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Might Google Have a Sly Motive Behind Motorola?
Maybe It Is a Long-Term Effort to Drive Down Rivals' Phone Prices
One morning this summer, I was ushered into a small conference room at the Googleplex to chat with Dennis Woodside, the CEO of Google Inc.'s Motorola division, where he gave me a sneak preview of the company's flagship smartphone, the Moto X, which hadn't yet come out.
I left the meeting more puzzled than ever about Google's decision to buy the struggling device maker two years ago. When Mr. Woodside showed me the Moto X, I found it clever but unspectacular. Though the phone, which came out in September, had a few...


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TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — County health officials say three people have died from a dangerous flu strain since the end of last year in the Toledo area.
The Toledo Lucas County Health Department says two of the deaths came last week. A third person died on New Year's Eve.
The county health commissioner says all three died from the H1N1 strain of the flu virus.
The Blade newspaper in Toledo reports that two of those who died were Toledo women in their early 60s. A 70-year-old Lucas County resident died near the end of last week from flu-related symptoms.
A fourth person from Temperance, Mich., died on Dec. 28 at a Toledo hospital from complications coming from the H1N1 virus.

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I just dont get it. You are one of the selected few to actually make it the NFL and get money to do something you love and then you act like a bung hole and throw it all away. I am just amazed that there is such a level of stupidity
Mendenhall when healthy is one of the most talented backs in the NFL. Good receiver, tough and a complete back. He will almost certainly play somewhere else next year and I would definitely like to him instead of Shonn Greene...
Definitely a guy I would consider bringing in next year. Dispite an earlier post he is not shonn Greene 2.0. Mendenhall is a real threat with good speed and he runs hard. The problem with him has been health. If we can get him for a good price with some security for injuries like we did with Landry im all for it.
Another guy to look at would be steven jackson. He will be available next year and is everything Rex would want in a running back. Also is a great locker room guy. I know at this point age is a concern but bring him in like we did LT for 2 years. I think he would be way better for the Jets then LT ever was.
He has been a healthy scratch for awhile now


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Cranberry sauce need not be used merely as a side dish. As this recipe proves, it can be a fantastic component in this easy but elegant appetizer, inspired by the French "brie en brioche".
- 1 tube Pillsbury® Original Crescent Rolls
- 7 to 8 ounce wedge or round of brie
- 3/4 cup whole berry cranberry sauce
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Unroll the Crescent rolls dough to form one large, perforated rectangle. Lightly press the perforations back into the dough, so that you have a large, unmarked rectangle.
- Spoon the cranberry sauce in the center of the rectangle, and spread so that it covers an area about 6 inches by 6 inches.
- Place the brie in the center of the rectangle. It should have plenty of room on all sides. If you are using a wedge of brie rather than a circle, you can make it into a square by slicing the wedge in half, and then pressing one triangle tip to the back of the other wedge--voila! Rectangle. This is not necessary, but it may make your finished piece a more pleasing shape.
- Gather the dough and gently wrap it around the brie, sort of like a present, folding the edges neatly. Transfer this little parcel to the prepared baking sheet.
- Using a pastry brush, brush the dough with the beaten egg.
- Bake for 20 minutes, or until golden on top. Remove from the oven, and let cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. Serve warm, and lightly oozy.
Note: If you are making this recipe before it's time to serve but want it to be warm, re-heat at 350 degrees for 5 minutes before serving to warm the cheese and make it oozy again.


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Audi is appealing the decision which for now gives the victory to Mercedes AMG's Robert Wickens. The reason the rule exists is that DTM drivers are weighed to make sure nobody is racing under the minimum weight. Pour some water in your pocket on a hot day and see how much that changes your weight. In addition to the disqualification Ekstrom also received a 1000 Euro fine for not attaching his steering wheel properly as the celebration ensued. DTM, there is something seriously wrong with your rules when somebody in the stands pouring water at a driver changes a race outcome. Hopefully Audi wins their appeal which they have two days to write and send.
Full "tentative" results below.


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A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado town. In exchange, she agrees to work for them. As a search visits town, she finds out that their support has a price. Yet her dangerous secret is never far away...
Release: 04/23/2004
Genders: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Countries: UK, Germany, France, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, Norway
Time: 178 min
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text: Regardless of what happens in the final tomorrow, Murray is one of only 8 male players in the Open Era (post 1968) who made at least the final of the next scheduled Slam after winning their first one. By my reckoning the other 7 players are: Laver (1969 AO & FO), Kodes (1973 Wim & USO), Vilas (1978 AO & FO), McEnroe (1981 Wim & USO), Wilander (1983 AO & FO), Courier (1992 AO & FO) and Sampras (1993 Wim & USO). No other current Slam champion did so. Not trying to sound like a **** or anything...just saying!


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Price: Rough beginning in Cactus League not a concern
By A.J. Cassavell / MLB.com
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- By no means is Reds manager Bryan Price pleased with his club's 4-9 record entering Monday's game, but he's quick to clarify his objective this spring.
Winning more games, of course, would be nice. But Price has been portioning at-bats out relatively evenly throughout the entire club.
"You're giving guys that are out of A ball or Double-A ball a lot of playing time, so you're not always running out what you feel is your best ballclub out there," Price said. "But we do need to learn these players and see what we have in our system. And with a new coaching staff, I think it's only fair that we give these guys an opportunity to show what they can do."
The Reds haven't made a single cut this spring from Major League camp. That means more players eager for at-bats and fewer at-bats to go around.
Eventually, the number of players in Reds camp will be trimmed, and the regulars will begin playing nine innings.
"I can't guarantee that we'll win more games when we're playing the regulars more," Price said. "But to this point, I'm satisfied with the effort and the approach and the work that we're getting from these guys. The results just haven't been great."
And Price is the first to say he'd like the results to be better -- even if it is only mid-March.
"Sometimes you just like to win because it supports what we're trying to do here, and that is to play winning baseball," Price said.
Reds' bullpen deep even with Broxton, Marshall injuries
GOODYEAR, Ariz. -- Reds manager Bryan Price knows the value of a deep bullpen, and he likes the pieces he has in place for 2014.
But Price is also well aware of just how fickle the game of baseball can be to a relief corps.
"I think we know what we have," Price said. "I think it's safe to say we can form speculations. But bullpens are the toughest thing to project going into the season because it's really hard to find relievers that can stay consistently good, year after year."
The Reds enter the season with a more established relief corps than a year ago. But they also enter it with a pair of injury questions in Jonathan Broxton and Sean Marshall.
Broxton had surgery last August on his right forearm, and Marshall is dealing with left-shoulder tendinitis. If the pair can stay healthy, Price believes his bullpen could be in top form with J.J. Hoover, Sam LeCure and Manny Parra also helping to get the ball to closer Aroldis Chapman.
"We do have some history here -- Hoover now with a year plus, LeCure, Parra coming off a nice year," Price said. "But really, the key is to have full healthy years out of Jonathan Broxton and Sean Marshall."
Hoover, LeCure and Parra had breakout years last season thanks to the chances they were afforded due to injuries. They helped to comprise the National League's fourth-best bullpen. In total, the Reds relievers combined to post a 3.29 ERA.
Now, Price is hopeful for health and consistency among those relievers -- often hard to come by in a big league bullpen.
"If we want to win a World Series, we're going to need to be strong 1-7 throughout the course of the year," he said.
One member of the Reds bullpen suffered a bit of a setback as David Holmberg has been sidelined a few days after being hit in the shin by an errant throw on the practice fields. Holmberg felt fine after treatment, but a week later, the injury flared up.
"We got after it the day that it flared up," Holmberg said. "The treatment we're doing really helped out. It's just precautionary right now. Back to 100 percent."
Holmberg expects to pitch on Tuesday.
Bailey pleased with outing, minus pitch to Profar
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Reds starter Homer Bailey graded his outing Monday as a B-plus, but aside from one pitch it was certainly worthy of very high marks.
In the third inning, Bailey hung a 3-2 slider to Rangers second baseman Jurickson Profar that landed in the Texas bullpen. Otherwise, he struck out five, walked none and allowed one other run on a tough-luck double steal.
"I had that one pitch to Profar that he hit out," Bailey said. "It was 3-2, so I had to come with a lot of plate. It's probably not something we'd do during the season, but now's a good time to do those sort of things."
Perhaps the most important takeaway from Bailey's afternoon was his command. He was in the zone when he needed to be (39 of his 58 pitches were strikes), and he didn't walk a batter.
Bailey allowed a run in the bottom of the second inning when catcher Devin Mesoraco made a poor throw to second, making it impossible for second baseman Ramon Santiago to throw out the runner at the plate on a double steal.
But otherwise, Bailey praised Mesoraco's work behind the dish, noting the battery has felt very comfortable together all spring.
"We're really on the same page," Bailey said. "He understands what I'm trying to do right now, and he's really done an excellent job."
Worth noting
• Utility man Chris Nelson played first base during Monday's game, which he has never done in a regular-season contest. Price said Nelson's ability to do so would greatly increase his worth to the club.
"It's a position we want him to be able to play to add value for us," Price said. "We know that he can play primarily third and second. He came up as a shortstop. But if he's going to really be a true utility guy for us, he's going to have to play first, he's probably going to have to play some left field. And that's going to greatly add to his value and the probability of him playing for us at some point."
• The Reds will hold a live scrimmage Tuesday at 9:30 a.m. on one of their back fields in Goodyear. A handful of big league pitchers will get their work in during the game, and they'll be facing some of the club's regulars on offense. The defense will be comprised mostly of Minor League players.
AJ Cassavell is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @ajcassavell. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Cari Apple and Billy Joe Wrinkle of Dardanelle welcomed son, Cason Lee-Ray Wrinkle, born March 6, 2013. He weighed 4 pounds and 13 ounces and was 18 inches long.
He has one brother, Corbin Spearman, age 5.
His grandparents are Lori Apple, Randy Apple, and Bill and Rebecca Wrinkle, all of Dardanelle.
Mandy and Scott Allen of Dover welcomed son, Carter James Allen, born March 11, 2013. He weighed 8 pounds and 2 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.
He has one brother Riley Allen, age 3.
His grandparents are Jerry and Machelle Holt of Dover, and Jerry and Judy Allen of Casa.
Ivy Marie and James Casto of Russellville welcomed daughter, Oona Fae Casto, born March 11, 2013. She weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces and was 20 inches long.
She has one brother, Avery, age 2.
Her grandparents are Kathy Strebel of Murfreesboro, Tenn., Reynold Booth of Eldon, Mo., Barbara Hampton of Atkins and Jimmy Casto of Atkins. Great-grandparents are Betty Booth of Eldon, Mo., Billy Nahlen of Atkins, Jeannie Vidunas of Russellville and Jackie Casto of Atkins.
Marika and Ken Leaderman of Dardanelle welcomed daughter, Everi Louise Lederman, born March 12, 2013. She weighed 7 pounds and 6 ounces and was 20.5 inches long.
Her grandparents are Kerry and Debbie Moore of Dover, and Kenny and Peggy Lederman of Clarksville.
Stefanie and Ezechias Tobar of Russellville welcomed daughter, Ruby Alexia, born March 12, 2013. She weighed 7 pounds and 11 ounces and was 19 inches long.
She has one brother, Christain Tobar, age 9, and one sister, Nury Tobar, age 11.
Her grandparents are Valeria and Emilio Tobar of El Salvador, Johnna and Roger Hamilton of Van Buren, Roy and Ruby Sparks of Mission and Ruby Beavers of Van Buren.
Megan Elizabeth and Tanner Bristow Snot of Russellville welcomed daughter, Ella Matilda Snow, born March 14, 2013. She weighed 7 pounds and 9 ounces and was 183⁄4 inches long.
Her grandparents are Vernon Page of Groton, Conn., Cheri Coon of Mystic, Conn., Archie Snow of Center Ridge and Valeeta Snow of Center Ridge.
Courtney and Mark Yarbrough of Dardanelle welcomed son, Donavin JoeDale Yarbrough, born March 14, 2013. He weighed 7 pounds and 7 ounces and was 19 inches long.
He has one brother, Briston, age 15, and two sisters, Pyper, age 10, and Claire, age 8.
His grandparents are Linda and Lonnie Yarbrough of Dardanell, Angie Anders of Russellville and the late Donnie Sisk of Bellville.
Brittany N. Cunningham of Russellville welcomed son, Kieran Kale Cunningham, born March 15, 2013. He weighed 6 pounds and 4 ounces and was 19.5 inches long.
His grandparents are Elesha Allensworth and Bryan Cunningham, both of Russellville.


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Last year's victory over St. Augustine doesn't mean much to Columbia coach Brian Allen. Plenty has changed, but he hopes the outcome will remain the same.
What's different this time around for Allen and his team is that they won't be the underdog and won't have a chance to catch St. Augustine looking past them -- if that happened to be the case last year.
As Allen broke down game tape of St. Augustine, he kept himself restrained to this year's team. Who the Tigers beat in last year's playoffs is gone.
"They're winning, which isn't different, but I can look at them and see they graduated some kids who were big for them," Allen said. "Some very good football players are gone now, some big kids. But what you still see is (Levent Sands), he's back from last year and still is a threat whenever he has the ball. (Wide receiver) Bobby Mitchell showed up on tape, too. He's a threat. Their quarterback (Sandon Mims) is very capable, throws it down field well. I see a team you're supposed to see come Round 2. Very, very good football team."
How Allen expects to counter what the Yellow Jackets do well is to emphasize what Columbia's been doing all season: brute strength and physicality.
"One of the things that helps us every week is that we prepare to be a dominating group," Allen said. "Remember what we did last Friday, you can't put that factor into statistics when you scout us. We're going to play for four quarters, teams don't account for us. Bartram was probably surprised by it."
Call it a contrast of styles. St. Augustine's ability to make big plays has put most of its contests to bed early, though to be fair, the same is true for Columbia.
The only close games the Tigers have played in all season were their wins against Vanguard and Oakleaf, plus their three-point loss to Gainesville – currently ranked as the state's top team in Class 6A.
St. Augustine, meanwhile, has handled all of its opponents with relative ease with the exception of Bartram Trail and Atlantic Coast.
An argument can be made that some of Columbia's victory margins, though impressive, came against opponents that wouldn't last at the same level in St. Johns County. Many teams in District 5-6A are without much success in recent history – if at all – and the weaker opponents the Yellow Jackets have faced saw plenty of action from backups and younger players.
"I can tell you this, we get excited about reading things like that," Allen said. "My kids get excited about the challenge of good receivers. They love the challenge of playing complete teams. I thought a year ago Bartram's offense was better last year, and last year's St. Augustine team was probably a bit bigger than this year's, but none of it matters now: 11- 0 vs. 10-1 is going to be an exciting match up."
That confidence by Allen is earned. No matter the opponent, Columbia has used the size of its players – most notably 300-pound left tackle Laremy Tunsil – and proper execution to dominate in games it has won. Quarterback Jayce Barber orchestrates the Tigers' attack with the poise of a player confident in the guys around him and of the coaches on the sidelines.
Despite this confidence, Barber insists his team gets overlooked on the state level and takes that edge into every game.
"Our mindset every single week is we're David and they're Goliath," Barber said. "Whether we play Middleburg, Leon it doesn't matter. We're going with the mindset that we're David and we're going to play Goliath no matter who we're facing."
For Columbia, St. Augustine presents the challenge of a well-coached team with explosive weapons and a defensive pedigree second to none in the state. But all year the Tigers have worked to prove that what's going on up in Lake City is nothing short of stellar.
"The way we worked and way we dedicated ourselves is anything less than a state title is a disappointment," Barber said. "Obviously you can't expect a state championship from the beginning, but we knew that we had all the pieces in place to be very good."


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OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. - Efforts to save a 10-month-old dog after she was hit by a car in Osceola County nearly nearly depleted a special fund kept by Osceola County Animal Services.
[PICS: Hannah recovering]
Hannah, a 10-month-old German Shepherd mix, was found by deputies hiding under a car after being hit on South John Young Parkway on Jan. 18.
She was brought to an emergency veterinarian, where she eventually underwent surgery to repair a shattered pelvis and two broken front legs.
"Right away, I noticed this dog had a will to live," said Vickie Dryer, Osceola County Animal Services Shelter Manager.
Dryer said she combed over Craigslist, Facebook and lost dog reports for days trying to find Hannah's owners.
They finally came looking for her at animal services, but when they found out what happened to the puppy and how much it would cost to help her, they decided to leave her at the shelter.
Osceola County Animal Services decided to save the dog themselves, paying more than $2,000 for the surgery.
Now, they're not only looking for a family to adopt Hannah, they're also looking for vital donations to refill the fund to help other animals like Hannah in the future.
"That's what our mission is," said Dryer. "(It's) to save a life -- as many as we can -- one at a time."
If you would like to donate to the Osceola County Animal Services fund, click here or call (407) 742-8000 for more information.
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|Yale Law School
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A. Harrison Barnes is a well-known attorney throughout the United States. As a member of the Malibu community, Harrison is committed to serving the needs of Malibu residents and businesses in legal matters.
Benjamin P. Smith is a partner in Morgan Lewis's Litigation Practice. He is a trial lawyer with a particular focus on high-stakes disputes in the biotechnology, medical device, and internet industries.


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Green Success: Heaven Hill Distilleries Steps up Recycling Efforts
Beginning operation in 1934 after the repeal of Prohibition, Heaven Hill Distilleries located in Bardstown, Kentucky has become the largest family-owned and operated producer and marketer of distilled spirits in the nation. Bottling over 12 million cases of spirits in 2012, one could imagine the amounts of leftover materials that could either go to a landfill or be recycled.
Fortunately, Heaven Hill decided to try recycling as part of their KY EXCEL membership. KY EXCEL is Kentucky's free, voluntary environmental leadership program open to individuals, communities, and organizations that wish to improve and protect Kentucky's environment in ways that extend beyond state requirements.
Kim Harmon, the Environmental Compliance Manager at the distillery, says, "When we started our recycling program in 2011, we tried to find everything that could be recycled and vendors to take the materials. We recycle paper labels, bands around pallets, aerosol cans, brown paper packing, blue drums, label backing, cardboard, plastic and glass."
"To implement the recycling project, we spent $4,000–$5,000 on recycling supplies and an additional $3,000–$4,000 per year for proper waste disposal. We are spending $4,000–6,000 every quarter on incentives, but it is worth it," she says. "We spent $5,000 on recycling receptacles, but their use has generated larger sums. Through recycling, we have saved $61,000 annually in landfill costs and generated $31,000 in revenue."
"Recycling was a big challenge at first––now it is part of the process," says Harmon. "In the beginning, finding support among the employees and management was hard due to resistance to change. We had an introduction to the program, training and an awareness campaign, plus, we expressed our appreciation to our employees."
Heaven Hill purchased hand trucks that were spring-loaded to move the drums of recyclables and a hydraulic pallet jack for the empty glass pallets. A recycling vendor provides gaylords and baling wire. In just seven months' time, the plant recycled 280 tons of cardboard, plastic and glass. The facility recycled 614 tons in 2012. Department managers are looking in each of their areas for ways to further reduce waste.
Heaven Hill's plant wide recycling program has resulted in everything having a specific place. Harmon says the program has reduced stress and uncertainty. Where trash had been thrown in millions of small boxes and shrink wrap was flowing out of containers, now there is organization. Truck traffic to the landfill has been reduced from three times a week to one. Each week, two trailers of recyclables leave the plant. When the company president saw the results of the program, he was pleasantly shocked. Harmon credits KY EXCEL, with garnering support and ownership for the project.
Read more at KY EXCEL.


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This is very useful thread. I need to buy some steel toed boots for the zombie apocalypse. Also, does anyone the name of the boots that Savate uses?
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The shoes are called "Savate", but they don't have a steel toe.
It's just the regular material of the shoe and sole that comes together in a more pointier design.Originally Posted by Jiujitsu77Originally Posted by HumanzeeOriginally Posted by jk55299 on Keysi Fighting Method
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True. A polearm shaft can break. But in my experience, it isn't very likely.
Obviously, it depends a lot on the material you have. Some kind of special cold steel hard rubber probably won't break for nuthin, for example. Usually, the main concern of a polearm breaking is in the middle of combat is from being struck and cut by a sword or other polearm. Although it could technically happen, it's extremely unlikely that a person's strikes will land on the polearm in the same spot repeatedly (if at all) or have the right angle to even make more than a cursory cut.
I think you need to be more worried about general wear and tear, repeated blows breaking the shaft from one of your own swings. And even then, only if you hit it against and unforgiving object like the ground or a tree, a shitload of times. Not so much faces.
But again, it all depends on the material. Rattan will cut and splinter real easy. Maple will work for a while, but excessive abuse and drying out from age is going to bring a break.
I can't recall what the traditional or common woods are for making polearms. But I like to use ironwood. If you attempt to cut it, your weapon will probably either slide off or get stuck. At the very least dull the mcshit out of your blade. It's not super heavy, but it's heavier than maple. But unlike maple, it bends and absorbs the recoil that would normally hurt your hands.
Exactly how hard ironwood is....it's kind of ridiculous. I once braced a 4ft dried ironwood stick against the ground with one hand and tried to brake it with a metal baseball bat with the other.
Didn't even scratch. Didn't even come close to cracking. After smacking it 20 or so times, it gets bent ever so slightly, and you can bend it right back into place. Literally, good as new. Longer sticks are easier to break though.
Even if ironwood does break, it doesn't completely snap. It splits vertically. Kind of like rattan, but instead of splintering, it's a single, full on split. But it doesn't even break off the stick when it splits. If it did, that'd be great, because it's a spear instead of a bo now. :P :)


text: My serve was never my strength and there were times it was my greatest liability. i can hit 100mph to 105mph but maybe that's 1 out of one hundred first serves. but i do have good placement and enough spins on the ball that it can not be easily attacked. I have seen a lot of posts here asking for serve improvement because it is a very glamorous shot and it's awesome when you can get some free points but at the end of the day your serve can only take you so far. With that being said i for one am glad that my serve was not my major weapon and because of this i was forced to work on my ground strokes and game strategy. it made me think and it made me patient. it help me realize the importance of a good return of serve specially when i am playing with a good server and i can see the frustration in their eyes because i can return the serve with interest and just pound them in the ground strokes department. Big servers who are use to players who are just bowing down to their serves are having panic attacks when a player has excellent ROS and game plan Roddick vs. Fed, Fed vs Nadal. And it's amazing that because i know my serve is not my biggest weapon it takes the pressure off it. it takes the pressure off the mentality to finish the point in one shot instead i focus on winning the point and placing the serve conservatively to open up the court for me or to put enough spins into it to so i can dictate the ground strokes or get the point going without giving a freebie. and knowing that i can win a point without depending on the serve is quite a sigh of relief. I think what i am trying to share is, yes it's nice to have a big serve and deep in my heart i will not deny it that i wish i have one but for the time being i am glad that the serve i have is enough to start the point without giving it away. So should you, just think of the serve as a way to start the point and the pressure will be lifted off.


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University investigates hazardous materials report - UPDATED
A hazardous materials team was called to the Princeton University campus today to investigate a suspicious substance, but an investigation revealed that the substance posed no threat.
Testing by the Mercer County hazmat unit found that a white powdery substance discovered in a dorm room at Cuyler Hall was a cleanser.
The hazmat team arrived on campus around 11 a.m. Monday after the University's Department of Public Safety took a report from a director of a summer academic program who said he found an envelope with a white powder in his room.
The 31-year old director of the DuBois Scholars Institute told campus police that he discovered the envelope and spilled powder when gathering the clothing he had worn the previous evening.
Because the director did not know how the envelope had come to be in his pocket or the origin of the powder, Public Safety called the hazmat unit.
"This is standard operating procedure that we established after the anthrax scare of 2001," Deputy Chief Charles Davall said. "We take seriously the discovery of any powder of an unidentified nature found in an envelope."
Working in cooperation with the University's Environmental Health and Safety department, the Princeton Borough Police Department, Princeton Fire and Rescue, and the Trenton hazmat team, Public Safety limited access to campus and the area immediately surrounding the Cuyler Hall dormitory during the investigation.
The hazmat team temporarily quarantined six individuals: the institute director; two public safety officers; two University staff members; and a counselor with the summer institute, a residential program for promising high school students that promotes leadership.
On-site testing with a portable analyzer revealed that the powdery substance was a chlorinated compound consistent with a type of bleach cleanser. The hazmat team confirmed its results through contact with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
All areas of campus were re-opened by early afternoon, with no lingering concerns from health officials. The Department of Public Safety is continuing to investigate the incident.


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Android Apps
Cooliris Liveshare brings group photo-sharing to Android and the cloud [Video demo]
February 15, 2011 | by Andrew Kameka
Lifestyle, Videos
Cooliris made the Android photo gallery app that you know and love, and those amazing folks are taking their talents to the cloud with the new LiveShare app and photo-sharing service. LiveShare, available for Android 1.6+, iPhone, and Windows Phone 7 users, makes it easy to create groups for the purposes of sharing photos taken with your mobile phones or digital cameras.
Liveshare allows users to upload photos to a stream, which can act as a private or public housing area for people who attend a social function. So rather than have to hunt down the photos taken at a wedding and uploaded to everyone's private Facebook account, Liveshare pools the photos into one location that everyone who contributes – or who has been granted permission – can view the photos from the wedding, bachelor party, and divorce proceedings that are sure to come once those bachelor party photos become public (kidding, of course).
Android users are able to share directly from their Gallery app or recently-taken camera photos. Here's a quick demonstration provided by the Cooliris folks presenting at the Android area of Mobile World Congress.


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I have discovered a truly remarkable method of finding the width of text in proportional fonts in PDFs, which this comment field is too small to contain.
Interested Perl/PDF hackers want to know! Perhaps you could write it up as a node on Perl Monks [perlmonks.org].
OK, something's backwards here.d there are 2.83 milimeters to each postscipt point
A point is 1/72 of an inch, so there's no way a point can measure 2.83mm. Dividing 25.4mm/72, I get 0.3527mm for a point. Oh, you got them reversed, a mm is 2.834pt.


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In Detroit Suburbs, Housing Gloom Lifts
Prices Pick Up After Steep Downturn; 'It Might Sell Right Away'
GROSSE POINTE, Mich.—Just outside bankrupt Detroit, where thousands of homes are being sold this week at auction for as little as $500, real estate is hot again.
After years of slow sales and depressed prices, homes here in some of the wealthiest communities around the Motor City now receive multiple offers as inventory shrinks. Prospective buyers often carry big wads of cash, and some of the most sought-after properties change hands...


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This brings back some bad memories from last season.
The Knicks are now 2-5 since trading Crawford and Randolph. SMH
Jeremon Linbury
Pathetic effort tonight, we lost by 36 pts! i know were on a back to back but Shi* can we at least be competitive? The cavs slaughtered us again. D'antoni needs to get a hold of these guys and get them playing good basketball again. Tonight was embarrassing to say the least.
D-LEE42FanLEE'S A BEAST!!!
**** Cleveland fans for getting to see us get slaughtered two times in less than a month by they team!
I dont think its the trade that hurt us latly, Its that Nate hasnt been available and when duhon comes out we have Roberson running the point. Plus Nate is a spark plug. We dont even know how the whole team looks like after the trades yet because Mobley hasnt been cleared yet.
Q's ejection was weak, it was a questionable fould at best... Lee did get fouled pretty hard early and there was no call but there definantly should have been
And DAMN Harrington fouled Lebron hard, surprized Im the first to bring that up
With a healthy Nate and the added depth of Jefferies and hopefully Mobley will be just as good as we were before the trade. And before the trade we were average and after the trade were still average.
lol, Q rich was fouled twice iin dat play by lebron


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Key: Pts - Total points. LW - Last week's ranking. t - tie. nr - no ranking
Dropped out: No. 16 Fairleigh Dickison, No. 25 Tulsa.
Others receiving votes: Northern Illinois 19, Duquesne 18, Fairleigh Dickinson 18, Dartmouth 16, Seton Hall 16, San Diego 15, Vermont 12, Southern Methodist 11, Buffalo 9, Pennsylvania 9, Butler 6, Providence 6, San Francisco 5, West Virginia 5, Wisconsin-Milwaukee 3, South Florida 2, Clemson 1, Davidson 1, Penn State 1, Tulsa 1, Virginia Tech 1.
Voting panel: Louis Bennett, Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Mark Berson, South Carolina; Sasho Cirovski, Maryland; Ian Collins, Kentucky; Dan Donigan, Saint Louis; Mike Freitag, Indiana; Mike Getman, Alabama-Birmingham; Kevin Grimes, California; Schellas Hyndman, Southern Methodist; Paul Krumpe, Loyola Marymount; Ken Lolla, Akron; Al Mistri, California State-Fullerton; Bob Reasso, Rutgers; Ray Reid, Connecticut; John Rennie, Duke; Keith Tabatznik, Georgetown; Bob Warming, Creighton.
Voting method: On each ballot, 25 points awarded for first place, 24 for second place, 23 for third, etc., to 1 point for 25th place.
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Notes: Morneau returns to the lineup
Bartlett a good fit in two-spot; Twins to call up a pitcher
By Kelly Thesier / MLB.com
MINNEAPOLIS -- Justin Morneau was back in the Twins lineup on Thursday, batting fifth in the order as the designated hitter. It's the first playing action Morneau has seen since suffering a bruised right lung in a collision with Marlins catcher Miguel Olivo on Friday night in Miami. Morneau arrived at the ballpark early on Thursday morning and promptly headed to manager Ron Gardenhire's office to talk about the prospect of him playing. The decision was to have Morneau take batting practice and do some running to see if he was indeed feeling good enough to return to the lineup. Gardenhire threw batting practice on the field to a small group that included Morneau, Joe Mauer and Michael Cuddyer. After the session, the decision was made to let Morneau go ahead and play. "He wants to play," Gardenhire said. "I talked to the doctors and trainers, and they said he could go as soon as he wanted to get out there, so he's playing." The plan now is to have Morneau start at designated hitter for three games in Detroit, as well. After that series, Gardenhire said the club will see if Morneau is ready to play first base. For Morneau, the desire to get back in the lineup was helped by doctors telling him that he was fine to return. While Morneau said he's still experiencing some tightness in his chest muscles, he felt fine swinging the bat and said he was ready to go. "I can deal with the soreness, now that the doctors told me I can't do any more damage," Morneau said. Returning to first base is the ultimate goal for Morneau, but he said he's just happy to be back in the lineup. "DHing is the best thing for me right now," Morneau said. "It helps me to avoid collisions, in case someone runs into me at first or I have to dive for balls. This allows me not to even have to think about any of that." Two-spot: The second spot in the Twins order has been one of the club's more unstable positions. But recently, Jason Bartlett has taken over the spot with some success. Bartlett is hitting .333 (13-for-39) with three doubles and four RBIs in the No. 2 hole. Bartlett has provided the type of speed and presence on the basepaths that the Twins have been seeking. Bartlett is a perfect 13-for-13 in stolen bases this season, setting a new career high (10 stolen bases in '06). And Bartlett has started to show the form that the club had hoped he would develop. Twins first-base coach Jerry White certainly has seen a change in Bartlett recently, noting the initiative the shortstop showed on a double steal in Wednesday's loss. "He's got that instinct in him now," White said. "There is something in his eyes that I see on the basepaths that I haven't seen before." "I always felt comfortable stealing, it was just a matter of just doing it," Bartlett said. "And really, not being afraid to be thrown out. That's the difference." White expects to see Bartlett's steals increase as his on-base percentage increases. The team has been working with Bartlett on his bunting technique to help raise his OBP. "We're trying to get him to bunt, take the walks, and with that, the on-base percentage will go up," White said. "You can see it slowly getting better. Really, his whole game is coming along." Move coming: The Twins expect to make a roster move following Thursday's game to call up another pitcher, bringing the team's number of pitchers back to 12. It's unclear which position player will likely be sent down, but with catchers Joe Mauer and Mike Redmond both healthy, it seems it could be third-string catcher Chris Heintz who goes. Twins tidbits: Glen Perkins has advanced to throwing a light tennis shoe session. The pitcher is still throwing from the bottom of the mound and still has quite a way to go before he will be close to returning. ... Luis Castillo got the day off on Thursday due to sore knees. It's a common occurrence for the second baseman in day games after night games. Nick Punto started at second in his place with Luis Rodriguez playing third. Triple-A All-Stars: The roster for the International League All-Star Game was announced Wednesday, and four Triple-A Rochester players were included. Second baseman Matt Tolbert earned a starting spot while pitchers Matt Garza and Bobby Korecky and catcher Jose Morales were named as reserves. The game will take place on July 11 in Albuquerque with the International League taking on the Pacific Coast All-Star team. Coming up: The Twins head to Detroit on Friday for the start of a 10-day, 11-game road trip. The first of three games against the Tigers will take place on Friday night. Twins ace Johan Santana (8-6, 2.83) and Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander (9-2, 2.78) will square off in the 6:05 p.m. CT start.
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The black market dollar's climb of the past business days has been halted as it plunged 43 cents at 11.37 pesos. On Thursday, it ended 10 cents lower at 11.80 pesos, although accumulating an 80 cent rise during the week.
Analysts told reporters Wednesday's price had been exaggerated and thus, many of them decided to push the greenback's price down.
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Wiseco Performance Products takes on new roles in sponsorship and new events at Summit Motorsports Park
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By Vic Ellinger, salesman at Wiseco Performance Products.
NORWALK, Ohio -- True to a grassroots heritage in high performance forged pistons, Wiseco Performance Products increased sponsorship at multiple levels for 2013 at Summit Motorsports Park in Norwalk, Ohio.
As a new role, Wiseco Performance Products signed on as the presenting sponsor for Bear Motorsports Junior Dragsters.
"Wiseco is excited to present the Junior Dragster 2013 class at Summit Motorsports Park," said Vic Ellinger, in sales and marketing for Wiseco Performance Products, a local manufacturer based out of Mentor, Ohio. "We realize a lot of young racers gravitate toward running the big cars after they finish the junior program.
"We would like to show our appreciation to the families that choose our products to get them to the winner's circle by stepping up our involvement with Summit Motorsports Park's points program."
With the ongoing success of the Wiseco Fast Four shootout at the 7th Annual Mickey Mart Rewards Cavalcade of Stars presented by Budweiser May 17-19, 2013, Wiseco Performance Products increased the payout in both the Top sportsman and Top Dragster shootouts to $1,000 each for the two drivers with the fastest cars on the property.
In addition, Wiseco sponsors the X275 Drag Radial class October 4-6, 2013 at the new Summit Racing Equipment Shakedown at the Summit presented by Mickey Thompson.
"With the heads-up drag racing in our sights, Wiseco is very excited to help the Bader family bring this event to Summit Motorsports Park," Ellinger said, "and along with the help of Summit Racing and Mickey Thompson, to be able to sustain this legendary event by supporting one of its most popular classes.
"We work very closely with premier Junior Dragster engine builders such as Blossom Racing Engines, to develop top performing parts that our young racers need to win in today's ultra competitive classes," Ellinger said. "The technology in some of these Briggs-based engines is staggering."
"We feel by supporting the class and interacting with these families we may shed light on the fact that Wiseco does in fact participate in the Junior marketplace," Vic Ellinger said. "Some racers may not have the facilities or capability to perform a home repair on their engines, and may not be familiar with the Wiseco brand, or that their engine has Wiseco components.
"Well, we would like to change that," Ellinger said. "And the object here is to help them understand the inner workings of their race engines and get to know the people behind the products."
"Seeing the large concentration of Wiseco products in sportsman and big buck racing today, and the fact that young junior racers look up to and want to be just like their dads and moms, aunts or uncles, we decided it made perfect sense to support both programs in 2013.
"When junior racers move on into big cars," Ellinger said, "we hope that they will combine nostalgia and the top performance of Wiseco Performance Products into continuing their racing careers with us."
"We hope to see today's future stars follow in the tire grooves of Summit Motorsports Park racers who continued Wiseco loyalty from juniors into adult competition," Ellinger said.
"These highly successful racers include Chris Bear, Kristen and Kelsey Kiger, and Lauren and Matt Dadas," Ellinger said. "These racers show the same determination and sportsmanship of Clyde Wiseman, when he made his first piston in his East 92nd Street garage for his outboard racer.
"We feel that working with these young racers and the Bader family instills life-long beliefs that make for standout individuals both on and off the track."
Class sponsor Bear Motorsports -- Ken and Chris Bear, and Randy Scheuer Jr. -- not only race with but test Wiseco products with the dedicated work of advanced product design, Ellinger said, adding his company receives valuable data from the race track testing.
"Dynos are informative," Ellinger said. "But nothing compares to the rigors of powering a Bear Motorsports dragster for a full season.
"This team has an intense racing schedule and strict maintenance program," Ellinger said, "and Ken Bear is not afraid to push our parts to the max.
"At one race, Ken made the executive decision to have Chris leave their entry's 1100 horsepower beast stay running between rounds due to a damaged flywheel," Ellinger said. "About three hours later the team was all smiles standing in the winner's circle."
Bobbie Bader, sponsor sales and service at Summit Motorsports Park, said Wiseco continues supporting the Wiseco Cycle Tech Super Bike in the 2013 Mr. Gasket $53,000+ Super Series.


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This book was recently published (Kindle eBook only) by a friend of an acquaintance. It is available only in the USA it appears, unfortunately. If you are a Prime member, it can be "borrowed" through that program for free. I haven't had a chance to take a look at it yet - if you do, let us know what you think.
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Cooking for Halflings & Monsters: 111 Comfy, Cozy Recipes for Fantasy-Loving Souls
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In Cooking for Halflings and Monsters: 111 Comfy, Cozy Recipes for Fantasy-Loving Souls, Tolkien scholar Astrid Tuttle Winegar has created 111 original recipes to inspire you. Lovingly illustrated and written with dry humor throughout, this charming cookbook is sure to delight you and your family, friends, and whoever else is a lucky part of your community. So crack open a beer, rustle up some "Gündürnüb's Grüb," and come along on this epic culinary journey. Your quest for delicious recipes is complete!
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There may not be a Harry Hamlin-style nude stroll on the beach in the remake of "Clash of the Titans," but hunk-loving audiences get some lovely leg shots thanks to the itsy miniskirts donned by the Titans.
"There's a lot of skin," star Sam Worthington laughs. "You've got to get the girls in somehow and they ain't gonna come because of our brute heads. So we put the Christmas hams out."
Worthington's captivating co-star Mads Mikkelsen, who audiences might best remember as the Bond villain who cried tears of blood in "Casino Royale," continues, "It was strange. It would've been worse if someone was wearing cool pants but we're all wearing skirts. You just had to look at each other and say, 'I do have a sword and I do kill enormous creatures. It's okay with the skirt. I can live with it. ' [But] it was flying all over the place. How you girls [deal] with it, I don't get."
"I kept hoisting mine up. Gotta get those ricotta thighs out," Worthington crows.
"It's not a lot of protection but we got some flexibility," Mikkelsen shrugs gamely.
And a lovely cooling breeze.
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam Preview
We recently had a chance to sit down with a pre-production copy of Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam, and we were pretty happy with what we saw.
The game's story is set seven years after the One Year War. The Earth Federation, which won the war, has become corrupt, and its Titans police force has become a dictatorship. Now, the Anti-Earth Union Group and the formerly villainous Axis coalition find themselves on the same side in this new conflict. At the center of it all is a new hero, Kamille Bidan, who is the pilot of the mysterious transforming Gundam known as Zeta Gundam. Basically, the story is an excuse to pack nearly 50 different Gundams from multiple Gundam TV series and games into one single game.
You'll find mobile suits and mobile armor here from Mobile Suit Gundam, G-Gundam, and Zeta Gundam, along with a few stragglers from other installments of the anime. Those of you that have played the many video games based on those series will recognize 'bots from the Federation Vs. Zeon, One Year War, and Z: AEUG Vs. Titans games. So, in a manner of speaking, this new game contains everything those games had... and more.
Typically, robot fighting games come in two flavors, those that favor mission-based multi-opponent combat and those that favor 1-on-1 arena battles. Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam shakes up the paradigm by putting players into 2-on-2 battles. That's right--you've got a CPU-controlled partner helping you to take on two CPU-controlled opponents. This setup also makes multiplayer play interesting, because a second player can join you on your team, or opt to stand against you with his own CPU-controlled ally.
The main menu offers a multitude of play modes, include arcade, vs., universal century (story), survival, and training. The arcade and vs. modes, as you'd expect, let you compete against computer-controlled or live opponents in standard 2-on-2 fights. The universal century mode is a story style mode that lets you pick a particular pilot and try to change his or her history for the better. Matches in the U.C. mode are also 2-on-2, but the game doles out specific objectives that you have to achieve in order to earn a victory. We were very surprised, for example, when one objective told us to keep one of the enemy's mobile suits alive while knocking out its partner and subsequent replacements.
Fans of slow-paced, simulation style robot combat games probably won't like how Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam works. Fans of fast-paced, arcade style games like Zone of the Enders and Virtual On, on the other hand, will probably eat this game up. In fact, we noticed a lot of similarities between Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam and those two. Health, for instance, is represented in battle gauges at the top of the screen. In order to win, you have to damage the CPU until its combined battle gauge drops to zero. The controls are laid out so that you can jump, fly, and dash (on the ground or in the air) just by pressing a single button or double-tapping a direction on the analog stick. Each mobile suit's projectile and melee weapon is mapped to an individual button. You can perform special attacks by holding down the shoulder buttons, or lock-on using the circle button. Like the battles in Konami's Z.O.E., the fights in Gundam Vs. Zeta Gundam play out like cinematic dogfights, since all four mobile suits are constantly in motion. We're glad that the game has a lock-on button, because it's often tough to aim while dodging a volley of missiles.
Graphically, the game looks just about as good as a PS2 game can look. There's a great deal happening during each fight, what with missiles and lasers constantly flying by and the camera constantly changing position, but the game never stutters or slows down. From the handful of fights we managed to play, we noticed that the major share of polygons went into the mobile suits. They look gritty and dirty, but also exhibit a massive amount of detail--right down to moving parts like ankle joints, thruster cones, and wings. The environments, by comparison, aren't as intricate, but they are rather large. Many are populated with destructible objects, including enemy gun turrets, mobile armor, and space cruisers. Although roughly two-thirds of the game's 40+ stages are ground-based or located in areas with gravity, some are set in the vacuum of space or in underwater environments.
We'll have to put in more time with the retail version of the game before weighing in with any final judgements, but, so far, we get the impression that Christmas is coming in June for Gundam fans.
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Researchers from high technology companies and suppliers, and universities in the United States, Japan, Korea, Belgium and Germany gathered in Lake Placid earlier this month for the 14th International Symposium on Chemical-Mechanical Planarization (CMP), sponsored by Clarkson University's Center for Advanced Materials Processing (CAMP).
Chemical-mechanical planarization or chemical-mechanical polishing, CMP for short, is a process that uses nano-sized abrasives in a reactive, chemical slurry to polish various layers on the surface of wafers used in semiconductor fabrication to achieve nanolevel planarity.
CMP plays an increasingly important role in today's microelectronics industry. It is the ideal, and the only planarizing technology for use with the interlayer dielectrics and metal films used in silicon integrated circuit fabrication.
CMP is an enabling technology that translates into faster computers, more realistic video games, smaller cell phones and more efficient performance from the various electronic devices we use daily in our homes and businesses.
Distinguished University Professor and CAMP Director S.V. Babu of Clarkson University was the lead organizer and co-chair of the symposium.
He was assisted by co-organizers Lee Cook, technology fellow, Dow Electronic Materials; Mahadevaiyer Krishnan, research scientist & manager, Colloid & Interface Science - Advanced Planarization, IBM; Yuzhuo Li, R&D head for Global Business Unit Electronic Materials at BASF and Professor of Chemistry at Clarkson; and Jin-Goo Park, professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Hanyang University.
This year's symposium focused on several fundamental aspects of CMP, which included abrasive particles, polishing mechanisms, pad behavior, flow characterization, defects and post-polish cleaning, low-k films and integration issues, 300 mm wafer challenges and MEMS/MOEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems/micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems).
Invited speakers from end-users, tool, pad and slurry manufacturers, and universities presented their research results. The Symposium also included three, one-hour workshops.
These tutorials were presented by Dr. Len Borucki of Araca Incorporated (Pads in all their Glory), Dean/Professor Goodarz Ahmadi of Clarkson University (Overview of Models for Chemical Mechanical Planarization), and Distinguished University Professor/CAMP Director S.V. Babu (Slurry Options and Impact on some Defects for Cu, Barrier and Dielectric Planarization). In addition, a poster session was held to display the CMP research taking place at CAMP.
Clarkson University President Tony Collins delivered an after-dinner keynote speech. His presentation focused on "Innovation and the Economy." He also presented award plaques to Adele Connors and Sharon Williams (both of Adworkshop, Lake Placid, N.Y.) for their excellent work with CAMP newsletters over the years.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
Photo Caption: Co-organizers of the 14th International Symposium on Chemical-Mechanical Planarization. Left to right: S.V. Babu (Distinguished University Professor / CAMP Director, Clarkson University), Lee Cook (Technology Fellow, Dow Electronic Materials), Yuzhuo Li (R&D Head for Global Business Unit Electronic Materials at BASF and Professor of Chemistry at Clarkson University) and Jin-Goo Park (Professor, Department of Materials Engineering, Hanyang University).


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Fast & Easy Dinner: Chicken Potpie Empanadas
Fast & Easy Dinner: Chicken Potpie Empanadas
The classic chicken potpie gets a portable makeover in this delicious recipe. Although a traditional potpie, with its homemade dough and slow-cooked chicken, takes time to make, this shortcut version uses refrigerated pie crusts and rotisserie chicken to cut the cook time. Kids will especially enjoy these empanadas because they require no eating utensils. For the recipe please,
Chicken Potpie Empanadas
From Real Simple
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/2 yellow onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 3/4 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 10-ounce box frozen peas and carrots
- 1 3- to 4-pound store-bought rotisserie chicken, meat shredded
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/4 teaspoon black pepper
- 2 refrigerated 9-inch piecrusts (from a 15-ounce package, such as Pillsbury)
- Heat oven to 400° F.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the onion and cook for 3 minutes. Add the flour and cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.
- Still stirring, slowly add the broth. Cook until thickened, about 3 minutes. Add the peas and carrots, chicken, salt, and pepper. Remove from heat.
- Cut each piecrust in half to form 4 half-circles. Spoon the chicken mixture over the bottom half of each half-circle, leaving a 1/2-inch border.
- Using your fingers, wet the border with water. Fold the top of each crust over the chicken to form a quarter-circle. Press to seal. Make three 1-inch slits in each top crust.
- Transfer to a baking sheet. Bake until golden, 15 to 18 minutes.
Serves 4.
CALORIES 696.66(46% from fat); FAT 35.48g (sat 8.14g); CHOLESTEROL 142.95mg; CALCIUM 61.27mg; CARBOHYDRATE 42.72g; SODIUM 680.21mg; PROTEIN 50.47mg; FIBER 3.33g; IRON 4.29mg
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San Diego, CA – February 6th, 2012 – ChiroTouch™, the world's leader in chiropractic software solutions, gave chiropractors an advanced look at their new iPad apps at the Parker Seminar in Las Vegas, Nevada, and was met with tremendous response.
"We felt very positive that our line of iPad Apps, which work in conjunction with our ChiroTouch software system, would do well, but the response from chiropractors was nothing short of spectacular," said Robert Moberg, President of ChiroTouch. "The feedback we received was incredible, and as a result we welcomed more practices to the ChiroTouch family at this year's event than we have at any single event in our company's history."
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"Our newest ad campaign is titled Innovation, and that's exactly what forms the basis of our never-ending quest to bring the industry's most advanced solutions to our family of practices," added Robert. "Helping chiropractors innovate ultimately leads to improving their ability to provide better care to their patients, increase practice revenues, and ultimately find success in running their practices."
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|April 11, 1999, 06:48 AM
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Your Devil's Advocacy is appreciated. When I say, "let go", I didn't mean "forget about it". Surely, afterwards, the police would arrive. You would give them your best detailed description possible. Then, I say, let the professionals handle it.
Otherwise, I think we agree as your quote from Texas law(?) coincides from my third point in my second post.
Of course having fun with scenarios in magazines is not the real thing. That's why they're fun games. It would be wrong to lump it with the real thing. And I never said that, did I?
That being said, it is extremely difficult to train with the real thing. Not FOR the real thing. WITH the real thing. Do you train with real people holding real guns with real bullets in them? I hope not. That's why we tone down the reality level somewhat, and use less-than-lethal methods of training. Even something as laughable as Red Gun can be useful. Just gotta see it for what it's worth; take what's useful, dispense with the rest. And to that effect, playing out scenarios can be enlightening in terms of learning more about strategy and tactics. It may be a game, but it doesn't have to be a waste of time.
I agree with the rest of your points. It's a sad fact that many who still walk around out there thinking they're the Punisher.
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If I should happen to be inadvertantly carrying in a forbidden location, then I am not drawing my weapon for anything short of a direct threat to me or my family. If society wants to limit my ability to protect myself, I am certainly not going out on a limb, legally, to protect society.
I agree with Spartacus that if you let the guy go someone else will have to deal with him. However, society has made it so expensive, in a variety of ways, for me to address it, that I feel justified in letting someone else deal with it.
This particular scenario is probably a no shoot scenario, even if you are carrying legally, unless it evolves.
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One fellow suggested to me that people with a CCW license pretend their gun is illegal. That way, they will use it only if they have to.
I have played lots of games, on the range and off. But a gunfight is not a game. In a real gunfight, people get killed. Or paralyzed for life. Or get just enough brain shot away to be a vegetable. Or go to prison. Or are bankrupted by lawsuits.
Learning to shoot is not enough. You have to learn to engage the brain before putting the pistol into action.
|April 11, 1999, 11:57 PM
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Jim, you make a lot of good points. However, let me take a little issue with a couple:
1. "If you are carrying with a CCW license, you are limited by law to self-defense, which means that you may defend yourself and your family against an immediate threat of death or serious injury." Actually, at least in Arizona, you can certainly use deadly force to prevent an unrelated third party from suffering mortal injury or death. This is crystal clear.
2. "If you choose to carry and use deadly force, you are not in the playground any more! We are talking about killing people, maybe innocent people, and that is not a game." Well, of course that is true. And folks that make too much light of these 'games' are perhaps not taking the situations seriously enough. OTOH, people, including me, often joke about extremely serious subjects in order to relieve some of the pressure. That is human nature.
And, this is my most important point, these 'games' are very, very helpful to reacting properly in an actual violent encounter. Our CCW instructor stressed, and our written exam even included the idea that we consider possible violent scenarios and how we would react. This wasn't discussed as simply a good idea - it was mentioned as one of the most critical things we would do. Makes sense to me - learn everything I can about my firearm(s), practice with them until I could safely use them in my sleep, know the pertinent laws, and consider and practice potential scenarios. Now, I'm a lot newer to this than many of my fellow TFL members, and maybe I've got it wrong, but this makes sense to me. As it stands, I plan to live fire at least once each week, dry-fire practice every few days, and use the F.A.T.S. simulator (computerized firearms training simulator) once each month. I take the responsibility of a CCW very seriously.
BTW, cornered rat, the Red Zone in rec.guns was very helpful and interesting. Thanks.
Jim, to be honest, it sounds like you have unfortunately run into many of the poorer examples of firearms owners. Guess I've been lucky enough to avoid more of them so far. Most of the folks I've 'met' on TFL seem much, much more responsible than your concerns would indicate.
And, carrying 2 big Glocks, 2 little Glocks, 2 Bowie knives, etc. may be a bit much, but I personally always make sure I've got an extra Diet Pepsi. 'Course it can get pretty warm in AZ.
|April 12, 1999, 08:09 AM
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On carrying two of everything: if a single Oerlicon 20mm and a plain-jain 4" recoilless derringer for backup don't do it, I don't think anything will. Besides, would you want to hear the prosecutor say: "A single 16" gun was not enough for this man, he had to have three (!) and had even installed a turrent on his car to that end."
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|April 18, 1999, 09:45 AM
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I guess it comes down to how your State laws are written for your CCW. In Kentucky, you will be justified (not required legally. Morally?) shooting a BG if the third person is justified in shooting a BG. In a restaurant with a lot of people, I'd let the BG take the money and run. Unless he starts shooting. Money can be replaced. Lives cannot...
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|April 19, 1999, 10:07 PM
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IMHO, Jeff Thomas said it all on his first post to this thread! Your mind has to be in gear, that's an absolute. I think Luby's would have turned out better if Jeff had been there.
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|April 27, 1999, 06:21 PM
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Jim Keenan:
From whence do the police get their police powers?
It's this abandonment of citizen responsibility for the community's safety, relying solely upon those to whom we have delegated our powers, which has led to our dangerous society of do-nothing sheeple.
Unless you're in some mandatory retreat state like Massachusetts, lethal force is okay for defense of self and others. Not just family. Not just blood kin, excluding in-laws.
The key to this scenario is how imminent the danger is. Legal repercussions pale in light of a greater moral responsibility to the community. Once the first shot is fired, letting that person continue unchallenged is almost inexcusable.
I do not advocate trying to draw when the perp is already pointed at you. But preparing to act, planning the positioning to minimize hazards to bystanders, and thinking these things through can be quite helpful.
Not so long ago, a crazy with a gun walked down the center of a busy street, trying (halfheartedly?) to hijack a car. He fled when one citizen displayed his own gun. Later than night, a cab driver was found shot dead. Surveillance tapes from a nearby business showed that the shooter was exactly the same crazy.
So, although the decision whether to engage in a losing scenario is a rather personal one (we may have no moral obligation to die trying, though that is an honorable way to go), there seems to be a bit of justifiable defense of others possible.
Yes, sometimes the best decision is to not engage. But I find your knee-jerk LEO vs. common citizen distinctions and family-only mentality to be a bit disturbing.
Who's never had to even display a weapon defensively, and tries to live so he won't, either.
|April 27, 1999, 09:32 PM
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Good evening, Cheapo,
I have been a LEO, am now a "common" (not sure I like that word) citizen. In some CCW states (VA is one), licensee is permitted only to defend himself or family. As I said earlier, I would violate that restriction if I had to defend an innocent person.
I make a distinction between LEO and citizen because the laws do. I cannot flag down speeders, for example, or stop and frisk a person I suspect of having committed a crime.
My concern is not with someone like you who carries with discretion and control. But some posters seem to be ready to shoot at the slightest excuse, and that could present a problem. Not only could this turn a robbery into worse, but the armed citizen may not have adequate information on which to judge a situation. I cited the example of an armed citizen shooting an FBI agent whose arrest of a suspect may look like an assault.
Those who have read some of my other postings know that I am not in "knee-jerk" defense of LEOs. But citizens who carry guns need to know the law and the limits imposed on their actions. And display the kind of common sense you are discussing.
In the case you mentioned, the citizen had no legal right to kill the would-be hijacker after the BG left. He could not legally shoot the man in the back. That might have made for the best outcome in the long run, but the citizen would have been arrested for murder and would probably have been convicted.
Sorry, Cheapo, that's reality.
|April 28, 1999, 06:30 AM
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I agree! Having a CCW and/or all the tactical training in the world does not relieve you of your first responsibility , which is to avoid trouble when possible. Most of the good self-defense instructors define defensive pistolcraft as your LAST line of defense, which comes somewhere after running away (sorry Rambo!)If someone starts shooting, that changes the rules. Just don't you be the one to escalate violence.
|April 28, 1999, 08:14 AM
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One serious problem with CCW is that there is usually no means of escalation. Police officers are usually in good physical shape and are trained to suit their actions to the situation.
The mere presence of a uniformed police officer can defuse many situations. The cop has training in unarmed combat (maybe not black belt, but some training). He or she is trained to use the baton, Mace, blackjack, and handcuffs (as a weapon), before or instead of resorting to deadly force. An armed citizen has a gun. Period. It is like a nation with no army or navy, only nuclear missiles.
The armed citizen can respond only with deadly force and can do so only in defending himself or herself, family members, and other known innocent people. The CCW licensee may not shoot those involved in a barroom brawl, may not blow away the creep who rams his car in a parking lot and takes off, may not put a bullet into the purse snatcher.
I support CCW, but recognize its limits. The license carries no special privileges or rights except one - it provides an exemption to the law against concealed weapons carry.
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|April 28, 1999, 04:48 PM
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Sir, I must respectfully disagree. I got into an extensive argument with Jack Fuselier on this basic idea several months ago. I stated that having some hand-to-hand training is an advantage, because one has the ability to escalalate the situation. If one has a firearm, you have (essentially- I do believe in striking with firearms, as well!) only a shoot/no shoot option. I am personally of the opinion that I will never draw my gun unless I plan on using it, and I will not point my gun at any target I do not intend to perforate immediately.
I believe that "less lethal" tools such as chemical agent (carried by many CCL/CHL holders) and canes can often resolve a situation without resorting to gunplay. If they cannot resolve the situation, perhaps they can give the time to make a clean presentation and take the shot.
Because of the nature of our current legal system, I am willing to assume more risk than most would be happy with. I would rather risk dying tonight than dying a lingering death after meeting "Bubba and the boys" in the big house. This means that I will attempt to use every means besides lethal force if I have any choice-unless other lives are at stake. I have a moral obligation, law be damned, to protect innocents in my circle of influence (bubble).
|April 29, 1999, 10:21 AM
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I think we are saying the same thing, but I am not making my point too well. I, too, would use deadly force to protect innocent people and worry about the law later. I would probably do that even if I were armed illegally. I agree with not drawing unless necessary; threats and pointed guns always work on TV; in real life, the punk might give you the finger and walk away, knowing you don't dare shoot him. Just don't get so grooved into "draw and fire" that you fire reflexively without thinking. Always engage brain before putting trigger finger in action.
My point is that the CCW license does not confer police powers. A licensee is not responsible for the general keeping of the peace in his area. I gave examples of a barroom brawl and a hit and run as cases where an armed citizen cannot use deadly force. Tempted to kill some SOB who knocks you down, grabs your wallet and runs? You bet! Allowed to do that? No! When a direct threat to your (or other innocent?) life ends, so does the right of self-defense.
Sorry, folks, that is the way it is.
I have repeatedly stated that the CCW license does not give the licensee any privileges or rights he doesn't have without it, except to carry the gun legally. Some folks seem to have a hard time grasping that simple idea.
I have the right of self defense, whether I am armed legally or illegally or not armed at all.
I will go back to one of my original themes: If you are going to carry a gun, talk first to an attorney about the law and put him/her on retainer in case you do have to use the gun. All the shooting techniques in the world won't help if you are in a cell and your gun is in the police property room.
|April 29, 1999, 10:52 AM
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Though I have fairly extensive training in a grappling system and Tae Kwon Do, I should personally uncomfortable in engaging in a physical "tussle" while armed. The techniques of weapon retention are necessary prerequisites for that action.
Other alternatives, chemical, impact weapon, may be a better choice than grappling.
My concern here is that once you are in contact with the individual you are in grave danger!
Regardless of your level of training once you are striking range, very bad things can happen in very short order. One could get a thumb in the eye, discover that the perpetrator is vey adept, get stabbed fatally, in under a 1/2 second!
If this is not an immediate deadly force intervention, I would be inclined to stand back and verbally challenge the individual.
Especially were he to have a weapon in hand.
Confonting a non-lethal situation physically for a citizen is in my personal estimation foolish.
If no one is about to be maimed or killed, there is nothing but property involved, I would not come into contact with the prepetrator physically.
As others have noted, in most states one may use force in defense of another if a reasonable person would conclude it necessary. Generally this means threat to life or limb.
If there use of such a force does not appear reasonably imminent to the ordinary observer you are not "authorized" to intervene with any sort of force.
The decision to use less than lethal force implies that you are outside of the exception for intervention on another's behalf. Just my humble opinion. (Having been in the role of an interventionist who was subsequently afoul of a carrying without a permit charge).
(resolved by dismissal when the DA determined that we had legal precedent in the jurisdiction for arming and intervening, and willingness and capability ( both financial and representation) to go to trail)
this is a little long, sorry
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|May 1, 1999, 04:21 AM
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Jim K:
I'm in less of a rant mode tonight. Had a great discourse 80% written yesterday, then lost it when I was called away from the computer.
True, common citizens (I, too, hate that term. It fails to honor the position.) do not have police powers. But the law makes the distinctions between police and citizens only because the people through representatives have made it so. The power to use force to protect self, others, order, and public property rested originally with the citizen, and can be reclaimed by just changing the statute.
I cite the community duty roster of all able-bodied males who used to patrol Wall Street in New Amsterdam. We hired others to take our duty shift, and thus created the modern Police professional. The older tradition of Kingly enforcement of stuff like anti-hunting decrees (King owns all wildlife, Sir Robin Hood!) by political appointees has less bearing on U.S. "police powers" of the gov'mint.
What to do? Depends on the level of danger. No shots fired by the BG means as unobtrusively as possible get your firearm in hand if at all possible. Observe closely for accomplices. Plot body position and movement, to include cover if possible, for if the BG starts to do A B or C, moving himself N, S, E, or W. Include danger to bystanders in your calculations.
Once a shot is fired, it's probably a personal decision whether to attempt to stop it at the risk of getting killed yourself. Being in near-contact distance makes the shot easier but the danger to you greater. But I say that once a shot is fired, the BG is proven to be a dangerous killer and anyone is justified using lethal force, even as the BG retreats. When the BG is so highly dangerous, defense of non-family members, like society at large or the cop who is about to round the corner to get a load of lead in the face, is okay and fully justified. The right-to-defense-ends-when-BG-starts-to-leave rule for fleeing felons does not apply in many jurisdictions to those who just killed and still have the ability to kill again.
If he drops the gun, he's no longer fair game.
Despite all of our training and planning and thinking things through, sometimes the best course is to not engage the BG. An element of flexibility must be part of our bag of tools.
For the driver who did not shoot through the window at the would-be carjacker, that was probably the best decision for him, though disastrous for the cabbie. The driver correctly surmised that his life was *not* in imminent danger, and both parties lived. But under the circumstances, another person could have had a reasonable belief of imminent danger and been in the right to shoot.
However, most good guys are not eager to see blood, and puke over the unpleasantness that follows the sheer terror of a near-lethal (for you) encounter. Ultimately, it comes down to being a personal decision based on what prices you are willing to pay.
Try in vain in a tactically losing situation and lose your life trying? No dishonor there, especially compared to letting carnage continue unchallenged while you wait for backup. Defer to the odds and let the BG go even after only one person is killed? No dishonor there because of the risk of harm to others from starting a gunfight in a crowded room. But save your own skin by becoming invisible as the killer wanders through the place shooting/stabbing/stomping anyone who moves? Inexcusable!
Exactly where you will draw the line between
1. the first victim and
2. the number of deaths which convinces you that the body count cannot be made worse by turning it into a gunfight...
well, that's probably a personal decision too, but it falls into the undefinable term "reasonable." It will depend on the circumstances and maybe even on the "vibes" you get. Unseen powers can give us the insights we need in such dire settings, if we remain flexible and listen.
And since it's a restaurant, let's not forget the utility of grabbing a knife and slashing the gun hand tendons while immobilizing the gun. Assess your chances and count on heavy resistance, more than you get even in full-speed practice at the Dojo.
The point about all problems looking like nails when all you have is a hammer...well, it's VERY well said.
Sorry this is so long, but I discovered a personal stake in this type of scenario last October. Turns out that one of my college buds, whom I was trying to look up, was killed by a wacko who wanted to make a point at Ft. Bragg in 1995. My friend was unarmed and died trying. And he wasn't the only one storming the BG's position.
Let us never forget that the only legitimate source of government power is the citizens. If WE cannot exercise a certain power, we cannot grant it to the state.
|May 19, 1999, 12:03 PM
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I just so enjoyed reading this topic I had to join up just to stick my two cents worth in. First off, at least in Texas, you certainly CAN shoot the guy who stole your wallet at knifepoint and is now walking away. Or snatched your purse. In the back. I realize most locales are not in that status, but let's not assume that our rules apply in others' situations.
I find Texas unique in many ways regarding armed citizens; a previous post here recalled the deer hunter who took out a man who was in the process of murdering a police officer. That post did not mention that 1) the police refused (under a good deal of pressure from a press which adored him) to even identify that man, since he did not want them to, wished to remain anonymous, 2)at a private ceremony a while later, the police presented him with an engraved plaque expressing their gratitude for his actions, along with a presentation cased custom Colt .45 Gold Cup with gold engraving, while still not releasing his name, and 3)the next time a DPS trooper was murdered in the line of duty was more than 5 YEARS later (actually, seems like it was 15 years, but I don't have the precise figures). If the police departments in your states force CHL holders to ignore crime which does not immediately threaten their own lives (regardless of what the law says), I betcha they're suffering much higher rates of murdered police officers than that, not to mention other crimes!
Possibly even more instructive of why I am a "transplant" to this lovely state, some years after that hunter popped that BG, but still prior to passage of our CC law, here in Austin a citizen in his car came upon a gunfight between a police officer and a perp, completely ignorant of the causes therefore, just as the officer went down. When he observed the shooter proceed TOWARD the wounded officer rather than running away, he decided (as has been advocated here) the devil with the law, he was NOT going to watch this happen, and pulled his weapon, stepped out of his car and dispatched the perp forthwith, my recollection says it was with several shots in the back. The officer survived.
Now, the interesting part; turns out, according to the police report, this gent was in possession of that concealed, loaded firearm in a state without a CHL law because he just coincidentally happened to be on his way to a gun store to purchase ammunition for it, which under the TX Constitution gave him the right to legally carry that pistola as he was doing (our Constitution has a bunch of little hidden stuff like that). I read that article in the paper and laughed until I cried. See, I knew about that provision, but I really wondered whether that citizen knew about it or whether the police had to explain it to him in great detail before he decided he was on his way to purchase ammunition! At any rate, he was applauded, not charged with a crime, and that is how it should be. If it is not in your area, perhaps you should get active and address why not.
I have carried whenever I thought I had a need to for over 30 years, sometimes legally and sometimes not, and so has my wife, and we are just now considering CHLs for the first time. On several occasions LEOs have discovered that fact, one way or another (I've never much hidden it if asked), and none has been interested in pursuing it beyond checking my ID, wants and warrants, etc. I have never had cause to even consider using the firearm I've carried, nor have I ever regretted NOT having it along. But the two cases I've cited here have one thing in common-the two citizens involved had absolutely zero problem deciding "what to do". See, I got to the topic, finally.
I submit, while agreeing totally with the concept of pretending you are carrying illegally to help make your decisions, that if any of us ever really need to actually USE that firearm, there aren't going to be any questions in our minds. If I had illegally carried my weapon into that Luby's in Killeen, not unheard of for me, the second shot fired that day would have been mine. If I was unsuccessful and went down, I have no doubt at all that if she was along, my wife would then have taken up my weapon and continued. If she went down, I have no doubt at all that Suzanna Gratia (now -Hupp) and/or her father would have come for that weapon very quickly. Her father charged the lunatic bare-handed, for goodness sake! Every person in the place knew within seconds that it was time to draw and fire, the entire problem was that the BG had the ONLY firearms present.
So my answer to the question at hand is that if you have to think about it, don't even think about it. Should the need arise, you will know.
In passing, btw, anybody who "displays" a weapon to a perp with a firearm drawn and pointed at him is a suicidal idiot, IMHO. And anyone who gets physical with ANYBODY while himself packin' heat should be locked away for his own protection as well as the protection of society. Your level of courtesy should jump by a huge leap whenever you strap on a deadly weapon. "Excuse me, kind sir, if you would please wait until I go to my car and deposit my firearm in the trunk, I will then gladly return and kick your ass till your hat flies off." If you conclude that this response will get you killed, then SHOOT him! Don't fight him. If it seems he would be inclined to agree, say it, then get in your car and leave. That is my own (untrained) version of "conflict avoidance".
Too long, I know, but I had a lot of catching up to do!
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If Hikind were a Republican the Democrats would be demanding his resignation 24/7. It would be broadcast nationally on MSNBC.
No equivocation. None.
But because he's a Democrat he gets a pass.
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Obviously you and CR don't follow politics very closely because every day on MSNBC we hear another accusation of racism against Republicans. Essentially any time someone is against a policy dictate of Barry they are accused of being a racist. It is part of the filthy way progressives go about ramming their harmful policies down the throats of the people. Demonize and denigrate the competition. Just yesterday Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bob Woodward was threatened by the White House to stop his honest reporting because to paraphrase Obama's words "if he doesn't stop he will regret it".
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