Glib: How do you inoculate? Where do you buy your inoculum from? Here is a link to young destroying angels (you only need one of these). Compare it with the link the OP provided, and see if you want to grow button mushrooms in a manure bed outside. I agree 100%. Too many dangerous agarics that look too similar to each other. Boletes, true puffballs, and shelf fungi are much safer. They tend to be more distinctive, and I've never read of a deadly bolete or shelf fungus. There are some poisonous boletes, of course, but they generally won't kill you (they'll just make you vomit and cramp for a long time). And most (not all) of the poisonous boletes can have the toxins cooked our or lost in a change of water. And they tend to have a red pore surface and/or near instant blueing when cut, making them easier to recognize. As for the puffballs, cut them in half to make sure they're not young amanitas and not earthballs, and there's not much risk either. Of course, you always want to identify... Amanita virosa (destroying angel) is a really nasty mushroom. Looks so innocent, but contains alpha amantin. It's a mere 8 amino acids long, and is really insidious. It takes half a day to a day before you have any serious side effects, and by then, it's too late to pump your stomach -- if you ate enough, the only way to save your life may be a liver transplant. Oh, and I just remembered: has anyone ever seen this before? http://www2.lifl.fr/~decomite/private/datamining/data/mushroom.arff This guy built a database of all of the mushrooms in the Audubon guide for North America (thousands), and then trained a neural net on it to figure out rules for determining whether a mushroom is poisonous or safe to eat. It came up with: odor=NOT(almond.OR.anise.OR.none): Poisonous or unknown. 120 poisonous cases missed, 98.52% accuracy spore-print-color=green: Poisonous or unknown. 48 cases missed, 99.41% accuracy odor=none.AND.stalk-surface-below-ring=scaly.AND. (stalk-color-above-ring=NOT.brown): Poisonous or unknown. 8 cases missed, 99.90% accuracy habitat=leaves.AND.cap-color=white: Poisonous or unknown. 100% accuracy population=clustered.AND.cap_color=white: Poisonous or unknown. 100% accuracy odor=(almond.OR.anise.OR.none).AND.spore-print-color=NOT.green: Edible. 48 errors, or 99.41% accuracy. (the odor options are almond, anise, creosote, fishy, foul, musty, none, pungent, and spicy) Again, though, always identify ;)

The design of cold cases is an ongoing distraction for me. The first one I ever heard of was in a very, very old issue of Scientific American magazine when they had a column called "The Amateur Scientist" edited by C.L.Stong. A geranium hobbyist needed an enclosed case that would deal with the heat of dozens of 40W tubes and incandescent lamps which back then was the only way of obtaining high light intensities. His case was a two level affair with a 5,000BTU window air conditioner controlled by an external thermostat in the upper chamber. I extrapolated that by using modern A/C equipment lower temps could be obtained. A/C dehumidifies as it cools so some way of restoring moisture is essential. A misting system or fogger I think would be more effective in a small case than an evaporative cooler in much the way a hot mist humidifier or steam vaporizer is more effective in a large room than a cool vapor or cool mist humidifier. Large aquariums can be found used on craigslist and reject aquariums from pet stores. Go as large as you can. H

"As for the code, I can see both sides of this discussion. To my recollection, though, no device *ever* specified looping in its instructions. Despite that, it was a fairly common method 30-40 years ago. What's changed?" Just because guys have been "doing it that way for 30-40 years" does not make the practice right or even code compliant. It isn't. They don't call them "terminals" for no reason, you know. They are called "terminals" because that is where conductors are meant to terminate and end....not "pass through". ---------- For the record, I am an AHJ and an electrical inspector. For existing work that had no other practical alternative but to continue to use a looped conductor, I'd permit it. For use in new work, I'd reject it everytime. Because if you plan properly, there is never, ever any reason to use that wiring method. Ever. But I'm sure there will be some older (and younger) ones who would disagree.

On my PC with Windows 10: Control Panel - Internet Options.. as with earlier Windows versions, takes you to the settings and preferences pages of Internet Explorer only, the same thing you get to clicking on Internet Options when in the program itself. There's nothing there that relates to other browsers. Control Panel- Default Programs....as with earlier Windows versions, multiple steps will take the user to a page where very granular and (for a entry level user) very specific and likely confusing settings can be changed for defaults and protocols. The possibility and ease for someone bumbling around to do real damage to behavior by unknowingly making undesirable changes in this area is high. My suggestion, to check a box in Settings of the desired browser to make it the default one, is very simple and is most unlikely to cause unwanted and unexpected consequences.