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Solid Steel Tips: A Halloween Costume Guide for Those NOT Trick-Or-Treating
Here's the thing about our practicality guide; Halloween is inherently impractical. From the old All Hallow's eve traditions of slaughtering livestock as an offering to the deceased, all the way up to modern day orange buckets filled with candy corn bound to rot your teeth, there's not a whole lot that's practical about Halloween.
But that doesn't mean that it's not a whole lot of fun. Unfortunately Halloween ranks up there with Saturday nights in Vegas and your 21st birthday as nights where you have a pretty much 4 in 5 chance at losing your cell phone 32 seconds after leaving your house / getting into a fistfight with a cabbie / catching a cold and/or The Clap.
With age comes wisdom (and antibiotics!), so click through the jump to arm yourself with some Solid Steel Tips on how to awesomate your outfit and practicalitize your costume. And unlike that David Bowie space slut costume, this guide is one size fits all – guaranteed success with any and all getups.
Hilary Duff hates "gay." True story.
No, really. She hates the term "gay". To be precise, however, I should clarify that she is a star in a series of infomercials designed at raising awareness at the misuse of the word "gay". Check out Hilary Duff's ad above, and view the rest at thinkb4youspeak.com.
I'm kind of torn in half on this one. On the one hand, I think it's incredible (and about damn time) that something is being done to force people to face the fact that using the word "gay" as a synonym for anything displeasing is outmoded and pretty offensive. And "faggot" is a can of worms I don't want to go anywhere near either, at least not until after we're done dealing with "gay".
On the other hand, my fears of America becoming a police state become more and more real every day, and having PSAs reproaching diction does nothing to alleviate my worries. But that probably has less to do with any real problem and more with my paranoia…so take that as you will.
On the third hand…seriously? Hilary Duff and Wanda Sykes were the best you could get? How am I supposed to take that shit seriously? More importantly, how are the rest of the ignorati that this is supposed to reach supposed to take it seriously?
Three hands…hrm. I guess I'm not really torn in half as much as I'm torn into thirds. Regardless, this is an issue that most people don't really think twice about and this commercial should do wonders to change that. Sure, not everyone might change their habits of calling things "gay" overnight, but at the very least, people will be talking about it and arguing about and consulting their gay friends and figuring it all out. I, for one, am all for that. I should also note that I cannot be the one who casts the first stone…I formerly attended schools and inhabited environments where rampant use of the word "gay" was commonplace, and I partook. As much as I'm trying to remove it from my system and vocabulary, sometimes I slip…and immediately do the "look over both shoulders" to apologize to any gays in the verbal blast radius. Seriously.
Our only problem is…what do we say when the word "gay" is no longer socially acceptable as a parallel for "crappy"? Ahhh…this is why you read the Steel Closet. My Half Dozen "Gay" Replacements, in ascending order of usefulness/awesomeness, after the jump.
Give Us A Chance! Why You Should Date an Asian Man
To me, it's fairly obvious why women should date Asian men. I mean…I'm an Asian guy, and I love me, so why wouldn't anyone else?
Then I stopped to think about my monumental failures with women in the past. They probably had nothing to do at all with my ethnicity…but still, if success with women was a route on memory road, then my road was rough, unpaved, filled with patches, and generally confusing. And of course, being a man, I refused to stop and ask for directions. Reality – man, it's a sunnuvabitch.
But enough with my sardonic reminiscences! The lovely (and HILARIOUS) Jen Kwok did me a favor and made the ridiculous music video up above to convince women the world over to take a shot at a young lad like me. Jen, I appreciate the help. I suspect I need it.
In addition, I came up with five more reasons why wimmenz should date Asian men. Why five? Because five is average. YEAH, AVERAGE, NOT SMALL.
Fleshy, girthy averageness after the break.
Why The VMAs weren't Kanye's biggest mistake.
Kanye West is the man.
In what is quite possibly the biggest news event of the week (says something about the state of our country doesn't it?), Kanye West decided to be an idiot (again!) at the MTV Video Music Awards.
People all across the United States have their panties in a twist because, apparently, Kanye's actions were so rude, so disgusting, and so despicably vile that Kanye should be imprisoned. Or castrated. Or whatever. But c'mon folks…seriously? THIS is what people decide is the final straw for Kanye West? Are we forgetting the scads of other impossibly ignorant, endlessly entertaining moments that he's provided?
Stupider shit that Kanye's done and why I still think he's awesome after the break. Oh, and a ton of funny 4Chan meme stuff that will inevitably get whored out.
Lazy Mondays @ Dolores Park
I am an unabashed lover of the cold. Clouds, frigid wind, and heavy wool coats are my mistresses, my lovers.
But on one of the last days of the summer, a 78 degree stunner with nary a cloud in sight, I was lured to the patchy grass and varieties of wafting smoke trails (charcoal, cigarette…uhm…"others") at San Francisco's Dolores Park.
We, the Steel Crew, hold PhDs and government certifications in lolling around and loitering in public places. So we decided to say goodbye to the summer with picnic blankets, salty snacks, and cold beers. Aren't you jealous?
More after the break.
In The Shadow of Mount Doom: Steel Closet @ Five Guys Burger
I am a man of my word. After runnin' my mouth on a previous episode of The Steel Closet, I decided to back it up by heading to Five Guys during a visit to L.A. a few weeks ago. My brother, Latarian Milton, accompanied me as we set out to see what all the hype was about, to see if this Five Guys burger was worth the one-hour drive from Northridge to Carson.
Did I defect from the house that Animal Style built? Did I shame West Coast believers everywhere? Did I eat too much to move?
Answers (and lots of burger porn) after the break.
Seven Things Vanessa Hudgens Should Do Next
As reported last week, Vanessa Hudgens has a chronic case of clothesaphobia. I, for one, am ecstatic that such an ambitious, level-headed, intelligent young woman coincidentally loves to take nude photos of herself and share them with the perv- I mean, the internet bloggers of the world.
But…c'mon. She can't honestly expect us to believe that these pictures just "accidentally" "leaked" again. I'm convinced that this is all just a promotional tool to get people to understand that she's not just a High School Musical Girl anymore. She's a serious Hollywood actress. Seriously. Y'know, because nothing says "serious" like flashing your hoo-ha on camera.
So, because I know for a fact that Vanessa's publicist's cousin's half-brother's friend reads The Steel Closet, I've listed out Seven Things That Vanessa Hudgens Should Do To Be Taken Seriously By Hollywood And Internet Celebrity Bloggers, organized in ascending order of importance. This is all scientifically proven, as these steps have helped various celebrities rise from marginal obscurity to superstardom. Chea.
Stuff that Vanessa should do after the break.
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New Features
The following table describes the new features in this release.
Auto Scaling Supported in VPC
Auto Scaling is now available for Amazon EC2 instances running in Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). When you create an Auto Scaling group, you can specify a subnet in a virtual private cloud for the instances to run in.
Known Issues
The following table describes known issues in this release.
Current Limits
During the Amazon VPC public beta:
|No Direct Internet Access from a VPC
|Any VPC traffic to/from the Internet must currently route through the established VPN connection and through your existing IT infrastructure to the public Internet. You are currently unable to send or receive Internet traffic directly from your VPC.
|Unsupported AWS Products Only Accessible Via VPN Connection
|Amazon VPC allows you to deploy Amazon EC2 instances within your VPC. Resources provided by services such as Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon RDS, and others can't currently be deployed within your VPC, and, as such, are only accessible to resources within your VPC via the VPN connection, through your network, and to the respective service's public endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure.
|Broadcast and Multicast Unsupported in a VPC
|You are unable to employ either broadcast or multicast within your VPC.
|Increased Latency in Bundling Linux/UNIX S3-Backed AMIs
|You may experience increased latency in bundling Linux/UNIX AMIs within Amazon VPC. Such bundles are transferred from the instance, through the VPN connection, through your network and to the public Amazon S3 endpoint. You may need to create firewall exceptions to allow cloud-based instances to access the Internet (and possibly NAT) from your existing IT infrastructure."
|Service Currently Available in One Availability Zone
|Currently your VPC, subnets, VPN gateway, and any instances you launch in the VPC must all reside in a single Availability Zone in the us-east-1, or in the eu-west-1 region.
|Traffic Sent to Overlapping IP Address Ranges Is Dropped
|If your VPC's IP address range overlaps with an IP address range in use within your existing IT infrastructure, Amazon VPC will drop any traffic to said range. To avoid this, create your VPC so it does not overlap with current or expected future subnets in your network.
|Ordering of DHCP Option Values Not Guaranteed
|When you specify DHCP options, some options (e.g., DNS servers) accept multiple values. The ordering of these values is not guaranteed. After creating the options, you should use the DescribeDhcpOptions operation (or the ec2-describe-dhcp-options command) to confirm the order in which the options will be delivered to instances.
|Amazon EC2 Capabilities Currently Unavailable within Amazon VPC
|The following AWS products and features are currently unavailable for use with a VPC:
|Configuration Changes for Windows Server 2008 AMIs
|If you've created your own Windows Server 2008 AMIs from Amazon's Windows Server 2008 base images prior to v1.02, you need to make a couple of changes to your existing configuration in order to activate your instances' licensing when launching in a VPC. In some cases, you might need to make changes for v1.02 as well, depending on your needs.
Manually Locate VPC Activation EndpointsIf you want to launch a Windows Server 2008 AMI in a VPC, you must manually set the Windows Activation endpoint in your instance if either of the following conditions are true:
The activation IP address for VPC instances are:
To set the endpoint manually, execute the following commands from the command line:
Slmgr.vbs /skms 169.254.169.250 Slmgr.vbs /ato
Update Ec2Config Service Settings
If you're using an AMI that was created from an Amazon public Windows Server 2008 image prior to v1.02, then you should also make a change to one of the Activation Settings files in the Ec2Config service to reflect the new discovery hierarchy, which includes the preceding endpoints for VPC activation.
To make this change, overwrite the file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <ActivationSettingsTable> <!-- KMS Servers are searched for/activated against based on settings in this file. Each "methodSettings" section is attempted until a KMS server is found and instance is successfully activated. --> <!-- Try autodiscovery first... --> <!-- NOTE: Autodiscover clears any KMS that is already set! --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>true</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer/> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Try the first virtual IP for VPC instances --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer>169.254.169.250</TargetKMSServer> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Try the backup IP for VPC instances... --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer>169.254.169.251</TargetKMSServer> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>false</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <!-- Now search the DNS suffix list. This should already have been set by the SetDNSSuffix plugin, controlled by the setting in the primary config file. --> <MethodSettings> <SetAutodiscover>false</SetAutodiscover> <TargetKMSServer/> <DiscoverFromZone/> <ReadFromUserData>false</ReadFromUserData> <LegacySearchZones>true</LegacySearchZones> <DoActivate>true</DoActivate> </MethodSettings> <GlobalSettings> <LogResultToConsole>true</LogResultToConsole> </GlobalSettings> </ActivationSettingsTable>

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One who munches the cum residual found in the crack of the ass which have hardened into small crunchy nuggets over night or nights.
I knew he was a cum cruncher when i spotted a familiar nugget dangling from a hair in the corner of his mouth.
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Mark Berninghausen
Most commercial agriculture relies on government subsidies. Facts are that corn farmers would lose money if it weren't for the subsidies (regardless of the weather). Want to change the face of the modern monoculture agricultural landscape...KILL THE SUBSIDIES...never going to happen with Iowa as the first stop on the Primary trail.
Probably the best way to make a million in agriculture (beekeeping or whatever) is to start with three million.
lazy shooter, you may well be right. But, I didn't mean to imply that working hard was all it took. It takes knowledge of bees and beekeeping, and as much business knowledge and skills. It doesn't hurt if one does not need to have all the latest gadgets, toys, bells and whistle, material objects, conspicuous consumption.
The beekeepers that I know who appear to me to be doing well are smart business persons who work when they need to, not when they want to, put in long hours in the beeyard, the truck, the Bobcat, and the honeyhouse. They also know how to take time off and smell the roses. Ain't nothin' prettier than a sunrise over the blueberry barrens, unless it's a sunrise over an apple orchard.
Yes, I am a hopeless romantic and proud of it.
Sidenote: How come when I enter a Thread titled "Money", the w/in Thread title is "Re: There is a lot of bluesky to sell a dreamer in the beekeeping field..."? How does this sort of thing happen? How is it done? By whom?
Mark Berninghausen
So, that's how it's done? Whatya know?
Mark Berninghausen
Someone wrote:
I'd honestly like to see packages fall to the wayside. They are a product with planned obsolescence in a sense. They keep customers coming back in my view.
With the increase of pathogens, and the increase of pathogens in old equipment that is spread by Nuc sales(AFB in NE?), I predict that Nuc sales will not replace packages any time soon.
As for making money, it sure helps to have a history that is salable, skills and knowledge that exceed the competition, the ability to minimize repair and capitol expenditures(read "make your own woodenware and Stainless equipment"), and most important, to have deep enough pockets to span the lean years that have now become typical. Time will tell if we have what it takes. I believe that the above variables far outweigh any regional differences.
Crazy Roland
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
I used to help my friend Sonny farm. He said "farming is a nice way of life, not much of a living though".
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
Acebird, we are talking bees here, not something else. Let's stick to what it takes to make money keeping bees.
Mark Berninghausen
"Now it is kept more than 100 hives?"
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
The original question was, and I paraphrase, 'how much profit per hive in Louisiana and Arkansas.' I still haven't seen an answer to that question. Actually, I think it is impossible to give a definitive answer to this question, as there are way to many variables, but I would have thought that someone could at least fired a SWAG at it by now.
If one wants in the bee business, he/she should copy Solomon's model. Just learn how to keep bees as a sideling for a few years. Test the market for honey, bees, pollen and whatever and determine how best to maximize profits. Bee keeping is a highly specialized and technical endeavor.
I ordered three packages with the thought of having home grown honey and putting some bees back in nature. I'm 15 months into keeping bees, haven't lost a hive and haven't harvested any honey, nor have I produced one swarm. It can be a tough business.
I asked a local beek how's business, is there money in honey? He said dunno about money, but there's work...
lazy, I did answer it. Sorta. I told the guy to find out the State production average and do the math. That's about as good an answer anyone not from LA can give, in my opinion.
And then I told everyone what it is like for me for the most part. I don't know if that translates to LA very well or not, but I believe it is about as good as or better than anyone else has explained. Other than Solomon I don't recall anyone else telling us what their numbers are like.
Acebird, you are right. But, I think I know quite a few more beekeepers than you and have seen what the difference is between those that make profit from beekeeping and those who don't. Maybe don't want to or care if they do, compared to those who do and those who strive and struggle to. But, yes, I see your point.
Mark Berninghausen
OK I might suggest that the OP simply look around him. It's pretty hard for anyone to intelligently assess the potential for beekeeping with something as general as Louisiana or Arkansas to work with. Sure the national honey report has always shown good averages for Louisiana, but that only tells me that there must be some pockets of good production. Are there a lot of commercial bee locations in the area where you are considering keeping bees? If so there is probably some potential if not well.......there's your sign.
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Well said Bill Engvel.
Mark Berninghausen
@ jim lyon
It's easy to think since grain and bean prices are high that farmers are doing well, but that ignores the spiraling prices of input feed costs. Just ask a cattle farmer about that one. Corn and bean farmers...how about climbing lease prices, out of control fert prices and all the fuel costs exponentially compounding everything. You NEED elevated corn and bean prices just to keep pace with the escalating input costs. Simply put, any student of the market knows that there is NO FREE LUNCH. Yeah, record prices for your goods...that is if you can survive long enough to get it to market. All those factors don't even take into account seed prices and all the chemicals that accompany the planting. Chemical prices stay lock step inline with fuel prices. As far as subsidies, you get up front cash payment once you commit acreage to certain crops (such as corn), then you also get a back end payment once you're fields/harvest go to market. Pure and simple, subsidies drive a great majority of plantings, not "free markets".
@ OP and original question
As far as making money with bees, honey prices (or lack of) is the biggest factor going. Making money with bees reminds me a lot of like the gold rush. The people that made the most money were the frontier hardware stores selling the picks and shovels. With bees, the money seems to be in THE BEES; selling queens, packages and nucs along with good service. Of course low honey prices drive commercial operations heavily into pollination services, but seems to bee the most important factor there. The backyard beek/hobbiest is most interested in making honey. I don't even want to go down the honey issue/problems road (what's in the foreign honey and what not).
How much money to be made with bees? I suppose one could simply point to Burt's Bees and say millions. It's like in most everything, right place, right time, right message and tons more of hard work and luck (but then again the optimist says that you make your own luck). But what do I know, I didn't get into beekeeping for the money.
Okay I know this is a bit off-topic but I can't stand to leave erroneous statements unchallenged. There are no back end subsidies for grain and haven't been for years. I am a grain farmer I fully understand input costs. Ever wonder who is paying high lease prices for land and why?
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Just grainfarmer deficiency payments and prevented planting payments and I wills shut up now. Incentives to stay on the tit. Subsidies to allow the big to get bigger. I first got in to bees the first time because of the relatively low inputs to make a crop. It is still do-able to build a business but it takes skill and luck and a God awful amount of backbreaking work. Now it is an old man puttering and wishing I was young enough to start over.


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Working on beefing up Dia's text support. In particular, I want all text to be editable in the diagram rather than in properties dialogs, more than one text field per object, and the ability to tab between the text fields. Will take some cleaning up first, I'm afraid.
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Deschutes Land Trust receives state award
BEND, Ore. - The Deschutes Land Trust and its restoration partners on Tuesday received the 2012 Stream Project Award presented by the State Land Board, which includes Governor John Kitzhaber, Secretary of State Kate Brown and State Treasurer Ted Wheeler.
The award went to the Land Trust, the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, the Deschutes National Forest, and Aequinox for their work restoring Whychus Creek at the Deschutes Land Trust's Camp Polk Meadow Preserve.
A mile and half of Whychus Creek flows through the Land Trust's 151 acre Camp Polk Meadow Preserve outside of Sisters. The creek was channelized in the 1960s, resulting in habitat loss for fish and other wildlife.
The Land Trust partnered with the Upper Deschutes Watershed Council and Deschutes National Forest on a multi-year restoration effort that returned Whychus Creek to its meandering path through Camp Polk Meadow Preserve.
"The Land Trust is fortunate to have such great conservation partners in the Watershed Council, Deschutes National Forest and the local community. The work at Camp Polk Meadow is truly a community effort that began with our acquisition 16 years ago, continued with countless hours of volunteer stewardship, and culminated in this remarkable collaborative restoration project. The end result is a much healthier Whychus Creek for fish and wildlife," said the Land Trust's executive director, Brad Chalfant.
The restoration of Whychus Creek through Camp Polk Meadow Preserve is a key component in the long-term community-based effort to restore habitat for the historic reintroduction of salmon and steelhead to the upper Deschutes Basin. Goals of the Camp Polk Meadow project include restoring stream and wetland habitat for native fish and other wildlife.
Work began in 1997 when the Land Trust, with funding from Portland General Electric, began negotiating to purchase the then subdivided meadow. Acquired in 2000, floodplain restoration began in earnest in 2009 when contractors carved a restored, meandering channel through the meadow. Volunteers and crews then planted 180,000 sedges, willows, dogwoods, and other native plants in subsequent years.
Finally in 2012, the Land Trust returned the full flow of Whychus Creek to its meandering path through the meadow for the first time in 40 years. To learn more about the restoration or view video footage, please visit our restoration webpage.
Funders of the Whychus Creek restoration project included the Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Pelton Round Butte Fund (Portland General Electric & the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation), Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Forest Foundation, Bella Vista Foundation, The Nature Conservancy, East Cascades Audubon Society, and Deschutes River Conservancy.
The State Land Board Awards were established in 2004 to recognize worthy projects and efforts that promote responsible, sustainable stewardship of state resources or benefit Department of State Lands-related programs.
The Deschutes Land Trust conserves land for wildlife, scenic views, and local communities. As Central Oregon's only nationally accredited and locally-based land trust, the Deschutes Land Trust has protected more than 8,200 acres since 1995. For more information on Deschutes Land Trust, contact us at (541) 330-0017 or visit www.deschuteslandtrust.org.BEND,


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Serves 4
(This needs to be made at least 12 hours in advance, 24 is preferable.)
• ½ cup water
• 125g caster sugar
• 300g fresh raspberries
• 200g fresh blackberries
• 200g fresh strawberries
• 12 slices of sandwich-sliced white bread, crusts removed
• 1 tsp finely grated lemon zest
• 1 cup cream, whipped
• 2 tsp rosewater
1. Put the water and sugar into a saucepan and bring to a simmer.
2. When the sugar has dissolved, add berries and lemon zest, stir to combine and bring back to a simmer then remove from the heat.
3. Place a colander over a bowl and pour in the fruit. Leave until all the liquid has drained and the fruit is cold, and reserve the syrup.
4. Using a 1-litre basin, line the base with triangles of bread then cut slices to line the sides, fitting snugly because this lining is designed to prevent the syrup and juices escaping. Leave two to three slices for the lid.
5. Spoon in the fruit, then enough of the reserved syrup so the fruit looks wet. Cover with the rest of the bread slices, spoon more liquid over the top and reserve remaining for serving. Cover tightly with plastic wrap. Sit the basin on a plate with a rim to catch any juices. Place a small plate or saucer which fits inside the rim, on top, with two cans from the pantry to weigh the plate down. Refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
6. To serve; remove the tins, plate and wrap. Invert carefully and lift off the basin/bowl. Spoon over the leftover juice and serve with cream whipped with rosewater.


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Welcome to people coming by In a Strange Land after listening to Radio New Zealand today. Ele very kindly mentioned my dry July star chart during her regular radio discussion with Jim Mora, as an example of interactive social media. If you're looking for the star chart, you can click on the menu link just below my name, or you can click here for the star chart, and here for my post, On the Efficacy of Star Charts.
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Hey everyone,
First year, one hive, New equipment. Olivarez package bees started April 1st. *Very* strong hive, Harvested mid-June and mid-Aug. 165 lbs total. Still honey left for bees. San Mateo, California. No hard winters. No treatments. Was not planning to treat. Past the Aug 15th mite treatment sweet spot for this area. Now cooler nights high 40's to mid 50's temp. Lots of crawlers and deformed wing bees. Worried about coloney. Bees still very active just *lots* of dead bees and crawlers in front of hive.
Do I treat? Can I treat this late in year? What would you treat with based on temps 75 to 45 degrees? Or, go "natural" and let them tough it out?
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As the climate warms, moss growth dramatically spreads on the continent's peninsula.
In Dogged Pursuit of Sleep
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Questions about how E. coli evolves; spermatids in a dish; fighting bacteria with virus-like molecule; what drives metastasis; antibodies fight Ebola in monkeys
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Will Smith gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Jada Pinkett Smith: Worst Oscar pink
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There was some pink at the Oscars…and all of it was sh-t, but the worst of the sh-t was Jada Pinkett Smith. It's Versace. I feel like we've seen it before. Or maybe it's because it looks like what Sofia Vergara wears over and over and over again. I hate it. I hate the colour, I hate the material, and I especially hate the way the sweep over the shoulder goes all the way down her back. Full Story
No divorce on New Year's Eve
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Well, there might be one. But it probably won't be the Smiths. Here are Will and Jada at LAX yesterday leaving for Dubai, all smiles. There have been rumours for months that these two are done, that Jada's been unhappy and singing songs about leaving him, and that a split is imminent. Maybe…eventually? But not in 2013. Full Story
Will Smith cheats on Jada?
With who? Supposedly with Margot Robbie. She's the actress in The Wolf Of Wall Street who, for a while, was rumoured to be dating Leonardo DiCaprio which turned out to be bullsh-t because, well, Leo is strictly models. According to STAR Magazine – so immediately you know it's not true – Will and Margot are hooking up. Full Story
The red carpet "pattern" of the Smiths
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Oh look. It's Duana's new obsession, the Smith Family. Click here to read her post yesterday on Will and Jaden Smith's interview with Vulture. It's all about "patterns", see? On the red carpet, the parents wear bright colours while the children stick to black and white. Full Story
Will and Jaden like patterns
(Last night I emailed Duana about the Will & Jaden Smith Vulture interview. I heard from her an hour later: OH MY GOD. Like I'm not even through it and I only woke up because Libby barked and I checked email on phone and could not even get through it before I had to put it down to email you. Full Story
Ok, Jaden
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It's really hard to write about Jaden Smith. Here he is in Cancun, doing press for After Earth, the movie he made with his dad Will. Jaden is 14 and it's obviously not fair to judge Very Young Hollywood by the same standards I feel so completely free to judge Adult Hollywood. He's a kid. Full Story
How is this the same movie?
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa are the people who made Crazy, Stupid, Love. Their next project is called Focus, and it was originally intended for their CSL stars Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. Gosling couldn't work it into his schedule and Stone was only doing it to work with him again so they were subsequently replaced by Kristen Stewart and Ben Affleck. Full Story
Jada's answer to the open marriage
Jada Pinkett Smith was interviewed by the Huffington Post and the reporter straight up asked her about the open marriage rumour. Her answer.... Well... I don't hear an emphatic No. Do you hear an emphatic No? Watch below, it's only a minute and a half, and tell me if you hear an emphatic No. Full Story
Will Smith could have been Django, is a moron
Will Smith's career strategy is not a mystery. He's spoken in the past about choosing roles because they would be blockbusters, about deliberately deciding not to pursue the kind of interesting and diverse roles like he did back in the Six Degrees of Separation days because he valued A-list success over credibility. Full Story
Will and Jaden Smith by M. Night Shyamalan looks terrible
Somehow, after a run of increasingly bad efforts capped off by the infuriating The Happening and the appallingly awful The Last Airbender, M. Night Shyamalan is still allowed to make movies. How he's not been thrown in Director Jail remains a mystery, and not only does he remain at large, free to crap out whatever turd of a twist ending he's come up with and call it a plot, he's still convincing major stars to put their names on his pieces of sh-t. Full Story
TIFF 2012 - select observations about the guest list
Last year we had Brange and George. This year Johnny Depp and Will Smith. That's a win when you can secure any two of the big 5 and both Depp and Smith were on the TIFF expected guest list released this morning. A few quick notes which, by no means, covers everything, but we'll add to it later as we approach the festival: -Paul Thomas Anderson is on the list for The Master and, after the reaction from last week's Chicago screening - click here Full Story


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Users of Orkut – the large social network in Brazil are again a target of attacks – this time the problem was malicious Apps, small applications that can be added in the user's profile and executed directly in the browser. Some apps were able to do a redirection when loaded in the user's profile, leading to phishing pages. Simply visiting an affected profile was enough to be redirected; no other user interaction was needed. During these attacks we collected and blocked more than 50 phishing domains used in this malicious scheme – it's believed that approximately 150,000 profiles had their IDs stolen.
Currently more than 16,000 apps are available to be installed in a Orkut profile – and some bad guys were able to publish malicious apps in the Apps Directory, even while Google reports that all of them are checked before publishing. One of the main malicious apps used in these attacks was "ChateTVOnline", an app that promises the ability to watch TV channels.
In the source code of the app it is possible to see the main cause of the problem: when installed in a profile it's possible to run external code, not hosted on Orkut servers. It allows the developer to make redirections to phishing domains.
After being installed in the user's profile the malicious app will run every time someone enters the profile and the redirection will occur. All the accounts stolen were used to spread the attack, adding automatic scraps, which are short messages, in some communities asking other users to install the malicious app or to visit the affected profile.
Around 50 phishing domains were used in this malicious scheme. In just one of them, goooble.com.br, a typosquatting of google.com.br we found more than 440 users ID stolen.


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Four For Friday
One of these is from Fashion Week, but you will have to guess which one.
Do not forget that one week from today I will reveal some of those troubling blind items for you. Some you have already guessed, and some you have not. There may even be a shocker or two as well.
Speaking of shockers, this A-list film actress may not always be the perfect wife everyone thinks she is. When her husband is away — and he has been away several times in the past year — she has enjoyed a torrid romance with her personal trainer. Originally, this trainer was hired to help her burn off stress, but not pounds, just doing old fashioned exercise. Seeing each other several times a week has kept the stress levels down, but lately it has been a much different kind of exercise. Each of them knows it is a fling, but the trainer has already started sharing details with friends and clients. How long will it be before hubby finds out (and the rest of the world, too)?
It is not only the men in Hollywood who like to have more than one flame burning at a time. This B-list film actress with fairly hopeless aspirations to be A-list keeps at least two guys each in LA and NYC. What started out as just liking one guy from each city has progressed into something more. She still keeps those two around for safety, but what she really enjoys is something a little more wild. Our actress enjoys guys who have been in recent relationships. There are only two requirements: they must have been in a big enough relationship where being seen with them will give her some publicity, AND she must have heard something about how they are good in bed or very well endowed.
This B-list actor will basically work for food. OK, so maybe that makes him C-list, but he was in one of my all-time favorites, so I want to make him a B. But he was a jerk in that movie and in real life, so back to C he goes. Anyway, while filming his latest Tori Spelling-specialty, he met this actress who thought our actor was cute and he was divorced and thus worthy of a date or two. After the first date, she really thought this could be something nice. Then someone on the set warned her about why our actor got divorced. Whoops! No more dates and a really cold shoulder. When they had lines together or had to kiss, it was sterile and clinical. He really is thinking of only working overseas, because the women in Hollywood have him pegged and no one who knows the full story of his divorce wants to work with our actor.
This permanent male television reality personality is married and shouts it from the rooftops. Problem is, he would rather be married to a man than to his wife.
I am on my way back to LA for the Grammys and will have a full report for everyone on Monday.


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Shares of Mosaic (MOS) were rising more than 2.5% in afternoon trading, following an upgrade from J.P. Morgan.
Today, analyst Jeffrey Zekauskas raised his rating on the firm from Neutral to Overweight, and raised his target price to $68--more than 20% upside from the stock's open.
Although the stock has fallen more than 28% in the past year, Zekauskas notes that the company's position has markedly improved in recent months, and he also expanded his earnings estimates for 2013:
"Mosaic's prospects have clearly improved since the beginning of the year. It resolved a long-standing dispute with Potash Corporation (POT) over 1.3 million tons of potash production that had been subject to a tolling agreement. It is now able to sell the disputed potash tonnage beginning in January 2013. The company also reached a settlement with the Sierra Club over permitting for mining phosphate rock at the large South Forte Meade mine in Florida, thereby lowering its purchased rock requirements and reducing its cost structure. China just settled a large potash contract this week with Canpotex and the other potash producers flat at $470 per ton cfr. The base case was that the contract would settle lower, leading to a stronger earnings outlook for Mosaic. Importantly, Mosaic is inexpensive on a replacement value basis. We believe that the replacement value of the company is approximately $92 per share, which represents a 65% premium from the current price of $56.27. Bidders for Mosaic after May 2013 would not be subject to tax penalty (stemming from the effects of a tax-free spin of Cargill-owned shares). We note that Potash Corp. received an unsuccessful hostile bid from BHP in 2009. It may be the case that Mosaic's share price could be affected by the proximity of the May 2013 date, given Mosaic's valuation. We raise our December 2012 price target for Mosaic from $57 to $68. Mosaic trades currently at 5.2x EV/EBITDA relative to Potash Corp at 6.6x for calendar 2013. Our target price for Mosaic reflects a 6.5x multiple of EBITDA relative to our 7.0x target for Potash Corp.
"We move our earnings estimate somewhat lower for F2012 (ends May 2012) and somewhat higher for F2013. Lower potash volumes and lower DAP prices are likely to weigh on results for the February and May 2012 quarters. We lower our 2012 earnings estimate from $4.90 to $4.75. We raise our F2013 EPS projection from $5.20 to $5.30 to reflect higher potash prices following the China contract potash settlement. We reduce our F2014 earnings from $6.40 to $6.00 to reflect a conservative approach to DAP earnings in the context of the Ma'aden phosphate capacity addition. We note, however, that should DAP prices hold at current levels, the company could earn $0.55 per share in F2013 above our forecasts.
"The company is in a $2.3 billion net cash position. We expect it to throw off 4% of its share price in free cash in calendar 2012 and 6% in calendar 2013. Its return on capital is 13-14%. Mosaic is constrained from repurchasing shares until May 2013 due to the tax-free spin of Cargill-owned Mosaic shares. We would expect a serious repurchase effort at that time."


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Currently I'm a software engineer at Google, working on game development & VR related tech (I created for example the serialization library FlatBuffers).
Before that I was doing independent consulting/contracting in the area of game engine and programming language related technology. Recent clients include Maxis (SimCity) and Gearbox (Borderlands 2).
I am one of the creators of the Guildhall at SMU Master's program for game development, teaching my students how to build engine components (such as shader systems, skeletal character animation, scripting compilers), and supervise their Master's projects.
Before that, I worked at Crytek on the original CryEngine and the game Far Cry, working on multiplayer, core engine systems, and a new scripting language. Prior, I was a consultant for Amiga Inc working on a new operating system and a new system wide programming language.
Some of my largest projects have been self-employed, or in the case of the Cube Engines, in cooperation with Lee at dot3 labs. The first Cube engine started as an exercise in simplicity, game design, and in-game level editing, but has evolved into a rather complete open source game & engine project in Cube 2 / Sauerbraten.
My other Games, Engines, Editors & Maps.
Thinking on how we can better organize information has led me to create TreeSheets, a "hierarchical spreadsheet" as an alternative to text editors, spreadsheets, mind mapping programs, outliners etc.
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I did my PhD at Southampton University (UK), and my Master's at the University of Amsterdam (NL), both in programming language research, with Aardappel and Bla being the respective resulting projects / languages.
I created one of the most widely used languages on the Amiga platform, Amiga E, which I sold as a commercial product for a few years, and the False language which started a wave of esoteric languages.
Recent work centers around my Lobster game programming language and the Restructor Refactoring system.
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Around 10 to 20 per cent of New Zealand women will suffer some form of postnatal depression (PND) and some dads will cop a dose too. And up to 80 per cent of women go through a thing called 'third day blues,' a totally normal, short, hormone-induced condition following childbirth. New Zealand psychiatrist and PND expert, Dr Sara Weeks, says it's time for women to stop suffering in silence and has penned a new book, Mothers Cry Too, to try and raise awareness of PND. In this video Nicky Park talks with Dr Sara about the various ways PND can manifest, how we can tell if a woman is at risk, what we can do to help and the fact that dads are at risk too.


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As part of the 14th annual Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series, astronomer < Michael Bicay, Ph.D., of the NASA Ames Research Center, will discuss Lifting the Cosmic Veil: A Decade of Highlights from the Spitzer Space Telescope, an illustrated, non-technical lecture Wednesday, April 16, at 7 p.m. in the Smithwick Theatre at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. Admission is free and the public is invited. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Arrive early to locate parking.
As the infrared cousin to Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 to study the cool universe with waves that are invisible to the human eye. It was designed to probe the birth and youth of stars and planetary disks, and to observe some of the most distant objects in the universe. However, Spitzer's ultimate legacy may be in an area completely unanticipated when the mission was originally envisioned — the study of planets orbiting other stars. Dr. Bicay will describe the long and winding road leading to Spitzer's launch, and present highlights from the mission's remarkable first decade of discovery.
Bicayis the director of science at the NASA Ames Research Center, leading more than 400 scientists and technical staff conducting research in space, earth and biological science. His doctorate is in applied physics from Stanford University and his research interests include the properties and contents of galaxies and galaxy clusters, as well as the large-scale structure in the universe. Before coming to Ames, he was on the scientific staff of Caltech's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center and was a program scientist at NASA headquarters. While in Washington, he also served as an astrophysics consultant to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. After returning to Pasadena in 1996, he was a member of the science staff and scientific community liaison for the Spitzer Space Telescope.
The free lecture series is sponsored by the Foothill College Astronomy Program, NASA Ames Research Center, SETI Institute Astronomical Society of the Pacific. Past lectures from the series are available online at www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html. A number of past Silicon Valley Astronomy Lectures are now available free on YouTube on the series' own channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/SVAstronomyLectures/.
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I wouldn't mind seeing him go. The O line probably wouldn't mind either figuring nobody is going to run in their backs for no apparent reason anymore.
Anyone pick up on what DW is doing that i would say is a credit to Bradshaw. If you watch that highlight video you see him use his one arm to shove the defender away like how Bradshaw always trys to do. In his collage highlights I never seen him do that.
He is too expensive to be in a backup role, he is gone, we have some nice young up and coming RB's, in the NFL RB's do not last long, and Bradshaw is not what he used to be, love the guy for his fire but his legs can not keep up with his heart, it happens to the best of them.
Coughlin would throw a hissy fit if they tried to cut Bradshaw next year, it simply ain't going to happen, even with his persistent foot problems. What you might see happen is Bradshaw might not start very often, if he doesn't get his butt to practices. He'd be a fresh guy for later in the game. One thing that should have become incredibly obvious is players who don't practice shouldn't walk back in and start on Sunday.


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In light of Lara's recent disappearance, those closest to her gather
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I was shooting at around 125 yards and it's an absolute tack driver. I've shot the same .22 rifle with a Weaver scope for 50 years at this range and I'm not too bad with it but the new .17 is so much more accurate I could hardly believe it. Way fun.


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Career Notes: Finished her career with a 101-52 singles record and a 97-44 doubles mark … her 97 doubles wins is the most in school history … her 198 victories made her the winningest Bulldog in school history.
Senior (2014-2015): Registered a 26-13 singles recorded and a 31-12 doubles mark … paired up with Maddie Johnson for a team-best 25-8 record … ended the regular season winning seven of her last eight singles matches … produced a doubles winning streak of six matches or more on three different occasions with the longest streak reaching eight matches from Jan. 24 to Feb. 15 … was named MVC Athlete of the Week on March 31 for securing match points against Iowa and Northern Iowa … registered a team-best 18-6 combined singles/doubles ledger, including 9-3 marks in both singles and doubles in the fall ... turned in a 4-1 singles record at the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Regional ... paired with Maddie Johnson to win the No. 5 and 'Gopher' doubles championships at the Gopher Invitational and the No. 3 doubles title at the MVC Individuals ... paired with Johnson to knock off 59th-rated duo of Yang Pang and Oleksa Shkorupeieva from Arkansas at the ITA Central Regional.
Junior (2013-14): Compiled a team-best 63-15 combined singles/doubles record, including leading the Bulldogs in singles (31) and doubles (32) victories...finished the year with a 31-10 mark in singles, including 19-4 during the dual campaign, en route to collecting first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference accolades at the No. 3 singles position...was 32-5 overall in doubles and 16-4 in the spring...posted winning streaks of seven and nine, respectively, in singles during the dual campaign...closed the season with a 9-1 mark in singles action...won 14 consecutive doubles matches from Oct. 25 through March 22 with three different partners...registered 20-3 and 7-1 doubles ledgers with Jordan Eggleston and Klavdija Rebol, respectively...recorded a team-best 28-7 combined singles/doubles mark in the fall, including a team-high 16-1 doubles ledger...captured four championships during the fall campaign...paired with Mariel Ante to claim the 'Maroon' doubles crown at the Minnesota Golden Gopher Invitational...teaming with Jordan Eggleston, earned a title in the 'Purple' draw at the Northern Iowa Fall Invitational, dispatching Adele Henke and Ashley Thai of Bradley, 8-2...a week later, the tandem garnered the No. 2 flight crown at the MVC Individuals besting Julia Schiller and Abby Stevens of Wichita State, 8-5...capped the fall campaign winning the No. 2 singles championship at the Drake Jamboree...finished 12-6 in singles action...named to the MVC Academic Honor Roll.
Sophomore (2012-13): Posted a 37-27 combined singles/doubles record, including a 9-1 mark in her last 10 singles matches...tied with Eggleston for the team lead with 24 singles victories...turned in an unblemished 7-0 singles mark in the MVC en route to collecting first-team all-conference accolades at the No. 5 singles position...recorded a 7-7 doubles mark in the spring, including 2-1 in league matches...went 16-10 in combined singles/doubles matches during the fall campaign, including 10 victories in singles action...paired with Ali Patterson to earn the 'B' doubles crown at the Drake Fall Invitational, while besting Montse Fernandez from Wichita State, 6-2, 6-4, to claim the 'B' singles title...recorded a pair of singles victories at the ITA Central Regional.
Freshman (2011-12): Turned in a 41-29 combined singles/doubles record, including a 20-13 singles mark...posted a 13-11 ledger in singles during the dual campaign, with a 4-1 record at the No. 3 position...paired with Amanda Aragon to record 18-16 ledger in doubles...netted an 11-7 combined singles/doubles ledger, including a 7-2 singles mark during the fall...captured the No. 3 Silver singles flight crown at the Northern Iowa Fall Invitational, with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Veronika Makashov of South Dakota.
High School: A four-time all-state selection at Buffalo Grove High School, helping lead the Bison to four consecutive Mid-Suburban East Conference titles during her prep career...reached the Sweet 16 of the Illinois State Tournament as a senior before falling to the eventual state champion...capped her junior campaign as the top-rated player in the United State Tennis Association (USTA) Chicago district.
Personal: Born April 16, 1993, in Arlington Heights, Ill....majoring in creative advertising...daughter of Craig and Lisa Boyd.


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What exactly are you planning to do with your Glock?
I"m not a collector and as now only own one gun Glock23.(I've of course owned other guns but not as of now, no more then two at a time and no long weapons) I'm at a loss, i spent 550 bucks on my piece and truly never have liked it. Grip was funny. The sights I've never like. No safety and it's kinda ugly.
Why would you buy it then?
Cause i knew it was gonna work, no matter what! Also needed something concealable. Function over form any day I'd drive a Geo Metro if it never broke down. Thats how I am.
I'm inconsistent with the gun but it's more accurate then I am. My brother out shot me at a range expedition. Literally the second time he held a gun in his life he out did me. I'll get to the point.Regardless I'm gonna get me another pistol but not another $500 piece.
My point is should i make the Glock the gun I always wanted by modding it? What are your experiences with modding anything?(especially want to hear feed back from the Glock guys, aftermarket brands; etc.) My biggest fear is I get it modded and it messes with it's drop dead reliability which is unacceptable, period. I consider my Glock my combat piece (no I'm not military or L.E.) since i put my life in it's hand. Funny since it's in my hands.
There's local shops that do gun smithing but I don't trust them. And i shore as hell don't trust my self. I live in Central Florida so if your a local with experience point me towards reputable places, peoples name's.
If you read this essay length thread completely i have to thank you for hearing me out.
Please guys help.
What exactly are you planning to do with your Glock?
If the grip angle is bad for you there is no real mod that can fix that. There are a lot of guns that are just as reliable as the Glock with grip angles that may work better for you. I have always wanted a Glock but I just don't shoot them well due to the grip angle. You may need to rent or go shooting with someone with an asortment of guns to find what works best for you. The proper angle, fit, and feel is 75% of the battle IMHO.
Well first off spending double for some custom do hicky isn't the type of guy I am. I'm a budget guy.
My biggest mod would be a connector and a front sight. I've shot other Glocks and their trigger pull dose feel lighter then my stock one. Engagement seems fine but the initial pull seems excessive.
I had a chance to pick up a G20 and shoot a Glock 17 at the range in both cases the pull was smoother. The guy who's Glock 17 I shot said that my trigger seemed heavier then his gun and i agreed. (I always shoot someone else's gun in exchange for them shooting mine, I love doing that) I might possibly have a Miami trigger.
My Glock has no problems mechanical and me replacing the Glock isn't that feasible. The old saying "once you drive it off the lot".
As of right now i can't afford to trade in the Glock and get something different or get that back up piece i mentioned. $10 dollar connector ten bucks i got, 100 to 200 for the an exchange. Nope! I don't have hundred two hundred to blow. As i said I own one gun.
And who knows my next gun cold mess up. Hell i could get another Glock and it could mess up in truth.
Glock factory mods. Completion trigger, maybe a stock 5.5 see if it's the gun or my imagination. Also the tritium front sight, I'm cheap not even the whole set. I own a hand me down holster and a five dollar flea market laser that puts the bullets where it's sighted to. No need for some 300 dollar crimson trace.
My requirements for my gun were .40cal; not much shorter then a 4inch barrel; compact for concealment and under $600. Truth is price and availability is a factor. Someone tells me X brand at X price but if I can't obtain it locally then it's simply a pipe dream.
Next piece is defiantly gonna have a manual safety and not one of these DAO crap.
Last edited by fattsgalore; 01-24-2007 at 03:27 PM.
My Glock 35 model has a 3.5lb. connector, NY1 spring and Trijicon night sights. I recommend to switch out some of the stock parts and customize to your preference. The trigger pull is excellent and sights are great.
You mentioned you are uncomfortable holding your Glock 23; if it's a 3rd generation why not sand in the finger grooves OR slip in a hogue grip? They are pretty inexpensive and maybe what you're looking for.
I agree with Maximo on the Glock
I think Glock is one of the best made guns but if you can't shoot it it's not worth crap. I find the grip angle is wrong for me ..... i guess that's from shooting a colt 1911 for 30 years
Sell your Glock, and buy a Walther P99 A/S in 9mm. Watch your IQ go up 50 points. Take a week off on vacation.
Everything will be all good
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I'll be real with you shipwreck I wanted a P99 in .40cal over what i got.
(9mm is good but i like my defense pistols to have bite). Availability; price; and after market hindered that. If the P99 held 13 or more I'd consider getting one especially at the $398 sticker price i saw.(Every gun at that price has probably already been scoped up)
I trust Glock more and wouldn't trade it for a Walther. I've handled the P99. Magazine release at times seems genius and super easy(they should make with a large width, left to right) to use other times i had to literally use my other hand or break proper grip.
If you remember you told me about the P99 clone in .45.
I've since then read a article. Not as aesthetically pleasing as the others. The design wasn't built with large caliber in mind. Walther should make one anyway. And make it 10+1.
If your issues are with the grip size and form, look into this. Its pricey but their work is awesome and I've never heard a complaint: http://www.robarguns.com/glock.htm
Or you can try regular old sandpaper.
As Glockamania stated, there are some aftermarket grip "modifiers" also:
Peel and stick decal grips in sand or rubber: http://decalgrip.com/sys-tmpl/door/
Felt-type wrap w/ good grip qualities and very concealable: http://www.brookstactical.com/Pages/fitlist.html
Slip-on rubber: http://www.getgrip.com/main/overview/handall.html
Or you can cut your own w/ 3M Tread Tape.
For sights, try
Fiberoptics: http://www.hivizsights.com/Glock-C11.aspx
or http://www.truglo.com/content/prod_h...brite_site.asp
Fiber optic and Tritium: http://www.truglo.com/content/prod_h...iber_optic.asp
on the trigger, make sure you have the stock 5.5# trigger (the trigger pull weight is listed on the plastic storage box). If you don't have the 5.5# stock trigger, then you have one of the heavier NY triggers. Get the 5.5# and get used to the difference. If it's still unacceptable try this cheap, easy and very effective trigger job: http://www.alpharubicon.com/mrpoyz/glock/
Or you can replace your connector w/ the 3.5# one and/or the NY trigger spring(s) for a "lighter" pull and faster reset.
Honestly, if your main concern is reliability and value, you have done well with your G23. There are several mods out there for the GLOCK platform but, personally, you bought the GLOCK because it IS a GLOCK. The reliability is arguably unbeatable. Get some rounds downrange before you dismiss the gun altogether. Try the grip enhancers (the 3M Tread Tape and DecalGrips are the cheapest) and research for a cheap front sight (Sportsman's Warehouse). Do the cheapo trigger job and I think you'll be happy.
Also, try searching www.GlockTalk.com. There's a lot of good info there.
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to the OP:
I'd try the trigger mod and spend a whole lot more time at the range. You can get used to the grip angle....the trigger.....everything. Just shoot as much as you can afford to. More ammo is the best mod for your money IMO.
From what you're the pistol doesn't fit you. Instead of spending the money on modifying the pistol and still being dissatisfied with it, you could try to sell it. It'll require some patience but I see it as the best solution to your problem.
I also carry a G23. When I get another gun for CCW I will probably modify my G23 for range and eventually competition. I plan on reducing the trigger to 3.5 lb. and changing the .40 to a 9mm. I've already done the .25 trigger job on it. I will also change sites from my factory second generation to ??? I don't know which one yet.
Do a little at a time and learn to do it your self if you can. The more we work with or guns to better we can handle any situations that may arise.
I agree.
If i had a choice in sights.(I do but I'm not forking out 70 to 80 bucks) I'd go with Novak sights or Novak style.(which are more then 70 80 bucks) They seem very user friendly. I'll be changing front sight only since normal shooting practice is using my front sight only. Glock factory tritium. I like the factory front sight since it has the Glock insignia on top the sight.
Bargain shoppers unite.
PS Been working on the Doug Lathem( I'm probably not spelling that right) thumbs forward grip. It's not a natural grip but I grip the gun better(both hands molest the frame) and get slightly better sight picture. Only range time will tell if it helps.
Last edited by fattsgalore; 01-26-2007 at 12:14 AM.
I suggest you buy a new connector (I like the 3.5 lb. competition connector)and get some red, hi viz green orange paint for your front sight. Cost - about $15.
I have never understood the point about grip angle. If the gun points differently, aim differently. Get used to the gun and this should not be an issue.


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I applaud Emmie for her interest in the shooting sports. However-she needs to keep the muzzle pointed DOWNRANGE at all times! She was dangerously close to sweeping her feet with a loaded firearm. In a match that could get her DQed at best or a hole in her foot at worst. Saw the latter at a match last year-it wasn't pretty.
GSSF is a wonderful starting point to pistol competition. I recently got promoted(?!) to Master in GSSF. Good luck to Emmie-I was a rookie once too. Just work on that muzzle control and she'll be OK. She can study the courses of fire at gssfonline.com


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