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I have used this book since the first addition and give it out to all new engineers coming into the pipeline industry, when they are envolved in costs for new piping projects.

I have used this book since 1986. It has been the cornerstone of my pipe estimating. It is easy to use and in most cases you can narrow a seemingly complicated estimating job down to a few tables. I recommend this book to any estimator charged with providing accurate budgets in industrial construction.
The book addresses carbon steel, stainless steel Heavy wall, large O.D. Staging, Insulation, Pipe Hangers and more.
The Author goes into detail in a clear and concise method about how to structure your estimate and provides a sample estimating sheet.
Even though the estimating sheet is about 30 yrs old. I have set one up in excel to match his format and it works beautifully.
A must book for any pipe estimator.
Tim Griffin - Tampa Florida

This book and CD set teach sight reading in a way that appeals to children. The fact that my daughter enjoys using this book means that it's easier to get her to practice playing every day.

This book is excellent for any age and is a great resource, I would recommend it to any age for use.

I have tried almost all of these recipes and each one tasted great. I love the fact that each recipe is low-fat AND tastes great. I've tried recipes on family and friends and no one was able to guess that it was low-fat. Everyone raved over them. I would buy one for all of my friends if I could afford to do so (but I don't want to give away all of my "secrets").

So far everything I have cooked from this cookbook has been excellent, easy to make and recipes are easy to follow. I would recommend this book to anyone!!

This book is wonderful....reading it is like talking to a good friend about holiday traditions. There are ideas for homemade gifts such as pancake mix, cookies in a jar, ornaments, and keepsakes. The recipes sound delicious and include items like an edible cookie bowl, Granny's Pot Roast, Caramel Apple Crisp, and Snickerdoodles. Build a fire, grab some hot cocoa, make some homemade gifts, and cook up some warm food for your family....this one is a hit!

Farmhouse Christmas is another great Gooseberry Patch Book filled with charming memories and excellent recipes sure to warm your heart and feed your tummy!

Learn how to make Oatmeal Molasses Bread, Sugar Cream Pie, and Country-Style Ribs or Mom's Chicken & Dressing!

Those of you who are not familiar with Gooseberry Patch, will be charmed by the stories, illustrations and suggestions for healthy and happy living put together by country friends, Vickie and Joann!

Farmhouse Christmas is another excellent volume in the Gooseberry Patch collection.

This book is a must have for Mom's and Dad's who want to spend more valuable time with their children. My daughter got this book from "Santa", and we don our aprons and cook several times a week. It's the best, and we will look back on wonderful memories for years to come. We are going to buy this recipe book for relatives to encourage this fun for them! I will hold onto this book for my grandchildren!

I received this as a birthday gift. We've had a lot of fun making delicious treats and snacks. Every recipe we've tried has been great and the favorite at any party we've gone to. I love to collect exceptional recipes and this book has a great chocolate chip cookie, nacho dip, tortilla wraps, and more. My 4 yr old loves to pick out a weekly treat and likes to make them with me. She likes it so much that it's her new bedtime story book! We also appreciate the child appropriate jokes throughout.

(Free energy), That I have recieved from any one source has been very limited. Water as well as light has been some of the ways I have used to generate power for various operations. I have been studying many different ways to creat energy. T.E. Bearden has expressed some very lodgical ways to creat energy from simple sources. I have expeienced from Mother Earth News, the way they use to creat energy from the sun and various other experements and they fall far short of the Ideal energy source. T.E. Bearden has given much thought and is very positive in his approch to Free energy. Sincerely Yours Dave Scharf.

This is short book, you can read it in 30 minutes. Yes, but you will have to re-read it several times to take it in. That is because you are being asked to rethink the physics you learnt in school. It was hard to learn, but is even harder to unlearn. Even so, on my fourth rereading of the paper I finally got it.

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The core point is that energy and potential ARE THE SAME THING. From this it is but a short step to free energy. All you have to do is link a battery to a collector (an accumulator), call this circuit one. You then link your accumulator to load, call this circuit two. The two circuits remain electrically separate throughout. You switch on circuit one (leaving circuit two open) and create potential in your accumulator. BUT, BEFORE ANY ENERGY FLOWS (i.e. before the expiry of the "relaxation time" (see below) you switch it off again. At the same moment you switch on circuit two and power your load with the potential (the energy) created by circuit one. And then you repeat. The relaxation time depends on the material of your wires and your accumulator and it must not be too short or current will flow in circuit one and your first power source will deplete. Copper has an incredibly short relaxation time so you can't use in circuit one - you need a degraded semiconductor. Then you can expect to do your switching at around only once per microsecond (!) and you will be in phase with the on-off characteristics of your primary circuit. That is to say you will switch in time with the duration of your primary circuit's relaxation time.

Relaxation time is the time taken to create potential but before current flows. It is well known that in wires the electrons flow on the skin of the conductor. At the moment they get there, the potential has been created in the circuit. If any more time is allowed to pass then current will begin to flow. That current, if allowed to flow, makes it back to the negative pole of your battery and alters the chemistry that creates the potential, that is to say your battery runs down. If you cut off this flow of current before the expiry of the relaxation time you get potential and no current flow. Now go back to the start point of this explanation and read sentence one. Did you get that? If you did you are where I am. Go round again only if you have to.

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You get all the physics behind this practical application and that is the tough part. But it isn't impossible, not even for a dawk like me (got an A level in Physics). So if I can do it...

At the end of this little book the author says that when, after 30 year trying to understand this, he finally worked it out he had contradictory emotions. First, he wanted to laugh for about two hours at everyones stupidity (including his own) and then to cry for two hours for the same reason.

Well my emotions are not the same. The first thing is that understanding is not the same as believing. Right now, as I type this I understand but I do not believe. To believe it I will need to see a device like this actually working before my very eyes, for a FOR A GOOD LONG TIME. Second, I will need to believe that Bearden is sane. Right now I know not too much about him. I like his loving sentiments (also to be found in the book) but that does not make his science right.

But third, and moreover, I feel like I am on a precipice. If Bearden is right then I have to accept (a) that Physics is wrong as it is taught in schools and Universities all over the world, which is incredible!!!!! but (b)that it is knowingly wrong i.e there are papers out there of considerable antiquity that prove Bearden right, (all properly referenced in the book) and classical electromagnetic theory wrong - and yet this information is simply not integrated into what students learn. If that is right, words fail me in regard to the human failings that permit such things. Has everyone gone to sleep? Is science this incompetent?

Another thing that bothers me is that this paper was written in the late 90s. Given the simplicity of the device - where are they?

Also, if you look at Bearden's website he is sponsoring a machine that is sufficiently complicated that he needs about $12m to finish it. Nothing here suggests anything like that money. In fact Bearden suggests a few hundred dollars would do the trick (the switching is where the cost is). I feel the need to know more.
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No one has written on matters of personality typology better than James and Jung. However, one will not find a clearer presentation than the one found in the following book. The style in which we think, gain access to information, and those forces that motivate our emotions, intellect, and will are all influenced by our own personality typology. The authors in this book give a clear presentation of not only their unique theory, but also its practical implications for daily life. This book is highly recommended. You will find it an enjoyable read.

This book opens new avenues of thought, awareness, and perception. It does not confine its content to gender issues but expands to study all types of human relationships by categorizing personality types into the four card suits. Using this typology and subsequent scenarios, the reader is able to understand his/her personality, social interactions, and social reactions. Strong Suit studies the root of relationship obstacles, not only discussing why an occurance develops but also how to work through the obstacle. The book's manageable language allows the business and general public to readily understand and utilize its tactics. I highly recommend Finding Your Strong Suit to anyone who wishes a better comprehension of the human character.

This is an excellent book for any firearms instructor, especially Police instructor's.

It not only gives you written lesson plans and handouts it even provides some fairly simple to understand basics for the students. I had no problem getting the lesson plans approved by my department for use in our training/qualification.

Very good book for Firearms Training review. Simple, on target, and to the point. I am incorporating this book into our Firearms Training Program.

Major General Bob Scales may well be the Army's brightest light and this generation's successor to General Don Starry and Dan Morelli (who inspired the Toffler's book on War and Anti-War). First published by the National Defense University Press in 1990, this book reflects deeply on the limitations of firepower in limited war situations, and the conclusion is a telling indictment of our national intelligence community and our joint military intelligence community, neither of which is willing to break out of their little boxes to find a proper response to this statement: "The common theme in all five case studies presented here is the recurring inability of the side with the firepower advantage to find the enemy with sufficient timeliness and accuracy to exploit that advantage fully and efficiently."

MGen. Scales provides the world with a fascinating study of man's recent relationship to technology. I enjoyed the book and wrote many things in the margins. MGen. Scales shows how firepower was used and countered in the French and U.S. tials in Viet Nam, during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, during British actions on the Flaklands and through U.S. Army/Air Force combined operations against Iraq. Not dry or technical, this book weaves the moral aspect of war with the effects of artillery, naval and air-delivered munitions in a manner which would be clear to both the civilian and military professional. A great book for those involved in America's national and military strategy or foreign policy, for it illustrates what firepower has and hasn't been recently able to contribute to the foreign policies of France, the Soviet Union, Great Britain and the U.S. Invaluable to those seeking to understand why technology rarely triumphs over human will on the battlefield. I also recommend it to the casual reader interested in modern military history--MGen Scales fills his tactical discussions with stories of human interest from all sides of these conflicts. His discussion on Iraq, for instance, opens with a dramatic story from an Iraqi artillery leader about his experience at the receiving end of American firepower. My only disappointment is that his discussion of the Iraq war focuses on the U.S. Army and Air Force and to a point that almost discredits the contributions of the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy and the Coalition. Nonetheless, a worthwhile expenditure and a fine book to keep on the shelf.

I have made many of the recipes in this cookbook and they all were excellent. In fact, I made the crab dip for a party and people followed me around the party whenever I went to the kitchen to refill the bowl! The Kalua Bars with a "Burnt Butter" icing are one of my favorites too! There are a lot of healthy alternatives, recipes for children and even well known chefs' recipes as well. This cookbook was put together by the Women's Board of Cooper Hospital put together and proceeds go to the Children's Hospital at Cooper in Camden, New Jersey.

This is a great cookbook! I should know ... I collect them and have over 100. I read a cookbook like a novel, and I've been through this one cover to cover. In addition, this is one that I really USE ... all the time. Incidentally, I've given copies of it as hostess gifts and bridal shower gifts. One of my favorite recipes in the book is Herbal Pork Roast with Roasted Redskin Potatoes and Garlicky Green Beans ... it's simply delicious, yet quick and easy. Another favorite recipe is the Kung Pao Chicken ... and there's a huge selection of soups and salads. Finally, the innovative "Healthy Alternatives" recipes are excellent; I've tried many of them and you can't beat them. I think the Women's Board of Cooper Hospital can be justly proud of this effort to raise money for the new Children's Hospital in Camden NJ.