text: Ralph Bekkevold has been a shareholder at Greenberg Traurig, LLP. in Miami since 2004. Prior to entering the legal profession, Bekkevold served as vice president of corporate banking with a major national bank. Bekkevold's practice areas include real estate, finance, banking and general corporate transactions. In addition to his legal work, Bekkevold is a Section Chair at the United Way and a Trustee Member of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce. He also volunteers at various schools and organizations across South Florida. Bekkevold is a cum laude graduate of the University of Miami School of Law. He also holds an M.B.A. with distinction from Adelphi University as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Rutgers University. He has been listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America. Bekkevold teaches Real Estate Transactions, a course that covers basic real estate purchase and sale transactions.

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24 pointsBoulder dash and I got out for a day and he just smoked me ! Lots of hard work in the new spots but it looks like I need to chose a different area Enjoy !! Boulderdash`s is on right Mine on the left ......
12 pointsManaged to get down into the lower desert today after a lengthy period of painting my house and doing other catch-up projects. Ran across this fist'y dude crossing the dirt road ahead of me. By the time I fumbled around and found my camera it was up starting into the brush and dry grass. Once it caught site of me it coiled up and was ready for some serious business. Attitude-wise, it wasn't taking any S@#?!! from anyone, nor anything. It's a little hard to see in the photo's, as it is blending into the background very well. I let it be it's cantankerous-self and drove on over to a new( to me anyway) wash where I did manage to find this 1.02 Gram flat-pancake-shaped nugget. I was using my 14" Evo coil, which I haven't been using much of. Also managed to pull out about 15 chunks of old lead bullets;...a good sign that no one has been detecting up this particular wash.
10 pointsSo I thought I'd post an update on what's been found since "The Best Day Ever". I've been back to this location a few times now and there's still gold there, but it's getting much harder to find. I went out there yesterday with the modded 4000 and the 11" Commander and picked up a couple more for just over half a gram. Happy Hunting !! Luke
8 pointsJim was a good friend and mentor to many of us, especially those of us who got involved in nuggetshooting in the pre-1990 era. In the late 1980's he would frequently visit us at the editorial offices of "Treasure" Magazine, where many happy hours were spent "talking gold.". He was rarely absent from GPAA Gold Shows in Southern California, Las Vegas, or Phoenix/Mesa. At one such Show he approached my booth, handed me a spectacular specimen of auriferous quartz, and asked me "Where do you think this was found in Southern California?. Studying it, I answered "[site A]". "Nope." "[site B?]." "Nope." "[site c?]" "Nope." I then asked, as he turning away "So where?" "Ain't tellin'" was his response. Then he added, "but I now know of 3 new places to try!" ,
5 pointsGot out today around the LSD area, and waved to Bill as we passed each other . The thunderstorms almost bullied me out of this spot , but I stuck it out. Glad I hung around, as I found a very fine piece of wire gold...Enjoy !
5 pointsSorry to hear the news. Thank you Sir for sharing all your knowledge. Dear Lord, Please take care of the wonderful and thoughtful man we in the prospecting community were so blessed to have and please ease the pain in the hearts of his family and friends. In Jesus name -Amen.
5 pointsTook the rig out on my first long trip to Southern Oregon and joined my friend on his turkey hunt. Reallly impressed on how she ran... Can't wait till I can't try her out in the desert... if it ever quits raining here. Took the oppurtunity for a photo on a gas stop. That's Mt Shasta in the background.
5 pointsI don`t think that the consumer should have to jerry-rig a brand new product for that price. The problem is that there is a large learning curve to drywashing. You can not just buy a new unit, and be successful without delay. I would imagine , most of the purchases are new to the hobby and they wont have a complaint because they do not even know there is a problem. The simplicity of the older boxes are much more user friendly.
5 pointsDude I wish you would of posted your question about the new 151s before you purchased.. Or you may have and I just missed it. As a highly experienced drywasher with many pounds of gold recovered with the the gray box 151 ( model before 151s) it was a incredibly reliable and high recovery machine with an average of 90% recovery. I currently own three 151 boxes due to there higher recovery over all other drywashers. Keene was making them right as all 3 machines are about the same when it comes to recovery. It should also be mentioned I do not pre classify ever as it's a huge waist of time, there is a screen on a drywasher for a reason. Now when the 151s came out I was able to use one in the field... The biggest problem for me was the new 151s was loosing high amounts of gold to my tailings as well as the tray not fitting and spilling all over the place. I tried every secret I knew to help recovery and was very disappointed in Keene trying to reinvent the wheel on something that was working so well. I feel like they made it all complex so people would think it was better and spend the extra $... that was not the case as it is junk in my professional opinion. It may be possible I just got a bad 151s box. But seeing how you have 5 trays with problems I'm leaning that 151s is a bust. Here's an option. Send your 5 crap trays back to them and have them send you 5 trays from the original design. And send 5 original design fans with adjustable weights. The 151s had a new fan and weight system in the one I used and I didn't care for it as I couldn't change the weight counter balance.
5 pointsYour coil must have gained some weight from not being used much Mike C...
5 pointsI wish I never would have asked...
4 pointsGarifox you should be completely confused and befuddled by now. If money is a concern start small... If you must have the newest, brightest toy; go BIG! When I started in 1980 I had visions of big nuggets and great wealth...my first detected nugget came after many vain and false starts...the size of a grain of rice!!! What a thrill, what a memory! I have done moderately well since, learned a lot and made many great friends. There in lies the real gold. good luck fred
4 pointsThe most dangerous thing in those photo`s is the foxtail grasses. Those darn things get in my boots, then into my socks, poke my feet etc. They can ruin a whole day of detecting! Nice nugget though !
4 pointsGarik, Not wanting to bust your bubble...but just keep in mind that there are some people who it took years to find their first nugget, others not so long but still metal detecting for gold is said to be one of the hardest ways to find gold, and then there are people who have been doing this for a very long time and because they know how to do the proper research for new areas and know what to look for out in the field to hunt for gold and those guys are usually the ones who can possibly pay off their detectors, most never do. One of the best ways to find gold in the desert is to do your research find some small and fine gold in the dirt by testing and then bust your ass running all the material down to bedrock through a dry washer, you will still want a metal detector to help out doing this but start slow and get a good detector that will hit on small gold, the Gold Monster, GoldBug or White 24K, the PI detectors are nice for hitting deeper gold and shallow gold but I would work my way up to a PI....if you prove to yourself you can find gold to began with. So again I would start slow get a good VLF detector and if you find metal detecting is not what you hoped it would be you can still sell the detector for good price although it will still be less than what you paid for it and hopefully if you found any gold you will come out OK and not lose any money. I wish you the best of luck but I wanted you to look at the reality of this and go out and enjoy yourself in the beautiful desert more so than to get out there and be disappointed if you don't do as well as you hope you would.
4 pointsHi guys, I was in Bendigo that day and have been in the area for over a week now. They allow people to hunt for gold in their parks. Bendigo is a pretty big city and it is like having LSD as part of the greater city. They don't turn their parks into Monuments, National Recreation areas or State Parks which make them off limits to detecting. There is a follow up to that story. When you are in Australia prospecting in the parks or the forests (there is a difference) you need what is called a Miner's Right to keep the gold you find. There is some 'question' if you need to be looking for it or just take it if you weren't looking. The story now goes that they little girl who found the nugget and her dad did not have a Miner's Right (license) which only costs $20 for 10 years. It is unknown what is going to happen to them or the nugget based upon the law. On another story, about the same day up in Wedderburn which is northwest of Bendigo some was walking and found a 7.5 oz nugget. They didn't take it to the papers and they don't have the problem with a Miner's Right! I have a Miner's Right but I only have a couple of little nuggets which total to about 1g. I wish I had their problems! Mitchel
4 pointsCBD with out THC is legal in all US states now. The only place there's a potential problem is Canada. CBD oil is legal there but only from Canadian suppliers. Technically, the hemp must be grown in Canada, processed into oil in Canada and distributed by Canadians. A licensed Canadian importer/distributor can bring it in with the right license. I know one CBD US company that ignored or didn't research the law that has had big shipments seized at the border and confiscated...Big loss for them. Canada legalized it solely for the benefit of Canadian agriculture and marketers. OK by me because there's a huge US market growing every month. I'm really enjoying helping others feel better and we had two major good results in our own family. My wife's step mom was diagnosed in Fall 2018 with stage 4 cancer throughout her body. Drs. started her on chemo immediately, and at the same time we began providing CBD oil to help her however it might. Six months later she's been given a clean bill of health, no cancer and she's been out of bed since February and doing well. One of Dodie's brothers has major diabetes and was diagnosed several months ago with major Macular Degeneration which apparently is a common effect of long term diabetes. He went back to his doctor very recently who told him there was no evidence of MD. The Doc was amazed, but we never put 2+2 together until we started researching it. Check it out! Cheers, Unc
4 pointsFinally go the video finished of comparing equinox 800 to the gold monster 1000 on in-situ targets in the field. This is my no mean the comprehensive review as im sure the settings on the equinox could be tweaked more produce even better results. But from what i saw on my ground they were vary evenly matched. The gold monster seemed to pop a little harder on the targets, but the equinox still hit all the targets the gm1000 hit. Since i detect mainly creeks the equinox has a leg up since its water proof and i dont have to worry about it getting wet or falling in the creek. Hope you guys enjoy the video and ill take more footage as i work this little patch.
3 pointsA genuinely helpful person, seriously dedicated to educating and enlightening others about detecting for gold, great guy to talk to, one that will truly be missed. All the best, Lanny
3 pointsMy 5000 has been collecting dust for the last 11 months. The modded detector will run any coil a normal detector will run. I chose the 11" yesterday so I could maneuver in the grasses better than the 15" EVO previously. The gold pictured was found with the 4000 and the 15" EVO, with the exceptions of the 5 smallest (SDC), and the two found with the commander. I really like the EVO, but if I could only choose one coil, it would be the 11" Commander. It has a great combination of depth and sensitivity. I'm very confident with it.
3 pointsJim's interest in gold mining came about due to the stories told him by his grandfather, Joseph Vietti. "Grandpa Joe" frequently regaled young Jim with stories about the wild and wooly mining camps in "the old days" 50 (and more) years before Jim was born. I collect gold mining camp ghost town tokens, and when I learned that Joe turned from being a gold miner to being a saloon keeper in Delamar Nevada (The Pioneer Saloon} I put forth a considerable effort to locate a Pioneer Saloon token. When I presented it to Jim as a gift his gratitude was so great that you would have thought I had given him the Hope Diamond. As seen from the comments in this and other forums, Jim touched many lives. The Midas touch. HH Jim
3 pointsR.I.P. Mr. Straight, I'll see ya on the other side.
3 pointsThe word is out that Jim has passed away. I last saw and spoke with Jim a bit over a year ago. He spent several hours on both Saturday and Sunday in the ICMJ booth with me at the Pomona GPAA show. He was a good man and wrote many books on prospecting as well as many articles for the ICMJ. It is sad to see him go. I know I posted this picture before, but its my last one with Jim.
3 pointsGoldseeker4K Congratulations on putting your project together, it certainly looks good, at least the front and rear covers do. I know there is a market for high quality stuff with good content and wish you well going forward. Bob has been known to stir a bit, but he does it with style and grace, so all things considered things could be worse. Carry on.
3 pointsNew "Bird" for the North Korean Air Force. Innovative for sure. You can never tell what these guys will come up with next . . . NEW NORTH KOREAN AF JET FIGHTER.mp4
3 pointsThere's an almost new Gold Bug 2 in the classifieds.
3 pointsJeff, I sure appreciate you dropping in to leave such a generous and kind note, much appreciated, and I guess I'm one of the lucky ones as I have a spouse that's truly loving to chase the gold as much as I do. When I first started out chasing the gold, she wasn't that interested, but when I was dredging, she and my mother-in-law would pan my dredge concentrates. That was an eye-opener for her! (The mother-in-law got the nickname "gold grabber" as she'd always grab the nuggets and drop them in her jar!) After the dredge-concentrates fun, my wife really got into panning as well as sniping bedrock, and for the last few years, she's been my speed-panning expert (we throw nugget signals in plastic gold pans while we're detecting virgin bedrock exposed by placer mining [50-60 feet of overburden removed to access the ancient channels], as it saves us the time of ID'ing each individual target, and she pans out the nuggets!) Well, that also got her hooked on nuggets, and she's tried swinging the detector a few times over that virgin bedrock, and she's found a few too. (She hates the heavy Minelabs, loves the light VLF's) Because she's got the fever now, that's why she wanted her own detector, and she wanted a light one that would be easy to swing, and a detector that had an easy learning curve, but one with modern electronics that would do the job by handling the ground better than the older VLF's. So, that's why she chose the Minelab Gold Monster, and she had success the first time out!! I told her there's people out there that have had detectors for years, and they still haven't got their coils over gold, lots of trash recovered, but no gold, and she gets two chunks of gold the first outing, remarkable. All the best, and thanks for being so kind as to leave some feedback, Lanny
3 pointsBob mentioned diatomaceous earth (DE). I'd like to point out that there are two types. There is the type Bob was talking about, which can be used to kill insects, is often used as a feed additive for livestock, and is totally safe for just about anything you can think of. Then there is the type used for pool filters. DE for pool filters has undergone heating to very high temperatures which changes its structure. This type of DE is an inhalation hazard and does cause silicosis.
3 pointsGold Monster OutingWent to the gold camp in the Rocky Mountains last week. The weather was gorgeous, all kinds of songbirds back, plus the flowers of the mountain meadows are in full bloom, purple crocus and shooting stars, yellow buttercups, multi-coloured Johnny Jump-ups, etc., etc.At the camp as I was checking over the living quarters (camper and two travel trailers), a humming bird buzzed straight past my right ear! That snappy racket from those wings going a million miles an hour is unmistakable. So, we set out the humming bird feeders hoping to catch a glimpse of the beautiful and dazzling red to orange coloured throat of the Roufus variety before they head farther north, and we'll keep an eye out for the beautiful iridescent green of the more common ones that sticks around all season.My wife unpacked her shiny new Minelab Gold Monster, and for those of you familiar with the machine, there's not much reading to do, but I watched a whack of user videos before we hit the mountains so I could give my little darlin' some tips and guidelines as she set out to learn how to use it.I picked a spot for her to try her luck on, an old fairly level place in a valley where some placer miners once had their wash-plant. The claim is now abandoned, last worked by some modern-day Chinese miners, but they left the area under a gloomy cloud, and I doubt they'll ever be back.I gave my June Bride some general instructions on how to run the Gold Monster (I'd never used one before, but the YouTube and other user-posted videos were a great help. Furthermore, I'd like to give a shout-out to Bill Southern for his wonderful educational efforts.). But, we figured the Monster out quite quickly, and that's why I'm grateful to Steve Herschbach for recommending I get my sweetheart one due to its ease of use, and kudos to Steve and Jonathan Porter for their write-ups on the machine which helped me quickly get a handle on the basics; their input was invaluable.By eye-balling the old site, I could tell pretty close to where the Chinese had pulled out their wash-plant, so I used that information to gauge where I'd have my wife start to detect as there are always some "spill" areas that offer a better shot at finding a nugget or two. Having said that, it was easy to see they had bladed and bucketed the area carefully after they were done to gather any spilled material; those miners were no greenhorns.I blocked off in a rough rectangle an area I thought might pay, and right away, my wife was hitting targets, but they were almost all ferrous, so she kept experimenting toggling back and forth between discriminate and all iron, learning the different sounds, learning how to make it easier to ID targets (to get them to sound off louder), learning how to read the little bar graph when it gave its indication of non-ferrous more than ferrous, as well as getting used to the sounds of shallow vs. deeper targets, and learning how to use the magnet wand to save time while sorting trash signals. (To elaborate, she's a great panner, but a green, green rookie when it comes to nugget shooting.)The thing about detecting an old wash-plant set-up is that it gets very easy to quickly tell where the repairs (welds, patches, etc.) took place, and the numerous bits of welding rod sure make for some interesting sounds, and curious readings on the graph! Having said that, the Monster's discriminator sure came in handy, and yes, depth was lost, but by using the small round coil, target separation was much better, and I was impressed at how my wife was able to move slowly from target to target, separating their locations, as she dug out signals.While she was test-driving the Monster, I was going for a comfortable cruise with my Gold Bug Pro. That is one hot machine, at least mine is. (I've heard detecting folklore that some machines leave the factory "hotter" than others, and I have no idea it that's true or not, but the one I have is a firecracker for sure, super sensitive, and a true gold hound for sniffing out gold from tiny flakes to meaty nuggets.)I started to hit non-ferrous targets in one slice of her search area, so I marked a few so she could check them out. Well, those miners had liked their cigarettes, and there were plenty of crumpled bits of foil from the wrappers as well as some other kind of lead foil with a gold-coloured outer covering that made for some increased heartbeat, but only turned out to be a bust.After having dug some of those duds, she called me over. "Hey, what do you think of this signal?". She was getting a great reading on the Monster, and it sounded sweet too. She worked the ground for a bit chasing the target around with her scoop (when a target runs from the scoop, it's usually something heavy, as most ferrous trash seems to hop quickly into the scoop). Dropping the dirt from the scoop onto the coil, she moved things around and there sat a pretty little picker, about a quarter of a gram! Man, was she pumped!!So, she kept on working that rectangle while I ranged farther afield with the Bug Pro, and I too found all kinds of cigarette foil, and that maddening, thick lead foil with gold coloring--craziest stuff I've ever seen, and I have no idea what it originally contained. I recovered a small aluminum parts tag, several electrical connectors, bits of lead, and pieces of broken brass likely from a bushing of some kind.My wife gave another shout, and over I went. Her meter was pinning consistently in the sweet zone, the signal sound nice and crisp. Capturing the target, she threw the dirt in a gold pan. Next, she then used the Garret Carrot to chase the signal around the pan. She moved some dirt then cried out, "Look at this. Is this gold?" At first, it was hard to tell what it was due to a covering of grey clay, but using a bit of water soon revealed a sassy nugget! If I'd thought she was excited about her first find, it was nothing compared to her reaction on that one!I can only come to this conclusion: The Minelab Gold Monster is a sweet machine that sure produces sweet results, because it's so easy to use, and it makes my sweetheart happy (couldn't resist punning on sweet, forgive me).All the best,Lanny
3 pointsIn case someone is interested in the real use of silicon dioxide in foods. From Wikipedia... Food and pharmaceutical applications[edit] Silica is a common additive in food production, where it is used primarily as a flow agent in powdered foods, or to adsorb water in hygroscopic applications. It is used as an anti-caking agent in powdered foods such as spices and non-dairy coffee creamer. It is the primary component of diatomaceous earth. Colloidal silica is also used as a wine, beer, and juice fining agent.[19] It has the E number reference E551. In pharmaceutical products, silica aids powder flow when tablets are formed.[citation needed] Also, just in case you would like to know.... Crystalline silica (quartz) is toxic and causes silicosis on the lungs. It is rarely used in finely powdered form. Food grade silica comes from huge sedimentary deposits of diatomaceous earth which is formed from amorphous silica (opal) and not crystalline silica (quartz). Diatomaceous earth has a very low percentage of crystalline silica and can be handled safely where ground quartz is extremely hazardous to handle. Please go up to my first post in this thread and read my explanation to Rylan about microcrystalline silica and cryptocrystalline silica and how to tell quartz from agate, opal, etc. This ties into this new discussion perfectly. It is exactly why crushed quartz is an inhalation hazard and diatomite is much less toxic. It is the difference between slow cooling under pressure (quartz) and rapid cooling at the surface (opal, glass, obsidian). It is how you tell if a rock was formed deep or at the surface. This discussion is supposed to be about basic mineral ID. We got there via a twisted path but we must come back to reality somehow. At some point we must try to exorcise the ignorance that clouds these discussions and make something positive out of it. Hopefully with this basic information a reader can actually learn something about mining, rocks and minerals rather than be misled.
3 pointsDon and Madge sold a whole lot of quartz from their hardrock gold mine back in the 60's to a bakery. It made the bread heavier and worth more. Because we all know how valuable heavy bread is. Because bread back on the farm was much lighter and worth less. It had no quartz in it. Back in the old days bread was not "stone ground" like it is today. Don and Madge sold so much silicon dioxide from their hardrock gold mine to bakeries that the profits from quartz were more than that of gold. You will notice that all food supplements that contain silicon dioxide are advertised as "stone ground". That means it contains quartz to make it heavier and thereby more valuable. Heavy food and diet pills are worth much more than light bread and diet pills. This makes barren quartz a valuable commodity worth mining. That is why so many famous mines have names like "The Pumpernickel" and "The Marble Rye". …….. Why cant we all just pretend that this is factual information like we do with our elected officials? Just go along with it. Don't rock the boat. Be polite and swallow the "stone ground" BS and smile. Wave a flag or something. Remember, kids use this forum for learning about stuff. So meteorites cause fires, maritime laws don't apply to natives on natïve soil and bread has ground quartz in it. Wear a wool coat in the summer to keep cool and have your letters in red ink signed by the postmaster. Drink some vinegar shots and smear coconut oil on your temples. Because this is the wisdom of the ages that experienced men have to offer the children.
3 pointsI found a nugget in a spot showed to me by someone I look up to. Long story short the agreement was to name the first nugget after him IF i found one. So i am introducing "Golden Tom Jr. Jr." .16 grams Found with sdc2300 Setting Sensitivity = 4
2 pointsVERY FUNNY!!! not yet, I am waiting for a warm and sunny day to massage my coil cover... fred
2 pointsI felt like I was being watched, now you know what wash I dropped into. lol!
2 pointsI didn't even think of a PI detector until down the road. Just remember to invest wisely. Dont spend more than you have to. Also, most people keep their vlf machines when they bump up to a PI. For me , I got the gold bug 2 for myself, the gm1000 came shortly after. Sdc2300 around 1 year later.
2 points" I don`t think that the consumer should have to jerry-rig a brand new product for that price." That's my whole point of this whole post...I shouldn't have to grind the tray in order for it to fit the box, or find the proper glue for the silk screen after 10 hours of use, or grind the dang screw heads that stick out and get caught on this and that. I don't see it as negative comment but constructive advice for the consumer with dollars in his or her pocket who may find my review helpful. I have bought a bunch of Keene products over a 30 year span...this one I don't care for in particular. The End.
2 pointsIt's great to have life long friends!!! My parents were friends with his parent before we were even born. That's a long time to be buddies. I remember the time we even went to hunter safety course together as kids, along with many hunting and fishing trips with our families. Now that we're older.... it's great when the stars and moon align to where we can hook up. They aligned and I was able to head to his cabin in Oregon and join him on his turkey hunt. He was able to fill his turkey tags, getting his last one a couple ours after I left to head home. Here are a couple that he connected with. We did do some swinging of the coils while there and he was able to find an old knozzle from when they washed the banks down on the year round creek behind his cabin back in the day. I did have fun behind the lens of the camera, but next year I think I'll spring for a liscense and tag of my own.
2 pointsDon't mean to hijack this thread but here's another large nugget from Australia that was found in the traditional way....a metal detector. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-48331769 Always wanted to go to Australia years ago but never did.
2 pointsYea was nice finding so many pieces. It was major exhausting hard work . I'm still feeling sore muscles.
2 pointsWhat Adam said in my opinion....
2 pointsI never knew you Jim, but have heard many great things about you. Thank you for passing on such great knowledge. Bill has passed your knowledge along to so many including myself. I am so grateful and blessed to be a part of this gold prospecting community. RIP Jim Straight.
2 pointsSorry to hear of Jim's passing. May you rest in peace Brother in Christ. Old Tom
2 pointsI'm really sad to hear that as well. We corresponded vis email a number of times and have an autographed book from Jim. Jim and I knew some of the same people and hunted in the same areas but we never met. What a loss. RIP Jim
2 pointsHello. My name is Garik i will be age 45 on June 7th and i live in Queen Creek. I was born in Phoenix but grew up in Mesa. My main hobby has been building computers since i was age 15. I think its time to add a new hobby, gold metal detecting. I finally saved enough money to buy a metal detector. I always wanted to do it since I've always been fascinated with the Lost Dutchman Mine. For the past month I've studied a lot of information about superstition mountains and gold metal detecting here in AZ. From what I've learned i'm assuming the best places for me to go are Wickenburg and Prescott areas. Black Canyon i hear has some good spots as well. I will also be joining the Roadrunners, from my perspective this would be a wise decision. Last week I actually bought a Metal Detector, the Garrett AT Gold. I returned it unused a few days later after having a feeling i could probably do better with a Minelab Gold Monster 1000. I'm still debating on what brand to purchase. I'd like to thank "Mr. Nugget Shooter", your videos taught me a lot thank you.
2 pointsFred If it is one of the aftermarket covers you can heat some water in a shallow pan. Briefly dip each tab into the water to soften it and with a gloved hand reshape them to allow a looser fit. Have a good day, Chet
2 pointsI use fumed silica to thicken epoxy resin. I think that is exactly how it is made. They heat up DE and re-crystallize it in a flue. It is like snowflakes.
2 pointsThe food grade DE is sold for human consumption and used to rebuild joint cartilage and connective tissue, among other things. Deadly on fleas and parasites when used as a dusting agent for pets and their bedding. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjbnJGXiJ_iAhUMi6wKHai2CAUQFjAAegQIABAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdraxe.com%2Fdiatomaceous-earth%2F&usg=AOvVaw0qK2qdgbXy-tBcsHe50tXD
2 pointsThey say a tektite went up and came back down. So it is kinda that..
2 pointsHe must have, he was only here for about 2 months before making his fortune and going into hiding!
2 pointsYes you can, if you don't believe me ask the many newbies who post many meteorwrongs A.K.A. earth "meteorites" on these forums!
2 pointsHi Chris, I bought the complete new trays with upgraded riffles along with the Keene boxes...I liked the older Keene 151 as the trays were easy to put in and take out for clean ups. Nothing I can do about it now but warn others about it...as far as the gold recovery..here s a pic ..a few of them on top were detected near bedrock that was exposed.


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past life therapy/regression
A lot of sceptics will tell you that there is no such thing as a past life. At this moment in time The Arthur Findlay College says that they do not exist. The scientist will tell you that it is a figment of your imagination, a film/play/story that is hidden in the back of your mind and played back. There are people that do believe in past lives, they believe that the purpose of each existence is to learn from the experiences in that lifetime and become a better person.
So 'you pays your money and makes your choice' as to what you believe, I have relayed elsewhere on this site the experiences and the stories that have been told to me on the numerous occasions I have worked with people in Hypnosis, in the regressed state.
The idea of reincarnation was first brought to the west, and popularised in the latter part of the 19th century by Madame Blavatsky. She claimed to have been taught the details of reincarnation as an integral part of a large fragment of the ancient philosophy, by masters of this knowledge who had preserved the knowledge intact. It is said the reason that we are not normally able to remember a past life is because we had a different brain but still the influence remains. At the moment of death we sometimes see the past life details and as we progress in our individual evolution we come to remember our past lives which have previously been forgotten.
What is the point of reincarnation?
Our souls are part of one soul, at the root we are one, each seemingly with separate individualities. We gain experiences, learn lessons, and ultimately, the consciousness of the universe gains increasing experiences, increases in relative perfection, and increases in self-consciousness. There is no end to the cycle, no end to increasing perfection.
Prior to starting, I show a picture of a corridor with lots of different coloured doors, even some around corners out of sight. The object of this is to allow them to choose a door to go through, a door which will be of interest/benefit to them in this lifetime. It is said that we repeat the same mistakes lifetime after lifetime bringing through the same behaviour, so if we can discover what it is, we can change it. Sometimes it changes automatically once the conscious mind is aware of it.
I use my normal routine to get the subject or subjects into the relaxed state. I do like to ensure that the person is three steps removed from the experience, by using a technique I have personalised, so if any trauma was to arise during the regression, they would be able to observe what was happening without negative reaction.
Ideally it is best working with just one person at a time, part of the reason being I do watch very carefully to see if there is any negative reaction to what they are experiencing, it can be very real.
I do get requests from mediums/psychic group leaders to demonstrate regression to their circle. The most I have worked with at the same time was thirty. The gentleman who ran this circle was very gifted, all but one of this group went into a past life, he was able to see who they were.
My brief recollections of some of the people I regressed.
A young man came with his wife, she chose not to participate.
He told a simple story of being married to this beautiful women, describing his happy life, nothing momentous but I remember it because when I brought him back to full awareness, his wife was very jealous, he left trying to explain himself.
Two ladies that had only known each other for a short while but had become firm friends.
In the regressed state they started to giggle like children, they told me that they were Inca Princesses getting up to all sorts of mischief. They told of being carried aloft in a ceremony to thank the gods. As they grew older they told of other experiences, one stopped talking to me, when I ask the other what had happened, she told me that her sister had died in childbirth. Then she turned to me and said. "It was you" She said that I had been the Inca priest that had got her sister pregnant, the last she saw of me, I was being lowered into the tomb of the young lady, alive. Strangely enough I had been told a long time before that I had been a Inca priest?? ( make a note. Dont get a princess pregnant).
I suggested that she went through the rest of her life quite quickly, she remembers being an old lady and dying a peaceful death with her family all around her.I do find it interesting how time can be condensed, in the mind.
I was working with a group of four, I quietly asked the first lady what she was doing, she told me, I went to the next, the same, the third said she had not gone anywhere, just seeing felt she was in a beautiful mauve room, (healing?) I got to the forth, I said, and what are you doing? She said. "I have just had my arm cut off", just matter of fact, no emotion to it. I reminded her of three steps removed and allowed her to carry on. At the end of this session, I said to the others. "Poor old Anne had her arm cut off" She told us that she was an Englishman fighting the French "That wasnt the end of it, they set the dogs on me and tore me to pieces." So not all past lives are sweetness and light.
That story is one of the main reasons I continued to use the three steps removed.
This one was a very prim and proper young lady. When in the regressed state, I ask her who she was, she told me she was a man, I ask her what she was doing, playing cards she said, but I dont play cards, (her conscious mind popped in, in never goes away) I ask her, what are you gambling with, she said, a halfpenny, (old money which she was too young to have knowledge of) She giggled, when I ask her what she was laughing about, she said, Im cheating. I asked if she was married, she said no, Ive got a tart. All the way through this experience the man was smoking and coughing, I realised he was dying and helped him to pass through easily, he died around the age of fifty with problems with his lungs.
There have been so many people that have regressed with me, all I remember, for a lot of them is what/who they were. Geisha girls, carpenters, medieval knights, smugglers, (they were very reluctant to tell me anything) One was very difficult for me to gather any information, the young man lay down and died in a lane, when back to full awareness it was thought that the past life was deaf and dumb, that was a sad one.
This one was a pilot in the second world war, he was very rich and was at home at the time, when I ask him to move forward, he decided he didnt want to, he knew he was going to die, and as he said afterwards, he liked being rich.
This young lady moved into three different lives quite quickly, after we analysed why, we came to the conclusion that she needed, in this life to realise that you did not need to be a man to be strong. The first she was an giant of a man, a Greek soldier, very strong in battle, yet when he was dying (of a disease) he was consoling his wife, a gentle man. The next was an ordinary wife, but in control of everything around her. The third was a woman with facial hair and warts on her face, beating a black man for stealing a head of corn, not a very nice person. As we are given a choice at the beginning of a session to chose a life that will be of interest in this lifetime, as I said, she needed to realise why she had regressed to these three lives.
This one was very sad. A middle aged man, married with three children had separated from his wife because he wanted to change his sex, he was already using a feminine name and beginning the process of change.
He also regressed three times quickly, in each, as a woman, he was raped. The only conclusion I could come to, as to why he/she is as she is in this lifetime is at sometime he had said to himself. "This would not have happened if I had been a man "
I remember with one young man, in the middle of recalling a complicated story, said, "I think I am making it up" I said. "It doesnt matter, just carry on, he did and finished a very intriguing story. People are surprised that the conscious mind is still aware as to what is going on.
A young Irish girl being taken to America, a very detailed life.
Although getting married, a very lonely lady
. A lady lost three children in a fire but went on to remarry and be very happy and wealthy.
There have been so many more, all ordinary people, having normal lives. The publicity given to some that claim to be famous people in history, tend to attract negative comments from people that have not experienced it.
Here are just a few examples from people that have taken the time to put their experience into print.


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Friday, October 28, 2011
Hollywood gives advice?
So after reading the article below (see Read More) I threw up. I threw up all night long. Could have been a stomach flu considering the accompanying chills, fever, and body aches. But that's beside the point. Why do we take advice from celebrities?
It must be because they have such a healthy perspective on life. I mean they never divorce, never abuse drugs and alcohol, never engage in adultery, never break the law, never forget to pay their taxes, never have insecurities, never are depressed, never suffer from bulimia/ anorexia, and most importantly they are always appreciative, humble and obviously satisfied with their good looks. Right? Apparently not.
Then it must be because they are so in touch and experienced with the average problems facing middle and lower class America. Nicolas Cage lost two homes in foreclosure people! And I'm guessing in this economy that Ashlee Simpson is probably having to forgo an extra pair of combat boots and checkered suspenders to buy milk and diapers for her little tyke Bronx Mowgli (see:100 weirdest celebrity baby names). Probably not.
So why is anyone looking to these people for guidance on our morals, politics, and behaviors? Let's go back to the article I originally mentioned featuring Jennifer Lopez. She states ""I think I've finally learned the biggest lesson of all, you've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you're okay with someone else.You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything. And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship." Says the woman with 3 divorces under her belt.
Anyone who has a pea rattling in their skull knows that the primary component to a lasting relationship is a willingness to put yourself aside out of love for another. That is true love. Sure it's great to have enough confidence to not rely on our spouse to define ourselves. That puts a load of pressure on our partners to complete our picture, leads to stress, leads, to fighting, leads to break ups. However the mindset of "I'm worth it" and "I'm first" is a complete set up for failure. It's setting an impossible bar for our spouses that if they're not making me feel how I think I deserve to feel then this relationship isn't working. The article should be titled "How to be Divorced Like Me!" I'm only 24 and I've already had a relationship longer than any of JLO's.
Read more: http://www.eonline.com/news/jennifer_lopez_ive_finally_learned/271811#ixzz1c7ctoNyL
Another entertaining example of how Celebrities are just like us is America's darling, Kanye West. Now the fact that any celebrity would attend a rally pretending to be a part of the 99% is quite a riot! Not to mention the fact that Kanye was gracious enough to lend the flashiness of his dope Givenchy Swagger to bring attention to the cause (see: Kanye West Visits Occupy Wallstreet).Yes, you absolutely represent the middle class! High Five from Main Street USA! How about put the money where the mouth is and redistribute it to those who aren't artistically brilliant enough to write lyrics like "Take your diamonds off and throw 'em up like you bulimic" (Kanye West, Diamonds From Sierra Leone). I'm not commenting on the Occupy protests only the fact that any celebrity would kid themselves to think they are a part of it and not a target of it.
I better wrap up. My point is that celebrities are not well rounded individuals, they are not good role models in almost any sense except to entertain, and never would I want to be like one. Except to own their closets/homes/cars. We are the 99%!!!
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At some point yesterday I happened upon the much discussed topic of a Gizmodo intern's not-so-nice piece she wrote about the online dating site OKCupid and Jon Finkle.
Huh? [Mom, I now read everything I write like you're reading it and you'll just have to follow the links.]
I worried over the whole line of links through the day, off and on, much like Sophie the Pitbull worries over the NYT's Sunday crossword. Well…she would go back to it randomly if she took the time out of her busy schedule to lower herself to partake in menial tasks such as doing her own crossword puzzles.
It wasn't until I was closing out the bajillion tabs I always have open that the links popped back up and I decided I'd just post the series of links I'd found to Google Plus and be done with it. The problem is that most of you aren't on Google Plus and you not only have no idea what I'm talking about but you can't see the links so I'm going to post them here.
You're welcome.
First up, the post that started the shitstorm:
My OkCupid Affair With A World Champion Magic: The Gathering Player
Then there's this link I wouldn't have ever known about if not for this note–which appears twice in the original piece: "Australian Editor's Note: We disagree with the US author of this post, more: Alyssa Bereznak Just Reminded Us That Women Can Be Predators Online Too." I'm confused by the note. Do they mean they disagree with Bereznak's post but they dislike Hart's more?
Link: http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/alyssa-bereznak-just-reminded-us-that-women-can-be-predators-online-too/
Next on the day's reading list is a piece Susan Arendt wrote: An Apology to Jon Finkel I love Susan Arendt and have mad respect for this woman. When I grow up, I want to write like her.
Last but most definitely not least is a Reddit. Now Reddit is a thing unto itself and deserves a post all on its own–which I'm not going to write. To "get" Reddit, you have to get in there and share and experience.
This will give you a fabulous snippet:
I actually think this comment from Gizmodo user feral.nswf is even better.
"When I saw an IM from a girl named Alyssa that said, "You should go out with me :)" I was relieved. She seemed normal. I gave her my name. "Google away," I said. Then dinner was ready, and I signed off without remembering to do the same.
We met for a drink later that week. Alyssa was slender and blonde, dressed in a white sundress. We started talking about normal stuff—family, work, college. I told her my brother worked in tech. And then she casually mentioned that she wrote for a nerd blog.
"Actually," she paused. "I'm write for Gizmodo."
I laughed. Oh that's a funny joke! I thought. This girl is funny! But the earnest look on her face told me she wasn't kidding.
I gulped my beer and thought about Gizmodo, that link-whoring Gawker site that managed to spill all their users' info a few years ago. A long-forgotten casualty of the web, like Lycos or something. But before I could dig deeper, we had to go. Alyssa had bought us tickets for a one-man show based on Jason Chen's run-in with Apple. It was not a particularly romantic evening.
The next day I Googled my date and a wealth of information flowed into my browser. She's Alyssa motherfucking Bereznak, the woman who despite writing for one of the nerdiest blogs on the web, pretends to be superior to other adults just because they play a card game.
Just like you're obligated to mention you're divorced or have a kid in your online profile, shouldn't someone also be required to disclose any indisputably hypocritical attitudes? But maybe it was a long time ago? We met for round two later that week.
At dinner I got straight down to it. Did she still write? "Yes." Strike one. How often? "I'm writing an article about Dungeons and Dragons this week." Strike two. What was it about? "How they're all unwashed neckbeards who molest children." Strike three. I smiled and nodded and listened. Eventually it was obvious that Alyssa didn't know shit about the games she was covering. Here was a girl who acted like a successful hedge fund manager was a serial rapist over having a geeky hobby, despite writing for a blog that treats GPS-enabled dog collars like real news. This is what happens, I thought, when you leave things out of your online profile.
I later found out that Alyssa infiltrated her way into OKCupid dates with at least two other people I sort of know, including one of my co-workers. Mothers, warn your children! This could happen to you. You'll think you've found a normal girl with a job, only to end up being judged on the color of your socks by a hack one step up from a tabloid writer."
That came from this link and I suggest you head over there and read all of the comments. Just make sure you have a bit of time cause they go on for a while.
You can also read a huge IAmA with Finkel at this link.
My thoughts?
From what others have postulated, Bereznak was paid based on pageviews, i.e., the number of times people look at a page on a website. Nerdbaiting–and you don't get much nerdier than Magic: The Gathering–drives people to your post in droves and that, in turn, increases the pageviews which then drives up the money you make. I'm not going to hate on her for trying to make some money; she was doing her job.
If she had kept it to, "I had this date with this guy I met on an online dating site and he was kind of dorky and I highly doubt I'll be having his dork babies anytime soon." then I wouldn't have an issue with the article. But, if she had done that, she wouldn't have had a hook and without a hook, she wouldn't have had a story and she sure as hell wouldn't be getting a crap ton of views on her post and all of those yummy links back to the post that Google loves.
The fact that she made it personal is what makes it yucky. And the fact that she made it personal about someone who has a Wikipedia page and has a huge following makes it yucky and dumb.
Read the links. Read the comments and if you have anything to add, come back here and share in the comments. I'd love to read your take on this whole thing.


text: Long-term demand growth for uranium is a global story, with China expected to far exceed any other single nation in new nuclear plant construction over the next decade. Versant Partners Analyst Rob Chang looks for equity ideas that investors can play to leverage these growing requirements for uranium fuel. In this exclusive interview with The Energy Report, Rob highlights some interesting companies.The Energy Report: What is your uranium forecast for the intermediate term and for the long term?Rob Chang: For 2011, currently we have the spot price at $75/lb. Then the following two years we expect it to go up to $80/lb. and then take a slight step down in 2014 to $75/lb. For 2015 we have it at $72.50/lb. And then long term, we're currently expecting $70/lb.TER: Why does the price forecast go down?RC: Just to be conservative. Over the long term, as any economist would tell you, prices should revert to a point where the marginal costs equal marginal revenue. Basically the company that incrementally produces enough to satisfy market demand should be pretty much breaking even. Despite the fact we have a short-term increase, over the long term we do expect that market forces will work.TER: I don't know if round numbers have any technical significance, but between the end of October and now, uranium has broken through the $50/lb., $60/lb. and $70/lb. levels. Does the fact that it didn't test those levels for long imply demand?RC: Absolutely. I was personally of the belief that the prices were way too low for where they should be. The only reason why it stayed at such depressed levels was that investors were just afraid to get into the market during the economic weakness. Then when things started to turn around people paid attention, realized and then committed their capital into uranium, and once it started moving up it quickly adjusted to more reasonable levels. So, technical analysis doesn't always work and I think this is a situation where you can clearly see that these round numbers didn't really mean anything as the price advanced to where it should be.TER: Where is the demand going to come from?RC: Like everything else in the world, the strongest demand is coming from China. Currently there are around 443 nuclear reactors in the world, and China has only 13, which accounts for 3%. China is now the second largest economy in the world, recently surpassing Japan, and given how strong the Chinese economy is and is expected to be, just 3% of the global nuclear power production is a little ridiculous considering its energy needs and the fact that nuclear provides the best base load power supply. And you can see this easily in the number of planned and proposed nuclear reactors for construction. According to the World Nuclear Association (WNA), of the 540 nuclear plants that are currently in the construction, planned or proposed phase around the world, China accounts for 35% of them. About 187 of the 540 are in China in some stage of development. China's doing three times the number of Russia, and I think that's pretty significant.TER: Can demand fluctuate?RC: Of all commodities, uranium is one of the best in terms of forecasting demand because you can't miraculously create another nuclear power plant. There are a lot of years, planning, permitting and capital required. It's fairly certain that once one is being built, it's going to go to completion and that demand will be there.TER: Tell me about your initial screen, the enterprise value per pound (EV/lb.) of uranium in the ground. Describe that for me briefly.RC: Sure. The EV/lb. metric that I use essentially common-sizes the universe of uranium companies by applying the EV/lb. metric for every company. I prefer enterprise value over market cap because it includes the debt and the cash numbers, which I believe are fairly significant in the decision of investing in any company. It also allows for easier comparison. You're going to have different companies with different resource sizes, and you can see whether one may be overvalued or undervalued on a per-pound basis.TER: I understand that valuations can vary from exploration company all the way up the value chain to producer, but under what EV/lb. level would you consider looking at a company as a long position?RC: I wouldn't say there's an exact hard rule in terms of what number I would look at, given that EV/lb. is basically a screening tool or even just a sorting tool in terms of showing where companies fit in the grand scheme of things. The key thing to note is that some companies do deserve to be where they sit. A good example is Hathor Exploration Ltd. (TSX.V:HAT), which has one of the highest EV/lb. valuations. It should not be trading below the average given the location and grade of the project. So, it would be rather unfair to cut it off at an arbitrary number just because it seems to be above that number.TER: Where do you go next?RC: I then get in contact with management and try and meet with them. I want to understand management and find out where they came from and ask them what they're doing with their project now as well as understand what their plans are. How they see their project is important to me, because I want to weed out the promoters versus the actual developers or exploration people. It's key to find companies that have good projects and the personnel to advance the project. I've run into some situations where companies may have a decent project, but they don't seem to have the management team to actually push them forward. That's the key thing, because any good project can be ruined by bad management. So, that would be the first cut. After that it would be to understand the political environment and effectively performing good fundamental analysis such as understanding the grade of the deposits. Metallurgy is also extremely important.TER: Tell me about that process of evaluating management.RC: Pedigrees do matter. It is not essential, but knowing that someone came from a well-run firm helps. For example, someone who has come from a Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO; NYSE:CCJ) or an AREVA (PAR:CEI), where they know the process and how to do things in a high quality way rather than a "let's just cover this pot with this lid" approach.TER: Does having excellent leadership at the C-level translate to great engineers and people on the ground?RC: I find it generally does. You attract better talent when you have a leader that has a history of success and strong management skills.TER: Do you have a stock that you have initiated coverage on or had coverage transferred that you like?RC: Sure, I just had the coverage of Energy Fuels, Inc. (TSX:EFR) transferred over to me. I really like the story. It's a near-term producer that's currently in development mode as it has recently received a permit from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. It's probably the most difficult to acquire permit, and it will allow them to process 500 tons per day (tpd) of uranium ore. The great and interesting point about the story is that the company currently has two turnkey mines already in its portfolio, those being the Energy Queen and the Whirlwind mines, which can both be brought up to speed and producing within a year, if not less, of the decision to do soprobably less actually. So, EFR can be producing soon and can capitalize on the high uranium spot prices right off the bat and join the producer category in very short order. That's something that a lot of other uranium companies cannot do given the extensive permitting, development and funding process required. So, it is well up the curve and extremely close to production relative to almost any other non-producer. It looks great.TER: So much of the news about its near-term production has been discounted into the price over the past six months during which time the price has nearly quadrupled. You still have a target price of $2 for an implied 40%-plus total return from here. Could you give me a little background on that valuation?RC: I think the quadrupling was more a matter of the stock price being previously depressed for Energy Fuels. Speaking as a former portfolio manager, I would have adopted a "prove you can get a permit" perspective because there was some doubt that EFR was going to be able to get that permit. Once that permit was granted, that overhang was removed and the stock quickly moved up to more reasonable levels. So, I believe that's the primary reason of the meteoric rise that you were noting. I still believe there's upside from here. Given expected production, I fully expect the mill to be expanded from 500 tpd to 1,000 tpd in short order. It is already designed with that in mind. So, once that gets put into place with additional consolidation, I think that the target price of $2 and possibly even higher is quite achievable.TER: Rob, your target price on Energy Fuels is equivalent to the net asset value of the company. That sounds very conservative to me.RC: This stock valuation is more from my buy side perspective, and I tend to be a lot more conservative. I don't like to be one of those guys who starts applying multiples without having the company prove that it is capable. Although the company looks strong and I have no reason to doubt management's abilities, they still have to prove that they can develop on time and on budget. So, even though it does have its permits in place, I'd rather be more conservative on our target price, which is still a substantial increase from its current trading value.TER: One more question on Energy Fuels, I wanted to ask about the significance of the mill. The company calls it the first conventional uranium mill to be built in the U.S. in three decades. How does it add value to this play?RC: It legitimizes the play. Any conventional uranium explorer with designs on becoming a uranium producer needs to have a mill to process its ore. Denison Mines Corp. (TSX:DML; NYSE.A:DNN) has one in the area, and now Energy Fuels will have one. So, in terms of being a strategic asset it's a very important piecebeing able to consolidate the area, to become a producer and to eventually become a major player. Without the mill you need to have someone else's mill to process your ore. It's a major piece that's required to become a producer.TER: What other companies can you talk about?RC: I can make a few comments regarding Continental Precious Minerals Inc. (TSX:CZQ) and Hathor. CZQ has uranium plus moly (molybdenum ) and other metals in Alum Shale in Sweden at the Viken Project. The company has a billion pounds of uranium there. It's very low grade, and it's in a very tricky environment. Alum Shale hasn't really had much history of being processed. It was processed before by the Swedish Government but at very low recoveries and at pretty high costs. It's possibly one of the largest uranium deposits in the worldfrom what I could tell it's probably one of the top two or three. But the key question mark is whether it can be extracted economically. I know CEO Ed Godin is currently working the metallurgy, and I think that's really the key pointwhether it can be economically produced at a commercial scale from the low-grade Alum Shale at a low enough cost in order for it to work. But overall it looks interesting.TER: You mentioned Hathor.RC: Hathor is a very strong story. From an EV/lb. perspective, it's trading at around $13/lb., which has it at the top valuation among exploration companies. This is one of the situations where it definitely deserves to be on the higher side of the EV/lb. average. Hathor is in the prolific Athabasca Basin, and it has some of the highest grades of any uranium property in the world. It already has around 25 million pounds (Mlb.) of attributable NI 43-101-compliant resources, and it has the potential for it to be even higher. So, Hathor does look very interesting.TER: It deserves to be that high relative to everyone else?RC: That's the key question. I do believe that at least a portion of the $13/lb. valuation is attributed to an expected resource increase. So, it really just depends on what number you want to hang on the increase to see if it trades closer to what its peers are. As a comparison, the average exploration company trades at a $3.17 EV/lb. So, Hathor definitely is a premium company, and it could be potentially much higher. It's very high grade. On a blended basis it has a U3O8 grade of 5.4%, which is extremely high given that the global median for uranium grades is 0.076% from my database. So, it's a fantastic grade.TER: Not nearly as speculative as CZQ?RC: Comparing the two, it's not even remotely close because Hathor is in a prolific area. The metallurgy is somewhat known given that there are many uranium mines in the area.TER: Any others you might mention?RC: There are some that are actually quite interesting. Hathor's neighbor Fission Energy Corp. (TSX.V:FIS) is interesting in that it also has encountered very high grades from its drill intercepts. It doesn't have a resource as of yet, but it is a stone's throw away from the Roughrider deposit. There are some pictures of their property where you can see Hathor's drills and Fission's drills right beside each other. You really could throw a stone from one and hit the other, and there seems like there is a reasonable chance that the mineralization could cross the boundary line.TER: Ok, I'd love to hear another one.RC:Kivalliq Energy Corp. (TSX.V:KIV) looks quite good. I tend to gravitate towards higher grade stories, and this one is interesting in that its NI 43-101 resource is at 0.79% U3O8, which is a pretty high grade deposit, one of the highest ones around actually. It's Angilak Project is located in Nunavut, Canada. The company appears to have strong relationships with the Nunavut people there. It currently has a resource of 14.2 Mlb. at one of the highest grades in the world, and it looks like it could be easily expandable. So, that's another one I'm keeping my eye on as well.Tournigan Energy Ltd. (TSX.V:TVC, FSE:TGP) is a Slovakia uranium play. It's in the prefeasibility category right now, and it currently has 58 Mlb. in total resources. It's primary project is Kuriskova, and the key thing I like about it is that it's a high grade deposit at 0.413% U3O8. On a blended grade basis for all of its nearby properties, the company has a portfolio grade of 0.297% U3O8, which is quite good.TER: Did you have another you wanted to mention?RC: We can also talk about U3O8 Corp. (TSX.V:UWE). It has a few properties that it received from a transaction with Mega Uranium Ltd. (TSX:MGA), which effectively placed the latter's South American assets into U308 Corp. U308 is interesting in that it has three properties, one in Colombia, one in Guyana, which I have visited, and a third in Argentina. The Colombian property is interesting. It has pretty good grades, the potential for valuable byproducts such as phosphate and vanadium and has a lot of blue sky potential, and the Argentinean one looks like it could be a simple low-cost project that would require little capex to develop.TER: Thank you and best wishes, Rob.RC: Thank you. Versant Partners Analyst Rob Chang has extensive financial markets experience dating back to 1995. He was a member of a five-person team running a multi-strategy hedge fund, a base metals research associate at BMO Capital Markets, a manager of resource funds at a boutique investment management company and an equity analyst covering the global mining sector at an independent investment bank. Rob has a Master of Business Administration degree from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and holds a Canadian Investment Manager designation.Learn more about companies in the uranium sector now. . . Want to read more exclusive Energy Report interviews like this? Sign up for our free e-newsletter, and you'll learn when new articles have been published. To see a list of recent interviews with industry analysts and commentators, visit our Expert Insights page.DISCLOSURE: 1) George Mack of The Energy Report conducted this interview. He personally and/or his family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. 2) The following companies mentioned in the interview are sponsors of The Energy Report: Mega Uranium, Fission Energy, Energy Fuels. 3) Rob Chang: I personally and/or my family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. I personally and/or my family am paid by the following companies mentioned in this interview: None.


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Hy guys, I play Alto Sax and I'm 14. I play it since I was 10 but I don't feel any improve in technique since 1 year ago. I was wondering how I improve. Thanks for who answers me!
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Hy guys, I play Alto Sax and I'm 14. I play it since I was 10 but I don't feel any improve in technique since 1 year ago. I was wondering how I improve. Thanks for who answers me!
Mine is either the Bari or the Alto saxophone. :)
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I can't decide if I should switch to Baritone or Tenor Sax, or if I should stay an Alto Sax. Can you help me decide
For those who don't know Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms e.g. triplets at the same time as duplets
I am looking for some translation for alto sax of following songs:
Conan the Barbarian - Recovery
Stan Bush - On my own alone
Jerry Goldsmith / Rambo - It's a long road
Or any songs of basil poledouris.
If any can help out that would be great !
Is anyone having trouble with MDL crashing everytime they try to input snare line? I put a couple notes of snare, then Muescore completely crashes and DOES NOT save a recovery document. Anybody help?
A friend and I are seniors in high school and we have a band. I play alto saxophone and he plays drum set. We have played at basketball games, in school concerts, and background music at various school events. Our next (and possibly last) performance is going to be at our graduation, so obviously we want it to be our best performance yet. Our problem is we cannot seem to find a good song/songs to play. We are looking for something fast, upbeat, and fun. Somewhere between 3 to 15 minutes would be perfect. Some of the songs we have played before include: Shipping Up To Boston, Megalovania, Blue (Da Ba Dee), 300 Violin Orchestra, Harder Better Faster Stronger, Eye Of The Tiger, ect. Hopefully that gives you a good idea of the type of music we enjoy playing.
Any song suggestions would be very helpful. Also, if you have any other places I could post this question please let me know. Thanks in advance for any suggestions anyone gives.
Hey guys!! :D How are you? ♥ I would like to share my first score with you :D https://musescore.com/user/28725539/scores/5470048 I hope you like it! :3
Have a great day!! Kisses from Argentina! ♥
What are we doing here?
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Lol Patrick
I will update this weekly
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Eek! I forgot to do this yesterday. The group is already dying, so uhh… :o
@Jaybird1 is one of the first truly active members, I told him I would give him a shoutout here, so here you go :P
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So I had to kick a member (Indy500) for spamming a link to an unsecure website. Sorry, but spam for no purpose is not tolerated.
Thank you for letting me be an admin! :)
I hope to make this group awesome for saxophone players!
On Musescore 3 I'm wondering how to make the crescendo end before the end of the measure as the crescendo seems to only stay on the end of the measure and I cant make it end earlier
Hello, I'm the new owner!
I have searched everywhere in musescore, but I can only find giant steps and Mr. PC, but the solo isn't in pieces. Does anyone know books or other media to use?
Does anyone know a way to get a good sounding suspended cymbal roll in Musescore? I've tried almost everything and it all sounds like garbage lol. Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!
i am working on a piano sonata
i uploaded a few new pieces and i cant seem to get the drumline sounds to play. Other instruments sound fine


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Tony Bowls prom dress;
Unique VintageIf vampires are hot for teen movies, vamp is hot for teen proms.
Imagine if Edward Cullen ripped half the fabric off the bodice, and you've got your daughter's dream dress.
Oh Molly Ringwald, give me strength.
The poofy, frothy over-the-top cocktail dresses of Pretty in Pink days may make us groan when we look back at the yearbooks, but at least they left a little to the imagination. Unlike today's hot numbers.
As one dress shop manager told the New York Post this week, "For prom this year, girls want short and poofy or long, tight-fitting, with everything cut out -- the sides are gone, the back is gone, the front is basically gone."
So I did a little digging.
I found prom dresses advertised with a woman's hand hidden seductively in between her legs, the short silky skirt hiked to show a chunk of thigh.
Dresses with cleavage popping out the top and a skirt that stops nearly a foot above the knee.
Dresses with teeny fabric x's across the midriff with no fabric to hold them there.
I understand most of us have a finite amount of time to show what our mama gave us, but these aren't marketed as bridal dresses that the younger girls are scooping up. They're all clearly marked "prom" and intended to make the principal's eyes pop out of his or her head.
Do I sound like my grandmother or are you as freaked as I am by the trampy trend?


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Eco Knievel: A Macho Force For Good | Maker Faire 2011
Having been to the Maker Faire a few times, I found myself feeling a bit like this guy. I rushed to the faire early Saturday morning, totally against my nature, to see Eco Knievel jump an electric "motorcycle" (BMX Bicycle, actually) over a Hummer (well, Prius, actually), at high noon. OK, it was a jump, it was cool. Then he rode through a wall of Tofu (held in wall form by some Tyvek), which was nifty too. But it was much more crowded than any previous faire, with a smattering of familiar Playa art, as well as some new pieces, like these lovely farting flowers:
Making Eco Macho
I went to the Maker Faire with the intention of writing about whatever interesting new vehicles people had been building in their garages, and didn't find much. Although it was a bit difficult to see through the throngs of people. Yes, Chevy had the Volt on display. And nobody cared. There was a plethora of bizarre Steampunk carriages, all human-powered. And there was Eco-Knievel. I first encountered Eco-Knievel at the Commonwealth Club the Thursday before the faire. He was on a panel discussion on "Injecting Macho Into the Environmental Movement" along with the following luminaries:
Mark Barden, Partner, Eatbigfish
Jit Bhattacharya, CEO, Mission Motor Company
Saul Griffith, Co-founder, Squid Labs, Instructables.com, Makani Power; Inventor; Author
Jason Mark, Editor, Earth Island Journal; Co-manager, Alemany Farm
Chris Lindland, Founder, Betabrand.com – Moderator
The podcast should be available soon. It was a good discussion, because regardless of gender, "eco" needs to be more sexy. More Tesla, less Prius, please. But then, I guess I could say the same for gas cars. As you can see in the video, the Betabrand disco pants were REALLY distracting. Eco should've been wearing them, then I wouldn't have missed his first jump.
Do It for the Children
Although the original faire in San Mateo is getting too crowded for my tastes, it remains an excellent place to instill children with a passion for creation. It's teeming with wonderful examples of how science and math can be fun and wild. Luckily they now open on Friday strictly for students and educators (or so I heard…). But why wait till the next faire? Forget the scouts, sign your kids up as Young Makers! My brother's kids are playing with toys made by this homemade 3-D printer. Not as fancy as the one they had at CRP, but still very cool.
Nothing Beats a Tesla
Except perhaps a My Little Soldering Pony. Despite feeling quite jaded elsewhere, there's one thing that never fails to fill me with wonder and delight. And that's a Tesla coil. Even better TWO Tesla coils! But even better than that, they're alighting on a Faraday cage filled with children! Oh, and just when you thought it couldn't possibly be any better…. the Tesla coils are playing music. And not just any music, but the Doctor Who theme song. We were all in Nerd Heaven. You can try to replicate the experience here, but it's not the same. So next year, I may skip it and compete in the Red Bull Soapbox Races instead. But rather than help start a Maker Faire Los Angeles, I'd like to go to Maker Faire Africa. That seems much more exciting. Though perhaps not as exciting as watching parents let their children dangle beneath massive boulders.


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Hello Everyone,
Yes, it's never too early to start thinking about Christmas and a new design.
I'm working on a new creation called Handmade Holidays. I'm a traditional red and green gal when I decorate and lean toward an old fashioned Christmas theme. Click HERE to see a link to my post in 2014 when I first made a table runner with just the ornament. I ended up giving it away to my friends for Christmas.
I don't usually purchase fabrics with gold running through it, but this fabric was perfect to decorate my little homespun tree with the green plaid. I think every Christmas tree should be plaid.
I'm off to the shop this morning. This is my last full month of working every Monday. As my life gets busier, it is time to cut back the days that I spend at the shop. I will now be there only the 2nd and 4th Monday of the month. This is a gift I'm giving to myself and Mr. Joe. I think he actually misses me when I'm gone. He would never admit to that if you ask him. Now, we don't have to come back from the mountains every Sunday. We can stay up there and I can quilt, quilt, quilt. But on the other hand, we have two grandkids playing soccer and one playing traveling softball......so this means we'll be their head cheerleaders on the weekends and travel to their games. We don't want to miss a thing.
Be in the moment today. Eyes wide open and don't miss a thing! It will keep us young. (So she says while drinking her coffee trying to prop her eyelids open!)


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Amy Rigby / "Invisible"
From 1998's Middlescence, the follow-up to Amy Rigby's brilliant solo debut Diary of a Mod Housewife (20 years old and still as fresh as a daisy -- for your anniversary vinyl copy go here )
Why do I keep coming back to Amy Rigby's songs? Because her snarky, punk-inflected brand of feminism is just right for me. She has a stand-up comic's irony and timing, a poet's ear for the apt phrase, and a social worker's sense of injustice.
Amy wrote this song when she was 39, and I understand that the big 4-0 would be a scary prospect for a chick singer in the male-dominated music industry, But as someone well beyond 40 (as Amy herself is now), I know that this is more than just not hearing catcalls anymore when you walk past a construction site. It's a pervasive blankness, a negation of self. It strikes at the heart of how our society regards women. This is the reverse side of what Donald Trump's "locker-room talk" video exposed -- the fact that if you aren't hot enough to be grope-worthy, then you have no value and you really DO NOT EXIST for a sizeable proportion of the male population.
But -- hey, Amy Rigby chooses to keep things light. The tempo is bright, syncopated, the melody major key and upbeat. In verse 1 she's in a bar, surprised that no one's buying her drinks anymore. (Oh, poor dear.) In verse, she's on stage, dressed "like someone half my age." So far, self-deprecation reigns. But in verse 3, as she struts her stuff on the beach, the Creep Factor intrudes: he's only interested in her (presumably pre-pubescent) daughter. And as a mother, with Tiger Mother reflexes, her hackles rise.
And so, in the end, she slips in an oh-so-pointed rallying call: "I know it hurts to disappear / But you've got lots of company here / And we're invisible." So what if all the invisibles joined forces -- what could we accomplish?
Spurn one of those cat-calling guys and elect an invisible woman to the White House?
Well, why not?


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CRI Missionary Lian Thang has a grand
vision for his community in Tahan, Myanmar.
"My vision of educating and helping poor children in my community is simply to take them to the knowledge of Christ through education. We plan to build a boarding school because it is the only way to provide children in deep poverty in our community the opportunity to attend school."
The Shalem Academy is currently helping 25 local children daily. Five of these children live with Lian and his family due to not having access to schools in their home villages in the Chin hills.
This shack, once used for cooking and storage, is Lians home. His wife Lunu and their three kids - James, Sarah and Salome, along with two younger siblings, 2 nephews and the 5 children from the Chin hills squeeze into this shack each night. That is a total of 14 people.
Lian describes his living situation this way:
My family has been living in a house that can hardly be called a home for 1 and a half years. In a way it is very humbling for me but on the other hand it is difficult for my family - with a 2 and a half year old son, a 2 year old daughter and now a two month old daughter. It does have repercussion both physically and psychologically to my ministry. There is no space to care for my family or host those in our community. It is impossible to bear the hot and wet brunt of the extreme climate. It has become hazardous to my family thus hampering my ministry from effectiveness. I am sure a proper home for my family ( a stronghold for my ministry's effectiveness) is necessary for me to be a successful ministry leader.
Lian has been able to make some improvements on the shack but he clearly needs a quality house to call home.
Please help us build Lian a home for his family.
The goal is to raise 25,000.00
$10,000 has been raised so far.


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Diggin': Robert Belfour – White Lightning
inDiggin'on August 11, 2016
Robert Belfour, lesser known than his fellow Mississippi Hill Country contemporaries like R. L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Jesse Mae Hemphill, was a powerful guitar player with an intense attack. When he plays, it sounds like the guitar and its strings might explode under the pressure of his taut fingers, pinching, pulling, bending, his thumb slamming on the bass string. Belfour passed away in February of 2015. He left behind scant recordings, two great records on Fat Possum and a few unreleased tracks living in Music Maker's archive. Here is a wonderful track entitled "White Lightnin'". This is Belfour and an acoustic guitar.
— Aaron Greenhood


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Beekeeping Dallas Experts – What to Do if You Have a Bee Problem
During the spring and summer months, it's very common in our area for people to search in Google for "beekeeping Dallas."
At this time of year, bees can be a big problem, especially here in the Dallas area. But that doesn't mean you have to live with these insects and risk getting stung. By calling a professional beekeeping Dallas based company, you can have the bees and the hive removed promptly and safely.
Let's face it. Bees aren't just a nuisance. They can pose a serious danger:
- If the bee hive is located within an active area of your home or business, then there's a strong chance that someone could be stung, simply by walking by.
- Young children are particularly at risk if they play near a hive. A child can easily disturb a hive by accident, with a ball or simply by knocking into it, nearly guaranteeing that he or she will be stung.
- If someone is allergic to bee stings, this can become an even more serious situation, requiring immediate medical attention if the person is stung by multiple bees at once.
- Trying to remove or kill the bees yourself can be VERY dangerous and almost always results in serious injury (as you'll discover in the examples below), unless you have the proper equipment and skills for beehive removal.
This is why it's crucial to call the professionals whenever you have a bee problem.
Professional beekeepers in particular know the proper ways to capture and handle bees, so they can remove the insects and the hives without anyone getting hurt.
A beekeeping Dallas company vs. an exterminator
In most cases, you don't need to kill the bees to get rid of the problem. There are simpler and more effective ways to remove the pests from your property without exterminating the entire colony.
In fact, killing off a colony can create another problem in itself – especially if the beehive is in your home. Up to 50,000 bees can live in a single hive. You can imagine the mess this would create when thousands of bees begin to die off in different areas of your house or your property.
The solution?Professional beekeepers.
A beekeeping Dallas company will use special equipment to capture the bees, doing their best not to harm the bees at all. The beekeepers will typically either use a bee vac or bee boxes to collect the insects. From there, the bees can be transferred to a local bee apiary.
Did you know?
It's important to remember that bees play a very important role in our natural world. Honey bees are of course crucial for the production of honey. But also, bees help pollinate crops and are essential to the successful growth of produce around the world.
When to do a search for "Beekeeping Dallas"
If you've found this page, then you likely know you have a bee problem and are thinking about calling some beekeeping Dallas professionals. But you may not be sure how serious your problem is or which steps to take.
- Have you found a hive on your property – particularly one that's in a spot where people often pass by?
- Are you constantly finding bees throughout your home?
- Have you or others already been stung a few times, while you were in the same general area?
- Are you worried that someone could get seriously hurt, particularly someone in your family who is allergic to bee stings?
- Do you sense there is a beehive close by due to all the bees on your property, but you're not sure where it's located?
If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then it's a good idea to call a beekeeping Dallas professional right away. They will carefully inspect your property to find the hives(s) and will offer safe, effective solutions for removing them.
Keep in mind that a beehive is generally not a concern if it's located away from people.
For example, if you find a hive in a wooded area, away from your home or business, then you can just leave it alone. The bees will not harm anything, and they will begin to die off in the late fall.
What NOT to do if you have bees
Every year, people make the mistake of trying to tackle their bee problem by themselves. And in almost every instance, they are terribly injured.
Here's what you should NEVER do if you discover a hive:
- Do NOT spray insect repellent at the hive.
- Do NOT hit the hive with a stick, pole or thrown objects.
- Do NOT spray the hive with a garden hose.
- Do NOT try to "trap" the bees with a large trash can, bucket or other container.
Professional beekeeping company in Dallas
Bee Removal Dallas is a team of professional beekeepers, offering effective bee control and removal in the Dallas metropolitan area.
If you found us by searching "beekeeping Dallas," it's because we're known as the premier beekeeping company in the area. We have our own apiaries, as well as all the necessary equipment for capturing and transferring bees.
Our experts are happy to tackle any bee problem, large or small. We will remove the bees from your property, as well as the hive. We are fast, professional, and we guarantee you'll be satisfied with our results, Just give us a call and we'll get rid of the bees!
Call (214) 295-9703 for a free bee removal estimate from our beekeeping Dallas experts.


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Lira Ensemble Cleveland Christmas Show
One thing I appreciate about my hometown of Cleveland is the support Cleveland Polonia shows when Polish cultural events are performed.
Janet and I made the 2-hour trek recently to see "A Polish Christmas" at the Cleveland Music Hall. The performance by the Lira Ensemble of Chicago [the only professional performing arts company in the United States specializing in Polish music, song, and dance] featured Carols, Paderewski and more.
An extraordinarily wide variety of entertainment was provided by the orchestra, dancers and singers. Besides the wonderfully enjoyable Kolendy featuring carols like Bog sie rodzi, O gwiazdo Betlejem and Gdy Sliczna Panna, the 40-piece orchestra accompanied the singers and soloists in a number of beautiful opera pieces by Paderewski and Moniuszko. Mazurkas and Polonaise were also performed in addition to a spectacular Polish-American Christmas medley with the use of voice and handbells seen in the picture above.
The Cleveland Music Hall is an opulent and well-tuned music venue. The 3,500 seats were nearly all filled and it was easy to tell how appreciative the audience was by their enthusiastic applause.
Lira takes its name from (in English) "lyre" a traditional symbol of music. Their Christmas Concert Tour this year only played Cleveland and Buffalo besides Lira's home base of Chicago. This group sets the standard of quality for Polish performing arts in the USA.


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Favorite 2012 travel photos, part one: Washington, D.C.
I'd planned to post my ten favorite travel photos of 2012, but I couldn't narrow it down to just ten (too much loveliness!), so I'm going to divide the photos up into two or three different posts instead.
First up is Washington, D.C., where I visited in February 2012. The rest of my photos from the trip can be found on Flickr.
Most of these photos were taken at two places that absolutely stole my heart ♥: the Library of Congress and the National Gallery of Art. Also, along with the photos, I've included links to interesting/useful/educational information, so be sure to click on them if you're interested.
(& One last thing before the photos: sadly, I didn't get to see my Imaginary Boyfriend Joe Biden while in D.C. Darn! ;) I still associate that trip with him, though: last month, I dreamt that Biden bought me Christian Louboutin stilettos & gelato & wandered around the Library of Congress with me. I have great dreams sometimes (^‿^))
The National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Ice Rink with the National Archives Building in the background:
The Capitol building on a cold D.C. morning:
The beautiful Supreme Court Building:
Entrance to the Library of Congress ♥:
The Library of Congress, taken on a lovely almost-spring morning:
The wonderful Library of Congress:
A beautiful statue in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress:
Part of the lovely ceiling of the Great Hall of the Library of Congress:
One of the wonderful quotes on the walls of the Library of Congress:
The entrance to the "Creating the United States" exhibit at the Library of Congress:
Columns & lovely ceiling art at the Library of Congress:
A Picasso self-portrait outside the entrance to the West Building of the National Gallery of Art:
Peter Paul Rubens's "Daniel in the Lions' Den" at the National Gallery of Art:
Andy Goldsworthy's "Roof" outside of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art:
Pablo Picasso's "Harlequin Musician" at the National Gallery of Art:
Giorgio de Chirico's "Conversation among the Ruins" at the National Gallery of Art:
An anonymous artist's (a follower of Fra Filipp Lippi and Pesellino) "Madonna and Child" at the National Gallery of Art:
Leo Villareal's "Multiverse" light sculpture/moving walkway/tunnel between the East Building and the West Building of the National Gallery of Art:
More soon!


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How U-Pick works:
When you've parked at the red U–Pick Barn, you'll pay your admission fee — valid all day long — and select and pay for your U–Pick bags. There are three sizes to choose from, and we'll let you know what's ready for picking. Fill the same bag with 11 varieties of apples, two types of Asian pears, peaches, plums and nectarines.
Once you've selected your bags, hop aboard one of our trains for a trip through the orchards. There will be announcements at each stop about what's picking. The trains are constantly circling through the orchards, so disembark to pick or play as often as you'd like. There's sure to be another train just around the bend at any given time. Do be aware that you must take the train into our orchards. We do not allow guests to walk on our busy train paths, per our safety regulations.
Once you've picked and played to your heart's content, catch the next train and head to the U–Pick Barn.
Fruit is based on availability and that always depends on the number of people that come to pick and the weather. To see what's picking, check out the website under U-Pick or call the U–Pick hotline at 508–653–0653.
Be sure to ask about our Season Pass so you can come back as often as you'd like!
For everyone's safety and to keep our orchards clean and healthy, please abide by the following guidelines:


text: A hardcover children's story written by Doris Johnson and beautifully illustrated by Dani Otten, both of Abilene. The color of the detailed illustrations is strikingly rich and the story is about a small boy who learns to reason through many trials of every day life and ends with him using what he learned to solve a problem in a not so surprising way. Kids will love this book.