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Oatmeal and Sweet Date Bread (courtesy BBGA/Team USA 2005)
I really enjoyed the recent course I took that was put on by the Bread Bakers Guild of America, and am grateful for being a member and for having the chance to participate. Another thing I really appreciate about membership in the Guild is access to Guild's online newsletter and formula archive. There's lots of good stuff in that archive!
Today's bake is Oatmeal and Sweet Date Bread, one of the Team USA 2005 formulas the Guild provides online.
This one caught my eye last March; oatmeal and dates are two of my dear father-in-law's favorite things and I wanted to make this bread for him. This bread was very moist, and delicious with the sweet dates!
It was so good, I wanted to try making it again today (...a Team USA formula for Canada Day!
...the maple leaf is to add some Canadian content :^) ... )
Wanting to share this formula, I asked permission of the Guild to post the formula here on TFL; the Guild kindly granted permission and asked me to include this note in the post:
"The mission of The Bread Bakers Guild of America is to shape the knowledge and skills of the artisan baking community through education. Guild members have access to many other innovative professional formulas, both online and in the Guild's quarterly publication, Bread Lines. For more information about membership, please visit www.bbga.org."
With thanks to the Bread Bakers Guild of America and Jory Downer, William Leaman and Jeffrey Yankellow, the team members of Bread Bakers Guild Team USA 2005 - who were gold medal winners that year at the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie!
The formula authors describe the bread and its ingredients:
"The wide range of weather throughout the United States provides for a variety of growing climates. The warm weather of the west coast, allows for California to grow an abundance of palm trees that fruit, the luscious date. In this original formula, rolled oats, another major crop of American farmers, are complemented by the sweetness of dates. A portion of the oatmeal is fermented in a sponge. The high sugar content of the dates creates a rich brown crust that balances their sweetness. The abundance of oats results in a tight textured, full bodied crumb which is a pleasant contrast to the open crumb of the other breads."
A couple of pictures from today's bake (1500 grams dough weight, 540g boule, (6) 160g triangles):
My first bake (3 boules, 1635 grams total dough weight):
This bread is made with three preferments and a soaker, but the three preferments can be mixed at the same time.
Ingredients ( for 1635 grams dough):
Oat sponge
Liquid levain
Bread Flour
Instant yeast
Rolled oats
Dates, diced
White starter
Oat sponge
Liquid levain
I adapted the method for mixing by hand:
12 hours prior to the mixing the dough:
Poolish: Use a water temperature for 72-74F final poolish temperature; mix all until well blended; cover and ferment at 73F for 12 hours.
Oat sponge: Use a water temperature for 72-74F final sponge temperature; mix all until well blended; cover and ferment at 73F for 12 hours.
Liquid levain: Use a water temperature for 72-74F final levain temperature; mix all until well blended; cover and ferment at 73F for 12 hours.
(At 9 hours, my levain wasn't anywhere near ready...the salt taking its effect; I set the container holding the levain in a shallow basin and filled halfway with warm water; replaced with more warm water as needed; this got the levain going and it had tripled by the time the poolish and sponge were ready)
30 minutes to 1 hour prior to mixing the dough:
Using tepid water, mix together so oats are all moistened; cover, and set aside to let rest.
Prepare the dates by chopping; set aside.
"The variety of date used is flexible. It is important that they are not too soft. A soft date will blend into the dough instead of maintaining its shape, creating a dark color in the bread and increasing the likelihood of a burnt crust. The dates should be cut into ¼" pieces in preparation for mixing."
Mixing the dough:
Use a water temperature for 73-76F final dough temperature. (I started with 104F water as I was allowing for autolyse, hand mixing and resting periods during the hand mix, during which my doughs tend to cool down).
Place flour in bowl. Add 85-90% of the water to the bowl and mix until flour is evenly hydrated. Cover and autolyse for 20 minutes.
Add yeast, poolish, oat sponge, and levain to the mixing bowl. Mix with a dough whisk to combine. Cover, place in warmed proof box (to try to preserve warmth in the dough), rest 5 minutes. Dough temp.: 80F.
Oat sponge is on the left in the photo:
Add salt to mixing bowl. Mix, folding in the bowl, 50 folds. Dough temp.: 74F. Cover, place in warmed proof box, rest 5 minutes.
Fold 30 times in the bowl, then 5 minute rest as before, then finally 20 folds. Dough is lifting away from the bowl as I fold it at this point; gluten showed improved mix.
Add remaining water (80F) to the bowl, and mix to incorporate.
Add oat soaker and dates and mix to incorporate evenly.
Dough temp.: 73F (recommended to be 73-76F).
Bulk ferment at 78F for two hours, with (3) stretch and folds every 30 minutes.
Here is the dough at the end of the bulk ferment:
For the first bake I divided the dough into three parts to make boules. For today's bake, I followed these shaping instructions to make (2) triangle breads (remaining dough shaped as a boule):
Divide the dough in 160g / 5 ¾ oz pieces and preshape as a tight ball. Cover and allow the dough pieces to rest for 20 minutes.
Shape the rested balls of dough into triangles, being gentle not to degas the dough too much. Three triangles make up one loaf. Arrange three triangles together on floured linen, seam up, so that the point of one triangle rests in the center of one of the sides of the other triangle. The finished shape will have a circular appearance.
(I proofed top side up as I didn't think I'd be able to successfully flip the triangles over!).
Place the loaves in a draft free place at approximately 74° F for 30 minutes to proof.
Shaping a triangle by gently folding over three sides, towards center, pinching to seal and bring together:
After proofing:
A couple of notes about the maple leaf: I used a bit of decorative dough for this (extra dough that I froze after making my fol epi loaf awhile back. After thawing, the dough is just as good as new :^) ... a happy discovery!)
After cutting the leaf and removing the excess dough, I dusted the leaf with flour.
I used the cutter to gently! mark the boule to help with placement of the leaf.
I brushed the area where the leaf would go lightly with water, to help the leaf stick.
After the leaf was placed, I scored around it and then lightly on the floured leaf, to try to make "leaf veins".
Back to the triangles:
If proofing seam side up, turn the loaves over onto the oven loading device.
Score each triangle with two lines (I did three).
Bake with steam at 475° F for approximately 30 minutes.
Vent the steam from the oven and continue to bake for an additional 5 minutes.
(I found these were browning fast. I moved the loaves around every 10 minutes, and covered with foil and reduced to 435F after 20 minutes. 30 minutes total bake time; left in oven for 10 minutes with oven off and door ajar).
Remove the bread from the oven and allow to cool.
And lastly, a couple of crumb shots!:
Happy baking everyone, and Happy Canada Day!
from breadsong
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Today's piece is a fun & kitschy handmade house dress. 🙂
Okay…I'm not a fan of the brown & white print (too tablecloth-y!) and this is obviously too big for me. Let's see what we can do about all that, shall we?
First, I threw the dress into a dye bath with my good friend, Scarlet. 🙂
After about 40 minutes in the dye and a rinse & dry, my new dress was ready to be taken in!
I decided some of that length had to go as well!
Now my new dress is ready for a fun supper with friends!
I have to admit, there is no way I could have made it through this year without a lot of help from my friends! 🙂
Their support has meant the world to me. 🙂
Oh and check this out…my dress didn't travel alone either! 🙂
Of course…this isn't the end of my year of refashioning. I was silly enough to start this challenge on a leap year, you see! 😉
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HOBOKEN, N.J. -- Federal investigators are trying to determine what happened before a New Jersey commuter train barreled through a station and crashed into a barrier, causing a young mother to be killed by falling debris and injuring more than 100 others.
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board will be looking to determine how fast the train was going when it crashed at the busy Hoboken station Thursday morning.
Their investigation will seek to answer many questions, including whether a system designed to prevent accidents by overriding the engineer and automatically slowing or stopping trains that are going too fast could have helped if it had been installed on the line.
PHOTOS: Train crash in Hoboken
Investigators recovered an event recorded from the locomotive Thursday night and will be examining it Friday, NTSB vice chairwoman T. Bella Dinh-Zarr said Friday morning on ABC's "Good Morning America." The device contains information on the train's speed and braking.
More than 100,000 people use New Jersey Transit to commute from New Jersey to New York City each day. The NJ Transit portion of the Hoboken station remained closed on Friday, slowing the morning commute for those making connections there.
As investigators began their probe, the family of Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, the crash's sole fatality, was in mourning. De Kroon had recently moved to New Jersey from Brazil after her husband got a job with an international liquor company.
VIDEO: Dozens injured, 1 killed in Hoboken train crash
She had just dropped her toddler daughter off at daycare before rushing to catch a train, according to daycare director Karlos Magner.
"She was dropping off the daughter, I was closing up the stroller," he recalled. "We had a good talk for like a minute. And she said she was in a rush."
Shortly after, the NJ Transit train ran off the end of the track as it was pulling in around 8:45 a.m., smashing through a concrete-and-steel bumper. As it ground to a halt in the waiting area, it knocked out pillars, collapsing a section of the roof.
De Kroon was killed by debris, and 108 others were injured, mostly on the train, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said. Scores were hospitalized, some with serious injuries including broken bones.
The engineer, Thomas Gallagher, was pulled from the mangled first car and was treated and released from a hospital. Officials said he was cooperating with investigators. Gallagher has worked for NJ Transit for 29 years, and a union roster shows he started as an engineer about 18 years ago.
RELATED: Powerful photos, videos show aftermath of Hoboken train crash
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said investigators will determine whether the explanation was equipment failure, an incapacitated engineer or something else.
Some witnesses said they didn't hear or feel the brakes being applied before the crash. Authorities would not estimate how fast the train was going. But the speed limit heading into the station is 10 mph.
"The train came in at much too high rate of speed, and the question is: 'Why is that?'" Christie said.
Cuomo, a Democrat, and Christie, a Republican, cautioned against jumping to conclusions about the role that the lack of positive train control played or didn't play in the tragedy.
The NTSB has been pressing for some version of the technology for at least 40 years, and the industry is under government orders to install it, but regulators have repeatedly extended the deadline at railroads' request. The target date is now the end of 2018.
RELATED: 1 dead, more than 100 hurt in train crash at New Jersey station
Over the past 20 years, the NTSB has listed the lack of positive train control as a contributing factor in 25 crashes. Those include the Amtrak wreck last year in Philadelphia in which a speeding train ran off the rails along a curve. Eight people were killed.
In 2011, a Port Authority Trans-Hudson, or PATH, commuter train crash in a separate section of the Hoboken station injured more than 30 people. The NTSB found the engineer failed to control the speed of the train as it entered the station and investigators also determined a contributing factor was the absence of positive train control.
"They'll have to answer for themselves, but at the end of the day if safety is job one ... then you have to have a better record than New Jersey Transit has right now," said Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, noting that the transit agency said in a 2016 report with the Federal Railroad Administration that it didn't have positive train control on any locomotive or segment of track.
"That means zero across the board," he said. "They need to do better than zero across the board."
A spokeswoman for NJ Transit referred all questions about the investigation, including questions about positive train control, to the NTSB.
Even without positive train control, there are still safeguards in place in Hoboken.
NJ Transit trains have an in-cab system that is designed to alert engineers and stop locomotives when they go over 20 mph, according to an NJ Transit engineer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the accident.
Trains like the one in Thursday's crash also are equipped with a system that sounds a loud alarm and eventually stops the train if the engineer goes 15 to 20 seconds without touching the controls.
But it was unclear whether those mechanisms kicked in or would have made a difference if they had.
Michael Larson, an NJ Transit employee working in the terminal about 30 feet away, said he saw the train go over the "bumper block" and lift up into the air, stopping only when it hit the wall of the station's waiting room.
As the train hurtled into the depot amid concrete dust and dangling electrical wires, "I couldn't believe what I was seeing," he said.
Tom Spina, a maintenance supervisor for a private company was in the terminal after having worked the night.
"It was chaotic. There was yelling and screaming, a lot of people in shock," Spina said. "Things like this we see in movies," Spina said. "You don't think you're going to see it in real life."
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Advanced Micro Devices overtook Nvidia during the second quarter to become the top discrete graphics card vendor, according to market research firm Mercury Research.
AMD, which offers graphics cards under the ATI brand, held a 51.1 percent market share of all discrete graphics cards shipped during the second quarter, compared to Nvidia's 48.8 percent market share, Dean McCarron, principal analyst at Mercury Research, said Thursday.
That is a big jump for AMD, which as recently as the first quarter held a 42.1 percent market share compared to Nvidia's 57.8 percent share. AMD held a 40.6 percent share during the second quarter last year, compared to Nvidia's 59.2 percent share.
McCarron didn't provide specific GPU shipment numbers, but said market conditions worked in AMD's favor. AMD released budget graphics cards in the US$150 range with the latest DirectX 11 technology at the end of the first quarter, around the same time Nvidia introduced its first high-end DirectX 11 graphics card. That gave AMD a price advantage, which helped the company sell more graphics cards than Nvidia.
The low-end budget cards shifted the market in AMD's favor. By comparison, high-end cards have little impact, McCarron said. AMD last year came out with its first high-end DirectX 11 cards, but that didn't cause a market shift, he said.
AMD also had a good quarter selling mobile CPUs, which translated to higher mobile GPU sales, McCarron said. AMD has been effective in packaging CPUs and GPU into systems as part of laptop and desktop platforms. By comparison, Nvidia failed to take advantage of growing mobile GPU volumes because it lagged in chipset development.
Nvidia continues to have troubles as consumers shift to lower-priced GPUs and integrated graphics. The company on Wednesday lowered its revenue expectations for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 to between $800 million and $820 million, compared to earlier expectations of between $950 million and $970 million. Nvidia blamed higher memory costs for the lower revenue expectations.
To compensate for the higher memory pricing while keeping prices low, PC makers usually have to use cheaper processors or pull out components like graphics cards, McCarron said. That affects companies like Nvidia, whose graphics card shipments suffer as a result.
The risk of higher memory pricing could also hit AMD, said analysts from FBR Capital Markets in a research report issued on Thursday. The PC cost-reduction efforts may affect the rates at which the company's GPUs are installed in computers.
But things are looking bright for AMD, McCarron said. Apple this week dumped Nvidia, moving to AMD's graphics offerings for the new line of iMac desktops announced on Tuesday. That is a significant design win for AMD, but it won't make or break Nvidia, McCarron said.
"Apple represents a fairly meaningful volume in business," McCarron said. "It's not a make or break thing, but it's a nice sweetener."
The total number of graphics products shipped — including integrated and discrete graphics processors — totaled 125 million during the second quarter, an increase from the 120 million products that shipped during last year's second quarter.


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He didn't get any cash, but an armed robbery suspect helped himself to some unique items from a Vernon gas station Thursday.
Vernon North Okanagan RCMP officers responded to a robbery at a gas station, located in the 2400 block of 34th Street, 1, just before 11 p.m., police said in a news release.
A lone man entered the store, threatened staff with a knife and demanded money. Police said he grew impatient and fled the store without any cash, however not before helping himself to a beverage and a small toy.
A multi-unit response, including the assistance of the Kelowna RCMP K9 unit, could be seen by witnesses as officers extensively searched the area for the suspect.
"Although the officers were unable to locate the suspect, a detailed description of him was provided by witnesses, which will aid in our investigation," RCMP Const. Kelly Brett said. "We are glad to report that no one was injured as a result of this incident."
The male suspect described as wearing a black, red and white 'Deadpool' mask, a red T-shirt under a black and red checkered long-sleeve shirt, black pants and sneakers.
Anyone with any information in regards to this incident is asked to contact the Vernon RCMP or to remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers.
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By Judy Reed
Marvin Charles Gabrion, convicted in the 1997 slaying of Rachel Timmerman, of Cedar Springs, and sentenced to death, will not get an "emergency" psychiatric review to determine his mental functioning.
Gabrion's attorneys sought the order as part of a claim to show Gabrion's trial lawyers were not up to standards. They also questioned whether he was "even competent to be executed."
U.S. Judge Robert Holmes Bell rejected the request. "The Court is reticent to enter an order allowing an expert to evaluate Defendant without some showing that such an examination is necessary," wrote Bell. "Defendant has not provided an affidavit indicating circumstances that warrant further inquiry."
U.S. Attorney Timothy Verhey wrote that there is no emergency in this case, and that there is no basis for a fourth mental assessment. Gabrion has been evaluated three times previously, and found competent.
Gabrion is on death row at a federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana.
Although Michigan does not have the death penalty, Gabrion was sentenced to death by lethal injection, because Rachel's body was found on federal land, in the Manistee National Forest.
Prosecutors believe Gabrion murdered Rachel to keep her from testifying that he raped her the previous fall. The rape trial was set to begin within days of her disappearance.
Rachel disappeared from her father's house in Cedar Springs in June 1997. She had told her father she was going on a date with a man named John Weeks, who had been calling her. He asked her to bring her 11-month-old baby, Shannon, along with her. Weeks was reportedly calling Rachel at the request of Gabrion.
Her body was found in Oxford Lake, in Newayo County, weighted down by cinder blocks, on July 5, 1997. Her daughter, Shannon, was never found. Gabrion reportedly told inmates that he killed the baby, too.
Gabrion is suspected of killing at least three other people—including John Weeks, who disappeared shortly after the crime and was never seen again.
Rachel's father, L.C. (Tim) Timmerman and his brother, John, have written a book that tells the story of Rachel and Shannon's disappearance and Gabrion's subsequent arrest called The Color of Night. The book can be found on Amazon in both hard cover and as a kindle e-book.


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Monday, July 13, 2015
The antinomies of climate engineering
by @ReinerGrundmann
Last week I attended a conference at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Organized by the German research council DFG academics from various disciplines gathered for three days at the Climate Engineering Research Symposium in the old but nicely refurbished building at the Gendarmenmarkt. The arches and pillars on the right side of the conference room still show the bullet holes from the last war. The hanging glass ceiling floats perfectly above the heads of the audience, with ever so tiny spaces between the panels, illuminated from above. This example of (low-tech) engineering and craftsmanship could be seen as a symbol of the floating fleet of aircraft deployed to inject particles into the stratosphere to cool the planet.
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Pretzel, Peanut Butter, and Chocolate Candies
So, I bought some big, crunchy pretzels and proceeded to smash them which just seemed wrong even though it was necessary here. The crushed pretzel bits were combined with creamy, natural peanut butter, confectioners' sugar, and a little room-temperature butter. All of that was stirred together, and then one inch balls were formed and set on a tray. The tray was placed in the freezer for 30 minutes to let the peanut butter become firm. Then, it was chocolate dipping time. I used milk chocolate, but you could use whatever you prefer. I like El Rey milk chocolate which has a slightly higher cacao percentage than others. After dipping each candy piece and before the chocolate completely set, I sprinkled sea salt on top.
I've been craving peanut butter lately anyway, but still, these candies were especially delicious. The little chunks of pretzel encased in mounds of peanut butter inside a chocolate coating were snacking bliss. I should probably conduct some experiments with almond, cashew, and pecan butter just to determine if any one of those is better than peanut butter. And, if I locate any locally made hard pretzels, I'll try those too.
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Those are to die for!!ReplyDelete
Oh man! You hit all of my favorite food groups on this one- sugar, salt, and fat! These look delish. Bet they didn't last long.ReplyDelete
Those look sooooo good! My mouth is watering!What a delicious combination! Happy Valentine's Day!ReplyDelete
Reading your post, I can almost taste how delicious these little morsels would taste. THey sound heavenly.ReplyDelete
Happy valentines day!
*kisses* HH
lovely little candies for Valentine's day. Pretty pictures!ReplyDelete
These look delicious, and I love that you topped them with sea salt! Salty sweet is one of my most favorite combinations.ReplyDelete
OMG, those are for me! What an awesome combination. *drool*ReplyDelete
OMG, I could eat them all at once. Happy Valentine's.ReplyDelete
Wow! Those look like the perfect valentine's treat. Except here I am wanting to keep them for myself. Let my valentine find his own chocolate!ReplyDelete
I love chocolate and peanut butter and I really love chocolate covered pretzels - this recipe looks like a keeper!ReplyDelete
Oh my gosh.... These look amazing. These are immediately going on the 'gotta-make-em-NOW' list.ReplyDelete
People are not big on peanut butter here in Mexico, which is a shame, so I've been craving it too lately. I think I need to get some at Costco and make these candies.ReplyDelete
Lisa, what a nice combination...crunchy pretzel, peanut butter and chocolate :-)ReplyDelete
Best snack ever. These candies are perfect for feeding each other on the special occasion.Very romantic! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day.ReplyDelete
Yum! Love pretzel but can't really find it here in Singapore :PReplyDelete
I love this recipe :) peanut butter and chcolate.. great combination and your candies in pictures look really amazing :)ReplyDelete
Mmm, these look fantastic! I am going to have to try this one.ReplyDelete
love the peanut butter chocolaty goodness!ReplyDelete
These look like dangerous treats. that combination of sweet salty chocolate just can't be beat.ReplyDelete
Holy cow, those look awesome! I am catering a gallery opening in early March and was thinking I wanted to make some small treat. Perfect!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 12:24 PM
Such a great sweet-salty combination in these yummy candies!ReplyDelete
Lisa :) You had me at peanut & chocolate ;)ReplyDelete
What irresistible little treats Lisa! All of my favorites rolled into one!ReplyDelete
I've never seen fresh pretzels at the farmer's market, Lisa, but we do have them in the food court at our mall.ReplyDelete
These treats look super delicious!
these are entirely too tantalizing! Bookmarking them.. i will get sick off eating an entire batch and will come back to report! :) :)ReplyDelete
first of all, smashing pretzels is cathartic. secondly, eating chocolate and peanut butter together with pretzels is blissful. well done!ReplyDelete
That's dangerous. I would devour them all. Love the smashing. And the coating. Sigh. Just beautiful!ReplyDelete
I love salty and sweet treats, so these are right up my alley - yum!ReplyDelete
We make a similar "cookie" for Christmas, but I use Rice Krispies, creamy pb, and confectioners sugar, then it all gets dipped in chocolate. Super yummy. I like the idea of pretzels too. I love pretzels dipped in pb and chocolate!ReplyDelete
I'm in love with your German chocolate cake, and I'd love it for dessert after those amazing mussels and matchstick potatoes, but I'm sorry, anything peanut butter and chocolate, especially with salted pretzels, is coming first for me. Another bookmark from your amazing blog. I have to make these soon!!ReplyDelete
OK, I can only take quick peeks and then I have to look away before I become fully obsessed. This is like my favorite combo ever. It reminds me of one of my favorite ice cream flavors, Chubby Hubby, oh my!ReplyDelete
I make a very similar peanut butter ball but adding pretzels? OMG - that looks amazing!!! I am going to have to try this the next time I make peanut butter balls, they sound SO good!ReplyDelete


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You said recently that conservatives and Christians should stop electing nice guys. Aren't Christians supposed to be nice guys?
Of course, of course. But that's where people get confused. I almost laugh out loud when I hear Democrats saying things like, "Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me" and try to use that as the reason we should open up our borders.
It's such a distortion of the teachings of Jesus to say that what he taught us to do personally — to love our neighbors as ourselves, help the poor — can somehow be imputed on a nation. Jesus never told Caesar how to run Rome. He went out of his way to say that's the earthly kingdom, I'm about the heavenly kingdom and I'm here to teach you how to treat others, how to help others, but when it comes to serving your country, you render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. It's a distortion of the teaching of Christ to say Jesus taught love and forgiveness and therefore the United States as a nation should be loving and forgiving, and just hand over everything we have to every other part of the world. That's not what Jesus taught. You almost have to believe that this is a theocracy to think that way, to think that public policy should be dictated by the teachings of Jesus.
So, the government you want is one free of religious association?
Yes. The government should be led by somebody who is going to do what's in the best interest of the government and its people. And I believe that's what Jesus thought, too.
In 2016 you wrote in a Washington Post editorial that voters in the 2010 and 2014 midterms sent a message they were "tired of the leftist agenda." What message did voters in the 2018 midterms send?
This midterm, the president did better than the average president does in his first midterms. So I think the message is that the American people are happy with the direction the country is headed and happy with the economy, happy with our newfound respect in the world. It's a better result than you normally see in the first midterms.
.. You and other white evangelical leaders have strongly supported President Trump. What about him exemplifies Christianity and earns him your support?
What earns him my support is his business acumen. Our country was so deep in debt and so mismanaged by career politicians that we needed someone who was not a career politician, but someone who'd been successful in business to run the country like a business. That's the reason I supported him.
The deficit and debt have increased during his first two years.
Yeah, Congress, the spending bill that they forced on him in order to get the military spending up to where it needed to be — he said that would be the last time he signed one of those. But he had no choice because Obama had decimated the military, and it had to be rebuilt.
Is there anything President Trump could do that would endanger that support from you or other evangelical leaders?
That's the shortest answer we've had so far.
Only because I know that he only wants what's best for this country, and I know anything he does, it may not be ideologically "conservative," but it's going to be what's best for this country, and I can't imagine him doing anything that's not good for the country.
Is it hypocritical for evangelical leaders to support a leader who has advocated violence and who has committed adultery and lies often? I understand that a person can be forgiven their sins, but should that person be leading the country?
When Jesus said we're all sinners, he really meant all of us, everybody. I don't think you can choose a president based on their personal behavior because even if you choose the one that you think is the most decent — let's say you decide Mitt Romney. Nobody could be a more decent human being, better family man. But there might be things that he's done that we just don't know about. So you don't choose a president based on how good they are; you choose a president based on what their policies are. That's why I don't think it's hypocritical.
There's two kingdoms. There's the earthly kingdom and the heavenly kingdom. In the heavenly kingdom the responsibility is to treat others as you'd like to be treated. In the earthly kingdom, the responsibility is to choose leaders who will do what's best for your country. Think about it. Why have Americans been able to do more to help people in need around the world than any other country in history? It's because of free enterprise, freedom, ingenuity, entrepreneurism and wealth. A poor person never gave anyone a job. A poor person never gave anybody charity, not of any real volume. It's just common sense to me.
You've been criticized by some other evangelical leaders about your support for the president. They say you need to demand higher moral and ethical standards. You disagree with them on that?
It may be immoral for them not to support him, because he's got African American employment to record highs, Hispanic employment to record highs. They need to look at what the president did for the poor. A lot of the people who criticized me, because they had a hard time stomaching supporting someone who owned casinos and strip clubs or whatever, a lot them have come around and said, "Yeah, you were right." Some of the most prominent evangelicals in the country have said, "Jerry, we thought you were crazy, but now we understand."


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Apple's maps are not off to a good start. They're getting killed by critics and users alike. And rightly so! They don't hold their own against last generation's Google Maps on iOS 5. And what's worse for Apple and its fans? Things probably won't be getting better any time soon.
What Apple Maps Gets Wrong
Maps are tough. They're not just about dumping data onto vector graphic maps and making it look pretty. Most mapping systems are built from a few huge data sets that are constantly being optimized and updated. But Apple's maps—as some have found out today and millions of iPhone 5 buyers will find out tomorrow—are not updated, and they are certainly not optimized. They don't know that asking for "heathrow" is absolutely a question about the airport in London.
Those are complicated decisions for an app to make, but they're also the kind of stuff that you pick up over time. Google Maps wasn't always as awesome as it is now. It had plenty of screwups along the way. And while Apple can certainly take some cues from how Google runs its ship, a lot of the stuff it's screwing up, like sending drivers to roads that have been closed for years, or telling you you've arrived at your destination in the middle of a freeway, are the kind of thing that take years of data collection to correct and fine-tune.
There are some funny mistakes, like incorrect business listings, that will be fixed quickly as iOS 6 users report their issues back to the Cupertino mothership. But there are deeper, systemic problems with Apple that can only be solved with time. Lots, and lots, of time. Get comfy.
What Google Does Right
Google's map collecting methods are famous. Street View cars! Street View backpacks! Google planes! Wi-Fi data collection scandals! But it's actually not as simple as putting someone in a Google car with a camera, driving around, mapping the world.
Google Maps actually uses cartographical data from a variety of sources. Much is TIGER data from the US Census bureau, while some is also likely from the US Geological Survey. Google's cars are actually more supplemental than anything else. But that's just the raw data. The easy part. The rest of it—and the stuff Apple gets so wrong right now—is far more nuanced.
Here's an excerpt from the Atlantic's look into how Google's mapping sausage is made:
"So you want to make a map," [head Google Maps engineer Michael Weiss-Malik] tells me as we sit down in front of a massive monitor. "There are a couple of steps. You acquire data through partners. You do a bunch of engineering on that data to get it into the right format and conflate it with other sources of data, and then you do a bunch of operations, which is what this tool is about, to hand massage the data. And out the other end pops something that is higher quality than the sum of its parts."
So perhaps predictably, Google's role in mapping becomes less about adventure and exploration than organization and refinement. Google's making sense of other people's data, ordering neatly a mess of unruly data sets. Typical, really.
But also consider things like Google MapMaker. It's responsible for allowing people in 183 countries, many of which didn't have access to digital map making services, to alter the data that Google has for their areas. That means they can create deeply detailed data for locales that other services can't get to. And while those cars may not be fundamental, they do a hell of a lot of backlog work.
It's also worth nothing that Google's been at it for at least seven years. That's quite a head start.
So How Far Behind Is Apple?
It's not quite as grim as it sounds, though; iOS 6 may only be a day old, but Apple's already been working on maps for a while. It bought Placebase way back in 2009, a company which at the time took mapping data from other sources and offered it up to customers in a more digestible package. It even customized and overlaid information about locations and destinations, a lot like Google Maps does. A year after that, Apple bought up Poly9, which was billed as a small-footprint Google Earth. And then last year it bought C3 Technologies, which has some beautiful demos of 3D flyover maps, but has proven, erm, inconsistent.
Clearly those aren't enough to take on the Google mapping juggernaut on their own which is why Apple opted to patch the holes in its Maps foundation with a few ringers. That includes TomTom (you've heard of them), which wholly owns TeleAtlas, which in turn powered all of Google's mapping data until 2009. In fact, it continued to power Google Maps in Europe until December of last year.
TeleAtlas collects data in a lot of the same ways Google does today. It's even got "mobile mapping vans" that drive around and use cameras, laser rangefinders, and GPS to map out where they drive. Sound familiar? Then again, there's a reason Google ditched it in favor of an in-house solution.
Apple has also very gingerly dipped its toes into the open source waters, using OpenStreetMap data for iPhoto. It's also using some OSM data in iOS 6 as well, though it appears to be more of a peripheral source, like the smaller, local map data sets both it and Google use. Ironically, if Apple had gone with OSM from the start, its Maps app would probably be in much better shape than it is today.
So the good news is that yes, Apple has stuck a load of time and money and effort into this thing. It's committed. The bad news? Apple has stuck a load of time and money and effort into this thing, and it's still pretty bad.
Get Used to It
If making a usable, reliable mapping system is primarily about organization, then there's maybe no one better suited to it than Google. But that doesn't mean Apple can't or won't catch up. It will get better. It has to. But that kind of improvement takes time.
Apple's road to wellness is relatively simple: It has to get better foreign data partners, for one. It's got to gather information from the millions and millions of iPhones and iPads that are out there (a huge advantage) about what things are actually where. And for that matter, it needs its own version of MapMaker to turn embarrassing Tumblrs into useful user-generated data.
Simple, though, isn't fast. Those deals take time to put in place, and even with an unprecedented number of iOS devices beaming back correct information, it could take years to make Maps whole.
Even quick fix solutions for Apple, however farfetched, wouldn't happen overnight. That goes for a high profile acquisition like Garmin, or Nokia's maps division if it goes under and Microsoft does not buy it whole, or anything else that could possibly inject an instantaneous shot of competence into Apple Maps. And that's if any of those things were remotely likely to happen. They're not.
Will a Google Maps iOS app save you? A little. But even if Google becomes a knight in GPS armor, you'll still likely be stuck using Apple for turn-by-turn navigation, since Google Maps functionality wouldn't extend to third party apps. Ditto Waze or Navigon or any other third-party map app already available. Some are good, some aren't; some are expensive, some aren't; but none are integrated as seamlessly as first party software, like Android's Navigation and Windows Phone's Nokia Maps are.
So yes, Apple's going to fix this. It has to. Maybe it wrangles up more and better partners, and launches the fleet of Jony Ive-designed Apple View cars. But that almost definitely won't make it into an iOS 6 update. Or into iOS 7 or iOS 8, for that matter. For now, you should get cozy with the idea that your first party iPhone maps might just drive you off the side of a bridge.


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A 527 TV campaign ad claims Democratic state attorney candidate Glenn Hess is "dangerously soft on crime." Hess calls 527s "hideouts for cowards and character assassins."
But the ads won't just be coming directly from the candidates' campaigns. Much of the action will be sponsored by so-called 527 organizations — shadow groups backed by corporations, unions and special interests — that attempt to sway voters with "issue" ads that often attack the candidate the group opposes.
Named for the tax code provision that allows them, 527s — unlike political action committees — can accept unlimited donations as long as their ads don't openly advocate voting for one particular candidate.
Here in Florida, voters are already getting an early taste of the 527 flood thanks to a contentious state attorney's race in Panama City. While neither candidate has aired his own ads yet, two previously unknown groups have been running television ads and distributing fliers in advance of the "real" campaign.
In March, a one-minute ad sponsored by a 527 group called Keep Our Families Safe attacked former Circuit Court Judge Glenn Hess, a Democrat who is challenging incumbent state attorney Steve Meadows, as "dangerously soft on crime." The ad claimed that "liberal Judge Hess" had "set loose" the same individual three times — once when the man was charged with grand theft, again when the man pleaded "no contest" to violating his probation by possessing cocaine and a third time after he was arrested after attacking a sheriff's deputy. While Hess did sentence Normando Brown to probation in the first two matters, he did not render the decision in the third case involving Brown. Furthermore, the ad incorrectly stated that Brown pleaded guilty on the initial grand theft charges when in fact he pleaded no contest to the charges and was not found guilty.
Who is behind Keep Our Families Safe? The 527 group lists Panama City resident James R. Clark as its chairman. Meadows has said that Clark is a retired police lieutenant with whom he is friends. Clark politely declined to talk to Florida Trend about his group or its party affiliation. But according to public records, the custodian of the records for Keep Our Families Safe is Nancy Watkins, a prominent GOP treasurer and CPA in Tampa who handles campaign records and filings for most of Florida's high-profile Republicans, including Sen. Mel Martinez and Jeb Bush.
Meanwhile, Noreen Fenner, who submitted the group's Articles of Incorporation to the Florida Division of Corporations, is a lobbyist with Tidewater Consulting, the lobbying firm run by former Florida Republican Party Chairman Tom Slade.
The money trail for Keep Our Families Safe provides other information about the group. According to public records, the group's financing consisted of a single $40,000 contribution from another 527 called Floridians for Conservative Values. That group lists only a UPS box in a Tallahassee strip mall on its filings with the Florida Division of Elections, but IRS records reveal the group is run out of the West Palm Beach offices of Public Concepts Inc., a GOP political consulting firm that has also been doing work on the Meadows campaign.
In the 2006 election cycle, Floridians for Conservative Values spent $231,036 promoting the "free exchange of thoughts and ideas through electioneering activities to support conservative principles and values in Florida," according to the group's tax filings. The group has raised more than $1.1 million since 2004 from a myriad of contributors ranging from U.S. Sugar Corp. to Charles Hilton Jr., a Panama City attorney and developer.
Keep Our Families Safe isn't the only 527 helping Meadows. Last fall, Watkins helped a Bay County police officer, Robert Sterling, set up a group called Neighbors for Safer Communities. That group distributed fliers to thousands of Bay County voters in February that lauded Meadows' work as state attorney.
A Neighbors for Safer Communities contributor list shows $25,000 in contributions that included $5,000 from companies owned by the family of Panama City lawyer Julian Bennett and $5,000 from entities affiliated with Panama City restaurateur J. Carey Scott. Tallahassee highway contractor Charles W. Roberts, along with his brother and sister-in-law, kicked in another $5,000 in individual and corporate donations. The committee made just one disbursement this year — $24,890 to Public Concepts for "direct mail services."


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You don't necessarily have to live in a cold climate to experience how roads start to deteriorate once cracks begin forming in the asphalt surface. Even more frustrating than the potholes, dips, and road erosion is the snarled traffic that results from closing lanes to repair them. Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have developed a way to detect and quickly fix these cracks with minimal human interaction, making the process a bit less painful than before.
The automatic road patcher resides on a trailer which is towed behind a service vehicle at 5 km/h. Cameras mounted near the front of the device detect cracks down to 3mm in width using an array of LED lights to guide the way. Once a fault has been detected, nozzles mounted under the trailer blast the road with liquid tar to seal the crack before it becomes a real problem.
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Interactive Peak Bagging and Mountain/Hill Tick Lists for Snowdonia National Park
Snowdonia National Park is the area of Wales within the Snowdonia National Park boundary including the non-National Park 'island' around Blaenau Ffestiniog.
Created in 1951, Snowdonia National Park is the 3rd largest in the UK with an area of 2,130 km² (823 sq mi). It covers parts of Conwy, Gwynedd and Powys.
Approximately 350,000 people climb and bag Snowdon, the highest mountain in Wales, every year. The name Snowdon comes from the Saxon Snow Dun (Snow Hill). The Welsh name for the mountain is Yr Wyddfa (loosely pronounced 'ur-oo-ith-va') which means 'The Burial Place'.
Northern Snowdonia is the only place in the UK that you can find the Snowdon Lily (Gagea Serontina) - an Artic-alpine plant. It flowers from June onwards and has white flowers with purple or reddish veins.
In 2004 the Independent Newspaper reported that Crib Goch near Snowdon is the wettest place in the United Kingdom with an average rainfall of 4,473 millimetres per year over the previous 30 years. That is 176.1 inches or over 14.5 feet! Better take a waterproof.
Snowdonia in Welsh is Eryri (loosely pronounced 'error_ree') which means 'The Highland'.
The main places to go walking from in Snowdonia include: Aberdyfi, Abergwyngregyn, Bala, Beddgelert, Betws-y-coed, Blaenau Ffestiniog, Capel Curig, Croesor, Dolgellau, Llanberis, Llyn Ogwen, Nantmoor, Pen y Pass and Rhyd Ddu.>
There are 244 classified Mountains, Fells, Peak, Tops and Hills that lie within the boundary of Snowdonia National Park National Park. All are within the capabilities of an averagely fit walker, hiker or rambler.
To make your peak bagging records easier to manage, we have divided Snowdonia National Park into ten distinct areas which are listed below.
If you want to see all 244 classified Mountains, Fells, Peak, Tops and Hills in one go see The Whole of Snowdonia National Park but please bear in mind that the page may take a few extra seconds to load due to the amount of data being downloaded to your computer.
- The Arans area of Snowdonia
22 tops including Aran Fawddwy, Aran Benllyn, Glasgwm . . .
- The Arenigs area of Snowdonia
49 tops including Arenig Fawr, Arenig Fach, Carnedd y Filiast (Arenigs) . . .
- The Berwyns area of Snowdonia
47 tops including Cadair Berwyn, Moel Sych, Cadair Bronwen . . .
- The Cadair Idris area of Snowdonia
40 tops including Cadair Idris (Penygadair), Mynydd Moel, Maesglase (Maen Du) . . .
- The Carneddau area of Snowdonia
35 tops including Carnedd Llewelyn, Carnedd Dafydd, Pen Llithrig y Wrach . . .
- The Glyderau (or Glyders) area of Snowdonia
13 tops including Glyder Fawr, Glyder Fach, Tryfan . . .
- The Moel Hebog area of Snowdonia
16 tops including Moel Hebog, Craig Cwm Silyn, Mynydd Mawr (Llyn Cwellyn) . . .
- The Moelwyns area of Snowdonia
36 tops including Carnedd Moel Siabod, Moelwyn Mawr, Moelwyn Bach . . .
- The Rhinogs area of Snowdonia
14 tops including Y Llethr, Rhinog Fawr, Moel Ysgyfarnogod . . .
- The Snowdon area of Snowdonia
19 tops including Mount Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), Crib Goch, Moel Eilio (Llanberis) . . .
- The Whole of Snowdonia National Park
244 tops including Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa), Tryfan, Cadair Idris . . .


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The first annual ParticipACTION Community Better Challenge got Canadians across the country sitting less and moving more together with more than 265 million physical activity minutes tracked from May 31 to June 16.
Enderby was crowned Canada's Most Active Community and took home the top prize of $150,000, which will go toward local physical activity initiatives.
"I think everyone feels good that we were recognized and we get to hold that title and we'll just keep going. It's very exciting for our community," said Enderby Mayor Greg McCune.
"We'll work with ParticipACTION to help promote how we do things so maybe other communities across Canada will follow our lead."
Enderby tracked 1,964,908 physical activity minutes during the Challenge by hosting events like Enderby Dash 'n' Splash, a Flash Mob and Foam Fest.
Through teamwork, partnerships and events promoting physical literacy, they engaged the community to get "Active in Enderby."
Enderby will use the $150,000 to improve community recreation infrastructure projects to keep their community active.
Though McCune said the city's recreation services department has a list of programs they'd like to enhance or start, no decisions have yet been made as to where the funds will be allocated.
Officials plan to meet to discuss this later this week.
"I also want to say a big thank you to the community for deciding to take part and do this. It was led by Sheryl Hay, our community services coordinator and she's an amazing asset to the community. I wanted to say a big thanks to her and her team — from the lifeguards to the fitness instructors to all the businesses that partook," said McCune.
"It was a fun month. It's great to be honoured and we look forward to continuing doing what we do."
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I was originally inspired by this great post from Instructables, one of my favorite websites. I am throwing a garden themed party this year for my daughter's birthday and thought that these would be perfect. They would also make cute adornments for gifts.
Here is how I made these cute Recycled Water Bottle Butterflies.
Hi there, I saw your blog in one of the discussions and love your blog! All of the crafts I do are using the repurposing & reusing, so I'll be sure to add yours in ... I'll be "liking" your page, would you mind returning the favor? Many thanks!
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Hi ! liked your fb fan page. Saw your profile from FB fans exchange. Here's mine LadySoda
Thanks for the friendly welcome. I look forward to blogging with you! :)
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Hey thanks for the friend request.
I'm still figuring my way around here. Truely appreciate your outreach.
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Just checked out your blog, it's awesome!! I love it. Makes me wanna get off my butt and do more projects!
Helps ALOT! Thanks Dinah! I have went back to WordPress. Hostgator has been great too...helped out most of today! It's so much information! :-) I am going to just go with the theme that I have chosen and see what happens! Now that I know you can switch themes I feel more comfortable! Thanks again for all of your help!
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New Life New Hope
Supporting maternal & child health
Improving maternal and child care is a global priority. According to the World Health Organization, young mothers and their children under the age of five are a vulnerable and undertreated population. Annually 8.2 million children under five die because of neonatal conditions, infections and related causes, while 800 women die every day due to complications during pregnancy or childbirth1.
As part of its Sustainable Development Goal to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, the UN has set two targets:
- By 2030, reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 000 live births
- By 2030, end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1 000 live births and under-5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1 000 live births
Sandoz is committed to supporting the achievement of these goals by increasing access to high-quality medicines, as well as healthcare services and education for mothers and children around the world.
Working to improve maternal and child health
In 2015, Sandoz launched a new program in Ethiopia called New Life & New Hope to improve maternal and child health and to reduce mortality associated with childbirth. The company sponsored four Basic Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care trainings for 80 midwives, impacting the care of approximately 40 000 pregnant women in the Addis Ababa area. In 2016, Sandoz supported the implementation of the second wave of training for another 100 midwives in Afar, Somali, Gambella and Benishangul-Gumuz, regions where the highest need of delivery skills intervention has been identified by the Ministry of Health. This phase of the program will be completed by June 2016. To ensure ongoing availability of medicines, focus will turn to upgrading maternal wards in the health facilities will start in July 2016 where the aim is to upgrade at least 10 centers by the end of this year.
- WHO 2011, Priority Medicines for mothers and children; UN 2012, Every Woman Every Child, Report on Live-saving Commodities for Women and Children http://www.who.int/gho/maternal_health/en


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1949 Chevrolet Five-Window - "Truck In A Bucket" No More!
The Personality Change Took Two Years, but It Was Worth Every Minute
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Lots of us have learned that a father-son project is one of the best ways to enjoy our fascination with old trucks. And it doesn't matter whether you're five or fifty years old, working with Dad always brings a new dimension to the project. Wayne Schumacher experienced this fun firsthand. A body shop owner in Haines City, Florida, with a family of his own, Wayne and his father Earl restored a 1995 Chevy back in the '90s. Earl wanted to take his truck back to original condition and the leisurely pace of the eight-year, frame-off restoration was an education for them both. When it came time for Wayne to tackle a project of his own, one of the lessons he learned was that a restomod was the right approach for him.
After a brief search, Wayne found the perfect project vehicle. The neglected 1949 Chevy five-window had been living in a field in Mississippi for some time and when it arrived on a flat bed, it was recognizable but many of the truck's essentials were in five-gallon buckets. Wayne kept the garage doors closed for quite a while shielding the infamous "Truck in a Bucket" from doubting spectators. Thanks to his many years of experience building hot rods and restoring Corvettes, Wayne and a few of his friends were up to the task. The frame-off effort began with boxing the chassis rails and adding a Heidts Mustang II front end with 11-inch disc brakes. Out back, a new four-link held the drum brake, 1992 Z24 rear in place. To add an additional degree of sophistication to the ride quality, a Ride Tech air suspension was installed using a pair of Viair compressors, five-gallon reserve tanks, and 3/8-inch lines. The truck's altitude is now adjustable at the touch of a button. The final step on the refurbished chassis was painting and pinstriping the framerails and powdercoating the suspension components.
With a chassis capable of winning trophies in its own right, a modern power plant was the next step. A 383-stroker motor was the perfect blend of lightweight and high-performance, pumping out 350 hp thanks to a 600 Holley carburetor on a Weiand aluminum intake, MSD ignition, and Hooker Headers flowing into a pair of Flowmaster mufflers. A 700-R4 automatic gets the power to the new 20-inch American Racing Torq-Thrust, M-Series rims and 40-series Yokohama rubber.
The body also received its share of special attention with shaved door handles, a new one-piece hood, custom roll pan, Billet Specialties side mirrors and custom billet taillights. The bed was lined with red oak separated by stainless steel strips, and a Billet Specialties gas filler was installed for the new rear-mounted 20-gallon fuel cell. Once the body was smoothed and primered, Wayne's painting pro, Bobby Currie, sprayed PPG's Candy Apple Red in-house. Interior upgrades were also accomplished internally, beginning with Lizard Skin sound deadening material applied everywhere inside to guarantee modern standards of quiet. Wayne's metal fabricator, Tom Bishton crafted the new custom dash, then filled it with Auto Meter gauges and a Vintage Air A/C unit. Tom's Upholstery in Haines City put the finishing touches on the Rod Doors seats, done in tan and buff colored Ultraleather with matching headliner and carpet. The custom door panels boast Nu-Relics power windows. Final touches were entertainment options like the Kenwood stereo, onboard navigation, and backup camera. Specifically designed to intrigue the younger members of Wayne's family, the stereo also features a few high-tech additions like iPod and MP3 capability along with three separate monitors.
Completed in early 2010, the "Truck in A Bucket" shed its less-than-pristine image and took on a new name, thanks to a photo shoot that put it into PPG's annual automotive calendar. The family's favorite '49 Chevy is now affectionately referred to as "Calendar Girl" and everyone wants to ride in it. Special thanks to Gene Rose, Dan Porter, and the staff at Haines City Paint and Body for their help in the transformation. CCT


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Matt Formisano scored on a put-back with three seconds left to give visiting Utah State a 61-59 lead over the UCSB men's basketball team Monday night. Gaucho guard Jordan Weiner missed a desperation shot from above the top of the key at the buzzer, and the Aggies held on for the win.
UCSB (1-1), which trailed Utah State (2-0) by as many as 12 points twice in the second half, rallied from a nine-point deficit with 4:15 to play. After Jaxon Myaer hit a three-pointer to give the Aggies a 59-50 lead, the Gauchos ran off nine straight points.
First, it was freshman center Greg Somogyi on an alley-oop slam dunk off a perfect feed from Powell. That cut the gap to 59-52 with 3:53 to go. After a pair of misses on the other end, forward Chris Devine was fouled on a rebound, sending him to the line for a one-plus-one. The senior made both free throws to make it 59-54 with 2:49 remaining.
On the next possession for the Aggies, Tyler Newbold missed a 10-foot jumper and Somogyi collected the rebound. He got the ball to Powell, who drove the baseline for a layup to make the score 59-54. Utah State's Myaer missed another jumper and D.J. Posley came down with the rebound. With 1:20 left, Powell missed a three-pointer in transition and Gary Wilkinson rebounded for the Aggies.
As Utah State was working into its offense, Posley fouled Jared Quayle on the perimeter, sending him to the line for a one-plus-one. Quayle missed the free throw, and when Somogyi rebounded, the Gauchos had another chance, but on the other end, Devine missed a layup and Wilkinson gathered his eighth rebound of the game.
After a timeout by the Aggies, with 31 seconds left, Posley came up with his third steal of the game and got the ball ahead to Powell. This time, the UCSB junior's three-point attempt found nothing but net, tying the score at 59-59 with 29 seconds left.
Utah State brought the ball in, and after working 20 seconds off the clock, called timeout with nine seconds to play, setting the stage for the miss by Wilkinson and the put-back by Formisano.
Santa Barbara played from behind almost the entire second half, taking its only lead at 41-39 with 12:47 left to play.
The Gauchos were led by Devine and Powell, who each had a game-high 14 points. Jesse Byrd had a career-high eight points, and he led UCSB with five rebounds. Utah State was paced by sophomore Tai Wesley, who had 12 points and eight rebounds before fouling out. Wilkinson and Myaer each added 11 points, and Wilkinson had eight boards.
As was the case in the season-opener against Cal State Los Angeles, the Gaucho freshmen played an important part in the game. Will Brew finished with two points, a game-high five assists and three steals. He was a defensive catalyst during the team's second half rally. Somogyi had four points, four rebounds and a blocked shot. Jaime Serna had two points and four rebounds, and James Nunnally had three-points and a pair of rebounds.
The Gauchos were outrebounded for the game, 36-25, but they forced the Aggies into 22 turnovers. UCSB had just 12 turnovers.
Santa Barbara returns to the court at 7 p.m. Friday, when it hosts No. 1 North Carolina at the Thunderdome. The game is sold out.
Bill Mahoney is a UCSB assistant director of athletics communications.


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'I Just Want Your Fresh Young Jimmy': A Girls Recap
The appropriate response to Girls, a television program about a bachelor who pretends to be gay in order to live with two attractive female roommates without arousing the suspicions of his conservative landlord, is to turn off the TV and read Capitalism and Schizophrenia on the toilet. But it's David Byrne's birthday, so here is a recap.
The only take on Girls that matters was written by Liz Phair in 1993:
I take full advantage
Of every man I meet
I get away
Almost every day
With what the girls call
What the girls call
What the girls call
The girls call murder
Episode Five of Girls was directed by Jesse Peretz, the son of racist pamphleteer Martin Peretz and sewing machine heiress Anne Labouisse Farnsworth Peretz. For those keeping score at home: Add Peretz to artist Laurie Simmons, playwright and filmmaker David Mamet, Bad Company drummer Simon Frederick St. George Kirke, newsman and Gawker correspondent Brian Williams, and former CBS News president Andrew Heyward as members of that elite club of proud wealthy powerful parents whose adorable children are enjoying creative play in the HBO sandbox.
We open with a preposterous fake quasi-inquisition: Brian Williams' daughter's penisless boyfriend is forcing Laurie Simmons' daughter to read aloud from her diary, in wherein she recorded precisely how penisless she regarded him to be. Brian Williams' daughter looks on. This is how Generation iPhone fights about shit: Honestly, openly, artificially. The penisless boyfriend stalks out, angrily.
Brian Williams' daughter wants him back though.
"I hate everyone who loves me," says Laurie Simmons' daughter, upset about something.
Laurie Simmons' daughter and the Drummer from Bad Company's daughter are walking down the street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (probably), arm-in-arm, as young ladies are wont to do, talking about their lives and feelings and generally supporting one another, womanly. Laurie Simmons' daughter complains that her boss is handsy. "Why don't you just fuck him?" says the Drummer from Bad Company's daughter. "For the story." Or the television episode.
Brian Williams' daughter, who has been dating the penisless boyfriend for five years, doesn't know where he lives. This unlikely circumstance comes in handy, dramaturgically speaking, as it necessitates an encounter between Brian Williams' daughter and the penisless boyfriend's cranky friend, eating up some time. Brian Williams' daughter wants to know where her penisless ex-boyfriend lives. The cranky friend, who is working at a coffee shop, reluctantly proffers the information, "because it's starting to smell like a bath and bodyworks in here."
Brian Williams' daughter finds her penisless ex-boyfriend's apartment, a tiny studio populated with stackable modular blonde wood structures whimsically arrayed. She is wearing like six-inch heels. They talk interminably. Over and over again, they say things to one another. "Please don't break up with me," she says, stiffly and with concentration. "Please just don't."
The Drummer from Bad Company's daughter wears a bathrobe everywhere she goes. She's going to fuck the old guy she works as a nanny for.
It is 2007. Oberlin College. God, remember 2007. Holy shit remember the Scissor Sisters! OMG. Things were so different then. God you used to wear your collar up, you dork!
They actually did this, on Girls, ironically. A flashback to 2007 when the penisless boyfriend and Brian Williams' daughter met in college. At a party. She ate a pot brownie but freaked out BECAUSE SHE IS SO UPTIGHT AND UNFUCKED BY A REAL MAN. The penisless boyfriend calmed her. The five years that elapsed between 2007 and 2012 constitute 20% of Laurie Simmons' daughter's life.
Laurie Simmons' daughter tries to fuck her boss. Nothing in the five extant episodes of this television program even comes remotely close to indicating that the character represented by Laurie Simmons' daughter would ever consider aggressively propositioning her boss, but there you go. For the story. Her boss laughs at her. She threatens to sue him for sexual harassment, on account of his handsiness.
"There's no suing app on your iPhone," he tells her. He makes a good point. Laurie Simmons' daughter quits. He tries to stop her. "You're great! You don't know how to do anything, but you have so much potential."
None of the foregoing makes any sense to the extent that this television program has established continuity or context. Think of it as a one-off sketch.
The Drummer From Bad Company's daughter fucks some guy. She is leaning out the window, and he is behind her. This is how the iPhone generation fucks. I see it all the time in Williamsburg, walking down the street. The guy she is fucking is an ex-boyfriend who just wanted to stay in touch and has already moved on to a serious relationship with 38-year-old lady. The Drummer From Bad Company's daughter just fucked him to make a point: "I cannot be smoted. I am unsmotable." Smote is the past tense of smite. Smitten?
The penisless boyfriend agrees to take back Brian Williams' daughter. They begin to have sex, almost fully clothed. So uptight, she is! Then she all of a sudden changes her mind and breaks up with the penisless boyfriend, while his penis is inside her.
Laurie Simmons' daughter visits the angry woodworking actor. He rejects her. She goes to the bathroom and cries (or makes a crying face with no actual tears, which looks STRANGE on the toilet). She emerges from the bathroom. He is on the bed masturbating. He asks her to verbally abuse him while he masturbates. She indulges him. He keeps masturbating. She demands money, and takes a $100 bill from him. He keeps masturbating. He asks her to step on his testicles with her feet. She yells at him, but doesn't step on his testicles with her feet. He ejaculates.
A grateful nation of twentysomethings rejoices that, at long last, a television artist commensurate with their febrile desires has emerged to chronicle the granular reality of their collective generational life in all its window-fucking, ball-crushing glory. Skrillex.
Watch this space for next week's recap of Girls.
Last week's Girls recap: 'I Just Want Some Skank'
Image by Jim Cooke


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Maroon Bells panoramic
Pre-dawn light graces the Maroon Bells
This is a 30-second exposure using a 10-stop neutral density filter on a 35 mm Nikkor f/2.0 lens.
First light on the Maroon Bells
Maroon Bells
and aspens, in their fullly-lit, fall glory!
false color infrared
The Maroon Bells, on an ideal fall morning
Winter chases fall: Maroon Bells
Taken a day apart from the preceding shot, we see how snow can change the visual dynamic in this composition.
A mountainside ablaze in color
Aspen Grove, Maroon Bells, Elk Range
Leaf in flight: fall color near the Maroon Bells
Fall color in the Elk Range
near the Maroon Bells
Time standing still
Crystal Mill
"The Crystal Mill is an 1892 wooden powerhouse located on an outcrop above the Crystal River in Crystal, Colorado. Although called a mill, it is more correctly denoted as a compressor station, which used a water turbine to drive an air compressor. The compressed air was then used to power other machinery or tools. Today it stands as a Colorado icon.
While it is often reputed to be the most photographed site in the state, this is logistically impossible, as compared to easily accessible and heavily visited Maroon Lake, near Aspen."
Actually - we had to rent an ATV to get there, through rain and snow! So much fun!
Crystal Mill as snow arrives in the midst of fall color
Zoom in and see the snow falling!
Crystal Mill on a sunny day.
Fall color and lingering clouds
McClure Pass
McClure Pass in infrared
Fall color near Granite
Fall color near Granite: infrared!
La Placita
Aspen tree wearing glasses
Aspen tree wearing glasses_take two
landscapes are not usually presented with a severely-limited depth of field, so here you go, at f1.8.
Mt. Sopris pastoral scene, as winter comes, chasing fall
four-shot panoramic capture.
Wouldn't you like this to be your driveway?
Mt. Sopris in the background


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Aretha Franklin was thankful to be alive and was thinking about lost friends, among them Whitney Houston.
Hours after she canceled an appearance at Houston's funeral because of spasms in her legs, the "Queen of Soul" (the "undisputed" Queen, the capacity audience was reminded by the show's announcer) was quick on her feet, feisty in voice and sentimental and sassy in spirit at Radio City Music Hall on Saturday night. It was the latest stop on a "greatest hits" tour featuring old favorites and, since Houston's shocking death a week ago, a tribute to the fallen singer. Franklin is close to Houston's family, and she said Houston called her "Aunt Ree."
Franklin herself was rumored a year ago to be mortally ill, hospitalized with an undisclosed illness and asking her fans worldwide to pray for her health. On Saturday, the 69-year-old looked young enough to joke about a man who had mistaken her for being in her 50s. She danced and shimmied, kicked off her heels and paced the stage barefoot, and even smirked and gave herself a couple of satisfied pats on the rear.
She looked back over a 50-year career and those who helped her along. Franklin praised the late Luther Vandross as she kicked off the R&B hit he co-wrote for her, "Get It Right." She introduced her most heartbreaking ballad, "Ain't No Way," with a brief word about her sister and the song's composer, Carolyn Franklin, who died in 1988. She sang the title from the classic Motown anthem of devotion, "You're All I Need To Get By," and two giant flat screens on opposite sides of the stage flashed a picture of one of the writers, Nick Ashford, who died last summer. Franklin then called out to Ashford's widow and songwriting partner, Valerie Simpson, among several friends and family members in attendance.
Houston's turn came during the second half of the roughly 100-minute concert, after Franklin had changed from a glittery green and silver caftan into a caftan of white and gold, and settled behind the piano and sketched out the words and melody to "I Will Always Love You." Softening Houston's all-time power ballad into a light, gospel reverie, Franklin paused to acknowledge the "homegoing" of "Nippy," Houston's nickname: More formally, "Miss Whitney Elizabeth Houston."
"She was a very fine young lady" and "one of the best, greatest singers," said Franklin, breaking back and forth between melody and spoken word, behind song and sermon. "She was giving, gave so much of herself."
"God bless you, Nippy," she concluded. "We'll always remember."
But no one, Houston included, has displaced Franklin at the top. No one would dare. Backed by a sprawl of percussionists, horns, keyboards, singers and dancers, she has absorbed and mastered so many styles, from pop and gospel to soul and jazz, that she can hold entire traditions within a single song. And she remains fearless about shaking up standards. Her breakthrough smash from 1967, "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" was changed from a smoldering ballad into a bluesy vamp. Franklin worked in a few digs about womanizing into the otherwise despondent "Ain't No Way" and stretched and scatted the words to "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman."
She had come to celebrate, to sell (Franklin urged the crowd, twice, to go to Walmart and buy her latest record) and to heal. "I hope that there's something I will sing, or I have sung, that will lift all of our heavy hearts today," she said near the beginning of the show.
The answer was obvious, especially after the closing numbers: an explosive "Spirit in the Dark," with Franklin leading the charge on piano; and the essential finale, "Respect," with a cameo from the Rev. Al Sharpton, who pulled off some James Brown strides, and even a few nimble steps from the Queen herself, whose heart and legs seemed to have lightened as she left the stage.


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Late last week, we wrote about the idea of Sony casting a non-white Peter Parker for their Spider-Man reboot. Then...a thing happened. And suddenly, Community actor Donald Glover has rallied the internet to his cause: getting him an audition.
If you'll recall, the original post asked the question: In the face of such underwhelming Caucasian options, why couldn't Spider-Man be played by an actor of color? In the comments — which ranged from encouraging to offensive, as one would expect — someone named "Rootadoo" suggested that Community actor Donald Glover would be perfect for the part. And then Donald Glover himself found out — and he's been tweeting up a storm: Over Memorial Day Weekend, #Donald4Spiderman was a top 10 trending topic. And then someone created a "Donald Glover 4 Spiderman" Facebook group. And it made the Washington Post and New York magazine, along with the standard coterie of comics sites.
Glover is quick to say that he doesn't just want to be given the job — which he'd be great for, incidentally — he wants to be able to audition for the job. Which was the whole friggin' point in the first place.


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PRIDE by Rosie Somers
Surge, Anaiah Press
Seventeen-year-old Gabriella Pierce is used to taking care of herself, but she's about to become responsible for a whole lot more. When she gets a visit from three men claiming to be defenders of fantastical rings imbued with the powers of THE CARDINAL SINS, her life is changed irrevocably.
Gabby is the steward of PRIDE
To make matters worse, she's falling hard for fellow steward, Grant Barnett, and he hates her guts. Now Gabby has to learn to protect Pride without letting her feelings for Grant get in the way.
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Book Links:
Add it on Goodreads! https:// www.goodreads.com/book/show/22365515-pride
Anaiah Press: http://www.anaiahpress.com
Author Bio:
Rosie Somers is a YA author who lives in Florida, soaking up the year round sunshine. She can often be found in her favourite spot on her favourite beach, nose-deep in a good book.
Website: http:// www.RosieSomers.blogspot.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProsyRosie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ ProsyRosie
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