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My babe has them ALL beat, and brains too.
sure thing Sheezy.
Interesting.... I'd like to hear those sometime
Speaker maker: Indiana limestone sounds good, looks good:
It built the Empire State Building and the Pentagon. It's been used in 27 state capitol buildings and the famous Biltmore Estate.
Now, Indiana limestone is being used to build stereo speakers.
Yes, speakers.
It seems the density and porosity of the stone mix just right to deliver perfect sound, according to Audiomasons Design Works, the Ann Arbor, Mich., company that is using Indiana limestone exclusively in its new products.
Plus, it looks pretty.
"They are meant to be designer objects," said Vince Alessi, principal designer and cofounder of Audiomasons. "They are as sculptural as they are functional."
But the function was a major part of the design.
Limestone, besides being highly sustainable, is very dense, but not too dense. And it's porous, but not too porous.
"You get this perfect balance embodied in limestone more than any other stone," Alessi said.
He should know. A biochemist who wrote his thesis on molecular-scale spectroscopic physics, Alessi was the one who got down and dirty and tested all sorts of stones.
Marble turned out to be beautiful, but it rings too much, and it's too dense. You get the cave effect, Alessi said.
Travertine fuzzes too much and "has a bunch of holes in it."
Concrete? It's ugly, and it's not sustainable, he claims.
Then came the testing of limestone, which is primarily quarried in the south-central part of Indiana between Bedford and Bloomington.
"I found that Indiana limestone is where it is," Alessi said.
Of course, said Todd Schnatzmeyer, executive director of the Indiana Limestone Institute of America.
In addition to the attributes Alessi mentioned, limestone has its own warranty, of sorts.
"You build something out of Indiana limestone, and you expect it to last a lifetime," Schnatzmeyer said.
It's also malleable, so it's easy to produce different shapes out of the stone and carve elements.
But speakers? Sure, Schnatzmeyer said.
"It's because of the density of the stone. Limestone is 144 pounds per cubic foot," he said. "For something like a speaker, that would make a good sound quality."
Evidently, other speaker companies have yet to realize that. Audiomasons says it is the first company in the United States to concoct a speaker from limestone.
Indianapolis-based speaker company Klipsch said it doesn't use limestone and declined to comment for the story.
A quick Google search found limestone being used to build speakers at just one other company -- StoneAge Lighting in Ontario, Canada.
But it's not pure limestone. It's a mix of limestone and granite.
http://www.indystar.com/article/20110918/BUSINESS04/309180002/Speaker-maker-Indiana-limestone-sounds-good-looks-good
SEC. Pabst Blue Ribbon. [video] & A car. WSJ:
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Google Images PBR:
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An interesting mix 60 videos.
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-other-climate-theory/DDA61D17-339F-4F0F-95E3-325026562A7F.html
Yeah, You can act like a jerk while doing the jerk
Drinking alone is fun,
sometimes...
Makes it easy to dance
hiccup.
Gotta travel tonight myself so i could poor you a cold one just couldn't join you..
Who's keeping bar these days? Stopped by for a cold one and battery check on the drunk bus. Been awhile since we ran it.
ONTC PRs out! MIAMI, Sept. 12, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Onteco Corporation (OTC.QB: "ONTC"), (the "Company", or "Onteco"), announced today that its subsidiary, NexPhase Lighting, Inc. ("NexPhase"), a designer, developer and manufacturer of high efficiency, high quality LED intelligent lighting fixture, today released it's RC62055C11 and RC82055C11 six and eight inch LED can fixtures for the energy savings retrofit marketplace.
Jon Cooper, CEO of NexPhase, stated, " We are extremely excited about the RC6 and RC8 product lines. These fixtures provide a fantastic lighting solution for the retrofit can marketplace. These units are designed to work in six, eight and ten inch cans and are focused on replacing double CFL fixtures currently in the field with a more efficient and more reliable solution. These fixtures employ an active thermal management system, provide a minimum 82 CRI lighting solution and at 23 watts provide 1,850 lumens of delivered light (no lens) and 1,550 lumens of delivered light (with lens). They are 0-10 volt dimmable and therefore can be controlled with our wireless lighting control systems. Most importantly they provide a 60% energy savings over double CFL's, a 50,000 hour warranty and a robust design that requires no maintenance as compared to non-eco friendly and unreliable short life double CFL solutions. We have already taken orders for this innovative product series and full commercial release and shipments will be occurring in the fourth quarter of 2011. They are offered in kelvin temperatures ranging from 2,700 K to 4,500 K."
About Onteco Corporation
Onteco Corporation was founded to develop innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions to some of the most significant environmental challenges facing us today. Additionally, these solutions must show promise of generating significant, ongoing profits for the company. The company determined that one industry that meets these criteria is the Energy Saving Lighting Industry, and as a result acquired NexPhase Lighting, Inc., in February 2011.
Additional information about Onteco Corporation is available at: www.Onteco.com
About NexPhase Lighting, Inc.
NexPhase Lighting, Inc. is a designer and developer of proprietary high quality LED (light-emitting diode) lighting fixtures and control systems for commercial applications. It believes its products will be the lowest cost, highest efficacy fixtures available in the LED Lighting Industry. All NexPhase lighting products incorporate its proprietary "NexSense Technology™", which provides benefits well beyond the generally acknowledged advantages of all other LED lighting fixtures. NexSense control systems use a unique, "patent pending' wireless protocol, which provides for an unsurpassed reduction in architecture and infrastructure installation cost in commercial applications, as well as significantly reduced maintenance and ongoing operation costs.
For more information about NexPhase Lighting, Inc. visit: http://www.nexphaselighting.com
Safe Harbor Statement:
Cool, Thx my friend. Awesome.
Got a video "Rolling Thunder" May 31st DC 2010:
Live blog Wall Street Journal Hurricane Irene:
http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/2011/08/25/live-blog-hurricane-irene/
wakingbake. Going to decide how to look at it tomorrow. I 1st thought that the 10 fold volume today was its 1st "New Volume" and you need to be careful of that of course. Looking at the chart better I see that the New Volume occured June 13th and that what happened today might well be considered the positive move after correction after new volume - which is where I like to play.
The chart:
I'm hearing something good is coming there too. Not in EVXA myself but watching
A triple 000 with lots of good chatter: EVXA:
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=quote&symbol=NO%5eEVXA
FDMF The company will conduct an audit of the periods ending 12-31-2010 and 12-31-2011 as part of the efforts to re-establish itself as full reporting according to the Securities Exchange Commission. Full disclosure of all the activities of the company is paramount to the confidence of share holders.
chart :
SIX & I are in the GREEN on SUGO!
SIX & I are in the GREEN on SUGO!
SUGO had a nice bounce the past 2 days. Was promoed by a few. Congratz!
Many eyes watching! for this one to BREAK again!!
was .0034 just Weds , Now .0015= many looking for a re-run
2011/08/17 0.0019 0.0034 0.0013 0.0016 55,242,782 0.0016
(ZMGD) Announced Major Franchise Contract
Zamage Digital Art Imagng (PN) (USOTC:ZMGD)
Today : Thursday 18 August 2011
Zamage Digital Art Imaging, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: ZMGD) (www.zamagedigitalcorp.com)
Paraform Design has been hired by Chick-Fil-A.
The country's second largest quick-service chicken restaurant chain will use Paraform services
http://www.abc12.com/story/15282969/paraform-design-zmgd-announced-major-franchise-contract
Share Structure as of (8-18) from T/A
Was *Verified! by Susan/Supervisor from Pacific Stock Transfer http://www.pacificstocktransfer.com/
*Verified! current as of August 18, 2011
522,813,110 Outstanding
227,503,777 Restricted
295,309,333 Free Trading (Float)
Today Barchart recommends "BUY" ZMGD (.016)
ZMGD *Updated* CLIENT LIST
ZMGD Client List is MASSIVE!
http://www.paraformdesign.com/index.php#Our_Clients
CLIENT LIST:
A to Z Patio Designs
Advanced Ceramics
Arizona State University
Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall
B. Mazzocchi Development
Bala Avenue
CFS Manufacturing
Camden Children’s Garden
City of Charlottesville
City of Richmond
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Corning Museum of Glass
Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor
Delaware Valley Friends School
Discover Philadelphia
Evolution Spa
Extreme Riding Entertainment
Georgetown University
Hi-Tech Manufacturing
Hon Allsteel & Gunlocke
Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Johnson and Johnson
Kicksafe Billiards
Kutztown University
Landmark Towns
Longwood Gardens
Luttman Studios
Market Central
MedCraft, Inc.
Milton Hershey School
Mitchell Industries
Morris Arboretum
New Jersey Networks
Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor
Omega Point Consulting
OSS Architects
Perez Transport, Inc.
Philadelphia Water Department
Plummer Menapace Group
Richmond Riverfront Canal Walk
Roteth Investments
Sage Frog Marketing
Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage
Sanford School
Service Select Inc.
Solution Recruiting Partners
Soulfight Jiu-Jitsu
SPAS Photography Gallery
TargetX
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
The Civic Music Association
The Free Library of Philadelphia
The Johns Hopkins University
The Ohio State University
The Tryals Shop
The Woodlands
Torsion Performance Apparel
University of Maryland
University of the Sciences
Weisz Accounting
Williams & Humbert
Winterthur Museum and Gardens
Wyeth Pharmaceutical
add Chick-fil-a to the List
http://www.parasignsystems.com/services_clients.php
Zamage Digital Art Imaging, Inc. (PINK SHEETS:ZMGD)(www.zamagedigitalcorp.com) subsidiary Paraform Design www.paraformdesign.com is pleased to announce the launch of Parasign Systems www.parasignsystems.com, a new customizable signage solution designed to save businesses money.
PLUS THESE GIANT$
Paraform Design (ZMGD) Forms East Coast Partnership: Revenues in Multi-Million Dollar Range print
Zamage Digital Art Imagng (PN) (USOTC:ZMGD)
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2 Months : June 2011 to August 2011
Zamage Digital Art Imaging, Inc. (PINK SHEETS: ZMGD) (www.zamagedigitalcorp.com) subsidiary Paraform Design (www.paraformdesign.com), has formed a strategic partnership with one of the largest furniture manufacturing representative on the east coast.
"With this new partnership, we can target specific core markets. By targeting these specific core markets, namely health care, education, government and business, we can quickly respond to our customers' unique needs, deliver our products quickly and continue our growth with unique and comprehensive service," said Paraform Design's President & CEO, Ken Olschewske.
"With an existing client base of over 250 clients which includes some of the most prominent universities, health care, and federal facilities, this partnership can help to catapult sales and revenues. This relationship alone should yield $5-10 million in sales over the next 2-3 years.
Paraform Design, the parent company of Parasign Systems (www.parasignsystems.com), is an award winning, nationally recognized design firm that creates custom branded identity, print, web and signage solutions.
Paraform Design is pleased with this strategic partnership and anticipates updating the investor public on any updates regarding this exciting new opportunity.
In other news, following the merger with Paraform Design, ZMGD management intends to complete a share acquisition and reduce its authorized and outstanding shares to less than 700 million from current 2.8 billion.
ZMGD Overseas Client List
http://www.zamagedigitalcorp.com/everdow/clients.php
Everdow Software Inc. continues to serve China's growing population in the telecom, education and banking sectors. Since its inception in 2005, Everdow Software Inc. developed a portfolio of professional products and services and worked with clients known across China and the world.
Beijing University of Science and Technology
China Minsheng Bank
Daqing Petrochemical
East China Electric Power
Ericsson
Guangzhou Public Security Bureau
Heyuan City, Guangdong Personnel
Lanzhou Railway Bureau
Shanghai Mobile
Shanghai Telecom
Shenzhen Mobile
Shanxi Changzhi Netcom
The National Weather Service
Paraform is becoming the dominant force in the sign industry for that very reason. Revenues are growing leaps and bounds each quarter and with some of the high profile clients they are signing contracts with there is no doubt they will continue to climb.
CRMB.
At a beaten down Super-Buy Price.
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=20768
"Dogs of the Dow" [dividend] high yielders 2011:
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/board.aspx?board_id=21934
Wearable Electronic Tattoo. Firstly, to monitor patients:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?.partner=sbc&ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-att&p=eletronic%20tattoo&type=
Yo! oops - It is backtrax. Bad keyboard....
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Very interesting thanx .
The Legend of Coffee
There are a number of different stories as to the origin of coffee and how it was discovered.
Though nobody knows for sure, the most common story is about a goat-herd named Kaldi who lived in Eastern Africa, most likely modern day Ethiopia, in or around the year 500 AD.
This goatherd noted that some of his goats, after feeding on an evergreen bush with red berries, began acting strangely. They seemed to become very active and vivacious. Curious about their behavior, Kaldi picked some of the berries and tasted them. He found that they invigorated him and made him more awake.
Coffee Timeline
Prior to 1000 AD
History tells us that other Africans, from the same era as the Kaldi legend, fueled themselves upon protein-rich coffee and animal fat balls and unwound with wine made from the coffee-berry pulp.
c. 1000 AD
The drinking of coffee soon spread to Arabia, most likely by Arab traders, and by the end of the 9th Century, a drink known as "qahwa" (literally meaning "that which prevents sleep") was being made by boiling beans.
1453
Coffee is introduced to Constantinople (later Istanbul) by the Ottoman Turks. The world's first coffee shop, Kiva Han, opens there in 1475. Turkish law makes it legal for a woman to divorce her husband if he fails to provide her with a daily quota of coffee.
c. 1600
Coffee, introduced to the West by Italian traders, grabs attention in high places. In Italy, Pope Clement VIII is urged by his advisers to consider the favorite drink of the Ottoman Empire part of the infidel threat. One sip, however, and he decides to baptize it instead, making it an acceptable Christian beverage.
1607
Captain John Smith helps to found the colony of Virginia at Jamestown; it is believed that he introduced coffee to North America.
1645
First coffee house opens in Italy.
1690
With a coffee plant smuggled out of the Arab port of Mocha, the Dutch become the first to transport and cultivate coffee commercially, in Ceylon - and in their East Indian colony of Java, source of the brew's nickname.
1713
The Dutch unwittingly provide Louis XIV of France with a coffee bush whose descendants will produce the entire western coffee industry when in 1723 French naval officer Bariel Mathieu deClieu steals a seedling and transports it to Martinique. Within 50 years an official survey records 19 million coffee trees on Martinique. Eventually 90 percent of the world's coffee spreads from this plant.
1727
The Brazilian coffee industry gets its start when Lieutenant Colonel Francisco de Melo Palheta is sent by his government to arbitrate a border dispute between the French and Dutch colonies in Guiana. Not only does he settle the dispute, he also strikes up a secret liaison with the wife of French Guiana's governor. Although France guarded its new world coffee plantations to prevent cultivation from spreading, the lady said goodbye to Palheta with a bouquet in which she hid cuttings and fertile seeds of coffee.
1732
Johann Sebastian Bach composes his Kaffee Kantate.
1733
The Boston Tea Party makes drinking coffee a patriotic duty in America.
1815
Coffee beans were first planted in The Hawaiian Islands by Kamehameha the Great's Spanish interpreter and Physician Don Francisco de Paula y Marin. Marin's plantings were unsuccessful.
1825
Coffee was successfully introduced into Hawaii when in 1825 King Kamehameha II and his wife, and a royal party that included Governor Boki of Oahu, made a state visit to England. The party was beset with measles and the King and Queen both died. While bringing the bodies back to Hawaii, Governor Boki stopped in Rio de Janeiro to pick up a number of coffee plants. After returning to Hawaii and having John Wilkinson, a former West Indian planter, plant the trees, the planting stock for the Hawaiian Islands had begun.
1827
After having successfully planted a small field of coffee, Wilkinson died. Others saw the potential of the coffee in the Islands and used seed and cuttings from this small field to begin coffee plantings in other valleys and in other areas around the islands.
1828
Reverend Samuel Ruggles took slips from Wilkinson's field and transported them to Kona making the first plantings at Naole, near Kealakekua Bay. They were planted as ornamental garden plants.
1842
The first commercial venture to produce coffee occurred not in Kona, but in Hanalei on the island of Kauai. In 1845 the venture exported the first 245 pounds of coffee ever from Hawaii, but labor shortages, a drought and a blight put the operation out of our business by 1855.
1870
The peak in coffee production on the Big Island of Hawaii happened during this period. Over 415,000 pounds of coffee were exported. Soon after this period, coffee production suffered due to sugar dominance as the Hawaiian crop of choice and the presence of the white scale blight that attacked the coffee crops.
1890
For a short while, interest in commercial coffee cultivation was revived. This was due to the introduction of the Australian ladybird beetle that effectively controlled white blight and the political changes that made more coffee production land available.
1899
The world coffee market crashes.
1900
Hills Bros. begins packing roast coffee in vacuum tins.
1900
Between 1900 and 1945 donkeys were used as basic transportation in Kona, especially for transporting 100-pound bags of ripe coffee cherry out of the rugged coffee lands up or down to the main road for transport to coffee mills. Dubbed "Kona Nightingales" because of their musical braying, the noble donkey played a vital role in the Kona coffee industry.
1901
The first soluble instant coffee is invented.
1903
German coffee importer Ludwig Roselius turns over a batch of ruined coffee beans to researchers, who perfect the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying the flavor.
1906
George Constant Washington, an English chemist notices a powdery condensation forming on the spout of his silver coffee carafe. After experimentation, he creates the first mass-produced instant coffee.
1940
The US imports 70 percent of the world coffee crop.
1994
C. Brewer d.b.a. Royal Kona Coffee, Kona Kai Farms, Hawaiian Isles Kona Coffee Co., and Woolson Tea & Spice d.b.a. Lion Coffee Co., filed federal lawsuits that blocked the trade marking of Kona Coffee. This trademark would have aided Kona coffee growers in the battle to combat counterfeiting.
1995
US Customs indicts Koa Kai Farms for counterfeiting Kona coffee
1997
Koa Coffee Plantation opens its doors! The State of Hawaii Department of Agriculture began certifying all Hawaiian coffees by origin (island - district). 100% green Kona coffees are certified and graded on a very strict scale.
1997-98
Hawaiian Isles and C. Brewer, major blenders of Kona coffee, set up camp in Kona causing a coffee cherry bidding war. Local mills who are proponents of only 100% Kona coffee struggle to match the prices of these mills that offer the higher prices. Subsequently, the price of Kona coffee skyrockets and it became apparent that the Kona blend companies were going to cripple the 100% Kona coffee industry. During the previous year a small minority of Kona coffee purists launched a class action lawsuit against several mainland coffee companies who allegedly purchased fraudulent Kona coffee from Kona Kai Farms. The suit targeted several faithful and long time customers and roasters of 100% Kona coffee. Starbucks who purchased a minimal amount of this fraudulent coffee immediately paid a claim of fifteen thousand dollars and vowed never again to buy Kona coffee. Needless to say, this lawsuit has had a devastating effect of potential customers of 100% Kona coffee and has made matters even worse for the hard working local mills trying to sell their high priced 100% Kona coffee.
http://hawaiianregionalcoffees.com/history.asp
At buy prices: ACYD. HFBG. BRGO. UYMG. SMKY.
FOR ka$h's Penny Breakroom.
Hey WB ! Miss you too ! Been having fun bottom fishing.
It's good to seee u Sheezy. Miss ya. I've been busy with work lately and haven't traded as much as I used to. Think it's a good time since summertime is usually slow.
Summer almost over, hopefully, volume comes roaring back soon
SHMN: announced the addition of 6 new generic pharmaceutical products targeting asthma and respiratory disease. India's respiratory drug market size is approximately $600 million annually. Acute respiratory diseases in India have grown by 33 percent from 2005-2010 which is a significantly higher growth rate compared to other communicable diseases.
Respiratory diseases are one of the most common forms of ill-health plaguing the Indian population today. They are also a leading cause of hospitalization and death. Allergic respiratory disorders, in particular asthma, have recorded abnormally high levels in India. Even though genetic predisposition is one of the main factors of respiratory disease there is an increased prevalence due to urbanization, air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke.
They look like cool rides. I'll have to try them out. I did Disneys
Summit Plummet. It's the longest, tallest, fastest water slide on record. It took about 90 mins. to climb the stairs and 30 seconds to slide straight down from 12 stories high. It was the scariest thing I ever did. Loved it !!!
Nice looking Bud can but the great taste of beer comes in a bottle
Congrats to your stepdaughter!!! You must be very proud.
4 pictures - assorted - comments:
Holiday World [Indiana] officials announced today the largest single-ride investment in the park’s history — a water coaster that will be the world’s longest when it opens in May 2012.
The ride —called Mammoth — comes at a price of $9 million for the Santa Claus, Ind., park, which celebrates its 65th birthday today with the announcement of the ride.
The ride will span 1,753 feet and cover three acres in Splashin’ Safari, bringing the water park’s size to 30 acres. It will stand at a height of 69 feet from lowest to highest drop and feature six drops — including a first drop of 53 feet at a 45-degree angle.
Mammoth will include 10 six-passenger boats with individual seatbacks, meaning passengers could face forwards, backwards or sideways. Its speed and ride time will be determined during testing next spring.
It will begin with a conveyor ride up the coaster’s lift hill before the first, five-story drop and continue into additional hills, dark, enclosed sections and twists and turns.
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Anheuser-Busch InBev NV is redesigning the Budweiser can for the first time in a decade, seeking to reinvigorate sales of the storied brew / Budweiser's New Can:
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Everybody. My stepdaughter passed her PT's (physical training) at AIT (advance individual training)(Cem Corps) this morning at Ft Leonard Wood Mo. Must have been around 5 & 6 AM. [Tuesday 2nd]. She is the one in the Indiana Army National Guard. She passed Basic Training last summer at Ft Jackson Sc between here jr & sr years of high school. We are going to give her a break from the end to end she's had to do and go to 2nd semester college in January. She is the one in the National Guard.
My step-daughter this morning [Wednesday 3rd] goes into a gas chamber naked with nerve agents - just so she will know what it's like - as well as know how it is to be handled that way being decontaminated.
Her Batallion: The Dragons:
Her Platoon: Gunslingers:
I'm a tad late, but everyone welcome PoemStone to our board as Asst/Mod. Good to have you here my friend. Waiting for a ten bagger to pop a cork on and add to the Box. :)
Hey stranger ! Whatcha been up to ?
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