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When you're ready to have someone take over your lawn care for you, it's important to know what you're getting into. That requires doing a little bit of research. You may know what you want but do you have any idea what a lawn care service provides? Do they trim the hedges, and mow the lawn, do they take care of the fertilizing, and do they do the edging? What comes in your yard maintenance deal? In most cases this is going to depend upon what type of package you choose. We'll go over three different types of packages that are available for your yard care needs in Milledgeville.
This is the lowest package, offering what is considered the most needed services. So what does this include? First mowing, it's the thing everyone dreads spending their Saturday morning doing, so in the basic lawn care package, you'll be able to skip the Saturday ritual in favor of sleeping in, or reading the comic strip. It will keep the home owners association at bay and the neighbors happy without you having to give up the weekend. Next in line in this lawn care basics is blowing away the mess from the paths. You won't have to worry when it rains about slipping in the muck of soaked leaves because the lawn maintenance crew will have cleared them away. Twice a month they're going to straighten up the edges of your lawn to keep it looking neat and tidy. Then five times during the course of the year they'll make sure your lawn stays healthy by taking care of the fertilization for you, and during the winter they'll care for the lawn with lime. Lastly, they'll take care of the broadleaf weeds, the peskiest of the turf weeds. So even at the lowest end of the scale, having lawn maintenance can save you time and stress.
Finally, you get the whole kit and caboodle you get the basic and garden services mentioned above as well as, pruning, of shrubs after they bloom, of hedges when they need it, generally a few times a year. As the weather turns cold, the trees will need pruning as well, and just to put the cherry on top, they'll take away your holiday tree, just make sure to leave the tinsel off. This covers the basics of what your lawn service should be providing; also, there are sometimes special services available, for instance if you're pretty sure your yard is headed downhill you could look into one time only services.
Milledgeville Lawn Care Pros Offer Tips to Refresh Summer-Damaged Lawns for Fall.
Byline: Pam Waterman Correspondent
We live in a dry Mediterranean climate, but you'd never know it. Just drive along most residential streets in Southern California and you see green lawns ooze out in front of houses as if they were growing on the East Coast with its plentiful supply of water.
No logic explains why most homeowners insist on a green lawn in this semi-arid region. We know our water has to be brought to us at great cost to the environment. And the water problem isn't likely to improve in the future, as more people crowd into the Los Angeles basin.
Some changes in our wasteful pattern of cultivating velvety, picture-perfect lawns are sure to come when water gets more expensive and California's rhythm of drought returns. Get a head start and begin planning a garden instead of a grass carpet that needs constant mowing, watering and fertilizing. Here are 10 alternatives to growing turf on your property. Each one requires less water than grass.
1. Grow drought-tolerant ground covers. Gazania, a bright, daisylike flower, grows either in clumps or as a trailing plant. If you have plenty of sun, ease into a lawn-less future by edging your grass with Gazania ``Burgundy'' or ``Copper King.''
Another choice for sunny spots is ice plant. It will soon be obvious that you get a bigger reward with ground covers than with turf.
Dwarf mondo grass is a good ground cover for a shady area. Although it takes time to become established, mondo grass spreads into an attractive mat in spaces where grass would be much more trouble.
Dozens of ground covers can serve as lawn substitutes: Dalea greggii (trailing indigo bush), Cotoneaster salicifolius ``Repens,'' Ceonathus griseus ``horizontalis,'' Arctotheca calendula, cape weed or Coprosma ``verde vista.'' These ground covers can be mixed with each other for more texture and color than any grass lawn could provide.
2. Plant a kitchen garden. OK, this kind of lawn substitute might take some getting used to. But for 20 years, Cynthia Null of Altadena has cultivated vegetables in her front yard area instead of the boring green grass of surrounding homes. Although she hasn't yet made any neighborhood converts to kitchen gardening, her neighbors all know that Null's tomatoes taste better than grass.
3. Plant a succulent garden. All you need to do is stroll through the Desert Garden at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Garden in San Marino to see thousands of interesting succulents that grow in a rainbow of colors with many leaf shapes. This is another lawn substitute that you could ease into. Plant a small succulent section in the sunniest part of your lawn and see how much better it looks and how much less care it takes than turf.
4. Leave it natural. This lawn substitute technique works best when you have a large lovely oak you want to preserve. Few homeowners would be happy with no planting at all around their oaks. You can safely locate a few natives or drought-tolerant plants like Centranthus ruber, Penstemon species, Ceonathus griseus horizontalis or Mahonia repens in the vicinity of the oak. But no grass inside the drip line. That is, if you want your oak to live a long life.
5. Plant an ivy collection. If conditions are not too difficult, you could substitute ivy for your lawn. Not the fast-growing, unattractive Algerian ivy (why plant a substitute lawn for something that doesn't look any better?), but English Ivy and perhaps some of the small- or miniature-leafed forms. This solution works best in a small area. I grow miniature ivies in pots, and I'd love to see a textured pattern on someone's former lawn with five or six different ivy cultivars.
6. Plant a garden of grasses. Many kinds of ornamental grasses are now available at local nurseries. An arrangement of feathery festucas, Muhlenbergia capillaris (pink hair grass), Miscanthus sinensis (Japanese silver grass), Pennisetum setaceum ``Rubrum'' or red fountain grass and smaller varieties such as common blue fescue will allow you to create a magical landscape that moves with the wind where a still, monotonous lawn used to be.
7. Plant a perennial garden. This type of garden also looks best when there's a smallish area of lawn to give up. But a small area doesn't mean you have to furnish with small plants. Think big. One homeowner I know loves cannas and allows these tall beauties to grow right up to the sidewalk.
8. Plant an herb garden. Dozens of wonderful herbs grow in our climate. Even if you don't use them for cooking, many herbs look good as ornamental plants. One place to get ideas is at the herb garden at the Huntington. On weekends, a representative from the local herb society has a table under the oaks and hands out information.
9. Create a serene oasis with trees, box and gravel. Although this kind of garden will take time to get established, your ultimate reward will be an unusual and lovely space - a space that will be at least one thousand times more interesting than a green lawn.
10. Install a dramatic hardscape and garden in pots. A garden floor of Mexican paver tiles is not maintenance-free but it's certainly less work than a lawn. The biggest expense comes from the materials.
This type of garden is especially appropriate for people who enjoy entertaining instead of growing grass.
There you are - 10 ideas for easing out of the green-lawn straitjacket. The advantage of most of these suggestions is that you can install them on a gradual basis. And you might find that a small patch of green lawn sets off the beauty of the perennials in the large surrounding beds.
Check your Sunset Western Garden Book for more suggestions. Visit local public gardens and your local nursery.
Professionals in horticulture know a drought is just around the corner. They're familiar with plants to use as grass substitutes. They're just waiting for the public to ask.
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(1 -- cover -- color) 10 Ways to avoid mowing your lawn
Low-maintenance alternatives that simplify your life - and save water
(2 -- color) Growing a garden of succulents - including the wide variety of native California cactuses - is a handy substitute for a needy lawn.
(3 -- color) This lawn is not a lawn at all, just ground cover bracketed by trimmed hedgerows.
(4 -- color) Dwarf mondo grass is a good lawn substitute, growing well in shady areas where grass would be trouble.
Photos by Pam Waterman
The Best Grass to Grow in Georgia
Even in cities, farsighted homeowners can restore the native ecosystem in their yards.
Early one spring morning about three years ago, we were sitting on the porch sipping coffee and reading the newspaper. A red flash riveted our attention, and we were treated to the song of the rose-breasted grosbeak.
The bird's return signified more than the onset of spring. It affirmed the yard's rebirth. Ours was probably the first rose-breasted to visit since before the house was built back in 1918, and over the years we've welcomed the return of warblers, waxwings, wood ducks, barred owls, hawks, pileated woodpeckers, wild turkeys, tree frogs, toads, and red foxes after a lengthy hiatus. All within the city limits of Cedar Rapids!
Back in 1978 we landed a new job in a new state. We were a young couple eager to shuck apartment life for a home in the country, where we could enjoy space, wildlife, and privacy. Trouble was, out-of-town places were pricey beyond our means. Reluctantly, we settled on a World War I vintage home smack dab in the middle of a city of 110,000 people.
Although we had to abandon our dream of country life, we did purchase, along with the home, more than an acre of land and a half-dozen stately white oaks that traced their lineage back to Civil War days.
Like many American neighborhoods, almost every square inch of our block was either house, driveway, trees, or mowed bluegrass lawn. City blocks looked just the same. No diversity. Limited plantlife. Not much wildlife.
We dutifully bought a lawn mower and buzzed off the bluegrass for a year or two until an encounter with a dynamic Wisconsonite convinced us that we could enjoy country living without moving from town.
"Anyone who mows their yard ought to be put in jail," declared Lorrie Otto of Milwaukee, one day in the early 1980s. "Lawn mowers make a racket, spew fumes, and waste fuel. They keep property from becoming beautiful and diverse."
Otto knows her issues. She's the woman who catalyzed the move to ban DDT in Wisconsin and, subsequently, the United States 20 years ago. After that victory, she became a champion of natural landscaping.
Although we didn't totally abandon the mower, we were sold on the concept of natural landscaping, and it's made our urban lot a joy. During the past decade, we've restored a tiny forest surrounding our home.
Aldo Leopold penned in his classic Sand County Almanac, "Every farm woodland, in addition to yielding lumber, fuel, and posts, should provide its owner a liberal education. This crop of wisdom never fails, but it is not always harvested."
How right he is. But times have changed. In Leopold's day many Americans grew up with woods a short walk from their door. Today few of us have that kind of access, and achieving Leopold's version of a liberal education often isn't possible.
Although most of us don't own a woodlot, many of us do have a yard. Perhaps it's just a quarter of an acre or even a balcony apartment in the city. Even so, it is the raw material of Leopold's liberal education.
During the past couple of years, interest in planting trees has grown. Thanks to the energy of such international programs as Global ReLeaf and similar local and state efforts, new saplings are appearing in yards, along streets, in front of schools, and even on the grounds of state capitals. All to the good. The advantages are many, and planting and caring for a tree in the yard at least scratches the surface of Leopold's liberal education.
Trees do more than clean the air, shade homes, and get people involved in improving our environment. They also provide the anchor for converting a conventional sodded yard into one that is more natural, diverse, and healthy. Trees are the canvas upon which the aesthetic yard is painted. They provide the shade and leaves that help understory shrubs and wildflowers flourish. The homeowner who plants trees has begun Leopold's process of developing a liberal education. But if he stops with trees, he limits his homegrown ecological education somewhere around the eighth-grade level.
The next step is to go beyond trees and restore a forest by adding a layer of native shrubs, grasses, and wildflowers. For many years farsighted homeowners across the country have been doing just that--restoring native ecosystems in their yards. The process has been encouraged by the Backyard Wildlife Program of the National Wildlife Federation; the Urban Wildlife Sanctuary system of the National Institute for Urban Wildlife; and a growing cadre of natural-yard activists.
It has also stirred up the wrath of uninformed neighbors and an occasional town council. Both groups have learned that natural yards are assets, not liabilities.
Lorrie Otto is the matriarch of the natural-landscaping movement in the Midwest. She began by converting her suburban Milwaukee yard into diverse forest and prairie typical of what grew there before developers leveled the woods. She shares her enthusiasm and knowledge at nature centers and conferences across the country.
Another leader in natural landscaping is Jock Ingels, owner of the LaFayette Home Nursery in tiny LaFayette, Illinois, and a true pragmatist. "You'd be amazed what is in your yard's own seed bank," he says. Long a supplier of conventional nursery trees as well as prairie grasses and forbs (herbs), Ingels explains that many native plant seeds remain in the soil for dozens of years awaiting proper conditions for germination. "Often you don't need to buy seeds or plants. Just manage your yard properly and all sorts of desirable plants will appear as if by magic," he advises.
He is right! Sometimes that management is simplicity itself: All it takes is not mowing. What springs up by itself can be both miraculous and educational.
Although our yard had large oaks and a few hickories, the shrub layer and wildflowers were absent. But lying dormant in the rich forest soil were woodland plants just waiting for an opportunity to emerge. Within three years after we stopped mowing, colonies of Solomon's seal, wild strawberries, lady fern, and several rare wood violets appeared. Their bulbs and tubers had rested dormant. By eliminating mowing, we were able to reestablish the natural process of succession
However, not all the native plants that we wanted came up by themselves. We helped nature along by planting shade-loving native shrubs, introducing other wildflowers indicative of Iowa woodlands, and planting shade-tolerant trees--basswoods and sugar maples--that will eventually overtop our mature oaks.
Many yards, particularly in subdivisions, are scraped bare during development. Plant life is destroyed, and starting from scratch is necessary.
A decade ago commercial sources of native plant materials were hard to locate. Local nurseries sold non-native shrubs but not the beautiful and well-adapted pagoda dogwood, highbush cranberry, and viburnams we wanted. We found them by collecting native plants from woodlots about to be bulldozed for houses, roads, and stores. Developers almost always gave permission to collect plants. Also, other natural landscape enthusiasts and gardeners shared surplus native plants from their yards.
In recent years a number of nurseries have begun propagating many varieties of native plants. Finding native-plant material is easier than it once was in nearly all parts of the country.
One of the joys of naturalistic landscaping is that it tends to reduce many boring maintenance tasks, such as mowing and leaf raking. Time saved can be productively used to discover the developing forest of tree canopy, shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife . . . Leopold's liberal education.
We're not opposed to lawns. Our 11-year-old son is a baseball buff who enjoys our back lawn as a practice site. We like the view across our small front lawn. So we still do some mowing, but where lawn once blanketed the entire lot, it now covers about half. Mowing time has been slashed. So has leaf raking.
"If you want to establish a good stand of bloodroot, Dutchman's breeches, and many other woodland wildflowers, don't rake your leaves," says David Kopitzke, a botanist in southwestern Wisconsin and founder of the little Valley Farm, which specializes in propagating and selling native plants to homeowners.
Since we have small children, we still rake leaves from our lawn. The kids love to jump in the piles and scatter the leaves. We haul them to the garden for mulch. In these days of limited landfill space, city managers appreciate homeowners who recycle leaves rather than raking them to the curb for pickup. We let the leaves that fall into our restored forest areas alone. They provide cover for plants, decompose into soil nutrients, and hold moisture.
Moisture conservation is especially important. From Florida and the Midwest to California and the desert Southwest, water is becoming ever more precious, and traditional landscaping consumes huge quantities of it. A growing landscaping concept is xeriscaping--gardening with drought-tolerant, native plants. Homeowners who employ xeriscaping conserve a precious resource, have lower water bills, and can spend more time enjoying and nurturing their yard.
Buffalo grass, cacti, succulents, and hardy indigenous flowers, shrubs, and trees that can survive on rainfall alone put no stress on city water departments or water tables. Xeriscaped yards attract native birds and such desirable
1 Learn about the native vegetation in your region. Decide how much time you want to devote to yard care and what wildlife you want to attract.
2 Explain to your neighbors what you would like to do. Natural landscaping isn't neglect. In fact, initially it is hard work!
3 Start small, especially if you have close and traditional neighbors. Incorporate a backdrop of shrubs, a pocket prairie, a border of woodland plants, or a hardy succulent screen, al] with soft and flowing lines. Choose plants that do not infringe on neighbors. Some shrubs don't respect lot lines and will send up suckers on the far side . Remember, 12-inch seedlings can grow into towering trees which may shade a vegetable garden.
4 Don't be discouraged, especially during the first years. It takes patience and work to encourage native species while keeping weeds down. Pulled weeds are a resource for the compost bin.
5 Be aware of noxious weed laws, but don't let iGnorant "weed inspectors" buffalo you into conformity.
6 Be patient and try again when you fail.
7 Keep a written and pictorial record to mark your progress.
8 Buy seeds and plants from reputable sources that specialize in native material. Natural-landscape advocates agree that the "meadow-in-a-can" concept is misleading and ineffective for establishing a balanced habitat. Some of the mixes contain non-native plants that could go wild and choke out more desirable plants.
Rich and Marion Patterson are a freelance writing team from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Before and after: the authors, home in 1979 (inset) and 12 years later with a tiny corner of Iowa's woodlands restored. insects as butterflies, honeybees, and colorful moths. These beneficial insects make property more attractive and interesting.
Our yard has changed dramatically over the years. Construction of a tiny pond attracted everything from deer to wood ducks. On the pond's margin, moisture-loving plants add color and draw in birds, pollinating insects, and desirable small mammals.
But of all our yard's assets, we most appreciate Leopold's liberal education. We've watched our lot diversify before our eyes. Some plants thrive during droughts, while others decline. Come a wet year and species flip-flop. Nearly every backyard foray reveals a surprise, and we keep field guides handy to identify unfamiliar species.
We've reaped other benefits. For example, our yard has become a magnet for "human wildlife." Neighbor kids join ours to spot tadpoles in the pond and forage on raspberries as they play hide |n' seek.
Another advantage is privacy. One neighbor's home is only a few dozen feet away, but we can no longer see it from our front porch or backyard. Our neighbors tell us that they enjoy our bright flowers and birds. However, there is a fine line between privacy and claustrophobia, and we work for a blend of shrubbery and open spaces.
The third and most rewarding aspect of a natural yard is the satisfaction of restoring a native woodland. It has been a fascinating adventure.
We were never able to buy that private and quiet home in the country, but we were able to create both assets in the city. By observing and enjoying our yard, every day we become a bit more ecologically literate.
Sorces of Info And Supplies
Local garden clubs, nature centers, arboretums, botanical centers, landscape departments at universities, state and county Extension services, nongame programs of departments of natural resources or conservation have information and personnel who can help.
"Planting a Refuge for Wildlife. "Nongame Program, Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission, 620 S. Meridian St., Tallahassee, FL 32301.
"Backyard Wildlife Habitat Information Kit." National Wildlife Federation, Item #79919, 1400 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036. $4.95.
National Institute for Urban Wildlife, 10921 Trotting Ridge Way, Columbia, MD 21044.
National Wildflower Research Center, 2600 FM 973 N., Austin, TX 78725. 512-929-3600. Complete information on regional sources of native plants, how to get started, reference library list, recommended plant species by regions.
Association for the Use of Natural Vegetation in Landscape through Education (ANVIL), 871 Shawnee Ave., LaFayette, IN 47905.
"Sources of Native Seeds and Plants," Soil and Water Conservation Society, 7515 Northeast Ankeny Rd., Ankeny, IA 50021. Listing regional sources, this is an excellent resource. $3.
Desert Botanical Garden, 1201 N. Galvin Pkwy., Phoenix, AZ 85008. 602-941 -1225.
Darrel Morrison, Dean, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602.
Craig Johnson, College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Science, Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322-4005.
An Introduction to Naturalized Landscapes: A Guide to Madison's (Wisconsin) "Natural Lawn" Ordinance, John Diekelmann and Cathie Bruner, Madison City/County Bldg., 210 Monona Ave., Madison, WI 53703.
Natural Landscaping: Designing with Native Plant Communities, John Diekelmann and Robert Schuster, McGraw-Hill (1982).
The Backyard Naturalist, Craig Tufts. National Wildlife Federation (1988).
The Naturalists, Garden, Ruth Shaw Ernst, Rodale Press (1987).
The Prairie Garden: Seventy Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country, J. Robert and Beatrice Smith, University of Wisconsin Press (1980).


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Nothing brings more character and charm to a home than some carefully selected antique and mid century decorative pieces. Here at European Antiques we have a reputation for the best selection of quality and original decorative pieces for your interior. Our collection of antiques have been carefully hand selected in Europe and the UK , and when curated within your home or selected as a special gift, will bring many years of pleasure. Click on the gallery images below to view our current selection of antique decorative items.
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I match molecular magnetic fields and convert them to electromagnetic frequency analogs that have a positive physiological effect on the body. Designer frequencies are in Pink Noise audio. The designer frequencies are not therapies, please consult your medical health care provider for all of your health issues.
Designer Frequency Insights and Tuning
The designer frequencies are not therapies, please consult your medical health care provider for all of your health issues.
In June 2013, I began making all frequency matches using Pink noise for easier listening and tuning of material. Currently (2016), I seldom match molecular magnetic fields by directly holding the material and now make all designer frequency analogs using a DVD of one million plus photographs of the item. The resultant field created by the DVD with light reflected off it is exactly the same. Visit my YouTube channel with over 300 videos for listening and tuning material. Inexpensive headphones work best for listening at a comfortable volume rather than using small earbuds.
Note: As of August 9, 2017 I am no longer matching molecular fields and one may continue to sample my existing designer frequencies on my YouTube channel.
Listening to the audio files at a high volume setting can damage your hearing.
What is not commonly known is that a DVD with one million plus copies of a photograph of an item will replicate it's molecular magnetic field when focused light shines on it and reflects out into the room similar to an electrical audio coil, but in a more subtle manner. I now make all my molecular magnetic field matches from photographs in this configuration. Recent investigation has demonstrated that focused light from a desk lamp reflecting off the above configured DVD is altered into an analog electromagnetic field. It is a replication of the molecular magnetic field of the photographed item. See "Easy to Make a DVD Healing Generator with No Moving Parts".
A difficult concept for people to believe possible with the DVD set up I am discussing is how can a photograph of an item burned into the DVD as a pattern of pits and bumps retain the molecular magnetic field characteristics of the actual item? My best thought is the interaction of the focused light with the pits and bumps pattern is analogous to an old style phonograph stylus reading the grooves on a vinyl LP record and converting it to audio. The DVD reader on your computer is doing this for digital audio and video. My view is the DVD set up radiates an electromagnetic analog of the item when the light interacts with the DVD and reflects out into the room. Our mind can interpret this field as a form of human pattern recognition.
One day all molecular/electromagnetic fields, including mechanical and biological systems, will be analyzed directly from their unique frequency spectrum where failing systems can be identified and addressed and invasive testing procedures bypassed. Animal and human testing, as it is currently conducted, will be a relic of the past. I hope to see this kinder and gentler day.
I often use the word "healing" in my articles and video comments, though helpful or mitigating may be more appropriate. Many people find some relief or benefit listening to the audio tones, in Pink noise format, with their health conditions. I match herbs, medications, vitamins etc., that have some positive cross over physiological effects on the body. Not all the the chemical or molecular effects cross over with the designer field, but they do play a role within the body. The best way is to try out some designer frequencies and see if they are helpful or not.
I am in no way advocating that anyone modify their existing therapy and/or medical advice from licensed, professional medical practitioners.
Watch the short video on how to tune items here. Not shown in the video are other materials that can be tuned such as paper, cardboard, cotton fabric, leather and rubber bands. Aluminum will have the strongest tuned field though subtle compared to the actual designer electromagnetic field from the electrical coil. Cotton fabric, paper and cardboard will have a very subtle tuned field. Tuning rubber bands will be an inexpensive alternative to tuning silicone wristbands. Watch a physics demonstration showing how electromagnetic fields are enhanced within the body.
When tuning anodized aluminum, be sure to let the tuned item sit for 24-48 hours to let the enhanced molecular magnetic field settle out. Otherwise, you may find the enhanced field to feel harsh. Plain aluminum (non-anodized) can be coated with clear acrylic nail polish to prevent black residue, due to tarnishing, coming in contact with your skin or clothing.
The electrical audio coil inside your speaker is creating the designer electromagnetic tuning field. You can check out over 300 designer compound electromagnetic frequencies on my YouTube channel For tuning, play the desired video three times or 20 to 30 minutes at a moderately loud volume. The Pink noise versions should not feel uncomfortable when tuning at a loud volume setting.
Please use common sense when listening to the tones and always play at a comfortable and safe level.
Learn about Extracting Molecular Magnetic Fields from Audio and Video and " Human Pattern Recognition of Magnetic and Electromagnetic Fields".
If you had a speaker coil-only device, sound would not be necessary as it is the electromagnetic field produced by the the electrical coil in the speaker that is performing the tuning. Watch the video on how to tune material here. You only need about six to eight watts of power to tune a silicone wristband which is what is commonly available with most amplified computer speakers. Aluminum, silicone wristbands, rubber bands, glass, paper and leather are items that can be tuned.
If you place your tuned items near a strong magnetic field such as a strong magnet the tuning will be corrupted. Not something to be concerned about in day to day use but it can happen under the right circumstances. Being near cell phones, computers or microwaves will not affect the tuning. If the field becomes corrupted you only have to re-tune the item using the process outlined on this page. Otherwise, the tuning is permanent.
Listening to the designer tones is an option that most people key into. However, the main insight is that the designer electromagnetic field created by the electrical coil in your computer speaker has a physiological effect on the body. Also remember that, in the human ear, mechanical sound waves are converted into electrical impulses. When electricity is in motion there is also magnetism, so one is receiving the designer field via two sources, the electromagnetic field generated by the electrical audio coil and the mechanical sound wave conversion into electrical impulses in the inner ear. .
The second insight, not validated by the scientific community, is that you can tune material such as a silicone wristband, aluminum, paper, cardboard, leather, rubber bands with this designer field that will create a very similar physiological effect. The tuned molecular magnetic field of the item is permanently enhanced, though not as strong as the field from the electrical coil.
I recommend that you do not tune rings, expensive items or items you wear daily.
Once tuned the field is enhanced permanently. If you no longer want an enhanced field there is nothing you can do aside from tuning it to a different frequency mix. Most likely extreme heat applied to the material would nullify the field, but this is not practical and would destroy the item, so tune items that you can remove when you want and are not emotionally attached to. Tuned rings may also feel uncomfortable, perhaps due to an enhanced field on a small area like a finger.
I matched the molecular magnetic field of Niacin -vitamin B3 by hand, being sensitive to weak magnetic fields, and replicated that field in terms of a compound frequency approximation. When you play back the frequency mix on your computer speaker it is very close to the actual molecular magnetic field of this vitamin. I do not believe that there will be a one to one correspondence in the physiological effects of Niacin by working with the designer frequency independently. However, I do believe that some of the physiological effects will cross over. That is, the molecular magnetic field of Niacin plays a role in the chemical's interaction within the body.
The pain reliever match I made for Vicodin and nausea reliever Ondansetron have similar crossover characteristics and I have received feed back from others validating this view. The molecular magnetic field of any material can be matched and replicated as a designer electromagnetic field, though I seem to be the only one currently matching items and posting the videos on my YouTube channel for others to check out.
Harmony – Solving the Mystery of Tesla Purple Harmony Energy plates. This is a great frequency match for tuning anodized aluminum. I matched the weak area-specific field from a video of the upper Ganges river near Rishikesh, India. The natural occurring molecular magnetic field of this area is being replicated as an electromagnetic field from your audio speaker coil. It seems clear to me that the Harmony frequency used commercially since the 1970s to tune aluminum plates and sold for their healing benefit on alternative healing sites was originally matched to an area of the upper Ganges.
On the internet you can find many sites discussing and selling Tesla Purple Harmony energy plates often attributed to the inventor genius Nikola Tesla (or those he influenced) who lived and worked in the time of Thomas Edison. They are in various forms and colors of anodized aluminum. My guess is that many of these anodized aluminum items, sold for their healing benefits, have not been tuned at all due to the secrecy surrounding the original Tesla energy plate process. You may have purchased one of these anodized aluminum pieces, that were never tuned, at an inflated price! The cost of a small anodized aluminum blank is pennies on the dollar. Now the analogy is that one may prefer to buy a loaf of bread than bake it, but we do want the real deal. See NikolaTesla article for more information.
Email response on tuning material (Harmony frequency) June 14, 2015
Thanks for you interest in my work with tuning and matching molecular and electromagnetic fields. Generally, I do not post or give out the actual compound frequencies that I have matched. There are several reasons for this, but essentially it is my way of having a marker that the frequencies in the videos are from my work. Some of my videos do have the frequencies posted though.
The Granges Frequency mix that you are interested in is probably one of my more popular videos as it answers the long held secret on how the Tesla Harmony Plates, sold on the internet today for serious money, were originally made using a designer frequency via an oscillating electromagnetic field. This is a similar process as the electrical audio coil in your speaker playing a continuous designer tone.
I will not be giving out the actual frequencies, but the good news is you really do not need the frequency numbers to tune aluminum or any other material. If you do not choose to tune using a designer video, here is another option that will work just fine. Simply record the audio from the video. You can do this in various ways and as simply as holding a smart phone recorder or portable recorder to one of the external speakers and later saving the file to your computer. Similarly, you can plug an audio cable from your computer's audio jack to your microphone jack and play the video while recording.
All my designer frequencies are originally recorded in monotone, so it does not matter which speaker you record from. The recorded audio will tune aluminum easily following my tuning video instructions. You will need about six to eight watts of power (similar to inexpensive external computer speakers with amplification) to tune. Play your audio back as a mp3 or other file your computer or other device recognizes and you are in business.
Working with the designer frequencies
Try tuning items with the designer frequencies on my YouTube channel and see for yourself if they work. That is exactly how I receive feedback from family, friends and coworkers. The compound frequencies that create the designer electromagnetic field via the electrical coil matched by hand or from a DVD rotating on a turntable clockwise (described in more detail at beginning of this article) are designed to help mitigate, take the edge off, the suffering from our health challenges or for replicating unique magnetic fields. They are still being refined and I also seem to get better at matching molecular magnetic fields as time goes on.
What this process is not
I am often asked about Orgone transmitters associated with Wilhelm Reich, Royal Rife frequencies, Georges Lakhovsky's Mulitiwave Oscillator and programing crystals. From what I know and have read these processes do not work as described. If they work for you then I am okay with that, but they have nothing to do with my personal exploration and testing with matching molecular magnetic fields and tuning material at this web site.
Pattern Recognition of Electromagnetic Fields
Similar to developing the skill of human echolocation, I match molecular magnetic fields by feeling the weak field generated by the material (object), area in nature, or by an audio recording. Though I cannot explain how my mind makes the match, it does and I translate what I feel into compound electromagnetic frequencies. It took quite a few years of practice to get to this point, but fortunately I am sensitive to magnetic fields. It comes as a natural gift. I enjoy doing it and that is why it seems to work out okay and keeps me at it. Helping others is the other large incentive. Read more on human pattern recognition here.
I am not sure if sensitivity to subtle magnetic fields can be taught as it is more of a natural trait that can be refined with practice and interest. One would need to have a predisposition to it and then train the mind to interpret what one is sensing. The word training sounds a little too left brained as in actuality it is mostly practice and trial and error in the beginning. I compare what I believe the frequency match to be with what I feel. If it is off then I go at it again, so one needs to be able to sense a quality to the molecular magnetic field and not simply a tingly feeling, if that makes sense.
A electromagnetic field match can be up to 12 or more frequencies together as a compound frequency. These are approximations of the molecular field and in the beginning my matches were two or three frequencies. Generally, the more refined the match the more frequencies are used to describe the field, so in a way I am getting better at matching fields over the years.
My personal view is that Radionics is a cover for a natural ability many people have to discern energy at a distance which is a function of conscious awareness. Distant healing and dowsing are aspects of this action at a distance. You may have heard the old saying, "where attention (awareness) goes energy flows" (to and from yourself and object of attention). The energy is subtle, very weak molecular magnetism. How exactly it all fits together is a mystery for sure, but that is my view of this process. Because of the nebulousness of action at a distance, I seldom talk much about it as it just opens the topic to debate. As a side note on Radionics, I do believe there are frequencies for balanced (healthy) and imbalanced (unhealthy) conditions in the body and most likely mechanical and other systems as well. I simply do not believe we have devices that can monitor this information at the present time.
This is what I do know from my personal experience. There are four ways to match molecular magnetic fields:
1. Directly by hand (sensitivity to the field).
2. From audio of a localized area in nature (matching and extracting the weak field from the electromagnetic field playing through the audio coil and/ or video).
3. Matching the molecular magnetic field radiating from a specially configured DVD with one million plus photographs of the item. This is a very accurate method and I find it to be exactly the same as holding the item in my hands.
4. Discerning energy at a distance via conscious awareness. My personal experience is matching weak fields at a distance via awareness is very inaccurate, though obviously it plays a supporting role in all my designer frequency approximations. If we are present and aware then we have the opportunity to be conscious of our energy connections to all things.
Unfortunately, not everyone has developed their natural ability or are predisposed to sensing weak fields. Kind of like why some people have a talent for art, music, science, etc. Some are average, others above average and then again, some have extraordinary talent. I do not know where I fall in the sensitivity spectrum for sensing weak fields and actually don't care. What I do enjoy is exploring this area by matching molecular magnetic fields and sharing my work with others. If I can sense these fields then a machine can as well. It is just a matter of time- hopefully sooner than later. The basic underlying physics is simple with no need for fancy jargon or other far out explanations that are embellished with conspiracy theories and cloaked in secrecy.
I did solve the mystery of how the Tesla purple harmony energy plates advertised on internet are made. All the New Age jargon and testimonials surrounding them are simply smoke and mirrors that the original inventor/family used to cover the actual process of tuning anodized aluminum plates with a designer oscillating electromagnetic field that has a physiological effect on the body.
Working with earbuds, headphones and electrical coils
The purest application of a designer electromagnetic field is simply working with the field from an electrical coil. Computer speakers, earbuds and headphones all have electrical coils in them that are generating electromagnetic fields. Also remember that, in the human ear, mechanical sound waves are converted into electrical impulses. When electricity is in motion there is also magnetism, so one is receiving the designer field via two sources, the electromagnetic field generated by the electrical audio coil and the mechanical sound wave conversion into electrical impulses in the inner ear.
I do not have any recommendations as to which electrical coil design is best and it is really not my forte. My expertise is in matching molecular magnetic fields. One can explore working with different types of electrical coil designs to determine what works best in different configurations. With today's technologies, it is easy to see how smart phone/portable mp3 player docking stations or Bluetooth speakers can be easily converted to devices that are coil-only transmitters of designer fields. Connecting the dots then, one possible configuration is an imbedded electrical coil pad that wraps around the wrist like a cuff and is plugged into the docking station. A less complicated design is simply using a designer electrical coil that plugs into your computer like an amplified set of external speakers.
Some tuning insights
Keep in mind that tuning dense material such as metals, rocks and minerals with a designer frequency mix will be difficult as they have an inherently strong molecular field to overcome and modify. Perhaps the size and thickness of the item may play a role. More testing is needed in this area. Rocks and minerals inherently have their own unique physiological effect on the body, so tuning the item may only distort the field where it is less useful.
What I do is match the field of a desired material, convert it to a designer electromagnetic field and tune materials that have a more neutral field to begin with. Items such as silicone wristbands, aluminum, paper, cardboard, leather, cotton fabric and glass take on the tuning without influencing the field as much, but there still are distortions. Paper, cardboard and cotton fabric will have the least powerful tuned fields.
Glass and many plastics have additional chemical properties in their makeup that distort the field and transmit unwanted side effects. Acrylic plastic may be suitable. More investigation is required as to what materials work best. My thought is some type of engineered composite would be optimal.
You can only tune one designer frequency into a material. If you change the frequency then the tuning will change to the new frequency. To get around this, in order to work with multiple designer frequencies, is to tune smaller items- one to each respective designer frequency. You can then wear/carry the individually tuned items together.
When tuning anodized aluminum, be sure to let the tuned item sit for 24-48 hours to let the enhanced molecular magnetic field settle out. Otherwise, you may find the enhanced field to feel harsh. Plain aluminum (non-anodized) can be coated with clear acrylic nail polish to prevent black residue, due to tarnishing, coming in contact with your skin or clothing.
The body responds best to correctly tuned magnetic fields. Having a stronger field generated by a very powerful electrical coil or super magnet will not translate to a better healing response or desired effect. I only work with about six watts of power which is the output of a small set of computer speakers. Working with less powerful fields, as we are, it then takes time for the body to respond. Give yourself the time to experience the positive effect from the designer frequencies.
I recommend that you do not tune rings, expensive items or items you wear daily. Once tuned the field is enhanced permanently. If you no longer want an enhanced field there is nothing you can do aside from tuning it to a different frequency mix. Most likely extreme heat applied to the material would nullify the field, but this is not practical and would destroy the item, so tune items that you can remove when you want and are not emotionally attached to. Tuned rings may also feel uncomfortable, perhaps due to an enhanced field on a small area like a finger.
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Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Bless your heart. Tesla was big on helping humanity and you're continuing his legacy.ReplyDelete
I love the audio version of various things. However, what might help one find the most appropriate one to listen to at any given time? Also, will a copy a cd have an effect, even when its NOT being played? For example a CD recording of 84 billion tibetian mantra, sitting on a shelf...ReplyDeleteReplies
One will have to sample the various designer frequencies on my YouTube channel to see which ones seem helpful. I would recommend using a DVD rather than a CD as a DVD holds more data.Delete
The DVD has to be turning clockwise to work properly and radiate the subtle field. Traditional prayer wheels were spun by hand. I use a simple inexpensive solar powered turntable that I run with a LED light inside the house. I am not playing the DVD in a DVD player or computer.
Making your own DVDs using a turntable allows you to create your own healing field.


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Yet somehow it doesn�t seem sufficient�except at the White House�to whistle a happy tune. The Great Downgrade of 2011 seems not an aberration but a culmination�and perhaps an old hag�s maleficent prophecy.
The proximate cause of this embarrassment is a political failure. Congress and the president strained to produce an internal agreement on the budget that bears little relation to external economic requirements. Its long-term approach to debt�lacking any serious entitlement reform�is timid and illusory. Its short-term austerity is counterproductive in a stalled economy. The real economic need is exactly the opposite: long-term austerity and immediate inducements to investment, growth and hiring.
The bipartisan debt panel, facing the threat of sequester, will likely produce additional budget cuts. But the process is itself a kind of confession. The nation�s elected representatives could not perform their normal, necessary work. So they have turned over a portion of their authority to a spending star chamber. Courage will now be outsourced. This may reduce outlays; it will hardly restore confidence in the American political system.
Yet the ultimate cause of the economic malaise is not a political failure but a political choice. Since the New Deal�and especially since the Great Society�America has chosen an accelerating transfer of wealth from young to old. Some of this was necessary and desirable. Many seniors face a period of economic struggle toward the end of life, which entitlements have effectively, compassionately eased.
But longer lives have extended this period of dependence, while health care inflation has dramatically increased the cost of the Medicare entitlement. According to Andrew Biggs of the American Enterprise Institute, someone who retires today will pay for less than half of the Medicare benefits they are likely to receive over a lifetime�a subsidy given to even the wealthiest retirees. The balance of these costs is imposed on workers or added in debt.
The problem is that there are two periods of economic dependence in life�late and early. A healthy society not only cares for its elderly but cultivates its children. Biggs estimates that the federal government now spends $6 on seniors for every $1 it spends on children, even though the poverty rate of children is much higher.
From a historical perch a century hence, this will seem an odd, sad decision. A country that increases taxes on current workers and encumbers children with debt to maintain unreformed health entitlements is looking backward. Unless this course shifts, America will have a continually diminished capacity to invest in children and young families. It is the evidence of a generation that prefers its own future comfort to the welfare and ambitions of generations to follow. And this attitude is the mark of a tired nation.
No wonder our politics currently seems so shallow and shabby. It is the way all of us feel after we have been grabby, thoughtless and selfish.
Such fundamental economic choices lead to more than a credit downgrade. They involve an unfolding logic of decline. The young are reduced to sources of revenue for the entitlement state�their productivity consumed by others. Economic stagnation turns the nation inward, yet fiscal constraints make creative public policy on education or economic mobility difficult to pursue. Defense spending becomes an easy target for austerity, eventually leaving the military hollow and dispirited. American global leadership appears expensive, burdensome and irrelevant to domestic discontent. Abdication��leading from behind��is elevated as a virtue. Some nations are disoriented by American retreat. Others try to fill the economic and military vacuum. Still others attempt to challenge American weakness.
This curse may still be lifted. But President Obama seems overwhelmed by events and ideologically unprepared to promote economic growth or reform entitlements. Most Republicans, so far, have focused on discretionary spending cuts that do little to address the long-term debt challenge, and few have managed a vision of economic hope beyond austerity.
But these are not happy thoughts, which is a kind of treason here at Disney World. And so I prefer to wait in line, sweat and dream.
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The oil and gas chief of Iraqi Kurdistan says the region will develop its natural gas resources to provide electricity to its residents and a planned industrial center, and in the future "export to the rest of Iraq."
Dana Gas and Crescent Petroleum announced Saturday they began sending gas from their Kor Mor field in Sulaimaniya, through a new 112-mile pipeline, to a new power plant in Erbil.
"The aim is to replicate some similar projects to make sure that in the end we will end shortages and hopefully export to the rest of Iraq," KRG Minister of Natural Resources Ashti Hawrami told United Press International.
Iraqis both within and outside the Kurdistan Regional Government's three northern provinces suffer steady shortfalls of electricity. Dilshad Mohamed, an adviser to the KRG's Electricity Ministry, said the ministry set a goal of 22 hours of electricity for residents of Sulaimaniya and Erbil provinces. He told the Voices of Iraq news service 15 hours would come from the national grid and another seven from private generators.
Last month Iraq's Oil Ministry and Shell took steps toward establishing a joint-venture company to capture natural gas being wasted in Basra province in southern Iraq. And next week the ministry will begin offering gas fields for development to international oil industry bidders. The Iraqi ministries of Electricity and Oil have long-term strategies to not only produce enough fuels and electricity to meet the needs of Iraqi citizens and industry, but also to export.
Baghdad and the KRG have been at odds over the rights to sign oil and gas contracts in Iraqi Kurdistan. While the Dana-Crescent (Dana is partly owned by Crescent) deal is a service contract, the KRG has signed two dozen controversial production-sharing contracts with international oil firms exploring for and developing oil and gas, which the national oil minister has called illegal. The dispute has delayed passage of a new oil law and legislation governing revenue, the Oil Ministry and the state oil company.
In the KRG, Hawrami is optimistic that the early gas success is just the beginning. Currently 75 million cubic feet per day of gas is flowing to the new Erbil power plant, with the goal of 300 million by mid-2009, as it and a new plant in Sulaimaniya together reach 1,250 megawatts generating capacity.
"We have a number of companies exploring for oil and gas," he said. "When new gas is found, which we are hopeful and expecting that, then we utilize that gas. That will be the gas from those operators."
Most of the companies that signed in the KRG are still in the exploration phase, and Hawrami said more will be known about the KRG's gas reserves within the coming year.
"Of course, it has to be commercially viable for the companies to recover their cost," he said, adding the government owns a share of the contract, "so we have to reflect fairly on the value of that gas."
He's reviewing a feasibility study of an industrial park named Kurdistan Gas City, which is billed as a future destination point for natural gas not needed in electricity generation.
"Looking ahead, when we have surplus gas from exploration and discovering new gas, some of it we will need for power generation," Hawrami said. "We will discover substantially more than that."
Gas City was billed in a July news release as having "industrial, residential and commercial components in an integrated city, with an expected initial investment in the basic infrastructure estimated at $3 billion, preparing the land for possession by prospective residents."
"The Gas City is being structured to hold over 20 varieties of world-scale petrochemical and heavy manufacturing plants, and hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises."
The news release also named a Dana-Crescent joint venture, Gas Cities LLC, recipient of a 17-square-mile slice of land on which to develop Gas City. A Sept. 21 groundbreaking ceremony featuring KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani was "postponed until further notice," according to a recent KRG statement. "A new date will be announced, once all the contractual matters and plans are finalized in an agreed form with all the parties that might become involved in this important project. This also will require the approval of the Regional Oil and Gas Council."
Hawrami said work continues and the next phase for Gas City is to give the project a final approval, contract a consortium of international, Iraqi-wide and local companies and investors, and conduct a "more detailed study to identify what industries, downstream facilities are required."
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When I am reading a comment, how to I post to have it connected to the comment? I thought it was the "quote" button but not sure. If I use the "post a reply" option, does it post to the end of the thread?
I hit 'post reply' button to answer you....
I am now using the 'quote' button that I pushed off your post...hope that helps:)Originally Posted by Icandothat
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I am trying out the bold text.
Now I am trying out the italicized test
Now I am trying to underline
In preview, it doesn't show the formating changes. Hopefully, I will see it on the actual post.
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and here's a big lesson ------ you can edit your post for only 20 minutes!!!!!!!!! Always go back and look when you post, especially when posting pictures. I can't tell you how many times I've discovered my pictures is REALLY large, or REALLY small or is the wrong picture!!!!!
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There is always something new to learn. I think I have reread my answer before I submit it, then when it comes up, I read it again, and find mis spelled words! I know I am not the best typist, but my keyboard sometimes does not catch my spaces or misses letters because I am so fast(?) So I can edit my post before it is set in stone. I still miss some, but not as many as it could be! :?


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Taxi, originally released in France in 1998, is directed by Gérard Pirès, with Luc Besson producing and writing. The film stars: Samy Naceri (Daniel), Frédéric Diefenthal (Emilien), and Marion Cotillard (Lilly). Taxi has already spawned one sequel, with another in the works tentatively scheduled for next year. The DVD being reviewed is the Region 0 disc from Forel; there is also a Region 3 disc.
Daniel is an aging pizza boy with only one thing on his mind – speed. For the past six years, he's waited for one day, and its finally here…the day he gets his taxi license. With his ride already souped up, Daniel is out on the streets in no time breaking speed limits. One passenger turns out to be Emilien, a bumbling police inspector who busts him. However, instead of sending him to jail, he makes a deal with Daniel – if Daniel helps him catch a gang of bank robbers, then Daniel's record will be wiped clean. Now the two must team up to stop the Mercedes Gang before they get away...again.
Taxi is one part racing, one part buddy cop flick. The formula works well here, though there's less racing than I would have liked. The movie is entertaining throughout, though the storyline remains a bit on the thin side.
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If you are going to celebrate Halloween this year, I am here to recommend you a fresh idea. Instead of using lots of color and outrageous make-up, you can get yourself great Venetian Masks as a new tips to dress up your Halloween costumes.
Perhaps, Full Face Masks is the best choice to make you stand out in the Halloween party. Moreover, you can save your effort and time in thinking of what make-up to put on your face for the night.
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Seattle-based Allozyne has made a small set of job cuts after it was unable to pull the trigger on its plan to go public late last year, Xconomy has learned.
Allozyne has let go some of its scientific staff, according to a source close to the situation. When asked how many jobs were eliminated, and how many employees remain at Allozyne, CEO Meenu Chhabra said there was no downsizing but that "we redistributed functional areas." That decision came days after Allozyne scrapped a plan to go public through a merger with San Francisco-based Poniard Pharmaceuticals. If the deal had gone through, privately held Allozyne would have gotten a NASDAQ listing that would have enabled it to raise more money from mutual funds, institutions, and hedge funds that only invest in public companies.
"We are gearing up for Phase 3 work and are redistributing the talent to focus on clinical development and regulatory tasks," Chhabra said via e-mail. "That said, discovery and early stage activities are alive and well."
She didn't say exactly how many employees remain at Allozyne, but before Christmas, Chhabra said the company had about 20 employees.
Allozyne has spent about $50 million since its founding in 2005 and was down to its last $1.3 million in cash at the end of June, according to recent regulatory filings. But when Allozyne walked away from the Poniard merger, it raised a still-undisclosed amount of cash from Arch Venture Partners, MPM Capital, and OVP Venture Partners, Chhabra said in a Dec. 22 interview. The money will be used to help the company push ahead with a plan for 2012 to move its lead multiple sclerosis drug into the third and final phase of clinical trials normally required for FDA approval, Chhabra has said.
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Should arrive shortly, as it is shipping from not too far away.
Sweeeeeet! Looks like a new nut is in order. The Ripper is one of the few basses of which I like the look and the sound. Ed Friedland has a cool video talking about SD pickups and playing his Ripper basses.
Hopefully it will play okay with that nut. The angle of the string after the nut makes me optimistic.
Ever wake up like, 'what did i DO?' haah
It has arrived and it is wonderful. The color is a bit more amber than those pictures reflect. The nut is indeed broken on that side but the G string stays in place. Pots are a little scratchy. Other than that, it plays and sounds amazingly and I couldnt be happier!
More in depth review to come. I just played it through a Peavey Mark IV and Ampeg 210av. Sounds good with a guitar distortion in front of it as well.
Looks like it has worn flats its entire life.
I do not as a general rule like Gibson Basses but given half a chance, I would be all over that one. Play it in good health.
Rippers are great basses and that one is a beauty, congrats!
I played a '75 Ripper once. All maple and natural finish. And still regret not buying it.
Have had my fretless (also own a fretted) since I bought it new in 1976, lots of miles on it, tho I updated the electronics in 1997. Looks great, good luck with it!!
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The fingerboard feels great. Such a nice ebony upright-like feel and tone. I like tonal position "3" a lot.
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They are kinda rare, the fretless Rippers (I've heard 1200ish were built). Big fan of them, had the chance of buying a sunburst FL once, but didn't do it, and still regret it... This thread isn't really helping me.
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Should I trade or sell?
Ok after careful consideration I've decided to part with Kobe/Lebron, MJ inserts as well as all my other inserts and jersey cards from everyone else.
Basically I'm getting rid of all jersey and inserts. Anyway I have 150 of each of the big three. Should I trade or try to sell them?
They only way I would trade is if there's some way I could get a HOF auto of it. Now i know people don't like to trade insert for auto especially HOF autos. But some of these are upwards of $50-100 dollar inserts. Plus I'm willing to give a little extra since I'm trading for an auto. Now I haven't set any of these to trade as I am just looking to see what people will think.
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All hail X, the band that has somehow remained unembarrassing as it ages, a most difficult task for punk-rockers. Just look to its contemporaries, the Germs, to witness how sad punk rock has become. Despite the 1980 death of singer Darby Crash, the band's surviving members want their glory back and are regrouping, using pretty-boy actor Shane West (who is playing Crash in a biopic) as a fill-in for the late vocalist. For reuniting in a manner that might shame INXS, we deliver a most stinging fatwa to the Germs.
The Germs were always the Doors of punk rock, with Crash their Jim Morrison: charismatic, but also a self-obsessed terminal junkie who brutally used those he hoodwinked, burning them with cigarettes and ruling their lives. If Crash had been ugly, then you wouldn't know the words to "Lexicon Devil" -- but Crash proved for the punks (as Morrison proved for the hippies) that they could be as beauty-obsessed as the teenyboppers they mocked.
Fatwa! For continuing this foul cult, for inspiring yet another generation of teens to stencil Germs logos on their jackets, for inviting a cast member of ER to join the pantheon of punk, you have earned the wrath of rock! In the rock afterlife, may Darby Crash be your overseer.
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Hi Debs, I'm very happy to provide you with some fun time in Jigidi, and I understand about waiting patiently. Your situation must be more or less the same as mine. No time to make puzzles and little time to solve them. LOL I have been doing some o the old and new mixes because I very urgently need some holidays to make some more puzzles. :))Thanks for dropping by and I'm sure your snowflakes are even more beautiful as these but you have stopped looking at them because snowflakes means grey skies and cold, damp weather. When I was a child I loved to look at snowflake and I always admired their tiny patterns. :))
I wish our snowflakes were as beautiful as these, lol!! I especially love the rainbowish ones :)I have been waiting Sooooo patiently to solve this. Many thanks, Dagmar ~ for such a fun puzzle :D


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Notes: Schilling heads to Arizona
Notes: Schilling heads to Arizona
Schilling has worked closely with trainers from API over the past couple of years and being on site should maximize what the right-hander is able to do.
While a stress reaction in his surgically repaired ankle has kept Schilling out of the rotation since April 23, he has been making progress over the last 10 days and said earlier this week that his target is to make his next start for the Red Sox before the All-Star break, which begins on July 11.
"He's going to [do] two-a-days. He'll go 8 a.m. to [noon] and 4-6 p.m.," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "We've been talking to him about it for a few days. Instead of getting one-on-one, which is great, he's going to get four-on-one. There's a nutritionist. There's a spa. There's a physical therapist, and he's going to go twice a day, and he can work on the aerobics, getting in condition. I think it will allow him to progress faster. Everybody involved, including Schill, thinks it's really a good positive step for him to do this."
On Monday, Schilling -- testing a custom-made shoe that provided better balance for his ankle -- threw off a mound for the first time since going on the disabled list. Francona said he'll be able to stay on a throwing schedule at API, which is located near Arizona State University.
Francona estimated that Schilling would come back from Arizona on June 13, when the Sox open their next homestand.
Damon bounces back: If center fielder Johnny Damon has proven one thing since arriving in Boston in 2002, it is that he always recovers quickly from injuries. One day after suffering scratches and contusions to his face and having four stitches inserted above his right eye -- this following a hard collision with the railing in front of the Red Sox bullpen -- Damon was back in center field and leading off.
"I pretty much told [Francona] last night that I was going to be playing," said Damon. "I wanted to keep playing last night. Of course, I couldn't see the slice in my eye like they did. So I'm back. Just like usual, I'm not going to let this hold me back. Hopefully I can help our team win tonight. The knee's all right, just a little scraped up. Nothing I can't deal with."
Francona has come to love managing Damon because of his willingness to play through anything.
"He's a tough kid. He played last year so many times when I didn't think it was fair to ask him to play, and he'd go out and get a bunch of hits and make a play," Francona said. "He's tough."
The one injury that took Damon a few days to recover from was the concussion he suffered following a collision with Damian Jackson in the 2003 Division Series at Oakland.
"I know I can take a hit," Damon said. "That's a good thing. I know that wall's not as tough as Damian Jackson. So, that's all I need to know."
Mirabelli getting there: Backup catcher Doug Mirabelli is eligible to come off the DL on Friday, but it is expected to be at least a week beyond that before he is activated. There's an outside chance Mirabelli could catch by June 12, when veteran knuckleballer Tim Wakefield starts the finale of a six-game road trip at Wrigley Field.
"He's continuing to do his range of motion through the homestand," Francona said. "He got a very good checkup. He will continue with his throwing and his catching. He will be completely out of the splint if everything goes according to plan one week from today and start his hitting."
Ortiz gearing up for first: When the Red Sox visit St. Louis and Chicago for six games next week, the first base controversy between Kevin Millar and John Olerud will become a non-issue. During those games, designated hitter David Ortiz will move to first base, as pitchers hit in National League venues.
Ortiz has made just one start at first base this season, back on April 25. But he proved last year during the World Series that he could hold his own on defense after an extended layoff. If you recall, Ortiz made a perfect throw across the diamond to nail Jeff Suppan, who inexplicably got caught up between third and home when the Red Sox were inviting him to walk home from third on a grounder to second.
"It [isn't] easy. I don't like to look bad out there," said Ortiz. "I've been out there one time all year. I keep practicing. I try to do my best."
Pitchers getting ready: Boston's starting pitchers, and also long man John Halama, are hitting off a tee this week and practicing bunting in preparation for next week, when they will be required to bat during games.
On deck: Matt Clement, who has been Boston's best pitcher of late, takes the mound in Thursday afternoon's finale of this four-game series against the Orioles. Right-hander Hayden Penn -- making his second career start -- will pitch for the O's.
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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"yes, I was. It doesn't mean I'll never be back."
– Regarding Alex Riley's status with WWE, it's said that he lost his push that was in the works because of a backstage incident with John Cena.
PWInsider.com reports word going around is that a while back, Riley was backstage with John Cena and Cena was ribbing him in front of some of the other wrestlers. Riley reportedly came back angrily at Cena, which was seen as him "breaking the code of the locker-room."


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I was truly shocked after reading yesterday's NR blog post and the comments that followed.
I usually try to stay away from the toilet walls but I really could not believe that people could blame NR and Nikon for not making a rumoured announcement because of the epic flooding in Thailand. Some go even as far as blaming the company for "/---/building with cheap labour in shit country".
Either I'm falling behind humanity (if you can call it that) or something is really wrong in the world. Is it the possibility living out your life long complexes under the cover of anonymity that is making people like this? I do hope that this is the cr@p that floats to the surface. At least there are still some decent comments hidden inbetween all that rubbish.
Sorry, but I really had to vent a bit. I'm still astonished and not in a good way.


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Ben Broussard hit a two-run homer to lift the Cleveland Indians to a 5-2 victory over the Twins on a strange afternoon in Minneapolis, sending AL Central champion Minnesota to Yankee Stadium for the start of the playoffs.
Twenty minutes before the originally scheduled game began, the Twins beat the Indians, 6-5, in 12 innings to finish Saturday's suspended game more than 26 hours after it began. Michael Cuddyer's two-out double scored Jason Bartlett from first base to end it.
Minnesota (92-70), which won its third straight division title, plays the East champion Yankees in New York tomorrow in Game 1. Kyle Lohse (9-13), who pitched a scoreless 12th to win the first game, came right back after a 20-minute intermission and started the second. After giving up five hits, three runs and striking out five through four innings, Lohse -- throwing on three days' rest -- left with a blister on his right middle finger.
Rangers 3, Mariners 0 -- Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki got two more hits and Edgar Martinez grounded into a double play in his last at-bat as visiting Texas won. Chan Ho Park pitched two-hit ball over seven innings and Laynce Nix homered for Texas.
Suzuki pushed his major league record for hits in a season to 262 with singles in the third inning off Park and in the eighth off Brian Shouse. Suzuki broke George Sisler's 1920 mark of 257 hits Friday.
Martinez, Seattle's retiring designated hitter, went 0 for 4 but received a rousing ovation from the sellout crowd of 45,658 after grounding into a double play in the eighth.
Yankees 3, Blue Jays 2 -- Bernie Williams hit a tiebreaking homer in the eighth, and New York headed to the playoffs with a victory at SkyDome.
Devil Rays 7, Tigers 4 -- Tampa Bay set a franchise record with its 70th victory, beating host Detroit behind John Halama, who gave up two runs in five innings.
White Sox 5, Royals 0 -- Jose Contreras took a no-hit bid into the seventh, and Chicago ended a disappointing season with a victory in Kansas City, Mo.
Giants 10, Dodgers 0 -- Jason Schmidt pitched six dominant innings, Ray Durham and Pedro Feliz hit homers, and visiting San Francisco shut out playoff-bound Los Angeles.
Cubs 10, Braves 8 -- Greg Maddux beat Atlanta in his first appearance against his former team in 12 years, and host Chicago ended a disappointing stretch run with a victory.
Cardinals 9, Brewers 4 -- Ray Lankford had a two-run pinch-hit homer as host St. Louis dumped Milwaukee in a playoff tuneup.
Mets 8, Expos 1 -- Visiting Montreal ended its 36-year run with a loss at Shea Stadium -- where the franchise played its first game -- as New York's Todd Zeile hit a three-run homer -- his 253d -- in his final at-bat.
Phillies 10, Marlins 4 -- Bobby Abreu hit his 30th homer and Jimmy Rollins had a grand slam to lead host Philadelphia past Florida.
Pirates 2, Reds 0 -- At Cincinnati, Barry Larkin played in what might have been his final game for his hometown Reds, a shutout victory for Pittsburgh.Diamondbacks 4, Padres 1 -- Doug DeVore, Robby Hammock, and Juan Brito hit home runs as host Arizona ended a miserable season with a victory over San Diego.


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I'm not going to pile on with the rest of the critics calling out Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin for his comments on Sunday that it's very rare for a woman to get pregnant through "a legitimate rape'' and that "the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.'
(Akin has since apologized saying that he "misspoke'' in the interview.)
But, however insensitively raised, the scientific question of whether a pregnancy is less likely to occur during times of forced intercourse is a legitimate one that has been addressed by researchers.
Washington Post health blogger Sarah Kliff referred to a study in a post this morning that suggests pregnancy rates may be higher in women who are raped, though the study conflicted with others that suggested pregnancy rates may be lower in cases of assault.
What's clear is that contraception use — or rather, the lack of it — plays a big role in determing the rate of unintended pregnancies. And women who are assaulted often don't have access to birth control. Many are teens who are victims of incest. Some are women in abusive relationships with partners coercing them into pregnancy in an effort to retain control over them.
In a study published last year from San Francisco State University, researchers found a strong association between rape and unplanned pregnancies among Colombian teens. About 13 percent of teenage girls who had been pregnant reported that they had been sexually assaulted in the past — about half by a romantic partner and about half by a stranger or family member. Girls in the study who were raped were 40 percent more likely than their peers to have become unintentionally pregnant and were 50 percent less likely to have access to contraception.
"The national rape-related pregnancy rate is calculated to be 5 percent per rape among females aged 12 to 45 years,'' according to the website of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "This would be equivalent to approximately 32,000 pregnancies as a result of rape each year.'' The medical organization issued a recommendation last August for all its ob-gyn members to "routinely screen all patients for a history of sexual assault,'' especially those who complain about pelvic pain, menstrual irregularities and painful sex.
Full access to emergency contraception for rape victims could also help prevent unintended pregnancies. Last year, government health officials decided to nix the Food and Drug Administration's plan to make the Plan B emergency contraceptive available over the counter without any age restriction. It's still kept behind the pharmacy counter, and only those who are age 17 or older can buy it without a prescription.


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OKTIBBEH COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI)- It's been more than 20 years since the parents of Tiffany Miller and Jon Steckler laid their children to rest after their brutal murders in 1992. An Oktibbeha County man was charged and convicted and Tuesday he will be put to death for the crime. Willie Jerome Manning is expected to die by by lethal injection.
Former Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan says, "I don't like to think about having to kill someone because it's a horrible thing. But Willie Jerome Manning worked hard for his death sentence. He's killed at least four people. I'm not sure that's all he killed."
Willie Jerome Manning was charged, tried, and convicted for the deaths of Mississippi State students Jon Steckler and his girlfriend Tiffany Miller in 1992. Their bodies were found in rural Oktibbeha County. Miller died at the scene from a gunshot wound to the head. Steckler was left fighting for his life. He too had been shot in the head and run over by a car twice.
Former Oktibbeha County Chief Deputy George Corrithers says, "At the time we had four murders. We had Tiffany and Jon and then we had elderly ladies in Brooksville Gardens. So the community was pretty much upset. Not only had the county had two murders, but the city had had two murders."
George Corrithers, who was the chief deputy and lead investigator on the case, says he remembers it all to well. It's one of the few cases he and former sheriff Dolph Bryan haven't been able to see through to the end. Both men say they worked long hours following leads and examining evidence. It was a tireless effort to get justice for the families.
According to Bryan, "If you're an office holder and you have a crime like this, the pressure comes from within. You feel it's your responsibility to solve this crime."
One piece of evidence in question has been a piece of hair that investigators say belongs to a black male. But no DNA testing was ever done. But it's a accumulation of several other pieces of evidence that lead all involved to believe they have their man.
According to Bryan, "I have a girlfriend that he dated that told me he saw him shoot a gun into a tree at his mama's house. We got a search warrant and we went and took the bullets out of that tree and they were a 100 percent match."
Corrithers says, "No doubt in my mind he was guilty of all four murders. This case should have come to an end years ago."
And for the families the execution of Willie Jerome Mannings although will not bring their children back but in some way allow them to move on and allow them some closure.


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CANBY, Ore. (KOIN) — A 55-year-old man died in an industrial accident when he was crushed by a 1600-pound plate of steel.
James Scruggs of Silverton died at BBC Steel, 2001 SE Township in Canby, where he worked for years, officials said. Emergency crews responded around 2:20 p.m.
OSHA is already at the facility investigating. Officials with the Canby Fire Department said BBC Steel has an excellent safety record.