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Have you ever made anything out of it ? I have 4 pieces in my attic - had it for years. I got it from someone I chatted with on the internet years ago .I don't remember who - but I remember the story of it. She lived in Texas and knew of a 100 year old barn that had this gorgeous wood. I Was excited back then - and she offered to go get some & send it to me . I took her up on it ! Here in the mail - comes this HUGE box - as tall as I am & about 3' wide and 6 inches deep - with all these planks in it ! LOL Barnwood was the rage awhile back. I've kept these boards for years - I can't bear to part with them - but can't think of anything to use them for. Have you done stuff with them ? Can you give me ideas ?
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Here's a sign I picked up in a shop in Leesburg,VA about 10 years ago. It's just got a beige smear of paint (for the writing area) and then they just used a marker for the writing. The wood itself does not apperar to be sealed.
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Is this pizza sauce recipe for canning safe?
It doesn't tell you to put in a pressure canner or water bath afterwards, and contains some oil. What do you think? Here is the recipe, from my book on Amish Cooking (1995).
Cook 1/2 bushel tomatoes and 3 lbs onions 2 1/2 to 3 hours. Put through sieve. Add the following:
1 hot peppers or 1 1/2 tsp red pepper
2 cups vegetable oil
1 tbsp basil leaves
1 tbsp oregano
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1/2 cup salt
Boil 1 hour, then add 4- 12 oz cans tomato paste. Bring to boil. Pack into hot jars and seal. Makes 20 pints.
Here is a safe recipe from The Complete Book of Small-Batch Preserving. I make several batches of this and use if for pizzas all year.
Seasoned Tomato Sauce
12 cups chopped ripe tomatoes (about 6 lb.)
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tbsp chopped fresh oregano OR 1 tsp dried
2 tsp granulated sugar
1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
2 bay leaves
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp salt
1. Combine tomatoes, onion, garlic, oregano, sugar, pepper and bay leaves in a large stainless steel or enamel saucepan. Bring to a boil over high heat, reduce heat and boil gently, uncovered, until very thick, about 1 1/4 hours; stir frequently. Press through a food mill or coarse sieve to remove seeds and skins. Add lemon juice and salt.
2. Remove hot jars from canner and ladle sauce into jars to within 1/2 inch of rim. Process 35 minutes for half-pint or pint jars.
Makes about 4 cups.
After some discussion on this forum, I would make the following change to this recipe. The amount of lemon juice and salt is correct for the expected 4 cups. But because you may or may not boil it down to the same volume, I would suggest adding the lemon juice and salt to each jar rather than to the mixture. In other words, add 1/2 tbsp lemon juice and 1/8 tsp salt to each half-pint.
Someone please jump in if I am wrong on the lemon juice and salt.
Ellie Topp and Howard's book is very reliable, so I'm comfortable with just following their recommendation. However, there's no harm whatsoever in adding lemon juice/salt to the jars instead, so if it increases your comfort level, do it.
I'm glad you posted that recipe. I was just getting ready to do the same thing myself!
Carol, you are the one who made me buy the Small Batch book - you talked about its recipes so lovingly. I have made several things and they have all turned out wonderfully. I like that the recipes are a little more "complex" than the BBB ones, combining flavors and making a more robust product.
Hope you enjoy it, Hilde, come back and tell us.
I was just looking at this Seasoned Tomato Sauce recipe, it says 12 cups = 6 pounds but in the other thread, it says 1 lb = 1.5 cups? Hilde, said she's been cooking it for HOURS and it is still thin... she didn't tell me how much she started with though.
Also, if you cook down 12 cups of tomato and 1 cup of onion, wouldn't you still have more than 4 cups in the end?
OK, we used the 1lb = 1.5 cups of puree math...
She doubled the recipe, in using the above formula, she used 18 cups puree & 2 cups onions. It made TRIPLE the recipe after cooking it down for many hours!
It's gonna take some math to figure this out, but I think we should be subtracting about 40% from what it calls for of cups of tomatoes if using puree (2.5 cups tomatoes vs. 1.5 cups puree.)
Does anybody understand this?
OK, I THINK I understand the issue.
I'll let you figure out the math; it's been a long day here. Too many paint fumes, I think, LOL.
1 pound of tomatoes = 2 cups CHOPPED or 1 1/2 cups CRUSHED or PUREED.
I posted the "tomato equation" on two different threads for two different forms of prepped tomatoes. Crushed or pureed tomatoes will have less volume than chopped ones.
I hope this makes sense. By the way, I should have cited my source on the equivalents: the new "Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving."
OK... I think what I'm saying is that the puree has much less waste than starting with whole tomatoes, seeding them & peeling, removing any cores, etc, that they are more concentrated (yes, that's a bad word to use here in this example.)
Here's what I mean...
If the seasoned tomato sauce recipe required 12c tomatoes & made 4c, there's both a lot of cookdown as well as waste. Hilde tried doubling the recipe but instead of using 24c, she used the 1.5c/lb formula, so the original recipe should have been 9c... but by doubling to 18, the recipe actually made 12c instead of 8c, even after all that cooking down.
My suggestion was this:
If instead of 24 cups you used 40% less (about 14.4) plus the 2c onions = 16.4 cups, cooked down in half would be a little over 8 cups! Double the original recipe! It may not actually be 40.0%. The 40% is 1.5c divided by 2.5c so 0.60 or 40% less. So 12c - 40% = 7.2c... plus the 1c onions = 8.2c...cook it down to half would give about the 4 cups the original recipe yielded. so however you look at it, 60% of the called for amount, or the called for amount minus 40%.
I wonder what Linda Lou thinks about this reasoning. Also, what about increasing the other ingredients? If Hilde adds 40% more onion & spices, that would probably be the mathematical solution to the 18 cups of puree, but that wouldn't go over too well regarding hi/lo acid ratio theories.
Another way to look at it: The 8 gallons of puree is equal to 53 quarts of tomatoes, not 32!
Any thoughts?
I have done this starting with 6 lb. tomatoes. I chop them roughly and get close to 6 cups. I usually chop more if needed or leave some out - in other words, I go for the 6 cups. The recipe says to cook down for 1 1/4. It is never thick enough for me after that time either, but I have never cooked for longer than 2 hours. I do get very close to the 4 cups the recipe says.
I think that variation will occur by the method of tomato prep (as you say), by how hard you cook it, and I also think that doubling it will make it take longer - just a bigger volume is harder to cook down in my experience (which isn't a lot).
this is a great thread! here's my problem whenever i'm trying to calculate puree-to-chopped ratios. i've been roasting the tomatoes before running them through the mill and i get about one quart of "juice" in the pan for every 1.5 - 2 quarts of puree.n so, my puree is already significantly thickened and i don't need to cook it down 50% (more like 25%) to get the right consistency. i've been adding other veggies proportionately based on my finished amount (always rounding down - which is easy, since i never add fresh peppers to anything and always figure i'm lacking a pretty significant low-acid ingredient).
and, carol - your remark is really on the nose! the ONLY thing i'm capable of thinking about these late nights, lately, is finding a good movie to watch while waiting for the canner's pressure to drop.


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Where can I find shower tile like the one shown?
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Not sure if you are referring to the grey tile or the red mosaic tile. Either way the gray is from Ann Sacks called Luxor Gray, comes in a variety of sizes. The red mosaic backsplash tile is from WALKER ZANGER-CAG POPPY ARTISAN FIELD ITEM: 1CAGPOPAF.
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Kitchen cabinet doors -- repair? replace?
We have a kitchen that is just FILLED with 23-year-old custom oak cabinetry. We have 40 raised panel rail & stile doors that are showing their age either through finish wear & tear, by sticking badly in the summer and/or by literally coming apart at the seams. We looked into replacing the cabinets but holy cow. The quote of $35K (uninstalled, and nevermind the countertop and other things we want to do ...) has us thinking we should refinish and call it a day. I've seen the discussions on gel staining them and think going with a dark espresso would be great BUT here are my questions:
A) Should we even consider repairing the doors? My husband has said he'll take them apart and reglue them, but ... is that advisable/possible? That wouldn't solve the summertime sticking problem ...
B) But if we replace the doors (we'd get flat panel, which we heartily prefer over raised panel), could we hope to match them to the boxes in terms of stain color if we get unfinished wood? We'd gel stain the existing boxes, which are already stained. Short of PAINT, how could the new doors be matched to the old, restained boxes?
Thank you for any advice you can offer!
The nice thing about gel stains is that allows you to stain over material thats already been stained once before. Now if you buy new doors you have a couple options. You can stain them and depending on the stain could very well turn out very closely to the gel stain. Or you could do the extra step of staining the new doors the original color before gel stain and then gel stain them. Thats a bit redunant but could give some peace of mind knowing everything went thru the same steps.
You can buy new doors inexpensively enough it make trying to repair the existing ones silly.
Be aware gel stain is actually a form of paint. It is not a true stain. That has advantages and disadvantages. Easy to apply, relatively easy to remove(strippers/etc.) It does let some of the wood grain show.
However, if you buy new doors, the maker should be able to come very close to matching what you have now.
If you got unfinished wood, it would be possible to stain to match the existing color---IF.
If you have the original stain recipe used on the cabinets. Most manufacturers use a blend of colors and different finishes. To match, you have to do the staining/finishing basically the same as the originals.
I have a bit of experience in color matching on trim. I installed some rough cedar trim in a factory built house(not a mobile---this one had a real stone fireplace and two by six inch wall studs). The factory sent extra trim, but did not stain enough. I tried for two days to match the color---got close---but way off. Called the factory and they gave me the recipe---had four colors---of the same brand I was using. I had gotten two right. Would have never even tried one color and then there was the different amounts.
So. My advice would be to save some frustration and get new doors. Have them match stain/finish and then even if you use gel stain, the new and old will match well.
Thank you both for your response. The current cabinets were actually stick-built by a local woodworker (now deceased, sad to say), and the cabinets were a special formula determined by the previous owners. I believe we have a small jar of it somewhere and my husband thinks it might have the formula written on it (I hope!). But the cabinets were stained 22 years ago, so I'm sure there must be some sort of aging/patina at this point. I would hope we could get the new doors close enough, though, to then gel stain it all so it looks so close no one can tell that the boxes and doors are from different eras.
It's daunting to think of how huge the project is -- 40 doors, 28 drawer fronts. I might be done by 2015 ...
Any pigmented stain would be a form of paint, because they are both pigment, binder, and solvent. It's just the proportions that make it one or the other. You can thin down paint and use it for stain; I have done so. Usually quite a savings if you need a gallon of white stain.
Conestoga makes and sells doors of the highest quality (they make doors for Omega Dynasty).
Here is a link that might be useful: Conestoga Door/Drawer page
Thank you for the information about Conestoga. We'll definitely take a look. I'm so conflicted about whether it's worth it to do all this replacing or whether we should just spend a little more and get new cabinets that don't require all this work. We have two kids (teenagers), a dog and are both working full-time jobs, so we don't exactly have a ton of time. We're thinking of having a contractor do the staining for us, but ... that might erase any savings we'd get over just replacing the cabinets. We won't know until we get all our quotes.
Is it worth keeping and restaining the old boxes if we have to pay someone else to do it? What do you think?
One thing you need to remember - if you get ALL new doors and drawer fronts in the closest possible stain to your existing color, then you only have to deal with matching the cabinet ends and frames.
If it were me, I would order my doors in the stain I wanted and have a "pro" strip and stain the frames. I would not put gel stain on new stained factory doors. Gel stain is a great product when you are wanting to give something old or ugly a new facelift, but NOT ON NEW CABINET DOORS! Order a sample of the door first, so the pro has something to practice his matching skills on.
On the other hand, with that many doors and drawers to be replaced, I think I would definitly price complete new installation of cabinets vs door/drawer replacement. You may find that there would not be that much of a price difference. Just a thought.


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Hard-core Apple fans have few greater joys than opening brand-new Mac boxes, removing the plastic from around their computers, and booting them up for the first time. But like anything else, the sooner you want a new Mac, the more you'll pay. Patient customers should note that Apple offers a fantastic second option: refurbished Macs. From model to model, you're pretty much guaranteed at least 15% off the standard retail price, and older computers can go for discounts closer to 30%. That means the you can score a current-generation base model MacBook Air for only $849—a heck of a deal—or get a more deluxe refurbished model for the same $999 price as a less deluxe new one.
The best part: even though the computers have been used to some degree, there are no obvious signs to show that. Usually they're just returns that can't be sold as new; all of the computers are checked by Apple to make sure they're in great condition, and fixed in any way that might indicate otherwise. They come with the same one year warranty as brand new machines, and are eligible for AppleCare, too. This is a great way to save a few bucks if you're willing to forego the standard pretty white box, which is replaced with more generic packaging for refurbs. Apple's inventory changes pretty regularly, so if the machine you're looking for isn't available the first time you search, keep your eye on the page—there's a good chance it may pop up in the near future.
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Book Review: Sino–US Relations and the Role of Emotion in State Action
3 February 2015
PhD candidate David Howell reviews Sino–US Relations and the Role of Emotion in State Action: Understanding Post–Cold War Crisis Interactions by Taryn Shepperd. Read review
The Imperialism of Economic Nationalism, 1890–1913
13 January 2015
Debunking the common laissez-faire myth surrounding turn-of-the-century American foreign relations allows for a reconceptualisation of American imperialism from 1890 to 1913. The Republican Party, the party of protectionism, found itself riven by internal disagreements over the future of the protectionist system and US imperial expansion. From within Republican protectionist ranks arose a progressive wing that increasingly looked beyond the home market for the country's growing American agricultural and manufacturing surpluses. They did so against staunch anti-imperial opposition not only from American free-trade independents, but also from the Republican Party's isolationist home-market protectionists, who yet feared or disdained foreign markets and colonial acquisitions. These progressive Republican proponents of empire combined coercive trade reciprocity with protectionism—an expansive closed door—and worked hard to extend American imperial power through informal means of high tariff walls, closed US-controlled markets, and retaliatory reciprocity if possible, by formal annexation and military interventionism when necessary. The American Empire thus arose owing to the imperialism of economic nationalism, not the imperialism of free trade. Read article
Resolving the Difference between Evolutionary Antecedents of Political Attitudes and Sources of Human Variation
4 November 2014
by Adam Lockyer and Peter K. Hatemi
Humans, despite the country they inhabit, the social structures they constitute, and the forms of governments they live under, universally possess political attitudes; that is, those attitudes towards sexual norms, out-groups, resource allocation, cooperation and fairness. It has been proposed that this near universal manifestation across societies remains ingrained in the psychological architecture of humans because of human evolution. However, there is enormous variation in political attitudes within and across populations, and this variation is not merely a function of social differences but derives, in part, through neurobiological differences within human populations. Thus, there is great confusion on the difference between what has evolved as universal, and what is due to individual variation. This confusion, results, in part on the lack of integration of the theoretical mechanisms that addresses how humans vary within evolutionarily adaptive universals. Here we seek to fill this lacuna by explicating how evolutionary biology and psychology account for the universal need for humans to have political attitudes while neurobiological differences account for variation within those evolved structures. Link to publishers
American Art, Australian Focus, 1945-1975
18 September 2014
A special edition of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (Vol 14, Issue 1, 2014), edited by the US Studies Centre's Professor Roger Benjamin has been published. Entitled "American Art, Australian Focus, 1945-1975", the edition emerges from a series of seminars and conferences supported by the US Studies Centre. Link to journal
The theater of inequality
19 August 2014
Like the ideology undergirding Occupy Wall Street, Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century exhibits a marked lack of historical consciousness and complexity, writes lecturer Thomas Adams. In this essay, he argues that Piketty confuses capitalism with capitalist social relations, and thus imagines solutions without politics, lacks coherence regarding the necessity for a revaluation of labor and a shrinking of the moral confines of the market, and hopes for a better world sans class politics as a mechanism. Read article
Wither the Tea Party? The Future of a Political Movement
6 June 2014
In the midst of the Congressional primaries taking place across America this summer, the Tea Party's history continues to be written. Tea Party membership and funding have continued to grow over the last year, yet many in the media have proclaimed the Tea Party dead. In this paper for Brookings, senior visiting scholar Christopher S. Parker argues that the Tea Party is a true grassroots movement and has real staying power in the current political climate. Download here
Adam Smith as advocate of empire
11 February 2014
In this article for The Historical Journal, research associate Marc Palen examines how The Wealth of Nations (1776) was transformed into an amorphous text regarding the imperial question throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Adam Smith had left behind an ambiguous legacy on the subject of empire: a legacy that left long-term effects upon subsequent British imperial debates. In his chapter on colonies, Smith had proposed both a scheme for the gradual devolution of the British empire and a theoretical scheme for imperial federation. In response to the growing global popularity of protectionism and imperial expansionism, the rapid development of new tools of globalisation, and the frequent onset of economic downturns throughout the late Victorian and Edwardian eras, turn-of-the-century proponents of British imperial federation formed into a formidable opposition to England's prevailing free trade orthodoxy — Cobdenism — a free trade ideology which famously expanded upon the anti-imperial dimensions of The Wealth of Nations. Ironically, at the turn of the century many advocates for imperial federation also turned to Smith for their intellectual inspiration. Adam Smith thus became an advocate of empire, and his advocacy left an indelible intellectual mark upon the burgeoning British imperial crisis. Read article
Australia's relations with China in turbulence
25 January 2014
Relations between the new Australian government and China got off to a rocky start, writes Centre visiting professor Linda Jakobson. In this essay for the Asan Forum, she focuses on relations between the two countries, saying that Australia's political relationship with China is far less developed than its economic relationship. China is not merely an economic power but also a crucial political and security actor in the region, Jakobson argues, and underdeveloped political and strategic relations between Canberra and Beijing weaken Australia's ability to exert influence regionally. Australia risks being viewed by China's leaders merely as a provider of resources and a subordinate member in the alliance with the United States. Read article
Book Review: China, the United States, and Global Order
31 July 2013
David R. Howell reviews Rosemary Foot and Andrew Walter's book China, the United States, and Global Order for the July issue of China Journal. Read review
The Logic of Interoperability: Australia's Acquisition of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
30 April 2013
Although Australia has sent its own forces to fight alongside the US in every major American conflict since the Great War, it worries that this level of loyalty might not always be reciprocated. Australia has therefore maintained a position of self-reliance in all of its defence decisions. Using the F-35 program as an example, Dr Adam Lockyer argues that this logic of interoperability is becoming increasingly untenable. Read article
Iran negotiations still playing out
With Iranian nuclear talks continuing in Lausanne, Switzerland, research associate Tom Switzer discusses the latest. How close are the major powers to striking a deal and what is the US looking to gain?
2016 presidential race kicks off
More than a year and a half before the 2016 US presidential elections, the first major figure from either party has leapt into the race. Associate professor Brendon O'Connor talks about the potential field.


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Reception Hours: 8am to 10pm
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100 metres to local Metro bus service routes from the hostel.
Tasmania's Own Redline Coaches and TassieLink operate services daily into and out of Hobart.
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18km to Hobart airport. Shuttle service departs airport 10-15 minutes after each domestic arrival. Drop-off at YHA Hobart Montgomery's hostel on request.
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Good location and staff very friendly.
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Nice hostel in central Hobart. Facilities are nice and clean and the staff is very helpful and friendly!
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Very Friendly hostel in an excellent location for exploring Hobart and the South East
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Very centrally located and within walking distance to the main sights including transport and shops. Mike gave us a great intro the place including some great pointers on what to see.
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We found this Y.H.A. as good as any other we have been to and the position in Hobart is really good. Close to the waterfront and many busses. We would most certainly stay there again.
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This backpacker hostel is in the heart of Hobart, only a block from Hobart's waterfront.
It is an easy walk to Constitution Dock, home to the Sydney to Hobart fleet every December and less than a 10 minute stroll to Salamanca Place, where popular street markets are held every weekend.
Hobart Montgomery's YHA has clean and comfortable private and shared rooms, a common room with TV, communal cooking facilities and a friendly tour booking desk.
The hostel in Hobart is 150 metres from nearest food store.
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"Your Tan is Totally Cool" -- In this Road Block, Married couple Wynona (left) and Chuck (right) must search through hundreds of posters to find one with the quote "Glory to the Younger Generation" in order to receive the next clue on "The Amazing Race."
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It's a rare breed of musician that gets a day named after him in his hometown and an even rarer breed that receives this honor at the tender age of 17--Gary Clark Jr. belongs to the latter and does so with style. Born and bred in Austin, Texas, Clark is a superlative guitar player who is largely considered to be the foremost musician on the contemporary Texas blues scene. Clark is a much sought after musician and has, in the past, worked with such blues luminaries as Jimmie Vaughn, Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton.
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The Waterboys is a Celtic folk/rock band from Edinburgh, Scotland that has been one of the genre's more iconic and influential acts since forming in 1983. Comprised of musicians hailing from areas throughout the UK and the US, The Waterboys was one of the first bands to successfully fuse Celtic folk music with rock and roll to create a mainstream sound that became an immediate hit with audiences in the early 1980s. Despite going on hiatus for much of the 1990s, The Waterboys reunited in 2000 and continues to contribute to the evolution of the folk-rock genre and the many, now popular folk rock bands that cite them as their primary influence.
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Let It Beis a concert musical that takes you through the entire history of The Beatles. Features forty of the band's greatest hits, the show chronicles John, Paul, George and Ringo's rise to stardom and all the biggest moments in their career.
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March 31, 2015
Celebrate the environment and sustainability with a month of events at locations around Auckland. Enjoy films, tours, exhibitions and more. Visit the website for additional information.
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TaylorMade Mens RocketBladez Tour Irons 8 8
Huge Difference I played my new clubs for the first time over the weekend, and they improved my game tremendously! July 7, 2014
Get them before they are gone! I few years ago, I changed from very forgiving irons to TaylorMade's RAC LT and loved the lower ball flight with a little more spin. I took my new RocketBladez Tour irons to the range and the first thing I noticed is that the higher ball flight is back. The trajectory on the long to mid irons is a lot like a new high loft driver - the launch angle is higher than I'm used to and the spin is probably a little less. How I like this characteristic on the course with ProV1's is TBD. The next thing I noticed was increased distance. Not sure how much gain there was because of the poor marking at the range, but quite possibly a club length. This I will like, because it gives you more options from any given distance. The third thing, and probably the biggest deal, is how effortless it was to hit the long irons. My experience says don't worry about comments like "they get more distance from stronger lofts", because these clubs are still very forgiving and the ball will get up in the air even from fairly low on the club face. As inventories dwindle, don't be afraid to snap up a set! I may just order a second set. June 27, 2014
Great Irons I got these irons for Christmas, and just played my first competitive rounds with them at a college tournament this weekend. I have the tours in 4-AW with project x 6.0 shafts, and I'm amazed. It took me the first day to get used to them, after all i had burner 09 irons before these, and they aren't anywhere near as forgiving as the burners. However, they feel great, they're workable, and deadly accurate when you strike them well. Probably the best set of irons I've had! March 22, 2014
Dont like new equipment...but.... I'm not one who gets new equipment every year or everyother year like a some people. I like to find something that I feel comfortable with and then keep those and make sure i give myself time to learn to use the clubs. I had a set of PIngs for 14 years, and i just replaced my 7 year old Titleist 735-CM's with these Rocketbladez Tour irons with the Tour Stiff shafts. The 735's were a small clubhead and more of a muscleback, so i was a little weary going to these clubs with more of a cavity back, but almost all of the reviews said how soft these felt and how they were somewhat forgiving. Having gone from a 7-8 handicap about 5 years ago after i purchased and used the Titleists for a few years, i'm now a 3 hdcp and these clubs are what i feel can make me even better. I'll get a little more spin and control, and just having hit these on a range 3 times so far, i can tell the long irons just exploding the ball off the face with that speed slot that the 3-7 irons have. Overall, i'd said the Tour's are for a 10 or less handicap, because the regular model of these has a slightly larger head and i feel are more of a game improvement club, versus these as a players club. TRY THEM, YOU WONT BE LET DOWN!!! June 29, 2013


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Lob is excited to announce that we have have reduced Simple Area Mail ("SAM") prices across all tiers up to 28%, making it that much more affordable for our users to send postcards to entire zip codes automatically through the API.
Consistent with our virtuous cycle philosophy, Lob continuously monitors scale to identify and pass on cost savings to our users where we can, further reducing any friction in transitioning to mailing via an API and enhance overall customer experience.
If you have any questions about Simple Area Mail or would like to start sending today, please reach out to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Just as software has changed the world, we believe that APIs will soon become the fundamental building blocks of all companies. Twilio enables powerful telephony capabilities, Stripe gives simple access to complicated payments infrastructure, and AWS allows businesses to perform the most complex computing process in the cloud. With the APIs available today, businesses can start operating and scaling faster than ever before.
At Lob, we believe that communication in the offline world should be as effortless as it is digitally. By giving developers an API for printing and mailing, we hope to empower businesses everywhere to reach their customers in a more creative and high touch manner.
Mailchimp did a great job explaining the concept and utility of "transactional" email. Triggered emails are a tool that businesses and marketers have long used to engage with customers and encourage particular behaviors. They are emails based on an action taken by, or directed towards an individual. We've all seen them before:
The beauty of triggered email is that it enables businesses to automatically send personalized communications to customers at a specific time based on actions taken. By performing a specified action, customers identify themselves at a certain point in the business's sales funnel. With this knowledge, the business can tailor content to fit that specific customer. Engaging customers in this manner ultimately drives dramatic improvements in conversion and customer experience.
With the emergence of services such as Amazon SES, Sendgrid, and Mailgun, it has become easy for companies of all sizes to build robust tools around email that serve as their primary channel for customer communication. When is the last time you signed up for any service, online or offline, and didn't receive an email in your inbox shortly thereafter?
This begs the question, why aren't these tools available for physical mail?
In short, no. Direct mail is very much alive. It remains arguably the most powerful communication channel in terms of open-rate and conversions. Of the $42B in direct marketing spend in the US, direct mail is the #1 channel (bigger than search and display combined)! The problem is that physical mail has been lagging behind digital channels in terms of modern technical innovation. The main things that have scared companies away from direct mail are the difficulty to get started along with the lack of flexibility and agility. Indeed, if used incorrectly, direct mail can become a costly and ineffective endeavor. Technology should give you the tools to overcome these challenges.
Partnering with traditional printers and mail-houses is a long and strenuous process. In addition to finding the right partner and negotiating pricing, businesses need to spend significant time, money and resources to develop the custom automated solutions that they need. These relationships often cost thousands of dollars and eat up months of time before you can send a single letter. Also, be ready to commit to sending large volumes of mail right off the bat whilst hoping for the results that justify your expenditure.
After setting up something that works, the day-to-day execution of mailings brings additional challenges. Complications often arise around setting up different templates, making minor changes, approving proofs, and checking quality, all taking a considerable amount of time. It can take you up to 45-60 days to set up and fully test a single mail template, and just as much time to set up a different template or product. Even requesting minor tweaks in artwork may take much longer than you'd like because you are at the mercy of the printer, who controls and builds the mailpiece. This makes it incredibly difficult to A/B test creatives and rapidly launch new campaigns, things everyone expects by default to justify any sort of marketing or operational spend.
With Lob, all you have to do to get started is a quick and free sign up. After creating an account at Lob, you can immediately start sending mail. It's as simple as that. You can mail a single postcard and it will only cost you $0.70 all-in, no strings attached. It is a simple as sending out an email using the SendGrid API. Take a look below for a comparison.
name: 'My First Postcard',
to: {
name: 'Joe Smith',
address_line1: '123 Main Street',
address_city: 'Mountain View',
address_state: 'CA',
address_zip: '94041'
front: '
My first postcard using HTML.
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back: 'https://lob.com/postcardback.pdf'
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console.log(err, res);
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from: 'firstname.lastname@example.com',
subject: 'My First Email',
html: '
My first email using HTML.
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Lob is developer first, meaning we build our APIs in a RESTful manner following modern best practices, provide clear documentation, and keep our wrappers up to date and readily consumable via Github. Each API request in our Printing and Mailing API takes in a "to" address and content. Instead of an email address and HTML body, you provide a physical address and HTML. That's all it takes to create a physical mailpiece. Every individual request is completely independent. By integrating Lob's APIs, you can start sending sending physical mail in a programmatic fashion. You can also take advantage of open source libraries such as Prawn, PDFKit, and Django to start creating dynamic creatives. Plug these creatives into Lob's API to start sending mail on-demand.
Now that everything can be done in house, companies can make changes on the fly, rapidly launch new campaigns, and scale their mailings up and down on-demand. By integrating Lob, a single developer can now build and control their company's entire print and mail workflow, regardless of size, directly from their terminal. You can now truly send physical mail as effortlessly as email.
The possibilities are endless. Direct mail is very powerful. It gives you a personal touch which email lacks that is necessary to close new customers, nurture fragile leads, and win key customers back.
Pretend for a minute that you are a company that offers peer-to-peer lending products such as Lending Club. There are several points in your customer's lifecycle where they can drop off, never to be heard from again. You have probably identified these points of drop off and discovered how far a customer needs to go before they become a valuable long-term customer.
Perhaps you notice that a sizable chunk of people that reach your website and apply for a free credit quote never actually take out a loan. These are customers who have expressed interest in your product, but just never got there. It would probably be smart to send a triggered letter with a promotion code to these people, giving them that extra nudge they need to convert into a paying customer. You can activate this trigger after 7 days, 14 days, 30 days, or X days, testing cohorts to see what has the best conversion.
Many of our customers have set up triggers such as these, helping them to win new customers and keep leads from leaking out of their conversion funnel.
Mail may be more expensive on a per impression basis than email, social media, or other digital ads, but it is a medium that is worth the money spent if done correctly. According to the Direct Marketing Association, response rates for an existing customer average 3.4% vs. 0.12% for email, a roughly 30-fold difference.
Ideally, you should be running all of the available communication channels in parallel because each has its own benefits. We believe that choosing between online vs. offline doesn't have to be an exclusive decision. You should leverage both appropriately. For example, you can use email to reach masses in the online world in a very cost-efficient manner. On the flipside, you can reach those who operate primarily in the offline world or need a higher touch in a cost-powerful way with physical mail.
Our customers have put our API to work in many effective and creative ways. The most successful ones have followed four general principles.
Be sure that your mailpieces embody your company's brand to the fullest. Create artwork that is bold, yet welcoming. Think about a mailbox the same way you would about an inbox. You want the subject line to stand out from the rest of the emails, but not seem spammy. Take advantage of a less crowded mailbox by focusing on color, imagery, and bold messaging.
Make sure each mailpiece is customized and dynamically generated based on the recipient. Everyone is unique, so you should make sure each individual mailpiece is customized as much as possible. Don't be afraid to use customer data to personalize and make a statement with your mailing.
Make sure everything about your mailpiece is measurable. Place a clear call to action within each mailpiece so you can clearly track the effectiveness of any campaign. This could be a redeemable promo code, a tinyurl link, etc. Be data oriented and measure ROIs so you can make the best decisions going forward.
Make changes to your creative and messaging frequently - you never know what works best if you haven't tried it.
We want to make sure all businesses have all the information they need to maximize their spend. To do this, we believe that everything needs to be measurable. By exposing things such as mail tracing from the postal system via our API, we enable users to know not only when they send the mail, but also the time it takes for a customer to respond to any single mailpiece.
This is just one of the many features that are always in the works here at Lob. As always, if you have any questions about our product or how it could work for you, please do not hesitate to shoot us a note at email@example.com, we'd be happy to hear from you!
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The team at Lob was lucky enough to travel to San Diego to attend the DMA14 Conference to showcase our print and mail APIs. DMA is one of the largest marketing conferences where over 200 global marketing leaders from some of the world's top brands presented ideas, innovations, and case studies. Even Magic Johnson was in attendance! Armed with our punny API shirts and marketing materials (see pictures below), we got the opportunity to show attendees how APIs can be used to enable true data-driven marketing.
With many of our customers and partners in attendance, we focused our efforts on educating marketer show to set up direct mail campaigns just like they set up email campaigns today. Our APIs enable companies to harness customer data to set up custom drip mail campaigns, triggered notifications or messages, and achieve true operational automation.
Today we want to share some of the insights we gained from speaking with customers and other vendors as well as our own experiences designing positive ROI direct mail programs!
One of the biggest differentiators of marketing materials that increases the chances of a potential customer taking action is how relevant the content is to the recipient. You've already seen this adopted in email marketing today (abandoned shopping cart emails or recommended items based on behavior) - yet it still hasn't been effectively used in direct mail because of the complexity of setting up templates. Typically you see the use of one or two templates that are the same, and the only thing that changes is the customer's name! If you're ever wondering why Comcast has never changed the look and feel of their letters, it's because traditional direct mail tools have made it very difficult and time consuming to modify or A/B test templates.
The common thread we found after speaking with industry experts at DMA, and through successful campaigns run on Lob, is that each piece should be customized for each distinct recipient. This means leveraging CRM data about user engagement, actions a user may have taken on your site, and segmenting users into different categories.
At Lob we work with our customers to create content dynamically by using images, generating PDFs, and even HTML to create the design for printed pieces. Each piece doesn't require a template, but can be entirely customized on the fly, making it easy to change content whenever you wish. This means each customer gets a perfect piece of mail that looks like it was created just for them. Look out for our guide on how to send your physical mail as effortlessly as email in early December!
Another aspect of direct mail that is traditionally managed poorly is the timing and execution of campaigns. Simply put, folks are waiting to batch together requests in order to hit minimum volume requirements or to get the best price. This means that customers are getting random marketing letters or postcards possibly weeks after they have engaged with a company! Imagine if the welcome email you receive after signing up on a website came three weeks after you signed up - it simply wouldn't be effective.
We've found that being able to trigger mail based on a customer action or request and having it arrive only a couple of days later in their mailbox can increase conversions dramatically! This is because the product is still top of mind and, with mail as an additional touch point and call to action, the customer is much more likely to convert. With Lob, there are no minimum requirements for sending a letter - you can have a single piece of mail go out immediately after a user performs a certain action.
One of the common ways folks have traditionally done direct mail is by deciding on a particular campaign, such as a "holiday" or "sale" promotion, and building target lists for the mailing. In some cases, this may be effective. However, it's not a scalable or repeatable process and requires people to constantly monitor and manage these campaigns.
Attendees at DMA told us that the key to continued success is not only to run successful campaigns, but to create scalable programs that can be easily replicated. This means closely measuring ROI on each letter that is sent out and finding out the key factors that make a campaign work. Once those factors are identified, companies can scale the process to run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and continue to drive positive ROI.
Imagine if you could set up an automated win-back campaign that didn't require constant employee management. This is now possible using Lob's APIs to automate triggered offers that are sent based on specific actions or behaviors that are identified. Companies that Lob has worked with in the past have identified the key offers and behaviors and, using our APIs, have implemented automated solutions that send out offers when a possible user has been identified. This keeps marketing managers from spending time figuring out the execution of how the mail gets printed and sent and allows them to focus on perfecting content and finding new campaigns that can be run constantly.
We hope that these tips help you think differently about direct mail and how to create successful programs moving forward! We're excited to be part of the DMA community and network, meet, and connect with many of the experts out there. If you're interested in hearing more about how Lob can help you, please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com!
As we grow our team at Lob, we've been thinking a lot about the environment we want to foster for our team. We've thought about our engineering and design process, recruiting, team bonding events, office setup/layout, and a whole lot more.
As our team grows, it is important to us to preserve the parts of Lob's culture that we love. Through our conversations over the last couple of months, we've realized how important employee health and wellness is to our team.
Here are some simple things we've put in place to ensure that our team stays healthy and happy as we grow:
At Lob, we aim to have one team bonding event every month. Previous events have included Escape the Room, Urban Putt, and even cooking classes!
This brings the team together for bonding, and also lets us celebrate our successes. We know that it can be tiring and it's important that we get out and have a great time with the people who are in the trenches working hard every day.
Lob always keeps the fridge stocked with drinks and plenty of healthy snacks so that we always have options.
Everyone adds their favorite snack to our team food order every week. I always make sure we're stocked with almond milk, peanut butter, and quest bars; you know, the essentials!
Our focus is on making sure that Lob provides healthy alternatives to your standard snack foods. We believe that eating healthy is an important part of ensuring you feel great every day. While energy drinks can get you through a long night, we aren't encouraging folks to load up on junk food/drinks! Ultimately by providing healthy options we can ensure that everyone is productive, happy, and energized.
Regular exercise improves mood, boosts energy, and promotes better sleep to name just a few things. Getting some physical activity in does wonders for your health, especially for us desk workers!
To emphasize the importance of exercise at Lob, we provide employees with two options:
A fitness stipend - enough to cover the cost of most gyms. That said, we know some people prefer other forms of fitness (bouldering, yoga, martial arts, dance, etc.) so we keep our definition of fitness flexible. In fact, many of our employees participate in a variety of physical activities to keep things interesting.
Unlimited classes at Barry's Bootcamp - take classes during the week at Barry's and Lob will cover it! This is hands-down my favorite perk at Lob. Barry's is across the street from Lob's office and provides the best workout in the city (I feel strongly about this). In addition to enjoying all the benefits associated with a great workout, I've found that that group workout classes with teammates is a great bonding experience.
Here are a few Lob-sters after a morning working with the one and only Erica Stenz at Barry's:
As our company has grown, we've realized that the constant day to day grind can take a toll on folks. As such, Lob has put in multiple policies in place to make sure people are staying sane and take time off work as well!
Research has shown that working too much without taking vacation can be detrimental to your physical, mental, and work life. Everyone needs to set aside some time for themselves; that could mean taking time to travel, or to see family. We don't want people to burn out so we encourage taking a vacation every so often.
As such, we keep an open vacation policy and flexible hours. The focus for our employees is the amount of throughput and work that gets done. We believe that the priority should be getting work done on time, and, so long as that is being achieved, we want to make sure employees take time off for themselves as well. We want people to enjoy the time they spend at Lob, but also spend time with their loved ones and friends as well.
It's important to think about the values that are important to your company early on and to implement policies that ensure them. We've thought a lot about these policies and urge all companies to develop a Health and Wellness Program. If you have questions or concerns about what policies to implement or how to implement them, reach out to us!
Be sure to tweet at us if you or your company has tried anything similar or think we should add something else to our Health and Wellness program. We'd love your feedback!
Today we are excited to announce a new feature being added to our check offering - logos! Logos can be added on any check with no extra charges and the feature is available immediately.
This is the first significant step in our effort to provide customers with more ways to customize their checks generated through Lob. We've also upgraded the check paper that we're using to look even more beautiful than before. Check out the product shots below!
Here's a sample request you could make to get a check created with the Lob logo in the upper left.
curl https://api.lob.com/v1/checks \ -u test_0dc8d51e0acffcb1880e0f19c79b2f5b0cc: \ -d "name=Demo Check" \ -d "to[name]=Harry Zhang" \ -d "to[address_line1]=123 Test Street" \ -d "to[address_city]=Mountain View" \ -d "to[address_state]=CA" \ -d "to[address_zip]=94041" \ -d "to[address_country]=US" \ -d "bank_account=bank_3e64d9904356b20" \ -d "amount=2200" \ -d "memo=rent" \ -d "logo=http://assets.lob.com/lob_check_logo.png"
Feel free to shoot us an email at email@example.com with any questions. We're continually looking to improve our product and offer our customers even more features. Let us know what you think!


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Acting on commuter complaints, the state transport department launched a crackdown on Sunday on auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers for not carrying or not appropriately displaying original tariff cards with revised fares.
Flying squads of the three regional transport offices in the city east (Wadala), west (Andheri) and central (Tardeo) penalised more than 100 auto-rickshaw and taxi drivers in a single day. Tardeo RTO penalised five vehicles, Wadala RTO 56 and Andheri RTO 43. The fine for not displaying original tariff cards is Rs 100.
"They were all carrying photocopies of tariff cards. Photocopies are easier to tamper with and passengers are fleeced," said V N More, transport commissioner, adding that most of those caught were auto-rickshaw drivers.
"For the first few days after the fare revision, we didn't really take a very strict view of this as we understand it takes time for drivers to get original revised tariff cards. But now it has been ten days and it is surprising drivers are still not carrying original fare cards. We have done everything to distribute more cards than the required number," he said. More said immediately after the fare hike, Andheri RTO, which has 57,000 auto-rickshaws registered with it, distributed 78,000 tariff cards, while Wadala RTO made available 39,000 tariff cards for the 34,000 vehicles registered with it.