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Dank Vapes, TKO and Other THC Vaping Brands Linked to Illnesses, C.D.C. Says

Vaping cartridges containing THC and labeled “Dank Vapes,” as well as some other illicit brands, are linked to the severe lung disease that has recently emerged among people who use vaping devices and e-cigarettes to inhale THC or nicotine, or both, health officials said on Friday.

But they also said Dank Vapes appeared to be a label that THC sellers can slap on any product, and is not a specific formulation or a single product. THC is the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.

“Dank Vapes appears to be the most prominent in a class of largely counterfeit brands, with common packaging that is easily available online and that is used by distributors to market THC-containing cartridges with no obvious centralized production or distribution,” said a report published on Friday by state health officials from Illinois and Wisconsin, and from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The new information comes from researchers’ interviews with 86 people in Illinois and Wisconsin who had become ill after vaping. About 87 percent of those patients had vaped THC cartridges purchased from “informal sources” during the three months before they got sick, and 57 had used Dank Vapes. Other THC brands named included Moon Rocks, Off White, TKO.

But officials said they did not know if vaping illnesses or deaths in other parts of the country were also related to those brands.

In Illinois and Wisconsin, among the patients who reported vaping nicotine, Juul was by far the dominant brand.

The C.D.C. held a briefing on Friday to discuss some of the findings in the health investigations of vaping illnesses that have now been reported in 46 states, involving 805 cases and 13 deaths. Oregon reported a second death on Thursday; state health officials said the person was hospitalized with respiratory symptoms after vaping cannabis products.

Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the C.D.C., called the lung illnesses “serious and life-threatening.” She described the marketplace for vaping products as dynamic, and said there was a large array of products, ingredients, packaging and supply chains, and consumers have no way of knowing just what is in the liquids they are vaping.

Many of the patients throughout the United States had reported using THC products, the agency said. Some patients have said they vaped only nicotine, but the Wisconsin researchers found that some patients who made that claim actually had used THC.

Of 771 patients nationwide, 91 percent had been hospitalized; 69 percent were male and a little more than 60 percent were between the ages of 18 and 34. Of the deaths, the C.D.C. said that nearly 60 percent were men, and the median age was 50 years old.

Both the C.D.C. and the Food and Drug Administration have been investigating the outbreaks of vaping illnesses, in an effort to not only identify the products used but also some of the substances that were inhaled.

The F.D.A. commissioner, Dr. Ned Sharpless, told a congressional panel on Wednesday that the agency had been testing vaping liquid provided by people who got sick.

“We’ve received about 300 samples,” he said. “We’ve tested about 150. I would say the answer is about 70 percent are THC products. The rest are nicotine products or something else. A significant fraction of the THC products, like maybe half of them, are contaminated with vitamin E acetate.”

Vitamin E acetate is a skin oil and has ”no business” being in a product that people inhale, Dr. Sharpless said, adding that the product is added to dilute or “cut” THC before it is sold.

But other ingredients or contaminants may also be contributing to the illnesses, health experts have said.

Patients have become weak and short of breath. Many need supplemental oxygen and treatment in intensive care units. In some patients, the lung damage has been so severe that they have been placed on ventilators. In a few cases, lung function has been so poor that ventilators were not enough, and the patients also had to be connected to machines that pump oxygen directly into the bloodstream.

Most of the patients have recovered enough to go home after days or weeks in the hospital, but doctors say it is too soon to tell whether they will suffer permanent damage to their lungs.

Given the unanswered questions about the exact cause of the illnesses, many health experts say people simply should not vape. Those who continue to do so should avoid THC and not buy vaping liquids off the street, or add ingredients to commercial products, the C.D.C. said. It emphasized that adults who do not smoke should not start using e-cigarettes, and that young people and pregnant women should never use them.

The spate of illnesses this summer has led several states and lawmakers to call for more restrictions on e-cigarettes and for law enforcement agencies to crack down on illegal vape shops and illicit sales of vaping products. Michigan, Rhode Island and New York have imposed bans on flavored e-cigarettes, while Massachusetts has imposed a four-month ban on all vaping products. Washington state is also considering a ban on flavored e-cigarettes.

Katie Thomas contributed reporting.

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Different Methods of Using Marijuana

Methods of ingesting cannabis ________________________________________

Smoking marijuana is the most common method of ingestion. Smoked Marijuana

The most common method of ingesting marijuana in the United States is to smoke it in a joint (cigarette), a glass pipe or a type of water pipe known as a bong. Smoking is a quick and efficient way to deliver an optimum therapeutic dose of cannabinoids, because the patient is able to feel the effects almost immediately, and can stop as soon as the desired relief is achieved. The trade off is an increased risk of bronchitis or other respiratory irritation. Rolling a joint, or making a marijuana cigarette, is a learned skill. Practice makes perfect. Rolling papers are readily available at corner stores and gas stations, and come in a wide range of sizes, composition and flavors. Beginners are advised to start with larger sizes. Inexpensive cigarette rolling machines (~$3 to $5) are also widely available for those with less than nimble fingers. Glass pipes and bongs are commonly used to smoke marijuana but may be difficult to find for sale in your community, particularly in small towns or rural areas of the state. You may have to order a glass pipe or bong on-line or travel to a larger city where you can visit a smoke shop. If you do visit a store to purchase a glass pipe or bong, you will see notices posted that these devices are intended for consuming tobacco or legal herbs only. Michigan law prohibits the sale of drug paraphernalia, which is any device intended for use in consuming controlled substances. However, the Michigan Marijuana Act protects not only registered patients and caregivers who possess paraphernalia, but also any vendors who sell it to them. ________________________________________ There are many ways of ingesting medical marijuana besides smoking it. Capsules

THC, the most powerful medicinal compound in cannabis, is available by prescription from licensed physicians. But most patients who try Marinol discover that it is far too psychoactive. THC is only one of a handful of cannabis compounds that work together harmoniously. For example, it is known that Cannabidiol (CBD) has sedative effects that offset the stimulative effects of pure THC. That is a part of why pure THC pills are known to overpower the senses. In order to get the optimum medicinal benefits without unwanted side effects, all of the natural cannabis compounds should be taken together as nature intended. Thus these homemade “Mari pills” are far superior to pharmaceutical Marinol. Plus, at a cost of up to $12 per tablet, Marinol is much more expensive than pills made from the natural plant. Empty medicine capsules can be purchased in some health food vitamin stores, if you are unable to obtain them, simply purchase some inexpensive herbal capsules and empty out the contents. Additional resources for making marijuana capsules: CannabisMD Reports  Marijuana in capsule form by Martin Martinez, author of The New Prescription – Marijuana As Medicine Lizzie Borden’s marijuana capsule recipe ________________________________________ Vaporization

Vaporization is an effective way to deliver the therapeutic components of marijuana without the toxic by products of combustion. The vegetable material is placed in the vaporization device and heated to a temperature of 180° to 200° C (356° to 392° F). This causes the essential oils to volatilize, or evaporate, into a pure vapor, which is then collected and inhaled. The resulting vapors contain no tars, hydrocarbons, benzene, carbon monoxide or other toxic pryolytic gases and by products of combustion. Respiratory risks associated with smoked marijuana are eliminated. A study examining the safety and efficacy of vaporization as a delivery system and published in the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics Cannabis Vaporizer Combines Efficient Delivery of THC with Effective Suppression of Pyrolytic Compounds may is located here. ________________________________________ Eating marijuana In many cultures people prefer to ingest marijuana by eating or drinking it. Eating medical marijuana is especially recommended for patients since it avoids the risks of bronchitis or lung irritations associated with inhaling smoke. Two important facts about medical marijuana that must be kept in mind if you plan to eat it. 1) Some cannabinoids must be activated by heat. Eating it raw will not deliver the full therapeutic benefits. Many people however do eat raw marijuana and report they receive benefit from doing so. 2) Cannabinoids are soluble (dissolve) in fats and alcohol, but not water. The cannabinoids, or the therapeutically active components in medical marijuana, cannot be extracted by brewing a tea or soaking in water. They must be either suspended in a fat such as vegetable oil or butter, OR steeped in alcohol. Medical marijuana can be prepared for cooking in two ways. 1) Pulverized into powder, called marijuana, or canna flour. 2)Extracted into a fat or oil, most commonly butter, called cannabutter. ________________________________________ Cannabutter

“Cannabutter” is the common name for a butter that has been infused with the beneficial cannabinoids contained in medical marijuana. Cannabutter is not hard to make and for those who ingest their medicine by eating it, cannabutter is much more palatable than is the whole plant. Making Cannabutter To make cannabutter, put a large kettle on to boil. Add a pound of butter. Bring the water-butter mixture to boil. The temperature will never go above 212° F  remember your high school science. This is warm enough to activate the cannabinoids but not so hot as to degrade them. You can boil this mixture all day long without fear, AS LONG AS you don’t let it boil dry. As the water-butter mix gently simmers, stir in one ounce of medical marijuana. Allow the water-butter-medical marijuana mixture to continue to simmer at a gentle boil for two hours. Stir occasionally, washing any residues that accumulate on the sides of your kettle back into the liquid. You don’t have to hover over it, just check it occasionally and don’t let the pan boil dry. After 2 hours, remove kettle from heat. The cannabinoids are now dissolved out of the plant material and into the butter. Strain the mixture, while still very hot through a strainer, a nylon stocking or a similar fine meshed filter. Set liquid aside. To recover as much of the butter as possible, return the plant material to the kettle and refill with water. Bring to boil. Stir briskly and then pour second batch of liquid through the filter. Add the resulting liquid to the first pot of filtered water. You may now discard the plant material; it no longer contains the beneficial cannabinoids. Allow liquid to cool. As it does, the butter will float to the top and form a solid layer on top of the water. Once fully cooled and the butter has solidified it may be gently skimmed off. The butter will most likely be greenish in color, that’s OK. Actually that’s good because it makes the cannabutter immediately recognizable which lessens the chances of accidental ingestion. Store your cannabutter in a closed container in your refrigerator. It must be kept refrigerated to keep it from going rancid. To test the strength of your cannabutter, spread a half teaspoon full on a cracker and try it out. It takes about an hour to reach its full effect. Be careful, it can sneak up on you. Do not attempt any complex, challenging or potentially dangerous tasks until you know how it will effect you. Cannabutter may be substituted for regular butter in any recipe. It is especially good for making candy, cookies and brownies. The amount to use in any particular recipe comes down to a matter of learning from experience. The best approach is to start small and then use a steadily increasing amount in each subsequent recipe until you find the dosage that is most beneficial for relieving your particular complex of symptoms. Fortunately, it is literally impossible to overdose on marijuana. It is estimated that an adult would have to consume over 65 pounds of marijuana in less than an hour to take in a lethal dose. The same techniques, same principals, may be used to infuse any vegetable oil with cannabinoids. However, many people find butter the most convenient and versatile. Medical Marijuana Flour

Marijuana can be cooked into any favorite recipe. However most people do not care for the taste so it’s important to chose recipes that will mask the flavor. Chocolate and tomato sauce are often used for that reason. To prepare medical marijuana for cooking, the stems and seeds should be removed with a sift or kitchen strainer and the resulting powder ground to a flour like consistency. Only grind as much as you will use at any one time as the cannabinoids will quickly degrade and be lost once the medical marijuana has been finely ground up. Grinding does not make medical marijuana any more effective but it does make it more palatable. Save the stems to make cannabutter. Add a cup or so of the medical marijuana flour to any recipe. Because of the great variability in cannabinoid ratios, potency and quality among the various cannabis strains, it will take some experimentation to determine the optimum amount of medical marijuana flour to add or portion size to consume. Remember that it can take anywhere for one to three hours for eaten medical marijuana to deliver it’s active ingredients to the bloodstream of the patient. Give the first portion time before consuming additional portions. An excellent option for the novice medical marijuana cook is to use a pre-packaged brownie mix. Simply follow the directions on the box and add your medical marijuana to the batter. You may also wish to add an extra table spoon of margarine or oil and an 1/8 cup of water. More information about eating or cooking with marijuana: Cooking with Marijuana ________________________________________ Suppositories

Medical marijuana can be easily converted into suppository form. Heres how. Begin with medical marijuana flour. For maximum efficacy in suppository form, medical marijuana needs to be pulverized to dust. Suppository kits, beeswax and molds are available in health food stores and online. Caution, beeswax is flammable. And hot wax is hot. The safest way to melt the beeswax is in a double boiler. If you must use a microwave use a low power setting, stop when the wax is half melted and then carefully stir to finish liquefying. Once the beeswax has melted, gently stir in an equal measure of medical marijuana flour. The resulting 50:50 mixture should then be molded into shape while still warm. Roll into cylinders or pour into a mold and when cool wrap and store suppositories in waxed paper. Suppositories should be kept in a separate, clearly marked container inside your refrigerator. Medical marijuana suppositories are well suited for patients who are unable to eat or smoke medical marijuana. ________________________________________ Drink

The active ingredients in medical marijuana can be infused into various liquids and made into drinks. Because cannabinoids are not water soluble, making drinkable medical marijuana is not a simple matter of brewing up a tea. Medical marijuana drinks are most commonly alcohol & milk based. Cannabinoids may be extracted into alcohol by steeping the plant material in a high proof alcohol for several days. Seriously ill patients should be very cautious about consuming alcoholic beverages. Please consult with your doctor about possible side effects when mixing alcohol and other medications you may be currently prescribed. Medical marijuana milk is known as, bhang. To make bhang, warm a quart of milk over low heat, gently stirring. After the milk comes to a slow boil, slowly mix in a 1/4 ounce of medical marijuana. Immediately reduce heat and gently simmer, stirring occasionally and making sure the milk does not scorch. After 30 minutes remove from heat and pour through strainer. Discard plant material and, after cooling, store your bhang in the refrigerator. Add your bhang to any recipe calling for milk or drink it straight. Read the full article

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Drone smuggling porn, capsule to inmates around the world

Inmates for years have the concept of ingenious — and now and again very compromising ways — to sneak contraband interior prison walls. They’ve bribed guards, used carrier pigeons, had family placed the products in body cavities and, of direction, who can forget a classic habitual: baking a report into a cake.

But modern-day generation is speedy making life less complicated for inmates — and less uncomfortable for a circle of relatives and buddies — trying to smuggle illicit items onto jail grounds.

Corrections officers throughout the U.S. Have reported an uptick inside a previous couple of years of drones flying over penitentiary partitions to supply the entirety from cigarettes and pornography to capsules and guns to inmates.

prison officials in Michigan closing spring discovered a small toy drone at the grounds of the Charles Egeler Reception and Guidance Middle. Even as the drone became too small to haul in any contraband, officers said that it changed into in all likelihood used to probe the jails defenses and safety for a future undertaking.

“It’s funny as it’s truly a toy that came over. However within the larger sense, it’s miles a completely extreme incident,” Michigan Branch of Corrections spokesman Chris Gautz told jail Legal Information.

The incident in Michigan become observed by similar times in Oklahoma, Ohio, South Carolina and Georgia to name a few, and has led some state officers to name for a revamping of jail centers and processes to head after these midair menaces.

A bit of law presently bouncing around Washington state’s capitol constructing might make flying a drone inside 1,000 toes of the perimeter of a correctional facility without permission a class C criminal. a similar regulation has been brought in Michigan — as Senate Bills 487 and 488 — making it a legal to function drones within 1,000 feet of a prison.

One of the maximum famous drones available on the market — the DJI Phantom four — clocks in at a complete weight of 3 kilos and might fly at least four miles away from its operator without dropping its video flow or far-flung controls. While the Phantom can bring simply over 1 pound At the same time as in flight, its greater beefier brother, the DJI S900, has the most payload of simply below 7 kilos — meaning that anybody looking to drop around $2,000 can supply a widespread care package to their pals at the interior.

within the spring of 2015, South Carolina introduced that vast asset could be carried out to save you drones from getting access to state prisons — inclusive of building new watch towers for guards to more easily spot drawing close drones. This pass got here rapidly after guards on the Lee Correctional Institution determined a downed drone at some stage in a recurring perimeter check that had crashed Even as carrying mobile phones, marijuana, and tobacco over jail walls.

The problem of drones invading prisons isn’t entirely a trouble within the U.S.

Prisons in Canada, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Thailand, Greece and England are all struggling to combat the upward push of the enormously cheaper robotics.

The UK introduced earlier this week the formation of a “professional squad” with the intention to be tasked with investigating drone smuggling national and passing that information right down to neighborhood-degree officers to behave on.

The risk of drones isn’t just restricted to prisons, as international locations throughout the globe are searching for terrorists and different crook businesses using the evolving technology to carry out deadly assaults.

Following incidents of drones flying over the presidential palace and confined military websites — together with the lethal 2015 Paris terror attacks — the French Air Force has trained four golden eagles to intercept and smash the rogue plane.

That is How Drones Have Revolutionized the arena of Photography

Selfie stick of the skies’ – drones has lent new parameters to the artwork of Images. These days, capsule filling machine aren’t just constrained to navy use But have loads greater civilian packages as properly. capsule filling machine have modified aerial Pictures past popularity. Photographers, drones, and capsule sizes are honestly the brand new cool!

Consistent with estimates with the aid of the Federal Aviation Management, there will be around 30,000 capsule sizes soaring overhead inside the U.S. through 2020.

Wedding Images

Drone Pictures is the present day trend in weddings, and photographers are the use of them notably for Wedding shoots. The photos captured from a capsule filling machine are extraordinary and cannot be as compared with another kind of Pictures. Capsule sizesImages has brought about a paradigm shift from regular Wedding shoots to some surely cool candid photographs.

Sports activities Pictures

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Natural Disaster Pictures

Helicopters and planes prove less effective in relation to capturing pictures of a Natural Catastrophe. Despite the fact that, drones are also now not 100% correct, they have got in reality furnished clearer and greater distinctive pix of the calamity than every other UAV, and have also helped in rescue operations.

Wildlife Images

Drones have revolutionized the manner Wildlife is being photographed. Habitats of the animals and their whereabouts can be efficaciously observed via drones. Mainly, tree-top animals can be captured superbly without harming the animals or the trees.

Real Estate Photography

Pictures with drones have commercial programs or rather urban commercial programs as nicely. Actual Property retailers are actually who prefer the use of drones to seize each nook and nook of the property that they want to cope with.

Agricultural Photography

Even agriculture is using drone Photography. Aerial views of the fields have helped farmers survey and attend to their vegetation well timed.

Vacations Made Special

Badly used in the tourism area, capsule filling machine have helped humans pick their holiday locations and also seize memories in their Vacations aerially.

Selfie Drone

Oh Yes! Selfie Drones! these selfie sticks of the skies can help you take some actually cool selfies.

All You Need to Understand About Ants, the Little Giants The following article is an try, to sum up, all About ants in short. The records provided in the article covers different aspects of the morphology, life cycle, and social conduct of these notable industrious creatures.

Ants are social insects having more than 12,000 extraordinary species. those insects which belong to the order Hymenoptera had developed a few a hundred and ten a hundred thirty million years in the past from wasp-like ancestors. They’re recognized to be very organized and that they stay in colonies. An ordinary colony has three kinds of ants, i.E., queen, employees (lady), and capsule filling machine (fertile men). Every kind has a particular characteristic to carry out – the queen lays eggs, drones mate with the queen, While employees perform obligations such as amassing meals, constructing colonies, etc. The female employees actually have a sub-group called soldiers which shield their fellow ants. Important statistics Approximately ants including the morphology, consuming habits, etc., are offered in the following paragraphs.

Conduct and Habitat

Ants are determined all around the earth. But, those located inside the Hawaiian islands, Iceland, Greenland, and a few elements of Polynesia aren’t native species. Commonplace colors observed in ants are crimson, black, and green (in rare cases).

Anatomy and body Structures

The frame of ants is widely divided into three components which might be the pinnacle, mesosoma, and metasoma. The frame element which connects metasoma and mesosoma is known as petiole. the head includes 3 components which are the eyes, antenna, and jaws. As a result of the variety of lenses which form eyes, they are able to capture moves without difficulty. those eyes But, do not offer them with a high decision. some ants from the subterranean area can not see at all; most of the species don’t have a well-developed eyesight. they have got 6 legs and all of these are attached to their trunk. Inner Systems of the body are covered in a protective protecting known as an exoskeleton. They do no longer own lungs; spiracles, the valves present on exoskeleton act as entry points for oxygen. Carbon dioxide and different gasses are expelled out of the frame via the same spiracles.

Feeding conduct

If you are questioning About what ants devour, then you definitely Need to Recognise that younger and older ants feed on exclusive varieties of meals. The larvae are But, fed with a liquid substance via the elder employees. Worker ants journey looking for meals and directly eat what’s to be had to them. The food which they create back is processed (damaged down) right into a liquid kingdom by using smaller ants. it is thrilling to be aware that few grown up ants don’t eat at all after reaching complete growth. The specialty of ants is they act as herbivores, predators and additionally perform the work of scavengers.

Minutiae

Here are some facts which cover nearly all About ants concerning aspects besides those associated with their feeding behavior: The Worker ants are categorized in three organizations based totally on their size that is foremost, median, and minor. The mounds built from sand and clay particles act as houses for the colonies. those mounds guard the ants from rains and different harsh climatic conditions.

Now, not all ants build their residence with dust/sand. Some of them dig into wood, just like termites.

The queens lay eggs for his or her whole existence.

The improvement and boom of a colony are depending on the survival of the queen.

Ants possess pairs of jaws; this kind of pairs is used for chewing Whilst the alternative to carrying food.

Leafcutter is One of the kinds which are found in South and Primary us and are acknowledged for his or her Special competencies to reduce leaves. The navy pants constantly look for prey and are, therefore, aggressive in nature.

The life cycle of the ants is split into 4 ranges which might be eggs, larvae, pupa, and person.

An ant can deliver a load that is 20 instances its own weight.

In contrast to the Not unusual ants which possess a mediocre imaginative and prescient, the Australian bulldog ants have evolved eyesight.

Ants in to preventing in uncommon cases, However, it’s been observed that if they get into combating, the act (in maximum cases) ends with death.

Ants don’t have ears. these insects can experience the vibrations of drawing near gadgets or residing beings and act as a result.

Flying Ants

Flying ants are often stressed with termites because each those creatures are pretty comparable in appearance and most significantly possess wings. Ants with wings are identical as ordinary ones with the top, mesosoma, and metasoma.

The item offers points which have all of the statistics Approximately ants ranging from anatomy, feeding conduct to distribution. There is a lot to be recognized About these terrific creatures which are so small yet so enormously advanced.

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A Little Personal

Jack was feeling the strain, he’d been at this job now for a Decade, it was getting time to hand this whole business off to younger members. Noticing grey in his hair, and lines on his face only made this more apparent every day. He dropped the papers on his desk, and decided to take a break, he’d earned it. After an allnighter and a desk nap he felt maybe some of these reports could wait. Not like they were going anywhere.

A hop and a skip and he’d ended up in the kitchen. Well more like break room, he glanced around the mostly empty room eyes settling on the rather bulky man hunched over a glass and a bottle. Whiskey? Looked like it, honestly it was only 1 in the afternoon. He furrowed his brow. George had never really been on any of his teams, Jack’d been Army, and George was a Seal. Completely different worlds honestly, he’d heard a few stories second hand about the man’s kill count...and not all of them were Omnics. War wasn’t limited to humans and machines, sometimes men had to duke it out with each other he guessed. If he recalled George was a bit older than him, not by too much. He only really knew the man by his code name, or rather...his other half. Hephaestus...and damned was that guy good at collateral damage. Lucky they only tended to drop him in places already mostly destroyed. What the hell, he might as well sit down with the man, no one should drink alone. Anyway they were both midwestern country kids, maybe that meant they had something in common there. As the commander sat down with his frankly molten microwave food tray George looked up and raised a brow. “Yello, commander;” he greeted with a brief sort of smile. “I think I’m off duty, but don’t tell anyone, call me Jack;” “All due respect, I dunno you well enough for Jack, hows about we go with Morrison, eh?” George replied, god that was thicker accent than the commander had expected. “I honestly forget for a moment where you came from, I betcha I could guess,” Jack mused giving the mush that was macaroni a try. Too hot, and kind of awful. “Oh I suppose,” George accepted. “Michigan, Upper Peninsula,” came the wager. “Alright, ya got me, guess I owe you somethin, eh?” the giant of a man reached into his pants pocket. “Hows about a penny? This ones real shiny.” “Where the hell did you get a penny in this day and age?” “Collect em, found a whole jar of em up north, when my mom passed on; she’d willed me the property,” he said and took a swig as Jack examined the coin.

Morrison watched as the glass drained, curious how much of the bottle had disappeared from this sitting. “No missions coming up?” Jack asked, he couldn’t recall if he’d put together any teams with George in them. “One, but it doesn’t matter how much I drink, don’t get drunk...at this point it’s more for the taste. I pretend it’s doing something,” mused the man. “Sides folks aren’t really sending me out, the big guys who ya want.” He poured a bit more into the glass and took a sip. “Well I mean…” “Look no need to tell me different, without the big guy I’m a washed up spec-ops nobody, with a bum leg and metal arm to boot,” George mused with a dry laugh. “I’m glad, being here anyway…” Jack raised a brow and stopped eating for a moment curiously expecting George to elaborate. Morrison was getting rather tired of being here if he was honest. Though he couldn’t bring himself to hand the reigns over and retire from it all. The big man seemed to pick up that Jack wanted further explanation. “Well, I woulda been out of the field for good; they discharged me with some damned purple heart, just like that...good bye. That mistake at the hospital saved my life, if I’m honest,” he said as he scratched the fuzz onf his chin. “I lost pretty much everything when I came home. Wasn’t really much left to live for.” The commander wasn’t sure what to say to that. “I’m...sorry to hear that…” He cleared his throat. “I...uh…” “You don’t have to apologize, had quite a few years to figure that all on my own,” George said holding up a big hand. It was weird to Jack, sure they’d both served, but from 18 through to now he’d never really known anything else. From what he knew of George’s past he’d lived more of a life than Morrison had. “I guess I just don’t know anything about that...I’ve only ever done...this I guess,” he said with a cough. He didn’t want anymore of this tasteless microwave dinner. George leaned back and cross his arms over his broad chest. Everything about the man had a largeness to it. He wasn’t quite as tall as Reinhardt, but seemed like he’d give him a run in the sheer bulk department. “Nobody’s every walkin the same road, Morrison; my father died in the line of duty, my uncle got off with a shattered hand; how it goes, y’know?” He shrugged.

Jack furrowed his brow and nodded slowly. “I...suppose.” He wasn’t sure what else to say to that, it was correct. Him and George walked vastly different paths, just odd to meet someone who seemed at peace with what might come. “You a religious man George?”

“God fearing, at the very least I like how the end works with the classic Christian bible…” there was a pause as he considered for a moment. “I wouldn’t exactly call myself a man of the church, just someone who’d like to believe, y’know?” “Yeah, my parents were the same way, you remind me of my dad…” Morrison mused. “Not that it’s a bad thing.”

George gave a dry laugh. “Maybe it’s cause I’m a father myself, always was a dream of mine, have kids, settle down...things didn’t work out exactly as I planned…” he said with a sigh as he fondled the glass a bit. He took a long swig, draining most of the glass before he set it back down. Seemed the subject was soar. He put his hand in his pocket again, pulling out a beat up leather wallet. He further dug in that and then place a pair of photos on the table. “I’ve got them backed up and saved to a few different places...so I never lose them, but I like having something to touch.” Morrison slid them over and examined them, a much younger George, with a pair of young children, one was just a baby. The other looked about 4. “Cute, what’re their names?” “My little girls named for her great aunt, Kathryn, and the other is named for my grandfather, Thomas. I’d call my girl Kitty Kat, and Thomas was always Tommy;” the man replied, a distant smile on his face, like he was recalling a better time. The way he talked about it made it sound like they weren’t around anymore. Jack didn’t want to assume anything. “Must be in their 20s now, you keep in touch?” he decided to hazard, that seemed safe, though the lack of pictures of them at an older age made him wonder. George’s brow knit into something like pain. “Naw, their mom took them away, had me sanctioned...said I uh...I’d hurt them. Guess it’s not hard to believe I could but...never. They were all that was left after I was discharged, I guess she didn’t really care for me when I was around all the time...I tried not to fight too much,” he murmured. “Just do what she said to, pretend everything was alright…” He cleared his throat. “Sorry this is a bit too personal, didn’t mean to ruin your lunch.” “Eh, not so hungry anyway,” Jack replied and tried to figure out something else to say, what did that pain feel like? He wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to imagine. Never thought of having kids himself, though he supposed it’d happen...how old he was maybe it wouldn’t. “Sorry, George, I don’t know if I could even pretend to know what that’s like…” “No, don’t suppose you could, it was a long time ago, I was told I couldn’t see them and if I did while they were under legal age...then I’d be taken to jail,” George said and shrugged. “How it goes, her word against mine. I don’t blame the system for believing her. But then she took my kids to California, what was I supposed to do? I used my mom as a go between, she said she told them stories about me. Can’t imagine what she’s said, she just didn’t want them thinking I was some kind of monster…”

Jack nodded along, he wasn’t a therapist or a counselor and he should suggest George see one, but he supposed it was something of a man to man? He was the commander after all, he was basically sworn to confidentiality when it came to this kind of thing. “Well, never could keep in touch, but I marked every birthday; I liked to buy something, I wasn’t sure what they’d like when they got older, so I’d get a little of this little of that each time. Figure when I finally met them again they could pick and choose what they liked…” he smiled a bit at that. “Stupid…” The commander gave a snort and shook his head. “Nah, sounds nice; my weird aunt for 10 years straight gave me the same matchbox car, cause she knew I ‘liked race cars’ the last one I got at 25, already in the army, heading for the crisis and this little box shows up from crazy Aunt Harriot, and it’s the same damned car,” he explained and that got a chuckle out of George. “Middle of this war with omnics I get this damned package. I honestly started hollerin’ and almost crying. Nobody understood why it was so funny.” The man’s shoulders loosened up and he looked a bit more open than he had. “Reminds me of the care package I got from Uncle Todd, he’d sent a dime of Marijuana, and a travel bottle of shampoo. And that’s all that was in the package, now you might have thought I’d turn in the contraband and you’d be wrong;” George said looking around tapping his nose. “I tell you what after the 4th throat you start to lose an appetite, passed that around the tent, and I had 6 Seals asking whether it was Dawn or Dusk, because the fire was orange.” Jack looked aghast before he started chuckling along with George. “You didn’t…” “God as my witness, that’s the honest truth…” And Jack could do nothing but believe him. He felt so clean cut hearing that kind of story. “Best part was a tentful of Seals waking up naked because they thought that since it was dusk no one would see them drying their clothes.” “Why did they need to dry their clothes?” “They didn’t, but everyone started saying moist a lot…and I lose track of what happened after that.” Jack had his hand over his mouth as he laughed till his stomach hurt. “We should go out for drinks sometime George, I need to hear more about that…” he mused, happy to have diverted the man from his more painful past. “I can tell you more about weird Aunt Harriot.” “Love to hear about her, nothing like odd family from the Midwest…” “You’re damned right.”

There was a brief pause of quiet as their laughed burned out. Jack stood up and shook George’s hand which frankly seemed to engulf his. “Pleasure really meeting you George, good luck on your mission,” he mused.

“You too, Morrison, and thanks, I’m sure the big guy can handle it.”

“Take care of yourself, we’ll have to find time for drinks.”

“Free when you are, sir;”

And that was that, Jack left the man to the last of his bottle, and headed back for his desk. With all the resources at his disposal surely he could find a pair of civies. But...would that be the correct thing to do? He decided yes, it was. All the years George had given to this organization, he could give something back. Maybe when he arranged drinks, he’d arrange that. “Athena, George Pickford, we’ve got his file yeah?” “Of course, Commander, everything from his military service to his time at Overwatch.”

“I need you to look for a pair of names in our wider database, scan others if you can, Kathryn Pickford, Thomas Pickford;” “Right away, Commander;” Yeah that seemed the right thing to do indeed, Overwatch was about helping people, well this was him helping someone.

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