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|March 25th, 2016, 12:32 PM
Sk8 Ninja
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Huntington Wv
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outdoor wheel choices, not budget limited
I bought some roll line wheels for outdoor use, and i am very unimpressed.
Roll*line Heliums, bleh, my freaking poisons, or superflys work 10x better.
Whos got comparisons for outdoor wheels, modified and unmodified, im not sure what the limit of wheel size is on my skates, probably around 70mm without compromising too much turning.
Thought about zombie hawg wheels, minis maybe? No lip needed, 30mm contact patch works great, tried my vanilla groove n glides outdoors, and despite being listed as 99A and an aluminum hub, they did well. These will be mainly used for speed not agility so turning isnt a huge deal.
Weight is not a concern, would like to keep it down, but oh well if it cant be helped.
Ive never rolled those velocity race wheels, but I cant imagine them being as good as people talked about. After hearing how "good" these roll lines were supposed to be, and being greatly disappointed, i have heavy doubts on the twisters.
Road hogs are an option for a non modified wheel. Terrain doesnt matter, but the rougher the better for comparison honestly, th ad ts where you really see the advantages of a wheel with better rebound at the same duro.
What wheels have you rolled? What did you consider the best? Why?
Home rink: Roll-A-Rama in Huntington Wv.
"Focus on form and speed is a byproduct, focus on speed and falling is a byproduct." - Matguy
|March 26th, 2016, 07:53 AM
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How much do you weigh? Were the Heliums you skated brand new or used?
They have a potential design flaw that results from having such a big 49mm hub diameter and thin urethane layer ~7mm,
The flaw is that a heavy skater rolling a very rough asphalt can cause overstressing of the urethane layer from it being so thin. This can incrementally debond the urethane from the hub, and you can see what looks like bubbles forming between the transparent inside thane layer and the hub surface. Once this starts, it's all downhill from there, and the wheels start sucking up your rolling momentum.
The 70mm V-R wheels are near impossible to beat in that size. Their urethane formula has amazingly high rebound, and is just the right firmness to match up with medium quality or better asphalt. On fairly smooth to very smooth asphalt, I do not think a 100-175 lb. skater can beat them. Their black evil twin 70mm RD Twisters are IMO not quite as good and definitely not as durable of a urethane formula, especially when it comes to cuts, splits, and urethane debonding along the edges. Both type wheels have very good stiffness too, from their 12 full width spokes design, giving total support of the hub cylinder all the way out to both wheel edges.
The 76mm Z-Hawgs in 84A or 86A, then narrowed to fully remove the lip at ~32mm (depending on skater weight) is what I really think you should get. They have such really good roll rebound and extremely good durability. My one negative on them is that the hub cylinder squish flexes a bit where there is no spoke support on outer side, and the plastic cylinder for the bearing is a bit flimsy too. Somehow though this flexing looks worse than it actually seems to affect the roll performance negatively.
Lastly, for a heavier skater rolling on a lot of rougher surfaces, I think the Orangatang Kegels 80mm in 84A (purple), or 80A (orange) for really rough surfaces. are the way to go, but only if the plate can handle their larger size OD.
Every time I roll my avatar PIC skates, and I mean EVERY time, the 76mm/84A Z-Hawgs NEVER cease to impress me with their great smooth cushioning, efficient roll, and their ability to take big impact hits on surface debris and imperfections without hanging up or getting damaged.
Nearing 1500 miles soon and still no bad cuts or significant chunks missing.
The 70mm Velocity Race wheels will still match or beat them on really good asphalt though, and will kill them for low weight and very low flex too.
I assure anyone considering the cost of narrowing the Z-Hawgs, it is absolutely well worth it both for the performance & weight improvement, and especially for their 2500+ mile life estimate.
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|March 26th, 2016, 12:40 PM
Sk8 Ninja
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Location: Huntington Wv
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I dont have a lot of deck height to play with. Thats my killer there.
The heliums were brand new. I do think the heliums urethane is way too thin, but even indoors, the speed they have is crap IMO. Like I can do better on poisons easily. I dont think their urethane is good either.
What about the mini hawgs? Do you know if they are a good candidate for the job?
Cosmic superflys did well outdoors. A bit rough on poor payvement, but I dont have problems laying down 20+ if I want.
6'1" 185lb
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|March 26th, 2016, 05:01 PM
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Mort, what plates and how stiff do you set your suspension? With Helium wheels it must be responsive and allow wheels to always stay down flat on rolling surface all the way across the wheel. No rolling the edges with them, because that over crushes the super thin urethane layer and kills the rebound. This applies to all very large hub (49mm) wheels with thin (<10mm) urethane layers.
Also, beware of going too firm outdoors because you will shred the urethane up in no time, especially on concrete. If wheel firmness is high enough that you feel the vibrations at a foot annoying level, then you are bleeding your rolling momentum energy away from too much vertical wheel oscillation amplitude, and a softer high rebound duro will potentially & typically give you more speed with less vertical oscillation.
What axle size will you use? I suggest 8mm and stainless bearings with SiN ceramic balls for no worry with water. You can get a set for under ~$100 if you shop well.
What is your foot size? I have an extra set of Twister 70mm wheels I could let you test, and if you like them, maybe even a virgin set Velocity Race ones I could sell you too. They both have steel bearing sleeves for the 8mm axle size too. Unfortunately, they are the 19mm OD bearing size (available for 7mm axles too).
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|March 26th, 2016, 07:21 PM
Sk8 Ninja
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Arius has 8mm axles only at this time. I wear a size 10 vanilla freestyke, my feet are 283mm in length, the plate is 193mm long. The only way to get the axle farther forward is NTS or flip the plate around.
Ill just buy some stainless bearings grease packed NMB from randy welch 17 $ for a full set. Need to buy more wheels first before investing in insignificant gains from bearings.
The skates have 80A cushion in them and they are well broken in. I can wheelbite if I wish on 57mm wheels, or carve a 4 foot circle on one foot. The roll lines are slow even rolling over fair asphalt in a straight line. As wide as the atom poisons are they are still worlds better. Hell even the groove n glides aluminum hubbed wheels at an advertised 99A are better. (30mm wide)
How much ya talking for wheels?
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|March 28th, 2016, 05:43 PM
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Velocity Race wheels ARE all that and a bag of chips. Light, agile, fast, and just all around amazing. Speed, jam, and art skating outside. I love love love these wheels!
Radar Pures were great. They rolled over everything and really offered good roll for the push. They were heavy compared with the Race wheels and in retrospect seemed more boggy.
Kryptonic Route 62. Skated these into the ground a few years ago. I liked the measurements of the wheel. Seemed to be best for art skating outside. Not really all that great going long distances. Seemed to not get as much glide per push as a bigger wheel. Also quite soft. got a nail lodged in one wheel with in the first 30 days of use. Lighter than the Pures.
|March 29th, 2016, 02:18 PM
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Location: Calgary by way of Lethbridge
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Duro is a funny thing outdoors. Spending needlessly is not.
I have to sets of new outdoor wheels. I'm 210lbs and 6'2" and have skated quads and Ice since the early seventies. First set I bought was Mini Zombie Hawgs in 82a. You don't have to take that inner 2mm off on the lathe like "Mr. Outdoor" has said if used on a Powerdyne. When I put the 70mm Mini Zombies on I was biting the boot just getting to the door..I did need to increase my deck height with the use of a downhill longboard cushion (Venom) as I was getting boot bite indoors on my Royal Assassins. I went with the Venom orange 81a standards boot side and purple Sure-Grip cone lowers. I liked these way better than the Powerdyne Urethane (was running 89a purple upper and 85a yellow lowers with the PD's, the duro numbers on the Magic cushions are way way off! The first ride on these Hawgs was surprisingly rough and little pebbles where not just smoothly rolled over, they were getting flung. I was surprised at the speed though but didn't feel like I could corner sharp as these longboard wheels which was surprising again as they come out of the package with ground urethane that feels rather grippy in the hand but these are meant to bust loose for boarders for 90 deg slides. Lesson learned. I started hunting for outdoor set number 2. The local rink was selling Atom Road Hogs at a really cheap price of $85 Canadian which is like 62 bucks 'Merican.. Thought what the hell and took a set home. Out of the package the urethane felt very slick, but I dropped one and the damn thing is like a super ball and bounced all over my basement shop. Grabbed one of the Hawgs and dropped it from the same height and it bounced about half the height twice.. hmmm. interesting. Went for the same rip around the block that I initially took on the Hawgs and I was pleasantly surprised. The reviews that the Road Hogs 78a have as being a fast wheel were not BS. These things ripped. Vibration was way lower than the Hawgs and at 66mm were not giving anything up in roll. To the contrary they rolled better as the 'thane was softer allowing for less bounce and more rip. Weight is less of an issue as well. The only thing I can say that is better on the skateboard wheels was the bearing selection. I bought them with LandYacht "Bear Space Balls" (factory grease pack) which have built in spacers and could lock down the axel nuts. Because of the wider spacing though one better reverse the nuts or there is no ny-lok bite into the threads. The bearings I ran in the Road Hogs where cheap Kwik Zenith packed with DuPont Krytox GPL grease. In all honesty I wish I would have just bought the Atoms to begin and saved the hundred and sixty (yeah ***** expensive to us Canucks) spent on the Mini Zombie Hawgs and bearings. I could have used that for some kick ass something or others. Oh and you should send me a PM as I would like to discuss the issues with the 688's in your RA's.
|March 29th, 2016, 10:13 PM
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Yes, your Road Hogs v. Mini-Hawgs story confirms what I always say - that too firm a duro outdoors can kill your rolling momentum just as easily as too soft can. Getting the right match between wheel rebound & firmness with asphalt roughness is what it tales to get those long rolling push strokes outdoors. which I so love an a nice sunny day!
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|April 15th, 2016, 08:58 AM
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I use Atom Pulses outdoors (and sometimes indoors when I can't be bothered changing them) and I love them! However, I only weigh 55kg; heavier skaters apparently find them too soft and sticky. But I find them a good compromise between size and agility.
"You're bending your knees too much." - my coach
|April 16th, 2016, 02:09 AM
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Mort, I could send you, for testing, a set of used RD Twister 70mm wheels with the 8mm bearings installed (the evil twin of the Velocity Race).
Then if you like their performance, I have a brand new set of them available to sell, and another new set of 70mm V-R that I might sell, but at a higher price.
This way you can get a pretty good idea of how they both perform before having to commit any $ for a purchase.
Email me (click on avatar name), or PM me if this makes sense to you and we can work out details.
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|April 16th, 2016, 05:26 AM
Sk8 Ninja
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Huntington Wv
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Really only need 4 to compare, but a full set for real comparison wouldn't be a bad thing.
Might buy some road hogs. Need to get with the longboard crew and find out what urethane is fastest on downhill straights. Sliding means jack to us for the most part. The compound variations for sliding is usually a silica sand powder to help tear resistance. This typically reduces rebound and crosslinking.
Just pm me some details. Usually black urethanes arent great, historically anyways.
Home rink: Roll-A-Rama in Huntington Wv.
"Focus on form and speed is a byproduct, focus on speed and falling is a byproduct." - Matguy
|April 16th, 2016, 04:58 PM
Join Date: Apr 2016
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for me the new red kryptonics route 70mm 83a is the best wheel...200%
the best durometer
the best urethane quality
the best diameter compromise
the best contact patch
the best design ...same as a krypto cruise or hawaii k i used but faster
the famous scratch sound when you push with your legs...sound a of a good quality urethane
with the krypto 78a...i m scotched and can obtain a descent speed.
the zombie hawgs and rd twisters are not at all so fast as this new wheel.
i tried them...look at my post....and can compare.
but i m heavyweight...100kg....maybe for a -80 kg guy....krypto cruise 70 or 65mm in 78a...there is a new model too...could be better.
i just ordered 627 skf zz bearings....i will compared them soon to my bones redz....i always used them in past....i think i will be surprised too.
bones redz are better than bsb abec swiss....but skf will be surely better....
all my bearings are free of grease....i always use degreaser for paint and replace it with oil...better performances...but you need to refill them with oil each time you use it and clean them again more than greased bearings.
what a pleasure to rediscovered my old performances....
|April 16th, 2016, 05:14 PM
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i tested past 2 years
rd twister aka rollerskate k2 65 and 70 78a Shr
krypto cruise 65 78a
krypto route 70 78a
zombie hawgs 76 82a
krypto hawaii k 69 78a
radar flyer 65 78a
armadillo....if you want i can exchange wheels with you...i didn t tested the velocity race ...they could interest me...we could do a deal with my collection of wheels.
but the rd twisters ...i m not intrested....
|April 16th, 2016, 06:20 PM
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I have the 76mm Z-Hawgs in 84A and 86A already. I was not aware of there ever being a 76mm Z-Hawg in the 82A firmness? What color are they?
Have you narrowed your Z-Hawg wheels to the mid-30s mm width yet? What about narrowing for any of your other wheels?
I don't skate any outdoor wheels less than ~70mm any more, since the quality of the surfaces I roll is too rough for the smaller sizes, and even the 70mm size ones are reserved for racing and max speed training only for their lower weight.
My next new wheels will likely be the 80mm 80A Kegel from Orangatang.
All the Kryptonic wheeks I have seen have crappy hub designs, which compromises having best roll and makes them to heavy for me.
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|April 17th, 2016, 12:27 AM
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|April 17th, 2016, 11:26 PM
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Location: Germany near Frankfurt
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Orangatang Kegel 80mm 83a
Cut to 36mm width.
with the big diameter they roll very good over road imperfections and the rebound is quite good.
|April 19th, 2016, 06:11 AM
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|April 19th, 2016, 07:11 PM
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zombie blue hub yellow urethane
i think the advantage of a krypto cruise design is that the hub is really sideset ...half the wheel...on the other half ...you only have urethane....then when you push on your legs they are firm at first and then the other half can deform more and your can ear this famous scratch sound of urethane agaisnt the floor.
but surely because of my heavyweight....i had always bad performences with 78a wheels....
no i didnt reduced the urethane on my zombie....but i felt after 2 sessions....that they are big ok...but not faster....as my old krypto retro k....
the new route 83a are faster in downhill..
remember that this route 83a has nothing to compare to the others krypto....
back in the past...i used 2 sets of retro k krypto....never seen this set on the net....really unknown in the world....they were white with green retro k wrote on the side....cruise design but harder in 82a.
bravo which is an italian firm...produced krypto wheels for french market and these wheels were sold 10 years ago in sports shop chain...maybe for skateboard....
i always thought like you....that would be really good to find a little bit bigger ... a little bit harder and whith a zombie design hub....something like a cruise in 72 mm 83a and with a zombie hub....unfortunely....this wheel never borned...
but if they produced a new route 76mm 83a..i will surely order them...but now....i will order new set of this one in 70mm.
try them....if i say you they are better than vr 70....
|April 20th, 2016, 01:17 AM
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When rolling outdoors, variations in contact patch widths from wheel to wheel have a BIG impact on their performance comparisons, based also on the skaters' weights and the wheels' duromoter #s
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My role at the Sydney University Museums varies from day to day. I work part time as a Collections Officer with the Collection Management team, as well as part time as a Curatorial Assistant for the Nicholson Museum. These positions afford me the ability to work with the public and behind the scenes of three very different Musuems and Art Galleries! Today I will be working across all three galleries and in the stores photographing my day as I go. In addition to my daily tasks I will also hopefully find some down time to work on a conference paper I'm presenting in two short weeks on my own archaeological research in Northern Greece and the central Balkans. Follow the captions in the Photo Gallery to see where I am and what I am up to!


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The width of the tabs in the conversation window seems to be automatically scaled depending on how many chats that are open.
However, when there are many chats, some of the tabs gets squeezed way to much, so the label is no longer visible. Other tabs keep quite wide and I cannot see the logic in the behavior, so I think it might be a bug?
See the attached image as an example of how the tabs are aligned and spanned.
Is this a normal behavior or only in my client? If normal behavior, is there perhaps a setting that will change the way it sets the width of the tabs? An even width would be fine, even if some labels are longer than others.
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We all know that the Yankees are fat, overpaid losers who can't hit the ball. What you may have forgotten is that the Tigers—who just swept the Yankees—were fat, overpaid, hitless losers themselves just a few months ago.
Take the quiz and see if you can determine whether the following statements were written about the regular-season Tigers or postseason Yanks.
- "[S]omeone in that moribund lineup actually made contact with a baseball and scored a run, then two more had the 'Oh, we're supposed to hit the ball?' revelation."
- "'Their offense doesn't look like it's going to be able to carry their pitching,' he said. 'They're very unathletic in the field, they're very slow.'"
- "But no matter who is playing, it seems that in each loss, they don't execute in one or two key spots, whether that's throwing a pitch to the wrong spot, not turning a double play or not hitting according to the situation."
- "It is one thing to lose, another to behave like losers."
- "They are the balding guys with beer guts playing softball on Sunday afternoons."
- "They're underachievers or they're overrated. They're lazy or they're unfocused."
- "I don't see anything that remotely looks like an adjustment from this team. Don't see anyone trying to go the other way or trying to stay back or keep the ball out of the air. They're just up there hacking."
- "They didn't just slump at the plate, they crawled into a fetal position."
- "They're buckling, and if they're trying to fight back, they sure aren't doing it with their heads. How and why did this team become mentally wobbly?"
- "It can't go on like this, but there's no easy way out. Players have been benched and cut and counseled."


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Using found objects the artist re-stages earthly and celestial phenomena ranging from the rotation of the planets to the habits of nocturnal insects. The exhibition features a selection of paintings and photographs created alongside the production of Jameson's recent film projects.
Patrick Jameson is a graduate of The Glasgow School of Art MFA. Patrick's solo exhibitions include: Eliel and Engel Volume, London, 2010; Glass Museum Studio Warehouse, Glasgow, 2009 and Eliel Sierra Metro, Edinburgh, 2009. Group exhibitions and screenings include: Glasgow International Film Festival, 2010; TorinOver Turin, 2010; Running Time Artists films in Scotland 1960 to Now, Dean Gallery, National Galleries Edinburgh 2006; Becoming Electric Interval 06 Discocate Ginza Art Laboratory, Tokyo 2006 and Landfall AK 28 Stockholm 2005.


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FBI wants legislative fix on device encryption -FCW
What are these morons thinking? They could possibly make it illegal for Manufacturers to make phones with strong encryption for sale in the US. That would result in the ability for the Government and Law enforcement to spy on US Citizens leaving them still unable to to see data from foreigners and offshore terrorists. Get a clue! The technology is here. Deal with it!


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Bernie Torelli (dearly departed Founder of Nomad Factory and old-time retail partner of DontCrack) introduces, Bus Driver.
When we first decided to do the Bus Driver giveaway to thank everyone, we thought we would stop it after a month or 25,000 units whichever came first. We gave away twice that number as of March, and had great success reaching out to the audio community. As we now approach a amazing total of 60,000 units, we say again a huge thank you! You made it great success.
We are now selling Bus Driver at a no-brainer price. Please continue your support, we love that youre enjoying these superb Nomad Factory products.
We will smartly invest every single dollar in R&D. Thank you for your support and involvement!
Bus Driver is an optical compressor that provides a wide range of compression effects, reminiscent of the best vintage compressors made in the 60s.
Compression is one of those studio processes that is all too often taken for granted and not usually used to its full potential. Todays producers think nothing of inserting compressors on every single channel of their DAW when mixing, but old school engineers had to learn to make the most of only a few units of compression and this made them learn them inside out to use them to their best advantage. Bus Driver is modelled on the classics from the 'golden age' of tube compressors.
Also included in Bus Driver is a Tube-Driver Saturation feature. It allows you to add the sound of a vintage tube amplifier giving you the differing electronic characteristics of triode, tetrode, and pentode vacuum tubes. So you can add the vintage warmth of the those models of the classic tubes (e.g. ECC83, 12AX7, etc..) to your tracks, or on your mix bus!
Nomad Factory have designed an Output Stage Soft-Clipping to eliminate digital clipping at any output level and produce a smoother distortion characteristic. This feature is in addition to the Tube-Driver Saturation Modeling included in Bus Driver.
Hopefully you will be using every day and that it will accomplish the goal of saying 'Thank You' for the heart-warming support you showed for Bernie during the time when he really needed it.
Download the Demo and take Bus Driver out for a test drive, and let your creativity burn up the track.
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The High Cost of Kids' Sports
4 Minute Read | August 18, 2013
If you're a parent, you've probably at some point encountered the high cost of putting your kid in a sports league.
Hockey sticks. Baseball bats. Skates. Basketball shoes. Golf clubs. High-end uniforms. The cost of equipment alone can stretch your budget and wreak havoc on your bank account. In today's world of competitive youth sports, some parents can spend up to $10,000 a year funding their child's athletic pursuits.
Equipment is just the tip of the iceberg. Travel teams, personal trainers, summer camps—all of these costs can add up in a big way, especially if Junior enjoys playing a sport and starts developing a talent.
Traci, a parent in Wichita, Kansas, says, "We spent over $5,000 on baseball! The costs covered uniforms, equipment, hotel stays, equipment fees, etc."
So what's a parent to do?
Of course, you love your child. Of course, you want him or her to achieve any dream. But where do your budget and your other financial priorities enter the picture? If your child really is passionate about playing a sport, you can still provide that outlet without breaking the bank.
Here are a few suggestions:
Buy used equipment.
New high-end equipment like shoes, bats, skates and helmets can cost a couple hundred dollars—at least. Instead of buying new every single season, why not find a discount on some lightly used equipment? We're not talking about a pair of nasty, stinky old shoes. A lot of "used" equipment hardly looks used at all! Some sports stores specialize in used stuff, or you can always find some online. You can save some serious cash when you buy used!
Sell used equipment.
Unless Junior has a little brother, you won't need those size five cleats again. Sell them online or to other parents looking to buy used. Use that money to purchase this year's equipment. Next year, rinse and repeat.
Consider recreational leagues.
The popularity of travel teams—local all-star teams that travel regionally and nationally—continues to grow. Most of these teams are filled with future high school players. But they aren't cheap. According to SmartMoney.com, the average cost of playing on a youth travel team is anywhere from $1,000–3,000 per season. Local recreational leagues offer the benefits of competition and exercise without the inflated costs.
Pick a sport (or two).
If your child is playing in four different sports, the expenses will add up quickly. Narrow it down to one or two sports per year. You'll save on all the equipment costs, plus you'll have a few months off from driving them all over town!
Be realistic.
The NCAA estimates that only 3% of high school basketball players play in college. Only 6% of high school baseball players make it to the next level. The percentage of high school players who make it professionally is less than 1%. The truth is, your child probably won't make a living playing sports—and more than likely won't play in college. Is it possible? Of course. But that doesn't mean you have to prioritize summer sports over paying off debt and saving for the future.
Remember, you will have more costly expenses in the future, like college tuition. Use some common sense and be reasonable with your spending. Include these costs in your monthly budget.
We know you love Junior, but he probably isn't the next Lebron James. Some parents lose their minds when it comes to youth sports. Don't fall into that trap. You can provide an active, healthy lifestyle for your child—one that includes team sports—without busting your budget.
How has your family avoided these extra expenses and still had a great time with sports? Leave a comment below.
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Yet again, one of the undersea cables that carry so much of the world's Internet and telephone traffic has been severed, resulting in lost connections for Europe, Asia, and Africa. According to the AP, the damage was done somewhere between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean, although what did the damage is unclear.
Many of us are now highly dependent on the Internet in our daily lives. I know it's essential for my job, and if reports in the medical literature are to be believed, more than a few of us might even be psychologically addicted to that steady stream of digital information.
Despite the Internet's beginnings as a decentralized, nuclear war-proof data network, its global nature and the infrastructure that pipes it from continent to continent actually makes the whole thing fairly fragile; a well placed fishing net or anchor and whole countries or even regions can be left back in the 1950s, when e-mail sounded like a guy's name.
In 2007, Vietnam found this out the hard way when some fishermen severed an undersea cable. Earlier this year, internet cables feeding the Middle East were cut several times by cargo ships, although at the time the region's press, which has always tended towards paranoia and conspiracy theories, seemed content to lay the blame at the feet of some undefined saboteurs.
Several cables were affected, namely FLAG FEA, SMW4 and SMW3 near Alexandria, Egypt, along with damage reported to the GO cable off the Sicilian coast. France Telecom will be repairing the damage, but full service might not be reestablished until the beginning of the new year.
No ship has yet been identified as the culprit of this latest break, but given the increasing frequency of these cable accidents, perhaps it's time that we started laying them away from busy shipping routes?


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The New Life: Words of God for Young Disciples of Christ
By Rev. Andrew Murray
Chapter 20 Power and Weakness
"He said unto me, My strength is made perfect in weakness. Therefore will I rather glory in my weakness, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in weakness: for when I am weak, then am I strong" kjv@2Corinthians:12:9-10.
There is almost no word that is so imperfectly understood in the Christian life as the word weakness. Sin and shortcoming, sluggishness and disobedience, are given as the reasons for our weakness. With this interpretation of weakness, the true feeling of guilt and the sincere endeavour after progress are impossible. How can I be guilty, when I do not do what it is not in my power to do? The Father cannot demand of His child what He can certainly do independently. That, indeed, was done by the law under the Old Covenant, but the Father, under the New Covenant, does not do that. He requires nothing more of us than what He has prepared for us to do in His Holy Spirit. The new life is a life in the power of Christ through the Spirit.
The error of this mode of thinking is that people estimate their weakness, not too highly, but too meagrely. They would still do something by the exercise of all their powers, and with the help of God. They do not know that they must be nothing before God ( kjv@Romans:4:4-5 kjv@Romans:11:6 kjv@1Corinthians:1:27-28). You think that you have still a little strength, and that the Father must help you by adding something of His own power to your feeble energy. This thought is wrong. Your weakness appears in the fact that you can do nothing. It is better to speak of utter inability, for that is what the Scriptures mean by the word "weakness." "Without me ye can do nothing." "In us is no power." ( kjv@2Chronicles:16:9 kjv@2Chronicles:20:12 kjv@John:5:19 kjv@John:15:5 kjv@2Corinthians:1:9).
Whenever the young Christian acknowledges and admits to his weakness, then he learns to understand the secret of the power of Jesus. He then sees that he is not to wait and pray to become stronger, to feel stronger. No, in his inability, he is to have the power of Jesus. By faith he is to receive it. He is to believe that it is for him, and that Jesus Himself will work in and by him ( kjv@John:15:5 kjv@1Corinthians:1:24 kjv@1Corinthians:15:10 kjv@Ephesians:9:18-19 kjv@Colossians:1:11). It then becomes clear to him what the Lord means when He says, "My power is made perfect in your weakness." He knows to return the answer, "When I am weak, then am I--yes, then am I--strong." Yes, the weaker I am, the stronger I become. And he learns to sing with Paul, "I shall glory in my weaknesses." "I take pleasure in weaknesses." "We rejoice when we are weak." ( kjv@2Corinthians:11:30 kjv@2Corinthians:12:9-11 kjv@2Corinthians:13:4 kjv@2Corinthians:13:9 ).
It is wonderful how glorious that life of faith becomes for him who is content to have nothing. How glorious to feel nothing in himself and to always live on the power of his Lord. He learns to understand what a joyful thing it is to know God as his strength. "The Lord is my strength and song" ( kjv@Psalms:89:13 kjv@Psalms:118:14). He lives in what the Psalms so often express, "I love Thee, O Lord, my strength." "I will sing of Thy strength: unto Thee, O my strength, will I sing praises." ( kjv@Psalms:18:1 kjv@Psalms:28:7-8 kjv@Psalms:31:4 kjv@Psalms:43:2 kjv@Psalms:46:1 kjv@Psalms:59:17 kjv@Psalms:62:7 kjv@Psalms:87:2). He understands what is meant when a psalm says, "Give strength to the Lord: the Lord will give strength to His people," and when another says, "Give strength to God: the God of Israel, He giveth strength and power to His people." ( kjv@Psalms:29:1 kjv@Psalms:29:11 kjv@Psalms:68:35). When we give or attribute all the power to God, then He gives it to us again.
"I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one" ( kjv@1John:2:14). The Christian is strong in his Lord ( kjv@Psalms:71:16). Not sometimes strong and sometimes weak, but always weak, and therefore always strong. He has merely to know and use his strength trustfully. To be strong is a command, a mandate that must be obeyed. From obedience there comes more strength. "Be of good courage and He shall strengthen thine heart" ( kjv@Psalms:31:24). In faith, the Christian must simply obey the command, "Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might." ( kjv@Psalms:27:14 kjv@Isaiah:40:31 kjv@Ephesians:6:10).
O God of the Lord Jesus, the Father of glory give unto us the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus, so that we may know the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe. Amen.
1. As long as the Christian thinks of the service of God or of sanctification as something that is hard and difficult, he will make no progress. He must see that this very thing is impossible for him. Then he wilt cease endeavouring to do something. He will surrender himself so that Christ may work all in him.
2. The complaint about weakness is often nothing else except an apology for our idleness. There is power to be obtained in Christ for those who will take the energy to have it.
3. "Be strong in the Lord and the power of His might" ( kjv@Ephesians:6:10). Mind that. I must abide in the Lord and in the power of His might, then I become strong. To have His power I must have Himself. The strength is His, and continues to be His. The weakness continues to be mine. He, the strong, works in me, the weak. I, the weak, abide by faith in Him, the strong, so that I, in the same moment, know myself to be weak and strong.
4. Strength is for work. He who wants to be strong simply to be pious will not be so. He who, in his weakness, begins to work for the Lord, will become strong.
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Ill. governor signs tough fracking regulations
CHICAGO (AP) -- Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn on Monday signed into law the nation's strictest regulations for high-volume oil and gas drilling.
"This new law will unlock the potential for thousands of jobs in Southern Illinois and ensure that our environment is protected," Quinn said in a news release announcing his widely expected signature on the bill that he pushed for and that the Legislature passed overwhelmingly a few weeks ago.
The new law establishes rules that oil and gas companies must follow during hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which uses high-pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack underground rock formations and release oil and natural gas. Companies will be required to disclose chemicals and to test water before and after drilling as well as hold the companies liable for contamination.
Opponents of the legislation — who unsuccessfully pushed a 2-year moratorium to allow more time to study the environmental and health impact of fracking — said they are considering a legal challenge to the law.
"We have already put together a legal team with attorneys from all over the country to look at various aspects of the bill," said Annette McMichael, a property owner in Johnson County who belongs to a coalition that opposes fracking. "We are looking at what legal avenue to pursue."
One of the sponsors of the bill, Sen. Michael Frerichs, D-Champaign, said the fact that fracking is already happening in Illinois makes the law that much more important as the state moves to "protect the environment while allowing for job creation."
Environmental groups that helped craft the legislation said they were hopeful the safeguards will address their continued concerns about the method's "environmental impact."
"The environmental community looks forward to working with the governor and agencies to make sure that this bill is strongly enforced," Jan Walling, executive director of the Illinois Environmental Council, said in statement released by Quinn's office.
According to Quinn's office, the law would make Illinois the first state in the nation to require hydraulic fracturing operators to submit chemical disclosures to the state both before and after fracking, as well as require the companies to conduct water testing before the fracking process and then again a number of times after it's completed.
While state records indicate that hydraulic fracturing has begun on a limited basis in parts of Illinois, it will it will be a while before it begins in earnest because the state's Department of Natural Resources must hire dozens of new engineers, inspectors, attorneys and other experts.


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[Master Ace]
On and on and on is how the beat goes
So sell the British Walkers and cut the afros
And dance till the feeling is gone in your toes
I wear shorts in the summer, Timberlands when it snows
Sometimes I like to chill, sometimes I like to mingle
Sometimes I get the fever for the flavor of a single
Sexy young slimmy, but not too young, though
That's because Jimmy might end up on death row
Now this here jam is like a special kind of song
It's not too short, but then again it's not too long
I brought someone with me, someone you might know
He's bound to wreck your body from the tip of your toe
All the way up to your last hair follicle
[Master Ace as Biz Markie]
Hey hey hey, it's me the diabolical
Yes, y'all and, it's time for me to fall in
To a funky beat to make you have a ball and
Jump, make you move your rump on the floor and like pump
C'mon don't be a chump, I see four and maybe five
Live party people but the rest did not survive
They had a cardiac arrest
Now, rocking microphones is something I do daily and
Making people dance like if I was Alvin Ailey, and
People just love it when the Biz starts to play
With my and by the way
Skeezing with a girl is something I get tricky
And I'm the sneaky type to like slip a girl a mickey
And I live the type of life that's far from affordable
Standing on the corner calling cuties on the portable
Me and master ace is funky (word to miz)
Yo, who is it Ace? (it's me and the Biz)
It's me and the Biz (repeat 4x)
[Master Ace as Biz Markie]
Yo Ace, I got an, um, question
Excuse me brother, but can you spare a dime?
[Master Ace]
Naw, but if you want, I can kick a funky rhyme
All I need is a groove that's as smooth as a harp and
I'm ready to talk 'nough shit like Al Sharpton
I take the stage and engage in a page and
My name is master ace and 22 is the age
[Master Ace as Biz Markie]
Yo, I'm the B-I-Z M and, like a lot of women
Bought a new car because the first one was a lemon
Gucci, Louis, Fendi. Me and sexy Cindy
Riding around the block as if I was in the Indy.
Everybody pointing cause I am the joint and
They know it's me, because I'm the B-I-Z
Sometimes I lie in bed all day and think about my life
Should I just kick rap and settle down with kids and a wife?
And get a regular job where I'm working 9 to 5
Shit, I'm the Biz and it's great to be alive
[Master Ace]
I'm making crazy hits, a winner never quits
So those that used to diss me in the past are having fits
But I just sit back and kick my feet up on the table
Cause I'm able to rock a crowd without a cable
Or a Cuban link and (yo, Lincoln wasn't Cuban!)
So I still produce Def Jams like my name was Ricky Rubin
M-A-S-T-E-R and this ain't store bought hip-hop from a jar and
It sure ain't Stephanie Mills playing Dorothy in the wiz
It's me and the Biz
[Master Ace]
I'm a 100% proof and rag on the roof and
Pulling crazy cuties without a gold tooth
Wilding, styling, this land is my land
(you're a) prisoner to my music like you was on Rikers Island
A slim, soft-spoken brother from the ghetto
My name is Master Ace and I thought that you should know
You run your rhymes like a horse and force
Extra booty lyrics on the crowd like you're the boss
I think you'd better keep them to yourself
Do it for yourself, put your lyrics back up on the shelf
Now I'm going to pass it to the B-I-Z M-A-R-K-I-E
'Cause I know you want to see him
[Master Ace as Biz Markie]
Ah one two, one two, this is what I'm gonna do
Keep the place jumping, get it wild like a zoo
If anyone can do it, the B-I-Z can
Peace to Marley Marl, Tagedy, and MC Shan
And my cousin Cool V and, TJ Swan E and
The Jungle Brothers swinging from a tree and
EPMD and, Nice and Smooth B and
MC Craig G and, Just I-C-E and
The list goes on and on and on and on
I go to Dapper Dan or Benetton
Hey hey, I got some shoutouts, I know you all bought my new album
I know everybody in Brooklyn bought it
Everybody in Jersey bought it
Everybody in Uptown bought it
Everybody in Philadelphia and California and Florida bought my new album
I'm Biz Markie, I'm down with my cousin Cool V, TJ Swan, Marley Marl...
Masta Ace's 1990 single, the second off his Take a Look Around album. The song features a sample of Cymande's "The Message". In the song Masta Ace impersonates fellow Juice Crew Member Biz Markie and tells us of his life and Hip Hop credentials.


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DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- AT&T* today announced that it has signed an agreement with Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATNI) to acquire the company's U.S. retail wireless operations, operated under the Alltel brand, for $780 million in cash. Under terms of the agreement, AT&T will acquire wireless properties, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and approximately 585,000 subscribers.
ATNI operates under the Alltel name in the U.S., and its network covers approximately 4.6 million people in primarily rural areas across six states - Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and South Carolina. The acquisition includes spectrum in the 700 MHz, 850 MHz and 1900 MHz bands and is largely complementary to AT&T's existing network. ATNI currently operates a retail CDMA network for its subscribers in these areas. AT&T expects that as it upgrades the network, ATNI customers and existing AT&T customers who roam in these areas will enjoy an enhanced mobile Internet experience.
AT&T expects integration costs for network conversion from CDMA will not result in significant dilution to EPS or impact to cash flow. The transaction is subject to review by the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice and to other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the second half of 2013.


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Who is Required to Have a Subcontractor Registration?
Any subcontractor who is engaged in dust-generating operations at a site that is subject to a Maricopa County dust control permit is required to register. You need to register prior to performing dust-generating activities on a site where you are not the permit holder. A registration may be issued to an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company, or a corporation.
Note that driving on unpaved roads, haul areas, or access areas is considered to be a dust-generating operation. If this is on a site subject to a dust control permit and you are not the permit holder, you must have a valid subcontractor registration.
If you are engaged in dust-generating operations, you may also need dust control training. See Do You Need Dust Control Training? for more details.
Registration is not necessary for companies who always hold the dust control permits for sites on which they work. The following are also exempt from subcontractor registration:
- Vendor/supplier delivery trucks (except import, export, and stacking operations using ancillary motorized equipment, such as a forklift)
- Lunch trucks or food vendors
- Waste management trucks
- Regulatory agencies
Fees and Registration Renewal
The annual fee (new or renewal) is $50. Registration is valid for one year from the month it was issued. It must be renewed annually if you continue to work in Maricopa County. Your registration number will not change if you remain current on renewals.
How to Apply for or Renew a Subcontractor Registration
Registration applications and registration renewals can be submitted at any of our Permit Intake and Kiosk Locations or through our online portal.
To use the online portal:
- Complete the Subcontractor Registration Application (new registrations only) and save it to your computer.
- Access the online portal and attach the application. No document attachments are required for renewals, but be sure to check the box marked "Renewal".
- Pay the $50 fee with a valid credit card.
- Complete the New Subcontractor Registration Application (new registrations only) or the Renewal Subcontractor Registration Application (renewals only).
- Bring it to one of our permit intake locations, or mail it to the address located on the top of the form.
- Pay the $50 fee with a check or money order payable to Maricopa County Air Quality Department (MCAQD). Credit cards are also acceptable when applying in person.
How to Display Your Registration Number
Subcontractors must display their registration number on every job site on which the company works. The number needs to be visible from a distance without having to approach an individual on the site.
The registration number may be copied or reproduced in any format as long as the registration number is readily accessible on-site while conducting any dust generating operations and it is visible and readable by the public without having to be asked by the public.
The registration number may be displayed in a number of ways other than painted on a vehicle.
- Paper sign affixed to the vehicle or equipment window
- Sign at the entrance with your company's name on it and the SC number
- Magnet on the door or bumper
- Rearview mirror hanger
- Banner near subcontractor's work location
How to Make Changes to Your Registration
If your address changes, complete a Subcontractor Change Request Form.
If you wish to add contacts to your registration, complete a Contact Information Update Form.
If the ownership of the business changes, you must cancel your registration. Complete a Subcontractor Change Request Form, and check the Cancel box as well as include the reason for cancellation. A subcontractor registration cannot be transferred. The new owner, partnership, LLC, or corporation must apply for a new registration.
All forms can be mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com or mailed or delivered in person to the address located at the top of the form.
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The "Green" Modernists
POSTED ON: January 24, 2013
Two and half years in the making and created almost entirely by the Institute for Sustainable Design and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture faculty, staff, alumni and students, the acclaimed new exhibition Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Considerations in 20th Century Architecture (1925 to 1970) opens on January 29th in the Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery. Approachable enough for a novice interested in architecture yet holding new insights for professionals and scholars the exhibition seeks to upend entrenched notions of architecture's Modernist era as disconnected from contemporary values of sustainability and environmental consciousness.
Its inspiration? "The 21st century and the dilemmas we are facing," Kevin Bone, Director of the ISD, Professor at the School of Architecture, and a principal on the project says. "We wanted to challenge the perception in certain architectural camps that sustainability is something you call a consultant to help you on by recognizing there was a time when these environmental relationships were integral to the architectural idea." To do that a core group of faculty, staff and alumni from the School of Architecture winnowed a list of over 100 projects from the Modernist era down to 25 examples. These incorporate both well-known and less well-known works across a range of building types including houses, schools and mixed-use facilities in a diversity of climate zones. In each case the research team looked for architects that had been on record discussing their ideas about the work's relationship to natural phenomena.
"We wanted someone who is not necessarily an architect to be able to come in here and understand the content we are trying to put forward" Prof. Bone says. A visitor to the gallery would first be treated along the hallway to a row of black and white photographs of each building presented as "artistic impressions," Prof. Bone says. Entering the gallery, visitors will see scale models of all 25 projects filling the space of the room. Mounted waist-high on separate "kiosks" and finished a uniform bone white, the models make a bold presentation as they invite close examination of each building's every detail. Contextualizing information covers the walls. A panel on each project includes its history, a basic study of each building's relationship to the sun and an investigation of the building's particular interaction with the environment through landscaping or construction. A locator map puts the buildings in relationship to each other on the globe and in their related climate zones. A general timeline puts the 25 selections relative to other 20th century architectural masterworks that were considered but not included.
"It has been something of a monumental undertaking," Prof. Bone says. All the models, research, drawings and photographic material have been produced exclusively for this exhibition, with generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. But the engine making it possible has been collaboration by faculty, alumni and students at the school. For example Wes Rozen ('05) of Situ Studio did the computer numeric modeling for the landscapes. Builder of Scale, a model-making studio run by Dan Schillberg ('03) built two of the models, and recent graduate Daniel Wills ('12) spearheaded a summer-long model making effort in 2012 conducted by students at the school. "This group of staff, alumni and students of the School of Architecture have contributed their time and worked very hard to make this exhibition possible," Prof. Bone says.
black and white photos by Pat McElnea
During a preview visit we asked Prof. Bone to select a few favorites. Immediately he maneuvers over to the model of what appears to be a modest Japanese pagoda. His hands hover over it. "This is an amazing one which I didn't really know before we did this show. Antonin Raymond, who went to Japan to help Frank Lloyd Wright build the Imperial Hotel, developed this project called the Kuruizawa Summer House and Studio (see above) in a sub-tropical, humid landscape in Japan. He adapted an iconic section from Le Corbusier's work for a house in Chile, a project proposed in stone and concrete, a material pallet appropriate for that region. Raymond took aspects of the same spatial diagram that appeared in Corbusier's drawing but through a different strategy of materiality and envelope made this appropriate for a different climate and a different cultural setting. This all-wood house with a thatched roof uses locally sourced materials and the vernacular of Japanese wood construction to create a system of passive ventilation controls for managing comfort. For example, the winds that rise up the hill waft over a cooling pool fed by a spring and then lift up over the high point of the house, acting as a natural evaporative cooler."
Prof. Bone points out other notable works such as Johannes Duiker's Open Air School for the Healthy Child (1930, at right), an early work of Modernism built in The Netherlands. A multi-story building, for every indoor classroom an adjoining outdoor space was also built, facing the direction of the winter sun for use year round. Another example, a single-story luxury home from the Greek Isles kept comfortable without mechanical equipment, has local connections. The architect, Constantinos Decavallas, co-founded the Form and Climate Research Group at Columbia University while a graduate student there in the 1950s, predating "green design" by almost 40 years.
A corrective to misperceptions could not be more enjoyable or edifying than a visit to Lessons from Modernism. Through original research presented in all new drawings, photos and models an alternative reading emerges about Modernist architecture, one of the most examined and seemingly codified cultural movements of the last 100 years. Refining a huge amount of collaborative work down to accessible, thought-provoking demonstrations, the exhibition shows visitors that the relationship of buildings to their environment was much on the mind of 20th century architects long before there was ever a LEED certification. "It is also a reminder that very good architectural work can be made with an element of simplicity," Prof. Bone says, "Here are architectural masterpieces attuned to the environment and that are relatively modest."
Lessons From Modernism
Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery
January 29 - March 23, 2013 (extended!)
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-7pm
(Closed Sunday and Monday)
For more, read the Artinfo interview with Kevin Bone discussing the exhibition.


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Peden + Munk
As summer progresses and apricots go out of season, try these desserts with ripe plums instead.
- Yield
- Makes 12 cakes
- Active Time
- 15 minutes
- Total Time
- 45 minutes
- Nonstick vegetable oil spray
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 6 tablespoons (3/4 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 2 apricots, halved, pitted, cut into 1/4" wedges
- 2 tablespoons raw sugar
- Special Equipment
- A standard 12-cup muffin pan
- Preheat oven to 350°. Coat muffin cups with nonstick spray. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium bowl. Using an electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in another medium bowl, occasionally scraping down sides of bowl, until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add egg, lemon zest, and vanilla and beat until combined.
- With mixer on low speed, add dry ingredients in 3 additions alternately with milk in 2 additions, beginning and ending with dry ingredients. Divide batter among muffin cups (cups will be only 1/3 full) and smooth tops. Top with apricot slices and sprinkle with raw sugar.
- Bake until cakes are golden and a tester inserted into the centers comes out clean, 20-25 minutes. Transfer pan to a wire rack; let pan cool 5 minutes. Transfer cakes to rack and let cool completely.
- DO AHEAD: Cakes can be made 1 day ahead. Store airtight at room temperature.


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This weekend brings the geekiest, bike geariest local event of the year—The San Francisco Bike Expo. For all of you bike nerds like me, the SF Bike Expo at Cow Palace is the local motherland of all things pedal-powered. It's the once-a-year event where all of the local bike shops unload their inventory and bike companies big and small showcase their goods.
If you're looking for vintage wool jerseys from the '70s (I am—please don't steal the good ones before I wake up), then this is your place. If you're wanting to ogle the custom handbuilt frames of small-batch bike builders, this is your spot. And if you just want to watch pretty bikers model the latest cycletastic fashion, or BMXers tear it up on a jumps course, you can do that too. Best yet, if you're looking for a good deal on a new or used bike, there's no better time to find one.
The Bike Expo takes place all day on Saturday and Sunday at Cow Palace (doors open at 10 am), but there are events starting today. Here's a list of my Bike Expo-centric picks for the week:
Film: The Way Bobby Sees It. You do not want to miss this documentary about the blind (!) mountain bike racer. That's right, fully blind, tearing it up on NORBA cross-country courses. Probably one of the best documentaries I've ever seen. (Thursday, 6:00-9:00 pm, Rickshaw Bagsworks Factory)
Big air mountain bike dirt jump competition. Even if you're not a BMX rider, I think you'll have a hard time not being wowed by this event. Now in its 3rd year, the jump competition is always a crowd-pleaser. Best to go for the finals on Sunday from 2-4 pm, but even the practice rounds should be fun.
Pedal Savvy Fashion Show. Local bike fashion diva Gwendolyn Lee puts on this fun cycle-fabulous show. This is a great place to find local and small DIY bike designer gear. Expect to see lots of nice wool, tweed and cool fanny-packs. (Saturday, 1:00 pm)
Swap Hall – Beware: The Swap Hall is like the wormhole of the Bike Expo. It's easy to lose hours of the digging through the bins of bike parts, looking for the perfect stem for your new bike project, or that hard to find Campagnola part to match your set. If you're one of the aforementioned bike nerds, this is your playland.
Tickets are $12 pre-order and $15 at the door. But it's well worth the price, considering you'll likely bike away with some gear you wouldn't otherwise find or couldn't otherwise afford. Plus, it's supposed to rain this weekend, and what better way to spend a rainy day than with a group of fellow cyclephiles?


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I hate being in large crowds but had to be at Boston Common yesterday for the local version of the Women's March occurring in hundreds of cities around the nation and on all continents. � As with anti-Vietnam War marches in … Continue reading →
I hate being in large crowds but had to be at Boston Common yesterday for the local version of the Women's March occurring in hundreds of cities around the nation and on all continents. � As with anti-Vietnam War marches in the late sixties and early seventies, this was a time to stand up and be counted, to bear witness to certain important values at a critical time in the history of our country. Will the emotional outpouring amount to anything more than a feel-good day? � Only if the energy displayed translates into action. As one speaker exhorted, "Organize around your issue. Show up with your allies for other issues."
The purpose of the march, �as �Senator Elizabeth Warren �stated, was to make sure that "as our country enters a new political era, the voices of the people will be heard." � She made it clear that what's at stake are Roe v. Wade, gay rights, tuition debt, pensions, Social Security, climate, equal pay �and more. � "We can whimper, we can whine, or we can fight back," she said. "We won't play dead."
It was gratifying to see young women and girls there, perhaps beginning to learn what the older �generation had to fight for, and �what � may now be in jeopardy. � Much of the day's story was told in the handmade signs: � "Our bodies, our minds, our power;" �"Us and Them;" � "Less Grope, More Hope," "Show up, Dive in, Stay at it," "If I incorporate my uterus, will you stop regulating my body?" "Privileged white woman seeking truth, justice and equality for all," "I march against racism, sexism, xenophobia." � There were speeches from African-American, white, � Muslim and Latina women, immigrants, and others maligned by Donald Trump. � All manner of activists were heard from, including unions and Native Americans from regional tribes some marchers didn't even know lived here.
So will yesterday's huge turnout matter? As Boston Mayor Marty Walsh noted, "It's not what we do today that counts; it's what we do tomorrow." � The battle, however, will not be won in Massachusetts, the bluest of �blue states. � We are already in a bubble, and the crowd in the Boston Common was �a bubble within a bubble.
In addition to buoying each other up, we need somehow to be communicating with Trump supporters here and elsewhere in the country. If we want block a dangerous agenda, � we need to provide resources and encouragement to �women who marched yesterday in Trump �locations like Little Rock and Phoenix. �They need to be in the vanguard of activism, confronting their politicians at a grassroots level.
We need to move beyond our comfort zone bubbles and find common ground on economic issues with people who voted for Trump. Trying to understand their fears and anxieties doesn't mean selling out our commitments on issues affecting women, gays, people of color, Muslims, the disabled. � Donald Trump, his acolytes in Congress and his soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice �now have the power to reverse the course of history. � The Women's March must be Step One in a concerted movement to stop them.
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CALGARY — A multibillion-dollar project to send Alberta oil to the East Coast won federal political support on Tuesday and will likely also be supported by producers, an analyst says.
Calgary-based TransCanada Corp. — the energy transporter trying to build the Keystone XL pipeline to Texas — announced it will hold a binding open season on its proposed Energy East Pipeline to gauge shipper support.
The project, estimated to cost between $5 billion and $6 billion, would involve converting part of its existing west-to-east natural gas Mainline to carry oil from Alberta to Quebec, with a new extension to the port city of Saint John, N.B., where it would be able to access export markets where oil currently fetches higher prices.
Shippers will likely support the project, said Steven Paget, an analyst for FirstEnergy Capital in Calgary.
"I think the chances appear reasonable and they've said it's technically feasible, so that's the first part, and economically feasible and that's the second part," he said.
"It is also an all-Canadian alternative that could allow Canadian oil to access export markets without going through the U.S."
The pipeline's future depends on shipper take-or-pay support for each destination — Montreal, Quebec City and St. John, he said.
"In theory the pipeline might only go to Montreal but it would be more likely to go ahead if it also went to Quebec City and New Brunswick," he said.
If it goes to the regulatory process, it will also likely face fierce opposition from environmentalists and others, Paget added.
Federal Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver said the TransCanada announcement was an encouraging step forward but stopped short of endorsing it or any other specific project.
"I can't endorse this project at this time because it hasn't had regulatory approval, which it is going to have to apply for, presumably after their open season goes the way they hope it will," he told the Herald.
"But I think it's in our strategic interest to move oil to tidewater to attract international prices. We need, as well, to broaden markets for our oil in Western Canada."
If it proceeds, the project would involve converting some of the parallel pipes in the existing 3,000-kilometre natural gas pipeline to carry crude. A 1,400-kilometre extension into Saint John, where Irving Oil has a refinery, has also been proposed.
TransCanada said it will decide whether to file regulatory applications depending on what binding commitments it receives during the open season from April 15 until June 17. It is aiming for the project to begin shipping as much as 850,000 barrels of oil per day in late 2017.
The development is one of two proposals for moving oil from the West to the East Coast.
The other would see Enbridge Inc. expand capacity on some pipes in the Great Lakes region and reverse the flow of the Line 9 pipeline between Montreal and southern Ontario.
Western crude oil has been receiving higher than normal discounts recently because of pipeline bottlenecks that stand in the way of getting oil to refineries in the United States and to ocean tankers which would take it to foreign markets where prices are based on North Sea Brent crude.
In 2012, Canada imported more than 600,000 barrels per day to supply its Eastern refineries.
Irving Oil Corp. has reportedly been moving more than 90,000 bpd of crude by rail from Alberta and North Dakota to supply its New Brunswick refinery, Canada's largest.
The $5.3-billion Keystone XL project would move 830,000 bpd from the oilsands region to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. It is awaiting U.S. government approvals.
Gas volumes on TransCanada's Mainline system have declined as competing production from shale formations has increased in the U.S. Northeast.
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners is planning a $5.4-billion expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline between Alberta and Vancouver.
Enbridge Inc. is planning the Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to Kitimat, B.C.
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(Via Josh Marshall.)
ADDED: More on Khalidi here:
Mr. Khalidi, the Edward Said professor of Arab studies at Columbia, was born in Manhattan in 1948....I don't know what the whole quote was, but I see subtlety in that statement. Obama is speaking at an event honoring a colleague, so it's no time for insults. Obama gracefully uses self-deprecation as he speaks of his own flaws, which Khalidi reminded him to see. We don't know from that whether Khalidi successfully argued that Obama had blind spots and biases or whether Khalidi served as an example of blind spots and biases. I think we see a polite and circumspect man -- perhaps even a man who follows the teaching of Jesus:
He taught at universities in Lebanon until the mid-'80s, and some critics accuse him of having been a spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization. Mr. Khalidi has denied working for the group, and says he was consulted as an expert by reporters seeking to understand it.
He was an adviser to the Palestinian delegation during Middle East peace talks from 1991 to 1993. From 1987 until 2003, he was a professor at the University of Chicago, where he became friends with Mr. Obama.
At Mr. Khalidi's farewell party in 2003, according to the Los Angeles Times article, Mr. Obama fondly recalled their many conversations, saying they provided "consistent reminders to me of my own blind spots and my own biases."
Matthew 7
1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.


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My kadhi khichadi koshimbir meal is perfectly ready in 30 mins with some rest time as well in between :D Well no intermediate snaps posted since I didnt waste any time taking snaps and then finishing up everything! ;) I proceeded like this.....
What you need:
For Khichadi:
1 cup Rice
1/2 cup Moong Dal
2 tbsp Oil
1 tsp Mustard seeds
1 tsp Cumin Seeds
1 big Onion, chopped
3 cloves Garlic, chopped
2 tbsp Peanuts
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 tsp Maharashtrian Goda masala (can be substituted by 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder+1/2 tsp Corriander Powder+1tsp Garam Masala)
1/2 tsp Turmeric
Corriander for garnish
For Kadhi:
1 cup Yoghurt
2-3 tsp Besan
Small piece of Jaggery
Salt (depends on sourness of curd)
5-6 Curry Leaves
1 tsp Mustard Seeds
1 tsp Ginger Chilli paste
A pinch of Asafoetida
1/4 tsp Turmeric
For Koshimbir:
1/2 cup Thick Yoghurt
1 small Onion, finely chopped
1 Tomato, chopped
3-4 tbsp Chopped Cucumber
2-3 tsp roasted Peanut Powder
1/2 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1/2 tsp Cumin Powder
A pinch of Sugar
Salt to taste
How to Proceed:
0-5 mins:
1) Mix rice and dal, wash, drain and leave aside
2) Chop 2 medium sized Onions
3) Heat oil in a cooker and add mustard and cumin seeds to it
4) Add chopped 11/2 onion (leave aside half onion for koshimbir) and garlic to oil and saute for 2 mins
5-10 mins:
5) Add peanuts and other spices (red chilli powder, turmeric, goda masala/garam masala, cumin and corriander powder)
6) Now add rice and dal and mix well for a minute..
7) Add 31/2 cups of Water and salt as required and mix well..
8) Close the cooker and let the khichdi cook for 3 whistles
10-15 mins:
9) Take a mixing bowl, add 1 cup yoghurt and 1 cup water to it.. The mixture should not be too thin
10) Add besan, jaggery and salt to it.. Mix well to avoid any lump formation
11) Heat 1 tsp Oil, add curry leaves,hing, mustard seeds and ginger chilli paste to it..
12) Saute for a minute and transfer the buttermilk-besan mixture to this.
13) Let this cook on medium heat
15-20 mins:
14) Chop cucumber and tomato
15) Take 1/2 cup yoghurt in a mixing bowl and add chopped onions, cucumber and tomato to it.. 16) Add rest of the ingredients- roasted peanut powder,red chilli powder,cumin powder,sugar and salt and mix well
17) Koshimbir ready, keep it in fridge to cool
18) Stir the kadhi
20-25 mins:
19) Keep stiring the kadhi at intervals of 2-3 mins
20) Keep your ears tuned to the whistle else you'll miss the count ;)
21) The khichdi is ready in this interval, keep cooker aside to cool
22) After stirring the kadhi, you have some time to rest.. Dont sit down.. Roast some papads on the gas thats just free from cooker! :D
25-30 mins:
23) Kadhi starts boiling, switch off gas (Total time required for kadhi to boil is 10-12 mins)
24) Now the semi-cooled cooker and extra hot kadhi is set on the table
25) Take dishes, bowls and spoons and set the table
26) The cooker cools completely.. Remove koshimbir from fridge and get ready to dine!! :)
* I enjoy plain khichdi.. You can add vegetables like potatoes, peas, brinjals, cauliflower etc. if you like.. Khichadi can be served with some pickles as well!


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Emeritus Faculty
Susan Ross, PhD
Title/s: Professor Emerita
CV Link: Ross CV 2016
Dr. Susan A. Ross is a Professor of Theology and Emertia Faculty at Loyola University Chicago. She received her BA from Manhattanville College (NY), and her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Prior to joining the faculty at Loyola, she taught at St. Norbert College and Duquesne University. From 2006–08 she served as the Director of the Ann Ida Gannon, BVM, Center for Women and Leadership at Loyola.
Dr. Ross is a Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America. She is a Vice-President and member of the Board of Editors of Concilium, the international theological journal, and has co-edited three of its recent issues; she has also written numerous journal articles and book chapters. She is the recipient of a Louisville Institute Sabbatical Grant, the Book of the Year Award from the College Theology Society in 1999, an Honorable Mention for Best Gender Issues Award from the Catholic Press Association in 2007, and the Ann O'Hara Graff Award from the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Program Areas
Systematic, feminist, and sacramental theology and ethics
Research Interests
Feminist Theology and Ethics; Theological Anthropology
Selected Publications
- Anthropology: Seeking Light and Beauty (Liturgical Press, 2012)
- Extravagant Affections: A Feminist Sacramental Theology (Continuum, 1998)
- For the Beauty of the Earth: Women, Sacramentality and Justice (Paulist, 2006)
- Co-editor with Maureen A. Tilley, of Broken and Whole: Essays on Religion and the Body (University Press of America, 1995).