There are three main specializations in The Division 2: Survivalist, Demolitionist, and Sharpshooter. Each specialization has its own separate skill tree, which can be modified to every player's liking.
If you like to shoot in close range and get right into the thick of the battle, then the Survivalist would be the best choice for you. But if you wish to take care of your enemies from afar, and weild a heavy but precise sniper rifle, then Sharpshooter specialization is made for you.
This guide will cover all the best skills and talents for a perfect Sharpshooter build. So if you're looking to become the best sniper in the game, then keep on reading.
There are 19 skills in Sharpshooter specialization skill tree. You don't need to open every single one of them to become an excellent sniper. So here are the best of them that will make your way through the hordes of enemies so much easier.
This skill adds 25% damage to your headshots for more precise kills. It works not only on your sniper rifle, but also on all other weapons in your arsenal, which is something you don't want to miss.
Obviously, as a sniper you want to target heads first and foremost, and that is why this one should be your most valuable skill of all.
Sniper rifles usually have very small magazines, so you will have to reload your main weapon constantly. That is why you need this skill to increase your reload speed by 30%.
When you have your accuracy and reload speed managed, you need to take care of your rifle's damage.
Here is the skill that increases the damage of your rifle by 15%. It doesn't seem much, but often your headshots will lack just a tad for one-shot kills, and that is why this skill is so useful.
These three skills are essential for any Sharpshooter in The Division 2. Now let's take a look at another three skills that are passive, which can significantly boost your gameplay.
This is a passive skill that doesn't require you to do anything, but if your allies get closer to the enemies than yourself, they will get 10% boost to their headshots.
Basically it allows you to stay in the back and not only cover up for your teammates, but also give them a small damage boost.
Here's a skill that gives you additional points of armor when sitting behind the cover.
As a sniper you will find yourself sitting behind a cover many, many times during your gaming sessions. So why not use this time with efficiency.
Lastly, an excellent companion skill to the previous one, which generates free ammo whenever you sit in the cover for 20s or more.
In addition to your skillset you can utilize various weapon talents, which will allow you to polish your build to perfection. So here are some of the best Sharpshooter talents you can use in The Division 2.
Headshot is without a doubt the fastest and most effective way to kill enemies. That is why making your headshots as powerful as possible is your number one aim.
The Rifleman talent allows you to not only increase your headshot damage by 10%, but you can also stack up to five of these for a total of 50% increased headshot damage. That is a lot!
The overall reload speed increase that this talent gives is only 3%. But it's the stack that counts, which currently stands at 20x. This means that you can ideally increase your reload speed by 60%, which is unbelievable.
This talent synergizes extremely well with Deft Hands skill.
This talent is more like a simple perk that increases your magazine capacity by 20%.
It's another must-have perk for any Sharpshooter using sniper rifles with 5-10 bullets max.
Simple perks are the best and this one does only one thing - it increases your accuracy by 15%.
It's always a good idea to have this perk, especially when your whole build revolves around headshots and precision kills.


Bedrock gets ready celebrate its 100th digital label single release with 'Tracer', the second single from Emerson, Digweed & Muir.
Three of the scene's most respected creative mavericks join forces yet again to devastating effect!
John Digweed, Nick Muir and Darren Emerson have been involved in many pivotal moments in the world of club music over the years and have helped to define genres & push boundaries further.
Digweed and Muir's partnership is commonly regarded as one of electronic music's most exciting pairings, with their quality output over the years catapulting their reputations far beyond dance music's hall of legends.
The prospect of 3 dance music titans joining together again to celebrate Bedrock's centennial release suggests that Tracer has the potential to become a classic. We've listened to all the mixes several times and are happy to confirm that Bedrock 100 is an absolute triumph. The lead riff is both memorable and distinctive, with all mixes holding their own. For us, Darren Emerson's (Womb Remix) is a peak time dance floor destroyer and wins the day for us.
Tracer's riff almost etches itself in to your brain and we believe the track has the potential to be remixed further later on down the line.
Any label that can not just survive, but flourish in today's scene deserves to be applauded. The global respect and adoration that John Digweed's Bedrock has steadily gained through years is testament to the label staying true it's values of only releasing quality music. Here's to the next 100 releases!
YHUMAN Grabs Beatport Number One With First Ever Release!


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Q: Run Selenium WebDriver test on a linux server I'm trying to run a test implemented with selenium webdriver on a Linux server with chrome and no display
this my java code
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/home/exploit/Bureau/chromedriver");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("https://www.google.com");
        WebElement element = driver .findElement(By.id("lst-ib"));

to run this program (jar) a start the Xvfb with the command
Xvfb :1 -screen 5 1024x768x8 &
export DISPLAY=:1.5

when I run the program I got this Exception after a bit long waiting
12:39:53.483 [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] DEBUG           o.a.h.i.conn.DefaultClientConnection - Connection 0.0.0.0:51411<->127.0.0.1:9069 closed
12:39:53.483 [Forwarding newSession on session null to remote] DEBUG o.a.h.i.conn.tsccm.ConnPoolByRoute - Notifying no-one, there are no waiting threads
Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally
(Driver info: chromedriver=2.9.248304,platform=Linux 3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
  Command duration or timeout: 60.69 seconds
  Build info: version: 'unknown', revision: 'unknown', time: 'unknown'
  System info: os.name: 'Linux', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '3.10.0-    123.13.2.el7.x86_64', java.version: '1.7.0_79'
  Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver
  Session ID: 6c811fab5c809544094e1f9e1d96ef6a
      at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:526)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:188)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:145)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:531)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:215)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:110)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:114)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:161)
    at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:107)
    at com.atos.esope.Extractor.extTest(Extractor.java:76)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
    at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:317)
    at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:201)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy27.extTest(Unknown Source)
    at com.atos.esope.Program.main(Program.java:32)

and when I try to run chrome separately a got this problem
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
Xlib:  extension "RANDR" missing on display ":1.5".
[3207:3207:0505/171255:ERROR:url_pattern_set.cc(240)] Invalid url pattern:         chrome://print/*
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
libGL error: Try again with LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose for more details.

the questions are :
is the problem in locating the driver or in chrome or I need some additional configuration ?

A: I have tried it using Firefox.You need to guide Firefox so that it executes in the Xvfb.
You can try the following:
String Xport = System.getProperty("lmportal.xvfb.id", ":1");

final File firefoxPath = new File(System.getProperty("lmportal.deploy.firefox.path", "/usr/bin/firefox"));

FirefoxBinary firefoxBinary = new FirefoxBinary(firefoxPath);

firefoxBinary.setEnvironmentProperty("DISPLAY", Xport);

A: Here error log Chrome failed to start: exited abnormally clearly states system was not able to start chromedriver but it was able to find it. As you are trying to run on linux server using jenkins, just try to download and enable plugin XVFB on jenkins and use this block of code. Hope this helps!
            if(service == null){
                service = new ChromeDriverService.Builder()
                        .usingDriverExecutable(new File("/usr/bin/chromedriver"))// set the chromedriver path
                       .usingAnyFreePort()
                        .withEnvironment(ImmutableMap.of("DISPLAY", ":15"))
                        .withSilent(true)
                        .build();
                service.start();
            }

            System.out.println("Reading chrome driver");
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","/usr/bin/chromedriver");
            ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
            chromeOptions.addArguments("--headless");
            WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
            driver.get("https://google.com");
            driver.quit();
 }
        catch(Exception ex){
        System.out.println(ex.getMessage());
        }

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The whirlybird can't fly like the rest of the birds. It's clumsy, loud and doesn't like straight lines!For the whirlybird everything happens in circles and twirls, flips and tumbles, but it longs to be part of the flock.
Come and enjoy this ugly-duckling tale told through puppets and music, set in a beautiful birds nest made of willow.
Part of the Puppet Animation Festival, performed by Eco Drama for ages 3-7 and their families.
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The WILCO Brescia team organised a public seminar in collaboration with the Brescia City Council Department for Social Services and Family Policies. The title of the seminar was: "Cities between vulnerability and innovation. Elements for a discussion stemming from a European research". Social assistants and social workers of the Municipality of Brescia were invited to assist the seminar as a training occasion.
First, objectives, methodology and steps of the research project were presented.
Second, comparative research results from WP3 were presented, with particular reference to labour and housing markets and policies. The case of Brescia, a Southern European city with segmented social policies, was presented in the context of the other European 19 cities involved in the research, and of their respective national welfare system.
Third, research results from WP5, and particularly cases of social innovation in The Netherlands, were offered as examples from other contexts. Francesca Broersma presented three cases of local innovation: "BOOT – Neighbourhood Stores for Education, Research and Talent Development" and "Neighbourhood Mothers Catering" in Amsterdam, and the "Work corporations" in Nijmegen. Analysis emphasised the relation between universities and neighbourhoods, in order to identify services that are really needed at the very local level (for BOOT); the collaboration between public and private actors; the focus on people's competences, instead of their lacunae; the commercial approach of some of the projects (the objective to make a profit, to be reinvested in the projects themselves) in order to guarantee their sustainability and continuity in time.
Fourth, representatives of the bodies carrying out the activities selected as local innovation case studies were invited to a roundtable to discuss about facts, criticism and possible perspectives of innovation (see the list in the programme below). The consequences of the crisis in the local area were discussed, particularly how the loss of jobs of breadwinners has provoked in some cases the loss of the family dwelling as well, putting higher pressure on the local housing policies. Another consequence is related to the fact that many young people are unemployed and still live with their parents, who cannot correspond to their high expectations in terms of living standards. The presence of many innovations in local programs in the Brescia area was underlined, but of very small size and highly fragmented, also because of the narcissism of local actors. The need to overcome the discouragement of both individuals and organizations was highlighted. The drastic reduction of resources was said to call for innovation in the "production of welfare", in order to reduce the cost of welfare services without reducing their quality. In particular, bureaucratic regulation should be updated and simplified. The role of the Municipality will increasingly be one of coordination rather than of direct production.
Finally, the implications in terms of social investment were recalled, and the need for the development of "active social policies" was underlined.
11:30 Roundtable: Social innovation in Brescia: experiences, criticalities, perspectives. Chair: Costanzo Ranci, Polytechnic of Milan. Interventions of: Felice Scalvini, City Councillor of Brescia for Policies for the Family, the Person, the Health; Achille Gasparotti, Province of Brescia; Alessandro Augelli, Informagiovani and Cooperativa Il Calabrone; Michele Bordin, Associazione Bimbo Chiama Bimbo; Manuela Archetti, Immobiliare Sociale Bresciana.


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Former Morgan Stanley Clients Win $4.2 Million FIRA Award Due to Negligent Supervision of Barred Broker Aaron Parthemer
Posted on Saturday, January 5th, 2019 at 11:25 am
In December 2018, a former client of Morgan Stanley won an award in a FINRA arbitration for $4.2 million for negligent supervision related to investment losses with barred broker Aaron Parthemer (CRD# 2546369). The FINRA arbitration panel found Morgan Stanley to be liable for negligence, negligent supervision, and violation of FINRA Rules 3110 and 3120.
One former client, a Mega Millions lottery winner, was awarded $2,379,000 in compensatory damages, as well as $953,000.00 in pre-judgment interest and post-judgment interest. A second client, former NFL cornerback Asante Samuel, was awarded $863,700.00 in compensatory damages, plus $15,300.00 in pre-judgement interest and post-judgment interest. Morgan Stanley was also liable for and shall reimburse the claimants the sum of $750 for the non-refundable portion of the filing fee.
The investors were clients of financial advisor Parthemer. The causes of action included breach of fiduciary duty; negligence and gross negligence; violations of FINRA Rules 2111, 3110 and 3120; and negligent supervision. The causes of action relate to Claimants' investments in the South Beach Club and the 7020 Club. The FINRA arbitration hearing was conducted in Miami, Florida.
The Florida broker was known to socialize with celebrity clients in the National Football League (NFL) and the National Basketball Association (NBA). The barred broker is accused of participating in outside business activities related to investments in a Miami nightclub in which he had ownership stake.
Parthemer was registered with Wells Fargo in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 2011 to 2015 and Morgan Stanley in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from 2009 to 2001. Parthemer was terminated from Wells Fargo in April 2015 following FINRA allegations. Parthemer was a National Football League Players Association (NFLPA) Registered Financial Advisor between 2012 and 2015.
In July 2018, two professional athletes – Udonis Haslem and Louis Delmas – filed claims against Morgan Stanley, seeking $600,000 for failure to supervise Parthemer. It is alleged that Parthemer recommended his clients invest in Miami nightclub Club Play, a club that is no longer in operation, in 2010 and 2011.
In August 2018, Haslem formerly of the Miami Heat, filed a $413,000 complaint against Parthemer regarding, "Claimant alleged, inter alia, FA solicited outside investment opportunities not authorized by firm – 2010 to 2011."
In July 2018, Delmas filed a $180,000 complaint against Parthemer regarding, "Claimant alleged, inter alia, FA solicited outside investment opportunities not authorized by firm – Feb 2011- July 2011."
In June 2018, Morgan Stanley paid $600,000 to settle a $1.6 million customer complaint from Antoine Bethea, an Arizona Cardinals safety regarding, "Claimant alleged, inter alia, that FA solicited to him outside investment opportunities that were unauthorized by the firm and which the FA had a personal interest."
In March 2017, The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) barred Parthemer and sanctioned him to $160,000 in civil and administrative penalties and fines. The SEC found that between 2009 and 2012, Parthemer sold more than $5 million in unregistered, illiquid securities to professional athlete brokerage customers and investment advisory clients in an internet branding company known as Global Village Concerns, Inc. Parthemer's participation in the sale of GVC securities occurred outside of his employment with Wells Fargo. The SEC alleges that Parthemer misrepresented and omitted material information about the GVC investments to his investment advisory clients, and he presented information to his client without conducting due diligence.
In April 2015, FINRA alleged that Parthemer engaged in outside business activities without providing notice to Wells Fargo, and based on the findings he was permanently barred from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to the public. FINRA found that Parthemer loaned almost $400,000 to a firm customer for something non securities related, despite firm prohibitions against such transactions. It is alleged that Parthemer also, "presented to firm customers an undisclosed private security in which the customers ultimately invested in approximately $3.08 million of preferred stock of a company," according to the Acceptance, Waiver and Consent form. Parthemer also provided false information and documentation during the FINRA investigation.
Parthemer raised more than $5 million in capital from Wells Fargo customers for an unregistered and illiquid company, Global Village Concerns, Inc., a branding and marketing company that helped high schools and non-profit organizations earn money by selling customized school or organizational memorabilia and products. It is alleged that Parthemer sold these securities to NFLPA members and other investments clients of Wells Fargo and Morgan Stanley, communicating to the investors that they would see millions, despite not having any basis for this valuation. It is also alleged that Parthemer misrepresented and omitted material information about the investment to his clients, and he failed to conduct due diligence regarding the validity of information regarding this investment.
In September 2015, Parthemer was the subject of an investigation by the New Jersey Bureau of Securities which alleged that he engaged in dishonest or unethical practices in the securities business.
Parthemer has been the subject of 10 additional customer complaints between 2015 and 2018, one of which was denied, according to his CRD report:
August 2018. "Claimant alleged, inter alia, FA solicited outside investment opportunities not authorized by firm – 2010 to 2011." The customer is seeking $413,000 in damages and the case is currently pending.
July 2018. "Claimant alleged, inter alia, FA solicited outside investment opportunities not authorized by firm – Feb 2011- July 2011." The customer is seeking $180,000 in damages and the case is currently pending.
February 2018. "Claimant alleged, inter alia, misrepresentation with respect to investments – 2007 to 2017." The case is currently pending.
September 2016. "Claimant alleged, inter alia, that FA solicited to him outside investment opportunities that were unauthorized by the firm." The customer is seeking $205,000 in damages and the case was settled for $120,000.
July 2016. "Claimants alleged, inter alia, that FA solicited to them outside investment opportunities that were unauthorized by the firm." The customer is seeking $7,818,162.85 in damages and the case was settled for $360,000.
June 2016. "Claimants allege, inter alia, that from June 2009 to October 2011 the FA recommended an investment that was not authorized by the firm." The customer sought $1,425,000 in damages and the case was settled for $228,000.
June 2015. "Claimants allege, inter alia, that in 2009 and 2011 the fa recommended an investments that was not authorized by the firm." The customer sought $4,864,846 in damages and the case was settled for $1,100,000.
May 2015. "Negligence, gross negligence, breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, fraud in the inducement, and breach of fiduciary duty." The client was awarded $700,000 in damages.
May 2015. "Negligence, gross negligence, breach of contract, fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent misrepresentation, fraud in the inducement, and breach of fiduciary duty" The claimant was awarded $200,000 in damages.
Pursuant to FINRA Rules, member firms are responsible for supervising a broker's activities during the time the broker is registered with the firm. Therefore, Wells Fargo may be liable for investment or other losses suffered by Parthemer's customers.

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Do you ever feel like decorating projects take forever? I often struggle to stay focused on just one room at a time, which results in a lot of rooms halfway decorated. If you're the same way, you should totally challenge yourself to focus on one room for a few weeks and see how much of a difference it makes. For me, the difference is HUGE!
Just five weeks ago, I started the One Room Challenge and set out to transform our master bedroom from its hodgepodge, half-decorated state into a relaxing, decorated escape. Five weeks goes really fast when you only have evenings and the occasional weekend to work on things! But I love a good challenge and was determined to complete our bedroom makeover.
I'm beyond excited to show you the result of my decorating focus. The before and afters are my favorite part of any room makeover, and this post is filled with them! It's amazing to me to look at them and realize just how much decorating I accomplished when I focused on this one room. I tend to have a gazillion projects going at once, which means that things take forever to get finished. So it's nice to actually wrap up this room in a reasonable time frame.
If you're not familiar with the One Room Challenge, it's hosted by Calling It Home each spring and fall and a couple hundred bloggers usually participate. The challenge is to completely make over one room in five weeks. All the bloggers share weekly progress updates, and then today is the day when we all reveal our completed rooms. So there are a lot of room tours in blogland today!
Here's a quick look at the original state of our bedroom. I hadn't spent any time on it since we moved into our house about a year and a half ago, so it definitely needed some sprucing up. There wasn't anything horribly wrong, but it felt far from complete. The basic furniture was all in good shape, and I knew I could make everything look more polished with a good color scheme and some paint.
Check out our bedroom! It feels brand new and has become such a relaxing place to retreat to in the evenings.
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The walls are a beautiful shade of navy and the trim and closet doors are crisp white. The bland beige is completely erased from this room! I use Valspar's Night Swim color and am so pleased with it.
I love this beautiful pin tuck white comforter I found at a ridiculously low price. We've had it for a month now, and it still looks gorgeous. We treated ourselves to these new white sheets from Target, and I am very happy with how soft and silky they feel. The subtle pattern is a nice touch. I found a couple blue pillows at Gordmans, a place I only stopped in by happenstance. They have a pretty nail head type embellishment on the edging. Here's the link to the same pillow on Amazon, although they were quite a bit cheaper at Gordmans.
I was working diligently on a headboard this past week, but threw up my hands in DIY defeat a couple days ago. Some DIY projects just aren't meant to be, right? I still want to add in a headboard, but am going to save that project for another day.
I needed something to hang above the bed, and ended up relocated the thrifty magnolia wreath and vintage frame that I created last week. Although I didn't intend to hang the wreath in this room, I really like how it looks.
One big thing we wanted to improve in our bedroom was the window treatments. We had cheap mini blinds up, which didn't block nearly enough light in the mornings. So we opted for neutral cream color Eclipse blackout curtain panels. They have a soft canvas look to them and keep the room nice and dark while we're sleeping.
Those two shadow boxes to the left of the window (above photo) are items from our wedding day. I made them a long time ago and hadn't yet found a place for them since we moved into our house. Bedrooms are a great place to decorate with sentimental items.
The grey nightstand turned out so gorgeous! Much prettier than the cheap pine nightstand it was previously. It looks so sharp and refreshed with a coat of this dark grey chalk paint.
The nightstand in the corner to the right of the bed is made up of two crates stacked on top of each other. I didn't have a lot of room to work with square footage wise or in my budget, so these were a great solution since I already had them on hand.
Ooh, I have to point out that adorable blue jar and succulent. I came up with the idea to place it on my side of the bed to use as hidden storage. My nightstand typically has lots of hair ties and bobby pins all over it, so my plan is to lift up the artificial succulent and drop my hair accessories in the bottom of the jar at night. I think it will be an easy peasy way to keep them corralled and out of sight.
This light fixture from 1STOPLighting is such a perfect touch to the bedroom makeover. I love the name of this fixture: Indulge.
Here's a close-up of the light fixture. Doesn't it look beautiful? I'm going to elaborate on our light installation in a future blog post. This was my first time replacing a light fixture, and I learned a lot!
I really like the layered glass globes and the brushed metal. This light fixture has some great character, and I feel like it could easily transition into many decorating styles.
My favorite view of the whole room is the top of my white dresser. I painted my old pine dresser with this pretty white chalk paint. I had never used chalk paint before, but it made painting furniture much less stressful than I expected. The finishing touch is the lovely diamond acrylic knobs from D. Lawless Hardware. Read more about this dresser makeover here.
The flowers, frame and sunburst mirror were all found in clearance aisles at Hobby Lobby and Michaels, and that jewelry tray is a thrifty DIY project (tutorial here).
Check out that gorgeous view of the top of my dresser! I love this photo.
I was struggling to find something for the top of David's tall dresser. It was tough to decorate since the dresser is at an angle. I ended up filling this white vase with clippings from the ugly bushes in front of our house. Those bushes are a bit crazy outside, but their branches look so great in vases!
Check out these beautiful concrete taper candle holders. Merely Modern is an online boutique filled with pretty decor, and they sent me these candle holders to complete this room makeover.
The concrete adds another element of texture to the overall look of this room. I adore this set of candleholders so much.
That 'Life' pallet sign on the right side of the closet was a DIY project I made a while ago. It's made from some thrifted wooden plaque things, and the result was this pretty sign. See the details in this blog post.
These white shelves fit so nicely between the closet doors to the right and the door to the hallway on the left. I found that giant white metallic frame on clearance at Kohls, rounded up a white frame I had and added some greenery to complete the look. The top two vases are filled with more clipping from the bushes in front of my house. You can't beat free!
Check out the piano bench I found for $10 at the thrift store! It was a classic pine and I gave it a new life with this dark grey chalk paint to match my nightstand. I painted the tips of the legs with gold spray paint. It fits perfectly on this little wall between the door and the closet.
The full piano bench makeover tutorial is coming to the blog soon!
And finally, let me show you our super organized closet! It's so much better than before. I purged a ton of clothes, added some pretty hooks from D. Lawless Hardware, and filled the upper shelf with white storage bins.
I have so much to share about our organized closet, so look for a future blog post on the subject. I did the whole thing following the KonMari method and look forward to sharing more with you soon. If you haven't yet read The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I'd highly recommend getting a copy!
I am a sucker for a pretty basket with a label, and these just look so great on top of our closet shelf. You can download a free printable of my blue labels in this blog post. I inserted them into some luggage tags and attached to the baskets.
I am a thrifty gal, but making over an entire room does take some money. So I set aside a budget and planned out our entire room with the help of the most amazing site for budgeting projects – Itsums.
You can check out my project budget and find links to all of my product sources on my Itsums board. If you have a decorating project on the horizon, I'd highly recommend using this site to keep track of your expenses.
Many things in this room are DIY projects. I've compiled the tutorials here in one place for you. I have several more to write over the next few weeks, so I'll continue to update this section as I write more tutorials about everything in this room.
Thank you to 1STOPLighting, Merely Modern and D.Lawless Hardware for providing fabulous products to complete this room makeover. They are amazing!
And thank you for taking the room tour today, and for cheering me along during the past five weeks. It went fast, but I'm so happy with the end result. What's your favorite feature in the room?
If you can't get enough of great before and after room tours, be sure to visit all of the other bloggers sharing their One Room Challenge makeovers today.
Wondering how I plan out a room makeover? Learn my method for planning a room makeover using Pinterest without getting overwhelmed by all the pretty pictures. I'll show you how I collect ideas and inspiration and turn them into a cohesive decorating plan.
What a dramatic improvement! I love the wall color and you can never go wrong with classic blue and white!
My favorite feature is the bed. I really like the comforter and the throw pillows. The small white pillow looks good because the triangles in the design really tie in with the stitched design on the comforter. I also really like the grey with the blue and white. Your bedroom looks so elegant now.
Simply beautiful! I love the navy and gray pallet you got, and the room feels like a cocoon for relaxation!Congratulations and CHEERS to us for another room done!
What an amazing makeover! I am just in love with everything you did to this room! From the lighting to the dresser drawer pulls, every detail is just spot on. And that color is gorgeous! I am in the middle of making over our master bedroom, and your before and after pictures are just so inspiring. Very very nice!


So for the first of the "Hardest lessons to learn in Archery" articles I promised I am going to go with one of the most popular topics drawing down, sometimes called coming down from a shot. These articles are designed to help archers and are based on a survey and poll I posted on Facebook and Tumblr, where I asked what archers found the hardest.
So drawing down is when you have drawn up to your target, ready to release, but know something is wrong. for one reason or another it doesn't feel right, but you still take the shot usually with negative results of a miss and knowing you shouldn't have taken the shot. For some reason you can't hit that reset button, finding it impossible to draw down your bow and start again.
So why is it so hard? Why can't we just hit the magic reset button and draw down?
You do it as a beginner when you first start.
Well think of it from this point of view, taking a shot is part physical part mental. Your muscles know what to do but your head is different. You've got yourself psyched up to take that shot and then at the last stage, you have to admit something is wrong or doesn't feel right. That can feel like a big hit to your confidence, especially if people are watching.
Why might you need to draw down?
when we start down our archery path, it's not uncommon for us to flick the arrow off the rest, normally because we are twisting the string. As we progress and skills develop this happens less often, but maybe other things happen.
You might see movement behind the target, that catches your eye, distracting you from the shot.
When drawing up to take your shot, there is the programming in your head or maybe I should say the expectation to release the arrow. In back of your mind you don't want to admit that something is wrong or that you may have done something wrong.
One way you can try to overcome this problem is to condition yourself to draw down, or rather condition your head to accept that each time you draw up you don't have to shoot.
One way of trying to overcome this mental block is to start programming your brain that the action of drawing down is normal. An effective way of doing this s to train yourself when practising to not to take each shot, i.e. every time you draw up does not result in a taking a shoot.
So when you are on the practise bosses, try this addition to your normal program, don't shot your 3rd arrow immediately.
Allow me to explain, when you get to shoot the 3rd arrow draw up as normal, anchor, settle aim and at the point you would normally release the string, don't.
Instead draw down, go back to your ready position. Take you hand off the string and relax. Take a couple of breaths and then draw up and if it feels right take the shot. So why do this?
Well it starts to condition your mind into that mind set that when you draw up it does not mean you will have to always take the shot. Effectively retraining your brain.
This may sound strange but builds your muscle memory and gets your confidence, it helps to make you realise that you don't always have to take the shot. It goes a long way to improve your control.
Don't get me wrong as it won't be easy. There are times you draw up and feel perfect, but if it is your third arrow come down and do it again. You might draw up 2 ,3, 4 or more times but over time you will get used to the feel and not let it effect you.
Try to remember just because you draw back doesn't mean you have to take the shot.
It is a hard lesson to learn, but when it works and it will with practise, it feels great. It feels like you have retaken control of the shot and your archery.
Try the technique and let me know if it works for you or if you have something else that works. I sincerely hope this has helped, please let me know what you think.