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Nokia Corp. signaled an end to its tie-up with Siemens AG, announcing a €1.7 billion ($2.21 billion) deal to buy its German partner out of the two companies' telecom-equipment joint venture Nokia Siemens Networks.
Nokia will pay €1.2 billion in cash for Siemens's 50% stake when the deal is completed in the third quarter. NSN will then become a wholly owned unit of Nokia, subject to regulatory approval. The balance of €500 million will be paid in the form of a secured loan from Siemens due a year later....


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The City of Melbourne announced its draft 2015-16 budget, with the Queen Victoria Market this year's big-ticket item.
The City of Melbourne announced its draft 2015-16 budget, with the Queen Victoria Market this year's big-ticket item. A total of $80.64 million has been allocated to its revamp, and the council plans to take advantage of low interest rates and borrow $75 million for the project.
While Mr Doyle understands eyebrows were raised after the council spent $1.5 million on a "bizarre" video of young urban professionals being hypnotised so they could rediscover Melbourne, he said the city needed to keep advertising everything the town had to offer.
"I'm not an expert on this video, but it's not aimed at old farts like us," he said.
"It is only in Melbourne where the night-time economy is booming – we're doing something right in getting the target market into the city."
Despite an obvious focus on the market in the budget, Mr Doyle denied funding for services fighting homelessness would take a back seat.
"We will deliver the services we need to deliver," he said.
The budget also includes a $538.5 million record investment in the city's programs, services and infrastructure. There is $800,000 for solar panels for council-owned buildings and $1.6 million to upgrade street lights to LED.
Unused grey spaces will be turned to green as the council moves to transform unused roads into parklands.
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UPDATE #2: Stretch Goal #1 Unlocked!
UPDATE: Stretch Goals Unlocked!
Thanks to your amazing support, we've hit the initial funding goal for HORIZON! This means the softcover version of the book is definitely happening!We still have ten days left in the campaign, and we're just getting started.
We set up some stretch goal ideas at the beginning of the campaign, and now we have a good chance of reaching them! HERE WE GO:
$50 bonus to all of the artists for their work - all physical copies of the anthology will receive a set of two KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE prints by JEREMY LAWSON and MORGAN BEEM.
$10,000: $150 bonus to all of the artists for their work - all physical copies of the anthology will be upgraded to hardcover, and receive two more KICKSTARTER EXCLUSIVE prints by JORGE CORONA and JEN HICKMAN, for a total of four prints!
I hope these sample images give you a good idea what to expect from the EXCLUSIVE prints that will be included in all physical orders of HORIZON after each stretch goal is unlocked!
Thank you for believing in this project! So excited! Let's keep it up!
HORIZON is a book about aftermath. What happens after the hero faces the evil of the age? After the peasant becomes king? After the great war for the realm? What happens when there's nothing left to fight for? The artists in this book answered that question by creating a series of comics that are diverse in tone, art, and outlook.
The result is a beautiful 144 page, color anthology (11.25" x 7") with a variety of art styles ranging from mainstream to indie and everything in between.
We're a group that gets crowd-funding. All of the artists involved in Horizon have been a part of (and in several cases run their own) successful Kickstarter campaigns, including Game Over: Insert More Quarters, Playlist Anthology, Game On: The Respawn, Tip Jar Sketchbook, Transitions, and Game Boss: The Final Form.
This project has been months in the making, and we're turning again to you, the Kickstarter community, to help us raise the funds to cover the printing and shipping costs needed to get HORIZON out into the world.
Your contributions will help bring this book to life!
Adam Del Re - Playlist Anthology, Game On: The Respawn
Ally Shwed - Transitions, Rock Ink Roll (Altered Aesthetics), Game On: The Respawn
Angael Davis/ Patricia Daguisan - Bravest Warriors: The Search for Catbug! (VIZ Media), Game On: The Respawn
Athena Currier - Game On: The Respawn, Action Athena
Bryant LaMare - Transitions, Rock Ink Roll (Altered Aesthetics), Game On: The Respawn
David Stoll - Merc Mania, Second Best, Tip Jar Sketchbook
Ian McGinty - Adventure Time: Candy Capers, Bravest Warriors (Boom! Studios), Hello Kitty (VIZ Media)
Jen Hickman - The Dead, Tip Jar Sketchbook, Playlist Anthology
Jeremy Lawson - Teen Titans Go! (DC Comics), Regular Show (Boom! Studios), Playlist Anthology
Jorge Corona - Teen Titans Go!, Justice League Beyond (DC Comics)
Laura Neubert - The Light Eaters, Tip Jar Sketchbook, Playlist Anthology
Morgan Beem - Tip Jar Sketchbook, Playlist Anthology
Moses Nester - Game On: The Respawn Anthology
Nicky Soh - Tip Jar Sketchbook, Sixty Shades of Blue, Game Over: Please Insert More Quarters Anthology
Sarah Stern - Game Boss: The Final Form, For Old Time's Snake
To reach our funding goal of $7,000 to get the book printed and shipped out, we need help! Here's where your money will be going:
Any and all money left over from this initial budget will be divided among the artists as a bonus for their hard work.
For backing HORIZON, we've got some great rewards for you!
If we exceed the initial funding goal, the extra money raised will go right back into the book and to our wonderful artists. So please help make HORIZON a reality! Donate today and support great comic art.
Mind the Gap - Jen Hickman
No More Villains - Angael Davis & Patricia Daguisan
The Adventures of Wilt and Zeed: Dragon Slayers - Bryant LaMare
A Lifelong Battle - Jorge Corona
Fairest of All - Morgan Beem
Fire on the Horizon - Moses Nester
TRIBE - Ian McGinty
Options - Sarah Stern
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The main risks we could run into with this project are potential delays in printing and shipping the books/rewards out to backers. I've budgeted extra time to accommodate this.
All of the artwork is turned in, pre-press for the book is in progress, and will be completed before the end of the campaign.
As soon as the campaign closes and payments are processed, I'll send the final book files to our printer and start prepping the other rewards.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
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How to Create a SPOT shared page
This 'HowTo' assumes you have already signed up for a SPOT account, and have also signed up for the 'full time tracking' option.
Launch a web browser and navigate to the SPOT website at http://www.findmespot.com, as shown below...
1. Click on the 'SPOT Account/Your Spot Login' link and log in using your username and password. This should take you to a page showing a list of all SPOT messengers associated with this account, similar to the following screenshot. Note the list of services on the right hand side of this page (a list of green checkboxes. If the optional 'Unlimited Tracking' isn't shown here, then you should strongly consider adding it to your subscription. Even without the tracking service you can still gain many of the benefits of a SPOT tracker, but messages must be initiated manually. With the 'Unlimited Tracking' service enabled, all you have to do is to put the SPOT unit into tracking mode at the beginning of the day, and it will automatically send out position reports every 10 minutes or so. This mode is obviously more advantageous for our type of activity, and certainly for the case of an alive but otherwise incapacitated pilot!
2. Click on the 'Share' tab (highlighted in the above screenshot). This will bring you to a page similar to the one shown below, where you can manage existing 'shared pages' and/or create new ones. The first screenshot below shows the situation when there are no existing shared pages, and the second one below shows the Shared Page area of the same screen but with an existing shared page. If there are no pages present, the 'Manage Shared Page' link doesn't do much, but if one or more shared pages have already been created, then they can be adjusted/edited via the 'Manage Shared Pages' link. For purposes of this 'HowTo' document, it is assumed that you don't have a shared page and need to create one.
Note: the same page with an existing shared page. You can 'manage' an existing page, or create additional ones at will
3. To create a new shared page, click on 'Create Shared Page', which brings up a page like the following.
- The first image below shows the default page before any changes have been made.
- The 'Name this Shared Page:' field by default has the user name and 'SPOT Shared Page 1' where the '1' gets incremented for every new shared page. You can edit this freely, but I never bother.
- Note that the single messenger unit on this account (The one labeled 'TA') has been automatically selected. If there were multiple messenger units on a single account, then one or more could be selected for edits.
- Message Types to Share: All are selected by default, and I recommend this not be changed. That way, if you decide to cancel tracking and manually send a 'Check-in' (OK) or 'Help' message (generally used for the 'bummer – I've landed out' message), those messages will be available for display on the tracking map.
- The Message Time Window selection is set for '7 days' by default. I recommend changing the Message Time Window from 7 days to 24 hours to eliminate clutter on the tracking map. The last thing you want is to have a SAR responder trying to extract your current position from 7 days of flights!
- Custom Message: I have no idea what this does – it is set to 'No' by default and I left it that way.
- The Security choice must be set to 'Public' to make your shared page available to concerned individuals and/or SAR responders.
- In the 'Share My Page' section, note that neither radio button is selected. When either one is clicked, then a 'Create Now!' button will be shown at the bottom of the page. I recommend that the 'Send the shared page myself' selection be picked, as this causes the complete URL to the shared page to be shown in an edit box so that it can be conveniently copy/pasted to the SSA member profile 'Tracker URL' field or other application (like an email to your 50 closest friends ;-)).
- The second image below shows the same page, but with the recommended options selected and the 'Create Now!' button shown
4. Click on 'Create Now!', and wait a few seconds. When the creation procedure completes, some new fields (one of which is the field containing the new URL) are added to the bottom of the page, and you may have to scroll down on the page to actually see them (I do on my web browser). The image below shows the page just after clicking on 'Create Now!' Note the addition of the 'Information' block at the top, and the URL at the bottom
5. Copy and & paste the shared page URL (highlighted above) into the 'Tracker URL' field of your member profile, making sure to highlight the entire URL. If you are pasting into your SSA member profile area, there may be a 'Test' button you can use to verify that the link is valid. I also recommend that you paste the URL into an email to yourself, so you can test the link to make sure it was created properly. Once you verify that it is correct, you can send it to your favorite crewperson and/or significant other so they can access it whenever they like.
That's it – you should be good to go. If you have any questions contact us here.. Happy tracking! ;-). Many thanks to Frank Paynter for creating this document.
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A Call to burdened saints – "A solemn Assembly"
Last year (May 2015), saints from across the continent gathered in Shawnee, Kansas to seek the Lord in prayer. Many joined us from various locations via the live streaming broadcast, meeting together in homes and other previously arranged satellite sites. Those that participated testified to the blessing of a concentrated week of prayer, acknowledging that this has been an area of great weakness among us.
We have no interest in simply repeating something just for the sake of it; however we feel the needs requiring us to cry out to the Lord are as great as ever. Our nation(s) seem to be in serious spiritual and moral decline, and it's when the world is at its' worst that the Church needs to be at its' best. Sadly, this is far from the case!
Would you prayerfully consider joining us again this year to pray for revival among the saints, and awakening among the lost?
Our concern is that the Lord's Name be magnified through His people and among the nations. We anticipate coming together to pray concerning a pure Bride, and that we might become a praying people, and that our confidence in 2016 will not be in a political process but in a powerful gospel!
Please visit http://naweekofprayer.com/ to register for the Kansas location, to contact us regarding the possibility of hosting a satellite location in your own region, or with any other questions.
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones." Isaiah 57:15
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Congratulations to Joe Davis of Heyward Allen Toyota! The well-planned, perfectly executed video he created using Walkaround Videos has been selected as our Video of the Month!
Joe's video demonstrates that using video is a great way to connect with the customer by sending a unique, personalized video message that stands out, EVEN IF THE UNIT ISN'T PERFECT!
What is Joe doing that YOU could be doing?
There's SO MUCH that Joe is doing well in this walkaround video. The best part is, he's just using simple techniques that anyone could be using!! Here are a few things we love about it:
- He uses Landscape Mode! This may seem like a simple concept, but what a difference it makes to the customer. It fills the whole video player up very nicely, and gives the customer a fantastic experience! (Click here to read more on the importance of shooting videos in landscape mode.)
- He's personable! When Joe says, "Hi Megan, it's Joe Davis," Megan knows this video is only for her. What a nice experience that is for the customer.
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- He keeps it short! 1:04 seconds is plenty of time to introduce yourself, show the interior, exterior and features. Beautiful. We all know 90 seconds is the consumer's sweet spot.
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Apple Stores are to sell a wirelessly controlled LED lighting system that can change colour and is controlled via an iPhone or iPad app.
The Hue bulbs are made by Philips, which will be providing the product exclusively to Apple Stores (from 30 October) for the time being, although an Android version of the app is coming in December, according to the manufacturer.
Philips has made colour changing LED mood lighting bulbs for several years but they simply cycled through a preset sequence. The new Philips Hue system uses a wireless bridge, which plugs into your Wi-Fi router and comes in a starter pack along with three bulbs. These are controlled using the free companion app. The Hue bulbs use E26 or E27 screw-cap fittings (but not bayonet types as yet) and the whole system does not need specialist installation.
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features normally provided with elaborate home automation hardware.
Lights can be turned on or off or have their brightness and colour intensity changed using the app – including white light from the warm to cool end of the colour temperature range.
Each bulb can be named according to the room it's in and customised with "Light Recipes" from a total of 16 million possible colour choices. The app can also use a digital photo on your device to pick a colour and make the Hue bulbs match it, which works a bit like Philips' AmbiLight system for TVs.
The app has 12 preset options, including "sunset", "deep sea", "beach" and "hammock". You can assign automated on and off times for the lights and group or ungroup them into clusters to be controlled all in one go.
An online portal enables you to control them from outside the building, which is handy if you are away and wonder if you forgot to switch off the lights (or you want to leave some on to make it look like someone's home). It can even do "reverse signalling", so you can get a status report on whether lights have or have not been used by a certain time.
At home, the router and your mobile must be on the same Wi-Fi network, however, the bulbs communicate using ZigBee, which consumes less power than Wi-Fi. As ZigBee is an open standard, Philips hopes that a developer community will build new applications for Hue in the future.
One bridge can support 50 bulbs, says Philips. The lights also work with existing ZigBee LightLink wireless automation systems.
Being LED bulbs they have a long 15,000-hour lifespan and a low power consumption of no more than 8.5W each, producing a maximum of 600 lumens (equivalent to a 50W incandescent light).
However, the starter kit is expensive, even by luxury LED standards, at £179 in the UK and $199 in the US. Additional bulbs cost £49 ($59) each. So, it's clearly a premium offering at the moment, rather like the Nest thermostat (also sold through Apple stores but only in the US so far).
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Gloria Glyer: Fundraising events around the Sacramento region
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). The "Hole" Lotta Love charity golf tournament will be Oct. 10 at Teal Bend Golf Club, 7200 Garden Highway. Registration, range balls and lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m., with a putting contest at 12:30 p.m. and shotgun start at 1 p.m. The tournament will conclude with the awards dinner/auction/raffle at 6 p.m. Surprise course activities are planned for golfers and non-golfers. In addition, each golfer will be able to vote for a favorite hole sponsor.
To sign up or for sponsorship information, contact Tom Cicchini at (916) 858-1638 or visit www.sacramentocasa.org. The tournament will support CASA to provide more trained volunteer advocates for children who are victims of abuse and neglect in Sacramento County.
Karla J. Williams Foundation. "Sax on the River" themes the fifth annual fundraiser from 4 to 10 p.m. Oct. 11 on the Garden Highway at the residence of Barbara Walker and Chuck Kelley. In the music spotlight will be saxophonists Elan Trotman and Lebron Dennis, Cecil Ramirez & the Cecil Ramirez Group, and vocalist Cynthia Douglas. Contemporary jazz will highlight the entertainment. Concert seating tickets are $50; VIP tickets at $75 per person or $700 for a table for 10 include preferred seating, meal, wine glass, and meet-and-greet with the artists. Visit www.saxontheriver.com.
The Karla J. Williams Foundation aims to better the life of women cancer patients while they are undergoing treatment by providing nurturing support services. The foundation also exists to increase public awareness about the prevention, detection and treatment of women's cancers. The mission includes connecting patients in Northern California to resources and available clinical trials.
Sacramento LGBT Community Center and Sunburst Projects. The third annual Red Dress Party will be Saturday at Badlands nightclub, with a VIP pre-party at 8 p.m. and open to everyone at 9:30 p.m. Host will be Nadya Ginsburg, billed as Cher, the Woman of a Thousand Voices. In the musical spotlight will be Neon Hitch, international pop, and Andrew Gibbons of San Francisco, international DJ.
Said David Heitstuman, interim executive director of the Sacramento LGBT Community Center, "In the past two years, this event has contributed more than $35.000 to local organizations. We are very excited, going into our third year, to be able to again support the Sacramento LGBT Community Center and Sunburst Projects with an event that people love to attend."
About the theme, Heitstuman noted: "The color red, found on the red ribbon on lapels around the world, serves as a global symbol of HIV/AIDS awareness. While this is not a drag event, the required wearing of a red dress by all guests regardless of age, gender or sexual orientation serves as a powerful symbol of solidarity with those living with HIV/AIDS and as a reminder that is it everyone's responsibility to help end the epidemic."
Advance tickets are $40 general, $75 for VIP. Party night tickets are $75 general, $90 VIP. Visit SacramentoRedDressParty.org.
Sacramento Fine Arts Center. Bold Expressions, the annual international open juried art exhibit, will be on display Tuesday through Oct. 25 at the center, 5330B Gibbons Drive, Carmichael. The closing reception and awards presentation will be from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on the closing day. Gallery hours are from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday. Call (916) 716-5951.
Sacramento Zoo. Sold out! That's the news from the zoo regarding the 19th annual fundraiser gala slated for Oct. 4. The Wild Affair will include behind-the-scenes tours, dinner by the Fat Family Restaurant, and live and silent auctions hosted by Dave Bender. Funds raised will provide for building and renovating exhibits. At the gala, Brown Construction will be recognized for ongoing support of the zoo. Contact Tonja Candelaria at (916) 808-7446.
United Way. The 13th annual Women in Philanthropy luncheon will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 23 at the Arden Fair Mall Center Court. The event, which will benefit foster youths, will include a fashion show featuring the youth as models, and presentations by local current and former foster youths who have participated in United Way's financial stability initiative. United Way's Women in Philanthropy members will discuss their work with their project that supports financial literacy sources and matched savings programs for foster youths.
Luncheon tickets range from $75 to $125; visit www.yourlocalunitedway.org/wiplunch.
The Chevo Foundation. Hawaiian Harvest will be presented for the second year, on Oct. 11 at the Riverwood Estate on the Sacramento River. Luau time begins at 6 p.m. with Chevo supporters receiving a lei upon arrival. Sacramento chefs will prepare bites for the pre-dinner samples and the Hawaiian dinner feast and dessert.
The program will include a live auction, entertainment, music, dancing and sweets. Contact Joe Wilson at (916) 806-8586 or thechevofoundation.org for sponsor and ticket sales.
All proceeds will be used to help raise awareness and resources for Parkinson's research and education for those directly and indirectly affected by the disease and awareness of those not yet diagnosed.
Casa Garden Restaurant. Upcoming special events for the Casa include the Wine Social luncheon Oct. 7 and the Gala at the Garden on Oct. 24-25 at the Casa, 2760 Sutterville Road. The social at the Casa, which raises funds for the Sacramento Children's Home, will be at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 7, with Clarksburg Wine Co. pouring samples for hors d'oeuvres before lunch of chicken cordon bleu or dilled shrimp and pasta salad with almond cake framboise for dessert.
Lunch is $24 per person, food selection and prepayment required. For reservations and information about all Casa events, call (916) 452-2809 or visit www.casagardenrestaurant.org.
UC Davis Children's Hospital Pediatric Heart Center. The 10th annual Northern California premium sake fest will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 9 at the Sheraton Grand Sacramento Hotel. Featured will be 100 selections of sake, schochu and Japanese beer with food from local restaurants.
Also included will be a sushi chef contest, a drawing, Tauko drummers, silent auction, blind sake tasting and a sashimi tuna-cutting demonstration.
Judy and Harley Inaba and their North American Food Distributing Co. started the fest to promote awareness of pediatric congenital heart abnormalities. Their son was born with transposed arteries and required cardiac surgery early in his life. For the Inabas, the event celebrates his recovery and helps children with similar conditions by donating a portion of the proceeds to the UC Davis Children's Hospital. Proceeds help fund an annual picnic for the UC Davis pediatric heart patients and their families.
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It is an honor for me to write the foreword to Miriam Kalamian's deeply important book, Keto For Cancer. Miriam has produced a masterpiece that translates decades of research on the anticancer therapeutic benefits of ketogenic diets and calorie restriction in preclinical models to a practical guide for people with cancer and practitioners who are increasingly drawn to the science behind this metabolic approach. The information in her book moves far beyond the limits of conventional anticancer nutrition to include the use of food as medicine, a concept first elucidated by Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine.
Miriam's book comes at a critical time in our quest to manage cancer, as the cancer field is now stagnating under the weight of traditional therapies (radiation and chemotherapy) that result in unacceptable toxicity and impairment in quality of life, often with little improvement in survival. Even the new immunotherapy drugs are proving to be unacceptably toxic, marginally effective, and inordinately expensive. The rate of increase in deaths from cancer over the last five years (3.4 percent) is now twice the rate of increase in new cases (1.7 percent). According to data from the American Cancer Society, cancer deaths have reached epidemic proportions, with over 1,600 people dying each day in the United States alone. Too often, five-year survival statistics masquerade as a cure, allowing the conventional community to dodge any discussion of long-term survivorship, especially in those people with aggressive or metastatic disease.
How could this situation exist even with the enormous investment in resources and the decades of research directed at cancer therapies supported by the NIH, the pharmaceutical industry, and the many private cancer research groups, many of which are founded by people who have lost loved ones to this disease? This unacceptable state of affairs is due largely to the prevailing but flawed dogma that cancer is a genetic disease. Massive evidence shows the large impact that environmental influences have on the initiation and progression of this disease. Cancer treatment centers use buzzwords like personalized medicine, targeted therapies, and cancer mutation screening to imply that cancer is under their control. These are hollow words linked to a fundamental misunderstanding of the origin of cancer. Emerging evidence indicates that cancer is primarily a metabolic disease arising from a disruption in the ability of the cell to obtain the energy it needs to survive and proliferate from normal cellular respiration. Although the cancer research community acknowledges this aberration, it fails to connect the dots leading back to the origin of most cancers. That is, most cancer cells obtain their energy from the process of fermentation, which was the way primitive living organisms survived before oxygen became abundant in Earth's atmosphere some 2.5 billion years ago. It is cancer's protracted reliance on fermentation energy that leads to the many genetic mutations seen in cancer cells. In other words, the mutations are not the cause of cancer but instead are the downstream effect of the disturbed respiration that drives compensatory fermentation and even evasion from immune system surveillance.
Cancer mutations are "red herrings" that divert attention away from the real problem, which is a reliance on fermentation for growth and survival. It is no wonder that cancer therapies based on the gene theory have had so little success in managing the disease. Damage to cellular respiration, thus causing a reliance on fermentation, can arise from any number of provocative agents, including carcinogens, radiation, tissue inflammation, viral infections, focal hypoxia, rare inherited mutations, or simply age. Fermentation metabolism also makes tumor cells resistant to radiation and chemotherapies by strengthening their inherent antioxidant defenses. Miriam's book provides a nutritional strategy to manage cancer based on the metabolic origins underlying most tumor cells. Cancer is not many diseases, as some would suggest, but it is a singular disease of abnormal energy metabolism regardless of the cell or tissue of origin.
It is now recognized that both glucose and glutamine, an amino acid, are the prime fuels that drive fermentation metabolism in most tumor cells. In addition to generating energy, these fuels are also the precursors for the synthesis of lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids, which pave the way for rapid tumor cell proliferation. It follows that the most logical therapeutic strategy for managing cancer centers on restricting glucose and glutamine. The low-carbohydrate, high-fat ketogenic diet is an alternative, nontoxic metabolic strategy for targeting those tumor cells that depend on fermentable fuels for their growth and survival. Therapeutic ketosis starves tumor cells of glucose while elevating blood levels of ketones, a metabolic fuel that enhances the health of normal cells. Tumor cells, however, cannot use ketones for energy because of defects in oxygen respiration. Ketogenic diets also enhance the therapeutic action of glutamine-targeting drugs, and there is evidence that ketogenic metabolic therapy sensitizes tumor cells, in effect targeting them for destruction without producing collateral toxic damage to normal cells. Recent studies from an oncology clinic in Istanbul, Turkey, showed that a ketogenic diet used together with a cocktail of glucose-targeting drugs and procedures that increase oxidative stress in tumor tissue could successfully manage a broad range of advanced stage IV metastatic cancers, including breast, colon, ovary, lung, and pancreas. The ketogenic diet has also been shown to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of low-dose chemotherapy while simultaneously reducing toxicity to normal cells, tissues, and organs. It therefore becomes essential for cancer patients and their caregivers to recognize and understand how therapeutic ketosis using ketogenic diets can be used for managing cancer while also improving quality of life.
Miriam Kalamian is exceptionally well qualified to instruct cancer patients, their family members, and their oncology teams in using therapeutic ketosis as either an adjunctive or alternative approach for managing cancer. Miriam experienced firsthand the therapeutic effects of the ketogenic diet over a decade ago when she initiated the diet as a nutritional strategy for her own son. Indeed, her book is dedicated to Raffi, and the passion she has for sharing this experience is palpable. Managing Raffi's brain tumor with a ketogenic diet put her on the path to learning the science behind the therapy and helped her to face the many challenges she encountered as an advocate for her son. I consider Miriam Kalamian a foremost authority in the emerging field of metabolic therapies for cancer. Her book addresses every question or concern that cancer patients might have in using a ketogenic metabolic strategy for managing their cancer. Being part of the team takes on new meaning as the person with cancer now plays an active role in the management of the disease. Miriam has provided cancer patients with a playbook that lays out the moves and strategies necessary for the nontoxic management of their disease. It is my view that therapeutic ketosis that revolves around ketogenic diets should be incorporated into the standards of care in oncology. Miriam Kalamian's book is an essential resource for any cancer patient, caregiver, or oncologist with an interest in metabolic therapy.
Thomas N. Seyfried, PhD
Boston College
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These rocking girls went down to Court Street Dairy yesterday to talk with the Statesman Journal's Holding Court about our upcoming benefit concert at Ike Box on Friday night December 23rd to support Sprague High School's Oly Pageant. Brittney Covington reached out to us and organized this event and we are happy to help out. It is so cool when music unites our community in so many ways around Salem. This show is ALL AGES and ALL PROCEEDS GO TO DOERNBECHER! Doors open at 6:45 and show is from 7:30-9 at the Ike Box. Tickets are $10 CASH ONLY. Thanks to Ike Box for hosting this benefit show.
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Shoppers spent heavily last week both before and after Christmas, after a snow storm the last weekend of the holiday shopping season led to pent up demand.
Retail sales rose 8.8 percent during the week ending Dec. 26, according to research firm ShopperTrak. Meanwhile, traffic edged down 1 percent compared with a year ago.
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc. shares fell more than 4% Monday as financial news magazine Barron's published an article saying the Internet search engine's shares could fall as much as 50% over the next year.
Meanwhile, most Net stocks fell on the first trading day of the new week. The Dow Jones Internet Index DJI_DJINET was down 1.3% to 91.27, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index $COMPQ was off 22.07 points to 2,239.81.
Google GOOG, -0.17% shares fell 4.6% to $345.70, closing below the $350 mark for the first time since late October. The Barron's article argued shares could fall further due in part to growing competition from heavyweights Microsoft Corp. MSFT, +0.78% and Yahoo Inc. See full story.
UBS analyst Ben Schachter, who rates Google neutral, wrote that Barron's story "makes noise with a back-of-the-envelope valuation" based on higher costs and the potential for a revenue shortfall compared to one bullish estimate.
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Citigroup's Mark Mahaney, who rates Google a buy with a $490 price target, wrote that $360 implies a "trough" valuation, and the risk-reward for investors is very attractive. Up-and-coming catalysts for Google stock include its March 2 analyst day and possible inclusion within the S&P 500 Index.
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The company also launched a new online identity protection product called VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP).
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Napster Inc. NAPS shares fell 1.3% to $3.66. The company said its Napster Mobile service is not available in certain markets in Europe, North America and Asia.
RealNetworks Inc. RNWK, -6.67% shares fell 6.6%. The company reports its fourth quarter results after the market closes Tuesday.
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In January 2011, Michael Parks entered the 11 Second club with a delightful stop motion clip. His entry titled Pet Project was just pipped to first place by Edwin Schaap. One year later, he experiences deja vú as his January 2012, Mere Pass Maa, once again landed him second place.
Being twice so close to being our first stop motion winner, we invited Michael to catch up and talk about his work. This time around, we handed the interview reigns over to Eric Swymer.
This allowed the story for Mere Pass Maa to be a string of silly gags. My goal was to have something surprising and entertaining in every shot after the first introductory shot. Stop motion and clay animation gives the freedom of being able to do just about anything you want. You're not limited by available rigs or models. If you want a silly little duck, you make a silly little duck within twenty minutes. It's harder to produce smooth, subtle animation, but the trade-off is worth it.
Was there any additional prep for this part? Can you tell us a little bit about what goes into the design process for the models?
I have laughed many times at the expressions of the bird. The natural glance on frames 155-160 not only shifts the focus onto the brother, but contrasts beautifully with the craziness in the scene. While his look of disbelief at the end, helps emphasise the mood. Can you talk a bit about this character.
The bird was my inspiration for the whole scene. He's there just to observe the scene as it plays out, and I was amused by the idea of having an assertive character try to hold a goofy duck in a threatening way. I was also playing with the reason some actors don't want to do a scene with a real animal. They are unpredictable, and they can upstage their human co-stars. So in this case the threatening pose is defused by having a silly duck getting all the attention.
Where did you take your inspirations and influences for this shot?
Ernie and Bert. You know, the tall, grumpy guy with the narrow head and the shorter placid guy with the round head. Nice and simple. Perhaps it even plays on the visual association burned into our collective brains from childhood. In general, I was also playing with overly dramatic art films paraded in front of me in film school. Nice to have some of that education put to use once in a while.
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Most readers of our blog come from 3d can you tell us how your production differs for a stop motio shot from a 3d shot?
Weight consistency plays a key role in delivering a believable performance. Talk about the challenge of handling weight in stop motion.
I believe it can be extra challenging for a stop motion entry to compete. However, each time you have entered, the community of voters have fell in love with your puppets and unusual storylines. Please talk a bit about your motives for entering.
When I'm between animation jobs (or between semesters when I'm teaching), I want to still be animating to stay active and refine my skills. So for my CG employment pursuits I have animated dialogue shots just for my reel. But it can be difficult to be motivated to do excellent work when I know that my first audience will be a few recruiters. The animation ends up being uninspired and is eventually cut from my reel.
For my stop motion reel I wanted to find more inspiration for doing good work. The 11-Second Club adds an element of competition as well as a wider audience, making the project more exciting. I end all of the classes I teach with a tour of The 11-Second Club site with the recommendation to enter during the breaks to keep active.


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One of Europe's top holiday destinations, Spain has everything: enchanting cities, stunning landscape, sunny beaches, music and colour. It shares the Iberian peninsular with Portugal, the Guadiana river forming the natural frontier between Spain and Portugal and its banks are dotted with ancient fortified towns and villages.
It's also one of Europe's top cultural countries, rich with tradition and heritage monuments, yet embracing modern art and architecture. From Seville, Spain's former capital, you can experience the traditions and gastronomy of Andalucia and stunning Moorish architecture including the Great Mosque of Cordoba and the Alhambra in Granada.
Cadiz on the Atlantic coast is one of Spain's oldest cities though most of its architecture is Baroque.
Cruising Spain's rivers is a superb way to experience the country and a great way to discover the heart of Andalucian and Portuguese traditions.
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If only I had a dollar for every time I've been asked if my suppressors, machineguns, or short-barrel shotguns were legal, I wouldn't have to work in order to afford more of them. The fact is, in most of the United States, those weapons are 100% legal for civilians to own, as long as they are properly registered with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE), and the proper taxes are paid for their transfer. In this article, we'll take a look at the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA34, or just NFA) and the process necessary to own these weapons.
In 1934, the United States was experiencing a growth in organized crime activities, as well as a rash of bank robberies, particularly in the Midwest. Criminals such as Al Capone, John Dillinger, "Pretty Boy" Floyd, "Machinegun" Kelly, and the infamous lovebirds Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were becoming legendary. These men and women were often using fully-automatic weapons to commit their crimes. Events such as the "St. Valentine' Day Massacre" of February 14, 1929 highlighted the ends to which criminals would go to conduct their business.
One of the more popular guns of these criminals was the Thompson Sub-Machinegun, a fully-automatic weapon which fires the .45 ACP round. Clyde Barrow was partial to the Browning Automatic Rifle, or BAR, a .30-06 caliber machinegun fed from a 20-round magazine. In 1929, a Thompson SMG sold for $175, with an extra $25 charged for models with a Cutt's Compensator installed. The Thompson, or Tommy Gun, could be fed with a standard, 20-round box magazine, or either 50 or 100-round drums. The 50-round drums cost $21 in 1929, with a 100-round version costing $25. In Chicago, the criminal underworld bought many of their guns from a dealer named Peter von Frantzius. Von Frantzius would routinely remove the serial numbers from guns for a fee as small as $2. One of the Tommy Guns used in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre was bought from von Frantzius' sporting goods store.
When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, the United States Congress passed the National Firearms Act, correctly known as the Act of June 26, 1934. The goal was to go after organized crime by way of their guns of choice. The Act named several types of firearms, required their registration, and imposed taxes on their manufacture and subsequent transfer. The types of firearms named in the NFA are machineguns, short-barrel rifles, short-barrel shotguns, silencers (suppressors), destructive devices, and a catch-all category known as "Any Other Weapons," or AOW's. Many in the NFA community would argue that the National Firearms Act was passed simply as a way of keeping Federal Agents employed and as a way of making money for the U.S. government. It should be noted that crimes prosecuted under the NFA are technically tax crimes, as NFA 34 is actually a tax law. Prior to 9/11, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was a regulatory agency under the Internal Revenue Service.
Frequently, people refer to NFA weapons as "Class 3" guns. This is actually a misnomer. The National Firearms Act breaks firearms down into two basic categories: Title I and Title II. Title I guns are the guns with which most people are familiar, rifles, shotguns, and handguns. Title II guns are the aforementioned machineguns, silencers, short-barrel rifles, short-barrel shotguns, destructive devices, and "Any Other Weapons." The confusion comes from years of misinformation, or lack of information regarding the definitions within NFA 34.
Commonly, dealers who buy, sell, and trade NFA Title II weapons are known as "Class 3 Dealers." "Class 3" actually refers to a tax-payer status of federally licensed firearms dealers, or FFL's. In order to deal in NFA Title II weapons, an FFL must pay an annual Special Occupancy Tax, or SOT. A Class 1 SOT is for a licensed firearms importer. A licensed manufacturer pays a Class 2 SOT, while a dealer pays a Class 3 SOT. The amount of the tax is mostly based on the class, with an additional factor being the gross annual sales of certain SOT's. Since people wishing to buy an NFA Title II weapon most often buy them from dealers who are Class 3 SOT's, they came to be simply known as "Class 3 dealers."
Machineguns are defined by NFA 34 as "any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger." It also includes parts kits and individual parts designed exclusively for use in a machine gun, or which allow a person to easily build a machine gun. Machine guns include those which fire fully-automatic as well as those which fire in multiple round bursts, such as an M-16A2. It also includes any parts which can easily be converted into a machine gun. These parts and parts sets are covered by a BATFE policy that once a gun is a machine gun, it is always a machine gun. A machine gun can not legally be retrofitted into a semi-automatic only weapon.
In addition to the NFA, there are two other pieces of legislation which govern the manufacture, importation, transfer, and ownership of machine guns. The first was the Gun Control Act of 1968, or GCA 68. This act made the civilian ownership of newly imported machineguns illegal. Dealers could own them for demonstrations to law enforcement agencies, however. Also, when the FFL surrendered their license, they could transfer these guns to their private collections. These guns became known as "Dealer Samples." The second law was the 1986 Firearms Owner's Protection Act, or FOPA 86. This law made it illegal to manufacture new machine guns for civilian ownership. It effectively closed the NFA Registry to new machineguns. Since May 1986, there have now been three classes of machine guns, "Fully Transferable," meaning anyone can own one – these were imported prior to 1968, or manufactured in the U.S. before 1986, "Pre-86 Dealer Samples" – guns formerly known as Dealer Samples, and "Post-86 Dealer Samples" – guns which were imported or manufactured after FOPA 86 was passed. With the advent of FOPA 86 and the closure of the registry, the supply of transferable machine guns has remained at the level it was in 1986, with the loss of any guns destroyed in the meantime, with none added to the list. However, the demand for transferable machine guns has increased. As with all markets, when supply is limited and demand is increased, the price increases. This has caused machine guns which sold for next to nothing in 1986 to be worth as much as a new car. For example, a licensed manufacturer can build a new M-16 for less than $500. However, a 21-year old, transferable M-16 costs $9,000 to $15,000. Thompson SMG's now sell for $14,000 to $24,000 depending on condition. That's a big difference from the 1929 price of $175.
The next category of NFA Title II weapons are silencers, or, more correctly, suppressors. A silencer is a device which alters or muffles the gunshot of a firearm, or any part or parts designed exclusively to manufacture a silencer. When NFA 34 was written, silencers were readily available through mail order, at costs below $10 each. As the Great Depression was in full swing by 1934, there was concern by wildlife management folks that silencers would be used by poachers. Therefore, silencers were added to NFA 34, in order to control illegal hunting. Would you believe that silencers were invented by the same person who invented the muffler on your car, at the same time, and for the same general purpose, controlling noise pollution? Unfortunately, Hollywood has often demonized an effective safety device. In most of socialist Europe, where guns are often difficult to acquire, silencers are often sold inexpensively, over-the-counter, with as many controls as any other firearms accessory, such as a magazine. The use of silencers is looked upon as a means to protect the hearing of both the shooter and those in their vicinity. Why should the people around us, who aren't taking part in our sport, have to suffer hearing loss because of us, when there is such an easy way to avoid that damage?
The National Firearms Act defines a rifle as a shoulder-fired weapon, which uses a rifled bore to discharge a shot. According to NFA 34, a Title I rifle has a barrel in excess of 18 inches, and an overall length in excess of 26 inches. A short-barrel rifle is a rifle with a barrel shorter than 16 inches, or an overall length less than 26 inches. Likewise, a shotgun is defined as a shoulder-fired, smooth bore firearm with a barrel in excess of 18 inches, and an overall length in excess of 26 inches. A short-barrel shotgun is a shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches, or an overall length less than 26 inches. So, now you're asking, "Why the differences in required barrel lengths?" Well, when NFA was written and enacted, the barrel lengths were the same, 18 inches. However, there were several manufacturers who were building .22 calibers rifles with 16 inch barrels, and they petitioned the government to change the law. In a moment of logical clarity, the government recognized that .22 caliber rifles were meant as sporting rifles, not as tools of the criminal trade, and changed the law accordingly.
Another category of Title II weapons is destructive devices, commonly referred to as DD's. There are really two types of DD's: explosive destructive devices, and large-bore destructive devices. Explosive DD's include explosive, incendiary, or poisonous gas, grenades, bombs, and rockets containing a propellant charge in excess of four ounces, missiles with an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce, mines, and similar devices. So, yes, you can own fragmentation grenades and Hellfire Anti-Tank Guided Missiles; so long as you pay the tax and BATFE approves of it. The second types of DD's, large-bore devices, include weapons with barrel diameters in excess of one-half inch, except shotguns which BATFE feel have a sporting purpose. In recent memory, BATFE has ruled that shotguns such as the USAS-12, LAW-12 and Street Sweeper are destructive devices, requiring them to have been registered as such. Some other commonly seen destructive devices are M-203 and M-79 grenade launchers, mortars, and breach-loaded cannons. These are all legal to own, at least on the Federal level, as long as taxes are paid.
The last category of NFA Title II weapons are known as "Any Other Weapons." Essentially, this is a catch-all category. They are defined within NFA 34 as: "any weapon or device capable of being concealed on the person from which a shot can be discharged through the energy of an explosive, a pistol or revolver having a barrel with a smooth bore designed, or redesigned to fire a fixed shotgun shell, weapons with combination shotgun and rifle barrels 12 inches or more, less than 18 inches in length, from which only a single discharge can be made from either barrel without manual reloading, and shall include any such weapon which may be readily restored to fire. Such term shall not include a pistol or revolver having a rifled bore, or rifled bores, or weapons designed, made, intended to be fired from the shoulder and not capable of firing fixed ammunition." Some frequently encountered AOW's include pen guns and cane guns. Others you might not be so familiar with include the Heckler & Koch Operational Briefcase for the MP-5K submachine gun, which allows an MP-5K to be fired from inside the briefcase, and the Serbu Super Shorty, which is a smooth-bore handgun built using Mossberg 500 or Remington 870 receivers (Author's note: My company, Elite Tactical Systems, Inc. also manufactures AOW's using 870 receivers.). Are you ready for an example of bureaucratic nonsense? North American Arms, a manufacturer of miniature .22 revolvers, built a wallet holster for their mini-revolvers. In 1997, BATFE ruled that since the gun could be concealed on the person and fired from within the holster, they must be registered as an AOW when used in conjunction with the wallet holster. There are also similar holsters on the market for High-Standard Derringers. When not used with the wallets, the guns are Title I weapons. But, even when in close proximity to one of the holsters, the guns are considered AOW's.
And, now that you understand the various types of NFA Title II weapons, you're wondering how do you get one, right? Well, at the Federal level, the process is not really as difficult as you might have believed. Now, keep in mind, these are the Federal laws, and the laws of the fifty States are as varied as the States themselves. I would encourage you to contact a knowledgeable FFL in your area, or your local BATFE field office, for questions about legality in your area. There are also several great resources on the internet; I'll include a list of those web sites at the end of the article.
The first step is deciding what type of NFA weapon you want to buy. That decision can be one of the worst parts of the whole process. There are so many fun and interesting choices, where does one start? Do you buy a suppressor for the health care or environmental benefits, or maybe to use while hunting? Do you buy a machine gun for the teeth-jarring, belly-tingling excitement of it? (Anyone who's been to the semi-annual Knob Creek Machinegun Shoot can attest to the excitement of being around full-auto weapons.) Do you get a machine gun as an investment? Do you get a short-barrel rifle or shotgun for the compactness of the weapon? Do you get several, just so you can be the cool kid on the block? (There's absolutely nothing wrong with that reason.) Maybe you want to get into NFA weapons, but you don't have an unlimited budget. Whatever your reason for getting an NFA weapon, it is fairly inexpensive to get one, except for most machine guns. (The least expensive machine guns are going to cost at least $3,000.)
If you still can't decide, talk to your local dealer. They might have some good suggestions. Again, they can also help you know what's legal to own in your area. Some States allow some NFA weapons, but disallow others. Others allow ownership, but restrict the use of them – such is the case with suppressors in Washington State. There are a myriad of choices, but don't feel inundated. A good SOT can help you decide what will be the best use of your money.
Once you decide what you want, you have to find a seller. It is legal, according to Federal law, to purchase an NFA weapon from an unlicensed (non-FFL) individual. If the seller is a resident of your home State, the two of you can do the paperwork yourselves, without needing to use the services of an SOT. If the seller is from out-of-State, you'll need to transfer the weapon through an FFL / SOT in your State. This is the case regardless of whether the weapon comes from an out-of-State FFL or from an unlicensed person in another State. Another option, except in the case of a machine gun, is to build it yourself. The process to build an NFA weapon is very similar to buying one, but using a different form.
The first form used in buying the NFA weapon is a BATFE Form 5320.4, commonly called a Form 4, which is done in duplicate. On this form, the seller identifies the weapon, its manufacturer, serial number, and length, both overall and barrel. The seller than records their name and address, and signs the form. The buyer writes in their name, address, and county of residence on the front of the Form 4. On the back, they answer a few questions very similar to a Form 4473 – the standard "Are you a felon, and are you a drug user?" questions. The seller then tells BATFE why they want the weapon. Most people use the phrase "Collection and Investment Purposes." In most situations, it doesn't matter what you say, as long as it's a legal reason. I've heard of people putting down things like "Because chicks dig them." For residents of North Carolina, your State law requires you to use the phrase "Research and Development Purposes." Once that is accomplished, the buyer attaches a 2"x2" passport photo to each copy of the Form 4. Afterwards, you need the local Chief Law Enforcement Officer (CLEO) to sign your paperwork. By signing it, they are affirming that they have no reason you are going to do anything illegal with the weapon, and that they are legal in their jurisdiction. The CLEO can be the local Chief of Police, County Sheriff, or District or State Attorney; or any representative that is approved by BATFE.
Not all CLEO's will sign Form 4's, for an assortment of reasons. Many don't believe that civilians should be allowed to own NFA weapons. Others don't realize that they are even legal. Still others falsely believe they are assuming some form of liability by signing the paperwork. Or, maybe you opposed the Sheriff in the last election, and they have a strong memory. Or, maybe they just don't like you personally. Whatever their reason, they decide not to sign. Luckily, in my home State of Tennessee, State law requires them to sign within 15 working days as long as they have no information that you are going to break the law or would be restricted from owning a weapon. Basically, in Tennessee, as long as you can buy a handgun, the CLEO can't deny you an NFA weapon. For those of you in other States, there are other options besides the CLEO's signature, and I will cover that a little later.
The next piece of paper is the Certificate of Compliance. It is essentially a form where you write your name twice and your country of citizenship. Then, you sign it and date it. That's it. The easiest form you'll sign in the whole process. You do one copy of the Certificate of Compliance per NFA weapon.
Next, you get two sets of fingerprints taken, on standard government fingerprint cards. Your FFL / SOT might do them for you, but you might have to have the local Police or Sheriff do them. Whoever takes the prints, it is important that the ORI box on the cards reads thusly: WVATF0800, ATF – NFA Branch, Martinsburg, WV. If the ORI box doesn't contain that information, your prints will likely get lost in the system.
Once you have your Form 4's filled out with passport photos attached and the CLEO signature on them, the Certificate of Compliance is signed, and your fingerprints are completed, you're ready to proceed. Now, you write a check to BATFE. For manufacturing any NFA weapon, or for transferring most NFA weapons, the check will be for $200 per NFA weapon. The exception is for transferring an AOW. The transfer tax on an AOW is only $5 per weapon. This tax is a one-time tax per weapon. You do not need to send in an annual payment. You do, however, have to send in payment any time you buy another NFA weapon. The money is a tax paid on a background check. The background check is done each and every time you buy or transfer ownership of an NFA weapon. (There are tax-free transfers, such as if you inherit an NFA weapon from a parent.) Once the check is written, drop it and your paperwork into an envelope and mail it to the BATFE. The current address for Form 4's is: BATFE, NFA – Branch, PO Box 530298, Atlanta, GA 30353-0298.
Now comes the hard part – the wait! Take solace, the wait is much shorter than it was in year's past. Currently, the wait is down to approximately 5-8 weeks. It used to be over a year for some folks. When I bought my first three NFA weapons, in 2004-2005, I waited five months for each of them. The NFA Branch office was formerly located in Washington, DC. A few years ago, they moved to Martinsburg, WV. The move sped up the process dramatically. Whatever the reason, it was a welcome change. I should also take the opportunity to tell you that the legal examiners at NFA Branch are some of the most helpful government employees I've ever encountered. Contrary to misinformed opinion, the folks in Martinsburg are our friends, and go above and beyond to be helpful. There have been numerous times when I've had to call up there and ask a question. Without the help of people like Kenneth Houchens and Barbara Payne, I'd be lost.
Once your Form 4 is approved, the examiner will put a tax stamp on it, sign it, and return a copy to the seller or transferor. Once they get the stamped Form 4, they are allowed to give you the weapon. If you are getting the weapon through an FFL / SOT, they are required to have you complete a Form 4473, as it is the form used to record the transaction in their files. If the transfer is for nothing but NFA weapons, they do not have to go through the process of a NICS check, they just fill out the form, sign it, and file it away.
For most NFA weapons, it is legal to build one yourself. The only exception is a machine gun. Due to the 1986 FOPA, it is illegal to build a new machine gun for private, civilian ownership. With minimal machining or gunsmith skills and equipment, you can build your own silencer, SBR, SBS, AOW, or DD. Before you do so, however, you have to have BATFE approval. This is done by filing a BATFE Form 5320.1, or Form 1. The Form 1 is similar to a Form 4, but easier. Since you are the maker of the weapon, there is no transferor to sign the paperwork. You fill in your name, address, and description of the firearm you're building, along with the serial number you'll be using. In the case of an existing firearm, such as turning an AR-15 into a short-barrel rifle (SBR) you must list the original manufacturer's info, and use their serial number. Like a Form 4, you must submit passport photos, CLEO signatures, a Certificate of Compliance, and fingerprint cards. Unlike Form 4's, Form 1's are mailed to: BATFE, NFA – Branch, 244 Needy Road, Martinsburg, WV 25401.
Once the Form is approved, stamped, signed, and returned to you, you may build your weapon. It is important to note that NFA 34 requires the manufacturer of an NFA weapon to engrave the weapon. There has been a lot of speculation if this is required when a non-licensed individual submits a Form 1 to turn a Title I gun, such as an AR-15, into an NFA Title II weapon. I have seen letters from BATFE which go both ways, requiring engraving, and not requiring it. It is important that you realize a BATFE letter is only legally valid for the person to whom it is addressed. It is my recommendation that you err on the side of caution and engrave your weapon. You won't be getting fined for engraving it, but there's the possibility you could get fined for not doing so. The engraving must be readily visible on the firearm. In the case of an AR-15, that means it can't be under the pistol grip or handguards.
You've finally taken possession of your first NFA weapon, or completed your build. So, now what happens? There is a lot of misinformation out there about certain aspects relating to owning an NFA weapon.
One common misconception is the belief that you give up your rights to search and seizure, and that BATFE agents may inspect your home at will, with no need for a warrant. That is patently false. You do not give up your rights. If an agent of the BATFE wants to enter your home, they must have a warrant, or probable cause that a crime is being committed. Simply owning a registered NFA weapon is not probable cause. And, if BATFE agents want to enter your home, you must have been doing something you shouldn't have been doing in the first place. BATFE agents are busy folks. They don't have the time to go out and inspect the paperwork of every NFA weapon in this country. They've got more important things to do with their time.
Now, if a BATFE agent asks to see your registration paperwork (Form 1 or 4), you are required to show it to them. For that reason, you always keep a copy with the weapon. Don't carry the original around with you. Make several photocopies, and place the original wherever you keep important documents, such as your will, birth certificates, etc. Place photocopies with the weapon, in your gun safe, in the range bags you use, and in the vehicle you take to the range. You might also consider making a miniature copy, laminating it, and keeping it in your wallet.
What about storage requirements, or letting someone borrow the weapon? Well, the only real storage requirement is that you store the weapon in such a way so that it is inaccessible to anybody but the registered owner. You don't have to go out and buy a bank vault. A simple gun cabinet will do, or a case, as long as it locks and you're the only one with a key or combination to the lock. Since you must maintain control of the weapon, you are not allowed to loan it to someone to take to the range. If you're there at the range, and able to maintain control over the weapon, you may let others use it. I recommend you let as many others as possible shoot it. That's the best way to spread the NFA gospel, and educate more people about the truth.
There are times which don't fit the normal procedures of NFA ownership. I'll try to answer some of the more common concerns here.
It is possible to purchase or manufacture an NFA weapon as part of a corporation or trust. Doing so has several advantages. One of these advantages is the ability to bypass the need for passport photos, fingerprints, and most often the important consideration, the CLEO signature. If your CLEO won't sign for whatever reason, you can use a trust or corporate transfer to circumvent them. Another advantage is the ability for more than one person to have access to the weapon. When a trust or corporation owns an NFA weapon, officers of the corporation or members of the trust may take the gun to the range. So, if you and your spouse, sibling, parent, child, or other trusted friends want to share ownership, maybe a corporate or trust transfer is the route for you.
Another frequent concern regards traveling with an NFA weapon. It is legal to cross State lines with your NFA weapon, as long as the weapon is legal in your State of destination. However, with most NFA weapons, you must notify BATFE in advance. This is done using a BATFE Form 5320.20. You should submit the form at least a few weeks in advance, in order to give BATFE time to complete the process. What they are doing is verifying for you that the weapon is legal where you visiting. The exceptions to the need for a 5320.20 are suppressors and AOW's; they don't require the form to be filed. However, it is a good idea to do so, if for no other reason but peace of mind that your weapon is legal, and that you can prove it, if stopped by an unaware police officer. So, if you want to take your machine gun to Knob Creek each April and October, just file the paperwork and bring your gun.
What if you have to move to a place where NFA weapons are illegal? Well, BATFE understands that that happens from time to time. It happens a lot to military service members who have to deploy overseas or to another stateside assignment. In those situations, you are allowed to store the weapons securely, as long as you notify BATFE about it. The weapons can be stored in a bank safe deposit box, or at a friend or family member's house, as long as they are kept in a room or safe that only the registered owner can access. If you're faced with such a situation, and have a friend or relative you trust, you might consider placing your gun safe in their basement, garage, or a spare corner, and take the keys with you. Just be sure to notify BATFE about the storage situation. Of course, you can also sell your NFA weapons to another person. You'll have to ensure that you can be present when the transfer is completed. That might be difficult if you're overseas.
What about an age requirement for buying or making NFA weapons? For many years, it was incorrectly assumed that you had to be 21 in order to possess an NFA weapons. While you are required to be 21 in order to purchase an NFA weapon from a licensed dealer, you don't have to be 21 to make or own one. Those of you between 18 to 21 years of age can thank an intelligent young man in Florida for that. He did some reading of the NFA 34 and the GCA 68, and noticed a few things. The GCA outlines age requirements for buying firearms from an FFL. For instance, you must be 18 to buy a rifle or shotgun, but must be 21 to buy a handgun from an FFL. The young man then got to thinking, and wrote BATFE a letter.
At first, he asked about the legality of building his own short-barrel rifle, or SBR. His premise was that he could buy a Title I AR-15 from an FFL at age 18, and there was no age requirement in NFA 34 regarding making an SBR. So, could an 18-year old buy an AR-15 and then file the Form 1 necessary to build an SBR? Surprisingly, BATFE wrote back saying that he was correct, he could do exactly that. So, he filled out the Form 1, using a trust, to avoid any difficulties with the CLEO, and included a copy of his letter to BATFE, and a copy of their reply. The Form 1 was approved, and he built the SBR.
His next step was to inquire about the legality of a person 18-20 years of age buying an NFA weapon from an unlicensed resident of his State. Again, GCA states the requirements for buying from an FFL. If the weapon were bought from a non-FFL resident of the same State, there is no requirement to go through an FFL / SOT. A little less surprising this time, BATFE again agreed – he could legally buy an NFA weapon from a non-licensed resident of his State, even though he was less than 21 years old. So, he found someone willing to sell him a suppressor, and he bought it. Again, the Form 4 was approved, and he took possession of his suppressor
One important thing to note about BATFE Forms and those less than 21-years of age: the forms contain a question which asks if the transferee (the buyer) is 21 years old, or older. You must answer the question truthfully. However, that answer is not going to deny you your weapon, as long as you are not buying from an FFL / SOT.
So, there you have it, a reasonably detailed description of the National Firearms Act and the process necessary to own an NFA Title II weapon. It wasn't quite as intimidating as you thought it would be, was it? Hey, before I learned how to do it, I was intimidated about learning to drive a car. It just took driver's education and practice to get used to it.
Editor's note
This article has been re-posted with the permission of Frank Maschhoff, and originally appeared on his website. As of the date of this reposting, his company appears to no longer be in business. Despite not being able to contact the author, I still feel that the info is relevant and will be useful to the shooting community.


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VILE: Vogue Magazine To Feature Transgender Traitor Chelsea Manning
Celebrating an American traitor.
It's official: Vogue Magazine is featuring a profile of American traitor Chelsea Manning in their widely-circulated September issue. On Thursday, Manning posted a photo of himself in a red one-piece swimsuit with 1,000 emojis and the caption, "guess this is what freedom looks like."
Manning, as you might recall, was serving a 35-year sentence before President Barack Obama commuted the traitor's sentence on his way out of the White House.
Manning dumped some 700,000 military documents to Wikileaks while he was serving in the United States Military as an intelligence analyst. As The Daily Wire previously reported, Manning's dump likely got Americans killed:
It remains unclear how many, if any Americans were killed due to the leaks. But Arizona Senator John McCain said in January of 2017 that he's confident the Taliban used the information and retaliated against those named. McCain told Fox News host Bill O'Reilly he felt "sorrow for the families of those individuals who identified in these leaks in Afghanistan that the Taliban went after and murdered. And rage because this president is basically endorsing a proposal that allows someone to go free who is responsible for the needless deaths of those people who are allies. ... Let me be specific. The information I received when I was there was that the Taliban went after these people. I assume, killed them."
But Manning came out as transgender on the same day he was sentenced, so he's become a hero to the Left. He's been celebrated for posting "bold" selfies on social media, protesting President Donald Trump's Military transgender ban, and, now, he's being celebrated on the pages of Vogue.
As reported by Yahoo, Manning was photographed by renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz for the spread, in addition to his lengthy profile.
"It's not like I'm living in fear or anything," Manning told Vogue. "I'm so glad to be out and about and walking around."
"Manning said she's not quite sure how she'll harness her power yet, and the Vogue story notes she had been interested in running for political office before transitioning," notes Yahoo.
"I'm certainly not going to say no, and I'm certainly not going to say yes," said Manning when asked about running for office in the future. "My goal is to use these next six months to figure out where I want to go."
The traitor said he's currently learning Rust, a programming language, and working on his memoir.
And he also wants to start dating. "I'm not planning to be single!" he said.
Astoundingly, Manning said he really connects with the values of "responsibility" and "compassion."
"I have these values that I can connect with: responsibility, compassion," he said. "Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally."
As previously noted by Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, the slobbering over Manning is "more evidence that intersectionality has destroyed the Left." He explained:
Manning is a traitor, and his collusion with Wikileaks put Americans in harm's way. But Manning is also a victim — not because of some miscarriage of justice, but because Manning is a member of the LGBT community and stands at the top of the hierarchy of victimhood established by the Left. Manning's very status as a "transgender woman" means that Manning must be treated with kid gloves, and his crimes reprieved.