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November 26-28, 2014
last edits Dec. 7
* "The Russians" here meaning whoever it was that ran and operated the Buk launcher (if it's all one and the same) that we're calling 3x2, blamed for the shoot-down of MH17. Note: it's quite likely they weren't Russian at all...
Shortly after the July 17 crash of the Boeing 777 in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, Eliot Higgins (aka Brown Moses) and the Bellingcat team accurately tracked a certain mystery Buk (SA-11) launching unit across Eastern Ukraine, up to a last point very near a likely launch site for the missile that brought the jet down (while the full implications aren't clear, I concur with their basic findings, as explained here on an ACLOS page where a lot of my other points below are explained out).
More recently, Bellingcat landed another coup in the saga, in early November issuing a new report claiming to link that very launcher, or at least the truck hauling it, to a truck-bound launcher also seen inside Russia a few weeks before the incident, and again just after. If true, it would seem to be a smoking gun. I think it's at least partly true, and the problem is only with the "seem to be" part. And I have no solid alternative at the moment, just verifying part of, and pointing out some puzzling implications of, their findings.
The report and whole site was not coming up when I tried (might be a problem on my end), so I don't even know what's behind their pay-wall. In the interim I checked around. Here's a critical blog article I like that mentions another article praising the report. But what was useful was the Daily Mail's Australian promo article with the cover and a few images from the report as well as a summary. 'There is strong evidence indicating that the Russian military provided separatists in eastern Ukraine with the Buk missile launcher filmed and photographed in eastern Ukraine on July 17,' the on-line report states..."
In this, they identify Buk Telar launcher "3x2," as the report puts it, where the x is a middle digit seemingly painted out for some reason. 3x2 therefore seems a fair name for the thing, and I'll follow suit. From the Mail's graphics, I can see how they link the trucks hauling the launchers by license plate numbers. That looks sound, and minor details support that this is the same truck, apparently in Russia and then in Ukraine. (Or is this not the same famous truck here? It's a side-point.)
The actual launcher link sounds less clear in the Daily Mail report, but in Russia, that truck was hauling a launcher marked on the side with a small, unreadable number and the large number 3x2 (top frame in the below comparison). Seeming to have a number painted over, many will note, smells of a mini-coverup - and it's with a machine that then went (back?) to Ukraine for some secret work Russia denies, before going (back to?) about the Russian border, via everywhere, on a truck advertising a phone number of a guy who swears it was pro-Russian terrorists who stole his truck... (see below for the fuller picture)
However absurd the whole story, there's this compelling, supposed, cross-border match-up. Tying things together more yet, the top frame below shows the relevant part of the Paris Match photo (windscreen dots and all, after being skewed to match as much as possible, and darkened a bit) at the bottom. Again the top image is from Bellingcat via the Mail, with enhanced contrast to make the compositing clearer. The middle is the composite - bottom laid over top with transparency to let us compare). Another layer of just the number box, carefully lined up, had its white spots outlined in black, lining up with white in the other image. All areas of interest highlighted in red.
I noticed earlier the sliver of white paint (or so it seemed) in the blank ID number area in the Paris Match photo, wondering if it was a telltale partly-painted-out number meant to be noticed later and used to blame Russia. It may be exactly that; now we can see it's consistent with the edge of the "2" here, or a couple of other numbers painted at that level. Note also in the bottom image the tiny white dot left of the white sliver, on the cable shadow, that seemed like an artifact. In Russia (if so) we can see it there before - apparently the last part of the first number they also managed to never paint out fully.
That middle digit could well be a one. I thank ACLOS member Resup for bringing this to my attention. As Resup notes, there's the issue with Buk 312 of Russia allegedly seen going back to Russia, put out by the SBU but then pulled, as it was Ukraine's Buk 312 in the photo (the unit's number: bottom image at right). That was also seen in the field not long before this (top image at right), and may or may not be accounted for on the days in question.
Now ... if "the Russians" were smart, what they'd do is paint out the original 312 and then paint over it with Ukraine's style of marking 312, or really any number of a known unit seen in the field (and hope it can't be proven to be elsewhere...) It seems they did not do this. Here, 312 as seen in March (skewed as it was to fit the composite below. That's underlaid by the Bellingcat find, and we can see the lack of the little marking, and the much bigger, bolder, easier-to-spot numbers "the Russians"* had such a hard time hiding (below alone for comparison, not enhanced). Below all, the same area from the SBU pulled photo.
What all this implies, read as the Bellingcat agency reads it, and as the global masses and decision-makers they're informing have read it, is simply that this was all the same unit and clearly a Russian-controlled one. Since it was the same one as seen all around the MH17 crime scene, Putin or top officials almost must have approved something that special. This in turn justifies more sanctions and so forth.
All I can vouch for is the number match and vehicle match, or a complex paint job and bend-mimicking operation. The paint part seems most interesting, with consistent bits remaining of a number ... that might have been falsely painted on, by whoever, to begin with. The June image location I'll credit as likely sound. It seems a troubling challenge for anyone suspecting a Ukrainian and not Russian hand. Proceeding from there...
What Bellingcat probably mentioned but I'm emphasizing is that "the Russians" also, in doing this, made a display of shadiness in the gradual, partial, and traceable erasure of the ID number. Read straight, the alleged coverup is plain silly: they wanted to hide this thing's identity, maybe because they were about to do something secret with it. So first they painted out the number in the middle. Except they left one little corner of white visible. Maybe they just got tired. It's identifiable (in both images). Then before it appeared in Ukraine, it was rendered totally unidentifiable: they boldly blacked out the 3, and perhaps at the same time even, the 2 - except for a larger identifiable sliver. Just got tired, maybe. It's next to the other dot. Haha, no way to connect these now!
- "Now has no number on it AT ALL. No one can say what it is."
- "Brilliant, boss. they will think must have been a Kiev fighter jet! And we will make fake satellite photos to prove. The world will stand behind our invasion!"
That's not just sloppy and stupid like people can be. It's more like something someone else would have them do, in a script they wrote for other parties playing "the Rusians." Its purpose seems to expose, illustrate, or imply a crime, not to cover one up. In fact, it's a bit too obvious to even be a good false flag operation. But maybe that we can chalk up to run-of-the-mill Human stupidity (or worse yet, Neo-Nazi psycho stupidity)
Addendum on Consistency with the Operation, as Known Otherwise:
Whatever one thinks of this graphic comparison and interpretation, the strange and suspect thinking it implies is consistent with what else we know about how this "secret" operation was carried out. If true, it would fit this broader pattern (real or reported clues left by whoever, all open to interpretation, and here couched in the terms of allegations by Kiev and supporters):
- Recalling that this whole weapon itself would have no normal business in the area and would be denied later, it should have been kept secret. Instead, it was driven around in broad daylight on the same day as the crime, just partly covered with a tarp but revealing all clues needed to identify it, its hidden ID number, and its full rack of missiles.
- The truck it was so displayed on was stolen in Donetsk, and kept with the huge sign on its side with the apparent owner's phone number on it. When the media called that number, little surprise, the owner told them pro-Russian "fighters from Slaviansk" who took over his whole trucking company on July 8 (see here) Put lightly, this is a stupid way to secure a rig one intends to use for a secret operation like this was supposed to be.
- They loaded the truck in Donetsk, likely at the commandeered site in the north of Donetsk, near the Ukrainian base with Buk launchers, in a coincidence. This truck then got seen leaving Donetsk on the 17th, parked pointing east at the east outskirts, then seen driving in convoy (a couple civilian cars with the operational crew moved with the truck) past Zuhres and then through Torez to the east. They were seen arriving in Snizhne around noon, then the Buk unit seen off the truck and driving in stand-alone, and it was then seen again driving south out of Snizneh, towards the apparent launch location.
- The people running the convoy made sure AP journalists saw them in Snizhne just before the shoot-down from a bit south of there. The convoy stopped, and a man in unusual uniform "approached the journalists. The man wanted to make sure they had not recorded any images of the missile launcher. Satisfied that they hadn't" filmed that secret missile launcher there, but had noticed it, and their intention to remain sooper seekrit "the convoy moved on." All this was made quite clear to the media and apparently published even before the news that MH17 was shot down. (AP Via Washington Post)
- After the disastrous attempt to secretly provoke a Russian invasion, with utmost discretion the operators put the smoking gun, its rack of one-less missiles left uncovered, back on the same truck and drove it and the phone number back to Russia - by a strange detour on a long route towards the other easily-recognizable smoking gun rebel capitol, Lugansk ... when government ATO forces had just battled their way to the edge of Lugansk ... and got seen there passing at dawn on the main highway south, apparently having come from the center of town, and then presumably drove to Krasnodon (rebel-held) and to Russia....
The fail delivery here is almost flawless, with no mistake left unmade and hardly any reasonable gaps to call for deduction. Letting multiple camera views on both sides of the porous border capture and track the gradual move to this stealth mode seems pretty consistent to me.
Note, Dec. 7: Obviously, the big wrinkle with this apparent match is that it puts this shady device on Russian territory, worked into a whole convoy there, and thus presumably Russian in origin as alleged. That remains the simple (usually most logical) reading, but it has maybes and second thoughts worth raising at each branch of the possibilities tree of "if (or whether) Buk 3x2 was in Russia), which I explored here at the ACLOS Buk tracking talk page. Some of the possibilities: faked imagery (perhaps removing the evidence for Buk 3x2 being in Ukraine) - a rogue officer in Russia helping with the false-flag Trojan horse operation - similar to or exactly as reported, with some serious questions about the logic and method, and the hostile world reaction to the "crime" also called an accident still worth questioning. I really don't know how to call this case. As I said at the wiki, I feel sort of "weightless" compared to usual. This may be the extra-nuanced false-flag I wondered if I'd ever see - one that's got tricks we're not used to involved, and comes out harder - or impossible - to solve clearly - the perfect crime.


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Airwriting: the screen shows the tracking of Christoph Amma's hand gestures, captured by the wristband. Photo: Markus Breig, KIT
The days of reaching for a notepad, phone or tablet in the middle of the night to scrawl down a note to yourself might soon be over thanks to a system that translates what you write in the air into editable text.
Called Airwriting, it was developed at Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and puts sensors that 'read' handwriting gestures into a wearable wristband.
"We envision it being a perfect complement for speech and gesture recognition in future wearable computer systems," said lead developer Christoph Amma, of KIT's Cognitive Systems Lab.
It works using similar technology already in smartphones such as acceleration sensors and gyroscopes. They plot an accurate and changing picture of where your hand is in space and report back to a database that contains a vocabulary.
Previous approaches to arrive at editable text used single gesture recognition, but Airwriting stores a statistical model of the characteristic signal pattern for every letter of the alphabet. The system promises a person-independent word error rate of 11 per cent and a person-dependent rate (where it learns your particular writing style) of only 3 per cent.
Originally encased in a glove, Airwriting was the recipient of a Google Faculty Research Award worth US$81,000 in early 2013. The technology has since been reduced in size and now fits into a single wristband, positioning it comfortably into the burgeoning wearables sector.
Currently the system processes movements at approximately .83 seconds per character, but faster processing and smaller devices promise performance gains, the researchers said.
It's conceivable Airwriting could be packed into a smart watch or ring, the vocabulary greatly expanded by accessing machine learning technologies that access and process language remotely, in the cloud.
If successful, Airwriting could be jumping on what's shaping up to be a very lucrative gravy train in which global names have invested heavily.
Samsung took an early lead with its Gear line of smart watches which connect to an Android smartphone, while Google has had some success in working with developers to come up with applications for its wearable specs, Google Glass.
Apple is widely expected to be launching the so-called 'iWatch' – a wearable device many think will be the company's first challenge to Gear, Google Glass and fitness bands like Jawbone and Fit.
Deloitte predicts 10 million wearable devices will be sold this year, while Juniper Research predicts the industry will be worth $19 billion by 2018.
A system to write in the air was suggested back in 2013, when a paper presented to an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers conference by the South China University of Technology proposed a system based on Microsoft's gesture control camera system Kinect.
But Airwriting needs no external sensor, and Amma says the system also circumvents the problems that can affect speech input.
"It's unaffected by environment noise and bystanders aren't distracted – nor can they eavesdrop on what was said."
Airwriting gained interest at CeBIT Germany 2014 and Amma said his team was talking with several companies from different sectors about further research and applications.
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MISTY'S VOYAGE IN LLOYD'S NEW BOOKjuli 1st, 2014 by Henrick
"Tiny Homes on the Move" is Lloyd Kahn's new book, which a sequel from his earlier book "Tiny Homes". 210 pages crammed with nomadic people who live and travel in their small homes on land or water. Campers, trailers, busses, motorcycles, sailboats, houseboats + much more. Lloyd published 2 pages of Misty in "Tiny homes" a few years ago and I was glad when he asked if I wanted to write about our South Pacific voyage for his new book, it turned out to be 6 pages. If I ever wanted to make a book myself this is it, about travelling people and their selfmade homes.
Highly recommended.
You can order the book from:
www.shelterpub.com (USA)
www.adlibris.se (Sweden)


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The Engadget Show is happening again, humans! Next Sunday, November 22nd, we'll be bringing that live magic back to the stage as we sit down with Drew Bamford (you can read a bit about him here), director of HTC's Innovation Center (the place where things like the Sense UI are born). We'll also be joined by Joystiq's Editor-in-chief Chris Grant for a special roundtable discussion focused on gaming. As a bonus, we've got giveaways for everyone in the audience, plus one of the lucky attendees will walk away with that Modern Warfare 2 Xbox 360 bundle we just got our hands on!
The show takes place at the Tishman Auditorium at Parsons The New School for Design. As you may already know, we film live in front of an audience once a month -- but if you can't make it, don't worry. We're bringing the video back home to Engadget (and as a free download here, in the iTunes Store, or the Zune Marketplace) for your viewing pleasure.
The beautiful venue (which you can see in a photo after the break) is located at 66 W. 12th Street between 5th and 6th Aves. Seating is limited and tickets will be handed out on a first-come, first-served basis -- which means if you want to join us in the audience for the show, you'll have to arrive early and be prepared for a little wait.
Here are the facts you need to know about the show:
- The show is graciously sponsored by Nokia, and hosted by Parsons The New School for Design
- The total show length will be around an hour
- The amazing Glomag will be performing live along with visualist Dan Winckler!
- There is no admission fee -- tickets are completely free
- The event is all ages
- The venue seats just over 450 people
- Parsons students are welcomed, and we encourage them to come!
- Tickets will be available for pickup at the Tishman Auditorium at 2PM on the 22nd, and we're strongly encouraging people to get their tickets and not stand in line -- if you have a ticket, you'll have a seat!
- You'll need to hold onto your ticket stub to be eligible for the giveaways
- You cannot pick up tickets for other people -- if you want your friend to get a ticket, bring your friend!
- The show begins at 5PM, and doors will open at 4:30PM


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For The Qemists, there's just one way to get that killer sound – a pair of Liquid Mixes and the ISA 430…
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For Brighton-based production trio The Qemists, rocking the dancefloor is simply a question of creating massive, peak-time bombs… and their secret weapons of choice? Focusrite's Liquid Mix and the ISA 430: "Focusrite have an immense reputation for high fidelity products."
So says Liam Black, one-third of The Qemists – Drum & Bass production outfit for the legendary Ninja Tune label. They may have started out as a traditional rock band over a decade ago, but a mutual love for the exploding Drum & Bass scene of the late 90s has seen our production trio become renowned for tearing up dancefloors the world over with their three-man, 2-deck, 2-laptop set-up.
These guys know just about everything there is about getting big sound – how else do you get to live-engineer the likes of Basement Jaxx, Kano and Lady Sovereign?
And from their Brighton-based studio they've remixed the likes of Coldcut, Cooper Temple Clause and Roots Manuva, while their tracks have garnered huge support from such heavyweights as Zane Lowe (Radio 1), Andy C and Pendulum.
In the studio they need to be sure they're getting the very best quality signals into their PC set-up, which is why you'll find the legendary Focusrite ISA 430 Mk.II permanently strapped across the front end. "We needed a real workhorse for our recording setup – and what's better than an ISA 430?" Liam suggests.
"We needed a really high quality channel strip for recording the live aspects of our album – guitars and vocals and the like… and this thing is the business – it makes cheap mics sound great and great mics sound just fantastic. But it's not just the sound – the ISA 430's routing capabilities are also really useful. To be able to switch the order of the processing is great – it's amazingly versatile.
With those signals tracked to perfection, Liam turns his attention to the mixing process, and because their projects often contain around 100 tracks they reach for the Liquid Mix to process the more important parts within a song…
"We really needed more DSP, and Liquid Mix is the only thing out there that can emulate so many different modern and vintage compressor and EQ models for a sensible price. The Liquid Mixes are used as extra dynamics and EQ processing in our two PC-based production studios. It's the quality that counts – if you use cheap EQ and compression on parts that sit high in the mix… well, that never works out particularly well, especially with vocals."
"So not only do we have the Liquid Mix's 32 channels of whatever vintage or modern EQ or Compression you can imagine, but there's also the scope to make up your own processors from the best bits that you like. Really, what more could you want!?"
"So when we're producing we're now able to make sure that the real core elements of our songs can run through a huge choice of really high quality plug-ins. This in turn makes the whole mix process far less problematic – mainly because of the quality of the EQs and compressors, but also due to the fact that the computer isn't taking quite as much of a hammering as it would do without the Liquid Mix!"
"We did some mixes at a top London Studio recently, and they had just about every bit of gear going. This was the first time we had experienced analogue gear on such a large scale. But ultimately we were amazed at just how close the Liquid Mix sounds when compared to the original hardware. But sometimes we thought the Liquid Mix sounded even better, especially in terms of background noise."
More info:
Focusrite Liquid Mix 16 (Firewire Mix Processor)
Focusrite Liquid Mix Expansion Card
Look out for The Qemists album, Join The Q, out January '09.


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Winter Hunger Causes North Jersey Bird Invasion
North Jersey is in the midst of an invasion from Canada.
The feathered intruders — finches, to be exact — normally spend winter far to the north but have been arriving here in waves over the past several months, giving birders a rare winter treat.
Clouds of redpolls, a species of finch, have taken over a large stand of birch trees in Losen Slote Creek Park in Little Ferry. "The trees were just loaded with them one morning," Don Torino, president of the Bergen County Audubon Society, told The Record of Woodland Park (http://bit.ly/XXPqZx).
That, in turn, has drawn flocks of bird-watchers to the park.
The redpolls make a distinctive buzzing sound. "You could hear them before you could even see them," Torino said. "And then there were birders from all over the state wandering through the woods."
While the redpolls have been landing en masse, other, more exotic birds have been discovered — including a lost American white pelican and a pink-footed goose.
The invasion of redpolls and other species of finch, including pine siskins and the white-winged crossbill, has been spurred by lack of food in their normal range. They feed on the seeds of conifer trees, and in seasons when pine cones are few they head south to scavenge for other food sources.
"Last winter was really boring — there was nothing going on," Torino said. "This year it's incredible. I've never seen so many redpolls in my life. This is the kind of thing birders wait for."
These birds normally remain in the boreal forest of Canada. But the trees there go through boom and bust cycles, some years producing few cones and other years producing a wild abundance. It's actually a survival strategy for the trees: produce so many seeds one year that it's impossible for the birds to eat them all; produce so few other years that it keeps the bird population in check, said David Bonter, a bird migration expert at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
"Normally, winter finches prefer to stay put, because migrating south for food is risky and costly," Bonter said. "This year, the food situation was so bad that everything moved, from red-breasted nuthatches to grosbeaks."
Pine siskins — about 5 inches long and weighing half an ounce — have brown upper bodies, a chest dotted with brown and hints of yellow on the wings. These birds dropped down into North Jersey in the fall in large numbers. Many then continued south. Some have even been reported in Florida.
Michael Newhouse runs a banding project for the Meadowlands Commission at DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst. In the past four years, he had caught and banded 14 pine siskins. Last fall, he banded 400. "They were everywhere," he said.
The redpolls showed up more than a month ago, and some have continued on as far as North Carolina. These birds, similar in size to siskins, have a reddish cap on their heads, a black beard around the beak and pinkish chest feathers.
Ringwood resident Susan Grimstead has had 50 or more redpolls at a time around her backyard feeders, mixed in with more typical winter residents. "Some days there are too many to count. It gets a little noisy, but it's also exciting — you don't expect to even see them in the first place," she said.
In Little Ferry, several white-winged crossbills have taken up residence in a clutch of sweet gum trees, attracted by the distinctively spiked fruit. "It's so rare to see them here, so it's really interesting that they've shown up," Newhouse said.
The male white-winged crossbill has a red body and black wings with white streaks. Most distinctive is the beak — the ends of the top and bottom halves curl away from each other, crisscrossing, which helps the bird more easily extract seeds from cones.
"Birders love these reports," said Pete Bacinski, who writes a blog called "All Things Birds" on the New Jersey Audubon Society's website. "These are the kinds of thing they crave."
To track the irruption of finch species this winter, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has issued a call for more volunteers to participate in its 26th annual Project FeederWatch, which lasts through April. Volunteers submit observations on the species that show up at their backyard bird feeders. Those interested can sign up at www.FeederWatch.org.
"This has been a dream winter for folks who put out backyard feeders," Bonter said.
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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During World War II, the immigration station's barracks and the hospital were rehabilitated to house German, Italian and Japanese prisoners of war before they were sent to inland camps. In July 1942, a group of Japanese prisoners from the battle of Midway
Angel Island, located in the middle of San Francisco Bay, is operated as a California State Park and is accessible by ferry from San Francisco or Tiburon. An information kiosk on the island is open 8:00am to sunset. Visitors can explore the various trails and roads which offer excellent views of Fort McDowell and the Immigration Station. Many of the buildings are identified by interpretive signage. A tram tour of the island departs from the Cove Café on weekends in March, April and November; and daily May-October. Call 415-435-1915 or visit the park's website for further information. You can also learn more about the immigration station by visiting the website of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
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1971 Dodge Dart - Raspberry Punch - Road Warriors
David And Tracie Pagel's Little A-Body Is A Hard Hitter
Although originally purchased for $600 as relatively uninspiring transportation, this '71 Dodge Dart is now a major player in the street wars thanks to David Pagel of Kissimmee, Florida. Granted, the transformation didn't happen overnight-it took 14 years of constant modifications to get the A-Bomb to its current level of fusion-but the resulting visual and piston-pounding impact was worth the wait.
The metamorphosis began in 1987 when David convinced a friend to sell him the car. The Dart originally sported a gold exterior with a green cockpit, plus a mildly modified, factory-installed 318 that benefited from a "bigger-cam-and-headers" upgrade. David's first intention was to sell the car and earn a few coins; however, that plan changed when his girlfriend (now his wife), Tracie, expressed a desire for David to keep the Swinger. Upon deciding that the Dart was going to become a permanent family member, David realized a complete makeover was in order.
Since David is a body repair specialist by trade, the sheetmetal resurrection was a no-brainer. The Dart went into the rebuild process with a solid foundation, so most of the bodywork centered on sanding and painting.
But not just any ol' paint job would do.
Since David meant for his ride to make a statement, he and Tracie settled on an uncommon shade of Raspberry Red in a base coat/clearcoat.
Aside from the visual impact, David also wanted his Dart to carry some figurative weight in the performance department. To lighten the already lean A-Body, David added AAR Fiberglass bumpers and hood. And those gauges gracing the cowl aren't sitting there for good looks. David likes to monitor things like fuel pressure, oil pressure, and a funny little blue bottle mounted in the trunk.
For added buzz under the hood, David contacted Ray Barton Racing Engines, who treated the 340 engine to some aggressive performance work. The block is now filled with Manley rods and JE Pistons, which displace a compression ratio of 12.5:1 under a set of W-2 heads. The Comp Cams solid lifter cam actuates the valves, pulling "go juice" from a Barry Grant Demon carburetor.
Understandably, the transmission needed a built-in durability factor, so a JW Transmissions-prepped 727 was augmented with a reverse-shift valvebody and transbrake, then mated to a JW torque converter. From here, torque is shuttled to an 831/44 rear enhanced with a Strange Spool and Richmond 4.56:1 gears.
That may sound like an unusual combination for the street, but when we found David and his Dart at the Old Town cruise in Kissimmee, he had driven the car approximately 15 miles one way. While this may not seem like much, consider that this was made at rush hour, during the busy Florida tourist season.
We asked David to share his secrets on making a high-compression engine survive the street. Obviously, 87 octane isn't going to cut it. David says this level of compression means shelling out the extra cash for at least 110-octane race fuel. Another factor in making the car street-survivable relates to the camshaft. David runs a large degree of lobe separation to help bleed off some of the static compression, effectively fooling the engine into thinking there is less compression. Then there's the ignition. High compression demands a hot combustion spark, so David added an MSD ignition box with a timing retard feature to help back up the spark when necessary (such as on start-up).
Oh. And that box? It's tied into the distributor and crank trigger. Under normal driving conditions David fires the engine through the distributor. When ignition accuracy is required, David simply disconnects the distributor and plugs in the crank trigger, which is timed with racing in mind. Little tricks like this help Dave's Dart survive the perils of double-duty driving.
Since the raspberry flamb Dart was to lead a double life, David and Tracie couldn't dress the interior in the manner of a race-only car. The compromise is a blend of stock and custom pieces consisting of the factory dash cluster perched in front of a pair of JAZ lightweight seats. The door, rear side panels, and headliner are custom-made units that David covered in black tweed. Since the Dart sees a lot of road time, a JVC stereo taps into the wiring system. Finally, David built and installed a rollcage and subframe connectors for added safety during rapid acceleration tests.
The transformation from "beater to streeter" may have taken David and Tracie on a 10-year journey, but the finished product can now hammer the competition with a knockout punch.


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New: Prosecutors File Murder Charges in Berkeley's First Homicide of 2014
Prosecutors filed murder charges today against two people suspected in Berkeley's first and so far only homicide of 2014. -more-
Prosecutors filed murder charges today against two people suspected in Berkeley's first and so far only homicide of 2014. -more-
The City of Berkeley Police Department (BPD) would like to announce two arrests for the February 28, 2014 murder of Sylvan Fuselier. BPD Homicide Detectives have arrested Michael Diggs, a 28 year old male, of Berkeley, and Kneitawnye Sessoms, a 40 year old female, of Berkeley. -more-
An 80-foot tree exploded on a residential street after lightning struck it during a storm Monday afternoon, breaking windows and skylights and damaging cars, homes and roofs, according to Berkeley Deputy Fire Chief Avery Webb. -more-
Environmental justice groups have filed a federal lawsuit against the Bay Area Air Quality Management District and energy company Kinder Morgan after learning that the company has quietly been receiving crude oil by rail at its Richmond facility with the district's approval. -more-
A tour bus caught fire on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Berkeley late this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol. -more-
In this liberal enclave 13 miles from San Francisco, famous for its protest politics and a world-class university, it's not uncommon to hear people say how fortunate they feel to live in a city that has overcome so much of the racial tension still endemic in the rest of the nation.
But for Black students in Berkeley's public schools, publicly available information indicates a dire situation, and one that is getting worse.
Today, a group of parents in Berkeley, California organized as Parents of Children of African Descent, or PCAD, called on the Berkeley Unified School District to revamp its disciplinary actions and devote more resources to address racial disparities in its public schools.
"Many parents of African American students in the Berkeley Public Schools feel that their children are not being treated fairly or being offered a quality education," said Laura Babitt, a member of PCAD's Executive Board. -more-
Jodorowsky's Dune is a real treat for film buffs but it may prove a challenge for the average filmgoer. Director Frank Pavich sets out to tell the story of "The greatest movie never made"—a film that anticipated (and influenced) Star Wars and a generation of fantasy films that followed in its wake. The story is told by a half-dozen of the surviving principals—most notably the mercurial would-be director, Alejandro Jodorowsky. -more-
Here's an idea for how to spend the rest of my life that I hadn't previously considered. I got this letter in today's email:
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"Our region offers an abundance of opportunities for companies, particularly, manufacturing and wholesale/distribution related companies.Well, there are days when it seems alluring. Much of what used to appeal to me about California in general and Berkeley in particular seems to be evaporating. Maybe starting over in Commerce, Texas, is the cure for the Berkeley blues.
"It is well known that Texas offers many advantages to California companies. In fact, according to Chief Executive's eighth annual survey of CEO opinion of Best and Worst States in which to do business, 'Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, whereas, California was ranked dead last'.
"Please reply to this email or contact me at 866-820-9389 to schedule a meeting.
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1. Demonize. Anything, anyone, anytime. Simply suggest a nefarious agenda at work, however ridiculous. In this way people will hesitate to get involved which helps because that can get so messy. -more-
Cyber wars and spying have intensified creating greater mistrust amongst our allies and corporate competitors. Classified documents released by Edward Snowden show that the NSA is targeting the Chinese Huawei's network in Shenzhen and monitored the company's top executives. The NSA is recording every single phone call made in an undisclosed foreign country. A surveillance system called MYSTIC stores the billions of phone conversations for up to 30 days. According to Ashkan Soltani, who co-wrote the Washington Post exposé on MYSTIC, revealed how the NSA uses Google cookies to pinpoint targets for hacking and how the NSA secretly broke into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world. This is another example of U.S. government overreach. -more-
In a stark example of environmental racism, Native Indians have become the target of toxic uranium mining. Energy Fuels Resources recently obtained federal approval to reopen a mine in close proximity to the Grand Canyon's popular South Rim entrance. Environmental activists have joined forces with Native Navajos to protest the decision siting serious health risks. Earlier uranium mining has scarred the landscape and left deposits of radioactive waste from 1,000 closed mines. The mining companies failed to adequately remove the radioactive wastes which have resulted in a dramatic increase in cancer and other serious ailments. -more-
My apartment in Martinez is in close proximity to the railroad tracks that are now transporting crude oil. Nobody asked me if it was okay to put me at risk by enacting this plan. I try not to think about it that while I am asleep at night, I could be blown to fiery pieces if there were a derailment near where I live. -more-
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The Patient Protection Act and the Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) seems to be working. Admittedly, this is not a universal view. But as of the March 31st deadline, it appears that the goal of 7 million signees may have been reached. This is quite an achievement considering the computer glitches encountered by consumers along the way. One problem, however, is that private, for-profit insurers are not under enough competitive pressure to keep premiums low. -more-
US energy policy is stuck on reliance on natural gas. Most Americans understand that by the middle of the century most of our energy will have to be supplied by renewables – wind, water, and solar – but we seem content to use natural gas for the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, this is not a realistic policy. -more-
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For my first column of 2013, I would like to take a moment to look back at one of ASTM International's most basic tenets, a principle that has carried it successfully into its 115th year, a principle that will take it safely into the future. It is this: ASTM International is a standards developing organization that is dedicated to supporting the needs of its members. To understand how that works, we must first step back to view the landscape in which ASTM International resides.
In a world where national and other centralized standards bodies are the norm, the United States houses a collection of standards organizations that lend themselves to product categories or technical specialties, or, in the case of ASTM International, a scope that crosses product and technological lines. The U.S. standardization system is different, of consternation to some. But the standards produced by this outside-the-box anomaly raise the bar of excellence in many fields and give the global marketplace a vibrancy and balance it would otherwise lack.
There are rules for those who would enter this global marketplace, rules that ensure fair play and competition, rules for international standards that are codified in technical regulations. These rules are contained in the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade and institutionalized in the WTO's TBT Committee. This committee created principles for the development of international standards (see below, "WTO Principles for the Development of International Standards"). The principles are without prejudice and the agreement is nondiscriminatory; i.e., there is no list of standards bodies that are designated as preferred or "approved." It only requires that a standards body, when developing international standards, follow its principles and thereby reduce the possibility of producing standards that will act as unnecessary barriers to trade. The United States is a member of the WTO and a signatory to that agreement. It is the only signatory with a decentralized standardization system, i.e., a country with no single national standards body. An anomaly. And this is where ASTM International resides.
ASTM International is not a signatory to the agreement, as the agreement is between governments, but ASTM complies with the WTO/TBT principles for the development of international standards. It has enshrined them in its standards developing process, even though that is not required.
Why, then, did ASTM International make this commitment? It was made when the first principle of this organization was established 115 years ago. And that principle was that ASTM would exist to meet the needs and expectations of its members. Every decision thereafter was made in accordance with this first principle. It is at this principle that all past, present and future ideas meet; it is the end to which all ASTM International activities strive. For this organization, there is no objective higher; there is no financial, administrative or political goal that takes precedence over or compromises this single mission.
ASTM International made the commitment to adopt TBT principles because our members needed to have their standards - their standards - match the realities of international trade. It was necessary to assure the WTO member countries that ASTM standards would not act as barriers to trade. ASTM International had instituted guards against that possibility long before the TBT issued its principles - guards such as openness, transparency and consensus. But ASTM International went the extra mile and instituted practices such as aid to developing nations.1 It completed the agenda set down by the TBT. It complied. Today, countries around the world adopt ASTM standards by the thousands into their technical regulations, allowing ASTM members around the world to export their goods and services, and raising the bar of quality within those countries at the same time.
Are we home yet? No. The United States and its voluntary standards bodies are still an anomaly. And anomalies, by definition, are not the norm. Nor are they easily digested. Change is difficult and slow. WTO members still notify each other when they use an ASTM standard in a technical regulation, a practice reserved for standards that emanate from bodies that are not considered "international." But there are two facts that cannot be ignored: the first is the high rate of usage of ASTM standards by WTO member countries, and second, an ASTM standard has never been brought before the TBT committee as a technical barrier to trade. Definitions are one thing. The realities of the marketplace are another.
The realities of the marketplace are these: Standards in technical regulations are in place to ensure the health, safety and environments of WTO member countries. In use, they must also not act as barriers to trade. And member countries use ASTM standards because they lead the world in quality and relevance.
It was not our primary concern to lend dynamism and balance to a global trading system; our primary concern was to serve our members. It was not our goal to become part of an anomaly, but we became one because our members needed speed and efficiency, and the ASTM International model of direct participation gave them that. Many technical experts from delegate-based and centralized standardization systems also wanted a standards forum that would give them direct participation. They came to ASTM International. They broadened ASTM standards with their contributions and filled its halls with flags from around the world. Here, they found a space where their interests would come first.
And now, we are in our 115th year. And we will strive, and work, and do whatever is required to honor our first principle, and those who founded this organization with such wisdom and foresight.
1. See ASTM International's MOU program.
James A. Thomas
President, ASTM International
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Surrender of Fort Sumter and Lincoln's Call for Troops
On April 1, 1861, Secretary of State William H. Seward telegraphed George William Summers, a Unionist member of the Virginia Convention, to visit President Abraham Lincoln. Several Unionist delegates sent John Brown Baldwin to meet secretly with Lincoln in Summers's stead. Meeting with the president on April 4, Baldwin urged him not to take any action that would provoke a violent response. Shortly afterward, former Virginia congressman John Minor Botts, one of the state's most outspoken Unionists, also met with Lincoln to urge him to take no provocative action. Unfortunately, later accounts related by the participants in those meetings contain serious differences, and it is not possible to know precisely what they said to Lincoln or what he said to them. On April 8, the convention appointed a three-man delegation to meet with Lincoln to determine his policies toward the states that had seceded. The three delegates arrived in Washington, D.C., on April 12, when events outside of Virginia had begun to force the crisis to its conclusion. Early that morning, in Charleston, South Carolina, Confederates opened fire on Fort Sumter after Lincoln attempted to resupply it by ship. The next day, the United States Army officer in command surrendered the fort. Lincoln then called up 75,000 militiamen from all of the states to suppress the rebellion.
Men in South Carolina took the first step toward war, and on April 12, 1861, before the Virginia convention's delegation could confer with Lincoln about his policies toward the seceded states, Confederate artillerists in Charleston opened fire on Fort Sumter after Lincoln attempted to resupply the garrison there.
After the surrender of Fort Sumter in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina, President Abraham Lincoln issued a call for 75,000 militiamen to put down what he described as a rebellion against the authority of the federal government.


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March 24, 2006
Sox Claim Hee Seop Choi
Another excellent pick-up for little money ($725,000) as the front office just keeps hitting bullseye after bullseye this winter.
Choi put up nice numbers -- .388/.495 in 95 games with Florida -- in 2004 before being traded to Los Angeles. He's good insurance at first base if Snow fizzles or if Yook has to move back to third because Lowell can't get it going. Plus the Sox can stash him away in Pawtucket until the time is right, unless they decide to cut Snow.
Plus: Who does PECOTA list as Choi's most comparable player for this season? ... David Ortiz, 2003. (4th best comp? Travis Hafner, 2004) Love it.
8 comments:
- Jack Marshall said...
Love it is right.
Ok, I want to hear the explanations of all the fair weather depressives who said the Sox were doomed after losing Damon. What I see is a much better starting rotation, Schilling throwing bullets, a deeper and younger bullpen, with Foulke looking like the 2004 model, vastly improved defense in the infield, a solid replacement for Damon, and more power and depth on the bench; upgrades at second and first, and help available if question marks like Lowell don't pan out. Why would anyone be pessimistic about this squad? Considering all the turmoil and confusion around the GM, Manny,and The Idiot, it's flat out astounding that the Sox are in such a good position now.
- March 24, 2006 at 8:18 PM
- Jere said...
They were all completely influenced by the media. For people to think the Boston Red Sox would have just not even attempted to field a competitive team was ridiculous. The media wanted make it this "oh no" situtation, to sell more papers. I personally never worried one bit, and have my blog to prove it. However, ironically, I feel the last few moves have been kind of overkill, as I thought we were fine with Bronson being there to come in and maybe fill in for an injured starter, or still contribute as a long reliever. And these guys from the NL don't look as good to me as they seem to to everyone else. But I obviously hope for the best for Choi and Pena. Just don't see them as being gods, especially with their .240 and .250 averages.
- March 25, 2006 at 8:51 AM
- Zenslinger said...
All the if's for this year could conspire to make this season a little disappointing -- not that they will, but they could. But the fact that so many of these moves are so future oriented is encouraging in itself, no matter how Wells/Lowell/Foulke do.
I am excited for this season.
- March 25, 2006 at 12:54 PM
- allan said...
I'm also very excited. Health is obviously an issue for several players (not only on the Red Sox, but the Yankees and Blue Jays).
There are always questions before a season. Every year, every team.
The difference between Boston and New York is if someone goes down, we have decent replacements. The MFY do not.
- March 25, 2006 at 2:09 PM
- Jack Marshall said...
Especially if pitchers go down, RS, and Yankee pitchers are going down already. Wright and Pavano are already hurting. Mussina has looked old and rotten in the spring games. Wang is banged up. Small is on the disabled list, and as soon as Satan collects on the bargain Small made last season, he'll vanish in a puff of sulphur. And... dare I hope?...Rivera's either gotta show that he's human or suffer metal fatigue like all robots one of these years. If this is the year, look out Devil Rays!
- March 25, 2006 at 3:27 PM
- allan said...
I read at SoSH that John Kruk has predicted that Randy Johnson will win 30 games (didn't he say the exact same thing last year)?
Shit, I'll bet Kruk $20 that the Big Ugly won't even start 30 games!
- March 25, 2006 at 4:09 PM
- laura k said...
Why would anyone, ever, anywhere, for any reason, pay any attention to anything John Kruk has to say?
- March 25, 2006 at 7:26 PM
- Jack Marshall said...
I kind of like Kruk's off-beat candor, but if he takes your bet, Redsock, please get me some of the action. He can't be serious! A repeat of last year for Johnson would make the Yankees ecstatic; a more likely scenario is a declining in and out year with lots of down time, and something like a 13-12 record. I'm curious: how many would trade Schilling for Johnson today, straight up, remembering that the Yankees have to pay him for two more years? Not me. In fact, I wouldn't trade any Sox starter for him, including Clement. Okay, maybe Wells.
- March 26, 2006 at 7:46 AM


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The writing has been fast-and-furious over the weekend, with opinions flying on whether Chevy royally screwed the pooch with their current ad campaign for the Chevy Tahoe, a tie-in (somehow) with the TV show The Apprentice. To summarize: Chevy has set up a site where anyone can create his or her own commercial, splicing together a number of video clips and background music supplied by Chevy. More importantly, these user-generated commercials can have text floating over the images of the creator's choosing. Therein lies the rub. It's no surprise (to anyone with an IQ above room temperature) that this has unleashed the creative juices of a number of folks who have found the perfect platform for their messages.
A couple of examples that C|Net has archived can be found here. (Go ahead, check them out if you haven't seen them. We'll be here when you get back.)
Thoughts on the situation so far:
Tara Hunt: "[Chevy] should taking advantage of the valuable (even if it is vitriolic) feedback that they are getting and use this as an opportunity to change direction and survive into the future of this community-driven market."
Doc: "Watch."
B. L. Ochman: "Proving that execs at big companies, and their agencies, don't monitor what's being said online over the weekend, Chevy left thousands of anti-Chevy consumer-made ads on the Chevy Apprentice make-your-own-commercial site this weekend."
Seth Godin: "Chevy is learning this the hard way with their Tahoe campaign… in which the best commercials are the ones that say, 'Don't buy me!'"
TechDirt: "It seems like perhaps GM understood what would happen a lot more than the so-called 'experts' give them credit for. In this day, anyone opening up such a contest has to know that it'll be used for 'anti' ads. It's happened so often that they must have expected it. In fact, by then being open about it, GM is getting even more mileage from this campaign, and making it appear that they are more open to listening to those who disagree with them…So, it's questionable as to whether or not GM was 'slow to react' or if they are simply doing everything according to plan."
AdRants: "Negative things will always be said about a brand. Understanding and accepting opposing views does far more for a brand's mojo than killing off divergent opinion. Let's hope this is what's happening at Chevy and not that the ads are still up because it's the weekend and big companies don't work weekends."
Carl: "I don't understand how otherwise rational people look at this campaign as a positive. It would be like letting people create print ads for McDonalds, and publishing all of the ads that talk about cholesterol, fat, calories, carbohydrates and fat kids. And then patting themselves on the back for letting people 'speak their mind' and for 'understanding social networking.' This campaign can only damage the brand by reinforcing the negatives. Isn't this marketing 101? The best GM can hope for is to convince all of the people who already hate the product that GM is a cool company with products they hate."
And a whole bunch more.
I think there are a few things to think about here. One perspective that that this is, in some ways, akin to the LA Times wikitorial fiasco. If that's the case…the GM didn't consider the possibility that people would create ads that were not in line with GM's vision of what should be done…then shame on GM. Any opportunity for "user-generated" media in any topic where there are strong feelings will generate the same spectrum of responses. If that's the case, GM was simply Not Thinking. Any subject that evokes passionate responses will naturally have this outcome.
A thought: Perhaps a worthwhile tactic to take in these types of situations is to proactively set up areas/categories for the primary viewpoints that are likely to emerge. In the LA Times case, setting up two wikitorials (one "pro-war" and one "anti-war") may have radically changed the outcome of their experiment. In Chevy's case, allowing the "directors" of the videos to classify them as "pro-SUV" and "anti-SUV" would have been one way to proactively address the problem. It's what Scoble did here ("Let The Venom Flow!"), and it's a very effective tactic in cases where this type of activity is likely to occur. It's going to happen. Might as well embrace it.
So, it seems from my vantage point that there are three "standard" things that Chevy could do. The options…
- Option 1: Pull the negative ads
- Option 2: Leave the negative ads, do nothing (It's the Marc Canter approach: "I don't give a damn about what anyone says about me, just spell my name right.")
- Option 3: Leave the negative ads, engage
Option 1 is the Bad option. If they go down that road, they'll get crucified.
Option 2 is an OK option. They may be called "clueless," but they'll still be getting some buzz out of the campaign. (And, pragmatically, the folks who are creating the negative ads — as well as the individuals who find that the negative ads resonate with them — probably aren't going to be buying an SUV anytime soon, anyway.)
Option 3 is a Pretty Good option. In addition to leaving the ads up, trying to understand what the negative-ad-creators are attempting to communicate and putting some plans in place to ACTUALLY address the concerns could rocket GM forward in this regard, if they are able to make some commitments and meet them. There's some upside here, if they get their act together.
What do you think GM should do, if anything?
Chevy responds in the NYTimes (registration or bugmenot req'd). The money quote, from Chevy representative Melisa Tezanos:
"We anticipated that there would be critical submissions. You do turn over your brand to the public, and we knew that we were going to get some bad with the good. But it's part of playing in this space." (via Adrants)
So, it's at least Option 2. Wanna trade that and go for door #3, Melisa?
As a footnote, it's worth noting that not all the ads are anti-Chevy or anti-SUV. Some are chuckleworthy. Examples:
Snakes On An SUV! (not advised for those with an aversion to profanity)
Badgerbadgerbadger (disclosure: we did this one, inspired by this)
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Long before I was blogging, I was reading food blogs. Some of the first blogs I read are still amongst the blogs I read today – including Smitten Kitchen. Deb Perelman's honest, clever writing, her recipes that always work and her gorgeous pictures have kept me coming back for years now. And clearly I am not the only one. When I told people I was going to hear Deb speak in Toronto last week (an event presented by The Cookbook Store), even my non-food blogging (and, in fact, not really food-blog-reading) friends were jealous. Deb's audience is far and (world)wide and I guess everyone goes back for the same reasons I do.
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Plum poppyseed muffins - not too sweet. Studded with gorgeous plums these would make a great breakfast or anytime snack. Excerpted from THE SMITTEN KITCHEN COOKBOOK by Deb Perelman. Copyright © 2012 by Deb Perelman. All rights reserved. Used with permission from the publisher. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher
- 6 tablespoons (3 ounces or 85 grams) unsalted butter, melted and browned and cooled, plus butter for muffin cups
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup (50 grams) packed dark or light brown sugar
- 3/4 cup (180 grams) sour cream or a rich, full- fat plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup (60 grams) whole- wheat flour
- 1 cup (125 grams) all- purpose flour
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon table salt
- Pinch of ground cinnamon
- Pinch of freshly grated nutmeg
- 2 tablespoons (20 grams) poppy seeds
- 2 cups pitted and diced plums, from about 3/4 pound (340 grams) Italian prune plums (though any plum variety will do)
- Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. Butter twelve muffin cups.
- Whisk the egg with both sugars in the bottom of a large bowl. Stir in the melted butter, then the sour cream. In a separate bowl, mix together the flours, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and poppy seeds, and then stir them into the sour- cream mixture until it is just combined and still a bit lumpy. Fold in the plums.
- Divide batter among prepared muffin cups. Bake for 15 to 18 minutes, until the tops are golden and a tester inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. Rest muffins in the pan on a cooling rack for 2 minutes, then remove them from the tin to cool them completely.
- Do Ahead: Generally, I think muffins are best on the first day, but these surprise me by being twice as moist, with even more developed flavors, on day two. They're just a little less crisp on top after being in an airtight container overnight.
- Cooking Note: You don't create seven muffin recipes in a year without learning a few things. I found that you could dial back the sugar in most recipes quite a bit and not miss much (though, if you find that you do, a dusting of powdered sugar or a powdered- sugar– lemon- juice glaze works well here); that a little whole- wheat fl our went a long way to keep muffins squarely in the breakfast department; that you can almost always replace sour cream with buttermilk or yogurt, but I like sour cream best. Thick batters— batters almost like cookie dough— keep fruit from sinking, and the best muffins have more fruit inside than seems, well, seemly. And, finally, in almost any muffin recipe, olive oil can replace butter, but people like you more when you use butter— and if you brown that butter first, you might have trouble getting them to leave.
These muffins were a revelation – I loved that they are muffins proper (i.e. not cupcakes masquerading as muffins as is too often the case today). They contain hardly any sugar (just 1/2 cup in total of granulated and brown sugars) and the high fruit to batter ratio makes them not only look lovely but each mouthful contains a lot of plum. In every muffin. You know so you don't have to pick over the batch to find the one with the most fruit. I'll be making them again for sure – so easy to whip up (and I can see this working well with other stone fruits too) and so fruity they nearly feel virtuous.
Deb's introduction to the book ends with "So welcome. I hope you're hungry" and I can honestly say as I look at my list of "want to make" from the book that you will be after taking a look inside.
Thanks to the kind folks at Random House Canada, I have one copy of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook to give away and the good news is that it's a WORLDWIDE giveaway!
To enter: Leave me a comment telling me which of the recipes on this shortened "to make" list from the book I should make first:
Big cluster maple granola
Potato frittata with feta and scallions
Iceberg stack with blue cheese and radishes
Cranberry bean salad with walnuts and feta
Shaved asparagus pizza
Spaghetti squash and black bean tacos with queso fresco
Mushroom bourguignon
Leek fritters with garlic and lemon
Pancetta, white bean and Swiss chard pot pies
Tomato glazed meatloaves with brown butter mashed potatoes
Brownie roll out cookies
Whole lemon bars
Mom's apple cake
Tiny but intense chocolate cake
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For a second entry, tweet the following message:
"Enter to win the @smittenkitchen cookbook from @RandomHouseCA + @eatlivtravwrite {worldwide} Details here: http://bit.ly/QQHJnm"
then come back to leave me a comment letting me know you did.
Contest closes Monday November 26th at 6pm EST. Winner chosen at random through Random.org and announced on Tuesday November 27th on the blog.
Good luck!
Disclosure: I received a copy of the Smitten Kitchen Cookbook as part of the blogger brunch. I have not been asked to write about the book, nor am I being compensated for doing so. All opinions 100% my own. Random House Canada are providing one (1) copy of the book for a worldwide giveaway.
EDITED TO ADD: Contest closed Winner announced tomorrow, November 27th.


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