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Deputies: Would-be scrap-metal thief held at gunpoint by homeowner
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Thinking a noise was made by a wild animal, a homeowner armed himself but encountered a burglar carrying buckets of scrap metal.
Thinking the rustling behind the soon-to-be-renovated home was caused by a wild animal, a homeowner armed himself and instead encountered a burglar walking away with two buckets of scrap metal, Volusia County deputies said.
The 59-year-old homeowner, Benton Ledbetter, held Charles Price, 39, at gunpoint until Volusia County sheriff's deputies arrived at the home in the 1700 block of James Street near New Smyrna Beach, said sheriff's spokesman Brandon Haught.
Price was trying to make off with buckets of scrap metal ripped from the house, Haught said.
Ledbetter was in a camper in the front yard of the house when he heard the noises coming from the back of the home at about 11:15 a.m.
"He thought it might be a wild animal, prompting him to get his gun and see what was going on," Haught said. "When he got to the back door, he found Price carrying two buckets full of copper wire and a couple of aluminum tennis rackets."
Ledbetter pointed his gun at Price and told him to get on the ground, called the Sheriff's Office and waited for deputies to arrive.
Price, who lives behind the house he burglarized, told deputies he thought the property was abandoned, Haught said. He entered the house without permission to take what he could find and then sell it.
Price was charged with burglary and booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail in Daytona Beach. He was also found to have a civil order for arrest for failure to pay child support, Haught said.


1923 Marmon Speedster featured in the PBS TV series, Reilly, Ace of Spies.
For sale $29,500... cheap thrills!
One-off custom Nash $18,000 on Craigslist.
Lovely 1917 Marmon Model 34 "Cloverleaf" Touring Roadster for sale. $76,500.
1921 Hudson Super Six Speedster, ex Harrah.
1939 Graham Sharknose, one of four known coupes.
Artist Peter Helck in Marmon Speedster.
1939 Graham "Sharknose" Combination Coupe with supercharger.
Wayne Graefen .. and overdrive? Deco delight.
1921 Hudson Super Six touring.
1939 V16 Cadillac Model 30-90 Convertible Sedan. For sale at Riddle Motors.
Duesenberg Model A #1 emerges from Canepa Design restoration shop. What a great sound!
1964 Chrysler Imperial in street action.


This drama tells the story about Do Bong Soon (Park Bo Young) who is a woman born with Herculean strength, anything she touches with too much force crumbles in her hands. Ahn Min Hyuk (Park Hyung Sik) is her love interest and he is an extraordinary second-generation chaebol with crazy tendencies. Meanwhile, Gook Doo (Ji Soo) is the guy who's harbored a one-sided crush on the heroine.


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Leading Financial Services and Banking Barrister joins Henderson Chambers
Mar 7th, 2022 by Hewetson & Co
Henderson Chambers is delighted to announce that Thomas Samuels has joined chambers with immediate effect.
Thomas has a busy practice covering a range of common law, commercial and regulatory matters, with particular focus on consumer and financial services issues (both contentious and non-contentious). He is ranked in the legal directories as a leading practitioner in the areas of Financial Services Regulation, Banking & Finance and Consumer.
He was instructed as junior counsel in the Supreme Court in Beavis v ParkingEye Ltd [2016] AC 1172, now the leading decision on the common law penalties doctrine and unfair terms in consumer contracts. During the course of 2017-19 he was instructed as junior counsel in the landmark Berkeley Burke litigation, appearing both in judicial review proceedings against the Financial Ombudsman Service and related group litigation in the Circuit Commercial Court.
His clients include lenders, insurers, pensions providers, IFAs, retailers, charities, regulators and high net-worth individuals. Thomas has a pragmatic and down-to-earth approach, and is always happy to provide an early strategic view at the outset of litigation. He is often engaged in cases involving particularly sensitive commercial or personal issues.
On joining Henderson Chambers, Thomas says "I am delighted to be joining Henderson Chambers. Its market-leading reputation, particularly in group action work, and ambitions for the future are hugely exciting and a great fit with my practice. I look forward to contributing to and enhancing Chambers' reputation over the coming months and years. I am also grateful to Jason Housden and his superb clerking and administration team, whose reputation is second-to-none."
Chambers Director, Jason Housden commented: "We are delighted that Thomas has chosen to join us at Henderson Chambers and we look forward to welcoming him. His outstanding reputation precedes him and he is perfect fit for chambers. His arrival demonstrates the growth of chambers in its core practice areas."
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This is our monthly planning meeting to receive committee updates for the tour and discuss and resolve issues. All are welcome! If you are a new artist to the area and have questions or would like more information about joining the Tour, we would love to meet you!
The deadline to sign up for the Tour is April 30th.
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The Washington Post Sunday
U.S. will allow Chevron to pump oil in Venezuela
Biden administration official denies move was made to ease shortage
2022-11-27 - BY KAREN DEYOUNG
The Biden administration said on Saturday that it would lift a key oil sanction against Venezuela, marking the first significant crack in a years-long U.S. embargo that could eventually help ease the tight global energy market.
Chevron, the only remaining active U.S. oil company in Venezuela, is part of a joint venture with the country's state oil company but has been barred by sanctions from operations there. Under a new Treasury Department license, it will be able to resume pumping oil. The limited license stipulates that any oil produced can only be exported to the United States. No profits from its sale can go to the Venezuelan state-owned company but must be used to pay off Venezuelan creditors in the United States.
The move came as the government of Nicolás Maduro held its first formal talks with Venezuela's opposition coalition in more than a year. Meeting in Mexico City on Saturday, the two sides agreed to ask the United Nations to manage several billion dollars in government funds held in foreign banks that will be unfrozen to help assuage a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela.
The negotiators also agreed to continue talks next month to discuss a timetable for "free" elections in 2024 and human rights issues.
"We have long made clear we believe the best solution in Venezuela is a negotiated one between Venezuelans," said a senior Biden administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity under rules set by the White House. "To encourage this, we have also said we were willing to provide targeted sanctions relief."
The policy "remains open to further calibrating sanctions," the official said. "But any additional action will require additional concrete steps," including the release of political prisoners and recognition of opposition legitimacy, as well as unfettered access for U.N. humanitarian missions.
The official dismissed reports that the administration was acting to ease an oil shortage and high energy prices exacerbated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "Allowing Chevron to begin to lift oil from Venezuela is not something that is going to impact international oil prices. This is really about Venezuela and the Venezuelan process," the official said, where the United States is "supporting a peaceful, negotiated outcome to the political, humanitarian and economic crisis."
Venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves, slightly more than Saudi Arabia, although its thick crude is more difficult to extract. But its production faltered due to poor government management even before Maduro took over in 2013 after he death of Hugo Chávez, a former military officer who was elected in 1998.
U.S. sanctions against Venezuela that began 15 years ago on grounds of drug trafficking, corruption and human rights abuses gradually expanded, culminating under Donald Trump's administration. Trump sharply tightened measures against the state oil company, Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. or PDVSA; the central bank; and individuals and companies. U.S. oil company activities there were almost completely banned.
The sanctions were an attempt to block global revenue from oil sales, and production fell sharply as black market exports have been sold primarily to China and India. When the Venezuelan opposition declared the December 2018 elections illegitimate, it recognized Juan Guaidó, the opposition leader in the parliament, as interim president. The United States quickly followed suit, recruiting dozens of other Latin American countries to do the same.
But economic and political pressure on Maduro had little effect, and the Venezuelan people bore the brunt of a failing economy and repression, leading millions to flee to neighboring countries as well as to the United States, where the number of Venezuelan refugees has swelled.
President Biden came to office convinced that Trump's Venezuela policy had failed, but he took few steps to reverse it, as powerful lawmakers vowed to block any action and the administration retained hopes of winning the midterm votes of anti-Maduro Venezuelans and other Latin Americans in Florida. As recently as the summer, Biden called Guaidó to assure him of continued American recognition and support, even as other governments and members of Guaido's own opposition coalition were turning away from him and calling for negotiations with Maduro.
The Republican electoral rout in Florida appeared to convince the administration it was time to move. Chevron officials have said it will take some time to get their operations up and running again in Venezuela.
The sanctions change appears to be an agile circumvention of a main complaint of U.S. critics — the possibility that the Maduro government would benefit directly. Under the terms of the license, PDVSA is cut off from any profits its joint venture may make with Chevron.
But Maduro would not be any worse off than he is now, and one crack in the sanctions may lead to others. For the administration, assuming negotiations with the opposition continues toward democratic elections and human rights improvements, any loosening of global energy supply is seen as positive.
In a statement Saturday on the resumption of talks in Mexico, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a longtime hard-liner on Venezuela, said that "if Maduro again tries to use these negotiations to buy time to further consolidate his criminal dictatorship, the United States and our international partners must snap back the full force of our sanctions that brought his regime to the negotiating table in the first place."
"Allowing Chevron to begin to lift oil from Venezuela is not something that is going to impact international oil prices. This is really about Venezuela and the Venezuelan process."
A senior Biden administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity
FERNANDO LLANO/ASSOCIATED PRESS From left, Venezuelan opposition delegate Gerardo Blyde Perez, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrad, Norwegian diplomat Dag Nylander and President of the National Assembly of Venezuela Jorge Rodriguez after negotiations on Saturday in Mexico City.
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A return pouch having a personalized deck of cards (i.e. personalized playing cards) for each guest or having pictures of the event along with the date and venue would leave everlasting and nostalgic memories whenever the deck is pulled out year's later. Playing cards with photos of the occasion could be ordered as a gift to the attendees.


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FedEx issues fifth edition of Access Now
MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 30, 2011— FedEx Corp. (NYSE: FDX), has issued its latest edition of its popular Access Now magazine, bringing the total published to five volumes. The fifth edition of Access Now takes a look at how businesses, with a little help from FedEx, take advantage of growing international opportunities and live the true meaning of Access.
The unprecedented expansion of Access – to goods, services, ideas and opportunities – is the primary driver that has created profound and positive change across the globe, increasing the market reach of businesses, strengthening their supply chains, facilitating and supporting innovation, and creating opportunities for growth. Access Now helps highlight the stories of a number of diverse companies, who represent Access, showing the impact of fair trade by providing real-life examples that break down the benefits for people through case studies and success stories.
The featured stories in the latest issue include:
· "Saving Saginaw" looks at the automotive business in Michigan and shows how the Access Effect bridged the gap between 10 percent unemployment and 13 percent unemployment in Saginaw County.
· "It Might Get Loud" shows how Loudmouth Golf, a global company with only 32 employees and no headquarters, increased revenues by almost 19,000 percent over the last five years.
· "The Little Guys Just Got Bigger" visits Hopunion LLC, which has built a global business by selling hops (with help from FedEx) to the fastest-growing segment of the beer industry: thousands of small, independent breweries across the globe.
· "Harvesting Prosperity" profiles Singapore-based Olam International, which has become a major player in the agricultural commodities market by investing in the people and places at the roots of its global supply Chains.
· An interview with Michael Ducker, COO and President, International, FedEx Express, who discusses optimism in the global economy and how faster, smarter global connections can create opportunity.
"International exposure for a business has never been more important; understanding the importance of trade and accessing the right markets is essential," said William G. Margaritis, Corporate Vice President, Global Communications and Investor Relations, FedEx Corp. "However, the stories that Access Now tells go beyond that. Bringing to life companies like Loudmouth, Hopunion and Olam International demonstrates the total impact of access, and the real people behind the numbers. Sometimes it is about more than just profits and revenues – it's about touching and supporting the community, both locally and globally. Access Now allows us to show all the benefits that are gained through Access, which would otherwise never be seen and highlight the incredible contribution and connection people are making every day through their businesses."
For a free copy of Access Now magazine, log on to www.access.fedex.com
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Gloria R. Boyland Named to Black Enterprise's 2019 List of Most Powerful Women in Corporate America
Idea Exchange Features U.S. Military and Industry


I forgot to shave today, should I reschedule my appointment?
What is the difference between Swedish and Deep Tissue massages?
Swedish is a relaxing massage with long, flowing strokes to increase the bodies circulation back to the heart. Deep Tissue is a more targeted approach to areas of tension and pain. Deep Tissue can be performed at light, medium, and deep pressures, but regardless of the pressure applied you should expect it to be a little more intense than a typical massage.
We recommend getting at least a 60 minute massage once a month for general maintenance, relaxation, and flexibility. However depending on your specific needs we may have a different recommendation, so talk with your therapist today to find the right treatment plan for you.
Do I need to remove my underwear before getting on the massage Table?
I often tell people the more skin I can work with, the better your results will be. Having said that, your comfort level is the most important thing. If you're uncomfortable taking them off then leave them on. It's all about your comfort level, not the therapist preference.
How long should I wait after surgery before getting a massage?
The general rule is to wait 6 weeks after surgery. Your therapist may work on you after 4 weeks with a doctor's note, but it is recommended to wait the full 6 weeks before doing any deep tissue/deep pressures even with a doctor's note. We want to give your body adequate time to heal before we start breaking stuff up again.
Can someone get a massage if they have Cancer?
Yes, you can get a massage while having cancer. But we do want to get a form of communication with a doctor first. It may take a little longer to get an appointment, but we want to do what's best for you, and establish that connection with your care team to choose the best course of action for your situation. This is required for anyone who has had cancer, or been on a cancer treatment within the last 12 months.
Drink plenty of water! We want to get your muscles rehydrated after the appointment to keep them from causing any unnecessary cramping. I also recommend following the next few days with some light stretches or range of motion. Ex: arm rotations, neck rotations, etc... Do a little more than what you would do on a regular basis. We want to keep the muscles from just locking right back up on you.
Can massage help my anxiety?
Absolutely, I recommend getting a 90 minute Swedish massage, and if possible twice a month for anxiety. You don't want to get any deep work, especially when your anxiety is flared up, as this will cause more stress on the nervous system. Swedish massage is very sedative and relaxes the Central Nervous System, helping to promote a relaxing effect for anxiety symptoms.


Napa Computer Bus: In 1983 more than 3,000 school children throughout California's Napa Valley were treated to hands-on experience with ATARI computers. A refurbished school bus with 17 ATARIs on board circulated among the 21 public schools in the district, giving each fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grader several opportunities to work with Atari's PILOT language. An old school bus (circa 1953), provided by the district, was painted red, white and blue and named the Napa Valley Unified School District Computer Lab. The lab accommodated 32 students at a time with each child sharing a 400. Each learning station also included an 11-inch Quasar television for video display and a cassette recorder for storage. The instructor's station was equipped with a disk drive and dot matrix printer as well as a TV and tape recorder. Seen here in rural Napa County.


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Spotlight on Impact
New REDACT project to understand how conspiracy theories spread across Europe
New collaborative research launched to understand the production, consumption, circulation and regulation of conspiracy theories across Europe.
A new research project housed in the Department of English is underway to understand how digitisation affects the spread of conspiracy theories.
The REDACT project, which has been funded by CHANSE – a collaboration between 27 funding organisations from 24 countries, sees researchers from around Europe look into some of the unique aspects of how mis- and disinformation spread online.
Professor Clare Birchall – co-author of Conspiracy Theories in the time of Covid-19 - leads the project:
Professor Claire Birchall
"I have worked on contested knowledges like conspiracy theories for a long time and am delighted to be given the opportunity to work with colleagues across Europe on a comparative project. This kind of work will allow us to ascertain how regional histories of propaganda, press freedom, and politics shape online conspiracy narratives."
With so much polarising disinformation aired on for-profit, privately-owned social media platforms, Professor Birchall underlines the difficulties of tackling this social issue.
"Disinformation is a hot topic at the moment with the so-called infodemic that accompanied Covid-19, claims of a stolen election in the US, and now the war in Ukraine. The REDACT project will suggest that conspiracy theories are unlike other forms of false information because they are so tied to identity and belonging. We will be working with organisations tasked with tackling disinformation to address what particular challenges conspiracy theories present."
For more information about the project visit the webpage and follow on @REDACTCHANSE on Twitter.
Clare Birchall
Professor of Contemporary Culture
REDACT: Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories


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currency is affected by swings in their prices.
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Thursday's close at C$0.9731 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0276.
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The Beast of Hushing Wood
Gabrielle Wang
By the award-winning author of The Wishbird. A powerful magic realism story about Ziggy Truegood, a young girl who has a premonition that she will drown on her 12th birthday.
Ziggy Truegood lives in a tiny town deep in Hushing Wood, where strange things are happening. The townspeople are fighting, Ziggy feels like something is hunting her, and her beloved woods have become dark and hostile. When exotic Raffi and his grandfather arrive in town, Ziggy finds herself strangely drawn to them. But are they there to save Ziggy, or are they the hunters?
Thought-provoking and engaging, Hushing Wood is a lovely blend of action, fable and magic realism.
Gabrielle Wang is an author and illustrator born in Melbourne of Chinese heritage. Her maternal great-grandfather came to Victoria during the Gold Rush and her father is from Shanghai. Her stories are a blend of Chinese and Western culture with a touch of fantasy.
Gabrielle's first children's novel, The Garden of Empress Cassia, won the 2002 Aurealis Award, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was a CBCA Notable Book. The Pearl of Tiger Bay was shortlisted for the 2004 Aurealis Award and The Lion Drummer was a Notable Book in the 2009 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. A Ghost in My Suitcase won the 2009 Aurealis Award, was a CBC Notable Book, was shortlisted for the 2011 Sakura Medal and received a Highly Commended in the 2010 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. Her first young adult novel, Little Paradise also received a Highly Commended in the 2011 Prime Minister's Awards. Gabrielle's picture book The Race for the Chinese Zodiac (2010) illustrated by Sally Rippin and Regine Abos was a Notable Book in the CBCA Awards for 2011 and shortlisted for the 2011 YABBA and WAYBRA awards. Gabrielle has created two popular characters Poppy and Pearlie for the highly successful 2011 Our Australian Girl series.
The Wishbird was a CBCA 2014 Notable Book and was shortlisted for the 2014 Australian Book Design Awards, Yabba Awards, Kroc Awards, Koala Awards, Cool Awards and Crystal Kite Award.
Gabi's latest books include the suspenseful The Beast of Hushing Wood for middle readers, and a sequel to the award-winning A Ghost in my Suitcase, called Ting Ting the Ghosthunter.
Also by Gabrielle Wang
Praise for The Beast of Hushing Wood
This intriguing books is a mixture of adventure, fable and magic realism. Middle-grade readers will enjoy the journey and learn, along with Ziggy, that something that might seem bad at first often turns out to be a good thing.
Pauline Hosking, Magpies Magazine
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Shortlisted • 2018 • 8–10 Years
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Brett Alan Bordonaro
Brett Alan Bordonaro, beloved son, brother, and father, 24, of LaBelle, Texas passed away unexpectantly Monday, May 31, 2021. Brett was born September 10, 1996, in Port Arthur, Texas to Scott and Kimberlee Bordonaro. Brett was a parishioner of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church. He graduated from Friendswood High School in 2015 and was employed with Fitzz & Shipman, Incorporated. Brett enjoyed hunting, fishing and playing video games. He also loved going to the lake during the summers. His favorite meal consisted of pork chops, rice, pinto beans, and anything hot and spicy. Brett always enjoyed a good scary movie and riding insane rides at the carnival. He was always the life of the party and made people laugh even if it was at his own expense. Brett's pride and joy was his son, Jude. Brett is preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Linda Hallmark; grandfathers, Kenneth Bordonaro and Allen Dauphine; great grandparents, Jesse G. and Henrietta Morua and W.P. and Addie Hallmark. Those left behind to cherish Brett's memory are his parents, Scott and Kim Bordonaro of LaBelle, Texas; son, Jude Bordonaro; siblings, Blake Bordonaro and Brookelyn Bordonaro; grandfather, John P. Hallmark; grandmother, Martha Dell Dauphine; grandparents, Mike and Pat Reddrick; uncle, John Hallmark and his wife, Amy of Friendswood, Texas; great uncle, Jesse Morua and his wife, Diane of Orange, Texas. Brett is also survived by numerous cousins and extended friends and relatives. A Christian Vigil will be held from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., with a rosary to be recited at 6:00 p.m., Friday, June 4, 2021, at Melancon's Funeral Home in Nederland. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, June 5, 2021, at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church in Nederland. Rite of Committal will follow at Memory Gardens of Jefferson County in Nederland.
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Meet the Man Who Says He Invented the 'Bump Stock'
Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was found with 12 'bump stocks' used to make semi auto guns fire like fully automatic ones. Jeremiah Cottle is the man behind the tool.
by Ann Givens
In this Feb. 1, 2013 photo, an employee of North Raleigh Guns demonstrates how a "bump" stock works at the Raleigh, NC, shop. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)
This article was published in partnership with the Trace.
Jeremiah Cottle said he made the first-ever bump stock in about two hours from a piece of wood and some metal.
The retired Air Force veteran had come home to his central Texas farm to recover from a brain injury he received in the military, and he was looking for a way to pass the time, according to a 2011 news report.
"A friend and I were out shooting one day and we weren't able to fire as fast as we wanted. We couldn't afford what we wanted—a fully automatic rifle—so I started to think about how I could make something that would work and be affordable," Cottle told the Albany News, a small, weekly newspaper in Texas.
Until this week, the accessory Cottle says he invented to help people fire their semiautomatic rifles more rapidly was little-known outside the gun world—and even among firearm enthusiasts, it had a reputation as a niche product that doesn't serve much practical purpose. But then 12 bump stocks were found attached to semiautomatic rifles in the Las Vegas hotel room of the deadliest mass shooter in American history.
A bump-fire stock is a device that harnesses the recoil of a semiautomatic firearm to allow a shooter to fire shots in quick succession, mimicking automatic gunfire.
An analysis by the New York Times of the sound of the gunfire, along with videos taken by eyewitnesses, indicate that the shooter was achieving rates of automatic-rifle fire.
From VICE News: The Biggest Seller of Bump Stocks Has Halted Sales on Its Website
Fully automatic rifles are heavily regulated and can cost thousands of dollars to acquire. Bump stocks, which are manufactured by Slide Fire Solutions Inc. and at least one other company, retail for about $100, and have been approved for sale by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives. Cottle is the president of the company, which is based in the town of Moran, according to tax documents provided by the Texas State Comptroller.
Authorities have not said whether Slide Fire Solutions Inc. made any of the devices found in the hotel room of the shooter, Stephen Paddock. But it is the leading seller of the devices. Until this week, Slide Fire bump stocks were sold by Walmart and Cabela's. On Wednesday, the retailers appeared to pull them from their online stores.
Also on Wednesday, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, introduced a bill that would ban the sale and possession of bump-stock equipment and other devices that work to turn semiautomatic firearms into automatic ones.
Cottle and his wife, Lora, who in 2011 was vice president of the company, according to the Albany News, could not be reached for comment.
In 2016, after the Orlando nightclub massacre, Cottle was interviewed by the shooting-sports website Ammoland. Asked whether his product violates the intent of the federal law that bans most sales of automatic rifles, Cottle said no.
"With Slide Fire you still have to pull the trigger each time it fires. The Slide Fire stock does not change the mechanics of the firearm, it simply enables the shooter to pull the trigger very rapidly," he said.
He added that banning bump stocks would be like banning the trigger finger of the fastest shooter in the world.
"Should we ban Jerry Miculek's trigger finger because he can fire six shots from a revolver, reload and fire six more shots in less than three seconds?" Cottle asked.
Although experts agree that the bump stock does not turn a semiautomatic rifle into a fully automatic one by the letter of the law, some say it has the same effect because it increases the speed at which the shooter can discharge rounds so dramatically.
The Albany News said Cottle's business took off quickly, with sales exceeding $10 million in its first year. In 2011, the operation moved from a collection of portable buildings into a new 22,000-square-foot metal building and the company was building a residential compound for employees who needed housing.
Slide Fire has sued several other companies, including Bump Fire Systems, 2nd Am Arms and Bair Arms, for patent infringement over the last several years. Most cases were settled, with the defendant agreeing to "cease and desist" making bump-stock products.
Lawyers in those cases could not immediately be reached for comment.
Slide Fire also settled a case brought by three of Lori Cottle's cousins in 2012. They claimed they were defamed, falsely promised bonuses and denied wages. One of them said he was promised a $4,500 Valkyrie Arms belt-fed AR-15 in exchange for work he did on behalf of the company, but never got the weapon. An attorney for Cottle's cousins could not be reached Wednesday.
A version of this article was originally published by the Trace, a nonprofit news organization covering guns in America. Sign up for the newsletter, or follow the Trace on Facebook or Twitter.
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This week, I wrote an article about the science behind Geneen's session. The story is about how paying attention actually changes our brains to make us happy. It's a short read, and it helps drive home how easy (and necessary!) it is to practice paying attention in our everyday lives: How Focusing on Mundane Household Tasks Can Make You Happy.
Attention is the clearest form of love we can give. To give ourselves attention is a way to love ourselves. If we don't know how to be kind and love ourselves any other way, then listening to this Eating Guidelines Retreat is a way to love ourselves; it's love in action.
Give yourself this, even if you don't know what this is or how this is going to end up. Something called you here. Of all the ways you can spend time / energy / money, you have chosen this. You have chosen to be here. Honor that.
Orienting, grounding, centering. What is your intention? What do you want? What will you hear? Or is this my last ditch attempt to solve this thing with food. Look deeper. Frame it in a positive statement.
What do you want for yourself? When you're clear about that, when you're not just muddling through ... if you're clear about what your intention is, that's a guide for you. It helps you to listen with your heart. You can listen differently. You can pay attention differently because you know why you're here. Because then you're less likely to fight with yourself or to argue with Geneen (internally) as she speaks.
Pay attention to Geneen and pay attention to your intention.
What Are You Tending on Your Half Acre?
Geneen tells the story of trying to connect deeply with her father, who even at the end of his life, just wanted to watch the Financial News Network. She says we're all given a proverbial half acre to tend that represents our lives. Some want to tend roses, some potatoes. It's not right or wrong. It's only important that you know what you want to grow on your half acre.
If we didn't want to fix our obsession with food, we wouldn't participate in this retreat. So know that a lifetime obsession with food is not part of your plan for your half acre. Weed your garden so you can grow what you want on your half acre.
We are talking about 2 & 3 this week.
3. Eat without distractions. Distractions include radio, telephone, newspapers, books, intense or anxiety-producing conversations or music.
What Is it Like to Pay Attention?
The Eating Guidelines are about coming into your body. Pick your head up and notice where your body actually is. Usually your mind roams and your body just schleps along with your mind. We're so led and run by our minds, and we don't allow ourselves to take in our environment and just be here.
Paying attention is a deep form of love. If we don't pay attention when eating, we feel like we missed it and so we keep eating it over and over again.
What is it like to pay attention when there's no big charge like there is with food? Pay attention to a chandelier, a photograph, a teacup or what an iPod really looks like.
We don't want to get to end our lives and feel like we missed them because we didn't pay attention. When we get a terminal medical diagnosis, it makes us finally appreciate what we have. And then we begin to appreciate how gorgeous a teacup is or the smile of someone we love, or the air or wind on your face.
That kind of diagnosis breaks the trance of not seeing. You start to actually see exactly what's in front of you and take it in. What if you could do that right now, this very second, right now. All we're talking about is paying attention. Notice sensations: warmth, coolness. Your hands. Your breath.
One participant, Tricia, wrote in to Geneen to say that she's sad and upset. The message she's giving herself is that she's not worth the effort. She finds herself at the 3rd week of this online retreat feeling like this attempt at dealing with her food issues won't work, and here she is failing again. She's facing a lot of internal resistance to the Eating Guidelines. She feels like she "should" practice the guidelines, but she doesn't want to, and thinks she's going to fail. What can she do to get beyond her deep-seeded beliefs and move on?
Geneen says if we feel not worth it, then it will affect our Eating Guidelines and whole retreat. If we think "why make the effort" that's what Geneen calls cutting ourselves off at the knees before anyone else can do it. That's The Voice talking.
In the book Women, Food and God, there's a chapter about The Voice, which is called The GPS From the Twilight Zone. Read it again. There is that part of ourselves called The Voice, the super ego, the internalized critic, the parent, the judge.
The Voice happens anytime there's a chance for transformation or change, because it internalized what got us into trouble in the past and wants to do everything in its power to keep us "safe" and small. The Voice tries to keep us in Survival Mode. It also controls our mores and morals, such as how to behave.
There are subtle things we learn about how to act in order to be loved. The Voice is the way that we keep our situation on lockdown, to keep the status quo and to keep ourselves from changing.
As a young kid, anytime we were about to do what could get us in trouble, or was not on the list of ways to be loved, we were able to internalize what our parents would have said to us if we'd done that. So instead of our parents yelling at us, we reprimand ourselves.
That Voice is part of humanity development. Everybody has one and has to deal with this part of themselves for real transformation to happen. What was once self protection is no longer our friend. The Voice is the biggest obstacle to any kind of change.
You take back your power by noticing The Voice and seeing that you're identifying it.
In the question that Tricia asks, there's no difference between her and The Voice. She actually thinks, "I'm not worth it, I'm going to fail." We feel small, diminished, paralyzed, ashamed, bad. Like a failure. We don't want to try any more. If that Voice is there, then why get up at all if we just get cut down. And most of us choose to stay down so we don't get knocked over.
What Else Can We Do About The Voice?
Read the chapter about The Voice and listen to the Women, Food and God retreat module.
Pay attention to when you go from feeling okay about yourself to feeling negative and start attacking yourself. The only way to deal with that is to stop it. You can't reason with it. You have to stop it. Say STOP. You are not my friend. You are not allowed to talk to me that way. Sorry. It's imperative you stop The Voice, because it wants the status quo; it wants no change.
Stop The Voice and disengage. Parse out the "I" within the statement "I" am a failure. Don't let The Voice say that. Separate out the "you" from the "it" and say "Stop, I'm sorry, you're not allowed to talk to me like this." And at that point you've got some distance.
I Love Food. What About Pleasure and Beauty in Life?
Another participant writes to tell Geneen how much she loves food. She is a foodie and she's afraid she won't have the love of food by following the Eating Guidelines.
Geneen says that pleasure and beauty are necessities in life. Our souls, hearts and eyes need beauty. Paying attention to food is a form of love and appreciation. When you look and pay attention to the food you're eating – eat sitting down and without distractions – that Eating Guideline is absolutely about paying attention and a love of food.
When you follow the Eating Guideline of eat sitting down and without distractions, you can't help but see what food is made of, the colors, textures, aromas ... you get to enjoy the ecstatic component in eating that most people miss because we're not paying attention. Loving food dovetails into the guidelines we're talking about this session, because when you love something, you pay attention and take time with it.
Think about someone you love, and what it takes to be with them. What if you're with them while you're on Facebook, Twitter, opening and closing the fridge, doing 5 things at once while you're supposed to be with this person?
That's what we do with food. We don't pay attention to it. Most compulsive eaters don't' love food. We eat it to change the channel on what's barreling across the screens of our mind. We eat to comfort and protect, not for the taste. If you eat when you're not hungry, then you're using food and it could be cardboard you are stuffing in your mouth.
The point of the Eating Guidelines is to love food and to eat it when your body is hungry, stop eating when you've had enough, and eat while paying attention. Eating sitting down in a calm environment and without distractions – that's all about attention and appreciation as a form of love.
We don't' have that much attention that we can split it off into that many pieces to taste and appreciate what we're eating if we're doing anything else while eating. Why not give yourself the luxury of tasting what you eat? The only way you can do that is to pay attention when you eat.
What About When We're Eating With Friends?
It's hard to pay attention to our food when we're conversing with friends over a meal. Geneen recommends we pay attention once a day, or whatever is on the far edge of what feels comfortable. Push yourself beyond what's comfortable in order to make some progress without scaring yourself back to your comfort zone. Pick some time alone to practice the Eating Guidelines.
We usually dish about crap when eating with friends. If there's some alternate way of immersing yourself in the joy and pleasure of eating, then focus on that. If you have small kids, lock yourself in the bathroom and give yourself 2 or 3 minutes. Take whatever amount of time you can give yourself to focus on eating and food.
The overarching intent of the Eating Guidelines is to allow you to love what you are eating by way of paying attention to what you're eating.
We rationalize away calories by saying things like: it's free calories if we're standing up while we eat. It's a free sample so it doesn't count. I took it off someone else's plate or I don't like it, broken cookies don't count, on vacation... etc. These are all moments of appreciation, of pleasure, joy, ecstasy that we have stolen from ourselves. Why? Why steal pleasure from yourself? Why steal joy from yourself?
It's as if we become thieves of our own desires. That might be The Voice speaking when we say things to ourselves like: I'm going to eat at the stove because I don't think it's okay for me to sit down. I don't deserve to eat sitting down at the table with a plate or silverware. I don't deserve it. Who told you that and how old are you when you are paying attention to that old instruction?
Some of us think, "What if I live alone and I'm lonely and I like watching TV or reading to cut the loneliness while I eat?" Geneen says you're not taking care of the loneliness. What you're doing is taking the pleasure from eating.
We think that eating while surfing the tubes will dissolve loneliness, like it's the pill or cure for loneliness, but it won't work. A physical thing can't take away a feeling. It might distract you for 5 or 10 minutes, but then you missed out on what you ate and when it's all over, you're still lonely.
Eating sitting down might evoke stories for you about how "only losers eat alone" or "people who eat alone aren't in relationships." Eating sitting down might bring up these stories you might believe about eating or living alone. But stories need to be questioned, and they will never get questioned while you are distracted while eating.
The real question is: "It is true that only losers eat alone?" If the loneliness is there and it's pervasive, then let's look at that. Let's inquire into that and see what you're calling loneliness. Is it really so scary?
"I'm afraid that if I actually feel my feelings then I won't actually be okay. " That is also a belief that needs to be questioned. You will never find out what's true unless you stop using food to make it go away. You will be haunted by what you're telling yourself because you'll believe it's true.
The unfelt universe comes into you when you stop using food to push your stuff down. Then you must break free from what's driving your obsessions, and what's driving those obsession is the unquestioned beliefs. We don't know what your beliefs are until you eat sitting down without distractions.
There' is resistance to the Eating Guidelines because we wonder, "What if what I think or feel is true?" But the only way we can find out is by following the Eating Guidelines.
Let's think about loneliness. Maybe what we think is loneliness is simply aloneness, with no value judgment there. Maybe it's a feeling of autonomy overlaid with childhood impressions that are no longer relevant and aren't true. Maybe loneliness feels like relief. Maybe aloneness feels like the whole night sky is in your chest.
What Geneen knows for certain is that it's not what you're telling yourself. We make things up all the time and then we believe what we made up. Because we don't question our beliefs, we walk around frightened of our own feelings.
Notice that these two Eating Guidelines bring up a lot of beliefs that we have – about boredom – I'm bored with my own company, bored with my own mind so I have to distract myself. Boredom is a lack of attention. When you pay attention to food –colors, tastes – it's enthralling (and we know when we've had enough.) When your mind wanders away from the food that's in front of you, it gets boring.
1. What scares you about following these guidelines? Are you afraid of being overwhelmed by emotions? What would life be like? Raw? Powerful?
2. Who would be threatened in your life if you followed these guidelines?
3. How would your life have to change to follow these guidelines? In order to follow them once a day for a few minutes, what kind of re-orientation would need to happen?
4. What relationships would change, and how would they change?
5. What benefit do you get by not following the guidelines? How does that help you? I get to avoid tears. I'm distracted constantly. Food helps me allay anxiety. I get to avoid paying attention to a situation that could really use my attention.
The Eating Guidelines are like the North Star. Don't expect to follow them perfectly, but they are there to guide you in your decision making. They're not rules. If love could speak, it would say, "Pay attention sweetheart, pay attention to the food you're eating. Love the food, the taste, colors, and textures. Let yourself have it by paying attention to it." Let love say that.
A participant, Casey, wrote to Geneen about her tendency to do what somebody else wants to do, even if she doesn't want to, because she thinks then she will be loved. Geneen says that a lot of us have a hunger for true contact and self valuing, and loving ourselves. Giving yourself up to get love is not how you end up feeling love. You're not going to feel more loved if you compromise your own self.
These Eating Guidelines are all about attention, appreciation, and all about love. When you pay attention to when you're hungry ... how do I tell the difference between gradations on the hunger scale? ... that takes paying attention. When you are distracting yourself, then you can't pay attention. It takes time and practice and the willingness to pay attention.
What if I don't love or value myself right now? Then you live as if you do. Walk as if you really, really like yourself. See if that changes how you walk, how you talk. Live as if. This week, pay attention.
Pay attention to paying attention. What's it like to pay attention? What's it like to eat without distraction?
Eat without distractions. Distractions include radio, telephone, newspapers, books, intense or anxiety-producing conversations or music.
What scares you about following these guidelines? Are you afraid of being overwhelmed by emotions? What would life be like? Raw? Powerful?
Who would be threatened in your life if you followed these guidelines?
How would your life have to change to follow these guidelines? In order to follow them once a day for a few minutes, what kind of re-orientation would need to happen?
What relationships would change, and how would they change?
What benefit do you get by not following the guidelines? What do you get to avoid?
Notice when you're not paying attention and what you're avoiding and telling yourself.
In terms of food, how many times per day or week can you follow these two Eating Guidelines? Pay attention to food and notice how that changes how you eat, what you eat, what you take in.


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