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8 months

243 days without my child.  8 months of mourning, weeping, sadness…

Of course I appear to be “carrying on with my life”.  Why not?  The world demands it of me.  When I cry I confuse the world.  It has already been 8 months…I should be over my child death.

“Life goes on”…

Does it?  No!! Existing, breathing goes on… We live with this dreadful void in our lives.

Just think of it.  When you miss your child you pick up a phone, you Skype, get onto an aircraft or into a car and go visit.  You can hug and hold your child.  I have a box of crushed ashes.

So until you have walked in my moccasins – please don’t expect of me to “get on with it.”  I am doing the best I can.  Live your life, I will grieve the loss of mine.

I miss you so much my Angel Child.  I missed you yesterday, I am missing you today, I WILL miss you tomorrow and every living second of my life.

Al my love, yesterday, today, tomorrow – forever.

I am a sixty something wife,mother, sister, grandmother and friend. I started blogging as a coping mechanism during my beautiful daughter's final journey. Vic was desperately ill for 10 years after a botched back operation. Vic's Journey ended on 18 January 2013 at 10:35. She was the most courageous person in the world and has inspired thousands of people all over the world. Vic's two boys are monuments of her existence. She was an amazing mother, daughter, sister and friend. I will miss you today, tomorrow and forever my Angle Child.

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  1. i don’t know who would be so heartless as to think you could just get on with life. your life is changed forever, just as it was by her birth. your grief will change in the years to come but it will never stop being grief. i for one support you for who you are and where you are in this process. it would be unwise to pretend you are at peace with vic’s passing. big warm hugs and love to you from me

    1. Thank you my friend. People cannot and will not understand until they are in the same situation as I am in. I would however not wish that on my worse enemy. Hope you are feeling a bit stronger!!! Much love.

  2. I can’t imagine the pain you live with daily. Just know I read your words and listen with love and deep sympathy even when I don’t say anything. I pray for your peace and strength to persevere. ❤

  3. I think it’s easy for the world to assume that time heals all and that it’s the same for everyone and every grief. How wrong that assumption is. I know you’re not okay, and I hope you know that you’re always in my heart and thoughts. I wish I could give you back your Vic and the boys back their mom, only without all of the pain and suffering. How cruel life can be to those who don’t deserve it.

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[Joe B. Matthews Sitting Outoors on a Folding Chair]
Photograph of Joe B. Matthews sitting outdoors in a brown folding chair. He is wearing a hat, glasses, jacket, spotted black tie, slacks, and cowboy boots.
[Men and Women around an Outdoor Picnic Table]
Photograph of men and women gathered around an outdoor picnic table that is covered with a box and bucket. Automobiles are visible in the background through trees.
[People at an Outdoor Picnic Table]
Photograph of a group of people at an outdoor picnic table. Several people sit at the food and drink laden table. Two men stand on either side. In the foreground to the left, a teenage boy holds a crutch. To the right near a car's open trunk, a man holds food.
[People in a Field near Fenced Cattle]
Photograph of people gathered in a field with fenced off cattle in the background. Some men and women are gathered around a blue truck to the left. A horse is partially visible behind them. Another group of men stands together to the right of the other group. A small child walks to the right of the photo.
[People Leaning on a Fence]
Photograph of a group of people leaning against a wooden fence. The group is comprised of a mixture of men and women and a small child being held up to the fence (right). Vehicles can be seen parked behind the group to the right.
[People on a Buckboard Wagon]
Photograph of people riding on a buckboard wagon past trees and shrubs. From left to right: Louise Webb Matthews; Susette Matthews Burns; Sally Brittingham; Sam/George Newcomb (driving; unidentified girl; and Anne Blanton.
[People Swimming]
Photograph seven people swimming in body of brown water in a wooded area.
[People with a Horse and Car at a Dirt Road]
Photograph of people standing at and near a dirt road. A black car with a yellow license plate sits in the dirt road with a man standing to the left of it. Off the road to the left, three people are around a horse. A younger person is in mid leap behind the horse.
[Three Cowboys Around a Downed Calf]
Photograph of three cowboys around a downed and roped calf. The bespectacled man kneeling on the left holds a bottle in his right hand and touches a cloth to the animal's side with his left. The kneeling man on the right has the calf pinned under his knee. A third man sits to the upper left.
[Tom and Matt Blanton at a Picnic Table]
Photograph of Tom and Matt Blanton sitting at an outdoor picnic table. Tom, left, is wearing a blue shirt and a spotted blue tie. The dark haired Mat, right, has an open shirt and striped pants, and carries a tin cup in his right hand a cigarette in his left.
[Tom Blanton with Shotgun Standing over a Dead Hog]
Photograph of Tom Blanton holding a shotgun and standing over a dead hog. He is wearing a lightly colored hat, blue denim jack, and blue jeans. They are in a wooded and shrubby area.
[Truck Near Cattle Pens with People Gathered Around]
Photograph of people gathered around a blue truck in front of cattle pens. Men to the left stand near a metal gate structure, with a man in the foreground carrying a camera that is slung under his arm. Another group surrounds the blue truck. A horse is visible behind them. A third group of two men look toward the truck from the right.
[Two Men and a Dead Hog]
Photograph of two men in blue denim standing over a dead hog. The man on the left is a senior, wears a black fedora hat, and holds an axe over his shoulder. The smiling young man to the right, Tom Blanton, holds a pistol in his right hand.
[Two Men and a Turtle]
Photograph of two men standing over an overturned turtle. The man to the left, Tom Blanton, leans over the turtle wielding an axe. The man to the right holds a foot on the creature. The remnants of a fire are to the right of the pair, and benches covered with materials are in the background.
[Watt Matthews and Ardon Judd, Sr. in a Decorated Doorway]
Photograph of Watt Matthews and Ardon Judd Sr. in a doorway that has been decorated with a "vine" of tree needles and colored light bulbs. A Christmas wreath hangs on the door behind the men.
[Watt Matthews, Ethel M. Casey, and Liston Casey]
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[Watt Matthews Standing over a Dead Hog]
Photograph of Watt Matthews standing over a dead hog. He is wearing a lightly colored hat, blue denim jacket, dark blue jeans, and black boots. The hog and an axe lies at his feet. Materials lie in front of trees and shrubs in the background.
[Watt Matthews with Three Women on Either Side]
Photograph of Watt Matthews (center) with three women on either side of him. The group is wearing winter clothing and standing in front of a stone building with two windows.
[Three Photographs of People Eating in a Wooded Area]
Photographs of people eating outdoors in a wooded area. The second and third photos show that they're eating near a body of water.
[Three Photographs of Resting and Working on Matthews Ranch]
Photographs of resting and working on Matthews Ranch. The first photograph shows two men sitting on or by a truck that's parked near a dirt road. The man sitting on the truck has a box and plate in front of him. The second photograph shows a herd of cattle in pens. The third photo shows several men around and on top of a restrained calf. Cattle can be seen in the background.
[Three Photographs of Two Women and an Old Bunkhouse]
Photographs of two women and a ranch house. The first two photos feature two women sitting in the back seat of a car. Both are wearing gingham tops, but the woman on the right is wearing a hat and glasses. The third photo is a long ranch bunkhouse with a automobile sitting to the left.
[Three Photos of Matthews Ranch]
Photographs of Matthews Ranch. The first photograph on the left is of ranch buildings with a truck and men standing outside. The middle photograph is of a ranch building obfuscated by a tree. The third photograph is of a person standing outside of a car on ranch land.
[Three Pictures of Cattle and Cowboys]
Photographs of cattle and cowboys on a range. The first picture on the left features cattle moving past a fence containing more cattle and four cowboys on horses. The second photo features cattle behind a fence and mounted cowboys on either side of that fence. The third photo is of Watt Matthews standing on range land in front of a pond.
[Two Photos of Cowboys Restraining a Calf]
Photographs of cowboys restraining a calf. In the left photo, men are gathered around a calf that is being held by two cowboys. Cattle are behind them. The photo to the right shows a calf being held down by two cowboys while a third person holds an object inside of a bowl.
[Portrait of a Ella Reynolds]
Photograph of Ella Reynolds (Burns) wearing high-necked dress with her hair pulled back. Her face is turned 3/4 away from the camera.
[Portrait of Barber Reynolds Watkins]
Photograph of a man identified as Barber Watkins Reynolds. He is bearded, has greying hair, and wears a coat, shirt, and a bow tie.
[Portrait of Barber Reynolds Watkins]
Photograph of a man identified as Barber Watkins Reynolds. He is bearded, has greying hair, and wears a coat, shirt, and a bow tie. Labeled "Grandpa Matthews."
[Portrait of Child Leaning on Hay]
Photograph of a young child leaning on a small stack of hay. She has short, dark hair and wears a white dress, sash, and boots. She is standing in front of a background painted to resemble and outdoor scene and atop a floor strewn with hay.
[Early Aerial View of Albany, Texas]
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[Remains of a Chimney and Fireplace]
Photograph of the remains of a stone chimney and fireplace. The structure stands in scrub land and is surrounded by loose stone bricks.
[Ruined Stone Building]
Photograph of a collapsing and ruined stone building with a chimney. Loose stone litters the ground around the structure among small trees.
[Portrait of Two Young Children]
Photograph portrait of two young children. The child to the left stands and wears a slightly dark and buttoned top, a skirt, and shoes. The child to the right is seated on a small fringed chair and is wearing a white dress and shoes.
[Thomas N. Lee Sitting Backwards in a Chair]
Photograph of a toddler, Thomas N. Lee, in a white dress, dark socks and shoes. The child is sitting backwards in a chair.
[Crowd Seated for an Event at a Stele]
Photograph of a crowd of people seated before a large rock. The crowd, left, is made up of various ages and races of people, with some standing along the edge of the mass. To the right, a group of people are situated in a line to the sides of a rock that is half again the size of a person. The rock is broad and thin and has a hide on its front. A man in a pink shirt (Bob Green) leans against the rock to the right, while another man (Joe Blanton)stands in front of it. Cars can be seen parked in the background.
[Elders in a Field]
Photograph of four elderly people in a field. Three elderly sisters (Sallie, Lucile, and Ethel) are seated in the field with the elderly Watt Matthews standing behind them with his hands on the first and third lady. A prickly pear cactus grows to the right of the group.
[Group of People outside of a Ranch House]
Photograph of over twenty people at various stages in their adult lives who are gathered in front of a stone ranch house. Three elderly sisters (Sallie, Lucile, and Ethel) sit in chairs in front of the group.
[Barber Watkins Reynolds House]
No Description Available.
[Ranch Cookshack behind a Garden]
Photograph of a wooden ranch building standing behind a mostly bare garden lot. Trees, more buildings, and an electrical tower are in the background.
[Ranch House]
Photograph of a ranch house behind trees and a wooden fence.
[A Family Portrait]
Photograph of a family, consisting of Susan Emily Reynolds Newcomb (standing), Anne Maria Campbell Reynolds (sitting left), a young girl, and Gus Newcomb.
[Portrait of Seven Children]
Photograph of seven children in a vignetted portrait. The children are, starting with the eldest girl at the top and going clockwise: May Matthews, Joe Matthews, Susette Matthews, Ethel Matthews, Lucile Matthews, Sallie Matthews, and John A. Matthews. Photo is labeled "A Very Merry Christmas."
[Family on a Riverbank]
Photograph of a family on a wooded riverbank. Several people are on the riverbank among the trees, while four people are in a rowboat with the word "GATORR" written along its side. A roofed structure and a wagon are visible up on the bank.
[Portrait of a Boy]
Photograph of a boy leaning on a half pillar with stone on its top. The boy has very short hair and wears a double breasted suit, a tie, trousers, stockings, and shoes.
[Portrait of a Family of Seven]
Photograph portrait of a family of seven. Three boys stand behind their seated parents. A girl is standing to the right of the seated woman. The man has a young girl sitting in his lap. Hats lie on the ground before them.
[Portrait of John Conrad Leaning on a Gate]
Photograph of a boy named John Conrad posing for a portrait. He is wearing a double breasted suit and is leaning on a piece of wood painted to look like a gate. He is standing in front of a backdrop painted to resemble a stone wall with flowers in front of it. The reverse side of the photo is written with the following: "With love to my dear S.S. teacher - John Conrad on his 8th birthday, June 23rd, 1894."
[Woman Leaning on a Fringed Pillar]
Photograph of a woman leaning on a fringed pillar. Her dark hair is pulled up onto a bun. Also she is wearing a dark dress with darker stripes around the neck and cuffs and buttons along the left side of the chest.
[Portrait of a Toddler]
Photograph of a toddler in a white dress who is standing on a piece of furniture that has been draped with patterned cloth.
[Portrait of Lucinda Elizabeth Matthews]
Photograph of Lucinda Elizabeth Matthews ("Aunt Bettie") wearing glasses, a necklace, and a dark top.
[Joseph Beck Matthews]
Photograph of Joseph Beck Matthews, an elder, bearded man wearing an overcoat, vest, and pocket watch while holding a cigar in one hand and a hat in the other. He is standing next to a building that has a stone ground level and a wooden upper level with windows. A plant trellis with a bare plant rises behind him.
[Four Men on Matthews Ranch Land]
Photograph of four men on Matthews Ranch land. A note written on the bottom left of the note mentions the location, the address, the date, and the photographer. The man, left, is an unidentified young man in a coat and a large hat. The man with the paper to the left is identified as Merry Howard. The older man in the three piece suit is identified as Judge J. H. Matthews. Most of the fourth man is obscured by blurred white space.

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Posted on January 24, 2012 by lessismo | 0 Comments

We are going to go on a hunt for everything broken, out of ink, chewed, or that I don't like writing with.

Do you have staples for a stapler you no longer have or ink for a printer long dead?  Pencils too stubby to use.

Donate it or dump it. Recycle old printer ink cartridges at most Post Offices, OfficeWorks and other shops which sell printers.

While you are at it, make a note of anything you are short of - do you need sticky-tape or printer ink?

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Versailles*** (Donmar Warehouse)

Posted: April 5, 2014 in Theatre

versaillesIt is often said that the 1919 Treaty of Versailles both ended the First World War and started the Second, but Peter Gill’s new play takes that viewpoint even further by arguing that the short-sighted and self-interested actions of politicians at that time set the course for World political, economic and social developments throughout the remaining four fifths of the Twentieth Century. The play is intelligent, engrossing and beautifully written, but its content is too huge to take in on one visit; it needs to be read through afterwards and herein lies one of the problem with it – it is often more a history lesson than a drama. Acts I and III take place in the drawing room of an affluent upper middle class household in Kent. Act II is set in Paris during the negotiations for the Treaty. The central character is Leonard Rawlinson (a simply superb performance by Gwilym Lee), a young civil servant working for the British Government on the Treaty; he is a gay man and many of his developing ideas are articulated in conversations with his dead lover (Tom Hughes), lost in the War. The central theme of a young man working on an historic document that he believes to be fundamentally flawed and then trying to adjust his own life to conform with his progressive ideals is a great one and, when this theme comes to the fore, the play soars. However, Gill clutters his script with too many subsidiary characters who come and go without registering and too many sub-plots that serve only to detract from the main themes. At over three hours (including two intervals) the play is much too long anyway and several sheets of the script belong in the shredder. Also, the political and social discussion is much too wide and generalised. It is very difficult to see how a man speaking in 1919 could foresee conflicts in South East Asia, religious tensions in the Middles East, the rise of Socialism in Britain, women’s and gay liberation, etc, etc. This is self-indulgent writing by Gill, who is expounding his own views from the perspective of the 21st Century, but undermining the credibility of his main character and blurring the play’s focus. The production has an opulent feel and is impeccably acted by a cast headed by grande dames Francesca Annis and Barbara Flynn as family matriarchs. Notwithstanding all the criticisms, there are moments, particularly in the deeply moving final Act, when it feels as if there is a masterpiece struggling to surface, and those moments will live in the memory long after the play as a whole is forgotten

Performance date: 4 April 2014

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A Review of The Captain Is Dead

the-captain-is-deadLet’s just put it out there. Things are bad. They’re really bad.

That means you need to take that game night swagger and stuff it, because you alone, or up to seven of your friends are about to enter a world of hurt (and likely death) as you desperately attempt to stave off the relentless hemorrhaging of a starship under alien attack.

Oh, and one more thing. Spoiler alert! The Captain Is Dead! Here’s another spoiler alert: You and all your buddies are likely dead, too.

Theme Heavy, Mechanic Light (In a Good Way)

skillsDesigned by J.T. at The Game Crafter, The Captain Is Dead is a sci-fi themed, cooperative, frantic, and satisfying kick in the ass. In fact, it’s thematic nirvana. You not only get to be the crew member of a starship, your actions during your turn are intuitive and often best suited to your expertise.

As Janitor, that means you’re not stuck cleaning the latrine. In fact, it’s probably time you step up, considering all your teammates are probably scattered and dying throughout the ship.

Gameplay in The Captain Is Dead is all about Actions and Skills.

Each player controls a crew member (or more if you’re soloing or awesome) that has a set number of Actions and Skills printed on the crew member’s card. These skills can include any combination of Command, Engineering, Science and Tactical icons.

A hand of randomly distributed Skill cards serves to round out each player’s arsenal of possibilities. What you end up with is an interesting assortment of characters with diverse skill sets that must work together to repair the ship’s Jump Core (scaled based on how difficult you want the game to be) and “jump” to safety (and victory)!

Chaos Engine

An Alert Deck unleashes every kind of interstellar hell upon the ship and crew, and this deck progresses from yellow “easy” Alerts, to orange “middling” Alerts, to red “holy shit we are so dead” Alerts.

Calamities include everything from enemy ships, system failures, alien boarding parties, and the outright destruction of the entire ship. Don’t worry, this colossal failure card will only show up when you’re just about to win. I tease; or am I?

Aside from this gut-wrenching “Game Over” card, each Alert can be overcome by spending Actions and Skills on your turn. And you will most definitely want to fix most of what’s broken, because all the locations around the ship — when they are functioning — serve a unique purpose and provide important benefits.

Here are a few of these locations and benefits:

  • Comm System — Allows you to give or take a skill to or from another player at another location.
  • Teleporter — Teleports any player to any location.
  • External Scanners — The top two Alerts are face-up so you know what’s coming.
  • Torpedo Tube — Prevents an Alert from being drawn or destroys a hostile alien ship.

Let’s Do This

tactical-officerAs you move about the ship, The Captain Is Dead is about optimizing the entire crew each turn, sending people to locations where they will be most useful, restocking hands of Skill cards, activating and using undamaged locations, repairing broken systems and shields, destroying enemy ships and slowly but surely repairing the Jump Core.

With so many possibilities and so much at stake, The Captain Is Dead is intrinsically a social game. Talk to your friends, tell them what to do, encourage them, complain, listen, and then do something else.

Ultimately, each player makes a choice, and if the janitor wants to take actions to live out his fantasies of being an Admiral, by all means let him spend his turn drawing Battle Plan cards while the torpedo tubes are offline and friends are dying just outside the War Room. Doing so may prove to be a colossal waste of time, tragically funny, or it may just save the day.

Final Thoughts

jump-core The Captain Is Dead is a difficult game to win. It requires perseverance, intelligence and the ability to laugh in the face of rapidly deteriorating odds. It’s the Arkham Horror of sci-fi games.

Even at the “normal” setting, where just four Jump Core repairs are needed to win, the odds are stacked against you. I believe that most groups will find the “novice” or embarrassingly named “coward” setting to be the most realistic starting point, unless my game group is just so horribly inept or unlucky that I’m inadvertently skewing my perspective based on how we’ve tackled this game to date, e.g., we have never won.

As for the “hardcore” and “insane” settings, I’m frankly at a loss for words. Wait, I have a few, “Are you *&#*ing kidding me?”

There’s no satisfaction like working together as a team to overcome enormous odds. Win or lose, true collaboration and camaraderie is the salve that makes a game such as The Captain Is Dead an enjoyable challenge. The motivation to make it through a gauntlet of terrifying failures, and the hope that we will one day prevail, is what keeps us coming back for more.

Also, there’s no apparent end to the seemingly infinite replayability within The Captain Is Dead. With Alert cards coming out at different times, the unique mix of crew members, and the medley of players with their good/bad decisions, you’ll always be finding new and exciting ways to lose.

In the end, when your ship is overrun with aliens, when your shields are at 10%, it’s that dead look in your friends’ eyes that provides solace.

Let’s just face it; misery loves company.

(You can purchase The Captain Is Dead at The Game Crafter.)

Mark Watney in The Martian: In the face of overwhelming odds, I’m left with only one option:  I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this.

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Last week I took a few days off from my day job to spend some time making a custom cake for a special special person I truly admire. Unbeknownst to me my cake baking, building and decorating would be done on 2 of the hottest summer days so far, and I would fight with sweating fondant that stretched and ripped in my hands and a cake I did not trust to stand up straight  or melt into a puddle of butter.  I had to make the executive decision to arrive to the party later than expected (just as the party started in fact) so that the cake could set up in the fridge for a few crutial minutes more. Thankfully the chef in the kitchen and my client were understanding.

This birthday cake was for Eve Ensler, author of the play The Vagina Monologues, Activist, world traveler and Founder of one of the most powerful world-changing movements: VDay.  I’ve talked about Eve and VDay before, as they have been a big part of my life as I came into adulthood. Last night this well known playwright and rebel won a Tony for her play and the way she has chosen to use her art to influence and change the world for the good.

I was honored to make her birthday cake (which was a hit despite all my troubles). This year has been a celebration for Eve has she has recently survived cancer in addition to all the beautiful difficult work she does. A birthday bash and a Tony award in one week!?! Amazing! She is truly inspiring.  Her acceptance speech is dedicated to all the activists out there! Viva Eve and Congrats!

Check out her acceptance speech here

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  • 1. Chrissy  |  June 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    AWESOME! What an honor! You are the coolest!

  • 2. Nadia A  |  July 28, 2011 at 10:02 am

    I know this is completely random but I met Eve last week at her new play “I am an Emotional Creature”. What an honour that you made her birthday cake, she really is an amazing woman!

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A lot of people starting to learn Kdenlive quickly get frustrated by the seemingly unintuitive and unexpected behavior of the timeline. Me too.

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January 22, 2013 COSMOS In 2012, cosmic-ray physicist Professor Fusa Miyake from Nagoya University in Japan announced the detection of high levels of the isotope carbon-14 and beryllium-10 in tree rings formed in 775 CE, suggesting that a burst of radiation struck the Earth in the year 774 or 775. Carbon-14 and beryllium-10 form when radiation from space collides with nitrogen atoms, which then decay to these heavier forms of carbon and beryllium. The earlier research ruled out the nearby explosion of a massive star as nothing was recorded in observations at the time and no remnant has been found. Professor Miyake also considered whether a solar flare could have been responsible, but these are not powerful enough to cause the observed excess of carbon-14. Large flares are likely to be accompanied by ejections of material from the Sun’s corona, leading to vivid displays of the northern and southern lights, but again no historical records suggest these took place. Following this announcement, researchers pointed to an entry in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle that describes a ‘red crucifix’ seen after sunset and suggested this might be a supernova. But this dates from 776, too late to account for the carbon-14 data and still does not explain why no remnant has been detected. In a paper, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ( version), the astronomers provide a new explanation consistent with both the carbon-14 measurements and the absence of any recorded events in the sky. They suggest that two compact stellar remnants – black holes, neutron stars or white dwarfs – collided and merged together. When this happens, some energy is released in the form of gamma rays, the most energetic part of the electromagnetic spectrum that includes visible light. In these mergers, the burst of gamma rays is intense but short, typically lasting less than two seconds. These events are seen in other galaxies many times each year but, in contrast to long duration bursts, without any corresponding visible light. If this is the explanation for the 774 / 775 radiation burst, then the merging stars could not be closer than about 3,000 light years, or it would have led to the extinction of some terrestrial life. Based on the carbon-14 measurements, the astronomers believe the gamma-ray burst originated in a system between 3,000 and 12,000 light years from the Sun. If they are right, then this would explain why no records exist of a supernova or auroral display. Other work suggests that some visible light is emitted during short gamma-ray bursts that could be seen in a relatively nearby event. This might only be seen for a few days and be easily missed, but nonetheless it may be worthwhile for historians to look again through contemporary texts. “If the gamma ray burst had been much closer to the Earth it would have caused significant harm to the biosphere. But even thousands of light years away, a similar event today could cause havoc with the sensitive electronic systems that advanced societies have come to depend on. –SCINEWS
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  1. Jean says:

    This reminds me of a youtube video I just watched after an inspired search for fatima and ufo. William Warwick on Coast to Coast says the third secret pertains to the earth’s movement through a certain band of cosmic energy that will cause extreme cold and darkness for several days. This has happened before, he said, but of course is a highly disruptive event.

  2. SMILE says:

    Indian scientist predicts mass destruction in year 2013

  3. Marybell says:

    Now how much money has been spent on the “What ifs and May haves? Really tired of this kinda news. G-D created the Universe. Man is not smart enough to figure anything out. So just accept by faith and move on.

    • Civil says:

      “Black hole collision event may have irradiated Earth centuries ago”

      MAY happen? So much speculation & guess work in soo many things released these days! Why bother to guess if it will happen? Give us something solid & inevitable! So tired of fear mongering……………

      • August says:

        It’s not fearmongering. Some people are interested in the science. The sort of thinking that you are disparaging here is what’s responsible for the majority of the technology and understanding that the modern world is based on. (Not saying that’s necessarily a good thing.)

        “Science”, even when it actually follows the scientific method and is good science (some of the modern stuff is nonsense on top of nonsense in my opinion…especially psychology), clearly has problems and real limits to it. And many of the people that participate in it are quite delusional (thinking about the people that made the atomic bomb and thought that it would never be used/would cause wars to stop).

        But being able to think clearly and constructively about things, which the scientific method encourages, is absolutely a good thing.

        Putting everything down only to “faith” generally makes people lazy and unwilling to help themselves. It’s usually an indirect way of saying that you don’t want to have any understanding of a situation and the factors going into it. And typically accompanies “bipartinship/us against them think”

        Being interested in the way the world/things/life/systems work, which is what this research is about, is most definately a good thing.

        Some people just like the world, all of it, including the natural things that are termed by people as ‘disasters’ and avoided. And are interested in trying to understand how they work.

    • svartvatten says:

      Sounds easy, just stop thinking and searching.

    • Deb says:

      And God gave us brains, intelligence and curiosity to explore and appreciate his creation. I don’t think God is against Science or the search for specifics about our universe and its past, present and future. Yes God created all things but it wasn’t just magic, there was immeasurable order, intelligence, complexity and DETAIL. the beauty is in the details. The math, the physics, chemistry and beyond of it all. I wish i was smart enough to be an astrophysicist sometimes. The problem is when God is nowhere in the picture. No acknowledgement, no worship, total rejection. You can speculate about alternate universes and dimensions, time travel, aliens and wormholes but an intelligent being (GOD) that created all of it?!!! Some Scientists seem to think that taking into account the possibility of an all powerful creator will make their work boring and limited. Like it would change what has already been existing in our reality for so long and the knowledge therein. Many just don’t want to understand our world and universe, they want to specuIate to their heart’s content as their heads swell.

      Anyway, I’m so looking forward to exploring the universe and actually understanding all these things in eternity.

      • Irene C says:

        Well said, Deb. I’m definitely no scientist, but the more I read and the more I learn, the more I’m amazed in the One who created it all. I feel that God doesn’t hate science, just the abuse of it and the lack of recognition of the Creator.

        As for this article, I find it fascinating.

    • nanoduck says:

      I guess you can throw out all science books and live in ignorance. This article has nothing to do with religion, faith, or Bible. Just trying to find explaination for sudden spike in radiation in the past.

  4. tonic says:

    Governments worldwide have become aware of the real threat posed by solar flares, only in the last few years. Makes you wonder if their awareness would still have happened as quickly, without sites like this, and like minded people around the globe who would not let this threat lie low……….. Maybe, maybe not.
    Maybe we should just take all that is happening now as just a blip, a little spike of abnormality in Earths history. And just carry on as normal, and pretend all is ok.
    After all if the worst happens who will it really affect, only the generation after us. So why should we care?
    Unless maybe, we love them.

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March 18, 2008, 11:19 PM
I recently developed a load for my .22hornet and it is devastating on pigeons off my neighbors barn it litterly blows them to pieces.Now come the questions I have a velocity at 150 yds of 2189 fps and an impact force of around 373 ft/lbs.I know what it does to feathers!But will the 35 gr V-max have the penetration to knock down and anchor a songdog?Will I have to go for head shots?Will the bullet blow up on bone and just wound?I know this load will be hell on Ground Hogs and such.Hope you can give me some answers Thanks ELMOUSMC

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March 19, 2008, 08:47 AM
Unless I had a perfect rest/hold in the field, I'd probably limit any Hornet load to around a hundred yards on a coyote. Shouldn't be any problem. I've met a few hide hunters who call them in fairly close and do head shots with a .22 Magnum rimfire.

March 19, 2008, 05:32 PM
Considering that .17 HMR is considered the new gold standard for coyotes around here, I think that you should be able to take them at a hundred yards or so with your load.


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I carry a Kershaw Scallion I think is the model. Black with the black treatment on the blade. To be honest the knife just fits me great. I am about 6'2" 170 pounds with average size hands and the knife is JUST big enough. It has the assisted opening which is definitely nice and useful. However, I have tried out some other brand new ones(mine says August '04 on blade), and the action was not nearly as smooth as mine.
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Tai Chi or Yoga.

You need something that keeps the body limber, your blood pressure relaxed, and your muscle conditioned so that you can respond effectively. Both Tai Chi and Yoga are easy to get into, are non contact, and would be a huge benefit not only for your mental and physical response to CQB, but also improve your general well being immensely. There's usually a lot of hot chicks in these classes as well.

You also might check into your local range, ask if they teach defensive pistol courses, ask to speak with the instructor. If he/she knows there stuff they should be able to put you in contact with a hand to hand defense program that would work for someone who carries. Police departments, Security agencies all have instructors and programs that teach this sort of thing and I bet their are some programs available to civilians as well.
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Handgun new brass - for the first loading I just prime and let the expander make the case mouth round. No other actions taken.

Rifle brass - two different approaches:

- general run of the mill accuracy I run the expander through the neck to make it round, I chamfer the inside and outside of the neck.

- for my accuracy brass, I run the expander through the neck, trim and chamfer inside and outside of the neck lightly, uniform the primer pockets, deburr the flash hold and weigh and sort by similar weights.

I haven't found any new brass to have any residue on it, and that is 10's of thousands of rounds (Remington, Winchester, Lapua, Lake City, Hornady) I also have never seen the need to size new rifle brass. I do check the shoulder datum length versus my standards by rifle. But what I find on new rifle brass is the shoulder is already set back further than necessary to insure it will chamber in "everything". I realize others have found problems that they now FL size new rifle brass.
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Old June 1, 2008, 11:20 PM   #1
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.223 loadings with H322

I have both the Speer Manual #14 and the Hornady 5th Edition, and I was looking up 55 gn loadings (for Sierra Varminter Soft Point Spitzer bullets).

The powder I was planning on using is Hodgdon 322.

The Speer manual says maximum loading is 24.5 gn

The Hornady manual says 23.1 gn.

So I figure maybe I should see what the powder manufacturer says (also have the Hodgdon Data Manual 26th edition) and they say maximum 23.0 gn!

I am a relative newbie, and a friend has given me many books to make sure I have all the information I might need. Obviously I am having problems with too much contradictory information.

Which number should I be trusting?

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Seirra manual

In the Sierra manual it says this:

Bolt Action

H-322 w/ 55gr bullet: Start-22.1 , Max-23.9

Start-22.5, Max-24.3
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Oh great. More confusion.
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Combine that confusion with the fact that your firearm and ambient temperatures will differ from the test rifles they use, and its a crap shoot.

Pick a weight you feel comfortable with trying out, and work your way up, looking for overpressure signs.
Once you find what your firearm likes, stick with it for that lot of powder.
Next batch of powder you buy, load up a little under your previous load, and work up again.

I wish I had more funds. I enjoy working up loads.
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In the 223 it is not as vital to pay attention to the cases uses as it is when loading bigger cartridges. As the case size increases the case volume increases and case wt varies. As with any load development work up and watch for signs of pressure. You want accuracy, reliability, and safe cartridges. The parameters that each source of information varies. Some use universal receivers, others guns and some go so far as test in AR platforms.
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Let me clarify for all-

The reason I picked the numbers for maximum loadings (as opposed to starting loads) is precisely because of the dangerous variances. Someone pm'ed me criticizing me for looking at those numbers- as if I would load up my first cartridges at the maximum.

My point was (for that person's benefit) that if I chose a mid-range loading per the Speer manual it would exceed Hodgdon's maximum! Potentially causing a hazardous condition.

I think most people reading this would understand that.
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Determining Starting Loads

I'm in the same boat as you; I'm ready to make my first batch of .223 (with AA2230) and will have to figure-out my starting loads.

Here's what I got for Hodgdon's H322:

22.5--24.3 (AR-15)
22.1--23.9 (Bolt Action)
21.0--23.0 (Confirmed w/ LEE)

What I would do is add-up all the minimums and divide. Giving you an "average" minimum.

All of the above (107.6)/5 = 21.5

You also have to take into consideration case capacity. If you're using military brass (which typically has less capacity than commercial), reduce starting load by 1.0gr - 1.5gr. Which is what I'm doing. So it would be safe to assume that 20.0 would be OK. Even 19.5.

Now mind you, I'm brand new at this, but this is the formula I'm going to utilize in determining MY starting loads.

If anyone with more experience can see any fault with this or has better suggestions PLEASE point it out.

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Keep in mind that Hornady's data is a bit on the conservitive side (not real bad), and Speer's max load's are usually so hot they're glowing orange. Let me give you an example. For a 223 rem, 55gr bullet, with Winchester 748 Lyman 48th recommends 27.8 grs with a Rem 7 1/2 as a max load, recommends 26.3 grs with a WSR. Speer 13th recommends 28.0 with a CCI small rifle magnum primer. I'm not saying Speer is being dangerous, all I am saying is they like load to right near the SAAMI limits. For the 223 Remington that is 52,000 CUP.
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H322 is a really good powder, part of Hodgdon's Extreme line. It meters very well thru almost all powder measures.

It's particularly well suited in short-barrel AR rifles, since its burn rate is a bit faster than H335 and quite a bit faster than Varget. With 20" and longer barrels you might have some reliability issues with H322, as the gas pressures are falling off by the time the bullet passes the gas block. Varget really performs well in the long guns.

I've shot H322 in my 20" AR and with loads near MAX I've not had any problems. But at MIN starting charges I had some occasional problems feeding subsequent rounds.
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Cool pictures. I really like 322 with heavy bullets in my AR's. 77 Noslers and 73 Bergers with a max load shoot real good. It also meters well through my Lyman. I am about to try some in my bolt Remington with some 52 gr. Sierra's and Hornady's.
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Well, my first test loads are not going to be H322 after all. I have been on a bit of a spending spree- I also picked up 8# of BL-C2 and 1# of IMR 4895.

I chose as my first powder the BL-C2. I loaded 5 each Winchester .223 cases with 25.2, 25.6 and 26.4 grains- and topped with the Sierra Varminter 55g Spitzer soft points.

Well, it was supposed to be 5 each, but it ended up being 4, 5 and 5. On account of me collapsing the shoulder of the first cartridge. Because I am an idiot, and had the seating die set too low (I am only just getting started with reloading).

Once I figured out what I did wrong, I managed the next 14 just fine. OAL for each is 2.20 inches.

I will also make up 5 each H322 of various loadings, and then some 4895.

Then repeat it all with 68 gn Hornady BTHP.

Then take it all out to the range to shoot from my precision AR (20" Rock River Varmint upper, Rock River National Match trigger, Magpul PRS stock etc).

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I now this is my first post, So Hello everyone.

I had a question for hodaka about him using H322 with his 77gr .224 bullets in .223 rem case. What grain of powder do you use with these bullets.

I have the hodgdon data from the web. I also have my lymann 49th edition and hornady loading manuals, which neither have the H322 powder listed.

I am planning on using the H322 powder to push a 75gr hornady HPBT down a 16" barreled AR.

Any help on a new manual to buy or suggestions would be appreciated.

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Need help, I've been reloading for 30 years with std RCBS dies (lots of calibers too) with no problem, until I got my 357Sig dies!

Problem: bullets tend to move under recoil no matter how I crimp or size the neck.

Two possible solutions have come up:
1) pay for a custom "Lee Factory Crimp" die (if it is possible to make one for such a short cartridge)
2) roll a cannelure in the bullets (don't have a clue how to do this or what the equipment cost)

Anyone have any other ideas or a source for an inexpensive cannelure swager.
How about a 124gr JHP 9MM bullet that already has a cannelure in the right place so that the OAL wont exceed 1.140 ??

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See the post further down the page titled ".357 Sig Cannulure Bullets"...he seems to have a solution.

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which scope?

i just purchased a M700 CDL 243 and am planning on doing coyote hunting at night. I wear glasses and would like a scope i can use without having to take them off. I have looked through some zeiss scopes and i can see through the upper end ones great. High magnification is also a plus. In a nut shell im looking for a scope that picks up the most light and i can keep my glasses on and shoot at varying ranges accuratley.
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Based on the wording of your post, I just thought I'd point something out...

When you look through a rifle scope while wearing glasses you tend to look through the upper and sometimes inner corner of the lens... and, depending on the rifles LOP and your body position, with the glasses lens at a relative angle to the scopes focal centerline as well.

If you're looking through scopes that are not mounted to a rifle, you tend to look through the corrective lens element.. and head on. You also may be looking through a scope without regard to a mounted scopes eye relief.

Most scopes have diopter adjustments. The range will vary from maker to maker and from a specific scope type to another. Some have only a +1/-1 range, while others have a +3/-3 range... and variation anywhere between.

If you've taken all this into consideration already, I apologize for stating the obvious. If not... then you have these variables to consider.

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Need to know how much you can spend, know use us recommending $1000+ scopes when you only want to spend $300.
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9mm reloading.

Just looking for input on other reloaders recipies for 9mm 124gr ? Montana Gold HP. I have Win AutoComp, and RS Silhouette on hand. I have primarily used copper plated bullets and don't have much experience with the MG. Thanks in advance.
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I use Universal because I also use it for loading 20 gauge. Look on your powder maker's website and use data for 124 gr bullets of same design
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9mm reloading.

I love Win Autocomp. Shoots great in my pistol, but YMMV.
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I used to use HP-38/W231 but now use Titegroup, but this is for target loads, not high velocity SD stuff.

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I LOVE autocomp as well. I have found that it is very clean burning for low power 9mm loads. Most of my 9mm loads just break the min power factor for IDPA. I also use a lot of it in 40.

I load 115g, 124g, and 147g with it and its great in all of them. I'd give you some numbers but I'm on my way to Colorado and all my stuff is at home.
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I love the MG 124 JHP. I found 4.0 grn of Tite Group to be the most accurate in all three of my 9mms. Not a max load but have never had a single cycling issue in several thousand rounds either.
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I load Montana Gold bullets exclusively ...and a lot of them ( about 16,000 a year just in 9mm).....and I've been using Hodgdon TiteGroup or Hodgdon Universal ...on all of my 9mm for the past 5 or 6 years.

I shoot 115 gr FMJ RN 99 % of the time...for my range practice / but other than overall length you shouldn't have any issues with the bullets. You'll have to see what overall length your guns like.

I put most of my 9mm downrange thru a Wilson Combat 5", 1911 in 9mm...but I also shoot my reloads in a Kimber Tactical Pro 9mm, a 4" gun ....and a Sig 239 or a Sig 226...

Good bullets.. !!
( I load Montana Gold in 9mm, .40S&W, .45 acp, .38 spl, .357 Mag and .44 Mag)...
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I use Montana Gold bullets more than anything else. When I can't find the data I'm looking for I will use the load data for the XTP bullet for Montana Gold JHP bullets. It normally runs close. I do start at the bottom (starting load) and work my way up slowly. I find my best loads are normally never at the top end of the listed data. Once you find a load that cycle well you only need to increase to a level where they are accurate.

Montana Gold bullets are designed for accuracy and nothing more. They are quite accurate as well. When looking for something that expands you should be looking for XTP, Gold Dot and bullets like those.

I normally load MG 124 gr. FMJ with AA5 powder.
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9mm reloading.

Ill have to add to that I use Titegroup a good bit too at 4.0gr.
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Silhouette is an exceptional powder for 9mm. If you happen to load your own defense loads it's also treated and has very low flash. It is also very pressure stable and used by the IPSC 9mm major guys. AutoComp is starting to see some use there as well and supposedly was designed for use with compensated pistols. I actually load Silhouette in high velocity .45 ACP JHP loads as well and I when I shot .40 S&W I used it there also. I haven't worked up a load yet where I didn't get excellent accuracy with Silhouette.
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#Chain 46 – Myanmar – prisoner clemency marks 64th anniversary

According to many online sources Mynmar’s President Thein Sein has signed a clemency order, reducing sentences for prisoners, in a move to mark the country’s 64th anniversary of independence.Although the order fell short of the general amnesty many people were expecting, it is said that death sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment and many prison terms are to be cut.

It was not immediately clear how many prisoners are to be included in the clemency.

State media reported that the government-appointed National Human Rights Commission had asked Thein Sein for the issue of a general amnesty.

Since taking office in March Thein Sein has pushed forward reforms after decades of repression under previous military regimes. Although still dominated by a military proxy party, changes have been made in media, the internet & political participation.

The last amnesty in October included more than 6,000 prisoners of which 200 were political detainees.

#Chain 32 – Egypt – Electors honour the dead

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Without Tahir, we wouldn’t have had these elections!

Friday’s Turnout in the first leg of Egypt’s first free election in six decades was an unprecedented 62 percent, far higher than in the rigged polls under deposed President Hosni Mubarak.

Abdul Moez Ibrahim acknowledged a number of violations in the balloting on Monday and Tuesday, notably campaigning outside polling stations, but said these did not affect the results.

Ibrahim joked that the turnout was the highest in any Egyptian election “since the pharaohs”. It was even greater than in the “forgeries of the past elections”, he added.

“The blood of martyrs has watered the tree of freedom, social justice and the rule of law. We are now reaping its first fruits,” Ibrahim said in tribute to more than 850 people killed in a popular revolt that toppled Mubarak in February.

Protesters were out again in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Friday to mourn the deaths of 42 people killed last month in demonstrations demanding the generals who took over from Mubarak hand over to civilian rule immediately.

“Without Tahrir, we wouldn’t have had these elections,” said Mohamed Gad in the square that cradled the revolt. “God willing, the elections will succeed and the revolution will triumph.”

Adapted from Reuters online By Dina Zayed and Alistair Lyon

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#Chain 31 – Pour qui sonne le glas ?

Article – Source Language French

C’est la crise ! La crise de l’école, la crise financière, la crise du capitalisme, bientôt la crise de foie. Mais en fait, d’où nous viennent ces problèmes ? Le compte en banque des riches se porte à merveille, l’industrie du luxe ne connait pas la crise. Alors? Et si le serrage de ceinture, la précarité, les réformes de l’école, les évaluations, l’autoritarisme n’avaient qu’une seule source ? La volonté des dirigeants de nous faire baisser la tête à tous  pour garder leur confort. Et nous ployons le genou devant le dieu Argent. Connaissez-vous le dicton ?Quand le dernier arbre sera abattu, la dernière rivière asséchée, le dernier poisson pêché, l’homme s’apercevra que l’argent n’est pas comestible.

Article paru dans le “Bulletin du syndicat CNT  des travailleurs de l’Education” & transmis par Laurent MAZEAU  (professeur Paris)

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#Chain 30 – Deadly toys littering Libya’s streets

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The magic wand of Merlin is needed!

Nurden Abosowa, 12 – The discovery of his “new toys” left him in agony, bleeding heavily from an abdomen wound, he was taken to the remote town’s hospital. Playing with the “toy guns” left on a truck parked outside his uncle’s house left him with a section of his stomach & intestines blown away.Before the uprising that led to Gaddafi’s demise, the boy would have faced a life-threatening two-hour drive across the border into Tunisia, but Nalut hospital has changed dramatically since then  with the help of British medical emergency relief charity, Merlin.

While the conflict is over, the flow of casualties has continued.

One worker from the Merlin Organisation said “We fear we’re going to see lots of kids, because there are so many weapons around and they are curious.”

One family were not as lucky as Nurden’s; Zakaria, 11, was found in his garden after his mother heard an enormous explosion. Her son was lying motionless on the ground and later died due to the seriousness of his injuries and the lack of specialist doctors. The family’s eldest son had fought with rebels and they were afraid for him but never expected Zakaria to die in this way.

The sobering reality is that until the thousands of weapons and unexploded devices littering the country are safely removed, tragedies like these will continue.

You can help by making a donation to The Merlin Appeal.

Adapted from the Independent online edition

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#Chain 26 – Avec les Grecs, K.-O. debout

Le texte suivant est notre nouvelle contribution pour attirer l’attention sur les conséquences des plans d’austérité du point de vue du peuple et non des économistes « distingués ». Continue reading

#Chain 24 – The Chen Report – released to mark his 40th birthday

Following our Chain – A letter of hope? – we received further information concerning The Chen Guangcheng investigation, passed on to us by Reggie Littlejohn President of Women’s Rights without Frontiers.

We would like to publish the translation of the condensed facts from the report with the help of our excellent team of translators.

As always we would like to thank them for bringing these facts to the forefront through translation.  Continue reading


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Trade? We Talkin’ Bout Trade? Not A Game. TRADE.

Actually, I guess this is a bit more serious than the title suggests.

Allen Iverson, as a Sixer, meant a lot not only to Philly hoop fans, but a generation of young ballers. So it’s still kind of unbelievable that The Answer won’t be in a Sixers uniform anymore. That just FEELS weird you know? Just like MJ in that Wizards uni (it NEVER happened)

So the real question is: which team is Iverson going to end up on? Thank bhudda you came here, because insider sources just told me this:

SHAOLIN TEMPLE (Unrelatedness AP)—Sources have confirmed that AI just signed a contract worth 300 bowls of rice and daily servings of vegetables with the Shaolin Monks.

The Monks were able to deal away their future 1st round picks as well as their Ancient Scrolls in order to get Iverson from the Sixers.

“Yeah man, them Scrolls are gonna help us become more defensively minded,” said veteran Chris Webber, “I’m just hoping we don’t have to face them this year… because their Eagle Claw offence? Daaaamn.”

The Unrelatedness AP weren’t able to get Iverson to comment, as he literally FLEW away right in front of our reporters. He freakin flew

  1. SG

    I’m glad you took a break from your exams to make that awesome pic.

  2. Allen Iverson ain’t nuthing ta fuck with.

  3. rem

    ahhh…Shaolin Ai has found inner peace

    now all should fear the wrath of the thousand blinding fist attack (minus the wires of course)

    the Sixers have the Ancient Scroll now???

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I'm Jason. This is my home on the web where I write. Stick around. It's going to get interesting.

There's two types of entrepreneur

Entrepreneur get's thrown around a lot.

What I'm trying to say is, there's two types of people who succeed in unusual businesses.

The first: The bold risk taker. This guy has spotted a niche, or perhaps had a brain wave. Maybe he's seen a way to bring two mediocre products together to make one awesome service. Probably he's spent months agonising over how to get the product to market. He's fought hard to stay motivated in the face of criticism, laughter from friends, and self doubt. His desire to make the world a better place managed to outweigh his need for stability and a regular pay cheque and he went forward and put his hands to work on his idea without any promise of return or reward. He is a trail blazer, a leader, and a dreamer.

The second: The simple guy who didn't even know he was taking a risk. He always got fired for being irresponsible or unmotivated and gave up trying to work for others, and just started doing whatever he found to do. He only has strange business ideas because he doesn't understand how the world works, and remarkably his ignorance actually ends up producing things people love and he makes a bunch of money.

Often the two get confused. The trail blazer is thought of as an idiot and told that he doesn't understand how the world works.

And the "simpleton" is often glorified after the fact as a hero and a leader, an entrepreneur who can see into the future.

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Selling High: the Marijuana Stock Market

Selling High: the Marijuana Stock Market

Marijuana stock marketWhether you’re a proponent of pot or marching outside of marijuana dispensaries yelling “Hell no we won’t grow,” cannabis is here to stay. As the laws change, other things change as well, including the stock market. In fact, with recreational marijuana already legalized in a handful of states (and up for legalization in a handful of others) cannabis stocks are selling like hot cakes (and, in legal areas, hot cakes are selling like hot cakes too).

If you’re fiscally minded, or simply enjoy the draw of Wall Street, the investment opportunities surrounding cannabis are hard to disregard. The numbers alone entice: in 2015, the recreational marijuana industry increased by 17 percent (5.4 billion dollars). This year, it’s slotted to increase by 25 percent more.

You don’t have to be a broker to see the value of investing in the trade. Even medical marijuana on its own makes the capital alluring:  combined with recreational, the entire industry is projected to top 40 billion over the next decade.

MassRoots and Business Pursuits

Some marijuana companies are attempting to ditch their penny stocks and receive approval from Nasdaq, but the process isn’t something that happens overnight. Nasdaq, like the New York Stock Exchange, considers itself an exclusive club, only interested in companies that will attract investors.

To even be considered, a business must have a set number of publicly-traded shares, market makers, and shareholders.

They must also have a steady revenue. Lots and lots of revenue

MassRoots, the company formed in 2013 Denver, may be the most popular guy in social media circles, but Nasdaq still won’t sit at its lunch table. It attempted to list in May, an attempt that was shot down after the stock exchange labeled MassRoots “aiders and abettors” of substances deemed illegal under Federal law.

Even without this, MassRoots might not be a company Nasdaq welcomes with open arms – it lacks diversified shareholders, for one thing. It also only recently reached the black, after it started to generate its revenue through advertising last year.

With all of this, you might guess that Nasdaq simply isn’t ready for recreational weed; it needs to finish spying out its window and telling the neighborhood kids to get off its lawn. Even so, that doesn’t mean investing in marijuana is akin to owning eight storage units filled with boxes of Google Glass. It has the potential for enormous returns.

A Recession Proof Entity

History shows that recessions happen, some expected and some out of the blue. When the housing market crashed in 2007, many of us experienced hardship firsthand: it knocked us on our Fannie Maes. And headlines in bold told the story: The Worst Economy Since the Great Depression.

Of course, the Great Depression was much worse: it impacted the country to marijuana next to moneya larger extent and millions of people lost everything. Not
just their homes, but their ability to purchase food and clothing. Many of the social programs in place today simply didn’t exist back then. Sufferers were largely on their own. And, yet, the alcohol industry boomed.

The legal industry didn’t, as Prohibition was still in effect, but underground dealings, purchases, and creation held steady because of one reason:

Alcohol is a recession-proof industry – whisky and rye simply rolls its eyes at financial struggle

This doesn’t insinuate that spending habits don’t at all change: Dom Perignon probably didn’t have a marque year in 2008. But statistics show that, while people spend a less amount on alcohol, they purchase more of it. Economic depressions are, as they imply, depressing, and some people turn to the bottle to ease the anxiety.

Marijuana, and the marijuana stock market, seem to possesses a similar resistance to monetary collapse. Even with emptier checkbooks, people continue to purchase things that make them feel better – be it alcohol or cosmetics or new haircuts – and pot has the talent to do just that.

Investment Opportunities in the Marijuana Stock Market

Unless you go the penny marijuana stock market route, investing in cannabis on a recreational level is something you might have to wait for: don’t worry, it’s coming. In the meantime, several companies tied to medicinal marijuana are worth your time and your dime.

penny stock, penny stocks GW Pharmaceuticals has a long track record on Nasdaq. It’s a biotech company with a cannabis-based epilepsy drug. INSYS Therapeutics, while also developing a drug for epilepsy, is better known for its drugs that manage pain in cancer patients.

Cara Therapeutics, a clinical state biopharmaceutical company, develops pain relief drugs with a specific interest in CBD

Care will benefit immensely as the benefits of CBD become further realized . And so will its investors.

To Market to Market to Buy a Fattie

Marijuana is an up-and-coming industry, as is the marijuana stock market; this naturally makes it a wise investment choice. However, this doesn’t mean there’s no risk. The stock market is, ultimately, a gamble. Sure, not as much as driving to Reno and putting your life savings on Red 19, but it’s a risk nonetheless.

According to Investopedia, there are four main things that make a stock unstable. Including:

The Stock is Getting Too Much Attention: If you know of a hot stock, the entire world probably knows too (unless you’re Martha Stewart). The exaggerated interest in a stock overinflates its value, meaning there’s nowhere to go but down.

The Stock Price is Volatile: A good rule of thumb is if shares are expensive when you buy, they’ll be cheaper when you sell. So, stick to those with more constancy.

Emotional Attachment; It sounds funny to think of emotions in regards to Wall Street; you start stalking your stocks and asking to bond. But emotions have no place in this market. Even if you’ve found the best returns in the world, you’ll have to part with your shares at some point.

The Company’s Earnings Decline; Perhaps the biggest thing that makes a stock risky is the company it’s tied to; if the business struggles, so will the stock. Companies bounce back, but there’s no guarantee. There’s probably not too many people who became millionaires because they invested in the Edsel.

About Jenn Keeler, WikiLeaf.com

Jenn Keeler is a regular contributor for WikiLeaf.com and has been published by a number of other outlets.

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  1. MITCH

    ha! HELP any one know were to buy TRUE medical marijuana stock with out joining a club broker and paying them a fee. the state of FL. IS GOING TO OPEN THE DOOR SOON I WOULD LIKE TO BUY SOME STOCK EVEN PENNY STOCK WOULD BE OK.

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A trailer a day keeps the Boogeyman away! The Night Holds Terror (1955)

“Three young, empty-eyed killers, without mercy or morals, turn a private home into a house of horror!”

The Night Holds Terror 1955

Based on a true crime, A nice suburban family man Gene Courtier makes the mistake of picking up a hitch-hiker who turns out to be dangerous escaped convict Victor Gosset, on the run from the police.

His gang proceeds to hold Courtier’s family hostage at their home at gunpoint.

As time ticks on, the situation becomes more tense and volatile culminating into a living nightmare!

Directed and written by Andrew L. Stone as a crime noir thriller, it stars Jack Kelly and Hildy Parks as the Courtiers and Vince Edwards as the ruthless woman hungry Victor Gosset.

At first Gosset wants Courtier to sell his car for the cash, but Batsford (Cassavettes) wants to hold the family hostage for the ransom money instead…

Also stars John Cassavettes as Robert Batsford. and David Cross as Luther Logan the other two men in Gosset’s gang. A real gripping thriller!

“With a gasp in your throat… and a gun at your back!”

Don’t pick up any hitch-hikers, but of course you knew that by now-MonsterGirl cares!

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+1 Nikos Karavasilis · January 10, 2016
my best friend has the following project for tuesday..he has no idea about c++ GUI wih you have any idea about the solution,

Using the programming language C++ and the programming framework Qt, write a computer program that allows user to draw pictures using the mouse device. The program must have graphical user interface (GUI). The interface must provide user with the following drawing tools:

pencil -- draws a path with 1 pixel width;
brush -- allows different path widths;
square -- draw squares;
circle -- draw circles;
text input tool -- inserts text in selected area of the picture;
color selection tool -- allows user to select the color.
The program allows user to save the drawing as an image file in .bmp or .jpg file formats. The program allows user to open and edit both .bmp, and .jpg image files.

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You try first, and we help if there are problems, you learn by doing, not letting people do it for you.
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String arrays exercise

0 Gent Ymeri · May 15, 2015
First of all I want to introduce myself.
My name is Gent and I come from Europe.
I am a first year student doing a B.Sc in BusinessInformatics (in U.S is knows as Information Systems/ Information Technology as I know)

In this semester I have started to learn programming and I have a question which I can't solve without errors, if you guys can help me solve it, I would be thankful.

The question is about String Arrays.
Allow user to enter one text, then:
a) Print the entered text in reverse order.
and b) in the reverse text replace each lower case letter with upper case and vice versa.

Thank you in advance!

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+2 Michael Bradford · May 19, 2015
Yeah just to reiterate since your learning what you have isn't really an array of strings so much as an array of char's. Strings are Chars (like 'M') strung together. Your professor called it a "string Array" which I find could be confusing to a new student.. It is an array of chars which is also known as a String.
+1 Gent Ymeri · May 18, 2015
Thank you!
Even though I already solved the problem.

Also, you are right, I should have written the code.

The problem was that I didn't wrote the correct line of code for reversing the string, I knew the rest of the code how should it be done.
it was  _strrev(text) which I didn't write for some reason during the lectures.
Thank you for explaining me the things you did above. I also can see that I gave a wrong impression.. but, still thanks for taking your time and consideration to help me.
the code you wrote about swapping, looks to me like kind bubble sort thing!?

here is the code I wrote for the solution. Any feedback, would be appreciated.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
char text[100];
cout << "Enter text:";
cin.getline(text, 100);
cout << "The text in reverse order is:" << text<<endl;
int i, n;
n = strlen(text);
for (i = 0; i < n; i++){
if (islower(text))
text = toupper(text);
else if (isupper(text))
text = tolower(text);

for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
cout << text;
cin.get(); cin.get();
return 0;

this is the way my prof. explained how to deal with string arrays during lectures.
your method seems a bit different, I think I will try to implement it also.

Thanks one more time!

+1 Sengngy Kouch · May 18, 2015
No problem man!

And the way you your program work is different from mines due to the fact that I used "String" and you use Char.  Both work great!

Happy Coding!
+1 Sengngy Kouch · May 18, 2015
Oh, by the way, the swapping that I use is not a bubble sort method.

The way my swapping method is:

If you have ABCDE.

you go to the first index, which is A.  Now swap the A with E.

now you have EBCDA.

Then the second index. which is B, now swap it. and you have EDCBA.

Because you only have to loop through only half size of the string, which is the length of the string  = 5. and half of it is 5/2 = 2.
We got two because integer doesn't get the decimal point.

I dont know if this come across, but yeah. lol, Happy Coding!! :D
+1 Sengngy Kouch · May 17, 2015
Hi there, nice to know you up here.

First of all, instead asking people to give you the solution, why don't you show us what you got so far?

Alright, enough said.

1. I don't know if you already know how to get input from user. so here is how:

First, make sure you have type #include<iostream> in your file.
string input;
cout  input; // this allow you to get input from user.

Remember that this only allow user to input a single string. Without any white space.

2.Print the entered text in reversed order.

First of all, I think you should know how to use For loop, don't  you?
and do you know how to use substr ?

The main idea is to go through half way of the  "for loop"  and swap the right character with left character.

Example.   your string is "ABCDE"

so you need loop through the string half way by:

for ( int i = 0; i< input.length() / 2; i++)
  // do the swap here.

swapping is easy when you master it.

string temp;
temp = leftSubstring;
leftSubstring = rightSubString; // note: this is just a pseudo code, you need to use substr here.
rightSubString = temp;

3.Replacing the case of the letter is easy.

you need to type :  #include <algorithm>

then use thing line of code:

transform(input.begin(), input.end(), input.begin(), ::tolower); // from upper to lower.

transform(input.begin(), input.end(), input.begin(), ::toupper); // from lower to upper.

I hope this help.
+1 Sengngy Kouch · May 17, 2015
I forget that this site won't allow me to use << in the code segment,

so here it for #1.

string input;

cout << "Please input a string" << endl;
cin >> input; // this allow you to get input from user.
0 Sengngy Kouch · May 19, 2015
@Michael : good advice
0 Gent Ymeri · May 20, 2015
Sengngy Kouch I see, that looks something similar to binary search.?

Michael and Sengngy, thanks!
0 Sengngy Kouch · May 20, 2015
Any time man!
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Calendar Sales Generate Funds for Peace Corps Projects Overseas

Practical gift benefits the field work of Peace Corps Volunteers and brings the world back home.calendar_06

Groups of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers produce and sell calendars yearly; profits go to overseas projects, including those run by current Peace Corps Volunteers in the field.

The most established calendar of its kind is the RPCV International Calendar produced yearly through the Madison, WI, RPCV group. 100 percent of proceeds from calendar sales fund approved projects taking place around the world.

Through the RPCV International Calendar’s group sales initiative, other groups that sell the calendars can also raise funds to support their work. For example, calendars sold through the Friends and RPCVs of Guyana generate revenue for approved projects taking place in Guyana.

Another RPCV group produces and sells its own calendars — see the Peace Corps Panama Friends calendar that supports Peace Corps Panama projects.

To read more about donating to Peace Corps projects directly and the Peace Corps Partnerships Program, visit the Office of Private Sector Inititatives web pages at

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The Real Deal New York

Clipper to buy BK rental from Jehovah’s Witnesses for $88M

Bistricer-led REIT buying 107 Columbia Heights for $569 psf

107 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn Heights and David Bistricer (Bistricer credit: STUDIO SCRIVO)

In its first move as a publicly traded company, Clipper Realty is buying an 11-story Brooklyn Heights rental building from the Jehovah’s Witnesses for $87.5 million, the firm told The Real Deal.

The David Bistricer-led real estate investment trust entered into an agreement to buy 107 Columbia Heights for $569 per square foot. The Witnesses put the 154,000-square-foot building on the market in April. At the time, sources speculated it could fetch up to $1,000 per foot.

Clipper said it expects to close on the property by May 2017, and it plans to convert several public spaces in the building into 12 additional apartments.
The REIT debuted on the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 10, looking to raise $68.1 million through the sale of its common stock, which was initially priced at $13.50 per share.

Bistricer said the REIT would focus on “strategic, value-add” investments, he told TRD in 2015. Since then, Clipper has raised $130.2 million in a private offering, according to its prospectus.

Clipper’s portfolio is comprised of more than 3,500 residential units in Brooklyn and Manhattan, including Flatbush Gardens, a 59-building rent-controlled apartment complex, and 50 Murray Street and 53 Park Place in Tribeca. It also owns two mixed-use buildings at 141 and 150 Livingston Street. In January, Clipper paid $103 million for a 232-unit rental building at 1955 First Avenue.

Excluding the Aspen, the properties generated rental revenue of $80 million in 2016, according to Clipper’s prospectus. In addition to acquisition, Clipper intends to pump $31 million into upgrades of existing properties to drive “substantial rent growth,” the REIT said in a regulatory filing.

The Witnesses have been exiting Brooklyn in a series of deals over recent months. In April, Kushner Companies, Aby Rosen’s RFR Realty and LIVWRK paid over $700 million for their 733,000-square-foot global headquarters at 25-30 Columbia Heights and a development site at 85 Jay Street in Dumbo.


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Thunder’s album ‘Rip It Up’ – released on 10 February 2017 throughearMUSIC – has hit number 3 in the UK album charts, giving the band their highest chart placing in 22 years. The band’s last album ‘Wonder Days’entered the chart at No. 9 two years ago so ‘Rip It Up’ underlines the band’s continuing trajectory.  The album comes ahead of a largely sold out tour of UK and Eire.

Danny Bowes, Thunder’s frontman said, “We’re chuffed to pieces with the reaction to the album from fans and media alike, so to see it enter the chart so high is a big old cherry on the top.”

Max Vaccaro, general manager at earMUSIC, commented, “Before working with Thunder, I asked myself many times why the band were not always recognised as Britain´s finest hard rock band of their generation. The definition “national treasure” could not seem more appropriate to me, since Thunder’s wonderful mix of rock, blues and soul carries the flame for the great British tradition that the world has loved since the 60s.  What an honour to be a part of their story and to follow their return to the Top 10 with ‘Wonder Days’ two years ago with a Top 5 album!”

Henry Semmence of Absolute Label Services said, “Absolute are delighted to be a part of Thunder’s glorious chart return with ‘Rip It Up’, in what is the bands highest chart position in 22 years. Our hugely successful relationship with earMUSIC continues to deliver record breaking result and this new Thunder album has benefited from this partnership”.

‘Rip It Up’, the band’s eleventh album, features eleven brand new songs recorded in 2016 at Rockfield Studios and was produced by the band’s Luke Morley.  The record is proof positive that this is a band that exists only to push itself and aim higher.  ‘Rip It Up’ – as the title suggests – sees Danny Bowes, Luke Morley, Ben Matthews, Chris Childs and Harry James stretching themselves musically, lyrically and creatively.

Album Art Direction & Design: Magnus Gjoen
Photocredit: Jason Joyce


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A simple idea test

For me finding ideas for stories is the easy part: I observe, read, play with scenarios, record random thoughts, explore themes, interview characters. Mostly I daydream. Eventually the moment comes when playtime is over; it’s time to pick an idea to write about. At this point I could subject my idea to a quiz as some writers do, scoring the characters, conflict and plot points to test its merit, or I could write one or two chapters to see how they feel. I do neither. Instead I choose my ideas based on one simple principle: I can’t let it go. I write about the ones that haunt me for weeks, months or sometimes years. I write about the most persistent characters, the themes that resonate and the scenarios that recur in my daydreams. It’s a simple formula: if you can’t forget about it, write about it.

About Sharon

Writer, bibliophile, dreamer and student of everything
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3 Responses to A simple idea test

  1. I like this. If you can’t forget about it, write about it. Simple, but I’ll bet it works!
    But what about those who have to come with something to write every day? Any ideas for them

  2. I am the same way. I have to write it down, because I am afraid I’ll get old some day and forget it, and I think it needs to remembered past my time.

    Dr. B

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