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Shipping for iPhone 5 delayed as orders rush in
Published: 14 September 2012 08:44 PM
Updated: 14 September 2012 08:44 PM
NEW YORK — Delivery times climbed quickly as Apple Inc. started taking orders for the iPhone 5 on Friday, suggesting strong demand.
Apple began taking orders for the phone at midnight Pacific time. It initially promised delivery by next Friday, when the new phone also goes on sale in stores.
Four hours later, the expected delivery time had grown to two weeks, according to Topeka Capital Markets analyst Brian White.
White said the quick rise in the expected delivery time suggested much stronger demand than Apple expected. Last year, one-week delivery of the iPhone 4S was available into the afternoon of the first order day.
“Clearly, iPhone 5 fever is in full swing,” White said.
By the afternoon, only Sprint was still promising delivery by next Friday. Verizon Wireless said delivery would take two weeks, and AT&T said it would take 14 to 21 business days.
Apple’s stock price reached a record high after the company said orders for the iPhone 5 from its online store won’t be shipped for two weeks, fueling speculation that the new model has sold out.
The shares climbed 1.2 percent to $691.28 at the close in New York, extending gains for the year to 71 percent.
The iPhone is Apple’s best-selling product, making up about two-thirds of its profit. The company’s entry to the smartphone market in 2007 has resulted in sales of 244 million iPhone units and helped Apple become the most valuable company.
Apple’s website says the iPhone 5 will ship Sept. 28, a week after it’s scheduled to be in stores, a sign demand is outpacing supply.
“The initial batch is sold out,” Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee & Leach Inc., said in an interview. He raised his sales estimate for the quarter ending in September to 26 million units from 23 million. “We think that could turn out to be conservative.”
An hour after Apple’s website began taking orders at midnight, at least one model — the black 32-gigabyte iPhone 5 with an AT&T Inc. contract — was shipping in two weeks to buyers in San Francisco.
“Preorders for iPhone 5 have been incredible,” said Natalie Kerris, a spokeswoman for Cupertino, Calif.-based Apple. “We’ve been completely blown away by the customer response.”
While previous iPhone models sold out quickly online, “I don’t think it happened quite this fast,” Tavis McCourt, an analyst at Raymond James & Associates, said in an interview. “The speed here is unusual.”
As many as 58 million units of the iPhone 5 may sell by the end of the year, according the average estimate of analysts surveyed by Bloomberg. That could generate as much as $36.2 billion in sales for Apple, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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The marine world harbors many attractive creatures that can sometimes lure the unwary into danger. This dramatic, full color book provides a complete photographic survey of the world's many dangerous marine animals. Practical information contained in this volume includes the biology, habitat, and unique characteristics of each species; geographic location; and prevention and treatment of injuries from each animal. Closeups and cross-sections of the venom apparatuses of many animals are also included. This book will provide a useful reference source for marine biologists, oceanographers, marine scientists, toxicologists, as well as accident, emergency, and trauma specialists. Its exciting photographs will enthrall anyone intrigued by the sea.
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I was thrilled that my library finally got the audiobook for this latest release in the Lockwood and Co. series. I've been listening to it from the beI was thrilled that my library finally got the audiobook for this latest release in the Lockwood and Co. series. I've been listening to it from the beginning and I hated to have to change format. The narrator is a different person, but she was very good. She brings Lucy, George, Lockwood and the other characters to life distinctively.
I was slightly less impressed with this than the previous books, but it was still very good. I wasn't sure I liked the addition of a new agent to the team. The trio has such a good vibe, but the advent of Holly causes some tension and throws off the chemistry. Lucy is violently jealous of her. Lucy is very possessive over Antony, and it seems as though she has a raging crush on him. Lockwood is a dashing figure (if you're a teenaged girl). I think he does have a lot of gravitas and maturity. I wish that he wasn't so oblivious to the emotions roiling around him at times. Lucy practically seethes, but he doesn't seem to pick up on it. I didn't dislike Holly, but I'm not sure exactly why Stroud chose to add her to the team. Maybe me and Lucy are on the same page here. George is his same endearing self. He's such a character. I liked that the Lockwood team actually joins forces with Quill Kipps and his two agents for the investigation of the department store that is frightfully haunted.
Lucy is delving deeper into Antony's past, and developing her ability to talk to ghosts, one that is admittedly dangerous. Like the other books, there is a spectacular climax, but that's not the end of the tension, since this one ends on a cliffhanger. I wasn't too happy with that. I hate cliffhangers.
I'm a huge fan of ghost stories, and I love Stroud's take on it. Ghosts are anything from irritating to downright lethal. And with each book, the layers get pulled back more, revealing how dangerous and disturbing a world in which ghosts are everywhere and can do humans harm might be.
Eagerly awaiting the next book in this series....more
I enjoyed this slightly less than the first book. I think this had too many poems and songs for my taste. While I enjoy poetry, I'm not a big fan of it taking over a prose narrative. A number of the scenes were quite funny, and I found myself laughing as I listened to this working on my Design project today (I laughed more with the first book though). The interactions between the three queens (including Alice) went a little too long for my tastes, but I did enjoy some of her other adventures, including the soldier who kept falling off his horse.
After the clever storytelling in the first book, this one feels like more of an afterthought. I think I would have enjoyed it more if I hadn't found the recitations tedious. I do love Alice though. ...more
I was a bit hesitant about reading a Batman where it's not Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne is the one and only Batman to me. Yes, I know that's not true or cI was a bit hesitant about reading a Batman where it's not Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne is the one and only Batman to me. Yes, I know that's not true or canon. I just love Bruce Wayne. Having said that, Dick is a good Batman. And this was a very good graphic novel collection. It's very creepy and dark. I like how everything ties together to the climax. At first, the stories seem unrelated, but they all lead down a sinister path.
The villain is someone that is deeply familiar to Dick, Commissioner Gordon and Barbara, and that makes it all the worse. The idea that someone you love could grow up to be a sociopathic/psychopathic killer is deeply disturbing. As if Gotham isn't full of enough darkness and sickness of the soul.
The artwork is suitably grim, and the look of the villain is classic and inspires dichotomy of banality and menace in the reader. I like the use of shadows and shades, along with reds and blues and oranges to illustrate the narrative.
While Dick isn't my true Batman, he'll do in a pinch....more
A thrilling read that kept me on the edge of my seat. The secondary characters like Jock and Seth stole the show. Definitely want to continue this serA thrilling read that kept me on the edge of my seat. The secondary characters like Jock and Seth stole the show. Definitely want to continue this series.
I love Manda Collins' narrative voice. It's so friendly and inviting. Trent was a scrumptious hero, and the conflict sheds light on the problematic meI love Manda Collins' narrative voice. It's so friendly and inviting. Trent was a scrumptious hero, and the conflict sheds light on the problematic mental health system of the 19th century. A good conclusion to this series.
My sister and I listened to this on Playaway in the car. It was very enjoyable. The narrator was really good. She was able to endow her voice with difMy sister and I listened to this on Playaway in the car. It was very enjoyable. The narrator was really good. She was able to endow her voice with different personalities. The heroine is refreshingly quirky. She hears the voices of her puppets in her head. The fact that she's a puppeteer alone is a different touch. Add that onto a story that is rife with Gothic atmosphere and that her puppets are real personalities to her, and that makes this feel very unique.
I totally pictured Kirsten Wiig as Annie. She's Annie until proven otherwise.
Kristen fits Annie's personality from her some of her roles. She plays quirky and kind of normal, nerdy but very pretty.
Annie is down on her luck and ends up back on Peregrine Island, a place that has nothing but bad memories for her. To her surprise, she encounters Theo Harp, the first boy she loved, but one who did her irreparable harm. I was not surprised that she didn't trust Theo until very late in the book. He really did need to prove himself.
Theo was the perfect Gothic hero with an extremely dark past. I wanted to believe the best of him, although it was almost like SEP wanted us to hate Theo in some parts. Deep down, he was a sweet guy and a bit of a victim to some of the darkness in his family and with his deceased wife.
I liked that Theo really accepted Annie and was attracted to her the way she was. He admired her spunk and that she didn't take crap from him. Theo was pretty delicious. Definitely for those of us who like our heroes a bit dark, tortured and mysterious (Bryonic hero). I pictured Aiden Turner, who is one of my newest crushes.
Theo is described as devastatingly handsome and very hard to resist. That's Aidan to a tee.
I didn't really like the tone of their relationship (sex with no commitment), but it makes sense of Annie since she really doesn't trust Theo and wants to get him out of her system. I could tell that Theo was really deeply in love with her, but he was afraid to be with her because of tortured past.
The Gothic tone was interesting. You don't see that much in contemporary romances that aren't suspense. I think it got a little confusing with some of the things that happen. My sister speculated like nobody's business as some mean pranks are taking place against Annie, considering the past and what she suffered. We had some really interesting theories. We were both very surprised at who the culprit was. I think it spoiled the Gothic tone a lot. But oh well.
I feel like there was a huge aspect that wasn't handled well, in my opinion. That's why I didn't give this five stars. My sister agreed with me. But overall, this was such a fun read, and I loved the relationship between Annie and Theo, and the look at the island, and how claustrophobic it can be to live in a small town, especially one that's an island! Theo is definitely my favorite SEP hero and I liked Annie. She had a great heart and was really her own person, although she had some self-esteem issues. I love the career path she chooses eventually. It's a big sign of accepting who she is and not feeling like she has to fit some unrealistic standard. You could see she was way on the road to being self-actualized. I wanted them to be together big time.
If you can, definitely check out this on audiobook.
This was a little too serious to be a bonafide cozy mystery, and it was too slow moving. The lead character has an interesting ability. I would have lThis was a little too serious to be a bonafide cozy mystery, and it was too slow moving. The lead character has an interesting ability. I would have liked the author to explore that more. I loved the view of modern-day Edinburgh and the intriguing secondary characters.
This was a very romantic book, and Matt is a wonderful hero. I think I would have liked more conflict to round it out. I love the idea of a heroine wiThis was a very romantic book, and Matt is a wonderful hero. I think I would have liked more conflict to round it out. I love the idea of a heroine with a big family (of siblings) ending up with a hero with a big family as well. That was fun. Kind of reminded me of "The Brady Bunch."
This is definitely a funny book that had me laughing out loud. I liked the characters and the situations, but the mystery wasn't as well-thought out aThis is definitely a funny book that had me laughing out loud. I liked the characters and the situations, but the mystery wasn't as well-thought out as I would have liked. Having said that, I hope this is a continuing series. Lots of small town local color. I love funny cozy mysteries and this is one of them.
I don't think I was really in the mood for this when I read it. Sometimes I think I'm in the mood for old school HP and maybe I want something more moI don't think I was really in the mood for this when I read it. Sometimes I think I'm in the mood for old school HP and maybe I want something more modern and vice versa. Sometimes you want the best of both worlds. Maybe I wanted that when I read it. What I did like was that it's not toe-tipping on some issues and it was surprisingly frank in the fact that Heather's aunt-in-law was cheating on her husband and everyone knew it but the uncle. And his reaction towards the end when there is a huge potential tragedy. Oh, wow!
I felt like Daniel was mean to Heather and you don't understand why. When you find out, it's kind of like, a weird, out of nowhere explanation. Heather's father was pretty awful. People like that shouldn't be parents. He made a choice to be in Heather's mother's life and to be a father to Heather. But he treated her like crap because she wasn't the son he wanted. What kind of man does that? Heather deserved better, and I kind of hate that her marriage had a similar tone of not being able to make her husband happy either, and his unwillingness to tell her what his deal was with her. I'm at a crossroads right now in my rating. I would have rated it highly if I wasn't as dissatisfied with Daniel's meanness towards Heather. Let's face it. A mean hero is par for the course with vintage HPs, but I have to be in the mood for it. I think I'll give this 3.5/5.0 stars. It's good and has quite a bit to offer, but in the end, it wasn't completely satisfying in all ways....more
This was a lovely little romance. I'm glad it came up as a recommendation on my Amazon Kindle bookstore page. I liked the author knew a bit about theThis was a lovely little romance. I'm glad it came up as a recommendation on my Amazon Kindle bookstore page. I liked the author knew a bit about the history of interracial marriage and wrote a story that showed that more of it occurred than history one would presume before the advent of Jim Crow/Segregation laws. I would have liked to live in a town like this during this point in history (when I normally think that being a black American at this time was a double-edged sword pointed at your throat). I liked that Wendy rose above the prejudice and ill treatment she faced. Born a slave but working to be an independent businesswoman. Although she faced racism, she didn't let it get to her or sour her or make her a hater. She didn't give up and I was glad to see her dreams come true.
Travis was such a sweetie. I loved him. He stepped in when his immature brother wouldn't honor is commitment to marry Wendy when he finds out that his bride is Negro. Travis was man enough to even help Wendy with her sewing so she could win the contest that might get her a shot at her own business.
While the ending ties up things nicely, it's a good ending that made me satisfied with the story. The love scenes are sweet but pretty steamy, and they show that Wendy and Travis had great chemistry, a strong bond, and true love. What a great combination. Probably the only thing I would change is for it to be longer. I will definitely continue this series. I downloaded the first book right after finishing this.
This book delves into the history of Gotham and the four families. An interesting one to read around the time that the TV series "Gotham" just finisheThis book delves into the history of Gotham and the four families. An interesting one to read around the time that the TV series "Gotham" just finished an arc involving one of the historical Gotham family's feud with the Waynes. In this story, it's not so much a feud with Wayne, but a historical Gotham vendetta that puts modern Gotham and its inhabitants in jeopardy. I think the artwork was very well-done, and it delves into Steampunk territory with some of the design. I would have liked it better if the layout was better arranged. It was a big confusing reading the panels and the story jumps forward and backward in time. I liked that all of Batman's team is working together to save Gotham. I squeed when I saw that Black Bat aka Cassandra Cain is actually in this book. It was good, but not great.
This series reads like a very realistic nightmare. You know how people you know (including yourself) are doing things that are horribly wrong and therThis series reads like a very realistic nightmare. You know how people you know (including yourself) are doing things that are horribly wrong and there's nothing you can do to stop it? And the only hope you have is that you'll wake up soon? Yeah, that's Superman and those who subscribe to this skewed belief in justice after his terrible loss. It's weird to say you hate Superman, but I kind of do in this book. Batman is seen as the threat and the enemy, but he's like a sane voice in a nightmare of brainwashed insanity. It's not that Superman is all wrong, but he's so wrong it's enough to make your hair stand on end, considering who he and the power he has. Batman is staying very true to character in this book. He won't stop even if it costs him everything. Unfortunately, the cost of those who ally with him is very high. It's interesting to see who sides with Superman and who sides with Batman. You can probably guess without me telling you, except for maybe a couple of people. My heart hurts for what happens in this book. I can't say I regret reading it, but this is really like a Justice League nightmare in technicolor. FYI, this is a prequel to the video game. You don't have to be into video games to get into this....more
This was a trippy one. Wolverine wakes up in Hell, but there's no explanation for how he ended up there, at least not at the beginning. You find out dThis was a trippy one. Wolverine wakes up in Hell, but there's no explanation for how he ended up there, at least not at the beginning. You find out dribs and drabs of information as the story goes along, but plenty of disturbing scenes in the process. I can't decide what was more disturbing: Wolverine in Hell or the fact that he was doing his darnedest to send his friends and loved ones there along with him and not getting why. A little bit confusing of a read to me. And just the subject matter was kind of odd. I'm not used to Wolverine being in a metaphysical context (especially with sorcery and demonic possession as a factor.) It was interesting, that's for sure....more
"Veil" is an effective horror graphic novel from a proven writer in Greg Rucka. It's about a creature who was summoned from dark magic but seems to re"Veil" is an effective horror graphic novel from a proven writer in Greg Rucka. It's about a creature who was summoned from dark magic but seems to retain an innocence and vulnerability that makes predators want to prey on her and protectors want to keep her safe. The artwork is beautiful but also disturbing. The prevalence of sewer rats will creep out those with musophobia. They have a weird psychic connection with Veil that adds a disturbing connotation to the story. The urban setting adds to the atmosphere of fear in that the urban jungle is full of predators of all kinds. Add a secret group who resorts to black magic to achieve desired goals and the creepy factor gets very high. Although a dark story, there is some light in it that makes the ending satisfying for me. I would read further volumes....more
Enjoyable, but a bit too bland for me. It needed more conflict to give it more impact. If you've read a lot of Regency romance, you might find somethiEnjoyable, but a bit too bland for me. It needed more conflict to give it more impact. If you've read a lot of Regency romance, you might find something missing here.

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Trail Construction at Bluffside Farm
In the summer of 2020 work began on an ambitious project to build nearly a mile of trail across VLT’s Bluffside Farm in Newport, including a boardwalk and bridge over Scott’s Cove on Lake Memprehmagog.
In September 2021 the work was completed. The new trail links with trails to the north and south of the farm, creating a seven-mile car-free experience for bikers, runners, skiers and more. And, the entire path is accessible to people with disabilities.
We’ve documented the construction progress here.
Trail Overview & Map
After we bought the 129-acre Bluffside Farm in 2015, we asked the community what they wanted to see the land used for. There was so much enthusiasm for recreation potential of the farm, which is located right on beautiful Lake Mempremagog. Without the Bluffside Farm section of trail, path users must travel roads to get from Newport City paths to the main trail north.
Summer & Fall 2020: Trail Construction Begins
After a lot of planning and some generous grants, we began to build an eight-foot-wide, gravel, multi-use path and a 10-foot-wide wooden boardwalk across Scott’s Cove.
The boardwalk will be constructed in a way that minimizes environmental impacts on the area’s wet soils, as explained by resident engineer Jeremy Dean in this video:
Helical Piles Form the Foundation of the Boardwalk
Hundreds of helical piles were installed to support the boardwalk. All of these then had to be leveled before the framing could be installed.
Time for Timber
The last step before winter halted construction was framing the boardwalk, which was completed by a crew from Timber & Stone.
With the wooden skeleton in place, you could start to really envision just how much fun this trail will be.
In winter 2020-21, black locust trees were cut and milled in Putney, Vermont to create the boardwalk decking, which was installed in the spring of 2021.
The Bluffside Trail is Finished!
Crews worked in the spring and summer of 2021 to put the finishing touches on the trail in anticipation for a September opening.
Videos and photos of trail construction by Kyle Gray
We Thank Our Trail Funders!
Northern Border Regional Commission
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Last week the Rutherford family won their Court of Appeal bedroom tax challenge. The court agreed that the bedroom tax discriminates against disabled children who need overnight care.
The government argues that the availability of discretionary housing payments (DHPs) ensures the most vulnerable are protected from a shortfall in rent as a result of the bedroom tax (known formally as housing benefit size criteria rules).
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A sixteen-year-old high-school student named Juno MacGuff has just discovered she is pregnant. The father is a good friend of hers – Paulie Bleeker, though she didn’t count on this to result from his first time. Realizing she wouldn’t be fit to raise this child, she initially considers an abortion. When she reaches the clinic, however, she changes her mind and decides to put the baby up for adoption instead. Juno manages to find a couple – Mark and Vanessa – willing to agree to a closed adoption.
Within seconds of the film beginning in earnest, I find myself praising the dialogue. Writer Diablo Cody seems to channel the best aspects of Wes Anderson’s quirky, yet down-to-Earth style. The characters’ dialogue manages to be snappy and endearing at the same time. The title character is reaching emotional maturity, and she doesn’t see eye-to-eye with her stepmother, Brenda. Contrary to what one would initially believe, said stepmother, despite being highly abrasive, does make sure Juno is healthy during her pregnancy. She even manages to tell off the rude ultrasound technician when the latter expresses skepticism over Juno’s ability to raise a child. Meanwhile, Juno doesn’t have a high opinion of her biological mother. The only sign we receive that she even exists is that she sends her daughter a cactus every Valentine’s Day.
Indeed, it doesn’t take long to realize the writing manages to be amazingly subversive at times. This is especially evident in how Juno and Mark bond over their shared love of punk rock and horror films. However, despite what one would think, Juno favors the masters of yesteryear, including The Stooges, Patti Smith, and The Runaways, whereas Mark gravitates towards the artists they inspired – most notably Sonic Youth. There are subtle instances of these subversive tendencies throughout the film as well – such as the fact that Juno’s father, Mac, takes the news rather well, not shaming her at all.
I also have to give this film credit for not going down the obvious route by focusing heavily on Juno’s classmates and their reaction to her pregnancy. Although she does encounter more than a fair share of boorish students, many of them treat Juno well. The narrative also goes out of its way to establish that Juno, despite her decidedly strange circumstances, doesn’t take any grief from these people, and puts them in their place with astonishing ease.
Then again, part of what makes Juno such a standout effort is that, despite its lighthearted tone, the film doesn’t shy away from dealing with heavy subject matter. Juno goes through a rollercoaster of emotions throughout the film – as one would expect someone who became pregnant before legally being considered an adult. Furthermore, Mark is eventually shown to have a darker side to him. Vanessa is completely on board with adopting a baby, but Mark is hesitant – and not for a sympathetic reason. He believes adopting a child would only get in the way of his dream to become a real musician. He, like Juno, fits the archetypal hipster mold, but while such attitudes are befitting of those with little real-world experience, it makes adults look exceptionally immature when they don’t grow out of it. His creepiest moment occurs when he invites Juno to dance with him. Though Juno initially obliges, it is at this point she realizes just what a lowlife he truly is.
Juno ended up being one of the most praised independent films of its day. Despite this, critics had a few problems with how the narrative presented itself. From a superficial standpoint, it’s easy to read the basic premise of the film as an anti-choice allegory. Indeed, Diablo Cody herself went on record to say she would never have written Juno as it was had anyone perceived that way. Although I can see why many people would come down to that conclusion, I don’t entirely agree with it. Speaking as someone who believes a woman should have the right to choose, it’s possible to forget when advocating for such a cause that not getting an abortion is an entirely valid option. Granted, Juno’s decision is unfortunately juxtaposed with a fellow student conducting a one-person protest advocating her pro-life views. However, the narrative doesn’t suggest she influenced Juno’s decision. In fact, when you consider the film briefly touches upon the very real problem of right-wing fanatics marching into abortion clinics and murdering the inhabitants in cold blood, the practitioners are portrayed fairly sympathetically.
Otherwise, I would say the biggest issue with the film concerns one character in particular. While I like how these revelations are set up in a way that allows the audience to comprehend a character’s morality without the narrative drilling it into their heads, this proposition doesn’t quite work for Vanessa. To be completely fair, she is more sympathetic than Mark, and her frustration towards him is understandable. The problem is that she is completely convinced once she has the child, everything will fall into place. This is in spite of the fact that she is arguably not well psychologically. She is frequently snippy and anxious while missing basic social cues. With other behaviors, many viewers came down to the conclusion that she has borderline personality disorder. Having a baby cannot cure what is going on with her – in fact, because she has just divorced Mark, raising a child as a single mother is arguably going to make things worse. There is an art to ambiguous storytelling, but when a narrative refuses to take a stance on important details, it comes across as the writers not thinking through their implications.
Juno is an enjoyable film that is utterly unapologetic about its idealistic outlook. There are certain aspects that definitely could have been expanded upon, but otherwise, it presents a nice, minimalistic story complemented with great acting performances. How likely I am to recommend it is admittedly a little less straightforward. This is one of those films that you will either adore or despise by the time the credits roll. I personally feel that the criticisms are more of a reflection of the changing social attitudes since 2007 and that the negative perceptions aren’t to last. That being said, they’re not wholly without merit. It’s not a difficult sit, so I can at least recommend giving it a try; just don’t force yourself to like it if it loses you.
Final Score: 6/10

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Ali Fitzgerald - Drawn to Berlin: Comic Workshops in Refugee Shelters and Other Stories from a New Europe — at Politics and Prose at Union Market
Fitzgerald spent eight years in Berlin teaching her illustrating craft to centers asylum seekers from countries like Syria and Afghanistan – people who have often been targets of bigotry and hatred in both their native and adopted countries. Her powerful graphic memoir chronicles her experience with these extraordinary students, telling both their stories and her own. Fitzgerald, an artist who has exhibited extensively in Europe and the U.S., has had her comics regularly featured in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, and McSweeney's, and her book is a compassionate and intimate look at the empowering capacities of art, capturing the highs and lows of a decade in an ever-changing European metropolis.
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TeachMeFinance.com - explain Conserved sequence
A base sequence in a DNA molecule (or an amino acid sequence in a protein) that has remained essentially unchanged throughout evolution.
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Episcopal-churches Sentence Examples
For the episcopal churches of Sweden and Finland the first constitution or " Church order " was formed in 1571.
In 1906 the Baptists were the strongest religious denomination; the Methodists ranked second, while the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and Protestant Episcopal churches were of relatively minor importance.
This doxology is also used in the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal churches of America, as indeed in most Protestant churches at the eucharist.
Davenport is an episcopal see of the Roman Catholic and the Protestant Episcopal churches.
The Anglican catechism with occasional modification, especially in the sacramental section, is used not only in the Church of England but in the Episcopal churches of Ireland, Scotland, the British dominions and the United States of America.
In 1884 and 1885, toleration being established, Protestant missionaries of the American Presbyterian and Methodist Episcopal Churches entered Korea, and were followed by a large number of agents of other denominations.
The Baptist, the Methodist Episcopal (South), the Cumberland Presbyterian, and the African Baptist and the African Methodist Episcopal churches have publishing houses in Nashville.
I do find it curious when people talk of ecumenism to mean ecumenism with other episcopal churches alone.
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When it comes to Boris Johnson's skills as a politician, his particular communication style is regularly cited as a talent that makes him stand out as a leader. He was, after all, an accomplished journalist before stepping into the world of politics. So Mr S was a little surprised by the email that landed in his inbox this morning purporting to be from the Prime Minister.
In it, recipients were invited to join the Prime Minister and Chancellor for an online chat — and encouraged to donate large sums in return for hearing 'never before shared stories from that campaign as well as the unprecedented year that followed, from getting Brexit done to tackling the coronavirus'.
Leaving aside the ethics of sharing stories about a pandemic for cash, it was the invitation’s phrasing that caught Steerpike's eye. Johnson asked supporters to 'join Rishi Sunak and myself' on the anniversary of the party’s election victory.
Whichever CCHQ staffer is behind this basic grammatical mistake, Mr S suspects that they would do well to take a lesson from the man himself...


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William H. Starbuck (NYU): How Much Better are the Most Prestigious Journals? The Statistics of Academic Publication. From The Nation, William Deresiewicz on the crisis in higher education: A review essay. Is college a rotten investment? Why student loans are not like subprime mortgages. As the Internet becomes an increasingly important source of material for academic research, librarians try to preserve "ephemera of the Web". A review of Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information Before the Modern Age by Ann Blair. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, on the campus Left's nostalgia party. Why are conservatives obsessed with the sex lives of college kids? Laurie Essig on the perversions of campus sexual culture. An interview with Bryant F. Tolles Jr., author of Architecture & Academe: College Buildings in New England Before 1860. Universities around the world sign up for UN Academic Impact. The PhD factory: The world is producing more PhDs than ever before — is it time to stop? How public like a frog: Natalia Cecire on academic blogging. The Shirley Sherrods of Academe: Three days after conservative blogger posted videos of a course, an instructor is no longer employed — even as university finds that statements were "distorted". Our elite schools have abandoned military history: The study of war elucidates some of mankind’s noblest virtues and bitterest vices, so why do colleges seem afraid of it? After ROTC's Return: Getting officer training units back on elite college campuses will mean little unless higher education starts treating military service as a legitimate profession. The real scandal around the endowment by the Koch brothers of two chairs at Florida State University is that state universities now have to seek such outside money and accept strings.
Jonathan Barnett (USC): What’s so Bad About Stealing? The source of our abortion woes: Most think that Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld abortion rights, but it actually cleared the way for curbing them. What if we can imagine the end of infrastructure? An interview with Christopher Marcinkoski. It might seem quixotic for the International Criminal Court to indict Libya's unrepentant leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi, but the call for justice can have a pragmatic effect too. What happened to Air France Flight 447? Two years after it fell out of the sky, the main part of the wreckage has been located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, but will the mystery of the crash ever be solved? May 21: The Rapture meets Maud Newton's 40th Birthday. Bin Laden's "successor": Who is Saif al-Adel? The philosophy of insomnia: Hegel wrote in his Elements of the Philosophy of Right that the owl of Minerva flies only at night — it hoots at insomniacs. Magazine icon Roger Black: The iPad is not a magic pony. The Bin Laden compound is now a virtual training ground for commandos. GeoCurrents looks at the extreme disparities of state revenue. Unfollowed: Spencer Ackerman on how a (possible) social network spy came undone. Is this the real NAFTA Superhighway? A planned pipeline connecting Canada to Texas could pose a real threat, unlike the mythological NAFTA Superhighway. A review of The Fight of Our Lives: Knowing the Enemy, Speaking the Truth and Choosing to Win the War Against Radical Islam by William J. Bennett and Seth Leibsohn. Playing it straight: Jamie Lee Curtis Taete on a month of giving up everything gay. Hollywood in Iraq: As the war continued into its fifth and sixth years, an increasing number of films began to deal with the GIs who served in Iraq (less so Afghanistan).
A review of The Offensive Internet: Speech, Privacy and Reputation. How to unmask the Internet’s vilest characters: The law gives trolls far too much leeway right now. Montaigne’s Moment: Montaigne is often called the first blogger, but his skeptical moderation is in short supply in the blogosphere. The internet as a model of free speech and access is coming to an end, says Tim Wu. The Internet should be fair — not free — to everyone: The heaviest users comprise just two per cent of the total. Is Netflix reducing illicit file sharing? Depends on which stats you believe. Walking the plank: The flawed bipartisan approach to cracking down on Internet piracy. Corporate rule of cyberspace: The arrival of cloud computing is a time for more scrutiny of the entities that direct our virtual lives, writes Slavoj Zizek. How much did social media contribute to revolution in the Middle East? Chris Lehmann on Cyber-Utopianism: Clay Shirky's Cognitive Surplus is the latest monotonous revery about the Internet social revolution — Evgeny Morozov punctures that bubble (and more and more). Change-Is-Hard.com: Esther Dyson on how the Internet can help foment revolutions, but the hard work of democracy takes place mostly offline. The limits of cyber-revolutions: Public spaces, not virtual town squares, are still the places where uprisings are decided. NPR social-media guru Andy Carvin explains the ethics of Twitter in a time of revolutionary upheaval. If dictators are so fond of the Internet, as some claim, why did Mubarak turn the damn thing off? A look at how natural disasters and political unrest affect the Internet. Cyberwar is harder than it looks: The Internet's vulnerability to attacks has been exaggerated. A new trend known as "offlining" may provide a solution to web-overload, but will disconnecting from the internet even be an option in the future?


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For Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Rick Atkinson, World War II is just in his blood.
“I was born in Germany as part of the occupation force,” the author of “The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945” told CQ Roll Call. “If you grew up in Army posts in the 1950s and 1960s, World War II was very much a part of the culture and the landscape. There were a lot of veterans; it was just something you grew up in.”
Atkinson, who spent more than 20 years with The Washington Post, brought that sense of culture and history to what has become his life work, the Liberation Trilogy that chronicles the Allied victory in Africa and Europe.
After being steeped in post-war Germany both as a child and as The Post’s Berlin bureau chief, he began the work that would become the Liberation Trilogy in 1998.
The first volume, “An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943,” was released in 2002 and won the Pulitzer Prize for history. The second volume, “The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944,” came out in 2007. In May, “The Guns at Last Light” came out, rounding out the trilogy.
“I knew it was going to take at least nine years. That was the projected timetable, although I recognized, I think the publisher recognized … that was a guess,” Atkinson said.
Among the events that impeded that timeline were two more wars — modern ones that Atkinson went abroad to cover for The Post.
“In 2003, I went to Iraq for them. I wrote a little book about my experience with the 101st Airborne Division and my time with Dave Petraeus, so that threw me off schedule,” Atkinson said about reporting for the paper and writing “In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat in Iraq.”
In 2007, Atkinson went to the war theaters in Iraq and Afghanistan for about six months to report on roadside bombs. Since then, he’s been on the historian beat.
A Literary Approach
Atkinson’s writing shows how much literature has influenced him. He sets the stage for his latest book’s table of contents with a passage from the prologue of William Shakespeare’s immortal play of war and courage, “Henry V.”
The titles of his chapters show that “The Guns at Last Light” is no stodgy historical recitation of facts. Headers such as “The Implicated Woods” and “A Winter Shadow” see to that. The subchapters, with names including “To the Land of Doom” and “A Rendezvous in Some Flaming Town” continue the elegiac tone, as well as reflect how the soldiers, leaders and writers present viewed the long slog to victory.
He also draws heavily on the observations of iconic period writers, such as Evelyn Waugh and A.J. Liebling, as well as war correspondents who are sometimes neglected by other historians.
“I certainly draw as a writer on those writers from the 1940s. I use war correspondents more than most historians do, partly because I feel some kinship for them, and partly because they’re so damn good,” Atkinson said. “I think Alan Moorehead is fantastic, and I use him a lot. I use him at the very end of the book because he’s got not only a gift for narrative, but he’s got a very keen eye. And that cast of characters who became war correspondents, one sort or another — British, American, Australian — influenced me a lot as a writer about war.”
In addition to Moorehead, readers will see the likes of Martha Gellhorn, Ernie Pyle and a host of others in Atkinson’s telling.
That emphasis on narrative shines through on the pages. It’s not easy to make sing a list of supplies that an allied soldier has to pack for the trip to Normandy. But Atkinson seemed to have picked up a few techniques, not just from those war correspondents, but from other masters of the English language.
“I was an English literature graduate student … so I’m marinated in the classics, and particularly in 20th century British and American literature. I was a big reader of Faulkner and Joyce, the usual list,” he said.
Liberal arts majors, rejoice! Your efforts might not be all for naught.
Not Just Good for You, But Good
If all of those influences sound a bit heady, consider that it hasn’t hampered the popularity of “The Guns at Last Light,” either with critics or the public.
The book debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list, and has spent 12 weeks on the list overall. Reviewing the volume in The Times, author Ben Macintyre wrote, “Atkinson is a master of what might be called ‘pointillism history,’ assembling the small dots of pure color into a vivid, tumbling narrative.”
It’s a statement that reflects the literary merit of the work, as well as Atkinson’s influences. “Pointillism history” could just as easily apply to Shakespeare’s England or Faulkner’s South.
“I think I was looking in part for a story to take me out of the newspaper world as a narrative writer,” Atkinson said. “I’d written a couple of books previously, narrative histories, but I was interested in the darker world, deeper world, of history, and World War II had been something that has been part of my life, all of my life.”
The Magnitude of the Thing
Atkinson’s success with the trilogy shows the lasting effect of World War II. Particularly during a time when the government seems incapable of fulfilling its most basic role, it’s hard to fathom the kind of effort, planning and cohesion required to wage such a war.
“Yeah, I think magnitude has something to do with it. Sixty million dead. War fought on six continents for six years. In America, a country of 130 million during World War II, we put more than 16 million in uniform,” he said, adding that the war continues to define world culture and geopolitics.
“It was a struggle between good and evil, frankly, and it was not hard to believe that we had the moral high ground. And then finally, the consequences of the war play out in the country and the world to this day. Consequences for women in the workplace, consequences for civil rights — the war profoundly affected those things. And then it affected the shape of the political world,” he said, noting that India, Pakistan, Israel and “many countries in Africa” all were born of the war.
Historically, Atkinson argues, the war is the equivalent of the Big Bang.
“Obviously, the Arab Spring in many ways is like the signal from the Big Bang. … You can still feel the repercussions and reverberations in the world today from the big bang of the 1940s.”
Atkinson’s Liberation Trilogy, culminating with “The Guns at Last Light” does its part in illustrating how those reverberations started, with a bang.
As part of the Roll Call Book Club, Atkinson will discuss and sign “The Guns at Last Light” on Wednesday at the CQ Roll Call offices at 77 K St. NE. Free, at 6 p.m. To register, go to cqrcbooks.eventbrite.com.


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Breakfast. Dinner. Or Breakfast FOR Dinner.
Sausage, Kale & Apple Hash has all those bases covered in a big way.
Anything that includes the word hash usually gets my vote.
When you start combining good things like smoked sausage, potatoes, apples, and hearty greens it’s hard to go wrong.
This hash is bold and flavorful enough to stand up on its own. Add a fried egg if you want to take it completely over the top!
Here’s what you need:
Potatoes, Onion, Apple, Celery, Kale, Parsley, Smoked Sausage, Olive Oil, Cider Vinegar (not pictured), Salt & Pepper.
Also, if you are so inclined, 2 eggs to fry.
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It’s hash which means lots of chopping into small pieces.
I have 1 medium onion, 2 ribs of celery, and about 1/4 cup of fresh parsley…all finely chopped or diced.
4 or 5 medium red skinned potatoes should do the trick. I leave the skin on for extra color, flavor, and nutrients.
Chop or dice the potatoes keeping in mind that the smaller you dice them the faster they will cook.
I also have 1 Granny Smith apple. Again, I’ve left the peel on but if you want it to be softer when it cooks, you might remove the peel.
Any nice, firm, flavorful apple will do.
Choose a very large skillet that can accommodate all of the ingredients. Heat 2 Tablespoons of olive oil over medium high heat and add the diced potatoes to the pan.
Give them a quick toss to coat the potatoes on all sides with the oil, then let them cook until they are golden brown, about 10-12 minutes.
Stir occasionally to rotate them in the pan and so they won’t stick.
When the potatoes are mostly golden brown, add the chopped onions, celery, and apple to the pan.
Season with salt & pepper and cook until the tender, about 10 minutes.
Note: Because my potato pieces were a bit larger, I covered my pan with a lid for part of the cooking time to get the potatoes to soften quicker.
While the veggies continue to cook, cut 1 pound of smoked sausage into half rounds. I’m using light sausage which is made with some turkey meat. You can use the all-pork variety or any good smoked sausage or kielbasa.
Strip the leaves away from the stems of 4 large kale leaves. Discard the tough stems and finely chop the leaves.
Add the smoked sausage to the pan and stir to combine.
Cook until the sausage also begins to get some golden color on each side, about 10 minutes.
Add the chopped kale and stir until it starts to wilt.
Stir in 1-2 Tablespoons of apple cider vinegar. The vinegar really helps to pep up the flavors and bring the whole dish together.
Adjust the seasoning of salt & pepper to suit your own taste.
Spoon into a bowl and top with some fresh chopped parsley.
You can certainly eat the hash on its own (like I did) but to really take things to a whole other level, quickly fry an egg in a little butter, salt & pepper.
Plop that baby warm and slightly wiggly right on top of the hash.
I can’t have eggs and I can honestly tell you that I have never been more jealous of Jim’s plate. This looked SO good with the yolk mixing into the hash.
We had this for dinner but I’m definitely making Sausage, Kale & Apple Hash (with eggs) for brunch the next time my family is in town.
Here’s the recipe: Adapted from Bluebonnets & Brownies

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In 1970, a few weeks before he turned 17, Barry Sonnenfeld was at the Winter Festival for Peace concert at Madison Square Garden. It was after 2 a.m., the latest the teen had ever been out. Jimi Hendrix was warming up, and the audience buzzed in anticipation. “We were about to witness history,” recalls Sonnenfeld. Suddenly he heard his own name over the loudspeaker. “Barry Sonnenfeld. Call your mother.” The crowd took up his first name as a chant. Barry rushed to a phone, convinced his father had died. No, his mother said, weeping. She was calling because Barry had said he’d be home at 2. Barry’s father lived into his 90s.
Sonnenfeld, legendary cinematographer on the first three Coen brothers’ films and director of The Addams Family, Get Shorty and Men in Black, among others, does more than name-drop or recall Hollywood vignettes in this funny, wry and thoroughly entertaining memoir. Sonnenfeld is, above all, a storyteller, and while his own journey from a skinny, French horn-playing kid to a successful director drives the breezy narrative, he takes time to bring supporting characters irreverently to life—his overprotective mother, Kelly, who spent years threatening suicide, and his father, Sonny, who tormented her with his many affairs. Against this backdrop, Sonnenfeld’s loving and happy family life with his wife, Sweetie, shines through.
Movie buffs, of course, will be most pleased with anecdotes from Sonnenfeld’s time at NYU film school, his work with the Coen brothers and actor Penny Marshall, as well as the growth and development of his own directing style.
At the outset, Sonnenfeld shares what might be his life philosophy: Regret the past, fear the present, dread the future. Yet, somehow, he reflects, “I’ve managed to live an unusual and amazing life.”


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THE RIVERS: A Celebration of Life and Work on America’s Waterways
Daven Anderson is a US Naval Academy graduate, nuclear submariner, sailor, and now artist. He is the Executive Director of the MISSOURI WATERCOLOR SOCIETY, the Managing Director Of the AMERICA SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS and is a US Coast Guard artist. He paints in all mediums, although this series of 48 paintings to date, are mostly large format watercolors. He is a member of the OIL PAINTERS of AMERICA and the PORTRAIT SOCIETY of AMERICA. Daven has paintings in the permanent collections of four museums, the US Coast Guard and the US Naval Academy.
The series portrays life and work on our inland waterways from coast to coast. This exhibition at the CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM, Oxnard, CA is the third museum exhibition of eight scheduled with ten planned. The series and the related exhibitions have been featured in articles in Fine Art Connoisseur, the National Maritime Historical Societies’ Sea History magazine, International Art Collector and the Waterways Journal (twice).
The exhibition will open Monday July 17th and close September 24th. Please see the museum website, www.cimmvc.org or www.TheRiversExhibition.com for events.
Daven will teach a two day (single day registration is possible) watercolor workshop at the museum on Saturday, July 22nd and 23rd for intermediate and advanced watercolorists.
Attendees will paint two works, one each day. On day one, artists will complete a marine painting that will include marine related structures, some trees and landscape and populated with one or two people. On day two, participants will complete an urban or rural landscape that will include people. The two days are intended to explore the full range of watercolor techniques in classical watercolor style. The class will run from 9:00 am to 4 pm with a lunch break on the patio of CIMM. Participants are asked to bring a lunch. There will be discussion on composition and the ways of directing attention to the paintings ‘Center of Interest’. Instructor Daven Anderson will relate very interesting, little known facts of art history during the two days. Space is limited, please RSVP by July 8. Cost for the 2-day workshop is $230.00 ($130 for a single day). The artist is responsible for bringing his/her own materials, a materials list will be provided by the instructor.


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COPS have been armed with a handgun for years. A myriad of small-caliber revolvers gave way to the standardization of the .38 Special revolver, which became a staple of the law enforcement community for nearly 90 years. As time progressed, that sixshooter gave way to the semiautomatic pistol, a more efficient and useful weapon. Not only was the onboard ammunition capacity increased, but reloading was also simplified.
Though city cops were not always armed—in some places as late as the 1890s—lawmen in rural areas of this country were armed with pistols or revolvers as well as long guns. The majority of the long guns were rifles, but some carried shotguns for specific purposes.
HISTORICAL USE OF LONG GUNS BY LE
In those days, there were no Giants or Wal-Marts one could swing by to replenish food or supplies. The long gun was a game getter as well as a defensive tool.
The rifle was easier to shoot than a handgun, generally had better sights than the Single Action Army, and had a range that exceeded whatever a handgun could realistically do. Having a rifle was truly a no-brainer.
The rifle stayed with cops as a primary weapon up until the 1940s. The types of rifles used were as wide and varied as the agencies that used them. These included, but were not limited to:
- Winchester Model 94
- Winchester Model 1907
- Remington Model 8
- Model of 1903
- Model of 1917
- Browning Automatic Rifle Model of 1918
While some in the late 1920s to early 1930s might have used those rifles for game, the real reason was to combat the new mobile desperados who were similarly armed—and the bad guys often acquired their guns from police stations or National Guard armories.
At some ill-defined point but possibly the early 1940s, the rifle gave way to the shotgun as the long gun of choice for cops on patrol. The shotgun in turn gave way to the patrol rifle in the late 1990s, and that’s how it is today. The shotgun may still be used as the primary long gun, but sees more use as a less-lethal or breaching gun.
Problems with using the shotgun include the following: lack of training for almost all agencies, difficult manual of arms, problematic accuracy with slugs, short range with buckshot, and overpenetration indoors.
WHAT IS NOT A PATROL RIFLE?
Before we proceed, we should talk about what is not a patrol rifle.
In the past, some agencies used pistol-caliber long guns. Among them were the Colt 6450, Ruger Police Carbine and Marlin Camp Carbine. The rationale for sub-caliber guns was apparently part of the “Just The Tip Syndrome.” In the words of one police executive, “We wanted something more than a pistol, but something that appeared non-threatening.”
And they got exactly what they asked for—a subpar performer that offended no one, including the bad guys.
The sub-caliber carbine was another deposit by the good idea fairy. It offered only a slightly better package than a pistol and soon mostly disappeared from the scene.
WHAT IS A PATROL RIFLE?
A general description of a patrol rifle is a 5.56x45mm semiautomatic or select-fire carbine with a nominal barrel length of 16 inches. It is, almost universally, an AR-15 type weapon. There are exceptions, of course. The Ruger Mini-14® was (and continues to be in some locations) used as a patrol rifle. The Mini was often chosen not because of any superiority as a weapons platform, but rather because it did not appear “military” in the eyes of the police executives who made decisions based on such nonsense.
More on the Mini later.
The AR-15 is truly America’s rifle. It is the most ubiquitous of all U.S. rifles and is probably going to be with us for a very long time. While this is excellent on one level, there are a multitude of other reasons. The AR has been in continual use by the military for almost 60 years, and any bugs inherent in the initial design have long since been worked out. It is ergonomic in that the controls are laid out properly, and it can be used as efficiently by wrong handers as well as right handers. It’s arguably the easiest rifle extant to manipulate. It’s accurate, reliable, and modular in that the platform can be modified to accept mission-essential equipment.
Different configurations are available to meet mission requirements. Good magazines are available in unbelievable numbers. The gun itself is available from a number of vendors, at prices ranging from cut rate to high end. And as with all things, you generally get what you pay for. Low-cost hobby guns are not sufficient for the task. Avoid the “least expensive” guns and instead look for “best value.”
ARs are also available to police agencies through the Department of Defense 1033 program. The guns that come from that program are usually arsenal reconditioned M16A1s. This is the early U.S. military gun, which was used until superseded by the M16A2 starting in 1983. While the M16A1 is useful as is, the 20- inch barrel and fixed stock make it difficult to manipulate inside a vehicle.
Which brings up another issue: where do you carry the gun while on duty? The simplest solution is also the least useful— carrying it in a bag in the trunk. While this keeps it out of view (apparently a major consideration for some administrators), it also keeps you from accessing the gun on the way to the job. And once you get there, you have to open the trunk, take the gun out of the soft/ hard case, charge it, and hope the bad guy hasn’t popped you or anyone else.
We are aware of one agency that issues the carbine in a Pelican Case with a lead seal attached. If they have to deploy the long gun, they have to open the trunk, break the seal and then, well, the cops couldn’t answer what the gun was or what was with the gun, as they had never seen it.
Others will keep the carbine up front but unsecured. This is a double-edged sword as it does allow you immediate access to the gun, but it also has a greater chance of being stolen.
The “A” answer is a lockable rack. This keeps the gun up front but also secures it against casual theft. The downside is that many racks will accept only a bone stock AR, not one with lights and optical sights. Additionally, some manufacturers are less than willing to provide T&E to agencies looking for the right rack.
The standard for keeping the guns up front is the Arcadia, California Police Department. Sergeant Dean Caputo started a program in the 1990s where every car has a Colt Commando in a rack between the seats.
More importantly, the cops are trained to sling up and charge the carbine while still in the car and responding to the job. When they exit the car, they’re ready to go.
The big question is this: If they can do it, how come others can’t/won’t?
MODIFYING THE 1033 GUN
As stated earlier, the 1033 guns are predominately M16A1s. The overall length of that gun is 39.5 inches, which may make it more difficult to carry up front.
The A1 can be converted into a more useful carbine with little effort. Several companies make complete uppers, to include the upper receiver, barrel and bolt carrier group. Anyone can make the upper switch: push out the two receiver pins, swap the A1 upper for a carbine upper, and you’re good to go.
Barrel length is normally 16 inches, the minimal length for a rifle barrel as determined by law. You can get a shortbarreled rifle (SBR) by completing the required paperwork with ATF. The most common and probably the most useful is the 14.5-inch barrel. Carbines that use the gas impingement system should use the 11.5-inch barrel as the shortest length you go to. If you use a piston AR, you can go down to 10 inches (or shorter).
Shorter barrels make the guns easier to handle inside confined spaces. But there’s a terminal ballistic penalty. This deficiency may not be apparent at the distances the patrol rifle might be used, usually within 100 yards.
The lower receiver, however, will require the services of an armorer. The original receiver extension (called by the unknowing a “buffer tube”) has to be changed to a carbine length; the buffer needs to be changed to a carbine buffer or an H2 buffer. And finally, you need a carbine stock.
One item that is a force multiplier is a Red Dot Sight (RDS). There are only two that you should consider—the Aimpoint and the EOTech. The Aimpoint has the value-added benefit of battery life that borders on stupendous. You do not need to turn it on or off, meaning it is one less thing you have to worry about if you need to deploy the gun in a hurry.
Having an RDS eliminates the problems with aligning sights. Simply place the dot on target and control the trigger straight to the rear.
Another must-have item is a weapon- mounted white light. The white light is not an accessory—it should be considered a part of the system. Though not a weapon, the light is a tool that permits you to acquire, identify and, if necessary, prosecute a threat.
Consider that you don’t want anything less than 200 lumens, and my preference is the 500-lumen SureFire Fury light. No, that much light will not make you blind, impotent, or suffer from male-pattern baldness. What it will do is light up a room as if you’d turned on a light switch. This increases your situational awareness, without which you may lose the fight.
SureFire still makes the best lights available at this time.
BACK TO THE MINI
The Mini-14 may not be an evil-looking weapon, but it has some flaws for use as a patrol rifle. The platform is not modular— adding red dot sights, white lights and other mission-essential equipment is not readily accomplished. Factory magazines have been in relatively short supply ever since the gun was first introduced. Aftermarket magazines have spotty QC. The stock was not adjustable. While a folding stock was available, the length of pull was still as long as the fixed stock. Durability and reliability were poor compared to the AR. Maintenance was generally not available at the user level, and the gun often had to be removed to the factory.
While many criticize the accuracy of the Mini, those I have shot were within six MOA, putting it in the same boat as the M1, M14 and AK. The big issue is that the mechanical safety is inside the trigger guard, as with the U.S. Rifle M1 and U.S. Rifle M14. While that may simplify some engineering/ mechanical issues, having your finger inside the trigger guard except when pressing the trigger is foolish—and dangerous.
While some organizations used Minis for patrol and tactical teams, many (like NYPD ESU) have transitioned to the AR. Many corrections agencies use the Mini, and that may be a useful choice.
The good idea fairy struck at Remington around 2002, when it produced two slide-action guns ostensibly for cop use—the Model 7600 and the 7615.
The 7600 was a .308 pump gun, and the 7615 was a .223 gun. Strangely, the 7615 series used AR magazines, and one model used an AR stock. The thought was that it would introduce a platform that was similar to the Remington 870 shotgun, which was already in use by many agencies. It was sold as being easier to train cops because they had already trained on the excellent 870 shotgun, but that was clearly a statement without fact.
The issues should have been obvious. The first is that precious few receive anything like sufficient training with the shotgun, and that negates any commonality of training. And while the 870 is ubiquitous, there are also many Mossberg, Ithaca and Winchester shotguns in police armories. All of those shotguns have slightly different manuals of arms than the Remington, making the commonality theory meaningless.
The second problem is that the shotgun commonly used either slugs or some form of buckshot. The shotgun is not exactly accurate, but at limited engagement distances, it is probably sufficient. Any round used defensively by cops or civilians is generally more accurate than the people using it.
Having said that, nothing that you can hold in one or two hands can be guaranteed to end a threat with a single round. This is why all training consists of multiple rapid shots delivered by sighted fire to center mass of what is available.
Trying to deliver rapid, accurate shots with a slide-action .223 gun can be an exercise in futility. The only apparent benefit is that it doesn’t look threatening. To draw an analogy, maybe all cop cars should be a Mini Cooper or Prius … or maybe a Mommy Van. Remington makes some good guns, but not all guns are useful in some roles.
BACK TO REALITY
When making any purchase, do not get roped in by charlatans claiming that “their” gun/optic/magazine/sling is “just as good as” the real deal. There is very little difference between first-tier and hobby guns, and in the long run the former will actually work instead of giving you headaches.
No matter what you choose, understand that a gun without training is a liability, not an asset. There should be an initial training period followed by regularly scheduled sustainment training. Qualification is not training, but rather an administrative issue.
Make sure to budget sufficient ammunition into the mix. Don’t be like the agency that bought a large number of guns but no ammo. They scraped up eight rounds per man so they could get a zero, but nothing else.
Having patrol rifles available to those trained to use them can be beneficial not only to the cops who use them but also to the citizens they protect.
The Patrol Rifle program has been extremely successful and popular throughout the United States, though the application of the program is sometimes flawed.


This project provides the refurbishment of ‘Ghella’ building, the headquarters of a leader group in the construction sector. The project respects the original architectural character of the existing building, basing on high quality standards for workers internal comfort and on energy saving and low consumption principles. Assuming that work methods are changed and that they do generate the space, the typology is a combination between open spaces (for team work) and operative cells (for individual work). The cells along the perimeter of the building, and are connected to the inner space with glasses: these glass walls allow the sunlight to pass through the internal spaces and to see and be seen, keeping a visual contact among people, providing acoustic comfort to assure privacy and concentration. Each operative cell has a meeting space available. They also have direct contact with the exterior and the possibility to manage individually their own room environmental conditions. The layout proposal follows the existing building geometry, gathering the work spaces from the façade perimeter and creating a distribution corridor around the central core, where the mechanical shafts are transformed in lighting elements. In the center are located support facilities and tables for staff meetings. To solve the illumination problem there are many bright bubbles that bring artificial and natural light inside the open spaces.
The open space is scanned by these enlightening bubbles that bring natural and artificial light inside the offices. The target is to enlarge the operative space, involving the central part of the floor. Beside maximizing the transparency of internal divisions, some light chimneys have been included inside the existing shafts. They are also partially used for mechanical systems. They capture the light coming from the roof and they bring it inside the pipes covered with reflecting materials. The façade renewal consists in shading systems equipped with environmental sensors. Also the top roof is involved in the illumination system: it is a captative roof, consisting of several enlightening tubes going down through different floors.


shenzhen announced on thursday that the government and the people’s bank of china (pboc) will jointly launch a digital currency trial program. those who are in shenzhen can take part in a lottery of digital currency red packets.
major chinese commercial banks in shenzhen, south china’s guangdong province, have started testing the application of the central bank-backed digital currency for months. now the government plans to further promote the use of digital rmb.
on thursday, the shenzhen municipal government announced on weibo that a digital currency trial program will be launched. it is a regular test in the process of research and development of the digital chinese yuan.
the local government allows individuals in shenzhen to take part in a lottery of 50,000 digital currency red packets totaling 10 million yuan ($1.49 million). the value of each red packet is 200 yuan.
according to some media reports, the program is open to those who are in shenzhen when they register, and allows them to register with their mobile phone numbers and identification cards.
△ screenshot of successfully registering
winners of the drawing will receive text messages giving instructions on how to download a digital yuan application, open a personal digital wallet and receive their red packets.
from 6 pm, oct 12 to 12 am, oct 19, winners can pay by digital currency red packets — in the same as paying in cash — at 3,389 merchants in luohu district of shenzhen, guangdong province. having completed modifications for a digital yuan system, the merchants include supermarkets, retailers, restaurants and lifestyle services providers.
scan the following qr code follow the official wechat account of “i深圳’ to enter the registration page.
- how to register and take part in the lottery?
△ long-press the pic to scan the qr code and enter the registration page
△ long-press the pic above to scan the qr code and follow the official wechat account of “i深圳”
those who register to take part in the lottery must meet both conditions as follows:
- what are the conditions of registration?
- being in the administrative region of shenzhen (including the shenzhen-shantou special cooperation zone) when registering;
- register with the mainland phone number and the second-generation id card.
yes, as long as they meet the conditions mentioned above.
- are migrant residents working in shenzhen allowed to register?
yes. family members meeting conditions can register as individuals.
- can those who are in the same family register at the same time?
after the registration, you need to take part in a lottery. winners of the drawing will receive text messages giving instructions on how to download a digital yuan application, open a personal digital wallet and receive their red packets.
the registration platform has been open since 0 am, oct 9, 2020. individuals in shenzhen can register anytime before 8 am, oct 11, 2020.
- will i get the digital rmb red packet once after registration?
no. in this trial program, 50,000 digital rmb red packets will be sent at a time through drawing, which means that each individual who successfully registered has only one chance to win the lottery.
- are the red packets issued in batches?
winners of the drawing will receive the winning text messages. they can also check the result through the “i深圳” app or its official wechat account.
- how to check the result of the drawing?
- how to receive the red packets?
the text messages will give instructions on receiving the digital rmb red packets. winners can click the link within the message, following the instructions to download a digital yuan application, open a personal digital wallet and receive the red packets.
they can also check the drawing result and the instructions via the “i深圳” app and its official wechat account.
yes. the red packet can be used freely at 3,389 merchants that have completed the digital rmb system modification in luohu district. it’s just like using cash.
the merchants include supermarkets, retailers, restaurants and lifestyle services providers.
if you have any questions during the registration, you can call the government hotline 0755-12345 or the service hotline of the program organizer 4001391000.
it is reported that china’s central bank digital currency has been used in 3.13 million transactions worth about 1.1 billion yuan ($162 million) so far. check the following link to know more about it!
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source | 21 世纪经济报道 / china daily
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