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Catholic Schools Revisited
In the past week, there have been combox discussions across the Catholic blogosphere about the parochial school system -- at California's The Cafeteria is Closed, Ohio's Ten Reasons, and Virginia's Catholic Matriarch in my Domestic Church aka Catholic Mom. This past January, during Catholic Schools Week, I gave my own spin on the subject, entitled Heard any good news lately? Here's what I recently told Mom:
"If you find a good one, more power to you. But it really comes down to the parents as primary educators of the Faith. If a Catholic school facilitates that, fine. If it doesn't, and a public school's limitations can be overcome, you're better off saving your money for a good Catholic college. Two years of a solid classical liberal arts curriculum, and they can go anywhere, and go far."
In most of North America, Catholic schools have become, in my estimation, a lost cause. Often it's not the fault of the schools themselves. Good teachers can be hamstrung by theologically-bankrupt administrators, who in turn can be victims of shenanigans from the chancery. And all, regardless of who is pastor or who is bishop, are part of the same decaying subculture that emerged with a vengeance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. On top of that, the drop in teachers from religious orders, combined in more recent years with state requirements for equipment and administrative overhead, have pushed the cost through the roof. Even with tuition, a parish school can comprise as much as half of a parish's operating budget. With the advent of independent "academies" started by parents' groups and eventually getting a bishop's approval, it is only now turning around.
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Engineering and computing students display projects built for real-world use
Posted on December 08, 2011
Students in Grand Valley's Padnos College of Engineering and Computing demonstrated projects they created during the fall semester at the annual Design Day event on December 8. More than 150 middle and high school students attended the annual event to learn about career opportunities in engineering and computing.
Created for real-world use, the projects were on display in the halls and classrooms of the Kennedy Hall of Engineering and Keller Engineering Laboratories on the Pew Grand Rapids Campus.
Some projects included a mechanism designed to reduce errors in administering medication to pediatric patients, a machine that measures the heart rate and other factors in response to different music, and a device that provides alerts when important items, like car keys, are missing from personal items.

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Stephen Moyer and Anna Paquin attended the Make-A-Wish "Party at the Pacific" in Santa Monica, California, yesterday. Check out what other celebs did over the weekend!
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Veil Anti Laser Stealth Paint Coating
What do you think about this video?
delonixradar: No, doesn't work against cameras. But for lidar guns like Kustom PL3 it will give you more time to slow down if they target you from a reasonable distance (and you have a radar detector)
Jackcc5: No nz does not use laser based cameras they use the low powered K band redflex ones.how ever they do use the guns Normally kustom laser pro 3 or Stalker. does veil even work against the cameras? i wouldn't of thought so
delonixradar: Depends on your situation (and what threats are used in your area) Does NZ use laser speed cameras?
Jackcc5: is it even worth it getting veil?
pmfabri: Some laser guns have overly sensitive jam detection circuitry, and will trigger on some cars (Like the C5 corvette) without any countermeasures at all. Blame the Gun Manufacturer!
ROBERT GOUDREAU: With cars without a front plate,results would be even better.
King Travis: @rmaltbie1 i see more radar in urban areas then i do lidar. Ive gotten caught by lidar before and it was on open avenue towards the beach caught me at 1000ft. soon as my radar detector said laser knew i was screwed. couple hundred feet slowing down distance would been fine
jikonko28: best test i've seen, realistic, no BS good job. How do the headlights look after the paint has been applied?
delonixradar: @superorgasm no jammer in this test
superorgasm: this is bullcrap- theres a jammer thats the only way it would get an e01 msg.
RacerE7773: @jtlovett27 I'm 40, and have a stock '03 Impala and got ran by the only active sheriff's car in our county on the way to the store yesterday. A couple years ago my wife and I were in another county coming home at midnight from a movie in the same Impala and got tailgated by a state. So it's true; they had nothing better to do.it was even worse when I was younger with a stock '86 cavalier and a '00 cavalier. I never see them behind modified cars if ever.
Christopher Chaparro: This is the truth, I've pulled over 4 times in a 6 week span! Wasn't speeding a single one of those times, guess they were just bored or something. I got a couple of fix-it tickets here and there.
maltbie.org: Hmm, about 800ft? I think the law is typically a 1000 ft. or less for LIDAR tagging—so I read. And most cops Ive seen using LIDAR in urban areas are less then that, instant on too! So without active jamming, you are most likely busted—so Ive read.
delonixradar: Hence the use of products like this (Veil) and jammers
xfade2blakx: why didnt the cops just stick to radar? freakin laser gives you no warning.. even with a high end radar detector, by the time it tells you there's laser around you've already been clocked.. :(
delonixradar: Yes (or a number of other points) A jammer is the best solution in your case
lostinseganet: Thats what I am thinking. Don't tell them crap!
Daniel Mirai: VEIL IS AMAZING!!
delonixradar: It has been out of stock world wide for some time. New G4 formula will be available soon. What state are you in Dean?
delonixradar: Yes, it works as advertised. Veil are about to release their generation 4 formula, which not only applies to your headlights better, but is quoted to further improve laser absorbtion.
EMT: Thanks! They sometimes skip corners and take the easy way. If they ever did that, I suggest you consult with a paralegal or lawyer. This way they won't be able to cheat you.
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You can't expect Hollywood screenwriters to think of every movie. They gotta come from other sources, and, when the venerable, traditional sources of film's raw material (TV, Novels, Plays, Older Movies) runs out, filmmakers turn to other raw materials.
Below are the most egregious failures in film adaptations in the history of ever. It's personal, not comprehensive, so feel free to add your own in our comments section!
Silent Hill (Based on the videogames)
Step 1: Take a beloved franchise.
Step 2: Take the setting of the game and make everything else up.
Step 3: Throw in Pyramid Head.
This movie is an Epic Fail because it had so much potential. It even had a great start to it, but it's like the film switched directors half-way through. The ending contained a sequence that basically tried to explain what was going on in a few minutes and I'm not even sure they knew what what going on in this terrible adaptation.
--Brian Leahy
Garbage Pail Kids Movie (Adapted from the collectible cards)
I've been actively pursuing awful films since the days of VHS, trolling dusty video stores and public access channels for the very worst of the worst of moviedom. I've discovered some unheralded masterpieces masquerading as low budget exploitation (Christmas Evil, The Stepfather) but mostly pure schlock (Sorority Girls Revenge, Santa Claus Conquers the Martians). Schlock or not, there's something to love in all films, whether it's the weird enthusiasm and mid-western "Let's put on a show!" vibe of Cornman: American Vegetable Hero or the so-unexpectedly-over-the-top-and-ridiculous-it's-infectious vibe of Death Wish 5. I've only found a single film in my lifetime of bad-movie watching that has absolutely no redeeming qualities at all, and that film is The Garbage Pail Kids Movie.
GPK is the first feature filmed based on collectible cards with drawings of horrible children on them, which is epically fail in itself. Who could have possibly believed that a briefly popular trend in schoolyards would make a viable film franchise? Sure, you could see a parent begrudgingly shelling out a couple quarters for a pack of cards with pictures of a vomiting freakshow (Valerie Vomit) or a flatulent punk (Windy Winston), but expecting that parent to sit through 90 minutes of the Kids on a 40-foot screen is something entirely different. But even if little Dylan managed to wheedle his parents into taking him to mall to check it out, he's much more likely to be plagued with a lifetime of nightmares than be mildly entertained.
Garbage Pail Kids' architects seem not to have noticed that the movie is a vision of living hell. While the cards were kind of funny in the schoolyard, seeing stylized, cutesy drawings of grotesques is not the same as watching their huge, misshapen heads actually interacting in a realistic setting--considering a physical existence for the titular abominations is truly twisted, and the fact that the filmmakers seem blithely unconcerned makes for a disjointed, surrealistic hell-ride.
The Garbage Pail kids are abominations that should not be allowed to live. For example, Ali Gator (har har), one of the main Garbage Pail Kids (who is not actually a kid but rather an Alligator) enjoys biting people's toes off. He wears a Hawaiian shirt in an attempt to appear lovable, but it doesn't work. When he walks around expressing his one desire to eat peoples feet, it's not funny or gross, it's just ...wrong. Ali is an animal that wants to bite people's feet apart, for God's sake. Kill it! He and his paper mache, farting, pustulent brethren serve only to horrify and disgust in a truly soul destroying way.
It's way too scary for the intended audience of children, but while the creep factor is too frightening for the kiddies, the sub-moron script is just too dumb for any but the most developmentally disabled child.
But the most horrifying thing in the movie is Mackenzie Astin, an 80s kid actor who performs as if his overbearing stage mother is standing right off-screen with a cattle prod. He cries throughout the movie and has some unspeakable romance with a lady in Spandex with teased hair and too much eye shadow. Then there's the plot...
...I'm sorry, I can't write about this anymore. While I could keep ranting all day, it hurts my mind to think about this movie. But it's epically fail. Epically, I tells ya!
--Stephen Johnson
Fast Food Nation (Adapted from the Book)
Sure, it's no big surprise that the adaptation of a best-selling book was a disappointment at the box office. That stuff happens all the time. But wasn't some John Grisham legal thriller or Stephen King shockfest. No, this book was different. Fast Food Nation was an expose, akin to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, where the country's fast food industry was the focus rather than the meat industry of Chicago. Director Richard Linklater tried to turn this industrial expose into series of narrative vignettes, but the movie never really took off. The fail here was not in the filmmaking per say, or in the writing of the source material, but simply in the selection of source material. Not everything can translate to narrative film, and Fast Food Nation is exactly that. Noble effort, but Epic Fail.
--Jon Hunt
Superstar: Dare to Dream (Adapted from Molly Shannon's SNL Mary Catherine-Gallagher character.)
It's one thing to create a one-dimensional wacky character for an SNL sketch. It's another to repeatedly pound that character into the show and the national consciousness in a relentless metronome-like pattern for years on end. Add to that the fact that this two-joke pony (smelling her armpits and jumping through a wall) was eventually adapted for one of the worst movies of all time and you can understand why this failed character is so hated. Not to mention the troves of girls getting into comedy that imitated her in an effort to outfit their comedy toolbelt, only to find crickets in the improv audition room. I want to shoot this character in the face a hundred times for representing everything lame in comedy.
Also, please read this review of Superstar from "Teri." The font choice alone is hilarious.
--Ty Colfax
Monopoly: The Movie (adapted from the boardgame)
Yes, this is real, and yes, Sir Ridley Scott has been rumored to be the director.
What would you have in a movie based on the board game Monopoly? I'm guessing at some point, someone will go to jail, and someone will come and just visit them. Obviously, there will be a scene in which someone wins second place in a beauty pageant, and is given $10. Also, how will they deal with passing Go? This is literally incomprehensible as a film project. Still, they better base it in Atlantic City, New Jersey, or I'm going to bust some f***ing skulls.
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'Walking While Black'
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Every parent raising black sons knows the dilemma: deciding how soon to have the talk. Choosing the words to explain to your beautiful child that there are some people who will never like or trust him just because of who he is--including some who should be there to protect him, but will instead have the power to hurt him. Training him how to walk, what to say, and how to act so he won't seem like a threat. Teaching him that the burden of deflating stereotypes and reassuring other people's ignorance will always fall on him, and while that isn't fair, in some cases it may be the only way to keep him safe and alive.
But sometimes it isn't enough. It wasn't enough to protect Trayvon Martin. Seventeen-year-old Trayvon's English teacher said he was "an A and B student who majored in cheerfulness." Trayvon loved building models and taking things apart, his favorite subject was math, and he dreamed of becoming a pilot and an engineer. Instead, he was gunned down by a self-appointed neighborhood watch captain vigilante who profiled him, followed him, and shot him in the chest. His killer, George Zimmerman, saw the teenager on the street and called the police to report he looked "like he's up to no good." At the time Trayvon was walking home from the nearby 7-11 carrying a bottle of Arizona iced tea and a bag of Skittles for his younger stepbrother, leaving many people to guess that the main thing he was doing that made him look "no good" was wearing a hooded sweatshirt in the rain and walking while Black. George Zimmerman's decisions made that suspicious enough to be a death sentence.
Now there is widespread outrage over the senseless killing of a young black man who was doing nothing wrong and the fact that the man who killed him has not been arrested. People are trying to make sense of the series of gun laws that allowed George Zimmerman to act as he did--starting with the Florida laws that allowed someone like Zimmerman, who had previously been charged for resisting arrest with violence and battery on a police officer, to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon in the first place. Many more questions are being raised about Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, which also has been described as the "shoot first, ask questions later" law, and gives the benefit of the doubt to Zimmerman and others claiming "self-defense" by allowing people who say they are in imminent danger to defend themselves. Some states limit this defense to people's own homes, but others, like Florida, allow it anywhere.
As Josh Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, says, this law "has turned common law--and common sense--on its head by enabling vigilantes to provoke conflicts, resolve them with deadly force, and avoid ever having to set foot in a courtroom." The fear in Trayvon's death is that this is exactly what has happened so far: that the story told by witnesses, phone records, and Zimmerman's violent past and earlier complaints during his neighborhood patrols shows an overzealous armed aggressor who followed Trayvon even after police told him to stop, chased Trayvon down when the frightened boy tried to walk away from the stranger following him, and then shot the unarmed, 100-pounds-lighter teenager while neighbors said they heard a child crying for help. The prospect now that Zimmerman might never set foot in a courtroom for the shooting has caused widespread frustration and fury.


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Your Friday Bullets For The Cat Staring Contest
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, July 8, 2011 in 2011 UK Politics, 2011 Canadian Politics, Health, Me and Mine, Law - 3 comments
Me and the cat. Happens every year as the family packs up to go a visiting as I stay home and work. First task on my bachelor week was apparently to put a paring knife in my thumb so I shelved all other tasks I had half-assigned myself for the week. The cat didn't. The cat complains. It stands ten …
Your First Friday Bullets For Summer Of '11
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, June 24, 2011 in 2011 Canadian Politics, Me and Mine, Law - 6 comments
So, it is finally summer. A thunderstorm hammered the town last night so that makes sense. The kids don't actually seem to be learning anything at school, just trips trips trip so that makes sense. And you can't find anyone at work. The trifecta of summer's start. It was a busy week, too. Reports …
Dusty Pee-Pee And Elbs In The Big Smoke
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In My Day Unschooling Was Called Being Rich
Posted by Alan McLeod on Monday, May 30, 2011 in Me and Mine - 18 comments
I was fortunate in my education, having the opportunity to go to university with people whose last names were shared with grocery store products, beer brands or our political betters. As often as not, they got tagged poor little rich kids and with good reason. Well, apparently, this opportunity to …
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Posted by Alan McLeod on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Me and Mine, Music and Sound
And old pal sent me this video of The Jam live on the BBC's show The Old Grey Whistle Test from 1978 when I was 15 or 16. I want that guitar. I want that bass. Yuf Explosion. Part of My Life with Loud.
Friday Bullets For The Week The Rains Came
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, March 11, 2011 in Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Me and Mine, News, Politics, Events, Books, Mags, Newspapers, Comics
Cold rains washed away the last of the sidewalk ice yesterday. With two full years now past since the deepest depths of the recession, it even has a feel like things are going to be different this year. This summer, I do things. Not like last summer. This year I will rearrange the shed. To make it …
Friday Bullets For The Day The Kid Made Me Sick
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, January 28, 2011 in 2011 Canadian Politics, Health, Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Me and Mine, Law - 8 comments
I could tell you the child's name. I could tell you how and maybe even when the virus shifted from human to human but why bother you with details. But in the end the snow falls outside, Oprah is on on a hundred channels and I got a fever. Fevered, I write. Next week its February. • I never knew …
Your Friday Bullets For 10:56 PM Near Niagara Falls
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, January 7, 2011 in 2011 US Politics, 2011 Canadian Politics, Travels and Other Places, Me and Mine, Law - 4 comments
So, the four hour drive that took six is over. And I am at the south west end of the big lake and not the north east one. I hate the 401 but love the 407. Bill me. It's worth it. The 407 is like driving on a 100 km long parking lot on a Friday night. Family gathering and we are sitting in a hotel …
Friday Bullets For The End Of 2010 And 2000's
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, December 31, 2010 in Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Me and Mine - 4 comments
Remember all the fuss 11 years ago about whether the millennium ended with the first minute of the first day of 2000 or 2001? Prigs aplenty had their view and most people sensibly had not a care for what they said. But today is different. There is no argument after midnight tonight that somehow … read more »
Twenty Years Ago, A Christmas Eve In Scotland
Posted by Alan McLeod on Friday, December 24, 2010 in Weather, Holidays and Seasons, Me and Mine - 2 comments
One of my favorite Christmas Eves was twenty years ago tonight, in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. I was visiting my uncle, auntie and cousins and had settled into a week long stay. It didn't take long for it to seem like to everyone in the village I was that "coosin frae Gan-ee-der." People …


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You can make use of proportions to solve this easily.
On average, 10.8 % of the money consumers spend in
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problem solved! realised that u treat an entry like (1-i) for example as root(1^2 +1^2) and 3+2i for example as root(3^2 + 2^2) when normalising
hi guys,
Im having difficulty interpreting the norm of vectors with complex entries.( i understand in the real case that to nomalise a vector you sum up the squares of the entries, take the square root of the total and that gives the norm, and the you multiply the original vector by 1/norm to normalise it) but with in terms of dealing with complex entries i don't seem to be getting the right answers, please could you explain why....(please note the vectors are in transposed form)
1/2(1−i, 2, 1+i)
when normalised gives
(root2)/4 (1−i, 2 ,1+i) (implying the norm is root 2)
or if its easier please explain why the normalised version of this vector :
(i,1−i,−1) is
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Looking to do Little Bear next T/W (with Thurs as a back-up day) if anyone is interested. I'm doing Capitol with Billy the Kid's group this weekend then heading down to the Sangres immediately afterwards if I have some climbing partners. Only requirement is that I get back up to DIA by Friday am. PM if interested.
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I assume you mean 8/5-8/7?
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Ooops. You are correct. Maybe that's why I haven't gotten any takers yet.
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I could do Sunday-tues 4th-6th....have to work on Wed :/
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just as a trip note, please don't use the 2 ropes that someone rigged inside the hourglass. I was up there last weekend and inspected the ropes. the sheath is cut all the way around in 2 spots on the longer rope. the inner cords looked frayed as well. if you haven't planned on bringing your own rope, please consider it. there was also a fair amount of water flowing down the couloir.
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I hear people going to the left and the right of the ropes but which would be the safer climb? I am heading out August 18th shooting for a 20th summit and just catching my research on it.
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On Monday and Tuesday, against the Royals and Phillies, Raburn went 7 for 8 with four homers and seven RBI. He hit two homers against the Royals and two more against the Phillies. When the Indians won their fourth straight with a 6-0 win over the Phillies on Wednesday to complete a two-game sweep, Raburn was a bit off. He went 4 for 5 with two RBI, but no homers.
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New Orleans has long gripped my imagination. I wish I could credit jazz, architectural history or some other lofty aspect of culture for my fascination, but it really just comes down to the food. The words alone were beguiling enough to the bookworm of a Kansas farm girl that I once was. Etouffée, beignets, jambalaya, gumbo—I loved rolling the syllables off my tongue even before I tasted the foods themselves.
When that happened, it was a revelation. The layers of spices, herbs and other flavors made famous first by Paul Prudhomme and later Emeril Lagasse were addictive, especially the way the Kiki's Bonton Maison in Kansas City used to combine them. When my husband suggested we host a crawfish boil for friends back in the early 1990s, I was all for it. We dragged out our big copper kettle, I bought a copy of The New Cajun-Creole Cooking and we ordered crawfish from Louisiana. The party was enough of a success that we repeated it for years, finally calling it quits when the guest list neared 100.
But still, I'd never actually been to New Orleans. That finally happened in 2008, and both of us have since traveled regularly to NOLA for work. I go for Tales of the Cocktail, the husband for drier conventions. It was on one of those trips that he returned with a heretofore unknown treat: king cake.
More sweet bread than cake, it was filled with cream cheese and topped with a powdered sugar glaze and purple, green and gold sugar crystals. There was a bit of the scrum when the kids found out only one tiny, plastic baby was hidden in the cake, but that just meant fewer leftovers.
It turns out king cakes represent more than dessert, though. They celebrate the biblical three kings and their gifts to baby Jesus and are typically served between Jan. 6, the beginning of Epiphany, and Fat Tuesday, the day before Lent begins, says mardigrasneworleans.com.
Thousands of king cakes are consumed each year, according to Paul's Pastry Shop in Picayune, Mississippi, which takes credit for first filling them with cream cheese and fruit back in the 1970s. France, Belgium, Spain and other countries have their own styles, but the American version is unique thanks to its place in Mardi Gras, described by Paul's as "A cultural gumbo of European tradition, pagan celebration and religious doctrine, spiced with more than a dash of local flavor."
I don't know how much of that will go down in my household tonight, but we will at least have king cake.
King Cake
This gluten-free and dairy-free recipe is adapted from Jules Gluten Free, so you can obviously use Jules Gluten Free™ All Purpose Flour. However, I had Better Batter on hand, so that's what I used and it turned out great. I can't vouch for other brands or blends. The dough came together nicely, but as is typical with gluten-free goodies, it cracked quite a lot as I rolled it up, made the circle and transferred it to the baking sheet. Hold your breath, go slow and don't sweat the cracks—cutting the top layer of dough at the end exposes the filling anyway, and it will taste just as sweet.
Pastry Ingredients:
1/4 cup warm water (110F)
1 tablespoon granulated cane sugar
2-1/4 teaspoon (1 packet) highly active, fast rise yeast
1/2 cup unsalted butter or non-dairy alternative such as Earth Balance® Buttery Sticks)
3 tablespoons granulated cane sugar
1/4 cup warm milk (dairy or non-dairy)
2 large eggs (room temperature)
3 cups gluten-free all-purpose flour, divided
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt (or 1/4 teaspoon if using non-dairy alternative)
2 tablespoons milk (dairy or non-dairy) for brushing on pastry before baking
Filling Ingredients:
3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 cup gluten-free all-purpose flour
1 apple, peeled and chopped (optional)
2/3 cup chopped pecans (optional)
4 tablespoon butter or non-dairy alternative (e.g. Earth Balance® Buttery Sticks)
Icing Ingredients:
1 cup confectioner's sugar
1-2 tablespoons milk (dairy or non-dairy)
1/4 teaspoons pure almond extract (optional)
colored sugar (purple, gold and green)
1. Prepare the filling by tossing the chopped apples together with the gluten-free flour, brown sugar and cinnamon. In a separate bowl, melt the 4 tablespoons butter, and set both bowls aside.
2. In a small bowl, combine the warm water, 1 tablespoon sugar and yeast; stir and set aside to proof. If the mixture is not bubbly and doubled in volume after 5-10 minutes, toss out and start again with fresh yeast.
3. In a large mixing bowl, blend the remaining 3 tablespoons sugar and butter until light and fluffy. Add the milk and eggs and beat until well-integrated. Add only 2 cups of gluten-free flour, salt, baking powder and nutmeg and mix well. Stir in the proofed yeast-sugar-water mixture, then add the remaining 1 cup gluten-free flour. Beat another 1-2 minutes, until the dough is clumping together and is not too sticky.
4. Prepare a large baking sheet by lining with parchment paper. Turn the dough out onto a silicone pastry mat or onto a clean counter dusted lightly with gluten-free flour (be sure to have enough counter space, at least 30 inches wide). Roll the dough out to an elongated rectangle 24-30 inches long by 9-10 inches wide. Brush on the melted butter, coating the entire rectangle. Sprinkle the filling mixture on top of the melted butter, spreading to the ends of the rectangle, but leaving 1/2-1 inch without toppings on each of the long sides of the rectangle.
5. Using a bench scraper or a spatula, gently peel up one of the long sides of the rectangle and begin rolling it as you would a jelly roll. Once the entire pastry is rolled upon itself until no pastry remains unrolled, a 24-30 inch long roll will remain. Gently pull the two ends of the roll together to form a circle or oval. Dabbing the ends of the pastry with water, join the ends together to close the circle. Gently transfer the ring to the parchment-lined baking sheet, or transfer the ring on the silicone baking mat to the baking sheet.
6. Brush the milk on top of the exposed pastry, then using a large sharp knife, make a cut in the top of the pastry every 2 inches to expose one layer of the roll. Spray a sheet of wax paper with cooking oil, then cover the cake and let rise in a warm spot for 20-30 minutes like a warming drawer or an oven heated to 200F then turned off. Preheat oven to 350F (static) or 325F (convection).
7. Remove the wax paper from the cake and bake for 20-25 minutes. Remove to a wire rack to cool. While cooling, mix icing ingredients and drizzle over the cake. Sprinkle colored sugar on top of wet icing, alternating colors between each cut in the top of the cake. Once cooled, insert a pecan or toy baby into the underside of the cake to hide it. Serve when fully cooled.


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Oprah's Bodyguards Detained In India
Three of Oprah Winfrey's bodyguards were detained in India on Thursday after allegedly becoming embroiled in a brawl with local TV crews.
The talk show queen is currently in the country shooting her new show Oprah's Next Chapter and was travelling to the town of Mathura, about 90 miles south of Delhi when an altercation took place.
Three of Winfrey's guards were reported to have been taken in to custody when video equipment belonging to local TV crews was allegedly destroyed, but they were released after issuing a written apology, according to the Associated Press.
Winfrey visited locals in Mumbai earlier this week and met up with Bollywood stars including Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan.
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4BC Summer Mornings: Bill Kidd, licensee of the Dunalley Hotel joins Ian Maurice following the worst bushfires Dunalley has ever seen on Friday. Kidd reports live from the devastated township of 300.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard will tour bushfire-devastated Tasmania on Monday, as the fires that have destroyed 100 properties since Friday continue.
No deaths have been recorded so far.
Police have searched 245 properties in Dunalley and to the north of the town, including 90 badly damaged or destroyed buildings.
About 65 police and other searchers will continue the work on Monday south of Dunalley towards the more densely forested Murdunna and Sommers Bay area.
About 14 buildings have been destroyed at Sommers Bay.
Police believe most of the 100 people feared missing have been accounted for, and have urged people in affected areas to register with the National Registration and Inquiry Service on 1800 727 077 or via www.redcross.org.au.
The large bushfire between Forcett and the Tasman Peninsular and at Lake Repulse continues to burn out of control.
The weather bureau expected conditions on Monday to be fairly similar to those on Sunday.
The Tasmanian Fire Service says the fire danger rating in these areas area is high and the fire is difficult to control.
The TFS says people should leave now if it is safe, but should not return to their homes if they have already located to a safer area.
Phil Douglas from the TFS says a heavy dew overnight had prevented backburning, but firefighters would take advantage of mild conditions early on Monday morning to strengthen containment lines.
Authorities are trying to get through Arthur Highway, which has been cut off since Friday, stranding thousands on the Tasman Peninsula.
"It's a pretty hard thing to put a timeline on, but it's a high priority," Mr Douglas told ABC Radio.
Around 400 more evacuees were due to be ferried by boat from the Tasman Peninsula on Sunday night, while police were investigating whether it was safe to escort cars out on the closed Arthur Highway.
Acting Premier Bryan Green said the resilience of the Tasmanian people would ensure the state would rebuild once the bushfires had been extinguished.
Authorities will work with affected communities to ensure they are rebuilt as quickly as possible.
"The resilience of the Tasmanian people, particularly those people in the peninsular area means that we will rebuild," Mr Green said on Monday.
"This is a fantastic part of Tasmania, a fantastic part of the world and it has an enormous amount to offer."
Frustration was creeping in for those who had been directly affected by the fires.
"It's a very unnerving feeling obviously, if you're a Hobart resident today," the acting premier said.
"Those people in the peninsular in particular who have been stranded in that area are finding it difficult to cope."
The federal government has sent a mobile services centre to Tasmania to deliver emergency funding to bushfire victims.
Emergency Services Minister Nicola Roxon said those affected could apply for emergency funding of up to $1000 per adult, and $400 per child.
Fuel supplies to the Tasman Peninsula are being organised for Monday, while a controlled convoy of essential emergency services delivered equipment and resources to the area on Sunday night.
There is no indication at this stage that any of the fires in Tasmania were started intentionally.
Meanwhile, bushfires are burning in Victoria, NSW and the ACT, while South Australia is braced for high temperatures over the next couple of days.


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Cheddar Garlic Drop Biscuits
Whole Wheat Banana Muffins
Apple Cheddar Muffins
Dinners that are delicious and filling yet simple and only around 500 calories. Plus a few not so healthy things thrown in too!
I love tomato bread! I can't wait for the Panera copycat.ReplyDelete
I love to bake bread, the whole process. I wrote about the process on my blog once. I generally need a hand with it though because I suffer with carpal tunnel, therefore I prefer the heavier mixing be done by my hubby or son. I cannot wait to try this, and your Panera copy cat recipe! YUM YUMReplyDelete
Baking bread really intimidates me but I do love tomato bread - this sounds sooo good!ReplyDelete
There was a time, I used to bake all our bread and then some. Those were the days.
This bread sounds like it is filled with flavor. What a difference some seasoning or tomato does.
I love to bake bread and it's getting to be that time again (been too hot for it). Will have to try this recipe. Looks great and I can almost smell it baking! I've never had tomato bread.ReplyDelete
Debbie, this looks fantastic! I love tomato basil bread, but have never made bread. Unless you count banana bread and "helping" make sourdough when I was little. Am encouraged to try my hand soon!
I have no bread maker either so I will make it the same way as you have. It sounds delicious. DianeReplyDelete
I was thinking Panera when I saw the bread! It looks delicious!ReplyDelete
This sounds AMAZING!! Of course your sandwich was great.... anything on this bread would be great!ReplyDelete
I agree that using a bread machine is cheating! I had one years ago - the first time I used it I forgot to put the paddle in it - so it was still raw two hours after I started it - I was so mad!
Hope you had a great weekend!
Looks fantastic.. for sure im going to try it.. yummy....ReplyDelete
You make it look so easy...
YUM! Gorgeous bread, Debbi! I bet it's so full of flavor...the color alone makes me happy =)ReplyDelete
Looks good, fresh baked bread is such a treat.ReplyDelete
This sounds delicious - I bet the tomato paste and basil gave it a gorgeous flavour. I also like the addition of the red pepper flakes - a nice bit of spice! I love how it looks too!ReplyDelete
Lovely n colorful bread....ReplyDelete
I love making bread, but I don't usually have the time to make it. I think I want to MAKE the time to make this, though, because it sounds wonderful!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for linking up both your recipes. Feel free to link up as many as you want, as long, as they are meatless. The more the merrier.
Your recipes are always so good, I love having them as one of the choices. The more we can share with others to give all of us ideas, the better it is.
oh wow - this looks great! I can't wait to try it sometime. Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
Oh wow! What pretty bread! And I imagine the taste is equally as amazing!ReplyDelete
I hope you get this comment right away b/c I'm about to start this loaf and am not sure what "(bit heavy on this)" means--does it mean I should use less or more? If I don't hear from you, I'll just follow the recipe as is. Can't wait to have that Mediterranean Veggie Sandwich!ReplyDelete
I love a good tomato basil bread -- thanks for sharing this recipe!ReplyDelete


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Dearest Forum Friends,Since we have transitioned to the new Forum format we would like to post our invitation once again. We have finalized the script of the ceremony and are both very excited for you to share with us this very special event.Richard W. WilkeandThomas A. Martinrequest the honor of your presencewhen we exchange vowsto begin the next stage of ourlives togetherAugust 18, 2006at 4:00 pmin the Longueuil Roomat Hotel Gouverneur Place Dupuis1415 rue, St-HubertMontreal Quebec CanadaHors d'oeuvres will be servedat 6:00 pmat Complexe Bourbon(3rd floor)1574 rue, Ste-CatherineMontreal Quebec Canada
Dearest Ric and ThomI can't wait to share it with you both..I've even bought a new dress for the occasion, that makes two dresses in my wardrobe now.. :D.Love and Hugs to you both.Jan(who is counting the days)
is there an attire requirement? So I can pack properly?!?are you expecting dressy or jeans/t-shirt?
I hope you will still be virgins...And both dressed in white... :DHermie
(Laughing my head off at the suggestion these two would ever get away with wearing white! ::) :o )Jan said:--- Quote ---I've even bought a new dress for the occasion, --- End quote ---Better not be the same one I'm wearing Missy! >:(Ric and Thom:Looking forward to it. See you guys there! :-*RAB
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Setup: Portia Tofton was rejected once by adventure seeking Mateo Cardea when their fathers tried to arrange a match. He runs all the way to another continent to ensure he wasn't snared into a marriage with her and he's stayed far away until now. Even from the grave his father is trying to throw him into her path by willing the shipping company into her lap. It's a scheme he can see straight through and he's going to give her a piece of his mind.
Goose Chase: Except everything he thought about grown up Portia is wrong and everything he remembered from their childhood was right. All Portia wants his Mateo's help in securing her house, which her dead husband had gambled away without telling her about. But what should have been simple leads to a wild goose chase as more and more layers are woven and the new owner of Stenbrooke. If she gets it back, he can have his family's company back too.
Review: I really liked the goose chase in this book. It was well set up. I really liked the little rendezvous that Mateo and Portia got up to in the woods along the way. Hot stuff! What I liked best was that there was a little of The Gift of the Magi at the end. Each was willing to give up what they loved most for the other to make them happy and if that isn't love, what is?
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The skull found last year by Vena Stough on Government Slough has been determined to be more than 1,080 years old. The determination was made after the University of Utah performed radiocarbon date testing to find its relative age.
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Michael Keaton. Christian Bale. Val Kilmer. George Clooney. Even, yes, Adam West (he did a Batman film during the TV show's run). All of them have donned the bat-ears, the billowy cape, and the pointy gloves for one movie or another, to varying levels of success. Some became fan favorites; others, The Batmen We Do Not Speak Of.
We've gone back through all the batfilms and watched them exhaustively-even Batman & Robin, so that should tell you how seriously we took it. Examining criteria as diverse as ass-kicking ability, scoring tail, and homoerotic undertones, we crunch the numbers to give you the Best Movie Batman Ever (so far).
#5. ADAM WEST - Batman: The Movie (1966)
Coolness of Costume
In a word: dignified. That's what Adam West's Batman isn't. Tiny little nubbin bat-ears, a bat emblem that looks like it's slid halfway down his sallow, pectorally-absent chest, and a cape so wrinkled it makes one wonder if Batman had a long layover in Houston with his costume bunched up in his carry-on.
The worst offense, though, has to be the painted-on eyebrows. The point of Batman's costume is to strike fear in the hearts of criminals, not to make them wonder why he always looks surprised to see them, like he recognizes them from high school or something. "Tom... Tom Franklin? You son of a bitch, get over here, you!"
Also, we didn't bother to include a picture of Batman's bat-package (you're welcome), but let's just say '60s Batman's genital-hugging blue satin panties don't leave a lot to the imagination. Ignorant as to whether or not Adam West is circumcised? Anybody who watched Batman: The Movie can't, unfortunately, say the same.
Ass-Kicking Ability
BatWest fights like someone having a stroke. To be fair, Batman: The Movie's supposed to be campy. To once again be unfair, it looks like they didn't so much choreograph their fights as just run around flailing their arms like the set just caught on fire:
[whistling] Man, let that in. BatWest just got his ass handed to him there by a quacking Burgess Meredith with a pillow under his tuxedo. That's the point in your crime-fighting career where you just need to stop and frankly assess some things that might have gotten away from you. If BatWest had to fight a six-year-old girl on crutches, frankly, it could go either way.
Those Wonderful Toys
BatWest had the Batmobile, the Batcopter, the Batcycle, and the Batcave. But whatever-every Batman has those. What puts BatWest's bat-gadgets head and shoulders above any other movie Batman's gadgets was his magical utility belt, which housed roughly 60 billion bat-themed doohickeys that could be pulled out in any situation whatsoever. Need something soldered? Batblowtorch! Getting gassed by the Penguin? Anti-Penguin gas pills! Want a sandwich sliced? Batlaser! Motherfucker even had Bat-shark repellent on hand:
Smoothness with the Ladies
BatWest must have realized how not macho he looked running around in tight satin panties, and so overcompensated with his alter ego Bruce Wayne, swinging '60s bachelor. The sly grin, slicked-back hair, and ascot (right) combine to make him look like the guest star on an all-sexual predator episode of The Love Boat. Come. And. Get it, ladies.
Plus, if the tell-all autobiographies written by the cast are to be believed, Adam West spent the majority of the TV series and motion picture getting drunk, doing drugs, and attempting to nail any co-star with a pulse and a vagina. Whether or not this was a good thing or a bad thing depends, we suppose, on your stance on this sort of behavior and whose autobiography you're reading.
Robin "helps out" (i.e., gets kidnapped every 10 minutes), and Commissioner Gordon and Irish stereotype Chief "Bless Me Shamrocks" O'Hara could be counted on to be useless enough to need Batman's assistance on pretty much every single crime committed in Gotham City. Take a breath mint from the Commissioner's desk without asking, and he'd be leaping across his office to the Batphone to get some help cracking the case.
Homoerotic Subtext?
BatWest got around that whole "living (and fighting crime in his underpants) with a minor" thing by having Aunt Harriet move in with them, presumably to keep an eye out for any shenanigans of the homosexual variety. Having said that, they managed to hide secret identities and a vast underground cave fortress with a helicopter pad from her, meaning she was either pretty liberal about the whole thing or had the observational skills of a particularily stupid earthworm.
#4. GEORGE CLOONEY - Batman & Robin (1997)
Ability to Kick Ass
BatClooney, with assists from Robin (Chris O'Donnell) and Batgirl (Alicia Silverstone), does battle here with Mr. Freeze (Arnold Schwarzenegger), a supervillain whose sole superpower is the ability to turn water into ice, making him about as menacing as the cube-making feature in your refrigerator; and Poison Ivy (Uma Thurman), a supervillainess who can grow plants and make men fall in love with her (essentially, the superpowers of an attractive woman with a garden).
Coolness of Costume
BatClooney abandons the yellow Batsymbol and somber blacks, adopting a showy silver look not unlike a crime-fighting tuna fish. Improvements abound in the cowl region, which trades in the cumbersome ceramic headpiece of earlier incarnations for a large-nosed latex rubber mask, meaning Batman can now blow his nose in-costume and possesses peripheral vision of at least an inch on either side. Watch out, criminals standing very slightly to his left or right!
Also worth noting: Against all reason and decency, the Batsuit now features nipples, possibly as part of some new Bat-lactation feature. (Theory: They squirt Gatorade when he's thirsty?)
Those Wonderful Toys
Mr. Freeze uses his only superpower to turn the floor into an ice rink just as Batman and Robin are about to apprehend him. Luckily, our crimefighters yell "Batskates!", at which point, yes, Batskates pop out of their boots and they proceed to play ice hockey with Mr. Freeze's hockey stick-toting goons. Observant Batman fans might notice that being able to make things appear suddenly from the recesses of his body isn't Batman's power; it's Inspector Gadget's (or, failing that, Richard Gere's).
Elsewhere, BatClooney and Robin pull out Batsurfboards and surf down a building, which is actually more ridiculous than Bat-shark repellent, in that it actually manages to break the laws of physics with its brute idiocy.
Smoothness with the Ladies
BatClooney briefly engages in a competitive romantic rivalry with Robin over who gets to date Poison Ivy first, but since they're both under her love potion spell, it's hard to count. Otherwise, Batman & Robin seems more preoccupied with getting Robin some action with the newly arrived Batgirl than scoring anything for the Dark Knight. Lots of lonely nights home alone for BatClooney, it seems: No wonder he had the time to invent the Batskates.
BatClooney sees no problems whatsoever with suiting Chris O'Donnell and Alicia Silverstone up in benippled costumes and enlisting the idiots in his war on crime, despite the fact that no right-thinking person would trust Chris O'Donnell or Alicia Silverstone to lick stamps without turning purple and asphyxiating themselves.
See "Batnipples; casting smoldering looks at one another while having."


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Codenamed "The Experiment"
Welcome to the new Cleveland, Curveballs and Common Sense, codenamed "The Experiment"! Go ahead and take a look around, then come on back and I'll show you around.
Last year, around this time, I started thinking about redesigning my blog. I was working on implementing a WordPress theme from scratch at work; with Stephen Stanton (and his boss Josh Laney) providing the graphics and creative vision, all I had to do was write the code that powered a new WordPress site for our Chasing Trophy Whitetails brand. On my end, there were some neat technical things with the theme like an HTML5 image gallery and automatic generation of OpenGraph tags. It seemed pretty fun and pretty easy at the time, and so I quickly became eager to write a theme for my own blog and transfer some of that new knowledge over.
But it's not even close to that easy: it takes skill and talent to create and execute a WordPress theme design, and so I flustered for almost a year, coming up with various ideas but nothing good enough to make me want to switch.
Long may you run
Over the last couple years my blog has gone through a number of changes: the original migration from my McJournal account, to my migration to a custom domain, to a new look, to the most recent, a migration to WordPress.
One of the less visible changes, however, was the installation of Google Analytics about two years ago, on February 25, 2008, to be exact. Since then, I've been able to gauge where my visitors are reading from, what they like and where they came from on the Web. A couple of interesting things jumped out at me as I analyzed the data, and while I try not to do too many self-serving posts, I couldn't resist this one. Hopefully you'll see why later.
First, here's the visitor graph for that entire two years:
Most of the peaks (as you may imagine) came on days when I posted (or the day after, depending on how late the post was). The highest peak came when one of my posts was Reddited on the gaming subreddit.
Operating System
This graph shows a breakdown of the operating systems visitors are using to view the site. In general I think the viewing audience of this site is skewed away from Windows more than the norm, but Windows still holds the vast majority with Mac OS X and Linux not far behind. I found it interesting that 2.3% of my visitors were using the iPhone OS via either an iPod Touch or an iPhone, showing that the mobile platforms are certainly gaining traction. I'm not sure what a "Danger Hiptop" is, but wherever you are, thanks for visiting! (Once, apparently. Was it something I said?)
Now it really starts to get interesting. Apparently Firefox is my readers' most popular choice. This surprises me because Firefox has never been my favorite browser, and I really only used it as my primary browser for a few months at work (where, as you might imagine, I don't frequent my own blog). However, I also know that a little less than halfway through this reporting period I switched default browsers on all of my Windows machines to Google Chrome from IE 7. I think this sort of weakened those two browser's numbers a bit (kind of like Ralph Nader and the democrats). Firefox, IE and Chrome make up the top three with Safari (including iPhone Safari) coming in fourth. Lesser known browsers such as Camino and Konqueror round out the bottom.
International location
Obviously most of my visitors come from the United States, but I've certainly made a dent in other countries as well, including all six populated continents. I have yet to crack the Great Firewall of China (I wrote a paper (PDF) trashing that firewall back in 2008, I'm not surprised no one from there has found me), but most of Europe and North America have visited, along with parts of South America and Asia. In terms of rankings (not pictured), the U.S. ranks first, followed by Canada, India, the United Kingdom and Australia.
US location
Now this is where things get really interesting for me. As you can see, I've had visitors from every U.S. state except North Dakota. I want this blog to have been read in all 50 states, so if you have friends in North Dakota, tell them to read this once and it's a personal favor to me. Seriously. Just once. In terms of state ranking, Ohio is first, followed by New York (on the right of that picture), South Carolina, Pennsylvania (sorry Amanda, I don't have a picture of you handy), and Indiana (on the left).
In all seriousness though, it's been really fun writing, ranting and raving the past few years. No matter where you're reading from, no matter what browser you choose or what OS you use, thank you. I write most of this stuff for me, but it's very gratifying that others other than myself seem to like it. Thanks again for reading, and as always, I look forward to my next post.
WWW is the new blog
A couple of quick programming notes (related to the content of this site, not my actual programming. Actually I guess it is related to my actual programming. So forget I said this.):
- You may have noticed that blog.jimmysawczuk.com now redirects you here, to www.jimmysawczuk.com. I did this to create a more unified feel for my web presence, hopefully it's more helpful for what you're looking for. I'm still working on it, so let me know if you have suggestions or concerns.
- Because I moved some files around I needed to rebuild certain projects so that they could be downloaded from the server off the installer, so I rebuilt Invaders and George In Space!. If you haven't checked them out yet, you should – they're probably the two most useful programs I've ever made.
As always, thanks for your feedback, and above all, thanks for reading!


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Tonight's event is a workshop on "Writing Your Story." Authors Marcia Woodard and Jessica Star Rocker will discuss turning nonfiction narratives into essays and books. Bring paper and pen!
The series continues on the 2nd Thursday of each month in Oct. and Nov. Free.
The EPIC Writing Group starts 10-11 a.m., Mon., Sept. 17 at the Edmonds Library and continues each Monday through Nov. 19. Free.
Read more about EPIC in MyEdmondsNews, Janette Turner interviews Amanda Laughtland about tonight's event.
Founded by managing director Janette Turner and creative director Amanda Laughtland, EPIC Literary Series is presented in partnership with Edmonds Arts Commission, Edmonds Library, Friends of the Edmonds Library, Swedish Hospital Art Committee, Edmonds Community College ArtsNow, and Edmonds Community College literary magazine, Between the Lines.