I had 15 minutes before my next meeting, the question was; to FroYo or not FroYo... To FroYo of course! As well as coming back with a scrumptious blueberry covered Itsu FroYo, I aslo was able to do a spot of style stalking on the way! Happy Days!
To die for shoes from Alexander McQueen, worn with stacked beaded anklets, loving the fashionista look mixed with summer holiday chic!
The gorgeous Nino, heads up the Criterion, which she owns along with her brother. Her effortless style caught my StyleStalking eye, as I am a massive fan of pencil skirts with rock chic tees, it screams carefree and confident. The mass of silver bracelets and rings tops off this look to a tee!
Yep this chick certainly ticks every Style-inspiration box going!!
Really cool style! i'm fan of the t-shirt and skirt combo too!
i love the casual skirt/edgy sandals combo, excellent post!
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[BN] Blitz Podcast, March 26: Catching up with busy offseason
By Vic Carucci|Published Thu, Mar 26, 2015
In the latest edition of the BN Blitz Podcast, Jay Skurski and I get you caught up with all of the moves the Buffalo Bills have made during an exceptionally busy offseason.
We talk about the Bills' thinking behind the acquisitions of running back LeSean McCoy, tight end Charles Clay, and how those and other transactions will impact what happens on the field this fall.
We go over the philosophical approach of team owners Terry and Kim Pegula, and how their big spending directly relates to the hiring of coach Rex Ryan and his staff of his assistants.
We discuss the impressive work of General Manager Doug Whaley so far and the areas he still is looking to address.
We cover the quarterback position -- from wild offseason rumors involving Drew Brees and Philip Rivers to the competition that will be waged between EJ Manuel and Matt Cassel for the starting job.
And we answer the questions that many of you asked via Twitter to our accounts: @viccarucci and @jayskurski.
There's plenty here to help satisfy your Bills fix, and Jay and I will be back to deliver much more throughout the offseason.
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Q: Unused lines in web.config, do these affect performance? I'm gradually building quite a complex project.
In the process of which I am also learning ASP.NET which I am new to.
Consequently, having experimented with various plugins (ASP.NET AJAX, JSON.NET) and found that in fact I didn't need them, my web.config file has become rather full up with lines added by Visual Studio, which in fact aren't used.
Since they've been automatically added and I am new to ASP.NET I am not sure which lines can be removed and which can't (some are more obvious than others of course)
So I was wondering what performance affect, if any, these extra lines, which may refer to unused plugin, will have.
Just for example, I have decided to stick entirely with jQuery for all my AJAX requirements. If I were to leave the AJAX.NET code lines in the web.config file (and the .dlls in my bin folder) will this affect performance, or is none of this loaded unless requested?
(if it makes any difference, I am coding with VB, not C#)

A: The web.config data is cached when an application first starts. Changes to the web.config will make your app restart.
So extra lines won't give you any performance problems because it's only loaded once.
However, if you refer to any unused HttpModules in your web.config this could reduce performance (Check tip 3 at 50 Tips to Boost ASP.NET Performance). You should remove them to make sure they don't run each request.

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Thrills as Ninzo monarch mounts saddle
The new Uchu Fadan Ninzo, Alhaji Umar Musa
Recently, the people of Ninzo in Southern Kaduna gathered in large numbers as Governor Nasir el-Rufa'i installed a new traditional ruler for the chiefdom. It was also a great opportunity to showcase their rich culture and tradition.
At the presentation of staff of office to the 15th Uchu Ninzo, Alhaji Umar Musa, in Sanga Local Government Area of Kaduna State by Governor Nasir el-Rufa'i, spectators were thrilled by the dancing steps of the Ninzo cultural troupe. clad in hyena and tiger skin costumes, assorted beads, waiving well-knitted animal tails, with calculated movements, the dancers twisted their bodies, swirling their hands in the air as they showcased their talents. Fearful-looking masquerades also performed calculated acrobatic dances. These performers wearing glittering costumes also danced to a resounding and thunderous applause from the highly thrilled guests. Other dancers and artistes also performed to add colour to the event, just as many exciting cultural entertainments took place to showcase the rich culture and tradition of the people.
Masquerades performing at the event
Various speakers used the opportunity to preach the need for peaceful coexistence through dialogue, as well as why youth restiveness among Ninzo people should stop. The event attracted people from all walks of life, including prominent sons and daughters of Ninzo at home and in the diaspora.
The newly installed traditional ruler was advised to give everbody in his chiefdom a sense of belonging in order to carry them along. He was also charged to exhibit transparent leadership qualities in the course of his duties.
Governor El-Rufa'i said the state government was determined to ensure that traditional institutions reflected their true nature and responsibilities. He said there was the need for traditional rulers to carry all their subjects along in all fields of human endeavour, irrespective of tribe and religion, as this would entrench unity and peaceful existence, which are the guiding principle for development.
He challenged the 15th Uchu Ninzo to rule with the leadership qualities of his predecessors and promote mutual trust and understanding among his subjects. The governor reiterated that this would create an enabling environment for meaningful development in all parts of the state.
Describing traditional rulers as partners in peace building, Governor El-Rufa'i vowed to protect the institution, stressing that all hands must be on deck to preserve it.
A group of dancers waiting to entertain guests
Responding, the new Uchu Ninzo expressed appreciation to the state government and his subjects for considering him worthy to occupy the royal throne. He pledged to justify the confidence reposed on him by cultivating the spirit of togetherness and communal life aimed at attracting investment. He promised to tap the tourism potentials in the chiefdom and harness the abundant mineral deposits therein.
While soliciting for support and cooperation from the people, the monarch promised to inculcate the spirit of love, peace and justice for the chiefdom to attain greater heights in socio-economic development in all ramifications.
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This is a three part case study in finding out how much mortage should I take on to fit into my plan to FI in the next 10 years.
Big items (houses and cars) should always be purchased in a recession or bust period.
A mistake make in either of the two can take years and years to recover from…especially the house.
My main goal for the next upcoming recession is to buy a home for our family. We have sacrificed a lot over the past years. We had to rent in many places due to affordability issues and my kid has taken the brunt of all the moves…in terms of not having a constant set of friends both at home and in school…especially in school due to the many times we have moved and changed schools. I am ready to put down roots in one place so that my family can settle down.
How much does a 3Bed/2Bath home cost in my area?
What is the monthly mortgage payment going to look like?
I will not get a mortgage above $625,000.
This is the jumbo loan limit and I am not paying Mortgage Insurance and not maxing out my financial slavery.
What does my monthly payment look like for a $625,000 mortgage?
How soon can I pay off the $625,000 mortgage?
With that, I am going to crunch some numbers for a 30 year mortgage. My ideal early retirement is in approximately 10 years. But, I cannot afford a 10 year mortgage…trust me on this…I have crunched the numbers and it is not pretty. The best case for me is a 30 year mortgage. Why?
Hence for safety and flexibility, a 30 year mortgage is the best option for me.
I have used a mortgage amortization calculator (link below) which gives me the details on how my monthly mortgage payment is split into interest and principal repayment and how long before my entire loan is repaid. I am going to use that calculator to come up with the nos below.
Repayment time is 30 years.
Repayment time is 20 years.
Repayment time is 15 years.
Property taxes from the calculation.
Assuming a 1.25% property tax rate, it is not unreasonable to have a $1000 per month property tax in my HCOL area.
But, assuming that this expense is tax deductible, I will ignore this cost.
Lets estimate this to be $200 pm.
So, appx $500 more per month needs to be budgeted for house maintenance and insurance expenses.
The next two case studies will tackle a $525K mortgage and a $425K mortgage.
$900K is way too expensive, but I guess that's the price to pay to live close to family. I'm not sure if I'd go for that type of house. That is "against" the retirement community philosophy. Taking MMM or early extreme retirement. The MMM live in a multifamily unit or always have roommate to share the cost.
the EER live in a mobile home. Lifestyle changes to afford the early retirement plan is the easier way to go. There has to be some "scarifies", otherwise you'll need incredible luck for all of this to happen again.
Thanks for dropping by Vivianne!
Yes. $900K is very expensive and as I have calculated in this blog post, it will take me 15 years to payoff the mortage…5 years longer than my plan for FI. I also agree that without sacrifices, we cannot achieve everything. So, what is my plan?
When I wrote this blog post on $625K mortgage, it is one part of three ideas. I am going to explore the three ideas in subsequent posts to see how my FI plan can hold and we still get our family home paid.
++ $525K mortgage and $425K mortgage.
I went to a school that rank 1/10 now. I don't say any swear words. Generally, that's because at home we have our rules, then when I go out to the world, I apply the same rules. The point is you can't leave everything to the educator, you have to do your part as parents.
I get to play varsity on everything if I choose to play anything, most kids don't like to get involve, so if I get involved on freshman year, by sophomore year, I'm varsity. I played varsity golf.
I graduated top of my class. It would be a lot harder to achieve when I go to a "good" school. This open door to tons of scholarship. I had 4 full tuition package at my fingertip.
People were less pretentious. Of course there were some peer pressure of what to wear. But these HS kids still poor, vs in rich area, it will be super hard being frugal. I spend $0 on prom, just borrowed a dress from my cousins.
Teachers are much younger, so they have a lot of motivations. Well, they are fresh out of college, can't get into a good school, so they are stuck with a "bad" school. They saw a dedicated kid like myself, recommendations from them were top notch.
There is a lot of wisdom here. I am really thankful for them. As a parent, I want my kid to have it better than me. But, that leads to indecisiveness. Sometimes all it takes is wisdom like you have shared to push me over the indecisiveness. Much much appreciated.
Wow- Unless you want to work for the rest of your life a $625,000 mortgage is definitely out of the question – Heck I think even 425,000 plan is way too much. The secret for saving a large portion of you income is to minimize monthly spending. Unless your family lives next door to you it is definitely worthwhile to consider moving to LCOL areas. (If you can make >100K in a LCOL area that is really the secret to FI!).


Subamachar Upazila belongs to Noakhali District in Chittagong Division of Bangladesh. Subamachar upazila was created with 8 unions, Chorojbor, Charbata, Charclerk, Charwapda, Charjubilee, Charamanullah, East Charbata, and Mohammadpur (চরজববর, চরবাটা, চরক্লার্ক, চরওয়াপদা, চরজুবিলী, চরআমানুল্ল্যাহ, পূর্ব চরবাটা, মোহাম্মদপুর). Its quite densely populated area with several mouzas and hundreds of villages. Major crops include Paddy, pulses, potato,betel leaf, chili, jute, oil seed, brinjal, sugarcane, and vegetables.


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Bethpage Air Show Returns to Jones Beach; Sold Out Show Livestreamed for First Time
US Air Force Thunderbirds display their precision flying at Bethpage Air Show, Jones Beach, Long Island, for Memorial Day weekend. For the first time the sold-out performance on May 29 will be livestreamed (raindate May 30) © Karen Rubin/goingplacesfarandnear.com
Bethpage, NY –Bethpage Federal Credit Union and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation announced the final lineup for the 2021 Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach. This year's show, which is sold out, will take place Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 29, 2021 and Sunday, May 30, 2021 10 AM – 3 PM.
Those who were unable to purchase passes to attend the sold out show at Jones Beach, or who would like to view from the comfort of their own home, will be able to view the show through a livestream of the event available at WABC-TV https://abc7ny.com/, as well as on WABC's Connected TV Apps on Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Apple TV, and Roku. The livestream will air Saturday, May 29, 2021 with a rain day of Sunday, May 30, 2021.
The final lineup for the show includes show headliners the United States Air Force Thunderbirds returning to the Bethpage Air Show for their 8th appearance; the United States Army Golden Knights Parachute Team performing in their 15th Bethpage Air Show; the United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II, the first aircraft to be designed for close air support of ground forces; and the U.S. Coast Guard Search & Rescue Demonstration.
Civilian performers at this year's Bethpage Air Show include the world-famous GEICO Skytypers and their flight squadron of six vintage WWII aircraft, the American Airpower Museum Warbirds, Long Island's own David Windmiller, the Bayport Aerodrome Society, the SUNY Farmingdale State College Flying Rams who will fly seven of their 22 college-owned aircraft in a fly-by piloted by their top academic professional pilot performers, and Mike Goulian, North America's most decorated aerobatic pilot.
An air show first, livestream viewers will be treated to a special inside look at performances. The GEICO Skytypers, the A-10 Thunderbolt, David Windmiller and Michael Goulian will have cameras on board their planes to provide viewers with an in-cockpit perspective, live, during the show.
"We are very pleased to be able to bring back a beloved Memorial Day weekend tradition," said Linda Armyn, Senior Vice President, Bethpage Federal Credit Union. "Not only does the weekend help honor our country's military, but hundreds of thousands of Long Islanders and visitors have made the show their official kick-off to summer."
For those who plan to view the show from the water, "The Coast Guard and partner agencies will be enforcing a No Entry Zone for boaters off of Jones Beach State Park during the air show to ensure the safety and security of the event. The No Entry Zone will be marked with orange colored buoys." If there is an emergency on the water, the Coast Guard can be reached on VHF channel 16 or dial 911. For safe boating information visit: www.uscgboating.org"
Known to many as the Greatest Show on Long Island, the Bethpage Air Show was canceled last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Show organizers instead held the first Bethpage Virtual Air Show which enabled fans to experience performances straight from the pilots' cockpits.
The Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach is one of the largest and most respected air shows in the country. During the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds' most recent headlining appearance in 2019, over 366,000 attended the Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach.
"We are thrilled to welcome back the Bethpage Air Show and show headliners, the United States Air Force Thunderbirds," said George Gorman, Director, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historical Preservation. "We encourage those who were unable to buy parking passes, to view the livestreamed show online. It's going to be a spectacular!"
The Bethpage Air Show at Jones Beach is sponsored by Bethpage Federal Credit Union, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Newsday, WABC-TV Channel 7, Northrop Grumman, Natural Heritage Trust, Connoisseur Media Long Island, Catholic Health, and PSEG Long Island. The show can be heard in its entirety on WHLI 1100 AM.
For up-to-date information about this year's show, visit www.bethpageairshow.com or https://www.facebook.com/BethpageAirShow/, or contact the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Regional Office, Recreation Department at 631/321-3510.
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It is more helpful to focus on the issue of what should be done to address this violence. There are significant challenges in determining the best approach at practical, legal and political levels that require debate going beyond the sensational. It is also crucial to recognise the actions of those working at the coalface of these intensely difficult areas in ways that are supportive rather than undermining.
The law reform commissions of South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Papua New Guinea have all been seriously engaged in thinking through how to regulate in this area. At the heart of the issue is the stubborn reality that the populations in these and many other countries often sincerely believe that sorcery or witchcraft is responsible for the misfortunes that afflict them and their community. Such beliefs need to be taken seriously by regulators and policy-makers, or people will continue to take the law into their own hands through vigilante justice as documented by a series of United Nations reports. The difficulty lies in working out how such concerns can be addressed by a state justice system constrained by procedural and evidential frameworks. Possible options lie in creating mutually supporting relationships between customary and state justice systems, utilizing lower level courts that may have more flexible procedures, as well as mediation and restorative justice approaches.
Despite the overwhelming demand for "law" to fix sorcery related problems, it is also clear that any way forward must be multi-sectoral and involve meaningful engagement with communities. One such approach is currently being trialed in Papua New Guinea where in July this year the National Executive Council approved the Sorcery National Action Plan. This adopts a comprehensive approach focusing on five key areas: care and counselling, education and awareness, legal, health and research. The action plan envisages a holistic response that targets both the immediate goal of cutting the link between accusation and violence, and long term goals involving education about both human rights and alternative explanations for misfortune.
It is still too early to determine the ultimate effectiveness of this plan, but local Papua New Guinean movements against sorcery related violence are also emerging. Moved by graphic images of the torture of several women and a man in the Southern Highlands Province posted onto Facebook in the months previous, the Catholic Bishop of Mendi called for a conference on Sorcery Related Violence that took place on 28 October 2015. Over 150 people accepted his invitation and representatives from government agencies, police, courts, churches, women's groups and community leaders gathered to devise their own, local response to the violence. This included creating pathways for communities and police to overcome the fear of retaliation and lack of responsiveness that currently hinders the operation of the criminal justice process.
There was also support for criminalizing the activities of so-called diviners who are often called upon to identify suspected sorcerers, often with fatal consequences. Such people were referred to as "a scourge on society" who "fan the flames" of sorcery related killings in a recent judgment of the National Court of PNG. In this case two men were each sentenced to twenty one years imprisonment with hard labour for a sorcery accusation related murder, demonstrating the justice system does sometimes lead to justice. These recent events in Papua New Guinea indicate that there is much to be gained in focusing on what can and is being done about sorcery accusation related violence, instead of the usual hand-wringing of the international media.


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The KUNM news team's coverage of the 2020 legislative session and its impacts
Lawmaker Says Gun Bill Would Help Prevent Suicides
KUNM | By Taylor Velazquez
Published January 24, 2020 at 7:28 AM MST
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New Mexico has a gun death rate higher than the national average, and two-thirds of those deaths are suicides. The Extreme Risk Firearm Protection Order Act being heard this legislative session is controversial. Opponents say this bill is a form of gun control and violates the U.S. Constitution, but its supporters say it's a necessary step in mental health care.
Sixty-eight percent of gun-related deaths in New Mexico are suicides, putting mental health and wellebing at the center of this contentious gun law debate. Democratic state Rep. Daymon Ely from Corrales said his firearm bill allows law enforcement or family members to seek a court order to hold someone's guns for up to a year. With this measure, there would be a hearing after the first two weeks, and the gun owner can request a termination hearing after that.
"This is all about suicide," Ely said. "It obviously is intended, also, to try and prevent these mass shootings. But that is much more difficult to determine. I think where it really impacts my constituents and their families is the risk of suicide."
This goal isn't to take a person's guns way, Ely said, but to reduce or eliminate harm someone might inflict on themselves or others and get poeple the help they need. He agrees with his opponents that rebuilding New Mexico's mental health care system is also a top priority, and he said he believes that these are the next steps if this bill is passed.
Last year, almost all the sheriffs departments across the state opposed a similar measure, saying it was unconstitutional and would not work.
This story is part of the project: Your N.M. Gov. Funding for our legislative coverage is provided, in part, by the Thornburg Foundation, the New Mexico Local News Fund and KUNM Listeners.
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Infantry Tools & Tactics
The Small Arms Thread, Part 8: 2018; ICSR to be replaced by US Army with interim 15mm Revolver Cannon.
schv
big bullit
h&k still sucks
qbz is dominate
By Khand-e,
October 27, 2014 in Infantry Tools & Tactics
Khand-e 1,911
Khand-e
The forum avatar of seething hatred.
Excommunicated
LocationA little town called "None of your goddamn business."
Well, thread title is pretty obvious, It's a continuation of the original HAV thread without certain shitstains ruining it, post away.
LoooSeR 2,240 posts
Sturgeon 2,043 posts
Khand-e 837 posts
Donward 747 posts
Collimatrix
Let's all take a trip back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was the time of punk. This was the time of despair. Punk was all about minimalism; strip everything down to a few chords, wear
LostCosmonaut
So what, my 5.56 rounds are groundbreaking too if I shoot the dirt.
LoooSeR
Stechkin's Abakan (TKB-0146). https://www.kalashnikov.ru/abakan-stechkina-avtomat-stechkina-tkb-0146/ Bullpup, system of "recoil impulse shifted in time", 2-stage
Collimatrix 3,742
The Atomic Prince of Punk
Forum Nobility
Well, I like the sense of continuity with the HAV community but... what exactly are we supposed to post in the small arms thread in the small arms subforum? Just general bits and bobs that are topical, but not topical enough to fit anywhere else?
Donward 3,056
Donward
Master Steward and Keeper of the Gudpoasts
LocationSeattle, WA
30-30 lever action bestest gun.
45-70 also good.
If the second number denotes the grains of black powder needed to propel the projectile, it will do.
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks 1,082
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks
Baby's Beloved Hunting Hound, Sherman Tank Masterba-
LocationMarin County CA
I have really small arms, so handling my gun is hard...
LostCosmonaut 2,348
Intensive Porpoises
LocationUpstate NY
An odd request, but does anyone have pictures of a Soviet soldier with an StG 44 during WW2?
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Putin's Alt Account
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LostCosmonaut and That_Baka
It would have made a good club, I guess.
Does anyone have pictures of a Soviet soldier with an AS-44 during WWII?
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Valued Shitpoaster
These troops are supposedly using AS-44s but I'm not sure if they are.
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Tough Old Hombre
The prominent rear-sight block and lack of muzzle beyond the front sight block says StG-44 to me.
Question since I've seen so many recent posts about the Beretta 92F over at TFB.
Why is a slide safety/decocker ifeature so derided by gun officionados?
I get why the 92F is hated since it replaced the Holy 1911 and fires the 9mm Euro-pellet. But inevitably the issue of the safety placement is brought up which draws collective nods and affirmations of "Ayup. Slide safety bad."
And I know there were issues with accidental discharges with the M9s safety/decocker. But I chalked that up to poor armory maintenance on beat-to-hell guns.
I own a 92F and while there are issues I have with it, the safety is not one of them. It's ergonomic and right there by the thumb, ready to go, with just a flick. On the other hand (get it, hand?) my paws are fairly large which has always stood me good when handling something as large, curvy and voluptuous as a sexy Italian handgun.
So are the complaints about the Beretta's slide safety more a problem with 1911 guys with small... erm... decockers?
The safety is perceived to reduce the strength of the slide. Frankly, I think that's BS, but w/e.
The current fashion is for handguns to have minimalist or no manual safeties and striker-fired pre-loaded triggers. The Beretta comes from an earlier time when they didn't know what the hell people would want from semi-autos so it has fifteen different fire modes.
It's a fine handgun.
Let's all take a trip back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. This was the time of punk. This was the time of despair.
Punk was all about minimalism; strip everything down to a few chords, wear clothes you fished out of a garbage can or made yourself and infect yourself with parasitic worms so that when you vomited on some other asshole in a fight, they got parasitic worms too. It wasn't pretty, but it was cheap and it worked.
Punk was about to hit pistol design in a big way. The aglockalypse was just around the corner. The glock is the practical application of punk to the art of small arms design. It's reminiscent of John Browning's early striker-fired design prototypes for the hi-power, only made out of plastic and missing half the parts. Not pretty, but cheap and it sure does work.
The world was very different in the punk era. Remember that in the United States, violent crime increased dramatically in the late 1960s. In the 1970s they were still figuring out what to do about that. They hadn't had a few decades for the idea that gunfights were just something that might happen day to day to sink in, so the art of practical handgun usage was in a pretty sorry state.
Or rather, practical handgun knowledge was in a hilariously bad state at the time. I read through a police marksmanship manual from the late 1960s or early 1970s; it's like an infantry tactics manual written pre-WWI. It's heartbreakingly naive because they hadn't seriously had to seriously think about the problem before then. They had come from a more peaceful world, and were still getting their bearings in the grimdark of the 20th century.
This police marksmanship manual still taught the FBI crouch. The FBI crouch is a sort of distillation of the WWII-vintage Fairbairn-Sykes theory of gunfighting, which emphasized speed over accuracy. The idea behind the FBI crouch is that you crouch down so that you're harder to hit, and you sort of get your dominant arm that's holding the weapon into a repeatable, ergonomically neutral alignment with the rest of your body so that you can aim with your entire body. As you can see, this isn't a shooting stance that allows you to use the pistol's sights. In some variants of the stance, you cross your left forearm over your torso so that incoming bullets have that much more flesh to go through before they start hitting your vital organs.
Basically, it's the sort of theory of how to gunfighting that you might come up with in a society that, until recently, hasn't been doing a whole lot of gunfighting.
Everything was in a more primitive state than it is now. Nowadays you can go into a gunstore and have dozens of brands and styles of pistol ammunition to chose from; hollowpoints of all descriptions line the shelves, each promising to kill people more dead than the next one. Oh, and you can buy full metal jacket if you need something cheap for practice. Back then, full metal jacket was the fancy stuff; the most common ammo was cast lead. Also, cops weren't totally sold on automatic pistols until about halfway through the '70s, they still mostly used revolvers. Also, almost nobody owned a handgun. It was considered weird. Owning a rifle or a shotgun was perfectly normal; what else are you going to go hunting with? Owning a handgun was weird because handguns are for shooting people, and why are you even thinking about shooting at people you weirdo? The laws and court precedent for self-defense cases were a lot different then too. Formerly peaceful society, still coming to grips with the grimdark.
So, secret about Beretta; they basically want to make hunting shotguns and make up-scale hunting apparel. They can't design automatic firearms actions to save their lives. Whenever they have to make something automatic they rely on Germans to design the things for them. The AR-70, for instance, was originally a joint design effort with SIG (SIG's evolved into the SIG-540/550 series). The ARX-160 was designed by Ulrich Zedrosser, who, as you might surmise from his name is not Italian. The Beretta 92 is the last in a line of Beretta pistols that started off basically as clones of the Walther P-38.
You can imagine it; Beretta in the 1970s doesn't really know what makes an automatic pistol a superior combat piece, although they've been making clones of the Walther action long enough that they can make them work very well. Cops don't know how to gunfight either; all they know is that these automatics seems a whole lot easier to shoot yourself with than revolvers, so they're going to need some sort of super-duper double safety device. Some want double action with a decocker, some want a safety as well, someone want a combined safety decocker...
So Beretta shrugs their shoulders and tries to please all these cop agencies. Obviously, they're mainly going to be selling these things to cops and military and a very small number of weirdos.
Meanwhile, Jeff Cooper, Jack Weaver and a small but growing number of practical pistol competition shooters are figuring out how to actually fight with a handgun. Meanwhile, in Austria, long-standing armament maker Steyr is about to get a nasty surprise when the Austrian Army holds a competition for their next pistol.
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Tell us more bed time stories Colli! That was great!
If you haven't read colli's post, do so. He's entirely correct.
So, it's worth pointing out for this generation that the above situation is why Jeff Cooper is important. I've said a lot about what a weirdo Jeff is, and how stupid his scout rifle idea is (OK, realtalk: Just because an idea has an internally consistent train of logic does not make it a good idea), but he was one of the first to concern himself with the idea of the fighting civilian. The scout rifle is like the FBI crouch: It's not really a great idea, in retrospect, but the scout rifle has its origins as far back as 1966 - so even then Cooper was thinking about the problem of, basically "what happens if there's something like Ruby Ridge?" almost thirty years before that actually happened. And yes, the Bren Ten handgun is goofy and stupid, but it was an answer to a question that was brand new at the time.
For people interested in tanks, you can draw parallels between this situation and that which resulted in the American tank destroyer doctrine. I was walking through the Barksdale Air Power Museum about a week ago with my father, and we were talking about Butterfieldian historiography and the Apollo program, and as an example he brought up the American tank destroyers. "I was reading an article," he said "about the tank destroyers, and what they were trying to do. Nobody had stopped the Blitzkrieg at that point, but they knew they needed to. I tell you what, they didn't end up using them quite that way, but somebody was really thinking when they came up with that idea."
Indeed. Here's to you, Jeff Cooper. For thinking where few else did.
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I cringe every time he picks up the thing by the muzzle end, but here is lifesizepotato's review of the Arsenal Strike One:
It's certainly mechanically interesting, and he's right about Russian forces using 'em:
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I heard that this is a thread for dumping weird gun shit into.
http://imgur.com/a/Sq6U6
That's an oddball for sure.
I love the turn-of-the-century-style snakeoil salesman self-promotion.
23 mm sniper cannon, used by AFAIK Chalifate.
Video of it in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC8CTVevijk
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So, yes, being that I am very lazy at times, and I really want a post I made regarding Taiwan and their love of thier US equipment and basing their future armament off of it much of the time transferred from the original small arms thread over here, behold the ghost of copy-paste past.
"I guess reference photos would be nice for what I'm referring to here. (warning, quite a few, will be featured in here if you're not really interested, just skim by this post.) basically, this fun little tidbit I shall call a mini showcase of Taiwanese small arms being used.
One thing I have been told by some Taiwanese friends is that, in general, their armed forces are generally quite trusting of US based designs (or, Belgian and Joint Belgian/US designs in the case of the SCAR/Other FN designs) that will be illustrated here somewhat. though they have accepted other foreign designs before.
T91 (Guess it goes with the trend that Taiwanese soldiers are quite insistent on not wanting to replace with AR-15 and 18 based designs they've been using for a while for a new design.)
SOPMOD/Flat top
and then the XT-97 (note, the caliber change thing I mentioned earlier could merely be a confusion as one of my Taiwanese friends pointed out there's also a Taiwanese Pistol with the same designation that, judging from It's appearance looks based on a Glock 17 with a manual side safety, I'll have to look into it.) Also now been told It's intended more for marines and airborne forces. Christ finding concrete info on Taiwanese gear is even worse then Chinese gear, and that's saying ALOT. also, one notable difference that exists is that it actually uses a bolt head more styled like an AK pattern rifle as opposed to any Stoner design.
Note: nevermind to the above, there is infact a 5.56mm AR and 9mm SMG both based on the same design.
Image showing version with alternate stock and top rail designs among other changes, aswell as a carbine variant. also once again featuring the T91, the 86 that's the older, full length direct impingment variant more based on the M16A2 memory serve me, and the T93 sniper rifle based on the M24
And just a few bonus pictures.
The XT-98, a modernized "marksman" variant of the T57 (License built copy of the M14) in Similar Fashion to the Mk.14/M39
and JUST because I feel BabyOlifant hasn't quite had a stroke yet, it turns out the GPC concept has spread to Taiwan, perhasp they should stop reading our random firearms forums, as they've also more recently developed a short stroke piston driven robustly built (sort of like an IAR from what I've been told) AR-15 variant that has a caliber of 6.8mm.....though, in this case, by committing what he'll probably consider the ultimate heresy of doing so by necking out standard 5.56x45mm casings. said rifles are known as the XT100 and XT101 with the difference being the barrel length and robustness mostly.
So, there's my little mini section on Taiwan and some of their insight into the AR-15/18, the SCAR, M14 and SSP AR-15's with IAR and alternate caliber variants. (and I guess a Cameo appearance from the M24/T93).
Also, the XT97 Pistol which caused some initial confusion on the rifle.
(Glock 17 with manual safety for....some reason?)"
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Glocks need as many redundant safety features as you can slather on them given their taste for their owner's blood.
Glocks need as many redundant safety features as you can slather on them given their taste for stupid people's blood.
That XT-97 rifle does have one interesting feature:
The receiver appears to be stamped sheet steel with rails welded RIVETED; I CAN TOTALLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE in, ala AKM. Most SCAR-clones are extruded aluminum.
I'm also curious what that pin running through the side of the bolt carrier does.
Edited December 10, 2014 by collimatrix
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Takedown pin?
Given the clientele for Glocks, I thought adding the phrase "stupid people" was redundant and pretty much assumed.
*Drops mike*
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By LostCosmonaut
There are many who feel that the 5.56 NATO is a superlative rifle round. Much has been said about larger alternatives to 5.56, such as various 6.5mm and 6.8mm rounds among others. Less has been said about smaller rounds. Off the top of my head, I can recall that there was a German 4.6x36mm round, used in the HK36, and the British 4.85x49mm round. Neither of these rounds managed to gain widespread acceptance. My knowledge of the voodoo that is ballistics is somewhat limited, so I'm uncertain as to whether these failures were caused by flaws with the rounds themselves, or because they were below some lower limit of effective bullet size, beyond which performance decreases rapidly. Could we see a resurgence of these concepts in the future, or do they represent an evolutionary dead-end?


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Gaggenau / Mannheim / Kassel, Oct 4, 2021 - The Mercedes-Benz powertrain plants in Germany are starting production of key components for the battery-powered eActros. They include the electric axle and the battery packs, which are produced and assembled at the plants in Gaggenau, Kassel and Mannheim.
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Q: Долгий systemctl автокомплит При попытке systemctl start|stop|status tab tab - очень долго ищет подходящие варианты. Как можно исправить или в чём проблема?

A: Причина вроде как кроется в вызове процедурами завершения systemctl столько раз, сколько юнитов systemd существует на данный момент, - как-то так. Теоретически следующий патч /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/systemctl должен исправить положение:
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79 F. 3d 647 - 23918v Lindemann v. Mobil Oil Corporation
79 F3d 647 23918v Lindemann v. Mobil Oil Corporation
79 F.3d 647
Pens. Plan Guide P 23918V
Diane L. LINDEMANN, Plaintiff-Appellant,
MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Defendant-Appellee.
Argued Feb. 16, 1996.
Decided March 27, 1996.
Rehearing Denied April 12, 1996.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. No. 94 C 5052, Ruben Castillo, Judge.
Frank p. Tighe, III (argued), Oak Brook, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Jeffrey M. Cross, Patrick J. Ahern (argued), Stephen A. Wood, Kelley, Drye & Warren, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before POSNER, Chief Judge, CUMMINGS and BAUER, Circuit Judges.
CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the question whether a district court abused its discretion by requiring a plaintiff to exhaust her administrative remedies prior to filing a federal lawsuit alleging a violation of the Employee Retirement and Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. § 1140. We hold that the decision was not an abuse of discretion and therefore affirm.
At the time of her termination, Diane Lindemann had been employed by Mobil Oil Corporation ("Mobil") for roughly seventeen years. She had taken twenty-six "sick days" in the two years prior to her termination and was compensated for each under Mobil's employee benefits plan. On the morning of May 31, 1994, Lindemann called her supervisor to request that she be allowed to miss work that day. It is disputed whether she asked for a "sick day" or just for "the day off," but in any event the request was denied and she did not show up for work that day or the next. As a result, her employment was terminated by a letter dated June 6, 1994. The letter stated that she was "unable to fulfill the duties and responsibilities of [her] job" because of her failure to be at work regularly and on time.
On June 27, 1994, Lindemann filed a claim for benefits with Mobil in the following letter:
I feel I am entitled to severance pay with Mobil Oil Corp. With 17 years of dedicated service and always rated FP on performance appraisals, I have been under 2 doctors care and because I called in sick to my Supervisor on May 31 & June 1 which was beyond my control to avoid, my supervisor J. Lieb when I reported to work on June 2 & June 3 refused to talk to me and on June 6th terminated my employment with Mobil Oil. I asked to talk to an E.R. advisor but was refused a phone call & told me to call from home. I called Bob Harrop, E.R. advisor when I got home and asked him questions and he said he would call me back but never did. Please look into the situation and advice [sic] me.
On August 12, 1994, Mr. Harrop wrote to Lindemann to inform her that he had reviewed her claim and found that she was ineligible for separation benefits because she had been discharged "for cause." Lindemann filed a lawsuit against Mobil on August 18, 1994, alleging that she was terminated in violation of Section 510 of ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1140. That section provides that "[i]t shall be unlawful for any person to discharge ... a participant or beneficiary ... for the purpose of interfering with the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled under the plan." 29 U.S.C. § 1140. She sought reinstatement and the award of back pay as her remedy for the violation.1
After filing the lawsuit, Lindemann requested that Mobil review her original administrative claim. Mobil upheld the denial of her claim on initial review November 10, 1994, and again on final review November 29, 1994. Because the district court found that Lindemann's administrative claim had involved only her entitlement to severance pay, and not the ERISA violation alleged in her lawsuit, the court held that she had failed to exhaust her administrative remedies on her ERISA claim and thus granted Mobil summary judgment.
We review the grant of a summary judgment de novo, viewing the facts alleged in the complaint and the legitimate inferences to be drawn therefrom in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. East Food & Liquor, Inc. v. United States, 50 F.3d 1405, 1410 (7th Cir.1995).
We agree with the district court that Lindemann failed to make an administrative claim that Mobil interfered with her right to short-term benefits by terminating her. Her only administrative claim, quoted in her letter above, makes no mention of Mobil wrongfully discharging her or interfering with her short-term benefits; it states only her belief that she was "entitled to severance pay" and that she wished someone to review that claim. Thus she did not exhaust her administrative remedies on the ERISA claim prior to pursuing that claim in federal court.
Lindemann makes two arguments why her failure to exhaust her administrative remedies should not bar her federal claim. First, she argues that we should carve out an exception to the exhaustion requirement for situations such as hers. She agrees that the exhaustion requirement makes sense where the plan participant is seeking to recover the actual benefits allegedly interfered with because there an administrator's interpretation of the plan is useful to a court reviewing the benefits claim. However, she argues that where the plaintiff's claim is for wrongful discharge and she is seeking only reinstatement and back pay, an administrator's interpretation of the plan is irrelevant and the exhaustion requirement is thus useless. In support of her argument, she points out that the Third, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits have created a distinction between claims for benefits, which require exhaustion, and claims based upon ERISA itself, which do not. See Held v. Manufacturers Hanover Leasing Corp., 912 F.2d 1197, 1205 (10th Cir.1990); Zipf v. American Tel. & Tel. Co., 799 F.2d 889, 893 (3d Cir.1986); Amaro v. Continental Can Co., 724 F.2d 747 (9th Cir.1984).
However, Lindemann fails to note that an administrator's interpretation of a plan is not the only useful function served by the exhaustion requirement. Exhaustion also "enables plan fiduciaries to ... assemble a factual record which will assist a court in reviewing [their] actions." Makar v. Health Care Corp. of Mid-Atlantic, 872 F.2d 80, 83 (4th Cir.1989). Furthermore, Congress's apparent intent in mandating internal claims procedures found in ERISA was to minimize the number of frivolous lawsuits, promote a non-adversarial dispute resolution process, and decrease the cost and time of claims settlement. See 29 U.S.C. § 1133; 29 C.F.R. § 2560.503-1; see also Communications Workers of Amer. v. American Tel. & Tel., 40 F.3d 426, 432 (D.C.Cir.1994) ("Exhaustion may render subsequent judicial review unnecessary because a plan's own remedial procedures will resolve many claims."). Thus we have noted that exhaustion "support[s] the important public policy of encouraging private rather than judicial resolution of disputes under ERISA." Kross v. Western Elec. Co., 701 F.2d at 1246 (7th Cir.1983). These functions are served whether the plaintiff structures her claim to seek the actual benefits allegedly interfered with, or to seek other remedies such as reinstatement. These advantages outweigh a plaintiff's relatively minor inconvenience of having to pursue her claims administratively before rushing to federal court, and we note that we are not alone on this issue. See Hickey v. Digital Equip. Corp., 43 F.3d 941, 945 (4th Cir.1995); Communications Workers of Amer., 40 F.3d at 432; Miller v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 925 F.2d 979, 986 (6th Cir.1991); Simmons v. Willcox, 911 F.2d 1077, 1081 (5th Cir.1990); Curry v. Contract Fabricators Inc. Profit Sharing Plan, 891 F.2d 842, 846 (11th Cir.1990); Leonelli v. Pennwalt Corp., 887 F.2d 1195, 1199 (2d Cir.1989); Drinkwater v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 846 F.2d 821, 825-826 (1st Cir.1988), certiorari denied, 488 U.S. 909, 109 S.Ct. 261, 102 L.Ed.2d 249. Thus the law of this Circuit remains that the decision to require exhaustion as a prerequisite to bringing a federal lawsuit is a matter within the discretion of the trial court and its decision will be reversed only if it is obviously in error. Powell v. American Tel. & Tel. Comm., Inc., 938 F.2d 823, 825 (7th Cir.1991).
Second, Lindemann argues that her failure to exhaust her administrative remedies should be excused because doing so would have been futile. In order to come under the futility exception to the exhaustion requirement a plaintiff must show that "it is certain that [her] claim will be denied on appeal, not merely that [she] doubts that an appeal will result in a different decision." Smith v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wis., 959 F.2d 655, 659 (7th Cir.1992) (emphasis added). Lindemann's only argument for futility is that her ERISA claim is so similar to her claim for separation benefits that Mobil would have denied it as well. She offers no evidence on the issue. Mobil's letters denying Lindemann's administrative claim stated only that she was not entitled to separation benefits because Mobil's employee benefit plan explicitly contains the following limitation: "Employees will lose eligibility for Enhanced Separation Benefits if ... discharged for cause." The two claims are not so identical that Mobil's denial of the claim for separation benefits demonstrates with certainty that it would deny the ERISA claim as well. As discussed above, Lindemann herself argued that her wrongful termination claim was so different from a benefits claim that an exception to the exhaustion requirement was warranted. In short, Lindemann has not shown that it would have been futile for her to pursue her ERISA claim administratively.
Finally, Lindemann argues that the district court should not have granted Mobil summary judgment, but instead should have granted her a stay of her case pending completion of administrative review, which she requested in a motion to amend her judgment pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 59(e). The decision whether to stay a proceeding is entirely within the district court's discretion, and Lindemann has not demonstrated that Judge Castillo abused his discretion here.
Judge Castillo's decision to require Lindemann to exhaust her administrative remedies prior to pursuing her ERISA action in federal court, and his decision to grant Mobil summary judgment as opposed to staying Lindemann's case were not abuses of his discretion.
Judgment affirmed.
Because Section 510 prohibits only the termination of a plan participant for the purpose of interfering with "the attainment of any right to which such participant may become entitled," and because Lindemann's lawsuit does not allege any interference with long-term benefits, it appears that her claim is that Mobil violated section 510 by terminating her employment for the purpose of interfering with her right to take sick days


Video showing the making of new PlayStation game's commercials goes behind the scenes, and under the water, of cosplay.
There's plenty of reason to be excited about Exist Archive, the just-released PlayStation 4 and Vita title from publisher Spike Chunsoft. Not only is the side-scrolling RPG the latest creation of talented video game developer tri-Ace, it's also the spiritual successor to the tragically underappreciated Valkyrie Profile series, which ran out of steam following the release of its third installment back in 2008.
And even if that isn't enough to grab your attention, the game has a pair of captivatingly beautiful commercials that show off some amazing cosplay.
The above video features model Sana Hoshimori, dressed as the game's Ranze. A separate commercial focuses on fellow adventurer Mayura, who's portrayed by Michigan-born model Tiffany Haruka.
Along with the ethereal background music, the performers' silent gazes create an intoxicating, otherworldly atmosphere.
That aura of mystery is a perfect fit for Exist Archive, since the game's events are set in motion when its principal characters die and enter the afterlife. However, that's not the reason neither Ranze nor Mayura utters a word in the videos. No, the reason they're both so taciturn is because the commercials were shot underwater.
To achieve the levitation-like effect, both Hoshimori and Haruka stepped into a pool in full costume and makeup, where they were filmed by Manabu Koga, the photographer behind the photo collection of underwater schoolgirls we talked about last year. It wasn't an easy process, as shown in this video that documents the making of the two commercials.
As we've seen before, there's a lot of work that goes into good cosplay, and this unusual location came with a number of challenges. Most obvious is the lack of oxygen, meaning that the commercials had to be filmed in short bursts of 40 seconds or so, after which the models had to return to the water's surface for air.
▼ That stream of bubbles is telling the staff that Hoshimori's time is just about up.
Also, Ranze and Mayura don't wear masks or goggles, which meant a similar lack of eye protection for the two performers. "I couldn't see anything [while we were filming]," explains Hoshimori.
Other complications included keeping their flowing costumes and hairstyles from floating around too much and blocking the shot, as well as the difficulty of moving around underwater while completely clothed.
In the end, though, their hard work paid off in the form of two uniquely breathtaking videos, which remind us that even when promoting digital entertainment, a talented artist can still find a way to incorporate practical effects, and also that you can't be afraid of getting a little wet in your pursuit of cosplay perfection.
Follow Casey on Twitter at @NatsuKazeOtoko to hear him pounce on any reason to talk about how much he loves Valkyrie Profile.


Julien Gardener is a very successful poker player both in the US and Europe. In 2002, Julien had his biggest win in the US at the WSOP main event, placing second and earning $1.1 million. Since then, he has placed in the money at the 2003 and 2004 WSOP main events. In Europe, Julien has made a countless amount of final tables, including his biggest European first place at a 2000 European Omaha Championship in France, winning $73k. Julien started playing poker right out of high school and is one is called the "Harry Potter" of poker due to his age and accent.
Julien Gardener is a live poker tournament event player and has played poker since 2002.Gardener's poker tournament results and statistics include 1 1st place finish, 2 final table appearances, and 6 in-the-money finishes for $1,254,149 in total poker tournament event earnings over the years.


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Exxon's Big Bet On Algae Biofuels Is Crumbling
By Alex Kimani - Jul 08, 2020, 1:00 PM CDT
In the late 2000s, Big Oil led by Royal Dutch Shell (NYSE: RDS.A), BP Plc. (NYSE: BP), ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), and Chevron (NYSE: CVX) hyped algae biofuel as the fuel of the future, pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into the emerging industry with promises of decarbonization and energy innovation. More than a decade later, the algal biofuel dream has remained just that--a dream--with virtually all big players but one--Exxon--pulling the plug on their expensive projects.
In 2009, Exxon entered the algae biofuels race with a bang, teaming up with unicorn biotech startup Synthetic Genomics Inc., and outlining plans to invest more than $600M in the clean energy project. Exxon had lofty ambitions to produce algae biofuel within a decade but later pushed back the ETA in 2018 by saying it planned to produce 10,000 barrels of algae biofuels per day by 2025.
Exxon now stands as the only oil and gas supermajor that is still pursuing algae biofuels in a big way with the company claiming on its website to have invested ~$250M in biofuels research over the past decade.
However, it's going to take some serious feats of financial engineering for Exxon's algae biofuels to compete in this era of $30-$40/bbl oil or for the company to convince its critics that this is not just another attempt at greenwashing.
The Future of Energy?
To be fair, algae biofuels are not such a terrible idea.
Algae does have some clear advantages over other biofuel candidates, mainly because these photosynthetic microorganisms are super-efficient at converting sunlight into biomass, have high lipid content of up to 80% for some varieties, and are more versatile than, say, corn, a common biofuel crop. Indeed, ancient algae lipids, not fossilized dinosaurs, are responsible for the crude oil that these companies pump. From a technical standpoint, the oil-company-funded efforts to turn algae into fuel were largely successful. However, it's proven really hard to make the economics of algae biofuels competitive with those of crude.
Mind you, oil was at ~$100/barrel at the height of the algae biofuel craze with even government agencies ponying up funds for algae research. But it's becoming increasingly clear that we could have entered the era of "Low Forever" with oil prices set to remain depressed for years if not decades. Indeed, an employee of algae-based bioproducts firm Cellana has told BI that crude would have to be around $500/bbl for algae biofuels to compete successfully.
Related: Oil Falls After EIA Confirms Large Crude Inventory Build
Several scientists have questioned the economics of Exxon's algae biofuels and termed the prospects of commercial algae biofuel within the next decade unrealistic. Others have labeled Exxon's algae efforts a PR charade.
Others have swung to the furthest end of the pendulum.
A couple of years ago, Exxon published an article on the New York Times website titled "The Future of Energy? It May Come From Where You Least Expect" where it touted its algae biofuels advances. Unfortunately, this was viewed as just another example of Exxon's evolving climate denialism and landed the oil giant in trouble.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey quickly filed a lawsuit against Exxon Mobil, alleging that Exxon's marketing of "green" petroleum products under flagship brands like Mobil 1 and Synergy was a thinly veiled attempt to mislead consumers about the role of its products in climate change. The AG said that Exxon's frequent use of the New York Times editorial section was meant "...to shift public perception and was among the most significant and longest regular — in this case, weekly — uses of media to influence public and stakeholder opinion in modern U.S. history."
Healey took issue with the fact that Exxon failed to mention that 10,000 barrels of algae biofuels constituted a mere 0.2 percent of the company's refinery capacity.
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Algae make other products such as protein and omega-3 fatty acids that are far more valuable than diesel. Exxon might have to tweak its business model and concentrate on these high-value products and sell the resulting fuel as a by-product.
Alternatively, it could simply write off its algae biofuel assets. But good luck with that considering that it has stubbornly refused to follow the lead of Shell and BP who have written off ~$40B of their shale assets following the oil price crash.
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Bill Simpson on July 12 2020 said:
Synthetic production of fossil fuels using any human developed process will probably always be too expensive to do. The conversion from sunlight to useful fuel is way too inefficient to be profitable at a cost we could afford. You would use as much, or maybe even more, energy as you would get from the final fuel.
It is good biology research, but that is about it. You will probably never be driving around on algae fuel. Batteries, and maybe hydrogen fuel cells someday, are the way to go. Although hydrogen is also doubtful, since it has to be made from something else. Not to mention that is a gas, which is not very energy dense, like a liquid is.


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Sermon notes: "Joy May Follow"
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I had the pleasure of preaching at Universalist National Memorial Church today, and by request am posting my notes. Be warned, these notes have as much in common with what I said today as grapes have with vinegar, but most of the points are there. The readings and benediction follow.
Thanks for returning to the pulpit
My thanks to UNMC pastors Crystal Lewis and Dave Gatton for having me return to the pulpit this morning, and thanks to you as we mark this third Sunday in Advent.
"Sing praises"
As we heard a few minutes ago, Isaiah said:
"Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth. Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst, is the Holy One of Israel." (Isaiah 12:5-6)
Let this be known in all the earth...
But how, friends, shall we sing praises, among ourselves, much less all the earth?
Since the last time I was in this pulpit, the world -- if anything -- seems dimmer. Not only are there more people desperate to flee violence in the Middle East, South Asia, the Horn of Africa and elsewhere, but the violence in Paris and San Bernardino makes it seem that the most vulnerable people are the first to be blamed. Indeed, we have one presidential candidate who has gone farther to stir up viscousness that I thought possible -- so far that xenophobic politicians can use him for cover.
And this says nothing about the older wounds fading from the news cycle, or the private hurts. The losses, the slights, the could-have-beens and what-never-will-bes at home, at work and in the wider world.
In short, there doesn't seem to be very much to be happy about. And yet I feel a lot of expectation to be happy, with Christmas coming, and everything.
How can we look at our world and and hope that joy will follow?
We tend to chose the wrong frame
But I'm not ready for Christmas
I've not bought a single present for Christmas. I've not decided on what cards to send, or if we're even sending cards from home. I've not even bought stamps.
Perhaps it's the warm weather. It doesn't feel like Christmas yet. And that's not even taking into account how sad and miserable Christmas can be. Like when someone you love has died and won't be here this Christmas. Or when you have to disappoint someone because the girt is wrong or the travel is too difficult. In those cases, it doesn't feel like it's time for joy.
But it's not just Christmas. We are fixed to our calendars
We mark our whole lives with calendars. Even before we are born, our development is marked and measured in weeks. As children, our lives our tied to school calendars, and often, as adults, to quarterly reports and fiscal years.
This time of the year, we are particularly aware of our calendars. So much ends with December, and if you work in a nonprofit, for instance, you know that this is the time to bring donations in. And time to buy a new calendar for 2016. The predictability of calendars is part of the appeal, I suppose.
Calendars aren't appropriate
But I think calendars, by simply existing can mislead us -- mislead us into thinking that God's desire for us can also be measured and scheduled.
If you can measure or schedule something -- like joy -- you risk acting like you have more control over than you really do. And I don't mean a pink candle, a cross-country flight or a doctor's appointment, as much as compartmentalizing our lives. Deferring everyday pleasures in hope of really enjoying something, somehow, sometime in the future.
But life is too short and too uncertain to be compartmentalized.
And I believe that we were made for happiness. And that we can and we should live our lives accordingly.
Joy, in particular, cannot be scheduled. It can be found or cultivated, but it cannot be scheduled.
So how can we find or cultivate it? We have some unlikely resources. Consider John the Baptist.
According to the passage we heard this morning,
John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
This is not what I associate with joy, you? But then again, John's an unlikely character. But he's certainly not someone who was likely to compartmentalize his life. What you see is what you get.
Usually depicted as a liminal, almost wild figure. He was probably acetic, certainly an apocalyptic, and given his diet of locusts and wild honey -- he was definitely Paleo.
His camel hair suit sounds scratchy (Matthew 3:4) and I suspect he smelled less than fresh.
But John was the forerunner, anticipating Jesus. When Mary spoke to Elizabeth, John -- still in utero -- John lept for joy. We're supposed to see him as a part of God's greater purpose, and that's not a tragic role.
Joy is more than getting what you want and when you want it. I wouldn't go so far as to say that John wasjolly, but he know what he was, know what he had to do, and saw it faithfully to the end.
How many of us can say that of our own lives? And what we do to know ourselves so deeply, to know what we must to fully, and saw it through completely? And if the outcome was goodness, in what was would that not be joy?
The Winchester Profession
Each week we recite the freewill declaration of faith that this church adopted in 2008. Before that, we recited the officially adopted declaration of faith that Universalists adopted in 1899.
But that was itself an interpretation -- and not a replacement -- for the cornerstone document of Universalist faith. It was adopted in 1803 in Winchester, New Hampshire, and so is commonly called the Winchester Profession. Its three articles are short enough to be printed on an index card. Here's the whole thing:
We believe that the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament contain a revelation of the character of God, and of the duty, interest and final destination of mankind.
We believe that there is one God, whose nature is Love, revealed in one Lord Jesus Christ, by one Holy Spirit of Grace, who will finally restore the whole family of mankind to holiness and happiness.
We believe that holiness and true happiness are inseparably connected, and that believers ought to be careful to maintain order and practice good works; for these things are good and profitable unto men.
There's a lot going on there.
The Winchester Profession isn't just focused on the nature of God or human destiny, but on how we should live our faith, and not simply think about it.
First, while we as Universalists speak about a lot about "the final destination" of the human family, our heritage puts equal weight on discerning our "duty" from scripture. A duty that isn't spelled out.
Second, that this final destination has a character derived not from chance or fortune or luck, but from God's own nature, and that this nature is love. Universalists would quibble that it's wrong to say we will be restored, as there was no factual Garden of Eden. Our common past might be mythic, but they agreed on the source of our hope for a common future.
Third, and this is the kicker...
Say, do you have a phrase that you go back to in times of stress. A quiet mantra that helps you frame difficult problem?
After the Lord's Prayer, my go-to phrase comes from the Winchester Profession.
"Holiness and true happiness are inseparably connected."
This little phrase reminds me of something early Universalists wanted to remind themselves and others. Just because God is loving, and will save all -- it doesn't mean that you can do just what you want.
For one thing, we have to face the idea of holiness, and that's going to be hard. For many of us, holiness is tied up from childhood with an expectation that God has prepared a list of dos and don'ts. If that was the case, correct living is a simple as doing certain things and not doing others. Mostly the don'ts.
We saw this dynamic vividly this year in Kentucky. We remember Rowan County clerk Kim Davis, who famously defied federal court orders to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. News coverage focused on the how, and less on the why.
But when I heard that she was a member of a Oneness Pentecostal church, it all made sense. Those churches practice what's called outward holiness. Some unkind commentators pointed out her unfashionable clothes, unmade-up face and uncoiffed hair. But looking plain is as much as part of her Christian witness as her refusal to issue the marriage licenses. Presumably, she also avoids movie theaters and doesn't wear jewelry, possibly not even a wedding ring. It's a kind of rule-based separation from the world that at the same time identifies the believer with God and -- here's the problem -- sets the believer over other people.
Kim Davis may not think so, but it's not hard to see her setting herself over other people. Wearing her faith on her sleeve and lording her authority over others.
I can respect her response to discipleship, but not its form or its effect.
At its heart, it seems based in fear, and taking it beyond Kim Davis -- because she's hardly alone in this -- that this kind of holiness is holiness in name only.
So, what should she -- or we -- do?
Holiness is...
Our Universalist tradition offers hints to a mode of holiness that is at the same time more life-affirming and more resonant with the Gospel.
The implication is that holiness is a way of life where we grow into closeness with God. Thus, there's no checklist.
The result of this closeness is not fear, but joy.
This closeness opens us up to be new people, unafraid of the moment's hardships.
This closeness slowly transforms us to see other people and the world around us a God would see it.
To grow closer to God is to hope that joy may follow.
Joy may, but not necessarily, follow
I don't want to mislead you. A life of increasing holiness and happiness takes work, and some people never know it in this life.
This isn't the kind of thing you receive in a flash, or that gets better over a fifteen minute sermon.
Not just personal holiness
And it's not limited to personal self-cultivation.
There is not one mode of happiness
You will never be happy -- truly happy -- living through someone else's dream. Just as a you are a particular person with likes and dislikes, your vocation in God -- one that will lead you to happiness and holiness -- cannot be copied in full from one person to another.
Tools for finding happiness
John, for all his wild manners, did not focus on doom and punishment, but in repentance; that is, for people to find to change their lives and to live in harmony with God.
This church is a school and hospital for people who want to grow into something new.
And here Joy may follow.
Surely God is my salvation; I will trust, and will not be afraid, for the LORD GOD is my strength and my might; he has become my salvation.
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation.
And you will say in that day: Give thanks to the LORD, call on his name; make known his deeds among the nations; proclaim that his name is exalted.
Sing praises to the LORD, for he has done gloriously; let this be known in all the earth.
Shout aloud and sing for joy, O royal Zion, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.
Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our ancestor'; for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children to Abraham.
Even now the ax is lying at the root of the trees; every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire."
And the crowds asked him, "What then should we do?"
In reply he said to them, "Whoever has two coats must share with anyone who has none; and whoever has food must do likewise."
Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they asked him, "Teacher, what should we do?"
He said to them, "Collect no more than the amount prescribed for you."
Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what should we do?" He said to them, "Do not extort money from anyone by threats or false accusation, and be satisfied with your wages."
As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah,
John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to untie the thong of his sandals. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
So, with many other exhortations, he proclaimed the good news to the people.
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice.
Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.


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Black-and-White Shuts Down
By Eugeniu Guzun 28/09/2021 No Comments
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Black-and-White Capital, a Brummer & Partners-backed hedge fund firm founded and managed by Seth Wunder out of Los Angeles, California, is shutting down. Brummer Multi-Strategy (BMS), the multi-strategy fund investing in the single-strategy hedge funds under the umbrella of Brummer & Partners, will redeem its entire investment in Black-and-White's tech-focused long/short equity strategy.
"We would like to thank Seth Wunder for his work in managing Black-and-White."
"We would like to thank Seth Wunder for his work in managing Black-and-White," Brummer & Partners writes in an announcement. "Since its start in 2016, Black-and-White has generated a return of 42 percent and has made a significant positive contribution to BMS' total return." Brummer Multi-Strategy had 15.1 percent of its SEK 36.7 billion portfolio allocated to Black-and-White's strategy at the end of August.
"Since its start in 2016, Black-and-White has generated a return of 42 percent and has made a significant positive contribution to BMS' total return."
Brummer & Partners holds a minority ownership stake in Black-and-White Capital and is the seed investor of the California-based firm's Black-and-White Innovation Fund. The fund has generated an annualized return of 7.5 percent since its inception on November 1, 2016. Black-and-White Innovation Fund returned 35.7 last year but was down 17.2 percent in the first eight months of this year. Black-and-White Capital launched a UCITS version of its tech-focused long/short equity strategy – IAM Black and White Innovation UCITS Fund – in December of 2019. The hedge fund firm had $966 million under management at the end of June this year.
As a former portfolio manager with Contour Asset Management, a long-short equity manager solely focused on technology, media, and telecommunications, Seth Wunder moved to Los Angeles and launched Black-and-White Capital in June 2016. Black-and-White's strategy involved capturing long and short alpha opportunities in both the traditional technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry and other sectors subject to technological advancement through fundamental research.
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Edon Manor Brings Joy Through Shoes
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Dries Van Noten feathers and plaid bring joy to this shoe lover's heart. Photo by Karen Rempel.
By Karen Rempel
Edon Manor is the new refined and ultra-hip babe on the block, with luxury shoes for the most artrageous among us, offered up with a cool vibe. Pink suede couches rim the room and pink hydrangeas adorn the ceiling, with fresh flowers and art books accenting shoes that are truly works of art.
Parsons and New School alumna Davinia Wang started the store with her friend, interior designer Ryan Korban, in 2007, with bricks and mortar in Tribeca. Edon Manor transplanted from Tribeca to the West Village in early April, due to changing demographics in the Tribeca neighborhood. The owners saw this as an opportunity to rebrand in a new area.
Sales associate and PR liaison Chrissy Sample describes the opportunities for shoe glory in the West Village, "This is considered the Carrie Bradshaw area of New York. It still has a great deal of history here."
Store manager and assistant buyer Jaclyn Chavez agrees with Chrissy's assessment of the style on the streets in the West Village. "The people here are definitely fashionable–they have their own personality. That's one of the first things we noticed the first few days we were open."
Jaclyn juggles buying trips to Paris and New York, selecting shoes at least six months in advance. She gets to see the full gamut from beautiful to hideously impractical. But it's usually clear which shoes are coming back to the store. "There are some things we see that we're so emotionally attracted to, like 'Oh My God this shoe makes me so happy, it's gorgeous.' If you can appreciate art in any form, you appreciate a great pair of shoes. The craft of the shoe, the thought, the effort that it took to create such a beautiful piece of art."
Jaclyn recalls that Dries Van Noten was a hard pick during a recent buying session because the entire line was so good. She adds, "We want women to feel empowered. The shoes should make you feel like you can get that job, go on that date, it should fulfill an emotional purpose… What do you feel when you look at this shoe? How happy does it make you?"
The store offers a bit for everyone, from crazy high heels to haute sneakers for clients who are part of the sneaker culture, including Givenchy, Isabel Marant, Gianvito Rossi, and Aquazzura. Edon Manor also carries sunglasses and designer bags.
Jaclyn Chavez and Chrissy Sample bring ultra-hip style-happy shoes to their clients in the West Village. Photo by Karen Rempel.
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Save Newport
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This website is to make the residents of Newport and Church Aston's voice heard over the huge plans to develop all the green land to the south and east of the town. The plans are being prepared in partnership with developers Davidsons Developments and St. Modwen and Telford and Wrekin Council.
The Plans
A multi-million pound scheme for Newport, which includes hundreds of new homes, a supermarket, business park and improvements to Burton Borough School, has been unveiled. This includes development of all the remaining green field sites along the eastern and southern boundaries of Newport from the A41 to Church Aston.
The new supermarket development together with a petrol filling station would be built off Station Road with plans including the provision of a new bus service around Newport as well developing on the land off the A518 into a business park. There will be up to 800 houses across sites at Audley Avenue, Grove Farm and the Audco/cement works site.
Burton Borough School
The clever marketing ploy that Telford and Wrekin have employed is to make the residents assume that the grant for the Burton Borough is part of the development, when in fact it has nothing to do with the planning. It is a separate Government funded Building Schools for the Future Grant and it is unlikely that it affects, or has any direct bearing on the huge development plans at all.
Short Term Thinking
Whilst Telford & Wrekin Council boast about the number of jobs they will be creating, there will not be enough jobs compared to how many people they are planning to bring into the town with this application. These people will find themselves travelling further afield to Telford, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury so surely contradicting the purpose? There will also be short term jobs for contractors, instead of long term prospect jobs.
Stay Local
Surely isn't it about time that these figures of power use their authority to improve what is already there in Newport, which is many local businesses constantly having to fight against the power of the 'big boys' in Telford. For it now to be happening on their own doorstep surely signifies the start of the end for many small businesses in Newport?
As you can see, there are a lot of questions and now we want answers! Unless you want to swap your hedgerow for a car park, or your country view for a housing estate, then get behind this campaign and join the Facebook page, sign the petition, write to the Councillors or all three!
The plans of the development and copies of the survey are available at The Book Nook in St Marys Street and online at http://www.telford.gov.uk/downloads/file/3148/exhibition_boards-7_july_2011
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I think you might have missed his joke.
But it's okay. John lays and falls for his own trap with every new post, too.
i was just about to propose wednesday as last day, that would fall in line with this yes?