If you’re more concerned about runtime than efficiency, Makita is your winner. While Bosch gets the win in efficiency, it’s with a 12V battery. With its 2.0 Ah, 36 watt-hour pack, Makita ran for 6 hours on high – more than an hour and a half longer than its closest competitor!

Here’s a closer look. The leather strap is a soft leather in a warm cocoa color with some internal padding and beefed up hardware that has that survivalist vibe. The snap in the second strap keeper and the debossed UAG logos are nice touches.

During testing, the M10 Anorak never impeded my arms when I performed overhead movements climbing or skiing. The M10’s slim fit caused slight tightness when bending over to stuff a pack, or side bending to manage ropes at belays. However, the trim fit always kept my knot and belay device clear and the view of my crampon front point placements unobstructed.

Music City certainly has helped itself attract a crowd with a free concert by country star Tim McGraw. Still, Nashville has had another big, really big turnout.

A laptop computer, or any electronic device, is a delicate piece of technology that could easily be ruined due to bad handling. The general tendency is to look after a laptop well when it is new but neglect it later. It should actually be the reverse. As it gets older, the software and hardware will begin to falter and that is when regular maintenance is required.

"For those concerned with the car – it was, like, a 1980′s rusted out sedan…maybe a $500 car. Details about the slugs/number of rounds fired were relayed to me later by third parties (my friend and I were known in the neighborhood, people were talking about it). Thank you for the well wishes. Honestly though, this wasn’t even the first time I was shot at (it’s been a long strange trip)."

Blue Alpha Gear’s Hybrid EDC Belt looks to tackle the gun gear industry with a an easily concealable design. (Photo: Jacki Billings/Guns.com)

Reflective material, also known as reverse-reflection material, widely used in traffic signs marking lines, protruding road signs, contour signs, traffic cones, collision-proof tubes and other road traffic safety facilities, as well as car plates, clothing, shoes, hats, fire protection, railway, water transport, mining areas.India, Japan and China account for the main markets.

Once the paint is applied, it’s purportedly invisible in daylight unless you shine a bright light directly at it. It’s designed to reflect light back towards its source like reflective safety tape. At night, car headlights will ping off the paint and make anything covered with it look like a glowing blob. It’s easy to see a glowing blob.

To each his own. I have had gaffer tape peel off over time. As I mentioned in the article, gaffer tape is made of fabric and duct tape is vinyl. So there is a flexibility that gaffer tape has that duct tape doesn’t. The whole point is that they bend easily and are secure, which duct tape won’t do. With all the movement, I wanted the gaffer tape reinforced. You don’t have to do it, but as I said I never want to have to make these again so I took the extra step.

With the updated fit and comfort waistband construction, the Icon Pant still gives you the function and comfort you’ve always relied on from 5.11 Tactical’s Stryke Pants. With 12 pockets reinforced with mega-strong nylon 6 fabric and a diamond gusset and knee articulation, the durability and range of motion you get from the Icon Pant is unprecedented.

I attended the RETTmobil (German for "mobile rescue") conference in Fulda, Germany, where 300 international vendors were exhibiting their EMS products. I noticed a similar theme in every European ambulance: There was no side-facing seating. Why are we still riding sideways in U.S. ambulances? Is it our history and tradition? Is it the original, outdated KKK specifications?