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We’re very sorry to hear of your loss. I lost an Aunt this weekend as well. We hope you are feeling better soon.

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WooHoo!

I placed my first KFC cache today. It’s called KFC The HotWheels® Cache. I’d have posted the link, but it’s not published yet.

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I have several caches that fall into this category. I’ve had to combine the hide difficulty with the find difficulty for them, as I think you will need to as well. This is another case of needing more than just two sources of ratings. There should be optional ratings such as puzzle difficulty, hide difficulty, terrain difficulty and container difficulty.

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Here is a link to where you can download a manual for the Rino 110

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😀 If something happens to me, just hook me up to your car battery with some jumper-cables. 😀

I’m not at all making light of this discussion, just making a joke. My family has a history of heart disease on both my father and my mothers side. Mother, Father, aunts and uncles, no grand parents though, odd. I lost a cousin to a heart attack about 20 years ago. He was a body builder and construction worker, not overweight, and didn’t do any drugs or drink. He died in his sleep of a massive heart attack. He was 23.

My own son had heart surgery when he was just 4 days old. You’d never know it now, he loves soccer, can run like the wind, and is one of the better swimmers I’ve seen.

These machine are becoming cheaper by the day. I see no reason why every school, office building and the larger public parks should not have one. I know that training is important. But if you are lying there dying, would you rather have an untrained person with good visual instructions provided with the machine, try to save your life. Or would you rather just wait 20 minutes with your heart stopped until the ambulance gets there?

I would bet that my 9 year old son, could pick up one of these machines, and use it correctly. I’ve seen the visual instructions that come with these things. They are straight forward and easy to use. The only problem I see is liability. No one wants to get sued, so no one provides the machine.

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@marc_54140 wrote:

A big explosion is a small town will generate just as much publicity as another Trade Towers event.

We live in a sick world!

Are you sure about that?

IMHO: If a terrorist blew up a water tower in Portage, it would definitely make CNN. If it flooded the whole town, and a hundred people drowned, it would most likely make small headlines around the world. But most of the world would surely have forgotten it a month later. They most definitely would not change their travel plans. World markets would not crash. And they surely would have that tower rebuilt in less than 7 years.

Now what would happen if a terrorist took out the Sears tower. A bit more memorable eh?

I’m not saying small attacks can’t or won’t happen, but I’m not going to lose any sleep over the possibility, because that’s just what the terrorists (and many members of our own government) want us all to do. Live in fear I mean.

And yes, we do live in a sick world.

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@Averith wrote:

What about small pedestrian bridges? Are these now considered off limits as well? I have 2 caches involving pedestrian bridges should I be archiving these as well?? Any opinions??

Great question! I hope that this is not the case though. There is an entire series in this are that is a whole lot of fun, that would also need to be archived.

Is there a grandfather clause on any of these guidelines???

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I’m still stickin’ with my Meridian Color until it dies. It may be as big as Rogheff’s Philco, and it may be getting slower in it’s old age (or from all the stunts it’s survived), but it’s still accurate, easy to use, and paid for.

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@PCFrog wrote:

It is threads like this that reinforce the fact that some people don’t like to hear. 9/11 impact was greater than just two buildings it has cost this nation millions and has put our society on paranoid status. It is well know you CAN NOT protect everything and not everything is a target. Being in the military I made quite a few friends over seas and when I moved to Wisconsin they had no clue where Wisconsin was. I know this has been mentioned 1001 times in other places, but it still amazes me that in rural towns like Tomah or Portage they believe that they are a target. Heck I live in this state and I don’t even know where Portage is.

Bravo! Standing ovation and all that. I agree 100%, however, I also agree that because of the perceptions (imperceptions), I think it’s a great idea to stick with these guidelines until (if ever) the paranoia fades.

I had a new NEMESIS cache all set to go last fall. It was a small flat and flexible kitchen magnet that I had color-matched the paint from a local water tower. The magnet was maybe 1 1/2 square and would have been tough to find on that water tower to say the least. When I went back to place the cache, I noticed the tower now had a camera pointed at in from its power station (?), and decided it was a bad idea to place it.

Sux, because it would have been a great cache! 😀 8)

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WASHINGTON(AP) A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.

Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started Feb. 28. It was the edge of the Wilkins ice shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.

This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.

Because scientists noticed satellite images within hours, they diverted satellite cameras and even flew an airplane over the ongoing collapse for rare pictures and video.

“It’s an event we don’t get to see very often,” said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. “The cracks fill with water and slice off and topple… That gets to be a runaway situation.”

While icebergs naturally break away from the mainland, collapses like this are unusual but are happening more frequently in recent decades, Vaughan said. The collapse is similar to what happens to hardened glass when it is smashed with a hammer, he said.

The rest of the Wilkins ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut, is holding on by a narrow beam of thin ice. Scientists worry that it too may collapse. Larger, more dramatic ice collapses occurred in 2002 and 1995.

Vaughan had predicted the Wilkins shelf would collapse about 15 years from now. The part that recently gave way makes up about 4 percent of the overall shelf, but it’s an important part that can trigger further collapse.

There’s still a chance the rest of the ice shelf will survive until next year because this is the end of the Antarctic summer and colder weather is setting in, Vaughan said.

Scientists said they are not concerned about a rise in sea level from the latest event, but say it’s a sign of worsening global warming.

Such occurrences are “more indicative of a tipping point or trigger in the climate system,” said Sarah Das, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute.

“These are things that are not re-forming,” Das said. “So once they’re gone, they’re gone.”

Climate in Antarctica is complicated and more isolated from the rest of the world.

Much of the continent is not warming and some parts are even cooling, Vaughan said. However, the western peninsula, which includes the Wilkins ice shelf, juts out into the ocean and is warming. This is the part of the continent where scientists are most concern about ice-melt triggering sea level rise.

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Don’t feel bad. Just go buy another and build it the way you like.

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I’m really surprised that Garmin didn’t beta-test these units better. My in-car Garmin works flawlessly.

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@LDove wrote:

@3 Hawks wrote:

@Team Honeybunnies wrote:

@3 Hawks wrote:

@labrat_wr wrote:

@zuma wrote:

@Cheesehead Dave wrote:

@rogheff wrote:

I’d steer away from the geocaching.com colors. Wasn’t there a logo similar to Dave’s proposed in jest a year or so ago with a spinning Wisconsin?

This one?

😯

Needs to be a little more busy, maybe with a flashing light on a gps.

😉

z

maybe it could subliminally flash “GO CACHING” every couple cycles 😆

If it only flashed a little faster it might even induce seizures.

Now that I could see. The only state geocaching organization with a clinical warning. 😆

We need more cow bell!!!

Sorry, but that one just makes my head feel funny, well I mean funnier than usual! 😯 😮 🙄

I agree. But I do like the motionless version, a lot.

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I read a post yesterday by Greyhounder about how she liked to collect signature items, which got me to thinking that we should have our own to trade. So, last night I got out a piece of scrap wood dowel and cut out 100 of my own wooden nickels. I then just stamped them all with our stamp and put a coat of poly on them.

Hey, they’re not as nice as the ones you’ve all had made, but you can’t beat the price. The whole project took about 2 hours and cost under $1

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This reminds me it’s time to check on some of my caches. I can’t wait to see what’s in some of them.

In my tougher caches, I like to leave some pretty significant items, which are usually replaced with McCache toys, but not always.

One cache I can’t wait to check on, Signs was filled with some really good stuff, including a DVD player. I wonder what’s in there now? Any guesses?

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