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I am thinking it is not a good idea to discuss gun ownership on an internet website; otherwise, I would answer your question. Does x2 help? |
You just might want to shoot that shotgun at a target 8' away and see how tight that cylinder choke really still is across a bedroom. |
And then shoot it through a few sheets of drywall, after that 000 goes through a few sheets of sheet rock it definitely will still kill your kid. |
The facts are strait forward, any bullet that will do its job with an intruder will also kill your kid, wither it be a shotgun tossing an oz+ to a 158 grain 357 Magnum and full metal jacket rifle ammo. but a 55 grain 223 hunting bullet will travel much less through household walls than a shotgun or a handgun round. |
Thats one of the big reasons that the LE SWAT boys are changing over to AR's or M16's with rifle ammo using HP or hunting ammo over submachine guns using pistol ammunition. Lightweight and fast hunting / varmint bullets fragment and loose velocity rapidly when they have struck something. |
You are locked in a paradigm of the past. An AR or rifle in 223 is the stopper needed in a room and the safest for those in the next room and beyond. |
Some get it. What do you call a Marine that can't shoot? |
A soldier, sailor or airman,,,, All Marines are riflemen.... Even the tuba player in the band.. |
A 226, Benelli M4 and a RR Gov with factory ambi and 2 stage. And depending on what match I swap, out the RR for a selective Colt. |
Baltimore native Julie Bowen was born on March 3, 1970. While she was a student at Brown University, the actress starred in stage shows such as Guys and Dolls, Stage Door and Lemon Sky. Before graduating, Bowen landed a small role in the independent film Five Spot Jewel. |
Fresh out of school, Bowen appeared on the ABC soap opera Loving, as well as the television movie Runaway Daughters (opposite Paul Rudd). She later starred in films such as Happy Gilmore, An American Werewolf in Paris and Multiplicity. |
Bowen returned to TV in 2000 as Carol Vessey in NBC’s Ed, which lasted four seasons. She later appeared on Lost, Boston Legal and Weeds. In 2009, Bowen joined the cast of ABC’s Modern Family. |
Bowen wed software engineer Scott Phillips on September 9, 2004. They are parents to son Oliver McLanahan (born April 10, 2007) and twins John and Gustav (born May 8, 2009). |
Friday, March 29. Friday, April 5. |
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jun 21, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — eAgile Inc., a global leader in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, announced today the release of their eLink(TM) solution for mobile eCommerce. eLink is the first to combine smartphone-based one-tap ordering, product authentication and customer engagement f... |
eAgile is one of just a few companies with the infrastructure and experience already in place to help businesses leverage this new technology. Now with smart phones on both major operating systems, Apple iOS and Android, offering NFC capabilities, demand will only increase to match the expansion of new users. |
eAgile’s patented eSeal(R) products were first introduced in 2014 and brought the supply chain efficiencies and security benefits of UHF RFID to the healthcare, nutraceutical and over-the-counter markets. eLink takes their eSeal innovation further by integrating the consumer engagement capabilities of NFC into a single... |
Operating from a vertically-integrated manufacturing facility where they design, test and manufacture a wide variety of RFID products and software, eAgile has earned a reputation for seamlessly integrating customized solutions with minimal disruption to client operations. The growth of their eSeal product line has allo... |
eAgile sets the industry standards in IoT solutions by providing high quality, cost effective products that help make RFID easy. From tag conversion to data management software to building complete RFID infrastructures, eAgile has unmatched expertise and capabilities. eAgile’s commitment to innovation, quality and prov... |
For more information, please visit: https://www.eagile.com/eLink. |
BEIJING (Reuters) - Brent crude fell more than $1 on Wednesday, resuming its fall caused by a glut of oil in the market after a short-lived reprieve the previous day when a weaker dollar had provided some support. |
Worries about oversupply have pushed Brent down 40 percent since June. |
On Wednesday, as the dollar inched higher, Brent's front-month futures contract traded down $1.06 at an intraday low of $65.78 a barrel at 0225 GMT (09:25 p.m. EST), remaining above a five-year low of $65.29 touched on Tuesday. |
On Monday alone it fell $2.88, or 4.2 percent, its third-largest one-day loss this year. |
U.S. crude futures fell $1 to $62.82 a barrel at one point before picking up slightly to $62.87, down 95 cents on the day. It also closed higher on Tuesday after a fall of $2.79, or 4.2 percent, on Monday. |
U.S. inventories rose 4.4 million barrels in the past week to 377.4 million barrels, compared with analysts' expectations of a drop of 2.2 million, according to the American Petroleum Institute. |
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) may still hold an emergency meeting before its June gathering to discuss how to tackle the global surplus, Algeria's energy minister said on Tuesday. |
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After a year of testing, Twitter has opened up its improved ad platform to all U.S. businesses. Now what about the rest of the world? |
Twitter has ended its invite-only policy and opened up its self-serve ad platform to all businesses in the United States. |
Kevin Weil, Twitter's senior director of product for revenue, made the announcement today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. The new policy was also posted on Twitter's advertising blog. |
Twitter Ads is a self-service tool designed to help businesses, which probably already have a presence on the social networking site, interact with current customers and market to new ones. Twitter opened its ad platform to select small businesses last March. |
After a year of development, Twitter rolled out improvements based on feedback from its users, including better analytics and reporting. |
The ad platform offers businesses two options: promoted accounts and promoted tweets. Under promoted accounts, Twitter looks at the company's current followers and then searches for people with similar interests. When it finds a match, Twitter recommends the business in the "who to follow" section. |
With promoted tweets, Twitter monitors your activity and then promotes the best tweets. |
Businesses using the ad platform only pay when someone follows their account (via promoted accounts) or engages their promoted tweet. Businesses can adjust the ad settings to reach customers in specific geographic areas. |
Twitter didn't say when it might open up its ad service to the rest of the world, where a hefty chunk of its registered users reside. It's been awhile since Twitter provided a breakdown of user figures. Analyst group Semiocast said Twitter had 517 million accounts as of July 1, 2012, with 141.8 million of those in the ... |
The most-asked question I got about the new 2020 Porsche 911 was how it’s different from the outgoing 991.2-generation car. Because it sure looks the same, except for a few aesthetic cues. I spent a decent chunk of time poking around it last week. |
To help you out, here are photos of the two generations of cars back-to-back for reference. |
Got it? OK, good. Onward! |
Obviously, from the outside, there are a few key changes between the 992 and the 991.1 and 991.2 generation. |
The 992’s front bumper has a much larger expanse of black grille detailing. The thin blades that extended downward on either side of the license plate cover are no longer painted in the body color. The result is a much more gaping mouth. The hood lines are also much sharper and more geometric. |
Side indicators now ride above the front bumper line and have been lengthened slightly. And the car also comes exclusively with LED headlights now. Door handles are flush against the body and are only slightly annoying to use. |
Most dramatically, however, is the addition of a single, horizontal light blade in the rear and a new vertical center brake light. I like the new brake light. I like the 90-degree contrast it makes with the rest of the rear, which is comprised of a series of lengthy, sideways slashes. |
Unfortunately, I think that’s where my goodwill towards the rear ends. The new design doesn’t flow very well. There’s a lot of empty space and there’s also a lot of contrasting black venting, too. It’s almost like there are just a few too many flat and tall planes of nothingness. |
The lettering that spells out “Porsche” has also been set slightly into the body, which is neat. I am having mild nightmares when I imagine trying to buff and wax in those little spaces, however. |
Font used on the rear trunk lid is a modern and vintage combination. “Carrera” is scrawled in the contemporary font, while “911” is slightly offset and written in the blockier, ’60s-era font that’s found on the very first Porsche 911. |
Another first for the Carrera are staggered wheel sizes: 19 inches in the front and 20 in the back on the standard car, 20 inches in the front and 21 inches in the back for the S models. This supposedly is to help improve grip and handling without making the tires too wide for fear of worsened hydroplaning. Plus, there... |
The new 911 also has more driver assistance features than ever, including an infrared night vision sensor, a 360-degree bird’s-eye camera and a Wet Mode. This is a safety system that monitors the slickness of the road and affects the traction control accordingly. Physically putting the car into Wet Mode almost guarante... |
There’s also an on-board ionizer, another new feature, that will undoubtedly help you drive your 911 safely through the inevitable nuclear winter. |
Also touched upon in our first drive is the new, eight-speed PDK, which we learned has been packaged with enough spare room for a potential hybrid system, if Porsche ever wanted to head in that direction. This new transmission now adds about 44 pounds to the overall weight of the car. |
Then there’s the all-aluminum body, another first for a Carrera. Porsche cut down dramatically on the use of steel, which the automaker says helps save the car about 26.5 pounds. |
The engine has been updated with larger-diameter turbocharges and an electronic wastegate, thus improving the efficiency and cold-start functions. The engineers have also transitioned from using solenoid injectors to piezo injectors. |
The intercooler has also been moved up higher on the engine. |
The engine mounts, too, have been moved up further, making them closer to the longitudinal beams for more stiffness and reduction of engine movement. At the same time, the new Carrera apparently has vastly improved NVH qualities. I did notice that it rode a lot more quietly on the highway than the previous generation d... |
On the inside, the design has shifted from the vertical-heavy layout that 911s took on during the 996 generation to a more ’60s-style horizontal layout. A slim shelf-line does wonders for splitting the dash into a “top” and “bottom” section. |
Gone are the T-rex-arm cupholders; they have been replaced with ones that look like real cupholders. And there’s a slot in the center console that can be fitted with an additional cupholder. |
Mercifully, the center console gets rid of with the chunky, button-heavy layout that plagued the last generation of 911s. The result is a clean, empty and minimalist design. Two of the five tactile switches located below the infotainment screen can be programmed for specific settings. |
Most of the iconic five-gauge cluster is now digital, save for the middle gauge, which remains analog. I wasn’t too pleased about this. I like physical gauges and these digital ones don’t do it for me. But this does mean that you can alter what each gauge shows. |
The gear selector is the smallest it’s ever been, about the size of a big flash drive. It’s unobtrusive and adds to the overall minimalism of the cabin, but it also doesn’t really look much like a gear selector anymore, either. |
And, sadly, the 992 911 finally does away with the key fob, replacing it with a proximity key, just like the rest of the cars out there. Yet, in lieu of a start button, there’s a switch built into the left-hand side, which you turn like you would a normal fob or key to start the car up. I think I prefer this to a start... |
All in all, the 992 will not be spared from jokes about how it looks the same as the last 911. And the next one will probably look just as similar. But I guess that’s how evolution works: It’s a series of small changes that happen over the course of multiple generations. |
Because when you line the first 911 up with the latest one—that’s when the differences are stark. |
Malnutrition and stunting in children – poor growth that affects both body and mind – may only be ended if they are brought up in higher-standard homes with hot and cold running water, new research suggests. |
Ridding the world of stunting is a major global health target. More than 160 million children are malnourished and small for their age. Huge efforts have been made to ensure children in poorer countries are breastfed and get nutritious food in the crucial first two years of life and to improve the water they drink and ... |
A small study in the Gambia may have revealed why. A team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine looked at the growth of children whose parents worked for their Medical Research Council (MRC) unit in the small village of Keneba. |
Among 230 children, the researchers found that the socioeconomic status of the parents – their wealth or poverty, education and income – made only a small difference to the chances of the children not growing as well as they should. What made a difference was the type of housing they lived in. |
Annual incomes ranged from $50 to $20,000 per family. Housing ranged from very basic mud block huts to western-style houses with hot and cold running water, showers, flushing toilets, electricity and gas cooking. Children raised in western-style housing grew very well, and none of this group were stunted or underweight... |
Andrew Prentice, professor of international nutrition at MRC Unit the Gambia at the London School, who led the study, published in BMC Medicine, said there are profound implications if the conclusions are right. |
Their study was a “natural experiment”, looking at child growth in a situation where families were living in a variety of different conditions. It was small – Prentice would like to see it replicated on a larger scale if at all possible. |
But if the conclusions are right, we need to be more ambitious, he says. “Poor people have the right to much better living conditions. I’m not one to bang on about human rights, but I do think it is a human rights issue,” he said. “We have got to stop working on the principle that we can only do very cheap intervention... |
For one insider, secret surveillance went on for too long. |
The Electronic Frontier Foundation will be back in court next Friday in San Francisco with its latest challenge to secret surveillance by the National Security Agency. The civil liberties group has been fighting a long-running battle to disclose the inner workings of a vast program—really a series of programs—of clande... |
In the meantime, EFF has created this helpful timeline of many of the major events and revelations in the program(s)’ history. I’ll add one more to this list, something I wrote about extensively in my book, The Watchers, and that I’ll summarize here. For me, it has always stood out as one of the most remarkable and ult... |
On Saturday, October 6, 2001, Mike Wertheimer got a phone call at his home telling him to come to the office immediately. Wertheimer was a PhD mathematician and the NSA’s top technologist. And like many of his colleagues, he had spent the last few weeks since the terrorist attacks agonizing over the clues that the NSA ... |
Wertheimer arrived at the NSA’s headquarters in Ft. Meade, Md., and joined about eighty of his fellow employees in a large conference room. Standing before them was Gen. Michael Hayden, the agency’s director, and a man with whom Wertheimer had been working closely to try and “modernize” the global eavesdropping agency ... |
Four days earlier, October 2, Bush had granted the NSA authorities that would let it monitor the calls of U.S. persons, inside the country, if they were communicating with someone outside the U.S. and believed to possess a “nexus to terrorism.” Ordinarily, NSA would need a warrant to listen to the calls of a U.S. perso... |
Hayden insisted that NSA wouldn’t go beyond the limitations set by the President, which included (and this was important) not monitoring purely domestic communications without a warrant. In other words, for warrantless surveillance to occur, there always had to be one party to a communication outside the United States. |
But the program expanded in the coming months and years from this targeted warrantless surveillance to a broad campaign of data mining, in which NSA got access to the phone call records of major telecommunications companies and combed through them looking for indications of terrorist activity. After the initial monitor... |
By the time I met Wertheimer, in 2007, the New York Times had already published an expose of the Terrorist Surveillance Program, as well as elements of the broader data mining. Wertheimer felt free to talk about that initial meeting with Hayden on October 6, since the TSP had been publicly acknowledged by the President... |
But as the months went on, and the imminent threat of another attack declined, Wertheimer had misgivings. As he explained it to me, the form of warrantless surveillance that President Bush ordered in the first few months after 9/11 was an appropriate and necessary response to a crisis. But as the threat abated, he thou... |
Wertheimer eventually went back to work for government, in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he led an effort to harness new technologies for improving analysis. When I met him in 2007, I was writing about that topic and found him to be one of the most thoughtful and earnest people I had met co... |
As I wrote my book, I heard from other people like Wertheimer, men and women who’d also devoted their careers to national security, who thought the Bush administration was justified in taking extraordinary surveillance measures after 9/11, and that in the breach, even violations of the law could be forgiven. But in the... |
But Wertheimer’s story always struck me at the most personal level. He never fully forgave himself for the 9/11 attacks, but he also believed that his government’s response to that horrible day was, in the end, deeply flawed. It gave him no pleasure to say so. |
Texas enters the matchup against Iowa State in sole possession of first place in the Big 12 after defeating Kansas last week. |
No. 5 Texas reclaimed first place in the Big 12 Conference with a road win over No. 10 Kansas, but it’s not celebrating yet. |
With four games left in the season, Texas must stay focused. A road match Saturday against Iowa State will be Texas’ first obstacle in its quest to finish the season strong and stay atop the conference. |
The Longhorns swept the Cyclones when the two faced off in Austin. Iowa State’s strong defense kept Texas’ offense out of system at times and forced a tight first set, but Texas made adjustments and pulled away as the match went on. |
The Cyclones are coming into this match off a sweep of West Virginia behind a solid offensive outing. Sophomore outside hitter Alexis Conaway and sophomore redshirt middle blocker Samara West are swinging well and also leading a dominant Cyclone block. |
Sophomore libero Cat McCoy and senior defensive specialist Kat Brooks will be the back row keys to Texas’ offensive performance. A number of Longhorns’ hitters are finding success as the season comes to a close and should continue to do so against Iowa State, but the Longhorns aren’t going to take this game lightly. |
The cold open video was written and directed by Dan Opsal, an Emmy and WGA-nominated writer for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Opsal was also a writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. |
Kit Harington’s cameo was directed by Opsal via Skype. Harington was in England. |
La La Land choreographer Mandy Moore was the choreographer. Moore has been Emmy nominated four times for So You Think You Can Dance. |
27 of the 30 dancers from the opening scene in La La Land appeared in the cold open video. |
The video included appearances by Justin Timberlake, Ryan Reynolds, Tina Fey, Nicole Kidman, Amy Adams, John Travolta, Kit Harington, Rami Malek, Evan Rachel Wood, Sarah Paulson, Sterling K. Brown, Courtney B. Vance and kids from the Stranger Things cast. |
The steadicam operator for the La La Land cold open video was Ari Robbins. |
Oprah Winfrey is 65 and thriving! |
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