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Polo and paddlewheels: how the Ross brothers spent their remittance.
The Rosses were an altogether remarkable family. Great grandfather Hercules had left Scotland for Jamaica in 1761 and entered the sugar trade and built their family's fortune on the trade with the West Indies and Guiana. Hercules served as a purser in the Royal Navy during the American Revolution and, in 1779, opened his Jamaica home to a seriously ill Horatio Nelson who was suffering from yellow fever. This led to a close personal friendship between the two men that continued after Hercules' return to Scotland in 1782. In 1801, Nelson was godfather to Hercules' son, Horatio, grandfather of the two Ross brothers.
Horatio Ross became a legendary figure in the Scottish Highlands. After a stint with the 14th Light Dragoons, he retired with the rank of captain and went on to serve one term as a member of parliament before marrying Justine Macrae, daughter of the Macrae clan chief. Horatio was a phenomenal competition shooter and horseman and, in 1826, riding his prize horse, Clinker, he won a match race against Lord Kennedy's Radical. With a thousand pounds bet on the outcome, the race is generally accepted to be the first steeplechase ever held in Britain. To commemorate his victory, Horatio commissioned a large painting of the event from leading equestrian artist, John Ferneley. In 1999, that painting sold at a New York auction for more than one million dollars. In shooting, Horatio's nerve and his eye stayed sharp and he continued to win major competitions for Scotland until well past his 65th birthday.
While living at his Rossie Castle estate in the 1850s, Ross also took an interest in the new medium of photography. A founder of the Photographic Society of Scotland, he made some of the earliest known photographs of the Scottish highlands. It is for these images that Horatio Ross will be remembered. A bound volume of his hunting photographs recently brought more than $150,000 at a London sale.
Horatio died in 1886 and it may have been the proceeds from the sale of his extensive shooting estates just before his death that helped to fund his family's foray into the Canadian West.
Like so many other British investment capitalists of the period, the Ross brothers' father, also named Colin George, was drawn to the profit potential in western Canada's burgeoning cattle kingdom. In 1885, he toured the foothills ranch country around High River to size up the prospects and, liking what he saw, he sent George and a manager out a year later to establish a stock-raising operation. They could not have picked a worse time to go into the cattle business. The pedigreed stock they brought from Ontario in 1886 and turned out on the new Ace of Spades Ranch suffered terribly that first winter of 1886-87, by far the worst on record. Whether it was the inability of the eastern cattle to survive the ice and cold or the ranch's unfortunate location wasn't important; they lost almost everything. Abandoning the original Ace of Spades, young Ross moved what was left of their stock onto the property of a man named William Podger, whom he bought out around 1890.
Ross' new place was located about sixteen miles south of High River and it was on this property along the Little Bow River that he began to play a little polo.
Although there is no evidence he had played the game in his native Midlands, George soon emerged as the first great player and patron of western Canadian polo. He led his High River team to victory in the first Alberta tournament at Fort Macleod in 1892 and his profound influence on the game was felt for many years, continuing even after he left the province just before World War One.
About 1890, Horatio came out to Canada to join his brother. Stories tell that he came to Alberta by covered wagon after sailing around Cape Horn to San Francisco and built a huge house in the mountains west of Calgary which he abandoned when he took up ranching. Unfortunately, such tales, like those of his poverty-stricken childhood, were largely the product of Horatio's imagination, heavily embellished over time in the reminiscences of friends and business associates.
How long Horatio stayed with his brother at the Ace of Spades is not known but he certainly had no aspirations to become a gentleman rancher. Before the end of the decade, he had left High River for the south-eastern Alberta town of Medicine Hat where, true to his nautical name, he became involved in the building of steam-powered sternwheelers. Intended to ply the Saskatchewan River system between Lethbridge and Winnipeg, the boats proved a brief (and generally disastrous) experiment. Unlike the upper Missouri, where steamboats had been in use since the 1840s, the South Saskatchewan was ill-suited to navigation. Swinging wildly between two extremes, it seemed either in full flood or nearly bone dry.
After building several vessels and losing at least one (his Assiniboia was destroyed by ice in 1906), it was Horatio's ill-fated City of Medicine Hat that closed the steamboat era on the South Saskatchewan. Built in 1907 at a cost of $30,000, she was designed primarily as an excursion vessel and could carry over 200 passengers in quite luxurious surroundings.
In late May of 1908, the boat left Medicine Hat for a pleasure cruise and business trip to Winnipeg. By June 7th, she had arrived at Saskatoon where a flood-swollen river seemed to bar her passage under the city's bridges. After putting the few passengers ashore and removing the smokestack, Ross successfully steered his boat under the first bridge. While passing under the second, however, she caught some on telephone wires and they fouled her rudder. Out of control in the heavy current, the boat smashed into the steel span of the new Victoria Street bridge and then swept sideways against a concrete pier. Within moments, the badly crushed hull keeled over, filling the river with debris. Ross, still at the wheel, barely escaped with his life.
The wreck of the City of Medicine Hat effectively ended steamboat traffic on the upper Saskatchewan and Ross (or, more likely, his family) had to cover the entire loss. His insurance only protected the boat against fire. While he thought briefly of suing the federal government for allowing the bridge to obstruct a navigable stream, Horatio left Medicine Hat soon after and, undaunted, moved downriver to The Pas, Manitoba, where he established the Ross Navigation Company.
Meanwhile, through the last decade of the old century, George Ross had been building his mix of ranchers, cowboys, and townsmen into the strongest polo teams in Canada. His reputation for fierce discipline and a near-obsession with team play allowed High River to win regularly over clubs which might have boasted superior individual talent or better ponies. Indeed, polo seems to have been the sole centre of his life. As the High River Times reported in 1907:
George Ross is accustomed to calling his players down firmly, but not gently, and in picturesque language ... The effect of this is unanswering obedience -- in a word, discipline.
Ross' Little Bow spread never counted among the great outfits of the cattle kingdom. Unlike A.E. Cross and Herbert Samson, Ross's name never appeared among the founders or directors of the new livestock or ranchmen's organizations that were springing up across the district. His name is also absent from the early membership lists of Calgary's prestigious Ranchmen's Club.
If cattle were not particularly interesting to Ross, neither were purebred horses. While friends like Herbert Eckford and H.B. Alexander were establishing reputations for producing large numbers of top-quality working and race horses, the Ace of Spades remained, at best, a footnote in the story of High River ranching. Indeed, there is precious little mention of Ross in the local histories except for his brief tenure as the owner of a High River hotel and his militia connections.
Other than polo, Ross' only real public presence in High River was as a commander of the 15th Light Horse. Although he held the rank of captain (and then major) in this storied Alberta regiment, there is no evidence that he had any formal military training. If Ross had any serious business interest at all, it was in raising polo ponies. It was Ross who first led southern Alberta's polo players to tournaments in eastern Canada in the first decade of the new century and, according to the local press, the players were invariably accompanied by a carload of Ross ponies. The new clubs in Toronto, Kingston, and Montreal were first stocked with horses purchased from Ross and a few other local trainers.
The lack of detailed information about Ross' life in a town that takes enormous pride in its heritage also extends to his family. His wife, Letitia Clyde, makes only a few brief appearances in the pages of the High River Times at a time when the paper's coverage of social events was both extensive and detailed. Who she was, when they married, and whether they had children cannot be discovered.
Ross' profound influence on the development of polo in southern Alberta cannot be underestimated. His High River teams were the odds-on favourites at most tournaments and, by 1905, three of his young home-grown proteges were beginning to make careers of the game, eventually playing for pay in Toronto, Montreal, and Saratoga, New York. But the most telling evidence of his authority and leadership came when he left High River for Calgary in 1906. With his departure, High River's greatest seasons came to an end while the new Fish Creek club in Calgary was soon producing teams that would dominate the last years of the pre-war era.
In 1908, George forged another new connection between western Canadian polo and serious outside competition when he made his first foray into southern California. He played the winter polo season at Riverside and while there he was introduced to the wealthy polo-playing Spreckels family. George never got over this first exposure to high-goal California polo and the rich social swirl that surrounded it. On his return to Alberta, he declared that Spreckels' horses would soon be coming to race at the new High River track and made plans to take a team with him to Spreckels' club on Coronado Island for the 1909 winter season.
Over the next five years, under Ross' patronage, players from High River, Pekisko, and Calgary became a regular feature of the southern California season. Ross himself was offered and accepted the opportunity to manage the Coronado club, at a reported $10,000 per year.
The only dark moment in Ross' California high life came with the 1910 Coronado season. Among the young Alberta players who had come under his tutelage, none was better than Millarville's Justin Deane-Freeman. Since his first tournament appearance in 1899 at the age of sixteen, Deane-Freeman had quickly emerged as the finest player in Canada and, in 1909, Ross announced he was taking the young prodigy to California as a full-time playing professional. Justin's wife, their two small children and his parents, would be going with him.
In March, 1910, after only a month or two in California, Deane-Freeman was playing in a practice match with Ross and another of his proteges, High River's Harry Robertson, when the young star collided with an opposing player, fell from his horse, and died instantly of a massive head injury. He was not yet thirty years old and would certainly have grown into one of the game's premier players.
Ross came back to Alberta for the 1910 and 1911 summer seasons but they were his last. With the exception of two brief visits, he never returned to the province. Through 1913 and early 1914, he continued to host Alberta teams at Coronado and elsewhere on the West Coast tournament circuit, joining them on the field if an injury left them a man short. Even with his new position as manager of the club, he continued to play hard and there is clear proof that the years had not mellowed his fierce temperament. In February, 1913, the High River Times picked up a story which had originally appeared in the tabloid New York World under the headline "Major Ross Hits Mexican":
Major Colin Ross, millionaire Canadian poloist, was at one time the centre of interest in the game of February 4th between a picked Coronado team and three Canadian players. Of the three "Canadians", one was Juan Fuennes, a Mexican, who is a trainer and stablemaster for Walter Dupee, a millionaire.
Fuennes is a splendid horseman, although it is said that as a poloist he has won no medals. He preferred riding rings around Major Ross to chasing the little ball. On one occasion, an interval between two "chukkers", the Major, in a moment of ungentleness, struck Fuennes over the head with his mallet.
Fuennes bit the dust, but he took the Major with him. Automobiles, as emergency ambulances, were pressed into service and rushed to the scene of conflict. There were no fatalities, but the mallet was a total loss.
In June of 1914, Ross reappeared in Calgary for the official opening of the club's new Chinook Park grounds and refereed a game between his old Fish Creek club and Cochrane. He was back again in January, 1915, this time to do his part for the war effort. Appointed a major in "B" Squadron of the 12th Canadian Mounted Rifles, he took over as second-in-command of the regiment in March. His wife, Letitia, was listed on his service record as next-of-kin and her address given as the prestigious Hotel Del Coronado. She clearly didn't accompany him on his visit.
And a "visit" is what it turned out to be Ross resigned his commission in September of 1915 and returned to California. At 48 years of age and with no previous war experience, he was an unlikely candidate for overseas service and his role was probably always intended to be helping get the regiment ready to fight.
With the war's end, western Canadians again began to make their annual pilgrimage to Coronado and George Ross was there to ensure they were treated well. Players from British Columbia and Alberta (including Cochrane's Virginia Ranch), were all guests of the club during the early 1920s. Ross had built a house on Isabella Avenue in Coronado and seemed to have settled in as a permanent part of the prosperous island community.
But polo was almost finished at Coronado. By 1923, the number of matches being played had fallen dramatically and the field was used as much for horse shows and high school football games as for polo. By 1925, the polo club was gone, its grounds turned into a golf course.
Meanwhile, George's brother, Horatio, was firmly settled at The Pas, Manitoba. In addition to an appointment as a Dominion fisheries inspector, his Ross Navigation Company began a building program that would see as many as six boats plying the district's navigable lakes and rivers. Rather than opulent passenger vessels, Ross launched boats like the 87-foot sternwheeler Nipawin and the screw steamer Sam Brisbin to connect outlying lumbering and mining operations with the railhead at The Pas.
The general war-time boom, buoyed by the 1917 discovery of substantial copper deposits at Mandy, Manitoba, ensured the company's success as thousands of tons of ore were barged across Cumberland Lake and down the Saskatchewan. While Horatio did not join up during the war, he did offer his services to the British government and, supposedly, was dispatched to China to investigate the possibility of steamboat navigation on the Yangtze River. As with so much of Horatio's life away from the Canadian West, the whole truth of the story is hard to determine.
The company's prosperity continued for another eight years until the rail line from The Pas to Flin Flon was completed in 1925. The steamboats, tied to the vagaries and dangers of the short summer navigation season, could not compete with the railway's predictable year-round schedule and the boats were finished.
Horatio did not live to see the end of his enterprise. In February, 1925, he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said to have occurred while he was cleaning his rifle. Although the death was ruled accidental, there were always questions about what had really happened. Horatio Hamilton Ross was fifty-five years old. According to his obituary, at the time of his death he was "alone as usual" and there is no mention of any immediate family. He lies under a small headstone in the Big Eddy cemetery and his friends subscribed to a memorial stained glass window in The Pas' historic Christ Church.
About the same time, with the end of polo on Coronado Island, Colin George Ross disappeared from the historical record. Although he was sixty years old, it is hard to imagine that he severed all ties to the game which had been his overarching passion for four decades. Still, he does not seem to have moved to any other West Coast club. He didn't come back to Alberta and, although High River's local history holds that he died in California, there is no record of his passing (nor that of his wife). He might have returned to England but no evidence of his presence there can be discovered. In fact, the once-powerful Manchester merchant family itself seems to have vanished from memory.
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Water -"Must be something in the Water!" With safe drinkable water being a problem for half of the world's population, it seems ludicrous that we should want to pollute such a precious resource. Our water may be accidentally contaminated by nitrates, lead or agrochemicals; or purposely by aluminum (added to make the water clear), chlorine ( to prevent algae bloom) and fluoride (claimed to reduce dental decay). The toxicity of chlorine is undoubted, however methods such as UV treatment , ozone treatment and improved filtration can be used to end the need for chlorine. Steps can be taken to reduce water contamination in the home by replacing lead piping or solder and filtering drinking water. Use cold water to fill your kettle, as the copper in hot water pipes dissolves into the warm water. Filters are targeted to remove specific chemicals, so water testing is required before fitting one. 12, 34
Whey – From milk.
Wine – Organic wines are supposedly free of gelatine or isinglass, because most of them use cold filtering. Clare Estate, Eden Ridge (including 'David Wynn' and 'Mount Adam') and Dalwhinnie are Australian Organic wines with national distribution. The UK VegSoc recommends Eden Ridge and Orlando Jacobs Creek.
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Wednesday, 22 July 2009
It's a kind of magic
When cheeks are dry from salt due to tears being shed much too frequent, a damn fine soak in a bubble bath is utmost priority. In the bowels of my toiletry draw I find...fairy dust*. It is the perfect addition for a magical makeover. Just half an hour, and my bones feel new, my skin aglow and the mental mugginess a bit more clear.
*very good bath salts, acting as this precious dust so rarely found in this day and age. C'mon, aren't you a believer?
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6 comments:
- po said...
I agree a bubblebath always makes you feel better but what happened?
- 22 July 2009 at 17:55
- KiLLa said...
And here i thought u posted a Queen music video..
Bath Salts.. really :P
Closest i came to a bubble bath is the Deep Heat bubble bath.. Used after soccer on a sunday
- 22 July 2009 at 21:05
- zingtrial said...
Bath salts can help improve the way you feel and ease away the tension. Not only do bath salts come in a variety of soothing fragrances, they also offer many other benefits including certain healing properties. Hope you feeling relaxed now He!He!He!
- 23 July 2009 at 00:16
- Azra said...
Hope you're feeling better...
I find that a huge blob of Nutella works wonders :D
- 24 July 2009 at 13:22
- Organic Meatbag said...
Hey, now I'm smacking my lips! I like to take a long, hot soak in the shower...does my body right!
- 28 July 2009 at 23:24
Next time i want to join you ok....SO won't know anything dont worry
- 6 August 2009 at 16:47
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PARIS — When President Emmanuel Macron took office, he took pains to include two iPhones in his official portrait, a symbol of his penchant for technology. Millennials throng as he buzzes from one French start-up event to the next. He has wined and dined the chief executives of the world's largest tech companies, who in turn have vowed to invest billions here.
Yet a year after Mr. Macron unveiled an aggressive agenda to turn France into "a start-up nation," it is unclear if reality has kept pace with his rhetoric. While the country has quickly become one of the most talked-about destinations in Europe for tech companies and start-ups, France still faces an uphill path in its bid to usurp London as the region's technology leader.
The French president has carefully cultivated a tech-savvy image, promoted a steady drumbeat of high-profile events, and even pushed through a raft of economic and labor reforms to make his country more appealing to investors. But France continues to lag Britain in tech-related investments and in the business of artificial intelligence. Start-ups still face challenges in scaling up. And a lot of seed funding comes from the French government itself.
Companies have been pledging to do more in France. In January, for example, the chief executives of the world's biggest technology companies announced 3.5 billion euros, or $4.1 billion, in new investments and the creation of at least 2,200 jobs in the next five years.
Those figures are minuscule compared with investment in Silicon Valley, and even London. Mr. Macron will nevertheless seek to build on France's momentum on Wednesday, when he hosts the Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, for lunch and convenes the heads of Microsoft, IBM, Samsung, Uber and other tech titans at the Élysée Palace for a series of face-to-face meetings.
The talks, ahead of a giant technology and start-up conference being held in Paris, will officially focus on data privacy issues. They come a day after Mr. Zuckerberg faced strident questioning by lawmakers at the European Parliament in Brussels on privacy failures linked to the Cambridge Analytica fiasco. Facebook has faced a barrage of public criticism over its handling of user data and vast powers, points Mr. Macron intends to press further on Wednesday.
But the French president is also expected to seize the moment to announce more tech-related investments in France.
"Clearly there has been a Macron effect," said Franck Sebag, a Paris-based partner at the professional services firm Ernst & Young, who has studied France's digital trajectory.
"Few people were even talking about France as a tech country a few years ago," Mr. Sebag said. "He's ignited a willingness to invest."
As President Trump pursues an increasingly protectionist agenda for the United States, and Britain veers away from the European Union, Mr. Macron has promoted a policy of open borders and being business-friendly in a country that has long had a reputation for being anything but. Multinationals are venturing to create more jobs in France as Mr. Macron overhauls French labor laws, despite protests by French workers.
Symbolic statements, like the opening last year of Station F, a mammoth incubator project in Paris representing France's start-up ambitions, have also generated buzz. And the government is luring research activity with tax credits worth up to €5 billion a year and other inducements. This month, Mr. Macron announced France would invest €1.5 billion into artificial intelligence research through 2022.
Venture capital — once difficult to raise in a country where risk-taking was long stigmatized — is flowing more freely. Venture capital fund-raising for start-ups rose to €2.7 billion last year, compared with just €255 million in 2014, according to Dealroom, a research firm. That latest figure is more than amounts raised in Britain, as well as Germany and Israel, which also have major tech hubs.
"The U.K. is no longer the undisputed capital of European venture capital," Dealroom said in a recent report. "Continental Europe is catching up, while France is almost on par already."
For all the hype, France must confront a number of longstanding hurdles.
While thousands of start-ups are being developed in incubators like Station F, the country has only a handful of so-called unicorns, or start-ups valued at over $1 billion, including the ride-sharing service BlaBlaCar and the e-commerce site Vente-Privee.com. That is a measure of how challenging it is to create the next Facebook or Google here. And fledgling companies still face considerable challenges scaling up into bigger, sustainable businesses.
Tech-related investments in Britain, meanwhile, surged nearly 90 percent last year to over €7 billion, more than in France, Germany and Sweden combined, according to Dealroom. And though France makes billions in cheap loans and grants available to finance start-ups and accelerators through its public investment bank Bpifrance, critics say that can make it hard to tell if French start-ups are competitive.
Mr. Macron's efforts to make France a hub for artificial intelligence research have also been slow to make headway. Britain still has the strongest A.I. ecosystem in Europe, with over 120 firms involved in the technology, compared with 39 in France, according to Asgard Capital, a Berlin-based venture capital firm.
The trend here is shifting, though.
Big businesses are increasingly tallying the advantages, especially since Mr. Macron convened 140 chief executives of global companies at an ornate gathering at the Palace of Versailles in January. He told them that he was pursuing a strategy to make France more productive and competitive, and announced more than €3.5 billion in foreign investments, including a large chunk for tech.
IBM announced Wednesday it would recruit 1,800 artificial intelligence experts in France by 2020. SAP of Germany plans to invest €2 billion in research and development. DeepMind, the London-based machine learning company owned by Google's parent, Alphabet, will expand its operations in Paris as Britain prepares to leave the European Union.
Facebook and Google also plan to beef up their French presence and their artificial intelligence teams in Paris over the next several years. And just before Mr. Macron's official state visit with Mr. Trump this month, Salesforce, the American cloud computing company, announced a new $2.2 billion investment in its French business over the next five years.
Fujitsu of Japan is one of several Asia-based companies that plan to invest in expanded artificial intelligence research here. After the gathering in Versailles, the Fujitsu president, Tatsuya Tanaka, was named a chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government, one of France's highest honors.
"The new image of France," the company said in a statement, "is attracting foreign investors again."


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1987 Jeep Grand Wagoneer - UNIQUE, GREAT DRIVING; THE ORIGINAL SUV
- Condition: Used
- Make: Jeep
- Model: Wagoneer
- SubModel: Grand Wagoneer
- Type: SUV
- Trim: Grand Wagoneer
- Year: 1987
- Mileage: 85,283
- Color: Burndy
- Engine size: 360 CID V8
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Power options: Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats
- Fuel: Gasoline
- Transmission: Automatic
- Drive type: On Demand Four Wheel Drive
- Interior color: Burgandy
- Options: 4-Wheel Drive, Cassette Player, Leather Seats
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1987 Jeep Wagoneer Grand Wagoneer
Jeep 4x4
Grand Wagoneer
Vintage Upgrades
In & Out
I'm often asked where we find these clean, unique vehicles.One of my best friends cruises parking lots of retirement homes, Elks clubs, the V.F.W. Hall and the back streets of a well-known Scandinavian neighborhood here in north Seattle.He can spot a seatbelt slammed in a door a mile away…He'll notice when a nice old car or truck is driving with a turn signal on just a little too long and he positively twitches with glee when a vehicle with metal bumpers passes by!If you're in the market for a one-of-a-kind, great running & driving vintage SUV please give this clean Grand Wagoneer your kind attention.Feel free to contact me with questions or to discuss a sale before the end of the Ebay auction listing. My name is Mark Thompson and you can reach me directly at 206/914-1173.
The photos really tell the Grand Wagoneer's story. It has spent all it's life here in the Great Pacific Northwest driving our salt-free western Oregon andWashington roads.From the photos you'll see the rig has obviously been well cared for over the years.We've found absolutely NO evidence of any accidents, storm damage, insurance salvage, theft recovery, repossession or any other nasty negatives to cause you concern as the lucky new owner!
I take great pride in our vehicles and feel that you should know as much about them as possible. Accordingly, here's a list of the good and also any small things possibly needing attention: The four wheel drive system appears to work just as it should.With a flip of a switch the drive train goes to full 4x4 mode, so most of the time you'll be in 2WD and not wearing out the strong Dana front axle components during summertime highway use.The overall exterior is in very good condition.This rig wears the original factory burgundy color paint and has had one very decent quality re-spray.Rust? Well, this classic Jeep HATES rust and you'd be hard pressed to find ANYTHING to worry about here! Because we rarely get snow in the Puget Sound Basin, our winter roads are never salted.The engine compartment is clean. Climb over, under and throughout - I know you'll come up smiling!
I'm sure you've noticed the unique look of the front end.The previous long-term owner wanted a modern rig that resembled his father's late-60's Jeep, so vintage parts were sourced over several months of searching.Not many folks know that hidden beneath the stock grille of every 1980's Wagoneer is the design and core support of the original 1963 model.All that's needed to complete the vintage look are these round headlights & bezels and a nice original metal-stamped horizontal gladiator grille.Every time I take the rig out of the warehouse for a fun afternoon drive or stop for gas, people turn their head and/or ask about it! All the work was done right some years ago and looks factory-original.
One turn of the key and the strong 360 CID V8 fires right up with just a few pumps of the gas pedal.The MSD Electronic Ignition and Blaster coil have boosted the spark and help increase gas-mileage and horsepower.There's a nice, throaty rumble added to by the 3-inch flowmaster-style exhaust.The three-speed automatic transmission shifts smoothly, just like it should, with NO slippage.Of course, there's a tilt steering column, power steering, brakes and windows (all work, including the tailgate glass, except for the passengers-side rear.I believe every Grand Wagoneer came with power front disk brakes in 1987 and these stop just fine with no pulling or binding.All four stock alloy wheels are wrapped with good T/A radials each with plenty of remaining tread.It really is a blast to drive anywhere you'd wish to go!
Please take another look at the interior shots. The upholstery is original and sound on the both front buckets.Same goes for the rear bench seat.There are NO cracks in the dash cover. Headliners are almost always an issue on these rigs. You will be very impressed by the solution the immediate past owner came up with.He builds small wooden boats and did a superb job of crafting a three-piece custom spruce paneled headliner.Better-than-stock insulation was first installed to deaden sound and keep condensation from forming on the underside of the roof during damp winter months (the primary reason almost all Wagoneers have sagging headliners most of the time!).Fresh factory style carpet has been added in the rear cargo area and on the tailgate with very good original carpets still throughout the rest of the interior.All of the door panels have stood the test of time and are in decent condition as pictured.You'll be quite impressed with the dash gauges, they're still as clear and bright as new.The oil pressure gauge has a backup mounted under the dash and the MSD ignition timing can be manually adjusted from a dial mounted next to the factory gauge pod. All the glass is great including the windshield.The only other small negatives I've found are the electric mirrors don't respond (they are manually adjustable) and the factory AM-FM radio is quite finicky. That's about it!If you're thinking of bidding on a comparable Chevy Suburban or Ford Bronco of similar vintage, you really owe it to yourself to drive and look this unique piece over first!
PLEASE BID WITH CONFIDENCE and know that you are purchasing a unique classic from a respected Ebay seller.I want you to be happy with your purchase (and with me) and that's the main goal!Please don't be upset by a missed flaw or some unforeseen problem!No vintage used car or truck is ever perfect.Having said this, I would not hesitate to drive this SUV long distance immediately.
Because of the amount of money involved in buying a vehicle, we require that Ebay members with a feedback history of five or fewer transactions call or email before placing a bid.If I don't have this initial contact, your bid may be cancelled.As I've outlined above, the phone number to talk directly to me is 206/914-1173.Please feel free to call any time during the auction.My name is MARK THOMPSON.You're welcome and encouraged to come by my Auburn, WA warehouse to inspect & drive the Grand Wagoneer.You might also make an offer as many of my vehicles sell to smart "early birds" that call and work out a deal prior to the auction's end.I always reserve the right to sell during this period.
A Few Additional Terms and Conditions:
A nonrefundable $500 deposit is due within 48 hours of the auction's conclusion.The balance is due by cash or certified funds within seven business days unless prior arrangements have been made with me.I can accept PAYPAL, but if you plan to pay any more than the deposit through them I'll first need to send an invoice and would ask that you cover the 3.5% fee PayPal charges.Please remember you are bidding to buy and I fully expect the winning bidder to fulfill their Ebay contract!You're not bidding to hold or then come inspect and test-drive the vehicle later -- You're more than welcome to do this before the auction ends.
If you decide to have theJeep transported, there are scores of companies to choose from.I ship vehicles regularly and suggest that you get a transport bid from Dependable Auto Shippers (DAS). They're Ebay's preferred carrier and will give you a fair quote. Call them directly at (888)817-6203.Give the sales rep my affiliate number (2362642) and they can pull up all our information for station-to-station or even door-to-door quotes.
As an alternative, you might also get bids from the U-Ship website.You'll be able to choose a transport broker from multiple offers.The zip code for pick-up would be 98002 (Auburn, Washington).The shipping of the vehicle and company chosen are the responsibility of the BUYER.TheJeep can be stored free of charge at my location for up to two weeks after the auction ends assuming full payment has been received.After that period storage is $20 per day.The vehicle is being sold as-is, where-is, with no warranty expressed or implied.All information described above is based on the observed condition when thelisting was placed. I've done my very best to describe the Grand Wagoneer as honestly as possible and encourage bidders to contact me with questions.


text: DSpace Collection: http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/7599 2019-01-02T03:06:08Z นิติสำนึกของผู้ปกครองบุคคลออทิสติก http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/39968 Title: นิติสำนึกของผู้ปกครองบุคคลออทิสติก Authors: จิรายุพร รัตนประดิษฐ์ Abstract: People with autism are classified as disabled by Ministry of Social Development and Human Security's Announcement about the categories and criteria of disability B.E.2555. According to the law for people with disability, which has many laws involved, autistic people are able to get any benefits and welfare as disabled. This seems to be beneficial for people with autism; however, the number of autistic people applying for disabilities ID cards is a few if compared to the whole number of them across the country. I, therefore, wish to study legal consciousness of autistic people's parents due to parents are legally obligated to take care of their children. To find out the awareness and attitude of the parents toward the law and whether the law plays a role in everyday lives of people with autism. Researcher used the framework of legal consciousness by in-depth interviews with autistic people's parents. The interviewees recounted past experiences, and researcher took control of the narrative and interviews within the framework of the research. The questions to be asked didn't mention provisions of law directly or frame laws relating to the research too narrow. However, the researcher would find legal issues that were raised by the interviewees during the interviews. After that, the collecting data were analyzed and the findings would be presented in the form of descriptive content. In addition, the researcher would present the findings about legal consciousness of autistic people's parents to achieve the purpose of this research. The results showed that the main reason for most parents who bring their children to register for disabilities ID cards is they think this law will provide coverage for their children if their children break the law by unconsciousness and their children must have this right. While the benefits of the registration is lesser role for high-income parents; on the other hand, it is more role for low-income parents, and they also expect more rights and benefits since it is not enough. Some parents believe that the registration for disabilities ID cards will make a guilt on the children's future. As children young age, parents expect that children will be better and will not be seen as a social disability. Although the legislation focus more on people with autism, but in reality how people with autism can get their rights by law depends on legal consciousness of autistic people's parents. In addition, the state should play a role in providing support to the parents when their children are in young age because there is a better chance for young age people with autism to make a great development in tactics for taking care of themselves; to reduce the burden of parents and reduce the government's budget in the future. 2557-08-08T00:00:00Z พระราชบัญญัติความลับทางการค้า พ.ศ. 2545 : ศึกษาข้อยกเว้น ที่ไม่เป็นการละเมิดสิทธิในความลับทางการค้า http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/39883 Title: พระราชบัญญัติความลับทางการค้า พ.ศ. 2545 : ศึกษาข้อยกเว้น ที่ไม่เป็นการละเมิดสิทธิในความลับทางการค้า Authors: เกวลิน สุวรรณปัญญา Abstract: This independent study focuses on exemption to the infringement under Trade secrets Act B.E.2545 article 7. Nowadays economic development has rapidly changed and there is a continuity of business competition. Trade information plays important role in the business competition because the information is recognized by entrepreneur as a key for successful business competition. The little disclosure of the trade secret may lead to effect on business. In Thailand, although the Trade Secret Act B.E.2545 has been passed in order to protect trade secret for business organization, there also has some exception which may contravene with the purpose to protect trade secret owner. This independent study presents that there are various restrictions which are considered as unfair to business who owns trade secret. Under the exemption clause in the Trade Secret Act, a disclosure of the trade secret is considered as non-infringement and there is no compensation to the owner of the trade secret. This is because there is no clear measure regarding to the protection of trade secret when there is a conduct under the exemption clause. It can then lead to dispute over the trade secret as the trade secret is non-registerable. The owners of the trade secret thus have to create their own mechanism to protect their trade secret. The owners have to rely on the mutual trust with contracting businesses in making a disclosure of the trade secret. In addition, in consideration to the trade infringement, there is lack of penalty to the infringement of the trade secret when comparing to the loss to owners of trade secret. The study thus proposes that there should be an improvement on Trade Secrets Act B.E.2545 basing international experience in order to establish modernized protection on trade secret. 2015-08-01T00:00:00Z มาตรการทางกฎหมายของสหภาพยุโรปบนฐานการพัฒนา ที่สะอาด : ปัญหาในการปรับตัวของกฎหมายไทย เเละผู้ประกอบการผลิตภัณฑ์อุตสาหกรรมชิ้นส่วนเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของไทย http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/39882 Title: มาตรการทางกฎหมายของสหภาพยุโรปบนฐานการพัฒนา ที่สะอาด : ปัญหาในการปรับตัวของกฎหมายไทย เเละผู้ประกอบการผลิตภัณฑ์อุตสาหกรรมชิ้นส่วนเครื่องใช้ไฟฟ้าและอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ของไทย Authors: ปริญญา พรทวีกัณทา Abstract: The electric and electronic parts industries are one of the major industries which contribute majorly to national revenue as shown important quantities of exports which increase each year. The European Union is an important export market. It put in place environmental legal measures for trades among the European Union member states as well as trades between the European Union and other countries. Many of these measures have impact on electric and electronic industries and parts such as Directive on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment: WEEE, Directive on Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment: RoHS, Framework for the Setting of Ecodesign Requirements for Energy Using Products: EuP, and Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals: REACH This independent study aims to analyze the European Union legal measures on clean development and the adjustment of Thai laws and of electric and electronic parts of industrial enterprises in Thailand to comply with these measures. Concerning Thai law reforms, the study found that effort to comply with the European environmental measures has led to amelioration and adaptation of Thai legal framework. Obstacles to effectively implement the European legislations include complexes and details of the European legislations, insufficiency of Thai legal system and lower level of economic development etc. Concerning the industries, obstacles to effective compliance with the European legislations concern high costs, lack of competent personnel, incomprehension of foreign legal languages as well as complexity of such measures. As for the government sector, promotion and support for adaptation of the entrepreneurs were not sufficient. There were remained difficulties related to providing in-depth knowledge of such measures, lack of recognition of quality of testing labs in the country from the European Union, as well as delayed actions. Thus, the researcher thinks about the European Union measures on clean development that are the positive measures which can able to support Thai legal system development and manufacturing processes improvement to be more realized to environmental matters. Therefore, to comply with such measures, it requires the cooperation of both the public and private sectors to be success in the future. 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z การให้คำนิยาม "ศักดิ์ศรีความเป็นมนุษย์" ภายใต้บริบทการรับรู้กฎหมายของพนักงานสอบสวน http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/39455 Title: การให้คำนิยาม "ศักดิ์ศรีความเป็นมนุษย์" ภายใต้บริบทการรับรู้กฎหมายของพนักงานสอบสวน Authors: ดนุภพ เกิดศรี Abstract: The objective of this research is to study the perception of investigators toward the term of Human Dignity. The result will be used to identify the definition of Human Dignity; therefore, the investors would understand the term of Human Dignity in the same way. It would be able to help the investigator work more effectively and efficiently. The researcher used questionnaire to correct the data from 38 investigators in Chiang Mai. The research reveals that the investigators understand the definition of Human Dignity differently from one another. This leads the investigators perform the investigation processes based on the different standards. Moreover, the research shows that there are three factors including gender, physical appearance and age leading the investigators to treat victims and suspects differently. After analyzing the information corrected, the researcher suggests redefining the definition of the Human Dignity to create mutual understanding among the investigators. Otherwise, the investigation processes would be performed improperly which leads to other forms of discrimination and violation of Human Dignity. 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z


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Hi everyone!
It's a week from now untill the Indie Pop Days Berlin 2011 start and we all meet. We expect our festival to be ridiculously great and very much look forward to meeting you and the bands.
Since we are not exactly the patient kind of people we decided to give you a tiny little taste of the Indie Pop Days already tomorrow.
So let's meet at the King Kong Klub in Berlin, Mitte (Brunnenstrasse 173) and enjoy good tunes, nice company, cool drinks and the pleasant anticipation towards Indie Pop Days!! We are not alone behind the turntables, some of the Sonic Pop Allnighter (Punk New Wave Sixties French Beat IndiePop) and Kostja (Lo-fi, Chillwave, Noise) are coming over to join us for a great night.
There is even a special treat, because you can get your weekend-festival-ticket for only 30 Euro instead of 32 Euro. And we will have some of our totebags with us for sale and for you to show off.
In case you already have been at the King Kong Klub you know the deal. Entrance is free as a bird, but there are two Euro extra on the first drink. That money is for the DJs and we are going to spend it well on even more records to play them to you!
We will be there from 10 p.m. on and probably stay there the whole night, so step by and say hello whenever you want!
See you all tomorrow!


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15 Dec 06 06:56:54 am
I know many of you have been scammed at least once trying to make purchases from china. So I have spent the past 3 hours searching the net for as much information on reporting these offenders to chineese officials.
The information on handling these complaints is hard to aquire and even find. So as a community we need to work hard to ensure a better trade environment.
Problem is, is there is really no other way to pay for items in china due to the fact that Credit Cards are virtually non-existant in china. Only 5% of china actually uses or accepts credit cards. That includes businesses. Now that doesnt mean that every single company out there is a scammer. It just increases the risks.
Literally trillions of dollars are lost each year to scammers and 80% of the scammers are known to come from china and indonesia. But lets concentrate on china only at this point.
Most of you are from the USA so the information I have collected is primarily for US citizens but the infor for other countries is easy to search online.
First thing you should do is write out a formal complaint And mail it to the chineese/ American Consulate in the United States for the state you live in. Give as much info as you can in your letter. Including doing a Whois search of the internet address and as much info you can on the bank they use.
As there are only 4 State run banks in china, It would be very easy to track these people down because they all have to use a valid ID to get a bank account. Yes Including the Scammers.
In your letter include this info,the amount of stolen funds, promised products and a note from yourself. Keep this as professional as you
can. Include a copy of the whois info on a seperate page so they can track which site you got scammed from. Since all of these sites have to be accessed through IP address to create and upload files this will make it easier for authorities to track down the creator of the site itself. Most of these scammers are stupid and by thinking they cant get into trouble by scamming people from another countries.
But they are wrong. The chineese government which is a state run government is very concerned on thier global trade image, especially since thier economy is finally booming. Which is where I shall get to my next point.
There are actuall agencies in china that do nothing but watch the news and read papers. Not just some news channels. They watch ALL OF THEM. And they report any news reported in any country ab out china to state officials. And any newspaper ad that has the word china in it.
That is the great part of a state run goverment. They are so worried about image. And that can work in our favor. Right now unfortunately there is no state run internet scam authority that we know of.
What you should do is send the same complaint and information to your local newspaper and TV/News agency. If your in the USA you should send the complaint to a big news agency like { USA TODAY, Chicago Tribune, THE WASHINGTON POST, NEW YORK TIMES AND MORE BIG NAME NEWS AGENCIES NOT LISTED. }..
Keep sending your complaints untill you get a response. News agencies eat up anything that relates to scams because its info that all people want to know about. If they get tons of complaints on how people are being scammed. Its considered inportant news and they will write a article and will have a newscast about it.
We all take losses in this business but we still have the ability to help others from taking that loss and securing a future trade economy with china that can be extremely profitable for both sides.
If china hears big news that Americans, Or EU countries are warned to be cautious when exporting from china due to china being on the frontlines of scammers. They will go ballistic and do something about it in thier country.... Because they know that any bad publicity on thier export economy could cost them billions a year in trade.
Hopefully with enough bad publicity, china will create a state run agency on handling internet fraud and put these crooks in jail. I hear jail in china is ten times worse then a maximum security prison in the USA.
Ok here is the information on the consulates in the united states.
they are sorted by state.
Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in San Francisco
1450 Laguna St.
San Francisco, CA 94115
Tel: (415) 674-2900
Fax: (415) 563-0494
Alaska, Nevada
Northern California
Oregon, Washington
Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Houston
3417 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
Tel: (713) 524-4311
Fax: (713) 524-7656
Alabama, Arkansas
Florida, Georgia
Louisiana, Mississippi
Oklahoma, Texas
Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in New York
520 12th Avenue
New York, NY 10036
Tel: (212) 868-7752
Fax: (212) 502-0245
Connecticut, Maine
New Hampshire
New Jersey, New York
Ohio, Pennsylvania
Rhode Island, Vermont
Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago
100 West Erie St.
Chicago, IL 60610
Tel: (312) 803-0098
Fax: (312) 803-0122
Colorado, Illinois
Indiana, Iowa
Kansas, Michigan
Minnesota, Missouri
Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Los Angeles
443 Shatto Place
Los Angeles, CA 90020
Tel: (213) 807-8088
Fax: (213) 380-1961
Arizona, Hawaii
New Mexico
Southern California
Visa Office
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2201 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W., Suite 110, Washington D.C. 20007
Tel: (202) 338-6688
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States other than those mentioned above
Tel: (202) 338-6688
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If there is a member that can fully understand my post and has creative and professional writing talent. {which I dont have lol}
Maybe you could donate some of your time to create a template.
If they see that a template is being used for several hundred complaints It might gain attention to the agencies we want to tell.
Just remember if you talk to someone at the consulate live. Then just remember how hard you worked for the money thier people stole from you and you should have the motivation to keep on it untill someone listens.
Well I hope this can help start something good.
Catch you later hehe
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26 Nov 06
1 Jan 07 11:16:15 am
Well said mate, I totally agree with everything you have said. We also really need to concentrate on closing down these host web pages, such as ALIBABA.COM and many others that allow these unscrupulous criminals to prey on us the way they do.
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4 Jan 07 12:00:17 am
Its just sad that there arent many suppliers from China offering credit card facilities. they are really missing out on alot of buyers. I am only buying from the usa and australia using credit card. However My parents have bought from china using a non recommend payment procedure, they ordered in samples of mp4 players and thy got them but the packaging was quite horrendous. they did get them tho and thats the main thing. Im still wary though, might be best to only buy from china if youve got the spare cash to throw away :(
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4 Jan 07 01:55:31 am
China is a great place to buy products. Just when spending money it is often best just to go there for yourself and secure the deals at one of there large shopping malls.
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Came across these videos from last November's World's Toughest Mudder recently. They show me taking my first crack at Funky Monkey 2.0, Double Rainbow and The Cliff.
Funky Monkey 2.0 was so much fun. It looked kind of intimidating, but having worked on a bunch of funky obstacles in the last year plus at the Ninja Warrior gym I've been going to, the principles translated really well. Considering how much better I felt on the obstacles this time versus 2013 WTM, I'm a big believer in the power of ninja training for obstacle racing.
Double Rainbow freaked me out. I'm terrified of heights, and the thought of my grip slipping off a bar and falling out of control for 15 feet scared the hell out of me. I saw some nasty falls, and I was scared every time I came to that obstacle – especially when my hands were wet and muddy – but I nailed it every time.
The Cliff had been on my mind more than any obstacle. I have a true phobia when it comes to heights. People who don't have that fear have a difficult time understanding it. Logic goes out the window. You can't just rationalize that other people are doing it and you'll be fine. A deep-seeded fear overrides all rational thinking. So I paused for a long time before jumping. Even standing at the edge of The Cliff, I backed off twice and wondered if I'd be able to do it. I wanted to simultaneously cry and puke. But I kept telling myself that this fear presented a huge opportunity. If I could overcome this immense fear and do this, it would be one my proudest accomplishments ever. I was able to do it, and do it multiple times. And, while I was scared every single time, in a weird way it almost became fun.


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As I was reading this
Arab leaders have given Syrian President Bashar al-Assad three days to halt his ''bloody repression'' of protests or risk sanctions, but activists said security forces shot dead a nine-year-old girl on Thursday.
and thinking how the killing of the 9-year-old will cement the Syrian government's status as the most horrible government that has to be overthrown immediately, this came to my mind: The killing of Awlaki's 16-year-old son:
Two weeks after the U.S. killed American citizen Anwar Awlaki with a drone strike in Yemen — far from any battlefield and with no due process — it did the same to his 16-year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, ending the teenager's life on Friday along with his 17-year-old cousin and seven other people. News reports, based on government sources, originally claimed that Awlaki's son was 21 years old and an Al Qaeda fighter (needless to say, as Terrorist often means: "anyone killed by the U.S."), but a birth certificate published by The Washington Post proved that he was born only 16 years ago in Denver.
... Every now and then it's worth pausing to reflect on how often we talk about the killing of people by the U.S. Literally, the U.S. government is just continuously killing people in multiple countries around the world. Who else does that? Nobody — certainly nowhere near on this scale. The U.S. President expressly claims the power to target anyone he wants, anywhere in the world, for death, including his own citizens; he does it in total secrecy and with no oversight; and this power is not just asserted but routinely exercised. The U.S., over and over, eradicates people's lives by the dozens from the sky, with bombs, with checkpoint shootings, with night raids — in far more places and far more frequently than any other nation or group on the planet. Those are just facts.
That is one hypocritical government.


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Hey guys, we are back with another offer. This time the sale is on the Cube Notebook live on gearbest. A brand new tablet has been launched by Cube on gearbest and it is its worldwide launch. The actual price of the tablet is $873.9 but you can get the same tablet at $616 from gearbest. This is really a killer deal for those who were looking to buy a notebook. This is not the end, other hot notebooks Xiaomi Air 12, Chuwi Hi13, Xiaomi Air 13 are also available on sale. So guys hurry up before the offer runs out. Top notebooks from top brands can be bought at a much cheap rate and in this offer post, I will be notifying you for the best deals that you can find in this sale.
But first of all, Let's take a quick look at the specifications of the Cube Notebook.
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- Bluetooth 4.0 Interface Syncs with Compatible Devices
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With other features like IPS display, 7th Gen CPU and most importantly ID touch for security reasons. It gives a tough competition to the Xiaomi AIR 13. Furthermore, it is a very thin and light(with a metal body) notebook yet it doesn't compromise on performance. Cube thinker notebook is a complete package deal that values your money in terms of specifications.
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Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favorite things to bake. They are so simple yet full of so much flavor. Plus, you don't have to wait on everyone to enjoy this treat as you would with a pie or cake. ;) I found this recipe on AllRecipes.com several years ago and it has been my go to recipe ever since. I have found many other chocolate chip cookie recipes since then and have been meaning to try them out, but everyone loves these cookies so much I just haven't felt the need. I will have a mini cookie-off one day and give those other recipes a shot. I have modified the recipe slightly. I use a different type of chocolate and I add some salt because I love the mix of sweet and salty in desserts.
One of my favorite places in New York City is Jacques Torres. He makes the most wonderful chocolate chip cookies that he calls French Kiss cookies, a variety of chocolates, and supremely rich hot chocolate. He also sells giant chocolate discs that you can use in your own cookies. Whenever I am in New York I stock up on these chocolate discs. If you are lucky enough to live in the area I recommend stopping by his shop, he has several locations in Manhattan and his flagship store is in Brooklyn. If you visit his shop in Brooklyn be sure and check out his bakery, Almondine, right across the street. If that's not an option, Ghiradelli sells mini chocolate discs you can find at any grocery store. I like using the chocolate discs as opposed to chips because the chocolate spreads better and tastes delicious. In the recipe below I recommended 2-4 cups of chocolate discs depending on the size. If you use Ghiradelli discs I recommend using the full 4 cups. I love bittersweet chocolate but you can always replace it with semi-sweet chocolate. If I have Ghiradelli baking chocolate bars on hand I will also cut up a half to a whole bar and add in those pieces in addition to the chocolate discs, you can't have too much chocolate! You can also add in chocolate chips in addition to the discs.
4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour [I love King Arthur's flour]
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 teaspoon fine-coarse ground salt
2 cups butter, softened [I usually use 1 cup unsalted and 1 cup salted butter]
1 1/2 cups packed brown sugar
1/2 cup white sugar
2 (3.4 ounce) packages instant vanilla pudding mix
4 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2-4 cups bittersweet chocolate discs
2 cups chopped walnuts
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt set aside.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar. Beat in the instant pudding mix until blended. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Blend in the flour mixture.
3. Stir in chocolate chips and nuts. Drop cookies by rounded spoonfuls onto ungreased cookie sheets.
4. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven. I usually bake my first batch for 11 minutes and all other batches for 10 minutes, every oven is different though so just keep an eye on the cookies. When I take them out of the oven they look slightly undercooked from the top but are fully cooked on the bottom and inside. They look perfect once cooled for a few minutes. Eat them right away and you will be rewarded with a mini chocolate waterfall.


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I use the Hauppauge USB on my notebook and the hauppauge WinTVPCI on my
desktop. I also have an ATI Radeon on one pc attached to my TV, but I don't
find it as open as the Hauppauge boards (which have nice Linux support).
I also have a TiVo, which is nice (with it's added hard drive) for generic
recording and viewing on the TV. I use the PC's for recording programs that
I want to watch on my notebook when I travel, or watching the TiVo while I'm
working (or trying to work). I distribute video across this mess using a
channel plus modulator [1].
[1] http://www.smarthome.com/7704cm.html
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeffrey Kay
To: 'Gavin Thomas Nicol'; email@example.com
Sent: 4/1/2001 6:51 PM
Subject: RE: Tivo, Fair Use, Video-in-the-Cloud, and Vidster
I just got the Hauppauge one. I'm going to install it and see how it
for recording shows.
jeffrey kay <firstname.lastname@example.com>
chief technology officer, engenia software, inc.
"first get your facts, then you can distort them at your leisure" --
"golf is an endless series of tragedies obscured by the occasional
-- sports illustrated
"if A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y plus Z. X is
work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut." -- albert einstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 7:22 PM
> To: email@example.com
> Subject: RE: Tivo, Fair Use, Video-in-the-Cloud, and Vidster
> > The other question I have is which USB TV tuner do you use?
> I'm using a hauppauge I picked up. I'm not sure if it's the
> best... it's a bit flaky in some ways, and I haven't got it
> to work with DirecTV properly yet.
> http://www.hauppauge.com/html/usb_data.htm
> Still, it's lot's of fun playing around with it.
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Discussion in 'Community Discussion' started by motoracer1486, Apr 14, 2009.
I hope unemployment is working out great for them!
Thanks! I needed to laugh!
Clear southern accents, I'm safe
That's pretty rank. I don't think they'll be in their job for long.
Man, that is just too gross
Could it be that they are Pizza Hut employees in disguise?
I've never worked at a restaurant where either the chefs or the waiting staff didn't do something disgusting with the food.
Here's her response...
"Yes it was foolish! It was a prank and no food was ever sent out to a customer! Everything got trashed!!! I would never ever put something on you tube doing something like that to another human being! It was a joke that went to far and I am so sorry for any embarassment i caused for Dominos!"
Ya, sure it was a 'prank'. Can't imagine she'd lie and say that food wasn't sent to the customer...
Wow....even more videos of them...YUCK!
What she probably didn't realize she was doing was defaming a company with very very deep pockets. Good joke- yuk it up. I'm no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV but I'd imagine Dominos would press some charges of some kind here.
What's all the fuss about? I don't see anything wrong with the video.
If I was the owner of Domino's I would put out a $10,000 reward for the ID of those two and find out who they were and fire them. I would also video tape it so that I could place it on YouTube for everyone to see.
I'm glad you work with computers and not food
I just heard that these folks will be (if they aren't already) terminated and that it was apparently a joke. I heard the franchisee is also going to pursue criminal charges. I didn't watch the whole video, but if folks recognize these 2 morons, I'm sure that franchise is hurting from sales. disgusting.
They all think they're so funny aswell. Serves them right.
Simply another reason why i don't like eating fast food
Whenever I eat at a restaurant/order out I try to pretend that the food just materialized on my plate. Far too much time working food service makes you pretty cynical.
Yes, exactly. The story I often tell is one of the first jobs in a restaurant I had (this was in London, folks). A couple asked for cheesecake and I, being new, didn't know where it was (it wasn't with the other cakes). The manager took me to the fridge and pulled out a half-mouldy cake. Innocent me asked if I should tell them that we were out, but the manager gave me a blank look, mechanically cut off the mouldy half and told me to be generous with the portions. I was shocked that the couple didn't send the cake back - I guess it didn't taste any worse than the rest of the food they were serving.
At least those two people wont reproduce.
Can you be so sure? Usually it's these types who reproduce more often than others.
Same! I can't tell you how many times I saw people do things to peoples food. Chicken nuggets would get picked up off the floor if they were dropped while removing from the fryer etc etc etc.
Pretty sure people from theconsumerist tracked them down.
just had a delicious domino's oven baked sandwich last night - and have been eating left over pizza today.
They both claimed to be homosexuals in the video.


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As part of a four year project, RoboEarth has been created by a group of scientists that imitates the World Wide Web for humans, but for robots.
The system is an intricate and expansive network that will allow robots to share newly-learned skills and information between each other. The project is currently funded by the European Union and works to attempt to replace the need for humans in performing complicated tasks.
"A task like opening a box of pills can be shared on RoboEarth, so other robots can also do it without having to be programmed for that specific type of box," says Rene Van de Molengraft of RoboEarth on how the system works as an online platform for the sharing of information between robots.
Robot-Centric Sharing Systems
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Holiday Card-Signing Robots
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RoboEarth is the World Wide Web for Robots to Share Information
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Global analysis of transcriptional regulators in Staphylococcus aureus
Global analysis of transcriptional regulators in Staphylococcus aureus - Descarga este documento en PDF. Documentación en PDF para descargar gratis. Disponible también para leer online.
BMC Genomics
, 14:126
Prokaryote microbial genomics
BackgroundStaphylococcus aureus is a widely distributed human pathogen capable of infecting almost every ecological niche of the host. As a result, it is responsible for causing many different diseases. S. aureus has a vast array of virulence determinants whose expression is modulated by an intricate regulatory network, where transcriptional factors TFs are the primary elements. In this work, using diverse sequence analysis, we evaluated the repertoire of TFs and sigma factors in the community-associated methicillin resistant S. aureus CA-MRSA strain USA300-FPR3757.
ResultsA total of 135 TFs and sigma factors were identified and classified into 36 regulatory families. From these around 43% have been experimentally characterized to date, which demonstrates the significant work still at hand to unravel the regulatory network in place for this important pathogen. A comparison of the TF repertoire of S. aureus against 1209 sequenced bacterial genomes was carried out allowing us to identify a core set of orthologous TFs for the Staphylococacceae, and also allowing us to assign potential functions to previously uncharacterized TFs. Finally, the USA300 TFs were compared to those in eleven other S. aureus strains including: Newman, COL, JH1, JH9, MW2, Mu3, Mu50, N315, RF122, MRSA252 and MSSA476. We identify conserved TFs among these strains and suggest possible regulatory interactions.
ConclusionsThe analysis presented herein highlights the complexity of regulatory networks in S. aureus strains, identifies key conserved TFs among the Staphylococacceae, and offers unique insights into several as yet uncharacterized TFs.
KeywordsTranscriptional regulators Virulence Gene evolution Staphylococacceae Firmicutes Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1186-1471-2164-14-126 contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Autor: Jose Antonio Ibarra - Ernesto Pérez-Rueda - Ronan K Carroll - Lindsey N Shaw
Fuente: https://link.springer.com/