New DripDiapers for Narrow Scissor Lifts & Genie Runabout Series!

Last week Tiresocks, Inc. introduced 4 new DripDiaper products based on customer feedback & extensive in-house research. New Part numbers 4896DD and 3226DD are the same size and made to fit narrow scissor lifts. The only difference is that the 3226DD is pre-cut specifically for the Skyjack 3226 scissor lift.

Similarly, the 4860DD and GR20DD are the same size and made to fit smaller low level and push around lifts. The difference is that the GR20DD is pre-cut specifically for the Genie GR Runabout Series.

40 of the Most Powerful Photographs Ever Taken

These photos are so moving!

Earthrise: A photo taken by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968.

Phyllis Siegel, 76, left, and Connie Kopelov, 84, both of New York, embrace after becoming the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk’s office in 2011.

John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s coffin along with the honor guard.

A Russian war veteran kneels beside the tank he spent the war in, now a monument.

Agim Shala, 2, is passed through a barbed wire fence into the hands of his grandparents at a camp run by United Arab Emirates in Albania as members of the Shala family are reunited after fleeing Kosovo.

A dog is reunited with his owner following the tsunami in Japan in 2011.

Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg hugs Eskil Pedersen, one of the leaders at the AUF summer camp in Utoya, shortly after 69 of its members were massacred by a right-wing terrorist.

Helen Fisher kisses the hearse carrying the body of her 20-year-old cousin, Private Douglas Halliday, as he and six other fallen soldiers are brought through the town of Wootton Bassett in England.

Australian Scott Jones kisses his Canadian girlfriend Alex Thomas after she was knocked to the ground by a police officer’s riot shield in Vancouver, British Columbia. Canadians rioted after the Vancouver Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins.

Journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who had been arrested in North Korea and sentenced to 12 years hard labor, are reunited with their families in California after a successful diplomatic intervention by the U.S.

A firefighter gives water to a koala during the devastating Black Saturday bushfires that burned across Victoria, Australia, in 2009.

A French civilian cries in despair as Nazis occupy Paris during World War II.

The 1968 Olympics Black Power Salute: African American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity at the 1968 Olympic games. Australian Silver medalist Peter Norman wore an Olympic Project for Human Rights badge in support of their protest. Both Americans were expelled from the games as a result.

“La Jeune Fille a la Fleur,” a photograph by Marc Riboud, shows the young pacifist Jane Rose Kasmir planting a flower on the bayonets of guards at the Pentagon during a protest against the Vietnam War on October 21, 1967. The photograph would eventually become the symbol of the flower power movement.

A Romanian child hands a heart-shaped balloon to riot police during protests against austerity measures in Bucharest.





A monk prays for an elderly man who had died suddenly while waiting for a train in Shanxi Taiyuan, China.

Retired Philadelphia Police Captain Ray Lewis is arrested for participating in the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011.

A 4-month-old baby girl in a pink bear suit is miraculously rescued from the rubble by soldiers after four days missing following the Japanese tsunami.

U.S. Army troops wade ashore during the D-Day Normandy landings on June 6, 1944.

“Wait For Me Daddy,” October 1, 1940: A line of soldiers march in British Columbia on their way to a waiting train as five-year-old Whitey Bernard tugs away from his mother’s hand to reach out for his father.

Terri Gurrola is reunited with her daughter after serving in Iraq for 7 months.

Robert Peraza pauses at his son’s name on the 9/11 Memorial during the tenth anniversary ceremonies at the site of the World Trade Center.

Jewish prisoners at the moment of their liberation from an internment camp “death train” near the Elbe in 1945.

Harold Whittles hears for the first time ever after a doctor places an earpiece in his left ear.

Navy chaplain Luis Padillo gives last rites to a soldier wounded by sniper fire during a revolt in Venezuela. (Héctor Rondón Lovera)

Sisters pose for the same photo three separate times, years apart.

A Sudan People’s Liberation Army soldier stands at attention on the eve of South Sudan’s independence from Sudan.

Another, recently unearthed photo of the Tank Man incident, which shows a new angle of his act of protest, now at a distance. Tank Man can be seen through the trees on the left, and the tanks can be seen on the far right.

Greg Cook hugs his dog Coco after finding her inside his destroyed home in Alabama following the Tornado in March, 2012.

Jacqueline Kennedy wears her pink Chanel suit, still stained with the blood of her husband, as Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office in Air Force One.
According to Lady Bird Johnson, who was also present:
“Her hair [was] falling in her face but [she was] very composed … I looked at her. Mrs. Kennedy’s dress was stained with blood. One leg was almost entirely covered with it and her right glove was caked, it was caked with blood – her husband’s blood. Somehow that was one of the most poignant sights – that immaculate woman, exquisitely dressed, and caked in blood.”

A mother comforts her son in Concord, Alabama, near his house which was completely destroyed by a tornado in April of 2011.

Eight-year-old Christian Golczynski accepts the flag for his father, Marine Staff Sgt. Marc Golczynski, during a memorial service. Marc Golczynski was shot on patrol during his second tour in Iraq (which he had volunteered for) just a few weeks before he was due to return home.

Christians protect Muslims during prayer in the midst of the uprisings in Cairo, Egypt, in 2011.

A German World War II prisoner, released by the Soviet Union, is reunited with his daughter. The child had not seen her father since she was one year old.

PoW Horace Greasley defiantly confronts Heinrich Himmler during an inspection of the camp he was confined in. Greasley also famously escaped from the camp and snuck back in more than 200 times to meet in secret with a local German girl he had fallen in love with.

Tanisha Blevin, 5, holds the hand of fellow Hurricane Katrina victim Nita LaGarde, 105, as they are evacuated from the convention center in New Orleans.

Pele and British captain Bobby Moore trade jerseys in 1970 as a sign of mutual respect during a World Cup that had been marred by racism.

A dog named “Leao” sits for a second consecutive day at the grave of her owner, who died in the disastrous landslides near Rio de Janiero on January 15, 2011.

A man cries as he flips through a family album he found in the rubble of his old house following an earthquake in Sichuan.

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Way to go Pioneer Equipment Rental & Sales!

Accepting both awards from ARC of Denton. L to R: Scott Little , Andre Hillard, Gary Bennett and Ken Boucher (Pioneer Equipment Rental & Sales)

Pioneer Equipment Rental and Sales is a family owned business and has twelve locations   throughout OK and TX. Last week the Denton, TX branch was named "Employer of the Year" by The ARC of Denton. They also named Pioneer Rental employee Andre Hillard "ARC Employee of the Year". ARC is a local agency that assists people with special needs in finding employment, housing and other needs. A huge Congratulations to both Pioneer Rental and Andre!    



QR Codes: Future or Fad?

QR Codes are lukewarm right now and a lot of businesses are wondering how and if they should be using them. In case you're not totally sure what a QR code is, here's the 10-second summary - QR codes are special codes meant to be scanned by smartphones. Once scanned the user is directed to a website, video, coupon, etc. QR Codes can be programmed to send a text message, call a phone number or send an email, but I still think the best use of QR codes is to create an easy way to bridge consumers from the physical world to a digital destination. But not just any destination... A destination that is going to add value. This might look like: a coupon to a new bistro on a print ad, a demo video on the new lawn  mower you just purchased or a portal to buy tickets to an event being advertised. Simply linking a website or "something" just for the sake of using a QR code isn't enough. In fact, poor QR code execution could be why they won't ever reach their full potential. Any QR marketing should be well thought out and helpful to consumers and customers.

Check out this super cool  concept and video showing how QR Code can help the consumer cross the online/ offline barrier  and  improve their lives. Really smart stuff!

Here are a few of my favorite relevant QR Code applications: