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ROBERT OWEN (1771-1858), philanthropist, humanitarian,
utopian, has sometimes been called "the Father of Eng-
lish Socialism." His social experiment at New Lanark,
Scotland, begun in 18oo, was his most successful enterprise 'and
attracted wide attention. Considering the United States a fruitful
field for further experimentation, he transferred his activities to
this country and became associated with numerous projects, the
best known being that at New Harmony, Indiana. Not so well
known is the plan Owen formulated in 1828 for Coahuila and
Texas, a province of the Republic of Mexico.
The origin of Owen's Texas plan is difficult to determine, but
evidently he had become interested in Texas because of a contact
he had established with Benjamin R. Milam and Arthur G.
Wavell, who had obtained a grant in 1826 to settle a colony of
Europeans in the border reserve between the Red River and the
Sulphur Fork. Soon after Owen returned to England in 1828,
he received a letter written by Milam from London, dated Au-
gust 30,2 stating that he and Wavell were prepared to offer valu-
able allotments on suitable terms, if Owen would care to consider
the proposal.3
Owen's plan, published in Philadelphia in 1828, was called
Memorial to the Mexican Republic and to the Government of
Coahuila and Texas.4 Only a few copies of the Memorial were
published, and as a result, an interesting side light of Texas his-
tory has passed almost unnoticed. A copy of the Memorial was
found, however, in the Archives of The University of Texas, Wil-
liam R. Manning Transcripts from the Archivo General de la
1Eugene C. Barker, The Life of Stephen F. Austin (Nashville, 1925), 292n.
2Milam, who had been in Mexico on business matters, left there for Europe in
May, 1828. The exact dcate on which he arrived in England cannot be determined.
See Lois Garver, "Benjamin Rush Milam," Southwestern Historical Quarterly,
XXXVIII (October-December, 1934), lo9, Iion.
8Frank Podmore, Robert Owen: A Biography (2 vols.; London, 1906), I, 387.
4lbid., II, 658. The date of publication is given incorrectly as 1827 in National
Library of,Wales, A Bibliography of Robert Owen, the Socialist (London, 1925), 5.
Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 52, July 1948 - April, 1949. Austin, Texas. The Portal to Texas History. http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101121/. Accessed May 28, 2016.


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the 'problem' with theology
I have been a student of Christian theology my entire adult life. I have tested the waters or swum in many diverse Christian traditions from Orthodoxy, Presbyterianism/Congregationalism, Lutheranism, and Methodism/Wesleyanism. I have well-worn, dog-eared, note-filled theology books from all those great traditions on my bookshelves. Here's the thing none of the most staunch devotees will typically admit:
In an effort to create 'systems' that are logical and comprehensible to man, all of these systems have nearly insurmountable problems.
So, do we throw our hands up and walk away, cynical of any systematic approaches to Christianity? Do we take upon ourselves the impossible position of "no creed but the bible" or something similar? No and no.
Here is what we must do...
Above all, we must recognize the difficulty in studying our infinite and wonderful God and approach our studies and those of others with the utmost humility. We must be aware the difficulties in our own theological paradigms and be charitable in our discussions with those who hold differing views. We must realize (to paraphrase Roger Olsen) that we ultimate decide on a theological system (consciously or not) because we can more easily live with its problems than we can with those of another system. Finally, we must be aware the r considerable common ground with share with other orthodox Christians and admit that that which unites us is far greater than that which divides us.


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Miss, What's My Name? New teacher identity as a question of reciprocal ontological security
Version of Record online: 14 JUL 2010
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00642.x
© 2010 The Authors. Educational Philosophy and Theory © 2010 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia
Educational Philosophy and Theory
Volume 44, Issue 2, pages 196–211, March 2012
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MCNALLY, J. and BLAKE, A. (2012), Miss, What's My Name? New teacher identity as a question of reciprocal ontological security. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 44: 196–211. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-5812.2010.00642.x
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- new teacher;
- children;
- grounded theory;
- relational;
- ontology;
- identity
This paper extends the dialogue of educational philosophy to the experience of beginners entering the teaching profession. Rather than impose the ideas of any specific philosopher or theorist, or indeed official standard, the exploration presented here owes its origins to phenomenology and the use of grounded theory. Working from a narrative data base and focussing on the knowing of name in the first instance, the authors develop their emergent ideas on self and identity in relation to children taught, through connection to a wider literature that includes reference to Giddens, Illeris, Deleuze and Heidegger, for example. The paper is thus also an exercise in suggesting that research on practice by academics working in professional education, who are non-philosophers, can lead to constructive and relevant engagement with philosophy in developing theory from and about about practice, even though the approach, in the initial stages, may well be serendipitous and eclectic in nature.


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'Shutdown' day perfect chance to raise issue
WASHINGTON - Federal correctional officers from around the country had planned to descend on the nation's capitol this week to lobby Congress for more funding prior to knowing there would be a government shutdown.
While the shutdown was getting most of the attention Tuesday, union officials representing the prison workers say the two issues blend together quite well.
Congress cannot seem to get anything done, leaving constituents and government workers in peril, they said.
"We couldn't be here on a better day," said Eric Young, the new national president of Council of Prisons Local after a press event Tuesday morning with families of slain correctional officers, including the late Eric Williams of Nanticoke. "We're going to be here all week lobbying the (Capitol) Hill."
After Tuesday's event at the National Press Club, many of the unionized prison members, including some from United States Penitentiary at Canaan where Williams worked, met with several congressmen and senators for a rally at the Capitol.
While they have been complaining about a serious lack of funding, they are now raising another concern: having to work during the government shutdown without pay.
Some unions members recalled the 1995 shutdown in which correctional officers were not paid for nearly a month.
"These men and women are going into prisons today, all over the country, they are going to protect the American public, put their own lives on the line, but they are not guaranteed to receive pay," said J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the parent union of the Council of Prison Locals.
"They deserve better, a whole lot better."
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In trying to decide if I had frequented this Inn in my youth I tried a search in Google and noticed..
In the late 19th century, James & Lister Lea became prolific designers of public houses in Birmingham. They designed The Woodman (1896-7)[53], the Swan and Mitre (1899)[54], The White Swan (1900)[55], The Anchor Inn (1901)[56] and The City Tavern (1901).[57] Many of these pubs are now listed buildings and were built of red brick and terracotta.[58]
It could easily be a listed building, and they don't make them like this any more do thay!
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The World: Tunnel Vision; Watching Iraq, Seeing Vietnam
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''I think we were always working under the assumption that if you just keep hitting the enemy hard enough he would quit,'' a retired Army general, Douglas Kinnard, recalls in ''Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered From All Sides,'' a book of American and Vietnamese reminiscences by Christian G. Appy. ''But the assumption was totally wrong. The enemy was not going to quit, no matter how good our statistics looked.''
In the last phase of the war, President Richard Nixon sought a way out in ''Vietnamization'' -- turning the war gradually back to the South Vietnamese and withdrawing the last combat troops in 1973, after a final burst of bombing stopped the North Vietnamese temporarily. But in the end, Vietnamization failed because the South's military still needed American air power to prop it up. Congress and the Ford administration decided enough was enough and let Saigon collapse when the Communists resumed their assault in 1975.
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Homebuilders are in deep trouble; let's push them further underwater—it will help support the prices of existing houses by reducing the supply of new ones. /s
"Subcontractor" Did they miss that edition of Sesame Street?
It makes sense. They haven't created enough strife in the home-building market yet.
Guitars, milk sellers, farms, FFL's, jet makers, Las Vegas, insurance companies...
What's missing from the list of hated groups?
Let me guess...they'll shake down Perry Homes while they're at it. (Big donor for Gov. Perry.)
Just when you think the thugs can do no more harm...
It's like the economy was a crowd of people, and they sprayed it with upteen rounds from AK-47s. Now they're walking around with a .45, looking for any still twitching bodies, so they can finish them off with a bullet to the back of the brain.
Non taxpaying societal leeches .
Record labels, Chicken & Waffle houses, etc...
This is being driven by the labor unions.
I am pretty sure that the real story is that the Labor Department is trying to force these homebuilders to only use union workers.
If they were able to get away with paying their workers below minimum wage then that's the real reason.
Oh. I forgot. There's no such thing as an "illegal person".
This bunch maked Nixons enemy list look like an invitation list for a Garden Party.
This is a REAL enemies list.
While they are investigating the Homebuilders will they be DEPORTING all the ILLEGALS they hire.
I am pretty sure that you are right.
Chilling analogy.
If Pulte is forced to use union labor they will not be able to compete in the $700K or less market.
That is the post of the day. That is exactly what it is like.
They are like the mob, shaking down who they can in the neighborhood for more money, knocking on more doors, kicking in more doors, and bullying who they can into doing just what they want. The Obama Mob.
They are conducting a war against the industrial revolution.
They are conducting a war against the industrial revolution.
In Texas, the builders hire illegals. Most have never wielded a hammer, hooked up a pipe or crossed a wire before crossing the border. It is pitiful.
Boy, did you hit the nail on the head with that.
Pulte is a big name. Pulling Pulte under would be a big feather in the union's cap.
Ugly stuff.
In our area we are already starting to see the effects of all the illegal alien hiring in homes built just 5-7 years ago.
Walls and ceilings are starting to buckle and sag, walls are out of line, plumbing is leaking, wiring is not up to code, drain systems are not vented properly, masonry is cracking - all the things you might expect for a labor force that knew nothing about construction before they were hired by greedy developers and builders.
Our late friend Tony Snow used to castigate opposing Freepers by challenging them here and on his radio show about whether they would rather pay $400000 for their homes or $300000 if they used illegal labor.
We are now seeing the answer to that question as that saved $100000 is being spent to fix the problems caused by the incompetent illegal alien labor that the Bush-Rove people and all the Democrats say we can't live without.
looks like they are going after any thing that creates jobs, or is medical in nature.
local drug stores...ours has been audited 3 times in the past 6 months by the gov't lap dog Express Scripts that covers Medicare and Tricare For Life which is the retired Military's secondary health ins. Both are administered out of the same office. Express Scripts just bought Medco, a scandal plagued company for $29 Billion. And they offered Walgreen's such a low reimbursement rate that as of Jan Walgreen's will not take Tricare ins. This will be repeated as each new chain's contract comes due. They want to be the sole supplier.
They are a witch to deal with, you don't know from order to order which brand your med will be, or from what country, and you insulin could sit in a hot mail box all day.
Considering so many businesses are hanging by a thread or have already thrown in the towel and closed, this idiotic agency has to find something to justify their government paid salaries. Note to the idiots- you put enough businesses out of business and soon you will lose your job. No private money equals no government money. The government neither makes nor creates anything. They are takers and redistributors.
That's "looters" for short.
Dems are just tying to 'soften' up some of the big boys - it'll make shaking down the others easier... Elections cost money after all.../s
I DOUBT Pulte and KB are using illegals....HOWEVER, some of the subs might be.....
Bingo... I would guess about 98% if not more.
...Better the Labor Dept. than the CIA sanitizing squad...
Yes, the "subs" are so they are once removed from the criminal enterprise.
The only housing built by unions is public housing. Tenants destroy it. Unions demolish it. Then union build it again. All in 15-20 years. It's a keynesian cycle and Obama's definition of productivity.
Well,they won't be going after GE or Warrne Buffett.
Lawyers? Colleges?
This makes me happy that I own a 1950s ranch house that's built like a tank. Where I live McMansions are everywhere and after only six or seven years some of them are falling apart.
"Guitars, milk sellers, farms, FFLs, jet makers, Las Vegas, insurance companies..."
"other targets in the probe include the hotel and restaurant industries."
Looks like they are going after people who hire wetbacks.
Then they are going to go after contract labor.
Rust never sleeps.
"No matter how you got here or how long you plan to stay, you have certain rights. You have the right to be safe and in a healthy workplace and the right to a legal wage... [This is part of] our shared commitment to protect the labor rights of migrant workers.
Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
The builder, Pulte,hires the sub contractor who in turn hires his workers to do the job. Pulte's responsibility is to see that the sub is legal and the subs responsibility is to hire legally documented workers.
Trust me when I tell you there are as many problems with so called "custom" home builders as there is with the corporate home builders.
New homes are not being built.
Construction workers are unemployed.
Unemployment makes Obama look bad.
Thou Shalt NOT make Obama look bad.
See "Solyndra."
From the article....."Labor Department spokesman Carl Fillichio said other targets in the probe include the hotel and restaurant industries."
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This was taken earlier this year by a super nice photographer named Carolina! Her company is marked on the photo as AmazingYouPhotography. Also, I apologize for the horrible photoshop that I did on the hair - I really need to take some classes on that.
You can be her understudy!
x 1000 truly awesome cos!
Thank you very much!!!
You look absolutely gorgeous and make a perfect Baby Doll, it's a superb cosplay and a fantastic photo.
One of my fave pics of you <3
I wouldn't have really noticed any photoshop on the hair, but it's not something I usually look at when checking out a costume.
I'm glad it's not very noticeable!!! I should really take a proper course to learn how to use photoshop though
I can always help you ^^
When I took a photoshop class, I learn absolutely nothing I actually failed it before it was so boring.
oh seriously??? that's unfortunate
Nah, the teacher only focused on how to use the select tool, and insanely basic stuff like that so I'd get bored and leave early When I started teaching myself, I learned more than my teacher knew in a year.
oh no!!! D: that sounds dumb. How did you teach yourself?
A lot of tutorials. I'd wanna do something, so I'd watch a tutorial online, and then try to use it a lot until I understood it perfectly. It took awhile, but it's given me a solid foundation on all Adobe products which transferred over to Illustrator, Dreamweaver and Flash.
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This season McFadden has remained healthy but his production has taken a nose dive. Some people wonder if his dip in production is due to offensive coordinator Greg Knapp's zone blocking scheme.
Maybe McFadden is just having a bad season. Whatever it may be, the Raiders need to help him get back on track because he's the only chance they have at competing.


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Almost every week, a new infrastructure project is announced in Latin America. Roads, wind farms, hydroelectric dams, rapid transit systems, water and sanitation plants, you name it. How many of these become a reality? Sadly, only a few. The reason: while the region's ambitions and needs are vast, government budgets are tight (falling commodity prices such as soy and oil don't help) and the private sector is not playing an important enough role in these projects.
Latin America invests roughly 2 to 3 per cent of its gross domestic product in infrastructure. We need at least double that to reach the region's infrastructure goals. Part of the solution lies in finding new and better ways to promote private sector participation. There are vast sources of private funding to be leveraged, not to mention technical and managerial expertise. By some accounts, pension funds, an essential source of domestic savings in Latin America, are investing only 1 per cent of their portfolios in infrastructure around the world. Similarly, only 2 per cent of global insurers' assets are allocated toward infrastructure. Read more


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Alternate vaccination schedule
Yes, but I don't really have a pre-developed schedule. I won't start before six months and I only get one shot per visit. I worked a schedule out with the ped.
I disagree that Maryrose is being smart. I think that's very risky, our LOs aren't protected from diseases until they're vaccinated from them. Why would you wait until 6 months to protect them from something when you could do so at 2 months?
After a lot of talks with my pediatrician (who actually is VERY knowledgable on the subject which honestly is the main reason we chose him bc vaccinations terrify me), we have decided that we WILL start vaccinating at 2 months with the shots that are the most crucial. I agree that it's way too risky to NOT give the meningitis and dtap (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) shots - especially in the winter - because they can cause the most damage to little babies. There is NO form of the dtap given in the US that contains only pertussis (whooping cough), but that shot has been around since before we were born and unfortunately, whooping cough is coming back very strong over the past few years.....
We will be doing meningitis at 2 months, and the dtap at 10 weeks, and we will be following Dr. Sears alternate schedule (getting only the shots that are most crucial with minimal risk).
Honestly, I'd suggest that you research each shot and each disease to see which could be the scenarios you would not be able to live with (ie: polio... We all know that can cause paralysis... Although this is no longer super prevalent, we still could not live with ourselves if our son caught it bc we didn't think it was an important vaccination).
My suggestion is to get Dr. Sears book (called 'the Vaccine Book') and do your research. It's such an incredibly important decision. Make sure you're informed about what's going into your lo's body.
Also..... When you DO get vaccines, do NOT give your child Tylenol after. A fever is good unless it's too high or is increasing rapidly. Why Tylenol or acetaminophen is bad is because it stays in the liver for up to three weeks and shuts down your body's ability to make glutathione which is essential for ridding the body of toxins. When getting vaccines you are also getting toxins such as aluminum, formaldehyde, ploysorbate 80, etc. So, if Tylenol is taken, those toxins cannot be excreted and handled by the body.
Like I said.... Do your research - It will absolutely be worth it because you'll be making the best decisions YOU feel are necessary for YOUR child.
I'm not getting into a vaccine debate here. But I will say that I think I am being pretty smart by doing a ton of my own research and making the decision that is best for my children rather than just following the crowd like a lemming. My child is already very protected from disease by being breastfed and being at home with me... not to mention the fact that most of the disease they are vaccinated against aren't even around hardly at all anymore. Most people don't realize that a majority of the vaccines your baby gets aren't really to protect your baby as an individual, because their risk of most of them is almost nonexistent, but rather to try to eradicate the disease from society as a whole.
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Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.
NEW YORK — Citing a shortage of priests who can perform the rite, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are holding a conference on how to conduct exorcisms.
The two-day training, which ends Saturday in Baltimore, is to outline the scriptural basis of evil, instruct clergy on evaluating whether a person is truly possessed and review the prayers and rituals that comprise an exorcism. Among the speakers will be Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, archbishop of Galveston-Houston, Texas, and a priest-assistant to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.
"Learning the liturgical rite is not difficult," DiNardo said in a phone interview before the conference, which is open to clergy only. "The problem is the discernment that the exorcist needs before he would ever attempt the rite."
More than 50 bishops and 60 priests signed up to attend, according to Catholic News Service, which first reported the event. The conference was scheduled for just ahead of the fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which starts Monday in Baltimore.
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Skepticism about the rite persists within the American church. Organizers of the event are keenly aware of the ridicule that can accompany discussion of the subject. Exorcists in U.S. dioceses keep a very low profile.
In 1999, the church updated the Rite of Exorcism, cautioning that "all must be done to avoid the perception that exorcism is magic or superstition."
The practice is much more accepted by Catholics in parts of Europe and elsewhere overseas. Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz, longtime private secretary to Pope John Paul II, revealed a few years after the pontiff's death that John Paul had performed an exorcism on a woman who was brought into the Vatican writhing and screaming in what Dziwisz said was a case of possession by the devil.
Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., who organized the conference, said only a few U.S. priests have enough training and knowledge to perform an exorcism. Dioceses nationwide have been relying solely on these clergy, who have been overwhelmed with requests to evaluate claims.
The Rev. James LeBar, the official exorcist of the Archdiocese of New York under the late Cardinal John O'Connor, had faced a similar level of demand, traveling the country in response to the many requests for his expertise.
The rite is performed rarely. Neal Lozano, a Catholic writer and author of the book "Unbound: A Practical Guide to Deliverance" about combating evil spirits, said he knows an exorcist in the church who receives about 400 inquiries a year, but determines that of that number, two or three cases require an exorcism.
No one knows why more people seem to be seeking the rite. Paprocki said one reason could be the growing interest among Americans in exploring general spirituality, as opposed to participating in organized religion.
Exorcism has deep roots in Christianity. The New Testament contains several examples of Jesus casting out evil spirits from people, and the church notes these acts in the Catholic catechism.
Whether or not individual Catholics realize it, each undergoes what the church calls a minor exorcism at baptism that includes prayers renouncing Satan and seeking freedom from original sin.
A major exorcism can be performed only by a priest with the permission of his bishop after a thorough evaluation, including consulting with physicians or psychiatrists to rule out any psychological or physical illness behind the person's behavior.
The full exorcism is held in private and includes sprinkling holy water, reciting Psalms, reading aloud from the Gospel, laying on of hands and reciting the Lord's Prayer. Some adaptations are allowed for different circumstances.
The exorcist can invoke the Holy Spirit and blow in the face of the possessed person, trace the sign of the cross on the person's forehead and command the devil to leave.


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No work today so i decided on a box of 12/13 SP Game Used NOT BAD !! all FT/FS
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DICE has released a trailer explaining the Rent a Server feature patched into Battlefield 3 recently.
Rent a Server allows you to, erm, rent a server for a period of time, allowing you to fiddle with playlists, game modes, settings, vehicles and all sorts. It's the first time for a console. The service will cost you though. For a single day it's £1.19, a week is £5.49, it's £19.99 for a month and £47.99 for 90 days. Ouch.
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Tangerine Wow!- This powdered oil based color is approved for soaps and lotions. Unlike some neon colors on the marketplace, it is FDA approved for skincare, soap and lip products. As a fun little twist, it does glow under a black neon light. This colorant is not approved for eye make up.Safe for use in lip balms
Instructions for Use: To use in melt and pour, disperse and mix well in liquid glycerin (similar to working with a pigment). We found that our Mini Mixer makes quick work of the dispersing! While this is a non-bleeding colorant, if you add too much to your soap it can migrate into other colors in the soap design or stain washcloths. We recommend starting out at 1/16th to 1/8th teaspoon per pound for melt & pour soaps. For cold process, add 1 teaspoon of pigment to 1 tablespoon of a carrier oil like Sweet Almond or Olive Oil and mix well using a mini mixer. For more information on pigments in soap, check out this blog post.
To create the color in the sample of cold process soap above, we used 5 teaspoons of colorant (about 0.15 oz before dispersing) in 1 pound of soap.
As of September 5, 2014, this product is using a slightly different formulation. You may need to add a little more to get the same color, but it still looks great.
Ingredients:Botanical Name: Bis(Glycidoxyphenyl)propane / Bisaminomethylnorbornane copolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide (CI 77002), D&C Yellow No. 10 (CI 47005), D&C Red No. 28 (CI 45410), D&C Red No. 22 (CI 45380)Common Name: Bis(Glycidoxyphenyl)propane / Bisaminomethylnorbornane copolymer, Aluminum Hydroxide, Yellow 10, Red 28, Red 22
This color makes a beautiful pink, but I really wanted orange. Wish I could fix this problem, but seems to be the colorants actual color is just not orange.
This is a beautiful color but definitely NOT the color of a tangerine. It's coral. I checked two different computer screens as well as my iphone to see if I just looked at it wrong. Unfortunately, when holding the actual container up to the website's photo, the product I received is very pink in comparison. Still pretty but I was hoping to use it in a pumpkin themed soap.
I agree with another reviewer who mentioned that the orange is more of a coral-y orange than tangerine, but it's still a beautiful color. This is the first colorant I've played with, and outside of the slight color discrepancy (probably caused by my laptop screen settings), I love this product. It's so easy to use and it disperses perfectly. This, and I assume the other powder-based colorants, are great even for newcomers to soap making; assuming your batch is made well and you don't try to mix it in at a thick trace, it's almost fool-proof. I had avoided working with colors despite making several batches over the past year, but this has me sold.
Can't wait to soap with this color, however both the brick red & this color 'leaked' in shipping. or rather the fine powder found it's way outside the Jar just a bit. I love that it comes in a jar, wasn't sure if it would.
This makes a great color in my CP soap. Like others said you have to disperse it in oil but I do that with all my micas and colorants anyway so it's not a big deal to me. I've found that with the colorants you don't need a lot to get a nice color so they last a while.
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Last night, ABC unveiled its Top Chef-meets-the Voice mash-up, The Taste, filled to the brim with close-ups of quavering hands over the yes/no buttons of destiny and pre-decision anonymity for the contenders. Anyway, the concept is that the judges — Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Ludo Lefebvre, and the other guy — build a team of cooks that they choose based on blind tastes of various dishes. But reviews say the premiere


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WASHINGTON - Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens is due in federal court to answer charges that he lied about hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts from an oil services contractor.
Stevens is the Senate's longest-serving Republican and has been a dominant figure in congressional politics for a generation. After being indicted on seven counts of lying on Senate disclosure forms, Stevens was ordered to surrender in federal court and appear before a judge Thursday.
Stevens has said little about the corruption investigation that has dogged him for more than a year. Thursday's court hearing was expected to be no different. He was expected to plead not guilty, but initial appearances are usually brief affairs.
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Skip to comments.Montana Highway Patrol Upgrades (downgrades) firepower (switched from M14 to AR15)
Posted on 04/10/2008 6:59:04 PM PDT by LSUfan
Crack, crack, crack.
Three Montana Highway Patrol troopers, firing from the prone position, sent 15 rounds from their new rifles downrange in quick succession recently.
The .223 caliber bullets punched easily through the plywood and paper targets, kicking up clods of dirt from the berm behind the range at Glacier Park International Airport.
After officers from the sixth district-which covers Flathead, Lake, and Lincoln counties-qualify with the new weapon, every trooper in Montana will be riding shotgun with a semiautomatic AR-15 rifle.
"They're just all-around more versatile for our day and age," Trooper Jerril Ren, one of the patrol's firearms instructors, said of the AR-15. "For the changing times, I think it's just more appropriate."
The AR-15s are replacing the patrol's old M-14 rifles, which normally are carried in a patrol car's trunk. After qualification, troopers will be required to carry their assault rifles mounted between the front seats of their vehicles.
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20 rounds of 7.62 vs. 20 rounds of 5.56? Give me 7.62.
Now... can we buy the surplus M-14s now?
Lame article. Wonder if they'll give me their old M14s?
Neat. I got a .22 rimfire autoload that will do the same thing.
I wonder when they will upgrade to a 10-22.
Why buy a weapon that will merely "wound" criminals when the police should have weapons that will KILL the criminals?
The idiots who mass purchase these target practice M-4s have clearly learned nothing from the absolute ineffectiveness of 5.56 as told by the veterans in the book "Black Hawk Down."
They will probably torch cut them : (
Yeah, I can see that... but receivers are cheaper than whole rifles, so if they torch the receivers, maybe we can get some parts kits.
The only justification for going AR-15 would be to carry more rounds into a battle as opposed to the additional weight of the M14 and .308 rounds. In a urban environment that would not be a significant factor. Seems to me they gave up a better firearm for some other reason. Go figure. Yea Tigers LSUfan. If I can buy one of the M14's please let me know. I covet my M1A'a but I would love to have the real thing.
Most likely they will be turned in to the BATF, and they want the complete weapon. No parts missing.
True, they could auction off the complete parts kit minus the mags and trashed receiver and make mucho cash, or at least let us have the bolts and gas parts. : )
During the infamous North Hollywood bank robbery by the body-armored AK 47 toting bady guys, the cops didn't have enough firepower and had to go to a local gun store to get high-powered rifles........ they didn't grab .223's.
Or how about these?
No joke.
I'd like a nice Garand, too.
.308 there's no substitute...
.308 there's no substitute...
I wouldn't have one in .223 unless in uniform again.
Unless the gun store had a lot of AR-10s, some officers grabbed .223s. .308 is great, but .223 will deal with most body armor, has less danger of overpenetration and is easier to shoot.
This move makes sense on a couple of levels. First, the AR-15s can be carried in the passenger compartment, so they will be available when needed. AR-15s with adjustable stocks are better for smaller (read female) officers.
.223 is more fun to shoot, unless the target is an oncoming grizzly.
I'd rather have the M-14 in MT.
Most of those were bought in the 1990s from the anniston alabama arsenal for $45 a piece. I remember when a nearby dept got theirs.
Man, what a shame... When I was younger, I had a mini-14... best gun I ever owned. Since then, I've always wanted an M14 :/
You hit my point right on target, I am happy to have the weapon in the front...that being said I would like to keep the one in the trunk too.
That one is a bear to lug around. And the fat triangular bayonet is wicked.
Thanks for that link!
Problem is that the rounds tend to frag, which was the way they were designed, which means you have a problem firing through glass. The way AR15/Stoner Armalite was developed is always an interesting subject of discussion. The Geneva Convention mandated full metal jacket rounds, banning the hollow point from combat after WWI. Much more humane round than those hollow points. Stoner developed the AR15 to get around the Geneva Convention. By developing the .223 with a thin full metal jacket, the rifle was designed to fire the round in a manner that caused it to flip end over end. By not firing the round true, and due to the thin metal jacket, this caused the round to frag upon content, doing much more damage than a 7.62 round. The exit wounds from these rounds are quite nasty. The rounds weighed much less than the more powerful 7.62 used in the Kalashnikov and thus troops were able to carry much more ammo into battle. We won't get into the jamming aspects of the rifle or the resistance from the Army etc. Suffice it to say that they have been working on replacements for quite a while and these replacements are undergoing extensive testing in Iraq/Afghan now.
No problem. I got one through the CMP a few years ago and it was well worth it.
I've seen bunches of those in the trunks of Sherriffs in WA state.
That's reassuring
"the cops didnt have enough firepower and had to go to a local gun store to get high-powered rifles........ they didnt grab .223s"
On the contrary. The after action reports that I read stated that the weapons the officers initially obtained were indeed garden variety civilian model AR-15's in .223, which was far more firepower than the sidearms and riot shotguns that the PD originally had available to them. As others have pointed out, .308 may be fine in sparsely populated areas, but in urban environments the possibility of that high powered a round going somewhere it shouldn't becomes problematic. You may check with your local SWAT unit for a discussion of the benefits of .223 in densely populated areas vs. the problems of using .308 or even 30.06. Please understand that .308 or 30.06 both have their place in a SWAT teams set of tools (ie. punching through glass), but in a hostage situation, where one does not always know what the backdrop is, or what is behind the backdrop a well placed round in .223 has fewer collateral problems.
Even .223 can be too much firepower in very densely populated environments. I can remember that immediately after 9-11, my airline was one of the few carriers hauling pax's as all of the others took up to a week to come back from an understandably "shocky" standstill. I had heard that the government had been posting National Guard sentries at the concourse security checkpoints armed with M-16's. Given the fact that the M-16 is a fully automatic weapon, and the constuction material used in modern concourses is hardly more substantial than cardboard, a number of the pilots at my carrier thought that this was a remarkably ill advised weapon, if it actually had to be used (especially in fully automatic mode). Seeing one of these fellows standing beside the checkpoint I decided to address the issue. After all, he was in uniform, I was in uniform. What could be the harm in a few discrete questions between a couple of professionals?
After the usual pleasantries (one sided in this case as the NG was rather ..... stern), I addressed my concern directly. "So, do they actually allow you guys to keep rounds in that weapon?". All I got was a fleeting grimace, which was answer enough for me. I nodded, and quietly allowed as to how a burst from that weapon, directed down the concourse would quite probably wipe out far more passengers than the terrorist could. Even fully jacketed military .223 would be devastating on a densely populated concourse. The soldier carrying the weapon certainly did look impressive, even though all he could have done was club the terrorist with that (probably) unloaded M16.
There is no magic bullet/round. It all depends on the environment it is to be used in, and the training of the professional carrying the weapon.
When and where will they be selling the M-14s?
And smaller males
Sounds like in that case, an MP-5 would have been ideal.
"Sounds like in that case, an MP-5 would have been ideal."
That is basically what they use in European terminals (Frankfurt comes to mind as it was the first airport terminal that I noticed police equipped with fully automatic weapons.) Granted, European terminals needed the additional firepower long before we did in the US. Unfortunately, we have always been too PC and lacking in the political "cajones" to stop problems before they are reported with headlines written in human (American) blood. Were it otherwise, the Twin Towers would still be standing and the little matter of 3000 fatalities would not have happened.
We are still too timid in my opinion, but my judgement is "clouded" by working on the pointy end for most of my adult life. YMMV
I was thinking the same thing. In that case it must have been a Liberal who wrote the article.
I was doing some reading on the M14, and I saw it was only in large-scale service for about 5 years. That's an awfully short time. And about the AR-15: why would they be using only 20 round magazines? There is no reason to use 20-round magazines outside of training, unless maybe you are extremely short on space. An extra 10 rounds for police might not be critical, but I wouldn't want to take the chance. 20 rounds goes by very quickly.
The 5.56 round, just like the 7.62, tumbles upon contact.
this caused the round to frag upon content(sic)
I think there is a mistake in thinking these M-14's are in good shape. I seriously doubt that. They are probably all worn out so any reasonable replacement is a good idea.
The M-16 series isn't a bad choice since only hits count.
According to Wikipedia, the M 14 ceased production over 40 years ago - so definitely not of recent manufacture. If I was issued a 40-year-old M 16, I would probably refuse to sign for it, especially if I was going to a combat zone.
I'm pretty sure you're right. I know that the Montana state prison guards use Ruger Mini-14 GB models, and a couple of years back there was a news article about a Montana State Trooper who'd emptied a 20-round magazine from his *M-14* into a Grizzly, which annoyed the bear, which then walked away. I don't think that would have been the case with 20 rounds of 7.62 NATO from a GI M14, even with ball ammo.
There IS quite a difference between the teo....
We completely rebuilt better than 20,000 of them at the Crane Small Arms shop around 1979-1980 when I was working there as a Navy civilian armorer, anticipating a transfer of them to the Nicaraguan Contras, who it turned out preferred AK47s instead, and got new Polish AKMs and captured Israeli ex-PLO equipment. the M14s went back to storage in Warehouse A, two to the carton, until the 1991 war when US units that hadn't received SAW or M21/M24 Sniper's rifles found that the old M14 made a pretty fair substitute.
I'd happily take a 45-year old M14 over a ten-year-old M16A2/M4A1 any day.
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By Katy Askew | 24 July 2012
Russian grocery retailer Magnit has booked a 142% jump in first-half profit, driven partly by higher sales.
Magnit said today (24 July) its net profit for the six months to the end of June rose to US$339.6m. Sales increased by 33%, climbing to RUB207.6bn (US$6.78bn).
During the period the company opened 262 convenience stores, eight hypermarkets, two Magnit Family store and 141 cosmetics shops. Same-store sales were up 3.5%, the group revealed.
The company's strong performance suggests it is continuing to make gains on market leader X5 Retail Group, which has struggled to grow sales as it transitions its strategy to focus on organic growth.
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Krasnodar, July 24, 2012: OJSC "Magnit" (the "Company"; MICEX and LSE: MGNT) is pleased to announce its unaudited 1H 2012 financial results prepared in accordance with IFRS[1].
During 1H 2012 the Company added (net) 413 stores (262 convenience stores, 8 hypermarkets, 2 "Magnit Family" stores and 141 cosmetics stores) and increased its selling space by 31.42% in comparison to 1H 2011 from 1,612.85 thousand sq. m. to 2,119.53 thousand sq. m. The total store base as of June 30, 2012 reached 5,722 stores (5,268 convenience stores, 98 hypermarkets, 5 "Magnit Family" stores and 351 cosmetics stores).
Revenue in rubles increased by 32.57% YoY from 156,595.52 million RUR in 1H 2011 to 207,602.53 million RUR in 1H 2012. The top line growth was due to an increase in selling space as well as to a 3.5% increase of like-for-like sales (excl. VAT). Revenue growth in dollar terms amounted to 23.85%: from US$ 5,470.74 million to US$ 6,775.76 million.[2]
Gross margin grew from 22.61% in 1H 2011 to 25.58% in 1H 2012. Gross profit in rubles increased by 49.97% from 35,412.01 million RUR (US$ 1,237.14 million) to 53,108.86 million RUR (US$ 1,733.37 million).
EBITDA increased by 99.97% from 10,275.01 million RUR (US$ 358.96 million) in 1H 2011 to 20,546.92 million RUR (US$ 670.61 million) in 1H 2012. EBITDA margin in 1H 2012 amounted to 9.90% which is 3.34% above the figure of 1H 2011 (6.56%).
1H 2012 net income increased by 158.97% and amounted to 10,403.75 million RUR (US$ 339.56 million) vs. 4,017.37 million RUR (US$ 140.35 million) in 1H 2011.
Sergey Galitskiy, the Company's CEO, provided the following comments on the published results:
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Arkdale, Wisconsin (map) | (608) 564-7513
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Petenwell is a County Park, but over half the sites were taken by seasonal campers. Some of the campers had obviously been there a while, making the campground look rundown. The campground is divided into two sections. The older section is where you find most of the seasonal sites. Of the available sites remaining, a few are reservable. There are very few sites available on the lake shore of Lake Petenwell (a huge lake by the way). Most of those are already taken. So realistically, if you are going to camp here, you will end up in the treed part of the campground. The shade there is nice, the bugs aren't (including mosquitoes). There is a newer expansion area that we would have stay in if we had known about it. It was definitely not as full, a lot less seasonal sites, and easy access to the shore of the lake.
Some sites have water and 50 amp electric, some don't, so ask. The main roads are paved, the rest are dirt. The sites can be grass if you are not under the trees, dirt if you are. The campground can accept big rigs, but you have to be careful about what site you choose. We ended up giving up our reserved site because we couldn't fit. We ended up across the street that we could fit into. The staff was very accommodating about us moving, friendly too!
Bathrooms are ok, nothing to cheer about. Showers require quarters to operate. The beach was very nice, the marina excellent. The playground in the expansion area was new.
You can get Verizon 4G in the park, but it varied upon where you were. I ended up using my cell phone booster part of the time. A family member had an smart phone from one of the smaller local carriers and could only get a signal if she stood in the middle of the park. There were 6 OTA television stations.
All in all, if you go here, I would to the newer expansion area over the older area. But I doubt if we will ever go back to this campground. - cmgoeke
Jun 2013 - $20.00
Very nice park. No four wheelers racing through the park. Very nice family and fishing park. Clean, seems to be well managed. Normally do not stay in a county park, but this is a diamond in the ruff for sure. Will come back or sure. - Camping Somewhere
Jul 2006 - $18.00
A very large park,431 acres. Has recent expansion of campsites and a new marina. We stayed in the new addition with a beach area to swim and park the boat. The park people are very helpful and friendly. The lake this park is on is the second largest in the state, fishing was good. They have a marked beach area, but where we were at,we had our own sandy beach that was shallow for quite a long distance. Great time for everyone, will be going back as this is one of our most favorite parks that we have been to. - traveling faemer
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We came to celebrate our son's birthday and we all had a wonderful time! The mosquitos were bad this year, but we still enjoyed our stay. The kids loved all of the activities and the people were all friendly and helpful. We already reserved our vacation for this year! - millfam
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The mosquito's are HORRIBLE! They do not spray for them, we could not stand to be outside at all (we live on a farm and are used to mosquito's but this was the worst we have ever experienced). There is no maintenance done to the roads, no gravel and when it rains there is water covering the roads, sites and all of the sites are sand. This makes for a big mess. We have a 28' travel trailer that barley made it into our site and we had to back down the driveway just to get out. If a tree falls they just leave the rotting stumps and you have to navigate around them. There is no TV reception and you must pay to use all of the outdoor play areas except for the swing sets. The showers looked terrible from what I could see. This is the first and last time we will be staying here. - Bree08
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This is a very nice, mostly seasonal-sites, which were all very well kept and clean. Family oriented, lots of kids activities. We stayed here for a 1 night stopover, and had a pull thru site. It was so nice in the middle and could see the kids playing in the activity area which is centrally located. Lots for the kids to do. We stayed there on a Friday night and it was pretty quiet, despite our site being close to the lodge/bar it wasn't annoying at all and quiet after 10:30. They have a nice store and lodge with a full menu and a bar/game room, with a separate game room area for the kids located near the activity area. 20 minutes to the Wisconsin Rapids, Wal-mart and several RV dealerships nearby. - ready2upgrade