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Post Abortion Syndrome (PAS)
PAS is the development of symptoms resulting from unsuccessful coping methods following the physical and emotional trauma of abortion. PAS may be instant or can be hidden for years, but most assuredly not forever. Post abortion syndrome not only affects women but men as well. Acknowledging how you feel about the abortion and being allowed to grieve will help you come to peace with yourself and with others.
More and more women are reaching out for help. You are NOT alone. The statistics are staggering.
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Apply for VA benefits through the VA: Vets.gov. (Visit the transfer of benefits link for info on transferring the Post 9/11 GI Bill® to spouse/dependent). The VA will mail you a Certificate of Eligibility (COE), Notice of Basic Eligibility (NOBE) or Award Letter (this comes 4-10 weeks after you complete your application).
You will need to do VA benefits paperwork every semester (see continuing student info below for your second semester and beyond). For your first semester, following items need to be completed:
- Visit the Use VA Educational Benefits page and complete the "New Request" form. You can do this as soon as you have a KU ID. We highly recommend completing this before Orientation.
- Transferring benefits from another university? You'll indicate that in the "New Request" form and we'll complete the benefits transfer process for you
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August 15 2016
Middlesex Sheriff Warns of Phone Scam with Perpetrators Posing as Deputy Sheriffs
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The Middlesex Sheriff's Office (MSO) is warning residents of ongoing telephone scams in which perpetrators are posing as deputy sheriffs, a release states.
"In recent days, we have received multiple reports of individuals threatening arrest for failure to pay outstanding bills or fines," said Middlesex Sheriff Peter J. Koutoujian. "These are scams. No member of this office, or any legitimate law enforcement agency, will ever threaten arrest in such a manner."
In each case, the caller claimed to be a deputy sheriff, providing the recipient of the call with a name and badge number, and indicating either a warrant or a complaint had been issued for the individual's arrest, the sheriff's office reports. Fortunately, in each of the recent cases reported to the Middlesex Sheriff's Office, the recipients of the calls recognized them as scams.
"For more than two years we have been warning residents of these growing arrest scams," said Sheriff Koutoujian. "It used to be that scammers preyed on people's hopes, but today they are preying on their fears. By educating and alerting residents to these scams they can better protect themselves and their hard-earned money."
With an increase of these arrest scams, the MSO is offering the following tips:
- - Never give out your Social Security number or date of birth to anyone who contacts you;
- - Never provide any financial information (bank account, credit card numbers);
- - Never purchase a product (MoneyPak cards, gift cards, etc.) to pay a debt;
- - If a caller phoning about financial issues identifies themselves as a member of law enforcement, get their name, hang up the phone and call Information or look up the agency's main telephone line.Then call the main number, ask for that officer by name and remain on the line to speak with them, but always remember a legitimate member of law enforcement will never demand money.
Residents who receive similar calls in which individuals identify themselves as MSO deputies may contact the MSO's Digital Forensics Unit at 978-495-7417 and are also encouraged to contact their local police department.


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The global particle size analyzers market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 4.9% and is expected to reach ~290 million by 2018. Compared to mature markets, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.0%. The growth of the particle size analyzers market is primarily triggered by factors such as the increasing application of nanotechnology, geographic expansion of market players across the globe, and the presence of stringent regulatory guidelines to comply with good manufacturing practices for traditional industries (such as healthcare, chemicals, mining, and petroleum). However, factors such as high import duties on particle size analyzers in developing countries, high cost of analyzers, and the lack of customer awareness are restraining the growth of the particle size analyzers market. Market consolidation through mergers and acquisitions, and increasing stringency of government regulations related to GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) guidelines in developing countries such as China and India are opening new growth opportunities for players in this market.
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Based on the type of technology, the global particle size analyzers market is categorized into six segments, namely, laser diffraction, dynamic light scattering (DLS), imaging, Coulter Principle, nanoparticle tracking analysis (NTA), and others. The others segment comprises resonant mass measurement, sedimentation, sieve analysis, and laser obscuration. The laser diffraction technology segment held the largest share of the global particle size analyzers market and is poised to grow at a CAGR of 4.0% in the forecast period. Factors such as the increasing number of partnerships among market players to develop their customer base and advancements in laser diffraction particle size analyzers are stimulating the growth of the laser diffraction particle size analyzers market.
Geographically, North America (comprising the U.S. and Canada) accounted for the largest share of ~32.8% of global particle size analyzers market, followed by Europe with a share of 32.3%. A number of factors such as low energy prices, growing number of scientific researches, and the presence of stringent regulatory policies to comply with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) guidelines are driving the growth of the particle size analyzers market in North America. However, the gradual migration of R&D and manufacturing activities of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies from North America to developing Asian countries is the major restraining factor for the growth of the particle size analyzers market in North America. The Asia-Pacific region is poised to grow at the highest CAGR of 6.0% in next five years. The growth of particle size analyzers in the Asia-Pacific market is propelled by factors such as the rapidly growing pharmaceutical industry and increasing government concerns towards maintaining the high quality standards for products manufactured in emerging countries.
The global particle size analyzers market is highly competitive, with a large number of global as well as local market players. As of 2013, the global particle size analyzers market was dominated by Malvern Instruments Limited (U.K.), HORIBA, Ltd. (Japan), Beckman Coulter, Inc. (U.S.), and Microtrac, Inc. (U.S.). New product launch and product development are the key growth strategies adopted by market players. Along with these strategies, expansion, partnerships, agreements, and collaborations were also adopted by a significant number of market players to strengthen their product portfolio and expand their geographic presence.
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Lymphoma is a common blood cancer type which develops when lymphocytes multiply in an uncontrolled manner. There are two types of lymphomas- Hodgkin's and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, out of which non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is more common. Natural killer cell (NK) lymphoma is a type of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. There are three types of NK cell lymphomas namely, extranodal, nasal type and aggressive NK cell lymphoma. Extranodal lymphomas occur in organs other than lymph nodes, hence called as extranodal lymphomas. Nasal type of NK cell lymphomas usually affects nasal areas and paranasal sinuses. Aggressive form of the lymphoma is a very fast growing cancer, because of which prognosis is difficult to study. NK cell lymphomas are also shown to be associated with Epstein Barr Virus (EBV).
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Research and development activities have been impairedbecause of unpredictable prognosis and rare prevalence. Currently Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide), Procytox (cyclophosphamide), Adriamycin(doxorubicin), Oncovin(vincristine), Deltasone (prednisone) are widely used in chemotherapy. While radiation therapy is also practiced for treating the cancer. Various research institutes and corporates are also trying to discover new means to treat the cancer. These include Kirin Holdings Company, Mundipharma International Limited, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Seoul National University Hospital, University of Minnesota, Zhengzhou University, and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Study conducted by Zhengzhou University is currently under Phase IV trial which focuses in evaluation of gemcitabine, pegaspargase, cisplatin, and dexamethasone for chemotherapy.
A study published in Journal of Rare Diseases in 2013, have shown that NK cell lymphomas are common in Asia, Latin America and Central America as compared to North America and Europe. As the prevalence is higher in developing economies, cost of the treatment will be a major barrier for market growth. But a strong pipeline and rising incidences of cancer is expected to support the market in the future.
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This week's Super Simple Birthday Cake tutorial is inspired by two of my printable party invitations, my Picnic Party Invitation and my "Apple of our Eye" Apple Party Invitation.
These easy birthday cakes would be really cute as part of a dessert table at either an apple themed party or an picnic themed party for both boys and girls. The little apple on the top could be changed to look like a peach, a cherry or a strawberry by simply substituting the colour of the gumball or using different lollies.
How to: Gingham Apple CupcakeYou will need:
- Red sour straps
- Green gumballs
- Green fruit laces
- Mint leaves
Place a generous dollop of icing to the top of the cake. Hold the cake in your hand. Using the flat edge of a butter knife, work the icing out from the centre of the cake in sweeping strokes, turning the cake in the opposite direction as you go.
Cut the sour straps in two, length ways. Begin slightly left of centre, and lay the sour strap across the cake. Continue to lay the sour straps parallel to each other across the cake at regular intervals (see photos). Trim the ends of the sour straps to length as you go. Repeat with the sour straps in opposite direction to create a checked gingham pattern.
Take a gumball and place on top of the cake in the centre. Cut a small 1cm lenght of the fruit lace and stick it upright from the top of the gumball. Use a small amount of icing on the tip of the fruit lace to hold it in place. Using kitchen scissors, cut the pointed end of a mint leaf down to a smaller leaf shape (see photos). Stick it on top of the gumball, next to the fruit lace, using a small amount of icing to hold it in place.
And there you have it, a cute and simple gingham apple cupcake. If you are looking for more cake decorating inspiration and tutorials to help plan your child's birthday party, then check out the rest of my Super Simple Birthday Cake series. They feature lots of easy and affordable cake decorating ideas that will look so effective on you birthday party dessert table.


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After a day, we suddenly realized that SQL Server instance name doesn't allow "_", it seems there is no any problem for regular usage even you use the underscore except in some rare case which we met luckily.
So the solution is change the instance name to exclude the underscore then.
STEP 1: running these two queries:
sp_helpserver select @@servername
STEP 2: get the network name
- Run this in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio:
sp_dropserver 'old_name' go sp_addserver 'new_name','local' go
- Restart SQL Server service.
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Mel Torme will sing The Christmas Song aboard a 76-foot yacht cruising the illuminated Intracoastal Waterway Saturday night as invited guests sip cocktails in the posh salon below deck.
Along the route, an estimated half million people perched on bridges, condo balconies and any available site will cheer Torme, trumpeter Doc Severinsen and Today Show weatherman Willard Scott during the 14th Annual Christmas Boat Parade in Fort Lauderdale.
The three are among the celebrities who will appear on one of an expected 125 boats, which will be elaborately decorated along the theme of ``Tropical Treasures.``
``We`ve encouraged owners to create some form of major entertainment on their boats just like a Macy`s Thanksgiving Day Parade on the water,`` said Ina Lee, president of Winterfest, the countywide festival highlighted by the boat parade.
The parade will begin on the Intracoastal at 6:30 p.m. and travel from Port Everglades to Lake Santa Barbara, just north of Commercial Boulevard.
Grand marshals Severinsen, Scott and Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart will be on one of five lead boats, as well as Miss Universe Deborah Cathy-Deu.
They will be followed by five showboats, all lined with expensive decorations. Torme will sing aboard the Mary Ann, owned by a company headed by Detroit publisher Frederick Ruffner.
An example of the elaborate efforts for the parade is California Federal`s 61-foot Hatteras. It has been given a nautical makeover by Fort Lauderdale designer Don Moore.


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Reclamation projects to help BLM with re-vegatation of the forest, by replanting native plants within the forest in areas that have been disturbed by off road use, fire, drought or other activities that have compromised the landscape.
Clean up projects, such as large trash dumps, and the general trash pick-up throughout the forest.
We work with BLM to maintain roads and trails to discourage and decrease people impact of the fragile eco system in the forest.
Monthly monitoring of the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest
- Monitoring for trash within the forest and picking up what we run across or schedule an event if the trash dump is large.
- Identify Illegal roads within the forest which can have a huge impact on the health of the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest; compaction of the soil caused by such roads will prevent important nutrients from entering the soil causing stress and eventual death of the Joshua Trees.
- File a monthly report with BLM documenting the hours for volunteers; this is important and very helpful in our efforts to secure funding. It will also be useful in building our clout with decision makers and opinion leaders from the most local level up to the administration.
- Photography is an important tool in documenting the plants, birds and animals within the forest (many of which are endangered or found only in Joshua Tree Forests), the use of the forest for recreation, and the historic sites within the forest. This photographic evidence will help us lobby for further protection of the forest.
Being an advocate for the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest is an important part of what we do. We write letters to decision makers, respond to newspaper and other media articles, write letters to the editor on key issues, and educate the public on important matters concerning the Arizona Joshua Tree Forest.


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Why the Christmas tree can't stand up?
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Q. What do you get if you cross mistletoe and a duck?
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What nationality is Santa Claus?
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Santa: "So little girl, what would you like for Christmas?"Girl: "I want a Barbie Doll and a G.I. Joe."
-Knock knock
*Who's there?
*Mary who?
-Merry Christmas
The first man fumbled through his pockets and pulled out a lighter.
He flicked it on.
"It represents a candle," he said. "You may pass through the pearly gates,"
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What's the difference between a biscuit and a reindeer?
You can't dunk a reindeer in your tea
On the following evening the young man knocked his colleagues door and found him pacing up and down the hallway in an impatient manner.
"The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.
This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to."
What do the female reindeer do when Santa takes the male reindeer out on Christmas Eve ?They go into town, and blow a few bucks.
Christmas is less than two weeks away. I do most of my shopping online.
But I hire someone to honk and scream obscenities at me while I'm doing it so I get the whole holiday shopping experience.
What's the difference between the Christmas alphabet and the ordinary alphabet?
The Christmas one has no L |
"I always wanted to be rich, powerful, and well respected.
While I'm dreaming, I wish you weren't so damn ugly."
What is the best Christmas present in the world? A broken drum – you can't beat it!
Christmas shopping is awesome,
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There is a growing trend toward more holistic and customised use of reinsurance and insurance solutions.
Swiss Re hosted their 25th Annual Canadian Statistical Breakfast at the Design Exchange in Toronto on March 30, 2010. The event was well attended and representatives from throughout the Canadian insurance industry met over breakfast to hear presentations from Swiss Re and Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC). The event was hosted by Jean-Jacques Henchoz, Managing Director and Head of Swiss Re's Canadian operations. Pierre Ozendo, CEO for the Americas, also joined the event.
After opening remarks by Mr. Henchoz, keynote speaker Stefan Lippe, Swiss Re Group CEO, gave a presentation on the Global Insurance Market Outlook. Mr. Lippe was appointed Swiss Re's CEO in February 2009 and has served on Swiss Re's Executive Board since 1995.
Mr. Lippe noted that through the virtually unprecedented crisis in the financial markets, the insurance industry experienced far fewer write downs and related capital raises than the banking sector. Insurers and reinsurers continued to provide coverage and pay claims during the turmoil and the capital base of Canadian insurers specifically was little affected.
The lasting impacts of the financial market upheaval, Mr. Lippe explained, were a strong decline in commercial insurance demand in the non-life sector, low investment yields, deteriorating underwriting results and reduced profit potential for the industry. This has resulted in industry capital needs outpacing premium increases and reinsurers assuming new risks on their balance sheets. Longevity risks, natural catastrophe exposures and liability risks are increasing globally, Mr. Lippe said. The reinsurance industry is absorbing these risks and partially transferring them to the capital markets through Cat bonds, insurance-linked securities and related products including industry loss warrants (ILW) and sidecars.
Mr. Lippe's speech was followed by presentations from Insurance Bureau of Canada Vice-President, Ontario, Ralph Palumbo, and Vice-President, Policy, Barbara Sulzenko-Laurie.
The 2009 combined ratio for the Canadian P&C insurance industry was 100.9%, Ms. Sulzenko-Laurie stated, down slightly from 2008. This level is too high for the industry to generate risk appropriate returns in the current low interest rate environment. Direct loss ratios were largely unchanged across all lines in 2009, however the direct loss ratio for Ontario auto increased by 23.5 points to 148%, equal to a total of $907 MM (CAD). This is particularly relevant as Ontario was responsible for 47% of Canadian direct premiums earned in 2009, with Auto representing 57% of all premiums earned in Ontario.
Excessive taxes are among the major issues facing the industry currently, Ms. Sulzenko-Laurie explained. P&C insurers had a total tax burden of 69% of earnings in 2008, more than double the rate for large banks and other major Canadian corporations. These fixed taxes and additional regulatory costs account for 13.8% of the average cost of an insurance policy to consumers in Canada.
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Ms. Michalak isn't afraid to speak plainly about the size and scale of her company. Like all independent start-ups, financial constraints rule over many consumer policies and creative directions. Instead of mass season collections, the label prepares fifty bras in a limited size range and proceeds according to market demand to reduce costs. Their budget is too modest to handle a large volume of refunded returns so they allocate certain sizes to a special order process, which are not refundable and accrue a small fee. The artistic and creative process is unfortunately curtailed as well. Ms. Michalak must design what we buy, even if that may not be in line with her own instinct. The excitement over nonpadded or colorful bras is misleading since the majority of their sales derive from padded and basic styles. With an ironic laugh, Ms. Michalak told me that she never had to design a flesh toned bra before she launched her own company. Despite an artistic aversion, she complies with customer demand and noted that the business cannot simultaneously afford her personal projects and the size availability.
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When I brought up swimwear and speciality items, Ms. Michalak sighed heavily. Speciality wear -- like basques and babydolls -- are difficult to produce, hard to sell and their modest forays into swimwear have proven troublesome. Two years ago, they had several bathing suits available on their website, but they moved their operation to another building and lost a significant amount of material. They ended up with enough fabric for their tops, with very little availability in the matching bottoms. Last summer, there was great call, from their customers and fans, for bra sized swimwear and they rushed to meet the demand. They didn't have a photo shoot booked with their models however so they decided to have some fun and take photographs of the bikinis on their employees. The workers, she said, had a great time, but the casual shots were widely criticized on their Facebook page. Ms. Michalak told me decisively that this season's options would be limited to solid black tops.
I asked many of the brands I met with about their annual or longterm goals. I heard that international expansion, improved online accessibility, and customer satisfaction were forefront for the future. Ms. Michalak had a unique response however, she answered she'd like to "lose weight, rest, and increase sales". We may only help her with the former, but she has certainly earned a calm moment. Her lingerie was the first to successfully break through the Poland-North America/U.K. barrier and her brand has grown steadily each year. Larger and wealthier companies would love to have the same presence, attention, and acclaim that flows her way. Internally, the company has focused on developing an amazingly ambitious project in the last year. Designed for women regardless of their individual breast type, the new S and 3DM bras have finally arrived en masse. Who deserves a long Caribbean vacation more than the inspiring, self-reliant and creative Ewa Michalak?!


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In an effort to reorganize my blogging and breathe life into not only The Yoteden but to my love of gaming, I've decided to peel off my interest in gaming and create this site. This has been a long time coming and something I've resisted for way too long. My very own blog focused on probably my oldest hobby that I love dearly – gaming in all of it's varied forms.
I probably should have done this years ago. I resisted and let myself believe I really didn't have anything to say that others weren't already saying. This very well may be the case but I won't know until I try! So, here we go!
What will you be able to find here? Starting off, mainly solo RPG write-ups, some thoughts here and there about story games and, if I get it going again with my schedule, posts here about my video gaming channel. As well as new stuff, I'll be porting old posts over here as well that were originally written on the Yoteden in time.
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If you are thinking of buying a tactical shotgun for home defense, you really need to get the best and most suitable weapon you can afford. Let's face it, there is no point in pussy-footing around – you want that bad guy down and down quick.
Certainly I have heard the argument that simply racking a pump action is enough to scare an intruder anyway, but that is simply not the case. He's probably expecting you to be armed when he breaks in, and all that does is confirming his suspicions.
In any event, as a firearm expert once said, the only time intruder should hear that is after you've fired the first shot. If someone is breaking into my home, I don't want to take any chances. I want something that I KNOW is going to do the job, not keep my fingers crossed that I "might" scare him. In any case, he might well be armed too.
There are a lot of guns to choose from out there, but there are certain criteria that we should stick to.
Not the least of these is barrel length.Maneuverability is key here. You need something with a barrel that's short enough to swing around in a small space. You are not out hunting deer. If you can't get the barrel through the doorway quickly, you can be in a lot of trouble. So you really need something 20″ or less. Most of the home defense shotguns are this kind of length anyway, but it is a point to bear in mind.
Next, for a tactical home defense shotgun you want a pump action or semi-auto. Why? Because they are easy to load and easy to use. And they hold more than two shells. This is extremely important; suppose it isn't a bad guy breaking into your home, suppose it's two bad guys?
You want a gun that has a stock. Sure, there are fans of the pistol grip, and in a very small apartment it might be an option that's better than nothing at all, but only just. With a pistol grip, you just don't have the same degree of accuracy that you have with a stock, or if you're still using sights then you might just need a visit to the dentist afterwards. The stock of a shotgun is there to ensure that you remain in control and hit your target accurately.
You also want a shotgun that has several rounds. As mentioned above, it might just be two bad guys breaking into your home; it could even be more. You need to be sure that you've got enough shots to deal with any situation that might arise. If you had three intruders and only two shots and you were spot on target both times, you still have a problem. Let's have as many rounds as possible.
So what are the ten best tactical home defense shotguns? Before we dive into the list, we strongly suggest you watch the video below, even if you think you already know a lot about tactical shotgun. Well, think again! Click the play button below and enjoy the greatest training course FOR FREE! By "greatest", we mean it!
#1. Remington 870 Express Tactical
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It's a 12 gauge and has an 18.5″ barrel and pump action with a capacity of 6 (+1). Not that it matters much for home defense purposes, but it has Cerakote weather resistant coating. It has a fully adjustable XS Ghost ring sight rain with a removable white bead front sight. SuperCell pad reduces the felt recoil by more than 50%. Yes, it costs a few dollars more, but then it's a Remington.
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This 12 gauge sports an 18.5″ barrel with a capacity of 7 (+1). It's a bit more pricey being a semi-auto, but the beauty of that is that you just put the shells in and keep firing until you run out. In addition, it has a rail on top so you can fit a scope or a red dot or holographic sight. Useful if you look out of the window and see the bad guy coming from a distance. —>> Click HERE to Buy Mossberg 930 SPX On Amazon!
#4. Benelli M4
Probably the granddaddy of shotguns, this is the same one used by the Marines. It's a 12 gauge with a barrel length of 18.5″ and is a semi-auto. It comes with ghost ring sights. Capacity is 5 (+1), and as the man said, it's designed to work the first time and every time which is important when it comes to home defense, and there's no time to play around. Not an inexpensive piece of kit by any means. —>> Click HERE to Buy Benelli M4 On Amazon!
#5. Saiga 12 – SGL12-07
This Russian built model is a 12 gauge and is another semi-auto with a detachable magazine holding 5 rounds. It comes with the bolt hold open feature, which allows for quicker changing of magazines. Barrel length is 19″ and it weighs in at 6.85 lbs. —>> Click HERE to Buy Saiga SGL12-07 On Amazon!
#6. Mossberg 590A1.
This is a 12 gauge with a barrel length at our maximum of 20″. An affordable pump action with ghost ring sights and a whopping 9 rounds. Should be enough to deal with most intruders. —>> Click HERE to Buy Mossberg 590A1 On Amazon!
#7. Interstate Arms 12 Gauge Defender
Another pump action model that has a barrel length of 18.5 " and a capacity of 5 (+1). It also has ghost ring sights, but the big thing with this is that it is cheap. An inexpensive way to defend your family. —>> Click HERE to Buy On Amazon!
#8. Mossberg Maverick 88 Security
This is another inexpensive way to defend your home. Maverick is part of Mossberg, so you know it's going to be quality. It's another 12 gauge pump action but doesn't have ghost ring sights. What it does have is a 7 (+1) capacity. —>> Click HERE to Buy Maverick 88 Security On Amazon!
#9. Interstate Arms Hawk Model 982
Another pump action 12 gauge with a 3″ chamber. It has an adjustable ghost ring sight and an 18.5″ barrel. It's fitted with a polymer stock with recoil pad and has a capacity of 5 rounds. —>> Click HERE to Buy On Amazon!
#10. Remington 887 Nitro Mag Tactical
This is a pump action with an 18.5″ barrel and a capacity of 4 (+1). It has a top rail for optics, forend rails for lighting accessories and a ported, extended Rem Choke. Capable of blowing a hole through your own front door. —>> Click HERE to Buy Remington 887 Nitro Mag Tactical On Amazon!
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Two things you really need to be absolutely sure about. 1. The first is that you are fully prepared if the worst should happen. You need to think where you will keep the weapon so that it is to hand if you ever need it. 2. You also need to make sure that if push comes to shove you will use it. There's precious little point in owning a tactical shotgun for home defense if you stop to worry about using it when faced with an intruder.
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Pipedream's best-selling Fetish Fantasy Series Furry Cuffs will be featured on Law & Order's "Hot for Teacher" episode tonight on NBC.
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Part of the life cycle of a library is the withdrawal of worn out or excess materials. In 2013 the ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub decided to withdraw surplus copies of topographic maps. The result was stacks of maps which were offered to other institutions. A few were claimed but the majority were not.
In 2014 the ASU Library Map and Geospatial Hub offered the remaining maps to the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, School of Art. Fine arts professor Ellen Meissinger jumped at the offer. She brought a cart and loaded it up. She took this as an opportunity to design a project for the students in her Art on Paper class. At the end of the Fall semester, the Map and Geospatial Hub hosted the student exhibition, Memories & Movement.
New groups of students in Professor Meissinger's Art on Paper classes further this collaboration with Order & Chaos (Fall 2015), Through Space and Time (Fall 2016) and Point of View (Fall 2017). The 2018 installment, Place and Space, will be on display Nov. 7-26 in the Map and Geospatial Hub.
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CALS biologist explores predictability of evolution in Bahamian blue holes.
For biologist Brian Langerhans, cerulean sinkholes that dot the Bahamas are places of mystery and intrigue – environments that contain clues to help answer one of science's most captivating questions: How predictable, he wants to know, is the course of evolution?
Dr. Langerhans is an assistant professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' Department of Biology, and for the past decade he has been studying fish of the genus Gambusia living in submerged Bahamian caves known as blue holes.
The deep, water-filled holes were dry during the last Ice Age, but as sea levels began to rise about 15,000 years ago, the water table rose and flooded the ancient caves from the bottom up. Soon, fish colonized many of these newly aquatic environments, but different kinds of fish wound up in different blue holes.
Most of the blue holes – at least on Andros Island, where Langerhans conducts much of his research – have Gambusia. And some, but not all, of those holes have bigmouth sleepers, a larger species of fish that preys on the Gambusia.
"The inland blue holes are really isolated environments – basically aquatic islands in a sea of land," Langerhans says. Paired with Gambusia, a diverse genus of fish that bear live young, the blue holes become veritable test tubes for examining all sorts of questions about how the fish – and possibly other animals – have evolved.
"It's an interesting system for studying all kinds of evolutionary questions," Langerhans explains. "We focus on the predictability of evolution: In other words, if we understand enough about organisms, can we actually predict the course of evolutionary change across different environments? Can we identify what causes changes within species, and what drives the formation of new species? And then, what explains these broader patterns among taxa – the major macro-evolutionary patterns across species?"
In the past, some biologists argued that evolution depends on too many chance events to be predictable. But more recently, studies on organisms as diverse as bacteria, tiny worms, fruit flies – and now, Gambusia – suggest that evolution can be replicated. And if it can be replicated, some biologists believe, it can, at least to some degree, be predicted.
And that leads to the questions that occupy Langerhans. To get at the answers, he has been studying Gambusia since the early 2000s, when he was a graduate student at Texas A&M University. While only two species of Gambusia inhabit most of the United States, Texas harbored no less than nine native Gambusia species, and there are more than 40 known Gambusia species in the world.
What, Langerhans wondered, was behind that diversity? It was in 2002 when Langerhans saw his first blue holes and his ideas about the predictability of evolution began taking shape."It was evident right away – the fish were behaving differently in blue holes with and without predatory fish. They looked different. Just by walking up and looking, I thought, 'Something really interesting is happening here," he recalls.
Since then – through his Ph.D. studies at Harvard University, a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma and his appointment at N.C. State in 2010 – the scientist has immersed himself in the task of understanding everything he can about Gambusia living in the blue holes.
By observing the small, minnow-like fish in the wild and testing them in the lab, Langerhans and his lab colleagues – post-doctoral researchers as well as graduate and undergraduate students – have studied such traits as their body shape, how fast they can take off swimming, which mates they prefer, their coloration, their fat content, the number of babies that the females bear — the list goes on.
Based on general ideas of how fish swim and the advantages different types of swimming provide under different ecological contexts – specifically, with and without predators – Langerhans has created models to predict how traits might evolve, and he's tested them to see if those predictions held true in the blue holes.
And it turns out, Langerhans says, "there's a lot of predictable evolution in blue holes."
"Depending on predators being present or absent, we know what kind of body shape they are going to evolve. We know the general size of the male genitalia. We know how their locomotor abilities are going to evolve, their acceleration capacity, their endurance, many aspects of their life histories," he says.
"All these things are predicted by evolutionary theory, and it turns out that most of the predictions are met," he says. Although the measurements aren't precisely the same with every population, he adds, the fish do tend to evolve in the same direction, according to the level of predation in their environment.
To explain, he points to differences in body shape: When there are predators, Langerhans says, the fish's tail region tends to become larger, and their heads get smaller. That body shape lends itself to fast starts. "The fish go 'boom,'" he says, with a clap, "to get away from a predator."
But something very different happens to Gambusia that have evolved where there are no bigmouth sleepers. They tend to take on a streamlined shape.
"They are not fast any more, but they don't need to be that fast," he says. "Instead, they have high levels of endurance, so they can swim around all day long without using large amounts of energy."
That's important, he adds, because without predators, populations get denser, which means more mouths – and less food per mouth. "So it's all about cruising around the water finding food," Langerhans says. "These fish that are in the low-predation sites are always moving, looking for food. They've got to cruise around all the time."
The pattern Langerhans has seen – larger tails and smaller heads in high-predation sites, and more streamlined bodies in low-predation sites – occurs over and over, both in the blue holes and among generations of fish raised in Langerhans' labs.
"It's not," he says, "like there was a single evolutionary split, and then these fish moved around to different blue holes to find an environment that suits their phenotype. Molecular genetic evidence suggests that every time they get to a blue hole, these fish just evolve whatever body shape is needed in that blue hole."
The model also seems to work beyond the blue holes: Langerhans has analyzed other scientists' data related to body shape and predation and seen that his model holds with at least 20 fish species from six different families found in diverse environments around the world.
Natural selection – survival of the fittest, as Darwin put it – is at work, Langerhans says, and so is sexual selection. In low-predation environments, the females prefer the streamlined shape, and in high-predation environments, they like the opposite.
Even among different populations of the same species, Gambusia from high-predation environments tend not to interbreed with those from low-predation environments.
"These fish seem to hate each other. The body shape is wrong, the color is wrong, it's possible other things like behavioral and olfactory traits that we haven't examined yet are involved. Overall, all the evidence has shown that when given the opportunity they choose to spend much more time with fish from their own population – it's like the fish from the other population don't exist," he says.
"If you put them in the same tank, eventually they go to opposite sides of the tank and stay there. I've left them there 6 to 8 months, and they literally stay there," he adds. "It's like, 'I don't want to have anything to do with that guy.'"
Body shape, Langerhans believes, appears to be a clear factor in speciation, but it doesn't explain it completely. Right now, he's pursuing ideas related to differences in the size and structure of the male's sex organ, called the gonopodium, within species.
"It's pretty obvious if you evolve differences in the genitalia you can very quickly get reproductive isolation and form a new species," he says. "But so far, scientists haven't concentrated on within-species variation (in fish genitalia) – probably because it's usually presumed to be very small – but that's where you can catch evolution in action. As speciation is occurring, that's actually how you can figure out why it's evolving this way."
As Langerhans continues to study the predictability of evolution in the blue-hole Gambusia, he's also pursuing research aimed at understanding whether we can predict how the changes people are making to the natural world will affect evolution. To find answers, he's studying fish that live in Bahamian tidal creeks that have been fragmented by roads.
"We are looking at this on a number of different islands, and we are seeing that the fish are evolving differences really rapidly in response to human-induced changes," Langerhans says. "How predictable it's going to be across all these different species and all these different islands, I don't know yet."
Understanding that could give us insights into where the changes we are making in the natural world now could lead to many centuries from now, Langerhans adds.
"I think the point of all this is trying to figure out how the world works. Why are there so many species on this planet, and why on Earth do they look the way they look? How do we explain all this diversity?" he asks.
"And if we can get answers to those questions, it gives us information not only about the evolutionary trajectories of these species, but it also can help us understand such things as how we are affecting these ecosystems and what that's going to mean in the future."
-Dee Shore