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might hold off the violence that has slaughtered over 30,000 people.
I heard Assad was quoted as saying, "70,000 more to go to beat Bush."
Doesn't Assad get a break because he's starting from a smaller population of potential targets?
I think that a fairer comparison is that between Syria's Assad and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, as they both fought internal wars against their own populations. In the Iraqi Kurdistan massacre of 1986-89, for example, Hussein managed to slaughter some 200,000 civilians. So just on that one count Assad has a ways to go.
This is not to say that your comment isn't relevant, as the Bush Iraqi war had questionable moral and legal underpinnings, only that you are comparing a foreign invasion and occupation with an internal war of suppression, and they have different moral tenors. They are both brutally gruesome, but in one case you have an internal massacre of suppression and in the other an attempted liberation from a brutal dictator. Of course, the American invasion was hardly morally pure and it had several objectives. And while it also failed to meet most of those objective, there remains a significant moral difference between the two wars.
Since most, by a huge amount of the Iraqi casualties during the time of American troops in Iraq were the result of Iraqi on Iraqi violence in the chaos resulting from Bush's way overestimating of their ability for self government and to live together peacefully, Assad really holds the crown now. That is unless, as the Lady says, you count Saddam, who made pikers out of all of them.


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Kiss on the forehead, kiss on the nose, kiss on the lips.
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A man who kisses you on the forehead or the nose, truly is a gentle man. A man kisses a woman on the lips. I kiss my little girls on their foreheads and noses, and their cheeks every night, before they go to bed. I was a bad man (once), but God made me a good man, by giving me girls... Once I used to drink and fight...sometimes, I would drink Whiskey all night, screaming "Johnny Be Good, tonight, tonight!"But now, as I am a Father, I understand your question, completely.
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I am doing it to tease my girl :DForehead is like, want to kiss, please...Nose - Well maybe give you a real kiss..Lips - Ha please also kiss, you want more ... Take it ! XDThen my girl begins to kiss me passionately (devil) Rawrr :D - Because she always wants more Sorry about my english :/
well kiss on the forehead is like a loving kiss...on the nose is a playful kiss...and on the lips can be anything really..sounds like he's just showering you with love
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I think it's kind of a cherishing thing. Not just a sexual thing, but affection. A forehead and nose kiss is just a little more loving then always kissing just the mouth.
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Some friends and I are going to a haunted house in Woodland hills on Tuesday and would like some suggestions on where to eat.
Thanks in advance,
What are you looking for? And how far from the haunted house (I'm assuming the one on Topanga) are you willing to drive? Cavaretta's Italian Deli on Sherman Way just west of Topanga is great for subs, etc. Boulevard Burger on Ventura across from Vista Lexus has delicious burgers (with grilled onions). Dan's Super Subs on Ventura west of Topanga has great subs (but I prefer Cavaretta's). There's a Tommy's on Topanga north of Sherman Way. I think you'll get a wealth of replies if you're more specific as to your goals.
re: RNP
A nice place that has a 'sports bar' atmosphere, right around the corner on Victory is Yankee Doodles. Easy type food, hamburgers, etc.
Yankee Doodles (818) 883-3030
21870 Victory Blvd, Woodland Hills, CA 91367
A little farther on Canoga just so. of Victory is BJ's, and next door down is Cheesecake Factory.
On Vanowen (a little further, but not far) is Sierra's Mexican restaurant. It's fair food at good prices. Great cadillac marguerita's.
PF Changs is on Oxnard just east of Topanga.
There is a plethora of restaurants in that area. I don't think you'll have any problems finding a decent place.
For your price range Head to the topanga pizza kitchen. its on ventura blvd just west of fallbrook. the chef owner used to be a chef at Spago so the pastas and pizzas are very close to spago, but at a fraction of the cost. small pizza is 5.95, pastas are in the 8-12 range with entrees starting at about $14.00
I really like StoneFire Grill, on the North-West corner of Fallbrook and Victory, five minutes from Topanga. Salads, Pizza, Barbecued Chicken and Tri-Tip are all good. I especially like the Grilled Salad with Chicken. Portions are rather large for salads. They have three sizes. Medium is more than enough for two people and is around $9. Dinner for two is usually $20.
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Bolognese Sauce
prep: 12 minutes; cook: 36 minutes
Spoon this delicious sauce over polenta or pasta, or use it in lasagna. We reduced the amount of chopping by using prechopped vegetables sold in tubs in the produce department of large supermarkets.
This recipe goes with Pesto Lasagna with Bolognese and Garlic Cream
Yield: 6 cups (serving size: 1/2 cup)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 104
- Fat: 4.3g
- Saturated fat: 1.4g
- Protein: 13.1g
- Carbohydrate: 3.8g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Cholesterol: 33mg
- Iron: 1.1mg
- Sodium: 177mg
- Calcium: 22mg
- 1 pound ground round
- 1/2 pound ground turkey (white and dark meat)
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 1 ounce pancetta or bacon, chopped (about 1/3 cup)
- 1/4 cup chopped onion (about 1/2 small)
- 1/4 cup chopped celery (about 1/2 stalk)
- 1/4 cup chopped carrot (about 1 small)
- 1 teaspoon minced garlic
- 1 cup fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 2/3 cup dry white wine or fat-free, less-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can petite-cut diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/2 cup 2% reduced-fat milk
- 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1. Cook ground round and turkey in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until browned, stirring to crumble. Drain in a colander.
- 2. Heat olive oil in pan over medium-high heat. Add pancetta, and sauté 1 minute. Add onion and next 3 ingredients, and sauté 2 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
- 3. Return meat to pan. Add broth, wine, and tomato paste. Bring to a boil, and cook 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add tomatoes and pepper; return to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes. Stir in milk and nutmeg; cook 2 minutes or until thoroughly heated.
- There are many versions of Bolognese (baw-loh-NYEH-seh), but it's basically a thick sauce made with meat and vegetables and enhanced with wine and milk.
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Mock Draft 1.0
Here we go….1-10 Only….
1. Edmonton Oilers – Ryan Nugent-Hopkins C Red Deer (WHL)– RNH is the best player in the draft, and with the number 1 pick, you use that on the best player. It just so happens that Edmonton is in need of a Number one Center and RNH is just that. He is as dynamic as they come and will look great centering Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle.
2. Colorado Avalanche – Adam Larsson D Skelleftea (SEL) – Many mocks are saying Colorado takes Gabriel Landeskog with this pick, but remember 2 things, first Defenseman like Larsson don't grow on trees, and second, Colorado also has the 12th pick as part of the Erik Johnson/Chris Stewart trade. After trading top young defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk in that deal, he'll be replaced with the smooth skating Larsson. The Avs will target wingers with that 12th pick.
3. Florida Panthers – Sean Couturier C Drummondville (QMJHL) – This is the wild card pick here. Florida already has 2 top young defenseman in Dmitri Kulikov and Erik Gudbranson, and they also drafted wingers Nick Bjugstad and Quinton Howden in last year's 1st round. Florida GM Dale Tallon will look for the big 2 way center in Sean Couturier here. Tallon (who drafted Jonathan Toews with Chicago) knows the importance of having a player such as Couturier and won't let an opportunity to get a top 2 way player pass him up.
4. New Jersey Devils – Jonathan Huberdeau C Saint John's (QMJHL) – The Devils are already stacked at LW with both Ilya Kovalchuk and Zach Parise, and with a lack of a true number 1 center in their system (Travis Zajac is the closest they have), the Devils take the super talented Huberdeau here. One scout was quoted as saying that he's never seen a junior player take such a big leap in just one year as Huberdeau has. The Devils will have a player they can slot right into their lineup and not look back.
5. New York Islanders – Gabriel Landeskog LW Kitchener (OHL) – Landeskog is a steal for the Islanders at 5. He is the most NHL ready player in the draft and will look great playing with John Tavares and Nino Niederreiter on the Isles first line. With 3 picks in the top 50, GM Garth Snow can take his time and add another big defenseman early in the second round or as he likes to do, trade his way back into the late first round.
6. Ottawa Senators – Ryan Strome C Niagra (OHL) – Strome is a highly skilled offensive player who will slot in nicely behind Jason Spezza (if Ottawa keeps him). Having 2 top defensive prospects in David Rundblad and Jared Cowan, Ottawa will add some firepower with Strome.
7. Atlanta Thrashers – Dougie Hamilton D Niagra (OHL) – Back to back Niagra picks here as Atlanta takes the big 2 way Hamilton with the 7th pick. Atlanta has Big Buff and Tobias Enstrom on D already but after taking Evander Kane and Alexander Burmistrov in the last 2 drafts, it's back to building a strong D for the Thrashers.
8. Columbus Blue Jackets – Ryan Murphy D Kitchener (OHL) – With Fedor Tyutin considered their only offensive defenseman on the NHL team, and with young and very talented John Moore working his way to Ohio, the Blue Jackets take the explosive but smallish Ryan Murphy. Some scouts think if Murphy was 6'0, he would be the number one overall pick. He has outstanding skating and offensive skills, his only issues is he's listed as 5'10 160lbs. Either way, the Jackets get themselves a heck of a player at number 8.
9. Boston Bruins – Jamieson Olesiak D Northeastern (NCAA) – Olesiak is a player who needs at least another year of college but he's 6'7 and extremely tough. He would form a nasty tandem with Norris finalist Zdeno Chara and the Bruins can afford to wait a year or 2 for Olesiak to fine tune his skills.
10. Minnesota Wild – Mike Zibanejad C Djurgarden (SEL) – Zibanejad is a fast riser on the 2011 ISS list. He has great skill and will look great with fellow 1st round pick Mikael Granlund. The Wild have chosen more gritty players such as Colton Gillies and James Sheppard in years past, but the Zibanejad has too high a ceiling for Minnesota to pass up.
My next Mock Draft will be a full 30 team pick, but it's too early to tell what the later teams will do (especially since the draft order hasn't been set yet.
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From what Ive read it seems there is a top 5 and then a bit of a drop..good for the Isles..though Ryan Murphy seems to be moving up fast..cant wait for it..
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SAN JOSE, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/19/13 -- Tilera® Corporation, the leader in 64-bit manycore general-purpose processors, today announced the TILE-Gx72 processor with 72 power-efficient cores coupled with massive I/O and four high-performance DDR3 memory controllers to drive the next-generation of network, multimedia and cloud infrastructure.
Tilera's customers are building the intelligent infrastructure for tomorrow's hyper-connected, mobile networks and the amount of real-time data and video content is growing exponentially each year. Substantially more complex services are being offered, and the rapid pace of new feature additions demands a software-based model with familiar, standards-based programming tools. Further, OEMs are insisting on dramatically higher levels of performance and scalability from their processor supplier.
In less than a year from the launch of its market-leading TILE-Gx36 processor, Tilera is doubling the compute performance, doubling the I/O capacity, and continuing the linear scaling of application performance with increasing core-count that is the hallmark of the Tile architecture. The TILE-Gx72 leverages Tilera's many innovations -- including the iMesh 2-dimensional interconnect, DDC distributed coherent cache, and TileDirect direct-to-cache I/O -- to deliver the highest compute-per-watt efficiency of any multicore processor in its class.
"The TILE-Gx72 rounds out our processor portfolio, complementing our 9, 16 and 36-core TILE-Gx processors and is offering a remarkable range of processing performance," said Devesh Garg, president and CEO of Tilera. "Customers demand ever-increasing levels of performance and performance-per-watt to stay competitive and they simultaneously want to reuse their software and hardware investments across their product portfolio. The TILE-Gx72 brings an unprecedented amount of compute to customer designs, and leverages thousands of open source libraries and the growing Linux ecosystem."
The TILE-Gx72 is ideally suited for compute and I/O-intensive applications including:
- L2-7 networking and firewall appliances
- High throughput SDN (Software Defined Network) computing
- Network monitoring and analytics with 100% line-rate packet capture at 100 Gbps
- Layer 7 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) at over 50 Gbps
- Compute offload NIC (Network Interface Card)
- Intrusion prevention and detection (IPS/IDS) at over 20 Gbps
- "Big Data" transaction processing at over 4 million transactions per second
- Streaming video server/content delivery networking offering 50 Gbps HTTP streaming
- HD video conferencing with dozens of H.264 1080p encode/decode channels
"We continue to be impressed with the scalability of the TILE-Gx family with its seamless software compatibility from 9 cores to 72 cores," said Ofer Raz, head of platforms and architecture of Check Point Software Technologies. "The TILE-Gx72 processor brings the right mix of compute, low-latency I/O, memory bandwidth, and accelerators for the needs of our intelligent, integrated security appliances."
"Tilera is raising the bar again with the launch of its flagship Tile-Gx72 processor," said Linley Gwennap, principal analyst of The Linley Group. "As the first 64-bit, manycore processor to run standard SMP Linux across 72 cores on a single chip and capable of 100Gbps networking, the TILE-Gx72 will enable customers to achieve new levels of performance in multimedia and networking applications."
TILE-Gx72 Technical Highlights
The TILE-Gx72 is a full System-On-a-Chip (SoC), integrating a broad set of I/O's and memory controllers to reduce system cost and save on printed circuit board area.
- 72 64-bit processor cores - Powerful three-issue cores, designed for ultra-high power efficiency. Each processor core integrates L1 and L2 caches and supports virtual memory and multiple privilege levels
- iMesh two-dimensional multi-tier interconnect - Over 110 Tbps of bandwidth interconnecting cores, caches, I/O devices and DDR3 memory controllers
- 23 Mbytes of on-chip cache - Distributed coherent L3 cache with ECC protection and Tilera's patented DDC technology
- Extensive integrated I/O:
- Eight 10Gbps Ethernet ports, configurable as 32 1Gbps ports
- Six PCI Express ports with 24 lanes of SerDes
- Four on-board DDR3 memory controllers delivering more than 475 Gbps (60 GB/s) of bandwidth and supporting up to 1 TB of attached memory
- mPIPE packet processing subsystem - Delivers C-programmable wire-speed packet classification, load-balancing, packet ordering and buffer management for ingress and egress traffic at over 240 million packets-per-second
- More than 40Gbps of crypto acceleration - MiCA subsystem supports a wide range of security protocols such as SSL, IPsec, SRTP, MACsec, 3GPP and also accelerates functions such as data deduplication
The TILE-Gx72 devices are available for sampling. Please contact your Tilera representative for information.
The RSA Security Conference
Tilera will display the TILE-Gx72 and the accompanying development system at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco at the Moscone Convention Center, February 25-March 1, 2013 in booth #2751.
About Tilera:
Tilera® Corporation is the developer of the highest performance, low power general purpose manycore processors. Tilera is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with additional locations worldwide. For more information, visit www.tilera.com or follow us on Twitter @Tilera.
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Are You Fit for Life?
- Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The physical circumstances under which Paul wrote to the Philippians are worth mentioning because he was in a place that was nothing but harmful to his health. He wrote this letter from a Roman prison—a filthy dungeon with zero physical comforts. He was in a damp, dark, cold cell and was probably chained to the wall as well. But even though Paul was, many Bible scholars believe, a rather small, slightly built, middle-aged man with physical problems, he was far more fit for life than the physically fit Roman soldiers who guarded him. So he has much to say about being fit for life.
If we are going to be at our best, we need to get into the best physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual shape possible. The place to begin is with our relationships—with Jesus Christ first of all and then with family and friends and the fellowship of God's church. Paul knew what matters most. So he began his letter to the Philippians by identifying both himself and his readers in terms of their relationship with Christ: "Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, to all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi" (1:1–2).
Your Relationship with Jesus Christ
Paul identifies himself as a "servant," or slave, of Christ. The apostle was so totally sold out to Jesus that he could say, "for to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" (Philippians 1:21). This is a critical point for all believers. Everything in life begins here. Jesus is our very life, and we are to serve Him because He has captured our hearts.
To become a child of God, you do have to become a saint. Most people have been conditioned to think that a saint is someone who has achieved a lofty spiritual status or has been canonized for doing good works or even performing miracles. But that's not how the Bible uses this word. A saint is simply a true believer, a person who has been born into the family of God through faith in Jesus Christ.
Therefore saints aren't made, they're born from above in the new birth. That's why we can say when it comes to your relationship with Christ, you're either a saint or you ain't. The word saint means "a set apart one," a person who has been chosen by God and called for His purposes. This applies to every believer. So instead of being something mystical or super-spiritual, saint is a very basic description of our life in Christ. God has set us aside for an eternal purpose, which means we can live with passion.
What matters most of all, then, is whether you have trusted Christ and His finished work on the cross for your salvation or whether you are trying to please God by being a good person. If it's the latter, I urge you to put this book down right now and trust Christ alone to forgive your sins and come into your life and give you eternal life—and He will! Trying to be fit for life without knowing Jesus as your Savior is like trying to work out while wearing shoes and gym clothes that are about three sizes too small. Life will never work out without Jesus.
Your Relationship with Others
The recipients of Paul's letter in Philippi were true saints of God, Paul's own spiritual children whom he had led to Christ. So he writes to them with genuine affection:
Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all making my prayer with joy, because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now. And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to feel this way about you all, because I hold you in my heart, for you are all partakers with me of grace, both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel. For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus. (Philippians 1:2–8)
These Christians were on Paul's mind and in his heart. He understood the importance of the love relationship we are to have with one another in the church, the body of Christ. When you belong to Christ, you also belong to everyone else who belongs to Christ.
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Provo • The man who sold the heroin that killed the son of conservative activist Gayle Ruzicka will serve three years' probation.
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"I am going to let you keep your life," Laycock told Bozung on Wednesday. "Don't screw it up."
A presentencing report recommended probation and 300 hours of community service. Deputy Utah County Attorney Craig Johnson said the community service was a "slap in the face" to Ruzicka's loved ones and pushed for a year in the county jail.
The Ruzicka family did not attend Wednesday's sentencing. Don Ruzicka, Gayle Ruzicka's husband, called the GPS monitoring "ludicrous."
"We're sending a message to people who break the law that there is no accountability," Don Ruzicka said. The judge should have taken into account, he added, that Bozung provided his 26-year-old son, Josh Ruzicka, with the drugs that caused his death.
Thomas Means, Bozung's attorney, said Bozung provided only heroin and that traces of cocaine were found in the victim's body.
Bozung expressed remorse for selling the drugs that killed Josh Ruzicka.
"It was the most traumatic event in my life," Bozung tearfully told Laycock. "I have lost 20 friends to addiction, and I should have died myself."
Bozung's employer, Teresa Pruitt of Toscano Italian Bistro, and his probation officer said the defendant has cleaned up his life and was an honest, trusted employee.
Johnson said he was satisfied that Laycock at least agreed to a year of GPS monitoring.
In December, Bozung pleaded guilty to a single count of providing illegal drugs. The charge was enhanced to a first-degree felony because of his prior convictions.
Bozung sold Josh Ruzicka a balloon of heroin in March 2007, and had shot "speedballs" — a mixture of heroin, cocaine and morphine — when Ruzicka overdosed.
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Looks like I will be doing something with our apples after all! Mmmm...apple butter, apple sauce, apple pie filling, apple cider, and I am dying to try this recipe! I'll let you all know how it turns out!!!
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We've been the instigators of many painting projects. But, even with the large number of painting parties that we've hosted, we have yet to find a really efficient way of cleaning our brushes...
Despite our many redecorating projects that included painting, especially those where we've required a "good brush" to get us through (painter's tape is often times unnecessary with a steady hand and a crisp brush) we've neglected to find a great way to properly clean our tools. DoItYourself.com has reminded us that if you clean once, the right way, you can preserve the tools you've purchased and have them ready and good as new for the next project you embark on. Here is a great how-to on keeping your equipment in tip-top shape. Perhaps we'll preserve a brush or two in the future and eliminate some re-buying.
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I use latex and just take it down to the wash tub, and use the built in washboard to rub out excess between showering it. I have a hose hooked up to the faucet and I set it to the high-power "flat" or even "jet" and blast it with the grain of the bristles.
it's not eco-friendly, but to really clean a brush well, you'll need paint thinner(for oil paint) or water, a bucket, a wire brush and a spinner.
If using paint thinner, pour a small amount into a bucket and smoosh the brush into it, getting out as much paint as possible, once the thinner is mostly paint, empty and repeat until you get all the paint out of the bottom of the brush. the thinner will still be in the bristles, which will help to get rid of the paint in the top of the brush (this is the paint that will ruin the brush) - use the wire brush (dipped in a little thinner if the paint is stubborn) and over the bucket, keep brushing down. once all the paint is out, put the brush in the spinner and spin (hint - once brush is in the spinner, point it into a bucket so the thinner doesn't go everywhere). give a few good spins. comb the brush once finished to keep shape.
same process for water based paint, just subsititute water for thinner.
oh . . . i also use the hose to rinse and dry rollers. I just get it spinning really really fast with the high-velocity water. All the paint flies off and since I work top to bottom, it's basically spun dry by the time i finish up.
I use an old fashioned comb - it works perfectly and I have had my brushes for a while now. I have pics here http://barnmate.com/blogs/bagelpower/2009/07/16/paint-brush-tip/
I started using an old fork and cold water. If you hold the brush under the stream and "comb" it with the grain using the fork, you can get just about all the paint out of the bristles.
I imagine a coarse-toothed comb would be even quicker and more effective. Or a pick like we all used to use when we were permed, in the 80s? That seems like it'd be the thing. (Don't worry, too-young-to-have-been-permed. I can feel the re-revival coming in 10...9...8...7...)
I am a scenic artist for the Theatre and what we do is "prime" the brush with water and shake it out even before we dip it in the paint. This helps soo much when its time to clean out the brush.
I always run my brushes under warm water, pointing down so the bristles don't get bent. I work the bristles to get as much paint out a possible (the water should such run kinda clear) before I use soap. We always use Murphy's oil soap as that helps keep the wood handles happy on the paint brush but dish soap works just as well.
Then gently swirl the bristles in a circle with the soap so that the soap is able to get all the way up into the dam in the brush. the dam gets clogged up with dried paint you might as well trash the brush. Then rinse the brush, gently squeezing at the base of the brush to see if all the paint is out at the top. You may have to repeat soaping your bush a few time. I always tell students it should take 5 mins to wash out a brush not 5 seconds.
If you're going to be reusing the brush within a day or two then you don't need to clean it, just wrap it in a plastic bag and it will stay "wet" until you need to use it again. (Obviously this only works if you need to use it again with the same paint it's already covered in).
I also work in theater (scenic artist and props artisan) and my method is:
-Rinse brush, if needed "brush" the sink to get some of the paint out
-Never turn the brush bristle side up under the water (it will distort the hair, you are dealing with real hair and you should treat it well)
-Once you've rinsed out a lot of hair squirt on some Murphy's Oil Soap. Gently rub it in and rinse again. I find dish soap to be a but harsh. I use shampoo if I don't have MOS on hand.
-Repeat the soaping if necessary. Make sure to rinse well and use a wire brush to comb out the paint and set the bristles straight.
-Once the brush is clean use some hair conditioner to restore the hair's oils (just like on real hair, put it on and rinse it off, leaving it on too long will eat away at the hair, just like on human hair).
Some tips:
-How you use your brush will determine how easy it is to clean later on and how long it will last.
-Buy natural hair brushes. Sometimes a cheap dollar chip brush is better than a overpriced synthetic brush. If you rarely paint you might just want to go to Harbor Freight and get some 4" chip brushes for cheap (usually a dollar apiece).
-Priming with water before you paint is super helpful
-Never immerse the entire brush in the paint, dip only up to about an inch under the ferrule (paint will just get stuck in the ferrule and you'll never get it out and your brush will be ruined).
gingercookiewithlime --
These are great hints - but can you please elaborate on what you mean by priming w/ water before painting?
Do you mean dipping the brush/roller in water before dipping it into the paint bucket/tray?
BTW - I find that using a small paint tray/jar rather than the gallon pail is a surefire way to keep from dipping the brush too far into the paint.
Another thing I never do is pour the paint from the can without first putting a plastic pouring spout on the can itself - They're @ 15-20 cents at the paint store and help prevent drips and messy cans like that one shown in the pic above.
Boiled vinegar works pretty well, especially to break up paint cemented near the ferrule. But the ivory soap trick sounds interesting, I'll have to try that.
bepsf: priming the brush just means dipping it into the solvent for whatever paint you're using. For latex, that means water, so you just get the brush wet up to the bristles, then wipe off the excess (so it's not totally drippy) and get painting. For oil-based paint, it's paint thinner, though I usually use denatured alcohol, myself.
Having that 'solvent' on the brush helps, but the trick I learned from a professional painter when it comes to cleaning latex paint is actually... the cheapest honking liquid fabric softener you can get. They seem to come most often in big gallon-jugs that are bright pink, and the stuff works like a charm. Use medium-warm water, and to about four cups of water, add a half-cup of fabric softener. Stick the brush in there and swish it around, then rinse off, spin if you've got it, wrap in brown paper to protect the bristles while storing, and you're done.
If you've got a paint with a lot of pigment, then you may need to dump out the water softener mix after the first time and do another soak-and-swish. Most I've ever had to do was three times, and that was after painting a deep rich red that had to have been the max amt of pigment.
The way the fabric softener works, as I understand it, is that it's got a chemical in it that breaks up water tension. Something like that, and in very very general laymen's terms, it means it can break apart the latex that's holding onto the bristles by water-tension. Hrmm, something like that... all I know is it works.
If that doesn't work or things have dried too much, then you go to the hardware store and you get a half-gallon of the paint remover. It'll be in the aisle with all the other nasty chemicals like denatured alcohol and paint thinner and whatnot. The paint remover's a last-ditch combination of chemicals that works on both oil-based paints and latex, and works even after both have dried. (Oil base, not quite so well after drying, but still better than tossing.)
For that matter, I've used the paint remover mix (though I don't mind the temporary stinky) to clean up paint splatters on carpets and jeans. Just test an area, natch, and then dampen the edge of a rag and rub the paint remover into the splatter. Doesn't take long before the paint will soften, dissolve, and can be cleaned up -- incidentally, with room-temp-to-warm water and dishwashing soap. Marvelous stuff.
I have always found if you actually wash it out with soap and water right after painting there isn't much need to go to extremes - it will all come out.
I soak in warm soapy water, then rinse. Soap up again and brush downward using a scrub brush. This combs the paintbrush and scrubs the metal part and handle if needed. Goo-remover or orange oil cleaner (such as Citra-solve) will work to get off dried paint.
I use a spinner for roller covers. Rarely use oil-based paint, but if I do, roller covers go in the trash.


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China's Ministry of Science and Technology says a new and more highly accurate navigation system is in the works, with the aim of developing an urban positioning system that will eventually be launched across the country.
In a report by China Daily Wednesday, Cao Jianlin, vice-minister of science and technology, said the "Xihe" system is an attempt to apply science and technology funds to solve practical problems and catch up in terms of high tech.
Xihe, named after an ancient Chinese deity, has already been tested on fieldwork devices, the report said.
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The Xihe system is based on a technology called Cooperative Real-time Precise (CRP) positioning, which is designed to enhance the accuracy of navigation satellite systems.
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