A guy walking along the beach finds a bottle and picks it up. A genie pops out and says, “Thanks for letting me out. For your kindness I will grant you one wish.”

The guys says, “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii, but I can’t because I’m afraid to fly and ships make me deathly sick. My wish is for you to build a road from here to Hawaii.”

The genie says, “I’m sorry, but I don’t think I can do that. Just think of all the work involved. Think of the huge pilings we’d need to hold up that highway and how deep they would have to be to reach the bottom of the ocean. And think of all the cement that would be needed. Plus, since it’s such a long span, there would have to be gas stations and rest stops along the way. No, that’s just too much to ask. Impossible.”

The guy says, “Well, there is one thing I’ve always wanted to know. I’d like to be able to understand women…what makes them laugh and cry…you know, what makes them tick.”

The genie thinks a second, then asks, “You want two lanes or four?”

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And I want to install it on my Ridgid TA3650 saw. Now comes the good part!!! I had a plan to build a unit that incorporates the hood. The unit is 3/4” plywood (2’x4 1/2’ approx.) that bolts between the saw and the stand, you screw the dust hood to the plywood. The plan shows a drawer and shelf using the plywood “overhang” to the left of the saw and a shelf on the other side under the rail extensions….hope this is understandable? BUT NOW THE PROBLEM BEGINS…..I’ve misplaced the plan and can’t seem to find it even using Google!! Can anyone please tell me where the plan was published????
If you can thanks in advance,
John

Black walnut trees in the U.S. are facing a serious threat called thousand cankers disease, according to Colorado State University researchers. This recently recognized problem has already devastated black walnut trees west of the Rocky Mountains over the past 10-15 years.

The disease is caused by a newly discovered fungus that is carried to trees by the walnut twig beetle. A native of the Southwest, the beetle is usually associated with the Arizona walnut tree, to which it is not harmful. It is, however, harmful to the black walnut tree which has been planted extensively throughout the West.

“The walnut twig beetle has shown a fantastic spread through the western U.S. within the past 25 years,” says Whitney Cranshaw, an entomologist at Colorado State. “In recent years we have seen new records for this insect in Colorado, northern New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. And everywhere we are finding the beetle, all the black walnuts are dying.”

The bigger concern is if thousand cankers disease moves east where black walnut is a common forest species. “I think thousand cankers disease has the potential to devastate black walnut just as Dutch elm disease nearly wiped out American elms and chestnut blight eliminated the American chestnut,” said Cranshaw. “Right now it is contained west of the Front Range in Colorado and the High Plains provide a good natural barrier, but all it would take is one careless individual moving a walnut log with the beetles and we could have an outbreak that could quickly spiral out of control.”

Cranshaw emphasizes the importance that foresters, arborists, woodworkers and lumber mills recognize this new threat. They say no walnut logs with bark intact should be allowed to move further east than where the disease is currently known. Walnut lumber and well-dried logs without bark likely pose little threat of carrying the fungus-carrying beetles.

For more information, please visit www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/0812_alert.pdf.

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