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Leon: The Professional (1994)

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The article "Can You Make a Sub-1-Second Shot?" by Jeremy Tremp, published on The Armory Life, discusses the critical aspects of training and preparation for carrying a concealed weapon. The narrative describes a hypothetical situation where a concealed carrier needs to react quickly to a threat, emphasizing the importance of draw speed and accuracy under stress. Tremp, drawing on a recent training session with Rob Orgel of ER Tactical, explores the steps and mindset needed to achieve a rapid, effective draw. Key takeaways include the necessity of consistent practice and having the right gear, such as the Bravo Concealment Torsion 3.0 holster and Springfield Hellcat, to ensure readiness in potentially life-threatening scenarios. The article highlights the importance of knowing one’s capabilities and maintaining a high level of proficiency through dedicated training.

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The sport of basketball was invented in 1891 by a man named Dr. James Naismith. He was a physical education teacher at the YMCA Training School (now known as Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, and he came up with the idea of basketball as a way to provide his students with a fun, indoor activity that would keep them active and engaged.

The first basketball game was played on December 21, 1891, and it was a pretty simple affair. There were nine players on each team, and the game was played inside a YMCA gymnasium. The court was just half the size of a modern basketball court, and the baskets were simply peach baskets attached to the walls.

The game was a huge success and quickly became a popular activity at the YMCA. In fact, the game spread so quickly that just a few years later, the first professional basketball league was formed.

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this is going to be dc x danny phantom x miraculous ladybug x spiderman

pt 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

for those who aren't familiar with every show, here's a lore explanation

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when marinette had reached out to cat blanc, her heart bled with conflict. she had been wrong to give adrien the gift, wrong to use her powers for selfish reasons. regret coursed through her veins, sadness clouded her face with tears, and hatred brewed at the man gabriel agreste chose to be. her last visage was that of cat blanc kneeling in pain and her heart hurt for him.

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peter parker had not survived his encounter with the vulture on the beach. he had enough time to tie the man up but amongst the scattered debris and plane cargo on the sand, he had slowly fallen to one knee, and then the other, before slumping forward with a last breath.

his only thought was that may parker would have dinner alone, and what kind of nephew was he to miss family dinner?

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red robin did not trust many people. his family and his titans, undoubtedly. in a professional capacity, a few of the justice leaguers and close colleagues like gordon. outside of that, he tended to tread with caution. like every robin before and after, it was hard to refuse batman's particular brand of paranoia. dick had always stood out by sometimes (the key being sometimes) refusing bruce's hardheaded wariness. jason had the emotional intelligence of a pumpkin, though he would cooperate with "untrustwrothy allies" just to spite bruce. it fell on to tim, then, to be a carbon copy of his mentor. c'est la vie, and all that.

when batman received a call from constantine asking for technological help, red robin eyed the comm warily. justice league dark needed every member available due to the recent ghost cases and the australian running off had been bad timing.

"batman," the man's voice was serious and fast-paced in the echo of the cave, "jazz called from illinois, the call cut out, bad signal or something. she was panicking. i need you to try and trace it."

batman hadn't needed to say anything, red robin had already begun to search for all state phone towers emitting a weird signal.

"springfield isn't turning up anything."

"no, no," constantine denied bruskly, "she mentioned another place, amity park. i don't know where the fuck that is, she's never talked about it."

oracle, from her corner of the computer wall, piped in, "jazz fenton was transferred to springfield's house for wandering girls when her family passed away in a house fire in amity park."

"why would she visit her family house after all this time?" batman mused.

"well," barbara continued, "says here the house was passed to her name when she came of age. maybe she finally wanted to check on it."

"she wouldn't just leave," constantine pressed, "she was obsessed with the ghost cases we've got going on."

red robin stopped his typing to read the silenced comm link blaring at the edge of the screen. "batman, we've got zatanna online."

"oracle, patch her through."

while zatanna spoke to oracle through her headset, red robin frowned at the messages on the terminal. signals across the town were poor, barely enough to reach springfield. anything further than that was a miracle connection. citizens would have to direct all communication to springfield before accessing the wider world. red robin tried pingponging the signal to other stronger towers but they were incompatible. his frown deepened. what obscure provider did they contract for the town?

"batman," oracle called, voice steely, "we've got news about arabia.

the pit disappeared."

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"superman," spoke red robin's voice through his earpiece. clark winced. sudden calls with no warning were the bats' specialty, no matter how disliked it was.

"hello to you too."

"busy in metropolis?"

clark stared from his place in the sky at the traffic jam on the expressway. he shrugged, "no, not really."

"great, i'm sending you coordinates to jazz fenton, she works with the jld. 45 minutes ago her call to constantine cut off. it's the first time she's talked to him in two weeks, gone missing somewhere in illinois."

clark darted through the air, red robin's no-nonsense voice cluing him in on the severity of the situation. he didn't know jazz fenton nor constantine very well, but a fellow hero in need of help was always an important matter.

he zoned in on the blinking dot of his wrist watch - a justice league perk from the bat himself.

"any idea what i'm going to get?"

"not really," red robin drawled, "all we know is she sounded like she was in a panic. the location isn't hers, it's her phone signal before it cut off."

"alright, be there in 5."

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tucker foley blew a bubble with his gum, letting it pop in boredom as he walked down the sidewalk. it was a sunny weekend afternoon, and the record store had sold out of chappell roan albums already. probably paulina again. he couldn't be too mad, it was probably the lesbian gods favoring an actual lesbian.

the town was a bit more busy than usual. it was thanksgiving week and all the out of state family members were passing by to reunite.

nobody in the hustle of the square really stood out; there went the baxters arguing about how many potatotes were needed for dinner, and mr. lancer with his new partner (a boston dentist, mrs. babette had whispered over the grocery aisle last week).

pulling out his phone, he dialed sam. they were meeting later tonight, but tucker felt it was important to pass on that the dentist was wearing gothic clothing.

just as sam muttered a clipped "what do you want?" from the receiver, two very strange things happened before tucker foley.

one, a weird object whizzed through the air, too fast for the naked eye to fully figure out. tucker thought it was superman, which would've been pretty cool, but it was probably a fighter jet from the nearby base. they'd never taken their jets out before, but what did tucker know about military operations?

secondly, and perhaps the most important one, was a flash of ginger hair out of the corner of his eye. he turned to look, and the figure hurrying down the street made his breath catch. distant memories of a boy's laughter rang in his head as he watched jazz fenton, older and looking harried, basically speedwalk with her phone in hand.

he choked as he swallowed his gum.

"sam," he whispered, the girl replying with a worried "tucker?"

"sam, i think i just saw jasmine fenton."

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Delightful Dahlias

"Miss Ella V. Baines' Boquet Collection of Choicest Dahlias", beautifully illustrated for her 1914 garden catalogue.

Miss Ella V. Baines, professionally known as the "Woman Florist" from "Springfield, Ohio" on her seed and nursery catalogues, produced at least 36 publications retailing her garden plants. These catalogues can be found in Biodiversity Heritage Library as part of the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. The earliest one in this collection is from Autumn 1897, and the last one, noting that retail catalogues will no longer be produced, is from 1931, which is in the midst of the Great Depression.

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Song Review: Widespread Panic - “Mr. Soul” (Live, June 21, 2024)

Injecting a bit of “Satisfaction” into the marrow of “Mr. Soul,” Widespread Panic help illustrate how the Rolling Stones’ track influenced Neil Young’s Buffalo Springfield number.

Homage notwithstanding, when they opened their June 21, 2024, gig at Red Rocks with the song, a performance just released on professional video, the Panics quickly took possession of “Mr. Soul,” thanks to the unique elements of John Bell’s vocals, Dave Schools’ bass, JoJo Hermann’s piano and Sunny Ortiz’s percussion.

And when Jimmy Herring dug into a signature-sound guitar solo with Schools on his tail, it became clear music lovers can, indeed, get satisfaction from a Widespread Rolling Springfield amalgam.

Grade card: Widespread Panic - “Mr. Soul” (Live - 6/21/24) - A-

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In honor of National Watermelon Day!

Interesting facts about the artist who painted this still life painting. Raphaelle Peale (1774 – 1825) was an American painter who had siblings named after prominent artists and scientists. Their names include Rembrandt, Rubens, Titian, Angelica Kauffmann, Linnaeus, and Franklin. Their father was an artist, Charles Willson Peale.

Raphaelle Peale is considered the first professional American painter of still life.

Still life with watermelon Peale, Raphaelle, 1774-1825, American [artist] Oil on canvas 1822 Repository: Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Massachusetts, United States HOLLIS number: olvwork430753

This image is part of FAL’s Digital Images and Slides Collection (DISC), a collection of images digitized from secondary sources for use in teaching and learning. FAL does not own the original artworks represented in this collection, but you can find more information at HOLLIS Images.

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Mike Luckovich

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

December 13, 2024

Heather Cox Richardson

Dec 14, 2024

Time magazine’s interview with President-elect Donald Trump, published yesterday, revealed a man who was so desperate to be reelected to the presidency that he constructed a performance that he believed would woo voters, but who has no apparent plans for actual governance.

Trump deliberately patterned the Republican National Convention where he accepted the party’s nomination for president on a professional wrestling event, even featuring a number of professional wrestlers. It appears now that the campaign itself was, similarly, a performance—possibly, as Tom Nichols of The Atlantic suggested, simply to avoid the threat of conviction in one of the many federal or state cases pending against him. In the Time interview, Trump called his campaign “72 Days of Fury.”

During the campaign, Trump repeatedly promised he would “slash” the prices that soared during the post-pandemic economic recovery, although in fact they have been largely stable for the past two years. He hammered on the idea that he would erase transgender Americans from public life—the Republicans invested $215 million in ads that pushed that theme, making it a key cultural battle. He and his surrogates attacked immigrants, lying that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, for example, were eating local pets and that Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, had been taken over by Venezuelan gangs, and falsely claiming that the Biden administration had opened the southern border.

The Time interview suggests that, now that he has won back power, Trump has lost interest in the promises of the campaign.

Notably, when a Time journalist asked Trump if his presidency would be a failure if he doesn’t bring the price of groceries down, he answered: “I don't think so. Look, they got them up. I'd like to bring them down. It's hard to bring things down once they're up. You know, it's very hard. But I think that they will.” He then pivoted to a different subject, and that was all he had to say about the price of groceries.

When the journalist asked Trump about the current attempt of Republican lawmakers to force transgender women to use men’s bathrooms, Trump indicated he didn’t really want to talk about it, noting that “it's a very small number of people we're talking about, and it's ripped apart our country.” Caitlyn Jenner, who is herself transgender, is a frequent guest at Mar-a-Lago and has indicated she uses the women’s bathroom there.

Asked whether he would reverse Biden’s protections for transgender children under the Title Nine section of the Education Amendments of 1972, prohibiting sex-based discrimination in schools, Trump clearly hadn’t given the issue much thought. Although it was this expansion that fed Trump’s rhetorical fury over what Republicans claimed was boys participating in girls’ sports, he answered simply:” I'm going to look at it very closely. We're looking at it right now. We're gonna look at it. We're gonna look at everything. Look, the country is torn apart. We're gonna look at everything.”

Trump’s response to the interviewer about immigration can’t really be parsed because it remains based in a completely false version of the actual conditions, including that the Biden administration has admitted more than 13,000 murderers to the U.S.—which has been repeatedly debunked—and that other countries are emptying “people from mental institutions” into the U.S., an apparent misunderstanding of the word “asylum” in immigration. Under both U.S. and international law, a person fleeing violence or persecution has the right to apply for protection, or asylum, in another country.

If Trump has now abandoned the performance he used to win the election, Trump’s planned appointments to office reveal that the actual pillars of his presidency will be personal revenge, the destruction of American institutions, and the use of political office for gain, also known as graft.

Trump appears to have tapped henchmen for revenge against those who tried to hold him accountable to the law. On Tuesday, Department of Justice inspector general Michael Horowitz reported that during Trump’s first term, his Justice Department secretly seized records from 2 members of Congress and 43 congressional staffers as well as phone and text records from journalists.

That use of the Department of Justice against those he considers his enemies seems to have been behind his attempt to make loyalist former Florida representative Matt Gaetz the United States attorney general. Mired in a sex-trafficking scandal, Gaetz had to step aside. Trump then tapped former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, whose support for him extended not only to pushing the Big Lie that he won the 2020 election but also, apparently, to dropping Florida’s case against the fraudulent Trump University in exchange for a $25,000 donation to one of Bondi’s political action committees. The conservative Washington Examiner has urged U.S. senators to “closely scrutinize” Bondi in confirmation hearings.

The Justice Department oversees the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Trump’s handling of the director of the FBI also appears to be aimed at his enemies. In 1976, Congress established that an FBI director would serve a single ten-year term, with the idea that such a director would not be tied to a single president. In 2017, Trump fired the Republican FBI director picked by President Barack Obama, James Comey, after Comey refused to drop the investigation into the ties between Trump’s campaign and Russian operatives. In Comey’s place, he settled on Christopher Wray.

But Wray oversaw the FBI’s investigations into the pro-Trump January 6 rioters and the raid on Mar-a-Lago after Trump lied about retaining top secret documents. Trump was also angry that Wray told a congressional committee that he had seen no sign of cognitive decline in President Joe Biden.

Trump made it clear he intended to get rid of Wray and replace him with extreme loyalist Kash Patel. Wray’s term expires in 2027, but on Wednesday he announced he would step down at the end of Biden’s term, as Trump wants him to. Trump cheered the announcement, saying the FBI had “illegally raided” his home—in fact, a judge signed off on a search warrant—and added: “We want our FBI back.”

Kash Patel has vowed to dismantle the FBI, as well as to go after media that he considers disloyal to Trump. He has written a trilogy of children’s books about Trump, titled “The Plot Against the King,” and he has published an “enemies list” of 60 people he believes should be investigated for crimes because of their political stances.

Trump’s appointments also feed his anti-establishment supporters who want to destroy institutions, especially his tapping of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the secretary of Health and Human Services. A leader in the anti-vax movement, Kennedy has attacked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Today, Christina Jewett and Sheryl Gay Stolberg of the New York Times reported that the lawyer who is helping Kennedy pick the health officials he will bring into office, Aaron Siri, has tried to stop the distribution of 13 vaccines. In addition, in 2022 he petitioned the FDA to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine. If approved, Kennedy will oversee the FDA.

The third pillar of Trump’s presidency appears to be graft for himself, his cronies, and his family. Dana Mattioli and Rebecca Ballhaus of the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is planning to donate $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund in an effort to shore up his ties to the incoming president.

Mark Zuckerberg of Meta handed over $1 million as well, as did both the chief executive officer of OpenAI and AI search startup Perplexity. Trump has refused to sign the paperwork that would require him to disclose the donors to the inauguration fund.

Today, Jonathan V. Last of The Bulwark called the fund “a slush fund, pure and simple.” There is no required accounting for how the money is spent, making it, as Last says, “a way for rich people to funnel money to the incoming president that he can then use however he sees fit, completely unfettered and under cover of darkness. The inauguration fund is no different than feudal lords approaching the new king with gifts of rubies, or mobsters showering a new mayor with envelopes of cash.”

There are other ways for people to buy influence in the new administration. As Judd Legum pointed out on December 2 in Popular Information, crypto currency entrepreneur Justin Sun, a Chinese national, bought $30 million in crypto tokens from Trump’s new crypto venture, an essentially worthless investment that nonetheless freed up about $18 million for Trump himself.

In March 2023 the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Sun with fraud and market manipulation. Sun posted on social media that his company “is committed to making America great again.”

Trump appears willing to reward cronies with positions that could be lucrative as well, tapping billionaire Tom Barrack, for example, to become his administration’s ambassador to Türkiye. Barrack chaired Trump’s 2016 inauguration fund and was accused—and acquitted—of secret lobbying for the United Arab Emirates in exchange for investments of tens of millions of dollars in an office building and one of his investment funds.

Trump is also putting family members into official positions, tapping his son Don Jr.’s former fiancee Kimberly Guilfoyle to become the U.S. ambassador to Greece shortly after news broke that Don Jr. is seeing someone else. Trump is pushing Florida governor Ron DeSantis to name his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to the Senate seat that will be vacated by Marco Rubio’s elevation to secretary of state, and he has tapped his daughter Tiffany’s father-in-law, Massad Boulos, to become his Middle East advisor.

Various newspapers have reported that Boulos’s reputation as a billionaire mogul at the head of Boulos Enterprises is undeserved: in fact, he is a small-time truck salesman who has nothing to do with Boulos Enterprises but permitted the confusion, he says, because he doesn’t comment on his business.

And then there is Eric Trump, who announced yesterday that the Trump Organization has made a deal with Dubai-based real estate developer Dar Global to build a Trump Tower in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. When asked about potential conflicts of interest, Eric Trump said: “I have no interaction with Washington, D.C. I want no interaction with Washington, D.C.”

So far, there has been little outcry over Eric Trump’s announcement, despite years of stories focusing on Republicans’ claims that Hunter Biden and President Biden had each taken $5 million from the Ukrainian energy company on whose board Hunter Biden sat. Yesterday the key witness behind that accusation, Alexander Smirnov, pleaded guilty of lying to the FBI and hiding the more than $2 million he received after that testimony.

Early this month, President Biden pardoned Hunter, saying that he had been charged “only because he is my son,” and that “there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.” On December 5, Representative Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) told the Fox News Channel that House Republicans would continue to investigate Hunter Biden despite the pardon.

If there is one major continuity between Trump’s campaign and plans for his administration, it is that his focus on shock and performance, rather than the detailed work of governing, still plays well to the media.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Letter to Senator Willis from the Woman's National Party of Ohio

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Committee Papers of the Committee on the JudiciaryFile Unit: Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents, which were Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary from the 68th Congress

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Springfield, Ohio,

April 7th,

1924.

Senator Frank B. Willis, 

Senate Office Bldg.,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Senator Willis: -

I am sure you will be interested to know that the attached resolutions were passed recently in Springfield.

Resolution No. 1 was passed unanimously by a body of men and women among whom were the presidents of the Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Optimists, Business and Professional Women's, and Woman's Federated Clubs.

Resolution No. 2 was passed on March 21st by the Civil Rights Protective League, membership four hundred and fifty, whose president is Mr. Charles L. Johnson.

Sincerely,

Margaret Baker [signature]

Chairman, Seventh Congressional District.

WOMAN'S NATIONAL PARTY.

MEB*MF

RESOLUTION #1 

WHEREAS, it is the sense of this meeting that the Lucretia Mott Amendment, which reads " Men an women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction." should be passed at this session of Congress. 

Therefore, BE IT RESOLVED 1st. That we ask our Senators and Representative in Congress from this State to vote and work in tis favor, and further 

BE IT RESOLVED, that this Resolution be read into the Congressional Record. 

RESOLUTION #2 

WHEREAS, it is the desire of this audience that Congress pass the Lucretia Mott amendment, which provides that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction," and that this amendment be sent to the states for ratification as speedily as possible, therefore, be it resolved that:

Our senators and representative be requested to work and vote for the passage of this amendment, and see that this resolution shall be placed in the congressional record of the United States.

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Ball of Foot Issues Explained: Tips from the Experts

Introduction

The human foot is a marvel of biological engineering, expertly designed to support our weight and facilitate movement. However, like any complex system, the https://essexunionpodiatry.com/locations/springfield-nj/ foot can experience various issues that can affect mobility and quality of life. Among these issues, ball of foot problems—often characterized by pain, discomfort, or other sensations in the forefoot—are particularly common and can significantly impact daily activities.

In this comprehensive guide titled Ball of Foot Issues Explained: Tips from the Experts, we’ll delve into various aspects of ball of foot issues, their causes, symptoms, treatments, and preventative measures. We’ll also provide insights from experts in podiatry who specialize in conditions related to the ball of the foot. https://batchgeo.com/map/podiatrist-springfield-n-j Whether you’re dealing with chronic pain or just want to understand your feet better, this article aims to be an invaluable resource for you.

Understanding Ball of Foot Issues What Are Ball of Foot Issues?

Ball of foot issues refer to a Article source range of conditions affecting the metatarsal area—the part of the foot located just before the toes. Commonly known as metatarsalgia, these issues can manifest as pain or discomfort in this area due to a variety of underlying factors.

Common Causes

Overuse and Strain

Engaging in high-impact activities without proper conditioning can lead to strains in the muscles and tendons around the ball of the foot.

Foot Structure Anomalies

Conditions like flat feet or high arches can alter weight distribution across your feet, leading to excessive pressure on specific areas.

Improper Footwear

Shoes lacking adequate support or cushioning can exacerbate existing conditions or contribute to new ones.

Health Conditions

Conditions such as arthritis or diabetes can lead to inflammation and changes in sensation within the feet.

Nerve Compression

The compression of nerves in this area can lead to significant discomfort, often described as burning or tingling sensations.

Symptoms You Might Experience Pain

Pain is often localized around the ball of your foot and may worsen during physical activity or prolonged standing.

Numbness and Tingling

Feelings of numbness or tingling are frequent indicators pointing toward nerve compression or circulatory issues.

Swelling

Inflammation may cause noticeable swelling around the metatarsal region.

Difficulty Walking

Activities requiring Essex Union Podiatry in Springfield balance or distance might become challenging due to pain or instability.

Who Can Help? Finding a Specialist

When dealing with ball-of-foot issues, consulting with a qualified medical professional is essential for effective treatment. Here are some specialists you might consider:

Foot Specialist for Nerve Pain: A doctor specializing in nerve-related disorders can evaluate nerve compression. Foot Tendon Doctor: If tendonitis is suspected, these professionals focus on tendon injuries.