text: Brad Fitzpatrick - March 18, 2019 Review: Wilson Combat Ultralight Hunter Some ARs aren't really fooling anyone. Although billed as hunting rifles, behind the camo façade these guns are really just tactical ARs dressed in sporting garb. Occasionally a rifle comes down the pike that lives up to its promise to be a gun you'd enjoy carrying in the field. One such rifle is Wilson Combat's new Ultralight Hunter. The development of the Wilson Combat Ultralight Hunter parallels the development of Wilson's new cartridge: the .300 Ham'r.Bill Wilson, an avid hunter, was looking for a .30 caliber hunting cartridge that would work with a standard 5.56 bolt, and after researching available options, the Wilson team decided to use its own 7.62x40 Wilson Tactical cartridge as the basis for the new round. The 7.62x40 case was lengthened by .040 inch, which allowed for maximum case capacity for improved performance while preventing the .300 Ham'r from accidentally being chambered in 7.62x40 or 5.56 rifles."We wanted to use all the powder space, all the way up to the neck," Wilson said. And that's just what they did with the .300 Ham'r, combining 110- to 150-grain .30 caliber projectiles with flat bases and short overall lengths with full-capacity powder charges to generate a round capable of driving a 130-grain bullet out the muzzle at 2,450 fps.Wilson's Armor-Tuff finish holds up well to abuse. The Forest Green camo pattern is applied by hand at Wilson's Arkansas facility, and no two rifles look exactly alike.Early tests proved Wilson's experimental load could achieve those numbers without pushing pressure limits, but Hodgdon's Ron Reiber convinced Wilson to try his company's newly developed CFE BLK powder. Wilson did and found the new powder was capable of producing results that nothing else on the market could match. "With CFE BLK we managed to get even higher velocities with reduced pressures," Wilson said. "It's great to have both of those, and we couldn't have done it without that powder." The .300 Ham'r produces the best ballistics of any .30 caliber round that functions with a 5.56 bolt, and the performance advantage over the .300 BLK is stark. At 200 yards the Ham'r has 18 percent more velocity, 40 percent more energy and 56 percent flatter trajectory than the Blackout. At the muzzle the .300 BLK attains a muzzle velocity of 2,175 fps to the Ham'r's 2,540 fps.After extensive powder, case and bullet testing, Wilson came up with the rifle cartridge he'd wanted. Now all he needed was a superb hunting rifle to mate with this new load.ARs have many characteristics that make them fine hunting guns, but many of them aren't particularly light. A sleek bolt gun may weigh less than six pounds, but the average .300 BLK AR with a 16-inch barrel weighs about 6.5 pounds unscoped. The Wilson Combat Ultralight Hunter, by contrast, weighs in at just under six pounds. Plus, with an overall length of just 35 inches, it's shorter than most competing .300 BLK rifles.The 12.6-inch handguard is Wilson Combat's own design and weighs less than a pound. It's also M-Lok compatible, which makes adding accessories fast and easy.The weight savings begin in the stock. The Ultralight Hunter comes equipped with the Wilson Combat/Smoke Composites carbon-fiber closed-shoulder buttstock with a fixed 10.1-inch length of pull. The minimalist design keeps mass low, but you can't easily change length of pull. The design not only makes the stock lighter, but also reduces snags and hang-ups when carrying this gun in cover. There's no "drumming" when the stock strikes branches, rocks or buttons on clothing that occurs with some competing polymer stocks.In addition to being light and nimble, these stocks are also extremely durable. In fact, Bill Wilson used one of them while doing development testing on his .338 Federal rifles, and despite the constant pounding of thousands of rounds of heavy ammunition, he said the stock held up extremely well.The gun I tested came equipped with a Wilson Combat/Bravo Company Starburst polymer pistol grip. It has a reduced grip angle for a more comfortable, secure hold on the rifle as well as a hinged trapdoor on the base for water-tight storage of small items. The lightweight machined billet upper and lower receivers are free of sharp edges and add minimal bulk to the rifle, and the flat-top design offers plenty of space for adding any type of optic, from red dot sights for close-range work to high-magnification variables for long-range shooting.Like the upper and lower, the handguard is Wilson Combat's own design and is machined in the Wilson factory from 6005A-T5 aluminum. The 12.6-inch rail offers Magpul M-Lok attachment points at the three, six and nine-o'clock positions and comes with three three-section Magpul rail covers. The total weight for the rail is just 12.4 ounces, which also helps keep the overall weight of the rifle to a minimum.Other key features include a low-mass nickel/boron bolt carrier, intermediate-length gas system, BCM Small Latch Charging Handle and Wilson Combat's Tactical Trigger Unit M2 two-stage match trigger made from heat-treated H13 steel.Designing the right barrel for the .300 Ham'r required considerable time in the lab—and lots and lots of barrel adjustments and changes. For starters, Bill Wilson had to determine which twist rate was needed to stabilize bullets from 110 to 150 grains."We tested a variety of twist rates and found that 1:15 was the best to stabilize bullets in that range," Wilson said. But Wilson didn't simply test twist rates; he also worked to determine the number of grooves and ideal groove dimensions to optimize performance with the .300 Ham'r cartridge. In the end, the 1:15, six-groove design proved to be the best and provided the type of accuracy Wilson wanted from his new rifle.The four .300 Ham'r loads tested include (from l.): 110-grain Lehigh Controlled Chaos, 125-grain Sierra Pro-Hunter, 130-grain Speer Hot-Cor and 150-grain Hornady SST."The loads will all stabilize in 16-inch barrels, but 18 inches seemed to be the sweet spot," Wilson said.Once he'd determined twist rate and groove design, Wilson began experimenting with barrel thickness to determine how light the barrel could be made and still perform well with the intended loads."We found the lightest barrel contour that would still produce good five-shot groups in temperatures to 100 degrees," he said.The Ultralight Hunter I tested wore one of these minimized barrels. It measures just 0.7 inch at the muzzle and lacked a threaded muzzle, which Wilson said is in keeping with the hunting rifle theme since most hunters don't add a muzzle device—although the Wilson Combat custom shop will build your rifle however you'd like.The barrel on the test rifle was fluted and crowned, and all metalwork was treated with Wilson Combat's Armor-Tuff finish in forest camo. Each of these rifles receives a hand-applied finish in the factory, so no two guns look alike.My sample came topped with a Trijicon AccuPower 3-9x40mm attached to the rifle via Wilson's machined 7075 V3 Ultralight scope mount. The rifle/optic combination weighed less than 7.5 pounds.There are currently eight different .300 Ham'r loads available from Wilson Combat, as well as two loads available from HSM. I tested the Wilson loads, and accuracy was outstanding across the board. All averaged less than an inch, and only one group of the 12 tested measured more than an inch. I also fired a 10-shot group that measured 1.23 inches. Impressive stuff.Those tight groups are certainly credit to Bill Wilson's extensive development of this rifle/load combination. Accuracy is further enhanced by the fact that the Ultralight Hunter comes equipped with a light, easy-to-manage two-stage trigger that breaks cleanly at four pounds—as advertised.Soft ShooterAnd despite its minimal mass, the Ultralight .300 Ham'r is a soft-shooting rifle. Recoil is lighter than what you'll typically encounter with a considerably heavier AR-10 rifle, yet the .300 Ham'r nips at the heels of the .308 in terms of performance. Even the most recoil-sensitive shooters will shoot this gun well. There were no cycling issues throughout the entire test.Has Bill Wilson developed the perfect hunting AR? That's a matter of opinion. And while the Ultralight Hunter is not a cheap rifle, with a base price of $3,295, you can rest assured the level of refinement and design elements are on par with any rifle in that price range.The Ultralight Hunter in .300 Ham'r is also perhaps the most versatile hunting AR ever to arrive on the market. It's extremely accurate, utterly reliable and light enough for high-elevation hunts. The cartridge will endear itself to any AR hunter because it offers better ballistics than competing cartridges at moderate pressure levels, and it functions with a 5.56 bolt.There's no question about the Ham'r's legitimacy as a big game cartridge, and the Ultralight Hunter's compact design makes it ideal for hunting whitetails from a tree stand, calling predators into thick brush or sneaking up on a sounder of hogs. The .300 Ham'r has merits as a self-defense round, as well.If you're sold on the round but simply can't fork over three grand for a new gun with any hopes of remaining happily married, there is good news: Wilson Combat offers aftermarket barrels in .300 Ham'r. Hunting ARs are evolving, and the Ultralight Hunter and the new .300 Ham'r cartridge are a significant step forward. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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|»BlogPulse was originally envisioned by Natalie Glance, [Matthew Hurst] and other colleagues at Intelliseek as a way to track popular blog posts, people and phrases in the blogosphere. It launched with a sparse set of features in 2003 [...]
The site evolved to become a full blog search engine (I was actually against this at the time preferring to focus on analytics) and launched [...] in 2004 : trend search.
In 2004 »BlogPulse was named a 'trendsetting product' by KMWorld.« Source
|»BlogPulse is a search engine and analytic system for blogs. It uses automated processes to monitor the daily activity on blogs and generates trend information. It was initially created by IntelliSeek, and was later acquired by the Nielsen Company, and currently owned by NM Incite, A Nielsen / McKinsey Company.
As of January 2012, BlogPulse is no longer available.« Source
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|»BlogPulse permits searching of the past six months of blog posts. Beyond the searching, there are some useful tools here: Trend search - generate a buzz trend chart for up to three such groups of query terms // Conversation tracker - create a threaded conversation graph for any topic or blog post to see how the buzz spread through blogs for that topic // Blog profiles - in-depth data about the top blogs, analysis of their blog presence, activity, and influence // Real-time buzz - seen on the home page, provides an up to the minute view of the buzz trend across major categories // Daily analytics - top links, top blogs, top videos, top news stories, key people, top blog posts, key phrases, top news sources all updated daily // Highlights - curated trends in buzz, updated daily« Source
|»As a blog search engine, BlogPulse can be used to do a search of just blog posts. Bloggers can ensure their posts are being indexed and find out how they rank against other bloggers. Public relations or media relations practitioners can use BlogPulse to learn about the buzz around any brand or company they represent. It is also an effective research to find out what trends people are paying attention to.« Source
References & further Publications
|Wikipedia (EN): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlogPulse
|Wikipedia (Others): n.a.
Other Sources
|Hurst, Matthew (2012): Farewell To BlogPulse. Online available at Datamining.typepad.com. URL: http://datamining.typepad.com/data_mining/2012/01/farewell-to-blogpulse.html
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These days, many food experts and nutritionists are raving about healthy fats such as avocados and olive oil as part of a brain healthy Alzheimer's diet. The era of the low- fat weight loss diet fad is considered obsolete today. Recent research indicates that healthy unsaturated fat is necessary for overall heart and brain health, and serves as an important component in a successful weight loss program. But where do we draw the line when it comes to fat? Can too much healthy unsaturated fat be detrimental to an Alzheimer's prevention diet?


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The naked walk – That's my latest challenge (13th in total) from Leo. This challenge asks me to write down my experience if being on a crowded street, I were to realize that I was buck naked, and if my destination was far off.
Before I move on to the answer, let me tell you the ways in which I thought I could bypass the real issue:
- "crowded" – not necessarily awake people or even crowded by people at all
- it could end as a nightmare
- get a lift from someone (that would be damn easy)
But after some time I decided to take the challenge head on… i don't give him very conventional challenges, so why should I run away from an unconventional topic. One last thing.. from the next paragraph the post will be my thoughts as the realization dawns and till the time I reach my destination.
"Chalo college over, heading back home now, the swimming lesson in the last period was fun.
This is the last auto stand on my way and it is empty, should I wait or walk…. I'll walk.
Oh god, so much homework for tomorrow, will have to start as soon as I reach home.. Have to ask mom about the reservation for next month also… Aarakshan was a nice movie, they should make more such ones…. Big B……." (Chain Thoughts).
The market is here, means I am 1/4th of the way through. Why are all these people staring? Is it because my hair is still wet from the pool? But why is that such a big issue? Let me see, is there something on my shirt? HOLY S**T… where are my clothes? Bloody hell, what is going on?…. Wait, after the swimming class, while I was in the shower, I hurried up as I heard the bell meaning that the gates were closing. I had been the last to start showering… and then I had run out……. Oh Crap… I forgot my clothes in the changing room.
I should go back and get them… this is damn awkward… or I can enter a shop and buy some clothes… but my wallet was in my jeans pocket… they will give poor me some clothes… but they must be thinking I am some mad women or else a pervert.. What the hell should I do?
The best thing is to proceed home, as the college would be locked by now… s**t, I only hope no-one recognizes me… should I run home? Oh no no… running in this state is a BAD decision. I'll better walk briskly, while covering as much as possible with my hands. Everyone is staring. I so wish this is a real seeming nightmare.
Should I ask someone for lift? But the men will misunderstand me.. I'll ask a woman driver. There is one, let me ask her. Oh she sped away seeing me. I can't blame her, I do look abnormal.. what to do?
I should focus less on thinking and more on reaching home as soon as possible.
Once this market ends, I'll take the side route through the woody area… it's scary but not scarier than this.
Finally the market is over, now to turn right and escape to home… oh crap! it's getting dark… this area is very scary… not a single soul here…. except if snakes have souls (:p) .
Now that there are no humans around, I should definitely run….. nearly there… but how do i enter my society like this… I will never be able to face any of my neighbours ever again. I'll wait till it's night and everyone is in their homes… oh come on! did I have to get so thirsty right now… I guess I will just hide my face and run through the gates… no-one recognizes me by my body anyway…. s**t, the keys… I will have to go to the landlords…. i just hope the lady opens the door….. fingers crossed….. oh thank God you opened the door Mrs V…. don't please ask what all this is, just get me anything to put on and the spare keys…. i'll return both tomorrow morning….. it's a long story, please some other time… i know it is embarrassing…. thank you so much.
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FORM MEETS FUNCTION (this project is currently in progress)
In the spring of 2015, I was awarded a UAB Teaching Innovation & Development Grant through the Center for Teaching and Learning to develop a project called Form Meets Function, functional bicycle racks that also serve as public art. I implemented the project in my fall 2016 Sculpture Fabrication course by introducing these public artworks from initial research and idea building to fabrication and installation as a team-based assignment. Through my previous experience as the fabrication coordinator of sculpture student commissions at Herron School of Art & Design, I had noticed that it is easy for a single student to become overwhelmed by the amount of organization and physical labor of a large public artwork. So, I decided to make the project a team assignment with 2-3 students per rack.
Given UAB's progression from a commuter university to a more traditional urban campus, with the recent addition of more dormitories, quads and a student center, I think that promoting a healthier life-style both physically and environmentally would be a forward-thinking advancement. In this course, the students worked in groups to create a series of uniquely designed bicycle racks throughout the campus. The students first researched existing public sculptures and bicycle racks; photographed, sketched, and took site measurements of possible rack locations; built scale models of the racks in their proposed sites; researched material costs and created budgets; and designed illustrations with concepts that were all presented to a review committee composed of representatives from the School of Engineering, Occupational Health & Safety, Services & Grounds, Architects, and the Office of Sustainability as well as representatives from a local bike coop, the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Birmingham Collector's Circle.
Once designs were refined after the review committee's suggestions, the students began fabrication. They made adjustments to their designs due to the feedback from the review committee and began ordering supplies. They met with UAB's Occupational Health & Safety and UAB's Project, Design, and Construction throughout the project to make sure that all safety concerns were being resolved in the initial construction and an in-progress meeting with the review committee was organized in the sculpture facilities to better assist the students with last-minute design changes. The completed bicycle racks were to be finished by mid-October 2016, however, the students' designs were much more involved and ambitious that I had originally expected when the project was proposed. Since the class had to move along with other assignments, the students and I worked to complete the fabrication of the racks outside of scheduled class times and during the weekends. Once 2 of the 3 racks were completed, we took the racks to the powder coaters to be finished. The 2 racks were completely finished at the beginning of summer and we have just installed them in their permanent locations. Fabrication on the third rack will be completed by the end of this fall due to its scale and complicated modular components. I anticipate to have the final rack ready for installation by early spring.


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The wine festival will start at 7.00 p.m. at the Castle of Udine, where more than 60 Wineries, from Friuli Venezia Giulia and Brda, the Slovenian Collio, will be combined with restaurants and wine bars of the region.
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"Girls" and quick-witted, neurotic self-delusions (or, just "girls" for short)
29 April 2012
Hannah (Lena Dunham) is lying in her hospital gown, rattling on nervously to the gynecologist about why she's getting screened for sexually transmitted infections. She describes her lifelong fear of dying of AIDS. The doctor asks if she knows someone who died of it. "Umm, it's more of like a Forrest Gump based fear," she explains. "That's what Robin Wright Penn's character died of. So…."
Even though she always uses a condom with her partners, she says, she's worried about getting infected by the "stuff that gets up around the sides of condoms." (Having googled that query, she's pretty convinced it's something to worry about.) The gynecologist looks at her with exactly the kind of disbelieving annoyance that was probably on my face during this scene.
"You could not pay me enough to be 24 again," the gynecologist says.
"Well, they're not paying me at all," Hannah replies.
I can't imagine a better snippet of dialogue to catch the way these Girls of Dunham's articulate exactly the kind of emotional and intellectual chaos I see in my students of the same relative intelligence and class status. They've got a whipsmart quick-wittedness that serves as the lingua franca of young women — self-identifying as smart, self-deprecating, funny, astute, sometimes brutally honest. Traveling in packs with the volume jacked up, these girls' verbal patter can reach a manic level. But they're neither self-aware nor knowledgeable enough to know how idiotic they sound to everyone who lives outside their tribe. The patter covers up a lot of the neurotic uncertainty.
You sort of want to grab them by the shoulders, give them a good shake, and say, calm down, shut up, and stop it with your attention-deficit chatter for a sec. You also kind of love them for their non-filtered logorrhea. Which brings me to the first relevant point about this show: as its creator/ director, Lena Dunham offers us a theory about why these are "girls," not "women" — and it has to do with what they call themselves, and what they will allow themselves to be. Whereas Sex and the City fantasized a world we could all aspire to, with perfect financial comfort, work enjoyment, sexual confidence, spectacular clothing, and available men, these Girls are finding none of the above. They live in Brooklyn, not Manhattan. They have bodies and clothes I recognize as real. They screw up their job interviews.
The men are so undesirable as to be chilling. Hannah's perpetually disappointing fuck-buddy Adam (Adam Driver), an "actor," hangs out in his apartment with no shirt on — clearly imagining that he's far more all-that than he is. Hannah's awful sex scenes with him will make you grip the arms on your chair.
It's not just the spectacularly bad sex that makes you cringe; it's also the crazy sense of entitlement undercut with glimpses of self-doubt managed, one guesses, by anti-anxiety medications. How else to explain Hannah's situation at the table with her parents as they announce they're cutting her off financially? When she protests that she's not done writing her memoir (!) she explains, "I think I may be the voice of my generation." But then she backs up. "Or at least a voice. Of a generation."
You see? This is great stuff, and it's delivered with that same combination of quick-witted self-deprecation I recognize from those students of mine. And yet: she's writing her memoir? Also believable, also cringe-making.
So yeah, you won't identify with these characters. My students won't show up in the fall telling me "I am sooo like Shoshanna!" the way they did ten years ago with Miranda, Carrie, Samantha and Charlotte. (There's even a nice scene in the first episode in which Shoshanna burbles about which character she identifies with.) These girls haven't figured out what they want, nor how to get it. They're full of borrowed, would-be sage advice picked up here and there — and they're quick to criticize each other — but they're floundering. It's kind of amazing.
Perhaps I should pause here to note that, between gazing on these Girls with disbelieving annoyance and laughing my butt off, I can't believe no one has done this before. This writing is crisp, subtle, tight. The characters interrupt each other with non sequiturs so realistic and ridiculous that I want to watch all the episodes again to make sure I caught all the best jokes. Like when three of them sit in the clinic's waiting room while Hannah gets ready for her STI examination:
Marnie, speaking to Shoshanna about Hannah: She's obsessed with getting AIDS. She's thought she was going to get it since she was like ten years old. That's what this is about. [rolls eyes.]
Hannah: I don't have an obsessive fear of AIDS. I have obsessive fear of HIV that turns into AIDS. I'm not a fool.
Marnie: Well, you don't have HIV. You just don't. It's not that easy to contract.
Shoshanna: It's really not that hard to contract either, though. I mean, haven't you seen Rent?
Marnie, rolling eyes: Please. I've seen it like twelve times. It's basically why I moved to New York.
You see? I swear I heard those same girls at the coffee shop this morning.
Compared to Dunham's Tiny Furniture (2010, made when she was only 23, gulp), Girls is tight — and fearless. I quite liked that film, but this series has an underlying perception and forthrightness about how these girls live that shows Dunham's growing talent as a writer. Parts of it even feel like a shot across the bow by this gifted writer and young woman, especially given the second episode's subject matter, "Vagina Panic" — which circles around Jessa's scheduled abortion as well as Hannah's STI anxieties.
Between the four of them, they articulate virtually every perspective on abortion — everything from "it's devastating" to "whatever" — because that's what they do; they blather. There's no conceptual consistency to their opinions; they haven't really thought them through. But neither does any one of them question the utter necessity of getting that abortion. "What's she going to do? Have a baby and take it to her babysitting job? That's not realistic," Hannah insists in one of those perfect moments of clarity. Let's face it: the idea of any one of these girls taking on motherhood is appalling.
Fuck yeah, Lena Dunham. We've all been complaining for years about the Judd Apatow-ization of film — the perpetual focus on men's neurotic feelings and ambivalences, while stereotyping the women in their lives — so listen, friends, the time has come to watch one of those actual women skewer her own tribe. It's so funny, so awful that you (like me) might find yourself watching the episode all over again to catch on to the jokes.
You could not pay me enough to be 24 again. Unless I could be Lena Dunham, using this as material toward a spectacular future.
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2 May 2012 at 11:03 am
Well, I sure identified with the show and the characters. I am not in denial about what I was like at that age. Of course that could be because I'm 72! As I have said elsewhere, younger women might be surprised to learn that the atmosphere around these women differs little from my experiences on the fringes of Bohemia in the late 50's and early 60's.
Your analysis is excellent.


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text: Recipes Traybake Recipes Brownies & Blondies Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies with Peanut Buttercream & Chocolate Truffle Icing Back to Brownies & Blondies Gluten Free Chocolate Brownies with Peanut Buttercream & Chocolate Truffle Icing by Phil Vickery Total Time 1h 10m Prep Time 40m Bake Time 30m Makes 12 Skill Level Intermediate Dietary Needs GF Gluten free 0 Reviews No ratings yet Share Dark, rich and divine- these brownies make irresistible treats. The chopped chocolate melts into the fudgy sponge and a double topping of peanut buttercream and chocolate truffle ganache is the icing on the cake. They're more of a dessert than a cake you can, of course, leave the brownies unadorned. The brownie will probably crack on top as it bakes and then sink down after you take it out of the oven. Slightly under baking is essential for that quintessential fudgy brownie texture; a bit too long in the oven and you will end up with a cake. 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Convicted transit officer apologizes?
SAN FRANCISCO -- The former Bay Area Rapid Transit police officer convicted of killing an unarmed black man in an Oakland train station wrote a letter apologizing to the victim's family, saying he'll forever "live, breathe, sleep and not sleep" with memories of the "terrible event," according to a copy released by his lawyer Friday.
Johannes Mehserle said in the handwritten letter that he "never intended" to shoot Oscar Grant, 22, who died of a gunshot wound to the back after being pulled off a Bay Area Rapid Transit train on New Year's Day 2009.
The emotional letter is dated July 4, four days before a Los Angeles jury convicted him of involuntary manslaughter.
"For now, and forever I will live, breathe, sleep, and not sleep with the memory of Mr. Grant screaming 'You shot me' and putting my hands on the bullet wound thinking the pressure would help while I kept telling him 'You'll be okay!' Mehserle said in the letter, released by attorney Michael Rains.
Thursday's verdict outraged Grant's family and touched off violent protest in Oakland, where the case has enflamed racial tensions. Mehserle, 28, testified during his trial that he struggled with Grant and saw him digging in his pocket as officers responded to reports of a fight at a train station.
Fearing Grant may have a weapon, Mehserle said he decided to shock Grant with his Taser, but pulled his .40-caliber handgun instead. Grant was shot as he lay facedown.
The jury found that Mehserle didn't mean to kill Grant, but that his behavior was still so negligent that it was criminal.
Mehserle's letter made no mention of his intention to pull a Taser. He also said he had wanted to communicate with Grant's family in the days after the shooting, but was prevented by death threats to him and his family and friends.
"I have and will continue to live everyday of my life knowing that Mr. Grant should not have been shot," he wrote. "It saddens me knowing that my actions cost Mr. Grant his life, no words express how truly sorry I am."


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In the Left Behind series, God uses His judgments throughout the Tribulation to get man to turn away from sin and receive salvation in Him through His Son Jesus before His Second Coming. While many do turn away from sin and become Christians during that time, many more reject the gospel message and instead turn to worshiping Nicolae Carpathia as their god and lord while they continue to practice their sins.
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Title: Farm Together Oregano Pack-PLAZA
Genre: Casual, Simulation
Developer: Milkstone Studios
Publisher: Milkstone Studios
Release Date: 12 Oct, 2018
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Etc …
File Size: 1.38 GB / Single Link Compressed
Mirrors: Mega.nz, Drive.Google.com, UptoBox.com, Uploaded.net
Free Download Farm Together: Oregano Pack PC Game – From the creators of Avatar Farm comes Farm Together, the ultimate farming experience! Start from scratch, with a small plot, and end with a huge farm that extends further than the eye can see! Grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, and much more! Spend your hard-earned money …
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You'll have plenty of customization items at your disposal: Fences, roads, buildings, decorations… Show your gardening and decoration skills to your neighbours! And don't forget about your clothes! Customize your avatar and your tractor to your liking, and go visit your friends' farms!
This Release Includes:
• Farm Together (main game)
• Farm Together – Wasabi Pack (DLC)
• Farm Together – Ginger Pack (DLC)
• Farm Together – Jalapeño Pack (DLC)
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Hi, I'm Gmail.
And I'm Hotmail. I have one gigabyte of
storage, which means I don't have to keep
deleting my emails. Well, don't you think
that deleting your emails can be
rather therapeutic? Sure, buddy. I can also
use keywords to search quickly through my email.
How about you? Well, I keep my favorite
emails in a folder. Like, uh let's
see here, somewhere. Another moment here, sorry. Hey Hotmail, good
to see you again. Hello, Gmail. Looks like
I have 1.5 billion users now.
How about you? Well, just want to clarify,
my name is Outlook now. And let's see, I
have a few hundred million users, but it's not a
popularity contest, is it? No, of course not. Gmail is really dominating
that market for consumer email, which is a
bit odd because in most mature markets you have
an oligopoly of at least three players, but it
looks like Google is absolutely dominating
this market. With 1.5 billion users
worldwide, Gmail is now the most widely used email
provider in the world, but it was by
no means the first. When Gmail launched in April
of 2004, it became one of a number of
free email services alongside Hotmail and Yahoo Mail, which
were some of the first to introduce web-based
email in the 1990s. By 1998, Yahoo Mail already
had 12 million active users, and by 1999, Hotmail
had about 30 million active members. The Gmail
project came out of something called 20 percent
time, and this was something that was really
a hallmark of Google culture in the
early days. So 20 percent time
works like this. If the rest of your time,
if you took that one hundred percent and devoted 20
percent of it to a project that you were
interested in or excited about or passionate about
or wanted to chase down, that's what
you could do. And Gmail came out of
that 20 percent time. Paul Buchheit started working
at Google in 1999 as its 23rd employee. He undertook creating Google's
foray into the email world as his
20 percent project. At the time, the
project was codenamed "caribou," an allusion to the
popular comic strip Dilbert. But not everyone at Google
was supportive of his vision. Even though we know
Gmail's so big and the most used email
service, it almost didn't happen because there were
so many arguments among executives about whether
they should actually pursue it. And it wasn't
quite clear how Google could benefit from an
online email service when they were a search company.
One of the things that Google did was they
looked at problems as projects. So they put things
to what they called a toothbrush test. So if you were interacting
with a problem as much as you interact with
your toothbrush, then they were excited to
take that on. And email certainly fit
that bill because people used it all the time
and it was growing during this time. For something that
was use all the time, email in the early
2000s was still not very user-friendly. The first thing
Gmail set out to improve was storage. At the time, other email
providers offered up to 4 megabytes of storage. What that meant was you
had to delete, delete, delete all the time or
your storage would be full. And then if your
parents or an employer sent you an email,
it was bounced back. And the next thing you
know, your phone is ringing and someone is
saying, 'I'm trying to email you and I
can't get through.' So that was the first
thing that they were going to address by offering
one gigabyte of storage. This effectively meant that
you would never have to delete email again. And this was revolutionary
at the time. So when Gmail first
released its product, it didn't even have
a delete button. And this was to bring
home the point that you didn't ever have to
delete an email. Ever! Gmail's other
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signature, clutter-free look that you saw with the
Google homepage in Gmail. They also took a look
at using their search engine feature as a part of
the email so that if you wanted to find a
specific email that someone sent you on a specific
topic, it was easy. You just used the search
bar to find it. And at the time, no
one else offered that. Besides storage space and
search, Gmail also introduced a way of
grouping messages that many of us consider
standard today. Conversation threading grouped all
replies to a message in one place and
in order, making it easier to grasp the
context of a conversation. That was what Google was
all about, whether it was the search engine or
Gmail, they wanted to make it easier
for the user. When it was easier for
the user, more people bought in and adopted
this new technology. What gave Gmail some of
its capabilities was the fact that it used
a more advanced computer language called
JavaScript. What JavaScript delivered was
a much more interactive and responsive
experience for the user compared to the
competition, which was reloading each page, repainting
each page, and it was a slower process. And so JavaScript delivered
a much faster and more interactive experience
for the consumer. Gmail was launched in
2004, on April 1st. It was April Fool's Day. So people actually thought it
was a hoax and it wasn't real, but it was. Gmail initially launched in
a unique manner: as invite only. The reason
why Google, which turned out to be a wonderful
marketing ploy, made it exclusive and you had to apply
and try to get on the wait list for a
Gmail account is because they weren't investing enough. They
couldn't scale up the back end to meet demand,
and so they had to make sure that they were able
to keep up with the flow. And the only way they
could do that is to let people in
on invitation only. Gmail's invite only rollout
made having a Gmail address a hot commodity. Some even went as far
as selling their Gmail invites on eBay. It wasn't
until 2007 that Gmail finally launched to everyone
without an invite. Since about 2012, Gmail
has been doing exceedingly well compared
to the competition. At Google I/O 2012,
the company announced that Gmail had reached $425
million monthly active users. This put it
ahead of Hotmail's self-reported 360 million
monthly active users and Yahoo Mail's estimated
277 million users in 2011. At the time, there
were some disputes about the exact numbers, but
soon Gmail's popularity became evident. In a
written statement to CNBC, Senior Director of Project
Management for Yahoo Mail, Josh Jacobson, said,
'Gmail has seen user growth for a number
of reasons, including promotion as the default
email provider on Android devices and familiarity
driven by use in the enterprise and
education via Chromebooks.' The main factors that have
led to the rise in popularity of Gmail. First of all, Google is
a central property on the web and so there's
a halo effect. And so you go to Google
for YouTube and you go for Google Apps and for
search and for maps. Why not go for email? Gmail went from being an
underdog to the most used email service in the
world because it was able to incorporate a
lot of Google's core technologies. Another example of
one of our core products, which we are
redesigning with A.I. is Gmail. We just had
a new, fresher look for Gmail, a recent redesign. Hope you're all
enjoying using it. We are bringing another
feature to Gmail. We call it Smart Compose. So as the name suggests,
we use machine learning to start suggesting phrases for
you as you type. All you need to do is
to hit 'tab' and keep auto completing. Some of
Gmail's more recent innovations include the
ability to schedule emails and Confidential
Mode, which prevents recipients from forwarding,
copying, printing or downloading your message. Though they are still
able to screenshot it. Another draw: being able to
use your Gmail sign in on other
websites and apps. When we look at 'sign in
with,' I mean, this is where we talk about
the competition between the digital dragons. And so you can sign
in with Facebook, you can sign in with Amazon, you
can sign in with Apple. And so the fact that you
can sign in with Google allows them to compete
head-to-head with those other digital dragons. And the fact that you can
use Gmail or Google to sign in really reinforces
the power of their control of that
consumer email market. We also see their presence
in the education space as leading to pull through
when folks select a consumer email address. And then, momentum
builds more momentum. And so as you get
tired of your old ISP-based email and you're embarrassed
about your AOL email account, you look around and
you look at what your friends are using. And
if they're gonna be using Gmail, you may tend
to move over to Gmail yourself. They started off
as a very innovative product and they've
continued to innovate. Gmail was gaining popularity fast,
but it was not all smooth sailing for
the new platform. Finding a way to monetize
Gmail had been a point of contention at
the company. Some people argued Gmail should
be a paid service from the get-go. But others
argued that in order for Gmail to have the most
reach, it needed to be ad driven. The ad revenue
model won out, but even before it launched the
general public in 2007, Google got heat for
scanning Gmail emails and using the contents
for targeted advertising. If you're emailing someone
about, hey, let's meet up and go sailing, and
then suddenly there was an ad for sailboat tours. It was unnerving for people
because it was so spot-on and people called
it creepy and spooky. And suddenly the headlines
were very negative for Google and for Gmail. The practice also made
some privacy groups and politicians uneasy. The year Gmail launched,
31 privacy and consumer groups sent a letter
to Google's co-founders saying that scanning emails
for ad purposes, 'violates the implicit trust
of an email service provider.' Shortly after
Gmail's launch, former California senator, Liz Figueroa,
even drafted a bill that would place
limits on the information gathered from scanning email
messages that could be shared with
third parties. The bill passed the
California State Senate, but died in the
state Assembly. It would take another 10
years after its wide public launch for Google to
commit to no longer scanning any Gmail account
for the purpose of personalizing ads. When we asked why it
took 10 years for the company to stop scanning
emails for ad purposes, a Google spokesperson emailed
CNBC directing us to this blog post. Google declined an on-camera
interview with CNBC. But this was not the
end to Google's privacy problems. This headline just
dropping on Google that the company still
does allow other companies to scan and share
data from Gmail accounts. This according to The Journal,
citing a letter to U.S. lawmakers in which
Google says that the company does allow app
developers specifically to scan Gmail accounts. Even though, the
company, remember, itself stopped the practice for
the purpose of ad targeting last year. A month later, Google
issued new privacy policies that put limits on how
developers can use Gmail data. One of the
interesting things about Gmail is that even when
this controversy about privacy was unfolding and kind of
blowing up, more and more people started
to use it. And it was just so
much better than anything else that was out there that
that's really when people started to say, you know,
maybe there is a privacy concern. Maybe I
am concerned about this, but this service is so
good that I'm using it anyway. Privacy became a
hot-button issue in 2018 as numerous tech
companies, including Facebook, Amazon, Apple and Google
were grilled by Congress about consumer
data privacy. With Americans carrying their
phones with them virtually at all times,
doesn't the collection of this volume of detailed
information really mean that Google is
compiling information about virtually every movement an
individual with a smartphone is making every
hour of every day today? For any service we
provide our users, we go to great lengths to
protect their privacy and we give them transparency,
choice and control. In addition to email, users
of Gmail have access to a number of
free applications, including Google Sheets, Google Docs,
Google Drive and Google Hangouts,
among others. When you have Google
Apps associated with Gmail, it's quite sticky, right? If you're using Google
Apps associated with Gmail, you're probably not
going to move. Google took office tools to
the web and forced Microsoft to do the same. Microsoft Office Web Apps
became available to the general public in 2010
and included free lightweight versions of
programs like Microsoft Word, Excel
and PowerPoint. But while Outlook may trail
Gmail and Google Apps on the consumer side,
Microsoft's business suite offering, Microsoft Office,
still reigns supreme in the $18 billion
market for business productivity tools. In more recent years, Google
has also come out with a paid version of
its online apps called G Suite. G Suite includes
all of Google's free office tool apps, as
well as additional features such as the ability to
create a custom email domain and admin controls
that are aimed at businesses. Outlook and Gmail
are similar in the sense that they both have
free and premium tiers as well as business
tiers, but they're different in terms of where
their sweet spots are. I would say that Outlook
is widely used within businesses and government agencies
and Gmail is more popular overall
with consumers. Microsoft Office still
holds 87.5 percent of the business
productivity tool market compared to G Suite,
which holds 10.4 percent. But Google is
working to change that. Google unveiling its first
Gmail redesign since 2013. The overhaul has a
slew of new features designed to attract businesses
to take on Microsoft's Outlook. Google says
it now has more than 5 million paying
G Suite customers compared to Microsoft Office 365, which
has more than 200 million paying customers. I think Gmail absolutely is
coming up in the corporate world and it is
happening as Google is taking G Suite
into businesses, government agencies, schools and
saying use this. Oftentimes, use this instead
of Microsoft Office. And soon, Gmail's revenue
stream from consumers may also get a bump. Many free users are
quickly reaching their 15 gigabyte storage limit, which
is shared between Gmail, Google Drive and
photos, and finding that they need a paid
subscription to keep everything on the cloud. 15 years
later, Gmail's big bet on storage may really
pay off.


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Stage lighting equipment is increasingly cheap to buy. This means that some new lighting equipment, intelligent lighting in particular, is now within reach of your youth group, drama society, school or church hall. The question of "What Intelligent Lighting Should I Buy?" is often asked when the time comes to upgrade your existing lighting rig. But there are some things to consider before you go on your shopping spree and blow your budget on buying the latest in cheap intelligent lighting.
Do we need to buy intelligent stage lighting?
Do you think it's time to upgrade your stage lighting?
There's life in the old dog yet and the lens is fantastically clean too…
Thanks to toholio.
Having secured for bit of cash to spend on buying new lighting gear, you just can't wait to have a look through those catalogues and trawl the web for affordable DMX goodies. But before you start adding that adding those Var*lites to your Amazon wish list, let's back up a bit. What kind of shows do you need to buy this lighting kit for?
Buy Flexible Stage Lighting
Many non-professional groups have a wide range of lighting requirements, from a "vicar spotlight" through to the next staging of "High School Musical" and often flexibility is a big concern. That's OK then, intelligent lights are really flexible aren't they? They can do colours, gobos, move around, strobe, focus up……..
Buying a large number of profile spots and fresnels with barndoors can be just as flexible.
"Buy To Learn" Stage Lighting
Everyone wants to learn more in their chosen field and stage lighting is no exception. The thought of being able to buy some lighting equipment that you can really try out and get to grips with seems a lot more attractive than buying another ten of the those boring old 500w fresnels.
You can try out and learn more types of intelligent stage lighting without actually buying it.
The Intelligent Lighting Snowball Effect
No, that's not some kind of cool moving gobo but what happens to your budget once you make the move into intelligent lighting. If you could afford, for example, to buy two moving lights for your group you will still probably need to buy a lighting desk that can control them effectively. And some DMX control cables. And some mains cables. And buy a spare lamp. An what happens when one of these pieces of highly advanced lighting kit stops working? Repair costs can be expensive if you don't have the skills in-house.
The problems of maintaining equipment are not exclusive to intellient lighting equipment but they do require more skills and money that if you were to buy more conventional stage lighting.
OK, so you against me buying intelligent lights, then? You guys get to use all the cool kit, while we just have to put up with boring old rusty floods.
Not at all. Buy some new Source Four Junior spots, some more fresnels and , most importantly, a good stock of accessories such as gels, barndoors, irises, floor stands etc. These could double/triple the usefullness of your existing lighting rig and you might not even need any more dimmers or to buy another lighting control. Just plan to "pair up" your stage lights so they fit into your existing control system. And don't forget to spend a bit of money to get your existing kit fixed and working for you again.
Then get down to your local lighting hire company and start snooping around to see what intelligent lighting gear you might need to use on your next show. You might even get a demo and a bit of a play around – free of charge!
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Hire Stage Lighting – What You Need To Know


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MIPS Newsletter
MIPS Newsletter with information about MIPS' activities in 2018.
Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security
Establishing an Intellectual Infrastructure to Support Myanmar's Peace Process and Security Transition
MIPS Newsletter with information about MIPS' activities in 2018.
Recently, Dr Min Zaw Oo, Executive Director of MIPS had a conversation with the Irrawaddy News, and shared his insights on the peace process in Myanmar.
MIPS Newsletter Volume (1) Issue (1) April 2018
Anytime a patient is required to — or elects to — have surgery, there are always risks involved. Some surgeries, however, carry with them a
Our service aims to operate fully equipped and staffed ambulances via a central dispatch facility with radio communication between area
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Construction of the Yaesu 2-Chome North District Category-I Urban Redevelopment Project officially started on December 3. Completion is scheduled for August 2022.
What is interesting about the project is that residential is indicated for the penthouse floor atop the low-rise Building A-2. The project is four years away from completion and details are, naturally, sparse. Yaesu has little in the way of residential buildings with a resident population of just 105 people.
The project includes a 240 meter tall, 45-storey commercial tower (Building A-1) that will include the Bulgari Hotel on floors 40 ~ 45, office space on floors 7 ~ 38, and retail and an elementary school on the lower levels. The basement will have a bus terminal.
The 41-meter tall, 7-storey Building A-2 is located on the north-east side of the site, fronting onto Yaesu Street, and is mere footsteps from Tokyo Station. Lower floors will have retail, office and educational facilities, while the 7th floor will have residential space.
The exterior has been designed by Picard Chilton. The total project cost is estimated at 239.8 billion Yen (approx. 2.1 billion USD).
Mitsui Fudosan Real Estate News Release, December 3, 2018.
The Nikkei Shimbun, December 3, 2018.
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Thursday, August 23rd, 2018
Good to see visual novels thriving on Steam.
Monday, August 13th, 2018
Hoping for brighter days to come
Thursday, July 26th, 2018
Get into the idol business.
Friday, July 13th, 2018
What tiers in the Tokyo Chronos Kickstarter are good values?
Thursday, July 12th, 2018
Let's take a look at the development team behind this ambitious project.
Wednesday, July 11th, 2018
What happens when VR and VN's collide? Well, you get the VR Mystery Novel Tokyo Chronos.
Saturday, July 7th, 2018
Sekai has a full plate of goodies coming, and of course more Nekos!
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
It may even be out when you're seeing this.
Wednesday, June 20th, 2018
Witches and Mermaids and Robots, oh my!
Thursday, June 7th, 2018
Wednesday, June 6th, 2018
Hopefully this leads to more publishers following suit.
Sunday, May 20th, 2018
Sekai Project is bringing a title to the Nintendo Switch.
Wednesday, May 9th, 2018
Denpasoft have announced that Chloro's psychological science-fiction visual novel 2236 A.D. will release on Friday.
Friday, April 27th, 2018
Cute catgirls and bunny that thinks she's a catgirl, can you really top this?
Friday, April 20th, 2018
Save the cute virtual idol!
Saturday, March 31st, 2018
Sekai Project had some new announcements in store for Anime Boston and Sakura Con 2018.
Thursday, February 8th, 2018
That took a while.
Friday, January 12th, 2018
There will also be preorders for those that missed out before.
Friday, December 29th, 2017
Sekai Project has released the final chapter (unrated version) of Grisaia Trilogy.
Sunday, November 19th, 2017
The Neko Ninja return! Again!


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Moves are stressful for everyone — including the family pet. Pets can sense stress and a change in routine can be difficult for them. If possible, keep your pets in a quiet, secure area while movers pack up or unload your belongings. Movers will have your door open while they move boxes and furniture, and a pet may slip out the door undetected. Make sure you keep a collar with an ID tag on your pet at all times. Ensure the tag has your current phone number on it. It is also a good idea to microchip your pets. Remember to keep the microchip's contact information up-to-date. If your pet escapes during any part of your move, you want the animal shelter that scans the chip to be able to contact you.
In Texas, your pet faces many outside dangers, among them venomous snakes, coyotes, bobcats, ticks, spiders, insects, poisonous plants and more. Keep your dog on a short leash in wilderness areas, especially if it starts sniffing or pawing the ground. Another hazard to pets is Texas' extreme weather. If you must keep your dog outside in the summer with no doggy door to an air-conditioned home, make sure to provide plenty of water in a shady area. Never leave a dog inside a parked vehicle. Have a waterproof covered shelter that a dog may retreat to in the event of a rainstorm. The shelter should be large enough for the dog to stand in without their head touching the top and should be long enough to allow the dog to lie down comfortably. It also should be raised an inch or two off the ground so it does not sit in water.
Animal Services in San Antonio and Del Rio
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
4200 Smith School Road Austin, TX 78744…………………….512-389-4800
The Wildlife Division's mission is to manage and conserve the natural and cultural resources of Texas and to provide hunting, fishing and outdoor recreation opportunities for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. To accomplish this mission, Division personnel annually conduct about 4,000 wildlife population surveys; provide recommendations concerning the management of about 1,200 vertebrate wildlife species; conduct about a dozen wildlife research studies; manage 50 wildlife management areas totaling 744,000 acres; hold public hunts on more than 230 tracts of land totaling more than 1.4 million acres; provide landowner incentives to manage for rare species; and inform the public about wildlife in general.
City of San Antonio Animal Care Services
4710 State Highway 151 San Antonio, TX 78227…………….210-207-4738
Animal Care Services provides care for pets at its adoption facility. Other services include animal control, spay and neuter programs, microchipping, low-cost vaccinations and other resources for pet owners. Detailed information on licensing, permits and fees as well as local ordinances is available on the ACS website.
San Antonio Humane Society
4804 Fredericksburg Road San Antonio, TX 78229……………210-226-7461
The Human Society provides adoption, low-cost spay/neuter services, microchipping, dog-training classes and a wellness clinic.
Del Rio Animal Care and Control
109 W. Broadway Del Rio, TX 78840…………………………….830-774-8558
Healthy, unaggressive animals whose owners fail to reclaim them are put up for adoption. The city limits each household in Del Rio to four domestic pets.
Del Rio Animal Shelter
207 Ogden Del Rio, TX 78840……………………………………..830-422-2522
The nonprofit Friends of Del Rio Animals helps shelter animals by volunteering and with fundraising and adoptions. The organization is in temporary quarters; call for an appointment.
A Pets Wish Rescue
P.O. Box 421551 Del Rio, TX 78842……………………………..830-313-8799
A Pets Wish Rescue is dedicated to rescuing homeless and abandoned animals, primarily dogs and cats, from high-kill shelters and owners who can no longer care for them. By working with volunteers, foster homes, local veterinarians and boarding facilities, the nonprofit is able to rescue hundreds of animals every year, provide them with loving temporary care and find them well-matched, carefully screened forever homes.
Veterinary Services
Veterinary services in San Antonio are plentiful; see the Advertiser Directory in this guide to connect with local providers. Another source to find a veterinarian, clinic or hospital is the Veterinary Medical Association of Bexar County's website, www.vmabc.org/search-quick.php. Another source for connecting with a veterinarian is the Texas Veterinary Medical Association website at https://tvma.azurewebsites.net.
Del Rio has three veterinary clinics, though some residents take their pets across the border for treatment in Del Rio's sister city of Ciudad Acuna, Mexico.
Pets for Patriots
Pets for Patriots' vision is to end animal homelessness in the United States while giving our military veterans and their families the greatest "thank you" of all: the extraordinary love of a companion pet. It makes this happen through its nationwide shelter and veterinary networks, military and veteran organizations, and a public that values the lives of both the vulnerable and heroic among us.
To learn more about adopting a pet, visit https://petsforpatriots.org/adopt-a-pet/how-it-works.


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Q: What do you call a white person fallen fron the sky? A: Bird Poop Q: If the women with big boobs work at hooters where do the woman with one leg work? A: Ihop. What Do You Call A Black Girl With Braces? A Black and Decker Pecker Wrecker Q: Why are women are good goal keepers A: No matter how hard the men fuck, the balls don't go in. Q: You know a boss is like a diaper? A: FULL OF SHIT AND ALWAYS ON YOUR ASS. Q. What is the rent collectors favorite game to play? A. monopoly Q: Why do cowboys make bad lovers? A: They think 8 seconds is a long ride! Q: Why are the children the ones being hardest hit by immigration reform in Arizona? A: Because parents now have to start raising their own children now! Q: Why is it a good thing to date a homeless person. A: Because you can drop them off anywhere Q: Whats white, black and blue all over? A: A white man who wouldn't stop tellin nigg* jokes. Q: Why do vegans give good head? A: Because they are used to eating nuts. Q: How do crazy people travel through to woods? A: They take the psycho path. Q: What do you call a gang of white people? A: Cracker Stack! Q: What is a Dominican doing with two quarters in his ear? A: Listening to 50 cent How do you turn a fox into an elephant? Marry It! Q: What's 12 inches and White? A: Nothin. Why did the man wear his wedding ring on the wrong finger? Because he was married to the wrong woman. Q: How many men does it take to open a beer? A: none. the lady should already have it open on the table! Q: What's everyone's favorite vegetable. A: Christopher Reeves Q: What do you call 2 nuns and a Sorority Girl? A: Two tight ends and a wide receiver. Q: If you were stuck in a room that's unbreakable with only a chainsaw and a table what would you do? A: Cut the table in half because two halves make a hole Q: What do you call a pothead with two spliffs? A: Double jointed. Q: What do a bad football team and a pothead have in common? A: They both get blitzed! Q: What's 6 inches long, 2 inches wide and drives women wild? A: a $100 bill! Q: Why are pirates called pirates? A: Cause they arrrrr. Q: Why do blacks call white people "honkies"? A: That's the last noise they hear before the white people run them over. Q: What happens when you give 61 dollars to a blonde? A: She wants 8 (ate) more. Q: What word starts with "N" and ends with "R" that a klan member would hate to call a black person? A: Neighbor Q: If marriage is grand what is divorce? A: Ten grand! Q: Why can't you borrow money from a Leprechan? A: They're always a little short. Q: What do you call a Southern academic? A: An intellect-you all! Q: Why can't you hear a psychiatrist in the bathroom? A: Because the "p" is silent. Q: What did one vegetarian say to the other vegetarian? A: We have to stop meating like this. One time a guy handed me a picture of himself, and he said, "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture of you is of when you were younger. ONE DAY,PRESIDENT OBASANJO SAW A MYSTICAL FAIRY THAT WOULD GRANT HIM ANY WISH.THEN THE PRESIDENT WISHED THAT HE COULD BE HANDSOME. THEN THE FAIRY SAID THAT HE ASKED FOR A WISH AND NOT A MIRACLE My son really upset my Grandad today: Kid says: "Grandad when are you going to turn into a frog" grandad:"What do you mean?" kid: "well dad says when you croak we are going to disneyland" Q: There's a black guy, a muslim, and a mexican in a car. Whose driving? A:The Cop Had a fight last friday with a buthcher. Smashed him right in the chops You so ugly your mama had morning sickness after you were born.
Archive for May, 2016
Jokes about stuffPosted: May 20, 2016 in General
Stupid People EuphemismsPosted: May 14, 2016 in General
— Not the brightest crayon in the box
— Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
— Not the funniest clown in the circus
— Not the fastest horse in the race
— Not the sharpest tool in the shed
— Not the brightest star in the sky
— Not the most likely Vice Presidential candidate
How to spot bull crapPosted: May 12, 2016 in General
I should know better than to except first time friend request, but I did do that but quickly corrected my mistake. If some one is going to try to pass themselves off as an American they should first learn how Americans talk, second of all trying to pass themselves off as an American soldier is another mistake, read below the pm I got and read carefully how the text reads, it's obvious that is NOT an American.
Hello elegant looking lady, how are you doing? I hope all is well with you.
Thank you for accepting my friend request, it's nice meeting you.
My name is xxxxxxx from United States but now in Afghanistan for peacekeeping mission , I'm a U.S soldier.
I really love the way you look and will appreciate it very well if we can know each other better.God be with you as I look forward to hearing from you
My reply was: Facebook is not a hook up website. I have removed you
Tuesday is blond joke dayPosted: May 10, 2016 in General
There's a blond and a brunette in a car. The brunette is driving while the blonde is in the passenger seat. They're going down a steep hill when the brunette realizes that the brakes don't work. The brunette tells the blonde that the brakes don't work and they will drive off the side of the cliff because they failed to stop. The blonde then replies, "Don't worry! There's a stop sign ahead."
Monday's jokePosted: May 9, 2016 in General
There was a preacher who fell in the ocean and he couldn't swim. When a boat came by, the captain yelled, "Do you need help, sir?" The preacher calmly said "No, God will save me." A little later, another boat came by and a fisherman asked, "Hey, do you need help?" The preacher replied again, "No God will save me." Eventually the preacher drowned & went to heaven. The preacher asked God, "Why didn't you save me?" God replied, "Fool, I sent you two boats!"
Today's joke of the dayPosted: May 8, 2016 in General
A wealthy old lady decides to go on a photo safari in Africa, taking her poodle along for company. One day the poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers that he's lost. Wandering about, he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading rapidly in his direction. The poodle thinks, "Uh, oh!" Noticing some bones on the ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the poodle exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there are any more around here?" Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees. "Whew!" says the leopard. "That was close! That poodle nearly had me!" Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree, figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from the leopard. So off he goes, but the poodle sees him heading after the leopard with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself with the leopard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says, "Here, monkey, hop on my back so you can watch me chew that poodle to bits!" Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks, "What am I going to do now?" but instead of running, the dog sits down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and waits until they get just close enough to hear. "Where's that damn monkey?" the poodle says. "I sent him off an hour ago to bring me another leopard
Joke of the dayPosted: May 7, 2016 in General
A young boy was walking along the docks one day admiring the ships, when a man walked up behind him and said, "Thinking of becoming a sailor?" "Yes, I am!" replied the boy. "Well," the man said, "I have sailed many years and have had many adventures." The boy looked the man up and down, and saw that he had an eye patch, a peg leg, and a hook. "I would love to hear of your adventures," said the boy. "Well," the man said, "I was sailing around the Cape of Good Hope when I encountered pirates. They boarded my boat and I fought them 'til there was only one left. But before he got away he cut off my leg!" "That sounds terrible!" exclaimed the boy. "Aye lad, it was, but I got over it and continued sailing the seas." "How did you get the hook?" inquired the boy. "I was once again sailing around the Cape of Good Hope on my way home when I encountered the same pirate with a whole new crew. They boarded me again and I fought down to the last man, only this time as he got away, he cut of my hand!" "That is awful!" the boy once again exclaimed. "Aye lad, but again I got over it and continued sailing the seas." "Tell me how you got the eye patch! Was it the pirates again?" "No lad, this time I was just out finishing one day, I heard the cry of a gull, and when I looked up it sh*t in me eye!" "Pardon me sir, but I didn't know you could lose an eye from gull sh*t." "Well lad, 'twas the first day with the hook!!!"


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