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Hansel and Gretels House Fragrance Oil–Fragrance Oil Spotlight
Hansel and Gretels House Fragrance Oil is a complex, oh so yummy scent that brings the deliciousness of the season right into your finished products. Hansel and Gretels House is considered a MUST TRY by many of our customers for its amazing scent throw in candles and bath and body products. Using this cozy and memorable aroma is a great way to bring the heartwarming feel of the holidays into your home or into your traditional Christmastime merchandise.
What does Hansel and Gretels House Smell Like?
We could have easily named this fragrance oil gingerbread house, but we at Natures Garden thought the complexity of this fragrance deserved a more complex name: Hansel and Gretel's House. This fragrance is simply amazing; beginning with top notes of orange, lemon, and bergamot; middle notes of ginger, nutmeg, honey, and clove; and well-balanced with base notes of vanilla bean and cocoa. An NG Original Fragrance!
How Do Our Customers Use Hansel and Gretels House Fragrance Oil?
For any candle crafters and home scenters, Hansel and Gretels House Fragrance Oil is used in Joy, Pillar of Bliss, WOW and Soy waxes. The scent has a wonderfully strong hot and cold throw, especially in soy and Joy waxes. This fragrance oil is even used in oil burners and aroma beads. This fragrance oil can also be used to make very aromatic tarts or wax crumbles as well.
For any bath and body crafters, this fragrance oil if full of holiday spirit. The usage percent for this fragrance oil is .05% for Bath Oils, Soaps, and Bath Gels; and .01% for Lotions and Perfumes. The Vanillin Content is 2.5% so this fragrance oil may discolor your products. If you are concerned about discoloration, Vanilla White Color Stabilizer is advised by our customers to stabilize discoloration in finished products. The most common products that customers use this fragrance oil to make are: hand lotions, whipped body butters, body scrubs, melt and pour soaps, and foaming hand soaps. Finally, for those of you that are cold process soapers, this fragrance oil preformed well. Here are the official results: Slight acceleration. Discolors to a mild yellow. Scent holds well.
If you are interested in trying Hansel and Gretels House Fragrance Oil in a fun holiday project, Natures Garden has a wonderful Scented Christmas Card Recipe using this fragrance oil. You can just click on the link, or find the recipe under the Free Recipes and Classes section of the website.


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QUICKTAKE: EA and Maxis revive the long dormant SimCity franchise and debut the new GlassBox engine. In addition to sprinkling in new features, the new SimCity allows friends to build neighboring cities. Friends can collaborate to make their cities better--or make their world worse.
THE DEMO: Public demo attendees watched as one of the EA reps constructed various parts of his city from scratch. Three other EA reps were building their cities simultaneously, leading to a collaboration on an international airport. New features included Sims (complete with Sim voices), day/night cycles, and the long-awaited addition of curvy roads.
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DETAILS: Many of the city simulation mechanics from previous games return with a modern coat of paint. Building residential neighborhoods is still a big part of the game, but players can now watch as moving vans and Sims migrate towards their town. As the city grows, Sims will live out their daily routines in full. Each Sim will have their own home, personal favorite shop, and place to work.
After building a residential and commercial neighborhood, it was time to build an industrial zone. The EA rep built the industrial district away from residential areas, where pollution effects would be minimal. Factories can be built to attract workers and can also be switched to serve different functions in order to to suit the city's needs.
SimCity offers up a large world to play with, to help accommodate the game's new multiplayer feature. Friends that are building their own metropolises can interact with one another. For example, one friend can build power lines to a neighboring city to help supply them with power. Friends can also contribute all of their workers towards a common. In this case, all of the EA reps banded together to build an international airport. Each player donated workers to the project, which would in turn benefit all of them by bringing in new tourists.
Crime can be a concern in the new SimCity, which the EA rep demonstrated by building his town with little police presence. The GlassBox engine shined in this case, with graffiti and broken windows starting to litter the city. The demonstration peaked with a real-time bank robbery. Hooligans held up the bank with little trouble and made a clean getaway. The EA rep noted that these events can still happen with police in the area, but the odds of the police foiling the crime increase.
SimCity looks to be an enjoyable addition to the franchise, thanks to its updated visuals, multiplayer features, and subtle tweaks, like curved roads (something the EA rep noted was a long-requested feature). SimCity will arrive on PC in February 2013.


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First Baptist Church, N. Depot Street, Lebanon, invites you to their annual Trunk-a-Treat from 4-6 pm. Saturday, Oct. 25 in the church parking lot. Come and join us in fellowship.
Gospel concert
Central Baptist Church, Lebanon, will host a southern gospel concert featuring The Noblemen. The concert will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26. No admission. Everyone is welcome to attend. CDs will be available.
Youth rally set for Oct. 17-18
Open Arms Community Church is hosting a youth rally at 7 p.m. Oct. 17-18. The church is located at 2205 Danville Highway in Lebanon. The youth rally will feature Braxton King and Uncaged Lion.
Praise event to raise breast cancer awareness
Springfield Baptist Church, 305 Lincoln Park Road, Springfield., will host an Operation Christmas Child kick-off event for Washington and Marion County residents at 6:30 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 12. The event's guest speaker will be former shoebox recipient Timur Nesbitt.
Nesbitt grew up an orphan in Central Asia. At age 13, he received an Operation Christmas Child shoe box – the first gift he had ever received. Inside the box was a yo-yo, candy, school supplies, a letter and photo from a boy in Texas who packed the box.
Rosary Rally
There will be Rosary Rally on Saturday, October 11 at noon in front of the David R. Hourigan Government Building. All are welcome to come and pray for the needs of our world.
First Baptist Church, N. Depot St., Lebanon, and Rev. Tommy Calhoun invite you to attend their 154th anniversary at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12. The guest will be Rev. Prentice Bruton from Evergreen Baptist Church, Lexington.
Muldraugh Hill Baptist Church will be celebrating their 140th anniversary on
Sunday morning, Nov. 9. Joan Stansbury will be our speaker for the
morning worship service.
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2010-08-11 / Events & Calendar
Stop World Hunger to host tennis tournament Aug. 28
Stop World Hunger, Inc. announced that its annual tennis tournament has been named 2010 Innovative Tennis Program of the Year by the Long Island Region United States Tennis Association. Recreational tennis players from more than 50 communities across Long Island are expected to participate in the 30th Annual Stop World Hunger Tennis Tournament.
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Here we are again, well into another fall season, which means football is in full sway.
Football still is America's game, but there are cracks appearing here and there. At the forefront is the discussion of concussions.
Our son Steve did an interview recently for "Frontline." They used some of this interview for their show, "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis." If you missed this informational program, you can catch interviews by going to PBS.org.
Football is a game I am well-acquainted with since dating my husband Grit and then marrying him during his senior year at BYU in 1960.
When Grit first started law school at the University of Utah that same year, he had feelers from professional teams as to his interest. Back then, football did not have the cache or the promise of fame and fortune that it does today. After a fairly short discussion, both of us felt his answer should be to stay in law school. In fact, I told him I didn't want anything more to do with football after watching him play his final year for BYU and emerging reasonably healthy.
What a laugh to think of it now, because football has dominated my life.
Our four sons loved football and played for BYU like their father, although our youngest son, Jim, switched to lacrosse. Our son Steve eventually reached the pinnacle of football success by being elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
Because of this high level of involvement in sports, we are often asked if we think kids should be playing football because of the risks.
This is a tricky question that needs to be answered with the most important question: Do they want to play, or do you want them to play?
There are many valuable lessons that can be learned when our children participate in extracurricular activities of any kind, be it band, drama or football, if it is something they want to do.
Kids need to be kept busy using all the energy they have in positive ways. If they aren't participating in extracurricular activities, they may be participating in unorganized and unsavory types of activities. They are going to be active doing something possibly more risky than football.
Valuable lessons are learned being part of a team and learning how to hone your skills and have other people depend on you to perform well. Athletics and other skill learning promotes self-esteem, which is good for growing kids as long as they don't put it before scholastic achievement.
In our case, we found that when they were involved in a sport or activity, they managed their time well and did better in school. This included our daughter's experiences also.
During Steve's interview, he said, "And we love football. I loved what it taught me. I loved the things I had to face, just the person that I became because I faced fears and anxieties and challenges and overcame them. It's self-defining in so many ways, and it takes every bit of you."
The problem comes when the danger overrides the worth. Concussions happen just by falling down, but that doesn't make it wise to be cavalier. This is the scary part of the concussion question. This is where the parent must do some investigation. They must do some serious thinking on their own and decide for themselves.
The PBS program is sobering. However, I had to wonder why the featured people ended up with the trauma they had when my football husband and sons and many thousands of others have not. Some may have been hit harder and more frequently. Possibly, they were hit again before their brain fully healed.
There are other things we just don't know. Does genetics play a role? What about steroid and drug abuse?
These and other questions need to be answered before we can throw the baby out with the bath water.
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Is it just me or do they have a much better choice and much lower prices in the US then we have in the UK? (ie. double the price?! Half the choice?!).
I found a great website for people don't have their own Muses, ISHOP AMERICA is great.
You can buy ANYTHING from the US, using their online form, and they will receive the item and send it out to you wherever you are in the world.
There are so many great websites to buy from in the US but just watch the prices for shipping and of course the dreaded customs charges (applicable for anything over £18.)
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota man accused of killing two teenagers who broke into his home last year has been charged with first-degree murder.
A grand jury indicted Byron Smith under seal Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder with premeditation. The new charges were announced Thursday.
The 64-year-old Smith initially was charged with two counts of second-degree murder in the November deaths of 17-year-old Nick Brady and 18-year-old Haile Kifer.
In Minnesota, a first-degree murder charge must be issued by grand jury indictment.
If convicted, Smith faces a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors say Smith shot the teens multiple times and left their bodies in his Little Falls house for a day before authorities were notified.
One of Smith's attorneys, Adam Johnson, says Smith was acting in self-defense.
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Latest update : 2011-12-16
Syria: The Wake-up call
Syrians defy a grim spike in bloodshed as they turn out to mark nine months of uprising. Could the tipping point be near? Also, Iraq has to hold it together on its own after the quiet exit of U.S. forces.
Nahida Nakad, France 24
Marcus Mabry, International Herald Tribune
Dave Clark, Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Thierry Arnaud, BFM-TV
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I'll probably get some criticism for this one, but here goes:
First, I realize that a good blowjob depends on many things, and age may or may not be one of them.
BUT I have noticed in my vast experience that some of the best bjs I have ever had were from much older men. I think that's because:
A. They've had more experience
B. They have perfected their technique
C. They tend to be totally into pleasing you and may not be looking to get off themselves. Their pleasure seems to come from your pleasure.
Senior suckers, I salute you!


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Why is that Forest Red and that Cloud Blue?
How to Interpret a False-Color Satellite Image
Chances are, you have a camera near you as you read this—in the smart phone in your pocket or on the tablet or computer you're using to view this page. Some of you might have a 35 mm film or digital camera nearby. And at some point this week, you probably looked through photos posted by friends or even strangers on the Internet. In our photo-saturated world, it's natural to think of the images on the Earth Observatory as snapshots from space. But most aren't.
Though they may look similar, photographs and satellite images are fundamentally different. A photograph is made when light is focused and captured on a light-sensitive surface (such as film or a CCD). A satellite image is created by combining measurements of the intensity of certain wavelengths of light, both visible and invisible to human eyes.
Why does the difference matter? When we see a photo where the colors are brightened or altered, we think of it as artful (at best) or manipulated (at worst). We also have that bias when we look at satellite images that don't represent the Earth's surface as we see it. "That forest is red," we think, "so the image can't possibly be real."
In reality, a red forest is just as real as a dark green one. Satellites collect information beyond what human eyes can see, so images made from other wavelengths of light look unnatural to us. We call these images "false-color," and to understand what they mean, it's necessary to understand exactly what a satellite image is.
Satellite instruments gather an array of information about the Earth. Some of it is visual; some of it is chemical (such as gases in the atmosphere); some of it is physical (sensing topography). In fact, remote sensing scientists and engineers are endlessly creative about what they can measure from space, developing satellites with a wide variety of tools to tease information out of our planet. Some methods are active, bouncing light or radio waves off the Earth and measuring the energy returned; lidar and radar are good examples. The majority of instruments are passive; that is, they record light reflected or emitted by Earth's surface.
These observations can be turned into data-based maps that measure everything from plant growth or cloudiness. But data can also become photo-like natural-color images or false color images. This article describes the process used to transform satellite measurements into images.


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Hundreds of Americans lose their jobs every year to cheap foreign labor, but if more American's would buy and use products made here in the USA those jobs could be saved.
Robert Miller works for LM Sheet Metal out of Loves Park, but this father of six says working in the manufacturing industry means never knowing if he'll have a job tomorrow.
"I've always been worried about my job. For the last three to four years the way the economy is going." Said Miller
LM Sheet Metal uses American products and labor but American consumers aren't so loyal and that's why so many American's are now out of work.
Sheet Metal Workers Business Manager Brad Glidden says "You'll have to stop it. You'll stop it when you lose your job. When you don't have a job to go to and then you'll be the one that thinks about maybe we should have bought an American made car."
It seems simple to buy American made products and it often comes down to just a few dollars difference. Yet Americans continue to buy foreign products.
Dan Conness is the Executive Director for the Northwestern Illinois Building and Construction Trades he says, "The low price of something doesn't always give the big picture of what kind of value you're getting."
And Glidden agrees, "If we all took enough time to research what we're buying and if we bought from our neighbors we'd all be working in this country."
That is the hope of Sheet Metal Connectors based here in Rockford. Like LM Sheet Metal the company only uses American made products. Something Manager Terry Englund says he's proud of.
"USA built is quality built and that's what our company was built on. The reputation of selling a quality product and that's what we stand behind."
The best way to make sure you're buying an American made product is to look at the label or the box, but there are also several websites you can visit that will tell you where you can purchase American made products.
You can go to www.howtobuyamerican.com, www.madeinamerica.com or www.buyamerican.com


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – Wendell Scott and Rusty Wallace are among the five new nominees announced Wednesday for the 2013 NASCAR Hall of Fame class.
Also added to the nominee list was Anne Bledsoe France, wife of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. She was NASCAR's first treasurer and secretary, and is the first woman nominated for the Hall of Fame.
Engine builder Ray Fox also was nominated, as was sponsor executive Ralph Seagraves.
Scott won the 1963 race at Speedway Park in Jacksonville, Fla., for the only victory of his 495 career starts. A former taxi driver, he became the first black driver to become a full-time competitor in NASCAR.
He ranked 33rd on the list for career starts, and accumulated 20 top-five finishes and 147 top-10 finishes.
Scott was inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame in 1999, and NASCAR currently awards 12 scholarships per year in his name to students from historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic-serving institutions.
"I always admired Wendell for doing as much as he did with as little as he had to do it with," Hall of Famer Ned Jarrett said. "He never had top notch equipment. I felt that he would have won more races if he had the same backing that I had at the highlight of my career. I am very pleased to see him included on the nominee list."
Wallace was the 1989 Cup champion, and is eighth on the career list with 55 victories.
Wallace finished second at Atlanta in his Cup debut in 1980 driving for Roger Penske. He joined the series full-time in 1984, won rookie of the year, and won his first race in 1986 at Bristol. He was especially adept on the circuit's short tracks winning 25 times at Bristol, Martinsville, North Wilkesboro and Richmond.
Wallace is currently an analyst for ESPN.
"There are just so many people that have made huge contributions to the sport, that to be recognized like this is just really humbling," Wallace said. "This sport has done so much for me and I hope that I've been able to give a little back over the years."
The Hall of Fame voting panel will elect five members from the list of 25 nominees into next year's class on May 23.
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Offense Carries Rebels Into Sunday Play
May 31, 2003
TEMPE, Ariz. - Brent Johnson went 3-for-6 with two runs scored and two RBI to lead the UNLV Rebels to a 16-10 victory over the New Mexico State Aggies Saturday night in an elimination game of the NCAA Baseball Regional at Tempe Diablo Stadium.
The bottom five hitters of the UNLV batting order (Eric Nielsen, Johnson, Stephen Ghutzman, Peter White, Robert VanKirk) each tabbed multi-hit games and combined to go 11-for-22 (.500) in the game. Leadoff hitter Garett Shitanishi also went 3-for-7 with three RBI in the victory.
UNLV lived to see another day in the NCAA Tournament, but will have to beat host Arizona State (52-12) twice on Sunday to advance to the Super Regionals. The Rebels improved to 47-16 with the victory after scoring 38 runs in the two games on Saturday. New Mexico State went 0-2 Saturday to end its 2003 season at 43-18.
UNLV freshman starter Matthew Luca (5-0) lasted only a third of an inning, leaving the game with an undisclosed injury. Luca, who threw a no-hitter vs. San Diego State on March 28, gave up two runs on one hit in his brief appearance. Left-handed reliever Giovanni Pupo recorded the win to improve to 5-1 on the year. Pupo gave up nine hits and six runs in five and a third innings.
New Mexico State starter Christian Jackson was saddled with the loss surrendering 11 hits and nine runs in just two and a third innings of work. Jackson ended the season with a 5-2 record. In NMSU's two games Saturday the Aggie pitching staff gave up 31 runs.
NMSU jumped out to the early lead with two runs in the first inning. The Rebels and Aggies exchanged big innings with a four-run second for UNLV and a three-run bottom half of the second for NMSU. UNLV would take the lead for good with a five-run third frame.
Game Notes: NMSU All-American first baseman Billy Becher recorded four more RBI to give him 118 on the season, tying for sixth place in the NCAA single-season record books with Brandon Larson (LSU, 1997) and Frank Fazzini (Florida State, 1985).
UNLV 16, New Mexico State 10 (5/31/2003 at Tempe, Ariz.) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNLV................ 045 002 500 - 16 17 0 (47-16) New Mexico State.... 230 003 002 - 10 13 1 (43-18) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Pitchers: UNLV - LUCA; PUPO(1); CLATTERBUCK(6); THOMPSON(8); GUERRA(9). New Mexico State - JACKSON; ALLEN(3); COPPINGER(4); SEVERE(7). Win-PUPO(5-1) Loss-JACKSON(5-2) T-3:47 A-646 HR NMSU - BARTON (2).


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A guy at work told me there is a website where I can find money I'm owed that I didn't even know about. Is this a scam? — Marcy
It's hard to believe, but over $40 billion (yes, billion) is sitting in state coffers waiting for you to claim your property. What type of property? Anything from certificates of deposits and stock dividends to utility deposits, uncashed payroll checks and life insurance policies and refunds.
I'm really disciplined about maintaining organized financial records, so I was surprised when I searched my own name on www.unclaimed.org and found dividends worth $53 from a stock I held more than 10 years ago. It was more fun than when I take my jeans out of the dryer and find a $20 bill in the pocket! The best part is it took only a few minutes. I've also visited www.missingmoney.com to do a multi-state search. When searching these sites, make sure you check all the states in which you ever lived and all the names you have ever used.
Beware of websites, however, that charge a fee for something you can do for free. While not necessarily a "scam," why pay a third party to do something you can do just as quickly yourself? If a site tries to charge you a fee, don't use it.
If you want to protect your property from becoming lost in the future, check your accounts at least once a year. And if you change addresses, make sure to inform entities that hold your money. Further, I recommend not leaving your 401(k) with an old employer. If the company is acquired or goes out of business, it might be time-consuming to track down your money. So when you leave a job, consider transferring your assets from a 401(k) to a Rollover IRA. You'll have more investment choices, potentially lower fees and know where your money is. If you think you might have a missing 401(k), another site to check is www.unclaimedretirementbenefits.com.
Happy hunting!
Laurie Itkin is the founder of The Options Lady and a financial advisor with Coastwise Capital Group. To order a copy of her book "Every Woman Should Know Her Options: Invest Your Way to Financial Empowerment," go to www.theoptionslady.com.
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News > Latest NewsWalk News | Sponsor & Foundation News | News in the Parkinson's Disease Community
Poem by Maryum "May May" Ali Read at the 18th Parkinson's Unity Walk
(May 8, 2012) We would like to repost the poem May May Ali wrote and read on the day of the 18th Parkinson's Unity Walk. This has become somewhat of a tradition and the Unity Walk considers May May Ali our Official Unity Walk Poet.
"Dopamine Dreams"
By Maryum "May May" Ali
April 28, 2012
Everyone here let's join united with style.
Despite living with Parkinson's, we're walking 1.4 miles.
Thanks to supporters, doctors, families, and friends.
Fighting to Knock Out PD for a victorious end.
But until then hold your heads high to the sky.
Expand your knowledge to improve quality of life.
You may be slower, have rigidity or a masked face.
But never forget all of your spirits are great.
So, maintain that positive thinking to defeat thoughts that are blue.
And believe in a cure. Dopamine Dreams will come true.
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BOULDER -- When it happened the first time, Julia Box figured it simply was her turn to deal with an injury, an inevitable hurdle in the life of any athlete.
When the exact same thing happened again -- to the other knee, no less -- Box entertained legitimate concerns whether her passion for swimming might eventually land her in a wheelchair.
Suffering two dislocated kneecaps in quick succession would be enough to make any young athlete reconsider their vocation. Not Box, however. The sophomore from Fairview has overcome the affliction that first came to light last summer through a dogged physical therapy routine, and she will be one of the driving forces behind Fairview's aim at reaching the top five of the Class 5A state swim finals when the meet begins Friday at the Edora Pool and Ice Center in Fort Collins.
"I've been so nervous for this weekend. More than I've ever been before," Box said. "I will definitely be doing my exercises all the way through state. It really is a constant worry and it's one thing that is on my plate that I guess will always be there."
Box's knee ailments began last summer, when her right leg became tangled with another swimmer's legs during a routine workout session. Box suffered a partially dislocated kneecap that hampered her for much of the remainder of the summer.
Box believed the issue had been resolved when her club season began this past fall, but during her team's first meet it happened once again. Except this time there was no contact, and it occurred in her other knee. Even though she wasn't completely incapacitated, Box was understandably concerned when she consulted with a doctor.
It turned out a slight foible in the structure of her knees makes Box prone to dislocated kneecaps. And there is little she can do to remedy the situation except indulge in physical therapy and hope for the best.
"I could walk on it a little bit and it wasn't like it was totally out," Box explained. "I realized I'd probably have to do physical therapy for the rest of my life. It's frustrating and it's a bummer, but you just have to deal with it. The whole team has been super-supportive through the whole thing."
Box's ailing knees will need to be in perfect working order if Fairview hopes to make its charge to the top five of the team standings, particularly given the uncertainty surrounding how much of a contribution the Knights will receive from senior Abbie Houck.
The 2011 state champion in the 500 freestyle, Houck has not competed in more than a month due to a shoulder injury and is entered for state in just one individual event, the 100 freestyle. Fairview has a replacement for Houck in the 200 freestyle who is more than capable in senior Northwestern recruit Lacey Smith, and the Knights have qualified a program-record 28 individuals for state, surpassing the former mark of 25 Fairview recorded in 2007 and 2009.
While Smith is a top-eight candidate in her two individual events, Fairview will rely heavily on its freshmen and sophomores like Box in order to keep pace with Fossil Ridge, Cherry Creek, and the Missy Franklin-led squad from Regis Jesuit. Box placed sixth in the backstroke last year and 10th in the butterfly.
"I still don't think she's 100 percent, but her butterfly seems to be coming back fastest," Fairview head coach Bob Smartt said. "I think now she's making lemonade out of lemons. She's come back with a stronger attitude and love for the sport. I think with the layoff she's had a chance to think more about the sport and her future. I think she got fired up and became more motivated to come back."
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Brigham Young's Beehive House
Dated 1894 by Strohmeyer and Wyman.
Found in "Talks With T.R. - From the Diaries of John J. Leary, Jr." Published by Houghton Mifflin, 1920.
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7 comments:
- Lynn said...
OK. This is pretty cool. No, scratch that. WAY cool!
- May 11, 2010 at 11:28 AM
- Wendy said...
Beehive house still looks great today, the surrounding city, so different. Fun to see this photo.
- May 11, 2010 at 1:35 PM
- Tricia said...
So which is the Beehive House, the one with all the peaked eaves above the windows?
- May 11, 2010 at 4:11 PM
- Kathryn said...
Oh, I college stereoscope cards. This is soooo cool! Is there any way you could put this one up for a prize? :-)
- May 11, 2010 at 4:48 PM
- Firewing3333 said...
Pardon me for asking, but what exactly are stereoscope cards?
- May 11, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- unmoderated said...
Here you go:
I'll have a giveaway with this photo on Friday.
Someone remind me.
- May 11, 2010 at 7:08 PM
- GemmaBeads said...
I loved my tour of the Beehive house. The card reminds me of my grandmother's stereoscope viewer. I haven't seen it since I was really little.
- May 11, 2010 at 10:13 PM
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DOWNERS GROVE – The Downers Grove Village Council is considering expanding its cost-sharing program to help tax-exempt organizations such as churches improve their stormwater infrastructure to lower stormwater fees.
The village currently has a cost-sharing program, but the program's budget makes it more conducive for assisting smaller projects found on residential or private lots, as opposed to large church properties where the improvements would be more extensive, Mayor Martin Tully said Monday.
Once certain stormwater improvements are added to a property, the village also offers incentives and credits towards the stormwater fee for the property owner.
The cost-share discussion took place during a budget workshop meeting Saturday morning.
Churches have been lobbying the village council for most of the year in protest of the new stormwater fee.
Tully said he supports possibly expanding the cost-share program because it allows the village to work directly with property owners who feel burdened by the fee, as opposed to categorically exempting or removing types of properties from financially contributing to the village's stormwater infrastructure.
This year, Downers Grove introduced the stormwater utility fee that charges property owners directly to pay for stormwater sewer projects. Previously, those projects — such as replacing a stormwater detention basin — were funded by village property taxes. The village says the fee is more equitable because its based on how much water a property displaces.
For most property owners, the change is close to cost-neutral; the village cut property taxes nearly $2 million this year to account for the separate fee. But for property-owning nonprofits, which are exempt from property taxes, it is a new expense.
Village council members said a general consensus showed a lack of support for two other options to lessen the cost of the fee on tax-exempt properties.
One of the options that did not garner support would freeze the fee at its current rate for property-tax exempt organizations. It would continue to increase annually for other property owners until 2028, when revenues would be expected to meet village-set standards.
The other option, which did not see general support from the council, would have the village pay the debt service from a 2008 bond from property taxes, and not the stormwater utility fee, as it does currently.
Councilman David Olsen said he supports looking into the expanded cost-sharing program, and didn't support the other two options.
"To make large scale changes at this point I think would be a disservice to the program," he said Monday.


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Crater pitchers Nolan Bastendorff and Dylan Pearce combined to limit North Medford to seven hits in the twin bill and the Comets used some timely, opportunistic offense to earn a Southern Oregon Hybrid baseball sweep on Saturday.
Bastendorff struck out seven, walked two and allowed four hits in a complete-game effort to help Crater to a 6-1 victory in the opener at North Medford High. In the nightcap, Pearce held the Black Tornado to three hits with a career-high 11 strikeouts and two walks for a 4-3 triumph.
In last weekend's sweep of South Medford, North Medford blasted 22 hits in 11 innings and nine of those went for extra bases.
"Both those kids did a great job of being able to locate today and mix pitches," said Crater head coach Jay Campbell. "That's the name of the game. They both were effective early in the count and gave us some opportunities to call some different pitches in different situations and that was huge, obviously."
"I felt like we were able to keep them on their heels a little bit today," added Campbell, "and it was all by the ability of our kids to get ahead and throw breaking balls and offspeed pitches for strikes. Anytime you can mix it up like that and add in location, you have a good chance to win."
Saturday's sweep snapped a four-game winning streak by second-ranked North Medford (13-4, 4-2 SOH) that included a 7-3 win over Crater on Tuesday to open this week's three-game series.The Comets, who played nonleague teams Ashland and Eagle Point last week, improved to 11-6 and 2-1 after turning things around from a shaky performance earlier this week.
"After Tuesday we were not happy with our approach and we knew that we had three days to get a lot better and that was the whole thing for us," said Campbell. "We knew we had the ability to go over there (to North Medford) and get two wins but we had to play well in all three aspects of the game because North's a very good ballclub."
Crater struck first in the opener with a pair of runs in its first at-bat. Tyler Aplin smacked a leadoff double and after Evan Erskine was hit by a pitch, both baserunners advanced on a balk by starting pitcher Micah Brown. Anthony Martin followed with an RBI groundout and Ty Fox plated a second run with a sacrifice fly.
North Medford senior leader Taylor Raff answered with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the first against Bastendorff but scoring chances were few and far between after that as the junior right-hander buckled down.
After the Comets tacked on a pair of runs in the fourth to go up 4-1, Bastendorff got out of a jam in the bottom of the frame with runners at second and third when he induced a pop-up by Jared Evans and then struck out Josh Berman.
Crater broke the game open in the fifth with a two-run single by senior Taylor Pardee.
"We were able to get timely hits and solid defense and good pitching and those three things are what we focus on for every game," said Campbell.
Aplin finished 2-for-2 in the opener for Crater and reached base all four times, while David Crofton was 2-for-2 for North Medford.
The Black Tornado built a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the fifth in Game 2 after Troy Fowler reached on a throwing error by Fox, Raff was walked and Austin Zavala belted a two-run double off Pearce.
The Comets immediately answered with three runs to regain the advantage in the sixth, with a throwing error by Berman allowing Aplin to reach safely before an RBI double by Martin. North Medford then brought in Colton Westfall to relieve Crofton on the mound but a throwing error by Brown on a grounder by Fox allowed Martin to tie the game at 3-all.
Blake Fahndrich followed with a fielder's choice to Raff at shortstop but the relay throw to first on the double-play attempt by Brown missed its mark and allowed Fahndrich to advance to second. Taylor Tibbets then followed with a single to center field for the go-ahead run.
The sophomore Pearce made all that hold up as he retired the last seven hitters in a row, five by strikeout.
Crater 200 220 0 — 6 6 0
North Medford 100 000 0 — 1 4 3
Bastendorff and Aplin; Brown, B. Pearson (5) and Zavala. W — Bastendorff (3-1). L — Brown (2-1). 2B — C: Fox, Aplin. HR — NM: Raff (1).
Crater 010 003 0 — 4 3 1
North Medford 010 020 0 — 3 3 4
Pearce and Aplin; Crofton, Westfall (6), Gillis (7) and Zavala. W — Pearce (3-0). L — Westfall (6-1). 2B — C: Martin, Fox; NM: Zavala.
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Comets trip up No. 2 Tornado
Crater pitchers Nolan Bastendorff and Dylan Pearce combined to limit North Medford to seven hits in the twin bill and the Comets used some timely, opportunistic offense to earn a Southern Oregon Hybrid baseball sweep on Saturday.


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Kidding aside, is this a 'nail' in the coffin of scalable Ruby? 5 years ago people were saying the same thing about PHP scaling but Facebook has done a rather nice job of making it scale. Twitter was supposed to be the poster child of how awesome Ruby and RoR was.
Difference is, Facebook is still using php, Twitter is going toScala.
It's funny you mention that on a day that facebook has been up and down like a yo-yo.
> Ruby is a language. Languages usually don't have problems with scalability.
Quite right. An application with 8 million users will have scalability challenges regardless of what type of language opcodes are being executed. At some point it's all about architecture.
Ruby is a language. Languages usually don't have problems with scalability.
So you are saying Visual Basic and C are going to have the same scaling challenges and that they scale equally well? Well all I can say it pass that magical crack pipe cause I want a toke too.
Visual Basic was so stupid that Microsoft could have easily made it almost as fast as C - if only they had wanted. I guess they had other priorities.
I must ask one thing: Have you ever heard of Self 93? They made it so good fifteen years ago that it topped at half the speed of C...a language where everything (!) was a message send and *anything* could have been redefined at *any* moment.
If someone threw the necessary money at Ruby, it could have easily the performance of a modern Smalltalk implementation,
If someone threw the necessary money at Ruby, it could have easily the performance of a modern Smalltalk implementation, as Ruby is essentially Smalltalk in diguise.
You might be interested in StrongTalk [strongtalk.org]. It's a Smalltalk-80 rewrite with optional strong typing and pervasive JIT, meaning that it's incredibly fast and robust. It is, unfortunately, Windows only at the moment, but it's all BSD licensed --- VM, image, source browser and all --- and they're looking for people to help with a Linux port.
The article is about Ruby on Rails. Ruby on Rails is not just a langauge. It is a lanaguage and a web framework. Frameworks very much affect your scalability.
Everyone knows that Ruby has performance issues. The fact is that the performance problems are not problems for short-lived operations like serving web pages. The article even backs up the claim.
Ruby scales just as well as every other language. The article never once claimed that Ruby does not scale. It claimed Ruby had performance problems; a topic mostly unrelated to scaling.
If Ruby users were in denial about the problems with Ruby, there would not be several projects working on solving the problems. Howe
I agree, but wish to add a comment about vertical and horizontal scaling.
Ruby and Python have poor multi-threading. They don't scale well on multi-CPU platforms.
from the interview:
Robey Pointer: Green threads don't use the actual operating systemâ(TM)s kernel threads.
So, a Ruby application can't scale well vertically -- one can't just upgrade the machine with more CPUs for example.
At the same time, no language is inherently prohibiting horizontal scaling, if application design provides for it
Jane Q. Public: Either you didn't read the comments of that blog or you're spreading FUD. Here is a comment from Alex Payne from that article:
Hoo boy. First of all, I hope you've had a chance to read my general reply to the articles about my Web 2.0 Expo talk [1] and this response to a vocal member of the Ruby community [2]. I sound like a pretty unreasonable guy filtered through the tech press and Reddit comments, but I hope less so in my own words.
Secondly, the quote at the top of your post is from my coworker, Steve Jenson, who's been participating in the discussion on this post.
On JRuby: as Steve said, we can't actually boot our main Rails app on JRuby. That's a blocker. Incidentally, if you know of anyone who has a large JRuby deployment, we'd be interested in that first-hand experience. If you don't, it might be a little early to say it would solve all our problems.
It's also incorrect to say that the way JRuby and Scala make use of the JVM is exactly the same. Much like our other decisions haven't been arbitrary, our decision to use Scala over other JVM-hosted languages was based on investigation.
On our culture: if you'd like to know about how we write code, or how our code has evolved over time, just ask us. We're all on Twitter, of course, but most of the engineers also have blogs and publish their email addresses. There's no need to speculate. Just ask. There's not a "raging debate" internally because we make our engineering decisions like engineers: we experiment, and base our decisions on the results of those experiments.
It's definitely true that Starling and Evented Starling are relatively immature queuing systems. I was eager to get them out of our stack. So, as Steve said, we put all the MQ's you think we'd try through their paces not too long ago, and we knocked one after another over in straightforward benchmarks. Some, like RabbitMQ, just up and died. Others chugged on, but slowly. Where we ran into issues, we contacted experts and applied best practices, but in the end, we found that Kestrel fit our particular use cases better and more reliably. This was not the hypothesis we had going into those benchmarks, but it's what the data bore out.
We get a lot of speculation to the tune of "why haven't those idiots tried x, it's so obvious!" Generally, we have tried x, as well as y and z. Funnily enough, I was actually pushing to get us on RabbitMQ, but our benchmarks showed that it just wouldn't work for us, which is a shame, because it advertises some sexy features.
Personally, I'm extremely NIH-averse; I research open source and commercial solutions before cutting a new path. In the case of our MQ, one of our engineers actually wrote Kestrel in his free time, so it was bit more like we adopted an existing open source project than rolled our own. Pretty much the last thing we want to be doing is focusing on problems outside our domain. As it so happens, though, moving messages around quickly is our business. I don't think it's crazy-go-nuts that we've spent some time on an MQ.
I hope my colleagues and I have been able to answer some of your questions. As I said, in the future, please consider emailing us so we can share our experience. Then, we can have a public discussion about facts, not speculation. Perhaps, as commenter sethladd suggested, the onus is on us to produce a whitepaper or presentation about our findings so as to stave off such speculation. Time constraints are the main reason why we haven't done so.
[1] http://al3x.net/2009/04/04/reasoned-technical-discussion.html [al3x.net]
[2] http://blog.obiefernandez.com/content/2009/04/my-reasoned-response-about-scala-at-twitter.html#IDComment18212539 [obiefernandez.com]
Never was a nail except for the Ruby community that was in denial.
Well, yeah, no kidding. Thats because all I see is an endless circle of people repeating what they heard other people saying:
1) All the cool kids (us) know it won't scale. If you disagree, then you're not cool. Ha ha, thats our proof it doesn't scale.
2) I don't use it, never used it, never will use it, don't know anyone using it, but I am certain it won't work.
3) If it won't work on the worlds biggest websites, I can't use it on the departmental intranet, because I'm as cool as the worlds biggest website
Difference is, Facebook is still using php, Twitter is going toScala.
PHP was a mature environment when facebook was launched. RoR was (and still is to a certain extent) a fad environment, popular primarily because of its differentness. People who build sites on a platform because it's the latest thing are less likely to stick with that platform than people who choose a platform that has a solid reputation but is boring. Scala, at a guess, is going to be the next fad platform. Like Ruby, it has some interesting ideas behind it, but it needs a lot of development before we can consider a stable platform for serious applications, I think.
RoR was (and still is to a certain extent) a fad environment, popular primarily because of its differentness.
Huh, I generally use it because it has really good ORM and migrations, and I really like the syntax (coming from Objective-C it's pretty slick. I also used the PHP language when I was starting out, but one day it tried to insist that $myArr[0] and $myArr["0"] actually pointed to the same object, and I have refused to deal with it ever since; I also got tired of typing str_sub_case_insensitive_for_real_safe(haystack, needle) -- or is it needle, haystack? And is this one of those prank functions that fails to substitute the value but still returns a value that evals true? Or if I leave out one of those underscores, am I in fact calling a function that behaves almost exactly the same way but fails under difficult-to-reproduce circumstances? Maybe they've fixed this and the other sundry atrocities? Maybe they've stopped trying to make it into Perl, as compiled by a C++ compiler, and tried fashioning it into an actual dynamic language? I know, I know, some people like PHP, but I think arguments for the superiority of PHP over Ruby (or Python or Scala or Lisp or WebObjects or Perl6 or really anything else) are going to rest completely on the skills of the Zend interpreter writers, and almost never on the quality/readability/maintainability of the code, or the ease of the development process. You can write good safe code in PHP, that is true, but it isn't very ergonomic.
You know, RoR is really good at replacing those old Paradox and FMP database systems. I can see how Facebook might prefer PHP, but people trying to replace little inventory/business processes systems generally only need to support a few dozen users, and don't have an army of developers to keep it running. The Universe is big enough to accommodate the utility of Ruby on Rails and the Twitter developer's stupidity.
As much I do like coding PHP I completely agree with you. The fact that $arr[0] is the same as $arr['0'] is just insane and that each function has a different order of needle, haystack, replace, etc is just unbearable
But unless I find years of time and unlimited money there is no way I can ditch all my php code and go to ruby or python or anything else
The fact that $arr[0] is the same as $arr['0'] is just insane
I'm not even sure if that was what it was, I think the problem I was having on top of that was that I would pop something off the head of $arr and sometimes it would be $arr[0] and sometimes it would be $arr[1], and this is crazy, but I dug in and low and behold I was actually storing values in the array to ["0"] and ["1"], and since arrays and hashes are the same thing in PHP (this is the real sin), it did what it thought was right, and created
Scala also keeps Java's strong static typing and adds functional language features. I don't think it needs any development at all to be adapted for mainstream use.
Scala is a great thing, now what it needs is equally great tooling (i.e. IDE support, including refactoring, on the same level as we have for Java). And it's getting there - there is an Eclipse [scala-lang.org] plugin, and a NetBeans [netbeans.org] one - but it definitely needs more work and polish.
The payoff would be huge, though. Right now, as far as languages go, C# is far more advanced than Java. But Scala is equally more advanced than C# (the only thing on
While Facebook uses PHP where Twitter uses Rails, Facebook uses a plethora of languages to make the whole system work. So Twitter really isn't going to Scala any more than Facebook is going to Erlang. Which is the say that they use the best tool for the job, not one tool for every job.
They should have just used Java. Wait--
Well... just to name a few:
This, of course, does not make Twitter a panacea, but it certainly makes it int
Wow, Demi Moore? Really? Now that's an influential user!
Not really, but given that I was trying to give a sense of the breadth of the people interested as users, commentators and misc. interested parties, I think she fits in the list just fine.
Having a marketing team that makes tweets for you is completely different than being a twitter user yourself.
Of the people you listed, how many subscribe to twitter feeds?
Demi Moore [twitter.com]
Who cares?
An absolute fuckton shitload of people?
Scala looks and feels like Java with a tiny bit of Python thrown in for good measure. I'm really not certain why anyone would use it over, say, groovy or just plain Java.
The really odd part is trying to imagine Scala as a reasonable replacement for Ruby or any other higher level language.
It's new! It's hot! it's what all the kids are doing! It's what crappy programmers can pretend to adapt to instead of writing solid code!
I'm confused - how does a language "scale"? Can you suddenly have 1 billion items in your array instead of 100 million? If that is indeed the case then like the parent said: it is crappy coding and/or design.
I'm fairly confident you can do twitter in whatever language you want and if designed properly it will scale in the proper sense of the word.
I'm confused - how does a language "scale"?
"Scalability" is a multi-faceted term. Most people think of "vertical scaling of the servers" when they hear the term "scalable". Which is to say that the code can handle a higher transaction load on a beefier server.
But there is quite a bit more to scalability than that. There's horizontal scalability of the servers. i.e. Does the software support plugging more boxes in to handle a greater load? Then there's the development scalability. i.e. Are the concerns of th
Scala compiles to Java Bytecode and runs on an unmodified Java Virtual Machine. It can call any Java Library and you can write code in Scala that is callable from Java.
Scala offers much more than simple syntactic sugar. Take a look at their documentation. Especially the nice support for embedded DSLs is VERY interesting.
Or just jruby which has proven itself to be quite able to handle under load. From what I understand they had issues with their Message Queue which could have benefited from the native threads in jruby. But we are all speculating on what really is going on with Twitter.
And what does scala have over say erlang for concurrency and performance?
The combination of static typing, type inference and concise syntax for higher-order functions give you a lot that Groovy and Java just fall short on.
In Java's case, it's the simple fact that you can't reasonably implement HOF's like filter, map, etc. without using anonymous inner classes. If you use anonymous inner classes, you end up with a ratio of like 8:1 of boilerplate:relvant expressions. Believe me, I've tried it. If you want to see just how baroque it gets, take a look at functionaljava.org [functionaljava.org].
Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip and using the latest tool so that they remain popular, than they do about having a site that stays up 7 days a week.
Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip
Not to be too pedantic, but doesn't that sum up Twitter as a whole?
Twitter's developers care more about being cool and hip and using the latest tool so that they remain popular, than they do about having a site that stays up 7 days a week.
Exactly. Scalability problems arise from poor implementation, not from language choices. Scalable platforms have been implemented in the past with PHP, ASP, Perl, C, Java, and I'm sure with Ruby, Python, or your favorite new language. Twitter is a massive-scale site, they should be looking at deep engineering, not a buzzword platform that promises easy scalability for dummies.
Scala may help them alleviate problems they've hit in the Rails framework. What will help them with the problems they hit in Scala?
What will help them with the problems they hit in Scala?
Seriously speaking, when you cannot have long lived processes due to memory leaks, you're having a language/platform problem. When you only have green threads, you're having a language/platform problem. Can you architect around it? Probably, but it may be sub-optimal, and bottom line is, why bother when there are better tools available?
According to the rebuttals in the comments of the blog post in one of my sibling posts here, part of Twitter's scalability problem was poor implementation of the Ruby interpreter. Lots of small objects cause the heap to get fragmented and eventually it runs out of memory. Java interpreters have better GC and you can swap out different GC algorithms in some of them.
Why does everyone assume the people at Twitter are a bunch of newbies who don't know about deep engineering? Is it just because their analysis didn't lead them to your preferred buzzword?
replace one language that wasn't tested on that scale and replace it with another one that wasn't tested on that scale.
Good thinking~
Oh look, twitter is down..again.
As the joke I posted above insinuates, Scala runs on top of the Java platform. And unlike Ruby, it focuses on the use of the platform's features. So the platform is more than tested enough. Why they feel the need to use Scala rather than straight-up Java is one of life's great mysteries. But for now, their platform should be fine.
Whether the code they write is scalable and holds up under loads or not is an entirely different topic.
Maybe they use Scala because writing Java code is painful by comparison. Tons of boilerplate, every exception has to be caught in every scope, no pattern matching, no named arguments, and on and on. For people like me, without Scala the JVM wouldn't even be under consideration, though I admit that Java has been more usable since it got generics.
Scala is not for me I can confidently say. I am too old to learn a new [programming] language. The languages I know will suffice for now.
There is a saying too: "You cannot teach old dogs new tricks."
Isn't she cute
If I want to use any Java software then I'll use Scala. I see people bashing Scala, saying the languages they know are good enough or they can just use jython/jruby/groovy, but they clearly know little about Scala.
One thing that's nice about Scala that Java, Jython, JRuby, and Groovy all lack is it's powerful type system and pattern matching. Once you get used to good pattern matching like in Scala, SML, OCaml, or Haskell you won't want to go back. Plus you get all the benefits of running on the JVM at high speed (unlike all the aforementioned JVM languages, except Java itself.)
Honestly, you should check out Scala before you bash it. It's a very good choice wherever you might choose Java, which is a good choice for the back end. Twitter's developers are smart and experienced. They didn't choose Scala just to be cool. It is a powerful tool that can get the job done in an elegant way.
Why wouldn't Groovy be a suitable replacement? (Curious about Scala).
Groovy is very slow [debian.org]. Maybe that will get better in Java 7. There are probably other meaningful differences that I would be able to point out if I were better versed in Groovy.
OP is just a twitter sock puppet.
Java and Erlang did. Python isn't particularly 'functional' despite some recent syntactic grafts.
http://unlimitednovelty.com/2009/04/twitter-blaming-ruby-for-their-mistakes.html [unlimitednovelty.com]
This blog post takes the attitude that Twitter didn't move to Scala because ROR had a problem, but because the in-house messaging system Twitter created performed poorly. The author does not work at Twitter but many of the Twitter developers (including Alex Payne) respond in the comments. I found the article to be very interesting and the comments even more so. They give a sense of how much research Twitter did before this change.
I program in PDP-11 assembly, which is then translated into C, compiled into Java bytecode, and executed on a JVM. I call it Assemblacava, and it's the wave of the future.
Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives.


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Authorities stopped a vehicle in Covelo last week and found 36 pounds of processed marijuana, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies on patrol at about 10 p.m. Dec. 1 stopped a vehicle with expired registration tags on Highway 162 near Cemetery Lane, and spoke to the driver, who identified himself as Justin Ortez of Shingle Springs.
The deputies searched the vehicle with Ortez's permission and found 36 individual zip-sealed plastic bags containing what was later determined to be a total weight of 36 pounds of processed marijuana.
Ortez was arrested on suspicion of possessing and transporting marijuana for sale, and booked at the Mendocino County Jail under $25,000 bail.


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Eighty students participated in peer education training on climate change issues. The training is one of many activities of the Nigeria Youth Climate Coalition and its partners. CEC National Activator for Nigeria, Esther Agbarakwe, sends this report.
NYCC/YAOFA/The Visionaries Academy Launches Climate Change School Clubs in the Niger Delta
The issue at hand is climate change. In the past decade, it has been called everything from the "greatest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind" to the "greatest challenge to face man". There have been conventions, coalitions, and conferences held in its name. Hundreds of politicians have discussed, debated and even come to agree on possible solutions armed with which we might stand and face its impending challenge. Thousands of scientists have released studies, statements, and reports documenting its harmful and possibly even apocalyptic consequences for all of the world's biodiversity. Millions of people have individually altered their own lifestyles and together they have walked and run and biked in fierce protest (tigweb.org).
So what are Nigerian Youth doing?
The Nigeria Youth Climate Coalition (NYCC) is an umbrella organization for individuals, groups and organizations working on Youth and Climate Change in Nigeria. Through Youth Aid Organization for Africa (YAOFA), NYCC is currently implementing a Climate Change Youth Communication project titled "Engaging Naija Youth on Climate Change Project" funded by BNRCC.
Through the funding, NYCC/YOAFA held a National Youth forum to Celebrate International Youth Day at Shehu Musa Yaradua Center on August 16th 2010 with the theme " Our Environment, Our Year Our voice" where over 200 youths and media agencies were in attendance including the Head, Special Climate Change Unit of the Federal Ministry of Environment. The event was also supported by Volunteer Service Overseas (VSO), Abuja Green Society (AGS) and Women Environmental Programme (WEP)
With funding from BNRCC, NYCC/YAOFA has trained over 80 students in two schools in Warri LGA of Delta State, Orlu and Nkwerre LGAs of Imo State, and Akure LGA of Ondo state. The three-day training was the 1st ever youth-led initiatives in the state using peer-education model, and it was aimed at creating awareness on climate change while building youth-leadership capacity as climate leaders. The student who participated in the training said that they are excited to know why and how their climate have been changing and what to do to adapt. They promised to train their peers in schools. The following were the schools:
- Ubeji Junior Secondary School, Ubeji, Warri South local governments, Delta state
- Ekapn Senior secondary and Junior schools, Uvwei local government ,Delta state
- Cambridge Interational Secondary School, Uvwei Local Government, Delta State
- Eziama Comprehensive high School, Eziama, Nkwerre LGA, Imo state.
- Bishop Shanahan Collegue, Orlu, Orlu Local Govemnet Area, Imo state.
- CAC Grammar School, Akure, Ondo State
- Ijapo High School, Akure.
- St Micheal's Secondary School, Akure
In the end, Nigerian youth have all of the evidence they need to inspire action. All that is needed now are the diplomatic and policy-building tools that will complement the amazing energy and creativity of these youth, enabling them to help tackle the environmental and ensuing social challenges the world currently faces.
Special thanks to The Visionaries Academy, Warri, Delta state and Kids and Teens Resource Center, Akure, Ondo state,and Partners in Owerri, Imo state
For more information, contact Esther Agbarakwe, email@example.com
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Thomas Suddith McCool
Thomas Suddith McCool, 67, of Benton passed away on Sept. 11, at Saline Memorial Hospice House in Bryant.
Thomas was born Nov. 12, 1944, in Grapevine. He was passionate about life and enjoyed hunting, fishing, Civil War reenactments, playing music of all kinds on the piano, banjo and his favorite instrument, the mountain dulcimer. His favorite song to play was "Sweet Hour of Prayer."
He was an avid Dallas Cowboys fan and liked watching old television series like "The Cisco Kid."
Thomas was preceded in death by his parents, Buddy McCool and Merle Henslee Suddith McCool; and a brother, Ebert McCool.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley Mayfield of Benton; a son, Paul Mayfield of Sheridan and his fiancée, Rose; a special cousin and close friend, Sarah Kay Crosswhite of Sheridan; and a nephew,Wayne McCool of Florida, as well as many other family members and friends, all who will miss him dearly.
Friends and family are invited to share in a celebration of Thomas' life at 2 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 14, at Peaceful Haven Funeral Home Chapel in Benton.
Online guest book: www.peacefulhavenfuneralhome.com.


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does sourdough starter always smell so bad?
Im new to baking bread, but I became addicted to it and have been making bread daily for the last five months. I have been reading about sourdough starters and decided to try it.
It was started with 1/4 c flour and 1/4 c spring water.
fed it on day 3 and used on day 4.
It smelled awfull in the jar. One of the worst smells I have ever smelled. But I went ahead and made a loaf, and it was pretty good, but I am not a sourdough aficionado. I just want to know if starter always smells so bad. I know there are many different recipes for starter but I have to use regular all purpose flour since I dont buy any other flour. Do you get worse/better smells from different flour?


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September 11, 2013
All event times are Eastern Time Zone unless otherwise specified.
Deep Water Aerobics:: Allen Athletics and Recreation Center , 6:30AM
6:30 am MWF
Deep Water Aerobics: This 45 minute class of water exercising is good for all ages. Meet with us 3 times a week or come a few times and learn the program so you can do it whenever you like. The class ends at 7:15 am so there is time to get ready for the office or class. Join us at any time or email us for more information. Marcia Labbe (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Toni McKinney (firstname.lastname@example.com)
TLC Teacher Talk: Center Hall 216, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
The Teaching and Learning Committee invites faculty and staff to Teacher Talks a series of lunchtime discussions on topics relevant to teaching and learning.
Reaching Out in Teaching and Advising to Students with Diverse Backgrounds a presentation and discussion of the report Factors Affecting Student Engagement and Retention of Students of Color at Wabash College.
other fall Teacher Talk dates:
October 9 – 12noon, Baxter 114
November 13 – 12noon, Detchon 209
Topics to be announced
Light lunch will be provided.
Write a Resume that Actually Works: Detchon Center 209, 12:00PM - 1:00PM
You want a job/internship/fellowship, or in grad school, right? The resume and cover letter make your argument for a position. Done well, this argument is as clear and convincing as your best paper in a class. Done poorly, an employer will not read very much further than your name. Learn how to make yours perfect. RSVP required, lunch served. Casual dress.
IAWM New Faculty Reception: Detchon Center International Hall, 5:30PM - 7:30PM
The Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men invites you to join them for an Alumni/Faculty Reception- Please join us for a chance to interact with alumni of the College and allow us a chance to welcome new faculty members to Wabash.
Please RSVP by September 6, 2013.
For more information and to RSVP, contact the Office of Alumni and Parent Relations (extension 6360 or firstname.lastname@example.com)
APO Meeting: Baxter Hall 101 (Lovell Lecture Room), 7:00PM
WCA: This is Health Care Admin.: Arnold House , 7:15PM - 8:15PM
What kind of careers are available to Wabash graduates in the field of health care administration? What does it take to get a career in health care administration? Who can Wabash students talk to about a career in health care administration? These questions and more will be discussed in a one hour presentation called "This Is Health Care Administration". This program is part of a functional series created by the Schroeder Center for Career Development, the National Association of Wabash Men, and the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men, which organizes alums into "Wabash Career Alliances". The Wabash men who participate in these alliances are willing to help students learn about careers in their field of expertise. This particular series of discussions is geared toward providing education and creating conversation about careers that call Wabash men upon graduation. RSVP required.
Soccer at Franklin: Franklin, IN, 7:30PM
CC Workshop Opening Session: Fine Arts Center Korb Classroom, 7:30PM - 9:30PM
Cultural Competency Workshop Opening Session with Blane Harding: Race, Ethnicity, Whiteness & Privilege
Pete Allen speaking at Cru...: Baxter Hall 101, 9:00PM - 10:00PM
Come join the men of Cru and AMPED as they welcome Pete Allen, Wabash Class of '73, to our weekly meeting. Pete will be talking on Exercising Your Faith as Peter did in Matthew 14. We'll also have time for worship and prayer, as well as covering upcoming events and preparing for Fall Retreat. We're a group of committed Christians on campus, meaning: we're real people dealing with the real problems of living out a real faith in the real world. Come join us!
AMC Classic Cinema 8 Show Schedule: 205 Dry Branch Drive


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She will be home with us the 18th of December, and we hope that Molly and her will become best friends


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Student Expelled From Montreal College For Finding "Sloppy Coding" 633
innocent_white_lamb writes "In what appears to be a more-and-more common occurrence, Ahmed Al-Khabez has been expelled from Dawson College in Montreal after he discovered a flaw in the software that the college (and apparently all other colleges across Quebec) uses to track student information. His original intention was to write a mobile app to allow students to access their college account more easily, but during the development of his app he discovered 'sloppy coding' that would allow anyone to access all of the information that the system contains about any student. He was initially ordered to sign a non-disclosure agreement stating that he would never talk about the flaw that he discovered, and he was expelled from the college shortly afterward."


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Since when?Originally Posted by ShawnMedGuy
Since when?Originally Posted by ShawnMedGuy
The referee said that you hit Brian Sipe too hard. Did you hit him too hard?
I hit him as hard as I could - Jack Lambert
1.28 Edmunds, Terrell, S, VA Tech (Jackson, Lamar QB, Louisville)
2.60 Washington, James, WR, OSU (Evans, Rashaan, ILB, Alabama)
3.76 Rudolph, Mason, QB, OSU
3.92 Okorafor, Chukwuma, OT, W.Mich (Blanding, Quin, FS, Virginia)
5.148 Allen, Marcus, S, PSU
5.165 Samuels, Jaylen, RB, NC State
7.246 Frazier, Joshua, DT, Alabama
No, not me, I won't rub one off thinking about my mother.Originally Posted by Jigawatts
The referee said that you hit Brian Sipe too hard. Did you hit him too hard?
I hit him as hard as I could - Jack Lambert
1.28 Edmunds, Terrell, S, VA Tech (Jackson, Lamar QB, Louisville)
2.60 Washington, James, WR, OSU (Evans, Rashaan, ILB, Alabama)
3.76 Rudolph, Mason, QB, OSU
3.92 Okorafor, Chukwuma, OT, W.Mich (Blanding, Quin, FS, Virginia)
5.148 Allen, Marcus, S, PSU
5.165 Samuels, Jaylen, RB, NC State
7.246 Frazier, Joshua, DT, Alabama
Just went running and thought about how addicted I am. I have to go to a birthday party, but I'll come back on and give my list.
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South End Zone...Screaming My Head Off...Every Game! 111 consecutive and counting.
"Richard, don't run away from you feelings."Originally Posted by SteelerNation1
I think the NFL Network airs all of the pre-season games for every team eventually during the week they are played (but they can't air them all live since so many are occurring at the same time). So a pre-season game that took place on Friday or Saturday night may not be televised on NFL Network until, say Tuesday afternoon, or something like that.[/quote]Originally Posted by RuthlessBurgher
Thanks for the input Oz and Ruthless. It looks like they broadcast on FSN Pittsburgh
as well as KDKA, so I'm hoping I can find a place that has the Direct TV sports pack,
then I might have a chance of seeing both games.
Sorry Jig, but the airing of Steeler games on FSN is subject to the blackout rules for folks like us outside of the area, just like the live press conferences on Tuesdays.... I have the sports pack. The games are listed. But they are blacked out...Originally Posted by Jigawatts
What exactly are those blackout rules? I know that there are blackout rules for games in a local market that do not sell out, but all Steeler games, preseason included, are sell outs, so why would games be blacked out outside of the Pittsburgh market but broadcast locally? Just wondering...Originally Posted by NKySteeler
Forced patriotism is an oxymoron.
A government leader proclaiming that citizens have to stand proudly for the National Anthem or else they shouldn't be in the country sounds more like a mandated decree from a totalitarian dictator like Kim Jong Un rather than the leader of the Free World.
Our ability to peacefully protest is a fundamental American right, and any attempt by our government to squash this freedom is what is truly dishonoring the liberty that our Star Spangled Banner symbolizes.
According to the folks at Directv, the league refuses to allow live broadcasts on those channels to people that don't get it (that channel) on thier local service. (I called to complain about it...) For example, the live broadcast of Tomlins' PC is blacked out, but I get to see the re-airing at 6:30 on FSN Pitt. And the pre-season games are blacked out because they are live also... Bad deal, but that's the way it is.Originally Posted by RuthlessBurgher
Just like in baseball, I can't see the Pirate or Pen games that are televised on FSN Pitt, but those within the market area can. Conversely, while I can get the Reds games here on FSN Ohio (like today, against the Yankees), you guys cannot...
Much of the time, live pro games on the sports pack are blacked out outside of the local markets... The only thing that I have noticed over past years that doesn't seem to be affected is college football.
How about going to work with my wife just to check "Steeler news" (this site), because the internet is down at home? Does that mean I'm addicted?
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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. George Orwell
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Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you 1. Jesus Christ, 2.The American G.I., One died for your soul, the other for your freedom.
...That would be a stretch for me ff, but congratulations, consider yourself "addicted"...Originally Posted by fordfixer
It may not count as "Steeler" football, but I love it all.... I'm finding myself watching the Big Ten Network at this moment... Alamo Bowl from last year: Penn St. v Texas A & M...


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Ryan Nilson learned about the complexities of being a partner in development while working down on the U.S.-Mexican border. Nilson, a 21-year old senior international development studies major at North Carolina State University, served this summer as the interim coordinator for the Presbyterian border ministries in Cuidad Juarez. "I was kind of thrown into that," he confessed.
The conflicts he encountered during his development work gave Nilson a more nuanced view of international development—and eventually led him to the fourth-annual Faith and International Development Conference (FIDC), held Thursday through Saturday, February 5–7 at Calvin College. Development, Nilson said, requires a larger conversation among many partners: "I was hoping to be a part of that larger conversation by being here."
The theme: partnership
This year's conference, which drew around 450 students from 57 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities to the Calvin campus, took the theme of "Partnership: United in Service."
"We recognized in order to do development, it had to be done in partnership where you're drawing on the resources and abilities of multiple groups, people and organizations," said Carissa De Young, a Calvin junior majoring in international development and economics and a FIDC co-director. "When we talk about partnership, it's about how do we—churches, NGOS, community organizations, government and so many others—how do we work together toward this mutual goal of improving the lives of others?"
The universe of development
The conference featured four keynote speakers: Katherine Marshall, a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; Dr. Moisés Moraga Amador, the founder of 15 development organizations, including Christian Medical Action, Abikök Riak, program officer in Sudan for World Vision International and Daniel Rickett, PhD, the executive vice president of Sisters In Service. This year's event also featured breakout sessions on a whole universe of development issues, among them poverty, microfinance, amaranth, rescuing rape survivors, sustainability, advocacy, partnerships between the global north and the global south, malaria, HIV/AIDS and community health.
Browsing the conference
Some students came to the Faith and International Development Conference just to absorb the entire event. Among these was Hannah Watters, 20, a junior at Northwestern College in Orange City, Iowa. "I'm really interested in doing some type of community development. I'm thinking about in-state and urban development," said Watters, who worked at a clinic and orphanage in Nicaragua last year. "It's interesting to learn about the benefits of small organizations. It's just interesting to learn how you do it."
The right mindset
Roland Hoksbergen, the mentor to Health and International Development, the student organization that hosts the conference each year, thought the theme of partnership is key for healthy development: "For so long, we have assumed that it's our job to take care of other people or address other people's problems as though we know how to do that," said Hoksbergen, who served for years with the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee. This kind of mindset leads to top-down, funding-based relationships, he said. "We have known for many years that it's wrong to engage in development activities in that sort of system … You have to meet issues in ways that make everyone feel respected, involved and owners of their own lives."
Hoksbergen was impressed, as he is every year, by the quality of the conference and the fact that students oversee every facet of the event: "I am so amazed at the intelligence of the students who do this and the energy they put into it …," he said. "This is a really professional conference … People came up to me to say, "I can't believe that you do this. And people from other colleges are trying to figure out how to do this."


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At this year's Cebit fair in Hannover, MSI is showcasing a new series of Z77 gaming motherboards. The new motherboards are equipped with network chips from KillerNic, which should ensure low ping-times while gaming. These will be positioned next to the normal Z77 motherboards, and are expected be priced slightly higher.
Z77A-G43 Gaming
Z77A-G43 Gaming
The Z77A-G43 Gaming uses Military Class III components, has room for 4x DDR3 modules and supports Crossfire Multi-GPU configurations. It features 7.1 Soundblaster Cinema and OC Genie II One Touch overclocking. The chipset is passively-cooled. The motherboard has two PCI-Express X16 and two X1 slots, along with three normal PCI slots.
Z77A-G45 Gaming
The Z77A-G45 Gaming has the same basic specs as the G43, but also supports Nvidia's SLI. It also has two more PCI-Express X1 slots, which means that only one PCI port remains.
Z77A-GD65 Gaming
The new flagship model in the gaming series is the Z77A-GD65 Gaming. It's equipped with a KillerNic network chip, passive cooling, four DDR3 memory slots supporting a maximum speed of 3000 MHz, Sound Blaster Cinema 7.1 audio and OC Genie II One Touch Overclocking. The GD65 has three PCI-Express X16 slots enabling triple-SLI and Crossfire. It does not have any normal PCI slots.
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Steaua Bucharest keeper Ciprian Tatarusanu unfazed about facing Chelsea
Steaua Bucharest goalkeeper Ciprian Tatarusanu is unfazed at the prospect of facing Champions League holders Chelsea.
Last Updated: 07/03/13 5:04pm
Steaua host Chelsea on Thursday in the Europa League last-16 first leg at the National Arena in Bucharest after the Blues narrowly negotiated their round-of-32 clash with Sparta Prague and the Romanians claimed a penalty shootout victory over Ajax.
Goalkeeper Ciprian Tatarusanu, the penalty shootout hero, said on www.uefa.com: "Chelsea are a better team [than Ajax] - they are the UEFA Champions League holders so they are obviously the stronger team.
"Sure, it will be much harder than a game against a top Romanian side - we are talking about 'Europe's queen' - and I have no doubt I will have much more work to do than against a 'normal' European team.
"As we proved in the two games against Ajax, we can be a match for anyone, no matter who they are.
"Before every game - regardless of the competition - I don't feel any pressure on me. All I focus on are positive thoughts, which help me take a serious and professional approach to each match, and be focused for every second."
Like Chelsea, Steaua have one European Cup to their name, having won the continent's most prestigious tournament in 1986.
This season is the first time they have reached the last 16 in Europe since 2005/06, when Steve McClaren's Middlesbrough knocked them out in the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup.
Two Romanians have played for Chelsea to mixed degrees of success.
Former Steaua right-back Dan Petrescu won the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup Winners Cup during five years at Stamford Bridge, while striker Adrian Mutu's short spell ended in disgrace when he tested positive for cocaine.
While not experiencing the same type of scandal since, the Blues have often been portrayed as a dysfunctional unit in recent times and this season in particular.
Laurentiu Reghencampf's Steaua side are eight points clear at the top of the Romanian league and their only loss in their last seven was the first leg with Ajax, at the Amsterdam Arena where the Europa League final will be held in May.
Tatarusanu believes the sum of Steaua's parts can perform better than the Blues' undoubtedly talented individuals.
"Chelsea have more skilful individuals but we are a very solid group," the 27-year-old said.
"Chelsea are the favourites but we all know that football is unpredictable and anything is possible."


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The forerunner of Omega was founded at La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland in 1848 by 23-year-old Louis Brandt, who assembled key-wound precision pocket watches from parts supplied by local craftsmen. He sold his watches from Italy to Scandinavia by way of England, his chief market. After Louis Brandt's death in 1879, his two sons Louis-Paul and Cesar, troubled by irregular deliveries of questionable quality, abandoned the unsatisfactory assembly workshop system in favor of in-house manufacturing and total production control.
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Tool box or tool bag?
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:26 AM
Right now I have in the back of my outback, my plastic black & decker tool box with a missing latch on one side and 2 nylon canvas bags one with a air cut-off tool and 1/2" impact wrench and the other with all the bolts taken out of an old 5 MT mixed with some other sawzall blades.
I'm not sure what would be best for me? The Air tools I don't always keep in the car like that but my tool box is pretty packed and looking to downsize if possible.. I have almost everything you can think of.. 150 Ft.lb tq wrench, plilers, feeler gauges 2 switches for a manual transmission..
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:37 AM
I have JY toolboxes and a few of those canvas tool things. I end up taking both to JY. A nice socket set for the JY with cheap ratchets and stuff (Sears set - although I got a new one at Cmas from Lowes that seem like better tools) and a canves bag for saw blades, hammers, pry bars, channel locks, crescent wrenches, more extensions and ratchets,etc. Since they will take longer pieces. T%he canvas bag gets unloaded into my tool box when I get back. The JY socket set doesn't.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:39 AM
Posted 12 January 2013 - 09:40 AM
I have a husky carry bag that i keep my everyday hand tools in (hammer, prybar,tape, square, pencil, screwdriver) if i need one other random tool i will toss it in the bag to take with me. My milwaukee cordless drill set has a hard case for 2 drills and the charger, but often i just throw the one drill in the bag and take it solo since the battery is big enough to get me through any small job and i dont need the whole kit all the time.Otherwise i have a hard plastic box for my plumbing tools, and another one for drywall tools.
for auto tools i like the little canvas bags for wrenches and sockets, on each for 3/8, 1/4, etc. This is easy for junkyarding.
I like the smaller metal tool box for the angle grinder. I have one of the crappier canvas bags for my sawzall, and the blades are in a little case inside the bag.
Think about modilarity.
I have a menards shopping basket i use for caulk guns, or any other odd tools i am using outside of their set or bag so i am not bringing my whole fleet of tools to use only one from each set. You are not going to want to bring ALL of your tools all of the time isf tgere is any risk of theft or compromise. I never leave tools in my truck overnite. I live in the ghetto anyway, so i had to learn these habits where i normally would have trusted the environment i am at anywhere.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 12:08 PM
I'd be worried though about thievery. Consider bowling bags. might take more than one for some of you guys but, they don't scream STEAL ME at least. Pick 'em up at thrift stores/garage sales.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 12:54 PM
I dont need to carry tools around for work any more, so if I need to take more tools I'll throw them in a plastic bucket or old milk crate.
I have a substantial investment into my tools and try to keep them as secure as possible. I dont have a garage so my rolllerbox is in my office, along with most of my power tools.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 04:53 PM
Posted 12 January 2013 - 05:21 PM
I managed to carry all of this on a scooter to do a construction job.
Depot has the square carry bags on sale for 10 bucks.
Posted 12 January 2013 - 05:27 PM
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Posted 22 February 2013 - 09:46 PM
I don"t play the toolbox or bag game anymore....lugging a Fifty # box full of tools 1/2 a blk. to the yard Sucks Plus the theives try to walk off with your wheelbarrow while your under the car {eeesss mine bro}that happened twice to me not a third though {pistol=deterrant }=eeess cool bro,so for the last 5-6 yrs.,I"ve put on my backpack-I can lay out my tools inside the car i"m working on{raping parts off of} and be safe and use the barrow for my parts!!The backpacks the cats meow for scouting parts-you can pull parts stash em an come back w/barrow!!! My cars safe {I have DOGs for an alarm sys.} you will have to shoot them before you get in I admit the pack does get heavy on the back but SOOO much easier!!!
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