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2014 Grammy Awards Winners – Full List
The first of the 2014 Grammy Awards winners was announced during the pre-show ceremony, but country fans had to wait until almost 7PM to celebrate.
The first of the 2014 Grammy Awards winners was announced during the pre-show ceremony, but country fans had to wait until almost 7PM to celebrate.
Hunter Hayes has really been making a name for himself over the past year. Not only was he named to Forbes' 2014 30 Under 30 List and honored as a 2013 CMT Artist of the Year, but he's also slated to perform at the 2014 Grammy Awards.
Keith Urban is a bit of a musical anomaly. While the country community firmly embraces the singer and guitarist, there are critics that consider him both a pop and a rock artist. He's a lot of things to a lot of music fans, but terms, categories and definitions don't carry much weight for Urban and he isn't sitting around thinking about how he should be labeling himself. For him, it's a state of mind.
Kacey Musgraves had a big year in 2014, and she's starting off 2014 with a bang, too -- with a performance at the 2014 Grammy Awards!
Keith Urban and his fellow Season 13 'American Idol' judges added to their very busy week when they dropped by 'Ellen' to discuss all the fun they've been having and how big of fans they are of each other.
Keith Urban is the only returning judge to American Idol after last season's ANNOYING show.
Keith Urban sure knows how to say thanks! Over the weekend, the Aussie flew 10 of his biggest fans to Chicago for a full weekend of fun and admission into his exclusive 100 Club.
It looks like Season 13 of 'American Idol' is going to be a good one, especially after all of last year's over-the-top drama among the panelists. Keith Urban is the only returning judge in 2014 and he seems to be enjoying himself immensely, since he is having loads of fun in this spot for the new season, kicking off Jan. 15 on Fox.
Be on the lookout for the 98 Country team tonight at the Target Center for the Keith Urban Concert. Should be an amazing show, with special guests Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch. As much as I like Keith, I'm really looking forward to LBT.
'American Idol' will hit the air for its 13th season on Jan. 15, and along with the new contestants comes a new panel of judges.
Just when you think this little dude is through with his interpretation of the 'The Gambler' by Kenny Rogers, he breaks into the next verse and another round of the chorus. That's pretty good for a kid so young. There are a lot of life lessons to be learned from this hit, and little Liam seems to have a handle on them at a young age.
Two very talented guitar players will take one stage to help honor the Beatles during a 2014 Grammys special event. Keith Urban will join forces with John Mayer to pay tribute to the seven-time Grammy winning group.


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Los Alamos County Airport
Los Alamos Airport Los Alamos County Airport |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | County of Los Alamos | ||||||||||
Serves | Los Alamos, New Mexico | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 7,171 ft / 2,186 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 35°52′47″N 106°16′07″W / 35.87972°N 106.26861°WCoordinates: 35°52′47″N 106°16′07″W / 35.87972°N 106.26861°W | ||||||||||
Website | www.LAM.aero | ||||||||||
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Los Alamos Airport[1][2][3] (IATA: LAM[4], ICAO: KLAM, FAA LID: LAM), also known as Los Alamos County Airport,[2] is a county owned, public use airport in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States.[1] It is located one nautical mile (2 km) east of the central business district of Los Alamos, New Mexico.[1] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation facility.[5] It is served by one commercial airline.
The airport was built in 1947 by the Atomic Energy Commission as part of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, but the federal government transferred the facility to county ownership in 2008.[3]
Los Alamos Airport covers an area of 89 acres (36 ha) at an elevation of 7,171 feet (2,186 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 9/27 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,000 by 120 feet (1,829 x 37 m).[1]
Because of the restricted airspace immediately to the south of the runway, and the noise-sensitive residential area just west of the runway, Los Alamos Airport employs a non-standard traffic pattern. All takeoffs, regardless of wind conditions, are to the east on runway 9. All landings, regardless of wind, are to the west on runway 27. Unlike many airports, the orientation of the runway at Los Alamos was chosen due to geographic necessity rather than preferential wind alignment. Pilots will frequently encounter a gusty crosswind at this airfield, particularly in spring. This fact, combined with the rugged terrain off the east end of the runway, has given LAM a reputation for being a challenging airport at which to land.[citation needed]
Airline and destinations[edit]
The following airline offers scheduled passenger service:
Airlines | Destinations |
Pacific Wings operated by New Mexico Airlines | Albuquerque |
For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2008, the airport had 13,000 aircraft operations, an average of 35 per day: 99% general aviation, <1% air taxi, and <1% military. At that time there were 57 aircraft based at this airport: 96% single-engine, 2% multi-engine, and 2% ultralight.[1]
Los Alamos Airport has numerous services available for local and visiting pilots: a flight planning room, open 24 hours a day to pilots, includes an internet-connected computer, printer, fax machine, and free WiFi connectivity; bathroom open 24 hours a day to pilots; self-serve 100LL fuel available 24 hours a day; on-field major airframe and powerplant repair; courtesy car; aircraft rentals; car rentals; nearby bus stop.
- ^ a b c d e f FAA Airport Master Record for LAM (Form 5010 PDF). Federal Aviation Administration. Effective May 31, 2012.
- ^ a b c Los Alamos County Airport
- ^ a b "Los Alamos Airport". Los Alamos County website. October 30, 2008. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
- ^ "Airline and Airport Code Search". International Air Transport Association (IATA). Retrieved November 28, 2012.
- ^ "2011–2015 NPIAS Report, Appendix A" (PDF, 2.03 MB). National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems. Federal Aviation Administration. October 4, 2010.
External links[edit]
- Aerial image as of October 1996 from USGS The National Map
- FAA Terminal Procedures for LAM, effective January 8, 2015
- Resources for this airport:
- FAA airport information for LAM
- AirNav airport information for KLAM
- ASN accident history for LAM
- FlightAware airport information and live flight tracker
- NOAA/NWS latest weather observations
- SkyVector aeronautical chart, Terminal Procedures


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Culture | CULTURE SMASH Feb 13, 2014
The symbiotic relationship between anime and games
by Roland Kelts
Japan excels at making you play. From its flower arrangements to tea ceremonies to karaoke, nothing much happens until you get into the game, and a big part of Japan's appeal to non-natives is its invitation to engage. Tourists and expats gleefully bear floats ...


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McKinley, William 1843-1901Overview
Publication Timeline
Most widely held works about
William McKinley
Most widely held works by
William McKinley
The works of Henry Clay, comprising his life, correspondence and speeches
by Henry Clay
16 editions published between 1897 and 1978 in English and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Free raw materials" exposed speeches of Senator Sherman and Congressmen McKinley and Goff, (revised by the speakers), before the Home Market Club, at banquet in Hotel Vendome, February 9th
by John Sherman
7 editions published between 1888 and 1889 in English and held by 318 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Message from the President of the United States transmitting the report of the Hawaiian Commission appointed in pursuance of the "Joint resolution to provide for annexing the Hawaiian Islands to the United States," approved July 7, 1898 : together with a copy of the civil and penal laws of Hawaii
by United States
2 editions published in 1898 in English and held by 248 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Speeches and addresses of William McKinley, from March 1, 1897 to May 30, 1900
by William McKinley
7 editions published in 1900 in English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Speeches and addresses of William McKinley : from his election to Congress to the present time
by William McKinley
9 editions published between 1893 and 1900 in English and held by 188 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tariff in the days of Henry Clay, and since. An exhaustive review of our tariff legislation from 1812 to 1896
by William McKinley
7 editions published between 1896 and 1970 in English and held by 162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The tariff ; a review of the tariff legislation of the United States from 1812 to 1896
by William McKinley
9 editions published between 1904 and 2003 in English and held by 156 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A treaty of peace between the United States and Spain : message from the President of the United States transmitting a treaty of peace between the United States and Spain, signed at the city of Paris on December 10, 1898
by United States
3 editions published in 1899 in English and held by 154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Eleazar Gonzalez presents the full text of the peace treaty between the United States and Spain that ended the Spanish-American War. The treaty was signed on December 10, 1898. The text of the treaty is available in both Spanish and English
President McKinley's funeral cortege at Washington, D.C
4 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S FUNERAL CORTEGE AT WASHINGTON, D.C. When photographing the funeral of President McKinley we secured an excellent position at the foot of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., having had the exclusive right for animated picture apparatus inside the lines. Our camera is focused looking up Pennsylvania Avenue and shows countless thousands of mourning people who line the streets along the way. As the funeral procession which accompanies the body of our martyred President approaches, our camera is set in motion and pictures of the marching multitude who pay the last tribute to President McKinley at our National Capitol are recorded in the following order. The line is headed by a troop of U.S. Cavalry, followed by detachments of heavy artillery [end of part 1]; then comes the Loyal Legion, followed by G. A. R. detachments, made up of both Federal and Confederate veterans. Next in order comes the Guard of Honor [end of part 2], who are in turn followed by the hearse, which is drawn by six black-plumed and black-netted horses. Inside the hearse can be seen the flag covered casket. The light and color of the procession is suddenly gone; spectators silently bow and bare their heads. The pageant has suddenly been transformed into a funeral cortege. Our position was so excellent that as the hearse passed our camera a distinct and life-size view was procured, showing this vehicle of sadness in all its detail. The hearse is closely followed by the Admirals of the Navy and the Generals of the Army. Next in order come the carriages of the family and the relatives, and then the carriage of President Roosevelt, which is drawn by four black horses. Next come the carriages which contain the President's Cabinet, the Diplomatic Corps, Chief Justice Fuller and Associate Justices, Senators, Congressman, Governors of States and Government Officials. These carriages are followed by the United States Marine Band, which forms a most imposing spectacle as it marches slowly and solemnly to the strains of "Nearer My God to Thee." Following the United States Marine Band and in step with the slow funeral march comes the National Guard of the District of Columbia and sailors from United States Battleships, clad in their natty uniforms and jackey hats. The sailors and soldiers are marching sixteen abreast and make a very imposing spectacle as they pass our camera [sequence from the Marine Band to sailors appears in part 2]. The procession having passed, the crowd immediately surges toward the Capitol, intent on securing a place in the line that they may enter the rotunda and look upon the face of the illustrious President McKinley. Our panoramic device is then set in motion and a most perfect and interesting picture is secured as an ending to the Washington film. The picture shows the immense crowds surging toward the Capitol, and as rain begins falling at that moment tens of thousands of umbrellas are raised for protection. Our camera having been above the heads of the people, a most novel effect is secured. As the camera rotates, the base and steps of the Capitol are brought into view and the crowd is shown crushing and struggling for entrance to the rotunda. One of the most perfect of the McKinley funeral pictures
Funeral leaving the President's house and church at Canton, Ohio
4 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 121 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S BODY LEAVING THE HOUSE AND CHURCH. Ungowning. [code for telegraphic orders]. In this picture we show a most perfect view of the front entrance of the McKinley home in the background. The hearse which is to bear the President's body to its last resting place drives into view. President Roosevelt's Cabinet forms in line on either side of the walk. The Admirals of the Navy and the Generals of the Army form lines in their rear. President Roosevelt takes his place at the head of the Cabinet and immediately the body emerges from the front door, borne on the shoulders of the soldiers and sailors. As it passes through the lines of Diplomats, Admirals and Generals, all heads are uncovered. The sailors and soldiers descend the steps slowly to the sidewalk and then the body is placed in the hearse. Here we secured another life size view. The hearse starts slowly away and President Roosevelt and his Cabinet walk toward their carriages. Then with the aid of our panoramic device we followed the hearse until it passed slowly out of view down Market Street. This scene dissolves into a picture of the body leaving the church at Canton borne on the shoulders of the sailors and soldiers and placed again in the hearse. From the time the casket appears at the church door it does not pass out of the view of our camera until the doors of the hearse are closed upon it. We follow it constantly with our panoramic device, and the views are perfect and life size. The hearse finally starts away for the cemetery, followed by the famous Black Horse Cavalry, Troop A, of Ohio. Class A 200 ft. $30.00
President McKinley reviewing the troops at the Pan-American Exposition
3 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: PRESIDENT McKINLEY REVIEWING THE TROOPS AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. The President is seen on the reviewing stand at the Stadium, escorted by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition, Secretary Cortelyou, and other noted persons. He removes his silk hat as the troops march by and politely bows to the great audience as they cheer and encore. President McKinley and party form the left foreground of our picture while the troops march by in the right foreground. From this excellent position we thus secured perfect pictures of both the Executive and his troops
President McKinley's speech at the Pan-American Exposition
4 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH AT THE PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION. In this picture we present a wonderful and life-like likeness of President McKinley. He first walks upon the platform, escorting Mrs. McKinley, whom he very reverently shows to a seat. The President is next introduced to the audience by President Milburn, of the Pan-American Exposition, and, amid hand-clapping, cheering, and waving of hats, he at once begins his memorable speech. He is close to our camera and we secured an absolutely perfect photograph
President McKinley taking the oath
3 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: PRESIDENT McKINLEY TAKING THE OATH OF OFFICE. This picture opens by showing the Diplomatic Corps, accompanied by Admiral Dewey and General Nelson A. Miles, coming down the carpeted stone steps of the Capitol and going to their seats in front of the stand where the President speaks. Next come the members of the President's Cabinet, and they are followed closely by President McKinley, preceded by Sergeant-at-Arms Ransdell of the Senate, bare headed and one armed, and also accompanied by the joint committee of Congress, composed of Senator Mark Hanna, of Ohio; Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin; Senator James K. Jones, of Arkansas; Representatives Cannon, of Illinois; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania, and McRae, of Arkansas. The President then steps promptly to the front of the stand amid the cheers of the immense crowd who stand with heads reverently uncovered, filling the entire foreground of our picture. As the tumult ceases, Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, in the black silk robes of his high office, steps forward and holding in his outstretched hand a small Bible, administers the oath of office. The oath taken, the President presses his lips to the Bible and with manuscript in hand, immediately begins his speech. Again the valuable and exclusive privileges granted us by the United States Government allowed us to place our camera within fifteen feet of the President when he took the oath of office. We regret that we were unable to secure a longer film than listed above, but the rain began falling in torrents with almost the first words of the President's speech, which of course prohibited our taking a greater length of film, but notwithstanding the fact that it began sprinkling before the President took the oath of office, the fifty feet of film which we did secure is good
President McKinley and escort going to the Capitol
3 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 119 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: PRESIDENT McKINLEY AND ESCORT GOING TO THE CAPITOL. This most excellent picture was secured at the junction of Pennsylvania Avenue and Fifteenth Street. The parade is headed by a platoon of mounted police; next comes the Grand Marshal, Major- General Francis V. Green, and staff, as follows: A. Noel Blakeman, Lieut. Col. John S. Johnson, Major-General N.E. Thompson, U.S.A., Brigadier-General U.S.W. Day, U.S.V., Lieut. Winfield S. Overton, U.S.A., all mounted on splendid horses. Next come the famous Troop A, of Cleveland, Ohio, who act as the personal escort of the President. They present a most striking appearance as they go down the incline on Fifteenth Street, Washington. Next comes President McKinley in his carriage drawn by four of his own horses, the pair of blacks in the lead and the favorite bays on the wheel. The President is seated in the right of the carriage with Senator Hanna on the left beside him, and facing them, with their backs to the driver, are seated Representatives Cannon and McRae. Owing to special permits granted us by the United States Government, we were able to have our camera within twenty feet of the President's carriage when it passed, and an absolutely perfect photograph was secured. The President's carriage is followed by Secretaries Hay and Gage. The third carriage contains Secretary Root, Attorney-General Griggs and the President's Private Secretary Cortelyou. The fourth carriage contains Secretaries Long, Wilson, Hitchcock and Postmaster-General Smith. The fifth carriage contains Lieutenant-General Miles and Admiral Dewey. We also present excellent pictures of the Admiral of the Navy and the General commanding the United States Army as they pass. This picture closes up by showing a detachment of Veterans of the Twenty-third Ohio Volunteers, followed closely by the West Point Cadets, who present a remarkable spectacle as they execute left wheel turning from Fifteenth Street into Pennsylvania Avenue
Execution of Czolgosz, with panorama of Auburn Prison
4 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: ELECTROCUTION OF CZOLGOSZ. . A detailed reproduction of the execution of the assassin of President McKinley faithfully carried out from the description of an eye witness. The picture is in three scenes. First: Panoramic view of Auburn Prison taken the morning of the electrocution. The picture then dissolves into the corridor of murderer's row. The keepers are seen taking Czolgosz from his cell to the death chamber, and shows State Electrician, Wardens and Doctors making final test of the chair. Czolgosz is then brought in by the guard and is quickly strapped into the chair. The current is turned on at a signal from the Warden, and the assassin heaves heavily as though the straps would break. He drops prone after the current is turned off. The doctors examine the body and report to the Warden that he is dead, and he in turn officially announces the death to the witness
History speaks
2 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 81 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Along with historical narrative, hear rare recordings of some of the most famous people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This volume includes: Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Ewart Gladstone, Guiglielmo Marconi, William McKinley, Leo Tolstoy, William Booth, Pope Leo Xlll, Sir Robert Baden-Powell, Dr. Frederick Cook, and William E. Peary
Life of Gen. Benjamin Harrison. A full account of his ancestry ... and recent political triumphs, with a sketch of the life and public services of Whitelaw Reid, together with both sides of the question; protection and free trade
by Waldo Messaros
4 editions published between 1882 and 1980 in English and held by 78 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Abraham Lincoln : an address by William McKinley of Ohio, before the Marquette Club, Chicago, February 12, 1896
by William McKinley
3 editions published between 1896 and 2007 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Taking President McKinley's body from train at Canton, Ohio
3 editions published in 1901 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide From a contemporary Edison film company catalog: BODY LEAVING THE TRAIN AT CANTON, OHIO. Here, as in the other pictures, we secured a most advantageous location, and we present a life-size view of the casket containing the body of President McKinley as it is slowly and carefully taken from the window of the car which bore it from the Capitol to Canton. The casket is placed upon the shoulders of ten stalwart sailors and soldiers and borne to the waiting hearse, followed by President Roosevelt and Cabinet
Life and speeches of William McKinley
by William McKinley
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Nigeria Vs Ghana results at half time
2014 African Nations ChampionshipSouth Africa - Ghana and Nigeria are tying 0-0 at half time here Wednesday in their semi-final match at the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN), taking place in South Africa.
The winner here will meet Libya in the final on 1 February.
Earlier Wednesday, the Libyans defeated Zimbabwe 5-4 on penalties after they ended regulation and extra time 0-0.
2014 African Nations Championship semi-final: Ghana 0, Nigeria 0 at full time, match goes into extra time - Nigeria and Ghana were locked in 0-0 at the end of regulation 90 minutes in their semi-final match here Wednesday at the 2014 African Nations Championship (CHAN) in South Africa.
The match will now go into a 30-minute extra time. Should the score remain goalless, the match will be decided by penalty shootout.
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The City of St. Francis Economic Development Committee will be hosting the 43rd Annual Business Appreciation Night at the Pulaski Inn, 3900 East Pulaski Avenue in Cudahy, Wisconsin on Wednesday September 28, 2011. Ticket prices are $25 per person and can be purchased at St. Francis City Hall.
The recipient of the 2011 Award is Wixon Industries. Wixon Spice Company was founding in Chicago in 1907 by Charles Franklin Wixon. Wixon prepared spices by night and delivered them by day in a horse-drawn wagon down the heart of the business district in Chicago. These spices soon became the flavor of sausage in Chicago and thus, the beginning of Wixon, Inc. After Wixon's death in 1925, the company was sold to its salespeople and in 1964 merged with Milwaukee Spice Mills forming Wixon Milwaukee Spice Corporation which was headquartered at the current location in St. Francis.
Wixon Milwaukee Spice Corporation continued to thrive throughout the decades, reaching $3 million in sales in 1980. In 1980, Fontarome Chemical of France purchased Wixon. In 1990 sales reached a record $31 million. The 21st century saw the addition of the Bud Morgan Research Center, named to honor Wixon's longtime president Bud Morgan. The Research Center allows food technologists to identify, match and formulate an ever-growing spectrum of products, including the innovative flavor technologies Mag-nifique and Wix-Fresh. In 2004 Peter Gottsacker along with Peter Caputa and Chuck Ehemann bought Wixon. In 2006 Wixon was awarded a "superior" rating for its food safety and quality systems from AIB International – the highest rating achievable by the AIB's independent and comprehensive auditing system. By this time, sales reached a record $50 million.
Wixon celebrated 100 years of business in 2007 and was honored by the Wisconsin Technology Council and Small Business Times with the Innovative Quotient Award for the Mag-nifique line of flavor technologies.
A new brand promise, "Service Driven Culinary Science" reflected the company's passion for food and providing innovative solutions for its customers by combining food science and technology with the creativity of culinary arts. This included hiring a corporate chef, building a $2.5 million state-of-the-art 4200 square foot Innovation Center for Culinary and Meat Processing, housing the Culinary Center, Meat Pilot Plant, comprehensive food preparation areas and conference rooms.
In 2010 Wixon announced an expansion of services with its new Foodservice Group and Protein Group Division. These areas include Wixon's team of seasoned flavor chemists, meat scientists, technologies and chefs who examine the latest in culinary and industry trends.
Wixon's commitment to quality is unwavering from spice purchasing to Quality Assurance and Quality Control. Wixon also believes that providing for the community is also important. They are key partners in Make-A-Wish Foundation of Wisconsin, Rogers Memorial Hospital, the St. Francis 4th of July program and St. Francis' National Night Out program to name just a few.
Please join the City of St. Francis and the Association of Commerce in honoring Wixon Industries for their outstanding dedication to business, customers and the citizens of St. Francis.
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Posted by TheShot on 18 Mar 2012 | Filed under: Café Society, Local Brew, Roasting
This bakery/café first opened in 2010 as a joint venture of the Goody Goodie bakery and John Quintos, who's behind Cento, Special Xtra, and Vega. It was originally named "StarStream," and the coffee routinely followed the Quintos rubber-stamp formula of small La Marzocco Linea espresso machines and Blue Bottle Coffee. However, as the location developed it became less a café and more the relocated headquarters of the Goody Goodie bakery from their sidewalk window — hence the name change.
Coinciding with that change, the coffee service also started taking on its own identity. They serve (dessert) waffles, cookies, and other goods that have earned the quirky bakery its deserved reputation, but the coffee here is no less serious — despite the flowery, heavy-on-pink flea market motif inside. There are two metal garden café tables and chairs along the front Harrison St. sidewalk and a collection of odd items in the interior: patio tables, a whimsical wooden bench, colorfully painted walls, and an odd collection of signage and curiosities that's mildly reminiscent of Trouble Coffee.
Like Trouble Coffee, they deliberately toss sink shots that don't measure up to their standards (always a good sign). But what's particularly impressive is that they have a clear coffee philosophy that comes through: namely, with their switch to Emeryville's Roast Coffee Co., they want to emphasize balance in their coffee flavor profile without all the overbearing citrus that's become a tiresome trademark among many new coffee purveyors (see: brightness bomb).
Of course, seeing this philosophy in practice is music to our taste buds. Most North American coffee roasters of note have proven themselves incapable of creating dynamic coffee blends of much merit or finesse. It kills us how the typical Torino, Italy-based blend still runs circles around the Americans. Of all the new coffees we tried out in the past year for home espresso use, almost apologetically the imported Caffè Bomrad topped the lot of them.
But should we really be surprised that the brightness bomb has come to define the quality espresso in North America? To raise that specter of the ever-popular wine analogy again (hey, it's been at least two weeks), North American wines have run a similar course. Over the past couple of decades, big, bold, fruit-driven, and overly oaky wines with the subtlety and grace of a ball-peen hammer have become the popular choice for American consumers. So much so that wine producers with a different palate in mind have had to circle the wagons with interest groups such as In Pursuit of Balance
Goody Goodie is still tuning in their custom blend with Roast, but for now it has a nice, restrained citric brightness that complements (rather than overwhelms) other notes like chocolate and caramel and some herbal pungency. (Perhaps very appropriate for a dessert café?) They pull modest-sized shots from a two-group Linea with a mottled medium and lighter brown crema in colorful Nuova Point cups. It's great to witness someone trying to lead instead of following with their coffee.
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Opening in May 2009, this Blue Bottle Coffee outlet is located inside the SFMOMA museum on the fifth-floor Rooftop Garden. It's a rather elite affair, given the open space and the artworks that surround it. There's seating on concrete floors and benches among modern sculptures, but there are also white metal café tables for seating.
They use Mazzer and Astoria grinders, offer Bonmac filters for single origin drip, and (quite unusual for Blue Bottle) a three-group Mistral Mirage Idrocompresso Triplette with manual levers.
They pull espresso shots with a medium brown crema and darker brown spots. It's served quite short for a doppio, but it's the right amount of potent: very well balanced, broad flavor profile of herbs, pungency, and some tobacco and honey. They use a special SFMOMA blend of five different beans, and it is a true blend — almost something of a rarity in the U.S. It's one of the best homogenized examples of a blend that Blue Bottle offers. Hopefully they will make a blend like this more widely available.
Served in a Heath ceramics demitasse with a side of sparkling water. About as good as museum coffee can get.
Read the review of Blue Bottle Coffee Co. at the SFMOMA Rooftop Garden.
Posted by TheShot on 11 Feb 2012 | Filed under: Local Brew, Machine
Opening in October 2011, this new location of the Mission/Potrero Hill's Coffee Bar expands their reach downtown to something you can actually walk to. The space is small and can get quite packed in a rush, but it's clean, well-lit, and has a lab-like feel with its white countertops and lower cabinets.
They offer no indoor seating, but there is a short stand-up window counter and a few wooden sidewalk chairs and a bench in front. Even without the seating, it's a wise choice for a new location — filling a void that many downtown patrons of decent coffee have lacked since the closure of Caffè Amici nearby. And they should clearly see this opening as a major neighborhood upgrade.
The shop is set up to impress, as they offer scale-weighed hand pours — weighing being de rigeur for getting your TDS right in a shop since about 2010 — and espresso drinks from dueling two-group La Marzocco Strada machines. (To say nothing of the impressive baked goods from Sandbox Bakery.) To their credit, the menu is relatively simple and the options are focused.
They still seem to be dialing in on the quality of their espresso here, however, as it didn't measure up yet to the standards at the Coffee Bar mothership. Using Mr. Espresso beans, they pull shots with a decent layer of a mixed medium and darker brown crema. The flavor is complex with an emphasis at the herbal pungency end. Served in black ACF cups.
Downtown SF not only again has good coffee, but the bar has been raised.
Posted by TheShot on 10 Jan 2012 | Filed under: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Home Brew, Local Brew, Machine, Quality Issues
Yesterday morning, KQED radio aired an hour-long Forum segment featuring a small round-table of SF coffee "luminaries": SF's Coffee Innovators: Forum | KQED Public Media for Northern CA. The panel included James Freeman, of Blue Bottle Coffee, Eileen Hassi, of Ritual Coffee Roasters, and an unusually quiet Jeremy Tooker, of Four Barrel Coffee.
Much like the title of its associated Web page, the radio program played out like your typical coffee innovator/"third wave"/bleeding-edge routine that we've become accustomed to over the past decade. While a bit heavy on the Coffee 101 — particularly when callers asked common FAQ-type questions that have been answered on the Internet 20,000 times over already — KQED produced a good program overall.
Some of the more interesting comments included Eileen Hassi stating that "San Francisco has better coffee than any other city in the world" — with the only potential exception being Oslo, Norway. We'd like to think so, and there's a bit of evidence to back that up.
James Freeman noted Italy's "industrialized system of near-universal adequacy," which is a different but accurate way of summing up our long-held beliefs that outstanding coffee in Italy is almost as hard to find as unacceptable coffee. Other covered topics included coffeehouses eliminating WiFi, Berkeley's Caffe Mediterraneum inventing the latte, the Gibraltar, and even James Freeman designating home roasting as coffee's "geeky lunatic fringe."
While it's worth noting that Mr. Freeman started as a home roaster, recent media coverage of home roasting has been a bit bizarre. To read it in the press these days, you'd think home roasting were at its apex rather than continuing its gradual decline towards its nadir. This despite numerous media stories covering it over five years ago as some hot new trend.
At the 2006 WRBC, we were perplexed by the complete lack of home roaster representation among the event's attendees. (Namely, any home roaster worth his weight in greens would have been giddy over the reappearance of the Maui Moka bean. Nobody there even noticed.) And yet by 2009 we noted a real decline in online home roasting community activity, and we wrote about some of the underlying reasons for it.
Curiously enough, the first caller to the radio program (at 12'12" in) mentions a recent trip to South India and his interest in South Indian coffee. I'm posting this from South India — Bengaluru (née Bangalore), to be precise. And I have to say, I've become quite fond of both South Indian coffee and the South Indian coffee culture.
Sure, they prefer it sweetened and with hot milk (that often has a skin still on it). The coffee is often cut with cheaper chicory and is brewed with a two-chambered cylindrical metal drip brewer — not unlike a Vietnamese brewer or an upside-down version of a Neapolitan flip coffee pot. But damn, if this stuff isn't good. Even better, there's a culture of regular coffee breaks that would be familiar to many Mediterraneans.
We've reported from India before, but only from the North — which isn't known for a strong coffee culture beyond young people frequenting chains that emulate the West. Bengaluru is home to the Coffee Board of India, and this weekend I hope to head out across its state of Karnataka to visit origin at the Kodagu district. Also known as Coorg, this district grows a good amount of India's good coffee. (Yes, they even grow really good robusta there. Just ask Tom Owens of Sweet Maria.) Details certainly to follow…
Posted by TheShot on 15 Oct 2011 | Filed under: Add Milk, Barista, Beans, Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Machine, Roasting
As we last left our story, SOMA's ever-morphing Sightglass Coffee was glacially executing on its grand designs to become a major SF roastery and a spacious coffee destination. It had been over a year since we last walked among the spent heroin needles of nearby 6th Street, so much of our new Sightglass experience had been through retail brightness bombs sold throughout the Bay Area using Sightglass' own roasts.
This past week we finally got the chance to revisit Sightglass, and we can safely say it has largely succeeded at its very ambitious goals. We say "largely", however, because we have more than just a little qualified ambivalence for what exactly Sightglass has become.
Sightglass' original cubbyhole is now merely the doorway entrance to a vast warehouse space dedicated to exposed wood beams and coffee production. There are a couple of split levels upstairs for staff and vast amounts of stand-up counter space all around the floor plan. But while the square footage of this coffeeshop has expanded some 100-fold, there is seating for only about a dozen more people than before. There is window counter seating along the 7th Street sidewalk. But between that and the bicycle parking at the other end of the building there is virtually no place to sit.
The deliberate scarcity of seating is a decidedly useful move to ward off the laptop zombie set. And we wish far more places catered to stand-up espresso service the way it is a cultural institution in places like Italy. But somehow a place like Four Barrel makes their zombie-warding mojo seem natural and organic to the space, whereas at Sightglass it comes off like a lack of planning.
The vibe inside is a bit unique for a Bay Area coffee shop. In some areas, children sometimes play on the floor with parents in an unusual day-care-lite-like fashion. Meanwhile, there is a noticeable bent towards employing comely female staff and an unusually high proportion of both staff and patrons wearing cycling caps. Yet there is an unusual shortage of the obligatory piercings and body art. And as if an homage to Four Barrel and its mounted boar heads, the sparse decór inside includes the occasional mounted desert animal skull.
As if to proclaim they can mimic more than just Four Barrel, there's a trusty turntable by the coffee service area for playing vinyl copies of the Beatles' Revolver or the Pixies' Come On Pilgrim EP — giving it a little of that Stumptown Portland feel.
But enough about interior decorating: what about the coffee? For one, there's an ample wall of the stuff for retail purchase. It's not even the "$15 a pound" stuff we mentioned earlier this week: we're talking the $19.50 for 12 ounces category. At which price, we want bottle rockets shooting out of our ears when we sip this stuff. After sampling some of their Guatemala Finca San Diego Buena Vista Yellow Bourbon at home, let's just say we're not giving up our Barefoot Coffee take on Edwin Martinez' Finca Vista Hermosa — despite some recent local press love.
The general quality of barista here seems to have raised a notch with their expansion. In store they offer Chemex and Hario V60 brewing of three different cultivars — plus the usual espresso drinks, a few baked goods, and the usual Hooker's Sweet Treats salted caramels. And to pull those shots they employ both Slayer and La Marzocco Strada machines at opposite ends of the service area. Explaining the difference between the two espresso machines to a friend who was there with us, there's really no other polite way to say this: owners Jerad and Justin Morrison are total name brand fad whores. So we merely described the machines as "last year's model" versus "this year's model" — and then proceeded to pay on their iPad checkout system, established here since the week the iPad went public.
Living up to their reputation as worshippers at the altar of the brightness bomb, they pull espresso shots with a rather one-dimensional, medium brown, even crema that struggles to coat the surface. It is very bright and flavorful in a citrus-meets-malt way, but surprisingly not overwhelmingly so. Though there is a tinny, almost metallic taste in the finish where it lacks any real sweetness or molasses-like smoothness.
Of course, a lot of people in North America enjoy this flavor profile. But it becomes particularly problematic when it comes to American's love of milk-based espresso drinks. Their cappuccino is what we might call a "supermodel" cappuccino — pretty and perfect on the outside, but vapid at the core and lacking any real substance. Despite the beautiful appearance and accompanying latte art, their cappuccinos are tepid, milky, and lack any real punch that can hold up to the milk. We honestly cannot recommend the cappuccino here, as the primary brightness notes in the espresso are lost to become something insidiously bland and rather flavorless.
It's fair to say that by establishing both their roasting operations and a large service area, Sightglass has positioned themselves as one of the premiere coffee destinations in San Francisco. These days, that says something. However, we cannot help but feel there's a missing attention to detail here that holds Sightglass back from being among the very best — this despite a web site that proclaims their "deep attention to detail."
There's nothing inherently flawed in name brand fad whoring if you get the execution right. But without that execution, you risk appearing as though you've followed a checklist for a paint-by-numbers Third Wave coffeeshop — rather than being something with a soul and substance of its own. We don't even mind if your interior design ideas were lifted from the Stumptown and Four Barrel catalogs as long as your attention to detail comes out in your coffee. Forget the other details for a moment: a washed-out, bland cappuccino just doesn't cut it.
An almost poetically symbolic example of this attention-to-detail problem was evident watching the team perform maintenance on their on-site Probat roaster (aka, "the sightglass"). They re-applied the mounting bolts to their Probat … without washers. Sometimes it takes just a little extra effort to do it right.
Read the updated review of Sightglass Coffee.
Posted by TheShot on 10 Oct 2011 | Filed under: Café Society, Consumer Trends, Local Brew, Quality Issues
Ever eat a hamburger at a 1950s-themed American diner? In Hong Kong? Maybe their waffles didn't taste like fish sauce, but it's not uncommon to discover something lost in translation. (E.g., "Why does my hamburger bun taste like rice vinegar?") On the spectrum of authenticity, this is the culinary equivalent to finding luxury handbags in the Hong Kong night markets with designer labels like "Guchi" and "Koach".
Which brings us to Paris Baguette. Downtown Palo Alto recently added the latest installment of a growing Korean-owned chain of French-themed bakeries. However, use of the word "chain" here is an understatement. Although there are some 15 U.S. locations scattered throughout New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and California (including Santa Clara), there are 50 locations in China and some 2,900 locations in South Korea alone.
To put this in perspective, Starbucks operates 6,727 stores in the entire U.S. This means that, on a per capita basis, Paris Baguette locations saturate Korea some 2.75 times as much as Starbucks saturates America. Viewed purely in terms of locations per square mile, Paris Baguette locations carpet bomb Korea 41.6 times as much as Starbucks locations do the U.S. If you remember those jokes about there being another Starbucks inside a Starbucks' bathroom, just imagine 41 of them in there.
Fortunately, Paris Baguette is not too freakishly Paris by way of Seoul — even if it glows like a gaudy Vegas casino from the outside. There's some sidewalk café seating in front. On the inside (casino mirrors aside), it consists of stacks and stacks of self-service baked goods to be pinched by passersby armed with wax paper and tongs. There strangely isn't much else to speak of for lunch options. And beneath the tall glass windows, there are clumsy, long, almost school-cafeteria-like tables — save for being topped with faux marble.
And yet this location proves that being lost in translation isn't always a bad thing. Whereas most of the coffee in Paris is wretched, they make an honest attempt at sourcing and producing good coffee — at which they are mostly successful. Despite its gaudy flaws and cultural mistranslations, the coffee service here manages to be some of the best in Palo Alto.
They sport heavy Ritual Coffee Roasters branding and a shiny, three-group La Marzocco GB/5 at the service counter. They even offer Hario V60 pour-overs. They pull shots with an even, medium brown crema in black ACF cups. It has a basic warming flavor of spice and some herbs, and the coffee has the potential to be much better than it is — but it is still quite decent. They also offer healthy milk-frothing and latte art for milk-based drinks.
Read the review of Paris Baguette in Palo Alto.
Posted by TheShot on 08 Sep 2011 | Filed under: Beans, Foreign Brew, Local Brew, Roasting
Today's New York Times reported on another chapter in this year's ownership-change-for-funding-for-growth saga of quality independent coffee chains: Intelligentsia Coffee and Tea Asks a Friend to Help It Grow – NYTimes.com. This past May, the subject was Stumptown Coffee Roasters — generating quite a bit of angst among many loyalists who cried "sell-out!" This time the subject is Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, whose expansion plans seem to have stalled or required less-than-ideal compromises.
If 2010 was the year of the Great Coffee Rush — where prospecting independent roasting/coffeeshop elites in the West packed their covered wagons and migrated East to help fill a gaping quality coffee void — 2011 is shaping up to be the year of the investment, merger, and acquisition. The article notes Intelligentsia's 2009 acquisition of Ecco Caffè — and, more importantly, how its planned Potrero Hill roasting operations have yet to materialize.
Of course, when was the last time that a major roasting operation in San Francisco didn't materialize months, if not years, behind the original schedule? (Think Four Barrel, Sightglass, etc.) Even so, it's becoming clear that as the quality independent coffee industry has matured, the next stage of its evolution now requires wealthier investors to fund their ambitions.
Posted by TheShot on 07 Aug 2011 | Filed under: Add Milk, Café Society, Local Brew
Next month Berkeley hosts its first ever coffee and tea festival, and the SF Chronicle used the opportunity to mention Berkeley's coffee and espresso roots: Berkeley perks up for Coffee and Tea Festival. The piece adds a bit of worthy Berkeley coffee history, even if it's a slight retread of a 2009 piece in The Daily Californian. Both articles discussed Caffe Mediterraneum's merits as the birthplace of the caffè latte. And, hey, Berkeley is where I had my first real cappuccino way back in those ancient 1980s.
Posted by TheShot on 03 Aug 2011 | Filed under: Beans, Local Brew
Opening in July 2011, this new coffeehouse expands Glen Park's neighborhood coffee offerings. It's located a little off the beaten path, nearest a freeway exit from the Glen Park BART station. Outside they have a couple of sidewalk tables. Inside is a modern, semi-sterile interior of orange and gray walls and exposed chrome and stainless steel.
They proudly display the bios and details of their suppliers on the walls, from Mr. Espresso coffee to the two-group, chrome Faema E61 machine to the Grass Valley artist who made the Cup sculpture that overhangs the shop's entrance outside. They also sell Mr. Espresso coffee beans with the Cup label stuck on the package.
Using their coffee and shiny E61 (and Mazzer and Macap grinders), they pull a very short shot with a potent, darker brown crema. It's surprisingly not syrupy, given the pour size. It's actually a little ballzy to make an espresso this short in this neighborhood, so kudos to them. It has a potent herbal flavor of cloves, etc., that's missing a little top-end brightness in the cup. Their milk-frothing is decorative but unusual and on the thick side.
Maybe it isn't as unique as having a Cafe Bello — which has long established its own unique flavor profile and style by locally roasting their own for a number of years. (Helping to fend off that espresso sameness issue.) And maybe the location isn't perfect and the interior is a little sterile. But they still make a good espresso.
Read the review of Cup.
Posted by TheShot on 21 Jul 2011 | Filed under: Beans, Local Brew, Quality Issues
The story of coffee at Specialty's Café & Bakery reflects the story of San Francisco's consumer tastes for retail coffee.
A decade ago, Specialty's ran a small chain of bakery/cafés with coffee service areas. Some locations, like this one on Pine St., even dedicated a coffee bar area for customers during their morning caffeine rush. Using older Faema machines and Prebica beans (one of "The Big Four" as part of Sara Lee), they pulled espresso as double-shot defaults that, while not terrible, weren't good either.
Then something weird and unexpected happened. In the Fall of 2003 — years before Blue Bottle even existed in San Francisco, other than as the coffee force behind Frog Hollow Farm at the just-then-opened Ferry Building Marketplace — Specialty's replaced their Prebica supplies with Intelligentsia coffee. As longtime fans of the then-Chicago-only roaster, we were rather ecstatic. We saw the introduction of Intelligentsia as the first real escalation of what we then coined "the SF coffee wars". This despite the fact that virtually no one in San Francisco knew anything about Intelligentsia at the time.
Specialty's got their bean sourcing right. These were, after all, the same guys who were providing beans to Canadian national barista champions at Caffè Artigiano in Vancouver at the time. But they shot themselves in the foot, quality-wise, by replacing all their semi-automatic Faema machines for push-button, super-automatic Franke machines. While this gave Specialty's greater consistency and allowed unskilled employees to operate their espresso machines, it completely dumbed down their coffee service and squandered any quality advantages they had using Intelligentsia coffee in the first place. We experienced one anomaly where they produced "Top 20″-level espresso, but revisits proved that to be a fluke.
As San Francisco coffee snobbery has been on the rise, most recently Specialty's opted to up their game another level. At this sort of "mothership" of the local Specialty's chains, they've gone all-out with a full-service, manually crafted coffee bar. How often do you see places weaned off super-automatic machines and back on to "big pants" espresso machines? Not often enough, as today this location sports not only a shiny red, dual-group La Marzocco FB/70 machine and a Hario V-60 pour-over bar (plus various Intelligentsia Coffee offerings for retail sale), but they also brandish glowing Intelligentsia signage where even the Specialty's brand name takes a back seat. It's as if Specialty's became more serious about coffee the more their customers became more serious about coffee.
Unlike when this location first opened with a dark interior and nice floors that looked of cherry wood, they have since brightened up the space with lighting and a more modern layout. Still, there are long lines at lunch, and paying for a coffee sometimes may require you to wind through the whole line (instead of short-cutting to a dedicated coffee service line). Inside, there's counter window seating — with one side overlooking the sidewalk and the other overlooking courtyard seating on its Century St. side (formerly home to a Starbucks hutch and then Abigails).
Their switch from their Faema machines to Frankes made them dull (all that factory-produced sameness and uniformity) but more consistent: a mellow espresso with a moderately rich, medium brown crema, plus an herbal/spice flavor. The new, semi-automatic FB/70 has raised their game, but the consistency isn't there yet. They're still not maximizing the result, given all the pedigree going into the cup. It lacks some flavor potency and breadth: largely centering around an earthy pungency, despite the fresh-looking, medium brown mottled crema and white ACF Intelligentsia-branded cups (formerly paper only).
They have come so far, and yet still have much to go. Given the trendlines and directions for one of the more forward-thinking small chains in the area, you have to place bets on the coffee getting better more than it is likely to decline. Even so, with the occasional rumor of Intelligentsia opening an owned-and-operated location in S.F., what are the odds that Intelligentsia would do to Specialty's what Blue Bottle Coffee did to Frog Hollow Farm several years ago?
Read the updated review of Specialty's Café & Bakery on Pine St.


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Christmas gift for a new JKU owner
Hi everyone,
If you were buying or receiving a gift from someone in the $50-60 range for your/their new Jeep, what would you want/get? They already have slush mats. Thanks! |
Raingler grab handles. www.raingler.com
:cool: accessory tote bag, goes on the glovebox "grab bar"
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Nice man purse JIMBO!
I am subscribing to this just to keep it going. I need to do the same thing.
The grab handles are great. May I suggest a center arm rest pad or maybe a drake billet piece or two. Set of deflators( the good ones). A small compressor. A decent strap or other recovery gear item. |
:cool: Watch yo mawf, boy
:rofl::rofl: JIMBO |
It's a little out of the price range but I am getting the rugged ridge light bar that goes on the front bumper for Christmas. It's 69 and then I have to buy 3 daylighters to throw on it
:) Here's a couple more for the vertically challenged women
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/m...Stirrup025.jpg The stirrup works anywhere and the little plastic stool can be used for much more, it folds flat and can be stored anywhere !! :rofl::rofl: JIMBO |
Jimbox-my daughter would like the stirrup...the 1911 is too big for me...kahr pm9 or the 38 airweight are better for us frame challenged girls...I can't read the label on the visor holster, where did you get it/who makes it?
Fire extinguisher and mount, add a trunk, SpiderWeb sunshade, Harley mirrors, padded console, CB, shovel, recovery strap, recovery hooks, D rings, foot pegs (although JK's don't need them as much as TJ's) clover patch window roll, Trail cover (over the $ limit, but very nice to have). And of course a Dirty Mudder Column cover :). First aid kit, tools to keep on board..... I'll think of more later.
hmmm lets see $50-$60 you could do Grab handles, K&N filter, Center console arm pad, Tow chain, Tools to keep on the storage box in the back, Hope this helps.
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The holster I've had for a long time and I either gotit from LA Police supply/NRA store or cheaperthandirt.com and it's part of a THIGH holster ammo/belt combo, (UNDERTHEGUN/UDT), but works perfect on the visor- The weight of the 1911 is MUCH for the visor, but I've got the Rollhard Cage to buffer it, for vertical jarring !! :rofl::rofl: JIMBO |
What no compliment for a chick knowing the gun from the grip poking out from the holster.?? I know I left out the aquatic rodent reference...I didn't want to set myself up...
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These ideas are great! We're looking forward to hitting the trails and i still have to put things under that tree! Keep those ideas coming!
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Cold SRT, et al - There are a ton of deflators and compressors out there. What do you recommend?
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