Blood Feuds still happen in this country.

Blood Feuds still happen in this country.

A blood feud consists of a long-running argument or fight, often between families or clans, in which if they hurt someone in your family, you have the right to hurt them back. In other words, you take justice in your own hands.

Sounds terrible, sadly, this is something that is still active in modern times.

In Albania, the blood feud has returned in rural areas after more than 40 years of being abolished by Albanian communists. More than 5,500 Albanian families are currently engaged in blood feuds.

There are now more than 20,000 men and boys who live under an ever-present death sentence because of blood feuds. Since 1992, at least 10,000 Albanians have been killed due to blood feuds.

Mutual vendetta may develop into a vicious circle of further killings, retaliation, counterattacks, and all-out warfare that can end in the mutual extinction of both families.

Often the original cause is forgotten, and feuds continue simply because it is perceived that there has always been a feud.

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Twisted Christmas Tree

Santa joined me in the shop and we made a wooden Twisted Christmas Tree! It’s made from unfinished cedar so it even smells like a Christmas tree. It’s not glued together, so it comes apart into 104 pieces for packing or can be used as a puzzle. Below is a Parts List with basic instructions if you would like to build one of your own. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from The Carmichael Workshop.

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Parts List:

50 Cedar Strips 3/4” wide x 3/8” thick x 14-1/8” long

2-Piece Stand 10” wide x 3.5” tall

1 3/8” Hardwood Dowel 26” long

1 Star

Steps:

1. Cut cedar strips in pairs starting at 14”, decreasing by 1/4” length for each pair. Save all pieces after cutting.

2. Cut 3/4” dado half laps in the center of each piece. (Be sure to do a test fit first.)

3. Assemble stand and dowel rod. (Note that dowel rod thickness can vary from the store so always drill a test hole for a test fit.)

4. Cross-lap each pair of cedar strips in the middle and drill a 3/8” hole through the center, then slide it onto the dowel rod. Continue until at the top of the tree.

5. Drill a 3/8” hole in the base of the star and slide it on top. Note that you may need to cut the dowel rod height to fit.

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Rough Roving: Curiosity's Wheel Damage 'Accelerated'

Despite assurances that holes in the Mars rover's wheels are expected, there seems to be increasing concern for the their worsening condition after the one-ton robot rolled over some craggy terrain. Continue reading →



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DNews: Paper or Plastic: Which is Worse?

Paper vs. plastic bags: You'd think this fight would have been settled by now. But as Trace explains, for cities around the world, the fight is more complicated than you'd think.



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33 GIFs From 2013 That Will Make You Laugh Every Time

Trust me.

This man taking the worst shortcut ever:

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The worst way to wake up:

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Chris Bosh's all-confetti diet:

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These dogs imitating a baby crawling:

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There's a place in West Virginia where cell phones, wi-fi and radio are banned! It's protecting this really cool thing.

There's a place in West Virginia where cell phones, wi-fi and radio are banned! It's protecting this really cool thing.

There are no physical signs you've entered the National Radio Quiet Zone, a 13,000-square-mile area that covers the eastern half of West Virginia.

But the silence gives you a signal. Somewhere around the Virginia-West Virginia state line, the periodic buzzes and pings of our smartphones stopped.

Almost every radio station disappeared, too, except for Allegheny Mountain Radio, which broadcasts at a low enough frequency to avoid being banned.

The county still hasn't progressed to constant connectivity. That's because it sits within a zone designed to protect a sophisticated radio telescope at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory from interference.

Radio telescopes work by tracking and reading the energy waves that come from stars or gases, but they have to be located in sparsely populated areas to avoid electromagnetic interference.

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