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Fashionista, Style Consultant and Author, Debbie Wright is back with more style tips for your closet, and your business! Check out her tips, then get ready to reinvent YOUR wardrobe!
Fashion comes in many shapes and sizes, and Debbie is back to share some great "do it yourself" fashion concepts! She loves these ideas, because you don't have to be extremely to make them happen– anyone can do these! Read on for four cool concepts…
1. Party Clutch
When women go to parties, they need a little handbag to carry with them. There are great ones available at Forever 21 or American Apparel that come in different colors. Once you pick up a color you like, get some jewels, beads and sequins and with just a glue gun you can created a pattern on the clutch bag and have some fun! They make a great, personal gift if you create a unique, one of a kind piece for your bestie.
2. Bringing Back the Broach
Broaches are big right now– Michelle Obama and lots of celebrities are rocking vintage broaches on their scarves. And there's a way to make a little broach yourself! All you need is a little piece of felt– cut out the shape in the size you want your broach, then use beads, sequins and materials to add a pattern or design. Then just glue a pin closure on the back and voila! A great DIY broach that's totally you!
3. Re-purposing
Going in to a thrift store, there's lots of cool stuff you can re-purpose. For example, find some old tea cups and pour candle wax in the middle to give away as beautiful gifts.
4. Napkin Pillows
Look for square, white napkins at any thrift store or consignment shop. Sew them together to make a little pillow, stuff it and sew around the edges. Then buy some sequins or a string of sequins to spell a festive word or message.
These ideas are all easy and simple, for yourself or as gifts. There's more fashion inspiration ideas on Pop Sugar and also Pinterest, if you plug in "do it yourself." So get creative and make things personal AND fashionable for the holidays!


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Local voters will join their counterparts across this great country on Tuesday going to the polls and making their voices heard.
In a year that features numerous contentious races across the nation, there has been particular interest and speculation over whether the Democrats or Republicans will control the House and Senate in Washington, D.C.
Closer to home, Louisianans have been caught up in an incredibly negative and partisan campaign for the U.S. Senate between incumbent Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and challenger Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville.
While the candidates have been mired in attacks, the people of Louisiana have continued to watch their coastline erode even as oil from the Deepwater Horizon has threatened wildlife and the environment.
Even more local is the election for the 3rd Congressional District, which matches Houma Democrat Ravi Sangisetty against New Iberia Republican Jeff Landry. This, too, has been a bitterly partisan race that has focused on the negative. Still, local voters will be anxious to weigh in on who will represent us in Washington for the next two years.
Statewide, 10 proposed changes to the state constitution will be decided. And the race for lieutenant governor between Republican Jay Dardenne and Democrat Caroline Fayard will determine the state's second-in-command.
Locally, Terrebonne voters will decide the fate of a parishwide half-mill property tax that would pay for the Regional Military Museum and the Veterans Park, both in Houma. The tax would cost the owner of a $100,000 home $1.25 a year and would generate $360,000 a year for the museum and park.
Also, some Houma voters will decide whether to keep a property tax that pays for recreation.
So there are plenty of local, statewide and national issues that need to be decided on Tuesday, and your input is needed.
Our system of representative government hinges on the informed participation of the electorate. Without people taking the time to learn about and express input on the candidates and issues on our ballots, our system will fail.
Do not allow yourself to be pushed out of the process by negativity or partisanship. Those factors are unfortunately present in large doses in this election cycle, but that is even more reason to make your voice heard.
The political process depends on all of our public officials being answerable to their constituents. Go to the polls on Tuesday and hold them accountable for their campaigns, whether you agree or disagree with them.
Go vote.
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OCEAN ISLE BEACH — Ocean Isle Beach commissioners approved the 2017-18 town budget at their regular meeting Tuesday morning.
The town's total budget for the upcoming year increased by just more than $655,000 to $21.882,350 from $21,027,225.
The town set aside $8,775,000 last year to fund Coastal Storm Damage Reduction and the terminal groin project. The beach project budget for 2017-18 increased to $9,179,334.
Dustin Medlin inherited a successful baseball program when he accepted the head-coaching job at North Brunswick more than five years ago.
He has taken the program to new heights, including a state championship appearance, in his stint as the Scorpions' skipper.
Medlin led an 18-win team that captured the East Central Conference regular-season championship, earning him the league's coach of the year award.
North Brunswick didn't have its most talented team during Medlin's time as head coach, the coach said.
Firefighters think lightning caused the fire that damaged an empty house on the Ocean Isle Beach island Tuesday morning. No one was injured.
Dispatchers received a call at 8:10 a.m. about the fire at 25 Atlantic Way, Mayor Debbie Smith said. A neighbor was awakened by a loud bang and realized the home was on fire.
The house sustained extensive smoke and fire damage with a collapsed roof. Smith said crews successfully kept the fire from spreading to other homes, though the heat rippled vinyl siding on one of them.
SUPPLY — On May 10, 76-year-old Theodore Racz of Sunset Beach began his tri-weekly kidney dialysis at Fresenius Kidney Care Brunswick County in Supply as usual. The treatment, which removes waste from the body after a person's kidneys fail, usually lasts about five hours for him.
About 30 minutes into it on this day, however, he said he "felt like I was hit by a baseball bat in the chest.
"I called out to the nurse and that's the last thing I remember."
ASH— "You're the Mr. Holland to our opus."
That's how one former student thanked Craig Morris, band director at Waccamaw School since 2003.
Having been in Brunswick County Schools for 30 years, his career began in 1982 in Tyrrell County, where he taught for five years. It was there he met his wife of 31 years, Joan.
"Up there I was Mr. Music for the whole county, from kindergarten through 12th grade," he said.
WINNABOW — Installation of a manmade reef system to protect the Brunswick Town Fort Anderson State Historic Site's waterfront will begin next week.
Brunswick Town received $850,000 from the 2013-14 Office of State Budget and Management's Repair and Renovation Reserve list for the project.
The money will go to build the first 200 linear feet of protective reef, Brunswick Town/Fort Anderson historian Jim McKee said.
A pickup ran a red light and crashed into a Kids World Academy 15-passenger van carrying eight students from Southport on Tuesday morning, causing minor injuries.
It happened at 9:40 a.m. on U.S. 74 in Leland, North Carolina State Highway Patrol Trooper D.M. Adams said
Charles Carter, 56, of Princeton was driving a blue 1999 Ford F-150 west on U.S. 74 when he failed to stop at the light and struck the van driven by 26-year-old Desiree Auld of Southport, who was trying to turn left at a stop light from N.C. 140 onto U.S. 74.
VARNAMTOWN — Gail Hewitt has a new home.
Months after an appeals court ruled against the 81-year-old woman in favor of her youngest daughter in a legal dispute over Hewitt's Varnamtown house, Hewitt started moving last week to a new home less than a mile away from her former home on Varnamtown Road.
CAROLINA SHORES — A little more than three years after being hired, Carolina Shores Town Administrator Jon Mendenhall has signed a three-year contract that includes a significantly higher salary than that of his hiring date.
The town board of commissioners approved Mendenhall's employment contract last week to lock in "stability and experience as the administrative head of town government," according to a news release issued by the town last Friday, June 9.
BOLIVIA — Seventeen-year-old Lora Kinlaw of Shallotte not only graduated from West Brunswick High School Saturday with a perfect 4.0 GPA, but also with a perfect attendance record.
Kinlaw hasn't missed a day of school since she began her first day of kindergarten in 2004 at Union Elementary School. That's 2,340 days (more than six years), 16,380 hours or 982,800 minutes in the classroom.
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I'm guessing not a significant amount in the grand scheme of things. Considering those fish, like us, are probably largely water anyway. Also, there's a lot more biomass in the ocean than fish. Algae, plankton, coral, jellyfish (not fish), etc.
If you removed ALL living creatures, along with their internal...erm...juices, you would probably see a few feet drop. But I have no clue really.
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Well, my experimentation is complete. In the name of science, Ive added 1.5 billion cubic kilometers of bleach to world's oceans, giving the waters a roughly 1:1 ratio. I then scooped out all the carcasses so that I could figure out what effect their displacement had on water levels. Ive recorded the results and they indicate that the lack of fish actually caused water levels to rise by roughly 100%!!


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I'm glad you could take the time to join me today! I've got a lot going on in the studio, but this post specifically deals with some new cards I have available in my shop.
New to the shop is my new Rise and Shine card, which features Bombshell Stamps images.
Cheryl Valadez! I love this card and I'm so happy that my friends at Bombshell Stamps love it as much as I do (Hi Ladies! lol)! It's available in my shop.
Since May is not that far off, I've started working on some Mother's Day cards. Thank you cards seemed appropriate, since if it wasn't for Mom willing to have you, you wouldn't be here, right?
I love this card because it's so different then my usual style. It's nice to break out of the regular pattern of creating!
Below: Here's a Mother's Day card that simply reads "Happy Mother's Day" on the inside and has a hand drawn rose underneath the inside sentiment. A great gift for a gardener.
Below: Here's a card that's spring themed, so I just added a thank you sentiment on the inside and turned it into a Mother's Day card. I think this is just so simple and sweet! I used my Cricut to create the flower and I love how it turned out! I particularly love the color scheme with this card.
I have a new stamp set that I JUST got in the mail (yay! happy mail!) and I'm loving the way it's turning out with my designs! I've designed two cards using this stamp set, one for a housewarming card:
and another design for Father's Day! Reads Happy Father's Day on the inside and lined in yellow.
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Using Common Objects To Interact With Computers
The TED Fellow and interactive designer James Patten explores newer ways to control and represent data.
Inventor and designer James Patten creates new, interactive ways to represent and control data. He says that traditional peripherals like the keyboard and mouse don't fit in with the multimedia and digital needs of today, and explains his argument using the phenomenal success of gadgets like the Wii and the iPad that have been able to attract people towards them by offering them a new kind of experience.
In an interview with Business Week, Patten says that he has explored ways to use objects on a tabletop as a substitute to the keyboard.
One approach I've explored in depth is using physical objects on a tabletop to represent and control information inside the computer. This approach lets people organize information spatially and leverage a rich set of skills that humans have for using our sense of touch. In one application we made, physical objects on a table represent various parts of a manufacturing supply chain. By moving and rotating these objects, one can control a simulation of that supply chain, for example, by changing the output of a factory. You can do the same thing with a keyboard and mouse, but doing it on an interactive table is easier to understand and creates a more effective learning experience.


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Field editor Edna Hoffman from Hebron, Indiana delights guests with this fun non-traditional fondue. Creamy apple butter and cinnamon red hots add tangy flair!
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- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen sweetened raspberries
- 1 cup apple butter
- 1 tablespoon red-hot candies
- 2 teaspoons cornstarch
- Assorted fresh fruit
- Thaw and drain raspberries, reserving 1 tablespoon juice. Mash raspberries. Press through a fine-mesh strainer into a small saucepan; discard seeds.
- Add apple butter and red-hots to strained raspberries; cook over medium heat until candies are dissolved, stirring occasionally. Combine cornstarch and reserved juice until smooth; stir into berry mixture. Bring to a boil; cook and stir over medium heat for 1-2 minutes or until thickened.
- To serve warm, transfer to a small fondue pot and keep warm. Or, to serve cold, refrigerate until chilled. Serve with fruit. Yield: about 1 cup.
Originally published as Raspberry Fondue Dip in Taste of Home December/January 2006, p61
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Check out the article by Sheikh Habib Ali Al Jifri, "Why is there no serious effort to counter takfir ideology?"I'm glad to see this article being run in a prominent Emirati newspaper, as the Gulf is at the heart of this problem. One hopes that's a sign of some sympathy for real reform, as opposed to shrewd geopolitical optics.Unlike in the case of most thorny social or political problems, I think this question can be answered very simply, for it stares us in the face: The reason … [Read more...]
The not-so-strange resilience of Takfarism
Amazon, leading the way…back to the 19th Century!
Check out Simon Head's "Worse than Wal-Mart: Amazon's sick brutality and secret history of ruthlessly intimidating workers" on Salon.com. It's chilling and eye-opening.It's an expose of truly revolting labor practices at Amazon that deserves to be discussed widely. And not merely because people ought to know what this iconic and powerful corporation subjects its employees to, but also because that brutish treatment is quite likely a taste of things to come elsewhere in the economy. This mad … [Read more...]
CSM cover story on American Muslims
Given all the attention that Islam and Muslims get today and all anxiety that exists over their relationship to America, I'm often surprised how little attention is paid to the American Muslims as a community and subculture.For all the provincialism and resentment that reigns in many quarters towards America's increasing ethnic and religious diversity, I think it's fair to say that Muslims are set apart these days by the extent to which they are widely assumed to be intrinsically *foreign*. … [Read more...]
The scourge of Veil Porn
I have a complicated take on veils (by which I mean actual veils, not the headscarves often poetically referred to as such).I think them neither religiously mandated nor ultimately healthy for society. While some women certainly choose it freely and while I concede that veils play a more complex role in some places (especially environments where women lack the relative physical security that Westerners can take for granted), I think the veil's primary function in most, for lack of a better … [Read more...]
Fox News in all its glory
I'm hard pressed to recall a case where the abject imbecility of contemporary Islamophobia is not only captured in a short video clip, but demolished in a single sentence. Watch John McCain inadvertently slap down the air-headed Brian Kilmeade on Fox News on the significance of "Allahu Akbar."Journalists are often required to cover and discuss a wide range of disparate topics, so I don't blame them for occasionally getting important facts wrong. That doesn't let them off the hook for … [Read more...]
The pros and cons of White House iftars in the Obama era
An interesting debate is going on in Muslim corners of the Blogosphere and social media over the ethics and merits of Muslims attending White House iftars in the Obama era, with its militarism and lawlessness .As is usually the case, Sheila Musaji has already neatly laid out the issues involved in The American Muslim, so I'll just send you there for the details.I happen to consider both Omid and Shahed dear friends, but I find myself agreeing with Omid here.At the same time, I don't … [Read more...]
Jabba the Turk?
Lego (about which I occasionally blog lovingly) has been accused of racism for alleged similarities between its Jabba the Hut lair set and famous Turkish mosques.Lego Accused Of Racism Amid Claims Jabba's Palace Resembles Istanbul's Hagia Sophia Mosque (HuffPo): A Turkish community in Austria has accused Lego of racism amid claims a model from its Star Wars range resembles a renowned mosque.The model in question is Jabba's Palace – a dome topped structure housing the slobbering Star … [Read more...]
Amitabh Pal on nonviolence in Islam
Listened to a very stimulating interview from a year or so ago with The Progressive Managing Editor Amitabh Pal on his book,"Islam" Means Peace: Understanding the Muslim Principle of Nonviolence Today. The interview touches on a variety of countervailing evidence to the customary assumption that Islam and Muslims are intrinsically predisposed towards violence--unlike, ahem, the wide-eyed pacifists that populate American society--so the book looks really promising. Amitabh Pal interview on The … [Read more...]


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This display examines the origins of still-life painting in Britain
A familiar genre today, still life painting became established in Britain in the late seventeenth century. Writing in the 1650s, the author William Sanderson referred to such paintings as 'dead-standing-things', the term 'still life' (from the Dutch 'stilleven') only appearing in the following decades. Characterised as the detailed depiction of inanimate objects, the genre had been established in the Netherlands early in the seventeenth century and its introduction into Britain was through the work and ;influence of Dutch incomer artists. Pieter van Roestraten arrived in London from Amsterdam in the mid-1660s and became known for his 'portraits' of objects, particularly silver; another Dutchman known by the anglicised name of Edward Collier was active in London from the 1690s.
This period saw a shift in the way artists sold their works. The old system of artistic patronage by and commissions from the wealthy elite was, from the later 1680s, augmented by newly-emerging auctions. Sales at taverns, coffee houses and commercial exchanges provided artists with new opportunities. It also meant the 'middling' class of professionals and merchants could purchase art to furnish their homes and satisfy their social ambitions, with affordable and easily available still lifes a popular choice.
This is the second of two displays at Tate Britain organised as part of Court, Country, City: British Art, 1660–1735, a major research project run by the University of York and Tate Britain, and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
This display has been devised by curator Tim Batchelor
This display has been made possible by the provision of insurance through the Government Indemnity Scheme. Tate would like to thank HM Government for providing Government Indemnity and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England for arranging the indemnity.


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|Chicago 1930
|Spellbound Entertainment
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|November 2003
|Organized crime, RPG
Chicago 1930 is a 2003 video game developed by Spellbound Entertainment and published by Wanadoo Edition.
The game is based in the American city of Chicago in the 1930s, an era heavily associated with gangsters. The RPG style game allows players to choose to be the mafia, headed by Don Carmine Falcone, or a special unit of the police, headed by Edward Nash.
- Mafia: If the player chooses to play as the Mafia, they will play as Jack Beretto, a member of the local Mafia and right-hand man of Don Carmine Falcone. Playing as Mafia, your goal is to destroy all of your enemies and take over Chicago. The powerful Irish organized crime leader, Hank O'Neil is head of Chicago and there's this mysterious character "Baron" who is apparently stealing money from Don Falcone. When it's revealed that O'Neil is not the Baron, new character will get into plot: District Attorney Dan D. Dougherty. But, it will be also revealed that Dougherty isn't the Baron after all.
- Police: If the player chooses to play as the Police, they will play as Edward Nash, an FBI agent. The FBI head will give the player missions. The antagonist is Don Falcone, the king of Chicago. The player will have to slowly take over Falcone's territories as you proceed to ruin his empire. The traitor Beretto will help you a little, but he is also an enemy. At the end of this chapter you will find out who is hiding under the Baron name.
- Henchmen: These are people that help the main protagonist (Jack Beretto or Edward Nash). They are also playable characters and can be used for different tasks (for example, a gangster or officer with high shooting skill can be sent to kill by shooting.). Game will not be over if a henchman dies.
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- Don Carmine Falcone: The brutal Mafia boss from New York, shows up in Chicago. If you play for his Mafia empire, you'll have to beat bunch of enemies on your way to top. Notice, that his name and story are a parody on Al Capone. Also shares name with a Mafia boss from the DC Comics universe.
- Jack Beretto: Right-hand man of Don Falcone, Jack is the protagonist of the first chapter. In second chapter he will help you a little with info's against Falcone, but you will still have to put him behind bars. Responsible for killing Hank O'Neil and Dan D. Dougherty, two antagonists.
- Edward Nash: Protagonist of second chapter, FBI agent. Notice that his name and story are similar to that of Eliott Ness.
- FBI Head: Man giving you orders in second chapter.
- District Attorney Dan D. Dougherty: Man who was supposed to be Baron, but it is revealed he's not. Kidnapped and interrogated by Don Falcone, and later killed on his orders. If you play as police, your first mission will be to investigate the death of Dougherty.
- Hank O'Neil: Irish mobster, ruler of Chicago before Don Falcone and second antagonist in first chapter (the other being District Attorney Dan D. Dougherty). Killed on Don Falcone's orders, last mission in first chapter.


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FLORENCE, S.C. - Francis Marion University athletic officials have announced that former Patriot men's basketball coach Lewis Hill will be the newest inductee into the FMU Athletic Hall of Fame.
The induction ceremony will take place during Homecoming activities on Saturday (Feb. 28). The ceremony will occur at approximately 3:45 p.m. in the Smith University Center gymnasium, between the women's and men's games of the FMU and Augusta State University basketball doubleheader.
Hill served as the head men's basketball coach at Francis Marion for 21 seasons, from 1976 to 1997, recording a 339-276 record. He is responsible for 74 percent of the program's all-time win total.
In only his second year (1977-78), he guided Francis Marion to its first winning season (20-8) and the program's first post-season berth (NAIA District Six Tournament). He piloted Francis Marion to its best-ever record (24-7) in 1979-80, and to the program's only NAIA District Six championship and NAIA national tournament appearance in 1990-91.
His Patriot teams won at least 19 games in 11 of his 21 seasons, including seven 20-win campaigns. His teams ranked nationally in team scoring defense in six of his final seven seasons at FMU.
His 1985-86 team won its opening eight games and 11 of its first 12, and was ranked as high as sixth in the nation (NAIA) in January of that year, en route to a 22-8 record.
He was named NAIA District Six "Coach of the Year" twice, in 1978 and 1991. He was also selected as the Palmetto State Conference "Coach of the Year" following the 1990-91 season. Under his direction, Francis Marion twice captured a share of the Palmetto State Conference crown, in 1989-90 and 1990-91.
Hill guided Francis Marion to a respectable 5-12 record in games against NCAA Division I opponents. He won his first game at Francis Marion, 65-63 over USC Aiken on Nov. 27, 1976, and his final win at FMU was also against USCA, 65-60 on Feb. 25, 1997.
Prior to taking the FMU position, he established the men's basketball program at Central Wesleyan College (now Southern Wesleyan University) and compiled a 99-50 record in six seasons. His 1975-76 Central Wesleyan squad placed second at the NCCAA national tournament.
After leaving Francis Marion, he spent several years in private business, but recently returned to coaching at the high school level. He just concluded his second year as boys' varsity basketball coach at Woodland High School in Dorchester, S.C. The Wolverines were 15-11 in 2002-03, and 10-8 this past year, and both years advanced to the AA State playoffs.
A native of Greensboro, N.C., Hill's coaching career began at Allen Jay High School in High Point, N.C., in 1965, where current N.C. State University women's head coach Kay Yow coached the girls' varsity. Hill earned his undergraduate degree from Mars Hill College and his master's from UNC Greensboro.
Hill joins 24 current members in the FMU Athletic Hall of Fame, which was formed in 1991. Past inductees include Cindy Alford (women's softball), Jeannette Alston (women's basketball, volleyball), Kristi Anderson (women's softball), Mark Bedenbaugh (cross country, track and field), Gary Bennett (golf), Maria Costas (women's basketball, tennis, volleyball), Tom C. Davidson (coach and administrator), Carlton Farr (men's basketball), LaRue Fields (women's basketball, volleyball), Allen Floyd (men's basketball), Sylvia Rhyne Hatchell (women's basketball coach), Mary Hirst (women's tennis), Wayne Huggins (baseball), Scotty Keefe (baseball), Sam Lundkvist (men's tennis), Pearl Moore (women's basketball), Robert Moore (men's basketball), Mitch Powell (track and field, cross country), Tommy Randall (golf), Garth Thomson (men's tennis player and coach), Randy White (track and field, cross country), Mike Wilson (baseball), Lee Whitwell (women's tennis), and Rendy Yates (women's softball player and coach).


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Tips to Help You Manage Your Household Waste
Did you know that the United States produces about 250 million tons of household waste in a year? Household waste is generally considered to be the everyday items—such as food, newspapers, batteries, bottles, clothes, packaging, and organic waste—that are thrown away by businesses and homeowners alike. If you want to increase your knowledge of waste management, read this article.
Practice Waste Reduction
The first step to managing your household waste is to look at the sources of the waste, and how you can reduce them. Buy products that are minimally packaged. Products that are designed to be re-used rather than thrown out and replaced are also a great way to reduce the amount of waste you produce. Whenever possible, avoid buying a new product in favor of borrowing, renting, or sharing one instead. Donating or selling an item rather than throwing it away reduces your waste output, and offers you either extra cash or a tax benefit.
Recycle More
Recycling is easier than it ever used to be, especially in the New Jersey area. Instead of throwing your paper, glass, metal, batteries, or plastic waste in the trash, find out whether it can be recycled. Recycling reduces the amount of raw materials that are created, and gives you the satisfaction of knowing you have done your part to reduce your consumption.
Compost Organic Waste
Why throw away uneaten food and raw food waste when you can use it to enrich the soil near your home? Compost, also known as organic waste, is very useful for the environment and should not be sent to landfills.
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I got an Elianto Baked Shadow in Marble Blue and I'm loving the color! I actually really like Elianto shadows. It's not as expensive as other brands but you get a wonderful color. I have a whole palette which I got for my Makeup school before. I'll be reviewing and sharing it next time. :) It's already a bit messy though, hehe!
Anyway, here is the Elianto baked shadow.
When opened...
Here is the swatch (with my Suesh brush)
Now for a little tut... my eyes again (I took this photo 8pm, so again droopy eyes :p)
For a daytime look, I just started with an offwhite Elianto eye shadow and used it on the entire lid and created an outer v using the Elianto baked shadow.
Here's how it looks like after putting Elianto shadow in gold as midtone.
Finish off with Winc Instant Lash Duo mascara.
If you want to make it more dramatic, maybe for an evening date? I simply put more color on top of the offwhite shadow and I used Fashion 21 liquid eyeliner in Black but made the line thin.
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Re: Beta testers wanted for RootSearch package
I think this is a great package. I could test the new package with some
stuff that I'm working now.
By the way, from time to time I get a warning from the current version of
the package (v1.4) that says you cannot set $MinPrecision to negative
Infinity. Looking at the package code I found a few places where this is
Block[{$MinPrecision=-\[Infinity]}, ....,etc.
Just thought I'd point that out.
From: "Ramon Oliver" <ramon.oliver at uib.es>
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> On Mar 17, 12:05 pm, "Ted Ersek" <ers... at md.metrocast.net> wrote:
>> I have a new version of RootSearch that works better with Mathematica
>> versions 6 and 7.
>> I am looking for people to try it before I post it on Math Source.
>> Let me know if you are interseted.
>> Regards,
>> Ted Ersek
> Hi Ted,
> I am also interested. Today I "discovered" RootSearch and find it a
> very useful package. Thanks!!
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Hello all,
I am building a bladebound/kensai magus and would like to ask your opinion on the following:
- We all know that the dervish dance feat coupled with a scimitar on a 18Dex character will put out a flat +4 to damage, but as far as I understand this would be the best bonus I would ever have to damage (not counting spells, etc.);
- In the long haul, wouldn't using say... a short sword (for the crit range), with weapon finesse AND Piranha Strike be a better deal? As I see it, from 4th level onwards it matches the +4 from 18dex, at 8 it is already over it, and at 12 it seems to be clearly ahead.
Now, I have never played a high level character so I do not know much about the stat progression - for example, what dex bonus can one expect from stat raises and magic items at levels, 4, 8, 12 etc? (to compare it to the piranha strike pluses to damage)
Additionally, I can also understand that the dervish dance has the added benefit of not actually taking anything away from your to hit bonus, which seems suitable to the 2/3 progression for a magus.
Last but not least, both of thew feats are only available to the Magus at level... 3 I believe, so just one level before piranha strike catches up with Dervish Dance.
All in all, I would like to hear your opinion on this.
Thank you in advance.
a) Dervish dance gets better if your Dex gets higher
b) a short sword doesn't have a better crit range than the scimitar...
c) Piranha strike adds more damage but reduces your chance to hit. A missed attack does no damage at all.
d) You could get Power Attack and use that with your dervish-dancing scimitar.
e) It's not 4th and 8th level it's BAB 4 and BAB 8, for a magus thats level 6 and 11.
Personally I'd not use power attack or piranha strike on a 3/4 BAB char unless fighting mooks with low AC. You have trouble hitting already, shouldn't make it worse.
4th and 8th level you get a +1 to stats, you can get a +4 Dex belt by that time too, so thats a +6 already. Theres many more munchkiny things you can do, like take a level in Urban Barbarian to get a +4 Dex while raging, or a level in Alchemist for mutagens, but those are the easiest.
Also a lot of your damage comes from the spells too, and you don't deliver those spells if you don't hit with your blade.
Thank you Quatar for pointing the BAB question out, I was totally forgetting it.
I only mentioned the short sword because it is "finesse able" unlike the scimitar.
What you said about the to hit also makes perfect sense and I think you are right, piranha may not be the best option in this case.
Do you think it worth it to take fears revolving around combat expertise and/ or criticals?
Yes, but a scimitar with dervish dance uses dex for attack and damage and has a 18-20 crit. Shortsword with finesse uses dex only for attack and has 19-20 crit. Kukri is a light weapon with 18-20 crit range so you could use that.
Or of course the Rapier, but unfortunatly that doesn't work with Piranha strike either.
But thats only really options if you want to use PS.
Getting either Keen weapon enchantment or Improved Critical feat will be a priority for a magus with a 18-20 weapon, I think, since that also means a critical hit with your spell. (or at 5th level you can spend a arcane point to give it Keen)
But I have barely any experience with magus at higher than 2nd level, so I can't really tell you more, but I know most critical feats have a high BAB requirement, so you wouldn't get most of them before level 13 or higher anyway.
Yeah, I don't have the same aversion to power attacking on a 3/4 BAB class that Quatar has, but the dpr of Dervish Dance with a high Dex will always beat regular type Weapon Finesse and Piranha Strike, unless you can guarantee you'll get an Agile Weapon.
I think it's a lot easier just to make sure you have a 13 Str and get Power Attack.
Of course, another question comes to mind--when are you taking this feat exactly? Weapon Finesse + Dervish Dance are first. You want Arcane Strike before you take a penalty giving feat. I assume you'd rather have Weapon Focus, too, and you certainly want Improved Critical. I'm just not seeing a lot of room in a Dervish Dancer Magus build for either feat.
PS/PA has its place and can be useful, but if you fight something with a high AC then you just cripple yourself by using it.
He could take a level in Dawnflower Dervish bard, which gives Dervish Dance as bonus feat without needing weapon finesse.
He sacrifices 1 BAB there though and 1 level of magus spell progression, but gains some bard spells too, which might actually be nice.
I'm building an Human Arcane Duelist Bard and taking the Dervish Dance feat. I had originally built a Dawnflower Dervish, but without the ability to Inspire Courage in my allies, it just wasn't a Bard to me. Despite the fact that it will cost me a caster level, I had to splash a level of Lorewarden to get Scimitar Proficiency to take DD at level 2.
1st level Bard (Arcane Duelist) Feat Weapon Finess
2nd level Fighter (Lore Warden) Feat Dervish Dance
3rd level and all subsequent will be Bard. I'm waffling between weapon focus and Spellsong or maybe lingering performance.
Since a Kensai is proficient in a single martial or exotic weapon of choice I'd suggest a wakizashi: a light weapon with 1d6 damage, a 18-20 threat range, and the deadly quality (if you happen to be into beheading prisoners or something...). Very 'kensai' thematically as well.
A Magus is a bit of a 'pseudo-3/4 BAB' character, in that he's got some standard ways to up his to-hit chance: spells (such as Magic Weapon and Greater Magic Weapon, not to mention Bull's Strength or Cat's Grace and the like), and his arcane pool. If he just applies his maximum arcane pool bonus to his weapon as a naked 'plus' then his actual to-hit chance (although not his amount of iterative attacks) matches full BAB; although chances are he'll be upping his base weapon bonus with Magic Weapon spells and using the arcane pool for extra damage as soon as he's able. He only really starts to fall behind when the game gets to the sort of level where everyone is totting +5 weapons around - then the plus cap works against the Magus (in comparison to the full BAB boys that is).
The only real benefit to going Piranha Strike over Power Attack is it allows you to ignore (or even dump) Strength. Thanks to the Agile magic weapon quality there's no longer a seeming need for all Magus characters to be Dervish Dancing scimitar guys (although it does mean the Magus wil need to spend 8,000gp+ on a +1 Agile weapon whereas he can usually ignore buying a magic weapon completely and spend the ca$h elsewhere). Of course this does make the Bladebound archetype terrible for a Magus built this way (unless the GM lets you add extra magic weapon qualities to your black blade). Bladebound is statistically pretty terrible anyway (although thematically wonderful!), but that's fodder for different threads... ;)
Of course, there's the question of how much your Magus really cares about the damage his weapon is putting out anyway. Some Magi generally just use the thing as a touch-spell delivery system, and whatever damage it does above the spell effect is just gravy. Kensai are going to generally be more concerned with base damage though, I imagine, seeing as they're more martially focused than a 'vanilla' Magus.


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BOSTON — Tim Thomas put together a season for the ages last year with his record-setting campaign in the Bruins net.
Thomas led the Bruins to their first Stanley Cup in 39 years, once again proving the doubters wrong with an amazing resurgence as he celebrated his 37th birthday in style during the club's playoff run.
He also helped inspire at least one imitator, as 38-year-old Edmonton netminder Nikolai Khabibulin appears to be following Thomas' exact formula to an unexpected rebound season this year.
"Obviously for an older guy like me it's encouraging to see somebody else being up there in age putting on a performance like that," Khabibulin said of Thomas. "If you look at it from a positive standpoint, I guess it gives everybody a chance."
Khabibulin hasn't given opponents much of a chance this year. Heading into Thursday's clash with the Bruins at the Garden, he's 7-0-2 with a microscopic 0.98 goals-against average, .964 save percentage and two shutouts through nine starts. Those are numbers very comparable to Thomas' stellar start last season, when he opened the season 8-0-0 with a 1.38 GAA, .959 save percentage and three shutouts in his first nine games.
The similarities go beyond the numbers and their ages. Both goalies had been at the pinnacle of their profession in previous seasons, with Thomas winning his first Vezina Trophy in 2008-09 and Khabibulin leading the Lightning to the Cup in 2004.
Both had dealt with injuries threatening to derail their careers, with Thomas requiring hip surgery after the 2009-10 season and Khabibulin needing back surgery that same season and also suffering groin and eye injuries last year. Khabibulin has also had to deal with off-ice issues, serving a brief jail sentence this summer for a 2010 drunk-driving conviction in Arizona.
And both were being pushed by talented young understudies, with Tuukka Rask temporarily unseating Thomas two years ago and Devan Dubnyk threatening to do the same to Khabibulin.
Thomas admitted that he hasn't seen Khabibulin play a lot this season with the Oilers in the Western Conference, but does believe there could be some similarities in their situations.
"I don't know too much about his situation," Thomas said. "Obviously I heard about this summer, but you know, in a certain way that will make you value what you've got. … My guess is he was very focused and highly motivated for this year to come out and prove something. That's what happened with me anyway. I don't know if that's what happened in his circumstance."
Thomas saw his outstanding start last season resulting from a number of different factors, and speculated that Khabibulin could be experiencing some of the same things.
"It was a combination of things." Thomas said. "I was highly motivated to prove something, combined with the fact that at the time I was really enjoying playing and enjoying the fact that I was in the game and playing at the highest level in the world because I wasn't taking it for granted because of the season before, and Khabibulin might feel like he's in the same shoes too between the injuries and what else went on in the other areas of his life. You kind of realize how fine the line is when all of the sudden it could be gone, so he's probably getting extra enjoyment out of playing the game because of that."
Just as Thomas' hip surgery helped rejuvenate his career, Khabibulin admitted that finally getting some relief from the back pain that's plagued him the last couple years has been a major factor in his success, while also crediting the improved play of his teammates in front of him.
"I thought it was going to be that way for the rest of my life and I just had to get used to it and deal with it," Khabibulin said of the back pain. "But after the season I did a lot of the same stuff over the summer, worked out more and it feels a lot better now. I really feel pretty good now.
"I think it's a number of things probably," Khabibulin added. "A number of little things that when you put them all together they make a difference. It's still early in the year so we'll see how it goes, but I think part of it is physically I feel a lot better. I think we're more committed on defense, whether it's defensemen or forwards backchecking and taking away odd-man rushes. We've got some bigger bodies in front of the net so guys block a ton of shots. If you put all those things together, it helps."
As Khabibulin noted, it is still early in the season. The real test to see if he can come close to matching Thomas' historical campaign of a year ago will come with how well Khabibulin is able to sustain this level of success. Thomas' play never fell off last season, as he finished with a league-leading 2.00 GAA and an NHL record .938 save percentage, then improved both numbers with a 1.98 GAA and .940 save percentage in the postseason en route to Conn Smythe honors.
"I think he has similar numbers, but the one thing he hasn't accomplished yet is to keep them up for the whole year like Timmy did," Bruins coach Claude Julien said of Khabibulin. "That's not an easy task. Every once in a while, especially in front of a young team, he may be asked to stand tall for them a lot, but will he be capable of doing it night after night? That's the challenge that he has. And the challenge we have is to break that trend [Thursday]. We have to find a way to get some pucks past this guy."
If he is truly following Thomas' blueprint, that won't be easy. But at least the Bruins will have the original version guarding their cage down at the other end of the ice.
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SHELBY, N.C. - Officials say a man who survived being hit by a train now faces charges, including trespassing.
A train hit 50-year-old Anthony Gerome Sanders of Gastonia on Thursday evening. He was treated at a hospital for injuries and was released Friday.
Police say Sanders and a woman were walking on the tracks, which Norfolk Southern owns. They say they woman got out of the way, while the train clipped Sanders.
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Graphic-Studio saidYou should send your wife on a fish trip and go to the beach… Just kidding
My wife loves to fish and catch crabs, we should do that more, it makes her happy.
We have beaches with many beautiful girls in bikinis.
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I'm from Scotland, and travelling across the country in the last few days I have seen –
Rugged landscapes, old towns and grey clouds drifting past hills and monuments. Rain lashing the grey streets of Aberdeen, where the grey building merge with the dark sky. The people were still cheerful, going out to the pubs and clubs. Green fields and hills, rivers swelling with water. On one occasion I saw a small patch of blue sky. The weather is not so good in the UK this summer.I would say Scotland is a good place to come and visit if you want to get away from the more crazy and crowded places in the world. In general people here are friendly and down to earth, and the natural beauty here is amazing (when everything isn't hidden in clouds and rain).
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That's beautiful!
Come and visit any time!
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@360Degrees I love Argentina, it is my favorite American country. But the best Spanish accent is the one spoken in Asturias.
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Graphic-Studio saidYou should send your wife on a fish trip and go to the beach… Just kidding
My wife loves to fish and catch crabs, we should do that more, it makes her happy.
We have beaches with many beautiful girls in bikinis.
YES , that would be nice, but I like to fish too!
My wife says I can look, but that is all I can do!
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Radioactive Traces Discovered In Truck Involved In Fracking Operation
A truck traveling from a hydraulic fracturing site set off a radiation alarm at a Pennsylvania landfill Friday, with the alarm indicating that the truck was emitting radiation 10 times higher than what is permitted on the landfill.
The truck was found to be emitting 96 microrem of radiation. The landfill is required to reject materials that emit more than 10 microrem. By way of comparison, a typical body scanner at an airport emits about 10 microrem, which is equivalent to about 15 minutes of exposure to the sun's rays.
According to published reports, the truck was emitting gamma radiation known as "radium 226" at almost 10 times the level permitted at the landfill. The vehicle operated by MAX Environmental Technologies was first quarantined at the landfill after the radiation was detected before being sent back to the fracking pad — Rice Energy's Thunder II pad in Greene County. The vehicle, which carried drill cuttings for disposal, was later redirected to a disposal site that accepts higher levels of radiation.
Public officials have tried to assuage fears, calling the exposure "low-level radiation." No injuries have been reported as a result of the incident.
"It's low-level radiation, but we don't want any radiation in South Huntingdon," Tom Cornell, a township supervisor where the landfill is located, told the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) warns:
"Long-term exposure to radium increases the risk of developing several diseases. Inhaled or ingested radium increases the risk of developing such diseases as lymphoma, bone cancer, and diseases that affect the formation of blood, such as leukemia and aplastic anemia."
EPA studies show that the source of radiation at fracking sites comes as a waste produced during the process of oil and gas drilling that can penetrate water, drilling mud, sludge, slimes or scale that can form in pipes, storage tanks or other extraction equipment.
In its more dangerous form, radiation produced at frack sites can occasionally enter the air, posing a direct threat to workers at frack sites and surrounding communities.
This incident underscores the fears of environmental advocates who believe that fracking poses many dangers to human health and the environment. According to a January report by EcoWatch, fracking industry statistics show that one in three current fracking sites use carcinogenic chemicals as part of fracking fluid used in drilling operations.
During the study conducted between January 2011 and September 2012, researcher David Darling found that 9,310 fracking operations across the U.S. disclosed the use of at least one known carcinogen.
One of the main reasons oil and gas companies can use dangerous chemicals in fracking operations is because of changes to the Clean Water Act of 1972.
In 2005, the Bush administration helped Congress pass the Energy Bill, a piece of legislation that exempted hydraulic fracturing from the Clean Water Act. The loophole, referred to by some as the "Halliburton Loophole," opened the door to widespread fracking, a drilling method practiced in limited forms since the 1950s.
For public officials in Pennsylvania, the elevated radiation is concerning but may only be an isolated incident that was caught before it posed a hazard to the public.
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Pennsylvania claims to be the only state that requires landfills monitor for radiation levels in the incoming wastes.
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Citation: N/A Interpretive Summary: Saponins are naturally occurring compounds found in roots, shoots, seeds, and flowers of many plant species, including chickpeas, navy and kidney beans, soybeans, alfalfa, cereals, peanuts, and asparagus. Saponins can be extracted and used in the food industry as foaming agents in soft drinks, baked goods, candies, and dairy desserts. Combination spray treatments of water washes followed by an antimicrobial rinse are currently used by the meat industry to reduce both bacterial and visible contamination on meat animal carcasses. This study determined if the foaming property of saponins could be combined with water washing for removing bacteria from beef surfaces. For both experiments, beef tissues were inoculated with cow feces and subjected to different spray washing treatments. When saponin was combined with water or vinegar, more aerobic bacteria were removed from the beef tissue than were removed by single washes with saponin, water, or vinegar. However, when saponin was combined with water or vinegar, bacteria were not removed from beef surfaces any better than when spray washes of water with water or water with vinegar were applied. Based on these findings, combination washes incorporating saponin were no more effective than combination washes of water with water or water with vinegar for removing bacterial contamination from beef surfaces.
Technical Abstract: Saponins are naturally occurring compounds known as triterpenoide glycosides and are found in a variety of plant species. Saponins are approved for use in the food industry as foaming agents. When combined with the current practice of water or organic acid spray treatments, the foaming property of these compounds may provide an added benefit in carcass decontamination. In the first experiment of this study, lean beef carcass surfaces were experimentally inoculated with a fecal slurry containing antibiotic resistant Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella typhimurium. Spray washing treatments with saponin-water (SW) or saponin-acid (SA) were more effective for reducing aerobic bacteria than saponin (S), water (W), or 2 per cent acetic acid (AA) washes alone. However, SW and SA treatments were equally or not as effective as AA for reducing populations of E. coli O157:H7 or S. typhimurium. In the second experiment, experimentally inoculated beef surfaces were subjected to spray treatments with water-water (WW), water-acid (WA), SW, or SA. When examined against all populations, SW or SA were as effective treatments as WW or WA for reducing aerobic bacteria, E. coli O157:H7, and S. typhimurium from beef surfaces. Under the conditions described, reductions associated with combination spray washes may be attributed to the physical removal of bacteria during the spraying process, and not to any specific action of saponin.


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Quote:i was just inquiring about the percentage of schools that teach chang hon forms with ONLY horizontal movements ("keep head level" like my school) versus the percentage of schools that teach SW (regardless of how much horizontal movement they do). if one had to estimate what would you say? 10% and 90% respectively? less? more?
Quote: you'll get corrected with a "try to keep your head level".
Quote:Quote: you'll get corrected with a "try to keep your head level". Why?I answered your question as best as I could. I also know you are not talking or debating the functionality of SW, but please answer this question Why?If you were corrected, what would be the premise or reason why you would be incorrect? What is the purpose or benefit of keeping your head level?Why is the most important question a student can ever ask!
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This is a discussion on Benchmade Volli - REVIEW within the Defensive Knives & Other Weapons forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Specifications: Overall Length: 7.78" Blade Length: 3.26" Blade Thickness: 0.10" Blade Material: S30V Stainless Steel Blade Hardness: 58-60 HRC Blade Style: Drop-Point; Ambidextrous Thumb-Studs Handle ...
Overall Length: 7.78"
Blade Length: 3.26"
Blade Thickness: 0.10"
Blade Material: S30V Stainless Steel
Blade Hardness: 58-60 HRC
Blade Style: Drop-Point; Ambidextrous Thumb-Studs
Handle Material: G10 w/ stainless steel liners
Closed Length: 4.42"
Handle Thickness: 0.56"
Clip: Split-Arrow; Reversible
Lock Mechanism: AXIS-ASSIST Lock
Weight: 4.28 oz.
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Today I am reviewing the new Benchmade Volli. The Volle is a new line for 2013 that uses Benchmades trademark Axis-assist for quick one handed operations. I've been using this knife for the last few days and I must say, the Volli reminds me of a more refined barrage and makes for an excellent EDC knife choice.
The business end of the Volli is constructed out of S30V stainless steel. S30V is a little tougher than 154CM which you'd find on the barrages. It will also hold an edge slightly longer than 154CM as well. The only downside to S30V I can think off the top of my head is it's a little harder to service. But the trade off is well worth it in my opinion.
Out of the box this knife was and still is razor sharp! This is probably the sharpest Benchmade knife I've got to date. The thin profile of the blade makes it a excellent slicer. While carrying this knife I've used it extensively to break down thick shipping cardboard boxes, ropes and a bunch of other misc items. I came across about 8ft of 1.5" tow rope in the back of the garage. Without much effort it sliced right through it. I am pretty confident this knife would execute just about every EDC cutting task.
Opening and closing the Volli is made easy with the Axis assist system. Whether your left or right handed makes no difference, with a little press on the thumb stud the blade fly's open very fast and smooth.
The handle on the Benchmade Volli is constructed using black contoured G10 handles. The scales on this knife aren't gritty textured like the Benchmade 300SN or the 915 Triage. Rather a smooth elegant texture that almost feels like a sleek smooth aluminum or titanium scale in my opinion. The ergonomics are great and I am able to get a firm purchase on the handle with absolutely no problems.
Here is the Benchmade Volli (left) and the Benchmade 585 (right). At first glance you see the 585 is thicker in the handle because of the full stainless liners. But what you don't see is, the Volli has full stainless liners that are built into the G10 scales. And in typical Benchmade fashion, there milled out for weight savings. And you can see the Volli and the Barrage share similar checkered backspacers.
The pocket clip is Benchmades standard split-arrow design. While it's not my favorite pocket clip Benchmade uses. They did manage to place it rather high on the handle so it could conceal most of the knife in the pocket as you see above.
More Pictures:
- Volli next to BM585bk 1
- Volli next to BM585bk 2
- Side-by-Side 1 (585, Volli, 300sn, 530)
- Side-by-Side 2 (585, Volli, 300sn, 530)
- In Hand Close
- In Hand Open
My final conclusion on the Benchmade Volli: For the price you can't go wrong. The Benchmade volli is spring assisted, uses top shelf materials like S30V, G10 scales, and has elegant ergonomics. And best of all, it's made in the USA and backed by Benchmades awesome Lifetime warranty!
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"Berkshire Hathaway reported today that its net worth fell in 2008 by $11.5 billion, a decline reducing its per-share book value by 9.6%. That was Berkshire's worst result in the 44 years that Chairman Warren Buffett has run the company and, in fact, only the second decline in that period. The other drop was 6.2% in 2001, a year hurt by 9/11 and other problems in Berkshire's insurance operations."
So, in a year the market was down 50%, Buffett lost only 9.6%, and that's the worst he's ever done!
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Kevin Lasko, the executive chef at Park Avenue Winter, the New York restaurant that changes its name, menu and decor with the season, is offering customers a new multi-sensory culinary experience.
In a year-long series of collaborations with artists, Lasko is bringing edible art to his customers. The first, with Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic, kicked off in January with "Volcano Flambe."
To enjoy the experience diners don a headset and listen to a recording of Abramovic, who details the mental and sensory aspects of the dessert.
Each season Lasko, along with artists including Janine Antoni, Paul Ramirez Jonas and Michael Rakowitz, will introduce a new dish or experience.
Lasko spoke to Reuters about the inspiration for the project and the increasingly fuzzy boundaries separating food and art.
Q: What was the impetus for this project?
A: "We had been working with Creative Time Consulting, which specializes in public-space art, to launch something with artists. Since we're a seasonal restaurant, we thought of doing an art installation for each season, and it just went from there."
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Washington, D.C.'s Art Museum of the Americas to Host ART AFTER DARK 5, 8/22
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States and the Friends of AMA announce Art After Dark 5. Now in its fifth year, the popular after-hours event brings art and music lovers together for one night to celebrate al fresco in the lush garden of the OAS. ART AFTER DARK 5 will take place on Friday, August 22 from 9PM to 1AM.
This year's performers include singer João Fénix from Brazil, Washington's Incredible Change, performing live music, and DJ Shea Horn, of the famed MixtapeDC. In addition, the event will showcase video art from Chile, Argentina, Peru, Spain and Portugal projected onto the OAS headquarters building facade, contemporary dance, and performance art. Currently on view at AMA are the exhibitions Femininity Beyond Archetypes: Photography by Natalia Arias and Small Guide to Homeownership: Photography by Alejandro Cartagena of Mexico. For AAD5, AMA will stay open until 1am.
"As a cultural component of the Organization of American States (OAS), Art After Dark is our signature fundraising event that supports our effort to engage communities and advance the work of the OAS promoting democratic values, peace, justice and human rights across the Americas through contemporary art that transcends through craftsmanship, ingenuity and content," says museum director Andrés Navia. "Funds raised from Art After Dark allows the museum to maintain a vigorous schedule of exhibits and programs for our members and museum visitors."
With its unique regional focus, AMA exhibits works by established and emerging artists and alternates its with permanent collection exhibits. AMA's collection of modern and contemporary Latin American and Caribbean art is one of the most vital of its kind in the United States.
Staged in collaboration with the Friends of AMA, Art After Dark allows AMA to brings out some of the more innovative emerging artists of the Americas.
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Drinks: Drinks included with admission: wine, beer, cava, juice, and water
Raffle: 3 raffles, $5/tickets: iPad, Wine Tasting experience for a group of 20 people by Total Wine ($500 value), and a Day at a Spa with dinner for two at Taberna Del Alabardero and a bottle of Cava.
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Synth-laden electronic dance music influenced by everything from Italian house to early Factory Records, featuring members of Ra Ra Rasputin and Lode Runner. Brock Boss channels Bauhaus vocals over arpeggiators, syncopated rhythms, chorus-drenched guitar, eliciting kinetic vibrations with a cast of DC musicians, including DeenaOh, Rob Hart, Patrick Kigongo, and Ed Porter. Pulling in classic dance elements and pairing them with dark analog sounds and distinct lyrical presentation, the hope is to connect and provide energy. Incredible Change will release an album this summer.


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Re: Re: Finding the Number of Pythagorean Triples below a bound
Hello Dan and Andrzej,
>I'd say up to 10^6 or maybe 10^7 the way to go is by looking at the
>factorization of c2=c^2+k. This way you only need iterate over c.
Yes, turns out the problem was equivalent to counting the number of representations of N as
a^2+b^2 = N
where 0<a<=b (I should have phrased it that way, but that is the benefit of high-sight) which I assume can be given by the function OrderedSumOfSquaresRepresentations[2,N]? Hence the code you have given me, in essence, is, say for k = 5,
roughly speaking? (With finer details of removing from consideration those c^2+5 that are of from 4m+3, etc.)
>Here are some timings.
>Out[54]={0.591 Second,1154}
>Out[93]={8.562 Second,12115}
>Out[94]={131.91 Second,121054}
There is something odd with the first value. James' count (up to m=5) vs this gives the sequences,
{1219, 12115}
{1154, 12115, 121054}
Why the disparity? If the ratio S(N)/N would converge, it should start as 0.121... (Note however, that James' table has bound 10^m *not* 10^m-1.}


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Hi, wanted to get some ideas/feedback on how to improve my backyard, and how hard it would be to do.
Right now as you can see it is kind of cluttered.
Four questions to think about:
1)Where are you located?
2)What do you want to do back there? Party Patio? Kids play area? Dogs?
3)How much maintenance do you want to do?
4) Budget?
The first thing I would suggest is drive around your neighborhood and steal some ideas of what you would like.
I wish my yard looked that nice.
I don't have a budget but would like to try and do it myself I don't have any experience landscaping but I would like to get rid of all the small bushes (leaving the trees) and then have grass, I would leave the stones there. Just wondering how involved that would be and if I could do it myself. I think it would look much cleaner and nicer. Thanks
But it would be a good idea to call your utility co. to make sure there is nothing buried in the area before you start with a shovel.
It looks pretty shady back there. It may take a bit of research to find a grass that would work.
Again, when asking about plants and landscape it is important to know where you are. No one here can make any reasonable suggestions without knowing at least what state you are in!
Lastly, if you don't want plants to maintain, you might want to add a birdbath, sculpture, or some sort of focal point so you don't end up with weird little paths to nowhere.
I thought that a "cluttered backyard" meant separate piles for top soil, sand, and gravel, neatly stacked pallets of bricks, pavers, and assorted concrete features, some apple trees that need pruning (again!), a skid steer or backhoe that didn't get pulled into the barn, a clean but basic picnic table, and an assortment of normal old every day trees. Honest, it's neat, clean, practical, purposeful, and mostly out of view from the road, but a lot close to "cluttered" than yours! Seriously though, yours looks very nice. But I could agree with eliminating some of the taller vegetation, to open it up a bit. I think though that it would take some special grass to do well with the shade, not to mention the tranquility lost in mowing it. I believe that I would look at some varieties of ground cover, maybe mix in some small, randomly placed sections of pavers, and, as previously mentioned, add a few bird baths, water features, etc. Things that would fall below a normal direct sight line.
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Manila (Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN) - The Philppine government will look into how much assets Manuel Amalilio owns in Malaysia in the form of investments in stocks and bank accounts, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima said yesterday.
De Lima said a four-member team of state prosecutors and counsels will determine the estimate value of the assets of Amalilio in Malaysia when they go to Kuala Lumpur next week.
The team will be there to forward the Aquino administration's formal request for the extradition of Amalilio, the brains behind Aman Futures Group of the Philippines, the company implicated in the alleged 12-billion peso (US$295 million) Ponzi scheme that victimised 15,000 people in the Visayas and Mindanao, according to De Lima.
Extradition request
De Lima said the extradition request for Amalilio will be addressed to Malaysia's Attorney General and Chief Home Minister.
De Lima said the Department of Justice, through Justice Undersecretary Jose Vicente Salazar, Prosecutor General Claro Arellano and Chief State Counsel Ricardo Paras II, is now drafting the government's formal request for extradition as well as a supplement request "for other forms of assistance and even the freezing of assets."
"We need to send them to KL as soon as possible," De Lima told reporters.
She said Malaysia's Attorney General had already granted the government's initial request for the freezing of Amalilio's assets in Malaysia, but it will be forwarding a supplementary request that "will contain additional particulars or facts or information from our end with respect to the freezing of the assets."
The justice secretary said Amalilio has invested in stocks and keeps bank accounts in Malaysia although the government does not have an "exact" list of his assets, which will be determined by the team going there.
Next to the freezing of assets is the forfeiture of assets, De Lima said.
She said the team has to determine the "legal steps necessary to forfeit these assets so they can be used for purposes of the cases against Amalilio and particularly for purposes of recovery by the victims," De Lima said.
She said she was not familiar with Malaysia's law on getting the assets of Amalilio.
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Police are appealing for witnesses after a man was assaulted in Ollerton.
At 5.15pm on Thursday 27th March, a man was walking on the pavement in Newark Road when he was believed to have been hit by a black car.
The driver of the car, a Jaguar, then threatened the victim before driving away.
The victim, who is thought to be in his late 20s, suffered minor injuries as a result.
The driver of the car is described as white, in his 50s, about 5ft 9ins tall and of a stocky/muscular build.
He has short dark hair with grey flecks in it and was wearing a chequered shirt.
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Shenzhen-based mobile radio solutions provider Hytera Communications (002583.SZ) recently confirmed that it received final approval last month from Germany's Federal Ministry of Economy and Technology to acquire a 100% stake in German firm Rohde & Schwarz Professional Mobile Radio GmbH.
Following the signing of a share transfer agreement between the two companies on July 20, 2011, Hytera received approval in August from China's Ministry of Commerce and the Shenzhen Municipal Commission of Development and Reform to proceed with the acquisition.
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Borussia Dortmund recovered from last weekend's derby defeat to Schalke as the club overcame Freiburg 2-0 at a snowy Mage Solar Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
In an extremely scrappy affair, two second-half goals, one from Neven Subotic and the other courtesy of Mario Gotze, were enough to get BVB's Bundesliga defense back on track after a dire opening period.
The wintry temperatures gave rise to a cagey start as both teams struggled to find a cohesive rhythm, with Freiburg's attack particularly hampered by the thick snow.
Nevertheless, it was the home team which threatened first. After seeing two headers blocked at the near post, Daniel Caligiuri lifted the ball into the middle and in his attempts to clear it away, Lukasz Piszczek diverted the ball towards his own net and was fortunate Marcel Schmelzer's touch guided it against the post.
Oliver Baumann had already made a relatively comfortable save from a Marco Reus free kick in the opening stages and it was another BVB set piece that called the keeper into action again, with Mats Hummels agonizingly close to diverting Schmelzer's dead-ball delivery into the net after 27 minutes.
Freiburg was giving a good account of itself against the reigning champion, but the team was guilty of failing to take its chances. Fallou Diagne was unable to keep down a free header from 10 yards out, before Julian Schuster's mazy run ended with a pull-back that no one was on hand to tap in.
Klopp clearly had some strong words for his side during the break and it began the second half in a far more aggressive manner.
After Piszczek failed to capitalize on Reus' smart pass within a minute of the restart, BVB wasted another chance in the 51st minute. Kevin Grosskreutz made his first contribution with a drive to the bye line but Gotze blazed his teammate's resulting cross over the bar.
Dortmund did not relent and finally got the reward for a bright start to the half in the 54th minute. Reus' whipped free kick was flicked on off the head of Subotic and the ball bounced in at the far post.
Freiburg could well have drawn level moments later, but Erik Jendrisek saw his eight-yard effort poked away by the onrushing Roman Weidenfeller.
The game soon returned to the scrappy, disorganized football that plagued the first half and as a result opportunities were again few and far between.
Despite that, Dortmund managed to confirm the win in the 83rd minute, as Robert Lewandowski fed Gotze, who drilled a shot past Baumann and into the bottom corner.
Victory ensures that BVB holds onto fourth position, temporarily nine points off top spot, while Freiburg drops down to 10th place.
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U.S. plan targets barred owls to save spotted owls
By Laura Zuckerman
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters Life!) - The greatest threat in the U.S. to the northern spotted owl, an imperiled bird at the center of a decades-old environmental clash in the Pacific Northwest, is no longer the timber industry -- it's another owl.
The federal government says it plans to launch a program to kill or otherwise remove hundreds of barred owls -- originally from the East Coast -- that are overtaking the spotted owl's natural range in Washington state, Oregon and northern California.
The proposal to thin barred owl populations in old-growth forests favored by their native cousins is a key component of a broader recovery plan unveiled for the spotted owl Thursday, outlining how the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service intends to stem its decline.
The spotted owl was listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 1990 amid high-profile battles between the timber industry, which fought to retain the right to log centuries-old evergreen trees, and conservationists, who argued that both the bird and the ecosystem it relied on were on the brink.
Years of litigation ensued. In 2010, a federal judge ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service, an Interior Department agency, to produce the recovery plan announced Thursday.
The plan calls for stepped-up conservation of spotted owl nesting sites -- some in areas previously slated for potential logging -- as well as controlled burns in forest lands prone to catastrophic wildfires, and measures to ease habitat and food pressures imposed by barred owls.
"We regard barred owls as the biggest threat spotted owls are facing," Robyn Thorson, Pacific Northwest director for the Fish and Wildlife Service, said during a telephone news conference.
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As a kid growing up as a Sabres fan, I always hated the Boston Bruins. Most Sabres fans would agree, and if not the Bruins….they'd say the Philadelphia Flyers or the Ottawa Senators…maybe even the Toronto Maple Leafs! Either way….I really dislike the Bruins. So as a hard core Sabres fan I decided to post this video of…. 6 Boston Bruins sitting where they deserve to be seated….In the "sin bin", "time out"..or "the penalty box". Check it out
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Flipping through a copy of Parenting magazine, I came across an article in which staff, readers, and a handful of writers were asked, 'What is the one life lesson you want to pass on to your child?' The question made me think about my life and what I have learned, and the ways in which I learned them. Life lessons are often learned through mistakes, far too often our own. I am the type of parent who loses sleep worrying about whether I am adequately preparing my child for the "real world." My … [Read more...]
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Last night was movie night in our house. We were camped on on the bed, hubby on one side, me on the other, baby in between, my oldest son teetering on the far edge while his brothers and sister came and went. They were more interested in fighting space battles with plastic light sabers than watching a shoot-em-up bang-bang movie on TV.The movie was pure action adventure, with an unlikely hero pitted against a stereotypically evil bad guy. At one point, Bad Guy tells Hero that he must co … [Read more...]
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