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Quick Weeknight Meals: The Prizes!
We're so excited about our September contest — Quick Weeknight Meals. We've been looking forward to this one for a long time, and we're especially excited about the great prizes we have lined up for the winners. These aren't just for the winners, though; the first ten entrants are going to receive a little special something too. Read on to see what that is, and to get the lowdown on the rest of the prizes.
1st Ten Entrants
The first 10 entrants (by timestamp on their received entry) will receive a copy of Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off 1959, Facsimile Edition (Wiley 2009). This rather wonderful book is a reprint of a cookbook published in 1959 with 1000 recipes from the first ten years of the Pillsbury Bake-Off contest.
We enjoyed this cookbook so much; it's retro and nostalgic, but still useful, with whimsical illustrations and a whole host of recipes for things like Cinderella Tarts, Peanut Blossoms, and Orange Kiss-Me Cake. There are awesome photos from 1950s era Bake-Offs, as well as photos of the dishes themselves.
• More about Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off 1959, Facsimile Edition at Wiley
We're happy that our first ten entrants are getting a copy of this book; it's a nod to to the granddaddy of all cooking competitions!
Grand Prize
Essential Cookware & Tools for Weeknight Meals
The grand prize goes to the winning recipe with the most votes. The lucky chef will get a big package of cookware and tools that are all recommended by us here at The Kitchn. They come from great brands and companies that we wholeheartedly recommend to other cooks.
• Wüsthof - Classic Ikon Carving Set, great for holiday roasts.
• Microplane - Gourmet Ultra Coarse Grater for cabbage and potatoes.
• Circulon - Try induction cooking for yourself with a Circulon Induction Burner.
• Anolon - An induction-friendly Anolon Chef Clad 12-inch Deep Skillet.
• Chef'n - A couple of our favorite tools: the VeggiChop and a Switchit spatula set.
• Benriner - An essential tool for sure: a Japanese mandoline from Benriner.
• Le Creuset - A gorgeous 3.5 qt Round French Oven in Black Onyx.
• P.O.S.H. Chicago - We're capping this package with a couple vintage linen tea towels — perfect for polishing glassware
Runner-Up: Omnivore Division
Essential Pantry Goods for Weeknight Meals
The runner-up in the Omnivore division will get a big package of gourmet delicacies worth about $200. There are oils, vinegars, chocolate, cheese, tea, wine, and a couple other pantry essentials, provided by some of our favorite companies. These are all products that we have tried and found to be truly enjoyable.
• Lucini - A package of olive oils and vinegars that includes Savory Fig Infused Gran Balsamic, Dark Cherry Infused Gran Balsamic, Pinot Noir Italian Wine Vinegar, Pinot Grigio Italian Wine Vinegar, Delicate Lemon Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Fiery Chili Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Robust Garlic Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and Tuscan Basil Infused Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
• Wisconsin Artisan Cheese - A big package of the best American, artisan-made cheese from a collective of Wisconsin farmers and cheesemakers. It will include an aged cheddar, SarVecchio parmesan, Emmentaler and a cloth-bound cheese.
• Scharffen Berger - A dark, rich collection of baking chocolates and other goodies from our favorite chocolate company. It will include a 70% 9.7oz baking bar, a 99% 9.7oz baking bar, a 6oz pouch of Roasted Cacao Nibs and 1 of each 3oz bar - 41%, 62%, 70%, 82%.
• Honey Ridge Farms - Honey and creamed honey, as well as delicious honey vinegar, from a small family farm in Washington. The prize package will include a gift crate trio of Honey Crèmes, 1 bottle of award-winning Balsamic Honey Vinegar and 1 bottle of Wild Blackberry Honey.
• Adagio Teas - One of our all-time favorite products, a utiliTEA kettle for your pantry, as well as a selection of premium green and black teas.
• Liparita - Two bottles of Cabernet from this small, historic winery in Napa Valley. (The winery has been around since 1880!) One bottle each of 2006 Liparita Stags Leap Cabernet and 2006 Liparita Oakville Cabernet are included.
• Inklore - This Northern California artist makes lovely things in linen and canvas for the home. We're a big fan of her linen aprons, so we're throwing one in to finish off this pantry essentials package.
Runner-Up: Vegetarian Division
Essential Tableware for Weeknight Meals
The runner-up in the Vegetarian division will get a big package of tableware and servingware worth over $200. There are dishes, platters, and other lovely things that we feel are both classic and timeless. These are all pieces that we hope last a long time and serve many wonderful meals.
• Lenox - An Aspen Ridge classic white baker is included; we love how it goes from oven to table to fridge to freezer to microwave...
• Prepara - One of our new favorite tools is Prepara's Tabletop Oil Mister, which is great for dressing salads and spraying oil on bread. It's handsome, too, with a glass bottle.
• Le Creuset - We like serving mini desserts and casseroles in these four Petite Round Casseroles in Black Onyx.
• Baerreis - Handcrafted salad tongs for your dinner table.
• Green Leaf Wood - A hand-turned wood salad bowl -- classic and modern.
• Modern-twist - We love their pretty placemats and Doileez for cake plates and centerpieces. There is a package of pretty things from Modern-twist in this prize collection.
• Crate & Barrel - We're including a couple table essentials from Crate & Barrel: a glass decanter and a set of classic white porcelain platters.
Whew! We hope that you enjoy this contest and get lots of great recipes.
Apartment Therapy reserves the right to substitute prizes for others of equal value at the conclusion of this contest.
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Gnocchi with roasted peppers and sausage:
1 red pepper
1 yellow pepper
1 medium onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1/2 lb hot italian sausage
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/4 cup parmesan cheese
1 package gnocchi
Put a heavily heavily salted pot of water on to boil.
Roast peppers on the grill, under the broiler or on the gas stovetop until thoroughly blackened. Place in a ziploc bag for a few minutes to steam, then peel by hand. Cut off the top, core, save juices inside peppers and cut peppers into strips.
While peppers are roasting, brown meat, then remove from pan, preserving one tablespoon of grease. Cook onion in olive oil over medium heat. When onions go translucent, add garlic, peppers, sausage. Add gnocchi to boiling water, remove when they float up to the top, reserve a cup of pasta water. When gnocchi are done, remove sauce from pan, add gnocchi and sausage grease to pan and brown gnocchi over medium high heat. Combine sauce with gnocchi, add parmesan cheese and stir, drizzling in enough pasta water to thicken and bind sauce. Add fresh ground black pepper and salt as needed.
These look fantastic!
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Quinoa Tabouli
To prepare quinoa:
1 cup quinoa (easily found these days, we get ours from Trader Joe's or the Berkeley bowl)
2 cups water
(Quinoa directions from our Trader Joe's box):
Place 1 cup quinoa and 2 cups waters in a 2 cup of water in a large saucepan or pot and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cover and cook until all water is absorbed 10-15 minutes. When done, the grain appears soft and translucent, and the germ ring will be visible along the outside edge of the grain.
Allow the cooked quinoa to cool at least until room temperature (you might want to refrigerate for a bit in a large, covered bowl once it cools down a bit).
For mix in:
1 small onion (you can use red onions or shallots if you like), finely diced
2 pickle cucumbers (kirby or persian would be best, or one regular/larger cuke if you can't find the small ones. Peeled and diced.
juice of 2-4 lemons (depending on taste)
1 tablespoon olive oil
half bunch of mint minced (or whole pack if they come in those plastic box things at Trader Joe's)
half bunch of cilantro minced (or whole pack if they come in those plastic box things at Trader Joe's)
1 cup of cherry or grape tomatoes, cut in half -- prepare only when ready to serve
Salt to taste.
Preparing mix in:
Combine all onions, cucumbers, lemon juice, olive oil, mint, and cilantro. Leave salt and tomatoes out for now. (We leave them out because we might want to refrigerate the tabouli and you should never ever ever refrigerate tomatoes). Set aside.
Once quinoa is cool, mix in the onion, cucumber, etc.. mixture and toss to combine. Add salt to taste. When you are ready to serve, add the appropriate amount of tomatoes (either go with my suggestion of 1 cup/1 cup dry quinoa or add as much as you like) to the amount you're eating and enjoy. Otherwise, stash in the fridge until you're ready to enjoy.
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•2 whole Large Lemons
•¼ cups Olive Oil
•1 whole Garlic Clove, Peeled & Minced
•¼ cups Fresh Lemon Thyme (Or Parsley Or Basil)
•Salt & Pepper
•½ cups Toasted Pine Nuts
•1 pound Spaghetti
•16 whole Medium Shrimp, Grilled
•Cracked Black Pepper
Remove the zest from both lemons and then squeeze juice from both. Mix together the oil, garlic, thyme, lemon zest and juice. Season with salt and pepper. Add the toasted pine nuts, stir well, and allow to sit for a couple of hours for the flavors to meld. Cook the pasta in boiling salted water until it is al dente. Just before draining, remove a small cup of pasta water.
Drain the pasta, and return it to the pot with the lemon sauce over high heat. Add a little pasta water to prevent it from drying out. As soon as it is piping hot, remove from the heat and serve. Scoop the pine nuts off the bottom of the pot to top the pasta, and serve topped with grilled shrimp if using. Offer additional cracked black pepper if desired.
Credits: Recipe originally found at Tasty Kitchen website
Title for above post: Lemon Shrimp Pasta
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- Quick Weeknight Meals
Summertime Fish Tacos
Marinate tilapia fillets in:
* Juice from 4-6 limes (about 1/2 cup)
* 1/4 olive oil (add a little at a time and taste)
* 1 tbsp garlic powder (or more to taste)
* 1 tbsp honey
* salt & pepper
Whisk together rapidly and pour over fish in a big bag. If you need more marinade, it is easy to make more. I marinated the fish for a couple hours before cooking.
Because it was raining, this was cooked inside. In a non-stick pan, I sprayed some olive oil and, once it was hot, sauteed some peppers, green onions, and garlic to top the tacos. Once those were done, I cooked the fish. One pan: lots of food!
To top the tacos, I also made a delicious cucumber mint salad or salsa or… well call it whatever you want. It could easily be a side dish, but I used it on the tacos.
* Two cucumbers peeled and chopped
* Mint chopped
* Green onions chopped
* Red wine vinegar — just a dash
Into small tortillas! Onions, peppers, garlic, fish and delicious cucumber salsa.
Quinoa Tabouli sounds delicious!
Just to be really explicit, recipes in comments are NOT eligible entries. Please enter the contest via this link:
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You will need an original recipe and five photos to enter. Thanks everyone! This will be fun!
I'd really like the veggie runner up prize. Just the Le Creuset pot alone is reward enough!
Not fair for anyone who doesn't have a digital camera!
Here's my recipe for all to try....
White Trash Pasta
1 lb of lean ground beef
2 tablespoons olive oil or any other kind of cooking oil
1 packet of Ortega/Taco Bell Taco seasoning
1 packet of Goya sazon
Pinch of salt
Pinch of pepper, season according to taste.
1 packet of ziti or medium elbows (anything that has a cavity so ground beef will find its way there)
Boil water in large pot for pasta.
Heat olive oil in frying pan. Add beef to pan, then add seasonings (taco and sazon seasonings and salt and pepper). Saute beef. Put on simmer.
Add pasta to boiling water when pasta is 2 minutes away from official time, add 2 soup ladles (about 2 cups) of pasta water to pan. Stir beef with pasta water.
Drain pasta. Place back into pot. Add beef from pan and stir gently. Place lid on pot and let rest for about 10 minutes. The pasta will be able to sit in meat sauce and take on flavor that way.
Parmesan cheese optional! Perfect with beer or wine.


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Feb 27 2012: Great Topic. I coasted through school and didnt leave with the quals that i really should of! I have always been passionate about business and managed to get access to a good MBA based on my life skills but i felt at a real disadvantage. I understood the topics intuitivley but when it came to the analytical or quantative topics i really struggled.
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I somewhat disagree with leaving a guild because you want to raid. You shouldn't be joining guilds for raids but other reasons- pugs can raid, and WoW is catering to soft cores more and more. If your server sucks, can't do decent pug raids, and you don't have time to organize them, I can understand it.
But in all honesty, most of your non-raiding activities are with you guildies. I have good friends in other guilds, but when I want to do something, I ask in Mumble and gchat first since it's a larger pool of players. If I want to organize something, that's where I start.
A good guild IS NOT a raid group. Those come and go. I don't join them since they simply don't have a lot of stability most of the time (and I'd know- I keep tabs so I can point others to them!). I look for guilds that offer more. Something other than loot. If your server doesn't offer something like this, and you can't/won't transfer off, I understand gquitting. But, for example, if you joined a good RP PvP guild that raids a bit, and you want hardcore raiding and still get some RP in, good luck to you.
If someone plays WOW primarily to raid, then staying in a guild that does not share their priorities is foolish.
Sometimes RP, PVP, Dungeons, Socializing or other non-raiding activities are simply not enough for people. If someone wants to raid and feels that their current guild isn't progressing in the direction they need, they should feel free to leave.
You're right Gendou, and that's fine for people who only care about progress/epics, but I've met far too many people who quit a guild for raiding and were just plain miserable after that. There's more involved in raiding than just how many bosses are downed or how quickly you can get geared. Don't just leave because you want to raid, leave because there's something bigger you're missing out on.
I can kind of relate to that. I had made a couple good friends to the point of even talking to them in real life. They both went on to raid, leaving my littler social guild behind. Neither of them really even play WoW now. When Cata brought out the looking for guild feature, I made sure to correctly label and advertise my guild as a social guild, looking for fun and social people. I am totally at peace where the way my guild is and happy with the core of my guild members. If any of them want to leave, the door is open to return. However if they just /gquit one day and don't have the decency to talk to me about it then they might not be so well received. Some people aren't good with saying farewell and that is unfortunate.
I have to say I totally disagree with "be discreet about it." I am not saying you need to make a big announcement about it. If you were a vocal/participating member of a social/leveling guild, people are going to ask questions. That's not really fair to the officers or the GM in my opinion. You should treat people and friends like people and friends, not like people who occupy space or are blips on a screen.
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A lot of people who really want to raid and know what it all entails prioritise this more than spending time with the people they're leaving who, whether fairly or not, they probably see as the reason they cannot raid. I would not suggest staying in a guild you might ultimately resent for not being able to deliver what you want to do in game.
If you want to raid and you can't find it in your guild, don't want to go through the nightmare of pugs, and want the communal sense of accomplishment you get when you kill stuff with people you kill stuff with regularly, then do leave to find a raiding guild that will meet your needs (and so some research before you do).
Well this is kinda awkward, since Den is my GM. We are both in a social guild. Our guild's raiding started out as just being about doing an activity as a guild, with friends, and when that shifted to a more demanding, stressful and drama-filled progression focus, I left the raid group but remained in the guild. The fallout from that has me reading this article with sympathy, as raid-related things can color all the other reasons you might stay in the guild and can affect non-raid interactions in a negative way.
prior to Cataclysm I would have fully agreed to Den. I raided with an alliance that consisted of mainly two guilds but had members from many more. We had our own TS server, an exquisit forum, in-game chat channels and even a raid bank, basically we kept guild matters and raid matters strictly separate and everyone could play in the guild they liked most (some players even moved from one of your guilds to another without causing any drama).
With the advent of Cataclysm, guild levels and achievements however this is not an option anymore, you'll want all regular raiders to be in the same guild.
So as much as I like the new guild options, I miss the times when you had the option to choose your raid and your guild independently from each other.
Brett Porter said...
I think the problem is, at least what I'm seeing here, is that the guild that you have and you're used to is mainly a social guild, with raiding as a side activity, or something extra. That's all fine when someone wants to be in the guild but not in the raid group. My old main is in such a guild, but not in the raid group anymore (due to stress from blood tanking wearing me out).
However, there are guilds out there that are specifically for raiding. My new main joined a sister guild for the sole purpose of raiding. If, all of a sudden, they decided to now be an RP and PvP guild, but I still wanted to raid, I would be screwed.
I don't want to RP and I don't want to PvP. If I wanted to continue raiding, I would need to either find a small group of similar minded folks in the same guild, or find some other way to raid. Usually that entails leaving for a raiding-specific guild. Saying that you shouldn't find a guild just for raiding because that's not the player you are is just like saying, well you shouldn't find a guild just to be social with others. You shouldn't tell others to have fun, that's no fun at all.
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Great school for kids with special needs. My son just never was able to make it in the public .He is thriving and thinking about college now,that would have never happened with Humanex I am very thankful we found them!
I am so happy that we found Humanex Academy. Our son is very smart but was unable to sit still and produce quality work. His primary school teachers each found a way to work with him. However, once he started middle school and had to deal with 7 different teachers he was lost. Humanex is the perfect place for him. We are on day 6 and our son feels both supported and challenged. I will write again once he has been there for a few months.
The teachers are great, the program is great, but the bullying needs to ne under control. There was so much bullying at that school
My son currently attends this school and I love how they honor WHO my child is, his disability and still expect the best from him. This is a school where my son who has Asperger's, Mood Disorder and Anxiety can be himself, work as fast or slow as he needs, and feel a sense of belonging. On his bad days he always has a choice to work or not. One bad period doesn't ruin his day, he has choices. He is learning more here because the setting is right, the support is there, the knowledge and respect he gets and the comfort level he experiences. A true GEM of a school. I have my hopes and dreams back for my son that were all but given up on by his "home school". If mainstream school ISN'T working for your child, IT WILL WORK HERE.
Humanex Academy is a fantastic school. I am a former student and I still visit whenever I can. The class sizes are small, the teachers work individually with students, and it is a fantastic choice for those students who are not your "typical" public school students. Humanex helped me through some of the most challenging parts of my teen years, and without the amazing staff I do not believe I would have a high school diploma, nor would I have gone on to college and have a college degree. My brother also recently graduated from Humanex - the staff has helped my family more than they will ever know. Humanex cares about the actual students and their success, and any family looking for an excellent alternative school for their child should consider Humanex.
It can be difficult to know what your child is capable of, then to have their school and teachers tell you that they deserve nothing more than a D or F. Humanex Academy connects with your child and finds out the best way that they learn, and teach them based on that. The teachers are incredible and very involved in the student's education. The administrators are extremely supportive, and they use a Love & Logic approach (I had not heard of this before, buy a book, it can do amazing things if you power struggle with your child). They offer tours and students to shadow before enrollment decisions, and their tuition is less than Denver Academy, and they offer so much more.
Our son's learning style did not work in the public school. Humanex Academy was a great match for him.
Without Humanex Academy my daughter would never have graduated from high school. They stuck with her through thick and thin even when she was at her most challenging. Now that she has graduated she still stops by occasionally to ask for support in job hunting or college scholarships. It doesn't matter that there is a new principal--he takes just as much interest in helping her as the former principal. They don't succeed with every student, but they will give each one every opportunity and support to make the choices that will lead to a diploma and a future.
I just heard about this school from a social worker. I have one son with mild autism and one with ADHD. He said this school as great with only 7:1 ratio and lots of different ways for kids to learn, not just auditorily. They focus on the individual learning style of the child.
Finally, teachers that can relate and communicate on a level my son understands. Even though he was in special-ed with the public schools his whole life, they were failing him in more than grades. They only know one way to teach children. Humanex Academy stepped in and found what made my son tick. He went from D's and F's in public school to A's & B's. The teachers and staff at Humanex are the most caring and giving that I have ever run across. The class sizes are incredibly small for one on one help. Within months my son starting turning things around. It's the most exciting thing to see happen in front of your very eyes. My son has confidence in himself for the first time. Thank you Humanex!
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Date Reviewed: January 11, 2007
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Price Paid: $700.00
Date Reviewed: December 7, 2006
Strengths: Fun bike, smooth
Weaknesses: It breaks! Same as the other guys on here, same crack, same place.
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Price Paid: $700.00
Similar Products Used: My old bike is a CUSS, which I keep as a backup. Love that bike.
Date Reviewed: October 15, 2004
Strengths: Frame, frame, frame; climbing ability; component selection
Weaknesses: Headset is poor quality; chain stretches like a rubberband
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $600.00
Purchased At: Hammerhead Bikes
Similar Products Used: 1997 Specialized Rockhopper converted to singlespeed (light but aluminum SS's beat the crap out of you)
Bike Setup: Stock except: Manitou Skareb fork and 2.1 WTB Velociraptor rear tire w/ 2.24 WTB Mutanoraptor front; RF 120mm Prodigy stem
Date Reviewed: April 20, 2004
Strengths: It's a build kit you can ride. Steel. Fat tires. One gear. Discs.
Weaknesses: Grips are silly hard. Welded in China/Tawain. Chain link thing. A tad chubby.
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This is the first bike out of the rack. My high-falutin' FS rig hasn't been out much lately. When I do take it out I rarely change gears. The shifters are shot and I don't care.
This is a great way to try SS'ing. If you don't like it, there are plenty of folks who'll buy your Bianchi ??SS bike. IF you do like it. You've got good parts to build a much nicer bike with.
I'm putting a King (Dave Thomas) wheelset on next with kevlar 2.4's. THOSE TIRES ROCK!!!. MOTO!
Then I'm going to swap the frame for a custom EBB Columbus-tubed deal.
Then I'll swap out some of the other heavy stuff--but by then there ain't much SiSS left--But I'll have two SS bikes.
I've had absolutely no problems with rubs, cracks, hubs, brakes, etc. Good ride for the buck.
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $850.00
Purchased At: Outdoors Inc. Memphis
Similar Products Used: Demo'd a Spot--parking lot only. Rode my gear bikes in 32x16 for a while before buying a SS.
Bike Setup: Z2-80mm, Bebop (the ultimate) Pedals, Oury grips, black tape where a cable guide would be nice.
Date Reviewed: April 6, 2004
Strengths: tires, saddle, brakes and cranks have all worked pretty well.
Weaknesses: spot hub blows, frame cracked, original brake pads were bad, chain line is off.
Bottom Line:
First I had the chain clicking problem, moved the master link to the other side to fix that.
The next thing I noticed was that my brakes were constantly in need of adjustment. Then the pads wore out after only about 400 miles or so. Avid said they had a bad batch and sent me replacements for free. I haven't used the replacements, I went with some Kool Stops which worked fine.
I also noticed when honking up a steep hill, the tires do rub the frame in the rear as the stays flex side to side.
Next my rear hub bearings failed so I had a new set pressed in at the bike shop. When I look at the design, it seems strange to me that there is no lock nut. One time the wheel did slip on me while riding and I suspect that is when the bearing got damaged.
I've used several different chain rings up front and through the process, I noticed the chain line was off from the factory and that the chain rings work best on the outside of the spider. Seems kinda cheesy to not have the right chain line from the beginning though.
The last thing that happened to my SISS is the familiar frame crack, at the drive side chain stay. Based on the location of the crack, I don't think it was the result of an impact from say a jump or just downward stress on the bike. From what I can gather, at least the way mine cracked, it's not a rider weight issue or an abusive rider issue. I think it's a stress crack from lateral forces on the chain stay. The crack in my frame was vertical along the side of the stay. It seems to me that if it cracked from a downward load from say a jump or a heavy rider, the crack would be on the bottom of the chain stay. I think all that flex in the rear that happens when you hammer up steep hills in a big gear is what causes the crack.
In either case, I asked Bianchi for a DISS frame in exchange for my cracked SISS and they actually were able to accomodate me. Time will tell how that frame holds up.
I gotta go low on the flamin' chili count now, after everything I've been through with this bike.
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Date Reviewed: January 23, 2004
Strengths: Great components for price.
Weaknesses: Frame broke at chainstay after 5 months use.
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Price Paid: $750.00
Similar Products Used: First singlespeed.
Bike Setup: Stock with SPD pedals.
Date Reviewed: December 16, 2003
Strengths: Steel frame, great tubeset. Parts spec is impeccable for the money--a great intro to sngle speeding, and worthy of upgrades
Weaknesses: initial set up is problematic--issues of chainline, rear hub and headset have been issues. These are easily fixable; see below for suggestions.
Bottom Line:
1. the headset is crap. This is common on most bikes. Press in a King if you're going to keep the bike for a while.
2. The rear hub is subject to binding. Don't blame spot. When I got mine, the cones were stupid tight, partly because the washer spacing was terrible (they're too thin, and consequently the stays are flexed inward). Buy a set of the Paul's word brass washers--they barely fit into the dropout, and you may even need to file them, but do this and loosen up the cones and this hub rocks.
3. Chainline--once you fixed the above problem, throw the KMC chain in the trash--this isn't a bmx bike. Put an 8 speed, shram pc 68 on it--not rubbing will occur, and assuming the bb is installed right and your cranks are on tight (mine weren't) you should have no further problems.
4. The pedals--yeah, they're junk. But given that this is a second bike for almost everyone, and the fact that some of us ride egg beaters, times, or frogs, it really doesn't make sense to stock a "second bike" with clipless pedals because of compatability--buy a duplicate pair of what you usually run with the money you save buying this rig.
5. Seatpost slippage--grease the inside of the binder bolt itself, and clean and regrease the post. Torque to speck. Problem solved.
6. Avid mechanicas need adjusting--find a new LBS; they installed them. Also, if you can't adjust the avid mechanicals, consider enrolling in a college with the words "beauty", "clown", or "cartooning" in the name.
All in all, this bike rocks. It sees more miles than my new Blur, I get a better workout on it, it's more fun to race, and (after the above corrections) has been maintenance free. If I had to give up every bike I own but one, I'd keep the SISS. With the above changes, mine weighs 23 lbs, climbs like crazy, tracks well, and keeps my @ss humble. You truly can not find a more fun bike, especially for the price range. I'm even thinking about having a local frame builder throw an S & S coupling into it, so I can travel with this rig. Read my earlier review, and I still stand behind everything.
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $750.00
Purchased At: rock n' roll sports, gunnison
Similar Products Used: IF custom steel, IF custom ti, Surly 1x1 (a lighter and better riding frame could be built from steel plumbing), and a Willits custom ss. The Bianchi measures up to all but the ti IF.
Bike Setup: CK headset, 959 pedals, stan's no-tubes conversion (pythons for racing), paul's word brass washers, ODI lock-on grips. Otherwise stock.
Date Reviewed: December 2, 2003
Strengths: The combination of big tires, disc brakes, comfortable frame and good components give the bike some merit.
Weaknesses: Frame is steel, but mine cracked at the chainring clearance indent on the right chainstay after 4 months of cross-country riding. I weight 185lbs. and just ride cross-country with both wheels on the ground 99.9% of the time. Juan, the warranty guy at Bianchi, said that they had a known production problem causing the cracking in these frames that has been fixed and the new warranty replacement frame would not have the problem. Bianchi did warranty it, but I have waited almost six weeks for it to arrive.
Spot hub binding, see other reviews down below and or the Spot hubs review.
Chainline is off from the factory. Easy to fix, just swap the chainring and guard around. This is due to the Spot hub placing the freewheel more outboard than other SS hubs. They decided to place it right up next to the dropout. This just means that you have to run your chainring in the outer position. You would think that Bianchi would spec the crank/hub combo to be compatible out of the box. It is so obviously off when it comes out of the box that it is ridiculous.
You will go through chains monthly and may need a new chainring after a couple of months. I did, until I put on a White Industries F/W and a SRAM PC58 and a new chainring, and then my frame cracked. So I don't know if this will fix it or not yet. In the rides prior to the crack, it did not need to be tightened as much with this new set-up. It makes me wonder if the Shimano 16T was causing the excess stretch??
There is no way the bottom seal will fit the lower cup/crown race on the headset. It is too large in diameter. It will rest on the lower race, but will not fit up in the lower cup. It fell down on me a couple of times onto the top of the fork. I will be putting a new headset in the warranty frame.
The frame has clearance issues with the 2.4 MutanoRaptor back tire. There is only about 1/8" on each side of the tire. It rubbed on every climb until I tightened all of the spokes on the rear wheel about 1/2 turn each. Then it only rubbed on tough climbs. Hearing your tire rubbing the frame while you are in an all out effort to make a climb can drain you mentally.
Bottom Line:
I would recommend looking into getting a Surly 1x1 instead of this bike. If I had to do it over again, I would do that instead. The Surly 1x1 can be built up for about the same price from some of the online retailers. I have over $1000 in this bike now that I have upgraded everything, plus I have lost out on 6 weeks of riding waiting on Bianchi warranty. This cost is not measurable, but has been high for me. I have missed some of the best riding weather we get here in Mississippi and I was riding this bike 5 or 6 times per week.
If you do buy this bike, and enjoy riding daily, make sure you have a spare bike for the times that this one is down with a mechanical failure.
I rate the value so low, because of the problems I have had, and it appears that so many others have had the same problems. Bianchi needs to address these issues before their bikes go out to consumers.
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $800.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: No SingleSpeeds. 15+ years on other upper end harttails with none of the problems this bike has had.
Bike Setup: Stock with sealed bearing platform pedals, White Ind. 16T, PC58 chain, Ritchey headset, Profile stiffy stem.
Date Reviewed: November 23, 2003
Strengths: Fun to ride. Affordable singlespeed from a reputable company. Bianchi was on board with a singlespeed for a long time. Steel Frame. Decent parts spec - Avid Mechanicals
Weaknesses: 1. Rear Hub Bearings - Toasted Rear Hub bearings within 1 month. From what I have read this is an assembly issue. LBS covered the replacement part. I paid labor. I took it home and it still wasn't put together right. See another post below for the proper setup. I set it up per these instructions and the wheel never spun so smooth. I don't think it is Spot Brand on this one - Assembly is key with this hub. Incidently the bad bearing was on the non-drive side so it wasn't a chain tension issue. I practiced taking my wheel off and on so I could do it on the trail and the axle was tough to turn after my first ride. I didn't do anything but fix the headset seal and put pedal on before the first ride.
2. Frame Flex/Rear Tire - I am heavy ~200lbs and ride pretty hard. The frame flexed from the get-go and the tire rubbed. I put an old Maxxis 2.1 on there (circa 1995) from my 1993 Bridgestone and no more rubbing. I think the tire is just too big for the frame/flex/me.
3. Chainline - The chainline was way off. I had to keep the chain very tight to prevent hitting the chain guard. When keeping it from hitting the guard, the tight spot in the chainring was pretty tight but not overboard. I moved the chainring outside, used triple chainring bolts which came with ~4mm spacers and mounted the guard outboard of the ring. I used 2mm spacers to keep the chainring bolts form bottoming out. It works nicely. The chain hasn't stretched anywhere near as much since. The chainline is now within 1mm. I can run the chain a lot looser now without clanking the guard. You should have seen the wear on the ring/guard from the chainline being off by ~4mm. I only ran it like that for 1 month and the guard had wear marks all the way around and the inside of the teeth of the ring were filed smooth and were silver.
4. Chain - wearing pretty fast.
5. Headset - The bike was delivered with the bottom seal off. It was down around the fork. Took it back to the shop to have it fixed. It was brand new and the wrench said it was just a cheap headset and if I wanted a better seal I would need a better headset. I asked him why it wasn't sitting on the race and he said it was probably deformed. I said it's brand new and he just pushed it up a little and it still hung down. I fixed this also. I did put a lizard skin on there for insurance. I will upgrade to CK when it is NG.
6. Pedals - I think these are just place keepers until you put your's on. I even think the Bianchi website says it doesn't come with pedals. I don't think this is a real weakness but worth mentioning since they came on the bike.
7. Seatpost slips a little. I don't want to break the bolt. I sent an E-mail to Bianchi for the proper torque and they said 60 in/lbs. I have gone higher and it still slips. I have to check to see if there is too much grease on the post.
8. Disc Brakes - not set up properly at delivery. Check out your instructions that came with the brakes for proper caliper positioning. I reset the brakes properly and they worked a lot better. Mine disc wasn't offset 1/3 - 2/3 to the outboard side and really bent the caliper really bent the disc over when applied. I set them up per the instructions and now the work great. I did ride 1x before readjusting. The change was drastic when I did it. The avid instructions are good and it is easy.
Bottom Line:
I really enjoy riding the bike but have not enjoyed getting rid of the problems. This bike is worth a look if you want a singlespeed. If you work on your own bike you should be able to turn this bike into a winner. My LBS wasn't so receptive to things. I hope your's is better.
I have to give a lower rating for the problems encountered.
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Price Paid: $850.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: Homemade Marin Muirwoods Singlespeed. Cost me $100 to assemble and ride it until the freehub started skipping. It got me started. It didn't have as many problems as this $900 bike. I built it up myself with old/new parts. I made sure it was right the first time.
Bike Setup: Stock SISS except: Time ATAC pedals, 2.1 Rear Tire, RaceFace Riser Bar
Date Reviewed: November 16, 2003
Strengths: the brakes were amazing, i've never used discs before and i was not let down, the large 26x2.4 tires were extremely grippy, they help to stick to anything concrete, mud, or gravel. the frame feels pretty strong, coming from bmx primarily it flexed a bit more but then again i am coming from bmx so everything flexes after that. a comfortable seat made the ride all the more enjoyable, you have to protect your fanny before anything else.
Weaknesses: the fork also felt a little iffy, maybe its psychologial but i felt alot of flex in it, i was also putting it through some extreme abuse on the streets so maybe urban wasn't in mind when the for was designed, the grips weren't to my liking but that is hardley a problem, and the worry that i may destroy the wheels, what do i do when i need a disc single speed replacement/upgrade? petals....resin? i suppose they were thinking you would clip in and upgrade, personally i use wellgo platfors with blue cages, they stick to my shoe as if i was clipped in, and i have the elbow scrapes to prove it, because i fell over a few times when i my foot didn't come off my petal as easy
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $450.00
Purchased At: factory
Similar Products Used: none...maybe my own bmx (fly, spanish fly 20')
Bike Setup: stock, minus the wellgo petals, primo chad degroot sig. grips and the primo barends, plus a salsa skewer for the front that matched my petals)
Date Reviewed: November 11, 2003
Strengths: Single Speed, Avid disc brakes, simple, a deal for the stock parts. The steel is nice, you can really take off pedaling if you need to.
Weaknesses: Plastic pedals, grips, not as pretty as the older Bianchi SS's, seems a bit heavy for what it is.
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Price Paid: $775.00
Purchased At: VeloCity Cycles, Holland, MI
Similar Products Used: My big brother's Huffy White Heat that didn't shift cause he left it in the rain too much.
Bike Setup: Stock with azonic magnes. platform pedals and new grips. Debating a suspension fork, but that's anti-SS imo.
Date Reviewed: November 3, 2003
Strengths: Stiff frame, relatively light with switched out parts but great stock bike setup
Weaknesses: Because no suspension very stiff front end.
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Price Paid: $500.00
Purchased At: MTBR
Similar Products Used: GT Perfomer from when I was 14
Bike Setup: Purchsed on MTBR stock, upgraded to EC 70 HB and SP, Truvativ stem, Aspide saddle, Python tires and of course Chris King Headset.
Date Reviewed: October 17, 2003
Strengths: This review is for the D.I.S.S. Most of the bike. It's a awsome single speed. It has made me a better rider. Easy to ride fast.
Weaknesses: Grips:Hard as hell, Pedals:Suck, Paint:It's rubbing off. Seatpost:Come loose regularly
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $800.00
Purchased At: Blaine Velo Sports
Similar Products Used: 20" BMX bikes as a kid, Specialize Stumper Jumper FSR Comp.
Bike Setup: Stock, With Time Z-Control Pedals. Adding new ODI grips and a Shock.
Date Reviewed: August 3, 2003
Strengths: Cheap, light frame, cool looking, single speed specific (horizontal dropouts), great product spec (for the money), great avid disc brakes, frame comes with lifetime warranty
Weaknesses: - WTB 2.4 Mutanoraptor tires are wire beaded (there is a kevlar beaded version thats a little lighter and they are easily confused with these)
- front WTB tire was slightly out of round
- the spot rear hub had bound bearings due to improper setup (forcing me to replace the bearings)
- the bike overall is pretty heavy (~25 lbs for a SS is high)
- bottom bracket feels loose already (after only a few months of riding)
- headset is junk (but is hanging in there so far after a good greasing)
- stock pedals are worthless/slippery plastic (throw them away immediately)
- chain line was out significantly. I needed to remove the bashguard and move the chainring outside (with spacers) to correct the chainline
- stock Avid pads wear very rapidly in muddy conditions and cost $25 a set to replace (now using EBC golds which are holding up much better)
- very harsh ride with stock rigid fork (I put a Duke SL 100mm on and I'm MUCH happier now).
- frame has a long wheelbase which makes it a better (more stable) climber (which is a strength obviously). But this slows the handling some, and makes lofting the front end (wheelying) difficult. (I tend to prefer a bike that is light on the front end...a nitpick really)
Bottom Line:
This bike is good and I'm pleased with it overall. I REALLY love the singlespeeding experience thats for sure. But I did have several teething problems that irritated the hell out of me. Especially the bound bearings on the Spot rear hub and the skewed chainline...these are things that should have been caught/corrected at the factory and at my LBS...but instead I had to deal with it.
The bike feels sturdy as hell. I've heard of several people breaking Bianchi SS frames, both their steel and Al versions (usually by the chainstay). It's hard for me to believe I'm going to break this frame though. The bike feels tough, but I'm not a hardcore jumper or huckster...just a Joe Blow XC guy (190 lbs, 6'1" and a 21 XL fits me well). But this frame is not intended for that kind of use anyway. I guess durability will reveal itself in due time. I'll use the lifetime warranty if I need to.
All in all this is a good bike. I mention a lot of weaknesses above. But for the price it is very hard to beat. Plus, if you know about the shortcomings ahead of time (which you do now!), you can use this information to get your LBS to straighten the flaws out BEFORE you take delivery. Afterwhich, you'll be a happy singlespeeding camper. This bike is nice once you get it dialed in, don't underestimate it.
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Price Paid: $875.00
Purchased At: LBS
Similar Products Used: 1971 Columbia single speed with banana seat and steerhorn handlebars (when I was 7)
Bike Setup: Stock 02 DISS frame with '03 SISS component set, except replaced freewheel with 15 tooth ACS, Time carbon pedals, Rockshox susp seat post (26.8), WTB Ti laser saddle, water bottle cages (2), WTB 2.5 Mutanoraptor Kevlar up front, EBC gold pads on the Avids.
Date Reviewed: July 24, 2003
Strengths: Good bargain and a great introduction into SS
Weaknesses: Frame is poor quality (it broke)
BB is poor quality
HS is poor quality
Rear hub is poor quality
I didn't care for the cranks
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $750.00
Purchased At: The Path
Similar Products Used: Dean SS
Bike Setup: Stock + King head set, carbon post, flite saddle, ACS f.w., Frogs
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Best of Get Rich Slowly – 2006 Edition
Published on - December 31st, 2006 (by J.D. Roth)
It's been a fantastic 2006 at Get Rich Slowly. In April of this year, I started the site hoping that I could help a few hundred people on their path to financial success. Get Rich Slowly now has an audience of a few thousand. At the end of the year, it seems fitting to look back on the most popular posts as determined by you, the readers.
For each month I've listed the posts with the most comments (indicating the total number of comments in parentheses). I've also listed the most read entries, including the number of requests for that month according to Dreamhost's stats logs. (I believe a "request" in this case means either a pageview or an RSS hit.)
The official launch date for Get Rich Slowly was April 15th. For the first two weeks, I toyed with the layout and searched for content. I relied heavily on CNN and Yahoo! news articles (and continued to do so for the first few months — ah, life was easier then). I didn't "go public" with the site until the beginning of May, however.
Most Visited Posts
- Two Approaches to Debt Elimination (86)
- Making Early Retirement Happen (59)
- GasBuddy (56)
- Leave Your ATM Card at Home (55)
- Frugality in Practice: Back Porch Furniture (52)
With the kinks removed and a list of topics to cover, I began to publicize Get Rich Slowly in a limited sort of way. I added it to my .sig in various forums I frequent. I announced at my personal site. I posted the site to Metafilter Projects on May 3rd. Somewhere along the way, Lifehacker picked up a couple of entries, which spread word of the site to a wider audience.
Most Visited Posts
- Learning to Eat More Meals at Home (13475)
- Handy Personal Finance Spreadsheets (9830)
- My eBay Method: 13 Steps to More Profitable Auctions (7067)
- Housing: Rent vs. Buy Calculator (5829)
- The Stuff We Do and Don't Buy for Ourselves (1919)
Most Discussed Posts
- Learning to Eat More Meals at Home (27)
- My eBay Method: 13 Steps to More Profitable Auctions (17)
- Handy Personal Finance Spreadsheets (13)
- How Many Credit Cards Should You Carry? (10)
- How Compound Returns Favor the Young (9)
In June I discovered the power of Digg. On the morning of Saturday the 3rd, I went out to mow the lawn. When I came inside a couple hours later, Get Rich Slowly had received tens of thousands of hits. Someone had submitted my flip claw machine post, which had made it to the front page before being buried because it wasn't original material. But even as that was buried, my capsule summary of how to eat healthy for cheap made it to the front page! Lesson: you don't need a big post or a huge list to make the front page of Digg; you just need something interesting. And luck. Get Rich Slowly was also featured in a Wall Street Journal article this month (which provided no perceptible increase in traffic).
Most Visited Posts
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (44042)
- How to Win Something From a Claw Machine (7386)
- 10 Things Your Supermarket Won't Tell You (6413)
- Handy Personal Finance Spreadsheets (6056)
- Learning to Eat More Meals at Home (4217)
Most Discussed Posts
- Ask the Readers: How Much Do You Spend on Food? (57)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (54)
- Is the 3,000-Mile Oil Change a Scam? (15)
- How to Opt-Out of Credit Card Offers FOREVER (15)
- Ask the Readers: Cheap World Travel? (15)
July was a quiet month at Get Rich Slowly. Traffic was low, and would have been lower still if I hadn't participated in Blogathon at the end of the month. Two of my entries were posted to the front page of Digg that Saturday, bringing a flood of visitors.
Most Visited Posts
- Man 1, Bank 0 (10430)
- A List of Excellent Personal Development Sites (8354)
- The Credit Card Prank: Crazy Signatures (8000)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (2802)
- How I Finally Defeated Dandruff (2070)
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- How I Finally Defeated Dandruff (31)
- A List of Excellent Personal Development Sites (30)
- Ten Financial Urban Myths (28)
- Editorial: In Defense of Warren Buffet (19)
- A Cheaper Cup of Coffee (19)
Traffic settled further in August. I took a two-week vacation, during which several readers supplied guest posts. The site also hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance.
Most Visited Posts
- Which Financial Records to Keep and How Long to Keep Them (7127)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (3450)
- Carnival of Personal Finance #60 (2667)
- Handy Personal Finance Spreadsheets (1659)
- Frugal Recipes: The Best Salsa Ever (1492)
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- 27 Money Tips for College Students (42)
- Ask the Readers: What Does Money Mean to You? (38)
- Beggars on the Streets of San Francisco (32)
- Ask the Readers: The Best Personal Finance Books? (28)
- Which Financial Records to Keep and How Long to Keep Them (22)
After a couple months of declining numbers, September saw a small jump. I began to concentrate on writing longer, original content. My interview with the Money Blogger Podcast was posted mid-month.
Most Visited Posts
- 27 Money Tips for College Students (13416)
- An Introduction to Homesteading (7070)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (5256)
- Control Impulse Spending with the 30-Day Rule (3153)
- My eBay Method: 13 Steps to More Profitable Auctions (2637)
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- The Worst Job I Ever Had (30)
- Flipping Cars for Fun and Profit (29)
- Control Impulse Spending with the 30-Day Rule (25)
- How and Why to Start an Emergency Fund (24)
Get Rich Slowly really hit a groove during October. I was in the zone. Ideas burst from my head all the time, and I seemed to discover the magic touch to crafting an article. I would come up with an idea, spend four or five hours turning it into a post, and then know that it would be useful to people. Unsurprisingly, readership increased.
Most Visited Posts
- Is Eating Out Cheaper Than Eating In? (24501)
- Basic Tips on Tipping: How Much and to Whom (18490)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (4899)
- An Expanded List of Personal Development Sites (4043)
- A List of Excellent Personal Development Sites (4007)
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- Basic Tips on Tipping: How Much and to Whom (131)
- Is Eating Out Cheaper Than Eating In? (61)
- The High Cost of Being Fat (46)
- Money and Values: When Frugality Goes Too Far (41)
- Reader Story: Broken Window, Stolen Goods (39)
The creative juices continued to flow this, but I also began to feel overwhelmed for the first time — readers were submitting a huge number of story ideas and questions. This is great — I love all the contributions — but it's no longer possible to publish them all. Traffic held steady.
Most Visited Posts
- How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money? (12092)
- You, Inc.: How to Be the CFO of Your Own Life (11129)
- Getting Things Done: How to Take Control of Life (9130)
- Basic Tips on Tipping: How Much and to Whom (3833)
- Healthy Food on an Unhealthy Budget (3609)
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- What Are Your Experiences With Internet Banking? (58)
- What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up? (38)
- Getting Things Done: How to Take Control of Life (32)
- My Fight Against Inappropriate Ads (30)
- How Do You Teach Kids the Value of Money? (28)
December started strong. Get Rich Slowly averaged nearly 4,000 visitors and more than 7,000 pageviews per day. As expected, though, traffic declined during the holidays. I devoted the last part of the month to guest entries from regular readers. I had hoped this would give me time to work on some behind-the-scenes stuff, but editing and posting took more time than I had planned. (The guest entries did give me time to relax, however.)
Most Visited Posts
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm This Winter (5905)
- Basic Tips on Tipping: How Much and to Whom (5740)
- My eBay Method: 13 Steps to More Profitable Auctions (3479)
- The Amazing Frugal Christmas Savings Spectacular (3451)
- Five Gifts That Will Make Your Kids Rich (3346)
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- Ask the Readers: What if You Have No Credit History? (58)
- The Amazing Frugal Christmas Savings Spectacular (47)
- The Light at the End of the Tunnel (35)
- Review: Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor (32)
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm This Winter (32)
I look forward to a fantastic 2007. I will continue to provide useful personal finance information, and to offer place for like-minded people to share advice and ask questions. Maintaining sound personal finance is a journey. It's not something that happens once — it's something that must be maintained through time.
You can help. Your contributions make this site great. If you have an idea for an article, send it in. If you'd like to submit a guest entry, let me know. When your friends complain about money, tell them about this site. If I post something especially good, submit it to Digg or to Reddit. Link to your favorite posts from your blog. Most of all, continue the discussion. We're all in this together.
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It's been a pleasure reading your blog this year. Congrats on your growth in traffic and your development as a writer and managing editor, and best wishes for a safe and prosperous 2007!
What a great year for the blog. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to what GRS has in store for 2007.
Thank you for all your info and shared research. I have enjoyed your blog and have begun to use some of the ideas I see here. My Wife and I have created am actual budget and a n expenses journal and have taken a really hard look at our expenses.
Best of luck for 2007! I will be right bere (via RSS) with you.
And I'll chime in with a "me too"– I raise my glass to you for a fabulous 2007.
Congratulations on your successful year. I'm only a little jealous of your success.
I found this blog a few months ago and I've really enjoyed the reads.
Thanks, and have a happy 2007.
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I've enjoyed this blog since adding the RSS feed a few months back. Keep up the good work; your original and interesting content keeps me coming back.
[...] Being a PhD student usually means living on a fairly tight budget, and the budgeting category covers the subject very well. Articles on debt, frugality and DIY are also likely to be of interest. A good place to start is the basics page, and there's a 2006 best-of post that gives an idea of what the site is about. Managing one's finances is an inevitable requirement of doing a PhD and the Get Rich Slowly blog is an excellent place to get to grips with it. [...]
[...] There is an important lesson here about starting something new. Many people who have successful businesses say that if they had known how much work it was going to be they never would have started. I found this was true with the companies I've started. At Get Rich Slowly, a personal finance blog that has grown astronomically in the last year, JD has a nice description of this process of growing in unexpected but exciting ways. [...]
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FLOWERY BRANCH – Late in the 41-7 rout of Arizona, bewildered quarterback Derek Anderson was seen leaving the field and yanking his chin strap off in disgust.
It was a long day at the office for him as the Falcons basically blitzed him into submission. The Falcons only had two sacks, but they put almost 20 hits on Anderson.
"I know that me and (Kroy) Biermann together had 11 hits," defensive end John Abraham said. "Hits are good, but with Drew Brees hits don't matter. If you watch on tape we got a lot of hits on him last year, but he was still completing balls for five or six yards. We have to get him down."
The Falcons have blitzed Dennis Dixon and Anderson relentlessly and that led to turnovers, too.
Defensive coordinator Brian VanGorder was asked if the defense planned to continue the attacking brand of football against Brees.
He paused, then said, "Yeah."
Here are some more thoughts from VanGorder heading into Sunday's game against the New Orleans Saints and their vaunted offense.
ON DREW BREES: "He's an extremely intelligent quarterback. He's very involved in the game-planning and schemes, right from the beginning of the week. He gets extremely familiar with the defense and he's always been a great rhythm quarterback. . . he's very much aware of the spacing on the field."
WHAT HAVE YOU WORKED ON TO AVOID THE BIG PLAYS IN THE RUNNING GAME: "You sit there and you're good against the run, good against the run and then let out two explosive runs. We just have to make sure that our fits are solid and sound. You get 25 running plays and you can be perfect on 24. That one that you're not, it can lead to that kind of explosive play. We just have to be consistent."
IS THIS THE FIRST BIG TEST FOR RE-TOOLED PASS DEFENSE?: "We've changed up some personnel. We think we've improve from a personnel standpoint. I think the emphasis on it has definitely helped from a season ago. Between better personnel and more emphasis on that situation, it's been good so far. The mark of being really good is consistency. . . we have to be consistent in everything that we do."
ON COREY PETERS: "He's a very good leverage player. He's provided us with some size. He's impacting the running game up inside. He plays with a very good pad level. He was a natural coming out of college. He's really helped us shore up the inside which at times for us over the last three years has been a little bit of an issue for us."
ON WILLIAM MOORE: "William has great size and speed. He's an explosive player. There were times when you saw him run to the ball and finish on the ball. That's the most impressive part of his game right now."
September 24th, 2010
2:14 pm
Yea Come on!
September 24th, 2010
2:23 pm
sounds nice.. but we have to make sure we actually get to him.
so many times it appears that we send pressure but it never gets there..
there's a big play on the other end vs these guys if we cant put him on his back..
September 24th, 2010
2:26 pm
Last year this guy was a "problem". This year, BVG is great and Mularkey is a "problem".
Get off these guys. Truth is we're lucky they haven't been poached already.
Keep up the great play defense!
September 24th, 2010
2:33 pm
SeenthisB4. Come out, come out wherever you are. See you Monday.
September 24th, 2010
2:33 pm
Drew Brees is not going 0-48. They're gonna make plays and some of them will be big.
Same formula as last week. Use our speed and when they do make a play, make em pay.
September 24th, 2010
2:34 pm
I truly hope the Saints come into this game hoping to see the same defense they saw the last time we played. They're in for a BIG surprise! No vengence here, just gettin' even!
September 24th, 2010
2:35 pm
why put all your plan attack out here for all to see, have an element of surprise , C"mon man, don't give up all u plan to do , just to give them head up to counter act,……………..everything should not be posted get clue……….. Olander, aiight………….keep some plan tight to the vest after all falcon fans aren't the only one reading this blog……………………….C'mon mann
September 24th, 2010
2:39 pm
its gonna be a good game but the saints @ home not the same that played thr 49ers
September 24th, 2010
2:40 pm
Bring the PAIN!!!!!! Lets shut this crowd up early and often.
September 24th, 2010
2:41 pm
BVG says what he wants them to hear.
September 24th, 2010
2:43 pm
They won't JB the players are pros and well adjusted.
What they won't see on film is the increased speed. They can only feel that on game day.
The fans on the other hand are looking way past the Falcons. 2 wins last year = 2 wins every year as far as they are concerned.
Potential exists to have a restless crowd a little concerned that they haven't blown out all their opponents (56 point dropoff between the first 2 games from 2009 to 2010) and are not blowing out the lowly Falcons.
Keep in mind Saints scored 28 in the first half last year in their house. Anything less this year and we may even get some booing of the home team.
September 24th, 2010
2:50 pm
We have an upset on our hand Birdfans. All we have to do is run the rock, bring pressure up the middle to disrupt Brees' passing lanes, and protect the ball and have great ball security, and they tumble. They dont play great enough basic defense to be feared. They live and die off of turnovers so if we take that from them then they crumble. Im getting REAL tired of these new found and upity 'Aints fans. I swear I have never in my life seen so many 'Aints fan come outta nowhere where were yall when you was getting ya teeth kicked in???
September 24th, 2010
3:03 pm
After the crushing loss at Pittsburgh, to see the Falcons come out and abuse AZ they way they did, it SHOULD create extreme anxiety amongst the aints fans.
Frontrow: Yeah. "Make them pay."
September 24th, 2010
3:03 pm
I bet they remember Thomas Decoud's Blitz last year.
I hope honestly that with pressure they just remember to play thier assignments. It's going to be important to be in position and play thier receivers or gaps close. Tackle well.
September 24th, 2010
3:06 pm
I can't wait to find out what kind of team we have this year – this week will tell the tale….
September 24th, 2010
3:09 pm
I'd love to see Biermann get 2-3 sacks & the Birds stomp a mudhole in the 'Aints!
September 24th, 2010
3:11 pm
PMC problem is they don't rememeber; at least their fans don't. Never mind DeCoud, they'll be crying foul if Beer Man body slams Brees.
Nor do they remember Turner putting up 151 on their D.
Their players are making a mistake playing for a turnover; that is exactly why Turner put up 151 – Saints tackle the ball.
I guess the gameplan is "if they fumble then we rumble". Go figure.
September 24th, 2010
3:15 pm
Stop the aints on their first drive will get the crowed out of it. A 3 and out and the only noise ya'll hear in the Dome is the SH** flies left over from Katrina.
September 24th, 2010
3:16 pm
September 24th, 2010
3:19 pm
I don't think it will be that easy truth…..the crowd will last at least 2 or 3 series just because of the trophy.
Now…do to them in the first half what we did in the second half last year and you should expect boo birds.
September 24th, 2010
3:20 pm
Payton: Stenchcomb, you up for this, they say they're coming to put pressure on Brees.
Stenchcomb: Yeah coach, they always say the same thing.
Payton: Jarmon, you ready?
Bushrod: No problem coach, ready.
Payton: Jahri, ready to earn it Sunday?
Evans: Nobody's touching Drew this week coach.
Payton: Carl?
Nicks: You know they ain't getting past me coach.
Bushrod: They don't have anything we haven't seen before, we know'em.
Payton: Jeremy, you got a handle on spoon?
Shockey: He's going to be playing catch up all day long coach.
Payton: Chris, you ready son?
Ivory: Let me at'em coach.
Payton: Okay, this is what we're going to do: The Chuck and Duck! Just for FrontRow. They got speed gentlemen. So, we're going to use that. We're going to let them use that speed, and turn it against them. They will over-pursue, when they do, Drew, you know what to do.
Brees: IF they go with man on man coverage on Meach or Dev, hit it deep O.T.S., Marques on the cross, and Lance's relief valve. If it's zone, Chris or Pierre dump off, Lance on outside, or Shock in their soft middle.
Payton: Good. Now, they aren't expecting us to run at them. Where's their weakest link gentlemen?
All in unison: Jerry!
Payton: That's right, so Stench, Evans, get a solid pushback on him and the Beerman.
Stench,Evans: We'll own'em coach.
Payton: You always do.
September 24th, 2010
3:25 pm
SB4. Aerosmith wrote a song for you: "Dream On"
See you Monday.
September 24th, 2010
3:26 pm
Wake up from your nap B4 you're dreaming again.
At least you got the Chuck & Duck part right.
September 24th, 2010
3:42 pm
B4 you remind me of another blogger from a hip hop site, was funny but You know it wont be that easy
September 24th, 2010
3:44 pm
B4, How long have you been this delusional?
September 24th, 2010
3:58 pm
Seen…..you left off where the Beerman lays the sack all up on Brees and they cart him off the field. Not because Brees is hurt, but because Brees is just to scared to get up off the turf.
September 24th, 2010
3:59 pm
September 24th, 2010
4:03 pm
September 24th, 2010
4:06 pm
We are not in the Saints league yet. We have faced 2 teams with back ups at QB.
I will admit the Pitt "D" is playing with what seems like 15 players. I saw them in person at the Titans and didn't feel as bad that we didn't score against them.
But Arizona is on the way down and we are trying to grow up and just not there yet.
Geaux Dirty Birds!
September 24th, 2010
4:10 pm
I think you are confused on the whole cheerleader vs. warrior thing! Sounds like a lot of cheer from where I stand.
September 24th, 2010
4:23 pm
Yes we have established B4 is just a fair weather cheerleader.
September 24th, 2010
4:23 pm
Yeah! This smells real good. My road dawgs (saints fans) are coming over to my made up bird cage and I will witness the bashing as I chuckle and sip adult beverages.
September 24th, 2010
4:37 pm
eaux neaux- it's 3 & eaux feaux the superbeauxl feauxty feaux champs
September 24th, 2010
4:39 pm
You would think a saints fan like SB4 could at least spell his best OT's last name. Its STINCHCOMB. I'll be glad when 4:00 Sunday gets here so we won't have to scroll through his crap anymore.
September 24th, 2010
4:39 pm
Not to be a jerk or anything, bit is there any real insight to this post? Bring preesure? Attack? Is that not the same rhetoric every DC uses? Never heard one say, "Well, we're going to rush four and drop back into soft coverages." They all talk about moving to a more aggressive, attacking style.
Blah, blah, blah.
Play good assignment football and you'll have success in whatever scheme is deployed.
September 24th, 2010
4:41 pm
Look out everyone Hiram's home from school. How was school d today himmie? Got your colors down yet? Did you cry wee wee wee all the wat home?
September 24th, 2010
4:43 pm
B4 is trying to show some football knowledge. It's laughable.
September 24th, 2010
4:45 pm
vangorder has hit his ceiling. He's a college assistant at best. It's only a matter of time before the Falcons' D starts to regress. The only hope is that Coach Smith spoon-feeds the defense and overcomes the lack of quality coaching at the hands of our "defensive coordinator".
September 24th, 2010
4:48 pm
I guess I needed confirmation on that, so as to not make an assumption.
September 24th, 2010
5:02 pm
mikky dee go milk a goat and drink the milk fool you dont know what you are talking about call seen this before
September 24th, 2010
5:22 pm
Blitz Drew Brees! Now there's an original idea. Let me see where have I seen a team blitz Brees'..oh, the bears, cowboys, vikings, buccaneers, panthers, patriots, cardinals, falcons, dolphins, redskins, giants, eagles, …hell everybody tries to blitz brees'. Good luck with that!
September 24th, 2010
5:25 pm
September 24th, 2010
5:40 pm
@TakeGoodWithBad -
Education is a good thing. Look into it.
September 24th, 2010
5:41 pm
Blitz Blitz Blitz…….I love the idea.
Saying we blitzed alot against Pittsburg is simply not true, we would have won the game IF we had blitzed more against Pittsburg.
We must be willing to deal with a few big plays when teams beat the blitz; however, the team brass seems to be a little too conservative in this topic. Similar to the 4th and 1 play late in the game against Pittsburg……we win the game if we go for it, get the first down and then punch it in for a TD!
Go Falcons!!
September 24th, 2010
5:43 pm
I think I am starting to actually think BVG is…..alright. Not spectacular by any means but a bit better than the guy i thought he was last year ( he wasnt the Bears) BUT this week will show what he really is. Has he finally broke through to become a legitimate D-Coord? Or does his unti STILL need another piece to finally get past these….annoying ants….i mean 'aints…
September 24th, 2010
6:25 pm
September 24th, 2010
7:45 pm
Ant's beware of SPOONMAN (56)
September 24th, 2010
8:31 pm
yeah- a rookie is real scary to brees- you better blitz him or brees will have his way with spoon in coverage
September 24th, 2010
9:34 pm
The Falcons defense has allowed 15 or fewer points in their last five games and they appear to be getting better in each game.
That alone should have Saints fans concerned and their offense has appeared to peak at around mid season of last year, seems that DC `s around the league have them somewhat figured them out.
There is a shifting of power in the NFCS (if the trend continues) but Saints fans don`t see it or understand it, yet.
They will by about 4:15 on Sunday afternoon.
September 24th, 2010
10:12 pm


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March 17, 2008
Albany- They're cleaning up in the state's capitol from a historic tornado, the first to hit downtown Atlanta.
An Albany Technical College Instructor and two students were in Atlanta for a dental conference at the Georgia World Congress Center when the tornado hit Friday night. The group had returned to their hotel just 10 minutes before the tornado ripped through downtown. They had previously been with thousands at the Georgia World Congress Center, which received damage to the roof and had water pouring down staircases. The group had no idea how bad the damage was or how much danger they were in until it was over.
"From my window I was able to see a lot of strong winds, and a lot of rain, and a lot of whipping rain and then shortly there after all the ambulances, all the fire people the EMS services, heading towards downtown Atlanta, but at that point not being real aware of what had happened there," said Linda Cauley, Albany Technical College Dental Instructor.
One of the students was scheduled to receive a scholarship Saturday, but the Hinman Dental Conference was canceled because of the damage.
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