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I first came across this tag from the Nail Polish of Pretty Little Liars tumblr, and decided to do it! I also made a video of this tag which I'll embed at the bottom of this post. However I've included a couple additional questions not featured in the video that are exclusive to here on my blog!
Favorite nail polish brand?
Hm.. tricky question considering there are so many factors in determining a favorite! I'm going to break it down into smaller categories, because no brand has all the qualities I like for every color. For my favorite brush I'd have to say OPI, for my favorite formula I choose Deborah Lippmann (at least all the ones I own are great), and for color originality I'll hand it to China Glaze. With all the indie-style glitters they've been putting out along with the holographics, China Glaze has really upped their game lately!
Glitter or no glitter?
Although you all know that I am pretty much obsessed with anything that sparkles, I have to say no glitter! The foil method is still too much of a pain-in-the-butt for me to do it regularly, and I almost always end up picking my glitter polish off which is terrible for my nails. I am curious about the whole rubber finger protector version of glitter removal though- have any of you tried it? Is it easier than the foil method?
When or how often do you change your nail polish?
I actually don't change my polish as often as I think most other nail bloggers do. I'm pretty lazy when it comes to wearing a bunch of manicures in one week! I prefer to have a swatch-a-thon and have pictures/swatches stored up to do posts with then to change my mani every day. Sometimes I just really, really like the polish I'm wearing and I don't want to take it off until I have to! My usual mani time is three to four days, or longer if I'm wearing nail art.
What's your favorite color on your nails?
Purples! I think pinks are especially flattering on my skintone, but my heart goes out to the purples in my collection. If I could wear OPI's Houston we have a Purple every day and not be bored with it, I probably would!
Darks or brights?
Darks all the way. Most of my collection is darker colors, and I'm hardly ever drawn to the bright shades in polish collections. There are a few exceptions (like in summer) but most of my polish choices are darker, richer shades.
What color are you wearing on your nails right now?
Nothing! I just got home from doing box-up at work, so I didn't polish my nails because I would just be digging through product and putting it all in cardboard boxes and it's too much of a chip-risk. I'll definitely be polishing my nails tonight after Pretty Little Liars though, and I'm thinking that I want to use the new China Glaze bits and pieces glitter I purchased a few weeks ago!
Matte Nails: are they in or are they out?
I think in the mainstream magazine world they'd be "out", but matte nails aren't a fad or trend among those of us who are polish lovers! I just consider them to be another type of finish that you can use to change the look of your manicure easily. I enjoy my matte top coat and won't be getting rid of it any time soon!
What's your opinion on the french manicure?
It depends on how it is being worn. I'm definitely not a fan of the obviously fake acrylic french with inch long white tips on a 1mm bright pink nail bed. But I do think that a natural looking french with a nice soft pink and white can be very classic and clean.
Favorite winter nail polish color?
Pretty much any vampy shade! This winter I've really been liking dark reds, and I think that it has a lot to do with my pink and red month for February on my blog. That, and the fact that I'm lemming Chanel Malice super hardcore.
*What is your ultimate polish lemming?
The original Lynnderella Ribbon Candy. Her new version isn't quite the same, and I doubt I'll ever get my hands on one of those original bottles, but the lemming just won't quit. I also pinned a picture of it to pinterest that I go and stare at pretty frequently, so that might be part of the problem! haha!
*What's the most you've ever spent on one bottle of polish?
$25 on my Chanel polishes. I have two, but even $25 isn't as huge of a splurge as it used to sound. If I have an extra $25 and don't spend it on polish, it'll just be going towards lunch out or other luxury things anyway, so I don't see the harm in splurging it all one one big lemming sometimes!
*What polish in your collection have you worn the most?
OPI's Hopelessly In Love definitely has been worn the most! It's a really nice basic light pink that I like wearing. I really would like to replace it with one of the pinks from the OPI Ballet Collection simply because I love jellies a bit more than cremes.
If you like this tag and would like to do it too, please feel free to link to your tag post in my comment section, or fill out the questions and leave it as a comment! You can check out my video version of this tag below, and thanks for reading!
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Gov. Scott votes for Romney in hometown of Naples
Published: Tuesday, November 6, 2012 at 12:22 p.m.
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NAPLES, Fla. — Gov. Rick Scott has cast his ballot in his hometown of Naples.
The Naples Daily News reports (http://bit.ly/VQMlpZ ) that Scott waited in line for about 40 minutes before voting around 8 a.m. Tuesday. The governor was voting with his wife, daughter and son-in-law.
Scott called Election Day "a great day for America." He says he voted for Republicans Mitt Romney for president and Connie Mack for the U.S. Senate.
State officials say more than 4.5 million people had already voted in Florida, either by mail or in person, before the polls opened Tuesday. Of those voters, 43 percent were Democrats and 39 percent were Republicans.
Despite record turnout in many parts of the state, Scott rejected calls to extend the early voting an extra day to alleviate the long lines.
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The Man With 800 Warhols
Shrewd buying helped Jose Mugrabi build the world's largest private stash of Andy Warhol's art.
Just before the evening contemporary art sale at Sotheby's in New York this November, a short, stocky 68-year-old named Jose Mugrabi made his way down the sales room's spotless caramel carpet to his assigned seat. While most of the other bidders were in power suits or cocktail dresses, he wore his standard auction uniform -- blue jeans, a black T-shirt and a baseball cap.
In a realm where secrecy is a strategic tool and heavyweight collectors like to bid from the privacy of a skybox, Mr. Mugrabi prefers to operate by one simple rule. Whenever works by Andy Warhol come up, he bids on them early and often and wants everybody to know about it.
Jose Mugrabi and his two sons own 800 Warhols, more than any other private collection in the world. Here's a peek at their collection.
Mr. Mugrabi bid on seven of the eight Warhols on the block that night and bought one -- a quartet of paintings of Jacqueline Kennedy in mourning that cost him $5.6 million. The minute the Warhols were gone, he put on his baseball cap and walked out.
Nobody has done more to capitalize on Andy Warhol's increasing popularity than Mr. Mugrabi. Together with his two sons, this self-made former cloth merchant from Bogotá, Colombia, says that over the past 20 years he's amassed about 800 of the artist's works, a stake that's easily three times larger than any other private Warhol collection in the world and nearly as large as the paintings collection owned by the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Dealers and major auction houses rarely buy or sell a Warhol without Mr. Mugrabi's knowledge, and anyone who wants to buy one at auction must be prepared to outbid the family.
Andy Warhol created about 8,000 paintings and sculptures between 1952 and his death in 1987, and they turn up at auction so consistently -- about 200 works a year -- that they've become a bellwether for the entire $11 billion-plus art market. In part because high Warhol prices can feed the frenzy for other artists, collectors and dealers are paying closer attention to the Mugrabis.
Rival dealers say the Mugrabis are doing whatever they can to keep Warhol prices high, including occasionally overpaying -- or overcharging -- for the artworks. They say such moves make it far more difficult for others to collect the artist's work. Mr. Mugrabi said his efforts to "defend" the artist's price levels are legal and work in favor of Warhol owners everywhere.
"Most people don't realize that Warhol is the Dow Industrial Average" for the art world, said Richard Polsky, a longtime private dealer in Sausalito, Calif. "The Mugrabis know this and are doing whatever is best for their family -- and the rest of us just have to watch."
The few who bet on Warhol two decades ago have reaped big profits. Mr. Mugrabi won't give the exact value of his holdings, but in 2006, the mean estimate of a Warhol at auction was about $442,000, up from $66,000 in 1988, according to Artnet, a New York-based art-database service. Prices for middling Warhols now often exceed $1 million and a Warhol silkscreen of a car crash sold this May for a record $71 million.
A Singular Strategy
Many longtime dealers and collectors are quick to compliment the family's singular strategy. What's not clear, they say, is what happens if the Mugrabis ever fall into financial trouble and have to liquidate a large part of their stake. Not only might this dive-bomb Warhol prices, it could also rattle collector confidence in dozens of other artists. "If the market turns," said New York dealer Joe Helman, "it's going to be a hell of a ride going down."
The Mugrabi family keeps its Warhol stash in several spots. There are two heavily guarded storage rooms, one in Zurich and one near Newark, N.J., where they rent a 1,300-square-foot space lined floor to ceiling with metal racks, each containing rows of hanging canvases. The family owns dozens of works by other artists, but the majority of its holdings are Warhols. A large red "fright wig" self-portrait of the artist and an orange-green "Mao" line the walls of Mr. Mugrabi's apartments in Paris and on Manhattan's Upper East Side.
Anyone who handles Warhols knows just how obsessively the Mugrabi family tracks -- and some say influences -- the artist's market. Laura Paulson, a Christie's specialist in contemporary art, says the Mugrabis are called "as soon as we've got a contract" for a consigned Warhol because "we like to talk about where the market is for each work." Brett Gorvy, who helps run Christie's contemporary art department, says over the years he has on occasion adjusted his Warhol estimates upward after conferring with Mr. Mugrabi or hearing about private sales he has brokered.
Lately, the Mugrabis have made some of their boldest attempts to build the Warhol market. In May, the family paid $2.8 million, or $700,000 apiece, for a quartet of small portraits of Jacqueline Kennedy that Warhol painted between 1964 and 1966. Just a month later in London, they paid $1.5 million for a single small "Jackie," a more-than-100% price increase over the previous sale. Mr. Mugrabi says the goal was to leapfrog the previous asking price and set a new threshold for all the paintings in the "Jackie" series. It seems to have worked: In November, Mr. Mugrabi says he sold another quartet of Jackies for $6.5 million to a new collector -- essentially doubling the market price in six months.
Several months ago, the Mugrabis teamed with Christie's to try to make one of the largest private art sales of all time. They offered up to 15 of the family's best Warhols to the governments of several Arab Emirate states including Abu Dhabi and Dubai, which have been investing heavily in museums. The asking price: roughly $500 million. So far there have been no takers.
Art-market experts have mixed views about the Mugrabis' strategies. Eric Greenleaf, a business professor at New York University, says that if the Mugrabis know anything other bidders don't before or during a sale, it can be unfair to competitors. George Sutton, an auction analyst at Craig-Hallum Capital Group in Minneapolis, says the Mugrabis' bidding pattern is no different than a company's largest shareholder buying additional stock at crucial moments as a show of support. Noted Warhol collector Peter Brant said criticism of the family's impact on the Warhol market is just "sour grapes" and that the Mugrabis are hardly the only ones bidding up Warhol. "People have to protect themselves," Mr. Mugrabi says.
Jose Mugrabi keeps a corner office with five rooms in a nondescript New York bank building on Park Avenue. His office is decorated with purple contemporary sofas and a brown desk with a few pens, a phone, and proofs from a photo shoot for a new line of Andy Warhol jeans introduced this fall by Levi's.
Mr. Mugrabi can be shy in social settings -- he attended an elaborate art-world party in London this October for maybe 20 minutes, while Dennis Hopper and Andrew Lloyd Webber stayed for hours. He doesn't sit on any museum boards or host art-industry parties. Around artwork he covets, he can be theatrically effusive, shouting in the Spanish he prefers to English.
A Shy Patriarch
To his children, he is the patriarch who gets final say on nearly all business matters. Mugrabi's younger son David, 36, is known as the quiet, practical one, and is a former broker on Wall Street. Alberto, or "Tico," is 37 and is the family's gregarious jetsetter and ambassador, a protégé of collectors like Mr. Brant and Aby Rosen. When separated from his sons, Jose Mugrabi calls them almost hourly, sometimes as late as 4 a.m., usually to talk about deals.
In his office on a recent afternoon, he reached into a drawer and pulled out a yellowed ledger he used to log his early art buys -- works by Sisley, Daumier, Renoir -- very few of which he still possesses. When asked how many Warhols he owns, Mr. Mugrabi furrowed his eyebrows and stared off into a corner of the room. "Esty!" he bellowed. "Warhols, how many do I have?" Less than a minute later, his longtime assistant, Esty Neuman, popped through the door from the reception area holding a printout.
"Eight hundred," she said, matter of factly.
Mr. Mugrabi, looking slightly surprised, smiled and glanced over at his sons, who were sitting across from him. "So many," he said quietly.
Born in 1939 into a middle-class Jewish family in Israel, Mr. Mugrabi is the son of a grocer and the eldest of seven. At 16 he was sent to live with an uncle in Bogotá, Colombia, who worked as a textile distributor. Mr. Mugrabi spent his days as an errand boy for the owner of a Bogotá fabric company. He never attended college, but he learned the business of buying and selling cloth by the bolt. By 1963, he had struck out on his own. During the 1970s, his company, Soditex, imported thousands of yards of wholesale fabric.
Rival textile firms like Coltejer, based in Medellín, increasingly complained to Colombian textile-industry officials that Mr. Mugrabi wasn't paying import taxes on his fabrics and was actually selling smuggled goods at fire-sale prices, according to Coltejer and Carlos Eduardo Botero Hoyos, executive director of the Colombian Textile and Apparel Association. "He did a lot of contraband," Mr. Hoyos says. He adds, however, that his association never investigated Mr. Mugrabi, in part because textile smuggling was common, and only a misdemeanor, until reforms were enacted in the past decade.
Mr. Mugrabi denies dodging taxes and smuggling, and there are no Colombian criminal or court records linked to him or Soditex, according to police records and Reinel Beleño, a spokesman for Colombia's Superior Judicial Council. By 1984, Mr. Mugrabi was fed up with the textiles industry and moved his family to New York. "Art became my refuge," he says.
'Who's Yves Klein?'
Mr. Mugrabi's introduction to the art world came by way of a cold call in 1981 from Citibank's Art Advisory Service. Jeffrey Deitch, a New York dealer who helped start the service, says it took more than a year for Mr. Mugrabi to agree to bid on a landscape by Pierre Auguste Renoir. A few days later, Christie's shipped him the painting, "Vue de la Seyne," along with a bill for $121,000. Surprised by how much he liked owning the Renoir, Mr. Mugrabi bought more art.
Jacob Baal-Teshuva, a freelance curator who befriended and advised Mr. Mugrabi soon after he arrived in New York, says Mr. Mugrabi relied on instinct since he didn't know art history. In late 1986, he paid about $83,000 at Sotheby's in London for an electric-blue sponge sculpture by the postwar master Yves Klein. He then turned to Mr. Baal-Teshuva and asked "Who's Yves Klein?"
On Feb. 22, 1987, Warhol died from complications following gall-bladder surgery. While he'd been celebrated in his lifetime for his Pop depictions of Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup cans, his work never commanded more than $165,000. Much of his later work -- his 1970s and 1980s views of Chairman Mao, camouflage patches, children's toys and Rorschach tests -- were still proving a tough sell.
Four months after the artist's death, Mr. Mugrabi bought Warhol for the first time at an art fair in Basel, Switzerland. Specifically, he paid $37,000 apiece for a quartet of paintings that Warhol had done appropriating Da Vinci's "The Last Supper." A year later, in June 1988, he sold one of them at Phillips in London for $103,350 -- a 179% return on his investment. Mr. Mugrabi decided to sell off his Impressionist art and stock up on Warhol. "Every empire has its influences, and I realized Andy was the authentic American," Mr. Mugrabi says. "Five hundred years from now, people will see his art and recognize American culture in an instant. He was the only artist who absorbed it all."
But Mr. Mugrabi needed a masterpiece if he was ever to join the ranks of serious Warhol collectors like Mr. Brant or S.I. Newhouse Jr. He got it on Nov. 10, 1988, at Sotheby's New York sale of contemporary art when he paid a record-breaking $3.96 million for Warhol's 1962 orange "Marilyn Monroe (Twenty Times)," more than double its presale estimate. His 18-year-old son Alberto, sitting beside him in the second row, helped him place the winning bid by yanking his father's arm into the air. Alberto says he simply wanted his father to win, but Mr. Mugrabi cursed his son for his audacity and stormed out.
That night, Mr. Mugrabi felt sick to his stomach and woke his wife at one point to ask, "What the hell have I done?" A few months later, he says a collector offered him more than he paid for the painting. He declined, slept more soundly, and apologized to his son. He says he's since been offered more than $100 million for his Marilyn.
Buying Opportunity
The stock market plummeted in October 1987, and by early 1990, top artworks, including Warhols, lost 20% to 70% of their value. Mr. Mugrabi spent the decade snapping them up -- especially the less-popular later works. Sometimes he bought in bulk. Mr. Mugrabi says he once got 38 Warhols, most featuring images of Marilyn Monroe, from noted Zurich dealer Bruno Bischofberger for under $5 million. (Mr. Bischofberger didn't return repeated calls for comment.)
For a time in the early 1990s, Mr. Mugrabi teamed with collector Sammy Ofer, a collector Romanian shipping magnate who provided capital. In 1992, he hired Alberto, then 22 and a college graduate, to troll the backrooms of New York galleries for Warhols. "Nobody else wanted them, so we'd clean them out," Alberto says. By the late '90s, major collectors noticed Warhol prices rose whenever the Mugrabi family joined the bidding. "I'd see them and think, 'Oh, here we go again,' because I knew I wouldn't win," says London collector Tiqui Atencio. "They would always outbid me."
For the record, Mr. Mugrabi says he never met the artist. He spotted Warhol once -- at a New York restaurant in 1985, before he'd started collecting his work. At the time he knew little about Warhol, and when a friend suggested they introduce themselves, he declined. Were Warhol still alive, Mr. Mugrabi says, "He would come over to meet me."
—Katy McLaughlin contributed to this article
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While the tangible benefits of a community garden may be its fruits and vegetables, the intangibles are perhaps even more valuable. "In a community garden people work together," says Kuhns. "Different ages and cultures mix." The AGCA lists a number of benefits that result from community gardening:
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If there is no existing community garden near your home, or if you're aware of a neighbourhood space that would be the perfect location for a new community project, you may want to start a new community garden, "a long, but rewarding process," says Kuhns, who suggests starting – where else? – in the community, by organizing a meeting of interested people from your neighbourhood. Kuhns also recommends the following steps:
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• Do lots of outreach work, especially with members of the potential garden's neighbourhood.
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Even if you enjoy gardening independently on your own land you can still get involved in a community garden. The human interactions that take place are "something you unfortunately see all too rarely," says Kuhns. "A community garden is a special place where people work together to make something big and beautiful."
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Been reading for a long while, but wanted to post more. To introduce myself I'll list my setup that I've found is pretty amazing for me, in hopes that it may be useful to others.
Body Size: 250lbs. My ideal weight is about 215ish. I've played football and rugby for years, and recently have cut about 30lbs with another 35 to go. I've ridden for years at all weights.
Diet: Ketogenic. I've lost about 30lbs this year on it already, and I have plenty of energy. I'll probably jump to a paleo when I get closer to my target weight. Used this diet over the years while playing sports and it is the most level way to feel energized, for me, while also cutting fat/weight. My energy feels really even, especially when riding, and I have little hunger. But that's just me.
Point of View about Cycling: I'm a really, really big believer in minimalism and simplicity. I'm not religious about it at all, but I like to try and boil things down to their essence and biking is a type of non-religious "zen" for me. So I try really hard NOT to add gear to my bag or bike, if I can help it. I want the simplest setup that helps me to be completely present in my riding. Too many hobbies I've had that could break the bank and be more about the gear than the experience, and I really don't every want biking to be that way for me. It's such an amazing sport in terms of just being out in the world.
Riding Style: Commuter mostly. Used to be mountain and would ride Moab and etc. But now it's mostly commuter and city trails. My commutes are no longer than about 5 to 10 miles per day, and sometimes I'll double that on the weekends just having fun. Sometimes I ride 7 days a week, sometimes 3.
Bike: A hybrid--the Specialized Sirrus. Been great for me for my needs. Thousand things I might still tinker with on it, but all in all it doesn't need anything.
Tires: Standard from factory. Two years on it and never a broken spoke, and I've had one flat total (but I do check tire pressure before every ride).
Saddle: Selle Anatomica Titanico X. I like the one that came with the bike, actually, but the SAA is just very comfortable and is a great clyde saddle.
Commuter Gear: Back rack with a kind of custom basket. I trimmed down the metal on the basket to give it a more aggressive look, and I have a sealine dry bag I put in there with my briefcase or etc. I have a few paniers I'll hang if I need, but I find the basket/drybag combo to be extremely adaptable and variable. No way I could ever do a backpack as I'd sweat it out in a heartbeat and look like I took half a shower on the ride.
Clothing: A short or long sleeve polo--depending on the weather--from one of the makers of the "dry" technology lines. Looks good, dries quick, and can wash in a sink if needed and have dry in 1 hour. Under Armour and Nike and few golf brands.
Also, no shorts. Not ever. And that's not a cosmetic thing as I look fine enough in shorts. I got "tapped" from behind at a stoplight one time by some 17 year old girl who was texting and not paying attention. Ever at her slow speed, and mine, I skidded across the pavement in shorts and ended up going to a hospital and had to have gravel removed from my skin with a wire brush. Never again. Jeans would have saved me all of that pain. Mostly I ride in jeans, even when it's 100 degrees outside and it's never been too rough on me. The Levi Commuters work okay in the 505 cut for me, though a little narrow, but I get discount levis and etc from outdoor stores at about $25 a pair and they'll last a few months apiece.
If I ever go back to Moab, or if I get back into road distance, I'll probably get back into racing wear but I still need to find a way to keep my legs covered. That pavement memory is still a little brutal.
The other benefit to always being in a polo shirt and jeans as a clyde is that you don't get off at a coffee shop or meeting site looking like a ridiculous sweaty mess. I get a lot less sideways glances than when I'd wear my shorts and racing shirt.
Shoes: The best all around commuter shoe I've found is, believe it or not, the Adidas Samba shoe. I dress for work in leather shoes and barely own or wear any trainers, but the Sambas have been amazing. They look good enough, but are comfortable. And they're bulletproof. I rode on one pair for about 8 years before they wore out, making them the single piece of gear that lasted the longest.
Finally: For any new clydes out there, never stop riding. Don't get off, don't get discouraged. Keep calm and peddle on. The humming birds around you might look at you funny sometimes, but in general I've found the bonds of the cycling community are stronger than others and if you're riding--there's camaraderie there. Mostly you FEEL like you stick out more than you actually do.
The most I ever get is the question from other clyde riders, "so, you got a DUI too, huh?".


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PCC Alum Faafiti Named CAC Conference Player Of Year
Last year, sophomore Easter Faafiti helped lead the Pasadena City College women's basketball team to the college's first state team championship in its women's athletics history. This year, Faafiti's impact was felt at her new college, NCAA Division III Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C.
Faafiti, a hearing-impaired student-athlete, was honored as the Capital Athletic Conference Women's Player of the Year for her overall play as a junior center.
Gallaudet had a breakout season as the Bison posted a 14-12 record, the most wins in a decade, and earned the sixth-seed in the CAC tournament. GU made its first appearance in the CAC tournament since the 2006-07 season.
Faafiti led the CAC in scoring (19.1 points per game), rebounding (11.1 per game), field goal percentage (.597), offensive rebounds (5.1 per game) and was second in steals (3.3 per game) and fourth in defensive rebounds (6.0). Nationally, Faafiti was ranked in several categories among all Division III women's basketball programs including: field goal percentage (10th overall), rebounding (26th), scoring (27th) and steals (37th).
The Pittsburg, Calif. product was also named the CAC Player of the Week a record four times this season.
At PCC from 2007-2009, Faafiti established herself as one of the greatest forwards in Lancers' history. She was named All-CCCAA Championship Tournament and twice was an All-State selection. She received State Farm All-American honorable mention honors.
"This is a big honor for me and my teammates. What a great feeling to earn this award," said Faafiti in a Gallaudet press release. "Everything was new for me when I came to Gallaudet this year. When I stepped on the court I didn't worry about my numbers or awards. I wanted to help push my teammates to get better and for us to win games."
Faafiti was guided at PCC by basketball head coach Joe Peron and was provided her educational development through the college's Disabled Students Programs & Services office.
[Photo/Information at GU courtesy of Gallaudet University sports information department]
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Whether it's the automobile industry in Detroit or the textile industry in the North Carolina Piedmont, many areas of our nation and state have been hit hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs.
That's not the case for Wilmington. The Port City hasn't had a large manufacturing base since the naval-stores days 100 years ago. In the early 20th Century, cotton was king in Wilmington – not growing it, but shipping it. In the middle of the 1900s, Wilmington was a railroad town.
While the area has been lucky to land industries such as GE and Corning, as well as a number of smaller manufacturers, the economy has revolved more around commerce, service and real estate development (health care and education also are major players).
With expensive land and a delicate ecosystem, Wilmington probably is not a prime spot for large manufacturers to seek out.
It's becoming more and more clear that the best future for the immediate Wilmington area is in the so-called "knowledge" economy.
The agricultural economy is built around land; the manufacturing economy is built around natural resources; the knowledge economy is built around knowledge, specifically knowledge that can be sold.
A good example is PPD. One of Wilmington's largest and well-known employers, PPD doesn't sell "stuff," it sells its specialty knowledge.
The knowledge economy is best displayed in Raleigh's Research Triangle. Although the companies there are cutting-edge, RTP was formed in 1959.
Wilmington has been late to the game, but over the past 20 or so years – you might call it the Interstate 40 era – knowledge economy players have emerged.


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The corrosion-resistant aluminum hinge and latch rods are tough enough to withstand marine environments.
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*Scale is approximate. During the roto-molding process heating and cooling of the plastic can cause slight variations in the ruler.
Each Sportsman™ is equipped with a molded-in locking slot designed to fit standard sized locks. The Pro-Tek™ Lock Slot allows the cooler to be locked to prevent critters, or even other people, from accessing the contents, but most importantly you can use any old lock, long or short shank.
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Molded-in Scoop Handles make lifting a fully loaded cooler in/out of vehicles or boats easier.
The robust, no-sway StableGrip™ Handles are bolted into the body of the cooler. The handles fold flat to save space and feature a rubberized grip for comfortable transporting of heavy loads. The compact cooler footprint is ideal for boat racks or under leaning posts.
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Non-marking rubberized feet prevent the cooler from sliding around on moving boat decks or truck beds, keeping it firmly in place.
An Igloo® exclusive! Elevated design improves cooling performance by holding the cooler further above hot surfaces, and makes wash-downs easier on boat decks and other surfaces.
Igloo's Sportsman™ roto-molded cooler has all of the leading competitor's features - and more - at a vastly better price. No other roto-molded cooler in the market has packed in more value than the Sportsman™. From the StableGrip™ Handles to the RapidFlo™ Drain System to the ultra thick insulation, this virtually indestructible rotational molded chest has all of the features outdoorsmen want, plus the durability and ice retention they need. Take a closer look at the direct competitive comparison and consider the value for yourself.
Unlike some of the other roto-molded coolers in the market today, the Igloo® Sportsman™ has a true, full-load capacity. No misleading "model numbers" here—it contains the full numbers of quarts its name implies.
The Sportsman™ Drain hole is 94% larger than the competitor and drains 4 times faster.
Rigid handles prevent the cooler from swaying during transport unlike the competitor's which are made of rope. Rope handles are easily cut and are more susceptible to theft than a solid handle.
Insulation in the drain plug prevents the loss of cold, and the stainless steel tether keeps the drain plug attached to keep it from getting lost.
Each Sportsman™ is equipped with a molded-in locking slot designed to fit standard sized locks; no special lock required.
The integrated ruler allows you to measure your catch in both Standard or Metric units. There's no such thing on the competitor's cooler.
The raised, non-slip work surface on the lid is textured and provides an easily accessible working area or casting platform.
The lid of the Sportsman™ opens past 90 degrees—wider than the competition—so that the lid stays open, reducing unexpected closures.
Unlike the leading competitor, each Sportsman™ cooler comes with a built in slot designed to hold the drain plug out of the way while in use.
Prior to packing your Sportsman, chill or freeze beverages or food items ahead of time. If your contents start off cold, the ice will last longer since it just has to keep the contents cold and doesn't have to cool them down first.
Because there is extra thick insulation built into your Sportsman™ cooler, it is an efficient insulator for both hot and cold. If your Sportsman™ is stored in a warm location, such as a vehicle trunk, garage, shed, etc., it will absorb and retain heat. If immediately loaded with ice and food items or other goods, the ice will first have to combat the heat built up in the insulated walls and will melt faster. It is recommended that prior to packing your Sportsman™ you prechill it overnight in a cool place – ideally with a bag of ice inside to help diminish the trapped heat. Minimizing the heat retention in the cooler and packing with prechilled contents will greatly help to extend your ice retention.
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The rugged rotomolded construction of your Sportsman™ is dry ice compatible. Dry ice will deliver maximum ice retention – either by itself or when used in combination with regular ice – but care must be taken when using dry ice. Wear protective gloves to avoid freeze-burns and ensure there is adequate ventilation to release the carbon dioxide gas that will be released during the use of dry ice.
Your Sportsman™ cooler is backed by a 5-year limited warranty.
Maintain your Proof of Purchase (original receipt) in a safe place should warranty service ever become necessary. If your Sportsman™ Cooler fails due to defects in material or workmanship, and falls within the guidelines of the Warranty Policy below, you may submit a claim by calling 1-800-364-5566 in the United States or 1-800-500-5447 in Canada. DO NOT RETURN YOUR SPORTSMAN COOLER TO THE PLACE OF PURCHASE, AND DO NOT SEND YOUR PRODUCT BACK TO IGLOO PRODUCTS CORP UNTIL INSTRUCTED TO DO SO BY AN IGLOO CUSTOMER CARE REPRESENTATIVE.
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Many of Cory Monteith's Glee co-stars have been showing their honor for the late actors surprising death that happened this past Saturday.
Chord Overstreet showed his support by dedicating his home run to Montieth in the MLB All-Star Legends & Celebrity Softball Game in New York that Overstreet participated in this past weekend.
Unfortunatly, his team came up short and lost the game, but the dedication definitely made the game special.
Many other Glee stars reached out in reaction to Monteith's tragic and unexpected passing.
Even though I was never an avid watcher of the show or Gleek, the news of Cory's death hit me in an unexpected way. The lesson we can all learn from this is to enjoy every day and take in every moment because you never know when it will be your last.
Rest in peace, Cory. Our prayers go out Monteith's Glee co-star and girlfriend, Lea Michele and all of Cory's fans across the world.


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Department store operator Hudson's Bay Co (HBC-T) said on Monday it had completed its $365.1 million initial public offering.
HBC, which owns Lord & Taylor in the United States and Hudson's Bay in Canada, began trading last Tuesday on the Toronto Stock Exchange on a "when-issued" basis. Shares began trading on a regular basis at the open on Monday.
The offering of 21.48 million shares was priced at the bottom of the company's already lowered range of $17 to $18 per share. That pegs HBC's market capitalization at about $2 billion.
Founded in 1670, Hudson's Bay began as a fur trading business, granted control of a significant part of what is now Canada by King Charles II. It is North America's oldest continually operating company.
The firm went private in 2006, as shoppers fled to U.S.-based heavyweights like Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT-N) and specialty retailers.
NRDC Equity Partners bought out HBC's other investors in 2008, and integrated it with Lord & Taylor, which has 48 stores across the United States.
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and his allies are spending heavily to defeat a little-known tea party challenger.
Cantor faces economic professor Dave Brat in Virginia's June 10 Republican primary for the Seventh Congressional District, which stretches from Culpeper to the Richmond area.
Beltway-groups have chipped in to help Cantor defeat Brat.
Cantor is seen as the next in line to be U.S. House speaker. But he and his supporters have met stiff resistance in trying to wrest control of the Virginia Republican Party from tea party activists this year.
Also, voters in the First Congressional District in eastern Virginia will choose between incumbent Rep. Rob Wittman and Anthony Riedel, a spokesman for the National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation.


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Blogged by me in January: this year feels conservative for the Final Four.
Reality in March: The lowest seed in the sweet 16 was #7 UNLV — who really shouldn't have been rated so low. Elite eight is four #1′s, three #2′s and a #3.
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Walking down the street, you are treated to shorter and shorter skirts on women. That's especially true in the summertime. Upskirt Mania has amassed a collection of voyeur movies that capture glimpses of the hidden treasures beneath these tempting clothes. It's a hidden camera operation for the most part. The cameramen head to various public locations such as parks, malls and tourist attractions. You will see some posed spreads though too. The site has real amateurs. It's completely exclusive.
The only issue for me is the occasional navigational glitch. It always seems to fix itself after a few tries though. It took me a few clicks to get access to the video section to work, for example. UpskirtMania has 353 videos. Most of the vids come in DivX format. They have stellar playback. The more recent updates include a streaming Flash version. Some older updates may come in mediocre to average-quality RealPlayer. However, it seemed from my visit that most of the scenes had been recoded to DivX. Keep in mind that these standalone, full-length clips only last under or just over a minute in length. Some are only a few seconds long.
There are about 195 galleries of still pics. Many of these are high-res. However, you will find some with regular-res or smaller images too. About have of these spreads of actual photos, don't have videos. Most of the vids tend to be accompanied by only grainy screen caps. The real photo spreads do have more a tendency to appear somewhat staged. They're not nearly as candid as the clips do. However, the photos as a result do sometimes show you more of the ladies bodies being exposed. You will even see some of the gals masturbate.
There's a members' forum. You'll also find a link to a free upskirt blog. Main content is updated weekly. They say both the photos and pics are updated weekly. However, recently it seems that they add something to one or the other of the two sections once a week. There are no bonus sites. They do try to upsell you another site though. Upskirt Mania continues to be a great place to glimpse upskirt.
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Asthma overview. Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America website. Available at: http://www.aafa.org/display.cfm?id=8&sub=14. Accessed October 13, 2014.
Atopic dermatitis. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: http://www.ebscohost.com/dynamed. Updated July 25, 2014. Accessed October 13, 2014.
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Cohort study of sibling effect, infectious diseases, and risk of atopic dermatitis during the first 18 months of life. BMJ. 2004;328(7450): 1223.
Daley D. The evolution of the hygiene hypothesis: the role of early-life exposures to viruses and microbes and their relationship to asthma and allergic diseases. Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2014;14(5):390-396.
Doews J, Pearce N. Commentary: The end of the hygiene hypothesis? Int J Epidemiol. 2008;37(3):570-572.
Langan SM, Flohr C, et al. The role of furry pets in eczema: a systematic review. Arch Dermatol. 2007;143(12):1570-1577.
Liu AH, Leung DY. Renaissance of the hygiene hypothesis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006;117(5):1063-1066.
Schaub B, Lauener R, et al. The many faces of the hygiene hypothesis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2006;117:969-977.


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Doctors urge you to stay safe around fireworks
PHOENIX - Fireworks can be fun for the family, but they can be more dangerous than you think.
Doctors at the Arizona Burn Center and other Valley burn treatment centers are standing by, ready to treat patients Friday and Saturday.
They said they most often see injuries to hands and eyes.
They also treat a lot of burns from sparklers.
The tip of a sparkler can actually burn as hot as 2,000 degrees.
Doctors urge you to supervise kids when you're setting off fireworks.
They also said don't rely on the fireworks going off when you expect them to and take extra precautions around them.
If you do get hurt, make sure to see a doctor right away—even if doesn't seem severe.
"Burns are a special type of injury, because when that first layer of skin is lost, patients can get dehydrated very quickly, so it's important to come in and seek additional attention for wound management," said Dr. Jordan Neighbors with the Arizona Burn Center.
Burn units often get busiest the day after the 4th of July.


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The City of Gary is where it all began fifty years ago through a vision of a "positive place" for young men to go to engage in worthwhile and productive activities.
Prominent people such as Paul Guist, Sid Holub, Robert Salvaggi, Uno Larson and Bill Messics made such a vision become a reality. Their efforts led to the incorporation of the Steel City Boys' Clubs of Gary, Indiana on August 17, 1954. Edwin Van Billiard of Boys' Clubs of America presented these individuals with an official charter in 1955.
In the beginning, the Club operated in Beveridge School in Tolleston and, in 1956, another Club was opened in Webster School in Glen Park and was known as the Glen Park Boys Club.
In 1958, yet another Club was opened in the Tri-City Housing project and the Glen Park Club moved to the Basement of the Assyrian Church.
In 1965, these three Clubs were merged together when Mr. John W. Anderson purchased the old Moose Lodge at 7th and Adams and donated this facility to the Boys' Clubs. The Club, changing its name to the John Will Anderson Boys Club and complete with a bowling alley, operated in this facility for many years until 1976 when the Club moved to the former YMCA at 225 West 5th Avenue where it remains today – now with a swimming pool instead of a bowling alley.


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Different Types of Traffic
Did you know that there is more than one type of web traffic? And not all types of web traffic are the same. Most amateurs may believe that there is only one type of traffic but this could not be more wrong. And while you might feel very happy when you see a large number of visits to your site, you will have to learn to study the numbers more carefully if you want to know what's really going on. This is one of the major reasons why it is so important for you to use analytics software like Google Analytics on your website. Now let me explain the 5 types of traffic there are out there:-
1. Social traffic This traffic can basically be generated with the help of other sites like Facebook, Twitter, Digg and StumbleUpon. This traffic can also be generated through video websites or any type of sharing website which you can consider to be a part of social media. These websites let you get new visitors for your website and also make it easier for them to share it with their friends, post it on other websites and link back to your pages from a forum. There are two reasons why you would want to link to such websites.
The first reason is because they are ranked very high on Google and are used by millions of people every day. The second one is that you will be able to benefit from thousands of hits when someone reports your pages on one of these sites. That is also why it is so important for you to use catchy titles for your pages and posts.
2. Paid traffic This is basically the traffic that you pay for. You can do this with the help of paid ads via Google AdWords or other similar services. There are even websites which offer to buy traffic for a certain amount of money. I would strongly suggest that you approach such sites with due diligence as they tend to send bots instead of real people to your site which is of no real use to you. This may have a negative effect on your websites ranking and may even result in you being kicked out of search engine results.
3. Word of mouth This kind of traffic can be gotten from either webmasters, etc. that link your website to their blogs or websites or from your family and friends who spread the word about your website. You can also attain such traffic by telling people you meet about your website.
4. Search traffic This is the traffic which you will get through search engines when someone searches for a particular keyword and clicks on your webpage through the results. This is considered the best type of traffic.
5. Return traffic This could be considered just as good as search traffic. It consists of all the people that return to your website after having viewed it once through one of the above four methods. This type of traffic can also be ascertained from the number of people that subscribe to any newsletters you may have on your website.


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|Telephone town halls offer citizens forum to talk transportation
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
The Colorado Department of Transportation is hosting a series of telephone town hall meetings this spring, providing the public with an opportunity to ask questions and provide input about regional transportation needs.
Beginning in early April and continuing through early June, residents in all 64 counties will be called at random through an automated system and invited to take part in the telephone forums.
The Eastern Region session will be Thursday, April 10 at 7 p.m. This includes the counties of Phillips, Sedgwick, Logan, Washington, Yuma, Kit Carson, Cheyenne, Lincoln and Elbert.
Coloradoans who choose to join in will have the opportunity to express their thoughts about transportation, how CDOT should focus its limited funding, discuss the link between transportation and the economy and weigh in on regional priorities.
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Family who lost dog during Sandy finds it at pound
EATONTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey family whose terrier-pit bull mix escaped from their backyard during Superstorm Sandy went to an animal shelter this week to adopt a new pet and came home with their old dog.
Chuck James tells The Associated Press that his family searched for the brown-and-white dog named Reckless for months after the October 2012 storm before finally giving up hope.
"We reported him missing and called the shelters periodically, just hoping they had him," James said Saturday. "We always kept our hopes up, but eventually it's time to move on."
James said the family had planned in recent weeks to get a new dog as a 10th birthday surprise for their eldest daughter, Ally.
But when the family of five went to the Monmouth County SPCA on Thursday to adopt a new animal, James and his wife approached the first cage and saw a familiar face inside.
"He was a little bigger than I remembered because they had fed him well," James joked. "But then he was laying on my wife's feet, and I knew it was him. ... I was in disbelief. I know this dog is meant to be with our family."
When SPCA officials asked if they could prove the animal was their dog, a friend sent over a picture showing the family with their dog before Sandy hit the Jersey shore.
"We're all so happy to have him back," James said. "Thank God for no-kill shelters because every time they kill an animal, it's somebody's friend who might be lost. Thank God they didn't put him down because this would have been a different story."
SPCA officials say Reckless was picked up as a stray and has now been microchipped.
The family is living in a hotel while their storm-damaged Keansburg home is repaired. This weekend, the Jameses went on a camping trip with Reckless to celebrate the dog's return.
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November 26, 2013
KFC Scented Candles, Anyone?
When I read the story that KFC scented candles — that's candles that smell like KFC, not KFC inexplicably adding scented candles to their menu — my reaction was "wow, amazing!" but then almost immediately "No, awful!"
I do think that KFC smells pretty great, and tastes pretty great, despite my guilt every time I eat it. But I'm not sure I would want my house to smell like it. Wouldn't it just make you hungry all the time? I suppose it's useful if you are trying to sell your home, as an alternative to the fresh baking smell estate agents recommend you have wafting through the house when prospective buyers drop by.
The candles are created by a company called Kentucky for Kentucky, whose aim is "Kicking ass for the Commonwealth!" (I just learned that Kentucky's official state name is the "Commonwealth of Kentucky.") Let's hope that they have cleared this with KFC, or customers might have their door kicked down by KFC heavies thinking that someone is trying to recreate the secret recipe. Kentucky for Kentucky have other Kentucky themed scented candles in their range, including "Ale 8" beer and "Kentucky Derby." The Kentucky Derby option smells like mint julep, a cocktail made from bourbon, mint and sugar which is popular at Derby time. In fact 120,000 are sold over the two days of the event. I feared it might smell of horse droppings and destitution, but mint julep sounds better.
The KFC secret recipe idea is mixed right into the candles, as creator Kathy Werking uses her own "infusion of family secrets." The website says "To craft the perfect xtra crispy aroma, Kathy picks up her cast iron skillet, adds a little seasoning, and gets to work. To make these candles, she fries chicken in all-natural soy wax and adds an infusion of family secrets."
The site also says that only 25 candles were made. I suspect Kathy wishes she had made more now, considering this story appeared in the Huffington Post, USA Today, at least two of the UK's leading daily newspapers, various other sites internetwide, and now on redorbit, of course.
Chicken scented candles going viral – who'd have thought it. The phenomenon of public consumption is a weird one, isn't it? I read this week that a Welshman named Kevin Beresford failed to sell a single, solitary copy of his 2014 calendar entitled "Fast Disappearing Red Telephone Boxes of Wales 2014." That may not be terribly surprising, unless you consider that his "Roundabouts of Great Britain 2012" sold over 100,000 copies.
As if doing weird things to food hadn't gone far enough recently, by frying it with wax and making a candle out of it, I also read on redOrbit that experimental, sciencey types Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas have made cheese using bacteria from feet and armpits. Oh, and the belly button. The reason our feet and other body parts smell like cheese is apparently because the bacteria are very similar; it is not just coincidence. The way bacteria work, and the way we think of odors, is what the team want to highlight. They admit that the food is unlikely to be eaten. But who knows, it might go viral (or bacterial).
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Flames Shutout Valparaiso 1-0; Remain Unbeaten in HL Play
Sept. 29, 2012
Isai Lemus scored his first-career goal on a cross from classmate Ivan Stanisavljevic in the 67th minute, leading the UIC men's soccer team to a 1-0 shutout win over Valparaiso at Flames Field Saturday night. With the victory, the Flames remained unbeaten in Horizon League play.
With the result, UIC improved to 4-4-2 overall, with an unblemished 1-0-1 mark in Horizon League play. Valpo, the League's defending regular season champion, dropped to 1-6-2 (0-1-1 Horizon). UIC is now unbeaten in its last five contests, dating back to Sept. 14 versus IUPUI. With redshirt freshman goalkeeper Goran Ikic making his second-straight start, the Flames also recorded back-to-back shutouts for the first time since October 2010, when UIC blanked Milwaukee (10/23/10) and Eastern Illinois (10/27/10) in consecutive home matches.
"Tonight was definitely a tale of two halves," said head coach Sean Phillips. "We struggled to get going early on, but I felt like if we could get to halftime and make a few adjustments, we could find a way to get a result. The flow of the game went back our way in the second half, and it was great to see Isai (Lemus) get rewarded tonight. He's been playing very well the last few games."
Lemus' goal came on an attack that started on the right side of the field. The ball was eventually fielded by Stanisavljevic wide on the left side - he then beat his defender, crossed the ball into the box, and Lemus finished a touch play to the near post. Lemus became the fifth UIC player this season to score a goal, while Stanisavljevic picked up his 11th point of the season with the credited assist.
Valpo held a 12-9 edge in shots, but UIC attempted eight corner kicks, while the Crusaders took just two. Ikic made four saves for the second-straight game. There were a combined 36 fouls called in the match, and a pair of yellow cards were handed out, one for each team.
UIC will take on Milwaukee in a Horizon League match next Saturday (10/6/12) at Engelmann Field. The Panthers settled for a 1-1 draw in their League opener Saturday night. Milwaukee will travel to Green Bay for a midweek contest on Wednesday.


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Very nice spacious lots. Plenty of room between units. Lot was not completely level but was easy to level camper. Lots of shade trees. All utilities worked great (water, sewer, electric). Utilized hiking trails and beach. Did not have boat for lake but lots of other people did. It was a great time and already have reservations to return. - CyberRanger
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I used to camp here with my family when I was younger and had a blast. Now its 20 years later and I took my family there last weekend and had a blast. Sites were not packed together but were slightly uneven. The bathhouse was clean. The park was well kept. We will be stopping here many times. - daa1275
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Nice State Park Campground. Back in sites at an angle, easy to back in. Water not marked on maps, but plentiful throughout the campground. Memorial Day was VERY full and busy, but no one after or before holiday, almost empty. Good power, nice shady area. Some older areas were gravel, some had concrete pads. We will camp here again. - DocColorado


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Fundamentalist Leader Arrested in Pakistan
One of Pakistan's main fundamentalist parties is crying foul after the military authorities arrested a key provincial member for alleged corruption, a report said Saturday.
Haji Ghulam Ali was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) under draconian anti-corruption rules which allow for detention without charge for up to 90 days, the News daily reported.
Ali was a prominent member of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI), a fundamentalist Islamic party which earlier this week organised a mass rally of Islamists in the semi-tribal North West Frontier Province (NWFP), it said.
"After the impressive Deoband Conference, the government has realised that the JUI has a huge following in NWFP and has, therefore, started targeting us here (in NWFP)," JUI chief Maulana Fazlur Rahman was quoted as saying.
More than 200,000 Islamists and religious scholars from around Pakistan and abroad gathered at the three-day rally near the NWFP capital Peshawar earlier this week.
Marking the 150th anniversary of the Deoband school of Sunni Islam, the event quickly became a forum for local fundamentalist leaders to demand jihad (holy war) against the West and the implementation of Sharia law in Pakistan.
It also heard messages from indicted terrorist Osama bin Laden, one of America's most wanted men, and the chief of the puritanical Taliban militia which rules most of neighbouring Afghanistan – ISLAMABAD (AFP)
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K2 updated the legendary Darkstar Snowboard with Flatline technology to create a more forgiving ride that still maintains control at speed. From park laps to backcountry booters to dork-off cruiser runs, the Darkstar's buttery-yet-stable feel is sure to plaster a poop-eating grin on your mug.
- Flatline zero-camber technology reduces edge hang-ups without sacrificing pop or stability
- Hybritaper construction thins out the tip and tail to reduce swing weight
- Hyper Progressive twin shape mellows out the sidecut at contact points for predictable takeoffs and landings in either direction
- V-shaped Carbon Matrix I torsion forks add edge control and extra pop in the tip and tail
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This is the first board I've owned. I would have to say I couldn't have picked a better one. I'm not a begginer but still learning. This board stepped my game up to a whole new level. An absolute blast in the powder and exellent for jumps. Handles great, super responsive. A great board for anyone at any level.
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It has the best pop and all around great ride if you like to skate or surf this is your board it feels the same too me and i have been doing them all for many years now.
No banana
I have to start off saying that I rode a sk8 nanner last season. When switching to the dark star, I was hoping for a little bit more stable board and a little bit more pop due to the fact that it was not a rocker board. That was not the case.
The goods: This thing is pretty fast, and is super fun on rails!
The bad: not as stable as the the banana or as fun. Just seems to be dead. the banana also has a ton more pop for my style.
Overall a good board, the graphics are sick, but if you are stuck between this and a btx board, go lib tech or gnu. it is better on rails, pow, jumps, and just being a playful board.
This board is by far a lot better for jumping. I hate using a rocker for jumping. This board kills the park a lot better then my lib tech.
best board alive
and I meant alive when I said it. I have 3 boards. A 2007 5150 shifter(powder board), a 2008 k2 www(jib board) and my 09 k2 Darkstar. As far as graphics go this board looks great. I like the 09's better but this still looks good. The reason Why I ride this board 95% of the time now if because it is so versatile. My home mountain is Sunday River, Maine, and if anyone s familiar with it, it's 8 interconnected mountains that are all different. Jordan bowl is the farthest north peak with my 2 of my 3 favorite trails. Lolapalooza is a 3.2 mile green trail. Lame right? wrong. My gps clocked me at 58mph at one point and that is me and my friends racing trail and this board is dirty fast not to mention it mellows out bumps to make handling unbelievable. then there's the double black glade, wizards gultch. with a 55 degree pitch and tree's, rocks, 2 feet of pow, and a 10 foot drop off, this board will make sure u come out the other side in one piece. My 3rd favorite trail is on white cap, 8 mountains to the south. This trail is a little over a mile long of a fast paced terrain line. starts with a 15 foot step up jump, then a berm for momentum then a 25 foot table top, then u can either hit a rainbow rail or a cannon box then u go around a small corner and then theres a hip then u hit another berm and step up to the 50 footer. after that the superman box puts the finishing touch on it. this board amazes me on the cruisers, the powder steeps, and the park. Bottom line you will not be disappointed. 5+


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Bollywood crosses over to Hollywood once again, and this time it's bigger and better. After Anil Kapoor, it is Priyanka Chopra, who is testing waters in the mainstream American television. As you can guess by now, Chopra plays FBI trainee Alex Parrish. Her character is a half-Indian, half-Caucasian women who is determined to "serve the country."


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My friend is really excited to get this bike...I've heard things about Masi and being built from china now...Anyone got experience with this bike or know anything about it? Looks pretty legit.
My friend is really excited to get this bike...I've heard things about Masi and being built from china now...Anyone got experience with this bike or know anything about it? Looks pretty legit.
That's pretty ugly.
(In my opinion, of course)
i like the crankset...
"Never argue with an idiot. He'll only bring you down to his level, then beat you with experience..."
ya i do like the crankset, iono about the color scheme though...not really my thing...but he wants to buy it like today...
Its really awesome parts, and a really nice frame.
Being manufactured in foreign countries isnt a huge deal like a lot people want to say it is. They are designed by experts, and built by manufacturers that know what they are doing.
I ride a Masi. The Speciale frame is very robust, and is basically road geometry, if that is what you want. It gives a comfortable and responsive ride, though I would prefer the lugged version aesthetically.
For the price, however, the Ultimate just does not seem worthwhile. The parts are not bad - but they are not what I would choose if I started with a frame. Likewise, the frame itself is not the best bike for the dollar at that price point.
Masi is not Masi...they Schwinn'd out. They're still nice bikes though, just a bit overpriced. I think they're pretty. I was talking about the display frame my LBS had and silently facepalmed when he told me that it was English threaded...they're not what they used to be. At all.
i think my friend was saying he was gonna get it for 900-1000$ ...seems a bit over priced to me...
Masi is just a name; it has no connection to the Italian Masi company or family, despite the "Masi Milano" logo and "Faliero Masi" signature decals.
new masis are disgusting.
I wish they offered better colors.
I'd pick up a MASI.
Until I start seeing better colors, and especially a better selection of framesets, I'll pass
great bike. not worth 3/4 what they ask for it though.
get some insane collab with sugino grand mighty's and some insane mavic wheels and then i'll be tempted.
otherwise, it's just a colorful giant.
is it really pronounced "mee-kay?" i've been saying "meesh" for years! (Miche)
before posting, a "noob" should always ask themselves "could this have been answered by first visiting Sheldon Brown
its pronounced meh.
thats a schwa not an ay.
might as well build up that lugged bikeisland frame.
looks ugly, better colors would help.
reminds me of the fake pista concept in the other thread


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