Odds ‘n Sods:

This is an older YouTube posting, but it is fascinating. Bullet impacts on steel, glass, corners, and both full penetration and non-penetration are included. It is particularly interesting to see solid metal flow like liquid under the extreme pressures produced by the impacts. 1 million fps Slow Motion video of bullet impacts made by Werner Mehl from Kurzzeit

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If you are a Verizon customer, you may need to pay attention to this one – Breaking News: Massive Verizon data breach – customer info stolen! – DSV

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Islam is not the problem #BrusselsAttacks – I would also add that Islam is somewhat more than a set of beliefs. It is a political power structure masquerading as a religion.

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Hope for the Dead. Excerpt: When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and editorials was not “safety” or “taxes” or “peace”; it was “freedom.”

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Embedded within the heartbreak of the story of the missing, injured, and killed is the exchange that reflects what happens to people who are traumatized. This is instructive for all those of us who prepare… We need to recognize this in ourselves and in others in times of crisis or emergency. “Frustrating” search for family of U.S. couple missing in Brussels – A.M.