Guestbook entries

Submitted:
First Name: Gergely
Last Name: Kölcsey-Gyurkó
City/Town: Budapest
State/Province: Budapest
Country: Hungary
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Currently I am entitled as an agile coach, but I still have a tons of things to learn and decades to experience to be really who i am currently.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Currently I am creating a unique scrum master survey. The surveys unique because each question only has good answers. those are ranked however so there is good,better, even better, even more better, almost the best and probably best types. This will help the applicant to receive instant 4 other good options to be try out at her scrum teams. The goal is to improve and coach online via a survey tons of people to build better teams. For the SM patterns it is a great help to read the servant leader chapter.
I am pretty sure that I will come back for some other stuff later.
Cheers
G
Submitted:
First Name: Carmen V.
Last Name: Negron
City/Town: Brooklyn
State/Province: NY
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Professor at NYCCT - Human Services
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I would like to use Community Tool Box in my Volunteerism course. I e-mailed a request today 1/7/17. Thank you for a great resource.
Submitted:
First Name: JaNice
Last Name: Van Ness
City/Town: Conyers
State/Province: GA
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Idea generation!
Submitted:
First Name: Elizabeth
Last Name: Connolly
City/Town: Long Beach
State/Province: New York
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Director of Development for the Art Council here in Long Beach. I believe that art making can be a vehicle for communication and integration for our residents. I would like to create public art projects that will bring together different neighborhoods in our City.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have just starting browsing Chapter 27 and it is full of ideas that could help me as I write grants to fund my community painting projects. I can see that the Community Tool Box is something that I will refer to often as a guide. I will also check out some of the books and articles in the bibliography for more in depth discussion.
Submitted:
First Name: Richard
Last Name: Law
City/Town: Colorado Springs
State/Province: CO
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am currently leading some peace work within our church.
We are considering adopting a Just Peace designation within our denomination--UCC.
We're hoping to become a valued, relevant peace resource and model for peaceful dialogue and engagement. Part of the work we're hoping to do is local peace and justice work--addressing needs within our community that frequently get overlooked for bigger, headline issues.
I ran across your amazing web site when I was surfing around surveying some other community activist sites. Yours appears to be very practical, and accessible. Your tool box might be a big help.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
So far, we're not using it. I'm just getting acquainted and started.
Thanks!
Submitted:
First Name: Patrick
Last Name: Myers
City/Town: Dorchester
State/Province: Dorset
Country: UK
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Service designer for children services in a local authority
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Resources to support community development
Submitted:
First Name: Emongonyang
Last Name: Pius Gideon
City/Town: kampala
State/Province: Tororo
Country: Uganda
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
nice information
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
to address issues
Submitted:
First Name: David
Last Name:
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State/Province:
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Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Someone who wants to improve my community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Community Tool Box has provided much needed information in accessing our community needs and options on how we can address them! This toolbox is truly invaluable, I pass this information to every organization or organization leader whom I come in contact. Again, thank you!
Submitted:
First Name: eka
Last Name: seo surabaya
City/Town: surabaya
State/Province: east java
Country: indonesia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hello I am from Indonesia,
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This toolbox very helpfull
Submitted:
First Name: Kelly
Last Name: Creque
City/Town: Trenton
State/Province: New Jersey
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am not a community organizer by profession. But I am very interested in forming units within my community to help support folks and help us all to lift one another up. I live in a relatively small city in the United States. So I realize that we are well off compared to others around the globe, but we have a lot of internalized oppression. I'd like to help us get rid of that so that we can take full control of our community.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I haven't read anything as yet, but I will read it and share it with others in the community. I expect that it will be useful in my work with my local church.
Submitted:
First Name: Tamer
Last Name: Omar
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I studied in Banha faculty of engineering Faculty of Engineering-Banha University. I am assistent professor in thecomputer department
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: Amina
Last Name: Nouar
City/Town: Benha
State/Province:
Country: Egypt
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm Lecturer of Community Health Nursing
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
community tool books help me in collecting needed resources before providing any communities interventions
Submitted:
First Name: Rod
Last Name: Rivers
City/Town: Cambridge
State/Province: Cambridgeshire
Country: United Kingdom
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am consulting to Cambridge County Council in the UK on new models for transformation.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Provision of an example of good practice in relation to community building and citizen participation.
Submitted:
First Name: Jeanette
Last Name: Martinez
City/Town: Garden City
State/Province: Kansas
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Hi, my name is Jeanette and I am a single mom of two kids. I am also going to school to get my degree in Case Management and Social Work. I am currently working two jobs and wanting to learn more on managing my time and finances.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am wanting to help myself by learning new ways to build a better future for me and my kids and how to support myself and ways to move forward in life with our feeling the struggle all the time.
Submitted:
First Name: Janet
Last Name: Francis
City/Town: Tyler
State/Province: TX
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a student, studying with Grand Canyon University, a private Christian university. I'm in a coursework program, Psy664, Community Psychology and the professor asked us to visit this website.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To answer a discussion question, we are visiting this website.
Q: Why is a needs assessment an important step in community intervention? Discuss some of the different methods that can be used to complete a needs assessment. Choose one of the examples listed under the Examples tab and summarize the information that was assessed from two community assessments. How did the two assessments you read about compare (discuss similarities and differences)?
Submitted:
First Name: Kim
Last Name: Lee
City/Town: HUNTINGTON BEACH
State/Province: CA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a US citizen, Thailand decent. I already have a group called Red-USA in Los Angeles but did not registered with the government. How can my group be officially registered? Which office should I file with?
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
This my first time reading your page.
Submitted:
First Name: John E.
Last Name: Faucette, Jr.
City/Town: Etowah
State/Province: NC
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
As a disaster response volunteer, American Red Cross I am keen to develop skills, techniques and procedures expand collaboration with local and other organizations in Disaster response processes.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Just discovered CTB; fascinated with the scope. 'Hope to use some evaluation tools to test and improve current thought.
Submitted:
First Name: carly
Last Name: evans
City/Town: Pensacola
State/Province: FL
Country: US
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an Americorps VISTA volunteer serving the Escambia County Florida region. I am apart of a research grant aimed at combating chronic disease among the poorest communities. Ia m also a recent graduate of UWF.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
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Submitted:
First Name: MADHUSUDAN
Last Name: HANUMAPPA
City/Town: NEW DELHI
State/Province: DELHI
Country: INDIA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I WORK ON ENGAGING COMMUNITIES UNDER INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WHICH INVOLVES INTERNAL INDUCED DISPLACEMENT. I ALSO EMPOWER AND ENABLE THE COMMUNITIES TO ACCESS APPROPRIATE COMPENSATION AND SUSTAINABLE TRANSITION DUE TO THE DISPLACEMENT OR ADVERSE IMPACT ACCRUED DUE TO A INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT. I WORK IN DEVELOPING AND UNDER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES ACROSS THE WORLD WHICH INCLUDES SOUTH ASIA, SOUTH AFRICA AND PACIFIC ISLANDS.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
THIS COMMUNITY TOOL BOX IS PROVIDING ME WITH A STRUCTURED UNDERSTANDING ON CARRYING COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT WHICH IS A PRIMARY NECESSITY BEFORE PROVIDING A DEVELOPMENT ACTION PLAN FOR THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS PART OF INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ACTIVITIES.
Submitted:
First Name: Ngozi
Last Name: Okoli
City/Town: Dublin
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am working as the Development Coordinator in the Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary Development Office in Dublin. My work entails working with the sisters on the ground who are engaging in development work.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
The community tool box has helped me in developing the note on needs assessment. I have gained a lot of insight in reading Chapter 3 of the tool box. Thank you so much for the nice work you have done in putting this together this tool. it has been quite helpful. I very grateful
Submitted:
First Name: Sung
Last Name: Lee
City/Town: Hamburg
State/Province:
Country: Germany
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am working UNESCO Institute for lifelong learning.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am developing on-line programs based on Guidelines for Building Learning Cities to be used by lifelong learning practitioners in the learning cities.
Submitted:
First Name: Michelle
Last Name: Provenza
City/Town: Hattiesburg
State/Province: MS
Country: U.S.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Currently a graduate student completing a dual Masters of Anthropology and Public Health-Health Education. Louisiana Tech University alumni of the Department of Kinesiology.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I use the CTB for my Public Health courses and community organization projects.
Submitted:
First Name: Oswald
Last Name:
City/Town: Bellevue
State/Province: WA
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a project manager interested in helping organizations build processes that they can reuse in multiple areas.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
One of the managers here wanted to have his team do a SWOT analysis. I Googled information to open up myself to others thoughts on how to conduct these in a nonprofit setting and found your toolbox the most helpful. Thanks!
Submitted:
First Name: kazem
Last Name: sarwary
City/Town: kabul
State/Province: kapisa
Country: afg
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
i am from afg, i realy have intrst to learn English so i know by this way i can improve my talent, there for every day i try to study hard.
it was a little message for your information.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
at the first view i get mean that it write by easy words know i have decide to translate it to dari, for improving my knowledge
Submitted:
First Name: Glenda
Last Name: Carne
City/Town: Colorado Springs
State/Province: CO
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am looking at your tool kits to provide to advice to the an organization in Colorado.

How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Submitted:
First Name: cherry
Last Name: suu
City/Town: Yangon
State/Province: Yangon
Country: Myanmar
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Program Officer (Technical) at Pact Myanmar
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Referencing
Submitted:
First Name: Brina
Last Name:
City/Town: Santa Cruz
State/Province: CA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm an assistant director in a summer campaign office for a national nonprofit.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
My first use of it is to guide me in my efforts in getting letters to the editor written by staff volunteers published.
Submitted:
First Name: Greg
Last Name: Adowah
City/Town: Accra
State/Province: Kasoa
Country: Ghana
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Founder and Executive Director of this corporation. We are basically into rural community Development.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
It's serving as a guide /training tool for our work. Cost of training for staff is sometimes expensive and your materials are no different from what they teach.
Submitted:
First Name: Vincent
Last Name: George
City/Town: Davenport
State/Province: Iowa
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm just someone interested in helping others, especially youth, to learn and grow to be resilient and able to find a success place in society as a they contribute by blessing others with their gifts and knowledge.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Community Tool Box will be used as resource, guidance, and services source for building human capital and providing economic opportunity for all families that utilizes the Willella Fluellin Center. The Tool Box will also be use to support the educational achievement of the youth and their families and leveraging existing community assets to fill service gaps to increase opportunity, strengthen relationships and equip the next generation with the tools they need to transcend social-economic obstacles through resilience and educational pursuits.
Submitted:
First Name: Maura
Last Name: Dunnigan
City/Town: Columbia
State/Province: MD
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I teach a group of honors students at HCC. They focus on leadership through service learning, civic engagement, and social justice.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
You have amazing resources to support student projects, initiatives, and to supplement some of the activities within my seminar.
Submitted:
First Name: abdulraheem
Last Name: Yakubu
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country: Nigeria
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is Abdulraheem Yakubu and I am currently an online MPH student with the University of Roehampton London. this tool kit is very useful for my ongoing module and it would be useful onthe field for me..
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I work in communities where this will be very useful for me. particularly as it gives a step by step guide and references of task to be done. this is very helpful. I am also looking at supporting some intervention in the North East of Nigeria where the humanitarian crisis has been lingering for years now. This will be useful. I would like to know if the toolkit is available in hard copy and how can one get it?
Submitted:
First Name: Kimberly
Last Name: Spears
City/Town: Rosedale
State/Province: LA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a CEO of a start up charter school in a undeserved rural community. My mission is to assist students in achieving a high school diploma, college degree or a career path.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have not used the tool box but looking forward in reviewing.
Submitted:
First Name: Ernest
Last Name: Jerome
City/Town: KILOSA
State/Province: MOROGORO
Country: Tanzania
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
im a community worker in area of development though income generating activities and mostly agriculture and animal husbandry.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
im new to the tool box but i do believe it will help me a lot
Submitted:
First Name: Irawan
Last Name: Soetanto
City/Town: Tangerang Selatan - Jakarta Selatan
State/Province: Banten
Country: Indonesia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
We, International Sports Club of Indonesia ("ISCI") are a sports and recreation club for international community in Indonesia and almost 95 % of our members are foreigner from all around the globe. and at this time plan to set a community empowerment program for the lower class people who live around the location of ISCI. We will further contact you upon completing review your Community Tool Box.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
We could give any comment yet. We just look for an idea and proposal for the willingness of ISCI to conduct a social responsibility program for the lower class local people who live around the location of ISCI. We will further contact you upon completing review your Community Tool Box. Thank you and best regard.
Submitted:
First Name: kolaip
Last Name: perkole yombone
City/Town: port moresby
State/Province: national capital district
Country: papua new guinea
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a community youth development advocate.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
After I have gone through your free website I have picked useful information that can help me organise my work meaningfully for youth improvement.
I am ver thankful for your support with this as it is free and easy for disadvantaged groups to access and help self-improvement.
Thanks a lot and bless you in community service
Submitted:
First Name: Bill
Last Name: Wright
City/Town: Amarillo
State/Province: TX
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I started advocating two years ago.In Texas the legistrative session is every two years. I educated myself and did really good. I am taking my advocacy group to a higher level so far glad I found yall
Texas Medical Marijuana
Bill Wright
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Still learning new things
Submitted:
First Name: Joseph
Last Name: Simumba
City/Town: Mufulira
State/Province: Copperbelt
Country: Zambia
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Am a Zambia with passion to help people develop their living through themselves engaging in activities that would raise their standard of living.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Motivation speech to members of community and school going children more to those about to graduate and Churches
Submitted:
First Name: Alan
Last Name: Jackson
City/Town: Pasadena
State/Province: TX
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
HLM has been mandated to reduce childhood obesity in Pasadena, TX.
Our plan of action includes organizing a city-wide bicycle group ride.
We will use this event as a catalyst for increasing ADULT participation as well.
Permanent cultural change toward more active lifestyles.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have only just begun.
Submitted:
First Name: Gloria
Last Name: Cousar
City/Town: Reston
State/Province: VA
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
As Executive Director of the Neighborhood Associates Corporation, I lead a staff of Community Coordinators working at 10 affordable housing communities located in six states and the District of Columbia. Our mission is to engage with community residents in support of democratic leadership, household problem-solving, and group activities that enliven core values related to the community's greater good and its preservation as affordable housing.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Haven't yet started. I just recently learned of your existence.
Submitted:
First Name: John
Last Name: Kerr
City/Town: Springwater
State/Province: NY
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I'm a retired software developer with 10 years of experience in software process improvement and organizational change. I've gotten involved with a local group that is trying to save an old school that was donated to their town, because the town wants to make it "surplus". They'll give it to a non-profit, but the group hasn't been around long enough to establish itself that way.
The local Grange has stepped in to be the non-profit, but they only have six members, and when they demonstrated what a Grange meeting was like, the other members of the group didn't like the ritual and structure.
Lots of problems to deal with, and a deadline of November 1st to deal with.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I'm going to tell the leaders of the group about your web site and encourage them to use your approach and tools. I don't know if that will happen, but I think it gives us a chance at establishing a relationship with a 501c3 that the town will approve of for the transfer.
Submitted:
First Name: Ann
Last Name: Moore
City/Town: St. Johnsbury
State/Province: Vermont
Country: United States
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an adjunct faculty member at Springfield College School of Professional and Continuing Studies at Springfield College Campus in St. Johnsbury, VT. I have been teaching a number of human services courses over the course of the last 11 years at both the Community College of Vermont and Springfield College
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I have included the link to the Community Tool Box (CTB) as a resource for a college course entitled: "Issues in Research" which I am teaching this summer. I am assigning various sections of the CTB and asking them to read, summarize, and then reflect on what they have learned. The students in this class will move on to a 1 year group and community project and will need the skills, knowledge and experience to conduct a human service research project in their community with 2-3 other classmates. I also conduct review sessions in class in which the students share their reflections on what they have learned on their own from the CTB.
Submitted:
First Name: Lisa
Last Name:
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country:
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
Had an idea and googled it...and this page came up that drew my interest.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Using the vision/mission statement information/summary to help me organize my thoughts/idea -- to give it more focus and clarity. Thankful for this introduction and information on clear organization with a clear, meaningful structure/purpose. Best regards and thanks again.
Submitted:
First Name: Jacquelijn
Last Name:
City/Town:
State/Province:
Country: Netherlands
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work for the Small Water Well Entrepreneur project. Our aim is to train unemployed graduates into water entrepreneurs and through them provide water to rural households in the North of Benin. The project work is mainly done by volunteers like myself.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am using the SWOT chapter and templates as part of the training we organize for potential water entrepreneurs. In total we will train 40 entrepreneurs. The material is great. Thank you so much.
Submitted:
First Name: Juana
Last Name: Tiffa
City/Town: Kenema
State/Province: Eastern
Country: Sierra Leone
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
My name is Juana Tiffa from Sierra Leone, West Africa. I am practicing to be a project manager in future.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
I am going to use this community Tool Box to help to analyse and be better project writer in future
Submitted:
First Name: Julie
Last Name: Navarre
City/Town: East Lansing
State/Province: MI
Country: USA
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am the Field Director and am one of 7 instructors teaching a 7 week summer advanced standing foundation practice course.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
We are using the Assessing Community Needs and Resources toolkit, Chapter 3, sections 1 and 14 (developing a plan to assess community needs and resources and SWOT). We'll flip the class and use case examples (not necessarily from the toolkit) that students will use to apply these assessment tools in class.
Submitted:
First Name: Ma Teresa
Last Name: de Guzman
City/Town: Quezon City
State/Province: Metro Manila
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am an Anthropologist, a Faculty of the Behavioral Sciences Department, University of the Philippines Manila, a Consultant and a Researcher
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Great very useful especially for my classroom and community lectures.
Submitted:
First Name: Gaylene
Last Name: Van wijk
City/Town: Masterton
State/Province: Wairarapa
Country: New Zealand
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a Peer advocate and Support worker offering a free service to people with mental health issues and addiction in the Wairarapa and wellington region. We offer advocacy, support and education services.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
For programmes and forms to be more efficient in our service and meet the needs of all that we support.
Submitted:
First Name: Ini
Last Name: Usanga
City/Town: Cork
State/Province: Cork
Country: Ireland
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I am a survivor of family violence and childhood sexual harassment. Now I use my journey and experience to empower other survivors and victims.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
To develop resource materials for empower survivors and develpo trainings for community wide eduction, policy makers and educational institutions
Submitted:
First Name: Mike
Last Name: Powers
City/Town: joint cities of Mississauga, Brampton & Caledon
State/Province: ON
Country: Canada
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I have recently been appointed Director, Business Development to investigate and lead a path to Sustainability for Community Door, CD is a community based organization to support shared facilities in the charities and social service delivery agencies sector
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
As a relatively young organization (c 5 yrs) in our first endeavour we are reviewing our successes and shortfalls. Using VMOSA, we are re-evaluating our original vision & strategy from the various learns and a changing landscape in government and private funding. From basic question - are we adding value to the community, to how to expand our facilities and offerings; VMOSA is part of my preparation for an upcoming Board Retreat for the noted review
Submitted:
First Name: ARIANIE
Last Name: ATOLBA
City/Town: LAMUT
State/Province: IFUGAO
Country: Philippines
Please tell us a little bit about yourself:
I work as a project assistant and secretariat to a human capacity building program in the province of Ifugao, Philippines.
How have you used the Community Tool Box to support your work and make a difference?:
Working first time for a human capacity building project, your "toolbox" helped me in doing tasks I have never done before like conducting FGD and others. Your toolbox contents are so practical and very helpful. I owe you thanks!