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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese government regulators said Wednesday that for the first time they will conduct their own investigation into the country's nuclear crisis to address key unanswered questions.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said its investigation into the disaster at the Fukushima-Daichi nuclear plant will be conducted by a panel of outside experts. The probe will start by the end of April and could take decades to complete because parts of the plant, which was decimated by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, are still in horrible condition as the complex undergoes a 40-year cleanup process.
The twin disasters destroyed the plant's power and vital cooling systems, causing meltdowns at three of its reactors. Several groups have already published the findings of their own investigations into the crisis, largely blaming the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl on botched crisis management, government-industry collusion and the tsunami.
But questions remain, and experts still suspect that the quake, not the tsunami, may have triggered the meltdowns. This is a key point that could affect anti-quake measures at nuclear facilities nationwide.
"Nobody has inspected the site very closely and we still have to sort out a lot of technical questions that remain unresolved," said Tetsuo Omura, a regulator in charge of reactor safety. "We have conflicting views, particularly about how the earthquake had impacted key safeguard equipment, a key question that needs to be addressed."
The regulators said the investigation will also look into other issues, including how much and from where radiation leaked at the plant.
The plant suffered an extensive power failure last week after a rat short-circuited an outdoor switchboard, cutting fresh cooling water from four of its seven fuel storage pools for more than a day, a reminder that the fragile complex is running on makeshift equipment and is full of blind spots.


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Ready to put your Solo2 Wireless headphones to work? When connected wirelessly, here's how you use your headphones.
Power button
- Press and hold the power button on the right earcup to power on or off.
- LEDs in the Fuel Gauge glow white when powered on.
- Tap the power button to show the Fuel Gauge status—learn more about how to power your Solo2 Wireless headphones.
B button
Use the "b" button on the left earcup for the following:
- Press once to pause or play a track or to start or end a call.
- Quickly press twice to skip a track.
- Quickly press three times to reverse skip.
When connected wirelessly, use the volume up/down buttons on the left earcup—above and below the "b" button.
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Stocks tanked today, tumbling into the 4:00 PM ET close.
The S&P 500 fell 1.1 percent, or 15 points to 1,402.
However, the futures market is open and stock futures are tanking. Here's a look at S&P futures, which are down another 26 points minutes after the close.
Dow futures are down 226 and Nasdaq futures are down 36.


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Man, mobile gaming sure has slowed Sonic the Hedgehog down. The blue blur's endless runner was released in March of last year, and we're only just now getting to the bit where he jumps on Eggman?
I blame the marketing for Sonic: Lost World, doubtlessly the cause for Sonic Dash's first boss fight being with the Wii U game's Zazz instead of the rotund professor of robotics we love to make explode.
Either way, it's nice to see him. I miss him when he's gone.
Sonic Dash is currently available for free on iTunes and Google Play. I've recently started playing again in hopes of getting Blaze the Cat as a playable character, because she's mah favorite.
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PEAS IN A POD: Calling the Pixie Tangerine and the city of Ojai two peas in a pod is pretty accurate, even if it is slightly misleading (one doesn't really want to use peas to talk about citrus, because then one can easily muddle the message). But the fact is that the citrus-sweet town and the Pixie share a long and tart history. If you know your California citrus, you know the Pixie is a once-a-year, only-in-Ojai deal. Which means that other deals can sometimes spring from this springtime event. Like? Well, the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa is offering a Pixie Experience Package. It starts on Thursday, March 1 and runs through May 31. Yep, it coincides with Pixie mania.
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Many, many actresses get their start in the modeling world. Some have a talent for acting early on and only use modeling as a stepping stone, but others are simply born to look pretty, and seem to only move on to acting because they'll make more money, and because they can do it past the age of 23. In the new series The Beautiful Life, the CW looks at the seamy side of modeling, and as a nod to one of the greats, has cast former supermodel Elle "The Body" Macpherson as the head of a modeling agency. Unfortunately, while it's great to see her again, we're not sure that that was the best casting decision. We looked at the massive list of actresses who used to be models and picked the five best working actresses today and the five worst. They're all gorgeous, of course, and we respect them for excelling in one career, let alone two, but the truth is, some need to stick to simply being beautiful.
1. Jessica Lange
Her training in mime and her work with an invisible gorilla in King Kong must have taught her how to emote, because she went on to earn an Oscar for 1982's Tootsie as well as being nominated for that same year's Frances. She scored another win for Blue Sky, was convincingly terrorized in Cape Fear and Rob Roy, and she did a lot of work on the legitimate stage in between. She most recently scored an Emmy nomination at the age of 60 for Grey Gardens.
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2. Charlize Theron
Working with big monkeys must be the key to success, because after her role in Mighty Joe Young, Theron scored supporting roles in The Devil's Advocate and The Cider House Rules. But those were just practice for her role in Monster, as an abused prostitute turned serial killer, which earned her an Oscar. She received another nomination for playing a miner in North Country.
3. Angelina Jolie
Say what you will about the Tomb Raider movies, Jolie won an Oscar for her role as a sociopath in Girl, Interrupted and has alternated between cool, collected roles in quality action flicks and emotionally draining parts in otherwise weak dramas ever since. She finally hit the right combo again with The Changeling, which earned her an Oscar nod.
4. Famke Janssen
Yes, her breakout role was as a Bond Girl, but Janssen matured and began to play more roles that required more nuance and less thigh-crushing. She was boxed into the sci-fi and horror genres for a while (her run as Jean Grey in the X-Men franchise was nicely understated), but she went on to a memorable run on Nip Tuck and a moving performance as a pool hustler in Turn the River.
5. Vanessa Williams
Not only has Williams played the hilariously evil Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty for a few seasons now, the former pageant queen and Miss America has played a number of dramatic film roles, including the dying mother of a developmentally challenged boy in My Brother and a pretty bad-ass detective in Shaft.
1. Cindy Crawford
Despite being one of the most famous models in the world at one point, Crawford only played one serious role -- in 1995's Fair Game -- before calling it quits, probably because she was out-acted by Billy Baldwin. Had no one ever watched her cardboard-cutout hosting abilities on House of Style? She now designs and sells furniture.
2. Estella Warren
It may not be fair to judge Estella Warren, who scored high-profile roles in terrible, terrible movies -- Planet of the Apes, Driven, Kangaroo Jack -- but her performances in them were so lackluster and wooden that her career has slowly dwindled to appearing in National Lampoon movies.
3. Andie MacDowell
McDowell, on the other hand, has had high-profile roles in some great movies -- Groundhog Day, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sex Lies and Videotape -- but still managed to be the dullest thing about all of them. She belongs on this list for the rain scene in Four Weddings alone.
4. Elle Macpherson
Elle's roles as a model in both Alice and Sirns didn't require her to stretch much, but even a simple dinner conversation with George Clooney in Batman and Robin is painful to watch.
1. Kathy Ireland
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The aim of the MOSIPS Project (Modeling and Simulation of the Impact of Public Policies on SMEs) is to develop a user-friendly policy simulation system allowing forecasting and visualization of the socio-economic potential impact of public policies.
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The late-night comedy circuit should have a field day with this one.
The former CBS News producer jailed for trying to blackmail David Letterman is up for an Emmy award.
That's right, Robert "Joe" Halderman was nominated Thursday for a News and Documentary Emmy award for his participation in an April 2009 "48 Hours" story about an American exchange student charged with murder in Italy. He was one of four producers cited for the story.
Halderman began a six-month jail sentence in May for trying to extort money from Letterman in exchange for not revealing the late-night host's office affairs.
The "48 Hours" story is nominated in the category of best continuing coverage of a news story by a newsmagazine. The awards will be presented Sept. 27 in New York.


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Supporting creativity through knowledge integration during the creative processes. A management control system perspective pp258-267
© Jul 2012 Volume 10 Issue 3, ECIC 2012, Editor: John Dumay, pp208 - 278
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Organizations require an intensive knowledge integration mechanism that supports creativity within all the phases of its process in order to analyze, understand, select, and integrate ideas into a business model. Management Control Systems, as a part of t he structural capital, can be utilized as knowledge integration mechanisms to provide: i) a dialog among internal or external actors of the creative process; ii) a knowledge repository for data and other information required in the selecting process; ii i) representation of the new ideas into a business model. Using a multi‑method case study, this article analyzes the role of knowledge integration played by Management Control Systems (MCS). Within the perspective of the Levers of Control (Simons, 199 5), MCS are recognized as the sum of belief, boundary, diagnostic and interactive systems that could be used to manage the creative process. We apply the Appreciative Inquiry model of creativity (Cooperrider, Srivastva, 1987) which recognizes four step s: Discovery, Dream, Design, and Destiny. Creativity is then classified based on the problem's characteristic using Unsworth's model (2001) which separates closed and open problems. Results show that in the early phases of the creativity process problem s are more structured and are faced using diagnostic and boundary tools. In the design phase, a dynamic tension between interactive and diagnostic systems is always preferred. The final phase (Destiny) requires diagnostic approaches in all cases. On th is foundation, the paper aims to contribute to the literature on innovation and intangible assets. It is our opinion that the results could also be used by managers and entrepreneurs involved in the creative process in order to improve a companies abilit y to face change.
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Danielle Sobolewski and Ileana Manzano write their lesson plans together, switch who is the lead teacher and feed off each other's energy.
They sense the wiggling coming. The uncontrollable urge that causes 30 kindergartners to fidget in their seats.
They call in reinforcements — Lou Bega and his Mambo No. 5.
Before things must get serious with morning reading, teacher Danielle Sobolewski leads her students in a dance. Kiddie aerobics.
"A little bit of Savannah makes me your man!" Sobolewski says, freestyling her students' names into the song lyrics.
Nearby, a second teacher, Ileana Manzano, coaches the children to throw their arms up in the air.
Sobolewski, 27, and Manzano, 58, are a formidable pair, an alter ego known as Mrs. Mansobo.
They write their lesson plans together, switch who is the lead teacher and feed off each other's energy.
Across Southwest Florida, there are only a handful of classrooms like this one at Southside Elementary where two teachers work side-by-side in a single classroom. For the school, where there are no empty classrooms, the combination takes advantage of a bigger space to hold more students. With two teachers, a class can legally hold up to 36 children instead of just 18, according to the Florida class size amendment.
But for the two educators, co-teaching is a valuable partnership, almost like a marriage.
"We're here to inspire these kids," Sobolewski said. "And hopefully, we're here to inspire each other."
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Beside the kindergarten room and another second-grade class with 35 students at Southside, there are only two elementary schools that use the co-teaching method in the district.
Driven by space needs, the co-teachers are in a kindergarten class at Emma E. Booker Elementary and a K-1st grade split class at Taylor Ranch Elementary, said district spokesman Scott Ferguson.
At Manatee County Schools, Steve Valley said no kindergarten classes are co-taught but the district spokesman was unsure about the other grades.
Not everybody is on board with idea.
Last school year, a parent complained about the noise in what he called a "mega-classroom" at Phillippi Shores Elementary School.
"I'm concerned with overcrowding; 27 8-year-olds in one classroom is a lot of noise," Michael Dooley said at the time, in September 2012.
But the Southside duo say it works.
Typically, teachers on a team met to share ideas and collaborate for professional development.
"When you're locked up in your classroom, you get the 40-minute period once a week," Manzano said. "That's not enough."
Principal Steve Dragon said the key to success is that Manzano and Sobolewski volunteered for the co-teaching assignment.
"I would never want to say, 'You two go in there and do this,'" Dragon said. "You have to talk to the teachers. When they want it as much as I want it, the kids win."
"Everything has a place"
The wiggles are gone and the 30 5- and 6-year-olds are focused.
They spread out in small groups. Some children practice their letters on the computers while others write in their workbooks.
Two boys sit on the floor, spelling words that rhyme with alphabet magnets.
"Good job, Joaquin," Manzano says as she walks by.
On the other side of the room, Sobolewski leads four students in a book discussion on shapes.
They sit at a kidney-shaped table — an unusual shape for the children to learn, no doubt — as they identify geometry in their classroom.
"Shapes are all around us," she says.
The children, still at that age when school is exciting and new, get louder and more animated.
"Let's use our inside voices please," Sobolewski says. "We're getting excited because we're awesome."
With two teachers in the room, it's easier to keep their students on pace.
If Manzano teaches math, for instance, Sobolewski grabs the students who are struggling and pulls them aside for extra help. Same for the students who are excelling and need more advanced work.
Manzano started at Sarasota County Schools in 1988, 2 1/2 years after Sobolewski was born.
The seasoned teacher knows how to run a classroom and keep everything organized.
Their class is 1 1/2 times bigger than a regular kindergarten room, but they don't have space for one teacher's desk, let alone two.
Manzano motherly places a hook on a spare bit of wall not covered by posters, so Sobolewski won't lose her car keys.
Co-teaching exposes Sobolewski to a veteran's tricks.
"Everything has a place," Sobolewski says. "That sounds so silly. I can't tell you how many times I heard that from my parents growing up."
With Sobolewski, there is a new electricity in the room as she incorporates songs and visuals to get her point across.
"I love that energy. You learn a lot from the young teachers," Manzano says.
Taking turns, improvising
What makes the Southside kindergarten run so smoothly is the teachers' chemistry.
In the mornings, Manzano hugs her students when they come into the class.
Sobolewski throws in handshakes.
They know when to step in and lead or when to take a step back and let the other teacher instruct.
The daily lesson plans don't spell out who leads what. The teachers improvise in what turns into a seamless transition as they weave through the class during small group time.
For both, their passion is teaching, especially kindergartners.
Sobolewski laughs as she recollects a moment last school year when she was horrified to find a group of boys talking about drawing the "F word."
That's not school appropriate, she sternly told them.
Until she realized they wanted to draw fish.
"The kids are so genuine and innocent," Sobolewski says.
"They're like sponges," Manzano adds.
"And they're sweet," Sobolewski finishes.


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Once a bustling seaport, the town has a historic district of houses with architecture from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as restaurants and shops.
One of those historic houses belonged to Capt. Mallory Todd, who in 1779 is credited as being the first person to have shipped hams from Smithfield. The house stands on Main Street east of Church Street.
Another historic home is Windsor Castle. Arthur Smith IV, who incorporated Smithfield in 1752 and made it a town, lived there on land overlooking the juncture of the Pagan River and Cypress Creek. The town's newest amenity is Windsor Castle Park, a public park built around the mansion.
The town in 2002 baked the world's largest ham biscuit to commemorate its 250th anniversary, landing it a spot in the Guinness Book of Records in March 2003.
Population: 8,089
Area: 10.1 square miles
Incorporated: 1752
Median age: 38
Median household income: $62,188
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realized i pretty much stole the beat from "we have a technical" by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army. doesn't really surprise me. 127bpm. parts will be up shortly.
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a dubby mess. parts on request.
Haha dubby is the best kind of mess. Did you re-record the bassline? Or did you EQ my rubber strings into metal ones?
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112bpm. completed february 2, 2010 at 9:31pm. the .zip file contains ten parts, including the parts in Uncle Benny's remix that were used in this one: acoustic guitar, bass, drums, harp, lute, moog (x3), synth, and violins. each part is a .wav file.
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French-speaking Switzerland, or Suisse Romande, occupies the western third of the country, comprising the shores of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman) and the hills and lakes to the north. Geneva, at the southwestern tip of the lake, was once a haven for freethinkers from cross Europe; now it's a city of diplomats and big business, but you'll see its more relaxed side by the lake on a warm day. Halfway around the lake, Lausanne is full of young people; it's a cultured, energetic town acclaimed as the skateboarding capital of Europe. Further east is the stunning medieval Château de Chillon, which drew Byron and the Romantic poets. Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest mountain (4807m), is visible from Geneva, while Lausanne has breathtaking views across the water to the French Alps. On a sunny day, the train ride around the beautiful northern shore is memorably scenic, but the excellent boat service brings home the full grandeur of the setting.
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Following the success of David Fincher's House of Cards, Netflix is going to produce a new series, this time teaming up with Dreamworks Animation SKG. The series will be based in Dreamworks' upcoming animation movie Turbo, the story of a snail that gains speedy superpowers.
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Thickly slice the aubergines and arrange over a grill rack. Brush lightly with oil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, then grill until browned. Turn them over, brush and season again then cook until tender, about 8-10 mins in total. Remove from the grill and cut each slice into quarters.
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Police Blotter: Business partners duke it out
Editor's note: The police blotter is written from incident reports provided by local police departments and the Summit County Sheriff's Office. All individuals named are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
A man allegedly assaulted his business partner by headbutting him Jan. 8 after an argument regarding work and the company escalated.
The two reportedly got into a fight over a client and the division of work between a company they shared and another business one of the men owned individually, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
One of the men told his business partner to get his things and get out of the office, but then allegedly began throwing the other man's belongings out into the hallway, the report stated.
The two continued to argue, and then one of the men said the other headbutted him in the face.
Authorities noted a red mark on the face of the alleged victim, the report states.
The man accused of doing the headbutting, denied physically hurting his business partner but said he was kicking him out of the office because the partner's stealing was causing their joint business to go under.
The alleged victim recorded the incident with his smartphone, the report stated.
The man was charged with third-degree assault, according to the report.
A man was arrested Jan. 8 at a local ski resort after he reportedly became belligerent with resort security and authorities whom he said had failed to properly investigate a "stink-bomb attack," at his business.
The man said someone had poured a bad-smelling chemical on the outdoor patio of his bar several times in recent months and he didn't think deputies were acting fast enough to catch the culprit, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.
The man appeared intoxicated and made threatening gestures to one of the deputies, the report states.
Deputies placed him in custody and taken to the Summit County Jail. While in the patrol car, he continued to insult the deputies and the Summit County Sheriff, insisting the stink-bomb incidents had been acts of terrorism and local law enforcement should have been in touch with the Department of Homeland Security.
It is unclear whether the man faces any criminal charges, but he was issued a trespass notice by resort security.
A man was arrested for indecent exposure Jan. 13 after he reportedly exposed his genitals to a male employee of the lodge where he was residing.
The employee said the man was standing in the doorway of his unit, visible from the reception desk where he was working, naked, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office. The man reportedly told the employee he loved him.
The suspect had reportedly been staying at the lodge for over a month, having just recently lost his job. The employee said the had previously exposed himself to him on three different occasions, and that each time the man appeared to be drunk, according to the report.
A man is facing third-degree assault charges after the allegedly headbutted another patron of a local bar Jan. 15.
The reported victim told authorities the man had been walking by him at the bar when he made a comment about his shirt. The man then stopped and headbutted him in the face, causing him to bleed from a cut above his right eye, according to a sheriff's office report.
The suspect said he was at the bar drinking and had wanted to headbutt people. He walked around pretending to headbutt people, but at one point actually headbutted someone who started to bleed, according to the report.
The alleged victim needed three stitches.
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I have been looking at the Notebook feature vs. reference status. I do not use an iPhone or toodledo on any other mobile device, only web and windows.
For me reference status seems more useful than notebook. It is better integrated into toodledo: I have a folder for all reference items. Tags and other attributes can be used. I use goals to structure the reference material. Checked and unchecked can be used for current and outdated info. I can refer to it without going to the notebook, which is not integrated with ToDos in the GUI. Etc.
I must be missing something. What advantages does Notebook have over reference status?
No, I don't think you're missing anything.
The only real 'advantage' of the Notebook over a task with a status of 'Reference' is that it exists in a completely separate space from your task lists. It won't ever, in any way shape or form, appear on any task list, ever, within the current build of Toodledo.
The only other issue I can think of is that Reference tasks are included in your total task count, something that I didn't want.
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So you're not in the market for a protractor. And the last time you needed glue sticks, you also needed permission for field trips. Shop back-to-school sales anyway, because stores
So you're not in the market for a protractor. And the last time you needed glue sticks, you also needed permission for field trips. Shop back-to-school sales anyway, because stores discount more than just the items on school supply lists.
Even if you're not a student, you can take advantage of deals on home goods, clothes, shoes, electronics and, yes, school supplies. (Although you've graduated to the term 'office supplies.')
Study up on the bargains below.Home goods
This time of year, 'there are a lot of sales for college kids and for parents outfitting dorms,' says Annette Economides, who with her husband, Steve, operates MoneySmartFamily.com. And you can scoop those deals on dorm furnishing without having to arm-wrestle for your preferred bunk bed.
Bedding and towels. If you need new bedding and don't want to wait until Black Friday sales, this is the time to buy it, Economides says. For example, comforters, sheets and duvet covers are on clearance at Bed Bath & Beyond. And it's also a good opportunity to replace your towels cheaply. Kohl's, for example, is selling some bath towels, hand towels and beach towels for under $10.
Storage and organization supplies. At Target, Kohl's and other retailers, look for sales on closet helpers, such as shoe organizers, hangers and laundry hampers. Keep an eye out for storage supplies, too. At The Container Store, for example, you'll find discount storage boxes that double as seats ($29.99) or benches ($59.99) until Aug. 12.Clothes and accessories
You can find 'great deals and promotions' on clothes this time of year, says Katherine Cullen, director of industry and consumer insights for the National Retail Federation. Those back-to-school sales usually include adult sizes, and, as Cullen points out, items like jeans have become more office-appropriate.
Shoes and clothes. You can find sales on jean brands such as Levi's at J.C. Penney Aug. 9 through Aug. 12. During the same dates, look for shoe sales at both J.C. Penney and Macy's. At many stores, you'll come across clearance on summer clothing, too, Economides says.
Backpacks and lunch bags. If you're still lugging around the same backpack that held textbooks, it may be time for an upgrade. Look for discounts on backpacks, as well as insulated lunch bags, at Office Depot, Macy's, Kohl's and other retailers.Office supplies and electronics
Whether you want a new computer or to refill that cup of No. 2 pencils, you can find discounts on both high- and low-tech office gear.
Electronics. Check out Walmart and Office Depot for deals on computers, laptops and tablets that are available to everyone. Compare costs for the specific item you're eyeing, and take advantage of these stores' price-matching policies. You'll likely find deals on smaller electronics and accessories, too, such as earbuds and earphones, flash drives, portable speakers and more.
Office supplies. Look for sales on notebooks, folders, binders, pens, pencils, highlighters and just about any other office supply at Office Depot, Target and Staples. 'This could be a good time to see if you need anything for your home office,' Economides says, because 'all the school supplies are on sale for rock-bottom prices.'
Take advantage of these prices, but don't let them lure you into buying fistfuls of pens you don't need. Before you go shopping, whether it's for notebooks or jeans, 'always take stock of what you have at home first,' Economides says.
Then make your own school supply list.
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I don't know who volunteers for these things but there are parents who willingly subject their children to violent television shows and video games so that scientists, presumably in white coats, can see if exposure to violence in the media in turn makes the child more violent.
The gun control debate forces us to look at media, particularly the way media portrays violence. And so we've seen pundits, professors and media executives debate the issue – in the media. Like mirrors on opposing walls the image retreats into the perceived depth ad infinitum.
Nevertheless, guess what? Violent television shows, movies, books, music and video games do make the consumers of such content more violent in two very distinct ways. Common sense will tell you this.
I'm not talking about direct effects. Little Johnny plays a violent video game and goes out and shoots everyone in his neighborhood. That's what communication specialists call direct effects. And it was debunked many years ago, except for something called a "mean world syndrome," which, as the name implies, refers to a heavy television viewer's tendency to see the world as a nastier and more violent place than it actually is. I can relate to that one. Sometimes, I have to turn it off and go outside
Direct effects theorizing rose from the ashes of World War II, when we had just witnessed a propaganda machine in Germany. The media was viewed as all powerful and consumers like us viewed as mindless drones incapable of thinking for ourselves.
The explosion of choice that occurred after the war was largely driven by technological innovation. This led scientists like Paul Lazarsfeld to begin testing the effects of media on consumers and he found that at best the effects of messages in the media are limited. Again, everyone exposed to violence in the media doesn't go on a rampage.
Deciding what effects violence in the media has on children or adults gets complicated because people think that when we say "effects" we mean "direct effects".
So then, how does violence consumed in the media affect intelligent beings?
After exposure to violence, we become "primed" to act more violently. All of us form mental constructs in our brain that help us think more efficiently. The most common type of construct is the stereotype. But our discussion goes beyond this. We teach our kids not to hit when they are very young and as such we form a mental construct for them that hitting is not a good choice. When they get older we hope that they recall this construct when they are in a situation where they feel like hitting.
Priming then, is a process, by which these constructs are activated by certain cues, violent lyrics or scenes that can lead to violent behavior later. Think of a football game where loud and distorted music is played. The music has a heavy backbeat and the crowd, the team, everyone gets pumped or primed. You just aren't the same person after the music starts than you were before. This can be measured.
Media violence has this priming effect, particularly for heavy users. If you view our constructs as a tool box, when you watch violent content, you add a little violence to your box.
The other effect is probably worse but no less definite and accepted. When we look at exposure to media over time, people who consume a lot of violent material become desensitized to the violence. What horrifies them shifts further and further toward the obscene.
The good news is that these effects can be mitigated quite easily through conversation. You do know that it is wrong to go about the neighborhood shooting people, right?
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Chiang Mai is Thailand's second largest city. It's blessed with lush landscapes and is quieter than the capital, so you can find contrasts of exciting and serene travel experiences.
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For a gentler time with Mother Nature, say hello to the gentle giants at Elephant Nature Park, Elephant Jungle Sanctuary, and Elephant Retirement Park. You can walk alongside these beautiful animals and help take care of them too. After that, take photos of the stunning flowers at Dokmai Gardens and Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden.
Need a bit of pick-me-up? Go café hopping and experience Chiang Mai's coffee culture. Take your Baht to the city's night markets next and buy anything you can imagine. There's the Sunday Walking Street at Tha Pae Gate and Ratchadamnoen Road, Saturday Walking Street at Wualai Road, and Night Bazaar at Chang Khlang Road.
If you want to feel more Thai in Chiang Mai, have a go and celebrate the city's best events with the locals. Feast your eyes on the colourful brollies of the Bo Sang Umbrella Festival. Equally vibrant are the parade floats of the Flower Festival in February. Have a splash in April with their New Year's water fights during Songkran. And be dazzled by the floating lanterns of the Yi Peng festival in November.
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An organisation that deserves wide support.
My copy of Lester Brown's book World on the Edge arrived on Tuesday and already it's opening my eyes big time. I do recommend that you think about purchasing the book, or you may download the entire book for free – details here.
Regular visitors to Learning from Dogs will remember that there was mention in a recent Post, Group Human Insanity about Lester Brown's new book. I have subscribed to regular updates from the EPI and recently received the following; it's worth reproducing in full, with the permission of the EPI.
Restoring Food Security for All
Takes Action on Many Fronts
By Lester R. Brown
Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain to produce fuel for cars.
Population growth is as old as agriculture itself. But the world is now adding close to 80 million people per year. Even worse, the overwhelming majority of these people are being added in countries where cropland is scarce, soils are eroding, and irrigation wells are going dry.
Even as we are multiplying in number, some 3 billion of us are trying to move up the food chain, consuming more grain-intensive livestock products. As incomes rise, annual grain consumption per person climbs from less than 400 pounds, as in India today, to roughly 1,600 pounds, as among those living high on the food chain in the United States, where diets tend to be heavy with meat and dairy products.
When the United States attempted to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into ethanol, the growth in world grain demand, traditionally around 20 million tons per year, suddenly jumped to over 50 million tons in 2007. Roughly 119 million tons of the 2009 U.S. grain harvest of 416 million tons went to ethanol distilleries, an amount that exceeds the grain harvests of Canada and Australia combined. This massive ethanol distillery investment in the United States launched an epic competition between cars and people for grain.
On the supply side of the food equation, several trends are making it more difficult to expand production rapidly enough to keep up with demand. These include soil erosion, aquifer depletion, more frequent crop-shrinking heat waves, melting ice sheets, melting mountain glaciers, and the diversion of irrigation water to cities.
Farmers are also losing cropland to nonfarm uses. Cars compete with people not only for the grain supply but also for the cropland itself. The United States, for example, has paved an area for cars larger than the state of Georgia. Every five cars added to the U.S. fleet means another acre of land will be paved over—the equivalent of a football field.
The implications for China of this relationship between cars and cropland are startling. In 2009, for the first time, more cars were sold in China than in the United States. If China were to reach the U.S. ownership rate of three cars for every four people, it would have over a billion cars, more than the entire world has today. The land that would have to be paved to accommodate these cars would be two thirds the area China currently has in rice.
This pressure on cropland worldwide is running up against increased demand for soybeans, which are the key to expanding the production of meat, milk, and eggs. Adding soybean meal to livestock and poultry feed sharply boosts the efficiency with which grain is converted into animal protein. This is why world soybean use climbed from 17 million tons in 1950 to 252 million tons in 2010, a 15-fold jump.
Nowhere is the soaring demand for soybeans more evident than in China, where the crop originated. As recently as 1995, China produced 14 million tons of soybeans and consumed 14 million tons. In 2010, it still produced 14 million tons, but it consumed a staggering 64 million tons. In fact, over half of the world's soybean exports now go to China.
Demand is climbing, but since scientists have failed to increase yields rapidly, the world gets more soybeans largely by planting more soybeans. The soybean is devouring land in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina, which together account for four fifths of world soybean production and 90 percent of exports.
Ensuring future food security was once the exclusive responsibility of the ministry of agriculture, but this is changing. The minister of agriculture alone, no matter how competent, can no longer be expected to secure food supplies. Indeed, efforts by the minister of health and family planning to lower human fertility may have a greater effect on future food security than efforts in the ministry of agriculture to raise land fertility.
Similarly, if ministries of energy cannot quickly cut carbon emissions, the world will face crop-shrinking heat waves that can massively and unpredictably reduce harvests. Saving the mountain glaciers whose ice melt irrigates much of the cropland in China and India during the dry season is the responsibility of the ministry of energy, not solely the ministry of agriculture.
If the ministries of forestry and agriculture cannot work together to restore tree cover and reduce floods and soil erosion, grain harvests will shrink not only in smaller countries like Haiti and Mongolia, as they are doing, but also in larger countries, such as Russia and Argentina—both wheat exporters.
And where water shortages restrict food output, it will be up to ministries of water resources to do everything possible to raise national water productivity. With water, as with energy, the principal potential now is in increasing efficiency, not expanding supply.
In a world where cropland is scarce and becoming more so, decisions made in ministries of transportation on whether to develop land-consuming, auto-centered transport systems or more-diversified systems that are much less land-intensive will directly affect world food security.
In the end, it is up to ministries of finance to reallocate resources in a way that recognizes the new threats to security posed by agriculture's deteriorating natural support systems, continuing population growth, human-driven climate change, and spreading water shortages. Since many ministries of government are involved, it is the head of state who must redefine security.
At the international level, we need to address the threat posed by growing climate volatility and the associated rise in food price volatility. The tripling of wheat, rice, corn, and soybean prices between 2007 and 2008 put enormous stresses on governments and low-income consumers. This price volatility also affects producers, since price uncertainty discourages investment by farmers.
In this unstable situation, a new mechanism to stabilize world grain prices is needed—in effect, a World Food Bank (WFB). This body would establish a support price and a ceiling price for wheat, rice, and corn. The WFB would buy grain when prices fell to the support level and return it to the market when prices reached the ceiling level, thus moderating price fluctuations in a way that would benefit both consumers and producers.
One simple way to improve food security is for the United States to eliminate the fuel ethanol subsidy and abolish the mandates that are driving the conversion of grain into fuel. This would help stabilize grain prices and buy some time in which to reverse the environmental and demographic trends that are undermining our future. It would also help relax the political tensions over food security that have emerged within importing countries.
And finally, we all have a role to play as individuals. Whether we decide to bike, bus, or drive to work will affect carbon emissions, climate change, and food security. The size of the car we drive to the supermarket and its effect on climate may indirectly affect the size of the bill at the supermarket checkout counter. At the family level, we need to hold the line at two children. And if we are living high on the food chain, we can eat less grain-intensive livestock products, improving our health while helping to stabilize climate. Food security is something in which we all have a stake—and a responsibility.
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Adapted from Chapter 5, "The Emerging Politics of Food Scarcity" and Chapter 12, "Feeding Eight Billion" in Lester R. Brown, World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse
(New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2011), available online at www.earth-policy.org/books/wote
Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.orgFeel free to pass this information along to friends, family members, and colleagues!
Not much I can add to that!
UPDATE: Just a few hours after completing the Post, I saw this on the BBC News website.
The global consumption of fish has hit a record high, reaching an average of 17kg per person, a UN report has shown.
Fisheries and aquaculture supplied the world with about 145m tonnes in 2009, providing about 16% of the population's animal protein intake.
The findings published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) also stressed that the status of global fish stocks had not improved.
It said that about 32% were overexploited, depleted or recovering.
"That there has been no improvement in the status of stocks is a matter of great concern," said Richard Grainger, one of the report's authors and FAO senior fish expert.
Full article on the BBC is here.


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I can't believe I'm going to try and accomplish this challenge...If you cant tell the challenge is to read 100 or more books in the year 2009. Any type of genre is okay for this challenge, but it ends on December 31. I hope I can accomplish this challenge, if i get grounded a lot like I did last year, then for sure I am going to beat this challenge
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
100+ Reading Challenge!!!
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Sunday, January 25, 2009
I've never really spent a lot of time on a computer before...My friends and cousins would teach me a lot of interesting things that would help make my computer skills better..But until this year I've had to share a computer with 6 other people, and never really could do much on it, even doing homework was hard to do...
This year I got my own laptop!! So hopefully I can make an Amazing blog and a whole bunch of other things!!!
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Random Quotes
"We are human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands. But we can stop it, we can admit we're killers, but we wont kill today."
-Capptain James T. Kirk
"Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."
"Yesterday is a mystery, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift."
-Elenor Rosovelt
"When scientist finally find the center of the universe, some people will be suprised to learn that its not them."
-Bernard Bailey
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Favorite Parts from books....
"Love is the cure all along"
"I was a fallen gaurdian angel, the gargoyle upon a church of sin and despair, a cathode ray of desolation"
Lover Awakened:
"I was dead until you found me though I breathed. I was sightless though I could see. And then you came...and I was awakened."
Lover Unbound:
"Death is weird. Most people think its an on/off kind of thing, but more often its like a process...Kind of like closing up a shop at the end of the day. For the most part things fail in a predicatable manner, until finally the last light in the place goes out and the door is shut and locked. As a doctor I can jump in and stop the progression by sealing up wounds and giving more blood. But sometime the shopkeeper just leave you and you can't stop him no matter what you do..."
Suck it Up:
Every mammal begins life as a vampire. When you were growing and cell-differentiating in your mothers womb, you weren't playing video games. You were feeding on your mothers blood. You didnt feed on her with fangs, you drank her blood with a straw known as an umbilical cord. Then you were born and they cut off the straw."
13 Reasons Why:
"If my Love were an ocean
there would be no more land
If my love were a desert
you would only see sand
If my love were a star
late at night, only light
And if my love could grow wings
Id be soaring in flight"
"I met your eyes
you dont even see me
you hardly respond when
I whisper Hello
could be my soulmate
two kindred spirits
maybe we're not
I guess we'll never
My own mother
you carried me in you
Now you see nothing
but what i wear
people ask you
how i am doing
you smile and nod
dont let it end
put me
underneath gods sky and
know me
dony just see me with your
take away
this mask of flesh and bone and
see me
for my soul
When it happens:
"People who go out with anyone just to be with someone. Its like they would rather be unhappy than be alone."
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Manga Books...
A lot of people dont really like Manga books...but i am a big fan of them especially...
Samurai Deeper Kyo
Flame of Recca
FullMetal Alchemist
Saiyuki Reloaded
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Places to escape in Romance books...
(All of these books are listed in the order of the series....)
Books by Lara Adrian:
Kiss of Midnight
Kiss of Crimson
Midnight Awakening
Midnight Rising
Veil of Midnight
Books by Gena Showalter:
Darkest Night
Darkest Kiss
Darkest Pleasure
Books by JR Ward:
Dark Lover
Lover Eternal
Lover Awakened
Lover Revealed
Lover Unbound
Lover Enshrined
Books by Anna Windsor:
Bound by Shadow
Bound by Flame
Bound by Light
Books by Alexis Morgan:
Dark Protector
Dark Defender
In Darkness Reborn
Redeemed in Darkness
Darkness Unknown
Books by Deborah Cooke:
Kiss of Fire
Kiss of Fury
(These books are amazing!!!...there are some parts in the book where its very descriptive...XP)
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Where to escape in YA books....
The books that I've read to escape are...
(some are series...the order is given...)
Books by Stephenie Meyer:
The Host
New Moon-2
Breaking Dawn-4
Books by Chrisopher Krovatin:
Heavy Metal and You
Books by Alex Sanchez:
Rainbow Boys
Rainbow Road
Rainboe High
(I know they sound weird...they were Really good books...and I'm straight...)
Books by Richelle Mead:
Vampire Academy-1
Shadow Kiss-3
Books by Cinda Williams Chima:
Warriors Heir-1
Wizards Heir-2
Dragons Heir-3
Susane Colasanti:
When it Happens
Take me There
Books by Cassandra Clare
City of Bones-1
City if Ashes-2
Books by Sara Manning:
French Kiss-1
Kiss and Make up-2
Sealed with a Kiss-3
Lets get lost
Books by Sonya Sones
What my Mother doesnt know-1
What my Girlfriend doesnt Know-2
One of those hideous books where the mother dies
Books by Laurie Stolarz:
Blue is for Nightmares-1
White is for Magic-2
Silver is for Secrets-3
Red is for Remembrance-4
Deadly Little Secrets
Books by Deborah Garfinkle
Trading guys-1
Holding On-2
Finding Love-3
Boooks by Melissa Marr:
Wicked Lovely-1
Ink Exchange-2
Books by Elizabeth Scott
Perfect You
Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher
Evernight-Claudia Gray
Need-Carrie Jones
Impossible-Nanvy Werlin
Graceling-Kristin Cashore
Sucks to be me-Kimberley Pauley
Gamer Girl-Mari Mancusi
Lost it-Kristen Tracy
Sticky Fingers- Nikki Burham
What would Emma Do-Eileen Cook
Getting the Girl-Markus Zusak
I heart you, you haunt me- Lisa Schroeder
Suck it up-Brian Meehl
Alittle Friendly Advice-Siobhan Vivian
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When it comes to my mother I have a habbit of speaking my mind, and usually it causes me a hell of a lot of trouble...So I would leave my house at a random time to try and get my mouth under control. I leave with whatever's in my bag, jacket and whatever book I'm currently reading...
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- saturates2g
- carbs13g
- sugars0g
- fibre4g
- protein37g
- salt0.25g
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Left-handed Telemaster
This oil-finished left-handed Telemaster looks to be one such instrument, a self-build perhaps. The Telemaster - as its name suggests - is a hybrid of a Telecaster and a Jazzmaster. That is, a Telecaster with a Jazzmaster body. Or is that a Jazzmaster with Telecaster routing and hardware? It's actually a guitar with a bit of a cult following amongst self-builders, guitar projecteers and custom builders. A quick Google search will turn up loads of them!
This auction finishes in just a couple of hours, so if any interested lefties are reading, you might want to snap it up quickly.
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Hurting the Sick Is Not Good Politics
I was glad to see James Pinkerton engage my criticism of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's (R) endorsement of federal price controls for health insurance. I was even more pleased to see that Pinkerton has his own blog devoted to developing a Serious Medicine Strategy.
If I understand Pinkerton, his argument is essentially: it's all well and good for some unelectable wonk in the "citadel of libertarian thinking" to "uphold ivory‐tower free‐market purity" by opposing price controls. But Republicans need "art‐of‐the‐possible solutions" to win elections, and 90 percent of the public support those price controls. "Everyone has a right to his or her principled position," Pinkerton writes, "but the majority has rights, too."
Two problems.
First, Pinkerton suggests that libertarians oppose price controls for reasons that only matter to libertarians, and therefore may be safely ignored. Problem is, price controls hurt people. Were Pinkerton to explore the merits of Jindal's proposal, he would soon conclude that imposing price controls on health insurance taxes the healthy, reduces everyone's health insurance choices, and creates even greater incentives for insurers to shortchange the sick. (Turns out that what Larry Summers said about price controls applies to health insurance, too.) As John Cochrane explains, those price controls also block innovative products that would provide more financial security and better medical care to the sick.
But Pinkerton's advice for Republicans is, essentially: "Do what's popular now, even if it hurts people and voters end up blaming Republicans for it later." How is that a good strategy?
Second is this idea that "the majority has rights." Majorities don't have rights. Individuals have rights. For example, you have the right to negotiate the terms of your health insurance contract with the individuals at this or that insurance company. Majorities may attain power, but that's the opposite of rights. (See the Bill of Rights.)
Finally, a couple of important odds and ends. Pinkerton suggests it is "un‐libertarian" to be "pro‐life," or to "support the police, the military, and other upholders of public order," or to "support government restrictions on…euthanasia." Writing from the "citadel of libertarian thinking," I can assure him he is wrong. Might I suggest Pinkerton read the relevant chapters from The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism? (The health care chapter is a page‐turner!) Also, I did not "denounce Jindal" any more than Pinkerton denounced me. I criticized his ideas, and I respect the man.
(Cross‐posted at Politico's Health Care Arena.)


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Duncan Stearn is a freelance journalist, historian, and traveller with a love of greyhound and horse racing. These diverse interests have led to the publication of 10 books since 1985, covering history (Brief History of the Thirty Years War and the English Civil War, Chronology of South-East Asian History 1400-1996); travel (Pattaya 'Patpong on Steroids'); greyhound (The Ultimate Accolade) and horse racing (Bernborough, Australia's Greatest Racehorse).
He has written articles for publications such as Turf Monthly, The Australian Magazine, Adelaide Review, Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Nation (Bangkok), Asia-Pacific Tropical Homes, Journal of Siam Society and many others.
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For more than two decades, internist Lee Antles has treated Medicare patients at his practice in Olympia, Wash. Last month, he started turning them away.He changed hands with the creature and wiped his dominant hand on his trousers, then reached up to grasp the monofilament just short of the shiny iridescent hook. His fingers slid down the line to control the hook as he pondered the location to impale the juicy allurement. "Better to have the worm wiggle," he thought as the hook pierced the skin just proximal to the worm's lighter-colored citellum.
What pushed him over the edge was Congress's failure to end the looming threat—which no one expects to be carried through—of a 21% payment cut for doctors who participate in the seniors' insurance program. Last year, he and his wife, Margie, who manages the office, took home $55,000 before taxes, he said.
At Dr. Antles's practice in Olympia, Medicare pays him $95 for a visit that covers six organ systems. By comparison, Aetna Inc. pays $129 and Uniform Medical Plan, which covers state workers, pays $140. To bridge the patchy reimbursements, Margie Antles has taken out four loans and borrowed money from her parents.The worm wriggled and slimed, its caudal portion curling back on the embedded metallic foreign body. The man grasped a second spot a bit further down the worm's length, curling its body so it could be impaled again. The folded portion of the worm was now firmly secured while the ends kept flipping to and fro as a half-red and half-white sphere was clipped a bit higher on the line.
For seniors, the tussle in Washington could make it more difficult to find a doctor, especially if they're switching doctors. Medicare pays physicians at a lower rate than private insurers, and they complain of too much paperwork.Suddenly, with little hesitation, the line was cast and worm, hook and bobber flew effortlessly to land on the water's surface.
Ostuni and other delegates are upset a Medicare payment formula was not a permanent part of the new health reform law. Because it was not in the law, the AMA now has to lobby Senate Republicans for another temporary payment fix to avert the scheduled cut.The bobber sat motionless on the water's surface. A light fog hung just above the water. A damselfly landed on the bobber only briefly before it moved. A tiny movement at first, radiating ripples on the water's surface from the bobber's location. A pause. Then another tiny jiggle and more ripples. Suddenly, the bobber disappeared. The man gave a hefty jerk to the line, but sadly, line came easily. "Damn, too hard," he thought, and reeled in the line to find his nightcrawler gone.
Dr. Antles is considering quitting medicine and moving to Chicago, so his wife can return to a sales job that pays at least twice that much. "It just causes me such angst," he said, who would become a stay-at-home father to the couple's six-year-old daughter. "It leaves 1,000 Medicare patients. Where do they go?"-Wes


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Are you having trouble with the GS Hypo Tube Cement? It's happened to us several times as well, but it's really the best glue we've found for thread. It seals it so well without discoloration or tell-tale signs that many glues leave, so even though we lose a few tubes along the way, it's worth it. However, having said that, here are some tips about how to use it best:
1. When you are done using it, add a small bit of Vaseline around the tip. This helps keep the glue from adhering to the cap. You can also use a cosmetic sponge instead of the cap.
2. Stand the tube up in the box and leave it in a cool place until the next time you need it. By standing it up, the chance of glue drying around the needle tip and the cap are less, which means when you go to take the cap off, the needle tip doesn't come off with it.
3. In the event the needle does come off, you are still able to use the glue. Squeeze a small bit out onto a plastic bag and apply with a tooth pick.
Zap Glue isn't a replacement for GS Hypo Tube. The Zap is meant for super heavy-duty jobs like fixing leather into a clasp end. If you've tried these tips and are finding that you're just not happy with the GS Hypo Tube Cement, please email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Note: Birds are very sensitive to any fumes from glue. Please do NOT use glue in the same room where birds are present.