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Looking for good news at the start of the new year?
Manufacturing finished 2013 on a note of strength, wrapping up one of its best quarters since the recession's end and supporting broader economic growth, according to data released Thursday.
The Institute for Supply Management reported that its gauge of manufacturing showed slightly slower growth in December, but remained close to a two-and-a-half year high. Elsewhere Thursday, Markit reported that its December gauge of U.S. manufacturing hit an 11-month high.
"Most encouraging is the fact that growth is being led by rising demand for investment goods such as plant and machinery. This tells us that business spending is picking up on the back of rising confidence, which adds to the sense that the recovery is being more self-sustaining," Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist said.
Here's another highlight: ISM and Markit agree that manufacturing employment accelerated last month. Economists expect broad jobs growth to strengthen this year, and faster manufacturing hiring would be a welcome trend in 2014.
"We are encouraged by the strength of the employment index, which further adds to the case that the momentum in job creation was maintained in December," RDQ Economics analysts wrote in a research note.
A series of good manufacturing reports could also mean that gross domestic product in the fourth quarter was stronger than economists believe. Indeed, surprisingly good data showed that businesses recently pumped up their orders for big-ticket goods that require significant investment, signaling their rising economic confidence.
Looking at details of ISM and Markit's reports, the gauges do show some slight differences. In ISM's report, new orders accelerated in December, while production growth slightly slowed down. Meanwhile, Markit said that output grew faster in December, while new-orders growth slightly slowed down. But all of these gauges remained in expansionary territory last month.
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Aiello is speaking about an every other Friday series of "thank-you meals" for one of 21 Colorado Springs firehouses, during which a local chef and Pikes Peak Community College students "prepare a huge spread, plus leave extra" for area firefighters.
Help out by attending the Culinary Passport Event at 6 p.m., Saturday, April 12, at the Julie Penrose Hall (9 El Pomar Road, pikespeakchefs.org). A $35 ticket serves as a passport to a dozen cuisines, from Korean eats by Margarita at PineCreek chef Eric Viedt, to Brother Luck Street Eats' take on French, and local firefighters' own USA-repping green chile. Locally made (or roasted) beer, wine and coffee will also be served.
Museum munchies
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center (30 W. Dale St., csfineartscenter.org) debuted Alice's: Food. Art. Coffee. on Tuesday. It's located in the former gift shop space and serviced during regular museum hours by the local Summit Catering outfit. Barista Espresso provides the drip coffee (there's no espresso machine) while Summit's menu consists of four sandwiches, four salads, a few sides and an array of baked goods.
"We hope that this will add a new dynamic to the FAC, making it not just a fun and artful place to visit but also a place to hang out," says communications director Warren Epstein.
Café 36 and the Deco Lounge remain in-play for private functions and pre-theater dining, he says, noting future FAC plans for a lunch service at 36 and a gift-shop presence. "We're poised for really big things here," he says, "that you haven't seen before."
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• Coquette's Bistro & Bakery (coquettesbistroandbakery.com) has opened at its new 321 N. Tejon St. address.
• A few outfits have recently closed: Elke's German Deli, at 6922 Mesa Ridge Pkwy., Fountain; Bara Sushi & Grill at 1645 Briargate Pkwy., inside the Promenade Shops at Briargate; and Blue Sage Cafe at 5152 Centennial Blvd., with chef Greg Soukup saying he "may show up somewhere again this summer."
• Open since June 2013, Loco Bean Coffee (locobeancoffee.com) will soon add its third drive-thru, this one at Powers Boulevard and Barnes Road. The first Loco at 4797 Barnes Road was joined by a second at 2438 E. Pikes Peak Ave. recently; owner John Reinecke also vends at the World Arena and Air Force Academy. Loco's beans hail from Oregon's Cascade Estate Coffees, while the same machines used by Starbucks enable more rapid service than his competitors, says Reinecke: "It's pump, pull, steam and out."


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Monday, November 25, 2013
I am currently doing their Thanksgiving plan & yesterday, Sunday, the topic "In Wandering".
I read through it & thought wow because of what the writer just went through, again, with losing a baby. My mind was so fixated on that & how grateful I am for 2 healthy children & my heart just aches for her.
Then I go back through & journal the spots that God is speaking to me. And He took me to a whole new level. Typically the second time I read it is when God really talks to me to reveal to me what I need to hear that day. But this topic was stronger than ever.
In times of wandering what do you do? Do you run to or from God? Are you seeking earthly answers or trusting God that He reveal His answers in His time?
I went through a time of wandering. A BIG time of wandering. I became a Christian in July 2005. I was an active Christian in the church as well as participating in Bible Studies. But I never grew as a Christian should.
1 Corinthians 13:11 -- When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
In July 2009 I began my stages of wandering. I was still in church for about 9 months. Then I stopped going after that. I was searching for answers that God wasn't giving me so I stopped seeking Him & started seeking answers of the now, or earthly answers. I randomly went to church, trying to find a church that reminded me of home (I moved from Indiana to California in this time).
Last year, October 2012 I finally stopped searching for God & saw that, well He was right there in front of me. This. Whole. Time. I began my journey over with Him. I repented of my selfish ways, I stopped seeking earthly answers, & started walking with Him.
In this past year my relationship with Christ has grown far more than my first 4 years as Christian. I look back & somewhat get frustrated with myself that I did not take advantage of these years getting to know my Lord and Savior. And then I get frustrated during the time I disappeared from God. See He never disappeared from me, but I ran the other way.
But what is frustration going to get me? Yesterday God confirmed that those wandering times did in fact lead me right back into His arms. I have the best relationship with Christ that I could possibly have at this moment in my life. And I praise Him for that.
I praise Him that I sought an earthly answer & never found it, but I found Him & His Truth.
I praise Him that He forgives me for my wandering.
I praise Him because I have a God who is faithful & He will NEVER fail me.
I praise Him that at the end of my wandering He gave me the deepest desire to know Him.
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Your post really hit home with me. Ive recently refreshed my relationship with Jesus Christ and have dealt with a bit of remorse on my days of wandering. As a kid we attended seceral churches but it never really felt like home. My dad tried his best to teach me and my siblings the stories of the bible, but a meaningful personal realtionahip with Christ was never a focus. As a college freshmen, I rejected my roommate because of her sseemingly Jesus-centric behavior. Now that I have refreshed and renewed my relationship with Christ, I wish so badly that I could apologize to her. Instead of following her example, I followed my own agenda and made some pretty poor choices. Luckily, I am overwhelmed by the grace of Jesus Christ and know that my sin has been covered by his precious blood!ReplyDeleteReplies
I have a similar past with growing up in a church where Christ wasn't the center, or the relationship piece wasn't there. So I understand :) I am glad you have felt His overwhelming grace!Delete
In the past year I have also renewed my relationship and really wholeheartedly wanted to establish one with God and Jesus. I've come to want spiritual faith, not religious faith and I'm learning what I can each day to come closer to my God. I arrived at the part of my spiritual journey that I'm on from disappearing from God. I didn't even give him a second or first thought a year ago. I would say I was spiritual, yet did nothing about it. It took a very low point in my life (one in which I lost my self-respect, dignity, control and basically was a MESS inside and out) for me to start crawling back and learning to walk with my Lord God. Though I didn't even WONDER if God had left me at that point, looking back, I know He was as close to me in those dark times as He could get, screaming to me to come back to Him. And I don't regret those dark times; they were learning and my experiences which I can share now to help others. And those dark times ultimately led me back to my Father so that I could take my chance living a life as a daughter of the King. Loved your post. xoReplyDeleteReplies
Amen girl, I totally hear you. Sometimes we need to hit rock bottom to truly hand ourselves over to the Lord! - TiffanyDelete


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Over the last fifty years, a multitude of spacecraft and rocket experiments have studied plasma wave emissions from Earth's auroral regions. One such emission is auroral hiss, a low-frequency whistler-mode wave that is produced in the auroral zone. Observations from Earth-orbiting spacecraft show that auroral hiss is generated by field-aligned electron beams, with the resulting plasma wave emission propagating along the resonance cone. This propagation results in auroral hiss appearing as a V-shaped funnel when observed on a frequency-time spectrogram. This thesis presents the first comprehensive study of auroral hiss at a planet other than Earth, using the Cassini spacecraft to study auroral hiss at Saturn.
NASA's Cassini spacecraft, currently in orbit around Saturn, has allowed for the first opportunity to study this emission in detail at another planet. Since 2006, the Cassini spacecraft has twice been in a series of high inclination orbits, allowing investigation and measurements of Saturnian auroral phenomena. During this time, the Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) Investigation on Cassini detected low frequency whistler mode emissions propagating upward along the auroral field lines, much like terrestrial auroral hiss. Comparisons of RPWS data with observations from several other Cassini instruments, including the Dual-Technique Magnetometer (MAG), Magnetospheric Imaging Instrument (MIMI), and the Cassini Plasma Spectrometer (CAPS), have revealed a complete picture of this emission at Saturn.
Observations from these instruments have been used to make a variety of determinations about auroral hiss at Saturn. RPWS has only observed this emission when Cassini was at high-latitudes, although these observations have shown no preference for local time. Tracking the times this emission has been observed revealed a clear periodicity in the emission. Further study later revealed not one but two rotational modulations, one in each hemisphere, rotating at rates of 813.9 and 800.7 degrees per day in the northern and southern hemispheres, respectively. These rates match with observations of the clock-like Saturn Kilometric Radiation. Study of the field-aligned current structures in the auroral regions revealed a strong upward-directed current in both hemispheres on the lower-latitude side of the auroral hiss emission. Along with correlating particle densities, these observations were used to infer the presence of a high-density plasmasphere at low latitudes, with the series of field-aligned current structures lining up with the outer boundary at L-shell values of around 12-15.
Analysis of electron beams observed in conjunction with auroral hiss shows that these beams produce large growth rates for whistler-mode waves propagating along the resonance cone, similar to terrestrial auroral hiss. Analytical calculation of the normalized growth rates of ten electron beam events on Day 291, 2008, yielded a wide range of growth rates, from 0.004 to over 6.85 times the real frequency. The latter, a non-physical result, came from a violation of the weak growth approximation, suggesting there was so much growth that the analytical calculation was not valid in this instance. Numerical calculation using a plasma dispersion-solving code called WHAMP produced a growth rate of about 0.3, a still very large number, suggesting the detected beams may be the source of the observed auroral hiss plasma wave emission.
Auroral Hiss, Cassini, Electron Beams, Plasma Waves, Saturn
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 69-72).
Copyright 2010 Andrew James Kopf
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The Business Breakfast Club or BBC is the best and most successful networking group in Preston who meet every Friday at The Marriott Hotel, Broughton just off junction 31 of the M6. Avoiding the strict formalities of other Preston network groups has proved to be the successful formula, a network group established for over 7 years with over 40 regular members, all who pass business leads based on friendship and trust. Expect meetings to be fun, educational, motivating and full of banter. A truly fabulous group!
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Quite simply, the BBC has become so successful as a networking group because it adopted the opposite approach to many other networking groups in Preston – selective in who joins, restricts membership to ONE representation per business category and dispenses with all the formalities and enforced commitment to attend or cover absence. Apologies for non-attendance generally appear as a matter of courtesy but everyone understands that there are just some days when 'the day job' must come first. Seven years on, it is rare to find less than the regular 40+ members turning up every week, to meet and 'do business' with their like-minded friends in the group. In fact, as anyone in the group will tell you, they are genuinely disappointed if, on the rare occasion, they can't attend. The BBC regularly has to decline applications for existing popular business categories already taken and coveted…but there are many more still available. Without question, Networking at the BBC in Preston will bring you read this article more business and at very low cost. It would be unusual not to see a significant return on your investment.
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Moments don't happens to us.
We happen to moments.
They take creativity and energy (which equates to virtue). Add some forethought, sometimes money (because money = time, and time = life), and an ample amount of consideration-of-others.
Then execute.
Planning your time off is just as important as planning your appointments to address work-load.
Tonight's memory will be a road trip with my Princess to see Jonny Lang.
Our favorite.
Do something today. Get wood for campfire. Cancel your non-essential plans and go to the drive-in. Take a walk, play in the mud, eat pizza and throw the crusts in a stream.
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Special Report: 7.5 Xinjiang Urumqi Riots |
by Silvia Marchetti
ROME, July 26 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese government's reaction to the July 5 riots in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, was "normal" and "understandable," Italian experts told Xinhua in recent interviews.
Beijing's reaction "was natural," said Giuseppe Sacco, a professor of international relations and world economic systems at the Luiss University in Rome.
"China defends its territorial integrity," Sacco said.
Noting the heavy attention given to the issue in the West, Sacco said that was partly due to the rioters' "links with separatism and terrorism."
"The Chinese government's immediate reaction is more than comprehensible and even obligatory," said Stefano Gardelli, a foreign policy expert.
"China must show its capacities to rapidly respond to internal crises," Gardelli said.
Gardelli also praised the Chinese authorities' handling of the post-emergency situations in Xinjiang. "The Beijing government successfully brought the situation under control," he said.
China's reaction showed its "zero compromise with the separatists," said Nicola Casarini, an East Asian expert at the Rome-based International Affairs Institute (IAI).
The riots in Urumqi, plotted by separatists, killed 197 people and injured more than 1,680 others. The Chinese government took immediate and decisive measures and quickly restored order in the city.Editor: Zhang Ning | Source: Xinhua


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The Enigma machine was the first electronic cipher machines, producing encrypted messages. German engineer Arthur Scherbius created this device in 1928 to turn a message into a jumble of code. Therefore, if the message got in the wrong hands, it could not be read.Of course, though time, the encryption was broken by British intelligence. However, it proved that we could put a level of security to a simple text message. Something we continue to strive for even today. Full Day in Tech History podcast show notes for July 15 Microsoft releases C# iTunes 8.2.1 blocks Palm Pre Nintendo launches the "Famicon" "Gangnam Style"...
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"Every year in the United States, we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That's 263 million pounds a day, 11 million pounds an hour, 3,000 pounds per second!"
by Jeremy Seifert: http://www.grist.org/food/2011-06-21-dumpster-diver-tells-trader-joes-to-stop-wasting-food
21 Jun 2011 8:13 PM
Check out this loot. For many years now, I have fed my family food from the dumpster. It's not because I can't afford to shop at grocery stores like other, normal folks. It's because supermarkets across the nation toss perfectly good meats, cheeses, eggs, and produce into the trash every single day.
So I dumpster dive, which is exactly like it sounds: I jump into dumpsters, pull out not-yet-expired food, and bring it home to my family. Yes, you could say we eat trash—but it's delicious! It used to be that nearly every meal we ate contained some "trash" in it, like a head of broccoli, fresh ahi tuna, or strawberries. With three kids and a busy life, it's been harder to keep up the practice, but the food is there, waiting to be salvaged before being carted off to the landfill. Dumpster diving is the subject of a new documentary I made, Dive!, which will be released on July 19.
Grocery stores dumping their goods provide me with a free lunch, and the film was certainly a fun project. But the documentary showcases a huge problem—food waste. Every year in the United States, we throw away 96 billion pounds of food. That's 263 million pounds a day, 11 million pounds an hour, 3,000 pounds per second!
All in all, Americans throw out a whopping one-half of the food we produce and import. This wastefulness coexists with a devastating recession and record numbers of Americans dependent on food stamps—one in eight of us, to be exact. Our propensity to waste has now reached beyond our means to do so, and yet we keep up the bad habit even while our neighbors go hungry.
As for the environmental impacts, a 2009 study found that food waste in our country accounts for 300 million barrels of oil and 25 percent of our freshwater supply every year. That oil and water are used to produce food that winds up in landfills, rots, and produces methane, a greenhouse gas 24 times more potent than carbon dioxide. And if you know anything about meat production, genetically modified crops, pesticides, soil degradation, and global warming, you undoubtedly have an unsettling picture of how destructive wasting food is—because you know how destructive producing it is.
Supermarkets stand out as some of the country's worst offenders, but you wouldn't know it because they don't have to report their food waste. Most of the major chains crush their garbage in giant, bus-sized compactors, making it impossible to dive in for a late-night snack.
Some of the smaller stores, however, ditch perfectly edible food into dumpsters. The one I'm most familiar with is Trader Joe's since it is, as the company's motto says, my "friendly neighborhood store." On many nights, my friends and I have filled cars with bags and bags of sprouted-wheat Ezekiel bread, fresh loaves of sourdough, packages of baby lettuce, cartons of eggs, whole chickens, and even a 12-pack of Irish Stout with only one broken bottle.
I enjoyed the fruits of my labor (literally), but think of how many hungry people could have benefited from that food if Trader Joe's donated it instead of throwing it away. It's why I started a campaign on Change.org asking Trader Joe's to adopt a company-wide policy to end food waste at all of its 350+ stores. I hope you'll join the more than 30,000 people who have already signed my petition.
You see, Trader Joe's and countless other supermarket chains don't need to throw out all that food. Rather than ditching soon-to-expire goods, stores could donate food to local charities, homeless shelters, and food pantries. In fact, some individual stores are already doing this.
In many respects, Trader Joe's is better than most grocery chains out there, and that's part of the reason I'm starting my food-waste campaign with them. It seems appropriate to start with a company that people assume is already doing the right thing. Trader Joe's needs to take a leadership role on food waste. If it does, my hope is that other national chains—like Whole Foods, Von's, and Safeway—will follow suit.
People are literally aching from hunger in our country. The soil and air are gasping and withering, good water is disappearing. Food waste is a serious issue, an issue of ethics and justice that can no longer be ignored.
Tell Trader Joe's to stop wasting food.
Get Off Your @ss
As we knock on Trader Joe's door and gradually move on to other grocery chains with far worse practices, we must also visit our own kitchens and learn what it means to value food and one another. Household food waste can cost nearly $600 a year—a damning statistic that shows how we're all part of this culture of consumerism and waste.
This is something that we can change in our lifetime. Imagine a world of empty dumpsters, good food in full bellies, and regular people leading sustainable lives. We can make it happen.
DIVE! will be released on DVD, iTunes, and Netflix on July 19.
Jeremy Seifert is director of the documentary DIVE! Living Off America's Waste, which has won 21 awards at festivals around the world. He's currently at work on a film about GMOs. When he isn't dumpster diving, Jeremy can be found in Highland Park, Calif., with his wife, Nuf, and three children, Finn, Scout, and Pearl.
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Last Historical Vignette: Social Life in "Old Laie"
The year 2015 marked the 150th anniversary of the LDS Church in Laie, and we have enjoyed celebrating the sesquicentennial over the past several months.
Part of the celebrations included reminiscing about the rich history of our beloved town through a series of historical vignettes, graciously authored by the Mormon Pacific Historical Society, and shared via this newsletter.
With this final installment in the series, we again express our appreciation to the MPHS for helping us to remember and honor Laie's wonderful heritage.
Social Life in "Old Laie"
One might wonder what the residents of "old La'ie" did in their free time. The word "free" is a relative term, of course. To some people it means an opportunity to have fun. For others less lucky, it was interpreted as time for the children to help mom and dad work in the family taro lo'i (patch)!
Of course, La'ie has always been near the beach. Since time immemorial, the ocean has not only provided La'ie with food, but also recreation on occasion. Besides the beach, however, how did people in La'ie socialize and have a good time?
In the earliest days, as one might expect, there was little leisure time, but as the community grew and became more stable and successful, leisure opportunities increased.
Laie Social Hall, circa 1915 (Courtesy Church History Library) A historical marker was installed in 2006 noting the location on Loala Street
Religious and cultural holidays provided occasions for sports competitions and feasts. Such events were either held outdoors or at various homes. Seeing a need, Samuel Woolley, then head of the La'ie Plantation, built a social hall for the community in 1913.
The La'ie Social Hall became the site for dances, celebrations, parties, movies, musical events, and various other church-sponsored activities. These activities were attended not only by the LDS members of the community, but also by the Chinese and Japanese families who leased land behind the temple and grew rice and pineapple respectively. When the Kahuku Plantation established labor camps in La'ie, these families (Chinese, Filipino, Portuguese, Japanese) also attended many of the activities.
Pleasures were much simpler in the old days. Marbles were a cheap form of entertainment. The late Aunty Donette (Ah Puck) Kekauoha recalled playing "kani kani wall". Each boy or girl would throw their marble against a wall and watch it bounce back.
Each succeeding player tried to throw their marble against the wall hoping to land within a handspan of someone else's and claim it. Team sports, like basketball, were played with teams being formed according to what section or "apana" of La'ie you lived in.
Laie Plantation Store, also known as Goo's Store (Courtesy BYU-Hawaii Archives) A historical marker was installed in 2005 noting the location at the corner of Lanihuli Street and Naniloa Loop
A spare nickel might provide for a snack at one of several snack shops that existed in La'ie at various times, as well as several small stores, one of which — Sam's Store — still exists. These small outlets were places to meet friends, get a soda pop, a pake cake or two, and a few sweets (no different today!).
Prior to the La'ie Shopping Center, there was no movie theatre in La'ie, but there was a theatre in Kahuku that ran until the early 70′s. Seating was primitive, and when someone yelled "centipede!" everyone quickly lifted their feet off the ground until danger had passed.
Leisure time was also spent swimming in the Beauty Hole, an underground cavern discovered in the 1920′s (near present day Laieloa Bridge along Kamehameha Highway). Many of La'ie's children learned how to swim there before being allowed to go to the beach. Children often went there after school to swim with friends and occasionally dive for coins that tourists would throw into the water.
Laie's Beauty Hole, circa 1920s (Courtesy BYU-Hawaii Archives)
During various seasons, children often walked into the foothills to pick fruits (especially mangos). A few "brave" souls even found time to rustle a watermelon or two from the watermelon patches in the darkness of night!
We live in the 21st Century now, but leisure time is not spent much differently. We have our own theatre of course, and many eateries, in the shopping center. La'ie Park is the scene of constant activity, our beaches fill up each day, ward camps fill the summer months with fond memories, and the bus can take you anywhere you like.


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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Adventures in Cooking: Angel Food Cake
One of my strongest memories of my grandmother, Elizabeth Hutson, is how she would make an angel food cake for special occasions (or quite honestly, probably when the chickens laid some extra eggs).
I still remember her whipping the egg whites by hand in a giant pottery bowl (which now sits atop my fridge) using a flat whip (yes, I still have it as well).
I don't know if the secret of her cake rested in the whipped egg whites, but I know she always strived to get them whipped into soft peak submission.
Saturday, during a visit home, mom said "why don't we make an angel food cake."
I think mom expected me to whip the egg whites in her mixer, but subconsciously, I grabbed a large bowl and started doing it by hand.
It's not that the cake wouldn't have turned out well, using the mixer, but somehow, mixing it by hand seemed, well, natural.
I didn't have access to grandma's recipe (it's somewhere in a box at home), but I did have a recipe from the Almena, Kan., community cookbook.
Simple - really just flour, sugar, cream of tarter, egg whites, vanilla, salt and almond flavoring - the recipe just took some extra prep to execute.
Apparently, it turned out well, since everyone - especially dad - seemed to enjoy it.
Maxine Lowry's Angel Food Cake
(Page 54 of the Almena cook book!)
1-1/4 C. sifted cake flour
1/2 C. sifted sugar
1-1/2 C. egg whites
1/4 tsp. salt
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. almond extract
1-1/3 C. sifted sugar
1-1/4 tsp. cream of tarter
Getting Started: Your eggs should be a room temperature & you should use an ungreased tube cake pan. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Step 1) Put measured sifted cake flour and 1/2 cup sifted sugar together. Sift the two ingredients together four times.
Step 2) Combine egg whites, salt, cream of tarter and flavorings in a large bowl. Beat with mixer until soft peaks form.
Step 3) Add the other 1-1/3 cups sifted sugar to the egg white mixture, in four additions, beating until blended each time.
Step 4) Sift in flour/sugar mixture into egg whites in four additions, folding in with large spoon each time.
Step 5) Fold batter into tube pan and bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 35 minutes or until lightly browned on top with a dry look.
Step 6) Remove from oven, invert pan and let cake stand until cool. Remove pan and frost as desired.
Somethings I learned From This Adventure In Cooking!
1) The recipe called for 1-1/2 cups of egg whites. Mom remembered grandma just putting in a dozen egg whites, so that's what we aimed for. We needed a few more than a dozen, because alas, my egg separating skills were a bit lacking. (Next time, I'll have at least 1-1/2 dozen eggs ready and waiting for this adventure.)
I also learned you should also separate each egg, one by one, into a bowl, then pour the "good" whites into the "main bowl." This keeps the busted yolks from contaminating more than one egg. (Mom also had me wash the bowl out, if a yolk busted (a.k.a. don't just dump out the egg/yolk.... always have a clean bowl to work with!)
2) What should you do with the egg yolks (and busted eggs)? Well, we made egg noodles (and tried out mom's new pasta machine). Basically, this meant dad got homemade chicken and noodles AND an angel food cake for supper. (We made enough noodles for supper, and to freeze for at least two more meals).
3) Since we didn't have a "sifter" for the sugar and flour, I put it in a bowl and then kind of "sifted" it with a pastry cutter. I figured the sifter breaks up the "big" pieces, so the cutter seemed to do the job. If I do this again, I'll have a sifter. I think this adds air to the cake and makes it "fluffy."
4) When you pull the cake from the oven, and it calls for inverting the pan for cooling, you need to make sure air can circulate UNDER the pan. (The new pan of mom's didn't have "feet" and the cake cooled, but got a bit "sweaty" on the sides. I think this problem would have been solved if we had inverted it onto a cooling rack.)
5) Make enough icing (I just did a thin powered sugar/milk/vanilla glaze) so it can pour over the cake in one setting.
6) Colored sprinkles are "extra" but that's how grandma made it!
Posted by K. Hutson at 10:52 AM
Labels: Adventures in Cooking, Ramblings, Recipes
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Grandma Schoenhofer used to invert and vent angelfood cakes by putting the upside down tube pan on a glass pepsi bottle. It only ever caused a problem if the cake accidentally released from the pan... :)ReplyDelete
Cool Beck, didn't know that..ReplyDelete
Good idea about the glass bottle....
I have learnt various good stuff right here, and I'm sure everyone will get advantage of it.ReplyDelete
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I'm fine, thank you. I'm in the sun, I'm in the best hotel of the world, I mean Playitas and I can live my passion Triathlon so I'm very happy 🙂
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All depends on your training goal and on the shape I am so for example, I come from Nuremberg and there is a special Christmas cake so at this time I eat a lot of sweets (hahaha) because I'm allowed to eat them when we are out of season. But during the season, in the winter, I try not to eat too much carbohydrates and I have to keep the body in shape but for training sessions for example here in training camps if I wake up and go to breakfast to have carbohydrates, a lot of proteins, fruits but not so much in the morning because there is a long training and takes a little bit time to get it works. Anyway, I have a good breakfast because I usually do a running before the breakfast and I need a little bit of energy for the rest of the day. If I stay 4 or 5 hours on the bike I need to stop at the "Boutique del Pan" (hahaha) to get some energy and then in the evening I eat carbohydrates, salads, fruits so I try to say 'let's get everything' but always depending on the training session. If I have a day not so intensive I don't need too much carbohydrates but if my day has been a hard one, I need more salads, more carbohydrates, pasta, potatoes…
You spend a lot of time on a bike and running. Do you listen music when you are training?
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Do you play other sports?
Yes I do. Just for fan, I play volleyball, badminton, mountain biking, hiking. Unfortunately during the season I have not enough time but when the season is over, I do it.
What do usually do when you are not training?
Working a little bit. I have with my husband a business company so I'm there sometimes in the office along the week. If I don't train those days, I go to work and it's also very good for the mind because I have something completely different to triathlon and also when I spend 5 hours on bike I have something to think about and not just to think about sports. It's another influence.
And then I have a dog, a lovely Spanish dog. If I don't train I like to spend a lot of time with her. Also I have a very great family and a 2 years old niece. I love her so much so if I can, I like to spend much time with her. For me, my family is very important because they give me the power and the energy to do sports.
Travelling as triathlete you know a lot of places. What's your best place to live?
I'm from Germany and I love my country but the main problem is the weather. I'm doing triathlon and in Germany the winter and the autumn take 6 months and it's really cold so for me living as a professional is difficult, it's a nice place to stay but not the best one. That is why I prefer the Canary Islands because the weather is always constant. It's up to 20 degrees or even more in winter time and I get energy with the sun and it's not far from home.
What can you tell us about Playitas Resort?
I got you know 4 years ago and I need to say that it's the perfect place for a triathlete. You guys have all everything you need as a 50 meters Olympic Pool, sun and for cycling as well. Here you can choose to bike flat, to bike uphill or along the streets and this is very important. Also you can run at the beach, to the lighthouse so I will say with one word: variety. And you have the best food ever so this is also something very important if you train or work so hard in the evening you need to have something that tastes and makes you fit again for the next day and also your fantastic gym, the courses for stretching and if you don't want to train you can go and have fitness with girls and guys or just go for a walk around the surroundings.
Anja, thank you very much for your time and we'll see you soon
Thank you very much. I have really enjoyed my stay and see you in December 🙂


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/ ɪnˈdus, -ˈdyus /
verb (used with object), in·duced, in·duc·ing.
to lead or move by persuasion or influence, as to some action or state of mind: to induce a person to buy a raffle ticket.
to bring about, produce, or cause: That medicine will induce sleep.
Physics. to produce (an electric current) by induction.
Logic. to assert or establish (a proposition about a class of phenomena) on the basis of observations on a number of particular facts.
Genetics. to increase expression of (a gene) by inactivating a negative control system or activating a positive control system; derepress.
Biochemistry. to stimulate the synthesis of (a protein, especially an enzyme) by increasing gene transcription.
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Origin of induce
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1 dissuade.
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British Dictionary definitions for inducible
/ (ɪnˈdjuːs) /
verb (tr)
(often foll by an infinitive) to persuade or use influence on
to cause or bring about
med to initiate or hasten (labour), as by administering a drug to stimulate uterine contractions
logic obsolete to assert or establish (a general proposition, hypothesis, etc) by induction
to produce (an electromotive force or electrical current) by induction
to transmit (magnetism) by induction
Derived Formsinducer, nouninducible, adjective
Word Origin for induce
C14: from Latin indūcere to lead in, from dūcere to lead
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Word Origin and History for inducible
late 14c., "to lead by persuasions or other influences," from Latin inducere "lead into, bring in, introduce, conduct, persuade," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + ducere "to lead" (see duke (n.)). Meaning "to bring about," of concrete situations, etc., is from early 15c.; sense of "to infer by reasoning" is from 1560s. Electro-magnetic sense first recorded 1777. Related: Induced; inducing.
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Medicine definitions for inducible
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To bring about or stimulate the occurrence of something, such as labor.
To initiate or increase the production of an enzyme or other protein at the level of genetic transcription.
To produce an electric current or a magnetic charge by induction.
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After years of making unkept resolutions followed by guilt and self-condemnation at not keeping them, I ran across something last year that was like a breath of fresh air.
Instead of making a list of a bunch of stuff you know good and well you aren't going to do, you ask God to reveal to you one word that will be a sort of focus for the coming year.
My word for 2011 was aligned.
Aligned with His will. Aligned with God and not with man.
And I see looking back so many places where He was doing that. He was gently but firmly moving me back towards center, towards the heart of the matter…His heart. And He kept right on doing it, even after I had sadly forgotten to think daily of my word.
And then the summer came, the kids were out of school and my blogging nearly dropped off completely. And I realize now just how much my blog is accountability for me – a pouring out of what God's poured in. And as the season changed and I struggled to find quiet time alone, I found myself drifting, floating. I wasn't pouring in as much and as a result there wasn't much to pour out.
We all need to have some time of quiet to contemplate, to listen. But I stopped taking mine. And it was painfully evident.
I was all out of alignment again.
But now the season for new beginnings is here and over the last few weeks, I have again felt a longing, that pulling from the Lover. His whispered call to return to my Center. To come back to that place of nearness, enclosed in His arms with my ear pressed to His chest listening to the rhythmic breathing of the Almighty God flowing in and out…sending and drawing.
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In order to stay in step with Him, I must cling to Him. Bind my heart to His.
He is the Living Water that quenches my thirst.
He is the Bread of Life that satisfies a deep hunger within.
He guides, He heals, He sustains.
He is the Master Carpenter and He lays the plumb line.
Match my heart with Yours, O God.
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What is Kale?
- Kale is a food definitely sent from above.
- It is a rich leafy green vegetable that is light and crispy.
- Kale is a green leafy vegetable that is in the same group as brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage.
- Kale; like broccoli when chopped lets off a chemical with potent anti-cancer properties.
- It is extremely low in calories.
- High in fibre.
- Its full of many vitamins and minerals that are hard to find in food today and our body needs and thrives from.
- It has vitamins K. It is very high in folate, vitamin A and C as well as many others. Folate is 1 of the B vitamins and helps to make protein and keep us going.
- It also has quite high amounts of calcium, mangenese, niacin, iron, magnesium and phosphorus.
- The list is endless really. It is full of all good stuff!!!
Where do you get it?
If you don't want to grow it yourself try to buy it from a farmers market. Its great if you can purchase your veges straight from the farmers themselves as you know that it is at its freshest. Great organic shops usually have good fresh kale too. Its usually about $4.50 a bunch in season. When you buy kale make sure it looks fresh, green and crispy… Don't settle for the limp stuff.
SO how do you eat it?
Raw is always best! Raw means that is is still alive. If you heat something up it may still contain certain traces of nutrients but some deficiency has taken place due to the cooking, you are killing the food a little. Researchers believe a process occurs in humans indicating that different raw foods each have unique and potentially significant biological effects and that healers for thousands of years have stressed that raw foods are essential to the healing process and the maintenance of health. If we are going to eat such a nutrient dense food like kale we want to get everything out of it so its best to eat it raw and there are so many things you can do to maximize the great fresh taste.
In saying this you can cook it like you would steam spinach, you can add it raw to any salad, and you can have some fun with it and make some kale chips! We LOVE KALE CHIPS!
Kale chips can be made raw by dehydrating them or you can cook them in the oven on a very low heat until crispy. Our recipe below is amazing! It is creamy, crispy and oh so yummy! A batch doesn't last 5 minutes in our house. TRY IT!
RAW Creamy Cashew Kale Chips
- 1 bunch of kale
- 1 cup cashews
- 1 clove garlic
- 1/4 cup Water
- 2 Tbls olive oil
- 1/2 tsp Paprika
- Pinch sea salt
- Pull all leaves off the stems of the Kale and tear into pieces. Wash thoroughly and dry. Leave to the side in a bowl.
- Combine cashews, garlic, water, oil, paprika and sea salt into a high powered food processor like a VITAMIX. Wizz until combined and smooth.
- Pour mixture into bowl with the kale leaves and massage the cashew mixture into the leaves until totally covered.
- Lay kale pieces onto drying racks of your dehydrator.
- Dehydrate on medium over night (6 – 10 hours) …
Note: If you don't have a dehydrator you can put them in the oven on 120 degrees with the door open for about 6-10 hours or until crispy.


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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
NY Times Notable Books 2014
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CAN'T AND WON'T. By Lydia Davis.
THE COLD SONG. By Linn Ullmann. Translated by Barbara J. Haveland.
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Happiness Is My Choice, 9
I could have put my pedal to the metal and sped up when being asked to slow down. I could have seated the guests on the right, facing a painting, instead of the left, across from the bookcase. I could have sliced the dessert lengthwise instead of widthwise. I could have worn my hair styled in a fancy manner instead of wrapped in the bohemian scarf. I could have done many things just for spite, control, or defiance.
For some reason, all of these mild requests irked me and had me thinking to do the opposite of whatever the request was. My back arched and my fur bristled. "Who do you think you are?" my inner control freak screeched.
A well-meaning person made a request of me and I bristled internally with hubris: "I'll darned well do it my way!", "Harumph! Who are you to tell me what to do?", "No, I'm not going to kowtow to you", and "Who asked you?" I could have worked myself into a fine tizzy, gotten angry, spit out unkind words. What was happening? What set me off like that?
Do I have ODD: Oppositional Defiant Disorder? No. It's more simple than that: I felt irritated.
Irritation, a feeling of not being in control, led to arrogance. My way or the highway. Conceit, pride, haughtiness, and egotism all raised their crusty, creaky voices to get a piece of the action. Hauteur, contemptuousness, smugness, disrespect, and self-importance yammered for attention. My self became more important than you, her, him, them, and those others. My yetzer hara, the "evil inclination," the nether self, that lying, poisonous snake coiled in the pit of my gut, took over my brain and implanted insanity.
Oh dear reader, don't think I'm a saint because I identified the snake. He still lashed and slashed. I recognized the beast, then let him feast anyway. I fumed; he gnashed and snarled, gurgled and fussed. I stewed in smug self-righteousness… until it tired me out. I don't want to be that person. Happiness is my choice. Lest I let the beast and chaos rule, lest I get into an accident or hurt someone's feelings, I needed to oust it. I needed to choose what to do, how to respond.
But the first step was recognizing what was going on.
I'm not normally offended or offensive. I'm typically calm and not snide. I want my life to be pleasant and placid. I choose to surround myself with good: good intentions, good wishes, good feelings. I want to have the pure joy you get from recognizing someone else's good fortune, taking pleasure in the beauty and good surrounding us. I want to dance at weddings, reveling in the gladness. I want to spread smiles and good cheer. I have the discipline to put myself in a place to harvest joy.
What difference does it make?
—Charlie Brown
I consciously remember good events and minimize the not so nice. I find ways to allow others their faults and let them have a "pass" when they're not filling my expectations. I'm easy, pretty unflappable. The world will keep turning if I am not in control. Let it be. Irritation pushed me down a short slide into the maws of unhappiness. It erected a barrier between me and my serenity.
I can't allow anything to exist between me and serenity. If I do, I get detoured from my daily connection with the One, the Source of All Good. I can put that snake down by refusing to succumb to its venom. All joy beckons me because I recognize the illness causing my discomfort: a false sense of reality. I'm not so important that my will matters above all. Does it really matter whether they sit here or there? Charlie Brown had it right: What difference does it make?
Next time the evil inclination bites me, I'll know what to do: I'll drive slower, let the guests choose their own seats, slice the dessert as each wants, and wear my hair as I please.


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What's Your Favourite Scary Movie?
after Kevin Williamson & Wes Craven
At Maggs' house. Smoke fills the kitchen as she tries to cook microwave popcorn on her stove. The Tefal(c) isn't looking too happy. Maggs abandons the growing fire hazard to answer the telephone.
MAGGS: Is this the fire brigade?
VOICE: What's your favourite scary movie?
MAGGS: Blazing Inferno.
VOICE: That's not a scary movie. What's your favourite scary movie?
MAGGS: You don't understand, the popcorn's on fire. if you're not the fire brigade could you ask them to ring me please? They might want to know about this. Goodbye.
VOICE: Don't hang up on me. I can be the fire brigade if you want me to.
MAGGS: Barry is that you?
BARRY: You've got to help me. Mabel's getting ready for a reading, she's practicing her vocal exercises. Not sure my ear drums can take it anymore.
MAGGS: My sympathies, but what am I meant to do with this popcorn?
BARRY: Never mind that, Mabel wants to know if you've re-launched Domestic Cherry yet.
Mabel can be heard shouting in the background.
MABEL: Has she relaunched Domestic Cherry yet?
BARRY: (To Mabel) I just asked her that. I honestly don't know why I bother.
MAGGS: It's on my to-do list. I was going to do it just after cooking popcorn and before eyebrow plucking, but it's going to have to wait now until I've put this fire out, then I'll have to go and buy some popcorn, I suppose.
BARRY: (To Mabel) No, she's not done it yet.
MABEL: I told you, Barry. Her memory's going. Is she still writing everything down? She's got to write everything down. Tell her.
BARRY: I feel like a ventriloquists dummy, why did I agree to make phone calls for her? Enjoy your popcorn, Maggs.
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Google earth urban forestry height assessment of Portland Metropolitan area based on Photogrammetric renderings. Using my own measurements of some standing trees via Suunto Inclinometer, and comparing them to these digital renderings, I'd say the accuracy in Google earth is greater than 90 -95+% in most cases — with the exception of very skinny tree tops. Actual height of trees are likely to be a couple or several feet higher than these numbers listed below, and trees on steep slopes likely to be less accurate. Update: 11/16/14 Note: Having read a recent post to my link on Reddit, I am happy to report that New 2014 Aerial Imagery has been added to Google Earth with crisper, sharper graphics in the 3D mode. Tree heights have increased 3 to as much as 20 feet on some of these listed specimens, due in part to new tree growth in the past 4 or 5 years, but also for better quality imagery which renders sharper and narrower tree tops. For instance, the previous 2010 Google Earth photogrammetric imagery often was not able to render church steeples, and cell towers 3 or 4 ft diameter. This new 2014 imagery does! I find the 2014 imagery to be 95-99% accurate, and even then the heights are conservative, as still the very top 1-3 ft of a tree may not render completely if it is a mere twig some inch in diameter. I still have lots of work to do on this amateur project, and there are many very tall trees in the Portland Metropolitan. More tall trees exist in Portland's metro region than Seattle Metro based on my analysis, thanks largely to places like Forest Park. I will add more data to more Portland Parks, and if you want to know the heights of trees in a certain park, log into Google, or comment below and I'll give you my estimate. *Note To climbers, and avid outdoors-men/women and the vertically inclined: Many of these trees are on private property. Ascend at your own risk….
S.E. Portland Laurelhurst Park: Douglas fir 171 ft tall, 45°31'16.91″N & 122°37'24.92″W *Update 11/16/14, due to new Google Earth Imagery, I have calculated this tree is actually closer to 180 ft tall. Sellwood Park: 171 ft Douglas fir, 45°28'3.47″N & 122°39'38.87″W * Update, new aerial imagery from 2014 has been uploaded for this area in Google earth's 3D function. Tree is actually about 178 ft tall. A combination of sharper imagery, and new height growth of these old Douglas fir (6″ to over 12″ per year) may also have contributed to these increased values. Former 3D imagery was from aerial survey in 2010. Mt Tabor Park. Plenty of 140 – 185 ft Douglas fir: Kelly Butte, Some 150 – 190 ft Douglas fir. Powell Butte: Many 170 – 205 foot Douglas fir. At the north end of Powell Butte a wall of 170 – 200 foot Douglas fir forms the boundary of the park right next to a neighborhood: Same neighborhood — wall of giants: Lents Park, One 150 ft Douglas fir: Mt Scott Park. 100 – 150 ft Douglas fir. Mt Scott Park. 30 meter (100 ft) canopy: Church Campgrounds on S.E. Duke street. 100 – 140 ft Douglas fir. Woodstock Park, Douglas fir up to 143 ft. *Update per 11/16/14, tree is now 146 ft tall. — thanks to 3 ft of growth in 4 years time/ and or sharper resolution imagery uploaded to Google Earth. Tallest in Eastmoreland — near Reed College. Three 130 – 140 ft tall Giant Sequoias.* Note: 11/16/14, Tallest of these 3 trees is actually 147 ft. per new sharper 2014 Google Earth 3D imagery. Update 6/24/15, Tallest is actually 150 feet high according to Google earth Imagery — I applied 45 meter canopy to these 3 trees and found that the tallest is almost 46 meters. However, actual measurement in person with inclinometer suggests this tree may be 153 to 154 feet tall, as the top 3 or 4 feet may not render completely in Google Earth. Real world measurement is generally higher than these renderings. The 147 ft estimate was derived from subtracting the tree's crown ht (323 ft above ground) from the base elevation (176 ft) in Google earth's 2d function. In the 3D function base elevation is actually about 173 ft.
*Eastmoreland – 6/24/15 – Update: These 3 giant Sequoias are slated to be cut down per a new development being built. A tentative deal was struck that will delay the cutting for 60 days: http://www.katu.com/news/local/Neighbors-rally-to-save-redwoods-eastmoreland-309409281.html?mobile=y
*UPDATE: 6/28/15.Neighbors and citizens of Portland have started an official Go Fund Me page to help donate to Save these 3 giant trees: http://www.gofundme.com/SaveTheGiants
My most recent Google Earth estimates for the tallest of these 3 trees was 147 feet, and now 150 feet. Today I measured it in person using an inclinometer, from 4 different angles, and I now estimate the tallest at 153 – 154 feet. These are possibly the tallest trees for a mile radius within Portland, and the tallest in Eastmoreland. There is a nother Sequoia in Eastmoreland that is at least 143 feet tall, possibly even taller, and a 151+ ft Douglas fir in Crystal springs.. But no taller trees exist in all of inner S.E. Portland's Eastmoreland, Woodstock, and Brentwood neighborhoods as far as I can tell.
Eastmoreland, at SE 28th and Tolman a giant deciduous tree (species?) a monolithic 137 ft! Among the top dozen trees in that area. A recent windstorm late sept. 2013 brought down a few big Elm trees, or parts of them, in this neighborhood. Crystal Springs has some respectable Dougli in the 130 ft – 140 ft + range. Update: 11/16/14. Located the new tallest tree in Eastmoreland, a 151 ft tall Douglas fir in Crystal Springs at 45°28'37.48″N & 122°38'9.34″W. Kenilworth park has some 140 – 160 foot Doug fir. Ross Island's tallest trees; Black Cottonwoods 159 ft and 161 ft. Government Island has some up to 166 ft. Downtown, across the street from Multnomah Co. Court house. 8 ft diameter 135+ ft Giant Sequoia. Note: * Update, per 11/16/2014. Tree is actually 156 feet tall! New imagery from 2014 contains sharper photography, and hence a better rendering of the top 20 feet of this conically endowed specimen of the Sequoiadendron race. Forest Park. Along the canyon at Balch creek in Macleay park are the oldest and tallest trees in the city. Douglas fir 200 – 300 years old 6 ft diameter reaching 200 to about 250 ft tall! I found dozens of 190 – 240 footers clustered in the deep valleys. There are likely to be taller ones. Tryon Creek State Park, in Lake Oswego a number of 200 – 224 ft Douglas fir nestled in the hills above Tryon creek. Happy Valley, near Sunnyside on private property near Hood View Park at 45°25'5.44″N & 122°30'3.46″W some 200 – 217 ft Douglas fir nestled in a gulch along Rock Creek. Land may be logged and turned into housing at some point. Brand new Neighborhoods are popping up in this area! Per Request: Columbia Park, Portland. Some rather tall 130 – 165 ft Douglas fir. Tallest I could find was a Douglas fir 165 ft tall at 45°34'45.52″N and 122°42'39.14″W located on the edge of the football field straight between and behind the western goal posts. Some other tall trees in the 150 – 160 ft range are located deep in the stand of forest west of the main field.
Per request from BigTreeGuy. Pacific Spirit Regional Park, Vancouver B.C. I barely scratched the surface of this 1,200 + acre park, but found some Douglas fir in the 200 to 230 feet tall range (60 to 70 meters) tall. I think some trees exceeding 70 or 75 meters could well exist! I will continue to survey this park and see what else I might find! Next in line is Stanley Park! 100 years ago some gigantic fir trees measuring 300 to 320 feet tall and 8 – 10 ft diameter were reported to have fallen over in Windstorms at Stanley park, so I hope to be excited with possible new giants there.


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Mr Andrew Barr
Freelancer in the media as a presenter, consultant and writer
Andrew has worked for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Radio Scotland and Premier Radio amongst others. He has been a Trustee of the MB Reckitt Trust, Chair of the Soul of Europe (a charitable Trust concerning reconciliation in Bosnia), a member of the Joint Liturgy Group of the UK, and a member of the Religion in the Media Monitoring Group for the General Synod of the Church of England. He is still a Council Member of the Religious Education Movement for Scotland.
Andrew was co-author of Jobs for the Boys (Hodder 2001), looking at the experiences of women who became priests in the Anglican Church. Other titles published include:
Songs of Praise: A Lent and Easter Companion
Through the Year with Songs of Praise (Lion/BBC)
He contributed to the International directory, Christianity: A Complete Guide (Continuum 2005). His Out of the Deep anthology of resources for times of national grief was published in 2013 by CTBI.
His most recent project is a media presentation for Macmillan Nurses, working with his wife, Liz Barr.
He is currently writing End Board, an account of working in the BBC film department, describing the often hair-raising episodes behind the camera making some now-notorious documentaries. It describes an almost lost generation with whom he worked from the 1960s.