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I'm guilty. Guilty of indulging our kids in crazy, unhealthy treats. When Brandan conjured up the idea of fried ice cream for his turn in the kitchen, I caved. My justification? We honestly have very little "junk" food in our house. The kids rarely have soft drinks, candy, or chips – and continually are re-introduced to vegetables in the hopes that one day, they'll actually start eating them. So how much will a bit of fried ice cream hurt? That, and I'd never experienced fried ice cream, so I was curious to try it.
I was surprised at how easy it really was. Sure, there were several steps, but each one could be completed in a manner of minutes, and we could go back to our activities in between, while waiting for ice cream balls to freeze. It also was relatively easy to convert to gluten-free – I only had to grab some gluten-free corn flakes (I used Nature's Path Honey'd Corn Flakes), check the ingredients in the ice cream, and we were good to go. (Those corn flakes aren't half-bad, either. I'm not big on boxed cereals, but these reminded me how much I used to like corn flakes.)
Everyone enjoyed the ice cream quite a lot. The kids commented that the corn flake crust reminded them of an ice cream cone. While I likely won't make this again anytime soon, (I hate frying – we buy all that oil, only to later stare at the fryer full of oil that I'll just throw away. Yes, I realize I could strain it and re-use it, but I don't fry often, so it's just not really practical.) it was a fun experiment, and quite tasty!
Fried Ice Cream, adapted from Emeril Lagasse
1 quart vanilla ice cream (make sure it's gluten-free; I used Blue Bell Vanilla Bean)
1-2 c crushed gluten-free corn flakes
2 large eggs
2 T sugar
Vegetable oil for frying
Chocolate sauce, optional
Whipped cream, optional
With an ice cream scoop, form 4 large balls of ice cream. Place on a waxed-paper-lined baking sheet (I used a Silpat) and cover with plastic wrap. Freeze for 2 hours.
Place crushed cornflakes in a shallow bowl. Roll the ice cream balls in cornflakes and freeze again for 30 minutes.
In a bowl, beat the eggs together with the sugar. Dip the coated ice cream balls in the egg mixture, and then roll in the cornflakes, coating completely. Freeze for 1 hour.
Heat the oil in a large pot or fryer to 400 degrees. One at a time, lower the balls into the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 30 seconds. Remove from the oil with a slotted spoon and place in a dessert bowl. Top with chocolate sauce and whipped cream and serve immediately.
Serves 4.
Yes, I realize I've promised you stories about our vacation – I still plan to really soon! But for now, I'll give you a sneak peek of a photo:
Happy Easter from our family!
45 Responses to "Kids in the Kitchen: Fried Ice Cream"
You are a rock star mom!! I am 100% with you on indulging in "unhealthy" treats and the justification for them. If you think about it, just by the nature of the gluten-free diet, our kids do not consume a lot of the unhealthy processed and fast foods, that many kids eat… just by default!
Then, if you give your kiddos homemade treats, you further eliminate more chemicals and preservatives (see where I am going here? I am convincing myself that homemade treats are indeed "good for you!" LOL).
I think it is all about balance. when my boys are at home, we eat a 90% naturally gluten-free diet, grilled meats, roasted and raw veggies, etc. So they are growing up knowing and loving real foods. I do make a few treats during the week, like cookies, etc. because you have to have fun too! Getting our kiddos in the kitchen to cook with us is an even bigger bonus, they learn about math and science; they build self-confidence with their creations and get to spend time with mom too.
So here's to GF Fried Ice Cream! Can I come over?
LOL…I love it. I used to order this fried green tea ice cream from a Japanese restaurant I used to go to. Sooooo good!!! I've always wondered how they did it. I don't need to look any further.
Happy Easter!!
This is great. I am not telling, Joe, though because he'll have me frying ice cream every night. I can just imagine the great taste of corn flakes fried to perfection and the cold, creamy ice cream. Yum!! I remember eating fried ice cream at Chi-Chi's when I was a kid and oh, how I loved it.
Can't wait to hear all about your vacation and see the pics!! Happy Easter to you, too!!!
Oh wow, the fried ice cream looks spectacular! Yum! Happy Easter!
That looks delicious. I remember eating fried ice cream back home. The ice cream was wrapped in bread and frozen. It was deep fried and served immediately….delicious.
I love that little duck! My mom knits ducks that look just like that!
I don't think there's anything wrong with indulging your kids with a homemade treat when you eat so healthy most of the time! It looks great!
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I've never had fried ice cream, but I'd like to try it … especially now that I've seen the photo and recipe. Love the photos. Can't wait to hear about your trip. Happy Easter!
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As usual, another tempting dish! However, while I was wiping the drool off my chin, I scrolled down and saw the Monarc Ranch pic. OMWord!! That is a MUST on our travel list!! Great photo, too. Feel like I am there . . . well, almost!
You totally have to splurge on "bad" stuff every now and then, or they'll want it all the time, right? At least when you do splurge it's a family activity and you all cook it together!
Once in a while, it's FINE to indulge you and your kids in some sinful ice cream!
Looks so very tempting!
Wow! I'll have to try fried ice cream some time. Does it have to be corn flakes? Is there any other possible substitute?
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I love fried ice cream. I have a Japanese restaurant by me that does an amazing one. Gonna give yours a go!
After the first time I made this treat – I was hooked! It's now a family favorite!
I must have been about 13 or 14 the first time I had fried ice cream. It was at a Mexican restaurant in RI, and I thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I can't remember the last time I had it. Now, you've brought it back into my life! I love you!
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LOL…You remind me of me, apologizing in advance for a recipe that's less than 100% healthy. When did we get to be so guilt-laden about special treats? This looks delicious and I'm proud of you for not only making it for the kids but for sharing it with all of us!
I can barely remember fried ice cream because it's been so long and I only had it a couple of times. Your photo is very tempting. I'm sure it was a fun and tasty experiment.
The ice cream looks great… Love it !!!
You know, I have seen this on so many blogs and been intrigued by it. I think its time now to make it, except its summer here and so hot! I think I'll wait till the rains to make this.
These are really good and we normally share an order at the restaurant. I think we all indulge our kids once in a while
I'm with you on indulging not only our kids, but ourselves too, once in a while LOL This looks fabulous but for some reason, the thought of frying ice cream freaks me out big time!! I always imagine it will burst or there'll be a meltdown in the fryer Ugghh!
I think it's time to give it a try!
What an excellent post! I looove fried ice cream. Thanks for sharing!
wow,delicious!i hope you had a happy easter!your painted eggs are so pretty!
I absolutely have to make it for my daughter – she loves ice cream of course and everything crunchy so this will be the ultimate treat for her!
This is definitely one of those dishes that I have never thought to make at home! It looks really good though – and I am sure the kids had a lot of fun making it!!!
Wow, this sounds like a great treat! What lucky kids you have that you're willing to indulge them.
Childhood would not be fun without a few unhealthy treats! The ice cream looks yummy.
It is great to start your kids out early introducing them to healthier foods. A little treat like this is certainly fun every now and then! I bet it was totally decadent.
Thanks for sharing this. I will be trying this soon!
I can tell you are mastering the art of desserts, and I love them, that ice cream is so sexy and so inviting, I can imagine the pleasure you get with just one spoonful, hmmmmm – beautiful!
Wow, I'm impressed. I always wondered how fried ice cream was made. It seems like such an oxymoron, but freezing the prepared balls first was an enlightening tip. What a treat! If it wasn't snowing and blowing around here, I'd be tempted to try this right now. Might have to wait until spring arrives for real! I also loved your sneak peek photos.
What a tasty summer treat! The photo is delicious!
Thanks for stopping by my blog :), you've got quite a tasty one yourself :D.
We always love your posts!! Always heartwarming and we are thinking they just sound true. best, s
i want ice cream, too!!! your kids are so lucky. but it's good to let them eat sweets once in awhile.
I've ALWAYS wanted to make my own fried ice cream. I haven't had it in probably 10 years back when I was still living in Oregon and could go to my favorite Mexican restaurant to get some, but now I can try to make it at home
Love it! Crunchy and creamy–such a great treat!
Just when I thought ice cream couldn't get any better on it's own I see it FRIED! Looks so good, and relatively easy too. I beleive there is nothing wrong with indulging your kids when they are making the junk. Takes a lot more effort than opening a bag/box/container of crap! I have the same philosophy at my home. We don't have too many packaged foods laying around (because I would eat them!) so why not live on the wild side and make something Baaad every one in awhile?
My kids & I were just talking about fried ice cream the other day. Seems easy enough to do, as long as you think of it in advance. I may have to try it, I like the Honey'd cornflakes, my cereal of choice, actually. At least they're cheaper than some of the other small boxes of cereal. :-/
I need to get my act together and fry some ice-cream. It looks yum
wow, that looks so good! i've never had fried ice cream.
Don't feel guilty. Fried ice cream is tasty! It also takes a lot of time and care to make. It sounds like an experience the kids will remember when they get older, as a special treat. Good food takes time and work!
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By Rachel Petersen
Staff Writer
McALESTER —
On Nov. 6, I came back to my office, sat at my computer and stared at a blank screen while I searched for the words within me to describe the huge injustice I had just witnessed. Injustice — my judgment, my bias.
I searched for the words to lead my story about the execution of Garry Thomas Allen. I wanted to write "Garry Thomas Allen had no idea he was about to die — and then Oklahoma executed him."
In the stories that I write, I try my best to report the news to my readers without including my own judgment, my bias. This is what I am supposed to do and sometimes, because I am human, this is a very difficult task.
I don't really know what Allen was aware of, what he may have been thinking. I was not in his head.
So I did my best to write the story and use words describing the facts — describing what I saw and heard — not what I felt.
Today, in my column, I write about what I felt — because this is my opinion and I am allowed to have one.
I have witnessed eight executions at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary over the past two years. I remember all of their names. And I remember the names of all of their victims, too.
Eight executions, and I am sad to say that I don't cry anymore.
I cried so much at the first execution — John David Duty. In fact, I was crying so hard that Duty's brother and sister-in-law were handing me tissue.
I didn't cry quite as much at the second one — Billy Don Alverson. But I did cry and my heart ached for Alverson's sister, who was wailing as she watched her brother die.
I had a handful of tears at the third one — Jeffrey David Matthews. I watched him die as I listened to his mother tell him "just breathe, just breathe" as she watched her son die.
I had a single tear drip down the left side of my face at the fourth one — Gary Roland Welch. He had no family there to witness his death. His mother, who was the last relative to stay in contact with him, had died years earlier. When the blinds were raised at his execution, he looked at the witnesses. Our eyes met. He winked at me.
Earlier, I had the opportunity to chat with him for a couple hours. He had told me that he wanted his buddies to celebrate him, not mourn his death. He said he wished they could go out for a beer — something they clearly couldn't do since his buddies were death row inmates. I told him I would have a beer for him that day. I hate beer. But I had one that night.
I had a strong burning sensation, but no tears, at the fifth execution I witnessed — Timothy Shaun Stemple. And I watched his mother chew endlessly on the inside of her lower lip while she watched her son die.
I had no tears and no burning sensation at the sixth — Michael Bascum Selsor. But I watched his son, who looked like a younger version of his father, rock his body back and forth in his seat while he fidgeted with his hands as he watched his father die.
Again, I had no tears or burning sensation behind my eyes at the seventh — Michael Edward Hooper. I listened to his mother say "amen" as he finished saying his last words. She then watched her son die.
And then at the eighth — Garry Thomas Allen — I thought I might have felt the burning sensation behind my eyes again. I watched as a woman, one of Allen's attorneys, lowered her head in her hands as Allen rambled on unintelligibly about Obama, Romney and Jesus. In fact, Allen said alot of things in his lengthy ramblings — I just couldn't understand what he was saying.
Like Welch, he had no family present at his execution. Just the lawyers who worked as hard as they could — without success — to get his death sentence commuted.
Allen had raised his head off his death bed — the execution gurney — and looked at his two attorneys in the witness area. "Hi," he said to them. And they both raised their hands in the air and waved at him.
My judgment, my bias, my opinion: Allen had no idea he was about to be executed. This is what I feel. And when the deputy warden said "Let the execution begin," Allen turned his head and looked at him and said "Huh? What?" And then when the lethal dose of drugs ran through his body, he looked again at the deputy warden and loudly groaned. I truly believe he didn't know what was happening to him.
And now, days after the execution, I am questioning myself. I was a witness, I was there, and I sat quietly taking notes with a pen and paper. I watched an injustice take place before my own eyes and I did nothing. I merely scribbled words on a piece of paper.
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By Wally Kennedy
JOPLIN, Mo. —
With the experience that comes from doing something over and over again, the crane operator lifted the final steel beam to the top of the seven-story patient tower, where ironworkers quickly fastened it into place.
On the ground below, a cheer went up among dozens of workers who were watching the historic moment: the topping out of Mercy Hospital Joplin.
On the beam were the signatures of hundreds of hospital employees, many of whom had worked at the former St. John's Regional Medical Center, which took a direct hit from the May 22, 2011, tornado.
Also lifted to the top of the structure were an American flag and an evergreen sapling. The significance of the sapling was explained during a ceremony Thursday afternoon that preceded the lifting of the beam.
"The evergreen symbolizes a tradition that this has been a good job with no loss of life," said John Farnen, project manager for Sisters of Mercy Health System. "It also is said to bring prosperity and longevity to the occupants."
Gathered under a tent warmed with portable heaters near the base of the hospital at 50th Street and Hearnes Boulevard, speakers said the steel structure was symbolic of the mission of Catherine McAuley, the founder of the Sisters of Mercy.
"Catherine McAuley said, 'Proof of love is deed,"' said Gary Pulsipher, president of Mercy Hospital Joplin. "This structure testifies to the truth of that thought."
Pulsipher said that within days of the tornado, hospital workers were back on the job in a temporary tent hospital. After that, they were working in trailers while a new component hospital was being constructed. It opened early last year. The new hospital is to be completed two years from now in the spring of 2015.
In a statement released by McCarthy Building Cos., Stephen Meuschke, project manager for McCarthy, said, "We will have the new replacement hospital open three and a half years after the tornado hit Joplin, which is approximately half the time you would normally anticipate to plan, design and construct a similar size hospital."
McCarthy began working with Mercy planners to develop the functional program for the replacement hospital in July 2011 and completed the program three months later. The functional team included the architectural firms of Archimages, HKS, and Heideman & Associates.
Interior work began in December on the lower floors of the hospital and will begin this spring in the two towers.
For those attending the ceremony, Farnen provided details about the scope of the project. The hospital is supported by 325 piers that are up to 80 feet deep. One million cubic yards of soil and rock have been moved. That's equal to 100,000 dump trucks of material. There are 6,000 pieces of steel in the structure. More than 400,000 square feet of concrete flooring will be poured, which is enough to build 200 houses. More than 700 miles of wire will be used, which is enough to rig a zip line from Joplin to New Orleans, La.
The hospital, he said, is affecting the local economy, with 75 percent of the work force being local. There are about 200 people on site. That number will grow to 600 as the hospital nears completion. More than $2 million has been spent on miscellaneous items purchased locally. Local builders have received $30 million worth of contracts.
Lynn Britton, president of Sisters of Mercy Health System, said he recently attended the National Prayer Breakfast and met with leaders from around the world. The mention of Mercy and Missouri triggered questions about Joplin and the post-tornado progress that is being made.
"The world is watching you," Britton said.
He noted that the neonatal intensive care unit in the hospital is being funded by the United Arab Emirates.
Rob O'Brian, president of the Joplin Area Chamber of Commerce, said Catherine McAuley was known for creating "a house of prosperity, caring and education" in Dublin, Ireland, in the 1820s. He thanked Mercy for bringing the same kind of place to Joplin.
Janet Gentry lived in a home along Indiana Avenue on the east side of the hospital site for 36 years. She and her horses were the last to move from the construction site in July of last year. She has relocated to a farm eight miles south of Joplin.
Seeing the hospital up close for the first time was staggering.
"It looks huge to me," Gentry said. "This whole area is so different now, and it's going to change even more. It's going to take a while to get used to it."
The schedule
McCARTHY BUILDING COS. broke ground in January 2012 for the 875,000-square-foot, 260-plus private room hospital. The bottom three floors include hospital space, with a seven-story patient tower and a four-story clinic tower rising above the hospital space. A separate 30,000-square-foot central utility plant is connected to the main structure by a 450-foot underground tunnel. The building's exterior is to be completed in November 2013, the central utility plant will be operational by January 2014, and the main structure is expected to open in March 2015.


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Thursday, March 21, 2013 — Rev. Truette Rogers, 84, of Albemarle, passed away Monday, March 18, 2013, at Stanly Regional Medical Center.
His funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday, March 22, 2013, at Plyler Baptist Church with Pastor Brian Franklin and Pastor Mark Mabry officiating.
Burial will be in Canton Baptist Church Cemetery with full military rites conducted by the Stanly County DAV Ritual Team.
The family received friends at Stanly Funeral Home on Thursday, March 21, 2013, from 6-8 p.m.
Born July 19, 1928, in Stanly County, N.C., he was the son of the late Reuben L. Rogers and Cora Whitley Rogers and Fannie Coley Rogers, who raised him.
Rev. Rogers was a retired Baptist Minister. He was educated at Fruitland Bible Institute and was ordained at Canton Baptist Church in 1957. He served in churches in Stanly, Montgomery, Richmond and Brunswick counties until 1994. He was a member of Plyler Baptist Church and a veteran of the U.S. Army having served in the Korean Conflict.
Rev. Rogers is survived by his wife, Ruby Throneburg Rogers, of the home; sons, T. Stephen Rogers of Charlotte and Stan Rogers and wife Joanne of Albemarle; sister, Selma Smith of Charlotte; three grandchildren, Tasha Kilpatrick, Juanita Poplin and Felicia Julien; five great-grandchildren; Spencer, Andrew, Nathan, Brantly and Emmett.
He was preceded in death by a son, Gary Stephen Rogers.
Stanly Funeral Home is entrusted with arrangements.
Please share condolences at www.StanlyFuneralHome.com.


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Where do we draw the line? It's a question that comes up all the time with horror fans. At what point does our entertainment step over the line from being escapism and diversion into tastelessness, shock cinema and even something potentially destructive to ourselves.
For non-fans of horror, the line is clear. It begins at the portal to our beloved genre itself. The moment a film or book description says HORROR, then it qualifies as destructive and repulsive. Fair enough. But people with that perspective are missing all of the art, joy and literature that horror has to offer. They're missng out all of the catharsis and wonderful fantasy and escapism that the dark art of horror has to offer. It's long been known that indulging in dark fantasy like horror films and violent entertainment is a normal and healthy outlet.
William S. Burroughs wrote, "This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principals, but ours seems to be based on war and games."
He sure got that right. And it's not just humans. It's every living thing. Violence, conflict and fear are present in every life form on the planet. Think about this, humans are just about the only living creatures on earth that don't die regularly from being eaten alive, dying in a state of pure agony and terror. And the only reason for that is because we're at the top of the food chain. Almost every creature that exists now or has ever existed in the history of the world has died from being torn to pieces and eaten alive.
To add to Burroughs' perspective, not only is this a war universe, it's a terror universe. We begin our existance in a state of shock and terror as we're born. We then spend our lives "seeking" peace and harmony, because our natural state is fear and violence, and in the end, we die, more often than not, in a state of sadness or terror. No one wants to die. Why? Because it's painful, it ends everything you know, possibly your very existance (a thought too large and too dark for any of us to even grasp), and it potentially sends you hurtling into the next level of existance.
So with all the terror and horror that exists in, and bookends our life, it's natural for us to be at least a little preoccupied with the subject. Scaling it down, putting a monster face on it, and making it entertaining is just a way for us to get a hold on our terror universe.
But sometimes a film or a book comes along that rattles our senses, takes us to too dark of a place, goes a little too far, steps over the line, if you will... It shows us terror and horror that's a little too close to the real terror universe that we live in. It's rare, but it sends even horror fans running.
What horror film crossed the line for you? What have you seen that went too far? It's a personal boundary and different for everyone, and I'm really curious what is too far for you in this Universe of Terror that we've found ourselves in.
Let me know. I'll be waiting.
Gaudium per Atrox.


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The San Mateo County Historical Association still has many photos that need captions, after it recently purchased more than 30,000 San Mateo Times newspaper photos that span most of the 20th century and provide a glimpse into San Mateo County life and its generations.
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By CHELSEA DAVIS
Courier staff writer
---- — OTTUMWA — Next week will be filled with a slew of events celebrating Independence Day.
The week will kick off with a reading of the Declaration of Independence outside the Ottumwa Public Library at 6:15 p.m. Monday.
Two days later, the first Bowling RV Summer Fest will fill Ottumwa Park for a day filled with music and food. The event, which runs from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday, will feature campers on display, three bands and food and beverages.
"It's actually my 25th anniversary of being here, so we're just basically doing it as a thank you to our customers and to the local people," said Randy Bowling of Bowling Motors. "It's a basic thing we wanted to do to promote Ottumwa, promote our business and get people involved. You hear so many times that there's nothing to do and nowhere to go."
If the festival becomes an annual event, Bowling said he would like to bring in bigger and bigger names to provide entertainment for the crowd.
"We're doing it more for the community than for us," he said. "It's costing us money; we're not charging anybody to come. And it allows a lot of people that would never get the opportunity to go see a big-name band to go see one, see it for free and be in the front row."
No Justice, a country band that recently performed at Bridge View Center in January, will headline the event.
Next year, Bowling hopes to get another big country name, such as Jason Aldean or Luke Bryan.
"If it goes over well and people have fun, maybe next year we'll get a bigger band and charge $10.50 to get in, but for now we want people to show up and enjoy the atmosphere," he said. "That's all we care about."
One thing is still in limbo: which organization a portion of the funds from a cash vault will go toward. People will have the opportunity to enter a six-digit pin into the cash vault and if it opens, they will win a $50,000 RV with $50,000 cash inside.
Campers will be set up in the park starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday for tours and to sign up for a drawing for a new, $8,000 Rockwood fold-down camper, as well as other prizes.
Then the "gates," so to speak, will open at 5 p.m. for food, drinks and entertainment.
Bands performing at the festival include:
— Mr. Fugly at 6 p.m.
— Bob "BoBo" Davidson at 7:15 or 7:30 p.m.
— No Justice at 9:15 or 9:30 p.m.
The second annual Fourth of July Family Jamboree will pick up the festivities at noon Thursday and continue through Friday.
The event, first organized by Ottumwa Councilman Brian Morgan last year, will continue next week with bluegrass and country music, flea market vendors and a Naval Air Station display and merchandise, all running from noon to 10 p.m.
Morgan previously noted that the idea for the event was inspired by Wapello County Supervisor Jerry Parker's former "Family Camporee" in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
The Ottumwa Municipal Band will perform at 7 p.m. Thursday prior to the fireworks display, which will launch from the west side of Ottumwa Park near Quincy Place Mall, said Parks Director Gene Rathje.
The week will end with the first "Live After Five" of the summer on Friday in Central Park, sponsored by South Ottumwa Savings Bank. The Tom Blew Band will perform from 5-7:30 p.m., and food and beverages will be available.
— To follow reporter Chelsea Davis on Twitter, head to @ChelseaLeeDavis.
Schedule of area Fourth of July celebrations:
July 3: Burgers, hot dogs, desserts and ice cream served from 5-7 p.m. at the fire station. Street dance with band Still Kickin' from 7-10 p.m. between the fire station and the bank.
July 4: Parade at 10 a.m., followed by the Agency Lions BBQ in the Agency Lions Park. Children's games and activities at 12:30 p.m. in the park.
July 5: Supper in the park at 5 p.m., followed by watermelon seed shooting contest and baseball pitching contest. Movie "The Blind Side" shown at 9 p.m.
July 4-6: Fort Bloomfield annual three-day rodeo. Nightly performances begin at 7:30 p.m. at Davis County Fairgrounds covered pavilion. Slack follows performances July 5-6. Fireworks follow rodeo performances on July 4.
July 4: Flag raising at 6:45 a.m. "By the Dawns Early Light" 5K run/walk at 7 a.m. Kids cutie contest at 10:30 a.m. Pie contest at noon. Motorcycle poker run departs at noon. Citizen of the year announced at 6:45 p.m. Elvis arrives at 7 p.m. Fireworks at dusk. All day activities include open mic on the stage, flea market and car, motorcycle and gas engine shows.
July 4: Fireworks at dusk at Waterworks Park.
July 4: Pancake and sausage breakfast from 6-10 a.m. Lunch at 2 p.m. Kids games at 2 p.m. in city park, featuring petting zoo, bounce house and train rides. Kids pedal pull at 4 p.m. (sign up at 3:30 p.m.). Silver mine at 5 p.m. Reading of Declaration of Independence at 5 p.m., followed by play, "Charles Carroll, the Last One Standing," at Congregational UCC Church. Live entertainment at 6 p.m. featuring The Harvest Band and performances by Carson Schuck. Fireworks at dusk.
July 4: Fireworks will follow the Ottumwa Municipal Band's performance at Jimmy Jones Shelter in Ottumwa Park. Parks Director Gene Rathje said the fireworks will begin around 10 p.m.
July 4: Keokuk County Expo Raceway gates open at 5:30 p.m. for annual truck and tractor pull. Fireworks will follow at dusk.


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This year's annual Caring Heart Award is presented to Audrey Sealey, a twenty-year plus veteran staff member who is presently engaged as the Trauma Coordinator, Department of Surgery. She is known for her compassion for patients, taking into account their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. She sees patients holistically, and works diligently at ministering to them. She treats patients as if they are members of her own family.
Here is what the six staff members (Juanita Jones, Denise Harris, Maria Giganti, Pedro Vega, Bella Kronfeld, and Diane Shelton) who nominated her have to say of this spirited woman: "Audrey D. Sealey, FNP, PhD has always exemplified herself as a compassionate and loving person. She is always available to assist in patient care and long-term heath care plans. She is a team player, and is on call whenever needed. She mentors students in the Nurse Practitioner Program in the Emergency Department, as well as her colleagues at TBHC. We feel Dr. Sealey should receive The Caring Heart Award 2005 because of her dedication to patient care in all aspects of her career. She is a healthcare person who loves her profession, and a mother who devotes herself to both her work and her family. Dr. Sealey demonstrates kindness, concern and caring at all times - it defines her personality."
The Caring Heart Award is presented annually after nominations have been received from staff members. All staff members are eligible who: (1) demonstrate respect for human beings as a whole, in the treatment of patients, their loved ones, and staff colleagues; (2) practice healthcare with an appreciation for the interrelated functioning of body, mind and spirit; (3) realize and model the importance of promoting teamwork among various disciplines; and (4) embody a substantial degree of wholeness in their own personal and professional lives, striving for a balance of physical, mental and spiritual well-being.
This year's nominees are pictured here, and they are: Manuel Alcantara, Isaint Alexander, Jennifer Aquino, Bertha Artis, Nereida Borrero, Angel Cartagena, Daphne Gabbidon, Bertina Hutchinson, Robert Krakowski, Patrick LeBlanc, Doris McCoy, Kathleen McManus , Monica Morris, Oscar Molina, Annie Peralta, Linda Phinezee, Patricia Phan, Maribel Sanchez, Diana St. Croix, Pat Shelton, Sieuchand Sinanan, Kenneth Soobrian, Georgia Williams, Deborah Wright, and our winner, Audrey Sealey - but they are all winners, aren't they?
Nominations are requested in July of each year. A sub-committee of the Pastoral Care Advisory Committee reviews the nominees, interviewing them, the persons who nominated them, their supervisors and peers. The sub-committee recommends the winner, with the selection left in the hands of the Pastoral Care Advisory Committee, and a final blessing from the Senior Administration of the hospital. The Caring Heart Award is presented annually at a special ceremony during Pastoral Care Week, the last week in October.
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As if taking a cue from its own title, the movie emphatically sets its sights on the upward trajectory of Brown's career.
Swanberg's films have grown into a reliable relief from the competitive, dehumanizing freneticism of much of American culture, marked by an affirming sense of decency.
One may feel dissatisfied by the 11th-hour turn toward lyrical fatalism, and mildly insulted by the presumptuous attitude it seems to choose as it sends us on our way.
Rich Hill is poverty porn, examining lower-class spaces with pity as its operative mode and engendering little more than a means for viewers to leave the film acknowledging its sadness.
Franco's aesthetic is ugly and ambling, not so much because of its brownish-gray monochrome, but because it registers like the jerky result of a college kid wielding a DV cam.
As pleasant and effortless as Ramon Zürcher makes his formal persnicketiness and Akermanian aesthetic rigor seem, his film feels lightweight.
It uses archival and Broadway footage so seamlessly that telling the difference between reality and recreation becomes not only difficult, but one of the film's central metaphors.
Mark Jackson's direction strips much of the agency from any character's grasp by insisting that their dilemmas can only be revealed with stone-faced austerity.
As the film's monsters thrust and parry contemptuous dialogue at each other, it's hard not to feel that the prospect of sex between two people has seldom looked so joyless.
This is less a movie than a dutiful renewal of a recognizable title's licensing rights.
Never once does it project an intuitive understanding of how humans would behave or react in the midst of such a shattering misfortune.
It falls back on the trappings of the film's innumerable teenage gross-out forefathers with tiresome vulgarity and rote misunderstandings in place of genuine insight.
Luc Besson lacks the intellectual rigor to successfully realize the ambition evident in the metaphysical third act, but it's still exhilarating to watch him try.
A film of obvious characterizations and even more obvious plot machinations that render its moment-to-moment charms moot.
The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment.
Anton Corbijn constructs a stifling world of shadowy surveillance and intersecting national interests, building on John Le Carré's sense of moral and emotional exhaustion.
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The University of Montana
Department of Mathematical Sciences
Technical report #14/2005
From Problem Solving to Modelling- A meta-analysis
Nicholas Mousoulides, Constantinos Christou
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Bharath Sriraman
The University of Montana, USA
Mathematical modelling is a complex mathematical activity, and the teaching and learning of modelling and applications involves many aspects of mathematical thinking and learning (Burkhardt & Pollak, 2006; Niss, 1987; Kaiser, Blomhøj & Sriraman, 2006). An increasing number of mathematics education researchers have begun focusing their research efforts on mathematical modelling, especially at the school level. It is not simply a case of researchers changing their agenda, as much as a growing awareness among the mathematics education community of the need for change (Lesh, Kaput & Hamilton, 2007; Sriraman & Lesh, 2006). More than 25 years ago, a NSF funded project investigated the question: what is needed, beyond having a mathematical idea that enables students to use it in everyday problem solving situations? (Lesh, Landau & Hamilton, 1983). The answer to this question has begun to emerge after 25 years of systemic work in the domain of modelling. In this paper, we chronicle and meta-analyze the emergence of modelling perspectives around the world from the genre of problem solving research and synthesize major strands in the extant literature.
design research; learning; modelling; modelling design; modelling research review;
problem solving; teaching
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The Tonawanda News
Tonawanda News — Every so often a news story comes along that not only shocks readers, but forces some deep contemplation on the part of people in my profession whose job it is to report it.
Such a story took place Monday in New York City when a deranged panhandler in a Times Square subway station shoved a man onto the tracks as the train approached. Among the horrified onlookers was a freelance photographer for the New York Post, R. Umar Abbasi.
To hear Abbasi's side of the story — though The Post has declined to put him forward so he can say it himself — he ran toward the train firing off his camera in the hope that the flash would alert the conductor to stop before he hit and killed Ki-Suck Han. The photos he recorded show Han desperately trying to clamber up the side of the deep subway platform as the train bears down on him. He could not and became pinned between the train and the platform. He died of the resulting injuries.
Some have questioned Abbasi, wondering whether he should have been taking pictures when he could have been helping Han get off the tracks. I find this criticism unfair for several reasons.
First, he was trying to help. Maybe it wasn't the smartest way to go about it, but there seems to have been a genuine attempt made. Second, the frame The Post ran shows Abbasi a fair distance away from Han. It's unclear whether he would have been able to reach him in time even if he'd wanted to. Third, if we're criticizing one person who was trying to help, we should share criticism with everyone on the platform who froze and failed to act.
There is, however, plenty of criticism to heap on Abbasi's employers at The Post.
The newspaper ran Abbasi's photo on the front page with the following headline: "DOOMED Pushed on the subway track, this man is about to die".
Thankfully, they stopped short of explicitly stating their front page's obvious implication: "Isn't that AWESOME!?"
I literally can't think of a more insensitive or cynical way to depict a man's tragic death.
One of the most common critiques from readers to this or any newspaper is that "we're just trying to sell newspapers." As a colleague of mine once noted, "You're damn right. We run a business. Do we criticize a guy working at Sears for trying to sell toasters?"
That may be true — we are a business and we do want you to buy the paper — but it's also our obligation to sell newspapers responsibly.
We have a long-standing policy here at the News to weigh a difficult or disturbing photo or story's newsworthiness against the potential effect it will have on family, friends and the larger community.
It's my firm belief that there is a way to accomplish our primary and critically important mission of informing readers of news in this community while also being a responsible community institution. It might go without saying, such a policy does not include running a photo of a man who's about to die accompanied by an over-the-top sensational headline.
Their story goes on to quote Abbasi and others on the scene in heart-wrenching and compelling detail. The story itself is a very impressive bit of spot news reporting, abetted by a little luck in having an employee as an eye-witness. Had The Post left it at that, they'd have won the daily competition between New York metros by scoring the best version of a highly talked-about story.
Instead, how their editors chose to depict this story squandered the efforts of some talented journalists, unfairly called into question a bystander's actions who was only trying to help and cruelly inflicted unimaginable pain on this man's family.
If anyone was wondering why people hate the media, I'd put up Tuesday's New York Post as Exhibit A.Eric DuVall is the managing editor of the Tonawanda News. His column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. Contact him at email@example.com.


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Investigators knew somebody had started an Orting house fire with Molotov cocktails but couldn't figure out why.
It took six months but they eventually targeted a 21-year-old woman as the suspected arsonist in a convoluted tale involving drug addicts, a stolen car and a case of mistaken identity.
Sarah Hanson pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts of first-degree arson and one count of unlawful possession of an incendiary device. She was ordered jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail.
According to charging papers: A couple awoke April 9 to the sound of a thud and smoke coming from the family room of their home in the 8000 block of 196th Avenue East. Investigators discovered somebody had thrown several Molotov cocktails into the home through a crawl space.
The couple couldn't think of anybody who would want to burn their home but investigators zeroed in on acquaintances of the couple's grandson, who was away seeking help for an addiction to methamphetamine.
The family believed a neighbor might have been responsible for the fire because he had sold drugs to the grandson in the past and was upset the grandson had broken a window at his house.
But when DNA testing on a glove found at the fire came back, it directed investigators to Hanson, who had been demanding money for damage done to her car when the grandson stole it, prosecutors said.
Hanson didn't report the car theft to police but told the grandson to pay her cash. She also visited the grandson's mother to demand money.
Hanson, believing the grandson was staying with his grandparents, started the fire as payback for not receiving money for the damage to her stolen car, prosecutors allege.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – For two days in the Bedlam Series, all the breaks went Cowboys' way. Sunday, it was the Sooners' turn.
No. 13 Oklahoma (35-16, 12-9 Big 12) rallied for a 5-4 win over No. 19 Oklahoma State (36-13, 11-9) to avoid a series sweep Sunday at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark.
Oklahoma State jumped to a 4-0 lead after scoring two runs in each the second and third innings, but didn't get late calls while Oklahoma put away the game behind the strength of its Bedlam newcomers.
OU designated hitter Kolbey Carpenter was 3-for-4 at the plate with RBIs in the third and sixth inning, with the latter tying the game 4-4.
"Kolbey's so calm about the game as a true freshman," OU coach Sunny Golloway said. "You realize we played six freshmen in a Bedlam game when we were down 0-2. It speaks volumes for the character of our freshmen and our mental toughness and preparation."
Ralph Garza, Jr. (4-0) earned the victory in relief and freshman closer Jacob Evans literally saved the game, making plays on the mound and the plate to keep Oklahoma's lead.
Oklahoma State was caught out on two close plays while trying to add runs.
"We come out and play a conference series of this importance against a very, very good team and to win two out of three, I'm very proud of my team," OSU coach Josh Holliday said. "I'm sure anybody would take two out of three in a state rivalry game. Would have loved to have won the third one, but today we didn't play the last five innings as clean or as competitive as necessary to separate. And they did."
In the fifth inning, Zach Fish attempted to score from second base on Gage Green's single to right field, but Max White targeted Anthony Hermelyn for an out at the plate.
In the eighth, Aaron Cornell reached on a base hit to right field and advanced the next at-bat on a groundout. Cornell attempted to steal third and turned for home when Evans threw a wild pitch. Hermelyn recovered the ball from the backstop and tossed to Evans for the tag.
"Kind of a little déjà vu of yesterday," Evans said in reference to OSU stealing home in Saturday's game, "but Hermelyn got the ball right to me and he slid right into me."
Both calls were argued by Holliday, who was ejected by home plate umpire Randy Wetzel following the Evans put out of Cornell.
While the opportunities disappeared for OSU, the Sooners took advantage of Cowboy miscues.
Aikin led off the fourth with a base on balls. White doubled down the left field line and then Aikin scored after OSU starter Mark Robinette threw a wild pitch to Hector Lorenzana.
"Mark was sharp early, just had one of those innings where the ball kind of got away from him a little," Holliday said. "He left the ball up and they did a nice job of capitalizing on it."
Lorenzana later doubled to plate White and then scored from a Carpenter single.
"I think some (of the breaks) have started to go our way," Golloway said. "They hit some line drives right at us, no doubt about it. But, we got some breaks our way."
Matt Oberste reached first on a wide throw by shortstop Craig McConaughy and Lorenzana walked to begin the bottom of the sixth. Oberste scored after Carpenter's line drive grazed off OSU second baseman Donnie Walton's glove and rolled into right field.
"I kind of fell out of the groove when I first came back," Carpenter said, "but I'm starting to see the ball a little better now. I just went up there and tried to put good swings on balls. I'm feeling pretty good at the plate so, hopefully, I can keep it up."
Lorenzana scored to go-ahead run when Garrett Carey hit into a double play.
Dillon Overton returned to the mound after missing two scheduled starts due to a forearm strain. Overton struck out his first two batters and retired the third on a fly out in the first, but had to pitch to 17 batters over the next three innings.
"I was talking to Dillon on the way up," Golloway said, "getting his pitch count up was important. He was doing a really poor job of allowing us let him throw 82 pitches by letting them score runs. But he was battling his tail off, just wasn't working out."
The victory puts Oklahoma back into second place in the Big 12 standings trailing leader Kansas State by two games, meaning the Sooners would need to sweep the Wildcats in order to capture the conference championship.
"We've got a motto about being mentally tough. I believe that's what wins in college baseball. We've won 40 games for four straight years. There are only seven teams in America that have done that.
"It may not win today, but it's going to win over the long haul."


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Review of Subaru Head Gasket Problems
verry nice,and EXTREMELY informative!..detail-for a work in progress,-was near,and sometimes -gave better tips than those people that write for hanes and sutch..--the carbon fiber camshaft was a new one on me,and someting to be aware of !..
--a great page !
--but---that one got away...and mebee i'm getting ambitious in my old age-just slightly past the mid-century mark..but,if a owner raves and loves a car that has gone through what that one did-well,i'm impressed!
the "crunched" car--was that the same one?? anyway,they did a good job building a survivable compartment!..
you're a braver man than me-gunga dinn !,as the closest i've come to weather like you describe-was a winter-mid -60'd,williston,north dakota..in the oil patch!..when it warmed to minus 20,we could work,as even running water would freeze in the pumps of the sizmograph rig..!unfortunately,no camera-and no picks!!..i did better later on,but still gotta scan them in,..they're on film..
many thanks for all the info!
Steve - I want to keep an information source like that, but have just not budgeted in the time. The last post was essentially a week or two before we found out my daughter was "in the oven," so to speak, and my life simply shifted gears abruptly. I have yet to find the "leisure time" I had back then; every day seems like a lesson in chaos.
As it is, that site is going away on 6/30, so perhaps that is the motivation I need to revamp something.
the "crunched" car--was that the same one?? anyway,they did a good job building a survivable compartment!..
Crunched car... yep, that was the same one. Bad memories, those, so I'll just let that topic die.
The warming climate is quite evident this far north (especially this past decade), so winters are, for the most part, quite mild these days (as are the summers compared with those past). We get a week or two of intense cold most winters, but that sure beats the several weeks (almost guaranteed) of yesteryears.
right-like th old v-w's.... guess the main part of my question was--can it be changed WITHOUT having to pull the engine?..
-my situation is living in rental property/limited tools/no garage..basically,a weekend would be a MAX timetable,as landlords-as most people-get their panties in a knot when their parking lot turns into a graveyard of abandoned projects-
-i've gotten to calling them "lawn ornaments/scrap iorn sculpture,etc..
--had one place-i opened the hood to fix a broken ground strap to fix the wipers-about ten minutes--the manager drives up-says"you can't work on you car here (the jerks put it in the lease)..i asked"am i allowed to check the oil??"-cause thats about how long it took-apart from her distracting me-- i made my point,but--tearing out a engine--wile i have done it--it's -NOT- a option!-but-i found the knocking rod in my olds cierra,and THAT one was at that "fix it or f- it" points,where i replaced it -with a ford aerostar--twice the room,ran better,and --even better mileage !..
current ride is a -98 grand cherokee i saved from the crusher --only had to replace two windows!,but the rear axle's got a nasty growl,and with all the jeep freaks here--i've gotten guesstimates from $500 to 2 g's..more than i've got in it-..and the mileage-at 15 S.U.C.K.S ! !
all the gadgets are starting to fail,and-for a fella on food stamps,many think i'm "riding hi on the hog" altho i got it the week gas hit $4buks per,and got it for $500 buks,and th 318 sounded great..i drive it in town mostlyfluid levels and all that,but keeping a eye at someone who will swap me outta it,as those leather seats don't impress me,when you'r lookin at a potential lawn ornament.. :sick:
impressive reconstruct!,and agree..as bad as it could have been,including the non-occupied child seat,i've been in a few, pickups scare me anymore-specially mini imports,where they flip and flatten-as trucks don't have to meet car standards?!
---SOOO, when my ritch uncle gets out of the poor house,(joke),and a fresh car is in the cards,a subaru is definately on the list..
--also,had a junior hi science teacher-whose parents were missionaries in point barrow,so i've heard-and kinda keep a eye on the hap's near the artic circle..
--give that little firecracker of yours a hug from me,and may the good lord keep a eye on y'all..thanks,and good luck!
wendell :shades:
Wendell -
While that car may have been reconstructed after that crash (Subaru is a very popular brand up here!), it was not by me - the crash ended my 6.5 year ownership of the car at 220,651 miles, if I recall correctly. I wanted to keep it and use the drivetrain to build an AWD buggy of some sort, but my wife would have none of it. So, in the interest of preserving my marriage (yes, things really were that tense at the time), I opted to scrap the car. We replaced it with that 2007 Outback shown on the top of the page you visited.
I actually have two "little firecrackers" (which is an apt description) now, so I'll be sure to keep the hugs heading their way....
Best of luck to you!
i REALLY needed your e-mail today....it's that time of year when pressure's gettin to me,and you made me smile..a true gift,and i thank you..
understand the "peacekeeping" aspect,but also saw a vid on u-tube where some russians,who built tanks.came up with a 4 wheel track drive system,where you drive up on kinda a car lift-take off the wheels,and you got a tanl with a car body and powerplant!..it looked like a fiat-with traks!...maybe she-d go for that,as nobody's gonna argue with tou-when you have the capabilitit to jusrt drive over them !!rofl)..
keep up th good work!
It's been years since I've posted on this forum but I thought I would share my HG replacement experience on my 00 OBW.
Mileage: 115k...symptoms: gradual loss of coolant, coolant turning darker with black particles floating in coolant (not oily) eventually overheated mildly at the nashville airport (not in the red). Dealer told me I was out of luck since the recall only covered an external HG leak not an internal one (what I had)
The black particles in the coolant were hard to tell if that was the coolant conditioner or something else. (which is btw totally useless) the only thing the subaru stop leak will do is clog up your cooling system. Gas was bubbling through the overflow jug.
I bought a coolant hydrocarbon test kit from snap-on and the test told me unequivocally that hydrocarbons from the cylinder were being forced into the water jacket around the cylinder. i.e. the head gasket had failed.
I wanted the repair to last and didn't trust the skill of the local dealer to do the job. So I pulled my engine and freighted it to All Wheel Drive Auto in Kirkland WA for a HG replacement, heads milling, and top end rebuild. My father and I re-installed the rehabbed engine in the car and it's been running great with 5k miles since the repair. Will let you know farther down the road.
Justin Stobb at AWD Auto is an expert in dealing with these issues and the only way he does these repairs is to pull the engine because he says you can't get all of the old HG material off the heads and block with the engine in the car. This is why the gasket replacement typically doesn't last when done at the dealers. Whew...
Thanks for the update! What was the cost of the work done at AWDA?
I replaced the gaskets on my '96 Outback at 192,000 miles. My gaskets' failure was identical in symptom to yours. I also pulled the engine but did the work myself - the total cost was about $550 in parts (including replacement timing belt, pulleys, and tensioner). I had the car to 220,000 miles and had no further problems with it.
~$2400 total...including insured freight shipping between nashville and washington state. I had new idlers as well, heads shaved (they were warped), new valve stem seals and guides I had like 20% leakage on one cylinder so I opted to do them all. Resealed the oil pump & oil pan. New HG's, valve cover g's etc. I have pictures of the offending cylinder--the piston looks like it had been steam cleaned by the boiling coolant.
Not cheap, but I couldn't find another car that had been taken care of for $2400...
Hopefully I will get to 250-300k with this repair..
Yeah that's pretty much what it would've cost without milling the heads had I gone to the dealer. In my mind, if I was going to be shelling out that kind of money for a $4-5k car, I wanted it to last. So I took the harder road, but hopefully it will last for a long time.
Btw, it's running pretty sweet now with a wrapped borla header and new brakes with rebuilt calipers and ss lines. ( I actually wasn't going to rebuild the calipers but one of the rear calipers seized with rust last winter, so I replaced that one and rebuilt the other 3 for good measure)
All part of being a subaru owner right?


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(Born January 20, 1977) -- Sometimes kickers have been known to bounce around the National Football League, as a couple of bad weeks can send them to the unemployment line. Rian Lindell has been the exception to the rule.
Lindell grew up in Vancouver, Washington, and was a college kicker for Washington State. There he played with future first-round pick Ryan Leaf. Lindell wasn't picked in the 2000 NFL draft, so he started making the rounds.
After an initial stop with the Cowboys (no game action), Lindell landed with Seattle in 2003. He stayed three seasons, and then was a free agent. The Bills were losing Mike Hollis to free agent, and thought Lindell would be a good replacement. He was known for his strong leg.
Lindell just finished a full decade with the team. He only made 70 percent of his field goals in his first season, but that was his worst such season with the Bills. In 2007, he set the team record for consecutive field goals.
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akirby Posts: 7,666Yep, it was one of the first Lincoln designs to get 100% unique sheetmetal. The one thing you can say about it is that it's unique.
However, it was still a Lincoln designed by Ford. When they hired Wolff 18 months ago they gave him a new dedicated Lincoln design team. They only work on Lincolns now so I expect the new designs to show that.
fawltytowers44 Posts: 58I like the MKT - especially after the front rework - the rear is still terrible, but I will get it in white, which seems to mute the effect. With advanced suspension and state of the art active and passive safety equipment - and great comfort, I am looking at one now. I would prefer the FLEX, but the advanced suspension and active safety equipment (lane drift correction) is not available.


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"Division I athletics is an important tradition at California State University Bakersfield and increasingly a big part of the CSUB student experience. Roadrunner athletics has a rich and proud tradition in every arena of competition and a history of success in the classroom.
My mission is to continue those traditions while at the same time looking toward and building for what promises to be a bright future. We must incorporate a sound strategy to navigate and thrive with the issues present in NCAA Division I athletics, the state of California and the CSU system, and we continue to be the 'New Gold Standard' in intercollegiate athletics.
There is an undercurrent of energy in the athletics department that you don't see everywhere. We have positive momentum in terms of athletics results, fundraising and significant facility projects, corporate sponsorship deals, academic performances, conference affiliations and community service. I am proud and honored to be at CSUB at this point in time, helping bring national exposure to this wonderful region of the country."
--Jeff Konya, Director of Athletics
Jeff Konya was hired as CSU Bakersfield's second Director of Athletics in November of 2010, replacing the retired Rudy Carvajal.
Konya brought a wealth of experience from Division I programs such as SMU where he served as Senior Associate Athletic Director, Bucknell, University of Memphis and Texas-San Antonio among others. Preceding CSUB, he was the Athletics Director at Northeastern State in Oklahoma. He immediately put that experience to work for CSUB to help establish the program as not only a contender, but also a respected property at the Division I level.
Since joining the Roadrunners, Konya has overseen significant improvements to CSUB facilities including the purchase and installation of college basketball's first blue-playing surface in the Icardo Center, a story that garnered CSUB more national attention than any other story in history.
That facility also underwent a lobby and office renovation along with a redesign of its team-room space to better serve Roadrunner basketball and volleyball programs. Konya has also helped secure financing for seating and press box upgrades at CSUB's baseball facility Hardt Field, along with new seating at the Softball Complex and the construction of a new playing facility for sand volleyball.
One of his most high-profile accomplishments since leading the Roadrunners was securing the program's future as the member of the Western Athletic Conference beginning July, 1 2013. The acceptance into the conference came in October 2012, putting to an end over four years of competition at the NCAA Independent level for CSUB.
Konya helped take the next steps in the department's growth as a Division I institution signing a corporate and media rights deal with Nelligan Sports Marketing, adding Bakersfield to a list of prestigious institutions represented by NSM. He also brought in a new fundraising model helping focus more on sports-specific donations while still covering student-athlete scholarship costs resulting in 'Roadrunner Scholarship Fund' totals at year-to-date highs as of early 2013. Recently, Konya also entered CSUB Athletics into an agreement with Collegiate Consulting to handle season and group ticket sales to meet increased demands brought on by membership in the WAC.
On the exterior, Konya instituted 'The New Gold Standard' marketing campaign that included a new all-sports apparel deal with Adidas, gold uniforms for home contests, 'Gold Standard' facility signage and a new digital media presence to portray the department's new direction and focus. That campaign helped CSUB to be named a finalist for NACMA 'Marketing Team of the Year' in 2012.
Konya also helped create 'The ROWDYs,' a new CSUB student-athlete awards show that honors the greatest moments and the top performances each season in a multimedia-based awards show format that includes celebrity contributions from the world of music, sports and entertainment.
Student-athlete academic services have also undergone dramatic change under Konya's leadership with the hiring of the program's first Associate AD for Academics, three academic advisors and the construction of the 'Kegley Center for Student Success', a state-of-the-art facility for student-athlete tutoring, study halls, research and counseling.
Giving back to the community is also a priority for Konya, with that in mind he helped CSUB Athletics begin 'Project 3,000.' an initiative to have student-athletes, coaches and staff donate 3,000 hours of community service each year. A partnership with the local Bakersfield Ronald McDonald House has also helped address several needs at the facility while keeping student-athletes regularly involved in community service.
A former student-athlete himself at Princeton where he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Politics, Konya is a champion for student-athlete Life Skills and is a nationally recognized speaker on the issue. Konya also holds a law degree with academic distinction from the University of Iowa and has served on several NCAA committees while currently serving as a member of the NCAA men's soccer committee. He has also facilitated several conference and NCAA tournaments.


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Nickelback is playing in OH in a few days and this girl could not get a kitchen pass out to go! I have not been into a band this bad in a long long time. I am not from here so options are very limited in babysiting and getting a night out. Fell in love with them a long time ago and they keep getting better. The songs get me through a lot and push me!!! So, yes I am bummed I won't be there...


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Summer Lovers - Video Clip #01Video
November 18th, 2010
A very young and beautiful Daryl Hannah and her boyfriend go to the Greek islands for a summer vacation and find uninhibited people and breathless beauty. They wind up in a menage with a French archaeologist also there for the summer.
It's lightweight fun with some decent 80's music. Daryl's nudity was brief and limited, but Valerie Quennessen was much less modest. Sadly, she died in a car wreck in 1989.
In addition, there were plenty of nude beach babes which are included in the clips.


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GLEN EDWIN HILLSAMER, 70, of Brethren, died Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013, at Lakeview Lutheran Manor in Cadillac.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at the Terwilliger Funeral Home, Kaleva, with Pastor Donald Stroup officiating. Interment will be in the Brethren Cemetery. Visitation will be held Tuesday from 1 p.m. until time of services at the funeral home.
The Terwilliger Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements; www.terwilligerfuneralhome.com.
DOROTHY ANNE KALCHIK, 84, of Gills Pier, passed away Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, at Munson Medical Center.
Visitation will be today, Feb. 4, from 4 to 8 p.m., with the rosary to be prayed at 7 p.m., at the Martinson Funeral Home of Suttons Bay. The Mass will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church of Gills Pier. Burial in St. Wenceslaus Cemetery will be announced in the spring.
Arrangements are with the Martinson Funeral Home of Suttons Bay.
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Ralph Benko, Contributor
On transformational humanitarian populist political leaders and ideas.
Liberals do not grasp the distinction between Ronald Reagan and (either) George Bush. This blind spot creates a massive confusion and hazard to their ambitions. Obama defeated neither the Reagan Narrative nor Team Reagan. Team Bush appropriated, and then marginalized, both. Obama beat Team Bush, not Team Reagan. The implications are huge.
There was a touchy relationship between President Reagan and his Vice President George H.W. Bush. They were rivals during the primaries. Bush attacked the Reagan economic agenda as "voodoo economics." Bush served faithfully as VP for eight years but Reagan and Bush never warmed to one another. There was precious little rapport between the populist figures populating the Reagan circle and the Eastern establishment retinue of the son of the patrician Sen. Prescott Bush.
When George H.W. Bush's turn came he talked like Dirty Harry, "Read my lips. No new taxes." When the moment of truth came, George H.W. Bush blinked, raising taxes. His presidency was liquidated by the perfect storm of a Reaganite base revolted by the abandonment of a solemn campaign pledge plus a tax-increase induced recession. Bush pere was a conservative and a very decent man. He was hornswoggled by elegant Mandarins like Dick Darman.
George W. Bush, as good as, and more conservative than, his father, was hornswoggled too. He campaigned on the theme of "compassionate conservatism." That phrase, like his father's "kinder and gentler nation", implied a certain pitilessness in Reagan conservativism. The implications complied with the liberal caricature of Reagan. Pitilessness, however, reflected neither the self-concept of most Reagan loyalists nor our splendidly humanitarian outcomes (such as the dramatic reduction of the Misery Index). Real conservatives saw Reaganomics as a way of creating broad-based opportunity, not as catering to the rich. It worked out exactly that way … in America and throughout the world. The blossoming of free market principles — especially low tax rates and good money — brought billions of souls out of poverty, from subsistence to affluence.
In an intraparty succession barely noticed by the mainstream media the Bush forces supplanted the Reagan forces within the GOP. Keepers of the Reagan legacy tended to end up at positions of respect and influence within the conservative movement. For example Reagan intimate, counselor, and attorney general Edwin Meese III long has held a prestigious office with the Heritage Foundation, the flagship of the Washington conservative establishment. Even though Meese was a General in the Reagan Revolution, though, his influence on a Bush cohort-dominated GOP — one that chiseled Reagan onto Rushmore while ignoring Reagan's philosophy — is constrained.
Mandarins of the Bush (pere and fils) cohort sought and received mere token presence in the conservative establishment. They sought, and achieved, rather, vast influence in the Republican Party. Mandarin Karl Rove, comrade of Bush pere's campaign guru Lee Atwater, became the dominant partisan figure.
The enormity of (and surprise at) the defeat of Romney is a huge setback — and perhaps fatal — to the Bush Mandarins' hegemony over the GOP. If so, the potential re-ascendency of the Reagan wing of the GOP will prove very bad news for liberals and excellent news for the Republican Party. The Reagan wing now can resurge. A resurgence already has begun.
Many of the same Mandarins that delivered a stagnant economy to President(s) Bush had a hand, directly or indirectly, in misguiding McCain, and then Romney, to resounding defeat. This catastrophic performance may discredit, permanently, Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, among others, with the donors. The Mandarins' Svengali-like power over the donors was the major source of their power. If even a substantial minority of the donors are fed up with Rove it will open the field for a generational change in party leadership … and direction.
The Reagan Renaissance
Dislodging the death grip of Karl Rove from its throat would put a new generation of political leaders in charge of the Republican Party. The new conservative Republican leaders are strikingly formidable. The leaders of the new generation, like Reagan, and Kemp, before them (and Kennedy still earlier), all recognize the power of the "rising tide lifts all boats".
The Reagan campaign ethos was distinct from the tactics of "naked cruelty" perfected by Bush pere's political gunslinger Lee Atwater. (Atwater, may he rest in peace, publicly repented and apologized to his victims before his tragic, untimely, death). Yet the politics of naked cruelty were transmitted into the political culture by Atwater's comrade, Rove, and his doppelganger on the Left, David Axelrod.
And both the Bush Mandarins and Obama Consiglieres have complemented their politics of naked cruelty with policies of economic stagnation. A Reagan Renaissance promises to restore a political culture of hardball political decency, economic growth, and conservative values.
Eight Republican Reagan Renaissance Men are entering their prime. Removing Rove's death-grip on the party, with party donors now freed to pursue principled victory rather than a prestige brand name, the Reagan Revolution now can morph into a Reagan Renaissance.
The Reaganesque Governors
Mike Pence was just elected governor of Indiana. Full disclosure: this columnist headed up a tiny superPAC whose mission was to persuade Pence to run in 2012. Many consider Pence to be Reagan 2.0. He certainly is a figure who demonstrated extraordinary, perhaps unique, moral courage (and great judgment) in a lonely opposition to Rove when Rove was at his peak of power. Politico, on the unsuccessful effort to sweep Pence onto the 2012 board:
"If he does run, it's clear that Pence would particularly appeal to an element of the GOP that has always resisted the establishment and been wary of the Bush crowd — the kinds of conservatives who originally preferred Jack Kemp over the elder Bush.
"And at a moment of pronounced regret among GOP and tea party activists about the expansion of government that took place under George W. Bush, Pence's distance from that brand is seen as an unalloyed asset.
"'I don't know of anybody else [in the field] who stood up to Karl Rove,' said Benko, touting Pence's opposition to No Child Left Behind, the costly prescription drug benefit and TARP. 'He has fought for fiscal restraint harder than anybody I know.'"
Pence, however, has a worthy gubernatorial rival for the Reagan mantle. Sam Brownback is a dazzlingly Reaganesque success as governor of Kansas. Brownback just implemented the largest income tax cut in Kansas history. At the same time, he reversed a $500 million deficit into a $500 million surplus, reducing the size of state government by 4,000 positions. Brownback's state budget director, Steve Anderson, is pioneering a method of accounting that holds government programs accountable for their cost-effectiveness — just like private sector companies have to be. He's posted it to the Kansas Budget Director's Office website for the world to emulate. This is revolutionary.
At the same time, the states were letting a lot of people out of group homes, etc. due to all the lawsuits and allegations of misconduct. Instead of helping the people ,the state evicted them and they were on the street, stuggling to make it. And whether you like it or not, some people choose 'homelessness' as a lifestyle choice.
Extremely prescient post, especially about the "real" Obama and his legacy, from someone who obviously has not drunk the FoxWorld cool aid.
The Republican party should do the country a huge favor and simply disband… and all old white males should simply cease any participation in the political process. That would surely lead to a schism among the myriad Democrat party constituencies, who would begin an internecine war over the nation's ever diminishing fiscal resources. If nothing else, we useless old troglodyte partriarchs would get a hoot out of the resulting chaos.
Sign me up.
I think the GOP should simply vote "present".
the nations "diminishing fiscal resources" are going to the elderly, mainly. So don't speak so derisively of public assistance. For every $1 a person contributes to Medicare, they get $3 back in services.
A revolt played out in public. Let's see, the Republican Party skews old, so let's have nostalgia for someone elected to president 32 years ago. That will get the buzz going.
Besides, the logic is flawed. While those of us who live and breath politics can tell the difference between a fiscal liberal, who talks like a fiscal conservative, and a true fiscal conservative, the general public can not. The general public thought that they defeated conservatism, and to tell them that the Mandarins aren't really conservative is a losing message.
If the Republican Party can't nominate a true conservative, the general public certainly won't. But these things swing. New conditions might bring on new personalities, and a real conservative can win, but he won't be a new "Reagan". He or she will be his or her own person.
The leftist media will try to paint any Republican extreme. The party has to come up with the Reagan type that can appeal to many groups and publicize that image. We need to drop the social policy emphasis as it is driving independents away. Recognize the anti abortion need but don't make the party platform because it isn't going to happen in our lifetimes.
An excellent piece that helps explain the losses of Romney, McCain, Dole and G.H.W. Bush. Fine and decent men, all, yet they nevertheless lacked that certain but intangible "heart and soul" conservatism that made Reagan, Reagan. He didn't need to figure out conservatism; it was second nature to him and therefore he could articulate it so clearly and simply that his elections were not just victories, but landslides that carried with them the necessary mandates to carry forth his ideas into policy: something this President lacks and to which President Clinton, who never obtained even 50% of the vote, never came close to obtaining. The, "Time is (again) Now," and I sincerely hope and pray that, indeed, a "Republican Reagan Renaissance," is just around the corner. God Bless America!
You put Rubio on the ticket with Romney and they would clearly get more than 27% of the Latino vote….quite sure the difference of who would be in Washington D.C. and who would be going home to Hawaii. I like Ryan, a lot, but he wasn't the right choice for the ticket and the current electorate.
Good article- Reagan brought prosperity and was able to reach across the aisle. Having someone like him win in 2016 would get us back on track.


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Republicans Try To Refocus Unemployment Debate
Boehner urges Senate to take up House-passed jobs bills.
The 1.3 million Americans who lost long-term unemployment benefits in December are stuck in the middle of a congressional game of chicken.
A bipartisan bill restoring benefits to America's unemployed passed a procedural hurdle in the Senate Tuesday, but the legislation remains in limbo as Republicans demand spending cuts to federal programs in exchange for the $6.5 billion bill.
Leading that charge, House Speaker John Boehner reiterated Thursday during a meeting with reporters that he would not bring any benefits bill to the House floor unless it was offset by additional spending reductions. He also had an additional request: Boehner said he repeatedly has asked the White House to include provisions in the bill that would help create jobs, not just give money to those without employment. Republicans have floated the idea of tacking on an amendment that would set in motion the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a longtime political flashpoint between the two parties.
[READ: Republicans Hope to Force Democrats Into Paying for Unemployment Insurance]
"I have not talked to the president or Democratic leaders about this issue because I have laid out what needs to happen, and they have yet to come forward with any plan," Boehner said Thursday.
Once the Senate began debating an extension of long-term jobless benefits, Republicans started trying to refocus the debate. Instead of talking about extending a safety net, the GOP is discussing how to reboot the economy to help America's poor. They also are putting pressure on Senate Democrats and the White House to take up jobs bills the House already has passed.
"We are going to remain focused on creating jobs and get Americans back to work," Boehner said when asked about the role the House is playing in the unemployment benefits debate.
This week, prominent House Republicans -- from Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. -- have made pitches to help Americans rely less on the government and more on a healthy economy.
Across Capitol Hill, Senate Republicans also are trying to refocus the conversation. In an effort to not be seen as obstructionists, GOP senators in the past few days have proposed 24 amendments to offset the cost of extending unemployment benefits -- measures that range from delaying the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate to cracking down on illegal immigrants who cash in on the child tax credit. None of those proposals seems to be palatable to Democrats, however.
[ALSO: For the Long-Term Unemployed, Dysfunctional Congress Is the Last Hope]
Still, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., expressed optimism Thursday that the Senate could work out a benefits deal. Reid has signaled a willingness to offset the costs of the bill under the condition that unemployment benefits be extended for an entire year instead of three months -- a move estimated to cost more than $24 billion annually.
A Reid aide confirmed the leader met Thursday morning with the original bill's sponsors, Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Dean Heller, R-Nev.
Aside from the human costs, a lot rests on Democrats' willingness to compromise. The GOP has accused Democrats of using the unemployment benefits bill as a wedge issue ahead of the 2014 election, saying it's a problem Democrats would rather campaign on than actually solve. Polls show that a majority of Americans support giving additional support to the country's long-term unemployed.
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