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1105 Gilston Road, West Vancouver Listing #: R2352346
SENSATIONAL ARCHITECTURALLY DESIGNED HOME WITH "WORLD CLASS" CITY/OCEAN VIEW ON HIGH SIDE OF QUIET STREET & WITH GENTLY SLOPING DRIVEWAY! This amazing family home has it ALL! MAIN: grand foyer w/20 ft vaulted ceiling, private living room w/fireplace, elegant dining room, fantastic gourmet kitchen w/S/S appliances, eating nook, over-sized family room w/fireplace ALL overlooking the spectacular view, plus 2 bedrooms (or 1 bdrm & office) and huge rec/games-room w/wet bar and sauna. UPPER FLR: 2 stairways (formal & informal), huge master w/stunning en-suite, walk-in & private covered balcony, plus 3 additional bedrooms, each with balcony. LOWER FLR: fabulous media-room & suite w/2nd kitchen, dining room, living room & bedroom, plus laundry.
Taxes (2018): $14,288.94
- Air Conditioning
- Hot Tub Spa
- Swirlpool
- Intercom
- Security System
- Smoke Alarm
- Sprinkler - Fire
- Sprinkler - Inground
- Vacuum - Built In
- Wet Bar
- Windows - Thermo
Site Influences
- Private Setting
- Private Yard
- Recreation Nearby
- Shopping Nearby
- Ski Hill Nearby
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As mentioned earlier on this blog, Eli and I presented papers at the meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) describing how Logos is moving beyond the word level into syntax of the original languages.
Eli's paper (approx. 350 KB PDF) discusses our approach to issues of syntax in general, using examples from the Andersen-Forbes database to illustrate major points of implementation.
Rick's paper (approx. 1.4 MB PDF) provides information on both Greek syntax datasets that are being worked on and short examples (and screen captures) of how this information can be used.

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The town of Huntersville, NC which was once an old railroad depot and bustling Mill Town, is now North Mecklenburg's largest town with suburban shopping centers and subdivisions sprawling out from interstate 77 just north of Charlotte's Uptown area. The area has become known for its popular live-work communities, such as Birkdale Village, which offers options for high end dining, and shopping, as well as convenient living accommodations. In addition to the commerce area, Birkdale is also known for its Golf Course community and sprawling residential neighborhood. In addition to Birkdale, Huntersville also plays home to Skybrook and Northstone, two additional golf course communities. Apart from golfing, shopping, and dining, Huntersville residents also have the opportunity to enjoy the convenience of Lake Norman, as well as the close proximity to all the offerings of Uptown shopping.
These ever expanding community boasts almost 50,000 residents and almost 20,000 dwellings, with the bustling business and social community, this suburb on the rise continues to grow! While some homes in Huntersville are lake front properties, others enjoy the serenity of acreage living synonymously with the convenience of town just a few miles away. Homes in Huntersville come in a variety of styles ranging from old craftsman and milltown houses to brick colonials and ranches and even new construction subdivisions popping up around town!
Major Communities in Huntersville:
Birkdale, Birkdale Village, Birkdale Grove, Northstone Country Club, Vermillion, Monteith Park, Skybrook, Stillwell, Lookout, Point, Blythe Point, The Pavilion, Browns Cove, The Cape, Cashion Woods, Olmstead, The Hamptons, Ramah Oaks, Wynfield Forest, Green Farm, Sherwood Forest, Centennial, Arbor Croft, Plum Creek, Mcginnis Village, Willowbrook, Alexander Place.


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I am the Scoutmaster of Troop 752 in Canton, Ga. Our Troop is about 91% Tree Hangers and we want to continue to encourage new members and other Scouts towards the advantages of hammock camping.
Someone in the troop came up with an idea to offer an [Unofficial] Hammock Camping Merit Badge, and I thought it was such a great idea I wanted to ask for the Forums help in creating it.
So, If you were coming up with requirements for the BSA [Unofficial] Hammock Camping Merit Badge to teach scouts how to hammock Camp, what would they be?
1. Show the parts of an equipped camping hammock
2. Show how to properly hang a hammock
a. Show how to protect the tree from damage
b. Demonstrate 2 techniques to fasten your hammock to a tree
So, what do you got? Anyone care to help a Scoutmaster create the first (Unofficial) BSA Hammock Camping Merit Badge?


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HTC recently launched the much-awaited HTC One X in India. This handset comes with a 4.7 inch Super LCD touchscreen display as well as a 1.5 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core processor. It is the first device in the HTC One range of smartphones. HTC One X was announced at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona. This handset runs on the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Operating System. Within 2 months of its official announcement, the powerful HTC One X is already available for purchase in India.
"One of the key objectives for the HTC One series, was to enable the user to remember their best moments in life easily, whether it be capturing a photo or listening to a song, so it was crucial for us to improve these emotional experiences with an amazing camera and authentic sound experience," said Faisal Siddiqui, Country Manager of HTC India.
HTC One X features a 4.7 inch Super LCD HD display, sporting a resolution of 1280 x 720 pixels, Corning Gorilla Glass, 1.5 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 Quad-Core processor, Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) OS, HTC Sense 4, 8 megapixel camera, Full HD (1080p) video recording, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera and more.
Other features include a 3.5 mm headset jack, NFC (Near Field Communication), HDMI, DLNA connectivity, microUSB 2.0, 1 GB RAM, 32 GB internal memory, 25 GB DropBox cloud storage, Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, 3G Connectivity, Internal GPS Antenna, HTC Watch, Beats audio and a 1800 mAh battery.
HTC One X customers will get 25 GB of free Dropbox space for two years. This handset is available in 2 different colors – Polar White and Glamour Grey. The HTC One X comes with a price-tag of Rs.42,999, but you can easily get this device at a best buy price of Rs.37,899.


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Get a grip on yourself - and your scooter! Motor performance and piloting are just the beginning. Control is the word, Brake Pads and Brake Discs are the tools.
Brake linings and discs are often forgotten when maintenance is done. Tuning is usually connected with faster, higher, further, etc. Scooters love to be tuned and pampered with high tech instruments, but mundane servicing has it's real place as well.
The stronger the motor and the older your braking system, the greater the necessity to make sure you optimize your linings and discs. That's why we recommend when you make pit stops, that you check your brake system and make adjustments as needed.
As a matter of principle, for those who occasionally go out on week end excursions, STANDARD brake linings are adequate for the purpose.
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Sometimes MS can do things to our bodies that make us wish we could just check out of them for a little while. Other times, however, I find myself a few feet away and it freaks me out!
It happens most often if I am sitting and typing at my laptop for a while. Not all of the time; not even much of the time. This sensation only comes over me as an MS "thing" is about to happen (or is already underway). I get the sense that I am somehow about six inches behind and about three inches above my body.
I almost want to reach out further in order to touch the keys as the feeling is so strong and so real.
This stretch in consciousness is usually accompanied with a tunneling in my sense of hearing as if my brain is that same distance behind my ears. I can move my head around a bit and shake the feeling for a bit, but then it comes back and doesn't leave. Profound fatigue is at the doorstep by this point and it's time to find a place sleep before the place I am becomes that place.
The other night, after such an experience at our dining room table, I headed off to bed to await what MS might take from me in the night. During an unusual trip to pee in the night (the sleep which usually follows these out of body things is usually anesthesia-like) I had my first standing outside the body experience since my diagnosing attack.
Rather than being pulled back and up, this time I felt as if my awareness was about nine inches taller than myself and only a bit behind (maybe a couple of inches). It was the weirdest thing; holding onto a wall on one side and the shower on the other and almost looking down on myself from above.
There is sometimes a slight dizziness with this experience. Not a nauseating, spinning kind of dizzy but more a mild earthquake kind of feeling. The room, however, doesn't shift; it's my sense of being that takes a rumbling.
As we've shared the weird, the frustrating and the scary symptoms of MS here for more years than many of us care to remember, I thought I'd share this one. Anyone else have these feelings that you are leaving your body (or that MS is somehow kicking you out)?
Wishing you and your family the best of health.
You can also follow me via our Life With MS Facebook page, on Twitter, and in our group on MS Connection.org. Also, check out our bi-monthly MS blog for the United Kingdom, and don't forget to check out TrevisLGleason.com.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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The Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday that Anne Small, President Barack Obama's special assistant and associate counsel, has been named general counsel of the agency.
Small, who has been serving in the White House Counsel's Office since October 2011, has advised Obama on legal policy questions with a focus on economic issues.
Small previously worked at the SEC as deputy general counsel for litigation and adjudication, helping to oversee enforcement matters, appellate cases and adjudications.
Small, the first woman to be named general counsel of the SEC, is expected to arrive at the agency soon, the SEC says, and will succeed Geoffrey Aronow, who will become a senior counsel to SEC Chairwoman Mary Jo White.
"I'm delighted that Annie will be returning to the agency at a time when our rule writing is in full swing and our enforcement program continues to pursue cases involving some of the most complex transactions," said White, in a statement. "The commission will benefit from her experience, judgment and tremendous talent."
Before entering government, Small worked at WilmerHale, where she was a partner in the firm's litigation department. She was involved in commercial and securities litigation, a broad range of civil and criminal matters, and trial and appellate work.
"It is an honor to return to the commission," Small said in the same statement. "I am looking forward to working with the talented staff in the General Counsel's Office and serving Chairman White and the other commissioners in the agency's efforts to protect investors."
Small began her law career as a law clerk for Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the Supreme Court. She received her J.D. in 2001 from Harvard Law School, where she was awarded the Sears Prize and served as president of the Harvard Law Review. She earned her B.A. from Yale University in 1996.
Read SEC Comings and Goings: Canellos, Ceresney Named Co-Heads of Enforcement on AdvisorOne.


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Carlos Ruiz is one of the LA Galaxy's all-time greats, but the team's former striker is not doing much these days to ingratiate himself to the club's current players.
"From my point of view, the LA Galaxy are in trouble right now," Ruiz, who joined the Philadelphia Union this season, told MLSsoccer.com earlier this week.
Those comments are serving as fuel for the Galaxy, who face the Union on Wednesday night at PPL Park (7:30 pm ET, MatchDay Live).
"I'm not exactly sure where he's getting that from but we're happy to hear things like that," Galaxy defender Todd Dunivant told MLSsoccer.com. "That only motivates us, and I think it will be interesting on Wednesday."
Ruiz, of course, famously twice won the Golden Boot while playing for the Galaxy and scored the goal in the 2002 MLS Cup final that gave LA their first league title. He continues to present a challenge for defenders in MLS. He has two goals on the season for the Union.
"Carlos is one of those guys that's always mixing it up and drawing fouls and putting a hurt on other guys," Dunivant said. "He's a guy who is a handful."
However, the Galaxy handled Ruiz the first time they met this season. The Guatemalan international was unable to put a shot on goal in a 1-0 Galaxy win on April 2.
But the Union have other options. Attacker Sebastien Le Toux, who struck 14 goals in 2010, has just one goal on the season, but his willingness to make consistent runs into the attack make him dangerous still. Dunivant remembers a particular play in the clubs' last meeting that exemplified the threat Le Toux presents.
"[On a Union free kick], he started on the left wing, ran across the back line — this is all before they took the free kick — ran across over to my side on their right and they still hadn't taken the free kick," Dunivant recalled. "Then he sprinted back to the other side. He's active. He's got a big engine and he's always moving."
The Galaxy had a somewhat comfortable victory over the Union in the first match. Despite playing with 10 men for most of the second half, LA did not concede a shot on goal. But the Union are undefeated at home, with a 3-0-1 record. They have conceded only one goal in those four matches.
"Philadelphia is one of those teams that plays really well at home," Dunivant said. "They've got a good crowd, they do a good job of getting up for those games. It's a tough place to play but we've been a good road team and we pride ourselves on that. Coming into a hostile environment is something we enjoy and we kind of thrive off."


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The 2009 VW Jetta SportWagen TDI is frugal and fun, but its DSG transmission doesn't suit the diesel engine. Should you buy one?
Why you should buy the 2009 VW Jetta SportWagen TDI:
You want a car that's pretty fast and very frugal and your Labrador hates being left at home. You want a practical, economical family car, but you haven't been brainwashed into thinking your only option once you're pregnant with your first child is a 9-seat Suburban. You like the idea of hybrid fuel economy, but not the lackluster hybrid driving experience. You're a white lab coat-wearing teutonophile with a thing for precise oil-burners. You understand what's going on underneath the hood of a car and are able to wrap your moderately-sized intellect around the concept of DSG.
Why you shouldn't buy this car:
You eat every meal at Mickey D's and your idea of automotive excellence is a late '90s Buick. You think diesel is the fuel of communists. The idea of your car doing anything other than slushing its way slowly up to highway speed questions your fundamental understanding of the world. The idea of a Palin/Limbaugh ticket in 2010 has you up at night polishing your guns with excitement. You're the average driver and, like all your peers, you've subconsciously learned to fear any car that requires any thought from its driver. You know how to drive stick.
Suitability Parameters:
Speed Merchants: No
Fashion Victims: Yes
Treehuggers: Yes
Mack Daddies: No
Tuner Crowd: No
Hairdressers: No
Penny Pinchers: Yes
Euro Trash: Yes
Working Stiffs: No
Technogeeks: No
Poseurs: No
Soccer Moms: Yes
Nascar Dads: No
Golfing Grandparents: Yes
Sheiklets: No
Very Serious Businessmen: No
Also Consider:
• the manual version
• 2010 Toyota Prius
• 2010 Honda Insight
• 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid
• Manufacturer: Volkswagen
• Model: Jetta SportWagen TDI
• Model year: 2009
• Base Price: $23,870
• Price as Tested: $29,410
• Engine type: 2.0-Liter, 4-cylinder, in-line, turbocharged direct injection, common rail diesel
• Horsepower: 140 HP @ 4000 RPM
• Torque: 236 Lb-Ft @ 1,750-2,500 RPM
• Transmission: Dual-clutch automated manual
• Curb Weight: 3,285 Lbs
• LxWxH: 179.4" x 70.1" x 59.2"
• Wheelbase: 101.5"
• Tires: 205/44 R16
• 0 - 60 mph: 9.5 seconds (manufacturer quoted)
• Top Speed: 128 MPH (manufacturer quoted)
• EPA Fuel economy city/highway: 29/40 MPG
• Jalopnik Fuel Economy: 37.4 MPG (city/highway mix 25/75%)
• NHTSA crash test rating: ****(Driver)/****(Passenger)/*****(Side, front and rear)/**** (Rollover)
Also see:
• 2009 VW Jetta SportWagen TDI, Part One
• 2009 VW Jetta SportWagen TDI, Part Two


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So, I promised an update on my hands after my visit to the specialist today. Firstly, I don't know anything more yet. They just ran more tests today. However, I cannot say that my experience was overly positive or that my expectations were really met.
Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
I get the the doctor's office 15 minutes before my appointment, as I'm a new patient. I had completed all of the paperwork they mailed to me, but figured they'd need to do things like check my insurance, process my co-payment, etc. That did, in fact, take the better part of 15 minutes. So once the receptionist is done with all of that so says to me "Dr. X will see you, well, when she gets here".
Strike One.
WTF? I have an 8:45 appointment. Scheduled. And the doctor isn't even in the building yet? Ok, whatever. Maybe she's caught in traffic or something? Of course, the way that the receptionist made the comment made it seem like this was a regular thing. Granted, shame on the receptionist for even making such a comment to a patient. But I'm a bit disappointed with the doctor from the moment I hear the comment. It's probably unfair, but it's how I felt.
I finally get called back for the appointment, about 25 minutes after my scheduled time. At which point the doctor rushes in, doesn't even look at me, and says "so how have you been since the last time we saw each other?". Um…I've never seen you before. She didn't even take the time before my appointment to review the information forwarded to her (including blood work), or to note that I was a new patient.
Strike Two.
Once she fumbled over her mistake we started talking a little bit about my pain. She asks me about it, taps a few places on my hand/wrist. Looks at my file. All in all, I probably saw her for less than ten minutes. I was a bit, well, disappointed. But, she ordered some additional blood work and wanted X-Rays done. So that is at least something a little more.
I guess I wasn't sure what to expect. And perhaps my expectations are too high. My doctor in Atlanta always started your visits in her personal office. Where she sat down with you while you were fully clothed and comfortable, and talked with you for 15-20 minutes before your exam. Then you were directed to your exam room, and she came in and looked over every issue that you addressed in your original visit, and did your exam. After that, she again saw you in her office for about 5 minutes, where she would discuss any blood work she wanted to run, tell you why and what it's for and what to expect.
Of course, she was also rated as one of the top doctors in the country.
I guess I just expect that level of attention and care from anyone when I'm talking about my body. I expect to be more than a number or a name on someone's chart. I expect my doctor to actually care what is wrong with me, and walk me through what is being done. I want to feel like I'm important to them. I guess that is more the exception than the rule, and I'm spoiled.
Anyhow, disappointed.
Perhaps my later visits will improve and be better. I'm trying to remain optimistic about it.
The doctor ordered some more blood work. I wasn't expecting blood work and I'd not had anything to eat or drink before my appointment. I have tiny veins to begin with, making blood work a challenge. I always make sure to drink at least two bottles of water before I have blood taken to make it less painful, and easier for the vampires to get what they want. I did not do that this time.
I sat down and let the lab tech know that they will need to draw from my hand. Mercifully, she listened to me, and didn't have a "I'm so good I bet I can get a vein in your arm" attitude. Because I don't know about you, but I hate being a pin cushion solely for someone's ego. So we sit down and she picks a spot close to my wrist on my right hand. And in goes the needle, and she misses. She tries again. And it really, really hurts. I've never had it hurt that bad before – and all I can think is "fuck that is going to leave a HUGE bruise".
There is a guy sitting across the tiny room getting an IV of something watching the whole thing.
The phlebotomist asks me if I've had any water, I tell her "no". She decides to try my other hand. I look away as she gets ready to insert the needle. As she advises me that she's in and the blood is flowing freely, I start to feel a bit woosy. She asks me if I feel dizzy – which only makes me feel more dizzy. Now, I've never passed out from having blood drawn. But I start to sweat, and see brown spots before my eyes. Dammit.
I ask for a glass of water. Keeping my eyes firmly shut and my head down. I feel like such a weenie. They bring me one, and as I try to drink I almost pass out. The vampire indicates that she's going to take the needle out – I panic, I don't want to get stuck again for more blood. She indicates that she's got enough for what she needs, and they bring me a can of apple juice and make me drink it all down.
The man across the room is still staring at me.
I am immensely embarrassed. But they make me continue to sit there until my juice is gone and then a little more to make sure I'm not going to stand up and pass out. They joke about how they have a "no passing out" policy. They insist on walking me out – likely to make sure I don't face plant between the lab and the front desk. I'm mostly ashamed that I've caused such a fuss. I've never had this happen to me before, and I've had lots of blood drawn. I don't know if it's the room, or the multiple stabbings, or that I hadn't had breakfast.
There is some difficulty in scheduling my next appointment because I'm literally travelling for work the entire last half of August, and the doctor is out at the two week mark. It's either wait a month to see me, or work something else in. They decide to work something in for August 15th. Maybe I'll end up seeing the other doctor in the practice. Maybe I'll like him better.
They then scoot me off to X-Ray.
I'm advised there is a 30-40 minute wait for x-rays, and I sit down and read. X-ray is fairly painless. They take X-rays of my hands and my feet. Apparently you can learn a lot about different injuries from someone's feet. I did not know this, and I'm a bit fascinated. I hope that the doctor will show me the x-rays. I've always found them intriguing. Ever since I broke my arm when I was a kid and had plates and pins put in it. My favorite part about seeing the orthopedic surgeon was him putting the x-ray up on the light and pointing out how my arm was healing.
Anyhow, I digress. They took x-rays.
If both the bloodwork and the x-rays are inconclusive, they will move to doing nerve testing. I'm not entirely sure what that involves. Several people on twitter said they are going to run electric shocks through me for a half hour or so. This does not sound particularly pleasant. But if it gets me closer to a resolution, bring it on.
I did not receive any advice for the pain. Granted I was so in shock with everything else, I also forgot to ask what I should do about it in the interim. So it would seem that it's going to be the status quo for the next 12 days, until I go back for the results, and potentially more testing. Hopefully by that time, I'll be a little less shocked and know a little more about what to expect.
At least we are on the path to finding out what's wrong? Silver linings and all that?


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Sports hobbyists have many different ways of assembling their collections. Some people focus on teams and others focus on individuals. Wherever your interests may lie, there are some very popular themes on which collectors seem to focus. Here are a few popular themes that hobbyists seem to really enjoy and why.
Exclusive Clubs
Collecting members of exclusive clubs has always been amongst the most popular ways to assemble a collection. The three most popular are the 500 home run club, the 3000 hit club, and the 300 win club.
The most popular of the three is definitely the 500 home run club. The home run has always captivated baseball fans. It is the spectacle that people want to see when they come to the ballpark. Some collectors try to get one card, a game-used bat or a single signed baseball of each member.
There are a few key reasons why this theme is so popular. First, as stated earlier, home runs are very popular. Second, the club is one of the most exclusive in baseball (currently 17 players have made it) so the number of players is feasible. Finally, most of the 500 home run club members have great followings on an individual basis so the group remains very popular.
Collecting items from any of the exclusive clubs is fun because it is feasible to complete and the clubs will grow slowly but surely over time. Most of the members in each club are still living today, so obtaining many of the autographs shouldn't be too difficult. The challenge is obtaining those who are deceased.
The next most popular theme in sports collecting is probably assembling items by team. Some hobbyists stay loyal to one team their whole collecting lives while others focus on championship teams.
Collecting team items can much more challenging than collecting items from exclusive club members. For instance, if you think finding an authentic single signed baseball of Mark McGwire for your 1989 A's team collection is tough, try finding a single signed ball of Gene "Full" Nelson. I am sure you see my point.
Most team collections focus on cards because that is the easiest way to get all the players on the roster together. Finding autographs, like the example above, would be almost impossible in some cases unless you find a complete team signed item. If you are a Chicago Bulls fan of the mid-to-late 1990's, try finding a Dave Corzine autograph. Good luck!
Due to the difficulty in obtaining team items, the reality is collectors will limit their goals. For instance, instead of trying to get autographs or bats from every member of the 1987 Minnesota Twins, maybe a collector will focus on the stars or the starting lineup. Most people can find a Kirby Puckett bat if they had to, but what about Randy Bush? It can be a real chore.
All in all, collecting team-related items can be fun. If you want a real challenge, this is for you.
Award Winners
Many collectors also enjoy obtaining items from award winners. Collecting MVP's, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year, Gold Glove or Triple Crown winners are some examples. Assembling a collection in this fashion is not quite as difficult as the team-oriented theme, but the potential for more players is involved.
Obviously, if you are collecting Triple Crown winners, the number will be very small. On the other hand, if you are collecting MVP's, the number could be fairly large. A new MVP is named every year in the respective sport. In baseball, they name a MVP for each league so the number is doubled.
The interesting aspect to collecting award winners is that the group consists of perennial stars and "flash in the pan" type players. Mark McGwire was a Rookie of the Year, but so was Ron Kittle. It can be fun looking back at some of the great single season performers.
Hall of Famers
Technically, this is also an exclusive club but this club is not as defined as the statistic-based clubs are. If a player makes it to the Hall, the player is enshrined forever as one of the game's best. As soon as the player is voted in, the demand immediately increases for that player's items.
As time goes on, this becomes an important factor to the valuation of an item. For instance, if the player is not a lock for the Hall and time passes without induction, that player's accomplishments begin to fade in the eyes of hobbyists. While the player's statistics never change, the perception changes over time unless the Hall recognizes the player's accomplishments.
What if Don Sutton never made it or how about Tony Perez? Now that both are in the Hall, the collecting community needs to fill a spot in their Hall of Fame collection. The list constantly grows so that collecting with this theme in mind is fun and ever changing. This is also one of the most popular ways to assemble a collection, because it is based on the best of the best and demand is always there for those players.
Individual Players
Many collectors choose to focus on one player and one player only. These collectors usually collect everything from cards to 7-11 cups with the player's image on them. From a pure collector's perspective, this can be a lot of fun because you need to get creative at times. It is always fun to find an oddball piece with your favorite player's mug on it.
From an "investment" point of view, this can be very dangerous. By "putting all your eggs in one basket" so to speak, you end up limiting your resale audience. For most people who collect in this way, their inability to find a buyer later on doesn't matter to them because that is not their intent at the start.
If you were spending lots of hard-earned money, I would suggest not going overboard with this idea. It is one thing to buy one of every card, but some collectors find it necessary to buy 50 of everything. There are so many great options in the sports memorabilia hobby today, especially for the modern player. Michael Jordan has more cards in some individual sets than Wilt Chamberlain had made in his entire career. It's probably best to diversify your collecting portfolio.
There you have it. This was a brief look at some of the more popular ways to assemble a collection. There are so many options out there it is sometimes hard to focus as a collector, but if you have a gameplan from the start, you can enhance your focus and work towards a hobby goal. Remember to have fun no matter what road you take.


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That's brilliant, thanks very much.
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The lwidth() option accepts a line width style *list* - a list of styles to match the list of lines. Try:
lwidth(medthick medthick)
It's often more convenient to use this syntax:
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> I have created a time series graph using two panel variables using the code:
> graph twoway tsline panelvar1 panelvar2, lwidth(medthick)
> The option lwidth(medthick) only changes the thickness of the line for panelvar1 but not panelvar2. I would like to change the thickness of the line of both lines, and similarly I would like to change the colour of the first line (to say, blue) and the second line (to say, green).
> I have not adjusted any of the default graphics options.
> Appreciate any guidance.
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ESA PR 08-2007. On Sunday 25 February, ESA's probe Rosetta, currently on a ten-year journey to comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko, will make its closest approach to the planet Mars, coming within 250 kilometres of its surface.
The critical close swingby of Mars is needed to use the gravity of Mars to modify the spacecraft's speed and direction. Rosetta will emerge from its martian encounter pointed towards its next target, Earth ! It arrives for a second swingby of our home planet on 13 November (the first having already taken place on 4 March 2005).
To take advantage of this upcoming closest of encounters with the Red Planet, Rosetta's instruments - as well as those on its lander - will be switched on over predefined time slots to perform a series of scientific observations, including planetary imaging. Flight controllers at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have already set everything ready for this crucial manoeuvre.
Launched on 2 March 2004 on an Ariane 5 rocket, Rosetta is the first probe ever designed to enter orbit around a comet's nucleus and release a lander onto its surface. Arriving at comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, the probe will take over a year to conduct a thorough scientific study of this remnant of the primitive nebula which gave birth to our solar system some 4.6 billion years ago. By the end of its epic journey, Rosetta will have performed three Earth and one Mars swingbys in all. It will also have studied asteroids Steins and Lutetia, in September 2008 and July 2010 respectively.
Media representatives wishing to follow this Rosetta Mars swingby from the ESOC control centre in Darmstadt/Germany are requested to complete and return the attached reply form.
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Rosetta Mars swingby
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|Doors open & Filming opportunity in Mission Control Room
|Welcome by David Southwood, ESA Director of Science Programme
|Rosetta Mars swingby : the manoeuvres and flight dynamics challenges, Uwe Feucht,
|Head of Flight Dynamics Division
|En route science and first images,Gerhard Schwehm, Head of Solar System Science Operations Division
|& Rosetta Mission Manager
|Introductory comments on approach ; Paolo Ferri, Head of Solar and Planetary Missions Division
|and Rosetta Flight Operations Director
|Comments on eclipse, Andrea Accomazzo, Rosetta Spacecraft Operations Manager
|Comments on closest approach/eclipse, Andrea Accomazzo & Paolo Ferri
|Closest approach to Mars, eclipse starts
|Ground stations, Manfred Lugert, Head of Ground Facilities Operations Division
|Ocultation ends, signal back
|Imagery from Rosetta and Mars Express : Uwe Keller, Max-Planck Institute
|Comments on eclipse end and telemetry acquisition, Andrea Accomazzo
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This chapter is new for the Solaris 10 6/06 release.
For a complete listing of new Solaris 10 features and a description of Solaris releases, see Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 What's New.
The zonepath of a non-global zone should not reside on ZFS for these releases. This action might result in patching problems and possibly prevent the system from being upgraded to a later Solaris 10 update release.
Note that the root file system of a non-global zone can reside on ZFS starting with the Solaris 10 10/08 release. Solaris Live Upgrade can then be used to upgrade the system.
If the following error message is displayed:
dladm: warning: cannot reset link property 'zone' on 'bge0': operation failed
Referring to How to Use dladm reset-linkprop, the attempt to use dladm reset-linkprop failed. The running zone excl is using the device, which was assigned by executing ifconfig bge0 plumb inside the zone.
To reset the value, use the procedure ifconfig bge0 unplumb inside the zone and rerun the dladm command.
The presence of files within a file system hierarchy when a non-global zone is first booted indicates that the file system data is managed by the global zone. When the non-global zone was installed, a number of the packaging files in the global zone were duplicated inside the zone. These files must reside under the zonepath directly. If the files reside under a file system created by a zone administrator on disk devices or ZFS datasets added to the zone, packaging and patching problems could occur.
The issue with storing any of the file system data that is managed by the global zone in a zone-local file system can be described by using ZFS as an example. If a ZFS dataset has been delegated to a non-global zone, the zone administrator should not use that dataset to store any of the file system data that is managed by the global zone. The configuration could not be patched or upgraded correctly.
For example, a ZFS delegated dataset should not be used as a /var file system. The Solaris operating system delivers core packages that install components into /var. These packages have to access /var when they are upgraded or patched, which is not possible if /var is mounted on a delegated ZFS dataset.
File system mounts under parts of the hierarchy controlled by the global zone are supported. For example, if an empty /usr/local directory exists in the global zone, the zone administrator can mount other contents under that directory.
You can use a delegated ZFS dataset for file systems that do not need to be accessed during patching or upgrade, such as /export in the non-global zone.
In the event that the system state associated with the zone cannot be destroyed, the halt operation will fail halfway. This leaves the zone in an intermediate state, somewhere between running and installed. In this state there are no active user processes or kernel threads, and none can be created. When the halt operation fails, you must manually intervene to complete the process.
The most common cause of a failure is the inability of the system to unmount all file systems. Unlike a traditional Solaris system shutdown, which destroys the system state, zones must ensure that no mounts performed while booting the zone or during zone operation remain once the zone has been halted. Even though zoneadm makes sure that there are no processes executing in the zone, the unmount operation can fail if processes in the global zone have open files in the zone. Use the tools described in the proc(1) (see pfiles) and fuser(1M) man pages to find these processes and take appropriate action. After these processes have been dealt with, reinvoking zoneadm halt should completely halt of the zone.
For a zone that cannot be halted, as of the Solaris 10 10/09 release, you can migrate a zone that has not been detached by using the zoneadm attach -F option to force the attach without a validation. The target system must be properly configured to host the zone. An incorrect configuration could result in undefined behavior. Moreover, there is no way to know the state of the files within the zone.
If the zone's privilege set contains a disallowed privilege, is missing a required privilege, or includes an unknown privilege name, an attempt to verify, ready, or boot the zone will fail with an error message such as the following:
zonecfg:zone5> set limitpriv="basic" . . . global# zoneadm -z zone5 boot required privilege "sys_mount" is missing from the zone's privilege set zoneadm: zone zone5 failed to verify
If you see the following message when you boot the zone as described in How to Boot a Zone:
# zoneadm -z my-zone boot zoneadm: zone 'my-zone': WARNING: hme0:1: no matching subnet found in netmasks(4) for 192.168.0.1; using default of 255.255.255.0.
The message is only a warning, and the command has succeeded. The message indicates that the system was unable to find the netmask to be used for the IP address specified in the zone's configuration.
To stop the warning from displaying on subsequent reboots, ensure that the correct netmasks databases are listed in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file in the global zone and that at least one of these databases contains the subnet and netmasks to be used for the zone my-zone.
For example, if the /etc/inet/netmasks file and the local NIS database are used for resolving netmasks in the global zone, the appropriate entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf is as follows:
netmasks: files nis
The subnet and corresponding netmask information for the zone my-zone can then be added to /etc/inet/netmasks for subsequent use.
For more information about the netmasks command, see the netmasks(4) man page.
The target system must be running the same versions of the following required operating system packages and patches as those installed on the original host.
Packages that deliver files under an inherit-pkg-dir resource
Packages where SUNW_PKG_ALLZONES=true
If packages and patches are different between the original host and the new host, you might see a display similar to the following:
host2# zoneadm -z my-zone attach These packages installed on the source system are inconsistent with this system: SUNWgnome-libs (2.6.0,REV=18.104.22.1685.12.06.20.27) version mismatch (2.6.0,REV=184.108.40.20622.214.171.124.22) SUNWudaplr (11.11,REV=2005.12.13.01.06) version mismatch (11.11,REV=2006.01.03.00.45) SUNWradpu320 (11.10.0,REV=2005.01.21.16.34) is not installed SUNWaudf (11.11,REV=2005.12.13.01.06) version mismatch (11.11,REV=2006.01.03.00.45) NCRos86r (11.10.0,REV=2005.01.17.23.31) is not installed These packages installed on this system were not installed on the source system: SUNWukspfw (11.11,REV=2006.01.03.00.45) was not installed SUNWsmcmd (1.0,REV=2005.12.14.01.53) was not installed These patches installed on the source system are inconsistent with this system: 120081 is not installed 118844 is not installed 118344 is not installed These patches installed on this system were not installed on the source system: 118669 was not installed 118668 was not installed 116299 was not installed
To migrate the zone successfully, use one of the following methods:
Update the new host with the correct packages and patches so that this content is the same on both systems. For more information, see Chapter 25, About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview) and Chapter 26, Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks).
If the new host has later versions of the zone-dependent packages or their associated patches, use zoneadm attach with the -u or -U options to update those packages within the zone to match the new host. See About Migrating a Zone.
To migrate the zone successfully, install the same Solaris release that is running on the original host on a system with the same architecture.
Verify the Solaris release running on the original system.
host1# uname -a
Install the same release on the new host.
Refer to the Solaris installation documentation on docs.sun.com.
To migrate the zone successfully, use the -u option to zoneadm attach.
Verify the system architecture on both systems.
host1# uname -a
If the architectures are different, use the -u option to zoneadm attach to perform the attach.
host2# zoneadm -z my-zone attach -u
For more information, see How to Migrate A Non-Global Zone.
This problem has been corrected in the Solaris 10 8/07 release.
If all non-global zones that are configured with lofs fs resources are mounting directories that exist in the miniroot, the system can be upgraded from an earlier Solaris 10 release to the Solaris 10 11/06 release using standard upgrade. For example, a lofs mounted /opt directory presents no issues for upgrade.
However, if any of your non-global zones are configured with a non-standard lofs mount, such as a lofsmounted /usr/local directory, the following error message is displayed:
The zones upgrade failed and the system needs to be restored from backup. More details can be found in the file /var/sadm/install_data/upgrade_log on the upgrade root file system.
Although this error message states that the system must be restored from backup, the system is actually fine, and it can be upgraded successfully using the following workaround:
Reboot your system with the installed OS.
Reconfigure the zones, removing the fs resources defined with a type of lofs.
After removing these resources, upgrade the system to Solaris 10 11/06.
Following the upgrade, you can reconfigure your zones again to restore the additional fs resources that you removed.


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"The stone the builders rejected has become
the cornerstone."
- Mark 12:10
"The stone the builders rejected has become
the cornerstone."
Like many of you, I was first introduced to Roosevelt Jamison in the pages of Peter Guralnick's seminal Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm & Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom. The story of him working with Gospel groups in a back room at the Blood Bank where he worked, of his cutting a few raw demo tapes of songs he had written with a couple of those singers, and knocking on the door of Goldwax owner Quinton Claunch in the middle of the night with those singers (who just happened to be O.V. Wright and James Carr) in tow, and changing the course of history in the process... the tale of this visionary poet who may just have written the greatest Love Song of all time going on to become Carr's manager, confidant and, in many ways, soul-mate, helped me to understand the importance of this man in the history of this music. It is hard to imagine Memphis Soul without him.
When Preston Lauterbach and I started up the O.V. Wright Memorial Fund in 2008, we went out of our way to find Roosevelt and bring him on board with Willie Mitchell and the rest of the crew. Once we finally tracked him down, he agreed to come have breakfast with me and talk things over. As he began to speak of those days, of James Carr showing up on his doorstep broke and hungry, and quite literally out of his mind, he broke down and started to cry at the memory of it. This was the first time I had met him, and I began to truly understand the depth of spirit and emotion that this man, and the music he created, brought to this world of ours. From that moment on, I became his biggest fan.
As part of the festivities in Memphis surrounding the O.V. Wright Memorial Dedication, I had arranged for a luncheon at the Rendezvous that would bring Roosevelt and Quinton Claunch back together, just like the night they had spent on the living room floor listening to those tapes all those years ago. As it turned out, Quinton wasn't feeling up to it, but Roosevelt came and introduced everyone to his wonderful wife Linda, who was kind enough to have made these beautiful keepsake laminated bookmarks for the occasion, emblazoned with the lyrics of Jamison's song of songs... all of us who were lucky enough to be there that day will treasure them forever.
I kept in touch with Roosevelt over the years, and we talked often of those days. Here was a man who had been there and back, and had the stories to prove it. In the summer of 2011, he was diagnosed with Brain Cancer and, although he was weak, he would still answer my call and speak with me from his hospital bed. Miraculously, Roosevelt got up out of that bed, and the cancer seemed to go into remission. That Fall, he would receive a 'Note' on Beale Street, and be honored by the City of Memphis by re-naming the street where he lived 'Roosevelt Jamison Road'. He was finally getting some home-town recognition... but, sadly, the Cancer had returned. When John Broven and I got into town on the Road Trip last August, Roosevelt was the first person I called. He and Linda were kind enough to invite us out to the house and, although things didn't look good at first, with Linda's help we were finally able to make it happen...
...that luncheon with Quinton and Roosevelt we had been angling for all along. It was truly a privilege and an honor to have been able to bring these two historic figures back together one last time.
I will never forget it.
As I drove Roosevelt home from the restaurant that afternoon, somehow I knew it would be the last time I would ever see him... I told him that no matter what happened, he had written a song that will live on forever. Tears filled both of our eyes, as he turned to me and answered, "I know it."
That's How Strong My Love Is
O.V. Wright - Giant Of Southern Soul is, quite simply, the most comprehensive and in-depth article ever written about O.V.'s life and times. It first appeared in Juke Blues Magazine in the Spring of 2000, and has now been made available here, for the first time on the internet, with the gracious permission of the author, Ray Ellis.
Along with some thirty audio tracks, the article appears in two installments:
Check it out!
Considered by many to be the greatest soul singer that ever lived, O.V. Wright died tragically in the back of an ambulance on November 16, 1980.
He had been lying in an unmarked grave ever since.
The O.V. Wright Memorial Fund was formed earlier this year, and collected donations from people around the globe who joined together to help place a monument at his final resting place in Memphis.
We were able to raise over $2000, and dedicated the headstone selected by his family on the twenty eighth anniversary of his death - Sunday, November 16th, 2008.
As part of a weekend long tribute to O.V., we put together a series of other events to co-incide with the dedication ceremony, as outlined above.
The concert on November 15th served as the inaugural fundraiser for a new organization called The Soul of Memphis Foundation which, as an outgrowth of the Memorial Fund, will strive to continue the work we've started here together.
Our purpose from the beginning has been to help preserve the legacy of Memphis Soul by honoring the past and doing our part to preserve its rich history for future generations.
The incredible outpouring of love that we received from the soul community down in Memphis let us know that we are on the right track.
Please consider making a donation to this worthy cause.
Together we can do anything!
As you may know, the Memorial Fund sponsored a series of events leading up to the dedication of O.V.'s monument on November 16th. Folks flew in from all over the world to be a part of it.
Our kickoff event was a tour of the venerable Royal Studio, the place where O.V. recorded all that soul, where we got to hang out with his producer, the one and only Willie Mitchell. Despite continuing health problems related to the broken ankle he suffered in February, Willie welcomed us with open arms. The tour was led by his grandson Boo, who showed us around the still operating studio, which remains exactly the same as it ever was. Very cool indeed.
Although 88 year old Quinton Claunch was unable to make it, Roosevelt Jamison and his lovely wife Linda were our guests at the Goldwax Rendezvous luncheon the following afternoon. Roosevelt shared his memories of those days at the Blood Bank with O.V. and James Carr, and gave us a taste of his beautiful poetry. The laminated bookmarks Linda made up for everybody are just awesome!
Next up was our after hours tour of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, where media director Tim Sampson was kind enough to let us roam around and check everything out. A truly amazing place, even those of us who had been there before found something new and exciting... like the O.V. album they have displayed as part of their Goldwax exhibit. A great time was had by all.
The crowd was buzzing at the Ground Zero as we packed the house for our O.V. Wright Night benefit concert on Saturday night. It seemed like the whole town was on its ear, as both WDIA and WRBO did their best to spread the word that this was definitely the place you wanted to be. It felt like a great big reunion, as members of O.V.'s family connected with people they hadn't seen in years, like the 1956 class O.V. graduated with from Mt. Pisgah High School.
It felt like a reunion up there on stage as well, as Hi Rhythm kicked it off joined by a veteran horn section led by none other than 'Mister Last Night' himself, Floyd Newman. O.V.'s son Overton DeWayne wowed the crowd with Don't Let My Baby Ride, before Hi vocalist Percy Wiggins took over the microphone and brought it on home with songs like The Bottom Line, You're Gonna Make Me Cry and Lost In The Shuffle.
Next up, Otis Clay showed why he's one of the most respected soul singers ever, laying it all out on smoking versions of songs like Blind, Crippled and Crazy and A Nickel and a Nail, then holding the crowd in the palm of his hand during deep numbers like When You Took Your Love From Me. Otis' impassioned vocals gave way to Charles Hodges' incredible solo during Precious, Precious, and together they just brought down the house!
Perhaps the most moving moment of the whole evening, however, was when special guests The Masqueraders took the stage and performed a stirring rendition of The Old Rugged Cross. We had us some Church up in there, folks, let me tell ya. One of the most under-rated vocal groups of all time, these guys can really sing. There wasn't a dry eye in the place!
Otis, Percy and Overton closed out the show harmonizing together on Love and Happiness and I Wanna Testify, with the crowd swaying together as one. As more than one person in the house told me that night, 'it felt like coming home.'
Sunday, November 16th was the 28th anniversary of O.V.'s passing, and we gathered out at the Galilee Memorial Gardens to dedicate his new monument together. With his extended family all around us, this represented the culmination of the Memorial Fund's efforts, as we paid tribute to this great man. The star of the entire weekend was, without any doubt, O.V.'s older sister, Ada, who told us of her enduring love for her 'singing baby' of a brother. It is a love that will live on forever, a love she was willing to share with those of us lucky enough to have been there in that special place with her.
After Ada's son Elder Eric McCreight spoke about 'the stone that the builders rejected', and Reverend Charles Hodges told of how O.V. influenced his own spiritual journey, O.V.'s two sons shared the love they had for their father with us. As Overton DeWayne sang Amazing Grace in a voice eerily reminiscent of his father's, O.V.'s spirit soared there amongst us as we joined him in song...
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All of O.V.'s beloved family, The Mitchell family, The Hodges family, The Grimes family, The Wiggins family, Archie Turner, Otis Clay, The Jamisons, The Masqueraders, Floyd Newman, Mickey Gregory, Tommy Lee Williams, Darryl Carter, Quinton Claunch, Tim Sampson, Al Davis, Morgan Freeman, Bill Luckett, Roger Stolle, Don Wilson, Jud Phillips, Hi Records, Chris Kourdevellis, The Memphis & Shelby County Music Commission, The Memphis Convention & Visitor's Bureau, WDIA, WRBO, Bob Mehr, Jesse Drucker, Andria Lisle, Ira Padnos, The Memphis Flyer, Monica Jackson, The Doubletree Memphis Downtown, Pop Tunes, Shangri-La Records, Jared McStay, Eric Hermeyer, Paul Pollman, Hot Graphics, The Mt. Pisgah Alumni Association, Julius Bradley, Chase Thompson, Charles Paige, Coffee Al, and everyone who cared enough to come to the concert or become a member of the team.
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Please click here to view some video taken over the course of our tribute weekend, as well as some vintage footage of O.V.
Our big weekend in Memphis made a little noise in the press:
Tribute Weekend Gives Soul Singer O.V. Wright Overdue Recognition - by Bob Mehr in the Commercial Appeal.
Tribute to a Tortured Soul Singer - by Jesse Drucker in the Wall Street Journal.
Considered by many to be O.V. Wright's best album, the long out of print Memphis Unlimited has been released on CD for the first time ever by the good people at Reel Music.
With a beautiful 16 page booklet featuring liner notes written by team member John Ridley, and an excellent job of digital re-mastering from the original analog tapes, this package is truly a labor of love:
By the time Memphis Unlimited was released in 1973, O. V. Wright had been a star in the ghetto for almost a decade. His searing, uncompromising vocals had featured on 10 R&B hits and his Back Beat label had issued four previous LPs - an excellent run of both artistic and commercial success. But this new album was different from its predecessors. It was the first time that Wright had recorded an LP as an entity, rather than had one released as a collection of tracks already in the can - and the difference is marked. Memphis Unlimited has a coherence that his other LPs lack and has no fillers to detract from the quality.
Wright's long time producer Willie Mitchell was currently the hottest
studio man in the South, fresh from multi million sellers on Al Green,
and the fabled Hi Sound he developed was now a mature and fully
acknowledged musical achievement. Wright himself was at the height of
his formidable vocal powers, scorching on the ballads that were his
trademark, swinging on the dance cuts. That combination makes this album
the most accessible and commercial of all of Wright's Back Beat sets
without any compromises at all to his traditional strengths. It remains
one of the key Southern Soul albums and its re-release here is long
overdue. O. V. Wright - the Boss of Southern Soul at his very
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
Bluebonnet Baby
I know my friends in other parts of the country are still dealing with the remnants of winter, and not to make them jealous or anything, but it full-on gorgeous spring down here in Austin!
Seriously, the weather has been stunning, with bluebonnets and wildflowers to boot. How I do love springtime in Austin!
This year's bluebonnet (and other wild beauties) bounty pales in comparison to last year's, but it's still a might pretty sight to see fields of green grass dotted with bonnie bright buds, even if it's not in record numbers.
Spring, bluebonnets, pretty things... this is how I got inspired to paint up this gouache bluebonnet lady. And I like her!
I didn't realize it until I was in the midst of writing this post, but I reckon the big blue sky background choice was my mind subconsciously drawing from this picture of bluebonnets growing wild in the desert of Big Bend that I took...uhhhh...what was it? Six years ago?
But it was such a pretty sight at the time, there I was, on my first camping trip EVER (and I loved it!), and we were basically in the middle of the desert, just hiking along and lo, a patch of bluebonnets and a big ol' blue-as-can-be Texas sky. Soooo pretty!
I've lived through Florida, New York, and Tuscany spring times, and hands down it's Texas' spring that wins me over each year.
And I admit, it has a lot to do with the pretty little blue flowers. And the big blue sky...
...And maybe a smidge to do with the fact that my favorite color is blue. Pin It
4 comments:
- CS Jennings said...
Wonderful! (Not illegal to pick those, BTW.)
- Yielly said...
Blue is my favourite colour too, and the shades in your picture are some of my favourite. Lovely job. :)
- Carapace said...
This is perfect! I'd always wanted to do a bluebonnet- head lady, but you've beat me to it and beaten any idea for it I'd had, for sure!:D
(and yes it IS illegal to pick ANY plants in Big Bend. State park, ya know!)
Texas Spring is glorious in its emphemral self, for sure!
- alicia policia said...
Carapace - You should still do your own bluebonnet head lady!
It used to drive me buggy to get an idea, and then see someone else beat me to it - I didn't want folks to think I was ripping them off or imitating or anything, but I was also kinda sad that I felt I couldn't do my idea anymore.
But then I figured, you know, I had the idea, too, and I should still do MY idea, my way, in my style. Everything has been done before anyway, right?
That, and well, great minds think alike, after all! ; )


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Cinnamon Loaf
Off and on people have asked about cinnamon bread recipies so I thought that I would tell what I've been using. I've been using the Soft Sandwich bread from Peter Reinhart's "Artisan Bread Every Day" with a few tweeks and it always turns our great. I was one of his recipe testers for this book and this may be the bread that I've made most often from the book. The tweeks are I'll some times trow in an extra egg and I have not been letting it set overnight in the refrigerator. I'll either make a full batch which makes 50 oz or I've written in the book the weights for each ingredient to make only 40 oz which is what the Pullman loaf pan takes.
I like lots of turns and lots of cinnamon. Lately we been getting some from CostCo that is excellant: Kirkland - Ground Saigon Cinnamon. I need a longer counter top.
My son got me a Pullman loaf pan and I really like the way loafs turn out. Sometimes when you do a loaf like this you can get air pockets but I'm thinking that this pan helps to do away with the air pockets.
Bake time are 25 minutes with the lid on and 20 minutes with the lid off.
This makes great toast or french toast. I've counted 7 or 8 rings of cinnamon in some slices.
So, I would highly recommend Peter's book and Pullman Loaf Pans.
Happy Baking, Dwayne


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White Chocolate Fruit Tart
Total TimePrep: 30 min. Bake: 25 min. + chilling
Makes16 servings
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 package (10 to 12 ounces) white baking chips, melted and cooled
- 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
- 1 can (11 ounces) mandarin oranges
- 1 can (8 ounces) pineapple chunks
- 1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
- 2 kiwifruit, peeled and sliced
- 3 tablespoons sugar
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
- Minced fresh basil or fresh mint, optional
- In a small bowl, cream butter and confectioners' sugar until light and fluffy. Gradually add flour and mix well.
- Press into an ungreased 11-in. fluted tart pan with removable bottom or 12-in. pizza pan with sides. Bake at 300° for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool on a wire rack.
- For filling, in a small bowl, beat melted chips and cream. Add cream cheese; beat until smooth. Spread over crust. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
- Drain oranges and pineapple, reserving 1/2 cup fruit juices. Arrange the oranges, pineapple, strawberries and kiwi over filling.
- For glaze, in a small saucepan, combine sugar and cornstarch. Stir in lemon juice and reserved fruit juices until smooth. Bring to a boil over medium heat; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Cool.
- Brush glaze over fruit. Refrigerate for 1 hour before serving. If desired, sprinkle with fresh basil or mint. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 335 calories, 21g fat (13g saturated fat), 45mg cholesterol, 133mg sodium, 35g carbohydrate (24g sugars, 1g fiber), 4g protein.
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Jul 22, 2020
I made this for a summer cookout and everyone LOVED it. I followed some of the previous comments and slightly softened the chips in the microwave--no problems.
Dec 27, 2019
Made this for our Christmas dinner dessert. Everyone loved it. I made the shortbread crust the night before then assembled the rest in the morning. I had trouble with the white chocolate chips and cream clumping up, so make sure they are both lukewarm, then beat with mixer and gradually softened add cream cheese.
Oct 8, 2018
Soooo good!! One of the best desserts I have ever had!!
Feb 8, 2018
I've been making this for years. My go to for a brunch or picnic dessert. Don't change a thing.
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Jul 18, 2015
This is perfect. You can use any fruit you like. If I'm running short on time, I chop up the fruit I'm using, mix the glaze in and top the tart.
May 9, 2015
Absolutely one of mine and my children and grandchildren favorite dessert. I also prepare it for my church family. They can't get enough of it.
Apr 9, 2013
Absolutely delicious! Nice alternative to the usual custard tart fillings. The cream cheese and white chocolate paired so nicely with the fruit I added - strawberries, kiwi, blueberries and raspberries. Everyone asked for the recipe!
May 21, 2012
Have make this for years. Brought it to a pot luck last night and received several comments and requests for recipe. Really good looking with great taste.
Mar 25, 2011
Not a crumb left! The only thing I changed in the ingredients was adding ~2tsp (1 lemon worth) of zest to the crust. It really added a nice citrus flavor (and justified buying a lemon for 1/2 tsp of juice). I only used 1/4 cup of glaze, and I also modified a couple steps. First, I've always had issues combining things with melted white chocolate; it always clumps up because it cools too much. For this recipe, I added the chips and cream to the bowl of my stand mixer and set it over boiling water. I mixed until smooth and then whipped using the mixer until it cooled off a bit. Then I threw in the cream cheese 1-2 ounces at a time and whipped on medium until it was smooth. The result was so creamy and light! I also prepped each part of the recipe and stored them separately in the fridge overnight, then assembled a couple hours before serving because I was afraid it would get soggy. The results were terrific. Oh, one more thing...the smaller the fruit the more impressive the design looks.


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- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 1/2 cup cane sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 cup natural creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- 1 tablespoon Chinese chile oil
- 1/2 cup finely diced walnuts
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon powdered ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Heat oven to 375 degrees F, line a couple cookie sheets with parchment paper (or butter the pans).
- Prepare the cookie batter first. In a mixer, mix the butter until it is soft and creamy. Then add both the brown and cane sugar, until it is well mixed. After that is mixed, add the egg, peanut butter, vanilla, baking soda, and salt. Finally, add the chocolate chips. Set aside.
- In a medium sized skillet; add the canola oil and chile oil, heat on the range until sizzling. Add the walnuts, and toss for a couple minutes until golden brown. Add the cayenne, ginger, and nutmeg. Continue to toss for another 1 to 2 minutes. Finally add the sugar to soak in all the goodness at the bottom of the pan. (I strain them to make sure no oil goes into the cookie mix.)
- Add the walnuts to the batter. Finally, fold the flour into batter, but don't mix too well. (If you need a wee bit more flour, don't hesitate to add, but the walnuts make for less of a need for large amounts of flour.)
- Once the flour is folded in, scoop out spoonfuls of dough, and place them on the prepared pan. Press down with fork. Bake for 14 to 17 minutes (depending on your oven) until golden brown. Let cool on rack. The spicy walnuts add a crunch and a finish that is quite a fun surprise.
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- Dish Type: Dessert
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Niagara County Legislator John Syracuse joined Newfane town officials and state representatives in honoring four Olcott volunteer firefighters for their heroic rescue of the passengers of a boat that sank in Lake Ontario during last year's Independence Day holiday.
The seven passengers - two adults and five children - entered 100 feet of water more than a half-mile offshore when their 16-foot motorboat sank near the AES Power Plant. Rescuers utilized GPS coordinates provided by a victim's mobile phone to locate the group, and brought them to safety within minutes.
The four heroes were recently honored at a ceremony at the Olcott Fire Co., as were several long-time volunteers for their years of service. The four rescuers included Fire Chief Steve Miller, Assistant Chief Scott Gunby, and firefighters Rhonda Kreiger and Bob Dierolf.
"Steve, Scott, Rhonda and Bob are the kind of citizens we've come to rely on in our small towns along the lakeshore," Syracuse said after presenting citations for bravery to the group. "These are doers, not talkers. They are willing to put their lives on the line for their neighbors and for total strangers, and they never take even a dollar in pay."
Syracuse and town officials also presented posthumous citations honoring firefighters that had would have been recognized for 65 years service to the Olcott Fire Co., but died earlier this year.
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Sunday, November 23, 2008
Speculaas (Belgian or Dutch Spice Cookies)
Tonight is the night from Sinterklaas,
For you, I have baked some speculaas!
It's actually not the night from Sinterklaas, which is, I believe, December 5, but I did bake some speculaas, recipe courtesy of Melinda, who suggested these cookies as a project for the Lazy Bakers.
Melinda had an ulterior motive for choosing this recipe. On a recent trip to Belgium, she picked up a wooden speculaas mold, which she will use whenever she gets around to baking these. I actually looked up speculaas molds on the internet, not wanting her cookies to completely outshine mine, but 1) they were from $35 to $100+ and 2) they came with many detailed instructions on what to do if the cookie dough stuck to the mold. I immediately envisioned a process that would involve a lot of cursing and would culminate in cookies that would be fit only for giving to bad children, so I abandoned that plan.
Apparently December 6, St. Nicholas Day, is a big deal in the Low Countries. The saint heads toward Belgium and the Netherlands on a slow boat from Spain laden with cookies and other presents that he gives to good children. I believe the children leave their wooden shoes out in front of their bedroom doors, hoping that the shoes will be filled with gifts in the morning. I expect that St. Nicholas fills the shoes of both good and bad children, as Santa does in the U.S. This tradition has never caught on in the U.S. Perhaps we just can't relate to the boat from Spain idea.
I was afraid that if you didn't have the molds, you had to roll out the cookie dough, but, fortunately for me, once I got around to reading the recipe, I saw that you just shape the dough into logs, refrigerate it, and slice into rectangles. My favorite kind of cookie dough.
The recipe also directs you to cut the butter into the flour with a pastry blender or with two knives. I've tried the two-knife technique, completely without success. So whenever I see, "cut with two knives," I translate into "use the food processor."
Maybe if you have a very fine palate, you can tell the difference between dough mixed with knives and dough mixed in the food processor, but I can't. The dough's only liquid is three tablespoons of milk. I used part skim milk and part cream because I had them both, and I had to add a few more tablespoons of cream to make the dough workable.
As an aside, when Melinda first suggested this cookie, I posed an objection because of the name. I said that I didn't want to make a cookie that reminded me of a gynecological instrument, and she told me that I could call it a spice cookie instead of speculaas (some people call them speculoos). I think that speculaas and speculum both come from the same Latin root--the word for mirror--but why these dark brown cookies are named after mirrors is a mystery to me.
After the dough is shaped and refrigerated for a few hours, or overnight if you prefer,
they are sliced into one-quarter-inch slices and baked.
At this point, you may think, as I did, that they didn't look too promising. Oddly enough, they turned out to be quite attractive.
And quite delicious. Jim was an especially enthusiastic sampler of speculaas. I told him to eat whatever he wanted, because whatever was left on Monday morning was going in to work. I also gave a dozen to my friend Karen, who watched me take them out of the oven, and who was also quite taken with them. They're crisp and buttery--more like shortbread than other spice cookies I've eaten. The recipe calls for 1/4 cup of almonds. The only thing I would do differently is increase the almonds significantly because the nut's crunchiness is very good in these cookies. There may not be many left by Monday morning.
And here are Jini's pictures. Jini doesn't have a blog, although she should, but she's a good baker who likes to try new recipes. We both love to sample the food brought into the Edesia cookbook series.
24 comments:
- jini said...
hi marie......excellent speculums, er aas. :>) they do look delicious and it's nice to know they are possible without the sticky molds. it sounds like they are particularly delicious ice box cookies!
i will put them on my lengthy to-do list. edesia is monday. see you i hope.
- Marie said...
If you make them, send me a picture and I'll post it. That's exactly what they are--particularly delicious ice box cookies.
I'm not sure about Edesia--I will either be there to learn about shortcuts for holiday dining, or I will be planning my Thanksgiving menu.
Hello Marie! Your little mirrors look great. I am glad they tasted good too.
You've thrown down the gauntlet...now everyone will be expecting me to do the molded cookies. I was going to hide them or pretend I changed my mind if they didn't turn out proper-like! The heat is on now to make them perfect.
Jeannette sent me pictures of hers 2 days ago, so she is the first in this time. I will post hers when I get mine done. I was going to do them this weekend but I have had a terrible cold and cough. I didn't want to bake in the illness!
Your write up are always so funny! I like the idea of my wooden shoes being filled up with treats, by a saint, in a boat, from Spain. (I always thought St. Nicholas was a Turk in reality.?)
Your spice cookies look delicious!
- Marie said...
I did throw down the gauntlet, didn't I? I might have felt a little bad about it, but I have great confidence in your ability. Did Jeannette make hers in a mold or did she do the icebox-cookie method too?
I don't know about the Spanish boat; that's just what I read. Apparently it's a ferry, because he brings his (Turkish) horse with him on the boat. Whoa! Do you believe this?
Jeannette were sliced like yours. They look equally yummy.
You know...I just love these cookies.
I can't wait to make my own, so I can sit down with a cup of coffee and snarf 4 cookies in a row!
I believe everything you say Marie. You are a lawyer.
I've been eagerly waiting to see what everyone else's Speculaas would look like, as there was no picture with the recipe, and now I see yours! Yours do look nice, more golden that mine I think, and I like the way you've shaped them, more oval than round as I did them. Now I'll know for next time! There will be a next time as I find them very morish, do you?
- evil cake lady said...
Oh my gosh! I'd better get on it and get these cookies baked!
BBC your non-gynecological cookies look very crisp and spicy, which happens to be my favorite kind of cookie. Thank you SO MUCH for translating "cut in with two knives" for me--good to know what they really mean is "use the food processor." Phew.
I am also impressed by your further research into Speculoos (See how I spelled that? Just for you.) and St. Nicholas Day in Belgium. Who knew that St Nick came from Spain? Well I guess the Belgians did and maybe the Spaniards too, but you know what I mean.
- doughadear said...
Marie, the Speculaas look just great and must be wonderful with a cup of coffee or tea. I think these would be a lovely addition to a tray of Christmas cookies.
- markinch said...
If you are wondering, the "mirror" name is because the molded cookies are the mirror imaage of the mold. : )
- markinch said...
If you are wondering, the "mirror" name is because the molded cookies are the mirror imaage of the mold. : )
- Marie said...
Snarfing four at a time with coffee is definitely the way to go here. You may try eating one dainty little cookie, but soon you'll take another, and another....
Mine are now entirely gone, which may gave you an idea of how morish I thought they were. I want to see yours too! I'm sorry Melinda was sick, but she is going to have to start working on these cookies--not only her public, but also your public, is waiting.
I didn't know a blessed thing about speculaas or St. Nick on the Spanish boat until I read up on it, but you know you can't believe everything you read on the Net.
You will love these cookies!
- Marie said...
I'm thinking that I may have to bake another batch as part of my annual Christmas cookie bake, but this time I'll put them in the freezer so they don't get eaten immediately.
I was hoping that someone would know why they were named after the Latin word for mirror! The st.nicholas.org web site has a lot of interesting information, by the way.
This was an interesting read. Growing up in Milwaukee, "St. Nick" came the night of Dec 5th so when you woke up on the 6th your stocking was full. It was a nice pre-Christmas...mostly we got candy, good fruit from the fruit market, and coloring books or Barbie clothes (sometimes clothes for Ken, too, because he really only had that one outfit he came in). So, your story helps me make sense of the dates since my friends from other parts of the US have never head of such a thing. They had their stocking filled for the 25th.
Not to brag, but I think I got the better deal.
On anther note, Marie, I recall your outrage at the price of W-S cake pans. Did you see that All-Clad came out with a line? One the plus side, there is the All-Clad quality and someone FINALLY thought to put handles on the darn things. But, for a 9" SINGLE pan, what does it cost? $89.95 at Sur La Table! Isn't there something wrong when three cake pans cost more than a KA mixer?
*looks around*
Is it just me, or is this crazy?
Anyway, best wishes to Marie and all of the lovely ladies who check into the site. I hope everyone has a really nice Thanksgiving.
All best,
Laura Lee (or Laura NYC)
- jini said...
hi marie....edesia on monday was a good one. the nice news is that is will not meet in december, but will continue in 2009.
we are off to watch a college football game which is played on friday.
happy thanksgiving!
- Marie said...
Laura Lee from NYC,
I like the St. Nicholas Day tradition. When are girls were young, we had an advent calendar that had small boxes to be opened every day. I filled them with tiny gifts, money, or candy and they took turns opening them. It was a fun way of working up to The Big Day.
I didn't know about the $90 cake pans, but that is truly outrageous! How many cakes would you have to make to justify that outlay?
I LOVE the people who write notes on this blog. Happy Thanksgiving to you and to anyone else who is reading this!
I was feeling a little panicked about Thanksgiving, and I spent Monday night looking through cookbooks. My menu finally came together.
I'm glad Edesia will continue next year--I wondered if Kim would want to keep it up. Her audience has been growing steadily. I've been a little disappointed that it's veered away from actually reviewing cookbooks and has become more personal stories, but it's still fun.
- pinknest said...
excellent excellent! i love a thin, nutty and buttery cookie. i actually make something very similar around the holidays already and i hope to try this recipe!
- Marie said...
Do make them--they are completely addictive!
that's how expensive those molds are? I'm sure your cookies are just as good, if not better than, the molded ones.
- Marie said...
They may be just as good, but they're not as impressive. Check out the molded cookies Melinda made
at www.pickworth.me.uk
They're really spectacular speculaas!
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- Unknown said...
Marie, thanks so much for this recipe. My father's family is from the Netherlands, and he used to buy what I called "windmill cookies," because they were that shape. Your cookies looked like those, and when I googled "Dutch windmill cookies" up popped recipes for speculaas. His 80th birthday is coming soon, so I've added these to the menu. Along with a lemon tart--the only two items on the menu so far.
Came to look at your speculaas Jini!
They look good. Did you like them?
- Marie said...
How nice of you to make these cookies for your father! Your menu sounds excellent so far.
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