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The Basic Mechanics of LifeJournal for Windows
Information about Installation, Moving the Program to a Different Computer, and Uninstalling Fully
LifeJournal tech support receives basic questions about how the program works. Here are questions and answers to help you better understand some of these basic mechanics of the LifeJournal programs:
INSTALLATION OF LifeJournal PROGRAMS
LifeJournal is installed from an installation file. lj3setup.exe. The installation file (about 35 MB) can either be downloaded fromhttps://online.lifejournal.com/products/windows?free_trial=1 or be accessed from a LifeJournal CD that you purchased.
When you download the installation file SAVE it (and remember where you save) and double click it to install and run the program.
The trial installation file is the same file as the full installation file. When you enter the key the trial version becomes the full version.
D. When you install LifeJournal, there are two places on your
computer where the program resides:
(1) the program or software is found (if you use the default path) in C:\Program Files \LifeJournal3
(2) the data--your journal entries, daily pulse entries, Topics List, etc--are saved (if you use the default path) in C:\MyDocuments\LifeJournal[YourName].
The two files that contain your journal data are [YourName].ljd and [YourName].lja.
NOTE: You can install LifeJournal for Windows ONLY using lj3setup.exe. If you copy the files that are in C:\Program Files\LifeJournal3 , you won't be able to install the program onto a different computer.
File Maintenance
Upgrading to LifeJournal 3
Learning How To Use LifeJournal
LifeJournal Online
- Is there Help documentation for LifeJournal Online?
- Do you have a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page for LifeJournal Online?
- Is there any help documentation for LifeJournal Online by features?
- Do LifeJournal Online and LIfeJournal for Windows sync?
- What is the best bookmark to log in to my LifeJournal Online account?
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Frequently Asked Questions
You can trust us because we have a strong foundation of values. We've been in business 47 years and we are not going anywhere. Our customer loyalty allows us to grow while maintaining a small company feel. It's important for us to treat our customers like family.
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Not in most cases. Bud's Heating and Air Conditioning maintains a fully stocked warehouse with transportation available to get your system up and running quickly. We employ a dedicated parts manager to expedite orders in the event that your part needs to be ordered. We service nearly all makes and models of heating, air conditioning and indoor air quality equipment and can get your problem fixed fast!
ENERGY STAR is a program that was created by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help businesses and individuals make energy efficient purchases. The ENERGY STAR label, a small blue and white logo, is put only on items that meet superior energy efficiency standards. For more information about the Energy Star program, please view their website at www.energystar.gov
Many notice an immediate improvement of their system functionality after getting their air ducts cleaned. Homeowners report their systems using less air in the summer and less heat in the winter, all because the air is constant. Air ducts, if not cleaned, house mold and mildew, polluting all the air in your home. To save money and protect your family, read more about cleaning and schedule an appointment to have you air ducts cleaned today! Call us at (757) 234-8423!
Many of the everyday household items around your home contribute to poor indoor air quality. Compounds found in carpeting, furniture, and upholstery consistently emit gas or fumes. Other sources of pollutants can include, but are not limited to, cleaning agents, paints, candles and personal care products.
Also, newer homes that are tightly sealed for energy efficiency tend to limit air circulation, which can contribute to a buildup of contaminants. Likewise, things like weather stripping and storm doors keep stale air in and fresh air out.
When the cost of repairs approaches 50% of the value of your heating or cooling system, it's generally a good time to think about replacing your system. Even if needed repair costs aren't quite as daunting as 50%, you might want to replace your system if it's more than 12 years old or you've had a history of problems with it.
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- Keep humidity levels within a healthy, comfortable range to prevent growth of mold and mildew (25% - 55%).
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- Choose furnishings that emit the smallest possible amount of chemical vapors.
- Do not allow smoking inside your home and make sure all gas appliances are properly ventilated.
Energy-efficiency tax credit still available!
On December 17, 2010, President Obama signed the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. This law extends the tax credits for energy efficiency into 2011; however, at lower levels. The credit allows for 10% of the cost of the improvement, up to $500, with a $200 max for windows, and several other set maximums.
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Administrative Law Judge Recommends, Deny Permit for UEC Failure to Protect Water
Goliad County Commissioners, Ground Water Conservation District officials, and concerned farmers, landowners and other residents of the Goliad area are preparing to travel to Austin on Tuesday to hear a decision by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) on a permit application by Uranium Energy Corporation (UEC) for an in situ leech (ISL) uranium mine.
"The area where UEC wants to mine uranium contains many drinking water wells," said Art Dohmann with the Goliad County Ground Water Conservation District. "Water is the lifeblood of our county. We are deeply concerned that UEC must not be allowed to contaminate and destroy our underground drinking water with the heavy metals and radio-nuclides they would stir up in the uranium mining process."
Texas State Administrative Law Judge Richard Wilfong (the Judge) reviewed a contested case brought by the County and Ground Water District and recommended that the TCEQ deny the permit based on a failure to demonstrate the company can adequately protect drinking water. The U.S. Safe Drinking Water Act and the Texas Water Code require that the no injection well permit may be issued that causes contamination of an underground source of drinking water.
"The Judge did the right thing and we sincerely hope the Commissioners will follow the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Texas Water Code and deny this permit," said Attorney Rob Baiamante who representing Goliad County. "Goliad County residents currently enjoy their right to an excellent source of underground drinking water and this company must not be allowed to ruin it."
Baiamonte and Attorney Adam Friedman, with the Houston-based firm Blackburn-Carter representing the Ground Water Conservation District expect that the three TCEQ Commissioners will most likely make one of three potential decisions —
1. Deny the permit based on the ALJ's legal recommendation.
2. Send the application back requiring additional water testing and an additional hearing. This would be an added financial burden on the County and Ground Water District and would assist the applicant's effort.
3. Disregard the ALJ's recommendation and approve the permit leaving the protective responsibility of upholding the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Texas Water Code to the Region VI office of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mary Anklam who farms next to the site where UEC wants to mine said, "The exploration for uranium alone caused sales of our goats to drop and we went out of that business. It would be a crime for UEC to be allowed to ruin the water that we drink and use on our farm. The Judge was right to recommend that TCEQ should not give this company a permit. We are asking the TCEQ to apply the Safe Drinking Water Act and the Texas Water Code and protect us and our neighbors and not just help this company make money by exporting dangerous uranium."
The TCEQ Commissioners' Hearing on the UEC application will take place Tuesday, December 14 at 9:30 AM at the TCEQ headquarters in Austin, 12100 Park 35 Circle, Austin, Building E, conference room 201-S. The item will refer to SOAH Docket Number 582-09-3064 and TCEQ Docket Number 2008-1888-UIC.
Goliad County officials and residents encourage the media and public to attend.
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The Underfuzz
|The Underfuzz
|Kenshi Mardon
|Update schedule
|Wednesdays and Saturdays
|Launch date
|June 11, 2008
|End Date
The Underfuzz is a webcomic that is drawn by Kenshi Mardon, who also appears within the comic.
The author views Underfuzz as a "different kinda comic...thing"[citation needed] because he is not only present within the comic in his fox form, but also in a human form. The two can switch places as the maker of the comic at any time, and, despite being the same person, have very different personalities. Having been on an unannounced haitus for the past several months, Kenshi is now working on giving the comic a new look with more detailed backgrounds, more precise character design, and other modifications to the mood and theme of the comic.
Kenshi Mardon (Fox): see Kenshi Mardon
Kenshi Mardon (Human): One of the main characters of the story, Kenshi is co-creator of the comic and thinks of most of the poorly written jokes for the comic. Because he is essentially sharing the existence of Kenshi Fox some of the evil characters that Kenshi had invented before the comic have been able to slip out of his mind and into the comic world. His fate is currently unknown
Leon Mc.Dowel: A Black dog, Leon represents the sarcastic or even satiric elements of Kenshi's mind. Usually the one to bash on a subject or finish off a joke, Leon is one of the characters who has more substance to him. Could this pose a complication?
Chisa Ruscof: The "SPAZ" of the group, Chisa is the femininity of Kenshi's mind. At one point she was to be the love interest of the Mardons but had her character background changed for the sake of a future semi-developed plot arch.
Xellos Marctavius: The Gothic element of the story, Xellos is the embodiment of Kenshi's quiet and goth quality. Not saying much, he shall become the artistic medium of the comic
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The World Famous,
Three Sisters Springs Wildlife Refuge
is one of Crystal River's crown jewels. Three Sisters Springs is a paradise for both manatees and people. Three Sisters Springs Wildlife Refuge is part of the Crystal River National Wildlife Refuge and the King's Bay Manatee Refuge.
Between the months of November and April, Kings Bay is home to the Largest population of Manatees in a Natural Environment in The World. Visitors to Three Sisters Springs can Swim with Manatees. However, these animals are protected and therefore have very strict regulations regarding your behavior when swimming with manatees. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services have produced a series of videos detailing the proper behavior when swimming or snorkeling with manatees entitled "Manatee Manners." There are separate videos for Swimmers, Paddlers, and Photographers.
Manatee Manners Videos
For all questions or concerns about parking passes, parking citations or other parking and boat launch fees call:
Park Ranger 352-697-0933
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Traditionally, April showers bring May flowers, right? Well, April snow showers this last weekend brought me an extra snow day and a day to finish up May Morning Work Stations. Yuck to the snow, but yeah for a day to prep morning work. I know that spring will come . . . … [Read more...]
May Fine Motor Morning Work Stations
While many of you may only have a few weeks of school left, my kinder friends will be with me until the second week of June so I am still toying with the idea of whether I will be adding another set of Fine Motor Morning Work Stations to my arsenal or whether I will maybe just … [Read more...]
Rainy Day Tissue Paper Butterflies
Sometimes, you just need something a little bright and cheerful when the rainy days are gray and dreary. With only one, little, pathetic window in my classroom, I decided we needed to brighten things up a bit for days when the sun wasn't so sunny. So we whipped up some tissue … [Read more...]
Going Buggy With Math Stations!
Things in Michigan are FINALLY starting to warm up. It reached a whopping 48 degrees today. Yeeehaww. My three sons (I know! Cheesy huh?) were so excited they had themselves out golfing in the yard this evening. There were only a few snow piles they had to avoid, but … [Read more...]
Fun Buggy Base Ten Freebie
It's that time of the year when my kinders are feeling confident and ready to run with base ten activities. One of there favorite activities is one that is inspired by a freebie created by Ocean's of First Grade Fun's Yolanda (She's awesome isn't she?) during the Debbie Diller's … [Read more...]
Introducing Stations To Insure Independent Learning
I've had a ton of questions emailed to me lately regarding how I introduce activities for my Math and Daily 5 (my Daily 6) Stations so that students are working independently. When you have nine math stations going at one time, it's impossible to be everywhere so independence is … [Read more...]
I Spy A Target Find You're Gonna Love and a Freebie To Get You Started
A reader of mine mentioned that there were some oh so cute magnifying glasses at Target and I just HAD to go check it out. I'm always interested in finding anything that will engage my kinders. So I was delighted to find these. Look at these cutie patootie looking … [Read more...]


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Early Bird Savings for Cloud Expo
Defining cloud computing has proven to be nearly impossible. Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers. Countless discussion groups, blogs, articles, etc. have attempted to give their own take on cloud computing, and all to no avail. The industry just can't agree on a common definition. With that in mind, perhaps it's time to move past trying to define the cloud and look into the common characteristics of such solutions.
Many of us have heard or read about some of these cloud characteristics, so I thought I would offer up my top five cloud computing solution characteristics here.
Shared, virtualized infrastructure: At the heart of cloud computing is one of its key technological enablers, virtualization. Virtualization provides a path to share pools of IT resources such as servers, storage, data, and more. By virtualizing and sharing such resources, higher utilization rates can be realized. Effectively, more can be done with less, or more can be done with existing resources.
Self-service access: Cloud computing solutions should enable self-service capabilities to their users. The days of human-driven resource provisioning requests are replaced by some type of portal, usually web-based, that allows authorized users to directly access compute resources based on their need.
Elastic resource pools: Whether cloud computing concepts are being applied to a set of servers, blocks of storage, or shards of data, the resource pool should be elastic. This means that as more resource is needed, the system provisions more from the pool to ensure demand is met. Conversely, and just as importantly, when a resource is no longer needed it should be returned to the pool. This dynamic growth and contraction should be carried out autonomically based on parameters defined by users of the cloud.
Consumable output: Once the resources are provisioned by the cloud, they should be as close to "ready-to-go" as possible. Configuration, tuning, and integration should be handled by the cloud computing solution where possible allowing users to derive immediate value from the provisioned components.
User-based usage tracking: This feature is really a need created by the first characteristic mentioned. If the cloud is offering up shared resource pools, it is necessary to understand who is using those resources and how much they are using. Cloud computing solutions should provide a way to allocate usage of its resources to a particular user or group of users in order to facilitate chargeback within a business.
By coming up with a set of characteristics that define cloud computing solutions, users are armed with a list of criteria when they begin looking to the cloud. Also, characteristics seem easier to agree upon than a precise definition. The above list is not meant to be exhaustive, nor is it meant to represent the most important characteristics for every user or use case. I'm interested to hear what others have to say about important cloud computing characteristics, so let me know what you think.
- Forget Defining Cloud Computing
- IBM & Cloud Computing: Self-Service Clouds with Fine-Grained Control
- IBM & Cloud Computing: How WebSphere CloudBurst Delivers Consumability
- Cloud Computing and Virtual Images
- Bringing Cloud Computing to SOA
- Five Reasons to Choose a Private Cloud
- What's in a Cloud Appliance?
- Should Developers Care About Cloud Computing?
- Reference Architecture for Cloud Computing
- Confronting The Culture of Cloud Computing


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Cowboys and Angels
Shane is a shy civil servant striking out on his own. Vincent is a gay fashion design student looking for a roommate. When they cross paths, a friendship begins with Vincent helping pull Shane from his shell and sending him on the road to fabulousness.
- Year
- 2008
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 89 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
- David Gleeson
- Producer
- Peter Stockhaus, Chris Chrisafis, James Flynn
- Co-Producer
- Peter Stockhaus, Chris Chrisafis, James Flynn
- Editor
- Andrew Bird
- Screenwriter
- David Gleeson
- Director of Photography
- Volker Tittel, BVK
- Production Designer
- Jim Furlong
- Music
- Stephen McKeon
- Principal Cast
- Michael Legge, Allen Leech, Amy Shiels, David Murray, Frank Kelly
- Costume
- Grania Preston
Production status
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cleveland folks love their tattoos....not as elaborate as adam wilson's tat celebration of cleveland r's tat is creative and shows off what I've been told is the cleveland handshake.
soon after hunter released the song, then mayor dennis kucinich presented ian with the key to the city.
most folks know the 1997 version of the song, covered by the presidents of the united states and used as the theme song for the drew carey show.


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Hey everyone,
For the past few months we have been working on upgrading saabscene to V-bullition. Next week it will finally be going live!!! Hopefully by Wednesday the site should but up and running on VB.
I will be setting up a forum section to help us work out any bugs we may encounter, or to let members ask for new plugins and programs. This is an exciting step forward and I hope you all enjoy.


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Bus Operator (part time)City of Dubuque, Dubuque, IA
The City of Dubuque has operated under the Council/Manager form of government since 1920. Under this form, legislative responsibility rests with the City Council and administration authority is given to a professional City Manager.
The City Council is responsible for setting overall policies and goals for the City and is comprised of the Mayor and six members who are selected in a non-partisan election for four year terms. The Mayor is the chief elected official and formal representative of the City. The Mayor and two council members are elected atlarge and four council members are elected from one of four wards into which the City's thirty-one square miles are divided. Over twenty boards and commissions are appointed by the council to advise them on a wide range of city issues. The City Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of city government.
Departments include Airport. Community and Economic Development, Fire, Personnel, Building Safety, Health Services, Water Treatment and Water Pollution Control, Administrative Services, Library, Leisure Services, Planning Services, Police, Public Works and Transportation, Housing Services, Human Rights and Operations and Maintenance. The City of Dubuque employs 549 fulltime employees and has a combined operating and capital budget of $180 million.
Part-time Position
The City of Dubuque is seeking applications for the position of part-time Bus Operator. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing customer service while operating a transit system bus over designated routes. The successful candidate will possess some truck or bus driving and customer service experience; experience working with a diverse workforce; a high school diploma or its equivalent; or any equivalent combination of experience and training which provide the essential knowledge, skills and abilities. A valid Class "B" commercial driver's license with air brakes and passenger endorsements is preferred; however, paid training is available to candidates with extensive customer service experience. The successful candidate will possess a demonstrated ability to follow a management philosophy that is input oriented, values equity, problem solving and the development of partnerships and a desire to be part of an organization that values service, people, integrity, responsibility, innovation and teamwork. The City offers an hourly salary range of $18.04 to $18.88. Please submit an employment application to Randy Peck, Personnel Manager, City Hall, 50 West 13th Street, Dubuque, IA 52001-4864. The Personnel Office may be contacted at 563-589-4125 or email@example.com. The employment application and job description are available at www.cityofdubuque.org/employment. Women, minorities, veterans and qualified persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. A drug screen will be administered prior to employment. EOE
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An adversary looms larger and stronger if you're incapacitated or off-balance, according to a study by UCLA anthropologists that places the classic "fight, flight or parley" question in an evolutionary context.
The study, part of a series that examines how humans assess potential adversaries, showed that young male participants who were restrained on a chair or who struggled to balance on a board consistently underestimated their own stature and overestimated that of an angry-looking male, compared with a control group.
The results suggest that mental tough-guy tallies are influenced by a visual shortcut that researchers believe was handed down by evolution. Men who developed an ability to visualize their relative power quickly and accurately survived encounters, while those who underestimated their adversary didn't live to pass on their genes.
Such rapid, seemingly unconscious, assessments are vital to the U.S. military, which funded the work, but also factor into such areas as law enforcement and daily interactions. The process also touches on sensitive areas such as racial prejudice and stereotype. Skewed perceptions of relative threat were at the heart of the fatal confrontation in Florida last year between neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman and teenage passerby Trayvon Martin, a racially polarizing case that ended in Zimmerman's acquittal of second-degree murder and manslaughter.
Encounters between two strangers may rest on a metaphorical "mental picture" that can turn literal, the studies suggest.
"You have a little picture of the opponent in your head, and each time you learn something about the opponent or about yourself that's relevant to the question of who would win a conflict, you just adjust the size of the little picture in your head," said UCLA anthropologist Daniel M.T. Fessler, lead author of the study published online Wednesday in the journal PLOS One.
The researchers have previously shown a similar phenomenon when people viewed someone with a gun – the presence of a weapon appeared to skew perceptions of stature. And young men in a group tended to "shrink" the stature of a terrorist, in another study – a finding that parallels other work showing that male chimpanzees tend to initiate a fight when they hold a 3-to-1 advantage.
Researchers believe they are identifying a vetting process that once was focused exclusively on physical dominance, but has grown into more complex issues of social hierarchy and deference.
Fessler and his colleague, Colin Holbrook, believe evolution has selected for cautious, rapid calculators who then adapted to new circumstances.
"It's just built on top of this old system that originally was evaluating size and strength, nothing else," Fessler said. "So, in chickens or lizards, that's probably all that they're looking at. When they're deciding do I peck or do I run, they're just thinking about who's bigger and who's stronger. Natural selection just tweaked that as behavior became more complicated."
There are detractors, however, who hold that we are born with a tabula rasa on which life and experience etches our behavior and ultimately our culture.
"I and my collaborators think that there's a compelling case to be made that this is a part of our deeply evolved psychology, but to be fair, a skeptic could argue that developmental experience might be enough to build such a system," Fessler said.
Animals that don't have much social experience during development, however, demonstrate the same calculus of formidability, he said.
"It's not clear that social experience is necessary for this system to operate," said Fessler. "Given that size and strength matter in determining the outcome of conflicts in many, many species, we think it's parsimonious to suggest that this is a very ancient system, and that as the behavioral repertoire becomes more complicated, as it has in our lineage, those simple dimensions become used for representing a far wider range of different contributing factors to relative formidability."
How the study was done:
Forty-six men of an average age of about 23 were told they were to participate in a study about physical disabilities. They were strapped to immovable chairs and asked to perform random judgment tasks interspersed with the test: matching an angry face to bodies and silhouettes. They repeated the experiment unrestrained, but with small metal caps on their fingertips. Then they were asked to say when a laser pointer reached a spot that matched their standing height. Those who were restrained chose larger bodies.
In the second test, 45 men of similar age who were told they were participating in a test of motor skills performed similar tasks in a survey format, while trying to balance on a rocking disk, and while standing on the ground.
All participants also answered demographic questions and completed a fear-of-crime survey and a test of their perceived relative social status. Social power was not measured in the balance test, but participants were asked how difficult the balancing was, and primary results were analyzed only from those who rated it more than minimally difficult. Expanded analysis that included some of those who judged the task as easier produced similar results.


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Minnehaha County
Look-Up Volunteers
To request a lookup, click on the name and email address of the volunteer. One name per look-up and ask them politely. Some of these emails were listed by the previous coordinator, so the email addresses may have changed. Thank You!
*Minnehaha County/various sources
Patrick Sullivan
Cathy Walker
*Bailey's on CD
Brad Jones
*Beck-Sechser, Clauson, Cleven-Johnson, Garner family research
Ann Garner
*Celebrating a Century, Garretson, SD Centennial, 1889-1989/
Garretson Area Historical Society
Cathy Walker
*Dept. of History Collections Volume X (1920)
(has 1860 Census and the 1869-1870 deaths)
Anne Orton
*Grave Records of Minnehaha County (Contains only RURAL cemeteries, not those of Sioux Falls.
Name is listed with whatever dates and information was found on the grave stone.
Published 1982.)/ Sioux Valley Genealogical Society
Nancy Dunn
Betsy Lentz
Cathy Walker
*Humboldt Through 100 Years 1889-1989
Bill Even
*Index to Marriage Records of Minnehaha County, South Dakota, Book 1 and Book B, 1886-1893/
Beverly Pyn
Cathy Walker
*Minnehaha County History and Biographical Sketches/
Minnehaha County Historical Society, Robert Kolbe, Coordinator
Betsy Lentz
*Minnehaha County, Dakota Territorial Census, 1880
*Minnehaha County, SD, Census, 1900
*Minnehaha County, SD, Census, 1910
*Minnehaha County, SD, Census, 1920
*Minnehaha County's Norwegian Pioneers History from 1886 to1896/
edited by Iver I. Oien, et al.
Janet Church
*Polk's City Directory (1954 Sioux Falls) Lists occupation and home address for each head of household and spouse.
Mary Peterson
*PROPER Family Genealogy
(web page)
*Sioux Falls in Retrospect/
R.E. Bragstad
Joy Fisher
copyright 2004
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A key priority for Conservatives is helping ordinary working families with the cost of living. This includes making work pay by ensuring that you keep more by being in work than you would if on benefits. This year saw the Personal Tax Allowance increased by more than inflation for the seventh consecutive year, raising it to £11.500. As a result of these changes, a typical basic rate taxpayer will now pay £1,005 less income tax in 2017-18 than in 2010-11.
As well as taking millions of people out of tax altogether, the lowest paid have also been helped by the introduction of the National Living Wage which has boasted incomes by over £1,400 for full-time workers. This year the National Living Wage increased from £7.20 to £7.50 an hour.
Pensioners have also been supported with a £1,250 increase in the basic state pension since 2010. This means that someone on a full basic State Pension can expect to receive around £590 more a year in 2017-18 than if it had been uprated by average earnings since 2010-11.
Fuel costs can make up a big part of a family budget and there has been significant pressure on prices at the pump. The Conservative Government cancelled the fuel duty rise that was scheduled for April which kept it frozen for the seventh consecutive year, saving the average car driver £130 a year and the average van driver £350 since 2010.
Our political opponents like to claim that only the very wealthiest have done well under the Conservatives while everyone else suffers. This couldn't be further from the truth. The fact is that income inequality has fallen and is now at its lowest level in over 30 years while average disposable household income was £1,000 higher in 2015/16 than it was in 2007/08. Another statistic they like to keep quiet is that the richest 1% now pay 27% of all income tax revenue, which is a higher proportion than it was under the last Labour government. Working families are the backbone of our society and helping them manage must always remain a priority.


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4-Phase PWM Controller with 8-Bit DAC code for VR10 and VR11
Product Description
The MP2930 is a 4-phase, synchronous buck switching regulator controller for regulating microprocessor core voltage. MP2930 also uses dual edge PWM mode to realize fast load transient with fewer capacitors. For meeting the requirement of microprocessor output voltage drops tightly as load current increases, output current is sensed to realize voltage droop function. Accurate current balancing is included in MP2930 to provide current balance for each channel. 8-bit ID input with selectable VR11 code and extended VR10 code can set output voltage dynamically. The MP2930 also provides accurate and reliable over current protection and over voltage protection.
Product Features
- 2-, 3- or 4-phase Operation
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- Adjustable Switching Frequency
- Over Current Protection
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- VCC (max) (V)5.25
- fsw (max) (kHz)1000
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It's my birthday this week, so I joined A Handmade Birthday swap for the month of October. I had so much fun making things for my partner (whom shares a same birthday as me).
Here is what I made for her:
|Cross Stitch Bookworm Bookmark
Source: Cross Quick - Premier Issue (pages 26-27)
Fabric: 16ct Aida Cloth - Tie Dyed Purple | Purple Felt for Backing
Date Completed: September 29, 2014
|Birthday Card (Outside)
Materials: Cardstock, Scrapbook Paper, Sharpie, Marker, Cricut Machine,
Xyron Glue Stick, X-ACTO Corner Rounder Punch
|Birthday Card (Inside)
Quote Source: 200 Happy Birthday Wishes from Wish Quotes
|Envelope for Birthday Card
Materials: Scrapbook Paper, Martha Stewart Scoring Board,
X-ACTO Corner Rounder Punch
|Handmade Envelopes
Variety of envelopes using Martha Stewart's Scoring Board.
Update: I contacted my swap partner if she ever received the package I sent her and she didn't. So I made another set and resent it. I am so upset that the first one never arrived. Because of this, I sent this one Priority Mail.
|Date: October 22, 2014


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Several weeks back me and my mom stumbled into a quaint little vintage shop that had quite a few gems in it, one of them being this belt. From the moment I saw this belt I fell in love…I imagined so many flowing, patterned summer outfits , accented by it that it was overwhelming! I can't wait to style it again & again…& quite possibly AGAIN! 😉
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How To Select A Wheelchair Accessible Handicap Van
I'd like to obtain useful ideas, tools and resources through e-mail from Kelley Blue Guide and affiliates. See, no other automobile can do what a minivan can do. Full-dimension, truck-based mostly SUVs like the Chevy Tahoe and Ford Expedition are pretty big, however their cargo capacity isn't any match compared to a minivan. Since a hybrid minivan has already been launched in Japan, there at the moment are environmental groups that want this new minivan to be offered in the United States as nicely. Go for the Mazda5 for a nimble, affordable six-passenger minivan expertise, or the CX-9 for a quality seven-passenger crossover.
Joining the brand new Odyssey would be the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica , which debuted early in 2016 on the Detroit Auto Show and will go on sale in the spring. Even the huge Cadillac Escalade has solely ninety four cubic ft of open real estate in the again, about one-third lower than a contemporary minivan. Whereas a three-row SUV could also be extra in style, it's compromised for full household duty, in contrast with a minivan," stated Stephanie Brinley, an analyst with IHS Markit.
The Sedona has improved so much thanks to a whole redesign final 12 months that I can now say it's my second-favourite minivan. Most minivan dashboards go straight to the bottom and leave some flooring area in entrance of the middle console; that is the place you'll drop a bag or perhaps place a wastebasket. A fully loaded minivan can value greater than $45,000, which is way above the common worth for a brand new car and just like the cost of luxurious cars. One way to discover a good deal on a minivan is to purchase a model few drivers have heard about, such as the Hyundai Entourage , a mechanical twin of the Kia Sedona , which was only offered for the 2007 and 2008 model years. And eventually, Chrysler has made its minivan an 8-passenger hauler, thanks to a small center seat that's each light-weight for straightforward elimination, and cozy to sit down in as properly.
Either in my very own driveway (with a vehicle on loan from the auto producer) or on the dealership, I inspected every minivan as an actual buyer would and drove each a lot of times. They have released a hybrid Estima, a smaller minivan than the Sienna, in Japan solely. However, if you do not intend to tow a lot of anything, and are actually only concerned with hauling packages or people, the minivan ought to nonetheless be a consideration.
Still a pacesetter in the segment it created, the 2016 Chrysler City & Country minivan affords luxury-car facilities in a household-pleasant vehicle. For minivan fans who haven't got youngsters or don't have extra passengers all the time, the new Sedona EX gives you extra options for the value than even our top decide. The Odyssey leads the competitors in nearly every class that needs to be necessary to a minivan buyer.


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Out-Law Legal Update
IR 35 did not apply to IT contractor as no mutuality of obligations
Out-Law News | 07 Aug 2017 | 10:20 am | 2 min. read
Employee incentive arrangements in which workers were paid using gold bullion are "abnormal" and not a "reasonable course of action in relation to the relevant tax provisions", according to the GAAR Advisory Panel.
The GAAR Advisory Panel was set up in 2013, to coincide with the entry into force of the general anti-abuse rule (GAAR). It provides guidance and non-binding opinions on cases where HMRC considers that the GAAR may apply.
The GAAR itself applies to the main direct taxes and is designed to prevent 'artificial and abusive' tax avoidance schemes that fail to pass a 'double reasonableness' test, showing that the arrangements "cannot reasonably be regarded as a reasonable course of action".
"The first GAAR panel opinion unanimously held that the arrangements were artificial – perhaps not surprisingly, as they involved both gold bullion and an employee benefit trust," said tax expert Heather Self of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com. "While HMRC may well have won the case if it had gone to litigation, using the GAAR panel to give a clear 'keep off the grass' warning is a cheaper and quicker route to deter highly artificial schemes."
"What will be more interesting will be if the panel rules against HMRC in a future case, holding that the planning is reasonable. It remains to be seen whether the GAAR panel can be a shield for taxpayers, as well as a sword for HMRC," she said.
The GAAR had been asked for its opinion in a scenario where a company wished to incentivise two employees, referred to as Mr X and Mrs Y, in a way that "would not constitute remuneration for tax purposes". Mr X was a director and 51% indirect shareholder in the company, while Mrs Y was the other director and 49% shareholder.
The company funded the purchase of gold for each of the employees, which was then immediately sold by the employees. The company's liability to pay the third party supplier of the gold was then settled by the employees in return for a director's loan account credit in their favour and a long-term obligation to an employee benefit trust (EBT).
The panel published three separate 11-page opinions, one relating to the tax position of the company and one each relating to the tax position of each of the employees. It concluded that it was "abnormal" both for an employer to reward its employees using gold, and for the asset to be sold "immediately after the purchase".
"In this case we can see no reason for the steps to involve gold, other than for tax purposes," the panel said.
"Had cash been used, and gold not been involved, other than the saving of fees in relation to the purchase and sale of the gold, neither the company nor the employees would have been in a substantially different economic or commercial position … In our view the steps in this case involving gold are abnormal and contrived," the panel said.
While it was not abnormal for an employer to establish an EBT on behalf of an employee, "it is, however, abnormal for the obligation to fund an employer established benefit trust to be fulfilled by its key employees", the panel said.
"In this case we can see no reason, other than for tax purposes, for the steps involving the EBT to include the assumption by the employees of the company's trust funding obligation … We are of the view that, taken together, the steps involving the EBT are abnormal and contrived," the panel said.
"This is a clear case of associated taxpayers seeking to frustrate the intent of parliament by identifying potential loopholes in complex interlinking anti-avoidance legislation, and arranging a series of intricate and precise steps to exploit those loopholes so as to gain an unexpected and unintended tax 'win'. It should not come as a surprise that we conclude the steps taken are not a reasonable course of action," the panel said.
Out-Law Legal Update
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The Theft Of Your Identity
Identity stealing is a type of scam in which somebody acts as if to be some other name by pretentious that somebody's individuality, normally so that they can get entrée to reserves or get hold of credit and added profit in those people's given name The dupe of character pilfering (at this point implication of the individual whose individuality has been unsaid by the personality crook) can undergo unpleasant experience if he or she is detained answerable for the performer's events. Associations and creatures that are fooled or deceived by the identity robber can in addition experience unfavorable effects and thrashings, and to that degree are in addition dupes.
The expression identity theft was invented in the year 1964 and is in fact a misnomer, because it is not accurately feasible to whip a personality by itself – more perfect phrases would be individuality scam or masquerade or character duping but identity pilfering has developed into an ordinarily used term.
Deciding the connection flanked by information infringes and identity theft is demanding, chiefly as identity stealing preys seldom know how their private detail was attained, and identity stealing is not at all times visible by a single victim, thanks to an account prepared for the FTC. Identity scam is frequently but not essentially the end result of identity stealing. A name can whip or embezzle private data not including then getting into identity theft by means of the information concerning each individual, for example when a chief information violation happens. A study carried about a statutory corporation of the United States govt. resolute that the majority violations have not effected in spotted episodes of identity stealing, the description furthermore alerted that the complete scope is anonymous. An afterward unprinted study by some reputable university also reminded that "Most frequently, the reasons of identity stealing is not well-known," but also said that somebody to boot wrapped up that "the possibility of fitting a prey to identity pilfering as an outcome of a information infringe is merely 2 percent." More of late, an organization of customer information entities stated that one of the biggest information infringes yet, accumulating for greater than four million traces, out came in just as regards 1,800 cases of identity burglary, if reports of the company are to be followed and whose organisms were stolen.
Another type of fraud using the internet has again taken everybody for a great surprise, not pleasant though. But we need to make sure that we do not fall trap into these acts. The following is a collection of few tips and tricks with the concerned matter:
- Losing no time state the loss of credit and debit cards.
- Don't carry your CVV card info in your holder.
- By no means give your private details to anybody who gets in touch with you via telephone
- Confirm your invoices and bank reports once they turn up.
- Discard pre-acclaimed offers.
- Choose password difficult to trace.


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This video covers multiple facets of knife defense from armed to unarmed defenses. Real world scenarios are covered including how to defend the knife while on the ground!
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My name is Sarah Allen and soccer is my passion!
I have been playing soccer since I was 3 years old. I first played with the Blossman Family YMCA and then transitioned to the recreational Coast Soccer Club. With the skills I learned, I then became a member of their competitive travel team, Galaxy. On this team is where I learned that playing as goalkeeper is what I love most.
Soccer hasn't come easy to me as it has many of my teammates. Last year, I tried out for the middle school team and I didn't make it. I was heartbroken, but it pushed me to work even harder. Instead of quitting, I joined a second league, practiced five days a week, plus weekend tournaments, and I am proud to say that my hard work paid off. This year, I made the team as goalkeeper and additionally earned a spot on my current club team, Gulf Coast United as the primary keeper.
My goal is to earn a scholarship and play as keeper in college. With the continued support of my club, coaches, family, friends, and community, I know I can reach my goal.
This summer, my Gulf Coast United team is going to France to attend the Women's World Cup and train with professionals. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for me, as this event only happens every 4 years. I will be able to train with the best as well as be exposed to a new culture.
The only way I will be able to go is through your contributions. Please help me get to France and with your support, my future goals and dreams will come true.


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The first step is to help you define and your brand positioning in a way that's most useful for naming. The more specific and nuanced your positioning is, the more effective the name will be. All great names work in concert with the positioning of the business or product they speak for. The best positioning finds a way to reinvigorate or change the conversation that an industry has been having with its consumers.
Our positioning process is predicated on understanding everything about your brand, where it's been and where it's headed. The resulting naming process is based on a forward-looking positioning strategy that takes into account your brand, your competition, and your entire sector.
While it's important to understand what competitors are doing in order to act in a distinctive and powerful way, it's also useful to learn from their mistakes and successes.
For instance, the company that became Apple needed to distance itself from the cold, unapproachable, complicated imagery created by the other computer companies at the time that had names like IBM, NEC, DEC, ADPAC, Cincom, Dylakor, Input, Integral Systems, Sperry Rand, SAP, PSDI, Syncsort, and Tesseract.
The new company needed to reverse the entrenched view of computers in order to get people to use them at home. They were looking for a name that was unlike the names of traditional computer companies, a name that also supported a brand positioning strategy that was to be perceived as simple, warm, human, approachable and different.
Of course, once they had a clear positioning platform in place, there were still hundreds of potential names for the new company to consider. The process for finding that one perfect name is detailed in the next section.


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H-Japan: Some Recent Postings
Just passing on some links from the H-Japan discussion list. Yone Sugita has reviewed Tensions of Empire: Japan and Southeast Asia in the Colonial and Postcolonial World. There is an announcement about the fantastic Expanding East Asian Studies website with syllabi and teaching materials for the undergraduate level. This has solid multi-year funding behind it and I heard a lot of buzz about it while I was at Columbia. Finally, there are some exciting new Japanese diplomatic materials that have just been released (See the MOFA sites here and here).


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Pokemon Crystal Version - Pokemon of the Day: Totodile (#158)
|Everybody remembers the good ol' Pokémon of
the Day Guy, right? Well, once Gold and Silver hit the shores of the US
and all the hype had died down a bit, he decided to move to the top of
Mount Kilimanjaro to seek enlightenment. Now that every self-respecting
Pokémaniac has Ruby and Sapphire on the brain, however, it's high
time we revitalize the age-old tradition of bringing you your Pokémon
of the Day! And, as everyone knows, there's only one thing better than
a Pokémon of the Day Guy...a Pokémon of the Day Chick!
Each and every day we'll be taking a close and personal look at one of these unique creatures called Pokémon. Here you'll find all the moves you could ever want (learned, hereditary and all compatible TMs/HMs from G/S/C and R/B/Y, if applicable), breeding chains for hereditary moves, Pokédex entries, general descriptions, max stats, in-game locations, weaknesses and resistances, gameplay tips and one or more suggested movesets (SUGGESTED, people; I'm not telling you what to do) to get the most bang for your Pokébuck.
The last of the currently available starting Pokemon (I will never
consider Pikachu a starter even if it WAS the focus of Pokemon Yellow,
so don't ask) marks the halfway point of our twelve-day countdown to Poke-mas.
Oddly enough, Totodile also happens to be the first "repeat" Pokemon we've
seen insofar as I've written about Feraligatr in the past. Hopefully this
article won't be too much of a rehash, though, as Totodile doesn't have
quite the same move options as Feraligatr and his stats are of course far
inferior to his evolved counterpart's (necessitating a different strategy
in battle, naturally). Totodile is probably my least favorite of the starters
simply because there are so many better Water types out there (IMHO), but
I can admit that the little dancin' fool has personality to spare. That's
something, at least.
|NAME: Totodile
TYPE: Big Jaw (Water)
WEIGHT: 21 lbs.
EVOLUTION: evolves into Croconaw at level 18
AVAILIBLE IN: Gold, Silver, Crystal
LOCATION: If you hadn't guessed by my repeatedly referring to Totodile as a "starter", the only way to obtain one is to relieve Professor Elm of it in the very beginning of your GSC game.
|Learned Moves:
Scratch - Basic
Leer - Basic
Rage - lvl 7
Water Gun - lvl 13
Bite - lvl 20
Scary Face - lvl 27
Slash - lvl 35
Screech - lvl 43
Hydro Pump - lvl 52
|Compatible TMs:
TM01 - Dynamicpunch
TM02 - Headbutt
TM03 - Curse
TM06 - Toxic
TM10 - Hidden Power
TM13 - Snore
TM14 - Blizzard
TM16 - Icy Wind
TM17 - Protect
TM18 - Rain Dance
TM20 - Endure
TM21 - Frustration
TM23 - Iron Tail
TM27 - Return
TM28 - Dig
TM31 - Mud-Slap
TM32 - Double Team
TM33 - Ice Punch
TM34 - Swagger
TM35 - Sleep Talk
TM43 - Detect
TM44 - Rest
TM45 - Attract
HM01 - Cut
HM03 - Surf
HM06 - Whirlpool
|Hereditary Moves (G/S/C only):
AncientPower: Breed a female Totodile/Croconaw/Feraligatr with a male Corsola, Kabuto/Kabutops or Omanyte/Omastar.
Crunch: Breed with a male Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar.
Hydro Pump: Breed with a male Horsea/Seadra/Kingdra, Lapras, Omanyte/Omastar, Poliwag/Poliwhirl, Psyduck/Golduck, Squirtle/Wartortle/Blastoise or Totodile/Croconaw/Feraligatr
Razor Wind: Teach R/B/Y TM02 (Razor Wind) to Kabuto/Kabutops. Transfer to G/S and, if male, breed with a female Totodile/Croconaw/Feraligatr.
Rock Slide: Breed with a male Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar.
Thrash: Breed with a male Cubone/Marowak, Larvitar/Pupitar/Tyranitar or Nidoking.
Ice Beam: Totodile can also learn Ice Beam via the Move Tutor in Goldenrod City (Crystal only).
Okay, so I lied...Totodile's battling strategy isn't really all that different from Feraligatr's at all; the main goal for both of them is to hit stuff hard and repeatedly. The only real discrepancies between the two are Totodile's inability to learn Earthquake and the fact that it has to rely a lot more on luck than stats in order to truly damage an opponent before being taken down itself. Totodile doesn't really have much to choose from in the way of status-altering moves, but I've thrown in the two from its limited pool which I feel to be the most useful for whoever enters the ring behind Totodile.
I'd start off the match with an Icy Wind simply because it practically guarantees you first strike in the following round. Why settle for dying after launching a single attack when you can have two? Besides helping Totodile out, Icy Wind will put your next Pokemon at a great advantage...either the iced opponent will switch out after killing Totodile giving your next Pokemon a free turn, or else it will remain on the field and allow your next Pokemon the first strike (regardless of how slow he or she may be under normal circumstances).
Of course, Icy Wind doubles as an attacking move...but I sincerely hope you don't expect it to do anything major offensively, considering its lack of STAB, wretched base power of 40 and Totodile's equally wretched Special Attack stat. You could just as easily leave Scary Face in this slot and wind up with the same result but, to heck with it, I prefer Icy Wind because it looks so darn cool in Stadium 2. Heh.
Screech is another one of those moves that will help the rest of your team more than Totodile itself. Even if you sharply decrease your opponent's Defense, an unSTABed 60 base power AncientPower coming off Totodile's 228 max Attack won't inflict too much damage...but a STABed 80 base power Drill Peck coming off the 318 max Attack of that Dodrio BEHIND the Totodile sure will! And of course if you happen to get lucky and end up facing something that isn't particularly effective against Totodile, you can attempt to stand and fight yourself. Since both of the attacking moves I've selected for Totodile are physical attacks, you'll find they both benefit greatly from Screech.
As I've said before, AncientPower is probably my favorite move after Confuse Ray and I recommend it on practically any Pokemon that can learn it (with the exception of the two GSC legendary birds, and that's only because they can take a TON of different TMs that just happen to be a bit more beneficial). I prefer AncientPower over Rock Slide on Totodile for its superior accuracy...which seems kinda weird, considering I often recommend Fire Blast over Flamethrower even though Fire Blast is slightly less accurate than Rock Slide. Meh. Of course the true draw of AncientPower is its potential to raise all of the user's stats, which one can imagine is exceedingly helpful on a first-form evolution like our young Totodile. Granted, it's only a 10% chance...well, Rock Slide fits in this slot just as well, I suppose; it all boils down to personal preference.
I've settled on Slash to fill the remaining move space for much the same reason I did with Charmander...even though Slash's Critical Hit ratio has been enormously reduced in GSC (as compared to RBY), it's still more likely to land a Critical Hit than most of the other moves in the game. And it's always interesting to see Slash in a "serious" moveset, since the nod for best Normal type attack move usually goes to Double-Edge, Body Slam and/or Return. If you'd rather have a guaranteed ~100 base power move here than take a chance on an attack that will inflict either 70 or 140 base damage, feel free to replace Slash with Return (since Totodile unfortunately doesn't have access to Double-Edge or Body Slam).
I personally happen to prefer the relative unpredictability of Slash...and Totodile has always just LOOKED like Slasher to me; call me kooky. But, as always, you should decide for yourself which move is better for your particular Totodile and run with it.
I know, I know, I left Surf off. Even with STAB Totodile's Special Attack isn't high enough to support any elemental attacks, and unless your opponent is either a complete newbie or else totally out of alternate options you can bet they won't send anything weak against Water in to face Totodile anyway. Another move I've often seen recommended for Totodile is Swagger...Swagger is all well and good for Feraligatr with its mighty 298 Defense, but in this unevolved state I'd say that boosting your opponent's stats is definitely NOT a good idea. And wouldn't you be livid if they turned out to be holding a Bitter Berry?? Yeah, that's what I thought.
You might even consider Dig while waiting for Totodile to evolve (and become capable of learning Earthquake)...I don't care for Dig as it is a telegraphed attack that is easily countered in addition to being relatively weak...but you might want to have SOME move to fend off those dreaded Electric types.
Bright Powder is here for the same reason you'd put it on any other Pokemon; if an opponent misses an attack on you due to the increased evasiveness of the bearer of Bright Powder you should be able to capitalize greatly. Well, whatever you choose, this is one Pokemon that I do recommend you evolve as soon as humanly possible.
Unlike most of the other starting Pokemon, Totodile doesn't really have any time-buying moves (such as Sleep Powder, or moves that cut the effectiveness of certain attacks such as Sunny Day) at its disposal so it, for the most part, must depend largely on luck and sheer brute force (mainly the latter) to see it through battle instead. As Totodile continues to mature in size and power, shoddy defensive stats obviously become less and less of a concern...with these unevolved stats and no truly clever combos to overcome them, though, I'm afraid I can't recommend Totodile as anything other than a novelty.
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The UN is meeting in an effort to find consensus on moves to reform the body, as well as tackling poverty.
But Mr Blair has also ensured terrorism is on the agenda and said the world must make sure "the future does not belong to fanatics".
Terrorists would not be defeated until "our passion for the democratic way is as great as their passion for tyranny".
Mr Blair said at the UN's 60th anniversary summit: "We should not underestimate what we face.
"This terrorism that has today again claimed the lives of innocent people, this time queuing for jobs in Iraq, that has now disfigured countries in every continent, at every stage of development, with every conceivable mix of races and religions.
"This terrorism is a movement. It has an ideology and it has a strategy. And the strategy is not just to kill. It is by terror to cause chaos and instability and to divide and confuse us, the enemy of this terrorism.
"It won't be defeated until we unite, not just in condemning the acts of terrorism, which we all do, but in fighting the poisonous propaganda that the root cause of this terrorism somehow lies with us around this table and not with them."
He added: "They want us to believe that somehow it is our fault. That their extremism is somehow our responsibility.
"They play on our divisions... they exploit our hesitations. This is our weakness and they know it - and we must unite against this ghastly game with our conscience."
The UN Security Council backed the resolution brought forward by the UK, calling on all states to outlaw incitement to terrorism.
US President George Bush told the Security Council that governments had a "solemn obligation" to stop terrorism in its early stages.
He said: "Today we support a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom that condemns the incitement of terrorist acts and calls on all states to take appropriate steps to end such incitement.
"We have a solemn obligation to stop terrorism in its early stages, we have a solemn obligation to defend our citizens against terrorism, to attack terrorist networks and deprive them of any safe haven, to promote an ideology of freedom and tolerance that will defeat the dark vision of the terrorists.
"We must do all we can to disrupt each stage of planning and support for terrorist acts. Each of us must... deny terrorists freedom of movement by using effective border controls and secure travel documents, to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons, including weapons of mass destruction."
The three-day World Summit has been dominated by discussion of what to do about global poverty and how to reform the UN after 60 years in operation.
The draft hammered out after weeks of bitter wrangling pledges to honour anti-poverty goals, but other points are diluted or omitted entirely.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told reporters the draft document had two important omissions - non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.


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Top 10 SHTF Firearms
When the world ends one of your primary concerns should be self-defense. While most people are good people, the outer layer of monsters will quickly swarm these good people. You may be forced to defend your home, your family, and yourself from these jerks. Being well armed with a modern firearm is the only realistic way to do so. I've come up with a list, broken down into categories of the top ten SHTF firearms.
Category 1 – My State Has Restrictive Firearm Laws
#1 S&W 686/586 357 Magnum
I've never known a state to ban a revolver. The 686 is a classic S&W 357 magnum revolver that has an excellent reputation for quality. The 686+ can even hold 7 rounds of powerful 357. The weapon can also fire the cheaper and easier to find 38 special. The S&W 686 has tons of holster options available for it, as well as speed loaders, speed strips, and grip options. The S&W 686 and 586 are the same weapon but the 686 is stainless and the 586 is blued.
#2 Rossi M92
Again if you live in a ban state it can be legally difficult to acquire a modern defensive rifle like an AR 15 or AK variant. The Rossi M92 is a lever action rifle. The benefits of a lever action is the manual action, which makes it more reliable. The disadvantage is a limited range, however, up close this thing can take medium game and be a good defensive weapon. The advantage of the Rossi M92 is that it is chambered in many rounds including the 357 magnum. It can also safely fire 38 special. This means if you already carrying an S&W 686 your ammunition can work in both weapons. Other chamberings include 44 Magnum and 45 Colt. These are common revolver cartridges.
#3 Mossberg 500 12 Gauge Shotgun
This is an excellent shotgun to have regardless of state laws. The pump action Mossberg 500 is an overall excellent shotgun. The Mossberg 500 in 12 gauge is one of the few weapon capable of taking game from squirrel to elk. The gun can handle birdshot, buckshot, slugs and even other calibers with particular adapters. The Mossberg 500 can even be converted into a muzzle loading black powder weapon with the correct barrel. This is a very modular weapon that is legal in the most restrictive states. With that being said even in free states this weapon is an excellent one to have.
Category 2 – Free State Loadout with Logistics in Mind
The AR 15 isn't my favorite rifle, there is nothing wrong with it, but I prefer something a little different. With that in mind, the AR 15 is my go to SHTF rifle. Why? First and foremost it's a well designed reliable rifle, lightweight, easy shooting, and affordable. It's also the rifle of the United States military and almost every police force in the country. This means parts are cheap, available, and easy to find. The same goes for magazines, ammunition, and other accessories. You can build an AR style rifle to suit your exact needs, and you can do it cheaper and easier than any other rifle on the market.
#5 Glock 19
Again not one of my personal favorite handguns, but my chosen for SHTF. Glocks are reliable, accurate, easy to find, affordable, and butt ugly. They work, though, and they work very well. Spare parts, magazines, and ammunition are widely available for them. I chose the model 19 because it can be easily concealed, but is easy to fire as a full sized handgun. The model 19 can also accept Glock 17 magazines, as well as 33 round magazines for that little extra. The Glock model 19 is easy to shoot as well and chambered for the extremely common 9mm round.
#6 Kel Tec Sub 2000
The Kel Tec Sub 200 is a pistol caliber rifle that is available in two generations. There are multiple models designed to house and use different magazines from Glock, Beretta, S&W, and much more. The idea is you match your Sub 2000 to your chosen handgun platform. This works as a modern and free state solution just like the Rossi and S&W 686 work for banned states. I have a preference for the Glock model due to it's affordable and widely available magazines. This rifle lacks the range of a traditional rifle but is also concealable. The rifle can fold in half and easily fit into a backpack or messenger bag for a lot of concealed firepower.
Category 3 – The Pragmatic Choices
#7 Ruger 10/22
A 22 LR rifle of some kind should make its way into your kit. I suggest the 10/22 for its widely available parts and magazines. You can customize a 10/22 to your heart's content. The 10/22 is a modest self-loading 22 that feeds from a rotary magazine. The weapon is accurate, lightweight and easy to shoot. There are takedown models of the gun available that split into two pieces for easy carry. The 10/22 is an excellent utility weapon that is capable of hunting small game and dispatching pests. A brick of 500 rounds can fit into a cargo pocket, and in a pinch, it can be used for self-defense. Its main role is utility, though.
#8 H&R Topper Shotgun
If you want to have a shotgun, but minimize the weight the Topper series is an excellent option. These little shotguns are single barreled, and hold and fire one round at a time. They are quite cheap, with used models often under 100 bucks. It's far from the perfect defensive weapon, but it is an excellent hunting and pest removal weapon. It's capable of hunting bird and squirrel and instantly becoming a deer and hog gun by just changing the ammunition type. The Topper shotgun is very light and easy to strap to a pack.
#9 Mossberg MVP
A bolt gun is an excellent staple in some SHTF armories. Bolt action rifles like the MVP are extremely accurate and capable of being quite light. I chose the MVP because it's a well-made rifle, with a wide variety of different options available. The weapon is available in both 308 and 223. The weapon is also modular, and Mossberg has a wide variety of different options for it. The biggest draw is that it can accept common and affordable AR 15 magazines or AR 10 magazines.
Category 4 – The Ammo Scavenger
#10 Thompson Encore Rifle
Thompson Encore series are probably the most modular weapons in existence. They are simple single shot rifles but are capable of taking a wide variety of different barrels and calibers. Starting with just the receiver and frame the user can custom order barrels to change the caliber in just a few minutes. This allows the user to gather a collection of barrels for common calibers and switch out when necessary.
Now it's your turn! What do you think are the best prepper guns to own?
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31 Comments
AK Johnny 1 October 1, 14:32
For MY money? The AK-47. They will last a lot longer under conditions of abuse and privation.
Nothing against the AR, but my gut is telling me that in a protracted scenario, that rifle is going to fail a lot of people.
As far as ammo, the key is to stock up on LOTS of it. It's cheaper to buy than 5.56 NATO/.223 as well.
To those that would argue that they can hit targets out to 450 yards with an AR, understand…. by the time the bullet gets to the intended target, it'd be like throwing a tic tac at a freight train. Same with the AK…
These are BOTH medium grade, closer-in battle rifles. For my money, anything north of 150 yards/meters, you need a different rifle.
But for 0- 150, i'll take a dependable AK any day. Fewer parts which are bigger AND made more heavy duty, Easy to train novices on, like inexperienced neighbors, more than enough accuracy if you sight it in correctly, and they will last for YEARS under the shittiest conditions.
For a potentially long drawn out scenario, reliability and dependability become EVERYTHING.
JAFC October 2, 02:51
War (and we're talking battlefield conditions now) is a very rough undertaking involving a lot of dirt, sweat, and abusement to yourself and your equipment rough surroundings..
The AR system is easy enough to maintain and service. I'd recommend an upper/magazines in 7.62×39 instead of 5.56×45. The AR is inherently more accurate platform than the AK at just about any distance.
I'd also recommend a solid buttstock (so-called A2 style). Reason- in close quarters the rifle may have to be used as a club. Lightweight configurations bend like soda straws.
M1As are an excellent (if slightly heavy) battle rifle. They will reach out a long distance but shoot as quickly as anything else.
Sights- all rifles. Avoid optical (telescopic) glass. Drop (or use as a club) a scoped rifle on anything harder than a pillow and it becomes useless. Target acquisition is quicker with iron sights anyway. Real men (and women) learn to shoot with iron sights.
Pistols – your Last Chance battle back-up weapon. These MUST be carried loaded with a round in the chamber. With an external hammer – and that hammer DOWN on an inertial firing pin. Mechanical safeties are nice, but they can be jostled off, even in a holster. DO NOT accidently blow your toes off by rough-handling a pistol with an entirely internal hammer. It is embarrassing. People will laugh and make rude noises at you.
Bolt actions – rapid and accurate fire applies, but these weapons have to be tough. Any variation of the actual Mauser or Lee-Enfield will keep you alive and failure to extract and/or eject is minimal to non-existent.
Wing2003 November 11, 01:59
If I had to grab ONE rifle and run out the door – it would be my AK. Feeds anything, simple to clean, good round in the 7.62×39 and is light and nearly indestructible. I love my bolt actions and semi autos but they are big, heavy and cumbersome. If I have to be on the move and need a magazine to hold more than 5 or 10 – the AK wins.
SKIBS December 7, 18:18
Lanman67 October 1, 17:02
For the price of that Thompson Encore, you can get a decent double barrel 12 gauge and some adapters from MCA Sports. http://www.mcace.com/shotguninserts.htm
Get the 9mm 10″ insert because 9mm can be found just about anywhere. Get the 18″ 45-70 to reach out and in a pinch use 45LC and 410 out of it. To round it out, add the 22lr insert in 10″ or 18″. 6 calibers in one gun.
On a side note, don't get the Chiappa X-Caliber survival shotgun. I've heard nothing but bad about it.
keithnh October 1, 17:53
Semi-auto AK loses its appeal to me as the easy control of the lower power cartridge full auto in a light weight rifle advantages are lost. It is not really a battle rifle neither is the AR. The last US battle rifle was the 14, its semi auto version M1A is a superior military rifle chambered for a round lethal and controllable to 500yards +. Its longer and heavier, with a thick steel butt cover that make it a more formidable piece for hand to hand if that became necessary. That and a Colt 45 semi auto are my choices, both fire ammo the military still uses, are battle proven and are still available. I would choose an 870 pump 12gauge with rifled and shotgun barrels, a 586 wheel gun with six inch barrel in .357 and a Ruger MK4 semi auto .22 pistol for survival. Backed up with TC .50 cal Hawken.
mark October 1, 20:44
I started buying extra guns every time there was an election with the possibility of the winner being a anti gun person. I bought them so my kids would have a weapon to defend themselves. now the kids have bigger arsenals than I but we may have to give guns to neighbors or those who finally realize they don't want to be a slave but don't have a gun.
Doc October 2, 02:56
As the article states no one firearm will fit all the possible scenarios. What is important is that the shooter understands his/her firearm(s), it's limitations through practice, keeps weapon clean and has plenty of ammo. Am fortunate to have several choices in most firearm categories and have stockpiled ammunition over a period of years. I practice(shoot) on a regular basis and have learned to cull out firearms that show any reliability issues I can not address. Have back up parts for the most vulnerable such as springs, fire controls and magazines. I favor large caliber pistols such as .357 magnum. 357 SIG, 44 magnum and 45acp over the 9mm luger although I own several 9mm lugers basically as backup. 5.56 or 7.62 NATO semi-auto AR rifles with 12-22″ barrels. Any pistol caliber I own I can also match with either a lever action
or semi-auto rifle including up to 460 Roland or 454 Casull. Most would say I have way to many firearms just for self defense…..they are correct….however if it becomes necessary to barter I have a commodity that can be very valuable. My firearms, food, water, shelter, fuel, medicine, survival skills, medical training are designed to maximize our families ability to survive a severe central government or economic collapse or short term bridge caused by a natural disaster. Make a plan, collect the resources and tools for the plan…. if SHTF implement and follow the plan.
Dave October 2, 08:15
Panther05 October 2, 13:03
The big question is "What's the scenerio?" When the SHTF, most confrontation will be up close. As in someone is trying to assault wherever you have chosen to set up. For most people, that means your home. Any kind of suburban or city situation means you need defensive capabilities of less than 50 feet. Seriously.
It seems to me that anyone should prioritize based on the most likely scenerio encountered, and work out from there. Pistols like the 45 ACP. 12 gauge shotguns with OO buckshot. Those two (or similar) would ward off the most likely threat: home invasions.
From there work out. Protecting your grounds. Even given a good field of fire, you're still most likely less than 150 yards. Basically any reliable gun that throws lead downrange is going to work. ARs. AKs. .308s. M1As. The likelyhood of having to pick off a sniper at a distance is just about nil. But then again, once you acquire what you need, then buy a heavy barrel sniper rifle with a good scope (Leupold)…. just in case.
Lefty October 2, 13:59
BUD October 23, 19:51
Remington 870 with extended mag. tube, ammo cheap and plentiful! (will take down large game) Any pistol in 40s.w., damn near all law enforcement personnel carry this caliber! Any semi-auto in .223 with available large capacity mags.Think AR platforms.Always think military or police usage!! If SHTF, these will be the most easy to access!!!
Andy July 3, 04:27
Most police forces as of this date 2018 Are swapping back to 9mm handguns due to the troops getting better hits on target, the .40 caliber being too rough on the frames of the guns , because the guns were made for 9mm not .40 caliber the manufacturers just tried to use the same weapons and it bit then in the ass,as the .40 chas more recoil than the 9mm.
Tex September 21, 18:06
PPKwhat November 2, 20:52
Based on 40 years of hunting and shooting, my SHTF arsenal consists:
1-Glock auto pistols (Models 21, 23, 34 & 35)
2- Rugger 22 LR & 22 Mag Revolver 10″ barrel.
3- Rugger 10/22 Rifle
4- AR 15 .223 with aimpoint red dot
5- Remington 700 with 5×20 scope in 7mm Rem. Mag.
6- T/C Dimension 300 Win Mag with spare 7 mm Rem Mag barrel and 4×16 scope.
7- Mossberg 930 auto 12 GA shotgun 8 shells
Here is my reason for all this:
A- I'm a Glock person – been shooting Glocks for 30 years and they never misfired or failed me.
B-The long barrel revolver in 22 Mag, is excellent for rabbit and squirrel hunting to 50 yards (with some practice anyone can do it}
C- Rugger 22 rifle is extremely accurate – can easily drop a rabbit at 100 yds
D- Rem 700 with 5×20 scope – my favorite long range rifle (300 yds+ hunting).
C- T/C Dimension 300 Win Mag – dropped an elk at 430 yds – gun packs a "punch" for long range shooting and is very accurate)
D- Mossberg 930 shotgun: multi use (home defense, bird and deer hunting – deadly at short & mid range to 100 yds.
I also reload my pistols and hunting rifles except for the 22's
Finally, I don't expect all would agree with what I have as SHTF weapons – but the important is that I practice a lot with all of them and my recommendation is whatever weapon you have, practice, practice and practice with them short, medium and long range so you know how to respond in every situation. God Bless…..
Skyman April 21, 20:17
Osito November 14, 23:47
OK…you knew I, or somebody like me, would bring up the Colt Model 1911A1 and the clones. If you like rugged reliability, look no further. Parts availability? Please…you can buy several sets of everything you need to rebuild the gun and toss them into your kit. You might need a bushing wrench and a staking tool, but maintenance is plumb easy. Ammo is widely available, and reloading to your own needs is relatively simple. I must confess that I shot a Springfield Armory race-gun competitively, so I can shoot one quickly and accurately without trying. However, if you want to teach a woman to shoot a major power factor handgun, the 1911A1 is less "scary", allowing the teaching of good gun handling skills. Admittedly, it is not a gun for small hands. Also, even though the gun is big and heavy, it is certainly easier to carry concealed that a S&W 686, for example. Sorry guys, but anything that is still going strong after more than a century must be a formidable gun to consider.
Beez May 29, 18:27
I appreciate hearing from the folk who can afford to buy and keep myriads of this and that. However, having been on shoestring budgets for most of my life, I am stuck with what I have. Ruger 10-22 takedown with 25-round magazines, AK 47 with ten magazines, TriStar 12 gauge with extended tube, Mosin Nagant on Monte Carlo stock, Taurus Meridian G2 and Sccy 1. As I see it, these will do about everything I might be called upon to face. The most important weapon I have is the will to shoot whatever needs to be shot, be it food or aggressor. Knives? Of course. Tools? yes. Ammo? Could not start a war but I can survive on the food I can shoot for quite a while. Most of all, I have trust in a God who knows what where and how I face in life. My hope is that I never have to shoot anything other than what I need to eat. Wishing the same for you..
Verno October 1, 20:07
Ozzy June 10, 02:37
Sarge August 30, 02:44
My choices:
AR-15, in my case a S&W M&P 15 Sport II. It's lightweight, reliable, accurate and you can stock up on spare parts to your hearts delight. They are field repairable, and legal to own even in Canada, though it's a restricted weapon here.
It uses the same magazines, ammo and most of the parts as the rifles used in the Canadian military, so it's a no-brainer to pick this one. The M&P 15 has a nitride finish for rust resistance and is very affordable as AR-'s go, and unlike many entry-level AR's come with everything you need.
My pistol is a Sig-Saur P320. It's accurate, rugged and reliable, again with a nitride finish which I really like. You can also load the magazines without the aid of a magazine loading tool, which I think is really important and in my mind gives it a big advantage over Glocks.
For a .22 rifle, I have a scoped Ruger 10/22, which again, is reliable and rugged, and is quick and easy to maintain. I've had mine for over 25 years and if I had to get one today, it would also have a polymer stock, probably a stainless barrel, and maybe even be a take-down.
I don't own a shotgun at this point, I would probably pick a Mossberg 50, preferably a 6-shot Mariner model for rust resistance with 18.5″ barrel f, with an extra barrel or two. for hunting. My thinking is that gun oil, like a lot of other things will be hard to come by in SHTF and the less you need to use, the better off you are.
steamyb September 6, 11:27
The Glock 30SF is 1/8″ wider than the Glock 19 (all other dimensions are the same), but shoots 45ACP instead of 9mm. If you can stand the kick (I am 250 lbs.). IMHO, the 45 has been the weapon of choice for over 100 years, with the 9mm having a possible advantage of ammo availability. But, I am ready with the Glock 30SF & ammo. All of the long guns will be easily accessible, considering most SHTF scenarios. Good luck!
Steve September 22, 23:33
Little different take on the AR-15,it's not the AR,that's bother's me it's more on the lines of the cartridge.5.56/223,as would also apply to the AK-74,5.45 round,as you can see(for me)I'm not a fan of small(bullet weight)rifle cartridges.I know I've probably gone overboar Especially(financially)but I always wanted an M1A1,Socom.Yes is expensive too,besides the weight.But that's me.If not it would have been an AK-47 or SKS.,I have a 9mm,but not a Glock.Me personally,I'm not a fan is Stryker fire pistols.Also Mossberg 590,for more home perimeter defense.
Forearmed76 October 27, 04:24
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