I have tested your software and so far have been impressed with its features. I would like to switch to your software (we have 2 location and 4 registers), but we need a layaway feature. Do you have any plans of adding this to your software?
Hi James, we created a different work around.. not sure which is better. We created a payment entry... just like you did.
Step one: enter in items to be part of layaway, however, instead of processing sale, save the transaction. Be sure to enter customer info before saving transaction.
Step two: accepting payments using payment entry created just like you did in your example. Once the payment is processed, we apply it as a store credit in the customers file and include note in customers file.
Step three: When final payment is being made a) open the saved sales transaction, b) apply store credit (total store credit from all layaway payments), c) apply final payment, d) process transaction.
The only issue I can see with our work around is offsetting payments when we apply as store credit... can we off set applying payments as a check using AR and AR-?
Hi Dawn, sounds like you are trying to get actual Layaway functionality by not having the sale go into the books until final payment. What you are doing with the Save transaction feature will work, but you'll need to make sure to process the payments separately using the PMT item and then issue a credit or refund as Store Credit. That would then allow you to apply the final payment and store credit to the sale when you process it. The part you're missing is the credit/refund step.
Let me know if you need additional clarification.
Is cashfoot print software getting any closer to handling real layaway AND store open accounts AR? We will give everyone a credit limit based on our knowledge of them a limit. Then when their charged limit is reach it needs to deny any further sales. I really don't want to have to use another program to print/store charges to maintain their account. Thanks so much! If this needs to be s paid feature update, just email me worn costs of reach one.
Yes, I need this too. With invoicing (where i can add my logo to the invoice or create my layout) and monthly, periodic or adhoc statements of account.
Sorry, that last bit is for accounts receiving feature.
Hi Louis, this is now available in version 1.8.1.0 via accounts receivable. Layaway is slightly different as to when it hits the books. AR goes on the books asap and Layaway is not considered a sale until the item has been paid in full. We should be addressing Layaway in 2016.
or update the users manual to show how to access these functions?


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use Doctrine\ORM\Mapping as ORM;

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Ok, round 2 of baking with matcha = success!
Once I made the Pistachio Protein balls, I decided I wanted to try actually baking something with matcha to see how the flavors tasted coming out of the oven. I was not disappointed!
These green tea cookies are based off a recipe I found on Pinterest by Fortune Goodies. Just a few simple swaps from this delicious recipe to make these cookies clean & a bit healthier. I've gotta say, she nailed this recipe and hers were much prettier!
PS If you haven't read about the health benefits of matcha, I would highly encourage you to do so. Read about it here, here, or here – or run a few Google searches. There's no denying matcha is a superfood powerhouse. I've been trying to replace my morning coffee with cashew milk matcha lattes. It works about half of the time. I just LOVE coffee!
In a seperate bowl, melt together coconut oil & maple syrup. Add wet ingredients into dry ingredient bowl and mix until well combined. I did this by hand, but a small hand mixer would help!
Roll dough into about 24 balls, 1 inch around.
Let these cool for a few minutes.
If you want some added sweetness, drizzle some melted white chocolate or frosting across these. Don't go overboard if you are trying to keep these on the healthier side. They are already fairly sweet and don't need too much added sugar.


If you think your business would not benefit from having a web presence, think again. A new report by PEW/Internet describes how internet usage continues to rise in America, up almost 11% from a year ago. They also post a handy chart of internet demographics if you want to see a break down in ages and gender.
More and more people are turning to the internet as one of their main sources of information. Your business cannot afford to ignore this advertising, marketing, and networking venue any longer. Even search engines are using technology to favor web sites that have been around longer and appear to be in it for the long haul. Even if you must start small, start Now!


Housed inside of what once was a warehouse, Essex has an edgy, industrial vibe going for it.
But, despite its' rather gritty origins, this beautiful restaurant has a certain charm that will seduce you.
There are two dining areas in this bi-level establishment. If at all possible, make a reservation for a table in the upper level. It's a bit more secluded and a lot less noisy than the huge dining room downstairs.


the SPOT Gen3 provides location-based messaging and emergency notification tech that allows you to communicate from remote locations around the globe adding to your safety.
With a mobile phone in your pocket or pack, switched on or off, there is always a feeling that you're never far from civilisation. In most cases a switched off phone and an hour or two of charging hard on the trails is a winning combination. But what happens when things go wrong? If you're out alone, on hard to find trails, local or otherwise, you can get yourself into a spot of bother pretty quickly if you stack the bike at speed. Protective gear will help, but if you're unable to ride, walk or even get up off the ground then the situation can get serious very quickly.
How about a GPS driven tracker that will help you out when all goes wrong?
The Spot Gen 3 is a satellite personal tracker that will follow your movements and let nominated family or friends know your location and allows you to alert either them or local emergency services when all goes wrong.
You will need to buy a service plan (and choose the level of communication you need) once you've purchased the tracker and then log on to the findmespot.com site to activate your account. This allows you to customise the contacts and messages that your Gen3 tracker will use and can be changed or updated as and when required.
SPOT Gen3's customized tracking features takes tracking to new level.The tracking is motion-activated regardless of the subscription package you choose (Basic, Unlimited or Extreme). A vibration sensor tells your SPOT to send track updates when you are moving and to stop when you do and increases battery life.
Extreme Tracking Get all of the great features of Unlimited Tracking, but with the added ability to vary your track rate down to every 2 ½ minutes, giving greater detail.
With the push of a button, GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center provides your GPS coordinates and information to local response teams – This S.O.S. button is for emergencies only.
Let family and friends know you're ok when you're out of cell phone range. Send a pre-programmed text message with GPS coordinates or an email with a link to Google Maps™ to your contacts with your location. With a push of a button, a message is sent via email or SMS to up to 10 pre-determined contacts and your waypoint is stored in your SPOT account for later reference. Your stored waypoints can be easily integrated into a SPOT Shared Page or SPOT Adventure account.
Alert your personal contacts that you need help in non-life-threatening situations. Or, use SPOT Assist for professional services on land with an additional service package.
Allow friends and family to follow your progress online in near real-time and save waypoints so you can review your entire route at a later date.
It's a hard product to test without getting into trouble and it's easy to think you'll never need one. If you're more adventurous with your riding locations and don't hold back in testing terrain even when riding alone, then this tracker is certainly worth considering. The price however, once you factor in a service contract and the purchase price may well mean this is a realistic option only for either serious back country exploration or regular mountainbike guides.


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Globalization of Pluralism – Again
Here is part 1 of this argument.
MNCs and NGOs are re-creating at the global level, what interest groups have long created at the domestic level. Where political interest groups emerged from domestic civil society and the economy to lobby government, the same is happening in the albeit less well integrated, global first and third sectors.
The global level has no public authority as integrated as a state. Yet it does, increasingly have policy processes that generate outcomes that apply to many states across many issues. There is neither global sovereignty, nor world government, but there is increasingly global governance. The pressures of globalization, particularly economic, but also social and environmental, have raised supra-state policy issues – human right, global warming, bank reserve ratios. States are not forced to submerge their will to supra-state policy answers – there is no world government – but rather strong functional and humanitarian pressures for coordinated policy responses. Globalization is not unstoppable, but increasingly states have gone along with its pressures to address problems at the global level. First and third sector organizations in states frequently demand such actions. Global governance, however, ramshackle and inefficient is the answer.
Globalization is the real-world driver of GG. As it elevates issues to a level of global concern, it creates strong incentives for global policy answers. But this does not explain the participation of nonstate actors in global policy making processes. In a strict inter-state model of world politics, GG would simply be regime building. But increasing actors from the for- and non-profit sector are joining the game. States could conceivably lock them out, and the most repressive do – the only voice from North Korea in world politics is the DPRK. But for an increasing number of states, preventing private actors from engaging in world politics, at least trying, is ideologically impossible. Democratization has driven up the costs of such repression. Surely Donald Rumsfeld would like to quiet Amnesty International's harsh criticism of the Guantanamo detention facility, but to do so would violate clear norms, and in many democratic cases, written constitutional protections, of free speech. As more states democratize and liberalize, the most their internal private actors are allowed to make international connections, join the global economy and other global social movements. While GG has no formal charter to insure that is pluralistic, its most powerful state members, and an increasing number of the rest are liberal. Democratization has opened the floodgates, particularly for NGOs to spill into world politics.
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Survey Finds iPhone XR Remained Best-Selling iPhone Model Last Quarter in United States
Wednesday April 24, 2019 6:58 AM PDT by Joe Rossignol
iPhone XR remained the best-selling iPhone model in the United States in the first quarter of 2019, as it was in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a survey conducted by research firm CIRP and provided to MacRumors.
The research firm found that the iPhone XR accounted for 38 percent of U.S. iPhone sales during the quarter, ahead of the iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max with a combined 21 percent of sales during the three-month period.
If accurate, the data is rather unsurprising, as the iPhone XR has the lowest price of the three new iPhones that Apple released in late 2018. The colorful handset starts at $749, compared to $999 for the iPhone XS and $1,099 for the iPhone XS Max, with many reviews labeling it the "best iPhone for the money."
Moreover, in January, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that the iPhone XR was the most popular iPhone every day since it launched.
CIRP co-founder Josh Lowitz:
iPhone XR continues to dominate US iPhone sales. It remains the best-selling individual model again this quarter, after launch early in the December 2018 quarter. In the US, the newest iPhone models sold about as well as the newest models a year ago, at about 60% of total sales. Based on these trends, we estimate an Average Selling Price of around $800, a decrease from the previous quarter.
The usual caveats apply, including that Apple no longer discloses iPhone unit sales, nor has it ever provided a model-by-model breakdown of iPhone sales. CIRP bases its findings on a rather small survey of 500 customers.
Tag: CIRP
DaveOP
It's an awesome phone. We have hundreds of them deployed, and business users LOVE the battery life. It's far more important in Enterprise than an OLED screen or more camera features. I have been pleasantly surprised by the feedback so far. Seems to please both the iPhone 8 size, and iPhone 8 Plus size users too.
EugW
One (if not, THE best) of Apple's best bang for buck iPhone ever, with the best battery life ever (imho)
I don't think it's the "best bang for buck iPhone ever" by any stretch of the imagination. Yes it's a decent phone but it's really only the best bang for the buck for the 2018 models.
The problem is that Apple's flagship 2018 phones are horrendously priced. The XR is priced like how the flagship iPhones used to be priced.
Geert76
TonnyM
It's best phone for most people.
tedstoutpa59
Reading on my iPhone XR.
GoodWheaties
It's interesting to me that the the SE had a larger percentage of sales last spring than the XS does this spring. That's........ interesting.


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Central Church Torquay
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History of Central Church, Torquay
AN INTRODUCTION TO CENTRAL CHURCH TORQUAY
The striking high tower of Central Church, crowned with three crosses to signify the union of three churches, dominates the Torquay skyline and can be seen over a wide area. Built in 1976 it is a joint Methodist and United Reformed Church. With its multi-functional accommodation, it has become a busy centre for services, gatherings of all types, concerts and recitals. The congregation is cosmopolitan, coming as many do from other denominations, and all feel comfortable within its walls.
There is a broad base of worship – Sunday mornings start at 9.15am with our Rise and Shine Family Worship, a contemporary half hour service for All ages. Our 10.30am service is more traditional with our gowned choir in attendance every week. The third Sunday evening service each month is a Cafe Church, and there are midweek services/communion and prayers for healing. There are also House Groups. We actively support local community groups, such as food banks. In addition, regular meetings of a variety of organisations, Guild, Beavers & Cubs, Guides & Brownies, a Flexercise group, a Badminton Club, Belleplates and a lively social life complete the picture.
THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL CHURCH
It was in 1971 that the leaders of the three churches began seriously to discuss the possibility of uniting. It was proposed to sell the two Methodist churches and demolish Belgrave and erect a new building on this valuable site, suitable for present day needs. Draft proposals and constitution were brought to the church members and agreed in their own churches first and then a united meeting was held and the final decision almost unanimously passed. During the winter of 1973 united evening services were held to enable the congregations to become better acquainted with each other's form of worship. Edward Narracott, Tanner and André were appointed architects in December 1971 and when their plans had been accepted by all concerned the sale of Union Street Church could proceed. The auction took place in January 1973 and the building was sold to "Mothercare". Tenders were invited for the construction of the new building. That of Currall, Lewis and Martin Ltd. of Birmingham was accepted. Money for furnishings is being provided by church organisations and individuals in a variety of ways. The ecumenical spirit was further strengthened when Tor Parochial Church Council offered the use of St. Saviour's Church until the new premises were ready, an offer which was gratefully accepted, and the friendship was deepened further when the Bishop of Exeter laid the foundation stone in June 1975.
The Church is designed on an elongated octagonal plan and will seat 350 with a sliding partition connecting to the Hall which seats a further 350. This section is surrounded by all other rooms to obviate traffic noise. These rooms consist of vestry, treasury, choir room and four meeting rooms, with a youth centre with disco at basement level. A three-bedroomed caretaker's flat forms the roof of the covered car park. The Hall is high enough to be used for championship badminton. Each section is independent so any one part can be closed off to allow different activities to carry on without inconvenience to each other.
External walls rise off a podium of limestone recovered from the walls of Belgrave; all external facings are in white precast fluted stone. A special feature is the "screen to the clouds", consisting of white tracery surrounding multi-coloured glass for interior lighting and above the building itself open tracery rising to thirty metres and terminating in twin crosses surmounted by a single cross to symbolise the uniting of the two churches in Christ. The lancet-shaped windows in bronzed aluminium frames are directed away from high noise levels. All external maintenance is cut to an absolute minimum.
ORIGINAL FURNISHINGS AND FITMENTS
The Church and Hall are decorated to conform so they can be seen as a whole when used together; the walls are dove grey, ceilings cherry red in white surrounds, that of the church has additional beech ribs. The floor is deep brown wood block; the dais of the church is carpeted in olive green. The stage is surrounded by oatmeal curtaining. All fittings throughout have been designed by the architects using mostly mahogany and stainless steel.
The glazing of the Church is in thick multi-coloured glass depicting the Seven Ages of Man, and designed by Peter Tysoe.
In the entrance hall are three lancet stained glass windows from Belgrave set in a frame made of oak from Union Street.
The seating consists of linked chairs upholstered in blue coloured fabric and designed by Robin Day.
The organ is a four manual electrostatic with movable console built by Compton-Makin.
The choir is robed in red purple gowns made by The House of Van Heems Ltd., London.
The Cross above the Communion Table is the gift of the architect.
Outside, the surrounds to the building are laid out with specimen trees in grassed areas with small beds for annual flowers and certain low roofs at the rear are planted with shrubs in natural soil.
THE CHAPEL OF UNITY
A unique feature of the building is the inclusion of the small Prayer Chapel at the right-hand side of the vestibule. It is the sign to all who enter, for any purpose, that this is first and foremost a house of prayer.
The Chapel will be available for private and communal prayer at all times by those who desire to deepen their own spiritual life and that of the whole fellowship of this congregation. But, above all, it is a Chapel of Unity, dedicated to the bringing together of the whole people of God; and all Christian communions are invited to use it as the common ground where they can meet together before God. To this end other Churches have been invited to include gifts for the Chapel which express some aspect of their tradition, and to place in it a book of prayer used among their own people.
These gifts are:
Cross Churches of the Torquay and Paignton Methodist Circuit.
Chalice and Paten Mrs. B. Maillard, on behalf of the Central Parish.
Communion Cloth Community of West Ogwell.
Kneeler Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of Our Lady.
Bibles Upton Vale Baptist Church.
St. Mary Magdalene Anglican Church.
Screen Central Church. Methodist and United Reformed.
The coloured glass screen and other furnishings have been donated anonymously by those who wished to commemorate the set-vice given to the Church by family members for more than a century.
_ We offer this Chapel with the prayer that our Lord will grant to His Church on earth "that peace and unity which were in his mind and purpose when, on the eve of his passion, he prayed that all might be one".
Brief history of how three churches came together to build a new Church
The following tells, quite briefly, the story of four Churches. Three of them, with a tradition in each case extending back for over a century, have been demolished, and the Methodist and United Reformed Congregations have joined to build the new Church ... Central. In this way they have sought to express gratitude for the past by seeking to put the future in debt to themselves.
During the demolition of one of the Churches a bottle was found under the front wall of the building which had survived a disastrous fire in 1926. Amongst other contents was found a poem composed for the stonelaying in November 1877. What it expresses would also seem to be the aim for our new Church a century later.
"These Foundation Stones to God's glory we lay, And trust that this Building for ages shall stay; May the Truth there be preached, and sinners be blest, When we who now near it are gone to our rest."
© Central Church, Torquay
_UNION STREET METHODIST CHURCH
In 1788 Edward and John Henley of Barton travelled to Exeter to hear John Wesley and were inspired to preach Methodism from a room in George Street, Torquay. Later Edward and his wife Mary held services in their home in Swan Street. In 1807 two cottages were acquired in Fleet Street and became the Chapel in the Meadow. In 1853 a chapel was built in Rock Road and in 1858 the Rock Road Schoolroom was constructed to house the Sunday School originally started in 1806 by an Anglican and taken over by Mary Henley in 1814. A site was purchased in Union Street to provide a larger Church and Schoolroom and in 1876 and 1877 the foundations of the new Wesleyan Schoolroom and Church were laid. The Schoolroom opened in 1878 and the Church in 1879; it cost £6,000 to build. The organ was installed in 1882. In 1926 a fire gutted the building but, undeterred, the congregation reconstructed the Church which was reopened in 1928. During the 1960's the Trustees considered ways to cope with rising costs and dwindling congregations and actually approached a development firm with the idea of building shops on the Union Street site with a church above. This proved abortive and instead the Union Street and Belgrave congregations entered into conversation with a view to uniting for common worship and mission.
_MARKET STREET METHODIST CHURCH
_During the 1850's a company of people held services in Lower Union Street according to the order of worship of the Primitive Methodists. They purchased the former Baptist Chapel in Temperance Street for £650 in 1863. The congregation then bought a large house in Market Street and demolished it to make way for a chapel. The foundation stones were laid in 1877 and the church opened in early 1878, having cost £2,500 and been built by Mr. W. A. Goss. Ancillary rooms were added and improvements made as funds permitted. By the 1970's the structure of Market Street Church was giving the congregation much concern. Dry rot was discovered in many of the timbers and the heating system was suspect. The choice lay between spending a large sum on the building or joining with Union Street Methodist. It was finally agreed to join with Union Street and Belgrave in discussing the possibility of a new Church combining the three congregations. The failure of the heating system in the middle of winter precipitated the final abandonment of the church building in 1973; subsequently the building was sold for £55,000 and this, together with the sum realized from the sale of Union Street, was invested in the Methodist Circuit Advance Fund. From this, money was made available for building the new Central Church, and grants made to churches in the Torquay and Paignton Circuit, and also to Totnes and Brixham.
_BELGRAVE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH
_In the Autumn of 1866 Mr. Joshua Wilson of Tunbridge Wells came to Torquay on a visit. He was appalled at the lack of Nonconformist witness in Torre and started a subscription list with the view to erecting a church. The response encouraged him to purchase a plot of land in Belgrave Road and erect a temporary chapel in 1867 which became a Congregational Church. In 1869 the foundations were laid of a permanent church in Tor Hill Road and in 1870 the new church was opened, built by Mr. Matchum to the design of Mr. J. W. Rowell at a cost of £5,920 including the organ. In 1942 Belgrave suffered considerable bomb blast, it was restored between 1947 and 1951 although structural scars remained which began to give trouble in the 1960's and decided the congregation to consider a more modern building, and a development company actually was consulted. It was at this juncture that conversations took place with the members of Union Street and Market Street with a view to combining in a scheme to build a new church.
Belgrave became a United Reformed Church under the new Act of 1972.


House / Tree. David Alvand and his giant Leylandii.
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Q: Linux backup utility for incremental backups I'm looking for a backup utility with incremental backups, but in a more complicated way.
I tried rsync, but it doesn't seem to be able to do what I want, or more likely, I don't know how to make it do that.
So this is an example of what I want to achieve with it.
I have the following files:
testdir
├── picture1
├── randomfile1
├── randomfile2
└── textfile1

I want to run the backup utility and basically create an archive (or a tarball) of all of these files in a different directory:
$ mystery-command testdir/ testbak
testbak
└── 2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir.tar

Now, let's say the following day, I add a file, such that my structure looks like:
testdir
├── picture1
├── randomfile1
├── randomfile2
├── randomfile3
└── textfile1

Now when I run the mystery command, I will get another tarball for that day:
$ mystery-command testdir/ testbak
testbak
├── 2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir.tar
└── 2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir.tar

Here's the kicker: I want the backup utility to detect the fact that picture1, randomfile1, randomfile2 and textfile1 have not been changed since last backup, and only backup the new/changed files, which in this case is randomfile3, such that:
tester@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -tf testbak/2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir.tar
testdir/
testdir/randomfile1
testdir/textfile1
testdir/randomfile2
testdir/picture1
tester@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -tf testbak/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir.tar
testdir/randomfile3

So as a last example, let's say the next day I changed textfile1, and added picture2 and picture3:
$ mystery-command testdir/ testbak
testbak/
├── 2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir.tar
├── 2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir.tar
└── 2020-02-18--01-54-41--testdir.tar
tester@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -tf testbak/2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir.tar
testdir/
testdir/randomfile1
testdir/textfile1
testdir/randomfile2
testdir/picture1
tester@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -tf testbak/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir.tar
testdir/randomfile3
tester@raspberrypi:~ $ tar -tf testbak/2020-02-18--01-54-41--testdir.tar
testdir/textfile1
testdir/picture2
testdir/picture3

With this system, I would save space by only backing up the incremental changes between each backup (with obviously the master backup that has all the initial files), and I would have backups of the incremental changes, so for example if I made a change on day 2, and changed the same thing again on day 3, I can still get the file with the change from day 2, but before the change from day 3.
I think it's kinda like how GitHub works :)
I know I could probably create a script that runs a diff and then selects the files to backup based on the result (or more efficiently, just get a checksum and compare), but I want to know if there's any utility that can do this a tad easier :)

A: And why are you not considering git itself?
The strategy you describe, after one full and two incremental backups, has it's complications when you continue. It is easy to make mistakes, and it can get very inefficient, depending on the changes. There would have to be a kind of rotation, ie from time to time you make a new full backup - and then do you want to keep the old one or not?

Given a working dir "testdir" containing some project (files, and subdirs), git makes by default a hidden .git subdir for the data. That would be for the local, additional version control features. For backup, you can archive/copy it away to a medium or clone it via network.
The revision control you get (without asking for) is a side effect of git's differential storage.
You can leave out all the forking/branching and so on. This means you have one branch called "master".
Before you can commit (actually write to the git archive/repo), you have to configure a minimal user for the config file. Then you should first learn and test in a subdir (maybe tmpfs). Git is just as tricky as tar, sometimes.
Anyway, as a comment says: backing up is easy, hard part is the restoring.

Disadvantages of git would be just the small overhead/overkill.
Advantages are: git tracks content and file names. It only saves what is necessary, based on a diff (for text files at least).

Example
I have 3 files in a dir. After git init, git add . and git commit I have a 260K .git dir.
Then I cp -r .git /tmp/abpic.git (a good place to save a backup:). I rm the 154K jpg, and also change one text file. I also rm -r .git.
  ]# ls
    atext  btext

  ]# git --git-dir=/tmp/abpic.git/ ls-files
    atext
    btext
    pic154k.jpg

Before restoring the files I can get the precise differences:
]# git --git-dir=/tmp/abpic.git/ status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add/rm <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   atext
        deleted:    pic154k.jpg

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

Here I want to follow the git restore hint.
After git --git-dir=/tmp/abpic.git/ restore \*:
]# ls -st
total 164
  4 atext  156 pic154k.jpg    4 btext

The jpeg is back, and text file btext has not been updated (keeps timestamp). The modifications in atext are overwritten.
To reunite the repo and the (working) dir you can just copy it back.
]# cp -r /tmp/abpic.git/ .git
]# git status
On branch master
nothing to commit, working tree clean

The files in the current dir are identical to the .git archive (after the restore). New changes will be displayed and can be added and committed, without any planning. You only have to store it to another medium, for backup purposes.

After a file is modified, you can use status or diff:
]# echo more >>btext

]# git status
On branch master
Changes not staged for commit:
  (use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
  (use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
        modified:   btext

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

]# git diff
diff --git a/btext b/btext
index 96b5d76..a4a6c5b 100644
--- a/btext
+++ b/btext
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 This is file b
 second line
+more
#]

And just like git knows about "+more" in file 'btext', it will also only store that line incrementally.
After git add . (or git add btext) the status command switches from red to green and the commit gives you the info.
]# git add .
]# git status
On branch master
Changes to be committed:
  (use "git restore --staged <file>..." to unstage)
        modified:   btext

]# git commit -m 'btext: more'
[master fad0453] btext: more
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

And you can really get at the contents, somehow:
]# git ls-tree @
100644 blob 321e55a5dc61e25fe34e7c79f388101bd1ae4bbf    atext
100644 blob a4a6c5bd3359d84705e5fd01884caa8abd1736d0    btext
100644 blob 2d550ffe96aa4347e465109831ac52b7897b9f0d    pic154k.jpg

And then the first 4 hex hash digits
]# git cat-file blob a4a6
This is file b
second line
more

To travel back in time by one commit it is:
]# git ls-tree @^
100644 blob 321e55a5dc61e25fe34e7c79f388101bd1ae4bbf    atext
100644 blob 96b5d76c5ee3ccb7e02be421e21c4fb8b96ca2f0    btext
100644 blob 2d550ffe96aa4347e465109831ac52b7897b9f0d    pic154k.jpg

]# git cat-file blob 96b5
This is file b
second line

btext's blob has a different hash before the last commit, the others have the same.
An overview would be:
]# git log
commit fad04538f7f8ddae1f630b648d1fe85c1fafa1b4 (HEAD -> master)
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 10:51:51 2020 +0000

    btext: more

commit 0bfc1837e20988f1b80f8b7070c5cdd2de346dc7
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 08:45:16 2020 +0000

    added 3 files with 'add .'

Instead of manually timestamped tar files you have commits with a message and date (and an author). Logically attached to these commits are the file lists and contents.
Simple git is 20% more complicated than tar, but you get decisive 50% more functionality from it.

I wanted to make OP's third change: change a file plus two new 'picture' files. I did, but now I have:
]# git log
commit deca7be7de8571a222d9fb9c0d1287e1d4d3160c (HEAD -> master)
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 17:56:18 2020 +0000

    didn't add the pics before :(

commit b0355a07476c8d8103ce937ddc372575f0fb8ebf
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 17:54:03 2020 +0000

    Two new picture files
    Had to change btext...

commit fad04538f7f8ddae1f630b648d1fe85c1fafa1b4
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 10:51:51 2020 +0000

    btext: more

commit 0bfc1837e20988f1b80f8b7070c5cdd2de346dc7
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 08:45:16 2020 +0000

    added 3 files with 'add .'
]#

So what did that Your Name Guy do exactly, in his two commits, shortly before 6 pm?
The last commit's details are:
]# git show
commit deca7be7de8571a222d9fb9c0d1287e1d4d3160c (HEAD -> master)
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 17:56:18 2020 +0000

    didn't add the pics before :(

diff --git a/picture2 b/picture2
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d00491f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/picture2
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+1
diff --git a/picture3 b/picture3
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cfbf08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/picture3
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2
]#

And to check the second-to-last commit, whose message announces two pictures:
]# git show @^
commit b0355a07476c8d8103ce937ddc372575f0fb8ebf
Author: Your Name <you@example.com>
Date:   Sun Feb 16 17:54:03 2020 +0000

    Two new picture files
    Had to change btext...

diff --git a/btext b/btext
index a4a6c5b..de7291e 100644
--- a/btext
+++ b/btext
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-This is file b
-second line
-more
+Completely changed file b
]#

This happened because I tried git commit -a to shortcut git add ., and the two files were new (untracked). It showed in red with git status, but as I say git is not less tricky than tar, or unix.

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A: I would recommend you get a look at Borg Backup.
This will handle backups that:

*

*Are deduplicated. This indirectly makes it differential backups, but has more advantages:

*

*It will handle multiple copies of the same file

*Or even of the same blocks within different files

*Will help with files that grow (like logs)

*Will help with files that are renamed (like logs in some rotation setups)

*Are compressed

*Can be mounted like a regular remote file system (you can mount any of the previous backups)

It will manage pruning of old backups using rules such as "keep one daily backup for a week, one weekly backup for a month, one monthly backup for a year"
It's really easy to set up and use.

A: Update:
Please see some caveats here:  Is it possible to use tar for full system backups?
According to that answer, restoration of incremental backups with tar is prone to errors and should be avoided.  Do not use the below method unless you're absolutely sure you can recover your data when you need it.

According to the documentation you can use the -g/--listed-incremental option to create incremental tar files, eg.
tar -cg data.inc -f DATE-data.tar /path/to/data

Then next time do something like
tar -cg data.inc -f NEWDATE-data.tar /path/to/data

Where data.inc is your incremental metadata, and DATE-data.tar are your incremental archives.

A: I recommend star for incremental backups, since star has been verified to reliably support incremental dumps and restores. The latter is what does not work with GNU tar when you rename directories even though it is advertized since 28 years.
Please read the star man page at http://schilytools.sourceforge.net/man/man1/star.1.html
The section about incremental backups is currently starting at page 53.
To download the source, get the schilytools tarball from          http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/
Check Is it possible to use tar for full system backups? for a verification of the GNU tar bug.

A: Take a look at restic. It does incremental back ups using an algorithm called deduplication. It's also very easy to use so its great for a beginner or advanced command line user.

A: You could try BackupPC.
It allows for incremental backups, you can decide how often to do them, how many to keep and when you look at them you can see them consolidated or just the actual incremental backup. It also dedups complete files, should they be present in different backups of the same or different hosts.
It's most likely already packaged for your distribution.

A: This is not exactly what you are requesting, because it doesn't use tar. But it does use rsync, and it has worked very well for me. On of the abilities that I really like is the ability to drop incremental restore points over time without loosing points before or after the one I am dropping. This allows me to, for example, have daily backups for the last 2 weeks, then thin those out once they get 2 weeks old so they are weekly for a couple months, then further thin those out until they are monthly for a quarter or two, then thin those out to about quarterly over the timespan of years. I have a python script that I can share that can prune these automatically if you want. (Obviously, it comes with NO WARRANTY as letting a computer automatically delete backups sounds a bit scary.)
What I do is use a ZFS pool & filesystem for storing backups. With the ZFS filesystem, which is (thankfully!) now usable on linux, you can take snapshots. When you write to a filesystem that has been snapshotted, it (smartly) writes a new version of only the changed blocks, thus making it an incremental backup. Even easier is that all of your snapshots can be mounted as a full (read only) Unix filesystem, that you can use all of your normal tools on to look at and copy from. Want to see what that file looked like 2 months ago? Just cd to the right folder and use less or vim or whatever to look at it. Want to see when a (hacked) wordpress install you were backing up went off the rails? Just do a grep for an identifying mark with something like grep -in /zfsbackup/computername/.zfs/snapshots/*/var/www/html/wp-config.php" "somebadstring"
You can even use Linux's LUKS system to do disk encryption and then present the mapped device as "drives" to ZFS, giving you an encrypted backup.
If you ever need to migrate your backups to a new drive, you can use zfs send & receive to move the entire filesystem.
It has been a year or two since I've set it up (I just keep adding on incremental backups and haven't needed to upgrade my backup drive for a while), so these will be rough instructions. Bear with me, or better yet, edit them.
First, make sure you have zfs, rsync, and, if you want to encrypt your backups, the LUKS tools installed.
First, create any partition layout you might want on your backup drive. (You may want to make a small unencrypted partition that has scripts for running the backup.)
Then, if you want disk encryption, encrypt the partition with LUKS (example assumes a backup drive of /dev/sde and a partition /dev/sde2 since /dev/sde1 is probably scripts):
sudo cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/sde2

(Put in a nice strong passphrase).
If you are doing disk encryption, now you need to open the volume:
sudo cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sde2 zfsbackuppart1

(Now an unencrypted version of the raw device should be available (mapped) at /dev/mapper/zfsbackuppart1).
Now, create you ZFS pool (group of drive(s) holding data, multiple drives/devices can be used for RAID if you wish):
sudo zpool create zfsbackup /dev/mapper/zfsbackuppart1

This will create a ZFS pool named "zfsbackup".
Now, create a filesystem for each machine you are backing up:
sudo zfs create zfsbackup/machinename

And create a folder for each partition you want to back up from the source machine:
sudo mkdir /zfsbackup/machinename/slash/
sudo mkdir /zfsbackup/machinename/boot/

Then, use rsync to copy files to there:
sudo rsync -avx --numeric-ids --exclude .gvfs / /zfsbackup/machinename/slash/ --delete-after
sudo rsync -avx --numeric-ids --exclude .gvfs /boot/ /zfsbackup/machinename/boot/ --delete-after

Take a snapshot:
zfs snapshot zfsbackup/machinename@`date +%F_%T`

To disconnect the drive when you are done:
zpool export zfsbackup
# Next line, for each underlying encrypted block device, if using encryption:
cryptsetup luksClose zfsbackuppart1

And to set it up when taking another backup in the future, before the above rsync commands:
cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sde2 zfsbackuppart1
zpool import zfsbackup

Let me know if you need more info on this approach, or are interested in a script to thin out backups as they get farther back in time.
And, yes, you can backup a whole system this way -- you just have to create partitions/filesystems (which don't have to match the original layout -- a great way to migrate stuff!), tweak /etc/fstab, and install GRUB & have it rescan/rebuild the GRUB config.

A:
I tried rsync, but it doesn't seem to be able to do what I want, or more likely, I don't know how to make it do that.
I know I could probably create a script that runs a diff and then selects the files to backup based on the result (or more efficiently, just get a checksum and compare), but I want to know if there's any utility that can do this a tad easier :)

rsync is precisely that program that copies based on a diff. By default, it copies only when there is a difference in last-modified time or size, but it can even compare by checksum with -c.
The trouble here is that you're tar'ing the backups. This becomes easier if you don't do that. I don't even know why you're doing it. It might make sense if you're compressing them, but you're not even doing that.
The Wikipedia article for Incremental Backups has an example rsync command that goes roughly:
rsync -va \
  --link-dest="$dst/2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir/" \
  "$src/testdir/" \
  "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir/"

What it does is to hardlink files from the previous backup when they are unchanged from the source. There's also --copy-dest if you want it to copy instead (it's still faster when $dst is a remote or on a faster drive).
If you use a filesystem with subvolumes like btrfs, you can also just snapshot from the previous backup before rsync'ing. Snapshots are instantaneous and don't take additional space[1].
btrfs subvolume snapshot \
  "$dst/2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir" \
  "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir"

Or if you're using a filesystem that supports reflinks, then you can also do that. Reflinks are done by making a new inode but referring to the same blocks as the source file, implementing COW support. It's still faster than regular copy because it doesn't read and write the data, and it also doesn't take additional space[1].
cp --reflink -av \
  "$dst/2020-02-16--05-10-45--testdir" \
  "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir"

Anyway, once having done something like that you can just do a regular rsync to copy the differences:
rsync -va \
  "$src/testdir/" \
  "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir/"

Though, you might want to add --delete, which would cause rsync to delete files from the destination that are no longer present in the source.
Another useful option is -i or --itemize-changes. It produces succinct, machine readable output that describes what changes rsync is doing. I normally add that option and pipe like:
rsync -Pai --delete \
  "$src/testdir/" \
  "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir/" \
|& tee -a "$dst/2020-02-17--03-24-16--testdir.log"

to keep record of the changes via easily grepable files. The |& is to pipe both stdout and stderr.
The -P is short for --partial and --progress. --partial keeps partially transferred files, but more importantly --progress reports per-file progress.
How this compares to archiving changes with tar
The above solutions result in directories that seem to hold everything. Even though that's the case, in total for any amount/frequency of backups, they would occupy around the same amount of space as having plain tar archives with only changes. That's because of how hardlinks, reflinks, and snapshots work. The use of bandwidth when creating the backups would also be the same.
The advantages are:

*

*backups are easy to restore with rsync and faster, since rsync would only transfer the differences from the backup.

*they're simpler to browse and modify if needed.

*file deletions can be encoded naturally as the file's absence in new backups. When using tar archives, one would have to resort to hacks, like to delete a file foo, mark it foo.DELETED or do something complicated. I've never used duplicity for example, but looking at its documentation, it seems it encodes deletions by adding an empty file of the same name in the new tar and holding the original signature of the file in a separate .sigtar file. I imagine it compares the original signature with that of an empty file to differentiate between a file deletion and a change to an actual empty file.

If one still wants to setup each backup as only holding the files that are different (added or modified), then one can use the --link-dest solution described above and then delete the hardlinks using something like the following:
find $new_backup -type f ! -links 1 -delete

[1] Strictly speaking, they do use additional space in the form of duplicate metadata, like the filename and such. However, I think anyone would consider that insignificant.

A: Although tar does have an incremental mode there are a couple of more comprehensive tools to do the job:

*

*Duplicity

*Duplicati
They not only support incremental backups, it's easy to configure a schedule on which a full backup needs to be taken. For example in duplicity: duplicity --full-if-older-than 1M will make sure a full backup has run. They also support going back in time to a specific file, with plain tar you'll have to go through all incremental files till you found one which contains the right file.
Additionally they do support encryption and uploading to a variety of backends (like sftp, blob storage, etc). Obviously if you encrypt, don't forget to make a good backup of your keys to a secondary backup!
Another important aspect is that you can verify the integrity of your backups, ensuring you can restore, eg using duplicity verify.
I would negatively advise on a git based backup strategy. Large restores take significant time.

A: One possibility is AMANDA, the Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver, which among loads of other features, also support incremental backups.

A: The very old BSD rdump command would do backup levels.  Level 0 backed the entire file system. Level 1 would backup what changed since the zero level, Level 2 would do all backups since level 1.  To really the files required zero to be applied to the filesystem, then level 2, followed by 3 (if used). Rdump has the misfortune of writing to a tape...
The following shell script will do what you want using tar, find and egrep. It used the -newer flag of find comparing "newer" against a "touch"ed that was created when the script was last run.  The script was last run on a Solaris 4.3bsd from the 1990's to copy source files between a UNIX development machine and laptops using kermit.
The script is rather fragile because if the script "touch"es the update time file, and the tar fails, then the time file has to be recreated.  The tar file has the name of the date+hour+minute+second.
`
    #!/bin/sh -vx
echo finding newer files than update ...

cd /home/programs/gis

HOME_LOC=/home/programs/gis/
TAR_FILE=${HOME_LOC}stage/u`date +%m%d%H%M`.tar.bz2

#run find one using the -o (or) syntax
(
find . -newer ${HOME_LOC}/update  \
      \(     -name '*.[hcsf]' -o -name '*.asm' \
       -o -name '*.ma*'    -o -name '*.cpp' \
       -o -name '*.msg'    -o -name '*.hpp' \
       -o -name 'Makefile' -o -name '*.inl'                 \
       -o -name 'grid*.*'   -o -name '*.glb' \)  \
        -print ) | \
       egrep -v 'SCCS|stage|local.h' | tee /usr/tmp/x.$$

echo copying files:

tar -cjhf ${TAR_FILE} `cat /usr/tmp/x.$$`

# rm  /usr/tmp/x.$$

if test -r ${TAR_FILE}
then
    touch ${HOME_LOC}/update
fi

`

A: It looks like you are trying to do differential backups. I've used 7zip (as I also had to compress and encrypt) in the past for this. There are many tutorials available, for example this one.

A: Look for "Mike's handy rotating file system snapshot utility". It's basically just a convenience script that wraps around rsync to make rotating incremental backups of a directory. It will minimize memory usage by linking back to earlier incremental backups for all files that did not change.
See Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync for a full introduction along with an explanation for how it works.

A: Consider using bup:

*

*No need to worry about the distinction of full/incremental/decremental backups.

*Backups are as fast as incremental backups

*Restores are as simple as from full backups

*Based on the storage format of git, extended to support really large backups

*Complete deduplication across files (and parts of files), versions, and branches. This is particularly beneficial if you need to backup more than one machine or several VM snapshots.

*Can add error-correction codes to the archive using par2

*Easy access to the entire backup tree, either with direct commands or by mounting the tree as a FUSE filesystem

Caveats I have found so far:

*

*Still young and in alpha stage (current version is 0.x)

*Needs Python 2, so it's not exactly light in terms of dependencies

*bup uses file-locking in the archive folder. This means that the filesystem hosting the archive has to support file-locking. This might be a problem with SMB shares. (NFS works however.)

*Backups to or from remote hosts (via ssh) require bup to be installed there.

*For your backup names (which are Git branches) you might be tempted to use something containing slashes (/). That is not a problem for git, but bup ls gets confused by those, so do not do that. (You can change the branch name with a suitable git branch -m command if you get bitten by that.)

A: In addition to all the excellent solutions provided above, I have one more approach. Since you have not mentioned the filesystem that you are using, I am assuming that you are not using zfs or btrfs. These filesystems have built-in capabilities to do snapshots that are not copies of the entire filesystem, but just the incrementals. A typical approach would be this:

*

*Create a zfs/btrfs filesystem.

*Locate all your data (that needs to be tracked) on this filesystem.

*Set up snapshots

*Set up snapshot retention/rotation (else your snapshots will keep growing and occupy disk space).

For example, if you set up a retention of 5 days, you can go back up to 5 days in time.

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Since returning from a strained thigh that sidelined him for most of last month, Soriano has gone on a tear. He has 13 homers this month, matching Ernie Banks' record of 50 years ago.
Diamondbacks 4, Rockies 2
At Denver, Brandon Webb and the Diamondbacks clinched a playoff spot, stopping the Rockies' 11-game winning streak and putting a crimp in their postseason plans.
Arizona's win combined with the New York Mets' loss to Florida put Arizona into the postseason for the first time since 2002.
Padres 6, Brewers 3
At Milwaukee, Khalil Greene hit a go-ahead double and drove in three runs as the wild card-leading Padres eliminated the Brewers from postseason contention.
Greg Maddux (14-11) gave up three runs and six hits in five innings for his 347th win. San Diego has a two-game lead in the wild card but remained one game behind Arizona in the NL West.
Marlins 7, Mets 4
At New York, Third baseman David Wright missed an easy force play and Oliver Perez hit a pair of batters with the bases loaded as the Mets stumbled out of the NL East lead.
New York has lost five straight and 11 of 15 to fall one game back of the Philadelphia Phillies. The Mets' eighth straight home loss dropped them out of first place for the first time since May 15.
Phillies 6, Nationals 0
At Philadelphia, Cole Hamels struck out 13 in eight dominant innings and Ryan Howard hit his 45th homer as the Phillies moved closer to ending a 14-year playoff drought.
Hamels (15-5) shut down the Nationals with an overpowering fastball and his trademark changeup. He allowed six hits in his third start since missing a month with a strained elbow.
Braves 7, Astros 2
At Houston, Jeff Francoeur hit the go-ahead two-run homer as the Braves beat the Astros.
Rookie left-hander Jo-Jo Reyes (2-2) gave up two runs and seven hits in six innings one night after the Braves were eliminated from playoff contention with a loss to Philadelphia.
Cardinals 6, Pirates 1
At Pittsburgh, Jim Edmonds broke open a tight game with a three-run single in the eighth inning, helping the Cardinals win their third straight.
So Taguchi drove in two runs and David Eckstein scored three times for the defending World Series champions, who have already been eliminated from the playoffs.
Dodgers 8, Giants 3
At Los Angeles, David Wells capped off his season with a victory and singled home a run and James Loney continued his torrid month with another homer as the Dodgers beat the Giants.
Wells (9-9) allowed three runs and seven hits over six innings. He completed his 21st big league season with a career-worst 5.43 ERA, but was 4-1 in seven starts with the Dodgers.
Wells signed with the Dodgers after being designated for assignment by the San Diego Padres.
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Around the start of the Fall term in September 2014, I found myself in a bit of a bind: My level of frustration with Livescribe pencasting had peaked, and was I desperately seeking alternatives. To be clear, it was changes to the Livescribe platform that were the source of this frustration, rather than pencasting as a means for visual communication. In fact, if anything, a positive aspect of the Livescribe experience was that I was indeed SOLD on pencasting as an extremely effective means for communicating visually – an approach that delivered significant value in instructional settings such as the large classes I was teaching at the university level.
In an attempt to make use of an alternative to the Livescribe platform then, I discovered and acquired a small Wacom tablet. Whereas I rapidly became proficient in use of the Livescribe Echo smartpen, because it was truly like making use of a regular pen, my own learning curve with the Wacom solution was considerably steeper.
Probably should practice the lecture. Too many pauses um er ah.
Honestly, that was more a reflection of my grasp of the Wacom platform than my expertise with the content I was attempting to convey through this real-time screen capture. In other words, my comfort level with this technology was so low that I was distracted by it. Given that many, many thousands of visual (art) professionals make use of this or similar solutions from Wacom, I'm more that willing to admit that this one was 'on me' – I wasn't 'a natural'.
With the Wacom solution, you need to train your eyes to be fixed on your screen, while your hand writes/draws/etc. on the tablet. Not exactly known for my hand-eye coordination in general, it's evident that I struggled with this technology. As I look at the results some four years later, I'm not quite as dismayed as I expected to be. My penmanship isn't all that bad – even though I still find writing and drawing with this tablet to be a taxing exercise in humility. In hindsight, I'm also fairly pleased with the Wacom tablet's ability to permit use of colour, as well as lines of different thicknesses. This flexibility, completely out of scope in the solution from Livescribe, introduces a whole next level of prospects for visual communication.
Knowing that others have mastered the Wacom platform, and having some personal indication of its potential to produce useful results, I'm left with the idea of giving this approach another try – soon. I'll let you know how it goes.


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These Are the Latest Crop of Plug-In Hybrid Vehicles You Should Know About
From the modestly priced Toyota Prius Prime to the more expensive Bentley Bentayga Hybrid, these are the next-generation hybrids all eco-minded drivers should consider
By Brett Berk
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) split the difference between pure battery-powered vehicles and those that run solely on conventional gasoline-powered engines. PHEVs are typically a special version of an existing model featuring a downsized gas motor, as well as a significant battery pack that can be plugged and recharged.
Thusly, they offer the ability to drive anywhere from a dozen to several dozen miles on battery power alone, without any tailpipe emissions. But they can also run entirely on gas, so there is no risk of being stranded if the battery pack is depleted. (In addition, they can combine gas and electric power for greater efficiency.)
PHEVs can thus be a good option for people who want to reduce their tailpipe emissions, and who have relatively close commutes or mainly drive short distances every day, but want the option to take long drives without the need for lengthy recharging. They're also great for gaining access to some carpool lanes or special parking spaces reserved for electric vehicles, and many are eligible for a $7,500 electric car federal tax credit, as well as other state and local tax credits.
Here is a breakdown of some of the latest entries into the PHEV category, from mainstream, moderate, and luxury automakers.
Mainstream:
Photo: Courtesy of Toyota
Toyota Prius Prime: The Prius revolutionized the hybrid car category, normalizing it and bringing it to the masses. This latest-generation plug-in version continues that tradition but with futuristic outré styling.
Electric Range: 25 Miles
Base price: $27,600
Photo: Courtesy of Honda
Honda Clarity: Featuring a straightforward cockpit, the latest in driver assistance tech, and legendary Honda reliability, the Clarity already makes a great choice. With a stellar EV range, and an affordable price, it is almost unbeatable in the category.
Photo: Courtesy of Subaru
Subaru Crosstrek Plug-In Hybrid: Subaru's first-ever hybrid maintains the brand's rugged all-wheel-drive, go-anywhere spirit but adds a small battery pack that not only allows minor EV range but also improves acceleration over the gas-powered version.
Photo: Courtesy of Ford
Ford Fusion: The Fusion is a bit long in the tooth, and will be killed off by Ford after this model year—to allow the company to focus more on thirsty pickups and SUVs—so this may be your last chance to purchase the hybrid version of this handsome sedan.
Moderate:
Photo: Courtesy of Mitsubishi
Mitsubishi Outlander Hybrid: Mitsubishi has been selling cars in the U.S. since the early '80s, and is currently the fastest-growing Asian brand in our market. This SUV helps explain why, with a slick shape, usable tech, and hybrid power.
Photo: Courtesy of Mini Cooper
Mini Cooper SE Countryman: The styling of Mini vehicles may hearken back to the late 1950s, but this new, fun-loving, four-door, all-wheel-drive version boasts significant tech, including improvements in its EV system, resulting in a 30% boost in range.
Photo: Courtesy of Chrysler
Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid: Minivans sometimes get knocked as bland, but if you have to carry kids, pets, and/or gear, they are about the most efficient and comfortable vehicles out there, and are loaded with thoughtful convenience and packaging features.
Photo: Courtesy of Volvo
Volvo V60 T8: We think the V60 wagon may be Volvo's best-looking current vehicle, and that's saying something, given the brand's lovely lineup. It's also a power play, the range-topping iteration of its long-roof model, with stellar acceleration and handling.
Electric Range: 22 Miles (estimate)
Photo: Courtesy of Audi
Audi A8 e-tron: Audi is on a plug-in hybrid electric offensive in the U.S., with plans to bring a trio of PHEVs stateside. The first will arrive later this year, a version of its ultra-luxury four-door, the A8. A midsize Q5 SUV and A7 fastback will be hybridized in 2020.
Base Price: $91,000 (estimate)
Photo: Courtesy of Range Rover
Range Rover PHEV: Range Rovers coddle their passengers in a high-riding, high-luxe, high-capability environment. This mildly electric powered version of that prototypically classic SUV makes no sacrifices to those capabilities, while adding silent EV power.
Photo: Courtesy of BMW
BMW 745e: The 7-Series has a marvelous interior, with gorgeous trim details, and more LCD screens than you can imagine (there's even one on the key). And the exterior and ride are stellar as well. Its minimal EV range may not impress as much, but it will delight.
Photo: Courtesy of Mercedes-Benz
Mercedes-Benz S560e: The S-Class has been the industry standard for ultra-luxury sedans for…well, pretty much since the brand helped invent the automobile in the 19th century. This subtly electric-powered edition adds a smooth, silent jewel to that crown.
Base Price: $109,750
Photo: Courtesy of Bentley
Bentley Bentayga Hybrid: Bentley's first plug-in hybrid is also its current entry-level vehicle, a fact that is reflected in its meager range and its somewhat unrefined V-6 motor but not in its extremely elegant wood-, leather-, wool-, and metal-trimmed cabin.
Photo: Courtesy of Porsche
Porsche Cayenne Turbo SE-Hybrid: As with many things Porsche does, it has applied plug-in hybrid technology in the service of speed. This is the German brand's fastest-ever SUV, capable of speeding from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 3.6 seconds at a top speed of 183 m.p.h.
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Tips and tricks to making the BEST Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes.
I'm on a breakfast kick around here lately, but when it comes to pancakes…I've been making them all wrong for so many years! This new way of making pancakes is definitely something to do on a slower morning when you have a little more time, but once you try them, you'll want to eat these pancakes for breakfast lunch and dinner!
First up, buttermilk makes everything better, don't you think? It's that tangy zip! …but then you add big blueberries, and oh wow, these pancakes are so happy now!
Here's the big a-ha moment I had while making these, that I've never done before. Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks, and whip the egg whites into stiff peaks before you fold them back into the batter. This is the secret for the most light fluffy pancakes. Have you ever tried this before? You'll have to try this next time you make pancakes, it really makes them so good. Plus, make sure you just hand place the blueberries into the pancakes as they cook, this makes it so the blueberries only cook on one side.
1-Preheat an electric griddle to 375°F. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a medium bowl. Add the beaten egg yolks to the buttermilk. Add the 4 tablespoons melted butter to the dry ingredients and whisk to combine. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine. The batter should have small to medium lumps. Finally fold in the whipped egg whites.
2-Test the griddle by sprinkling a few drops of water on it. If the water bounces, it's ready. Butter the griddle to prepare for the batter.
3-Using a 1/2 cup, scoop and pour the batter onto the griddle about 2 inches apart. To make blueberry pancakes, hand place about 5 or more blueberries into each cooking pancake, pressing each one in slightly. When the pancakes have bubbles on top and are slightly dry around the edges, about 2 1/2 minutes, they're ready to flip over. If any batter oozes or blueberries roll out, push them back under with your spatula. Cook until golden on bottom, about 1 minute.
Repeat with the remaining batter. Serve warm.
Make the most fluffy blueberry buttermilk pancakes.
Preheat an electric griddle to 375°F. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar in a medium bowl. Add the beaten egg yolks to the buttermilk. Add the 4 tablespoons melted butter to the dry ingredients and whisk to combine. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and combine. The batter should have small to medium lumps. Finally fold in the whipped egg whites.
Test the griddle by sprinkling a few drops of water on it. If the water bounces, it's ready. Butter the griddle to prepare for the batter.
Using a 1/2 cup, scoop and pour the batter onto the griddle about 2 inches apart. To make blueberry pancakes, hand place about 5 or more blueberries into each cooking pancake, pressing each one in slightly. When the pancakes have bubbles on top and are slightly dry around the edges, about 2 1/2 minutes, they're ready to flip over. If any batter oozes or blueberries roll out, push them back under with your spatula. Cook until golden on bottom, about 1 minute.
Quick Note: I was short one cup of buttermilk one time I was making these and I was happy to learn that you can make your own buttermilk with 1 cup of whole milk and lemon juice mixed together. To equal 1 cup, you need a 90×10 ratio of milk to lemon juice. Mix it together and you have buttermilk in a jiffy!
You'll have to try these next time you make pancakes, they're a game changer! Click here for the homemade buttermilk syrup recipe.
We made a cute Mother's Day printable for breakfast in bed that would go great with these delicious pancakes. Click here for the Mother's Day breakfast in bed printable.


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The Uncle Floyd Show (As Worn By Johnny Ramone, Ramones) T-Shirt
Johnny Ramone wore this design for The Uncle Floyd Show, a comedy show that aired in America between 1974-1998.
The Ramones were just one of many musical acts that performed on the show in its near 25 year run - perhaps why they've been there, done that and got the t-shirt!
Now you can too - the perfect addition to the Ramones fans' collection!
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John has another reason for putting this story of the clearing of the temple right at the beginning of his account of Jesus' ministry. He is making a point within a point. Yes, the driving out of the tradesmen is important but the discourse that happens afterwards is even more important.
Jesus does this more than once. He deliberately acts in such a way to get a big reaction from the religious leaders, which then opens the door for deeper truth to come out. The healing of the blind man in chapter 8 is a great example of this. He knows that if these people are to really get to know His Father then He is going to have to cut through the religious nonsense that has blinded them for centuries.
Maybe we will discover that we are doing something that is blinding the eyes of people to who the Father really is.
Jesus used this method for the first time here. Yes, he wants us to know that the temple is His Father's house and He is passionate that any activity occurring in it should be a true reflection of who His Father really is. But then he takes us to a deeper truth and the door to seeing that truth is opened by the indignant response of the religious leaders.
Again the disciples only get the revelation later on, finally after Jesus' death and resurrection, when the Holy Spirit helps them to see the connection between their experience of the resurrection, Jesus' words here and the Scriptures.
That is how revelation works. We see it from experience, we hear it from the words of Jesus and we "remember" it from the Scriptures (not necessarily in that order), all through the Holy Spirit.
As a side note, this is why the reading, memorization and meditation on the Bible is so important. We often don't understand it straight away. But just because we don't understand it the first time doesn't mean we should give up. The disciples rarely understood the first time they heard or were taught something and they went on to be great church leaders. It may be years later that we experience something and the Holy Spirit brings back to our mind the Scriptures and we suddenly understand it, we "get it".
Of course, we won't be able to "get it" at all if we didn't read and digest it in the first place.
Signs were obviously important to the religious leaders. Anyone could get up and pretend they were from God and quote a few of the prophets, but how could they tell if they were really sent from God or not? Their answer was: Supernatural signs.
You could argue that the Jewish faith was based on such signs. We have looked in some of the signs from God that formed the foundation of their understanding of God in Chapter 20. Abraham, Isaac, Joseph, Moses and the people of Israel, Hezekiah and Esther all experiences supernatural signs from heaven that were designed to help them to trust in God in a whole new way. There are many many more such signs that point the way to God in the Old Testament. In fact, up till 400 years before the appearance of Jesus, you could argue that there had been signs in every generation and pretty powerful ones at that.
Maybe that was the problem for these Jewish leaders. It had been so long since the last sign. Then they had to deal with crowds going to John the Baptist, a man of such small self-interest that they couldn't get him to talk himself and his ministry at all. He insisted that if they wanted to get right with God then they had to repent and line up for baptism behind all the tax collectors, crooked soldiers and prostitutes who got there before them. John the Baptist wasn't telling people to go to the priests with a sacrifice for the temple. He was telling the priests that they had to come to him.
Now Jesus comes, who seems to have even less respect for them and their temple than John the Baptist. The fact was that Jesus was showing more respect for the temple (His Father's house) than they were, but they couldn't see that. They want to be careful about how they respond because the crowds seem to enjoy being round this Jesus more than even they wanted to be around John. Later we discover that most of the people were scared of these religious leaders. Here we find out that the leaders are anxious about what the crowds will do too. That is the way with ungodly leadership, it is built on fear, both ways.
So, the safe way to confront Jesus and not anger the crowds is to demand a sign. If, after 400 years of apparent silence, God has visited His people, then surely He will give this generation a sign as He did to the other generations He spoke to. That seems reasonable.
Thankfully God is not like us. He is much more gracious and patient and kind than we are. He gives signs all the time, whether we see them or not. John's gospel tracks many of the signs that Jesus did, in the hope that we would see and believe. But Jesus did many more signs that we no longer know about, because they were not recorded. There were too many of them.
God doesn't have a problem with giving us signs.
And so Jesus gives the leaders a sign, in a riddle. I like a riddles. A problem you have to wrestle with that doesn't make total sense, until it all comes together in your mind and you finally get it. That moment of revelation is worth the effort of the enquiry. Most of the religious leaders didn't get the riddle, although we are soon going to meet one who certainly wanted to wrestle further with what Jesus is saying. But Jesus wasn't saying the riddle in this public context mainly for them. He was speaking to another audience and, eventually they got it and became world changers as a result. Revelation is a powerful thing.
But the point has been made. Jesus is going to give them a sign. But it will not begin with Him, it will begin with them. Jesus has just cleaned out their temple, but if they want to see a sign, they are going to have destroy God's temple first.
Both for these leaders and, more importantly for the disciples of Jesus who are listening, Jesus's riddle is impossible in two ways. Firstly, there was no way that these religious leaders were going to destroy the temple in Jerusalem (which is what they all think Jesus is referring to, at this point at least). Secondly there was no way, physically, that Jesus could then rebuild it in just three days.
If Jesus could pull this off by persuading the leaders to rip the temple down stone by stone and then by putting it all back together again Himself in three days, then surely that would be two signs to rival anything the Jews had seen before. That would surely prove that the God of Abraham and Moses and Samuel and Elijah and Elisha and Esther and all the other great leaders and prophets of the Old Testament was with this Jesus of Nazareth.
But Jesus did pull this off. And He did it in a way that made it an even greater sign than what these leaders and disciples thought it to be. For those who got it, this became the greatest of all signs. It was so much beyond anything the Jewish people had seen before, that they realised that Jesus was in a totally different league to anyone who God had sent to them before. He was God.
These religious leaders did destroy "this temple". They did so by stirring up the crowd against Him with false accusations. Faced with an angry mob, the Roman ruler and his cohorts carried out the cruelest form of punishment and death against. In the end, His physical body was taken down from the cross, bruised, battered, beaten, scourged and pierced through. Yes, they were going to destroy "this temple".
In three days, the temple rose again, more glorious than it had ever been and outshining for all times the greatest temples of earth, even Solomon's wonder. And when it happened, the disciples got it.
They had heard Jesus' riddle, but didn't get it then. They had known the scriptures, but didn't get it then. But then God gives them the greatest of all signs and suddenly their eyes are opened. They get what Jesus was saying. They get what the scriptures were saying and it completely transforms them into world changing leaders. That's the power of revelation.
2. Some of the signs come in the form of "riddles", maybe dreams, or prophetic words or scriptures that resonate with us in a deep way. We may think that we know what they mean, but maybe God has hidden the meaning from us for a while, waiting for the right time.
Jesus did rise from the dead. It did change everything. And it will change everything for you too today if you will choose to believe and receive Jesus as your personal saviour and Lord.
Even if you have already done that, a fresh revelation of the greatest sign of them all may transform your life and ministry to a new level of power and effectiveness.
This is why the Holy Spirit through John gives us these stories at the beginning. It begins with water into wine on the third day. Going beyond creation into a whole new level of recreation as the Creator moves down into our sinful chaotic darkness and begins to speak words of life. It ends with the breakthrough moment for recreation, resurrection life out of every attempt of man to destroy God, on the third day. At the end of water into wine, the disciples are believers, at least to some extent. At the end of the resurrection those same disciples are bold world changers. They have found life in all it's fulness, recreated, resurrection life and they want the world to have it too.


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The next best thing to watching the Miami Dolphins play football is talking about them. Jamie Bahamas has one of the most insightful outlooks on the Dolphins and provides it thought-provoking commentary. If you're a 'Fins' fan or just like talking about football, this podcast is a must for you.
Talking About Them Dolphins With Jamie Bahamas Jamie Bahamas
Game Pick - Bills at Dolphins
Jamie Bahamas was 12-4 in predicting the outcome of Dolphins games in 2020.
His hot streak continues this season as he not only successfully called the game in favor of the Dolphins, but his keys to victory were also spot on.
This week is Miami's home opener. The Buffalo Bills come to town and the game is scheduled to kickoff at 1:00 PM EDT.
In this special episode of Talking About Them Dolphins, a 2 minute listen, Jamie gives his game pick.
Tua Sidelined - Should You Care?
There's always something to talk about with these Miami Dolphins; and that's ok, we are here for it. The Dolphins started the season with a close road victory over a Division rival.
Many people were talking about the victory. However, there was another storyline that seemed to grab people's attention. Miami's starting quarterback Tua Tagovailoa was sidelined twice in favor of backup Jacoby Brissett in short-yardage scenarios, Some fans cringed as this brought flashbacks of Tua being pulled in favor of Ryan Fitzpatrick last season.
The question on many minds was if this is Tua's team, then why are they doing this. In this episode of Talking About them Dolphins, Jamie Bahamas explains whether you should be concerned or applaud the move by the Dolphins.
Game Pick - Dolphins at Patriots
The Dolphins travel to Foxboro to take on the New England Patriots at 4:25 PM EDT to open the 2021 season.
In this special episode of Talking About Them Dolphins, Jamie gives his game pick.
Dolphins at Patriots - Who Has the Edge?
It's Go Time!
The 2021 NFL Regular Season is about the kick-off. The Miami Dolphins will start the season on the road against a familiar foe. The Dolphins travel up north to Foxboro, Massachusetts to take on the New England Patriots.
This is a rematch of week one last season. The Dolphins fell to the Patriots 21 to 11 in a game with extremely poor quarterback play. Ryan Fitzpatrick had three interceptions to no touchdowns. There are two different starting quarterbacks this time around. Call this the Alabama Quarterback Bowl. The Dolphins are starting the season with Tua Tagovailoa under center. On the other end, the rookie quarterback from Alabama, Mac Jones, gets the nod and will be making his debut.
Who has the edge in this matchup?
In the latest episode of the Talking About Them Dolphins, Jamie Bahamas gives his take on who has the upper hand in this matchup.
Do Dolphins Fans Owe Nick Saban An Apology?
Nick Saban has been labeled the "devil" of past Miami Dolphins coaches by fans. Saban earned this title by abandoning the team mid-contract. This was after he was hired to be the next best thing since Don Shula. Not to mention he repeatedly denied the possibility of returning to coach in the NCAA as rumored swirled.
Most have filed this story as ancient history and have tried to move on. Especially with the Dolphins now seemingly in good hands with Brian Flores. Bust just like the devil likes to ruin a good time, Saban decided to open old wounds of hopeful Dolphins fans.
Saban recently said the following, "So, I decided right then when that happened that we don't have a quarterback in the NFL, we're not going to win. I'm getting out of here, I'm not staying here. I'm not going to be responsible for this."
This was in reference to the Dolphins passing on Drew Brees because of a failed physical by the team's doctors.
After hearing this, for those that were angry at Saban for abandoning the Dolphins; do you forgive him now?
I personally say, absolutely not!
In the latest episode of the Talking About Them Dolphins, Jamie Bahamas shares how he feels about Saban's newly revealed reasons for leaving.
What Should Miami Do With Xavien Howard?
Xavien Howard returned from a season-ending injury and surgery. Not only did he return, but he performed. Howard led the league in interceptions and finished third in Defensive Player of the Year voting.
Howard had a chip on his shoulder. He watched the Dolphins invest heavily in others at his position. That motivated him to remind them of his value.
Now Howard is making a bet on himself. Howard is early into a lucrative long-term contract but feels he has already outplayed that deal. The Dolphins did not expect to have to be worried about Howard's contract this year but rather focused on other top players with expiring deals. It seems like Miami is doing just that and as a result, Howard is holding out.
This leaves the Dolphins with three options:
1. Renegotiate Xavien Howard's contract
2. Trade Xavien Howard
3. Do Nothing and Wait Xavien Howard Out
In the latest episode of the Talking About Them Dolphins, Jamie Bahamas explains which of the three options Miami should go with.
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Rhymesontime , 06/18/2021
Miami nice!
Great perspective, insight, and analysis. Looking forward to more as the season approaches and beyond!
J S. Cusick , 02/22/2021
Phins up
This guy knows his Dolphins!
Anthony Yero , 02/17/2021
Favorite Dolphins podcast
Love Jamie's spirit and his insight about the Dolphins.
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Panthers, Driedger put Penguins' streak on ice
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Jan 5, 2020; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; Florida Panthers defenseman Aaron Ekblad (5) enters the rink to warm up against the Pittsburgh Penguins at PPG PAINTS Arena. Mandatory Credit: Charles LeClaire-USA TODAY Sports
Frank Vatrano and Mike Hoffman each had a goal and an assist Sunday as the visiting Florida Panthers topped the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-1.
Brett Connolly and Evgenii Dadonov also scored for Florida, which led from about the midway point of the first period on.
Goaltender Chris Driedger made 31 saves for the Panthers, who have won seven of 10 and finished a road trip 2-2-0.
Jared McCann scored for Pittsburgh, which had its five-game point streak (4-0-1) snapped. The Penguins failed to improve on their NHL-best 16 home wins. They also had won eight in a row at home against Florida.
Tristan Jarry, making his ninth start in Pittsburgh's past 12 games, stopped 31 shots. He had been 6-0-1 in his previous seven starts.
Coach Mike Sullivan missed his first shot at getting his 200th win with Pittsburgh.
Florida opened the scoring at 2:28 of the first. Vatrano broke in from the right point on what wasn't quite a breakaway as defenseman Kris Letang was on his flank. Vatrano fended off Letang with one hand, muscled a shot with the other, then grabbed the rebound without breaking stride and slipped the puck past Jarry's right skate.
Pittsburgh tied it 1:24 later on its first shot. Dominik Simon carried the puck on a two-on-one and maneuvered a pass to McCann past the stick of lone defender Josh Brown. McCann got the feed made it 1-1.
Connolly restored the Panthers' lead, 2-1, at 10:44 of the first. In the slot, Connolly got a feed from Vincent Trocheck — playing in his 400th career game — at the end boards and finished with a shot through traffic and past Jarry's glove.
After a scoreless second, Hoffman extended Florida's lead to 3-1 at 8:52 of the third. From above the right hash marks, he launched a shot that zoomed under the crossbar.
Dadonov added an empty-netter with 2:28 left, giving him four goals and five points in the past three games.