an intensification of flavor, and the cherries became softly chewy, kind of like a dried fruit that has been stewed a long time. They are really delightful, though not so much for spreading on toast. Rather, the cherries are perfect for baking. I used some of mine in cherry brownies (basically your favorite brownie recipe with strained cherries mixed into the batter). In the past I've used cherries that I'd put up in syrup or fresh cherries, but in both cases the cherry taste really wasn't as strong as I wanted. It's tough to compete with the deep flavor of bittersweet chocolate. But because these cherries have such a concentrated flavor, they held up beautifully.
Here are the recipes.
Low Sugar Cherry Preserves
Makes 3 half pints
1 lb pitted Bing cherries
½ lb sugar
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
Pour the cherries onto a cookie tray (you will need a tray with a rim as the cherries produce a good amount of juice). Pour the sugar on top of the cherries. Shake the tray a bit to distribute the cherries, then place in the oven.
It took almost two hours for the cherries to become soft (1 hour and 50 minutes), but when they are, they will have a very shiny, exploded look to them, and will crush easily when you press on them with the tines of a fork.
Have ready 3 very clean half pint jars, 3 new lids that have been soaked for a few minutes in hot water to soften the rubberized flange, and 3 bands.
Pack the cherries into the jars and pour over some of the cherry juice. Leave ½ inch headroom. Place on the lids and screw on the bands fingertip tight.
Place in a pot, preferably one with a rack (but as long as you are using a heavy bottomed pot it will be okay—it just that the jars will rattle) and cover with water by about 2 inches. Bring to a boil over a high heat, then lower the heat to a rolling boil and process the jars for 10 minutes at sea level, adding 1 minute for every 1,000 feet above sea level.
Remove the jars, allow them to cool, and check the seal. Store in a cool dark place for up to a year. Refrigerate after opening.
Brownies with Cherry Preserves
Makes 1 9-inch tray of brownies
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into large pieces plus 1 tablespoon butter
3 tablespoons finely ground bread crumbs or amaretto cookies
4 ounces semi-sweetened chocolate, broken into pieces
3 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 teaspoon orange extract (I used Nielsen-Massey brand)
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup flour
1 half pint cherry preserves, strained
Place the oven rack in the bottom third of the oven. Preheat the oven to 350ËšF. Butter a 9-inch square baking pan with the 1 tablespoon butter. Dust the bottom with the bread crumbs, shaking out any excess crumbs.
Place the chocolate and remaining 8 tablespoons of butter in the top of a double boiler over a medium heat. Cover the pot and heat the chocolate and butter until they are melted. Remove the cover and stir the chocolate and butter together until they are smooth. Set aside.
In a small bowl beat the eggs until they are foamy. As you are beating (with an electric mixture or whisking by hand), add the sugar, then the orange extract, salt, and chocolate/butter mixture. Beat the batter only to combine the ingredients well. Add the flour, mixing it in with a rubber spatula.
Pour the batter into the buttered pan and drop in the cherries, distributing them throughout the pan. Bake the brownies for 35 minutes or until a thin knife inserted into the center comes out clean. Allow the brownies to cool in the pan, then flip them over and allow them to cool another 25 minutes on a rack, for a total of about an hour. Slice the brownies when they are cool, or refrigerate them and slice them when they are cold.
I'll probably do at least one more post on cherries: next time, dried cherries and preserving cherry juice, which is naturally anti-inflammatory, containing melatonin, kaempferol and quercetin. Plus it tastes delicious.
I recently had the very good fortune of tasting Spring44 Vodka, Honey Vodka, and Gin, new Colorado products that are available in Colorado and New York. I usually don't go for fancy spirits. I generally like my vodka working class. But I have to say, this stuff is fantastic. The distillers are using Colorado spring water from a source at 9,000 feet, which I am sure makes a difference, but really, the craft is in the botanical blends and careful distillation. I tried the plain vodka and gin in martinis and they were outstanding: dry but aromatic, very clear and delicate, with a soft mouthfeel. The gin had a complex array of subtle flavors–I loved it. But the real surprise was the golden-colored honey vodka.
I served it as a sipping vodka, very cold, before dinner a few nights ago. The honey flavor is not quite sweet, more like the taste of honeysuckle nectar, and very sophisticated. I wish I hadn't served it, because my guests–most of them beer and wine types–kept going back to the bottle and now I don't have very much of it left.


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Several readers have emailed me asking me what I used to make the party favors for my church's women's event.
Here is my work table ready to assemble the little pots. I like to set everything out and precut anything ahead of time so I can move quickly - assembly line like.
I bought peat pots at Big Lots - 10 pots for $1.00. I already had a roll of green paper raffia from another project. I think I bought it at Michaels.
I also picked up a bag of excelsior from Michaels with my 40% off coupon. For 80 party favors I used 1 1/2 bags.
So that I didn't have to use a lot of the excelsior, I recycled some of the shredding from my paper shredder in the bottom of the pots.
I tied a strip of the paper raffia around each pot and filled it half full of shredded paper.
I printed out little paper tags onto card stock. I just used the column setting in Word, getting 8 tags on each sheet of 8 1/2 x11. I stamped the little bird design with a rubber stamp I had. I cut down the tags and rounded the corners with a corner punch. I also collected little twigs from my backyard. I love that they have small acorns on them.
I topped the shredded paper with a small bit of the excelsior, stuck a tag and a twig in, and then added the speckled egg candy when setting the table. The tag can be used as a book mark and the peat pot can be used to start seeds in.


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So I've decided to start blogging on this new blog about all the other stuff that doesn't fit into my LLYMLRS blog! On here you'll expect to find stuff about beauty, life and misc fashion stuff. I'm hoping to fill it with bits and bobs like photos, thoughts on things I buy, wishlists, wants, beauty things, food, reviews, events I attend, pretty much anything I can think of in that day! I've written myself a quick list of things I want to post about over the next few weeks so Im hoping that this wont become a one time blog thing!
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The Classic Chevy1000 Point Judging system, developed in the late 1970's, has evolved into an internationally recognized method of properly judging 1949-54 Chevys, 1955-72 Chevys and Trucks and 1967-2014 Camaros and Firebirds..
Originally introduced to judge 1955-57 Chevys at early club events, the system has grown to include all 1949-72 passenger cars (including Chevelle, Nova, Corvair, El Camino full size, etc. . .), trucks and Corvettes and all Camaros and Firebirds from 1967-2014. In addition to the 1000 Point Show 'n Shine category, we include a "Cruiser" division, which allows owners to bring and display their cars or trucks and compete for Best Of Show and 10 "Picks", but not go through the stringent judging process. With the input of many Chevy "experts" and members, this system has become what we feel is the best system of its kind anywhere..
How important and credible is our system? Many times when a classic Chevy or Camaro is advertised for sale in Hemmings Motor News or similar classified ads or put up for auction, the owner will state ". . . scored 985 points and a Platinum certificate at CCI. . ." in order to certify the car and drive up the price to potential buyers. More importantly, after having a car judged, owners know how their car stacks up to the competition and what improvements, if any, need to be made to score higher. Some are satisfied to reach Bronze or Silver status while others strive for Gold or Platinum. Once a car achieves Platinum (970+ points out of 1000), it is instantly recognized as one of the finest Chevrolets in the world.
Suppose you've decided to enter your car in one of our events. Upon or before arrival, you will be asked if you wish to show your car in either Cruisers or the 1000 point category. Here's how to decide which category to enter:
Cruisers: Not ready to show your car, but still want to come and enjoy the event? This category is for you. No real cleanup or strenuous preparation is needed. You may display the car doors open or closed, hood open or closed. . . anything goes! A "Best Of Show" vehicle is chosen from the Cruiser category for both Chevy and Camaro. In addition, 10 "Picks" are chosen from all entries. These Picks are not necessarily the best cars in the group, but are often the most unique. Cars in progress and primer are just as likely to win as a shiny showpiece! The Best Of Show and Picks awards are presented along with the Show 'n Shine trophies on awards day. Cruiser winners appear in the magazine coverage along with Show 'n Shine winners.
1000 Point Show 'n Shine: This category is for car owners who wish to see how their car really stacks up against a 1000 point judging sheet. A fair amount of preparation is required to do well in Show 'n Shine because you are subjecting your car to perhaps 30-40 minutes of scrutiny by a panel of three participant judges.
Here are the items we will cover in our upcoming issues as they relate to Show 'n Shine:
|Tech Check
|Judging Sheets
|Selecting Judges
|The Judging Process
|Judges & Display Meetings
|Awards & Certificates
|Using The Sheets After The Show
In this Judging 101 series, we will outline in some detail our entire system in order to educate and hopefully entice you to bring your car to one or more of our events. While this series will just focus on judging, this is only a small part of our events. Tours, meals, live music, hundreds of classic cars, cruises, swap meet and the camaraderié of hundreds of other enthusiasts and families just like you accounts for 95% of the fun!
|High/Low Beam Headlights
|High-Beam Dash Indicator
|Parking Lights
|Brake Lights
|Rear License Light(s)
|Turn Signal Lights
|Turn Signal Dash Indicators
|Glove Box Light
|Heater Motor
|Windshield Washers
|Window Operation
|Neutral Safety Switch
|Cigarette Lighter
|Courtesy (Dome) Light(s)
|Convertible Top
|Power Seat
|Air Conditioning
|Emergency Brake
|Back-Up Lights
For each item that does not work properly, 1 point is deducted from your 1000 point total. For items like brake lights, gauges and turn signals, both sides and front and rears must work. If for example, the turn signals all blink except for the left rear, 1 full point is taken off. If the item is not on the car/does not apply (power seat, glove box light, convertible top), no points are deducted. If the item is present but does not work, a point is deducted. On custom cars that have been extensively modified and certain items like the wipers and horns have been fully eliminated, no points are deducted. All vehicles, custom or restored, must have an operable emergency brake as this is a major safety item!
Factory Original - less than 20% restoration on entire car and no changes from original.
Unrestored - less than 35% restoration on entire car and no changes from original.
Restored - 36% to 100% restoration on car and no changes from original.
Contemporary - 1 or 2 major changes from original.
Modified - 3 to 5 major changes from original.
Custom - 6 or more changes from original.
Full Custom - 4+ minor body cuts or a major body cut.
Special Interest - police cars, race cars, taxis, etc. . .
There are similar class breakdowns for trucks, Corvettes, Chevelles, etc. . all within this same system. Our system has sheets and categories for any 1949-1972 Chevy. Camaro has similar classes for all 1967-2014 Camaros and Firebirds. In addition, each of the above categories is broken down into driven and trailered. A car is put in trailered if it is trailered or towed any part of the way to the event. If your car is normally driven around at home to local shows but you decide to travel 500 miles to one of our events and elect to trailer your car, it is in trailered class. So, cars that are driven to our events do not show against cars that are trailered to the event..
The first 3 classes are easy enough to understand. These are cars that have no modifications (changes) whatsoever and are painted the original colors, wheels are original, no aftermarket accessories added, etc. . . But what about the other classes with changes? Possible changes fit into 14 categories:
Engine- anything other than the original engine called for on the VIN plate (no V=6-cyl, V=V8) and year. A 1955 with a 1956 engine would constitute a change. A 6-cylinder VIN car with a V8 engine would be a change. A correct year engine stamped as a 2-barrel, but equipped with a 4-barrel is a change. An original engine with a later air cleaner is a change. A non-original exhaust system constitutes an engine change.
Engine Compartment- chroming, dual master cylinder, fan shroud, aftermarket horn, aluminum radiator; any items not 100% stock in the engine bay would count as a change.
Transmission- anything other than the original transmission type called for on the engine stamping. If the engine stamping calls for a 3-speed, but the car has a Powerglide is a change. A 4-speed or a TH transmission in a '55-'57 would be a change. A 5-speed manual in a 1964 is a change.
Rear End- a rear end of a different year (a '64 in a '57) or a 9" Ford, a 12-bolt; anything other than the original rear.
Interior- any part of the interior (seats, carpet and headliner) that does not match the trim number on the cowl tag is a change. Also, a non-original radio, speakers, wrong color dash or steering wheel all result in a change. Seat belts are considered a safety item and will not result in a change.
Wheels & Tires- any wheel or tire combination that is not correct is a change. All chrome or aluminum aftermarket wheels and white lettered radials are changes. A tire that is grossly incorrect as to size or whitewall width is a change. Radial tires are allowed as long as the size of the tire and whitewall or lettering is similar to the original.
Paint- a paint color or combination that does not match the cowl tag is a change. Other paint types (single or 2-stage urethane, enamel) are accepted as long as they are original colors. Cars that were originally solid color per the trim code, but have had the top painted white would be considered to have a non-original paint scheme.
Body Metal & Exterior- any cuts, filling, chopping to body sheetmetal is a change. Glass modifications are included in this category as well (etching, tint film).
Trunk & Cargo Area- any trunk or cargo area (wagons, trucks) changes such as carpet or non-original paint results in a change. This area includes the spare and jack.
Suspension & Undercarriage- this includes springs, brakes, shocks, traction bars and anti-sway bars. Any non-original item under the car in suspension areas is considered a change.
Chrome & Stainless- any additional exterior emblems, trim, and louvers are a change. Also any original items removed (nosed, decked) is a change.
Air Conditioning- any air unit not installed at the factory or Chevy dealer is a change. Any components on an original air unit that are not correct (late model compressor, non-original vents) results in a change.
VIN- the VIN plate must match the year and series of the vehicle. If the VIN designates Bel Air but the car is a 150 it is a change. The VIN may also determine correct engine type. If a car has a 6-cylinder VIN but has a V8 installed an engine change would result.
Knick-Knack- most common items like blue-dot lenses, non-stock license plate frames or antennas would result in a change.
The changes within each area do not add up to create more changes. For example if the engine compartment includes chromed hood hinges, an aluminum fan shroud, air horns, dual master cylinder and stainless braided heater hoses; this is still only one change engine compartment. The only time that changes do add up is in Body Metal & Exterior. Four or more minor body cuts (radiused quarters, louvers, etc. . .) pushes a car from Custom to Full Custom class. All "pro-street" or tubbed cars are in Full Custom class. Cars with a major body part removed (hood) are considered full custom.
We are often asked before an event over the phone "what class will my car be in?" This question is impossible to answer over the phone. The above guidelines will help you determine what class your car might show in at one of our events. But, owners often overlook a change or 2 and wind up in a class much different than they anticipated! I always tell folks: ". . . don't worry. There is a class for every car out there. Just come to the event and let us handle the classification." Build/finish your car just how you like it and let it fall in which ever class the changes determine.
Clean up. This is perhaps the most time consuming and tedious part when trying to ready your car for judging. In the "old" days, nearly 150 of the 1000 points was allocated to how clean the car was. This resulted in folks taking cleaning to an extreme: wheels off, up on jack stands, 2 or 3 solid days of cleaning. We woke up and realized how ridiculous it was for our show participants to arrive at the event and spend all of their time before the show judging laying on the ground cleaning their car. So, we reduced the total cleanliness points to just 75/1000 and greatly reduced the points allocated to the hard to clean areas like undercarriage and engine compartment. This immediately improved the whole show experience for our registrants since they didn't need to be quite so fussy about cleaning. That said, a clean car will always score higher than a dirty one. If your car is dirty (water spots, brown tires, mud on the springs, oil on the engine, smudges on the carpet) not only will the judges take off points in the cleanliness sections, their overall impression of your car will be negative resulting in a lower score. The bottom line? Once you are at the show, they way you can most influence the outcome of your score is via how clean your car is. Perfectly white glove-test clean? No, just reasonably clean and sparkly.
What happens to the classes with only 1 or 2 cars? Very often the 6 cars assigned to a regular judging team (not judging split classes) may be made up of several classes.
|# Cars
|1956 Special Interest
|1955 Contemporary
|1964 Modified
If the team spends 20-30 minutes per car, judging the 6 cars will take 2-3 hours. If judging begins at 8 am, the team would be finished and ready to relax by 11am!
Once the judges are chosen, given their sheets and turned loose to judge, the real fun begins! Since there are 1000 points per sheet, there are lots of areas on the car to look at and lots of lines to write numbers on! Writing legibly is extremely important to assure accuracy in scoring.
Once the judges are all done and all sheets are turned back in, the tally process then begins. Each and every sheet must be examined and totaled. The totals of all three sheets are then added together and divided by 3. This gives the final score which is an average of what each judge recorded as their final score. That average is then deducted from 1000. This is the score used to award place and certificate. Let's use a hypothetical set of scores from a 1955 Custom class. .
|Car 1
|Car 2
|Car 3
|Car 4
|Car 5
|Car 6
|Car 7
Cars 2, 4 and 5 are Senior 1955 Customs. This means they have shown at a CCC/WCC event before and scored 900 points plus. Cars 1, 3, 6 and 7 are Junior 1955 Customs meaning they have either not shown before or if they have shown, scored under 900 points. Given the above scores and Junior/Senior breakdown, here is how the cars will place and which certificates they will receive:
1955 Custom Junior
|Car 6
|First Place 991 Points Platinum Certificate
|Car 1
|Second Place 981 Points Platinum Certificate
|Car 7
|Third Place 899 Points Bronze Certificate
|Car 3
|No Place 845 Points No Certificate
1955 Custom Senior
|Car 5
|First Place 945 Points Silver Certificate
|Car 2
|Second Place 922 Points Silver Certificate
|Car 4
|Third Place 901 Points Silver Certificate
Cars 6 and 1 will be seniors the next time they show as they scored 900 points plus. You can see that even though all 7 cars were judged in the same class, the Junior and Senior cars are broken out when it comes time to present awards. In the Junior division, if car 6, 1 or 7 had not been at the show, car 3 would have placed third with 845 points but still no certificate since it scored under 850 points. All cars that place first, second or third place receive an award plaque or trophy. All cars that score 850 plus points receive a Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum certificate. The two are not directly related. So, a car can place but get no certificate (as with car 3 example above) or a car can get a certificate but not place (if there are 3 cars in the class with higher scores). Once the results are recorded for the event coverage in the magazines, the original judging sheets are then returned to the car owners for their use. These sheets are extremely helpful to the owner so that he/she can make changes/improvements in their car based upon the information recorded by the judges. And with any kind of luck, they will score higher the next time after improvements are made!


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- Premarital cohabitation leading to marriage, kids with greater frequency, CDC study finds
- From 2006 to 2010, 48% of unmarried women aged 15 to 44 lived with someone for first time
- Report: Nearly 20% of women became pregnant within a year of premarital cohabitation
- Couples view living together as way of testing waters for marriage, psychotherapist says
Taylor Spearnak met her boyfriend in 2002, during her third year of college, when they were both congressional interns in Washington.
A friend set them up, and they laughed for hours over cheap burgers and a terrible action movie. They kept the relationship going when they returned to their schools in Boston, and when they studied law at schools in different states.
In 2007, when they reunited in New York City, they decided it made sense for them to move in together, Spearnak said. They lived in one of the most expensive cities in the country, and had law school loans to pay off. They'd be busy as new law firm associates, and knew they'd be spending nights at each other's apartments, anyway. Spearnak's parents trusted them, and thought it was a smart decision.
"We knew we were serious, but not ready for marriage. This was the next step for us," the 30-year-old lawyer said. "We wanted to be able to spend as much time together as possible."
As the stigma of "living in sin" fades and more people delay marriage, researchers are finding that living together before marriage can be a stabilizing force in relationships. It is often leading to marriage and children, demographer Casey Copen said.
Between 2006 and 2010, 48% of women between the ages of 15 and 44 moved in for the first time with a man to whom they weren't married, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. In 2002, it was 43%. In 1995, it was 34%.
That's 1 in 4 women living with a man by age 20 and almost 3 in 4 by 30, according to the report, "First Premarital Cohabitation in the United States," which studied male-female relationships.
"Generations that were cohabitating less are now being replaced by a group of women and men that find cohabitation to be quite normal," said Copen, the study's lead author. "Overall, these unions are lasting longer, they're more stable and the highest proportion of them transition to marriage."
The increase doesn't surprise psychotherapist Lisa Kift, who counsels married and unmarried couples in her San Francisco, California, practice. Just as social mores are changing what families look like, long-term partnering is changing, too, she said.
The study, which is based on 12,279 interviews from 2006 to 2010, found a shrinking percentage of women moving in with a man for the first time because of marriage -- 23% in 2012, down from 30% in 2002 and 39% in 1995.
"Long-term commitments are more broadly defined and for many, can mean cohabitation without a legal document or public declaration," she said. "Many couples believe they are doing their due diligence by having the experience of living together before making a commitment to marry."
But do these unions last? And do they lead to marriage?
The study found that 40% of women living with significant others for the first time between 2006 and 2010 transitioned to marriage within three years, while 32% of those relationships remained the same and 27% dissolved.
The numbers are growing across racial and ethnic groups, except for Asian women, the study said. Demographers use the information to explore how cultural and economic differences can change the experience, Copen said. Forty-four percent of white women married within three years of living together the first time, while 31% of black women and U.S.-born Hispanic women did so.
Fifty-three percent of women with a bachelor's degree or higher had transitioned to marriage by the three-year mark, while 30% of women with less than a high school diploma had married by then.
Spearnak and her boyfriend intend to marry one day. But, they've been together so long that it sometimes feels like they're already married, she said. Her parents want them to marry, she said, but by being committed and comfortable, they've pushed back against pressure. What's the rush?
"Neither of us feels a need to put a ring on it," she said. "We know we are solid. We survived the bar (exam), assembling IKEA furniture and moving."
Cohabitation leads to childbearing with greater frequency, the study found. Nearly 20% of women became pregnant within a year of moving in with someone for the first time, up from 18% in 2002 and 15% in 1995. The chances of becoming pregnant were higher among women younger than 20, foreign-born Hispanic women and women with less than a high school diploma.
Montclair, New Jersey, resident Sarah Groom lives with her boyfriend of nearly nine years, and recently gave birth to a baby girl. They met at a fraternity house in Boulder, Colorado, in 2003 and developed an relationship a year later. It was a passionate, impulsive decision when they moved in together in 2005, but stressful, too, she said. They broke up, moved out, argued over who got the dog and reunited more than once.
They live together now, and she wants to get married, but it hasn't happened. Along the way, there was "stress, chaos, self-doubt and even resentment," but it seems to have worked out, she said.
But, her experiences have taught her the importance of foresight, she said.
"I have a beautiful baby girl now, so it is hard to say I regret my choice," Groom said.
"I would advise people choosing to cohabitate prior to marriage, to not make the decision lightly and to discuss potential issues that may arise and how they would be handled well in advance."
There are still benefits to getting married, she said.
"One works harder to preserve a relationship," she said. "Its whole nature is less disposable."


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"Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" made over $200 million last week. What it didn't make, however, was one lick of sense.
Now, suspension of disbelief is usually not a problem for me. Tell me that a billionaire could put on a bat suit and swoop around fighting crime and I'll buy it. Or that a different billionaire could build flying armor in his basement. Or that in the future people will beam onto spaceships with their pointy-eared best friend. I'll accept all of it. I'll even take your word for it that a mechanized alien race can come to our planet, scan some cars, and turn themselves into vehicles.
That being said, there were moments in this new "Transformers" movie that were so confusing, so contradictory, or so corny that they completely took me out of the movie. Even days after watching it, some new inconsistency or plot hole would pop into my mind.
I can hear it already: "It's a popcorn movie. It's based on a bunch of toys. It's just supposed to be fun." And yes, all of those things are true. But that doesn't mean I can't ask questions about what in the world was going on. Here are the ten that I most want answered. (WARNING: contains spoilers).
- In "Transformers," there was this giant battle in the middle of downtown Los Angeles -- excuse me, Mission City -- that was witnessed by thousands of people at the very least. But somehow the government was able to cover up the whole thing, and now the existence of alien robots is just an internet rumor? How did they do it? Pay off everyone who was there and quickly fix millions of dollars in damage? Also, didn't Keller (Jon Voight) go on TV and tell everyone we were being attacked by "a technological civilization far superior to our own"? How did they spin that?
- There are two pieces of the Allspark cube left: the military has one under lock and key, and Sam discovers another. The Decepticons steal one and bring Megatron back to life. But when Sam (Shia LaBeouf) wants to bring back Optimus, he has to find the Matrix of Leadership on the other side of the globe. Why not use the other piece? Mikaela (Megan Fox) has it in her backpack the whole time. It brought his kitchen appliances to life, why can't it do the same for Optimus?
- Speaking of Megatron's rebirth, when the Decepticons venture deep into the ocean to revive him, the Navy crew tracking them reads five contacts. When they get down there, they tear apart one of the robots for parts to rebuild Megatron. Then as they rise to the surface, the same Navy guys say they spot six contacts. The little "Doctor" robot popped out down there, but he's about a third of the size of a person. Would he have shown up on sonar?
- That reminds me: even if I were to forgive the Doctor's German accent -- and director Michael Bay is asking me to forgive a lot of ridiculous accents -- why would a robot need glasses? He has little lenses that flip in front of his mechanical eyes. Couldn't he just get his eyes adjusted? You'd think with all the laser guns, someone could perform a Lasik procedure.
- Apparently, Transformers can look like people now. How? And how is it that even though the robo-girl (Isabel Lucas) is made of metal, she can still straddle Sam without crushing him. And if Bumblebee knows something's wrong with her, why does he spit antifreeze at her instead of telling Sam? Yes, his voicebox is broken, but wasn't it fixed at the end of the last movie?
- The Fallen is the last of the Primes, since they all sacrificed themselves to stop him from destroying the sun. But then he says that Optimus is a descendant of the Primes. First, Transformers have kids? And second, how could he descend from them if they were all dead? And if the Fallen could only be destroyed by a Prime, why didn't the originals just gang up on him back in the day? And what makes Optimus so special, anyway? Megatron beat him earlier, but all it takes is a few spare parts from creaky old Jetfire for him to take out the Fallen?
- Sam, Mikaela, and Simmons (John Turturro) go to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. to find Jetfire. Then they walk out the back onto a wide open field with old planes and mountains in the distance. When did the National Mall start to look so much like to Tucson, AZ (where they really filmed that scene)?
- The geography is just as bad when they go to Egypt. The stone city of Petra in Jordan is over 250 miles away, over mountainous terrain, with few paved roads and the Israeli border between them, so how can they drive from one to the other in a couple of hours? And the Pyramids are said to be shooting distance from the Mediterranean, but they are actually well over 80 miles inland. Even if the Navy ship had a secret rail gun, and even if the captain would take an order to fire from a former agent of a government branch that no longer exists (over a walkie-talkie that inexplicably starts working again), how could it hit a moving target from that distance?
- Sam briefly dies and goes to Robot Heaven. Robot Heaven?!?!
- Where does Sam's bandage come from? What about his extra sock? Why does Sam's roommate not contribute anything at all? What was the Fallen doing for those thousands of years Megatron was frozen in ice? How does one satellite receive transmissions from everywhere on the planet? Why does Wheelie hump Mikaela's leg? Why do we have to see John Turturro's thong? Why are robots who join together to become Devastator also seen fighting the Army at the same time? Why does the government want only our military fighting Decepticons when our weapons seem unable to make so much as a dent on any of them? Why did the ancient Egyptians build a pyramid around the sun-destroying machines instead of just breaking it? Why is the Matrix of Leadership bigger in the Fallen's hand than in Sam's? And how do Mikaela's pants stay so clean?
OK, so I went overboard at the end, but the questions remain. And I'm sure more will pop up next time I think about the movie. But the movie did make a ton of money, and it's earned a solid B+ rating from our users. Maybe I should go see it again. My questions probably won't get answered in a second viewing, but if I can just clear them from my mind I can be in Robot Heaven, too.
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I haven't had any repairs or work completed by A-Tec as of yet, but they have come highly recommended by numerous friends and acquaintances. I have been told they are very professional and thorough with their work. Will definitely be calling A-Tec in the future for any roofing needs.
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