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Friday, March 27, 2009
There are some things that are better slow : Sunday mornings, coffee and cinnamon buns, walks taken hand-in-hand, sipping a really good glass of wine, hot bubble baths, just to name a few.
But sometimes quick is better : dentist visits, ironing, parent-teacher conferences, bumping into that boring neighbor on the street, the one who drones on and on.
The same goes for bread. When I have the time, nothing beats the soothing calm of kneading soft sweet dough for homemade cinnamon buns or the more vigorous action for Friday night pizza dough. Watching the magic of bread rising before shaping it and popping it into the oven, lattice-topped apple coffee cake or poppy seed-studded dinner rolls.
But I love quick breads as well and find myself throwing one together at least twice a week when something delicious is needed in a flash – loaves of chocolate chip banana or cranberry-orange, muffins of cheddar cheese or chocolate, mixed together at the last minute and eaten warm from the oven just 20 minutes later.
This month's Bread Baking Day challenge – BBD #18 – is perfect : Quick Breads. I saw it announced and I jumped upon it immediately with a big cheer. This fun monthly bread challenge was started by Zorra of Kochtopf, and this month's Challenge #18 is hosted by Mansi of The Fun and Food Blog. The rules? Just make a quick bread and post it. How easy and quick is that?
I decided to put aside my usual breads and go back many years to my college days when I was discovering the joy of quick breads from Anna Thomas' The Vegetarian Epicure. Today, I chose her Sweet Oatmeal Raisin Bread, a not too sweet tea bread made up of regular and rye flours with rolled oats blended in, moistened by yogurt and flavored with molasses. Add to that plump, sweet golden raisins to jazz it up and it is a beautiful, dense loaf perfect with a variety of cheeses, although cream cheese is its perfect teatime partner. Or serve it warm from the oven or toaster with this amazing Honey Spice Butter, sweetened with a splash of honey and redolent with earthy, sensual cinnamon and nutmeg. Wow!
From Anna Thomas' The Vegetarian Epicure
1 cup unbleached or all-purpose flour
1 cup rye flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 Tbs sugar
1 cup rolled oats
1 ¼ cups yogurt (I used 0% fat fromage frais)
¼ cup molasses
1 cup raisins
Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Butter a loaf pan.
Sift or mix together all of the dry ingredients then stir in the rolled oats.
Beat the yogurt with the molasses until blended and smooth. Stir into the dry ingredients until everything is thoroughly combined.
Add the raisins and mix again until all the raisins are evenly distributed.
Pour into a greased or buttered loaf pan and let stand about 20 minutes before baking (to be honest, I forgot to do this!).
Bake for 1 hour for one loaf – I baked my 4 mini loaves for 45 minutes.
The loaf/loaves is a wonderful, dense, moist tea bread, sweetened by the raisins you find in every mouthful.
Result : I was rather upset (ask my son) when I ended up with more of a dough than a batter; I thought that there was a mistake. But I forged ahead and baked it anyway, dividing the dough into 4 and forming each into a mini loaf. It isn't the prettiest of breads, rather coarse and rustic looking, but it truly is dense and moist with the fabulously sweet flavor of the raisins.
I used to make this back in my college days and serve it with cream cheese which is perfect with the raisin bread. This time I made this incredible Honey Spice Butter and smeared it rather generously on a warm slice of the bread and it was oh so fantastic! I highly recommend it. Perfect for breakfast or tea and will be wonderful toasted as well.
JP loved it, and that says a lot!
½ cup (125 g) unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
2 tsps clear honey
½ tsp ground cinnamon
1/8 tsp ground nutmeg
Place all ingredients in a bowl and combine until well blended and smooth.
15 comments:
- cooknkate said...
Quick breads are one of my most favorite baking items. They're so versatile and simple to throw together. This loaf looks delicious, but that butter looks divine!
- March 27, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- Jamie said...
Kate, I have to admit that this honey spice butter, which I don't think I've made these 20 years, is absolutely to die for! Amazing! So easy to do and so dangerous (it stares at me and calls my name every time I open the fridge).
- March 27, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- Lori said...
Oooh! I love this recipe with the rye flour. And that honey spice butter?! Sounds like heaven. Looks like we were on the same wave length with our cinnamon and raisins this week. Ha, ha! Thanks for stopping by my blog!
- March 27, 2009 at 6:42 AM
- Jamie said...
Lori - told you that I loved anything cinnamon-raisin! I have another sweet bread coming up with cinnamon and raisins (when I find the time to slot it in!). Thanks for stopping in!
- March 27, 2009 at 6:50 AM
- ~Carole said...
Hi Jamie,
Thanks for stopping by my blog. Yours is indeed fabulous! I'm going to read more of it now.
- March 27, 2009 at 6:57 AM
- teresa said...
What a wonderful looking bread! I love quick breads too, I make them all the time, this looks so yummy, and the butter...mmmm!
- March 27, 2009 at 7:00 AM
- Culinary Wannabe said...
I really love the texture, and its sorta rustic look. When I think of oatmeal anything, that's how I picture it looking. And the butter sounds amazing as well!
- March 27, 2009 at 8:14 AM
- asiangrrl said...
Jamie, I love rustic, dense breads. I love raisins. I love honey. This entry is full of win. In fact, it's perfect because I can get sick just by drooling over the luscious pictures.
- March 27, 2009 at 10:21 AM
- Mansi said...
awesome! that's health and taste in one bite:) thanks for sending them over for BBD:)
- March 27, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- doggybloggy said...
I need to do a little catch up reading here and tip stealing and recipe mongering and stuff like that...
- March 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- English Mum said...
Ooh that looks really good. And seriously, Jamie, only you would pipe that butter in such an adorable fashion! xx
- March 27, 2009 at 1:57 PM
- My Carolina Kitchen said...
My mother made bread almost everyday when we were growing up. In fact we never ate store bought bread. I tend to only make quick breads and this sounds easy enough for me to make.
- March 27, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Sophie said...
Jamie, these breads look so delicious!!! Thanks!!
PS. I am glad tha we found each others foodblog!! Now, I have made new foodie friends in France!!!
- March 28, 2009 at 5:30 AM
- scraps said...
This sounds and looks so yummy, especially the spice butter! Thanks for visiting my site.
- March 29, 2009 at 8:11 PM
- Shelly said...
Your bread looks awesome! I love all the healthy ingredients, like the rye flour and oatmeal. Kinda makes the addition of the delicious butter not seem too bad :)
- April 6, 2009 at 7:15 PM


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The woman arrested with a loaded pistol outside a downtown private school Monday was trying to kill people, but she couldn't get the gun to fire, according to Charleston police.
Alice Boland, a 28-year-old Beaufort woman with a history of mental illness, was arrested at Ashley Hall on Rutledge Avenue.
Boland pointed a gun at two staff members who confronted her at the wrought-iron fence surrounding the school and repeatedly pulled the trigger, according to a police affidavit. The gun didn't fire and nobody was hurt.
"There's no doubt in our minds, based on our investigation, that woman went there to kill people," Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said Tuesday.
In a rambling statement in bond court Tuesday, Boland said she went to the school because "I wanted to make a political demonstration about problems in my life relating to the fact that racist feminists, including institutions like that where I was demonstrating ... have been causing me these alleged mental problems ever since I met a lesbian professor."
Her speech became unintelligible at that point, and it wasn't clear if she was referring to a teacher at Ashley Hall or elsewhere. She said she has been denied entrance into schools "because of my alleged mental problems."
Her mother told the judge that she had power of attorney regarding her daughter because of her mental illness. "She is considered an incompetent child," she said.
Boland asked why she is charged with attempted murder, considering the gun didn't fire.
"It didn't even work," Boland said, her voice rising in obvious agitation. "It wasn't even capable of firing. It could not fire one shot. It didn't work at all. It was defective."
Magistrate Linda Lombard said any time somebody points a loaded gun at somebody and pulls the trigger, it is attempted murder. She set Boland's total bail at $900,000 on charges of attempted murder, two counts of pointing a firearm, unlawful carrying of a firearm and possession of a firearm during the commission of a violent crime.
It was not the first time Boland has been accused of causing trouble at Ashley Hall. Police were called there two years ago because of a report that Boland was harassing students and acting suspiciously.
Here's what happened Monday, according to police reports and affidavits:
About 50 students and school officials were standing outside the gate on Rutledge Avenue waiting for parents to pick up children. Boland walked up to Mary Schweers, director of the upper school, pointed a Taurus PT22 with eight rounds in the magazine at her and pulled the trigger several times.
The .22-caliber didn't fire. The semi-automatic has a capacity of nine rounds, but there was no cartridge in the chamber.
Boland also stood in front of teacher Chris Hughes and pointed the gun at her. Then she waved the gun around and pointed it toward the ground, pulling the trigger several times trying to make it fire.
School officials ordered the students back inside, locked the gate and called police.
Officers arrived a few minutes later and told the woman to drop the gun and get on the ground, according to an incident report. Boland dropped the firearm and asked police if they wanted her to do some push-ups, the report states.
Investigators did not say how Boland might have obtained the gun.
"We are still investigating that aspect of the case, and we aren't ready to discuss that yet," police spokesman Charles Francis said.
Boland sought treatment from a psychologist's office near the school in the past, according to police. Officers said they found her GMC Jimmy parked near that office on Monday.
Officials searched the school's records but could not find any connection between Boland and Ashley Hall, Head of School Jill Muti said Tuesday in a statement to parents and faculty.
"To the best of our knowledge, she was not targeting any specific person," Muti said in the statement. "All of our current information points towards this being a random incident."
This was not Boland's first arrest.
In August 2010, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office charged Boland with third-degree assault and battery, State Law Enforcement Division records show.
Christina Elmore and Glenn Smith contributed to this report. Reach Dave Munday at 937-5553 or twitter.com/dmunday.
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- The role of goal proximity and invested effort for the valuation of expected outcomes : an investigation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (2011)
- In human neuroscientific research, there has been an increasing interest in how the brain computes the value of an anticipated outcome. However, evidence is still missing about which valuation related brain regions are modulated by the proximity to an expected goal and the previously invested effort to reach a goal. The aim of this dissertation is to investigate the effects of goal proximity and invested effort on valuation related regions in the human brain. We addressed this question in two fMRI studies by integrating a commonly used reward anticipation task in differential versions of a Multitrial Reward Schedule Paradigm. In both experiments, subjects had to perform consecutive reward anticipation tasks under two different reward contingencies: in the delayed condition, participants received a monetary reward only after successful completion of multiple consecutive trials. In the immediate condition, money was earned after every successful trial. In the first study, we could demonstrate that the rostral cingulate zone of the posterior medial frontal cortex signals action value contingent to goal proximity, thereby replicating neurophysiological findings about goal proximity signals in a homologous region in non-human primates. The findings of the second study imply that brain regions associated with general cognitive control processes are modulated by previous effort investment. Furthermore, we found the posterior lateral prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex to be involved in coding for the effort-based context of a situation. In sum, these results extend the role of the human rostral cingulate zone in outcome evaluation to the continuous updating of action values over a course of action steps based on the proximity to the expected reward. Furthermore, we tentatively suggest that previous effort investment invokes processes under the control of the executive system, and that posterior lateral prefrontal cortex and the orbitofrontal cortex are involved in an effort-based context representation that can be used for outcome evaluation that is dependent on the characteristics of the current situation.


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National Nutrition Month is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. The theme for 2015 was "Bite into a Healthy Lifestyle," which encourages everyone to adopt eating and physical activity plans that are focused on consuming fewer calories, making informed food choices and getting daily exercise in order to achieve and maintain a healthy weight, reduce the risk of chronic disease and promote overall health.
To obtain permission from the Academy for theme or artwork usage, see National Nutrition Month Guidelines and Permission Request Form.
In celebration of Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day and in honor of the 2015 National Nutrition Month theme "Bite into a Healthy Lifestyle," we asked our members to share "What's the best way to bite into a healthy lifestyle?"
From more than 270 thoughtful and inspirational testimonials from members that confirm and support the value of RDN services, the winner of the third annual Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day contest is Adam Burda, MS, RDN, LDN from West Virginia University.
"The best way to bite into a healthier lifestyle is through balance. Whether it's balancing your caloric intake, balancing your physical activity, balancing your stress level or balancing your personal life, proper health requires a continual, multifactorial approach. Starting your day out with a balanced, nutrient dense meal, is the best way to ensure you are taking a balanced bite out of the day ahead of you."
Adam was featured on an electronic banner that appeared over New York City's Times Square on Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day – March 11 – and in Eat Right Weekly.
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Friday, June 18, 2004
The third NASCAR action figure line from ActionMcFarlane -- a partnership between McFarlane Toys and Action Performance -- is revving up and it's a doozy.
The new line comprises nine drivers and features current drivers, retired legends and a dominant NHRA drag racer. Here's the lineup:JAMIE McMURRAY, No. 42McMurray took home rookie of the year honors and finished 13th in Cup points in 2003.TONY STEWART, No. 20Stewart won two races and finished seventh in points in 2003.MICHAEL WALTRIP, No. 15The Waltrip name is legendary in racing circles. Michael finished 15th in points in 2003.KEVIN HARVICK, No. 29Harvick got his first Cup win at Atlanta 2001, and became the first driver to win both the Busch Series championship and Cup rookie of the year honors in the same season.DALE EARNHARDT JR. , No. 8With his legendary family and his prowess behind the wheel, Junior has become the unofficial poster boy of NASCAR. He won two races in 2003 and finished third in the standings.DARRELL WALTRIP, No. 17Darrell Waltrip is a living racing legend, competing for some 26 years before his retirement following the 2000 season. Waltrip now serves as a race announcer on the Fox network.DALE JARRETT, No. 88Jarrett is an old-school driver, who competed in his first Winston Cup race in 1984. Jarrett finished 27th in points in 2003, though he did win the Subway 400 at Rockingham.JOHN FORCEForce is the man in NHRA drag racing. He's a 12-time POWERade Champion who set the national record in the quarter mile e.t. (4.721 seconds) in 2003.NASCAR Series 3 is scheduled for retail release -- in both mass and specialty versions -- in October. Until then, enjoy the photography.


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Where do people turn during a mental health crisis, or for information about human service agencies like legal aid or child care?
It's easy. Just dial 2-1-1.
Three short months ago, the 2-1-1 service, a universal telephone number for health and human services, became available for Ashe County residents. Since then, 2-1-1 has been utilized on several occasions to transfer callers to appropriate agencies to meet their human services needs.
"People are starting to use 2-1-1 more. It is steadily increasing," said Glenda Luther, Ashe County's volunteer coordinator, also serves as the data entry manager for 2-1-1 in Ashe County. Luther also said the number of people who use 2-1-1 should increase with the release of new marketing materials.
"The goal of 2-1-1 is to get callers directed to the resources they need. The service is supposed to pinpoint resources like food, heating assistance and mental health care," said Luther.
Much like 9-1-1, the emergency number to call for help, 2-1-1 is a free confidential service available 24/7 to speakers of all languages. Callers will be able to receive help for a number of human service agencies, like housing, food, shelter, child care, mental health services, legal aid and a variety of other services.
As database manager, Luther is responsible for adding local agencies into North Carolina's 2-1-1 database.
When a caller uses 2-1-1, they are initially sent to referral specialists at a call center in Durham.
With local agencies added to the 2-1-1 database, operators at the Durham call center can transfer callers in Ashe County to whatever agency is best equipped to handle the caller's situation. Since 2-1-1 uses a statewide database, callers from Ashe can be transferred to services outside of the county.
Thanks to a grant provided by Blue Cross Blue Shield to United Way, 2-1-1 will launch a new marketing effort, including simplified graphics and in-depth information, sometime in May.
According to Luther, the new marketing materials will include brochures and cards, will be placed in various offices throughout the county, like medical offices, the library and Ashe Services for Aging.
"We're really excited about having a lot of those marketing materials in Spanish," said Lynda McDaniel, chair of the social services board.
She said the Spanish material will be distributed in several places throughout the county, like Spanish-speaking churches and markets.
"I'm very optimistic," said McDaniel, "the more people hear about 2-1-1, the more likely they are to call."
McDaniel was instrumental in bringing the 2-1-1 service to Ashe County. While McDaniel was employed by the state of North Carolina, she attempted to establish 2-1-1 as a statewide service.
"I thought this was the type of service we needed statewide," she said.
According to McDaniel, 2-1-1 addresses one of four county needs found in the 2008 Ashe County Aging Plan, a report compiled by an independent committee made up of senior care specialists, to advise county leaders about services needed in Ashe. The 2-1-1 service resolved the county's "information and assistance" need, which recommended a service referral program. Other needs highlighted in the report included housing, transportation and family care support.
McDaniel called 2-1-1 a "cost-effective service" because of its broad reach and at a cost of only $1,200 per year.
"It's a really big bang for the buck," said McDaniel. "Even in really rough economic times, no county that has ever started 2-1-1 has ever stopped using it."
The 2-1-1 service is made low cost through what McDaniel called "economies of scale"; using a statewide call center instead of a call center operated in Ashe County.


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Monday, January 14, 2013
Santa Claus received a letter from students at Boulder Bluff Elementary School asking him to come to their school, and he decided to take some time out of his busy schedule to visit students in the 4-year-old CD program and Kindergarten classes. He read them the story "The Night Before Christmas" and presented every child with a candy cane. Above are Santa and BBE staff members Kimberly Shromoff, Dana Austin and Mona Lisa Staggers.
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Thank you to all performers and parents who participated in the May 2 concert of the Youth String Camerata! You can still order recordings of the concert.
The Youth String Camerata, led by conductor Marcia Ferritto, provides an opportunity for advanced students to experience the excitement and challenge of rehearsing and performing music in the intimate setting of a chamber ensemble. The group is limited in size for this purpose.
The students are introduced to the study and performance of works of varying styles. Each piece of music draws on the entire spectrum of skill of the individual player and of the group as a whole.
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- Scales/Arpeggios: Violins, violas and cellos should be prepared to play a 3-octave major and parallel melodic minor scale of their choice from keys up to 3 sharps or 3 flats. (Requirement for bass is a 2-octave scale). Scales are to be prepared in whole bow slurs, 4 notes to a bow, 6 notes to a bow and 8 notes to a bow. Demonstration of martele, spiccato and sautille strokes will be asked. The student may be asked to play a 2-octave arpeggio (major/minor diminished and dominant 7).
- Solo Piece:A movement of a concerto or a single solo piece that shows a range of technical and musical skills.
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Celebspotting: Megan Fox with an iPhone
Pardon us while we forget how civilized, non-misogynistic, and enlightened owning an iPhone has made us. The iPhone gets to our caveman brain -- we're as helpless staring at the iPhone as a neanderthal staring at fire. Other things that get us in that same primitive gadget zone: Star Wars and that recent Transformers move (which, except for that Shia guy, was good times).
What we're getting at here is that while we may not have as many celeb sightings as our CrackBerry.com friends, when we get one we make it count, friends, we make it count Tri-Fecta style. Megan Fox of Transformers fame + iPhone + retro Star Wars T-Shirt is worth five hundred janky Paris Hilton CrackBerry sightings.
Let's do this some more -- send in your Celeb iPhone sightings to email@example.com
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Celebspotting: Megan Fox with an iPhone
Countdown to total interwebs geeksposion in 3.. 2..
(and multi-touch "humor" galore, 'natch...)
Geeeezus. Touché. Damn. Errrr. Mmmmm. Ohhhhh. Ahhhh. Gotta Go!
Megan Fox.... you complete me...
Note I love how this pic is perfectly sized for an iPhone wallpaper... Yoinks! I'll take that!
New Wallpaper! woohooo!
Must.... think..... about..... wife!
I hate Shia because I feel like he's being fluffed by marketers to become the next 'it' guy when, really, he's not that compelling.
I couldn't agree with you more, Dieter. Seems like a nice kid, but kinda goofy. Maybe he's being groomed as a Tom Hanks replacement? He has the hair...
Honestly i don't really mind that he is being groomed... let it happen. Whatever you know? He really has done a fine job in his movies though... and Indy 4? i thought he did an awesome job. I loved it!
@Scott -........ LOL!!!!
Yea, the phone, That's the ticket.. or err umm I mean I think that Darth Vader is in "Prime" postion :-P yeah Darth Vadser, now that's the ticket..
Guys, Guys, Guys......easy now. She is just a girl. A very skinny girl who needs to eat a brownie or two. There really are girls like this out there in the world if you would just quit fondling your iPhones in private maybe you could meet one too? Maybe she will have an iPhone too and you can canoodle with each other while comparing phones.....OR maybe she'll have a Blackberry Bold and then you would realize that she is WAAAAY out of your league? You never know unless you get out there and see. Now get to it! Oh, and leave the Star Wars reunion costumes at home. Save them for your D & D buddies.
Wow she can now definitly go under the catagory: "Perfect"
It's just a shame that it's proberly not a 3G iPhone, just an old one with an ugly cover, seriously the covers for the iphone damage the phone more than protecting it. Well the covers i have tried does anyway.
lol, Megan Fox is so hot!


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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I'm 55 years old and this weekend I saw my first-ever 3D movie.
That means throughout my childhood I resisted the temptation to put on those quirky shades and be summarily amazed at the 3D special effects poorly written into the movie plot.
I remember watching the Three Stooges in 3D without the quirky shades and noting the 3D special effects were limited to Curly waggling his fingers at the camera. Since back then the quality of the quirky shades was pretty darn poor, I never got the whole 3D thing. It flew right over my head.
Not even at Disney and Michael Jackson's 3D epic music video at EPCOT Center did I get it. Sadly my eyes are multi-dimensionally challenged. You should see me try to read ultra-sounds.
There lies my first-ever look at both my kids, and my soon-to-be born grandchild and I have no idea what I'm looking at.
"See the head?"
All I can do is nod and say, "Yes, I see the head," but in reality all I can make out is a big round smear.
This past weekend while buying tickets to see Iron Man 3, I opt not to wait the extra 45 minutes for the standard 2-dimensional flick and instead pull the trigger on Iron Man in 3D. Imagine my excitement when, for the price of my seven-dollar ticket, I was handed my very own set of 3D quirky shades. I thought, cool, these will fit over my regular glasses just fine.
And when the prompt flashed across the screen to "Put my 3D glasses on now," I did so with the other 60-or-so 3D buffs waiting to see Iron Man.
The movie did not disappoint and I didn't have to wait long to be impressed.
The best way to show off your 3D movie making skills is to blow something up and they wasted little time in dumping Tony Stark's flying saucer home into the Pacific Ocean.
Shrapnel blew by my head. Sparks spewed all around me.
I thought – I'm sitting too close to the screen, I'm going to get burned up in the explosion.
I was impressed.
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Which school has the top recruiting class in 2015?
Spring evaluation is over and camp season is now in full swing, which means schools are in the midst of a recruiting frenzy. Take SMU for example. The Mustangs were sitting at zero commits in late May and are now just one short of hitting double digits.
Obviously, a lot can and will change from now until National Signing Day in February. Prospects will rise, fall and second-guess their original decisions. But it's all part of the fun and craziness that is the recruiting process.
Here is an early ranking of 2015 classes for Texas schools.
1. Texas A&M
Commits: 13
Top Commit: QB Kyler Murray, Allen
Next Best: DT Daylon Mack, Gladewater
Quick hit: Texas A&M did lose Katy running back Rodney Anderson, but the Aggies still have Splendora product Jay Bradford and added recent commitments from Allen quarterback Kyler Murray, Cy Ridge wide receiver Kemah Siverand and George Ranch defensive end Kingsley Keke. Murray is one of the top three overall players in the state while Keke should be a stud on the defensive line in the near future. Overall, there is a lot to like about this class, and it might become even better when Cedar Hill wide out DaMarkus Lodge announces in a few weeks.
2. Texas
Commits: 10
Top Commit: OL Patrick Vahe, Euless Trinity
Next Best: QB Zach Gentry, Eldorado (NM)
Quick hit: The Longhorns still have a lot of work to do to dethrone the Aggies, but they've added some quality pieces since our last update, most notably Eldorado (NM) quarterback Zach Gentry. At 6-foot-6, 230-pounds, Gentry is a pure pocket passer who could finally be the quarterback Texas is looking for. Texas also picked up commitments from running backs Tristian Houston (Galena Park North Shore) and Kirk Johnson out of California as well as Converse Judson defensive back Keivon Ramsey.
3. Baylor
Commits: 10
Top Commit: ATH Chad President, Temple
Next Best: RB JaMycal Hasty, Longview
Quick hit: Baylor has athletes galore in this class — from Temple's Chad President to Troup's Blake Lynch. Over the last few months, the Bears have landed even more quality talent, headlined by Clear Falls wide receiver John Humprey, who can flat out fly. Baylor also picked up commitments from a pair of solid run-stopping linebackers in Abilene Wylie's Clay Johnston and Austin Westlake's Breckyn Hager, the younger sibling of current Bears linebacker Bryce Hager. Baylor, however, suffered a big blow when it lost Burton athlete Louis Brown over the weekend.
Commits: 11
Top Commit: OL Cody Ford, Pineville (LA)
Next Best: WR JF Thomas, South Oak Cliff
Quick hit: When we last updated these rankings, TCU already had an array of solid defensive commits such as Dallas Bryan Adams defensive tackle Joseph Broadnax, Round Rock defensive end Breylin Mitchell and FW Southwest linebacker Semaj Thomas. But over the last month or so, the Horned Frogs added some firepower on offense in the forms of wide receivers Darrion Flowers (Arlington Sam Houston) and JF Thomas (South Oak Cliff).
5. Texas Tech
Commits: 7
Top Commit: QB Jarrett Stidham, Stephenville
Next Best: DT Breiden Fehoko, Farrington (HI)
Quick hit: Kliff Kingsbury, aka Mr. Cool, is doing a terrific job out on the recruiting trail, and this class is shaping up to be a good one. Stidham is the No. 2 overall quarterback in the state, and he'll have two quality blockers protecting him down the line in Frisco Centennial's Trace Ellison and JUCO product Lio Lafaele. FB Elkins athlete Jonathan Giles will be a dangerous wide receiver in Lubbock. The Red Raiders also landed a defensive piece in interior lineman Breiden Fehoko, who is an absolute monster in the middle.
Commits: 9
Top Commit: WR James Proche, Prime Prep
Next Best: QB Kyle Kearns, Foothill (CA)
Quick hit: SMU went into May with zero verbal pledges and then caught fire towards the end of the month and the first week of June. The Ponies stole Prime Prep wide out Jame Proche from multiple BCS schools and landed a talented quarterback in Foothill (CA) signal-caller Kyle Kearns. June Jones has yet to recruit and develop a quarterback on the Hilltop, but Kearns has all the tools to be 'the guy.' Leander Rouse athlete Billy McCrary, Navarro JC defensive back Ray Crockett and Irving Nimitz linebackers Delonte and Michael Scott were also solid pick-ups.
7. Houston
Commits: 7
Top Commit: QB Ben Hicks, Waco Midway
Next Best: WR Terry Mark, Lufkin
Quick hit: When you think about Houston, offensive firepower certainly comes to mind. And this class has plenty of it. Waco Midway quarterback Ben Hicks passed for over 3,700 yards last year and is an Elite 11 finalist. His stock will continue to rise, so it will be imperative for Houston to keep him committed. Running Back Kevrin Justice carried Kilgore to the state title game last year, and Lufkin's Terry Mark is yet another dangerous Piney Woods wide receiver. The Cougars, however, still have some work to do on the defensive side of the ball.
8. Rice
Commits: 8
Top Commit: DT Ross Donnelly, Cy-Fair
Next Best: QB JT Granato, Houston Kinkaid
Quick hit: Rice used an obscure method to land its quarterback of the future. But hey, what ever works to land top prospects is cool with us. Houston Kinkaid signal-caller JT Granato has a strong arm and is an excellent land for Rice. The Owls are also getting it done on the defense. Cy-Fair defensive tackle Ross Donnelly was an absolute steal and defensive backs Christian Bertrand (FB Hightower) and Josh Cummings (Jesuit) were quietly good pick-ups. Athletes Justin Tyner and Hunter Herndon are both intriguing and could make impacts on both sides of the ball.
Commits: 9
Top Commit: ATH D'Anthony Hopkins, Cuero
Next Best: QB Manny Harris, Copperas Cove
Quick hit: UTSA landed its best commit in the class back in February and added some quality pieces offensively over the last few months. The group is highlighted by dual-threat Copperas Cove quarterback Manny Harris, who should be right in the thick of things when Tucker Carter departs. Running back Jess Anders was part of that dangerous Aledo offense from a year ago and compiled 2,000 total yards. Wide receivers Derrick Dick (A&M Consolidated) and Peyton Hall (SA Brandeis) both have tremendous upside. Now, the Roadrunners just have to focus on defense.
10. Texas State
Commits: 2
Top Commit: WR Justin Gamble, RR Stony Point
Next Best: DE Landon Beck, Early
Quick hit: Texas State still has a lot of work to do in this class. But the good news is the Bobcats already have two quality verbal pledges in hand. RR Stony Point wide out Justin Gamble picked Texas State over an offer from Texas Tech, and Early defensive end Landon Beck screams potential.
11. North Texas
Commits: 1
Quick hit: North Texas is still searching for its next commit after landing John Tyler wide receiver Rodney Bendy last month. At 6-foot-4, 185-pounds, Bendy is a mismatch nightmare on the outside and could develop into a big time playmaker down the line. But North Texas, obviously, still has a long way to go with this class.
Commits: 0
Quick hit: The Miners usually come on strong late in the recruiting process. But having zero commits in June is a somewhat of a cause for concern. UTEP sent out quite a few offers last week, so Miner fans might not have to wait much longer for that first commit.
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Two articles in the December 2 issue of The Valley Reporter left the same kind of stench in my mouth, though not because of bad journalism.
MINT Restaurant gets their insurance claim denied by Union Mutual Insurance even though the owners had the right flood insurance (which an insurance agent sold them policies on, twice). The owners of MINT did everything and are getting cheated. This is a blatant example of in-your-face fraud, akin to someone having their property stolen while the neighbors watch.
Next, we revisit the sad saga of a local school board being forced to mistreat a paraeducator (and some students) because of an admittedly flawed big-government federal "education standard." Dozens of well-meaning Vermonters have been forced by these federal "standards" to waste tens of thousands of dollars to fight each other about how badly to mistreat a respected veteran paraeducator in order to comply with "federal law." Everyone is simply doing their job, but the result is utterly wasteful and sad.
The federal "No School Left Un-terrorized" program is not a law; however, it's a one-size-fits-none rule book that schools must comply with in order to get "federal" money. (That is, money that we pay to DC for which we get the privilege of begging them to get some back if we spend it exactly how they tell us to.)
This is all more than sad, this is outrageous. Are we going to stand for this, as a community? Is this the kind of community the Mad River Valley is, one that allows this? Is this the Vermont we know and love?
No, it's not. This is the way things work in corrupt third-world dictatorship and failed communist regimes. This is not Vermont. This cannot stand.
We, the people of Vermont, are in charge of making the rules; we reserve our constitutional 9th and 10th amendment rights to self-government and maintaining justice. Real Vermonters do not sit idly by as their neighbors get mistreated by big corporations or big government. Real Vermonters do not allow faraway bureaucrats to terrorize our schools and divide our community. Real Vermonters know that we are perfectly capable of making our own decisions about our education, and that our teachers are a hell of a lot more in touch with our children's needs than any bureaucrat in DC.
As anyone paying attention to global events knows, there are daily examples of corporations and governments doing unbelievably horrible things without consequence. IMF Global and Obama-supporter John Corzine just blatantly stole $1.2 billion from investors, yet Corzine has not even been questioned by the police or "regulators." The U.S. Senate just passed a bill allowing the U.S. military to openly operate on U.S. soil (unprecedented) including the ability for military personnel to indefinitely detain American citizens to Gitmo, without charges, if the American does "suspicious" things such as stockpile more than seven days worth of food in the house. On November 28, the Federal Reserve secretly bailed out the EU.
It's time for Vermonters who sympathize with the Tea Party and with Occupy Wall Street, to unite and realize that we are all on the same side: Vermont. We have major work that must be done to protect our communities from injustice. Clearly the systems and institutions in place are failing, and we cannot let this failure force us to turn against each other.
We are on our own, and it's time we started taking care of ourselves.
System failure. Reboot.
There are lots of Vermonters who understand this and are active in organizations like Rural Vermont, Occupy Vermont, Vermont Campaign for Liberty, Vermont Commons, Prosper Vermont, Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, Currency Commons Vermont and Transition Vermont to name a few.
Maybe if more than 5 percent of us were active in these kind of organizations, things would change. A single protest or boycott or tax revolt supported by 30 percent of us would have instant and infinite power.
We will either continue to give up our rights, or we will have to fight for them. Our rights will not be given to us, and the only protection our communities have is that which we provide ourselves. This much is clear.
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A few fire trucks have made it all the way in to Tassajara, including an assessment team that is there today.
Jamesburg and Tassajara Road continue to be under mandatory evacuation as efforts are being made to contain the fire near the Observatory.
Thank you to everyone who has responded to our fundraising appeal so far. We are very grateful and encouraged by your support and well-wishes.
Director David Zimmerman sent out this report from Tassajara. (7/13)
President Robert Thomas has posted a letter to the community with a request to support Tassajara. (7/13)
Some much need humor (San Francisco Chronicle, 7/13)
Send More Monks! (Newsweek, 7/21 issue)
Flirefighter Blog's assessment of why Tassajara wasn't supported on the ground.
As grateful as we are that everyone at Tassajara is safe for now and that the fire damage to buildings is not as extensive as it might have been, we are still in dire need of your help. The entire Zen Center community relies on the income generated by the Tassajara guest season to support and sustain not only Tassajara, but also the City Center and Green Gulch Farm throughout the year. In addition to lost income, we are looking at huge clean-up and significant rebuilding projects. We are deeply grateful for your donations at this time of loss and uncertainty. Thank you.
The Black Mountain Zen Centre of Belfast Ireland is organizing a benefit in behalf of Tassajara. Mora McAleenan, a student of Abbot Ryushin Paul Haller and a former Tassajara resident, is hoping to raise £1000 through donations, book sales and a benefit event scheduled for July 19. We are deeply grateful for their support and generosity. The dharma tree roots run deep and wide, and know no barriers.
Here is a list of past updates and fire watch maps.
We are currently contacting people in chronological order of reservation date to reschedule or refund deposits. Please feel free to call our Reservations Office at 415-865-1899; we are open from Monday-Friday from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM, or you can email us at firstname.lastname@example.com . Obviously, we are quite busy right now, so if we aren't able to pick up your call right away, please be assured that it will be returned in the order it was received.
You can read and comment on the Sitting with Fire blog which is being updated by the crew at Jamesburg. Also useful is the U.S. Forest Service web site, the Incident Information System (which can be slow to load) or follow the coverage by KUSP in Santa Cruz, the LA Times or the Monterey Herald.
You can also get an updated view of the fires using Google Earth. The USDA Forest Service offers a Google Earth view of the fire location. You will need to have Google Earth installed on your computer. Then you download this map: http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/kml/conus.kmz for fire detections. Tassajara's coordinates are: 36.23361388,-121.5500926. You can copy and paste these coordinates into the "Fly To" field and hit enter.
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Goose Creek Municipal Court by Judge Dale E. Van Slambrook ruled on April 9 that charges against Colette Crawford would be dropped, according to a statement from Van Slambrook's attorney, Paul Thurmond.
Crawford is the owner of Just for Kids, and was exonerated after the sole witness, a 6-year-old minor, was not capable of giving competent testimony, Thurmond said. Because there was no corroborating testimony or evidence, the judge ruled that the case must be dismissed.
Crawford was arrested and charged with assault and battery third degree involving one of the children under her care in February.
After the ruling, Crawford issued the following statement: "I am grateful that the judge made the appropriate ruling and I am pleased to see our judicial system work. I have been in the business of childcare for over 14 years and have never dealt with this type of accusation.
"I insisted on a quick jury trial and appreciate the town's willingness to allow for me to have my day in court. More than anything, I am extremely grateful the 20-plus families who have their children in our daycare continued to stand by me and keep their children enrolled. They knew this accusation was false and their actions show their trust in me.
"Finally, I want to make it clear that I hold no ill will towards the minor child, as his wave and smile at me in court was comforting to my heart that he has no fear of me like his mother had claimed."
Thurmond said he was "grateful to the court and to the prosecutor (and) Investigator Maggie Carver, for acknowledging that the right thing to do was to dismiss this case and restore Mrs. Crawford's good name as quickly as possible."
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Toan Lam '00 had had enough. After years
as a television reporter covering more than
his share of negative stories, "death and
destruction," he calls them, he knew he
needed a change. He wasn't sure where he
was headed, he told a close friend, but the
time had come for him to move on.
Just as he was preparing to quit his job
as a reporter at KRON-TV in San Francisco in December
2008, he went to work one day only to be summoned to
the accounting office. "So, I went up there and they laid
me off, gave me a severance check," Lam said with a smile.
"The guy that cut the check, he says, 'You're the happiest
person in the two decades that I've worked here that I laid
off.' I knew I was ready for a change."
But a change to what? When? Where? While Lam didn't
know just what he'd do, he knew he needed time off to
recharge batteries that had been depleted by TV news jobs
in Wausau, Wis., Midland, Texas, Fresno, and at KRON.
"I was burned out by work, stressed out," Lam said.
"I had never really even taken it in and enjoyed everything
that nature had to offer. I was running one day and I just
stopped and I was like, 'Wow, this is really amazing. The
trees, branches were dancing.' No, I wasn't going crazy,"
Lam laughs, "I was just joyful."
"After I got laid off I said I'm going to spend the next
year shopping less and eating out less and focus on using
my power to give back and use my resources and talents
connecting with people and telling their stories. That was
really a defining moment in my life."
That moment ultimately led Lam to create GoInspireGo.com,
a media platform that highlights videos that he produces
of people who do extraordinary things to help others, often
perfect strangers. Take Jorge Munoz of Queens in New York.
After completing his shift driving a local school bus, he
comes home, rests for about 10 minutes, and then starts
cooking and distributing meals to about 140 New Yorkers
every night in a rough neighborhood under elevated
subway tracks.
There's also the story of Phoebe Russell, a San Francisco
kindergartner who became upset when she learned that
there are homeless people who don't have money to buy
food. Phoebe started a can collection drive at her school in
2009 to raise money to help the hungry. The effort caught
on, momentum grew, and ultimately Tyson Foods donated
10 tons of chicken. There's also Herman Travis, himself
unemployed, who volunteers to deliver weekly food baskets
to approximately 60 families, mostly elderly and home bound.
But it's not just about feeding the hungry. Other videos
feature Jordan Bower, a man making a pilgrimage in hopes
of inspiring people to disconnect from technology and
connect with one another. Bower's journey is taking him
from Canada to Mexico by foot to meet and share stories
with people along the way. Other stories feature a group
dedicated to building a school in Haiti following the
devastating earthquake there in January 2010, a family
that sold one of its businesses and gave the $6.6 million in
proceeds to their employees to thank them, and an East
Bay teenager who traveled to Africa to lead the effort to
build a community brick oven and a garden in Tanzania
so that locals there can grow and cook their own food.
Lam does most of the reporting and narrating of the
videos, typically three to five minutes in length, in an easy
long-story style with a soft but purposeful voice that
allows viewers to get to know not just the subjects of the
videos but their back stories and what motivates them to
reach out to others.
"I really believe that we're all born good people, and we
really want to help others, but people just don't know how. I
think we all want to do our part to elevate humanity and do
something to give back," said Lam, 33, whose title at
GoInspireGo.com is "Chief Inspirator." "The difference
between us and a lot of other inspiring websites is that you
feel a sense of powerlessness after looking at certain stories
because a big corporation or a celebrity is behind an effort."
In addition to asking "What can you do?" Lam's videos
include a direct call to action through links to websites,
phone numbers, email addresses, and additional information
so that viewers, including those of modest means, can
send a donation to specific organizations or use their
resources or talents to help if they are so moved. Lam
realizes that not everyone can go to the lengths of people
like Jorge, Phoebe, or Herman. "We just show you that it's
possible. Phoebe wanted to raise a thousand dollars and
we helped her multiply that. We helped her multiply that
to 135,000-plus meals."
Story Teller in Action:
Toan Lam at a recent shoot for a new video for GoInspireGo.com with assistant Samantha Yarock.
Far removed from the death and destruction stories he
came to loath, Lam is using the story telling skills he developed
at USF through his reporting classes and at his
various television internships and reporting jobs to spread
good news—quite an achievement for someone who
confesses to having given up his own voice as a youngster.
For Lam, growing up was anything but easy. His family
came to the United States from Vietnam when he was eight
months old, leaving behind a successful cast iron nail and
construction business in search of a better life. Lam's Chinese mother and father gathered their five children,
one of Lam's grandfathers, two grandmothers, and several
aunts and cousins for the journey. They ended up in
Sacramento, living in a trailer, and moving from "ghetto
to ghetto" where crime, drive-by shootings (including the
occasional bullet hole through their home), and the shooting
of friends was not unusual.
As a youngster, Lam was a voracious reader, reading the
backs of shampoo bottles because he couldn't get enough
material. His love of books and reading, though, ostracized
him from his peers. They asked why he wanted to "be white,"
and why was he selling out. "Who do you think you are?"
they asked.
"So I remember giving away my voice, you know, literally,"
Lam said. "I literally grew up very quiet and timid and shy
because I essentially let these kids kind of take my power,
and it wasn't until USF that I reclaimed it." That occurred
after he hurriedly completed a short autobiography in an
expository writing class. He vividly recalls receiving his
paper back from his teacher, Carolyn Weber. "On the top
right-hand corner, in red, in perfectly written penmanship,
she put, 'Toan, you are such a gifted and talented writer. I
hope you do something with it one day.' It still gives me
chills, just talking about it."
It was a revelation for Lam, who says his parents were
loving but in stereotypical fashion, never lauded him for
his communication skills or curious nature. "It was like,
'You going to be a doctor? You going to be a lawyer? You
going to be an engineer?' in that order," Lam said in an
accent replicating that of his parents.
After finding his voice, Lam was determined to become
a print journalist. But, a chance encounter with his Asian
American Journalists Association mentor Matt Dunn during
his freshman year at a USF career fair led him to apply for
and accept an internship at a television show hosted by now-
CNN reporter Soledad O'Brien. The show was a partnership
between MSNBC and Ziff Davis Publishing. Soon,
another internship followed at KPIX-TV in San Francisco.
"So I went to KPIX and ended up working the weekend
news assignment desk. I started following a couple of
reporters around just to see if this would be something I
enjoyed. I was fascinated by the way the reporters conducted
interviews, the fast pace, you know, getting the news quickly
and first, so that whet my appetite. I thought this would be
something I'd want to do because I wouldn't be sitting at a
desk all day.
"I eventually interned with Robert Handa (of KTVU-TV)
in San Jose two times a week. He took me under his
wing, and he was very tough on me," Lam said.
Handa, a veteran reporter who has also worked at
KPIX-TV, KQED-TV, and KNTV-TV in the Bay Area,
remembers Lam quite well. In fact, the two have maintained
a friendship since Lam's days as an intern.
"I would have to say that the tougher you are on somebody
generally means that that's how much potential you think
that person has," Handa said. "You want to make sure that
they understand because you don't want them to waste that
"When we would do stories, Toan was always very
interested in not only what you need to do to cover the story
but also trying to learn much more about the person and
the situation beyond what you'd probably be able to use or
need to put in the story. I think that his compassion for the
human condition, the human spirit, that was sort of one of
the personality traits that came out at me when I first met
him. I used to take him on stories that maybe other interns
I wouldn't take on."
Also instrumental to Lam's development as a journalist
and story teller was Associate Professor Michael Robertson,
34 a former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, USF
faculty member since 1991, and director of USF's journalism
minor. "Michael was very tough on me," Lam said. "I had
a lot of office hours with him where I was very unhappy with
my grades." Evidently, Robertson also saw something in
Lam. He told him in one of those frequent office encounters
that he believed that Lam would go on to be a journalist,
despite the tough grades that Robertson was doling out.
"I believed in him because he was getting internships
and he was thinking about it (journalism) in a way almost
all of the other students were not," Robertson said. "He
was doing stories with Robert Handa and he was learning
how to think like a reporter and I really wanted to push
him to be good at it because I knew how unlikely it was
that any young person who wants to do that is going to
make a career of it. The odds are against it. The great
thing about Toan was that if I pushed him he would do
better. If I'd say, 'No, no, more of this!' He would do
more of it."
The impact of both Handa and Robertson on Lam is
felt today beyond Lam's videos. It's trickling down to
current students at both USF and the Academy of Art
University where Lam teaches and writes curriculum.
"The reason that I teach now is because of my mentors,"
Lam said. "I said, 'How can I pay you back?' We all
get somewhere because somebody helps us, right? And every
one of them, including Robert, I remember, he said, 'You
know what you could do for me? Give it back. Give back
what I've taught you.'"
But part-time teaching, while paying his bills for a simple
lifestyle, doesn't do much for the time, travel, and expense
of producing GoInspireGo.com's inspiring videos. So, Lam
looks for private and corporate sponsors to pay the bills.
He's passed up several lucrative job offers with six-figure
salaries from local television stations and a national network
because they didn't "feel right."
When he started GoInspireGo.com people would ask
him for his business plan and his projected ROI (return on
investment). Lam wasn't focused at all on a return on investment,
seeking instead to simply tell those inspiring stories.
As for the costs associated with producing the videos, Lam
has received some modest donations of airline miles for
flights from friends. And, last year, GoInspireGo.com
achieved nonprofit status, so Lam has begun the process of
fundraising through grants and donations to help grow the
"Last year I was focusing on if the idea was working,"
Lam said. "Can we create stories that move people and
spark civic engagement? We can. So, this year I'm trying to
build the business side of GIG. I'm focusing on building
business, partnering, getting more viewers."
Success is evident in the response to the videos. The
Phoebe story garnered more than 50,000 web hits, while
Jorge's story received more than 140,000, including some
from high profile opinion makers. A member of the Obama
administration saw the Jorge video and in August President
Barack Obama bestowed upon him the Presidential Civilian
Medal, given solely at the president's discretion. First Lady
Michelle Obama sent a letter to Phoebe thanking her for
her zest for activism.
What's more, as the videos have stirred others to act,
the media have picked up on the story. Lam's work has
been featured on Good Morning America. He was asked
by Arianna Huffington to write a regular blog for The
Huffington Post, and has blogged for Yahoo's "Inspiring
Acts," and Deepak Chopra's Intent.com.
For Lam, though, it's not about recognition. It's about
doing something to help others. "This is what I love doing,"
Lam said. "And, I love the fact that I'm able to be a voice
for the voiceless because that was me. I'm not rich and I'm
not famous. But I care. I feel like I've finally discovered my
power, my voice, and I'm using it. I'm practicing what I'm
"I've had several lucrative job offers of over six figures.
I make way less than that, but it's so funny because I'm so
happy." So happy, that for now, Lam is content to focus on
GoInspireGo.com, use his voice to tell those inspirational
stories, and try to make a difference in the lives of so many
people. ■
To see videos of Jorge Munoz, Phoebe Russell, and
others, visit GoInspireGo.com.


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August 26, 2014
The two guys that take care of the office are kind, thoughtful, and very help full in every way and Ralph is an asset to the company.Brenda from Fort Myers, FL
August 26, 2014
Ralph was incredibly friendly and able. He was the paragon of customer service.Erica from Olatha, KS
August 18, 2014
I was nervous about having my things in storage, since this is the first time I have used such a service. From the first phone call I made to the last time I put things in my unit, I have had a very positive experience. I feel very comfortable knowing my things are safe there until my house is ready to move into.Audrey from Coconut Creek, FL
March 3, 2014
Can't say enough about Uncle Bob's. I would recommend in a minute.Antonieta from Lehigh Acres, FL
July 20, 2015
Outside parking storage area is junky. Occupants occupy more than their allotted space. Big chuck holes in gravel area. Front gates are left open to often, we have been to the property over 4 times in the past month and have not had to use our code to get in or out because of open gates. I do not feel that our parked vehicle is as safe as it was before, what has changed?Mark from Fort Myers, FL
June 28, 2015