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This is a discussion on "Why the Gun is Civilization" within the General Firearm Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; This may have been posted before but it's a good reminder none-the-less: the munchkin wrangler.: why the gun is civilization. Why the gun is civilization. ...
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Why the gun is civilization.
"Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade me, because I have a way to negate your threat or employment of force. The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a 19-year old gangbanger, and a single gay guy on equal footing with a carload of drunk guys with baseball bats. The gun removes the disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun as the source of bad force equations. These are the people who think that we'd be more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because a firearm makes it easier for a mugger to do his job. That, of course, is only true if the mugger's potential victims are mostly disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat--it has no validity when most of a mugger's potential marks are armed. People who argue for the banning of arms ask for automatic rule by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a civilized society. A mugger, even an armed one, can only make a successful living in a society where the state has granted him a force monopoly.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise would only result in injury. This argument is fallacious in several ways. Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior party inflicting overwhelming injury on the loser. People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones don't constitute lethal force watch too much TV, where people take beatings and come out of it with a bloody lip at worst. The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker. If both are armed, the field is level. The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as it is in the hands of a weightlifter. It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at my side means that I cannot be forced, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but because it enables me to be unafraid. It doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason, only the actions of those who would do so by force. It removes force from the equation...and that's why carrying a gun is a civilized act."
No flaming, but if you carry a handgun know it's limitations.
Training means learning the rules. Experience means learning the exceptions.
It's been here before, but still a good reminder.
Things really do boil down to either 'reason or force'...out of 'respect or fear'...that's life!
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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This piece by Munchkin Wrangler is outstanding, worth passing on to those not yet attuned to the meaning of the Second Amendment. Another excellent essay which packs a lot of good sense in a few words is "Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun," by Eric S Raymond.
Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun (lots of other good posts at Raymond's blog, Armed and Dangerous
Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun:
What Bearing Weapons Teaches About the Good Life
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"The bearing of arms is the essential medium through which the individual asserts both his social power and his participation in politics as a responsible moral being..." (Historian J.G.A. Pocock, describing the beliefs of the founders of the U.S.)
There is nothing like having your finger on the trigger of a gun to reveal who you really are. Life or death in one twitch ultimate decision, with the ultimate price for carelessness or bad choices.
It is a kind of acid test, an initiation, to know that there is lethal force in your hand and all the complexities and ambiguities of moral choice have fined down to a single action: fire or not?
In truth, we are called upon to make life-or-death choices more often than we generally realize. Every political choice ultimately reduces to a choice about when and how to use lethal force, because the threat of lethal force is what makes politics and law more than a game out of which anyone could opt at any time.
But most of our life-and-death choices are abstract; their costs are diffused and distant. We are insulated from those costs by layers of institutions we have created to specialize in controlled violence (police, prisons, armies) and to direct that violence (legislatures, courts). As such, the lessons those choices teach seldom become personal to most of us.
Nothing most of us will ever do combines the moral weight of life-or-death choice with the concrete immediacy of the moment as thoroughly as the conscious handling of instruments deliberately designed to kill. As such, there are lessons both merciless and priceless to be learned from bearing arms lessons which are not merely instructive to the intellect but transformative of one's whole emotional, reflexive, and moral character.
The first and most important of these lessons is this: it all comes down to you.
No one's finger is on the trigger but your own. All the talk-talk in your head, all the emotions in your heart, all the experiences of your past these things may inform your choice, but they can't move your finger. All the socialization and rationalization and justification in the world, all the approval or disapproval of your neighbors none of these things can pull the trigger either. They can change how you feel about the choice, but only you can actually make the choice. Only you. Only here. Only now. Fire, or not?
A second is this: never count on being able to undo your choices.
If you shoot someone through the heart, dead is dead. You can't take it back. There are no do-overs. Real choice is like that; you make it, you live with it or die with it.
A third lesson is this: the universe doesn't care about motives.
If your gun has an accidental discharge while pointed an unsafe direction, the bullet will kill just as dead as if you had been aiming the shot. "I didn't mean to" may persuade others that you are less likely to repeat a behavior, but it won't bring a corpse back to life.
These are hard lessons, but necessary ones. Stated, in print, they may seem trivial or obvious. But ethical maturity consists, in significant part, of knowing these things not merely at the level of intellect but at the level of emotion, experience and reflex. And nothing teaches these things like repeated confrontation with life-or-death choices in grave knowledge of the consequences of failure.
This psychological insight both illuminates and is reinforced by one central fact of U.S. history that is usually considered purely political, and even (wrongly) thought to be of interest only to Americans.
The Founding Fathers of the United States believed, and wrote, that the bearing of arms was essential to the character and dignity of a free people. For this reason, they wrote a Second Amendment in the Bill Of Rights which reads "the right to bear arms shall not be infringed".
Whether one agrees or disagrees with it, the Second Amendment is usually interpreted in these latter days as an axiom of and about political character an expression of republican political thought, a prescription for a equilibrium of power in which the armed people are at least equal in might to the organized forces of government.
It is all these things. But it is something more, because the Founders regarded political character and individual ethical character as inseparable. They had a clear notion of the individual virtues necessary collectively to a free people. They did not merely regard the habit of bearing arms as a political virtue, but as a direct promoter of personal virtue.
The Founders had been successful armed revolutionaries. Every one of them had had repeated confrontation with life-or-death choices, in grave knowledge of the consequences of failure. They desired that the people of their infant nation should always cultivate that kind of ethical maturity, the keen sense of individual moral responsibility that they had personally learned from using lethal force in defense of their liberty.
Accordingly, firearms were prohibited only to those intended to be kept powerless and infantilized. American gun prohibitions have their origins in racist legislation designed to disarm slaves and black freedmen. The wording of that legislation repays study; it was designed not merely to deny blacks the political power of arms but to prevent them from aspiring to the dignity of free men.
The dignity of free men (and, as we would properly add today, free women). That is a phrase that bears thinking on. As the twentieth century draws to a close, it sounds archaic. Our discourse has nearly lost the concept that the health of the res publica is founded on private virtue. Too many of us contemplate a president who preaches "family values" and "responsibility" to the nation while committing adultery and perjury, and don't see a contradiction.
But Thomas Jefferson's question, posed in his inaugural address of 1801, still stings. If a man cannot be trusted with the government of himself, how can he be trusted with the government of others? And this is where history and politics circle back to ethics and psychology: because "the dignity of a free (wo)man" consists in being competent to govern one's self, and in knowing, down to the core of one's self, that one is so competent.
And that is where ethics and psychology bring us back to the bearing of arms. For causality runs both ways here; the dignity of a free man is what makes one ethically competent to bear arms, and the act of bearing arms promotes (by teaching its hard and subtle lessons) the inner qualities that compose the dignity of a free man.
It is not always so, of course. There is a 3% or so of psychotics, drug addicts, and criminal deviants who are incapable of the dignity of free men. Arms in the hands of such as these do not promote virtue, but are merely instruments of tragedy and destruction. But so, too, are cars. And kitchen knives. And bricks. The ethically incompetent readily (and effectively) find other means to destroy and terrorize when denied arms. And when civilian arms are banned, they more readily find helpless victims.
But for the other 97%, the bearing of arms functions not merely as an assertion of power but as a fierce and redemptive discipline. When sudden death hangs inches from your right hand, you become much more careful, more mindful, and much more peaceful in your heart because you know that if you are thoughtless or sloppy in your actions or succumb to bad temper, people will die.
Too many of us have come to believe ourselves incapable of this discipline. We fall prey to the sick belief that we are all psychopaths or incompetents under the skin. We have been taught to imagine ourselves armed only as villains, doomed to succumb to our own worst nature and kill a loved one in a moment of carelessness or rage. Or to end our days holed up in a mall listening to police bullhorns as some SWAT sniper draws a bead...
But it's not so. To believe this is to ignore the actual statistics and generative patterns of weapons crimes. "Virtually never", writes criminologist Don B. Kates, "are murderers the ordinary, law-abiding people against whom gun bans are aimed. Almost without exception, murderers are extreme aberrants with lifelong histories of crime, substance abuse, psychopathology, mental retardation and/or irrational violence against those around them, as well as other hazardous behavior, e.g., automobile and gun accidents."
To believe one is incompetent to bear arms is, therefore, to live in corroding and almost always needless fear of the self in fact, to affirm oneself a moral coward. A state further from "the dignity of a free man" would be rather hard to imagine. It is as a way of exorcising this demon, of reclaiming for ourselves the dignity and courage and ethical self-confidence of free (wo)men that the bearing of personal arms, is, ultimately, most important.
This is the final ethical lesson of bearing arms: that right choices are possible, and the ordinary judgement of ordinary (wo)men is sufficient to make them.
We can, truly, embrace our power and our responsibility to make life-or-death decisions, rather than fearing both. We can accept our ultimate responsibility for our own actions. We can know (not just intellectually, but in the sinew of experience) that we are fit to choose.
And not only can we we must. The Founding Fathers of the United States understood why. If we fail this test, we fail not only in private virtue but consequently in our capacity to make public choices. Rudderless, lacking an earned and grounded faith in ourselves, we can only drift increasingly helpless to summon even the will to resist predators and tyrants (let alone the capability to do so).
Joel Barlow, a political theorist of Jefferson's time, wrote tellingly: "[The disarming of citizens has] a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral [force]; and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves, and of discerning the cause of their oppression."
We live with a recent history of massacres by governments that have dwarfed in scope and cruelty anything Barlow or Jefferson could have imagined. The Turkish massacre of the Armenians, the Nazi "final solution", the Soviet purges, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Hutu-Tutsi massacres in Rwanda; each and every one of these vast and hideous slaughters was preceded by and relied upon the disarmament of the victims.
It is more important than ever, today after a century of blood, that we retain the power both to protect ourselves and to discern the cause of such oppressions. That cause has never been in civilian arms borne by free people, but in their opposite and enemy the organized and conscienceless brutality of cancerous states.
It is time to recognize that we, as individuals and as citizens of our neighborhoods and our nations and our planet, have gone too far down a road that leads only to disintegration of both society and self a future of atomized and alienated sheep, terrified by the reflection in each others' eyes of the phantoms in their own souls, easy prey for demagogues and dictators.
It is time for each of us to rediscover the dignity of free men (and women) in the only way possible; by proving it in the crucible of daily decision, even on ultimate matters of life and death. It is time for us to embrace bearing arms again not merely as a deterrent against criminals and tyrants, but as a gift and sacrament and affirmation to ourselves.
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Only Nixon could go to China, the saying ran. But even Richard M. Nixon, the architect of America's opening to the world's most populous communist power, could not complete the full normalization of U.S. ties with the People's Republic of China (PRC). Indeed, he and Gerald R. Ford, as well as their secretary of state, Henry A. Kissinger, developed significant reservations about whether the final step was at all possible.
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|Narumi Yasuda
November 28, 1966
Tokyo, Japan
Narumi Yasuda (安田 成美 Yasuda Narumi?, born 28 November 1966 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese actress. She won the award for best actress at the 8th Yokohama Film Festival for Inuji ni seshi mono, Minami he hashire, umi no michi o! and Sorobanzuku.[1] She also won the award for best actress at the 13th Hochi Film Award for Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad.[2]
Initially she was the winner of a competition to find a singer to sing the theme song and promote Hayao Miyazaki's now-popular anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind,[3] "Kaze no Tani no Naushika", composed by Haruomi Hosono (former Yellow Magic Orchestra member).[4]
Selected filmography[edit]
- Inuji ni seshi mono (1986)
- Minami he hashire, umi no michi o! (1986)
- Sorobanzuku (1986)
- Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad (1988)
- Teppan (2010–2011), Machiko Murakami
- Totto TV (2016), Cho Kuroyanagi
- ^ 第8回ヨコハマ映画祭 1986年日本映画個人賞 (in Japanese). Yokohama Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-03-31.
- ^ 報知映画賞ヒストリー (in Japanese). Cinema Hochi. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ "Studio Ghibli Songs". [1]. Retrieved 2011-09-24. External link in
- ^ "Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind): Credits, Figures & Other Information". Nausicaa.net. Retrieved 2011-06-23.
External links[edit]
- Narumi Yasuda at the Internet Movie Database
- Narumi Yasuda at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
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A new study says the world's tropical coastal forests store more planet-warming carbon dioxide than almost any other ecosystem.
But rapid loss of these forests - known as mangroves - is releasing substantial and previously unrecognized quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Mangroves provide rich breeding grounds for fish, and they help buffer coastal areas from storm surges. But their role in trapping climate-warming carbon dioxide has not been studied much.
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Donato says study shows, "They are right up there with the most carbon-rich forests in the world."Donato's results showed mangroves store about three to four times more carbon per hectare as temperate forests or even tropical rainforests. But Donato says most of it is hidden."Carbon in mangroves is really about the below-ground story," he says. "Most of the carbon stored in that ecosystem is in the soil and the tree roots."Mangroves stored about five times as much carbon in deep soils compared to temperate or tropical forests. Rapid lossBut the researchers note that a third to a half of the world's mangroves have been cut down in the last half-century for timber, coastal development and aquaculture. The researchers estimate that the amount of greenhouse gases released each year from mangrove deforestation may be equivalent to as much as 10 percent of the global toll from deforestation.That's despite the fact that mangroves make up less than 1 percent of the tropical forest area.Donato says the research should get the attention of policymakers."It shows mangroves are probably pretty good candidates for things like carbon-market trading to encourage sustainable forest management."
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You know what's so great about baseball in California? No hurricanes.
Thanks to the nation's best, most reliable climate, the U.S. Constitution is more open to change than a California team's pocket schedule. True, there is the occasional earthquake delaying the World Series but unlike in New York, you can go to a California ballpark and always count on both teams showing up for the game.
Not that it always mattered in past Septembers, when at least one (usually the Padres) and often more California teams spent the month simply playing out the schedule. Not this year, though. For the first time in state history, all five California teams enter the season's final weeks in the playoff hunt. Which is a darn sight more than Maryland can say about its one baseball team.
Granted, the star of "Jingle All the Way'' and "Hercules in New York'' isn't involved, but these California races may be even more interesting than the one for governor last year. With approximately 20 games left on the schedule, the Dodgers are in first place in the National League West, the Athletics are in first place in the American League West, the Angels are two games behind Oakland, the Giants are leading the NL wild-card race and the Padres are two games behind them.
With all that going on, the last three weeks figure to be so compelling that the Rally Monkey may need new knee replacement surgery before it's all over. Each game is so important pitchers may actually have to actually throw Barry Bonds a strike. Dodgers fans may even wait until the bottom of the eighth before leaving the stadium early.
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Once the pride of the division, the Dodgers haven't won a postseason game since the year Don Sutton was last on their roster. They haven't been to the postseason since the year Tommy Lasorda was last their manager. They finished 15½ games out of first place last year. But they're leading the West by five games thanks to MVP candidate Adrian Beltre, who is hitting .342 with a league-leading 44 home runs and 103 RBI. And get your tickets now, the Dodgers close out the season with a three-game series against the rival Giants, with a real chance to knock them out of the postseason picture.
Like the meteorological scenario posed in "The Day After Tomorrow,'' no one can adequately explain the Giants. Jason Schmidt is the only pitcher to crack double-figures in wins. Only three teams have allowed more runs. Only Bonds has driven in more than 76 runs, scored more than 81 or hit 20 home runs. So how come the Giants may reach the postseason for the fifth time in the past eight seasons? Partly because Schmidt was so good up until injuring his groin, partly because Brett Tomko is having a solid second half, partly because their well-rounded offense leads the league in runs and partly because opposing pitchers occasionally do throw Bonds a strike. He's hitting a league-high .373, slugging .830, has 40 home runs, an on-base percentage of .611 and is just three homers shy of 700. Yeah, that BALCO controversy really bothered him this season.
The Padres lost 98 games last year, not only finishing 36½ games behind the Giants but finishing 10 games behind the Rockies as well. Yet thanks to exciting young shortstop Khalil Greene, a solid rotation and a good bullpen, they're in the thick of the wild-card hunt. They face a tough schedule -- they just began an 11-game road trip that will take them to Los Angeles and San Francisco -- but who knows? David Wells may actually avoid falling off a bar stool and cutting himself on broken glass so he can stay in sufficient shape to pitch more than an inning in his final start of the season.
The Athletics have paid their players about as much over the past four seasons combined ($183 million) as the Yankees are paying theirs this season alone, and yet they are on the verge of their fifth consecutive postseason appearance (only the Yankees and Atlanta have more) thanks to the league's best rotation -- it's saying something when Barry Zito is your fourth best starter. The question, however, isn't so much whether they can reach the playoffs again but if they do, whether Oakland can finally advance past the first round (hint: sliding into home plate properly wouldn't hurt).
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Can California place four teams into the postseason? It won't be easy -- either the Red Sox or the Yankees would have to completely fall apart for the wild-card team to come out of the AL West -- but they could very well have three again, just as they did in 2002 when the Giants, Athletics and the Angels reached the playoffs and the season ended with an all-California World Series.
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An Air Force Academy official says about 30 cadets are suspected of using banned substances, which is double the number of cadets the school said it was investigating in January.
Academy spokesman Lt. Col. John Bryan says the inquiry involves substances other than alcohol, tobacco or drugs prescribed to cadets. He says the review could wrap up in a few months.
Some of the cadets under investigation are reportedly intercollegiate athletes.
Bryan didn't know if any cases have resulted in charges or discipline yet. Other details haven't been released.
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"She did not distance herself from the area, as any thinking person would have done," said a judge in Haifa, Israel, ruling against the family of Rachel Corrie, the American activist who was crushed while standing between an Israeli bulldozer and a Palestinian home in 2003.
Corrie's family sued the Israeli government for a symbolic $1 in damages, but Judge Oded Gershon said her death was an accident.
Judge Oded Gershon, presiding at the court in the town of Haifa, said Ms Corrie had been protecting terrorists in a designated combat zone.
He said the bulldozer driver had not seen her, adding the soldiers had done their utmost to keep people away from the site. "She [Corrie] did not distance herself from the area, as any thinking person would have done."
The Israeli government disputes that the young activist, who is pictured wearing a bright orange jacket, was visible to the bulldozer driver.
Corrie's parents said they would appeal the decision.
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Audio::TagLib::APE::Tag - An APE tag implementation
use Audio::TagLib::APE::Tag; my $i = Audio::TagLib::APE::Tag(); $i->setTitle(Audio::TagLib::String->new("title")); print $i->title()->toCString(), "\n"; # got "title"
Note: Inherit from Tag
Create an APE tag with default values.
Create an APE tag and parse the data in $file with APE footer at a $tagOffset.
Destroys this Tag instance.
Renders the in memory values to a ByteVector suitable for writing to the file.
Returns the string "APETAGEX" suitable for usage in locating the tag in a file.
see Tag
Returns a pointer to the tag's footer.
Returns a reference to a hash, which is tied with the returned item list map in C/C++ code. This is an ItemListMap of all of the items in the tag.
This is the most powerfull structure for accessing the items of the tag.
warning You should not modify this data structure directly, instead use setItem() and removeItem().
Removes the $key item from the tag
Adds to the item specified by $key the data $value. If $replace is true, then all of the other values on the same key will be removed first.
Sets the $key item to the value of $item. If an item with the $key is already present, it will be replaced.
None by default.
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Copyright (C) 2005 by Dongxu Ma
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Decawave's Micro-Location Technology Increases Market Momentum, One Million Chips Now Shipped
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HARTING North America Expands into Mexico: Grand Openings of New Sales and Manufacturing Facilities
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ELGIN, IL/MEXICO CITY - Following a record breaking fiscal year in 2015, HARTING North America has expanded by opening a sales office as well as a manufacturing facility in Mexico.
"The current economic conditions in Mexico offer enormous potential for HARTING," said Jon DeSouza, President and CEO of HARTING North America at the Grand Opening in Mexico. "This is exemplified by the country's expansion of their railway system, which indicates strong growth now and for the future in the transportation and machinery market – incidentally two of HARTING's largest vertical markets."
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Touch Taiwan 2016: Heraeus launches new dry-film resist photolithography fine patterning process technology for conductive polymer films and demonstrates rapid IR curing solutions for flexible touch displays
HANAU, GERMANY - At this year Touch Taiwan from August 24-26 Heraeus launches a new touch panel process to pattern Clevios conductive polymer films by DFR (dry-film resist) photolithography. The development was done together with Taiwan's Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI). Heraeus will show fully functional 7 inch GFF-type touch panel demonstrators at its booth at Touch Taiwan 2016 made by the new DFR photolithography process.
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TROY, MI - Kracoe Szykula & Townsend, Inc., a leading industrial advertising and public relations firm celebrated its 25th anniversary on July 15, 2016.
The firm, started in 1991 by Roland Kracoe, Ed Szykula and Andrew Townsend, began with the positioning statement, "Things can change, if you just change your approach" bringing a fresh approach to business-to-business and in particular industrial marketing communications.
Scienscope Brings Its New Component Counter to NEPCON South China
CHINO, CA - Scienscope International, a complete inspection solutions provider, will exhibit in Stand 1G25 at NEPCON South China, scheduled to take place Aug. 30- Sept. 1, 2016 at the Shenzhen Convention & Exhibition Center. Scienscope will showcase the new AXI5100c X-ray Component Counter.
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WALDENBURG, GERMANY - Würth Elektronik eiSos is the manufacturer with the world's broadest product spectrum of wireless power charging coils. Now the company provides developers with a tool to simplify selection of the right transmitter and receiver coils.
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Published: Saturday, January 15, 2005 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, January 14, 2005 at 11:00 p.m.
FOSTERS | Gladys Abernathy Wood, age 95, of 13764 Abernathy Rd., Fosters, died Jan. 12, 2005 at DCH Regional Medical Center. Services will be 11 a.m. today at Heritage Chapel with Dr. Gil McKee and Rev. Carl Wells officiating and Heritage Chapel Funeral Home directing. Burial will follow in Tuscaloosa Memorial Park. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.
Survivors include her husband of 75 years, Houston Wood of Fosters; sons, Houston Clyde Wood of Tuscaloosa, and Tommy Wood (Joan) of Fosters; sisters, Alice A. Shamblin of Tuscaloosa, and Lena A. Stamps (Charles) of Fosters; brother, James Charles Abernathy, Sr. of Indiana; two grandchildren, Mark T. Wood of The Woodlands, Texas, and Rebecca Wood Taylor of Fosters; three great-grandchildren, Alexandra Wood of The Woodlands, Texas, Joseph Houston Taylor of Fosters, and Erica Wood of The Woodlands, Texas.
Pallbearers will be Milton Booth, Jim Poole, Freddie Wenth, Monty Stamps, Mike Lightsy, Bruce Carrol, Jim Shamblin, and Bruce Cook.
Honorary pallbearers are Rudy Cook, Buddy Abernathy, Foster Abernathy, Glenn Stamps, Keith Stamps, Lance Stamps, Hadden Campbell, Bud Delbridge, Hattie Taylor, Necole Shepard, First Baptist Visitation Teams, Flower Ladies, Homebound Ministries, friends, and Grant Creek Baptist Church.
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India Stock Futures Swing Between Gain, Loss on Deficit
Indian stocks climbed the most in Asia as overseas funds continued to buy local shares even amid concerns weakening government finances may slow economic growth.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., the nation's largest software maker, rose the most in about four months. Larsen & Toubro Ltd., the biggest engineering company, jumped 4.6 percent, ending four days of losses. DLF Ltd., the biggest developer, climbed the most in three weeks.
The BSE India Sensitive Index, or Sensex, advanced 1.7 percent to 17,601.71 at the close in Mumbai. Foreign funds have bought a net $8.9 billion of local shares this year, a record for the period, even as corporate-profit growth slows, interest rates remain at a three-year high, oil prices jump and the government struggles to tackle a widening fiscal gap.
"A rally here has to be led by foreign money because you don't have a catalyst in the local market," Sadanand Shetty, a senior fund manager at Taurus Asset Management Co., which manages about $910 million, said by phone today. "Foreign flows is the only trigger left for a sustained rally."
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee missed his deficit target by the most in three years and forecast the fiscal gap would narrow to 5.1 percent in the year from April 1. The gap in the year ending March 31 will be 5.9 percent of GDP, more than the goal set last year, he said on March 16.
Aside from increasing taxes, Mukherjee proposed capping a subsidy program spanning diesel and cooking gas to fertilizers to less than 2 percent of GDP, starting in the year ending in March 2013. Higher oil prices deepen losses for state refiners, which are forced to sell fuels below cost to cap prices. Brent crude, the benchmark for almost all of India's imports, is up 16 percent this year, fueling inflation and limiting the RBI's scope to reduce interest rates.
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The Sensex has risen 14 percent this year as foreign funds made purchases on optimism slowing inflation will spur the RBI to ease monetary policy. The gauge trades at 15.5 times future earnings, compared with 10.7 times on the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. The central bank left the benchmark rate unchanged at a policy meeting on March 15 after a record 13 increases between March 2010 and October last year.
"The market had run a little bit ahead of itself on what the RBI could do," Andrew Holland, chief executive officer of investment advisory at Mumbai-based Ambit Capital Pvt., told Bloomberg UTV today. "After the budget, perhaps the quantum of the rate cuts has been tempered down somewhat."
The S&P CNX Nifty Index on the National Stock Exchange of India added 1.7 percent to 5,364.95. Its April futures settled at 5,438.55. India VIX, which measures the cost of protection against declines in the Nifty, lost 4.3 percent to 21. The BSE 200 Index gained 1.8 percent to 2,185.65.
A combined 913 million shares changed hands on the BSE and NSE yesterday, equivalent to the daily average of 915 million shares in the past year, data compiled by Bloomberg show.
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Tata Consultancy Services surged 3.6 percent to 1,175.75 rupees, its steepest climb since Dec. 2. JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyst Viju K George raised the price estimate on the company to 1,300 rupees from 1,250 rupees, while keeping the overweight rating unchanged, according to a report dated yesterday. The stock may outperform the average total return of the stocks covered by the analyst in the next six to twelve months, the report said. Infosys Ltd., the second-biggest software exporter, rose 1.9 percent to 2,882.1 rupees.
Larsen & Toubro soared 4.8 percent to 1,346.4 rupees, ending a four day, 7.8 percent declined. DLF added 4 percent to 203.55 rupees. Reliance Industries Ltd., the most valuable company, rose 1 percent to 768.05 rupees.
TTK Prestige Ltd., a kitchen appliances maker, surged the most in 14 months after it was rated buy in new coverage at CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets with a price estimate 26 percent higher than yesterday's close. The stock rallied 14 percent to 3,179.65 rupees, the biggest gainer on the BSE-500 Index.
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A cursory glance at his campaign thus far -- particularly the past week -- suggests an appropriate silver screen dreamboat for the role of Newt Gingrich: Johnny Depp. As Ed Wood.
Johnny Depp has a lot to answer for. The "mockney" drawl, the swagger and the healthy disdain for maritime authorities he perfected as Captain Jack Sparrow lent a cachet to piracy that had eluded the profession for centuries.
While Hill, writer Michael Bacall and directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller want to spoof cop procedurals, they also want to make an actual cop-action film. That blend of comedy and action is a tough one, almost as tough as romantic comedy.
For movie dialogue to be memorialized it needs, first and foremost, to be short -- short enough to be easily recalled and repeated (which is unfortunate because that's going to leave some very clever material at the starting gate).
There is a copious amount of controversy surrounding a video that actor Johnny Depp has helped put out recently. But what's the big deal?
China will not easily capture hearts and minds. They will be an economic superpower only. The Chinese are ethnocentric and in large ways and small, an instinct to narrowly defend interests can be off putting.
The Rum Diary is veteran English writer-director Bruce Robinson's wild and wonderful first new feature in twenty years (!), as well as his explosive adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's very early, long-unpublished novel.
Dreamworks seems to have paid a price for their risky release date, as Puss in Boots debuted with a comparatively soft $34 million over the weekend. We'll find out for sure on Monday if it broke the Halloween opening weekend record.
For me, the best part of this meandering cartoon movie is a sight gag with Depp's Paul Kemp riding atop his sidekick photographer Bob Sala (Michael Rispoli) in an open vehicle, up and down, up and down over cracked cobblestones on bumpy streets.
The Rum Diary is like a lengthy drinking binge of a movie: It's fun for a while, seems to offer more meaning than it actually does -- and leaves you wishing it hadn't ended so badly.
It is a pleasure to see Johnny Depp in Rum Diary a film of substance. Finally Depp is without his black pirate eye makeup though he wears shades a go...
The $5 million film grossed a massive $54 million this weekend, which is a 35% jump from Paranormal Activity 2's $40.6 million opening this time last year.
Scream queen Jewel Shepard, best known for her roles in the 1985 classic Return of the Living Dead and the goofy Party Camp is battling invasive breast cancer.
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By Jennifer Lipman, May 27, 2011
An explosion in southern Lebanon has left one person dead and at least three others injured.
Officials said a convoy of UN peacekeeping vehicles was targeted earlier today at the coastal city of Sidon, an hour drive from Beirut and about 40 minutes from Israel's northern border.
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Web diva Crissy Moran appears in what might be the first hardcore video of her career, and it's the best scene of the tape. She puts her tight body on display in a meeting with Jake Ryan that starts with missionary and some sexy squeals from the brunette vixen. The reverse-cowgirl and doggie-style rounds are also compelling to watch, as her fantastic ass gets some quality airtime.
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I usually carry a wheelie, and use one as primary HD for the wife at home.
They are both stainless, and don't have mag springs and stuff that can wear from being loaded for long periods of time. They aren't prone to malfunction regardless of ammo, and a missfire just means pull the trigger and a new round is brought to battery.
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How do you draw your smelly dog? Your playful daddy? Your yummy mommy? See how one girl does it in this simple, clever picture book that's comprised of family portraits made out of objects. For example, her baby brother is "so "noisy he's as loud as a whistle, a horn, and even a fire truck that she creates a picture of him with whistles for eyes, a horn mouth, and holding a fire truck. After the girl has described everyone in her family (including herself, in great detail), she asks, "What does "your "special family look like?" encouraging readers to create their own portraits. With a list of objects at the end of the book to use as a guide, this is the ideal choice for budding artists everywhere.
Here's a wonderful exploration of simile and metaphor for young readers. And don't miss the companion book "My Best Friend is as Sharp as a Pencil"
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Hanoch Piven is the acclaimed creator of "Let s Make Faces", "What Presidents Are Made Of", "What Athletes Are Made Of", and "What Cats Are Made Of", among other books for children. His incisive portraits have been published in the United States in such major magazines as "Time, Newsweek, Rolling Stone", "The" "New Yorker", "The" "Atlantic Monthly", "Entertainment Weekly", and "The" "New York Times". He lives with his wife and children in Israel. Visit him at PivenWorld.com.