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Where to find dishwasher detergent.
A former California family who thought about surviving, not just "prepping", has taken the plunge. Follow them on their new adventures in Colorado through their trials and tribulations
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
How to write in the How To book
Where to find dishwasher detergent.
Monday, November 29, 2010
The How To Notebook
The door had a combination lock key holder, like the realtors use, and he gave me the combination. Once inside the instructions were to look for the notebook on the kitchen counter. It was an amazing notebook and I've tried to emulate it in my house. Every time someone comes here to the house it seems I realize I need to add an additional chapter. It will make a good playbook for visitors at our home.
The book is divided into chapters. The chapters consist of general house items, then is broken down into living areas and sleeping areas.
Table of Contents:
How to turn on the heater.
How to turn on the air conditioner.
How to turn on the water heater.
How to run the dishwasher.
Where to find dishwasher detergent.
Where are the dishes, glasses, silverware, pots and pans.
Where is the food (of course this is immediate need, not the long term stuff)
How to use the oven.
How to use the icemaker/water dispenser.
How to use the coffee pot.
Where is the coffee, filters, and condiments?
How to use the microwave.
Which lights should you use?
How to run the washing machine.
Where to find laundry soap.
How to run the drier.
Where to find drier sheets.
Where to locate towels for the shower and sink.
Where to locate towels for the kitchen.
Where to find bedsheets, blankets, and pillows.
And the list goes on and on and on.
I have a couple of copies of this playbook. I also have an extra chapter at the end that my sister has at her house.
Secret Chapters:
List of weapons.
Location of weapons.
Location of ammunition.
List of money.
Location of money.
And this list goes on.
The secret chapter list does not list my address, phone number or anything else that would associate it with me.
List of secret codes and pin numbers:
1-10 (0)
So if my code is 1432 I would not write January, April, March, February. That would be too easy. I use birthdays. You can use family or famous names, it's your choice. For example, January is Paul Revere's birthday, February is Hank Aaron's birthday, March is Pete Rozelle's birthday, April is Steven Seagal's birthday. Therefore, my code would be Paul Steven Pete Hank. I don't use these names but I use family names for the months. There's only one Chad in the family so he stands for the number 8 because of his August birthday. Beck also stands for 8 because of an August birthday. I can even write the pin number on a debit card. If someone stole the card they wouldn't have a clue as to the code yet for me, it's as plain as the nose on my face.
Sunday, November 28, 2010
House rules
This is a good test of adding additional people who are self sufficient but need to follow house rules. By being in the military they understand chain of command. This will make things easier but presently there aren't any written rules. I know that it's the best way to go to make sure that none of the major items are overlooked or not observed. The list needs to include items required by everyone in the household and another list of age appropriate requirements.
For example, I expect the grandchildren to do their homework without me having to harp on them about this. We do have rules for the grandchildren. There are separate rules for the school year and for summer.
Both kids up by 6:00. Girl: make bed, sweep kitchen and hall, brush hair. Eat breakfast. Get dressed. Out the door at 7:20. After school: homework, pick fruit, set table, help with dinner if it's not ready, dinner. Shower. Bed. On weekends same chores in morning, clean room: dust, change linens, sweep floor, wash floor, take out trash. Even Saturday, clean bathroom. Plus two additional assigned chores. These are all to be done prior to playing, watching tv, calling friends, etc.
Boy is pretty similar. In the morning he showers, put bedding into laundry, unloads dishwasher. In the evening he feeds the dog, picks vegetables, and serves the plates. Saturday chores are same as girl with the exception of odd Saturdays he cleans the bathroom.
There's no running in the house, no leaving toys on the floor, and other basic rules, although only the chore chart is actually written.
What about the adults? There are glasses left all over the house. What about our unwritten rule of no eating anywhere except the kitchen, dining room or outside? What about shoes left everywhere? How about shoes in the mudroom in the cubbies and boots in the garage? The baby is great but the house doesn't need to have the baby things on every surface. You can't see the bathroom counter because makeup and hair stuff is everywhere. No PG 13 or R rated movies on with children under 13 around, in fact, no tv on during the day.
I said that I appreciated them doing the dishes but to please hang the wet towels on the hooks rather than leaving them on the wood counter tops. Same goes with the laundry. You can use the dining room table to fold laundry but you can't just pile the laundry on the dining room table and leave it there. That doesn't mean pile the laundry on a sofa instead. You don't leave the doors open when it's 35 degrees out because you will be back in in just a minute. If people don't know the rules they will continuously break them albeit unintentionally.
Written rules seem stupid if you just have your immediate family in the house. Everyone knows the rules as they grow up with them. If you have new people coming into the house continuously you will either be giving orders all the time (do it this way, do it that way) or you will keep your mouth shut and let if fester until you explode. Neither of those ways are good. How are they supposed to know? After I write this I will put a set of written rules together.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Plates and glasses and the trip up the hill
After having 21 people here for Thanksgiving, and having 14 for dinner last night, the kitchen supplies have been put to the test. For an emergency situation I have 1000 paper plates in the garage. That would be ok for three or four people but now I know that I would need so many more. We didn't use paper, we used dishes. I have regular dishes with 10 in the set, old dishes with 8 in the set, and good dishes. My good dishes are a set of 25 Homer Laughlin pottery so they aren't china or anything fragile. We also have plastic plates. There's a set of 8 in the trailer, 8 more in the kitchen, and just before Halloween I bought 32 plastic plates - 16 orange and 16 black. I also have 16 plastic bowls. With as many people as we had we went through over 100 plates or bowls and about 80 glasses each day. This would mean my 1000 plates in the garage would last a week and a half. Not good.
I have several sets of silverware, probably enough for fifty people at one meal. I am probably ok there. I have plastic silverware also but maybe only 200 of each.
If people all showed up here if TSHTF they may bring food, clothes, and tools, but dishes probably aren't high on the list. We put the dishes in the dishwasher and also washed dishes by hand. There was complete kitchen clean up after each meal. But would the dishes last? Grandson was unloading the dishwasher and broke one container. How many would get dropped and broken? What about the glasses? Would we be using plastic only? I don't have any metal camping plates. Do I need to invest in that? Can I buy any that aren't made in China?
Our trip up the hill... Sister and three little ones went with me to see the bug-out place. Brother-in-law was still working on the gate opener (by himself). Sister liked the pretty drive and was very impressed when we got stuck behind a cattle drive down the middle of the road. We were stopped for about 5 minutes while the cattle moved a quarter mile and from one side of the road to the other. She didn't think that would be legal in San Diego!
She didn't like the property though. It was too far out of town. It would take an hour and 15 minutes to get to Home Depot. From my house it only takes 30. From her house to a Home Depot is about 5. Anyway, she liked the trees and grass. The buildings were not impressive, but then I have said I wouldn't care if a forest fire burned them all down. I'd like to put something else up if I was living their permanently. What she didn't care for was that the place wasn't built up. There were no fruit trees. The garden is about 10x10. There is no lawn. Just a house in the middle of the oak woodland. I explained that my house has 13 years of improvements to the property. This one only has renters who have just started clearing the brush. I was impressed by the amount of brush that has been cleared.
I forgot to bring up my chain saws so renter is stuck for a while because his electric chain saw can only go as far as the extension cord. The well has power but it's 220. Oh well. Next time I'm out there I'll bring the saws. He's got plenty of firewood so I don't think I could talk him into cutting the branches and brush by hand.
Friday, November 26, 2010
Black Friday shopping
I must confess that I did go out shopping on Black Friday. Mom, Sister, nephew and I went to Tractor Supply Hardware. We got there at 4:30 in the afternoon. So much for rushing to the stores. The four year old nephew got to see tractor implements. He was thrilled. Mom bought some toy trucks and tractors for her neighbor boys. Why did I have to rush out on Friday? TSH had American made t-posts on sale for $3.99. I bought the rest...35. Gee, if I had come earlier they would have had more in stock.
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Taking a trip to the bug out spot and Thanksgiving dinner prep.
Once there, we will take a tour of the place. She will get to see the out buildings and also listen to the future plans I have for it. I'm hoping she will give me some suggestions. I'll visit my friends who are presently living in the house. The male renter has been doing lots of clean up including cutting up brush and downed trees and putting up a good supply of fire wood. They are heating the place with wood. I think they are mainly using the downed wood on the property but it almost backs up to the National Forest (500 feet away going through a property that the owner shows up to about once a decade) and would be easy to collect fire wood there.
Sister made a comment that she's trying to talk her husband into moving closer this way but she doesn't think it will happen. They just spent a lot of money adding to their house and yard. It's a beautiful home, if you don't mind being in the middle of a million people or two. I will let her know that if things ever get really bad down in Southern California that they are more than welcome to head this way. They can stay either at the farm or "up the hill" as we like to call the bug-out place.
Sister did take a step toward prepping. On Wednesday, she decided to check out Winco. It's a great grocery store where I do half of my food shopping. The rest is done at Costco and Walmart. I was showing her some of my spaghetti sauce cans. I said that I bought these (a group of 36 cans) for 79 cents each. I bought more when they went up to 88. I have about 75 cans of spaghetti sauce. They are now going for 94 cents. I remarked that I was glad that I bought them when I did. She was excited to hear they were 94 cents because where she lives the sale price is a dollar. I also told her the olives were 88 cents a can. Costco has been selling them for over a dollar a can for the same size cans and the same brand. She spent $162 dollars and bought 151 items.
I also had her help me make the rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. She said that she tried it before but it didn't turn out right. She thinks it was because the yeast was old. Did it make bubbles? She couldn't remember. Anyway, she saw what the batter should look like, how to kneed the flour into the batter, and how to shape and bake the rolls. She is going to try it again. She was trying to figure out the cost savings and didn't think it was worth the price to make bread. At Winco you can buy a one pound loaf of bread for 79 cents. To make the bread it will cost 30 cents for a pound of flour, but you will use less than a pound of flour because the water adds weight to the flour, as does any other ingredients that are included. So let's say it costs her 25 cents for the flour, another nickle for the yeast, and a couple cents for the salt. It's still just over 30 cents a loaf rather than 80. She said that her time is worth more than the 50 cents she would save. On the other hand, if she wanted raisin bread, which costs almost $3.00 a loaf, then it would be worth making. OK, she's semi-converted. At least she is learning the skills.
With all the people running around the house, I didn't think it was safe to run the wood stove. The way the dining room is set up people would be getting too close to it and nobody that was coming for dinner, or the week, have any experience with being around a wood stove. Instead we are running the propane heaters. I've become this automated voice...every time the back door opens I call out "close the door". I can hear the propane being slurped out of the 500 gallon tank and into the central heating system. The kids aren't so bad. They are trained to come in and out of the mudroom. From that room they come into the laundry room. Each room has a door that gets closed so there's two small rooms before they get into the main part of the house. The outside air doesn't get very far in when they come in. The adults on the other hand use the door off the dining room. They will stand there with the door open, or worse yet, open the door and walk out and leave the door open since they are coming back in in just a minute. Fine, you fill my propane tank!
We ended up with 21 people for dinner. Everything went well. The babies were all happy. The children were all well behaved. We even had an extra dog so six dogs had a great time playing. None of the trees had damaging effects from the freeze on Wednesday night and I'm hoping that all will be well after tonight's freeze.
Can't wait for the morning to head up the hill.
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Cover the trees and company has started to arrive
The kumquat trees (would remind you of a small sour orange) can take weather into the mid twenties and they are about four or five feet tall now, so I'm not worried about them. They will make it through the weather alright. The fruit may not all make it, but that's ok too. The trees are so loaded with kumquats that we won't be able to eat them all and there's only so much kumquat marmalade that we will eat each year.
The two tangerine trees still need to be babied. They are a couple of years old but around here it seems to take six or seven years for the citrus trees to come out of their shock and start producing. At this time they are much more tolerant to the colder temperatures. The outer branches may die back but the trees won't die. I this the two new tangerines wouldn't make it if they weren't completely protected. Right now they just have plastic covering them. Last year I rigged up a different kind of cover. I was able to secure old fire shelters (fire departments changed out from the old shelter to the new shelter). These old shelters have a heavy duty shiny aluminum which I had facing toward the inside of the tree on the west side of the tree and I had the plastic on the east side of the tree. That way, in the morning when the sun came up over the hill it would shine through the plastic to the aluminum and helped warm up the little tree shelter. It worked well enough that I didn't lose any of the trees last year. They came through winter really healthy. I'm sure I'm going to do that again this year, but it won't be before the first frost tonight. Each time I wait I ask myself why I didn't get the plastic on a week before the expected frost? I always seem to have other things come up.
I do have my avocado tree which I am pampering. This is the third one I've planted over the past 13 years. This one has been in the ground for three years now and I expect it to take off next spring. It came through this summer really healthy looking and put on quite a bit of growth (it's only 3 feet tall, but it's thick and lush). It's extremely well covered in plastic and shouldn't have any damage.
The Thanksgiving company started arriving yesterday. As of today we have four extra kids, three extra adults, and two extra dogs. It was very noisy having six kids under 10 running around. Then the four year old wanted some entertainment. Please get out your music box. This meant the accordion. Are you sure you don't want me to play the piano. No, the one that I hold in my lap. Why not? The house is already chaotic, what's more noise going to hurt? As I was playing Back in the Saddle Again, everyone was talking about how families used to keep themselves entertained by talking, playing games, and playing music. While the house was loud, the tv and radio were never turned on. I'm sure that will change because tomorrow there will be some die hard football fans here who wouldn't dream of missing a game to instead sit around and be entertained by an accordion.
One of the house guests is allergic to cats. This isn't good considering we have four of them running in and out of the house. That family asked if they could sleep in the trailer. They have a motor home that they share with other family members and it wasn't their week for it so they didn't bring it here. It's fine with me. I just removed some of the personal items that I didn't want them coming across by accident.
I'm trying to type this with a one year old grandson on my lap. He couldn't sleep and before he woke up the rest of the house with his crying I picked him up and put him on my lap. He's sleeping sitting up but at least he's quiet. It's peaceful here as the rest of the house is asleep. The chores are done and the bread dough is rising on the counter. Nothing else is prepared for tomorrow. We'll that's what the morning is for.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Thanksgiving is at our house
It does get to me thinking that if TSHTF I expect all these people to want to move in here with us. What qualities do they bring? Some bring a lot of useful skills, mainly mechanical, some can cook, others have no skills at all. If I think about the amount of food that I will go through in the three or four days that we will be feeding everyone, I realize that we go through the same amount of food in three weeks to a month. Our food supply wouldn't last at all.
My sister and brother-in-law are high on my list of people I would want to stay with us. I am convincing my sister to do a better job of buying food in bulk. We were out in the garage tonight and I pointed out the two cases of green beans I picked up six months ago. I told her they were 50 cents a can. Now they are 58. To her that was still a better price than she can get where she lives, but I pointed out that it was a 16% increase in price in just six months. Things are not going to be getting any better.
She did say that she wants me to help her with making bread. She tried my recipe and got it wrong. This I don't understand. I've never had a bad loaf. Yes, I'll teach her several different ways to make bread while she is here. Perhaps I'll put her in charge of making the rolls for Thanksgiving.
A couple of months ago we had the wrought iron fence put in across the driveway. This week brother-in-law is going to install the automatic gate opener, the solar panel to power it, and the code box to open it from the outside. We are going to have two automatic gate openers, like garage door openers, which will be kept in each truck. Today I purchased the required Knox Box which can be opened by our local fire department. When they open the box the gate automatically opens. I am going to have my brother-in-law rig a kill switch on that so they don't have access when I don't want them to have access.
Sister asked if I could do some target shooting in the backyard while they are here because her four year old has seen guns but never been around them when they were being shot. I asked her if she and her husband wanted to do some shooting as well. She said yes. Yes, they are high on my list to convert to my way of thinking.
If I don't post again until after Thanksgiving, please have a very happy Thanksgiving, and remember to thank God for all our bounties.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Elderberry harvest is almost here
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Dangerous Goods/Haz Mat Transportation Incidents
Sometimes vehicles will have placards with pictures or numbers. They may also be different colors. You may have a placard that says 2.1. That's flammable gases. Others may just be numbered. Let take 33/1203 or even 1203. Most people recognize 1203 by the type of truck it's in. This is listed as gasoline/ petrol/ motor spirit. 33 is a European and South American code, but trucks in the US sometimes carry it as well. 3 is flammability of liquids (vapors) or gases or self-heating liquid. The number 33 means double the problem. If it was just a 3 then a 0 would be put after it, 30.
Substance 1203 lists code 128 as the proper response. Listed are the potential hazards including explosion, vapors, runoff, etc. It also lists potential health hazards. Next is public safety. How far away should people be evacuated. Even if you aren't on scene to help, at least you will quickly know how far away to get yourself and your family!
Next comes the emergency response. If there is a fire the book tells you what to use to put it out. Remember some substances will get worse if you put water on them. Fortunately, for gasoline, this is not the case. For a small fire you can use dry chemical CO2, water spray, or foam. If there is a spill or leak the first thing you do is eliminate all ignition sources. Ground any equipment you are using. Don't walk through the leak. Try to plug it if possible. Don't let it run into creeks, sewers, or other water sources. There is also a section on first aid. You need to get this right because what's good to aid for one chemical may be deadly for another. In this case, move the person upwind to fresh air. Remove and isolate any contaminated clothing and shoes.
All this sounds like common sense, but gasoline is something that we are around a lot and know about. Start looking at the trucks that go by, or at the placards near buildings. Do you recognize those? Learn what they are and what the safety measures are. If you are in the city and something goes wrong, this may be another tool in your tool kit for where it's safe and where it isn't.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Food list again
Food Lists
|angel hair
|falafal mix
|linguini fettuccinni
|mac and cheese
|noodle wide egg
|noodles other
|noodles penne
|noodles rotini
|potato mashed
|potato shreads
|potato slices
|ramen noodles
|rice white
|rice wild
Friday, November 19, 2010
Adoption Day
Cleaning up the garden
I pulled in all the irrigation hoses. Around here we get very little rain during the summer, usually less than a tenth of an inch all summer. The garden has to be irrigated. None of the vegetables will do well without watering, no matter how much I put mulch or any kind of ground cover around the plants. The hoses didn't get rolled up, just pulled into the barn. I wanted to get as much done as I could before dark so I figured that rolling them would be a good project for another day.
The trees in the back garden still need irrigation because they are younger trees, all under 10 years old. The middle group of trees has been in the ground a longer time. I wouldn't have to irrigate and the trees wouldn't die, they just wouldn't produce a good crop of fruit. I don't have to irrigate them as much as the younger trees though. The front trees have to be watered a lot. They have only been in the ground for a year or two and still need to be pampered. The way I figure it is the tree is in shock the first year it's in, the second year it's just getting settled, and the third year it's ready to grow. It takes several years after that for them to become sturdy and strong. I didn't pull up their hoses and I don't plan to move them.
I don't know if I like the way the garden is set up. I am planting in long rows. This works well for the corn but I think I am going to come up with something else. Planting the way I do, I have to fight the weeds continuously. I am thinking about going back to raised beds. I had raised beds in my backyard in the city. It was more to make it look nice, as I was already considered odd because we kept chickens in a backyard coop. 25 years ago, this was definitely not normal! I found out the city I lived in allowed four hens in your yard as long as they were at least 10 feet away from any house. Not a problem. I could keep four hens. I told the neighbors the city said i could keep six, then I kept 8. Nobody complained because I sold them eggs for a dollar a dozen. That was on the expensive side but everyone was intrigued by the odd eggs...they were brown!
When I first moved to this place I had four raised beds. I didn't like them. I didn't like the wood they were made out of. I didn't like the location they were placed in. I didn't have good soil, I just dug some up from another spot in the yard. Needless to say, I took them out a couple years later and started planting in rows in the large garden area.
I'm thinking about putting in 16 foot long by 4 foot wide raised beds. I could probably put in twelve of these and still have room for corn. I could plant these more intensively and also would be able to plant the permanent beds and not have to worry about them. Right now I have asparagus growing in the garden. When I disc the garden with the tractor I have to swerve around these plants. I also have some artichokes and I have to do the same thing. I wouldn't need to disc the garden if I put in the raised beds.
It would also be easier to irrigate. Each bed could have plants that needed similar amounts of water. It would work out well.
I need to do a bit of planning this winter and do it right in the spring. If I can figure out where the new beds are going to go, when the chicken coop and barn stalls get cleaned out, instead of the spoils being spread throughout the garden, I'll have it placed in the location of each of the new beds.
I also have a few areas of the garden that self seed each year. This year I had squash growing everywhere. If I have two or three beds of squash, then the self seeding will be where I want it and not growing into the walkways as they did this year.
Next year I'm going to rig up a timer and figure out about how much water I am using in the garden. I'll need to measure how many gallons per minute I'm using, then time how long the water is on. I wonder if there's a water meter that I can run off the hose bib? I haven't seen one but it sure would be nice to have. I want to know if my garden is sustainable if I save the rain water in a large water tank. I figure I can capture 12,000 gallons of water off the barn runoff. Do I want a holding tank that big? That will cost a lot. Do I use that much water? Only next summer will tell...
Thursday, November 18, 2010
More on food and edible landscaping
Edible landscape is one of the new trends. You can pack a lot into a 1/4 acre yard. There are several websites of families doing just this. If you plant a tree, make is a fruit or nut tree. If you put in flowers, make them edible. Shrubs can be herbs, fruit, or vegetables. I have only planted one type of plant on my property in 13 years that isn't useful for eating or drinking or using it for medicinal purposes. That was a butterfly plant. It spreads, has purple flowers, and attracts butterflies and bees. Everything else is edible. Even when I lived in the city over 20 years ago, I only planted edible landscaping (other than a lawn play area for the kids).
I write a lot about my son and his family. They have a little patio but no plants. They have indoor plants, but none are edible. Why not? Because they get their food for free from the government so why put out the effort. Did you know that with food stamps you can purchase vegetable seeds and plants at the grocery store? It's true. Kind of like the story...teach a man to fish and he will be able to provide for his family.
15 percent of American's are "Food Insecure"
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Moving to Alaska
Looking at it from a survivalist perspective, it looks pretty good. It's about as isolated as can be. You can't drive there, although there is an airport. It's a four hour boat ride on the ferry from Juneau, which is another place you can't drive to. It faces the Pacific Ocean so I'm sure the wind blows. The temperature surprised me. During the summer it was cooler than Colorado but during the winter it was about 10 degrees warmer. It usually doesn't go much below freezing during the winter, instead staying in the mid to high 30s at night and in the 40s during the day. During the summer it gets into the 40s at night but into the 60s during the day. That's too cold for me for summer as it's my ideal winter! There are plenty of forests around so I'm sure there wouldn't be a firewood issue for heating the house.
I was thinking about gardening. With a greenhouse you could garden year round. You'd have to get cool weather varieties but you could grow just about everything. This is really good from a survival standpoint.
There wouldn't be a water issue. They get around 80 inches of rain per year. That's much more than the 12 he gets at his home in Colorado. If he had several rain barrels to catch water for home use he'd not have to be on a well or city water at all. Remember the formula for figuring out how much water you can harvest...1000 square feet of roof will provide 600 gallons for every inch of rain. The driest month in Sitka averages 4 inches of rain. That's 75 gallons per day to use if he captured it all that month. And that's the minimum he'd have available all year. Most months he'd have 200 gallons available each day.
He hunts and fishes. One of the main sources of income in Sitka is fishing, so from a self sufficiency standpoint that looks good.
Is there a downside? Prior to his Colorado move he lived in Idaho. That was a really good area, although he was on a major highway going between Idaho Falls and Wyoming. He could easily make a trip into Idaho Falls to do whatever kind of shopping he wanted to do. We even went to the orchestra once. Hunting, fishing, skiing and hiking were all just outside his back door. Now he's at the edge of a city and has all the city amenities. He fishes close by but goes to Montana and Alaska each year for hunting and fishing. Since my opinion is slightly taken into consideration, would I talk him out of moving or tell him to pack his bags today? I really can't stand where he's living in Colorado. But I said that Sitka was not the place for him.
Some people think they'd like living away from the city. They have this wild dream of being in a secluded area and living like Jeremiah Johnson. But get back to reality. Many people do live far from large cities. That's what we talk about when we think bug-out place. I know lots of people who have to drive and hour or two for their shopping. If you are used to being near a populated area, is that really the type of life you can live in a "normal" world? I understand wanting to get away when TSHTF but that's really not now for most of us. So why did I try to talk my friend out of moving to Sitka? There wasn't a Costco, Starbucks, or Barnes and Noble, three of his favorite places to be. He's at Starbucks almost every day, Barnes and Noble twice a week, and Costco once or twice a month.
If you are going to relocate you need to seriously consider your life now. I would love to move to my bug-out place that I bought at the beginning of the year. The downside is it takes an hour and a half to get into town from that property and now that grandkids live here permanently, it's not something that I want to do for the next ten years. If TEOTWAWKI happens and we couldn't stay where we are at, then living an hour and a half from the city would be good. We wouldn't be coming in to town a couple times a week in that situation anyway. But it's not TEOTWAWKI. I don't think my friend would make it in Sitka more than a year.
The tractor
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Police and Fire Scans over the internet
Monday, November 15, 2010
What's in your vehicle?
1: Shop Manual
2: Timing Light
3: Tach/Dwell Meter
4: Compression Tester
5: Tire Pressure Gauge
6: Hydrometer
7: Circuit Tester
8: Feeler Gauges
9: Spark Plug Gauge
10: Combination Wrench Set
11: 10" or 12" Crescent Wrench
12: 6" Crescent Wrench
13: TorqueWrench
14: Socket Wrench Set (3/8 or 1/2)
15: Socket Extensions
16: Socket U- joint
17: Socket Wrench Step down/up
18: Breaker Bar for S.W.
19: Spark Plug Socket for S.W.
20: Impact Wrench Drive
21: Hex Wrench Set
22: Oil Filter Wrench
23: Adjustable Pliers
24: Vise-Grip Pliers
25: Needle-Nose Pliers
26: Wire/Sheet Metal Cutter
27: Large (12") Phillips Screwdriver
28: Large (12") Slot Screwdriver
29: Small to Medium Slot Screwdrivers
30: Small to Medium Phillips
31: Metal Chisel
32: Metal Punch
33: Ball-Peen Hammer
34: Putty Knife
35: Flat, Round, Triangular Files
36: Sand Paper
37: Easy-Out (Extracter) Set
38: Metal Drills/Drill
39: Gear Puller
40: Valve Spring Depresser
41: Hacksaw
42: Siphon Tube/Brake Bleed Tube
43: Oil Filler Spout
44: White Paint (Liquid Paper)
45: Flashlight
46: Flares
47: Fire Extinguishers
48: Lug (X-bar) Wrench
49: Hydraulic Jack
50: Sheepherder's Jack
51: Tire Pump
52: Crowbar
53: Wheel Chocks/Jack Blocks
54: Shovel
55: Bucket
56: Rip Saw
57: Machete
58: Axe
59: Length of Carpet
60: Towing Chain
61: Towing Rope
62: All Hoses
63: All Belts
64: All Gaskets
65: All Fuses
66: All Filters (x 20" more)
67: 2 Sets Spark Plugs
68: 2 Sets Points, Rotor, condenser
69: Distributor Cap
70: Plug Wires
71: 2 Mounted Tires
72: 2 Inner Tubes
73: Water Pump
74: Oil Pump
75: Gas Pump
76: Carb Rebuilt Kit
77: Timing Chain
78: U-joints
79: Oil (enough for change)
80: Rear-end/Trans. Oil
81: Wheel Bearing Grease
82: Engine Oil Flush
83: WD-40 or Liquid Wrench Spray
84 : 3-in-1 Oil
85: Carburetor Cleaner Spray
86: Quick-Start Spray
87: 1 Quart Brake Fluid
88: Radiator Flush
89: Radiator Stop-Leak
90: Gasket Paper
91: Gasket Sealer
92: Heavy Duty (Ignition) Wire
93: Light Duty (Accessories) Wire
94: Assorted Electrical Connectors (clip, spade, bolt-on, etc.)
95: Electrician's Tape
96: Tube Patch Kit
97: Assorted nuts, bolts, screws, washers, cotter pins, etc.
98: Epoxy or Super Glue
99: Duct Tape
100: Hand Cleaner/Rags
I figured that this is an excellent list for someone who expects to have a vehicle and isn't sure what they should carry. With everything listed I'm not sure there is room for any other survival supplies, but it's a good start for what should be in my garage, if not in my vehicle. I don't think I would really need to carry all of this all the time, especially if I was going between my bug-out place and home but I definitely rethought my ideas of what I should have on hand.
The Flag: Inciter of Racial Tension
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Home Security System
Many people have home security systems. I am one of them. I recently changed my system and I thought I'd share my reason why. Home security systems can monitor burglary, fire, and carbon monoxide. Your system can be set up to make noise until the system is reset. They don't send a signal anywhere, they just make noise. You can purchase systems like this at your local hardware store. You can also use a professional monitoring system in this way if you do not keep your contract in force. The second type of system is the type that most people have. These systems are monitored by a 24-hour monitoring center. After the alarm goes off they contact either you or the local authorities, or both, depending on how you have the information set up. It's this type of system that I'm going to discuss today.
I have a system run by ADT. I do not know anybody at all who works for the company other than the few people that have come out to set up the system. I had the initial system put in about ten years ago. Since then I expanded the house and updated the system. I let the contract elapse for many years since I couldn't see spending the $20-30 a month.
I was getting a discount on my homeowners insurance for having the system. About a year ago I realized that if a fire or burglary did occur and my insurance company found out that I didn't even have the system working that they would probably be reluctant to pay any claim since I had in my insurance agreement that I had the system in working order. Therefore I reinstated my security system and figured that after getting the discount, the system was costing less than $10 a month. OK, I could go for that.
The Pac Bell phone service in my area is lousy. At least once a month the landline goes down for anywhere from several hours to several days. The power to the lines is so bad that I can't even get low speed Net Zero internet here at the house. Forget any high speed anything. I rarely use the house phone and had a separate cell phone that I also rarely used. (work pays for a wireless internet card) I decided to cancel the house phone.
My dilemma was over the security system. How would that work if I didn't have a house phone? I contacted ADT and they had someone come out to explain it to me. It was really interesting. I'll explain the system as connected to the landline. When you have phone service the security system can work. If your phone line is down you don't have security service. Sure the system will make noise if something goes wrong but it will not send the signal to the monitoring service. If you have a landline, take a look at the wires coming into your house, or onto your property.
There is a main phone box at the end of my road, about a mile and a half from the house. There is another small phone box within 500 feet of the property. From that, the line goes underground to my house. Once it gets to the house the cord goes up the outside of the house to the connector box. For those of you that don't pay for inside wiring, this is the spot where the phone company ends their responsibility - I digress, sorry. Your vulnerable area is between where the line comes up out of the ground and goes up the outside house wall until it actually goes through your wall to the inside of the house. If the "bad guy" cuts your phone line with a wire cutter, scissors, a knife, clippers, or whatever, your phone system is dead, which means your security system is dead. Bottom line, for all those people who put monitoring stickers around the property and on their windows, why don't you just put up a sign that says cut my phone line and you are in?
There is more to the story. Let's say that the burglar forgets this simple technique of getting around your slick monitoring system (yes I know it will still make noise, but if you aren't home do your neighbors really care, or can they hear it) or better yet, you don't have any outside phone wires because they are all underground and comes up in some secret location that the burglar can't get to. What if the burglar gets into your house, opens up your closets quickly to find where the panel box is in the house? They can unhook the phone wire at that location and stop the phone call to the monitoring company. Less likely scenario than cutting the wires from the outside of the house but it can happen.
Even if nobody trips the alarm a notice is sent to the monitoring company every time the system is was activated or deactivated. For example, you set the alarm and leave. The alarm company gets a notification through your phone line. You come home and turn off the alarm. Another notification gets sent that you turned off the alarm. They know your every move. Very intrusive, but you hope that they aren't working against you (or the government isn't using their records to figure out when you are home and when you aren't). When you get back home and you go to turn off the alarm system you usually get around 30 seconds to turn it off. After the thirty seconds if you successfully shut off the system, the alarm won't sound but you the system will still send a notification to the company that the system was turned off. If you don't turn off the system then the alarm will go off and the notification sent is that the system wasn't shut off properly and there is possibly a break in. Depending on how slow the phone system is, the alarm company may not get the phone call for almost one minute from the time the burglar actually breaks into your house. I've heard of places where the burglars are in and out within a minute after knowing where to look for valuables by either looking through windows or by having a floor plan of your house (either it's a tract home or courtesy of the county planning department's public files).
ADT offers another option which costs about $100 to install, although I was able to talk them into a $25 install, and it adds $7 a month to the bill. (Added $7 but I no longer have a $35 lousy Pac Bell landline) I put the alarm system on a cellular connection rather than using a landline. I don't have it attached to a cell phone; they actually install a transmitter into the inside panel box. This system is far superior to a landline system. First, there are no outside wires to cut. Second, and most important, the length of time that it takes to notify the alarm company is significantly shorter.
Let's go back to the almost impossible scenario of the burglar breaking into the house and finding the alarm box and pulling the phone wires from there. They have 30 seconds from the time they get into the house and then up to 30 more seconds to find the box and disable it – a full minute to disable the system before the company is notified. When it's on the transmitter system, the transmission takes place between two and three seconds after the door or window is opened. Yes, I said seconds. So, even if someone opened up your front door and the panel was in the closet right next to the door, the transmission would be sent before it could be disabled. They've gotten the transmission that the alarm has been tripped. Once you enter your code into the key pad another transmission will be sent letting them know that you've turned it off.
To quickly summarize, if you have an alarm system and it's attached to a landline to contact the monitoring service the bad guys can shut down your system before they ever step foot into your house. It's fast and it's easy, so you may as well not pay for the burglary monitoring. If you have the transmitter system they can't shut you down unless they take out the cell towers.
Saturday, November 13, 2010
The grapes
I need to buy more t-posts for the front fruit trees.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011
John de Sohn feat. Andreas Moe - Long Time
Andreas Moe has made a big breakthrough in collaboration with Avicii this year after he has received request to make a vocal line for the track which has turned to a big international club-hit "Fade Into Darkness" afterwards.
Right now Andreas works a lot as songwriter (being signed in UK) among others with Maria Marcus and Niclas Lundin and plans his solo EP.
In a recent interview to Being Blogged Andreas has told that he had a lot of new house-collaborations offers and here we have a new club-track featuring his vocal.
"Long Time" is upcoming single of Swedish DJ John de Sohn who's gonna release it in December and talking about the track - it really goes in a vein of "Fade Into Darkness" getting a bit more laidback, dreamy tune moving to an exploding chorus through a clapping pre-chorus part feels quite trendy and hit-smelling.
- Ярлыки: Andreas Moe, John de Sohn, Long Time
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Very much a newbie to this ...
Loaded test version - I have assigned Jplay to core 0, Fidelizer Pro to core 1 and other audio players ( eg. Foobar, Jplay Mini, BHE, Qobuz..)to 2 and 3. Assigned them all as games
No other config - Pro Balance enabled. Not sure if this is a particularly scientific config , what do you reckon ?? - but it sounds GREAT ! Quieter background - more life to sound - analogue-ish !!
Want to buy this for Control/Audio PC - do I need to buy 2 server licenses ???
Great to hear another positive report . As our demo at https://bitsum.com/a..._probalance.php will show, ProBalance is definitely efficacious, and additional CPU affinity tweaks by advanced users can absolutely help to improve real-time performance.
When you buy an any server license you get workstation licenses included, so you simply need to buy a Server Edition license at the Audiophile purchasing page (which has a special discount), it's here: https://bitsum.com/p...er/audiophiles/


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Monday, November 28, 2016
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them - Newt Fido Scamander Paper Toy - by Paperized
Here is Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander, main character from the movie Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. This very nice paper toy version of Newt Scamander was created by my friend, the designer and modeler Paperized, from Paperized website.
Eis aqui o Newton Artemis Fido "Newt" Scamander, principal personagem do filme Animais Fantásticos e Onde Habitam. Este versão paper toy bem bacana do Newt Scamander foi criada por meu amigo, o designer e modelista Paperized.
Link: Fantastic.Beasts.Newt.Scamander.Paper.Toy.by.Paperized
More Paper Toys from Movies and Animations related posts:
Wreck-It Ralph - Vanellope Von Schweetz Paper Doll - by Spoonful
Bambi, The Deer Paper Model - by Corbak Papercraft
Ice Age - Scrat - The Prehistoric Chipmunk Paper Model - by Elso Craft Museo
Despicable Me 2 - Agnes Paper Toy - by Paper Replika
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I'm a relative latecomer to the world of MP3s -- until I recently purchased a laptop with a large hard drive, lots of processor and audio, I had no real reason to worry about them -- my Heathkit/Harmon Kardon stereo system works quite well for playing music, thank you very much. However, the laptop changes things a bit -- sometimes it is nice to have a bit of music playing while hacking. No laptop has an audio system comparable to my Heathkit/Harmon Kardon, so a small loss of sound quality is quite acceptable in my mind.
This Techguide will help you create and playback MP3 files on an OpenBSD system. Most of these tools are generic or available on other Unix-Like Operating Systems, so you should have no problem using this information on other systems. This is by no means an exhaustive list of MP3 related applications for OpenBSD, but rather a starter -- once you start with this information, you can explore other tools.
MP3 technology is available on most popular platforms, however, the Unix-Like OS world has a huge advantage: open source tools. Many of the Windows and Macintosh tools are either commercial, or paid for by less than legitimate means, such as "ad-ware" or "spy-ware" -- or just begging you to buy the commercial version, or begging you to upgrade to the latest version which is seemingly rarely better (or as good!) as the old one..
The OpenBSD ports tree has quite a few tools one should look into for MP3 playback, I would suggest using the following command to search:
$ cd /usr/ports $ make search "key=mp3" | more
The man page installed with both programs is quite good, please read it.
Here is a sample script (from Margarida Sequeira, minor mods from Henning Brauer and me) which will take a CDROM and reduce it to a small collection of MP3 files:
$ more cd2mp3.sh #!/bin/sh FILE=cddbinfo.txt cdparanoia -B -v rm track00.cdda.wav for i in `echo *.wav` do lame -cbr -b 128 -q 2 -k -t -p $i $i.mp3; # rm $i; done mp3cddb *.mp3 if [ -f $FILE ]; then mp3cddbtag $FILE fi
The rm track00.cdda.wav line deletes a bogus track00 (a very few seconds of silence) that is sometimes created. It *seems* to be related to the CD drive used to read the audio CD. Some CDs on some drives create this file, others do not. This file's existence messes up the last step, so it is deleted here. Yes, you will get an error message if that file does not exist.
At this point, the contents of the CD are a set of .wav files in the current directory. The next step (the for - do - done loop) encodes the .wav files into MP3 files, giving them the same name as the incoming .wav file, but with the .mp3 tail. You will note that the line after the lame line deletes the .wav file that was just encoded, but I have it commented out here. I rather prefer to delete the .wav files AFTER a successful conversion of the entire CD, but I'm strange. You may well want to remove the '#' that leads off that line (my machine I use for this is rather slow -- if I can skip redoing the cdparanoia step, it saves a good chunk of time).
Now, we have a collection of annoyingly named MP3 files: track03.cdda.wav.mp3 and similar. The next few lines (mp3cddb, mp3cddbtag) look at the tracks and try to identify the CD from the freedb.org database. The mp3cddbtag command then renames and tags the .mp3 files with the appropriate track names and recording information.
If you wish to have better sound quality, you can tweak some of the lame parameters -- notably the '-r 128' and '-q 2' above script. However, be realistic. If you are playing back on your computer, keep in mind computer sound hardware and speakers generally suck. On the other hand, if you pick a good sound card and play it back though your serious stereo system, bumping up the bit-rate to 192k ("-r 192") or fiddling with the the "-q 2" may be worthwhile.
Note that the above script leaves a lot to be desired in terms of error checking, however I think it is of value as it is, as it is very easy to see what is going on and how it works. Feel free to add whatever you wish to it.
In my case, I store MP3 files on a Pentium 133 NFS server, which makes them available to any Unix-like system in the house. When I get around to it, I'll add Samba to this machine, giving me some added flexibility of clients.
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Fast And Simple Recipe Ideas Using Plain Cream Cheese Calories
If you are a cream cheese lover, you'll need to know just how to include it into a treat and every dinner of your day. Here are a few suggestions to check out:
Fruit toast with cream cheese that is gentle; top with fruit.
Spread 2 pieces of the bakery with soft cream cheese spread. One bakery with sliced 1/2 strawberry and also the other bread. Close-together to create a breakfast meal you will remember plain cream cheese calories Reduce apple into pieces; eliminate and toss. Spread with cream cheese that is gentle; spread liberally together with raisins, sliced almonds, or your favorite cereal. Yum!
For fast and simple appetizer nibbles, distribute cream cheese on flour tortillas. Top with prepared foods and greens or desired deli; move firmly. Piece about the straight.
Cream cheese on-water cookies toasted black or pumpernickel rye models. Spread with chives or sliced dill; top with fish. Operates a goody!
Try combining 1/2 pot cream cheese together with 1/4 cup dried cranberries and 1 carrot - or possibly provide a try to some dry fruit? Load stalks of oatmeal with the combination; slice into chunk-size items .
Tuna Dip:
Chopped cilantro. Function with cookies doubts you will regret it.
Tuscan Drop:
Cream. Include 1/2 cup finely sliced gas-stuffed sun dried tomatoes, exhausted, 1/2 cup sliced pitted olives that are dark, and 1/4 cup chopped onions. Glass of Chianti recommended.
Dill Sauce/Drop:
Prepared? Location INCH sliced 1 clove, onion, and 1 Tbsp. Dill in a food processor; procedure until finely sliced. 1 Tbsp, orange juice. a touch of sodium, along with coconut oil procedure until smooth Scoop over devote a dish for sinking or cooked vegetables. Hey presto, you are a domestic goddess (or lord, whilst the situation might be!)
Fruit Hits:
Works for me!
Milk Health
Of cream cheese on the thick toasted a piece of bread.
Mix 11/2 cups shredded cheddar cheese with 1/2 pot cream cheese, melted. Include 1 Tbsp if you want. Wine. Cover in a page of the form and plastic cover right into basketball. Refrigerate so before unwrapping or about one hour. Roll-in is really well chopped, or paprika toasted almonds. How is that to get a block-party? Sorry, could not resist.


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City Sales Tax Forum 7PM Nov 1 at the Blandin Foundation
Grand Regional Voices is presenting a citizens informational forum on the Proposed "City of Grand Rapids Sales Tax" to be decided by the voting residents of Grand Rapids on November 6th.
A presentation by the Grand Regional Voices Organization and a question and answer session about the "Sales Tax" will be held at the Blandin Foundation On November 1st at 7:00 PM. This event is not sanctioned by the City of Grand Rapids.
The public is invited.
Grand Rapids City Council Examines Unemployment Rate. What's Obviously Missing from this Report?
This article ran in the Grand Rapids Herald a nearly 4 years ago. Has anything improved since this article was published in the paper? – GRV-
By Lisa Rosemore Herald-Review Nov 1, 2013
So why is the unemployment rate in Grand Rapids so high compared to the rest of Itasca County?
Grand Rapids city councilors wanted to know if there was an answer to this question, so during a council work session in June, they asked Councilor Ed Zabinski and City Administrator Tom Pagel to research the issue further and report back to the council at a later date.
That later date came at Monday's city council work session.
He, along with Pagel, interviewed people from various organizations to see if they could find any answers to the unemployment puzzle.
The Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce, along with KOOTASCA, had concerns about funding, especially the inconsistency of funding, for job programs, Zabinski told the council Monday afternoon.
Another thing they found during their research was many area jobs go unfulfilled because the unemployed don't have the skills to perform those jobs, he said.
One interesting thing they learned through the Chamber was a worker in Minnesota needs to earn wages of $14.11 per hour match what a person earns on welfare, he said. The Chamber also said the next five to seven years, there will be approximately 50,000 area jobs to be filled as Baby Boomers start to retire.
According to figures from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED), the unemployment rate in Grand Rapids was 8.7 percent in July and 8.5 percent in August, the most recent data available. In comparison, Duluth was at 5.9 percent (July) and 5.5 percent (August); Itasca County was at 7.2 percent (July) and 6.7 percent (August); Koochiching County was at 7.6 percent (July) and 7.2 percent (August); Aitkin County was 6.6 percent (July) and 5.9 percent (August); Virginia was at 7.7 percent (July) and 7.5 percent (August); and Hibbing was at 8.9 percent (July) and 7.9 percent (August).
According to the memo provided to the city council:
• Both KOOTASCA and the Chamber explained they have "proven, successful programs to help transition unemployed people to jobs," but the issue is inadequate and inconsistent funding. KOOTASCA provided information that a family of four needs to have an annual income of $52,416 to meet basic needs.
• According to DEED, there were 5,206 job vacancies in Northeast Minnesota. "Of those vacancies, the wages of only 163 fell below the welfare equivalent wage of $14.11 per house.
• Blandin Foundation executives said that resolving an issue like high unemployment requires a commitment of resources, time and talent.
"The consensus was that the community needs some entity or person to champion the issue of unemployment," the memo said. "We believe that there are several groups in the community who may be potentially able to fill that role."
• The City of Grand Rapids is not in the business of job training and education; and it does not provide a social net for those in need. Most people interviewed believed the city's most appropriate role "is cultivating and maintaining an environment supportive of business growth and job creation."
• Officials from the Grand Rapids Area Foundation said "they are setting strategic goals and have concluded that Itasca County's poverty levels are an overriding concern for the area." Several conclusions were reached during discussions with the foundation, some of which include: No one organization is leading a community effort to deal with the area's high unemployment; there seems to be a "heightened sense of entitlement" in the area; there is little or no demographical data on unemployed people in Grand Rapids or Itasca County; and "we don't need another report that sits on a shelf."
Some interesting numbers
Grand Rapids Voice is now Grand Regional Voices
Hello all,
The Grand Rapids Voice Group has undergone a metamorphosis of sorts. For one thing we have change our name to Grand Regional Voices in order to let our name reflect more of what we are about. We will cover issues in Itasca County, Cass County, Koochiching County and St. Louis County, as well as continue to cover issues affecting the City of Grand Rapids. We still hold public meetings at the Sawmill Inn in Grand Rapids on the first and third Saturdays at 9:30 am. (coffee and socializing from 9 to 9:30). Everyone is welcome.
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So for Mardi Gras today I decided I needed to cook a French dinner. Well what yummier French item is there to cook beside crepes? None that I can think of. Typically when we have crepes we do them with assorted berries and berry syrups and fresh whipped cream. Don't get me wrong I love them that way but I wanted something different and more special tonight. I had the thought that an orange creme fraiche would be yummy in them, but I did not have any of the ingredients I needed so I had to make something up. And lets say WOW!
So here is what I did.
Basic Crepe: (found from allrecipes.com)
2 eggs
1 c milk
2/3 c flour
1 pinch of salt
1 1/2 tsp oil
Put all ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Refrigerated for 1 hour. Heat up medium skillet and brush with oil. Pour 1/4c batter into pans and cook until brown, flip and cook.
Orange Cream Filling
1 c cream whipped
1 c plain yogurt
2 tsp sugar
1 tblsp concentrated orange juice
1/4tsp orange zest
Whip all ingredients together.
*Whoops I forgot to say chill this for at least 1/2 an hour. Sorry. But I promise good things will happen.
Orange Glaze
1/4 c butter
2/3 c sugar
1/3 c orange concentrate
Cook in saucepan until butter is melted and sugar is dissolved. Stir frequently.
Also whip up some fresh cream with a little sugar and vanilla to top it off.
To assemble place 1/4 c cream mix in crepe and roll up. Drizzle with 2 tblsp glaze and top with a dollop and freshly whipped cream.


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On iOS 8, You Can Play YouTube Videos in Background: Here's The Ultimate Guide
In this how-to tutorial we will show you two ways to play a YouTube video in the background on your iPhones and iPads running iOS 8.
Once you learn how it's done, you can sit back and enjoy listening to YouTube playlist videos in the background as you read a book on your device (that's how we do it). Let's get started.
Close YouTube App And The Sound/Music Disappears
Try this: Launch the official YouTube app and tap on the play [>] button to watch the video. Next, press the Home button from your device. What happens? You are taken to the iOS homescreen and the YouTube app is closed*, which means the video as well as the audio sound is gone.
To resume video playback, you have to launch the YouTube app again.
You can even try this by launching Safari browser on your iOS device. Just go to the YouTube website and follow the same steps. So what's the point?
Google's YouTube player does not officially support playing videos in the background.
Fortunately, because of Apple's iOS software, we have "tricks" for playing the audio of any YouTube clip on your iPhones and iPads.
Playing YouTube Videos in Background: Here's How To Do It on iOS 8/7
Before we reveal the background video playback method, you should know a couple of key points:
- Only audio of the YouTube video runs in the background.
- You don't save any bandwidth or Internet data when YouTube is playing in the background.
- Your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch should be running on iOS 7 or iOS 8 firmware. See: iOS 8 Installation Guide.
- Do not expect a media player app (like VLC or iTunes Music) and YouTube app to play audio parallelly. That is never going to happen on iOS devices.
- No need to download any tool or convert videos to MP3 files. These methods work with or without the official YouTube app.
Let's follow each method:
Method 1: How to Play YouTube Videos in The Background From YouTube App For iOS
Update x1: This method no longer works on the latest YouTube app, as mentioned in the comment section below. We suggest you to try the second method.
Note that we have tested this method on iPhone 5s with iOS 8 installed. You can use the same steps on any iOS 8 compatible device (like iPhone 6, 5s, 5c, 5s 4s, iPad 2 and over, or iPod Touch 5g). Just make sure you have the latest YouTube app on your device for playing videos in the background without problems:
- Open the YouTube app
- Search for a video and play it
- Press the Home button
- Open the Control Center
- Click on the play button
Important: Only iOS 7 and iOS 8 has the "Control Center" option. You can access this by swiping up from the bottom of your screen. See this tutorial: How to Open Control Center in iOS 8.
Tip: New YouTube update for iOS 8 was released in the App Store on Sept. 17th. If you haven't updated or installed the app yet, now is the right time. Go to the App Store -> search YouTube -> Click Install.
Method 2: How to Play YouTube Videos in Background Without YouTube App
In this method you only need to use the default Safari browser or Chrome. Note that this method may not work with other third-party browsers.
- Open either Safari or Chrome browser
- Type youtube.com or m.youtube.com in the address bar
- Find a video and press the play button
- Press Home button to go back to homescreen
- Open Control Center and tap on the play button
YouTube videos can be of any length and you can resume or pause the video right from the Control Center by tapping the middle button (as show in the screenshot above).
*iOS apps are never closed permanently when you press the Home button. They are still running in the background — some apps are temporarily suspended. To see how to close apps on iOS 8, read our beginner's guide: Opening and closing background apps.


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[First up, a big fat disclaimer: I did not in fact really 'do this myself', basically I just marked the measurements and passed the screws and observed my Step Dad, Tony make it – thanks Tony! ]
You might remember that this baby gym was in my baby room inspiration post. I really like the natural/ simpleness of it and how you can add colour by adding your own toys.
If you'd like to make your own just follow this simple tutorial. (Or you could just be like me and convince someone else to make one for you!)
Unfortunately, we weren't able to find oval or round rosettes like they used on the ends in the tutorial, but we made do instead with small rectangle pieces of wood.
Pipi sure loves it – she coos, smiles, bats her toys and flaps her arms around.
… and then exhausted from all the stimulation and exercise … she promptly fell asleep!
Cuteness personified.
And while I'm overloading you with cuteness, here's another way Pipi's been having a bit of fun these last few days … bouncing in the good old jolly jumper…
And when I say 'bouncing' I really mean trying to eat it and doing a few twirls … and in the picture on the right she's smiling at her Dadda (such a Daddy's girl!)
Jenny x
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05 Jan Colin Sullivan: Sergeant
Posted at 07:08h in Obituaries
Sergeant Colin Sullivan was found dead as a victim to an apparent gunshot wound. Authorities saw no forced entry but do believe it was a homicide in connection with the Frank Costello investigation. Colin Sullivan was a decorated police sergeant and was recently promoted for his exceptional work for the Boston Police Department. He leaves behind no children and was not married. The investigation into his death will remain open until any and all suspects are found.


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2017 – It's heeeeeeere.
Any of my horror movie fans will get it…
Just like Carrie Ann, I find myself spending more time in front of screens (even on day 3 of the new year) than I'd like. Why is that?
I am avoiding doing the work.
It's not easy to make changes, and it's certainly not easy to document it and put it on display for you to read about. A part of me wants you to think I've got it all together – I'm healed, and it's all perfect over here.
But it's not. And that's OK. In fact, it's better that way. It allows you to know that I'm a real person – not some uppity high horse high maintenance chick who looks down from a a pedestal and says "you should ____" like I don't know what that entails.
Some days I'm lucky to remember to brush my hair 🙂
The point is, I know how hard it is to make changes. I know what getting up in the morning going "oh shit, again with the job and the kids and the bills and the ____". Someday I'll wake up after 10 blissfully wonderful sleeping hours and walk along a beach, but today, I have to do the work.
It's not easy, but it IS worth it.
Carving out that bit of time for yourself, allows you to be more present (and yes, tolerable) to those around you. Spending 10 minutes (ALONE) with a cup of coffee and getting your head together to take on the day is well worth it my lovies. So tomorrow –
Don't hit snooze for the third time.
You can surely hit it twice. But then get your ass up – and spend a moment in gratitude, and decide that you're going to rock the day. Have a nice stretch, and a take a deep breath, and a few sips of tea/coffee before getting the kids up and dealing with all that drama. It really can make all the difference. Even with rain and gloom today, I'm pretty darn "with it".
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Hail to the Chief Counsels
FDA's chief counsels and their deputies were honored guests at a reception December 6 held at the law firm Arnold and Porter in Washington D.C. Chief counsels dating back to the 1970's attended!
FDAAA thanks the event's host, Arnold & Porter LLP, and all of the sponsors: Biotech Policy Group, Catalyst Healthcare Consulting, Covington & Burling LLP, EAS Consulting Group, Greenleaf Health, Hogan Lovells US LLP, Hyman Phelps & McNamara, PC, Keller & Heckman LLP, Polsinelli PC, and Sidley Austin LLP.
See the photo for the counsels who attended - see who you recognize without the caption!
Mark Raza, Current Deputy Chief Counsel; Ed Steele, FDAAA Presdient; Jeff Springer, Deputy Chief Counsel 2005 - 2007; Jeff Senger, Deputy Chief Counsel - 2011; Jerry Masoudi, Deputy Chief Counsel - 2010 - 2011, Chief Counsel - 2007 - 2009; Liz Dickinson, Current Chief Counsel; Richard Cooper, Chief Counsel - 1977 - 1979; Peter Barton Hutt, Chief Counsel 1971- 1975; Nancy Myers, Chairwoman of the Board, FDAAA; and Sheldon Bradshaw, Chief Counsel 2005 - 2007.


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Type: BB machine gun.
Manufacturer: ZMZ.
Model: Tyrex PPA-K-01.
Materials: Steel.
Weight: 3.24 pounds.
Barrel: 4.83 inches, metal non-rifled.
Propulsion: 12 gram CO2.
Action: Semi & full auto, single action.
Ammunition Type: 4.5mm steel BB.
Ammunition Capacity: 25 round magazine.
FPS: 328-394 fps.
Trigger Pull: The trigger pull on the ZMZ Tyrex PPA-K-01 is a bit on the heavy side even though it is single action only. In full auto mode this doesn't really matter too much, but in semi auto the heavy trigger can slow down how fast you can shoot your followup shots. You quickly forget about it though because you are having so much fun shooting the Tyrex :)
Accuracy: I was very impressed with the Tyrex PPA-K-01 BB machine guns accuracy in both semi and full auto. I was actually expecting it to do poorly in this area because of the sights, they are inverted or in other words when you are shooting with the stock open, the peep sight would be best suited and when shooting with the stock folded, the pistol "V" sight would be best suited. Unfortunately the setup is backwards on the BB gun version, perhaps a mixup in manufacturing? I may attempt to switch this around at some point. Even with hard to use sights, the Tyrex shot a 1.5 inch 8 shot group in semi auto from 20 feet out and a very respectable full auto burst grouping.
Build Quality: The ZMZ Tyrex PPA-K-01 is not going to win any beauty contests and it's a bit rough around the edges but everything about it is made to last. It's virtually all steel with the exception of the grips and when I say steel, I mean the real hard stuff they put in actual firearms. You won't find any zinc in this BB gun! The Tyrex feel solid and tight with no slop in the moving parts at all, and when you shoot it, it feels like the real thing, minus the loudness and extra recoil of course.
Realism: The Tyrex PPA-K-01 is a very close copy of the Kedr PP-91 (9 x 18 mm Makarov) which is also made in the Russian ZMZ factory. You can tell them apart visually by the grips but other then that they are virtually the same! Based on the quality of the steel used in this gun I would bet money that the BB gun version is made in the same assembly plant and using the same steel.
Purchased From: Private sale
- All "Steel" construction - Good weight and very solid gun.
- Fit of the parts is very good.
- Heavy blowback action.
- Semi and full auto selectable with a nice high rate of fire in full auto.
- Good accuracy in both semi and full auto.
- Very Accurate Kedr PP-91replica.
- Pretty easy operation.
- The folding stock works very well and is very secure.
- Not too bad amount off shots for this style - About 2-3 25 round magazines.
- If you can find one you will be the only kid on the block with a Tyrex for sure!
- Non adjustable sights.
- Peep and "V" sight should be the other way around.
- CO2 access can be a bit finicky and be very careful when removing it!
- Finish is a bit rough but about what you would expect from many Russian made guns.
- Supper hard to find and if you do find one you will pay a lot of money for it.
I have been wanting to get my hands on the ZMZ Tyrex PPA-K-01 BB machine gun for some time now and I was willing to pay dearly for it! I am very happy with this purchase not just as a collector piece but one that I plan to take out and shoot often. Here in Canada the real version of this gun is completely unobtainable so this will have to do and even better yet I can shoot it in my backyard! The Tyrex PPA-K-01 is very pleasing to shoot and sounds more like a suppressed real gun then a BB gun adding to the enjoyment of shooting the Tyrex. Perhaps one day I'll swap the rear sight around and really see how well this BB gun shots?
My YouTube Video Review for the ZMZ Tyrex PPA-K-01 4.5mm BB shooting machine gun:


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The Hot Fat Girl Revolution and HNT
I've recently been introduced to the Hot Fat Girl Revolution. I first read about it on Dangerous Lilly's blog, and checked out other that are participating. I was really excited to join in! It really makes me happy to see people taking a stand. Having curves shouldn't be something to be ashamed of. Of course we all have are insecure days, but just remember, women with curves are beautiful, not in spite of the curves, but because of them. The message is simple, just because you are fat, chubby, overweight, a bbw, or voluptuous, doesn't mean you aren't sexy.
I am joining the Revolution…
BECAUSE being a hot fat girl is a lot of work and is undervalued or unrecognized.
Because a fat girl still has to pay more money for uglier clothes or spend 11 hours at the thrift store to find anything hot to wear.
Because girls are dieting at the age of nine.
Because fat hatred is a money-making industry.
Because I am tired of being ignored, invisible, de-sexualized and told that I have such a pretty face.
Because it's not fat that kills, it's fear of fat.
For all that and more I am a part of the HOT FAT GIRL REVOLUTION!
Would you like to join in? Just write a post about it and add a sexy photo of yourself. Wear whatever it is that makes you feel "VaVaVoom" and shows of your sexiness. And please link to the original poster
It took me a few shots to get one I was satisfied with, but here it is…
Here are a few others who have joined as well! If you join in, please let me know and I will add your name as well.
Lilikka from Servitude: One Pet's Journey
October 9, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Yay! Awesome pic! A few shots? Consider yourself lucky, lol. Took me 5 tries (5 tries of self-timer shooting 10 in succesion).
October 9, 2009 at 6:38 pm
Oh hey I updated the post, I made a little sidebar-banner thing if you wanna use it 🙂
November 6, 2009 at 10:17 am
This really makes me want to say something cliche like "You Go Girl"
December 28, 2009 at 12:58 pm
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AfriGeneas Caribbean Research Forum
[JAMAICA] Disappointed with Registrar General's Dept.
Jamaica Researchers,
Be forewarned. I sent this email to the Registrar General's Department today.
To Whom It May Concern:
I contracted with your office back in July 2004 while you were on a goodwill tour of the US. I paid $200 US for research and also provided documentation as a starting point.
I heard nothing from anyone after that. In Feb 2005 I suddenly remembered and contacted your office by email. A Mrs. Rhonette Pitter responded with an apology and proceeded to conduct the requested research.
The last time I heard from Mrs. Pitter was by email on Feb 18, 2005. I responded making a specific request for further research. That was over two months ago and, again, I have heard nothing despite several follow-up emails to Mrs. Pitter requesting status.
In her Feb 18th email, Ms. Pitter indicated that 4 hours were spent on research. In the previous email she indicated 1 hour's research. That amounts to a total of five hours spent if I'm correct. According to your website, research fees are $10/hr US. That means that I have $150.00 unspent.
Sir or Madam, I must say that I am very disappointed with your service and that is an understatement. For all the time that this has taken, I could have ordered microfilm at $3 US apiece through the LDS Church and done the research myself for a lot less money.
As I no longer want to do business with you, I am requesting the IMMEDIATE refund of $150.00 US by money order made payable to the following:
BTW, I run a the largest website devoted to African-American genealogy ( www.afrigeneas.com ). I am going to inform my visitors of my experience and warn them to steer clear.
Thank you.
Brenda J. Smothers
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Hey Yves, Well I spent some time trying to implement your fix and here is what I found: The problem actually exists in the HttpParser. What I think is happening is that the third call to the parser (from the HttpCookieList class) to get the value of the cookie is stopping on the equals sign because that is the delimiter. I think this is easier to explain via an example. Below is an example cookie header. Cookie: HGS$$LocaleCookie=en_US; CHALLENGE_COOKIE=Y3hBsq1lr9AxMTE2; CARDTYPE=card The first call to the parse routine using the cv (ParseState) yields the following: CHALLENGE_COOKIE=Y3hBsq1lr9AxMTE2== This is correct. The next call to the parse routine using the it variable (ParseState) yields the following which is the name of cookie. Now the it variable was initialized with the equals sign as the separator. CHALLENGE_COOKIE The third call to the parse routine is where we lose the equals sign. The routine returns the following: Y3hBsq1lr9AxMTE2 In the HttpParser, as it runs through the bytes it is checking to see if it hit the separator. Once it does find the separator it assumes it is complete. Now I looked to see how to fix this and I am kind of at a loss. Here is what we did try to do: - Tried implementing your fix but that resulted in an infinite loop. I think that has to do with how the ParseState is keeping track of the position in the raw bytes and then where the separator shows up. - Create a new ParseState object with a separator that would never be found in a cookie. Unfortunately, we could never get it work correctly. I don't think we set the start & end variables correctly. - Change the existing it variables separator to something that would never be found in a cookie. Again that didn't work right. - We looked at just rewriting the whole parse routine but we were afraid that we will introduce some bugs that you have long since resolved due to browser compatibility type stuff. We are perfectly willing to do the work if you could just provide some direction as to how best to resolve this issue. Thanks again for the help, Brian -----Original Message----- From: Yves Lafon [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 7:50 AM To: Laird, Brian Cc: email@example.com Subject: Re: Cookie parsing issue... On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Yves Lafon wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Laird, Brian wrote: > >> I hope things are well; it has been a while since we have talked. We >> came across a problem I am hoping you (or someone who knows the jigsaw >> code well) can help us with. In a majority of our processing we are >> using some randomly generated cookie values from a third party as kind >> of a session identifier. Well a few days ago the value being generated >> started to look like this (without the double quotes): >> "0_0RbEAwflUxOTIxNjgyMDMzMw==". We also store this value in memory and >> compare it to the cookie when the user comes back to our site. Ok, I located the issue, the parsing is done in org.w3c.www.http.HttpCookieList, in parse(), the parser has '=' as a separator, hence the issue you see. you can try to change c.setValue(it.toString(raw)); by StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(it.toString(raw)); while (HttpParser.nextItem(raw, it) < 0 ) { sb.append('='); sb.append(it.toString(raw); } c.setValue(sb.toString()); and see if that fixes the issue. -- Baroula que barouleras, au tiéu toujou t'entourneras. ~~Yves ************************************************************************ This e-mail and any accompanying documents or files contain information that is the property of HAVI Global Solutions, that is intended solely for those to whom this e-mail is addressed (i.e., those identified in the "To" and "Cc" boxes), and that is confidential, proprietary, and/or privileged. If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, you are hereby notified that any viewing, use, disclosure, forwarding, copying, or distribution of any of this information is strictly prohibited and may be subject to legal sanctions. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately of any unintended recipients, and delete the e-mail, all attachments, and all copies of both from your system. While we have taken reasonable precautions to ensure that any attachments to this e-mail have been swept for viruses, we cannot accept liability for any damage sustained as a result of software viruses. ************************************************************************Received on Tuesday, 20 March 2007 13:40:58 UTC
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Toy pistol is made of tin with lithograph embellishments. Sparks are created when trigger is pulled. Hero in Japan made it between 1955 and 1970. Japan made many toy ray guns for the American market. The U.S. "Space Race" to explore the solar system in the late 1950's to early 1970's generated huge public interest and a large market for space related products.
Date: between 1955 and 1970
Item Number: 221956
KSHS Identifier: 1978.75.285
Collections - Museum
Date - 1950s
Date - 1960s
Home and Family - Daily life - Leisure - Play - Toys
Objects and Artifacts - Recreational Artifacts - Toy - Pistol
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Be the first OregonLive.com user to add photos or videos of Signature Imports
I bought a $30 ring and the next morning the stone fell out. They refused to refund it or replace it. It's a tourist location, so I guess they don't care if you ever come back or not.
Such a fun store and their prices are pretty amazing. The owner really supports artists doing free trade from around the world too so you money is going to support nice families throughout the...
Signature Imports can be found at N Hemlock St 224. The following is offered: Gifts. The entry is present with us since Sep 10, 2010 and was last updated on Nov 14, 2013. In Cannon Beach there are 18 other Gifts. An overview can be found here.
Signature Imports is located at 200 N Hemlock St, Cannon Beach, OR. This business specializes in Gifts and Importers.


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Our mission is to provide our clients with the highest level of quality of life that is achievable. We shall treat each of our clients with the respect and dignity they deserve, as though we were caring for a member of our own family.
The special people who deliver our unique brand of homecare (We call them Comfort Keepers) are carefully selected, screened, and trained to provide professional, compassionate care.
Carole Sachs and Mathew Fink started with a simple idea: to open a business that would make a positive difference in the lives of others. Now, over ten years later, they admit they had no idea what an incredible impact opening a Comfort Keepers homecare franchise would have on San Diego and its neighboring communities.
With hundreds of employees and thousands of people helped already, Carole and Mathew are still working hard to meet the growing needs of California's senior population. By providing the type of in home care that satisfies the needs of each client on an individual basis, their office prides itself on the kind of personal and professional service that has become synonymous with the Comfort Keepers brand.
Interactive Caregiving™ is based on four primary pillars, which Comfort Keepers leverage to care for, engage, and interact with our clients:
With our Interactive Caregiving approach, we are able to raise seniors' quality of life to a much higher level than typical in home care providers.


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Fernando Ponvertz Perez
Fake artist
ORLANDO, Florida
Fernando on POF but his married and his a fake artist his buy some one arts and signed his name and resale.
This cuban is a fraud his lies and his really abusive with women's his trap people's and take advantage in everything.
His doesn't felling remose or emphaty ,his a big liar don't believe on him.
His a womanizer but still married.
His will lie to you for scammed you for money.


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Drop Off/In-Shop Blast Service
Located in Millersville, MD. Offering
Professional, Experienced Multi-Media Blast Service.
Celebrating Our 15th. Year!
If You Are In The Central Maryland Region:
CSC Blast/Chesapeake Soda Clean, Inc. operates in a 2,500 square foot facility located at 212 Najoles Rd. Bldg. D. Millersville, MD. 21108. Conveniently located just off of Interstate 97 between Baltimore and Annapolis, MD. and we are just minutes south of Baltimore-Washington International Airport (BWI).
Please call (410) 987-2077 before heading over
as we are in and out of the shop frequently!
Click the "Address Map" button on top of this page for directions to our Millersville shop.
At our blast facility we offer a variety of blast medias to include baking soda, crushed glass, coal slag, glass bead and aluminum oxide blasting media services. Please call first with any questions regarding coatings or rust removal and for details on our blasting capabilities. Our blasting rate is $150.00 per hour or any part there of. We also accept credit card payments by Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover at our normal blasting rate.
We have a 1 hour minimum for blast work that is "Rush" in nature or for "While you wait", but if your project is small (less than 1 hour) and you can leave it for a few days, then we'll charge you for only the time it takes to blast it. Call ahead for while you wait service!!!
Items that can be dropped off for blasting can include:
- Fenders, doors, hoods, frames etc. of automobiles
- Residential, commercial or industrial small items
- Boats are referred to Chesapeake Blasting Service, Inc. (our affiliate mobile blast company).
- And, generally anything that will fit in your trunk or pickup bed
- We can do entire car bodies, but please call for details
For ALL mobile blast projects, please call Chesapeake Blasting Service, Inc. Owner Mike Morgan can be reached at 410-980-0857, firstname.lastname@example.com or http://www.chesapeakeblastingservice.com/.
Soda Blast Rental Equipment
ABC Equipment Rental – Baltimore region
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The rental equipment program is intended to assist blast industry professionals with their local soda blast projects. Whether you're a fire/mold restoration contractor or a sand blast contractor in need of non-abrasive soda blast equipment, ABC Equipment Rental and Rental Works has you covered. ABC Equipment Rental and Rental Works exclusively rents professional grade soda blast equipment purchased from Chesapeake Soda Clean, Inc. Rentals are best suited to companies and individuals with prior blasting experience and is designed for small to mid-sized projects. Large scale projects may be better served by one of our local area soda blast contractors – please call for a referral.
Rental packages include the soda blast equipment with the all important compressed air cooler/dryer package. Tow behind air compressors and soda blast media are also available from ABC Equipment Rental and Rental Works.
Soda Blast pot media capacity: 2 bags (100 lb. media)
Package includes: 1 – 50′ by 3/4″ ID blast hose, 1 – 55′ pneumatic deadman control line, 12 volt electric 185 cfm compressed air cooler, 375 cfm centrifugal moisture separator, media fill funnel, #4 (1/4″) dry blast round pattern nozzle and #4 (1/4″) dry blast fan pattern nozzle.
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Chesapeake Soda Clean, Inc. has been selling non-abrasive (baking soda) and abrasive (crushed glass, etc) blast equipment since 2005. We maintain a list of blasting contractors in the area that we can refer you to if we aren't close by. We also sell blasting media and supplies to many contractors using equipment purchased elsewhere. We have a personal connection with many of our referral contractors and try to match you up with the very best suited contractor for your project. Click the link below for more information.
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We service what we sell. Though it's rare to see a broken Soda Works Buster Blaster or Marco Abrasive Blaster, it can happen. We can fix it – no problem! That's the beauty of the Soda Works and Marco blast equipment – we can take the most abused system and make it work like new in no time. We can also look at your equipment and will be happy to repair it if we can source parts.
Soda Blast – Education, Training & Instruction
To help you achieve your goals, we offer hands-on training for soda blast and abrasive blast equipment. We believe that we are one of the only facilities in the U.S. that offers real live hands-on training for the soda and abrasive blasting industry. Automotive, fiberglass, steel, aluminum, wood of all types, plastics, ceramic tiles with grout, pre-cast concrete, stone, cinder block, and more are all covered. Classroom and practical hands-on training is available for a fee to non-equipment purchasers and included at no charge to equipment purchasers.
Pictured is the on-site training session with Fairfax County (VA) Public School system. They purchased a Soda Works BB100EPK soda blast package to remove graffiti and for general surface cleaning.
Training includes non-abrasive and abrasive blasting including the popular crushed glass blast medias!
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Abrasive Blasting Services
In response to customer requests, we have added a variety of abrasive blast medias to our blasting line-up. Although baking soda blasting (sodium bicarbonate) remains in our blast media offering, we now have the capabilities to "shoot" other popular media. Crushed glass ia a very popular blast media is a light duty abrasive and is great for paint removal, rust removal and sometimes can be used to strip furniture. Drop off/in shop service is available at our facility in Millersville, MD. Please call (410) 987-2077 for more information or to schedule your project.
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Huskies Insider Blog
After a busy Saturday, where do things stand with Washington's playoff chances?
Any chance the Pac-12 has of reaching the College Football Playoff lies in the hands of the No. 12 Washington Huskies.
UW (8-1, 5-1 Pac-12) is the only one-loss team in the conference and is in an interesting position after Saturday. Both the Pac-12 and UW received some help. A few teams ranked ahead of the Huskies in the CFP rankings lost. UW took care of business with a 38-3 over rival Oregon at Husky Stadium.
The new CFP rankings will come out Tuesday but for now, let's assess the Huskies' chances of making a consecutive playoff appearance.
Nothing changed with this group. Alabama, Central Florida, Georgia, Miami and Wisconsin each won their respective games.
No. 1 Georgia and No. 2 Alabama might switch places. No. 10 Miami is likely to go up a few spots while the same should be expected for No. 9 Wisconsin. No. 18 UCF should rise too but it'd be surprising to see the Knights crack the Top 10.
Alabama and Georgia are on pace to meet in the Southeastern Conference championship game. It could all change should Auburn run the table. Auburn hosts Georgia on Saturday and ends the regular season at Alabama on Nov. 25. Even if Auburn wins one of those games, it creates a SEC title game with at least one one-loss team. UW, in terms of a perfect world scenario, would benefit from Auburn beating Alabama and Georgia. If so, it means the SEC would have a one-loss team instead of one undefeated team and a one-loss team contending for a spot.
Miami's path is also tricky. The Hurricanes host No. 3 Notre Dame this weekend. A Miami win would give Notre Dame two losses and knock the Irish out of the discussion. But if the Irish win, it could see them potentially climb into the No. 2 ranking. Also, it leaves the Hurricanes with a loss. If Miami can win the rest of its regular season games, it creates a likely meeting against Clemson in the Atlantic Coast Conference title game.
UCF, barring a massive shakeup, is essentially playing to reach a New Year's Six game.
Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Penn State were all thought to be challengers. Not anymore.
All three lost and no two-loss team has ever reached the playoffs. Considering the field, it does not seem like this would be the year a committee would admit a two-loss team. One would assume these losses move the Huskies up at least three spots into No. 9.
UW, provided it beats Stanford, should climb after next Saturday since Notre Dame will play Miami and because of Oklahoma-TCU. Two of those teams will have a second loss and it only improves UW's chances of being in the discussion.
It could leave six teams ahead of UW in the CFP rankings by the Nov. 14 rankings.
UW's mission does not change. Nor will it. If the Huskies seek a return to the CFP semifinal, they need to win the rest of their regular season games, capture the Pac-12 title and watch things play out.
The SEC figures to have one school in either Alabama or Georgia. The Big Ten's best chance would be an undefeated Wisconsin. The ACC could come down to Clemson and Miami. The Big XII could be decided Saturday between Oklahoma and TCU. Notre Dame remains the wild card given it beats Miami and potentially runs the table.
Compared to a week ago, UW's odds have improved. They'll only continue rising should the Huskies win. If not, the best case scenario UW can hope for is a New Year's Six.
Ryan S. Clark: @ryan_s_clark


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|Quantum of Light is a relaxed yet challenging puzzle with 24 levels.
| Guide the photon flows towards the target crystal in this tranquil educational puzzle. Click/Tap to rotate the in-game tiles and change the angle of rebounding in order to navigate the photon flow properly. With each success you will be rewarded with a piece of knowledge about the electromagnetic spectrum and the energies invisible to the human eye. Complete all 24 levels and open all pages from the Encyclopedia of Light!
Mouse Left Click - rotate tiles clockwise
Mouse Right Click - rotates counter clockwise
P - pause game
R - restart game
M - mute audio
Lock tiles by clicking on them while holding the SHIFT key.
Unlock using the same technique or by double-clicking.
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