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The post Licensed Troubleshooter: The Guns of James Bond – Books Now Shipping! first appeared on Forgotten Weapons.
I don’t typically blog here on weekends, but this is too rich and relevant to recent posts to pass up. [Via WiscoDave]
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Authorities said Brooks was driving with her 8-year-old daughter, 4-year-old son, and their dog when she came across a van pulling a trailer.
Video captured by surveillance cameras showed the van pulling over to let Brooks pass, but she stopped her car and started yelling at the other driver.
Investigators said Brooks eventually took a pistol from her car, which led the other driver to grab his own gun and shoot her.
Today is the 101st birthday of famed Navy fighter pilot Royce Williams. It is great to see him still alive and kicking! Williams was just recently awarded the Medal of Honor. The now-declassified story of his aerial combat over Korea against Soviet-piloted MiGs is fascinating reading. It is summarized in Wikipedia. Here is a brief excerpt from his biography: “The story of his battle with the Soviet MiGs led to Williams being debriefed at the time by admirals, the Secretary of Defense, and a few weeks later by newly inaugurated President Dwight D. Eisenhower. These authorities decided to cover up …
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Editor’s Introductory Comments: Most regular SurvivalBlog readers recognize the initials H.L. She has been one of the blog’s most loyal and prolific volunteers, sending news and information links since around 2010. I am confident that she spritely lives to a three-digit age. But when she does pass away, I hope that her gravestone will be inscribed: “Always a Maverick.” – JWR At age 83 now. I have some very unusual memories of my early life. I did not lead the conventional life of an American woman born in 1942. Conventional is fine. However, there was something in my soul that …
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To be prepared for a crisis, every Prepper must establish goals and make both long-term and short-term plans. In this column, the SurvivalBlog editors review their week’s prep activities and planned prep activities for the coming week. These range from healthcare and gear purchases to gardening, ranch improvements, bug-out bag fine-tuning, and food storage. This is something akin to our Retreat Owner Profiles, but written incrementally and in detail, throughout the year. We always welcome you to share your own successes and wisdom in your e-mailed letters. We post many of those — or excerpts thereof — in the Odds …
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“And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; …
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Putsch Responds to Firearms News’ 2A Inquiry [More] He walks the talk. Also: There’s a real difference for Ohio gun owners to consider in the primary.
The post Casey Putsch for Ohio Governor: The Real Deal When It Comes to Guns first appeared on The War on Guns.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing criticism from local politicians and onlookers on social media over comments he made that critics say places blame on guns rather than criminals in an incident involving the shooting death of a 7-month-old child in Brooklyn. [More] Well, yeah…
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The April 2026 issue of Firearms News, featuring my articles “Disparaging Armed Citizens Undermines Trump Administration’s Credibility” (p. 22) and “Cekada Heading ATF Still a No-Win Scenario for Gun Owners” (p. 26) is now available at diverse, equitable, and inclusive newsstands throughout the Republic.
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The space-age lever-action rifle is more practical that you might think. With some new upgrades, it's easy to enhance the classics.King Charles won’t release Easter message but did honor Ramadan [More] Give it a few generations, they said. They’ll adapt to our way of life and embrace our values, they said.
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Whoever he picks will have to go through the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., said in an interview with CNN that the next nominee must align with his views on the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol. “The threshold for somebody following Pam Bondi ends the moment I hear they … Continue reading "A Clear-Eyed View"
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The Post Office is requesting comment on allowing mailing of handguns. This has been banned since 1927. This will include:
Out-of-State Mailings by Non-FFL Owners: Non-FFL owners may mail Mailable Firearms to themselves or another person in another state for lawful activities under the following conditions. The mailpiece must: 1) Be addressed to the recipient. 2) Include the “in the care of” endorsement immediately preceding the name of the applicable temporary custodian. 3) Be opened by the recipient. 4) Be mailed using a class of mail, product, or Extra Service that provides tracking and signature capture at delivery.
I will be able to mail all my firearms to my son-in-law to hold for me while flying there. Details on the procedures of the proposed rule changes are here.
A former staffer to Joe Biden shot and killed his girlfriend on March 24 in San Francisco… Nation Wood, 25, claims he was dry-firing a firearm, which led to the shooting. [More] Biden, you magnificent bastard, he read your book! [Via Michael G]
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FORENSIC BREAKDOWN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s and First Lady Rama Duwaji’s Wikipedia pages have been systematically sanitized, with praise for terrorists softened, endorsement of deadly attacks minimized, and verified racial & homophobic slurs blocked. [More] Wikipedia commits lies of omission? Who knew? [Via Michael G]
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns the organization faces collapse without continued U.S. funding… [More] So… what’s scrap metal going for these days…? [Via Michael G]
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We're headed back to the moon, after all these years. The ship launched on Wednesday, with a crew of four, to circle the moon and come back, testing systems along the way.
You can track the mission here.
Godspeed, Artemus.
In other news, today is Good Friday, a huge day in the Christian calendar. Fasting and reflection is the order of the day. Sunday, we celebrate the Resurrection, the fact that all of Christianity is based on.
Y'all have a great and blessed weekend. Celebrate Easter in your own style, and chick on those brave astronauts who are crewing a tiny spacecraft in a vast universe. They are going only to the moon, but we have to start somewhere.
Any potential acquisition by Italian Beretta would place a major US defense and firearms manufacturer with operations in three key battleground states — under foreign ownership. [More] So the concern is for the standing army, not the militia of the whole people? Why does Ruger’s main concern not being the Second Amendment not surprise me? … Continue reading "No Dog in This Fight"
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“It’s the same Constitution.” [More] I wish that f_r’d remember that. [Via Henry Bowman]
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One. Only One. [Watch] [Via WiscoDave]
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In 2023, 320,000 children were born to unauthorized or temporary immigrant mothers inside the US, granting them automatic Citizenship — This Accounted for 9% of ALL AMERICAN BIRTHS that year [More] Give ’em a generation or three, right, guys?
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According to the report, Hudson informed officers that he was carrying a firearm and voluntarily handed over a 9mm Smith & Wesson handgun. [More] Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Just what Minnesota needs to take the focus off Democrats. “Poor choices were made” …? These guys never stop being politicians, do they? Charge Engen with falsification/obstruction, or … Continue reading "The First Rule of Fight Club"
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One of the country’s best armed defense instructors is retiring. Here’s the official announcement: David Maglio has been a student of the gun for the past five plus decades, starting in 1975. His first accomplishments were earning the Rifle Expert and Pistol Expert awards in the U.S. Marine Corps. After his Honorable Discharge, he was hired as […]- International Space Station: 4
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This one is for my friend Kat, who, with double mastectomy scheduled in a less than a week, and a zillion things to do and plan, $$ for the doctors, kids, husband, writing obligations, pets and rural animals, set aside to time to attend her son's Pre-K Easter party yesterday. Reading her account of that brought back some memories of when I was that age.
From Saving Grace - A Story of Adoption by LB Johnson
It seemed like those childhood years were a blink. Our dog Pepper had crossed the Rainbow Bridge; Dad was getting ready to retire. Before I knew it my brother was off to the Navy, going to submarine school, myself already in college, working toward my commercial pilot’s license. I ultimately wanted to major in science or criminal justice, perhaps both—but as a teen I got a second job at the local airport pumping gas. I could get flying lessons at a reduced cost, so I was working toward my license while cramming in way more classes than I had hours in the day. For that kind of overextending, there is a “complete breakfast”—which for me was Hostess Sno Balls and coffee, grabbed when a parent wasn’t looking. Unhealthy yes, but just the taste of them took me back. It was that and the big bowl of Captain Crunch before every flight check. I was glad years later when I got my nickname as a pilot that it was “Shake and Bake” and not “Captain Crunch.”Still—all good memories. Memories of childhood are so different for many people. I am lucky that mine were good. Laughter and exploration wrapped in a warm blanket of sight and sound and tastes that are still on my tongue. Memories of the past are like that; often having an impossible quality of perfection we frequently give to material things, a favorite book, a favorite tool or firearm; sometimes to a whole relationship we can never get back to.
We’ve all talked about it, some small trivial thing from the past that appears to contain the sublime, and there’s no explaining it to anyone, try though you might. Still, in your mind’s eye it’s there and always will be as clear and as sure as if it were yesterday. For me one such memory is opening up the lunch box as a kid and finding my Hostess treat next to my peanut butter and honey sandwich, apple, and carrot sticks.
Mom’s cancer was one of those things that will stay with me for a lifetime. She was first diagnosed in the early ’60s. The long term survival rate for her type of cancer then was only one in seven. When she was first diagnosed, she was only in her forties. I was not even in school yet, my brother only a couple of years older. She came home after Christmas that first time, chemo shunt in place, and did everything in her power to make our life normal. I don’t recall her initially leaving for the hospital, only the worried look in my dad’s eyes. But the photos bring it back, like the one of my brother at her hospital bed with a little aluminum tree on the nightstand—as she holds up a flannel nightgown Dad picked out and bought “from us” that she opened from her hospital bed.
I was too young to appreciate the depth of what she did for us, instilling in us love for each other and appreciation for the blessings of our table. But I was old enough to see that courage is simply the power to see past misfortune or expectation, to hold on to the things that affirm inwardly that life with all its trials is still good. Be it a warm hug or sweet treats handed to us with a smile and a touch on our head, a benediction of love that could only come from the wellspring of faith that stayed within her.
I cannot, no matter how hard I try, remember her voice; but if I close my eyes I can remember that touch. It was not a touch as heavy and uncaring as a slap, but one that simply said: I love you, but you must have courage and craft your life for yourself, just let me share it as long as I can.
We crammed a lot of life into those short childhood years, as did our mom. More than we expected her to have, but not nearly enough. It’s been a lifetime since she left us, and all that remains are the memories—memories that come on the wings of a snowfall; that raise a smile every time I see an acorn squash at the grocery store; that rumble into life with the roar of a locomotive or the soft crackle of a little cellophane package being gleefully opened by eager hands.
It was five in the morning. In a few hours I would have to get up and go to the airport to fuel the aircraft for the morning students, cram in some studying, and then ride my bike to the community college for class. The alarm went off much too early, my hand slapping it even as it gently touched a photo of my brother and me as children, Pepper the wiener dog lying between us as we watched Johnny Quest.Limbo
The ancient greyness shifted suddenly and thinned like mist upon the moors before a wind.
An old, old prophet lifted a shining face and said:
“He will be coming soon. The Son of God is dead; He died this afternoon.”
A murmurous excitement stirred all souls. They wondered if they dreamed
save one old man who seemed not even to have heard.
And Moses, standing, hushed them all to ask if any had a welcome song prepared.
If not, would David take the task?
And if they cared could not the three young children sing the Benedicite,
the canticle of praise they made when God kept them from perishing in the fiery blaze?
A breath of spring surprised them, stilling Moses’ words.
No one could speak, remembering the first fresh flowers, the little singing birds.
Still others thought of fields new ploughed or apple trees all blossom-boughed.
Or some, the way a dried bed fills with water laughing down green hills.
The fisherfolk dreamed of the foam on bright blue seas.
The one old man who had not stirred remembered home.
And there He was, splendid as the morning sun and fair as only God is fair.
And they, confused with joy, knelt to adore
Seeing that He wore five crimson stars He never had before.
No canticle at all was sung. None toned a psalm, or raised a greeting song,
A silent man alone of all that throng found tongue — not any other.
Close to His heart when the embrace was done, old Joseph said,
“How is Your Mother, How is Your Mother, Son?”
-- Sister Mary Ada, OSJ
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| Michelangelo's Pieta, via Wikimedia Commons |
Ohio Statehouse
Ohio Senate Bill 392 was introduced into the Ohio legislature on March 23, 2026. It is a long bill of 182 pages which reforms and rationalizes much of the Ohio code involving the possession and carry of weapons. Here is the summary as listed in legiscan. Summary:
To amend sections 9.68, 109.69, 109.731, 311.41, 311.42, 311.43, 1547.69, 2921.13, 2923.11, 2923.111, 2923.12, 2923.121, 2923.122, 2923.123, 2923.124, 2923.125, 2923.126, 2923.127, 2923.128, 2923.129, 2923.1210, 2923.1211, 2923.1212, 2923.1213, 2923.16, 2923.17, 2953.35, 4511.19, and 4749.10 and to repeal section 1533.04 of the Revised Code to enact the Freedom to Carry Act to rename a concealed handgun license a concealed weapons license, to allow a concealed weapons licensee to carry a concealed deadly weapon other than an exclusive deadly weapon,
and to allow the possession or transportation of a loaded firearm while in a motor vehicle or vessel.
There are many parts to SB 392. Much of the bill consists of changing the word "handgun" to deadly weapon. This appears to be because Ohio law, at current, only allows the carry of handguns under a concealed carry permit, and does not allow, or is unclear about other deadly weapons. It makes no sense to be able to carry a handgun, but not a knife, a fist re-enforcer, or nun-chucks.
The bill continues to prohibit some weapons which may fall under the category of "dangerous and unusual" as used in Second Amendment jurisprudence following the Heller, MacDonald, Caetano, and Bruen decisions. For example, it appears destructive devices are still banned from carry if they are not owned in accordance with National Firearms Act provisions. Short barreled rifles, short barreled shotguns and silencers appear to be removed from the list of prohibited weapons in this bill. Here is the definition of "exclusive deadly weapon" in the bill. Underlined words are new words. Strike thru words are words to be removed. The weapons meeting the definition are a very short list:
(2) "Exclusive deadly weapon" means a deadly weapon that is an exclusive firearm or that is a deadly weapon that any law of this state or the United States prohibits the subject person from acquiring, possessing, having, or carrying.
(3) "Exclusive firearm" means a firearm that is dangerous ordnance or that is a firearm that any law of this state or the United States prohibits the subject person from acquiring, possessing, having, or carrying.
The number of weapons which fall under the above definitions has been considerably reduced.
In addition, SB392 changes the age requirement for obtaining a concealed carry permit from Twenty-one to Eighteen. From SB392:
(2) "Qualifying adult" means a person who is all of the following:
(a) Twenty-one Eighteen years of age or older;
The bill changes the definition of prohibited weapons from a very specific reference to the National Firearms Act (NFA) provisions to a general provision. This is likely put in place so that if the courts strike down the parts of the NFA, the Ohio legislature will not be required to revise Ohio laws again. From the bill:
(b) Not legally prohibited from acquiring, possessing, or receiving a firearm deadly weapon under 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) to (9) or under section 2923.13 of the Revised Code or any other Revised Code provision the law of this state or the United States;
There are changes which remove some of the restrictions on the carry of weapons in vehicles and vessels.
SB392 is one of the longest state bills this reporter has encountered in decades. It has a significant chance of being amended if it is passed. The provisions appear to be clear rationalizations and clarifications in light of Supreme Court decisions involving the Second Amendment.
The Ohio Legislature has a super majority of Republicans in the Senate, 24 of 33. The Ohio House of Representatives has a super majority of Republicans in the House, 65 of 99. The Ohio Governor is Mike DeWine, a Republican.
Analysis: SB392 has a good chance of passage. Its provisions are reasonable and likely to resonate with conservatives in Ohio. This could boost electoral prospects for Republicans in Ohio in the 2026 elections. This correspondent is not a lawyer. This article is not legal advise.
©2026 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice and link are included.
Gun Watch
Two men had reportedly gotten into a car accident at the intersection, after which an argument started. The two men then shot each other.
Also Monday night, police responded to another double shooting in southwest Atlanta. That shooting happened near 3540 North Camp Creek Pkwy. SW, the address for The Preserve at Camp Creek apartments, located just outside the perimeter.
There, they found two people with gunshot wounds. One was pronounced
dead on the scene. The other was alert, conscious and breathing and was
taken to a hospital.
Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend. Hegseth Authorizes Off-Duty Service Members to Carry Private Firearms on Installations This is a very positive initiative. Let’s hope the base commanders are supportive. how to tell if men will attack you […]
By Dave Workman The number of active concealed pistol licenses in Washington state has taken a sharp turn downward over the past four months, according to data provided to TGM by the state Department of Licensing, and part of the reason may be gun owners are fleeing the state due to increasingly restrictive gun laws. […]
The post Wash. CPL Numbers Decline; Gun Owners Join Exodus, Others Refuse to Renew appeared first on Liberty Park Press.
On April 3, 1910, the highest mountain in North America, Alaska’s Mount McKinley (aka Denali) was claimed to have been first climbed by four local men. They climbed McKinley’s North Peak, not knowing that the South Peak is actually 850 feet higher. — This is the birthday of Washington Irving, an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for short stories like Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, but he also wrote several biographies and served as the US Ambassador to Spain from 1842 to 1846. — A …
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My Prepping Journey began in 1967 when I moved to San Francisco. Spots on the radio urged us to prepare for an earthquake, The Big One. So one day while I was grocery shopping, I threw a flashlight in my cart and then put it in my trunk. On another trip I threw a cardboard box into my trunk. In the ensuing months, I added some bottles of water, a knife, some Power Bars, and cans of soup. I later learned that the heat of the trunk would destroy the soup, so I replaced it with beef jerky and peanuts. …
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In Economics & Investing Media of the Week we feature photos, charts, graphs, maps, video links, and news items of interest to preppers. Today, a map showing where ancient Roman coins have been found. JWR’s Comments: I must mention that the price of most ancient Greek and Roman coins collapsed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as large hoards were dug up in Eastern Europe and in the former Soviet Union. The demise of the Soviet Bloc opened up western markets. This was coupled with faltering economies that were transitioning to free market capitalism. The result was that a …
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“In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.” – Burt Rutan
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Hegseth announces military can apply to carry guns on post [Watch] Past time. Now do military cemeteries. Let’s ask him.
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Obviously, I'm a couple of days late.
Photo via The Silicon Graybeard.
Sure, NASA spends taxpayer money like a drunken sailor. Sure, Congress is using this program to throw taxpayer money at favored corporations.
But today, no other country can do what we are doing, just like what Old America did half a century ago. And no other country has a SpaceX waiting in the wings to drop mission cost by a factor of 40.
Considering the epic amount of fraud from California's (and other states) Medicare programs (not to mention Learing Centers), all I can say is that this is waste I can get behind.
Here are my upcoming open enrollment classes for April and May. I also have two new classes in October for which I just opened up registration. Here we go… Next weekend is the only remaining instructor class with available slots that I’m offering this year. It’s in Louisiana about halfway between Baton Rouge and […]I spoke with him in detail a few days back and submitted the results of our talk to Firearms News. My editor tells me it will be online either today or tomorrow and has gotten in under the wire to make the print version, going to press Monday and should in subscriber mailboxes/on news stands … Continue reading "Plain Talk, Long Overdue"
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Pam Bondi already fired as attorney general, Cabinet official teed up as replacement: sources [More] He’s NRA A- rated and endorsed… Not that that’s always a good indicator… UPDATE Looks like it’s Todd Blanche. He says the right words about 2A. He could have picked a better example. I’m wondering if there’s another reason…
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The Dumbest Self-Defense Advice On The Internet [More] Careful you don’t limit options there. Ain’t that right, Rex? [Via Tacticool Memes]
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Muslim woman complains that there are too many Finnish people in Finland. [More] I’d say something, but you all know how important prominent gunfluencer approval has always been to me. [Via Michael G]
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‘No Kings’? No, a King is exactly what they want [More] Hawaii commies even changed theirs to “No Dictators.”
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We have this huge pin oak tree in the front yard. Some call it a white oak, others call it a water oak, but around here, it's a pin oak. It's a beautiful tree, but it drops acorns.
When Belle and I moved into the house, we wanted a crepe myrtle in the front yard, so I planted one. Crepe myrtles are odd, decorative, flowering trees. When they are young, or when they are stressed, they are spindly. Some old-time growers would weave the spindly trunks together. Others would choose the strongest trunk and cull the others. It's a choice.
Back to my plight. The pin oak was close enough to the crepe myrtle that acorns would fall amongst the spindly trunks of the crepe myrtle. Some took root and over the past several years, the oak saplings grew into the crepe myrtle, choking it out. It looked like hell, and I needed to get a handle on it. But, I have elevated procrastination to an art form.
Yesterday I hooked the utility trailer to the lawn mower and got out that little chainsaw that I bought in February. Went out in the yard and started doing surgery on those oak saplings. The utility tailer is a 4X10 and over the next hour or so, I loaded it with oak saplings. I dragged it over to the burn pile. I was amazed at how muck oak I had cut our of that crepe myrtle. The trailer was stacked five feet high.
I was also amazed at how capable that little 6" chainsaw proved to be. That little saw had plenty of power and I could wield it like a scalpel. No complaints whatsoever. The crepe myrtle is unharmed, and the pin oak is feeling decidedly unwelcome.
If you are looking for a little battery chainsaw, click on the link above. This link will take you to the Amazon page. If your preference is for another type of battery, they have them for Milwaukee, or others. just use the appropriate search terms.
Need to bring your MP5 into the modern age? Midwest Industries has a new night vision mounting system just for you!Quality assurance and control measures – including wearing gloves when handling laboratory materials and samples – seek to reduce overestimating microplastic abundance. However, commonly used laboratory gloves release non-volatile residues, including stearate salts, that exhibit vibrational spectra similar to microplastics. In this work, we illustrate that dry surface contact with nitrile and latex laboratory gloves can cause overestimations of microplastics (mean 2000 false positives per mm2) when using traditional library matching approaches.
Mathis said Owens was shot in the left leg when a male subject at the skate park, an 18-year-old who was identified, returned fire at the Toyota.
He said officers learned while investigating that a male subject (Owens) was receiving treatment at Atrium Wilkes Medical Center for a gunshot wound he stated occurred on Chestnut Street.
Mathis said investigators interviewed multiple witnesses, identified two persons of interest and located the Toyota Highlander, unoccupied and with multiple bullet holes, on Fairmount Drive in North Wilkesboro. Mathis said no one else was injured or has been charged.
On April 2, 1792 The Coinage Act passed, establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 Half-Eagle, $2.50 Quarter-Eagle gold coins, as well as the silver dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime, and half-dime. Although gold was removed from circulation by President Franklin Roosevelt, our silver coinage remained undebased until 1964. — April 2, 1968, Stanley Kubrick‘s 2001: A Space Odyssey had its world premiere in Washington, D.C.; it became a classic, setting the benchmark for modern sci-fi films. The film also gave one of the first cinematic warnings about artificial intelligence. — The staff of SurvivalBlog wish …
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Editor’s Introductory Note: This article was posted in SurvivalBlog in September, 2007. Given the recent spike in fuel prices, I thought that it would be apropos to re-post it. – JWR — When Rudolph Diesel invented his internal combustion engine, he used refined peanut oil as fuel. The reasoning behind it was that farmers could essentially grow their own fuel for their tractors. Diesel cars have been widely manufactured and used all over Europe, but never really caught on in the United States. Diesel pickup trucks and Big Rigs are common in the US, and are renowned for their torque …
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SurvivalBlog presents another edition of The Survivalist’s Odds ‘n Sods. This column is a collection of news bits and pieces that are relevant to the modern survivalist and prepper from JWR. Our goal is to educate our readers, to help them to recognize emerging threats, and to be better prepared for both disasters and negative societal trends. You can’t mitigate a risk if you haven’t first identified a risk. In today’s column, Oracle’s big layoff. — Oracle Has Fired 30,000 Employees Oracle fired up to 30,000 people with a 6 a.m. email signed “Oracle Leadership”. JWR’s Comments: I was an …
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“Quite often, I’ll be sent a script for a movie. And I find that I like it, so I say I’ll do it. But then they rewrite it for me. They make it quirky. Odd. I find that rather annoying. I call it Walkenising.” – Christopher Walken
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Scientific Evidence of What Those of Us Saw Who Worked in Cubicles When Corporate Takeovers Happened
Employees who are impressed by vague corporate-speak like “synergistic leadership,” or “growth-hacking paradigms” may struggle with practical decision-making, a new Cornell study reveals.
Published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, research by cognitive psychologist Shane Littrell introduces the Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale (CBSR), a tool designed to measure susceptibility to impressive-but-empty organizational rhetoric.
“Corporate bullshit is a specific style of communication that uses confusing, abstract buzzwords in a functionally misleading way,” said Littrell, a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Arts and Sciences. “Unlike technical jargon, which can sometimes make office communication a little easier, corporate bullshit confuses rather than clarifies. It may sound impressive, but it is semantically empty.”
Although people anywhere can BS each other – that is, share dubious information that’s misleadingly impressive or engaging – the workplace not only rewards but structurally protects it, Littrell said. In a work setting where corporate jargon is already the norm, it’s easy for ambitious employees to use corporate BS to appear more competent or accomplished, accelerating their climb up the corporate ladder of workplace influence.
Corporate BS seems to be ubiquitous – but Littrell wondered if it is actually harmful. To test this, he created a “corporate bullshit generator” that churns out meaningless but impressive-sounding sentences like, "We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing” and “By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence.”
He then asked more than 1,000 office workers to rate the “business savvy” of these computer-generated BS statements alongside real quotes from Fortune 500 leaders. Divided into four distinct studies, the research verified the scale as a statistically reliable measure of individual differences in receptivity to corporate bullshit, then, through use of established cognitive tests, made connections between receptivity to BS and analytic thinking skills known to be essential to workplace performance.
Near-weightlessness “causes [sperm] to flip around, to go upside down.… They don’t really know which way is up or down,” Nicole McPherson, a study co-author and a biologist at Adelaide University in Australia, tells the Guardian’s Tory Shepherd. The cells do “not really understand or know which direction they’re going in.”