#New Roof Installation In Alaska

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Further Adventures

Last Thursday, while the home inspector was checking out our place, Nancy and I took off to Saguaro East for a visit. Thanks to the recent rains, there are some things blooming out there right now, including the ocotillo. There were lots of other folks enjoying the place as well. After we drove the eight-mile loop, we stopped off at Margie's Kitchen at 22nd and Harrison for a lunch, one of several visits in recent weeks.

The inspection yielded a rather lengthy list of things that needed addressing. Fortunately, the buyers whittled the list down to about a half dozen things were willing to have done, including some GFCI updates to outlets in the kitchen and front patio, having the chimneys swept, a few fixes to the roof that fall under the warranty of the last work done, and some HVAC issues, most of which also fall under the warranty of the new unit installed in July of 2022. We estimate the total cost will be less than $1,000.

There were no burned-out light bulbs on the list, but there was a complaint about the smell from our cats. The buyers did not care about that, but it will be sorted once we take off with the cats in tow. The inspector also mentioned some old smoke alarms, which are still in place because we did not remove them. New ones have been placed around already.

The prospective buyers have headed back up to Alaska. We're not sure when they will return, but the closing will come near the time we take off for Oregon. Before then our calendar is filled with things to do, including a couple of local theater productions of Shakespeare the week before our departure. Both were moved up so we could enjoy them. The Rogue Theatre is doing "Love's Labor's Lost" and the Arizona Repertory Theatre (UA) is doing "Much Ado About Nothing."

There is also a "going away" party being planned by some recovery friends. Nancy had been approached first because those involved thought a surprise party would make a nice event, but she disabused them of that notion at my urging. The list of invitees presented to me recently includes a lot of friends in the program, though there are many others not named. Since we aren't disappearing forever from Tucson, I'm not too concerned with who shows and who doesn't.

Along with everything else, this past Sunday night's peaceful sleep was interrupted by a police presence throughout the neighborhood announcing over loudspeakers from 1 to 3 a.m. that they were looking for dangerous suspects and the rest of us needed to remain in our homes. The police chopper spent a good bit of time buzzing around overhead as well. Later attempts to find out what was actually going on were met with stubborn silence.

#life #moving #selling

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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Today’s Teenagers: Anxious About Their Futures and Disillusioned by Politicians (NYT) Although it has never been easy to be a teenager, the current generation of young Americans feels particularly apprehensive, new polling shows—anxious about their lives, disillusioned about the direction of the country and pessimistic about their futures. Just one-third of respondents ages 12 to 17 said things were going well for children and teenagers today, in a survey published Monday by Common Sense Media, a children’s advocacy group. Less than half said they thought they would be better off than their parents when they grew up—a downbeat view shared among teenagers in many rich countries, other data shows. It’s not just about teenage angst. A different survey, by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation, the latest installment of which was also released Monday, has asked questions of young people over time and looked at how their answers have changed. Members of Gen Z, ages 12 to 27, are significantly less likely to rate their current and future lives highly than millennials were when they were the same age, it found. Among those 18 to 26, just 15 percent said their mental health was excellent. That is a large decline from both 2013 and 2003, when just over half said so.

‘Pandemic of snow’ in Anchorage sets a record for the earliest arrival of 100 inches of snow (AP) Even by Alaska standards, there’s a lot of snow this winter. So much snow has fallen—so far, more than 8.5 feet (2.6 meters)—that roofs on commercial buildings are collapsing around Anchorage and officials are urging residents to break out their shovels to avoid a similar fate at home. Over the weekend, there was nearly 16 more inches (41 centimeters) of snowfall, pushing Alaska’s largest city past the 100-inch (254-centimeters) mark earlier than at any other time in its history. The city is well on track to break its all-time record of 134.5 inches (342 centimeters).

Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands (AP) A hidden path to America’s dinner tables begins at an unlikely source—a former Southern slave plantation that is now the country’s largest maximum-security prison. Unmarked trucks packed with prison-raised cattle roll out of the Louisiana State Penitentiary, where men are sentenced to hard labor and forced to work, for pennies an hour or sometimes nothing at all. After rumbling down a country road to an auction house, the cows are bought by a local rancher and then followed by The Associated Press another 600 miles to a Texas slaughterhouse that feeds into the supply chains of giants like McDonald’s, Walmart and Cargill. Intricate, invisible webs, just like this one, link some of the world’s largest food companies and most popular brands to jobs performed by U.S. prisoners nationwide, according to a sweeping two-year AP investigation into prison labor that tied hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of agricultural products to goods sold on the open market. The goods these prisoners produce wind up in the supply chains of a dizzying array of products found in most American kitchens, from Frosted Flakes cereal and Ball Park hot dogs to Gold Medal flour, Coca-Cola and Riceland rice. They are on the shelves of virtually every supermarket in the country, including Kroger, Target, Aldi and Whole Foods. And some goods are exported, including to countries that have had products blocked from entering the U.S. for using forced or prison labor.

France’s protesting farmers encircle Paris with tractor barricades (AP) In the words of Mao Zedong, “the countryside surrounds the city.” Who would’ve thought that a group of capitalist farmers in France asking the government to deregulate the agricultural sector would be the ones to take those words to heart? On Monday, farmers from across France descended on Paris in their tractors, setting up roadblocks with their vehicles and hay bales hoping to pressure the government into supporting the already-well-subsidized farming industry even further. They claim that the government has overregulated the industry, which is also suffering from cheap imports from less-regulated countries like Ukraine. The encirclement of Paris is a response to concessions offered up by the government last week, which farmers say did not go far enough to make their jobs easier or more lucrative.

For Europe and NATO, a Russian Invasion Is No Longer Unthinkable (NYT) President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia once proclaimed the dissolution of the Soviet empire “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” At the time, back in 2005, few expected him to do anything about it. But then came Russia’s occupation of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia in 2008, its backing for Ukrainian separatists and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 and, most resoundingly, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Now, with the rise of former President Donald J. Trump, who in the past has vowed to leave NATO and recently threatened never to come to the aid of his alliance allies, concerns are rising among European nations that Mr. Putin could invade a NATO nation over the coming decade and that they might have to face his forces without U.S. support. That could happen in as few as five years after a conclusion of the war in Ukraine, according to some officials and experts who believe that would be enough time for Moscow to rebuild and rearm its military.

China sees two ‘bowls of poison’ in Biden and Trump and ponders who is the lesser of two evils (AP) As the U.S. presidential campaign moves closer to a Donald Trump-Joe Biden rematch, China is watching uneasily. First, there are concerns about the campaign itself, where candidates are likely to talk tough on China. That could threaten the fragile improvements in U.S.-China relations seen in recent months. Then there’s the outcome of the November vote. Neither candidate is particularly appealing to Beijing. While Biden has looked for areas of cooperation with China, Beijing is concerned about his efforts to unite allies in the Indo-Pacific in a coalition against China. It’s also nervous about his approach to Taiwan after he has repeatedly said he would have U.S. troops defend it in a conflict with China. Trump, with his isolationist approach to foreign policy, might be more hesitant to defend Taiwan. But nothing can be ruled out given his unpredictability and his tough rhetoric on China, which he blames for the COVID-19 outbreak that dogged the end of his term. He also could deepen a trade war that hasn’t eased since his presidency. “For China, no matter who won the U.S. presidential election, they would be two ‘bowls of poison’,” said Zhao Minghao, a professor of international relations at Fudan University in Shanghai.

The Middle East’s arc of conflict is spiraling (Washington Post) As much as the White House may be seeking restraint, events on the ground in the Middle East are accelerating in a worrying direction. Israel continues its onslaught in Gaza. Meanwhile, flash points are erupting elsewhere in the shadow of the ongoing war. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have paralyzed global shipping moving through the Red Sea and provoked a U.S.-led bombing campaign. Israel has engaged in limited strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and Iran-linked targets in Syria, including an attack Monday south of Damascus that killed several people, according to reports. Then, there’s the most immediate challenge for Washington: An Iraq-based, pro-Iran militia claimed responsibility for a drone attack at the end of the weekend that killed three U.S. troops and wounded at least 34 others at a base along the Jordanian border with Syria. It’s likely the deadliest attack on U.S. troops since October, as militia groups affiliated with Iran in both Iraq and Syria have carried out at least 160 attacks on U.S. military targets. The U.S. has carried out dozens of its own retaliatory strikes. Leaders in the region warn of a widening arc of violence.

Tunnels, Landlines, Handwritten Notes: How Hamas Communication Evades Detection (Worldcrunch) As the Israel-Hamas war drags on in Gaza, which has been mostly leveled, the leaders of the Palestinian militant group have gone underground. Many outsiders are curious about how they communicate with one other and the outside world, especially the group’s leaders in exile and mediators. Securing communication is a major dilemma for Hamas leaders and commanders on the ground, as Israel continues its war campaign with the aim of crushing the group. The Saudi-owned, London-based daily Asharq al-Awsat reported on January 22 that Hamas leaders use a secret communications system that began with a private landline system, before they resorted to hand-to-hand written messages. The technology used to develop the system was likely smuggled via the group’s network of tunnels. The Qassam Brigades installed underground lines connected with old landlines in certain points across Gaza. Hamas used to examine the system regularly to prevent potential breaches. Each Hamas political or military leader has his own contact point with a specific number that is used for emergency communication, the sources told Asharq al-Awsat. Israel is aware of the system and has unsuccessfully tried to hack it multiple times.

Desperate and despairing, parents tap sleuth to find Kenya’s lost children (Washington Post) When Leroy Blessing went missing, his family panicked. The autistic 9-year-old could not talk to strangers easily, and police in his native Kenya scoffed when his desperate parents sought help, saying he was old enough to look after himself. Then Maryana Munyendo stepped in. She heads Missing Child Kenya Foundation, an alliance of voluntary sleuths tracking down missing children. She plastered up posters and blasted social media. A stranger called two days later with the boy’s whereabouts. Since setting up the group in 2016, Munyendo said she and her two-person team have reunited 1,055 children with their families out of the 1,551 missing children that parents have reported to her. Another 153 were sent to government homes and 28 were declared deceased, leaving 315 active files. Kenya has an epidemic of missing children. Police did not respond to inquiries on statistics, and there’s no national database on missing children. But in May the cabinet secretary for labor and social protection, Florence Bore, said in a speech that 6,841 children were reported missing from July 2022 to May 2023. Only 1,296 have been reunited with their families, she said.

Global anti-corruption efforts are faltering, partly due to a ‘decline in justice,’ survey finds (AP) Efforts to fight public sector corruption are faltering around the world, in part because a “global decline in justice and the rule of law since 2016,” according to a corruption index released Tuesday. Transparency International, which compiles the annual Corruption Perceptions Index, found 23 countries at their worst level since the global ranking began almost three decades ago, including both high-ranking democracies and authoritarian states. On the reported decline in justice, the group said that “the rise of authoritarianism in some countries contributes to this trend, and even in democratic contexts, the mechanisms that keep governments in check have weakened.”

Neuralink implanted a device in a patient’s brain, Musk says (NYT) Neuralink, a company working to develop computer interfaces that can be implanted in human brains, placed its first device in a patient on Sunday, said its founder, Elon Musk. Mr. Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, said on Monday that the company’s first product was called Telepathy and would allow a human to control a phone or computer “just by thinking.” “Initial users will be those who have lost the use of their limbs,” Mr. Musk wrote in a series of posts on X, his social media platform.

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William J. Spain Seismology Observatory at Fordham University

William J. Spain Seismology Observatory at Fordham University

Kevin Bergin

Adjunct College Professor at Marist College

March 5, 2021

When a magnitude 7.5 earthquake in Alaska struck with enough power to generate a tsunami warning. Scientists all around the world compiled extensive data from many international sources concerning this frightening event. Included in their analysis were seismic recordings from Fordham University’s Observatory. A seismic station developed chiefly by the contributions of two extraordinary men.

The William J. Spain Seismic Observatory, on the university's Rose Hill campus, in The Bronx, rests approximately 5,000 miles from the epicenter of this sudden, earth shaking release of energy in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands region. Despite the great distance, the seismology center provided valuable information as it has continued to do for over 100 years.

Fordham is not an institution that you might typically think of for this very nuanced, capital-intensive field of investigation. But The Jesuits have had a long history working in this field. According to an article in the Seismology Society of America Journal: The first seismographic station installed by Jesuits was about 1868 in the Observatory of Manila. In 1909 sixteen identical horizontal Wiechert seismographs of 80 kg mass were purchased in Germany and were distributed to fifteen colleges in the United States and one in Canada.

In fact, the university doesn’t have a geology department. But because of the unique rock-formations, in that part of The Bronx, and the generosity brought on by a school tragedy, the oldest observatory in the region, as well as one of the oldest in the United States, was developed.

"(It is) best with contact to underground bedrock.” explained Stephen Holler, PhD, Associate Professor of Physics and literally the keeper-of-the-keys for the observatory, “In this part of The Bronx, the bedrock, is exposed near the surface on the campus as well as the nearby New York Botanical Gardens and Bronx Zoo.

The superstructure of the observatory was a beautiful quadrangular Gothic building of native gneiss ( metamorphic rock) which was quarried from the excavations for the Grand Concourse Subway station.* It included a flat roof, turreted ledge and two smaller wings, which extended the building into an oblong structure approximately 40 feet by 20 feet. A concrete pier was sunk to the bedrock. This is essential for obtaining proper, accurate readings.

William Spain Steps In

On April 3rd, 1922, William Spain Jr. died as a sophomore at Fordham. His father, William J. Spain Sr., a late 19th Century Irish immigrant, famous hurler and Gaelic footballer, donated the seismic observatory. It was erected to the memory of his son. Spain graciously assumed all the expenses including donating a new set of three electro-magnetic seismographs, two horizontal components and vertical component(s).

The building was opened in October of 1924. At the dedication ceremony, the building was blessed by Bishop John Collins S.J. (after whom the Collins Auditorium was named). The prayer used at the ceremony blessing was sent over from The Vatican and has since become the official prayer to be used at any future Blessing of Seismic Observatories anywhere in the world. In addition, Pope Pius XI sent over a bronze plaque; which depicts a 4th Century Roman Bishop, St. Emidio, who performed rescue work-some deemed miraculous-after a tragic Italian earthquake during his time.

The 3rd Time or the 3rd location seems to be the charm

Originally located by the slope across from where the softball field currently stands, near Faber Hall, it was moved two years later, “since the rock on which the observatory had been built, sloped off or down rather sharply.” According to Professor Holler.

As a result, the pier developed a decided daily tilt or sway, mostly as a result of thermal expansion caused by the sun's rays. The lines on the record-which should be straight lines-wandered all over in response to the pier's tilt. The recording of an earthquake, during such wandering, was nearly impossible. The observatory was moved in one piece on soaped beams. Those supporting beams of the observatory were slid a few feet at a time. The new site chosen, known as Rose Hill, was an outcrop of (bed)rock that comes to the surface.

Moving the seismology station under the direction of J. Joseph Lynch, S.J.

In the 1930s, the University made the decision to create a more powerful structure on the site known as Rose Hill. Although generally referred to as the collective name of Fordham’s Bronx campus, its specific location, complete with previously mentioned exposed bedrock, lies below the Gothic-Stone structure and internationally known clock tower, at the centerpiece of the campus-named Keating Hall.

To make room for this construction, the seismology station would be moved once again. Now it rests at its current location just off Edwards Parade Ground.

Building a Support Structure to Last

To take care of the seismographs, specifically to avoid corrosion, an underground vault some 40 feet by 20 feet, was first blasted out of the rock. This vault was lined with concrete walls and a roof one foot thick. Buried deep in the ground it created a dark soundproofed repository

The top of this 10 feet high vault, ended 6 ft. below the surface level of the ground. This depth was necessary to maintain a constant temperature (65 degrees Fahrenheit during Winter & Summer). Any use of artificial heat would impact the sensitive instrument readings.

From the earliest days of earthquake recording, annoying, disturbing ground waves were observed periodically on seismograph outcomes. “When the waves from an earthquake roll into an observatory, superimposed angry ground waves make it almost impossible to decipher the quake.” Wrote Father John Joseph Lynch, S.J., who directed Fordham’s seismology center for over 30 years and in 1946, designed an observatory for the Dominican Republic to give warning of earthquakes. “Heavy commuter trains from the neighboring New York Central (now Metro-North rail lines) all leave their distinctive record and can be identified.” Father Lynch, also encouraged the class of 1924, as Sophomores, to donate the first modem addition to the Station in the form of a horizontal seismograph with optical recording.

To avoid the interference of the Big City, including the then active 3rd Avenue el train, a new station was set up at the Jesuit Seminary, College of St. Andrew, in Hyde Park, NY (which is now the main campus of the Culinary Institute of America).

“Not only were readings affected by traffic and trains.” added Doctor Holler, “They had horses to eat the grass rather than have lawnmowers disturb readings.”

Stephen Holler obtained his Doctorate in Applied Physics from Yale University and joined the faculty of Fordham in 2011.

Rev. J. Joseph Lynch, SJ: An Immigrant Story

Father Lynch was born in London. He joined the Society of Jesus and was sent to study the physical sciences in the Netherlands and at Oxford University. He once likened the earth to a ''bowl of Jell-O'' and said that New York City was just ''writing her autograph'' each day at rush hour. He came to Fordham in 1920 where he began work on the university's seismic observatory and served as a professor of seismology and mathematics until 1967. At the New York World's Fair in 1939 and again in 1940 an extensive seismological exhibit was set up with an attendant in charge daily from 10 a.m. until 10 pm. Some 3,000,000 people visited the exhibit.

Among his lifetime of dedication to causes both geological and religious, in 1951, he conducted seismic tests in Rome to help Vatican Officials search for the tomb of St. Peter. Described in a March 1954 article in Pageant magazine as “six-feet-two with a broad, trim build.” Since the age of nine, Lynch was without the tips of his first two fingers, on the right hand, because of an accident on his Aunt’s farm, in Ireland, while playing near a thrashing machine.

Father Lynch holds a graph which may have recorded China's 1st atomic bomb detonation.

In his memories, Watching our Trembling World for 50 Years, Lynch recounts an incident in 1929. He spied a running car, near present day Finlay Resident Hall (then the Chemistry Building) with its lights out after 10 PM. It proved to be two bootleggers. They had imported bulk liquor in barges brought up the nearby Harlem River. It was bottled and likely diluted under a Grecian stage on the Southeast corner of Edwards Parade ground, then used for graduation ceremonies. As the tall priest approached, the intruders tried to flee in their “darkened car”. He Jumped in the car, via the back seat. Despite the criminals efforts to knock Father Lynch from the vehicle, he held his position and was taken for a gangland style ride through the then relatively deserted swamps of The Bronx.

After some negotiation, the apparently unarmed bootleggers agreed to return the Jesuit to campus.

If true, Father Lynch concludes this tale with a bit of a comic narrative:

“The bootleg era … gave rise to gangland murders ... to much bad liquor, but to many good stories. It was by no means agreed among theologians whether the Prohibition Law was a moral law or merely penal. Newly ordained neophytes (priests) were therefore sometimes on the spot. A young curate, with one such offender in the confessional box, excused himself and asked an experienced pastor for guidance. ‘Father, I have a bootlegger in the confessional, what should I give him?’ The answer came back at once, ‘don’t give him more than four dollars a quart.”

William J. Spain: An Immigrant Story

William J Spain Sr. (September 3, 1865–April 9, 1936) was a famous Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer. He was the first player to win All Ireland hurling and football medals. He played Gaelic football with the Limerick senior inter-county team in the 1880s. Spain also played hurling with the CJ Kickhams club. Spain emigrated to the United States in April 1890. Spain played in an exhibition Gaelic football game in Madison Square Gardens in December 1890 for New York Gaelic who beat Port Chester Sarsfields.

Spain settled in New York and became a very successful silk merchant. He married Margaret Shanahan and they had two children. His son William died aged twenty while a student at Fordham University. His daughter Mary married Herbert Weston and they had a daughter Melissa who married Thomas Bancroft Jr.

William J Spain died at his holiday home in Florida on April 9, 1936. (Courtesy of William J. Spain Wikipedia Page)

*The 5 train on White Plains Road opened in 1920 and may be a better materials source?

Check this Out

There is a lot more to the history of Fordham and seismology. Check out the Pinterest link to meet other early directors of the observatory; photos of the World’s Fair Exhibits (1939-40) as well as a Seismology PinBall game: https://www.pinterest.fr/bergin0639/fordham-seismology/

Bibliography

The Fordham University Seismic Station, New York, New York, St Louis University Archives, Monograph, J.Joseph Lynch, SJ

nytimes.com › 1987/05/17 the rev. j. joseph lynch, 92; noted scholar of seismology

Pageant Magazine, 1954, Vol. 9 No. 9

Seismology Society of America, (from Seismological Research Letters, Vol. 67, No. 3, pp. 10-19; May/June 1996)

Watching Our Trembling World For 50 Years, J. Joseph Lynch, SJ © 1970.

William J. Spain, Wikipedia page

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We installed the fortifications north of the Great lakes and there's not a huge response people are coming up to fight but there's only smaller contingents by comparison to what has been deployed. So are pleased with our father and mother their judgment was good and ours. And there are groups forming now and they're sizable but still not on the scale that went out after the ship and they froze they kept going north for some reason and it's extremely cold up there now it's about negative 80 in Alaska and a lot of people evacuated. The cold air is being sucked to Alaska from the North Pole. And it is getting colder in Canada and British Columbia is now 15 degrees Fahrenheit. And it's a little bit odd but I don't like their response so I have to respond again it was China our version and they like the six wheel truck so and I hear our son had something to do with it adding the track was really just over the top and it's for us but I see them tooling around with them. So I will provide a show of force with our vehicles and they're special and their trucks and a huge and it's a lot of fun. We're also going to have fun with the Olympians games and it is his son and his Goddess wife they are going to be wonderful. There's so many games that they have ideas for and we're never let down now and we're going to start in Utah shortly. Results in a lot of challenges these people are a bunch of hose bags and they try and get big when he's there and they infite like madness. There's a few actions going on when is in British Columbia and western Canada it is huge everybody came out of every nook and cranny like fleas and there's tons of them going up there to set up to search to investigate the fight and the foreigners are plowing through the blockade to get to it and the max are fighting to get to Russia and it's ridiculous but that's what they're doing and they are at the Empire ships and they are blasting heavily it's a fight and it's a war it's going to be a tough one but they've taken out a lot of shifts about 200 million so far and if only 1.2 billion and it was within the last hour. British Columbia is over full and it is too many people and the whole West Coast is filling up of Canada and they're fighting and they're trying to sense and it is just a nightmare the same things happening in Russia about 1.2 trillion Max are headed there and that's octillion on the tail end of that and it's going to be a war and they're not clothes they're heading there from the mainland and the clones are heading there from space it's a massive massive battle more later but this is happening now the movie has not begun and the evacuation of the Midwest and after Midwest is only minor compared to what is necessary and it will be given once we start annihilating the areas and they'll roll and set off the sequence it's happening shortly and I'm giving a notice that we're more than halfway complete and it's going faster and they are starting to evacuate from the south Midwest into the South and it's done because of the diamonds in Brazil and Mexico and they want to leave the Midwest because of obelisk and yes a huge number just got up and is leaving and it is enough to stir up the water but not as much as necessary it's only a quarter and the whole area in Florida is drying out shortly will be completely dried out and our son will have a new roof soon we heard Stan announce it for real this time and he said that Dan could probably throw a top up there he's trying to get somebody to do it he doesn't want them to do it they usually don't do the job. He was looking for roofers several of his apartments were condemned and he doesn't want some dumb roofer who's going to condemn the place to do it it's not even condemnable and he wants to get to it before it rains so he may just throw a tarp on. . So very serious thing and we take it very seriously and is having trouble getting it done and some people want to help him and it's going to help so I'm going to post now

Thor Freya

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Operations Hounds Slumber

Mission 6:

Location: Alaska

With the info you acquired from the blackjacks and our scout team, we’ve found info on their next plan. They plan on using dark energy weapons, specifically a black hole cannon, to destroy GEOGRAMS base and the Toppat Station, we cannot let that happen. Intel says that they plan on firing the weapon at their base of operations, a tall tower. We will be launching an all out assault on the tower and their safehouses across the globe.

Complications:

No Air Support: The Blackjacks set up anti-air defenses, so we won’t be able to send in any air support to assist you, so you’ll have to enter by foot.

Chaotic: The tower is filled to the brim with The Warlords of the Blackjack's squadron operatives, don’t expect any place to be safe, because you’ll have enemies coming from all directions.

Automated Defenses: The Blackjacks set up robotics and turrets in the tower.

2 Hours: The Dark Matter cannon will fire in 2 hours, so you have 2 hours to stop them.

Elevators Disabled: All elevators in the tower have been disabled, so you’ll have to go up 100 floors to the roof.

Achievement for completion: Full House

(Before we begin, I just wanna apologize for the delay on this one, guys. I got a tad bit distracted. Anyways, enjoy the conclusion to Operation: Hounds Slumber at long last! -K)

CHAPTER 2, ACT 11: FINAL GAMBLE

(The 5 of us go in guns blazing, hitting anything that moves. We make it up 100 floors before---)

(BANG!!!)

(Alter, Violet, Ellie and Henry are all knocked out unconsious via a frying pan to the back of the head! Before I can be knocked out too, however, I grab the frying pan and slam it down onto the perpetrator's head.)

Well, well, well. Your stupid OCs are down for the count.

Looks like you're all alone now.

Nick, Justin, why the hell are you doing this?! You don't normally act like this, what the hell is going on?!

(Suddenly, Nick and Justin grab my shirt collar, with a look of genuine fear on their faces.)

Kyle, listen to us very carefully here. You have to help us, man. These assholes have taken this too far. We only wanted to protect you, not DESTROY you.

But if we disobey their orders, they'll activate a damn chip they surgically installed into our hearts and burn us from the inside out.

Why didn't you just say so?

(I quickly use Storyteller and write "Blackjack Leader Painless Microchip Removal Device", which spawns in a glove that I put on my hand and it magically takes the incendiary chip out of their bodies. I then clench my hand into a fist, and it crushes them.)

Thank you. Now, then, let's destroy this cannon!

(Me and my brothers then successfully destroy the black hole cannon with sledgehammers...but that draws the attention of an unwanted guest.)

Nicholas Zingone and Justin Gibbons...just what do you think you are doing?

We're done taking orders from you, asshole. We should've realized Kyle was in the right this whole time.

So be it.

(Arase presses the button to activate the chips...but nothing happens!)

What the---?! Why isn't it working?!

Kyle took out those chips you put in us, Arase. It's over. We're not working for you anymore. We'll be working for GEOGRAM now.

NOT IF I KILL YOU FIRST!!!

(Arase leaps at the three of us, but something slashes at him before he can hit us!)

Missed us, boys?

Violet! Glad to see you and the others are okay!

(Arase gets back up, a deep, bloody gash now across his face...and one of his eyeballs sliced clean out.)

Argh...fuck me...where'd my eye go?

You mean this?

(I drop it onto the ground and stomp on it with all my might, turning it to mush and causing Arase to lose any chance of it being reattached.)

NOOOOO!!!

(Arase drops to the floor, defeated.)

Goodbye, Arase-hole.

It sure as hell has not been fun.

(Me and the rest of the CSB, along with Justin and Nicholas, walk out, having finally completed our mission.)

🎇HOUNDS SLUMBER COMPLETE!!!🎆

New Achievement: Full House

DISPLAYING ACT EPILOUGE #1:

(We all return to the GEOGRAM base, with Justin and Nick in tow.)

Guys! Congrats on a job well done! I can't wait to---wait, why are your brothers here?! And not restrained, at that!!!

Calm down, Laurence. We're on your side now.

Kyle told us about you, by the way.

He also told us about Aaron, Adam and Lily. Considering Kyle told us about how nice they are, we'd like to meet them.

Sure. Glad to hear you're on our side now, you two.

Trust me, the feeling's mutual.

(We all head for Laurence's family members, intent on showing them my newly reformed brothers.)

END OF ACT EPILOUGE #1

BEGINNING ACT EPILOUGE #2...

(We see Arase on a medical table, with Sarah Kelso looking over the damage.)

So how's it looking, kiddo?

Not good, I'm afraid. Looks like you won't be able to see out of the eyesocket on your left ever again, Dad.

Well, you can't just leave me with an empty eye socket!

I know. That's why I have this glass eye. Unfortunately, it doesn't have cybernetics or anything, it's just a regular glass eye.

Listen, I'll take what I can get. Eyepatches look cool, but the other people I work with may not agree with me on that.

Okay, here goes...UMPH!

(With an odd "pop" sound, Arase's new glass eye is placed into his skull. He knows the gash will form a scar, but he knows that something like that would just make him look even tougher. He hops off of the examination table, walks out of the medbay, and heads to the confrence room, intent on talking with the other faction leaders about the next operation to initiate.)

END OF ACT EPILOUGE #2

END OF ACT 11 EPLOUGES

#altering the outcome #ask irl!alterrune #ask the ato cast #the colorstreak battalion #operation: hounds slumber #operation: hounds slumber complete! #end of chapter two act eleven

[bendix22mullins]

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A Chip Off the Old Block

Every once and a while, I try to give you insight into the process of creating blog posts.  I try to create snappy, creative and attention grabber headlines.  My initial idea for this post was to use "The Potato Doesn't Fall far from the Tree."   My daughter, Alexandra, nixed the idea and told me that everyone who reads your blog will think you are an idiot because everyone knows that potatoes don't grow on a tree.  So I defaulted to this deadline even though its been used by chippers for many years.   Unless you are in the snack food industry, it's a good bet that most of you never heard of Steve Bernard, but you are most likely familiar with the first part of his legacy.  Steve went from installing sun roofs on cars to founding Cape Cod Potato Chips on July 4, 1980 .  As his obituary shows, inspired by the Maui chip, he brought the kettle chip back to prominence.  Kettle cooking is a process where "sliced potatoes are soaked in hot oil in a shallow basin and hand-stirred with rakes."  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/13/business/13bernard.html

An out of control car crashed into his front window, where just moments before, his eight year old daughter had been standing.   The driver got out of the wreckage and asked  where he could get the kettle chips.   The publicity from the accident and an insurance settlement kept the company operating until the summer season when the product took off.   In 1985, Steve sold the company to Anheuser Busch, the maker of Budweiser and Michelob beers, which had launched its own snack food business, Eagle Snacks.  Ten year later, after Anheuser Busch pulled the plug on its snack food venture, it sold the company back to Steve for pennies on the dollar.  He later sold Cape Cod to Lance, which became Snyder's Lance and was later purchased by Campbell's Soup.  Sort of reminds me of a yo-yo which was the subject or a previous blog posting.  See the photo from March 1988 of an employee with bags of Cape Cod Potato Chips on the assembly line.   In 2001, Steve worked with his daughter, Nicole Bernard Dawes to found Late July Organic Snacks, which makes cookies and crackers.  Steve died in 2009 at the age of 61 from pancreatic cancer.  Snyder's Lance invested in the company and it is now part of the Campbell's Soup snack division that also owns Cape Cod Potato Chips.  

At SNAXPO18, the 2018 Producer of the Year Award was won by Late July Organic Snacks.  Late July is a leader in organic, non-GMO snacks, most notably known for its strong level of innovation in the tortilla chip category with sales over $100 million. Offering four lines of tortilla chips, a variety of organic crackers, and most recently expansion into salsas.

Here is the link to read more about the award:  https://www.snackandbakery.com/articles/91341-snack-producer-of-the-year-carefree-organic-snacking-with-late-july-snacks

Steve Bernard, Who Founded Cape Cod Chips, Dies at 61

By BRUCE WEBERMARCH 13, 2009

Steve Bernard, who was a restless adventurer and uncommitted entrepreneur until 1980, when he bought an industrial potato slicer and started Cape Cod Potato Chips, a brand that found its way from a storefront in Hyannis, Mass., to food markets nationwide, died Saturday in Hyannis. He was 61 and lived in Marstons Mills, Mass., and Sanibel, Fla.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Nicole Bernard Dawes.

A natural product, just potatoes, oil and salt, Mr. Bernard’s chips are known for their crunch, which is a result of the way they are made. The process, called kettle-cooking, borrowed an old-fashioned method of making chips in which sliced potatoes are soaked in hot oil in a shallow basin and hand-stirred with rakes. Continuous frying, in which the potatoes were moved on a conveyor through a long vat of oil, had been largely in use after World War II.

“He didn’t invent the kettle chip, but he was involved in bringing it back to prominence,” James A. McCarthy, president of the Snack Food Association, an international trade group, said Thursday in an interview.

Mr. Bernard started the company after his wife, Lynn, opened a natural foods store in the 1970s. An avid cook and appreciative eater, he was struck by the idea that healthful, unprocessed foods could taste good. A friend gave him a natural potato chip made in Hawaii, where the manufacturer, Maui Chips, had done a solid local business for many years. Mr. Bernard presumed he could do the same thing in the East, selling healthful snacks to summer tourists.

He knew nothing about making potato chips, and the company, which opened on July 4, 1980, was in dire straits the next winter when what seemed to be a disaster turned out to be its salvation. An out-of-control car drove through the front window, where his daughter, then 8, had been standing minutes before.

Mr. Bernard was distraught, his daughter said, until an oblivious customer walked in through the wreckage and ordered a bag of chips. “And he thought, ‘Well, maybe there’s a way,’ ” she said.

The publicity from the accident — and an insurance settlement — sustained the company until summer. At its end, “he could not make chips fast enough,” Ms. Dawes said.

Cape Cod chips were picked up by several supermarket chains, and Anheuser-Busch bought the company in 1985. By the end of 1986, according to news reports, the company was selling 80,000 bags a day.

Stephen Francis Bernard was born in Concord, N.H., on Aug, 25, 1947. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied economics, and then spent a decade in many pursuits: hitchhiking cross-country, fighting forest fires in Alaska, sailing to the Caribbean. He raised chickens and worked on a tuna boat. Before making chips, he was installing sun roofs in cars.

In addition to Ms. Dawes, of Chatham, Mass., and his wife, whom he married in 1971, he is survived by three brothers, Sergius, of Wenham, Mass., Jude, of Satellite Beach, Fla., and James, of Vermont; a sister, Virginia Kenny, of Charlottesville, Va.; and two grandchildren.

In 1995, Mr. Bernard bought his company back from Anheuser-Busch, but subsequently sold it again, this time to Lance, a snack food company based in Charlotte, N.C. In the interim, he had opened a sandwich shop, where he sold croutons made from the leftover bread and eventually started a crouton company, Chatham Village Foods, which he sold to the T. Marzetti Company. In 2001, he and Ms. Dawes founded Late July Organic Snacks, which makes cookies and crackers.

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[jomiddlemarch]

Spill the beans

The bell at the coffee shop’s front door jingled brightly, but Anna didn’t look up from her laptop screen. There was a chance, if she just stared hard enough and didn’t let anything interrupt her concentration, she could make the numbers work out.

“We’re closed, sorry!” she called, squinting as she moved the cursor, deleting the advertising budget by a zero. Maybe Mattias would let her barter for the half, no quarter-page ad she’d need to keep traffic up. Or she could name a new coffee-drink after him, butter him up with the prospect of a hot buttered rum flavored latte?

“Yeah, I know. The “Sorry, we’re closed sign” in the window was a dead giveaway,” Kristoff said. He must have parked his delivery truck in the back, because Anna could see it on the street unless his roommate Sven really had invented an invisibility cloak for it. Sven was a certifiable genius who’d picked up Finnish in a few days, even though it was supposed to be the hardest language to master, and he had a real penchant for Star Trek, so the Romulan invisibility cloak on Kristoff’s delivery truck wasn’t completely impossible, just mostly. Kristoff was still wearing his uniform though, so the truck was probably idling out back.

“You never come in through the front door,” Anna said. “And we’re not due for a delivery, which is good, because I’m not sure how I’m paying for the next one.”

“The back door was locked and it’s late enough, I figured no one would hear me banging on it,” Kristoff said, taking off his navy blue knit cap and sitting down across from her. He was over six feet tall, head to toe in heavy duty denim, and his dark blond hair was burnished by the pricked tin lanterns hanging from the ceiling. “If you don’t want people coming in, you should probably lock the front door and turn off more of the lights.”

“Tell me something I don’t know,” she muttered.

“You have chocolate all over your apron. It looks like you murdered a Hershey bar,” Kristoff said dryly. He’d do that, take her at her word as literally as he could, because she always gave him the same snarky little smirk back.

“Valrhona only at Iduna’s! Though, I don’t know, we’re going to have to make cut-backs, so maybe I should just suck it up and buy the Hershey’s.”

“Cut-backs, huh? What’s going on? The place is always packed and you had that great write-up in the Arendelle Gazette last month, and I quote, ‘their lingonberry baked Alaskas are to die for and their Palace lattes make life worth living,’” Kristoff said. A small voice in the corner of Anna’s mind, a higgledy-piggedly place to be sure, piped up to point out Kristoff had read the review and remembered it well enough to quote it to her.

“Restaurants, which is what the coffee-shop counts as, economically speaking, always have a really slim profit margin and we’re no different. Things were already tight for us and then Olaf got sick and his vet bills were huge, even though they’re letting us pay them off on an installment plan,” Anna explained. Kristoff nodded and she appreciated that he hadn’t questioned the cost of taking care of her fluffy, white, goofball of a sheepdog Olaf, who spent his days trotting around the front of the shop, equally entertaining crying babies and curmudgeonly old men. She wouldn’t relive the week they thought he couldn’t make it for anything.

“I got it,” Kristoff said.

“But that’s not the worst of it. And I shouldn’t even say, ‘the worst of it,’ because it’s basically good news, great news really, I should be shouting it from the roof-tops and I feel terrible because I’m not, I’m just sitting here trying to make 2+2 equal 5 on the profit side, hiding if you want the truth,” Anna said in a rush.

“Why don’t you just tell me what it is? I promise I won’t judge,” he said. His brown eyes were calm and steady, warm in a way that she usually pretended not to see because what if she was wrong and said something and made it all completely awkward?

“It’s Elsa. After that review, I guess we did get a lot more business and people, important restaurant people, starting talking about her, and well, she just got a job offer to be the head pastry chef at Ahtolhallan, so, of course she’s taking it, she has to—it’s Ahto-fudging-hallan, pardon my French,” Anna said.

“Wow,” Kristoff said. And then, “You don’t say pardon my French when you don’t actually curse. You would have had to say Ahto-fucking-hallan.”

“Oh my God, Kristoff! I’ve never heard you curse before!” Anna exclaimed.

“I try to be professional when I’m on the clock. I’m not a saint, you know,” he said. That little voice commented that’s a fucking relief, as Anna looked at Kristoff’s broad shoulders, his beautifully made hands. “She’s definitely going, then?”

“She has to. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. They have two Michelin stars. I have a cappuccino maker that’s on the fritz and trivia night,” Anna said. “I can’t expect her to stay, I don’t want her to stay—she’s made for bigger and better things that Iduna’s and I want her to get them. She’s my sister and I love her and I’m so proud of her, her talent and her grit and her all-around-amazing-ness. But I’ll be down a pastry chef and I can’t break even on just the drinks and where are you going, Kristoff?” she said. He’d gotten up as she kept talking, walking behind the counter as if he owned the place, talking milk out of the fridge, slinging a clean dishtowel over his shoulder.

“You need a pick-me-up, Ginger Spice—and you need someone to make it for you, for a change,” he said. He moved around so easily, graceful in a way she might not have expected of such a large man. He’d tossed off the nickname but there was no mistaking the affection in his tone, the utter lack of any real sarcasm.

“I can’t drink coffee this late at night, I’ll never get to sleep,” she said. “And the cappuccino maker is very temperamental.”

“I know,” he said, finishing off the mug with a luxurious quiff of whipped cream. He walked over and set it down in front of her without any particular flourish, as if he’d done it a million times before. He glanced at her to check first, then closed her laptop and nudged it to the side. “I made you cocoa. With cinnamon and extra whipped cream.”

“That’s my favorite,” she said. She took a sip—it was perfect, the rich chocolate balanced with the subtle heat of the cinnamon, the sweetness of the cream, the temperature ideal for sipping without scalding the roof of her mouth, a rookie mistake she’d made for weeks when she first started the shop. She got some of the whipped cream on her upper lip and licked it off before he could say anything about a mustache, though looking at him, how still he became, she thought maybe that couldn’t have been the direction he’d go.

“Yeah, it is,” he said. “I’ve noticed. We can take a look at your spreadsheet after you’re done, if you want. I got that associate’s in business at night school, might as well put it to good use.”

“You don’t have to do that, Kristoff,” she said.

“What are friends for?” he asked, tilting his head to the side, too handsome to be adorable but somehow managing it. “We are friends, right?” he added, a little uncertainly.

“Abso-fudging-lutely,” she answered.

#frozen 2 #kristanna #modern au #coffee shop AU #anna #kristoff #elsa #sven #olaf #mattias #kristanna advent #cocoa #the coffee-shop AU no one asked for #deliveryman!Kristoff #barista!Anna #sheepdog!Olaf #Star Trek #Spice Girls #pastrychef!Elsa

[historymortician97]

Green House Bistro (Legitimate Review)

Inexperienced residence bistro – an organic café in the heart of nature! The nearer we consume to nature, the higher and healthier we can be. In case you fancy the vegetables; whether or not it is the natural surroundings decked up with vegetation or farm to table clean, neighborhood and organic food, the green residence bistro by means of jehan numa retreat in bhopal will be your next meals habitat. Green residence bistro assessment

Green residence bistro review

opened just these days, the café gives a completely homey and countryside vibe via its jungle-like environment and sluggish food philosophy. Located at one of the most top class places in bhopal, throughout a lake, subsequent to a countrywide park, it's miles one of the most idyllic nature cafes i have come across so far. Encouraged analyzing for you! Cold spanish latte coffee by using di bella

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as the name shows, the café is built precisely like a green house; a metal structure made with obvious walls and roof wherein vegetation are grown. The green right here signifies not most effective the plants but also their natural herbs and veggies sourced from their own vegetable lawn proper across the café. Inexperienced residence bistro outdoor 2

the complete body is in sunglasses of black while the flooring is executed with traditional pink bricks as utilized in rural housing. Area is thinking about all sorts of plant life, in various sizes and colors that breathe existence into the café. You may also spot a few lovely plant installations that raise the natural experience of the vicinity. Green residence bistro indoor 2

the shape is designed as such to throw in lots of natural light and sparkling air for the vegetation to grow and so that it will inhale herbal goodness. And while it turns darkish, the atmosphere is lit with fairy bulbs striking from the roof that upload a mild warm temperature to the location. As you're taking your satisfied vicinity in the bistro, you may get a little peek in their in-residence farm and inn unfold throughout acres. The atmosphere is so quiet and serene that you could even meditate till your food arrives. Green residence bistro out of doors 1 even though there may be sufficient seating internal, the café barely expands outdoors to convey you lots towards nature. It’s almost like consuming at a farm. Consequently, if you want to enjoy maximum greenery with an open sky, please be seated outdoors.

The menu – organic nearby and clean

the inexperienced residence bistro absolutely promotes evidently grown meals and also desires to inspire the slow meals philosophy. What exactly is sluggish meals? In layman language, sluggish meals is just the opposite of fast food; some thing that takes time to prepare, is eaten sparkling and completely, is domestically sourced and seasonal. With the short-meals revolution throughout the globe, our traditional meals, recipes, and tastes are being forgotten. Whilst one eats sluggish meals, they may be added to the actual taste of the meals and its culinary traditions due to the fact it is so organic, sparkling, and local. The idea is to have feelings for our meals and cost our health above the entirety else. The cooks at inexperienced residence bistro aid the gradual meals philosophy and price the journey of meals – how the meals is cultivated, produced and fed on, that is visible in all their in-house preparations and the house-grown clean micro herbs and leafy vegetables. Their recipes had been cataloged to rediscover the traditional food with a modern-day-day twist, and tips vegan gluten-free, sugar-unfastened and non-dairy food and beverages that may be customized as in step with your preference.

Inexperienced house bistro vegetable lawn

for, eg. You'll discover quinoa integrated of their salads that is a gluten-free pseudo-cereal and a high fiber historic grain that originated in the south american mountains nearly 5,000 years in the past.  

“green house bistro is all about farm to fork concept, and we're happy to be the pioneers of green ingesting in the metropolis. We emphasize on natural meals and serve what is grown beside the desk. Our personnel arrives early inside the morning and handpicks clean herbs and leafy vegetables from the lawn each day. The bistro is pretty new, and we are hopeful that the human beings of bhopal will gradually take delivery of the idea of natural and sluggish food.”

their menu is also designed to encourage eco-gastronomy and strongly advocates the relationship between the plate and the planet; the reality that how our meals affects our health and the surroundings. What to devour at inexperienced house bistro? They have got a specifically curated menu for connoisseur breakfast and all day eating. Their in-residence specialties include a completely unique black burger for which they use black buttered buns organized freshly of their very own bakehouse. Black burger buns green residence bistro

they serve healthier versions of your all-time continental favorites consisting of oven baked pizza (attempt wild mushroom pizza), burger (try vegetables and oats and black bean and mushroom burger) and sandwiches (attempt vegetarian cubanos and toasted mexican sandwich). They've amazingly sparkling salads with plenty of blended veggies and homegrown herbs (strive home made sprouts, roasted pear and gorgonzola salad). If you are on a cheat day, do try their truffle oil and parmesan fries. Pizza inexperienced house bistro

if you want indian food, then they have multigrain versions of dosa (try pessarattu moong dal dosa) and kathi rolls (attempt paneer kathi roll). In addition they have an exciting variety of soups served as soup of the day – potato leek, pear & saffron velouté, corn chowder soup, veg clean soup, tomato basil are some to name. They serve a stimulating type of popular international desserts together with baked philadelphia cheese cake, pavlova with fruit compote, baked alaska and the most unique being signature c8 that is their signature style layered cake with factors of chocolate and fudge sauce. What to drink at inexperienced residence bistro? Inexperienced residence bistro herbal tea collection 1 you'll be spoiled for choices seeing their beverage menu. They've a wholesome assortment bloodless-pressed juices (strive fountain of teens and sparkling inexperienced) and smoothies (strive the healer) and vegan and non-dairy milkshakes (attempt almond avocado – keto shake) and hot coffee. What to drink in green residence bistro

in case you experience tea, they have ayurveda inspired herbal tea collection inclusive of chamomile, lemon grass, and moroccan mint, brewed sparkling and served infused in a pot. You could also try ordinary coolers which includes retreat lemonade crafted from freshly hand-picked lemongrass from their farm or have a hundred% pure coconut water. The body of workers – continually at your carrier team inexperienced house bistro with head chef debayan chakrovorty

the most comforting fragment of the inexperienced house bistro is their expert body of workers and the hospitality crew who're devoted to offer you peaceful dining revel in. The staff isn't only polite but also very informed about their menu and the kind of food this is served. They preserve taking immediately feedback as your food is served so you eat in your satisfaction and don’t complain later. Inexperienced residence bistro studies interviews

even as i was doing my research interviews and content material amassing at the café, mr. Chandrakant and mr. Afsar made sure that i am getting all of the data i need for my weblog. They helped me set up matters i required for the snap shots and the aesthetics. I am thankful for their cooperation. How approximately a inexperienced date? Well, within the organic international, nothing says date more than a nature-stimulated meal fenced by way of plenty of lovely flowers and cascading creepers, festooned via fairy lighting, all enclosed internal a comfortable and romantic inexperienced house bistro. So in case you love the whole lot, natural, clean, and local, ditch all your plans and arrive here with your loved ones. Common value – inr one thousand (meal for two)

observe: you can marvel who closes a café at 9 pm due to the fact humans in india don’t generally end consuming dinners that soon. They near in advance than the ordinary cafes because of hygiene motives because the bistro is packed with flowers and is surrounded through a large farm that could virtually appeal to quite a few bugs for your meals. So because it gets too dark past nine, the kitchen is closed. The chef recommends the other restaurants at jehan numa retreat if you need past due dinners. Also, there's no signage but that announces inexperienced residence bistro. As you input jehan numa retreat, drive gradual and simply look for a timber signboard that announces “organic, nearby, clean, open” in your left. That’s exactly the place you're looking for.

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[3kw3dogs]

The RV

We need a place to live while we are building. And we figure having an RV will make the drive much easier with dogs too. So, we found an RV in the desert. A 1981 20′ Chevy Lindy. Man, it has been an adventure, that’s for sure!

I guess most importantly (or the biggest issue), is we can’t get it registered. So we can’t get tags for it. So California has this wonderful smog policy. And your car has to jump through a million hoops and get tested in order to get registered. Well, the first time we tried, the idle was too high. So we got some work done on the RV and they cleaned out the engine gunk and lowered the idle. So we took it back again. It made it past the idle part. But, apparently, the carburetors have to have a “CA approved” sticker. But it also would mean additional changes to make the engine run right because the CA legal carburetors aren’t as great. And the guy couldn’t even scan the VIN to do the smog, as it was originally not from CA. So, we walked away again without passing smog. At this point, we are just going to register in Alaska, get the plates, then drive it up. That means I’m driving up first with my car to get that done, but hey, at least we can find a way to legally drive it!

It’s a really nice RV though. I guess maybe “really nice” isn’t quite the term haha. But I really like it, and that counts for something. And it’s in decent condition for being a 1981. Brand new V8 crate engine, new 1 ton brakes (we did that). New choke for easy starting. New flooring inside. New tires (mud & snow rated too!). It’s a decent RV for as old as it is. And man, the bed over the driver/passenger seats is super comfy! Plus dogs can’t jump up there, so hidden bonus there. We get a spot where we can actually get alone time haha.

We spent this weekend installing new roof vents. Man, that was a lot more work than we expected. The previous owners had noticed cracks in the vents, and their solution was to put tar on it. Which I guess works great for the dry desert. But not so much for rainy mountains. Once we got the vents off, it was really easy to replace them and put new caulking on. I mean, still a day’s work. And of course, we found an additional problem (a leak in one of the pipe coverings). So now we need that new part as well. But hey, one thing at a time.

We also can’t figure out how to get the generator started, and we need new fuses for the headlights. But we are going to try a deep cycle battery and the fuses are easy enough to replace. Anyway, we are one step closer to it being live-able. And when we’re on our land pulling power, we don’t really need to figure out the generator thing anyway necessarily cause we’ll have power. 

#moving3kmiles #3kw3dogs #moving #fairbanks #alaska #rv #rvlife #adventures #newadventures #oldrv #lindy #20'rv

[pinewood-caravan]

March 2022, Cell Booster

Over the past 2 years the new Van has traveled to Florida twice and a south west trip that included multiple stops in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and Colorado. During those trips we were in several areas where cell service was pitiful to non existent. Our current plans are to go to Alaska this summer. This will locate us in areas of Canada and Alaska where we will have issues with communication and navigation. So I decided to install a cell booster to increase our chances of getting a signal. The Weboost drive reach OTR had the power and features that we needed. The ceiling of the Van really limits the ability to roof mount the antenna. After hours of deliberation my plan was to mount the antenna above a small channel at the rear doors. It turned out to be a cumbersome task as the roof metal in that area was very flexible and had no support. I fabricated an aluminum plate and installed addition supports to ensure the mount was ridged and and wobble free. The installation was labor intensive, but the result was very satisfactory. The cell booster seems to work very well. I hope to test it a few times before our trip. 

[myusacorporation]

How To Obtain A Reseller Permit (Sales Tax ID)

Sales tax is a tax on the end-purchase of a product or a service, and is imposed on all retail sales, leases and rentals of most goods, and on some services that are considered taxable. Sales tax normally does not apply on the purchase of a product intended for re-sale or for subsequent processing. Sales tax is usually represented by a certain percentage added onto the price of a good or service that is being purchased.

Your sales tax responsibilities as a new business owner, whether you start a business or buy an existing business, will vary depending on the type of organization or entity you operate. Besides state level, estimation of sales tax is also done on municipal or county levels. Payment of state sales tax depends on your sales and your state's regulations.

Sales tax is intended to be applied on the end user of the product/service, so normally it is the consumers who are burdened with it. The re-sellers on the other hand are exempted from it, provided they do not use the goods on which sales tax is levied.

Some states don't have sales tax. Those states are:

Alaska

Delaware

Montana

New Hampshire

Oregon

What is Sales Tax ID Number?

Sales Tax ID Number or Sales Tax Exemption Certificate is a legal document issued by the state. This Certificate of Authority gives your business the authority to collect the required sales and use taxes, and to issue appropriate sales tax exemption documents, including resale certificates used for purchasing inventory.

Sales Tax ID Number comes in different forms and is also known by other names:

Reseller Permit

Sales Tax Vendor ID Number

Sales Tax Registration

Reseller Tax ID

Sales Tax Permit

Sales Tax Exemption Certificate

Certificate of Authority

State Tax ID Number

Reseller Certificate

When Should I Get Sales Tax ID?

If your business is required to be registered as a sales tax vendor, you must obtain a sales tax permit from the state's Tax Department. If you make taxable sales before you receive the sales tax exemption certificate, your business may be subject to substantial penalties.

Why Should I Get Sales Tax ID?

When selling a product or offering a service that is taxable, you will need to collect sales tax. Your Sales Tax ID Number authorizes you to collect sales tax on your taxable sales. Once you receive your Sales Tax ID Number you are considered to be in business even if you never make a sale or never open the doors of your establishment. It is therefore important that you file your sales tax returns on time, even if you did not have any taxable sales during the reporting period, to avoid being subject to penalties for not filing.

Changing Organizational Structure

If your business changes its organizational structure (for example from Sole Proprietorship to Corporation, LLC, or Partnership), the new organization must register as a new sales vendor and obtain a new reseller certificate before beginning operating under the new organizational structure. You must also file a final return for your existing business and surrender the old sales tax permit.

Displaying Your Sales Tax Certificate

You must prominently display your sales tax registration certificate at your place of business. If you have no permanent physical location you can attach it to your truck, cart, wagon, stand, or other vehicle or facility from which you conduct business.

How Do I Know What Is Taxable?

Nearly all tangible personal property transferred for value is taxable. In the US most goods, wares, and merchandise are taxable, as well as property purchased for lease or rent. Services associated with the sale of tangible personal property may also be taxable. Only installation and repair/reconditioning service is not taxable if it is separately stated on the invoice. Most food purchases of unprepared or uncooked food are not taxable.

Tangible Personal Property

Retail sales of tangible personal property includes, but not limited to:

furniture, appliances, and lighting fixtures;

machinery and equipment, parts, tools, and supplies;

computers and prewritten (canned/off-the-shelf/standard) computer software;

motor vehicles;

boats and yachts;

fuels (e.g., motor fuel, diesel motor fuel, and kero-jet fuel);

candy and confections;

bottled water, soda, and beer;

cigarettes and tobacco products;

cosmetics and toiletries;

jewelry;

artistic items such as sketches, paintings, and photographs;

animals, trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds;

coins and other monetary items, when purchased for purposes other than for use as a medium of exchange;

building materials; and

prepaid telephone calling cards.

Sales of specifically enumerated services include, but not limited to:

providing certain information services;

processing, assembling, fabricating, printing or imprinting tangible personal property;

personal property furnished by a customer who did not purchase the tangible personal property for resale;

installing, maintaining, servicing, or repairing tangible personal property that is not held for sale by the purchaser of the service in the regular course of business;

storing tangible personal property that is not being held for sale;

renting safe deposit boxes, vaults, and similar storage facilities;

maintaining, servicing, or repairing real property both inside and outside buildings;

providing parking, garaging, or storing services for motor vehicles;

interior decorating and designing;

protective or detective services; and

entertainment or information services provided by means of telephone or telegraph.

Other Taxable Items include, but not limited to:

Sales of gas, electricity, refrigeration and steam;

Sales of gas, electric, refrigeration and steam service;

Sales of telephony and telegraphy;

Sales of telephone and telegraph service (including telephone answering services, facsimile transmission services, and cellular telephone services);

Sales of food and drink for on premises consumption, for example, when sold by restaurants and taverns;

Sales of food and drink when sold by caterers;

Sales of heated food and sandwiches;

Rent for occupancy of hotel or motel rooms (including bed and breakfasts, boarding houses, guest houses, etc);

Admission charges to places of amusement, other than live dramatic or musical arts performances, motion picture theaters, participatory sporting events, or live circus performances;

Dues, including initiation fees, paid to social or athletic clubs when the dues are more than $10 per year; and

Charges of a roof garden, cabaret or other similar place.

furniture, appliances, and lighting fixtures;

machinery and equipment, parts, tools, and supplies;

computers and pre-written (canned/off-the-shelf/standard)

computer software;

motor vehicles;

boats and yachts;

fuels;

candy and confections;

bottled water, soda, and beer;

cigarettes and tobacco products;

cosmetics and toiletries;

jewelry;

artistic items such as sketches, paintings, and photographs;

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