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Friday, August 19, 2011
giveaway - gluten free on a shoestring cookbook
Every now and then you meet someone who really "gets" you. Nicole Hunn is one of those people for me. She's spunky, quirky, has a keen sense of humor, is not afraid of being honest, a beautiful smile, and she knows how to pinch a penny. Nicole and I have a very similar ideas about being gluten free on a budget. We have different ways of saving money, we each have our own favorite gluten free flours... but we know all about living within in our means -- or at least trying too!
Nicole's cookbook, Gluten Free on a Shoestring (named after her amazing blog), was published in February of this year and I must say it's been a smash hit! What I love about Nicole is her honesty. She's a home cook. She isn't a fancy restaurant chef. She's not trying to impress anybody... she just wants you to be comfortable and happy making gluten free meals that your whole family will love. She wants you to know you don't have to leave your old comfort foods behind. Nicole's book is packed with recipes like pizza dough, cheese crackers, plain bagels, macaroni and cheese, meat"love", and chicken pot pie. Desserts like yellow cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, and apple pie. These are the foods that people like me love, remember, and want again. I just want to make food that will make people happy. I'm really not interested in fancy. I'm not interested in expensive ingredients. I just want to make food that smiles and makes people ask for seconds!
Nicole does that for you. She makes it easy. She goes a step further than even I do, by showing you how to make all these amazing things with one gluten free flour mix. I choose to use a blend of 2/3 whole grains & 1/3 starches simply because that works better for my gluten & sugar intolerant body... but for most gluten free folks these recipes using Nicole's favorite Better Batter flour will be a saving grace.
And I have a special copy just for one of you! A beautiful, brand new signed copy of Nicole's amazing book!
Would you like a copy?
Simply check out the table of contents in Nicole's book. Leave me a comment here on the blog and tell me what the first recipe is that you would make and why. Then, if you'd like to have an additional entry, tell your friends on facebook or twitter about Nicole, or about her book, or about my blog and this giveaway -- then leave me another comment here on the blog and let me know how & where you shared!
This contest will be open through Friday August 26th at midnight. I'll announce the winner here on the blog on Saturday August 27th.
Now get cooking!
97 comments:
There are so many wonderful sounding recipes in this book that it is hard to decide which one I would try first. I think it would be the corn and zucchini fritters. They sound good and it is a nice way to use some of the zucchini from my garden.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 7:42 AM
It is very hard to pick the first recipe to try. The pasta dough is one I have been eager to make. I would like to be able to make pasta and not have to buy it.ReplyDelete
I'd love to try the Apple Cinnamon Toaster pastries!ReplyDelete
The first thing I would make is either the pizza dough or the cheese crackers!ReplyDelete
I would try the cinnamon rolls first because I have not found a good GF recipe for those yet! Your blog is SO appreciated.ReplyDelete
- KathleenAugust 19, 2011 at 8:32 AM
I'm always looking for pizza recipes!ReplyDelete
I would make either the sandwich bread of bagels.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 8:34 AM
Cinnamon Rolls !ReplyDelete
have never been able to resist them..
The apple-cinnamon toaster pastries are calling my name. It has been years since a pop-tart like treat!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 9:01 AM
I would make the Ricotta Pancakes because I have not found a pancake recipe that I absolutely love yet.ReplyDelete
Pizza Dough!! Because I've never made it from scratch before. I'm new to the world of GF, but already "real" pizza dough is what I miss most!ReplyDelete
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I'd like to try the Chicken En Croute...ReplyDelete
I would make the soft pretzels first. I just love soft pretzels.ReplyDelete
- AllysonAugust 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM
I'm always a sucker for pizza. I'm always looking for a good crust. But it was the wonton wrappers that caught my eye. My husband LOVES asian food. I'd love to be able to make wontons or egg rolls for him again!ReplyDelete
The banana blueberry muffins sound tasty! Thanks for sharing about the cookbook and I'd love to own a copy!ReplyDelete
I want to try the pizza dough and black bean hummus!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 10:40 AM
I think the first thing I'd try would either be the sourdough bread or the bagels. There are so many that sound great though!ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 10:48 AM
Well for me I would have to say the bagels, well maybe the bread, actually I would have to make everything in chapter 5 right away because around here we love our bread!!! Books looks great and will 6 GF people in the family we could sure use this :)ReplyDelete
I would love to try the gluten free cinnamon rolls on page 76. Yum!! Thank you for the giveaway.ReplyDelete
Chocolate chip butter cookies sound wonderful!!ReplyDelete
Just shared this on my facebook page.ReplyDelete
Devils food cake and brownie pie because I want chocolate. A lot of chocolate (I am either hormonal or got enough gluten on monday to trigger some depression and chocolate is better for me than a whopper with fries).ReplyDelete
Oh wow! So many to choose from! I am going to have to go with the wonton wrappers, because I SOOO miss stuffed wontons and dumplings! YUM!ReplyDelete
Most of these things I make already, but I'd love to try my hand at gougeres!ReplyDelete
I shared this on Twitter!ReplyDelete
And Facebook!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Wow, they all sound great. I can't pick one so I'll pick two -baked eggplant and the banana cream pie.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 11:42 AM
I looked at the recipe book you are giving away. The very first thing I would try would be the sweet pastry crust. My sons love pie, but they don't like the after effects of gluten, so I can't wait to win the book and try all the recipes!ReplyDelete
Carrie, I have a question. I clicked on the link for the flour mix, and instead of the recipe I was expecting, it sent me to a place where I can buy the flour. :( That doesn't seem very "shoestring" to this mother of five!! After nearly ten years of g.f. baking and cooking, I have developed my own flour mix that works for virtually everything, and it really IS shoestring! I make up a batch of about 22 cups of flour mix and go through it virtually every week! My mix costs me roughly $6-7 for about five pounds. If I had to buy 5 lbs of flour mix weekly from the recommended site, that would be $20+ and would blow my budget through the roof.ReplyDelete
I know it takes all kinds of cookbooks to satisfy all kinds of cooks, but I guess my concern is that, as a mother of a large family who really IS on a shoestring, it seems to base an entire cookbook on a pricey flour mix is self-defeating. And I have concerns that, since mixes are really individualized, that her recipes wouldn't work with my mix. Know what I mean?
I am totally *NOT* knocking the author or the cookbook; I love the idea of down-home cooking... I hope you understand.
I've been following her blog for a little while and have been really wanting to try ALL THE BREADS! the french bread, english muffins, bagels.. all these are things my husband hates being gluten free.. i am not finding anything he likes!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 11:53 AM
Ok, I would definitely try the cinnamon rolls! I haven't found a good recipe yet. :-) (Josh Jen Weiss - Facebook)ReplyDelete
Bagels! I miss them SO much!ReplyDelete
- Shari ReganAugust 19, 2011 at 11:55 AM
Wow, hard to choose, too many that look good, but I think maybe the Chicken & Dumplings.ReplyDelete
Karen Joy - It's a good point. One thing I've learned in this big, vast gluten free blogging world of ours is that each of us have a different method of saving money for our families. I personally am not a fan of the better batter flours, not for simplicity's sake but because my body can't handle the onslaught of starches -- but I also know that's just one opinion out of too many to count... and I know MANY people would rather spend a little more money buying an already "premade" mix than create their own, even if it would be a more frugal option either because they don't have the time or the space to save a lot of different flours on their own... So I get the need to buy a mix like this and honestly if I was able to find one that met my dietary needs I'd probably try it out and stick with it if I liked it. Nicole's a genius for coming up with the recipes she has and even though I may not exactly agree with her choice of flour, I think her cookbook is a great choice for people who are brand new to this journey and need a place to start and recipes that will please their palate like the old flour they are used too would. I'm glad you shared your thoughts and I do heartily agree there are more frugal options... but I know different things for different people! :-) Glad you chimed in!ReplyDelete
I'd be all over those wonton wrappers! I've been craving chinese food like wontons, dumplings and crab rangoons since I started the gluten-free lifestyle! They sound so yummy right now!ReplyDelete
I would probably start up with the "Traditional Hummus", I have never tried fresh homemade hummus!! Then of course I would move on maybe to a main dish. It so hard you have so many wonderful recipes to choose from!!! I'm going to pass this on to my friends~We have a small support gluten free support group!!ReplyDelete
- JessicaDAugust 19, 2011 at 12:03 PM
I would make the wonton wrappers because I SO miss crab rangoon. I need this cookbook! :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 12:04 PM
Since I love my desserts, I'd have to say the Devils Food cake but really I'd like to make the whole meal from the books recipes!ReplyDelete
I would most definitely make Nicole's Cinnamon Rolls. I miss them the most!!! A delicious, fresh from the oven sticky bun with maybe some cream cheese icing - pure heaven!ReplyDelete
POPOVERS! i knew immediately when i saw the book's cover what i would make first. popovers are a childhood favorite of mine that i've yet to master GF.ReplyDelete
I would try the sweet pie crust recipe; since going gluten free I've yet to find a pie crust I'm happy with and we miss our pies! The Cinnamon Raisin or English Muffin breads also look really yummy!ReplyDelete
- MelindaAugust 19, 2011 at 12:17 PM
Oh, I can't decide. Cinnamon Rolls look yummy and so does the sourdough bread. I miss sourdough bread.ReplyDelete
Coffee cake - definitely coffee cake. Hopefully with cinnamon and maybe a struesel topping? Because that is the one thing I miss the most, is a good breakfast-y sweet starchy something to have with my coffee.ReplyDelete
i would definitely try the cinnamon rolls - my gf husband would be beyond grateful to have them back in his life! :)ReplyDelete
I'd love to try the cinnamon roll recipe.ReplyDelete
I'd love to try the cinnamon roll recipe.ReplyDelete
So many yummy sounding recipes but I the one thing I absolutely love is bread pudding, so I would try that first. It is my number 1 comfort food.ReplyDelete
It's going to be the perfect time of year to try the apple cake recipe! We live in New England and by the end of next month I'll have macintosh apples coming out of my ears lol!ReplyDelete
(Carrie when are you going to do a GF cookbook?) ; )
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:03 PM
I would try Nicole's pizza crust first. I have never been able to fix a gluten-free pizza crust that tastes like the real thing. Most times it's either too think or it crunches like a potato chip.ReplyDelete
This sounds like an excellent cookbook! I would love to win it and try out some of the recipes.
Sherri W.
Ricotta pancakes!!!ReplyDelete
I miss eating pancakes!!
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:05 PM
I would try Nicole's pizza crust first. I have never been able to fix a gluten-free pizza crust that tastes like the real thing. Most times it's either too think or it crunches like a potato chip.ReplyDelete
This sounds like an excellent cookbook! I would love to win it and try out some of the recipes.
Sherri W.
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM
First of all, I'm excited to find your blog - and I wouldn't have without this giveaway. I got here via the FB post from GF on a Shoestring. Great blog, from one GF Carrie to another :)ReplyDelete
Peeked at the table contents (confess that I've been meaning to look at the cookbook but haven't had the time - busy GF mom) and it's hard to choose. First thought was Won Ton wrappers - it would be great fun to make some asian style rolls & won tons, boy do I miss those. Then I saw the Corn & Zuchinni Fritters. They sound fantastic and in season, but honestly, I can't resist what I miss most of all being GF - Cinnamon Rolls. The memory of my grandma's incredible homemade cinnamon rolls reigns supreme and I'd love to try this recipe to see how it compares.
I look forward to explore your past posts and following the new ones. Thanks for your hard work spreading a good GF word.
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:19 PM
The first thing I would make would be the Perfect Yellow Cupcakes, followed by all the other cupcake recipes; as I would love to start up my own cupcake business:)ReplyDelete
- Amy FloydAugust 19, 2011 at 1:21 PM
This book looks great with recipes I can see myself actually cooking! I think I would have to start with the pumpkin chocolate chip bars, especially with pumpkin season right around the corner. (firstname.lastname@example.com)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:23 PM
As Nicole says... "Bread, Glorious Bread!" I would try any of those recipes first. Since being diagnosed, i have missed the taste of "real" bread and haven't found a great substitute.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the opportunity.
Sincerely, Julie
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 1:24 PM
I gladly posted this link on my FB page (Caroline Chromy Gort) and after I have a chance to try some recipes I'll share them on my GF FB page - Doesn't Taste Gluten Free - where I post recommendations of GF items & recipes that don't taste GF.ReplyDelete
Carrie Gort
what an awesome book! i'm struggling to choose which recipe i'd start with - probably sweet pastry dough as i haven't made a pie crust yet that i like. or butter milk biscuits. or the apple-cinnamon toaster pastries. or lentil sloppy joes. i can't decide!ReplyDelete
- Brandy VAugust 19, 2011 at 1:40 PM
I would try the apple cinnamon toaster pastries if I had to pick just one recipe. These sound like a great quick on the go breakfast item for the family and I am the only one gluten free-they won't have to know..ReplyDelete
cool! looking thru the table of contents, I'd try the Pate A choux! I would love to make that GF.ReplyDelete
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Potato Bread! Oh how I miss that!ReplyDelete
I would love to try the banana blueberry muffin recipe. Why? Because I'm new to the gluten free/milk free/soy free/egg free diet that my 14mo old daughter was recently diagnosed as needing. I am desperate for recipes that won't break our bank account.ReplyDelete
I'd totally rock the wonton wrappers... I miss crab rangoons like crazy!!ReplyDelete
Cinnamon Raisin Bagels are calling my name......ReplyDelete
Pizza Crust! My family LOVES Pizza, but with being gf it is difficult for me to find a pizza crust recipe that they enjoy that doesn't take me all day to 'create'.ReplyDelete
Well, I think it will have to be wonton wrappers and banana cream pie.I know that's 2 choices, but I can't chose any less.ReplyDelete
I can't wait to get to the cook once a week and once a month section too.
Wow! That's a hard choice. I think it would have to be the potato gnocchi though. I love gnocchi and have been wanting some for a long time. Sounds completely delicious!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 5:25 PM
One of the things I miss the most being gluten-free are the delicious gnocchis I grew up eating made by my very Italian grandmother. So, hands down, the first recipe I'd try from Nicole's book would be the ricotta gnocchis. The focaccia also sounds amazing. And the perfect chocolate birthday cake is a recipe I'll be requesting when my special days comes around this fall.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 5:47 PM
so many goodies to choose from! i'm going with the perfect yellow cupcakes though- yum :)ReplyDelete
Carrie, thank you for the honest response. And, yes, I'm with you. I love me some whole grains. We just eat SO MUCH from scratch and if it was all "white" flours, our health would be hurting, in a hurry! Still. Kudos to her for making such a lovely cookbook, and it IS filled with a number of things that I've not seen elsewhere, and I have about 15 g.f. cookbooks (plus about 15 more non-g.f.)!!ReplyDelete
(((hugs)))) Karen! I know what you mean, I think I must be a cookbook collector although that was never a distinct intention of mine! lol!!ReplyDelete
I would LOVE this cookbook! It's a tie between the coffeecake and the soft pretzel. . . . oh how I miss soft pretzels!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2011 at 8:23 PM
cinnamon rolls,definitelyReplyDelete
Hands down, it would be the popovers. Oh, how I have missed popovers. . . . . and then Irish Soda bread, . . . . . and then Gougeres . . .. .oh, you only asked for one.ReplyDelete
The chocolate chip butter cookies are my first choice. Pizza dough, coffee cake and cinnamon rolls are next! I miss all of those so much!ReplyDelete
For me it would be the sourdough starter, followed up by the sourdough bread. That is the one thing I've missed the most since going gluten free. And the one person in the area that I know makes gluten free sourdough bread.... doesn't make it taste like sourdough bread. Not even close. Something I'm saddened by.ReplyDelete
Here are a few words from Nicole about using Better Batter vs. other GF all purpose flour mixes and her recipes: "Although I use and recommend Better Batter, in the book and on the blog I make it a point to stress that my recipes can be made with ANY gluten-free flour blend that is truly 'all-purpose.' If she has a blend that works for everything, then it would work in all my recipes that call for an all-purpose gluten-free flour. I think that's an important distinction. It's not a Better Batter cookbook. It's an all-purpose gluten-free flour blend of-your-choice cookbook."ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 20, 2011 at 6:39 AM
the first thing I would make from this cookbook is the pate a choux - that dough is so versatile and I could make alot of the French pastries I've been missing out onReplyDelete
I "shared" this on the "support group" I started on Facebook.ReplyDelete
If I win this book, the first thing that I will make is the chicken pot pie, which is something that I have not successfully mastered since going gluten free. The very next morning I will make the pumpkin bread!ReplyDelete
I shared information about this on Twitter and Facebook.ReplyDelete
Sweet potato biscuits. I love sweet potato and it sounds unique.ReplyDelete
- shawna/ firstname.lastname@example.com 21, 2011 at 2:39 PM
So i have to say this book is amazing for us gfer's! I hope to buy a copy if im not picked because there are too many great recipes that you just cannot find...! That being said my pick is the lentil sloppy joe's...how super delish do those sound. I would pair it with the irish soda bread which i have been obsessed with and have not found a yummy recipe yet....bon appetit!!!ReplyDelete
I'd like to try the soft pretzels. Yum! I haven't had one in forever.ReplyDelete
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The Pate a Choux recipe on pg. 49 because it's the closest thing to puff pastry, which we have tried to make GF in this house and failed at! Lots of other great looking choices, too, though!ReplyDelete
I posted a link recommending Nicole's book on my facebook page. Thanks for the extra entry! :-)ReplyDelete
I would make Cheese Crackers first. I used to LOVE cheese crackers and have been able to make a lot of other gluten free things but have yet to experiment with making crackers.ReplyDelete
Hmm.. I think I would try making the potato gnocchi. At my favorite italian restaurant I would always order (before being diagnosed) a creamy tomato basil gnocchi dish. My gosh it was delicious. I can already imagine light fluffy potato pasta balls swimming in chicken and alfredo sauce.ReplyDelete
BANANA PANCAKE MUFFINS i need to get the recipe for that in the book!! <3ReplyDelete
So many recipes to choose from, but right now I am craving the cinnamon apple toaster pastries and the sweet and sour chicken. YUM!!!ReplyDelete
I'd love to try the Banana Cream Pie with Graham Cracker Crust, because this sounds delicious!ReplyDelete
Chicken. Pot. Pie. Love it!!ReplyDelete
WONTON WRAPPERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDelete
This book looks wonderful! Having just moved to NYC (husband starting graduate school) I definitely need the "shoestring" part of the book! The asian sauces sound delicious - sweet and sour, chinese hot sauce, and hoisin! I'd love to make all of those myself.ReplyDelete
Sandwich Bread. Or bagels, lol.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 26, 2011 at 10:28 PM
I would like to make the cinnamon rolls. I miss the cinnabon ones and would really like to solve my cravings.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousAugust 26, 2011 at 11:23 PM
Love cookbooks and would love this one..I would like to try and make bagels..great for breadkfastReplyDelete
It would have to be the chicken pot pie! I used to love them as a girl and because of my gluten allergy, I haven't had one in years! Mmmmmm, the creamy gravy, the flaky crust! Sounds heavenly!!!ReplyDelete
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ROCKFORD - A former public official's private property will soon be purchased for public use.
Winnebago County Forest Preserve District commissioners voted 4-2 Tuesday in favor of an agreement to buy a vast wetland owned by Kathy Wise Winters and former state Rep. Dave Winters. Commissioners Randy Olson and Cheryl Maggio voted against. Gloria Lind was absent.
The property spans more than 520 acres at the confluence of the Sugar and Pecatonica rivers in Shirland. It's home to several threatened plant species and about 150 species of birds. It is a migratory stop for the federally endangered whooping crane.
"It's absolutely the most important piece of property we could have possibly gotten," said Commissioner Audrey Johnson, who leads the board's land acquisition committee.
A grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation and a donation from Ray and Char Ferguson
will be used to purchase the property. No tax dollars will be used.
Ray, a Rockford attorney and Char, a former teacher, have a history of supporting the district. The two both support Macktown Living History, located at the Macktown Forest Preserve, Ray as president of the board and Char as a volunteer education coordinator. In 2007, Ferguson purchased a 76-acre farmland near Pecatonica and held it until it could be turned over to the district at cost. The land expanded Seward Bluff Forest Preserve. Ray grew up on a farm in northwest Winnebago County and both believe firmly in preserving land along waterways for wildlife habitat and for people to enjoy.
"We've been looking for a long time for something special that would be important enough to contribute to," Char said. "It's a very unique property."
The district will pay $1,904 an acre for the land per the agreement, Executive Director Mike Holan said. A final survey of the land will determine total acreage, which is between 522 acres and 526 acres, he said. That would bring the total cost to about $1 million.
The majority of the land cannot be developed whether the district purchased it or not. That's because about 460 acres are secured in the Department of Agriculture's Wetland Reserve Program. The federal government paid Dave and Kathy Winters about $937,000 in late 2003 to compensate them for turning cropland into a natural area. They decided to sell the land because they are divorcing.
Olson said the land's protected status and the unknown long-term costs to maintain it and open it to the public led to his no vote.
"We have to comply with handicap parking, we have to maintain trails," Olson said. "That cost is an unknown right now. It could run into hundreds of thousands of dollars."
Holan said it should cost less than $5,000 in man hours to maintain the property, which will include mowing, prescribed burns and storm cleanup. The district will pursue grants and sponsorships to fund construction of a parking lot, he said.
The district wanted to purchase the land, despite its already protected status, so it can open the property to birders and other nature lovers. District officials expect it to be a tourist attraction, especially for bird watchers because of the rare avian species on site.
"Birders from all over the country will come, I guarantee it," Johnson said. "It will be the finest piece that we've acquired in a long, long time."
The property likely won't open to the public until 2015 after the district can build parking, Holan said.
It will be the second-largest acreage purchased in the district's history, behind the 784-acre Blackhawk Springs acquisition in 1978. The purchase pushes the district's total holdings beyond 10,000 acres.
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The celebration took place at Pittsburgh's SouthSide Works, where the $13-million J&L Tunnel project will soon become the latest Phase One project to increase the vertical clearance on CSX rail lines to accommodate trains carrying double-stack intermodal containers. Phase One, creating double-stack rail access between CSX's intermodal terminal in Northwest Ohio and its new modern intermodal terminal in Chambersburg, Pa., is scheduled to be completed by spring 2013 and will enable more freight to move through the region on the same number of trains.
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The annual drill is a great opportunity for you to practice your tornado safety procedures. You may not always be in the comforts of your home where you have everything planned out what to do. Today when the outdoor warning devices are tested and the Weather Alert Radios go off, you are encouraged to practice your tornado shelter plans. If you are in a place where you do not know the plans, then ask your boss, or ask someone at the front desk or cash register of a business. Take those few minutes to find out, where would everyone go if a tornado warning was issued. If you don't know, ask so you are armed with that knowledge. Preparedness is one key to prevention.
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1) Tornado Sirens – are OUTDOOR warning devices. They are NOT meant to be heard in doors. Granted, some of you can and do hear them, however, you should not rely on them as a primary means of alerting. (I have attached an information sheet to this email on Outdoor Warning Sirens). You should consider investing in:….
2) A NOAA All Hazards Weather Radio – these devices can be purchased in various places. The great thing about these is you can program them to a specific area. This way, you only have to listen to the alerts issued for your county or place of interest. They will sound for watches and warnings. They have battery backup in the event you lose power. Additionally, they make portable radios that you can take with you camping, hiking, fishing, boating, etc. You can always be prepared and stay alert to rapidly developing and changing weather situations.
3) Sheltering in a:
a. Building – NO matter what the building is (with the exception of mobile homes), if there is not a designated storm shelter, go to the center part of the building on the lowest floor (basement if you have access to one). Put as many walls between you and the storm as possible. If you get caught in a grocery store, shopping center, gas station, etc. ask them where they shelter. It doesn't hurt to ask them ahead of time, especially if you frequent them often.b. Mobile Homes – Most mobile homes are not built to withstand winds in excess of 75 mph. If you live in a mobile home, locate your nearest shelter and plan to go there in the event of tornadic weather or severe thunderstorms with winds in excess of 75 mph.c. Car – If at all possible, leave the car and go into a shelter. If that is not option, then exit the vehicle, lie down in a ditch and cover your head. If there are no ditches, then make sure you are buckled in your vehicle, duck down as low as possible and cover your head. If you pull off to the side of the road, make sure you do not park under power poles, trees, or other objects that can topple over on the vehicle.d. At the lake – If you get caught at a lake or a campsite, find the best possible place to shelter yourself from flying debris, get low and cover your head. Find something to hang onto. Learn how to recognize a tornado. If you see debris swirling around (also known as a debris cloud), it is a tornado. Attached to this email is a brochure discussing severe weather at a lake/campsite.4) Tornado Watch – A Tornado Watch means that conditions are favorable for severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes. You should keep your eye on the weather and be alert to rapidly changing conditions.
5) Tornado Warning – A Tornado Warning means that severe thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes are either occurring or expected to occur at anytime. I have also attached brochures with tornado warning information and what to do if you are at a school, in a mobile home or vehicle, and if you are puzzled by a tornado warning. Contrary to the beliefs of some, this is not the time to go out and start taking photos. If you are not already in a shelter, you should get their immediately. If you are waiting for the outdoor warning (tornado) sirens to sound, you have waited to long.
6) Get Educated – Attend a severe weather safety/storm spotter training. Learn what you are looking at and how to be prepared. Chance Hayes with the National Weather Service office in Wichita will be conducting a public severe weather safety program that is free to the public on Saturday, March 9th, 10:00 am at the Civic Center in El Dorado. For other available trainings in Butler County, you can visit http://www.butlercoema.org/6852/index.html. For additional trainings offered by the National Weather Service across the South Central area, visit their website at: http://www.crh.noaa.gov/ict/?n=spottertalks
While ultimately we hope for a quite severe weather season that brings us plenty of moisture, you still need to be prepared and educated for severe weather. We encourage you to share this information with your friends and family. It's better to be educated and know how to stay safe rather than become a statistic.


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We're working on getting public comic listings back, and many other things too.
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An Ontario County jury has found Rose Chase guilty of murdering her husband.
After a six-month investigation last year into her son's disappearance, the arrest of his wife last December for murder and a trial spanning two weeks, Silvia Chase said, "justice has been done."
An Ontario County jury on Friday found Rose Chase, of Stanley, guilty of second-degree murder in the death of her husband, Adam Chase, in June 2012. Rose was also found guilty of tampering with physical evidence and endangering the welfare of a child.
"My son can rest," Silvia said. " … He was a great father and an excellent guy. He always cared for other people."
The verdict came after five days of testimony by witnesses that included Silvia, numerous officers from the Ontario County Sheriff's Office, a forensic anthropologist and Rodney Miller, a private investigator and friend of the Chase family who investigated Mr. Chase's disappearance.
"I'm elated," Miller said. "She got what she deserved. We had to fight to get what we got."
Silvia credited Miller for his efforts.
"Without Rodney, we would not be here today because he was the one who found (Adam)," Silvia said. "He never gave up."
Ontario County District Attorney R. Michael Tantillo also praised Miller for his "doggedness" in his investigation.
"I have had cases before where private investigators are the ones that have actually developed a criminal case, but not in anything like this, and this is probably a fairly rare circumstance," said Tantillo, who also credited Mr. Chase's family for "keeping the pressure on" Rose.
Silvia said that after her son went missing last June, she knew something wasn't right.
"Call it a mother's intuition, but something was definitely wrong," she said.
Silvia testified during the trial that following her son's disappearance, rallies attended by friends and family were held in front of his and Rose's home on Mott Road and a Facebook page was set up, asking if anyone had seen him.
After being charged Dec. 14, 2012 with second-degree murder, Rose was indicted in February. The indictment alleged that Rose intentionally caused Mr. Chase's death on or about June 14, 2012. It further alleged that she transported his body from their residence to 4675 Hagerty Road in Potter, Yates County, and concealed it there before ultimately burning the body at that location.
During the trial, the jury viewed an interview of Rose conducted Dec. 13, 2012 by sheriff's office Investigators Lee Martin and John Falbo. In the interview, Rose stated that on June 14, 2012, she and Mr. Chase were involved in what began as an argument and turned into a physical altercation at their home, and that Mr. Chase fell down the stairs. She also stated that she dragged his body to the top of the basement stairs and pushed his body down into the basement.
Sentencing has been scheduled for Jan. 15, 2014.
Tantillo said Rose faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder charge, and could receive an additional 1 1/3 to four years in prison for the tampering charge.


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hey does anyone know if someone made/sell one of these? It would look similar to the vert mod that Luke does to the SS body classic/minimag body but only done to a ULE WL/WR. Thanks in advance!
hey does anyone know if someone made/sell one of these? It would look similar to the vert mod that Luke does to the SS body classic/minimag body but only done to a ULE WL/WR. Thanks in advance!
I've never seen it done, why not just get a vert body?
I don't think a copper elbow is a viable solution.
Well one, it wont gravity feed at a 90* angle.
Copper elbows are not machined to a standard.
Most copper elbows are bent and out of round.
Did you measure the copper elbows to see if they are the proper size for an Angel thread?
What type of clamp will you use to attach your hopper?
It will be pretty much impossible to thread an elbow to tighten down at the exact angle you want on the marker so you will need to come up with some type of thread lock to hold it in position.
How about using a PTP warp adapter?
Warp adapter is a better idea than copper; but no matter what you use, when you put a full hopper on it and run, chances are it's going to twist off there.
Just a thought, but maybe (if you have an rt rail with the holes tapped for a sight rail) you could mod one of the PTP 90* warp elbows with some sort of bracket to attatch to those screw holes to stabilize it? You's still probably want to make some way for the hopper to sit tight in the adapter without it falling out though.
But even if you attach the hopper in a manner in which it won't twist, how is the paint supposed to feed? It will be very unreliable, even if you use a force-feed.
Warp adapter is one way and then I can use a Lapco clamping feedneck to mount the hopper to the adapter. I was just wanting to see if there is a more polished solution.
Essentially I want to make a aluminum version of the Luke's vert modded minimal body.
How about getting XMT to mill a vert ULE body in a similar manner to what he did here? With a locktited clamping feedneck and force feed hopper, you don't need the hopper sitting straight up.
so you looking to something ken did but with clamping neck on it???
how hard would it to mod a warp ule body to fit one of these?
or this?
I dont see how you will ever get a reliable feed with the balls entering the breach at 90*. You will have to rock the marker sideways with a gravity feed hopper to load the balls.
For what it is worth I emailed XMT a while back about milling a custom "classic feed" ULE body. He was buried under other projects at the time, but was not against working on the project. You may want to PM him regarding the same. I've been busy with other projects so I haven't followed up on it in a while.
heres is another option:
it will offset the hopper
depending on what hopper you were to use with the lapco feed neck and ptp warp adapter chances are the hopper will rotate forward or backwards while running and gunning? risk dumping or breaking the hopper?
I used an old Ricochet Apache loader on a warp left ULE body with a parabolic warp feed adapter, a few times. It fed reliably enough unless the paint was low but I couldn't stand it. It felt like the hopper was blocking my vision too much and weighed the gun too much to the left to be comfortable.
A good force feed hopper will make any bends or horizontal feed zones irrelevant for the most part. Like the others said, though, you might need to brace the adapter if it twists too easily. Mine rotated when full of paint and if jarred too much. That was another reason I abandoned that particular set up for something more traditional.
Have you considered a Warpless mod? I'm not a huge fan of the Warp, but the WarpLESS seemed intriguing.


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By Ed Patino
QUINCY � Injuries are starting to catch up with the Hillsdale High School girls soccer team.
Playing shorthanded, the Hornets could not muster enough attack and were defeated 2-0 by the Quincy Orioles in an Independent Soccer League match Monday.
Hillsdale was swept in the regular season series by Quincy (7-2, 5-1 ISL). The Orioles posted a 5-1 victory last month at the Fields of Dreams Complex.
Already thin in numbers, the Hornets suffered a couple more injuries during Monday's game.
"We've been racked by injuries all season, and we had a couple of bad ones tonight," Hillsdale coach Michael Mitchell said. "It was a rough night for us, but the girls have been playing hard through it all season."
The Orioles pressured the Hillsdale defense all night, out shooting the Hornets 30-3. Whitney Hodge finished with 28 saves in goal for the Hornets.
"(Hodge) played excellent tonight," Quincy coach Tim Hart said. "We controlled the ball all night but couldn't finish. The positive aspect of that is, we were in position to make the play."
Quincy's first goal came at the 367:06 mark as Kenzie Moore scored on an assist from Cailyn Hines. Hines then scored an unassisted goal at the 34:35 mark to give the Orioles the 2-0 victory.
"We were very aggressive all night" Hart said.
Hillsdale will play its final home game of the season Thursday when it host Jackson Christian.
Girls Tennis
Lansing Christian 6, Hillsdale 2
The Hillsdale High School girls tennis team dropped its second straight match Monday with a loss to the Jackson Christian Royals.
Alexis Michael and Jamee Thompson gave Hillsdale (3-2, 2-2 SMITL) its victories. Michael defeated Jackson Christian's Jessica Granger 6-1, 6-3 at No. 1 singles, while Thompson posted a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 win over Gweneth Wertz at No. 2 singles.
Four of the eight matches on the day went the full three sets.
Hillsdale will visit Kalamazoo Comstock today, then host the Southern Michigan Independent Tennis League meet on Thursday.
Boys Golf
SCAA Jamboree
Chip Blood led the Hillsdale Academy boys golf team to a 10-stroke victory in a Southern Central Athletic Association jamboree Monday at Cedar Creek Golf Club in Battle Creek. The Colts shot a team score of 160, beating second-place Jackson Christian which had 170.
Blood carded a round of 34 to lead the Colts and earn event medalist honors. He had five birdies on the day, including on all three par-5 holes.
Alex Wood added a round of 42 for Hillsdale Academy, while Hunter Murray carded a 44. Collin Hubbard shot a 47 and Adam Krutsch posted a 52.
The Colts will host the final SCAA jamboree next Monday at the Hillsdale Golf Club.
Shorthanded Hornets fall to Quincy


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Bunny, I have a request for you;
Im looking for anno ideas. Right now, im looking for a dust black to silver fade, although im open to suguestions.
Thanks in advance.
bunny you are an amazing artist. not to mention a plain good person doing this for people. You rock HARD!
spwz99: Thanks man!!
My computer just blew its motherboard So I won't have my graphics computer for a while. As soon as I have my computer back online I'll work on some more PS's
hey, when you have time i need 2 photoshops done.. i need this gun done 2 diffrent ways.. first is the body, rail, trigger frame and batt. pack done in a really dark dust olive.. and the rest of the gun ( x valve, trigger, feedneck, barrel, grips, detent and eye covers in gloss black) the second one i want done is the same as the first one exept the olive parts are gloss dark olive and black acidwash... and the black parts stay the same.. thanks..
Bunny if you got time can you can you do an Emag with a dust pewter to dust clear anno with clear accents.
Can I get the following in a photoshop?
Recon rail ('07 if possible)
X Valve
Exile Body w/ Sub Zero feed
Logic UMF Frame
Dye Sticky 3's
CP Direct Mount ASA (on the UMF's Built in Rail)
CP Barrel Kit
No Foregrip
All in Super Glossy Black?
can you do this gun but take the flames off the top and do everything black, and make the feedneck green and trigger green.... (bright green)
Originally Posted by paintball_fiend
I love how nothing on these guns looks out of place. It all flows very well.
could i get the dm3 possibly in a red-clear-black fade or a rasta fade w/ and w/ out the pot leaves
RESSURECTION!Originally Posted by dustin1
yah, you're pretty much a photoshopic genius. i love that link you provided, in a few minutes I knew what my mag would look like red blue or green! any advice on how to make it look better with the lighter colors? I tried yellow and it looked terrible and not even close to natural.Originally Posted by bunny5
Mega Update: Recently was asked to do a photoshop Cough*DevilMan* I went back to this thread and realized that all of my photoshops were still here. Thanks to Jayloo.com of course... But I felt like "uping" this thread incase anyone wants to make some more requests.
If you do want to make a request be sure to give details of what you want to see and maybe a picture of the marker as well. You can PM me as well.
Now the eye candy...
i like the MSI theme
t33kyboy "So if a cat is dropped from 11 inches, it will most likely die."
Was bored:
Made it for our website (site is under construction):
Heiliger Bimbam: I like your style. Feel free to post up some more work that you created!!
MCB: My first post on their boards... I have no idea what kind of paintball gun it is. lol. Carter?
^Weird Duckslide variant??
Custom Punisher Phantom. I saw that today on MCB (I think).Originally Posted by Texas Trigger
Here's a really simple request, is there any way you could swap the purple parts on this S6 to lime green?
(This kind of shade )
Also, the barrel back in black would be awesome. That might not be doable due to the flash burn, I'm not an expert on photo editing. Depending on how it looks, it might become reality on my CCM.
Thanks a lot, man.
mtaylor:Edit-Just realized it was a different barrel tip. Hope this helps though!!
Last edited by bunny5; 09-03-2008 at 05:54 PM.
Thank you... very much. That's gonna have to happen.
mtaylor: Post up a picture when you get it done!!
I ran into a few of my old photoshops and realized that jayloo still had them posted online. I'm so glad they were able to be restored...
I'm a bit bored since I got ditched tonight so I have some free time. If anyone needs any photoshops done, feel free to post a descriptive comment with a picture and i'll attempt to photoshop.
I'm a little rusty though. I have to relearn all my keyboard shortcuts from PC to Mac....


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NEW YORK - With a 3-3 tie at the break to the visiting Manhattan Jaspers, the Columbia lacrosse offense caught fire in second half scoring four straight goals in the opening three minutes to jump out to a commanding lead. The Lions would never trail in the game and behind hat tricks from Katie Angulo (4), Kacie Johnson and Kelly Buechel, Columbia captured a 15-5 victory in its final home game of the season on Friday, April 26.
Before the opening draw, Columbia honored seniors Kelly Buechel and Kacie Johnson. Johnson put together a fantastic final home performance with a game-high six points, including three goals and three assists.
Post Game Interviews: Kacie Johnson Interview | Kelly Buechel Interview
The Lions offense struggled to find its grove in the first half, however the defense remained strong. First-year Colleen Packer posted seven saves in the net and the team collectively forced 11 Jasper turnovers. The Class of 2013 carried the first half scoring with Johnson and Buechel both scoring goals. Johnson also tallied an assist when Katie Angulo found the back of the net.
Columbia dominated the second half scoring eight unanswered goals through thirteen minutes of play. At 17:06, the Lions led 11-4 after Johnson scored her third goal of the game. In the big run, Johnson, Buechel, Angulo and Paige Cuscovitch each found the back of the net twice.
The Jaspers were held to just two second half goals, both scored by Caitlin Haynes. The Lions saw seven players score at Columbia Soccer Stadium, including Ashley Rinere, Charlotte Cipolletti and Allison Hoffman. Off the Johnson assist, Hoffman scored the final goal of the game to secure the 15-5 victory and the Lions improve to 3-11 on the season. With her third assists of the game, Johnson tied Marisa Marcellino ('08CC) as the all-time career assists leader with 87.
Up next, Columbia will cap the regular season on the road at Harvard on Sunday, April 28 at 1 p.m.


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[alt: I understand you and your team worked hard on this, but when we said to make it more realistic, we meant the graphics.]
That was the plan, at least, until about 3 seconds after midnight when people started to e-mail me and leave comments about this Robot Chicken clip:
Now, this is not the first time there's been a problem like this. You can read the whole list of copied jokes, but the point is: He does this fairly often. When he does, I usually think about 3 basic categories that the incidents have: 1, how similar the jokes are to each other, 2, how prominent the other joke is (ie, how likely is it that people will have seen the other one), and 3, how recent was the other joke. I think this case is just about as bad as you can get on 1 and 2, though not so much on 3. How much more pathetic can you get than copying a joke off of Robot Chicken?
Now granted, I don't think Randall did this on purpose. I don't know if he watched the show or if this idea is just so obvious that he thought of the exact same thing. As I say in all these cases, if he claims that he thought of it on his own, I'll believe him. I have no evidence that he saw that episode of Robot Chicken. But what he absolutely cannot do is ignore the situation. All I ask for is a simple blog post - "Turns out a comic I drew was basically the same joke as a Robot Chicken sketch. That's crazy! I had no idea when I made the comic that they had done it." Just an acknowledgement that these two things are too close to call. But he never, never, never has. Why not? It just makes it look like he's trying to deny the problem for some reason. I wonder - can any of the folks who read this blog who hang out on the IRC chat ask him about this? I'm curious what he'd say.
Whenever a situation like this comes up, xkcd defenders almost always say the same thing: "You can't expect him to come up with new stuff every time. There's nothing new under the sun." These people apparently believe that if something is an aphorism it is always true. Well, as you can tell, those people are fucktarded. There's plenty of places you see good, original humor on a regular basis. Read "The Areas of My Expertise" by John Hodgman, or watch Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job. Or lots of other examples - it's completely possible to be original and very funny. Of course, it takes some goddamned effort which is why I guess we never see it happen in xkcd.
It's also true that it might not be possible for Randall Munroe to come up with something new every time he makes a comic. But that doesn't excuse shitty comics! It means he should get out of the fucking webcomic business. Yeah, most people can't come up with good clever humor. But those are the people who aren't trying to make a living off their good, clever humor! If xkcd isn't going to be good, it shouldn't exist at all. And just because it was good for a while in 2007 doesn't mean it is always going to be good now. Why the fuck don't people understand this?
I think it's interesting to compare this version of the joke with the Robot Chicken version. The Robot Chicken one is better, despite their huge similarity. Why? Because it has a point. XKCD is just "what if the cars swerved? ha!" and then that's the end. But the R. C. joke ends with all the frogs crossing together, and you see that it was all a scheme to help more frogs get across the screen. In other words, it has a point. And in any case, as with everything on that show, once it's done you immediately zoom off to another sketch. Robot Chicken does not have time for your shenanigans. It's got two dozen more jokes to tell. So if this joke is simple, ok, but you know it's because they had to write (and animate! and edit!)


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The one constant when buying health insurance is uncertainty. A sudden illness can carry in its wake a flood tide of unwelcome medical bills. The point of health insurance is to minimize the havoc from such bills. But you can't plan your illnesses, so how can you know how much insurance you might need? The ever-rising cost of healthcare, moreover, has driven insurers and employers to shift much more of the burden to policyholders through higher deductibles and coinsurance and slapping copays onto more services. It can be a challenge just to figure out in advance how much you'd wind up paying out of pocket if you do get sick.
Nowhere are unknowns a bigger concern than in the so-called individual market, where consumers purchase health coverage directly from an insurer rather than through an employer or the government. In many states, insurers can require you, and members of your family if you're shopping for a family plan, to pass a medical exam to qualify for coverage. If you don't pass, or you have a prexisting health condition, the plans can turn you down. (That will change in 2014, when a provision of the recently upheld Affordable Care Act takes effect and outlaws rejection for medical reasons.) You also could be charged much more per month than the published premium may have led you to believe if you are deemed likely to run up medical bills.
The tripwire that may be the least expected, until it wrecks your budget, is the annual out-of-pocket limit. Almost always displayed as a flat dollar amount, the term refers to the maximum you have to pay for your care in a given year before the plan picks up your expenses from then on—or so it would seem from the term. Unfortunately, many plans still impose deductibles, copays, and coinsurance after you reach the supposed limit of your out-of-pocket expenses. Retaining even one of these cost items could vacuum thousands of dollars from your pocket. What's more, a plan can put a limit on the total amount it pays out in a year. All charges above that maximum benefit are your responsibility, regardless of the stated out-of-pocket limit.
How could a mere copay, which you may think of as that annoying $20 or $30 flat charge you pay when you see a doctor, have such financial impact? Isn't coinsurance usually a small percentage? Both can carry more weight than you'd think. A copay can be hundreds of dollars if it is your share of an emergency-room bill. And coinsurance, your percentage of the cost of a service, may be a modest 10 percent or it could be the entire 100 percent. It also matters whether the copay or coinsurance is charged before you've met your deductible or afterwards. If before, you no longer have to make these payments when you've paid off your deductible. If after, the obligation is open-ended and may cost you more.
Here's a reality-grounded example: a plan in the U.S. News universe with a premium of $500 a month and a relatively low annual deductible of just $750. But U.S. News Best Health Insurance Plans shows that the plan's out-of-pocket limit of $2,500 doesn't include the deductible. That effectively pushes the out-of-pocket limit to $3,250.
That's not all. The out-of-pocket limit also doesn't include coinsurance on prescriptions, physician visits, hospital stays, or any other medical expense. Coinsurance is pegged at 30 percent or more in this plan for virtually every costly service, so in addition to your premium and deductible, you'll be responsible for nearly one-third of every medical cost you accrue, from brand-name drugs to ER care. If you get a hospital bill of $10,000, you'll pay $3,000 of it in addition to your deductible.
Your guide to the
Affordable Care Act.
Another complication: Some of these hospital or doctor fees apply even after you've met your annual deductible, pushing your out-of-pocket costs higher. Oh, and there's also a $200 copay every time you use an emergency room.
Best Health Insurance Plans helps you spot these tripwires in advance by in some cases giving higher ratings to plans that clearly describe their cost sharing. Plans that shift less of the cost to consumers through coinsurance receive potentially higher ratings as well.
Besides these factors, you should also check those listed below. Be on the alert for:
--The percentage of applicants denied enrollment, which is a measure of a plan's selectivity. Some issuers offer plans but turn down two-thirds of applicants or more, based on concerns about their medical risk or other factors. A high denial rate may be an indication that, if you or someone in your family has medical issues, you may want to look at more inclusive plans.
--The percentage of applicants charged more than the stated premium. Just as some plans turn down many applicants for medical reasons, some issuers charge a high percentage of policyholders more than the stated premium for coverage. Plans may accept these policyholders anyway, but charge more because their medical history suggests that they are likely to use more services.
--Specific categories of care that aren't covered by a given plan, such as cosmetic surgery, children's eye exams and weight-loss therapy.
--Plans with a narrow scope of benefits or strict limitations that may leave you exposed to high medical costs related to catastrophic injuries or ailments. Generally speaking these are plans that are more likely to have received fewer stars in the U.S. News analysis. Always read the fine print before you settle on a plan.
--Plans with high deductibles (generally defined as $1,200 or more for an individual and $2,400 and up for a family) that may cover you for severe medical problems but could saddle you with mounting bills for routine care. Under the Affordable Care Act, a high-deducible plan purchased after March 2010 must offer free preventive care whether or not you've met the deductible. (If you're healthy and want to minimize your monthly premium, you may prefer a high-deductible plan. They can be coupled with tax-deductible health savings accounts, which allow you to put aside money for routine medical expenses.)
--Plans that do not cover specific drugs that you need. Visit the plan's website to see whether your medications are included in the plan's formulary.
--Plans whose networks don't include the doctors and hospitals where you get your care.


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Circa 1890
A pair of double-light silverplate Sheffield sconces; copies of a 1790s original George III model having rampant lions and royal coat of arms surmounting aged octagonal mirrors. From a Baltimore, Maryland estate.
Overall: 16" h. x 10-1/2" w. x 6-1/2" d.
Backplate: 16" h. x 10" w.
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Circa 1920
A bullet-shaped holophane pendant on darkened brass metalwork made in the Remains Lighting Workshop. Due to the antique nature of this fixture, there may be some nicks or imperfections in the glass.
Current height: 35"
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Overall: 4-1/2" diameter
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I needed caffeine. I woke up feeling like my brain was in an unclean fish tank and a hundred miles away. A shower didn't help rejuvenate my senses, and I stumbled around trying to find a shirt not wrinkled like a dead elephant's carcass. There were none. This wasn't all that unusual. Iron in hand, I cleared a space on my countertop and melted a hole in a $40 shirt. I looked at the bottom of the iron and then to the clock above the stove — I was running late for a meeting.
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Son's tribute is researching, sharing father's story; scholarship planned
New London - Richard Foye feels a debt of gratitude towards the people of Luzon, the island in the Philippines where his father ended up 70 years ago after bailing out of the Hellcat he was piloting, and he wants to do something meaningful to recognize the sacrifice of the Filipino guerrillas who helped save Navy Lt. William L. Foye's life.
"It's a great story, but the hook is to bring it full circle and to have some good come out of the terrible things that happened in war," Foye, 61, said of his five-year effort to research and write "The Bill Foye Story" to share with his seven siblings and their combined 19 children.
Foye has pieced together the story of the 23-year-old who was commissioned as a Navy pilot in 1943 and served aboard the USS Enterprise: the young lieutenant was shot down over Luzon on Oct. 18, 1944, and was protected, nursed and nourished by Philippine guerillas until he was rescued by American forces on Feb. 5, 1945. Now, his son is working on establishing a scholarship in his father's name for students in Luzon.
Bill Foye, who was awarded an Air Medal and a Purple Heart, settled in New London after World War II and worked as a teacher in the city and for a short time at Electric Boat before serving more than two decades as a popular principal at New London High School. He retired in 1981 and died in 1993.
Foye, who fractured his neck when he bailed out, would have been captured or killed by the enemy if not for the help of the Philippine resistance movement, whose members sympathized with the U.S. and fought alongside American forces during the Japanese occupation there, according to Richard Foye.
Among the memorabilia in his father's war trunk, a treasure trove given to Richard Foye by his mother after his father's death, was correspondence between Bill Foye and the Filipinos who helped him survive. They wrote to Bill Foye after the war, asking him to lobby on their behalf for the compensation they were promised and then denied.
"The guerillas who helped the Americans - President Roosevelt promised they would be compensated - but then came the Rescission Act and it didn't happen until 2009," said Richard Foye, who like his father is a retired school principal.
History books widely acknowledge the hundreds of thousands of Filipino boys and men fought the Japanese in the Philippines and were told that, in exchange for their support, they would receive health and pension benefits identical to those received by the Americans they fought alongside.
But on Feb. 18, 1946, Congress passed and President Harry S. Truman signed the Rescission Act, which stated: The service of Filipinos "shall not be deemed to be or to have been service in the military or national forces of the United States or any component thereof or any law of the United States conferring rights, privileges or benefits."
Filipinos and many of the Americans with whom they served were stunned and outraged. Bill Foye wrote in support of those who helped and protected him and their survivors. Many Filipino guerrillas were captured, tortured and killed by the Japanese and in combat, including a 14-year-old named Siano, who was instrumental in Foye's survival and that of another American naval aviator, John Boyle, until the two were reunited with U.S. forces.
Siano and two other youths were the first to find Foye after his Hellcat was hit. They acted as "the eyes" of their guerrilla group, scouting for the enemy and providing local reconnaissance.
Lt. Foye later would write:
"Sometime near the end of my journey, I felt deeply grateful to Siano for the help and assistance he had given me and, although I had very little of any value to give him, I gave him my watch, my college ring, and my hunting knife, that was about a foot long, that my mother gave me before I left the States as a Christmas gift. I also gave him my flying goggles and my backpack, which Siano wore almost all the time."
A debt not paid
In October 1945, Foye received a letter from a lieutenant in the Philippine resistance movement who wrote: "Do you remember your boy Siano? He is now dead. He was killed in the thick of the fight in the battlefields of Santa Clara. You still remember the place? That was somewhere around April 16, 1945. Oh, most of our boys have been killed or wounded in the fight."
Richard Foye also found his father's account of a massacre that happened after he and the Philippine guerrillas stopped in a village while trying to elude the Japanese who were pursuing them:
"Not one of those brave people had portrayed our whereabouts or destination. The village paid a heavy price for their loyalty to America. They killed 14 people and flung the corpses into a dried-up creek bed. When the Japs left, the people found one girl in the pile still alive - a sister of one of the boys with me. A doctor's care pulled her through although she'd been stabbed several times with a bayonet."
Despite appeals from veterans like Bill Foye, the U.S. never fulfilled its promise until, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, it authorized the release of a one-time, lump-sum payment to eligible World War II Philippine veterans.
But for Richard Foye, a former history teacher and school principal, that wasn't enough. He calls the U.S. decision to renege on its promise "a shameful chapter" in American history. Foye has been in touch with the Philippine embassy and the Peace Corps to ask about setting up an overseas scholarship to benefit descendents of the Filipino guerillas. And next year, he'd like to visit Luzon and possibly some of those descendents, or any of the boys who aided his father seven decades ago who might still be alive.
"I just started realizing how much all these people sacrificed, and I started thinking, what can be done to close the circle? Maybe we can give some scholarships," he said. "Maybe we can funnel some money back into that area."
'Excitement of a lifetime'
Richard Foye used the materials in his father's war trunk - his flight log, correspondence and old newspaper clippings - to begin his research. He asked the Navy's Personnel Records Center in St. Louis for his father's file and spent three days in the National Archives in College Park, Md., learning everything he could about his father's service.
His father rarely spoke about his stint in the Navy, he said, and when he did, it was only about flying, never combat.
Richard Foye started his research as a gift to his siblings, children and nieces and nephews and has now complied three separate booklets detailing various chapters of his father's story. He has plans for a fourth chapter, focusing on how his father, who finally was diagnosed and treated for his fractured neck, met and married his Navy nurse, Ensign Elizabeth Fetzer. She died in 2008.
"We owe a debt to this generation and one way to pay that debt is not to forget," said Richard Foye, who plans to keep researching and writing about his father's service to his country.
"At 25, my father had already lived half a life. He had all the excitement of a lifetime in his Navy days for sure."
Richard Foye knows there are many other remarkable stories of veterans, and he rattles off the names of several others from New London. But he's focused on his father's story.
"He's been dead 21 years," he said. "There are 19 grandkids, and I just thought they should know about this story because it's a great story, even outside the fact that he's your dad or grandfather."
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Murphy's Law states that "anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later," however a simple adaptation would make for Tyson's Law "anything that can go wrong with a car, generally will go wrong sooner or later."
I own a 1999 Ford Taurus. It is a car I bought about four years ago after what would have been my sophomore year of college. Before that time I drove a very old Hundai Elantra – a car on which the entire exhaust crumbled and fell to the ground while I was driving.
The Elantra was loud, but it only cost $30 when I made the purchase, and it lasted me three years. Sure, it didn't work when the temperature got below freezing. And the car never once made a quiet get away. Still, it was fun to drive – sort of like a giant Go-Kart.
My Ford Taurus was supposed to be more reliable. After I first made the purchase I took the Taurus on a road trip from Moorhead to Wisconsin Dells for a fun mini-vacation. The drive was smooth, the car was quiet and we made our way without much of a problem.
It was only a few months later that my car was buckling and shutting down on the highway – without any warning or reason. It wouldn't immediately start again, but would click on after about an hours wait as if nothing had happened at all. There was no check engine light and no grinding noises. It was as if nothing had happened.
Thousands of dollars later that problem was fixed – though I can honestly say I don't know what ended up being the ultimate fix. But, that was just the beginning of my Taurus' problems.
If you see me driving around you may notice I have a makeshift bumper duct taped together with some white tape. This is because while I was backing out of my driveway one day my breakline snapped. It was icy, so I thought I was slipping backwards. I jammed my foot into the spungy peddle, but I kept sliding backward until I struck a tree.
I repaired the breakline, so that only a year later it could snap on me again – this time when I was driving home from the interview for this job!
Murphy's Law states that "anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later," however a simple adaptation would make for Tyson's Law "anything that can go wrong with a car, generally will go wrong sooner or later."
My point it this: cars are a lot of trouble and they will try to kill you. Ok, that's a little dramatic, but maybe it would be a good idea to take some of that tax refund you're getting and put it into a car repair fund – because it will need repairs sometime this year.


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"I am a clock without hands
I'm walking through the midnights
Counting all the moments
Of the loves I've left behind."
— Nanci Griffith,
"A Clock Without Hands"
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So, we are driving to The National Civil War Museum this morning and see a sign for the Conrad Weiser Homestead. Where do I know that name from. Though I have driven this road (I-78) many times, the sign was different this time. "I know that sign", it's referring to something I read or heard from Genealogist "Dear MYRTLE". I hope I am remembering this correctly. But, just kept driving for my own search.
Having spent some time at the National Civil War Museum, it wasn't the Museum I was interested in. It was a Re-Enactment / Encampment that got me there. I was looking for D. Ridgely Howard. But that's another story.
The museum was great, short and sweet, but that lead to two book stores. Nothing (yet) at the book stores, so we were on our way home quicker then expected. There was that sign again. My car just HAD to follow the signs. We ended up here:
The homestead was not open, but there also was no one around. So, I just walked around. The story about this place and Conrad Weiser is not mine to tell. However here are a couple of photos from the walk-about.


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Huskers Drop 3-2 Heartbreaker to Creighton
Lincoln, Neb.- The Nebraska volleyball team dropped a 3-2 (17-25, 25-22, 25-27, 25-20, 13-15) heartbreaker to the Creighton Bluejays on Friday night at the NU Coliseum. Serving and hitting errors plagued the Huskers on the night as Nebraska received its first loss of the 2013 spring season.
Kelsey Robinson led the team with 21 kills on 48 swings, while Kelsey Fien had 12 kills and Morgan Broekhuis notched 10 kills. Alexa Strange paced the offense with 55 assists, while Kadie Rolfzen led NU defensively with 21 digs.
Nebraska hit .144 in the match, while Creighton hit .184. NU was out-blocked 16-9, but out-dug the Bluejays 67-62.
Creighton came out on top in the first set, taking a 9-3 lead before the Huskers were forced to call a timeout. An ace by Meghan Haggerty cut the Bluejay lead to 12-6, while a kill by Robinson made it 17-10, CU. The Huskers could not muster a strong enough comeback though, as they fell 25-17.
Alicia Ostrander and Robinson both had three kills in the set, but the Huskers hit just .148 as a team. Creighton hit .500 and out-blocked NU 4-2.
Robinson came on strong for the Huskers early in the second set, recording a kill to make it 7-6, Nebraska. A kill by Thramer and ace by Haggerty put NU up 12-11, while another kill by Robinson made it 16-15, NU. A double-stuff block by Amber Rolfzen and Thramer made it 22-21, Nebraska, as the Huskers went on to win the second set 25-22.
Robinson led NU in the second set with five kills, while Thramer had three. Nebraska hit .154 for the set, while Creighton was held to a .103 hitting percentage. The Huskers were out-blocked 3-2.
Creighton went up 8-6 in the third set, but a kill by Robinson cut CU's lead to 11-10. Nebraska then took a 13-12 lead and forced Creighton to call a timeout. Nebraska tied it up again at 15-15, as a double-stuff block by Fien and Thramer made it 20-18, NU. A kill by Broekhuis made it 22-19, but after two set points, the Bluejays took the third set 27-25.
Robinson had seven kills in the set, while Fien notched three. Strange recorded 10 assists, but the Huskers hit just .050. Creighton his .086 for the set and had four team blocks to Nebraska's two.
Nebraska went up 4-3 in the fourth set on a kill by Broekhuis, while a kill by Fien made it 9-7, NU. The two teams traded leads as Haggerty put NU up 14-12 on a kills. Fien came through again with a kill to give Nebraska a 17-15 lead, but CU tied it back up at 18-18. Two hitting errors put Nebraska up 22-19, as NU went on to win the set 25-20.
Broekhuis had five kills in the set, while Fien notched four. Strange tallied 12 assists and Nebraska hit .205 for the set, while Creighton hit .073.
Creighton went up 9-4 in the fifth set, but the Husker used a run to cut their lead to 10-7. Broekhuis put NU within one at 12-11, Creighton, while back-to-back kills by Robinson tied the set at 13-13. However the Bluejays rallied with two-straight kills for a 15-13 fifth-set win.
Robinson tallied five kills in the set, while Strange notched 11 assists. Nebraska hit .172, while Creighton hit .233.
The Huskers close their spring season next Saturday as they travel to Wichita State to face the Shockers at 5 p.m.


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Okay, I am designing a woodsball marker that uses the excellent line of AGD products. I have been posting on PBnation about this concept marker, and I am going to post it here as well for your input. Specials thanks to the people on PBnation that have helped me thus far.
The reason behind this marker is simple: The Spec Ops Longbow, and soon to be "Black Cell" line of products disappoint me. There are dozens of reasons why the Longbow system is foolish, but its saving grace is the ADG marker that fuels it.
What is strage is that they use a TAC ONE as its base tho? Why not a Custom ULE, or even a hopped up Pro Classic? The Longbow makes NO use of the TAC ONE's picatinny rails, or most of its fast firing upgrades. It is simply overkill, and the price reflects it.
The purpose of my AGD marker concept marker is simple: To beat the Longbow at its own game. Better erganomics, balance, feel and most importantly... price!
In order to finally create this marker, Ill need a little help from you, the experts. The good news is that I got plently of nice pictures ot check out, and also I will be constructing the final approved design. That way, you can actually see the fruits of the labor put into its design.
I would like to thanks everyone who takes the times to help me design this marker. Half of the reason why I choose AGD is the fact that there is such a support base associated with the brand name, and for that I am very gratefull.
Okay, here is the basic design, and I will follow each picture with a few questions or curiosities I may have...
There are two options. One is to create a marker that allows the instalation of the Spec Ops air-thru Longbow stock...
and the other option is to create the stock from scratch, either by bending aluminium...
or C and Cing the stock peice...
So, I am curious as to which is going to end up being cheaper. The longbow stock is pricey, but less work in the long run.
Also, I am curious how to drill the stock, or aluminum, into the grip of the marker, and even the frame rail. On Pro Classic frame there are already holes in the rear, if one decides to mount their asa from the rear of the marker. Can a similar modification be made on an RT rail? I know there are not holes there already, but is this possible if one made the holes themselves? If this was possible, I could mount the stock into the frame as well, making it much more durable and steady.
Also, I am probably going to use a warp feed. This will lower the overall profile, and be somethig that can directly compete with the Qloader. The marker could end up looking something like this (is the Spec Ops stock is used...)
That is with a vert feed. I might opt to go warp feed, and not use the picatinny riser block. I am also not sure about that either.
So, as you can tell, I got alot of questions. Thanks for your patience, and for your help.


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Jewish Gay 'Conversion' Group Sued for Fraud
Four gay men are suing a New Jersey conversion therapy group that claims it can turn gay men straight, CNN reports.
Michael Ferguson, Benjamin Unger, Sheldon Bruck and Chaim Levin have filed a lawsuit in Hudson County, N.J., Superior Court against the New Jersey City-based organization Jews Offering New Alternatives of Healing. They claim the group's practices don't work and that its methods constitute fraud under New Jersey's consumer protection laws.
"This is the first time that plaintiffs have sought to hold conversion therapists liable in a court of law," Samuel Wolfe, a lawyer with the Southern Poverty Law Center, said.
Jonah co-director Arthur Goldenberng, listed as a co-defendant, told Bruck when he was 17 that the organization "could help him change his orientation from gay to straight."
According to Jonah's website, officials from the group say the therapy works and even posted success stories from patients and family members. Two of the men's mothers, Jo Bruck and Bella Levin, are also named as plaintiffs and say they paid for fraudulent therapy sessions that could cost up to $10,000 a year.
The lawsuit claims Jonah officials insisted that "being gay is a mental disorder" that could be reversed by "conversion therapy," which has been repudiated by major psychiatric societies. According to the lawsuit, the men underwent the treatments when they were in their teens or early 20s.
The therapy, they claim, put them at risk for "depression, anxiety and self-destructive behavior" and did not yield any benefits. The suit goes on to say that the American Psychiatric Association has rejected such "therapy" as long as 40 years ago.
The men claim they were asked to go through several treatments that made them extremely uncomfortable. They were asked to get naked in group sessions and cuddle and hold other men. They were also instructed to attack statues with a tennis racket that represented their mothers, visit batthouses "in order to be nude with father figures"; and were "subjected to ridicule as 'faggots' and 'homos' in mock locker room scenarios."
Goldberg allegedly told Bruck in the summer 2009 that if you "put in the effort, you're going to change." Thaddeus Heffner, a counselor with Jonah, blamed Bruck's lack of transformation on his own failures. Bruck was simply "not working hard enough to change." He also blamed his father for being "too distant," and his mother for being "too close to him."
"It's definitely cruel and unusual and doesn't work," Wolfe said. "They are peddling bogus techniques that have no foundation in science and are basically ridiculous and even harmful."
The SPLC has long stood against conversion therapy. In March, the group announced that the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, a leading "ex-gay" therapy organization, is the "preeminent source of what many regard as 'junk science' for the religious right. Every major American medical authority has concluded that there is no scientific support for NARTH's view" and many of the organizations say that "ex-gay" therapy can even cause harm.
The SPLC has also identified 70 conversion therapy groups in the country as well, CNN notes.
During a news conference on Tuesday, Levin, who is from Salt Lake City, Utah, said that he was "manipulated into believing" that he could change himself to be straight" and was "subjected to terrible abuse that mirrored the traumatic assault that I expressed as a young person."
"What I can tell you is that conversion therapy does not work. My family and I have wasted thousands of dollars and many hours on this scam," he added.
Levin, who was 18 at the time, was at JONAH's New Jersey City, N.J., headquarters for 18 months and worked with Alan Downing, an unlicensed JONAH counselor who claims he is a "life coach," according to the suit. Levin has apparently been speaking against conversion therapy for sometime now. In February, he talked about his experiences at a press conference during the National Coming Out Day event.
"I was made to believe that there was something wrong with me and I needed to change," he said. "I was hopeless and was looking for a way to 'cure' being gay, but the therapy didn't work," he said. "It left me feeling even more depressed since they made me believe I failed. I finally accepted that there is nothing wrong with me and I don't need to change."
The suit notes that Unger now has trouble with having physical and emotional relationships with men and was unable to work for a year. The other men are "adjusting well" four years after undergoing their last conversation therapy session, Wolfe said.
"We really want to bring this lawsuit to bring attention to this practice that takes place in many parts of the country, preying on vulnerable young people," the lawyer added.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, the state's first out senator, attorney Scott McCoy, is representing the men in the lawsuit. Then men are seeking declaratory, injunctive and undisclosed amount of monetary relief in addition to court costs, the lawsuit notes.
In a statement, New Jersey Democrat Assemblyman Timothy J. Eustace expressed his support for the men. "The bravery and determination of the four men and their families seeking damages against a Jersey City-based conversion counseling group should be applauded," he said in a statement. "If what they allege in their complaint is true, then these young men most assuredly did not receive counseling. Instead, it would seem they were conned into paying to be tortured because of their sexual orientation."
Conversion therapy saw a massive defeat in October when California became the first state to ban the controversial treatments on gay teens, the Associated Press reported. Gov. Jerry Brown signed a measure that prohibits performing sexual orientation change efforts for anyone under 18. The law will go into effect on Jan. 1, 2013.


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When helping prospective buyers purchase a vehicle, Christian Arroyo does a lot of listening. Christian Arroyo, one of Stevie D's knowledgeable salesmen, knows that before he can steer a customer towards the vehicle that will best fit his or her budget and lifestyle, he needs to listen to them talk about what matters most to them, whether it be vehicle's cost, or its gas efficiency, or its safety record, or the number of miles on its odometer. Arroyo doesn't believe in pressuring his potential buyers into just any deal, just for the sake of a sale. His business ethos is: "Treat everybody with respect and dignity, and give them honest information, and they will come back to you, whether they buy a car from you the first time or not. My first priority - serve the customer."
Arroyo is part of a team of professional and experienced salesmen at Stevie D's Auto Sales & Service in Warwick. Now with two locations, on Warwick Avenue and Oakland Beach Avenue, you can be sure this team of specialists knows their ever-changing inventory and holds in high regard the reputation of honesty and integrity that owner Steve Davis has earned over his many years of sales and service. The first priority of this team - serve the customer.
Stevie D's Auto Sales & Service is a family-owned and operated business that offers a huge selection of previously owned vehicles of every make and model. Each of these vehicles must not only meet Davis's standards of quality and road worthiness, but also be available within a price range of $4,000 to $10,000. No matter the vehicle, the team here will work tirelessly with you to find the financing options that best fit your budget, regardless of your credit. The vehicles sold here also come with a broad range of warranty options.
Along with the superb sales department here, Stevie D's Auto Sales & Service is also known for its skilled repair service for everything from routine maintenance to complicated repair work. Take advantage of specials on tune-ups, belts, hoses, shocks, struts, exhaust work, transmission services, mufflers, tires, brakes, anti-freeze and flush, heater cores, and water pumps. Stevie D's is also an Official RI Inspection Station where your vehicle can be inspected for emissions and safety testing.
Stevie D's Auto Sales & Service is found at 2570 Warwick Avenue and at 250 Oakland Beach Avenue. For hours and information, call 739-1313 for sales, 739-8623 for service or 739-1577 for their showroom. Towing is available 24/7 by calling 487-2876 or 644-4994.


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Seoul, South Korea, 2012 April 2 – Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo (L) and Greenpeace East Asia Campaign Director Shi Peng Xiang (R) meet with Seoul Mayor Park Woon Soon (M) following the deportation of three senior Greenpeace staff. Naidoo and three colleagues were visiting South Korea to promote an upcoming visit by its ship 'MY Esperanza', however, they were stopped at immigration at Incheon international airport, and while Naidoo was granted permission to enter the country, the other three were not, and were deported without reason. Greenpeace is demanding a meeting with the Ministry of Justice regarding the deportation, which it believes are connected to its anti-nuclear campaigning.
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