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Guests of dentist Val Kolpakov deterred, brushing teeth - ie with one of more than 800 tubes of toothpaste in his collection.
Kolpakov started the collection of toothpaste just 10 months. The Saginaw dentist he spent about $ 3000 to buy toothpaste tubes from Japan, China, India, Ukraine and Russia in his country of origin.
The collection now occupies half Kolpakov’s bedrooms.
“If I’m with visitors, they sleep there with the fresh scent of toothpaste, Kolpakov, 36, said the Saginaw News for a story Tuesday.
Kolpakov said his goal is to his collection in the Guinness book of records around the world as the biggest. He said, it would mean that the German past, press a named Carsten Gutzeit, information on its website on 898 he tubes, but did not mention in the Guinness.
“I’m almost to the point. I am quite sure I did most of them in the USA, “said Kolpakov.” I’m really quickly. ”
Kolpakov’s oldest item is a Colgate tube of the year 1908. He also found a pipe used in Germany during World War II and 1960, an era of Scotch Whisky related to the toothpaste, which “does not exceed 3 percent alcohol.”
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Tacoma, Washington (AP) - With the warm welcome of a prison of 500 inmates. Covers 48,000 square feet. Includes 45 sinks, toilets and urinals. The estimated value of $ 6.2 million. Some disassembly.
More than $ 300000 $ 350000 in disassembly to be exact, according to an estimate Pierce County.
L ‘, excluding charges, would be the costs for the company, agency or municipality, are eliminated, the County Jail Annex, a window beside the steel construction County-City Building in downtown on a steep slope.
The installation, 1996, are not necessary, since 1000, a new prison bed is opened next month.
The structure could be used in another city or a country that needs a jail, said Scott Hogman, district chief of construction project. It could also be reborn Basketball Arena or vehicle maintenance garage, said Dan Cagle, Landkreis Facility Management director.
Dick Ferguson, a spokesman for the circle of countries, said there were four serious questions central Alaska and Washington State. If none is found Taker until the end of this spring, district officials say they are sold for parts of the building, save and destroy the rest for you.
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Shawnee, Kan. (AP) - The Shawnee City Council has a programme that the people of radar guns to monitor traffic.
Under the program approved by a 7-1 vote, Monday, the Kansas City suburb east to lend up to eight radar guns at a time and then follow the warning letters to speeders. The objective is to reduce the acceleration and determine where it occurs.
Volunteering, the participants into two teams of members, one for the functioning of the radar gun and the other for speed, description and license registration of vehicles.
After two weeks, a protocol on the offender will be handed over to the police, the disc turns digits and letters of warning question insists car to slow down reserved. No tickets issued.
The new programme will be evaluated in June, all the letters and owners of police vehicles are deleted.
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