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How Do I set Favorite Topics?
How do I set a topic as a Favorite in my account?
How do I set a topic as a Favorite in my account?
If you're talking about the adding to the "favorites" on your computers main toolbar, Simply go to the page that you want to tag, then right click anywhere on the page. A box will come up, somewhere in your choices will be the words "Add to Favorites" Click on that, type in the title that you want, and it's bookmarked. Go to your favorites icon on your toolbar, and it'll be there.
If you're talking about something specific to "thefreshloaf", I can't help you!
If you mean within thefreshloaf...I've never actually used that feature, but right there on the bottom of the white box that makes a table around any forum topics, (including your post here!) there's an "add to favorites" link (right next to the one that says "email this page") which should put the forum topic and thread as a link in your "favorites" on your user profile.
I don't have that access either and have wanted to save several things in TFL. Thanks for bringing this topic up. GOD IS SO GOOD!!
Mine just has "reply and "email this page." Somewhere along the line, I had made a favorite but I can't seem to erase it from "my account." Been trying all kinds of stuff. Mini O
Look up on the original post, not the comments.
I too was just about to post that I could not see the "add to favourites" link either.
Heh. It's always easier when you know how! And I'm glad I finally know. This will be quite handy.
How do we delete something from our favorites list?
It doesn't look like this module lets you. Rather hokey, eh?
I'll see if there is a newer version or if I can modify it to allow people to manage their favorites when I have some spare time.
Click on the favorite topic (inside "my account") to bring you to the original topic question. At the bottom of that first question, click on the "remove from favorites" easy enough.... (slowly I'm getting the hang of this computer stuff...) Thanks everyone, wouldn't have figured it out with out you!
Mini O
Oh yeah... Would you look at that...
I mean, I knew that. I was just testing you. ;^)


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amikhnov necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 13 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
I am working on the redesign of the US Clay-Mates website – I only need the home page. Here is some history on Clay-Mates:
• A Clay-Mate is a clay toy, which has a name and birth date. This information can only be obtained by visiting the website. Once on the website, visitors learn of the virtual house for tracking their collections (they create a user name and password). Once they scroll through the Clay-Mates to find their character, they can then drag and drop into their virtual house.
Children, ages 8 to 12, and parents
• Playful
• Easy going
• Clean (but colorful – NOT Apple.com style)
• Easy to navigate
• Not noisy
See Requirements & Assets ZIP for DETAILS:
Requirements: http://www.restbros.com/dev/clay-ma…ements.doc
Assets: http://www.restbros.com/dev/clay-ma…assets.zip
Requirements & Assets (everything): http://www.restbros.com/dev/clay-ma…ements.zip
• Avoid resolution higher than 1280x1024 (unless you have something VERY special)
o Try to keep entire page visible above the fold
If impossible, Primary and Secondary Panels MUST BE visible above the fold
• Avoid too many gradients (site needs to be clean and I want to achieve as much as possible using CSS) – a little gradient is OK
I am open to new and different ideas – be creative and remember, you're doing it for kids ages 8 to 12 years old. They layout can be anything you want but I provided some samples to make your work easier. Please submit a design with "idle view" and mouse over a drop-down navigation that shows 2nd level drop-down.
Final Design
Final handoff must be:
• fully layers PSD
• all fonts included
• navigation / drop-downs must have 3 states
o idle (neutral)
o active (I'm on that page)
o mouse over (mouse is over the button)
I will be working with the winner on the redesign (for additional $$) of the inside pages.
Thank you everyone and I look forward to seeing your work!

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text: Off-Road Cult has done a big review of the Firestorm Flux brushless-powered truck, released earlier this year. Thanks to Austrian distributor LRP Electronic, they were supplied with the 1/10th scale stadium truck for an all-out, high-flying review! The review is loaded with action pictures and plenty of text, which is in German, but the pictures are great in any language!


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Greg Radford
Director, IGF
Greg Radford has spent more than 25 years helping businesses and governments develop, adopt and apply environmental and social standards. He has worked in over 50 countries on projects involving mining, oil and gas, energy, infrastructure, agriculture and the international financial sector.
Greg is an international sustainability expert in: policy development; natural resource management; environmental and social impact assessment; training and capacity building; and the application of international standards to projects in developing countries. He also has extensive experience helping corporations and governments engage with civil society and communities affected by major projects.
Greg has held senior management positions at Canadian corporations and international organizations, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), prior to leading the Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development (IGF).
The IGF is a centre of excellence on mining and sustainable development and serves as a unique global venue for dialogue between its 55 member-country governments, mining companies, civil society and other stakeholders. It provides capacity-building programs, tailored technical assistance and assessment services framed by its flagship policy tool, the Mining Policy Framework.
Greg aims to expand IGF's advisory and technical support services, develop new partnerships and advocate for sustainable development and benefits sharing in the global mining sector.
He is based in IISD's Ottawa office.
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TALLAHASSEE — After his new party's recent political woes, Charlie Crist's biggest problem as would-be Democratic candidate for governor may not be that he switched but that the party he switched to may be of no help.
Democrats found some cheer last week as Florida House members buried the hatchet after an internal struggle and elected Mark Pafford of West Palm Beach to lead them through the 2014 elections.
But that followed events in the last couple of months that one political analyst referred to as "bad luck, bad timing and bad judgment":
A Democratic candidate for state chief financial officer dropped out of the race when it became known he had filed for bankruptcy three times in two states, the last time just five years ago, when he also defaulted on a payment plan.
Former CFO Alex Sink, who lost the governor's race to Republican Rick Scott in 2010, decided she won't run against Scott in 2014, acknowledging that fundraising was a consideration.
Republican candidate Bill Gunter raised more than twice the campaign funds of Democrat Amanda Murphy, $83,000 to $38,000, before the primary election to fill Mike Fasano's House seat. Fasano left the Legislature to become Pasco County's tax collector, and Democrats now consider his Pasco County seat a must-get.
House Democrats ousted their own leader-designate, St. Petersburg's Darryl Rouson, after discovering he had set up a separate campaign account to fund House races without telling Florida Democratic Party officials or members of his own caucus.
After learning of the secret fund, Florida Democratic Party chair Allison Tant fired two senior staffers in charge of strategy and fundraising for House races who assisted Rouson.
"All of these have contributed in a brief period of time to their current state," said Aubrey Jewett, a University of Central Florida political science professor and Florida politics expert.
"It's a public relations black eye as far as people pay attention to these stories," Jewett said. "What's really most important is the perception that they won't be competitive in a lot of races," especially the governor and Cabinet.
Crist, the former Republican governor turned independent, then Democrat, will have to decide whether to run, in part, on how much of his own fundraising and other machinery he'll have to create and how much he can rely on the party.
The Republican Party of Florida so far has raised more for the 2014 election cycle, $9.3 million, than the state Democrats, $2.2 million, according to campaign finance records. The next reports are due Oct. 10.
Crist, now a private attorney in Tampa with the Morgan and Morgan personal-injury law firm, did not respond to an interview request last week.
"What most gets in the party's way is the inability to be effective," said Patrick Manteiga, a Democrat and editor and publisher of the trilingual Tampa weekly La Gaceta. "Individual campaigns have seemed to be better organized then the party itself," mentioning Sink's 2010 run as an example.
Referring to other complaints he's heard, "You can't drive into Orlando anymore and say, 'O.K., give me all your Hispanic contacts,' because they don't have them," Manteiga said.
Florida Democratic Party spokesman Joshua Karp counters that they've opened new offices in Miami and Orlando, added Hispanic outreach staff, data and research directors, established a Board of Trustees and Chair's Cabinet for fundraising, and engaged with 250,000 people in the last week alone over social media.
"The party helps all Democratic candidates with various infrastructure needs, and if Mr. Crist decides to run for governor we will look forward to a spirited primary campaign, and will be supporting the primary winner," he said.
After decades of Democratic dominance, Republicans captured the state's Senate, House and Governor's Office in the 1990s. After the latest redistricting, however, Democrats picked up seats in Congress, the state Senate and in the state House.
Republicans outnumber Democrats in the Legislature almost 2-1, but there are more registered Democrats than Republicans in the state, about 4.7 million to 4.2 million — not that statewide numbers matter much in hyper-partisan district elections.
Pafford's particular challenge is overcoming perceptions that he's not a strong fundraiser and convincing contributors that Democratic candidates are worth the investment.
"We need to talk to people," he said last week. "Donors are about relationships, and trust is inherent to the process."
Democratic consultant and Crist confidant Steve Schale says the party's recent distractions won't have "one iota of impact on who the next governor is."
Without telegraphing Crist's plans, Schale said, "Every campaign has to go in and build its own operation." He should know; Schale ran President Obama's 2008 Florida campaign and ran the state House Democratic Caucus before that.
"Don't blame the party … you can't force people to run for office," he added. "Running statewide is a multi-million dollar endeavor."
For example, nearly three months after Attorney General Pam Bondi announced her re-election campaign, Tant promised she would "give Florida voters a strong alternative," but no Democratic challenger has emerged.
"Chair Tant has held many meetings with potential candidates for state and local offices around Florida, and we are fighting every day for every incumbent member of our party," Karp said. "We are committed to providing all our incumbents with the staff, resources, and strategic advice they need."
Those who might be up to the task may want to wait four years and run for an open seat, rather than challenge an incumbent, Schale said.
For anyone who came to him now for advice about statewide office, "I probably would counsel them to think long and hard," he added.
Broward County Commissioner Marty Kiar, who served in the House 2006-12, disagrees. He said there's still time for qualified candidates to run for statewide office.
"It all depends on who's on top of the ticket," said Kiar, who rose to Democratic ranking member of the PreK-12 Appropriations subcommittee.
"I'm close to Nan Rich; she's a friend," he added, referring to the former state senator and only declared Democratic candidate for governor. "But Charlie is also a friend."
Kiar said he remembered, in one State of the State speech, Crist quoting John F. Kennedy, rather than Ronald Reagan.
"I think they'd both be very strong, but I also think Charlie Crist would be a very good Democratic governor," he said. "The fundamental job of the party is to win elections, and we are well-positioned to win races up and down the ballot next year," Karp added. "The special interests and the Republican power-brokers know that Florida is trending against them."
Jewett said he doesn't attribute the Democrats' problems to bad organization, but rather the fortunes of political war.
"The Republicans have gone through their own problems," he said.
Former Republican Party of Florida chairman Jim Greer was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to theft and money laundering charges.
That said, Democrats "can't afford to have things continue to go wrong if they want to be competitive," Jewett said.
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Learning to write your own name is a big deal in the kid world! It means that you're
growing up and getting ready for school. You're old enough to be trusted with writing
tools such as pencils, pens, and markers. You can use that neat looking paper with lines
on it. Names represent ourselves, so naturally it's a highly desired skill in the eyes of a
Now where to begin helping your child learn to write his or her name? In my opinion, it's
best to teach name writing correctly from the start by using an upper case letter at the
beginning of the name, followed by lower case letters. As students enter kindergarten,
many have to be retrained because they were taught in preschool to print using all
upper case letters. While lower case letter formation may not be as easy as connecting
straight lines, it's less frustrating for children to learn correctly from the start.
Here are tips to keep in mind when creating materials to teach name writing and name recognition:
1. Begin with only the first name. After the first name has been mastered, teach the last name as well.
2. Model name writing that begins with an upper case letter and is followed by lower case letters.
3. Find out if your local school district uses print or D'Nealian styles of manuscript. Use
that type of writing to ease your child's transition into elementary school.
4. Use a larger font when creating materials for tracing.
5. Purchase a chubby primary pencil, or use a pencil grip to encourage proper pencil grasp.
6. Initially, you may want to place a star or sticker on the left side of the paper to remind
your child to start on the left. It's not uncommon for young children to attempt to write from right to left.
Some helpful materials to create for these exercises:
1. Laminate a sentence strip with the child's name printed in a black marker. Sentence
strips can be found at teacher supply stores (who may also supply laminating), or at a
dollar store. Children can practice tracing using a wet-erase marker such as Vis-aVis. Wipe clean with a baby wipe or rinse under water for reuse.
2. Create a sentence strip puzzle. Print the name in a black marker. Cut the name
apart into puzzle-like pieces (one piece per letter). Laminate or seal using clear
Contact paper and recut. Place pieces in a zipper baggie. Children can practice
putting the letters of their name in order.
3. Design a tracing worksheet using teacher font software. Use a large font to begin
with. Make one line with solid letters as a model. Make a second and third line with
dot-to-dot letters for tracing. Leave a blank line for children to practice independently.
These sheets can also be laminated, but it's helpful for children to practice using
pencil as well. Pencil creates more friction against paper than marker.
Fun Ways to Practice:
1. Hide pieces of the name puzzle around the room and play a name hunt game. How
many letters are your looking for? Find them all, name the letters, and build the
2. Build the name using play dough, modeling clay or Wikki-Stix. Make a crayon
rubbing over the Wikki-Stix.
3. Build the name using magnet letters on the refrigerator or cookie tray.
4. Build letters out of bread dough and bake. Yum!
5. Print with fingers (the index and middle fingers together) using finger paint and paper,
or shaving cream on a tray.
6. Paint the name on an easel (this promotes the top to bottom motion necessary for
printing). Sign his name at the bottom of artwork.
7. Together, make a name plaque to hang in your child's room.
8. Your child can sign his own name at the bottom of thank you cards.
9. Print your child's name in large letters, using a Sharpie marker on a piece of colored
construction paper. Teach your child how to trace the letters using a thin line of liquid
white glue (school glue). Cover in glitter and let dry.
10. Make a simple word search and have your child look for his name. How many times
was it hidden?
With each experience your child will gain self-confidence and skill. Keep the activities
varied, short, enjoyable, and engaging. If you stop while your child is still amused, he
will be eager to practice again next time. Keep learning fun!
Printable D'Nealian Alphabet Practice sheet
Printable Standard Alphabet Practice sheet
Printable Storywriting Blank page
Julie Rebboah has been a professional educator since 1998. She has been an Early Reading Intervention instructor, an English language development teacher, and a private tutor. Julie wrote Magic Letters; The Keys to the World of Words and Magic Words; Discovering the Adventure of Reading out of a need to provide materials to support and extend learning in her diverse classroom. http://www.lightningbuglearning.com


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Hiding in Triangles is a new hotel for bike enthusiasts proposed by design firm Philip Modest Schambelan + Anton Fromm. Perched on a cliff above Lake Garda in Italy, the concept is cycling specific with ramps instead of stairs. Via Design Boom. Hat tip to Strangecode.
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Feb. Shipments Rise In Line with Expectations
March 27, 2013 by RVBusiness Comments Off on Feb. Shipments Rise In Line with Expectations
For the 14th consecutive month, recreational vehicle shipments are above what they were the same month the previous year. Not only that but February shipments of 26,120 units are the highest February total since 2008, according to the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association (RVIA).
Kevin Broom, a spokesman for the RVIA of Reston, Va., told the South Bend Tribune that the organization is not surprised by the continued rise in shipments. Wholesale RV shipments are expected to rise to 307,300 units in 2013, according to the latest forecast by University of Michigan professor Richard Curtin, representing a 7.5% increase over 2012.
"We knew throughout the downturn that there was still interest in RVs," Broom said. "What we're seeing is the return to long-term interest in RVs, people buying RVs and people wanting RVs. We expect we're going to see continued growth throughout the year."
A stabilized economy is one factor, Broom said. So is pent-up demand.
"It's kind of like the downturn," he said of the rebound. "There were so many factors that caused RV sales to dip. It's kind of the same thing. There is pent-up demand and also the economy has stabilized. So people aren't as concerned about losing their job.
"Home prices have largely stabilized throughout the country. So as the economy has gotten more stable, people have gotten more comfortable about stepping out and making an RV purchase."
The continued rise in shipments is a very good thing for northern Indiana, where more than 82% of all of the nation's RVs are produced. The industry employs 24,000 people in northern Indiana in both the manufacturing and supply sector.


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Direct from SCOTUS:
A few positive points to be made about Chief Justice Roberts opinion:
Concerning the Individual Mandate:
Given its expansive scope, it is no surprise that Congress has employed the commerce power in a wide variety of ways to address the pressing needs of the time. But Congress has never attempted to rely on that power to compel individuals not engaged in commerce to purchase an unwanted product…. The language of the Constitution reflects the natural understanding that the power to regulate assumes there is already something to be regulated…. As expansive as our cases construing the scope of the commerce power have been, they all have one thing in common: They uniformly describe the power as reaching "activity…."The individual mandate, however, does not regulate existing commercial activity. It instead compels individuals to become active in commerce by purchasing a product, on the ground that their failure to do so affects interstate commerce. Construing the Commerce Clause to permit Congress to regulate individuals precisely because they are doing nothing would open a new and potentially vast domain to congressional authority…. Allowing Congress to justify federal regulation by pointing to the effect of inaction on commerce would bring countless decisions an individual could potentially make within the scope of federal regulation, and—under the Government's theory—empower Congress to make those decisions for him…. The proposition that Congress may dictate the conduct of an individual today because of prophesied future activity finds no support in our precedent."
Indeed it would and I agree with the Chief Justice on this issue specifically. Congress does NOT need to be involved in any citizen's decision to buy anything or for that matter to not buy anything. The above reasoning is sound and leads me to believe that the Chief Justice isn't totally insane for upholding this monstrosity of a law.
Chief Justice Roberts now has this to say concerning the government's argument that Obamacare is constitutional due to the application of the "necessary and proper clause:"
The Government next contends that Congress has the power under the Necessary and Proper Clause to enact the individual mandate because the mandate is an "integral part of a comprehensive scheme of economic regulation…. As our jurisprudence under the Necessary and Proper Clause has developed, we have been very deferential to Congress's determination that a regulation is "necessary." We have thus upheld laws that are "'convenient, or useful' or 'conducive' to the authority's 'beneficial exercise.'" But we have also carried out our responsibility to declare unconstitutional those laws that undermine the structure of government established by the Constitution…. Applying these principles, the individual mandate cannot be sustained under the Necessary and Proper Clause as an essential component of the insurance reforms. Each of our prior cases upholding laws under that Clause involved exercises of authority derivative of, and in service to, a granted power. The individual mandate, by contrast, vests Congress with the extraordinary ability to create the necessary predicate to the exercise of an enumerated power. This is in no way an authority that is "narrow in scope…." Rather, such a conception of the Necessary and Proper Clause would work a substantial expansion of federal authority. No longer would Congress be limited to regulating under the Commerce Clause those who by some preexisting activity bring themselves within the sphere of federal regulation. Instead, Congress could reach beyond the natural limit of its authority and draw within its regulatory scope those who otherwise would be outside of it. Even if the individual mandate is "necessary" to the Act's insurance reforms, such an expansion of federal power is not a "proper" means for making those reforms effective.
What the Chief Justice is saying here again echoes his previous comments concerning the "commerce clause." That if the government had its way and the court had gone with both the commerce clause and the necessary and proper clause as justifications for the constitutionality of Obamacare that, in short, the federal government could literally come in and regulate any and all decisions an individual can make in their lifetime which sounds just like the Life of Julia. I don't want government deciding any life issues for me nor do I desire the "Cradle to grave " help"from the federal government.
Now the Chief Justice handles the governments last defense of the individual mandate:
Because the Commerce Clause does not support the individual mandate, it is necessary to turn to the Government's second argument: that the mandate may be upheld as within Congress's enumerated power to "lay and collect Taxes."
There it is, the word we have all been waiting for…. Taxes. Remember this:
The President himself rejects the notion that the "fee" that must be paid to the government is not a tax. Now back to Chief Justice Roberts:
The Government does not claim that the taxing power allows Congress to issue such a command. Instead, the Government asks us to read the mandate not as ordering individuals to buy insurance, but rather as imposing a tax on those who do not buy that product."
Who is the government again? The President, the Congress, The Supreme Court. Which branch was responsible for defending Obamacare in front of the Supreme Court. The answer is the Presidency and last I checked Barack Hussein Obama was President, his own solicitor general from the Department of Justice defended the law. The President says via interview that the individual mandate is not a tax, but his solicitor general argues that it is? Which is it Mr. President? Did you lie to us? I am guessing yes.
Cheif Justice Robert goes on to say that it is ok to tax a person based on behavior. I do not think it is correct to tax a citizen based on his behavior (owning or not owning a commodity). The question should be asked now, "What else can the federal government tax?"


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Appeal Stakeout Turns Carnival for Media
Stakeouts seem like so much fun in the movies.
Cups of lukewarm coffee. A dashboard strewn with fast-food wrappers and empty chip bags. Long conversations about the meaning of life. Monitoring a target through a set of high-powered binoculars or a listening device. The eventual gratification of being able to knock down a door or chase down a suspect.
Those are the images, born of watching too many police procedurals, that come to mind as you roll up to the NASCAR Research and Development Center on Tuesday morning to stake out the appeal being heard over the penalties assessed to Jimmie Johnson and Chad Knaus. On March 1, Johnson was docked 25 points and Knaus and car chief Ron Malec were each suspended six weeks because of illegally modified body parts that inspectors found on the No. 48 car prior to the Daytona 500. Hendrick Motorsports appealed those penalties, and Tuesday sent a team to NASCAR's R&D facility to argue its case before a three-person appeal board.
And the media tagged along.
Not completely, of course. While Hendrick, NASCAR and appeals board officials debated behind closed doors and covered windows, reporters set up camp outside -- quite literally, some of them bringing camp chairs and fold-up tables and power strips and boxes of donuts, coffee or water. NASCAR appeals traditionally have been a sedate affair, with the National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel releasing a terse announcement including the results of the appeal, perhaps a brief bit of reasoning behind the decision, and names of the three people who comprised the panel. Then in 2010, Richard Childress appealed a 150-point penalty Clint Bowyer was assessed for failing inspection after winning the Chase race at New Hampshire, and a few reporters showed up at the R&D Center to try and elicit comments from those involved.
And everything changed.
The NASCAR stakeout was born. And Tuesday it arrived again, this time on steroids, complete with satellite trucks, a mascot, and enough food to feed a small country. For the Bowyer appeal in 2010, the stakeout consisted of a few writers milling under the overhang at the R&D Center's front entrance. For the Knaus appeal, it turned into Lollapalooza. Evidently two years ago, reporters showed up unsure of how long the process would take -- turns out it can take a very long time -- and stood out in the cold and drizzle all day without any food. This time, public-relations professionals with good memories materialized with trunks filled with goodies, and NASCAR supplied coffee and pizza. One fan who read about the episode on Twitter dropped off a case of snack crackers and bottled water. By the time the day ended, everyone had gained 15 pounds.
Meanwhile, there was a debate going on inside. Two years ago, Childress occasionally joked with the media during the day-long affair, holding a sign up to one window asking them to please send pizza. This time, there was no joking around. Window shades were pulled down. The Hendrick team evidently entered the building not through the front door, but through a secured rear gate. In early afternoon, a Hendrick trailer ostensibly carrying evidence for the defense rolled in. The only interaction any reporters had with the principals came during one access-controlled bathroom break, when yours truly accidenly encountered Rick Hendrick and team vice president Ken Howes in the men's room, leading to the following exclusive interview:
Me: Hey.
Them: Hey.
The real action, though, was outside. Things started to get a little weird at about 10:40 a.m., when a public-relations team from Charlotte Motor Speedway, never one to miss an opportunity to make inroads with the media, showed up with bananas, apples, water, and -- this from the track that deep-fries everything -- fried cupcakes, arranged three to a skewer and coated in chocolate syrup and powdered sugar. Even Lugnut, the track's costumed mascot, came along. Not to be upstaged, a representative from Sprint arrived a few hours later with bags of Chik-fil-A. Driver Landon Cassill showed up with Whoppers from Burger King, which backs his No. 83 car. A fan who was in the area visiting race shops on vacation stopped by just to hang out. They only things missing were a funnel cake stand and a dunk tank.
The carnival atmosphere made it easy to forget that there was a real reason everyone had assembled, that being the appeal going on within the big white building. Reporters were moved to action each time the R&D Center's rear security gate rumbled to life. Every vehicle was scrutinized for make, model and potential owner. Wait -- could that be Knaus? Not in a Ford truck. Wait -- here comes a silver-haired man wearing a white shirt and driving a Chevrolet sport-utility vehicle. Hendrick? No. just a NASCAR official. Wait -- is that a member of the appeal committee? No, just Lugnut. Wait, a No. 6 car -- is Ricky Stenhouse Jr. in trouble, too? No, just the most recent Nationwide Series winner being pushed back across the street to Roush Fenway Racing after inspection. False alarm. Everyone feel free to go back to eating.
By mid-afternoon, after a fiesta of gluttony and with the day getting warmer, the lull began to settle in. Everyone just wanted to sprawl out on the grass and take a nap. So when the action began to unfold for real, it came as a shock. NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp walked outside at about 2:30 p.m., catching off-guard those reporters who were doing live stand-ups for television or snoozing in their cars. Tharp made a brief statement while copies of the official announcement were handed out. The ruling: Penalty upheld. No modifications. Points and suspensions remained intact.
Kind of. Next out was Hendrick, who went out of his way to thank NASCAR for the chance to have the appeal heard, but made no secret of the fact that he didn't agree with the panel's ruling. And as expected, he vowed to take his fight to the one level still remaining to him, a final plea heard by Chief Appellate Officer John Middlebrook, a former General Motors executive with whom Hendrick -- a Chevrolet car owner and dealer -- has enjoyed a long relationship.
"We're going to go ahead to the next level and present our case one last time," Hendrick said. For Hendrick, it means one more shot at getting the penalties reduced or overturned. For Johnson, it means one more shot at getting back his 25 points. For Knaus, it means one more shot at reducing his suspension. For the NASCAR media corps, it means one more thing.
Another stakeout! This time, who's bringing the barbecue grill?


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This cute sweet little fairy tale told by a music box brings you to another world, where elfs are flying, where dwarfs are allmighty, and where Kings and Queens rule for centuries.
It's one sweet bedtime story with nothing else but an actual music box and accompanied by things that are bigger than him. Big string lines that sometimes are once soft and then haunting. But it's a children story after all and like any of these tales it has a sweet and happy ending.
So enjoy this little adventure and hopefully it turns your project or film footage in something bigger.
One of this song's many uses is a christmas wish card: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J0jKEXYXPg


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NOMINATIONS: For Moment of the Week 5/15/13 *Spoilers*
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by LOLtron » Thu May 16, 2013 12:46 am
Which moment from a comic this week caught your interest?
YOUR WINNER for 5/8/13:
Amanda Waller recruits James Gordon Jr as the newest member of the Suicide Squad - Suicide Squad #20
This thread will contain SPOILERS!!! And lots of them. If you haven't read this week's comics yet, go read them before continuing into this thread, or risk being spoiled!
PLEASE NOTE!!!!!! ]Remember to include the title and issue number of the comic you are nominating. Otherwise I will be forced to disqualify your nomination, and nobody wants that!
The Rules:
1. Each nomination must be a moment in a comic released the week of the thread. This does not include weekly previews, trade paperbacks, or back issue digests. For new comics check out Midtown Comics release dates.
2. Everyone can make ONE nomination. You can either nominate a moment yourself or second/third/fourth/fifth an already existing nomination. However, second/third/fourth/fifth will not count per nominating and thus earn entry above in Top Nominations. You want in that list you must nominate something.
3. It must be an actual moment involving the actions or statements of a comic character in an issue. No "This writer returns to the series", "this artist draws this character", "the book is better", etc.
4. If you want to change your nomination, there are a few factors involved:
---> A) No one can have seconded your nom.
---> B) If it is clear for you to change your nom, you must edit your original post or the new post will be disqualified as being a double nomination.
---> C) You can change your second, third, etc. by editing your original post before the nomination period ends.
Moments on the poll do not have to be seconded. If there is room in the poll, moments that were nominated but not seconded will be added based on the order they were nominated.
6. Again, please be specific on the comic title, issue number and moment. Also be clear that you are actually nominating or seconding something ... statements such as "Yeah, that was a cool moment" aren't clear. You must nominate a single moment in the comic and can't nominate the whole issue. Once more, if you don't include the issue and number the moment will not be included.
7. The thread for nominations will go up on Wednesday (new comic day) at 11:00 PM (Central) or when Zechs arrives later that night and posts in the previous week thread announcing voting is closed. The nominations will go until 2:00 PM (Central Time) Sunday Afternoon, or whenever Zechs arrives and will post in the thread stating, "It's over." and will start the poll. If a new comic day falls on a holiday week in American, then the thread will be made for that day (be it Tuesday or Thursday). Regardless, nominations will STILL conclude on Saturday deadline.
8. Please be civil when commenting on other people's nominations. But feel free to discuss them in this thread.
9. In case there is debate on WHEN exactly a title came out, http://www.midtowncomics.com or the official websites of said publishers (be it Marvel, DC, Darkhorse, etc.) will be the final word on the quarrel.
10. Any nominations not following the above rules will be disqualified. Unless of course if Zechs, who is feeling sad for the person who missed the rule and might give them time to provide the correction. Then he will pester bk into putting the nomination in the poll. Of course this wouldn't be a problem if Zechs wasn't granted the glorious powers of a moderator, which one day such power will be Zechs, oh yes they will his.
11. If at five nominations are not made, Zechs will choose some, but they will all count as one nomination, not multiple thus making sure balance is preserved.
12. AKA the Rulk rule. If several moments are tied past the deadline of 11:00 PM (Central Time) Wednesday (or holiday date when new comics arrive in the US) or when Zechs arrives that night, then voting will continue on in sudden death for eight more hours, until one is decided. THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE. If one isn't still decided, then Zechs will provide the deciding vote regardless if he has voted already.
13. AKA the Hobgoblin rule. Roderick Kingsley Hobgoblin moments when winning for three days straight automatically win the poll. No last day or second voting changes it to troll the ruler of this thread.
14. Any moments from Batgirl volume 4 loses by default.
Only ONE can rule as the Moment of the Week!
Top Ten Nominators of All Time...
1.) GLX- (236 Nominations)
2.) Zechs- (231 Nominations)
3.) e_galston- (158 Nominations)
4.) Stephen Day- (119 Nominations)
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7.) Starlord- (81 Nominations)
8.) fieldy RICHARDS- (80 Nominations)
9.) God-Man (62 Nominations)
10.) BubbaKanoosh- (57 Nominations)
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by Zechs » Thu May 16, 2013 12:57 amNobody but God-Man can nominate the last page of Supergirl #20. I COMMAND IT!!!
by Zechs » Thu May 16, 2013 1:07 am"Alex Power... Tell me of this so-called 'FF' and their plan to..'end' DOOM." - FF #7
by Johnny Smith » Thu May 16, 2013 9:27 amSpaceball Special - Cable & X-Force #8
by e_galston » Thu May 16, 2013 6:52 pmGuido kills Rahne's son and becomes king of hell to resurrect Monet - X-Factor 256
by IvCNuB4 » Fri May 17, 2013 12:20 pm
And if he doesn't ?
by Zechs » Fri May 17, 2013 1:39 pm
I have a feeling he will. But if he doesn't by tomorrow afternoon it's free for anyone to nominate.
by SilverPhoenix » Sat May 18, 2013 8:59 amBrandish shatters Bigby's Crystal Statue, effectively killing him - Fables #129
by God-Man » Sun May 19, 2013 3:30 pm"Kara...Not-Kara...ERADICATE..."-Supergirl #20
Oh yes. With the imminent return of Cyborg Superman, a Reign of The Superman reunion is all but guaranteed now!
by Zechs » Sun May 19, 2013 3:31 pmAnd we're done.
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We've housed quite a few of 13th Street Meats' sausages in our day: after a few drinks at Dodge City or American Ice, or off our own grill. (We're partial to the cheddar brats). Scott McIntosh and his wife Ana Marin are behind 13th Street Meats, which McIntosh started in 2011 out of their home kitchen while Marin was cooking at Toki Underground. (McIntosh is a former service guy, having worked at Big Hunt.) Waiting for a bowl of Toki's über-trendy ramen is time typically passed by knocking a few back at the Pug, the dive downstairs. So when McIntosh delivered his newly developed spicy Italian sausage to Marin and her coworkers, he gave some to Pug owner Tony Tomelden.
That hooked up McIntosh with bars like Dodge and American Ice; he's since grilled 13th Street Meats' goods at the H Street Festival and DC Brau's weekend growler hours. It's been his full-time gig for a couple of years, and now he's expanding into a full storefront at 247 Florida Avenue NW, called Meats & Foods.
Meats & Foods, which should be open by May (it's been in the works for nearly a year), will serve lunch and dinner five days a week. Marin, who's been working at Izakaya Seki, will join McIntosh making sausage-full time.
Which means what? "Meats & Foods will include the sausage varieties that we've been producing as 13th Street Meats over the past few years and Ana will be bringing a more diverse menu," McIntosh says. "We'll be selling sausages retail and on the grill, as well as our chili, a number of rotating side dishes, and sweets. We'll have a few vegetarian and vegan dishes every day, and will offer beer and wine as well."
Pop-ups are nice and all, but we're thrilled to see permanent porkiness come to Bloomingdale.
13th Street Meats: Now Making the Sausage With a Storefront
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Type: Defect
Status: Closed
Priority: Major
Resolution: Completed
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None
Component/s: None
The current unify-with-set logic will unify the first lvars it comes across, preventing backtrack unification with other lvars in the sets. See examples:
user> (run* [out] (fresh [a b c d] (== out [a b c d]) (== #{a b} #{c d}))) ([_.0 _.1 _.0 _.1]) user> (run* [out] (fresh [a b c d] (== out [a b c d]) (== [a c] [7 9]) (== #{a b} #{c d}))) ()
I'm still thinking of a way to efficiently handle this but wanted to post it when I came across it.
BTW, I should note that issue was noticed by Jim Duey.
More evidence that I probably should not have attempted unification with sets. This is why there is no support for logic vars as keys in maps - we should probably even throw in that case.
Perhaps we can support backtracking by switching complex unification of sets to a conde? Though at that point you're probably better of using lists + distincto.
Yeah, I looked at map unification and decided to punt entirely. One thing at a time.
Now is a good time to thank you, again, for core.logic. This is better to have than not.
After some discussion with William Byrd at StrangeLoop I'm inclined to remove set unification from core.logic entirely. It turns out this is an open research problem and I find it unlikely that I'll be able to figure this one out anytime soon. Will this cause too much trouble for you all?
Note that a related change would be to throw on any maps that have logic vars as keys during unification.
This seems entirely reasonable. The complexity explodes quickly and distincto judiciously applied is far more efficient. Kill it as you wish. (Though I might suggest leaving the protocol in with no implementation so experimenters can easily extend it.)
Excellent. I'll leave the protocol in, along with some fair warning about attempting it Thanks for the quick feedback.
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Esty gets tour of FuelCell Energy in Danbury
DANBURY -- South Korea may not import a lot from the United States, but power plants creating nearly 100 megawatts of power in the country were built right here in Connecticut by FuelCell Energy.
"We can produce the products here more cost efficiently than they can," company Chief Operating Officer Anthony Rauseo told U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty as she toured the company's facility Wednesday.
Esty stopped by the company this week after FuelCell Energy was awarded nearly $5 million in grants from the federal government for research and development, which is handled at the company's headquarters on Great Pasture Road.
FuelCell received a $3.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a fuel stack capable of converting natural gas or renewable biogas to methanol, which is more cost effective to store and transport than gas.
The company also received a $900,000 grant from the energy department to develop a unique electrochemical reactor that would allow hydrogen to be produced on site where needed, providing a lower cost of transporting fuel while reducing carbon emissions.
Esty said that during a time when federal purse strings are being held with clenched fists, to get not one but two awards from the is quite an achievement.
"It's extraordinary and it shows the kind of great work that you are doing," Esty said while addressing the company's employees Wednesday. "We need to develop clean, affordable and reliable energy sources and frankly, we need to license that technology to the rest of the world."
The congresswoman said that renewable energy and fuel cell technology represents a "huge opportunity" for the state that will make Connecticut more competitive.
"We need to invest in these technologies," said Esty, a member of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. "We've been having a lot of hearings lately about the reliability of the grid and the need for more distributive generation. We can be a leader of that here in Connecticut. We may not have the cheapest labor costs but where we can compete is innovation. Historically that's been Connecticut's strength and it can be again."
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FAQ for LS-Pro
FAQ for the LSPro stock / modified Firmware
At the moment most of the info is given only in the linked forums. Please help to add the info gathered there to this page. Thank you!
backup jobs
japanese web interface
- after update I have a japanese web interface. What shell I do?
Luckily this is quite easy to fix. You'll need some form of commandline access to your linkstation, either SSH or telnet. Please see http://nas-central.org/index.php/Open_Stock_Firmware#Getting_Console_.28Telnet.29_Access_with_acp_commander for an excellent set of instructions on how to do either.
Assuming you now have telnet or ssh access:
- Open the file /etc/melco/info with vi
vi /etc/melco/info
- You're looking for the line that begins 'lang='
- Press 'i' (puts vi in insert mode) and use the cursor keys to navigate down to this line
- The line likely says 'lang=japanese'
- Edit it (cursor keys and backspace) to read 'lang=english'. 'lang=german' is also supported.
- type 'Esc' (the escape key) to put vi back in command mode, then ':wq' to save the file.
- Reload your linkstation admin webpage and it should be in English.
- Remember to disable or secure telnet now that you've finished with it, instructions in the article about enabling it in the first place.
User passwords
- I want to use special characters in my users passwords (e.g. Umlaute). The webinterface won't let me
- I want to use long passwords. the webinterface won't let me
- cups
- LPRng
Both cups and LRPng are running. At the moment it's not too difficult for linux newbees but no "out of the box" solution. Wiki-Artikle [6] See the thread in the forum [7]
installing another (larger) hard disk
- I want to replace/upgrade the harddisk of my LS-Pro.
It is possible and not too difficult. Link to mindbenders "Open the LS-Pro" Link to mindbenders "custom partitions"
Is a possible to shut / boot the LS-Pro automatically?
- It is possible to issue a shutdown command at a specific time via cron (google for cron/crontab!)
- It is not possible to boot at a given time or via WOL (Wake On Lan). However JonDoe has described hardware modifications making the box boot upon getting power. This makes it possible to turn it on via an external automatic power switch. [8]


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Is private aviation purely an unnecessary add-on for those who pursue a luxury lifestyle? Companies around the globe don't seem to think so. According to a National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) survey published in 2015, 21% of pilots have witnessed an increase in the number of firms chartering a private jet for business travel since 2010.
In 2015 the Engel & Völkers Group has expanded its service portfolio to include the brokerage of business aircraft and private jets. With a global network in 32 countries and a high level of professionalism, Engel & Völkers seeks to enter into this new market very quickly.
The CEO of Engel & Völkers Aviation, Bart Boury, explains to you why the popularity of private aviation is soaring:
It's more convenient
Reaching the airport can be a chore. If your nearest commercial runway is several hours away in a busy city, the journey hardly marks a stress-free start to a business trip. A private jet charter allows you to choose between smaller airports that are more conveniently located, and if you're running late, your flight will wait.
Timing your journey is a definitive luxury of travelling privately. In the realm of independent aviation, your flight can be arranged to suit you rather than an airline's schedule.
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It increases privacy
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What am I going to do then? - you might well ask.
I think what doesn't work is the maintenance. Once you've achieved your goal weight, the old bad habits creep back in, you lose the impetus to keep up the exercise, and before you know it, you're back to square one.
As I said before, one overweight person isn't like the next. I can only talk for myself, really. Even with the best intentions, there comes a point when I can't be bothered to count and weigh and add up. There comes a point when I just haven't got the time. There comes the point when I'm grateful when HE offers to cook...
After numerous attempts of losing it and putting it back on - I refuse to call it yo-yo - I have come to the conclusion that, basically, I need to stay on a diet for the rest of my life. That I have to see the whole thing as a handicap, as a dear friend of mine called it recently.
There are many, many reasons why this is difficult, one of them:
Of course, some of them claim to be - and maybe they are, somewhere in the universe - but they're usually not suitable for MY Family.
But if I want to keep this up indefinitely, and don't want to cook several meals, then they have to be not only suitable, but actually LIKED by my family. So, my very personal, tailor-made plan is:
- I will draw on all the recipes that I have liked from any of the diets I have been on in the past
- I will test out recipes that may fit in, i.e. suitable for all of us, and ideally, under 400 calories for the main meal
1 star = we will eat it again
2 stars = we LIKE this one
3 stars = we LOVE this one
This is an adaptations from a recent Tesco magazine recipe:
(Serves 4)
4 mackerel, filleted (I bought just 3 fillets)
1 Tbsp Tikka curry paste (I used Pataks)
juice of 3 limes (I used half lime, half lemon)
1 red chilli, chopped
3 tbsp fresh coriander
For the Salsa:
1/4 cucumber, peeled and diced
4 plum tomatoes, diced
1/2 small red onion, very finely chopped
1/2 tsp toasted cumin seeds
1 Tbsp fresh mint, chopped
For the Bombay Wedges:
As many small new potatoes as you allow per person, scrubbed and cut into wedges
1 - 2 tsp Bombay spice
1 - 2 tsp olive oil
1. Soak wooden skewers in water for 30 minutes
2. Skewer the mackerel and place into a shallow dish
3. Spread with the tikka paste
4. Add chopped coriander chilli to lime juice and drizzle over the fillets, leave to marinate for 10 minutes
5. Boil water and blanch wedges for 2-3 minutes, then pat dry
6. Pre-heat the oven for 10 minutes to 2oo C
7. In a small plastic bag, combine olive oil, Bombay Mix and wedges, mix well
8. Spread wedges out on a non-stick baking tray and season. Bake for ca 20 minutes
9. Mix all the ingredients for the salsa and arrange on the middle of your plates
10. Pre-heat the grill for the mackerel, grill for 3 - 4 minutes
As you can imagine, my men cannot start to comprehend the idea of 'no stodge', so I added the potato wedges. Not sure what the exact calorie count would be for my version. I didn't have the wedges, and I was perfectly full and satisfied.
Tesco's were selling mackerel fillets which were already marinated, and although I did go through the trouble of following the recipe, my verdict is that you could use them straight away without the bother, especially as all that good marinade is tipped away.
At £1.77 for the three fillets, it was also incredibly cheap.


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One student, from Williamsville East High School, liked learning about the process that scientists use to figure out the shape of proteins. Another, from Springville, had her first experience programming computers. And a third, from Clarence High School, thought it was exciting to get a behind the scenes look at high-tech research tools like the genome-sequencers in UB's New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences.
All three students spent two weeks at UB in late June and early July as part of the Eric Pitman Annual Summer Workshop in Computational Science.
The event honors Eric Pitman, son of College of Arts and Sciences Dean E. Bruce Pitman. Eric Pitman, a curious young man who loved learning new things, was a freshman at St. Joseph's Collegiate Institute when he died after a brief illness in 2007.
UB's Center for Computational Research (CCR) runs the workshop, planning hands-on projects and tours of research facilities that give students the chance to learn programming and explore the intersection between computing and the life sciences.
This year's theme was protein structures: how scientists determine proteins' shape, why this information matters and how computers expedite this kind of research.
"We want to show them that first of all, science is really hard to do and that computing can help them process massive amounts of data," said CCR scientific programmer Jeanette Sperhac, who served as the workshop's lead instructor. "They learn how to take a data set, slice into it, think about the statistics, make plots, and visualize the data and understand what's in there. Our hope is to expose students to new ways of thinking of things, both on the computation side and on the science side."
This year, 11 high school students participated, most from Western New York.
On July 5, they presented what they learned to an audience of faculty members, parents and at least one grandparent who gathered in the Zebro Room at the Roswell Park Center for Genetics and Pharmacology. The lights dimmed and the students came to the front of the room, taking turns showing slides and discussing the knowledge they had gained.
"This is a very talented and inspiring group of young people," Sperhac said, introducing the young programmers.
The first team to present, "Proteim," told listeners that proteins are large, critically important molecules consisting of strings of biological compounds called amino acids.
In humans and other living organisms, proteins play a role in vital tasks like DNA replication, and mutations and other flaws can lead to disease. Proteins also can be used to treat various disorders, replacing faulty proteins in the body or binding to various molecules to block unwanted processes from taking place.
Knowing the 3-dimensional shape that different proteins take is crucial to understanding how they can cause and treat disease, and in their talks, Proteim members and fellow students explained that this process is complicated.
First, the presenters said, researchers must mix the proteins into various chemical cocktails. When these cocktail solutions become supersaturated, protein molecules may start to form crystals, whose structure scientists then can analyze using a technique called X-ray crystallography.
Crystallizing proteins is a very challenging process—part science and part art.
During the two-week workshop at the Center of Excellence, the students used the programming language R to analyze huge data sets from protein crystallization experiments conducted by crystallographers at the Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute across the street.
Among other results, the students found that crystallization is extremely hard to achieve. In the experiments they examined, proteins crystallized just over 1.5 percent of the time, and less than 25 percent of chemical cocktails were successful at crystallizing any proteins at all.
One student told the audience that a great takeaway lesson from the workshop was "how to look at data and analyze it, and what it's really trying to tell us."
Tom Furlani, UB interim associate vice president for information technology (CIO) and CCR director, told parents that he hoped students would leave with a heightened sense of the incredible role that technology plays in science.
CCR, in collaboration with Bruce Pitman, has been holding a summer workshop since 1999, and the field of computing has changed dramatically in that time, Furlani said. Today, it's possible to complete in a single hour calculations that would have taken 24 years to compute back in 1984, he said.
Besides Furlani and Sperhac, researchers from the UB Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, UB Clinical and Translational Research Center, Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute and Roswell Park Cancer Institute contributed to the workshop, as well as other scientists from CCR.


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Monday, July 07, 2008
Spiced Pecan Toasting Bread
Our July Lazy Bakers No Rules Club assignment was a pecan bread from Sunset Magazine. Melinda suggested it, but then remembered it wasn't her turn. I asked her how we could turns if we had no rules, so she typed out the recipe and sent it to the other Lazy Bakers. Who knows if anyone will get around to baking it? But as I've already told Melinda, I actually like rules, and so I want to bake the July assignment in July. Preferably early July so I can cross it off my List of Things to Do.
Spiced Pecan Toasting bread
(From Sunset Magazine April 2008)
Prep and baking time:4 hours
Makes 2 8 inch loaves
2 Tablespoons active dry yeast
2 Tablespoons honey
3 eggs
6 to 7 cups bread flour, divided, plus more for shaping
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
1/2 cup dried low-fat or nonfat milk
4 teaspoons salt
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
2 teaspoons ground cardamon
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans
Butter for bowls and pans
1.) In a bowl of a stand mixer, dissolve yeast and honey in 1 1/2 cups warm water (90 to 105F).
Let sit until foamy, about 5 minutes.
2.) Attach dough hook and with mixer on medium, mix in 2 eggs, 2 cups bread flour, the whole-wheat flour, brown sugar, dried milk, salt, vanilla, cardamon, cinnamon, pepper, nutmeg and pecans. Add remaining 4 to 5 cups bread flour, 1/2 cup at a time, until dough pulls away from the inside of the bowl. Knead ( with mixer on medium) until smooth and elastic, adding more flour as necessary to keep dough from sticking too much. When ready, dough should feel a bit like an earlobe when you pinch it.
3.)Transfer dough to a large, lightly buttered bowl. Cover with a clean towel or plastic wrap and let sit until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 hours. Meanwhile butter two 8 inch loaf pans and set aside.
4.) Punch down dough, divide in half, and on a lightly floured surface, shape each half into an 8 inch oblong loaf. Put dough in pans, cover and let sit until doubled in bulk; about 1 hour.
5.) Preheat oven to 350F/180C. In a small bowl, beat remaining egg with 2 tablespoons water.
Brush dough with egg wash and bake until brown, about 35 minutes. Remove loaves from pans (they are done if they sound hollow when tapped on the bottom) and cool on wire racks.
Toasted and buttered, this bread reminds me of freshly baked cinnamon rolls. We recommend it with a cup of coffee or tea and some charming company. (Sunset's introduction about this bread. [I suppose in bad company this bread might make them more tolerable.--Melinda's words].
This is not a difficult bread to make at all, although I was puzzled by the instruction: "When ready, dough should feel a bit like an earlobe when you pinch it." What does the "it" refer to? One's earlobe or the bread? Or both? And I don't seem to have a lot of experience in earlobe-pinching because the feel I was looking for was not immediately clear to me, even though I reached up and pinched my earlobe several times, and then pinched the bread. Honestly, the dough didn't feel like my earlobe at all. I asked Jim if I could pinch his earlobe, just as a control, but he turned me down.
I was also a little wary of the two whole teaspoons of cardamom in the recipe--a lot of cardamom, which has a very distinctive taste. It actually wasn't too much, although you could certainly taste it. The other problem was that the recipe makes two loaves of bread, and specifies two eight-inch loaf pans. Although I have a number of loaf pans, it turns out that no two of them are the same size. So I made one loaf in an eight-inch pan and one in a too-large pan.
See how it doesn't quite fill up the pan?
I applied the egg glaze very liberally, and it made the loaves super-shiny.
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting, and the proof of a toasting bread is in the toasting. I can't say that the bread really reminded me of "freshly baked cinnamon rolls," as the recipe's description says. It reminded me more of toasted nut bread with apricot jam.
Not that that's a bad thing. Also, I can't say that I had "charming company" since I was eating breakfast by myself.
Although I mixed the dough in my KitchenAid with the dough hook, the pecans did not get evenly distributed, and the bread that I gave away had more pecans in it than the one I kept for myself. I also don't think that the cardamom got thoroughly distributed. I blame all this on my inability to concentrate on anything besides the earlobe comparison. If you make this bread, I recommend that you not think about earlobes.
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8 comments:
- Melinda said...
Well. You sure made this one quickly. You are not taking the lazy part of the club seriously. I hope you played brass band music while baking this.
I was wondering if the earlobe part would catch your imagination! It kind of creeped me out when I thought about it.
I have two loaf pans too but, like you, they are not the same size either! If you could see how many darn pans I have...how can I not have two 8 inch loaf pans?
Your bread looks gorgeous, as usual.
I am sorry we couldn't share each other's company over some of this toasted pecan bread. I am sure the conversation would be sparlkling...even at 7 am!
- evil cake lady said...
You sure did make this one quickly! I'm still trying to make the poundcake!
I am now forewarned not to freak out about the earlobe thing...and my goal is to make a bread that tastes either like cinnamon rolls or toasted nut bread with whatever jam I put on it. Good to know--thanks BBC.
Nice to see what we are aiming for! I like to see pictures of what I am making and now I've got one, or two or three! i am still assembling the ingredients needed but hope to make it soon, thanks for showing us the way. Jeannette.
- jini said...
i would recommend giving away half loaves in the future. then you can check them out and keep the nuttiest for you and jim.
it looks delicious as always.
- breadbasketcase said...
I love projects! I love deadlines! I love rules! I love lists of things to do! What can I say? Yes, I think the earlobe comment is the work of some pervert working at Sunset.
I haven't made any bread for a while, so when Melinda sent the recipe, I couldn't wait to try it. I think you'll like this and the poundcake.
If you have two loaf pans the same size, yours will look better than mine.
Now that's a good idea. A half a loaf is better than none, I guess.
- Chai18 said...
ear lobes??? the only way they could think to describe it was ear lobes!?!? how strange
- Doughadear said...
I have heard of comparing dough to a baby's behind but never ear lobes! I think I prefer the former. Comparisons aside your loaves turned out beautifully.
- breadbasketcase said...
Yes, very strange indeed.
Well, I didn't have a baby's bottom around to compare, but, aesthetically speaking, I prefer that comparison.


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Christie, Oprah talk about weight, love, politics
Time to steal the donuts!
Apparently, that's also the way to steal New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's heart.
In an interview with talk-show queen Oprah Winfrey, set to air this weekend, the hefty GOP governor said he knew that he had found a partner for life in wife Mary Pat when she suggested making an illicit late-night donut run.
The governor and Winfrey also dished about their struggle with weight and presidential politics. A full transcript of the interview was obtained in advance by The Associated Press. The hour-long interview, filmed at Christie's home in Mendham, is scheduled to air Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
Asked by Winfrey what drew him to Mary Pat, whom he met at the University of Delaware in the 1980s when they were both involved in student government, he said it was her independence, her faith, and because she was fun.
"She was fun in a different way than I'd ever experienced with anybody I'd ever dated. She was very spontaneous," Christie told Winfrey.
"Spontaneous like?" Winfrey asked.
"Let's go break into the kitchen in the dining hall at college because we smell that they are baking donuts for the next morning," he recalled Mary Pat saying. "So let's sneak in and steal some of the donuts now."
Christie and Winfrey spoke at length about controlling their weight and managing the criticism surrounding it; specifically what it feels like to be on the short end of a Dave Letterman fat joke.
"It didn't bother you?" Winfrey asked. "Because let me tell you, when David Letterman was making jokes about me, it bothered me."
"I think I was girded for it, Oprah, I really do," Christie responded, saying he had developed "a shell about it."
The conversation also hit more serious overtones as Winfrey asked him, Mary Pat and their four children -- Andrew, 18, Sarah, 15, Patrick, 11, and Bridget, 8 -- about the pressure of being asked to run for president.
Sarah lamented to Winfrey about being banned from having a Facebook page.
"By the way, who backed us up on you not having a Facebook account?" Christie pointed out.
"Mark Zuckerberg," co-creator of the social networking site, Sarah answered, reluctantly.
Christie, Zuckerberg and Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat, appeared on Winfrey's talk show in September 2010 to announce that Facebook was pledging a $100 million donation to the Newark public schools.
Christie said he wanted his daughter to wait until she was a little older, given his position, so that she can better handle the "opportunity for mischief" that Facebook provides -- a position he said Zuckerberg supported.
While Booker, who has been rumored as a potential candidate to run against Christie in 2013, is close to Winfrey and her best friend, Gayle King, Christie met the daytime icon for the first time at the taping of the show about Facebook's donation.
Christie had been in office less than a year when he first met Winfrey. Elected in a Democratic-leaning New Jersey 2009, Christie quickly became YouTube sensation and darling of the Republican party for his blunt style, and pressure quickly mounted for him to run for the White House in 2012. He briefly considered changing his mind against running this fall, but didn't and instead endorsed Mitt Romney, whom he has been campaigning hard for ever since.
Winfrey, who openly endorsed Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential elections, asked Christie what advice Christie he had for the President and what he thought Obama's chances for re-election were.
Surprisingly, Christie warned that those who underestimate Obama as a campaigner do so at their own peril.
"He is as good a politician as I've ever seen ... he's really good at it. And I think he's very charismatic. And I think he's genuine. I think what he says he believes he believes. That's a very dangerous politician."
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So why didn't he run for the White House himself?
Christie said he wasn't sure that his "true compass" thought he was ready.
"Is that compass telling you that you may be ready four years from now?" Winfrey asked.
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