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As in so many cases involving civil rights-era murders, the arrests can be traced to a single newspaper reporter, Jerry Mitchell of the Clarion-Ledger in Jackson. Since 1989 Mitchell has been a one-man cold case squad, steadily unearthing the evidence necessary to bring one aging Klansman after another to justice. Among his conquests: Imperial Grand Wizard Sam Bowers for ordering the fire-bomb murder of voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer, white supremacist Byron de la Beckwith for shooting NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers in the back with a long-range rifle, Klan recruiter Edgar Ray Killen for organizing the kidnap and murder of the three civil rights workers, and Klan foot soldier Bobby Frank Cherry, for his role in the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four black girls. At the same time Mitchell's work has inspired others—journalists, citizens groups, federal and state investigators—to reexamine Klan killings throughout the South. The scorecard so far: 28 arrests leading to 22 convictions.
What makes this story so improbable is that on paper and in person Mitchell does not seem like a "muckraker" or "troublemaker," the two terms he uses most frequently to describe himself. He is a white Southern church-going Christian who works for a newspaper that was once so rabidly pro-segregation it editorialized against opponents of lynching. "Mississippi has changed more than any other state," he says. "It's brought more civil rights cases than any other state—of course it had more cases to bring—but still you've got to give it credit."
At 47, Mitchell is lean, with red hair and beard. (In the movie version, he would be played by David Caruso.) His outward demeanor is easy going and friendly. He never argues with the people he interviews—or who call him on the phone to complain—no matter how crazy or misguided they may seem. But those who know him best—his wife Karen and his editor, Debbie Skipper—insist he is extremely competitive. He doesn't disagree. "If I'm told I can't have something," he says, "I want it a million times more."
Needless to say, Mitchell is not exactly popular with former members of the White Knights or some residents of Mississippi. Beckwith once called him "a little wretch." Others described him as a "white traitor," suggested he be "tarred and feathered and run out" of the state, or claimed he has "been inciting craven politicians to drag old, sick and defenseless citizens before 'kangaroo courts.'" He has been threatened numerous times but so far no one has tried anything, and Mitchell has never backed down. "To me it's just a matter of doing the right thing," he says. "You don't let people intimidate you—whether they're Klan guys or politicians or whoever."
His interview style, he says, is "the opposite of Mike Wallace." And that may be one reason he gets along with so many white supremacists. When he meets with them, he is there to listen, to draw the person out and possibly to find his interview subject in a lie. He actively hates the movie Absence of Malice because, among other things, the careless reporter portrayed by Sally Field does something too many journalists do: she waits until the last minute to try to contact a story subject suspected of a crime and seems content to go with "could not be reached for comment." "Anybody who is any kind of decent journalist knows that some of the best material you get are from targets of investigations," Mitchell says. "So this notion that all you have to do is make some obligatory call to the target doesn't know much about journalism in my book."
The result is that Klansmen are willing to talk to Mitchell, even though they know he helped put away some of their associates. In 1999, for example, retired truck driver Bobby Frank Cherry, one of two surviving suspects in the Birmingham church bombing, invited Mitchell to visit him at his home in Mabank, Tex. During a six-hour interview, Cherry, then 71, insisted several times that he had nothing to do with the bombing. His alibi: he was home with a bad back, watching wrestling on TV at the time 19 sticks of dynamite on a timing device were believed to be planted in the church basement.
When Mitchell returned to his office, he asked the Clarion-Ledger's librarian Susan Gray to check the TV schedule in the Birmingham News for the evening before the bombing. A day or so later she left Mitchell a note: "There was NO wrestling." Mitchell didn't let it go at that. He spent days on the phone with various executives of Birmingham's two television stations at the time, understanding their programming, making sure there wasn't the slightest possibility that wrestling had aired that night. (Neither channel had shown wrestling for more than a year.) He also asked Cherry about it several times but the Klansman stuck to his account. When Mitchell wrote his story, he let Cherry air his views—and racial slurs—in print; at least half of his 2,034-word article deals with Cherry's side, although some of it disputes his positions. "Something that has zero credibility, I'm not going to let stand," Mitchell says. "I'm going to get someone to challenge it because I believe in truth too. But I'm going to let them have their say."
Mitchell's story helped reopen the bombing case, one that J. Edgar Hoover had shut down in 1965. On May 22, 2002, Cherry was convicted in federal court in Birmingham of four counts of murder and sentenced to life in prison. He died of cancer November 18, 2004. "This is the kind of stuff you live for as an investigative reporter," Mitchell says. "I had no idea when I went to talk to the guy that that's what would come out of it. I just wanted the guy to talk. A lot of times you give people enough rope, they hang themselves."
This "assume-nothing" approach helped Mitchell get the case against Seale reopened. Seven years ago, after discovering that Moore and Dee had been beaten in the Homochitto National Forest, Mitchell wondered why the case fell under state jurisdiction. If at least part of it took place on federally owned land, he asked, wouldn't it be a federal crime? At first the U.S. Attorney agreed and reopened the case. But he quickly re-closed it. The FBI said its files had been destroyed. It didn't take long for Mitchell to find another set of the 687-page case file and get the case reopened once again.
Even so, the case continued to linger. In 2005, Moore's brother, Thomas, a retired Army sergeant major, came to Mississippi, met with authorities and helped set up a reward for information into the case. Mitchell credits Moore with pushing the FBI to make an arrest. "He never forgot, never gave up and never stopped believing that justice could be done," Mitchell says.
The most telling object on Mitchell's desk in the second floor newsroom of the Clarion-Ledger is not the row of rolodexes he doesn't use anymore (he stores contact information electronically). Nor is it the quote from Jeremiah pasted to his computer or the framed one from Deuteronomy that his daughter gave him one Father's Day. Rather it is a row of reference books: one dictionary, one thesaurus, two bibles and three movie guides. Like many journalists, Mitchell writes screenplays. Funny ones. He is a satirist at heart. As a teenager, he spent hours memorizing Bill Cosby routines and watching Charlie Chaplin, the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. He even considered humor as a career. "I wanted to write satire," he recalls. "And then I realized that, well, there aren't that many people who pay people to write satire. At least if I go into journalism, I can get paid."
Mitchell describes himself as a Texan, but for the first six years of his life he was a Navy brat. He was born in Springfield, Mo., in 1959 while his mother Jane was visiting relatives. ("She went up there for a baby shower and had me instead.") He next lived in San Diego and San Francisco while his father, Jerry Sr., a Navy pilot, flew F8 Crusader jet fighters off aircraft carriers. In the mid-60s, about the time Klan violence was at its height, his father retired from the Navy and the family moved to the Texas side of Texarkana where the elder Mitchell worked a series of jobs—Texaco distributor, tire salesman, commodities broker and real estate developer. Jerry recalls having little racial awareness growing up, although he still feels guilty today for not defending a black girl who, he says, was "teased unmercifully" after integrating Pleasant Grove Elementary when he was in the second grade. And he remembers his mother dressing him down for using the N-word when he was slightly older, an event he says has had a lasting impact. "I'm very grateful for my mom to have done that," he says. "It would have been so easy for me to be part of the culture I was living in."
"Boo," as he was known, was an only child—for good reason. His father's side of the family suffered from a rare, unnamed fatal illness that combined forms of muscular dystrophy, Paget bone disorder and frontal temporal dementia—before the age of 50. Jerry's grandfather and all four of his siblings died from it; Mitchell's aunt has it today. Five years ago, Mitchell and other members of his family volunteered to be subjects in a research project at Southern Illinois University into the disease. Not only did the doctors find the gene responsible, they determined that neither Jerry nor his father were at risk.
Some argue that Jerry's drive came from a lifelong fear that he had little time to live. But he dismisses that theory. He got his passion, he says, from his father, who regularly played one-on-one basketball with him. This was an extremely physical game, Mitchell recalls, reminiscent of scenes in The Great Santini. "Dad never let me win at anything," he says. "I'll never forget the day I finally beat him in basketball."
Another influence was a steady diet of Bible reading and church attendance. Mitchell's father was a lay Church of Christ minister for a few years; his maternal grandfather preached full time. So when it came time to go to college, Mitchell's choice was relatively simple: Harding, a conservative Christian college (now university) in Searcy, Ark. He majored in speech and journalism, and took over an existing column in the college paper, The Bison. It was called the "Fifth Column" because of its location on the page. "I thought that was hysterical," says Mitchell. "I assumed whoever made that up originally had no clue that 'fifth column' had another meaning."
As a columnist he took on college authorities over a meal ticket program that didn't cover the cost of meals. The school found a better way. He also blasted the college for banning sandals. "The next thing the administration will be telling us is that the apostles wore Nikes," he wrote. He was, he says, something of a rebel, a least the kind of rebel tolerated at a small southern conservative Christian college. He sported a top hat, a Beatles T-shirt, orange suspenders matching his longish hair and mustache (beards were not allowed), bell bottoms and countless musical, political and satirical buttons. In the 1981 yearbook, amid all the photos of seniors in coats and ties and dresses, is an irreverent "Boo Mitchell," in suspenders and top hat, reading a copy of Mother Goose. "I plan on being unemployed," the caption reads. Deadpans Mitchell today: "I had entirely too much fun in college."
After graduation, he moved to Los Angeles to become a screenwriter. He took writing classes at the University of Southern California and supported himself by proofreading yellow page ads. But he couldn't find a job in journalism; plus there was this girl back at Harding, Karen O'Donaghy, who was a year behind him. So he came back, got married, worked briefly at the semi-weekly Panola Watchman in Carthage, Tex., and then joined The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs, Ark. Along the way, one editor convinced him to drop "Boo" from his byline and another suggested he read All the Presidents Men, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of their Watergate reporting. "It inspired me," he says. "It gave me focus. I was like, 'Yeah, this is what I want to do.'"
For the next three years, Mitchell cut his teeth investigating corruption at a city-run theme park in Hot Springs. "I didn't know how to fashion an investigative story," he says. "I stumbled my way through the whole thing." But he learned a lot, including what he sees as two major lessons. "I recognized the power reporters have," he says. "The other lesson is persistence. As I've told young journalists, you have to be willing to write about a story until you're sick of it."
In 1986, he joined the Clarion-Ledger, the statewide Mississippi paper that had been little more than a house organ for the Ku Klux Klan for more than 60 years. Owned by two brothers, Thomas and Robert Hederman, the paper had been active supporters of Ross Barnett and other segregationist governors.
But in the early 1970s, Robert's son, Rea, took over and began making changes. A recent graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism—hardly a bastion of liberalism at the time—he began staffing the paper with former classmates who made journalistic moves that were standard anywhere else but shocking in Mississippi. Among other things, they actually interviewed blacks; they covered black members of the state legislature, and they reported the votes of Mississippi's congressional delegation in Washington. They also began to do investigative reporting. One of their in-depth stories, looking at poverty among black farmers in the Delta, won the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in 1979. But anything connected to the Kennedys did not sit well in Mississippi and Rea Hederman, now publisher of The New York Review of Books, was ultimately fired.
By the time Mitchell joined the Clarion-Ledger, the paper was well on its way to turning itself around. In 1982, it was sold to the Gannett chain and the following year won a Pulitzer for a series on education in the state. At first Mitchell was content to work in Tupelo, covering northeastern Mississippi, but two years later he wrangled the job of court reporter in Jackson. Because of his interest in movies, an editor asked him if he wanted to cover the state premiere of Mississippi Burning, a fictitious account of the 1964 murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. The film changed his life. "I knew nothing. I was totally ignorant and stupid of the civil rights movement," he says. "I always say it was the beginning of my education."
It didn't take Mitchell long to get going. On Sunday, September 10, 1989, eight months after seeing Mississippi Burning, he had the lead story in the Clarion-Ledger: "State spied on Schwerner 3 months before death." In it, Mitchell described how a secret state agency known as the Sovereignty Commission had put Schwerner and his wife Rita under surveillance as they worked for the Congress of Racial Equality in Meridian. More ominously, the commission had circulated a description of their car and license plate number to police and sheriff's departments around the state. It was the same car, a 1963 blue Ford station wagon, which the three civil rights workers were driving when they were arrested for speeding on June 21, 1964. They were released from the Neshoba County Jail late that night and never seen alive again.
The Sovereignty Commission had been formed in 1956 to promote segregation and none of its records had ever before been made public. But a handful of commission documents had been mistakenly attached to a lawsuit in Jackson and Mitchell was able to use them as the basis of his story. Thousands of other Sovereignty Commission documents remained sealed, by order of the state legislature. And Mitchell went to work to uncover them. "From that point forward, I was like, 'What else is in there? How can I get it?'" he says.
Three Sundays later, he struck again. This time his front-page article described how the Sovereignty Commission screened prospective jurors during the second trial of Byron de la Beckwith, who had been charged with shooting Medgar Evers in the driveway of his Jackson home just after midnight on June 12, 1963. An all-white, all-male jury had split 6-6 in Beckwith's first trial in January 1964. Before his re-trial, the documents showed, a Sovereignty Commission investigator gathered personal and biographical information on the jury pool, giving such descriptions as "fair and impartial" or "believed to be Jewish" next to each name. That April another all-white, all-male jury deadlocked, this time 8-4 for conviction, and Beckwith was set free. "The state was secretly assisting Byron de la Beckwith's defense," Mitchell says. "And nobody knew that."
The day after Mitchell's story ran, Evers' widow, Myrlie Evers-Williams, demanded the case be reopened, even though more than 25 years had passed. The day after that, the Clarion-Ledger backed her up in an editorial. And by the end of the month, the district attorney said he would empanel a grand jury.
Until this point, Mitchell had physically seen only the Schwerner documents. He had gotten two independent sources to read him the ones in the Beckwith case. But in December he struck gold. He obtained—don't ask him how—2,400 documents from the Sovereignty Commission. In January 1990 the Clarion-Ledger ran a special report called "Mississippi's Secret Past." They showed how the commission, which was chaired during much of its heyday by Gov. Ross Barnett, "went to unusual lengths to preserve Mississippi's white society—from spying on a group of Jewish children to checking out a black dentist at a white dentist's request."
One of the 15 stories was headlined: "Jackson papers were tools of spy commission." Written by Mitchell, it talked about how the two papers owned by the Hedermans, the Clarion-Ledger and the now defunct Jackson Daily News, "regularly killed stories and ran segregationist propaganda at the request of the Sovereignty Commission."
After that, Mitchell switched tactics. He moved from documents to interviews. His first big one, in April 1990, was with Byron de la Beckwith who, apparently, had not figured out that Mitchell was responsible for the reopening of the Evers case. "I had to pass a whole litany of questions, like, 'Are you white?' 'Where'd you grow up?' 'Who are your parents?' 'Where do you go to church?'" Mitchell says. But he had no problem passing. "I had a conservative Christian upbringing," he laughs. "He loved my answers." There was only one snag. "He was a little concerned when I told him I had a beard," Mitchell says. "But then I found out later that he considered red heads to be the purest of the white race."
The interview was at Beckwith's home in Signal Mountain, Tenn. "He was the most racist person I ever spent any serious time with," Mitchell says. "He'd say ridiculous stuff, like AIDS is more contagious than the common cold. He was nuts." Beckwith also espoused a belief in what is known as "Christian Identity," the idea that whites are superior and have the right to carry out violence against blacks. At one point he quoted the bible as saying blacks were "mongrels." "I knew the bible well enough to know it's not in there," Mitchell says. "But I was happy to play dumb. So I asked him, 'Where exactly is that in the Bible?'" With that, Beckwith took out a standard reference book, Nave's Topical Bible, and tried to look it up in the alphabetical listings. Mitchell says he had trouble keeping a straight face. "He starts flipping through it, thinking he's going to find 'mongrel' somewhere around 'mercy,'" he says. "Needless to say, he did not."
Afterwards, Beckwith insisted on walking Mitchell to the car where he delivered a not-so-subtle threat. "If you write negative things about white Caucasian Christians, God will punish you," he told Mitchell. "If God does not punish you directly, several individuals will do it for him." Beckwith's wife, Thelma, had also insisted on making Mitchell a turkey sandwich. He had politely refused but she stuffed it in his briefcase anyway. Given the threat, and the possibility that Beckwith had agreed to meet him only to kill him, Mitchell tossed the sandwich as soon as he could. "She was as nutty as he was," Mitchell says.
When Mitchell got back from the interview, he had a rude awakening. His editor spiked the interview. "I understand why," Mitchell says. "He kept getting people calling, wanting to know, 'Why are you digging up the past? Leave us alone.' It was all new. No one had ever gone back and done one of these cases before."
So Mitchell was allowed to report news developments in the Beckwith case, but nothing more. Shortly after that Mitchell telephoned Beckwith and got another rude awakening. The one-time Klansman had figured out that Mitchell was the reporter whose stories had led to a third trial. "He said, 'I'm going to live to be 120. I don't know how much longer you've got. I would hate for you to have a wreck or have somebody molest you. Do you know anybody who would do that?'" Mitchell recalls. "And I said, 'Do you?'"
That December Beckwith was indicted on murder charges—and things changed for Mitchell at the Clarion-Ledger. "All of a sudden," he says, "They were like, 'Oh, okay,'" He rewrote his Beckwith interview and the paper ran it. The indictment was the turning point; Mitchell had proved that "investigative history" could be done. "I just can't say enough about what Jerry has done for journalism and for the history of Mississippi," says Ronnie Agnew, the current editor of the Clarion-Ledger. "He's given a paper tucked away in Mississippi a name that's respected everywhere I go."
Beckwith was convicted of murdering Evers on Saturday, February 5, 1994, and sentenced to life in prison the same day. On the following Monday, Mitchell got a phone call from the sheriff. "He told me Beckwith kept saying two words after they took him off," says Mitchell. "I said, 'What two words?" He said, 'Jerry Mitchell.'"
It was just what Mitchell didn't want to hear. "I never thought he'd ever do anything," Mitchell says. "But I always thought he might spout off to some skin head or some white supremacist who'd think, 'Oh I'll make him happy. I'll go and take care of this guy for him.'" That never happened; Beckwith died in custody January 21, 2001.
Next up for Mitchell was Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers. Mitchell nailed him by "working the edges," as he likes to say. He started out doing a story on the relatively short terms the 15 Klansmen convicted in 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer, an NAACP leader, had actually served. But he soon discovered that one of them—Billy Roy Pitts—had not spent a single day in prison for his life sentence. He hadn't exactly disappeared either. Mitchell found him by using switchboard.com.
Ultimately Pitts gave Mitchell a lengthy incriminating taped statement describing what happened on the night two carloads of Klansmen, dressed in white hoods, killed Dahmer, 58, after he announced blacks could pay their poll taxes at his grocery store in Hattiesburg. They had thrown Molotov cocktails at Dahmer's house, but the voting rights champion took out a gun and fired back, allowing his family to escape out the back. Although he died in the fire, he managed to blow out a Klansman's tire and dislodge a gun, leaving plenty of evidence for investigators to find. As a result 15 White Knights had been convicted—but not Bowers. He survived four hung juries in the case.
After talking to Mitchell, Pitts agreed to testify against Bowers and two other Klansmen in a retrial. The three were arrested in May and this time Bowers was convicted. He died in the Mississippi State Prison in Parchman in November 2006 after spending eight years behind bars. He was 82.
Soon after Bowers conviction, Mitchell discovered the imperial wizard had given secret interviews in the mid-1980s to the state's Archives in History project. The conversations were sealed, to be opened only after he died. By the end of 1998, Mitchell had obtained a leaked transcript. What was in it was dynamite. At one point, Bowers implicated Edgar Ray "Preacher" Killen, a Baptist minister in Philadelphia, Miss., for organizing the 1964 murder of the three civil rights workers. For the next six years, Mitchell pursued Killen, finding important new witnesses as well as documents showing official intransigence, both federal and state, along the way. He even took Killen and his wife to a catfish dinner.
In 2005 his dogged efforts paid off. Killen was arrested and in June a Neshoba County jury convicted him of three counts of manslaughter. He got a 60-year sentence—20 years for each count.
At first the judge was willing to let Killen remain on bail while he appealed. After all, Killen, then 80, had appeared at trial in a wheel chair, with a nurse at his side and an oxygen tube up his nose. When he was sworn in to discuss his condition, he slowly lifted his right hand with his left. But a month later Mitchell reported that Killen had been seen walking around unaided at a filling station, putting gas into his truck. Bail was immediately revoked and Killen has been in custody ever since.
Given Mitchell's many triumphs, it not surprising his den wall is covered with awards. In 2006 alone, he won the George Polk, the Tom Renner, the Vernon Jarrett, and the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Awards, plus he delivered the prestigious Hodding Carter lecture at Syracuse University. He also came in second—to Dana Priest of The Washington Post—for a Pulitzer in beat reporting, the third time he came close to winning one. Since the Pulitzer committee only looks at individual stories or series in any given year, rather than at a lifetime of work, it seems unlikely he will ever get one, especially since so many witnesses—and more importantly, defendants—are dying off.
Mitchell is acutely aware of how little time there is. He keeps the Missing Poster for the three civil rights workers—the case that first inspired him—as his screensaver. It is, he says, a reminder "not to give up." He sees the screensaver every day.


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South Carolina Episcopalians have put their foot down and are separating from the U.S. Episcopal Church. These conservative Christians can no longer tolerate the U.S. Episcopalian acceptance of homos*xuality, including gay clergymen and same-s*x marriage. Last month in Charleston, a vote was held at a convention on whether or not the South Carolina Diocese would remain a part of the national organization.
This is now the fifth diocese to leave the the national church. South Carolina Bishop Mark J. Lawrence is not interested in making homosexuals feel welcome in church. Lawrence wants to run a church that reflects what he believes God intended. There are some members of the congregation who did not want to leave the national organization. Steve Skardon is one of those members, and he believes that the majority of the people who agreed to separate from the national church did so in order to affirm that homosexuality is wrong.
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BROWNING DOOR FOR WELLESLEY; It Will Be Unveiled on the 91st Anniversary of Poet's First Visit to Future Wifee GIFT OF MRS. GRIFFITH Philadelphia Collector Presents Relic to College, Which Will Exhibit Numerous Treasures
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The door of the house at 50 Wimpole Street, London, once the home of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, will be presented to Wellesley College Thursday afternoon, the ninety-first anniversary of the day on which Robert Browning first opened it to visit the invalid poet-who to become his wife.
May 16, 1937
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1. Re: game programming810112 Jan 23, 2011 9:41 PM (in response to 833166)Well thats kinda general... In my opinion java is a great language. Just not for games usually. Also what kind of game? 2d or 3d? I would recommend checking out unity for 3D games. I have used it and it is a great tool for people looking to make 3D games without as much work. Plus it supports execution in a browser like an applet kindof. For 2D i usually use flash as it greatly simplifies the process. If your hearts set on Java start off with this- http://www.tutorialized.com/view/tutorial/2D-Java-Platform-Game/10145


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The Corn Exchange National Bank Building at 123-135 Chestnut Street at the corner of S. 2nd Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was built in 1903, and was designed by Newman & Harris in the Georgian Revival style. Horace Trumbauer designed alterations and additions in 1913, 1929 and 1931. The bank was first organized as a state bank in 1858 and became a national bank in 1864 through the National Banking Act. The bank had been located in a previous building on the same site, c.1879. (Sources: [1], [2], [3])
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Submitted to: Development of Pedotransfer Functions in Soil Hydrology
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Direct measurement of hydraulic properties is often difficult, expensive and time-consuming. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) offer a means to estimate soil hydraulic properties based on predictors like texture, bulk density and other soil variables. The chapter is part of a book on the background and use of PTFs. The chapter contribute to a wider understanding of the methods to develop and especially evaluate PTFs. The intended audience is mainly those who develop PTFs, but also interested users.
Technical Abstract: Several statistical criteria are available to evaluate and quantify the potential usefulness of PTFs in making accurate and reliable estimates of soil hydraulic properties. The second chapter deals with three closely related terms: optimization, accuracy, and reliability. Optimization criteria are the objective functions used to calibrate empirical parameters in PTFs. Accuracy criteria relate to the statistical methods used to test the performance of indirect methods, preferably using data distinct from those used for calibration. Uncertainty estimates provide information about the probability distribution of estimated hydraulic quantities.


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This is a discussion on If you saw these tattoos how would you react? within the Off Topic & Humor Discussion forums, part of the The Back Porch category; Originally Posted by Ghettokracker71 +1 I need an infidel shirt. http://www.cafepress.com/buy/infidel...pt_/c_360/pg_1...
How would I react? By ignoring it. Actions speak volumes. While I might well elevate my "radar" in case someone so into his teachings decides to put his beliefs into action, I'd simply go about business as usual.
Nowhere near as threatening as those little hash marks between the fingers, don't you know.
Your best weapon is your brain. Don't leave home without it.
Thoughts: Justifiable self defense (A.O.J.).
Explain: How does disarming victims reduce the number of victims?
Reason over Force: Why the Gun is Civilization (Marko Kloos).
I got my Infidel shirt at One Source Tactical
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fortiter in re, suaviter in modo (resolutely in action, gently in manner).
You know there is one real good solution that no one has suggested as of yet... it involves a portable belt sander and some 80 grit.
"The sword dose not cause the murder, and the maker of the sword dose not bear sin" Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac 11th century
Why is it that my sentances always start with "Someday when I have money?" I'm going to get this on my shoulder.
To those that paid for my freedom,
As with all statements I've made and All that I will make, please check your local laws to verify accuracy. (and if i'm wrong let me know as I like to be right in the future) After all I'm just some goofball posting on an internet forum.
If I was a tattoo artist and a "customer" came in wanting one of those designs...I'd mix some fresh PIG BLOOD into the tattoo ink.
And then I would only tell him the Pig Blood was in the ink after I was all finished tattooing him - and then I would hand him a razor sharp knife and enjoy watching him fillet his own skin off.
That would be sweet revenge.
Liberty Over Tyranny Μολὼν λαβέ
I would offer him a razor and a stick to bite on.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
-- Theodore Roosevelt --
"To blame a gun for a mans decision is to foolishly attribute free will to an inanimate object"- Colion Noir.
In a hypothetical world, I would show him my tattoo, "For those who will not return" and invite him to discuss some hot button issues. I'd probably follow him home, make his life miserable for awhile. Tap into his phone and make some "interesting" calls to "important" people. Get the fuzz harassing him. Let some air out of tires. Stink bombs in the vents. Then I would turn his lawn red, because what makes the green grass grow? Maybe a sign announcing a distaste for a certain group of people while also arranging that certain group of people to have a little march down his street. Then when he was home alone i would seal all the exits and burn it down and relieve myself on the ashes. but thats hypothetical.
"Wear a gun to someone else's house, you're saying, 'I'll defend this home as if it were my own.' When your guests see you carry a weapon, you're telling them, 'I'll defend you as if you were my own family"
don`t have any tatoos but enjoy seeing tasteful on some people
but those in some places I visit would make that ole boy be hurtin!!!
always be on the ready
The wearer of these tattoos would be seeking attention and confrontation.....
I have neither the time nor inclination to offer one or the other.....
Also, the educated individual would recognize that tattoos are forbidden by islam and that the wearer is ignorant of such....
"Ray Nagin is a colossal disappointment" - NRA/ILA Executive Director Chris W. Cox.
"...be water, my friend."
"Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have."
- William Munny (Clint Eastwood in the Unfrogivin)
The graveyards are full of indispensable men. Napoleon Bonaparte
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I just wanted to thank you for posting these pictures.I certainly enjoyed seeing them. South Dairy Farm once belonged to my grandfather's family. He was born in that old farmhouse in the1880's. He moved to Canada about 1910 and died in 1961. Aside from the new house,the place looks almost exactly as it did in the hundred year old photos that my father had.I understand my grandfather's younger brother was still living in that old farmhouse as late as 1974.
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James took me on his tractor... another first in my life. I enjoyed observing the pattern James took to keep the farm's grass at a respectable length. The tractor did a good job, but slid on a few occasions. Later that weekend, the tractor got stuck in the deep mud but James' friends came to the rescue in releasing it
The farm's house is a 2 story basic set up but warm and comfortable. Nearby is a 200 year old delapidated old house, joined to a barn which I loved exploring. Many, many generations of the same family lived in the house... it is only recently (30 years) that the people moved into the 2 story house. Around the house are rolling green hills with some cows and bulls in the distance.
On Saturday night, I met Enron and Margaret... two friends of James and Wendy who go back several years. I loved having another opportunity to meet the locals... which I believe is the most important thing I can do on this trip. We went to Kookaba - an Australian-themed restaurant in Saudersfoot - on the coast of Southern Wales. I'm happy to say that the menu, decoration, welcome and drinks were superbly Australian and for a moment, I felt at home. But they could of done something with the music... I think it was Welsh music which added a unique ambience to the restaurant. In the end, I had Italian food... canneloni... with VB and Australian wine. A great night. Luckily I'm returning in 2 weeks because I'm starting to want more and more of home these days.
I spent most of Sunday relaxing, including a 2 hour walk around the farm's confines
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Mahdi Redha Ali's side outplayed their opponents in the first half but Oscar Tabarez's favourites rallied from a goal down to take all three points at Old Trafford
Uruguay came from a goal down to beat an impressive UAE side 2-1 in their Olympic Games Group A opener.
Ismail Matar showed a cool head to give the underdogs a shock lead but a superb free kick from Gaston Ramirez and a fine finish from Nicolas Lodeiro gave Oscar Tabarez's side all three points.
Tabarez named a strong starting line-up, which included Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez for Uruguay's first Olympic Games since 1928. The United Arab Emirates qualified unbeaten for the tournament and Mahdi Redha Ali's side went into the game targeting a point.
Both sides had similar opportunities early on with Matar coming close to turning in Ahmed Kalil's cross for the UAE before Cavani failed to make contact with Ramon Arias' ball into the box.
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The breakthrough came after 20 minutes with the UAE taking a surprising, but deserved, lead. Omar Abdulrahman found Matar with a superb pass using the outside of his boot before the striker skipped around the goalkeeper and slotted his shot past two defenders on the line.
And Redha Ali's men almost doubled their lead moments later when Kalil found himself one-on-one against Martin Campana, but the Uruguayan shotstopper got down well to keep his side in touching distance.
Campana was pushed into action twice on the half-hour mark as first Rashed Eisa skipped past Arias but couldn't find a way past the keeper from a tight angle before Matar went inches from grabbing his second with a headed effort from Abdulrahman's cross.
For all of the UAE's chances, a brilliant free kick from Uruguay's Ramirez gave Tabarez's men an equaliser just before the break. The Bologna midfielder whipped a left-footed shot past the helpless Housani Ali Khaseif to give his team an equaliser against the run of play.
A well struck shot from Egidio Arlevaro stung the hands of the Ali Khaseif as Uruguay began to take control in the second half, but the South American side did not have to wait long to take the lead as half-time substitute Lodeiro fired home in clinical fashion after good play from Suarez to put La Celeste ahead.
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yes, I know it's about 3 miles away from me, but I've never been there. As a confirmed hill hater, I probably shouldn't even be thinking about it, but I entered, and I'm on the official start list.
How bad is it? Bearing in mind I got told Torbay was quite flat and I was exspecting mountain goats and a ski lift byt the final turn.
(feel free to lie and say it's flat)
Kwiter - being in Saltash which is in Cornwall of course it's flat as a pancake.
Seriously? It really is very hilly. I've run it twice now. Take it steady and you'll be ok, or walk the hills if you want/need to. The first one is only about a mile in. People that were not local were moaning their heads off on that one. But there is a reason why it is called the Magnificent 7. Don't despair though as that first hill is pretty much the worst one. There are lots more but none as bad as that I'd say.
On the plus side the atmosphere is fab and the medal is really great too. On hot years a guy gets his hosepipe out to offer a shower on route which is most welcome and you'll find locals and kids handing out jelly babies and wine gums on the way round too. and it is all in the lanes so it is also a very pretty run. So it's not all bad! Honest. Best of luck for it. I may be marshalling - not sure yet. Hey - you may even have to change from ''confirmed hill hater'' to ''committed hill lover.......''
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Hey - you may even have to change from ''confirmed hill hater'' to ''committed hill lover.......''
Not very likely! So practising round Saltram is a good idea then! My race plan is to walk the hills and catch up on the flats and downhill bits. Hosepipe shower and jelly babies sounds fab
You shold come over the border and do Duckponds SS, I'll be marshalling that one
Hi Kwiter - I'm already living over the boarder so to speak. I've not done Duckponds before, but I have heard it is a nice one to do. I am building up again from an achilles injury so at mo just concentrating on slowly building to10k so that I can do London Tri in august. That's my one and only aim - for now.
Some of the hills on Mag 7 are ''1st gear in car'' sort of hills. That first one is and there is another one (that is not so long) towards the end that is too. So it might be worth incorporating in some steep hills that you could practice walking up when out on your run? Cot hill perhaps?
But you will be fine - steady does it and walk the steepies. Best of luck.
SS...Cot hill...is that the kind that I'll encounter at Mag 7? I already train on hills...living here I can't avoid them really. I live near Cattedown roundabout, and when I'm in the right mood, I'll do hills by running up and down all the side streets between St J. church and the allotments on the embankment.
2 weeks today then I'll be mid wibble . And there's not enough from my club doing it so far to get me grand prix points either. All that pain and nothing to show for it on the leaderboard
Hi Kwiter - Yes Cot Hill is the worst sort you will encounter. But there is only 2 like that and the second one is not a long one and the first one is the one I mentioned that is right at the start so you get it out of the way early on. Don't worry, it is a lovely race and you'll find there will be plenty of people you can hook up with on the day if you want some company. Sounds like you do lots of hills anyway. as you say we simply can't escape the things which is troublesome for me as I'm desparetly trying to find flatter routes whilst I build back up with an achilles prob! Grr!
Lol - on grand prix points. I once went over to central park to run a 10k race as I thought it was on my clubs grand prix. I was trying to do all the grand prix events that year. On that day I had managed to catch the most horrendous hangover (no idea how ). I live opposite central park so I staggered my way over there determined to get round somehow to acheive my aim. It was a BOILING hot day and lucky us got to run from the bottom of pennycomequick roundabout up Alma Road then right into the park and all the way up to the clock tower - twice! The sun was beating off the concrete and to say I felt - um - a bit unwell was a slight understatement. I did a PW - no surprise there, but was very smug as I had done it. Only I got home to discover:
It wasn't on the grand prix list at all!!!! Major GRRRRR's entailed!
OMG It was very hilly, and hot! Loved the hose sprays from the people living on the course, and the lady who'd cut oranges into segments...very welcome!
5 from our club did it, but me being of the female persuasion and the rest male, means no-one gets GP points. ON a good note though, Mr K was able to pace me round, so I got under what I would have expected to had I been doing it on my own
Scooby, that sounds like me...were you the marshall who said come on Plymstock? I can't stand getting my hair all over my face while I'm running, even now it's shorter, that was my pirate buff I was wearing
My eldest did the fun run and came 10th...clearly got his dad's running genes!
The medal's lovely...not sure about "ready to go again"! Maybe next year!


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Posted on Monday, October 7 @ 09:48:50 PST by Keri_HoneaHalo: Initiation #2 ended with Sarah Palmer, brand new Spartan-IV, deciding to take matters into her own hands when the Infinity is hijacked by a woman name Ilsa Zane. The second issue led up to a potentially lengthy confrontation and solution, at least two issues, but it turns out that #3 is the last one of this series. As such, the ending with Ilsa Zane is as abrupt as it sounds, and I came away from the comic feeling a bit unsatisfied.
Yes, Sarah Palmer is a Spartan and she has ODST experience. However, I didn't expect her to be able to take down a woman who is held up to be the biggest threat this side of the Covenant in just half a page. I was expecting the Spartan-IVs to formulate this intricate plan that would take at least one issue to execute, especially after Jun explained who Zane was and what she was.
Instead, Palmer and just one other Spartan performed a RARRRRRR technique that I would typically attempt while playing a shooter. It's one thing when I do it in a game, it's another to read it in a comic where you expect something a little more grandiose. It honestly felt like the writer and artist were told this was the last issue of the story when they were halfway through creating the comic. I realize that the Halo loremakers are eager to get the next series, Escalation, out the door, but geez, do you have to cut off one series when it just started to get interesting?
At the very least, Initiation ends on a major cliffhanger, presumably for the sake of Escalation or possibly another comic series down the line. No. 3 isn't the best Initiation has to offer, but it definitely sets the backdrop for a future story in the Halo universe, so it's not an issue to miss while you're collecting your Halo lore.
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Learn to live with it, the peons in the Dreaded Private Sector were told. Two percent — big deal. But when the privileged class — the government — takes a 2 percent "cut," which isn't really a cut, it's "draconian."......"
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Sikka, Pavan & Corke, Peter (2006) Results from the farm. In Proceedings Third Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (EmNets 2006), Maxwell Dworkin Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, pp. 46-50.
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Sico99's Plugin & Script RepositoryA place for me to host the XBMC Scripts and PluginsJust a couple of really simple plugins probably of no use to anyone but me. If anyone does like CNET TV shows or Zero Punctuation hopefully these will be of some amusement.
I think someone wanted an icanhascheezburger plugin I know I did.
I have also made an ITN video viewer, a Wine TV Plugin, an XBOX Twitter Client and still in development is a script to display a guitar tab for the currently playing song from ultimate guitar tabs. At some point I hope to get these into a fit state to upload.
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A dual switch question
I need to install a dual switch for fan/light fixture.
I did this kind of work before, so I do not understand what I did wrong.
I have a red/black/white/green wire running from the fixture box
to the dual switch (the switch is not faulty, I checked it).
I connected the black hot wire to the switch per instructions (on the right, where the bridge for two circuits is).
I connected red and black wire to each of the screws on the left of the switch per instructions.
I went to the garage and turned the breaker on. No short.
I went upstairs and turned swithes on. No short.
I thought everything is OK, so I took electrical tester and tried to check
that both fan and light circuits work.
What happened is that as soon as I contacted black and white wires with my tester, a spark occurred and a contact on my tester partially melted.
Does anybody know what caused it?
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tester on the wrong setting?
contact white and black with same tester probe?
The tester is a simple one, two wires with a led light in between. No settings. I used it before. After a contact partially melted I used the tester on the outlet, it works.
I did not contact white and black with the same probe. In fact, after I had this happened, I rechecked the wiring, and tested again. Same result.
Where is power fed for this circuit? Is it fed to the ceiling box or to the switch box? You say there is a blk, red, and white wire at the switch. Do they all come from the same cable? Is there any other cables in the switch box?
The power is fed to the switch box.
The power comes with black/white/ground wires.
The dual switch feeds both black and red wires coming from the fan/lights.
There are no other wires in the box.
The set up is pretty simple and standard.
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Saints quarterback Drew Brees is upset about being given the franchise tag by New Orleans, according to CBS Sports.
A source with knowledge of the quarterback's camp told WIST-AM in New Orleans that Brees is "livid" about being tagged and not receiving the long-term contract that he had been working toward with the club. According to CBS Sports, the station also cites sources who say that if the two sides can't reach a contract extension by July 15, then Brees will not sign the franchise tag and will instead hold out.
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So i had the chance to demo some boards on the weekend so thought i'd share my take on things...
Boards I rode:
Lib Tech attack banana 153 - One thing that is painfully clear to me now is that mervin boards are heavy and relatively sluggish. The elliptical
C2 camber was very smoothe and the attack banana was a little stiffer than average. Fair amount of pop but a 153 was a little too big for me and i just found the thing to be too heavy and therefore wasn't very playful.
Nitro T1 153 - Blew me away! Are all nitro's snowboards this light??? Took nothing to spin it, was stable at speed, good pop off jumps stable on landings...if i landed off balance it was forgiving and i was able to correct it without a spil. I thought it was awesome edge to edge and the way it turned made me feel warm and fuzzy inside, don't know if it was the sidecut or the way the core gets thicker and thinner but it handled like a dream. I'm used to having a reverse cambered board that sort of ollies for you but the t1 didn't quite do that. Thinking of buying this board but am just not sure whether to get a 149 or 153. If the 153 was this playful how good will the 149 be? But then i don't want to sacrifice versatility and potential to take it overseas.
Gnu Park Pickle 153 - Again, in a mervin the 153 felt too big. Regardless, i wanted to see if the sidecut was all it is cracked up to be...i've gotta say i wasn't thrilled by it. Granted i'm not used to it but a couple of times i felt like i was going to go backwards when i went hard on my heelside, really don't think it is necessary, are snowboarders really that lazy? Like the skate banana it had good pop but it was quite chattery and again it was too heavy for me.
Arbor Coda 153 - Solid deck! I felt like it may have been a little too big on the hard pack for me, but i could tell it was a good thing. More pop than a skate banana, more stable than a skate banana and maybe not quite as heavy. If someone told me they were getting a skate banana i would tell them to get this. The grip teck doesn't slow you down as much as magnetraction either. If it was a little bit smaller i would have loved it, if i was riding mostly pow..i'd buy it (only say that because i'm a small guy). Serious amount of pop!
So i learnt that mervin boards can take a back seat. I have released myself from their marketing hoo-har and i'm pretty sure my next board will be a nitro. Mervin boards generally have good pop and they float well in pow but that's pretty much all i can say. If i were riding pow i would consider the coda ahead of any mervin board. Backflip on mervin....complete!
Wouldn't mind some opinions on whether to get the 149 or 153 T1 (size 7 boot 55kgs)
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Glad to hear Mervin has lost some hype points with someone.
Get the 149. This makes me a little more curious about the T1. I haven't had a chance to ride it since they claimed they softened it up, never had one in a good size for me to try. But if it really sits in between the Rook and Swindle like it's supposed to it has potential to be one of my favorite park boards out right now.
From what the rep was saying I reckon you would be right in saying the t1's between those two. He talked me out of the rook saying it was just that little bit stiffer and they only had a 154 to demo...still curious about the rook though, wouldn't think i'd need the extra stiffness. The t1 was definately a lot more than just a park board, i havn't ridden that many boards but id say it was at least a 5 in flex.
There's not a hell of a lot wrong with the t1, kinda makes me happy when i think of getting one :p
I would just be careful if you like your board to help give you pop. Could have had a little more flex in that regard. Flex of 5 is probably an understatement
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I think it depends on your riding style, when it comes to Mervin. For the people who like park majority of the time, I keep reading that Mervin doesn't measure up.
I can tell you as someone who freerides mostly, rides some trees, and natural jumps, there wasn't much better out there than the Travis Rice. Need to jump on the Magic, but the Rice and Lynn were sick. And I tried a lot of shit. K2, Burton, Mervin, Never Summer, Ride, Yes. The Optimistic was my other favorite board for my riding style.
I can't stress more though...if you have 60 bucks for a few days of dicking around on multiple boards, do it. Everyone's style is different, and there are different companies that make great boards for that style.
Just don't like the blanket Mervin sucks. For more of a freerider with some jumps, Mervin makes some great boards with the Rice, Lynn, and as Leo has mentioned, the Banana Magic.
The weekend was the first time i've ridden anything other than mervin since i've been any good at snowboarding, so the turn around in my mind is probably a little more extreme than is perhaps warranted. I maintain that they are heavy boards compared to the nitro but I can't speak more highly of my carbon credit as an entry level board. I suppose having liked the nitro so much i felt a sense of liberation but obviously based on mervin's following they suit plenty of people and they would be more so in the mix in my mind if i were riding pow and as you said, big mt more often.
Also, you are absoloutely correct about trying before you buy. Each brand has a different feel and i will probably get demos most days i head up for the rest of the aus season. demo days are a god send!
also i agree there's not a single board in mervin's line up that i would jib/park with... their boards are best for riding and is one of the best at that. take a suv on to the track doesn't make sense. nor is taking a porsche off roading. they each have their own purposes
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Very good point shredder, and that was the point I was making. You need to know your riding style, and find a board that is excellent in those areas. I love this site, but if I would have went by popular opinion, I would have been on a Never Summer SL or Heritage, but would have never tried a Yes Optimistic. For me, the Optimistic fit my riding style the best. The TRice was also a great option. Demo, demo, demo, if you can afford it for a couple days. You'll be surprised.
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The colorific 5K that is nation-wide known in the States is coming to visit Australia! If you're looking for a reason to start a health lifestyle with a 5K jog, this is the perfect event! Not only will you be healthy, you will have lots of fun too! Guaranteed!
The 2012 Tour de Color Run will take place in seven Australian cities, starting in Adelaide. Here's the full list:
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If you're not a sports fan, you can always be a spectator. Don't just stand there and spectate, have some fun too! This event is perfect if you're looking for happy and colorful subjects. So if you're in town in one of these cities, make sure you take your camera with you and snap some colorful photos! Be careful of the rainbow powders, they can get into your camera for sure.
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When I worked at a Naval shipyard years ago, I ended up down in a bilges of various ships a lot of times. I learned that my best tool for bilge salvaging was an alnico maget on a string. I found a bunch of tools down there with it. Everything from Starret mics to aluminum pipe wrenches (with steel jaws), lots of well preserved wrenches, sockets, spud wrenches, hammers etc. Even found a .38 revolver one time. I turned that in to the Shore Patrol though. Didn't want to get caught going through the quarter deck with it. Sometimes the SP's would search us as we left the ship, but as far as tools, there was no way to determine whether they were mine or the Navy's. I figure what I found in the bilges wasn't being missed very much anyway so...
has anyone here (especially the OH guys) been to one of those tent tool sales that they have usually in mall parking lots or fairgrounds? i've found some pretty nice tools there really cheap, but you've gotta watch what you buy. i bought a dozen rolls of black tape once for 99 cents, and it wouldn't stick to itself, but i also bought a 3 piece welding clamp set for 10 bucks and i use those things every day.
none of my scores are good i have about 350 dollars worth of tools from that rip off of a company called snap on
i paid around 2,500$
Why you think Snap On is crap?
If I had the $ I would buy those, most of my stuff is Craftsman.
I only weeks ago found out actually how expensive Snap On is!
My jaw dropped for real.
Only score is a used craftsman toolbox with 3 drawers for 15$.
I went to the green box site to throw away some garbage......there was a plastic Craftsman tool chest. The kind with rollers....like a suitcase. I put in in the truck......you are not supposed to TAKE things out of the containers.......
Got it home, it was somewhat heavy, and it had 40 plus wrenches and 10 screwdrivers. The wrenches varied from Snap-on (6 of those) to Taiwan (about a 1/3 of them). Some Mac, some Craftsmen and a couple of Husky. The screwdrivers were all Taiwan junk.
1 ratchet..........Proto. 3/8 drive but no sockets
I saw the same plastic chest in a flyer from Sears ...on sale ...49 dollars.
Snap on makes Kobalt tools, I have a deep socket set from them.
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I picked up a 4 post electric/hydraulic drive on lift, free. I had a buddy that worked at Koni N/A, he said they were getting a bigger lift and the old one was free to the first taker. So I was waiting with a flatbed trailer as they came out the door with it on forklifts. Now I just need a garage tall enough for the damn thing.
Probably for me is my 2 stage 80 gal commercial grade air compressor,a guy was moving didn't want to mess with it advertise for $900. asked him what his bottom dollar he said $ 600. I didn't argue MY miller 250 amp mig a guy was upgrading his small shop $850.
A sandblaster my old neighbor gave to me for free. Could'nt sell it at a yard sell so he just gave it to me. Don't know what it is but it works great.
I have a 12' tall garage that you could "store" it in. I'll let you keep it there for 20 years, if you want !
I picked up a 10"/1 HP grinder form Harbor Freight for $20! It had a cracked base on it ...cheap Chinese casting. I went home and fabricated one from 1/4" steel plate. Works GREAT! ALSO I picked up an old reciprocating hack saw at the swap meet. It needed cleaned up and a motor. Had a 3/4 HP out of a washing machine laying around ...did some more fabricating and VIOLA ...a working power hack saw. Actually I love doing stuff like this ...the idea of getting a "tool" that normally cost some $'s for less always did "light my fire"! *G* ...I don't care if it's "pretty" ...just mechanical clean (not jury rigged). Anybody the same? ...Mark
I got a metal floor type band saw for $25. That is my best deal yet.
Century flux-core mig welder $100
Husky 60 gallon 6.5 HP 1 week old air compressor $100
Dewalt variable speed buffer(just needed brushes) $10
English wheel(I love it when people buy stuff and never learn how to use it) $25
Miller synchrowave 250 tig welder $400
Oxy-acetelyne torch set with big tanks $50
Coates tire changing machine $150
Mac 1/2 impact gun $10
Sata jet 90 spray gun(brand new) $100
Magna spot stud welder $50
6 1/2 horse 60 gallon Coleman Powermate air compressor for $125. Listed for $375. My dad spent $.75 cents for a box of junk at an auction....3/4 inch Snap-On breaker bar in the bottom. Some guys have the luck!
Stanley 1/2 in electric impact wrench used only 7 times over 7 yeras ro remove rear winter tires Paid $30.00 and it works great.
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On Nov. 20, Representatives Joe Saunders and David Richardson became the first openly gay members to be sworn to the state's legislature.
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The roundtable took place at the Horvitz Auditorium next to the Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale - the hall was packed. In its 18 months of life, Our Fund has already raised over $1.3 million.
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Hi there... first the disclaimer - complete NEWCOMER so please be gentle!
just bought a 650D with the stock 18-55mm lens...
I'm also after a telephoto lens 'of some sort' - budget on or under £275... - I'd really appreciate your advice if possible?
With the 650D wondered whether I should ensure it has...
IS - (a lot of the zooming will be indoor, kids party, school assembly, nativity plays etc. so indoor / lower light conditions)?
USM - does the new move / servo focus stuff NEED this on the lens too, and if not, should I get it anyway to be able to focus quicker etc.?
EFS - presume this is the fitting I need ???!
Ideally I'd want to be looking at 200mm+ I guess?
And is such as lens available for the budget I have?
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YOu then will have to look at the EF-S 55-250mm f4-5.6 IS II! for less than 200$ it is a great Zoom-tele Lens.
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Keyboard and mouse?
So i've procrastinated getting a console for gaming for the longest time cause i can't aim worth a dime using the thumb sticks but now i must part with my PC, So... I understand I can use a wireless mouse and keyboard. Will any work or do any of you experts out there know of one that works much better than the rest?
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You can use any USB (wired or wireless) or Bluetooth (wireless) keyboard and mouse with the PS3 to control the XMB and to type messages and such, but the trouble you will run into is that there are only a few PS3 games which will allow you to use them as a controller.
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