Audio Files: Tales From Beyond

Get an earful of Horror drama

TALES FROM BEYOND, a new paranormal audio drama series, is coming to audio CD from producers Jim O’Rear and Kevin Herren. Hosted/narrated (in "The Twilight Zone" style) by beloved actor Daniel Roebuck ("Lost") and featuring an all-star cast including Robert Picardo ("China Beach," The Howling), Jim O’Rear (The Dead Matter, Star Trek 4), Kyle Hebert (Dragon Ball Z, Resident Evil), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Blade, X-Men, Naruto), and Betsy Rue (Halloween II, My Bloody Valentine).

In addition to the audio CD, a feature-length documentary will be released later this year on DVD featuring behind-the-scenes footage from the recording studio session and exclusive cast interviews.

“Since the beginning of time mankind has been fascinated with the unexplained. Ghost stories, hauntings, psychic phenomena, things that go bump in the night. We've all heard stories of the paranormal... but what if the stores were true?”

Synopsis:
TALES FROM BEYOND: VOLUME 1 is the first in a series of creepy audio drama CDs featuring three original stories based on true events relating to hauntings, cryptozoology, UFOs, and other paranormal activity (such as premonition of death, astral projection, and wildly improbable coincidence). Each volume of stories is professionally performed in the style of the classic radio dramas from yesteryear by some of the best voice talents in the industry.

For more info visit Tales from Beyond on Facebook.

Improve Your Pistol Accuracy With Dry Fire Drills

Plenty of people want to sharpen their handgun shooting technique. Everyone knows that the greatest way to do this is to shoot countless bullets on the practice range until your accuracy is where it needs to be. This can get very pricey.

However, you can increase your shooting skill by fifty percent without ever shooting a single bullet. Dry fire methods are the easiest way to improve your pistol shooting skill, and the best part is that dry fire exercises are completely free.

Nothing increases your ability to accurately strike your target better than time behind the trigger. However, firing many thousands of rounds per year can cost you many thousands of dollars a year. This write-up describes one of the best ways to upgrade your shooting ability without ever spending money on ammunition.

Before practicing these exercises, you must ensure that your pistol is unloaded and completely empty. There should be absolutely no bullets in the gun and no bullets in the room where you are performing this drill.

As soon as you establish that your pistol is unloaded you should acquire a penny. This penny will save you hundreds on ammunition. Begin the activity by racking the slide back on your gun in order to reset the trigger. The goal of this exercise is to balance the penny on your front sight and pull the trigger back without letting the penny fall off of the front sight.

Perform this exercise ten times, resetting the trigger each time by racking the slide back. When you can pull the trigger ten times in a row without letting the penny fall off the front sight, you will have mastered the exercise.

This drill will expose how well your trigger pull has developed. If you can pull the trigger without letting the penny fall off, then you are most likely doing everything correctly. You are pressing straight back, you are not flinching prior to the trigger break, and you are applying good follow through after you press the trigger.

Of course if you have a handgun with a larger front sight this drill will be very easy and may not be a sensible indication of how well your trigger pull is developing. Whenever you are able to go ten for ten on this activity your trigger pull will be as good as many of the professionals. Now you just have to think of applying this exact same trigger pull anytime you are at the shooting range and anytime you are in an emergency scenario.

About the Author:

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UFC Versus Strikeforce, MMA styles compared

By Nolan Barias

In the world of Mixed Martial Arts, two organizations tend to stand out from the rest in terms of competition. Ultimate Fighting Championship and Strikeforce are both huge names in the sport, and both have had a huge influence on the development of MMA.

The UFC was the first major MMA organization, getting its start in 1991. Advertising executive Art Davie was working on an ad campaign that featured the underground sport of MMA. He became intrigued by the sport and became a student of Rorion Gracie, of the famed Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu family.

Fast forward a year and Davie comes up with the idea for a huge televised MMA event that would pit fighters with strengths in multiple styles in the world's first Mixed Martial Arts championship. He teamed up with Rorion Gracie and director John Milius to create UFC 1, the first Ultimate Fighting Championship. The event was an enormous success with Royce Gracie winning the first championship.

Strikeforce, on the other hand, began as a kickboxing organization. However, in 2006, Strikeforce broadcasted its first MMA event, the Shamrock vs. Gracie bout. While it was the organization's debut MMA event, for several years it held the record as the MMA event with the highest attendance. Strikeforce also is notable for pairing up with NBC in 2008 to present the weekly Strikeforce on NBC series, which continued to improve the sport's visibility and popularity.

In 2011, the company which owns UFC bought Strikeforce, and many worried that Strikeforce would simply be merged into the UFC. Its new owners, Zuffa, LLC., promised that the two would remain separate although they did lay off most of Strikeforce's employees and make a few other changes, as well.

Several key Strikeforce fighters also became part of the UFC after the purchase by Zuffa. This has left vacancies in several weight classes, including the women's featherweight division and the men's' welterweight and heavyweight divisions. Strikeforce does have a lucrative television contract with Showtime, which expires in 2014, so for at least the next few years, Strikeforce will continue to be separate from UFC.

Both UFC and Strikeforce follow the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts, although there are a few differences. A Strikeforce bout takes place in a hexagonal cage where UFC bouts occur in an octagonal cage. Strikeforce also forbids fighters from taking an elbow to the head of an opponent who was on the ground; however, that rule was changed when Strikeforce was purchased by Zuffa.

Mixed martial arts looks to have a bright future, an interest in the sport continues to gain momentum. Fighters continue to improve their skills, and MMA athletes are increasingly focused on reaching expert levels in multiple fighting styles. Changes in Strikeforce and UFC will, of course, have far reaching effects on the sport worldwide, but most analysts agree that this sport will continue to change and the competition will become even stronger in the coming years.

About the Author:

Nolan Barias loves writing about mixed martial arts benefits. For more information about a San Diego mixed martial arts gym or to find local coaches teaching jiu jitsu in San Diego, please visit The Arena MMA website today.

The Walking Dead Web Episodes

This is for those of us who are in major Walker DTs..... Set in the Walking Dead Universe and ever so slightly connected with Rick and Lori.....

Zombieland Series is free at Amazon

DIY Solar Panel System: Costly Mistakes

Undead Zombie Book Review, "The Scourge"

Here is a great little Undead Middle Ages Holy Grail Questing tale:
By AL Peevey
Zombies are pretty popular right now, and this serial has a unique setting to the genre: the Middle Ages and plague-ridden England. I haven't read any zombie-lit before, but I was intrigued by this chivalrous mix of dead folks who aren't really dead and knights who are not anxious to join them. I have used the word 'zombie'; however, Mr. Calas does not use it. After all, these are just plague victims on a new diet plan.

Basically, Sir Edward wants to reunite with his wife in Northern England, so he talks fellow knights, Sir Tristan and Sir Morgan, into helping him slash, gash, and viciously trash any plague "afflicted" who get in their way or just stumble into their path. Besides zombie-types, Sir Edward and his companions encounter other knights with agendas not coinciding with the trio's own, an invading French army, and an entrepreneur with the beyond disgusting audacity to use zombie women as prostitutes. The results of such unthinkable congress are disastrous!

Mr. Calas has given us, in installments, a raunchy, blood-splattered tale seasoned with expletives as well as other bodily fluids. He has also done his research well, sandwiching in historical notes between each chapter. They add authenticity to this nausea-inducing story. Yeah, I know. Nobody made me read it, and since there's at least one more installment left, I will finish it because I just have to know: Does Sir Edward ever get to his wife? Will it be the homecoming he longs for?

If this is your kind of reading, it should satisfy that undead appetite of yours!

The Walking Dead's Governor spotted about town...

'The Walking Dead' season 4: Robert Kirkman discusses what's ahead

In the closing moments of ‘Welcome to the Tombs,’ we saw as Rick welcomed not only Tyreese and Sasha into the fold, but he also brought the people of Woodbury to the prison. There have been questions circulating as to why the decision was made to stay in the prison, rather than the relatively normal confines of Woodbury, but Kirkman says the continued threat of the Governor makes the prison the more sensible choice for Rick and the others.
'The Walking Dead' season 4: Comic book creator Robert Kirkman discusses what's ahead - CSMonitor.com

Printable AR-15 Website Seized by US DOJ?

Feds Seize 3-D Printed Gun Website:
Did Homeland Security Investigations and the Justice Department take down Cody Wilson's website?
“This domain name associated with the website DefenseDistributed.com or Defcad.org has been seized pursuant to an order issued by a U.S. District Court,” the home page of the website states.
Defense Distributed is on open source organization that designed the Wiki Weapon, a firearm that can be downloaded over the internet and printed with a 3-D printer. The project was co-founded by University of Texas law student Cody Wilson “and a group of like-minded friends with strong libertarian leanings – a mix of Ron Paul fans, hunting enthusiasts, and tech-savvy revolutionaries who see the availability of a “printable gun” as potentially upending power structures across the globe,” PCMag.com reported last August.