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text: Hi, There have been discussions now and then about the preprocessor and how it would be better to get rid of it. As someone that has to parse and handle source files before they are preprocessed, I am very much affected by it -- with macros that can be anything, an raw Erlang file can look like pretty much anything. Even if the macros are in practice mostly well-behaved, using them as alternatives to inlining code creates problem when debugging, for example, because you can't step through a macro invocation. One of the main reasons that was presented for not being able to replace the preprocessor with something that works at the lexical level is that records would need to be first made first-class citizens (as frames or whatever). I don't understand why that is -- the preprocessor doesn't do anything with records, their expansion is done later, by the compiler. Could someone comment on that, please? Is this issue a "definitely no-no" for OTP, or would it be considered if we can come up with a solution that doesn't break anything? <aside> Stepping through the code in the debugger is being thwarted even by the use of parse transforms. This could be handled by letting the debugger reconstruct the source it shows from the parsed representation and not from the source file. </aside> best regards, Vlad

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Human don't care what color you are
Human don't care what sex
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Human sees only wrecks
Human says, "Woman, what's on your mind?"
Human says, "Man, oh man!"
You been makin' babies like they goin' outta style
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The Truth About WaterproofBy AR on Oct 22, 2014
When an RC vehicle has "waterproof" stamped on the box, what does that really mean? Most people believe that you can drive that vehicle in water without any harm coming to the vehicle or any of its components—it's waterproof, after all. This claim of the vehicle being waterproof is somewhat misleading. Entire RC vehicles are simply not waterproof. Believing that they are and thus using the vehicle as if it were entirely impervious to water will result in damage. We want you to enjoy your Axial Racing purchase for a long time and not ruin any of your RC investments, so here are the facts, as we see them, on what really is waterproof. We want you to know what can really happen if you take a water adventure too far. Honest information will prevent you from ruining your investment.
Axial Racing vehicles are scale models of real off-road vehicles and are, as such, intended to be used in a scale equivalent for terrain. What this means is that water crossings that would be appropriate in a full-size Jeep and run no risk of damage would be appropriate, in scale, for your Axial vehicle with no expectation of damage. The general rule is that you can drive a stock full-size off-road capable vehicle in water up to the center of the wheel hubs. The same holds true for Axial vehicles; hub deep is safe for your Axial vehicle. So, if you drive straight through water that is approximately as deep as the middle of the wheels, your SCX10, for example, will traverse the conditions with no concern. You won't incur damage and won't require any special maintenance. Commonly, when you buy a new 4X4 truck from a dealer, you think you are prepared to take on any and all terrain. With water crossings, core enthusiasts, however, will tell you that you need various modifications such as lengthened differential breather vents raised off the axle and onto the firewall, waterproofing of the distributor and airbox and, of course, the iconic snorkel. Or, you can learn the hard way. The same is true for surface RC vehicles. Without very specific and specialized modifications, you shouldn't exceed that general hub-deep recommendation. And, even with extensive modifications, both RC and real vehicles will require maintenance beyond what is normally required if driven in deep water.
Receiver Boxes
Receiver boxes that are considered or labeled as waterproof often do an excellent job of keeping the elements out when use consists of splashing through wet terrain and shallow water. These sealed boxes are not, however, truly suitable for protection when submerged in water. When submerged, water can seep in for a variety of reasons. First and foremost, the quality of the seal depends on how well the receiver box was assembled. If the O-ring falls out of position on the main lid or there isn't sufficient grease on the seal for the servo leads and antenna wire, the box will leak. Water will actually get on the wires and travel right into the box if enough grease doesn't completely surround the wires where they enter the box. Even a small amount of water can get moved around inside the box and eventually inside the receiver. Again, these boxes provide great protection, but shouldn't be relied on for submerging your vehicle. Also, keep in mind water depth and time submerged impact how waterproof a receiver works. One of the most problematic aspects of sealed receiver boxes is that it's next to impossible to see if water has found its way in.
Radio Reception
Here's a fun fact. Did you know that water is dense enough to impact the reception quality of 2.4GHz radio systems, which are now the most common type of radio system used in hobby-grade RC? Those guys you see driving their RC vehicles into lakes to show off how waterproof their vehicle is might be in for surprise when they lose signal. While receiver antenna length, battery strength, and other factors play a role, technically you could lose control of your RC vehicle if enough water gets in between your 2.4GHz transmitter and the vehicle.
When a manufacturer claims a vehicle is waterproof, a glaring omission is the drivetrain. Transmissions and axles are not waterproof. The bearings may be water resistant (see below), but water will seep in components such as transmissions and axles. These parts may have a tight fit that does an exceptionally good job keeping dirt out, but maintenance will reveal that, eventually, dust or fine dirt gets in. If dirt can find a way in, water certainly can. Not only will water cause corrosion, but it will contaminate the grease. When a vehicle is completely submerged, a surprisingly large amount of water can seep in. Not only is the water bad by itself, it is most likely dirty water carrying abrasive dirt particles with it.
Axial bearings are sealed and made out of high-quality stainless steel, but RC bearings are not watertight. The seals keep dirt out and grease in, but prolonged submersion in water will contaminate the bearings, as dirty water will eventually seep in. Cruising through shallow water will not harm your Axial bearings and even mud can be cleaned off the outer surface. When completely submerged, however, the water will contaminate and simply gum up the grease. It's important to note that stainless steel is not rust proof, despite what most people think. It will stain less, but it can still stain. There are also different grades of stainless steel. Odds are you don't know the grade of the stainless steel used in your bearings, but 300 series stainless steel resists rust better than 400 series. Axial bearings are sealed and made out of high-quality stainless steel, but no brand of RC bearings are watertight. Again, the seals keep dirt out and grease in, but prolonged submersion in water will contaminate the bearings.
Brushed Motors
Brushed motors are well known for being able to survive wet conditions. They can even run under water—completely submerged. Brushed motors are frequently said to be waterproof and are actually a great example of the difference between being able to do something and being able to do something without long-term damage. Brushed motors can, in fact, be completely submerged in water and run. Many RC enthusiasts will point out that old school RC racers used to purposely dunk and run brushed motors in water to break them in for higher performance. This is only partially true. The key point to know is that this was done because it rapidly wore or "seated" hard brushes. This technique was used because it was the only option for sealed, non-rebuildable motors and/or because the job of breaking in needed to be done quickly. Water dipping was not the preferred way to break in a motor. Again, water dipping the motor causes rapid wear. Clean water wears down the brushes quickly; dirty water—naturally more abrasive—wears the brushes and scores the softer commutator. Bottom line is a brushed motor can run in water, but doing so undeniably wears the motor out extremely quickly. The bushings (or bearings) will also need to be lubricated after, which requires the motor to be completely removed from the vehicle for cleaning and maintenance.
Brushless Motors
There are two types of brushless motors—sensored and sensorless. While there are some sensorless motors labeled as waterproof, it is highly advised that you do no submerge these motors or even subject them to extremely wet conditions unless you are prepared for and know how to perform motor disassembly and maintenance. These motors use steel shielded bearings, which are not designed to be water tight or even truly significantly water resistant. The stainless steel shields used in most RC vehicles are high quality and well-sealed, but are designed to keep debris out and are not watertight. Sensored brushless are not waterproof due to the sensors that give them their name.
Unlike full-size tires, RC tires almost always use foam inserts in place of compressed air. Also, unlike full-size tires, RC tires are almost always vented with holes in either the wheel or in the tire itself. The foam supports the tire so it can bear the weight of the vehicle and the vents allow air to escape and reenter as the foam compresses and then regains its shape. Without the vent, tires would not readily conform to obstacles and would act more like bouncy balls on bumps and jumps than tires. The downside is the vents also allow water in. Water soaked foams are difficult, if not almost impossible, to get 100% dry, and water has proven to significantly degrade the foam and make it deteriorate quickly. On beadlock style wheels, the tires can be disassembled and the foams can be replaced—at a cost. Tires that are glued to the wheels, however, may be a complete loss if soaked.
Speed Controls and Servos
Speed controls (or ESCs), such as the Axial AE-5, and servos are good examples of individual waterproof components. Electronic components are easily damaged by water and when damaged, it is often quickly apparent—the vehicle immediately stops working. Other water damage, in contrast, takes time to manifest. This is the primary driver in declaring a vehicle to be waterproof when only the electronics are actually protected. Speed controls and servos can have their circuit boards sealed—often with an epoxy type material—or have the cases sealed with gaskets, but with both methods more heat is retained. Like water, heat can also damage electronics, so make sure you operate the device within the manufacturer's specifications.
Both NiMH and LiPo batteries function underwater as the individual cells are sealed. Both, however, have exposed tabs that easily corrode. Water does damage batteries. The inside of the cells is well protected, but the exposed parts are not. The battery packs work in wet conditions, but that doesn't mean damage doesn't occur. Batteries are also difficult to dry due to their construction.
In addition to the components and related issues described above, the hardware holding your RC vehicle together will quickly corrode when exposed to water. This isn't just an appearance issue; hex hardware will often start corroding inside the hex-shaped head and make maintenance difficult.
Industrial Ratings
There are many waterproof rating methods used in industry and very few are stated in RC. It's worth noting that none are applied to entire vehicles. That is essentially the point. Your entire vehicle is an investment and worth protecting. Even if the box says waterproof, you could be ruining it by driving it in deep water.
Below is the IPX rating that only describes water protection. IP stands for International Protection. The X indicates that solid particle protection is not identified. There is a two-digit IP code that does also list solid particle protection, which will be the first digit in place of the X.
IPX-0: No protection
IPX-1: Protected against condensation or dripping water falling vertically
IPX-2: Protected against spraying water when tilted up to 15 degrees vertically
IPX-3: Protected against spraying water when tilted up to 60 degrees vertically
IPX-4: Protected against splashing water from any angle
IPX-5: Protected against low pressure water stream from any angle
IPX-6: Protected against high pressure water stream from any angle
IPX-7: Protected against water immersion. Immersion for 30 minutes at a depth of up to 1 meter
IPX-8: Protected against continual water submersion in under water conditions.
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We had a great time last Wednesday when we've celebrated Christmas in a "sahaj" way with All our Free Classes of Sahaja Yoga Meditation that are offered in the Halton region: Burlington, Oakville and Milton. This time we did not "advertise" our event, simply because we wanted to be an intimate-cozy family feeling decorating our get-together, an occasion to know each other better and to enjoy each other's cool vibrations and warm hearts. Many came from far away and / or right after work but with generous Christmas hearts so we did enjoy to give-receive beautiful presents ("Wow! What I Really needed/wanted" one can hear all around..) as well a very tasty and diverse Christmas dinner Potluck. Of course, we did have the Sahaj Seminar as well with a meditation that was initiated by Sonia from Burlington class (her 1st time to conduct a Bandhan collectively!), then with Chandra from Oakville class, followed by Edda (Oakville again) and we did conclude the meditation with Pervez from Milton (her 1st time to conduct a collective meditation!). The vibrations were wonderful!!
We had our class filled with people and yes, we did have a Sahaj Quiz that was Christmas, Santa and Elves related 🙂 that made connections at the level of chakras, energy channels and divine principles .. as well we got the chance to enjoy singing or listening to Carols (from the classical ones to some in "foreign languages" (like Romanian 🙂 ..even a beautiful Celine Dion's song along with Bhajans and other songs we all loved).
The quality time we've spent was really great .. we made sure to spend time with people we did not talk before and make friends from "other groups", learn new things, share stories, and again, we did sing a lot of Carols.
Even more: we've opened up as we all do in our families, to sharing a special "Sahaj Moment" related to our personal experience with Sahaja Yoga meditation and we've heard amazing (miracle?!) stories about how the Kundalini awakening is the greatest gift we can give to those we love and how life (and quick!) transforming this can be (Paula's story about her friend that just started to practice sahaja yoga meditation under her guidance) .. then how powerful the vibrations can be in the "meditation place" we have at home as well, specially after a collective meditation with other sahaja yogis (here we had Jayanthi from Oakville sharing about the amazing proof she had in regard to the force of Vibrations and their connection and "response" to the subtle power emitted by Shri Mataji's photograph) ..
So it was truly a Beautiful and Collective Evening, so perfect in its Sahaj qualities, vibrating with Love, Laughter and Openness. We are definitely ready to Welcome Christmas, knowing that the subtle qualities of Jesus Christ are awakened and nourished within us .. thanks to our daily practice of sahaja yoga meditation.
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Wow – we had such a great time and enjoyed everyone's company. The evening was filled with such beautiful vibrations -Lots of love always.
What a beautiful evening. We wish we could have been with you in person but enjoyed with you in spirit. We may be miles away to your "south" in the US but we are your family in this wonderful feeling of joy and unity.
Best wishes for a New Year of an enlightened journey into the deep silence, peace, joy and well-being of the spirit within.
Yes Ioana, it may not be possible for me to be physically present at all the events, but I feel a part of the family too. Such vibrations, such love, love joy !!
It was so lovely to see everyone and feel the joy and peace of our family.
Wishing my dear brothers and sisters much inner growth and love in the New Year
Love Ann
I felt no separation, only love and good vibrations from Milton, Mississauga, North York, Oakville and Beyond! Miltonites made heartfelt precious Christmas Carol books for all of us to sing collectively, it was great. Even the gentleman who was in charge of the Brant Hills Community Center let us stay half an hour longer, lined up for our pot luck and was so curious and respectful and joyful! We were left wanting more…collectivity! It was a pleasure to get together, and get to know each other. Even the "newbies" were enjoying the vibes with full heart and participating at every step. I hope to see your smiling faces again soon. Thank you all for a wonderful evening that still permeates with good memories. And the pot luck was just absolutely delicious!


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First of all, I'm REALLY sorry for neglecting all you lovely people who have left comments on the blog over the last week.
I pride myself on visiting your blogs when you comment and also returning those comments, so I'm a little angry with myself right now.
It wouldn't be a proper Chick Named Hermia post if I wasn't over-dramatic.
*begins the self-flogging and hand-wringing*
Anyway, with being up in Belfast last weekend for the IBAs, viewing potential houses every evening and The Boy's granny being in hospital, time has been scarce.
Actually thank you so much for all the well-wishing tweets and texts for his granny…she's making nothing short of a miraculous recovery right now, so fingers crossed she keeps going in that direction.
I'm heading to Paris for the next few days to visit The Boy's French granny, who is also sick right now so I'll be MIA until next Tuesday.
And then I'll be busy preparing for the big move into mine and The Boy's first (rented) house.
Three bedrooms and a big garden: we won't know what to do with ourselves!
I'm really excited!
When we moved into our apartment, it was perfectly decorated so we never got to do anything to make it really feel like home.
This new place looks like it belongs in the seventies though, so we'll be shopping for paint and carpet and all sorts of home-making goodies.
I'm desperately in need of a creative project.
Plus, The Boy has bestowed one of the bedrooms on me so I can have my own little office.
*excited squeal*
This is in return for me allowing us to get a few sports channels.
Sweet compromise.
We haven't signed anything yet, so hopefully nothing mental happens between now and next weekend when we had over the deposit that makes the landlady stop loving us…and by 'us', I mean The Boy…


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Palo Alto Networks Should Benefit from the Cyber Security Boom
The cyber security market is projected to boom in the coming years, and while FireEye (FEYE) is my favourite pick from the sector, I think Palo Alto Networks (PANW) also represents good upside potential. Unlike FireEye, Palo Alto Networks is profitable and has been spending money wisely to grow its market share.
Another profitable quarter
For the fourth quarter, Palo Alto recorded earning per share of $0.28, $0.03 more than the consensus estimate of $0.25.
Nicely positioned
With the growing number of high-profile security breaches, the customer list will likely grow at a hectic pace in the coming years. Investors have taken a liking to Palo Alto due to the company's smart R&D expenses. Palo Alto's SG&A as a percentage of revenue is a lot better than FireEye's, which is why the company has managed to report consistent profits.
Recently, Palo Alto upgraded its next-generation security platform with new offerings and expanded its technology partnerships, and also received an "Outstanding" certification for "excellence across all substantial modes of technical support" from the Technology Services Industry Association.
Palo Alto's robust performance clearly signifies that it's natively unified, and automated security platform is extremely differentiated, and the company's focus on innovation accounts for the strong hold of its strong position in the market.
Despite the fact that Palo Alto is budding its product portfolio to protect from cyber security apprehensions, a next-generation firewall platform is still core to the company's mission. Nowadays, hackers are rapidly adopting the ways to breach security programs and with this, traditional firewall products have become out-dated. The company's policy of focusing more severely on large-scale security applications should prove to be enormously money-making, as cybercriminals are intensively targeting large corporations.
One of the main reason that differentiate Palo Alto's offerings from the company's foes is the technique its firewall classify threats. The company replaced its outdated port-based traffic classification with App-ID, which recognises traffics grounded on a number of different mechanisms. So, as long one of Palo Alto's customers reports a security breach, the stock looks good to hold for the long-term.
The cyber security market is projected to be valued at $170 billion by 2020, and Palo Alto is nicely positioned to benefit from this trend. The company's smart spending, along with long-term profitability make it an ideal pick in the present market. Hence, I think it would be a wise decision to buy the stock.
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It's been a while. I was roused from this cruel summer lethargy to actually bring myself to write again because of some visitors to my blog appreciating the little efforts of this hesitant weekend farmer. Okay, okay, I need to update ..update.
You'll be glad to know my silence is not at all unproductive. The past months brought me to certain horticultural shows in the city that inspired me to propagate in my own makeshift nursery.I am talking about the annual horticultural show held in Quezon Memorial Circle.After looking at the nice showcases of plants in the show, I was compelled to buy a start up collection of tropical plants,succulents and indigenous flowers like ylang ylang.
I was excited to bring and start right away.I was told some plants have different propagation techniques. One is through cutting , another is thru division, and still some others need marcotting.The potting medium must not be entirely soil, you need to mix it with ipa(rice hull) or coconut husks scraps.All of these techniques are best explored if you will create a netted plant nursery with a bit of sun filtering it.You will never know the benefits of your little experiments until you set out to do it.
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When you are unable to pay off a debt, the creditor may write off the amount owed as a bad debt. But while the creditor removes that debt from its books, it is still, unfortunately for you, on your credit report. When you do get the money to pay at least part of the debt, offer the creditor a settlement.
Contact the creditor. You may be able to clear up the debt directly with the original credit card issuer or other creditor. However, in some cases, bad debt matters are farmed out to collections firms. Ask your creditor whom you need to speak with to settle the debt. Often a collection firm will have already contacted you directly in an attempt to recoup the amount owed.
Offer the creditor less than 20 percent of the amount owed. This might sound low, but most creditors would prefer some payment to no payment. Explain briefly why you are unable to pay more. Stand firm in the face of skepticism or posturing on the part of the creditor or collector. It is his job to get as much money as possible before settling the matter.
Negotiate. According to Smart Money, most bad debts are settled for between 20 percent and 75 percent of the original amount owed. Remain calm as the creditor responds with a counteroffer. Be prepared to haggle for a few minutes or more. Your objective is to settle the debt for the lowest amount that you can afford.
Get the agreement in writing. Once you have settled on a figure, insist on getting a letter from the debtor or collection company that spells out your commitment. The creditor must agree to report the debt as "settled" to all three credit bureaus. The letter might also spell out by what date the settlement sum should be received.
- If the thought of negotiating gives you the willies, work with a debt management company. Such an organization may get the creditor to agree to lower payments and possibly a lower interest rate on the debt. You will be paying the amount in full, but in affordable installments.
- Beware of debt-settlement firms. They offer to negotiate with creditors on your behalf, but may charge outrageous fees, according to Smart Money magazine.
- Forgiven debt has tax implications. The creditor typically reports the amount of the forgiveness -- for example, the 75 percent of the debt you did not pay when you settled -- to the Internal Revenue Service and will send you a Form 1099 to include with your return when you file your taxes.


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In a place the size of Texas it's no surprise that there are countless themed festivals happening in small towns and cities across the state. A little research reveals that lots of fruits, native wildlife, and cultures are represented in festivals all over Texas, and we decided to look at a few that set themselves apart from some of the rest, due to the unique themes they have or the quirky way they celebrate them. Absent from this list are big city festivals like Austin's Eeyore's Birthday, because while those types of events can be a lot of fun, they're urban events that are different in nature from the smaller festivals. Since these festivals are happening throughout the year, some have already happened as of this writing, so remember to plan ahead if you're interested in attending in the future.
8. The Lone Star Gourd Festival - New Braunfels
This central Texas festival celebrates the many uses of the humble gourd, with an emphasis on its use in decorative arts. It runs from July 31 through August 2 each year, and offers visitors art classes, activities for kids, and plenty of gourd based activities in New Braunfels.
7. Bertram Oatmeal Festival - Bertram
The city of Bertram is located about 45 miles northwest of Austin, and hosts a yearly oatmeal festival that was started in 1978 as a sort of spoof on the many chili cook-offs hosted in towns scattered all over Texas. Named for the nearby rural community of Oatmeal, Bertram decided to make the most out of the cereal connection, and the Oatmeal Festival was born. The festival features a trail ride, a bake-off, a parade, and BBQ among other festivities for visitors to enjoy. The surrounding area is a beautiful part of the Texas Hill Country, and well worth exploring.
6. The Pearland Crawfish Festival - Pearland
To be fair, Texas is the location of several Crawfish Festivals, and choosing one to focus on is a difficult choice. But Pearland's annual event on April 10-12, is a great place to start for any Texan who loves mud bugs and festivals that offer lots of activities to enjoy. Pearland's event has a carnival, crawfish eating contests, armadillo races, and lots of food and music, making it a great way to celebrate the region's favorite fresh water crustacean.
5. Kolache Festival - Caldwell
This festival honoring Czech culture, and the delicious pastry that immigrants brought into our state culture is held on September 12 in Burleson County. Visitors can indulge in many festival activities a Kolache eating contest, various demonstrations, and a street rod and classic car show. Admission is free, and there is plenty of music food, and Czech Texan culture to enjoy.
4. Luling Watermelon Thump - Luling
Stretching back over six decades, Luling Texas has hosted a Watermelon "Thump" - A festival engineered to promote the local watermelon industry. The city has a huge water tower painted like a watermelon, and the festival includes seed spitting distance contests, and a parade. There is a Thump Queen each year, and an auction where local growers bring out sometimes enormous watermelons that can weigh over 50 pounds each. The festival also has music, food, and carnival rides, offering lots for visitors to do, and Luling is a notable BBQ town, so there's more to the local food than just watermelons.
3. Texas Gatorfest - Anahuac
This east Texas festival runs September 11-13, and has a lot going on. Music, food, airboat rides, BBQ, a carnival, and classic car show are just a few of the activities Texas Gatorfest has in store for visitors. There is also a Rumble on The Swamp motorcycle ride, and the gator roundup, which is a hunting event, so that part is probably something those who are squeamish about these sorts of things might choose to avoid. Fortunately for them, the festival also offers guests the opportunity to see living specimens up close.
2. The Great Mosquito Festival - Clute
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It's perhaps unsurprising that the bloodsucking insect which is such a nuisance to Texans would be honored by a yearly festival in Clute, which is about 55 miles southeast of Houston. The festival runs from July 23-25, and visitors are greeted by the event's mascot, Willie-Man-Chew, a 26 foot tall mosquito wearing a cowboy hat and boots. It's hard to picture anything more Texan than that. The festival features live music, a carnival, games contests, and a "Mosquito Chase" 5K run, making it an event just about anyone could enjoy.
Robert E. Howard Days - Barbarian Festival - Cross Plains
Many people might be surprised to know that one of the most important writers of fantasy literature was a Texan. Robert E. Howard, was born and lived in Cross Plains Texas, and created Conan the Barbarian, one of the most iconic sword and sorcery characters of all time. On June 12-13, the town welcomes Howard's fans, who can mingle with others like themselves, take tours of the writer's home, and attend panels, speeches, films, and other events. On June 14 the town of Cross Plains hosts a county fair celebration called the Barbarian Festival, which has food, games, music, rides, a petting zoo, parades, and many more activities for people of all types to enjoy. Texas is a strange and interesting place, and it is fitting that one of the creators of an iconic fantasy character is from Cross Plains.


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In a busy room at the University of Ottawa, amid the bustle of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, two biologists scrutinize a satellite image captured from an altitude of 700 kilometres.
On the right, a sliver of dark-blue ocean sparkles on the African coast. In the top centre is the saffron bull's-eye of Kilimanjaro – the highest mountain in Africa.
Like every view of Earth from space, the scene conveys a sense of serenity, the ineffable peace of distance. Yet the Ottawa scientists are scouring the image for clues to the presence of a rampaging disease – malaria. With only slim resources available to fight the illness, the scientists will extract from the panorama the best information on where those resources should go.
This is a story about how one discovery can lead to another. How butterfly research in Canada could produce a breakthrough in the fight against a pestilence that plagues a continent.
Three weeks ago, in a village baking in the African scrub, Jeremy
Kerr and Manisha Kulkarni, with 24 biology students from universities
across Ontario, delivered a load of bed nets to a Masai village. With
that simple act, the fight against malaria advanced a giant step. They
had cracked the malaria code.
IN THE NORTH of Tanzania rise the mountains of the Eastern Arc – the Usambara and the Pare ranges. The volcano Ol Doinyo Lengai, "Mountain of God" in Maasai, still sometimes erupts, sending a load of ash westward on the wind to settle on the Serengeti plain. Kilimanjaro glitters in the sky.
Between the mountains and the plain lies one of the richest biological environments on earth, teeming with plants and animals found nowhere else.
Many of the Earth's most storied predators roam the Serengeti – lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas. Pythons and adders rustle in the bush and crocodiles populate the rivers. Yet the most deadly of Tanzania's animals is none of these. It is a tiny creature about the weight of a speck of dust.
The mosquito.
Some 500 million people suffer from malaria each year, and they get it from mosquitoes.
A swift-moving, crippling malady, malaria kills between 1 million and 3 million people a year in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them younger than 5. If they do not die, the sufferers will stumble through life physically or mentally damaged.
Enter Jeremy Kerr. The athletic 38-year-old regularly runs half-marathons and cycles the 10 kilometres from his Ottawa home to the university's downtown campus.
In his academic life he has been driven to understand how climate change moves animals from place to place.
By assembling complex models of what has happened, Kerr conjectures what will happen next.
Last year, he was joined by Kulkarni, a native of London, Ont. The 30-year-old post-doctoral researcher and malaria expert was drawn to Kerr's laboratory by his skill in modelling climate change.
Her hope was that they could create a model fine-tuned to malaria, one that would unmask the movements of the disease.
"There's a resurgence of malaria in the east African highlands," she said, "and more frequent epidemics. One theory about why that's happening is that climate change is expanding the range of malaria mosquitoes into areas where the human populations have little or no immunity. That means more sickness and death."
Kulkarni is one of the world's top malaria researchers. She has led projects for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the Canadian Red Cross.
She began studying the disease in 2002, when she examined the effectiveness of insecticide-treated nets at a British-run research centre in Tanzania.
"I had these wire balls," she said, "and I'd wrap them in a treated net and then insert the mosquitoes into the ball. The only place they can rest is on the net. Basically, we'd time how long it took them to die."
In another experiment, researchers fed mosquitoes into a tube with a guinea pig at the other end. Inside the tube was a treated net with holes in it. The idea was not only to see if the mosquitoes keeled over when they landed on the net, but whether the insecticide was so repugnant that they would not even fly through the holes to get to the guinea pig.
Insecticide-treated nets are the main weapons against malaria. They kill insects, are easy to use and new techniques for treating them have made the poison longer-lasting. According to Kulkarni, protecting 60 per cent of a community with nets can cause mosquito populations to collapse, reducing malaria transmission by as much as 90 per cent.
The biggest challenge is knowing where to hand out the nets. Not all mosquitoes transmit malaria. The distribution of nets would be much more effective if malaria fighters knew exactly where to go.
And that's where Kerr came in.
Kerr has an international reputation as a mapper of species. He began in Canada with butterflies – a population whose condition reflects the impact of climate on other animals.
"An entire generation of butterflies is born and dies each year," Kerr explained. "They live their whole lives in a certain environmental condition. So if there is an environmental change, there's an entirely new generation of butterflies there to greet it.
"They react very, very fast to whatever's going on."
Kerr's studies raised the question of whether climate was moving populations. The advantage of studying butterflies is that many people collect them and will take note of where they are. So he had ample data to see how butterflies had shifted their ranges in the 20th century. Alongside that information he put everything he knew about how the environment had changed. Were the shifting ranges, he wanted to know, a function of human-caused environmental change? They were.
By looking at the changing environment, Kerr could now say where the butterflies would be. And if forecasts could be made about butterflies, why not for other species, too?
"That expertise is what attracted me to Jeremy's work," Kulkarni said. "The goal, for me, was to develop a way for end-users to know where to put the nets."
"We are looking at areas where most of the transmission is through small-scale epidemics," Kerr said.
"Field workers need to know whether to hand out nets in this village or that, where the locations may be only a few kilometres apart."
There are two main malaria mosquitoes in the part of Tanzania Kerr and Kulkarni targeted. Anopheles gambiae likes low elevations and humid environments. Anopheles arabiensis likes the drylands, but is found in wetter places, too.
In the digital images analyzed in Ottawa, each pixel represented 30 square metres. By scrutinizing the red spectrum of each pixel, the university's computers could detect changes in vegetation that betrayed the likely habitat of the malaria mosquitoes.
This detective ability is recent. When Kerr was doing post-doctoral work at Oxford 10 years ago under Lord May – the British government's main science adviser, president of the Royal Society, and a pioneer of mathematical biology – they were still using topographical maps.
"What we're able now to do with remote sensing would be impossible any other way," said Kerr.
"There just would never be the resources to survey this much area by using people on the ground."
To generate their maps of malaria-risk areas, the scientists use a process called ecological niche modelling.
This begins with inputting locations where Kulkarni and others have already found the insects.
To this they add climate data and the information from their infrared analysis of vegetation. These "data layers" are analyzed together in a computer program that ultimately spits out a map of where mosquitoes live.
The researchers tested their predictions against locally taken blood tests. They were looking for the microprotozoans associated with malaria.
Sure enough, their method accurately predicted areas where people suffered from malaria.
IN THE VAST scrub and grassland between the Serengeti and the Eastern Arc live Masai herdsmen. They subsist from their cattle and by growing maize and beans.
Anopheles arabiensis thrives in the scattered villages, sheltering from the killing sun in dense clusters in the cattle sheds. At night the insects swarm into the houses.
Few places on Earth could be more distant from an Ontario classroom than the thatch and mud-brick hamlet of Kiruani that the students and their teachers drove into on Aug. 21. They brought a load of treated nets, bought from a Tanzanian factory with $6,700 they had raised.
The villagers were waiting. Chiefs and elders wore Masai robes – red for the men and blue for the women. Kerr and Kulkarni sat at a table with two local officials, with students on either side.
When everyone was in place, an official stood and formally opened the meeting by calling: "Kiruani yupo?" – Kiruani, are you there?
"Nipo!" sang the people – We are here.
The students performed short plays, enacting how the nets should be used.
"The villagers loved them," Kerr recalled. "It was an incredible moment."
Then the heads of every household, 400 of them, came forward to receive a net.
"You could see how hard their life was," said Paulina Zaborska, a 20-year-old wildlife biology student from the University of Guelph.
"Some of them had injuries that had never healed, and they had to live with that. When we first arrived in the village I was afraid, because we'd been told they had never seen people like us before. It's far from the tourist area. I was actually shaking.
"But they took our hands and thanked us, and wanted to spend time with us. It was very emotional."
Robert Moreland, 30, who has just started medical school at the University of Western Ontario, was equally moved.
"Seeing hundreds of people waiting hours for the chance to get one of these bed nets ... it was earth-shattering."
Even as the students were handing out the nets, a satellite was describing its orbit of the Earth, 700 kilometres above Kiruani.
The images produced from its blank gaze will look as placid as always. Nothing will betray the anguish until a computer in Ottawa interrogates the infrared signature of telltale vegetation, and Kerr and Kulkarni pinpoint the next Kiruani.


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Five College Book History Seminar
The Five College Book History Seminar series is a collaborative lecture series that focuses on the production, circulation, and reception of early modern and medieval texts. These lectures are assembled in collaboration with Jim Kelly, Humanities Research Services Librarian at DuBois Library, and Jim Wald, Associate Professor of History at Hampshire College.
Spring 2019
Hayley Cotter, PhD Candidate, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "The 1517 Theuerdank and Maximilian I's Uses of Print."
Sean Moore, Professor of English, University of New Hampshire, "New Methods for the Study of Reading via Circulation Records and Portraiture: Evidence from the Salem Social Library and Redwood Library."
Amy Halliday, Gallery Director, Hampshire College Art Gallery, "Book Arts Unbound: Collecting and Curating Contemporary Artists' Books."
Polina Barskova, Professor of Russian Literature, Hampshire College, "Life and Death of Books during the Siege of Leningrad."
Fall 2018
Jessica Maier, Associate Professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College, "News, Real and Fake, from the Front: Mapping the Great Siege of Malta (1565)."
Ann Blair, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor, Harvard University, "Servant-Functions and Author-Functions in Early Modern Europe."
Fall 2017
Joseph Black, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, "'A Potency of Life': The Material History of Books and Reading"
Leah Price, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Harvard University, "Overbooked: dispatches from the front lines of the reading wars"
Spring 2017
Andrea Stone, Smith College, "Broadside, Pamphlet, Book: Early Black American Print Cultures and the Digital Archive"
Emily Todd, Chair of the Department of English and Founding Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, Westfield State University, "Managing Happiness: A Study of Children's Books Published by Graves & Ellis in Postbellum Boston"
Fall 2016
Michael Kelly, Head of the Archives & Special Collections Amherst College, "Samson Occom and the Uses of Bibliography"


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Milk and Dairy Farm Facts
Each 1-cup serving of milk provides 10 percent or more of the recommended daily intake of calcium, vitamin D, protein, potassium, vitamin A and phosphorus. Soak up some of these Indiana dairy fun facts for June Dairy Month, and then check out some of our favorite dairy recipes.
Indiana's 2,000 dairy farms produce more than 393 million gallons of milk each year.


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Certain members of the internet community will be infuriated by research from app-monitoring company Crittercism, which claims Android is a more stable OS on the whole than Apple's iPhone system.
Crittercism counted 214 million separate app launches across 23 different versions of iOS and the 33 varying builds of Android out there at the moment, generating average app crash data as a percentage of the total failures.
Apple's very latest iOS 5.01 featured the highest number of problems, percentage wise, when launching an app, with the newest Apple OS accounting for 28 per cent of all failures to launch on Apple devices.
One of the key reasons given for the disparity in crash data is Apple's long-winded approval system. Whereas Android app makers can push out minor bug fixes within minutes of finding an issue, Apple developers have to wait for the divine nod from the company's approving angels before fixes can go live, often leaving known bugs in places for days. [Forbes via Phandroid -- Thanks Darrell!]


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In a recent interview in Uncanny Vernal Equinox, the Voyager author Tanith Lee said, . . . who, apart from the calmest among us, has never wanted to hurl their typewriter or laptop or cell phone through a window, since it has just deleted a vital something, gone to sleep . . .
I thought immediately, how Mercury Retrograde is that? But there's much more to Tanith Lee's views than a passing frustration at mechanistic 'inanimate objects'. In her books, particularly Don't Bit the Sun, Drinking Sapphire Wine and The Silver Metal Lover, she explores the nature of sentience, intelligence and the growth of soul in humans and their creations.
Machines, even if vastly physically like or unlike humans, are also 'living' in their own fashion, and probably more resemble us, as we them, than we normally care to notice. -Tanith Lee in PGB
The animistic view, where metal and rock, rivers and streams, storms and trees all have a 'nature of being' and are all part of the whole (M Theory anyone?), comes shining through Tanith Lee's work and I know I have been strongly influenced by her beautiful prose and the elegant philosophies. In the interview, I am also deeply honoured to be quoted:
One of the things I love about (The Silver Metal Lover) is how Tanith explores the hard problems of consciousness without intruding on the story. It was only during times 'away from the book,' that I pondered her insights—how the erotic nature of love can grow souls. When I say erotic, I don't mean pornographic. I'm refer-ring to Eros, the god of love—the original meaning is some-thing that brings two people together in such a way that it creates a lasting transformation. –Kim Falconer in PGB
What is this erotic, soul transforming writing of Tanith Lee like? Here is a glimpse, from a post I did on the Voyager Blog a few years ago. It's one of my favourite passages. I said:
'To begin with, Jane is far from individuated. She says, 'My mother has a lot of opinions, which is restful, as that way I don't have to have many of my own.' Jane is sentient but has little self awareness. Then she falls in love:
Mother, I am in love with a robot.
No. She isn't going to like that.
Mother, I am in love.
Are you, darling?
Oh, yes, Mother, yes I am. His hair is auburn, and his eyes are very large. Like amber. And his skin is silver.
Mother. I'm in love.
With whom, dear?
His name is Silver.
How metallic.
Yes. It stands for Silver Ionized Locomotive Verisimulated Electronic Robot.
Silence. Silence. Silence.
Mother….' TSML
Beautiful, isn't it?
As we relax with Mars Rx and Mercury Rx we might notice all the 'inanimate' things in the world 'come alive' to deliver their messages to us. As they do, you might very much enjoy reading Tanith Lee, or even get acquainted with a certain 'quantum sentient' named Jarrod, the Juxta-quantum arranged rad ram operating determinant who comes to 'life' in Path of the Stray.
Any experiences to share? You KNOW I'm curious!
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Any business with an online presence knows the challenges involved in directing new traffic to their website. Unfortunately, the difficulty doesn't stop there, as once you've enticed a visitor onto your site, you also need to convince them to convert into customers. Less than 5% of website viewers will actually take action towards a purchase the first time they visit your site - but retargeting can help to entice the remaining majority to return and convert.
Retargeting is a technology that relies upon digital cookies to track your audience's movements across the webInternet. By placing a piece of code on your website, you can have a cookie dropped into your viewer's browser when they arrive on your landing page, and that cookie will inform your retargeting provider of which ads should be served. Similarly, search retargeting tracks users according to the previous keyword searches they have conducted, allowing you to display personalized advertisements to your visitors.
Search retargeting can be a powerful tool for conversion optimization, but just like anything else in advertising, there are usually ways that you can improve and maximize your search retargeting efforts. If you want to make sure your search retargeting campaign is primed to get the right results, consider the following 4 tips.
1. Know The Value of Segmentation
Through the process of audience segmentation, search engine users can be broken down into different groups based on their behavior and keyword choices. Similarly to lead scoring, visitors can be placed into different sales levels depending on the searches that they have conducted in the past. Using this information, it is then possible to create an optimal ad experience by highlighting the services or products that these specific groups are searching for.
For instance, imagine a viewer searched for "black leather shoes", then clicked onto your product page, but wandered away without taking the next step. It's safe to assume that these people had some interest, so you may want them segmented so that you can serve up "black leather shoe" ads to recapture their interest.
2. Make Use of Burn Pixels
If the service or product you are offering only requires a single purchase, or you don't want to waste your advertising budget on visitors that have already successfully converted, you should consider using burn pixels. This line of code will delete the previous instruction that ensures the customer is continuously served retargeting ads. In regards to search retargeting, it could be a good idea to use a burn pixel to change up the product or service advertised. For example, if someone has already bought the black leather shoes previously mentioned, your creative could push them to purchase polish, or protective serums for the future.
Remember that research suggests around 80% of your future revenue will be sourced from 20% of your existing customers. Burn pixels can be a great way to remove converted visitors from an original campaign so that they can be enrolled in a secondary campaign.
3. Keep Your Creatives Fresh
You wouldn't go to a movie theatre that continued to show the same films over and over again, so why would you consider clicking an advertisement when the same creatives are served time after time? Part of the skill behind search retargeting involves keeping your audience curious, which means that you should have a plan of rotation for keeping your creatives fresh. Rather than serving the same advertisements week after week, swap out existing ads and pictures with fresh ones to pique the interest of your customers and remind them of what you have to offer. Not only will rotation help to combat banner blindness, but it will also offer you a unique opportunity for testing out new banner strategies.
4. Always Keep Testing
Finally, part of keeping your search retargeting campaigns fresh means paying close attention to the aspects of your campaign that are performing well, and those that aren't. To discover the most effective ads, make sure that you frequently conduct A/B tests on various variables. For example, keep in mind that the real estate of most ads is quite limited, so you won't have a lot of room to get your desired message across to your audience. The best way to make sure you're having the right impact, is to test different value proposition variations. A single word changed could be enough to increase your conversion rate significantly.


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When I started digging through the hall closet, I was looking for my gold jewelry. Something stored away that could match the necklace my sister gave me for Christmas, or at least the novelty class ring from high school. I found the jewelry box in a Rubbermaid container with old pictures and five other notebooks. The pictures include images of someone licking my shoe, a friend who died in 2009, and pictures of me wearing some very ill-advised hair extensions. The notebooks, written almost entirely in Pilot V5 ink, contain my life before LiveJournal.
I'm looking down at a small, black vinyl book. Screenprinted on the cover is a music staff with a heart-shaped note, and the script words "my thoughts." This book was given to me for my 13th birthday and the lock was lost long ago, probably pilfered to be worn as jewelry. My parents probably gave me this as some kind of welcome into teenage life, hoping to help me cope with the insanity of middle school. The questionnaire in the front lists my favorite subject as "math" and favorite song as "Groove Is In The Heart." The line for what I want to be when I grow up is blank.
What I found was a brain oscillating between schoolgirl crushes and music obsession. A world where L.A. Riots and Operation Desert Storm were footnotes to the bigger question of whether or not to attend a Valentine Dance.
Later, the world became one of escape through letters and Anne Rice books, coffee shop conversation and a raging crush on the local shit-stirrer. I remembered high school being a long, slow march through Hell. It was that, but it was also good friends, midnight movies, lost weekends and hair dye accidents. It was 1,001 horrible first dates. It was morphine-laced, post-surgery phone calls. It was getting up at 4:30 to go to Music Theory class. It was a piano and a typewriter. It was ten of the loudest little fingers you've ever met.
"Well, I'm just sitting here listening to my Wham! tape."
"PS: Boyz II Men rule!"
"I wanted to say: I don't know – maybe because I didn't have control – and it scared me."
"PS: Boyz II Men Rule"
"I'm watching Arsenio. It's about the L.A. riots."
"He gave me his beeper number."
"I got a CD player – it's awesome. Now I just need to get a CD."
"When I moved, the first night I was here, I was overtaken by grief."
"I'm not used to crying everyday."
"we went out a couple weeks ago with Rob and Meagan to Chi-Chi's."
"I feel like I'm living in a big What The Fuck moment."
"Right now I have to settle for traveling in my mind. Mostly with Louis and Lestat."
"That was back during my 3rd soul. I'm in my 4th now."
"We only speak in conversations on the desk in Pre-Cal."
(My crush and I would comment back and forth to each other by writing on a desk where we both sat in two different periods. He never found out I liked him. He's now living in NYC and playing in a punk band.)
"Sometimes, he sounds like a Wilson Phillips song."
"I should just become a Republican and learn to play golf."
"There's a reason why no one puts 'prom queen' on a resume."


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Owl Cakes – A Healthy Fun Back to School Snack
Back to school means back to healthy snack/lunch planning, packing for parents. Keeping healthy food fun and interesting enough to eat can sometimes be a challenge, but a little creativity can go along way. We demo'd these whole grain owl cakes with sunbutter, apple, blueberries, banana and a wedge of cheese and watched the kids gobble them up, and even asked for seconds.
A great snack or breakfast option, these snacks have all of our macro and micro nutritional bases covered.
- Fiber filled whole grain carbohydrates
- Protein rich sunbutter and cheese
- Vitamin and nutrient dense fruit
Add it to your snack repertoire at home and let us know what you think!


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About Us
School Getaways was conceived in 2008 by Katrine Elliott (that's me) and Jacinta Phelan. In 2011 Jacinta retired from School Getaways to concentrate on other projects.
I am now the sole Director and owner of the School Getaways travel web site and I am involved in every facet of the business. I am sure my tech team wished I didn't ask so many questions sometimes or stopped coming up with ideas – but hey, they are a talented team and I am surrounded by passionate people.
I have over 25 years of experience in marketing, promotions and events and certainly understand that being 'time poor', can be reduced significantly with accurate planning and the use of excellent research tools – and maybe a glass of wine!
We have grown significantly since 2008 and in 2017 it was time for an entire redesign and full-face lift.
New features were added to the site which enabled our members to not only find more detailed information about the listing they were looking at, but also gave them direct links to the listings social media pages, which our members were telling us was important. The new suite now enables our member to add their favourite searched listings into their own back pack to look at again at another time.
Advertisers get their bookings direct from our members, no middle man, no hidden extras and no commissions payable to us.
Some things haven't changed, we still offer easy access for Staff, Students and Parents to locate, research and book (by way of a direct link to the advertisers listing) their next school activity or family holiday. School Getaways includes information on accommodation, tours, transport, school excursions/incursions and holiday packages.
School Getaways - We really are ALL THE INFORMATION IN ONE DESTINATION
Katrine Elliott
School Getaways


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Relaunched in May 2011 by the company behind hit men's lifestyle magazine Sorted, Liberti has been met with great reviews and is proving incredibly popular.
Liberti is a dynamic, independent women's magazine with a vision to encourage, equip and inspire Christian women living in today's world. Liberti seeks to reach women regardless of the church they belong to and empower them to live out their faith in the fast lane; to apply biblical principles in the workplace, in their relationships and in churches across the globe.
Liberti has an enviable team of regular contributors including Sue Rinaldi, Cathy Madavan, Michelle Guiness, Amy Pye, Charlotte Gambill, J.John, Carl Beech and Emma Greenwood. It has a motoring expert and relationships panel as well offering powerful insights from a qualified life coach.
Liberti is a handbag size quarterly magazine that retails at £3 an issue, or £12 for a year's subscription.
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Cape Town mayor Patricia de Lille walked out of a city council meeting called to decide her fate on Thursday.
De Lille's departure came after speaker Dirk Smit refused to allow a secret ballot on the DA's motion of no-confidence in her leadership.
The mayor said Smit's decision was unlawful and said she would take it on legal review. "I will not be part of this unlawful [exercise]' I am leaving. I am going to court now'" she said.
On Wednesday' in the High Court in Cape Town' Judge Robert Henney ruled that Smit must use his discretion to ensure that councillors could vote with their conscience.
De Lille had asked the court for the ruling after Suzette Little' chairman of the DA caucus in the city council' told her that DA federal executive chairman James Selfe "was of the opinion that in terms of the DA's constitution all caucus members are bound by the caucus decision [to support the motion of no confidence]' even those who did not vote for it".
After De Lille's departure' the opposition ANC and EFF asked for an adjournment but Smit said the meeting would continue.
Earlier' the council meeting was interrupted when Smit ejected the ANC. This followed a request from ANC caucus leader Xolani Sotashe for a report on Smit's investigation into De Lille's claims of misconduct by members of the DA caucus.
De Lille claimed during the previous sitting that an attendance register was circulating among DA members calling for the special meeting.
Smit told Sotashe: "I asked those councillors but they denied it. I am waiting for affidavits." But the ANC demanded the names of the councillors involved and began singing Struggle songs in the council chamber.
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|May 6, 2012, 06:58 PM
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IMO, dealing with a SD issue by myself...A flashlight has no place on my weapon. I am fortunate that the street lights give off enough that I can see throughout my house "good enough" with just cracked blindes. If I have to use a flashlight I use fenix TA20 led on it lowest setting (for spot on identification)
I do have one of those clear baseball sized LED glowballs. I can roll it into a room and it gives off plenty of light to see anyone in there.
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|May 6, 2012, 09:13 PM
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One of the features of a weapon mounted light, is that it can be left in the off position. The mere fact that its mounted doesn't necessitate its use. Yet it remains ready to go at a touch.
I think lights are really useful additions. I don't have one on a pistol right now, but I have one mounted on my HD shotgun. Its not in the way and is very useful, if I need it. Like I said earlier, its mere presence, does not mean it has to be used, but its there.
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|May 6, 2012, 09:16 PM
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Even though there is a fair amount of ambient light from outside, I'd still want to have a flashlight. Shadows can be tricky. But I do prefer a handheld light.
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|May 6, 2012, 10:33 PM
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You know, there have been a lot of criminal acts committed by neighbors robbing, raping, and murdering one another. Maybe it is your poor, confused, diabetic neighbor who is unintentionally in your home, but having a delusion where he feels he needs to harm you or your family. Just because it is medical-based or chemical-induced condition doesn't mean he won't be a determined attacker.
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|May 16, 2012, 10:41 AM
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There are very valid arguments on both sides, as always when this type of discussion comes up.
My thought is simllicity. I dont keep a hadgun as part, of my hd setup anymore. I did for several years and always had a couple staged in various safe locations. Always had a light spare magazine or speed loader and kept near a phone. To much gear to deal with in the middle of the nihjt, under strsess and fear. The real value of the weapon mounted light is grab and go simplicity. Now my cell phone is always in my pocket or on the charger, my rifle is always close and in conditoon three and Im pretty confadent that I can make the phone call gather the kids and.gf and egress to the safe room with a minimul rjisk of fkrgetting anything. We all think ahead and train to one degree or another and all practice. However the reality is this would be a terrifying situation while your half asleep or in some other vonerable state (my worst fear is being invaded/roken into whike Im in the shower or takeing a sit down head call lol) aveing the light on the weapon eliminates the risk of forgetting it. And if your alone or acting as the only fighting componant of the family, you should not be "clearing" the house. Light up the approach to your position and leave it lighted up,let them knkw where you are. They will leave you alone in most every situation and if they dont you have a clear positional advantage.
|May 21, 2012, 05:23 PM
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I personally go the route of a weapon mounted light..Gave it away to a less fortunate friend. TLR-1 miss it but I'll get another one. Probably the one with the strobe effect. Easier to have that one hand free without sacrificing the light.
|June 16, 2012, 03:26 PM
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I have always hated light at night or anything that would give away your position even those swinging rocking parachute flares threw light over everything, and if a trip flare went you knew it was the enemy however had a deer set one off one time about gave us a heart attack. Have not seen anyone smoke with their hands cupped or at the bottom of a bunker under a poncho in years and I never smoked at night good way to get your head blown off and guard duty in the bunker or outside the perimeter on ambush or LP is no place to smoke.
That said a light on a gun does free up your off hand while as others have said giving the bad guy a good chance to shoot you in the head or torso, while a light off the gun like I believe the FBI used to train gives you the advantage of holding the light away from your body so if they shoot at the light hopefully you will not take a round to the torso or head although you could probably do that with the gun with the light on it holding it away from your head and body however it would be hard to shoot accurately that way and now if they shoot the light they just shot your strong hand and gun giving you no chance to defend yourself unless you are carrying another gun to use in your weak hand.
I thought at one time it might be neat to develop a periscope with a high intensity light on it or just get some PVC pipe and experiment attaching a light to it and seeing how hard or easy it might be to use the light that way to get the light away from your body.
I also thought at one time that developing a flashlight in the shape of a ball that you could throw in a room and clear it and then retrieve it for the next room might be a good idea but I believe I read some country like Israel had developed that with a grenade inside that they could set off remotely if needed. Did some night shooting with a flashlight around barricades and noticed flashing the light off and on quickly that when you flashed it on and quickly fired and flashed it off at a short distance the flash of the gun going off illuminated the target enough that you could quickly index the sights and do a double tap.
I also agree on not room clearing if you don't have to,,,if you know an intruder is in your home go to your predetermined ambush spot call 911 and let him enter your kill zone not you his. There is an old saying,,,"If you have a choice never go to a Man always let a Man come to you, the First thing the Eye sees is Movement!" A Man waiting in ambush in a good hide will in most cases take out a Man moving and trying to find him.
Lastly remember whether it is you sticking a flashlight or a gun around a door or window or the bad guy,,,with a sheetrock two by four wall,,,it would not be hard to empty a magazine through the wall starting at chest high or waist level and moving down to floor level and then away from the door or window.
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|June 16, 2012, 11:08 PM
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Statistically, most home break-ins are robberies, and thieves hoping to walk off with your TV are not the type that shoots up a room before walking into it. I think the others who have stated that securing the rearmost bedroom and guarding the door while waiting for the police is the most prudent course of action. Anything else simply puts yourself at unnecessary risk. Just because the law might allow something, doesn't mean you should press your luck and hunt down intruders in your house unless they're a direct threat.
As for property not being as valuable as human life, I also agree with jnichols2. Just because there are people out there who would kill you for your valuables, doesn't mean you have to integrate that into your own moral system. It's one thing to fire on someone if they continue to advance in light of a verbal warning of your intentions. It's a whole different story to end someone's life for trying to steal from you. We all have different morals, but I don't think I could live with the idea of taking the life of another human being under those circumstances. Breaking and entering is not in itself a violent crime.
|June 17, 2012, 02:53 AM
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Most murder suicides occur at home, for example.
And apparently familicides do as well and they produce at least 2 victims per event.
Furthermore, quite a few burglars shoot homeowners/occupants.
Murders and attemped murders that occur as a result of a burglary gone wrong certainly do occur. For example...
Who said anything about intruders shooting up a room before they enter it?
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|June 17, 2012, 09:46 AM
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Some definitions might help:
The common risk to the householder present during a burglary committed for the purpose of larceny is that the burglar, being discovered by the householder, will use violence to either proceed with and carry out the larceny (making it robbery) or will use violence to help facilitate his escape and/or delay reporting of his crime and/or eliminate witnesses.
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|June 17, 2012, 11:48 AM
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If the situation is indoors, the few folks who have suggested just using the house lights make the most sense.
You will be able to see without giving away your position.
And having the room entirely lit might have more shock value to the intruder than a flashlight would.
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|June 17, 2012, 12:21 PM
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Not that this would always be best but I heard this suggestion and found it interested...toss some glowsticks out from cover.
|June 17, 2012, 07:12 PM
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Great thread..... Lots of useful tips and tactics.
My views on house clearing are based on the type of dwelling you live in......I live in an end of group townhouse.....3 bedrooms and a bath on top floor...... Small hallway up stairs and you can readily view the staircase to the living room from landing...... My practiced plan is gather wife and son in front master bedroom.....wife with shotgun and 17 year old son with cell phone .... Behind bed.
I announce phone call to police and listen for movement.....I am perched safely on landing armed with glock 17..... With Fenix handHeld light... No one should be able to ascend stairs to pose threat to family.
I am quite capable of clearing the lower levels of house.... From base of stairs....I can see and clear living room and most of dining room and kitchen....2 walls could provide cover for bg.....I can maneuver to clear these walls easily.....
The basement area is a straight 35 ft shot.... Veiwable from base of basement stairs....... Closets are few and full.. no room for bg
Best bet is to still remain perched and wait for bg and or police to arrive.... Kinda like hunting deer from a treestand.... Tactical advantage of higher ground.
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|June 19, 2012, 02:01 AM
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The guy simply stated that if someone broke into his house, he would garrison his family in the rearmost bedroom of his house and defend the door with his gun and a high powered flashlight rather than try to clear it himself. By telling him that he's naive for thinking that his drywall won't protect him, you're implying that his plan to guard his bedroom is insufficient because the BG's can shoot through walls. Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, that's what I was responding to.
So going back to the original comment, why is it a better idea to clear a house rather than stay put and defend one point of entry with your family behind you? The gentleman said that the intruder is not a threat until he tries to enter the bedroom. I agree, if they're stealing your valuables downstairs, they are not an immediate threat to you or your family. After you've called the police, there's no reason for you to venture out to clear your house because the intruders are not a threat to your life until they try to enter the room you're defending.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I don't find any fault in what jnichols2 stated. It's a bit off-putting for you to act as though I'm throwing up non sequitur strawman arguments, but I think anybody reading what you wrote could have come to that conclusion. If that wasn't your intent, I apologize, as it wasn't clear to me.
|June 19, 2012, 04:34 PM
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In the dark, that generally means shining a light on it.
Now, we have some options for this. We can use house lights, lights we toss on the ground, handheld lights, or weapon-mounted lights.
For me, I have a weapon light on my primary HD firearm. I greatly value the benefit of either having a free hand or using a two handed stance (I pull a lot higher percentage of shots when one-handed and trying to go fast). Since the lights are in the 100+ lumen range, I can light up a room from the high-ready, or temporarily blind someone with direct light. And, if I decide to temporarily blind someone, I have them covered at the same time.
Still, as someone who has done Force-on-Force and shoot-house work, I know that single-man clearing is DANGEROUS. I won't do it unless the situation places an innocent person in extreme danger. Sure, 1-man clearing can be done, and I have practiced it some, but it is VERY risky even when compared to 2-4 man team clearing.
Each has its pros and cons:
House lights:
lights up a whole room
provides for easy ID
source of light does not provide information to BG
generally activated from non-mobile switches
lights up everyone in the room, including you
not as disorienting as a modern tactical light
Tossed lights:
lights up selected area only
source of light provides only limited info to BG
you'll want multiple ones to clear multiple rooms
limited by where you place them
easily defeated by objects creating shadows
possibly noisy
Handheld lights
lights up selected area only
source of light can be displaced from you centerline
can be used as an impact weaponts:modern tactical lights are blindingly bright at night
Most people aren't as accurate when firing one handed
Takes up off hand (harder to open doors, call police, etc)
Provides BG your location within about 1 meter
Weapon mounted light:
Illuminates selected area only
Source of light lined up with muzzle (you don't have to aim the light and the firearm separately)
Allows 1 handed operation of firearm and light (frees off hand)
Allows 2 handed operation of firearm (more accurate for most people)
modern tactical lights are blindingly bright at night
must aim light at other surface if you don't want to muzzle something
generally close to your centerline
not usable as a secondary impact weapon
|June 20, 2012, 08:25 PM
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I've never understood why this topic is so complicated.
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|June 21, 2012, 08:12 AM
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I keep my flashlight separate. As others have already mentioned, having the light on the weapon gives the intruder a good aiming point.
|June 21, 2012, 10:46 PM
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Maybe everyone else has a large home in which you can rally the family to a defendable place. My doors in the front and the back of the house are very close to the hallway where our bedrooms are. I would have no time to rally or collect the kids during a break-in. At least, collecting all in a single room would be unlikely. I would have to defend the hallway leading to the bedrooms.
Realistically, the odds of a home invasion is very low and even lower when drugs are not involved. Still, a couple months ago, a neighbor of mine was shot to death by a home invader. So, the odds are low, but above zero.
I live in a rural area, though houses are visible to many neighbors. People have dogs that often remain outside at night and when one dog sounds off, the rest of the dogs in the area join them. Also, most people out here are armed.
At nighttime, I keep my Glock 20, a powerful flashlight with multiple settings, a charging mobile phone, a folding knife and electronic hearing protection the enhances non-gun sounds. When I am awake, I carry a Glock 27, flashlight, folding knife, and mobile phone.
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