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It’s important to know the difference between the two, especially when purchasing needlepoint kits online or at a craft store. If you are a beginner or casual stitcher, you might mistakenly buy a kit for petit point, all the while thinking you are getting a simple needlepoint design. To avoid situations like this, it’s important to know their similarities and differences and then use this knowledge to make more informed buying and stitching choices....

If you are earning or planning to earn through your blog or by freelancing, you must get acquainted with the basic accounting rules and the current income tax rules that affect bloggers and freelancer. We don’t expect you to be a pro but you need to get some essential knowledge because a tax liability is simultaneously generated whenever and wherever an income generates. Whoever is earning becomes liable to income tax regardless of their gender or age....

But in April 2006, a team of scientists reported success on a more modest ocean drilling project, which has yielded some impressive findings. Researchers involved in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) managed to drill nearly a mile into the ocean crust, collecting the first intact sample ever of all the crust’s various layers, including the very deepest layer, composed of igneous rock called gabbro. Gabbro has been discovered during other ocean drilling projects—in these cases, geological disturbances had shifted the gabbro closer to the ocean’s surface....

In 1964 Kennedy half dollars were made from 90% silver and 10% copper. Half dollars made from 1965 through 1970 are composed of two outer layers containing 80% silver and 20% copper with an inner core of 20.9% silver and 79.1% copper (net composition: 40% silver and 60% copper). Coins minted in 1971 and beyond have outer layers composed of 75% copper and 25% nickel bonded to an inner core of pure copper....

This is really frustrating for newer knitters because it’s often assumed you know what something like “*k1, p1. Rep from * across” or “cont in St st, dec 2 sts at beg and end of alt-RS rows.” Those sorts of things make perfect sense to someone who has been a knitter for a long time, but they can leave a new knitter completely lost and frustrated. Why Use Abbreviations? Abbreviations are often used to make patterns shorter and easier to read....

After I saw her striking poured painting “Iris Abstract,” I asked Keri Ippolito about how she’d painted it. This is what she had to say. Where did you first try this painting-by-pouring technique? I did the painting in a classroom setting at the Fine Line Creative Arts Center in Illinois, USA, with teacher Alyce Van Acker. I had also come across the work of other artists who use pouring techniques: Bette Ridgeway and Paul Jenkins....

It is often remarked that “Auld Lang Syne” is one of the most popular songs that nobody knows the lyrics to. “Auld Lang Syne” literally translates as “old long since” and means “times gone by.” The song asks whether old friends and times will be forgotten and promises to remember people of the past with fondness, “For auld lang syne, we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet.” The lesser known verses continue this theme, lamenting how friends who once used to “run about the braes,/ And pou’d the gowans fine” (run about the hills and pulled up the daisies) and “paidl’d in the burn/Frae morning sun till dine” (paddled in the stream from morning to dusk) have become divided by time and distance—“seas between us braid hae roar’d” (broad seas have roared between us)....

This Russian gymnast could keep his legs straight and together during extremely difficult exercises, making it look as if he had only one leg. This NFL running back is so big and powerful that he rumbles through opposing defenses like a bus. Supposedly when he crashes into you, it feels like you’ve been hit by a bus. As a 17-year-old, Steve was already a successful jockey. Joe received this name because he hit the baseball very hard....

Symbol Key On almost every commercial pattern, there is a key to the symbols that are on your pattern pieces. This should be found either on pattern tissue or on the direction sheet. Refer to it whenever you are in doubt. This symbol key will vary by company and may change over time, to prevent costly errors, do a quick refresher every time you open a pattern. Pattern Adjustment Lines These are lines included in the pattern piece for lengthening and shortening the pattern piece....

What Is Peridot? Peridot is a gem-quality form of the mineral olivine. This material is also referred to as chrysolite. The gem is found primarily among rocks that were created by volcanoes and buried deep underground (igneous rocks), so wherever there are or were volcanoes, this mineral is likely to be found. Large quantities of peridot are mined from the San Carlos reservation in Arizona as well as in Myanmar (Burma), Sri Lanka, and China....

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Sometimes that means including a collector’s nickname in a keyword rich title. Vintage costume jewelry containing unusual stones can be very valuable, so it is wise to identify them correctly. Note: Some of the nicknames collectors have given stones over time might be more commonly used, but sellers of replacement stones may describe their wares based on what’s listed on vintage packaging rather than using these more casual monikers. In the descriptions below, both names are given where appropriate or mentioned in the description of those particular stones....

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