World Cup and outbreak of supporter violence link Brazil and Russia [Hand Dryers]
In six months' time the World Cup will land in the home of joga bonito clad in a Fifa-approved wrapping of sun, sea and
samba. But the dark side of the beautiful game in Brazil was in evidence earlier this month, when images of running battles
between fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco da Gama shocked the watching world.
The game was being held at a neutral ground in Joinville due to previous clashes between fans of the two clubs, but within
10 minutes Globo was broadcasting close-up footage of supporters repeatedly stamping on the heads of their rivals and
chasing one another around the stadium bowl.
Following a long interregnum, the fighting was eventually broken up by armed security firing rubber bullets into the crowds
and an army helicopter landing on the pitch, but not before several fans were seriously injured.
Aldo Rebelo, the erratic Brazilian sports minister who is also battling to make sure the stadiums due to host the World Cup
are ready on time amid a spate of deaths among construction workers, has promised a crackdown. "Whoever commits the kind of
violence we saw should be detained forthwith. It constitutes attempted homicide," he said this week.
But while the brutal scenes may have been beamed around the world due to the game's proximity to the World Cup draw, this
was no isolated example.
Four years after the World Cup comes to Brazil, Russia will host football's global showpiece. Last month, Spartak Moscow
fans went on the rampage, resulting in 78 arrests and the imposition of tough new laws from next month.
Again, this was just one example among many as a toxic brew of nationalism, club loyalty, far-right ideology and alcohol
explodes into violence on a regular basis. The country's leading sports newspaper, Sport Express, warned that if the
violence was allowed to carry on unchecked it would mean "the end of football in our country".
In Russia, too, there are growing concerns about the endemic nature of football violence and its links to organised crime
and right-wing groups. Those fears are replicated across much of eastern Europe, and to some observers are underpinned by a
dangerous ideology.
"The big thing we've observed over the last two years has been the rise of the far right in football," says Piara Powar,
executive director of the European anti-discrimination network Fare. "They've always had a significant hold over young
people and young football fans. But it's become more organised and more frequent. More banners, more chants, more of a
direct link." Banners pledging solidarity with the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn have been spotted throughout eastern
Europe.
samba. But the dark side of the beautiful game in Brazil was in evidence earlier this month, when images of running battles
between fans of Atletico Paranaense and Vasco da Gama shocked the watching world.
The game was being held at a neutral ground in Joinville due to previous clashes between fans of the two clubs, but within
10 minutes Globo was broadcasting close-up footage of supporters repeatedly stamping on the heads of their rivals and
chasing one another around the stadium bowl.
Following a long interregnum, the fighting was eventually broken up by armed security firing rubber bullets into the crowds
and an army helicopter landing on the pitch, but not before several fans were seriously injured.
Aldo Rebelo, the erratic Brazilian sports minister who is also battling to make sure the stadiums due to host the World Cup
are ready on time amid a spate of deaths among construction workers, has promised a crackdown. "Whoever commits the kind of
violence we saw should be detained forthwith. It constitutes attempted homicide," he said this week.
But while the brutal scenes may have been beamed around the world due to the game's proximity to the World Cup draw, this
was no isolated example.
Four years after the World Cup comes to Brazil, Russia will host football's global showpiece. Last month, Spartak Moscow
fans went on the rampage, resulting in 78 arrests and the imposition of tough new laws from next month.
Again, this was just one example among many as a toxic brew of nationalism, club loyalty, far-right ideology and alcohol
explodes into violence on a regular basis. The country's leading sports newspaper, Sport Express, warned that if the
violence was allowed to carry on unchecked it would mean "the end of football in our country".
In Russia, too, there are growing concerns about the endemic nature of football violence and its links to organised crime
and right-wing groups. Those fears are replicated across much of eastern Europe, and to some observers are underpinned by a
dangerous ideology.
"The big thing we've observed over the last two years has been the rise of the far right in football," says Piara Powar,
executive director of the European anti-discrimination network Fare. "They've always had a significant hold over young
people and young football fans. But it's become more organised and more frequent. More banners, more chants, more of a
direct link." Banners pledging solidarity with the Greek far-right party Golden Dawn have been spotted throughout eastern
Europe.
My Dad's No-Fail Knock 'Em to Sleep Bedtime Story [Hand Dryers]
Sometimes we dads tell a bedtime story to perk up special times of year, like Hanukkah, Christmas, or Kwanzaa. More often, we read to our children at their request. Kids love hearing our stories — and they particularly love having our full attention. It's nice for us too — we get to enjoy having our kids' rapt attention while they're still, quiet, dreamy and lost in a world of imagination that we're inhabiting together.
But occasionally, we dads have ulterior motives. Sometimes we swing into the bedtime story saddle in order to get the job done: knock 'em unconscious so we can go about the rest of our evening!
In the days when Rocky and Bullwinkle's metal-munching mice were just beginning to eat the TV aerials off the rooftops of American families — I mean the early 1960s — my own father's motivation was definitely the latter. He was up to something.
When I was very young my daddy would tell me stories intended to knock me dead asleep — of course I didn't realize this at the time — I simply loved getting lost in his telling of them. He called them "Geeragos and Mardiros" stories.
"Geeragos" and "Mardiros" are pronounced like this: GEAR-ah-ghos[t] (like the word "ghost" sans "t") and MARDY-ros (sounding like the American name "Marty" and ros, rhyming with ghost-sans-t.) In other words, the two brothers' names rhyme. The most effective of these stories went like this:
The two mythic Armenian boys lived "in town," [meaning Fresno,] at the time a small collocation of wood clapboard houses very near two bakeries.
Somehow, Geeragos and Mardiros would secure fishing poles on a fine summer's morn, start walking out in the country to fish at the San Joaquin River, and wind up catching a ride with a friendly farmer whose horse-drawn wagon barely went any faster than the boys had been walking. Thus, Perfect panettone makes for a real Italian Christmas the wagon ride contributed the mere illusion of faster travel–kinda like LA freeways nowadays.
Anyway, the brothers G and M would get out there to the River, dig up nice fat worms in the muddy banks, catch a bunch of trout, clean them with their lousy broken kitchen knives (they could never possibly have afforded Scout knives), broil them right on the coals (free food from Nature=rollback of the Great Depression), eat the trout thus burning their fingertips and tongues.
Then would come the fateful moment.
"Geeragos," said Mardiros, "it's getting late. Look at the sun going down."
"Mardiros, I'm scared," replied Geeragos.
"We gotta start walking home, little brother," said Mardiros.
"O.K.," agreed Geeragos.
And the boys walked, and walked and walked. [Stevie's and my eyes were by now either getting heavy-lidded or simply rolling up in our heads, can't remember which].
But occasionally, we dads have ulterior motives. Sometimes we swing into the bedtime story saddle in order to get the job done: knock 'em unconscious so we can go about the rest of our evening!
In the days when Rocky and Bullwinkle's metal-munching mice were just beginning to eat the TV aerials off the rooftops of American families — I mean the early 1960s — my own father's motivation was definitely the latter. He was up to something.
When I was very young my daddy would tell me stories intended to knock me dead asleep — of course I didn't realize this at the time — I simply loved getting lost in his telling of them. He called them "Geeragos and Mardiros" stories.
"Geeragos" and "Mardiros" are pronounced like this: GEAR-ah-ghos[t] (like the word "ghost" sans "t") and MARDY-ros (sounding like the American name "Marty" and ros, rhyming with ghost-sans-t.) In other words, the two brothers' names rhyme. The most effective of these stories went like this:
The two mythic Armenian boys lived "in town," [meaning Fresno,] at the time a small collocation of wood clapboard houses very near two bakeries.
Somehow, Geeragos and Mardiros would secure fishing poles on a fine summer's morn, start walking out in the country to fish at the San Joaquin River, and wind up catching a ride with a friendly farmer whose horse-drawn wagon barely went any faster than the boys had been walking. Thus, Perfect panettone makes for a real Italian Christmas the wagon ride contributed the mere illusion of faster travel–kinda like LA freeways nowadays.
Anyway, the brothers G and M would get out there to the River, dig up nice fat worms in the muddy banks, catch a bunch of trout, clean them with their lousy broken kitchen knives (they could never possibly have afforded Scout knives), broil them right on the coals (free food from Nature=rollback of the Great Depression), eat the trout thus burning their fingertips and tongues.
Then would come the fateful moment.
"Geeragos," said Mardiros, "it's getting late. Look at the sun going down."
"Mardiros, I'm scared," replied Geeragos.
"We gotta start walking home, little brother," said Mardiros.
"O.K.," agreed Geeragos.
And the boys walked, and walked and walked. [Stevie's and my eyes were by now either getting heavy-lidded or simply rolling up in our heads, can't remember which].
Perfect panettone makes for a real Italian Christmas [Hand Dryers]
Christmas lunch without panettone would not be the same for Italian Australians. You've had the turkey, the eggplant parmigiana and the home-made vino.
What's next? Coffee, and to finish, the panettone - a sweet bread with dried fruit, including orange peel, not too crumbly and not too moist.
Perhaps because it's notoriously fiddly to make, panettone is increasingly imported from Italy, laden with additives for a longer shelf life.
It sells in multicoloured boxes, and a dazzling array of flavours, including custard, tiramisu, lemon cream, hazelnut chocolate and pistachio.
At Monticello Pasticceria in High Street, Thornbury, pastry cook Johnny Laiosa and his wife Tina, are among a decreasing number of small shops who make fresh panettone, with no preservatives.
The fanciest elements are sultanas, peel and a mysterious syrup Mr Laiosa calls "panettone essence".
On Monday, they spent six hours making the season's first batch of panettone, starting at 5.45am. The flour, eggs, butter and yeast with a dash of honey are blended in their battered but reliable old industrial mixer then left to rise for 45 minutes. The process is repeated twice.
In the third mix, the sultanas are added, tossed with flour so they don't sink to the bottom of the loaf.
Then the Laiosas pour the dough on to a table, knead it, cut and weigh it into 800 gram puddings, and pour them into patty pans.
The loaves must then be steamed in the low temperature oven to "prove", or rise, for up to an hour, before they're cooked in the main oven for 45 minutes at 160 degrees.
It's tricky - if the flour is too old the panettone may not rise; if you leave it too long to prove, it can fall apart. If left in the hot oven too long it will burn; taken out too soon it will be too gooey. You must have patience. "It's a long process. You have to go slowly."
Mr Laiosa uses a timer, but mostly his senses, to gauge when the thing is ready - the crust a golden brown, the knife poked into the loaf and coming out dry, and the smell a syrupy, orangey tang.
The Laiosas, born in Sicily, have had the shop since 1967, and work seven days a week. Customers for their cakes and biscotti come from as far away as Griffith, New South Wales, and Shepparton.
Mr Laiosa will make two or three more batches of panettone before Christmas depending on demand; they sell at $8 each. They're fresh, but best of all, he says, have "no chemical stuff inside, no rubbish".
Customer of 40 years, Mary Pisano, grew up in West Preston but now lives in Chadstone and works in Malvern - both nowhere near Thornbury. But visiting her parents' house in West Preston and her partner's in Mill Park, often she'll "happen" to drive past Monticello, duck in and emerge with a stack of dolci.
What's next? Coffee, and to finish, the panettone - a sweet bread with dried fruit, including orange peel, not too crumbly and not too moist.
Perhaps because it's notoriously fiddly to make, panettone is increasingly imported from Italy, laden with additives for a longer shelf life.
It sells in multicoloured boxes, and a dazzling array of flavours, including custard, tiramisu, lemon cream, hazelnut chocolate and pistachio.
At Monticello Pasticceria in High Street, Thornbury, pastry cook Johnny Laiosa and his wife Tina, are among a decreasing number of small shops who make fresh panettone, with no preservatives.
The fanciest elements are sultanas, peel and a mysterious syrup Mr Laiosa calls "panettone essence".
On Monday, they spent six hours making the season's first batch of panettone, starting at 5.45am. The flour, eggs, butter and yeast with a dash of honey are blended in their battered but reliable old industrial mixer then left to rise for 45 minutes. The process is repeated twice.
In the third mix, the sultanas are added, tossed with flour so they don't sink to the bottom of the loaf.
Then the Laiosas pour the dough on to a table, knead it, cut and weigh it into 800 gram puddings, and pour them into patty pans.
The loaves must then be steamed in the low temperature oven to "prove", or rise, for up to an hour, before they're cooked in the main oven for 45 minutes at 160 degrees.
It's tricky - if the flour is too old the panettone may not rise; if you leave it too long to prove, it can fall apart. If left in the hot oven too long it will burn; taken out too soon it will be too gooey. You must have patience. "It's a long process. You have to go slowly."
Mr Laiosa uses a timer, but mostly his senses, to gauge when the thing is ready - the crust a golden brown, the knife poked into the loaf and coming out dry, and the smell a syrupy, orangey tang.
The Laiosas, born in Sicily, have had the shop since 1967, and work seven days a week. Customers for their cakes and biscotti come from as far away as Griffith, New South Wales, and Shepparton.
Mr Laiosa will make two or three more batches of panettone before Christmas depending on demand; they sell at $8 each. They're fresh, but best of all, he says, have "no chemical stuff inside, no rubbish".
Customer of 40 years, Mary Pisano, grew up in West Preston but now lives in Chadstone and works in Malvern - both nowhere near Thornbury. But visiting her parents' house in West Preston and her partner's in Mill Park, often she'll "happen" to drive past Monticello, duck in and emerge with a stack of dolci.
Some Unhelpful Holiday Hints [Hand Dryers]
Ready or not, here they are! The 2013 edition of “The Holiday Season” is in full swing.
For most of us, this is a stressful time of year. Participation in this festive season requires a tremendous amount of effort and energy. And nothing in our everyday lives stops, we just add to an already relentlessly demanding existence.
In an effort to assuage some stress of the season, I googled “Tips for Managing Stress this Holiday season.” Let me share with you some of the “helpful” tips I stumbled across.
Buy safe toys: If you plan to buy toys for the kids in your life, choose age-appropriate toys and look for labels with safety advice. Avoid toys with small parts and sharp edges.
Wow. I wish I had thought of that before purchasing all of the children on my list a set of kitchen knives. I guess the baby shouldn’t get a sewing kit this year, either. Nix the razor stocking-stuffers.
Celebrate on a budget: Take a few minutes to decide how much you can afford to spend on gifts, travel, parties, decorations, and other holiday expenses. Stick to your budget.
Drawing up a budget that reflects what I can afford to spend actually increases my stress tenfold! I see the logic here, I really do. Hemorrhaging money in December is a sure-fire way to get the New Year off to a rough start. But really, can’t they come up with something that is even slightly possible to implement?
A friend of mine confided that it takes her the first ten months of the year to pay off the holiday bills from the year before. Once the debt is paid down, the spending starts up, all over again. She said it was her version of “Christmas Club” budgeting. I think she is on to something.
Give the gift of service: The greatest gift you can give to others is service. Consider reading to your child as it will improve his/her reading skills.
Here again, I can feel my stress level rising as I contemplate the reaction of my kids to receiving the “gift of service” in the form of being read to. Which isn’t to say that my family, as a whole, couldn’t certainly stand to offer more service to the community. I am all for giving; I’m just not brave enough to pass it off as a gift to my kids, in lieu of “tangible goods.” Just saying.
Find seasonal employment: Businesses need extra help around the holidays. Employment will help supplement your income and potentially lead to a permanent position.
What?! Let me see if I understand this, because yet again, my stress level is accelerating upward exponentially. In addition to already relentlessly demanding lives, we have for the months of November and December added: shopping, baking, wrapping, and card sending, to name just a few. On top of that, we are supposed to find seasonal employment. When? From midnight to 5:00 a.m.? I’m going to have to pass.
For most of us, this is a stressful time of year. Participation in this festive season requires a tremendous amount of effort and energy. And nothing in our everyday lives stops, we just add to an already relentlessly demanding existence.
In an effort to assuage some stress of the season, I googled “Tips for Managing Stress this Holiday season.” Let me share with you some of the “helpful” tips I stumbled across.
Buy safe toys: If you plan to buy toys for the kids in your life, choose age-appropriate toys and look for labels with safety advice. Avoid toys with small parts and sharp edges.
Wow. I wish I had thought of that before purchasing all of the children on my list a set of kitchen knives. I guess the baby shouldn’t get a sewing kit this year, either. Nix the razor stocking-stuffers.
Celebrate on a budget: Take a few minutes to decide how much you can afford to spend on gifts, travel, parties, decorations, and other holiday expenses. Stick to your budget.
Drawing up a budget that reflects what I can afford to spend actually increases my stress tenfold! I see the logic here, I really do. Hemorrhaging money in December is a sure-fire way to get the New Year off to a rough start. But really, can’t they come up with something that is even slightly possible to implement?
A friend of mine confided that it takes her the first ten months of the year to pay off the holiday bills from the year before. Once the debt is paid down, the spending starts up, all over again. She said it was her version of “Christmas Club” budgeting. I think she is on to something.
Give the gift of service: The greatest gift you can give to others is service. Consider reading to your child as it will improve his/her reading skills.
Here again, I can feel my stress level rising as I contemplate the reaction of my kids to receiving the “gift of service” in the form of being read to. Which isn’t to say that my family, as a whole, couldn’t certainly stand to offer more service to the community. I am all for giving; I’m just not brave enough to pass it off as a gift to my kids, in lieu of “tangible goods.” Just saying.
Find seasonal employment: Businesses need extra help around the holidays. Employment will help supplement your income and potentially lead to a permanent position.
What?! Let me see if I understand this, because yet again, my stress level is accelerating upward exponentially. In addition to already relentlessly demanding lives, we have for the months of November and December added: shopping, baking, wrapping, and card sending, to name just a few. On top of that, we are supposed to find seasonal employment. When? From midnight to 5:00 a.m.? I’m going to have to pass.
A third Merkel term [Hand Dryers]
After 13 years as CDU leader, and eight crisis-filled years in office, her campaign was built around her low-key personality, with policy borrowed liberally from others' manifestos.The SPD and Greens ran a centre-left programme of fiscal redistribution, promising tax increases for top earners and a statutory minimum wage of €8.50. Though Dr Merkel dismissed tax increases, she threw overboard decades of CDU opposition to promise a wage floor in all non-tariff sectors. When the SPD and Greens promised a law to reign in rent increases, the CDU did the same months after the Merkel coalition voted to abolish rent controls.Selling these policy about-faces was a low-key CDU leader. She presented herself as a safe pair of hands and her opponents as a risky experiment in uncertain times. A third Merkel term, she suggested, was key to German economic prosperity and to maintaining Berlin's path of conditional support to partners in the euro crisis.That appealed to supporters at rallies and at polling stations yesterday.
"I like her style of waiting to make the right decision, rather than choosing this one day and that the other," said Erika, 62, after voting in Berlin's western Wilmersdorf neighbourhood.CDU voters also appear to have heeded Dr Merkel's warnings and not voted strategically to prop up the failing FDP. With these elections taking place under a modified election system, CDU strategists feared unintended consequences from such a sympathy vote.But, losing her FDP centre-right coalition partner means the German leader will come under pressure to heed calls for greater solidarity and stimulus measures at home and abroad"We need a change, better wages for low earners and greater effort to tackle tax fraud," said Giorgios Marudas, 57, a Greek-born German citizen in Wilmersdorf, who voted for the Left Party. "In Greece people need a break, saving alone won't work, neither will loans at ridiculous interest rates."Police are asking for the public's help in locating a woman suspected of slashing a loss prevention officer with a knife at the Bellevue Fred Meyer store.
The Latest Most Effective Treatment [Hand Dryers]
The procedure is also sometimes known as "Surgery without a knife" since it does not involve usage of any blade or knife. Gamma Knife surgery is the most accepted and widely used radio surgery treatment in the world. About half a million people have been treated with Gamma Knife surgery, and it's the only Radiation Therapy System cleared by the FDA for irradiating brain metastases. The procedure has several advantages over the conventional surgery. Though it is a radio surgical procedure, it has such a dramatic and precise effect in the target zone that the changes are considered 'surgical.' Also, there's no incision or blood, and thus has much faster recovery minimal risk of complications. The common advantages of Gamma Knife Surgery are More accurate treatment Faster treatment and time Greater patient comfort The lesion being treated receives a high dose of radiation with minimum risk to nearby tissue and structures.
No anaesthesia Surgery without an incision Lower costs than conventional brain surgery Minimal discomfort The ability to resume normal activities sooner The absence of an incision eliminates the risk of haemorrhage and infection. Hospitalization is short, typically an overnight stay or an outpatient surgical procedure.The air knife is anything but high maintenance. Air, being its main component to operate, is everywhere and practically available all day, all night. It can easily be designed to fit a manufacturer's production requirements, regardless of industry. It saves on power and labour cost, depending on the type of air knives used; blower-type air knives are said to be more effective at lower power output compared to the compressed-type.
The Montreal Protocol And Revolution on Air Knife [Hand Dryers]
The ratification and further implementation of an international agreement called the Montreal Protocol has not only opened the eyes of the public and the industrial sector on the worsening situation of the earth's ozone layer,Times Private Treaties Invests in Swiss Knife but also opened opportunities for the manufacturing and development of safer and environment-friendly applications and chemicals, among which is the air knife systems.The said protocol aimed to prevent the depletion of the ozone layer by eliminating the production of industrial and commercial substances believed to be harmful and destructive to the ozone layer. The treaty was commenced in 1987, requesting for signatures from countries and parties who are willing to participate in the said agreement. In 1989, it came into force, and several revisions followed.Among the substance which was banned in the protocol was Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC), which at the time was widely used in various industrial operations such as cleaning of machine parts and other materials.
The shift of the global industries to water-based cleaning agents from solvents containing CFC and similar harmful chemicals, triggered for the boom and development in the usage of air knives. By the time, the printed circuit board industry was just starting off, but it was among the first to start the conversion to water-based and semi water-based parts cleaning methods.Although air knife systems have been present since 1950's it was after the dawn of the Montreal Protocol which urged the industrial sector to favor blower-powered air knives, which offer 50-75% reduction on energy usage in many applications compared to compressor-powered ones.The protocol at the same time became the window for the discovery of other uses of air knives aside from cleaning. Air knife dryers came out of the market, and soon various industries were using the mechanical tool for a variety of drying processes.Also, due to the global compliance to the Montreal Protocol, the once small air knife business became an industry.Today, air knives have been the simple and inexpensive solution for various industrial operations such as in manufacturing, textile, packaging, printing, automotive, food processing, bottling and many more.
Best Air Knife for Every Manufacturing [Hand Dryers]
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This really is enough basis for employers of varied commercial and industrial establishments to set an investment for these excellent products. You are going to certainly appreciate how an item of this fantastic air knife is capable of handling different, complex tasks. This blade is an ideal tool, and contains the most versatile features that permit the consumer to complete the duty without having to go through several operation complexities. You have to admit that all equipment and tools are simple to use. Some industrial knives don't produce the quality works, and this would only signify the purchasing department must spend money on another group of blow drying equipment and tools. Using the spectacular air knife with vortex technology, the shopper is assured of their superb works. Apart from the idea that the producer of those products continuously upgrades its knives, various reviews regarding the extraordinary vortex technology all explain how the strategy is full of the very best materials.
Suspect In Gift Center Double Homicide [Hand Dryers]
The pair almost had their third wicket when Siddle on 10 got an edge only for Cook to drop the chance.However, Siddle added just one more run to his total before he edged a full-blooded drive off Anderson and Cook, Selecting a Quality Knife Set going high to his right, held a sensational catch.England had put themselves into a strong position thanks to a seventh-wicket second innings stand of 138 between Ian Bell (109) and Stuart Broad (65).But Broad was controversially given not out on 37 despite edging the ball to slip -- one of several contentious umpiring calls in this enthralling match.Kershaw County deputies responded Thursday just after 3pm, to a fight in progress call at the Dollar General Store in East Camden. An investigator arrived on the scene first and found two women standing over a badly bleeding man in front of the store, trying to stop the bleeding. In the meantime EMS personnel were attempting to stabilize Johnson who had life threatening injuries to his head and torso. Johnson was ultimately transported to Palmetto Health Richland hospital where he was admitted in critical condition.
Investigators learned that Dow was the former boyfriend of an employee at the Dollar General and that Johnson was now the current boyfriend. The altercation stemmed from that relationship. Dow had confronted Johnson in front of the store and eventually pulled a knife, severely cutting Johnson on the side of his head and stabbing him several times in the torso. Dow, who cut himself during the attack, was treated at Kershaw Health hospital and is expected to undergo additional surgery to his hand. Johnson remains in stable, but critical condition.John Miller was 7 or 8 when his father handed him his first knife, a Western clip point. The gesture may have been nice, but something just didn't fit.Even with sentimental value, it just wasn't right. After years of searching for a suitable field knife, he decided to make his own.Miller is the owner of Pinnacle Mountain Knives, a Lyndeborough-based knife company with a workforce of one, sometimes two. It's just Miller and his wife in a workshop off their home, shaping, grinding, heat-treating and sheathing a few knives a week and shipping them off around the country to hunters, chefs and everyday carriers.Miller is from northern Vermont, slightly south of the Canadian border, where knives are seen as everyday tools, rather than weapons or status symbols.
A Quality Butterfly Knife Doesn't Have To Cost [Hand Dryers]
A butterfly knife or a fan knife is essentially a folding pocketknife with two handles counter-rotating around the tang, so that, when closed, the blade is hidden inside the grooves in the handles. It's often referred to as a Batangas knife, after a province in the Philippines where its design and techniques have been mastered. It's called AubalisongAu in Filipino and it is so popular in the Philippines that an urban legend exists concerning every Batangueno (men from Batangas) taking it everywhere they go. A butterfly knife is excellent as a pocket utility blade, outdoor blade or a tactical blade. Even so, it requires skill to be able to handle it properly. There are many retailers selling cheap butterfly knives that starters can use for training (after covering the blade using tape to avoid serious cuts). Butterfly knives qualify as a weapon, specifically the top end types with strong and sharp blades. Its small in size and, in the control of a master, it could be deployed quickly using just one hand for deadly force. It is no surprise they are illegal in numerous US states and also other countries.
A few states and countries don't completely prohibit them, but there are constraints for example them being against the law when they are hidden or not openly carried. Cheap butterfly knives can be acquired for under $50. They are normally produced from lower grade steel, that can corrode, and thus call for additional care and maintenance. If one is seeking strength and workmanship, you need to be prepared to pay about $200 or maybe more, based on the materials used and the kind of design. Several have simple wood or metal handles, but there are certain models that feature handles inlayed with scales fabricated from bone, horn, mother of pearl, and ebony. Collectors often obtain butterfly knives as investments and hold them in airtight safes. Certain companies make custom knives with spectacular inlays or unusual grinds. Others often offer Limited Edition knives with special features. Balisong knives are still made by hand in the traditional process in the Philippines and are referred to as AuFilipino HandmadeAu (FHM). The quality of butterfly knives available today varies. American producers of commercial Balisong knives such as Benchmade, Bradley Vutlery, Spyderco, Roton, Microtech Knives, and SWAT have produced many high quality models through the years.
