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If you're going to survive on your own in the wilderness, your equipment is of the utmost importance. On HISTORY® "Alone," 10 survivalists must choose 10 items from a pre-approved list of gear before trying to last the longest in a solitary camp on Vancouver Island. Every contestant picked a saw, an ax, a ferro rod, and some kind of cooking vessel. Only some saw fit to bring a waterproof bivy bag for their sleeping bag, and there was variation in how much food they each packed. See how their choices differed, and watch the consequences of those choices play out beginning April 21 at 9 pm ET.
Dave, a contestant on HISTORY Channel's series "ALONE," explains what tools he chose to bring with him into the wilderness.
A bivy bag keeps your sleeping bag from getting wet in the wilderness. 00:19
A ferro rod is a tool that can reliably generate sparks to start a fire regardless of the outdoor conditions. 00:38
A straight-bladed saw allows for precise cuts during carpentry work or shelter-building. 01:05
Here's what you need to know if facing the wilderness on your own.
An walk through of what you can find in most survival kits.

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Where Are We Going? by James D. Trifone, Ph.D., Academic Director for the Learning and Thinking Program at The Graduate Institute
Over the past few million years, the human journey has involved creatively adapting to the vicissitudes of change imposed on us by nature. Humans, like all nature's creatures, are shaped by natural selection pressures arising from evolving changes in environmental niches. However humans, unlike other organisms, have been endowed with the capacity to alter their environment to their needs and, therefore, have transcended nature's biological process of evolving adaptations. Moreover, as a consequence of consciously altering our environment towards satisfying our own ends, we have severed the inherent umbilical ties with our life source, nature, and have resultantly become a species adrift and isolated from our ancestral roots. One of the major messages of Elgin's work has been to illuminate the ways that we occupy a living universe whose inhabitants are interconnected physically, chemically, biologically, psychologically and spiritually. The challenge before us, as Elgin has so eloquently presented, is to re-member our relationship with the earth and re-turn to a way of living that sees humans as members of a living planet that belongs to a living universe. The opportunity before us is living authentically, which is aligning one's thoughts and actions towards finding significance, value, purpose and therefore meaning in our existence. This authentic path will not just passively unfold before us. Rather, we will need to discover unanticipated challenges and obstacles that test our mettle and resolve. It is here that those with the courage of heart, keenness of mind and stalwart of spirit persist, persevere and eventually gain the perspicacity to find their way through the quagmire referred to as their life path. Those who have emerged victoriously know first-hand why it is mythologized as the Hero's Journey. Mythologist Joseph Campbell metaphorically described this journey as a process underlying all growth, learning and self-discovery or what philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer referred to as "the dialogue that we are".
The Hero's Journey requires that the journeyman explorer be willing to shed her shallow and ephemeral "egoic self" and open oneself to realizing her relationship with a deeper and persistent "cosmic Self". While mythic stories abound from all cultures regarding the specifics of the journey, all can be reduced to a process that takes the hero on a path of separation from her everyday world and subjects her to myriad tests and challenges that serve as an initiation to a new perspective of self and reality and culminates with the return of the hero, who has been transformed and enlightened with some new insight or discovery that is then shared in communion with her people. The hero's journey is an archetype that we, as individuals, are challenged with taking in our lives. However, as Elgin emphatically urges us, the time has come for us, as a collective species, to take the next step in Humanity's Heroic Journey and re-awaken to our deep connections with our planet and the universe. Re-awakening to our ancestral ties with Mother Universe will, in time, restore a sense of integration and unity with Her.


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I HATE spiders. There's just something about them and the way they move that freaks me out, bigtime. Watching this video made me shudder and say "Nah, Fuck that noise!" out loud.
I'm not condoning the killing of any animal, but sometimes the spider is far too big to be getting up close and putting a glass over and sliding a bit of paper underneath.
This is one of them times, and the person in this video decides to whack a big wolf spider at with a brush at arms length.
Only, the spider wasn't just ONE spider, it was pregnant with a shitload of babies, which explode out of the corpse and start running around the kitchen.
I don't mind tiny spiders. But not hundreds of them all at once like that!
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Innovative Programs Help Syrian Refugees Face Uncertain Future
It is hard to make sense of today. Maybe that is why they refer to the situation here in Jordan as "complex."
Baqaa is called a Camp -- it has been managed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) for more than 60 years. More than anything it reminds me of a working class neighbourhood in Buenos Aires with narrow paved streets lined with three and four storey cinderblock buildings. It is a crowded place with cheap rents, so many of the Syrian refugees make their way here. This community started life as a refugee camp. I wonder if this is a glimpse into Za'atari's future.
The Makani Centre sits in front of one of the only green spaces in Baqaa. Makani Centres are UNICEF-support initiatives to expand learning opportunities for vulnerable children in Jordan. Here in Baqaa it is a hive of activity for those Syrian children who cannot go to school. Music lessons, pre-school classes, children learning their alphabet -- some seven-year-olds tried to teach me the Arabic letter that makes the sound "b" and roared with laughter at my bad pronunciation. An older group of children are talking about the perils of child labour. We stop to chat. "How many of you work?" They all shake their heads -- although none of them are in school either.
Later that morning when we visit a family a few blocks away from the Centre, we see Mohamed, one of the boys from that class. His father was wounded in the war and cannot work, so Mohamed, who is 15, is working as a stock boy in a supermarket. Two of his younger brothers (there are five boys in the family) are working too.
Mohamed is a bright boy with a ready smile, but when we ask why he didn't tell us he was working when we were in the Makani Centre, he said it was because he was ashamed. That's crazy, I think. Of course he is working. He needs to and he wants to and that's how he can help his family. He gets two hours off every the day to attend life skills and remedial education classes at the Makani Centre. But I am upset that he said he felt ashamed to be working -- even as I wish he didn't have to.
More Syrian refugees live like Mohamed's family -- renting one or two rooms in a working class neighbourhood -- than live in the refugee camps like Za'atari. One of the towns with many refugees is Irbid. It is a bustling place, and UNICEF is helping two Makani Centres here.
The one we visit is bright and airy -- it is run in partnership with an NGO. Like the other Makani Centres it has remedial education so the Syrian children who have missed school can catch up and enroll in Jordanian schools. There is storytelling, too, and psycho-social support and life skills and it serves as a referral centre for children and families needing particular help. It is easy to see why the Government of Canada made funding the Makani Centres a focus of its Syria funding announcement in Ottawa in April.
These places -- and there are 225 of them around Jordan -- are remarkable places which give Syrian children the best chance at some kind of success in life. They provide that vital bridge to the formal education system which they need for their future (we are also working with the Ministry of Education to help increase the capacity of their schools) and they are safe spaces for children. I am proud of our UNICEF colleagues for this innovative program which has gone national.
The war in Syria has shattered their lives. They cannot go back; they do not know what the future will bring.
But still, it is an uphill climb. Mahmood is in his 30s. He was a barber in Syria and now he works as a guard at the Makani Centre. He and his brothers came here with their families when the fighting got too intense. His father refused to leave Syria, but when he got ill, Mahmood's brothers went back to help him. Now, they cannot return to Jordan and Mahmood is caring for 14 people -- his nieces and nephews and sisters-in-law as well as his own small children. (One of his boys is wearing a t-shirt that says "Never Give Up.")
UNICEF has been helping one of his sisters-in-law with the cash transfer program for indigent families. It is a more modern system than any we have in Canada: she has a retina scan and once a month she goes to a bank where she has her eyes scanned and then she gets some money for her children. She doesn't need a registration card, which could get stolen or lost; her eyes are her registration.
But still, even with all the support we can give, I just don't know how this family makes ends meet. And it is not just them or the other families we have met here in Jordan. It is family after family after family. The war in Syria has shattered their lives. They cannot go back; they do not know what the future will bring. Here in Jordan, and in Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, and across Europe -- this is largest migration we've seen in 70 years.
Our response to this crisis will be critical to shaping the future for millions of children and their families.
We can harden our hearts and try to ignore the countless stories of uncertainty and suffering. We can be overwhelmed with grief -- heaven knows there is enough cause for that -- but that can lead to paralysis and stalemate. Neither of those will do, and so instead we are called to action.
I feel privileged to work with people who are undaunted by the challenge, people whose hearts and heads together give them the strength and wisdom to be creative and do all they can to ease the pain and find a way forward, for that is the only road to a better future, and that is the road we must take.
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The plight of Syrians besieged in the town of Madaya prompted an international humanitarian response (AP Photo) Hunger, starvation, and extreme malnourishment present existential threats to millions of Syria's most vulnerable people. The young, the elderly, and the infirm are all particularly susceptible to the effects of malnutrition, which can stunt the growth of children, and exacerbate chronic medical conditions. Unicef deputy director Lily Caprani told HuffPost UK about the effects long-term malnourishment are having as the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year. She said: "There's hunger in the short term, and then malnutrition over the longer term severely and in some cases irreversibly damages children's development, so a child who at the age of two or three is undernourished can physical stop growing. "Unfortunately there are some cases where that cannot be undone. We're trying to stop getting it to that stage." Unicef continues to work in Syria, and it estimates it has helped the majority of those who need help in accessible areas. That still leaves as many as two million out of reach of aid, however. Towns which are besieged by fighting are particularly difficult to access. In one example, the situation in the Syrian town of Madaya, north west of Damascus, had become so dire that the UN estimated 400 residents needed to be immediately evacuated to receive life-saving treatment. Their conditions related to extreme malnourishment and starvation, as well as medical conditions.
Syrian boys play with snow following a storm in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on January 5 Exposure to the elements is become a concern for aid agencies operating in and around Syria. Harsh winters bring snow, ice, and chilling winds - making for harrowing conditions in houses lacking electricity and the refugee camps bordering on vast, desolate landscapes. "One of the key things we worry about every year in that on top of everything else, we now have extreme cold," Lily Caprani of Unicef UK says, "Although we're doing everything we can to them, they're living in tents, in containers." The organisation is leading a campaign to keep children warm this winter with hats, gloves and scalfs. "Many of the refugees in... countries such as Jordan and Lebanon live in terrible conditions and are struggling to find warmth as temperatures fall," Robert Mardini, director for the Near and Middle East with the International Committee of the Red Cross, told Al Jazeera. "They live with the uncertainty of not knowing what tomorrow will bring, or even if they will ever make it back home one day."
Syrians searching for survivors in the rubble of destroyed buildings following the barrel bomb-attacks of Syrian air forces on February 2, 2014, in Aleppo, Syria. Barrel bombs continue to plague Syrian cities. The improvised devices are thrown from transport helicopters, without the ability to hit specific targets. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the number of civilains killed by Syrian regime barrel bombs outnumbers those slain by the so-called Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Jeremy Binnie, Middle East editor for IHS Jane's Defence Weekly, told HuffPost UK that the bombs were developed due to either a lack of weaponry or aircraft around a year or so into the current conflict. He said: "While early ones appeared to be similar in size to oil barrels, the ones that have been seen generally have a smaller diameter. "They were first seen in the summer of 2012. "They are a way of turning the Syrian air force's Mi-8/17 helicopters into attack aircraft as the improvised bombs can be rolled out the rear cargo doors." "The bombs are capable of destroying buildings and killing people, but almost certainly have less explosive power than mass-produced aircraft bombs of similar size."
A Russian bomber drops bombs on a target. Russia has unleashed another barrage of airstrikes against targets in Syria Airstrikes from foreign forces continue to pose a threat to civilian life - however unintended this may be. In December, at least 26 people were believed to have been killed following US-led airstrikes attacking suspected Isis positions. The Guardian reported Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights as saying Isis is in control of Al-Khan but is only on its outskirts, "which is why all of the deaths were civilians". The US military command said it was investigating the claims. Britain's Royal Air Force, which received Parliamentary authority to commence airstrikes last year, says it is able to say no civilians have died as a result of its recent airstrikes in Syria which are planned meticulously to prevent collateral damage.
A health worker marks the thumb of a Syrian child after giving him polio vaccine (File Photo) Dirty water and the resulting disease pose a continued threat to Syrians living in increasingly unsanitary conditions. Unicef is one of a number of aid agencies working to mitigate the risks, but even it admits that millions of Syrian children and adults who continue to be at risk in areas that cannot be easily reached. While the threat continues to be high - disease is one of the areas of success for agencies trying hard to prevent a public health disaster dovetailing with the fierce conflict. Lily Caprani of Unicef told HuffPost UK: "We're making sure children and the vulnerable are immunized against waterborne disease, because we know they are going to be exposed to disease so we make sure they're going to be protected. "This can help prevent a public health disaster. One of the very few pieces of good news is that you would expect the resurgence of disease and infections we would normally not see. "But because we've managed to immunize we've prevented this. There have been no new cases of polio since January 2014 and that's short of a miracle. "It's relatively cheap to do - it doesn't cost a lot of money and it prevents the snowball effect of a public health emergency." Nonetheless, the shocking state of health uncovered at the besieged town of Madaya in January points towards localised medical emergencies being commonplace in some areas in the country.
A visitor looks at photographs in the 'Caesar's Photos: Inside Syria's Secret Prisons', a collection of photographs smuggled out of Syria last year Torture and execution remain a threat to civilian life throughout Syria, with hundreds allegedly killed at the hands of President Assad's regime alone. Syria has systematically tortured and executed 11,000 of its citizens in the three-year war, according to a report by former war crimes prosecutors, who compared the bodies they saw to images of Nazi death camp victims. Meanwhile the so-called Islamic State has been adept at publicising its regime's torture and execution, even publishing reports in its own magazine, with countless Syrians and scores of foreigners killed in the now signature orange jumpsuits. In January, the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported that an Islamic State militant executed his own mother, after she encouraged him to leave the terror group.
Violence and exploitation resulting from the break down of Syrian society present a real threat to the lives of adults and children alike, whilst kidnapping remains a tactic of fear used by militants. There are countless examples of violence between warring factions spilling over into civilian communities, wounding and killing innocent people. Unicef's experience of conflict emergencies across the world has led it to the conclusion that education can protect children from violence and exploitation. Lily Caprani, UK deputy director, told HuffPost UK: "If children are in education, they're in a safe space. If children are in a safe environment with safe people, the risks of violence and exploitation are lower. "This protects children from adults who might not have their best interests at heart." Kidnapping by Islamic State militants continues to present a real threat to civilian life. Last year, hundreds of innocent people were taken by the group amid mounting international calls for the release of those abducted.
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It's Draft Day in Cleveland. So we at WaitingForNextYear know there's a lot going on out there. That's why we're back with one final draft post — as a T-shirt contest and to recap all the talk over the past week. Enjoy and thanks for being the best readers. WFNY Draft Day T-Shirt Contest: Only one entry permissible per household. A single comment will be selected randomly by the WFNY staff. All entries must be submitted by 7:59 p.m. Thursday, April 25. Winner will receive their choice of T-shirt from the WFNY collection at GV Art and Design. In order to qualify, please copy and paste both of the questions, along with your answers: 1) Who do you think the Cleveland Browns will select in the first round? 2) What has been your favorite NFL Draft post at WFNY recently? Recent long-form posts and podcasts: 04/25 — WFNY Roundtable: Browns draft predictions for the 1st round 04/25 — Fun with Numbers- Draft Day edition! 04/24 — The Diff: Cleveland Browns mock draft analysis 04/23 — Brendan Leister from DraftBrowns.com with some pre-draft knowledge – WFNY Podcast 04/23 — Nate Ulrich of the Akron Beacon Journal talks about being a beat writer and the Browns draft – WFNY Podcast 04/22 — Hooray! NFL Network and ESPN agree not to tip draft picks via Twitter 04/21 — NFL Draft: Jacob and Kirk Tackle Browns' 1st-Round Strategy 04/19 — Pilot Flying J affidavit and the impact on the Browns – WFNY Podcast 04/18 — The impact of free agency on the Browns' draft strategy 04/16 — Browns thoughts on the heels of the raid of Pilot Flying J The Browns and the First Round series: 04/25 — Notre Dame TE Tyler Eifert 04/25 — LSU DE Barkevious Mingo 04/24 — BYU DE Ezekiel Ansah 04/24 — Alabama OG Chance Warmack 04/23 — Utah DT Star Lotulelei 04/23 — Alabama CB Dee Milliner 04/22 — Oregon OLB Dion Jordan 04/19 — West Virginia QB Geno Smith Recent headlines: 04/25 — NFL Draft Day Rumor: Browns inquiring about QB Ryan Mallet again 04/25 — Final Mock Draft from Todd McShay says Geno Smith to Cleveland 04/24 — NFL Rumor: Browns among teams interested in Davone Bess 04/24 — NFL News: Dee Milliner claims he won't miss training camp 04/23 — Chance Warmack, E.J. Manuel and Darius Slay headline Mel Kiper's "A" draft for Browns 04/22 — NFL Draft Rumor: Dee Milliner may not be ready for training camp 04/21 — Chudzinski: EJ Manuel "Reminds Me Of Somebody I Used To Coach" 04/18 — Browns' Joe Banner, Michael Lombardi hold pre-draft press conference 04/15 — NFL Draft Rumors: Browns a "wild card" for QB Geno Smith 04/15 — NFL Draft Rumors: Browns could deal Sheard, Rubin on draft day 04/12 — Dee Milliner: Joe Haden and I could form the best cornerback tandem in NFL
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Forest mayhamMature
"Hmph. That makes three bodies." Thedric murmured rolling over a dead man.
He had wandered into this forest while being pursued by a group of Daedric soldiers. This forest bordered the edge between the grand plains and the nation of Interial. This place is known as Shineless Forest. A place where trees grow so thick in some parts that you might think it was night. Ocationally you will find a precious beam of sun that has found it's way through through the hair sized puzzle pieces that are the needles of these evergreens. However as with most precious resources, it is hard to hold on to without being killed. Predators will wait in the shadows waiting for any movement in the light. Bugs, rabbits, deer wander in to feel that warm burst of warm UV rays. That feeling will probably be there last however.
Thedric had hid deep within. Luckly he had a fairly acurate idea of where he was based on the forest size and his footsteps. His feet ached. He was not good with walking. It was one of many things he hated. But this pain did not dull his reflexes. This was proved when he heard a russel in a bush next to him. He spun and unloaded two shots into the leafy green plant. He lowered his weapon looking at the symetrical holes he had put in the leaves. Nothing there. Dangerous did not mean uninhabited. In fact some nature wielding mages have built there homes in the canopy of the trees. Some of them have been abandoned and have allowed criminal organizations to move in.
A loud laugh from above startled Thedric. He fell on his back just as a nimble figure jumped out and swung a large branch at him. He crawled back against a tree.
"Well! A nimble move even if it was accidental. My name is Ribbitotal Inate!" The man said.
"Thedric Sunbash. May I ask why your attacking me?" Thedric said irritably.
"I need at least one catch in order to be inducted into the Silver Saber."
"So you want to join a gang and you need my head eh? Not happening, sorry."
"Unagreeable people........MUST DIE!"
The man suddenly removed a large item off his back. He played a loud note off of it proving it was a instrument and a enchanted one at that. Thedric reconized this sound immediatly. The soundwaves magiclly pushed back most of the trees around him creating a small arena to fight in.
"Your playing a bagpipe!" Thedric said pointing at the man.
The man smiled and played a interesting quick string of notes. The ground trembled as a rift opened up releasing a long stem that rose up and struck down hitting thedric in the shoulder. He got knocked back allowing him to take a shot at the stem. He fired and shot it at the base causing it to limp to the ground. Another few notes were played and a countless amount of stems suddenly attacked. Thedric swore and began running. The stems kept impacting behind him then getting up and striking again. Thedric then attacked using his bonds of blackness to grab the vines and kill wither them. The vines faded to dry flakes and dissolved in the wind. Ribbitotal attacked again with a row of thicker vines. Thedric's bonds attakced as well. These two hit each other with massive force, sending a shock wave across the ground. While the two opposing forces tried to anihalate one another, Thedric tried to find the creepy man. But as he ran to get a shot, a barage of needles flew past him. He looked to the side to see the man in a tree playing his pipe and causing the tree to violently fire it's leaves like projectiles. Thedric doged the attacks until he finally managed to get off a shot. Ribbitotal jumped out of the way and continued to cause the trees to attack him. Thedric ran, he was slowly losing energy. Plus this battle was causing to much attention. He needed too end this. He turned around and aimed his pistol at the general area of the man.
A sound like the swirling of wind cut through the forest. He pulled the trigger and fired a blade of air at the man. The sound was like swinging a sword ten times louder.
Ribbitotal looked at his bagpipe. It had been split in two. He had his bare chest cut open. He screamed and fell to the ground.
Thedric sighed.
As much as I hate to say it. He is pretty pitifull. I guess I'll go talk to him.
"Hey. Don't look down man. Gangs aren't worth it. You should go join someone who could use your powers. I heard there's a farming group up north having some trouble with trolls! Maybe you can find your calling up there."
The man looked up.
"You....you mean it?"
"Yeah! I can stand giving you a second chance. Dont waste it or I will come back and turn you into a pile of bones. Hear me?"
He stood up. "Yes sir!"
"Good, now scram."
The man began to run off. When he turned around and yelled directions to get onto a path to the nearest city. Thedric thanked him and began to walk twoard the alleged path.
"The hell was that...."
A incredibly strong feeling of power erupted from the pathes direction. A nature mage who's power was astounding.
"Hope he's friendlier than that guy...."


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Tales of a Contemporary Twenty-Something: Love is a Sex PositionMature
And yet, another tale...
Hey boys, think back. Do you remember the best blowjob of your life? You know, those certain little ladies who decide to convert their mouth into a vacuum attachment with the only goal of siphoning your hose until the very essence of yourself flows out in a volcano of gushing excitement. Except, over the years there's only one little lady you single out over the others because she bobs on your knob like it's the reason for her very existence. That certain one that makes you feel like your piece is life-support for this particular girl. That you are absolutely convinced that if this woman stops munching on your unit she will honestly die.
She makes you feel like sucking your cock will be the new replacement for CPR.
And ladies, I can only ponder at what your intentions are for slobbering your warm, thick saliva over the flesh tube that looks like you could twist it into some type of balloon animal. Sometimes falling to your knees, sometimes bending at the waist, but always with the same results of taking a publicly forbidden body part into your mouth for lubrication. Hell, for all I know you're just tenderizing the meat before you slap it on the grill.
And what you define as grill… well… I guess that's up to you.
Anyway, back to me. I'm with the ultimate cocksucker of all cocksucking girls I've ever met, however, I don't know how talented she is at mouth handling my cock until later that night. At the very moment, before she gripped my salami and took it into the wet opening of her face, we were sitting in a diner.
Let me be more specific, we were in her rich white and respected trash college town at three o'clock in the morning. Drunk as a hobo after chugging a tin of gasoline, we were stumbling like a couple of physically disabled apes, hand in primate hand, down Main Street for all to see when we decided to fill our alcohol soaked sacks of a stomach with some nourishment. Actually, the nourishment we were seeking that night was a big plate of grease soaked eggs and English muffins, along with the company of every other alcoholic student and the cream of the crop of booze hounds that were kicked out of the twilight parties. That's why we picked the diner that was cheap, run-down and crowded with very willing participants of inebriated mayhem.
A haven for the young and drunk so to speak.
So, I'm sitting in a corner booth with this girl and looking into her squinting eyes that are blurry with unconscious tears of drunken emotions. And as I'm watching her across from me I remember that I have no idea who this girl is. In fact, I don't even remember her name…. Katie, Kat, Katlyn, Katrina, Missy...? But I don't feel bad at all about it because she has been calling me Robert all night and, honestly, I really don't care what she calls me if I'm a shoe-in for a little sexual exploitation. However, some little event almost put a kibosh on the whole thing, and by "kibosh" I mean that it made my erection deflate into a pathetic wrinkled nub.
Let me rewind.... Little Miss I Don't Know Her Name and myself stumble into the diner, rudely ask for a corner booth and tell some fat guy gorging on a deep fried skillet that he'll die soon if he keeps eating that shit in the process of being led to our table. I gracefully dive head first into my side of the booth as she awkwardly slides her shapely ass onto the plastic bench on hers. I readjust myself, become posed, and stare at her straight in the eyes. I have to admit, I did good on this one, she was gorgeous. None of that second rate "yeah, I guess I'll fuck ya" type of average girl who always knows her place and expects no more than a sloppy romp and no words. No, no, Lady Anonymous had dirty blond hair, bright green eyes, tender lips and a body that not only craved attention, but demanded it.
We both knew we were attracted to each other and that fact was only highlighted when we realized that we could have good conversations and be completely comfortable with each other (although, if you think about it, doesn't alcohol make you do that?). Anyway, she knows how attracted I am to her by the way I am gazing at her with my slanted, alcohol induced eyes and stupid smirk; which could (I must admit) look similar to the what some may call a "puppy love look." Which leads me to the displeasing remark that made my steel rod melt like butter. Mistress Fill In The Blank looks back at me with the same look and slurs three little words in my direction and all three smash right into my face like a speeding cement truck.
"I love you."
Now I realize we're drunk, but there are just some things that should not and cannot be said on the very first night of fun socialization and no consequences interaction. Obviously, she didn't get that memo. And now my fantastic beer buzz has been swatted, while my penis is so scared that it looks like a raisin that is trying to hide behind a skin baggie of the last two gumballs (I know what you're all thinking right now, and I'm a very modest motherfucking guy. What some call gumballs, others call bowling balls; and you know 99.9% of every guy that brags about their deluxe sized package is a cover for their abnormally large lack of cock).
So, after that very displeasing turn of events, and as I slump in my seat with a frown on my face, I decide that I should at least entertain myself if I have buy the Nameless Girl dinner and not do a little penile scuba diving as a thanks.
"Love eh?" I growl at her, pondering for another plan of action that would make time fly faster, "before we can discuss that I have to know your favorite color."
"It's white," she quickly returns in a flash of a smile.
"White? That's not a color at all, in fact, it's the absolute definition of no color. Which means that if you can't even chose a favorite color then you must have commitment issues," I seriously state. "How can I possibly become emotionally involved with someone with commitment issues and not run the risk of getting hurt in the end."
Talking like this appears quite clear-headed and somewhat witty, but it's merely an act. Because after hearing those three sobering words I realized that one could use a brain that was struggling to breath in the alcohol filled fish bowl of a skull could just let it respond without musing over the words. Quite honestly, I'm not sure why we're all not drunk 24/7. Alcohol seems to be one of the only substances that won't make us second guess our initial responses and pump us full of the bravery to actually express a sincere statement. We don't even give ourselves an honest opinion; we're so fake we're even strangers to ourselves.
"Liquid courage" is what the counselor in my alcohol offenses class called it.
"White is so too a color," she defended, "how many natural things in nature can you find that are white?"
"I…," and I actually had to think about it. Not just because of the slow grinding of my thinking gears, but because I honestly had a difficult time coming up with something. Then I did, "clouds."
"What else?" she quickly replies.
"What is this, a fucking test?" I spew out.
She laughs at me, "no, but it's true. White is actually one of colors in nature that you cannot find much of at all. Also, it's not a primary color, which means that it has to be a color because you have to use other colors to create it."
She must have realized her liquid courage.
"But that's not why I like it," she confesses, "I like it because it symbolizes a beginning. White is always a blank slate, a start from scratch."
"If you think that way you'll never get anything done. You'll start to get dressed and never decide on an outfit."
"That's happened way too many times," she giggles, "but I mean more as a view for life. Just so you'll never hit a dead end, just pick up the pieces and rebuild."
I run an exasperated hand through my hair, "this is way too philosophical for my beer saturated brain. I'm not sure if I can continue with this line of thinking." I pause for a distracted moment, "how about we talk about something more meaningless or absurd or pointless. Perhaps even something dirty, maybe even bouncing off the thinly drawn lines of naughty."
Girlie I Don't Name Her Name doesn't laugh this time. In fact, the moment I made my request she glares at me with a stone-cold expressionless stare that felt like a fist knuckles first to the side of my face. Then she abruptly laughs loudly.
"Are you afraid of love?" she says as she smiles her too gorgeous beaming smile at me.
"Of course not," I reply dismissively, "I just think that you can have a connection with someone on the first night you meet them, but love, well, that's something a little far-fetched."
"Is it?" she slowly utters as she cocks an eyebrow. "What about love at first sight?"
"Bullshit," I dismiss with a slight wave of my hand, "complete fairytale propaganda."
"Love is a fairytale."
"Why do you say that?"
"Being in love is the most amazing, soul consuming, heart fluttering in absolute ecstasy at every moment you spend with that other person that you can't help but feel your life has become the happy ending in a fairytale."
I felt like she had become one of those guys with the greasy mustache and over enthusiastic attitude trying to sell me something arbitrary on the consumer channel.
"I'm curious," I smirk, "do you even know where fairytales come from?"
She shrugs her cute little shoulders, "I dunno. Someone probably made them up a long time ago."
"Right on the button. The Grimm Brothers collected them from European cultures a long time ago."
"Even children back in the day needed a bedtime story or two."
"Just the opposite. The stories were actually violent, gruesome and absolutely horrifying tales that probably literally scared the adolescent shit out of children."
Her face cracks shock and sparks confusion, "then how did they become the stories they are now?"
"The amazing process of evolution and politics," I flatly reply.
"Wait," her dilated eyeballs unconsciously drifted towards the left side of her brain, "so all those stories I heard growing up of the princess in imminent danger and the dashing prince swooping in to save her for the very definition of love and happiness are merely a rehash of some horror tale?"
"Yep. Sucks huh." I thought I had drowned her drunken confession of misplaced emotions and allow my frame to comfortably slide further into my cushioned seat. "So you see, you can't possibly love me."
The Lady Anonymous casts her eyes downward towards the off-white diner tabletop littered with fingerprints labeling the identities of thousands of drunk college students contemplating which bad decision to make that night. Her expression clearly shouts the shuffling of her diluted thoughts swirling like oil through the booze in her brain. She preciously bites her pink luscious lower lip, an appendage so tender that if you were to suck on it you would taste honey. I silently watched her with adoring eyes thinking that it was such a shame that my bee wasn't going to invade her beehive.
That's when it happened. Her mesmerizing eyes abruptly snapped to meet mine and the look knocked me from cruise to neutral; ready for her to put me into gear.
"I'll show you," she slyly smirks.
"Show me what?" I manage to mutter, absolutely smitten by the intoxicated kitten.
"How I feel. I'll show you right now," and she began to disappear under the table. She slowly sank to the depths of legs and crotches with her bulging mounds of chest heaved with breaths of desire and those angelic lips pouting with scandalous intentions.
My phallic handgun was cocked and loaded.
The clatter of coffee cups and slaps of grease soaked lips grinding plastic eggs and rubber bacon slips into silence as the audio holes in my head eagerly strain to hear the sweet and innocent Madame Mysterious clumber on her hands and knees to trudge through the muck of a diner floor towards the metal teeth that makes up the front door of my best friend.
Her tissue soft enthusiastic fingertips fumble up my thighs and gracefully bound through the foothills of bulges at my crotch until each scandalously sweet digit met and frolic at the gateway. The moment was so passionately intense I imagined music and the harmonious sound of it.
My little man was alive and ready to sing his gushing solo.
"What can I get for ya?"
I vacuum the throbbing amorous drool back into my trembling mouth as I aim my eyes upward to discover the inconsiderate source of the question is a grossly overweight individual with a pound of unwashed wiry salt and pepper mound of hair disorderedly stacked on his hollow melon and decorated with wide black rimmed glasses. The twenty-something going on fifty had quite the noticeable protruding belly that was only more revealing in his t-shirt that was four sized too small and allowed the pile of unwarranted tissue some freedom as the flabby end piece with its bellybutton eye peeked out the bottom of his grimy shirt and slouched over his belt and slimy apron. In one chubby little hand he held a small notepad, his other gripped the pencil ready to record my tummy's current desire and his expression stupidly gaped with his mouth hanging open as he waited for a reply.
Big dumb animal came to mind.
"Do you wanna eat something?" the talking bear slowly blurted out at my lack of response.
I felt the sweet anti-sober sweetie absolutely on a mission to release my python to the humidity of her oral jungle as she used a handy thumb and pointer finger to unzip the cage, no hesitation whatsoever with the unexpected appearance of our uninvited guest.
"I think we're okay," I say, surprised I'm able to verbalize an organized thought.
"We?" B.D.A. blinks at me, trying to kick-start the rusted gears in his brain.
My patience has already worn thin and is fizzling into nonexistence. "Yes we," I say chock-full of disgusted rudeness as I refer to the empty booth across the table, "Kermit and Fozzie over there are not hungry and for the moment I am doing okay without any type of edibles. So would you please just leave us alone and I will signal you if anything changes."
Dumbfounded, as I'm sure is the case the bulk of his life, the sweaty server stares for more then an extended moment at the invisible fictional characters and then gradually back at me. This is one of those great moments when I appreciate my own talents of weaving my innate ability to lie with my nonstop overactive imagination.
"Um…okay. I'll be around just let me know," he cautiously said with a stinky air of reflection over the fragility of my sanity, and then lumbered off to eat another deliciously tasteless pad of cooking grease.
Now I can focus on this gratuitously graphic scene.
Random Girl had already snatched my better half, swollen with scalding hot blood to inches I have never expected, and gripping my member with fierce tenderness as it throbbed between her fingers I began to feel the oily wetness of her saliva coat my pink mushroom cap. Then I felt the warmness of her mouth surround and release as she compassionately bobbed with a metronome rhythm that would put the best of symphony composers to shame. I was absolutely impressed when there was no gag when my cock slowly slid down her throat and her damp lips reached the hilt. It was at this deep-throated moment, I unabashedly admit only a brief minute and a mere few seconds into our oral session, that I felt the testosterone boiler gurgling for release. My fingers tore into the orange fake rubbery cushion of the bench seat, my hiding toes curled into fists as my legs flexed with pleasure and my eyes snapped shut to accompany the gnawing of my lower lip.
I politely let it surge without warning and not a drop was spared.
The Unidentifiable Lass arose from the dirt caked makeshift champagne room, adjusted herself on the parallel cushion and with a dirty smirk she seductively wiped the corner of her mouth. Her gorgeous eyes pierced me as my chest heaved with heavy breaths and my slouch the result of exhaustion. What I felt I could not exactly define or explain so when Naughty Miscellaneous Young Woman stared at me, waiting for some type of verbal response to her gracious efforts, I said the first thing that came to mind.
"I love you."


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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › Sizing questions – Exos 58, Rab Pulse, WM Flash, Houdini
Got a few sizing questions before purchase. I'm 6' tall and 170 lbs, and so I often seem to be between a M and L, so thought I would get some info from the group.
Osprey Exos 58 – went to REI to look at the pack, the only local supplier. They told me I'm between a M and L, and they suggested I go with M.
Same question for Rab Pulse, WM Flash puffy, and Patagonia Houdini – no where local to try these on. Would you go M or L?
@alanyork9Locale: PIEDMONT N.C.
I am 6' 175 lbs and the large Exos fit me better.Be sure to try both. I'm sure REI will have a great return policy.I love the pack!
@forest-2Locale: Hunter Valley - Australia
I'm 5'11", 78kgs and find the large exos fits me better.
@rustybLocale: Idaho
At 6' and 150, I wear a L WM Flash, as was recommended by the owner when chatting in person.
@dustintsnyderLocale: Southeast
I am 6'3" and 180 and I wear a XL Houdini so I can layer under it easy. I would recommend the L for you.
@glacierramblerLocale: NW Montana
On the Rab, the bigger question is not what you weigh but what your measurements are for the chest. I had to size up to the XL because of my broad chest/shoulders. I have lots of room in the waist and the sleeves are long. On the plus side, I have room for layers and I can add thumb loops to the jacket.
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That is wonderful. She does a great job quilting. I'm so glad she finished it and grandma would be too.
Goodness she's doing a beautiful job!!! One to be VERY proud of! Such a special project :D
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Beautiful butterflies, How old is the top? Congrat to you DD for finishing it.
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Ever since President Clinton sent several small units of American infantry up
against thousands of screaming Somalis in the downtown
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, a fear of swarming gangs has seized the American high command.
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"A major element of enemy urban terrain tactics consists of small swarming gangs. Thousands of well-armed and
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areas against U. S. forces. They will mass in a dispersed manner characterized by saturating an area with small
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Bruins center Patrice Bergeron has been named a finalist for the Selke Trophy, awarded to the NHL's best defensive forward. The other two finalists are Jonathan Toews of the Blackhawks and Anze Kopitar of the Kings. Bergeron won the award in 2012 and finished second behind Toews last season.
His case for winning a second Selke this year is a strong one. He led the NHL in Corsi percentage (shot attempts for/against while that player is on the ice) and was second in CorsiRel (Corsi relative to his teammates), despite facing the toughest competition of any Bruins forward and starting more shifts in the defensive zone than the offensive zone. In layman's terms, Bergeron drove possession and flipped the ice in his team's favor about as well as any player possibly could.
If the more basic plus/minus stat is your thing, Bergeron ranked second in the NHL behind only David Krejci. Bergeron also ranked third in the NHL in faceoff percentage and won more draws than any other player.
Kopitar was third in the NHL in Corsi and fourth in plus/minus, but he drops to 26th in CorsiRel, due mostly to the fact that he plays on a team full of great possession players. Similarly, Toews ranks seventh in Corsi and 17th in plus/minus, but 33rd in CorsiRel. Both Kopitar and Toews start more shifts in the offensive zone than defensive zone, and neither is as good as Bergeron on faceoffs. Both faced slightly tougher competition than Bergeron, however.
The chart below (courtesy of ExtraSkater.com) gives you a visual idea of how Bergeron, Kopitar and Toews were used by their respective teams.


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A shadowy, self-described "patriot" hacktivist has launched a series of cyberattacks against Ecuador and says he plans to direct a similar onslaught against any country considering granting asylum to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. The hacker, who calls himself the "th3J35t3r" (the Jester) and in the past has identified himself as a former soldier, has also taken aim at Julian Assange. The WikiLeaks founder has been assisting Snowden in his efforts to seek safe haven.
On Monday, the Jester launched denial-of-service attacks against Ecuador, which is considering an asylum request from Snowden. He targeted the primary email server for the second biggest Ecuadorean stock exchange and the country's official tourism website. Gabrielle Murillo, a spokeswoman for Ecuador's tourism site, could not confirm the attack and said only that "the internet was working," but the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Dave Maass, who follows the Jester, told Mother Jones that he was unable to access the tourism website after the infiltration occurred. Officials at the stock exchange did not respond to questions sent by Mother Jones.
The Jester, who has one of his computers on display in the International Spy Museum, is famous for launching cyberattacks against WikiLeaks and Al Qaeda-linked web sites. According to a May story in Newsweek, he's also sought to reveal the identities of jihadists recruiting online and affiliates of the hacktivist group Anonymous. The Jester told the magazine that he views his hacking as an extension of his former military service (he claims that he was affiliated with a "rather famous" unit in Afghanistan), but he said that he has "no official relationship with law enforcement agencies." On his website he describes himself as "pro OUR Military, LEA [law enforcement agencies], & Intel Communities who do the same job no matter who is sitting in the big seat."
In a June 26 blog post, the Jester writes that Snowden "is not a goddam hero, here to save Americans from 'the government' because of privacy infringements and breaches of the 4th amendment, he is a traitor and has jeopardized all our lives." He launched a similar tirade against Assange, who has been living in London's Ecuadorean Embassy for more than a year to dodge extradition, writing, "[L]et's not forget Assange isn't seeking asylum because he's some heroic whistleblower or do-gooder. He's wanted for questioning on a rape charge."
On July 1, the Jester tweeted this:
In a subsequent series of tweets, the Jester alluded to hacking into the embassy's fire alarm system to force Assange out of the building. If Assange were to leave the embassy compound, he would face extradition to Sweden—where he's under investigation for sexual assault—or potentially to the United States, where Assange fears he could be prosecuted in connection with the publication of classified information allegedly leaked by Bradley Manning.
Yesterday the Jester tweeted photos of what he believed to be fire alarms on the exterior of the Ecuadorean Embassy, asking locals to crowd-source the name and logo of the alarms. The Jester also tweeted the following map, isolating what he says are the wifi networks that Assange may be using within the embassy.
In addition to targeting Assange and Ecuador, the Jester circulated a list of 52 servers used by the Venezuelan government, which Snowden has reportedly also petitioned for asylum. The hacker told FoxNews.com on Tuesday that he would treat countries that consider housing Snowden as "enemies" (Snowden is requesting asylum in at least 21 countries). The Jester did not respond to an interview request from Mother Jones.
In a blog post earlier this week, the Jester wrote that he didn't fear prosecution: "Before you start slinging mud at me about my own activities. Two things to note. I never target the US and If I am arrested, and convicted in due process by a jury of my peers I will consider that justice will have been served."


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a ma-duece in a Mika pocket holster.
This is a discussion on What Mil-surplus or LE surplus guns make the best CC? within the Defensive Carry Guns forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; I have seen a bunch of threads on Mil-surplus and LE surplus weapons. I am curious which ones make the best CC weapons. I have ...
I have seen a bunch of threads on Mil-surplus and LE surplus weapons. I am curious which ones make the best CC weapons. I have recently seen P64 and before that H&K P7 and so on. Anyone carry a surplus piece as a daily CCW? If so what is it and how much $$ was it if you don't mind sharing? Pics would be awesome too
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That would have been even funnier if I didn't have to Google "Ma-Deuce"
Where did you get a pocket holster for that?
2A is not negotiable
The Makarov and its other east bloc cousins in 9x18 seem to be popular. There are also LEO trade in SIGs, Berettas, and others around.
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My backup rig is a German PD trade-in H&K P7 in a Sparks VM-2...
IMO, the 2 best options currently available in PD trade-ins (for CC anyhow), are the P7 and the P6... Both can still be had for far less than the US-commercial models would have sold for even a couple years ago (i.e. the U.S. commercial Sig 225 and the U.S date-coded P7's).
Both are nice, thin single-stack nines that conceal very well, are quite accurate, and supremely relaible (Although, if you decide to go w/ the Sig P6, make sure it will feed your preferred HP ammo; I think there was a redesigned feed ramp some time around 1988 or something, and a lot of the surplus P6's are dated earlier than 1988)... Some of the P7's out there are literally NIB, never-issued (look for serial #'s in the 77,XXX range) - All P7's I have ever seen and/or shot were dead-nuts reliable with any and everything I stuffed into the magazine...
When it comes to U.S. PD trade-in pistols, most seem to be high-mileage Glocks and Berettas... I'm sure they are quite functional, but hey, I'm kind of a German pistol snob - That being said, however, I'm quite sure that you would be very pleased with the deal you would get on either the Sig P6 or the H&K P7...
OMO... Good luck w/ whatever you buy!
ETA: I believe I paid around $700 for my trade-in P7 (which was graded 'A' by H&K - Technically a used gun, but just BARELY - The internals are pristine) - For just a tad more (like maybe $750 + S/H, transfer, etc.), you can get one of the 77,XXX serial numbered ones - imported by PW Arms, not H&K, which are, for all intents and purposes, brand-new guns, just without a factory warranty) - This is the route I would go if I were you...
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Although I do not normally carry it, I think the Makarov is the best of the surplus guns. I bought about four when they were in the neighborhood of $100. I sold one and gave one away.
Later I bought an East German like new for about $157 I think.
No SA handgun is more reliable or simple to maintain.
They are a little heavy for the cartridge, but I prefer them to the PPKs.
Unfortunately the supply has dried up, and the gun shows have them at prices like they were married to them.
If I could get a good Glock that was an LE trade in I would probably buy that.
The Sig P6/P225 was my first carry gun and is still currently in the rotation. It now plays second fiddle to my P220. It was my first semi-automatic at a time when money was tight. I paid $325.00 for it and it was worth every penny. It has functioned flawlessly everytime I've picked it up. I was so impressed with it, that I have purchased three additional sigs.
I carry the P6 in rotation. Love it . For a single stack 9mm you couldnt do better.
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If you do get the P6 (that is, a German police version of the SIG P225), there are a couple of things to keep in mind. First is that it probably has plain black iron sights, so you'll want to put night sights or fiber optics or something on it, most likely.
The second thing is that the only physical difference between the P6 and the P225 is the barrel (and that means the feed ramp, which is part of the barrel). The P6 feed ramp was designed for ball ammo, and tends not to feed reliably with all JHP ammo. You can try it out and maybe find yours does fine, but it may not. The good news is that the P225 barrel is a drop-in replacement for the P6 barrel and has a hollow-point friendly feed ramp.
The P6/P225 is, however, a great shooting, concealable gun.
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SIG: P220R SS Elite SAO, P220R SAO, P220R Carry, P226R Navy, P226, P239/.40S&W, P2022/.40S&W; GSR 5", P6.
The CPO Sigs are generally a decent deal. If you look high and low, you can sometimes find a cheaper Sig, but these come with new springs and a good "going over," and should outlast a few generations of shooters.
A man fires a rifle for many years, and he goes to war. And afterward he turns the rifle in at the armory, and he believes he's finished with the rifle. But no matter what else he might do with his hands - love a woman, build a house, change his son's diaper - his hands remember the rifle.
Its all subjective but here is my opinion and I own several examples of all these and have put a lot of ammo down range and carried all these pistols at one time or the other. All these handguns are quality made weapons, of course some may be in better condition than others because they are used guns. Size, caliber, cost and other factors would determine which handgun would be best suited for you as a CCW option. These are my top three.
Best buy in a C&R handgun, or any used handgun for that matter
CZ82, its a CZ enough said. Great handgun for the money (around $225 retail, $185 with C&R) 12 rounds of 9x18 and super reliable and handles well.
Bulgarian Makarov
The Makarov is one of the simplist and reliable designs of all time, only 27 total parts.....they just work everytime.
Its a SIG.......I bought this a couple years ago when they first came on the market with my C&R for $230, those days are long over but still for less than $350 its a great handgun.
Other contenders:
Polish Radom P64
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I I had my druthers...IMO, I would go for the P7, if money were no issue, always wanted one. Dont know why. But realistically check out summitgunbroker.com...for a good used Glock or a Smith 5906.
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CPO Sig and Glock agency trade ins.
A little to a lot of purely cosmetic does not affect function holster wear, while having light to if any internal wear.
Further you can get parts and service on either from anywhere in the world.
While most importantly they always go bang outside of suffering tremendously and significant obvious damage or actually missing pieces and parts.
Best of all they both are very well known to be competition accurate as OEM from the factory stock.
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Police Dept trade in Glocks, the Sig P6, HK P7 would be my first choices, the HK P7 supply is all ready starting to dry up but the Sig P6s are still abundant.
The BIG problem with the P7 is finding mags at a decent price, currently you're looking at a minimum of $50-$55 for a spare mag, that alone will offset the "savings" of a surplus P7 which still costs more than a P6. I paid $750 for my P7.
I've seen (heavy accent on the past tense) LE trade in Glocks for under $400 but that was about three years ago.
Of those listed in the above posts. I'd say that the P6 is going to be the best choice due to:
1: Caliber
2: Readily available parts/magazines
3: Cost
4: Holster selection
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