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The Potty Regression Battle of Wills Royale
Hi Amy.
I have a little over-3.5 year-old daughter who has been potty trained since about 2.5, give or take. We're expecting her baby brother in April. She seems excited, thrilled even. She has many plans for him. She calls him "my baby." But you know. Who knows, really?
So the baby hasn't been born yet but she is already having the potty regressions. I figure by April we will be covered in pee.
She's been having a LOT of pee accidents, specifically at home. At school (full-day preschool), she's doing good, is dry 9 days out of 10, although her teachers do say she tends to not quite speak up about needing to go (she's pretty shy) and doesn't like to ask for help. It's a Montessori schoool, if that tidbit helps.
Cut to home. She is clearly doing the "too busy" to go thing as she's clenching her legs together and clearly holding it in. If we notice that and mention (very neutrally! I promise!) that she should go, or ask if she needs to go, she screams "I don't want to!" or "No I don't!". I kinda find the "Don't WANT to" telling, because I am sure that's it. And then inevitably, 60 seconds later, she's in a pool of pee (and very upset about it).
If we try to set a timer and say it's time to go when the timer goes off, she still protests. We had set times for awhile: after dinner, before bed, in the morning that she also protests now. Especially in the morning, she refuses to pee first thing. Refuses. Tantrum city. When she has the accident despite screaming she is sometimes still denying it even happened. So remind her, doesn't work. Ask her, doesn't work. Ignore it and let her try to figure it out, doesn't work.
One factoid of interest — when she does go, she tends to stay there for-ev-er. Like she seriously grabs a book and hangs out for a half hour reading and singing. We've been trying to limit that too, as I sometimes wonder if she doesn't go because she thinks she'll be in there for a long time. Apparently that's a thing at school, too. But she's also super slow with everything she does, hates transitions — definitely a stop and smell the roses kid. Which we try to nurture not squash, but can be frustrating.
She wears a pull-up to bed still, but honestly has woken up dry since about 15 months old. But whenever we take it away or she decides not to wear one (usually the latter), she immediately wets the bed, cause, of course.
So we're at a loss. We tried a reward for 3 days in a row with no accidents. It took her about 2 weeks to get it. Next was supposed to be 4 days in a row but it's been 5 days since the last reward and no accident-free days. We are super neutral in tone about the accidents (but I should admit, she says to me "I don't like your voice!!!" even when I am just talking about it to her. Should I not even mention the accidents?). We clean them up as neutrally as possible. She helps clean. We praise her up and down when she goes all by herself. We gave her a new special big girl job at home on the advice of one of her teachers.
Poop tends to be a-ok, btw.
ANY thoughts? Just wait it out and keep cleaning?
Drenched In Urine.
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I cannot lie, this one is a puzzler. There are so many things that it COULD be, and so many different tactics that MIGHT work and/or MIGHT backfire, that I'm already questioning my choice to publish this question at all, when I'm sure I could dig up something a little less difficult and wheel-spinny. But I've already copied and pasted and written a handful of useless wind-up. IT'S TOO LATE. WE MUST PROCEED.
There's always the possibility that potty training regressions are not strictly behavioral. If your daughter hasn't seen a doctor since the accidents began, I suggest you do that first. She could have (or have had) a urinary tract or bladder infection, which can very much cause control issues and also a fair amount of pain and burning, which can lead to potty avoidance. Even after an infection clears up, the problems and related accidents can linger for weeks or even months since kids have loooooonnnng memories about anything painful or unpleasant. (And yes, they can have an infection without you having any idea.)
That said, it's of course incredibly possible that this IS strictly behavioral, and she's acting out at home for…well, who knows why. All of the reasons. No reason at all. In my experience, there is no age more difficult or bewildering than 3 and a half.
So let's say this is stemming from a control issue. Since I also have two kids in Montessori, I know it can sometimes be tough to fully embrace the sort of…hands-off-with-invisible-guided-direction philosophy at home, especially for things involving capable kids urinating in their pants all of a sudden. But since there's such a stark difference between her behavior at school and at home, it might help in this case to figure out if you can institute some Montessori-like policies at home. My sons' preschool actually doesn't require children to ask to go to the bathroom — they keep two beaded "passes" by the door for the boys' and girls' room, and kids can take one and go whenever needed. Very empowering and "big kid," and this might be something your very shy yet defiant daughter will respond to better than timers or endless prompts. Try putting a hook at her level and making a fun-looking potty pass, and tell her it's up to her to take it when she feels the need to go.
Backing off the prompts and reminders won't solve the accidents (at first), but hopefully will stop the tantrums, which…baby steps? Since she's having accidents 30 seconds after pitching a tantrum ANYWAY (and upset about the accidents), I'd consider it a step in the right direction if you can at least eliminate the tantrum-based lies/denial — which sounds like a CLASSIC older-toddler-control/battle-of-wills and you will never, ever win at them. Let her be in control, even if you know she'll fail. At home, put her in clothing she can remove completely herself. When she wets herself, don't just make her help, make her do everything. Towels on the floor/furniture. Wiping back and forth. Clothes off and in the hamper/washing machine. Getting redressed all over again without assistance. (This is when you actually effectively clean up the puddle, when she's not looking.) Make having an accident as time-consuming and irritating as possible FOR HER. This isn't shaming or punishing, it's just the crap SOMEONE has to do after she pees her pants, and since she's a big girl, it's just gonna be her.
The one thing I would try to control, I think, is the endless sitting on the potty. (Which I may be wrong here, given her personality, but that could be another sign of a UTI, since she might always have a low-level feeling of needing to "go," even when she doesn't.) 30 minutes is just too long for pee, and probably isn't good for her muscles, AND yeah, it makes perfect sense that she's resistant to stopping whatever she's doing to go when it's going to take that long. (Even though it's her own damn ritual.) I'm not sure what the best way to go about exerting control over this part of her routine — no books allowed in the bathroom? a timer for 10/15 minutes and then just forcibly remove her? You might just end up shifting the prompt-related tantrums to time-related ones for a zero sum game of pee, so I could be totally wrong here. Readers/commenters? Any ideas?
Finally, my last bit of advice (that is more just me spit-balling than anything super sage or wise): Ditch the rewards. Dial back on the praise. She's already potty trained. She knows exactly what to do and what not to do and FOR SOME REASON, is deliberately choosing not to. (Unless there's a UTI issue. Then. You know. Disregard.) She could be using this regression to milk you guys for attention, both positive and negative. So remove the attention altogether. Institute the potty pass/no books in the bathroom rules and let her sort it out. Accidents are her messes to deal with. Successes can be acknowledged but are NOT the be-all end-all cause for celebration and praise and candy and yaaaaayyyy (like it was when she was first learning).
And then shift your positive attention to something new and different. Is she maybe ready for a small bike? Is she interested in learning to skate or play piano, or karate/ballet/some other sport? Some other fun big-girl goal she could focus on (and maybe overcome some shyness in the process)? I wonder if the main point of conversation at home simply stopped being so potty-potty-potty-centric, if maybe she'd lose interest in this particular flavor of control battling and it would go back to just being something that happens, just because it does. (And having her own outlet/activity that continues to be "just hers" after the baby arrives will be verrrrry helpful, believe me.)
Even if you don't feel comfortable completely removing potty usage from some weekly goal chart or reward system, make sure it's not her ONLY goal. I've found that the advice of "one goal for each year of age" is spot-on, and you only want one or two of those goals to be things you're actively trying to work on. The rest should be ringers — things your child already does well and can be reliably praised for. The successful feelings will then keep them from feeling discouraged and rejecting the entire goal/behavior chart concept outright if they remain shaky on the other goals.
By the way, for the sake of completeness — when my middle kid went through the new sibling potty regression (that I believe ALSO stemmed from a stealth UTI or bladder infection, then snowballed from there into a negative/positive attention bid), our pediatrician told us to put him back in diapers for a mild, yet matter-of-fact dose of humbling shame. (He was having both pee AND poop accidents, and wasn't at school yet, so it was a little different — obviously you can't send your daughter to school in a diaper.) I have no idea if that's something that might motivate her to drop this game — or exacerbate some underlying BUT I'M THE BABY!! thing she's got going on. Maybe try diapers instead of pull-ups at night and see if she's more motivated to stay dry if the alternative is something babyish?
Sorry to zig and zag all over the place without landing on the One! Surefire! Solution! I imagine you were hoping for, but man. 3 year olds. They are maddening. I can't believe I'm going to have yet another one in like, four months. We are so in for it, again, like always.
20 Responses to "The Potty Regression Battle of Wills Royale"
Kendra Feb 17 at 1:23 pm Reply
Oh my gosh, what is it with 3.5 year old girls?!?! This is very similar to our situation. My 3.5 year old daughter does awesome on the potty, just fantastic. Except at night and nap times where she has pull-ups on. But getting her to ditch the pull-ups at bed is a full blown drama meltdown of epic proportions. I think we are going to just get rid of the pull-ups and go from there because I suspect she is just peeing in them because she can. Oh and she refuses to go poop in the potty. Driving. Us. INSANE!!!!
That's it. I am of no help. Just want to commiserate with the OP.
Morgan Feb 17 at 6:17 pm Reply
Just to echo the response above, because I, too, have a shy and strong-willed 3.5 year old daughter:
Drama…meltdown…I love you's…repeat
My daughter has long peed in the potty but, despite doing it ten or so times, will not consistently poop in the potty. She asks for a diaper and like the OP, she will take forever to poop. She's very shy, but sharp,verbal, and driven. She has zero interest in preschool (I am SAHM and she's our only) and once I linked pooping in the potty with going to school (that she would need to be consistently doing so in order to attend). Recently it came to light that she remembers my saying that once and thinks pooping in the potty = us driving her directly to school. We are doing damage control on that idea now.
Just commiserating.
Kat Feb 18 at 12:54 am Reply
Ha! This makes me laugh. I remember being this literal with something my dad told me when I was a little girl, I still think about it from time to time when I am about to tell my toddler something. Makes me laugh. I have no commiseries yet – my toddler isn't yet ready to potty train.
Katie Feb 17 at 1:57 pm Reply
Been there. Our daughter is almost 4 and man, new baby pee regression sucked (she was closer to 3 thn 3.5 but still). It culminated with an epic poop smearing event that included walls, couch, floors, tv and the cat. THE CAT. (Only one ever btw).
The good news is that it passed. By the time baby was three months old. The bad news is that it started about 20 weeks pregnant and just got worse and worse until…poop. It combined with a sleep regression that I've mostly blacked out.
We tried all the tactics above. You know what worked? My mom. She came over and spent the night. Her reaction with the first accident was more "naughty puppy in the paper" than "calm and neutral." She stopped then and there. Honestly I don't know why. I was just grateful.
We got some superundies in colors she hated and some ugly underwear too. Once you have an accident you don't get nice disney stuff – you get the generic. That helps too.
Michele Feb 17 at 3:00 pm Reply
Claire Feb 17 at 3:43 pm Reply
That's a really interesting read. Thank you.
Lora Feb 17 at 5:43 pm Reply
Yes, maybe a UTI or behavioural, but I agree with Michele and the link she provided, could be constipation. We had terrible problems with my daughter for about 1.5 yrs (starting when she was about 2yrs old) holding poo and eventually pee. It was really bad– she could hold her pee all day and we'd have to do things like putting her in warm water to help her relax and let her pee out etc etc (I've blocked a lot of those memories!). We contacted the PEEP clinic http://www.peepclinic.com/ and after a half hour phone consultation put her on a laxative program for a few months (a few months so she'd get immediate relief, get regular habits, overcome the holding it, and for her bowel get back to normal size). We did not think it was constipation as Michele's link talks about. She was all fine after a few days on the program (although it has to be continued for months, see above) and now she's a regularly pooping/peeing 7yr old… that still has a scheduled poo time every evening if she hasn't gone yet that day.
Jeannie Feb 17 at 8:26 pm Reply
FWIW, my son had a major pee regression around the time his sister was born. He was four; he'd been reliably trained by 3. He didn't hold it: he started peeing in weird places, like the trash can beside the toilet. And other places. Not good.
I don't really remember what we did (I know! Helpful!) but I do know we reminded him gently (with the garbage can) and not so gently (with the toy box. Ugh.) and it eventually all went away.
What I'm saying is that this could totally be sibling related. And with some gentleness and not much else could just fix itself once her world rights itself again.
Amanda Feb 17 at 10:30 pm Reply
Thank you so much for sharing this. I am sick of all the '3 days and done' posts and comments. My battle of wills with my then 2.5 year old began while I was pregnant with her brother. We were very non pushy and she seemed to be training herself (HAHAHA). Now here we are at 3.5 and finally she's totally on board. After all the power struggles (she is highly 'spirited' and VERY persistant) what ended up working for us was completely backing off until she showed an interest, and then CAUTIOUS support and a sticker chart. I am not convinced it's truly over, but I feel we've FINALLY made progress.
Trish Feb 17 at 10:42 pm Reply
Yup. Sounds like my daughter at that age (who could not be described as shy in any way, but strong-willed? Yes.) She trained rather late and it was all a power struggle from day 1. I say, cautiously, that we are now on the upswing (she is just over 4), but we went through a period of repeated accidents at home (almost never at school), and even poop. We also made an interstate move, and I thought I was losing my mind (her little brother was nine months by then). The accidents started about 4 months after the move. Now looking back on it, I wonder if it had to to with particular growth spurts that he was having, where he suddenly required a different and more intense attention than he had before? Just thinking aloud…
Katrien Feb 18 at 10:48 am Reply
My then 3 year old daughter started having lots of accidents too, making us wonder if it was school (too much? too soon?), the new baby brother or anything else we could think of. She was in fact constipated which seemed odd to us, since she did poop regularly. Apparently she didn't do it correctly. She wanted to sit on the big toilet with her legs not reaching the floor not wanting to sit there too long cause there was too much other stuff to do! 😉 So we had to make sure she sat nicely on the potty again and took her time and the accidents disapeared.
Caroline Feb 18 at 11:00 am Reply
Assuming it isn't a UTI (and I see it might well be that, in which case, clearly that needs resolving), then I would get a little bit harder about it. No. You don't get to sit for hours on the toilet (it's very bad for you to do that), if you wet yourself or throw a tantrum / get upset about it, you clean yourself up and/ or get washed with cold water (not ice water!! I'm not talking torture!! Just unpleasant), with very little kind "don't worry darling heart" and more "I can't be bothered, sort yourself out". It sounds mean, but while she's getting away with it, she'll continue. We all do that, continue doing what we can get away with, why should a 3 year old be different? There are no rewards, no nothing for peeing normally, but it's not fun when you don't. Not cruel, but really not fun.
MLB Feb 18 at 4:37 pm Reply
Loved the part about cleaning up the mess. Not to shame, but because someone has to do it and it's her mess. I think this usually works – at least it has in my and friend's experience with older kids that are having these regression issues.
TE Feb 18 at 11:50 pm Reply
Hi! I'm the question asker. Thanks for all these ideas. Definitely going to look into the UTI and also constipation, although it sure doesn't SEEM like she's constipated! You can set a watch to her bowel habits…
We'll also move to her doing all the cleanup and definitely no more rewards…we all forget all the time anyway. I don't have the heart to be too cold or mean about it though, at least for now… She's just way too sensitive of a kid for that.
Brigid Keely Feb 19 at 11:02 am Reply
My 4 1/2 year old boy also had toilet regression. I think it was a 2 part deal:
1) he didn't want to stop what he was doing to take a few seconds or minutes to use the toilet
2) he wanted to be in control of everything including the urge to potty.
He had, and has, very obvious physical tells when he has to go, so we start reminding him when he's displaying potty tells. He used to fling himself into screaming tantrums (and still does sometimes) but we had a talk with him about how we aren't trying to be mean, we're just trying to help him listen to his body which helped him. He's almost five and he still delays pottying sometimes, and sometimes he still rejects our advice to go potty but usually a reminder (we're just trying to help you listen to your body and what your body needs!) helps.
When it doesn't? We will literally pick him up and carry him into the bathroom… which I know a lot of parents will reject because of bodily autonomy issues. But the thing is, little kids need boundaries they can butt up against. They need rules and they need consequences to help them feel secure. He WANTS to be able to ignore his body's urges but that's not possible. He WILL void his bladder/bowels if he delays long enough. But when parents force the issue, he's able to surrender that impulse, if that makes sense. He can try to fight his body but he can't really fight us. So we say "If you can't listen to your body on your own, we will pick you up and carry you in there" and he's ABLE to give in.
He complains all the way into the bathroom, but then he's done and comes back and returns to playing. He hasn't had an accident in months because of this (other than accidentally dribbling on his pants or something while using the toilet… and once urinating into/around the garbage can instead of the toilet while he was asleep).
That said, my youngest brother had constipation issues that lead to bed wetting. So parents of kids with toilet problems? Look into that, too. Bodies! So mysteries and horrible!
Kate Feb 20 at 9:00 pm Reply
This is exactly my life right now. My guy will be 5 in May and I still occasionally carry him to the bathroom kicking and screaming. Once we're there he slams the door on me but then he actually pees in the potty so I can't make make myself care.
Carie Feb 19 at 1:30 pm Reply
My son is 3.5 and is fully daytime potty trained and I have an 18 mo still in cloth diapers. We have rules that he has to go before meals, quiet time, and bedtime. If he balks or refuses before quiet time, I tell him he can either go or I will put him in the "big, ugly, baby diapers." Me pulling one out of the drawer is enough to get him to go right away. There's no shaming or threatening, just simply letting him know what will happen.
Julia Feb 19 at 4:42 pm Reply
I was going to recommend reading It's No Accident by Steve Hodges, but that Slate article is a summary of the book! I'm a teacher and a parent bought me the book one year, it was very interesting. Basically, your child can be constipated even if she is pooping every day. Constipation leads to pee accidents…. he explains it better than that, but it's worth reading as Hodges found constipation to be very common in his pediatric urology practice.
Kate F Feb 22 at 11:50 pm Reply
I just wanted to say, for moral support, that my 3.5-year-old son is generally nuts now (I was prepared for this phase by Ask Moxie calling the age "The nadir of human existence"), and fights HARD against using the toilet, even though he's also thrilled to be in underwear. Who knows. I'm cknvinced they are out of their minds at the moment. (So much crying. Soooo muuuuuch cryyyyying.)
Suzanne Lusk Feb 19 at 7:30 am Reply
I am desperately seeking advice on how to help my little boy potty train.
He is 3.5 and strong-willed. However, I'm not convinced that that is the only thing getting in the way.
I made a poor decision in allowing his full-time care provider attempt at potty training when he was 18 months. Obviously, it didn't work.
He has told me she has given him timeouts because he's peed his pants.
She also has 2 teenage daughters who will mind him for her, so I am beginning to wonder about peer shaming.
I'm in the process of finding someone else, but I'm struggling to find someone reputable.
I decided to pull all pull-ups and get him into underwear, as I thought I could get a jump on it with a long weekend.
But I am beginning to think this is going to take longer than a weekend and maybe I should just wait till I'm done school when I can take more time with him, but he will be that much closer to 4.
I've changed 2 wet beds tonight. This last time, though, I asked him if he felt that he had to go, and he said he did. But when I offered to have him sit on the potty in case he wasn't done, he started crying telling me he didn't want to sit on the potty.
I'm afraid of the damage I'm doing and of the damage possibly already done.
Do you have any insight?
Can kids come away from a bad experience and thrive anyway?
I'm worried about my babe.


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City Hall
Horst also consolidated the city's printer and copiers to the tune of $30,000 in savings, he said.
Attrition, including the position of assistant city manager vacated by retiring Mark Riemer, has eliminated $214,465 in salary, according to Horst.
The city also plans to close and remove portable buildings located behind City Hall, saving between $6,000 and $10,000 on utilities, maintenance and IT support.
Horst said more efficiency measures are in the works as staff map their own processes.


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Baylor on top of women's poll; Michigan enters
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Kim Barnes Arico inherited a talented group when she took over at Michigan this season. Now she's taking the Wolverines to new heights.
Michigan entered The Associated Press women's basketball poll at No. 25 on Monday. It's the Wolverines first Top 25 ranking in a decade.
"Wow, that's really special." Barnes Arico said. "The kids have bought into what we're doing. We have a really great group of seniors that are really experienced."
Baylor remained the top choice for the second straight week, earning 34 first place ballots. The Lady Bears cruised to easy wins over Iowa State and Kansas and now own the longest active conference winning streak, with 32 straight Big 12 victories.
Notre Dame, UConn, Duke and Kentucky round out the first five. The Wildcats switched places with Stanford, which saw its 81-game conference winning streak end with a loss to No. 7 California on Sunday. It's Kentucky's best ranking in nearly 30 years.
Kentucky and Stanford were the only two changes in the first 16 teams in the Top 25. Miami fell out of the poll after losing to both Maryland and Florida State.
Michigan, which was last ranked on Dec. 23, 2002, is 3-0 in Big Ten play for the first time in the history of the program. The Wolverines were coming off a strong season which they won 20 games and earned a trip to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 11 years.
Unlike St. John's, where Barnes Arico built the program up, she knew better than to change much right away at Michigan.
"I came into their program. They had established it, and they had gone to the NCAA tournament, and they had done things," she said. "If I came in and just started saying, 'Heck no, we're doing it this way,' there could have been a revolt."
Michigan's first game as a ranked team will be on Thursday at Northwestern before a showdown with No. 8 Penn State next Monday.
Barnes Arico has been in this position before. She led St. John's to its first ranking in 22 years back in 2006 and the Red Storm turned into one of the better teams in the Big East under her leadership. She's hoping for the same success at Michigan.
"We're going to talk about get ranked. Don't forget how we got here and the hard work it takes to stay," she said. "I'm having them come in and we're going to talk about how to handle it. Make sure we continue to work and not let it go to our heads. We're going to enjoy it too. It's a place that Michigan hasn't been in the last 10 years."
As the wins this season kept piling up, Barnes Arico admitted that her son Trevor had been "bugging" her to see when the Wolverines would get ranked. The last time Michigan was in the poll, he was just four months old.
"He'll be really happy when he comes home from school today," she said laughing.
The top 25 teams in the The Associated Press' women's college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 6, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week's ranking:
Record Pts Prv
Baylor (34) 14-1 991 1
Notre Dame (1) 14-1 948 2
UConn (2) 14-1 914 3
Duke (3) 15-0 907 4
Kentucky 15-1 817 6
Stanford 14-2 787 5
California 13-2 755 7
Penn St. 13-2 724 8
Tennessee 13-3 670 9
Maryland 12-3 615 10
North Carolina 17-1 590 11
Purdue 13-2 536 12
Georgia 15-2 519 13
Louisville 14-3 422 15
Oklahoma 14-2 410 16
Oklahoma St. 12-2 324 21
Dayton 13-1 276 22
South Carolina 14-3 256 18
Texas A&M 13-5 233 20
Colorado 13-2 232 23
Florida St. 13-3 182 18
Kansas 11-4 124 17
Iowa St. 12-2 88 25
Michigan 14-2 86 —
Others receiving votes: Syracuse 39, Vanderbilt 23, Miami 12, Michigan St. 12, Nebraska 12, UTEP 8, Villanova 8, Iowa 5, Delaware 4, Arkansas 2, Creighton 1.
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One Year Ago
April 1, 2010 – Colfax amateur astronomer Don Machholz is on Cloud 9 and back on the celestial map after the discovery of his 11th comet.
Machholz started looking for comets in 1975. His first discovery came three years later while his telescope was set up in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Since moving to Colfax, he has found two comets in 1992, three in 1994 and one in 2004.
10 Years Ago
March 29, 2001 – Laura Phipps, a student at Weimar Hills School, won second place in Division I of the Auburn Symphony's Young Artist Competition.
Playing piano since the age of 6, Phipps has competed and placed in several national music competitions.
Overall grand prize winner was Chad Thomas, a senior at Placer Hills School.
In addition to his classical studies, Thomas has been active in jazz and swing bands.
He plans to study music in college.
20 Years Ago
April 3, 1991 – Plans are underway for an eventful weekend to mark the grand opening of the Colfax Community Center.
The three-day festival will include such events as a family dinner, games for children, art auction, crafts show and rummage sale.
Organized by Sierra Vista Center, the organization taking over operation of the community center, the weekend promises to be fun for young and old.
50 Years Ago
March 30, 1961– All Colfax business stores will be closed Friday, March 31, from noon to 3 p.m. in observance of Good Friday.
Stores will reopen at 3 p.m., including the Bank of America.
The annual Easter egg hunt, which is sponsored by the Colfax Post No.192, American Legion, will be held, weather permitting, at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the Cortopassi orchard, orchard on the east side of the freeway.
Children, up to age 12, are invited to participate in the hunt.
75 Years Ago
March 27, 1936 – Colfax residents awakened Tuesday morning to see the ground covered with three-inches of snow, which fell as far down the hill as Penryn.
Snow fell all day Tuesday morning. The weather began to moderate on Wednesday and the snow soon disappeared.
Due to the storm, trucks had a difficult time making it over the summit.
Paula Mooney uses back issues of the Colfax Record to compile the Colfax Chronicles.


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26 Sep 2009One of these days, pent-up demand for new cars and growing concern about the carbon footprint associated with driving vehicles powered by traditional internal combustion engines will fuel tremendous demand for lithium, a development sure to spark greater investor interest, as well. A staple in batteries for hybrids and all-electric vehicles on the road and on the drawing boards, lithium is becoming a darling among hot commodities. As one of the few of his ilk on the planet, Jon Hykawy is also in considerable demand these days. The Gold Report caught up with Jon in Buenos Aires, where he—as Byron Capital Markets' recently appointed lithium analyst—is checking out facilities in Argentina, the world's second-largest (behind Chile) lithium-producing country, to talk about his favorite subject.
The Gold Report: You've indicated strong demand ahead for lithium ion batteries, anticipating a 40% increase by 2014 and suggesting good return-on-investment opportunities in lithium companies. To what extent does the demand for batteries that underlies those expectations rely on an economic recovery?
Jon Hykawy: Due to the downturn's global hits on demand for all metals, no question; and that forecast depends on some sort of economic recovery. But the recovery we've built into our model is actually fairly—and perhaps somewhat surprisingly—slow. We don't see the economy getting back to historic levels of growth in consumer electronics or in battery demand, for that matter, for at least two years, probably not until about 2012. Yet lithium demand and lithium battery growth will increase in much the same way as they have since 1999 or 2000. Part of that demand is predicated on continued growth in sectors where the lithium battery has almost fully penetrated, such as cell phones and laptops. Part of it is continuing cost reductions that are driving lithium batteries into new areas.
TGR: What are some of those areas?
JH: Demand for nickel-metal hydride (NiMH) batteries for items such as power tools will disappear as lithium battery prices continue to fall and start to rival prices for smaller NiMH battery packs. Very few analysts have built that into their lithium demand models to date. It's going to be interesting to see the growth curve over the next two, three to five years.
TGR: Do you see any potential breakthroughs in battery technology that could affect the demand for lithium the same way lithium is affecting NiMH batteries?
JH: Certainly chemistries are under development that could be positive for lithium. Various groups are investigating the use of lithium vanadium phosphate batteries or lithium vanadium fluorophosphate batteries. Their advantages over current chemistries are greater safety and much longer operating lives, which might be very, very interesting for automotive batteries. But these are out a number of years.
On the flip side, things that could damage lithium demand—we know of a couple of companies that are doing a fair bit of research into NiMH batteries, specifically into the powders used in those batteries. They could certainly take a significant chunk out of demand for conventional NiMH powders in NiMH batteries because their chemistries are cheaper to produce and actually slightly more efficient in terms of the battery that they can create. But the companies themselves would by no means claim that they can beat lithium ion at its own game, so lithium ion demand shouldn't be impacted.
The only other thing I've seen that's credible for automotive use, for instance—certainly not for handhelds—are some of the molten salt batteries or sodium-sulfur type chemistries, or some other similar things that have been proposed. They have a very long operating life, long enough to have the game won over lithium in that regard. Although not nearly as good as lithium, they also have reasonably good energy density and power density. The problem is that they have to run at several hundred degrees, creating both infrastructure and safety issues.
I know people are working on lightweight lead-acid versions and various other chemistries. I wish them all the luck in the world, but I don't think they'll be able to do anything to blunt the scale or the pace of lithium battery development. So, no, I don't see anything in the immediate future with the potential to really push lithium ion out of the game.
TGR: So the battle for batteries in the current marketplace is between lithium ion and nickel-metal hydride?
JH: Yes, and the decision has kind of come out in lithium ion's favor simply because it can put out so much more energy. Basically you get operating lifetime per charge out of the battery, and now it can also put out the power. The one area in which nicad (nickel-cadmium) or NiMH was once better was an abundance of power; so, in the past, the ability to turn a screw into hardwood with a power drill or accelerate an electric vehicle favored NiMH. But that's no longer true. Lithium's development has been so rapid that its specific power—the amount of power that you can draw out of the battery of a given size and weight—has now overtaken NiMH.
TGR: What about the electronics space?
JH: Portable game-playing devices would be a good example. Circa 2000, Nintendo would have shipped the Game Boy Advance without batteries. It would have come with slots where you plugged in either your own rechargeable AA batteries or regular alkaline batteries. The new Nintendo DSi comes with a rechargeable lithium ion battery. Until recently, it would have been too expensive to include it with the device, but it's dropped to a feasible price point now. And frankly, NiMH was never there in terms of its performance. It simply couldn't deliver an experience that would make Nintendo happy.
TGR: Is the electronics arena where you see future growth coming from as well?
JH: Since 2000, though we've seen about 30,000 or 40,000 tons a year of additional demand arise for lithium, most of it coming out of nowhere in terms of these consumer batteries. And that demand continues to grow, so lithium is in substantial demand. The price has gone up as a result, and we continue to see that kind of growth.
Lithium is also used in glass production, basically to drive down the melting point of glass and keep energy costs low.
We believe future growth will continue to come from a combination of theft of market share from some of the other rechargeable chemistries and encroachment into new areas where the lithium ion battery hasn't been before. It's entirely possible that we'll see lithium ion batteries become the batteries of choice for starting and lighting in the automotive industry, for instance, but price points have to drop considerably before that happens.
TGR: Will lithium-oriented batteries play a role in alternative energy technologies?
JH: Not a huge role. We don't factor that into our model for lithium growth at all. I am a big believer in the space generally, but existing small-cell battery technologies such as lead-acid have been disproven already and actually have come to be hated in the alternative energy industry. A number of large-scale lead-acid power-storage experiments were economic disasters for the companies that tried them. Lithium is likely to fall in the same camp.
TGR: What's the problem in those situations?
JH: When you move up to the scale required of large alternative energy projects such as wind farms, when you pile that many of them together, even lithium ion batteries have an unacceptable failure rate on an individual cell basis. After a period of time, you end up with a stream of technicians running in and out of the storage facility just carrying batteries. It's not a pretty picture.
TGR: And there is a global abundance of lithium on the supply side to meet the demand you foresee?
JH: There absolutely is a huge abundance of lithium. It is about as common in the earth's crust as nickel or lead. But on a global basis, the question is never whether there is a ready supply or an abundance; it's whether the supply is economically viable. There are huge quantities of lithium available in the ocean too, but it's extremely dilute and its chemical similarity to the huge quantity of magnesium that's also in the water is another issue. Getting to the lithium supply economically at a price point similar to today's is even trickier. So while lithium may be plentiful, there is not a huge abundance of places on earth where you can get inexpensive lithium. That's really the question to concentrate on.
TGR: Where would an investor track the price of lithium?
JH: That is a tough one. The market really is dominated today by four very large chemical company players, to which lithium is somewhat an afterthought. They tend to sell to only a few buyers who basically phone them and set up contracts. We track the price of lithium either by calling these companies ourselves and asking about the short-term delivery cost for a ton of lithium carbonate or relying on Industrial Minerals magazine. It has fairly good coverage of the lithium space and puts out reasonable numbers gleaned from those buyers on longer-term contracts.
TGR: So, it's similar to uranium before uranium started trading on the futures exchange.
JH: It really is. It's a relatively small market controlled by very few players. You certainly can't trade contracts or anything like that in lithium, so it's tougher to watch. Since SQM (NYSE:SQM) drove a lot of the hard rock players out of the market in the 2001–2002 timeframe, the price has marched up steadily. We have seen prices go to the range of $6,500–$6,600 per metric ton of lithium carbonate equivalent. It has plateaued a bit through this downturn, but I fully expect the price to climb again.
TGR: Where can an investor look at the price trends?
JH: The U.S. Geological Survey is actually the easiest place to check. I believe the price was about $3,500 per ton in the late '90s. When it hit about $4,000, spodumene producers started to make inroads into the market because that price made them economically viable. SQM flooded the market with lithium and drove the price down to about $1,400, taking a lot of the spodumene players out of the game. The only one left standing at the end of the day was Talison Minerals Pty Ltd. in Australia because they had tantalum to tide them over. The price climbed from the 2000–2001 low point at that time to as high as $7,000, and then leveled off to about $6,500 through this downturn. It remains near historical high levels.
TGR: What's driving the price of lithium up if there's enough production to match demand?
JH: Good point. The lithium is out there and available. The problem is the big producers today are not producing it as their sole product. For instance, lithium probably drives only 7% or 8% of SQM's revenues. Their primary product is potash. Secondly, the largest producers in the world—SQM (NYSE:SQM), FMC Lithium, which is part of FMC Lithium Corporation (NYSE:FMC) and Chemetall Lithium, which is part of Rockwood Holdings Inc (NYSE:ROC) —by and large draw from aquifers, from brines, to produce the lithium. If you pull too much water out of the aquifer too fast, you run the risk of depleting it completely or diluting it substantially and damaging not only lithium production, but also potash.
TGR: What's the investor opportunity in lithium if the majors treat it as an afterthought?
JH: We believe the best way to play the market is to buy a good basket of juniors that are exploring for lithium. It's traditionally the juniors that go out and find it and either become major players themselves or get acquired by players already in the market.
TGR: Brine extraction is today's low-cost production technology for lithium, but aren't these juniors looking at a different type of extraction?
JH: Yes and no. Brine certainly is, by and large, the lowest-cost way to go, though investors have to watch out for some things. The first cut for wheat from chaff is the magnesium-to-lithium ratios in brines. For every integer point increase in that ratio, add $180 to $200 of cost per ton. That puts the economically viable point for brine these days at a ratio of about 11:1 or 12:1. If you see anything much higher than that, run; there's no point in looking at it. Anything close to that actually gets to be economically scary because certainly we could have downturns in pricing.
A lot of the juniors are looking in places with good magnesium-to-lithium ratios, good concentrations of lithium in the brine, good evaporation rates so that production is relatively quick and good hydrogeology so they can actually pump enough water out of the ground to reach reasonable annual production levels.
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I started reading old blogs of mine that I had saved and thought I would go ahead and repost this today. Some things never change and for me this is a good reminder of what I have learned.
I have noticed lately I have somehow lost my sense of humor and as with my search for God, I have looked everywhere. (Behind the couch, under the chair, in the dirty clothes hamper)and it's just missing. I called the Local Law Enforcement to see if any was reportedly found, and was told I wasn't going to find something that I had never had, and perhaps they have a point. You will notice however, that although I have lost my sense of humor, I have not lost my want to write. So if this doesn't interest you, get off this blog and move on to another one, I am sure there is a pissing contest stirring in one or another somewhere.
In the last few years, I have been doing a kind of a new What is the meaning of life, more importantly, being the selfish bitch that I am, my life. I have learned a lot by this self examination and in answer for Dr. Phil's famous question, "how is that working out for you Dayna?" It SUCKS!! But the lessons I have learned are many and I will share some of them with you.
I have learned that if I want people to love me I need to love myself. Once that was accomplished, and my credit card was maxed out from all toys I had bought, I realized that the genius who had instructed me on this lesson was not talking about that kind of self love. Who would have thought?
I have learned that other people's opinions of me is none of my business. People have the right to think or feel how they want to, they don't however have the right to tell me of their opinion of me. Just as I don't have the right to tell them of my opinion of them, regardless of that fact, it's apparent it doesn't stop either of us from expressing those opinions.
I have learned there is a fine line between being a doormat and being a bitch. I can cross over those lines, either way, depending on my mood.
I have learned that when I am wrong, to apologize. What that person does with the apology (i.e. forgive me or tell me to get fucked) is their business, and I have apologized only because I was honest enough with myself to admit that I was wrong, and not for any other reason.
I have learned that true friends will tell me what I need to hear not what I want to hear, although Thank God, some of the time they match. They still remain my friends whether I have disappointed them or not. And manage to love me no matter what....Sometimes its in the form of "I understand Dayna" to "Now step back a minute bitch..you're crossing the line here" But then again only my true friends would dare call me bitch and not expect me to blast them for it. (In all reality, bitch is a family endearment, so it bothers me none.)
I have learned that just because someone doesn't live up to the standards I expect, they might still be living up to the standards that they have set for themselves. Is that wrong? Hell no, more power to them.
I have learned that honesty is a perceived notion, what one person believes is being honest......may be what another person perceives as being a jerk, nasty or dishonest. Are secrets dishonesty in disguise? Are lies of omission dishonest? In fact maybe certain lies are honesty to ourselves. No shit, I honestly believe this sometimes.
I have learned it does not make me feel better to hurt someone's feelings, but sometimes in order to not be a doormat you must. If say for instance, in a blog, someone would say "I think all women are fucking idiots" how will you reply, "Man you really hurt my feelings" or "hey asshole....get fucked"? Personally I usually try for the hey asshole get fucked. (I may have crossed the fine line of doormat to bitch....I do that sometimes....and sometimes I like doing that.)
I have also found that not all of my friends are going to be friends, and instead of trying to get them to see each others point of view, it would be in my best interest to just let them be who they are. The whole world is not going to get along and it's stupid and irresponsible of me to even think everyone in my own world would get along. (Shit half the time my imaginary friends don't even like each other.......that's not a problem unless they turn on me.)
I have found that shit happens in life, and we can scream and holler and beat our heads against the wall, but it changes nothing. Acceptance is the key. Accept that sometimes shit happens and it won't bother you as much. Sometimes I hate accepting things, and it's not a fact that I have to like it....I just need to accept it. Sometimes I don't fucking want to accept things and then the struggle begins, finally I just use the the shortened Serenity Prayer (for those who don't know what the Serenity Prayer is..........God grand me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference......the shortened version is FUCK IT!!)
Life is what it is. You cannot change the past, you can work on the present and you can plan for the future. But when it all comes down to it, its beyond anyone's control and it will be what it is meant to be.
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Life is what it is. You cannot change the past, you can work on the present and you can plan for the future. But when it all comes down to it, its beyond anyone's control and it will be what it is meant to be.
Good blog Dayna.
Apr 28 @ 12:04PM
But when it all comes down to it, its beyond anyone's control and it will be what it is meant to be.
Thankfully sometimes it's also what we were hoping for or wanting.
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*tackles Ewe and snogs her silly*
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Absolute Ewe classic!!! Love it! I felt for a brief moment I'd stepped back in time to the old Pervia....thanks, I needed that...
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Very Nice..
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Big fat greenie!
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Great blog. Blogs like this is why I sometimes go back and read past blogs on here. Greenie for you.
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I remember this blog...It's still a good blog. Thanks for reposting.
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Kew Gardens [1] is a 326-acre UNESCO World Heritage Site located just 30 minutes by Tube from central London. The gardens boast a soaring treetop walkway [2], galleries and iconic listed buildings. David Nash [3], one of the UK's most productive sculptors, has been exhibiting his work at The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew [4] over the course of the last year, and the exhibition includes sculptures, installations, drawings and film displayed throughout the gardens, greenhouses and exhibition spaces.
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David Nash sculpted a series of evolving artworks [3] in the Wood Quarry at Kew Gardens between April and September 2012. This was the first time Nash had shown his process of making art as part of a major exhibition. Nash says 'At Kew, I can show my practice as a sculptor. I've often felt that in the shows I've done before, much of the process is hidden. What's unique about Kew is to make the process part of the exhibition.'
Nash used chainsaws to work with the properties of wood and he worked with trees from Kew that had come to the end of their natural life. Through his sculpture, Nash investigated the nature of living trees and the unique characteristics and artistic possibilities of wood. A group of volunteers answered visitors' questions whilst Nash and his team worked with the trees and offcuts. A black board with chalk drawings illustrated the 'work plan of the day'. You can still visit the site and enjoy two large works, Cambium Column and Scuttlers, however Nash is no longer working physically on site.
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CubFest 2004
How to get Here from There
Getting from one place you know to one you don't know is usually a very trying time for those of us travelling across this fair continent of ours. Ask any driver who has a co-pilot.
So, this page is designed to make finding CubFest Northeast 2004 just a tad bit easier.
Each of these maps below depict the routes needed to arrive in Sussex from the four main border crossings from the US to Canada. These being in no particular order, Calais Maine, Houlton Maine, Van Buren Maine and Madawaska Maine.
As soon as I can get complete exit details I will add a written description for all routes.
For our friends from PEI and Nova Scotia, I shall have a map showing the basic routes available shortly.
Calais Maine
Houlton Maine
Houlton, Van Buren and Madawaska Maine
The following maps are meant more to inform our out of province friends how to get to Moncton from Halifax and PEI. From Moncton it is clear in the Calais Maine Map how to get to Sussex.
Halifax to Moncton
PEI to Moncton
Now For the Really Important Directions
Once you arrive in the Sussex area, you will see signs similar to what is depicted below. (This is just a preliminary - I stil need to do some work on it.) These signs are meant to help guide you to Chown's Farm. For example, you will see these signs around each exit, along highway 10 and at the foot of Gibbon Mountain Road and they will be visible from whichever direction you are travelling.
If you are travelling from St. John or Moncton, take Exit 193, follow the signs to Route 10. Stay on Route 10 for 15 Kms or 9.5 miles. Turn left onto Gibbon Mountain Road and drive for 1.4 Kms or 0.9 miles. The Chowns are the first farm on Gibbon Mountain Road. Here is a quick tip - once you see the road for Snider Mountain, you will be close, watch closely as Gibbon Mountain Road is easy to miss.
If you are travelling from Fredricton, take Exit 365, turn right a the stop sign. Travel for 20 Kms or 12 miles, turn right onto Gibbon Mountain Road and drive for 1.4 Kms or 0.9 miles. The Chowns are the first farm on Gibbon Mountain Road.
Remember, to look for the Cub signs as you travel from either direction.
Map to Chown's Farm
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I am translating the zxcvbn password strength algorithm to Haskell.
In the first step, I generate several large data structures from common word lists (English words, surnames, male names, etc). These lists are static and will only be rebuilt occasionally, and then only when the application is recompiled.
These Lists and Maps are use to initialize the actual password strength algorithm.
When I converted the original JavaScript to Scala, I saved the static values as JSON that gets loaded by the algorithm when it is launched. I wanted to just generate initialized Scala
vals, but the Java Virtual Machine has a 64KByte limit on classes, and my data exceeded that (each structure contains thousands of words and is bigger than 64KBytes).
What is the best way to handle this in Haskell? Can I just generate a source code module containing the data? What is the maximum module size limit? I searched the Haskell2010 report, but could not find a compiler limits section.
Generating Haskell source code would obviously be my first choice, as then the code can remain pure. If I need to load JSON and parse it on start-up, that part of the the module will be impure.


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Armed man at Mormon temple killed in Utah shootout
Originally published December 26, 2010 at 12:07 a.m., updated December 26, 2010 at 4:33 a.m.
SOUTH JORDAN, Utah (AP) — Police shot and killed a man after he refused to drop his shotgun and headed toward a group of people on a Christmas Day stroll outside a Utah Mormon Temple, authorities said.
The man had been in an altercation Saturday afternoon in the parking lot outside the Oquirrh Mountain Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, South Jordan police Lt. Dan Starks said.
"The adult male armed with a shotgun had become involved with at least one other person on the temple grounds," Starks told The Associated Press.
He said police arrived shortly afterward and repeatedly ordered the shotgun-toting man to drop the weapon.
"While carrying the shotgun, he fled from the officers toward where there were other people," he said.
Starks said an officer fired just once, killing the man.
He said officers feared for both their safety and for people on the grounds enjoying the weather and the views from the temple.
Officers found numerous weapons, including guns, swords and ammunition, inside the dead man's car, Starks said.
The man was described as white and middle-aged, but Starks said police were withholding his name until family could be notified.
Starks said the officer has been placed on administrative leave pending an internal investigation and a review by the Salt Lake County district attorney's office.
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Zara Settlemyer
Zara Ebony Settlemyer, age 2 months, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, died March 12, 2002, at University Hospital in Omaha, Neb.
Her funeral was March 18 at the Cutler Chapel with the Rev. Jim Kirks of Community of Christ Church officiating.
Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery in Council Bluffs.
Zara was born Dec. 26, 2001, in Omaha.
Survivors include her mother, Mary L. Settlemyer of Council Bluffs; grandparents, Jim and Alyce Settlemyer of Baker City; great-grandmothers, Fern Schade of Auburn, Neb., and Violet Settlemyer of Missouri Valley, Iowa; and an uncle, Jeremy Settlemyer of Baker City.
Champ Bond
Champ Clark Bond, 90, a longtime Haines resident, died March 16, 2002, at Baker City.
His memorial service was this morning at Baker City Christian Church, with Pastor Roger Scovil officiating. Disposition was by cremation at Grays West & Co. Pioneer Crematory. Burial of cremated remains will be at the Haines Cemetery.
Champ was born on a homestead at Missouri Flat to Martha Elizabeth Herndon and Charles Wesley Bond. He graduated from La Grande High School in 1929 and married Lois Lucretia Fisher on Dec. 18, 1933, in Union County.
Champ grew up on a farm in the Grande Ronde Valley, near Hot Lake. In his family of three brothers and three sisters, he was sixth. He met his wife, Lois, in the Grande Ronde Valley. The young married couple moved to Champs mothers homestead at Fisher Springs near Haines. Four years later they moved to their present home on Anthony Lakes Highway. He built his home at Muddy Creek and lived there for the rest of his life. Champ and Lois were married 65 years.
Champ and Lois were the parents of five children. They also owned and operated several family businesses together. He served on the school board for Muddy Creek Grade School and Powder Valley High School. He enjoyed fishing, hunting and skiing.
Champ made motorized vehicles out of just about anything, including bicycles, tractors and trucks. These were available for recreational riding to all of his children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, neighbors and visiting friends.
He had a great love for music, and as a young man played as part of a trio with his brother, Turner, and sister, Joann. He played several instruments, often two at a time (mouth harp and guitar). Although he mostly played by ear, all of his children had music training, and now many of his descendants play very well, some professionally.
Champ was a self-taught mechanic who attended aircraft welding school for two years in Portland. He is well-known in this area for his mechanical abilities. He designed and built a number of machines including wood saws, grain choppers, haybucks, hay stackers and ski tows. He also constructed a rotary snow plow and push plow, which he used for 22 years to clear the road to the Anthony Lakes ski area.
Champ was preceded in death by two daughters, Elisabeth Lee (an infant) and Mary Lois OConnell; by his wife, Lois; as well as his parents and five brothers and sisters.
Champ is survived by three of his children: John Bond of Arvada, Colo., Anne Rice of Sumpter, and Kathy Wise of Reno, Nev., and their respective spouses.
He also is survived by 10 grandchildren: John Combs of La Crescenta, Calif., Paul Combs of Boise, Christine Monaghan of Boise, and their spouses; Brian Bond of Denver, Matthew Bond of Steamboat Springs, Colo., Marinda OConnell of Pullman, Wash., Lacey OConnell of Spokane, Wash., Jessica, Christy and David Wise of Reno; 10 great-grandchildren: Stacie, Benjamin, Holly, Julie, and Joshua Patrick Monaghan of Boise, Nikolaus, Christopher and Alexander Combs of Boise, and Sabrina and Sean Combs of La Crescenta; a sister, Joann Boyer of Rock Creek; and many nieces and nephews.
Contributions in Champs memory may be made to the Baker City Christian Church in care of Grays West & Co., P.O. Box 726, Baker City, OR 97814.
Dorothy Norwood
Dorothy Norwood, 78, of Baker City, died March 15, 2002, at St. Elizabeth Health Services.
Her memorial service will be held later at Palm Mortuary in North Las Vegas, Nev. Local arrangements are under the direction of Coles Funeral Home.
Mrs. Norwood was born March 30, 1923, at Herington, Kan., to Wilhelmina and Clayton Mosley, who preceded her in death.
She is survived by her husband of 58 years, Fred Norwood, of Baker City; a daughter, Mozella Seltzer and her husband, Edward, and a son, Fred Norwood, Jr. and his wife Wanda, all of Las Vegas, Nev.; a daughter, Nancy Curtiss and her husband, Don, of Baker City; a sister, Pat Weekley and her husband, Dan, of Clovis, N.M; eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchilddren.
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Nice.... but the one single character I'm looking most forward to (who I know won't be in it) is Yagura and Kushina.
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cool! kinkaku and ginkaku! i wonder if we will be able to transform?!
Well I always thought kinkaku and ginkaku would fight together like how the six paths of pain were
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Got some used lights..help
Where to start! oh yes!
Ok, so I went out and got a sump/skimmer/pump for sump and skimmer/and 3 light settings...for 125$....all used, but in excellent condition.
So now I'm "stuck". The lights are all 96 Watt Coral Life 50/50'sa, and measure out to be 15 inches (I dont know if you include prongs.) I'm going to make my own canopy (I have fans) and hang it from the ceiling over the tank ... with caution.
What I want to know is... what would fit in these as far as replacements go, I would say i have roughly 6 months left of good life on these bulbs. Also would 3 of these sets at 96 watts each be enough to keep life rock...living, and maybe enough for corals/other inverts?
WHILE TYPING THIS I HAVE MADE DISCOVERIES! http://www.hellolights.com/96watquad100.html
That is what I have x2! But those measure out to be about an inch longer.. odd.
Anyways - any help would be awesome.
no u dont incluede the prongs because they fit inside where it connects to, just measure the space between the place where it connects to and u got the measurment for ur bulbs.so u have a quad power compact lighting x 2? or...just 2x acintic bulbs?the picture u posted has actually 4 bulbs in it.make sure wat bulbs u have cause u can run them higher if u some how managed to get VHO bulbs u can run them higher on a better ballast but if they r just power compact they save u money
I would just replace the bulbs. You said they were used, so that means they are not burning to full when turned on. As for corals they should be fine for the low light corals, mushrooms, zoo's polyps, etc. For the sps and LPS they wont do.
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CATO: Congress Has No Idea What the NSA Is Doing by Jim Harper
Congress Has No Idea What the NSA Is Doing
Didja think that the legislative branch oversees the executive branch? Think again! Congress has no idea what the National Security Agency (NSA) is doing.
Spencer Ackerman at Wired's Danger Room blog reports on a letter the inspector general of the intelligence community sent earlier this month to Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Mark Udall (D-CO). They had asked how many people in the United States have had their communications collected or reviewed by the NSA.
The letter repeated the NSA IG's conclusion that estimating this number was "beyond the capacity of his office and dedicating sufficient additional resources would likely impede the NSA's mission." Not only that, figuring out the number of people in the United States that the NSA has snooped on "would itself violate the privacy of U.S. persons."
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Hand-operated device especially useful for crushing bone and teeth samples.
Product Description
A compact, low cost screw-press designed to pulverize 50-500mg of hard, brittle material such as bone or teeth. If fresh tissue is used, the sample is cooled in liquid nitrogen to make the tissue hard and brittle, inserted into in the pre-cooled pulverizer 'nut' and then crushed by manually screwing together the two screw plungers. The end result is tissue powdered to the size of grains of table salt or smaller. Use as a preliminary step to homogenization or extraction which then will proceed quickly and efficiently using one of several standard cell disruption methods. For cryo-pulverization of soft or elastic tissue, see the BioPulverizer.
Instructions For Use:
- The MicroCryoCrusher consists of a oversized nut and two knobs containing threaded plungers, one long and the other short.
- Precool the MicroCryoCrusher metal parts in liquid nitrogen. Thread the short plunger 1/2 way into the Nut. Place prefrozen sample into the open end and insert the long plunger. The large mass of the cold stainless steel nut will give you ample time to complete step 3 without additional liq.N2 cooling.
- Hand tighten the plunger knobs to compact and crush the tissue sample. Do not use tools to tighten. Occasionally some bone splinters may remain uncrushed. Loosen one of the plungers, rap the MicroCryoCrusher on the bench to reposition the bone material and retighten the plunger 3-4 times.
- Remove the short threaded plunger (marked with green) and expel the pellet of compacted, pulverized bone by screwing down the long screw plunger.
- Exposed, powdered tissue thaws rapidly, so proceed to the next step of homogenization or extraction promptly.
For more information on the origin and use of this device see Preparation of Bone Samples for DNA Extraction: A Nuts and Bolt Approach, M.G. Thomas and L.J. Moore, BioTechniques, Vol.22, p.402 (1997).
- Stainless steel (type 316) and 3 inch dia. phenolic plastic knobs
- Autoclavable
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Ken Clarke, the Justice Secretary, has criticised "ridiculous" human rights claims. He said that both human rights and health and safety are treated with a great deal of scepticism by the public because they are cited in ridiculous situations.
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Helena Bonham Carter Looks Happy; Son Billy Not So Muchsweatpantsmom
Helena Bonham Carter and her son Billy, 6, were spotted out at the 250th birthday party for toy store Hamleys in central London last night. Helena looks like she's having a great time but Billy looks like he's just been berated by mom's character in Alice in Wonderland, The Red Queen.
As usual Helena is dressed in one of her crazy getups — she looks like her character from Sweeney Todd. But she's such a breath of fresh air and a nice change from cookie-cutter Hollywood and I love her sense of style and her imaginative outfits — don't you?
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