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The Black Cat (Also known as the Magician Cat.). In 1958, a Kentucky (USA) breeder deliberately bred a black American shorthair and a sable-brown Burmese in an effort to creat a domestic cat that resembled the wild Panther.
This novel combination successfully produced offspring that resembled the Black Leopard of India, The Bombay name, taken from the Indian city of Bombay (now Mumbai), honours the native country of the wild cousin.
Despite its distinct and beautiful appearance the Bombay's international acceptance has grown slowly. It always displays a thick, shiny, solid black coat; no other colours or patterns are permitted, The eyes shine in a coppery or golden shade.
The Black Cat in France is known as the Matagot, or Magician Cat. The fortunate family that takes the cat into its house receives the gift of good luck as a result. On the peninsulla of Brittany, in the northwest of France, there is a similar legend called the Chat D'Argent, or Money Cat. This feline is believed to serve nine owners at a time.
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Ireland, always a treasure trove of mythology, appointed the black cat as a helpmate of healers, and, at the same time, a witch's familiar. This shows the pagan influence of sun and moon cycles on the human psyche.
The black cat, a carrier of magic, was a representative of darkness. But, owing to fur that could also turn into moonglow, or silver, the black cat was given a dual identity. Furthermore, black was the byproduct of fire; fire, to the ancients was a thing of beauty, utility, and great power. All these aspects were, and are, present in the black cat.
The Bombay is considered a quiet, watchful cat who loves affection. This can be said of any feline. But the Bombay is one who, when things are going her way, purrs loudly enough to be heard in the next room. Bombays enjoy the indoors perhaps more than the outdoors, and they are noted for not liking any intrusive noises.
This a well balanced, muscular cat with a deep black coat. Rounded and wide head with a short tapered muzzle. Round, wide-set, golden to copper coloured eyes, and medium sized, broad and slightly rounded wide set ears.
The coat texture is fine, short, satiny and tight to the body. Bombays require little grooming. Petting will keep the coat shiny and free of dead hair. A rubber brush can be used for excessive shedding. A nutritionally complete food will add gloss to the coat and fuel for the cat's natural energy.
Instant lap cat, best describes the heat-seeking Bombay lifestyle. Both sexes make excellent pets. While they will get along with other breeds, the Bombay usually wants to dominate other cats. A dog might make a good companion for a Bombay.
These are smart and agile cats, they often retrieve and will seek out interaction with humans. Visitors' purses or packages are thoroughly inspected. Head bumpers and nose rubbers, they love nothing more than to be held. Some can be very talkative and they have a distinctive voice.
Quiet, sensitive, reserved and intelligent, the Bombay does best in a quiet home, where it is affectionate to the whole family.


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Jan 19, 2012 Posted by Sebastian in Crime, Philadelphia | 28 comments
Another Beating Victim in Philadelphia
This time a 64 year old man a gang just decided to beat for sport. Remember, this is the same city that decided to prosecute Gerald Ung for putting six bullets into the alpha male of an attacking gang. City officials are harder on defenders than on attacking criminals. This is getting so bad, it's irresponsible of city officials for not encouraging people to get permits and arm themselves. Hell, if I were Nutter, I'd tell the Philadelphia police to set up a firearms training course to help citizens into LTCs. But I'll eat my hat if I ever see that day.
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28 Responses to "Another Beating Victim in Philadelphia"
Pyrotek85 says:
These are the kinds of criminals that worry me the most. They thought it would be fun to beat another person, like they were kicking a can down the street. These are not normal people who suddenly decide to do something different, these people are fundamentally different from us in how they think of others.
Just how do you even fix that?
You stop rewarding them for reproducing and you get kids out of homes that are headed by anti-social miscreants. This type of behavior is learned and glorified at home.
Incarceration, but absent that, if they try to beat someone to death, I'd say jacketed HP 9mm traveling at about 1200fps would do the trick.
That's the funny thing about "reform". I'm against prisons, because I do not see how locking someone up away from society for a period of time, so that they can associate with other miscreants, is going to help them become better members of society…and to top it all off, we can (and even have) created all sorts of reform programs, that have varying degrees of success*. It's my understanding that the best of these programs either help their victims directly, or just help other people with fix their messed up lives, and so these people have an opportunity to see the harm they do to others, and the good they can do to those who hurt.
But the funny thing is, people have free will. We can provide all the programs we want, but it's up to the individual to decide to change his life around. I think sometimes social programs forget that.
As for what I would do without prisons: require all criminals to restore fourfold the loss to the victims. If it's a violent crime, I'd likely favor corporal punishment; if it goes so far as attempted murder, rape, or murder, then that person ought to be declared an outlaw (the Icelandic version, where it's legal for anyone to kill that person), and some sort of "avenger of death" relative or friend ought to have a special responsibility to hunt down and kill that person, or at least keep an eye on that person, if there's good reason to believe that he'll turn from his evil ways.
And yes, my "ideal" is a mix of Icelandic and Mosaic laws. While the Mosaic law in some ways seems brutal and archaic, it also contains some pretty fundamental principles of justice and mercy that our "justice" system clearly lacks…and as we get further away from certain Common Law principles, it's gradually been getting worse!
In any case, I don't see how a prison system is compatible with the goals of a free society.
*Although I happen to know one person in prison, who, due to the nature of his crimes, is forbidden from participating in some of these programs, even though due to other factors, he's also likely to be let out of prison in a year or so…the logic of these people astounds me!
Oh, and I agree with Sebastian, except that my personal preference is a .45ACP. :-)
The big problem here is that I no longer trust our court system with the power of capital punishment. Cory Maye, still a convicted felon with all that baggage, is the classic horror story for us RKBA types.
And that raid was for friggin pot. Hurray for justice!
You know, the same thing was going on in the 60's. Except it was young white men attacking/lynching blacks. Why is there no outrages when these roving gangs of black teens are out beating, robbing and killing whites?
Arm up, arm up now. PPD, under Ramsey, is useless to stop this nonsense. PPD is full of under performing lazy cops who treat victims like crap.
I wouldn't suggest there hasn't been outrage… just not among city officials or the media… because it would imply that the elite are unable to keep law and order in the city.
PPD is full of under performing lazy cops who treat victims like crap.
Apparently the PPD is full of racists too:
http://phillypolice.com/assets/2012/ViolentFelonDigest-01-06-2012.pdf
Dannytheman says:
I think you are brilliant. Only because I have been saying that for years. Nutter needs to train the law abiding folks. I have posted this exact brilliant answer in the Daily Times here in Delco in regards to Chester. Money should be spent on helping the people take back their city. A mobile target shooting trailer? Classes taught by mix of NRA certified and retired Philly LEOs.
And selling, at a deep discount, all the guns they have been melting down and discarding. (Have a gun turn in to help other who can't afford them)
If they had that kind of turn in, I'd donate a piece.
As would I. I would also volunteer to teach!
Criminals aren't supposed to be shot, they're supposed to succeed. Most Americans do not comprehend the full depth of the perversity of the leftist mind. Most refuse to imagine that anyone would have such horrible beliefs.
mobo says:
We're often accused of spreading wildly exaggerated racist hysteria, similar to what was going on in the mid-19th century south, in an effort to demonize and supress blacks.
But my life experience, having grown up in an almost entirely black neighborhood, says otherwise. I have been robbed at gunpoint several times, beaten by groups of six or more at least a half dozen times, been the victim of countless burglaries of both my home and car, etc. Every single time by blacks (except maybe the burglaries… I would have no idea who did those).
Now I don't suggest that whites are somehow superior by some gift of nature, as many do. But I do believe that the ghetto black culture (a culture adopted by many whites, asians, etc as well) is a very serious threat to the safety of the civilized population. And I don't necessarily think it's such a terrible thing to point out this self-evident truth.
I have always treated people as individuals and will always have honest friendship with anybody who will have me as their friend. But when I see a group of black (usually black, but not always) teenagers approaching me, behaving in a menacing, imposing manner, dressed in the uniform of the ghetto thug, I'm getting ready to open fire if they get anywhere close to me. And nobody should feel the need to apologize for thinking the same thing.
Again, the problem is this ghetto mentality, which is not necessarily exclusive to any particular race. And it is not our fault that these people are on the margin. They marginalize themselves.
I would completely agree with that assessment. Indeed, when gang thugs aren't fighting each other, how often do they go after clean, upstanding people, regardless of what their race is? All too often.
I remember hearing about a couple of white supremacists who, right after murdering a black person for fun, murdered a white person so they could have a joy ride in his car. The example stuck in my head, because it illustrated two things: those people who don't value the lives of those of the "inferior race" (whatever race that might be) don't value the lives of those of the "superior race" either; and that the notion that the first crime should be a "hate crime", while the latter shouldn't be, only mocks justice, because assault, battery, rape, robbery, and murder aren't done because you love the victim.
The reality is that people who engage in such behavior have absorbed violence as a "normal" behavior, and because of that, have distanced themselves from civilized society.
No guns, not "Gun Crime" no "Gun Death", no Candle for him. He's not a useful victim!
Once they are arrested and known, it will be milliseconds later that the recollections of them as cute little boys in Sunday School are hyped in the media. Maybe a mother or two will go prostrate on the courthouse steps crying for her son as she remembers how he sang "Happy Birthday" to her while she was in the hospital when he was only 4 years old. Dr. Theodore John "Ted" Kaczynski was a good student. But that is beside the point.
If we want a civil society, then these young men will spend the majority of their lives behind bars.
It's astounding, isn't it? Just the other day, I was looking at my children, and thinking "Every person–whether great or small, whether noble or nefarious, starts out as happy little kids, don't they?" It's a tragedy that some of those kids will grow up to do awful things.
Of course, the recollections that will be hyped might not go as far as when the child was 4 years old. Even thugs will sing "Happy Birthday" to their mother in the hospital, or help their younger siblings with homework (sometimes to take a break from teaching "the Way of the Street" :-( ), or do other nice things.
BobG says:
And yet if the guy had been able to defend himself with a firearm, there would be a big uproar about "shooting unarmed kids".
But he would be alive to talk about, wouldn't he? I think he, and his family, would currently settle for that.
The 'unarmed' crap is what always gets me. This isn't television, in real life if you get punched or kicked in the face you can die. Particularly if there are multiple people doing it.
The public needs to realize that we're not Superman and that guns are not our kryptonite, we can get killed in much less flashy and dramatic ways than being gunned down.
In my mind, multiple attackers = attempted murder, not ag assault. And multiple attackers should always be treated the same as an armed attack.
Yup, but my problem is that a jury, or even prosecutors, might not think that because they've seen too much Hollywood garbage. That absolutely should be attempted murder, but if all they've been exposed to is TV and movies where the character gets a few bruises or is harmlessly 'knocked out'*, they might think you've gone too far.
*For those who don't know, you can't be safely knocked out. If you black out for more than a few moments you better hope someone calls an ambulance, as you may die from bleeding in the brain.
MAJ Mike says:
The neo-barbarians are within the gates and we are not allowed to defend ourselves. When will enough be enough?
FYI says:
Almost two years to the day, but little has changed. The linked article occured only a few blocks from the Gerald Ung incident.
http://articles.philly.com/2012-01-19/news/30643422_1_attackers-historic-district-investigator
Adam Z says:
This is the face of the victim…and this is why I have a CCW as a Philly resident…I will lighting a candle for him…I wonder if Joan Peterson and the Brady crew will be?
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20120120_Police_expect_arrests_soon_in_severe_Olney_beating.html
Their prohibition against our self-defense is one of the criminal depravities of our ruling class.
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OSTI.GOV Patent: Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof
Title: Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof
A method comprises heating an aqueous solution of colloidal silver particles. A soluble noble metal halide salt is added to the aqueous solution which undergoes a redox reaction on a surface of the silver particles to form noble metal/silver halide SPs, noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs on the surface of the silver particles. The heat is maintained for a predetermined time to consume the silver particles and release the noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or the noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs into the aqueous solution. The aqueous solution is cooled. The noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs are separated from the aqueous solution. The method optionally includes adding a soluble halide salt to the aqueous solution.
Sun, Yugang; Hu, Yongxing
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
UChicago Argonne, LLC (Chicago, IL)
Patent File Date: 2015 Jan 20
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
Sun, Yugang, and Hu, Yongxing. Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof. United States: N. p., 2016. Web.
Sun, Yugang, & Hu, Yongxing. Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof. United States.
Sun, Yugang, and Hu, Yongxing. Tue . "Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof". United States. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1261623.
title = {Noble metal superparticles and methods of preparation thereof},
author = {Sun, Yugang and Hu, Yongxing},
abstractNote = {A method comprises heating an aqueous solution of colloidal silver particles. A soluble noble metal halide salt is added to the aqueous solution which undergoes a redox reaction on a surface of the silver particles to form noble metal/silver halide SPs, noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs on the surface of the silver particles. The heat is maintained for a predetermined time to consume the silver particles and release the noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or the noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs into the aqueous solution. The aqueous solution is cooled. The noble metal/silver halide SPs, the noble metal halide/silver halide SPs or noble metal oxide/silver halide SPs are separated from the aqueous solution. The method optionally includes adding a soluble halide salt to the aqueous solution.},
Preparation of colloidal silver dispersions by the polyol process. Part 1—Synthesis and characterization
Silvert, Pierre-Yves; Herrera-Urbina, Ronaldo; Duvauchelle, Nicolas
J. Mater. Chem., Vol. 6, Issue 4
https://doi.org/10.1039/JM9960600573
Synthesis of colloidal metal and metal alloy nanoparticles for electrochemical energy applications
You, Hongjun; Yang, Shengchun; Ding, Bingjun
Chem. Soc. Rev., Vol. 42, Issue 7
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CS35319A
Process for preparation of catalyst for cleaning exhaust gases and catalyst prepared by the process
Patent Ono, T ; Tsuchitani, K ; Yamauchi, S ; ...
A process for preparing a catalyst for cleaning exhaust gases comprising a refractory carrier composed mainly of alumina and having deposited thereon, iron oxide, cerium oxide and at least one noble metal element, which comprises impregnating said carrier with an aqueous solution A prepared by adding aqueous ammonia to an aqueous solution containing a water-soluble iron salt as a material for iron and a cerium salt of an organic acid as a material for cerium to adjust the pH of the aqueous solution to 6.0-9.0, and optionally adding an ammonium salt of an organic acid, and an aqueous solution Bmore » containing a compound of the noble metal element.« less
Process for preparing catalyst with copper or zinc and with chromium, molybdenum, tungsten or vanadium, and product thereof
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This paper describes a process for preparing a catalyst comprising the oxides of copper or zinc and at least one additional metal it comprises: simultaneously and separately adding to a first vessel, a first aqueous solution comprising a copper or zinc salt; and a second aqueous solution comprising a soluble base, a third aqueous solution comprising a soluble salt of at least one of the second metal is added simultaneously to the first vessel, whereby an aqueous slurry of an insoluble solid is formed in the first vessel; advancing at least a portion of the aqueous slurry from the firstmore » vessel to a second vessel; recovering the solids from the aqueous slurry in the second vessel; and calcining the recovered solids wherein the average particle diameter of the calcined solids is from about 6 to about 20 microns.« less
Method for the preparation of metal colloids in inverse micelles and product preferred by the method
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A method is provided for preparing catalytic elemental metal colloidal particles (e.g. gold, palladium, silver, rhodium, iridium, nickel, iron, platinum, molybdenum) or colloidal alloy particles (silver/iridium or platinum/gold). A homogeneous inverse micelle solution of a metal salt is first formed in a metal-salt solvent comprised of a surfactant (e.g. a nonionic or cationic surfactant) and an organic solvent. The size and number of inverse micelles is controlled by the proportions of the surfactant and the solvent. Then, the metal salt is reduced (by chemical reduction or by a pulsed or continuous wave UV laser) to colloidal particles of elemental metal.more » After their formation, the colloidal metal particles can be stabilized by reaction with materials that permanently add surface stabilizing groups to the surface of the colloidal metal particles. The sizes of the colloidal elemental metal particles and their size distribution is determined by the size and number of the inverse micelles. A second salt can be added with further reduction to form the colloidal alloy particles. After the colloidal elemental metal particles are formed, the homogeneous solution distributes to two phases, one phase rich in colloidal elemental metal particles and the other phase rich in surfactant. The colloidal elemental metal particles from one phase can be dried to form a powder useful as a catalyst. Surfactant can be recovered and recycled from the phase rich in surfactant.« less
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Journal Article Christodouleas, Dionysios C. ; Simeone, Felice C. ; Tayi, Alok ; ... - Advanced Materials Technologies
This manuscript describes a simple and rapid method for fabricating free-standing structures composed primarily (>94% w/w, and 55–80 at%) of noble metals (e.g., gold, silver, platinum, etc.) and having physical morphologies that resemble paper, thread, or fabric. In this method, templates (i.e., pieces of paper, or cotton fabric) are loaded with aqueous solutions of salts of noble metals, and then the cellulosic component is burned off in a furnace held at high temperatures (i.e., from 550 °C to 800 °C, depending on the procedure, in air). Even though the environment in a furnace is ostensibly oxidizing (e.g., hot air), themore » metal ions are reduced to elemental metal and form paper-templated or fabric-templated structures that have morphologies similar to that of the material from which they were derived (i.e., paper or fabric). Paper-templated structures are fibrous, permeable to gases and liquides, electrically conductive, and in some cases (e.g., paper-templated gold and paper-templated platinum structures), their surfaces are electroactive. The surface areas of paper-templated structures are more than 20 times higher than their projected areas. Finally, paper-templated structures thus have properties that make them potentially useful in catalysis, sensing, and electroanalysis.« less
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Radiographic image forming process
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A radiographic image forming process comprising imagewise exposing a negative type silver halide light-sensitive photographic material in combination with a fluorescent intensifying screen to radiation and then treating said material with a processing solution, said material comprising a support and constituent layers coated on both sides of said support, said layers containing light sensitive silver halide particles; metallic salt particles which are not light-sensitive and, when untreated, are more soluble in said processing solution than said silver halide particles, said metallic salt particles having been treated so that the surface thereof has been rendered less soluble than said silver halidemore » by a dissolution retarder; physical development nuclei; and compounds selected from water soluble dyes having absorption maxima in an aqueous solution of from 400 to 600 nm or compounds selected from said water soluble dyes coupled to a non-diffusive mordant, and said processing solution containing at least one reducing agent and at least one substance which is capable of dissolving said metallic salt particles.« less


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Dancing On Ice 2014 judges: Jason Gardiner will miss the "drama" when show ends
Posted January 25, 2014 03:41 by Josh Darvill
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Dancing On Ice 2014 judge Jason Gardiner has admitted he'll miss the drama of the show once it finished.
This year's series of Dancing On Ice will be the last after ITV announced last year it had axed the show following falling ratings.
But it's going out with a bang as an all star cast of past celebs compete to be crowned champion of champions, and there's even competition on the panel.
Jason however insisted that his bickering with fellow judge Karen Barber wasn't just for the cameras however, telling the Daily Star newspaper: "It's real. We see things very differently, we're very different people.
"I think we both know our stuff but we will never agree. She never listens to what I say. She's a very uptight woman. Can we be friends? Why would I want to be?"
Meanwhile, Jason warned the remaining nine celebrities that it was anyone's to win.
"I want the champion of champions to earn that title," he remarked. "Ray Quinn may be the favourite but it only takes one fall or injury and he's out."
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Mum and daughter held over alleged bookmaker murder
A MOTHER and her daughter were arrested yesterday on suspicion of murdering a bookmaker who vanished without trace nearly nine years ago.
Updated 22:59, 7 FEB 2012
Shirley Banfield, 62, was held following a cold case review into the disappearance of husband Don in May 2001.
Daughter Lynette, 38, was also detained by murder squad detectives who believe Mr Banfield may have been killed for his money.
The Trinidad-born father of two was 63 when a friend reported him missing to police in Harrow, north London.
He had recently retired as a William Hills betting shop manager after previously working for the BBC in its accounts department.
Two months after Mr Banfield vanished Shirley sold their house for s179,000 and moved away from London.
Detectives believe there is evidence of "financial irregularities" about his savings and pensions in the following years.
Last year police searched the old family address in Lockett Road, Harrow, digging up the back garden.
Despite using ground-seeking radar and archaeologists no human remains were discovered.
But a source said: "Certain issues have led us to suspect that Don may have come to some harm".
Mr Banfield was reported missing on May 19 by a concerned friend rather than a member of his family.
Shirley, who was arrested at 6.40 am at home in Canterbury, Kent, told officers in 2001 she last saw her husband on May 13.
Harrow police launched a search but found no signs of him and a year later the case was passed to Scotland Yard's missings persons unit.
In 2008 a review of the file led to a fresh inquiry by officers in the Homicide and Serious Crime Command based at Barnes, west London.
Checks in Trinidad have found no evidence Mr Banfield returned to the Caribbean.
A Met spokeswoman confirmed two women had been held on suspicion of murder and fraud.
* Anyone with information about Don Banfield should call the incident room on 0208 247 7821 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111
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