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Parenting tips for teaching kids to favor and learn from open source
Growing the next generation of open source hackers
As a parent of three (children aged: 10, 7, and 5), I'm eager to share with my kids the values that attracted me to open source and the hacker ethos: sharing and building great things together, taking control of your environment, and embracing technology as a means of expression, rather than as media to be consumed. In other words:
How can grown-up hackers ensure that we're growing the next generation of open source hackers?
One of the things which I have learned is that you can go too fast. I put my kids in front of Scratch and Sugar at the ages of 8 and 5, and while they had fun changing the numbers on a simple program I put together, and liked drawing their own cars and driving them around the screen, they were really too small to get the concepts of linking functions together to produce more complicated behaviours.
Here are a few of the lessons I've learned as a parent which I think can be adapted to both the ages and interests of your children.
Hackable living space
We have encouraged our boys to decorate their rooms, organize the furniture as they see fit, and generally have thei rown little fiefdoms. This sometimes drives us nuts as parents, and we do regularly help them to tidy up, but their space is theirs.
Also, every kid above the age of 7 can have a real knife that they can use to whittle wood and cut twine.
Preschool engineering
I love toys that allow kids to use their imaginations. It's also great because as an adult I have as much fun as them playing with together! My personal favourite construction toys (purchased roughly by the age at which the kids have the motor skills necessary to play with them) are kaplas, wooden trains, sets from Duplo, sets from Playmobil, Legos, and Meccano cars. Lego and Meccano in particular do a great job of making kits for children of different ages. Another toy tip is to encourage mixing and matching between different toy sets. We have Kapla bridges over Ikea train sets and Lego trucks holding Playmobil characters.
Kaplas are very interesting too. They are very simple wooden blocks cut to very precise ratios; they are three times as wide as they are deep, and five times as long as they are wide. From those simple proportions, and the precision of the cuts for the wood, you can make some very complicated objects indeed, like an Eiffel Tower or Kapla house.
Getting started with electronics
We have an Arduino kit, and my eldest is starting to get to the stage where he understands wiring a circuit, but hasn't yet figured out programming in the Arduino dialect of C.
But even before something like that, arts and crafts activities are excellent training in DIY, and we always have some popsicle sticks or clothes pegs and a glue gun around for "do-it-yourself" gifts.
Then you can leave screw-drivers, pliars, multi-meters, and soldering irons around so that kids can take apart old toys or broken electronics, fix things with simple electrical circuits on their own when something goes wrong, and scavenge parts to be integrated in future projects. Parental guidance recommended with the soldering iron until they get the hang of it!
Teaching kids to hack
I would love to hear about resources for getting kids to programming proficiency! I am aware of Code Academy and Khan Academy for teaching kids code; and Scratch and Sugar, which I mentioned.
Please share your own personal tips on indoctrinating the next generation of free software hackers!
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I'm glad to see your emphasis on hardware, both physical (e.g., Lego, etc.) and electronic (e.g., Arduino). I've long thought that computing (and engineering) requires working from the bottom up. The loss of Erector Sets, Gilbert Chemistry Sets, and Heathkits costs us dearly. Computer Science curricula used to build up from the bottom - hardware, machine language, and operating system internals, program languages and compilation/interpretation, and finally move on to algorithms and applications. Today, we seem to start and end with one or two high level languages, leaving in-depth understanding behind. Glad to see you're starting your kids on a more fundamental path - we're going to need people with that depth of knowledge and skills.
It is SOOOO refreshing to see people write/speak about the 'hacker ethos' as a GOOD thing. Thanks for that!
It's good to get kids to tinker whether it's with electronics or cooking. https://diy.org/ - has some stuff online for kids (including hacking code).
I saw this noticed today and thought you might be interested -
http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/zuck-bill-gates-jack-dorsey-code-org-film/ -
Thanks Miles & Carolyn!
another thing I forgot to mention is getting the kids involved in the garden. anything which involves things changing due to your efforts, whether it's gardening, cooking or DIY, is good in my eyes.
Encourging the process of building something from everyday products is one of the ideas we've tried to foster in my home, caardboard boxes and duck tape are always on hand. Showing by example is also important. My childern have seen me tinkering with things and coding for work & for fun.
And be sure to turn your kids onto Rube Goldberg! Every year, the MIT Museum sponsors a "chain reaction" (Rube Goldberg write large) - http://web.mit.edu/museum/programs/fat.html - when my kids were younger, their elementary school did as well (they may still).
It took me to my mid-30's to discover that I have a hacker-way of thinking myself, so being very much aware of that I also like my children to charish and develop this gift. Exploring in whatever way is very important. Not only outdoors, joining the scouts, (indeed) having a pocket knife and getting their boots full of water, mud or dung, but also indoors exploring tools, woodwork and home computer. Want to try the old hand drill? See an interesting computer program? Use it! Try it! Find out!
Sharing thoughts, ideas and prototypes like Lego-builds is also important. This way they will notice that sharing brings new possibilities and can speed up development of sunday morning spacecrafts. Besides they learn to negociate over building blocks. Cooperation and having your own part in it is very important.
Basic computer skills are like reading, writing and math. When they want to use the computer they may because nowadays a PC is what paper, pencil and board game was 40 years ago. At school they train basic things, here at home they can go further. The youngest one starts with Gcompris--a great set of programs to learn and explore. The older ones are less easy to stimulate to try more intelligent games than shoot'em up though, but programming languages with pre defined command blocks (like Scratch or on the Lego Mindstorms) can keep them busy for a long time. Because schools are Microsoft-dominated here in the Netherlands, at home they have the opportunity to try the same functionality in a different way using Linux. This makes them more flexible using computer software and less scared to try. And when my 7 year old son wants to be a 'real hacker' I'll let him do the update on the command line (made me a hacker he told me).
Well, I guess they will make it ;-)
I just recently discovered Scratch (put out by MIT's Media Lab), and I'm definitely going to hand it over to my kid later this week to see what she can do with it. She watched the intro video with me and couldn't wait to get started. Not sure if she's quite old enough yet, but it teaches some programming basics.
Also, I learned to use Logo when I was a little kid (just the turtle, not the whole language), and it taught me a ton of the basics about how programs work. It's more like programming a robot than an application.
I also recently learned about a toy called MakeyMakey, also invented by someone at MIT's Media Lab.
If it seems like I'm heavy on the Media Lab, it's because I'm taking this online course from them right now, and it's all about encouraging the hacker/maker mindset in grown ups and children.
The popularity of things like Scratch (and Logo before it) make me wonder if there's a fundamental cognitive difference between a) folks who like to start out by typing (mousing) commands on computers, and watching things happen, then maybe starting to dig under the hood; and b) folks who like to start by taking things apart, then putting things together, and building up to the point where all you see are commands on a screen. (Me, I started by taking watches apart; then it was erector sets, tinker toys, chemistry sets, and Heathkits. Software came a lot later - of course, that was the 60s, the first minicomputers started showing up when I was in high school.)
Yes, I think there is a difference between a) folks who take things apart and b) put things together, and c) people who don't need to take things apart but can appreciate the time, effort and beauty involved. Dr. Linda Silverman has a chart on the differences between auditory-sequential and visual-spatial learners (http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/Visual_Spatial_Learner/vsl.htm) that may help.
Coding can be quite linear, sequential, and exact; there's often not a lot of wiggle room or areas for grayness. For some people, it's a natural fit for them and their brains. For others, it's like running fingers down a chalk board and stifles their divergent/creative thinking. I couldn't see Gary Larson (Far Side), Dav Pilkey (Captain Underpants series), Jim Henson, or Monty Python responding to coding like others do. It's just not in their DNA so to speak. Their creative thinking operates in a different way, yet Jim Henson was constantly tinkering with puppets and had a hacker/ maker mindset.
Carolyn.. good point. Of course that does have implications for folks working on distributed, massively concurrent systems - gotta write code, but have to track (visualize?) LOTS of moving parts and interactions.
Tracking is using visualization skills, though visual spatial skills include many aspects. But if you watched the last series of Master Chef, you may have caught a blind female contestant replicating stunning gourmet dishes with her visual spatial skills. She was absolutely amazing.
In order to combat the expanding threat of cyber terrorism and cybercrime, our education system is ramping up efforts to prepare top students for careers in cyber defense. In particular, the nation's community colleges are offering technology-based programs designed to prepare current students for careers in cyber security.
The National Center for Systems Security and Information Assurance (CSSIA) has been stepping up to the plate since 2005, training students to become the next generation of cyber security specialists. Programs are designed to enable students to use the latest technologies to detect, deter and protect our nation's digital infrastructure. However, according to Dr. John Sands, professor of information technology and co-principal investigator for CSSIA at Moraine Valley Community College, "It takes more to prepare a cyber security specialist than just traditional classroom instruction."
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All students who compete have their resumes ready and are prepared to interview at the event. Sponsoring businesses are invited to set up a recruiting table on Friday, March 22, at 7 p.m., to observe potential employees in action. At 9 p.m., sponsors will have an opportunity to discuss career options during CSSIA's Industry Fair.
I think we should invest in gifted kids like Taylor Wilson and schools like Davidson Academy (http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/About_Me.html; http://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/Articles.aspx?ArticleID=197). Davidson Academy is the ONLY school in the US that caters to profoundly gifted kids and it's in Reno, NV. These are often (not always though) the next Bill Gates or Mark Zuckerbergs. Still, even for highly gifted kids, there is no federal mandate to accommodate them.
When we don't invest in gifted kids, they often underachieve and become disillusioned with school and society. The repercussions can be cybercrime.
Carolyn.. it gets worse. When we don't invest in gifted kids, they're probably the ones most likely to become "successful" (cyber)criminals. (At least that's my recollection from my youth - the real troublemakers where the kids who were smart, and disillusioned.)
Totally agree with that one. They're Artemis Fowls in the making. I used to teach those troublemakers who were poor, disillusioned but quite bright. They're criminals in the making and it frustrates me when we neglect them in our public schools instead of using their potential hacking skills to benefit them and society.
Another great maker tool is littleBits, which allows you to build whatever you want around electrical components that stick together with magnets. Lots of open source plans, pieces you can buy one at a time, and a community to share with. My older son (almost 12) loves them, and has suggested pieces that they should make.
I'd also recommend Stagecast Creator. While appearing to be a very simplistic program, it's really a quite sophisticated IDE for a Java back end engine. I've had kids as young as 1st graders use the program successfully and yet I've written some very high level programs.
I also think it's important for kids to learn Javascript and HTML5, particularly the animation features, which, I'm sure, will become much more sophisticated as the technology matures.
As an IT Administrator I can tell you it is getting very old constantly updating local computer based software programs. With Google leading the way with web based applications, there is a very bright future in web programming.
Of course you just can't beat the problem solving and discipline skills that are inherent in programming. But the best aspect is the immediate feedback programming gives you. No waiting for the test to be graded and returned, you know immediately whether you were successful or failed; another interesting feature - learning by failing.
I really enjoyed your article Dave,
I'm not a parent myself yet but I really enjoy computing and I try to make my 2 nephews enjoy it as much as I do and sometimes it's hard to make them sit with me for even 5 minutes hahaha they like to run around.. that's what kids do... so I introduced them to gardening and you can't possibly imagine how happy they are with a shovel in their hands and picking their own food from the ground...
then when they get tired i get them inside for some fun with LEDs and my raspberry Pi.
other than that I find myself enjoying the lessons on codeacademy. great way to learn for the kids... small goals are sometimes more rewarding for them because they get to see results faster than coming across big problems:)
keep up these nice articles ill be waiting for the next ones
With my eldest (8) I've been writing a simple game using GameQuery. He does the ideas and all the artwork. I've been doing the programming while he looks over my shoulder, especially during debugging. He likes to throw in random ideas as to why things are wrong. Going well I think, we're going to present it to his class at school when I talk about open source as a version of community worker.
The Mozilla Tools: Thimble, Hackasaurus and Popcorn Maker are all great ways to get kids hacking.
Also the Mozilla Rep community (volunteers) are in the early stages of a project called 'Generation Open' for kids + youth on http://genopen.org . We're establishing a framework we hope can encourage literacies of working in the open, contributing to open communities (among others) . Would love to hear your thoughts on what we're doing so far , as well as those interested in participating.
You can buy a cheap Raspberry Pi minicomputer (or a netbook), and install "Games Pit" (https://github.com/alfem/gamespit/wiki)
It is a simple game environment to play with, experiment, change configurations, and edit code (Python).


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Date it became a state: November 21, 1789
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2015 population estimate: 10,042,802 from US Census Bureau, information released 2015). North Carolina is the tenth largest state in the United States based on population.
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Source: Microsoft [TechNet]
quote: Windows phones and Apple phones have smoother interfaces because of a small range of hardware.
quote: Windows phones and Apple phones have smoother interfaces because of a small range of hardware. It is very easy to tune your UI,software, drivers, applications, etc with you only have a few CPU, GPU, and screen resolution combinations to worry about. With android you have hundreds even if you exclude android 1.5 and before.
quote: Windows Phone is the smoothest and most responsive OS you can put on a phone.
quote: Your personal preference doesn't make something absolute fact. Wake up! Even Blackberry has more users and makes more money than Windows phone, and that's after a 4 year nosedive. Why do you think that is? If Windows Phone was THAT good, this wouldn't even be possible.
quote: Can you prove this? Anyway the argument is now moot with Android going to Jelly Bean. Sorry, no 'smoothness' advantage (if there even was one).
quote: Oh and if you even think about retorting with "fragmentation", guess what? Jelly Bean alone has more market share than Windows Phone anyway.
quote: Just enjoy your OS without resorting to garbage like "Android is a steaming heap of dung" and we'll be okay. That crap doesn't belong here.
quote: they succeeded making the most innovative and practical interface for smartphones.
quote: Yes but the problem is, people just don't like "live tiles". They don't like them on Windows Phone, and they damn sure don't like them on Windows 8 RT or otherwise.
quote: Windows Phone has been around a long time now. For comparison, at this point on the market Android had nearly a 40% market share. You can only make excuses for so long before you acknowledge Windows Phone might not be the mecca you think it is, and it doesn't 'jive' with consumers.
quote: When I want an app to display live info, I have a widget for that. You know Widgets, the concept MS blatantly stole and called "live tiles"? I don't want my entire UI to be big square widgets though, that's absurd.
quote: Sorry, but it's a disjointed mess! Those colors, those multi-sized tiles, the complete lack of any hierarchical structure or organization. You have to be kidding me.
quote: Also the notification system, well, I should say LACK OF. Seriously this is a big deal to me, I'm a huge fan of Android's notification system and how intuitive and powerful it is. Even iOS has a more robust system for this than Windows Phone. There's no option to see a silent pop-up, and there's no notification center which also means you don't have a single place to glance at incoming e-mails, text messages and social network messages. If you want to see what's happening, your only option is to go to the home screen and thumb through a bunch of Live Tiles. Wtf??
quote: This is really showing that you have never used a Windows Phone. You can choose a tile to act as a notifier for WHATEVER you want. I have my SMS, and two email accounts set up as live tiles. I can glance at the screen to see if I have any messages and if I do I can read them with two taps.
quote: As these contracts expire and more Windows Phone options become available, it is likely that more people will gravitate toward it because it is such a well-designed mobile OS.
quote: Oh yeah, compare the phones side by side and there's no comparison. Windows Phone is by far the smoothest and most fluid UI. Are you in denial about the infamous android lag? Denying it doesn't make it go away.
quote: Oh yeah, compare the phones side by side and there's no comparison. Windows Phone is by far the smoothest and most fluid UI. Are you in denial about the infamous android lag? Denying it doesn't make it go away.
quote: Oh but it is and always has been. The primary (only?) reason it took off is because of a massive push from Google AND because it was the only alternative to IOS at that time.
quote: Jelly Bean is at least as smooth if not smoother than Windows Phone
quote: The options boil down to having Windows Phone and gaining an efficient and easy to use phone vs android, which attempts to mask its shortcomings by allowing the dimwitted masses express their "individuality" by customizing it with the same stuff everyone else has. Oh and there's IOS...but that's just like a slightly more polished version of android.


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Letter in Aug. 15 Tomahawk Leader
To the Editor:
There are many reasons to support Cong. Mark Green in his bid to become governor. But I believe it comes down to three issues: the state budget deficit, the deterioration of the legal climate in our state and integrity.
Gov. Jim Doyle recently sent out press releases across the state claiming to have balanced the state budget during his term in office. I agree with Doyle that he inherited a significant budget deficit of approximately $3 billion when he entered office. However, the non-partisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau in a recent analysis puts our deficit at $2 billion – and it may be has high as $2.6 billion. With Doyle's 10 percent increase in state spending this year, it is not hard to understand why we continue to have a serious budget deficit in Wisconsin.
In 2005, Gov. Doyle appointed a very liberal justice, Louis Butler, to the state Supreme Court to fill a vacancy. Since Butler's appointment, a few very important court cases have been decided by a 4-3 margin. These cases have completely changed the legal climate in Wisconsin. For example, caps on medical malpractice claims were thrown out. The constitutional amendment we passed back in 1993 to limit the expansion of gambling was essentially thrown out by Doyle's Supreme Court. And, there are other cases that put businesses and private property in jeopardy as a result of the current court. Wisconsin has consistently rated in the top 10 states nationally in terms of a reasonable legal climate. That is now in jeopardy.
The main reason I support Mark Green, however, is integrity. Cong. Green has always represented his constituents, regardless of political affiliation, to the utmost. That is why he won his last election by an overwhelming 70-30 margin. When Mark Green tells us he will lower our tax burden or he will not run again, you can take him at his word.
Our state resembles the struggling Green Bay Packers teams of the 1980s. If you remember – oh do we remember – the Packers were so bad by the late 80s, they had the second overall draft choice one year. We drafted Tony Mandarich. We thought he was a good choice, but after a few years, he had to be released because of his lack of production. Just a few years later, the Packers cleaned house and new general manager, Ron Wolf, made the bold stroke of trading for a little known quarterback, Brett Favre. The fortunes of the franchise turned around. The citizens of Wisconsin should follow the Packers example of the early 90s and make the bold move of electing a new leader to right our ship of state, Mark Green.
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A Proposal to Permit Collateral Estoppel of Nonparties Seeking Affirmative Relief
Michael A. Berch
Arizona State University (ASU) - Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Arizona State Law Journal, p. 511, 1979
There must be an end to litigation. Therein lies the policy underlying the concept of res judicata. We give parties every opportunity to develop the issues and present evidence with the aim of deciding the case upon the merits. Once that opportunity has been afforded, a party should not be allowed to relitigate simply on the showing that there might be a different result the second time around. At one time only the parties to a lawsuit could be affected by the doctrine of collateral estoppel. The basis for precluding relitigation of the issue was not simply that the parties already had an opportunity to contest the issues, but also that parties should not be permitted to contradict their record. After extensive examination, however, mutuality of estoppel finally gave way to the belief that it would not necessarily be unfair to bind persons who had a full opportunity to litigate matters in the first suit. However, according to either the mutuality rule or the new doctrine, a nonparty cannot be bound by unfavorable findings. This result allegedly has its roots in due process principles of fairness. This article argues that it would not be inconsistent with due process to bind nonparties by findings of fact in certain circumstances. These circumstances basically give rise to an assurance that parties to the first litigation fully and fairly litigated the issues. This article discusses the doctrine of collateral estoppel, mutuality of estoppel, and exceptions to and the breakdown of mutuality.
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Congrats to you and the Mrs.!
¡Que la fuerza te acompañe!
Congratulations Roo-Jay! It's a Jedi Knight!
BAD Pts Need: R5-C7 lf leg (x2), , R4-P44 right leg BAD Pts Offered For Trade: PM me - I have lots of parts now including BG-J38!. New Kyle Katarn is also available.
Congrats, RooJay! Man, that kid is going to HATE Star Wars when he grows up.
Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
Do I forsee a Luxo costume for Halloween soon? Congrats!
From Star Wars Episode VII: the Broadway Edition... FN and the Amazing Technically-Poe's Dream Jacket.
I've got our next 12 years worth of Halloween costumes planned out already. No Luxo, though, but now that I think about it I might have to adjust the plan to include either Buzz and Woody, or Mike and Sully...
In honor of the 10th Anniversary, here's mine...
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Many innovative companies are embracing green chemistry, citing environmental sustainability, increased efficiency, and lowered costs, as they develop the tools and measurements that inform the choices of solvents and reagents throughout a compound's development and manufacturing, according to speakers at the American Chemical Society's (ACS) recent "Green Chemistry and Engineering" conference.
"Green chemistry is gaining prominence, paralleling regulatory and economic movements. There is a global expectation for sustainable resource use, chemical safety, and transparency as stakeholders are becoming more precautionary and risk adverse," Richard Williams, Ph.D., president and founder of Environmental Science & Green Chemistry Consulting, said.
"Since 2003, 18 U.S. states have collectively passed 71 chemical control laws calling for the use of green chemistry, phase-out of specific substances, data collection, or the reduced industrial use of toxic chemicals.
"Green chemistry is just good chemistry," Dr. Williams said. "As new science develops, it delivers economic and environmental benefits. For example, Pfizer improved the manufacturing process for sertraline, the active ingredient in Zoloft®."
The original three-step sequence was streamlined to one step, producing chirally pure sertraline in much higher yield and with greater selectively. Raw material usage for three materials declined by 60%, 45%, and 20%, respectively.
Employing ethanol as a solvent eliminated the use, distillation, and recovery of four more hazardous solvents. The green approach has eliminated nearly 2 million pounds of chemical waste per year, improved safety and material handling, reduced energy and water use, and doubled overall product yield, Dr. Williams reported.
One aspect of Amgen's sustainability initiative focuses on medicinal chemistry. "Although the scale of reaction is small, the cumulative footprint is significant," noted Emily Peterson, Ph.D., scientist and green chemistry team lead for Amgen Massachusetts (AMA) medicinal chemistry.
The goal at Amgen, then, is to "equip medicinal chemists with working knowledge of green chemistry, provide access to tools to guide green solvent and reagent selection, and apply restraint rather than constraint," to chemists' choices. Immediate challenges include reducing chlorinated solvent usage, phasing out toxic and noneconomical reagents, modifying wasteful ordering and disposal habits, and encouraging use of green conditions.
These changes are seeing results. For example, since November 2010, the use of dichloromethane at the AMA site has declined 40%. "Ten percent was achieved just by picking up a different squirt bottle when chemists rinsed their tubes," Dr. Peterson explained.
Much of the rest was achieved by education and replacing dichloromethane chromatography with greener solvent systems (like heptanes, ethyl acetate, and ethanol) and by replacing normal-phase chromatography with reverse-phase medium-pressure liquid chromatography, which allows purification of highly polar compounds using aqueous media.
"You can load large amounts onto the column, including crude reaction mixtures, and you can reuse the columns, which gives nice flexibility," Dr. Peterson added.
At Amgen, "we also crafted our own green chemistry solvent selection guide. We made it into magnets and put them on all the hoods, so chemists are reminded daily of greener options."
At Dr. Peterson's site, the T3P amide coupling reagent has become a popular reagent in medicinal chemistry, she said. "You can work it up with water, and the product is often pure enough to go to the next step without contamination with other reagents."
To reduce waste, Amgen partners with ASDI to store its chemicals. Therefore, research sites can order just the quantities they need from among Amgen's own supplies. The company also changed its chemical disposal policy, retaining chemicals with long-term stability rather than discarding all chemicals after three years. In shipping 500 compounds to ASDI, "we saved $3,000 on disposal alone."
Chemists contemplating green chemistry cite concerns about re-optimization timeframes, costs, access to established chemicals, or methods and regulatory issues. "The key to adoption is to use green technologies that are superior to current methods." Amgen also operates a green chemistry awards program for labs that make the greatest green chemistry gains. "Cash talks," she said.
Ingrid Mergelsberg, Ph.D., director of process chemistry at Merck and immediate past co-chair of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR), agreed. "Since 2007, the Roundtable has awarded $950,000 in research grants based on green principles and formed academic liaisons with industry."
Roundtable members lead by example. "Merck has pioneered advances in areas such as asymmetric and enzymatic catalysis, high-throughput screening in catalysis, and supercritical fluid chromatography for chiral and achiral separations, which avoid the creation of significant amounts of solvent waste," Dr. Mergelsberg said.
To create a green chemistry environment, "it's essential to have routine demonstrations of commitment to green chemistry and engineering from senior management. We've implemented a cross-functional green chemistry team with measurable goals and objectives supported by senior management. Merck has also created a green chemistry e-learning course that will be available in the next few months, and a green chemistry toolbox.
"Tools are very powerful to facilitate chemists getting greener," Dr. Mergelsberg continued. Merck's own green chemistry toolbox includes a process mass intensity (PMI) and analytical method volume intensity total solvent consumption calculator, solvent selection guide, pathway to greener solvents, and a reagent selection guide tool kit for enzymatic and catalytic reactions.
By 2020, the Roundtable plans to have a database of highly efficient transformations, a predictive tool for greener route design, and standard quantitative key performance indicators and measures of greenness."
Merck has developed its own green chemistry electronic notebook templates based on the reagent selection guide. The Roundtable has initiated discussions with e-notebook suppliers.
She also aims to influence the research agenda. "Most chemistry journals haven't embraced green chemistry policies and principles yet. In many broadly referenced articles, chloroform, benzene, and other absolutely nongreen solvents and reagents are still used. Thus, medicinal chemists naturally start with nongreen reagents because they are following established protocols."
Dr. Mergelsberg sees progress, however. "Organic Process Research and Development has accepted some of the Roundtable's wishes, by not accepting papers with solvents of benzene or of chloroform."
The Roundtable is also preparing a reagent selection guide. Its goal is to identify the most environmentally benign conditions for chemical transformations and analyze reactions for five green criteria: the environmental degradation of reagent and degradation products, solvent compatibility to green solvents, availability from natural feedstocks, atom efficiency of transformation, and toxicity and process safety hazards.
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NEW CUMBERLAND - Fifty-five of them survived World War II. That was reason enough to celebrate, so, in 1955, 10 years after the war's end, the New Cumberland area veterans met to form the Last Man's Club.
They had cheated death once-maybe many times-so why not give their club a humorous name with a wry nod to the inevitable? Who, indeed, would be the last man?
On Sunday, Veterans Day, the last four men will once again gather at the New Cumberland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3526 to conduct the business of the Last Man's Club-an invocation, a dinner, a toast to their departed comrades and the election of officers.
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Kenneth "Pat" Kessel, 84, of New Manchester, reviews the toast to departed comrades that is read every Veterans Day at the Last Man's Club meeting. Only four club members are left, and they will meet at 6 p.m. Sunday at the New Cumberland Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3526. (Photo by Stephen Huba)
"Which isn't too tough with four guys," said Kenneth "Pat" Kessel, 84, of New Manchester.
Even though Kessel is the youngest of the four remaining members of the Last Man's Club, he looks at a picture from the 2011 club meeting and exclaims, "God, I look old. I am old."
Kessel served on the U.S.S. General A.E. Anderson, a troop transport ship that operated in the Pacific, in the waning days of World War II. "We carried guys wherever they needed them," he said.
Kessel, a 1945 graduate of New Cumberland High School, went on to work at Weirton Steel for 33 years, retiring as a turn supervisor in strip steel.
Currently secretary-treasurer, Kessel has only gratitude for the fact that he and his fellow remaining club members have lived this long - long enough to see yet another Veterans Day.
"I feel fortunate and surprised that I'm still with them," he said. "I never dreamed I would be among the last four. You never think you're as old as you are."
At 92, John Kuzio, of New Cumberland, is the oldest member of the club. Kuzio served in the Pacific theater as a staff sergeant with the Army Air Force Ordnance Corps.
Just 11 days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Kuzio enlisted at a recruiting office in Steubenville. His intentions were to stay in the military one year and then go to college, but Pearl Harbor changed all that.
Kuzio reported for duty the day after Christmas 1941 and left for what he thought was going to be basic training with the 707th Ordnance Battalion in Charlotte, N.C. Instead, he was shipped out almost immediately, departing for Australia from a port in San Francisco.
Kuzio got promoted to staff sergeant and was responsible for .30- and .50-caliber machine guns and parts, serving for 33 months in New Guinea. He made landings in Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Wewak, Buna, Lae, Hollandia and elsewhere in New Guinea.
"I was fortunate and lucky that I didn't get a bullet in the South Pacific," he said.
After the war, Kuzio went to the University of Pittsburgh on the GI Bill, earning a degree in social studies. His career in education was spent teaching and coaching at New Cumberland High School.
Joining Kessel and Kuzio at 6 p.m. Sunday will be Charles Byrne, 85, of New Cumberland, and club president Don King, 86, of Crystal River, Fla., formerly of Toronto, Ohio.
Byrne was stationed with the Army in Alaska during World War II, and King served as a gunner's mate, third class, in the Navy in the Pacific.
In addition to the four men, a fifth place will be set in honor of all those club members who are deceased. The most recent member to have died is Chester "Chet" Spilecki, 83, of New Cumberland, who died in January 2009, about two months after attending his last Last Man's Club meeting.
The club was founded in 1955, Kuzio said, because a lot of the men already knew each other from socializing at the VFW. The occasion of the first meeting, held at the Fort Pitt Inn, was the 1955 football game between West Virginia University and the University of Pittsburgh.
Since then, meetings have been held at venues in Weirton, Steubenville, East Liverpool and elsewhere. At one time, when the club was large, two to three cooks were needed to prepare the meal, and club dues covered the cost of meal preparation.
A photo believed to be taken a year after the club formed shows 45 members in a group pose, most of them wearing suits and ties. Kuzio, then 36, can be seen with a big grin on his face, kneeling in the front row and shaking the hand of Joe Hoder, the man next to him.
"I miss all those guys, and I knew them all," Kuzio said.
The club has a ritual for the member who is the last man standing. It requires him to make a toast with a 1955 bottle of French champagne the club has kept in storage.
"He is to pour a glass of champagne and make a toast to his fallen comrades," Kessel said, "and that's the end of it, 'cause he's the last man. I tell you what - if I'm the last man, I'm not drinking from that bottle."
That's because over the years the club has kept the champagne in storage, the quantity in the bottle has gone down.
"Everybody always wondered who was going to drink the magnum of champagne that was left," Kuzio said. "I used to kid that I'm going to be the last one, but I don't think there will be any champagne left."


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Urban Design
The Urban Design Section develops urban design policies and implementation strategies for the Town of Richmond Hill. Urban design staff work with stakeholders, other Town staff and the community to develop urban design guidelines, policy documents, and design strategies that guide the development and improvement of our built environment. Working within the Planning Division we participate in the new Official Plan process to help develop the future vision of the Town. Besides Official Plan Policies, the Urban Design group also provides input into secondary plans for new and existing neighbourhoods, reviews specific site plan submissions as part of the development approval process and provides design comments to other departments on projects with urban design concerns.
Urban Design considers the function, use and relationships of visible components of the Town to create attractive, safe, transit oriented, and memorable urban environments, and requires an integrated and comprehensive design process.
Urban Design Briefs/Guidelines/Study
The Heritage Section manages archaeology, built heritage and cultural heritage landscapes (the 'ABCs' of heritage planning) for the Town of Richmond Hill. Heritage staff work with stakeholders, standing Committees such as Heritage Richmond Hill, other Town staff, and citizens to administer heritage matters, answer requests to designate properties under the Ontario Heritage Act, publish resource documents, manage heritage databases, and develop policy documents and strategies that oversee heritage management throughout the Town.
Working within the Planning Division we participate in the new Official Plan process to help develop policies to manage the Town's heritage resources. Besides Official Plan policies, Heritage staff also provide input on secondary plans for new and existing neighbourhoods, review specific development applications as part of the planning approvals process, and co-ordinate with the Environment & Infrastructure Services and Community Services Departments on the management of heritage resources under their jurisdiction.
A Heritage Permit is required to be submitted when an applicant is proposing an alteration to a designated property that is likely to affect the Reasons for Designation (as defined in the designating by-law). The owner must submit the completed application form to the Heritage Planner and have it approved by Council prior to undertaking the proposed alterations.
Heritage Permit Application [PDF]
Inventory of Buildings of Architectural & Historical Importance
Please note that the Inventory of Buildings of Architectural and Historical Importance is not the official Town Register as per the Ontario Heritage Act, section 27 Part IV, and therefore, has no legal status. It is meant only as a research tool for residents.
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Heritage Clearance Letter
Should you wish to confirm the heritage status of a property in Richmond Hill, including ongoing issues such as intention to designate, or HRH recommendations, you must request a Heritage Status (clearance) letter from the Town's Planning & Regulatory Services Department (current fee for this service is $82). If you wish only to confirm the current status of the Register, you can request an excerpt from the Town Clerk's Office, as the Clerk is the holder of the Register.
Properties can be designated under Part IV or Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act.
Individual properties are designated under Part IV of the Act and can be initiated by a letter or e-mail from the property owner to Heritage staff requesting designation. Written or photographic documentation supporting the correspondence will aid in the initial research for these requests.
Multiple adjacent properties can be designated individually under Part IV, but Part V of the Act permits the designation of Heritage Conservation Districts including two or more properties under a single by-Law. Participation in the designation request by a substantial number of property owners should be demonstrated, along with some photographic and written documentation on the proposed district: heritage staff can help with how this information can be collected.
Village Core Façade Assistance Program
The Village Core Façade Assistance Program is designed to provide financial assistance to Yonge Street property owners in Downtown Richmond Hill (Major Mackenzie Drive to Crosby/Benson Avenue) for improvements to the exterior façade of their building. The financial assistance takes the form of matching funds and is offered to eligible property owners and tenants (authorized by the owner) subject to conformity with the Village Core Façade Assistance Program Guidelines [PDF] and Letter of Understanding [PDF].
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Gormley Heritage Conservation District
The Gormley Heritage Conservation District (HCD) came into effect on December 13, 2009. The HCD includes the village core of Gormley and is intended to preserve, protect and enhance the character of this unique asset within the Town of Richmond Hill.
Gormley Heritage Conservation District Inventory [PDF]
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Gormley Heritage Conservation District Plan [PDF]
Richmond Hill Heritage Grant Program
Owners of designated heritage properties are invited to apply for the 2016 Heritage Grant Fund. Through this new program, owners of designated heritage properties are able to apply for a matching grant of 50% for eligible restoration projects, up to a maximum of $5,000 per project. A total of $30,000 is available annually through the fund. Grants are reviewed on a first-come-first-served basis.
Applications are accepted from March 1 to 31.
Heritage Grant Application and Terms of Reference [PDF]
In October 2009, the Town of Richmond Hill completed an Archaeological and First Nations Policy Study, which provides an overall description of the archaeological history of Richmond Hill and identifies known native village sites, as well as additional areas of archaeological potential. This Policy Study forms the basis for identifying development applications that may require Archaeological Assessments. If requested to complete an Archaeological Assessment, please refer to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport for the associated triggers and different stages. Note: All Archaeological Assessments must be completed by a licensed archaeologist registered in the Province of Ontario.
Cultural Heritage Impact Assessments
Under the Ontario Heritage Act a municipality may require the completion of a Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment (CHIA) as part of the development approval process. The Town of Richmond Hill has developed a Terms of Reference for the preparation of a CHIA, which is also referenced in the Town's development application guidelines. The following Terms of Reference for a CHIA provides owners and heritage professionals with a clear understanding of its purpose, when it may be required, who can prepare a CHIA, its scope and content as well as a list of links and additional resources to assist in its preparation. Please contact the Heritage and Urban Design Planner at 905-771-5529 if you have any questions regarding the process.
Richmond Hill Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment Terms of Reference [PDF]
Cultural Heritage Assessments
The Town of Richmond Hill has developed a Terms of Reference to assist in the preparation of a Cultural Heritage Assessment (CHA) which is to be used to assess the potential cultural heritage value of a property where there is no potential impact on the heritage resource. The Terms of Reference for a CHA provides property owners and heritage professionals with a clear understanding of its purpose, when/how it should be used, who can prepare a report, the content as well as a list of links and additional resources to assist in its preparation. Please contact the Heritage and Urban Design Planner at 905-771-5529 if you have any questions regarding the process.
Richmond Hill Cultural Heritage Assessment Terms of Reference [PDF]
Heritage Building Specialists in Ontario
In order to better assist owners who wish to undertake work related to their heritage property or prepare a Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment, the Town of Richmond Hill has prepared a list of consultants within the Province of Ontario that have documented work experience and products specializing in heritage projects. The list includes: heritage planners, heritage architects and designers, heritage contractors, architectural elements and products as well as architectural photographers. The list is not a list of preferred consultants, and by no means exhaustive, but is intended to provide owners with a starting point for finding resources relating to their heritage property. For more information, contact the Urban Design and Heritage Section at 905-771-5529.
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Published July 11, 2013
Megan Whalen was slightly apprehensive about starting an internship at engineering firm Cobham this summer.
Cobham, after all, designs and builds some of the world's most sophisticated pressurized gas systems for NASA, Boeing, the U.S. Navy and others.
Whalen, a UB mechanical engineering student, found comfort in her first assignment: using SolidWorks, a computer-aided design program, to test a nitrogen inverting system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles.
"I'm familiar with that program because I took a class on it at UB," says Whalen, who will return to UB this fall for her senior year.
Like many of Buffalo Niagara's leading engineering firms, Cobham has strong ties to UB, particularly to the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. UB engineers have been working at Cobham since the company formed as Carleton Aviation in East Aurora during the 1950s.
Fueled by the success of making oxygen regulators for Boeing 707s, the company expanded in the 1960s by providing a similar product for Project Mercury, NASA's first human spaceflight program.
"Every astronaut since John Glenn has breathed in outer space using our equipment," says Jeff Ehret, Cobham senior business development manager, gesturing to a case containing the regulator used by the famous astronaut.
The company also developed pressure suit controllers that military members use to keep cool when encountering dangerous heat; oxygen valves for submarines; and components for NASA's space shuttle program.
In 1987, British manufacturing company Cobham bought Carleton. Officially called Cobham Mission Systems Division, it operates in a 100,000-square-foot facility in Orchard Park that employs roughly 275. It continues to work with many of the same government agencies and private industry that it did as Carleton Aviation.
Whalen worked on the nitrogen inverting system at Cobham in early June. She used SolidWorks, the computer program, to show how a handle that clamps down part of the system is supposed to react to stress. She refined the handle's design to make it stronger.
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Whalen, who grew up loving art class, says she was drawn to mechanical engineering because it has many different applications.
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Fished from about 9:30am to 4:00pm. Most of the time in the middle of the C&R section. Day started dark and cloudy but there were intervals of sunshine in the afternoon. A decent breeze kicked up too.
Water is very low although maybe close to normal for this time of year. A lot of the usual spring time spots are too low to bother with. Not much visible insect activity. Occasional BWOs but not enough to get the fish up consistently. I fished mostly with a two nymph combo of a #10 Montana stonefly nymph with a brown abdomen and pale yellow thorax and a #16 Sugar Daddy with an Adams grey body. Caught a lot of fish on the stonefly although the bigger ones came on the small nymph. Also had some success later in the day with a #16 BHPT dropped off an elk hair caddis. Nothing on the EHC though.
Leaves were not a problem yet but that may change by next weekend as the woods up there are full of fall color. They'll be falling soon.
The only negative to an otherwise beautiful day was that I took a tumble in a riffle and broke my Z-Axis. Glad I had a spare rod with me to finish out the day. I'll be testing the Sage lifetime warranty.
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I was also on Penns Friday afternoon. I was working in Penns Valley on Friday and made a last minute decision to hit Penns for an hour or so before heading home in the afternoon. Penns is certainly not the kind of stream that I like to just drop in for a short time, but sometimes I take what I can get. I fished downstream from the old RR bridge at the end of Tunnel Road below Coburn. It was flowing at about 150 cfs - very low but a bit up from previous days due to the rain event Thursday afternoon. The water temperature was 56 degrees. I saw very few risers and very little bug activity. A few BWO's, craneflies and very sporatic October caddis were observed. This was my first time that I ever fished Penns in October and I was curious to see an October Penns wild brownie. It was also the first time that I ever saw an October Caddis - they are much larger than I realized. I was fishing on top with a caddis pattern and quickly realized with not much time to fish that I was going to have to change tactics if I wanted to see one of those brown trout. I switched to a size 14 flashback Pheasant Tail soft hackle wet fly with a small split shot about 10" above to get it down better in the column. I focused on the faster pocket water. I caught quite a few fish in the last 1/2 hour of fishing as they were smashing it almost as soon as it hit the water. Caught fish in at least three different age classes (5", 10" and 13"). The color of these autumn Penns brownies definitely did not dissapoint me. Beautiful stream, beautiful foliage and beautiful fish. What a great way to end the work week.
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March 9, 2013, 07:50 AM
Looking at carbines and interested in this one. Can anyone tell me how they run?
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March 9, 2013, 08:01 AM
I liked mine before the burglar got it. Front sight tended to get loose after a lot of shooting. Field Stripping is well-neigh impossible except to those in the skilled trades. However, I used the same method as I used with the similarly difficult Ruger Mark II (spraying every opening with a bath of WD-40) and the Hi-Point 9mm kept humming nicely. The Hi-Point is light, handy and reasonably accurate. If you can't afford one of those fancy Beretta pistol caliber carbines the Hi-Point is the way to go.
March 9, 2013, 08:03 AM
Do they feed hollow-points reliably? Do you guys like the 9mm or the 45acp better?
March 9, 2013, 08:38 AM
They feed EVERYTHING! As for caliber choice, Ive used both to take deer at close ranges.
What do you plan to do with it? Plink, hd, hunt? The 45 is what I would choose.
March 9, 2013, 09:53 AM
I've had my .40 Hi Point carbine for about 6+ years and haven't had any issues with it. Fugly but very functional! I have a cheap red dot on mine.
March 9, 2013, 09:59 AM
A friend of mine brought one to the range one time. It felt like it was going to fall apart with every shot, and I was never 100% sure I'd seated the magazine properly, but dang was it accurate!
Careful though...his had literally blown up due to a hot factory load. By blow up, I mean the receiver block exited the gun through the left side.
Hi-point, being hi-point, fixed it for free.
It now has a toilet bolt as a charging handle. :scrutiny:
March 9, 2013, 10:00 AM
i love mine i have the 995ts i can get 10 shot 1.5in groups at 50 yards with a red dot
March 9, 2013, 10:34 AM
Fugly yes, functional and reliable definitely yes, and lots of fun. I had a 9mm and wish I hadnt sold it. Was like a step up from .22 without going all the way to a bottleneck round (in cost and power).
March 9, 2013, 10:37 AM
Very pleased with my 995T.
March 9, 2013, 10:46 AM
I'm looking for home-defense. I'm also considering the Storm and a 16" upper for my AR. Not really sure which option I like best. The .223 I hear has less over-penetration risk, but I'm more of a pistol shooter, so I tend to have more 45acp and 9mm ammo on-hand than .223.
What would you guys take? An AR or a pistol-caliber carbine for HD? Either would have a red dot and foregrip.
March 9, 2013, 10:50 AM
hi point carbines - opinions?
Can't tell you about anyone's but mine, a Hi-Point 4095, shoots great and is a blast to use. Recoil about the same as a 223 and very accurate.
March 9, 2013, 10:57 AM
What would you guys take? An AR or a pistol-caliber carbine for HD? Either would have a red dot and foregrip.Well, I have both (actually, my .223 is a Tromix Saiga) so I guess I'm covered no matter what.
But I think the answer depends on what you mean by "home defense," and whether the gun will be designated for that sole purpose. When I think of "home defense" I think of being in my home, defending against a home invasion, an armed burglar, etc. For that, I happen to think I'm adequately covered by my XDM in 9mm. If it got to where I was gonna chose between my 995 and the .223 in the same situation where I'd use an XDM, I'd probably grab the 995. It has a red dot, and a laser. The .223 is sighted in for 200 yards, and is scoped with a LER Scout Mount setup, so it really isn't set up for CQB. But if I have to go outside, I'm grabbing the .223, not the 995.
Now there is a big price differential between a 995 and a .223 AR. Personally, I cannot justify owning the latter just as a CQB gun. Given that, I'd go for a 995 as a much cheaper alternative.
March 9, 2013, 11:02 AM
Best bang for your buck in the carbine department. If you have more money the Kel-tec holds more ammo. If you have even more money the 9mm AR's are very nice too. But at that point you can buy all 3 calibers of hipoint for the same price.
March 9, 2013, 12:09 PM
The Hi-Point is light, handy and reasonably accurate.I'm on board with everything but the 'light' part. Still a good buy tho.
If you have more money the Kel-tec holds more ammo.You'll never find one. Just saving you the frustration right here and now.
March 9, 2013, 12:25 PM
I like pistol caliber carbines, I bought a 4595 out of idle curiosity. It's been totally reliable with store bought and homemade ammo, including hollow points. It's compact size the ability to mount red dots and/or lights, reliability and price make it ideal for a budget HD weapon. The company has a no BS warrantee, mags are cheap and there are larger after market mags available. I have an adapter that will allow me to use 1911 magazines.
I like mine, but would choose a the 9mm just for cost. My only complaint... mine is not very accurate, but all my guns are range toys so using it as a soup can blaster is fine with me.
Oh, and it's an ugly sucker.:D
March 9, 2013, 02:17 PM
Awesome carbine. I wrote a review here some years back about "The Little Carbine That Could". I score them a 10. :D
March 9, 2013, 03:37 PM
I love my 995 in its ATI stock, much more solid than the original stock.
It feeds almost everything, but sometimes hangs up on flat-point 147 grainers. Why do they even make those things? HP and RN-FMJ are just fine.
March 9, 2013, 03:52 PM
I bought my 995 in 2000 for $75 at a pawn shop. Shot it a lot since then. Never a single fail-to-feed or stovepipe. It shoots anything I feed it with zero problems. Everyone that shoots it ends their session wanting one.
March 9, 2013, 04:09 PM
I'm on board with everything but the 'light' part. Still a good buy tho.
You'll never find one. Just saving you the frustration right here and now.
...and its my experience that the KelTec is overpriced, always was, and is less accurate and much less reliable.
The Hi Point will do what you need to do. Just carry more mags.
chris in va
March 9, 2013, 07:31 PM
I had a 9mm for a few years.
Lots of fun, light and easy to use.
Not all was roses though. I bought it used from a gun show. The ZAMAK receiver innards were ground down so far as to render it INOP. I guess the previous owner didn't lube it.
Sent it to the factory on my dime. They refurbished it and I tried firing it. The thing jammed and I discovered the barrel was installed off-center. Sent it back again.
It worked decently after that for two years. Then the safety simply broke off. Locked it up. Sent it back again.
Fired it another year, then a piece of the receiver broke off internally. Sent it back.
I finally had enough and sold it, along with the 8 mags HiPoint gave me "for my trouble". A $120 gun turned into a $350 PITA. It was fun when it worked.
March 9, 2013, 11:03 PM
went to the range with my 9mm one today with a friend. Worked great and had a lot of fun. Shot about 250 rounds through it with not one issue. Might have to get another in a different caliber once the frenzy prices die down and you can find stuff again. We were shooting tight groups at 25 yards and most others at the range wanted to know what it was. I don't think they are ugly. I like mine and don't plan to ever sell it.
March 10, 2013, 12:44 PM
I have a 995B. It looks like I stole it from the set of planet of the Apes. But it is tough and the only problem I have had is keeping the front sight tight. I finally put lock tight on the fasteners and have not had any more problems.
March 10, 2013, 01:22 PM
I have a 995 and a 4095, and bought a 995 for my grandson. All function wonderfully.
When I bought the .40, I stopped and bought two boxes of FMJ ammo and headed for this indoor range. The RO (a female with a "distinctive personality"), had to stifle her giggling because she obviously thought very little of my ugly new gun. So she decided to accompany me to the range "to watch". I'm sure she thought she was going to get some great entertainment watching me struggle with what was sure to be a piece of junk. Maybe even get to see it blow up in my face. She was all excited.
Keep in mind it was still in the box from the store, no cleaning, no sight adjustments, nothing. Just bought it and went shooting.
I put the first box of ammo into this target. Had to put a piece of masking tape on the front sight blade because it was hard to see the black blade against the black target.
I put the second box of ammo into this target, had a few flyers because my arms were getting tired from holding it up....I'm more of a bench shooter than a standing shooter.
By this time the RO had left in disgust, no misery show for her to enjoy.
Now, I can't speak for anyone else, but to ME this was very acceptable shooting for something that just came out of the box! Now that it has a red-dot optic on it, it's even better. All three of our H-P carbines have red-dots.
March 10, 2013, 09:26 PM
From what I've seen first hand and read the Hi Points offer a lot of gun for the money and their warranty is second to none. They are a bit heavy and the 10 rd mag limits the fun factor. I've always wanted one but never seem to be in the right place at the right time.
Not trying to change your mind or hijack your thread, but have you considered the KelTec Sub 2000? I bought a used Sub 2000 in 40S&W and while not as accurate as the Hi Point out past 50yds, it is light weight, will take 15 & 33 rd Glock mags and is plenty accurate at 50 yds. I put a Crimson Trace laser on mine and it's a lot of fun. The downside is the charging handle would be hard for many women to operate. Like Hi Point, KelTec is well know for taking care of their customers if issues arise. Finding one, even before the latest craziness, is the hard part.
Good luck
March 10, 2013, 10:51 PM
My old Hi-Point 9mm shot better, was more accurate and more reliable than the Beretta Storm that replaced it. Kinda sad really....:uhoh:
March 11, 2013, 07:52 AM
My humble 1/50th of $1.00...
Pig-Butt-Stuck-In-A-Mud-Fence ugly.
Goes Bang! on request every time, and puts the lead where you aim, or Hi-Point fixes it for FREE. No matter if you are the 1st or 5th owner, or anywhere in between.
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