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Seen at the 2014 Rhinebeck Swap Meet
Photos by the author.
Last Saturday, my dad, brother and I scoured the annual swap meet and car show in Rhinebeck, New York, looking for some parts for my 1931 Model A Ford speedster build. When we were there, I couldn't help but post on our Hemmings Facebook page some of the interesting things we came across. Those posts seemed to strike a chord with readers, so I thought I'd run some of the pictures again here and throw in a few others for fun.
The 1960 two-door Oldsmobile Dynamic 88 – pictured above – with a horizon's worth of sky blue paint and aptly named Our Blue Heaven, tied for attracting the most positive attention on Facebook.
According to the placard accompanying the 88, it's owned by the Castella family of Hyde Park, New York, and is "semi-customized" and unrestored, which means it still has the 240hp 371-cu.in. V-8 under the hood. Our Facebook followers wanted to see more pictures of the car, so here's a look at the front.
So…does this 88 make you think of rolling around the race track, making time at the drive-in, or goin' to church with grandma?
The other favorite from our Rhinebeck coverage was this 1956 Ford Panel Delivery truck owned by Mark Hothmer of New Paltz, New York. Who wouldn't want to spirit their swap meet spoils home in one of these?
Facebook fans also dolled out a lot of love for this Sixties-style rodded-up T-bucket.
Sporting radiant metallic green paint over white, Jeremy Baye of 1945 Speed and Custom in Troy, New York, (in the Oilers T-shirt talking to some young enthusiasts) must've made his client happy with this one. A point of conversation on Facebook was the whitewalls. What say you?
Those of us who have come to think of Subarus as the car of choice for residents of the snowy and hilly Northeast might not recognize their fairly straight-lined, roomy old dependable in the curves of the tiny ancestral 1970 Subaru 360. The seller had it priced at $9,000, citing "all rebuilt, new paint, seats, brakes…" One commenter on Facebook thought he'd seen it for sale at Carlisle the previous weekend. What do you think: Is this little car worth nine big ones?
Here's a special treat that didn't run on the Facebook feed: a crisp 1912 Metz, shown by the Northeast Classic Car Museum in Norwich, New York. Produced in Waltham, Massachusetts, the 22hp four-cylinder car with chain drive and "pressure" (friction) transmission, could be purchased by interested people at the time, whole or on the "Metz Plan," which divided the automobile up into 14 separate parts packages selling for $27 a piece. In 1913, a team of Metzes would win the grueling Glidden Tour, only to see the company spend the next nine years slowly sinking under the weight of debt and corporate conservatism.
Now, warping from the early days of motoring to what looks like one man's take on a possible future, or at the very least an alternate reality, we see this ominous-looking modified Buick Riviera owned by John Lyons of Tillson, New York.
"Where will your Toyota be in 60 years?" the sticker on the bumper of this 1938 Chevrolet Master DeLuxe Business Coupe asks. If only it looked half as good as this cream-curved car, I'd say it would be at Rhinebeck in 2078.
If the aforementioned Ford Panel Delivery failed to afford you enough room to load your swap meet haul into, try this 1936 1-1/2-ton Dodge Brothers dump truck. It had presence and some patina (they call it "character"), too.
Speaking of patina, and the slings and arrows of misfortune and barn bats that cause it, I had posted the below 1931 "barn fresh" Harley because I knew it would lead to some interesting discussion.
Many folks could see some potential in this filthy and tattered venerable pre-knucklehead two-wheeler, but that price!
I wonder if the hobby's current fascination with barn finds has something to do with an innate desire – buried since childhood – in all of us to discover a secret treasure, or perhaps to find some kind of Platonic unspoiled ideal. Trouble is, when someone buys a barn find, that person didn't discover it, didn't really have that moment of childlike surprise and wonder. And talk about spoiling it, the viking raiding parties of time have ravaged and plundered their way all around the leather and iron countryside of this one.
This clamshell-style trailer led to some healthy controversy, too. The seller had it labeled as a 1937 Mullins and was asking $2,200 for it. Many of our Facebook readers could see its potential as a restored piece of equipment, while others suggested towing it directly to the scrapyard.
Mullins "Red Cap" trailers were manufactured in 1936 and 1937 in Salem, Ohio, no doubt in reaction to what the AAA and automotive executives were then predicting would be a great travel boom on the nation's improving roadways, as people became more and more able to follow the comfortable weather. In spite of very rosy projections and Mullins's announcement that it would stamp out 10,000 in the first year, only about 3,000 of these $119.50, streamlined utility trailers were ever made.
Several decades later, these trailers would finally find their popularity, not with the "tourists, sportsmen, salesmen, farmers and merchants" of their originally intended demographic, but instead with street rodders looking for something cool to haul behind their rides. They would ultimately be reproduced – in fiberglass instead of steel – by companies like Superior Glass Works.
Now, the patches of rust on this example confirm that it is indeed fabricated from stamped steel, but has it been identified correctly, as a Mullins? I wondered when I first saw it because of the remnants of 1950s-style bright work sweeps, just forward of the wheels. Was this a Mullins option not detailed in the marketing I've seen? Was this added by dealers or latter owners? Or is this indicative of a different make altogether?
Another mildly eye-brow-raising detail present on this example is the additional length of tubular steel extending back from the trailer tongue and bisecting the chassis' triangular geometry. This, though, could easily be explained as the result of a past owner's efforts to shore up the trailer and keep it on the road, or to increase the carrying capacity above its advertised 1,200 pounds.
Someone wishing to prove the authenticity of a trailer like this could consult the information gathered by Robert Parmelee, author of Mullins Red Cap Utility Trailer and who, along with the late Michael E. Maxwell, started the Mullins Owners Club.
According to Parmelee and other sources, Red Cap trailers featured a baked enamel finish, opening tailgate, removable lid, a one-inch tubular bumper rail running around the inside of the compartment, and optional five- or six-lug wheels (thought to make it possible for owners to be able to use their vehicle's spare in the event of a flat). Trailers measured 47 inches by 65 inches by 29-1/2 inches, and the floors were stamped in 18 gauge steel, while 20 gauge steel was used for the fenders and 16 gauge steel for the I-beam crossmember. If time has been kind, a small tag may still be present at the rear of the frame with the trailer's serial number.
Felix brings good things to light
Neon Felix sign was erected over Felix Chevrolet in Los Angeles in 1957. Photo courtesy L.A. Places.
By 1925, a cartoon cat had become more popular than his fellow silent film stars, and his expertise had been enlisted to convince audiences of consumers to buy Mazda lamps for use in their automobiles.
Trademarked on December 29, 1909, the Mazda name would label millions of lamps – manufactured by various companies – as containing General Electric's advanced incandescent lighting technology. A year or two before, Edison's labs had pioneered the use of sintered tungsten filaments in its bulbs, and this had resulted in lamps that were brighter, whiter, more durable and more energy-efficient.
Along with the standardization of socket sizes that licensing required, these were all good things for purchasers of early automobiles who would be using their vehicles on roads that were often ribbed, rutted, and at night, frequently unlighted.
To sell the Mazda name - perhaps the first "product" in history that was, as G.E.'s Publicity Department phrased it, "not a thing but a service," a variety of extremely effective tools were developed. From advertisements in newspapers, to calendars with lush, enchanting pictures, Mazda's marketing came to be embraced by consumers and lauded by scholars.
Still image from A Cat and a Kit. Courtesy Schenectady Museum of Innovation Science.
Enter the famous black and white feline, with peaked ears, big eyes and shape-shifting tail. Felix the Cat first stepped onto the page in Feline Follies in 1919 in Pat Sullivan's studios under the pen of cartoonist Otto Messmer. Patterned on live silent film star Charlie Chaplin, the resourceful, indomitable cat had viewers of his cartoons everywhere falling in love with him.
No doubt Felix's fame, as much as his ability to saunter away from deadly situations that, were they filmed using live actors, might have struck viewers a little too close to their fears, made him a logical choice to demonstrate the dangers of not using Mazda-marked lamps in their automobiles.
This 10-minute-long cartoon embedded below, A Cat and a Kit, is classic Felix the Cat. Late for his nighttime wedding, Felix hops into his speedster (a BearCAT?) and gets ready to take off, but his headlamp beams loll around, flicker and go out. This is the first of many difficulties his non-Mazda lamps give him on his zany journey to the altar.
General Electric "What is it?" advertisement circa 1920.
Along the way, some motifs common to other Mazda advertisements pop up, like oncoming motorists seeing his padiddle and wondering "What is it?" a motorcycle or one-eyed car. An especially entertaining gag starts at 5:45 and involves him using his prehensile tail to pull down some moonshine to light his way. You can imagine what happens next in this era of Prohibition when a policeman pulls him over!
Living up to his name's Latin meaning of "Lucky," Felix the Cat would, over the course of 90 plus years and a few comebacks, go on to star in hundreds of cartoons, a few features, thousands of strips, and several books.
Papier mache Felix the Cat doll is the first image broadcast on TV.
His would be the first image to appear on television in 1928 on W2XBS in New York, and he would accompany Charles Lindbergh on his famous 1927 non-stop, New York-to-Paris flight. He would also, with lit bomb in hand, emblazon the aircraft of America's second-oldest Navy Fighter Attack squadron, and he'd even come to "oversee" a Chevrolet car dealership in Los Angeles, owned by another Felix, Felix Winslow.
What was it about Felix that sold motorists lamps, and what is it that keeps us – especially hot rodders – endeared to him?
New Jersey estate auction to offer pair of pre-Model T Fords at no reserve
1904 Ford Model AC. Photos courtesy of Bonhams Auctions.
Finding one pre-Model T Ford automobile at auction can be a challenge because relatively few were constructed (by modern standards, anyway) and only a small percentage were preserved for posterity. Finding a pair of early 20th century Fords in the same auction is cause for celebration among brass-era Ford collectors, who will have a chance to bid on a 1904 Ford Model AC and a 1907 Ford Model N at the upcoming estate sale of Dr. Ralph W.E. Cox Jr.
The 1904 Ford Model AC in Cox's collection is a four-seater rear-entrance tonneau, bearing engine number 982. Though based on the Model A of 1903-1904, the Model AC rode on a 78-inch wheelbase instead of the Model A's 72-inch wheelbase, and came powered by the Model C's 120.5-cu.in. opposed-twin engine. Output was rated at 10 horsepower, enough to give the Model AC a claimed top speed of 38 miles per hour.
1904 Ford Model AC.
This particular Model AC is said to carry "solid and sound" coachwork and aged upholstery with little wear, but the carpets will need to be replaced and the engine (which reportedly turns over and exhibits "some" compression) will need to be refurbished. Overall, the car is said to be a sound platform for restoration or preservation, and Bonhams expects to realize a selling price between $60,000 and $80,000 on the no-reserve auction.
The 1907 Model N runabout in Cox's collection carries engine number 5362, and is from the Model N's second year of production. Power comes from a front-mounted, inline four-cylinder engine displacing 149 cubic inches and making a claimed 15 horsepower. Its 84-inch wheelbase likely delivered a more comfortable ride than earlier Model A and Model C automobiles, though the Model N was still positioned as Ford's entry-level automobile, sold on price rather than available amenities.
1907 Ford Model N.
The car is said to retain its body tag, an original Ford floormat and its Splitdorf coil box, and the upholstery may well be original (though this is not documented). The car is believed to have been repainted at least once over its century-plus lifespan, but the shade of dark green used is said to be a factory color. The Model N includes roll-down windshield panels and comes with a full canopy top, and is described as "of preservation quality." Bonhams expects this car to draw bidding of up to $30,000 in the no-reserve auction.
1909 Premier Model 45 Raceabout.
Other automobiles to be offered from the Cox collection at no reserve include a 1909 Premier Model 45 Raceabout, equipped with a 55 horsepower six-cylinder engine; a 1911 Ford Model T Torpedo Roadster; a 1906 Waltham Orient Buckboard Runabout; a 1931 Ford Model A DeLuxe Roadster; a 1934 Ford Phaeton; a 1926 Ford Model T Speedster; a 1920 Maxwell Model 25 Five-Passenger Touring; a 1928 Ford Model AR Rumble Seat Sport Coupe; a 1928 Franklin 11B Five-Passenger Sedan; a 1930 Ford Model A Five-Window Coupe; a 1957 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe de Ville; and a 1952 Cadillac Series 62 Coupe. There are trucks to be sold as well, along with antique fire apparatus (both motorized and horse-drawn), wagons, airplane engines, a 1906 San Francisco cable car and a copious amount of spare parts.
The Dr. Ralph W.E. Cox Jr. estate sale will take place on Saturday, May 10, at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Cape May, New Jersey, the very site where Cox's collection was on public display between 1961 and 1964. For additional details, visit Bonhams.com.
UPDATE (13.May): The 1904 Ford Model AC sold for $88,000, the 1907 Ford Model N sold for $42,900, and the 1909 Premier Model 45 Raceabout sold for $143,000, all including buyer's premium. For complete results from the Dr. Ralph W.E. Cox collection sale, visit Bonhams.com.
Route changes announced for 2014 London to Brighton Run
Photo courtesy London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.
Tradition rules the day when it comes to the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, but this year, there are a couple of changes coming to the beloved event that should be appreciated by participants and spectators alike.
To begin with, the Mall, the ceremonial road running from Buckingham Palace made famous by the royal family's carriage parades, will be a part of the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run for the first time in recent memory, event organizers have announced. (We Yanks might recognize the Mall as the site of 2012 Olympics events, and from the surprise spin taken by Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge in an Aston Martin DB6 Volante after their 2011 wedding.) The new route, which also includes Horse Guards Road, replaces the use of Birdcage Walk.
Also, the midway checkpoint and tea stop has been moved from the George Hotel in Crawley High Street to a Honda dealership a short walk away. "Whilst we do not like breaking with tradition," organizers wrote on the event's Facebook page, "consideration has been given to the lack of covered space we could provide for participants in previous years. Feedback received last year led us in the search of alternative venues which are able to provide a larger inside space, a larger serving area allowing participants to be served quicker, whilst allowing for the same if not more cars to park up in the paddock area."
Finally, the route from York Place into Brighton has been made somewhat easier for participants, with permission gained to use the bus lanes on the A23 highway.
Otherwise, the world's oldest motoring event continues as before. Open to vehicles built before January 1, 1905, the 60-mile run commemorates the passage of the Locomotives on the Highways Act of 1896, which raised the national speed limit from 4 MPH to 14 MPH and struck down a requirement that automobiles be preceded by a man on foot.
Registration is now open for this year's event, held, as ever, on the first Sunday of November – which falls on November 2 this year. Hundreds of thousands of spectators gather each year to cheer on the 500 entries that the run typically attracts. Registration forms and a wealth of information are available on the Veteran Car Run's website.
Horseless Carriage Club shifts away from non-profit status to satisfy IRS
Photos courtesy Horseless Carriage Club of America.
While Horseless Carriage Club of America officials say they have not yet totally cleaned up from the aftereffects of the IRS rescinding the club's 501(c)(3) non-profit status, they are ready to move on from the ordeal with a renewed focus as a club after more than two years of bureaucratic maneuvering.
In the months after the IRS declared that it would revoke the HCCA's 501(c)(3) non-profit status in May 2011 and consider it a for-profit organization, many club members feared that the loss of that status would effectively spell the end for the club. Though the club, founded in 1937, had spent much of its existence as a 501(c)(7) non-profit organization – as a social or recreational club, according to the IRS tax code – it switched to 501(c)(3) non-profit status in 2007, thus enabling donations to the club to become tax deductible (and, the club hoped, resulting in more and larger donations to the club). That change, however, also necessitated that the club provide an educational aspect, and the club had a difficult time proving that it had fulfilled that obligation during a subsequent IRS audit.
Richard Cutler, who served as president of the HCCA in 2011 and has since sparred with the IRS on the club's behalf, wrote on the club's website that he and other club officials decided that the club wouldn't just roll over and die. They responded to the revocation with a formal appeal and in the meantime came up with a fallback plan that included the formation earlier this year of two spinoff organizations: the Horseless Carriage Education Institution, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated exclusively to educating the public about horseless carriages and early automotive history, and the Horseless Carriage Club Association, a 501(c)(7) non-profit that would assume the club's ongoing social activities – its tours, meets, and conventions.
The former organization, with a board of directors but no members, has since assumed about $26,000 of the HCCA's tax-deductible donations, while the latter organization may not be needed after all. Though the IRS has since denied the HCCA's appeal of the revocation, the HCCA pressed on with a plan to revert the original club back to 501(c)(7) non-profit status, allowing it to remain in existence and theoretically reducing the number of hassles regarding the club's lifetime members and other assets (and thus making the newly formed Horseless Carriage Club Association effectively redundant).
"The IRS has been good at providing little in the way of follow-up to questions as they relate to 'what's next?'" Cutler wrote. "With the lack of these specifics, we are moving forward with what we believe to be correct. Our goal is to show good intentions reducing the possibility of any further action by the IRS towards our organization. We will take silence as a positive sign. It has been suggested by some that we continue to fight the ruling. All evidence indicates that this will only result in more expense with no change in status. It is time get this behind us and move on."
The club has scheduled a number of tours and other events for 2014, and Cutler wrote that the HCEI has begun to develop relevant educational materials, as per its mission. For more information, visit HCCA.org.
Brattleboro, Vermont, 1965
More highway openings in Vermont. I'll never tire of them. This time, it's the opening of Interstate 91 near Brattleboro, courtesy of the Vermont Landscape Change program. As you can see, the local television station showed up, and there's a school bus for the dignitaries, and plenty of motorists anxious to drive the new highway have gathered. But it appears they did something else that fine August 11, 1965…
… they invited some local veteran cars to christen the new stretch. So what do you see here? And do you suppose the people driving the then-modern cars would ever believe we'd someday appreciate those cars just as they then appreciated the veteran cars?
London to Brighton adds a competitive event
Throughout its 117-year history, the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run has been a non-competitive event, with participants facing the mutual challenges of bad weather and the vagaries of ancient machinery to complete the 60-mile course. It has never been a race. To finish is to win, is one way to look at it; we'd say that anyone who did nothing more than arrive at the starting line in London's Hyde Park with a vehicle built before 1905 had already proved something.
For this year's event, which takes place on Sunday, November 3, organizers are adding a new wrinkle: a competitive event that will produce official winners. Called a Regularity Trial, the event will challenge entrants to maintain a specific average speed over the course, with penalties for arriving at the finish line or various control points too early or too late. Competitors can choose one of four overall times to aim at: three, four, five or six hours. Three hours is equal to a 20 MPH average, and six hours a 10 MPH pace. Points will be assigned for early or late arrivals, and the winners will be those with the lowest point totals in each of the four classes.
Ben Cussons, chairman of the VCR Steering Group, explained, "The Steering Group is committed to evolving the event and adding value and involvement for the participants. We are restricting the Trial to 150 entries for the first year as it is a new initiative."
Another attraction is the Regent Street Motor Show, to be held the day before the Veteran Car Run. Billed as the largest free car show in Britain, the Regent Street show will feature more than 300 vehicles covering 125 years of motoring history.
This year, a Regularity Trial; next year, drag races? We doubt it. But who knows? Competition does get into the blood.
For more information on the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, visit VeteranCarRun.com.
Across America in a Curved Dash Olds
It's steered by a tiller. Its single-cylinder engine makes 4-1/2 horsepower, enough to propel the vehicle to a heady 25 MPH. Suspension is by horse-and-buggy leaf springs, with no shock absorbers. There's one brake, which acts on the differential. The engine is lubricated by a total-loss oiling system that requires periodic topping up, and the gas tank holds a paltry four gallons. Aside from its minimal toeboard, there is no crash protection whatsoever.
For these and other reasons, a century-plus-old Curved Dash Oldsmobile might not be your first choice for a transcontinental drive. And so we salute Joy Rainey, who will climb aboard her 1904 Oldsmobile Model 6C at 8 a.m. on Saturday, April 13, in Oceanside, California, intending to drive to Daytona Beach, Florida, 2,826 miles away. Joy, a Briton, is taking on the 32-day drive in memory of her former partner, Trevor Hulks, and to raise money for Cancer Research UK. The effort is called Joy Across America.
Joy is accomplished in the world of motorsports, having competed in circuit races, hill climbs and long-distance rallies, including the 10,000-mile London to Sydney Marathon in a 1970 Morris Minor in 2004 and the 6,000-mile Carrera Sudamericana in a Jeep Grand Cherokee two years later. She's also a regular participant in the London to Brighton Veteran Car Run, which she and her mechanic, Mark Riley, used last year as a test run for the Oldsmobile. (The photo above shows her with Mark Riley, left, main
sponsor, Jim Carr of Durite, and mechanic Nick Cooper.)
Joy's route will take her across California through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Florida. Though the Oldsmobile's performance makes Interstate travel out of the question, there's no avoiding the scorching deserts and 6,500-foot mountains of the Southwest, which she and her team expect will limit her progress to as little as 56 miles in a day. You can find a map of her route here.
"Trevor and I were intending to make this journey together in 2009, but I put it off because he fell ill," Joy told the Evesham Journal. "Now it feels like unfinished business. Trevor's cancer spread very quickly so I feel passionately about raising funds to research metastasis – cancer spread."
You can follow the trip through Facebook, Twitter and a blog on the Joy Across America website.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1905 Pierce Great Arrow
While this 1905 Pierce Great Arrow for sale on Hemmings.com may very well be one of the most historically significant cars in the history of the famed marque (it's alleged to be the car that won the 1905 Glidden Tour, an event that helped solidify Pierce's status as a maker of superlative cars), its known history and its imposing presence are no less impressive. From the seller's description:
Here is a rare opportunity to own the earliest surviving example of the Pierce Great Arrow. Identical to the car that won the 1905 Glidden Tour driven by Percy Pierce. This car was acquired by Austie Clark in 1945 just after he returned from the war. It was clearly one of his favorites and was featured in several postcards and a beautiful painting by Leslie Saalburg which were sold in his Long Island Auto Museum. Austie named the car Percy. Ralph Buckley completed the restoration in 1950. When Austie drove it in the 1963 Glidden in Rochester, NY he commented in a letter to the AACA "We could have easily driven to and from the tour but used the trailer in case of bad weather. Actually Percy makes better road speed than the Chrysler with loaded trailer". In Austie's column in Old Cars Weekly he detailed the known history and his research which indicated that this is probably the actual car used by Charles Glidden on the 1905 Glidden Tour.
This is a most impressive high quality car. The cowl and seats are huge aluminum castings which were a hallmark of early Pierce bodies. The 4 cylinder engine and 3 speed gearbox give performance and flexibility to allow modern touring.
In 2001 the engine was completely rebuilt by David Greenlees. The wheels have been rebuilt by Bill Calimer using all of the original metal parts. Otherwise the car is as Austie and Ralph restored it. It now has a nice patina.
Location: Lebanon, New Jersey
Status: No Longer Available
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Hemmings Finds of the Day – 1924 White Yellowstone and other touring buses
With the shuttering of Mr. Toad's Tours in San Francisco – a sightseeing company that ferried its passengers in vintage and vintage-style touring buses – comes the sale of all five of its vehicles on Hemmings.com. Among them is the 1924 White Yellowstone bus – a survivor of the 1925 fire that destroyed most of the open White Yellowstone touring buses – that served as the general pattern and inspiration for the other four. From the seller's description:
Each of the replica touring cars were custom built for Mr. Toad's Tours in San Francisco. Most of the driveline comes from a late model (1965) Ford Truck including a 300 CID Ford Truck Engine and C6 Automatic. The frames were custom built with Dana 60 Rear Ends, air-ride suspension, and custom front axels. The three replica touring cars run on propane fuel with 30-40 gallon tanks. Wheels were custom built to resemble 1920s wood spoked wheels. Heaters and isinglass curtains were installed in all vehicles.
Yellowstone Bus No. 255 was one of the few that survived a disastrous fire on March 30, 1925 that consumed 88 vehicles stored in the Yellowstone Park garage. Bus No. 255 founds its way into private hands and eventually became part of the Imperial Palace Casino in Las Vegas. Restoration included re-use of the original frame, body, radiator shell, fenders, and rear suspension. A new top and windshield were built 4 inches taller than the original to allow for much easier entry plus better sightseeing.
Status: No Longer Available
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Happy Tuesday, Boys & Girls.
Time for this week's installment of The Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.
Last week we doubled things up so that we could both spend an hour wrapping up our "Friday Night Lights" Summer Rewatch, but also so that we could get a head-start on this week's reviewing.
That means that this podcast contains reviews of new shows including ABC's "Black-ish," ABC's "How To Get Away With Murder" and Amazon's "Transparent." Although we didn't give it a full review, we reminded y'all that "Key & Peele" returns on Wednesday.
And we also answered one piece of Listener Mail about recent TV coverage of the NFL and we discussed Sunday's "Good Wife" premiere and Monday's "Sleepy Hollow" return.
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According to the Real-Time Demand Pulse from real estate broker Redfin, the number of home tours and offers to buy homes declined 3.5% in July from the previous month. During the same period in 2012, when the housing market was just starting to recover, home tours were up 3.1%.
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Redfin, which serves 22 markets, conducts a monthly analysis of the number of home tours and offers to get a pulse on buyer demand.Since peaking in April, Redfin customers touring homes and making offers has been on a steady decline. This is despite the fact that the number of homes available for sale has been increasing. "Likely factors include rising interest rates and home prices, which are pricing some buyers out of the market. Other Redfin data shows that homebuyer fatigue after months of intense competition over historically low inventory also played a role," according to the report. Industry observers are closely watching data to see if higher rates are making a dent on the recovery. So far, there has not been a strong indication from the home sales data or home price indices. This is because most data is based on contracts that were closed during the month and since it can take anywhere between 30 to 60 days for a sale to close, there is a lag in the data. -- Written by Shanthi Bharatwaj in New York. >Contact by Email. Follow @shavenk
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This expedition offers you the ideal introduction to the Great White Continent. Departing from and finishing in the port of Ushuaia, we take in the most exciting sights of the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
This expedition offers you the ideal introduction to the Great White Continent. Departing from and finishing in the port of Ushuaia, we take in the most exciting sights of the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula.
This itinerary as a guide only, the exact route and program varies according to the weather conditions.
Day 1: Ushuaia.
In the afternoon, we embark in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world located at the Beagle Channel and sail through this scenic waterway for the rest of the evening.
Day 2 - 3: At sea.
During these two days we sail across the Drake Passage. When we cross the Antarctic Convergence, we arrive in the circum-Antarctic up welling zone. In this area we may see Wandering Albatrosses, Grey Headed Albatrosses, Black- browed Albatrosses, Light- mantled Sooty Albatrosses, Cape Pigeons, Southern Fulmars, Wilson's Storm Petrels, Blue Petrels and Antarctic Petrels. Near the South Shetland Islands, we spot our first icebergs.
Day 4 - 9: Antartica.
We will sail directly to "High Antarctica", passing the Melchior islands and the Schollaert Channel between Brabant and Anvers Island. On Cuverville Island, a small precipitous island, nestled between the mountains of the Antarctic Peninsula and Danco Island, we will find a large colony of Gentoo Penguins and breeding pairs of Brown Skuas. If we land on Danco Island we can observe Chinstrap Penguins and possibly Weddell and Crabeater Seals. In Neko Harbour we will have the opportunity to set foot on the Antarctic Continent in a magnificent landscape of huge glaciers calving at sea level. We enjoy the landscape surrounded by alpine peaks during zodiac cruises. In Paradise Bay again with its myriad icebergs and deep cut fjords, we have the opportunity to set foot on the Antarctic Continent again. We shall have the opportunity for zodiac cruising between the icebergs in the inner parts of the fjords. In this area we have good chances to see Humpback Whales and Minke Whales. We sail through the spectacular Lemaire Channel to Pleneau and Petermann Island where we can find Adelie Penguins and Blue-eyed Shags. In this area there are good chances to encounter Humpback Whales, Minke Whales and Fin Whales. A visit to one of the scientific stations in Antarctica will give you an insight about the life of modern Antarcticans working on the White Continent. Further south we may visit the Ukrainian Vernadsky Station, where we will receive a warm welcome from the station crew. Sailing north through Neumayer Channel, we hope to get permission to visit the British research station and post office Port Lockroy on Goudier Island. Close to Port Lockroy we may also offer a landing on Jougla Point with Gentoo Penguins and Imperial Shags.
On our way North through the Gerlache Strait we finally arrive at the South Shetland Islands. We will sail to Deception Island. Our ship braves its entrance into the crater through the spectacular Neptune's Bellow into the ring of Deception Island. We hope for a good long walk and kayak trip which will depend on site availability and weather conditions.
Deception is a sub-ducted crater, which opens into the sea, creating a natural harbor for the ship. Here we find hot springs, an abandoned whaling station, thousands of Cape Pigeons and many Dominican Gulls, Brown and South Polar Skuas and Antarctic Terns. Wilson's Storm Petrels and Black-bellied Storm Petrels nest in the ruins of the whaling station in Whalers Bay.
We leave from here and sail to Half Moon Island, where we will find a variety of Chinstrap Penguins. Seals often haul out on the beach. These volcanic islands of the South Shetlands are windswept and often shrouded in mist and fog, but do offer subtle pleasures. There is a nice variety of flora (mosses, lichens and flowering grasses) and fauna, such as Gentoo Penguins, Chinstrap Penguins and Southern Giant Petrels. Our voyage continues through a narrow Strait to the open sea with direction Ushuaia.
Day 10 - 11: At sea.
On our way north we are again followed by a great selection of seabirds while crossing the Drake Passage.
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Developer Tom Waddington might want to add "code sleuth" to his title: After discovering references to the Facebook want button and potential social commerce initiatives within the social network's code, Waddington has now unearthed references to promotions within Facebook messages.
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The developer who discovered the XFBML tag for a Facebook want button, Tom Waddington, is at it again, finding references to social commerce within the social network's code.


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During the holiday season it is difficult to have a sick child in the hospital. But the P.E.T.S program can brighten your holidays, by bringing in a furry friend.
The Stress of Cooking for the holidays can be high, with lots of family in town and many mouths to feed the pressure is on to have enough and taste great. And if you plan on cooking prime rib, we have some tips for you.
The ACU Women's Basketball team is gearing up for a tough game this Saturday. They will be playing Air Force Academy, the wildcats are off to a good start with a six and two record, but the air force academy will be a tough opponent.
Day 8 of 12 Days Of Local Shopping; Farm And Ranch Western Wear offers a vast variety of cowboy bots, hats, and western wear for anyone on your list.
If you're giving a bottle of wine as a gift or as a thank to your host for dinner why not make it a little more personal. At Filo Liquors they can personalize just about anything giving that gift a special touch.
If you want to add more Christmas decorations to your house but don't want to break the bank, then don't worry because Joe from The Home Depot had some great tips. Also The Geeky Mom has do it yourself toys for small children.
This coming week is the last official weekend to get all of your holiday shopping done, and if you waited to the last minute don't worry. Head over to The Mall Of Abilene this weekend for their Holiday Open House.
Day 7 of 12 Days Of Local Shopping; shop at Casa Authentique this holiday season. They everything from jewelry, clothes, shoes and even furniture. You are guaranteed to find something for anyone on your list.
The holidays are certainly wonderful, the whole house is decorated, but what happens when its all over? And you realize you don't have enough room to store all those decorations.Well don't worry Right Buildings can help you out with that, with one of their storage units.
Day 6 Of 12 Days Of Local Shopping; you may a special girl in your life that you are having a hard time shopping for. Well no worries Vickie's Gifts is making it easy for you this holiday season.
A homeowner's Christmas light display on Sayles Blvd. is attracting a lot of positive attention, as well as a few complaints.
A tradition with roots in the 19th century remains strong in Anson this weekend.
It's normal for inmates to have visitors at the Taylor County Jail, but one man visited and left a married man!
An Abilene group helps develop a program to save drivers gas money that goes nationwide.
The Mall of Abilene may seem more crowded than usual, but the increase in shoppers isn't here to stay. Specialty shops for the holidays are drawing in a larger group of consumers.


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This is the first book of its kind-an exciting and illustrative survey of the way different countries and cultures treat animals under the law. Given the breadth and scope of the legal treatment of animals around the world, the book presents selected issues and laws in a text that is readable and helpful to a wide range of readers, including undergraduate and postgraduate courses in sociology, cultural anthropology, international law, animal law, and animals in society. The book is also accessible to readers not matriculating through formal coursework, and provides any reader with a solid understanding of the varied treatment and approaches taken by countries around the world in connection with animals used in every area.
A Worldview of Animal Law is split into subject areas tied to the different ways we interact with animals in society, with a focus on comparing the laws in different countries in the current era. Its format and wide coverage make it interesting for readers in any country who want to know about this area of the law, whether for personal, educational or professional reasons. Unlike many casebooks on the market, this is not a law school text, and not a comprehensive survey of one specific country's laws; rather, it provides a more readable and wider view of the compelling issues that arise regarding the integration of animals into society.
Bruce A. Wagman is a partner at Schiff Hardin LLP and an Adjunct Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of the Law, Stanford Law School, and UC Berkeley School of Law.
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Wireless charging has been around for a few years now, but sadly it hasn't become as widely-adopted as we'd like. Our microUSB ports start to loosen and bend over time and being able to limit that wear and tear by using wireless charging would be a godsend, but due to the fight over wireless charging standards, most phones simply go without it. And while Qi and Powermat and the various companies backing them fight it out, smartphone users are left in the cold.
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Artist: Lil Wayne
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With anticipation for his I'm Not a Human Being EP, dropping in September, beginning to build, Lil Wayne and Young Money protege Drizzy Drake drop a single sure to be a radio success like the 74,374 other songs Wayne has touched the last couple of years. With the classic "Kane is in the building" intro, producer Kane Beatz, who has been working with everyone from Rick Ross to Trey Songz lately, crafts another instrumental that will have females dancing and the fellas head bobbing. On the heels of his Thank Me Later platinum certification, Drake starts things off with a nice 16 that finds him delving into his favorite subject, girls: "Don't like my women single, I like my chicks in twos." Wayne quickly follows with two verses chalked full of major punchlines like, "I've been fly so long I fell asleep on the f*cking plane," and other lines you'll surely see popping up as Facebook statuses. Although these two could go harder, it is obvious that Wayne and Drizzy are bound to have another radio hit on their hands. Now Wayne just needs to get out of prison.
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CSI: NY Seasn Finale Review: "Exit Strategy"at . Comments
There was a lot about "Exit Strategy" that felt more like a series finale than a season finale. The way it ended, with Mac Taylor's speculation about whether he had done his part, felt like a wave goodbye from.
But let's not dwell too much on what could be and focus on what was a very good episode.The opening was shot like a dream sequence, replete with a foreboding mood. Mac managed to keep his life after a suspect got the drop on him, and the gun being used miraculously jammed. The escape from death prompted Mac to reopen the one remaining unsolved case on his desk, and in true CSI:NY fashion Mac reached his goal.
There were so many moments that defy mere summation. A look, a glance, the way sound was used to heighten what Mac was feeling as he trudged forward on this case all made for excellent storytelling. I've always been a fan of Mac, and this story had me completely invested in the final outcome.
Jo used her super power of being able to read people well, except in one instance. She said she knew Mac pretty well, and while she may have the basics of his character down I can't quite believe she knows him that well. The character really hasn't been around long enough for that. Other than that, the way Jo was able to get the suspect's girlfriend to open up was an excellent example of how she can be skilled and still be believable.
The dynamic between Wes, one of the robbers, and Olivia, the young girl he kidnapped, was quite moving. It's hard to say exactly why Wes kept Olivia with him for so long, but it was nice to see that he was good to her. I did get a little choked up when Wes was dying and told Olivia that she shouldn't be sad because she finally got to go home.
There wasn't a lot of room for side plots, but in a couple of scenes Danny's future plans took shape. He took the sergeant exam and passed. The promotion would likely mean he wouldn't get to work at the lab, so it became a telling moment.
The banter between Lindsay and Danny was very amusing, even if Danny's Pacino impersonation could use some work. It was a nice break from the heavier drama.
It's too bad the rest of the cast couldn't have had a few more moments. Sheldon and Sid only really appeared in the ending montage. Flack was present for a good chunk of the case, but only in the most meager supporting rolls. And poor Adam basically had a momentary sight gag.
I hope this isn't the end of CSI: NY. However, if it is, it's an ending I can live with. There aren't really any loose strings, only the melancholy of wondering what could have come next.
i hope it gets renewed for next year but if doesn't its sad great show.
holding on and letting go by Ross copperman :)
this episode was brilliant comparing to some others we saw this season- I cannot imagine this show without mac Taylor!!! although it became a little too monotonous...
For anyone who wants to know about the closing song in last nights episode it was "Holding on and letting go" by Ross Copperman. I think it was just a way to say goodby to Mac but will agree if it was the last of the series it was a great way to end it.
Last nights episode was great! I really hope this isn't the end either. The story with Mac was great, and I especially loved everything on Danny and Lindsay. I like how if this is the end, each character was given some sort of "closure"..
Great CSI:NY episode last night. Can anybody tell me what the closing song was last night?
It took me a long time to become a fan of CSI:NY, and I don't know why. But I've spent a good part of the last year catching up on old shows. Now I can't wait till Friday's when its on TV, so I hope it will continue. I'd be surprise because CBS has cancelled almost every other show I've watch over the past few years. As a side-note, I was a little happy to see L&O: LA get cancelled. It should never have left NY, but that's a different network.
I love CSI:NY and I cant wait to see if the show is renewed for another season. Although, I have both fingers crossed for a season 8, if it doesnt happen, I can live with this episode as a series finale :)
I hope this isnt the end, I dont want to say goodbye yet to this amazing, heart tugging series. Please let there be a season 8!
I'm pretty sure this was the series finale but it was a great episode. The song at the end was perfecly suited that tied up the episode nicely - the doors opening and closing line. It was so bittersweet. I don't see why there would be another season as much as I'd like one. Mac solved all his unsolved cases, danny got a promotion. It was just a great ending.


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A little store-bought barbecue sauce transforms tofu from blah to bliss. Paired with sweet Vidalia onions (or red ones, if Vidalias aren't available), and you have a protein-packed, low fat (only 9 grams!), absolutely no-cholesterol tasty meal.
You can serve this over rice, or on its own with a salad and side. Healthy, nutritious, and completely mouth-watering.
1 1/2 tablespoons light olive oil
2 large Vidalia or red onions, quartered and thinly sliced
1 pound firm or extra-firm tofu, well-drained and diced
1/2 cup natural barbecue sauce, or as needed
1. Heat the oil in a stir-fry pan or large skillet. Add the onions and saute over medium heat until lightly golden.
2. Add the tofu and barbecue sauce and turn the heat up to medium-high. Stir-fry for 6 to 8 minutes, and serve on its own or over hot cooked rice.
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I think we all need to do what we can in our personal lives to fight back against these people who poison our surroundings and our children.
Don't hire smokers. If smokers work for you, don't give them bonuses or raises. Don't go to restaurants that allow smoking. Don't use personal services (barbers, salons, etc.) where you have to get close to smoker employers. If you're a landlord, don't rent to them. If you live in a condo, call votes to make your building non-smoking.
Every day, wake up and resolve to do something to help Japan become a cleaner country.
I didn't see any examples of extreme behavior in the article.
I think nicotine users should be allowed to indulge their habit, but they shouldj ust inject themselves, like the other druggies, so that they don't harm those around them.
Nine of the opposition parties have offered a credible alternative to Abenomics or a solution to the debt problem.
You can't beat something with nothing.
Anyone opposing Abeconomics has a responsibility to suggest a reasonable alternative. I haven't seen one yet.
Posted in: Abe pivots away from painful reforms
Yes, that's why the upper middle class is so much richer that the regular middle, even more than in the Gilded Age.
Oh, wait, no actually it isn't. The gap is much less. How did that happen?
I guess we just think it is when we here these mindless "truths" peddled by ideologues of little thought and less sense.
Posted in: We believe the stock market rally since Shinzo Abe came to power in December 2012 has increased the wealth of the richest Japanese.
How can you expect to bring tourists to Japan when the bars & restaurants have such a foul atmosphere - filled with tobacco smoke. Some pictures on a menu will not compensate for that.
Posted in: Amid shrinking domestic consumption, foreign tourists will be a quick remedy to revitalize consumption. Such small hospitality gestures, including offering restaurant menus with photos, will certainly attract more foreign tourists.
It is ridiculous to have to follow such a dangerous policy. However, the clock has run out on the alternatives. There is no ability to substantially raise taxes, so the choices are default or monetize. Default would be a disaster so cataclysmic that nobody can seriously contemplate it, so monetization is the only way. However, since the morons in Kasumigaseki have spent the last several decades stunting the capital markets, the only transmission mechanism is a Mickey Mouse banking system full of time-servers and incompetents.
Onishi-san is right to be scared.
Posted in: Market bears bet on Abe victory, then a yen disaster
Lots of people complaining about Abenomics, but nobody offering a credible alternative.
Posted in: Market bears bet on Abe victory, then a yen disaster
That's the point. Abenomics is another word for printing money. When you print money, it becomes less scarse and less valuable, so the people who have money (savers) lose, and the people who owe money (government) win.
Posted in: Japan's looming benefit cuts an unspoken, unsettling election theme
You guys should read fxgai's numbers. It's too late to play around cutting bureaucrats or public works. You could cut every project and every person in the government and it still doesn't work. There is not enough money.
There are only two choices - catastrophic default or monetize the debt.
Abenomics is an immoral, highly risky and desperate policy. Unfortunately the alternatives are even more immoral and risky.
Posted in: Japan's looming benefit cuts an unspoken, unsettling election theme
I heard that Sony is not releasing this movie in Japan or South Korea.
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The point about Abenomics is to take value (by monetization of debt and by holding down interest rates) from savers and give it to borrowers.
Losers will be those who hold cash, deposits, bonds and other fixed income instruments.
Winners will be the government and its beneficiaries/dependents, and, as a semi-unintended consequence, owners of hard assets, real estate, commodities, equities, foreign current assets and businesses, particularly if they are leveraged.
Posted in: Japan's looming benefit cuts an unspoken, unsettling election theme
Progress, albeit slow.
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Real estate is already up 10-20% in central/southwest Tokyo over last 12 months.
Posted in: Investors are buying real estate stocks because they see a delay of another tax increase as a plus. The hope is that more individuals will buy property, which is often a person's biggest-ever investment.
Delay for a couple of years so the economy can strengthen, and then raise gradually by 0.1% per month until the government finances stabilize.
Posted in: The government raised the sales tax to 8% from 5% in April and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is planning to announce in December whether he will raise it to 10% next October in a bid to rein in massive public debt. What do you think he should do?
I'm all in favor of an election and I hope Abe wins, but I dread the thought of weeks of the "yoroshiku onegai itashimasu" loudspeaker vans. If any politician will promise to ban, or at least mute, them, I will do my best to take out Japanese citizenship & vote for him/her.
Posted in: Abe appears to have decided on poll, LDP official tells media
It's time Japan stepped up and picked up more of its own defense burden. As an American, I am sick of paying taxes so they can freeload.
If this guy wants to disagree and burn himself that's up to him, but I hope he left everything he has to the US Treasury to pick up some of the costs he wants to stick us with.
Posted in: Man dies after setting himself on fire in Tokyo's Hibiya Park
Starbucks because it's clean & smoke-free. Most of the local places are filthy.
Posted in: When you drink coffee or tea in Japan, do you prefer the chains like Starbucks, Tully's, Doutor, etc, or do you prefer the traditional "kissaten?"
Do any of the Japanese actually talk about this subject, or is it just us gaijin?
Posted in: Japan is still way behind in terms of anti-smoking policies, especially measures against secondhand smoke. You can still smoke in a lot of public places in Japan such as office buildings, coffee shops, restaurants and bars.
The savings are already gone - they are all invested in government bonds which the government can never hope to repay
The question is only wether this fact is realized gradually and hopefully without panic, by inflation and monetization of the debt, or precipitously, by a government default, which would cause a financial implosion far worse than seen in Greece or Cyprus.
Posted in: My mission is to make sure that the Japanese economy really gets out of the deflation that has continued for more than 15 years.


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Karlsson's Gold Vodka
Every year some 200 vodka brands hit the market worldwide. Most are gimmicks. There's one that comes bottled in a glass skull. There's one flavored with smoked salmon. There's one dyed black. Only two of those 200 live much beyond their first birthday. Can Karlsson's, an upstart brand from Sweden made from new potatoes, buck the trend?
Maybe. But only if it can buck another trend as well: the belief that good vodka has to be flavorless, colorless, and—to this whiskey fan, at least—soulless.
Underneath the marketing and food coloring, almost all vodkas are the same. They're made from grain, usually wheat or rye, and distilled until the taste and color are removed. Some are better than others, but there's no art to the process: the better the ingredients and the more thorough the distilling, the higher the premium. Partisans may swear there's a difference between Grey Goose and Ketel One, but really.
Karlsson's runs against the grain, so to speak, of vodka's obsession with purity. This is a dirty drink.
It wasn't always so. Before the 1960s very few people outside the "Vodka Belt"—Scandinavia, Russia, the Ukraine, Poland—drank the stuff at all, and regional differences predominated. In Sweden it was made mostly made from potatoes. Grains dominated in the steppes. And because purity wasn't as important, underlying flavors came through in the final product: vodka made outside Malmo tasted different from vodka made outside Stockholm, let alone Warsaw.
That all changed in the late 1970s, when Absolut, a state-owned brand from Sweden, got a makeover and started selling globally. Part of its marketing campaign, devised by the legendary Hans Brindfors (who later helped make IKEA a household name), was to emphasize purity over variety. The master blender, Borje Karlsson, switched the recipe from potatoes to winter wheat, which imparts a cleaner flavor. And Mr. Brindfors dressed it up in its now-iconic bottle, hiring artists to design ads that, within a few years, became de rigeur on the walls of college dorm rooms across America.
Absolut remained state-owned until 2008, when Sweden sold the brand to Pernod-Ricard for $9 billion. In the meantime, Absolut became one of the largest and most-recognized liquor brands in the world and the definition of high-quality vodka, averaging over 120 million bottles in worldwide annual sales. By then Mr. Brindfors and his marketing colleagues Olof Tranvik and Peter Ekelund were long gone. But a few years ago the trio got back together to give vodka-making another go. They're all obscenely wealthy men, and they could have spent a small fortune to bring out a wannabe Absolut—packaged, perhaps, in a bottle shaped like a half-naked Kim Kardashian.
Instead, in what can only be described as a rite of penance, they went local. Mr. Ekelund, who works for a private equity firm, also owns a farm in southern Sweden, and he understands what fluctuating food prices can do to small-time agriculture. So he approached his neighboring potato farmers with a plan: what about, instead of storing their excess produce, distilling it? They brought in Mr. Karlsson, the now-famous "father of Absolut," to develop a recipe, and a few years later—backed by Mr. Ekelund's fundraising, Mr. Tranvik's marketing skills, and Mr. Brindfors's branding genius—Karlsson's Gold was born.
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Karlsson's is in many ways the opposite of Absolut. "Success for us," Ekelund says, "will be to sell 100,000 cases in five years"—or about 240,000 bottles a year, or about two-tenths of 1 percent of what their former brand sells annually. "We actually have real physical limitations," Ekelund says. "Our fields could produce a maximum of 400,000 bottles annually." Mr. Brindfors's bottle is short and stout, shaped something like an oversized glass hand grenade. And Karlsson's marketing is entirely word-of-mouth—no Andy Warhol ads this time. The company has just 15 employees, and the participating farmers are all shareholders.
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Dr. Harry W. Flynn graduated from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1971. He works in Miami, FL and specializes in Ophthalmology. Dr. Flynn is affiliated with Miami Childrens Hospital and Jackson Memorial Hospital. He speaks English and Spanish.
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Years in Practice: 43 Years
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Medical School: University of Virginia School of Medicine
Graduation Date: 1971
Hospital Affiliations: Miami Childrens Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital
Specialties: Ophthalmology


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Salisbury: Ravens stand slim chance
Updated: December 3, 2007, 2:33 PM ETBy Sean Salisbury | ESPN
Every Monday, ESPN football analyst Sean Salisbury provides his picks and keys to the game for ESPN PlayCaller. Want to put Sean's advice to work? Think you know better? Join now and let's see what you've got.
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