Chocolate (pronounced /ˈtʃɒklɨt/ (
listen) or /ˈtʃɒkəlɪt/) is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocolātl (/ʃo.ko.laːtɬ/), a Nahuatl word meaning “bitter water”. The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.
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16th Mar 2011
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In 1999, Peugeot Sport unveiled the 206 WRC, and it competed for the first time in that year’s World Rally Championship, with French tarmac veteran and long-time marque stalwart Gilles PanizziMitsubishi‘s Tommi Mäkinen, to win the Rallye Sanremo.
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A tractor is a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds, for the purposes of hauling a trailer or machinery used in agriculture or construction. Most commonly, the term is used to describe a farm vehicle that provides the power and traction to mechanize agricultural tasks, especially (and originally) tillage but nowadays a great variety of tasks. Agricultural implements may be towed behind or mounted on the tractor, and the tractor may also provide a source of power if the implement is mechanised. Another common use of the term, “tractor unit“, describes the power unit of a semi-trailer truck (articulated lorry).
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10th Mar 2011
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An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a quad, quad bike, three wheeler, or four wheeler, is defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) as a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat that is straddled by the operator, along with handlebars for steering control. As the name implies, it is designed to handle a wider variety of terrain than most other vehicles. Although it is a street-legal vehicle in some countries, it is not street legal within most states and provinces of Australia, the United States, Canada, or the United Kingdom. In the UK, a recent variant class of ATV is now road-legal, but there are few models available in this class.
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10th Mar 2011
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The Alfa Romeo MiTo (known internally as the type 955, full name MilanoTourino) is a three door sporty supermini officially introduced on June 19, 2008, at Castello Sforzesco in Milan,[5] with an international introduction at the British Motor Show in 2008. The car was available in all Alfa’s major markets in stages from July.[6] The three-door hatchback is front-wheel drive and will be sold to compete with the MINI and the newer Audi A1.[7] Designed by Centro Stile Alfa Romeo, the design is believed to be inspired by the 8C Competizione.
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10th Mar 2011
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The Fiat 500 (Italian: cinquecento, Italian pronunciation: [ˌtʃiŋkweˈtʃɛnto]) is a car produced by the FiatDante Giacosa. company of Italy between 1957 and 1975, with limited production of the Fiat 500 K estate continuing until 1977. The car was designed by
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The Renault 5 (also called the R5) was a supermini produced by the French automaker Renault in two generations between 1972 and 1996. It was sold in many markets, usually as the Renault 5 and in North America as Le Car, from 1976 to 1986. Nearly 5.5 million Renault 5s were built.[1]
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10th Mar 2011
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If you want to convert your png file to srf file (garmin format), you can do it online or compile a C program to do it directly on your computer.
You just need a gcc compiler, the png library installed with include and the following sources in C language.
You will be able to convert png to srf and srf to png.
http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/Garmin_srf_to_png_file_conversion.html
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6th Mar 2011
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The Volkswagen New Beetle is a small family car, introduced by Volkswagen in 1998, drawing heavy inspiration from the exterior design of the original Beetle. Unlike the original Beetle, the New Beetle has its engine in the front driving the front wheels and luggage storage in the rear. In May 2010, Volkswagen announced that production of the current body of the New Beetle will cease in 2011.[1] A redesigned model will replace it.
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Nutella (Italian pronunciation: [nuˈtɛlla]; English: /nʌˈtɛlə/) is the brand name of a hazelnut flavoured[1] sweet spread registered by the Italian company Ferrero at the end of 1963. The recipe was developed from an earlier Ferrero spread released in 1949. Nutella is sold in over 75 countries.[2]
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The SEAT León (Spanish pronunciation: [leˈon]) is a small family car built by the Spanish car manufacturer, and Volkswagen Group subsidiary SEAT, S.A. since October 1998.[1]
Both León generations are, or have been built upon two differing variants of the Volkswagen Group A platform, and they also share many other components with the Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Jetta, Audi TT, Audi A3 and Škoda Octavia.
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6th Mar 2011
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AT-99 Scorpion – ducted-fan twin-rotor AH-64 Apache-like gunship – The film avatar.
Avatar is a 2009 American[6][7] epic science fiction film written and directed by James Cameron, and starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Joel David Moore, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver. The film is set in the mid-22nd century, when humans are mining a precious mineral called unobtanium on Pandora, a lush moon of a gas giant in the Alpha Centauri star system.[8][9][10] The expansion of the mining colony threatens the continued existence of a local tribe of Na’vi—a humanoid species indigenous to Pandora. The film’s title refers to the genetically engineered Na’vi-human hybrid bodies used by a team of researchers to interact with the natives of Pandora.[11]
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6th Mar 2011
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The Peugeot 406 is a large family car made by the French automaker Peugeot from 1995 to 2004. Available in saloon, estate and coupé bodystyles with a choice of petrol or turbodiesel engines, the 406 replaced the Peugeot 405 in Peugeot’s lineup, and was itself replaced by the Peugeot 407. It used the same platform as the Citroën Xantia, though without that car’s sophisticated hydropneumatic suspension system.
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Tags: car, choice, coupé, Garmin, large family car, peugeot, peugeot 405, peugeot 406, peugeot 407, platform
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Moya is a character/spacecraft and a member of the Leviathan race. She had her first appearance in the “Premiere“, and was last seen in “The Peacekeeper Wars Part 2“.
Like others of her race, Moya was captured by a Peacekeeper squad at a young age and was bonded with a Pilot, who serves as the Leviathan’s navigator, operator, companion, and link to the crew of the ship. Leviathans are ships of peace, and as such have no offensive capabilities. They do have an impressive defensive maneuver, however, called starburst, which allows the ship to travel at incredible speed through a tear in space-time.
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6th Mar 2011
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The Lancia Delta is a small family car produced by Italian automaker Lancia with the first generation being produced between 1979 and 1994, the second generation running from 1993 until 1999, and the third generation Delta entering production in 2008. It was first shown in Frankfurt Motor Show in 1979.[1] The Delta is best known for its World Rally Championship career in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when it dominated rallying. Lancia offered road-going versions of these competition cars — the Lancia Delta HF4WD and Integrale.
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6th Mar 2011
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Tags: car, career, delta, frankfurt motor show, Garmin, generation, Lancia, Lancia Delta, Lancia delta integrale, Show
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The fire service in France is known as Sapeurs-pompiers, except in Marseille, where naval “sailor-firefighters”, marins-pompiers, provide fire and rescue services.
There are approximately 250,584 fire service personnel in France operating 15,000 emergency vehicles out of 10,238 emergency centres.
Pompier (firefighter) etymologically comes from the concept of pumping (water) and refers to the manual pumps that were originally used. Sapeur means “sapper” and refers to the first official firefighting unit created by Napoleon I which was part of the military engineering arm.
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6th Mar 2011
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The Fiat Panda is a city car from the Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat. The first Fiat Panda was introduced in 1980, and was produced until 2003 with only a few changes. It is now sometimes referred to as the “old Panda”. The second model, launched in 2003, is sometimes referred to “New Panda” or “Nuova Panda” (in Italian), and was the European Car of the Year in 2004.
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6th Mar 2011
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In this tutorial, you will learn how to manipulate sketchup to create automatically rotating vehicle’s pictures.
The goal is to obtain 37 pictures of a 3D vehicle. In another tutorial we learn to compose a complete frame with all the generated pictures.
First, download the free 3D software : sketchup
Advise : Try the different provided tools from sketchup : moving, rotating, zooming, camera…This will help you to place and modify your 3D model
I have made a script to rotate automatically a model and write png file every 10°.
- Download and install the provided script (see download at the end of the article)
- In order to install a script for Sketchup on MAC, copy the .rb file to /Library/Application Support/Google SketchUp 8/SketchUp/Plugins/garmin/ It is important to put this in a subdirectory, otherwise, the script will be automatically called when sketchup starts.
- Then, launch Sketchup.
- Here, you are ready to import a 3D model : Click on “file” menu and “3D Warehouse“. A browser lets you select your model : choose one !
- When the download is over, you have to place your 3D model centered on the blue Z axis. It is important since the rotation is done around this axis.
- Move and center correctly your vehicle in the view, like in the following screenshot
- On your computer, create a directory called “vehicule” at the root of your hard drive. (You can change this in the ruby script)
- In “Windows” menu, select the “Ruby Console” and type load(“garmin/rotate.rb”)
- Verify that all the pictures are generated in the “vehicule” directory.
- You may have to position again (zoom or dezoom) your model, for the top view…and export it manually (80×80 pictures, png format)
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5th Mar 2011
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Luigi (ルイージ, Ruīji?) is a fictional character, featured in video games and related media released by Nintendo. Created by prominent game designer Shigeru Miyamoto, Luigi is portrayed as the slightly younger fraternal twin brother of Nintendo’s mascot Mario, and appears in many games throughout the Mario series, frequently as a sidekick or deuteragonist to his brother.
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4th Mar 2011
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Tags: fictional character, fraternal, Garmin, Luigi, Luigi Luigi, mascot, Miyamoto, Nintendo, series, shigeru miyamoto
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The Daleks (pronounced /ˈdɑːlɛks/ ( listen)) are a fictional extraterrestrial race of genetically manipulated mutants from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Within the series, Daleks are cyborgs from the planet Skaro, created by the scientist Davros during the final years of a thousand-year war against the Thals.
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