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John Pinette, 50, died on April 5, at a hotel in Pittsburgh, PA. according to a statement released by the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's office on April 6. Pinette's agent confirmed his death.
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John might be remembered most for his stand-up acts during which he always poked fun at his own weight. Most of his stand-up specials had titles like Show Me The Buffett, I'm Starvin, and Still Hungry, reports USAToday.
The funny man had been working on another stand-up project when he passed away, his agent, Nick Nuciforo, said.
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A native of Boston, John appeared in The Punisher, and had three stand-up comedy shows that were released on DVD. However, his most memorable performance was playing the chunky carjacking victim whose incident drops the Seinfeld stars in front of a judge for failing to help under a "good Samaritan" law.
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Physical obstruction of sinus drainage holes (ostia), eg, by nasal polyps or by tumours, may cause chronic rhinosinusitis. Generally the bodies immune defence cells will deal with an infection before a chronic picture becomes established. If these defences are deficient, eg, congenital immune deficiencies or HIV disease, or the load of infecting bacteria, virus or fungus is too great for the defences to cope with, a chronic infection may become established. Dental abscesses of the upper teeth can rupture through the floor of the sinus of the cheek (the maxillary sinus) and lead to a chronic rhinosinusitis.
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Rest of the Div [Division] ordered six mile ahead on the Cheraw Road. - A very cloudy day. quite a large Rebel force reported at Cheraw. - Capt [Captain] Cameron has quite a time assisting a refugee family to go with us tomorrow.
Friday Mar 3d 1865 [View Civil War timeline for this date]Ordered to be ready to move at 6 1/2 A. M. but as we had to move in the rear of Gen [General] Howards train - it was 8 oclock before we were across Black Creek .The trains kept out of our way and we had a splendid march of 20 mile - reaching "Thompsons Creek" and in camp at 5 P.M. - Caught up with the Div [Division] about 3 P.M. Drizzling rain in forenoon but the sun shines out by spells after. dinner - Country - poor. soil sandy Timber pine and oak. Cheraw was taken by the
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17 A.C. today -- They entered the town after a slight skirmish capturing 17 cannon 300 small arms and some prisoners. Brigade Drum Corps marched at head of the Brigade and [unclear: discerned] "sweet strains of martial music." - In camp 5 mile from Cheraw.
Wednesday Mar 4th 65 [View Civil War timeline for this date]Ordered to march at 1.0 A M but just as we were eating breakfast at 7. A M. we rec'd [received] orders to move out at once. Moved down Thompsons Creek and there waited several hours before crossing. Passed through Cheraw with bands playing and colors flying - marched north of town one mile & a half and went in camp - distance marched 6 1/2 mile -- Country good - Weather cloudy with rain in the forenoon. Rebel papersrec'd [received] reporting capture of Wilmington, Columbia & Charleston.
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Our troops are laying pontoons across the "Great Pedee" and our army will begin to cross immediately - Suppose Sherman will move to the coast as soon as possible. as Rations are getting "Slim" -- We may get communication at Fayettville. We are all very anxious to get a mail and hear from home - Just one month to=day [today] since we "cut loose" .Heard distant cannonading south east -- do not know where it can be - Rebel force said to be fortified across the River about a mile but think it is untrue. -- If the Rebs get in our way we may expect a fight for Sherman will not run around them.
March 5th 1865 [View Civil War timeline for this date]Remained in camp all day. Capt [Captain] Cameron had inspection of arms and accoutrements. Regts [Regiments] presented a very good appearance.
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Cheraw was nearly destroyed by fire - explosions were quite frequent as we were destroying ordnance stores. 17th A.C crossing the river to=day [today] . We will go over tomorrow. 3 d Brigade in town doing "Provost duty." Rec'd [Received] an old mail this evening, which had been with the 14th A.C, since we left Sister's Ferry. Retired early.
Monday Mar 6th 1865 [View Civil War timeline for this date]Ordered to march at 8 oclock and were under way at the appointed time. Our Div [Division] in rear of 1st and 2d Brigade in advance. We marched down to Cheraw and as the 1st Div [Division] were not across the "Great Pedee" we halt several hours for them to get out of the way. Soon after we had halted - we were all startled by a terrific explosion[deleted: s] of powder and shells. which had been thrown into a ravine and set on fire by some careless soldiers - The glass was broken in every window in town.
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Three or four houses were thrown down by the explosion[deleted: s]. One man in the 81st was killed by a falling building and 2 wounded. Quite a number were killed in Gen [General] Woods division - The amount of [deleted: explosions] powder exploded is said to have been two (2) tons -- It created a great stampede among horses and teams -- Whilst in Cheraw visited a very old grave yard. The following quaint inscription was on one of the slabs --
"My name, my country what are They This what -- Whether high or low my Pedigree Perhaps .I far surpassed all other men Perhaps -- I fell below them all -- What then? Suffice it stranger though seeist a tomb Though knowest it use it hides no matter whom"
Saw what was said to be Gen [General] Marions tomb - but think it doubtful as he must have been buried at Eutaw Springs. - Left Cheraw S.C. about 10 oclock. 3d Brig [Brigade] of our Div [Division] left to bring up
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the rear - Marched 6 mile and went into camp on Fayettville road -- has been a bright clear day. Brigade camped in line - We will be apt to reach Communication by Saturday.
Tuesday Mar 7th 1865 [View Civil War timeline for this date]Up at 5 1/2 A M - ordered to move at 7. A M - 2d Brigade in rear - as the 3d Brigade had not come up from Cheraw. - Marched 10 mile through the best country we have seen in S.C. and encamped at 1 oclock near "Gordums Mills" - Forage plenty Country thickly settled - 2 men from 66th Ills captured by the enemy -- no news -- only question of interest is when will we reach a "base"[illegible] Ills had Dress Parade this eve. - It is rumored that our forces occupy Fayettville - Retired at nine (9) oclock. -- Quite a lot of Clothing &c. [et cetera] &c. [et cetera] found near our Head qrs. [Head quarters]
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This is a discussion on Kahr MK9 elite ..what are your thoughts within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; thum_19647af26ae72b7f.jpg Kahr owners give your HONEST opinions on these firearms.......
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I have yet to be attacked by a block of ballistic gelatin but.........
Its a super nice gun, very smooth trigger. Recoil is not bad at all since the gun has some weight to it. The only downside is the price of the damn thing. I actually have mine sitting at a local gun shop on consignment right now. I just never shot it much, and didn't want to screw up the pretty finish carrying it, lol. I regret buying it overall, should have gotten a Para for the same money. If its what you want though, I'd say go for it. Nothing wrong with that gun...
Wow yes the weight can be a factor, Dont really know if I want a .9mm if I already have a .380
I have yet to be attacked by a block of ballistic gelatin but.........
IMHO, the main reason to carry a very small pistol is to be able to pocket or ankle carry. That's how I see the MK sized model, however it is too heavy to pocket carry. If I were to pocket carry a Kahr it would be the PM model.
All other carry modes would handle the larger K or T models just as well and that's what I'd choose instead.
I have an MK9 (not the elite model)...
It does have a smooth trigger...but with a 2.5" barrel, it's not a 25 yd gun....it's a git-offa-me gun. While it does have some weight, it doesn't take up a lot of the recoil--you feel it through your hands. It's a gun I practice with and carry...but it's not a gun I would enjoy shooting all day. I have both the 6-round standard mags and a couple 7-round extension mags.
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To heavy for pocket and to small to have enought rounds to make that weight worth while. I do like kahr handguns and have a 2 but they are of the way lighter models , a cm9 and cw9. Both are for me very smooth and controlable under even +P loads. If you feel you have to have the weight of the km I would rather have a glock 19 or a 26 with a extended second mag. Or one of the other lighter m&p or xd models for carry purposes.
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I have yet to be attacked by a block of ballistic gelatin but.........
I own 4 Kahrs; K9, MK9, P9, and P380. The main advantages of the MK9 is that it's SUPER easy to conceal, however, its too heavy for pocket carry and WAY too heavy for Ankle carry. More than likely you'll carry it IWB or OWB. If you're going to do that, then you should seriously consider the K9 or the P9. You get an extra round, slightly longer barrel, hence better sight radius, and you get a full three finger grip.
The only reason I carry my MK9 anymore is when I'm going to be wearing a very thin/light cover garment and I'm really trying to hide the butt of the grip. Frankly, I can take care of that with my P9 or K9. So truthfully If I did it all over again, I wouldn't have bought the MK9.
Having said that, I think the K9 or P9, is the best single stack 9mm for dedicated CCW on the market. They're both very thin, compact and easy to conceal, have the best DAO trigger of any gun I've ever shot, have great sights (love their night sights; all of mine have them).
The K9 is the best shooter. The weight soaks up the recoil and the softer houge type grip is the best feeling grip of any gun I've ever held. It doesn' hang up clothing or any of that junk. Only watch out on the K9 is to make sure you don't end up with the NYPD model. The trigger lenght is a little longer. An 1/8 of an inch doesn't sound like much but it is.
The P9 is almost the perfect gun. No external safeties, no mag disconnect, light weight, etc. The only trivial issue with the P9 is that there's a noticeably more muzzle flip due to the lighter weight andthe plastic checkering on the grip can be a bit much on the hand for range sessions. A Hogue Handall Jr. grip sleeve fits the P9 perfectly, looks good, stays in place and makes it almost as good a grip setup as the K9.
You can buy a CW9 which is the economy version of the P9. It's a good value but I personally like the refinements of the P9. If you're buying this for life, spend the extra and enjoy those refinements. Better looks, better barrel, etc.
You'll hear all kinds of stuff about Kahr reliability. Bottom line is all of the major manufactuerers make good guns and they all put out one, once in a while, that has to be sent back for warranty work. Mine were all good except the P380 made one trip back to Kahr and the service/turn around was excellent.
My EDC is the K9. I bought it and it turned out to be an NYPD model but mine came with the beveled mag well and clean crips laser engraving found on the Elites. I had to send it to Kahr to get the shorter trigger. Most people wouldn't have noticed the 1/8" extra trigger length of pull but I'm picky about such things so I spend $150 to get that fixed.
If this is for carry don't worry abot the shiny flat sides on the Elite. It'll get worn and scratched if you carry if for years so getting shiney surfaces isn't worth it unless this is a safe queen. If you carry it for years and it gets rough looking you can send it for a bead blast finish.
I use my P9 when I'm hiking, working or doing something more physical. Then I appreciate the lighter weight but I shoot the K9 better.
So why to I keep my MK9? I've often thought about trading or selling it but frankly I just love it too much. for me it's a gun I can hide undre a flims white T shirt but I can also shoot it all day long at the range. Beware that it only has a Hard Nylon/plastic style grip so it can be a bit slick. I cut a piece of a bicycle inner tube and slipped it over the grip and it's perfect, just perfect.
Another trick for the MK9 and K9 is to go to Lowes and by the 1" stair grip strips. You cut it to length, peel off the backing and stick it on the front strap of the grip. LOOKS GOOD! and give a very very good grip! I did that BEFORE I put on the inner tube grip so that the tube doesnt move or rotate.
But again, if I was starting out I'd get the K9 or the P9. The bigger/taller you are the more I'd lean towards the K9. The shorter/smaller you are the more I'd lean towards the P9.
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One of the sexiest guns out there. It's super accurate for such a small gun, and it conceals extremely well. It's metal, if you're into that sort of thing. It feels great in your hand, and is extremely well built. It's a very solid little gun. All that comes with weight though. I wont say weight is a bad thing though. Obviously a lighter (pm9) gun will be easier to carry for most, but some of us like the extra heft. The weight isnt bad, but ankle / pocket carry is pretty much a no-no. The MK9 is one of my favorite guns, but I still carry the PM9.
Saw a used-like-new Mk9 elite for sale locally the other day, restrained myself... and wish I wouldn't have. Sure it wouldn't pocket carry, but it'd be a fine beltcarry - would probably replace my G26 for appendix and 4:30 carry.
I am jonesing for a K9 Elite. If you're going to go with a steel gun for belt carry, the K9 is not much bigger and is easier to shoot with a little more oomph because of the extra 0.5" of barrel and the extra round of ammo.
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well, since i own a mk9 elite, i suppose i qualify (barely) to comment...however, for whatever reasons, i bought the gun about 4 years ago and have never fired or carried it. go figure? i will say i had good intentions of using my mk9 elite as a primary carry when i bought it and because of it's smallish size, it would encourage me to carry on a regular basis. however, i guess i haven't been motivated enough over the past 4 years of ownership to begin the practice of carrying a handgun. so...here i am TODAY with a renewed interest (i think) in carrying...primarily because a buddy told me how much he LOVED his Sig p238.
having said all of the above, while rethinking my decision to carry my mk9 elite, i keep hearing my buddy talk about how i should trade for the sig p238 as it is smaller, lighter, and easier to carry. yes, he happens to think more of sig pistols than of kahr. so, the other day, i decided to break my mk9 elite out of the safe where it has rested for 4 years and get reaquainted. instantly, i noticed the beauty of the pistol and it *is*, without doubt, a beautiful handgun. however, after gripping the pistol as though i were firing, i asked myself....."what were you thinking" when you bought this? this thing gets swallowed by my large hand and the position of my finger on the trigger was rather awkward. in other words....while holding the gun with a comfortable shooting grip, the trigger was touching midway up my finger as opposed to the finger tip where i am most familiar/comfortable. so, i adjusted/compensated by changing my grip...and this felt even more awkward. interestingly, i remember going to a local gun shop and holding the pistol before i bought it yet i purchased it anyways. hmmmm.
the moral of this story is if you have large hands, why bother with a pistol of this size, despite its ease of carry/concealment, if it doesn't fit your hand. is this solely a problem with the kahr mk9 elite? i think not! in fact, i can't wait to hold my buddy's sig p238 in hopes of determining whether it fits my hand. i assure i will NOT make the same mistake twice. i might add, the extended mag makes my mk9 elite feel better simply because my pinky finger has a resting place rather than dangling in space but it still doesn't address the short 'trigger reach' issue. i suspect i will find the same with the sig p238 when using their extended mag. who knows....the sig may be better for larger hands than my kahr. anybody???????????????????????????
in closing, i'm now thinking if i'm ever going to carry a handgun, i might have to accept the trade-offs of carrying a larger pistol (less comfort, less concealability, no pocketability, etc) and take a close look at a kahr k9 elite or consider other options in a pistol somewhat larger than the mk9 or whatever. your suggestions are welcome. bottom line is 'there is NO perfect pistol' that covers all the bases/needs/wants.
I like the Kahr pistols, but honestly the all steel ones are a bit heavy. I carry tiny pistols like the CM9 in a pocket. If I had an all steel model it would weigh too much to comfortably do this as the added weight unbalances your britches, at least that's my perception. Also, the all steel models are extremely pricey. The polymer framed guns are a little more reasonably priced. But if weight and money are of no concern, it's a fine pistol.
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Owned a Mk9 for about a year. Like they say to heavy for the pocket its not really the weight its the bunched up bulge that hunk of steel makes.
So I carried mine in a IWB most of the time OSW some of the time. I have average size hands & it was hard for me to find enough grip to get my hand around!
I did however solve my problem & traded the MK9 for a K9 early last mouth. My K9 conceals (for me) just as easy as the MK9& comes out of the holster much faster is easier to shoot & more accurate. The grip is a perfect size for my mitts. Getting close to the 1000 round mark & she runs like a top!
Give the K9 a look.
I tried to love one for over 6 months. It shot great, accuracy was good, recoil was light, But with it weight for its size, it was like a "LUMP' in my pocket.
I couldn't get it to conceal unless I put it in a holster and then I found that my Glocks 19/23 would conceal just as well when the Mk9 and The Glock were both holstered.


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Dupic begins his seventh year as a member of the BVU coaching staff in 2014 and sixth as the team's pitching coach.
In his first year as pitching coach in 2009, the staff's team ERA (5.25) was the program's lowest over the previous 14 years. The following year, the Beavers lowered their team ERA to 4.33 in all games and 3.36 in conference-only games (both league bests) as the team won the conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Regionals. The Beavers again lowered their team ERA (3.82) in 2011 and recorded the most strikeouts (341), as well as the third-fewest walks per game in school history, while helping the team win the Central Regional Tournament Championship and advance to the World Series.
In 2013, the conference went to a four-game weekend series for conference play for the first time, and Dupic guided the pitching staff to the league's best team ERA (3.09) during those games, which also struck out the second-most hitters (167).
Overall, Dupic has helped 10 pitchers gain All-Conference honors as well as six who have landed spots on the All-Central Region Teams. During his tenure, his staffs have led the league in ERA and are averaging 137 strikeouts per season during conference play, which is the second-best average in the conference over the past five years.
Prior to joining the BVU coaching staff, Dupic turned in a stand-out career himself on the field as a player. He began his collegiate playing days at the University of Iowa before transferring to Buena Vista in the fall of 2005. The Emmetsburg, Iowa, native was a two-time First Team All-Conference pitcher for the Beavers, while also earning All-Region honors following his senior campaign. In June of 2007, he continued his playing career by signing a professional contract to play with the Sioux City Explorers.


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I read the other day that they had their first murder-free month in 44 years recently.
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An ugly dose of reality has shattered the calm at a Disney-themed Florida community after cops discovered the first homicide committed there in its history.
Residents of Celebration, Fla. - five miles south of Walt Disney World and planned as a picture-perfect community - were stunned when they awoke Tuesday to find crime scene tape near the Christmas-decorated downtown.
Cops had discovered a murder scene at the home of Matteo Giovanditto, 58, after worried neighbors had called to report he hadn't been seen for several days.
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Brooklyn Author Writes About New Wave Of "Moms Gone Wild:" 40 Year Old Chicks Becoming Sluts
(CNN) — In a shocking article on TheAwl.com, author and mother Amy Sohn writes that moms in her affluent Brooklyn neighborhood are going through something called "the 40-year-old reversion." The tedium of raising children, she says, is driving moms in her circle out at night to party to the extreme as if they were 25 again. Sohn likens the scene to the HBO show "Girls," which depicts life in New York for the post-college crowd: "…We're masturbating excessively, cheating on good people, doing coke in newly price-inflated townhouses, and sexting compulsively—though rarely with our partners. Our children now school-aged, our marriages entering their second decade, we are avoiding the big questions—Should I quit my job? Have another child? Divorce?—by behaving like a bunch of crazy twentysomething hipsters. Call us the Regressives." It's a grim portrait of parenthood and marriage. And cringe-worthy tales of a drunk mom falling down the stairs while leaving a party and a mom who went to third base in the back of a minivan with a man who wasn't her husband could make a person who's thinking about getting pregnant hit the pause button.
Something is happening in this world. Something glorious. A grass roots movement that I previously thought would be impossible to create, let alone watch it grow organically.
The movement I'm talking about is chicks morphing into complete whores under the delusion that they are doing it to empower themselves. 50 Shades of Grey. Girls. "The 40 year old reversion." All these things are just tales of girls getting fucked a lot and then claiming they're stronger for it. Its bananas. Guys have literally been trying since the beginning of time to convince girls that they should fuck and be kinky and not care what anybody else thinks. For like 200,000 years men have been working at this, and for the most part, failing miserably. For roughly 199,999.5 years we've lived in a world where chicks are constantly fighting that and being annoying.
Then all of a sudden in like the past 6 months, they just decided to buy into it. They just decided that being sluts and getting dominated was ok. And they beauty of it all was that they did it on their own. They're convinced they came up with this new lifestyle and its their choice. Now they're "liberated." Now they're "empowered." Its on "their terms." Whatever you say bitch! You can be liberated and empowered as you're tied up in my bed with a ball gag in your mouth. Everything can be on your terms now that "your terms" involve anal experimentation and promiscuity. Chicks are like "I'm sick and tired of being walked on! I'm gonna go suck some dick!" Yea toots! You show em who's boss!
Doesn't matter if you're college hipster chicks or 40 year old moms. Every woman across the board just caught wind that its chic and trendy to fuck and bought into immediately. There's a reason why feminism never works. Its because they've been fighting an uphill battle the whole time. Swimming upstream. All the women out there just wanted to be told its ok to be sluts and once that happened it was like the flood gates opened.
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Harry Styles is apparently getting decorating tips from supermodel Kate Moss for his Pimrose Hill pad.
The 'Live While You're Young' singer has enlisted the help of the style icon - who has provided him several contacts - to help design his recently purchased $3 million home.
"Harry has a rough idea of what he wanted the place to look like but didn't really know where to start," a source infromed The Sun newspaper.
"Kate has given him a list of her trusted furnishing contacts and her favorite shops and told him to get on to them."
It seems the British model has taken quite a shine to the curly-haired singer and has revealed to friends that she thinks the 18-year-old is "sweet" and is more than happy to help.
"She's even given him the number of her florist. Kate thinks Harry's really sweet and she's more than happy to help him out."
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No one does sports like we do, and that includes our sports venues. Though the official capital of Massachusetts in up on Beacon Hill, the real beating heart of the state runs through Fenway Park. Watch a game from up on the Monster seats or take a guided tour from box seats to clubhouse to field. The TD Garden, home to the Celtics and the Bruins, is a convenient, modern arena that's great for watching a game or a huge music concert. Gillette Stadium in Foxboro is more than just a football/soccer stadium; it's a whole complex of stores, restaurants, and attractions. And with Massachusetts' ridiculous number of colleges, there's almost always going on at one of dozens of college sports venues, from Harvard Stadium to Boston University's Agganis Arena.
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It's a feature that many of us have missed since iOS 5.0, the ability to see the actual street view of a location via Maps. Street View adds that ability once more, and is both useful and fascinating to browse through.
The app is suitably simple to use. Much like Maps, it's all just a matter of either viewing by the current location or typing in an address before tapping on the orange person to zoom in. According to the App Store description, it's possible to launch the app through Maps itself, something that I couldn't figure out, but I didn't feel perturbed by the need to switch between the apps manually.
Such views are as accurate as Google has made them, making it possible to browse pretty much anywhere imaginable. Street View even comes with its own list of suggestions, making it fun to sightsee iconic locations around the world. Even better, it's possible to browse inside certain locations such as famous art galleries as well as resorts such as Disneyland. This could even work as a form of educational tool and it's fun to look around.
Throughout the app, it's immensely simple to use. Swipes and simple taps initiate everything possible, with a tap on the relevant arrow helping the user negotiate the streets of their chosen location. Further functionality stems from the ability to view locations of contacts, through one tap, as well as switch between satellite or hybrid modes with a quick swipe and tap. Everything is very intuitive.
It's unfortunate that I couldn't figure out how to launch the app via Maps, but it didn't affect my enjoyment. Providing educational resources, intrigue and practical uses, Street View is an ideal app for many different purposes.
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The technology of Runestone's games is based on three core elements: AIs, the Language Machine, and our Story Template construct. With these as our basic building blocks we create a living, breathing gameworld with believable AIs, free-form communication between players and AIs, and a new, personalized adventure waiting around every corner.
Runestone's AIs are individual, believable characters with their own independent stories in the gameworld. They have a complex emotional model, making them react according to their mood and change mood according to events around them. Together with the emotional model, a basic event-response system gives the AIs a realistic response to everyday interaction. The AIs also have their own sets of motivations, based partly on their current mood, partly on the roles they are designed to play in the game, and as the game unfolds, they live their own lives side by side with the players, constantly following their own paths and goals.
When needed, the Gamemaster AI can carefully choose one or more AIs, based on their current moods and motivations, to act as supporting cast in a player's story. Since the cast changes with the state of the game and its AIs, no two stories will have the exact same flow or outcome.
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The Language Machine allows players to communicate with other players and AIs alike. It supports free-form dialog - it is possible to talk to anyone about anything in the game world - and it eliminates the traditional difference between player and AI communication, making players and AIs equals in the complex game of social interaction. Through a unique, easy-to-use information browsing interface, the Language Machine supports information sharing as a key gameplay element, making it easy for players to share the rumors and facts that play a vital role in how stories evolve.
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Story Templates drive the stories in Runestone's games. As opposed to traditional CRPGs, Runestone games do not have a pre-defined storyline, forcing the players to follow more or less subtle paths. Instead a hierarchical system of template story elements makes it possible to adapt stories to the current game state, cast players in stories that match their desires, and add and modify stories in a continuously changing game world. Actors in the stories are cast on the fly, and many stories can substitute players for AIs and vice versa, providing the necessary flexibility for an online game world. The Story Template system works for personal, single player stories as well as worldwide epics, and stories can be reused in a number of variations.
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EZCORP Acquires 15 Pawn Stores In San Antonio
AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EZCORP, Inc. (Nasdaq: EZPW) announced today that it has acquired fifteen pawn stores located in the greater San Antonio metropolitan area. The stores were part of the Money Mart chain of pawn stores, one of the larger and most profitable privately owned pawn store chains in the country. The purchase price was paid in cash.
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Eric Fosse, EZCORP's President of North American Operations, stated: " San Antonio is one of the most attractive metropolitan areas for the pawn business. We were already the number one pawn operator in the San Antonio area with 22 stores. This acquisition brings our total store count to 37, and clearly solidifies our leadership in this important geographic area."
Mr. Fosse continued: "Money Mart had established a very successful operation, with well-run stores in attractive, strategic locations. We believe we can further improve the profitability of these stores by leveraging our existing regional management and support infrastructure and introducing ancillary products to their pawn-only model. In short, we are very excited about the addition of these stores to our growing portfolio of pawn operations."
The acquisition was completed on November 4, 2011, and is expected to be immediately accretive to EZCORP's earnings. About EZCORP EZCORP is a leading provider of specialty consumer financial services. It provides collateralized non-recourse loans, commonly known as pawn loans, and a variety of short-term consumer loans, including payday loans, installment loans and auto title loans, or fee-based credit services to customers seeking loans. At its pawn stores, the company also sells merchandise, primarily collateral forfeited from its pawn lending operations. EZCORP operates more than 1,100 pawn, buy/sell and personal financial services stores in the U.S., Mexico and Canada. The company also has significant investments in Albemarle & Bond Holdings PLC (ABM.L), one of the U.K.'s largest pawnbroking businesses with over 160 full-line stores offering pawnbroking, jewelry retailing, gold buying and financial services; and in Cash Converters International Limited (CCV.L and CCV.AUS), which franchises and operates a worldwide network of over 600 stores that provide personal financial services and sell pre-owned merchandise. Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This announcement contains certain forward-looking statements regarding the Company's expected performance in future periods, including the anticipated performance of the newly acquired stores. These statements are based on the Company's current expectations. Actual results for future periods may differ materially from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements due to a number of uncertainties and other factors, including changing market conditions in the overall economy and the industry, consumer demand for the Company's services and merchandise and changes in the regulatory environment. For a discussion of these and other factors affecting the Company's business and prospects, see the Company's annual, quarterly and other reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.Check Out Our Best Services for Investors
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Knights will act as the party's tank, drawing enemy fire and blocking damage with his shield, while the Monk will get in close to pummel his opponents. The Black Mage casts damaging spells from afar, while the White Mage tends to her friends' wounds.
The intrepid explorers will set out to collect the world's crystals while battling Summons - AKA giant monsters from other Final Fantasy games. An image in Jump shows series mainstay Ifrit, appearing similar to - if not the same as - his form in Final Fantasy 10. This would make sense, given that Siliconera reports that monsters in the game span the Final Fantasy series' multiple generations.
Final Fantasy Explorers does not have a release date at this time, nor do we know if it's even coming stateside. So for now, let's all just set up a Tent and get a nice resting bonus, ok?
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Please share with us some of your non-martial arts background.
I've worked as a software engineer for 30 years, starting in NYC. I currently work from my home in Kingston, NJ, developing and supporting the telephone banking systems for hundreds of client banks. For 8 years, I regularly commuted to/from various NJ offices by bicycle, which was a rare and rewarding experience. My current activities include yoga and hiking. Interests include reading, astronomy, and history. I also enjoy watching and attending baseball games and car races.
Can you please speak to your first interest in Martial Arts?
My interest in Martial Arts started with its media exposure in the early '70s. I was also a boxing fan during the '70s and '80s.
How did you first hear about PAMA and what made you decide to join the academy? What also made you return after a hiatus from training?
I first joined PAMA in 1995 after discovering the Academy's full curriculum and taking a free class. I knew of the Academy's high standards and realistic approach to training, mostly by word of mouth. I initially trained in Muay Thai and Jun Fan.
Several years after I had left the Academy, I encountered Sifu Rick by chance one night and told him that a bad fall off my bicycle had resulted in my getting a prosthetic left elbow. I was moved by the genuine concern he showed for his former student. Sifu encouraged me to consider Kali training, as he has for other injured students much worse off than me. I was warmly welcomed at the next Academy Open House and started my Kali training the next week.
What are some of the benefits that you have experienced through the Martial Arts?
The major benefits I've experienced are self-confidence, an innate respect for others, patience, humility and an appreciation of the Academy and its superb teaching lineage. I also have come to appreciate the concept of 'embracing disappointment' as one's training progresses. It reminds me that setbacks are normal and inevitable and that there is no substitute for putting time and hard work into training. I feel that all martial arts classes taught at PAMA inherently build character.
What arts do you study and which are your favorites?
I currently study Kali and have started Silat classes. I truly enjoy Kali, as difficult as it can be.
It is fascinating how the smallest subtleties can greatly impact the effectiveness of a given technique.
How do you feel that cross training benefits you?
I'm looking forward to the empty hands training in Silat that 'overlaps' Kali techniques. I feel that empty hands against weapons is very realistic training for those situations where running away is not an option.
Unforeseen circumstances will dictate what techniques are best to use against real-life threats and well-rounded practitioners can react more intuitively.
What do you enjoy most about your training?
The challenge to improve and excel; self-respect and confidence gained from hard work; quality of teaching; camaraderie with instructors and fellow students.
I believe that blatant disrespect towards others stems from insecurity and is the polar opposite of the martial artist mindset.
Anything else additional you would like to add?
I want to express my sincere gratitude to Sifu Rick and the PAMA staff for their encouragement and excellent instruction. Thank you for getting me moving again.
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Congratulations to Spencer Stengle and Isaiah Warris, graduates of the 6-8 year old children's program, for receiving their first sashes in the older children's program. They both obtained their Orange Sashes. Also, Ethan Aquino, Alexandra Bell, Emily Minor, and Ethan Hamilton all passed their Green Sash tests and are now eligible for the Intermediate class. Welcome and great job everyone!
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- The 4 and 8 month tests for Jun Fan will be held on August 21. Please see an instructor for details and don't forget to sign up in the Pro Shop.
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While technical prowess and physical power are essential characteristics of a martial artist, true mastery of the art comes by cultivating one's inner strength. Here, Kenji Tokitsu-an authority on Japanese and Chinese combat arts and a respected karate teacher-shows how cultivating ki (life force) and understanding the principles of budo (the martial path of self-development) can make training in martial arts more meaningful, effective, and personally and spiritually rewarding.
Tokitsu emphasizes the mental aspects of martial arts practice including:
- The importance of ki development
- Seme, or capturing your opponent's mind
- Understanding ma, the spatial relationship in combat
Studying these concepts, he explains, gives martial artists the tools to train for a lifetime and at the very highest level. Tokitsu also gives a historical and cultural survey of budo, and explains how the Western view of budo training is different than the Japanese-a perspective rarely available to Western martial artists.
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The Steven Bradbury of Sovereign Wealth Funds
By Eric EllisMarch 18, 2012
Many nations sock money away for harder times. Some invest carefully, some cravenly. Others - like East Timor - just get lucky!
LONDON, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Dili.
Perhaps Timor-Leste's raffish capital doesn't have quite the 24/7 hubbub, the power suits and the Crackberry-obsession that mark the world's better-known financial centres. But for a few golden months, back in 2008-2009, the apprentice capitalists who modestly manage this nascent nation's sovereign wealth fund achieved what obscenely rewarded smarties elsewhere couldn't - they made money.
That's because Norway, Singapore, Abu Dhabi and China, which dominate the international sovereign wealth fund rankings, to which Australia's Future Fund aspires, found themselves long with struggling investments at precisely the wrong time - when the global financial system was melting down.
As banks were rescued by taxpayers, lest the entire system fail, shares of these too-big-to-fail giants of world finance plummeted and sometimes disappeared in ugly scenes the world is still paying for, pace the euro's never-ending crises. It left deep scars on the bottom line, and on the reputations of supposedly prudently managed SWFs in important places.
Much of that fiscal prudence occurred in Dili, in a land that hadn't been a nation for even 10 years. It was a nation which lacked any substantive economy to speak of. Set up at East Timor's 2002 independence, Dili's Petroleum Fund dutifully socked away rainy-day oil and gas revenues from the Timor Sea fields into boring US Treasury Bills, about the world's most conservative investment.
Meaningful diversification into racier investments such as shares required the near-unanimous support of Timor-Leste's unruly parliament. And anyone who'd spent five minutes in then difficult Dili knew that to be impossible. So as global banks were collapsing, the $6 billion Timor fund was receiving the Washington-guaranteed one to two per cent back from the T-bills - way better than the embarrassing 30 per cent haircuts grown-up SWFs were enduring. One fund board member with an eye on the Winter Olympics called it "Steven Bradbury economics."
Not all sovereign wealth stories read like Cinderella. These funds come in a range of shapes, sizes and successes, and all have their own complications and intrigues. With billions at their disposal, and many controlled by some of the world's least democratic regimes, the rise of SWFs raises compelling questions for the world economic order. Are these funds independent investment houses, separate from political influence? Or are they instruments of state control - nationalisation of economies by another means? Whatever they are, as the world economy sputters along, with investment capital in short supply, they are impossible to ignore.
A sovereign wealth fund is one of the first things a newly-independent nation sets up, in these heady days of enlightenment. But, as autocracy inevitably sets in - one thinks immediately of resource-rich Central Asia - it doesn't take long for them to become political footballs as covetous fingers reach for the till.
Sometimes SWFs are like Norway's, whose USD575 billion Government Pension Fund is a virtuous paragon of independent management and transparency. And sometimes they are more like Nauru's. This tiny Pacific nation blew its abundant superphosphate bounty in a miasma of failed 1970s schemes, like West End shows that flopped. Today, it's broke, which helps explain why it is desperate for "Pacific Solution"-led investment from Canberra.
From Kiribati to Kuwait and points in between, The Global Mail looks at how some have been managed, used and abused.
AGENT OF FOREIGN POLICY? Singapore has two sovereign funds, Temasek Holdings and the Government Investment Corp, with a combined estimated USD500 billion in assets. The Lee family is involved with both; Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong chairs the GIC, recently taking over from his father, Lee Kuan Yew, who remains a 'senior advisor'. PM Lee's wife, Ho Ching, runs Temasek, where a principal asset is Singapore Telecom, run for years by her brother-in-law, another Lee. Try as Temasek might to portray itself as an "Asian investment company", it can't escape the fact that it is 100 per cent owned by the finance ministry, which was run for a long time by PM Lee. The GIC invests Singapore's foreign reserves, Temasek holds the state's stake in strategic assets - Singapore Airlines, arms-maker Singapore Technologies, DBS Bank. Temasek-related investments have helped keep Burma's junta afloat.
National interest rules and that's led to big problems for Singapore Inc: a cosy 2006 deal in Bangkok with then Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra precipitated a coup that ousted him, ushering years of red-yellow turmoil that's still simmering. India and China allow Singapore government investment, but only to a point. In neighbours Malaysia and Indonesia, where Singapore isn't much liked, any attempt at investment invariably ends in a spat as Singapore trips up at the intersection of politics and business interests — often the same thing. Free marketeers have called Singapore government investment the re-nationalisation of their private economy. And at home, Temasek's domination of Singapore's domestic economy means few private players dare to compete with it, so it can be an impediment to a fully-flowering economy.
Size is another issue. The Singapore SWFs are so huge in Asia that it's inevitable the types of assets they're interested investing in are strategic; airlines, the financial sector, telcos. Witness the Temasek-owned Singapore stock exchange's failed bid to buy the Australian Securities Exchange in 2011, or how it waded into Indonesian telcos in the early 2000s when Indonesia was wobbling under an Islamist resurgence and an uncertain democracy. Many Indonesians posited that Singapore just wanted to listen in on their phone calls. Ultimately though, in a tiny country ruled by the politics of fear, it's all about maintaining Singapore's viability, a city-state without any natural resource except its harbour and an industrious people.
ECONOMY-IN-EXILE: In 1990, Saddam Hussein's army waltzed into Kuwait and claimed it as Iraq's "19th province". That was tricky for those in Kuwait, but it didn't mean the end of Kuwait as an economic entity. Because the Kuwait Investment Authority kept functioning in exile from London, investing all those petrodollars, keeping the Al-Sabahs in Rolls-Royces and flash hotels, and helping fund the US-led war that ousted Saddam five months later. Founded in 1953 to manage the surplus from tiny Kuwait's oil bounty, the KIA was the original, modern SWF. Today, its USD300 billion asset base is the world's sixth biggest, with major stakes in companies such as BP - some feat for a country of just four million, and most of them not Kuwaitis.
LOOK AT ME: Qataris don't really need to get out of bed every day to go to work. Foreigners do that for them, including investing the USD200 to 300 million this tiny Gulf peninsula earns every day from the oil and gas that spouts from beneath its sands and territorial waters, firing the stoves and heaters of Europe. Qataris are the world's richest people and its sovereign fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, is making sure they stay that way. Europe is Qatar's preferred locale, in effect investing the money Europeans pay for Qatar's gas back in the continent. Qatar owns London's tallest building, Harrods department store, large portions of Canary Wharf and the area around Trafalgar Square, myriad football clubs from Malaga to Paris Saint-Germain and, for a time, Miramax Movies as well. Oh, and did we mention how it's financed a few uprisings and a war in these recent Arab Spring times? Still, the democracy it's helping others to flower hasn't yet bloomed in Qatar itself, ruled benevolently and autocratically by the absurdly wealthy Al-Thani dynasty.
MY OWN PRIVATE ATM: One of the wars Qatar financed was in Libya, to knock out Muammar Gaddafi. It succeeded, bloodily, and today Gaddafi's successors are arm-wrestling what to do about or, more to the point, where to find all of the supposed USD60 to 70 billion in assets held by his oil-fuelled Libyan Investment Authority. If the stuff found in the homes of the family is any indication, the coffers of pornographers, drug-dealers and whisky producers would be a start. The new Libyan authorities believe billions of LIA cash were stolen by the family. A Paris magazine last week reported that 50 million euro of Gaddafi's cash ended up in the re-election fund of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Before he was lynched last October, Gaddafi's Libya boasted stakes in auto giant Fiat, various London hotels, vast tracts of Andalucian forestland, the now defunct Dutch-Belgian bank Fortis, Italy's Juventus football club and Pearson plc, owner of London's Financial Times newspaper. Last year, Tripoli's interim authorities, seeking to release Libyan offshore assets frozen when Gaddafi started killing his citizens, said more than USD3 billion was missing from the fund. Is that all?
SOVEREIGN HEDGE FUND: China has foreign reserves amounting to a staggering USD3 trillion, and then some. It's the world's biggest cash pile, and it's managed by the Beijing-based State Administration of Foreign Exchange, or SAFE. It's a pile of cash so large, and so opaque, that everyone subject to it (read all and any of us whose livelihoods are subject to the on going integrity of the international financial system) hope and assume it's appropriately managed by people most of us have never heard of, China hardly being Norway when it comes to transparency.
But it's also so big that China can, if it so desires, manipulate and profit from any market it chooses, simply by doing something, anything, as a hedge fund might aspire, to guarantee profits. Economists have likened this power to the tactics of the notorious Bunker Hunt brothers, who attempted to corner the world's silver market in the 1970s and made billions doing so. China could corner any market it liked.
Most of China's reserves are US dollar-denominated. But imagine if it telegraphed its accumulating Euro or Australian dollars with vigour, or took a stake in a major world bank or oil company. Those markets would come alive as lemmings piled in after them. Prices would soar.
IT'S ALL RELATIVE: Founded in the 1950s to manage its phosphate revenues, Kiribati's Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund has about USD500 million. That doesn't sound like much but Kiribati only has about 100,000 people. That's USD5,000 invested for every i-Kiribati, as the locals are known. Now compare that to Australia's Future Fund - USD73 billion divided by 22 million equals USD3,318. Who's better off?
Readers have noted the inappropriateness of comparing Australia's Future Fund and Kiribati's sovereign wealth fund. The reference was intended to highlight that even tiny Kiribati, where the biggest employer is the civil service, has such a fund, while referencing the debate about extending the Australian fund beyond its founding precepts.


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US oilmen praise workers at opening of firm's new Barrow plant
Last updated at 15:52, Thursday, 11 June 2009
BOSSES of an American group which has invested more than £6m in a Furness firm visited Barrow for the opening of its new factory.
Houston-based Gyrodata, which specialises in technology for precision drilling of oil and gas wells, says the skilled engineering jobs at the factory could rise from the current 30 to around 45 within three to five years.
The Furness subsidiary has just relocated from a smaller plant at Greenodd to enable expansion,
It makes intelligent "rotary steerable drills" with onboard electronics and navigation equipment for the worldwide oil and gas industry.
The intelligent drills are described as being like an underground version of a cruise missile.
They are able to determine where they are underground and which direction to go in. They can reach depths of up to three miles and can be steered manually as well. The drills were the first of their kind in the world when they were invented by former Barrow shipyard designer, Peter Allen, more than 20 years ago.
He is the engineering director of the Barrow subsidiary Gyrodata Drilling Automation.
Until 2002 it was the combined Furness and Cambridge-based company, Cambridge Drilling and Automation.
Barrow Borough Council's deputy mayor, Councillor Rory McClure, snipped a red tape on Tuesday to declare the refurbished former Telemeter plant on Park Road open.
Mr Allen said when Gyrodata bought it, the company had built just two of its steerable drills.
Now it has 50 systems which are used around the world, on land and offshore, sometimes to reach wells which otherwise would be left untapped.
Gyrodata's American chairman Steve Klopp said a rival US firm showed interest in buying the Furness firm, but would have taken the hardware back to the US and got rid of employees.
However, Mr Klopp said that wasn't Gyrodata's style. He said: "We invest in people, we don't invest in gadgets. If you employ creative people and get them working together you never know what they are going to come up with.
"They will solve problems you never knew you had. If you just take the equipment you are investing in maybe yesterday's market."
He praised Peter Allen and his Furness staff.
He said: "These are incredibly great people. When you get them working together they come up with the most amazing solutions."
He added that precision engineering skills are hard to find but said: "This area happens to have some highly skilled people that are available.
"We are very excited about it (the new factory) and we are very excited about this area and these people."
He added: "Peter Allen designed an entire industry. Quite frankly, I think he has been under appreciated."
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How come it always seems to be overseas investors that recognise and appreciate the talent and commercial possibilities sitting right under our noses? In the oil & gas sector, this technology is vital to exploration and production in ever-more difficult to reach deposits in hostile environments. We ought to be proud of people like Peter Allen.


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Plant sale proves popular
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It's been nearly 20 years, but Tatum Sprague Kimzey remembers it well.
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It's been nearly 20 years, but Tatum Sprague Kimzey remembers it well.
Knowing she would be involved in FFA in high school, Kimzey, then an eighth-grader, was excited when she saw a new greenhouse being built on the southeast end of Hays High School in the mid-1990s.
Funny thing is, she never spent much time there once she reached high school.
"I didn't have a big interest in plants then," she said. "So I never took horticulture. I think it's the only ag class I never took in high school. ... Wish I would have, though."
Now married and a mother of two, Kimzey said she plants a big garden each year. So she makes sure to make a trip to the annual FFA plant sale at HHS.
"I try to come back and support them, and she loves it here," Kimzey said in reference to her 4-year-old daughter, Keeli.
Keeli was busy picking flowers on the second day of the 2013 sale Wednesday.
"They will probably be pink, can you tell?" Kimzey said while glancing toward her oldest daughter, decked out in pink jacket, pink skirt and pink shoes.
The Kimzey children -- including 1-year-old Karci -- were two youngsters who accompanied parents or grandparents to the sale.
Third-grader Carter Schmidt was tagging along with his grandmother, Sue Schmidt, who was having trouble finding tomato plants at first. That's because most of them had been bought by then, and those remaining all were on just one table.
"I hadn't realized they did this, but I heard about it last year and came out," Sue Schmidt said.
FFA adviser Curt Vajnar said this year's horticulture class had planted approximately 12,000 plants, including a selection of vegetables, flowers and hanging plants -- indoor and outdoor varieties.
The annual sale helps fund FFA activities throughout the year at Hays High. Any leftover plants after the three-day sale are used for a community service project.
"We take some to elementary schools and nursing homes," Vajnar said.
The sale, which has grown in popularity through the years, started Tuesday. In spite of snow in April, approximately 50 people came out to get first choice. Wednesday's sunny conditions brought even more people. The last day of the sale is Friday, from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the school.


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