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I am looking for some advice...

Without getting into a very long, very boring story of why, the what is that my late grandfather's house has been scheduled to be auctioned off in the next few weeks. We knew we would lose the home but I thought we had much more time.

My grandfather loved growing his roses. He has been gone some time, and the garden is now in disrepair, but the roses still grow strong. I decided over the Holidays that I wanted to transplant at least one of his bushes to our families home and keep it going as a memorial to him.

I went so far as to sign up for a rose cultivation class... but it is not for a couple of months more. And anything I do not take from the home in th

I have always liked the counter WBC protests that raise money for efforts that the church is opposed to for as long as they hold up their hateful signs. It seems like the best way to deal with this sort of thing. I am going to commit a few hours Saturday to actually soliciting donations at the Moda Center for both Planned Parenthood Columbia Willamette and Basic Rights Oregon.

But I feel like the power of the internet could probably better be harnessed... could this subreddit come together and raise some funds? Anyone want to lend a hand Saturday? Is there a way to solicit r/nba and r/portland for some online crowd funded donation? I am old school.... show up and pound pavement. But this

I am not one of those absolutists that thinks that either Blending or Juicing has exclusive claim to the title of "healthful" and see benefits to both. I have been blending for years now but have become increasingly interested in starting down the juice path.

So I am wondering if any of you out in Juice land are mixing it up with blended smoothies, too? Do you find yourself blending, say, your greens and juicing your fruit? The other way around?

I am trying to figure out what type of machine makes sense for me and which foods get processed which way seems to be the crux of the issue. My other consideration is time and ease-of-use.... I have become very spoiled by my self-cleaning, lighte

Been a Vitamix cultist for a few years, this is my go-to, every morning shake if I am skipping breakfast (or feel absolutely terrible from the night before):

The Jesus Juice (because it dies for last night's sins)

Loaded up whole or halved, in order:

• Handful of my frozen berry medley (yeah Oregon livin')
• A good sized beet
• Half a cup of frozen mango chunks
• Frozen sleeve of Acai puree
• 2 Carrots
• Apple
• Handful of spinach
• 4 leaves of Purple and Black Kale
• 1 leaf Rainbow Chard
• 2 ribs celery, "deveined"
• A nubin of ginger
• Banana
• A handful of grapes
• A kiwi
• A quarter of a lemon

Once loaded I fill with water til the level reaches about halfway. I use a program

I knew I came to the right place when the page loaded and found THIS at the top spot.

I am not a teacher but was approached by one, a family friend, this past weekend in regards to her "listening center"... or table where kids can read along with an audio book.

The problem she is running into is that technology is passing her by... the bulk of her materials are on cassette tape (and some on record!) as well as a handful of CDs. New books are increasingly unavailable on older formats and come digitally only. So it is time to move the whole lot into the modern age and digitize everything.

It seems, to me at least, a simple thing to digitize her existing aud

I am building a custom scooter and working on molding a housing for the electronics. It is a two piece job that is essentially a box, cut in half, that I want to mate together using "a piece of hardware" molded into the fiberglass. I say piece of hardware because I am a total loss as to what to look for... or what to call it.

Here is how I can best describe what i am looking for. A two piece "coupler", one piece of which I can permanently attach within the electronics compartment. The other I would graft into my custom box. These two pieces would mate and make a strong enough connection to take road vibration. On the exterior face I would require some sort of latch, button, pin, twist, lock

Cleaning out a closet, found my old Xbox 360 that RROD'd on me last year. Couldn't find a donation drive online for them anywhere and I hate to toss it. I thought maybe one of the children's hospitals could make use of it. Now, I am sure I could google how to fix it, open it up, burn myself with a soldering iron (perhaps burn down my apartment building) and do a half ass job. But having it done properly seems important if I am going to donate it.

So maybe you've done this a time or two and wouldn't mind mending it... or, even better, maybe you know where/who I can ship this thing to to ensure it gets in the hands of some kids? I don't know, just a thought.

Is there some organization out there that bravely charges into the politically volatile hotzones of the world, deploying smuggled in satellite internet access to protest organizers? Where can I donate?

If not... as the "Voice of the internet" is this not the sort of cause that should unite us all? Having frequented this place for years I have seen the community's capacity for both revenue generation inspired by just causes and crowd-sourced organization and coordination on truly epic scale. It seems more than feasible that we, the most progressive, giving, knowledgeable (to an extent only a hive mind can achieve) block of anonymous screen names that has ever been assembled, could make this

So there is a new company out there that is just like Groupon called Yoller. They partner with tv news stations in large markets, offer a half off coupon service to subscribers and task the nes stations with sales. They called me last week and tried to get me and my business to buy in.... Anyway, today I am wanting to look them up and check it out so I type into the address bar of Chrome the word "YALLER" as that is how I thought it was spelled.

First of all, I misspelled it. It is YOLLER not YALLER. But with the way in which you pronounce it (It's sounds like Dollar) does it not seems perfectly reasonable to suspect some people will misspell it like that?

Now, if you type that into the

This time of year is really hard on my Mom, her side of the family is for the most part dead and gone and, to make matters worse, she lost most of her holiday memories in a fire a few years back. She's a kick ass lady and it pains me to see her try and mask her sadness this time of year.

Recently, I came into a huge cache of slides from my great Aunt when she passed and finally went through them all and, lo and behold, I found a single photograph of my grandparents from the mid seventies. I thought it would be next to no big deal to take said slide to a Kinko's or photo processing place and have prints made but NOOOO... it seems as if the humble slide scanner has gone the way of the dodo.