Buggs - Pug / Boston Terrier Hybrid

Buggs
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Pug / Boston Terrier Hybrid

The Buggs is not a purebred dog. It is a cross between the Pug and the Boston Terrier. The best way to determine the temperament of a mixed breed is to look up all breeds in the cross and know you can get any combination of any of the characteristics found in either breed. This hybrid cross is recognized by the American Canine Hybrid Club. Not all of these designer hybrid dogs being bred are 50% purebred to 50% purebred. It is very common for breeders to breed multi-generation crosses.

Nicky, the Buggs (Boston Terrier / Pug hybrid at 1 ½ years old. She took more after her mother (the Boston Terrier) than her dad (the pug). "She doesn't know she is a dog. She is my daughters best friend."

Harley, the Buggs (Boston Terrier / Pug mix) Puppy

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"Bailey, the Bugg at 1 year and 4 months old. She is full of energy as always. She still loves undies and the outdoors. This is her playing in the yard with one of her favorite toys. Her favorites are the ones with loud squeakers in them."

"Bailey, the Bugg at 1 year and 4 months old around the pool. This is her in her boat with her life jacket on. She doesnt like the water very much other than just sitting on the steps. However she has taken up floating around the pool in her boat."

"This is Bailey. She is a BUGG. She is about 8months old now. Her temperament is well-rounded. She is a bit high-strung but remember she is still a puppy. Plus I love that she keeps me on my toes. I love her to death. Just a great personality and a great companion."

"Bailey is about 8 months old and weighs 11 pounds in this picture. She was the runt of her litter. She loves to chew on panties...doesn't matter what kind...she's a little undies stealer."

"She also likes to sit on the first step of our pool to relax. she is still unsure about swimming but is more than willing to take a dip to cool off."

"Bailey also unfortunately broke her leg in two places when she was about 4 months old. Due to her spunky personality and a love for life she was back to her original self in no time."

Bailey the Bugg (Boston Terrier / Pug hybrid) getting a bath and wating OUT of the tub!

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Barnaby, the 3 year old Buggs

Barnaby, the 3 year old Buggs

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These Kids Will Certainly Make You Smile

I just love kids. I adore it when they do things without a clue. It is innocent and it is pure. I hope these images will help you in some way to get rid of your stress, even if it’s for the time being. Enjoy….

( Sorry mom! That guy just gave me 5 bucks to do this. Sorry! )

( This sack really makes the slide scaryyyyyyyyyyyy )

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( No water park? No problem! )

( Whoever passes out first will get their face painted. Shouldn’t have drank so much Sucker! )

( That’s what you get for jumping into the water. It’s time to dry )

( Now I know why cats can’t be trained as good as dogs )

( Well, Well. It was just one time. I won’t skip class again. Would you stop it now ? )

( Hey you are cute. What’s your number? )

( Dog - A baby’s best friend )

( I hope nobody catches me )

( Mom, we are watering the plants just like you asked us to )

( Me first, me first )

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( Bigger than your’s )

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( This is why I have more balls than you )

( I love watermelon. I ain’t sharing, you pig )

( I will fix it mom. I know how to do it )

( How come he gets all the beef and chicken and I have to settle for milk )

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Chismillionaire's next SUV gets Green Light for production

Dynamic Diesel: Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro headed for production

Audi's gone and done it. After cramming its V-12 TDI diesel powerhouse engine into concept versions of both the Q7 (2007 Detroit show) and R8 (2008 Detroit), the automaker has decided to forge ahead with a production version of the Q7 called the Audi Q7 V12 TDI quattro.

At the heart of the matter is Audi's amazing, twin-turbocharged 6.0-liter diesel producing an eye-popping 500 horsepower and 757 lb-ft of torque. Not surprisingly, all that power translates to 0-62 mph times around 5.5 seconds for the Q7 according to Audi, an impressive sprint for an SUV of its size. Top speed will be limited to 155 mph. Despite its sizzling performance, Audi says the V12 TDI is also fairly fuel efficient, achieving just short of 20 mpg in the Q7-equipped model.

Mated to the engine is a six-speed automatic with a tiptronic feature that was massaged in order to handle the engine's massive torque. And of course, the Q7 will come with quattro four-wheel drive as standard equipment that distributes the power in a 40:60 ratio front to rear, providing the vehicle with a rear-drive biased setup that is meant to enhance its sporting intentions.

The Q7 V12 TDI will roll on 20-inch rims standard (21-inchers will be available) and will be halted thanks to a carbon ceramic brake setup featuring eight-piston calipers up front, four piston units in the rear. Exterior changes include modifications to the front bumper and grille, headlamps, exhaust outlets and stainless steel underbody plates. Inside, there's updated interior trim along with Audi's top shelf on board tech, including the automaker's latest safety and entertainment options.

At the 2008 Geneva show, Audi will be trotting out a concept-themed version of the vehicle called Audi Q7 coastline, which is largely an interior trim package (interior photos below) that's inspired by luxury yachts. We expect the Q7 V12 TDI will be pulling a few expensive boats around as part of its duties when it hits the streets.

Audi says presales of the vehicle will begin later this year, and it will likely be a 2009 model. It shouldn't be cheap -- expect pricing to scrape up near the $100,000 mark or more. No word yet if the vehicle will come to the U.S., but you can be sure we'll be asking that question during the Geneva show press days this Tuesday and Wednesday, March 4-5.

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Chismiillionaire's Monday deal of the week

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What are you snickering about? Gateway isn’t the penny-ante patsy people say it is. They can make a computer just as good as anybody. Or most companies. Or some companies. Anyway, they’re not the worst. And the Gateway GT5628 Desktop Computer is as non-worst a computer as you’ll find on the market today. Probably.

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Bacteria make it rain

Airborne Bacteria Make It Rain, Researchers Find

By Brandon Keim 02.29.08 | 4:45 PM

The green dots indicate Pseudomonas syringae bacteria suspended in ice. Like other so-called biological ice nucleators, P. syringae gives water vapor a place to meet, join and form ice crystals that later fall to Earth.
Brent Christner/Louisiana State University

The sky is not an ethereal, sterile realm. It's teeming with bacteria, and scientists say that the microbes play a powerful role in producing rain and snow.

While the idea that bacteria could prompt precipitation was previously known, a paper published this week in Science shows that they're more important than anyone expected.

Researchers led by Louisiana State University microbiologist Brent Christner analyzed snow samples from around the world, categorizing the content of their "nucleators" -- tiny particles that help water vapor coalesce and freeze.

All snow and most rain begins as ice. Though water is widely thought to have a freezing point of zero degrees Celsius, it's not so simple in the clouds, where pristine vapors only bind to form ice crystals at exceedingly cold temperatures. Nucleators let crystallization happen in the less extreme conditions that prevail in much of Earth's troposphere.

Christner found bacteria, technically known as "biological ice nucleators," in an atmospheric context. High levels of bacteria were present in nearly every sample.

"Atmospheric scientists haven't previously recognized that these particles are so widely distributed," he said.

The findings raise the question of how climate change and human activities will affect bacterial balances in the sky. More immediately, they're a starting point for research on bacterial contributions to cloud formation and precipitation.

In its latest report, the International Panel on Climate Change said that the impact of feedback loops involving clouds on global weather patterns are the "largest source of uncertainty" in current predictions of climate change.

Christner's findings won't overturn the IPCC's fundamental conclusions -- a high probability of dramatically rising global temperatures -- but they should spur research that will help scientists predict the changes in greater detail, said Princeton University climate scientist Leo Donner, who was not involved in the study.

Donner agreed that climate scientists had not appreciated the ubiquity of precipitation-causing bacteria in the atmosphere.

"One of the real uncertainties in the climate system is how cloud particles are nucleated," he said. "Climate models need information on nucleators. This is especially relevant for understanding how clouds change as atmospheric composition changes."

The fact that bacteria could cause snow and rain was discovered almost by accident in the 1970s by study co-author David Sands, a Montana State University plant pathologist, during his research on Pseudomonas syringae, a microbe that causes ice to form on leaves.

Unable to discover the source of repeatedly infected fields, Sands exasperatedly took to the skies. He did the scientific equivalent of dragging a cup through the clouds -- and lo and behold, there was P. syringae.

P. syringae is not the only biological ice nucleator, but it is the most common, and all varieties share a protein structure that provides a scaffold for free-floating water molecules. Once bound to the bacteria and to each other, the water vapors are able to freeze, and eventually fall back to Earth.

In a pure state, water vapors freeze at temperatures below -35 degrees Celsius. Nucleators allow this to happen in warmer conditions, and Christner's study found that bacteria are the most common warm-temperature nucleators of all.

Researchers never realized bacteria could be so widespread in the clouds, said Christner, because the technologies used to measure fine dust -- traditionally seen as the most important nucleator -- ignore microbe-sized particles.

"It's not that these atmospheric scientists are idiots -- they're not," he said. "But biological nucleators were not previously recognized as being that abundant or important. They're going to have to revise that."

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