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The St. Augustine Duplicate Bridge Club hosts bridge games throughout the month in addition to offering classes for beginners. The Duplicate Bridge Club meets at 10 Fairbanks St. For information, call 824-3930.
Fishing Club
Ancient City Game Fish Association promotes fishing in Northeast Florida and is always open to new members. The club meets once a month at the St. Augustine Shrine Club, 250 1st St. Dues are $50. For information, call John Jordan at 829-9005 or go to acgfa.com.
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A nonpartisan political organization, the St. Johns County League of Women Voters encourages informed and active participation in government. The club meets at 10 a.m. the second Thursday of each month at the St. Augustine Beach City Hall, 2200 State Road A1A South. For information, call 461-3950.
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THE ST. JOHNS COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active participation in government. The chapter's next meeting will be 10 a.m. Thursday at the St. Augustine Beach City Hall, 2200 State Road A1A South. For information, call 461-3950.
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The Amistad Marco Polo Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at 67 San Marco Ave., Suite A in St. Augustine.
The club is for people who have lived or traveled overseas, or who are interested in overseas travel and would like to get to know others with similar experiences and interests. The Amistad Marco Polo Club is sponsored by Amistad.
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The last week in February wraps up Junior Fund Month. GNT nationwide qualification games continue through March with GNT Finals plus Sectional on April 4-6.
The St. Augustine Duplicate Bridge Club will have a 299er Sectional Tournament today and Thursday. Pairs games are today, and Swiss Team games are Thursday.
Poinsettia Garden Circle meeting
The February meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. today at the garden center. The program is a speaker from the Orchid Society.
Hostesses are Elaine Beale, Doni Dowie and Ramelle Petroglou.
Celebrate Mardi Gras
A Mardi Gras Celebration, sponsored by the St Augustine Jazz Society, is set for 2-5 p.m. Sunday at the Royal St. Augustine Clubhouse (¼ mile off Route 16).
The monthly meeting of the Ancient City Game Fish Association is at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Bozard Ford. On the agenda will be the July King Fish Challenge and the Back Water Challenge fishing events. Bozard Ford is continuing sponsorship.
There will be door prizes and an entry into the fishing tournament will be given away at Tuesday's meeting.
For information, call Chip at 669-8018 or go to acgfa.com.
THE ST. AUGUSTINE ROTARY CLUB meets at noon Mondays at the Casa Monica. The speaker will be Glen Moore, with a "Glimpse of his Travels on Last Dance."
THE ST. AUGUSTINE KIWANIS CLUB meets at noon Tuesdays at Carrabba's, State Road 312.
THE ST. JOHNS COUNTY SPORTS CLUB meets at noon Thursday at the Corner Bar, 830 Anastasia Blvd. The meetings are open to the public.
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How Well Do You Know The Royal Family? Take Our Quiz!Joanna Mazewski
Now that Kate Middleton has finally given birth, it seems like we all have royal baby fever, now don't we? Both Prince William and Kate are finally on their way home from the hospital, but it seems like royal frenzy has just begun! And we're not just talking about London here, but around the world, too!
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A fight is brewing over a federal law requiring ethanol in gasoline, and the battle intensified Tuesday when the API said it will request that Congress repeal the statute. The law requires refiners to blend billions of gallons of ethanol into gasoline, with the goal of using 36 billion gallons by 2022.
By TENNILLE TRACY
WASHINGTON -- A fight is brewing over a federal law
requiring ethanol in gasoline, and the battle intensified
Tuesday when the main lobbying group for the oil industry said
it will ask Congress to repeal the statute.
The American Petroleum Institute, a well-funded group with
considerable influence on Capitol Hill, said there are so many
problems with the so-called renewable fuels standard that it is
time to focus on getting rid of it - and not just tweaking
"Given the accumulating problems we see, we think Congress
needs to start over," said API director Robert Greco.
The renewable fuels standard was created by Congress in
2005, and was later expanded in 2007. It requires refiners to
blend billions of gallons of ethanol into gasoline, with the goal
of using 36 billion gallons by 2022. The requirement is
enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.
API is putting its political heft behind this issue at an
interesting time. The summertime drought withered crops and
pushed up the price of corn, the main ingredient in ethanol, leading to calls to suspend
the renewable fuels standard.
Dozens of House and Senate lawmakers asked the EPA to
consider a waiver, following similar requests from poultry
farmers and cattle ranchers that use corn for animal
Earlier this month, the EPA formally denied the waiver
requests, saying it didn't believe the requirement was causing
economic harm.
The ethanol industry, representing producers and
agricultural companies, says the oil industry's push to get rid
of the renewable fuel standard is a classic case of the "fox
guarding the chicken coop."
"Special interests will stop at nothing to discredit the
success of renewable fuels created right here at home to ensure
their lock on the fuels market goes unchecked," said Tom Buis,
chief executive of Growth Energy, a pro-ethanol group.
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Steve:Gasoline engines are a minor contributor to PM emissions. Gasoline engines have one to two orders of magnitude lower engine-out PM emissions than diesel engines. And even diesel engines are a minor contributor to PM. A recent study by UC Riverside found that emissions from commersial carbroilers contribute more than twice the PM emissions than all heavy-duty trucks (DieselNet Update Sept. 2012). And there are many additional sources of PM besides vehicles and charbroilers. EPA data from 2008 shows that total on-road vehicle emissions contributes only 3.1% of total PM2.5, with dust (34%), non-vehicular fuel combustion (25%), and non-road engine (5.5%) PM emissions ranking higher than total on-road vehicle emissions. (http://www.epa.gov/cgi-bin/broker?_service=data&_debug=0&_program=dataprog.national_1.sas&polchoice=PM)
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To bad the oil industry doesn't call for the top 5 percent of gasoline (kerosene) to be removed from the US market. We could cut the Urban Air PM issue in half.
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I have a task to make things with social networks.
As far as I have discovered, there are 2 options. One is through your News Feed and the other is through the Sharer. In the diagram below, I show both.
The first uses dialog/feed, and the second uses sharer.php.
There is a difference as to how content is shared. The first shares it how I would like it, the second shows it in a way that I dislike.
I do not like the fact that the second one shares the whole page. I want that share icon for every image in the page and to share that specific icon, but not the whole page. Is it possible to make the share icon to look like the second image, but share content like the first? How should it look in Javascript/HTML?
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I scanned a host with Nessus, in order to do a vulnerability Assessment, and one of the findings looked really odd to me.
Nessus rated this finding's risk as Medium. The finding was, that a service uses an SSL certificate which supports the use of Medium strength SSL ciphers with known weaknesses, and hence can impose a threat. Now, let us assume that this SSL certificate is not from a known CA, but came with a security product, for this case we can say Juniper SA (SSL VPN), and is presented on the login page. What are the threats here, are they really possible, do they really justify a Medium risk level, if it only "supports" the use-of, and I use strong SSL ciphers, does that justify a Medium risk (I guess it can't know that), and what does it say about a security vendor that issues a "weak" certificate with a product of his?
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"Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye (ft. Kimbra) is, in the words of American Idol judge Steven Tyler, "changing music." This #1 hit stands in stark musical contrast to most other contemporary radio fare, featuring a xylophone solo and haunting vocals evocative of Peter Gabriel. This earworm has surfaced across many television platforms in multiple interpretations, from the Glee version dripping with brotherly angst to "The Voice" contestant Lindsey Pavao's dubstep-influenced arrangement to the duet from "American Idol" semifinalists Elise Testone and Phillip Phillips. Which version catches your fancy?
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I am experimenting with Monte Carlo methods. I'd like to measure/estimate convergence with a graph/chart. How do I do that? Can anyone please direct me to relevant documentation/links or even give me tips or general guidelines? Thanks in advance, Julien.
You are typically interested in evaluating $E\left[ f(X_T)-f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right]$ (refered as the weak convergence)
under some regularity assumptions on both your SDE coefficients and payoff function $f$ ,
A strong condition would be $b,\sigma,f$ are $C^\infty$ with $f$ having polynomial growth (i.e. $\exists r>0, |f(x)|\leq C\dot(1+|x|^r)$).
Basically, if you don't know the true value of your Eu. option you would approximate it with $E\left[ f(\bar{X}_T^{n\approx\infty})\right]$ , and then trace $n\rightarrow E\left[ f(\bar{X}_T^{n\approx\infty})-f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right]$ and observe a $o(1/n)$ behavior (and try to guess the value of $c_1$).
Note also that using the second assertion you might avoid using an estimate of your option. Indeed, consider $\bar{X}_T^{(n)}$ and $\bar{X}_T^{(2n)}$ two Euler schemes with different time steps (the second has one time more steps). Then, by applying the error expansions to the first scheme,
$E\left[ f(X_T)-f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right]= \frac{c_1}{n}+O(\frac{1}{n^{2}})$
and then to the second scheme
$E\left[ f(X_T)-f(\bar{X}_T^{(2n)}) \right] = \frac{c_1}{2n}+O(\frac{1}{n^{2}})$
we get,
$ E\left[f(\bar{X}_T^{(2n)}) - f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right] = \frac{c_1}{2n}+O(\frac{1}{n^{2}})$
Finally, without knowing the exact value of your european option ($E(f(X_T))$) you can get the exact (first order) rate of convergence, $n\rightarrow E\left[f(\bar{X}_T^{(2n)}) - f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right]= c_1/n$. Needless to say, that $c_1=n\cdot E\left[f(\bar{X}_T^{(2n)}) - f(\bar{X}_T^{(n)}) \right]$.
(This useful expansion also known as the Romberg expansion is also used to build accelerated Monte-Carlo estimates, with the same notations we obtain $E(f(X_T)-2E(X_T^{2n})+E(X_T^{n})=\frac{c_2}{n^2}$)
A (dated) reference would be Bally and Talay
Julien, frankly I have no idea what your research question is...
Since you are quite vague in formulation your question I can only provide a vague answser...
The following academic papers might be of use
http://www.jstor.org/stable/1428344 http://www.math.ethz.ch/~mschweiz/Files/converge.pdf
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When these sides met in the World T20, South Africa put in what was possibly the best all-round performance in the field I've ever seen.
Doesn't look like happening to day from the first few overs.
Fielding is a completely different art in twenty20 though
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Picked England to upset South Africa at the start of the tournament. Have a feeling England might have used up their upset on Sri Lanka now though, so will have to pick South Africa for this.
Edit: Of course it would be far more amusing if South Africa choked and were knocked out . Would serve them right for all that "it's destiny" talk.
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Yes on the evidence of this tournament to date they have declined a bit as a ODI team.
Everyone who keeps using the C word: expand your vocabulary FFS. At least be creative about it if you feel the need to bring us down.
I've heard loads of words used to describe Graeme Smith, to be fair. Some of which are indeed c-words.
Oh yes!!
Batting powerplay taken now, itstl, good to see we're using it well :|
Shah you are going to be a star in Wellington.
England's first wicket a total freebie... who'd have thought.
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and whenever I watch the cricket, a wicket seems to fall. First, four kiwi wickets, then I switched channels and Vettori picked a wicket and now I switch channels and Kallis picks up Strauss.
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lol nice
It's clear Melvin Fowler is a avg. C at best his run blocking is avg same with pass protection.
Lee Evans doesn't look like a #1 WR. His only 2 receptions came in junk time.
J.P Losman has regressed at QB. He over threw wide open WR on more than once. He can't go threw his reads.
George Wilson should suit up at kicker next week because the move to safety obviously didn't work out. Who knows, maybe he can even keep the kickoff in bounds.
Maybe Ralph Wilson should chip in and help pay some of the salaries for the other teams because Aaron Schobel and Chris Kelsay have proved that his money does nothing but demotivate players into mediocrity.
Run D held Jones-Drew to 10 yards on 10 carries, problem Taylor 14 for 104 (1 was for 50 yards were Crowell left his gap)
With out Marshawn Lynch the O looks likes crap.
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Anthony Thomas 23 touches!?!?! Why is the human statue, mister slow, getting 23 touches. He got a whopping 91 yards which is just under 4 yards a play. Steve Fairchild...cough, cough...
Why the hell does A-Train get 7 or 8 receptions, but Lynch can't? cough.. Steve Fairchild...cough
The Jags converted like 4 3rd and 10's. Yea, wow.
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Baseball Readies for Trip to SAC Tournament on ThursdayApril 23, 2014
ANDERSON, S.C. – Turning its focus to the postseason, Anderson University baseball enters the 2014 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament with high hopes as the lowest seeded team in the six-team field. The Trojans begin their tournament campaign on Thursday when they meet regular season co-conference champion and top-seeded Catawba at McNair Field in Forest City, N.C. at noon.
The Trojans
AU closed the regular season unable to achieve its goal of a winning record, but with some key conference wins throughout the year, the Trojans earned a berth in the SAC Tournament for the first time in the program's history. Despite closing the league slate with a 13-16 record, Anderson finished two games ahead of Mars Hill for sixth-place and sealed the final spot into the annual postseason tournament.
The Trojans polished off the year as the league's leaders in home runs (41), doubles (91) and total bases (712) and ranked second in RBI (268). As a team, AU accumulated a .296 batting average and a .431 slugging percentage, which ranked third in the SAC. Nationally, Anderson's 41 home runs ranked sixth in the latest statistical release on April 20.
A key contribution to the team's home run total has been the slugging of first-team All-SAC honoree Nathan Galliford, who needs one more homer to break the program's all-time home run record which is held by Casey Fouts (2000). Currently, Galliford is tied for the nation's lead with Lander's Connor Lewis and is one of three players in the SAC with double figure round-trippers on the year.
Galliford, who has knocked in 47 runs this season, is an RBI behind the conference leader, fellow all-SAC first team honoree, Steven Cooper. Cooper leads the SAC with 48 RBI, 68 hits, 18 doubles and 114 total bases. The Galliford and Cooper tandem is responsible for 35.3 percent of the team's RBI this season, while the first baseman is hitting .349, while slugging .585.
Perhaps the hottest hitting Trojan entering the tournament is senior catcher Jonathan Zalud, who was the only AU player to be named to the SAC first team and to the Gold Glove list, becoming the first Anderson catcher to receive the SAC Gold Glove Award. In Zalud's last eight contests, he is hitting .485 (16-for-33) with five doubles, four RBI, while slugging .636. Zalud has crossed the plate seven times and been given four free passes in the span.
On the mound, junior right-hander Landon Beck ranks eighth nationally and second in the SAC in strikeouts with 84 for the season. With five more punch-outs, Beck would tie the program's all-time season leader, Casey Martin, with 89, set in 1995.
The Indians
Catawba closed the season with a 28-16 overall record and tied Wingate for the regular season championship with identical 20-7 mark. The Indians earned the top seed by defeating the Bulldogs twice during the regular season in a three-game series on March 28-30. After taking the only game of a rain-shortened series with Carson-Newman last weekend, the Indians are currently on a three-game winning streak.
The regular season co-champions ranked just behind Anderson in home runs (39) and in total bases (678) for the season, while hitting .311 as a team and driving in 266 runs. On the bases, the Indians have swiped 61 bases with Blake Houston tying for third in the SAC with 17. Leading Catawba at the plate, senior first baseman Paul Kronenfeld ranks second in the conference in average with a .383 clip and third in on-base percentage at .462.
The Catawba pitching staff has held opponents to a .264 average as the tournament's top seed has the league leaders in ERA, strikeouts, wins and saves. Right-hander Craig Brooks paces the SAC in strikeouts (86) and wins as the only pitcher with double digit wins on the year with 10. Brooks has held hitters to a .178 average with bringing in a 2.28 ERA into the postseason.
Senior right-hander Ryan McClintock is tied for the league lead with SAC Player of the Year Josh Coker of Lincoln Memorial in saves with eight for the year. McClintock has posted 28 strikeouts in 32.1 innings pitched, while boasting a 1.39 ERA. Leading the conference in ERA is redshirt freshman Shaefer Shepard with a 1.32 mark in 47.2 innings pitched. His 39 strikeouts in 24th in the SAC, while his two complete games in ninth-most in the conference.
The Field
Joining Catawba at the top of the league standings was Wingate, which closed the year with a 28-14 overall record and a matching 20-7 mark in the conference. The Bulldogs will meet fifth-seeded Tusculum in the opening round on Thursday, as the Pioneers closed their conference schedule with an even 14-14 mark. In the final opening round game, third-seeded Lincoln Memorial looks to defend its tournament champion crowd as it begins its tournament campaign against fourth-seeded Newberry.
Newberry, which took all three games from Anderson last weekend, enters the SAC Tournament with the league's longest current winning streak of nine straight games. The Wolves closed the season with a 17-13 conference mark.
2014 Food Lion SAC Baseball Championship Schedule
Thursday, April 24
No. 1 Catawba vs. No. 6 Anderson, noon
No. 2 Wingate vs. No. 5 Tusculum, 3:45 p.m.
No. 3 Lincoln Memorial vs. No. 4 Newberry, 7:30 p.m.
Friday, April 25
Gm. 1 loser vs. Gm. 2 loser, noon
Gm. 1 winner vs. Gm. 3 loser, 3:45 p.m.
Gm. 2 winner vs. Gm. 3 winner, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 26
Gm. 5 winner vs. Gm. 6 winner, noon
Gm. 6 loser vs. Gm. 4 winner, 3:45 p.m.
Gm. 7 loser vs. Gm. 8 winner, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 27
Championship game, 1 p.m.
If necessary, 4 p.m.


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Ontario peaches are ripe and ready for eating. I have made 20 jars of jam so far and thought I would try my hand at canning peaches as well this year. It's a bit time consuming but I think it will be worth it in the dead of winter when we enjoy fresh-like peaches. I am sure they will taste way better than canned peaches from the store, and the great thing about making your own is you can control how much sugar goes into the canning syrup. I will report back in the winter on how they taste.
Saturday, August 29, 2009
Millions of Peaches, Peaches for Me
7 comments:
- Amey said...
vegan dad! these look great. Did you use a pressure canner for these? I have been wanting to do some fruit canning... but have only ever canned with the water bath method. I've also been looking into canning boiled peanuts... which requires pressure canning. I'd love to hear your method! Canned peaches sounds lovely!
- August 30, 2009 at 12:38 AM
- The Voracious Vegan said...
Long live the Presidents, great reference.
Those peaches look soooo tasty and juicy!
- August 30, 2009 at 4:19 AM
- Debra said...
they look wonderful. I always can fruit in just water. I soak the fruit in water with lemon and just fill the jars with boiling water. Never had a problem- then I can control the sugar in a recipe.
- August 30, 2009 at 8:11 PM
- The Veg said...
I haven't heard "Peaches" since I was a sophomore in high school! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And your peaches look ABFAB and delicious. I can't wait to try them with the Colorado Peaches that are in season!
- August 30, 2009 at 11:23 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
I did not use a pressure canner. My understanding is that fruit and other acidic fruits and veggies need only be processed in boiling water. Non-acidic items (like peanuts) need a pressure canner so they reach the right temperature.
- September 4, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Sarah Schacht said...
Another simple way to preserve your peaches, but retain more of the natural peach flavor, along with versatility, is to freeze them.
I recently visited a Seattle farmer's market and picked up boatloads of organic, peak-of-ripeness peaches for just $1.50 a pound.
Wash, cut into segments with peel on. Lay out on baking sheets or any flat, non-pourus surface. Freeze for 2 hours. Place frozen peaches in ziplocks, and presto! Peaches a-go-go!
Super ripe peaches can go in icecube trays, where they'll meld into perfect-serving chunks and then put into ziplocks. They're easy to toss into purees, smoothies, sauces, etc.
I love dropping the frozen peaches (just one or two) in a glass of cold water--so refreshing & delicious. They're also great in a mixed drink and look beautiful. I add them to tarts and desserts to dress them up or add a fresh taste.
And, since freezers are more efficient when packed, these baggies of summer help "fill out" a freezer and keep it peachy-green.
- September 14, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
I just did 30 lbs of peaches here in BC - nothing like them in the dead of a Canadian winter!
I have scads of lavender growing in our garden, so I have gotten into the habit of throwing a few flower heads in each jar, along with a tablespoon or so of homemade amaretto - sublime!
- September 17, 2009 at 6:31 AM


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As camera phones become more and more sophisticated, will they ultimately replace point-and-shoot cameras?
closed as not a real question by PearsonArtPhoto, Jay Lance Photography, rfusca, John Cavan♦, labnut Apr 20 '11 at 8:49
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I don't believe that camera phones will replace true P&S cameras. The limitations of the phone form factor will be the barrier conditions. having the flush lens and small size requirements limit the image quality. It is not to say that camera phones will not continue to advance, it is more that the requirements of being a "phone" will outweigh the requirements for being a camera. Just from looking at my phone with the small flash, the flush small lens, and the battery life of a gnat when shooting pictures I think it is not well suited to being used as a camera.
People will be willing to carry a camera for taking pictures on vacations and other events that provide more control than what the phone can do. It is not a question of the electronics being capable it is just how the technology is packaged and if it will be pleasing to the consumer.
I still have separate music player and telephone as I find that a device can typically do one thing very well, or many things mediocre. I would prefer to have one device that does one thing very well.
I don't think there's any question that camera phones will take over mass-market point & shoot cameras. The question isn't really if, but when.
The iPhone uses a 1/3.2"-format sensor (using the weird standard where 1" = 16mm, so 15.5mm²). This is smaller than what's used in most point & shoot cameras (especially the good ones), but isn't so far off.
In fact, take a look at the specs for the Canon Powershot A200, announced June, 2002. Sensor the same size as the iPhone, and a fixed-focal-length lens of around the same range. But, only 2Mpix, and ISO from 50 to 400 (and we can bet that 400 was pretty bad).
And the iPhone isn't even state-of-the-art for camera phones — for that, look at the Nokia N8, which has a 1/1.8" (36.8mm²) sensor with max ISO of 1200 and apparently very nice optics to boot. This clearly competes with a lot of point&shoot cameras now, at least on some levels.
So, it's pretty clear that the best current camera phones handily beat at least some of the P&S digicam field from a decade ago, and I think it's reasonable to assume that in much less than another decade, phone cameras will beat today's crop.
A larger form-factor may always have room for a level of quality that literally can't be squeezed into a camera phone, but from that direction, there's pressure from low-end dSLRs and especially mirrorless interchangeable-lens cameras. Right now, there's a pretty impressive bunch of high-end P&S cameras (more than I would have predicted), but I think it really can't last. Camera phones have two major advantages: 1) people have them already, and 2) the fact that they phones are now software platforms makes them so superior in many ways. Not only can one fundamentally change the camera uesr interface, one can post-process in the field, and instantly share the results.
So yeah: it'll happen. In fact, it is happening. When is an open question, but mostly the discussion over which value of "soon" to pick.
Update as of April, 2011: TechCrunch ran an article yesterday titled iPhone 4 About To Be Flickr's Top Camera. Point & Shoots? Pretty Much The Opposite. The title pretty much says it all. Of course, Flickr has an inherent bias, since the iPhone can automatically upload pictures with no extra steps, but still, I think it's plenty illustrative of future trends. As TechCrunch puts it:
Contrary to looking at the problem from a "when phones cameras will be comparable to P&S", which is inevitable advancement of the technology (although I won't commit to a 5 years time frame), there is another path - P&S cameras will become cellular enabled! I see no reason why a camera like the Digital Elph can't include a mobile phone chipset (kind of what MODU's vision was all about). Then, the above question will become meaningless, as now you have a cell phone with P&S camera quality.
At the bottom line, it does not matter what way you look at it - phones become cameras or cameras become phones. It is all about convergence and there is no doubt that this is the way of the consumer market future.
I'm going to take a different tact from the other posters... I don't think it matters. There are some certain facts in all of this that are relevant:
Given the above, both formats will, I think, do very well for any forseeable future. They compete, in a sense, but not entirely. However, I agree with ysap, the convergence is clear, but I do think that there will always be a segment of the population that wants the advantages of the dedicated hardware and, hence, P&S will persevere.
There are point-and-shoot cameras that already have many features of a phone - microphone, speaker, touch screen, WiFi connectivity, similar form factor. I see no reason why there would not be a model in near future that is fully capable of mobile networking, including making phone calls. The network rates are already cheap enough to afford this. After all, easy instant sharing seems to be a buzzword for selling P&S cameras.
Camera phones will largely replace point and shoots in the consumer and hobbyist markets. However for the prosumer, true professionals and enthusiasts markets, I seriously doubt this will be the case.
Camera phones tend to have the ability to implement many features in software to compensate lack of physical space for some features. On the other hand, cameras may change shape and size drastically to accomadate features while at the same time being capable of any amount of soft-features.
Lenses, sensor size, compression circuitry, real time enhancement circuits such as light and color balance, anti-blur and many similar features are very different implemented as hardware or cannot be simulated effectively.
As I see it, this means there is a need for cameras in general that camera phones cannot fill due to restrictions inherent to the product.
Someone could come out with a phone that had interchangeable lenses or one or two extra features. Perhaps even a phone for photographers, but they still would not have the same depth of features or quality as high-end point and shoot cameras.
Actually, the prediction is that within 5 years point and shoot cameras will start to fade in favor of camera's built into mobile devices (they will be less phone and more... well who knows whats going to be packed into them in 5 years). Personally, I think this may take a little longer but is inevitable with the amount of money the mobile market commands today and more importantly the growth it has seen in the past few months and years.
After a fast search it would seem I am not alone in thinking this. See this article title The future of the point-and-shoot (there isn't one) for more.
To take it in a larger context, the phones are starting to be called "hand-held devices". They are Turing complete and have specs that leave '90s desktop computers in the dust. How long will it be until I come home, plug my phone/handheld/whatever-it-will-be-called into a a dock that has a power source, keyboard, speakers and monitor and use the processor on it to my web browsing and programming?
I said that so I could say this, low end point n shoots for simple snapshots will be integrated into that and the demand for cheap cameras will drop off, especially as the devices get smarter. But I expect that major camera manufacturers will partner with handheld manufacturers to make a decent enough product.
I don't see the entire compact camera market going away though. I like my 12x zoom. I don't know if that can be out into a the same space as something I want to talk to pull out and start talking on.
But then, I go out with the specific goal of getting a few good pictures to show off. I bought my compact for the specs of picture clarity at large sizes and lower light, the zoom, and the full manual settings.
One final thought:
If I made handhelds, I'd figure out a way to make is easy to mount the thing on a tripod for group photos. The typical screw on the bottom might be too costly in precious handheld device space. ...maybe a special clamp?
There has been a trend towards multi-function phones that do everything possible. The thing is, people are starting to look towards "appliances", which are devices designed to do one thing well, with the most simplistic controls.
A point-and-shoot camera is simple. You switch it on. Point it at someone and press the big button.
On a multi-purpose devices, the workflow cannot be this simple as you have to tell the device what function you want it to perform and then use one of the multi-purpose buttons to take the picture.
Ergonomically the multi-purpose device has to make similar compromises. People want slim phones, but it is easier to hold a chunky camera that gives you a steady grip.
Most of the photographers here are being photographers, and are answering "No," because even compact cameras will continue to enjoy image quality and handling benefits over phones, at least as far as we can predict.
But that wasn't the question. The question was will they ultimately replace point-and-shoot cameras, and in the marketplace, I think the answer is mostly "Yes." Most people aren't that picky about image quality, and don't want to carry around a bunch of different devices. Already, the iPhone 4 will soon be the most popular camera on Flickr, and some have attributed the death of Flip compact video cameras to the smartphones. That's not to say that the compact segment will disappear entirely; there will always be something like the S95 and G12 for people who want a more serious compact camera, but I think you'll see more and more people foregoing the P&S for their phone.
The answer is much larger than a debate about cameras.
The technology is advancing quickly and the cell phone is acquiring a number of capabilities that are giving it a unique place in our lives.
It is thus becoming an essential device that all people must have with them at all times.
So does this mean it will displace the P&S camera?
No, not really. It is extending photography to the vast number of people who were not photographers in the first place. So many more people are becoming photographers, in the limited sense of everyday snapshots.
Some of these people, through exposure, will aspire to better photographs and migrate upwards to more capable cameras. These will be P&S cameras because their experience with cell phones will condition them to expect nearly the same convenience.
Some of the existing owners of P&S cameras will instead use their new cell phones simply because they are conveniently always available and the quality in any case is good enough for them.
And still others will have multiple devices for multiple purposes just as today many DSLR owners also have a P&S camera.
So the market will be layered with cell phones owning a vast proportion. P&S cameras will have lost somewhat to this while it will also gain some of the new converts to photography.
My cloudy crystal ball says that the cell phone will have brought so many new converts to photography that enough of them will upgrade to P&S cameras to offset any losses to the cell phone.
And for many people it is not a case of either/or but rather using different tools for different circumstances.
Photography, as a hobby, will be the winner.
lol no... P&Ss like G12 (bigger sensor), SX30 (35X zoom!) will always be better than any camera phones. And, I agree that camera phone are getting better with every new release, but so are the P&Ss!
If ever, any phone company can incorporate a DSLR within a phone, only that day they will overcome P&Ss :D


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An island of crops in a sea of homes: Imwalle's endures
When the Imwalle brothers, Joseph and Henry, arrived from Hanover, Germany, in the 1880s to put their green thumbs into the fertile soil of the Santa Rosa Valley, they found a few enterprising Chinese men growing vegetables in a small garden alongside the railroad tracks north of town. They were irrigating their garden with water dipped in buckets from an open well and delivering produce to households in baskets carried on poles across their shoulders in the time-honored Asian way. The vegetables were excellent. Bu the amount of produce was severely limited by the archaic system. And Santa Rosa, 30 years after its founding, was growing. (While it is not an integral part of the Imwalle story, it is important to note that the peak of anti-Chinese feelings in the 19th century Sonoma County was in the mid '80s, when the Anti-Chinese League was formed here and citizens were asked to boycott Chinese businesses. The boycott reduced the Asian population dramatically, as many returned to China and others to the comparative security of San Francisco's Chinatown.) The Imwalles, trained in European horticulture, saw an agricultural and business opportunity. They leased a Creekside field from Dr. Willard Burke near his sanitarium on Mark West Springs Road and built an irrigation system, running water from a hillside spring down a wooden flume to a damn and pond – one of the first of the hundreds of farm ponds that would be built, under the direction of professional agricultural advisers, on Sonoma County dairies and farms in the next 75 years. With a larger garden and considerably more produce to sell, the Imwalles' distinctive vegetable wagon, drawn by a team of horses, quickly became part of the Santa Rosa scene. The Imwalle Gardens are still very much part of the Santa Rosa scene. The brothers had moved closer to town by the 1890s, renting property north of the city, not far from the old Chinese gardens. Two years later, Henry moved south to another fertile region, the Santa Clara Valley near San Jose where he started his own gardens and orchard. Joe married Mary Stephanie, another German immigrant in San Francisco in 1897 and, the same year, bought 12 acres on West Third Street, where his family's gardens still grown. The gardens, surrounded by the development that engulfed the area west of town in the 1980s, are now a 20-acre island of agriculture in a sea of homes. Joe III, 53, and his wife, Maria, run the business today. As a third generation enterprise, it is one of the slender rank of Santa Rosa businesses- Traverso's, Corrick's, Lena's, Pdersen's, Hardisty's and Imwalle's- that have been in the same family for three and four generations. Joe doesn't really answer when you ask him how long he thinks the family can hold out against rising land values and development pressure. You ask if he gets offers and he nods, shrugs, smiles somewhat enigmatically and shows you the barn his grandfather Joe built with its hayloft and stables for the horses that pulled the wagon and the plow. And he shows you his grandfather's original greenhouse, where he grew his remarkable pansies from seeds he imported from Switzerland. The old greenhouse roof is sagging, but Joe says he can't bring himself to tear it down. There was a time – before the Gold Gate Bridge opened, when it wasn't just a long hour's drive to San Francisco's produce district –when all the produce sold in Santa Rosa was grown in Santa Rosa and Imwalle Gardens was one of a series of truck farms on the good land that lines Santa Rosa Creek on its way to the laguna. There were the Bertoli gardens and orchards west of Imwalle's and the Bassignani family gardens and the Bertolini gardens. Many of the Italian gardeners worked for Joe Imwalle when they first arrived. Joe I was gardening whirlwind. His horticultural skills were put to use beyond the borders of his farm. The city, recognizing his expertise, hired him to plant the rows of palm trees that once lined Fourth Street east of E Street, stretching past Fremont Park. In the West Third gardens, he directed the cultivation of the fields, which he doubled with purchases of adjoining land. He tended the bedding plants, and he drove the vegetable wagon himself, taking great pride in the beauty of the produce. His method of loading the wagon was like an artist's creation. He would allow nothing in crates. The carrots and beets and green onions, the piles of cauliflower and radishes and bunches of mustard greens would be precisely placed. His family recalled he would work until midnight getting his wagon ready for the morning run. Later, his son would recall his father's boast that the horse-drawn vegetable wagon "is as beautiful as a Rose Carnival float when it leaves in the morning." Family legend has it the horses knew the route as well as Grandpa, including which houses to stop in front of – and when to head for home. The gardens themselves were as orderly as the wagon. And as beautiful. Joe, whose old country training was in ornamental horticulture, grew flowers as well as vegetables. His horticultural display won a gold medal for the best general exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915, in competition with growers from all over the world. That medal, and the many ribbon sand certificates his produce had won at the state fairs, were lost when the original Imwalle home on the garden property burned in 1924. Joe and Mary and their family (three daughters and two sons) moved to a home on McDonald Avenue, where Joe died in 1948 at the age of 80. He had retired in the early '40s, turning the gardens over to his sons, Joseph II and Henry. Joe II was the gardener. Henry was a partner in the business. In the next three decades, the Imwalle brothers expanded their agricultural endeavor, buying a prune orchard and a hop yard west of the gardens. The 60 acres they owned was split by the Highway 12 freeway in the 1960s. The old vegetable wagon had long been retired, replaced by the delivery truck that visited the restaurants and, still, the homes of regular customers. The Imwalle truck also made two trips a week to the Bay Area produce markets – and a seasonal journey to San Jose to bring apricots from the orchards of their Imwalle cousins. In 1957, Joe II would tell Press Democrat farm editor Mike Pardee they had introduced no new vegetables to the gardens since his father's original plan. Joe I's tall corn, big squash and giant onions had won him the ribbons he was so proud of. His sons saw no reason to depart from his wisdom. Joe III, who took over the business when his father died suddenly of a heart attack in 1966 (and later bought his Uncle Henry's share), has not changed the crop much either. Leeks were important then and still are. Joe III recited the litany of vegetables he grows –beans, cukes, squash, broccoli, tomatoes, corn, pumpkins. "We grew head lettuce when my Dad was alive, but it requires so much spray we don't anymore. We buy lettuces from John Balletto (another Santa Rosa truck gardener whose fields are on Guerneville Highway). We grow a lot of our own bedding plants." Joe II's widow, Cecilia (who is a daughter of Nate and Virginia Bacigalupi, the pioneer Italian family in Santa Rosa), still lives in the house she and Joe built next to the gardens in 1935, four years after they were married. Joe III and his wife, Maria (Marcoux), who he met when they were students at ST. Rose School, live in a newer home on the other side of the barn. Imwalle's still delivers to resurants, but no longer makes house calls. Joe III converted his grandfather's wagon shed to a neat produce market where third-and fourth-generation customers shops. He, too, makes twice-weekly trips to the Bay Area markets to keep his customers supplied with all that is available. The fourth generation is already in evidence. Joe and Maria's older sons, Joe IV and Charles, work in the business with their father. Paul, 18, and Angela, 13, are familiar with garden chores. Joe III learned the business "following my Dad around, moving irrigation pipe, picking prunes and hops." He was still in college when his father died, and credits the coaching and support of a 70-year employee, who was one of the best "vegetable men" in the county. That would be Mike Rossi, who went to work at the gardens in 1912 and worked there until two weeks before he died, at age 92, in 1984. Joe III calls himself Rossi's "protégé." Mike had learned from Joe's grandfather, and it was old-style gardening. "We went by the moon an awful lot," Joe told farm writer Tim Tesconi at the time of Rossi's death, "to plant certain things like onions, carrots, beets and leeks. There's a 10-day period in which you plant them. Now I go by my almanac, but Mike just seemed to know."
Joe Imwalle with his prize-winning 40-pound falt Dutch cabbage. This and the above photo are included in photographer Peeter Vilm's slide show on Sonoma County agriculture, produce for Farmlands. Imwalle Family
Joesphe Imwalle I, who considered a carefully loaded vegetable wagon to be a work of art, drives his work of art past the Spring home on Fifth Street in the 1890s. Imwall Family
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TEMPLE (January 16, 2013)--A musical performance will be held Thursday by the Jefferson Elementary third graders entitled "Simple Gifts of Our Country."
The music will be performed for faculty and classmates at the school.
Songs will include: "Simple Gifts," "For the Beauty of the Earth," "Come Ye Thankful People," "America the Beautiful" and others.
The program will illuminate the simple gifts that the country has to offer, a spokesperson said.


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Rise to the challenge and bake perfect bread
|Simple loaves of bread baked by pastry chef Nick Malgieri at Western Reserve School of Cooking in Hudson, Ohio, on October 2, 2012. Malgieri, director of the baking program at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, shared his recipes. His new book, "Nick Malgieriís Bread" ($29.95, Kyle Books), shows just how effortless it can be to turn out a perfect loaf of bread. (Mike Cardew/Akron Beacon Journal/MCT)
All you need to complete the perfect fall meal is a nice loaf of warm bread.
Before you race off to buy one, consider taking one hot from your oven. It's easier than you may think.
New York pastry chef Nick Malgieri's new book, "Nick Malgieri's Bread" ($29.95, Kyle Books), shows just how effortless it can be to turn out a perfect loaf of bread.
Malgieri's recipe for Easiest Home-Baked Bread lives up to its name.
"What I love about it is you can make this bread in the afternoon and serve it for dinner," he said.
The recipe takes about 2 ½ hours from start to finish, including baking time.
"Basic bread is just flour, water, yeast and salt," he said, explaining the simple ingredients.
Malgieri, director of the baking program at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City, said he is always surprised by how intimidated home cooks can become when a recipe calls for yeast.
"It's as though yeast is, I don't know - it's not poison," he said, noting the fear factor.
For years, American bread recipes contained so much flour that they produced dense loaves with little flavor and character. Malgieri said that for his book he developed bread recipes for working with today's finely granulated yeasts that are foolproof.
The single biggest cause of failure for cooks working with yeast is beginning by dissolving the yeast into water that is too hot, he said.
Today's instant and rapid-rise yeast products are so finely granulated that they will dissolve in lukewarm tap water. When using popular brands of yeast available in grocery stores, instant, rapid rise and bread machine formulations are interchangeable in recipes.
Work with an unbleached bread flour for best results, and if your water is very hard from excess chemicals, consider using bottled spring water for recipes to avoid giving bread a mineral taste.
Malgieri's bread requires no pre-ferment or starter, and the gluten begins to develop within the first 2 minutes of mixing. A 15-minute rest and another 2 minutes in the mixer produces a dough that is smooth and elastic.
The dough gets a 30-minute rest, and then a simple shaping from two folds and a turn, followed by another 30-minute rest.
Turning the dough helps to distribute the yeast better, makes the dough more elastic and imparts much more smoothness to it, Malgieri said.
"It really is easy to do," he added.
After the second rest, the dough is formed into its classic round shape, or boule, and left to rest again to double in size. The skin is tightened by pulling the dough from all around its perimeter into its center, and rounded by pushing against the bottom of the dough.
After a final 30-minute rest, the dough round is pressed down to deflate it slightly, a move that will keep the center from puffing up too much while baking and looking like a basketball, rather than a classic round boule, Malgieri noted.
He mists the bread with water before baking to ensure a crispy crust. Total baking time is about 30 minutes.
Malgieri stressed that it is important to test for doneness with an instant-read thermometer, which he plunges into the center of the round. The bread is done when it reaches 200 degrees internally.
The crust will soften as the bread cools, but the loaf can be reheated in a 350-degree oven for 5 minutes to crisp up the crust again before serving.
1 ¼ cups room-temperature tap water, about 75 degrees
2 ¼ tsp. fine granulated active dry or instant yeast
3 cups bread flour (spoon into a dry-measure cup and level off)
1 ½ tsp. fine sea salt
Olive or vegetable oil for the bowl
Dust a heavy cookie sheet or pizza pan with cornmeal or line with parchment paper and set aside.
Pour the water into the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk in the yeast. Wait 30 seconds and whisk again.
Use a large rubber spatula to stir the flour into the yeast and water mixture a little at a time. Make sure all the flour is mixed into the liquid and there isn't any clinging to the side of the bowl.
Place the bowl on the mixer and attach the dough hook. Mix on the lowest speed until the dough comes together around the dough hook, 1 to 2 minutes. Stop the mixer and pull the dough away from the hook; let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
Increase the mixer speed to low/medium, sprinkle in the salt, and mix until the dough is smooth and elastic, 2 to 3 minutes longer.
Scrape the dough into an oiled bowl and turn it over so that the top is oiled. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough ferment until it starts to puff, about 30 minutes.
Scrape the dough onto a floured work surface, flour your hands, and gently flatten the dough into a disk. Fold the two sides in to overlap at the middle, then roll the top toward you all the way to the end, jelly-roll style. Invert, flatten and repeat. Place the dough back in the bowl seam side down and cover. Let the dough ferment until fully doubled in bulk, about 30 minutes.
To form the dough into a boule-shaped loaf, use a flexible plastic scraper to slide it from the bowl to the floured work surface; try not to deflate the dough. Fold the edges of the dough all around its perimeter into the center. Round the loaf by pushing against the bottom of the dough all around with the sides of your hands held palms upward. The dough will quickly form an even sphere.
Place the dough on the prepared pan and cover it with a flat-weave towel or piece of sprayed or oiled plastic wrap and let the dough rest until it starts to puff again, about 30 minutes. Set a rack in the middle level of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees.
Once the dough is proofed about 50 percent larger, flour the palms of your hands and gently press to flatten it to about 1 ½ inches thick. Use an X-Acto knife or single-edge razor blade to cut 4 slashes in the form of a square at the edges of the loaf and a -inch-deep slash across the diameter of the loaf, then (using a spray bottle filled with warm water) generously spray it with water. Place the pan in the oven.
Wait 5 minutes, then open the oven and spray the loaf again and reduce the oven temperature to 425 degrees. Bake the loaf until it is well risen and deep golden and the internal temperature reads 200 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, 20 to 30 minutes.
Cool the loaf on a rack. Keep the bread loosely covered at room temperature on the day it's baked. Wrap and freeze for longer storage. Reheat at 350 degrees for 5 minutes and cool before serving.
Makes one 9- or 10-inch round loaf.
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Pyou-All-Up 2005Written by on September 20, 2005 Goodguys' 18th Northwest Nationals In Puyallup
One of the greenest venues in America sits in the shadow of majestic Mount Rainier. The huge fairground is located in Puyallup, Washington, which is a little hard to pronounce at first, but fun to visit. Almost 170 acres are available to spread out and relax. And a super-sized new vendors building will be completed (as you read this story) that will provide room for the fifth-largest Goodguys Association event to grow and improve.
Cars and trucks up to '64 are allowed to register for this Goodguys event--making around 2,000 entrants, give or take a few. Thursday is kicked off by an evening barbecue at the fairgrounds. Friday is another casual day of getting settled in your favorite parking spot and polishing away any mashed bugs or road grime. Later Friday afternoon, entrants can drive over to Pacific Raceway to watch the Friday Night Hot Rod Drags, where over 350 powerful vintage race cars try to smoke the competition and take home a trophy.
On Saturday the Oldtimers Northwest car club greets car/truck-loving spectators as they arrive to oooh and aaah over their favorite brightly painted machines. In addition to all the head-spinning cars and trucks, several rock 'n'roll shows keep the mood lively (between continuous recorded nostalgic music). We feel the hospitable atmosphere is as good as any hot rod custom truck show in the country, and this year the sun came out on Saturday afternoon to make everything dang-near perfect.
Locals know that the town with the unusual name is a perfect place to gather for an as-good-as-it-gets vintage vehicle show. We hope to see you in the Pacific Northwest next year when, weather permitting, it should be even more fun. If you can stay for the awards ceremony you might even take home a Custom Classic Trucks Top 10 Award. Congratulations to this year's winners.
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Leo and Louise Nixon's '53 International pickup is a spectacular example of how an overlooked off-brand pickup can be cleaned up and modified into a head-turning and reliable ride. A 435hp small-block provides plenty of power. The Nixons are from Montesano, WA.Neil Siermachesky of Port Alberni, BC, Canada, owns this bright yellow '35 Ford that's powered by a neat flathead mill. Neil is parked next to Scott and Sherri Nixon's yellow and silver '47 Studebaker pickup from Chehalis, WA, that was featured in CCT (Dec. '03, page 50). Both are sweet street rod trucks from the Pacific Northwest.Craig Johnson of Vancouver, WA, is a member of the Slo Poks of Vancouver. His black and smooth '51 Chevy pickup is powered by a 454ci big-block--we suspect it's not slow.Don and Teresa of Salem, OR, brought their bright red '58 Chevy Cameo to the Northwest Nationals. The smooth custom Cameo is powered by the industry-standard 350ci Engine and Turbo 350 trans.Stan and Anita Zink of Chilliwack, BC, own a '46 Chevy pickup that can drop its bumper on the grass. The metallic silver/green beauty is powered by a TPI fuel-injected small-block Chevy backed by a 700R4 trans.
Entry number 350 was this silver gray '56 Ford F-100 sitting at the end of a row against the perimeter fence. The window sticker was not filled out, but the neat Effie truck sat low on nostalgic chrome-plated wire wheels.The red and black '60 Ford pickup of Denise Welch keeps her a bit safer than the two-wheel Harley motorcycle she once rode with her husband. The Tacoma residents were another choice for CCT's Top 10 Truck award. There's a Ford 351W V-8 under the hood.Once again the big red '41 Ford cabover truck owned by Dee Wescott of Demascus, OR, was on hand to inspire folks. Dee of Wescott's Auto Body in Boring, OR, was a willing conversationalist to anyone who needed his expert advice on the restoration of Ford cars and trucks.Ken South of Seattle brought his unfinished '35 Dodge pickup with a Viper V-10 engine. The interior had yet to be installed--still, we were very impressed with the Dodge hauler that was also on air suspension.Tom McGarry of Redmond, OR, owns this smooth silver '52 Ford F-1 pickup. The truck is powered by a 300hp V-8 and C6 trans.Sitting nearby was John and Jeannie Martin's two-tone '52 Ford F-1 from Powell Butte, OR. Looks like there's a Chevy stroker motor and a Turbo 400 trans in this fun F-1.Oh my! This was a most unique silver Deuce pickup, owned by Ron Cambrex of Victoria, BC. Details include a ladder-style tube chassis with a Ford V-8 engine. There's something a bit suspicious about those high-rise velocity stacks--are they hiding something?The bed floor of Ron's extended cab pickup has clear plexiglass to reveal the tube chassis and stainless steel fuel tank. Note the knock-off fuel cap.
Tim Larson of Snohomish, WA, has a classic black '34 Ford pickup with red steelies 'n' caps. The sanitary hauler is powered by a Chevy engine/trans combination.Larry Camp of Edmonds, WA, is another former CCT feature-truck owner. Larry's Ford-powered '48 Ford F-1 is as clean and straight as they come. The red steelies are a recent addition.Jack F. Eby of Klama, WA, is another of the often-returning participants in Puyallup. His bright yellow '26 Model T roadster pickup is an attention-arresting sight. Under the hood is a Chevy ZZ4 small-block bolted to a Turbo 350 transmission.Sara and Bob Jenson of Medina, WA, own this white '42 Fargo (Canadian Dodge) cabover, built by Ron Arant and powered by a Chevy LT1 engine. Much credit is due Retro Rods.Don Fowler of Aberdine, WA, owns this tasty orange and white '60 Chevy El Camino with Boyd Coddington billet five-spokes. It's all Chevy with a 350/350 engine/trans combination for power.Another sweet Tri-Five Chevy pickup we saw in Puyallup was this metallic teal '55 that belongs to Mike and Dorothy Sweeny of Twisp, WA. Was it a short twip or a long twip from Twisp?Howard Lytle's primer-painted (Chevy- powered) '51 Ford F-1 is a "prime evil," as Hot Rod's Gray Baskerville would say. The sliced 'n' slammed F-1's owner calls Tacoma home.Glenn Hanson's bright teal '57 Chevy pickup from Tacoma was sitting near the Sweeny's '55. The 350ci V-8-powered pickup has a Turbo 400 trans for the short trip to the event.
Todd Walton of Walton Fabrication was one of the many vendors displaying the company's products. Next year the new vendors building will provide much-needed space for everyone who wants to be under a covered roof--and in air-conditioned comfort.The performance by the Elvis impersonator was a terrific afternoon show. We couldn't even get very close for a photograph. But the vocal sounds were a good rendition of The King's nostalgic and famous music.Even several years ago our affection for this well-built extended-cab '41 Ford pickup was great. The current owner is Russ Haag of Renton, WA, who has upgraded the drivetrain with an LS1 Corvette engine and 4L60E transmission. We still have a great affection for this truck, which has well-designed and high-quality improvements in every aspect.


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STEUBENVILLE - Everyone involved in the rape case against two Steubenville High School student-athletes said it should be used as a life lesson for parents and teenagers.
Visiting Juvenile Judge Thomas Lipps found Trent Mays, 17, of Bloomingdale and Ma'Lik Richmond, 16, of Steubenville guilty Sunday of rape in connection with an incident involving an underage girl Aug. 11-12. Mays also was found delinquent of a charge of illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material for having a picture of the 16-year-old victim in an outgoing text message on his cell phone.
The non-jury trial at the Jefferson County Justice Center lasted four days, with testimony ending Saturday evening.
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EMOTIONAL REACTION — Ma'Lik Richmond covers his eyes and cries as his attorney Walter Madison, standing, asks the court for leniency after Richmond and co-defendant Trent Mays, lower left, were found delinquent on rape and other charges after their trial in juvenile court in Steubenville Sunday. Mays and Richmond were accused of raping a 16-year-old West Virginia girl in August 2012. -- Associated Press
Lipps sentenced Richmond and Mays to spend at least one year in an Ohio Department of Youth Services facility or until they are 21 years old. He ordered Mays to spend at least one additional year in the youth center for illegal use of a minor in nudity-oriented material.
Lipps said he believed the actions of Mays were more "egregious" and ordered that his sentences be consecutive, meaning Mays will serve a minimum of two years.
Mays and Richmond also face sex offender reporting requirements, but Lipps said he won't make a determination on that until both are about to be released from state facilities. He ordered the state Department of Youth Services to provide sex-offender rehabilitation treatment.
The teens face a maximum reporting requirement of notifying the sheriff where they live every 90 days for life. There are less serious reporting requirements, such as twice a year for 20 years or once a year for 10 years.
Lipps told the parents of the defendants to contact the state Department of Youth Services to help determine which facility the teens will be sent to.
He said the Paint Creek Light House Youth Center, a privately run Department of Youth Services facility in Bainbridge, has "excellent" programs for juvenile sex offenders. He said a judge must give permission for a teen to be sent there and he is willing to give such permission.
Lipps told the juveniles there is plenty of opportunity for them to show good character but also to make mistakes.
"There is a great incentive there for them to do good," he said.
Lipps said he hopes the defendants, as well as the victim, take this experience and build upon it as they grow into adulthood. He also said he hopes all parents have discussions with their children about the use of social media and drinking alcohol, adding that drinking is an "age-old problem" with teens.
Testimony showed the victim, who lives in Weirton, was drinking vodka at the Belardine home on Wilma Avenue in Steubenville and became intoxicated. When that party was shut down, she was taken by the two defendants to the Howarth house on Westwood Drive in Steubenville, where she threw up at least twice. She then was driven to the Cole home outside Wintersville, according to testimony.
Mark Cole and Evan Westlake, after Lipps had granted them immunity from prosecution in connection with the case, testified that they had seen the defendants digitally penetrate the victim. Cole said he took a video of Mays inserting a finger inside the victim during the car ride to Cole's house. Westlake testified he saw Richmond inserting two fingers inside the victim in the basement of the Cole residence.
The prosecution argued the victim was highly intoxicated and unable to give consent.
Social media played a large role in the case, with text messages, videos and pictures making up a large amount the evidence presented.
The mother of the victim released an audio statement after the sentencing Sunday.
"It did not matter what school you went to, what city you lived in, what sport you played, human compassion is not taught by a teacher, coach or a parent. It is a God-given gift instilled in all of us. You displayed not only a lack of this compassion, but a lack of any moral code. Your decisions that night affected countless lives, including those most dear to you. You were your own accuser through this social media that you chose to publish your criminal conduct on. This does not define who my daughter is. She will persevere, grow and move on. I have pity for you both, and hope you fear the Lord. Repent for your actions and pray hard for his forgiveness," she said.
Mays apologized to the victim, her family and the community after Lipps issued his ruling. He said naked pictures of the victim should not have been distributed.
Richmond also apologized, saying he had no intention of doing anything like this. He walked across the courtroom to face the victim's family and said, "I want you to know I'm truly sorry."
Fred Abdalla Jr., juvenile court chief probation officer, came over to help hold Richmond while he was crying in front of the victim's family.
Prosecutor Marianne Hemmeter of the Ohio Attorney General's Office said there was no remorse from the defendants to what happened to the victim. She said once information on the rape got out, there was a conscientious decision to blame her, the victim, for what happened.
"The lack of remorse was most appalling. The disregard for another human being can't be ignored," Hemmeter said.
Attorney Adam Nemann, who represented Mays, said he has been with Mays since September and seen him in the family home. He said the public doesn't see that Mays "is a very caring, family oriented, loving man." He said the Mays family, which was in the courtroom throughout the trial "is ashamed as well."
Attorney Walter Madison, who represented Richmond, said Richmond's father, Nate, made a lot of mistakes in his life. He said Nate Richmond apologized for not being there for his son.
Gregg and Jennifer Agresta of Steubenvile were appointed guardians when Ma'Lik Richmond was 8. Daphne Birden, Richmond's mother, said at the bind-over hearing in November that she allowed the Agrestas to assume guardianship of her son because of her medical conditions.
Nate Richmond was sentenced to five years in prison in December 2002 after pleading guilty to felonious assault, with a firearm specification, and having a weapon as a convicted felon in connection with a drive-by shooting in September 2002.
The older Richmond told Jefferson County Common Pleas Judge John J. Mascio at his sentencing that he moved to Steubenville from Chicago because he thought it was a better place to raise his children.
Madison said the Agrestas feel, in some respects, that they let Ma'Lik down. Madison said Nate Richmond, who came up to his crying son when the verdict was read, sat down, hugged Ma'Lik and told his son he loved him.
Madison said when Lipps said Ma'Lik was guilty, Ma'Lik collapsed onto Madison's shoulder, saying, "My life is over and no one wants me."
When Ma'Lik went to the Agrestas and sat down and had a meal, "He loved the way that made him feel," Madison said.
Madison said Ma'Lik was acting out in school and somebody saw something in him and gave him an opportunity. He said Ma'Lik made the school honor roll in the first year he lived with the Agrestas.
"He'll have to deal with this the rest of his life. He'll have to explain to his grandkids when he is 70 or 80 years old (the sexual offender reporting) for something he did when he was 16 years old," Madison said.
Madison said Ma'Lik's sentence will last up to five years in a juvenile facility, but he will have to live "with that scar the rest of his life."
Brian Mays, Trent's father, said he was "very sorry for putting the (victim's family) through this." I'm sorry to put everybody through this ... the community, the school and everybody else."
Nate Richmond said he has been through a lot of struggles throughout his life. He said he is an ex-alcoholic who has not had a drink in 12 years.
"When I drank alcohol, it caused a lot of problems and destroyed my life. Alcohol played a big part of the kids' decision.
"I would like to say to the parents, I'm sorry what all you had to go through. I hope somewhere in your hearts you can forgive Trent and Ma'Lik for the pain caused to your daughter and putting you through this," Nate Richmond said.
"I want everyone to know, even though I was not there for my son, I feel responsible for his actions," he said.
Nate Richmond said he hopes the case helps children make positive choices and teaches them how alcohol can lead to bad decisions that can affect the rest of their lives.
Gregg Agresta said the case can offer a lesson for everyone, especially parents.
"Don't be their best friend. Be a parent," he said.
Attorney Brian Duncan, who represented Mays, said he hopes the community can come together and support the victim's family and the families of the two young defendants.
"This case needs to be a great teaching tool for our youth, and parents need to use it that way," Duncan said.
Madison agreed, saying parents have to be involved in the lives of their children.
"You can't just be a friend. You have to give them what they don't want to hear, including discipline, guidance, spirituality and compassion. You have to embrace the moment, no matter how bad. This is the worst thing that has ever happened to Ma'Lik Richmond. He may be out in a year, but he has the rest of his life to show everyone truly who he is," Madison said.
Bob Fitzsimmons, an attorney representing the victim's family, said the family forgives the two young defendants.
"They are praying for those two. We now need to regroup and, hopefully, we all can learn valuable lessons. It is not a time to point fingers, but a time to put our hands together and pray a little bit," he said.
Fitzsimmons said he was proud of how strong the victim was when she took the witness stand Saturday.
"It is not an easy thing to talk about," he said.
Fitzsimmons said the community needs to learn about social media and children.
"It is not like when I was growing up. There needs to be rules as to how to use it. Children and adults waste the day and no longer have conversations," the Wheeling-based attorney added.
He said the victim has not made a decision about forgiving the defendants.
He said the remorse of the defendants came too late in the opinion of the victim's family.
Fitzsimmons said the victim is going to live her life as a high school student, adding she made the school honor roll through all of this.
"She wants to live her life without all this around her," he said.
Fitzsimmons would not directly comment on a civil lawsuit regarding the case, only saying he represents the family.
The Rev. Larry Dorsch, pastor of St. Paul Catholic Church in Weirton, the parish of the victim's family, said he was in the juvenile courtroom all week supporting the family.
"They are a very strong family, a family that takes its Christian faith very seriously," he said.
"What we learned as a community is we have difficult issues we need to work on with kids. We need to deal with sexual issues. We need to teach young men how to respect women, in dealing with their own sexuality and dealing with women with respect," Dorsch said.
He said the community also needs to deal with children and alcohol.
"We need to talk to parents about following their children. They shouldn't be out at 2 a.m. driving drunk. I will talk with other moral leaders in the community on how to deal with that," he said.
Fitzsimmons said the victim's mother had planned to stay outside the courtroom while Lipps announced the verdict and sentencing, but came inside when she saw Ma'Lik break down crying. When Ma'Lik apologized in front of her, Fitzsimmons said the mother mouthed the words that she, too, is able to forgive Ma'Lik.
Fitzsimmons said, "Parents need to be parents, not just best buddies. Parents need to watch them like a hawk because they will get away with anything they can. We need to revisit parenting skills."
Katie Hanna, statewide director for the Ohio Alliance to End Sexual Violence, said the case should tell the entire world they need to have conversations with children.
"We need to show them rape is not acceptable," she said.
Hanna said schools need to incorporate rape prevention in education curriculum.
"Rape happens every day. Often it is the silent crime," she said.
Hanna said the victim in the case initially didn't want to come forward.
"Her voice has been the voice of others to come forward. Her courage and bravery has spoken volumes to this community," Hanna said.
Bishop Jeffrey M. Monforton of the Catholic Diocese of Steubenville said it's important that members of the community now come together.
"Following the judge's decision, we should keep all those involved in the rape case as well as those participating in the ongoing investigation in thought and prayer. Together, as a community, may we continue to place ourselves in God's love and mercy," Monforton said in a written statement.
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Some rare and obscure things that can effect page load time:
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TEMPLE (November 30, 2012)—A two vehicle crash Friday morning on H K Dodgen Loop near East Adams Avenue in Temple sent one person to a local hospital.
The accident at around 9:40 a.m. Friday involved a southbound Dodge Durango and a Hyundai SUV whose driver made a U-turn.
The driver of the Durango was taken to Scott & White Hospital with minor injuries.
The accident closed the access road between East Adams and Little Flock Road for about 30 minutes.


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An unmanned Delta 4 Heavy rocket lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, USA, to put a classified satellite into orbit for the National Reconnaissance Office.
A U.N. chemical weapons expert, wearing a gas mask, holds a plastic bag containing samples from one of the sites of an alleged chemical weapons attack in the Ain Tarma neighborhood of Damascus. A team of U.N. experts left their Damascus hotel for a third day of on-site investigations into apparent chemical weapons attacks on the outskirts of the capital.
People look at a SUV submerged in floodwaters in Bamako, Mali. Torrential rains caused flash floods, washing away homes in several neighbourhoods, a government minister said.
A woman walks past a wall covered with Chinese characters from chapters of John Rawls' book "A Theory of Justice" outside an art gallery in Beijing.
Israeli soldiers drive a tank at a staging area in the Golan Heights, near the border between the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights and Syria.
Asha Foundation Animal Shelter and Hospital founder and coordinator Harmesh Bhatt poses with a rescued wine snake and its young at the shelter in the village of Hathijan, some 20 kms from Ahmedabad, India.
Larisa Bordovskaya, chief curator, right, and Iraida Botti, deputy director of Yekaterininsky Palace Museum, display a portrait of a boy, who is believed to be Prince Alexei Romanov, in Yekaterininsky Palace in the Tsarskoye Selo, suburb of St.Petersburg, Russia.
A beluga whale sprays water onto visitors at a summer attraction at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium in Yokohama, suburban Tokyo, Japan.
Flood-affected villagers use a temporary raft as they navigate through the floodwaters of River Ganges to move to safer grounds, after heavy rains at Patna district in the eastern Indian state of Bihar.
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In an effort to reduce the size and weight of my panoramic rig I have 'downsized' from a Nikon D3/14-24mm Nikkor combination, and built a custom mount for my Nikon D610/14mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens. Two other objectives were achieved. As supplied, the integral flower petal Nikkor lens hood is shortened on the long edges of the image for compactness, but does not provide complete protection from flare. A 100 by 150mm aluminum box provides full shielding.
Second, I wanted to reposition the camera/lens combination precisely at the no parallax point each time the camera was mounted. This can be difficult with stock camera plates. The custom mount has a padded surface, running along the back edge of the camera, that prevents rotation around the tripod screw. A second captive ¼-20 screw holds the mount securely to the upper horizontal arm.
The custom mount can be readily made in a home workshop. Materials include aluminum sheet, electronic chassis, nonabrasive anti-slip tape, rubber edge trim, weld tee nut, aircraft rivets, captive screws, laminated labels, primer and black paint.
This custom accessory supplements the superb Nodal Ninja panorama head.