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#11 Thu 22 Nov 12 10:23am
Re: Christmas Breakfast
No, just fried or grilled bacon and bread, usually white bread. Butter is optional. Some people put ketchup or brown sauce on it, but in my opinion that is WRONG
#12 Thu 22 Nov 12 1:19pm
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Bacon AND butter? Hmmm as much as I love both those ingredients I'm feeling a little queasy. Here in the USA we make a BLT (bacon, lettuce & tomato) sandwich on white bread with mayonnaise. It's awesome.
#13 Thu 22 Nov 12 1:55pm
Re: Christmas Breakfast
Mayo's got nearly as much fat as butter, you know. 75%. Butter's about 80%. I was appalled when I found that out! But you're right, it doesn't *feel* greasy like melted butter does.
To be honest, I prefer my bacon on dry bread. It's got more than enough fat to lubricate the bread, and I find the grease-fest of a buttered bacon sandwich just a bit much. I dry-fry my bacon - if you grill it you may have more need of butter. Also, in the UK we normally get back bacon, whereas I believe in the US it's usually streaky (belly) bacon, which is fattier. A buttered bacon sandwich with streaky bacon would be too much for most people, I reckon.
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Re: Christmas Breakfast
Buttered toast with crisp streaky bacon, lettuce. tomato, cheese = pure goodness! Wish I had one right now!
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Re: Christmas Breakfast
wildly organic: A bacon sandwhich is grilled or fried (not a lover of fried) bacon in two slices of bread butter with sauce of your liking.
Hippytea: i was going to put all kinds of festive spice in the granola to give it that festive feel along with cranberries - so could seen a good receipe from Ina Garten - Barefoot Contessa so thought I would give it ago, looks yummy, sometimes you just want something different.
Birdymum: The rule in my house is you have to get up mega early, I want my 6 year old to jump on my head to get me up, then get stuck into santa pressies, but when he is older no one can open pressies til they have a hot drink by there side hahaha. I couldnt wait that long to see his face opening his pressies or anyother future children hehe.
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Re: Christmas Breakfast
the only time I use streaky bacon is at christmas time on my turkey haha
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Re: Christmas Breakfast
This is a difficult question really as the budget only extends to a few pennies per child .
Also there are numerous ethnic backgrounds and different diets to be considered so for that reason bacon would be out of the question.
And often the facilities available for providing these breakfasts are limited and very very basic..
At the moment most schools who have a breakfast club , as far as I know , give the children breakfast cereal ( unsweetened types ) and toast every day.
When I first came to Wales I notices that bakers shops sold a slightly larger version of 'scotch pancakes ' . Maybe this would be nice for the children for a special breakfast with some fruit as well . Many children happily eat yoghurt so a little dish of a yoghurt with something sprinkled on top .
And of course a satsuma ( easier to perl than a clementine )
This would be way over budget but I think would appeal to most.
( but not sure it will fall within the strict guidelines given for school breakfasts !)
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#18 Fri 23 Nov 12 10:10pm
Re: Christmas Breakfast
How much scope do you have to make things? Because Scotch pancakes/drop scones (they're the same) are cheaper to make than to buy. Fruit's great but if the budget won't stretch, they make a great breakfast just served warm with butter, syrup or jam. Or honey - but honey's expensive too!
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usually there is just a toaster Hippytea at the breakfast clubs in the schools locally as far as I know.
Breakfast clubs do not usually have much acess to the school kitchens for cooking .
#20 Sat 24 Nov 12 9:49am
Re: Christmas Breakfast
So I suppose it depends if they could afford to buy the Scotch pancakes. They reheat well in a toaster (or a microwave).


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For the game, Canisius outshot Marist 30-21 with a 17-15 advantage in shots on goal. Behind seven combined draw controls between Tuck (4) and Romano (3) helped Marist take a 12-9 margin in draw controls. A leading factor in the Golden Griffins success was just five team turnovers in the game.
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Original post made by J. Habermas, Ventura, on May 23, 2007
With the exception of Heather Trossman, the example above shows a perfect example of a Council-appointed political commission completely out of control, exhibiting hubris shows how power can be used in petty ways.
Architectural Review Board member Judith Wasserman's statements to developer Harold Holbach were way off base, especially in a public ommission hearing. Her statements were more than statements of odisagreement; they bordered on mocking behavior. Perhaps Ms. Wasserman's "purview" isn't held in such high esteem by all who come before her on this commission that has been set up to politicize design and aesthetics. More Palo Alto Process, anyone?
Perhaps Ms. Wasserman is still steamed about our City Council approving Mr. Holbach's project. Perhaps she shuold walk in a developer's shoes for a time, and wear those shoes to development meetings to learn what happens to the bottom line when unconsciounable delays are forced on developers, and how those losses in the bottom line result in _higher_ prices to home buyers and apartment dwellers - or, materials of lesser quality used to build to make up for delay costs. This is a dose of reality that many who want to put every developer through the wringer shuold experience first hand, with _their own_ money.
If Palo Altans somehow think that "word doesn't get out" to the developer community about the kind and style of abuse that has been visited on Harold Holbach, they should think again.
Also, I wonder if Palo Altans realize that the spiteful use of the law to delay development creates a phalanx of overly clever developers, who quickly adapt to the shenanigans of petty commission decisions. We, the citizens of Palo Alto, are _paying_ for the delays caused by those few in this community who appear to delight in meddling in every little detail and drawing that a developer puts forward.
If Palo Altans don't think that the law used to intimidate, or cause,and/or threaten development delay for projects that don't quite satisfy the falsely elevated sense of architectual aesthetics of a few, whose obsessive gauntlet of snob-appeal aethetics has been used over and over again in years past to _cost our citizens money_, without ANY positive outcome for those citizens, in general.
If there is a way to issue a cross-compalint against Mssrs. Moss and Jordan, with requests made for damages, including attorney's fees, I hope Mr. Holback carries such a complaint through. If he doesn't, maybe someone will, and force Mssr/s Moss and Jordan to think twice before meddling in the affairs of those who don't need their amateur opinion about what is "right" for Palo Alto development.
IN the meantime, the 195 Page Mill area remains a trash heap of currugated metal buildings, with transients making the back yars of those buildings their temporary homes. It's a dangerous place to walk in the evening.
Thanks again, Ms. Wasserman - and you, too, Mssrs. Moss and Jordan, for protecting our right to get mugged this summer, if Mr Holbach's construction is delayed, and that trash heap doesn't get demolished.
When will our everyday citizens learn that those who like to bake "meddle pie" are doing our city more harm than good, and unwittingly continue to make our fair city the laughing stock of the region because of the nonsensical delays that their meddling causes.
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a resident of Stanford
on May 23, 2007 at 2:51 pm
I wonder whether you actually read the Weekly story.
The plans he submitted were 1) inaccurate and 2) incomplete and 3) unresponsive.
The developer appears to be arrogant and perhaps more likely incompetent.
Calling Commissioner Wasserman anti-developer is an indication that you don't pay attention to the ARB, but perhaps have some connection to this particular project.
God Bless the Architectural Commission for doing the job we depend on them to do!
a resident of Ventura
on May 23, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Forum Reader, In fact, I did read the article.
btw, have you walked in this particular developer's shoes? Do you support the kind of mocking innuendo that was delivered up byy Ms. Wasserman in a public forum, by ann officially appointed political body? Have you had to walk the particular area of Park Bled. and Page Mill Rd that defines the area of this development? Have you done so in the evening?
Have you compared the general tenor of this developer's design suggestions with the trash heap that sits there at present? Do you care whether or not the developer will be compelled to increase rents if durther delays occur, penalizing those who hlive and work in the project, for what will effectively be a finished project that is pleasing to most eyes, and residents of said project?
I have seen this particular developer, who is no saint - and far from perfect transparancy of process - taken to task _in teh same way_ that other developers have been taken to task in Palo Alto. Most of this "taking to task" is performed by a small coterie of neighborhood activists who show up for every single important development, spout their self-important words of wisdom, and somehow (until recently) been listened to by past City Councils.
I have non financial interest in the project, but I do have an interest in being able to watch my kids ride a bike through the area w/o being accosted by transients, or driving by a trash heap eyesore, day in and day out.
Perhaps Ms. Wassermann Mssrs. Moss and Jordan should be compelled to walk the walk and live in that area for a while. Then we might see their attitude and aethetic sense gain a new view on the world.
a resident of another community
on May 24, 2007 at 10:11 am
Gee, I'd love to walk in this developer's shoes. He doesn't live in Palo Alto so maybe he should walk in our shoes. He is a Billionaire. He owns huge amounts of property in the California Avenue area. I used to work in one of his office buildings.
Why don't you ask him to demolish the stuff you call trash structures? That would be very cheap and very fast. [Portion removed by Palo Alto Online staff.]
a resident of Midtown
on May 24, 2007 at 10:33 am
I believe that the city regulation of construction should be strictly limited to public health and safety. Anyone who objects to the appearance of a building is invited to look the other direction or, in extremis, buy the building and tear it down. When I wrap a gift it has been my habit these past 40 years to use preliminary drawings for paper. To those who comment I explain that is the most expensive paper they will ever receive. It is especially amusing to hear the city that approved those California Avenue pieces of "art" criticize the esthetic taste of others. The arrogance of these arbitors makes one remember the tumbrils. [I also believe this site needs a spell checker]
a resident of Ventura
on May 24, 2007 at 11:10 am
Walter, Spelling is nothing; context is everthing. For the rest of this topic, we are in agreement.
Trudy, Were you ever a lessee in one of his buildings? He was and is a very caring and understanding landlord; far more than most. Do you live near 195 Page Mill? Do you walk past it every evening? Are you walking in _those_ shoes? Do you have or know kids who avoid that area, because of nameless transients?
The amount of diligence that this property has been put through is unreal, and that's mostly because some few people have never liked the Holbach design. They have pulled out all the stops to defeat the Holback plan, and seemingly don't mind letting that property lie fallow for another 30 years.
Again, I have watched this process closely. Holback has not been forthcoming as much as he could have been, but those who have opposed his plan have done so for the most spurious reasons, using the "rules" (which in the end have been crafted to serve obsessive micromanagement of things like landscaping and architectual facade) to cause delay after delay.
Why should I be compelled to have Ms. Wasserman's idea of aesthetic forced into my community? How about a little color? Yeah for Heather Trossman, the only one who seemed to "get it" as far as facade design and landscaping go. For heaven's sake, the project borders CalTrans track - you have to do SOMETHING to amelirate the stree of living so close to the tracks, but no, we have arbiters of taste who want everything to "look" a certain way. Innovation? ha!
My sense is that this structure is going to be built, over the cries and screams of the few-left-standing "neighborhood watchdogs" that are (thankfuly) becoming more and more irrelevant to Palo Alto's future.
a resident of another community
on May 24, 2007 at 12:13 pm
Actually I think driving by the corner of Charleston and El Camino will shock some people into a realization of what is going on.
You have said this again and again on various threads:
"neighborhood watchdogs" that are (thankfuly) becoming more and more irrelevant to Palo Alto's future.
What evidence do you have for your predictions?
a resident of Ventura
on May 24, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Trudy, The evidence I have is that developments are being built, and the time-to-market for many other projects are suffering somewhat shorter delays than in past years, and finally that the often non-sensical NUMBYISM that had for some 20 years or so dominated Plao Alto's development scene is beginning to fade away.
I and many others I know look at that corner with big smiles.
A few questions:
Isn't it wonderful to see homes built where people will live, where children will be raised, where life will be filled with wonder (and, to be realistic, occasional travail), where flowers will bloom, where residents will live and cooperate, from where citizens will shop and participate and thrive as members of a more diverse Palo Alto - instead of a hotel filled with the comings and goings of mostly strange faces, never to be seen again?
Palo Alto is growing! What city has survived and _thrived_, that hasn't grown?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on May 24, 2007 at 11:22 pm
With all of the high density rental housing that seems to be coming it going to be easier to get a rent control passed by the renters. San Francisco and other cities have it in the bay area. Rents can be fixed at a cost of living increase each year.
I live near the El Camino and Charleston intersection and think this is an example of a horrible development. It should have 25' setbacks at Elcamino, 40 % open space, a large public park, etc,etc. . There will probably be hundreds of cars parking in the adjacent single family neighborhood.
The cost to the taxpayers will be horrendous for all of the services required for this and the other high density development in South Palo Alto that are in the works.
This is what we get when we have supporters of high density developers running the city.
a resident of Midtown
on May 25, 2007 at 7:57 am
If we get rent control, can we also get landlord cost control?
a resident of Evergreen Park
on May 25, 2007 at 8:41 am
I thought the major objections were that the proposed building did not conform to the city's zoning codes. Why all this red herring about color diversity? If the plans are incomplete and inaccurate each time they are submitted, that is the fault of the developer, not the ARB.
Mr. Wallis. Your remarks on the various blogs are usually cogent and appropriate, but I really don't understand the ones you added here - in particular the comment about preliminary drawings. And what has the terrible public art that has been foisted on us got to do with building health and safety?
A spell check for forum responses is a very good idea.
a resident of Midtown
on May 25, 2007 at 11:11 am
When the drawings have to be redone for other than health and safety reasons, specifically to satisfy esthetics, it imposes costs on the project that I consider excessive and unwarranted.
a resident of Ventura
on May 25, 2007 at 2:05 pm
In fact, there is a small, determined coterie of residents, probably totaling no more than 15-20 people, who have been against this development for aesthtic reasons from the beginning. Some of them may have gotten to a few ARB members, and put a bee in their bonnet.
The pair of residents - Mssrs. Moss and Jordan - that are suing Holbach have been two of the most vocal in objecting to the development. Everything from the size of the parking lot, to the trees, to the color of the building, to the landscaping behind the building (it borders CalTrans tracks), and on and on and on and on.
Again, Holback hasn't been that foorthcoming, and had the good luck to make certain decisions coincidental with changes in code. That Holbach was able to do this has really steamed up those who were against the project. Now they're using a lawsuit -that will cost their fellow citizen's taxpayer dollars - to try to halt the project.
Like I said above, the use of the law in this way leaves the plaintiffs wide open for a cross-complaint by the developer, and maybe even neighborhood residents that want the development built. Those residents have endured lower property values because of the current trash heap at 195 Page Mill; they have also endured a less safe environment due to the continued presence of transients who live behind (even in front of) the old buildings there.
What needs to happen here is a series of counter suits, directed at Mssrs. Moss and Jordan, to teach them a lesson. There are clauses in the law that put a cross-complainant at risk, but there are others that leave the current plaintiffs wide open. Perhaps a real revenue hit on the plaintiff's pockets will deliver the lesson that meddling too long and too far in something that is essentially OK with 99% ofo one's felloe residents - and is costing the latter money, as well - shuold ALSO cost thohse who are causing delay.
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Hacker Gets 2 Years for Windows Code
'illwill' gets a room with a view with a completely different set of windows.
But here's the best part of all...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A federal judge Friday sentenced a convicted hacker known as "illwill" to two years in prison for selling the code, or software blueprint, for Microsoft Corp.'s closely guarded Windows programs.
William Genovese, Jr., 29, pleaded guilty last year to one count of unlawful distribution of trade secrets for putting Microsoft's source code for its Windows 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs on his Web site and selling it.
The plea agreement called for a sentence ranging from 10 months to 30 months in federal prison.
"I screwed up," Genovese said in court.
But here's the best part of all...
Microsoft learned February 12, 2004 that portions of the code were released on the Internet. That same day, Genovese offered the source code for sale on his Web site. He received a total of $40 for selling the code to Microsoft investigators.
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PlayBook: The Truth (Or Something Like It)
We're almost to the end of the long, strange steroids saga of Roger Clemens and no closer to any of the answers we've been waiting for. We don't know who lied, who didn't and who'll be left standing when the dust finally settles.<br>
"[Roger Clemens'] statistics do not point to innocence. We are not saying that the numbers show guilt, but we are saying that the statistics show that something unusual happened in Clemens' career as he entered his 30s."
– University of Pennsylvania report on Roger Clemens' career numbers.
It's taken almost ten weeks of highfalutin trial talk to come to the roundabout conclusion that Brian McNamee is not only a liar but is stupid to boot. Fifty-two months and at least $20M in taxpayer dollars to prove that a baseball player probably lied to Congress but at the time was sufficiently surrounded by more prolific, albeit less talented liars that his lies would never be proven in a court of law.
This case centers around three ridiculous points:
That Roger Clemens lied about attending a pool party held by known tattletale and cheater Jose Canseco. That Roger Clemens was present when Brian McNamee injected Clemens' wife Debbie with HGH for still very unclear and probably permanently unknown reasons. And… That Roger Clemens received HGH shots administered by McNamee, who then proceeded to store the "evidence" for years in or around a beer can inside or maybe outside a FedEx box previously in his garage but now occasionally in his bedroom.
Other points that seemed relevant enough to be asked in a federal perjury trial in a United States District Courtroom were what Debbie Clemens' handicap is over 18 holes, how much the Clemenses think is a reasonable price to pay for a pair of socks and whether or not they were aware that they had bruised the delicate ego of their once friend and chief accuser Brian McNamee.
(For the record, Debbie Clemens' handicap is 10.4, the defense produced receipts that the Clemenses spent $265 on a pair of socks and no, the Clemenses were not aware that Brian McNamee felt as though he had been brushed "to the wayside.")
But the chief claims of this little dog and pony show, the reason for this whole messy business, are in the itemized list above, which Rusty Hardin, Clemens' well-travelled and tested trial lawyer had little problem breaking down with the audacity of logic and the following bombastic claims of common sense:
Yes, Roger Clemens and his wife were probably at Jose Canseco's pool party; in fact, they stayed the night at the Cansecos' prior to the day in question, an altogether weird but not uncommon practice among ball players for reasons that will never be totally clear to us normal people. This of course would be damning evidence supposing Jose Canseco's pool was laced with the cream and the clear instead of chlorine (a concept not so totally out of the question for the fringe insane like Canseco) but in all likelihood it was probably filled with your run-of-the-mill, standard fare pool water. Gilberto Guerrero, the Assistant U.S. Attorney charged with botching prosecuting this case, really went all in here, saying it "stretched credibility to believe that Debbie Clemens allowed McNamee to enter into the master bathroom without her husband knowing about it," going so far as to speculate what Roger might have said: "What are you doing in my master bathroom with my wife!?" And the reason Clemens didn't say that thing I just made up, Guerrero explains, is that "[Clemens] was there that day!" (Please, hold your applause.) Maybe Roger did shoot up a bunch of HGH to pitch out of his skull in the twilight of his career or maybe he drank a beer. DNA evidence suggested some part of Clemens had certainly come in contact with some part of this sordidly kept bundle of "evidence," but which part is impossible to determine. Was it the beer can? The needle? The fucking FedEx box? McNamee claims he kept the needle as an insurance policy for when the hammer finally dropped. He kept name-clearing DNA evidence in a symbiotic cesspool of cells, saliva and Coors for six years and change.
At this point Gilberto Guerrero chimes back in with: "If McNamee was trying to fabricate this evidence, don't you think he would have done a better job of it?" Well, Gil, we're not entirely sold on the overall intelligence of Mr. McNamee right now. In fact, you might say we suspect he's a little slow, a few bricks short of the proverbial full load.
But to summarize: the prosecution's case is one part hogwash (unless we assume that mere contact with Jose Canseco constitutes cheating or that Canseco, in some weird Rite of Passage, insists all his friends be injected with a complimentary shot of HGH when entering his home); one part pure (and absolutely wild) speculation, just short of the AUSA actually putting on the patented Roger "The Rocket" Clemens puppet show; and one part ruined by the sheer stupidity of Brian McNamee.
If convicted of all charges (six in total) Clemens would face up to 30 years in a federal prison and a $1.5M fine. Under federal sentencing guidelines that gets whittled down to about 21 months (!), and after this debacle at the taxpayers' expense, he'll probably walk with a suspended sentence at most (he did after all attend Canseco's party, a fact he "misremembered" in his original testimony).
As for the Truth, that capital T word we tend to lose among the loopholes of logic, well, this is the AUSA's second kick at the (beer) can and they're coming up empty again; their evidence is so weak, so polluted, speculative, old and getting older, that chances are they won't be afforded the luxury most ball players are of a third strike.
Meanwhile, Clemens will take his 354 wins, 4,672 strikeouts, seven Cy Youngs, two pitching triple crowns and a rare MVP award into the Hall of Fame, unhampered and un-asterisked but maybe not un-abetted. We'll always wonder how one of the most naturally gifted pitchers ever got better at the height of the steroid era and in the decline of his career. How Roger Clemens, well into in his 14th, 15th and 16th seasons, did what very few others have managed to do and defied the tests of time.


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A few last-minute surprises popped up early Monday evening even before "Kentucky Tonight" guests had settled into their seats in Studio A. The guests were there to discuss the state's public employee pension problems and the reform measures slowly making their way through the General Assembly.
The host was caught off-guard too.
I had asked Senate Majority Floor Leader Damon Thayer of Georgetown; State Representative Brent Yonts of Greenville, chair of the House State Government Committee; Bryan Sunderland, vice president of public affairs for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce; and Jason Bailey, director of the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy and a member of the Kentucky Public Pension Coalition to come to the "Kentucky Tonight" table to discuss Senate Bill 2, which passed out the Senate. The bill was assigned to Chairman Yonts' committee in the House.
Late Monday afternoon, Rep. Yonts met with Democrats in the House to explain the changes he intended to introduce which would dramatically alter the pension bill passed by the Senate.
Around 7 PM last night, House Speaker Greg Stumbo explained to several members of the press corps a proposal to fund the pension system using an expansion of Kentucky lottery games to be offered to players.
All of this was happening as our guests were getting their microphones attached and last- minute adjustments were being made before we began our broadcast conversation on KET.
What follows demonstrates that any solution to resolve pension reform in this session of the 2013 legislature may be difficult.
In this clip, Yonts and Thayer disagree over the changes being made to Senate Bill 2:
Later, "Kentucky Tonight" panelists Bailey and Sunderland debated the differences in a hybrid retirement plan and a traditional defined benefit offering which is available to public employees today.
The House is expected to act on pensions this week; the bill will then be reassigned to the state Senate for action.
With only a few days remaining in the session, no one is really sure what might be the final resolution of this serious problem facing the Commonwealth.


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Custom 1999 Chevrolet C3500 Dualie - The Devious Dualie
Busted Knuckles - Tuckin' 24s!
It's a somewhat rare occurrence these days when the tech sheet that we provide to truck owners to tell us about themselves and their trucks reads funnier than the owner's Myspace.com profile. But, such is the case with Jeff Davy, owner of Devious Customs in Ontario, California. His tech sheet was full of witty answers to questions like "How many previous customs have you built?" His reply was, "Which day?" Another response that got a laugh here at the office was his answer to the question: "Were there any interesting things that happened during the build?" Jeff wrote that his daughter was conceived in the back seat of this dualie and delivered in the front seat. He's a character all right-easy going when it comes to life but serious as a heart attack when it comes to building custom trucks.
And so it goes for a family man with one of the fastest-growing custom shops in Southern California. Starting with practically nothing, his shop has grown to turn out a ton of trophy-taking rides over the years, and it seems that even with four kids and a wife all vying for his time, Jeff still manages to put something cool together for himself. Call it boundless energy, if you will, but this guy has built quite a few killer trucks, and most of them have been Chevy Crew Cab dualies. His latest, a '99 Chevy C3500, is perhaps his best, even if it's not finished.
The first thing you have to know about this truck is that it doesn't have a diesel engine, even though Jeff wishes it did. Now that wouldn't be a big deal to most, except that Jeff regularly hauls a 24-foot enclosed car trailer to truck shows as part of his booth display, and he does it with a 454 big-block engine. That's not so out of the ordinary either, but this truck also does the hauling while rolling on a set of enormous 24-inch Alcoa aluminum wheels and crackhead skinny 275/35R24 Toyo Proxes tires. You read that correctly. This truck sits flat on the ground, tucking massive amounts of 24-inch rollers, and Jeff still puts thousands of miles on the truck towing a trailer. It wasn't easy making the switch from 16-inch eight-lug wheels to 24-inch 10-luggers, either.
The swap required a rear axle and front hubs from a 3/4-ton dualie and a set of wheel adapters from Ekstensive Metalworks just to bolt on the rims. After adding an air suspension, replacing the center section of the framerails with 2x4-inch by 0.250-inch wall rectangular tubing, and performing a 4-inch body drop to the bed, Jeff still had to find a way to make the wheels fit. The solution at the rear of the shortbed sport truck was to section the fenders, adding 4 inches of height and 2 inches of width, using fiberglass cloth and resin. Up front, Jeff crafted a new set of control arms that are 3 inches wider than the stock parts and pivot on spherical bearings with high misalignment spacers rather than traditional ball joints. The new arms enabled the front suspension to cycle through enough travel to uncover the front wheels for U-turns. The rear axle received a four-link, and a fuel cell replaced the stock gas tank that likely would have been dragged on the ground when the air was released from the 'bags. According to Jeff, the truck is reliable and rides plush.
The body received its fair share of upgrades, as well. While preparing to shave the door handles of a customer's HUMMER H2, Jeff thought the H2's handles might look nice on his dualie. So, out came the die grinder and off came the sheetmetal surrounding the handles. Then, Jeff grafted the H2 handles and sheetmetal into his Chevy. The rear of the rare shortbed dualie also scored a full tailgate skin from Grant Customs. And if you didn't already notice his truck rollin' toward you, Jeff added a custom chrome bumper, billet grille inserts, and just enough airbrush work on the hood to warn you that 1-ton of mayhem is headed your way.
This is one of the better constructed heavy haulers we've seen, as of late. Will Jeff find the time to finish it, or does he have other plans for the dualie? We'll just have to wait and see what his devious mind comes up with.


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1604 Campus bookstore hosts appreciation event
By Tim Brownlee
Assistant Director of Public Affairs
(Nov. 7, 2007)--The UTSA Bookstore in the University Center at the 1604 Campus will host a faculty-staff appreciation event from 3 to 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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During the event, UTSA faculty and staff members will receive a 30 percent discount on selected merchandise.
Also, refreshments will be available.
For more information, contact John Palmer at (210) 458-4220.