The Kali Key GEN2-A1 Easily Converts Your Semi-Auto AR-15 to a Bolt Action Rifle
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Every day we see a new headline: “Lawful AR ownership is under attack.” More and more states and municipalities are forcing the registration or removal of “assault weapons” owned by law-abiding citizens. Laws that don’t outright ban ARs require feature modifications that make the rifles challenging to use safely. Both the House and Senate have […]
If Buffy found religion: A Catholic order battles evil in Warrior Nun trailer
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Alba Baptista stars as Ava in the Netflix adaptation of Ben Dunn’s comic series Warrior Nun.
A young woman wakes up in a morgue and finds she now carries an embedded divine object in her back. Not only has it brought her back from the dead, but she now has superpowers and a new mission to fight hell on Earth, in Warrior Nun, a forthcoming fantasy drama from Netflix, based on the comic series by Ben Dunn.
The first issue in the manga-style comic book series, “Warrior Nun Areala,” debuted in 1994. The series features Sister Shannon Masters, a modern-day crusader for the Catholic Church’s (fictional) Order of the Cruciform Sword. In the series mythology, the Order dates back to 1066, when a young Valkyrie woman named Auria converted to Christianity. Renamed Areala, she selects a new avatar every generation to carry on her mission of battling the agents of hell. Sister Shannon is the Chosen One. It’s like Buffy the Vampire Slayer got religion.
Dunn has said he was inspired to create the series after learning, via a New York Times article, about the Fraternity of Our Lady, which established a chapter in Harlem in 1991 to run a soup kitchen. One of the nuns, Sister Marie Chantel, trained in the martial arts (judo and tae kwon do), and many of her fellow nuns also practiced self-defense, albeit mostly for sport. Dunn envisioned a world with nuns as superheroes, where heaven and hell are real dimensions. It’s a fun series, because it’s not Catholic proselytizing, despite the Christian themes and the nuns’ sincere faith—unlike those infamous Jack Chick tracts and comic books. (I grew up reading the Crusader series, which honestly explains a lot about my rather warped psyche.)
There had been some preliminary work on a possible film, updated for the modern world, but then Netflix acquired the TV rights, and those plans were shelved. Simon Barry (Continuum, Van Helsing) signed on as series creator and showrunner, while Counterpart producer Amy Berg serves as a consulting producer and penned two of the S1 episodes. Oh, and all the episode titles are Bible verses, because why not?
Alba Baptista plays Ava, the new Chosen One of the Order of the Cruciform Sword.
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Whoever bears the halo is chosen.
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And now it’s embedded in Ava’s back.
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Father Vincent (Tristan Ulloa) is a mentor of sorts.
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Could this be Areala, the very first Warrior Nun?
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Ava isn’t buying it at first.
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The nuns train hard in the martial arts.
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Shotgun Mary (Toya Turner)
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Sister Lilith (Lorena Andrea)
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Sister Camila tries to act like a normal nun.
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A possible gateway to heaven?
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Ava finds a love interest in JC (Emilio Sakraya)
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Demon slaying time!
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Ava senses something amiss at the club.
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That’s one big ugly demon
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The team goes on the warpath.
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Sister Shannon isn’t dominant in this adaptation—per IMDB, she only appears in a couple of episodes, played by Melina Matthews. Instead, the show focuses on a young woman named Ava (Alba Baptista). Tristan Ulloa plays Father Vincent, Sylvia De Fanti plays Mother Superion, and Joaquin de Almeida plays Cardinal Duretti.
Per the official synopsis:
Caught in the middle of an ancient war between good and evil, a young girl wakes up in a morgue with inexplicable powers. Her search for answers brings her to The Order of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society of warrior nuns sworn to protect the world from evil. While juggling her responsibilities as the chosen one with the normal obstacles of a teenage girl, this mysterious fantasy drama is full of mystery, action, adventure, and teenage romance, proving our main character might fight in the name of good, but she’s no angel.
The trailer opens with Ava’s voiceover, explaining how she’s dreamt of being dead for her entire life, leaving her body and viewing it from above, relieved that she looks like a normal girl. “Until I wake up and realize I’m still the freak I’ve been my whole life.” But life, as she observes, “has a really effed-up way of making your dreams come true.” She is dead—at least until the Order revives her as the new Chosen One. It looks like she slays a demon pretty soon after being revived, too. Buffy would be so proud.
Father Vincent gives her a rundown of the Order’s history: it’s a group of “devout women who have dedicated their lives to fighting an ancient evil. Whoever bears the halo is the champion.” That halo has been absorbed into Ava’s back, giving her superpowers—apparently enhancing whatever natural abilities she already possesses. There’s just one problem: Ava isn’t particularly devout, something that rankles the cardinal: “How did our greatest weapon against evil end up in an unbeliever?”
But perhaps the halo knows best. Plot details remain appropriately vague, but we do see a woman named Jillian Salvius (Thekla Reuten) announce the dawn of a new Age of Enlightenment: “Heaven exists, and I discovered a gateway to it.” And we meet Ava’s sisters in arms: Sister Beatrice (Kristina Tonteri-Young), Shotgun Mary (Toya Turner), Sister Lilith (Lorena Andrea), and Sister Camila (inexplicably not listed among the cast).
So, mystical portals to heaven (and/or hell)? Check. Badass nuns steeped in the martial arts? Check. A hot young love interest for Ava? Check. Lots of demon slaying and a bit of comic relief? Check. Warrior Nun debuts on Netflix on July 2, 2020. It could make for an entertaining holiday-weekend binge.
Geoff Collard takes us on a POV tour of his recreation of the bridge from the Starship Enterprise D on The Next Generation. It features an incredible level of detail, with light-up displays, and a viewscreen that plays videos of space. You can check out more pics of his impressive seven-year build on Facebook.
Hoppe’s Debuts “How to Clean” Gun-Cleaning Video Series
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Hoppe’s is more than just excellent cologne, it’s also a great gun cleaner. IMG Hoppe’s
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Hoppe’s, the No.1 name in gun care products, announced today that it has added another new video to its popular “How to Clean” Series, which provides step-by-step cleaning instructions on some of today’s most popularly owned firearms. The 15-part video series is available for viewing on the Hoppe’s website,YouTube, and Facebook pages.
Developed to provide effective, yet easy-to-follow cleaning instructions for a variety of different firearms, the Hoppe’s video series is the perfect resource for first-time gun owners. The “How to Clean” series also serves as a valuable refresher course for any firearms enthusiast. Throughout the series, host Luke Williams, better known as Outdoors By Luke, provides simple and important tips on cleaning a myriad of firearms ranging from the popular Glock 17 pistol to the Ruger 10-22.
“As the industry welcomes more first time firearms owners than ever before, the need to provide helpful cleaning instructions has never been greater,” said Eliza Graves, Sr. Brand Manager for Hoppe’s. “Through our instructional video series, longtime and novice gun owners alike can easily find helpful tips that will keep their firearms running like new.”
To view the Hoppe’s new “How to Clean” series and to see the company’s full line of gun care products and accessories, be sure to visit www.hoppes.com
About Hoppe’s
In 1903, Frank August Hoppe mixed nine chemicals and created the world’s most effective gun cleaner. As a well-trained young soldier, Frank knew that gun care went far beyond just a clean rifle, but actually helped to ensure his safety while on the front lines of battle. Since that time, Hoppe’s has emerged as the leading gun care company, having grown along-side hunters, shooters, and soldiers who depend on their firearms every day. It has remained the most trusted name in gun care by advancing and evolving technologies to meet those needs. From the ever-popular and versatile No. 9 and the quick and easy BoreSnake, to the marvel of efficiency we call Gun Medic, Hoppe’s is the only name you need to know for firearm cleaning and protection.
Laravel Intellisense Plugin for Visual Studio Code
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Laravel Intellisense is a Visual Studio Code plugin by Mohamed Benhida that provides some nice auto-completion for things like Eloquent models, factories, config, and API resources.
The thing I appreciate about this plugin is support for things like config(), view(), and other areas of Laravel you’d typically not have auto-completion for in most editors, but could save a decent amount of time context switching between the database and code.
Here’s the full list of features:
Resource Autocompletion
Eloquent Autocompletion
Factory Autocompletion
View Autocompletion
Config Autocompletion
Route Autocompletion
What’s nice about this plugin is that it provides help for things unique to Laravel developers: editor help around your model data. The plugin provides auto-completion by using an app’s database connection to get model attributes.
For example, let’s say you need to write a factory for a newly created model. With the current version of Laravel, you need to reference database fields in a migration class, a database table, or perhaps a PHPDoc field names to see what’s available.
If Visual Studio Code isn’t for you, Blueprint might mitigate some of the need for this auto-completion by generating various files from a centralized configuration file. You could also benefit from using both Blueprint and Laravel Intellisense together, I just want to point out that there are multiple ways to manage the mundane parts of files and code around application data.
I typically manage a list of @property-read values in the model class documentation (which serves as a helpful reference and auto-completion for model attributes), but that doesn’t help with auto-completion when trying to fill out factory array keys.
The View completion is another added benefit that allows you to avoid manually looking up files as often:
PhpStorm doesn’t provide auto-complete using the helper function, however, it does support auto-complete with the @include directive within Blade files.
How To Mount and Zero a Rifle Scope (With a Free Printable Target)
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By Kevin Wabiszewski You’re ready to throw that new glass on your rifle and see what damage you can do from afar. First, you’ll have to zero that scope. If you’ve never done that before, it’s important to learn exactly how to perform and replicate the process so that you can swap out future scopes […]
Detect AdBlocker With Javascript And Increase Website Ads Revenue
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Hello fellas! In this article, I will show you how to detect if the browser has AdBlocker plugins enabled. If it’s enabled then how to request your website visitors not to block ads and increase your Ads Revenue.
Don’t Block Whole Website Until They Disable AdBlock
Implementing With Example
Prerequisites
Very basic knowledge of HTML & Javascript.
1) Don’t Add Too Many Ads In Between Content
Adding Ads might be the main income for you to run website, I totally understand. But keep in mind not to add too much Ads in between the content it might be very distracting or piss of your viewers.
Your content might be great but you will loose viewers who constantly come to your website.
2) Don’t Block Whole Website Until They Disable AdBlock
I have seen couple of websites where they totally block the content till the user doesn’t disable the ads which is totally not a good idea for website owners. I know I can feel your pain, but as wisely said “customer is the king” .
Instead you can show some alert text for your viewers to disable the ads. Believe me at least 80% of them will definitely support you if you really have good content for them 🙂
3) Implementing With Example
Oh! Boy enough blabbering. Lets get start with implementation.
index.html – Here we will add normal content along with alert text when viewer uses adblocker
blockadblock.js (Not Required If We Use CDN link) – Its just the library file which is included locally as I use cache in my website. So need to pull too many times. Even we can use CDN over here to avoid including this file.
checkads.js – In this file we will detect the adblocker. Surely we can add it in index.html file but as your project increases it will be bit cumbersome to mange it.
Javascript Library Used
We are using FuckAdblock javascript library for implementation
If the above script doesn’t work for you then please use this URL to get the new script tag Fuck AdBlock.
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html><htmllang="en"><head><metacharset="UTF-8"><metaname="viewport"content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><title>AdBlocker Demo</title><style>
#adblock-alert{ display: none; }
#adblock-alert .alert{ padding: 20px; background: red; border-radius: 4px; colour: #fff; }
</style></head><body><divid="adblock-alert"><divclass="alert">
Good content takes time and effort to come up with. <br><br>
Please consider supporting us by just disabling your <strong>AD BLOCKER</strong> and reloading this page again.
</div></div><p>This is simple page.</p><scriptsrc="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/fuckadblock/3.2.1/fuckadblock.min.js"integrity="sha256-3zU5Lr4nIt3K/BgGOQMduajtZcPV9elIM/23RDXRp3o="crossorigin="anonymous"></script><scriptsrc="./assets/js/checkads.js"></script></body></html>
We need to display adblock alert only when adblocker is detected. Hence hide the adblock alert content using display:none CSS.
Observe the following javascript code in above index.html file.
We are enabling or disabling the adblock alert text with the following functions. You will be able to see it in the above code
functionadBlockNotDetected() {
var adContent = document.getElementById('adblock-alert');
adContent.style.display = 'none';
}
functionadBlockDetected() {
var adContent = document.getElementById('adblock-alert');
adContent.style.display = 'block';
}
Using blockadblock.js Instead Of CDN
Copy and paste this URL FuckAdblockin your browser. It will show the minified code, copy and paste this code in blockadblock.js file. Once you add it you need to include in your index.html file as follows
Data SRE – Building Database Systems Infrastructure for Performance and Reliability
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Data SRE – Building Database Systems Infrastructure Operations for Performance and Reliability
Recently ( on Friday, 5 June 2020 – 06:00 PM PDT to 06:45 PM PDT ) our Founder and Principal ( Shiv Iyer ) did a webinar on building Database Systems Infrastructure Operations for Performance and Reliability. In this webinar, he discussed about capacity planning / sizing, observability & resilience, performance audit / health-check / diagnostics / forensics, performance optimization & tuning and building highly available / fault-tolerant / self-healing systems architecture. You can download the PDF of the webinar here . Thanks for joining the webinar and making it a success, Looking forward to seeing you all in the next webinar.
It is about the same size as a tactical flashlight the uses two CR123 batteries (Surefire 6P, Streamlight ProTac, etc), just under one inch in diameter and five inches long.
Clipping it into a pocket you’d think it was just a tactical flashlight.
In these uncertain times, it is a tool to fit between nothing and a gun.
You need to check your state laws to see if it legal in your area. Alabama doesn’t care. It is legal in Florida with a CWP (in Florida it is a Concealed Weapons Permit, so it’s good for more than just guns).
If it is legal in your state, I think it is a tool worth the $45 I found it for online.
I’m not gonna lie, this isn’t exactly what I expected — lying here in the hospital. I mean, it’s only a few broken bones, a punctured lung, and some stitches to the head, but I almost feel betrayed. Three weeks ago when I took the five-hour online course to become an unarmed rapid response social worker, I thought I was helping mankind. After all, with the police abolished, somebody had to be there to mitigate when people had inevitable disagreements.
This is a hilarious and possibly prophetic article of what could happen if the Police Defunding/elimination were to happen. Go rad the whole thing.
Another option I have seen bounced around is the elimination of qualified immunity and substitute it by some sort of insurance. I think this is even funnier and the unintended consequences would be just poetic. First, cops would not be able t pay the full premiums that insurance companies will ask. That means the force and the local government will have to step in and help out, just like it was Health Insurance. Group Legal and Liability Insurance for Local PD department will be established and premiums will go up an down for certain individuals depending on risk just like in health insurance. A desk Sargent that never come out the precinct will have a low premium. Billy Bob Doing Traffic control and Highway DUI patrols will pay like he was smoking 4 packs a day while taking X-rays unprotected.
And then, the first year will come around, the White Shirts will sit down with the insurance people and probably a conversation like this will occur.
“Thank you for seeing us, Chief. We need to address some issues with your coverage.”
“What issues?”
“Well, we checked the stats and we need to see how we drop some of the risks or unfortunately we will have to drop your coverage or raise the premiums at least 80%.”
“My God! We cannot afford that! Taxpayers are already pissed off that the county raised taxes to pay for the insurance.”
“I can certainly understand your problem. (pulls out a map of the city) So we had our people examine the data provided by your department and we found out that most of the complains and lawsuit originate in these two areas of town shaded in red. They are responsible for 71% of all the lawsuits and payments we had to issue.”
“Yes, these are troublesome spots. What do you propose?”
“Simply to stop sending officers there. No more patrols means no more contact between officers and probable plaintiffs there fore no lawsuits and no more payments to be made.”
“Are you crazy? The press would crucify us!”
“The press ain’t paying your policy. Taxpayers are.”
“And you understand the Mayor will raise hell. A lot of his voters live there.”
“That is politics which we are not interested in discuss. nor it is our purview.”
“Hmmm. It can be sold if the proper focus is given. These areas have made clear that they do not want cops. We can grant them their wish and we can continue to have coverage.”
“Again chief, that is politics and we don’t get involved on that stuff. we just shown you what we found and how much is going to cost you or not depending on how your department will adjust.”
“I understand. I want to thank you and I am sure we will continue to do business.”