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Monday, January 7, 2008
Smooth n Melty
There are a few candies that I like against my better instincts. Smooth n Melty Mints are just such a candy.
I was at the grocery store and saw these "petite mint chips" on post-holiday sale. At only $1.24 for a 12 ounce bag, I could hardly resist. Sometimes I find myself spending six or eight dollars a pound for these little beauties in pastels at a candy shop when I get one of those strange cravings. They come in two different sizes, the regular which are the size of a squat Hershey's Kiss and these that I picked up are the petite size that are like little chocolate chips.
What are Smooth n Melty? Sugar, partially hydrogenated oils and mint ... and a few nonpariels thrown in for a little crunchy texture.
While that doesn't sound good, they're simply buttery melting mints. They've very sweet but not too minty. There's a milky component to them, but it's not an overwhelming dairy flavor. They're completely unsatisfying in the sense that I have to eat them one after another until the whole bag is gone. (Well, there are a few left in the bag right now.)
The only thing I didn't like about this "baking chip" variety over the pastels is that I had that little bitter taste from the red nonpariels (red dye #40 again).
Back in '06 when Hershey's introduced their Candy Cane Kisses I was so excited. They were Smooth n Melty, only made with cocoa butter instead of partially hydrogenated tropical fats. Sadly Hershey reformulated those seasonal Kisses so they are no longer made with just cocoa butter so I didn't buy them this year.
Now if the partially hydrogenated thing puts you off, I did talk to Gary Guittard about Smooth n Melty. He said that they are working on reformulating them to include no trans fats. (But Guittard has no plans to make a real cocoa butter version, drat!) You can also get the mint disks without the nonpariels on them (usually for melting & candymaking) but I prefer the little crunch.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:05 am
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Guittard Akoma Fair Trade Chocolate Chips
One of the great new products I picked up in San Francisco last weekend was the new Akoma Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips from Guittard. They're Fair Trade certified from beans sourced from West Africa (one of the hotspots of poor working and wage conditions for plantation workers).
Unlike the standard Guittard semisweet chips, these are 55% cacao ... just a smidge darker than the usual chips. They come in a sassy metallic pink package instead of the also-easy-to-spot gold package for regular Guittard Dark Chocolate Chips.
The chips have a nice rounded chocolate flavor. Some strong berry notes, a little light smokiness and a good creamy melt. They maintain their shape when baked, as all good chips do. The ingredients are pretty simple as well: cacao beans (fair trade certified), sugar, soy lecithin and real vanilla.
I haven't seen them in stores in Southern California yet, but you can definitely buy them at Chocosphere for the same price as their regular chips. So good fuzzy feelings for Fair Trade and still a decent price.
My choice to make something with these for Thanksgiving was a Cardamom, Orange & Chocolate Bread Pudding.
Dice the peel of the orange and place in a microwave safe cup with 1 cup of milk with five crushed cardamom pods. Microwave until warm, stir and let sit for 30 minutes, then stir again and heat again. This can be done a day ahead of time and refrigerated (this will make the orange peel especially soft).
In a sauce pan put the 1 cup of pre-made milk mix (dig out the cardamom pods) along with the other 3 cups of milk, sugar and the loosely beaten eggs. Clean and crush the cardamom in a mortar & pestle. Add to the mix, warm over low heat.
Put half of the bread into the bottom of the baking pan. Add half of the milk/egg mixture to the pan. Stir to combine and get the bread soaked. Take half of the chips and cover the egg/bread mixture. Then put the rest of the bread into the saucepan to get it completely wet. Add that to the top of the baking pan. Sprinkle more chips on top.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 40 minutes. The pudding will pull away from the sides when done and the center won't move. It's a pretty dry bread pudding, so try it warm with a little milk or perhaps some ice cream or whipped cream.
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Guittard Quetzalcoatl
If there were a poster child for the fight for real chocolate, this might be it. This is pure chocolate, at its most basic form. The Guittard Quetzalcoatl.
Quetzalcoatl is one of the gods of the Aztec pantheon with a serpent head and feathers. He was the morning star, the giver of agriculture and creator of books & calendars. Most importantly, the legends say that he gave cacao to the Aztecs. (Truly making it a food of the gods, as the botanical name for the plant implies Theobroma cacao.)
The traditional chocolate of the time was made by taking whole beans and crushing them/grinding them on a metate (also used for corn). The resulting paste (what we now call cocoa liquor) was combined with milk or water and spices to make their chocolate. Xocoatl, the early name for chocolate actually means "foamy water."
Gary Guittard created this bar using whole cacao beans and no added cocoa butter. So the ingredients are just about the shortest you're going to see on a chocolate bar: Cacao Beans, Pure Cane Sugar, Soya Lecithin, Vanilla Beans.
The package characterizes the bar thusly:
This bar is dark and roasty with strong woodsy flavors in the cedar family along with smoke and tobacco. There are a few dried fruit flavors in there as well, with some raisin and cherry notes. It has a dry finish and is very filling. I have to admit that I'm a big fan of high-cocoa butter chocolate bars, as I think the butter buoys the flavors so that they can roll around on the tongue a little longer and you can tease out more of the intricacies. I was really missing the extra fat here.
This isn't a bar I'd eat all the time, but I like it as an educational piece of chocolate.
As part of the effort to Keep it Real, I asked Guittard if they'd be willing to donate something to the cause that I could give away. So after I pledged my $100 Chocosphere gift certificate to the lovely chocolateactivists who took the challenge, I also got a package of a dozen of Guittard's bars (a $38 value) plus this extra bar for my own enjoyment, of course. I did a second drawing yesterday using all those people who entered with the "raffle ticket" that commented to the FDA (to kind of even the playing field). The winner was reader desertwind! Congratulations ... I hope you enjoy the array of fine (and real) bars.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:25 am
Friday, January 27, 2006
E. Guittard Single Origin Tasting Kit
I got this fantastic single origin tasting kit from E. Guittard. The photos are deceptive, these are tiny little bars, each is 10 grams (a little over a third of an ounce) and measured a mere 2.5" x 1.25". There were four different varieties that came in a box of 16 wee bars. What was most stunning about these bars is the packaging. The little labels are lively and elegant with their gold leaf and description of the flavor of the particular varietal. Inside, the foil wrappers were beautiful too, with a delicate pattern featuring an impressive bas relief style scene of heaven knows what with three figures probably worshipping the cocoa bean or something. (The comprehensive press kit and tasting kit brochure made no mention of the scene.)
Each of the bars looks slightly different as well (except for the Sur del Lago and Quevedo) from different molds. All bars were 65% cacao, which is a good midrange for dark chocolate, allowing for lots of room for cocoa butter to give a nice fatty background to support the complex flavors.
Ambanja - notes from package: You're in for a rich chocolate experience! Made primarily from rare Criollo beans from the fertile Sambriano Valley in Madagascar, Ambanja mingles sour essences with deep rich, chocolate flavor.
Dark with a slight amber/red tint, this bar was buttery and smooth. There were overwhelming raisin and cherry notes in this bar. It definitely has an acidic tone to it, but not in an unpleasant, bitter or acrid way. It's really very nice.
Sur del Lago - notes from package: Complex chocolate flavors underlie subtle hints of red berry fruit. Cacao beans used to make this chocolate were harvested from trees of Criollo and Trinitario heritage in Venezuela's Sur del Lago region.
This one started out rather woodsy and sour. It reminded me of the zesty smell of piles of fresh sawdust from a fruit tree. Then the other notes started coming out, including the light berries and maybe some grape. It's pretty mellow and pleasant, but the high sour note is a little odd.
Chucuri - notes from package: Long, deep, slow chocolate flavors are accented by pleasant hints of spice. The Trinitario cacao beans used to make this chocolate were grown in the San Vicente de Chucuri Valley of Santader in Colombia.
Deep flavors dominate this little bar. It starts out woodsy with some balsam notes of juniper or rosemary. Then it's got some very strong cherry notes that linger for the rest of the melt on the tongue. It's got a high little topnote of lavender or maybe it's bergamot. It gives this bar the best balance of the four.
Quevedo notes from package: Quevedo's extremely dark color forshadows its powerful but flowery chocolate taste. The intensity of this rarefied Forestero varietal produces rich green forest, tea and slight nut flavors with a lingering banana and pound cake finish.
Smooth but with a notable bitter dryness at first. Rich and woodsy with an exceptionally buttery texture that makes it feel almost fluffy and buoyant on the tongue. I'm getting the tea notes, but I'm totally missing the pound cake the wrapper promises.
If you're looking for single origin chocolate that doesn't skimp on the cocoa butter and is so dry that it leaves you gasping for water, this might be the stuff. At only 65% cocoa solids, there's an excellent mix of flavor and texture that's not too sweet. All of the bars are exceptionally smooth without a hint of grain. Here's a tip: this would make an excellent Valentine's Day gift for someone. It's sensual, educational and you can share it.
You might think you've never had Guittard chocolate, when you probably have. Guittard is one of the top chocolate makers in the country, but most of the business is making chocolate for other companies. Guittard makes the excellent chocolate that you find on See's candies. It's hard to know who they supply chocolate to, but they're a huge operation and that chocolate is going somewhere tasty. I don't see Guittard in the stores very often, except for their baking chips. They're definitely worth going out of your way for. Most of the varietals from other brands that I'm seeing lately are higher cocoa percentages, so you're missing out on the cocoa butter, which I think is an equal part of the chocolate experience.
They're a little pricey directly from E. Guittard's store, you can also find them at Chocosphere (throw some Dolfin and Dagoba in your cart while you're there).
Other Reviews: SeventyPercent.com gives Chucuri top marks and here are their reviews of Ambanja, Quevedo and Sur del Lago.
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Let's start with the biggest negative of this game; possibly the only real point to nit-pick – the fumbles. Russell Wilson fumbled three times and we lost two of those. Part of this we can attribute to the O-line which has been playing better since Unger returned, but is still not creating a comfortable pocket for the QB. Part of it is on Wilson. It's a tough situation because he's trying to hang in the pocket as long as possible to make a play without having to just take off and run the ball for a few yards. There are times however that he needs to do a better job of protecting the football. The first fumble when he's hit by Shaughnessy, he's already seen that he's about to go down but still doesn't protect the ball. I respect the fact that he was still hoping he could make a play but you'd hope for a little more awareness backed up on your side of the field like that. Take the sack, or try to throw the ball at the feet of a receiver and try again on third down, rather than giving up the ball which immediately turned into a touchdown.
Discounting the fumbles, Wilson had a great game completing 62% of his passes for 235 yards, three touchdowns and a 122.1 QB Rating. So far in his career through nearly a season and a half, Wilson is above 62% completions and nearly a 100 passer rating. He also made some of the best throws I've seen in a while. His 31-yard TD strike to Rice on the opening drive of the game, while running backwards with a rusher in his face was a thing of beauty (but maybe after watching the Vikings-Giants last night and watching Josh Freeman send most of his 50+ passes 25 yards over his receivers heads, I'm just easily impressed). Getting the ball to Zach Miller while being tackled and parallel with the ground was pretty much one of the best football plays I've ever seen. There was another pass that he threw to Golden Tate in the end zone that was ultimately dropped, but it was into coverage, placed perfectly in Tate's hands. As far as giving your receiver a chance, the ball couldn't have been fit into the coverage any better. The defense made a play however to keep it from being a score, and it was a bit of a risk considering all the defenders near the ball, but it was a perfect pass in that situation. I think I recall the broadcast commentators say it was more like throwing into a porthole than a window.
Our running game was deceptively good, producing "only" 135 yards (I say "only" because that is about 20 below our average) but what stood out to me was a 4.2 yards per carry average. Prior to the game, the Cardinals were the 8th ranked team vs. the rush. 4.2 yards per carry isn't super impressive, not for us, but what was impressive was that we usually have a large YPC average from Wilson's scrambles to bump it up. In this case Wilson only contributed a 3.6 yard average – it was solid running from Lynch and a few nice plays from Turbin that bumped it up.
Defensively this game looked like I hoped it would. The poor Arizona run game was easily shut down, and Carson Palmer did what Carson Palmer does – make a few plays, and make a few mistakes. Mistakes against the LoB means at least a couple picks. At the start of the 4th quarter, the score was 31-13. Although he finished with 258 yards passing, going into the 4th, Palmer had thrown for a net of about 112 yards once you factor in the sack yardage up until that point. Another 106 yards and nine points came in garbage time when the game was already out of reach. The Cardinals finished the game with 30 yards rushing, and 234 total yards.
Fun Fact of the week:
For a team that most 'experts' and fans alike will agree is still waiting for the offense to 'click' and is missing some key players, Seattle is in the top 10 for yards per game, and top five in points per game. We average 8.3 yards per pass, good enough for 4th in the league. On the other side of the ball, the Seahawks are fourth in the NFL with 23 sacks. Seven of those came last week in Arizona, attributed to eight different players.
The Good:
• Bengals over Lions
• Redskins over Bears
• Panthers over Rams
Cutler heart just in time for the Bears to go down hill– Really? Again? Stick a fork in the Rams. Bradford was quietly having a good year with nearly 1,700 yards, 14 TD's to only four picks, and a passer rating over 90. Now – replace him with Kellen Clemens.
The Neutral:
• Falcons over Bucs
• Giants over Vikings
As bad as it was I admittedly watched the entirety of the Monday night game. Mostly hoping that if "football gods" actually did exist, I would be there to witness them nuking the field from orbit. I'm not sure what to think about the Falcons. Will they adjust to their injury situation and play better football? Defensively they aren't horrible. I still think our game with them will be tough.
The Not-So-Good:
• Cowboys over Eagles
• 49ers over Titans
• Packers over Browns
Thanks a lot, losers. The Cowboys reacted like they just won the NFC championship game. Hint: Neither you or the Eagles will be anywhere near the NFC championship game.
Overall this was a solid week of results. The not-so-good results were to be expected.
Note: this is not list of picks based on teams I believe will win, or necessarily want to win. Picks in Green are simply the teams for which a win helps the Seahawks a.) Make the playoffs and b.) attain a high playoff seed.
The Walter Jones Division (important games):
Bills @ Saints
Buffalo is going nowhere but I wouldn't mind if they side-swiped the Saints on the way to the gutter.
49ers @ Jaguars (in London)
Please? I've got a soul that I've never technically claimed is not for sale. Retail price: 1 (one) Jacksonville win over the Filthy-Whiners.
Redskins @ Broncos
Normally this wouldn't be a Walter-Level Importance type game. But if on the off chance we need to win a tie-breaker with the 49ers that comes down to strength of schedule, we want the Redskins to suck.
Packers @ Vikings
A Vikings win here would be huge for us based on the strength of victory tiebreakers. Unfortunately I think there's a better chance of my Jag's soul-negotiation actually going through.
The Ben Obomanu Division (games of moderate significance):
Cowboys @ Lions
I hate the Cowboys; plus, the Cowboys have a better conference record. Plus, I HATE the Cowboys.
Atlanta @ Arizona
Take your pick really. I'm only picking Atlanta because it's a division game, and because the Falcons still need to play the saints again so it would be nice if they were still playing for something at that point.
The Kelly Jennings Division (games that, like Jennings himself, don't really matter.)
Panthers @ Buccaneers
Giants @ Eagles
The inverse of WA @ Denver, we'd like the Giants to get some more wins to increase their strength.
Seahawks @ Rams
Pass Offense: 25
Rush Offense: 2
Total Offense: 10
Scoring: 5
Pass Defense: 2
Rush Defense: 6
Total Defense: 2
Scoring: 3
Turnover Differential: +7
Pass Offense: 18
Rush Offense: 29
Total Offense: 30
Scoring: 18
Pass Defense: 17
Rush Defense: 30
Total Defense: 22
Scoring: 24
Turnover Differential: +3
Vegas Opening Spread:
Seattle -10.5
I'm not in the habit of predicting blowouts, especially on the road. But I think Seattle rolls over another NFC West opponent in prime time. Our guys have a lot of pride and swagger and you know they love showing it off on prime time. I think that there will be a lot of 'hawk fans in St. Louis; meanwhile the loss of Bradford for the year has taken the wind out of the sails for many of the fans who realize that former hopes of sneaking into the playoffs as a wild card are pretty much over with without a QB who, as illustrated in the cheat sheet section, was playing well statistically speaking. On top of all that, unless the World Series is a complete sweep, the St. Louis Cardinals will be playing a championship baseball game seven blocks away. The Edward Jones Dome, which I refer to as "The Hospital" when we play there (it gives me the same sterile creeped-out vibe), is going to be about as un-electric as a MNF crowd could be. I expect the 'Hawks fans to energize our team to a dominant performance.
The stats don't hurt either. The Rams are 30th in the league at stopping the run, allowing 126 yards per game and 4.2 yards per attempt. Their rushing offense is 29th, and coupled with a backup QB who hasn't started a game since 2011, our defensive scheme pretty much becomes what it's been the last couple games – stuff the run and force a sub-par QB to beat the league's best secondary. Not gonna happen though. My prediction is that at least one member of the Legion of Boom will have multiple picks. My guess is that Earl Thomas will finish up week 8 as the INT leader in the NFL. I think the defensive effort might end up looking a lot like it did against the cardinals – a decent completion percentage for Clemens as we set up opportunities for turn-overs. Offensively, I'm tempted to lower my score prediction for the hawks a bit based on the fact that I think we are going to have so much success running the ball that the clock should be running down pretty quickly. But I also see us having too many opportunities to score. Seattle is a streaky team and I think last week getting Miller back and having an offensive line play a little bit better went a long way in helping us get things rolling. I could conceivably see us putting up at least 30 points in each of our next five games. I think Wilson will have something close to a 220 passing yard/ 1 TD day while Lynch does the rest of the work.
The only way I see this game being close is if Jeff Fisher and the coaching staff can convince their players that the season is not lost. In order for that to take hold, Kellen Clemens needs to come out early and show he can score. If they can drive down the field early and put it in the end zone, this suddenly becomes a competitive game. If Seattle gets out to an early lead, however, look for this game to end up a lot like last week, minus the part where Carson Palmer gets to show off his complete mastery of garbage time (and hopefully with less Wilson fumbles). I just think the atmosphere is going to be in the 'Hawks favor, especially with the awesome showing in Arizona last week – our guys will be that much more cranked up to have the fans in their corner. The rams inability to stop the run will open up the passing game, as well as create opportunities for Wilson to make his easy jogs past the first down marker and out of bounds.


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I bought this 2005 Chard from Willow Springs Winery near Stouffville the same day that I bought some 2005 Baco Noir from the same winery. What makes the winery noteworthy is the fact that it's located north of Toronto, completely away from any lake effect offered by Lake Ontario - something from which wineries in the Niagara Peninsula, by contrast, clearly benefit.
This Chardonnay really hit the bullseye in 2005, which was a superb year in Ontario and should be especially good for our reds. The quality of the fruit really shows through here, making for a remarkably good vinifera wine grown in a non-traditional location for Chardonnay in Ontario.
13.2% alc. Lovely crystal-clear bright straw colour with a youthful greenish tinge and plenty of pétillance. Ripe, estery green-apple and pineapple fruit explodes on the nose; brightly aromatic. Crisp, perfectly dry and warm on the palate with excellent fruit ripeness evident from the texture. Very dry and warm towards the finish, with pure Chardonnay-fruit replays and lots of minerally crispness along the mid-palate into the finish.
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1800 - 1809 Early settlements (temporary) made by pioneers,
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the Jaeger Farm. After this time, the people moved to Ft.
Woods at Troy and Ft. Stout Auburn for safety.
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1820 "General Putnam", first steamboat to venture north of
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1835 Methodist Episcopal Church South, organized.
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Clarksville & Western Railway Company organized.
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1886 Clarksville chosen for location of 50 mile bicycle
race & 100 mile race in 1887.
1910 Public Library built.
1921 Public Water system completed.
1937 Fire Department organized.
1938 Municipal Light and Power Plant constructed.
1939 Lock & Dam #24 construction completed.
1953 Clopton School constructed.
1962 Skylift construction completed.
1966 Natural gas piped into community
Dundee Cement Company constructed.(now Holcim)
1970 First public sanitary sewer completed.
2006 Clarksville population 490
Great River Road and is one of the most scenic highways along the Mississippi
River. It overlooks U.S. Lock and Dam 24, providing a close vantage point to
view all river boat and barge traffic. This City, located in Pike County, is also
one of the largest winter migrating areas for the Bald Eagle. Clarksville is filled
with artists, potters, glass blowers, jewelry designers, antique dealers, furniture
makers, and specialty craftsmen.
Clarksville, MO is on a National Scenic Byway and lies halfway between
Canada and the Gulf of Mexico, halfway between Hannibal and St. Louis, MO
and is near the Clarence Cannon Dam and Mark Twain Lake. It rests at the
foot of Lookout Point/Sky Lift Hill, the top of which affords an 800 square mile
view of the river and valley and is one of the highest points on the Mississippi
Pike County was the childhood home of Mrs. Albert P. Greensfelder, the
wife of the St. Louis civic leader who was the originator of the Great River Road
from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
With the historic Mark Twain lore of Hannibal, the beautiful homes and estates
in the Louisiana and Clarksville areas of Pike County, the first Missouri Capitol
and Old Town area of St. Charles, and the numerous attractions of the St. Louis
scene, Clarksville offers its' own unique place on an incomparable route for travel.


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Hear Snippets of New Justin Bieber Songs [VIDEO]
Justin Bieber shared a snippet of a new song via a video on his Instagram feed while attending meetings with his manager Scooter Braun, who is clearly trying (and failing in epic fashion) to bust a move. Another snippet of a possible Biebs' song also landed on YouTube.
Regarding the Instagram video, at least we can tell that Braun loves the song, since he is doing an impression of producer Rodney Jerkins and dancing like a maniac and like no one is watching... 'cept for the Biebs' millions of followers.
In the song, Bieber sings about a roller coaster over an urban groove. Maybe he's on a roller coaster of emotion? Up. Down. Up. Down. We like the 15 seconds we heard.
The Biebs is rolling out new music every Monday -- he started with 'Heartbreaker' -- for the next few weeks. This is a little early tease, and maybe we will get more of it? Perhaps we will get the whole thing this Monday, Oct. 14? Or another Monday in the next nine weeks, since it's a 10 week rollout of new music. Who knows? He is keeping us on our toes.
Then there is a YouTube video of Bieber grooving to a new song that may be his.
Check them out below. The "roller coaster" song is in the Instagram clip. The other is in the YouTube clip.
See Justin Bieber Groove to a Snippet of a New Song


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Groups file lawsuit to prevent illegal deaths of endangered whales
Fishing gear continues to be major killer of whales in North AtlanticBOSTON (10/31/2011) -
Conservation and animal protection groups filed a lawsuit today asking a federal court in Massachusetts to hold the National Marine Fisheries Service accountable for continuing to allow four federal fisheries to injure and kill endangered whales, including the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale.
Each year, endangered whales become entangled in commercial fishing gear. Entanglement makes it harder for them to swim, feed and reproduce and it can cause a chronic infection or even drowning.
Already, 2011 has seen the death of two right whales from entanglement, as well as at least seven additional new entanglement reports for right whales. Since June alone, eight endangered humpback whales have been reported with first time entanglements.
"Every single right whale counts when it comes to ensuring the species' survival, but the Fisheries Service continues to place whales at risk of injury and death," said Sharon Young, marine issues field director for The Humane Society of the United States. "Safeguarding the right whale from entanglements in fishing gear is a vital step towards moving this species out of the emergency room and onto the path to recovery."
"The Fisheries Service is well aware that North Atlantic right whales need better protections, yet it is allowing these fisheries to continue to operate without them," said Sierra Weaver, attorney for Defenders of Wildlife. "The Fisheries Service needs to take immediate action to put protections in place to make the fisheries safer. If they don't act now, we will see the extinction of the right whale in our lifetime."
"In an increasingly busy ocean, the survival and recovery of the North Atlantic right whale depends on protecting each individual from entanglement-related injuries and deaths," said Regina Asmutis-Silvia, senior biologist for Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
• The North Atlantic right whale is one of the world's most endangered large whales, with an estimated population of less than 400 individuals. In fact, the National Marine Fisheries Service ("NMFS") has previously stated that the "loss of even a single individual may contribute to the extinction of the species."
• NMFS has cited entanglements in commercial fishing gear as one of the most significant threats to the right whale's survival and recovery. Yet, almost every year since 2002, at least one entangled right whale has been found dead or so gravely injured that death is deemed likely.
• In addition to right whales, fishing gear used by the American lobster, northeast multispecies, monkfish, and spiny dogfish fisheries continues to injure and kill endangered humpback, fin, and sei whales.
• Today's lawsuit was filed by Defenders of Wildlife, the Humane Society of the United States and the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society in the federal district court for Massachusetts.
See what Defenders is doing to make waters safer for critically endangered right whales.
Contact(s):Caitlin Leutwiler, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3226, firstname.lastname@example.com
Katie Jarl, The Humane Society of the United States, 301-258-1483, email@example.com
Regina Asmutis-Silvia, Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, 508-746-2522, firstname.lastname@example.com
The Humane Society of the United States is the nation's largest animal protection organization — backed by 11 million Americans, or one of every 28. For more than a half-century, The HSUS has been fighting for the protection of all animals through advocacy, education and hands-on programs. Celebrating animals and confronting cruelty — On the Web at humanesociety.org.
Defenders of Wildlife is dedicated to the protection of all native animals and plants in their natural communities. With more than 1 million members and activists, Defenders of Wildlife is a leading advocate for innovative solutions to safeguard our wildlife heritage for generations to come. For more information, visit www.defenders.org.
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (North America) Inc. (WDCS) is the global voice for the protection of whales and dolphins and their environment. It is based in Plymouth, MA and is part of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society, a charity registered in England with additional offices in Germany, Argentina and Australia. For further information please visit www.whales.org.


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Steuber Distributing needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 106 designs submitted by 8 freelance designers.
Steuber Distributing
We are a major distribution company in the pacific northwest providing horticultural supplies for the greenhouse, nursery, landscaper, contractor, horticultural specialist, farmers and the like. We also design and manufacture commercial and personal greenhouse structures.
We sell tens of thousands of products.
nike.com: I like the product tables and how they are sorted and filtered.
homedepot.com: (on the homepage) I like the interactive menus, product display tables, and simplicity.
http://www.evo.com/shop/mens.aspx: I like the way they display their product groups and products within each group. I dislike the left side menu navigation and the right side manufacturer listing.
Think concise, appealing, and elegant designs focused on customer usability.
Homepage: This page is the gateway to introducing our family owned and operated business while allowing customers to view products, request a free product catalog, register for or log in to their account, or link to creating a new Sunrise greenhouse quote. This page should also display featured (and/or on sale) products and possibly company news, events, or other informative headlines.
Products View: This will be the single most important page of the website. This page displays product thumbnails in a concise manner. The thumbnails should include at the bare minimum: a product picture or missing image placeholder, product name, stock number, price, quantity, quantity type (bag, roll, box, case, etc), size, and a customer review snapshot. These products may be dynamically searched for by name, or sorted and filtered by various attributes (ie: name, date, category, stock number, quantity, color, price). Pagination will be required as we carry tens of thousands of products.
Individual Product View: This is a detailed page when the user navigates to a particular product. One or more larger images may be viewed (dynamically) and detailed information about the product will be displayed including customer product reviews to the customer (see existing website). It should also display product thumbnails (similar to the previous page) for any complementary products.
We've traditionally had two solid blue lines on our product catalog, freight trucks, business storefront, and other various printed material. The color is Reflex Blue (#002395). I'd like to see creative ideas with this traditional primitive branding scheme, but I am also open to entirely new, jaw-dropping color schemes and layout ideas.
Our customers literally come from every part of the social spectrum - ranging from the retired gardening hobbyist to the major local nursery and even all the way to local and foreign civil representatives.
You will see the majority of the back-end functionality at our current pre-release web address (existing website field) that will drive the website content and assist you in the design process.
Do you have an amazing idea with an animation? Let's have it! Give me beginning and ending frames and describe to me how it would animate the best you can - we can code it!


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An honor student and band majorette at Kings College Prep School, Pendleton was killed one week after performing in the festivities for President Barack Obama's inauguration.
Michelle Obama will travel with Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan-all of whom lived in Chicago before moving to Washington.
Police told CNN affiliates that the teenager had no gang affiliation and likely was not the intended target.
The teenager was killed amidst a national debate over gun control legislation. White House spokesman Jay Carney described her death last week as a "terrible tragedy."
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The world's newest ski, The Anton Glider, will be making its debut this year...first in Bozeman...around North America...and maybe even the world! Assembled in Bozeman, MT by Summit Corporate Services, the parabolic ski mounted with what, at first glance, looks like a compound bow minus its sight, is the brainchild of Anton Wilson, CEO of Anton Dynamics, Inc.
Built from the assembly of more than 12 pieces of ski equipment from near and far, the $3,390 apparatus probably won't be ubiquitous until prices drop, but Wilson believes he's "invented what the shaped ski should have been."
Wilson's is a ski that strives to assist a skier to constantly position weight on the tips of the skis, the physics involved in most easily initiating turns; center of gravity should be less of an issue with these skis. "It's the right device for groomed snow," Wilson says.
The Anton website states, "The Anton Gliders are NOT designed to float in powder, and should not be considered for off-piste, back-country, or spring slush."
Groomed skiing may never be the same. What better place to try out this revolutionary ski, the Anton Glider, than the snowy slopes of southwest Montana's mountains?
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Welcome to my blog(s)! I have two. This one is for sketches, tutorials, and other "bloggish" stuff.
Be sure to visit my PORTFOLIO PAGE, where you'll find my real work.
Saturday, January 12, 2008
Lily Pond Floor Mat
It's acrylic on very thick canvas...varnished heavily. Yes you can walk on it:)
34 comments:
- bog_art said...
Wow!!.. this painting rocks!!.. Thanks a lot for your tutorial!!.. HAPPY 2008!!
- January 12, 2008 at 9:33 AM
- Kei Acedera said...
That is super cool Paul!!!!so beautiful.
- January 12, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Catherine said...
Hey, very clever! A little trompe l'oeil on the floor.
- January 12, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- BOKY said...
Oh dear, I'd put it up on the wall right away! I wouldn't have the heart to step on it...:) looks beautiful!
- January 13, 2008 at 3:22 AM
- Shuku said...
...your wife isn't the only one who'd want something like that on the floor. I would too, after seeing something like that! It's another 'Oh lord' and it's -beautiful-. I love the BUBBLES. They are so real, and that little frog just caps it off. As for the fish...mmmmmmmm. Love the fish!
I'm still working on that kimono project with the pine trees and snow. I got ahh...distracted. By chainmaille jewellery!
-Now- distracted by writing songs for friend's album launch. AUGH!
- January 13, 2008 at 7:44 AM
- Louis-Philippe said...
It's great… and you should take another picture in a couple of months.
Just to see how well it's aging.
- January 13, 2008 at 8:27 AM
- jeremy melton said...
WoW! Beautiful work!
- January 13, 2008 at 11:27 AM
- dpc said...
Lovely... A well-traveled and ancient idea:
- January 13, 2008 at 12:17 PM
- Daniel said...
That is incredibly good. Nice work!
- January 14, 2008 at 1:35 AM
- Bobby Chiu said...
Beautiful. Jeez, I wouldn't let anyone walk on top of that painting if it were mine... even if it is a floor mat. hehehe
- January 14, 2008 at 7:35 AM
- Jason Seiler said...
Something this beautiful and well painted just for people to walk all over . . . . WOW man . . . just amazing!
- January 14, 2008 at 8:45 AM
- Paul Lasaine said...
OK, I have to come clean. Yes, I painted it as floor mat, to be walked on...
...but I haven't had the guts to use it yet. I keep using the excuse that it's going to go into the new bathroom that we're adding onto our house. But secretly, I'm happy that the bathroom is taking longer to finish than we anticipated.
- January 14, 2008 at 8:56 AM
- Ale said...
ah thank goodness I couldn't believe that you were actually going to walk on it.... O_O
lovely work Paul!! and happy new year ;)
- January 14, 2008 at 12:25 PM
- Jeff Harter said...
What a funny idea. This is a great website (er, blog). Glad I found!
- January 15, 2008 at 9:24 PM
- stranded said...
Beautiful! I love it! The frog and the fish are very very nice!! I love the strokes you use, everything looks so fresh and "a la prima"! congratulations! you moved me again :) Ah! your tutorials are very interesting! thankyou!
- January 16, 2008 at 12:51 AM
- Jason said...
Paul your work is simply amazing! I'm a high school English teacher in Massachusetts, and I'm hoping you'll let me put one of your Moby Dick paintings on a site for my classes. Would it be OK with you?
- January 17, 2008 at 2:56 PM
- Paul Lasaine said...
Regarding using one of the Moby Dick paintings on a site for your class: I don't think it's a problem, but there are a couple issues to discuss as I don't technically own the images; Dreamworks does.
Can you give me an e-mail address where I can reach you so we can go over it?
- January 18, 2008 at 6:47 AM
- Jason said...
Thanks for responding so quickly. I'm at firstname.lastname@example.com
- January 19, 2008 at 4:27 PM
- georges blog said...
your work is phenomenal!!! so inspiring thank you for sharing
- January 23, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Lords of the Harvest said...
dang paul, this blog is really turning out nicely. always worth the visit and now with those brush tutorials its even better! nice "floor matt" that tree frog is great, inspired me to do some studies of the little guys. enjoy your day!
- January 24, 2008 at 1:29 PM
- Anna,la Fdez.O. said...
Wow,...amazing !!!! Its colors and deep are magic !!!
Like my colleagues, I have to say : clever, beautiful, incredible, phenomenal,...
A master !!! ;-)
- January 25, 2008 at 2:59 AM
Amazing stuff. I've been a fan of yours since my days at Dreamworks walking by your window everyday before and after lunch. I'm so glad you decided to have a blog/website.
Ken Kim
P.S. I hope you throw in more tutorials when you get a chance.
- February 14, 2008 at 11:43 PM
- CárcamO said...
Teu trabalho é absolutamente fantastico.
- May 2, 2008 at 5:05 PM
- Sherlock Hobo said...
Wow thats cool. If you look at it without your glasses on (If you have bad eyesight like me) It looks like the words "Surfs Up" the name of your movie.
- June 5, 2008 at 9:50 PM
- Kim Gadbois said...
wow! I want one too!
- September 11, 2008 at 7:31 PM
- Becka said...
This is great info to know.
- November 10, 2008 at 8:08 PM
- Erin Lamoreux said...
this is brilliant! i had never heard of that idea before, not to mention how beautiful it turned out!
- November 24, 2008 at 10:43 AM
- aurel said...
Just, sweet dendrobate. Nice work !
- January 7, 2009 at 5:22 PM
Hey, this is great!!!!!
Greetings from Hungary!
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- December 28, 2009 at 4:44 AM
- claudia said...
brilliant,both execution and idea.
- January 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM
- Floor Mats said...
Cool floor mat. You did a really great job.
- January 16, 2014 at 10:07 AM
- Edd Background Remover said...
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- Unknown said...
I can not believe that it is a mat. Good work.
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by Len Lear
When I read last week that Lou Hill had died, I felt sick, even though I knew that he had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease for years and that at the age of 89, he had certainly lived longer than the allotment of years for most human beings. The Philadelphia Inquirer ran a long obituary in its July 15 issue that listed Lou's many accomplishments, but I was moved to write this testimonial because of one aspect of Lou's life that was omitted from the obit, which could have conceivably had a significant impact on the lives of all Philadelphians.
For those who are not familiar with this giant of a man, Lou Hill had a perfect resume for any person running for public office. Hill had an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a tall, photogenic patrician who had been a successful heavyweight boxer while at Harvard and in the Marines. To sweeten the resume even more, he was a combat veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, and his personal life was beyond reproach.
But more important than all of this, Hill actually stood for something beyond personal ambition. Even his political foes never questioned his integrity or incorruptibility. Also, his stepfather was Richardson Dilworth, mayor of Philadelphia from 1956 to 1962 and a Silver Star hero as a World War II Marine. Dilworth and his successor, Joe Clark, ran against a six-decade, long-entrenched, corrupt Republican dynasty in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
After winning office, Dilworth and Clark initiated a series of reforms, such as the revitalization of Center City, hiring civil servants based on actual qualifications instead of political contacts, promoting racial equality, devoting more land to parks and open spaces, etc. Much of what is good about Philadelphia today can be attributed to the progressive policies of Dilworth and Clark.
Unfortunately, since they left the scene, the city has been run by a Democratic "pay to play" machine that has been every bit as corrupt as the Republicans who ruled the city in the first half of the 20th century. (Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens called Philadelphia "corrupt and contented" in the first decade of the 1900s, and, despite the fact that some personally principled individuals, like Wilson Goode and Michael Nutter, have became mayor, they have not been able to clean up the cesspool of corruption that has dominated city government for most of the last half-century. For the most part, Democratic Party bigwigs have been more concerned with using taxpayers' dollars to take care of their families, friends and financial backers than with providing good government.)
I first met Lou Hill when I was an idealistic Democratic committeeman on the Germantown/Mt. Airy border in the late 1960s, inspired to enter politics because of my desire to advance the agenda of the civil rights, feminist, pro-gay and antiwar movements. When I tried to speak at ward meetings, however, I found that most of those present were preoccupied with fixing parking and speeding tickets, helping drunk drivers and other violators get out of trouble by intervening with the "right people" in City Hall, etc. When I objected, 22nd Ward leader Joe Coleman, who later became the president of City Council, would order the sergeant-at-arms to shut me up.
Later I had several discussions with then-State Senator Lou Hill in his big home on Wissahickon Avenue in West Mt. Airy. In 1975 he told me he was running in the Democratic mayoral primary against then-mayor Frank Rizzo because "the people of this city deserve the kind of progressive, honest government we had under Richardson Dilworth and Joe Clark, not the kind of cronyism, back-slapping, police brutality and know-nothing bigotry they have gotten from the Rizzo administration."
Early in the primary campaign, polls showed the race as basically even, with Hill getting the liberal and black vote and Rizzo getting the working class white vote. But the Philadelphia Inquirer's prime political reporter, Laura Foreman, kept up a drumbeat of negative front-page articles about Hill, berating him for his alleged dullness and frequently praising Rizzo for his supposed decisiveness and charisma.
I was told at the time by members of the Hill campaign that Foreman was deliberately slanting the campaign coverage because she was having an affair with South Philly State Senator Buddy Cianfrani, who was also Rizzo's campaign manager and who was married. They told me that they had complained vociferously to the Inquirer but that they were rebuffed and were even accused of sexism in their "slandering" of Foreman. (By the way, Rizzo would never agree to debate Hill, and he chided Hill for being a "wimp," even though Hill had been a heavyweight boxer and combat veteran of two wars while Rizzo never wore a military uniform for his country. Hill had also been an excellent debater and a brilliant litigator. He was undefeated in 27 jury trials.)
When the votes were counted on May 20, 1975, Rizzo won by 183,672 to 151,948.
Foreman was then hired by the New York Times, but she was fired in 1977, whereupon the Times and other media outlets reported that Cianfrani and Foreman had indeed been having an affair at the same time she was covering the mayoral race. It was reported that Cianfrani had lavished tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts on Foreman.
Many political observers concluded that Foreman's anti-Hill coverage had undoubtedly been related to Cianfrani's "generosity." A.M. Rosenthal, executive editor of the New York Times, famously said at the time, "I don't care if my reporters are sleeping with elephants, as long as they aren't covering the circus" As a result, Philadelphians were deprived of the leadership of Lou Hill, who might have been able to reverse the decline of the city and put it back on the track of honest, progressive Dilworth/Clark government.
In 1977, Buddy Cianfrani was convicted in federal court here of racketeering and mail fraud for padding his Senate payroll with no-show jobs. He was sentenced to five years in federal prison, but after serving 27 months, he was released in 1980, whereupon he divorced his wife and married Laura Foreman. Cianfrani proceeded to become a mentor to a new generation of politicians, particularly to Congressman Bob Brady and State Senator Vince Fumo, who also wound up in federal prison for abusing his office. Cianfrani died in 2002.
Meanwhile, Lou Hill, the father of seven children, became a Common Pleas Court Judge and an environmentalist who led an exemplary life. I will always wonder what kind of shape the city would be in today if Laura Foreman had reported fairly on the 1975 campaign and if Lou Hill, a man of impeccable integrity, courage and honor, had become the mayor of Philadelphia instead of Frank Rizzo.


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In Concert
Doo Wop Delights
Charlie Thomas' Drifters, The Shirelles' lead singer Shirley Alston Reeves, along with The Chiffons and The Teenagers gather together for a "History of American Rock and Roll." This high-energy concert celebrates the great heady days of doo-wop, pop-rock and soul, as we relive those classic sounds that still resonate today. From "Under the Boardwalk," Dedicated to the One I Love" and "One Fine Day" to "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," it's an evening of treasured melodies that will have everyone singing along.
Saturday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. $29-$49. Madison Theatre, Molloy College, 1000 Hempstead Ave., Rockville Centre. (516) 678-5000 ext. 7715 or www.madisontheatreny.org.
On Stage
Princess Ida
Hofstra Opera Theater takes to the stage this weekend with Gilbert & Sullivan's classic comic opera "Princess Ida." This melodic and hilarious opera calls into question the differences between women and the topsy-turvy impact of evolution. Find out if Princess Ida's refusal to give her hand in marriage ignites war between two kingdomsor or if she succumb and risk derailing the future of women's independence. Sullivan's score is majestic, and a sequence of songs in Act II is so renowned for its beauty that it is sometimes called "the string of pearls." Some consider Gilbert's libretto one of his funniest.
Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2, 8 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 3, 3 p.m. $15, $12 seniors and students. Hofstra University's John Cranford Adams Playhouse, South Campus, Hempstead. (516) 463-6644.
Igudesman & Joo
YouTube sensations Aleksey Igudesman and Hyung-ki Joo present their madcap approach to classical music when they visit Tilles Center with "A Little Nightmare Music." Igudesman, a violinist, and pianist Joo – both classically trained musicians – find inspiration from such comedic forefathers as Victor Borge and P.D.Q. Bach. The duo relishes overturning traditional attitudes towards classical music. Like their predecessors, they are serious musicians who have turned the world's most esteemed concert halls into standing room-only comedy clubs.
Saturday, Feb. 2, 8 p.m. $70, $50 and $35. Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, LIU Post, Rte. 25A, Brookville. (800) 745-3000 or www.ticketmaster.com or www.tillescenter.org.


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1980 Jeep JD 20 Pickup Truck - JD-20Posted in Project Vehicles on April 11, 2007
One of the more popular tech questions we get asked around here is "How do I put a Cummins diesel in my Jeep?" At over 1,000 pounds dry, the huge weight and massive torque output of the 5.9L 6BT engine precludes most CJ and Wrangler owners from realizing such a swap. However, the smaller 3.9L 4BT commonly found in many fleet trucks is a pretty good fit in the engine bay of some Jeep models. So when we heard that distinctive diesel clatter coming from Dave Smith's '80 J-20 while photographing a trail run with the Western Maine Mountain Jeepers back in late 2006, we couldn't say "pop the hood" fast enough.
As a self-professed Jeep junkie, Dave maintains a good supply of vehicles at his residence in Unity, Maine-whether drivers, projects, or donors, he's got it covered. So when he decided to swap the powerful yet thirsty AMC 360 from his '80 J-20 for an efficient and reliable Cummins 4BT, the only thing he really had to scrounge up was the engine itself.
Hard Facts
Vehicle:'80 Jeep J-20
Engine:3.9L 4BT turbocharged Cummins
Transmission:Ford ZF five-speed
Transfer Case:Ford BW 1356
Suspension:Stock leafs
Axles:Stock 8-lug Dana 44, 3.73, open diff (front); stock 8-lug Dana 60, 3.73, open diff(rear)
Tires:Light truck 235/85-16
Built For:Daily driving with mileage and reliability in mind
Chassis And Driveline
Aside from the drivetrain, Dave's '80 pickup is pretty much factory. The frame, suspension, and front Dana 44 and Dana 60 8-lug, 3.73-geared axles are all as Jeep made them.
A local bread company in Dave's area used a fleet of P350 dual rear-wheel Ford trucks that had had their 300 inline-sixes converted to 3.9L Cummins engines back in the early 1990s, so finding a donor truck was relatively easy. Dave bought the retired bread truck already sporting the Cummins-to-Ford adapter and wearing a Ford flywheel. Coincidentally, Dave also had a Ford truck in his collection sporting a ZF five-speed tranny and BW 1356 T-case hanging around, so the die was cast.
After mating the tranny to the engine with a new Ford clutch and building up some motor mounts and a crossmember mount, Dave dropped the engine into the chassis. The bread truck donated its radiator, and Dave whipped together a 1-inch body lift using leftover Daystar CJ pieces to gain some clearance between the drivetain and the floor. Even with a large electric puller fan there seems to be room to spare under the hood.
Dave left the stock gas tank and hard lines in place, but replaced any rubber in the fuel system with Viton because he operates the truck on a blend of diesel and biodiesel. He'll eventually run it on straight biodiesel, which isn't friendly to rubber. The engine feeds off of the stock pump mounted on the side of the block. Dave rigged up a fuel heater and filter using tractor parts to keep the fuel clean and prevent gelling in the cold Maine winters.
Other Stuff
While it's true the star of this vehicle is its drivetrain, the sheetmetal is exceptionally clean for a 27-year-old New England truck. Likewise, the interior is pretty plush by Jeep truck standards, with new vinyl flooring from BJ's Off Road and transplanted leather power buckets from a Grand Wagoneer.
The front bumper is homemade, and the truck sports front and rear receiver hitches so Dave can plug his winch into either end as needed.
Driving The Diesel
The little Cummins puts out 105 hp and 286 lb-ft in stock trim with no intercooler. Dave has turned his up just a bit but puts his priorities squarely on dependability, not power, so moderation is the name of the game. As such, the 238/85-16 tires and 3.73 gears translate into a comfortable 2,000 rpm at 65 mph on the highway, during which the big J-Truck knocks down 24 mpg. Dave reports figures of around 21 mpg flat towing his flatfender.
Dave admits acceleration just isn't up to par with the 360, but he says the big truck will certainly get out of its own way. Dave also says that on back roads he's able to pull most hills without slowing in Fourth gear as long as the turbo is spooled. On the interstate, he's able to maintain Fifth gear over pretty much any grade at legal freeway speeds.
Why I Featured It
As the technical editor, I'm frequently inundated with questions about swapping these engines into Jeeps. While I still don't think they're the best choice for everybody, Dave's J-20 represents a cleanly executed, owner-built-and-fabricated diesel conversion that looks like the factory could have built it. In my opinion, it's the right engine in the right truck for the right owner.-Christian Hazel


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Three of the most popular tools on the scene have been updated to be fully compatible with the iPhone 3GS: The Dev Teams software unlock - ultrasn0w, their jailbreak software - redsn0w (via torrent for Windows, Mac, Linux), and saurik's popular iPhone theming tool, Winterboard (via Cydia).
Two hours ago saurik twittered the following:
The newly released 0.9.2958 versions of MobileSubstrate and WinterBoard (upgraded to support ARM7/Thumb2) should now work on the iPhone 3GS
That was followed by a quick tweet from the Dev Team:
Released: redsn0w 0.8 (incl. 3GS, hactivate, linux) http://is.gd/1pRlV . Ultrasn0W 0.8 (incl. 3GS support) (see Cydia).
So it looks like purplera1n forced the Dev Team to respond by finally releasing their jailbreak software. Good news for all of you iPhone 3GS owners out there today, now you have two jailbreak solutions for your iPhone 3GS. Which will you choose?
For more jailbreak discussion be sure to check out TiPb's Jailbreak Central.
Update: The Dev Team have updated their blog since the release of the new software, for more information on why they decided to release it and more check it out!


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ollyctd needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 82 designs submitted by 27 freelance designers.
We need a logo designed with a strong concept and first class presentation. The logo will be seen by thousands of clients every day while making use of our online accommodation guide - it is the most critical part of our company identity and we are looking for something to take us through to our next growth phase.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Bell Curve Cracks
Inequality by Design-Cracking the Bell Curve Myth, by Claude S. Fischer, Michael Hout, Martin Sanchez Jankowski, Samuel R. Lucas, Ann Swidler, and Kim Voss. Princeton University Press, 1996. 318 pages.
Reviewed by Brian Siano
A mountain peak, and its darker silhouette displaced by 'one standard deviation,' is the image from The Bell Curve that persists in memory. It's the purported shape of the distribution of IQ scores classified by race, derived from the scores of 11,878 people taking the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT), and it appears in TBC's notorious "Ethnic Differences in Cognitive Ability" chapter. (It also appeared in the New Republic's cover story on the book, as well as in the pages of Skeptic,) One could easily imagine the shapes rising into view as Microsoft Excel or SAS scattered the points on the computer screen, like a lost Aztec city shining through a false color enhancement of satellite data. The symmetry of the slopes, of course, spoke for a natural evenness of distribution- the classic "bell curve" one sees for height, life expectancy, shooting craps, and other natural processes. The conclusion: an underlying pattern has been revealed through the ruthless application of statistics.
On page 32 of Inequality by Design, the authors provide a re-casting of the same magic runes. As before, the whites-only Matterhorn of Herrnstein and Murray is present. But beside it is a grey lump, slouching towards the high ends of the scale in defiance of the demanded symmetry. This insubordinate lump is the original distribution of scores on the AFQT.
Looking further in The Bell Curve for an explanation, one finds that answers are somewhat elusive. Herrnstein and Murray could have used centile scores-placing people in the 99th percentile of scores, the 98th percentile, etc. This would have been a lot simpler. In Appendix 2, they state they "we knew from collateral data" that the important IQ stuff "occurs at the tails of the distribution," and "using centiles throws away the tails." In short: the original scores are not a bell curve; but IQ scores must follow a bell curve; all the action in our project happens at the tail ends of a bell curve; therefore, we must derive a bell curve with distinct tails from the unruly data. If you're one of those people who feel that data should shape the theory, this may seem somewhat less than valid. Toss in the fact that intelligence tests are frequently designed to provide bell-curve distributions of scores, and we notice a kind of circular reasoning implicit in the psychometric model used by Herrnstein and Murray. Reshaping the lump into the mountain was, in the words of Inequality by Design, the result of "a good deal of statistical mashing and stretching," demanded by the assumption "that intelligence must be distributed in a bell curve."
The authors take Herrnstein and Murray to task for presenting the AFQT as an intelligence test. This isn't the case: the AFQT was designed to predict performance in the armed forces (no wisecracks, class), and it functions best as a test of the level of schooling the subject has received. The math sections, which make the greatest differences in the final scores, require having had exposure to high school algebra. The National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, which administered the AFQT to its thousands of subjects, measured schooling at a very crude level (number of years and whether the subject was in an academic track), but these two factors correlated well with AFQT scores. Other studies, using the same data, argue that Herrnstein and Murray drastically underestimated the influence of schooling.
(In one passage, the authors argue that if we keep education level constant, age correlates negatively with AFQT score. In other words, older respondents with 12 years of education score lower than younger respondent with the same level. If AFQT measures education level, then this difference is explained by the fact that the older respondents had been out of school longer, and had forgotten some of their education. But if we accept the psychometric claim that the test measures innate ability, then we'd have to believe that people start getting stupider around their midteens.)
What can we say about Herrnstein and Murray's "cognitive elite," that upper 5%? They were people who had had schooling beyond the high school level, disproportionately male (thanks to the weighting in favor of math), and just plain lucky; one or two more wrong answers, and they would've dropped down into the "bright" category. As for the other end of the curve, 27 % had dropped out of school at least three years before taking the test.
The core of Herrnstein and Murray's argument is that IQ is a better predictor of life outcomes than the usual measure of socioeconomic status (SES). Contrary to the forbidden-data claims of The Bell Curve, sociologists have been working with intelligence tests and the AFQT for years. The authors of Inequality by Design "accepted Herrnstein and Murray's evidence, their measure of intelligence, and their basic methodology and then reexamined the results. By simply correcting a handful of errors, we showed that coming from a disadvantaged home was almost as important a risk factor for poverty as a low AFQT score."
Herrnstein and Murray defined SES very narrowly, as four factors: level of education, income, and parents' occupation(s). They then needlessly compiled these into a single index-thus giving them equal weight amongst each other. This is a major error, since NLSY data shows that parental income has a far greater effect than parental education on a child's life outcome.
Also, when such information was missing from the NLSY respondents, they simply assigned them the average value derived from other respondents. (This introduces error, in the case of respondents who are rich or poor, and reduces the statistical association with effect variables.) The NLSY only included four questions about parental SES, which makes it far less reliable than the 105-question AFQT-which stacks the IQ-vs-SES face-off in Herrnstein and Murray's favor.
Herrnstein and Murray also left out several factors known to have effects on a subject's life outcome. The number of siblings, for example, was not incorporated into their analysis. The adult community environment-local unemployment rate, geographic region (rural, urban, suburban)-was also overlooked. Was the subject, at age 14, living in a two-parent household? What about access to quality schools? Bringing these factors into play provides a probability-of-poverty graph that matches Herrnstein and Murray's AFQT curves. In short, the authors conclude that the subjects' "life chances depend on their social surroundings at least as much as their own intelligence... The key finding of The Bell Curve turns out to be an artifact of its method."
Inequality by Design goes on to present a far more detailed analysis of poverty. For example, despite rough parity in IQ scores, women are far more likelier than men to be poor. Using the NLSY-AFQT data, the authors state that "a young woman would have had to score forty-one points higher on the AFQT than a young man of the same age, formal schooling, and background in order for her risk of being poor to have been as low as his." [Italics in original.] Having children increases the risk of being poor. The economic effects of marriage and divorce are more dramatic for adults who grew up in low-income families. Herrnstein and Murray say nothing substantial about gender; instead, they argue that unmarried status is a result of lower intelligence. But the AFQT scores of unmarried respondents were no higher than those of marrieds....
Again, data seems to have lost primacy over theory through much of The Bell Curve. In one spectacular example, Herrnstein and Murray claim that a three-point drop in average American IQ would increase unwed motherhood and incarceration rates by about 10 % (pp. 364-368). But to explain the doubling of incarcerated men in the 1980s, the 150% increase in unwed motherhood since 1970, and the rises and dips of poverty between 1960 to 1992, we'd have to believe that average IQ varies as much as 55 points within a single generation-a claim Herrnstein and Murray explicitly rule out.


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|The makeup for this show: phenomenal.
 Like any good geek, I love me some zombies. So of course I tuned in last night to AMC's new zombie show, The Walking Dead. And I found myself disappointed. Spoilers ahoy! (NB: I haven't read the graphic novel. This is just a review of the pilot that aired last night.
The show starts with our hero, Rick, and his misogynistic partner, Shane, talking about how women and men are different. This conversations seems to function solely to tell us that Shane is a bit of a prick, Rick is a genuinely good guy (which I didn't really buy), and Lori, Rick's wife, is a bitch. Basically, it took about ten minutes for me to realize I was probably going to blog about this show, and not in a good way.
The dudes, who are police officers, get into a shootout, Rick is shot, and then we see Shane bringing him flowers in the hospital. (He assures us that he didn't pick them out himself, however. That's for sissy ladies. And he's not gay or anything gross.) Rick wakes up, the flowers are dead, and the hospital is full of corpses and ruin. I did like the set up here; Rick has no fucking clue what it going on, and he's still injured, so he basically cowers home, where he discovers his empty house and runs into Morgan and his young son, Duane. Their family was heading to the refugee camp in Atlanta when Morgan's wife became infected and got all zombified. She still hangs about, and they can't leave with her haunting them. Morgan wants to "put her down" and even attempts to in this episode, but he can't.
|In case you missed it, he's a goddamn cowboy.
So far, I liked the story okay, and it seems promising for the character development of the people the show seems to care about. Unfortunately, none of those characters are ladies, who existed in this pilot for the sole purpose of helping to advance dude characters' development. Morgan's wife is in the refrigerator, gets absolutely no characterization (not even after the fact), and the only reason we even care about her is that Morgan and Duane are all traumatized by this. She gets a lot of face time in this episode solely because she's been stuffed in the fridge, and we're supposed to see her (rather pretty for a zombie) face through Morgan's eyes. And the only other lady character with a name is Lori, who gets very little screen time, and most of that is devoted to kissing Shane, presumably so we can see how whorey she is, since she got over her husband faster than it took for him to heal from a gunshot wound. And perhaps I'm being too harsh on the writers here; they may not want us to judge her so quickly. But it's difficult to tell, since that is basically the only thing she does onscreen, and the conversation in the beginning of the episode is intended to make us think she's a bitch. She doesn't ever get a side in that conversation, and we don't get to hear about what happened from another party, because she doesn't actually matter. She exists solely to develop Rick and Shane for us, and doesn't exist outside of those relationships.
|Get me out of the refrigerator!
This episode failed the Bechdel test hard, despite being an hour and a half long, and a fucking zombie movie, not a rom com. It could easily have included two women talking about practically anything, including zombies and survival, if they were feeling uncreative. But it didn't, because it would have had to have two women talking on screen at the same time. And that, apparently, was too fucking difficult.
Attention The Walking Dead  writers: women are not plot devices. And we don't like watching shows that don't think women matter as characters. Fix it.


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