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Also tonight, a Des Moines mother fighting against inner city violence is now a victim of that violence. KCCI's Todd Magel reports gunmen fired several shots at her car, narrowly missing her son and granddaughter. I seen the two bullet holes in the car and one was close to the gas tank. So i was just thinking the whole car could have blew up Calvetta Williams missed a few bullet holes in her white monte carlo. One in the trunk, one in the bumper and at least one or more that shattered the drivers door window. All shot at the car sunday night near 17th and clark. A bullet could have hit his baby or himself or another house She was not in the car. Her 3 year old grandaughter and her 22 year old son where ... and barely escaped without a scratch. Also in the car...an end to gun violence poster...a reminder about why this shooting is so ironic. People are not liking what I do, some do not agree with what I do Calvetta williams has been fighting hard to stop gun violence and runs the Mothers against violence program in des Moines. After several shooting this summer, she's been rattling cages, marching and speaking out...all to crack down on shootings. Some bad guys don't like it. Williams says ... They can't scare her. As long as I have breath in me, I will continue to keep going and to try my best to figure out how we can stop this violence Williams hopes to get her car back tomorrow. Police are searching for the gunmen. And Todd, is this act going to stop her from future campaigns? No, Calvetta is still planning new anti violence events ...despite the shooting.
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We're used to being watched when we shop. Cookies track our every move online, and salespeople follow us around high-end stores. But many walk-in retailers are taking spying to a creepy new level, notes ShopSmart, the shopping magazine from the publisher of Consumer Reports.
Here's ShopSmart's update on what's going on in many stores around the U.S.
Super spy cams
• What they are. High-resolution video cameras monitor all areas in and outside the store. The footage is then stored and cataloged for easy searching.
With facial recognition software, your mug shot can be filed digitally without your knowledge or permission. Ditto for your car's license plate.
• What's creepy about them. Gaze trackers are hidden in tiny holes in the shelving and detect which brands you're looking at and for how long. There are even mannequins whose eyes are cameras that detect the age, sex, ethnicity and facial expressions of passers-by.
• What's in it for you. Stores use video customer counts to set staffing and reduce cashier line backups. The system can also nab shoplifters and identity thieves.
• Who's using them. Retailers want their own privacy. Macy's, for example, employs video analytics, according to printed promotional materials from Cisco, a maker of such systems, but a Macy's spokeswoman didn't return ShopSmart's repeated calls for comment.
A Target spokesperson refused to comment about the store's use of video analytics and other tools, even though its privacy policy states that the retailer collects information "recorded by in-store cameras."
Smartphone tracking
• What it is. Your mobile phone is an excellent device for tracking your shopping route. So retailers and malls are beginning to monitor all visitors' cell signals, which help create "heat maps" that glow red where the most foot traffic is – perfect for showing where to best place displays, in-store ads and high-margin merchandise.
• What's creepy about it. Technology giant Cisco is testing a system at an undisclosed store. It automatically detects your mobile device and connects you to the retailer's free Wi-Fi network, which can detect when you search other online sellers for lower prices.
If you check prices online while you're in the store, you might get messages that the store will match the lower prices you find.
• What's in it for you. Stores can use the information to improve service. Also, you can get coupons and discounts.
• Who's using it. Lots of retailers and malls have Wi-Fi networks.
Personalized advertising
• What it is. Onscreen video ads you look at might be looking right back at you. Tiny pinhole cameras can be built into the monitor. Facial detection technology determines your age group, sex, ethnicity and maybe even your mood, so it can serve up a message targeted to you. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags placed on the merchandise detect when you pick up an item.
• What's creepy about it. Not only are stores doing little or nothing to disclose that signs are watching you, some privacy advocates also fear that the technology could be used for discriminatory pricing based on age, sex or ethnicity.
• What's in it for you. Ads can be more targeted to your needs.
• Who's using it. Vendors, analysts and critics say big retail chains commonly use digital signage, but the stores ShopSmart checked either denied it or didn't respond to inquiries.
Return rewards
• What they are. Stores have been monitoring and tracking returns and exchanges for years to identify and prevent the 1 percent that are fraudulent.
Now some stores are rewarding the honest 99 percent of customers who return items with special offers to encourage them to spend their refund in the store.
• What's creepy about it. The reward is designed to appeal to you, based on statistical models that predict consumer behavior.
• What's in it for you. Moneysaving opportunities, if you can resist buying stuff you don't need.
• Who's using them. The Retail Equation, which markets the system to stores, did not return ShopSmart's repeated phone calls.

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One of my favorite things at the end of a hot summer day is to kick back and sip on some fancy homemade cocktails on the dock. It's been hot here in Austin, really, really hot…as in 45 days and counting of 100+ degree days, hot. Pass me an ice cold beverage please!!
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Five members of a mission trip from Cottage Hill Baptist Church to the Dominican Republic, hospitalized for illness while on the trip, were released from the hospital in the Dominican Republic on Tuesday, according to the Rev. Al Elmore, associate pastor of the church.
In all, seven members of the 13 member group -- comprised of 11 students and two supervising adults -- had fallen ill.
Elmore, whose daughter, Meagen Elmore, 16, is one of the students on the one-week trip, said he believes that the illnesses, described generally as intestinal troubles, began as early as Saturday night, after the group had dinner in the airport in Miami while awaiting a flight.
Saturday night is when the first student became ill and vomited, said Elmore, who remains in Mobile.
"I'm positive they didn't catch it in the Dominican Republic resort," he said, referring to the lodging for the students in the Caribbean island nation.
In additon to four students who were hospitalized, there was one adult, Tim Johnson, a teacher at Cottage Hill Christian Academy.
Elmore, whose daughter is one of the students who required hospitalization, said that those sick had symptoms including vomiting and diarrhea.
His daughter, he said, had become badly dehydrated as a result.
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He said that, when he talked to Meagen by phone late Tuesday morning, she was feeling much better.
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As part of this project, we are assembling some regional perspectives on humanitarian action in the twentieth century, to complement the history of the international, essentially Western sector. The two regions we are focusing on are East and Southeast Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa. For each of these we are commissioning a review of relevant literature in the form of a chronological account of major crises and humanitarian developments in the region.
The brief would suit a researcher at doctoral or postdoctoral level, with research experience relating to humanitarian issues the region and, preferably, an understanding of history methodologies. The review would be based on academic materials as well as some grey literature, and is intended to capture the regional perspective on humanitarian action during the twentieth century. Fluency in at least one relevant language is therefore essential.
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StyleOnTheCouch Loves: Vestiaire Collective
12th February 2013
It is, Blog Reader, that time of the year where I pack for Fashion Week. I will be in a largely monochrome wardrobe, accessorized with a few of my favourite things – a bag big enough for my Canon, heels that I feel comfortable and fabulous in and the old harness body piece and leather visor here and there…
Vestiaire Collective is a luxuy re-sale store that been providing me with a lot of inspiration (case in point: Le Journal) and some key pieces for my fashion week wardrobe. I met the team at Vestiaire back in December, at their party to celebrate the appointment of Bay Garnett as style advisor for the site. Garnett is a valuable addition to Vestiaire (anyone who has read Cheap Date magazine will understand why!) whose mini series collection curated by fashion editors and overall approach to supplying authentic, quality pre-owned fashion is a big hit with me.
Vestiaire works like this: the team select clothing and accessories from their international community. Items for sale are from current or recent seasons only, which keeps the site fresh and contemporary. Brand new and slightly worn pieces sell at between 30-70% of their original retail prices, and with some highly sought after items on the site you can find yourself with the pick of some very fashionable bargains indeed. Vestiaire inspect all the pieces sold through their site before it reaches the new owner – a lovely quality control process that gave me a lot of reassurance about what I was purchasing.
The buying process is a simple one. The site is easy to navigate – by brands, clothing item, size, colour etc – and I found that I relied on the expertise of the team a lot, their 'We Love' section is one of my favourites.
Thinking ahead to Fashion Week, I purchased another pair of ASH wedge sneakers (Yes-My-Name-Is-Sarah-And-I-Am-An-Ash-Addict) from the site, perfect with my leather leggings and boxy sweater. After a few negotiations about the quality of the item – the final price was actually reduced slightly after Vestiaire confirmed a little more wear on the soles than expected, to me it was hardly noticeable but I was glad of this part of the process! – the sneakers arrived promptly.
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Banmiller on Business: Pet Food Financial Security
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People simply love their pets; and that makes for a good business plan.
Michael Levy is the president and founder of Pet Food Express. He started his career in dog training and in 1980 opened his own training facility. Over the years that store has multiplied across northern California and expanded to include pet products and adoption centers. And it's a business that hasn't failed to turn a profit.
"Well we always cross our fingers when we say that but it seems the pet industry has been played out to be recession proof. It's grown even during the most recent one, which is the worst in my memory."
Levy says his success is based on setting his stores apart from competitors.
"Well for one thing we still operate our company as if it was one little store. We reach out to our employees on a regular basis; they have open access to us, same thing with all our customers."
Levy says they have developed a very unique culture you can really experience from coming in the store. And thanks to man's best friend it's apparently paying off.
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On October 15 & 16, 2016, the Pet Food Express Bay Area Pet Fair will feature more than 70 California pet rescues and shelters, with over 1,000 adoptable dogs, cats & small animals. More about the pet fair


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Tuesday morning house-keeping:
- Syracuse is trying to fill the open slot on next year's football schedule with a Division I-AA opponent.
- Syracuse announced Monday that its Big East Conference football game at Connecticut on Nov. 17 will have a noon kickoff.
- The beat goes on with the slideshows. Hope you check out the latest production from photographer Frank Ordonez and colleague Dave Rahme by clicking here.
- In case you missed it this weekend, former Syracuse tight end and Solvay High School standout Joe Kowalewski of the New York Jets caught his first NFL touchdown pass against the Washington Redskins on Sunday. JoeKo was mad happy. So was I.
- PS basketball guru Mike Waters has a blog update on SU wide receiver Mike Williams, who has decided NOT to walk on to the Orange hoops team. Williams is a fabulous talent but needs to work on his consistency catching the ball before he does the two-sport deal.
- I've heard conflicting stories recently that Jim Boeheim might have an interest in being athletic director should the job open. One friend says he absolutely is interested; another says, no way, that he's having too much fun coaching the Orange these days.
- A couple of blog readers passed along a link to a fine story about former SU linebacker Keith Bulluck of the Tennessee Titans written by ESPN.com's Jeffri Chadiha. The Titans are 6-2, baby. The Predators are hot, too. The Webb family is happy.
- I'll update later on Andrew Robinson's back deal. What I heard yesterday was that the whole notion it started by Andrew sleeping on the floor of a friend's dorm room at Penn State during the off week is ridiculous.
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Rice University sociologist Stephen Klineberg, among others, has called Houston the "blob that ate East Texas."
The problem with the statement is that Houston, Harris County and the Gulf Coast region are becoming synonymous because the municipal lines don't contain the beast anymore. Workers coming into downtown are coming from Montgomery, Fort Bend and Brazoria counties by the tens of thousands.
So maybe the blob that ate East Texas is now East Texas. Because East Texas is moving across county lines for work like never before, at least according to Census Bureau figures released this week.
Based on responses from American Community Survey for 2006 to 2010, census statisticians estimate 414,000 workers in Harris County commute from neighboring counties. It places Harris County, unsurprisingly, with places like Manhattan, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington and Dallas in terms of inter-county commuting. Nationally, the Census Bureau reported 8.1 percent of commuters travel an hour or more each way to work.
Most Houston-area inter-county commuters came from Harris' neighboring counties: 154,557 from Fort Bend County, 78,346 from Montgomery County and 52,785 from Brazoria County.
Researchers estimated a little less than 134,000 people left Harris County for work, with most going to Fort Bend, Montgomery and Galveston counties.
The vast majority of those commutes, four out of five, are taking place with the worker driving alone. Fewer than 3 percent of commuters used public transportation according to the Census Bureau, though that number doesn't reflect people who drive to a park and ride lot.
Addressing how people are going to cross-county commute is a matter of increasing public transit offerings, planning so that maybe some workers won't choose to drive as far to their job, and providing those who do come in from far away a realistic drive. Lately, that's meant developing toll lanes along many local highways.
Texas 288 is a great example, and one the transportation planners have looked at for years as a relief valve for many commuters south of the city. It feeds thousands of workers and visitors practically to the front door of the Texas Medical Center before converging with U.S. 59 south of the central business district.
Transit can improve access along most of the urban corridor, but thousands of cars are still going to come into the medical center each day, said its president, Dr. Robert Robbins.
"Most people still like the flexibility of driving their own car," Robbins said last month.
That's why officials at the sprawling medical campus are pleased with state and municipal plans to improve access to the area, including a planned direct connector ramp to the medical center.
As more jobs locate along 288, and more people move further out to Pearland, the freeway is going to be a big solution, or a huge bottleneck. It's why the Texas Department of Transportation is looking for mid-range and long-term fixes along the freeway.
"We consider this a statewide priority as well as a regional priority," said TxDOT spokeswoman Raquelle Lewis.
Meetings, one scheduled tonight and the other Thursday, will go over the options, including a plan for reversible toll lanes to help funnel traffic into the job centers, and then return it to the suburbs.
Right now, with more people planning their workday trips across county lines, more lanes are needed "sooner than later," Lewis said.


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Strong slack key strumming is in store at Stella Blues this weekend. With decades of experience in the genre, Hawaii Music Award-winning slack-key musician Makana will showcase his multifaceted strengths during two concerts at the South Maui venue Friday and Saturday. Strings are attached, quite literally, in the performances, where guitar will be a vehicle to fuse traditional slack key with folk, country, bluegrass, jazz and even flamenco influences.
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Paul James' uncertain status for Rutgers' game against USF on Saturday has put even more stress on one of the nation's worst running games – and could result in an increase in the zone read plays that became a significant part of the offensive approach during last Saturday's 28-17 loss to Connecticut.
Coach Kyle Flood put James at "50-50" for the regular-season finale – a must-win game for the bowl-hopeful Scarlet Knights – adding that he is "personally probably more optimistic that he will be able to go this week."
James, Rutgers' leading rusher this season with 720 yards despite missing four games, rushed for 49 yards on 11 carries before suffering what appeared to be a left knee or leg injury in the second quarter against the Huskies. It was a right leg injury that sidelined James for eight weeks earlier this season.
As a team, Rutgers – No. 100 nationally in rushing – managed just 68 yards on 31 carries against UConn. Justin Goodwin, Savon Huggins and quarterback Chas Dodd combined for 19 yards on 20 carries. That became an even bigger issue as James sat out the second half.
That was a "true" rushing total, too, since Dodd wasn't sacked and no sack yardage was subtracted from the rushing total. Dodd did have six carries (netting just one yard) on zone read keepers.
"We're going to have to look at all options because when I look at our running game after watching the film now twice we're just not effective enough running the football when Paul James isn't in there and we have to be more effective." Flood said. "We have to do a better job blocking up front. We have to do a better job blocking on the perimeter. The ones up front I think are obvious. There are ones that aren't so obvious where a receiver has to get in on a safety and he is blocked by a corner. Those are things we can be better at immediately and we need to be."
Rutgers, 5-6 and in need of a victory to become bowl eligible, is averaging 129.8 rushing yards per game. In four of the past six games, the Scarlet Knights have failed to rush for even 70 yards.


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Instead, the twerk-happy star, 20, opted for a throwback costume inspired by another skin-baring star who courted controversy at the MTV Video Music Awards more than a decade earlier: rapper Lil Kim.
On Wednesday night, the "Wrecking Ball" singer Tweeted a photo of herself dressed in the memorably skimpy outfit Kim wore to the 1999 Video Music Awards.
Donning a sultry look, a purple wig and that infamous purple pasty atop her left breast, the singer simply captioned the Tweet "Happy Halllllloweeeen" with four hearts after it.
And the Notorious K.I.M. rapper approves.
On Thursday, Lil Kim Tweeted her support of Miley's costume.
"Awwww. Look at my baby @mileycyrus tonight!!! Looking GORGEOUS!!! I wish I was there to squeeze your boob :) :)"
"@MileyCyrus: Happy Halloween @LilKim pic.twitter.com/uX872xnHkb" yasssssss my baby!!!!— Lil' Kim (@LilKim) October 31, 2013


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About 20 Girl Scouts delivered hand-made "comfort cards" to seniors at Sunrise Senior Living in Valencia on Monday, part of a bid to ensure no local senior is forgotten this holiday season.
The girls handed out some of the more than 500 cards made by Newhall School District students under a program coordinated by Comfort Keepers In-Home Care, said Diane Blair, spokeswoman for the business.
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I thought I'd create a partial map of the middle east using a procedure with Maple. Let me say it's not the quickest thing to do when the data format is not particularly favourable.
I downloaded data from Coastline Extractor from ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast. This gives you point data sets. You can then use maple to pointplot the points. Now with some graphs having more than 400,000 points it can slow Maple up a little. A simple algorithm will reduce the number of points.
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If this was my variable containing the dataa:=readdata(`c:/27336.dat`,2) #the filename was 27336.dat and contained 2 rows of data
b:=[seq(a[i*16],i=1..nops(a)/16)]: #the reduced data set
However this didn't allow me to achieve what I intended. So I set out labouriously (and roughly) manually picking points to trace out the borders of countries. If anyone has a simpler way please feel free to let me know about it.
In any case I've included a worksheet with my simplified datapoints of countries I completed. The Map does not include all the countries I finished. And also the worksheet could be made more efficient by changing the concatenation lists to arrays. Ironically I left out Tunisia (where the unrest all started) in the map however I did include it in the countries data list so you can always insert it later. The only other thing I noticed with Maple was when I converted the polygon to 3 dimensions Maple added extra fill along parts of the borders (not really sure why it does that).
You can easily see why Egypt went into unrest. Look how low it's GDP per capita is compared to it's surrounding countries. But also notice that Libya's GDP is relatively high hence the very high resistance to change not to mention other things. I'd imagine Saudi Arabia would have even more resistance. Just speculation on my part though.
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Hey guys. Here is a double rifle in 470 Nitro that I'm putting some English scroll work on. Thought some of you might get a kick out of it.
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February 10, 2008, 08:26 AM
very nice work. i'll keep you in mind for two of my projects i'm working on
February 10, 2008, 08:35 AM
wow, that looks really good. i dont know much (or anything) about engraving, but its sure nicer then anything ill probably ever own.
good work dclevinger
February 10, 2008, 12:24 PM
Thanks guys.
kir_kenix....I'm happy to answer questions about engraving. It's one of the few things I really enjoy talking about so ask away if you want.
February 10, 2008, 12:39 PM
Very nice work. I also don't know much about engraving, but have seen enough to be impressed by yours.
February 10, 2008, 02:44 PM
so if somebody wanted something engraved, how would one go about getting the work commissioned? is it like a paint store where u get a book full of different scrolls and choose the one u like? do ppl just turn the work over to u and say "have at it?" i imagine most ppl who have an engraved rifle know very, very little of the process, so if there was a picture book it would really help a guy along.
im putting together a big game rifle this summer on a montana 99 action, and i started thinking about some personal touches. what kind of material (4140 chrome, 415 stainless, etc) are optimal for an engravers work? I know price is totally dependent on the type/level of engraving, but how much does something such as ur picture above run a guy?
sorry for all the questions, but i am totally and absolutley out of my field here. i dont know if something like this would be feasable for a guy like me, but if u dont mind sharing id sure be interested in hearing about it. checked out ur site, and i can tell u are very talented by what little i have seen engraved. thanks.
February 10, 2008, 03:56 PM
Thank you very much Bones
kir_kenix....You're pretty close. There are basically nine "styles" of sroll work to chose from that can be found in many books. Of course, each engraver will have his own version of the various styles. As well, most engravers will have one or two styles that they specialize in. Mine happens to be English and Anerican scroll but I work in all of the styles.
Some clients have an idea what style they want and where they want it. I've had several that sent me a gun with the ares they wanted covered mark with a sharpie. I have a couple of old shotguns in right now that are getting my version of an original factory pattern. The client sent the gun and pictures of the original pattern and said "Put this on it." Still others just send the gun, give me a budget and let me go to town. R.L. Wilson's book "Steel Canvas" is great reference material to see different styles and learn a little of the history of engraving. You can also go to www.fega.com (Firearms Engravers Guild of America) and click on "Members Photos" to see more modern examples.
Most of the chromoly and 400 seires stainless alloys are engravable. 300 series stainless is not fun to cut but luckily isn't used in guns very often. The biggest issue is the hardness of the metal. Modern American guns are very hard and while most can be engraved, some are just too hard.
The rifle above would cost about $1000. All of the metal parts have some scroll on them and there is a fair amount of lettering as well. The coverage can be adjusted to suit the clients budget. Price also has to do with the engravers skill and reputation. I have friends that would charge $5000 for a job that I charge $2000 to do. There are others that can charge $20000 or $30000 for the same thing. A couple of my instructors can get commissions for $60000 or more. And yes, you can tell the difference. It takes a trained eye but the difference is there.
Hope this helps a little. Let me know if there are any other questions.
February 10, 2008, 07:19 PM
How is it done? No need to go into trade-secret specifics, but is it with a static tool like chisel, a rotary tool of some kind, or... ?
February 10, 2008, 07:34 PM
david, how hard is it for you to engrave german mauser receivers? i have two that i'm going to want a small amount of engraving on the receiver, bottom metal, the top flat on the octagon barrels & the mauser banners on the front ring touched up. i'm going to have the receivers re-heat treated so would it help out very much on your engraving to have the receivers annealed before i send them to you?
February 10, 2008, 08:44 PM
No trade secrets here. Most of the professional gun engravers are 50 or older and at 34, I'm one of the young bucks. So the way I see, the more people I can educate about engraving the better off we all are.
My engraving is done with a very small chisel called a graver. Most of my gravers are made of .090" square stock and are HSS, cobalt or carbide. I grind the square stock into whatever shape and size I need. When I started engraving, I used the hammer and chisel method. The graver is held is a handle of some type and driven along with a chasing hammer which has a very light steel head and thin shaft. The thin shaft allows it to flex and spring a bit which helps with control. I now use a Gravermax, an air assisted tool, made by GRS. Think of it as a miniature jack hammer. The graver is held in a hand piece that contains a small piston. The piston provides the impact force rather than a hammer. One of the big advantages is that the tool is held with one hand and the work is turned into the graver. www.grstools had some great pictures of the equipment I use. The work is held in an ball vise that can spin and be tilted depending on what is being engraved.
dirtyjim....it would depend on the Rockwell after hardening but working on it after annealing would be easy. The issue with hardening after engraving is that some of the detail could be lost if the polisher gets too aggressive when removing the scale.
February 11, 2008, 12:40 AM
thanks for answering my questions dclevinger. i checked out fega, and wow, some of that work is amazing. a little to gaudy for me maybe, but fantastic.
ordered a book on engraving because i found it so interesting. cant wait to do some reading so ill know more about the techniques, styles, and get to look at some work. i dont think at this time id be ready to commission any work, but ill see what the wife says.
once again, thanks for answering my questions and getting my interest in a new form of art (to me). ill certainly keep u in mind if i decide to get some work commissioned.
February 12, 2008, 02:11 PM
I hope you don't find my question insulting, but Is there anytime you would recommend someone have their firearm laser engraved versus hand engraved? Say for instance if someone wanted more of a 'logo' type design versus fancy scroll work done?
February 12, 2008, 02:57 PM
kir_kenix.... very good. please let me know if you have any other questions.
ColdChili....yes, actually I suggest that someone use a laser engraver. Logos can very difficult to make an exact copy by hand and wanted it precise. Also, some gun parts are to hard to be cut with hand tools. Glock slides are a good example.
The problem with using a laser for scroll work is that it doesn't have the "life" that hand cut work does. As I go along I will lay my graver over one way or the other to change the thickness of the line. This creates a flare cut and is tough if not impossible to do with a laser.
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"Grow vegetables extensively in greenhouses!"By Clint Rainey
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In a statement, Kim Jong-un's government called President Obama a "monkey."By Caroline Bankoff
It wasn't actually gout from overeating.By Joe Coscarelli
A day at the orphanage with the brutal dictator.By Joe Coscarelli
Leave your holy books at home, folks.By Katie Zavadski
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Here's what the North Korean boy-leader has been up to while holding a 24-year-old American prisoner.By Joe Coscarelli
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Dear Leader is all wet.By Adam K. Raymond
Hyon Song-wol was reportedly seen speaking on state TV this week.By Delia Paunescu
Another likely-false story about the authoritarian regime.By Joe Coscarelli
"Our leader's haircut is very particular."By Kathleen Hou
Women flock to the North Korean leader, for some reason.By Joe Coscarelli
Including children and two ambassadors.By Margaret Hartmann
The American jailed by Kim Jong-un spoke at a "press conference," probably under duress.By Joe Coscarelli
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After months of anxiously waiting, two names have finally been revealed and (sadly) Kristen Bell and Jonathan Groff won't be reprising their roles.
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Friday, 30 March 2012
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Using a voucher for dinner, accommodation and breakfast we arrived at The Hughenden in Paddington and were immediately impressed with this quaint charming place.
Dinner was two courses but we were always going to stretch this to three - why not!
Our neighbouring table ordered the roast lamb shank pot pie with potato and vegetable ragout and it was a work of art (and almost seemed a shame to eat it). I almost regretted not ordering it!
The Hughenden is very nice - the food is tasty and the quality is good. Its a pleasant place to have a nice meal.
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What is a mosque?
The word "mosque" means "place of submission ("Arabic masjid, derivative of sajada to worship, literally, prostrate oneself", "from sajada to prostrate oneself").
It is completely unlike a church ("from Gk. kyriake (oikia)"Lord's (house)"") or a temple ("from L. templum "piece of ground consecrated for the taking of auspices, building for worship,"").
A mosque is a socio-political control centre:
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By Ning on June 10th, 2011 at 7:03 pm
"place of submission" is also very far from Shul (=school).
By JohnE77 on June 11th, 2011 at 5:31 pm
Congratulations with this great and courageous initiative.
Following on from the video in which you say that criminal law might be applied to stop mosque building,
I had a question regarding "causing offense".
In several European nations (Holland, Denmark, Austria etc) people-having pointed out the miseries that come with Islam- are on trial for having "caused offense" to muslims.
However, can we as "Infidels" not claim having been offended by a doctrine that states that unbelievers are of lower status than muslims, can be lied to, should be killed etc.
In this case anyone that teaches the Koran could be prosecuted for having caused offense.
Are there any lawyers/barristers looking into this?
best John
By Miss Ruby Akhtar on August 3rd, 2011 at 12:29 pm
This is our agenda and statement of mission!
1 Million Signatures Needed! on 4 Freedoms Community.
Posted by Ruby Sunday http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43947/sign.html http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43947.html Please sign the petition to help the UN.understand WHO the enemy actually is and ask their help in stopping the pread of Islamic murders worldwide! Background (Preamble): Handing' NGO Petition' to the PM"To oppose Radicalisation of Islam and uphold the cause of Integrity of British Society Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:17:13 +0100 This petition is to seek justice for all citizens to exercise their full rights and unlike one of the British lad got jailed for 70 days for burning a quran but a muslim got away with just a peanut fine of £50 for committing a big blunder of burning our prestigious poppy.Also those muslims who openly burnt our flag of honour and the USA FLAG AND SHOUTED "God curse the queen"British troops go to hell"Sharia will rule Britain"have escaped any legal action or punishment.They are also defended by the human rights no matter what they do. This is where 'Ruby's NGO' takes its stand to oppose such discriminations and unjust judiciary system that will ruin our country badly. This is therefore to be seriously reviewed and should be done by the public votes only.This includes "Release the lad who burnt quran and his charges be removed".How is it that channel four telecast of the 'DESPATCHES' has not brought any legal challenge against an open rebellion against the British Sovereignty. Multiculture has terribly failed in the Europe which the PM also confirmed in his speech in Munich. So why is nothing done about it further. It seems the PM is a double faced man who uses different tactics inside out and upholds double standards. It is time for everyone to vote here for what I am fighting for and anyone above 16 can vote and do it soon! Before 19th of June. I am also a UKIP member and future candidate for north London. Now to do the above we need many cheerful volunteers to take over many responsibilities and join hands for this.2011 Christians/Jews have sufferingand victim of faith 1947 these people do not see any aids.HISTORY MUST CHANGE NOW 2011
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Pakistan is in a mess that the whole world can see.On top of it the Brutality is increasing Day by Day by Killing every Christian/Jews and others. Who do not Share the same faith as them. This is not Democracy and the time is now come to the World Leaders must address it Here is the body of complete
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By carouseLP on February 9th, 2012 at 4:53 pm
Its hilarious how far from the truth and blinded you all are. I agree the general image of Islam is falling because of the political and extremist on-goings, but maligning it ALL in the name of that is simply absurd. Talk to me when you have studied islam as a spiritually active way of life, and the mosque as a spiritual haven. Do your research before you quote out-of-context excerpts from the Koran and Hadis =]
By carouseLP on February 9th, 2012 at 4:55 pm
@ John
"…unbelievers are of lower status than muslims, can be lied to, should be killed etc."
i'd also like to know where you picked this from! let me guess… the media. not one of our classical texts
By Sam on February 25th, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Finally there is people who stand up for what is justice and not let political correctness. We in the Western World have been dormant and allowing these back-ward thinking violent animals to infiltrate our lives.
Keep this up and we support you in Canada
By friendlykamustaka on July 17th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Here is a fascinating article which demonstrates how so many mosques throughout the world are often deliberately built next to other political,religious or cultural buildings.In other words these mosques are symbolic statements,rather than something which satisfies "demand" from the local residents:
By Nill on October 8th, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Wow ur twisting of straight meaning is amazing..where in ur "defination" of a mosque does it say anythinf about politics n socialism! U must be reading imaginary stuff!! Yes it means prostate,thats the position we take while praying!! Dnt christians bow down or go down on their knees while praying?? I guess churches n temples r "socio-political centres" too..lets wipe them out first!!
By David Jones on November 24th, 2012 at 12:41 pm
Why do we allow this horror to persist? Teaching a pack of lies-which is what religions are, belongs to the 18th century. Evolution killed off all the idiot fairy stories, and only the deranged want to persist with their hate filled infantile rubbish.
The misery and suffering in religious countries is surely evidence that gods do not exist. Would gods allow Sunni and Shia to kill each other? Force 8 million Pakistanis to be heroin addicts? Make Taliban cut off children's heads? what about cancer,malaria? You think there are any god that designed this?
Really??? You'd have to be either an imbecile or a very frightened little person in fear of their life to believe this.
you deserve better.
People really need to think a little bit beyond what the silly old man in a frock is telling them -it is all utter rubbish, and has no more meaning than Harry Potter. Religions have NO basis in TRUTH or FACT.


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Bauko, Mt. Province, Sept. 13– Today, the elders and leaders of the Cordillera Bodong Administration-Cordillera People's Liberation Army (CBA-CPLA) and government officials in the northern region will gather to honor the 25th anniversary of the Mt. Data Peace Accord, the very first peace agreement signed in the history of the country's peace process.
Twenty-five years to this date, in 1986, the CPLA led by Fr. Conrado Balweg heeded the call of peace by the late President Corazon C. Aquino through the signing of a ceasefire agreement at the Mt. Data Hotel in this town, which it became known as the Mt. Data Peace Accord.
This year, both parties will recollect the historic event through a Conference of Tribal Leaders (Amung Di Cordillera) and an open forum to be held at the venue of the signing.
Updates regarding the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) signed by the CBA-CPLA and the Government of the Philippines (GPH) last July 4 will be presented to the elders. The MOA signified the transformation of the rebel group from an armed force to a socio-economic organization.
Further, an exhibit showcasing photos of the peace agreement signing and the Cordilleran life will also be held.
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Daniel Giddens, who is rated as the state's No. 3 overall basketball prospect for 2015, committed to Ohio State on Friday, less than a week after returning from an official visit with the Buckeyes.
The 6-foot-10 center from Wheeler High School picked Ohio State over Wake Forest, while also considering UGA and Florida. Giddens thought about visiting other schools, but changed his mind after reflecting on his Ohio State trip.
"Yes, it was the only official visit I took because right after I took it, I felt like Ohio State was the only place for me," Giddens said. "I didn't really feel the need to visit anywhere else."
Why OSU? "It was really just the environment at Ohio State and the city of Columbus. I felt like it was a city that welcomed me and my family. I felt like the trust I built with Coach Matta and his staff is something where they will do everything to get me to that next level."
Giddens had taken unofficial visits to both UGA and Florida. He was a priority for the Bulldogs in their search for big men.
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Giddens' teammate at Wheeler is Jaylen Brown, the 6-7 forward who is rated as the state's No. 1 prospect. Is Giddens working on Brown for Ohio State?
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Jumpsuits aren't for everyone, including Tina Fey.
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Besides art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual gala is a showcase of the best red-carpet fashion. This year, the new exhibit, American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity was the theme. And well-dressed American women and designers filled the spotlight from Zoe Saldana in Calvin Klein to Oprah Winfrey in Oscar de la Renta gown. But I must give loud boo-hiss to funny girl Tina Fey, who wore a plain black jumpsuit. First, the look was too casual for such a dignified affair. Secondly, it didn't fit well on Fey, who actually has a great figure.
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"Arsenic and Old Lace" isn't a particularly sentimental show, but it has a sentimental appeal to director David El'Hatton.
It was the second show he ever did at Youngstown Playhouse, and his father died during the run of the production in 2001.
"It's where I met my theater family," he said. "During the run I was dealing with funeral homes. It's where I met my people. There's a whole world here that is fun and supportive. I think I want to stay here."
So when the original director slated to do the show at Youngstown Playhouse dropped out, El'Hatton let former managing director Mary Ruth Lynn know he was interested.
"Literally every time I saw Mary Ruth for the next week, I said, 'Me. Arsenic. Me. Arsenic,'" he said. ''Finally, she said, 'OK, you can have it.'"
Joseph Kesselring's comedy about two old ladies with a nasty habit of poisoning gentleman callers, a nephew who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, another nephew who's even scarier and the exasperated theater critic who has to deal with all of them remains a staple with community and regional theaters 75 years after its debut.
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El'Hatton said there is a simple reason why.
"I'd go as far to say it might be the greatest American comedy ever written," he said. "Take a look at it, it's definitely in the top 5."
According to the director, its influence can be seen in every sitcom from "The Dick Van Dyke Show" to "Frasier," and it's a testament to how far ahead of its time the show was in that audiences still find its humor off -the-wall.
"I know this show inside out," he said. "I know what jokes work, what one don't, what jokes you think are going to work but fall flat, and I know how to fix them."
John Cox plays Mortimer Brewster, the nephew who has to deal with his crazy relatives, and his deadly aunts are played by Terri A. Wilkes and Dana Dunnavant. The rest of the cast includes Victoria Lubonovich, Charles Simon, David Jendre, Frank Martin, Tom O'Donnell, Ezekiel Ellis, Jim Hain, Joseph Scarvell, Daniel Lancy, Vijay Welch-Young, and Dennis Villa.
"It's sort of an all-star cast," El'Hatton said. "Look at that list. I have Tom O'Donnell in the small, throw-away role of the reverend. The guy who does one-man, three-hour shows is my first-10-minutes-of-the-show guy ... I got David Jendre as Doctor Einstein. I can't remember the last time he was on stage doing something, and he showed up for me? Wow. Everyone on stage you've seen many, many times before in many other roles. I'm just grateful they wanted to be a part of this."


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Interesting. I love good food so much though I'm not sure I could do this long term. I do really see the point though. It is so easy to make food extremely palatable now - but it's pretty hard to overeat on a diet of plain ground beef, lettuce, etc.
If anyone's been following Stephan Guyenet's blog and his posts on food reward, you might be curious to read my own blog detailing my experiment with a low-food-reward diet - I'm calling it a food vacation, because in addition to wanting to take off the weight I put on during the summer-of-no-kitchen, I also just needed a break from feeling barraged by the harvest season, thanksgiving (I'm Canadian so it's in mid-October), and generally being a total foodie.
I haven't been using tags on my posts but the journey starts on a post called "Mimicking the Ebb and Flow of Nature". I've been doing this for three weeks, eating nothing but bland, unseasoned (that means no salt!) soup/stews, hardboiled eggs, raw milk kefir and the odd bland snack like cucumbers, raw nuts, and domestic blueberries. The results are pretty astonishing. I'm eating barely 800 calories a day, losing exactly the amount of weight one would predict (between 2-3 lbs/week) with my body size, activity level, and that intake, but I'm not hungry and my energy levels are barely affected. More importantly, I'm not cranky!
Anyway, if you're interested, have a read. If you've been Primal for a while in hopes of losing weight and haven't lost any, it can't hurt to give it a try.
Interesting. I love good food so much though I'm not sure I could do this long term. I do really see the point though. It is so easy to make food extremely palatable now - but it's pretty hard to overeat on a diet of plain ground beef, lettuce, etc.
Yup - I think people's cooking skills can be a reason why weight loss on the PB can be difficult. I used to work in a restaurant, so my home cooking is pretty damn palatable, even if it doesn't include the usual neolithic agents of disease. So I get down to about 30% bf without difficulty just doing PB, but there I sit - and I'd like to be leaner. I think after this I will definitely try to use salt a lot less. I used to think it was benign - at least, GOOD locally-made sea salt - but now I'm thinking that it DOES play a role in obesity, just not the one that people think.
Different people have different susceptibilities to food reward, but taking it down to really basic will probably work for everyone.
This was very interesting. Keep us posted on your energy levels after doing this a while longer.
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I'm finding this very interesting. Considering trying it out for myself, if what I'm currently doing stops working for me. At the moment all seems well, though.
Today I will: Eat food, not poison. Plan for success, not settle for failure. Live my real life, not a virtual one. Move and grow, not sit and die.
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And I absolutely LOVE your blog. I envy the bear meat. It's one game meat I've not had the opportunity to try.
Thanks! Bear meat is delicious - as long as it's been eating lots of berries, and not fish...
I did something like this but on a very short term (two 1 week experiments). I learned some interesting things.
The first week was meat and green leafy veggies only and I learned that too many leafy green veggies make me feel gross and that I go to the fridge way to often just because I"m sitting at home and not necessarily hungry. Second week was meat, green leafy veggies AND some other veggies. (there were arbitrary amounts that I aimed for eating of each of these categories in both weeks) Better feeling belly, same extra trips to the fridge.
But it DOES cut down the snacking. When you open the fridge, boredly looking for food you aren't actually hungry for and all you have is raw meat that you would actually have to cook and leafy green veggies you just don't find anything to munch!
Yeah - with my pre-prepared stews there always IS something to munch if I want it - I just kinda don't. It's fine if I'm actually hungry, but it's not something I would ever choose to snack on.
The other thing is that it's a WHOLE lot easier to ignore hunger in favour of getting stuff done. Like, I'm hungry, but there's laundry that just finished in the dryer - previously, I would have said "screw it, let it wrinkle, I need food" but now there's no question - getting it before it needs the iron is WAY more important than eating. And sometimes the hunger just goes away when I do that and I forget about eating for a while longer. Crazy.