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357 Magnum are more expensive to buy and shoot. The Achilles heel of the revolver is reloading…but the answer to that is moon clips and has been for a century. Since the Security 9 series has an internal hammer system, takedown doesn't require a trigger press, the slide is easier to manipulate and the trigger has a cleaner break than a lot of other guns at its price point. The Ruger Security 9 is slim, lightweight and simplified…but is more feature-rich than you'd think.Ĭapacity is 15+1 in the full-size and 10+1 in the compact, with a 4-inch or 3.42-inch barrel, with railed frame for mounting an accessory. ![]() Simple and sinister works pretty well if that's what you want. It's the most ruthlessly simple of the Ruger 9mm pistols, but that isn't a bad thing. It has a magazine that holds 7+1 of 9mm, a striker-fired operating system, fixed sights and it comes in black. It's a slim, simple, single-stack subcompact that has everything you need and nothing you don't. The Ruger EC9s is a working person's concealed carry pistol or backup gun in 9mm. It is the most feature-rich of all the Ruger 9mm pistols besides the Max-9, and a lot of people consider the American to be a sleeper in the crowded poly-striker segment. The gun has a railed frame for mounting a compact light, and swappable grip panels to dial in the fit. The sights are by Novak, and you can choose the night sight models or three-dot for lower cost. The gun has a 3.55-inch barrel, with a standard capacity of 12+1 but can accept the 17+1 magazines of the full-size model. The Ruger American is Ruger's top-of-the-line striker-fired pistol, and the compact model is the easier to live with for concealed carry. Very decent out of the box, but they're also fertile ground for upgrades like forged parts, fitted barrels, genuine Novak sights and beyond. Ruger's 1911 pistols are Series 70-style, so there's no firing pin block. Standard features are a beavertail grip safety, an extended thumb safety, Novak-style sights (and Novak low mount sight cuts) skeleton hammer and trigger, and a 4.25-inch bushing barrel. Steel-frame models were made in the past, so you may find them as well. The SR1911 Commander in 9mm is currently only offered as a lightweight model, with an aluminum alloy frame and steel slide. The SR1911 Commander in 9mm would be the ideal choice of them for concealed carry. The Ruger SR1911 is a sleeper in the 1911 space, with a quiet reputation for being one of the best you can get of the mass-market 1911 pistols. The choices you have are whether to get the gun with or without a manual safety, or with or without a Hogue grip sleeve. And the gun has a 10+1 capacity with a flush fit magazine, and 12+1 with an extended magazine. It's milled for the JPoint/Shield micro footprint, and has co-witness height sights with a black rear and a day/night fiber optic front sight. Just like the Sig P365, Springfield Hellcat and S&W Shield Plus, it's a slim subcompact 9mm pistol that has serious carrying capacity.Īll Max-9 pistols come with a milled slide, if you want to mount an optic. The Ruger Max-9 is Ruger's entry into the double-stack micro 9mm segment. Let's take a look at the top 6 9mm pistol options from Ruger. Some of the features to consider include the type of sights, the type of magazine, the weight of the pistol, and the recoil. ![]() Finally, you should consider the features that are important to you. 9mm pistols can range in price from $100 to $1,000 or more. The next thing to consider is your budget. If you are more experienced, you may want to consider a pistol with more features. If you are a beginner, you may want to consider a pistol that is easier to operate. There are a few things you should consider when purchasing a 9mm pistol. Things to Consider When Buying a 9mm Pistol. ![]() Some are definitely good for some people, and some are good for other people! It really depends on what kind of gun you prefer to put in your Ruger 9mm concealed carry holster. manufacture a number of different pistols in 9mm, some of which are wildly different from each other. ![]() What's the best Ruger 9mm for concealed carry? That really depends. Which pistol is best for concealed carry? ![]() The narrative relies on these difficult choices to create drama, particularly near the end of the game where Rydek’s relationships with the senior staff are tested. It’s hard making everyone on the crew happy, and apart from situations that require diplomatic answers, it might not be worth trying to please everyone all the time. ![]() Each decision you make during a conversation can influence how other NPCs feel about the protagonists, and more than a few critical choices will gratify some characters while angering others. ![]() This works similarly to a morality system, but it’s less about good and evil and more about whether characters agree with your actions, like in Dragon Age: Origins. How Rydek and Diaz deal with challenges is partly determined by how they interact with other characters. That said, about a third into the story, something happens that makes the war look like a pillow fight. On top of that, Ambassador Spock has given the USS Resolute the unenviable task of trying to be peacekeepers between two alien species, the Hotari and the Alydians, who are on the brink of war. It becomes clear by the fourth episode that Solano is scared about his career after the blunder with the explosion and wants Rydek to make him look good in front of Starfleet, even if that sacrifices the crew’s safety. Meanwhile, Diaz and the other members of the lower decks are just trying to stay on task with fewer hands.īetween the two, though, Rydek has been dealt the tougher role, not only as a Kobliad who needs a steady supply of deuridium to stay healthy, but as an officer who has to deal with a crew who is sometimes at odds with Captain Zachary Solano. Rydek has plenty of credentials to become the ship’s new First Officer, but many feel the position should have been filled by someone already serving on the crew. Both characters have to contend with a devastating explosion that occurred several months ago on the USS Resolute that left many crew members dead. The narrative features two main protagonists who begin on opposite ends of the chain of command on the USS Resolute: First Officer Jara Rydek and Engineer Carter Diaz. More than a few Trekkies will be able to point out some errors, but by and large, Resurgence captures the tone and the particulars of the Star Trek series admirably. Notable returning characters like Ambassador Spock and Commander Riker feel authentic, and all the jargon about ionic interference, hyperspanners, and quantized crystallization fit well when mentioned in the dialogue. But I still came away impressed with the amount of detail and care that went into the cameos and the ship’s set design. I would consider myself a casual fan of the franchise, having watched a lot of The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine as a teenager. More importantly, the game feels like you’re experiencing a full story arc of Star Trek episodes. It’s about making pivotal choices and seeing how they impact other characters and, ultimately, the ending. ![]() The game has some minor exploration, a lot of quick-time events with fairly easy button prompts, more than several mini-games, and a few puzzles using the familiar Tricorder. The narrative is spread throughout 40 chapters, with most lasting about 10 to 15 minutes, so there are plenty of cutscenes and content to get through. Star Trek: Resurgence plays like a typical Telltale game if you had to get through all five episodes in one go. The outcome is a decent narrative-based adventure that largely feels authentic to the series and has plenty of dramatic twists and turns, though there are many places where the game isn’t as polished as it could be. I didn’t mind that the game was delayed several times from its original spring 2022 release date, because it was important that it felt finished for the sake of future Star Trek games. When Dramatic Labs, a studio with over 20 developers who once worked at Telltale Games, first showed off the reveal trailer for the game back at the 2021 Game Awards, I was cautiously optimistic. Star Trek: Resurgence is a game I wanted to succeed just on paper, as there hasn’t been a high-profile Star Trek game in the last five years. Home Tribune Premium Content Entertainment Pop Culture Video Games Star Trek: Resurgence review: Beam me up Star Trek: Resurgence review: Beam me up Video Games A scene from Star Trek: Resurgence. ![]() This article first appeared on The Journalist's Resource and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.Ī lead (also known as a lede) is the first paragraph or several paragraphs of a story, be it a blog entry or a long article. When considering what kind of lead to use, ask yourself two questions: First, what is important about the story you're writing? An event, its implications, the big picture? Second, what is the most effective route into the story for readers? Is it the event itself, a person at the center of a drama or an image? Did you get a quote that really drives home the event's impact? Whatever you choose as your starting point, it should immediately bring the story to life and get the reader involved. Pretty much anything is fair game as long as it works. If you have a truly riveting quote, it's a candidate for a lead. It could be an anecdote, which is in effect a story within the story that expands outward. It could be one detail of a crime scene - shattered glass on a sidewalk, say - or a single character in a larger drama. Rather than telling us about an event or its implications, indirect leads can zoom in to pick out a single detail, character or quote. If direct leads get straight to the point, indirect leads do the opposite. It takes one step back from the event itself, provides perspective on a simple fact (a fire in a warehouse) and lets us know its implications (at the very least, the Thanksgiving parade will be two balloons short this year). If the essence of the story is on the consequences of an event, an analysis form of the direct lead is in order. They might get more details ("destroyed goods included 500 faux-fur hats and two Thanksgiving parade balloons"), but the basics they know. It summarizes a story, and lets the reader know the essence of what it contains. a fire broke out at the Associated Corporation's main warehouse." If you add one more sentence ("It burned to the ground, and all contents were lost"), you have what's called a summary lead. These are most useful for breaking-news stories that need to get right to the point: "Last night around 1 a.m. The first gets right to the basics: who, what, when, where and why, with a dose of how if appropriate. ![]() There are two broad categories of leads, direct and indirect. Getting them truly involved is the duty of the rest of the story getting them to that point is the job of the lead. ![]() Its mission is to catch readers' attention and draw them in. By Leighton Walter Kille, The Journalist's ResourceĪpBasic principles of writing a story leadīy Leighton Walter Kille, The Journalist's Resource April 28, 2009Ī lead (also known as a lede) is the first paragraph or several paragraphs of a story, be it a blog entry or a long article. ![]() I could see these drifting out of step with one another which was odd because they are both ‘clocked’ from the same signal. The chipset also has two internal registers that act as pointers to the internal audio buffers for capture and playback. The ICE1712 chipset has a shared interrupt for the capture and playback halves of the card, this is triggered when either half needs ‘attention’ - the driver then has to go and read a register in the chip to find out who caused the interrupt. There are many things you can tweak with regard to PCI settings, that affect the so-called latency (by changing how long a device can grab the PCI bus for etc) but it isn’t quite the same as the time taken for the kernel to process an interrupt from a hardware device which I think is where the problem lies. This sounds like the problem I was having with my ICE1712 chipset - if that is the case, then its really a problem with the chipset design, that gets triggered by an aspect of the kernel behaviour (windows or I think you may be refering to interrupt priority, which although connected with this issue isn’t quite the same. JACK connects to the driver for your soundcard (ALSA, FFADO, or OSS) and finally, the driver (loaded as a kernel module) actually controls the hardware. Ardour doesn’t interface directly with (or care) about your sound card, Ardour just connects to JACK as another client to the JACK audio server. I haven’t got my sound working yet in firefox so I’m guessing there’s some kind of Ubuntu-Studio setup that is defaulting to the onboard sound & causing Ardour want to over ride the Jack settings unless I start Jack I think its quite certain that the problem is not with Ardour (or JACK). I run qjackctl & in settings I set Frames/Period - 128, Sample Rate 44100, Periods/Buffer 2 & that puts my latency at 5.8 msĪrdour automaticaly starts Jack every time at start up so I haven’t figured how to start it without Jack though there probably isn’t a good reason to do it except for testing purposes. The M-audio is the only one that shows up in Alsamixer & I know the M-audio is what Ardour is recording & playing back with. M Audio Audiophile 24/96 at 0xb400, irq 18ġ : EMU10K1 - SB Live! Value Evidently all three sound sources are picked up because cat/proc/asound/cards yields:Ġ : ICE1712 - M Audio Audiophile 24/96 ![]() I’m using an M-audio audiophile 2496, but i also have a soundblaster live card installed & my onboard audio is turned off in the bios. ![]() My guess is that it has something to do with my second sound card or onboard sound that I think runs at 48K So really the only problem I have is when I open Ardour without opening up Jack first.Įvidently when Ardour opens up Jack it defaults to 48K. The good news is that I was only opening up the Jack Control before starting Ardour & not actually starting the Jack server so that’s why I was still getting 48k sample rate/ 21.3 ms.(My Bad) if I start jack first it shows its running at 44100 & then open Ardour everything works great showing 44100/2.9ms & no pops or clicks. Sorry I’ve been away for while but I really appreciate the help & I’ll try to answer a few things. ![]() These reflect his concern with the interactions and reactions that took place – and continue to take place – at the interface of the African and Western European cultural traditions. His replacement of Vermeer’s figure of Clio, the Muse of History, with an image of a Khoi woman and child, from a photograph taken by Alfred Duggan-Cronin in 1936, raises issues that have often been seen in his paintings before. 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