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200 000 lights bathe the city centre and the Christmas village in front of the town hall in a romantic hue. Every Friday and Sunday meet Father Frost, Dream-goblin Wendelin, the Ice Queen with her icicles, Christmas fairies, Schneeflöckchen, Pippi Longstocking, elves, goblins, teddy bears and many more characters at the great Christmas and fairytale parade. Let your childhood memories come true. Additional highlights include: crafts at the Bad Hindelang Christmas Market; exhibitions in the Town Hall, castle courtyard, parsonage and spa assembly rooms; the Little Tower Market (Türmchenmarkt) at the spa assembly rooms and the Woodland Christmas zone at the Farmer's Market (Bauernmarkt); the Children's Christmas Market in the castle courtyard; the Christmas tree exhibition in the Catholic parsonage; the music stage in front of the Town Hall and concerts in the spa assembly rooms.
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Daily entrance 02 Dec - 05 Dec € 5,-
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Feb 13, 2011
(Kind of) Weekly Muppet Quotes, Week 1
Casey Daron - Hi, and welcome to the first edition of Muppet Quotes. My name is Casey Daron, and this is my first real post. You may have seen me before for my collection, or my Muppet Fan Testimonial. I will be presenting quotes from The Muppet Show, the Muppet movies, and other Muppet projects. Today I have four inspiring quotes:
"It's not easy bein' green." - Kermit the Frog, The Muppet Show, Episode 119
"I guess I was wrong when I said I never promised anyone. I promised me." – Kermit the Frog, The Muppet Movie
"Life's like a movie, write your own ending." –The Muppets, The Muppet Movie
"Now I don't have a house of stone, but I can sea the see. Now most of all I guess that I am happy to be me." – Gonzo, The Muppet Show, Episode 209
Thank you for joining us for Muppet Quotes!
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier
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Hi Casey! First let me say that I was very surprised when Ryan told me my Fraggle Rock Quotations had a fan. And second, let me say that I'm very pleased we'll have quotations from another branch of the Muppet family now, too! There certainly are plenty of good ones. Nice start!ReplyDelete
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- Casey DaronSunday, February 13, 2011 at 4:03:00 PM CST
Thanks! Yeah, I do like seeing the new Fraggle quotes each week! It has been fun posting these quotes so far!ReplyDelete
Hi Casey. My high school yearbook quote was "it's not easy being green". Thanks for picking a great one!!! Mrs. DucharmeReplyDelete
There were Muppets at the Grammy's last night singing with Cee-lo and Gwyneth PaltrowReplyDelete
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"Damn." Chloe thought. "That worked way to well." The door shut behind her and she found herself standing in the middle of a warm pool of clear water, surrounded by mangroves and other tropical plants. Little sparkling fish shot around her ankles. Her cheerleader disguise was gone, instead she wore a piece of white silk that barely covered her suddenly gigantic breasts.
"Dammit Jules! Are you about done? I felt ridiculous enough wearing that skirt!"
A disembodied voice answered her. It was that of an old man, but without weakness, coming from all around her, strong and calm.
"I need to run a full scan on you before I let you in, Chloe."
"But... In THIS outfit?"
"I think you look gorgeous, darling."
"Asshole." Chloe crossed her arms in front of her breast, as if to prevent someone who wasn't there to see something that wasn't real. VR can be weird.
Something started beeping, an Imitation of an old alarm clock.
"Dammit Jules, what is it?"
"Hold on Baby..." Seconds of Silence. "You're being traced."
"WHAT? No I'm not! My security should..."
"Your security is crap, Chloe. Commercial shit-shat that only shows you what you are meant to be seen. It propably hasn't even detected the trace."
Chloe suddenly felt vulnerable. She wished Jules had put her into a knight's armor instead of this ridiculous nymph's outfit.
"Well, can you DO something?"
"Sure thing babe. I'll put you through some jumps. Just hold thight and don't do anything, ok?"
"Can you at least give me another outfit for that?"
Jules didn't answer, but suddenly the pool of water and the plants were gone. Instead Chloe stood on top of a mountain in a tight leather suit, looking down into a valley where some kind of war was going on.
Everything changed. A purple Sky, Dragons flying across and breathing fire.
Water. All around her. She couldn't breathe.
A brickhouse in front of her. A man wearing a helmet shouted orders.
The famous World of Witchcraft Ivenue.
Pure Whitenes. As Chloe prepared for another jump, a desk appeared out of nowhere, an old man sitting behind it.
"Hello Chloe."
"Hey Jules. You're done?"
"Sure. You're clean now. While you were jumping, I erased parts of the logs with an old trick I learned in the early days."
"Already done? P.C.I." Chloe changed her Clothes. "Damn Jules, you really are a Styxer aren't you?"
"Shit-shat. I'm just someone exploiting security leaks with a few old tricks. Nothing compared to a Styxer."
"Well if you say so." Chloe threw him a sceptical look. "How much?"
"The usual."
Chloe hit some buttons on her PCI and money vanished from her account, reappearing on one of Jules'.
"So... I am clean?" Chloe asked uncertainly.
"Yes. As clean as it gets." Jules winked, then he vanished and Chloe found herself in her loadspace, without having given a command to disconnect. Damn, the old bastard was good.
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These Friendship Plastic Beads come 113 grams of assorted beads (approx 225 beads) to a package, and are 13 mm in size. Friendship Beads can be used with Pony Beads, or Faceted Beads, or any other beads, to create multiple beaded craft projects.
We also carry a complete line of beading accessories and findings, such as elastic cords, lanyards, split key rings, and many more beading items.


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drig had een nieuw logo ontwerp nodig en lanceerde daarom een wedstrijd op 99designs.
Een winnaar werd gekozen uit52 ontwerpen ingezonden door17 freelance designers.
Ok, I need a logo done for a website called MeetACoach.
Logo must be vector and should be delivered in either a .psd or .ai.
I havent decided on a color yet but reds, blues, or green is what I am thinking.
MeetACoach as in mentor, not a sports coach. The website will play host to connecting people who want to learn to those who want to teach. Things for inspiration: I really like the glassy kind of web 2.0ish (buzz word ) looks, but that doesnt mean it needs to be glassy, I am very open to all types. I just ask that the logo look professional, with a bit of playfulness to it. Would also like the logo to have some sort of icon that can be represented with the text. Much like Technorati.
Here are some sample logo styles:
I reserve the right to cancel the contest early and also to extend the contest as needed. Feedback will be given as quickly as possible.
Bekijk hoe een ontwerpwedstrijd werkt of leer meer over logo ontwerpdiensten.


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'Rise of the Guardians' Review
I can only take so much. I approach a family-friendly film with as open of a heart as possible, but when hit in the face with the shovel of whimsy and wonderment and wide-eyed optimism over and over and over again, eventually, I have to strike back. Sorry, 'Rise of the Guardians' - there's a lot that is admirable in you, particularly some of your design work, but you brought this on yourself.
In an act of darkest cynicism, the Hollywood dream peddlers have found a way to maximize profit off of another superhero team-up. This time the characters every kid's already heard of are public domain IPs, together again for the first time. Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and Sandman (who I guess kids know, I suppose) team up with Jack Frost in a madcap race to run across as many rooftops and spin around in 3D while saving the status quo and reminding children to reject logic and believe in saviors that, in reality, never come.
Their villain is The Boogeyman (you can almost hear the dart being flung at the board) and his evil scheme is to snuff out kids' belief in our assembled heroes. If our "Guardians" lose their ratings, they lose their powers - although their powers, as far as I can tell, is just to bribe kids with candy and trinkets to maintain this cycle of belief. Jack Frost, the newcomer to the group, is about as hungry for fame as a second-tier Kardashian, relishing in the glow of celebrity when "the last believing boy" actually says his name.
Even craftier is how Santa Claus is portrayed as a boisterous Russian, enabling the film to better ensnare the children of the emerging BRIC nations. The Tooth Fairy is also vaguely South Asian, which certainly makes for some pretty backdrops, but her attitude is far more Beverly Hills than Bangalore. Nevertheless, the imagery is dazzling. The colors burst, the characters zip and everyone swoops, swings and sparkles. In between action sequences they talk endlessly about . . . I dunno. . . something noble, no doubt. Most of the kids in the theater I saw it in took these insufferable talking parts as an opportunity to ask for candy.
'Rise of the Guardians' is, on a quite literal level, not for me. I am not a child, nor do I have any nostalgia for the characters at play. As a non-Christian, Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny were not part of my upbringing. I did receive a gift for a pulled tooth, and even had a special pillow to put it in, but my caring parents had enough respect for me to explain that "the Tooth Fairy" was a concept of make-believe, and they put the dollar bill in after I went to sleep. (Sandman and Jack Frost didn't get any play in our house, either. Maybe they did in yours.)
If 'Rise of the Guardians' concluded with some "believe in yourselves/your family/your community" mumbo-jumbo maybe I'd be a little more forgiving, but it totally whiffs on this. It ends with Jack Frost, looking directly in the camera, telling kids to "believe in the Guardians" so they'll protect them from the Boogeyman. What utter garbage, and what an insult to children in actual peril who could use the aid of a real live human being.
In addition to the bright palate and spectacular design, there's a part of me that has tremendous respect for 'Rise of the Guardians'' crassness. If you want to indoctrinate your youngster with middle class values, this is as good a place as any to start. Also, the yuckster in me can't deny that having the personification of bad dreams being black horses ("Night Mares") was a nice touch, too.
'Rise of the Guardians' opens in theaters on November 21.
Jordan Hoffman is a writer, critic and lapsed filmmaker living in New York City. His work can also be seen on Film.com, Badass Digest and StarTrek.com.


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The previously-released Catching Fire trailer seemed perfect, but that was before the final installment debuted during Game 4 of the World Series.
The new trailer is the first one to give us a thorough look at the arena (unlike the prior ones, which mostly showed Katniss walking around on her district tour). The attack monkeys, the terrifying crows that yell—it's all there in glorious detail! However, the opening scene of the trailer is one of the final scenes of the book, so maj spoiler alert if you've been refusing to read the books—even though all of these trailers already spoiled the twist in the book!
Check out the trailer--then let us know what you think!
Will you be watching Catching Fire on November 22nd?
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I have been staring at this program for a while and can't get it to work. I would appreciate any assistance that you can provide.
Problem: System.exit(0); is not working. IDE gives me an error that I don't understand. System should exit when mouse is pressed inside of rectangle.
Program description: Program is supposed to open drawing window and then draws rectangle. Program loops until mouse is pressed inside of rectangle (Mouse press marked by red hash). System is supposed to close when condition is true.
import element.*; // opens element library import java.awt.Color; // opens color library public class DrawHashMarks { // opens class /** * This class draws a set of hash marks. * @Walton */ public static void main(String[] args) { //opens main method DrawingWindow d = new DrawingWindow(); //opens drawing window Rect stop = new Rect (50,50,30,30); // draws rectangle Pt pressPoint; // sets variable for presspoint d.draw(stop); //a button for stopping d.setForeground(Color.red); // set color for hash mark while (true) { // potentially infinite pressPoint = d.awaitMousePress(); // mouse is now down if (stop.contains(pressPoint)); // leave loop drawHashAt(d,pressPoint); // calls drawHashAt method d.awaitMouseRelease(); // mouse is now up } // close loop System.exit(0); } // close main method public static void drawHashAt (DrawingWindow d, Pt center) { // opens method // pre: d is a valid drawing window, center is a valid point // post: draw a hash mark centered at center in drawing window d d.moveTo(center); //move to center of hash mark d.move(-10, 0); //move left d.line(20, 0); //draw horizontal axis d.move(-10, -10); //move up d.line(0, 20); //draw vertical axis } // opens drawHashAt method } // close class
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After almost four years of negotiations, the Canadian government and the European Union are reportedly close to finalizing a controversial integration deal known as the "Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement" (CETA). President Obama announced earlier this year that his administration was also pursuing a similar "free trade" package with the EU, which analysts say could pave the way for a "Transatlantic Union" encompassing all of North America and most of Europe.
According to experts, a North American Free Trade Agreement-EU super-bloc with power over national governments and economies on both sides of the Atlantic would become the de facto regulatory regime for the entire planet. If the deeply controversial deals go through, the transatlantic entity's combined GDP would amount to about half of the global economy, forcing companies all around the world to accept the bloc's regulations or face exclusion from 50 percent of the world market.
The so-called "integration" schemes, however, are already facing fierce resistance, and that is expected to accelerate as talks go on. Among other concerns, critics in Europe, the United States, and Canada all worry that the plot would strip even more of what national sovereignty still remains. The unaccountable regime established under the agreements would inevitably seek to accumulate more power, too, opponents argue.
While the proposed agreements are currently focused mostly on "economic integration," the EU and even NAFTA provide excellent examples of how "free-trade" regimes can quickly and quietly become burdensome political-integration experiments as well. The EU, for instance, began as a simple agreement between a handful of countries on coal and steel before gradually morphing into a "free trade" area. Today, the Brussels-based EU regime imposes the vast majority of the "laws" governing Europe.
In North America, meanwhile, NAFTA tribunals already overrule American laws and courts. Official U.S. embassy documents exposed by WikiLeaks also confirmed that plans to erect a North American Union between Mexico, the United States, and Canada have been in the works for years. The emerging NAU would be complete with its own single currency, and the formerly sovereign nations' constitutions would become little more than historical relics.
The EU-Canada deal is close to being finalized, according to political leaders. While acknowledging that there were still some issues to be resolved, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said during a visit with the Socialist French prime minister last month that "considerable progress" had been made toward wrapping up negotiations. Recent news reports citing officials indicated the major "stumbling blocks" that remain include regulations on cars, agriculture, intellectual property for pharmaceutical products, and financial services.
"There remain some important issues to resolve, and obviously nothing is resolved until everything is resolved," Harper said on March 14 as Socialist French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was on an official visit to Ottawa. "Obviously, we will only sign a deal when we're convinced we have a deal that is comprehensive and in the best interests of the Canadian economy."
After missing multiple deadlines, negotiators for the EU and Canada are reportedly scrambling to get the controversial CETA deal sealed by this summer. According to some analysts, the real goal is to facilitate and pave the way for a similar agreement being pushed hard by Obama between the super-state ruling Europe — widely viewed as illegitimate among Europeans — and the U.S. government. Canadian officials hope to have CETA finalized before the intense U.S.-EU negotiations get in full swing.
However, resistance is building fast, with more than 80 Canadian municipalities so far passing resolutions expressing concerns about the plan. "The voices of those most impacted by these deals are generally not heard in trade negotiations, which happen behind closed doors with no meaningful public participation," noted Council of Canadians Chair Maude Barlow in a piece blasting the transatlantic scheme as a mistake. "The Canada-EU free trade talks are off limits even to Canadian parliamentarians. Still, opposition to the CETA is growing across the country."
Opponents of the "free trade" agreements — critics call it "managed trade" due to the thousands of pages of regulations involved — come from all across the political spectrum. Indeed, much of the opposition is coming from forces typically associated with the political left. Among other concerns, Big Government advocates worry that the deals will give "Big Business" too much power. In a sense, at least, analysts say those concerns are justified: The negotiations appear to embody the merger of state and corporate power, with corporations given wide leeway to challenge and sue governments over policies they disagree with.
"The CETA threatens to privatize and deregulate many of our public services. In fact, everything could be up for grabs, including municipal water systems, electrical utilities — even our mail delivery," complains a left-wing Canadian group known as Stop CETA, which warns on its website that everything from jobs and government programs to the environment and farmers would be threatened by the controversial agreement. The group also claims Canadian culture and even indigenous peoples would be harmed by the deal.
"Under the CETA, our governments could lose the ability to protect and promote Canadian arts and culture! It could also affect our sovereignty," the advocacy organization continues in a list of ten major issues it compiled to illustrate why the deal is "bad" for Canada. "If our governments, which we elect, can't regulate on our behalf, or use our tax dollars to support our local economies when needed, all due to trade rules that put corporate rights first, then the CETA is actually a threat to our democratic system."
On the other side of the political spectrum, critics worry about the threat to national sovereignty and political accountability that the deal represents. As humanity is increasingly governed by unaccountable supranational bodies and tribunals, conservatives and liberty-minded activists argue that imposing even more bogus "free trade" regimes is not the best way forward. Instead, opponents say it is past time to start abolishing such agreements and restoring national sovereignty while permitting real free trade.
Supporters of the deals, meanwhile — mostly Big Business, Big Government, politicians, bureaucrats, and the rapidly dwindling segment of the population that believes absurd political promises of "security" and "prosperity" — argue that the scheme would improve the economy and offer better jobs. On both sides of the Atlantic, mega-corporations and power-hungry officials are working hard to rally public support using typical, meaningless rhetoric.
"We look forward to concluding Canada-European Union (EU) Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations in a spirit of reciprocity and mutual benefit," claimed Canada's Harper and French Socialist Ayrault in a joint statement last month. "A CETA will create new opportunities for exchanges between our businesses and will contribute to employment growth in European and Canadian economies. It will strengthen investment and reinforce economic relations between the EU and Canada, and between France and Canada."
At this point, it remains unclear whether the CETA will end up being approved, with some analysts insisting it is only a matter of time, and others arguing that the deal is already dead. If it fails, however, that will not be the end of the decades-old plot to create a "Transatlantic Union" — the strategy will simply shift toward creating what is known as the "Transatlantic Free Trade Area," which could include Mexico, the U.S. government, and Canada.
In the United States, though, Obama announced in February that his administration would be pursuing a "free trade" deal with the EU, and Brussels bosses appear to be excited at the prospects. While organized labor has in the past been among the primary opponents of transnational regulatory regimes, U.S. unions are already lining up behind Obama's proposed deal hoping to score European-style government favors for Big Labor.
Meanwhile, the president is also pushing the "Trans-Pacific Partnership," a similar "free trade" regime encompassing governments and dictatorships in the Asia-Pacific region, including the communist regime ruling over Vietnam. In North America, Obama is unilaterally expanding NAFTA even as North American governments continue to pursue ever-closer "integration" largely in the shadows. The United Nations and its machinations, of course, have the president's full support as well.
Rather than creating more transnational entities with power over the United States and other sovereign nations, however, critics say it is time to start extricating America from the myriad arrangements it is already involved in: NAFTA, NATO, the United Nations, and more. If enough activists put pressure on Congress to halt the looming transatlantic and transpacific schemes, they can certainly be shut down. Whether that will happen, though, depends largely on how informed and concerned the American public becomes about the consequences — and how actively the opposition demands that the schemes be stopped.
Related articles:
Obama Pushing Trans-Atlantic Union with EU
EU-U.S. Integration: Unattractive Union
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Secret Surrender of Sovereignty
Free Trade in Theory and Practice
Obama to Strengthen NAFTA Without New Negotiations
EU in Final Phase of Destroying Democracy, Czech President Warns
Obama and Global Establishment Warn U.K. not to Ditch EU
UK Leader in European Parliament Says EU on the Verge of Cataclysm
EU Threatens Tiny Switzerland Over Low Taxes
President Obama Wants TPP Finished by End of 2013
Convergence: Globalists Push Russia-EU Merger
Bilderberg-picked EU Leader Van Rompuy Calls for Global Governance With Russia
TPP Copyright Provisions Threaten Internet Freedom, U.S. Sovereignty
WikiLeaks Confirms North American Integration Scheme
The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government


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Pay attention! Starting December 10th (okay, I am a little slow here) – December 16th, each time #healthytummy is used in a tweet, Attune Foods will donate $1 to the Celiac Disease Foundation up to $3,000.00!! So, get to tweeting!! You can find more information here.
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Aug. 8, 2013
When Ryan joined PCPartPicker, one of the first things I wanted him to do was put together a build for the site. With an AMD build being long overdue, I tasked him with creating a part list utilizing an AMD FX-8350.
The part list and prices at the time of this post:
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant / Benchmarks
|AMD FX-8350 4.0GHz 8-Core Processor
|$179.99 @ Microcenter
|CPU Cooler
|Swiftech H220 55.0 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
|$150.98 @ Newegg
|MSI 990FXA-GD80V2 ATX AM3+ Motherboard
|$170.97 @ Outlet PC
|Samsung 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory
|Samsung 840 Pro Series 512GB 2.5" Solid State Disk
|Video Card
|EVGA GeForce GTX 780 3GB Video Card
|$659.99 @ Amazon
|Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (White) ATX Mid Tower Case
|$89.99 @ Newegg
|Power Supply
|NZXT HALE90 V2 850W 80 PLUS Gold Certified ATX Power Supply
|$185.98 @ SuperBiiz
|Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available.
|Generated by PCPartPicker 2013-08-08 10:28 EDT-0400
The build went reasonably well, though we did run into a few snags - some our fault, others outside our control.
Ryan was set on using Avexir RAM with white LEDs, but in the end it just didn't fit. The Swiftech H220 cooler obstructed the first of the RAM slots - which was unfortunate as the motherboard manual states that is one that must be populated even if you run with only two sticks of RAM.
Instead we used some low profile Crucial RAM that conveniently came bundled for free when we were purchasing parts. However, it turns out that that specific model of RAM has issues with some systems, including this build. The system wouldn't boot, so we swapped it out for low profile Samsung RAM which booted without an issue.
We also planned on using a Sapphire Vapor-X 6GB 7970, but switched out to an EVGA GTX 780 at the last minute. At the time we originally planned the build, the 780 had not been released yet. Because we had custom sleeved cables made specifically for the 8-pin/8-pin PCI-E power connectors on the 7970, they didn't fit the 6-pin/8-pin PCI-E power connector set on the GTX 780. Our cable sleever Jappetto sent us a new cable, but by that point we had already finished filming.
Overall the Fractal Design R4 is an attractive case, but you can see the amount of flex it exhibits at various points in the video. I wish that it had more space up top for a radiator and fans, as the H220 was completely touching the motherboard VRM heatsinks - something I'm not particularly fond of. We would have loved to put the radiator on the front, but there wasn't enough depth to fit it there either.
We'll be running benchmarks and doing performance and thermal analysis soon, so keep an eye out for follow-up posts on this build!
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Bow down to T'Challa.
ABC premiered the first trailer for Marvel Studios' "Black Panther" during the NBA Finals on Friday. The sneak peek gave fans a look at the blockbuster before the movie claws its way into theaters on Feb. 16, 2018.
"Black Panther" follows T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. But when a powerful old enemy reappears, his courage as king, and Black Panther, is tested when he is drawn into a conflict that puts the fate of the world at risk, Marvel Studios said in a press release.
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Chadwick Boseman returns in the role of T'Challa/Black Panther; the character made his onscreen debut last year in "Captain America: Civil War," where he initially went head-to-head with Captain America, played by Chris Evans, and other heroes, only to realize they're on the same side.
Before Black Panther hits theaters, here are five facts about the film:
1. Director Ryan Coogler assembled an all-star cast
In addition to Boseman, Angela Bassett, Sterling K. Brown, Winston Duke, Martin Freeman, Danai Gurira, Michael B. Jordan, Daniel Kaluuya, Lupita Nyong'o, Phylicia Rashad, Andy Serkis, Forest Whitaker and Letitia Wright make up the ensemble cast. And don't be surprised if at least one other character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe pops up. After all, "Black Panther" will be part of Avengers: Infinity War," premiering just two months later, on May 4, 2018.
2. "Black Panther" has been in development since 1992
Wesley Snipes announced his intention to develop and star in a movie based on the comic book character 25 years ago. Various delays, ranging from script issues to Snipes' involvement in the Blade series, plagued the project until it was shelved indefinitely. But in October 2014, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige announced "Black Panther" would be released on Nov. 3, 2017, with Boseman in the leading role; the release date was later pushed back three months.
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3. The movie is set in the fictional nation of Wakanda
Good luck finding Wakanda on a map—it doesn't exist. The imagined African nation was created in 1966 along with the titular character. Principal production on the movie began on Jan. 21, 2017, at EUE/Screen Gems Studios and Pinewood Atlanta Studios. Additional filming took place throughout South Korea. Filming ended after three months, on April 19, 2017.
4. Ludwig Gransson is composing the score
Director Coogler has worked with Gransson twice before, on "Fruitvale Station" (2013) and "Creed" (2015). His other movie and TV credits include Warner Bros.' "Central Intelligence," Yahoo's "Community," ABC's "Happy Endings," Fox's "New Girl" and Warner Bros.' "We're the Millers."
5. There is no sequel planned...yet
Marvel Studios has several films in the pipeline after "Black Panther" and "Avengers: Infinity War," including "Ant-Man and the Wasp" (July 6, 2018), "Captain Marvel" (March 8, 2019) and an untitled Avengers film (May 3, 2019). Two other movies—"Spider-Man: Homecoming 2" (July 5, 2019) and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" (TBD)—have been announced.
Beyond that, the film studio has not announced which of its franchises will continue.


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White Papers and Application Notes
Design and Implementation of MEMS based Blood Viscometer for INR Measurement
The paper brings out the designing and implementation of blood viscosity monitoring device that gives us the INR to measure the effectiveness of anti coagulant medications .When a blood vessel is damaged, clotting cascade begins that results in blood clot. This process is affected by several medical conditions where it becomes mandatory for a patient to intake anti-coagulants. Thus to monitor patients drug dosage, this MEMS based Blood viscometer with a disposable strip can provide a convenient means to measure the blood clotting. Clotting is the normal function of blood in response to an injury. In abnormal conditions, anti-coagulant medications which delay the formation of blood clots should be administered to prevent thrombosis and embolism. Hence the time that the blood takes to clot needs to be monitored regularly so that the drug dosage can be optimized. Hence INR (International Normalized Ratio) is used to measure the effectiveness of anti coagulant medications. Existing hand held devices for blood coagulation PST (patient self test) work by inducing a chemical reaction and consequently measuring the gradient at the electrodes coated with compounds - a technology that has not fundamentally changed in many years. In contrast, this study presents a device which uses a new technique that stems from futuristic research on micro-technology and exploits the potential of MEMS to achieve high accuracy, robustness and ease of use of its disposable Smart strip coagulation test. The main challenge of using COMSOL Multiphysics is the designing of cantilever beam and observing the effects of blood sample when placed over it. The cantilever made of piezoelectric material is held rigid at one end and flexes at the other end. When the blood sample is placed over the cantilever, due to clotting of blood, the strain and consequently the electric potential across the beam gets altered. By measuring the changes in electric potentials across the piezoelectric layer due to the increase in blood viscosity, the handheld reader can calculate the time taken by the blood to change from a solution to gel form, which the unit then converts and displays. The cantilever is designed using COMSOL Multiphysics and the corresponding effects of blood clotting are observed and analyzed by simulating a mass change on a cantilever surface as the sample blood droplet is dispersed and allowed to clot over time. Also, the potential developed across the piezoelectric cantilever beam (Figure1) can be obtained using an external circuitry which could be displayed in terms of INR. Thus the device designed shall be capable of monitoring the level of anti coagulants with a small blood sample quantity as low as a few µL using a disposable strip. We expect to implement the suggested hardware with incorporated MEMS assembly which shall display the INR value of blood within minutes.
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Pajarita wrote:I wouldn't put a harness on any of the small aviary species. There is no benefit to them - only stress and discomfort.
I have no idea what a "small aviary species" is. All parrots can be trained to wear a harness and not be stressed or uncomfortable. Training isn't the issue and species isn't the issue. The issues are that most people don't give adequate love, training, and expense to the smaller birds so they come off as wild. However, if someone would spend the effort hand feeding, raising, and training a lovebird as they do a macaw, it wouldn't be much different. The other issue is just a scale issue. Our hands are proportionately bigger to a lovebird than to a macaw. Likewise, the manmade harness straps, buckles, and materials are huge to the small bird. The harnesses are not properly scaled down for size. They are just taking a big bird harness and making the collar smaller while the thickness of the material is the same. Therefore it's like a toddler trying to wear a man's Tshirt. It's out of proportion. Last issue is that the small birds live at a much quicker pace. It's hard for us to keep up with them when it comes to training and particularly something like harness training. In the 1 second of approaching with harness, the bird has looked in ten different directions and ran back and forth on the perch. Our scale of time just makes it a very strong burden on the trainer to move quickly and efficiently to keep up with the bird and to have the dexterity and gentleness in our hands to work with the scale. Otherwise, I don't see them as just aviary birds or anything less. It's our fault, not theirs.


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Is Science a Religion?
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:11 am
Religion is based on faith. Science is based on faith. So science is a religion." (For those interested in the technical, this argument is invalid; it doesn't matter if its premises are true. It is just like this argument: "All students carry backpacks; Professor X carries a backpack; So Prof. X is a student." Or: "Bill Gates is rich; Vladimir Putin is rich; So Gates is Putin." [Have you ever seen them together?] All arguments of this form commit the fallacy of "undistributed middle." Any argument of this form fails to establish its conclusion.) This argument, though fallacious, can be made valid by just noting that all knowledge of the unseen world must be based on faith, so faith is all both religion and science have access to.
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The ZFS on Linux with FUSE
Using RAID
Listing 2 demonstrates a RAID-Z array with three (virtual) disks – RAID-Z2 is similar. (The keyword for RAID-Z2 is raidz2 instead of raidz.) The commands in Listing 2 create a pool with RAID functionality. Note that ZFS will not let you extend the capacity: You can't just add new disks to the RAID pool. However, there is a workaround. As shown in Listing 3, you can replace the existing disks with three larger disks.
Listing 2
$ for i in $(seq 3); do dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/rpool$i bs=1024 count=65536; done $ zpool create rpool raidz /tmp/rpool1 /tmp/rpool2 /tmp/rpool3
Listing 3
Replacing the Disks
$ for i in $(seq 4 6); do dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/rpool$i bs=1024 count=128000; done $ zpool replace rpool /tmp/rpool1 /tmp/rpool4 $ zpool replace rpool /tmp/rpool2 /tmp/rpool5 $ zpool replace rpool /tmp/rpool3 /tmp/rpool6
Alternatively, you can increase the array capacity by adding mirror, or RAID-Z, pools to the existing pool, rpool (Listing 4). This technique makes sense when the new disks are the same size as the existing disks. As long as you have more than two disks, RAID-Z is preferable to mirroring for failure safety reasons.
Listing 4
Adding Pools
$ zpool add rpool mirror /tmp/rpool4 /tmp/rpool5 $ zpool add rpool raidz /tmp/rpool4 /tmp/rpool5 /tmp/rpool6
Preventing Data Loss
Modern hard disks have self-test functions that let you check current hardware status by running a special tool. If a disk is in a critical state, ZFS lets you remove it from the pool to check the hardware:
zpool offline rpool /tmp/rpool3
If you find out the hardware has an irreparable defect, you have no alternative but to replace it with the use of the zpool replace command, as shown in Listing 3. Whereas offline simply disables the disk in the array, the replace command swaps the existing medium.
ZFS then proceeds to synchronize the pool, which can take a couple of minutes. The zpool status command keeps you up to date with the current status.
If you are wondering why Apple is so interested in ZFS, you might consider an interesting feature in Mac OS X: The "Time Machine" stores filesystem states, which lets users restore older states. Time Machine is actually based on ZFS.
In OpenSolaris, the developers have integrated this feature with Nautilus [6]. On Linux, you currently have no alternative but to use the command line. To create a snapshot, type zfs snapshot rpool@created. The @ sign and an arbitrary string following it are important. The zfs list command outputs the existing pools and snapshots (Listing 5).
Listing 5
zlist Output
$ zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT rpool 409K 266M 32,2K /rpool rpool@created 0 - 32,2K -
If you change a pool – that is, copy or add files – the USED and REFER columns will have changed from the original time. If you accidentally delete some data, zfs rollback rpool@created is all it takes to restore the pool to its original state.
Compared with the current crop of popular Linux filesystems, ZFS has some very interesting features, such as the integration of the Volume Manager and RAID and the ability to create snapshots. Other promising traits include online compression, or the ability to export or import pools. The many benefits of ZFS make it quite clear how big a lead this filesystem has over its competitors right now. Although Oracle's Btrfs promises similar abilities, it will take some time until it is ready for production use.
- ZFS: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/
- OpenSolaris: http://www.opensolaris.com
- Btrfs: http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page
- FUSE: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
- ZFS FUSE: https://developer.berlios.de/projects/zfs-fuse/
- Snapshot integration in Nautilus: http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/entry/zfs_on_the_desktop_zfs
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Jolicloud – the cloud based operating system based on Ubuntu – is one of the first cloud based OS I have used. It is quite a nifty operating system and we have written about it a lot here at Techie Buzz.
In a blog post, the team behind Jolicloud has announced that they are giving Jolicloud a new identity. Earlier, the name "Jolicloud" referred to the operating system. However when the Jolicloud app was launched in the Chrome Web Store, it turned to to be quite successful there as well. This leaves two Jolicloud in two forms – a stand-alone operating system with cloud focus and a web app using which users can experience many of the features found in the stand-alone OS.
This is what the Jolicloud team wrote in the blog post:
Back in December, we introduced a Web only version of Jolicloud for the Chrome Web Store. That app has already reached 60,000 installs and is now among the top 40 most popular apps. This success has convinced us that we now have to expand our experience beyond our own OS to be relevant on other platforms.
To remove this ambiguity, the Jolicloud team has announced that they are giving different names to the two. From now on, the stand-alone operating system will known as Joli OS. The web app, which can be accessed both from a normal browser and Joli OS, will be given the name Jolicloud.
The web app, now known as Jolicloud, is currently available only in the Chrome Web Store. However, they are looking to expand beyond that by supporting Firefox 4 and Safari. An experimental HTML5 port for the iPad is also being developed.
Another very exciting announcement is that they are looking to expand Jolicloud beyond traditional computing devices like desktops, laptops, netbooks etc. The Jolicloud team announced that they are planning to bring the Jolicloud experience to mobile devices as well. Their first step towards this is Android. They are working on an Android app for Jolicloud which should be available soon.


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dirty == chocolate?
6 comments:
- Unknown said...
To me, the taste of a dirty machine is very particular, and tastes like nothing else. It is dirty machine taste, period. And it's impossible for me to get past; put simply, it ruins the shot.
And it doesn't matter what blend or SO goes through a dirty machine, it never has a positive result for any of them.
Home machines should be cleaned with detergent daily, and commercial establishments should be thoroughly back-flushing and swapping out cleaned screws and screens once an hour, no matter the volume.
There is nothing worse than the taste of a dirty espresso machine!
- chris said...
I used to say the exact same thing.
And the reality is that, for me, I still believe it. I don't like muddy flavours. I don't like the slight rancid oil bite. I prize the taste from a clean machine. I think cleaning should be frequent and regular and thorough.
That doesn't mean I shouldn't try to understand those who disagree with me. I'm not that arrogant.
Just like learning to understand that many don't like "sour" coffee (and understanding the implications of what that means for a roaster), we need to understand that many don't clean their machines regularly - and we need to understand what that means in the cup.
- Unknown said...
I take great joy in helping people understand what it is that they're experiencing in the cup (just as I enjoy having other food professionals walk me through tastings of their chosen food/drink), and in illustrating differences/variety of flavours in coffee for everyone. The general public is my favourite audience, and I will never tire of that part of my work in the specialty coffee industry.
And as part of that, I make a special point (and encourage every other coffee professional to do so, too) to drink all kinds of coffee at all kinds of establishments (including home set-ups). It is very very important that we understand how people experience coffee currently, how they brew at home, and how to possibly guide and broaden their coffee experiences.
This humility and context is absolutely essential for all coffee professionals, and is the foundation for avoiding the 'pretentious barista' syndrome... and therefore key to the cooperative and participatory approach that we should be taking as we strive to spread the word about quality coffee and suggest good ways to brew it.
I did not mean to second-guess your commitment to understanding this very same thing: we agree completely that we should be understanding how people currently taste/prepare their coffee. Of course! What I worry about with this post is that some people may equate the taste of 'chocolate' with 'dirty espresso machine'. When they are very different tastes (to me, at least), and one is positive while the other is quite negative.
- James Hoffmann said...
Interesting. I think my initial thoughts were the same as Amber's - dirt is evil, distracting and a particular kind of unpleasantness.
I wonder if there is some distinction between the kind of build up we experience in a commercial setting, and the dirt built up from a few shots a day? You've experienced both - so it seems fair to ask.
Without that distinction I'd really be struggling to associate what I perceive as dirty with any kind of chocolate.
- chris said...
I'm guessing there is a fine line indeed between the "chocolate" result and "rancid cod liver oil" and that in a bar environment that line is crossed so quickly that the odds of ever getting to taste is are very small indeed.
I've never tasted this on bar (where the flavours are overwhelmingly negative).
One important note: I would never suggest that a dirty machine results in better espresso. It always (to my taste) results in degraded coffee in the cup. It's just that it also skews the flavour profile towards chocolate (regardless of coffee or blend).
- Daniel Stewart Mueller said...
I've experienced this chocolate situation at home moreso than on bar, but I'd often wondered if that wasn't my palate's predisposition to tasting chocolate in coffees.
What might be a good methodology of testing this?
Initial thoughts are to dial in a coffee, clean the machine and create a quick flavor profile. then, pull 10 or so shots and taste the 11th, creating another quick profile.
Then it's just a matter of comparing the two profiles.
Does this sound like it might work?
-Dan Mueller


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How to Make a DIY Camera Stand
Tripods can shoot just about every angle but one: straight down. Its very design demands that the legs will get in the way. Attaching the tripod to the ceiling or the camera to a boom stand is an option, but the thought of dangling a camera in such a way is frightening. Plus, if you'd like to use the camera for animation, keeping the camera still is essential. Professional camera stands are great, but are quite expensive.
So, here goes: A DIY downshoot stand for still and macro photography and animation, that keeps the camera in a single and safe position. Cost: around $20.
• 1/2" threaded galvanized piping
o 3 x 24" lengths (if you work with very small objects, you might use one 24" and two 18" or even 12" lengths)
o 2 x 90-degree elbows
o 2 x end flanges
• 1 x ¼" bolt, 2" length
• Several ¼" washers
• Steel mending plate
• Small rectangle of hardwood or MDF, slightly bigger than plate
• Soft, sturdy material, such as felt and non-stick shelf lining
• #10 (or other thin, long) bolts and nuts and washers, 2" length
• 2 x 24" lengths of 2 x 4" lumber
• 8 x 1 ½" wood screws
• Electric drill and drill bits
• Plumber's epoxy
• Velcro strips
1). First, we need to create a base plate that attaches to the threaded tripod hole and support the camera. Attach the mending plate to the larger rectangle of hardwood with the included screws. Then, drill a ¼" hole through the center of both pieces, using a slower speed when drilling through the metal.
2). Next, drill two 3/16th holes on either side of the center hole. Drill two matching holes in the center of one of the 24" pipe pieces, then attach the plate to the pipe with #10 bolts, nuts, and washers. Then, using the ¼" hole in the plate as a guide, drill a ¼" hole through the pipe.
3). Then, thread it into your camera, and note how much extra room there is. Take the camera off, and then tighten this gap with the appropriate amount of washers. Next, squish together some plumbers epoxy (the doughy stuff in the tube), and apply to all touching metal parts- the bolt, in between the washers, the pipe, etc. The goal is to prevent the bolt from spinning, since we can't use a nut.
4). Once the epoxy has dried, we need to protect the camera from the hardware. I glued on a piece of wool felt, and then a layer of non-stick shelf lining. Of course, it's necessary to cut a hole to accommodate the ¼" bolt.
5). Attach the 90-degree elbows to the pipe with the bracket, and then screw on a pipe to each end. Arrange the pipes so you have a flat (upside down) u-shape, with the sides perpendicular to the top bar, and the support plate faces outward.
6). Twist the flanges onto the ends, and place them onto the 2 x 4"s, about 9 inches from the back. Attach the flanges to the wood with 1 ½" screws.
7). Attach the camera, and then cut two strips of Velcro (use the all-in-one kind, with the integrated hooks and loops), and wrap them around the camera to support the weight. Stay clear of any controls.
8). To use, simply clamp the 2x4"s to a flat surface. Use the side bars to support any extra lights, etc.
My thoughts: I took a time lapse overnight, and noticed no movement in the camera. Sweet. I also realize the height isn't adjustable (yet), but I find I can do anything I want with the zoom on the camera lens. I can fill up the frame with a #10 bolt, which is good enough for me.


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Vue's got its mighty Ecosystem/Ecopainter feature which is good for that sort of thing. I use it to generate cities and forests. But Blender? No idea, alasBlack--Snow wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 2:46 pmOn another note, do you know if there's an easier way to make clones or 'clouds' of ships without duplicating and making a big old mess?HowSerendipitous wrote: ↑Wed May 02, 2018 12:36 pmDoooo it! I'm gonna' keep chipping away at those particle beams, they need more ooomf
Heheh, well, I could've tried to do the silhouettes, but I suspect my stick people would've been awful. so I pilfered them via the infernal power of Google Images
I wanted procedurally placed fighters but especially with their particle system I think that's not possible.
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Agreement delivers on Exelon's merger commitment to divest plants and preserve jobs
CHICAGO - Exelon today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell its three Maryland coal-fired power plants to Raven Power Holdings LLC ("Raven Power"), a new portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC, fulfilling its commitment to divest the plants as part of its merger with Constellation. Under the agreement, Raven Power will maintain jobs with comparable pay and benefits for employees at the plants.
"The sale of these plants marks another important milestone in meeting our merger commitments," said Christopher M. Crane, Exelon's president and CEO. "Until the divestiture is completed, Exelon will continue to run these plants as we have in the past and in compliance with all regulations, and we look forward to a smooth and successful transition to the new owner."
The three plants, known collectively as Maryland Clean Coal, include:
• Brandon Shores, Pasadena, Md.: 1,273 MW of installed capacity, two units (coal)• C.P. Crane, Middle River, Md.: 399 MW installed capacity, three units (coal and oil)• H.A. Wagner, Pasadena, Md.: 976 MW installed capacity, five units (coal, natural gas and oil)
Raven Power will pay approximately $400 million for the plants and related assets, subject to several closing adjustments. In addition, the sale will generate approximately $205 million in cash tax benefits, with the majority of that amount realized in 2012 and 2013. Exelon will record a pre-tax loss estimated to be approximately $275 million in the third quarter to reflect the difference between the estimated sale price and the carrying value of the plants. Exelon will determine the optimal use of the sale proceeds through its normal planning process.
"The Maryland Clean Coal plants have an experienced workforce and a strong record of safe and environmentally sound operation. We are very pleased to be adding these plants to our portfolio," said Pierre Lapeyre and David Leuschen, Co-Founders of Riverstone.
The sale was required by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Maryland Public Service Commission as part of Exelon's merger agreement. The transaction, which is subject to approval by FERC and DOJ, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2012.
Since 2008, the three coal plants have undergone major environmental upgrades, including investment in a new scrubber at Brandon Shores that makes it one of the cleanest coal plants in the nation. The plants comply with the stringent Maryland Healthy Air Act and are well positioned to meet pending Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) emissions standards.
Citi and Goldman Sachs & Co. acted as financial advisors to Exelon, and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius served as legal counsel. Vinson & Elkins served as legal counsel to Riverstone.
About Riverstone Holdings LLCFounded in 2000, Riverstone Holdings LLC is an energy and power-focused private equity firm with over $22 billion of equity capital raised across seven investment funds and co-investments, including the world's largest renewable energy fund. Riverstone conducts buyout and growth capital investments in the midstream, exploration & production, oilfield services, power and renewable sectors of the energy industry. With offices in New York, London and Houston, the firm has committed approximately $18.9 billion to 88 investments in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia. For more information, visit www.riverstonellc.com.
Paul AdamsExelon Corporate Communications410-470-4167
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 3 - 4 cups
Calorie Content
This product contains 4212 kilocalories/kilogram or 359 kilocalories per cup ME (metabolizable energy) on an as fed basis (calculated).
Rice, chicken meal, chicken fat (preserved with mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract and citric acid), corn gluten meal, brown rice, chicken, beet pulp (sugar removed), natural flavors, catfish meal, sodium silico aluminate, potassium chloride, salmon oil, soya oil, sodium chloride, dried egg powder, fructo-oligosaccharides, brewers yeast extract (Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermentation solubles), L-lysine, monosodium phosphate, Vitamins [dl-alpha tocopherol acetate (source of vitamin E), L-ascorbyl-2-polyphosphate (source of vitamin C), biotin, d-calcium pantothenate, niacin, pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B6), vitamin A acetate, vitamin D3 supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B1), vitamin B12 supplement, riboflavin (vitamin B2), folic acid], choline chloride, borage oil, Trace Minerals [zinc proteinate, zinc oxide, ferrous sulfate, copper proteinate, copper sulfate, manganese proteinate, manganous oxide, sodium selenite, calcium iodate], dried spinach, sage, basil.
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Crude Protein Minimum 25.0%
Crude Fat Minimum 18.0%
Crude Fiber Maximum 3.3%
Moisture Maximum 10.0%
Vitamin E Minimum 600 mg/kg
Vitamin C Minimum 300 mg/kg
Omega 6* Minimum 4.3%
Omega 3* Minimum 0.6%
*Not recognized as an essential nutrient by the AAFCO Dog Food Nutrient Profile.
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Canine Health Nutrition MEDIUM Special 25 Formula for Medium Breed Adult Dogs over 12 months of age is formulated to meet the nutritional levels established by the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) Dog Food Nutrient Profiles for maintenance.
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Second ingredient is a named meat product.
Insufficient meat product. Extensive use of cheap grains and other controversial fillers.
The first ingredient in this food is a grain. Rice is a reasonable quality grain, but we believe dog food should be based primarily on meat products, not on grains. The second, sixth and ninth ingredients are named meat sources. We note that one is fish. The manufacturer does not claim to use ethoxyquin-free fish sources (ethoxyquin is a chemical preservative believed to be carcinogenic).
It is a concern to see chicken fat as the third ingredient. Research at Purdue University has identified a fat in the top four ingredients of a dry dog food as a factor that increases the risk of bloat in large breed dogs. Smaller breeds are untested.
Corn gluten meal is filler, for which the AAFCO definition is the dried residue from corn after the removal of the larger part of the starch and germ, and the separation of the bran by the process employed in the wet milling manufacture of corn starch or syrup, or by enzymatic treatment of the endosperm. In plain English, that which remains after all the nutritious bits have been removed. Brown rice is a decent quality grain.
Beet pulp is yet another controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We note the use of soya oil in the food. Soy is a poor quality source of protein in dog food, and a common cause of allergy problems. Some believe that it is the number 1 cause of food allergies in dogs (outstripping even wheat).
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Ground Rod and/or Connecting Pin, 3 ft
Ground rods are essential for all energizers and lightning diverters.
Can also be used as a connecting pin to attach gates, panels, orphan headgates and creep feeder gates.
California Residents: Proposition 65 Information
- Galvanized
- 3 ft
- 1/2" diameter
- Has a head on one end
How to Use
Use ground rods for:
- Energizers—allow 3 ft of rod per joule of energy released (use 3 ft rods for smaller energizers and lightning diverters. Use multiple 6 ft rods for large energizers).
- Make sure to put the ground rod all the way into the ground.
- To attach insulated wire, make an elongated "U" in the wire.
- Put the "U" against the rod and put the stainless steel ground rod clamp around it. Tighten.
Use connecting pins for:
- Attaching gates or panels.
- Attaching gates or panels to feeders.
- Attaching orphan headgate to existing lambing pens.
- Attaching a creep feeder gate to wire panels, bar gates or wooden panels.
- Make sure to have the ground rod all the way into the ground
- Make sure you have a good connection to the ground rod
- Make sure to have a good connection on the energizer and fence
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That's a pretty damn catchy slogan.... where can I sign up?
I guess I figure that if Ben Stiller and Mel Brooks can treat Hitler lightly, it's probably okay. He deserves no deference. I think it would've made him feel like more of a failure for us to laugh at him than to give his name some sort of wide berth befitting intimidation.


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Plans are proceeding to unveil a new name for Gaston Memorial Hospital, despite some who are lobbying against the change.
Opponents have said it would be a slight to veterans, since the hospital was founded with a name in 1946 to honor the county�s war dead.
CaroMont based its decision on community input, said spokeswoman Penny Cowden. She emphasized this week the new designation is imminent.
�(The name) will be changed unless there�s a cataclysmic shift in something,� she said. �We�ve done a lot of work on it. We�ve spent a lot of time doing the research, making sure we�d made the right decision.�
CaroMont Health postponed a press conference it had scheduled Wednesday to announce the new name, selected after months of research on rebranding. Hospital leaders said the change will allow CaroMont to retain its independence as a health care agency, while strengthening its commitment to the community.
CaroMont blamed the postponed announcement on a scheduling conflict. It came two days after Gaston County commissioners publicly objected to the decision. Several of them learned Friday the name could and would be changed without a vote of the CaroMont Health board of trustees, whom they appoint.
Hospital leaders will likely compromise in the coming week by allowing commissioners a sneak peek at what�s coming down the pike. But Cowden said CaroMont�s plans won�t be affected.
Closed session discussion
CEO Randall Kelley and other executive leaders have been proceeding toward the name change with the understanding that formal approval from the board of trustees wasn�t necessary, Cowden said.
�I�ve actually never had a board (of trustees) vote on something like this, so it�s surprising to me that there�s been this reaction,� Cowden said.
The county owns the Gaston Memorial Hospital building and land, and leases it for $1 a year to CaroMont, which operates as a public nonprofit.
County commissioners appoint 13 of the 14 members of the CaroMont Health board of trustees. Commissioner Jason Williams serves on that board, as does Donnie Loftis, a former county commissioner.
The board of trustees met Monday and went into closed session to discuss the hospital name change. Board Chairman Spurgeon Mackie cited a state law that allows the public board to do so for discussion of competitive health-care activities, confidential health contracts and other reasons.
County Commissioner Joe Carpenter attended the open portion of the meeting. He asked Kelley, the trustees and others in the room to keep the Gaston Memorial name in place.
�I�ve had a number of veterans to call me, and they�re very upset it might lose that name,� said Carpenter. �I�d consider it an embarrassment if that were completely removed.�
Carpenter referred to it as a sensitive issue in the community.
�You�re really trustees for the citizens of Gaston County,� he told the board. �There needs to be some recognition of that.�
Staying competitive
CaroMont Health employs more than 4,000 people in Gaston County. As an independent health-care agency, it is fighting to retain its local foothold and find ways to grow.
That has become more challenging with increasing competition from rivals such as Carolinas Health Care and Novant Health, which operate hospitals in surrounding areas including Charlotte, Kings Mountain, Shelby and Lincolnton.
CaroMont contracted an outside marketing agency to handle the rebranding study, Cowden said.
�In our research, we actually did get the opinions of the community,� she said. �We did extensive and very intense focus groups with representatives of this community. We did it the same way they conduct national polls.�
The name change is one small piece of an entirely new marketing plan, Cowden said.
Several elected leaders, including Commissioners Tom Keigher and Tracy Philbeck, have questioned whether a small focus group can fairly represent the wishes of a county with more than 200,000 residents.
�The problem is that honoring their veterans is no longer chic or hip for them,� Philbeck said Tuesday. �It no longer resonates with them. I have a major issue with that. I think it�s arrogant.�
Williams, the commission�s liaison to the board of trustees, said he doesn�t expect Gaston Memorial to remain the hospital�s name much longer.
�I think this is something they�ve worked on for a long time and they feel confident this is the right marketing approach,� he said.
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.


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Traveling With Time
I became fast friends with Kate, the owner of the coffeeshop, and she invited me to put off riding in the rain and stay the night at her house. I accepted, on the condition that I at least wash dishes for her at the coffeeshop. The next morning dawned beautiful and clear, and Kate and I got up early to open the coffeeshop and have a cup together before I set off.
There were only two possible roads east out of Livingston: I-90, or 25 miles of dirt called Old Convict Road. I had planned to take Old Convict Road, but neither Kate nor I really knew how to get to it, and after the rain it could have easily turned into impassable mud. I decided to try to find it anyway in order to stay off the interstate.
I was gathering up to go when the first customer of the day came in - a huge, burly man named Time Keeper. He was a miner and a biker, with a ponytail beard and the most gentle laughing eyes I've ever seen. His gloves were so big I could have worn one as a hat. A beast of a motorcycle, decorated with skulls, was parked outside next to my Vespa.
I asked the Time Keeper if he knew how to get to Old Convict Road. He did, and as he drank his coffee he began explaining the way. After several directions of the "turn left at the third fence post" variety, my eyes glazed over and I interrupted him to dash for a pen and paper. Amused, he asked when I was going.
"Right now," I said.
"I'll ride out there with you," he said. "I've got the morning off."
And so we zipped up our leathers and waved to Kate and must have looked like the oddest pair to anyone out that early.
I followed the Time Keeper's massive, graceful silhouette into the sunrise. He led me out of town and into the open land to the unmarked turnoff that was Old Convict Road. Before he turned back to Livingston, I gave him a hug and showed him the tiny skull decal that discreetly peered out from the back fender of my Vespa.
7 comments:
- Combatscoot said...
My wife has always said that bikers may look hard on the outside, but they have soft hearts.
Amazing....the people you must have met.
- Jinjer-The Intrepid Angeleno said...
It would've been so easy to believe he had every intention of harming you on Old Convict Road. How great that you were able to trust in his kindness and that his kindness was true!
- Pamela S.F. said...
I lived in Wyoming for 6 months and always regretted not being able to go back. The people were the kindest and friendliest, always willing to give you a hand. Even the one's that seemed scary. It was amazing... I know exactly the sort of person you are describling when you talk about Time Keeper.
As Yellowstone employees we were told it was fine to hitchhike if we wanted.. a couple ingenious guys held a sign that said "underpaid park employees.. we know where the bears are" (the most often tourist asked question). They ALWAYS got a ride.
I'm gong back there someday to stay.
i am so lost and unhappy in my life. i wish i could be like you and have the courage to get out there and live my life the way (i think) i want to... for some reason reading about Time Keeper made me want to cry (in a good way). you are so lucky! thank you for all of the amazing photos, and stories. i'll probably be up all night reading ;)
Your story today almost made me cry with happiness...such wonderful hearted people out there.
- Elizabeth said...
I know that this comment is a little late (I've just been catching up on this blog after following DailyCoyote for several months)... but I couldn't resist.
I was fortunate to work in Livingston this summer and was so excited to see Kate's coffee shop mentioned! Not only does she make a mean latte, but always could tell when to throw in a special word or deed because I was having a rough morning. Her and "Timekeeper" are not unusual in this town, it truly is a great place to feel at home. I do believe I fell in love with that area as you did your Wyoming.
Thank you so much for giving a loving description to a place I am missing very much right now.


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Ooh la la, Sony Pictures Entertainment Smurf 2 Screening Party was held on July 24, 2013 at 10202 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, in The Jimmy Stewart Screening Room. Sony rolled out the blue carpet, and in lieu of a limosine, The Smurfs ("Magical Creatures" by Sony Animation), Smurfette, Vexy, Papa, Hackus, Grouchy, Clumsy and Vanity, arrived in a blue Dash Smart West Coast Custom car sponsored by Walmart.
Upon entering, it felt like arriving into "Smurfland". Smurf dogs, chicken tenders, macaroni bites, and scewers of fruit, it was a kids' food haven. For dessert there was frozen yogurt with blue gummie bears and blue candy. There were lots of yummy treats for the kids and adults to enjoy.
Papa smurf posed for photo ops which could be retrieved via email, was very impressive: as your photo was snapped, your email address was simultaneously input into an iPad for immediate download. Hundreds of smiling kids accompanied by their parents attended the Smurf2 Screening Party.
Despite the many young children that attended, naughty and nice, it was not very noisy and chaotic, a very fun and comfortable atmosphere. There were even "Smurf 2" play station 3 video games in the lobby to entertain the kids waiting for the movie to begin. Each table was decorated in birthday party style with crayons and an assortment of SMURFS drawing paper to colour.There were blue cupcakes, toy smurfs and buckets you could store your treats and gifts in to take home. Guests were very happy to see "colour me mine " one of the event sponsors, with complimentary unfinished ceramic figures of Smurfette and an elaborate assortment of colored paints and brushes to decorate them with while waiting for the movie to start. Colour me mine will fire all of the finished smurfettes which can be picked up at a store closest to them.
No Smurf fan left behind! The theatre screening rooms were so packed the staff had to bring in chairs from outside into the theatre to accommodate all the guests in attendance. Movie director Raja Gosnell greeted the guests before the movie with a brief presentation concluding with "enjoy the movie"and "make it your own". After the movie, gift bags were given to all the kids, some containing Smurf 2 video games for wii , stuffed animals, smurf puzzles by pressman smurf figurines, and a book "Smurfs in Paris".
It was a pleasant and delightful movie experience for all ages. Everyone left the event smiling and cheerful. The Smurf2 party screening was definitely a "Smurfy Good Time". I wonder if this film inspired Jay Z and Beyonce' to name their baby "Blue". Hash tag #Smurf2 @Smurf2. #Sony #Animation #TheNaughtys #Smurfette.


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WASHINGTON / Bay lawmakers among wealthiest / Feinstein and Pelosi continue to top the list of the richest members of Congress
2004-06-26 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- Members of the Bay Area's congressional delegation, which includes some of the wealthiest lawmakers in Congress, have built significant personal fortunes by capitalizing on the region's pricey real estate market and investing heavily in the stock market.
Two of the Bay Area's best-known lawmakers, Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of San Francisco, are fixtures on the list of Congress' richest members.
But the majority of the region's lawmakers are millionaires or multimillionaires -- including those who spent most of their careers in government rather than the more lucrative private sector, according to the latest financial disclosure forms released last week.
For example, Rep. Tom Lantos, D-San Mateo, a former economics professor at San Francisco State University who has served in Congress for almost 24 years, has made millions of dollars through investments in the stock market and real estate.
Lantos owns shares of Boeing Co., the world's largest aerospace company, valued at $500,000 to $1 million. He also owns an apartment building in Vancouver, British Columbia, which produces net rents of more than $100,000 a year.
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Hayward, who has served in the House for three decades, owns a warehouse in South San Francisco that produces rental income of $1 million to $5 million a year.
Several lawmakers also have increased their wealth with their spouses.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-San Jose, is married to San Jose business lawyer John Marshall Collins, who has hundreds of thousands of dollars of stock holdings in high-tech companies including Cisco and Intel, according to the financial disclosure forms. The couple sold their house in Capitola last summer for $500, 000 to $1 million.
Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Walnut Creek, made her money as a stock trader and investment banker before marrying William Tauscher, the founder of the computer company Vanstar. They are now getting a divorce, but the congresswoman estimates she will receive $1 million to $5 million in assets as part of the divorce settlement.
Pelosi, who is married to investor Paul Pelosi, has amassed a large portfolio of jointly owned real estate, including three properties in the Napa Valley. They sold an 8-acre vineyard on Skellenger Lane in Rutherford last year for $1 million to $5 million, according to her disclosure form.
Paul Pelosi's holdings include a four-story commercial building on Belden Place in San Francisco, a retail and office building on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard in San Anselmo and an ownership stake in the Auberge du Soleil resort in Napa Valley valued at $1 million to $5 million. He also has millions of dollars of shares in publicly traded companies such as Microsoft, Amazon. com and AT&T.
The couple estimated their total assets to be worth $25 million to $102 million last year, with liabilities of $6 million to $31 million. Assets are reported in broad ranges on the disclosure forms, making it difficult to determine a lawmaker's exact net worth.
Federal lawmakers are required to file financial disclosure statements under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. The forms are released each year to give the public a financial portrait of their representatives and help expose any potential conflicts of interest with their or their spouses' business dealings.
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who is up for re-election this year, put most of her assets in a blind trust in 2001 after being criticized for owning stock in some of the energy companies she accused of manipulating the market and overcharging consumers during the California energy crisis.
Feinstein also has received scrutiny for husband Richard Blum's extensive business dealings with China and her past votes on trade issues with the country. As a result, her financial disclosure statement -- nearly the size of phone book -- draws clear lines between her assets and those of her husband. Many of her assets are in blind trusts.
Bay Area congressional delegation's financial interests
Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Committees: Appropriations; Intelligence; Energy and Natural Resources; Judiciary; Rules and Administration; Joint Printing.
Senate salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Ownership stake in Carlton Hotel in San Francisco valued at $5 million to $25 million; a marital blind trust, $1 million to $5 million; annual pension income from city of San Francisco of $43,138; Tahoe condo, $500, 000 to $1 million, condo in Kauai, Hawaii, $250,000 to $500,000, both jointly owned with her husband, Richard Blum.
Liabilities: Mortgage of more than $1 million for Carlton Hotel rental property.
Miscellaneous: Her husband's investments are valued in the tens of millions of dollars.
Sen. Barbara Boxer
Committees: Commerce; Science and Transportation; Environment and Public Works; Foreign Relations.
Senate salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Blind trust with her husband, Stewart Boxer, $1 million to $5 million; condo in Washington, D.C., $100,000 to $250,000; interest in an Oakland office building, $15,000 to $50,000; stock holdings valued $1,000 to $15,000 each in America Online, Lightspan.com and IBM.
Liabilities: Loan of $100,000 to $250,000 from her husband's company.
Miscellaneous: Annual pension of $3,536 from time as Marin County supervisor.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi,
D-San Francisco
Position: House minority leader.
House salary: $171,900.
Major assets: St. Helena vineyard, $5 million to $25 million; real estate option on a property on Broadway in San Francisco, $1 million to $5 million; townhouse in Norden, near Lake Tahoe, $1 million to $5 million; 8-acre vineyard in Rutherford that Pelosi recently sold for $1 million to $5 million. All properties are jointly owned with her husband, Paul Pelosi.
Liabilities: St. Helena vineyard mortgage of $1 million to $5 million.
Miscellaneous: Paul Pelosi also owns commercial property in San Francisco and San Anselmo valued at $5 million to $25 million. He also has major stock holdings that include $250,000 to $500,000 in shares of Amazon.com and Alliance Gaming Corp., which makes slot machines, and $100,000 to $250,000 of shares in Microsoft and Comcast.
Rep. Anna Eshoo ,
Committees: Intelligence, Energy and Commerce.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Deferred compensation plan, $100,000 to $250,000; Federal Thrift Savings Plan, $100,000 to $250,000.
Liabilities: Mortgages on homes in Atherton and Washington, D.C., of $250, 000 to $500,000 each.
Miscellaneous: Annual pension of $8,944 from time as San Mateo County supervisor.
Rep. Sam Farr , D- Carmel
Committees: Appropriations.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Point 16 Big Sur property, $500,000 to $1 million; Vista Lobos Apartments and three lots in Carmel, $500,000 to $1 million.
Liabilities: Payments to margin account of $50,000 to $100,000.
Miscellaneous: Many stocks acquired because of his father's death and the dissolution of the Janet H. Farr Trust, including shares of Chevron, Boeing, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Merck and Pfizer worth $15,000 to $50,000 each.
Rep. Mike Honda , D-San Jose
Committees: Science; Transportation and Infrastructure.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: American Life investments, $50,000 to $100,000; pension from his previous job as an elementary school principal, $100,000 to $250,000.
Liabilities: None.
Miscellaneous: Took seven trips, including two to Korea and Japan, sponsored by the Korean Exchange Council and George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, and trip to Puerto Rico, paid for by Sony Music Corp.
Rep. Tom Lantos,
D-San Mateo
Committees: Government Reform; International Relations (ranking member).
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Apartment building in Vancouver, British Columbia, $500,000 to $1 million; major stock holdings, including shares of Boeing, $500,000 to $1 million; Eastman Kodak, Xerox and Northwest Airlines, $100,000 to $250,000 each; and Walt Disney and General Electric, $50,000 to $100,000 each.
Liabilities: None.
Miscellaneous: Took two trips sponsored by the Albanian-American Civic League.
Rep. Ellen Tauscher,
D-Walnut Creek
Committees: Armed Services; Transportation and Infrastructure.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Property and other assets, $1 million to $5 million pending divorce settlement; Dryden Stock Index Fund, $100,000 to $250,000; Fountains Apartments partnership, $100,000 to $250,000.
Liabilities: Credit card payments of $10,000 to $15,000.
Miscellaneous: Six domestic trips paid for by the Democratic Leadership Council, New Democrat Network, Leaders Project and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
Rep. Barbara Lee,
Committees: Financial Services; International Relations.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Retirement investments from her job as a California legislator worth $32,000 to $130,000; U.S. Treasury bills, $15,000 to $50,000; Merrill Lynch retirement account, including shares in Lucent Technologies, $15, 000 to $50,000, and Xerox, $1,000 to $15,000.
Liabilities: None.
Miscellaneous: Ten foreign and domestic trips, including one to Cuba sponsored by Urbanists International, a nonprofit urban planning group.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren,
D-San Jose
Committees: Judiciary; Science; Homeland Security.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: California Public Employee Retirement System, $100,000 to $250,000; Comerica Bank money market account, $250,000 to $500,000; sold house in Capitola for $500,000 to $1 million.
Liabilities: Mortgage on Capitola house of $250,000 to $500,000.
Miscellaneous: Her husband, John Marshall Collins, a lawyer, owns many stocks, including shares of in Cisco and Applied Materials valued at $50,000 to $100,000 each.
Rep. George Miller,
Committees: Education and the Workforce (ranking member).
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Property in Washington, D.C., $250,000 to $500,000; two IRA accounts, $15,000 to $50,000 each.
Liabilities: Mortgage on Washington home, $100,000 to $250,000.
Miscellaneous: Took four trips -- to Jamaica, Hawaii, Rome and Moscow - - paid for by the Aspen Institute congressional program.
Rep. Richard Pombo ,
Committees: Agriculture; Resources (chairman).
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: The R. Pombo Ranch II, $100,000 to $250,000; Pombo Ranch Estates, $250,000 to $500,000.
Liabilities: Line of credit from Congressional Federal Credit Union, $10, 000 to $15,000.
Miscellaneous: Pombo's wife, Annette, earned a salary for working for his re-election campaign, although the amount is not disclosed. Pombo took three trips, including a trip to Reno paid for by Safari Club International, a group that advocates for wildlife conservation and hunters' rights.
Rep. Pete Stark, D-Fremont
Committees: Ways and Means; Joint Economic; Joint Taxation.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Warehouse in South San Francisco, $5 million to $25 million; rental house in Washington, D.C, $500,000 to $1 million; investments in two Texas oil companies, $16,000 to $65,000; stock in Schnitzer Steel, $50,000 to $100,000, and Delcath Systems, medical products company, $16,000 to $65,000.
Liabilities: Mortgage on South San Francisco warehouse, $5 million to $25 million.
Miscellaneous: Stark's wife, Deborah, is a paid consultant to his re- election campaign.
Rep. Lynn Woolsey,
Committees: Education and the Workforce; Science.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Stock in Agilent Technologies, Nordstrom, Inc., SBC Communications and Vodaphone, $1,000 to $15,000; IRA account, $16,000 to $65, 000.
Liabilities: None.
Miscellaneous: Took three trips, including trips to Jamaica and Frankfurt, paid for by the Aspen Institute.
Rep. Mike Thompson,
D-St. Helena
Committees: Agriculture; Budget; Transportation and Infrastructure.
House salary: $154,700.
Major assets: Half ownership in St. Helena property, $500,000 to $1 million; farm in Finley, $500,000 to $1 million; stock in GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, Exxon, Coca-Cola, General Electric, Oracle, Wal-Mart and Starbucks, $1, 000 to $15,000 each.
Liabilities: Farm development loan, $250,000 to $500,000.
Miscellaneous: Took four trips, including a visit to Reno with Safari Club International.
Note: Several members did not report the value of their residences, which, in some cases, are their largest assets.
Source: congressional records


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As a native to the community of East Los Angeles, Lowriding surrounded Joseph Marquez and he became mesmerized with the amazing culture. He began building his mechanical skills as an adolescent; looking up to his competitive brothers who had a knack for building neck-breaking rides that dominated the Boulevard. He got his first chance at Lowriding greatness shortly after he turned sixteen and hasn't looked back since. His career rolls on today as strong as it ever was back then, thanks in part to this gorgeous 1951 Chevy Fleetline featured here. Joseph came across the Fleetline when a fellow club member from the Arizona chapter bought it as a project car. Luckily for Joseph, his fellow club member offered it to anyone in the club who wanted to finish it, and Joseph happily took him up on the offer before anyone else had a chance to respond. After looking for a '51 for years, he promptly loaded the Fleetline up and towed it back to California. Once the Fleetline was back in his garage, Joseph tore it apart and restored it with plenty of attention to detail. Joseph and his wife, Sally, would like to thank Greg Arrendondo and John Walvoord for their assistance with the restoration of the Fleetline. Joseph and Sally are enjoying the fifty one right now but like we mentioned in the opening paragraph, it would not be surprising if Joseph parted with it to move on to another project. We are pretty sure it will be just as nice, if not nicer than this incredible Fleetline.
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Owner: Joseph & Sally Marquez
Nick Name: Green Relic
Vehicle: 1951 Chevy Fleetline
Club: Relics Car Club
City/State: Ontario, California
Paint: Juan at JML Auto Body in Huntington Park, California massaged the body back to factory condition before he sprayed the Khaki Green hue on the Fleetline.
Interior: Jose Perez, from Perez Upholstery, in Pasadena, California covered the interior panels and front and rear seats in a light brown suede tone. Marty, from California Installs in East Los Angeles, California, installed the in-car entertainment system that consists of Kenwood, Kicker, and Orion components. There are 2 Orion amplifiers powering the Kenwood speakers throughout the Fleetline. The head unit is installed in a custom-built center console under the dash.
Engine: Nick, at Magnolia Machine Shop in Riverside, California, rebuilt the Chevy 235. John Walvoord installed the split manifold. Transmission is a stock 3 speed with a power glide rear end.
Suspension: Greg Arrendondo installed the Jamco 4″ lowering springs in the rear of the Fleetline with 3″ blocks. Greg also installed a set of Jamco 3″ lowering springs in front to bring the Fleetline down to just the right cruising height.
Wheels: Stock 15″ wheels with Crown hub caps cover each corner of the Fleetline.
Tires: 205/75/15 Coker Classics all the way around the Fleetline.