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So I was stoked to see Marcus doing E3 Daily recaps/commentary. I thought they just asked him if he wanted to do a little commentary and in turn get his name/youtube channel out there to some new people. But today I log on and see a ScrewAttack exclusive AG video and how Marcus MAY find a new home at SA but nothing confirmed. I wonder if this is something Craig has been working on or something that was they just talked about at E3 hence no real confirmation. I think it's a HUGE win for both parties. I'm sad to see Marcus' youtube channel get so few views and for him not to make as many videos. With SA he'll get a TON of views and make more content I'm sure.
Over at Gametrailer's Final Bossman latest video commentary there is a lot of talk about Marcus being on SA since GT is losing a lot of people and how everyone worries it's going down the drain. Basically many are turning to SA apparently. I know I only went there for Pach-Attack, Bossman, and Beers (when he was there). Even saw a few people say they are going to SA because they now have Marcus. I hope SA can work it out to keep him here. I know it'll make the site grow and add a bit more "professionalism" to the site. SA does do some good journalism but Beers will add a years of industry experience to their name.
Anyone else as excited as I am about this new show coming to SA or have any kind of opinions to share?

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Feb 02,2007
Legendary glassmaker creates unique Oregon pinot noir glass
by Bend Weekly News Sources
McMinnville, Oregon -- After two years of research, comparative tastings, and evaluation of prototype glasses, Oregon winemakers and Georg Riedel have arrived at a new shape of wine glass designed especially for Oregon Pinot noir. What began as a wishful conversation between IPNC Executive Director Amy Wesselman and Georg Riedel has now been given form, literally, and the first shipment of the new tulip-shaped glass is currently on its way from Kufstein, Austria.
Winemakers, wine writers, and sommeliers played a key role in the development of the glass through a series of workshops. During each workshop, participants compared an array of different glasses, from an unpresumptuous bowl-shaped glass to the magnificent, hand-blown Riedel Crystal Grand Cru Burgundy glass. After tasting and smelling from each glass, Mr. Riedel asked each participant to eliminate one glass from the set. Votes were counted, another wine was poured, and the process was repeated.
At the first of these workshops, the finalists unsurprisingly were Riedel Crystal's Vinum Burgundy glass, the Vinum Extreme Pinot Noir Glass, and the Grand Cru Burgundy glass. The glasses Riedel had designed for Pinot Noir all outperformed the other styles. But tasters were left with a conundrum. The Vinum Extreme glass did a great job of focusing the beautiful, fruity aromas of Oregon Pinot. But on the palate, the Grand Cru Burgundy glass was the clear winner, showing off the velvety texture of Oregon Pinot noir and softening the edges of younger wines. "Is it possible to design a glass that accentuates aromas, like the Vinum Extreme, but also delivers on the palate, like the Grand Cru Burgundy?" Ms. Wesselman tentatively asked Mr. Riedel. Mr. Riedel replied that he would need to develop additional prototypes to answer that question.
Ms. Wesselman shipped a selection of some of Oregon's best Pinot noirs to Austria for Mr. Riedel to work with in his own facility. Six months later, an answer was delivered in the form of a large-bowled, tulip-shaped glass that flares out gently at the top. This glass was presented along with 11 others in a workshop similar to the first. Tasters agreed that the slightly narrower opening of this glass seemed to focus aromas. Its flared lip reproduced the mouth-feel tasters had experienced with the Grand Cru Burgundy glass. Every single workshop participant agreed that the new glass offered Oregon Pinot noir lovers the best of both worlds.


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6 characters to watch in season 4
April 9, 2014 at 4:01 p.m.
Updated April 8, 2014 at 11:09 p.m.
Here are six characters to watch in Season 4 "Game of Thrones:"
1. Khaleesi, or Queen Daenerys of House Targaryen
She is known as the Mother of Dragons and Khaleesi of the Dothraki. Daenerys has been busy building an army to retake the throne as head of the Seven Kingdoms.
2. Joffrey Baratheon
Incest child of his queen mother, Cersei Lannister, and her twin brother, Jaime Lannister. Joffrey is believed, however, to be the son of his mother and her late husband, King Robert Baratheon. Joffrey was made king when his father died.
3. Jon Snow
Bastard son of Eddard Stark. He's a member of the Night's Watch. He's been living "north of the wall," where he fell in love with a woman of the Free Folk, Ygritte, who nearly killed him in the third season for abandoning her and escaping the Free Folk to return home to Winterfell.
4. Tyrion Lannister
"The imp." He is a little person, a "halfman" and a member of the richest family, House Lannister. He is extremely clever, a womanizer and lover of wine. He uses his wit to fight those who judge him for being height challenged, and he's adept at leading a kingdom.
5. Arya Stark
Tomboy daughter of Lord Eddard and Catelyn Stark. She has been hiding in secret as a boy, learning to fight like a man until she finds her family again, most of whom have been killed.
6. Ser Jaime Lannister
Jamie is a knight of the Kingsguard. He is in love with his twin sister, Cersei. He does not know King Joffrey is his child. Until the third season, Jamie was known for his sword fighting skills. But he was captured by the Stark family, and in the process of returning home to his family, a rogue group of forest pirates cut off his sword hand.
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I am scheduled to give a presentation on Freelance Writing at this week's Catholic Writers Guild Live Conference in Schaumburg, Illinois. I really am pleased to have this opportunity. Part of the presentation deals with why some people choose to be freelance writers.
I want to address this topic from a personal perspective. Perhaps my take on this will resonate with some who read this blog.
I retired in 2011 after a 34-year career working with persons with developmental disabilities. In my early career, I was assigned to deal with the behavior clients. I spent many eight-hour shifts breaking up fights and fending off client attacks on myself. In my twenties, I was able to physically handle the job. The injuries I received healed fast. As my career progressed I was able to work with quieter clients, although no day was ever totally without some kind of issue. The people living in the center had been placed there because their own families could not deal with them. There were some individuals who were without families as well. Anyway, the work was tailor-made for me, as there was plenty of variety in my days. As I neared retirement, I realized I had aches and pains developing that had never been there before. I truly believed that once I retired I could exercise more and get rid of these annoyances.
Now, five years after retirement, I have days when I can barely walk. Standing still is worse. I used to walk five miles a day at work; now walking a half mile is a challenge, not because of a lack of stamina but because of severe leg and back pain. I'm not seeking sympathy by revealing this, merely making a point. At this stage in my life, I physically cannot do the kind of work I did even ten years ago. I need something less taxing.
Sitting at my computer and pounding on a keyboard meets that requirement. Of course, if I sit too long I get a different kind of pain, so I take breaks and stretch and exercise, looking for the balance that works for me.
My physical problems are one of the main reasons I choose to freelance. I still have dreams of getting healthy enough to reopen my judo school, but that's a story for another blog.
The other reason I choose to freelance is my four youngest sons, all of whom have some type of learning deficit. They range in age from 18 to 22. The two youngest graduated from high school this past June. They, along with their brother Stephen, are all involved with vocational training in the hopes of getting a job.
The job market is tough for anyone, and even more so for persons diagnosed with a disability. Employers are hesitant to even give them a shot. Ken, the oldest of the four, has found a job at the local Kentucky Fried Chicken. He wipes tables, sweeps floors, takes out the trash, washes windows, and so forth. He has worked there now for over a year. I take him to work and bring him home the four days a week he works, as public transportation near us is very limited. Ken and I have a system in place that is currently running smoothly. For his younger brothers, I have periodic meetings with the providers that are required according to federal and state regulations for vocational training. For one person it would not be too hard, but when I have to do everything three different times it starts to become hectic. If I had to be at a job a set number of hours a week, it would not work. Some meetings are in the morning, others in the afternoon or even the evening. But since I basically work for myself I am free to set my schedule as I need to.
When you are a parent of a special-needs child, your responsibilities do not end when they reach adulthood. Each child is different, and some become independent earlier than others, while some will never become independent.
My life now is dedicated to helping my sons reach a point in their life where they no longer need me or their mother. We have journeyed what seems like light years to get where we are now. By choosing to freelance I am able to stay on this journey. I don't know how much further we will go, but we are not yet done with this pilgrimage.
Freelance writing can be lucrative, but that is far from guaranteed. It can be fulfilling to those who have an absolute need to share the stories in their soul. Freelancing can be a way to establish a name for yourself while you finish your masterpiece.
Freelance writing can also be the answer to a prayer, a way to continue to work when other options have faded; a way of working that also provides the freedom necessary to care for more important matters.
For me, those more important matters are not an obligation but a vocation. It's a vocation that I happily embrace and thank God for the opportunity to participate in. The success I most dearly strive for is the success of my children, their ability to reach goals that they choose to seek out, and the capability to care for themselves, even if they need some guidance from their older siblings.
Time is what is needed most of all. If I had a regular job, the time I could dedicate to them would be reduced. That is too high a price no matter how sweet the paycheck.
So now you know why I freelance. How about you?


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Pop star Fergie admitted all the horrible headlines about her marriage over the years were tough to handle, but she and Josh Duhamel have grown closer in their relationship because of it – although, not at first.
"Tell me, nine months into your marriage rumors begin to swirl about him being with a stripper. How was that for your marriage? How did you all get through that? Obviously you got through it. You're still here," Oprah asked Fergie on this weekend's "Oprah's Next Chapter."
"It was difficult," the singer replied.
Asked by Oprah if it helped the couple "re-evaluate" their marriage, Fergie explained it led to a positive effect.
"Definitely. When you go through difficult times it really makes you stronger as a unit. As a partnership," Fergie replied. "It does for us anyways. Our love today is a deeper love."
Fergie said the two – who tied the knot in January 2009 — have learned how to handle their partnership better because of what they went through.
"We're strong today because of anything difficult that's happened with us. We deal with it. We communicate. Communicating's the most important thing," she said.
"Oprah's Next Chapter" airs Sunday, Oct. 21 at 9 ET/PT on OWN.


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I just got back from a job in this place, an awesome place that isn't really a city or even a place but is definitely feral. It's a huge collection of trucks, drones, motor homes, trailers, surplus military vehicles, cargo haulers, and other wheeled shit that wanders around Central Asia. Its "citizens" come from a lot of places and speak a lot of languages, but they all call the place Karavan.
Karavan is like the bizarre love child of a city, a convoy, and a swarm. It is a juxtaposition of old and new cultures, mutual trust and tribal conflict, luxurious objects and makeshift equipment. It is inspiring and feared, constant and chaotic, and a great place for a shadowrunner to prosper if she's a pro.
Back around 2060, Turkestan was a wreck, despite the "New Silk Road" railroad and highway system that fed its sprawls. Things were worse out in the country, where nomadic tribes were finding it harder to feed themselves and their herds, and the khan's power was slipping out of his grasp. Then came Erika Red Crystal, a corporate-sponsored humanitarian aid organization. They brought food, portable shelter, fuel, and other devices and comforts to the nomads of Central Asia in a large zeppelin, the Aman, that could haul a lot of cargo and handle the expansive and broken terrain. In time, some tribes began following the zeppelin from stop to stop, helping dispense aid and sharing their own resources.
The Crash 2.0 cut off the Aman from its parent corporation. It and its crew were written off . Fortunately, the zeppelin and its ground-based companions were largely unaffected because Erika had been using the mission to beta-test its wireless Matrix technology. The nomads following the Aman were sympathetic to the plight of its crew and began to provide for them. In return, the Aman crew began scouting independently for resources for the tribes, leading them from location to location, creating the symbiosis of today.
Karavan has no real geographical location. It moves from locale to locale, rarely spending more than a week in any one place, so it's almost never where you last looked. It ranges across Central Asia from Transcaucasia to Mongolia and the borders of Yakut.
When moving, Karavan is a collection of two large airships and about three hundred hectares of ground vehicles of all shapes and sizes, most bristling with weaponry and armed passengers. The trucks, rigs, ATVs, and bikes throw up a dust cloud that can be seen for miles. When the city finds a place to settle, the airships land and all of the tribes pitch tents, build yurts, set up campers, or otherwise construct the temporary homes and work spaces that will shelter them until their next move. Some tribes even have entire facilities that deploy directly from trailers or large vehicles, unfolding from motor vehicle to building in under a minute. Usually, each tribe claims space when they arrive. This means the map of the city changes with each move. Luckily, Karavan's Matrix cloud is sophisticated, so you'll always find your favorite hangout. If there is no potable surface water nearby, like a river or a lake, then each tribe drills its own well. Each tribe has its own facilities, including food storage and processing, power generation, security, waste reclamation and management, and the infrastructure for all of the above, and all of it can be packed up in a hour or two and moved.
Additionally, each tribe has a few (or occasionally several) specialty services, such as medical or technical facilities. While there is some overlap, many tribes are well known for their individual specialties. The Pjelykosts tribe, for example, is the premier magical tribe, while the Asma tribe is known as the place to find just about any piece of gear, and the Lhassos are expert armorers and weaponsmiths.
The vast swaths of territory Karavan travels parallel to the New Silk Road are given over to subsistence farming and isolated villages with the occasional corporate strip mine, gas or oil field. The rare sprawl and industrial city provide oasis of modern civilization in a dangerous and laweless region. Over the years Karavan has developed into a roving bartertown; home to tribes and independent traders who come and go all the time. It has developed into a travelling trading post for the isolated herders, farmers, and corporate enclaves on its route. Karavan is home to around 12,000 people which, depending on where it's camped, can bloat to twice that many. Most permanent "residents" live in tribes of between dozens and hundreds. While most of them are human, there is a greater-than-typical diversity among metatypes. They are mostly of Turkic descent, but there are plenty of Persians, Mongolians, Arabs, Europeans, Africans, and East Asians, so no one really sticks out.
- There are some thirty-five tribes in Karavan. The tally changes,
what with tribes merging and splitting, coming or going. You
never know if you're going to find who you're looking for at any
given time.
- Red Anya
The most common spoken language is Turkish, followed by the closely related Uzbek and Kazakh. Some tribes of non-Turkic descent speak another language unique to the city, such as the Kizilkristal, who speak Finnish among themselves. Everyone in Karavan identifies themselves as members of their tribes first and as citizens of the city second. When they have to identify themselves as such, they call themselves Karavanli. An outsider, or yabanci, can expect to be treated as an equal among the locals provided she behaves herself—after all everyone is an outsider until they join Karavan.
One thing every Karavanli has in common is that they are always armed. Everyone carries at least one firearm and any number of blades, grenades, or other weapons on them during almost every waking hour. By the time they are old enough to be unsupervised, the children of Karavan know how to safely carry and use weapons from knives to assault rifles. This level of preparation is more due to culture than necessity; actual violence within the city is quite rare. But the Karavanli have a proud tradition of standing ready against the forces and fortunes of an outside world that abandoned them.
If Karavan has anything like a governing body, it is the Kurultai. The Kurultai is made up of all of the leaders of all of the tribes that call Karavan home. It gathers only when at least twelve tribes call for a meeting, and then only when the issues at hand affect the entire city. The Kurultai can make pronouncements on individuals, but not entire tribes. It can also make changes to the yassa, the set of laws that apply to everyone in Karavan.
The yassa is somewhat convoluted, but can be summed up as "do not harm one another." Also codified is the near-adoration of all medical practitioners and clergy members, as well as the entire Kizilkrystal tribe, which lives in and operates the two zeppelins that guide the city from place to place. The yassa prohibits murder, rape, assault, theft , slavery, lying, and marriage within a single tribe. Every Karavanli is expected to enforce the yassa. Punishment ranges from harsh to brutal beating, and tribal leaders have the authority to execute proven offenders.
- In many of the backwater areas Karavan travels the locals subscribe
to one variation or another of the animistic Islam that's so
common in Central Asia. It's no surprise then that the yassa is two
parts tribal custom and one part Islamic sharia.
- Red Anya
Life in Karavan is a series of journeys and stops, punctuated by resource gathering and trading (and the occasional raiding). Th e guiding force of the city is the Tagnuul, the two airships that are owned and operated by the Kizilkristal tribe. The tribe runs a fairly sophisticated intelligence operation to spot likely locations where Karavan can find, gather, or take the resources it needs. When the tribes of the city have collected all they can from an area, the Kalabalik and the Aman Iki make preparations to lift off and head to the next location. The rest of the city takes this as the cue to pack up and follow the zeppelins, which are usually in the air and moving by the time the other tribes get going; Karavan is usually on the move within three hours of the zeppelins' powering up. The journey to the next site usually takes a few days. The Tagnuul chooses routes that the ground vehicles can manage. In the event of an attack or ambush, the city keeps moving, but attacks are rare, as the Karavanli might as well be an army and have become very good at defending themselves and one another.
- If you're slow, wounded, or breaking down, you get help without
hesitation; leaving stragglers to themselves violates the yassa.
Karavan offers visitors a free download of the yassa on arrival.
- Ma'fan
Once the Tagnuul reaches the new site, the zeppelins land and unpack, followed closely by the rest of the city. The Karavanli then begin going about the business of the city while the Kizilkristal begin reconnoitering and exploring potential sites for future moves. Most tribes gather nearby resources, including crude oil, flora and fauna, minerals, or even reagents. Many tribes organize trading parties to acquire resources from farms, small towns, or even the fringes of a sprawl. In some places a raid is organized by one or more tribes, an act permitted by the yassa. The tribes also bring tributes to the Tagnuul and talk about their tribes' specific needs, which the Kizilkristal includes in its planning. Then, after a week or so, a new site is chosen and the cycle begins again.
- Since they are relatively small and get tributes from all of the
tribes, the Kizilkristal is the richest tribe in the city. The insides of
their zeppelins are almost opulent. If you want to live it large in
Karavan, the Kizilkristal are the people to know.
- Traveler Jones
Even with its yassa, the Kurultai, and "us against the world" culture, Karavan is rife with power struggles and hidden agendas. It ranges across a dozen national borders and occasionally gets caught up in local power struggles, though woe be it to a regional governor or warlord who decides to stand in its way or demand tax for passage.
Karavan's laws prevent overt hostility between tribes and encourage cooperation, but a mere text fi le can't prevent the struggle for resources and business opportunities between tribes, no matter how revered it is.
There's usually work a plenty for runners who visit Karavan. Tribal leaders sometimes seek runners for runs on other tribes; or strong arm local townships or reluctant corporate managers to part with their money and goods; the Kizilkristal sometimes hire runners for intel on new sites; the city makes a good clandestine meeting place, so outsiders sometimes drop by for a private chat; and, of course, Karavan is the perfect place to do some black market trading.


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Where in the world is Aaron Carter?
The 22-year-old pop singer is practically unrecognizable in photos he posted this weekend on Twitter.
With that in mind...
It got us thinking about some other Hollywood stars who drastically changed their physiques. While Carter hasn't revealed why he's muscled up, stars like Taylor Lautner, Jake Gyllenhaal and Christian Bale have transformed their bodies all in the name of show business.
From the ridiculously ripped to the shockingly skeletal, check out the incredible transformations in our Bodies of Work photo gallery.


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By Grant Harris
Novel technologies such as LiDAR (light detection and ranging) and unmanned drones will advance wildlife management on national wildlife refuges in coming years. Despite these innovations and other trends in wildlife biology, I am pulled back to the basics. If refuges truly seek targeted and lasting management impacts, scientific processes must lead. Embracing science is theme number one.
Committing to science means increasing scientific capacity and following scientific approaches. For this, the Refuge System raised the bar with its Inventory and Monitoring (Iamp;M) initiative. Iamp;M boosts project design,
implementation, analysis and reporting. We use transparent and defensible approaches. Science guides management, building iterative and adaptive processes. We identify knowledge gaps, define research agendas, and describe why our work is important. Instead of data mothballed in closets, they are stored electronically in intuitive, accessible formats.
As a result, we make better decisions and fewer mistakes. We reinforce our reputation as the worlds most effective and credible wildlife management agency.
Our commitment to science links four related themes: landscapescale perspectives, relevancy, triage and collaboration. Lets take each in turn.
First, refuges strive to conserve species and habitats. Many refuges are small. The ecological drivers determining the status of species and habitats occur outside them. Conserving refuge resources requires landscapescale perspectives and building an ecosystem context. This means understanding the status of species and habitats on and off refuges. Such information helps refuges identify ways to make the greatest contributions to the ecosystems most pressing issues.
In the process, refuges gain a clearer understanding of threats to the resources they manage, and how to react. The stressors include habitat fragmentation, transportation corridors, energy extraction, urbanization and sprawl.
Appropriate responses involve preserving large areas, minimizing fragmentation, building landscape connectivity and generating biological redundancies. These approaches inform refuge planning and realty acquisitions. They also abate the effects of climate change.
Second, the Refuge System must increase relevancy and reach. Our work should incorporate other agencies, international issues and public engagement. For instance, the National Park Service performs Iamp;M in parks, where land is rarely altered. These data could form controls for Iamp;M on refuges, where land is actively managed. In such an arrangement, the Park Service gains greater knowledge of which variables drive ecosystems and how they operate. Meanwhile, our Iamp;M increases in scope and influence.
Refuge efforts can advance international conservation. For example, were using new techniques to estimate the abundance of animals without marks. Such species lack unique patterns of spots or stripes, making them hard to identify. These techniques estimate numbers of elk, and apply to endangered Andean cats or duikers elsewhere. Similarly, were exploring ways to deter mountain lions from unwanted predation, such as killing livestock. If successful, these methods could reduce deaths of African lions and leopards.
Our efforts will fail if they lack public support. Refuges must increase exposure and engagement. One approach is to work where people already are. Imagine McDonalds endorsing endangered species on Happy Meals. Pretend that picturesque murals of refuges adorn the walls in WalMarts sporting goods section. Refuges have neat stuff. Lets show it.
Third, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tries to save everything. I worry that it cant. Hence, I see many species on life support. We have to triage. This means addressing fixable issues and abandoning losing bets. Does triage admit failure? No. It addresses reality.
Lastly, collaborations are key. Building them is akin to assembling a puzzle. The Service and partners are the pieces. Be it inventory and monitoring, landscapescale conservation, relevancy or triage, the pieces must assemble for efforts to be targeted, effective and lasting. The days of separate agencies, or units within an agency, holding small, umbrella management plans are over. I welcome the time when everyone shades under one canopy plan covering ecosystemwide issues. Each partner has a hand holding up the awningworking togethermaking genuine, ontheground advances.
Grant Harris is chief of biological services for the Southwest Region.
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Months before the big Outflix Film Festival, which features newer, independent LGBT-themed films, the Outflix folks hold a Summer Film Series featuring cult classics.
The weekly Outflix Summer Film Series begins on Thursday, May 30th and runs every Thursday night through June 27th.
This year's lineup includes Paris Is Burning on May 30th, You Are Not Alone on June 6th, Madonna: Truth Or Dare on June 13th, Thelma & Louise on June 20th, and Milk on June 27th.
All films begin at 7 p.m. You Are Not Alone is part of The Red Door Foundation's "Saving Ourselves Symposium," and will be followed by a discussion of the film with producer Antoine B. Craigwell as well as other mental health professionals.


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Looks like our warpaint dude made the news this afternoon. No wonder he was such a class act today:
OVERLAND PARK, KS Warpaint99's (13) attempt to adopt an inventive method to enhance sexual pleasure landed him on the surgeons table yesterday.
Inspired by the fad of body piercing, the Overland Park, Kansas resident substituted a ring with a metal nut and pushed it around his penis. Problem was, the metal stayed stubbornly stuck to his organ for over two hours.
After failing to remove the foreign body, an embarrassed WarPaint99 decided to seek medical help and checked into the emergency ward of Shawnee Mission Hospital in the evening.
I have never come across such a case in the last 12 years of my experience, said Dr Bharati Karat, the on duty chief medical officer.
Karat said that warpaint99 was initially reluctant to reveal his ailment but later spoke of his situation to a male intern who examined him and came away shocked at his find.
We decided to cut the nut, but the metal was too thick. The case was later referred to the surgeons, said on duty assistant medical officer Dr Gopal Mahajan.
warpaint99 gives his statement to police at Shawnee Mission hospital yesterday. The picture was taken secretly from a distance, hence the poor quality The surgeon said, The nut was so tight that it caused a severe swelling on the organ due to which the blood supply to that part of the anatomy was stopped. It took us almost two hours to get the nut out. Had the patient delayed admission by few hours, we would have had to amputate the organ, as the affected area may have developed gangrene.
warpaint99 told the doctors that he desired to prolong sexual pleasure and hence inserted the nut.
This is a case of sexual perversion, said Dr Mahajan. Another doctor said that while body piercing in delicate areas of the human anatomy had become a fad, the consequences could be alarming.
The matter was later handed over to the Overland Park police, who visited the hospital to record warpaint99s statement.
We wanted to know if someone else had inserted the metal or he had committed the act himself. We will register the matter in our station dairy, said the on duty police officer.
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One of the new features which is added into iPhone is iPhone gesture. There are many ways to create iPhone gesture but here I'm going to talk about one such iPhone cydia tweak which will let you create iphone custom gesture.
Our world is an integration of millions of languages and cultures. But there is one thing common with each human being, gestures! This is the only mode which everyone understands and so does the iDevice. Gesturizer is a new Cydia tweak for the iDevice that recognizes custom gestures that you have created or saved and executes actions based on them. You can set these custom gestures to launch applications or open URLs in Mobile Safari and much more.
Gesturizer binds in with Activator, thus creating a custom gesture is a two step process
- Choosing an action
- To draw
This is definitely one of the coolest and the most helpful tweaks that I've seen in a while. Gesturizer is available now for $2.99 in the Cydia Store and free in the other repo's. There are no new icons added to your SpringBoard with this tweak, settings and gestures can be configured in your main Settings.app.
To download this iphone custom gesture tweak for free:
- Open Cydia on your jailbroken iphone.
- Once the data is loaded, go to search and type in "Gesturizer"
- It's free in the xSellize, IHR and insanelyi repo.
- Select it and install it.
- Respring or reboot your device.
- You are done to use it.
If you know any other tweaks similar to this one or any other tweak which you might think would be useful to iphone users please let us know. Do let us know which tweak or app do you use to create iPhone custom gesture or custom gesture in iPad.
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Could some1 plz tell me how to do this equation:
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got no idea how to do it. caould some1 plz reply
I would assume you meant , but that isn't an equation (this would just be simplifying an expression). Is there something missing to the right of that equal sign?
If it is just get a common denominator and join the fractions. The least common multiple of 4 and 8 is 8, so we do


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Nonprofit banned for two years in guest-worker probe
By Bob Fernandez
Moving decisively, the U.S. State Department has banned a nonprofit group that supplied 400 foreign students as laborers to a Hershey Co. candy-packaging plant last year from participating in a popular cultural-exchange program for two years.
The California-based organization, CETUSA, brought the foreign students to the United States on J-1 visas. Once here, the students were to have practiced English and learned about America while also earning money in summer jobs.
The students, many from Ukraine and Turkey, protested in August on Chocolate Avenue in Hershey saying they were forced to work long hours for low pay in the Palmyra packaging plant, and had little time or funds to travel and interact with Americans.
The controversy – the latest in the lightly regulated J-1 program – prompted a State Department investigation into the conditions in Hershey. Meanwhile, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton backed a top-to-bottom review of the program.
"They are done as far as work travel is concerned," Rick Ruth, a top official in the State Department, said of CETUSA.
The specific J-1 component that the organization used to bring the students to the United States is called Summer Work Travel. It sponsored 5,000 to 6,000 students a year through that avenue.
CETUSA also participates in other J-1 exchange components – Secondary School Student, Trainee, and Intern. That involvement is under a separate review by the State Department.
In addition to banning CETUSA for two years, the State Department has capped participation in the J-1 Work Travel program to 109,000 foreign students in 2012, the same level as 2011. After about a decade of rapid growth, the program peaked in 2008 with 153,000 foreign student/workers, many of them working in resort areas such as Wildwood and Cape Cod.
The State Department is likely to announce new J-1 regulations in the next several months. One area ripe for new restrictions is the type of jobs foreign students can hold when entering the United States on a J-1 visa.
The State Department would like them in jobs in which they regularly meet Americans, not in hazardous or hard-labor occupations such as construction and roofing.
"The problem is larger than one recruiting agency," said Stephen Boykewich, spokesman for the National Guestworker Alliance, which helped organize the Hershey protest. "The Hershey case demonstrates that what was supposed to be a cultural exchange program has been transformed into America's largest and most poorly regulated guest-worker program."
He called the State Department's action against CETUSA a good first step.
CETUSA did not respond to phone calls to its California offices Thursday.
The Hershey Co. has said it was not to blame. The foreign students were supplied to the packaging plant by an outsourcing firm and were not directly employed by Hershey Co. Company officials said last year they would no longer use J-1 visa-holders in the packaging plant.
Foreign-student workers represent one of two labor issues with which the nation's largest chocolate company has had to contend.
A coalition of nonprofits calling itself Raise the Bar, Hershey has criticized the company for depending on child labor in West African cocoa fields.
Similarly, Jasper Perry-Anderson, 14, an eighth grader at Friends Select School in Philadelphia, has gathered more than 15,000 signatures on a Change.org online petition calling for compliance with labor standards. She expects to present the petition to Hershey officials on Valentine's Day, a big holiday for chocolate sales. She said Thursday she learned of the child-labor issue in reading a book on "responsible consumerism."
On Jan. 30, the Hershey Co. said it would invest $10 million by 2017 "to reduce child labor and improve cocoa supply in West Africa."
The Hershey Co. is controlled by the charity that operates the Milton Hershey School, the world's largest free boarding school for impoverished children, which gives preference enrollment to Pennsylvania children.
The State Department's Ruth said that CETUSA had been informed of the government's findings but that the details were not public.
"In Palmyra, [the foreign students] had almost no interactions with Americans at all," Ruth said. "This is not a labor visa. This is a cultural-exchange visa."
The J-1 program is a means to reach out to educated younger people in other countries, Ruth said. When they come to the United States, "we want them to be safe and well," he said. "We do not look at Palmyra as a one-time fix."


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It's no shocker that celebs have a lot of clothes.
More clothes than they know what to do with, in fact. But somehow, if you've ever seen the inside of a typical celeb closet, it's usually freakishly organized. That's because they (or should we say, closet organizing professionals) take the time to stack it with neatly organized compartments. But we can't all invest thousands of dollars on a custom closet. We can, however, make smart decisions and purchase certain organizational items that will de-clutter yours.
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I've never thought of new shoe arrivals in such a literal fashion before, as SapientNitro ad agency has with their Foot Locker Get It Early campaign. Featuring the latest Adidas and Puma kicks, these ads bring a space odyssey feel to the momentous birthing experience.
Photographer Jesse Stevens captures these sci-fi shots for the Australian-based ad agency. The Foot Locker Get It Early campaign also features the tag lines 'Just Out' and 'A New Arrival.' I'm not sure how I feel about these stylized print ads, but I'm sure they hit home with Foot Locker customers.
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Spring Spa Treatment: Soaking Houseplants
After a long, dry winter, trapped inside with the windows closed, houseplants are ready for a little pampering so they can look and feel their best in the coming spring. Come to think of it, I could use a spa day myself...
Two of my favorite plant and flower websites have tutorials for soaking houseplants, and their approaches couldn't be more different. A Way To Garden's Houseplant Tuneup: Late-Winter Care Regimen is thorough and inspiring, and makes me want to be a better gardener and plant-mom. There are special tips for begonias, bromeliads, and clivias, as well as links to all of the site's houseplant wisdom. Saipua has a three-step regimen and a Blingee involving ferns, lightning, a disco ball, and a hornless unicorn. You just have to see it.
The thing I appreciate about these two is that Saipua's approach is one that I am not intimidated by, and am determined to do by the end of the week. Pile into the tub, everyone! A Way To Garden's method is one I aspire to and am determined to master someday, just as soon as I figure out what seaweed-fish emulsion concentrate is and where to get it. And as soon as I have a fantastic clawfoot bathtub — I'm pretty sure the plants will appreciate it.
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The Chandler TG1 Abbey Road/EMI special edition limiter compressor features an all discrete circuit with two channels of transformer balanced inputs and outputs. The limiting element is a rarely seen diode network that produces smooth, euphonic distortion. The Chandler TG-1 has been compared to a hard-driven Fairchild 670: very audible and squishy-sounding while maintaining clarity. The TG1 is now part of the EMI/ Abbey Road Special series and now has additional cool graphics.
The Chandler TG1 limiters has 'THD' switches so you can run your signal through the transformers without going through the compressor/limiter section, useful if you just want some tranny character without any additional level enhancement. Chandler calls their TG1 limiter the THD machine. Who are we to disagree?
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When new fishermen join the crew, who will make the grade and who will miss the boat? FV-Tuna.com is just clinging to its lead over Pin Wheel. New deckhand Garon is out for his first day on FV-Tuna.com and he's eager to prove himself. Paul's new boat, Lisa & Jake, is in its second week and has serious ground to make up to catch the other captains. With inexperienced deckhand Kevin costing them a fish, Paul is feeling the stress like never before.


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I'm really getting into making cards lately. I even considered totally giving up scrapbooking and sticking with card making. Do you know why? Because a card is a one time, finite project. Finite is pretty appealing to me right now with all the scrapbooking I'm not doing. With cardmaking, you can never feel behind!
And remember that Cricut contest we had? Well I use mine ALL THE TIME for cardmaking (and scrapbooking, when I get around to it). Here are some of my favorite Cricut cards that I am so proud of.
My favorites are the top two. I love using the Cricut Colors to ink the edges, which I did on vellum for the letters in those top two cards. I used the George & Basic Shapes for the letters.
I also really like the "Thanks a bunch" one, which I also used the Cricut Colors on. I love all the flowers and pretty things in the "Walk in my Garden" Cricut cartridge. Another favorite.
When I'm short on time, I opt for the premade card variety in the "Stretch Your Imagination" cartridge. Each picture has its own card design that goes with it, and you can make the square card any size you want. This is a great option for last minute things and also if you need to make a bunch of cards quickly.
I'm pretty proud of my new cardmaking hobby. Before I got my own Cricut, I got to use my Grandma's when in Oregon for vacation but I always stuck to scrapbooking. Cardmaking is a new favorite Spare Time thing to do, and the Cricut makes it so fun and easy! The next thing on my list is the Cuttlebug by Provo Craft. I LOVE their embossing dies. I could also really get into embossing. Read my review about the cuttlebug machine here.
Anyway, if you don't have a Cricut, Christmas is coming. I know it's not made by an Etsy seller, but they are really handy and wonderful to have. It's funny – our 11 year old neighbor came over to use the computer the other day and was blown away by my Cricut. My husband pushed the little button to open it up and show him, and he was just in awe. After watching the doors slowly fold open, he asked if the Cricut had made my awl. Boys…so silly. Isn't that hilarious? The Cricut can do many things, but making an awl is not one of them. Anyway, Christmas is coming and the Cricut has come down in price and they do go on sale, so save your pennies and tell Santa what you really want!


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I really hope nobody else has posted this already
Also, there are reportedly people on Facebook and Twitter posting pictures of the stuff they have looted. Fuck the world!
I really hope nobody else has posted this already
Also, there are reportedly people on Facebook and Twitter posting pictures of the stuff they have looted. Fuck the world!
Also it seems the met police are getting choppers from other police forces (Surrey and Sussex) at the moment to assist.
HOLY SHIT is that street lamp melting or something over the furniture store?? It was definitely something melting
I hope my relatives get out of Croydon soon. I heard they are going to Essex in he car now.
Fuck them scum FUCK THEM!
Woman just said on BBC that the army should be brought in.
The BBC are reading out angry text messages demanding something to be done.
They really ought to eliminate Tottenham and it's residents.
Goddamn, what the fuck are the London Police doing? Whatever it is, they're doing it completely wrong. What they should have done is as soon as this started with the fire and shit, they should have made a riot shield wall, loaded up with rubber/pepper/paint bullets and gasmasks, thrown tear gas and flashbangs into the crowd and shield rushed them, while some officers fire their fake bullets mostly for scare factor, knocking a bunch of people over, then arresting all of the ones who were unfortunate enough to be standing there. They then should have regrouped and kept doing this until the riot dispersed. Now nothing short of military intervention seems like it'd help, and the military'd be using live ammo, which sends one hell of a message to the rioters, but is nonetheless a bad thing.
Anyone still watching, that fires starting to spread, the building next door and the one across the road now have visible flames on them..
Where on earth are the fire brigade? They turned up for this fire a bit ago but it seems they have driven off now.
Stuff happening at Clapham junction now apparently.
You want to use live bullets? Hahahaha
Cameron's coming home!
Oh David...
I hope I ninja Jsm on that
I just heard David Cameron is assembling an emergency meeting tomorrow. Christ.
-I'm late-
Very dangerous, tram overhead electric lines are alight, the rails appear to be on fire too...
Lucky I have a fire station on my road if anything fires happen near me.
When I turned BBC on it was just the furniture store on fire, now the furniture store is just gone and there are like 3 buildings around it on fire
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I helped my (10yr old) daughter with a presentation she had to do for school. Topic was computers in general, not only programming.

I taught her to strip a (prepared) old 386 I had lying around. So during the presentation she took out the memory, disk, cpu etc. explained what they were for and how you needed to tell the computer how to shift bits of info around using a program.

Then she had a little quiz, where the computer parts were the prizes. The kids loved it (and I got rid of a bunch of junk :-) ).
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Which of these are you guilty of? Don't take life for granted and make the most of your time on this planet.
via ZenPencils
Which of these are you guilty of? Don't take life for granted and make the most of your time on this planet.
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How about we stop telling people how to Live. If someone wants to live "average" then let them be. Unless they are hurting someone or relying on you, then how they live doesn't concern you. Maybe "average" can equal happy to them. Nigel, please don't think that because you've stepped your travelling game up that your accomplishing something in the broader spectrum.Life is not about travelling, Life is about Helping.
Did you even check the 11 points made? It is clearly telling to people to pursue their dreams and step outside the box. How can you possibly be against that? What is the, "broader spectrum," of life mean to you? At the end of the day life is all about experiences, everything else will just be a blur. What have you accomplished since you are judging accomplishments?
Wise man told me don't argue. Just chill Nigel
3, 4 im guilty off, but im happy with my life .
At the end of the day if people need this to wake them up then they really have no ambition or motivation to do anything. Thats on them. This is the reason the average person is a hater. Hov said it best, "Let me live out my dreams until my heart gives out"
Im not trying to throw a shot at you , Nigel. Please forgive me. My point is "happiness" and "average" are terms that are defined by self. Every single person on this planet is different, don't try to dictate what their life should be.
So would you be happy not pursuing your dreams?
Nigel, don't worry about this nicca. First he was talking shit about "your travels" and he comes back with "I aint taking shots". Fuk 'em. MF gonna throw stones and then backpedal when attention is brought to it. Hilarious…
Nigel as a foreigner, I'm already living my dreams away a third world country where theres a war everyday, gotta try to sleep thru the ground shaking from bombs n missiles.. im happy that my family n i are able to live our life here in the states considering where we're from before
Great point.
I don't think this one was written for niggas at all (Kat Williams voice) . I feel like a lot more black people need to start trying to aim for "average". The problem in the black community is everybody wants to be an athlete or entertainer and that's not realistic. I think niggas question authority too much, niggas be getting an attitude with the boss then get mad when they get fired. If you are sitting at your desk for 40 hours and are only productive for 10 then you just a lazy nigga. Don't be mad when they give that promotion to somebody else. I'm not saying don't try to reach for your dreams but niggas got to get the basics down first. Most of the niggas I grew up with ain't go to college, don't got stable jobs, and probably won't live until 60. So I'm thinking this comic strip is for white people.
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"everbody wants to be an athlete or entertainer…" that is by design. from the Maryland Doctrine of Exclusion, Blacks were only to be competitive with Whites in sports and entertainment.
However, we need to get past this….and start a successful dry cleaners or something and move on up to the east side. LOL!
nigel i feel you on this one, these are the type of posts that are needed, but average is nowhere close to happiness, everyday i dream and imagine how am i gonna live my life, and everyday i feel like i havent done anything to pursue them, people dont understand that an average life is the destruction of man…think about it, what is average nowadays? having nice shoes, women, clothes, and trying to get money by any means possible…..religion is being lost, and many dreams of americans is going with it…..i appreciate this post to be honest with you, cause my life is average and whats to become of me is too unknown for even me….good look nigel
only americans speaks one language…
Guilty of doing 3 and how things are going i'm gonna end up doing 4 and onward.
I'm in college because I have to be but the thing is I don't have any dreams I would like to pursue. I guess its better than doing nothing.
Bruh, don't feel like that. There's so much for you to learn and explore. Don't worry. Just keep learning. It'll come to you.
Sorry for all these posts, but I'm pretty passionate about this subject. We have finally gotten to a point of self determination and we've got to decide where we collectively want to go with it.
Where we are, is NOT where we need to stay.,,,
^^^^^ i feel you on that
Pick up the book – Breaking the Chains of Psycological Slavery, by Na'im Akbar.
"Black People in America have a much greater inner power than they realize, but they must re-discover themselves in order to use it." – Na'im Akbar
Nigel this was a good one though even though I disagree with it a little bit. Got the people talking and thinking keep up the good work.
I feel that God made everyone with a purpose in life. Even in the Bible when you look out proverbs it talks about how wisdom changes from being simple.
I'm feeling this 1. Keep the good post Nigel
Yo… I Never Comment On Posts Even Though I Love RealTalk And Check This Blog Daily… But To Comment Negatively On This Post Is Foolish… It's Simply Foolish… I Was Surprised To See All The Negative Comments On Here… All This Is Is Motivation… If You Already Meet These Standards Then This Doesn't Apply To You… But If Not Then You Should AIM To Meet These Standards…
Nigel HAS Accomplished Something By Traveling… It's Important To See The World And Broaden Your Horizons… And The Reason I Come To This Site As Opposed To Worldstar Or Any Of The Others Is Because You Can Tell That Nigel Is A Progressive Thinker… So In A Way He Is Helping… By Filtering Out Some Of The Foolishness That Those Other Sites Post And Only Delivering The Shit That's Substantial Or The Shit That Can't Be Denied (Like Lil B And Chief Keef)…
To The Dude Up At The Top Who Said "Happiness" Means Different Things To Different People… That's True… But Being Average Isn't Happiness To Anyone… I Repeat: Being Average Isn't Happiness To Anyone… I Could Go On And On About This Man But Hopefully In Due Time That Sub-Par Mentality Will Cancel Itself Out As More Progressive Thinkers Like Nigel And Others Make Their Way Deeper Into The Hip Hop Culture… Eventually It Will be Cool To Be Smart & Progressive… I Just Wish That Day Would Hurry Up… Mental Slavery Is Harder To Abolish Than Actual Slavery… #DAMN
Ok, I think the main reason we are average is because we have responsibilities like family and, we can't find the perfect time to pursue our own dreams because the world moves fast with or without you and, we don't want to be left behind.
Life is a delicate tightrope between what you WANT to do and what you HAVE to do. People go broke or become burdens to other people all for the sake of their dreams.
I'm definitely guilty of several of those things but I also support myself fully. You have to give in to the system a little bit if want to be self reliant. The catch is that's when life happens, you get bills and babies along the way and all of a sudden you no longer feel motivated to learn new languages or travel. This is a cycle we must (and I believe my generation will) break out of. It's. a give and take though.
i love this post its motivational. Not negative.
5 – I disagree – u think its cool to spent holiday somwhere where it isnt safe?
ok so go for example to gaza strip or central africa…go risk your damn life and be cool *smh*, be happy that u never seen the war first hand
Agreed. Every time I go outside our compound, I see the effects of war. Every vacation I take for the rest of my life will be on a beach getting served drinks.


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West End Island Tour
Roatan, Honduras
West End Island Tour Roatan Reviews
3 reviews
Over-priced May 31, 2011
I found that most tours are quite pricy. Take a boat to the piegon or diamond cay. Norman, one of the community's fisherman took us all around the island and days for $5. We also got to choose from the wonderful lobster and barracuda fish he caught that day!
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If you come to Roatan, it's worth your while to put aside a day to explore around the island. A lot of divers plan this for the last day of their trip, when they can't be diving anyway.
It's best to either rent out a car, or negotiate a price with a taxi driver to take you around, as public transportation isn't very regular farther east on the island.
I usually drive all the way east, and then work my way back to the west. There are some beautiful views on the way! I would drive at least as far as Marble Hill Farms- it's fairly east, past Punta Gorda. Here they make jams from all sorts of tropical fruits, and they'll put out an assortment for you to sample. They're not cheap, but they make a nice souvenir.
Punta Gorda is a Garifuna village. Not that much to see here, but lots of kids who love it if you have some candy along!
Oakridge is one of my favourite stops. It's a little community with all the houses built on stilts over the water. As you enter, you'll have people ask if you want a mangrove tour. You can negotiate a price, and have a boat ride through the canals that go through all the mangroves (they say pirates used to use these canals). The next town over, Jonesville, as a little bar/restaurant that can only be accessed by boat, so you can ask the boat driver to include it on the tour, and stop by for a beer.
French Key is home to the Iguana Farm (check the review on that for more details).
French Harbour is a fishing town, and has a great grocery store called Eldons, which has a lot of things you can't get at the other grocery stores. And then just a little further is the mall that has a bakery, the only source of fresh bagels on the island.
Pass by Coxen Hole (traffic tends to get congested, if you want to look around, I'd come back another day in a cab- there's a few gift shops, banks, grocery store, nothing too exciting), and head to Sandy Bay. Anthony's Key has IMS (Institute of Marine Science), where you can pay to swim or dive with dolphins, and they also have a free dolphin show most days at 4. Just west of Anthony's Key, on the other side of the road, is the Caramola Botanical Gardens: it's worth a few hours of your time, so you might want to come back there if it's getting late in the day.
Since you have transportation, you may want to head over to West Bay for the sunset and find a spot for dinner before heading home.
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Average Labour Cost/Price to Remove Chimney Breast (Builder's Rates)
To clarify the following prices it is recommended that you read the article in the INFORMATION box below the PRICES…
(These prices are based on a tradesman's rate of £150.00 per day and a labourer if required at £100.00 per day. This includes the cost of buying and collecting any materials, dumping any waste if necessary and any incidental materials they will need. The minimum price will usually be for a half day)
Average Cost/Price to Remove a Chimney Breast
Job 1
You want to take out a first floor bedroom chimney breast. That means a simple gallows bracket in the loft. There's no ceiling coving, he will lay a new concrete hearth that will be level with the floor, there's no wall or ceiling paper to remove before plastering and he will fit a new skirting right across the whole wall. You will do the decorating and will have cleared the room for him. He is "skipping" the carpet!
All the rubbish is being bagged up and passed out of the window to Dave who will take it straight to the skip on the driveway.
This will take 2 men 3 days + a skip etc.
Materials £275, Building regs. £150, Labour £780
Total is £1205.00
Job 2
Same job in the dining room. He will have to support the bottom bricks of the bedroom breast properly and it's hearth will disappear in the process so there will be a bit of disruption there.
This will take 2 men 4 days..
Materials £250, (no gallows brackets), Regs. £150, Labour £1040
Total is £1490.00
Job 3
Obviously this is the whole job leaving only the stack in the loft. This will take 5 days.
Materials £325, Regs. £150, Labour £1300
Total is £1775.00
If he is removing /returning furniture, stripping loads of wallpaper so that he can plaster, etc. you must expect to pay at least one more day's money - £150.00.
A Price Guide and Information Sheet on Removing a Chimney Breast
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Now there's a dirty job for you. But the smaller your home the more rewarding the result (space wise), providing you never want a proper fire of any kind ever again of course.
Also you have to consider resale value. An otherwise well preserved Victorian house may not appeal to so many buyers if half the chimneys are gone.
Firstly a bit of info. regarding chimneys….
A "chimney" is the whole brick construction from ground floor to sky.
Different parts of it are the "breasts" which are found in each room, the "hearths" which are where each fire is positioned, the "flue" (which you can't see) is the (usually) square tube inside the chimney which carries the smoke out of the house. The "stack" is the bit which begins in the loft and carries on outside and finally the "pots." are the bits on top of the stack!
Each hearth has it's own flue and unless the house is 200 years old, these are never connected, even if chimneys are. Count the number of hearths, (including those blocked up) in the house and there will be the same number of pots on top of the stack unless some have gone awol!
If you live in a semi detached house from the 30's onwards, the chimneys for each house will back onto one another with the front and rear room breasts converging in the attic and emerging as one stack in the centre of the roof. Once again at no point will any of the flues connect with each other.
Detached houses tend to have their chimneys at the sides. Every now and then there's one in the middle but this is usually a Victorian kitchen chimney or a very modern "architect designed" house. What a stupid phrase that is. Who else designs houses then, Kylie Minogue?
When constructed, each flue was rendered internally. This simply meant smearing the mortar with which they were laying the bricks, all over the inside faces of the flue as they went along. Unfortunately (in Victorian houses particularly) 60 years of smoke (and sweeping) quite often causes the render to deteriorate. This, combined with a bit of movement can sometimes allow smoke to pass between the bricks and emerge in an adjacent flue. In shared or "party" chimneys, this can often upset your neighbours!
The point about the position of the chimney is relevant. You can't just go ahead and remove a bedroom breast in a detached house because the exterior stack will fall down. You can though in a semi. because the combination of the "party wall" which divides the two houses and the chimney breast in the neighbour's house, constitutes a very solid mass of brickwork which is self supporting.
For the same reason, you can remove a ground floor breast without anything untoward happening to the bedroom breast above.
Just because its possible though, does not mean it is either sensible or in fact legal. Removal of any breast requires the involvement of the local authority "building control" department and this will have to be paid for. They will require the builder to show them how he will support any breast or stack remaining in the room (or loft) above the one from which you want him to remove a breast.
This is annoying because it adds to the price of the job and as every builder knows, the brickwork above isn't going anywhere anyway!
However, building control have a longer term view than the average builder. They anticipate that the neighbour may also (or may already have) removed the odd breast and the whole thing just could get a bit precarious. Also it's not entirely unknown for a couple of bricks to eventually decide to fall from the bottom of an unsupported bedroom breast. They don't do any damage though as a new ceiling (section) has been fitted by this time but I imagine the more timid among us could find it a bit disconcerting just as "Crossroads" is getting exciting. (Isn't that where Kylie started out - wasn't she Shoey McFee's love interest)?
So, how will he support what's above? If it's the stack in the loft he has to support, that's relatively easy. He can buy a couple of "gallows brackets".
One bracket is fixed on each side of the loft stack, a length of steel is fixed between them and any brick which feels like dropping …can't. It all shows, but who cares in the loft?
Supporting a breast left "hanging" in the bedroom should usually be possible by utilising the adjacent joists. The ones on either side of the breast should be thicker than the rest (sounds like a "Brucie" song), because they have been supporting the ones that were directly in front of the breast. A noggin can be fitted and a sheet of ply fixed under the breast then everything filled in. This creates no more weight than the old hearth and the breast was never going to fall anyway and the odd bottom brick that might have done…. can't.
On larger jobs (loft conversions for instance) where chimney brickwork may have to become load bearing, brackets are no good and steel beams will be used but that's another story (and another storey)!
If you want to remove a chimney, built not on the flat face of a party wall as they usually are but into the internal corner of the room(s), then beware. This will very likely be a party stack with your neighbour but it all connects not in the loft but at ground level. These can be built differently to normal chimneys. The flues still don't connect but the obvious party wall separation between you and your neighbour just wasn't as apparent (or necessary) when the chimney was being built and as a consequence, the flues can "wander" a bit and we have known rubble (and in one case actual bricks) fall down into neighbours hearths and this is a bad thing! The problem is, you just don't know what will happen until you start!
Don't be persuaded by your builder that building control aren't necessary. It's likely he will support the bricks above on nothing more than the flooring joists. You will want to sell one day and any surveyor worth his £750 (+ VAT) will find out!
Questions to ask the builder during his quotation visit.
How do you intend to get the ton of bricks and soot safely out of our beautifully decorated house?
How will he prevent dust and soot permeating into every fibre of the rest of the house?
Who will consult with the neighbour?
They won't be best pleased if they come home from work and all their decorative Spanish plates and little glass bambis have been vibrated off the shelf by your builder's Kango hammer. I've also known tiling fly off neighbour's walls. It may be necessary to remove the bricks in a more gentle manner!
Who will organise building control?
How's your plastering?
Is it good enough to make good the horrible scar left in the wall without leaving any sign at all that a breast was ever there? Or will he replaster the whole wall and put a new skirting board right across, rather than stupidly try and fit a section in?
The ceiling will pose the same problem and there's those lovely covings to consider.
What about the hearth?
Will he need to re lay it flush with the floor boards so it doesn't show through that new carpet you are going to have to buy?
A-Z of Job Pricing


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AFTER WEEKS OF PRETENDING WE DIDN'T KNOW SNOOKI WAS EXPECTING A BABY BOY, America put on their best surprised faces during Thursday's Snooki & JWoww season finale. Now it's time to get down to baby business: specifically, is she going to accidentally do her business all over little Lorenzo when he's born?
Nicole finally knows what color paint to buy, so now she's got to enroll in "pregnant class." She and Jenni walk into the class with their fake babies in hand. She giggles when the teacher draws a diagram of a butt, and then asks if the other people in the class are worried about pooping on their babies while in labor. Nicole explains that she loves pooping, but doesn't want her baby to be born with it all over him. Don't say she isn't considerate.
Back at home, Jenni cooks them dinner and they discuss their feelings about living together. Nicole explains that she wishes she could experience her pregnancy with Jionni, now that she's in her second trimester. Also, it'd be a good break for Jenni, who looked so horrified during the pregnancy class that you could almost hear her ovaries shriveling up.
The next day, Jionni comes over to visit Nicole. She hands him the fake baby for him to take care of, and while he respects that she's practicing being a mom, this thing is still a doll. Nicole's not worried about Jionni with the fake baby, because she knows he'll be a great dad when the real thing comes. In the meantime, though, she yells at Jionni whenever the fake baby starts crying.
Roger arrives at the apartment, since the four of them will be going out to dinner together. Roger takes the baby and sits down in the giant fluffy chair in the living room and starts rocking back and forth. Jenni notices the chair about to tip over, so she decides to finish the job and knock the whole chair over.
At dinner, the girls break the news that they'll be moving out of the apartment so that Nicole can be with Jionni. Jionni likes the idea, apparently so much that when Roger dares him to take the cinnamon challenge, he accepts.
Nicole looks both amused and worried when he swallows the tablespoon of cinnamon the waiter brings him, but he manages to get through — oh, wait. Nevermind. He's about to throw up!
The next day, the girls go out to lunch and discuss how to handle their relationships with their men. Nicole suggests they swap boyfriends for the night and surprise them with questions and whatnot. "I'm going to Barbara Walters that sh*t," Snooki tells us. "I love Barbara," says Jenni.
Jenni arrives at the restaurant where Jionni thought he'd be meeting Nicole, and Nicole shows up with her fake baby at Roger's location. She asks Roger about the state of his relationship with Jenni, all while cradling and patting the fake baby. "How come you guys fight so much like over the littlest things," Snooki asks. "It's the same couple of things that we've fought about from day one," Roger says. "The insecurities and the mistrust and the lying." Snooki tells him she has seen him be mean to Jenni before and Roger admits it. "She hurts me because she does these things that I would never do to her…but you're not seeing the hurt and the pain that I feel."I
Jenni asks Jionni if he's marrying her for Snooki's new money. "I don't have a private life any more," he says. "If I didn't love her, it would make no sense to be with her. It would make no sense. Money's not worth what I've been through." Jenni feels reassured that Nicole's man is an okay guy. Nicole also left her date with Roger feeling better about his relationship with Jenni. "I don't want to be with anybody else on the face of this planet," Roger tells Snooki when she asks if JWoww is his soulmate. "I love Jenni."
After their respective dates, Jenni tells Nicole all the great things she learned about Jionni on their date. Then Jenni asks about the date with Roger, and Nicole says not to worry because he is too in love with her to leave the relationship.
It may or may not be the very next day when the girls decide to pack up and leave Jersey City. They have their boyfriends over to help them move. "Boyfriends are manual labor," declares Jenni in the truest words ever spoken. Both Roger and Jionni commence to packing for their ladies. "This is the most work you've done in three years," Roger tells Jionni.
While they're forced to carry heavy boxes full of leggings and tanning lotion, a sweet montage of the girls' time in Jersey City plays. It's basically Nicole yelling about Jenni's peeing everywhere, except in slow motion. This is the season finale, after all, so of course MTV's gotta show their most emotional milestones to finish off the show. "Wait, why are we leaving again?," a teary Jenni asks Nicole. "Because you need to fix sh*t with Roger and I'm pregnant." Aww, is Snooki growing up?
Karen Malmquist is a junior at La Salle University, and the head writer and star of In Other News, a comedy series airing in Philadelphia.


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Bread Baking For Writers
How writers and 6-year-olds can bake better bread than you buy in most grocery stores and bakeries.
Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment. —Robert Benchley
Writers have more hobbies than other people, because writers are often looking for something to do other than the writing they are supposed to be doing. Best of all is something (other than writing) that must be done immediately, like taking the bread out of the oven. It can't wait and is therefore a legitimate excuse to take a writing break.
Writing & Structured Procrastination
Baking bread when one really should be reading or writing is a perfect example of what Stanford philosopher John Perry calls Structured Procrastination, the title of his widely admired essay on the topic. As Professor Perry put it:
Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, like gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him do it. However, the procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely and important tasks, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.
So the writer who takes up bread baking can at least be applauded for turning his powers of procrastination to a pursuit worthier than sharpening pencils. While not writing, it's possible to learn about the law, computer programming, teaching, hiking, how to play the guitar, bicycling, motorcycling, running, shooting rubber bands, and how to bake bread.
Baking bread is the perfect writer hobby. Mixing a batch of dough takes only five or ten minutes and is a nice break from the focused intellectual labor of reading or writing. The writer's family may deplore the mess, but they'll come to love the tastes and smells.
Baking two loaves of bread requires only another fifty cents worth of flour and a few more minutes of time, and then the writer has an extra loaf to give to a friend. This will make the writer popular, even though he is odd and spends too much time alone.
But where to begin?
Jim Lahey's No-Knead Bread
Start easy.
The easiest bread recipe in the world is also, I have heard, the most downloaded recipe from the New York Times website for ten years now. It comes with a video of then Times food columnist Mark Bittman at the Sullivan Street Bakery in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, where chief baker and owner Jim Lahey shows you just how easy it is to bake bread. As Bittman observes, a 6-year-old can easily bake better bread than you find in most bakeries and grocery stores.
Jim Lahey's recipe for no-knead bread also comes with the free how-to video (see below).
No-knead bread requires no special tools, but you do need a Dutch oven to bake the bread in. These come in all shapes and sizes, usually made of cast iron, enamel, Pyrex or ceramic.
Two examples of Dutch ovens show the wide price range. The Lodge cast iron Dutch oven is around $35, and the fancy Le Creuset Dutch oven costs almost ten times as much. I think they do about the same thing, but the purists will argue about aesthetics and superior heat retention and distribution.
Lahey's Famous Bread Video
Sourdough Bread
Lahey's recipe is just "no-knead" overnight white bread. It tastes great, but is not what many people prefer, namely, sourdough bread. Sourdough is made in stages and takes two or three days from start to finish. It's not time-consuming, but does require five minutes here and there over a few days.
For the writer who is curious about how to make sourdough bread and other more exotic and complex breads, I have linked to some tools and resources below. Until then . . . .
Get Back To Work!
Writers write, and that's easy to arrange by manipulating the forces of structured procrastination. All the writer needs is something even more important than writing that the writer should be doing, and then the writer will write to avoid doing the other more important thing. Voila.
For example, observe how writer productivity increases and indeed even accelerates from about the first of February until the Day Of Dread, April 15th, Tax Day. During these months, the writer should be doing the writer's taxes. Important? Absolutely. If the writer doesn't pay taxes in a timely manner, the next book could be written in jail. Doing the taxes is so important that it inspires the usual procrastination, and the writer looks around for something else to do, like writing.
When the writer needs a break, there's always bread to bake, and the taxes will get done on the evening of October 14th, the night before the application for automatic extension of time to file the tax return expires.
Bread Baking Resources & Tools
A Bread Baking Book
Hundreds exist. This is my favorite, by Ken Forkish, who runs bakeries and restaurants in Portland, Oregon.
- Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals of Artisan Bread and Pizza. Walks you through making your first easy loaves all the way up to trickier sourdoughs and "double-fed sweet levain."
- Ken also makes great videos that show you the techniques described in the book: Ken's Artisan Channel on YouTube.
Two Bread Baking Websites
King Arthur Flour. Flour makes a big difference in taste. Start with King Arthur All-Purpose Flour and explore from there. You can find it in most grocery stores for less than the price at the link, but it still costs more than other flours. Because it's better.
The Fresh Loaf. Bread bakers eager to share recipes and tips.
Bread Baking Tools
These are links to some of the tools I've purchased over the years.
Frieling Brotform Round Bread Rising Basket. You can get by with a cloth in a bowl or a hundred other makeshift proofing baskets, but these work the best. They are expensive, and I don't see deals on them. They cost what they cost.
OXO Good Grips 5-Pound Food Scale with Pull-Out Display, Black. Real bakers weigh ingredients. A cup of flour A may weigh up to a third less than a cup of flour B. Volume measurements are suspect. This 5-pound-capacity scale is plenty for baking two loaves at a shot. More than that and you should get the 11-pound version of the same scale.
12 Quart Cambro Tub. The perfect size for mixing a 2-loaf batch. I think it is the very model Ken Forkish recommends in his book (below).
6 Quart Cambro Tub. This is a smaller container for mixing "pre-ferments" and smaller batches of dough.
OXO Good Grips Multi-purpose Stainless Steel Scraper & Chopper. Pastry knife for dividing the dough, or cutting rolls or baguettes.
Happy Baking (and Writing).


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I know I said that I was going to tell you about what to wear each Wednesday but I couldn't help myself with this post! It's so fun to make your own beauty products and it's SO much better for you than 99% of the products on the market. Below are 5 beauty recipes you can make from items already in your kitchen.
Simple Sugar Scrub
1/2 cup White Sugar (I know! We typically tell you to throw this out - use it here instead!)
2 TBSP olive oil
Mix all ingredients together and rub into skin. You can use this on your face and your entire body! Just keep it out of your hair.
Cucumber Oatmeal Soothing Face Mask
1 c cucumber, chopped and peeled
1/2 c quick cooking (instant) oats
1/4 c hot water
Add cucumber to a blender to puree. Once cucumber is pureed, add oats and hot water. Mix in the blender for 10 seconds to combine. Allow contents to set and cool for approximately 5 minutes. Apply on face and leave on for 10 minutes. Rinse with cool water.
Banana Firming Face Mask
1 overly ripe banana
1 TBSP honey
Mash banana with a fork or place in a blender to puree. Stir in honey to create a paste. Apply on face and allow it dry (approximately 20 minutes). Rinse with cool water.
Nourishing Avocado Face Mask
1 avocado, flesh only
1 TBSP warm water
1 tsp honey
Place all ingredients into a blender and puree until well combined. Apply on face and allow to dry (approximately 15-20 minutes). Rinse with cool water.
Hair Brightener
Blondes: 1 part lemon juice to 2 parts water
Brunettes: 1 part vinegar to 2 parts water
Mix all ingredients together and use after shampooing and conditioning your hair.
Do you have any favorite kitchen beauty recipes?