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DIY Perler Beads Bracelet Tutorial from diycandy. I am constantly surprised at what you can make with super cheap perler beads. For lots more Perler Bead DIYs go here.
DIY Harry Potter Gryffindor Pride Bracelet Tutorial from The Benson Street. This is part of 2 weeks of Harry Potter DIYs by a group of bloggers. For more Harry Potter DIYs go here: truebluemeandyou.tumblr.com/tagged/harry-potter and for DIY Kids Jewelry go here: unicornhatparty.com/tagged/kids-jewelry
DIY Silk Wrapped Bracelet Tutorial from 9 year old Gabrielle at The DIY Dreamer. This is a very easy DIY with minimal supplies needed and an excellent step by step tutorial. For more kids jewelry go here: unicornhatparty.com/tagged/kids-jewelry
unicornhatparty: This is a great beginner DIY jewelry project for kids because it is easy, can be as easy as you want (clip on charms or wire wrapped) and the end result is so pretty.
DIY Knitting Spool Rubberband Bracelet Tutorial from Craft and Creativity.
For a Finger Weaving Rubberband Bracelet from Honestly WTF go here.
For a triple fishtail and regular fishtail bracelet using pencils go here: unicornhatparty.com/tagged/rainbow-loom
This blog is for my crafting alter ego. I did lots of crafts with my very artistic mother growing up and continue doing them with kids now. I love really good kids' crafts that hold their attention and mine.


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JACKSON, MS (WLBT) - Not all Thanksgiving travelers will be taking to the skies. Most will be hitting the roads and riding the rails.
The lobby at the Greyhound Bus and Amtrak train stations in downtown Jackson were bustling with eager travelers.
Some individuals and families were looking to get a headstart on their holiday travels.
One such family was the Jacksons who usually fly to their turkey day destination. Derrick Jackson said that this year his family is opting to take the train.
"We're heading to New Orleans. My kids have never been on Amtrak, so I figured we'd do something different," Jackson said. "Take a train, ride down to New Orleans and enjoy Thanksgiving with my in-laws there."
WLBT asked if the change in travel plans had anything to do with the Transportation Security Administrations controversial body scans and pat-down procedures and Jackson said, "no."
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- 660 Ti (from 550 Ti)
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Bold Predictions for 2013
- Valve will make a move to fatally wound console gaming. The re-shift to PC gaming will commence.
- The year of the Linux laptop
- Apple stock will be worth half of what it is today by December 31, 2013.
- Mini ITX will become just as common as ATX among enthusiasts.
- Facebook will experience a mass exodus due to privacy violations brought to light.
- Twitter will gain record numbers, opposite facebook, because of their stronger stance on privacy.
- 2.5k TV's and 4k projectors will be a 'hot item' at Christmas.
- Blackberry will be bought by either Toshiba, Sony, or Nokia in an attempt to boost their mobile presence. It will fail miserably.
- Smart watches will be a 'hot item' at Christmas.
- Raspberry pi will sell 10 million units.
Responsive Design and More Design!
From this point forward, I will not be making any full-fledged websites that aren't, in some way or another, responsively designed. I just finished the redesign of pixel5.us and novusunion.com. I discovered a bug with jQuery cycle that doesn't allow it to be resized and remain in the same place on the page, so unfortunately I had to clip that out on the smaller breakpoint, but that was the only caveat of the RD on novusunion.com.
I am also about to start work on a website for a new startup from a good friend of mine in Halifax. His company is called International Technate, and he'll be doing some pretty cool stuff with metropolitan transit systems. I'm pretty excited to get started on this one.
I'm also hosting a giveaway contest at Novus Union for a free personal site to the person who does the best job convicing me to do theirs. Gonna be a fun December.
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PixelTweet v1.2
Fixed an issue where multiple different URLs would result in the same hyperlink.
PixelTweet is done, but…
Well, last week I made a new twitter widget as I said I would, but unfortunately Twitter has announced that, very soon, all non-authenticated requests will be going away. Why, Twitter? Why do you do this to me?
Anyway, I would like to be at the forefront of the change, if it is even possible to make a customized widget. I would hope that twitter doesn't limit external usage to their in-house widgets only.
Time to make a new twitter web-widget!
Welp, it looks like my gaming community is a bit more popular than I expected and we've already started to exceed our 150 request limit with twitter. I am going to start a new widget soon that makes one request every so often and stores it on the server. Yeehaw!
So for a little while you might see a 'fake tweet' on the homepage… don't worry, tweets will come back soon!
DynamicSigns - Bukkit plugin
Currently work-in-progress. I've got the foundation for it, just need to fill in the gaps.
DynamicSigns is a plugin for the Minecraft mod, 'Bukkit'. What the plugin does is allow the user to create signs that get their text from a remote source (being my database). They can go online to find an extremely user-friendly web application that allows them to make a dynamic sign with a few options:
- Pure text
- Latest Tweet (user just enters the @Handle)
- Last-seen (tells the date, time of the user's last login)
- Hyperlinks (right-clicking the sign opens the MC link handler, as in chat)
- A few HTML snippets, those ideas are still forming… starting with 'read from .txt URL'
- Possibly server uptime stats
- I come up with more ideas daily
Java is, for all intents and purposes, completely new to me. I'm punching my keyboard from time to time, but I've gotten some help from some very knowledgeable friends (thanks Chris) to help with the learning process. The frustration level is nothing compared to Android, so I am going to stick with it and get this sucker finished. Mainly because I want to use the plugin on my own server.
If I could do anything, what would I do?
If I could do anything…
It is a questions we have all been asked (and have asked ourselves) more than once. If you haven't asked yourself this question, you must be a sad, demotivated being and you have my pity. My answer to the question has floated left and right over the last few years but has retained the same core ideas about how I want my life to be before too long.
I'd like to wake up every morning around 7 AM and leave my house at 7:50, putting me at my office at 7:56. 4 Minutes before 8:00 is enough time to start the coffee before the others arrive. I own my office building, or at least I'm the one in charge of renting it, and I work for myself. I have 3 or 4 employees, and we every day we develop things that don't go overlooked by the world at large. I, myself, am totally in love with the web and visual allure. I want to design websites and web applications. Through experience I have found that being a web designer for others is a hard job to do because you do nothing but deal with people who don't know what they are talking about (that's why they hired you) but they seem to think they know everything. No, I'd rather have a product to call my own. I don't know what it would be, but I would like to engineer something of my own creation. A digital service, a product…something.
If money was not an issue, that is where my dream job would be. Not a huge corporation with a position of fame and importance, but rather a quiet and sane 1200 square foot office. We have our own server room and everything. Our entire operation is totally contained and we are darn good at what we do. Never satisfied to rest on our laurels, but driven to stun the world week-in and week-out.
Of course, dogs would be allowed in the office… a near-requirement, actually. Under my desk is a bed for my chihuahua and various balls and ropes are scattered across the back room. Creativity does not come from routine, so my team is free to work how they want as long as it gets done. You want to play minecraft for an hour to start your day? I want to trust that they are passionate enough about their craft that I don't have to think twice about it. They would be free to work on projects of their own; again, creativity requires goofing off. We'll be weird, and that's the only way I would want it. People would kill to work there.
My job, in general, would be an overseer. I would want enough to keep me from being bored, but enough free time so that I could do things like give guest lectures at a local university or high school during the school day. The opportunity to teach and share what I know is something I've always wanted, but something that is almost completely out of reach for someone who doesn't have a teaching certification or master's degree.
I am home by 3:30-4 most days, and everyone gets off early on Fridays during football season (priorities, obviously). Seriously speaking, I want to know the families of the people that work for me. My company is not some closed door that their husbands (or wives!) go behind every day to earn money and they are off-limits during that time. I believe it is possible to be LIKED and RESPECTED at the same time as a manager, and I want my employees' families to like me, not just my employees. Above all, I believe that people matter. We are not simply drones with a skill, but souls with a purpose and emotions, and that doesn't change when we clock in.


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Coffee, Booze and Benzedrine: A Look at the Daily Rituals of Great Artists
Have you ever wondered what drove acclaimed writers, philosophers and musicians like Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre and Glenn Gould? After reading Slate's excellent series on the daily rituals of great artists, I suspect it might be coffee — although a comprehensive list would also need to include alcohol, amphetamines and very little food.
Coffee and creativity go hand in hand, it turns out, with everyone from Beethoven to David Lynch incorporating it into their daily routine. Balzac apparently drank 50 cups a day, while others relied on it perhaps less for the jolt of caffeine and more for the ritual of preparing it. Beethoven preferred his morning joe made with exactly 60 coffee beans, for example, and would often count them out for a precisely-made cup.
Some took to stronger stimulants like the amphetamine Benzedrine, which W.H. Auden took daily and Graham Greene used to write two books at once. Others like Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald famously relied on alcohol to get them through the creative process — although usually as a reward at the end of a sober day of work, not as constant fuel. William Styron described it this way:
"I've never written a line in my life while I'd had a drink, but in terms of its ability to relax you and to allow you certain visionary moments when you're thinking about your work, I think it's very valuable. Let's say a day is finished and you've put in some good hours of writing and you're still perplexed about the next day. Just to be able to have a few drinks and to think in this released mode often gives you very new insights."
Food lovers will be disappointed to learn many artists ate very little and often the same foods day after day. Most said they worked better when their stomachs were empty and seemed to view food as more of a distraction than anything else.
Read more of the Daily Rituals series on Slate:
→ Coffee!!!
→ What do Auden, Sartre, and Ayn Rand have in common? Amphetamines.
→ Does boozing help or hinder artistic endeavor?
→ Are starving artists better artists?
Do you have any daily rituals to fuel your creativity?
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Well, Styron's alcoholism was a symptom and self-medication of his bi-polar disorder. His illness came close to both ending his marriage -- he begged his wife to divorce him when he thought his treatment would bankrupt them -- and his life.
Bi-polar disorder has been linked for decades with creativity. For instance, Handel wrote MESSIAH in 17 days. It's sad to think of the toll their art took on these artists and their families.
I've heard of Bi-Polar disorder being some of what drives many creative souls, but also autism, asperger, and other similar types of mental challenges sometimes fuel many a creative soul.
But not all of us are, and can still be some of the most creative folk around.
Marcel Proust insisted upon a freshly opened bottle of Vichy water beside his bed but apparently he never drank from it.


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Sandra Postel: Water World, Uncut
Posted Sep 7, 2011 by Sandra Postel
An interview with PCI Fellow Sandra Postel, by Todd Reubold.
[Excerpt]: Whether it's 500-year floods or 100-year droughts, water has been one of the top news stories in 2011. Good ol' H20 will likely grow in prominence over the coming decades as growing demand due to rapid population growth collides with increasing unpredictability of supply. Momentum recently caught up with Sandra Postel, founder of the Global Water Policy Project, to discuss current freshwater challenges and our unending thirst for water in the 21st century.
When did you first become interested in water-related issues?
I've been interested in environmental issues since I was at least a teenager, if not earlier. When I left grad school at Duke I took a job with a small natural resources consulting firm in California and was given the opportunity to work on freshwater issues. We had some work going with the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers and so I got my feet wet, so to speak, in water pretty early out of grad school.
Can you tell me more about the organization you founded, the Global Water Policy Project?
The Global Water Policy Project is an umbrella for a variety of things that I do, but the goals really are to begin to move ideas and policies and advance ways of harmonizing human use of water with the protection of the natural world. It's really focused on the question of, "How can we begin to meet the needs of this growing human population while sustaining the ecosystems that support not only the rest of life, but us, too?"
How would you characterize our relationship with water today?
We know that freshwater is finite, it's the basis of life and there are no substitutes for it. But we're not using it and managing it as if any of those things are really true. So there's a big disconnect with these known truths about freshwater and the way we go about using and managing it.
The entire path of development over the 20th century has been about acquiring more water. As we run out, we find more. And we build more and bigger water projects. We drill more groundwater wells. And that worked for a time, but clearly it's not working anymore. And so I think the challenge is to re-integrate how we use and manage water with those fundamental truths about freshwater. And that really is a game-changer. Once you start aligning our use of water, our policies around water, and our management goals around water with those fundamental truths at the core, it shifts everything.
Issues like climate change and energy seem to grab all the attention, but you've said one of our greatest challenges—if not the greatest—will be related to water. Can you elaborate?
First of all, to some extent we'll experience climate change in large part through its impact on the water cycle. We'll experience it through more and severe floods or more severe rainstorms. Where I am in the Southwest right now it's very dry and expected to get much drier and much hotter. So, I think we'll experience a lot of climate change through the water cycle.
We've got different wells in different parts of India that are running out, again from pumping of groundwater. We've got rivers of various sizes all around the world in the drier parts of the world that had been perennial rivers that are now not flowing over extended periods of time from overuse. So, I think it's beginning to hit home in more places, and it's connecting the dots and saying, "We can do something about this. This trajectory does not have to continue in this way."
If you could change the way water was managed, where would you start?...
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DIY Instax Wallpaper
A Beautiful Mess
Doesn't this wall look awesome? And a lot of work, you're probably thinking. But look closer, and you'll find that those aren't actual Instax Wide prints tacked onto the wall, but color copies of them.
Elsie at A Beautiful Mess had always wanted a wall in her home completely covered with photos, but time (in pasting them to her wall, not to mention taking all those photos) and cost (Instax film adds up!) kept her from doing so.
That is, until she came up with the idea to "wallpaper" her wall with color copies of the photos she did have so far. Though they're not real photos and they do tile (as 11x17 prints), the design was easy to execute and eventually, she can replace the repeating photos with new ones.
To see how she did it, check out the DIY on A Beautiful Mess.
• Wallpapering with Photo Murals
• Turn Your Images Into Wallpaper
• Photos as Wallpaper
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Great look and a good idea, especially if you work somewhere with a wide format color printer.
Great idea to make your own wallpaper. Love the little coffee cart!
I really like this a lot. I wouldn't do it in my living room, but I'd consider it in a space like an office even a small powder room (that would be fun, actually, but nobody would ever come out, they'd be in there looking at all the photos!)
I'm with The Dirty Loft - that sofa is fabulous. As for the wall? My eyes! My eyes! No, seriously, my eyes are simply too old for that. Maybe on one small wall in an office or den/library (with lots of bookcases covering most of it). But a whole living room wall? I couldn't live with it. However, I admire her DIY creativity and, as I write on her repeatedly, to each her own!
I love this as an accent wall in an office or even a small corner wall! a 17 foot wall, maybe not so much, but I dig it!
Personally, I couldn't handle it. Too busy. I like my spaces to calm me. But if you like it, go for it.
She put them all up with a staple gun? No. Just no.
I think the appeal of real polaroid walls is that each photo is personal and interesting. To me this is about as pointless and peculiar as those trompe l'oeil wallpapers of book spines
a. It looks kind of psycho.
b. I wish people would stop staging thir photots so much. Can you imagine making an espresso far away from the kitchen sink?
c. If it's not staged I wonder how the photos would react from the espresso maker's steam.
The couch wins; hands down. The wall only looks 'good enough' because each photo is most likely well shot with enough interest to go beyond ordinary snapshots. The concept might be good for a waiting room where the magazine choices are years old and limited appeal. It would be laborious to get than many 4 x 6 varied good photos.
Ummm, yes, I read/saw the repitition of photos...... Anyhow, the couch should have been the main post!
Love this idea! And it looks great. Might do something similar inmy hallway.
I think it looks fabulous and it's a genius idea! Great job Elsie!
It's a somewhat interesting concept but if you are just going to repeat the photos, you may as well make them a little bigger (at least 5x7) so they are easier to see.
Personally I think it would be cooler as a kitchen backsplash (set behind a piece of plexiglass) than an entire wall.
I did something similar in the kitchen of my last apartment. I collected alot of those free postcards-as-advertisments found in bars and cafes (at least in NYC) and papered one wall with them. The wall was at the end of a rectangular shapped kitchen. It had a window in the middle that looked directly into a neighbor's apartment and their fire escape. I wanted to create a wall that got your attention so you wouldn't look out. I think I achieved it. :) So needless to say, I love this!
This is AMAZING!!!!
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Awesome! I personally would not do this in my own home but I like the look of it.


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It's been noted before, by the likes of Marlon Brando and others, that art might be a socially sanctioned form of lying—or confabulating, as neuroscientists might call it. Could this be true? —KA
Intelligent Life:
Perhaps this is why we felt it necessary to invent art in the first place: as a safe space into which our lies can be corralled, and channelled into something socially useful. Given the universal compulsion to tell stories, art is the best way to refine and enjoy the particularly outlandish or insightful ones. But that is not the whole story. The key way in which artistic "lies" differ from normal lies, and from the "honest lying" of chronic confabulators, is that they have a meaning and resonance beyond their creator. The liar lies on behalf of himself; the artist tell lies on behalf of everyone.
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Spot the "liar": Diego Velázquez painted himself into his famous work "Las Meninas." The artist figures into the painting on the far left.
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I Am Christianish
- Tuesday, August 04, 2009
In a crude analogy, we're advertising Coca-Cola by saying it tastes like turpentine and then growing antagonistic towards those unwilling to take a swig.
And yet, God took the risk anyway, because He knows that the other end of the spectrum is also true. As much as it damages the reputation of Christ for those who call themselves Christians to live the antithesis of His teachings—on the flipside, it makes quite a statement when a flawed human makes a right decision with nothing in it for himself other than taking a stand for Christ. It is the single most tangible way to prove the intangible. This was God's plan: that when the world looks at each of us, they would not simply see a follower of Him. In some miraculous and unexplainable way, God knows that when the world stares at a flawed human who somehow occasionally chooses holy and unhuman actions, they see a picture of Jesus. It is the one true arrow that God's grace allows us each to be. A conduit for a relationship between someone else and God. This is why He took the risk. This is why He took the risk on me.
But something happened along the way.
Somewhere along the road of offense and defense, I stopped being a little Christ and instead began filling out the application that I had labeled Christian. It was not a definition based on the actual namesake, but rather, on those who frequent the clubhouse. And in the midst of being an American Christian among all the other American Christians, I stopped truly searching the nuances of who Christ was and is in order to fully grasp what a little Christ might, indeed, act like. Certainly, I soaked in the Word of God in seasons. I knew the key stories—the greatest hits: the miracles, the Beatitudes, the Passion Week, and whatnot. But I chose not to apply the reality of all the truth in between His words and actions into my own behavior. I allowed Jesus to seep into my church world—but not my relational world, my romance world, my business world, my creative world, my habits, my mouth.
I read His words.
I learned His words.
But I did not fully belong to Him.
Because of this, I became a sort of half-breed. I segregated myself—splitting my soul into two segments: one that would openly serve Jesus and one that would secretly protect myself. I became like people I deemed my-kind-of-godly instead of becoming like Jesus. I pursued Christian success instead of pursuing Christ. I spoke witty insults as commonly as profound prayers. And, in the process, I called myself a Christian without ever becoming a little Christ at all. I became something else.
Not truly Christian—but rather, merely Christianish.
As a church community, it is time we asked ourselves a startling question: what if we're not really following Jesus at all?
Our Christian intention has sharp edges. It has the ability to mold and shape, but also to stab and permanently damage. We have been wagging these blades carelessly for far too long while distracted by some very non-Christlike habits, behaviors, and dysfunctions. Because we are unable to notice our own distraction, we keep on waving our razors, impressed with our own cutlery skills until we suddenly find ourselves the benefactor of unintentional but irreversible wounds. And I don't simply refer to wounds made by a few. They are made by us all. By you. By me—by Mark Steele. Yes, we do our best to remedy these wounds, calling our efforts misunderstood and leaning on God's grace—in hopes that we can pick up off the floor that which we amputated and use the excuse that we handed it back. But it's not enough, not even close to enough.
How did modern evangelicalism lose its balance? How did some behavior fall into an accountability category while other distractions remained unaddressed and, therefore, socially and religiously acceptable? For me personally, my efforts had become more centered on how to cope with my own dysfunctional life, and less concentrated on what it really means to follow Jesus. I was more than off-balance. I was traveling the wrong road completely.
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SAUK VILLAGE | Nearly 100 residents shared a potluck dinner and serious conversation at Sauk Village's first diversity dinner on Jan. 24.
The event was put together by the village's Human Relations Commission, chaired by Trustee Lynda Washington-House. It's been in the works for more than a year.
"It was very informative," Washington-House said. "People had the liberty to share their own personal stories, some from 20 years ago to today, and they were very vocal."
Residents gathered at four tables at the Sauk Village Municipal Center to discuss four general topics: communication, education, religion and the family/support system. Resident Steve Blom, a member of the Human Relations Commission, moderated the evening and often had to interrupt folks deep in conversation when their time was up at a given table.
"It was more than what we hoped it would be," Washington-House said. "It fit right with (the Human Relations Commission's) mission statement to bring unity and diversity to our community."
Washington-House said the group was as diverse as the commission had hoped, from elected officials like Village President David Hanks to the unemployed. Almost all were Sauk Village residents or friends and family of residents.
"We were very happy with the turnout. People came out in those low temperatures," Washington-House said. "People stayed over. No one was in a hurry to leave."
The commission also unveiled its new banner at the event. It hopes to make the diversity dinner a yearly event.
A workshop also is being planned as a followup to the diversity dinner, Washington-House said, where similar topics will be explored in different ways.


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Many of us tend to pick up a few empty brass cases while at the range. I myself tend to look for .308 empties that are reload able. Sometimes I get lucky and find a couple handfuls and some times I dont get any.
I bring the ones I find home and give them a good cleaning then a good inspection. Some of the things I find with differing types of brass are the rim may be thicker then most and the size of the flash hole can differ. Twice I have had stuck empties in my Howa and they both are CBC brass, which has a slightly thicker rim and the extractor has a hard time grabbing onto it. So these I save to use in my Cetme, which will fire anything and throw it out.
The flash holes I want all the same size so ignition is consistent. If I see the flash hole is smaller I will drill out the hole to the same size hole as a standard Winchester case.
Sometimes I also find some brass that the head is slightly tilts and if you stand the empty case up on its head the case tends to lean some, these I throw away, there has to be a reason they are like that and I am not going to take any chances.
Military surplus brass tend to be a tiny bit thicker then commercial brass so I tend to clean, resize them and trim the case mouth thickness so they will give a closer consistent performance as the commercial brass does.
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i also pick up range brass i have never been one who likes to shoot off a bench and measure groups. i load hunting loads with mixed head stamped brass and never try to load to max loads but im always looking for pressure issues. i know many guys who load to much tighter standards then i do but when push comes to shove and jumping off the horse and shooting game mine are just as dead
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I'm very hesitant to pick up range brass, it's hard to say how many times it's been shot. Odds are most of it's once fired, just make sure to give it a close look before using it.
If the pain is lacking so is the discipline...
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I don't pick up much range brass. Maybe for my 45acp that is it.
Another thing you need to look out for with all the cheap surplus ammo on the market is Berdan primers. Berdan primers have 2 small flash holes on the side of the primer pocket. These will ruin your day when reloading as they will break any decapping pin they meat.
I usually don't pickup range brass,but if there is someone shooting a caliber of gun there near me that I reload,I usually will ask them if they mind giving it to me if they don't want it.
Most will say you can have all of it,if they don't reload.
May want to think about upgrading to Vendor Status. Just a thought.
I follow Txhills route. I used to pick up milsurp .308 but ran into a problem with sizing on some of it. I got a couple of cases stuck in my die when I had to put excess pressure on the press. I will take once fired brass from another shooter who doesn't save for reloading but that's all. I broke a couple of decapping pins as well. That's when I decided it just wasn't worth it.
I have found that I can buy once fired Lake City or new IVI for the M1As and then I know exactly what I have. I do leave my fourth firing thru the M1As on the ground.


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Here goes, it's Greek and called Stifado i LOVE this dish, i first tasted it on my holidays to the Greek islands. Korean and Greek cuisine are my favs (though totally different!):
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a big cooking pot
1 kg. beef (for slow simmering) cut into 1.5 inch cubes
good olive oil
1 kg. (or more) white unions cut in half and peel the skins loose or use whole scalions
0.5 kg. ripe tomatoes diced or more, depending on the size of your cooking pot
50 ml. red wine
3 ts white vinager
1 small can of tomato puree
1 cube of beef bouillon
fresh parsley
2 teaspoon ground cinamon
5 cloves of minced garlic
2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 bay leaves
1/2 teaspoon of dried or fresh rosemary
2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon ground clove
black pepper and salt
To make it:
Cook the meat on high heat in plenty olive oil untill it is slightly brown, turn heat low and then add spices (except bay leaves) to the meat and mix it.
Add 1/4 cup of water if the meat is dry.
Add the tomatoes, unionpeels, wine, vinager and the bouillon cube and mix it, if you think there is not enough liquid you can also add more tomatoes from a can with the juices.
When the tomatoes turn liquid add the bouillon cube and bay leaves and let everything simmer on low heat for about 2 or 2.5 hours until the meat is soft and all the flavours have mixed well. Add some more red wine and simmer for another 5 minutes.
After, check if the liquid has thickened, if not you can take out a cup of liquid and add corn starch powder to the cup and mix it very well, than return the cup to the mix and thicken the dish to make it into a sauce to go with the rice (repeat this step if needed). Don't add the corn starch powder directly into the put, because disolving it is very difficult and you end up with small white undissolved particels in your nice dish.
If it is done add some fresh fine cut parsley and stirr the tomato puree into the mix, look out for the bay leaves when eating :)
Eat with rice or baked potatoes or fries and a (greek) salad as a side dish.
When you have left over and eat it the next day the taste is even better because the flavours can mix all night.
If you like more fragrant and more spices you can add 50% more of the spices for a stronger taste the next time.
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Hundreds of half-nude cyclists biked through the streets of Lima, Peru to express their discontent with the city's traffic and disregard for cyclists. Many went shirtless, and some rode with no clothing at all. (March 9)
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Hundreds of Peruvian half nude cyclists biked through the streets to express their discontent with Lima's traffic and the city's disregard for cyclists.
Most riders wore something, but quite a few went shirtless and some rode bare-bottomed on Saturday through the streets of the capital.
The flashy demonstration is the eighth annual nude ride and its purpose is to urge authorities to crack down on hostility by car drivers towards cyclists.
Organizers said they want people to reconsider using vehicles as a medium of transport and instead opt for bicycles.
Organizer Octavio Zegarra said they rode half naked to call attention to their vulnerability as cyclists and raise awareness about the dangers of riding a bicycle in traffic.
"We meet up in the most creative and attention-grabbing way to demand respect toward cyclists and demand government take action to reclaim the bicycle as a mode of transport," Zegarra said.
He said they cycle half naked to show that they have no protection while riding, unlike drivers who travel inside their cars.
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I gave my best friend a Kim Westad vase last summer for being part of my wedding. They're truly beautiful and pretty inexpensive.
I love that green and white vase! So I bought it!
(I had a pretty serious vase fetish for years. I was freakin obsessed with them.) That Kim Westad vase is really really beautiful, even more so since someone made it by hand and not in some factory in China. Since my vase detox, I have favored handmade pieces. The new Heath Ceramics series is stunning.
That pair of green ones is insanely beautiful. They stand alone (together?) beautifully, but if you put flowers in them, I think they would also be amazing.
Inspired by this post and the comments, I just bought a different Kim Westad vase for my mother and will also send flowers to put in it. Gorgeous -- she will love it.
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I guess the price suits the hotel, can't expect more. For a one nighter its ok. Glad for the shuttle bus otherwise one is stranded.
The noise of the traffic, just doesn't stop together with the AC, it's like one is in Time square 24/7. The breakfast ( sugar dose) area could be a little bigger.
Breakfast it's cheap
has a shuttle that stops in front. makes it easy commute to nyc
parking. had a space.. but almost didn't..
Heard every toilet flush & shower running & no room between bed & bathroom.cleaning staff just entered our room without even knocking. No hot water in showers for at least 5 minutes & when someone came to look at the problem he could not speak English. Very disappointing stay..
I liked Everything about the Hotel.Very easy to locate,Away from the Crowded Mahanttan and Also gives the Traveler a different view from the High Rise of New York.For me I felt like home,going back from the days work on the Bus as it drives to the Hotel!Just SUPERB.
KEEPING INTOUCH WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR A TRAVELER,THEREFORE IT SHOULD NEVER BE SECOND HANDED.IT COULD HAVE BEEN A 100percent RATING FOR ME,BUT THE STATE OF THE (wifi service)IS TERRIBLE AND KINDLY URGENT SOLUTION!Wifi service was very poor,actually not working to be HONEST AND LEAVES THE TRAVELER STRANDED.IF THIS ISSUE IS CORRECTED I WOULDNT MIND STAYING THIS HOTEL EVERYTIME I TRAVELS TO THE STATE NOT MINDING WHICH CITY AM STAYING hahaha!!!
shuttle bus clean room, comfortable bed adequate breakfast good Wi-Fi free parking easy to find from the interstate
Potential customers may need to know that the shuttle bus takes between 20 and 45 mins, depending on traffic, and costs $3 per person each way There is nothing to do in this area, it was just a convenient place to stay for NYC!
We booked the hotel because of its close location and because we didn't want to drive in NY. There were a free parking and WiFi which is rare in NY. A shuttle bus was passing regularly in front of the hotel and bringing people to the bus station in Manhattan for 3 $ per person. People at the reception were very kind. In general very convenient. Overall, it's OK for a stay of 3-4 nights.
The facilities in the room are basic. Very noisy and old AC that was blowing straight to the bed. The breakfast space is very small /in front of the reception/.
We liked the shuttle service that came to the hotel. We never had to wait for the shuttle to show up. It dropped us off near Port Authority and Times Square, and we were able to get an even nicer shuttle back from Port Authority to the hotel. Also, our room was clean and had every thing we needed to enjoy our stay.
The location of the entrance into the parking lot was right off our exit, so missed it and drove around for a 1/2 hour trying to figure out how to get back to the entrance. Even though we liked the fact there was a free breakfast, it closed down too early. We didn't get to enjoy it on our second morning.
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No transportation available to travel within New Jersey. Too much traffic noise. Very small breakfast area and not a lot of choice. Also breakfast hours should be extended to 10:00. Windows in rooms very small therefore hardly any natural light comes in. Carpet in new wing very dark and deary. Room rates rather expensive. We were unable to find a good place to eat around the motel.
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AC very noisy.
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Very clean. Location is excellent. Good staff.
location NYC was very good. Hotel was very cean and had been updated. Had a decent free breakfast. Room was very comfortable. Had a shuttle that took hotel travelers into NYC for $3. that took us to port authority terminal. Value very good and great experience.
Would have liked to see another type of bread besides white for toast; ie wheat or whole grain or bagels. Scrambled eggs would have been a nice touch. Other than that it was adequate and free so no complaints.
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Breakfast was not the best Noisy ICE machine at Night
Clean nicely decorated room. We were at the back of the building so no noisy traffic! The bus stop outside was an added bonus.
The breakfast area was far too small for the size of the motel it was crowded and very difficult to get to anything.
All good. Confortable room. Value for money. Transport to New York city was convenient as well as an closer to an exciting neigbourhood. I think union city or north bergen. Loved the ethnic food.
The place was clean.
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less variation for breakfast,
room was clean , no bugs!!! staff was helpful. Shuttle was good to and from hotel would stay again!!
Left travellers cheques behind , not turned in!!! Breakfast could have a little more variety.
The bed was super comfortable, location and transit to New York City very good. The staff was nice. All in all its a motel close to New York City could it be better? Yes but you would pay more, and when you primary purpose of travel is to see NYC you only sleep at the hotel.
The bathroom was a little sketchy... Hair in tub blech!! No plug to actually have a bath.
Good price for the product quality.
Too far from the airport
The rooms were quite nice, beds comfortable, very little traffic noise, washroom facilities clean and easy to use; safe was appreciated.
I was the unfortunate recipient of something biting me in the night. Staff were very good about re-locating me, but the new room did not have a clock. I was also disturbed by someone banging on an adjacent door at 4:00am.
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I like some of the Coen brothers films, e.g. Fargo. Raising Arizona, A serious Man, mainly due to the combination of gritty realism and quirky, dark humor. No Country... is technically a beautifully made movie, but this is not enough to make a great or even good film. The film just drenches us in relentless, senseless gore. To what point? To say that life is arbitrary, dangerous, and ultimately fatal? Yes it can be and it is...so what else is new? The film is gripping when it is unfolding, but ends in an unexpected abrupt fashion that doesn't really follow from what preceded, and when it is over, we wonder if there was any point to the entire bloodbath of a movie. I guess the critics who loved it and showered it with oscars were dazzled by the direction, editing, dialogue, cinematography, and acting, and don't appreciate the necessity of a meaningful story.
— M. Gewirtz, Brooklyn, NY
January 30th, 201110:12 am
This movie was predictable and a total bore!
— Carol Demech, New York, New York
December 4th, 201010:06 pm
A movie about the choices we make,the consequences inherit in each, and why most long ago stopped asking why......simply brilliant(heads or tails?)
— donald Hannan, Boston
November 10th, 20109:10 pm
coens r again at their best. so intriguing that i just could not shift my attention on anything else.
— Shifat Ahmed, bangladesh,dhaka
September 29th, 201010:56 am
I saw this film on SPIKE TV last night. I have wanted to see it ever since it got all that press. For me it is in the same league as Fargo and Pulp Fiction -- just relentless and pointless violence -- a waste of 3 hours. Nothing redeemable about it. So many of the Coen Brothers' films seem to fall in to that category. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
— David, Lexington, VA
September 26th, 20104:45 pm
An impeccable case of movie making. You can watch the whole movie on mute volume and manage to understand the plot and be gripped throughout. Isn't this cinema? Isn't cinema about visions while music is about sounds? Required viewing for all movie makers.
— abu awni, Amman, Jordan
June 9th, 20096:52 pm
I remained with it to the last frame. Bardem is evil incarnate and
Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones are everyman West Texans.
Even the bit players, the motel lady and the storekeeper are folks right out of the "hood". I hated the violence and I am worried that I actually got taken in by the violence. Guess that is the craftsmanship of the Coen Brothers. My friend has vowed never to watch any of their films and I hope to have the moral fortitude to resist seeing another Coen Brothers movie. These guys are sick geniuses.
— Marv Wilkenfeld, Newton, Mass
April 10th, 20095:43 pm
I watched this movie again last night. I've watched it at least ten times by now. I decided tonight that it is hands down the greatest movie I have ever seen. The subtle background sounds, the off-hand expository dialogue and the visual cues seem so natural, and are so effortlessly and seamlessly interwoven into the story that I learn something new with each viewing. Each scene is gripping. The acting is flawless. The screenplay is riveting. It is of the highest level of artistry for the medium.
— GSK, Fair Lawn, NJ
March 26th, 20096:17 pm
Not from the Coen brothers- (though they are following in the footsteps of C. McCarthy.) Still this film is really glorious and I NEVER thought I would say that about the work of these extraordinary formalists. Too remote I used to think-with the exception of a few like their earlier Fargo. However this movie puts a nail in your soul and when it ends you wonder how to get it out. Which of the 3 main characters could do the job for you? I highly recommend it!!
PS I am from Texas and my Dad was from W. Texas and they got the
beat of the place man.
— lford, nyc
February 17th, 20094:44 pm
This movie is about as good as it gets. The language is pure Texas. The cinematography is perfect view of West Texas and the violent Mexican border. This movie caught it all and then gave us a beautiful parable straight from the Bible. This movie will be watched forever along with other classics.
For those of you whom did not like this movie, I say to you that you need to stick to the Batman and Transformer movies.
— robert navarro, miami,fl
January 31st, 20098:57 pm
If Douglas Winner of West Palm Beach, FLA, would like to get rid of the DVD copy of this film, I would be glad to pay him postage for it...seriously. I'd never seen Bardem in a film before, and like the review said about "lesser in tune movie goers," it made the temperature in my home drop when he spoke. I thought this film was great....a cult classic no doubt. But that is just this womans opinion. I thought Tommy Lee Jones was just outright perfect for the part he portrayed. That line.."no, but it will do till the mess gets here" is something you'd expect TLJ to deliver like only he can. Sorry guys, but I loved this and watch it every time it's on Comcast. Can't help myself. And , Douglas, I'm serious about your copy of the DVD. Don't blow the Cohen's out of the water..remember they gave us other goodies...Oh, Brother where art thou? Another one I never miss.
Thanks for letting add my 2 cents, which is about what it's worth...
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— sherry0617er, Landenberg, PA
January 23rd, 20099:51 am
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September 20th, 20083:53 pm
Best action scene in the film is when the pit bull chases the guy through the river. Those things don't quit.
Best laugh is when Chigurh fails to kill the trailer park manager. She is the one person you would kill too, the person you want to see killed, the person you know he will certainly kill, but she backs him up and then the confrontation is broken off with a toilet flush.
— blasmaic, Washington DC
August 5th, 20086:15 am
Literally, we were glued to every nuance, every detail. The Coens know what they're doing and we're lucky to be invited along for the ride.
— julimac, Port Townsend, WA
August 3rd, 20086:35 pm
So bad, it's not worth the price of admission. One of the worst, if not the worst major movie I have ever seen. I'll never see a Coen picture again. I would be afraid I might get something equally bad. Awarding this film the academy award had to be someone's idea of a practical joke. Too bad I bought the DVD. Unhappy viewer
— douglaswinner0, West Palm Bch, Fl.
July 12th, 200811:21 pm
no mincing words here...it sucked.
— edna47
July 2nd, 20083:39 pm
Watching this film, I couldn't help recalling Clint Eastwood's line in "Unforgiven," when the Schofield Kid sobs, through snot and tears, "Well, I guess he had it coming." Munny (Eastwood) replies: "We all have it coming, kid."
If you like nicely wrapped packages, look under a Christmas tree; if you like proximate reality in art, watch "No Country."
I must admit, at first I was taken aback when the Mexican drug dealers got Llewelyn before Chigur could; it was random, absurd, and bitterly ironic. I was expecting a final showdown with Chigur, or Bell, or both. I had to rewind the film twice just to convince myself I hadn't misunderstood what I just saw. I just sat there, stunned. It made absolutely no sense. Then a big, dumb grin spread across my face, and I realized that was the point: death never makes sense. Unless you have the good fortune to die at a ripe old age, and while saving a wounded comrade or a drowning child; but who actually dies like that? No, death comes randomly, like a coin toss. Who expects cancer, or a car accident? Who expects peso-per-dozen border thugs, when you are being hunted by a psychopathic professional?
To dignify death by tying up all the loose ends, or even providing a happy ending, is dishonest. Death doesn't give you a showdown, and it always wins.
I guess we all have it coming.
— layne8
May 12th, 20083:11 pm
I can't accept the comment on the special features section of the DVD that says that "Sugar's" origins and motives are not important to the film. Well thought out plots with great endings are so cliché… (??!!) We do not need to understand the film, just sit back enjoy the violence (as if we didn't have enough already). By the way, Beth Grant's ensemble reminded me of the one worn by Demi Moore's in SNL (age gap with Ashton Kuchner). Now, THAT was funny…
— prdxparadox
May 5th, 200812:19 am
This is one of the best movies I have ever seen. Ever. It certainly will not be for everyone as it is very violent and doesn't have the nice, tidy happy endings so many cannot live without.
But if you want to see a movie with terrific performances, a great story, unreal directing and editing.....then you need to check this out.
I don't see a whole lot of movies, I find the whole "superhero/70's show remakes/bad romantic comedies" to be boring drivel appealing to the lowest common demoninator.
This is a movie that you will think about a few times (or more after you see it) and is one of the movies that make me not lose all hope in the future of filmmaking.
— shaqdevils
May 1st, 200811:09 am
The cinematic version of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country for Old Men stays true to the film in every way, preserving all the beauty of the story. The book that McCarthy wrote became so noticed because of what a beautiful story he tells in it, but the story itself is almost completely without beauty. There are no sex scenes whatsoever, nothing glamorous, and obscene cold-hearted killing. The movie is the same way; there is no soundtrack, graphic and undiluted violence, and Llewellyn and Carla Jean do not even kiss. This pared down tactic works perfectly for the film, because nothing distracts you from what matters, the people.
The relationship between Llewellyn and Carla Jean illustrates why McCarthy is such an amazing writer. Even though these two never share anything more than some eloquently hick repartee, the bond of love that they feel is more tangible than any other book or film I can remember, and McCarthy did this without the benefit of sex scenes. The Coen brothers did the same, instead of putting Jessica Alba or another gorgeous female into their movie, they cast a relatively homely young girl that does not steal the spotlight with her looks, but with her acting. The most important thing that the Coens do is preserve the caliber of the people McCarthy writes about. They are all remarkably smart people who never use three words when two will do, and the film of No Country for Old Men has dialogue that is amazing. Tommy Lee Jones' quip is the high point of the Texas banter: when asked if the drug trade scene is a mess, he says "no, but it'll do till the mess gets there."
— lukemc2
April 22nd, 200810:35 pm
This is the WORST movie I have ever seen! The acting was good, except for Kelly McDonald's portrayal of Carla Jean (she acted retarded, instead of southern and redneck). It was so predictable and did not flow well. The movie cover said the movie had a "heartstopping end". . . what was so heart-stopping about Tommy Lee Jones telling his wife about a dream he had? BIG DISAPPOINTMENT. I think the Cohen Brothers are the Emperors with new clothes. . . I'm the little kid that's telling them they are naked! What a waste of time.
— auntmeme902
April 10th, 200812:10 pm
The non p.c. truth is that good is indomitable.
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April 7th, 20087:27 pm
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April 7th, 20086:16 pm
And don't read reviews before seeing the film. And avoid all possible fore-knowledge of plot etc.
That's the way I saw 'NO COUNTRY' and with no idea of what's coming next each new scene was a delight with its hyper-realism and truth.
Was there really no score/music? According to above there was none. That's good; we don't need no stinkin' score.
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I'd rather see a list of bosses that have been downed, personally, but this is a start.
To clarify preemptively, this will do a world of good to help with accidents, but it's also currently really easy for, say, a guildie to fail on the last boss of an instance, ask for some help, and have everyone zone in only to find that one of the other members of the failfest already cleared it. Or to join a pug Naxx that claims "oh, we've only downed one wing" and find out it's a clear Naxx (a difficulty setting accident might come into play here as well).
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Striker targeting quarter-final win on Wearside.
Denis Stracqualursi says Everton have what it takes to go all the way in this season's FA Cup – but warned tonight's replay at Sunderland will be their toughest test yet.
The Blues travel to the Stadium of Light with a place in the last four of the competition at stake.
An Everton win would set up a Wembley semi-final battle with neighbours Liverpool but Stracqualursi says the players will have to give their all to bring it to fruition.
"We want to get through to the next round and we want to win the cup if we can," he said. "We know it's tough but it's not impossible. There are some tough teams left as you would expect at this stage of a competition, but it's not beyond us.
"It's going to be a very, very tough encounter against Sunderland and everybody is going to have to be at it. If everyone goes in and gives more than 110 percent of themselves that will be enough for us to go through.
"But we all know we need to fight really hard there because we've got really nice things around the corner if we can get through. A semi-final against Liverpool is something everybody wants to play in."
Stracqualursi's goal helped Everton overcome Blackpool in the previous round and the Argentine admits it was a thrill to score in such a treasured competition.
"All strikers live off the amount of goals that they score," he said. "Goals give you confidence and a real boost and almost increase the desire to score even more goals.
"To score in such an important, prestigious tournament like the FA Cup was great and at the same time it helped the team through to the next round, which helps us along the road towards our objective of playing in the final."
Meanwhile, Sylvain Distin believes Everton were unfortunate not to see off Martin O'Neill's side when the first tie ended in a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park.
The Frenchman, who won the FA Cup with Portsmouth in 2008, remains wary of the Black Cats however, and is barring all thoughts of a Wembley return until a safe passage through is assured.
The defender said: "I feel like the first game was a game we could and should have won. We conceded the goal but apart from that I can't remember Tim [Howard] having to make one save.
"I think we played quite well but our last touch, our last pass or last shot wasn't clinical enough for us to win the game.
"You couldn't ask for a bigger incentive than playing Liverpool at Wembley but there's still a long way between now and that. There is Sunderland and it won't be an easy game over there.
"They've got one or two very influential players coming back as well so it's going to be a tough game and I'm not really thinking about Wembley right now to be honest. I just want to focus on Sunderland before thinking about playing at Wembley again."
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The RP-realms are the only Haven for the RP:ers. They don't try and infest the Normal or PvP servers with their RP. All they ask is that the lollertrons from the Normal and PvP realms not to infest their realms in return. If you don't want to PvP, stay away from the PvP servers. If you don't want to RP, stay away from the RP realms. Easy.
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