Subdeacon Joe

One time at the range a guy 2 benches to my right had a .50 BMG single shot. 2 benches to his right was a guy with a Mosin Nagant carbine. The Mosin seemed louder. And produced a bigger fireball.

Prayers up! O God, our help in time of need, Who are just and merciful, and Who inclines to the supplications of His people. Look down upon East Coast Filly and loved ones, have mercy on them and deliver them from the trouble that now besets them. Deal with them not according to their iniquities, but according to Your manifold mercies, for we are the works of Your hands, and You know our weaknesses. We pray to you to grant them Your divine helping grace, and endow them with patience and strength to endure their hardships with complete submission to Your Will. Only You know our misery and sufferings, and to You, our only hope and refuge, we flee for relief and comfort, trusting in Your infinite love and compassion, that in due time, when You know best, You will deliver them from this trouble, and turn their distress into comfort. We then shall rejoice in Your mercy, and exalt and praise Your Holy Name, O Father, Son and Holy Spirit, both now and forever and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Such an incredible, mostly unknown story. In 1933, a beautiful, young Austrian woman took off her clothes for a movie director. She ran through the woods, naked. She swam in a lake, naked. Pushing well beyond the social norms of the period. The most popular movie in 1933 was King Kong. But everyone in Hollywood was talking about that scandalous movie with the gorgeous, young Austrian woman. Louis B. Mayer, of the giant studio MGM, said she was the most beautiful woman in the world. The film was banned practically everywhere, which of course made it even more popular and valuable. Mussolini reportedly refused to sell his copy at any price. The star of the film, called "Ecstasy," was Hedwig Kiesler. She said the secret of her beauty was "to stand there and look stupid." In reality, Kiesler was anything but stupid. She was a genius. She'd grown up as the only child of a prominent Jewish banker. She was a math prodigy. She excelled at science. As she grew older, she became ruthless, using all the power her body and mind gave her. Between the sexual roles she played, her tremendous beauty, and the power of her intellect, Kiesler would confound the men in her life including her six husbands, two of the most ruthless dictators of the 20th century, and one of the greatest movie producers in history. Her beauty made her rich for a time. She is said to have made - and spent - $30 million in her life. But her greatest accomplishment resulted from her intellect, and her invention continues to shape the world we live in today. You see, this young Austrian starlet would take one of the most valuable technologies ever developed right from under Hitler's nose. After fleeing to America, she not only became a major Hollywood star, her name sits on one of the most important patents ever granted by the U.S. Patent Office. Today, when you use your cell phone or, over the next few years, as you experience super-fast wireless Internet access (via something called "long-term evolution" or "LTE" technology), you'll be using an extension of the technology a 20-year-old actress first conceived while sitting at dinner with Hitler. At the time she made Ecstasy, Kiesler was married to one of the richest men in Austria. Friedrich Mandl was Austria's leading arms maker. His firm would become a key supplier to the Nazis. Mandl used his beautiful young wife as a showpiece at important business dinners with representatives of the Austrian, Italian, and German fascist forces. One of Mandl's favorite topics at these gatherings - which included meals with Hitler and Mussolini - was the technology surrounding radio-controlled missiles and torpedoes. Wireless weapons offered far greater ranges than the wire-controlled alternatives that prevailed at the time. Kiesler sat through these dinners "looking stupid," while absorbing everything she heard. As a Jew, Kiesler hated the Nazis. She abhorred her husband's business ambitions. Mandl responded to his willful wife by imprisoning her in his castle, Schloss Schwarzenau. In 1937, she managed to escape. She drugged her maid, snuck out of the castle wearing the maid's clothes and sold her jewelry to finance a trip to London. (She got out just in time. In 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazis seized Mandl's factory. He was half Jewish. Mandl fled to Brazil. (Later, he became an adviser to Argentina's iconic populist president, Juan Peron.) In London, Kiesler arranged a meeting with Louis B. Mayer. She signed a long-term contract with him, becoming one of MGM's biggest stars. She appeared in more than 20 films. She was a co-star to Clark Gable, Judy Garland, and even Bob Hope. Each of her first seven MGM movies was a blockbuster. But Kiesler cared far more about fighting the Nazis than about making movies. At the height of her fame, in 1942, she developed a new kind of communications system, optimized for sending coded messages that couldn't be "jammed." She was building a system that would allow torpedoes and guided bombs to always reach their targets. She was building a system to kill Nazis. By the 1940s, both the Nazis and the Allied forces were using the kind of single frequency radio-controlled technology Kiesler's ex-husband had been peddling. The drawback of this technology was that the enemy could find the appropriate frequency and "jam" or intercept the signal, thereby interfering with the missile's intended path. Kiesler's key innovation was to "change the channel." It was a way of encoding a message across a broad area of the wireless spectrum. If one part of the spectrum was jammed, the message would still get through on one of the other frequencies being used. The problem was, she could not figure out how to synchronize the frequency changes on both the receiver and the transmitter. To solve the problem, she turned to perhaps the world's first techno-musician, George Anthiel. Anthiel was an acquaintance of Kiesler who achieved some notoriety for creating intricate musical compositions. He synchronized his melodies across twelve player pianos, producing stereophonic sounds no one had ever heard before. Kiesler incorporated Anthiel's technology for synchronizing his player pianos. Then, she was able to synchronize the frequency changes between a weapon's receiver and its transmitter. On August 11, 1942, U.S. Patent No. 2,292,387 was granted to Antheil and "Hedy Kiesler Markey," which was Kiesler's married name at the time. Most of you won't recognize the name Kiesler. And no one would remember the name Hedy Markey. But it's a fair bet than anyone reading this post of a certain age, will remember one of the great beauties of Hollywood's golden age - Hedy Lamarr. That's the name Louis B. Mayer gave to his prize actress. That's the name his movie company made famous. Almost no one knows Hedwig Kiesler – a/k/a Hedy Lamarr - was one of the great pioneers of wireless communications. Her technology was developed by the U.S. Navy, which has used it ever since. You are probably using Lamarr's technology, too. Her patent sits at the foundation of "spread spectrum technology," which you use every day when you log on to a wi-fi network or make calls with your Bluetooth-enabled phone. It lies at the heart of the massive investments being made right now in so-called fourth-generation "LTE" wireless technology. This next generation of cell phones and cell towers will provide tremendous increases to wireless network speed and quality, by spreading wireless signals across the entire available spectrum. This kind of encoding is only possible using the kind of frequency switching that Hedwig Kiesler invented.

Yep....now...what parts of the human male anatomy just might be likened to 'franks and beans?" And, of that pair, which just might be considered the "beans?" And why might someone ask if "Human Beans" just might be likened to Rocky Mountain Oysters?

I came across this on Instagram. The seasoning could easily be applied to Microwave Popcorn, and would be useful on other things - potato chips, french fries, tater tots, chicken, pork, etc. Dill Pickle Popcorn Ingredients 1/2 cup popcorn kernels 2-3 tablespoons Avocado Oil 2 teaspoons dried dill weed 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon onion powder 1/2 dried mustard powder 2 tsp nutritional yeast 1/2-1 teaspoon salt (adjust to taste) 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 2-3 tbsp pickle juice (added to a spray bottle) Instructions 1.Heat the avocado oil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over medium heat. 2.Add the popcorn kernels to the pot and cover it with a lid.Shake the pot occasionally to ensure even popping. 3.While the popcorn is popping, mix the dried dill weed, garlic powder, onion powder, dried mustard powder, nutritional yeast, salt, and black pepper in a small bowl. 4.Once the popping slows down, remove the pot from heat and let it sit for a moment to ensure any remaining kernels pop. 5.Add the pickle juice to a spray bottle and lightly mist the popcorn. Don’t overdo it because it will make the popcorn soggy. (You can also omit this step and mist with Chosen Foods Avocado Oil Spray) 6.Sprinkle the dill mixture over the popcorn and toss gently, coating it evenly with the seasoning.

Yeah...I worked at a drive-in that played the movie for two weeks. Now....just what might be a human "byproduct" that might just happen to be able to be called "beans?" As in "Franks and Beans." And just might be compared to RMOs?

Thanks!

Arli sells it.

Are you doing the dicker on your own against Big Corporate Insurance? If so, I suggest that you get a professional, even if it's something like The Barnes Firm.

WOW! Impressive.

Are those similar to Rocky Mountain Oysters?

Found on a mil-blog. "U.S. Navy ordnance inspector, Lieutenant W.W. Kimball, an advocate for small bore rifles, and especially the Lee bolt action adopted by the U.S. Navy, wrote this about the Martini-Henry in 1889 shortly after the Brits adopted what we call the .303 caliber Lee-Enfield: "England has lately adopted a small-bore - 0.303 inch calibre – modified Lee magazine rifle - a Lee with most of the strong points of the mechanism modified out - after making a long series of most amusing steps of development in order to reach the conclusion that this arm was suited to her needs. For some years she has been more than content with her famous 0.45 inch calibre single-loading Martini-Henry rifles and Boxer cartridges - guns almost as bad in principle of breech mechanism as our own [trapdoor] Springfields, and cartridges even worse than the United States regulation ones - and in her late “wars with peoples who wear not the trousers,” her soldiers have gallantly fired on the enemy when they knew full well what a horrible punishment they were to receive from the brutal recoil of their weapons, and have borne their torture with true English grit. An English officer informed the writer that the practice was a great aid to gallantry in battle in South Africa, for “when a fellow has been so brutally pounded by his own rifle half a hundred times, he don't so much mind having an assegai as big as a shovel stuck through him; it's rather a relief, don't you know.”"

It's hit and miss.

I spent half an hour trying to find this on YouTube and gave up. If you don't "do Facebook," oh well, your loss. https://www.facebook.com/reel/654813376800630?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e

When you melt butter to put on your popcorn add some Vegemite! Really...it's pretty good. Or try Better Than Bouillon Soup Base or Seasoning. I also like sprinkling Nutritional Yeast for a cheesy flavor.

Gold Country Adventure and Exploration · Join Suggested for you · Donald Swanson · · Battle of Pine Tree Mine Today in Mariposa County, John Fremont is revered as a hero to some, great explorer, and founder, but in the eyes of many of the early gold miners who settled the region in the 1850’s, Fremont was their worst nightmare, a land grabber and claim jumper who was bent on having the wealth of the Sierra Nevada foothills to himself and to himself only. On July 9, 1858, a group of approximately 100 rightfully angry miners gathered together. They eventually named themselves the Hornitos League, and came up with a plan to attack and take over a well known gold mine owned by Fremont, the Pine Tree Mine. The ideal target, the entrance into the mine, was known as the Black Drift Tunnel. The Pine Tree Mine was only one of countless mines located along a gold bearing quartz vein some thought to be the mother lode. Although the Pine Tree Mine was first opened by a large company called the Merced Mining Co., many of the region's hard rock mines, and hundreds of placer claims, were operated by independent miners and small scale prospectors. The Merced Mining Co., which grew to a fairly large consortium funded with foreign investments, had one very important thing in common with the lone prospectors working small claims in Mariposa County. All of their claims were located within the boundaries of Fremont's Las Mariposas. Fremont believed that he alone had the right to mine the deposits located under his grant. Up to this point, however, he had been unable to keep the Merced Mining Co. and independent miners from prospecting on his land. He had opened the Black Drift Tunnel in order to compete in a race to take gold out of this rich deposit before someone else could do so first. There is no way to know for certain who the men were who formed the Hornitos League. It is likely that some were employees of the Merced Mining Co., which had a practical interest in keeping Fremont from removing gold from a mine that he had claimed earlier. It was just as likely that other members were independent miners, whose dreams and livelihood were jeopardized by what they viewed as Fremont's intentions to claim ownership of just about every strike in Mariposa County. In any case, the attack on the Black Drift Tunnel came to symbolize the miners support for the traditional mining law based on the principles of discovery and capture, as well as their opposition to Fremont and the threat he posed to that tradition. On the night of the attack, The Hornitos League armed themselves heavily, that way they were ready for any potential strong opposition. They also had hopes of easily accessing the inside of the mine and then defend their position. Due to this, they made their move at a time when the Black Drift Tunnel would likely be deserted. When they arrived at the entrance they found, to their surprise, that a small group of Fremont's employees, also well armed, were inside and were well aware of the incoming armed force. Inside of the mine was multiple miles of tunnels that could easily be defended from within. Faced with a very complicated resistance, the Hornitos men decided to lay a siege to the mine and starve out the defenders. As soon as Fremont learned about the siege at the Black Drift Tunnel, he set out to defend the mine with another small group of his men. When he arrived, the siege was settled into an extremely tense stalemate with Fremont's men in the mine, the Hornitos men at the entrance, more of Fremont’s men surrounding them, and even more Hornitos sympathizers blocking the roads out of the direct area. Tension increased even more so when the wife of one of Fremont's miners boldly forced her way into the tunnel with food and ammunition. The Hornitos League did nothing to stop her. Tensions within the mine rose even higher when rumors spread that the Hornitos men had found a back way into the tunnel. Everyone at the mine waited for the opposing side to kick off the fight, but no one did, causing the stalemate to carry on for several more days. "Fremont’s men were well fortified in their tunnels," reported the San Francisco Evening Bulletin, "and if attacked by the party which has surrounded them, there will be a terrible slaughter." Though tensions were high, the highly anticipated slaughter never occurred. On July 12, a group of men, calling themselves a committee on behalf of the citizens of Mariposa County, sent written terms to Fremont. If Fremont would withdraw his forces and quit mining the shaft, they would also withdraw, placing the mine in the hands of two neutral individuals until the California Supreme Court could finally decide who owned the mineral rights in the area. Fremont, calling the demands a flagrant violation of common right, would hear nothing of it. "I hold this property by law, by occupation, and even by mining regulations," he replied. "This demand you make upon me is contrary to all my sense of justice, and what is due to my own honor." Although the roads were blocked, young Englishman staying with the Fremont’s at that time managed to slip through the back country with a message to the governor. Time, along with rumors that the state militia was moving in the direction of Mariposa, weakened the Hornitos miners' resolve. The siege quietly dissipated, leaving Fremont in control of the mine. The siege of the Black Drift Tunnel was an event tinged with impending violence. It was a minor episode in a much larger conflict over how the land and minerals of California would be distributed and exploited. Incredible wealth, wild dreams, hope, and individual livelihood were a large part of the mix. The broader conflict was played out in a setting in which the stabilizing force of government was at best unsettled. In all, it provided an ideal recipe for violence. It is not surprising that violent outreaches over land and mineral rights did occur in the 1850’s and 1860’s in California. Given the circumstances, what may be more surprising is how relatively few incidents there were, and how quickly the violence dissipated. The siege at Black Drift Tunnel was more typical than not. Neither the siege nor the conflict that spawned it would be settled by force of arms, nor even by legislation. The conflict was ultimately settled by the judiciary system in courts of law and it was settled by judges playing fast and loose with formalities of law and principles of equity. -The Battle of Pine Tree

I fell into that gap being born between 29 March of 1957 to 31 Dec. 1959 that didn't have to register for selective service.

I like the sandbags on the arresting wires. Kudos to Eugene. SIERRA HOTEL AERONAUTICS 33m · January 19th, 1911; Eugene Burton Ely performed the first successful landing and take-off from a naval vessel. Pictured: Ely in the Groove after calling the ball with his Curtiss Model D biplane about to trap on board the USS Pennsylvania, anchored in San Francisco Bay, CA. Shortly after this record setting flight, Eugene broke regulations, with a history of high speed passes over five aerodromes, and one admiral's daughter! After writing checks his body could not cash, Eugene reportedly was forced to move to the South Pacific now employed by Imperial Airways transporting rubber K-9 excrement out of Hong Kong www.Sierrahotel.net

I've found that they are pretty much the same. Orville gets you a few less unpopped, but I don't think it's worth the extra cost over Jolly Time or house brand. Or .. Put about 1/3 to 1/2 cup kernels in a glass bowl, add salt, cover with a microwave safe plate and cook on high until the popping stops. Bowl and plate will be very hot so use hot pads to pull them out. Transfer to a cool bowl and add whatever toppings you like. You can do the same in a brown paper lunch sack. For between $10 and $20 you can buy a popper made for the microwave.

. But there were single shot pistols still around.

On this day in 1915, a spontaneous wedding took place at Mena Camp in Egypt. Private Philip de Quetteville Robin and Miss Nellie Irene Honeywill had known each other in Australia. Phil was an accountant before he enlisted in the AIF and joined the 10th Battalion. He was well known for his Australian Rules football skills and represented South Australia in interstate games. Nellie was living in London at the time of the First World War, although she had formerly resided in Adelaide. Their plans of reuniting in England were disrupted when the AIF was redirected to Egypt while en route to Europe. A couple of weeks later, Nellie turned up in Cairo, and the two made a spontaneous decision to get married. Special permission was granted for the wedding by the commanding officer of the 10th Battalion and the necessary preparations were quickly made. The officers’ mess tent was handed over for the event, with the mess servants converting it so that it had the appearance of a church. Cake, wine, and the obligatory showering of rice were all provided by the officers of the 10th Battalion. After a short honeymoon, Nellie returned to England. A few months later Phil was among the men who landed on Gallipoli on 25 April. Phil was killed in action three days after the landing. Seven months later, in London on 19 November 1915, Nellie and her infant son died soon after she had given birth. Image: Courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales. Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt. had known each other in Australia. Phil was an accountant before he enlisted in the AIF and joined the 10th Battalion. He was well known for his Australian Rules football skills and represented South Australia in interstate games. Nellie was living in London at the time of the First World War, although she had formerly resided in Adelaide. Their plans of reuniting in England were disrupted when the AIF was redirected to Egypt while en route to Europe. A couple of weeks later, Nellie turned up in Cairo, and the two made a spontaneous decision to get married. Special permission was granted for the wedding by the commanding officer of the 10th Battalion and the necessary preparations were quickly made. The officers’ mess tent was handed over for the event, with the mess servants converting it so that it had the appearance of a church. Cake, wine, and the obligatory showering of rice were all provided by the officers of the 10th Battalion. After a short honeymoon, Nellie returned to England. A few months later Phil was among the men who landed on Gallipoli on 25 April. Phil was killed in action three days after the landing. Seven months later, in London on 19 November 1915, Nellie and her infant son died soon after she had given birth. Image: Courtesy of the State Library of New South Wales. Photographic negatives of the 10th Battalion, AIF at Mena Camp, Egypt.