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ShootingTheBull410 9mm Ammo Quest: Buffalo Bore 124+P JHP
by Dan Zimmerman |
With this test I'm continuing the 9mm Ammo Quest, searching for the best-performing defensive ammo for use in a 3″-barrel pocket pistol. Next on the line: Buffalo Bore part #24E, their 124-grain +P ammo. And this test produced some weird results . . .
First, this is a decently potent load. From the short 3″ barrel, the bullets delivered a 10-shot average of 1177 fps. Compared to Federal's 124-grain +P HST, for example, the Buffalo Bore rounds averaged nearly 70 fps faster. That's not insubstantial, especially from such a short barrel. That means the Buffalo Bore rounds were delivering about 381 ft/lbs of kinetic energy, from a tiny pocket pistol. Not bad at all! Also, the velocities were very consistent — the rounds were all within about 12 fps of the average. That's surprisingly consistent.
Second, the denim performance was simply outstanding. All five shots delivered excellent, uniform expansion, and penetration ranged from good to superb. This is one of the best-performing loads through denim that I've tested from a pocket pistol.
However, that's when things turned a bit sideways. The bare gel performance was completely unexpected. While the bullets did still penetrate deeply, they also…fell apart. They all shed their jackets, yes, but the jackets didn't just fall off as in my test of the Golden Sabers. No, in this test the jackets shredded and fragmented, and the bullets largely disintegrated. Each bullet shed about 1/3 of its total weight, retaining a central core that was only about 74.6 grains in average. The rest of the bullet material was left strewn throughout the damage path that the bullet made.
This left me rather conflicted about this load. On the one hand, every bullet I fired did exceed the minimum 12″ requirement, and every one of them stayed within the 18″ maximum. So by that metric, this is a great load. It generates a lot of energy, it hits hard, and it penetrates deeply.
However, the bizarre behavior through the bare gel leaves me scratching my head — how could the denim performance be so exceptional, yet the bare performance be so different? Weight shedding is not a bonus in ammo design; modern ammo design is focused on keeping the bullet's integrity so that it creates the largest and heaviest possible mass to deliver the most damage possible at its deepest penetration. When a bullet sheds its mass like these did, it ends up with just a small core reaching deep. And shed these did — look in the video at the bullet exam, you'll see a huge pile of fragments, shards, shrapnel and shedded petals. I've never seen ammo behave this way before.
So I'm conflicted. It didn't fail, it delivered the penetration necessary. It never under-penetrated. It didn't fail to expand and over-penetrate. By all those metrics I should call it a good load. And, frankly, I think it is — I think if you were involved in a defensive encounter, and you put some shots of this on target, the ammo has the capability to perform the necessary task.
However, there's other ammo out there that performs just as well, but doesn't disintegrate through bare gel. Winchester's Defend, for example, penetrated even slightly deeper than the Buffalo Bore, while delivering perfect expansion and with zero weight shedding. The HST 124 is another example — ideal penetration, excellent expansion, and zero weight shedding. So what would be the incentive to go with a load that sheds a third of its weight along the way, when there are other, viable candidates that don't exhibit that behavior?
In the end, the Ammo Quest isn't about finding which loads are "okay", it's about finding the best-performing loads. By that metric, the Buffalo Bore 124+P doesn't quite meet that standard. If Buffalo Bore can modify the bullet so that the bare-gel bullets perform as well as the denim-gel bullets, they would have an outstanding product on their hands. As it is, I think it is a good-performing load and it would serve someone well who used it — but there are other loads that perform better.
Red in Texas says:
Could it be a feature, not a bug? Serious question, maybe BB could explain it?
BigSky says:
Before starting any ammo search everyone needs to read and understand the following first.
http://www.rathcoombe.net/sci-tech/ballistics/wounding.html
ShootingTheBull410 says:
That is indeed a superb resource, and nicely organized. I read it quite a while ago, but should refer people to it more often for the frequently-asked questions I get.
pwrserge says:
I'm a little confused why you would think fragmentation is a bad thing. It increases wound surface area, therefore increasing hemorrhaging and causing the attacker to drop faster. So long as the core can do deep tissue damage, isn't fragmentation a feature, not a bug?
int19h says:
I second the question. Fragmentation is not bad per se (indeed, as we know, it's the main contributor to damage in most .223 ammo, for example). It's only bad insofar as it hinders penetration. If the load still achieves the desired penetration, while also fragmenting along the bullet track – and especially if that fragmentation happens all along, rather than being contained in the first 2-3 inches, as with e.g. Liberty ammo – it sounds like a win-win to me.
Gov. William J. Le Petomane says:
Fragmentation is a good thing in a 5.56 FMJ round, but generally considered a bad thing in a handgun round. My theory is that if a bullet leaves an AR rifle at 3000fps with an 8″ rate of twist it is spinning at about 270,000rpm while a 9mm bullet will be spinning at less than a third that rate, meaning the fragments tend to scatter a lot more from the 5.56 round than the 9mm. If the fragments all drop off and stay within the already existing wound channel they won't do any more damage and will just diminish penetration.
>> Fragmentation is a good thing in a 5.56 FMJ round, but generally considered a bad thing in a handgun round.
Only because it (generally) inhibits penetration to a significant extent in the latter. But that doesn't seem to be a concern here.
>> the fragments tend to scatter a lot more from the 5.56 round than the 9mm. If the fragments all drop off and stay within the already existing wound channel they won't do any more damage.
I doubt that the spin rate has much to do with how the fragments scatter. It's not like the bullet explodes or destructurizes all by itself (in which case the side momentum for the fragments would be solely impacted through angular momentum from the spin). Rather, the fragments are rather torn off by the resistance of the body. The momentum thus imparted is very random, and so is the trajectory of the fragments. You can actually see how this looks in STB's video, when it shows the gel.
I'd agree that the fragmentation is not as big of a concern in this round because the cores still penetrated sufficiently. My concern would be using this load in a longer barrel which would make the fragmentation problem much worse.
In the 5.56 round the bullet tends to tumble and break at the cannelure. My theory is just a theory but I do think a tumbling bullet that's spinning at 270,000rpm is a whole lot of mayhem.
>> My concern would be using this load in a longer barrel which would make the fragmentation problem much worse.
Well, as I understand, it's mainly the jacket that fragments here, while the lead core remains mostly intact. So more violent fragmentation would result in wider dispersion of the fragments of the jacket, while doing nothing to the core (which would penetrate even deeper due to increased velocity).
But yes, ideally, we'd need another test to verify it.
>> In the 5.56 round the bullet tends to tumble and break at the cannelure.
Yes, that's indeed how it works, but I doubt that the spin of the bullet contributes significantly to the velocity and dispersal area of the fragments. I think the forces between the bullet and the flesh (the ones that produce the fragments in the first place!) are far more significant.
The bullets lost a third of their weight, that's a lot more than just copper breaking loose.
You're free to agree or disagree with my theory, but unless someone shoots a 5.56 round with and without rifling into ballistics gel we'll never know. Most people never stop to think about just how fast bullets spin. That's a hundred times faster than the engine in your car spins when your cruising down the freeway at 75mph (and your engine would turn into a 500lb bomb if you tried to spin it that fast).
Chrispy says:
I don't believe the jacket material being left behind in the wound track does much for additional wounding… I don't think the pieces in this case are doing what the R.I.P. round, (for example) is designed to do, which is create additional wound tracks in other directions and therefore increasing the damage area and potentially hitting other vitals. In this case the pieces of jacket are just being left behind to do minimal, if any additional wounding. That being the case it makes more sense to have the mass contained in the bullet and causing tissue damage all the way through the wound track and delivering all the energy it possibly can.
Not only this, I think the bullet which keeps all of it's expanded jacketing is going to create a bigger wound, both temporary and permanent cavity, simply because it's a larger projectile.
BlueBronco says:
Some people try to argue that this is bullet failure when the jacket separates. However, when you get 12+ inches of penetration, I think it is semantics. The 180 grain golden 10mm sometimes separates after 18″ and some people get out of joint over that without paying attention to the fact it is 18+" and full expanded.
Accur81 says:
That's definitely weird. If I get a Glock 43 I'm inclined to load it with HST – if I can actually find some.
actionphysicalman says:
I very much appreciate the stb410 channel and am an avid watcher, but sure wouldn't mind if you tested more larger guns. Do more people carry mouse guns than compact and full size guns?
Some more of these new rifle rounds would be cool too. Lehigh's own videos aren't as good as yours. It also seems that there are conflicting videos about Liberty Civil Defense's armor and gel penetration abilities (I do remember your sheet rock video). I suppose that I may just be a lazy guy that wants you to do work for me though….
Another Robert says:
The "core" from the bare-gel bullets weighed about the same as FMJ .32 acp bullets ( the ones I used to carry were supposed to be 71 grains). I guess, if the .32 FMJ had the same penetration, the physiological effect on the bad guy would be about the same?
Only if you discount all the damage caused by the increased wounding channel due to the fragments, which can be quite severe (and even in the best case, larger channel means faster bleeding means faster incapacitation).
Had that same thought about fragmentation. However, as a commenter noted above, if the fragments merely "drop off" in the wound channel being created by the core, I don't see that they are doing much immediate good in a self-defense situation. Anyway, thanks for the response, I can see the point, depending on how the fragments behave.
younggun21 says:
Now I don't profess to be a know it all when it comes to ammo and its effects… However this ammo seems to accomplish what gimmicks like R.I.P were trying to do even if they did it unintentionally. The problem with RIP, as i understood it, was with the penetration of the petals and the core, not with the overall concept. The idea that you are going to cause a massive wound channel with shards cutting further is good in theory, it just wasn't executed with the RIP round. If this combines the best of both world (wound cavity with shards as well as penetration) should that be considered a success?
Every bullet must strike it's target within a specific range of speeds in order to function properly. Too slow and they fail to expand, too fast and they fragment. These bullets are close to their limits out of a 3″ barrel, they'd really blow up out of a 4″ or 5″ barrel. The denim tests almost always result in less expansion and more penetration, so in this case less expansion meant they didn't expand to the point of disintegration.
Personally I put more stock in the denim tests because the denim simulates the bullet penetrating through the skin. Still, it would be a little reassuring to know that the bullet's not going to disintegrate on impact.
tdiinva says:
That's a good explanation for the anomaly. Buffalo Bore ammo is very hot. The muzzle velocity in the tests were equivalent to a full sized pistol for standard ammo.
Yes, BB is hot, but those velocities would be reached out of a standard pressure load in a 4 1/2″ barrel. So the bullet manufacturer needs to go back to the drawing board and beef up the bullet and BB should be looking for a tougher bullet for their hot loads.
Excedrine says:
These were probably Nosler paper-punching bullets anyway. :/
Regarding fragmentation — there's a world of difference between rifle-style fragmentation (which is a primary wounding factor in rifle ammo design) and handgun bullet "fragmenting" as we saw here (which is, really, just shedding weight, i.e., chunks of the bullet falling off).
The fragmentation in a rifle is the main contributing factor to why rifle wounds are so much more severe than handgun wounds. In a rifle, the extreme velocities (usually 2700fps+) cause an utterly massive temporary cavity, which stretches tissue to or beyond its very limits. Simultaneously, rifle bullets such as .223 are designed to yaw sideways, break at the cannelure, and fragment, which sends shards of shrapnel slicing into the stretched tissue, causing it to rip (think of a rubber band stretched really tight, and then you just nick it with a knife — just that little tiny nick will cause the rubber band to rip in half). That's one way rifles cause so much more damage — they stretch the tissue to (or beyond) its limit, and then the fragmentation rips that stretched tissue causing a huge amount of trauma. The fragment starts the rip, but the stretched tissue continues to rip, doing damage in excess of what the actual round itself did.
Handguns don't do anything like that. A handgun cartridge's temporary cavity is usually well within the tissue's elastic limits — and as such, the temporary cavity is not usually a wounding factor. Furthermore, the "fragmentation" that's happening here is miniscule in ferocity compared to a rifle round. The rifle round actively flings shrapnel for several inches in all directions, cutting flesh (or gel) at its strech limits. But in the handgun round, all the pieces are usually found within the permanent wound cavity or in a very short distance of it. The fragments aren't so much "forcefully flung" as they are "left behind."
Bullets losing integrity and shedding weight are an issue that was largely addressed with the move towards bonded bullets. What happened in this handgun round isn't "fragmentation", it's just classic weight shedding, which doesn't notably increase the damage track, it just results in a smaller/lighter projectile at the end of travel (where you'd ideally want to have the largest/biggest projectile to be, to do the most damage to the vital organs).
Stephen Rivera says:
Soooo. call this ammo a winter load and carry during the cold months and call it good.
Two questions. Do you subscribe to the philosophy of Doc Roberts on terminal ballistics? I'm curious if you know what brand of bullet is used here. You bullet selection from BB in this and other videos seems like they were not wisely chosen. When selecting hot loads from BB or Underwood its critical to select a well made bullet such as XTP's or even better, gold dots. I would love to see you test the Gold Dots from either manufacturer in the +P or +P+ 124 or 147 grain loads.(not any 115gr as they are generally too light at these higher speeds.) Thanks for putting in the effort to conduct these very informative tests.
Bdk NH says:
I still haven't seen a 9mm round that beats good old fashioned Winchester Ranger 147g. I like the work that Shooting The Bull does, but that test confirmed what I thought for years. I guess he can't declare a winner or he'd have to stop making videos!
>> I still haven't seen a 9mm round that beats good old fashioned Winchester Ranger 147g.
You mean, like the good old Federal HST 147gr? 😉
Nope, Ranger T 147g. I forgot the T earlier. I just re-watched the video, #26 in the series. ShootingTheBull410 kind of declared the winner. Compared to the HST, Heavier bullet, more penetration, nasty petals.
The HST is a impressive in 124g, but good luck finding them. Never mind the 147g. Ranger T is available and at a sufficient cost to allow keeping enough on hand to run through the carry weapons periodically. My Glocks and S&W eat them all day long without complaint.


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Q: Starting a conversation with a chat bot hosted on Microsoft Azure through HTTP request in Python A Microsoft tutorial shows that in order to set up a conversation with a bot I should issue the following HTTP request:
POST https://directline.botframework.com/api/conversations
Authorization: Bearer SECRET_OR_TOKEN

My question is if I can achieve this with the following Python code:
import requests
r = requests.post('https://directline.botframework.com/api/conversations',
                params = {'Authorization':'Bearer ftmhNAqZ2tw.cwA.qIA.Xz2ZWfYJzxd8vJjcK9VmINWNLxlvKiM5jC8F_cbaf0s'})

If I print the response with print(r.content) it says:

{   "error": {
      "code": "BadArgument",
      "message": "Missing token or secret"   } }

A: The bearer token needs to be sent as a header, not as a payload or query parameter.
You need to use the headers argument:
auth = {'Authorization': 'Bearer xxxYourBearerTokenHerexxx'}
r = requests.post('https://directline.botframework.com/api/conversations', headers=auth)

print(r) # <Response [200]>

A: HTTP requests have three areas where content can be sent:

*

*URL parameters

*Body

*Headers
To set these in python's requests package the following can be used (POST method assumed, but all are the same):
URL Parameters:
requests.post('https://myurl.com', params = {'MyParam':'MyValue'})
# equivilient to http://myurl.com?MyParam=MyValue

Body:
requests.post('https://myurl.com', data={"key":"value"})
# or if sending json data
requests.post('https://myurl.com', data=json.dumps(myData))

Headers:
requests.post('https://myurl.com', headers={"headername":"value"})

In your specific case, while the API is not well documented - we can assume they expect the "Authorization" data to be sent in a header, as this is standard. In this case, you need to assign headers as follows:
requests.post('https://directline.botframework.com/api/conversations', headers={'Authorization':'Bearer ftmhNAqZ2tw.cwA.qIA.Xz2ZWfYJzxd8vJjcK9VmINWNLxlvKiM5jC8F_cbaf0s'})

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'Hollywood Ripper' Survivor Breaks Her Silence: 'I Woke Up With Someone on Top of Me'
'SERIAL SEXUAL-THRILL KILLER'
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Michael Gargiulo, an air-conditioner repairman, is facing the death penalty for allegedly targeting his young, female neighbors with a knife—including Ashton Kutcher's ex.
Tarpley Hitt
Updated May. 07, 2019 6:25AM ET / Published May. 06, 2019 9:49PM ET
The bulk of Monday, April 28, 2008, passed rather unremarkably for Michelle Murphy. The 26-year-old Santa Monica resident woke up beside her boyfriend of two months in the apartment she shared with a roommate. She left for work at 8 a.m. and returned around 6:45 p.m. She washed her bedsheets. She went out for a mani-pedi, saw the shop was closed, and walked straight home. She jumped rope and ran sprints in the alleyway behind her apartment. She showered, ate dinner, watched TV, and went to bed around 10:30. She woke up less than an hour later with a thin man straddling her in bed, stabbing her in the chest, shoulder and arm.
Monday morning, 11 years and eight days after the attack, Murphy took the witness stand at a courthouse in Downtown Los Angeles. Now 37, with her brown hair cut to her shoulders, Murphy had come to testify in the trial of 43-year-old Michael Gargiulo, the so-called "Hollywood Ripper," who authorities believe murdered three women between 1993 and 2008 and staged the attack that left Murphy with stitches on eight parts of her right arm and permanent nerve damage in her hand. Murphy was the first in a list of more than 250 possible witness—including actor Ashton Kutcher, who dated one of the victims back in 2001—for a trial expected to last as long as six months.
"I woke up with someone on top of me, stabbing my arm," she told the jury on Monday. "I could tell it was a knife. I thought it was serrated. I grabbed at the knife...with both hands. I wrapped my hands around the blade...I was trying to hold the knife and get some leverage to stop him from stabbing me. I was still being stabbed. I was just trying to wiggle around to keep from getting hit."
The night she was stabbed, Murphy's roommate had been gone for several days, visiting family in Poland. Her boyfriend was at his house. It was hot, so she slept without pajamas. She left the fan on and the window open—that was how the assailant slipped in, climbing up from the alleyway and cutting the screen. Murphy said she struggled during the attack, grabbing onto the blade, and pulling her legs up to her chest to kick off the attacker. She said she was screaming, and asking over and over "why he was doing this." The assailant did not answer her, she said.
When Murphy kicked him onto the floor, the intruder leapt up and ran out of the room, down the hall, and toward the front door. Murphy ran after him, dripping blood over her sheets, comforter, and wall-to-wall carpeting. When she reached the living room, the attacker spoke for the first time. "I'm sorry," Murphy recalled him saying. "I'm sorry."
Gargiulo has pleaded not guilty to two charges of homicide and one charge of attempted murder in California. Following the trial, he will be extradited to Illinois on a third murder charge. Attorneys for the District Attorney's Office have said that, if convicted, they will pursue the death penalty, despite the fact that California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order in March placing a moratorium on capital punishment. California has not executed an inmate since 2006, but the state voted against abolishing it as recently as three years ago, and prosecutors have continued to request it, growing their death row population to 737 prisoners.
An air-conditioner repairman whom prosecutors have dubbed a "serial sexual-thrill killer," Gargiulo allegedly moved around the country, targeting his young, female neighbors. In court documents, prosecutors claim the pattern began back in 1993, when a 17-year-old Gargiulo lived in a suburb of Chicago. At the time, he was friends with the brother of Tricia Pacaccio, an 18-year-old girl who had recently graduated from high school and was preparing to matriculate at Purdue University on an engineering scholarship. At 1 a.m. one night, Pacaccio had dropped a friend off at home, before continuing to her own house. Her father found her on their stoop the next morning, with stab wounds on her shoulder, neck and chest.
"But when Kutcher came to pick her up, he told investigators, Ellerin had not come to the door."
The case remained unsolved nearly eight years later, when one of Gargiulo's neighbors, Ashley Ellerin, a 22-year-old fashion student and stripper, was found in her apartment with 47 stab wounds to the throat. The manic attack had nearly separated her head from her body. Ellerin had made plans that night to go to a Grammy Awards after party with Ashton Kutcher—then at the height of his That '70s Show fame—whom she had been seeing at the time. But when Kutcher came to pick her up, he told investigators, Ellerin had not come to the door.
Both cases remained unsolved four years later, when Gargiulo moved to an apartment in El Monte, California. In 2005, his neighbor, 32-year-old Maria Bruno, was attacked in her home as she slept. Police found her "quite literally butchered," with stab wounds to the throat much like Ellerin's. Bruno's breasts had been cut off and left in the room with her body. During the investigation of Bruno's murder, detectives found a blue surgical bootie with samples of Bruno's DNA. They later found similar booties in Gargiulo's apartment.
In court Monday morning, another witness named Gustavo Bone, Gargiulo's business partner and the founder of a company called Gus the Plumber, said that these booties were part of the company's standard uniform when working in someone's home.
Bone began working with Gargiulo in 2006, after interacting with him in the L.A. home repairs circuit for several years. Bone's plumbing business had not done any heating or air-conditioning work, and he saw the partnership as a good way to expand the business. "He was very professional," Bone said of Gargiulo. "I was happy with him. He was well-groomed."
Photos of victims are displayed in court during opening statements on May 2, 2019, in Los Angeles, California, in the trial of Michael Gargiulo.
Al Seib/Getty
Meanwhile, Murphy told the jury Monday that, in the months before the final alleged attack, she occasionally saw Gargiulo in the shared alleyway where they parked their cars. She drove a dark Mazda Protegé; he drove a white conversion van with a large business decal reading: "Gus The Plumber." Gargiulo would wave at her from the driver's seat, Murphy said. He did this as many as 10 times—possibly more than 20—but they never interacted in any other context.
In court, prosecutors played a recording of an emergency dispatcher returning Murphy's 9-1-1 call that night. At 11:46 p.m., Murphy answered the phone in tears. "I was asleep," she said. "All I know is that they were tall. I think they had a hoodie… He was standing in the dark. He had on pants…He was probably maybe at the most 5'11, and thin. He broke into my window. He broke the screen… I saw his back, that's all I saw." The dispatcher asked if she could walk to the door; the police had arrived. "Give me a sec," she said, unlatching the door to the officers outside. "Help."
The night of the attack Murphy also called her boyfriend, Vincent—now her husband—who testified after her on Monday. "I would describe her as hysterical," he told the jury. "I recall her telling me that she had woken up to someone on top of her, that she was able to force him off, that he had run out… I remember telling her to call 9-1-1 and exit the apartment and go to Wilshire Boulevard. At the time, I thought it was a highly-trafficked area and there would be people on the street. I hung up and got in my car driving towards her." Later, Vincent would pick Gargiulo and another man out of six suspect photos, saying the repairman looked familiar, although he couldn't say how.
Murphy's roommate, Olga Denirjian, another witness on Monday, told the jury she saw the same six photos, but could not recognize any of the men. Olga, notably, rarely frequented the alley behind the apartment that the girls shared with Gargiulo. Unlike Murphy, who kept a parking space there, Denirjian usually parked her car out front. Denirjian told the court that she had not heard of the attacks until days after the fact, when she returned from Poland. Neither girl spent the night in their apartment ever again.
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Happy 2016! Whether you're already dragging along this new year, just trying to open your tired eyes and climb out of bed, or woke up before your alarm and had a nice quiet morning to yourself, everyone could use a touch of strategically placed makeup to brighten up those post-holiday eyes. Today, we're bringing you just that – eye makeup that keeps you looking fresh and awake, even if you're not feeling it!
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Loving the video! Great post!
Totally one of my New Year's resolutions to brighten up eyes! I've gotten out of the habit of applying concealer but I totally need some YSL Touche Eclait under eyes.
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James Delingpole
A life-changing lunch with an old acquaintance
God it's nauseating when an exact university contemporary of yours turns out to have become a hugely successful investor with a fund worth many millions. The bit during our meeting where I most wanted to throw up my ravioli was when this fellow — Guy Spier his name is; read PPE at Brasenose with my old mucker Dave Cameron at the same time I was at Christ Church — told me how he'd once paid nearly £250,000 in a charity auction just for the privilege of having lunch with Warren Buffett.
A quarter of a million quid. Imagine all the things you could do with that. I could make a thousand and one such wish lists, I reckon, and no matter how many I compiled I still very much doubt a single one of them would include: 'Blow the lot on lunch with the Sage of Omaha.'
But the rich, as we know, are different. One way that they're different is that they're much better than the rest of us at making money. This is something I found most definitely to be the case with Guy Spier. By the end of my lunch, I felt much the same way about Spier as I know he did after his lunch with Buffett: that the knowledge he had imparted was so valuable that even if I'd paid (which I didn't: he being so much richer than me it seemed obscene not to let him foot the tab), it would have been worth many hundreds of times the outlay.
In Spier's case this knowledge was extremely hard won. After Oxford and Harvard Business School, he was far too impatient and arrogant to waste any time learning the trade and paying his dues. Instead, he headed straight towards where he imagined the real money was: to a New York brokerage firm nearly as toxic as the one in The Wolf Of Wall Street.
Eighteen months later, he left riddled with self-disgust, having made no money and with his reputation in tatters. Such was the company's low repute that simply no one in the financial industry would employ him. A less determined man might have found a different career, but not Spier. The secret to making money, he had intuitively grasped, is first to turn yourself into the kind of person who is good at making money. And who better to model himself on, in this respect, than the most successful investor of the last 100 years, Warren Buffett?
So that is what he did. In financial terms, this meant renouncing the excitement of shorting, of bubbles (like the tech one in the 1990s), of vertiginous rises and headlong falls, in favour of the slow, plodding business of value investing — that is, spotting which companies are going to do well and then backing them for the long run, confident in the knowledge that your clients' portfolio will increase steadily over time.
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Amazingly — and in my view this more than reason enough why PPE should be banned and replaced by something more useful like needlework or My Little Pony studies — he had been taught at Oxford something called the efficient markets hypothesis. This theory holds that 'financial prices reflect all of the information available to participants in the market'. It's self-evidently bollocks, yet Spier, one of the brightest undergraduates in his year, had swallowed it without question. Maybe that's why there aren't more value investors in the City: maybe these people actually believe that there's no point trying to seek hidden value in the market because it will already and always be 'in the price'.
Anyway, once Spier had got that theoretical nonsense out of his system, he was in a much better position to make money the Warren Buffett way. This means, first of all, being able to study a company's balance sheet, decipher what the auditors are really trying to tell you (or not tell you), as opposed to what the management would like to tell you, and decide whether it's the Apple of the future or a pile of pants.
But I don't want to dwell on the financial aspects of his career: you can get all that from a book he's just written called The Education of a Value Investor. What interested me more about his story were the more esoteric techniques he used to propel himself from near-abject failure to his current Master of the Universe status. A lot of this has to do with realising that the quest for value extends far beyond financial markets into a whole way of thinking about how to live your life.
One of these is learning to shut out the noise and to concentrate on what really matters. That's why he decided to quit the buzz of New York in favour of the pleasant boringness of Zurich, where the public transport system is so good that even billionaires use it. He located his office well away from the financial centre (so he wouldn't be distracted by the violent mood swings to which brokers are prey as markets, especially in these uber-volatile times, rise and fall) — and also, following the model of Buffett (who operates out of dull-as-ditchwater Omaha), ensuring that he had just a ten-minute commute from home (long enough to establish a psychological separation; short enough never to be a chore).
Some of the tricks he describes may be rich man's luxuries. Most are not. At the bottom of his philosophy is this: the happier you are in your skin and the better you are at making others happy in their skin (e.g. writing lots of nice friendly notes), the more easily you'll generate an environment in which you thrive not just personally but financially.
I went to meet him mainly because I'm fascinated by rich people and how they got rich. It was a good call. This Guy has changed my life. Watch this space.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The official novelization of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the blockbuster film directed by J. J. Abrams • Includes two tie-in short stories: "The Perfect Weapon" by Delilah S. Dawson and "Bait" by Alan Dean Foster
More than thirty years ago, Star Wars burst onto the big screen and became a cultural phenomenon. Now the next adventures in this blockbuster saga are poised to captivate old and new fans alike—beginning with the highly anticipated Star Wars: The Force Awakens. And alongside the cinematic debut comes the thrilling novel adaptation by New York Times bestselling science fiction master Alan Dean Foster.
Set years after Return of the Jedi, this stunning new action-packed adventure rockets us back into the world of Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Luke Skywalker, while introducing a host of exciting new characters. Darth Vader may have been redeemed and the Emperor vanquished, but peace can be fleeting, and evil does not easily relent. Yet the simple belief in good can still empower ordinary individuals to rise and meet the greatest challenges.
So return to that galaxy far, far away, and prepare yourself for what happens when the Force awakens. . . .
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"Like all the best novelizations, Alan Dean Foster's adaptation of Star Wars: The Force Awakens enriches the movie experience. The novel goes beyond simply giving us insight into the characters' thoughts, with plenty of additional scenes painting a broader picture of the galaxy."—New York Daily News
"Fast-moving, atmospheric and raises goose-bumps at just the right moments. [Foster] not only evokes entire onscreen worlds . . . he also gives us glimpses of an even more vast, unseen universe."—The Washington Post
"Was my experience of the film enriched by the book? Yes. No question. Is the novelization worth reading? Yes. . . . Foster has written a book that captures the spirit of the film, while presenting additional information that helps answer some of the questions that linger."—Coffee with Kenobi
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BREAKING NEWS: Public Health England replaced with new national institute
ComplianceLegislation by Sarah Clarke	on August 18, 2020
Public Health England will be scrapped to make way for a new organisation responsible for dealing with pandemics, the Health and Social Care Secretary has confirmed.
The National Institute for Health Protection (NIHP) has been created to lead the response to the COVID-19 pandemic ahead of the coming winter and to work against the threat of biological weapons and other infectious diseases.
It has been formed from a merger of Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace, and will be based on a single command structure.
The news confirms reports made in the Sunday Telegraph last week.
Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock said: "To give ourselves the best chance of beating this virus once and for all – and of spotting and being ready to respond to other health threats, now and in the future, we are creating a brand new organisation to provide a new approach to public health protection and resilience.
"The National Institute for Health Protection will bring together the expertise of PHE with the enormous response capabilities of NHS Test and Trace and the Joint Biosecurity Centre to put us in the best possible position for the next stage of the fight against Covid-19 and for the long-term."
Led by Baroness Dido Harding, the NIHP will take on existing UK wide responsibilities and it will work with local government, the NHS and devolved administrations.
Baroness Harding said: "Combining the UK's world-class public health talent and infrastructure with the new at-scale response capability of NHS Test and Trace into a single organisation puts us in the strongest position to stop the spread of the virus.
"The changes announced today are designed to strengthen our response, and to radically ramp up our fight against this disease, whilst also protecting PHE's essential work beyond COVID that is so important for the nation's health."
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The theory that the earth is in fact round — first suggested by some ancient Greek and proven, they claim, by Magellan — seemed as ridiculous to me at age
I Could See for Miles
Vistas in North Carolina range from mountaintops to coastal plains, but the best views are sometimes hidden places that are all your own — spots you can escape to, grow in, and dream about forever.
by Michael Parker
The theory that the earth is in fact round — first suggested by some ancient Greek and proven, they claim, by Magellan — seemed as ridiculous to me at age 8 as it must have seemed to those who first heard it. I grew up in the Coastal Plain, in a town 157 feet above sea level. If, down in Clinton, you were looking for elevation, you'd best search for an anthill.
My family lived a couple of miles outside of town, in a ranch house across the street from two farms. In the summer, the view from the plate-glass window in our living room was of a field of tobacco, just waiting to be cropped and suckered, and, in winter, of a ravaged stretch of stalk. The farm just to the left, also visible from the window, was planted with corn. Corn grew much higher than tobacco and after harvest left an even more ungainly stubble. Though there were woods at the far end of each field — and behind those woods, swampland — the line of pines might as well have been in Duplin County, so far away across the denuded earth did they appear.
There was, for me, an epicenter of flatness: a field just to the left of our house. We always called it the Beaunit Field. Beaunit was the name of the textile firm that operated the factory that owned the field, though by 2001, Beaunit, along with most of the other textile concerns in our area, moved its production to points foreign and given to cheaper wages and fewer taxes. Between the plant and our house, separated by a thin row of pines and a sandy two track, was the field. I am no good at estimating acreage, and like most people with subpar math skills, I measure distance in terms of gridirons. But here football fields did not apply. In memory the field is the size of Great Smoky Mountains National Park — infinite, endless, nearly uncrossable. A three-day journey by stagecoach, two weeks by foot. I was 6 when I first encountered it, 18 when I last stood in it, and of all the clichés of childhood, the adage that everything from your past is smaller when revisited in adulthood is certainly true of the Beaunit Field.
But memory is not about truth. In truth, the field was not that remarkable. That it was free of produce, tobacco, or corn made it invisible to the mostly farmers and sharecroppers who traveled back and forth on Seven Bridges Road. Often it went unmown for months, and the grass could reach head-high before some maintenance man from the plant bushhogged it back to stubble. Its single characteristic, other than its mythic-in-my-memory expansiveness, was its flatness.
Seeing as how man, since the origin of the species, has adapted both work and play to the landscape he inhabits, flatness was required of the things we did there. These things evolved as we grew older and our interests shifted. When we first encountered the field, it was the perfect place, when the grass was high, to play hide-and-seek. Later, if mown, it was suitable for throwing a football or improvising bases out of purloined place mats and getting in a game of softball. When my friends down at the intersection all got minibikes, it became a racetrack. Out of all the boys in the neighborhood gang, I was the only one who did not own a minibike, though honestly I never wanted one. Even though I would learn later to drive in that field, careening around the edges in the last-leg Galaxie 500 my father bought for the last three of us still in high school to share (my most prominent memory of this car was going on a first date with a girl who said she was a little chilly and who seemed even chillier after I pulled a wrench from under the seat and cranked up the heat, the knobs on everything that could be turned on or off long since lost), I did not like to see my field corrupted by anything with a motor. To me it was sacred, to be explored only on foot.
During the jogging craze that swept the country in the mid-'70s, my mother, who has always been athletic, took to exercising in the field in the late afternoons after she got home from her job at the community college. I can't imagine what the neighbors thought at the sight of her power walking the perimeter, her arms flying as high as her shoulders with each footfall. I am sure she did not use the tracks carved by the minibikes, as my mother has always been known to cut her own path. When, during the Watergate scandal, my mother heard on the nightly news that, despite his blatant violations, Nixon's approval rating had not significantly dropped, she got up from the supper table to call the White House to try and lower his approval rating. I am sure it never bothered her to be thought of as odd for turning a field into a place to get in her after-work laps. Due to its size and its flatness, the field was perfect for her power walking, drive-by gawkers be damned.
The most exciting thing that ever happened in the Beaunit Field was the convening of the Tuscarora Council of the Boy Scouts for their annual jamboree. Though the council comprised troops from only the southeastern counties, it seemed to us that all the Boy Scouts in the state had descended upon our field. Everywhere were tents and elaborate rope bridges and totem poles and tarps strung from bamboo poles. My older sister, then in high school, must have had advance warning, as she and two of her friends joined the Explorer branch of the Scouts and got their photo in the paper for breaking the gender barrier. (When, while writing this, I asked her why she joined, she said she and her friends wanted to participate, rather than view the jamboree from the sidelines. I am wise enough now not to ask her what she meant by "participate.") By late Sunday afternoon the field was cleared, but for weeks the remnants of campfires — burnt patches of grass, charred logs — scarred my refuge.
From the day we moved into our house until the time, 12 years later, when I left for college, the field was my place. All of us had, in childhood, our secret places where we went to be alone with our confusion and desire, to escape — or attempt to escape — the often intolerable oppression of adolescence. Most people I have queried on this subject prefer cover: closets, attics, basements, haylofts, sheds, pop-up campers. I've never considered myself claustrophobic, but I have always favored open spaces in which to hide.
I spent part of my freshman year in high school in Black Mountain, high in the Blue Ridge, and one of the things I missed most was my field. And yet — true to the contradictory desires that claim us in our teens — when I was in the Beaunit Field, I did not want to be there. Already, at age 16, I wanted out. I wanted to travel the country, to see and experience the vastness beyond the field. I thought my life was limited by my surroundings; I thought, like many a restless teenager, that living Down East, in a county where, I would learn years later from NPR, the number of hogs exceeded the number of humans, would not define — or for heaven's sake, refine — but only confine me.
Just beyond my field, partially hidden by the factory, was the highway. Interstate 40 at that time was just a proposal on a page. U.S. Route 421 was the quickest way for travelers from the Triangle and the Triad to reach the mainland beaches. There were trucks galore, and I would lie in the field and listen to their coarse gear grinding. On holiday weekends the thrum of traffic was audible, and I was keenly conscious of what lay beyond the field: bright lights, big cities, beautiful women, Baltimore — and I am just up to the B's.
But of course I wasn't going anywhere until I graduated, so I stuck to my field, the perfect space to dream of elsewhere, of the future. When you are young you lack experience, but experience of course cannot be rushed without consequence. What is far more lacking, and more important, is perspective. Everything that happened to me, at home or at school, seemed dramatic, and the nascent fiction writer in me tended to make it melodramatic. It was only in that field — flat and invisible to everyone but me — that I felt I could see beyond the moment at hand.
Growing up, the beauty of eastern North Carolina — its unchecked wild greenness in summer, the beautiful bleakness of what passed for winter — was lost on me. It took me a decade at least to appreciate the sandy two tracks leading off into the pines; the abandoned tobacco barns, made of logs chinked with flaking concrete, surrendering to kudzu and wisteria in the middle of barren fields; the slow, black rivers disrupted by the roots of giant cypress trees.
But in the Beaunit Field, I understand, always if innately, the wideness of the vista Down East. My understanding of it was so specific to that field, so associated with and colored by desire, that I failed to extend it beyond the ditches that bordered it. My favorite time to be there was night. If the grass was high, I'd part it with my hands and trample a path deep in its middle and sit for hours, sometimes sneaking a cigarette, contemplating what lay above and ahead. I listened to the chirp of crickets and to the throaty deceleration of the tractor-trailers stopping for gas or a pack of Nabs at one of the corner stores down at the intersection. Where were they headed? Would I ever travel beyond the mountain cottage where we spent two weeks in summer or the Topsail Island rental where we went when we could afford it? Answers sometimes came to me, as if the grass surrounding me were moving my dreams with the tips of blades, guiding my desire not across the flat terrain, but straight up into the sky, so huge and alive with planet and star.
This story was published on Jan 01, 2014
Michael Parker's latest book is the novel Prairie Fever. He taught for many years in the creative writing program at UNC Greensboro and now lives in Austin, Texas.
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Will Ferrell Calls It Quits With Facebook After Users' Information Misuse Scandal
Will Ferell has called it quits with Facebook once and for all. (Photo: WENN)
The 50-year-old actor explained in a post on Facebook that que was leaving the social network after the data leak scandal. (Photo: WENN)
"I know I am not alone when I say that I was very disturbed to hear about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of millions of Facebook users' information in order to undermine our democracy and infringe on our citizens' privacy," Ferrell wrote. (Photo : Facebook)
"I can no longer, in good conscience, use the services of a company that allowed the spread of propaganda and directly aimed it at those most vulnerable," Ferrell said. (Photo: WENN)
Will Ferrell's Facebook officially ceased to exist on Friday, March 30, around 2:00 p.m. (Photo: WENN)
Mark Zuckerberg said he hadn't noticed any "significant number of people" abandoning the app after the scandal. However, several celebrities have been vocal about leaving Facebook. (Photo: Facebook)
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Actor, was one of the first to join the #DeleteFacebook initiative. (Photo: Twitter)
He was followed by other important public figures such as billionaire businessman Elon Musk. (Photo: Twitter)
Cher also said that she would eliminate her Facebook because of the scandal. (Photo: Twitter)
The singer said that the change would be "very difficult" because in the application there are many "incredible young people" who have helped her in her charitable efforts. (Photo: WENN)
Comedian Will Ferrell has joined the small chorus of public figures who have left Facebook once and for all after data leakage scandal.
"I know I am not alone when I say that I was very disturbed to hear about Cambridge Analytica's misuse of millions of Facebook users' information in order to undermine our democracy and infringe on our citizens' privacy," Ferrell wrote on Tuesday afternoon, which became his last post on the platform.
The two-time Golden Globe nominee also said he would keep his page alive for another 72 hours in order to let the post circulate and therefore spread his message, which means Will Ferrell's Facebook page officially ceased to exist around 2:00 p.m. Friday afternoon.
"In this day and age, with misinformation running rampant, it's important that we protect the truth, as well as those who work to bring it to light. I can no longer, in good conscience, use the services of a company that allowed the spread of propaganda and directly aimed it at those most vulnerable," Ferrell said.
Facebook is still trying to recover after it came to light that the British research firm improperly gained access to the personal information of more than 50 million users of the social media.
Last week, Mark Zuckerberg said he hadn't noticed any "significant number of people" abandoning the app after the #DeleteFacebook movement started because of the leakage scandal. Still, there have been several celebrities who have decided part ways with the platform.
Multimillionaire businessman Elon Musk announced via Twitter that he would delete the Facebook pages for Tesla and SpaceX. Both profiles have since been deleted.
Singer Cher was once of the celebrities who joined the movement, after announcing via on Twitter that she would too delete her official Facebook page, a change she said would be "very difficult" since the platform had helped her in her charitable efforts because there are "incredible young people" on the site.
Who will be the next celebrity to join the ranks of #DeleteFacebook?
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Solomons Presents Successful Approaches Against Violence
The team from Solomon Islands include Fred Sikini (Seventh Day Adventist faith leader), Koisau Sade (World Vision Solomon Islands Gender Coordinator), Vaela Devesi (Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs)and Dr. Andrew Catford (County Director of World Vision Solomon Islands).
Source: World Vision
Monday, 11 March 2013 09:41 AM
World Vision's faith-based approach for tackling violence against women in the Solomon Islands was showcased at the 57 UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meeting at the United Nations Headquarters in New York last week.
Representatives from World Vision Solomon Islands, the Solomon Islands Government, a Solomon Islands faith leader, together with Tim Costello, CEO World Vision Australia, Penny Williams, Australian Global Ambassador for Women and Girls and Kiran Bhatia, UNFPA Regional Gender Advisor, presented the Channels of Hope approach that engages faith leaders, churches and communities and uses the bible to change people's perceptions and treatment of women.
World Vision Solomon Islands Gender Coordinator Koisau Sade introduced the WV Gender Based Violence Project in the Solomon Islands and provided an overview of the Channels of Hope model during a discussion panel held on Thursday.
"In the Solomon Islands, where two in three women experience physical and/or sexual violence from an intimate partner, the Channels of Hope approach is improving gender equality and reducing violence against women and girls," said Koisau.
Vaela Devesi, from the Solomon Islands Ministry of Women, Youth, Children and Family Affairs also spoke on the situation of violence against women and girls in the Solomon Islands and the strong support the Solomon Islands government is giving to address these issues through policy, legislation and multi-stakeholder responses like World Vision's Channels of Hope.
Fred Sikini a Seventh Day Adventist faith leader from the Sun Valley community in the Solomon Islands, also spoke about the impact that the project has had on his own life and the changes that he has seen in his community as a result.
The meeting was also attended by Colin Beck, the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the UN. Ambassador Beck publically praised the panel for the great job they did explaining the problem of GBV in Solomon Islands. "Gender based violence is a real problem in our country. I am so pleased to see three Solomon Islanders from government, World Vision and the church explaining to the world how together they are successfully dealing with these issues in my country", Ambassador Beck said.
World Vision is currently implementing the Channels of Hope approach through a project called Community Vision for Change that works in five communities in the Solomon Islands' capital city of Honiara including Burns Creek, Sun Valley, Lord Howe, White River and Fulisango. World Vision is also commencing the Channels of Hope program with the Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) in Honiara currently and working on expanding the approach to the provinces.
Dr Andrew Catford, County Director of World Vision Solomon Islands, was pleased with the reactions to the approach at the CSW meetings. "We have been very pleased with the high level of interest in the Channels of Hope approach and our work in Solomon Islands by United Nations staff, government representatives, donors and NGO's. There was much interest in the lessons we have from the approach and its applicability in other country and faith contexts", Dr Catford said.
World Vision's presentation at 57th UN CSW in New York was cosponsored by the UN Population Fund, the Australian Government, the Solomon Islands Government and World Vision.
Source: Press Release, World Vision, Honiara


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A landscape becomes a soulscape when there is a sense of belonging. Belonging is a feeling, an inner landscape, which may have nothing to do with physical surroundings. This group creates a soulscape. They're kin; they belong together. They have come home.
My paintings, drawings and sculptures flow from what moves me and from where I find beauty: women, animals, the earth, color, pattern and light. My art represents the deep connection I feel with these elements. Through my artwork I am envisioning and creating the world as I would like it to be: a place where harmony is present between animals and human.
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This artwork is about global warming. Many of the animals within this piece are endangered. There is a sadness. We are facing this bleak day together. The title is from lyrics by peace activist Snatam Kaur.
In college I was introduced to feminism. I began to realize that the underlying slant of words and behaviors could be coercive and oppressive in its intention. Feminism challenged me, but I did not have real clarity until I read Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism. Her work galvanized and synthesized historical events, making connections between them that I had not seen before, helping me understand that no choice is benign. At that point my artwork began reflecting my newfound awareness and beliefs, moving from creating classical figurative images of women to works showing them in all their diversity, shapes, colors and ethnicities.
She walks into the sunset with her leopard companion, living each day to its fullest.
My feminism evolved into considering that the oppression was not only of women, but included the abuse and neglect of animals and the earth. I began questioning the hierarchy of all living things, wondering why most humans believe they are superior to animals.
When I am with animals I can feel their essence as sentient beings whose unique purpose deserves to be considered. It is a deep connection, both visceral and soulful. I have been calling animals kin for many years and actually feel a greater affinity with them than with humans. I don't understand the inherent coldness and cruelty I see in people and feel safer surrounded by my animal companions and art.
Image: The Art of Living a Fine Mingling of Letting Go and Holding On.
We fear to let go too soon or to hold on for too long… the choice between the two is one of the great lessons of life. Our Lady of Guadalupe, queen among queens, enfolds us with maternal protection as we choose.
There are times I feel a parallel existence. My life carries on with the quotidian – working in my studio, feeding my dogs, running errands, reading, going to the kitchen for food. The predictable. The usual. Simultaneously, I can feel the dry heat of the savannah where my kin, the elephants, are traveling to the next water or food source. I can hear the pounding of their feet, the earth trembling from their weight. Surrounding them are human predators who will take their lives for the ivory of their tusks, murdering their young or leaving them to die of broken hearts. They are not safe, these big majestic creatures. There is so much pain and sadness in this reality. I know all elephants carry this betrayal with them. I wonder how long it will take the collective to rid itself of the circus. This is just one species I am drawn to and care deeply about.
Images have the power to affect the viewer's mind and make them question the status quo. With my work I hope to portray a visual alternative to the world as it presently exists. My desire is to offer a world where there is a collective heartbeat and a soul. A world with no hierarchy, where there is equality and freedom, mutual respect, communication and understanding.
Sudie Rakusin is a visual artist, sculptor, illustrator for authors such as Mary Daly, Carolyn Gage and Patricia Monaghan, and a children's book author of the Dear Savannah Blue series. She is the owner of Winged Willow Press where she has used her original painting and drawings to create coloring books, divination cards, illustrated journals and more. She has also created the coloring app for iPad, Unwind Time.
Sudie's artwork includes 3-dimensional oil on canvas paintings, papier-mache sculptures and drawings. She currently resides in Hillsborough, NC, in the woods, on the edge of a meadow, surrounded by her gardens, with her Great Dane, Fiona Fig and Pitt/Boxer, Marmalade Moon. See more work at www.sudierakusin.com.


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Washington University Updates Plan for Loop Infill
July 20, 2012 Alex Ihnen Development & Preservation 28 comments
New renderings of a proposed $80M residential and retail project by Washington University in The Loop have appeared as part of a demolition review by the City of St. Louis Preservation Review Board. Project architect is listed as William Rawn Associates. At issue specifically are 609-611 Eastgate and 6236 Enright. Both are listed as contributing buildings within the Delmar Loop‐Parkview Gardens National Register Historic District. The project would also require the demolition of two contributing buildings in the National Register district on Delmar in University City at 6241 and 6251 Delmar. The completed project would consist of 22,000 square feet of retail space and 240 apartments.
The project spans the University City – City of St. Louis line, but as the vast majority of the project sits within the boundaries of U-City, the City of St. Louis has designated U-City as the municipality to review new building permits for the buildings and manage inspection. The recommendation of the city's Cultural Resources Office states, "That the Preservation Board approve the demolition of the two buildings as the proposed new construction equals or exceeds the quality of proposed demolitions and the project would be in general accord with the current development of the Delmar thoroughfare in the local historic district."
{south elevation – Delmar Boulevard}
{east elevation – Eastgate Avenue}
{project site plan}
Comparing the new rendering with the old:
{07/19/2012)
{02/26/10}
Photos of updated renderings and models added 09/18/12. Images were posted on the nextSTL Forum by user Tyrp. There are a few small changes in the design, but the plan appears to remain very similar to the images above.
Previous story from 02/27/12:
{red – Delmar/Eastgate mixed use building, yellow – Enright apartments, green – greenspace}
As we continue to witness demolition for parking, or worse, in Clayton, Kirkwood and elsewhere, The Loop appears to continue its trend towards becoming a dense urban neighborhood. Recent development has focused on retail and entertainment (the Moonrise Hotel, Pageant), but Washington University is now proposing the first new residential construction on Delmar in The Loop in decades.
With apartments the university is calling an "innovative housing concept" for students, the project would also include 20,000 square feet of retail space. The project will significantly alter the Delmar streetscape at Eastgate. The former site of a Meineke auto repair business and past gas station. The university purchased the lot in 2008. In 2010, nextSTL covered potential development as the school surveyed students to gauge interest in living in The Loop.
{site plan for mixed use building facing Delmar/Eastgate and new residential on Enright}
While the highest profile corner is currently vacant, the project seeks to demolish two residential buildings on Delmar, a commercial storefront on Eastgate and 10 residential apartment buildings on Enright. As a result, overall residential density will not be greatly increased, while the retail component will fill a hole in the Delmar streetscape. A four to six-story building would front Delmar and Eastgate, while three buildings would be built on Enright, the easternmost two of 2-3 stories and the westernmost 4-6 stories.
{this rendering looking west toward Delmar/Eastgate accompanied a 2010 Student Life story}
{a Meineke service station occupied the site of a former gas station until 2008}
{streetview of Delmar/Eastgate corner looking northwest – 2012}
The announcement of the project follows quickly on the heals of the Delmar Loop Area Retail Plan & Development Study, released in February. That study, commissioned by the university, found that a total of 155,000 additional retail square footage could be supported in the Loop area. On a parallel track, the Parkview Gardens neighborhood plan seeks added residential and retail density as well as better transit service (an improved Delmar MetroLink station and the addition of the Loop Trolley) and investment in parks and civic space.
Both the Parkview Gardens and Loop retail study appeared more aspirational than shovel-ready just last month. With this project set to break ground in January 2013, it becomes more likely that additional development will be announced. It's anticipated that private developers will move closer to breaking ground on other projects as the Loop Trolley and university investments result in a better connected, more dense neighborhood.
{the plan for Parkview Gardens anticipated added density in the project area}
{the Parkview Gardens plan shows development very similar to the announced project}
{another view of the project site – looking north}
{the project area (blue) spans University City and the City of St. Louis (red line)}
{the two residential buildings fronting Delmar would be the most high-profile buildings lost}
Updated renderings 02/01/2013:
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About Alex Ihnen
Alex is the founder of nextSTL.com. He earned a B.A. in Journalism and Masters in Public Affairs at Indiana University and has studied in Adelaide, Australia and Perugia, Italy. Alex can be found on Twitter @alexihnen and reached at [email protected]
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What a wonderful gathering and an amazing group of people and resources. Thanks to all who had the courage, strength and compassion to spend an entire day with such difficult topics as end-of-life and grief. This event happened because of you and because there is a need. This conference and gathering is to better help our pets and ourselves. Thank you for sharing…and your participation in this pioneering and progressive event to improve pet end-of-life care and healing from pet loss.
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Conference was rated 4.875 out of 5 Stars!
If there is enough interest, I may organize a Holistic Pet expo to cover additional pet care topics such as Animal Chiropractic, Acupuncture, Massage, Energy work, etc.
It was my honor and privilege to help bring this event to fruition. Thank you again for your support, participation and love.
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KUALA LUMPUR • Malaysia's emergency agencies are preparing evacuation centres, stockpiling food and getting ready rescue boats ahead of major floods anticipated to hit the country's east coast in the coming weeks.
The authorities have identified 666 temporary relief centres that could house 165,000 people in Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu, which are expected to bear the brunt of the north-east monsoon season in mid-November.
Besides flooding, mudflows and landslides are feared.
"We expect rainfall from the second week of November, with heavy rains from December to January next year. If there is continuous rainfall, massive floods are likely,'' said a Pahang Meteorological Department spokesman.
The department warned of exceptionally high tides on Nov 14 and Dec 14, with a total of 385 areas in the states being prepared for floods.
The official said early warnings would be issued 48 hours in advance. Residents would be evacuated before the floodwaters rise to dangerous levels.
Should a major flood occur, parts of the East Coast Highway (near the Temerloh rest area) and Jalan Ubai in Pekan, Pahang, will be cut off.
Mudflows are also expected in parts of the beach town of Beserah and several bauxite mining areas in Pahang's state capital, Kuantan.
A total of 118 locations in the state have been identified as possible landslide areas, with Maran being the most exposed.
A total of 107 bases will have food stockpiled for up to three days beginning Nov 7.
Leave for flood rescue personnel has been frozen for three months beginning Nov 15.
Pahang Crisis Relief Squad of MCA (CRSM) chief Chang Hong Seong said all its members were on standby.
"We will assist in distributing aid and help in evacuation efforts. Most of our members have received training and have the experience of dealing with major floods,'' he said.
Kelantan civil defence director Zainuddin Hussin said via telephone from Kota Baru: "Everything is in place and we are all ready.
"Flood drills have been conducted many times and canned food, water and blankets have been stocked up."
Terengganu civil defence director Che Adam A. Rahman said community leaders at flood-prone areas were also ready.
"We have conducted flood simulation exercises for them, teaching them how to react and where to go to in case of floods," he said, adding that 500 places, including schools and community halls, have been registered as flood evacuation centres.


Kitchen remodeling is a great choice for any house. Not only does it make the kitchen more functional for you and your family and suit your tastes better, it also increases the resale value of your home.
Set the budget. This is going to require some thought, discussion with your contractor, and setting reasonable expectations. One thing you will want to do is leave space in your budget for something unexpected—it happens often enough with remodeling and building that failing to leave a cushion could leave you strapped!
Figure out what you need. Before you look at the things you want, narrow down the things you really need for functionality's sake. For instance, perhaps the one thing you hate about your kitchen right now is the lighting—you need lighting over your workspace.
Maybe you have kids and need a countertop they can reach or have had difficulty cooking the way you want because you don't have enough counter space. These are things that will make your kitchen more enjoyable for you and your family in a big way, and that's important.
Prioritize what you want. It's okay to want luxuries in your kitchen—little things that improve your enjoyment of your kitchen just because. Go in for all of the luxuries you like, though; and pretty soon you'll be over your budget.
Instead, prioritize your luxuries. Together, answer this question: if we could only have one luxury, one "extra," what would we want? Then continue answering that in order—"if we could only have two, only have three?" Once you have a list of three to five, you can sit down with your contractor and decide what will fit in your budget.


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Climie, R.E., Grace, Megan S., Larsen, R.L., Dempsey, Paddy C., Oberoi, J., Cohen, N., Owen, Neville, Kingwell, Bronwyn A. and Dunstan, David
Background and aims: Modern Western lifestyles are characterized by consumption of approximately 45% of total daily energy intake at the evening meal, followed by prolonged sitting while watching television (TV), which may deleteriously impact glycemic control. After a high-energy evening meal (dinner), we examined whether regular, brief activity bouts during TV commercial breaks could acutely lower postprandial glucose and insulin responses in overweight/obese adults, compared to prolonged uninterrupted sitting. Methods and results: Nine overweight/obese adults (29.7 ± 4.06 kg m−2; aged 32 ± 3 years; 5 male) completed two laboratory-based conditions of three and a half hours: prolonged sitting during TV viewing (SIT); and, prolonged sitting interrupted every 20 min with 3 min of light-intensity body-weight resistance activities (active commercial breaks; ACBs). Venous postprandial glucose and insulin responses to dinner were calculated as positive incremental area under the curve (iAUC) from baseline. Interstitial glucose was measured using a continuous glucose monitor and quantified as total AUC (tAUC). Compared to SIT, plasma glucose iAUC was reduced by 33% [3.4 ± 1.0 vs 5.1 ± 1.0 (mean ± SEM) mmol h·L−1, p = 0.019] and plasma insulin iAUC by 41% (813 ± 224 vs 1373 ± 224, p = 0.033 pmol h·L−1) for the ACB condition. During the ACB condition there was a significant reduction in interstitial glucose tAUC (24.4 ± 5.2 vs 26.9 ± 5.2 mmol h·L−1, p < 0.001), but this did not persist beyond the laboratory observation period. Conclusions: Regular brief light-intensity activity bouts can attenuate glycemic responses during television viewing time following a high-energy evening meal in overweight/obese adults.
obesity; sedentary; glucose; circadian rhythm
Nutrition Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2018.05.009
A. Siani
https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/85591/regular-brief-interruptions-to-sitting-after-a-high-energy-evening-meal-attenuate-glycemic-excursions-in-overweight-obese-adults


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Q: Passing the View class object as a parameter to the method invoked by a button (View view) I'm trying to create an app for Android, and I follow this tutorial http://developer.android.com/training/basics/firstapp/starting-activity.html
there is a part
/** Called when the user clicks the Send button */
public void sendMessage(View view) {
    // Do something in response to button
}

then I followed this tutorial and everything worked, untill I remove parameter View view
my question is just why everytime I remove it, so the function just be:
/** Called when the user clicks the Send button */
public void sendMessage() {
    // Do something in response to button
}

and I run the app, it forced close.
could anyone enlighten me? thank you

A: the method (typically called onClick(View view)) method takes a parameter (the View it is associated with). see http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/View.OnClickListener.html for more information on the function. if you leave off the parameter you wouldn't expect it to work, would you?

A: When you put this kind of thing in your xml :
android:onClick="sendMessage"

The android framework will add an OnClickListener on your button. This "automatically" generated OnclickListener will try to call a method named "sendMessage" with one single argument of type View.
If this method doesn't exists it simply crash.

A: If you look carefully in the XML, you'll see the following attribute on the button:
android:onClick="sendMessage"

This attribute means that when the button is clicked, message
public void sendMessage(View view)

is invoked.  This is due to the fact that onClick method in the OnClickListener interface requires a parameter of type View.  When you remove the parameter, android still attempts to call method sendMessage(View view) but that method does not exist any more, therefore you get a force-close.
Parameter view is the actual view (button in your case) that was clicked. With this, you can assign multiple buttons to invoke the same method and inside the method check which button was clicked.
If you want to have the method without the parameters, then you should assign it in the code instead of the XML.  Change your XML to be
<Button
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:text="@string/button_send"
    android:id="@+id/send_button" />

(Note that android:onClick attribute is now removed and android:id is added.)  Then in your activity in onCreate method you would add the following line:
this.findViewById(R.id.send_button).setOnClickListener(new OnClickListener() {
    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        sendMessage();
    }
}

As you can see, this is quite a bit more code to write, but it does provide you with more flexibility should you need it.


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Q: All custom view instance variables are null I created a custom view that extends LinearLayout and contains two TextViews. Even though I set the text views in onFinishInflate(), I get null pointer exceptions when I call setText() on these textviews later.
Here's the code for the custom view:
public class MyCustomView extends LinearLayout{
    private TextView textView1;
    private TextView textView2;

    public MyCustomView(Context context){
        super(context);
        LayoutInflater layoutInflater = LayoutInflater.from(context);
        layoutInflater.inflater(R.layout.my_custom_view, this);
    }

    public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs){
        super(context, attrs);
    }

    public MyCustomView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle){
        super(context, attrs, defStyle);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onFinishInflate(){
        super.onFinishInflate();
        textView1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv1);
        textView2 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tv2);
    }

    // here's where I get the null pointer for textView1
    public void setTitle(String title){
        textView1.setText(title);
    }
}

my_custom_view.xml looks like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8">
<my_package.myapp.MyCustomView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:orientation="vertical">
    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/tv2"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"/>
</my_package.myapp.MyCustomView>

I later use the custom view like so:
View view = new MyCustomView(context);
((MyCustomView)view).setTitle("Title");   // null pointer exception here
return view;

Any ideas what I'm misunderstanding or doing wrong? I'd really appreciate any help.
I also noticed that if I modified the first constructor to take some other object and then later try to use this object, that instance variable is also null. Eg:
public MyCustomView(Context context, SomeObject object){
    this.object = object;
}

// as with the textviews, object would be null here
public int getObjectValue(){
    return object.getValue();
}

Thanks!

A: Ok, multiple problems here.
1)Your xml is wrong.  It should start with a merge, not a reference to your class, if you're inflating it into your class.
2)All 3 of your contructors need to do the inflation stuff. (this is prt of why it failed-  the 2 or 3 param constructor would be called here).
3)You do not want or need to override onFinishInflate.  Put that code in the constructor.  Inflation is not asynchronous, so there's no reason not to.


What does Evil eye do now?
Re: What does Evil eye do now?
Burden can sometimes fail (gets resisted), there is a buff that increases the probability of this resist happening. Evil Eye does the opposite effect, decreasing the probability of a resist occurring.
I'll have to check where I read it but I believe burden no longer fails it just increases your encumbrance effects on your spells a small percentage.
By default, debuff spells can't be resisted.
But you can use a self buff (from Arcane is what I wanna say) or Spell Immunity enchant, and those give you a chance to resist debuffs.
IIRC Evil Eye negates/reduces that chance.
In old DFO, Burden was potent but tremendously resistible. Even if the target had no buffs on, the resist rate was 40-50%.
When dueling mage clan mates, if I managed to stick Burden on them, some of them would just concede the fight. I had it level to 90 and it would last 2 minutes.
It counters a buff. It's basically dog doo like many other spells.