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Marvel Masterworks: Mighty Thor: Volume 9 (Hardcover)
The mountain giants are on the march! Surtur has broken free! Odin sleeps, while Loki has claimed the throne of Asgard! In short, all Ragnarok is about to break loose!
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- Jack Kirby
- John Buscema
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The mountain giants are on the march! Surtur has broken free! Odin sleeps, while Loki has claimed the throne of Asgard! In short, all Ragnarok is about to break loose!
Stan Lee and Jack Kirby bring you another set of adventures with all the power and majesty that one of comics' most-famous runs can bring. Even across their many epics of the Eternal Realm, none can match the build-up and battle that Stan and Jack have for you in these pages! When the dust settles, Loki's evil spells lead to a body-swap between the God of Thunder and his mischievous half-brother that brings Thor to the gates of hell. With Kirby backed by none other than comics legend Neal Adams, it's a comic-art lover's dream! Then Big John Buscema steps up to carry the hammer and wastes no time making history when Thor journeys to Latveria. It's a fight for the ages, and you'll witness Dr. Doom's horrible face revealed to boot! Also featuring Ringmaster and his Circus of Crime, Ulik the Troll, the Crypto-Man, the cosmic Stranger and earth-shaking Abomination and Mephisto! It's page after page of action and adventure in the manner that made Marvel a household name.
Collecting Thor #173-183.
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You must choose a pistol, rifle, submachine gun, LMG, and gernade.
I choose the Luger pistol, the M1A1 carbine, the PPsH-41, the MG-42 aka The Meat Chopper, and the Sticky Gernade.
Good Luck Con!
My choices are the following below.
M92 automatic. Pistol.
Gewehr 43. Rifle.
Beretta Model 38. Submachine gun.
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. LMG.
White Phosphorus Grenade. Grenade.
Good luck Pro.
The M1 carbine is a lightweight, easy to use semi-automatic carbine that became a standard firearm for the U.S. military during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, and was produced in several variants. It was widely used by U.S. and foreign military, paramilitary and police forces, and has also been a popular civilian firearm. It fires a .30 Carbine round and has a 15 or 30 round mag. It was also made in select-fire mode, with means it is also capable of full-auto fire
The PPSh-41 was a Soviet submachine gun designed by Georgi Shpagin as an inexpensive, simplified alternative to the PPD-40. Intended for use by minimally-trained conscript soldiers, the PPSh was a magazine-fed selective-fire submachine gun using an open-bolt, blowback action. Made largely of stamped steel, it had either a 35 round box or a 71 round drum magazine, and fired the 7.62�25mm pistol round.
The MG 42 is an universal machine gun that was developed in Nazi Germany, and supplemented and sometimes replaced the MG 34 general-purpose machine gun in all branches of the German Armed Forces, though both weapons were manufactured and used until the end of the war. The MG 42 has a proven record of reliability, durability, simplicity, and ease of operation, but is most notable for its ability to produce a stunning volume of suppressive fire. The MG 42 has one of the highest average rates of fire of any single-barreled man-portable machine gun: between 1,200 and 1,500 rpm, which results in a distinctive muzzle report. The MG42 fires a 8x57mm IS round.
I was unable to get info on the sticky grenade because my school blocked the site, so I wont be able to source it.
The Sticky Grenade was usually just a hand grenade or mine with tar or grease on it to make it stick. Manly used by the British in Africa, they were used primarily as anti-vehicle devices.
Good luck Con
But to start i think i named my pistol the wrong name in the acceptance. Its the Beretta M92, sorry. My memory was oh so fuzzy on it, shoulda check if i was right first. But better now than later in r4.
The Beretta M9, formally Pistol, Semiautomatic, 9mm, M9, is a 9�—19mm Parabellum pistol of the United States military adopted in 1985. It is essentially a military specification Beretta 92F, later the 92FS. The M9 won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary handgun of the U.S. military, beating out many other contenders, and only narrowly defeating the SIG P226 for cost reasons. It officially entered service in 1990. Some other models have been adopted to a lesser extent, namely the M11 pistol, and other models remain in use in certain niches.The M9 was scheduled to be replaced under a United States Army program, the Future Handgun System (FHS), which was merged with the SOF Combat Pistol program to create the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP). In early 2006, the JCP was renamed Combat Pistol (CP), and the number of pistols to be bought was drastically cut back. The joint U.S. Army/Air Force Modular Handgun System could select a commercial off-the-shelf handgun to replace the M9 pistol in Fiscal Year 2011�€"12 if budget funds allows the implementation of the study.
Weight 952 g (33.6 oz)
1,162 g (41.0 oz) loaded
Length 217 mm (8.5 in)
Barrel length 125 mm (4.9 in)
Cartridge 9x19mm Parabellum
Action Short recoil
Muzzle velocity 381 m/s (1,250 ft/s)
Effective range 50 m
Feed system 15 round detachable box magazine
Sights Iron sights
The Gewehr 43 or Karabiner 43 (G43, K43, Gew 43, Kar 43) is an 8x57mm IS caliber semi-automatic rifle developed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was a modification of the G41(W) using an improved gas system similar to that of the Soviet Tokarev SVT40.
Weight 4.1 kg (9.7 lb)
Length 1130 mm
Barrel length 546 mm (21.5 inches)
Cartridge 8x57mm IS
Action Gas-operated
Muzzle velocity 775 m/s (2,328 ft/s)
Effective range 500 m, 800 m with scope
Feed system 10-round detachable box magazine
Sights iron sights, Zf42 optical crosshair sight
The MAB 38 (Moschetto Automatico Beretta Modello 1938), Modello 38, or Model 38 and its variants were the official submachine guns of the Royal Italian Army introduced in 1938, and used during World War II. The guns were also used by German, Romanian, and Argentine armies of the period.
Weight MAB 38A: 4.2 kg (empty)
MAB 38/42: 3.27 kg (empty)
MAB 38/49: 3.25 kg (empty)
Length MAB 38A: 946mm
MAB 38/42: 800mm
MAB 38/49: 798mm
Barrel length MAB 38A: 315mm
MAB 38/42: 213mm
MAB 38/49: 210mm
Cartridge 9�19mm Parabellum / Cartuccia Modello 38
Caliber 9mm
Action Blowback
Rate of fire 600 rpm
Muzzle velocity 429 m/s (1,407.12 ft/s) (9�19mm Parabellum)
Effective range 250 m
Feed system 10, 20, 30, or 40-Round Detachable Box Magazine
The Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) was a family of United States automatic rifles (or machine rifles) and light machine guns used by the United States and numerous other countries during the 20th century. The primary variant of the BAR series was the M1918, chambered for the .30-06 Springfield rifle cartridge and designed by John Browning in 1917 for the U.S. Expeditionary Corps in Europe as a replacement for the French-made Chauchat and M1909 Benet-Mercie machine guns.The BAR was designed to be carried by advancing infantrymen, slung over the shoulder and fired from the hip, a concept called "walking fire"—thought to be necessary for the individual soldier during trench warfare. However in practice, it was most often used as a light machine gun and fired from a bipod (introduced in later models. A variant of the original M1918 BAR, the Colt Monitor Machine Rifle, remains the lightest production automatic gun to fire the .30-06 Springfield cartridge, though the limited capacity of its standard 20-round magazine tended to hamper its utility in that role.
Weight 7.25 kg (15.98 lb) (M1918)
Approx. 11 kg (24 lb) (M1922)
6.0 kg (13 lb) (Colt Monitor)
8.4 kg (19 lb) (M1918A1)
8.8 kg (19 lb) (M1918A2)
9.0 kg (20 lb) (wz. 1928)
Length 1,194 mm (47.0 in) (M1918, M1922, M1918A1)
1,215 mm (47.8 in) (M1918A2)
1,110 mm (43.7 in) (wz. 1928)
Barrel length 610 mm (24.0 in) (M1918, M1922, M1918A1, M1918A2)
611 mm (24.1 in) (wz. 1928)
458 mm (18.0 in) (Colt Monitor)
Cartridge .30-06 Springfield (7.62x63mm)/.303 British (7.7x56mmR)/7x57mm Mauser
7.92x57mm Mauser (wz. 1928)
6.5x55mm (Kg m/21, m/37)
Action Gas-operated, tilting breech block
Rate of fire 500–650 rounds/min (M1918, M1922, M1918A1)
500 rounds/min (Colt Monitor)
300-450 or 500-650 rounds/min (M1918A2)
600 rounds/min (wz. 1928)
Muzzle velocity 860 m/s (2,822 ft/s) (M1918, M1922, M1918A1, M1918A2)
853 m/s (2,798.6 ft/s) (wz. 1928)
Effective range 100–1,500 yd sight adjustments (maximum effective range)
Maximum range Approx. 4,500-5,000 yd
Feed system 20-round detachable box magazine
Sights Rear leaf, front post
784 mm (30.9 in) sight radius (M1918, M1922, M1918A1)
782 mm (30.8 in) (M1918A2)
742 mm (29.2 in) (wz. 1928)
The No. 77 Grenade was a British white phosphorus grenade used during the Second World War. The No. 77 was introduced in 1943 and consisted of 8 ounces of white phosphorus, an impact fuse and a tin casing. It was intended for laying down smoke screens and as a signalling device. The grenade was also very effective as an anti-personnel and incendiary weapon.Once the grenade exploded, the contents (i.e. the white phosphorus) would scatter and ignite as soon as they touched the air. This made the grenade extremely dangerous — hence its usefulness in combat.
When the war had ended, many of the grenades had become dangerous, due to corroding of the inferior tin plate steel used in the manufacture of the grenade bodies. In 1948 the grenade was determined to be obsolete and all were destroyed to minimize the danger they could have caused.
Thats my opening argument, i now leave for Pro to make his response.
Good luck.
Um, this is WWII weapons. Unfortuneilty, your pistol is not from World War II. Since this is the case, pistols are no longer involved.
M1A1 Carbine
Weight 5.2 lb (2.4 kg) empty
Length 35.6 in (900 mm)
Barrel length 18 in (460 mm)
Cartridge .30 Carbine
Action Gas-operated, rotating bolt
Rate of fire Semi-automatic (M1/A1)
850–900 rounds/min (M2/M3)
Muzzle velocity 1,990 ft/s (607 m/s)
Feed system 15 or 30-round detachable box magazine
Sights Aperture L-type flip or adjustable rear sights, barleycorn-type front sight
As you can see, it has a bigger ammo capacity, bigger round, and a higher muzzle velocity.
Weight 3.63 kg (8.0 lb) (without magazine)
Length 843 mm (33.2 in)
Barrel length 269 mm (10.6 in)
Cartridge 7.62�25mm Tokarev
Action Blowback, open bolt
Rate of fire 900 rounds/min
Muzzle velocity 488 m/s (1,600.6 ft/s)
Effective range 150 m
Feed system 35-round box magazine or 71-round drum magazine
Sights Iron sights
The PPsH-41 is lighter, shorter, and has a way higher rate of fire. It was so good that the Germans used capured PPsH's.
Weight 11.57 kg (25.51 lb)
Length 1,120 mm (44 in)
Barrel length 533 mm (21.0 in)
Cartridge 8x57mm IS
Action Recoil-operated, roller-locked
Rate of fire 1,200 rounds/min (varied between 900–1,500 rounds/min with different bolts)
Muzzle velocity 755 m/s (2,477 ft/s)
Effective range 1000 m
Feed system 50 or 250-round belt
This MG was feared by the Allies. The Army made films for Allied troops to deal with the fear of facing the "Meat Chopper".
I say we drop the gernades as well seeing as I cant look up info on them.
In your argument against my Gewehr 43, your M1A1 Carbine. You Don't list it's effective range. Where as mine is 500 m. 800 m with scope attached. You also explain the M1's Muzzle velocity, 1,990 ft/s (607 m/s). This is great for it's own design, but is beat by my Gewehr 43, 775 m/s (2,328 ft/s). Thats at least a 168 m/s difference, a 338 ft/s difference. These two play major roles in war, meaning the difference between life and death by how much faster, and farther your firearm can strike.
Now in your second response, your PPsH-41 against my MAB 38 submachine gun. In almost every way your weapon does look more effective than my choice. But you have not matched them stat for stat. I saw that your weapons effective range is 150m. While mine is 250m. This is nearly twice your range. And if i am not correct as the PPsH-41 Is fired over time it becomes very inacurate when over used or fired continuously. Making it a very inaccurate weapon.
Now in your final response on your lmg choice, the MG 42 versus my BAR. I have notice a few differences in the two. First to trump is weight issue. Your MG weighs at 11.57 kg (25.51 lb), my choice weighs about 7.25 kg (15.98 lb). Making it a lighter weapon more manuverable choice. The next thing was the Muzzle velocity. Your MG 42 fired about 755 m/s (2,477 ft/s), mine however was 860 m/s (2,822 ft/s). This is another example of faster takedowns upon the enemy. Now in the final stat that i matched up was the effective range. Your MG 42 range measured in at 1000m, where mine was 4500-5000yd 4128-4587m. This is makes for a much great killing distance than your selection.
I now leave it to my opponent to make his responses.
Good luck man! ^.=.^
In your argument against my Gewehr 43, your M1A1 Carbine. You Don't list it's effective range. Where as mine is 500 m. 800 m with scope attached. You also explain the M1's Muzzle velocity, 1,990 ft/s (607 m/s). This is great for it's own design, but is beat by my Gewehr 43, 775 m/s (2,328 ft/s). Thats at least a 168 m/s difference, a 338 ft/s difference. These two play major roles in war, meaning the difference between life and death by how much faster, and farther your firearm can strike.
Just because you can shoot faster doesnt mean you have will hit the target. As you know from your history lessons, The US M1 Garrand and M1A1 Carbine were the most heavyly used weapons of WWII. The Gewehr 43 was interduced to late to do any real fighting.
Now in your second response, your PPsH-41 against my MAB 38 submachine gun. In almost every way your weapon does look more effective than my choice. But you have not matched them stat for stat. I saw that your weapons effective range is 150m. While mine is 250m. This is nearly twice your range. And if i am not correct as the PPsH-41 Is fired over time it becomes very inacurate when over used or fired continuously. Making it a very inaccurate weapon.
This is where training comes in. The Russians were trained to fire in smalll bursts to 1 not waste ammo and 2 to remain accurte. Also, it was used in urban combat, which took place in the PPsH 41's range. It was also cheap to make. The impetus for the development of the PPSh came partly from the Winter War against Finland, where it was found that submachine guns were a highly effective tool for close-quarter fighting in forests or built-up urban areas. The weapon was developed in mid-1941 and was produced in a network of factories in Moscow, with high-level local Party members made directly responsible for production targets being met.
A few hundred weapons were produced in November 1941 and another 155,000 were produced over the next five months. By spring 1942, the PPSh factories were producing roughly 3,000 units a day. The PPSh-41 was a classic example of a design adapted for mass production (other examples of such wartime design were the M3 submachine gun, MP40 and the Sten). Its parts (excluding the barrel) could be produced by a relatively unskilled workforce with simple equipment available in an auto repair garage or tin shop, freeing up more skilled workers for other tasks. The PPSh-41 used 87 components compared to 95 for the PPD-40 and the PPSh could be manufactured with 7.3 machining hours compared with 13.7 hours for the PPD. Barrel production was simplified by using barrels produced for the 7.62mm M1891 Mosin-Nagant rifle: the rifle barrel was cut in half, and two PPSh barrels were made from it after machining the chamber for the 7.62mm Soviet submachine gun cartridge.
Now in your final response on your lmg choice, the MG 42 versus my BAR. I have notice a few differences in the two. First to trump is weight issue. Your MG weighs at 11.57 kg (25.51 lb), my choice weighs about 7.25 kg (15.98 lb). Making it a lighter weapon more manuverable choice. The next thing was the Muzzle velocity. Your MG 42 fired about 755 m/s (2,477 ft/s), mine however was 860 m/s (2,822 ft/s). This is another example of faster takedowns upon the enemy. Now in the final stat that i matched up was the effective range. Your MG 42 range measured in at 1000m, where mine was 4500-5000yd 4128-4587m. This is makes for a much great killing distance than your selection.
Ok, you have me beat at the distance, but it doesnt mean anything when you only have 20 rounds before you have to reload. trust me, I've fired both weapons. The BAR is a bitch to pick up, pull the clip out, put a new one in, and line back up to the target in a short amount of time. And again, the firing rate of the MG42 was FEARED by the Allies in WWII.
White phosphorus is a material made from a common allotrope of the chemical element phosphorus that is used in smoke, tracer, illumination and incendiary munitions. Other common names include WP, and the slang term "Willie Pete," which is dated from its use in Vietnam, and is still sometimes used in military jargon. As an incendiary weapon, white phosphorus burns fiercely and can set cloth, fuel, ammunition and other combustibles on fire, and cause serious burns or death.In addition to its offensive capabilities, white phosphorus is also a highly efficient smoke-producing agent, burning quickly and causing an instant bank of smoke. As a result, smoke-producing white phosphorus munitions are very common, particularly as smoke grenades for infantry, loaded in grenade launchers on tanks and other armored vehicles, or as part of the ammunition allotment for artillery or mortars. These create smoke screens to mask movement, position or the origin of fire from the enemy. White phosphorus is used in bombs, artillery, mortars, and short-range missiles which burst into burning flakes of phosphorus upon impact.The British Army introduced the first factory-built WP grenades in late 1916. During World War II, white phosphorus mortar bombs, shells, rockets and grenades were used extensively by American, Commonwealth, and, to a lesser extent, Japanese forces, in both smoke-generating and antipersonnel roles. The British military also used white phosphorus bombs against Kurdish villagers and Al-Habbaniyah in Al-Anbar province during the Great Iraqi Revolution of 1920.Air burst of a white phosphorus bomb over the USS Alabama during a test exercise conducted by General Billy Mitchell, September 1921.In the interwar years, the U. S. Army trained using white phosphorus, by artillery shell and air bombardment.In 1940, when the invasion of Britain seemed imminent, the phosphorus firm of Albright and Wilson suggested that the British government use a material similar to Fenian fire in several expedient incendiary weapons. The only one fielded was the Grenade, No. 76 or Special Incendiary Phosphorus grenade, which consisted of a glass bottle filled with a mixture similar to Fenian fire, plus some latex (see also Molotov cocktail, Greek fire). It came in two versions, one with a red cap intended to be thrown by hand, and a slightly stronger bottle with a green cap, intended to be launched from the Northover projector (a crude 2.5 inch blackpowder grenade launcher). These were improvised anti-tank weapons, hastily fielded in 1940 when the British were awaiting a German invasion after losing the bulk of their modern armaments in France in May 1940. Instructions on each crate of SIP grenades included the observations, among other things:Store bombs (preferably in cases) in cool places, under water if possible.Stringent precautions must be taken to avoid cracking bombs during handling.These weapons were generally regarded as presenting a danger to their own operators and were never deployed in combat.At the start of the Normandy campaign, 20% of American 81 mm mortar rounds were white phosphorus. At least five American Medal of Honor citations mention their recipients using white phosphorus grenades to clear enemy positions, and in the 1944 liberation of Cherbourg alone, a single U.S. mortar battalion, the 87th, fired 11,899 white phosphorus rounds into the city. The U.S. Army and Marines used white phosphorus shells in 107-mm (4.2 inch) mortars. White phosphorus was widely credited by Allied soldiers for breaking up German infantry attacks and creating havoc among enemy troop concentrations during the latter part of the war.Incendiary bombs were used extensively by the German, British and U.S. air forces against civilian populations and targets of military significance in civilian areas, including London, Hamburg, and Dresden. Late in the war, some of these bombs used white phosphorus (about 1–200 grams) in place of magnesium as the igniter for their flammable mixtures. The use of incendiary weapons against civilians was banned by signatory countries in the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Protocol III. The USA signed Protocols I and II on March 24, 1995 under the Clinton Administration (and the amended article II on May 24, 1999) and later Protocols III, IV, and V, on January 21, 2009 under the Obama Administration.A USAF Security Police Squadron member packs an 81 mm white phosphorus smoke-screen mortar round during weapons training, 1980.White phosporus munitions were used extensively in Korea, Vietnam and later by Russian forces in Chechnya. According to GlobalSecurity.org, during the December 1994 battle for Grozny in Chechnya, every fourth or fifth Russian artillery or mortar round fired was a smoke or white phosphorus round. In Iraq, the Saddam Hussein regime used white phosphorus, as well as chemical weapons that are scheduled in the Chemical Weapons Convention, in the Halabja poison gas attack during the Iran–Iraq War in 1988, according to the ANSA news agency. Another news report said "US intelligence" called WP a chemical weapon in a declassified Pentagon report from February 1991:"Iraqi forces loyal to President Saddam may have possibly used white phosphorus chemical weapons against Kurdish rebels and the populace in Erbil and Dohuk. The WP chemical was delivered by artillery rounds and helicopter gunships." So in other words i believe your grenade has lost against mine.
"Just because you can shoot faster doesnt mean you have will hit the target. As you know from your history lessons, The US M1 Garrand and M1A1 Carbine were the most heavyly used weapons of WWII. The Gewehr 43 was interduced to late to do any real fighting." Yes my friend you are correct on that. Just because you can shoot faster doesn't necessarily mean faster kills. I want to clarify by stating that the Grerhr 43 fires at a higher rate. By 1940, it became apparent that some form of a semi-automatic rifle, with a higher rate of fire than existing bolt-action rifle models, was necessary to improve the infantry's combat efficiency. The army issued a specification to various manufacturers, and both Mauser and Walther submitted prototypes that were very similar. However, some restrictions were placed upon the design:no holes for tapping gas for the loading mechanism were to be bored into the barrel;the rifles were not to have any moving parts on the surface;and in case the autoloading mechanism failed, a bolt action was to be included.
Both models therefore used a mechanism known as the "Bang" system (after its Danish designer Soren H. Bang). In this system, gases from the bullet were trapped near the muzzle in a ring-shaped cone, which in turn pulled on a long piston that opened the breech and re-loaded the gun. This system is in contrast to the more common type of gas-operated system, in which gasses are tapped off from the barrel, and push back on a piston to open the breech to the rear. Both also included 10-round magazines that were loaded using two of the stripper clips from the Karabiner 98k, utilizing the same German-standard 8x57mm IS rounds.The Mauser design, the G41(M), failed. Only 6,673 were produced before production was temporarily halted, and of these, 1,673 were returned as unusable. The Walther design, the G41(W), is in outward appearance not unlike the Gewehr 43. Most metal parts on this rifle were machined steel, and some rifles, especially later examples utilized the bakelite type plastic handguards.
I'm losing space.
"Its parts (excluding the barrel) could be produced by a relatively unskilled workforce with simple equipment available in an auto repair garage or tin shop, freeing up more skilled workers for other tasks."
To your PPsH-41 if it was in mass production. Doesn't that mean that it was very cheeply made as well as easily broken or damaged?
Well i now leave it to my opponent
Good lu
To your PPsH-41 if it was in mass production. Doesn't that mean that it was very cheeply made as well as easily broken or damaged?
No, it means that they good crank out hundreds a day, at really low cost. The PPsH-41 was one of the best submachine guns that came out off WWII. I don't wanna say armys, but i don't know the right word, they used the PPsH-41 up into the Iraqi War. Even the Germans used it in WWII. They printed out user manuals in german for people to use it.
On your rifle rebuttel, all you did was copy and past Wikipedia, so that is disquilfied.
Also, you never mentioned your LMG.
Tsk Tsk Con, Don't get scared now.
There. Now that i have listed my sites i can add my lmg and other things. ^.=.^
"No, it means that they good crank out hundreds a day, at really low cost. The PPsH-41 was one of the best submachine guns that came out off WWII. I don't wanna say armys, but i don't know the right word, they used the PPsH-41 up into the Iraqi War. Even the Germans used it in WWII. They printed out user manuals in german for people to use it."
You never made an attack on my submachine gun, so therefore i assume that you have dropped it.
There were many small variations introduced on the G/K43 throughout its production cycle. The important consideration is that no changes were made to the rifle design specifically to coincide with the nomenclature change from Gewehr to Karabiner, with the exception of the letter stamped on the side. Careful study of actual pieces will show that many G-marked rifles had features found on K-marked rifles and vice versa. There is therefore no difference in weight or length between the G43 and the K43. Variations in barrel length did exist, but those were the product of machining tolerances, differences between factories, and/or experimental long-barreled rifles. An unknown number of late-war K43 rifles were chambered for the 7.92x33mm cartridge and modified to accept StG44 magazines. K43 with mounting railThough most G/K43's are equipped with a telescopic sight mounting rail, the vast majority of the rifles were issued in their standard infantry form without a scope. When equipped with a scope, it was exclusively the ZF 4 4-power telescopic sight. No other known scope/mount combinations were installed by the German military on G/K43's during World War II. Many strange variations have shown up after the war, but all have been proven to be the work of amateur gunsmiths. Rifles with a broken-off butt are common, as German soldiers were instructed to render semi-automatic rifles useless when in danger of capture.
"On your rifle rebuttel, all you did was copy and past Wikipedia, so that is disquilfied."
Don't be so quick to jump the gun pro. As I have stated before, I ran out of character space and could not post any sources. But they are at the top.
"Also, you never mentioned your LMG."
Here it is.
The U.S. entered World War I with an inadequately small and obsolete assortment of various domestic and foreign machine gun designs, due primarily to bureaucratic indecision and the lack of an established military doctrine for their employment. When the declaration of war on Imperial Germany was announced on 6 April 1917, the military high command was made aware that to fight this machine gun-dominated trench war, they had on hand a mere 670 M1909 Benet-Mercies, 282 M1904 Maxims and 158 Colts, M1895.[3] After much debate, it was finally agreed that a rapid rearmament with domestic weapons would be required, but until that time, U.S. troops would be issued whatever the French and British had to offer. The arms donated by the French were often second-rate or surplus and chambered in 8mm Lebel, further complicating logistics as machine gunners and infantrymen were issued different types of ammunition. A live fire demonstration of the BAR in front of military and government officialsIn 1917, prior to America's entry to the war, John Browning personally brought to Washington, D.C. two types of automatic weapons for the purposes of demonstration: a water-cooled machine gun (later adopted as the M1917 Browning machine gun) and a shoulder-fired automatic rifle known then as the Browning Machine Rifle or BMR, both chambered for the standard U.S. .30-06 Springfield cartridge. Browning had arranged for a public demonstration of both weapons at a location outside of Washington, D.C. known as Congress Heights. There, on 27 February 1917, in front of a crowd of 300 people, Browning staged a live fire demonstration which so impressed the gathered crowd, that he was immediately awarded a contract for the weapon and it was hastily adopted into service (the water-cooled machine gun underwent further testing).
Additional tests were conducted for U.S. Army Ordnance officials at Springfield Armory in May 1917 and both weapons were unanimously recommended for immediate adoption. In order to avoid confusion with the belt-fed M1917 machine gun, the BAR came to be known as the M1918 or Rifle, Caliber .30, Automatic, Browning, M1918 according to official nomenclature. On 16 July 1917, 12,000 BARs were ordered from Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company who had secured an exclusive concession to manufacture the BAR under Browning's patents (Browning's U.S. Patent 1,293,022 was owned by Colt). However Colt was already producing at peak capacity (contracted to manufacture the Vickers machine gun for the British Army) and requested a delay in production while they expanded their manufacturing output with a new facility in Meriden, Connecticut. Due to the urgent need for the weapon, the request was denied and the Winchester Repeating Arms Company (WRAC) was designated as the prime contractor. Winchester gave valuable assistance in refining the BAR's final design, correcting the drawings in preparation for mass production. Among the changes made, the ejection pattern was modified (spent casings were directed to the right side of the weapon�€"instead of straight up).The M1918 is a selective fire, air-cooled automatic rifle using a gas-operated long-stroke piston rod actuated by propellant gases bled through a vent in the barrel. The bolt is locked by a rising bolt lock. The gun fires from an open bolt. The spring-powered cartridge casing extractor is contained in the bolt and a fixed ejector is installed in the trigger group. The BAR is striker fired (the bolt carrier serves as the striker) and uses a trigger mechanism with a fire selector lever that enables operating in either semi-automatic or fully automatic firing modes. The selector lever is located on the left side of the receiver and is simultaneously the manual safety (selector lever in the "S" position, weapon is "safe", "F", "Fire", "A", "Automatic" fire). The "safe" setting blocks the trigger.
The weapon's barrel is screwed into the receiver and is not quickly detachable. The M1918 feeds using double-column 20-round box magazines, although 40-round magazines were also used in an anti-aircraft role; these were withdrawn from use in 1927. The M1918 has a cylindrical flash suppressor fitted to the muzzle end. The original BAR was equipped with a fixed wooden buttstock and closed-type adjustable iron sights, consisting of a forward post and a rear leaf sight with 100 to 1,500 yard range graduations. Bayonets for the BAR were not manufactured in great quantity and are thus extremely rare. They consisted of a spike form with a slat on the top side, attaching to the bottom of the barrel in the conventional fashion.As a heavy automatic rifle designed for support fire, the M1918 was not fitted with a bayonet mount and there was never bayonet was ever issued. Only one experimental bayonet fitting was ever made for the BAR by Winchester. This was a standard, M1917 bayonet fitted at the Winchester factory with a special muzzle ring. The bayonet was attached to a standard M1918 BAR by means of a special experimental flash hider assembly.
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FAIRHAVEN May10th 2012 — The Rev. Patrick Killilea (from Co. Galway, Ireland) always imagined he would live in the SouthCoast of Mass until the end of his career. Killilea, affectionately known as Father Pat among his parishioners, has spent the past 13 years in Fairhaven and has only had two assignments outside the area since he was ordained in 1969.
"I was always glad to come back home," Killilea said while sitting in the rectory conference room Tuesday.
But a trip to a former leper colony on Kalaupapa, Hawaii, in 2004, changed everything. Killilea, who is now 68 but "only admits to 48 publicly," couldn't imagine not returning.
"I just got a feeling during Mass there, completely out of the blue, that there was a calling for me to stay," he said. "I had never anticipated that level of flashbacks and excitement even for a year after I returned. It was a heavenly call from God to go back." Killilea had returned to Kalaupapa once before in 2006 as the parish's fill-in pastor for three months. In July, Killilea will be leaving his post as pastor at the Sacred Heart Congregation's St. Mary Church on Main Street to return as the permanent pastor at the St. Francis Parish in Kalaupapa.
Most learn about leprosy's disfiguring effects in tales of biblical times. In previous eras, those with leprosy, also called Hansen's disease, were sent to secluded colonies in order to avoid infecting others. In Hawaii, the infected were sent to Kalaupapa, an isolated peninsula on the island of Molokai. Today Hansen's disease, a bacterial infection that damages the skin, nerves, limbs and eyes, is treatable with antibiotics, saving patients from disfigurement. Because of this, Kalaupapa has not been used as a colony since 1969 and is now a national park. Fewer than 20 patients, most of them elderly, still live in Kalaupapa, along with national park workers.
"Some of the patients there have visible disfigurements but others received medicine in time and just look like you or me," Killilea said. "Now a big problem they face is that their immune system has been compromised so they are vulnerable to other diseases." The island is also the spot where one of Killilea's role models, St. Damien, also a father for the Sacred Heart Congregation, first settled in 1873. Damien lived in Kalaupapa for 16 years caring for those with Hansen's disease until he succumbed to it himself. "Now it's much different than in St. Damien's times," said Killilea. "The patients there chose to be there and are well taken care of, but it is still very isolated."
Sharp volcanic cliffs separate the Kalaupapa peninsula from more populated portions of the island of Molokai. Hiking to town would take up to two hours, and the peninsula is otherwise only accessible by a lone airstrip, which brings the peninsula supplies. Killilea's passion for his future assignment is visible as he draws a map of the "shark-shaped island." He leans forward and speaks quickly as he describes the many mongooses he saw during his last visit to Kalaupapa.
The wildlife and year-round 80-degree weather are far from the only differences Killilea will experience once he moves. "I don't expect to have many people in church, but I will help build morale," Killilea said. Kalaupapa is a low-income community, and most who grow up on Molokai eventually leave to seek more employment opportunities on other islands or in the mainland United States. "I'll miss the sacramental celebrations like baptisms and weddings," he said. "But I won't miss shoveling the snow."
Killilea will, of course, also miss the people of Greater New Bedford, who have been his congregation for the past 13 years. And parishioner Charlie Murphy, a town selectman, will miss him, too. "We won't know how much we miss him until he's gone," Murphy said. "But for years, it has been his dream to live in the land of Damien, so we're happy for him." Killilea's leaving does not mean goodbye forever. In October, Murphy will lead a trip with 15 Fairhaven pilgrims to Hawaii to learn about the history of St. Damien's association with the island and, of course, to visit Killilea. Referencing the Hawaiian word that means both goodbye and hello, Murphy vowed that Killilea's leaving "isn't farewell." "It's aloha," he said.
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Heavenly offers arguably one of the most unique and spectacular skiing experiences in the world, with great snow, California sunshine and stunning views over Lake Tahoe and Nevada. Combine this with nightlife that is more akin to Las Vegas and you have the perfect recipe for a ski holiday with a difference.
From great shopping and nightlife to Tahoe's world class casinos, Heavenly's many attractions offer something for all the family. There are over 150 restaurants and bars plus a variety of shops.
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There are four golf courses in Noosa with at least another dozen within a 45 minute drive from Noosa. The four are very different style courses; the Noosa Par3 course, the private Noosa Valley Golf near Doonan, the Tewantin-Noosa public course in Tewantin and the Noosa Springs resort club.
The largest and oldest club in Noosa is the Tewantin-Noosa course. The course is normally pretty busy so bookings are necessary most of the time. The website has all the details, check out www.noosagolf.com.au they have a great pro shop and a clubhouse with a bar and bistro. There is a free practice range but of course you'll have to bring your own balls. The course itself is picturesque with an abundance of bird life and kangaroos.
If you want to fit in with the locals they have welcoming comps just about every day. You may need to have a Golf Link handicap to join in but they normally have a few single openings. Give the pro shop a call the day before or even on the day.
Noosa Springs resort is the closest to the tourist areas in Noosa Heads. The springs have all the amenities you would expect at a resort club. Their website www.noosasprings.com.au has all the info you'll need. They have a great practice range that is open some nights. If you buy a bucket of balls make sure you take advantage of a great practice.
While reasonably challenging the course is 'manicured' as long as you stay on the fairways and greens. The course is a lot less forgiving than Tewantin. If you're very far off the fairway you're probably going to take a drop. You don't want to be too ambitious in your search for missing balls given the hidden dangers lurking in the dense rough. There are a few hills but chances are you'll be driving an electric cart.
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It's not even been a week since the horrible school shootings in Oregon, and you can already tell what's going to happen in response: Too little.
But one response has already gone too far - and it's from the person that is currently in second place in many Republican polls - my constituent, Ben Carson.
Carson said "If everybody attacks that gunman, he's not going to kill everybody. But if you sit there and let him shoot you one by one, you're all going to be dead."
To blame the victims of school shootings for not being proactive enough in their own defense is not simply insensitive - it's offensive and an outrageous diversion from the real cause of gun violence: easy access to guns.
I'm sure the families of these victims - and victims of all gun violence - are disgusted with the suggestion that their lost loved ones simply didn't do enough - as politicians sit on their heels and do nothing to reduce these shootings.
There have been 262 school shootings since Columbine. I don't care what the politics of this are. As a parent, that is unacceptable.
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As winter approaches and officially arrives tomorrow, there's a sense of wanting to reflect upon some of the happenings that have transpired this momentous year.
Though we tend to think the "year" begins on January 1, from here the "year" began on December 17, 2010, the day a fruit seller in Tunisia, Mohammad Bouazizi self immolated himself and in so doing started a revolt by humanity against the forces of repression not just in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain in the Arab world, but also in Wisconsin, where thousands protested against an autocratic governor who aspired to overreach and kill the public unions in his state by eliminating the right to collective bargaining which spurred protests nationwide in solidarity with those in Madison, Wisconsin.
In Greece, massive protests erupted against the government's impending austerity measures, forced onto the backs of the people who were blameless in bringing about the impending fiscal harshness, while those that did create the financial crisis of 2008 which caused worldwide reverberations, were never held accountable, are in league with the IMF, World Bank, the FED and the European Central Bank who are just mere extensions and manifestations of a banking system that serves the interests of the rich, neo liberals whose globalization is most harsh on the dwindling middle class people in Europe and no less so in America.
With the onset of "Occupy Wall Street" on September 17, protests spread across the country in solidarity with it, similar encampments sprung up, all representing the 99% in protest against the 1%, stressing the widening income disparity, unemployment, home foreclosures, crushing college loan debts as well as the gaming of the political system by a plutocracy of oligarchs that have usurped the electoral process to benefit them, the 1% to the detriment of the 99%.
Now in the past two weeks thousands of the Russian people, many from the middle class, have joined in the protests rejecting the outcome of rigged parliamentary elections and the impending re-coronation of Vladimir Putin as the president with no real opposition.
Looking at it all, it feels like a world-wide revolutionary phenomenon with people casting off long simmering frustrations, of being used and taken for granted suddenly erupting into a cathartic open voiced and defiant, "We're here"! A visceral connection of people massing together because what they are feeling is all true, honest and right on the mark. But now out in the open and no longer festering inside and crushing the spirit.
Meanwhile the authorities everywhere react similarly i.e. "What's this; we can't tolerate this; it needs to be crushed".
But this genie of "occupy" is out of the lamp and won't be crushed. It's become an "occupy" everywhere mentality; truly transformational and life changing where people everywhere can easily identify with what the protesters are voicing and demonstrating against.
In a way it shouldn't be considered universal and world-wide; at least not yet. Most of the people in Asia, China, Japan, South Korea, India and Southeast Asia have not erupted in protests over the repression used against them. So it's hardly universal when more than half of humanity hasn't connected with the multitudes in the Arab world, Europe and America.
But could they be next, waiting for the catalyst to happen they identify with and spurs them to openly protest the repression they currently experience but passively acquiesce in and suffer in lonely silence.
Surely, it's just a matter of time. It's only been a year since the Tunisian fruit seller self immolated himself and started it all.


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Cognitive Discourse Analysis for GIScience: What language use can tell us about spatial cognition
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Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA; Tenbrink, in press: Language & Cognition journal) is a method that uses linguistic insights to analyse verbal data collected in relation to cognitively challenging tasks. When asked to verbalise their thoughts, speakers draw in systematic ways
from their general repertory of language to express their current concepts. Their choices in relation to a cognitively demanding situation can reveal crucial aspects of their underlying conceptualisations, shedding light on how people solve complex problem solving tasks, as well as how they describe complex problems or scenes. For instance, in a route description context, the utterance 'Turn right at the shopping mall' shows that the speaker has a concept of a unique shopping mall that distinguishes it from other buildings in the environment, and can
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Why Discipline Should Be Aligned With A School's Learning Philosophy
After school one day, a middle school girl got physically aggressive with one of her peers while still on school property. At some schools she would have been suspended or expelled for assaulting another student, but High Tech Middle Chula Vista is experimenting with restorative practices. So, instead of taking that typical disciplinary step, school leaders called the two students and their families in for a meeting, where they discussed what had led up to the point where she boiled over and lashed out.
"It was incredibly deep and emotional," said Rhea Brown, a recent graduate of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education, who was working in the school at the time. Not only were the students able to talk through the underlying issues of the fight, but the student who would have been suspended ended up feeling reconnected to the school community, not alienated. And, she became a big advocate for restorative practices, often pushing students in conflict to meet with the social and emotional coach to work out their problems.
"Our approach really kept her as part of the community and really valued the strengths she was bringing, and honored what she was going through as a person," Brown said. She could easily have been labeled troublemaker, but instead the experience turned her into a peacemaker.
Chula Vista has been experimenting with restorative practice for the past few years in a grass-roots way. It's not the official discipline policy of the school, and when the occasion merits it, school leaders will suspend students. But some teachers are interested in shifting the way adults and teachers handle discipline to better match the student-centered, collaborative ways students learn in Chula Vista classrooms.
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Schools in the High Tech High network have become well-known for their project-based approach to school. Students work collaboratively most of the time, following a line of inquiry and producing artifacts of learning as varied as the students in any class. Often called "deeper learning," teachers in this model are trying to make sure content feels relevant to students and that the work they create makes an authentic impact on the world.
"With deeper learning you're aiming to get your kids digging into things, getting them engaged, getting them to invest in their learning, taking it over and being in charge," said Brown. "So when your idea of discipline doesn't match that, it's really tough for kids."
The mismatch between the independent, student-driven pedagogy of the school and the message sent by traditional discipline is part of the reason Chula Vista has been trying to shift toward restorative practices.
"It's awesome to watch kids make pretty big mistakes, but then instead of that defining them, it's really about what's going on with this kid and how can we support them in making better decisions," Brown said. The school staff is trying to see interpersonal and behavior mistakes in the same way they'd frame academic mistakes -- opportunities to learn and grow. A behavior version of growth mindset, so to speak.
Sarah Fine, a doctoral candidate at Harvard's School of Education and a visiting scholar at High Tech High Graduate School, wrote about the close parallels she has observed, between restorative practices where students lead the accountability process and environments where powerful learning is happening, in an Education Week blog post. Fine writes:
"It wasn't until I interviewed the vice principal who had taken the video that I realized just how deep these parallels run. In describing her journey toward becoming a restorative educator, she talked not only about needing to master new practices but also about needing to unlearn deeply-rooted habits of control. 'One of the lessons I've learned in implementing restorative circles is that when I insert myself the focus is no longer on the relationships among the kids or the social-emotional learning,' she said. 'And it can be so hard to do...you've got to have an open agenda, not a closed one, and you've got to be patient. You've got to get it out of your mind what you want them to say.'
Listening to her speak, I had an intense sense of déja-vu. The vice principal's descriptions echoed countless interviews I have conducted in which teachers have described their transition from traditional to more student-centered, constructivist, and/or critical pedagogies. As I reflected further, I realized that the parallels between these pedagogies and alternative discipline models can be explained by a set of shared underlying assumptions: a desire to draw out students' experiences and perspectives, a belief in the capacity of students to take the reins when provided with the right tools and support, an attentiveness to the fact that learning is often social in nature, and an easing of the traditionally top-down relationships between educators and those in their charge."
Fine argues that just as academic work is more powerful when it is organized around a shared vision with internal coherence, so too school culture requires coherence. Pedagogy builds culture, just as discipline practices can teach skills.
"Culture is being enacted at every moment in the classroom when you're talking about academic content or when you're talking about what Jose did when he threw a paper airplane," Fine said.
While schools tend to treat academics and discipline as two siloed areas, with separate staff and credentials to handle them, in reality "the boundaries are more porous than lots of people think," Fine said. Educators working hard to transform their instructional approaches might be simultaneously undermining the message that they believe kids can solve problems, learn from mistakes and be productive members of the community every time a behavior issues arises.
"The most powerful restorative conferences I've seen have a lot of learning going on," Fine said. What's more, the lessons are entirely developmentally appropriate and important to young people, especially adolescents. They are constantly thinking about how they interact with the world, how they confront power, how they wield it and who they want to become.
Many big school districts have been trying to implement restorative practices in response to inequitable suspension numbers. While those inequities are important to document and imperative to reduce, a blanket restorative justice policy from the district without extensive training and buy-in from teachers often backfires. Without the traditional toolbox to fall back on, but with no real new tools either, teachers and administrators are stuck in the middle and might even continue to suspend without documenting it.
"If you're implementing restorative justice just to get your suspensions down, then you're not getting at the root of why you're suspending kids in the first place or the issues going on that are leading to suspensions," Brown said.
Getting at the root cause of the many conflicts in schools takes a lot of work, much of it preventative. At Chula Vista, teachers are each approaching this challenge in their own way. Some teachers choose to teach various social and emotional skills directly through class circles. As a group they discuss qualities like kindness and why it's important. Others handle issues as they arise, working on conflict resolution skills when students get involved in altercations. Since most work at High Tech High is done in groups, and group members inevitably have problems with one another, teachers do a lot of working through what it means to be a good group member on the fly.
"A lot of it comes down to a kid's sense of belonging in the school," Brown said. Most kids act out when they're not feeling good about something that's going on in their life or at school. Focusing on creating a community where students feel cared for and safe goes a long way to making them believe restorative practices can solve their problems. But even with a focused effort on prevention, and constant work to build a school culture of care and belonging, Chula Vista administrators still sometimes suspend kids.
"What's different is even if we do end up suspending kids, there's still a ton of restorative pieces we do," Brown said. Chula Vista staff have gotten a lot of feedback from students that one of the biggest challenges is re-entering the community after a separation or even after a restorative circle. So when a student comes back from a suspension, school staff make sure to welcome her back to the community. They also debrief things she could tell her classmates about where she has been, and sometimes even have a circle with the whole class to address the point directly.
"Overwhelmingly, our kids have expressed this idea of appreciation that they were able to make things right and move on from the incident," Brown said. Parents also appreciate the process, although it does take more involvement on their part. Brown said she's noticed that parents who are used to traditional school discipline often don't bring up home issues that might affect their child's school life. But if a parent has been involved in the restorative process, she will be more likely to preemptively communicate about ongoing home issues.
It's not easy to switch discipline policies toward restorative practices. Without a lot of training and practice, as well as a fundamental cultural shift toward communication and trust between teachers and students, it's hard to get both adults and students to buy into something different. But school leaders that have committed to the practice, and hired staff who are committed to it, too, say it makes a huge difference.
"I think the success of restorative justice in this school is teachers really understanding the effects of trauma," said Godwin Higa, principal of Cherokee Point Elementary in San Diego. Principal Higa's school is one of very high needs. His staff often sends food bundles home with children who don't get enough to eat over the weekend, and students come to school with all kinds of trauma that they act out in the classroom. And yet, Cherokee Point is a school visited by educators from around the country.
"The biggest thing they notice when they look at instruction, not behavior, is student engagement," Higa said. "Students are jumping up and asking questions and modeling strategies for other students. The engagement we're talking about is how students are responding to your higher-level questioning." He says this academic behavior stems from the children feeling safe and the trust teachers have built with them.
Even offenses that would get a child suspended or expelled at another school are handled in-house at Cherokee Point because every educator in that building understands the question is not, "what's wrong with this child?" but rather, "what has happened to this child?"
Higa believes restorative practices are a good intervention, but without the trauma-informed lens, restorative work can easily become a series of meaningless steps. He's also clear that nothing good comes from suspending kids, either for the perpetrator or the victim. Often no real lesson is learned and social pressures on the victim can become even worse.
The whole premise of restorative practices, on the other hand, is to help the victimizer see what she did was wrong, to see the human cost of her actions. And when adults give students space and time to come to that realization, they say beautiful things. "They come out with some really great stuff after they realize what they did wrong," Higa said.
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PELHAM, N.Y. – Marjorie C. McDermott, a longtime resident of Pelham, died Jan. 26 at Willow Towers in New Rochelle. She was 98.
McDermott was born Jan. 5, 1915, to James and Margaret Carlisle McDermott. She was employed at Texaco's corporate headquarters in Manhattan and Westchester County for many years.
She maintained a season subscription to the Metropolitan Opera and enjoyed traveling abroad. An active gardener, she was a member of the New York Botanical Garden, Orchid Society, Westchester Rose Society and other horticultural organizations.
She was predeceased by a brother, Walter.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Catharine's Church in Pelham. Burial will follow at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne. Visitation is from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Pelham Funeral Home .
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Grieving Without Feeling
Widow to Widowed and Life After Loss are two of several organizations to help people through that bleak period when they are left behind after someone close to them dies. Group counseling by sharing experiences cannot change the way they feel, but it can put things into perspective. We are so unlikely to be prepared, even when the departed has been ill for ages. We seem not to be able to anticipate the emptiness and sometimes meaninglessness of life alone.
"How long will it take?" one woman asked a pastor I interviewed. Another told him she was proud of the fact she had not needed a group, that she is "doing it on her own." You never get through grieving, he told me. "You get through the hard part." Grieving is work, he warned. It's not as if one day a fog is lifted. You wake up every morning still lacking something that defined you for so many years.
What makes it doubly hard in many cases is that the grieving may have two different reasons. The current separation is one of them. The other is some former, not-quite-forgotten loss.
My character Harold Garber, in WINDOW BY THE POND, has been a widower for some months when he meets Sophie George in Bok Tower Gardens. He explains that he is in Florida visiting his daughter, helping her around the house. It isn't long before Sophie sees that he has transferred his sense of importance to the needs of his only child, a young accountant in a new position, and freshly divorced. He thinks maybe he should stay down here instead of returning home to Boston.
He had found his wife slumped down on her knees in her garden. There had been no warning that her heart was weak. He now feels abandoned, cheated out of the rest of their life in his retirement. In time we learn that he also carries guilt about having disappointed her. He grieves for himself at the end of his crumbled career, so pitiful in his wife's eyes.
Sophie is witness to Harold's gradual healing, which takes another woman to hasten. She doesn't quite approve of his dependence on women to make him feel whole. When Sophie's husband died, she started to find herself, who she really was, what she cared about most, and what she wanted to finish. We know her as fiercely independent, holding her worried son at arm's length, and reluctant to fall under the seductive powers of attractive Captain Sam, though she respects and admires him.
Group counseling aside, grieving is a solitary process, a road that is longer for some than others. Harold, Sophie thinks, is not willing to to do it. He wants to look in another direction, forget about his unfulfilled plans to travel with Dorothy. He is willing, it turns out, to forgo his original bucket list, substituting it with a different list, a new way of being, or no list at all. He glimpses a future he never could have imagined in his marriage, and sets off on a road charted out by a stronger person than himself. He will feel safe with her.
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Mr. Wiener spoke on iPads & our Christian faith. Chapel began with a skit about some boys so focused on an iPad game (Clash of Clans) that they ignored girls, bumped into Mr. Glover & didn't listen to the test review. Mr. Wiener then chanted about technology by candle light. The talk was about praying for God's wisdom when it comes to using technology, being honest with your self, what is success?, and how is God calling you to unplug.
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Mr. Lundeen spoke on fairness. There are three types of unfairness: silly, social and serious. He explained all three. Then he directed us to Romans 7. God sent Jesus into the world to solve the problem of "unfairness" caused by sin.
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House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank said Tuesday that he will postpone next week's planned vote on legislation to create a consumer protection agency until after the August recess.
The delay was due in part to the panel's busy schedule, but committee officials also said they wanted to give consumer groups more time to respond to lobbying by the banking industry, which is opposed to the bill. Industry lobbyists said this week that their arguments to curb the powers of a new agency were gaining traction.
Steve Adamske, a spokesman for Frank, said consumer groups needed time to respond to industry arguments against the new agency and efforts to limit its authority.
"Consumer groups and advocates have planned a ground campaign in August and we want to give them time to preserve this agency," Adamske said. The goal is to allow lawmakers more time to "hear from their constituents," he said.
"The Wall Street lobbyists have been heavily lobbying against this, but that's only telling one side of the story," he said.
John Taylor, the president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, said it was clear the banking industry was going all out to stop the agency.
"Every time I go up there I'm tripping over blue-suited lobbyists representing the banks. All the banking lobbyists are up there all over the place," he said. "They still have pull. It's the best Congress that money can buy as it relates to the Financial Services Committee."
Consumer groups are already beginning to fight back. Americans for Financial Reform has scheduled a press conference for Wednesday on the need for a new consumer protection agency. Frank and other top committee Democrats are scheduled to attend.
Administration officials also said they remain confident that the bill will eventually pass.
"I think the prospects for our package of reforms, including the consumer protection agency, are strong," said Michael Barr, the Treasury Department's assistant secretary for financial institutions, during a conference call. "I think we have an enormous amount of support, but we are obviously mindful of the chairman's desire to run the process in the way he thinks is most effective and that's what he's doing. But we have 100% confidence in him and in the process."
Frank announced the delay as a hearing with Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke got under way.
The Massachusetts Democrat said he would delay a vote until next week on a bill to set limits on executive compensation. As a result, he said, the consumer protection bill would have to be put off until September.
"When I set the schedule, I was aware it was on the heavy side," Frank said.
The schedule has been altered several times this month and congressional staff and industry lobbyists speculated that the delay on the consumer protection agency was more than just a scheduling issue.
They attributed it to a series of unresolved issues and a push by some members, including many Republicans, to slow the pace.
"I believe that slowing down the process would be in the best interest" of the committee, said Rep. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the panel's senior Republican.
The concept of breaking off consumer protection from prudential supervision and housing it in a separate agency has emerged as one of the most contentious parts of the administration's regulatory reform plan.
Under the bill, banking regulators would lose the power to write and enforce consumer protection rules, which would fall to the new agency. It would also gut federal preemption by allowing states to set higher standards and enforce federal and state laws against both national and state banks.
The legislation was introduced by Frank with a handful of Democratic co-sponsors July 8, but it instantly became clear that many issues about how the agency would function had been left largely unresolved.
Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania, the panel's No. 2 Democrat, has argued the committee should take more time to consider the legislation.
"It's hard to just stand still and say we've thought all these things out and we can see how they come together," Kanjorski said in an interview early this month. "I don't think anybody has totally and I think that's our job before we go ahead and act."
Several outstanding questions include the agency's cost, how it will be funded, what enforcement authority it will have over banks and nonbanks and how conflicts with the banking regulators would be resolved.
The Financial Services Committee has an aggressive agenda, scheduling at least one hearing nearly every day this month, and briefings on a range of regulatory reform and other issues. In addition to the hearing with Bernanke, the panel also held a hearing Tuesday on institutions deemed too big to fail. It is scheduled to hold a regulatory reform hearing on Friday with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and the heads of the banking agencies.
The consumer financial protection agency is the latest piece of regulatory modernization to be pushed on the fast track and then delayed.
On March 18, after outrage erupted over bonuses paid to employees of American International Group, President Obama announced that he was asking Congress to expedite legislation that would provide regulators with resolution authority to unwind systemically risky bank holding companies and nonbank financial players like investment banks.
For weeks, both Frank and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd discussed the idea of rushing though such legislation. But the legislation was complicated by cost, and the power to unwind a firm appeared too intertwined with how best to regulate these systemically risky companies, which is significantly more controversial.
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My Depression Was the Worst It Has Ever Been During My Pregnancy
What is a time of joy for many women was my darkest hour.
More and more I've been seeing people I admire admitting publicly that they struggle with depression and anxiety issues. Every time I see that, I applaud their bravery in adding their voices to help end the stigma around mental illness, and wish I had the courage to join them.
I have been open with only a few closed circles about my struggles for years with depression and, more recently, anxiety, but hesitated to do so more publicly because I was afraid of what it might mean for my ability to make a living. As a Realtor just starting out (I have been licensed since May 2014), I am almost entirely dependent on word-of-mouth among friends and family. Would they still choose to use me or refer me to someone they know for a real estate transaction, if they knew that I suffered from mental illness?
Recently, I realized that it didn't matter: even if it meant that I would lose potential clients, I want and need to be honest about what I live with. I imagine there will be people who opt to work with someone else once they know, but I also know that I am good at what I do and have made many past clients happy. My mental health struggles were there yet I was effective for them and they were happy with my work. I also realized that a lot of the things I learned from living with mental illness actually made me a better business professional. The assumption that mental illness makes you weak, which I still struggle to let go of on daily basis, is simply not true for me, and I want to share what that looks like.
For me, depressive episodes come with extreme fatigue, which reduces my ability to be productive. This was particularly difficult to deal with when I worked in a regular full-time position, and resulted in a year off of work on long-term disability. At the time, I had wonderful employers who encouraged me to "take the time to get better, and come back refreshed and ready to be your old self." Despite their encouragement, being off work for severe depression left me drowning in guilt; I kept telling myself that I was a bad person for continuing to get paid despite not working, that I wasn't "getting better faster." It took months of counseling for a psychologist to convince me that feeling guilty was not helpful to my condition, and was in fact holding me back from recovery. When I began to let go of the guilt, I was able to start getting better. From that experience I learned that my first reaction of guilt to any sort of interruption to productivity, was not helpful and likely a result of experiencing years of childhood emotional abuse from my mother. In it's place I've learned, and am still learning, to be compassionate instead.
Self-employment in real estate has made this easier to manage. I have significant control over my own hours, so I am able to accommodate bad days and give myself space for self-care. It allows me to spend more time with my partner (who works a three-week rotation with hours all over the place), who is a major source of emotional support. Working from home allows me to draw strength from being near my dogs, who demonstrate for me 24/7 what it means to be mindful and live in the moment. I am able to travel more, which allows me to see family who live far away. Sometimes a change in scenery can help with pulling me out of a particularly severe depressive episode.
Specific to how I run my business, I limit the number of active files I take on at any one particular time, both for my own health but also to ensure I am able to give my clients the attention and care that they deserve. My annual sales goals are moderate and reasonable, and are formulated specifically to allow myself a lot of room to deal with my mental health issues. Should that time not be needed for dealing with mental illness, I have a list of alternative projects to pursue. When I pitch my real estate representation services to potential clients, I tell them that my business practices focus on quality, not quantity, that I never take on more than I can handle, and that I will place their well-being above that of the potential economic transaction. This way of working would never have arisen had it not been for my ongoing experiences with depression and anxiety. Happily, this approach to my new profession has resulted in a successful start to my new venture, and I am now at a place where I can acknowledge that while I would never wish struggles with mental illness on anyone, my own struggle with them has led me to be a different, and perhaps, stronger individual.
Surprisingly, the real estate industry has given back to me in ways I never expected. When I first left the education and non-profit sector, I considered myself a "sellout." I viewed it as shifting from social justice work to facilitating capitalist transactions, which is more or less still true. But I had underestimated the degree to which I could still help people. Many of my clients are first-time homebuyers, and it was extremely gratifying to help them with what was usually the largest economic transaction they've ever been part of. Real estate transactions are complex and poorly understood, and it felt good to walk someone through successfully and support them in what is often a highly emotional and stressful time. I feel like I am still helping, just in different circumstances. The improvement in income (compared to working in non-profit) has also freed up time for me to do more volunteer work, which also feeds my soul and helps me continue to contribute to my community.
I used to think that being mentally ill made me weak, and that if potential clients knew that, they would not want to hire me. But I know now that learning to live with my depression and anxiety issues has actually made me stronger, both personally and professionally. I have no doubt that being more public about my mental health issues may cost me work; however, I also know that lots and lots of people have similar struggles and they continue to excel at what they do. I am proud to be one of them.
I experience ongoing depression and anxiety, and I am really good at what I do for a living. I now know that both of these things can be true at the same time. I suspect it may be true for many others as well.