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At4 rocket launcher9/7/2023 He is an Emerging Threats expert and former U.S. Eastwood, Ph.D., is the author of Humans, Machines, and Data: Future Trends in Warfare. Now serving as 1945’s Defense and National Security Editor, Brent M. But the Gustaf passed the combat smell test and looks like it will have a long life in the U.S. It was cut from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The AT4 is a launcher featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Call of Duty Online, Call of Duty: Heroes, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered and Call of Duty: Mobile. This is a lesson that could have made the choice to cancel the XM-25 Punisher bullpup grenade launcher much easier to save the military time, money, and resources. For a similarly named assault rifle, see AE4. It’s good the testing went to special ops units first, so they could judge it in battle and then let it filter down to regular line units. If they are fortunate to live through the blast, their heads are going to be down for a while as the main element of attack from friendlies moves forward to complete the mission. The Carl Gustaf is a good weapon to suppress the enemy. It costs $20,000 each, but the Army has placed several orders – the most recent being one for $87 million last year and a future slate of 2,400 launchers by 2023. It weighs 15 pounds and is nearly three feet long. The titanium barrel helps with range and accuracy. The Gustaf can engage targets from 200 to 1300 meters. This beats the one-shot AT4 rocket launcher. It’s shoulder-fired and re-usable with a laser range finder. The Share the Pain multiplayer update introduced a retextured variant that lobbed hand grenades. Like many of the other depictions above, charging it fully turns its projectiles into homing rockets. The Gustaf was originally based on the well-known bazooka from World War Two fame. The standard rocket launcher in Postal 2 is an AT4 with a fuel-charging meter in place of the usual scope. In the technical manual, it’s called the M3E1 Carl Gustaf Multi-Role Anti-Armor/Anti-Personnel Weapon System (MAAWS). Let’s take a look at why the weapon is becoming so ingrained with warriors around the globe. Popular in special operations forces units, it has matriculated over to regular Army and Marine infantry units. It can take out light enemy tanks, thinly-armored personnel carriers, or bunkers. This Swedish-made brute fires a powerful 84mm round. military that is part recoilless rifle and part rocket launcher. Carl Gustaf is the name of a supergun for the U.S. However, the Carl Gustaf just keeps firing away: No, he’s not your long-lost uncle who just left you an inheritance.
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Winning powerball numbers9/7/2023 Claim Forms are available at the Vermont Lottery and at any M&T Bank. Cash prizes from $500 to $5,000 can be claimed at any M&T Bank in Vermont. Any prize can be claimed at the Vermont Lottery.Follow the instructions on the Claim Form to submit your claim. If your prize is $500 or more, obtain a Claim Form from a Vermont Lottery sales agent location where Powerball is sold.If your prize is less than $500, take your winning ticket to any Vermont Lottery agent locations where Powerball is sold for validation and payment.YOU MUST PRESENT THE TICKET TO CLAIM A PRIZE. Sign the back of your Powerball ticket in the space provided.Winning numbers are also available at Vermont Lottery agent locations following the draw, or by calling 1-80 (VT only) or 1-80 and on this web site. Winning numbers may be viewed on WCAX, channel 3 at 11 pm (ET) or by visiting. You win by matching the numbers drawn with the numbers on your Vermont Powerball ticket for that draw date. How to Find Winning Powerball ® NumbersĮach Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday evening at 10:59 PM (ET), a drawing will be held to determine that evening's winning numbers. Vermont Powerball tickets may not be cancelled. Your play slip does not constitute evidence of a ticket purchase or of numbers selected. Be sure your ticket(s) accurately reflects the numbers you want to play. Important!Ĭheck your ticket(s) carefully. * Power Play does not apply to the Jackpot. If selected, "Power Play YES" will appear on the ticket. Mark the Power Play box on your play slip or ask the clerk to add the Power Play option. If you match all five numbers on a Power Play ticket, your prize will be fixed at $2,000,000 regardless of the Power Play number drawn. The 10 times multiplier will be available when the jackpot is $150,000,000 or less. Power Play ®įor an extra $1 per play, you can increase your Powerball non-jackpot prize won by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 times the original prize amount. **Subject to published Multi-State Lottery Association Rules, the prize amounts indicated here may be modified. Annuity Option winners will be paid in 30 annual installments unless otherwise indicated by the Commission. The jackpot prize shall be paid at the election of the player no later than 60 days after the player becomes entitled to the prize with either a per winner annuity or a one-time cash payment. * If there are multiple winners of the JACKPOT on any given drawing, the prize money will be divided equally among multiple winners. Overall odds of winning a prize are approximately 1:24.9 Powerball® Matches, Prizes and Odds (Based on a $2 Play) Match Powerball ® Matches, Prizes and Odds (based on a $2 play) The maximum value of a single Vermont Powerball ticket shall not exceed $100. The cost will depend on the number of panels and draws you play and if you select the Power Play option. You may purchase a ticket good for up to 30 consecutive draws by marking the number of draws in the MULTI DRAW column. You can select QUICK PICK for any or all of the 5 numbers in the upper panel and/or the 1 number in the lower panel. Mark the QUICK PICK (QP) box on a Powerball play slip for each play to let the computer terminal randomly pick your numbers. All draw times are based on Eastern Time. The cost is $2.00 per play.ĭraws are held every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 10:59 PM with a cutoff of 9:50 PM to purchase tickets for that evening's draw. You may play up to five (5) panels on a single play slip. On a Powerball play slip mark five (5) numbers of your choice from 1 to 69 in the upper portion of the panel and mark one (1) Powerball number of your choice from 1 to 26 in the lower, yellow portion of the panel.
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Boondocking oregon coast map9/7/2023 You can carry extra jerry jugs or collapsible bladders of drinking water, an inexpensive way to supplement your built-in tank’s capacity. You can run your generator-if you have one-for short periods to operate a microwave oven, blender or coffee maker, but to recharge your batteries or operate an air conditioner would require many hours of operation, not what most of us want to listen to while camped in the forest.īest option: Practice energy conservation, and install another house battery, which would double your available electric power. For instance the house battery, if you only have one, will not last long if you don’t practice effective energy conservation, like turning off all lights and appliances when not in use, not leaving your porch light on, restricting use of high amperage appliances, and adjusting to not using high-voltage appliances that run off alternating current-for which you need an electrical hookup, inverter or generator. However, with a few optional items, you can extend your boondocking days beyond what you would be able to with just these basic features. Fortunately, all modern RVs have these features. The basic equipment items that you need to dry camp (without hookups) are a house battery separate from your starter battery, a holding tank for fresh water, and holding tanks for waste water from the shower, sink, and toilet. You can take any RV manufactured within the past several decades into the wilderness and boondock as long as your resources hold out. These tips will help you learn how to camp without hookups and find the perfect forest campsite. Away from crowds, you can mingle with deer and eagles beneath towering pines. But if you know how and where to look, you can find them and camp for free on America’s public lands managed by agencies like the U.S. You have to search for pristine campsites because they aren’t listed in the campground guides. RV manufacturers make these homes-on-wheels with just the right equipment (sometimes with a few added tweaks) to allow you to camp on your own. When you close your eyes do you picture your RV camped by a brook filled with leaping rainbow trout, on the edge of a wildflower-covered meadow with elk grazing nearby, or beside a mirror-surface lake reflecting a blazing sunset? If you do, you also know that these wilderness paradises have few campgrounds and those campgrounds seldom have RV hookups for sewer, water or electricity.Ĭamping at a wilderness site requires boondocking skills-the means of living without those electrical, water and sewage hookups available in RV resorts.
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Applejack my little pony9/7/2023 The stitching in the jean skirt is also realistically sculpted into the statue!Īnd, of course, don’t forget to pay close attention to the frills at the bottom of the skirt. Just look at how different the wrinkles on the jeans look when compared to the shirt! The texture and thickness of the jean material look so realistic that you can’t even tell that the shirt and jeans are made of the same plastic material. Her cutie mark can be found on the back of her denim skirt! Doesn’t the shirt look like real fabric with its thinness and detail in the sculpting of the wrinkles? Her slightly open mouth is sculpted in fine detail to give her a soft and friendly expression.īut more importantly, look at the details on her shirt! The wrinkles in her clothing are realistically sculpted as if she is physically raising her hand up to tip her hat. Up-Close Detail #1: The Realistic SculptingĪpplejack’s perfectly white teeth make her smile shine! Keep reading to get a special first look at this statue! So without further ado, I would like to share all of the charm and details we paid attention to when making the Applejack MY LITTLE PONY BISHOUJO statue. Applejack fans in particular, thank you all for being so patient! We at Kotobukiya would like to thank all our fans from around the world who supported the MY LITTLE PONY BISHOUJO line up to this point. When you line up all of the girls together, every pony’s unique personalities really stand out! I tried to make each girl unique and special in her own way, so seeing the world of each character come to life like this in photos makes me really happy.Ĭan you believe that it’s already been over a year and a half since we first announced that Pinkie Pie will be joining our BISHOUJO series? I want to decorate the ponies in my room like this…♪ Month of Release (in Japan): November 2020Īvailable worldwide in December 2020! Check with your local retailer for more details! You can finally line up all the ponies in the Mane Six!!!! Thanks to everybody’s help, the sixth entry in the series is finally available to pre-order! Hi everyone, it’s SHO-GUN (^◒^)( you for continuing to support the Officially Licensed MY LITTLE PONY BISHOUJO series!
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Police believe many of the thefts of animals are the responsibility of organised crime groups This is where many see the deficiencies with the current Theft Act 1968 (“Theft Act”) – which treats pets as a type of property.' It is clear pets are valued as something more than just property. As well as causing trauma to the pet’s owners, many cases of pet theft affect the animal’s welfare.'Īs a result, the taskforce recommended new legislation to deal with the issue: 'Those speaking before the taskforce gave impassioned evidence of the emotional value a pet provides them and their families. The evidence presented to the taskforce has shown the serious impact of this crime on the victims. The authors concluded: 'Whilst these figures might seem low, the emotional impact of having a pet stolen is undeniable, and often pets play a central role in their owners’ lives, especially assistance dogs. There has also been some evidence that as the value of stolen dogs has increased, in some areas this has attracted the interest of Organised Crime Groups (OCGs), who have adapted their criminality in response, taking advantage of the marketplace.' The report warned: 'As demand for dogs has risen, so has their price. Whilst the taskforce has focused on dog theft it has also considered the wider position around all pet theft where possible.'Īcross the UK, 2,000 dogs were stolen during 2020. According to the Metropolitan Police Service, around 7 in 10 of crimes recorded in which animals are stolen involve dogs. The government's taskforce was ordered to uncover any evidence on the extent of the problem and consider how to counter the threat.Īccording to the report: 'Much of the current narrative is around dog theft, due to the higher number of dogs reported stolen compared to other pets. However, the Bill has sadly not progressed for over a year and needs to be urgently brought back or we will miss the opportunity to sufficiently tackle this abhorrent crime.' 'We welcome the proposed measures in the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals Bill) to introduce tougher sentences for those that steal dogs and recognise the emotional impact that this has on their owners. For years, Dogs Trust has called for harsher penalties to deter those who profit from this despicable crime. This has prompted the government to make dognapping a crime in its own right, acknowledging the pain and suffering caused to both the pet and its owners.Ĭlaire Calder, head of public affairs at Dogs Trust said: ' Having your beloved pet stolen is an extremely stressful, often heart-breaking experience. Since lockdown, demand for dogs has increased which has led to pressure on prices and a growth in the interest of Organised Crime Groups seeking to 'take advantage of the marketplace'. Mr Cellan-Jones' dog, Cabbage, was one of six which was stolen from a professional dog walker in west London in November 2021. Victims of this crime in the UK include former BBC Technology correspondent Rory-Cellan Jones as well as the daughter of the late entertainer Bruce Forsyth. Nationally, approximately six dogs a day are stolen with just one in four being reunited with their owners. The figures, which have been collated by the Greater London Assembly, show the significant problem faced by pet owners in the capital with dogs a constant target for professional gangs. Of the 3,921 dogs taken, 478 have been returned, leaving some 3,443 pets missing in the capital. Since January 2010, almost 4,000 dogs have been reported stolen in the Greater London area with police managing to return the pets in one in eight cases.Īcross the capital, the successful return rate ranges between five per cent in Brent and Sutton to 18 per cent in Richmond upon Thames.
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Hazel coppice9/6/2023 Ephemeral woodlanders such as foxgloves seize this window of opportunity and bluebells, wood anemone and primroses take the chance to build up their strength before being cast once again into more permanent shade. Cut on an eight to twelve year rotation, a hazel coppice will regenerate fast, the trees touching again in four or five years, but not before a valuable interlude of light has been allowed to reach the woodland floor. Hazels light up the local hedges in FebruaryĬoppicing extends the life of a tree and the industry around it traces our woodland symbiosis in a long and unbroken line of charcoal production as well as material for hurdles, furniture and building. New trees that have been deliberately layered (that is, rooted by bending the longest shoots to the ground and weighting them with a stone) stand at a sensible distance of about eight strides to give them room enough, but still with the company they need to draw new growth up and straight towards the light.Īn old coppiced hazel on the banks of the ditch with the old flail line visible at fence post height The original stumps have rotted away from the middle, but you can see the oldest plants in the coppice mapped in the close groupings of offsets that have radiated outward over time. Where I come from on the South Downs, the ancient coppices contain trees that are thought to be as much as a thousand years old. Although you can see the previous brutal regime in their eldest limbs, they have shot from the base as hazels do and, in just eight years, we have the beginnings of a new grove. By disentangling the wire from the bushes that had been habitually scalped by the flail and then kept in check by the cattle, a number have been freed and left to regenerate. Further up the hill again, where some of the hedges along the ditch were nothing more than a twist of barbed wire and bramble, it is often the hazel that has outlived its neighbours. It is impossible to tell the age of the hazels that sit in the hedge, for they will take a regular cut and regenerate as a shrub rather than a tree, but they are probably as old as their cousins in the wood. Nuts that were buried by squirrels and forgotten, but happy to be part of the hedgerow and its community. Walk the line of the hedges up the slope away from the wood and you find hazel here too. Snowdrops planted beneath one of the old hazels Old coppiced hazels have fallen across the brook at the bottom of the far slopes One of the old regenerated hazels by the brook edge Huddled on the edge of the wood where it is still and moist and sheltered. The billowing outline of one tree running into another reveals their true character and shows you where they thrive. At the edges of the wood and where they step out from the high canopy and finger up the brook in the open crease at the bottom of the slopes, they look most contented. Happy to live in the understory of the tall poplars above them, their rangy limbs topple like collapsed scaffolding where they have gone without coppicing, but you can read their preference for the hinterland. Look down now on the wood from our perch on the hillside and the pale golden cast of the catkins reveal where the hazels run. The pools of catkin and snowdrop have made new places that we are drawn to explore when the winter is with us. In their shadow I have been planting snowdrops, which like the moisture there in the winter and the drier influence of their roots in the summer. Their domain, very sensibly, was over the water and into the shade, but it is remarkable how quickly a change of regime is marked in growth and, in the eight years without the cattle, their limbs have reached back over our land so that that you now have to duck as you approach. They cling to the banks of the brook opposite our neighbour’s wood and were protected by a run of barbed wire that kept the cattle from the brook’s edge and, in turn, provided the trees with their own little sanctuary. We have half a dozen mature hazels ( Corylus avellana) that survived here for being out of reach of the grazing.
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Monopoly plus for pc9/6/2023 Link your Ubisoft account to purchase select PC games from the Ubisoft Store. Game software © 2014 Ubisoft Entertainment. Play your favorite franchises like Assassins Creed, Far Cry, and more. Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. And not only that, this game doesnt even require a beefy setup to run. Licensed by Hasbro to Ubisoft Entertainment. Monopoly Plus does not support crossplay even though its on a few platforms. MONOPOLY is a trademark of Hasbro and is used with permission. You own a miniature world where each neighborhood has its own unique identity and characteristics. One-time license fee for play on purchasing account’s designated, primary PS4™ system and other PS4 systems when signed in with purchasing account. This item is being licensed or sublicensed to you by Sony Computer Entertainment America and is subject to the Network Terms of Service and User Agreement, this item’s use restrictions and other applicable terms located at If you do not wish to accept all these terms, do not download this item. Its friendly inhabitants will interact with your progression throughout the game and. You own a miniature world where each neighborhood has its own unique identity and characteristics. A real living board A full 3D city at the center of the board lives and evolves as you play. Video output in Full HD 1080p requires 1080p native display. Summary for Monopoly Plus - PC (Digital) PRODUCT DESCRIPTION. Watch your empire come to life in this all-new take on MONOPOLY! You can choose amongst all your favorite house rules, challenge other players from around the world, and even control the fun from your smartphone or tablet device! Game Monopoli Offline Monopoly Plus Genre : Casual, Arcade Developer: Ubisoft Pune Publisher: Ubisoft Release Date: File Size: 1.11 GB Monopoly Plus PC Game System Requirement OS: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8. It’s MONOPOLY for a new era! Play the classic game and watch the board come alive! Download the Monopoly Plus PC Game full version free with the latest crack for Windows.
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Soulseekqt tcp vs upd9/6/2023 A number of attackers have taken advantage of this, writing malware that use P2P networks as a major vector for spreading between networks. Combined with the security holes that P2P clients can open through techniques like tunelling, the dubious quality of downloaded files provides an attractive point of entry for a number of viruses, Trojan horses, and worms. They also allow users to download files whose origins cannot be verified, increasing the risk of downloading and installing malicious or buggy software that can propagate across the network. The threats posed by P2P networks, however, are not confined to technical issues raised by their file transfer protocols. P2P clients thus give users not only the incentive but also the means to circumvent network security policies. In both of these instances, this unprotected port is an attractive target for attackers who can use it to establish a backdoor connection and take control of computers within the networks. Many clients also implement tunelling techniques where the P2P traffic is disguised as normal web traffic which many firewalls assume is harmless. Because most firewalls block these ports, P2P clients will often ask the user to disable security restrictions on these ports. P2P networks send information over a port that is not usually used for network traffic, for example port 1214. More seriously, P2P clients can compromise network security by effectively boring holes into firewalls. This activity can choke bandwidth, slowing down legitimate communcation, and even resulting in denial of service. Not only do P2P applications allow users to download mutli-megabyte or gigabyte files, increasing inbound traffic they also allow computers inside a network to function as servers, causing large increases in outbound traffic as well. Most obviously, P2P file sharing causes can clog a network by substantially increasing traffic. Besides posing legal liabilities and decreasing productivity, P2P networks pose a variety of threats to network performance and security. These networks allow users to download and share music, movies, pictures, software, etc and are often used on corporate networks to take advantage of a broadband connection. This SonicWALL IPS signature category consists of a group of signatures that can detect and prevent network traffic associated with Peer to Peer (P2P) filesharing networks.
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Some alipay wechat pay ecny 150m9/6/2023 Getting both WeChat Pay and Alipay as express payment options on the e-CNY app shows an increased effort by the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank, to spur adoption of the sovereign digital currency amid a lethargic take-up by consumers since pilot trials were started in 2019.Ĭhina's e-CNY roll-out, two years ahead of any other global monetary authority, offers a crucial case study to India, Sweden, Japan, the United States and Britain, which are all in various stages of research or implementation of their own versions of central bank digital currencies.Ĭhina, however, has mostly become a cashless society because of the ubiquitous use nationwide of Alipay and WeChat Pay, each of which have hundreds of millions of daily active users on the mainland. Alipay activated the e-CNY payment option on its platform in May 2021, while WeChat Pay followed suit in January 2022. Photo: Shutterstock>īoth Alipay and WeChat Pay have earlier committed to help promote the country's digital fiat money. Photo: Shutterstock alt=The mobile icons of China's e-CNY platform and Tencent Holdings' multipurpose WeChat super app are displayed on a smartphone screen. The mobile icons of China's e-CNY platform and Tencent Holdings' multipurpose WeChat super app are displayed on a smartphone screen. Hu indicated, however, that the two mobile payment platforms would be "affected to a certain extent", as they "adapt to how the digital yuan is processed". "As the two mobile payment giants, WeChat Pay and Alipay are expected to provide powerful support for the application and promotion of e-CNY through its express payment system," said Hu Hao, a researcher at Beijing-based research institute Kandong.ĭo you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge, our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. The latest express payment option is now available to e-CNY users covered in the ongoing pilot trials, which includes 26 cities and 5.6 million merchants across the country, amid the sovereign digital currency's sluggish state of adoption. A journalist experiences the mobile payment tool of Wechat Pay at a 7-Eleven convenience store in Hong Kong, south China, Aug.China's sovereign digital currency (e-CNY) app has added Tencent Holdings' WeChat Pay as its second "express payment" option, nearly three months after initially having Ant Group's Alipay for such payments on its platform. Smartphone payment services that use QR code technology became more prevalent in China last year, according to a report released by WeChat, China's popular social media platform. Over 50 million individual businesses were active users of WeChat Pay, one of the country's two major third-party payment platforms, accounting for nearly 80 percent of the country's total. As recently as three years ago, Alipay had a near-monopoly on the market, accounting for over 80 of transaction value. The number of retail transactions using WeChat Pay surged 62 percent year on year. But in 2014, WeChat made the ingenious move to allow users on its social platform to send digital hongbao (red envelopes) to other users which super-charged wallet adoption across WeChat’s nearly 1 billion users. Taking orders through QR codes has become trendy at restaurants, with 53 percent of diners chose to pay bills through WeChat Pay. Annabelle Huang recently won a government lottery to try China’s latest economics experiment: a national digital currency. The report also showed that an increasing number of consumers used WeChat to hail taxis, buy scenic spot tickets, and book hotels. After joining the lottery through the social media app WeChat, Ms. Huang, 28, a business strategist in Shenzhen, received a digital envelope with 200 electronic Chinese yuan, or eCNY, worth around 30. |