[NRA Shooting Illustrated] This article, "Out of Range?" appeared originally as a Shotguns column in the April 2017 issue of Shooting Illustrated. To subscribe to Shooting Illustrated, visit the NRA membership page here and select Shooting Illustrated as your member magazine.
Do an online search, and you’ll find piles of information about the maximum range of slugs and buckshot. Most base conclusions upon mathematical data, not the real world. Of course, in most in-the-home scenarios, the type of shell used matters little‐provided you can deliver it accurately before your attacker does. But, it is wise to know your limitations.
Fact is, your load’s maximum range alone is worthless. What is important is your maximum practical range (MPR). Your MPR is the maximum distance at which your specific setup‐shotgun, choke, load, sights and your ability‐will stop a threat every time. It includes three factors: Your gun and load’s terminal ballistic performance, the target’s mental and physical makeup and your ability to hit that target.
What nonsense! You hit some perp center mass with a 12 gauge slug or full load of buck shot from #4 thru 0000, and they’re going down and staying down.
According to a recent report, the typical Manhattan ATM is more bacteria-ridden than a wide range of other heavily used objects, including a subway pole, an NYC Wi-Fi hub and the handle of a public toilet at Penn Station.
Mike Brown of financial product marketplace LendEDU left the comfort of his Hoboken office on Jan. 4 armed with a Hygiena SystemSURE Plus ‐ a handheld testing device that measures bacteria on a given surface ‐ to test 20 different ATMs (split between Times Square and the West Village).
The keypad, touch screen and card-reader of each cash machine was tested. He also tested nine other objects and surfaces in the city to see how they compared with ATMs.
Predictably, the more heavily trafficked Midtown machines were also the dirtiest, with one Times Square ATM measuring an overall 513 RLU (relative light units), compared to a reading of 68 RLU for a subway pole, 163 RLU for the Penn Station public toilet handle and 370 RLU at a Father Demo Square park bench, with the highest numbers indicating the most bacteria. The pass limit for food-service establishments and operating rooms is 10 RLU.
[Austin Bay - StrategyPage] On Feb. 11, Norway's intelligence agency severely criticized Russian jamming of GPS signals. The Norwegians said the Russian GPS signal disruption exploits that occurred last fall during NATO's Trident Juncture military exercise were not only a military concern but "also a threat to civil aviation in peacetime." Kinda like SAM missiles on civilian airlines?
Trident Juncture's scenario is useful for understanding the current political context in the Baltic region.
Bold Kremlin misinformation, apparently spread by the Russian government and its proxies through digital, broadcast and print media, confuses critics and provides the Kremlin with adequate diplomatic cover.
Up to the point that people have heard and seen enough. Finnish soldiers' training with NATO forces is diplomatic and military pushback. A substantial number of voters in Finland and Sweden favor joining NATO. In Sweden, joining NATO was once a forbidden subject. No longer.
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[Motley Fool] General Electric (NYSE:GE) is in the middle of a massive corporate overhaul. Investors worried about its ability to navigate that evolution successfully have pushed its share prices down some 70% from their 2016 highs to levels not seen since the Great Recession.
This is a special situation stock with huge upside potential if the turnaround effort works. But putting that "special situation" tag on GE changes the investment equation in a big way. Yes, it could be a millionaire maker stock, but only if you're willing to take on the risk that it could also flame out. Here's what you need to think about before you jump aboard here.
An iconic leader who left a mess behind him
The troubles currently facing GE can really be traced back to Jack Welch -- an assertion that to some people probably sounds like heresy. Welch was a powerful presence in the business world, often hailed as one of the greatest managers of all time. However, it was under his watch that GE allowed its finance arm to expand beyond its core purpose.
Like many industrial companies, GE has an in-house finance business that provides credit to customers so they can afford the often-huge costs of the industrial products GE makes. This is a good business practice, and not odd at all. However, the often-huge profits generated by the finance division led GE to expand its footprint into other areas, like home mortgages. When the Great Recession hit, the company's survival was threatened by the losses from its finance division. Jeff Immelt, Welch's successor, was in charge by that point, and he was forced to cut GE's dividend, take massive write offs, sell assets, and accept a government bailout.
Immelt did manage to keep GE going, however, and started to steer it in a new direction focused entirely on the industrial space. That said, his efforts, which included a couple of large acquisitions, didn't produce the results that the board was hoping to see, and they replaced him in mid-2017 with insider John Flannery. The new CEO announced write offs, asset sales, and a dividend cut, explaining to investors that things were worse than his predecessor had been letting on.
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Jack Welch has been gone from GE nearly 19 years. How about taking a look at Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman & CEO 2001 - 2017. Or would that be an....inconvenient exercise ?
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If Jack put GE on the wrong track then it was up to Immelt to change the trajectory. He had plenty of time, but he drove the company into a ditch. Compare that with UTC.
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My rule of thumb for investment 'opportunities' like this: By the time I hear about it, all the real money has been made, and they are just looking for a greater fool.
[New York Post] Congratulations, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! You just killed 25,000 jobs for urban Democrats in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse areas in the entire world!
Congresswoman AOC, the thought leader of the Democratic party, was the loudest and feistiest political opponent when Amazon announced it would build (half of) its second headquarters in Long Island City, Queens, promising to create 25,000 jobs and generate some $27.5 billion in tax revenue over the next 25 years. Amazon employs a range of people from unskilled workers to tech geniuses and would have pumped large amounts of money into the city economy. It estimated the average salary of its New York City workforce would have been $150,000. Real-estate prices in Long Island City jumped 15 percent since Amazon’s announcement last November. "thought leader" - faint praise
But after Amazon walked away in an anti-Valentine to the city on Feb. 14, AOC bragged on Twitter that "everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."
Huh? A Siena poll this week showed that New York City residents approved of the deal by 56 to 33 percent. Fellow Democrats Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio were pushing hard for the deal. Oh, and it need hardly be stated that Amazon is a company staffed by Democrats. Some 87 percent of its employee donations went to the Dems in the latest elections. As for "richest man in the world," Bezos started Amazon in his garage. He got rich building one of the most beloved companies on earth.
Amazon should have gone there and gotten very favorable publicity
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....but where is the power in there? Then there is an issue all such corporations look at, security. Those cities that treat crime as a social illness rather than the crime for which it is seem to get more rather than less. Not very inviting for those shopping for viable locations.
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Amazon got a break of approx. 3 Billion in taxes from New Yawk out of 27 Billion it was expected to pay over ten years IF its new HQ was approved. IF it was NOT approved then Amazon would walk away from th deal and go to Virginia. The deal was NOT approved..SO Ocasio Cortez got absolutely ZERO..no 27 Billion in Taxes SO no 3 Billion break...but that was OK since Bezos will hardly miss it, since he won't pay any taxes anyway and he seldom does...BUT he does make enormous profits. Which is business as it should be. Try it, you'll like it.
And Ocasio Cortez is looking at NO jobs and NO taxes and the money she THOUGHT was available for anything for her district doesn't exist, let me repeat that...money from Cuomo DOESN't exist. A great Victory for the Left. Yeah, an empty bag and a dried up brain.
Ocasio Cortez gets nothing, let me repeat that...NADA, ZIP, Zilch.
What a victory for the Left. NOTHING. What a victory for Occasion Cortez. Let's do that again.
I just can't get over this girl's financial acumen and her sheer GENIUS.
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#5 I look for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to be a one-term rep.
Most likely, but she is coming in and going out like a wrecking ball!
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As I recall, her district is a gentrified area of the Bronx and is as shallow as it comes. So, she's a symptom not a trend.
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I just can't get over this girl's financial acumen and her sheer GENIUS.
A bachelor's in Economics and she was working as a bartender. Seems like evidence of something.
[Daily Caller] The implementation of driverless trucks will lead to suicides and "an outbreak of violence," according to Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Yang said he thinks it’s inevitable that some of America’s 3.5 million truck drivers will react violently to being replaced by driverless trucks.
"There’s going to be a lot of passion, a lot of resistance to this. Anyone who thinks truck drivers are just going to shrug and say, ’Alright, I had a good run. I’ll just go home and figure it out’ ‐ that’s not going to be their response," Yang said Tuesday in an interview with podcast host Joe Rogan.
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The average age of serious truckers is over 50 I think. The rest come and go. This won't be a problem if managed properly. But the trucking companies won't, so it might need to be legislated.
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The vulnerability of trucks on the highway is immense. Consider someone sending out a driverless car to cut off a driverless truck carrying hazardous materials at key points in the road grid...
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Unattended cargo just sitting out there waiting to be hijacked. You think the robots are going to look out for other robots? Send one of those into the inner city for a delivery, don't expect it to return. Remember those who rule those places just treat it like a property crime. Meh.
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The lower level, but skilled, workers are always the first hardest hit by new technology because replacing those workers gets the biggest bang for the buck. See also machinists being replaced by CNC machines.
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I don't think driverless does 'defensive driving' very well. Can the AI anticipate the kid chasing the ball into the street, a texting clown missing the stop sign, sense the backup lights might mean somebody's gonna back out into your path?
Intelligent human drivers have enough trouble with chaos.
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Those people who pulled ploughs waved their fists at cart horses.
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I have had two cousins who were killed by a semi, ne was a vet and the other was a doctor. The trucker was a Seikh. One of my adopted grandchild’s brothers was killed by a trucker who was Mexican. My car was severely damaged by a semi-driver who exited an expressway and cut it too sharp. My wife was sitting in the back holding our new grandchild. When I asked to see his license and registration, he gave me a Mexican drivers license. He was Mexican driving for a well known company and pulling a well know product in his trailer. I am not special so I believe this happens a lot. Make employers hire qualified people or take their business! If I were still driving long distances I would like a driverless vehicle that would navigate the distance between major metropolitan areas.
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning and robotics should tackle dangerous jobs or really monotonous jobs first with limited risk to humans. Examples would include bomb disposal, mining, nuclear disaster work, driving from the oil sands pit, airport shuttle from parking lot to terminal.....
[Jpost] In a notable display of synchronized moral meltdown, both America’s Democrats and Britannia’s Labour Party have been struggling to manage their shocking eruptions of antisemitism.
Both will fail.
In America, there has been outrage over remarks by Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar
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We all know the real answer, they are Nazi's. They were Nazi's before the German party existed. They can call it what they want, but in their minds they are the plantation owners and everyone else is their slave. Some are more unruly than others and must be brought to heel.
Which is why my answer to them is reduced to just one, FOAD. There is no compromise with pure flaming evil.
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The left by many names. Powerful centralized government that controls every aspect of your daily life and issues diktats of who, what or whatever is approved or disapproved, often driven by envy and hate. It is in its very nature. They are their own god.
That's why the founders sought distribution and decentralization of power. They understood the fallen nature of man seeks power.
[AAWSAT] What do scoundrels do, when caught red handed in their shenanigans? According to an old proverb they warp themselves in a flag and seek refuge in patriotism.
Something close to that seems to be happening to the Khomeinists dominating Iran thanks to their control of the nation’s finances and monopoly on guns. As it marked its fourth decade in power, the regime implicitly admitted the bankruptcy of its narrative, according to which the 1979 revolution was prompted by a desire to "revive Islam" which, after the death of the Prophet, with the exception of the brief caliphate of Ali ibn Abi-Taleb, had been in agony. Thus, Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini was given the title of "Ihyagar" or "Reviver" of Islam.
Last Monday, however Hojat al-Islam wa al-Moslemeen Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, told a different story to marchers in Tehran marking the 40th anniversary of the mullahs’ seizure of power.
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[Jpost] A very interesting phenomenon has taken place in the Idlib area of Syria: the presence of the Islamic State has almost completely disappeared.
What did ISIS do with all the quality weapons it had at its disposal, including chemical, SAM, and SSM missiles? Where are the terrorist organization’s activists now hiding out? Where else will ISIS attempt to build a Salafist caliphate? Perhaps in the Sinai or Libya?
Following extensive international media coverage, the United States recently announced it will be withdrawing its military forces from the Iraq-Syria border and from northern Syria.
[EPOCH Times] Events in the 2016 elections were unprecedented. Top FBI officials knowingly used information paid for by the campaign of Hillary Clinton to obtain a FISA spy warrant on a member of the Trump campaign. Meanwhile, top Obama administration officials also spied on the campaign, using so-called unmasking requests.
Those same FBI agents, however, chose to look the other way when it came to the risks posed by Clinton’s use of a private email server. We now know that emails she send as Secretary of State through that server were automatically copied to an unknown foreign entity.
Looking ahead of the 2020 elections, the question is whether the FBI has been reformed enough to make sure political bias don’t influence investigations.
Today we sit down with Tony Shaffer, acting president of the London Center for Policy Research. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in U.S. Army, where he was a senior intelligence officer. Today he’s also an advising producer for National Geographic and a member of the Trump 2020 advisory board.
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Prosecutions of crimes committed by those in the cabal would help to restore the rule of law and the tarnished reputations of the DOJ and FBI. However, there are other agencies that also need a healthy look and clean-up. Enough of the "shadow government" crap by unelected, self-important bureaucrats (read as conspirators).
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Although this may be small potatoes relatively, it's worth noting the opportunity cost of this foolishness. We're up to our teeth in cybercrime, both domestic and foreign, and chasing cybercrimes down is resource-intensive. But apparently "we've" decided that extensively interviewing Trump's second cousin twice removed is a better use of DOJ/FBI resources. And the interviewers are our "top men", at least in the Indiana Jones sense of the term.
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The joke from the get go was that China, Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Turkey and all kinds of other bad actors have been conducting cyberwarfare activities for the past few decades ever since the Internet was invented. Baraq had eight long years to do something about it and yet he did nothing except to falsely accuse Trump of hacking the DNC email server and phishing John Podesta. Podesta, BTW, is so stupid that he deserved to get phished.
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Podesta, BTW, is so stupid that he deserved to get phished.
Podesta, the guy that used "Password" for his password. No one will think of that (sarc).
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Do you want to restore the FBI to health? Start by jailing McCabe and Comey, and prosecuting Rosenswine, and firing those who botched and covered for Clinton's crimes. Show the rank and file that integrity matters.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Motley Fool] General Electric (NYSE:GE) is in the middle of a massive corporate overhaul. Investors worried about its ability to navigate that evolution successfully have pushed its share prices down some 70% from their 2016 highs to levels not seen since the Great Recession.
[New York Post] Congratulations, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez! You just killed 25,000 jobs for urban Democrats in one of the most racially and ethnically diverse areas in the entire world!
[Daily Caller] The implementation of driverless trucks will lead to suicides and "an outbreak of violence," according to Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
[Jpost] In a notable display of synchronized moral meltdown, both America’s Democrats and 
