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american bulldog revolver 44
Both of these are .44 Magnums. Designed by the founder of the first version of Charter Arms,[5] Doug McClenahan,[6] the Bulldog was released in 1973. [13] If the Bulldog is used to hunt, the most effective ammo is, reportedly, the 240- or 250-grain (16 g) SWC. I recently came across a pair of unmatched, but nonetheless beautiful Belgian-made Bulldogs, which made me wonder why I knew relatively nothing about them. John believes the Freedom Arms five-shot Model 97 is the finest .44 Special "sixgun" ever to come from a factory. Its appeal was so great that the "British" Bulldog was adopted and copied by gun manufacturers in Belgium, Spain, France and the U.S.
[10] The Bulldog has no sharp edges to contend with when carrying the weapon in a holster or a pocket. All rights reserved. Then disaster struck! Famous ties. This in my opinion is the true difference between modern smokeless powders and the black powder cartridges of old. It is unclear whether the gun disappeared during its stay with the museum or sometime later. Taurus G3C Review After 4 Months, 1K Rounds. A British Bulldog may also have fallen into the hands of William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, by way of his first employer and mentor, John H. Tunstall. Four Years Later: IWI Tavor SAR Revisited. Things like the average velocity of the rounds, their shot to shot deviation, are the numbers being measured by you the same as the numbers the bullet manufacturer was advertising (LoL, probably not as manufacturers tend to hype their products), etc. Blazer JHPs. [5] With most ammunition types the muzzle velocity tends to be between 705 and 1000 feet per second (215 and 305 meters per second, respectively). Many Webleys or ivory and engraved models command prices in upwards of $1,000. Manufacturer: AMERICAN BULLDOG. For those just now coming across this model, how has it stood up over the years?
[6] Most critics believe the best use for the Bulldog is self-defense. The Charter Arms original .44 Special in the 1960s was a blued five-shooter with a 3" barrel. Anti-Personnel full wadcutters. Multiple British Bulldog models are housed in the NRA's National Firearms Museum alongside Colts, Smith & Wessons and Velo Dog revolvers. The 44. Conversley black powder detonates all of it at once and the only push the bullet gets is the initial first push, after that on the way down the barrel everything is inertia. The weapon used is the 5 shot folding trigger variant of my Belgian 44 Bulldog revolvers and it has a 2.5″ barrel. Enter To Win A Altor 9mm & .380 Pistol Package. Whether you're a new or seasoned shooter, everyone needs more training, but getting out to the range can be a hassle if you don't have the right gear. Artist Frank Leslie's rendering of President Garfield's assassination. Webley cartridge with about 18 grains of FFF powder launches a 205 grain bullet at velocity of 502 feet per second. I've often mentioned there are two Charter Arms stainless steel Bulldogs stashed in the two bathrooms in our home. The gun commonly shown as Guiteau's model in period illustrations has walnut grips, but the actual gun is, in fact, long gone. Meanwhile Colt chambered both their SA Army and the double action New Service in .44 Special. ".44 Bull Dog", in, ______ and _____. The .44 Bull Dog was an American centerfire revolver cartridge produced from the 1880s until the 1930s.[1]. £2,650.00. So how does the no-frills Ruger AR-556 perform when put to the test?
Eventually Colt chambered their 3rd Generation SA and New Frontier in .44 Special and in the 1980s S&W resurrected the 1950 Target as the Model 24/624. Both Colt and S&W dropped the .44 Special from production. Ruger is now part of the .44 Special five-gun scene. Then we come to the bulldog revolvers.
Charter Arms still offered the .44 Bulldog while Taurus produced a five-shot .44 Special, the Model 431. wielded a matched pair of ivory handled British Bulldog, Both Bark and Bite: British Bulldog pocket revolvers.
£6,850.00. Both the American and Belgian Bulldogs, which seem to be the most prevalent on the market these days, were readily available in smaller calibers. Whether this gun ever saw any dubious service remains for great speculation, but regardless, the little British Bulldogs were as well traveled as they were well loved.
Indeed the ballistics and the wood block penetration test of the other blog would indicate the 44 Bulldog is no more of a manstopping round than is the .22 Short or a .25 auto pistol (and actually some loads for the .25 greatly exceed the kinetics of the 44 Bulldog cartridge). It has a full under lugged barrel with both 4″ and 5″ versions available complete with an adjustable rear sight and a ramp front sight. In the side drawer of my desk is a customized Taurus .44 Special by Bill Oglesby. My normal heaviest load for the Bulldog is the Keith 250-gr. [6][9], The accuracy of the Bulldog is aided by its trigger pull. S&W led the way in down-sizing sixguns. All Rights Reserved. Thanks to Charter Arms and Freedom Arms we do have .44 Special five-shooters available. AMERICAN BULLDOG .44 CAL REVOLVER. Feel free to leave them below. It was one of the best-selling weapons of the 1970s and the 1980s in the United States. Colt still catalogs both the .44 Special SA Army and New Frontier, however, they are extremely difficult to find. Probably the most infamous connection places it in the hands of Charles Guiteau, the man who shot President James Garfield in 1881. Ruger arrived on the sixgun scene in the early 1950s but didn't produce a .44 Special with the early .357 and .44 Magnum Blackhawks. (Typically, in the late 19th century U.S., a box of .44 Bull Dog cartridges cost $0.68 for 50 rounds, compared to $0.90 for 50 of the longer .44 Webley round.
Also, most .44 Magnum shooters rely on .44 Special loads for everyday use. To fit larger-diameter .44 Special cartridges, the company had to lose one, resulting in the five-shot .44 Special. The revolver is generally dressed with simple fixed sights, a large looping trigger guard, curvaceous hammer spur and weigh in around 20 ounces. Stout and strong, these little revolvers are built like their namesake canine. Let's find out.
The .44 Bulldog moves a 168 grain bullet at 390 feet per second from my little revolver. It was a top-selling gun during the 1980s and it is considered to be Charter Arms' trademark weapon. It was introduced in 1973. Many believed it could stop man or beast out to 200 yards. This company also filed bankruptcy, and the models produced during this period showed obvious production flaws. The top of the frame is marked "AMERICAN BULL DOG" and the grips have an eagle molded into them. The first example was the Model 696 built on the L-Frame with a 3″ barrel.
As I write this, Freedom Arms delivery time is running about one year.
(Photo credit: iCollector). Fortunately, Charter Arms enlarged their .38 Special to create the five-shot .44 Special Bulldog. If you would like to do a little price comparison shopping first, then I suggest a copy paste of the link below. [14][15] All Bulldog models have a cylinder of five shots. (Photo credit: iCollector). With its five-shot cylinder and bolt slots cut between chambers, the Bulldog is much stronger than it appears. At the time it was one of my most carried sixguns and logged many miles in the top of my boot. Groups like the Texas Rangers took to the new repeating pistol. This is an all stainless steel five-gun with a round butt, smooth trigger and S&W adjustable sights with a red ramp front sight. When the gun is fired, the hammer does not actually strike the firing pin.
John keeps his Bill Oglesby five-shot custom Taurus .44 Special Sights are typical S&W adjustable sights with a white outline rear sight matched up with a red ramp front sight. Charter Arms Summer Shutdown25 May, 2020 Charter Arms will be closed from end of business Friday July 3rd through July 12th,... Read more →, American Rifleman Chooses the "Boomer" .44 Special for NRA Gun of the Week17 February, 2017 Thank you for American Rifleman for featuring Charter Arms .44 Special "Boomer" as Gun of... Read more →, US Concealed Carry Magazine nominates Charter Arms Undercover!15 February, 2017 We're excited and honored to learn Charter Arms "Undercover" is nominated by US Concealed Carry... Read more →. With a barrel length of 2.5", the .44 Special is one of the larger revolvers to qualify for concealed carry. This is a stainless steel, five-shot, double-action sixgun. Nonetheless, it still held six rounds. It was introduced in 1973. Thanks to the urging of Bill Jordan, S&W came up with a smaller .357 Magnum, the Combat Magnum, which was built on the .38 Special K-Frame.
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God I hate the public school system!
I talked with my (ex) daughter in law, who mentioned that Granddaughter, Arielle, failed Algebra and is now failing it in summer school. I thought it strange that my very carefully brought up grandchild should be having problems (I remember her liking math a few years ago), and offered to tutor her.
She told me that back in 4th grade, they covered division when she missed a lot of school, and they never bothered to show it to her. She's been unable to keep up with it since.
I had brought over a worksheet from math.com, and started with a simple equation - x/2 = 4. She had no clue what that represented. I showed her that it meant x divided by 2, and that if we multiplied both sides of the equation by 2, we would have the answer. She had no idea what that meant.
When it came right down to it, I discovered that she didn't understand that any number divided by itself = 1!!!!!!!!
How can they keep passing a kid on to higher and higher grades when they haven't taught them the most basic of basics???


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Yagami-kun no Katei no Jijou
Well, in short, the mother looks like she's 14, and the kid is "openly" in love with her—loli x motha-con. His teacher, too, is in love with her mother, and so the love rivals duke it out in classroom, as well as plotting the downfall of their common enemy, his father. The father has a secretary who is in love with him. But once she discovered that he has such a "young" wife she turned her attention to his son, who is now torn between his own mother and a naive, motorbike riding girlfriend. Later on, the class gets a new student who looks exactly like the mother, whom everybody falls for. Except that the student is a he... Yagami-kun OAV has a good chance of being the only anime of which the production video (tagged along with some episode) is more interesting than the anime itself. And they weren't kidding about 'Low budget manga spinoff anime aimed at exploiting the existing fan base.
Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and blushes, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her...she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure how to respond. That's when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity that she's inspired to ask her for help. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is Nanami herself. Has her shoujo romance finally begun?
Yagate Kimi ni Naru (Dub)
Yahabe
Yosuke Kamogawa had nothing to live for, but a mysterious pyramid appears called Yahabe! With the power to turn back time, how will Yosuke's life change?
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru - OVA
Anime original episode bundled with the limited edition of the Yahari Game demo Ore no Seishun Love Come wa Machigatteiru. PlayStation Vita game set to be released this summer.
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
This romantic comedy revolves around an antisocial high school student named Hikigaya Hachiman with a distorted view on life and no friends or girlfriend. When he sees his classmates talking excitedly about living their adolescent lives, he mutters: "They're a bunch of liars." When he is asked about his future dreams, he responds, "Not working." A teacher gets Hachiman to join the "Volunteer Service" club, which happens to have the school's prettiest girl, Yukinoshita Yukino.
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. (Dub)
Hachiman Hikigaya is an apathetic high school student with narcissistic and semi-nihilistic tendencies. He firmly believes that joyful youth is nothing but a farce, and everyone who says otherwise is just lying to themselves. In a novel punishment for writing an essay mocking modern social relationships, Hachiman's teacher forces him to join the Volunteer Service Club, a club that aims to extend a helping hand to any student who seeks their support in achieving their goals. With the only other club member being the beautiful ice queen Yukino Yukinoshita, Hachiman finds himself on the front line of other people's problems—a place he never dreamed he would be. As Hachiman and Yukino use their wits to solve many students' problems, will Hachiman's rotten view of society prove to be a hindrance or a tool he can use to his advantage?
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan
Third season of Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru..
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Kan (Dub)
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku
Second season of Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru.
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku (Dub)
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku picks up immediately after the events of the first season, continuing the adventures of the Volunteer Service Club—the dispassionate Hachiman Hikigaya, the cheerful Yui Yuigahama, and the competitive Yukino Yukinoshita—as it dedicates itself to helping any student with issues that they may face. With the rift among his own group widening, Hachiman begins to realize that his knack for quickly getting to the root of other people's troubles is a double-edged sword: sometimes the best solution is not necessarily the most appropriate one.
Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku OVA
Bundled with 5bp's Yahari Game Demo Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. Zoku game for the PlayStation Vita. It adapts a story focusing on Iroha Isshiki from volume 10.5 of the original light novel.
Kurogane Yaiba is a boy who doesn't want to become what any regular kid would: He wants to be a samurai. That's why he undergoes a hard training with his father, knowing only the forest as his world. Then, one day, he is sent to Japan, where he has to deal with a whole new civilized reality, meeting the Mine family, the evil Onimaru and even the legendary Musashi, having lots of dangerous adventures, becoming stronger everyday.
Yajikita Gakuen Douchuuki
Shinokita Reiko and Yajima Junko are second-year high school students who travel from school to school fighting bad guys, ninjas, yakuza and corruption. At this high school they encounter a secret ninja order and a corrupt administrator, as well as a tragic death in the distant past. With the help of Kotetsu, a skilled ninja, they set the school to rights, but not before leaving several broken hearts behind.
Yakeato no, Okashi no Ki
The fifth film in Shin-Ei's series of annual WWII themed anime television movies for children "Sensou Douwa" (war story).
Yakitate Japan
Azuma Kazuma isn't terribly clever, but he's got a good heart and great skill – at baking. Since childhood, he's been on a quest to create the perfect bread to represent Japan internationally. Now, he seeks to enter the famous bakery Pantasia, in hopes of reaching his goal. But plots abound…
Yakunara Mug Cup mo
The city of Tajimi, located in the southern part of Gifu Prefecture, Japan, is famous for Mino earthenware. The city is dotted with historical pottery producers and ceramic art museums. It has facilities where you can try your hand at making pottery, and many restaurants that serve food on Minoware dishes. The story begins when a high school girl moves to a shopping street in Tajimi. Many encounters await her, friends, town folk, ceramic art, etc. What will she discover in a town famous for ceramic?
Yakunara Mug Cup mo: Niban Gama
Second season of Yakunara Mug Cup mo.
Yakusai Kochou
Spirits begin terrorizing a school and it is left up to the sexy student Kocho Enoki to use her attractive body and magical powers to defeat the attackers. Teamed with her sister and Kosaku, their human decoy, they attempt to free the school from the spirits. Unfortunately a female spirit arrives who is immune to Kocho's sexy charms.
Yakusai Kochou (Dub)
Yakushiji Ryoko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki. The story revolves around Ry?ko Yakushiji, a brilliant 27-year-old elite investigator with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Together with her subordinate Junichir? Izumida, the two often investigate bizzare and supernatural cases. In addition with the paranormal, Ry?ko also has a longstandi… more Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki. The story revolves around Ry?ko Yakushiji, a brilliant 27-year-old elite investigator with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Together with her subordinate Junichir? Izumida, the two often investigate bizzare and supernatural cases. In addition with the paranormal, Ry?ko also has a longstanding rivalry with Yukiko Muromachi, another talented police investigator.
Yakushiji Ryouko no Kaiki Jikenbo
Based on a series of light novels written by Tanaka Yoshiki and illustrated by Kakinouchi Narumi. The story revolves around Ryouko Yakushiji, a 27-year-old multilingual investigator that graduated from Tokyo University's elite Department of Law, and the bizarre cases she faces while working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Yakushiji not only has to deal with supernatural beings in her line of work, but also her rival Yukiko Muromachi, another equally talented and beautiful police investigator.
Yakusoku no Nanaya Matsuri
Mihara Shouma is a first-year high school student. Shouma hasn't seen his good friend Atsushi in 3.5 years, ever since they lost contact with each other after elementary school. One day, Atsushi gets in contact with Shouma to invite him to a rare festival, so they can meet up and talk. Shoma goes to the "Tanabata Seven Night Festival" deep in the mountains, but Atsushi is not there. Instead, a girl named Shiori who also has a person she wants to meet is there. The festival's program manager Kanna suggests that he stay until the festival is over, and so Shouma and Shiori help Kanna prepare for the festival. Shouma and Shiori then get wrapped up in some strange events happening in the town.
At Grace Field House, life couldn't be better for the orphans! Though they have no parents, together with the other kids and a kind "Mama" who cares for them, they form one big, happy family. No child is ever overlooked, especially since they are all adopted by the age of 12. Their daily lives involve rigorous tests, but afterwards, they are allowed to play outside. There is only one rule they must obey: do not leave the orphanage. But one day, two top-scoring orphans, Emma and Norman, venture past the gate and unearth the horrifying reality behind their entire existence: they are all livestock, and their orphanage is a farm to cultivate food for a mysterious race of demons. With only a few months left to pull off an escape plan, the children must somehow change their

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You must use a glass of water 2,5 on a glass of buckwheat 1.
Need to take a glass of water 3 1 glass of buckwheat.
For perfect crumbly porridge, you must respect and follow the proven proportion of cooking. It is advisable to adhere to the following ratio of ingredients: 1 a glass of buckwheat and 2 - 2,5 a glass of water.
heat the pan, and then heat the grits on it.
you need to thoroughly wash the buckwheat under cool running water to get rid of debris and dust.
If desired, you can heat the buckwheat in a skillet, but this is not a necessary and important factor in the preparation of crumbly porridge. It is very important to carry out thorough washing. Best of all, use a fine sieve and running water.
Buckwheat is added to cold water, then you need to bring to a boil, and only then, you can reduce the heat and cook until ready. However, if you do not want to cook it on the stove, then you can use a little trick. Fill the buckwheat with boiling water and leave it at night.
buckwheat should be boiled in milk, which is diluted with water.
milk needs to be added after.
Remember, adding milk to porridge, is carried out after it is cooked until fully cooked. The moment is important - if you want, then wait for the buckwheat to swell, and you can pour in the milk, then bring the dish to readiness. If you use a similar idea, take less water at the beginning of cooking.
You can get diet porridge from it.
nothing, these are variations of the name of a single product.
When you use it in cooking, you can get a dietary and liquid porridge, and using it, a crumbly porridge, which is served as a side dish or as an independent dish.
What is the easiest way to improve the taste of buckwheat?
It is advisable to wrap the freshly cooked porridge in a warm blanket, and then put it "to reach."
You can pour ready porridge with condensed milk.
Wrapping a pot of porridge in a warm blanket for thirty minutes is the best and proven way to improve its taste. There is another good option: put porridge in the oven, using a clay pot, leave it there for languishing. Remember that in such cases, buckwheat cannot be added to it at once, otherwise you will spoil everything. Cooking buckwheat takes about twenty minutes, then in this case, ten will suffice.
similar actions are performed during the cooking process.
You can add such ingredients after cooking.
If you wish to add various additives to porridge: salt, spices, oil, mushrooms, onions, sauce - do it after cooking is completed. Experts recommend the following: do not touch the gruel during the cooking process, let it add. If the porridge goes to the oven, you can add melted butter to it.


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It's Time for Some Healthy Competition!
The Corporate Challenge: A Battle of the Businesses, in partnership with the Dublin Chamber, the City of Dublin and Dublin City Schools, is all about fitness, team building and friendly competition. Throughout this two day event, employees from area businesses will come together to compete in various challenges against other businesses as a way to promote employee wellness and community involvement. It is also a great way to earn bragging rights and support some great causes along the way!
Put your team together and get ready for some fun on June 20 from 4 to 8 p.m. at Crowne Plaza, 600 Metro Pl. N. in Dublin. Invite your entire office to this event to cheer on your team and have them RSVP online here. Then, the fun continues on June 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Dublin Jerome High School, 8300 Hyland Croy Road in Dublin.
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Portfolio > Missile Landscapes
Turning Tales featuring the 2017-2018 Kala Veterans Residency Program
This work consists of two photographs of deactivated American military sites: Battery Guthrie (built to defend the San Francisco Harbor in 1904 and deactivated in 1948) and Nike Missile Site SF-88 (active between 1954 and 1974). The images explore the transformation of landscapes into images that both contain and obscure militarized networks of command and control, and the permanent scars that these networks leave on the earth.
The images are informed by my own experiences; of the kind of passive attention that turned my body into a soldier's body, a receptive node within a web of signals with no message. When I came upon these abandoned sites, I tried to place myself within these structures, but was confronted instead by my absence from them and by the way they persisted as built structures long after they are no longer manned by soldiers. Today, tourists, military enthusiasts, and curiosity seekers visit them instead.
By reproducing them in photographs, I wanted to make them visible as structures of war. Making them visible emphasizes the ways in which their integration into a landscape of tourism occludes the parts they played in a history of war that is still ongoing on a global scale. In a sense, they still transmit the history of war, but there is no longer anyone stationed to receive these messages.


Each year in December, we host private visits with Santa.
This event gives families of children with special needs the opportunity to reserve a personal visit with Santa in a quiet room with reduced distractions and stimuli. Children of all ages and abilities are welcome to attend, including siblings, parents, grandparents and caregivers.
This year's events will be held on Saturday, December 9 and Sunday, December 10, 2017. The events will be held at Columbus Speech & Hearing Center (510 E N Broadway, Columbus, OH 43214).
There is no cost to participate; however, donations are greatly appreciated.
Reservations will open on Wednesday, November 1 at 9:00am.
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Winter hike on a long-time favorite trail in Portola Valley | Who Da Thunk?
With a marshal assignment for D this afternoon, the Adventurers and The Mag headed out to Portola Valley to hike an old favorite on one of the Portola Valley Ranch trails.
Starting from a pull out along Los Trancos Rd. they headed up on a trail of the same name, reaching the top, which is about 1,000 feet. The loop includes Sunrise, Arroyo, Blue Oak and Black Oak before redoing Los Trancos for the final leg to the car.
It was crisp and cool with everything so, so green. Gleaming moss and lichen. Just sparkling pretty.
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Our Story Begins: Are You Raising Kind Kids?
Monday Motivation: It's Not The Tools, It's The TALENT!
Are Your Kids "Nice" Kids?
There's an odd difference between the words "good-mannered" and "kind." So much so that the people who might very well be the "nicest" people on the planet – the people at the Sesame Workshop (you know, the people who make Sesame Street) are looking at that difference.
In particular, they're concerned about something else, something that's implied in both those words, but not necessarily used in them.
The folks over on Sesame Street have started surveying parents on the link up above there because they want to know what you and others think about the world our kids live in and whether it's a good world. This isn't politics, they're not delving into the refugee crisis or asking if Donald Trump's recordings should or should not spark outrage.
One of the interesting things that was found is the fact that parents seem to be more interested in making sure their kids are well-mannered than actually caring about the people around them. So, for example, they're polite to their classmates, say good morning to them, or maybe just say "gee that's too bad" when someone gets hurt. But do your kids go that extra mile when they are hurt and help those kids or carry their books? Do they see a kid who lost a parent, or a donate books to the school so kids who don't have books can have some? Do they help YOU at home by setting the table or hugging their sibling when things are wrong?
What I think is the hardest part of looking at this kind of study is realizing how people bemoan the fact that the world is NOT kind. They do say that it's an unkind and uncaring world. What they may not be doing is getting their kids to do something about it.
The Sesame Workshop folks have a very simple way of putting it: Kindness is giving, speaking, and doing. It's a card for someone special; it's saying "l Love You!"; it's cleaning up in the house or classroom. It's showing gratitude, being a friend.
In short . . . it's caring.
In the surveys, it seems most of the parents believe they are teaching their kids to be kind and empathetic. Teachers, on the other hand, think that parents need to focus more on practicing those behaviors. The kids are being taught to be respectful, sure, but maybe they should see some active activities? Maybe they should be taught to take those toys they don't play with to the children's hospital or to get extra school supplies and give them to organizations that help kids who need supplies.
I've been told I have a tendency to wear my heart on my sleeve or that I'm a softie by my kids. That's kind of funny, as I get accused of some of the opposite in my day-job as a cynical journalist. But the former is far more important to me. My kids see their dad as a caring, loving, empathetic individual. I know that when I have problems my kids can sense it and they can sense it in others. I certainly want them to be respectful, but I would also want them to care for others.
It's easy to criticize what we think is wrong with the world. It's funny that people don't think about the fact that they can do something about it simply by inspiring the next generation of people to be change it.


Caerphilly castle u10s today travelled to Hopkinstown for the latest round of four games. This morning's fixtures contained three teams familiar to the girls, Cyncoed, Hopkinstown and Porth with the last of the games a first encounter against Fairwater FC.
With some last minute absentees and injuries it meant Caerphilly took to the field with a bare 7, energy conservation would be key for the team.
Kicking off against Cyncoed with the luxury of some bright Autumn sunshine the two teams showed real enterprise and attacking football. With Seren in goal and Lexi and Megan B leading the defensive line, Caerphilly dealt well with the chances the Cardiff team put together.
Finding their feet, the midfield of Grace, Tayla and Layla started to get a foothold in the game and put together a number of chances for the ever-keen Summer in attack. Soon Caerphilly we're on the score sheet, Layla pouncing onto a through ball to power home from medium range.
Within minutes great pressure from Tayla, Summer and Grace again found Layla free on the left to fire home with the outside of the foot.
It wasn't long before Layla scored again to notch up a brilliant hat-trick, shooting to the corner from distance to just avoid the grasp of the Cyncoed keeper. A good break through midfield saw Grace within shooting range and fire home accurately to round off the scoring.
The second game saw an encounter with the home team. With Summer and Seren swapping positions Caerphilly kept to the 2-3-1 formation.
Some strong pressure through midfield saw Caerphilly take an early lead, with Grace working hard to get herself into space and fire home. The game was always close with the greens of Hopkinstown showing great adventure and attacking play. A series of corners finally paid off and a great shot from the home midfielder flew into the corner of the goal.
Caerphilly regrouped and with the defence growing stronger with each attack they managed to work the ball back into the opponents half. Good interplay between Layla and Tayla set Grace into space who again showed nerves of steel and put the ball past the home keeper for her brace. Late pressure did come from the home side but again was dealt with by Lexi and Megan, who were both superb on the day.
Straight into game 3 and an encounter with Porth. Caerphilly reverted to a 3-3 formation with Tayla and Grace moving along side Lexi in defence and Meg B slotting into midfield alongside Layla and Summer.
It was Caerphilly who got out of the blocks first. After a period of Porth pressure Caerphilly pushed up after one attack, swift play between Summer and Megan set Layla a through ball to chase. With her usual powerful style Layla gathered the ball, moved inside and fired home for an excellent goal.
Strong Caerphilly pressure soon after saw some errors in the Porth goal with the ball somehow squirting out and into the back of the claret and blues net.
Porth predictably started to exert pressure of their own, getting stronger and stronger as the game went on. A great cross field pass and finish set up a tight finish. With Meg B off the field after taking a clearance in the face, and therefore Caerphilly a girl down, Porth again found space to fire another excellent goal. A few half-chances for both sides in the last minutes couldn't find the net, and the goal scoring ended there. A great game with good skills shown by both teams in all parts of the pitch.
The last game of the day saw the yellows take on Fairwater F.C. for the first time. After a break to rest some weary legs Caerphilly found the energy for one last team effort.
Reverting back to the initial set up Caerphilly were keen to give their all in what was a really tight encounter. Pressure was exerted by both teams, and neither gave an inch. It was Caerphilly who found a way to break the deadlock. Tayla broke down the right and managed to escape the pressure of three defenders to square the ball in front of goal. A clearance found the feet of Grace who took it on to her right to fire home for another strong finish and her fourth of the day!
A lot of play took place in the middle of the park, with both midfields giving everything. It was 'the Castle' who finally broke through one more time. Good pressure forced a corner and with the whole team pressing the ball stayed in the opponents half. A push through from Meg found its way to Tayla, who pounced to power the ball into the net; a well deserved goal for her efforts and a great way to round the game off.
Overall a brilliant morning of football, with 4 games played in great spirit, 10 goals and two clean sheets from the trio of Seren, Lexi and Meg B!!!
Layla deservedly took the players vote to look after our mascot, 'footy' for the week – well done Layla!
Awesome effort from all girls who played at Hopkinstown today, and the spirit shown in all games. Thank you to Lisa who did a great job of hosting!!


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We've been mixing Castor with Sunoco 110 leaded in our race series. Well, we were given several bottles of Blend but have never used it in those engines and are reluctant to use it instead of the usual Castor. Is it ok/safe to run the Blend, or should we just pass it along to someone else?
Mix the blend 1/2 and 1/2 with the castor and you're good to go.
I always ran all castor, because my builder said it makes the most power, but it doesn't hurt to mix it 50/50 like Giff said. Some people run it that way all the time. Blend is mostly synthetic, so it burns with less carbon build up. I've heard of people racing the castor and practicing with blend to keep the carbon build up down. Either works.
I use 100% synthetic exclusively, generally sticking with a 30:1 ratio.
Castor has historically been used for it's superior lubricity, but I believe that modern synthetics have certainly equaled if not surpassed castor.
Castor is also a vegtable oil and will spoil like any other cooking oil so if you do elect to stick with castor buy it in small quantities, as needed and never leave it sitting on the shelf for extended periods.
My motors are clean, well lubricated, with much less oil smoke.
The only motor I've ever ruined was leaned to the point it detonated and imploded.
The one thing I can say about castor is that it smells great. I love the smell of castor!
I recommend Burris Castor at 16/1 ratio for general use. Will increase oil to 12/1 ratio for maximum performance and protection in race motors that get rebuilt often. The only reason you would ever want less oil is if you have trouble fouling plugs or have problems with the ring sticking. Oil is the life blood of a racing engine… don't starve it!
Castor has historically been used for it's superior lubricity, but I believe that modern synthetics have certainly equaled if not surpassed castor. Castor is also a vegtable oil and will spoil like any other cooking oil so if you do elect to stick with castor buy it in small quantities, as needed and never leave it sitting on the shelf for extended periods. My motors are clean, well lubricated, with much less oil smoke. The only motor I've ever ruined was leaned to the point it detonated and imploded. The one thing I can say about castor is that it smells great. I love the smell of castor!


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I have created a project on Transifex for translating qBittorrent. If you are a translator consider contributing there. It has a really nice online editor with pretty good suggestions.
How are you gonna combat possible merge conflicts?
When you push lupdated ts into the branch while somebody else is working on previous version (and I'm sure transifex doesn't know about lupdate) there are bound to be merge conflicts.
I'll check/complete/fix up the Hungarian translation, thanks for the notice.
Is there anything WE could host? Like an online translation platform of some sort?
Well, if you two can decide which one should I install on our hosting server, I can easily get one up and running in minutes.
Pootle highlights spaces, not sure about the other one. They both use translate-toolkit, but highlighting is done by the Web frontend.
I take my word back. Pootle looks a bit hard to host (like you need a VPS/dedicated for that).
I'll try to talk with the host guy though. Hopefully he can / will install the necessary software.
Else we will have to settle with something else.
I don't think this is a good idea. I used Transifex in order to make qbt more accessible to new translators. Transifex has a huge user base. Already when I started the project there I got requests for 3 new locales (2x vietnamese 1x estonian). And one of those is already at 14% complete.
PS: I saw the "space" thing and I am looking into it. I just don't have much time today.
PS2: @shiki thanks for offering to host such a thing, anyway.
I'm still working on the Hungarian translation. Some words were really mistranslated.
I started working on the lang file but then I got busy with my own job. But I'll finish it soon, as I don't want to leave it half-done.
ok. I'll report it later today.
Wow what? There are literally no comments on the new bugs. Do they hide the bugs if they get them fixed?
Or how do they do it?
Judging by https://github.com/transifex/transifex/blob/7df8a4787c5a9d3868fd704ebfaf2541180b0fd7/transifex/addons/lotte/static/lotte/js/jquery.whitespaceHighlight.js spaces should be highlighted (but leading and trailing ones are trimmed anyway). So the version hosted on trasifex is either not up-to-date or modified.


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The Virginia Mason Athletic Center (VMAC) is the headquarters and practice facility of the NFL's Seattle Seahawks, in Renton, Washington, a suburb southeast of Seattle. A privately funded facility, it is situated on  of industrial property on the southeastern shore of Lake Washington. The team holds mini-camps and training camp here. Beginning with the 2009 season, the Seahawks opened their training camp to the public.

The site is bounded by Interstate 405 to the east, Lake Washington to the west, residential properties to the north and open land area to the south. Its southern boundary is located approximately quarter-mile (400 m) north of NE 44th Street. The Eastside Rail Corridor trail runs adjacent to the facility, and connects the area with north Renton and Factoria in Bellevue.

History
The site was formerly home to a coal tar refinery and creosote plant. Seahawks owner Paul Allen purchased the land in 2000 through his company Vulcan Real Estate, with approval from the City of Renton and the state Department of Ecology. Along with the construction of the facility, an agreement was created to restore the environmental climate of the site and its wetlands by improving and redeveloping the site.

During the Seahawks' first ten seasons (1976–85), the team's headquarters was located in Kirkland at the southern end of the Lake Washington Shipyard (now Carillon Point), on the shores of Lake Washington. The summer training camps were held across the state at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, southwest of Spokane.

When the team's new headquarters in Kirkland was completed in 1986, the Seahawks held training camp there for the next eleven seasons. While there, the players stayed in the dormitories of the adjacent Northwest College. In 1997, the team returned training camp to Cheney through 2006, then returned to Kirkland in 2007 because of the scheduled China Bowl game that was later canceled. On May 9, 2006, the Seahawks announced plans for a state-of-the-art training facility to be located along Lake Washington. The  waterfront facility, second-largest in the NFL, would be located within the northern city limits of Renton and opened in the summer of 2008.

Naming & partnership
Following plans for the new  headquarters, the Seahawks announced an expanded partnership with Virginia Mason Medical Center.

Facilities
The VMAC features four practice fields, three outdoors and one indoors. The outdoor fields are natural grass whereas the indoor field is FieldTurf. The indoor field has a clear height of  to allow both kicking and punting. The facility also features a large berm just beside the outdoor fields for Seahawks fans to watch training camp from.

The first floor of the building, approximately , holds an auditorium and the team area: locker room, lounge, training room, weight room, team meeting rooms, and media production studios. The second floor, approximately  houses the Seahawks football administration of coaching and football personnel offices, the draft room, cafeteria, and weight room mezzanine. The third floor holds Seahawks administrative offices.

The on-site parking lot holds 275 vehicles. A dock was constructed in order to accommodate boats of the team personnel.

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References

External links
Seattle Seahawks official website about the VMAC
Virginia Mason Medical Center

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Buildings and structures in Renton, Washington
2008 establishments in Washington (state)
Sports venues completed in 2008
American football venues in Washington (state)

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A stylish antique French bronze and gilt bronze Louis XIV Regence style bouillotte lamp circa 1890. Please enlarge the photographs to see the intricate details of the cast brass that give this antique French lamp its decorative appeal. The term "bouillotte" refers to the classic French gambling card game which the aristocracy was mad for playing in the eighteenth century. Fortunes were made and lost at the gaming tables of the upper class including the Royal Household. Originally this French bouillotte lamp had a candle in each arm and the solid metal (tôle) shade was able to raise and lower as the candles burned down in order to shield the player's eyes from the light while allowing them to see their cards and gaming counters. Please see the photograph where we show a hand on the screw that loosens and tightens the height of the shade. The use of solid dark bronze in contrast to gilded bronze was an especially popular treatment of the material and in a room illuminated only by candlelight the three golden bronze figures on this French lamp would have appeared to float amongst the darkness. Now wired for American electricity with each arm fitted for a chandelier base bulb.


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I get zero hits with this query. Could someone explain to me what am I missing? Sup_code is a text field, not a nested one.

A: Since Sup_code is a text field, you can try like this
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An adaptation of Lawrence Block's novel A Walk Among the Tombstones is something that has been knocking around Hollywood for more than a decade. There was a point when Danny DeVito was producing and Harrison Ford almost starred as alcoholic ex-cop Matthew Scudder, a sort of problem fixer who explores the underside of New York City.
Now the movie is back in play, and it looks like DJ Caruso (Disturbia, I Am Number Four) could direct.
Danny DeVito is still among the producers (also: Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher at Double Feature and Brian Oliver at Cross Creek). The Matthew Scudder character has previously been played by Jeff Bridges in Hal Ashby's 8 Million Ways to Die, but don't expect to see him reprising the role for this one. Who will get the nod, however, we don't know.
A pair of men who prey murderously on women progress to kidnapping the womenfolk of drug dealers and demanding huge ransoms. Former alcoholic PI Scudder-now going to more AA meetings than ever-reluctantly agrees to help one dealer, a Lebanese, after his wife is killed by the kidnappers. Slowly and methodically he discerns a pattern in the mayhem. With the help of his erstwhile police colleagues, his black Times Square sidekick TJ and his call-girl sweetheart, Elaine, Scudder tightens the net on the culprits. When they seize the daughter of a Russian dealer, he is ready for the showdown.


One of the best Bulls we have raised. Deep, thick and super long bodied. Superb in his structure from the ground up. Maternal brother to last year's top seller, KM Mustang 7113 who sold to Woodhill Farms and Cherne Angus. Damage is the #2 pathfinder cow in the breed for $B. Dam records 4 BW @99; 4 WW @ 110; 4 YW @104.
High performing bigger framed bull that is a standout. Dam has been a super donor for us. Maternal brother is KM Barnstomer 6017 who was our $12,000 top selling bull in 2017. Dam records 5 WW @ 111; 5 YW @109; 5 IMF @100; 5 RE @103.
KM Essential 6003 son that has been a standout since day 1. Dam is a super high performing cow from our Blue Lady cow family.
No bull in the breed can match his combination of YW and DMI. YW +113 and DMI -1.15. High gaining bull with a RADG EPD of +.42 and recorded an on test gain ratio of 106. Also ranks in the top 15% of the breed for $B. Granddam was purchased from the Feed Efficiency King himself, Dr. Duane Warden.
Stout made Colonel son from a super Comrade daughter. He is thick, big boned, and long bodied. Excellent in his structure and feet. Dam is a maternal sister to KM Banjo 302 who was our top selling bull in 2014 for $9,250 to Kraye Angus Ranch, Mullen, NE.
One of the best Broken Bow sons we have raised and our only Broken Bow son in this years sale. Dam is a full sister to the dam of the 8219 bull above. Dam is a maternal sister to KM Banjo who was our top selling bull in 2014 for $9,250 to Kraye Angus Ranch, Mullen, NE.


Nicki Salcedo's debut novel, All Beautiful Things, is not easy to categorize. Salcedo has combined suspense and romance with rare literary grace. Her heroine, Ava Camden, the privileged daughter of a wealthy Atlanta family, was brutally attacked seven years before the novel opens, physically and emotionally scarred by the man who slashed her face for no apparent reason. Joel Sapphire, the young athlete found crouching over her, knife in hand, was arrested, convicted, and jailed for the crime. Ava has retreated from the world, hiding her scars and devoting herself to the homeless shelter she founded. She has no doubt that Joel Sapphire was her attacker, although the young man was so drunk that night that he could neither explain nor defend himself. She knows she is badly broken, and all she wants to do is survive in her own hidden way.
Joel's older brother, Graham, is convinced that Ava's attacker is still walking free. He has tried for years to contact her by mail, and now that Joel has been paroled—and disappeared—Graham is more determined than ever to clear his brother's name. But first he must confront Ava and convince her that Joel is innocent, a thought that threatens the fragile stability she has fought to maintain.
All Beautiful Things deals with much more than the mystery behind the attack on Ava. Ava is African-American and grew up in wealth and privilege; Graham is white and grew up in poverty on the tough streets of Atlanta. With no other explanation, was the attack on her a hate crime? Graham can't believe that of his brother. Ava hides the ugly scars on her face; Graham barely sees them. But it will take both of them to discover the truth behind the attack and heal the scars that bind them together. Salcedo has packed more than I could imagine into a compact but deeply touching novel. Read it. You won't be sorry.
Wow, not only a great review, but certainly convinced me to read the book. Thanks.
Terrific review, Kay! This looks fantastic, Nicki. I've been meaning to read it. This review just bumped it up on my TBR list! Write On, Girl!


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Art Tatum was a genius. His rapid-fire piano runs still dazzle. Decades ahead of his time, he could entertain the audience while leaving his fellow musicians' jaws hanging open with harmonic improvisations that didn't seem to have any precedent. Legally blind, he thrived in trio settings but really broke free when he played solo. Tatum was studied by legions of pianists and set the stage for Charlie Parker and the Bop revolution of the '40s.
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Annual Roe v. Wade Memorial and March held at Pioneer Courthouse Square in Portland. Speakers include Archbishop Alexander Sample, Pastor Marc Estes, and Becky of StandUpGirl.
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I have been on a me kick as of late. You know where you dream of all the things you wish you could do in all the free time you have dreamed up. In the land of no responsibility, no babies, no job... catch my drift? Well, in all this overzealous me thinking I decided I wanted a wo-man cave. Quite like the concept of a man cave, except no men allowed. Or toddlers for that matter. Yes, it would be a room of my own. My little own diva den!
J thought I was crazy at this thought. He pointed to my "office" that resides at the top of the landing of our stairs and wreaks of all things that have no place. Sure it has a desk and my cross collection, but it is not a room, and surely not my own. So, I threw caution to the wind and decided to design my room.
Hollywood glam. Yes, its totally not what I would normally gravitate towards, but heck, it my dream, my room so I'm going all out!
I love the lush couch, the opulent, ornate mirrors, and chairs. I want a chandelier, super cute throw pillows, and these luscious bar stools for some extra seating. I have envied every blogger who has that white desk, arranged perfectly in a room with well-placed décor on top! Oh a girl can dream!
You can check out my inspiration on my Pinterest and check out Chairish.com Cherish is the ultimate place to find vintage, designer furniture at half-the price. I perused it while I was doing my downstairs living room and wanted a mid-century modern kick and have fallen in love with tons of the stuff, including those bar stools.
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Q: Is Swift vulnerable to code injection? I was reading about Cycript and Cydia Substrate and how they can be used for code injection attacks on an iOS app. Code like this should scare you if you are working in a high security environment. (Ignore the /etc/password part, just consider the ability to replace originalMessage with crackedMessage.)
cy# MS.hookFunction(fopen, function(path, mode) {
cy>     if (path == "/etc/passwd")
cy>         path = "/var/passwd-fake";
cy>     var file = (*oldf)(path, mode);
cy>     log.push([path, mode, file]);
cy>     return file;
cy> }, oldf)

I read one blog (which I didn't save) that said that Swift was not as vulnerable as Objective-C since it wasn't as dynamic. Then again, I've also read that you can do method swizzling in Swift so it isn't clear to me if Swift offers any protections against code injection attacks.
So, is Swift vulnerable to code injection attacks?

A: Ultimately, there is no way to prevent someone from hijacking your program if you let it run on their device. There are ways to make it harder, but there is no way to make it impossible.
I can think of these major ways of injecting code into an application:

*

*swizzling Objective-C methods with the runtime;

*swizzling virtual Swift methods by parsing out the executable and figuring the right bits to change;

*modifying call targets;

*swizzling imported symbols by changing symbol stub targets;

*using dyld to force-load libraries or change which libraries your program loads;

*replacing the libraries that your program links against.

And there's no 100% effective way to prevent any of these in an environment that the user fully controls. You should decide whether to be worried or not depending on your threat model.
Swizzling Objective-C methods with the runtime
Method swizzling is a technique where you change the implementation of a method at runtime with arbitrary, different code (usually for a different purpose). Common use cases are bypassing checks or logging parameters.
Swizzling in Objective-C was a huge thing because the runtime needs metadata that identifies every method and every instance field. I don't know any other language that compiles to native machine code and that keeps this much metadata around. If you have something like -[AccessControl validatePassword:], you're just making it really easy for the bad guys. With method_setImplementation, this is just begging to happen.
As Swift classes can inherit from Objective-C classes, this is still something to look for. However, new methods on classes that inherit from an Objective-C class are only exposed to the Objective-C runtime if they have the @objc attribute (or if the class itself has the @objc attribute), so this limits the attack surface compared to Objective-C.
Additionally, the Swift compiler may bypass the Objective-C runtime to call, devirtualize or inline Swift methods that were not marked dynamic, even if they were marked @objc. This means that in some cases, swizzling could be possible only for calls dispatched through Objective-C.
And of course, it's entirely impossible if your class or method is not exposed to the Objective-C runtime.
Swizzling virtual Swift methods by parsing out the executable and figuring the right bits to change
However, you don't need the Objective-C runtime to swap method implementations. Swift still has virtual tables for its virtual methods, and as of February 2015, they are located in the __DATA segment of the executable. It is writable, so it should be possible to swizzle Swift virtual methods if you can figure out the right bits to change. There is no convenient API for this.
C++ classes can similarly be modified, but Swift methods being virtual by default, the attack surface is much larger. The compiler is allowed to devirtualize methods as an optimization if it finds no override, but relying on compiler optimizations as a security feature is not responsible.
By default, deployed Swift executables are stripped. Information for non-public/open symbols is discarded, and this makes identifying the symbols that you want to change this much harder compared to Objective-C. Public/open symbols are not stripped because it is assumed that other, external code clients may need them.
However, if someone figures out which function implementation they want to swap out, all they have to do is write the address of the new implementation in the correct virtual table slot. They will probably need to make their own Mach-O parser, but this is certainly not out of the range of the people who make things like Cycript.
Finally, final methods reduce this risk because the compiler doesn't need to call them through the vtable. Also, struct methods are never virtual.
Modifying call targets
If all else fails, your attacker can still walk through your machine code and change the bl or call instruction operands to anywhere they'd like better. This is more involved and fairly hard/impossible to get 100% right with an automated method, especially if symbols are missing, but someone determined enough will be able to do it. You decide if someone will eventually find it worth the trouble to do it for your application.
This works for virtual and non-virtual methods. It is, however, extremely difficult to do when the compiler inlines calls.
Swizzling imported symbols by changing symbol stub targets
Any imported symbol, regardless of the language it's been written with and the language it's being used from, is vulnerable to swizzling. This is because external symbols are bound at runtime. Whenever you use a function from an external library, the compiler generates an entry in a lookup table. This is an example of what a call to fopen could look like if you returned your executable to C code:
FILE* locate_fopen(const char* a, const char* b) {
    fopen_stub = dyld->locate("fopen"); // find actual fopen and replace stub pointer to it
    return fopen_stub(a, b);
}

FILE* (*fopen_stub)(const char*, const char*) = &locate_fopen;

int main() {
    FILE* x = fopen_stub("hello.txt", "r");
}

The initial call to fopen_stub finds the actual fopen, and replaces the address pointed to by fopen_stub with it. That way, dyld doesn't need to resolve the thousands of external symbols used from your program and its libraries before it starts running at all. However, this means that an attacker can replace fopen_stub with the address of any function that they'd like to call instead. This is what your Cycript example does.
Short of writing your own linker and dynamic linker, your only protection against this kind of attack is to not use shared libraries or frameworks. This is not a viable solution in a modern development environment, so you will probably have to deal with it.
There could be ways to ensure that stubs go where you expect them to be, but it would be kind of flaky, and these checks can always be noped out by a determined attacker. Additionally, you wouldn't be able to insert these checks before shared libraries you have no control over call imported symbols. These checks would also be useless if the attacker decided to just replace the shared library with one they control.
As an aside, launch closures allow dyld 3 to replace these lookup tables with pre-bound information. I don't think that launch closures are currently read-only, but it looks like they could eventually be. If they are, then swizzling symbols will become harder.
Using dyld to force-load libraries or change which libraries your program loads
Dyld supports force-loading libraries into your executable. This capability can be used to replace just about any imported symbol that your executable uses. Don't like the normal fopen? Write a dylib that redefines it!
Dyld will not cooperate with this method if the executable is marked as restricted. There are three ways to achieve this status (look for pruneEnvironmentVariables):

*

*enable the setuid bit or the setgid bit on your executable;

*be code-signed and have the "Restricted" OS X-only entitlement;

*have a section called __restrict in a segment called __RESTRICT.

You can create the __restrict section and the __RESTRICT segment using the following "Other Linker Flags":
-Wl,-sectcreate,__RESTRICT,__restrict,/dev/null

Note that all of these are pretty easy to break. The setuid and setgid bits are trivial to clear when the user controls the execution environment, a code signature is easy to remove, and the section or segment just has to be renamed to get rid of the restricted status as well.
Replacing the libraries that your program links against
If all else fails, an attacker can still replace the shared libraries that your executable uses to make it do whatever they like. You have no control over that.
tl;dr
Injecting code in a Swift application is harder than it was for an Objective-C application, but it's still possible. Most of the methods that can be used to inject code are language-independent, meaning that no language will make you safer.
For the most part, there is nothing that you can do to protect yourself against this. As long as the user controls the execution environment, your code is running as a guest on their system, and they can do almost whatever they want with it.

A: You are talking about code injections on jailbroken iOS devices. Quite simple: The user has removed their OS protection, so now anything goes. No security. If the user hasn't voluntarily removed that protection, then getting into an application's address space is impossible.


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import dk.brics.tajs.flowgraph.AbstractNode;
import dk.brics.tajs.flowgraph.SourceLocation;

/**
 * Return node.
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 * return [v]
 *

 * Must be the only node in its block.
 */
public class ReturnNode extends Node {

    private int value_reg;

    /**
     * Constructs a new return node.
     * Variable number {@link AbstractNode#NO_VALUE} represents absent value (implicitly 'undefined').
     */
    public ReturnNode(int value_reg, SourceLocation location) {
        super(location);
        this.value_reg = value_reg;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the return value register.
     * Variable number {@link AbstractNode#NO_VALUE} represents absent value (implicitly 'undefined').
     */
    public int getReturnValueRegister() {
        return value_reg;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the return value register.
     */
    public void setReturnValueRegister(int value_var) {
        value_reg = value_var;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "return" + (value_reg != NO_VALUE ? "[v" + value_reg + "]" : "");
    }

    @Override
    public void visitBy(NodeVisitor v) {
        v.visit(this);
    }

    @Override
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        return false;
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MOSCOW (AP) — The latest on President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. from an arms control agreement with Russia (all times local):
Russia is calling U.S. accusations that it isn't complying with a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty "groundless" and says its claims of U.S. violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty are "justified."
But the deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Nonproliferation and Arms Control told the U.N. General Assembly's disarmament committee Monday that "we are prepared to work together with our U.S. colleagues on the entire set of problems regarding the INF."
Andrei Belousov added: "We hope that we will be reciprocated."
He said implementing Trump's Oct. 20 statement on possible U.S. withdrawal from the INF "would be another short-sighted and extremely dangerous step by the United States for international peace."
President Donald Trump is reiterating his intent to pull out of a landmark arms control agreement, saying the Russians have not adhered to the spirit of the agreement — or the agreement itself.
Trump is also pointing out that China is not included in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty.
The president says China should be part of the agreement, raising questions about whether he plans to renegotiate a more sweeping pact that includes Russia, the United States and China.
The European Union is warning President Donald Trump to assess the potential impact on American citizens and the world of the U.S. withdrawing from a nuclear weapons treaty with Russia.
The EU said in a statement Monday that beyond urging Russia to stick to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty, the bloc of countries also expects "the United States to consider the consequences of its possible withdrawal from the INF on its own security, on the security of its allies and of the whole world."
The EU statement said the arms control treaty had been an essential cornerstone of Europe's security structure for more than three decades and helped contain the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
It said: "The world doesn't need a new arms race that would benefit no one and on the contrary, would bring even more instability."
NATO's spokeswoman says the 29 allies believe Russia is violating a landmark arms control treaty and have tried repeatedly to obtain information about its new missile system.
NATO has expressed concern since last year about Russia's nuclear-capable 9M729 system violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty. The pact between Russia and the U.S. banned all land-based cruise and ballistic missiles with a range between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (310-3,410 miles)
NATO spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said Monday that "in the absence of any credible answer from Russia on this new missile, allies believe that the most plausible assessment would be that Russia is in violation of the INF Treaty."
Lungescu didn't comment on U.S. President Donald Trump's weekend threat to withdraw from the treaty, saying only that the "allies continue consultations."
The United States is by far the biggest and most influential member of the military alliance.
The European Union is calling on the United States and Russia to stick to a 1987 nuclear weapons treaty and make sure it is "fully and verifiably implemented."
EU spokeswoman Maja Kocijancic said Monday that Washington and Moscow "need to remain in a constructive dialogue to preserve this treaty."
She said that in Europe, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, treaty "contributed to the end of the Cold War, to the end of the nuclear arms race and is one of the cornerstones of European security architecture."
Trump's announcement Saturday that the United States would leave the landmark treaty has brought sharp criticism from Russian officials and from former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who signed the pact with President Ronald Reagan.
U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has begun talks with top Russian officials during a previously scheduled trip to Moscow.
The discussions took a new turn Monday with President Donald Trump saying Saturday he would pull out of a landmark nuclear weapons treaty.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman says Putin is meeting with Bolton and is anxious to hear his explanations for Trump's decision to walk away from the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Trump alleged that Russia violated terms of the treaty that prohibit the U.S. and Russia from possessing, producing or test-flying ground-launched nuclear cruise missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (300 to 3,400 miles.)
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Putin denies the allegation. Peskov says the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty would "make the world a more dangerous place."
Bolton is in Moscow for two days of talks.
The Kremlin says it is concerned about U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from a landmark nuclear weapons treaty.
Trump announced on Saturday that the United States would walk away from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that the U.S. and the Soviet Union signed in 1987 in a major step to ease Cold War tensions.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters on Monday that Putin is denying Trump's allegations that Russia has violated terms of the treaty. Peskov says the U.S. withdrawal from the treaty would "make the world a more dangerous place."
The Kremlin's comments came as U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton began his visit to Russia on Monday. Peskov said Russian officials are anxious to hear Bolton's explanations for Trump's decision.
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The rules around replacement parts are complex, but worth getting your head around, writes BM Catalysts Commercial Director Mark Blinston.
While there might be more hot air than hard facts about emissions across the mainstream press about vehicle emissions, there can be no doubt that reducing toxic gas and restoring trust in the motor industry is the greatest problem faced by the trade at the moment.
Everything is geared towards reducing emissions and much of the emphasis seems to be pointed towards vehicles and how we can reduce the impact that they are having on air quality. You may be wondering what we can do about it in the aftermarket; but one thing we can do is making sure the right part is fitted to the right vehicle based on the emissions standard of the vehicle in question – the Euro level.
Vehicles and replacement emission control devices must meet specific standards for exhaust emissions before they can be offered for sale in the European Union. Emissions limits are commonly referred to as Euro standards or levels.
Emissions are measured using a standardised test cycle called the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC). The NEDC was last updated in 1997 and is gradually
being replaced by the World Light Test Procedure (WLTP), which is designed to better replicate real driving conditions. WLTP is now being applied to new vehicles (types) but does not yet apply to replacement parts.
In order to test the durability of each part emission test results are most frequently multiplied by a deterioration factor; with the adjusted result then compared to the legislative limit. Deterioration factors are designed to simulate the likely change in performance of the part after it has aged with use over time. These deterioration factors have become more stringent over time, and so when coupled with the gradual lowering of limits it becomes considerably harder to achieve a pass when testing newer parts and newer vehicles. The largest increase in deterioration factors occurred between Euro four and Euro five.
In order to meet higher emission standards, it is frequently found that the OEM part is made to a higher specification than the lower EU level part it has superseded. Legislation requires a comparison of performance between a replacement part and its OE equivalent and so it naturally follows that tougher standards + higher deterioration factors + higher performing OE parts = a real need for a higher specification replacement part.
RIGHT LEVEL
The Euro level of each vehicle prescribed at the point at which that vehicle is Type Approved. A replacement part cannot be approved to a lower Euro level than that of the original vehicle; so if the vehicle is Euro five then the replacement must be approved to Euro five levels/limits. Testing and approving this part to Euro four would mean that it cannot be proven that it meets the relevant emissions standards and therefore cannot legally be fitted to any Euro five vehicle.
There are many catalytic converter and diesel particulate filter (DPF) references that appear to be physically identical but are, in fact, designed and approved for vehicles that carry different Euro levels. This is made possible as the internal specification of the part is largely the key to the emissions performance of the vehicle. For example, the Euro five version of the close-coupled cat for the Citroen C1 requires a specification that is more than 3 times that of the Euro four version of the part. A similar story is true of the Euro four/five Fiat five00 and Ford KA. Quite apart from it being illegal to fit the Euro four version to a Euro five vehicle, it will cause poor emissions performance with a much higher chance of related vehicle issues and potential part warranty returns. It can be easy to source the cheapest product which isn't necessarily approved to the correct Euro level – the consequence of which is then a part that will actually not perform to the standards required.
The correct cataloguing of aftermarket parts is complex and challenging and many consumers will not be aware of the Euro level of their vehicle. It is therefore down to the garage and parts distributor to ensure that the part that is being sourced is approved for sale to the correct Euro level of the vehicle in question. This is something that has recently been identified as a "problem" in the aftermarket whereby parts can be physically the same, catalogued with the same start and close dates yet be very different both in terms of the internals and what they are legally approved for sale to fit.
In an effort to reduce the number of occasions that the incorrect part is being supplied and fitted to the vehicle, MAM (Autocat) will shortly be introducing the Euro level as a search criteria when identifying the correct part for a particular vehicle. Manufacturers of catalysts and DPFs will be asked to submit the Euro level for which their part has been homologated to enable an accurate match upon lookup. This is a positive step that the aftermarket is taking to reduce vehicle emissions.
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Another UK summer concert has just been added to Alfie Boe's schedule – Alfie will appear at Henley's By The River Festival on 11 August 2018.
The festival is in association with Classic FM and will also feature Sir Karl Jenkins, classical guitarist Milos and, I suspect most popularly, soprano Laura Wright, who toured with Alfie back in 2011/12. Ever since, fans have been waiting to see the pair back together again, so I hope we see Alfie and Laura duetting. Their version of Barcelona is regularly cited as one of Alfie's best live songs.
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In news announced on Friday, Alfie will team up with Michael Ball again to sing at the Classic BRIT Awards, held at the Royal Albert Hall on 13 June and televised on 17 June. Click here for tickets.


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Chris King (born 29 November 1969) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played for the Parramatta Eels in the 1990s.

King is the older brother of former professional rugby league footballer Matt King.
At the end of his playing career, King was made a life member of the club in 1997.

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