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A Massive Islamic prayer service will held on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. at the end of September 2009 and 50.000 Muslims are expected to take part.
The site where U.S. presidents are traditionally inaugurated, will essentiall be turned into a giant outdoor mosque.
According to the organizers, the Jummah service – weekly Friday prayers- will echo from the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill.
The objective of the gathering is described as to "invite the Muslim Communities and friends of Islam and to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam." The organizators add, "We intend to manifest Islam's majestic spiritual principals as revealed by Allah to our beloved prophet Mohammed. Likewise, we intend to inspire a new generation of Muslims to work for the greater good of all poeple."


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"I really don't eat that badly." If I had a dollar for every time someone told me that, I'd be retired. If you're seeking advice on nutrition there's something about your body you want to change that your current eating habits are not satisfying.
Your nutrition
What is the basis for your nutritional guidelines? Are you following food industry principles and sponsored studies or independent PhD research? Most of the reliable information isn't new; it has just been overshadowed by business propaganda.
According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, obesity in the U.S. has increased dramatically since 1985; currently one-third of adults are in this category. And the 1980 USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans supported a major shift to double the recommended servings of carbohydrates, including starches, whole and enriched grains, as well as a greater reduction in fats. The effort was to reduce the risk of chronic diseases ― but it's not working. Obesity, diabetes, heart disease and cancer percentages are all on the rise. Furthermore, food is big business, and all major industries have lobbyists influencing government agencies. As food companies' profits expand, so does your waistline. So whose standards are you following?
More Confusion
Spend this weekend counting how many ads you view in any media for diet/nutrition programs. Now, think back through the last 10 years. Atkins®, Sugar Busters®, Zone®, South Beach®, Weight Watchers®, Nutrisystem®, etc. Which one is the best?
All are based on reasonable medical facts. Try any one and follow the program strictly, no exceptions, and you will lose weight. And then what? Whether it's because you reach your goal weight or quit during the program, they are all banking on the fact that you will stop.
They are all companies seeking profits, and they have statistics predicting when you will gain the weight back and return to the program or try another one. It's a vicious cycle that wreaks havoc on your body physically, mentally and emotionally.
What do I do?
Stop focusing on weight loss. This is a short-term goal with little concern for more important factors. Reducing your total body weight doesn't improve your body. Focus your efforts on improving your overall health ― blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, sleeping better, sustained energy, elevated mood, mental clarity, and so on. The side effect? Long-term fat loss; you won't be merely losing weight, but losing fat. Remember, it's possible to stay the same weight while also lowering body fat.
Try this logic. Would Mother Nature provide anything to deliberately harm you? Is she focused on profit? All-natural means you can chase it, pull it out of the water, dig it out of the ground, or pick it off of a plant. Then you can eat it as is (or with minimal cooking because we're not cavemen anymore).
Ever try Natural Cheetos? Tell me where I can find the Cheetos tree so I can pick a fresh bag. Remember that on your next trip to the grocery store. There are programs such as Paleo or Gluten-free living that are a bit extreme, but they do teach you to make better selections.
Nothing worthwhile is easy
Remember why and how badly you want this. It takes effort, discipline and desire. If it was easy everyone would look and feel great!
Educate yourself to make proper choices for your body and your lifestyle. Are you expected to maintain these choices all the time? Yes! That's what a lifestyle change means ― for the rest of your life.
And although clean eating can put more demands on your budget, ask yourself this: would you rather spend now on better food or later on increased medical bills?

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My limited slip only lasted for about 30k miles (maybe even less) before it ran like an open diff.
Marco Capote
-Justin Morgan,
"RedChili"-1987 Super Beast
"Did you know the IFS was designed by Hitler himself to make the life of 4WD owners tough? Yeah, it's true, he saw a vision of the Devil and he told him to do it." -DaveInDenver
Matt Miller
1977 FJ40 2F "Brahma" + Lockright, tach, Warn 8274, FJ60 Power Steering, no more Sanden OBA (factory emissions), so Puma OBA
1996 FZJ80 1FZ-FE factory lockers + Safari intercooled turbo, Warn M12000, CDL switch, cup holder, Metric TLC leather, heated seats, JDM switches, Puma OBA
2000 Tundra Limited TRD 2UZ-FE SOLD
I wouldn't do the rtt on the bed. Do the softtopper instead. you can sleep in in, and hide your stuff. You loose bed storage/flexibility with the RTT on there.
I disagree on the lsd, somewhat. I would put a loc-rite or detroit in the rear and a lsd up front anyday on MOST vehicles. I had a detroit (factory) on my 2007 chebby full-size. NO issues in snow/ice other than the wimpy arse street tires it came with. That being said, if you're not going to have some weight in the rear of that truck in the winter time, you're not going to go anywhere in 2wd with it.
My T100 takes about 250lbs in the rear during the snowy months to even behave in a civil manner, without a locker.
at most I would add a leaf and add coils. Personally, I would leave it stock if I were to do anything. that's what you have a 40 for. treat it as a car that can tow the 40, haul mulch for that house your buying and take the wife to dinner while she's wearing a nice outfit.
a near-death experience is just god following "catch and release" regulations...
john (johnny) henley
nice set of AT's and catch it up on all its PM. Build the 40 and wheel it. DD the Tundra.
Speski OffRoad LTD, Cargo Solutions for Toyota 4x4's http://www.SpeskiOffRoad.com
"80 series, with a fridge"
1976 FJ40, Project with little progress.
2004 Starcraft 10RT
No need for two wheelin' rigs. I would slap a set of AT's on, make it as comfy as possible, and wheel the 40...
or you could always...
Rezarf <><
My rig... "Maude"
1976 FJ40 with some stuff and some leaks
My 100 Series Land Cruiser Build Thread
My camping trailer build up thread.
2012 Toyota Sienna Minivan, fastest Toyota in the stable.
"You 80 guys are just a Sawzall away from nirvana." -Red Chili
Matt Miller
1977 FJ40 2F "Brahma" + Lockright, tach, Warn 8274, FJ60 Power Steering, no more Sanden OBA (factory emissions), so Puma OBA
1996 FZJ80 1FZ-FE factory lockers + Safari intercooled turbo, Warn M12000, CDL switch, cup holder, Metric TLC leather, heated seats, JDM switches, Puma OBA
2000 Tundra Limited TRD 2UZ-FE SOLD
hey - you can choose to listen to those that have been there done that, or you can do what you want... lol your choice.
You're an engineer, do a simple spreadsheet on the ROI for the Tundra vs the 40
a near-death experience is just god following "catch and release" regulations...
john (johnny) henley
After thinking about it and driving it for a little over a year, here's what I've done so far:
-Took off the aftermarket wheels and got a set of OEM alloy wheels and got a set of BFG A/Ts in the proper tire size. 285/75/16 was too big for me.
-Did all the pm except flushing the brake system and power steering system. New timing belt, water pump, coolant, flushed transmission, differentials and t-case. Oil changes at 5,000 miles.
Here's what I'm thinking about doing (and now that it's paid off I'll have a little more freed-up money to do some of this):
-The rotors are warped - apparently this is a common problem due to undersized calipers on the early Tundras. Both of my rotors have been turned and replaced before I bought the truck, and they're warped again. The solution is to swap out the calipers for a pair of 2004-2006 Tundra calipers. There is a TSB on this procedure, and the parts are something like $1700 from the dealer Still trying to figure out how to approach this one...
-I hate this exhaust, it's too loud and the mufflers are starting to rust out on me (one rusted out this summer, so I took it off and welded the hole closed for the time being to buy me some more time). Luckily the guy who put the exhaust on didn't totally make it hard to fix. There is a y-pipe where the two sides come together; it's downstream of the cats and O2 sensors and it has a resonater as part of the assembly. Unfortunately all the "cat-back" systems don't include the y-pipe; technically it's a "y-pipe back system," which makes it hard to find a factory y-pipe, unless I were to go to a junkyard. Well he did bugger up the y-pipe during the exhaust install, so I'm thinking about getting a Walker y-pipe through Napa, and then getting a Dynomax "cat-back" kit to finish it off following the original routing. It should give me back some torque, should have a smoother sound, be quieter, and it will dump behind the rear tire which I like better than the dual outs under the rear bumper.
-I have to figure out what's squeaking in the front suspension, might have to replace my a-arm bushings, or maybe it's the fabtech coilover squeaking somehow...
-On the subject of the coilover, the truck needs new shocks too. I was thinking maybe taking it back to the OEM Bilsteins that came on the TRD package, but that's like $300 and I don't think they come with a lifetime warranty like Napa premiums do, still not sure on this one either, haven't looked into it a lot yet. And I'm not sure what is compatible with the coilovers either, need to look into that.
-Eventually I need to replace the trailer hitch, especially if I'm going to tow anything of significance. I don't know where the one that's on there came from, but it looks sketchy to me and I don't like it.
-I found out that none of the 1st gen Tundras came with a power antenna, just a stationary antenna. But I also found out that I can get a power antenna from a 1st gen Sequoia and it will plug right into the back of my radio. And when I do that when the radio is turned on the antenna will go up automatically and when the radio is shut off the antenna lowers automatically. And since the OEM antenna mount for the 1st gen Tundras is known for breaking (and mine is broken), it will be a good upgrade
-I would like to get a set of Weathertech floormats. I don't like wearing holes in the factory carpet floormats, and I think these are really nice to keep mud and snow etc. from staining the interior of the vehicle. At about $100 per set I think that's pretty reasonable.
-Finally, I am thinking about swapping my Ham radio to the Tundra, since I hardly drive the FJ40 these days. I've been thinking about how to do this, and I would also like to take up the wasted space on top of the tranny hump. There is a cool solution for this. A later model 1st gen Tundra or Sequoia has a larger center console that extends all the way forward, that basically bolts right in with some different brackets. And I can get one that has the wood trim like I currently have so it'll match perfectly I figure I can put my radio somewhere on that sucker, and I won't feel bad about hacking it up because I can put the OEM one back in if needed, and then I can get the removable faceplate kit and mount my faceplate somewhere else on the console or in the garage door opener holder up by the windshield.
Once I get these things taken care of I'll be happy to drive it for a while without making any other large changes. I like not having this truck modded too much, it's kinda nice.
Matt Miller
1977 FJ40 2F "Brahma" + Lockright, tach, Warn 8274, FJ60 Power Steering, no more Sanden OBA (factory emissions), so Puma OBA
1996 FZJ80 1FZ-FE factory lockers + Safari intercooled turbo, Warn M12000, CDL switch, cup holder, Metric TLC leather, heated seats, JDM switches, Puma OBA
2000 Tundra Limited TRD 2UZ-FE SOLD
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A local man is facing a Class D felony drug charge after being arrested last Thursday night by Springfield Police. Joseph K. Sparrow, 29, of Springfield, is charged with possession of drug paraphernalia and is currently being housed in the Marion County Detention Center in Lebanon with a cash bond set at $1,000.
For the past several months, residents of Washington County may have fallen victim to Sparrow, who Springfield Police describe as a drug addict who used a door-to-door method to solicit money for his habit.
Located in Washington County just north of Sharpsville, where Routes 53 and 390 meet, sits the rundown shell of an old general store once owned by Jack and Adylee Robinson. Fifty years ago, it was the hub of the community, a place where many local residents purchased their groceries, feed, seed, and even their clothing. Today, the old store is home only to a family of stray cats. Jack has passed away, and at 94, Adylee is spry and still kicking up her heels.
By Jimmie Earls
Sun Sports Writer
The Washington County Commanderettes opened the second half of the 2009-10 schedule with a road trip to Burgin to battle the 3-4 Lady Bulldogs.
The first quarter was all WC as the Commanderettes got off to a 16-11 start after the first period. Burgin came back in the second quarter, putting up 14 points to WC's eight, to take a 25-24 lead into halftime.
WC pulled away in the second half, outscoring Burgin 14-10 in the third and 16-12 in the final quarter to win 54-47 and improve to 2-8 on the season.
In a pubic school system, learning is for every student, but not all students can learn in the same settings. That's why Superintendent of Washington County Schools Robin Cochran is excited about a new program offering an alternative to students who may not have functioned as well as possible in the traditional classroom setting.
The new alternative program offered at Washington County High School is a program Cochran has long believed was needed in the local school system, and she's glad to see it coming to fruition.
A Springfield man who went on a crime spree last spring has been sentenced in connection with numerous break-ins at businesses in Shelby County.
Although the warmer temperatures of spring and summer are just wishful thinking, it's time for 4-H members who want to participate in livestock projects to begin making plans. Kentucky 4-H requires that each member receive six or more hours of instruction in the various areas of livestock care, judging and general knowledge in order to participate in any 4-H livestock competition. In Washington County, 4-H members join the 4-H Hooves and Horns Club to learn about the livestock industry and earn their six hours.
Coyle: It's a boy!
Caden Shaun Coyle
Rebecca and Shaun Coyle of Berea announce the birth of their son on Dec. 19, 2009 at St. Joseph East Hospital in Lexington.
Caden Shaun Coyle weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces and was 20 inches in length.
Yates: It's a boy!
Jason Michael Scott Yates
Megan and Timothy Yates of Springfield announce the birth of their son on Dec. 14, 2009 at Spring View Hospital in Lebanon.
If you are like me, the seed catalogs are piling up and you probably peek through them quite often dreaming of warmer weather and fresh produce. While you are planning crop rotation strategies and picking which cultivars to grow you can also plan on attending some new and exciting classes at the Washington County Extension Office. I have put together the 2010 version of my annual spring gardening series better known as the Wheelbarrow Series. There should be a class or two that will interest even the most knowledgeable and well rounded gardener. Some of t
The cold weather has finally reached us. These arctic blasts can cause problems for livestock operations ranging from frozen waterers to sick cattle. In these situations, hindsight is often 20/20 due to lack of preparation. I encourage folks to jot down the "little things" in these instances that could be prepared for during the warmer days of fall leading up to winter.
USDA has already made more than $4.5 million in disaster payments to Kentucky's livestock producers after implementing two new programs in 2009, demonstrating USDA's commitment to rapidly meeting the goals of Congress and providing farmers and ranchers with timely and effective disaster assistance.
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The Springfield Sun is your source for local news, sports, events and information in Springfield, KY, and the surrounding area.


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i am new to codeing,as i have just finshed the codecademy.com course on python.
i was looking for somthing to get my brain going and decided to creat a code to interact whit thepiratebat.sx and return the torrents name and seed number,as well as a few outer fetures i had in mind..
this is what i got into:
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import urllib2
header = "http://"
def check():
search_page = "www.thepiratebay.sx"
results = urllib2.urlopen(header+search_page)
print results
print "done checking..."
search = raw_input("what would you like to search for?:")
ender = "/search/"+str(search)+"/0/7/0"
search_results = urllib2.urlopen(header+str(search_page)+ender)
raw_page = search_results.read()
print search_results
print raw_page
print "it looks like the pirate bay is not reach-able..."
when i run check() and go throw the search veriable the shell window get stuck...i realy have no idea what is going on..can any of you figure it out?


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Place all ingredients in a sauce pan, cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Drain and squeeze the daikon to remove excess liquid and sodium. It is now ready to use in making rice, noodle or vegetable sushi.
Per serving - 59 calories, 0 gram fat (0% calories from fat), 1 gram protein, 13 gram carbohydrate, 2 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 145 milligram sodium


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I love, love, love, love x infinity= hearts forever! these pants!
Add a little color to the new season with these Turquoise pants. Comfortable and flashy (not necessarily a bad thing), you will have heads turning as you saunter around in these.
Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Love these skinnies!
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Music ManiaLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Yes! Five bands are coming to town within one week, and Georgia, Rachel, Jason, Carlos, and Lara are jumping for joy! Each one is a diehard fan of either Juanes, The Rolling Stones, U2, Green Day, or Coldplay. Figure out who likes which band, when each band performed, how long each concert was, and which souvenir each fan walked away with.
1) The 5 fans are Rachel, the Green Day fan, the Rolling Stones fan, the girl who spent 2 hours at a concert, and the one who left with a CD.
2) Georgia was so excited about Coldplay, she got in line at 6:00 Friday and waited 3 hours with all the other fans for the concert to begin. The concert ended at 11:00.
3) Lara's U2 CD collection got a little bit bigger after the concert on Sunday.
4) Jason did not spend 3.5 hours in a concert. The concert on Saturday was not 4 hours long, and the concert on Wednesday did not sell sweatshirts (which were not bought by Rachel).
5) Tuesday's concert was 2.5 hours long.
6) Green Day performed on Saturday, but Juanes did not perform on Wednesday.
7) The Rolling Stones fan bought the T-shirt.
8) Someone bought music videos after the 3-hour concert.
9) Lara was so hyper after the 3.5-hour concert, she couldn't sleep.
10) Jason didn't like any T-shirt designs, so he didn't buy any.
AnswerGeorgia-Coldplay-Friday-2 hours-Sweatshirt
Rachel-Juanes-Tuesday-2.5 hours-Photo
Jason-Green Day-Saturday-3 hours-Music Video
Carlos-Rolling Stones-Wednesday-4 hours-T-shirt
Lara-U2-Sunday-3.5 hours-CD
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This online course covers the legal, medical and social science aspects of intimate partner sexual abuse. It is focused on judges but is also intended for a multidisciplinary audience including court personnel. You can treat this website as a course and take it straight through or as a resource, accessing the background resources, modules, developing issues, recommendations and case studies on an as-needed basis.
© 2016 National Sexual Violence Resource Center – Founded by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
This site is supported by Grant/ Cooperative Agreement No. 1UF2CE002359-04 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Wallstreet Journal: Collectors Focus on Jewels as Investments
Blue-chip paintings may be getting the most attention in this volatile art market, but jewels are quietly starting to shine as buyers seek alternative investments and portability.
Jewels are commanding record prices, and men are the biggest buyers. Kelly Crow explains why on Lunch Break.
Last month, Christie's sold a pink diamond the size of a thumbnail to an international collector for $39.3 million. Sotheby's BID +0.99% sold an even smaller pink diamond three years ago for $46 million—more than anyone has ever paid for a canvas by Camille Pissarro or Paul Gauguin. Next Wednesday in Geneva, Christie's will offer up a pear-shape diamond dubbed the "Absolute Perfection" that's about as big as a golf ball. Asking price: $20 million to $30 million.
Blue-chip paintings may be getting the most attention in this volatile art market, but jewels are quietly starting to shine. With gold prices down and currency values roiling, some investors and collectors are scouring for creative alternatives where they can store cash—and move it around quickly in a pinch. Why else would investors sock $1 billion in a decentralized, online-only currency like Bitcoin that didn't even exist six years ago? Alan Silbert, who last week launched a website accepting Bitcoins for its $2 million condominiums and $25,000 watches, said, "People are exploring ways to exercise more control over their money—they just want to diversify their assets."
An Attracting Investment: Jewels
Take a look at top diamonds sold at auction.
'Star of the Season' sold for $16.5 million at Sotheby's Geneva on May 17, 1995.
For this reason, diamonds—arguably the hardest asset around—are no longer just a girl's best friend. Men are the ones primarily responsible for moving the $71 billion U.S. market for jewelry now, and not because they want to buy a few baubles for their wives on special occasions. Men, as well as some women, are increasingly shifting a portion of their assets into diamonds and colored gems as pure investments, attracted by jewelry's portability and global appeal, experts say. Christie's jewelry specialist Rahul Kadakia said several men have walked into his office lately, seeking advice on how to "invest $100 million in jewelry over the next five years—and they've done it.
Martin Rapaport, a former diamond cleaver who built the industry's biggest diamond-trading network RapNet, said a billionaire friend recently bought 100 single-carat diamonds and had them strung together in a Roaring Twenties-style strand. That way, if the man's fortunes shifted, he could step on an airplane with his nest egg, worth roughly $1.1 million, looped safely around his wife's neck. "If the world gets a computer virus and suddenly you need to move $10 million in 48 hours, gold will set off metal detectors and too much cash gets cumbersome," Mr. Rapaport said, "but you slip on a $5 million ring and a $5 million necklace and you've got no problems."
Judith Price, president of the National Jewelry Institute, said a "refugee mentality" has seeped into the entire jewelry field over the past decade, ratcheting values for everything from natural pearls to ornate brooches by Van Cleef & Arpels. "If there is a problem, people want to feel like they can escape," Ms. Price said. "You can't do that with a Rodin tucked under your arm, but think about how a tiny a jewel is—you can slip it in your pocket and walk away."
Diamond prices often climb when stocks are falling and vice versa. But the long view on diamond values is reassuring, jewel and art experts say because the returm on diamonds is significantly better than the S & P.
Jewelry has long served as a pretty way to store and display wealth, from King Tutankhamen, who was entombed with his collection, to Henry VIII, who instructed his jewelers to embed his initials in just about every bauble he wore. Today a few royals are still considered heavyweight buyers of jewelry, specifically the sultan of Brunei and the Emir of Qatar.
Sotheby's will sell Gina Lollobrigida's diamond necklace next week.
The difference is that investors dominate the jewelry market now, and their tastes and collecting habits are determining price levels for all sorts of gems. In China, industrial tycoons mainly covet flawless diamonds—defect-free gems. This preference for perfection revealed itself when Chinese investors even sidestepped larger but slightly clouded stones in favor of smaller, flawless varieties, said Sotheby's specialist Lisa Hubbard. Elsewhere in the world, though, bigger still appears to sell better: Last month, Sotheby's sold a 75-carat pear-shape white diamond for $14.2 million; the seller paid $4.3 million for it in 2001, earning a 230% return. Collectors in China have also catapulted asking prices for colored diamonds—particularly in rare shades of pink and blue. Christie's says the last time its $39 million "Princie" pink diamond came up for auction in 1960, it sold for $1.3 million.
Sotheby's will sell Gina Lollobrigida's diamond-and-emerald earrings next week.
India and the Middle East, on the other hand, seem more smitten with natural pearls, a run-up that kicked off in 2007 when two strands of pearls that once belonged to the Maharajah of Baroda sold for $7.1 million, far above the $6 million estimate. Last May in Geneva, a man also paid Christie's $4.5 million for an emerald-encrusted turban ornament, called a sarpej, estimated to sell for $800,000.
Across Europe and the U.S., the jewelry field is seeing an influx of contemporary art collectors who are buying tried-and-true gems partly as a way to offset the risk of their newer, untested art holdings. Peter Brant, the industrialist-publisher who collects Andy Warhol and Urs Fischer, buys whimsical pieces by Paris jewelry designer Joel Arthur Rosenthal, known as JAR, for his model wife, Stephanie Seymour—and he's also bought a few investment-worthy diamonds from London jeweler Laurence Graff.
Christie's is selling sapphire, diamond and emerald rings next week.
Greek financier Dimitri Mavrommatis, who collects Sèvres porcelain, Impressionist paintings and contemporary art, said he started buying a "fantastic collection of stones" over the past decade including pink, blue and yellow diamonds and Kashmir sapphires. His "masterpiece" is an 8.6-carat ruby called the "Graff Ruby" because Mr. Graff paid Christie's $3.6 million for it in 2006. Mr. Mavrommatis said he bought the ruby from Mr. Graff a year later for an undisclosed sum and could likely resell it now for almost $10 million. Although the same instinct for quality guides Mr. Mavrommatis's collecting in both areas, his paintings hang in his Paris apartment and his gems remain out of sight, in a safe. "You can't buy a painting or a jewel first because it's an investment, especially when you pay through the roof," he added. "I buy them firstly because I love them."
Mr. Graff, who also collects contemporary art, said, "Diamonds are treasure, and the wealthy always want treasure.
A 100-carat pear-shaped diamond sold for $16.5 million in 1995
Jewelers and auction houses are also reaping the benefits of their decades long campaign to position—and price—jewels as artworks rather than ornaments. When Christie's specialist François Curiel started selling jewelry at Christie's 40 years ago, he said its black-and-white catalogs rarely showed the pieces coming up for sale. Catalog descriptions never said more when less would suffice—say, "Ruby brooch, invisibly set, Van Cleef, 1930."
Now, auction houses are doing whatever they can to appear accessible to novices. Anyone who stopped by Christie's jewelry preview last month in New
York could have bought a 297-page catalog with pages of descriptions devoted to its priciest pieces like the "Princie," which had been mined in India 300 years earlier and carried a $30 million estimate.
Inside the crowded room, most of the jewels were arranged by color in velvet-lined cases, but the "Princie" got its own darkened room. Since one of the diamond's selling points was its ability to change hues—from cotton-candy pink to fuchsia—under fluorescent light, a bulb was positioned over its case to flicker on and off. A video projected on a nearby wall traced its origin to the famous Golconda mine in India and its past owners like the Nizam of Hyderabad, who mentioned it in an inventory log in 1700. In 1960, the gem was resold and nicknamed the "Princie" after the 14-year-old Prince of Baroda.
When the "Princie" came up for bid a couple of days later, a model in a pink designer-ball gown held up the stone for one final glimpse in the saleroom. Minutes later, the gavel fell and a telephone bidder won it for $39.3 million, making it the second-priciest gem to ever sell at auction.
Over at rival Sotheby's, the campaign is also paying off. Ms. Hubbard said the house auctioned off $460.5 million worth of jewelry last year, up 58% from its sales in 2007—the peak of its last market cycle.
In some cases, men who got started investing in jewels a few years ago have started branching out to collect other historic periods. Boston collector Fred Sharf collects 1950s "high style" pieces designed by Van Cleef, but he's lately started buying "retro" pieces that were made with "ordinary stones" like citrine during the Depression and World War II.
Miami radiologist and design collector Al Eiber said he didn't consider jewelry to be part of his net worth two decades ago when he and his wife, Kim, started buying $5,000 wiry necklaces designed by sculptor Alexander Calder. But now, Mr. Eiber sees similar pieces of Calder's "miniature sculptures" trading at auctions for up to $500,000 apiece, and he said, "I wish I'd bought more. If I look back at what I've collected, the jewelry has probably done better than anything else I've bought."
Because so much of the world's jewelry is still made for, and marketed to, women, the collecting of it can prove a little isolating for men. Yvonne Markowitz, a jewelry curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, said men rarely talk about the pieces they're collecting in the way they might show off a blue-chip painting. Investment jewels stay in the vault and rarely come out, even for parties. Mr. Sharf said he was pleased when the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum borrowed his ruby flower Van Cleef brooch called the "Command Special" to exhibit. His wife Jean doesn't even put it on. "She never wears it—it never sees the light of day," he said, laughing.
Michael Rotenberg, a Boston collector who manages apartment buildings, said he's grown braver lately and started wearing the $200-$500 lapel pins he collects from studio jewelers. But he only tends to wear pieces created from manly materials like electrical tape and twigs, and he only wears them to arty events like museum openings, not the office.
His wife, Karen, collects jewelry as well, and she said she is happy to share the pursuit. She does have a rule of her own, though: "I told him he can do this so long as his brooches aren't bigger than mine."


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Online education is a nominally good idea that is fast proving itself as problematic as ... well, most other supposed revolutions in pedagogy.
Just because a new concept is part of the technological miracle -- changing the way we communicate, work and learn -- doesn't mean that it's better, any more than an e-book on your Kindle is better than a tattered paperback. There is packaging, and there is content. And sometimes the former can spoil the latter.
Two of the latest troubling reports about online learning at the college level came last month. First, San Jose State University suspended its relationship with the online teaching company Udacity after it found out that more than half of the students in those classes failed to pass the courses. That is a simply abysmal record, the likes of which would never be tolerated in a traditional classroom setting. Then, in a commentary published in the Los Angeles Daily News, a Cal State Northridge professor reported an alarming increase in cheating in the classes she is now teaching online.
"This past semester, I caught quite a few of my students at Cal State Northridge engaging in academic dishonesty -- more so than I've ever seen in my 17?-year tenure" at the school, reported sociologist Kristyan Kouri.
She ties that to the huge numbers of students she is now required to oversee, with no increase in help in grading their tests and papers.
The problem is the lack of face-to-face interaction between teacher and student: "As a result, one can never be sure that the students are doing their own work ..."
Online education is by no means an entire disaster that can be dismissed because of these early problems. In fact, it holds great promise when properly used. Millions of eager students around the world who formerly had little access to higher learning have availed themselves of classes they otherwise would never have been able to take because of scheduling and geographic problems.
Highly motivated learners with technical skills do particularly well with the online format. But online classes may not work well for everyone.Many of those students in the Udacity program, which had been highly touted by Gov. Jerry Brown, were in fact not formally San Jose State students themselves, but rather high schoolers from underprivileged backgrounds trying to get a leg up before they entered college. And that was part of the problem. Many, according to a Los Angeles Times story, were from an institution called the Oakland Military Institute, a supposed "college prep academy," and didn't even have access to their own computers, a fact teachers only learned three weeks into the semester. The problems of plagiarism at Northridge are part of a troubling trend exacerbated by access to search engines that has nothing to do as such with classes being taught online.
But it's becoming increasingly clear that for some courses there is no substitute for gathering teachers and students in a physical classroom in so-called real time -- getting to know one another, being able to ask questions as they come up, even for professors to be able to read the body language of a student that indicates she or he is puzzled about material. Some big lecture-hall classes are probably just as well taught through a computer screen. Some intensive seminars will always be better real-face-to-real-face.


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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
Asking questions is an important ability for a creative person to have. As children, we probably asked our parents a bunch of questions. As we grow older, we tend to ask fewer and fewer questions. This is because once we reach a certain age, the questions become difficult enough that a parent or teacher may not have the patience or knowledge to answer them and this discourages us from asking further questions. The other reason why adults do not ask questions is because it is an admission of ignorance and people do not like appearing ignorant. As a result people frequently will nod their heads and agree to things that they do not understand.
A creative thinker overcomes these obstacles and asks questions. In reality, asking questions doesn't make you appear stupid; it shows your inquisitive nature and often reveals how much more you know about something than the person you are asking. Not to mention that the question you are asking is probably the same one that everyone else in the room has in the back of their minds. You have nothing to lose and a whole lot to gain from asking questions.
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We've heard that 80% of engaged or married women say their marriage proposal wasn't exactly romantic, and we think that's just plain sad! Sure, not everyone wants to plan out an elaborate scavenger hunt across the city or arrange for a flash mob to take over the street to help pop the question, but there are some simple things you can do to ensure that your proposal is as memorable and wonderful as it deserves to be.
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1. Know What You Want.
Planning a wedding is one thing, but planning to spend the rest of your life with someone is an entirely different story. Make sure you really know what you want. Can your relationship survive the best of times and the worst of times? Will this person be your partner through thick and thin? Can you stand his or her mother at every family holiday? A happy proposal starts with true commitment.
2. Get Family and Friends Involved.
My personal favorite proposal stories are private, but then include friends and family for a celebration after. Have them make a surprise appearance or play a part in the big event and it'll make it that much more special for your future spouse.
3. Find the Right Ring.
Don't get cynical on me just yet! I don't mean that the ring you choose has to be gigantic or pricey, but it does have to reflect the person you're giving it to. From vintage styles to chic and modern ones, offbeat colored engagement rings to heirlooms handed down through the family, all you have to do is make sure it's the right style. After all, this is one of the only accessories that will be worn every day for the rest of your lives together!
4. Pick the Perfect Place.
Get creative and make it personal. There are probably places in your city where everyone seems to propose (here in San Francisco, it's Coit Tower), but if that spot isn't personally relevant to you it won't have the same impact. Trust me—you could propose at the diner you two love to go to for Sunday morning breakfast and it'll mean more than a fancy restaurant you've never been to before.
5. Make a Speech.
I know you're probably nervous and hoping to just blurt out, "Marry me!" to get it over with, but this is a special moment and the person you're asking to spend the rest of his or her life with you is going to be hanging on every word. Now is the time to dig deep and come up with a few short things you want to say to lay a foundation of love, respect and trust to build a marriage upon. Just don't get cliched—no one wants to hear that they had you at hello!
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HARRIS COUNTY, Texas - A Harris County deputy shot and killed a suspect holding a shiny object in a northwest Harris County house.
Investigators said the deputy was serving a warrant on Gerrit Perkins, who was accused of assaulting his girlfriend. The deputies searched a house in the 17000 block of Analisa Circle at 10 p.m., officials said.
"The suspect's girlfriend allowed deputies inside the home. We had three deputies inside the home. They did an initial search of the home looking for that suspect. One of the deputies found the suspect hiding in a closet of a bedroom on the first floor," said Christina Garza with the HCSO.17039104
A deputy said he asked Perkins to show his hands, but instead, the suspect made a sudden move while carrying a shiny object. The deputy then shot him, officials said.
"Our deputy, in fear for his life, discharged his weapon," Garza said.
Officials said the shiny object turned out to be a telephone. Perkins died at North Cypress Medical Center a short time later.
Perkins was wanted on an aggravated assault charge. A neighbor said Perkins was abusing his girlfriend.
"He was abusing the lady because she came over to the house one day, crying. She was all bruised up," neighbor John Salazar said.
The deputy will be placed on administrative leave for three days, which is standard procedure in officer-involved shootings.
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The road is shut between the junction of Captains Clough Road and Chorley Old Road while police clear up the debris.
The two cars involved were a red Peugeot 309 and a red Kia Picanto.
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In the middle of a ruthless gang war which had kept him underground and away from his wife for a year, the infamous Yakuza leader Kazuya Morimoto discovered that his wife had given birth to a daughter named Reiko. Morimoto, insane with rage because his daughter was born in another man's house, poured gasoline in every room and burned his house, and family, to the ground.
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She learned about physics from her adopted father and became highly sought after for her research on cold combustion fuels. Unfortunately there was an accident during one of her lectures and everyone else died.
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The award, for Best Overall Cricket & Marketing Program was given to Cricket Canada after the organization had won the ICC America's regional award earlier in the year.
Cricket Canada's continues to be a global leader making use of social media, web streaming and various high value media platforms to ensure that its website continues to engage a burgeoning supporter base in Canada.
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Today I saw two templates: Preformatted manga-scan and Preformatted tv-screenshot. They have been excellently crafted. I was wondering why aren't we using them on Special:Upload? It would make many things a lot easier. We could turn the code for placing fair use rationale on Special:Upload into a pop-up box which would place the selected template.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:19 UTC, Thursday, 15 November 2012
Sounds like it would take less time to fill out the information yes? And we'd have standard rationales yes? --Cerez365™(talk) 16:12, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
- The basic idea would be:
- When you go to Special:Upload, a pop up box would appear with 2 buttons: anime and manga. When you click on one, eg. Manga, it will place the following (something similar)
{{preformatted manga-scan |from=scanalation/scanalation-blanked/raw/viz/clean |of= |thing=character/jutsu |chapter= |page= |url= |characters= |jutsu= }}
and the other one for anime. If you want to see how it works, here is an example (see the source) — UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:27 UTC, Thursday, 15 November 2012
Alas I feel this is one of those things that I would actually have to use to know if it's good. Though that seems like it would be fine with a few tweaks.--Cerez365™(talk) 16:46, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
Can't we try? Jacce | Talk | Contributions 18:10, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
- I think Dan and or Ulti are working on it ask we speak.--Cerez365™(talk) 18:13, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
Note that right now Wikia doesn't even generally send people to Special:Upload. They have a dialog that pops up which erases all our warnings, erases our preformatted rationale, and hides all required descriptive and license information under a collapsed 'advanced' section.
Also commons:Special:UploadWizard looks like a much more interesting thing to have installed and customized. ~ Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (Local Talk ⁝ Animanga Talk) 18:22, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
- I don't think the Upload Wizard is going to be very user friendly and it might actually confuse people. Keeping it nice and simple is better here. I prefer to use the standard templates, but this isn't a bad idea. However I have to say no, sorry. To cerez's point on standard rationale's, tried to start a discussion, was ignored by the entire wikiad. You can keep saying about it but it won't be done :) --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 18:35, November 15, 2012 (UTC)
@Dantman:Yeah, I know that. The script to fix it that I told you earlier is against the TOU (though many wikis use it). And thats how we upload images even now O.o.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 01:11 UTC, Friday, 16 November 2012
Here you go Jacce: User:UltimateSupreme/FairUseUpload.js.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 13:55 UTC, Friday, 16 November 2012
- Its ready to use now, you can test it.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 04:57 UTC, Saturday, 17 November 2012
- I can't see it. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 07:49, November 17, 2012 (UTC)
Because you haven't added it yet O.o— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 07:58 UTC, Saturday, 17 November 2012
Now it's working. Looking good. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 08:52, November 17, 2012 (UTC)
So. I ended up using this today and it thoroughly confused me o.o Why can't this preformatted one just be like the old rationale we use? Leave the spaces that need to be edited, ebitable and the others as standard add-ins. Some of the new stuff can stay cause it's really time-saving like the characters part, but the summary sections duplicate and so does the licensing.--Cerez365™(talk) 00:14, November 18, 2012 (UTC)
Have a look at Help:Common image pages.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 03:23 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
No, I can use it just fine. I think it was just the first time use that got me. But I was just pointing out some errors that occur and was wondering why we've totally abandoned the old fair use format? --Cerez365™(talk) 12:45, November 18, 2012 (UTC)
The main advantage is that it does many things automatically. See File:Choji vs Gedo Mazou in Storm 3.jpg for example.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 13:30 UTC, Sunday, 18 November 2012
I'm not arguing against using it, I have a bit of a problem with the formatting. Why can't it stay as (using the anime rationale):
{{Fair use rationale | Description = This part is editable | Source = [[Naruto/Naruto: Shippūden]] Episode x | Portion = Single screenhot from the anime (can be standardised) | Purpose = For the illustration of the jutst/character/scene | Resolution = Low/Medium/High (or left out entirely/replaced with character/jutsu option | Replaceability = Only by a similar snapshot with the same license status.(standardised) | Other Information = ''Naruto'' by [[Masashi Kishimoto]].(standardised, so we accredit him for his work) }}
- This is the format people know or are more used to so it wouldn't look so foreign.
- I know it does things automatically, that was part of the convenience I was talking about, I just think the format/layout should be a bit different.
- I also think the url art should be left out, we shouldn't be advertising that we or most of us get the images from
- Also, we need to tell the users that they don't have to add licensing because it's automatically added? (I'm assuming).--Cerez365™(talk) 15:28, November 18, 2012 (UTC)
- Thats it is now, right?
- Ask Dantman about it.
- Fixed.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 16:23 UTC, Tuesday, 20 November 2012
How about adding a preview button to Special:Upload? It won't work perfectly though, the preview is too wide in Oasis, and too narrow in Monobook. Fixing that is somewhat complicated.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 11:48 UTC, Thursday, 22 November 2012
- It looks like it is working perfectly to me. Jacce | Talk | Contributions 12:20, November 22, 2012 (UTC)
Then ignore whatever I said...— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 12:46 UTC, Thursday, 22 November 2012
- Ok, I had a look at some pictures recently uploaded by Norleon (kudos for 1080p uploads! :)) using this template and I don't really like it a lot. It's impossible to update any specific image containing a mistake. The previous way of just adding each template individually was a lot less complicated and easier to do. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 16:43, November 23, 2012 (UTC)
What can't you update?— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 03:58 UTC, Saturday, 24 November 2012
- The whole rationale that is being premade by these templates is not the rationale standard that is common with the wikia. I personally prefer just using {{Fair use}} and Fair use rationale rather than this preformatted crap. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 11:04, November 25, 2012 (UTC)
If thats what everyone wants ~ clear your cache and see Special:Upload.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 05:14 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012
- Small fix, use this instead for anime (similar for manga):
{{Image tags}} {{Characters in image|}} {{Fair use rationale |Description = |Source = Naruto Shippūden Episode |Portion = Single screenshot from the anime |Purpose = To illustrate the |Resolution = Low/High |Replaceability = Only by a similar snapshot with the same license status. |Other Information = ''[[Naruto]]'' by [[Masashi Kishimoto]]. }}Thanks. --Speysider Talk Page | My Image Uploads | Tabber Code | My Wiki | Channel 08:02, November 29, 2012 (UTC)
Fixed.— UltimateSupreme ƒ(♫) 08:25 UTC, Thursday, 29 November 2012


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Macumber and her husband Dave, former Denison residents, renovated the Victorian house at the corner of 15th Street and 1st Avenue South, which became Conner's Corner Bed and Breakfast. Now residents of Naples, Florida they will be in Iowa for Kathy Macumber's 50th class reunion at Algona High School.
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I would read this after I posted in that other thread...huh?
You have a point.
Are you under the impression I care? Me, I like beating you in races when I really shouldn't. I figure when you get tired of losing, you'll quit being an idiot.
But every time I hear you brag about how hard you ran a training race, I'm going to point out how stupid it is. And so are other people. So either quit racing your training runs, or quit bragging about it. Your call.
And I assume you're going to go yell at Thunder and Tanya now, too, right? After all, they're saying the same thing in the other thread.
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