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????IRVING, TX, February 16, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ ? Random Acts of Kindness Day is Friday, Feb. 17, and to celebrate the spirit of the day and encourage others to participate, Michaels will give away more than $100,000 in gift cards at its 1,060+ stores and on its Facebook page.

Throughout the day, Michaels will randomly hand out thousands of gift cards in its stores and through Facebook to inspire people to in turn do something kind for others, such as donating their gift cards to a school, church or hospital, or using the cards to buy supplies to make a special homemade gift for someone.

?This is a fun way for us to say thanks to our loyal customers and an opportunity for them to pay it forward with a DIY gift,? said Michaels Chief Marketing Officer Paula Puleo. ?We hope that our participation in Random Acts of Kindness Day will inspire our customers throughout the year.?

The unofficial holiday falls during Random Acts of Kindness Week, Feb. 13-19, founded by the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, an internationally recognized nonprofit organization based upon the powerful belief in kindness, and dedicated to providing resources and tools that encourage acts of kindness.

Customers who want to participate in the holiday with a hand-made gift can find suggested projects to share at Michaels.com/sharethelove.

About Michaels
Irving, Texas-based Michaels Stores, Inc. is North America?s largest specialty retailer of arts, crafts, framing, floral, wall decor, and seasonal merchandise for the hobbyist and do-it-yourself home decorator. The company currently owns and operates more than 1,060 Michaels stores in 49 states and Canada, and 136 Aaron Brothers stores, and produces 10 exclusive private brands including Recollections, Studio Decor, Bead Landing, Creatology, Ashland, Celebrate It, Art Minds, Artist?s Loft, Craft Smart and Loops Threads. For more information visit www.Michaels.com.

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Industrial output flat on utilities, mining (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Industrial output was unexpectedly flat in January, but the second straight month of gains in manufacturing pointed to underlying strength in the economy.

Industrial production in January was held down by steep declines in mining and utilities, the Federal Reserve said on Wednesday.

Economists polled by Reuters had expected output to rise 0.7 percent. But upward revisions to December's industrial output to show a solid 1.0 percent increase instead of a 0.4 percent gain, took the sting out of the report.

"Some encouragement can be taken from the sharp upward revision to the performance in December, which underscores the turnaround in U.S. economic fortunes in recent months," said Millan Mulraine, senior macro strategist at TD Securities in New York.

Data so far suggest the economy got off to a firmer start in 2012, even though overall retail sales in January missed expectations.

Last month, manufacturing advanced 0.7 percent after increasing by an upwardly revised 1.5 percent in December. That was previously reported as a 0.9 percent gain.

Manufacturing was buoyed by motor vehicle production, which jumped 6.8 percent after increasing 3.8 percent in December.

Unseasonably warm winter weather caused utilities output to plunge 2.5 percent after a 2.4 percent decline the prior month. Mining production fell 1.8 percent after rising 0.9 percent.

Manufacturing remains the main pillar of the economy, although it only accounts for about 12 percent of gross domestic product and 11 percent of nonfarm payrolls.

A report from the New York Federal Reserve showed a gauge of factory activity in New York state rose to its highest level in more than 1-1/2 years in February.

But slowing new orders and further declines in unfilled orders suggested activity in that region could be close to peaking. There was a rise in shipments and companies increased hours for existing workers.

In the industrial production report, capacity utilization, a measure of how fully firms are using their resources, fell to 78.5 percent from 78.6 percent the prior month. That was 1.8 percentage points below the 1972-to-2011 average.

Analysts were expecting capacity use at 78.6 percent. Capacity use in manufacturing rose to 77.0 percent, the highest since April 2008.

Officials at the Fed tend to look at utilization measures as a signal of how much "slack" remains in the economy - how far growth has room to run before it becomes inflationary.

(Reporting By Lucia Mutikani; Editing by Neil Stempleman)

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Thai cop: Iranian's bomb explodes near embassies

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A member of Thailand's explosives disposal unit inspects the scene of a bomb blast that injured a man thought to be Iranian on a roadside in Bangkok Tuesday.

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BANGKOK -- An Iranian man carrying grenades blew off his own legs and wounded four civilians Tuesday after an earlier blast shook his house in Bangkok, Thai authorities said. The explosions came a day after an Israeli diplomatic car was bombed in India ? an attack Israel blamed on Iran.

Authorities say it's unclear whether the Bangkok explosions were linked to the New Delhi attack, but in Jerusalem Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor said, "we can't rule out any possibility."

Thai security forces found more explosives in a house where the Iranian man was staying in Bangkok, but the possible targets were not known, Police Gen. Pansiri Prapawat said.

A passport found at the scene of one blast indicated the assailant was Saeid Moradi from Iran, Pansiri said. Authorities in Tehran could not immediately be reached for comment.

PhotoBlog: Graphic photo of bomb scene

Tuesday's violence began in the afternoon when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in Moradi's house, blowing off part of the roof. Police said two foreigners quickly left the residence, followed by a wounded Moradi.

"He tried to wave down a taxi, but he was covered in blood, and the driver refused to take him," Pansiri said. He then threw an explosive at the taxi and began running.

Police who had been called to the area then tried to apprehend Moradi, who hurled a grenade to defend himself. "But somehow it bounced back" and blew off his legs, Pansiri said.

Photos of the wounded Iranian showed him covered in dark soot on a sidewalk strewn with broken glass. He lay in front of a Thai primary and secondary school. No students were reported wounded.

Kerek Wongsa / Reuters

Tuesday's violence began when a stash of explosives apparently detonated by accident in a Bangkok house, blowing off part of the roof.

A dark satchel nearby was investigated by a bomb disposal unit. Pansiri said police found Iranian currency, US dollars and Thai money in the bag.

Three Thai men and one Thai woman were brought to Kluaynamthai Hospital for treatment of injuries, said Suwinai Busarakamwong, a doctor there.

The blasts came a day after bomb attacks targeted Israeli embassy staff in India and Georgia. Israel accused Iran and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah of being behind those attacks. Hezbollah is a Shiite Islamist group backed by Syria and Iran that is on the official U.S. blacklist of foreign terrorist organizations.

An Israeli official told news website Ynet that the Bangkok explosions appeared to be a "bombing gone wrong."?

Second Iranian detained
Another Iranian was detained Tuesday night at Bangkok's international airport as he attempted to leave for neighboring Malaysia, said police commander Winai Thongsong. Authorities were interrogating the man, but it was not yet known whether he was involved in Tuesday's blasts.

Last month, a Lebanese-Swedish man with alleged links to pro-Iranian Hezbollah militants was detained by Thai police. He led authorities to a warehouse filled with more than 8,800 pounds of urea fertilizer and several gallons of liquid ammonium nitrate.

Israel and the United States at the time warned their citizens to be alert in the capital, but Thai authorities said Thailand appeared to have been a staging ground but not the target of any attack.

Israel accuses Iran of bombings in India, Georgia

Pansiri said that "so far, we haven't found any links between these two cases."

Immigration police are trying to trace Moradi's movements, but initial reports indicated he flew into Thailand from Seoul, South Korea on Feb. 8, Pansiri said. He landed at the southern Thai resort town of Phuket, then stayed in a hotel in Chonburi, a couple hours drive southeast of Bangkok, for several nights.

Bangkok's blasts came one day after bombs targeted Israeli diplomats in India and Georgia. The attack in India wounded four people, while the device found in Georgia did not explode. Iran has denied it was responsible.

Israeli police have increased the state of alert in the country, emphasizing public places, foreign embassies and offices, as well as Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Thailand has rarely been a target for foreign terrorists, although a domestic Muslim insurgency in the country's south has involved bombings of civilian targets.

NBC News, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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The breed standard describes a Platonic ideal?here is what a perfect German shepherd, or Siberian husky, or Finnish spitz would look like. And act like: In addition to listing physical attributes, the standard also describes the breed's personality. The result is a delightful hybrid, part eugenicist's handbook and part love poem. Characterizing the gaze of the pugpar excellence, for instance, the authors of its breed standard write: "The?eyes?are dark in color, very large, bold and prominent, globular in shape, soft and solicitous in?expression, very lustrous, and, when excited, full of fire." (All italics in the original.) Though ostensibly written without literary aspiration, the best breed standards belong alongside Thomas Mann's Herr Und Hund, Wilson Rawls' Where the Red Fern Grows, and this Tony Hale sketch in the canon of works that truly capture the special relationship between man and his most loyal companion.

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Use Gesture Drawing To Take Back Your Creativity | TampaBayTimes

Gesture drawing may be an extremely helpful thing for most artists. One of the primary problem that?s holding quite a few artist back is the tendency to over think a drawing project. I?m sure you?ve been there before.

get frozen while watching empty canvas or paper and do not know how to begin. Erasing and re-drawing, erasing and re-drawing. process becomes quite frustrating and your final art work is never as you want it to be.

This is just like writer?s block and the reason you suffer from it is because you are trying too hard to be perfect.

Here?s why an extremely bad idea: draw you will need to engage the creative side of the brain but when you edit and critic yourself, engaging the analytical side of your brain. Both of them cannot both function simultaneously.

It is the you trying to walk ; the result is paralysis and you find yourself going no where.

can you solve this frustrating problem? One easy, yet devastatingly effective exercise is the ?60-second sketch?. It?s a gesture drawing exercise. The way it work is you pick out an image of a figure that you want to draw and next draw it in 60 seconds. After 60 seconds, you HAVE to stop.

Of course, you?re not going to be able to do a very complete drawing in that short of a time, but that?s idea. This exercise makes you let go of any self-editing tendency and permit your creativity and energy to flow through.

You stop obsessing about the details and start to view the figure as a whole. Here is the secret to making your drawing really come to life.

Here are a few tips to pay attention to when doing this exercise:

-Always keep your hands moving. If you decrease the pace of, you are only giving yourself a time to slip back into an analytical mentality. ( act like I just drank a gallon of Red Bull and that my hand is possessed by some artistic demon)

-Use not merely your hand but your arms also to make big, long, strokes. It may also help on a large notepad so that you have more freedom .

- by doodling or drawing long vertical and horizontal lines across some scratch paper. Just the act of drawing will get make this exercise a lot easier.

Repeat this gesture drawing exercise per day and you?ll be well ahead of 95% of artist out there. (There is absolutely no excuse not to.. .it only takes 60 seconds!) (Click here for more information on drawing eyes.) By following theses tips, you?ll help improve your portrait drawing skills.

If you?d like to find out more on the topic of drawing mouth all you have to do is check out my website: visit here. There you?ll discover loads of helpful lessons that?s going to help you draw better.

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