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In the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, a small group of survivors travel across the country in search of a new home away from the hordes. Rick Grimes, who was a police officer in the old world, leads the group. As their situation grows more and more grim, the group's desperation to survive pushes them to do almost anything to stay alive.
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- The logo seen on the t-shirt of Rick's son Carl, is that of another Robert Kirkman creation, "Science Dog".
- The Dixon Brothers, T-Dog, Jacqui, as well as Morales and his family, are not characters in the comic book, although they are each featured prominently in season one of the television series.
- Carol's husband never appears in the comic, he is only mentioned to have been killed.
- In season one, of the twenty characters at the camp, only eleven are actually from the comic book. Rick, Lori, Carl, Shane, Dale, Glenn, Andrea, Amy, Jim, Carol, and Sophia.
- SPOILER: In the comic, Lori and Shane's affair was only a one night stand, instead of a regular occurrence, and is revealed in issue five, while in the show, in the second episode.
- The first season of the show mostly comes from the first six issues of the comics. This arc is titled "Days Gone Bye", which is the same name as the pilot.
- The Walking Dead Creator Robert Kirkman was on the set throughout the filming of the first season.
- This is the second AMC show to feature an RV. The Walking Dead utilizes a Winnebago Chieftain, while in Breaking Bad, a Fleetwood Bounder is used throughout the show.
- The name Edwin Jenner, the doctor at the CDC, is a reference to Edward Jenner, who developed the first vaccine (which was for smallpox).
- During lunch breaks, the zombie cast would eat together, while the human cast ate together.
- Actors who played walkers had to go through walker school to learn how to walk and move like walkers.
- Frank Darabont also directed four of the show's actors - Laurie Holden, Jeffrey DeMunn, Juan Gabriel Pareja, and Melissa McBride - in The Mist (2007). DeMunn also appeared in Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
- In an online interview, it was revealed that Frank Darabont envisioned having several self-contained episodes that would not continue the main story. One such episode would have been the season two premiere. It would have involved Sam Witwer (who Darabont used in The Mist (2007) and played the tank zombie in the series premiere) as a soldier in a Black Hawk Down styled Atlanta. Witwer's character would have encountered several of the cast before being bitten and locking himself in the tank.
- The show was made into a haunted house at Universal's Halloween Horror Nights in Orlando, Florida. There was also a maze in Universal Hollywood's Halloween Horror Nights for their 2012 event.
- For season three, the make-up team used darker skin tones for the walkers, to show further decay as time had progressed.
- All of the principal actors have a "Last Supper" the day they film their death scenes.
- The prison set took about two months to build.
- During an interview, Robert Kirkman claimed Norman Reedus (Daryl) originally auditioned for the part of Merle Dixon. He was rejected, but his audition so intrigued the show-runners, that they created the part of Daryl just for him.
- SPOILER: All of the seven main characters died, as of the end of the fourth season. With the exception of Andrea; Dale, Merle, the Governor, Lori, Shane, and Hershel have all been brought down mercilessly by another character, whether it's before or after reanimation (Andrea committed suicide).
- SPOILER: The place where the Governor, Martinez, and Shumpert camp in the season four, episode six flashback, is the same place where the Governor and his soldiers wiped out the National Guard in season three, episode three.
- The timeline of the second half of season four (eight episodes) takes place in eight days.
- SPOILER: When Bob, Tyreese, Daryl, and Michonne hear the Terminus broadcast message from the radio, it was eight days before Bob would make his way there, and nine days before Daryl and Michonne would. Tyreese does not enter Terminus.
- The episode which spans the most time, is the pilot.
- Morgan Jones' sons name is Duane. Duane Jones is the name of the lead actor who played Ben in the original Night of the Living Dead.
- SPOILER: The timeline of season three is just under two months, stated by Hershel in season four.
- As of the fifth season, there are three The Wire alums on The Walking Dead. MChad L. Coleman, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., and Seth Gilliam.
- In season two, Beth is seventeen years old. In reality, Emily Kinney was 25 years old when she joined the cast.
- SPOILER: With just four appearances (three credited as a series regular), Andrew J. West has made the fewest appearances as a series regular.
- Originally, the characters of Lizzie and Mika were going to be cast as different gendered twins, with Mika being a boy named Mike. However, after Kyla Kenedy's audition via Skype, they scrapped the idea so they could cast her.
- Andrew Lincoln, David Morrissey, and Lennie James are all English. Lauren Cohan moved to London when she was fourteen.


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Games are opened but complete unless marked accordingly.
Everything is black label unless noted.
Currently playing or must have something I want.
Must go!
Playstation 3
Alone in the Dark: Inferno
Batman: Arkham Asylum
Call of Duty: Black Ops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
Demon's Souls
Devil May Cry 4
Disney Sing It (sealed)
Fallout: New Vegas
:hot:LA Noire
Lego Rock Band
Marvel vs Capcom 3
:hot:Mortal Kombat
:hot:Portal 2 (used code)
Resident Evil 5
Rock Band 2
Street Fighter IV
Playstation 2
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry 2
Final Fantasy X
Final Fantasy X-2
Metal Gear Solid 2 (signed by Quinton Flynn)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Summoner 2 (sealed with plush)
Playstation 1
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (GH)
:hot: Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy VIII (Missing disc 1)
Final Fantasy Anthology (no manual)
Gran Turismo 2 (GH)
Parasite Eve (no manual)
Resident Evil: Director's Cut (GH)
Resident Evil 2 (back case cracked)
Time Crisis
:cold:WWF Attitude (front case cracked)
:cold:WWF Smackdown
Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
Mega Man: Powered Up (no manual)
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker (sealed)
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
New Super Mario Bros. Wii (sealed)
Super Mario Bros All-Stars (sealed anniversary edition)
Super Smash Bros Brawl
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Wii Sports
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (bonus with Master Quest)
:hot:Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes
Resident Evil 4
Super Monkey Ball 2
Super Smash Bros Melee (GH)
Tales of Symphonia
Personal collection (currently not trading, subject to change)
High want
Low priority want (subject to change over time)
Counter-Strike: Source
Other Steam games (Mac)
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I'm confused about the whole stretch test. It sounds easy enough but I don't know how to tell if my hair expands 20% lol. Anyway, when it's wet its pretty stretchy but doesn't always keep it's shape. I've been reading about protein treatments but I was told by my stylist that I should stay away from protein shampoos and conditioners so I have. Don't I still need some though? I'm wondering if it would benefit me to do a treatment every so often, like once a month or every two months. I'm afraid that if i'm not in need of it though that it'll make my hair dry up and fall off or go bonkers and I don't want that to happen either. So do you all think it'll be ok to just try it once and see what happens? or should I just not take the risk?
2b, low porosity, mildly coarse, medium strands I think, never color treated
2b, low porosity, mildly coarse, medium strands I think, never color treated


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If you've seen the recent viral video where three little girls turn their stereotypically girly toys into an awesome Rube Goldberg machine — while a revamped version of the Beastie Boys song "Girls" plays in the background — then you probably know about the company behind it: Goldieblox, a toy manufacturer whose products help teach young girls about engineering principles.
"Goldieblox is all about making engineering accessible and fun to girls at a young age, and a Rube Goldberg machine is something totally relatable because it combines everyday objects to do something whimsical and magical," said Beau Lewis, the creative director of the video, who shared several schematics of the "Princess Machine" from the video with WIRED (see gallery above).
"We made the entire machine out of toys to show [how] these girls who are inundated with princesses and dolls, which perpetuate one stereotype about what they should grow up to be, [can] invert that… They take all the things they've been force-fed by these commercials and repurpose them to make this amazing machine."
Best of all, those three little girls aren't child actors — they're actually former playtesters and early adopters of Goldieblox. One of the girls even provided the vocals for the video's catchy cover of "Girls," which was written with new and significantly more positive lyrics about what girls can accomplish. "Raven, the young girl who actually puts the record on at the beginning of the video — that's her voice," said Lewis. "She raps the whole thing."
Lewis says it took about three weeks to construct the machine, a process involved the assistance of several mechanical engineers, civil engineers, and makers — including Brett Doar, one of the creators of the Rube Goldberg machine from the "This Too Shall Pass" music video by the band OK Go.
"It was important to work the girl inventors into the machine not just observers but as functional components that help make the machine work," said Lewis, a nod to the company's philosophy of getting girls directly involved in the engineering process. And while there were a a few Goldiblox components in the machine, the majority were dolls, strollers, tea sets, "anything else you could imagine seeing in the "pink aisle" at your local toy and store."
"We've had some little girls send in videos of Rube Goldberg machines they made on their own, which is the best. We've actually inspired them to [do the same thing] with their toys," said Lewis. "We think that this a message about the potential of little girls beyond the limitations we've been giving them."Go Back to Top. Skip To: Start of Article.


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A chromium-nickel grade of stainless steel that has excellent mechanical properties at a high strength and hardness level. Scaling and distortion are minimal. Both the strength and corrosion resistance hold up well in temperatures to 800°F, but material is magnetic.
300 series stainless steel having approximately (not exactly) 18% chromium and 8% nickel. The term "18-8" is used interchangeably to characterize fittings made of 302, 302HQ, 303, 304, 305, 384, XM7, and other variables of these grades with close chemical compositions. There is little overall difference in corrosion resistance among the "18-8" types, but slight differences in chemical composition do make certain grades more resistant than others against particular chemicals or atmospheres. "18-8" has superior corrosion resistance to 400 series stainless, is generally nonmagnetic, and is hardenable only by cold working.
304 Stainless Steel
304 is the most versatile and the most widely used of all stainless steels. Its chemical composition, mechanical properties, weldability and corrosion/oxidation resistance provide the best all-round performance stainless steel at relatively low cost. It also has excellent low temperature properties and responds well to hardening by cold working.
316 Stainless Steel
300 series stainless steels make up over 70% of total stainless steel production. They contain a maximum of 0.15% carbon, a minimum of 16% chromium and sufficient nickel and/or manganese to retain an austenitic structure at all temperatures to the melting point of the alloy.
316 Stainless is differentiated from 304 by the addition of addition of molybdenum and a slightly higher nickel content. The resultant composition of 316 gives the steel much increased corrosion resistance in many aggressive environments. The molybdenum makes the steel more resistant to pitting and crevice corrosion in chloride-contaminated media, sea water and acetic acid vapours. The lower rate of general corrosion in mildly corrosive environments gives the steel good atmospheric corrosion resistance in polluted marine atmospheres.
Low carbon 316, know as 316L is made with the same compounds and reduced Carbon. The reduced carbon further reduces the risk of corrosion.
- Carbon = C
- Mn = Maganeze
- P = Phosphorus
- S=Sulpher
- Si= Silicone
- C=Chromium
- Ni =Nickle
- Mo=Molybdinum
To heat metal in order to lower its hardness. The term anneal refers to the heat treatment given to 300 series stainless and most 400 series stainless by the steel mill after the raw material has been completed, but before fittings are manufactured. Anneal also refers to the heat treatment given 400 series stainless fittings after their manufacture (also called hardening and tempering) to lower hardness and increase toughness. For example, fittings of 410 stainless may score over 200,000 psi after manufacture and be too brittle. By annealing at 1000 degrees F., tensile strength would reduce to 125,000-150,000 psi, while annealing the same material to 500 degrees F. would bring tensile to 160,000-190,000 psi.
Stands for American National Standards Institute.
Stands for American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Stands for American Society of Testing and Materials.
Stands for "Break Load", meaning the weight at which a product will break. Typically, Suncor products have a minimum 4:1 safety factor. This means the work load is 1/4 of the Break Load is 4,000 lbs so the Work Load is 1,000 lbs.
Electropolishing is primarily used to obtain a bright, clean appealing surface. However it also passivates the surface while removing burrs, sharp edges, microscopic nicks and scratches from the surface. It can smooth threads and remove heat discoloration from spot or TIG welds. Suncor products are electropolished to ASTM Standard A967.
Stretching a fitting to the point that it breaks. The percent of elongation at rupture (same as measure of ductility) is determined by dividing to total length after stretching to the original length. Elongation decreases as strength and hardness increase.
Galvanic Corrosion
An accelerated degree of corrosion occurring when two different metals are in contact with moisture, particularly sea water. All metals have what is termed a specific electric potential, so that low level electric current flows from one metal to another. A metal with a higher position in the galvanic series (see below) will corrode sacrificially rather than one with a lower position, meaning stainless, for example, will corrode before gold. The further apart the metals on the chart, the more electric current will flow and the more corrosion will occur. No serious galvanic action will occur by combining the same metals, only dissimilar ones. To prevent galvanic corrosion, use insulation, paint or coatings when separating dissimilar metals; or put the metal to be protected next to a metal which is not important in the assembly, so it can corrode sacrificially. Metals listed first will corrode due to galvanic reaction before those at end of paragraph: Magnesium, zinc, aluminum 1100, cadmium, aluminum 2024, steel and iron, lead, tin, brass, copper, bronze, monel, 304 and 316 stainless (passive), silver, titanium, graphite, gold.
Light emitting diodes, commonly called LEDs, are real unsung heroes in the electronics world. They do dozens of different jobs and are found in all kinds of devices. Among other things, they form numbers on digital clocks, transmit information from remote controls (the red light at the tip of the TV remote), light up watches and tell you when your appliances are turned on.
Basically, LEDs are just tiny light bulbs that fit easily into an electrical circuit. But unlike ordinary bulbs, they don't have a filament that will burn out, and they don't get especially hot. They are illuminated solely by the movement of electrons in a semiconductor material, and they last just as long as a standard transistor. The lifespan of an LED surpasses the short life of an incandescent bulb by thousands of hours.
Magnetic Permeability
Test simply determines the level of magnetism. Virtually all Suncor products have a value less than 2.5.
Molybdenum is a metal added to 316 stainless steel, sharply increasing its corrosion resistance to chlorides and sulfates especially various sulfurous acids in the pulp industry. Molybdenum helps reduce hardness and increase tensile strength at higher temperatures.
Invented by the International Nickel Co., and composed basically to two-thirds nickel, one-third copper. Monel has good strength, excellent corrosion resistance against salt water and in high temperatures, but is very expensive.
Stands for Military Standards. The overriding characteristic of MS fittings compared to commercial products is the extensive inspection and lot traceability for MS, guaranteeing the chemical, physical and dimensional qualities. While commercial fittings may look similar and happen to pass many tests given MS products, the commercial fittings lack the pedigree of guaranteed quality or chemical, physical and dimensional aspects that users who order MS fittings rely on.
Nitronic 50
(UNS S20910) Invented by the Armco Steel Company, Nitronic 50 is a chromium-nickel-manganese-molybdenum austenitic stainless steel. It remains completely non-magnetic after severe cold working or exposure to low temperatures. Sought after for its higher strength and greater corrosion resistance.
Stands for non-magnetic. Varying standards of magnetic units are applied to different metals for this designation.
Technically, passivation is not cleaning but is a process of dipping fittings into an acid solution to rapidly form a chromium oxide on the surface of the material, creating a passive film that protects stainless from further oxidation (see PASSIVE FILM). In common commercial terms (meaning non-military and aerospace), passivating means cleaning to users, and the terms "passivating" and "cleaning" are used interchangeably. A wide range of cleaning methods using different mixtures containing nitric, phosphoric and other acids or simply exposing cleaned stainless fittings to air for a period of time will result in a "passivated" condition. For properly cleaned fittings, it is impossible to determine the method of cleaning or passivation that was used. AN/MS/NAS fittings sold by SUNCOR have been cleaned, descaled, and passivated to the applicable engineering specifications.
Passive Film
The major characteristic of stainless is its ability to form a thin layer of protection called a "passive film" on its outside surface. This film results from a continual process of low-level oxidation, so oxygen from the atmosphere is needed for the passive film to exist. Once formed, it prevents further oxidation or corrosion from occurring. Even if chipped or scratched, a new passive film on stainless will form.
Removing surface impurities by using chemicals. Used mainly to clean parts prior to coating. This treatment is more aggressive than passivation.
Pitting Corrosion
Pitting indicates deep corrosion in localized spots on a fastener. Dirt or grease on certain portions of a fastener may block oxygen from that surface, thus impeding the passive film which protects stainless from corrosion.
Proof Load
A test load that a fitting must undergo without showing significant deformation. It is usually 50% +- of yield strength.
Solution Annealed (same as Carbide Solution Annealed)
A process of heating and removing carbide precipitants (carbon that has broken loose from its stainless steel solution) by heating a finished fitting to over 1,850 degrees F. and cooling it quickly, usually in water, so carbon content goes back into the stainless solution.
Swaging - pronounced (swedging)
The most common use of swaging is to attach fittings to cable or wire rope; the parts loosely fit together, and a mechanical or hydrolic tool compresses and deforms the fitting, creating a permanent joint.
Swage examples:
This fitting was cut and the wire pried out to demonstrate how swaging forms the fitting to the wire:
This fitting was cut in half to show how the wire melds with the fitting when swaged:
Class 1 threads are a loose tolerance. Class 2 threads comprise 90% of stainless fittings and are normal commercial tolerance. Class 3 threads have a stricter tolerance and tighter fit such as socket cap and set screws. No definite relationship exists between tensile strength and tightness or looseness of fit. The symbol "A" added to threads, such as 2A, means external threads (screws), and "B" means internal (nuts).
A turnbuckle is a device for adjusting the tension or length of ropes, cables and tie rods, or other tensioning systems. It normally consists of two threaded fittings, one screwed into each end of a metal frame, one with a left-hand thread and the other with a right-hand thread. The tension can be adjusted by rotating the frame, which causes both eyelets to be screwed in or out simultaneously, without twisting the fittings or attached cables.
Stands for "Work Load Limit", this is the recommended weight limit for safe use of a product.


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First Four-Months FY 2013: High Unemployment, Still Safest Big City
New York City is still the safest big city in the country, but it continues to face challenges with unemployment and homeless. Those are among the highlights in the Preliminary Mayor's Management Report released on Friday.
According to the City Charter, the Mayor's Office must report on the performance of city agencies twice a year. The document offers a snapshot of the city in the first four months of the 2013 fiscal year, from July through October.
Among the most startling statistics — unemployment from July through October was 9.7 percent, higher than the same period a year ago. And it's also well above the national average of 8 percent.
The report also says there's been an uptick in major felony crime — most notably among grand larcenies and rapes. However, crime in schools has gone down. And New York still remains the safest large city in the country.
Average response time by FDNY increased by 8 seconds, but the City attributes that to Sandy-related incidents.
The City also saw an increase in the average number of families and adults in homeless shelters compared to the same period in Fiscal Year 2012.
On the bright side, the city's quality of life indicators, including clean streets and parks, both saw improvements. And the city also reduced the amount of time it takes to respond to noise complaints.
The final Mayor's Management Report covering the full 2013 fiscal year will be released in the fall.


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The Fox Club, Mayfair, London - 08/09/2009
Greenewood flooring have just completed works to The Fox Club in Mayfair, London. The 19th century Oak flooring in the Entance area, Bar and the Resturant were fairly worn and due to a water leak in the Bar area we had to replace several boards that had warped and cupped causing a trip hazard.
We sourced the replacement timber for the damaged boards through drummonds architectural salvage, and once fitted we sanded and refinished the whole area under 4 coats of Junkers hp commercial lacquer.
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News Corp Blamed for Initiating Hacking Software
A major media company, News Corp, having worldwide acclaim is entangled in a lawsuit for hiring a hacker to develop pirating software for satellite television and spying software also called Spyware, as reported by PCworld on April 24, 2008.
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- The delegation agreements authorize Freddie Mac to approve short sales or deeds in lieu of foreclosure for distressed borrowers with Freddie Mac owned-or guaranteed mortgages without a separate and potentially time-consuming review by the mortgage insurance company. Freddie Mac will instruct its servicers to use the delegations to more quickly and efficiently help borrowers through the short sale process.
- The mortgage insurance companies who signed the delegation agreements with Freddie Mac are CMG Mortgage Insurance Company, Essent Guaranty, Inc., Genworth Mortgage Insurance Corporation, Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation, PMI Mortgage Insurance Company, Radian Guaranty, Inc., Republic Mortgage Insurance Company, Triad Guaranty Insurance Corporation, and United Guaranty Corporation.
- Today's announcement builds on recent Freddie Mac efforts to encourage more short sales. On November 1, Freddie Mac's new Standard Short Sale will go into effect, streamlining the short sale approval process and broadening the ability of servicers to help distressed borrowers.
- Freddie Mac's Congressional charter requires private mortgage insurance if the borrower's downpayment is less than 20 percent of the value of the home they are financing
- The Freddie Mac Guide Bulletin announcing the changes can be found at http://www.freddiemac.com/sell/guide/bulletins/pdf/bll1223.pdf
MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Freddie Mac (OTC:FMCC) today announced the nation's nine mortgage insurance companies have signed delegation agreements so Freddie Mac servicers can approve short sales and deeds in lieu of foreclosure on the insurance companies' behalf beginning November 1, 2012. By reducing the potential costs, delays and uncertainty involved in the short sale and deed in lieu process, the delegation agreements should enable more distressed borrowers to avoid foreclosure. News Facts:


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Henry M. Jackson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson (May 31, 1912 – September 1, 1983) was an American politician. He was the United States senator of Washington. He served as senator from 1953 to 1983. He was a member of the Democratic Party.
He ran for President of the United States during the presidential elections in 1976, but lost to Jimmy Carter during the primary.
Jackson died in Everett, Washington from an aortic aneurysm, aged 71.


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except for the slide release a Walther PPS has everything you want it is less than an inch wide
also the Walther P99 compact may work as it is the same only it accept double stacks and is 1.3 inches wide
This is a discussion on True Ambidextrous Sub-Compacts within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; As a lefty I have no trouble with my PM9. You might find it the same for you. The mag release is easier with the ...
As a lefty I have no trouble with my PM9. You might find it the same for you. The mag release is easier with the left index finger than it is with the right thumb for me. And the slide stop I generally operate with my off/support) hand. Of course you probably won't be doing that on the motorcycle. I HOPE you won't be needing to try a tactical reload while on the bike either!
Regards, T Bone.
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety". Benjamin Franklin
except for the slide release a Walther PPS has everything you want it is less than an inch wide
also the Walther P99 compact may work as it is the same only it accept double stacks and is 1.3 inches wide
I stumbled across this dialogue while looking for an answer similar to that of MrFurious, and wanted to thank you for your input. I've had a CWP for some time now, but haven't been carrying. After the Colorado movie theater event and a record number of shooting events here in Seattle, I think it's time to start getting in the practice. I'm a lefty, on the small side, and none of my collection are good carry guns; which is what led me here. (Seecamp .32, too small-caliber/Walther PPK/S, perfect size for me to carry but too right-handed and too small-caliber/Colt Detective Special, nice gun but a bit bulky for me.)
The Rohrbaugh R9s Stealth looks perfect for me.
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I've been a Lefty shooter for about 45 out of my 60 years on the planet , never needed ambi controls.
( was combat infantry , and have hunted most of my life - like to just go shoot too - currently own 20 handguns.)
If 9-10 shots don't cover it you better have a 12 gauge for backup
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"If I walk in the woods, I feel much more comfortable carrying a gun. What if you meet a bear in the woods that's going to attack you? You shoot it."
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what do you consider truly ambi? do you need lefty slide release? most people don't use the slide lock/release to let the slide ride home. that means all you need is lefty mag release, and safety is the said pistol has it...
that being said, there is USP which some have ambi safeties and ambi slide release. M&P is true (everything is on both sides)
I carry a Walther PK380. I know you wanted a 9mm, but the .380 is basically the same bullet, just a shorter casing. I also favor the Ruger SR9c. While it is not considered ambidextrous, I can still operate all the bells and whistles left-handed. I have very small hands as I'm a 5'2" woman, so if you have larger hands, these guns should give you no problems at all!
The Kimber Solo is a very small single-stack 9mm with an ambi mag release and ambi safety. I know there are plenty of negative reports, but mine has been flawless and conceals well. I am also a lefty.
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640, R9s, Solo, PM9, P380
HK P2000SK. Add good holster, flat mag floorplate and HK45c mag release.
Not single stack, but is very concealable.
I'm starting to sound like a broken record, BUT...
This photo shows the side of interest to you. This is a Bersa Thunder 9 UC Pro. The magazine release is reversible. It is a 100% truly ambidextrous handgun. On top of that, it is infallibly accurate and reliable. Check them out, and check out Bersachat to see just how many of us love our Bersas.
An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.
I always check to see if I can activate the slide release using the index finger on my left hand. Several that I own have the release in just the right spot to allow me to do it.
Bersa BP9CC. No ambi slide release; not an issue if you train slingshot.
Being a lefty myself I took these same issues into consideration when I was looking for a sub-subcompact 9mm, I ended up buying the Beretta Nano. No slide release at all which doesn't bother me a bit, reversible mag release. I have a M&P9 FS so I really wanted to like the M&P Shield but it just wasn't designed to be as ambi-friendly, check out the Nano and see how you like it.
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RE: The BIG Question.
[b]Good solid Poop as always Dennis. And I think you hit the (Pro word) Hang-up for me on the nose. I'll work on it though, I promise. :D
RE: The BIG Question.
[b] >This is a great question, There are alot of "pros" that I
>wouldnt want near me, ( and Im sure there are more than a few
>that wouldnt want to be near me either ) And there are a whole
>more that fought and clawed and learned the hard way and have
>proved them selfs time and time again that I would be more
>than proud to fish with.
> I think what a close freind used to say about competitive
>fishing years ago says it all "money doesnt make the pro, the
>pro learns how to make the money".
Scooter my man ~ Great post!!! :)
RE: The BIG Question.
Your question to once a pro always a pro:
A true professional is one who makes there name in there sport and is respected and admired by there piers for what they have contributed to the sport in which they participate in.
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RE: The BIG Question.
........money doesnt make the pro, the pro learns how to make the money............
love that quote.........wish I thought of it......... would like to use it some time.......
Let the adventure begin.
RE: The BIG Question.
>........money doesnt make the pro, the pro learns how to make
>the money............
>love that quote.........wish I thought of it......... would
>like to use it some time.......
[b] Easy Dennis.
If Scooter is a Pro, he may want some residuals from the use of his catch phrases. :D. Sorry, It's going to take time.....
RE: The BIG Question.
This whole debate on a simple word is only grounded in jealousy. Most who bring this up have a serious hang-up that some who entered into tournaments as a pro-side angler, can do so simply because they have the courage, time, and money, to get it done. Vs those who don't.
And this is also true of tournaments with strict qualifications to enter. One still needs; and I repeat! Courage, Time, and Money!
But will acknowledge there is a big difference between a Pro, and becoming a "Professional". To make the jump into the Professional ranks is to be one "good enough" to make a living off the endeavor.
Up until the fishing industry (oh yes, and out-of-industry) sponsors enough tournament fisherman, enabling them to become Professionals, these others who have the wherewithall do more than deserve the "Pro" title.
RE: The BIG Question.
That is a very good question about luck and fishing, many a good fisherman has said that; there is a luck component or carma component to tournament fishing. For example when fishing a previous tournament a teammate of mine and I were fishing the same school of fish, pass after pass of not catching any fish changing baits and presentations with no results and then he comes along with the same baits and same speed and he gets results is it luck or being in the right place at the right time. Two tournament boats running side by side same baits same speed even the same type boat, one catches one dosent.
One other senario two fishermen fishing side by side jigging using the same bait both catching fish but one angler catches a 2 lb fish and the other catches a 2 lb 5 oz fish is it luck or skill?
For me luck, carma, or the good Lord blessing one angler over the other has a large effect on tournament success if you do your home work and find the right fish the rest is the uncontrollable factor in fishing and thats why fishing as a sport is different than other sports because of that large uncontrollable factor.
RE: The BIG Question.
Hello all,,,I am not a tournament fisherman but have read this thread with interest. Though I dont know all the ins and outs of what it takes to "qualify" for the pro events,I would toss my 2Cents in here on the meaning of "Pro" . Pro=Money! If you are trying to use your skill for profit,whether your own,or someone else(your sponsor's) you are a Pro. Technicaly that is! Like the old sayings in NASCAR and NHRA Drag Racing racing.."Win on Sunday,sell on Monday". Why else are there all these sponsors?? If you are really any good at it or not, is a different issue,except for where your skill must at least be sufficiant to get into the show in most venues. That being said,it sounds like some of these "pro" circuits are making it too easy to compete. Seems that is an issue onto itself,rather than if one can be considered a "pro" or not. There really has evolved a double meaning to the word Pro . Many of us would like to reserve it for an individual who is skilled ,experienced,and has proven himself...."The Ole Pro". But the reality is,anyone who is trying to make a living at it,guiding,charters,tournaments,or promotions,must be considered a professional. (Maybe just not with a capital "P" ) But thats OK ! But as in racing,ALL pros should have to qualify for a major event,or at least maybe with some provisionals that would pre qualify one,based on prior finishes,not just being able to pop for the entry fee. Now here is a question I would raise Re RCL?? What is the mission of the RCL Tournament circuit?? To promote their products.Maybe thats why their "qualification" is not related to your skill and success,but rather to what products you own. There's the rub! PS... Walleye Express..When you saw Keith and Gary back then,Kieth was probably still working at IBM Rochester. Think he was an engineer or programer of somesort.
RE: The BIG Question.
Just because someone fishes the PWT or RCL does not make them a pro. I have two friends that keep trying and trying to cash a check but still fail. After paying $20k and no checks they still have stickers on their boats! Go figure.
If you make it to the PWT championship, you can call yourself a pro. That is a true indicater for me.
RE: The BIG Question.
[b] >And this is also true of tournaments with strict
>qualifications to enter. One still needs; and I repeat!
>Courage, Time, and Money!
>But will acknowledge there is a big difference between a Pro,
>and becoming a "Professional". To make the jump into the
>Professional ranks is to be one "good enough" to make a living
>off the endeavor.
>Up until the fishing industry (oh yes, and out-of-industry)
>sponsors enough tournament fisherman, enabling them to become
>Professionals, these others who have the wherewithall do more
>than deserve the "Pro" title.
sevenmmm ... Ya got the Gnads (Courage) for sure ~ I hope to see your name amoung the Stars of this Fine Sport in the near future :)
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Threshold of Beauty is an interdisciplinary project I designed that fuses music with the sciences. As part of this project, I have collaborated with a number of organizations to bring new music to students and adults alike.
In previous posts about my Threshold of Beauty project, I spoke about guiding a classroom of students through some fascinating science experiments, discussing how to identify art, and even constructing a few analog synthesizers. All of these experiences offered a unique blending of music and science in a palpable and hopefully interesting way for the students. But when I was developing ideas for my artist residency in Minnesota, I knew that I wanted to give anyone involved in the project an opportunity to both learn and compose something completely on their own. So I set out to design an installation piece that might function as an inviting learning environment where participants could create music as they interacted and observed.
The resultant work is Field Lines, my largest installation piece to date. Constructing this substantial piece of equipment drew on a number of disciplines including physical design, carpentry (an occasional hobby of mine), circuit design, and coding. As alluded in the title, this piece focuses on the magnetic field. There are three sections of magnetic material, including magnetic sand, a compass array, and zinc-plated iron. Audiences are able to manipulate these materials with a magnet in the space below each case while infrared sensors pick up their movement. The sensors send that information to an Arduino board, which then creates unique music for each section. Check out a few of the pictures below to get a sense of how all this came together.
Once I had finished the construction, it was time to test the piece out in the real world. And I was thankful to have two museum partners in Minnesota who were excited to present Field Lines. It was premiered at the Bakken Museum to a mostly adult crowd as part of their Current Affair Event in March. I ran into a few kinks, which I was subsequently able to solve, but for the most part I was able to enjoy meeting with the curious audience and seeing how they interacted with the musical and physical materials. And since then, the piece has found a home at the Works Museum, which caters to elementary age students. There it has been integrated into their "Sensor Zone" exhibit. Somewhere around a hundred kids interact with the installation each day and many have really seemed to enjoy the experience from what I've seen. Though I think if I ever get the opportunity to build another piece for a children's museum, I might try to design something even more visual to combat some of the shorter attention spans.
Now for any who may be interested I am going to delve into the electronics a bit, all others will likely want to skip below to see/hear the piece in action! The instrument is powered by an Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller, which I used because of its 16 analog inputs. 9 of those inputs are occupied by Sharp infrared distance sensors, 3 at the back of each section of the instrument to pick up the movement of the audience. These sensors are fairly sturdy, fairly accurate, and quite unfairly noisy. I was eventually able to significantly decrease the noise with several very large capacitors between the positive and ground rails of my circuit.
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Morning, in Colorado, if I'm not teaching or trying to make a school lunch my offspring will actually eat, involves a second cup of Double Bergamot Earl Grey tea and a quick skim of The Guardian, online, with the memory of pretending to read it, a broadsheet, upside down in bed, with my dad. The paper, not me. I was two.
Thus, a few days ago, I paused, mid-sip, to read this: "Now he's ditching the dung and the glitter, and going some place darker." And see this:
Then read this, which repeats the words but the words are a "connected complex," so I won't kill them down:
" -bit by bit – [he] jettisons the things that made him famous:the dung, the glitter, the multi-coloured, pasted-on genitalia and afro heads. Get up close to his earlier paintings – the surfaces encourage it, catching the light and writhing with life – and you lose yourself in the visual riffs, the art-nouveauish riots of plant life, the chains of dots and blobs, the beats and pulses and beads of colour. It's like listening to multi-layered music on headphones, and being delayed by all the detail."
And put my cup down.
Adrian Searle, in other words, on Chris Ofili's new show :
"[It's] a lesson in learning to be free. Not of the shadows cast by other artists, but of his own…..[S]ome artists grow scared of their shadows; they get so stuck with the thing they have become known for that they are paralysed, unable to find a way forward. Ofili, instead, has raced ahead. On Sunday he told me that he is letting his new work lead him where it will."
How do you let go of the "dung and glitter" of your early work, whether that's a "body" of work, like Ofili's, or the first "finished" draft of a manuscript? When forming a sequence, a narrative, a long poem, how do you "ditch" what makes/made it palatable, in some sense — beautiful?/'writhing with life"? — and go, instead, for the dirty book? The book that exceeds its contents: that is more than you? That takes you "where it will"? That darkens, opposing lyric decisions and opportunities.
I began to consider a speck of glitter, a fleck of dirt. How the "imperceptible" element, brought forward, becomes the site of species intensity; what brings it forward? The insect in the sodden pasture, carrying a bit of mud on its back, its black and yellow wing, etc. Shedding minerals as it flies, or is eaten. Here I would quote Agamben if getting up from this desk to get the book didn't make the floor creak and thus wake my son, in these tentative ten or fifteen minutes before he falls into a truly deep sleep.
Substitute Activity #173: Leaning in a doorway on Monday, at Naropa, I encountered the poet Amy Catanzano as she was leaving to teach a class. Amy recently wrote an essay with Christian Bok and the Butthole Surfers in it, to give you an example of the kind of animal we are dealing with. When I asked her about the dung and glitter, she said this. She said it, and I asked her to write it down, which she did, then sent it to me, in this altered and intensified form:
"Bhanu, the password to the quantum supercomputerpoem will be NCC-1701
My forms, like their protagonists, are all rocketship these days. Yet I would rather consider progress as mutation rather than evolution, which is more inviting of non-linear time where the pre and the post accelerate into what Alfred Jarry calls The Imaginary Present, a second, symmetrical present that redefines duration as the "becoming of memory."
In proposals such as string theory, time is a cubist face of space, a spacetime comprising a multiverse that interacts with forces such as quantum gravity, which I picture as the invisible background swell in a Chagall painting upon which objects are psychedelically unhitched…
Like a hand on the anywhere, in slight repose. Or, more threadbare: "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes" (oh, Thoreau!).
Seems the pre can include pre-science and also prescience—getting rid of the monolithic hyphen here—a more promising framework for the writing process and progress. Prescience, if plucked from containment within Aristotelian time, provokes alternate universes (which are questions?) of instinct, exchanges between imperceptibility and transparency. That is not to say I'm not all Scientific Method too, wanting to invent new tech for the poem, for you.
Which brings us to the latest reboot of Star Trek. Enterprise engineer Scotty, upon discovering how his future-self develops the Federation's first Trans-Warp technology—which permits the transportation of people on/off starships traveling at warp speed—remarks, As One Might in a Poem, "It never occurred to me to think of space as the thing that was moving." I feel this analogy is a good example of the glitter. Now, THE DUNG:
Like a deity this is, and most applauded. I predict a thorough vetting. I predict the top of a poem. I predict preparedness everyone. I predict prestigious prestigious—Like a deity make a power! Like a Titan fake a wake! Like that other face, in alpha-hide, only yours to make
As innumerable as the more benevolent tender buttons in my heart. Shall "I become a transparent eye-ball" (Emerson)? Now that's a stylistic hyphen. Emerson, again, just past the occasion of glittering—where form makes time: "Words are the finite organs of the infinite mind."
And so now I am asking you. What do you do with what is "pre" in your writing? How do you make an abiogenetic decision? How do you let go of the motifs, styles and obsessions that have brought you this far? For example, how do I let the "red" soak back into the garden? I let the rosebush die. I build a fire from the stalks and petals, on the ice. Well, I don't. I notice that it is almost impossible to destroy a living, or near-living, rose.
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@Bhanu: The rose comes back from the root, often surprising the gardener by not being the rose they had purchased, raised, and then slain.
Gosh, I love the Buttholes. (Favourites: Sweat Loaf, Jingle of a Dog's Collar, Goofy's Lament, Flame Grape, and esp. The Wooden Song, but aren't those everyone's favourites? Who grew up wrecked on drugs in the deep subcultures of the suburban West Coast, that is?) I'm so pleased with YouTube for having so many classics lost/destroyed/left behind now there for me and my laptop and my big leather headphones. I recommend NoMeansNo for other aficionados of West Coast 80's punk funk junk fusion. I lost my front teeth, a jacket, a t-shirt, a pair of glasses, and the straight line of my nose bridge at NoMeansRamones at the Union Hall in Victoria '88 – pre-Hanson Brothers gig.
There is glitter in the mica of the cat's litter, and as she is still too afraid to crap outside the trailer (we're new here), there is a lot of dung and glitter in my life right now.
In space, no-one can hear you scream.
In a synchronous moment, I came here after posting this on my blog, which fits somewhere in here with the $tring theory (short prose bit follows):
palimpsests:ii dream vision of the world
I had a vision then, of all things as a spindle: a golden spindle, inhabited by specks of golden light, turning slowly in a place of blackness. Each point of light follows one of the myriad complex lines or wires that skein together to form the spindle (or shape like a spindle – it is infinitely complex, braided down into itself like a golden steel cable, Fibonacci whorls through impossible Moebian transforms). Each speck upon the spindle is us/we, and we move upon its Fated threads in a way which seems to us like time. Our movement is not real but effects the changes within the Form that allow the golden spindle to braid itself, always changing, always the same. Always we follow our Fated threads; always is something new revealed to us. In this way is the Universe Made and Unmade; we are free, free to become it. (end transmission)
Final note: re: NCC-1701: Bhanu, you should check out Alex Grey's painting Cosmic Christ. Recurring starship dreams, fire and blue electric light.
Night night all.
Bhanu, I am in the process of discovering this again the hard way, having recently completed a manuscript myself. So, ask me again in a few months — but for now I'm venturing this: you turn off the "audience" switch for a brief period. I say this knowing that there are many who "only write for themselves" and "never think about audience" — positions that I typically greet with skepticism and bewilderment, which is why I so appreciated your comment elsewhere in/on Harriet about being bored by poems that "are not written for others." But letting go of the pre- seems to me to require a brief period of disconnect from those others with whom one has connected or hopes to connect via past work. You do it, then, not long enough to become boring(!), but long enough to feel what new itches need scratching.
@Evie: I find that even a putative audience is what gives me the power to scry out stories and the strength to leap up and snatch the poems as they flicker and scuffle and silently pirouette past. If I didn't somehow make myself think that my work was going to help people in some way, I just wouldn't do it. Stories and visions are just as fun without any effort at recording them, and faith in the Muse in the face of the obvious Ozymandian nature of the surfaces of things, well…that's essential, and the Muse is not there as one's geisha.
Hmmm…I better go have coffee. I'm not sure I'm making sense here.
"Let us then prepare the page on which today may be born a verdant verity."
-Francis Ponge
@Bhanu: I cannot make an abiogenetic decision. That would be Ecthroi, ecthroi, and the dance of the farandolae must end in Rooting, not a whirl into howling darkness. Mother (p)reserve us from those who think we merely dance here on a stage for our own pleasure. Gardens are not farms, gardeners not prisoners, Increase is a matter of growth more than storage.
There is nothing 'pre' in writing. There's what you're writing, and there's what you stop to think about and think you've written, but are merely gumming into unrecognizable smushed-up bits good only for cooking. No eye is entirely transparent. Even computers have shades. Some of them haunt us already.
Don't let go of yourself. Motif, style, obsessive thought: these are identity. The zazen mind is a tool and an illusion. Striving is birth. Emptiness is a condition one must undergo to act with accuracy (essential in writing as it is in all) – but don't let it fool you.
It isn't real.
Even a fleck of glitter, even a handful of diamond powder, is in the neverchanging change of Form-In-Time. Mutation is a poem told in a clear voice, not the clatter of cogwheel and spring. We should know – we are Speaking it at the head of the choir (see: R.A. Lafferty: And Name My Name ). Every step in this corrosively beautiful world is like walking through a vacuum, is being on fire, is drowning, is going blind. Every thing we do is worth far more than the greatest words we can speak to the nonexistent future, every word we speak is for the now it meets in another. A contradictory and holy task, writing. We must strive to be responsible. I'm trying to follow the words of Musashi and find the line, the Way for me – there is one and only one way to do each thing. The great part of Life is that the Way is always changing.
Need more coffee. Stayed up 'til 4:30 transcribing – figured I'd get all the good stuff typed, so that I have to work to make sure I stay ahead of my own rather putative audience.
ps – didn't get it all typed. But I made the cat very tired!
pps I obviously failed to close my html italics. Whups. Pretend I did it on purpose. That often works out for the best.
Switch on(e), switch on, tail held high and bright eyes inquisitive, mind spinning thought and then word and then golden thread, coiling in and into tresses flowing around a face filled with love, cat to bug: breaks form; bug to cat, tells love in a brief shout, mouse gives birth in the wainscot to five more words and the sea sighs an essay, a susurrus of wisdom, the stones themselves they hold their tongues, for now, for now is the time in which we can make them speak, turn colour into light and Light into Word – we have a few more years, I think, and then the weather is going to change. Hurry on, hurry on to meet the dawn, put your slippers on, hurry on, sundown, sundown!
The cat told me, in the yard, when the wind went coldhotcoldhot like a tap you're trying to adjust.
Bhanu, the red, letting it soak back in (still thinking of Pamela Lu's de-red-ing), I think of your earlier statement about killing the character in your project, but now with this idea of the rose, your impossibility of destruction, I am reminded of how, in physics, matter cannot be eliminated, just changed.
Jingle of a Dog's Collar! Also Cough Syrup, Weird Revolution, Blind Eye Sees All… a mountain of dung&glitter, yes! Not to mention the amazing Paul Leary project, "The History of Dogs." Alex Grey: he is on my refrigerator, as a poster, staring out with a hundred eyes.
Bhanu, a word: relativity.
In quantum logic, the betrayal might be dependent on the relationship between the observed and observer. It also might be many-all betrayals, existing in more places than once at the same time, operating within both simultaneity and spontaneity, diffusing the eye-level border of when the betrayal "happened" with the more invisible quantum borders of it "happening."
However, Newtonian conceptions of space and time are retained in quantum mechanics, which means, I think, that quantum logic is still working with outdated notions of spacetime. Which brings us to relativity, where space and time are made new, but Newton's conceptions of the observed and the observer are retained. String theory attempts to resolve the inherent conflicts between quantum mechanics and relativity.
So, a new question might be: how does the question of betrayal complicate a string theory logic? In the multiverse, that wilderness of universes, our stories might always be betrayed by their assumptions (those narratives at eye-level). Or, what happens when we consider narrative (and ethics) from both quantum and astronomical scales—at the same time? Outside of time.
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I wonder if a seat cover with seat-area you could really cinch down might help?
This is a discussion on CCW and car seats within the Defensive Carry Holsters & Carry Options forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I have a Toyota 4Runner that is killing me when I CCW. The seats have such deep side bolsters that I can't carry anything larger ...
I have a Toyota 4Runner that is killing me when I CCW. The seats have such deep side bolsters that I can't carry anything larger than a P32 on my hip unless the gun is forward of my hipbone. Part of the problem may be my holster selection. I carry a Kahr K9 in a RafterS Gunleather holster. It's a high riding OWB holster with no cant. I also carry a S&W 36 in a Hume JIT holster. This is more doable, but still uncomfortable for longer than half an hour. Finally, I have a P32 that I carry in a Backwoods Leather belt slide. This is the only comfortable rig for this vehicle.
My main concern is the K9. Would a pancake holster with more cant work better? Or should I just resign myself to unholstering the gun while in the 4Runner? Do you guys have problems with deep seats and CCW?
I wonder if a seat cover with seat-area you could really cinch down might help?
I don't follow. The existing covers are tight to the seat, it's just that the seats are deeply bolstered (bolsters being that part that "wraps around your sides).
Accessability is a major problem in some vehicles - and yours sounds very awkward. To be honest, in such a situation I'd seriously consider going to a sho rig - something like my (now little used) Bianchi X-15 front break.
Or - find an OWB with a bunch of fwd cant - I prefer plenty of cant anyways.
In my Silverado - the seats fortunately have no major amount of bolster - and I find that if I belt up having freed my shirt or vest (so it is over top of belt), then altho over time the grips do create some pressure - it is bearable and - by staying at 3 o'clock - I can get a halfways decent draw, even belted.
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I drive a full size GMC Yukon. The seats have plenty of bolster. I usually carry IWB but occasionally carry my primary CCW, a 5" 1911 OWB in a Def-Con holster from Gary Brommeland. It has a lot of cant and is totally comfortable while driving or any time. This may be the right holster to solve your discomfort. Good luck.
Yep...my 350Z has plenty of bolster also. Forward cant at about 3:00 is the best comfort I can get with my OWB. Even then, there's times it digs into my spare tire, so I just remove it from the holster.
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I have a Safepacker holster by Tactical Wilderness that does well in this situation. It allows me to carry a full-size service pistol (SIG P226ST) in a car with bucket seats, with comfort. Not for everyone, but you might want to check it out. I originally got the holster for a specific application, but found it works well for some travel.
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Sorry, Chris, I was thinking about after-market (unless you've already got them), that you could pull really tight, kinda like a sausage wrap- compress the foam even more. Cross-draw or paddle might be the best overall option, though......Originally Posted by mtnbkr
Id either recommend a solid cross draw holster or a highly canted holster @ 3.00 like mentioned before. The CD would give you better access but may not conceal as well as the other once your outside of your car.
Heres a pic of one of my customers who does the FBI cant IWB at 3.00 with his commander. Just for reference..........
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If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..........Rush
Cant is your friend. If your holster does not have cant, it's not likely you will have comfort, IMO. Try a different holster which has a good cant and see if that helps.
Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde; Beware the anger of a patient man.
Well, for extended car carry you could switch to a shoulder rig with a nice wide "over the shoulder" strap. The transition is really not that much of a problem if you practice drawing with both Shoulder & Waist carry locations.
If you want to stay with carry at the waist then (as above) more cant and LESS actual HANDLE on the firearm really helps.
You could consider switching over to a Glock 36 ~ a reliable Officers Model or a Detonics Combat Master for extended vehicle excursions.
How about something like this
"If you're going to shoot then shoot-don't talk" Eli Wallach-"The Good,The Bad, and the Ugly"
I'm going to try a new holster. I like the RafterS, but after wearing it for a couple months, it's apparent that it's not the best for CCW, at least for me. Krang, I saw that holster the other day. It definately looks interesting, but I'm not sure if it's 100% kosher under Va law. IIRC, in Va, the gun has to be on your body, out in plain sight on a seat or dash, or locked in the trunk.
It'll bolt in the trunk as well. Every state is different on their carry methods. Thanks for the update.
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So these days I am increasingly getting frustrated about the slow progress of my own company (Serious Games Interactive) and the market for game-based learning. So what does one do – well look to new products that have some of the same ideas that one-self is harbouring – with a baby girl I have become more interested in children's learning game. Right now we are working on a new History series for 10-13 years and developing a concept for a colorbook game – I think they will both rock but I am getting impatience.
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Tallmadge -- The Tallmadge Police Department is adding four new vehicles to its fleet and upgrading the in-car video surveillance systems for its patrol cars.
City Council authorized the police department March 13 to spend $32,000 to buy two 2014 Ford Fusions outright from Park Ford in Tallmadge. The vehicles are replacing two older vehicles that were being used by detectives.
"The last time we bought unmarked cars was 2005 so we've got some aging cars," said Police Chief Don Zesiger.
One of the Fusions will replace a 2007 Ford Crown Victoria with about 150,000 miles.
One of the replacement vehicles was delivered last week, and the other is expected to arrive in about six to eight weeks.
In addition to the new detectives' cars, the police department also is buying two patrol cars this year with funds that are already in the budget.
Council also gave the police department the OK to upgrade the WatchGuard Video in-car dash-cam systems in eight of the nine patrol cars at a total cost of $45,000, which includes a $9,500 credit for trading in the old systems.
"The technology has changed. The ones we currently have record to a [compact] disc. The ones we're ordering record to a hard drive and then they automatically download to a server once you enter the area of the police department," Zesiger said.
The new technology makes accessing and managing the stored data easier, he said. The surveillance system records video footage of patrol officer encounters, including traffic stops, that's used as evidence.
The current systems that use CDs are eight or so years old, he said.
The video surveillance systems should be installed in the patrol cars within the next several months.
Zesiger said he foresees needing three more replacement patrol cars and one unmarked vehicle.
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- Dark liquid and browned bits reserved from Roasted Pork Loin
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Pour off excess fat from roasting pan (reserving dark liquid and browned bits). Add chicken broth to pan; cook over medium-high heat, scraping up browned bits, until liquid has reduced by half, 5 to 7 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk flour with water.
Reduce heat to medium; whisk in flour mixture and balsamic vinegar until sauce is completely smooth and has thickened, 1 to 3 minutes.


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Since the early 1960's Grand Banks has been building conservative, fuel-efficient, seaworthy, diesel-powered displacement cruisers and is credited with creating the trawler category within the boating industry. After launching more than 3000 hulls, Grand Banks recognized that seasoned yachtsmen were looking for a new kind of trawler that married the traditional Grand Banks qualities with a turn of speed, and in 2006 the 'Fast Trawler' was introduced to the market in the form of the 47 Heritage Europa. Built on a Sparkman Stephens-designed planing hull capable of cruising speeds in the 20+ knot range and powered by moderately-sized twin diesel engines, Grand Banks again created a new segment of the yacht market and has gone on to introduce an entire range of yachts modeled after the fast trawler concept.
PoPo is hull number 5 of GB's Heritage 47 Europa 'fast trawler' design and is a veteran Puget Sound cruiser. Equipped for comfortable journeys to distant anchorages, PoPo has been carefully maintained by her owners and is in need of nothing. She is moored here in Seattle and is available for inspection by appointment.
PoPo is boarded using either port or starboard side gates or from the integral swim step through the transom door. All paths lead through the spacious covered cockpit with teak sole into the salon. To port in the salon is an L-shaped leather-covered settee with hi-low dining table and to starboard are a pair of matching leather-covered barrel chairs separated by an entertainment cabinet that houses the television on its lift and the Bose Surround-Sound Audio System. Forward to starboard is the lower helm station with comprehensive navigation electronics (see description in following section), and full propulsion controls, all comfortably within reach from the leather-covered double-wide adjustable helm seat. To port is the spacious galley also described in detail in the following sections.
Descend three steps to the companionway and find the airy Guest Stateroom to starboard with twin berths separated by a generous cedar-lined hanging locker. Additional storage is provided in drawers under each berth. To port across the companionway is the Guest Head which features a fully-enclosed stall shower, stone counter surfaces and a VacuFlush toilet.
Forward is the Master Suite featuring a centerline queen berth that houses multiple spacious drawers in its base. The berth is surrounded by storage compartments, including a cedar-lined hanging locker to accommodate the owner's change-of-clothes or foul-weather gear. The Owner's ensuite head is to port and includes a large fully-enclosed walk-in shower, premium Grohe fixtures, stone counter surfaces and a VacuFlush toilet.
PoPo's interior is finished in satin-varnished matched-grain teak throughout with gloss-varnished teak-and holly sole. A diesel-fired Webasto furnace provides multiple-zone heating for four-season cruising.
Befitting her stature, PoPo has a galley designed for the cruising gourmet. A U-shaped stone countertop provides abundant workspace and is oriented so the cook is always a part of the conversation, whether preparing snacks or a meal. A Tundra 42RE undercounter refrigerator keeps things cool while a separate Tundra TF20DC Freezer is available for long-term storage. Cooking is accomplished on the Princess three-burner Ceramic Cooktop with Ventialation Hood or the Sharp Carousel Convection Microwave Oven. Storage is provided in drawers, cupboards, tip-out bins and overhead lockers. Finally, an extra-deep Stainless Steel sink with Grohe faucet faces forward where it is convenient for quick clean-ups.
PoPo is equipped to meet virtually any electrical demand whether at anchor, dockside or underway with parallel circuit-breaker-protected AC and DC electrical systems. A 50-Amp 240VAC Shore Power Connection with 75-foot cable satisfiues demand for AC services when shoreside. At anchor or underway, her 9.0 kW Onan generator can be energized to provide AC power when required.
A total of seven AGM batteries provide current for the 24 VDC side of the electrical system, supported by a primary TruCharge 40+ multi-stage battery charger and a secondary ChargeMaster 12/100-3 battery charger.
Underwater corrosion protection is provided by a Professional Mariner ProSafe zinc saver.
Piloting PoPo is a pleasure whether operating from the heated Lower Helm or the fully-enclosed Upper Helm. The Lower Helm is located forward and to starboard in the salon immediately adjacent to the Helm Door, allowing the pilot access to the covered side deck. Superior sight lines and a comfortable double-wide helm chair contribute to comfortable cruising in all weather conditions. A complete suite of navigational electronics and propulsion controls assist the pilot and includes:
The fully-enclosed Upper Helm is located on the flybridge centerline and provides the pilot with 360-degree visibility. A fold down electronics console keeps the main navigation electronics sheltered when not in use. Tandem bimini-tops and removable side and aft curtains offer protection in all weather. The removable flybridge windsreen includes durable hard acrylic windows with electric wipers. The pilot has a complete array of navigational electronics at the Upper Helm as well:
Po-Po has been fully commissioned and her list of equipment includes:
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The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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