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Is this 2001 E39/M5 a Good Deal?
I am looking at getting my first BMW, and I have a BMW "collector" friend/associate who is willing to make me a deal on his M5. He has owned a bunch of BMWs over the years, selling and buying pretty frequently, as new cars catch his eye. He is not the original owner of the M5.
Anyway, the car is a 2001, black with black leather interior with those blue accents (sorry I forget the name for them). Not sure on upgrades, but the car has been "babied" and looks perfect. It has 50k miles. I have seen but not driven yet.
He is offering to me for $26k. This appears below blue book, but that may not be the best source of info. So I am asking you guys, what do you think?
What specific questions should I ask regarding the car?
WOW!!! 01 with 50K, for only 26$. Sounds like a good deal if the car was well taken care of and serviced mostly by BMW! As for being babied, that is a term i think some people use loosely...maybe to help sell the car. I'm sure it has been well-taken care of, but the car is an M5, and unless its a 70 yr old man who drives it once a week on sunday to church, then it's not actually "babied".... M5's, like any other M model, were meant to be driven for performance and the luxury is the nice add-on BMW gives to this beast of a touring car. Though, most M5's are not beat to death and have been managed well throughout their life, either by a BMW dealership (you would hope always), or a well trained technician who is certified to work on BMW's. You do not want a shade-tree mechanic fixing your BMW, especially an M car with a chiton's manual!!!
First: I would ask your friend if the car has had its Inspection II done? It's close to the mileage for that inspection, and would save you close to a grand (depending on the dealership and repairs/tuning that is required) if it has already been done. You can google the Inspection process that the M's go through...there is an Inspection I and an Inspection II phase.
Second: I would get the VIN # (last 7 is all you need-should start with BZ) and call your local BMW dealership Parts/Service department and ask them to run the the vin for you. They may say they can't do this, but they actually can! One of my good friends is a shop foreman at a BMW dealership and said this is legit. They are not allowed to release you the paperwork or certian specific details, but they can answer most questions you have, such as repair/service history. This can answer Question 1, in reference to the Inspection.
Third: I would ask your friend any repais/services he had done to the car, whether or not it was at BMW or somewhere else. Don't mis-understand me, not all BMW's are serviced at BMW...this doesn't mean they were improperly serviced, it just means BMW has no records of it, and you are not guaranteed the work done on it, unless it was with genuine BMW parts (those carry a 2 yr warranty regardless)
Lastly: Ask questions about the clutch/tranny (of course). Listen for the "Vanos" at idle and rev. Make sure the exact same synthetic oil has always been used (the weight was never changed), inspect the tires (mainly rear) they tend to get expensive...and the rear wear down faster than the front...ALWAYS!!!, and lastly inspect the interior/electronics and the exterior. There are more standard questions you can ask, and i'm sure someone who is more of an expert on these than i am can point others out to you...but your best bet is to keep googling the questions and search the forums here!
It appears your friend probably deals with Bimmers alot, and has most likely taken great care of the car; your best bet is to actually drive the car....fall in love with it....which you will, and then weigh your options...are you willing to sink an additional grand to ensure the car passes BMW's inspection? Having BMW inspect the car and make any necessary repairs,upgrades, & tune-ups will give you the freedom of mind and comfort of knowing it was done properly...cus if it wasn't...it falls on their dime!!!
All in all... 01 M5's are tough to find with that low of miles at that price...they usually fall closer to 29$. If the car is legit and checks out fine in BMW's service history...I'd say go for it! But remember...it's a used car...they are not your original miles! And don't "baby" it... DRIVE IT! that is what it was built for! Actually... they should be pampered...i just laugh when i see ads that state the car was "babied" and its being sold by a 23yr old!
Best of luck in your purchase...I myself am looking for an M5...i just recently sold my E30 vert...so i'm in the hunt for a good family/fun touring car!
There has been much discussion on the boards recently that E39 M cars have lost a lot of value in the last six months so the price is not all that surprising. You obviously want to learn as much about the ownership history of the car as possible, have it checked out by someone you trust who knows the M cars and their eccentricities, and have your favorite body guy tell you whether it has ever had paint work done so you know what you are getting into. Beyond that, these cars have a very weak clutch which goes at 40-50K so that would be one of my first questions...it is a quick $2500 bucks unless you do it yourself. Good luck...they are worth every penny imho.
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OK, thanks guys. One reason I am a bit nervous about it is that I haven't driven these before, so I won't necessarily know if something isn't quite right. E.g., if it is underpowered but still a lot more powerful than the wimpy cars I have driven, I may not notice. I also don't have anyone [I trust] who knows M cars, or a "body guy". In terms of advice the best I can count on is 1) CarFax/Autocheck and 2) the seller. The seller, being a co-worker with a sterling reputation (especially vis a vis cars) would be loathe to dump it, I think.
He offered to sell me his 01 X5 for $13.5 and ended up selling it for 14k to CarMax so that price was a decent one.
Anyway thanks for the advice, I will continue to consider this potential purchase. Asking about Inspection 2 and running the internet checks are a good start.
No matter what the condition of the car, you should budget a few grand/year out into the future for maintenance.
Current stable:
2011 M3 Silverstone/Silverstone 6MT
2001 M5 Lemans Blue/Silverstone
2007 328i wagon
2006 330i ZSP 6MT
I've seen M5's with 80K + miles with the original clutch still operating fine. I would bargain to say that clutch life depends on the driver...the casual driver may take better care of the clutch, vice, a young, speed enthused adult, who, like most people with M cars, may drive the car harder and wear the clutch out quicker.
CSB M5, iwouldn't say 50K is way too early for Inspection II. some have it done, depending on personal preferences, around that mileage, while others wait for the CPU to tell them when its needed. Inspection II is still worth asking about.
Thats becoming extremely rare but there are two others with 50k on the clock for ~$20k
Start here to compare a few examples. I've already done a lot of the heavy lifting. I built a spreadsheet that has every E39 M5 (currently 100) for sale across the country under $20k. It includes prices, miles, ownership records and more. Definitely join up at M5 Board too. Tons of information.
His: 2006 M5
Hers: 2005 545i
Selling: 2004 X5
IMO, thinking of maintenance in terms of "Inspection X" is woefuily inadequate.
OP, you are in Dublin (norcal) there have got to be places for you to get a thoriugh PPI done. Get them to run the CPO inspection checklist, along with a dump of the DME and a VANOS function test. Add to that a careful bodywork inspection. (repaints done properly are fine-IMO jsut good maintenacne- you want to find poor repairs or major repairs) Dont assume this 'car collector' didnt make a mistake when HE bought it. Dont assume a car is 'clean' if there is nothing in autochgeck/carfax...they suck.
If you can get a dealer to pull the service/mainentnce hisoty, it will list the 'dealer code' for each visit/repair. Decode this and you can crosscheck where it lived and where it was serviced. People have been known to call a friendly SA and get a verbal 'yes no' or rundown on the car.
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Zucchini, eggs, and coconut flour come together to make these tasty fritters. You can mix in any number of additional ingredients to your taste, including bacon and green onions, or other vegetables like broccoli and carrots. Yogurt and mashed avocado make good toppings.
The base of this recipe was submitted by Jaime, and sourced from balancedbites.com.
|zucchini, shredded
|coconut flour
|sea salt
|black pepper, freshly ground
|coconut oil, or bacon grease
- Shred zucchini by hand or in a food processor (rough chop) and set aside (if it is very wet, lightly blot it dry with a paper towel).
- In a large bowl, beat eggs together.
- Sift coconut flour into eggs and beat together. Note: coconut flour often has clumps, which is why sifting is important.
- Mix shredded zucchini, sea salt and freshly ground black pepper together, and combine with egg mixture.
- Meanwhile, set a large cast iron skillet over medium-low heat. When hot, add coconut oil or bacon grease to coat the bottom of the pan.
- Spoon the mixture into the pan in desired sized fritters.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
- Optional: add other spices or fresh herbs to the recipe in step 4.
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Made these this morning. Added some green onion to the mix and topped with some procuitto, pretty good! I want to try topping them with a bunch of different things now too.
Making these now- one instructional point that you may want to add into the instructions is to squeeze the shredded zuchinni in a papertowel to rid all the excess moisture. They aren't holding together at all, just little delicious piles of mush. Key word being delicious. :)
I drained these with the paper towel. I was out of coconut flour so I used almond. They came out nice and browned and held together perfectly. The bacon grease added a nice flavor.
these may now be my favorite breakfast! I was amazed how tasty they turned out. I included a side of nitrate free ham.
I'm not sure if I did something wrong, but mine out really dark on the outside and mushy on the inside. I was not a fan.
The kids loved these so much they bloody ate them all!!!!! Next time I will add chives and bacon.
Top with some mashed avocado mixed with plain yoghurt and lemon, and some chopped tomato with cilantro. Delicious!
So maybe I'm just crazy, but I thought these were really bland and pretty much tasted like a zucchini omelet. I might try to tweak it a little again, but not great…
I'm assuming you are supposed to combine the zucchini and egg mixture…
I put the shredded zucchini in a strainer over my sink/or over a bowl and then add the salt letting them sit for a few more minutes. Then pat dry with paper towel. The salt draws out any additional moisture. For those that were mushy on the inside, make sure you're coconut oil temp is high enough.
Made them this morning – very tasty! I added a little ranch dressing mix (powder) and some dill weed. They browned nicely and held together well. I'll be making these again!
Mine came out more like an omelet and I was hoping for more of a hashbrown. I drained my shredded zucchini (I also added shredded onion) and I am wondering if the zucchini to egg ratio needs to change based on how long you let the zucchini sit. SInce it shrinks up, less egg may be required to get these to crisp up. They were tasty, just not what I was hoping for.
I seem to be making these a lot as we try to use up the zucchini. This time I added about 1/3 cup parmesan cheese and some crumbled bacon. Spiced with a little ranch dressing powder, salt and pepper. These were an even bigger hit with the family!!
Yummmmm! Just when I thought I'd tried everything to use up my bumper crop of zucchini, this shows up in my weekly Paleo Plan! Thanks to Jen's suggestions, I also salted, drained and used paper towel to dry the zucchini. I too added crumbled cooked bacon, green onion and sprinkled Parmesan into the egg mixture. I made certain my pan was hot, added just enough bacon grease and heated that sufficiently before adding the egg-zucchini mixture by spoonfuls. By the time I added the last bit to the pan, I had a egg in the bottom of the bowl and opted not to add it. I did pat the patties down to insure they cooked all the way through. Turned a few times and pressed on them to help release excess moisture. A bit omelet-like, but crispy-ish outside and tender on the inside. This will be a fun one to keep and changing up once in awhile.
I don't even like zucchini, but I gave this recipe a try. It came out so well (followed recipe and added some various seasonings) that I was eager to make it again with different flavor profiles.
Right now, I'm making a batch with carrots, banana, vanilla, and hazelnuts. It tastes SO GOOD like dessert, even though it has no sweetener (other than the banana).
Thanks SO much for this quick, easy, versatile recipe!
Forgot to say, also added cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice when making this with the carrots, banana, vanilla, and hazelnuts.
Now that they're done, I wish I had tripled the batch! Between my baby, husband, and me, the 7 fritters in one batch won't last long at all.
I just made these for breakfast! AMAZING!
I only made it with 2 eggs as it's just for me, and I added a shallot, half a carrot, a little broccoli, only half a zucchini and a little bit of pepper! Then for the side I mashed 1/4 of an avocado with some flaxseed oil, a little garlic, dried coriander and a squeeze of lime juice! YUM YUM YUM! :D
I'm really astounded by how good these are. And they really do come out very much like fritters, but I second what others have said – definitely squeeze the water out of the zucchini well.
To prevent them being mushy on the inside, spread around the mixture in the pan with the spoon to make it flat and uniform. Then they'll cook better!
These were amazing. I used 4 Tblsp coconut flour, 5 eggs and 3 zucchinis with some Cajun spice. I also used bacon grease and topped them off with sea salt. If they are mushy in the middle try flattening them with the spoon to be like a pancake and make sure you blot with a paper towel
to get moisture out of shredded zucchini you can broil it in oven as well.
I made these this morning. I followed the recipe above and agree that some of the last fritters had a high ratio of egg in them and I did have eggs remaining in the bowl. I may only use 2 eggs next time. Flavors were great. I used a salad spinner to get the moisture out of my freshly shredded zucchini and patted them flat when putting them in the pan. My fritters were very nicely browned on the outside and fully cooked on the inside. Tasty!
Can you make these the night before and then reheat in the morning? My mornings are CRAZY!
I read a lot of the comments and I saw that a lot of people are using cheese. Isn't dairy not part of paleo?
I loved themmmm!!!!
Sooo good, thanks for the recipe!
(Cheese is not paleo but primal.)
Very yummy! They taste like the fried zucchini I grew up on.
I put in a whole onion, coconut flour, almond flour, eggs, Cavender's seasoning, garlic powder and fried in bacon grease. I sprinkled parmesan cheese over the cooked fritter. The family ate them up.
I'm allergic to eggs- can I use chia seed in place of eggs?
Serving size?
I found these to be very eggy is there anything else I could bind them with
I made them with a few tweaks….Added mushroom (pre-sauted) – Dried onions – garlic – paprika – cumin- all spice – jalapenos – no cheese – turned out great…will be repeating…Thanks for the suggestions all…
Made these for the first time today yummy
I doubled the recipe and did everything else as the recipe was written except I shredded the zucchini in my food processor and spread them on a t-towel and rolled the towel around the zucchini and squeezed it until I got most of the juice out. I spread them out like pancakes in a cast iron pan ( about 4″ round )( got about 12 ) with bacon grease than put a lid on and cooked at medium-low ( 3 ) on my stove for about 10 min then flipped them and about 10 min on the second side. They were not mushy and I think they will be great for breakfast even with a dap of pure maple syrup on them!


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The No. 15 Tennessee men's swimming team was defeated Saturday in Gainesville, Fla., 143-93 by the No. 2 Florida Gators at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center Natatorium.
"The kids raced and competed well, and I am very pleased," UT head coach John Trembley said. "We never like going into Gainesville and coming away with a loss. We were flat in a couple of areas and have much preparation still to do for the SEC and NCAA championships."
Casey Dauw continues to improve since returning from injury. Dauw finished first in the 200-yard individual medley in 1:51.62, edging Nick Borreca of Florida in 1:51.82.
"Casey Dauw is well on the road to recovery as was evident with his win in the 200 I.M.," Trembley said.
Dauw also finished third in the 200-yard butterfly in 1:51.74. Adam Sioui won the event in 1:50.31 for the Gators.
Sophomore Jevon Tarantino picked up a win on the 1-meter board with 325.57 points. Tarantino added a third-place finish on the 3-meter board with 319.27. Zach Wilcox of Florida won the event with 360.45.
Junior Tyler Gustafson won the 100-yard freestyle in 45.19. Fellow junior Bryan Goldberg finished third in 46.16.
The 200-yard medley relay team of Josh Fulton, Kiel Huston, Andrew Engle and Octavio Alesi finished first in 1:29.93. The time set a season best for the Vols.
"Octavio Alesi had a phenomenal anchor leg for a season-best time," Trembley added.
The 200-yard freestyle relay team of Alesi, Engle, Fulton and Gustafson brought home the second relay win of the day for the Vols in 1:23.95.
Jason Thomas and Gustafson finished 3-4 in the 200-yard freestyle in 1:39.97 and 1:40.07. Brian Hartley finished first for Florida in 1:38.50.
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So original, great technic and style
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I would never wear this shirt, but this is a very well rendered creative idea. Well done.
I'm not sure the text is incidental as the text explains the joke.
I'd like to see the connector to the text be less like an actual arrow pointing to the character. It keeps bugging me that it looks like it's trying to direct my eyes, when that's not the purpose of such a line. Just a simple line with no arrowheads should work.
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This is a really cute concept, but I feel like I'm looking for a head on the person and not seeing one? The text is a little awkward, too. Maybe "Aww, I wanted to be the carnivore!" Or something like that. All that being said, I like the idea!
That made me chuckle pretty good.
Re: I Quit!
The only thing that bugs me is the guy in the second frame has boots on but the others don't, I suppose to clearly show it's his foot getting cut off, but the difference in style kinda bugs me. I was wondering where this was going, but nice way to end it, with the stick dude walking out of the frame
dcastello wrote:So original, great technic and style
Yes, so original
aaahahahaha! Too funny! GMV
lloyd2002 wrote:Yes, so original
I don't think the ideas have nothing in common appart from making a joke about orbits.
In any case, I'd like to know Walmazan's opinion here
Re: Death of a Comedian
Thanks ressamac!
Re: Meeting Of Minds
I'm not entirely sure how this fits the derby, but I'm still down for any collab between these two!
I absolutely love this design and would wear it all the time It's hard to tell the theme by just looking at it w/ no explanation but I don't care because it's awesome! +1
Re: Worst Job
6 colors baby blue! Have a great week everyone
Re: Daily Grind
Hahaha, this made me laugh. I love it!
Ha! I was trying to think of something along these lines, but you nailed it! Looks great.
orabbit wrote:Ha! I was trying to think of something along these lines, but you nailed it! Looks great.
Thanks a lot!
Naolito wrote:I don't think the ideas have nothing in common appart from making a joke about orbits.
In any case, I'd like to know Walmazan's opinion here
Oh My Failing Grades!! Pluto's the waterboy!!! So cute/sad!!!!
alecito wrote:I hope you like this kind of "humor" XDXD
Woot prints shirts for kids as well as presumed adults, and they normally reject potty humor designs. Strongly doubt they would consider printing a shirt with a sanitary napkin.
Great design - amazing artwork and perspective!
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samanthastroud wrote:I absolutely love this design and would wear it all the time It's hard to tell the theme by just looking at it w/ no explanation but I don't care because it's awesome! +1
Thanks samanthastroud!
lloyd2002 wrote:Holee crap! Amazing.
Thank you!
That's hilarious!
I wouldn't worry about it too much, Naolito. This seems to be one of various accounts with 1 "woot" that love everything Lyonscc submits while bashing other things in the fog.
This is my favorite so far! Really nice work with the colors and very clean and nice execution.
Re: World Worst Jobs
Where's the condom...
Hehe... sorry...
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More like best job ever!
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I wish all the designs could be high and short like this one.
Hmm if a little disgruntled squiggly line is added above the intestines, then I'm sure it'd be fine. Only if that problem arises, which I hope it doesn't.
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Third time is a charm, right? I fixed all the mistakes! I hope you'll vote for my poor little ice cream man again! Thanks!
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Okay, now the thumbnail and shirt comp match. That is it for me and my wonky computer today. Big hugs for everyone! I have no idea what happened that it kept getting messed up, but THANK YOU for voting :-D
fuzzzydunlop wrote:I wouldn't worry about it too much, Naolito.
I'm going to echo that I don't think there's too much to worry about here. One person does not have claim over solar system/space designs. There are plenty of space designs, other artists here have turned the planets into characters (for lack of better phrasing), and I think, most importantly, the intent of the design is different from Walmazan's. I love Walmazan's design, it's one that I own, but I think in this case, there's enough of a difference.
I respect the need to point out when there are striking similarities and issues, but sometimes folks really grasp at straws.
Gosh, I'm so embarrassed. This is SERIOUSLY the last time ever. Have a great week everyone
Thanks, spirit! I felt the gag would really come from the absurdity of a realistic mason and setting. It took me a while to get his body language right, but I'm happy with how it turned out.
Never lose faith in democracy! if you do, the communists win.
How dare you! This is the most original Mario shirt ever!
Just kidding! I've seen themes like this before- collateral damage caused by video game/ super heros. That batman idea sounds awesome, only woot has had some trouble with printing batman shirts before, so you should be super careful and nondescript when you do
Thanks dude. I sympathize with people who tire of Mario references, so I tried to make it more than a gratuitous one.
I feel the same way about a lot of my stuff, but I try to make things other people like, and do it in such a way that I can be pleased with it.
Thanks! I wasn't sure the perspective was going to work. It turned out alright.
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It would be a hard job to rescue overturned turtles... they'd probably be all indignant about it and wouldn't appreciate the help.
If you want to know, my real-life worst job was at textile factory making awnings. No joke, worst job ever. I'm pretty sure their treatment of women hadn't changed since the industrial revolution.
Great job! Love that you chose slate color tee its way better than silver
Tastefully done in a nice style -- the Mario character is still a little cartoony, but I can forgive that. I mentioned that there was a backlash against SMB, but with artwork like this I'll eat my words.
I wouldn't wear it, but you get what I believe is my second SMB vote ever (the first was this).
I think this is my favorite design of yours. Clever.
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Raton Tata, chief executive officer of his company was driving one day when he noticed an indian family clustered on a motor bike in the rain. The incident sparked a dream in the mind of Tata. "It led me to wonder," he reflected, "whether one could c onceive of a safe, affordable all-weather form of transportation for such a family." Well, Tata Motors has translated a dream into a reality. It unveiled in New Dehli, the Tata, a car that wiil only coast about $2500 and will revolutionize life on planet Earth. It is a modern version of the Ford Model T car that made millions of Americans able to purchase a vehicle. However, the 200 million middle class people of India will now have an opportunity to pollute the world on an equal basis with other developed nations.
The Tata may be the equvalent of an atomic bomb exploding in the world. CO2 emissions will sky rocket as millions of middle class Indians, and then other Asians, get access to cars. This is a disaster in the making and the world must address this new issue. As people in India get off their motor scooters, they are getting on the vehicle to their own planetary destruction. And, the West has nothing to say other than, don't be as stupid as we have been for a hundred years.


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Sorry Glenn, we're not "officially in Weimar Republic territory"
A regular listener of Glenn Beck's radio program, if they take Beck as a reliable source, will probably think some pretty funny things are going on in the world right now. One of Beck's favorite nightmare scenarios is a dollar collapse and massive inflation. Someone who listened [1] to his show on October 6 might believe that the world is about to "wake up to Bernanke's inflation plan," that "your dollar is going to be worthless" and "they are stealing from your bank account right now," all thanks to inflation.
Today, Beck decided to offer his listeners a vision of the future if Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, the "Saddam Hussein of economics [2]," has his way. From the October 7 edition [3] of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
The Fed is mulling inflation as a fix. Can I, may I ask, can somebody help me out on that, because they tried that before. They tried it Zimbabwe and they tried that in the Weimar Republic. That's not a fix. To inflate your money to be able to pay down your debt. That's not a fix.
The Fed has announced now that inflation is part of their new policy. Perfect. Perfect. We are officially in Weimar Republic territory. It's all out in the open now. We've been telling you they were doing it for a while but now it's all out in the open.
This is a perfect example of Beck fear mongering as only he can.
But why is this dire comparison so ridiculous? First, the facts about what the United States has to look forward to if Beck's horror show predictions come true:
In the decade leading up to 2007 [4], cumulative inflation in Zimbabwe was 3.8 billion percent. That's not a typo. BILLION. In that same time period, living standards fell by 38 percent. Weimar Germany's experience with hyperinflation was much shorter, though no less socially destructive. "On average, prices quadrupled each month during the sixteen months of hyperinflation," according to Michael K. Salemi of Econlib.org. Salemi goes on to write [5] that "during the German hyperinflation the number of German marks in circulation increased by a factor of 7.32 × 10^9."
Contrast that with what the Federal Reserve is considering. From MarketWatch.com [6]:
...policy makers next month also may accept inflation climbing above the Fed's informal target, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing speeches from Dudley as well as comments that Chicago Fed chief Charles Evans gave to the newspaper. The Fed's informal inflation target is between 1.5% and 2%.See external link to WSJ.com story on Fed's inflation target.
In the oft-cited Dudley speech, the New York Fed president suggested that if inflation were to undershoot the central bank's target by half a percentage point next year, the Fed could offset the miss with an additional half-point increase later on. See earlier story on Dudley speech.
Outside the Fed, International Monetary Fund chief economist Olivier Blanchard said doubling inflation targets to 4% from 2% would not be risky, the Journal report said.
And here is a graph of the yearly change in inflation over the past ten years:
The job of the Federal Reserve, its statutory mandate [7], is to set and execute monetary policy so as to "promote effectively the goals of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." In the face of low and falling inflation along with low and falling interest rates and employment that is nowhere near "maximum," is it realistic to worry about Weimar-style hyperinflation? Maybe if you're a conspiracy theorist who thinks the President and his friends are engineering the downfall of society. Otherwise, comparisons between the United States attempting to hit a 2 or 3 or 4 percent inflation target with Zimbabwe and Weimar Germany are simply laughable and would call into question the credibility of the person who made them -- if that person had any credibility left, that is.
Also, if having an official explicit inflation target means you're in Weimar Germany, then that means that we should be seeing people with barrels of money in New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Czech Republic, Israel, Brazil, Chile, Poland, Colombia, Korea, South Africa, Thailand, Hungary, Iceland, Mexico, and Norway - all countries that use inflation targeting [8] as their official monetary policy.
By the way, Zimbabwe made major currency reforms last year that have been largely effective in ending hyperinflation. What beacon of stability did they turn to for their new official currency? The U.S. dollar [9].
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The geological history recorded in the sedimentary rocks and surfical deposits of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (PRNL) is limited to two widely separated intervals of geologic time; the Cambrian and Early Ordovician Periods (more than 440 million years before present), and the late Quaternary Period (two million years before present) to the present. During the Cambrian and early Ordovician periods, sediments were deposited in the shallow seas and near-shore deltas that covered what is now northern Michigan. These deposits became the sandstone units that are exposed within PRNL. Except for their exposure near Lake Superior, a veneer of Quaternary glacial drift presently covers these units.
Bedrock geology
Bedrock is best observed in the western one-third of PRNL where cliffs rise up to 180 feet from Lake Superior. These extend along the lake about 17 miles from Munising to Beaver Basin. For a short distance inland from the escarpment, bedrock is occasionally exposed.
The sandstones of the park are derived from fluvial and shallow marine deposits of quartz sand and gravel that were shed northward off a regional range of mountains, the "Northern Michigan Highland" and southwestward from highlands in adjacent parts of "Canada" (Hamblin, 1958). The "Highland" was probably similar in lithology to present-day outcroppings of pre-Cambrian rocks west of PRNL.
The Jacobsville Formation, of late Precambrian (Keweenawan) age is the oldest formation exposed in the park. It is a fluvial, feldspar-rich quartz sandstone, deep red in color with white mottling. The red coloration is thought to be primary and the white, a result of subsequent leaching along joints and bedding planes (Hamblin, 1958). The Jacobsville, regionally quite variable in thickness, is 1,100 feet thick in the Grand Marais area, however usually only the top few feet rise above lake level within PRNL (e.g. vicinity of Au Sable Point). This formation was quarried for building stone in the late nineteenth century. Several buildings in Munising and Marquette were constructed using Jacobsville block or facing. The western side of Grand Island, just west of PRNL within the Hiawatha National Forest, features spectacular Jacobsville cliffs.
The Late Cambrian (500-520 million years old), light grey and pinkish grey to white Munising Formation lies unconformably above the Jacobsville. The unconformity represents a time lapse of several million years; Jacobsville rock was deformed and eroded prior to the deposition of the Munising Formation. The Munising Formation probably represents a complex shoreline/shallow water environment that was influenced by fluvial, wave, tidal and eolian processes (Haddox and Dott, 1990). The Munising is divided into three members: the Basal Conglomerate, the Chapel Rock sandstone and Miners Castle sandstone.
The Basal Conglomerate unit is 2 to 15 feet thick. Its fluvially deposited pebbles and cobbles are comprised of vein quartz, quartzite, and chert with lesser amounts of slate, basalt, granite, iron formation, and sandstone. Some of the clasts are derived from the underlying Jacobsville.
Above the Basal Conglomerate lies the 40 to 60 foot thickness of the Chapel Rock Member. This member is pinkish grey or light buff to brown, medium grained, quartz sandstone. The large-scale crossbedding of this unit can be observed at its type locality, Chapel Rock. East of the mouth of the Mosquito River, it comprises virtually the entire section exposed in the Pictured Rocks (Hamblin, 1958). A few thin, dark grey, clayey mudstones are scattered throughout the Chapel Rock Member. This member displays several other striking sedimentary structures including mud cracks, ripple marks, channels, animal trackways, clay pellets and clastic dykes. Some of these features can be seen in exposures near the mouth of the Mosquito River (Haddox and Dott, 1990).
The contact between the Chapel Rock Member and the overlying Miners Castle Member is easily identified by changes in color (related to presence of clay), in type of cross-bedding (large scale vs. small scale), and in geomorphic expression of the rock units. The resistant, light pinkish-gray Chapel Rock Member has large dimension cross beds and forms steep cliffs and rock benches; the crumbly, multi-hued (red, yellow, green, blue) and gray Miners Castle Member has small dimension cross beds and forms slopes. The differences between the two members suggests differences in sediment source areas and environment of deposition.
The Miners Castle Member is a soft, crumbly, quartz sandstone (with abundant garnet content) about 140 feet thick; its complete section is exposed in the Pictured Rocks Cliffs between Sand Point and Miners Castle. Sediments of this member are generally poorly sorted.
Capping the easily eroded Miners Castle Member of the Munising Formation in the western half of Pictured Rocks, is the resistant Early Ordovician (480-500 million years old) Au Train formation. The Au Train Formation is a light brown to white dolomitic sandstone that forms the resistant cap to the underlying softer sandstones. The numerous falls in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore are the result of this caprock.
Fossils are completely absent from the Jacobsville Formation and very rare in the Munising Formation; trilobites tracks (Cruziana and Rusophycus) have been found in the Miners Castle Member. The Au Train contains Early Ordovician cephalopod, conodont, brachiopod, and gastropod fossils.
Structurally, PRNL lies along the northwest edge of the Michigan Basin, thus sedimentary bedding dips gently toward the southeast. This dip causes the Precambrian Jacobsville to be exposed extensively on Grand Island, at the waters edge at Grand Portal Point and at Au Sable Point where it forms shoals in the lake creating a need for the lighthouse. The Jacobsville can also be seen in the gorge at Sable Falls.
Late Pleistocene and Holocene Geology/Surfical Geology
During the Pleistocene epoch, ice sheets of all four North American glacial stages advanced and retreated through the area (Dorr and Eschman, 1972). The Greatlakean advance, one of the last substages of the Wisconsinan glacial period, wiped the surface clean and left only its record. This ice sheet completed its advance near the present location of Two Creeks, Wisconsin (just southeast of the city of Green Bay) about 11,850 years ago. Ice then began slowly melting, sometimes stabilizing and occasionally re-advancing short distances. A brief re-advance, the Marquette substage, occurred about 10,000 years ago in northern Upper Michigan (Hughes, 1978; Farrand and Drexler, 1985).
Melting of glacial ice within the Superior Basin produced huge rivers that deposited millions of tons of pulverized rock rubble in various configurations to the south of the Superior basin. A sheet of outwash, various in thickness, was deposited along the south edge of PRNL between Wetmore and Seney by southward-flowing glacial streams. The material underlying the present-day Kingston Plain was deposited in this way. Occasionally great ice blocks detached from the glacier terminus and were buried in the outwash. Eventual melting of these blocks caused surface depressions, which, in some cases, became water filled. Kingston, Nevins, and Grand Sable Lakes are examples of these "kettle hole lakes." The Grand Sable Banks near Grand Marais originated as a glaciofluvial crevasse filling or kame terrace.
The high band of hummocky topography adjacent to Lake Superior in central Alger County was initially interpreted as a terminal moraine (Leverett, 1929; Bergquist 1936). Blewett and Rieck (1987) suggest that the "Munising Moraine" (and the parallel "Newberry Moraine" farther south) are better portrayed as complex ice wastage features since they contain much stratified drift and lack characteristics associated with active ice.
As the Marquette ice terminus retreated northward, a series of lower drainage outlets were uncovered. The ice front confined a large, west-to-east draining, meltwater river against ice-free land to the south. Drainage shifted from the south (along the Au TrainWhitefish Channel), to the east along the Pictured Rocks area (Drexler, 1981). Meltwater carved several channels into Cambrian sandstone bedrock; the most prominent of these are now occupied by Chapel Creek and Mosquito River and by Beaver Basin. As ice retreated completely from the Superior Basin, shorelines in the basin receded rapidly northward leaving the Pictured Rocks area "high and dry" about 9500 years ago (Farrand and Drexler, 1985). This occurred as outlet channels to the east remained at low levels due to the recent loading on the earth's crust by glacier ice.
Between 6,000 and 4,000 years before present, rebound of the earth's crust from its "depressed" state began to accelerate as land was relieved of the huge weight of the ice sheets. The rise of the outlet of ancestral Lake Superior (at North Bay, Ontario) caused the lake level to rise relatively quickly to a level roughly 35 feet higher than present Lake Superior (Larsen, 1987). This high lake stand has been designated glacial Lake Nipissing. As ancestral Lake Superior rose during the Nipissing transgression (about 5,000 years before present), the Grand Sable Banks were destabilized and part of the glaciofluvial deposit was reworked by wind to form the Grand Sable Dunes (Marsh and Marsh, 1987; Farrell and Hughes, 1985). During the Nipissing "high stand," Chapel Rock and Miners Castle as well as many less prominent features (such as perched sea caves near Little Beaver Lake Campground) were carved into the Cambrian sandstone by wave action. Beaver, Trappers, Little Beaver, Chapel, Little Chapel, and Miners Lakes represent embayments on ancient Lake Nipissing.
Slowing of rebound, downcutting of channels through unconsolidated material, shifting of outlets to the south, and climatic change subsequently caused a lowering of Lake Superior to near its present level (Farrand and Drexler, 1985; Larsen, 1987)(1). As erosion lowered the Lake Nipissing outlet to the modern Lake Superior level during a 1,600-year period, lake currents deposited a succession of parallel beach ridges from the Nipissing level to the present beach. These closely spaced ridges which form a "corrugated plain" (Bergquist, 1936), are evident in the vicinity of Au Sable Point, along the trail from Little Beaver Lake Campground to Lake Superior, on Sand Point, and on the tombolo between Trout and Murray's Bay on Grand Island.
Since much of eastern Upper Michigan is characterized by low relief and a covering of glacial drift, bedrock only occasionally controls surface geomorphology. Where the veneer of drift is thin, as in most of PRNL, a gentle, east-west trending, southward dipping cuesta that formed on the resistant Au Train formation is evident (Dory and Eschman, 1972, p.98). Within PRNL, this cuesta comprises the Pictured Rocks themselves. All north-flowing streams in Alger County form waterfalls as they cross the cuesta (e.g. Miners Falls, Au Train Falls, Laughing Whitefish Falls).
(1) Influences of differential rebound and shifting lake outlets make the regional picture of events complex and appropriately referencing past lake levels to levels of the present is difficult. Statements made herein about lake levels are meant to convey a general picture of large scale patterns only.
References (asterisk denotes major source for text)
Agassiz, L. 1850. Lake Superior: Its Physical Character, Vegetation and Animals Compared to Those of Other and Similar Regions. Boston, Gould, Kendall and Lincoln. 428 p.
Bergquist, S.C. 1936. The Pleistocene history of the Tahquamenon and Manistique drainage region of the northern peninsula of Michigan. Michigan Geological Survey Publication 40, Geological Series 34, part 1 pp.7-148.
Blewett, W.L. and R.L. Rieck. 1987. Reinterpretation of a portion of the Munising Moraine in northern Michigan. Geological Society of America Bulletin 98:169-175
Dorr, J.A. and D.F. Eschman. 1972. Geology of Michigan. University of Michigan Press. 476p.
*Drexler, C.W. 1981. Outlet channels for the post-Duluth lakes of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. PhD dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 295 p.
Drexler, C.W., W.R. Farrand and J.D. Hughes. 1983. Correlation of glacial lakes in the Superior Basin with eastward discharge events from Lake Agassiz. in Teller, J.T. and L. Clayton (eds.) Glacial Lake Agassiz. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 26, pp. 309-329.
Farrand, W.R. and C.W. Drexler. 1985. Late Wisconsinan and Holocene history of the Lake Superior Basin. in Karrow, P.F. and P.E. Calkin (eds.) Quaternary Evolution of the Great Lakes. Geological Association of Canada Special Paper 30, pp. 18-32.
Farrell, J.P. and J.D. Hughes. 1985. Long term implications, from a geomorphological standpoint, of maintaining H-58 in its present location at Grand Sable Lake. Contract report to the National Park Service, Munising, MI. 78 p.
Foster, J.W. and J.D. Whitney. 1851. Report on the geology of the Lake Superior Land District, Part II, Washington, D.C., U.S. 32nd Congress, Special Session, Senate Executive Document #4. 419 p.
*Haddox, C.A. and R.H. Dott. 1990. Cambrian shoreline deposits in northern Michigan. Journal of Sedimentary Petrology 60:697-716.
*Hamblin, W.K. 1958. Cambrian sandstones of Northern Michigan. Michigan Department of Conservation, Geological Survey Division, Publication 51. 146 p.
Hough, J.L. 1958. Geology of the Great Lakes. University of Illinois Press, Urbana. 313 p.
Hughes, J.D. 1978. Marquette buried forest 9850 years old: Abstract for the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting, February 12-17.
Larsen, C.E. 1987. Geological history of Glacial Lake Algonquin and the Upper Great Lakes. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1801. 36 p.
Leverett, F. 1929. Moraines and shorelines of the Lake Superior region. U.S. Geological Survey Prof. Paper 154-A. 72 p.
Marsh, W.M. and B.D. Marsh. 1987. Wind erosion and sand dune formation on high Lake Superior bluffs. Geographiska Annaler 69:379-391.
Taylor, F.B. 1895. The Nipissing beach on the north Superior shore. American Geologist 15:304-314.
The General park map handed out at the visitor center is available on the park's map webpage.For information about topographic maps, geologic maps, and geologic data sets, please see the geologic maps page.
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-Doors, lower firewall, and rear wheelwells have all been sound deadened and coverered with rubberized undercoating. The tub has been herculined and then covered with a layer of rubberized undercaoting and waterproof carpet padding has been added between the carpet and floor. This might be the quietest yj around.
-Engine was rebuilt at 75xxx miles by PO and he had a custom grind Lunati cam throw in. It also has a Borla header, cat delete, and a dynomax muffler.
-Homemade rear swingout and chopped up front bumper with a welded on griil guard and chevy tow hooks.
-NO RUST ANYWHERE except maybe surface rust on some exposed metal. POR15ed frame and suspension components. I hate rust more than anything and my goal was to get rid of and prevent all rust.
-Bestop soft half doors and bikini top for summer
-Newish NAPA starter with lifetime warranty, rebuilt alternator, and newish battery.
-Any other extras that I hjave left around like new stock flares, tire cover, rollbar padding, and other stuff.
The bad
The sunroof leaked so I siliconed it shut until I can find replacement glass (does glass even warp)
The nut that holds the speed sensor on broke off (who uses aluminum nuts!), so its held on with zip ties and silicones shut until I can find a used one. New ones from the dealer are $160!
Passenger side mirror glass is busted but still in the mirror. I kinda rattles if the windows are down.
Looking for $5000 without subs and amp, $5500 with subs and amp
Trades welcomes but I dont want anything high mileage, rusted out, or older than 1990. I would prefer a Cherokee, Blazer, or something that would make a good DD.
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i can trade you my S-10 which is bagged and shaved and i drive it as a daily driver right now or if i can sell my truck intime i will jjump on this instantly pm me if your interested in the trade mines worth about 6500
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Tierra Ruffin-Pratt scored a career-high 30 points, and the third-seeded Tar Heels squeezed past Albany 59-54 Sunday.
North Carolina trailed 28-23 at halftime and 48-44 with just under 10 minutes left before rallying behind Ruffin-Pratt, who scored 17 of the Tar Heels' final 21 points - including two clinching free throws with 10.8 seconds left.
''I just didn't want to go home tonight,'' the 5-foot-10 senior said.
Waltiea Rolle had 14 points, 14 rebounds and eight blocked shots for North Carolina (29-6), which moves on to a matchup with sixth-seeded Delaware (31-3). Delaware advanced with a 66-53 win over West Virginia.
''We're looking forward to playing Tuesday night,'' Hatchell said. ''Hopefully, we'll play a little better.''
After watching the Tar Heels get outhustled and outrebounded in the first half, Hatchell warned her players that a similar effort over the final 20 minutes wouldn't be acceptable.
''I challenged the seniors, each one of them, to step up,'' Hatchell said. ''I thought rebounding was terrible and we had to play with more intensity. I told them, 'Do you want your season to end like this? Do you want to go home tonight? You'd better step it up.'''
Megan Craig scored 12 points, and Ebone Henry and Lindsey Lowrie each had 11 for Albany (27-4), the American East champions. The 14th-seeded Great Danes came in with a 19-game winning streak, and nearly made it an even 20 against the second-place finisher in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
''Pretty amazing, huh?'' coach Katie Abrahmson-Henderson said. ''I'm just proud of them. We wouldn't go away. We did everything they needed to do. We missed a few wide-open shots in the end ... and then down the stretch, No. 44 just carried them.''
That would be Ruffin-Pratt, who went 10 for 24 from the floor, 7 for 11 at the line and also had a team-high five steals.
''She just carried that team today all by herself,'' Abrahmson-Henderson said.
What made Ruffin-Pratt's performance even more impressive was she picked up her fourth foul with 9:39 left.
''I just played bold,'' she said. ''I just kept playing as hard as I could. It really didn't stop me from being aggressive. I kept driving to the basket.''
North Carolina trailed 42-36 before Ruffin-Pratt scored six points in an 8-2 spree that tied it at 44 with just over 10 minutes left.
Albany wouldn't blink. After Shereesha Richards made one of two free throws, Henry was fouled while scoring on a pretty back-door play, then added the foul shot for a 48-44 lead.
Ruffin-Pratt then rattled off seven straight points to put the Tar Heels up 51-48, and although Albany had several chances to pull even, the Tar Heels never relinquished the lead.
It was 56-54 when Henry stepped out of bounds with 47 seconds left. Rolle made a free throw on the other end, and Ruffin-Pratt clinched it with two shots at the line after she missed a pair and Krista Gross won the ball with her second of consecutive tap-outs.
Albany led by as many as seven points in the first half before settling for a 28-23 advantage at the break. The Great Danes limited North Carolina to 7-for-26 shooting from the floor and used their quickness to build a 24-15 rebounding edge - eight of which came on the offensive glass.


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Hopes, dreams, and imagination is what makes discovery possible. If people stop looking for a miricle cure, because there is not one to be found, one never will be found.
but what would happen if those mites somehow adapted to something in your environment, or to something you do or don't do, and suddenly become a massive amount of mites infesting your hives. Wouldn't you want somebody somewhere to have stumbled upon something?
I finde it amazing that you havent had mites very long.
so i went to the store and made a vaporizer out of some pipes, got some oxalic acid, and treated the hives. we'll see how it works. i think the mites in my area are already resistant to apistan.justgojumpit