Brad Merritt

Peter Tkacz’s Photography

Brad — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:19:09 +0000

Check out my buddy Peter Tkacz’s photography. He shoots some really cool old school film photography.

STOP SOPA and PIPA

Brad — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:20:56 +0000

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill – PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity. CONGRESS NEEDS TO HEAR FROM YOU! PLEASE GO TO THE LINK BELOW AND SIGN THE PETITION:

http://fightforthefuture.org/pipa

The video above discusses the Senate version of the House’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In the Senate the bill is called the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). SOPA has gotten more attention than PIPA because it was moving faster in the legislative process. But PIPA is just as dangerous, and now it is moving faster.

PIPA would give the government new powers to block Americans’ access websites that corporations don’t like. The bill lets corporations and the US government censor entire websites and cut sites off from advertising, payments and donations.

This legislation will stifle free speech and innovation, and even threaten popular web services like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

The bill is scheduled for a test vote in the Senate on Jan. 24th: We need to act now to let our lawmakers know just how terrible it is. Will you fill out the form above to ask your lawmakers to oppose the legislation and support a filibuster?

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Healthy and balanced blueberry breads menu

ShareeErin160 — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:59:23 +0000

Healthy blueberry breads food

Everyone reading this article article can have had wholesome banana bread recipe. The taste with the healthy produced you right here. Let me tell you to remain reading this to locate what you came up for. There are plenty of healthy banana bread recipe tried through men and women at your house. Everyone loves the flavor of the loaves of bread especially kids. It is a healthy food parents might make for their children and ensure they will get the essential levels of vitamins and minerals from the bakery. The banana bread recipe is rich in carbohydrates.

There are many approaches to make the banana bread recipe, that you simply must have regarded or at least heard in your sooner day. The various styles of generating the breads only helps to make the bread additional tasty healthy and balanced. Healthy banana bread recipe would be the mother’s friends because it helps them in order to serve their children a very delicious and wholesome snack always. For a solo reason that children like the special banana bread, they would try to eat as much as you give them. I understand that every mom who makes the healthy strawberry bread for their children could try incorporating extra components to the mix to change the flavors a bit. This is a good idea since your children wouldn’t normally have to take bread concentrating on the same taste daily that might get them bored. And so, let us visit a simple nutritious banana bread recipe.

This is usually a special banana bread food. This is likely to be a great practical experience sharing the best banana loaf of bread recipe which i had in existence. A special recipe you would want to bake and also eat. A recipe consists of nine materials. So, we have found our several steps healthy banana bread recipe.
. Almost all purpose flour ( space ) 1 tumbler
. Whole wheat flour ( blank ) 1 mug
. Brown sugar or honies – ? goblet
. Baking soda pop and Preparing your receipee powder- 1 Tablespoon each
. Ovum – Just one
. Salt and also Cinnamon * ? – pertaining to flavor
. Crushed bananas * 1 ? mug
This is the easiest method to make the very best healthy banana bread recipe. A 1 ? cup of mashed banana could be equal to 5-6 bananas. Allow us to see the guidelines to make a dough in order to bake.
. The First step is to overcome the egg cell and then conquer it while using the mashed banana bread recipe. Now combine the hitter with the different ingredients that we certainly have ready, sugar/honey or even a mix of the two, salt and also cinnamon.
. The second step should be to mix flour, wheat flour, baking powder and soft drink. Once they tend to be mixed fill in the blend made in step one. If needed, it’s fine to use nuts with it.
. The third phase is to blend the mixture for a while in addition to pour this a loaf of bread pan. Bake the crepe mixture in One hundred eighty C or 350 Farreneheit for 1 out of 3 minutes.
After 50 a matter of minutes stick a knife for the bread and also confirm to control your emotions. Now you can trim the lf in to the shapes your children need and function them.

You are able to always obtain numerous facts concerning banana bread recipe at our site dedicated to Banana Recipes.

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St. Jude Childrens Hospital

Brad — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:37:16 +0000

Donate to a Worthy Cause

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital is a hospital that specializes in child cancer care and prevention. St. Jude Childrens Hospital is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay. They genuinely care about children, child cancer treatment, and familieis. Because of this, I wanted to write about them and help them spread the word about their wonderful facility and their mission. Additionally, if you know of a family or child that may need help you can refer them or you can help the St. Jude Children Hospital by donating to them monthly.

Mission:
The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.

Vision
Our vision is to be the world leader in advancing the treatment and prevention of catastrophic diseases in children. This vision will be pursued by providing outstanding patient care; by conducting basic, translational and clinical research designed to elucidate biological mechanisms, understand disease pathogenesis, improve diagnosis, enhance treatment outcome, prevent diseases and minimize adverse consequences of treatment; and by educating health care and scientific research professionals. Through these efforts we seek to cure and enhance the quality of life for an increasing proportion of children who come to us for treatment, and by expanding and sharing knowledge, to advance treatment of children with catastrophic diseases worldwide, while developing strategies to prevent catastrophic diseases in children.

Values
Our foremost responsibilities are to the children with catastrophic diseases, their families, and to the donors that have committed their personal resources toward our Mission. To fully meet these responsibilities, we are committed to an explicit set of values. These values are the standards of behavior that we use to guide our daily actions and decisions. We will ensure that these standards of behavior are adhered to through ongoing training of all personnel working at St. Jude, and by annually evaluating the executive leadership, faculty and staff in their adherence to these values.

If you want to learn more about St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital, if you want to help donate to a child and family that is trying to beat cancer, or if you know of a child or family that needs help with pediatric cancer – please visit their site at http://www.stjude.org

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How to make money as a welder and market your skill

Brad — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:17:17 +0000

Are you interested in becoming a full time welder? Do you want to quit your day job and do something you love? I have always been interested in welding as a career and I am writing this post to help anyone else interested in welding as a career find more helpful information. I am actually promoting three resources I purchased, used, and reviewed with my mechanic buddies who weld. There is a mix of information here, but all of it is hugely important to know if you want to start a career as a welder. I even went so far as to get into registering for classes at the local college, but these books covered the same information I was going to have spend at least $600 to learn. I have written a little more about what brought me to these books, and included the links at the bottom of the page for your review as well.

I have a full-time, white collar job, but on the weekends, I love to work with my hands and work on cars and bikes. Over time, my interest in welding has become a necessary skill that I need in order to do my projects and fabricate stuff I have in my head. I did not really know where to start, so I went down to my mechanic buddy and he started introducing me to welding and using his equipment to practice. I know that not everyone has this luxury, so I took advantage of it to learn how to get better and improve my technique.

After a while I started to research more about welding online. I bought a few good books from the local book store, but they all had pretty much the same content, and it all seemed to be aimed at hobby welding. I wanted to really learn how to do quality industrial type welds using good equipment and getting good enough to build motorcycle and car frames. I also was interested how I could weld for profit and actually start making money doing it. Becoming a welder profressionally requires that you get certified. To get certified, you need to practice and learn about welding, then have a certified inspector check out your work. This means going to school, or working at a local shop and learning on the job – then getting certified.

If you are like me and want to learn on your own time, practice while you learn, but also get serious about getting your welding certification, then check out these three resources below. To be perfectly honest, they are great bits of information from guys who are certified welders. Some of the information is over-kill, and can get boring, but all of it is relevant to the trade of welding!

Here are the links for your review:

1) This is called the 100k welder. It shows you how to seriously start a career as a pipe welder. All of the information in here is very legit – right to the point, and given from a perspective of a certified welding instructor and inspector. Lots of useful info here and I highly recommend this:

http://b216890b2nxn2u1emam5xji8qg.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=100KWELDER” target=”_top”>Click Here!

2) This is another useful packet of information that really dives into the technical and “school” type information about welding, metal, types of welding equipment, and other tips and tricks. This is good to have as well in your inventory so that you know the materials you are working with when welding. Believe me – this is very important to know as well!

http://2e401500sqvh515mpbk0p-ze7u.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=LEARNTOWELD” target=”_top”>Click Here!

3) This is a link I found for Welding Secrets. Pretty cool quick and easy tips and tricks.

http://c4af70p8slkj01dcw3-34iun8b.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=WELDINGSECRETS” target=”_top”>Click Here!

So if you are like me and serious about learning how to well really well, at home, in your spare time, while working on your own projects – then this is the way to go!

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94 Chevy s10 SS Diesel

Brad — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:54:47 +0000

So I have started on a new project car! I am working with O’Brien Service in Ferndale to take a 1994 Chevy s10 SS Pickup truck and convert it into a Bio-Diesel Street Rod. Seems excessive, but if it weren’t – I would not want to do it! I will update the post with the progress, and I promise to create a build diary for this truck and the Nissan Z electric car I am working on as well.

So far – here is were we stand with the truck:
1) Lowering Kit ordered and shipped – will drop the rear 4″ and the front 3″ – just waiting on delivery!
2) Suicide Door Hinge Kit ordered and shipped – just waiting on delivery
3) Phantom Grill – sitting in a box at the shop waiting to get installed
4) Halo halogen light system – sitting in a box at the shop waiting to get installed
5) Hard Top Truck Bed – FOUND ON I-94 – FREE

We are currently looking for a Diesel Powerplant – either a Cummins 3.3 or a 4BT

Next Steps: Need to chop the top, and fix some of the rusted out body panels, and custom fit the hard-top to the bed – then paint this bad boy!

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My Photography

Brad — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 17:09:06 +0000

If you are reading this blog, and if you have seen any of my photos that come up on the right hand-side in the side-bar widget, then you might have seen some of my photography. I rented a photo studio for a while and messed around with taking portraits and headshots, but it really wasn’t my thing. I love shooting cars, shops, garages, vintage stuff, and anything that has motor oil in it – so that is my new photography focus. If you want to check out any of my work, you can visit a few different sites – but the content is all the same:

www.studio51photo.com
http://www.etsy.com/people/Studio51Photography (to purchase my stuff)
http://studio51photo.deviantart.com/

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