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Quest For 8: This Adventurous Hunter Decides to Set His Sights High — to Pursue Colorado's Eight Big-Game Species With a Bow
Posted on May 1, 2014
Born and raised in Denver, I moved to Eagle, Colorado in 1996 to begin a new era of my military career. My daily routine included flying nearly every day over amazing mountain landscapes and unavoidable frequent sightings of wild animals. My childhood was filled with bird hunting but never any pursuit of big-game species. All that was about to change as I wanted to hunt these animals and just somehow knew I should do it with a bow.
My first hunting season was a total joke, I borrowed a bow and a co-worker did the same. We planned to hunt elk and had loose plans of where we would go on opening weekend. The day prior to opening day, my co-worker dropped out of the hunt. I asked to borrow his already borrowed bow and thought I might convince my brother to join me; he hadn't ever shot a bow. When Wes answered the phone I asked him if he wanted to go bowhunting for elk the next day. Surprised and doubtful, he willingly drove to Eagle, fired about a half-dozen arrows at a hay bale in my apartment parking lot, and we were "ready" for the next morning's hunt. I'm sure you can imagine how funny we must have been, but I was hooked—I was made to be a bowhunter.
Elk 1998
By the 1997 season, I was much better prepared. I bought a Jennings Buckmaster bow from Cabela's and was a pretty good shot. I talked to a few people about my new sport but really never found a good mentor or information source to learn the ropes. All my knowledge would be learned through trial and error—mostly error. Elk were my only target in those early years, always hunting over-the-counter units across the countless acres of national forest throughout the central Rockies of Colorado.
In 1998, my brother arrowed "our" first elk, an old cow that walked into our ambush location. We still had much to learn; a big dead elk on the ground, deep in the wilderness was a tall task for us rookies. We eventually prevailed in spite of the nasty cut on my brother's hand, delivered by my clumsy knife. After a late night of packing meat our night-cap was a trip to the emergency room to stitch Wes' hand. A couple weeks later I managed to kill my first elk while hunting solo in the same area; a 5 x 5 nice bull that seemed like a monster to me. Solo hunting success would become a common theme for me in the years to come.
I was a bowhunting addict now and somewhere along the way I decided that the Colorado Big 8 was my goal. I began to accumulate preference points for a variety of species and my journey was underway.
Black Bear 2003
Most bowhunters understand the amazing repellent effect a hunting tag has for a particular species. It seemed that in all my earlier years of bowhunting adventure, bears were a common sight. Wes and I almost had to kill a bear out of self defense and had our campsites ravaged by these hungry creatures numerous times. We even had a bear drink an entire 18-pack of Bud Light that I had packed into our remote wilderness campsite; I can only imagine the hangover! After I began to acquire tags to actually hunt them, bears became scarce.
As we climbed the mountain one early morning in search of elk, some quiet voice inside encouraged me to look over the ledge on my left. Sure enough, as I peered down the hill a bear was ambling our way from about 40 yards. I looked at my brother, his eyes huge with concern. "Are you gonna shoot it?" he asked with trepidation in his voice (Wes really doesn't like bears, and our near self-defense shooting of one a few years earlier still had him rattled).
"Hell yes, I'm gonna shoot it" was my whispered reply. The chocolate-colored bruin walked to 15 yards on our downhill side. I let the arrow fly and the bear exploded with a furious, growling, downhill sprint. We gave the bear some time before we started the tracking process. The easy-to-follow blood trail led us across a treacherous mess of boulders, deadfall trees, and thick brush. Every additional step along the winding trail increased our anxiety of coming face to face with a wounded bear (Wes was predictably pulling up the rear of our three man tracking crew. Did I mention he really doesn't like bears?).
Movement ahead caught my eye but I wasn't certain is was our bear at all. We moved very cautiously and finally saw the dead boar. The movement we saw was the bear's last; he was down without any further drama or excitement.
After a few pictures I began to work skinning and disassembling the beautiful bear. I was pleasantly surprised at how clean and smell-free he was. I expected that bears would be stinky and dirty but this bear was anything but that. Wes and Bryan left me alone to my work in pursuit of a bugling bull across the ridge. We agreed to meet in a few hours for the trip back to camp with my prize.
Bighorn Ram 2006
In 2006, I deployed with my Army unit to the Horn of Africa in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. I knew that I would miss the entire bowhunting season back home but applied for an unusual Bighorn hunt that occurred in November. While deployed I learned that I was successful in the draw and would have a tag waiting for me upon my return to the U.S. in October.
I hunted solo during many cold days looking for sheep. The opening day provided me with an unsuccessful stalk opportunity but not a single ram could be found since—nearly 15 hunt days ago. As I topped a ridge one morning I encountered another hunter and his non-hunting companion. We were talking together about the lack of sheep in the area when a ram suddenly appeared on the adjacent ridge. The animal was looking directly at us as we stood silhouetted on the open hillside.
The other hunter was in pursuit of a ewe so the opportunity was mine to pursue. Because the ram was already looking at us, I guessed that my best option was to let the ram continue to watch the other hunters as I slid away for an end-around stalk through the thick pine trees between us. My newfound hunting buddies agreed to keep the rams attention, and I was on my way without hesitation.
About halfway to the place where I thought the ram was, I heard a loud whistle from the other hunters. I knew this was a signal for me to abort my stalk plans. I returned to the hillside where the other guys were still standing; they informed me that the big ram walked past them at only 25 yards. My heart sank. It felt as if my best and possibly only chance had just evaporated. The guys pointed me in the direction the ram was headed and I gave chase, blindly trying to find the ram in thick, tree-covered cliffs.
Pure instincts were guiding me as I worked across the hillside cliffs. Without any tracks to follow on the rocky surface I was beginning to accept the idea that my bighorn ram tag would go unfilled. Just when I had lost nearly all hope, the ram miraculously appeared ahead on a small cliff. The ram was intently looking at something uphill which allowed me to quickly close the distance between us. As my hand reached for the rangefinder attached to my hip belt, the ram began to move quickly along the cliff edge. My window of opportunity was closing rapidly.
I immediately nocked an arrow, drew, and shot instinctively. I saw the puff of dust rise from the ram's side and heard the sound of my arrow shattering into the cliff wall behind him. The ram trotted across the cliff and disappeared behind the rocks. Only seconds later I heard the sliding, crashing sounds of the mortally wounded animal falling from his perch above and into a cliff-side tree. Without even thinking (or breathing) I hit my knees in a quick prayer of thanks. I had done it! Perseverance had paid off!
Whitetail Deer 2009
Colorado isn't known for its whitetail deer population. The species is only found in certain areas across the eastern plains of the state where expansive shallow canyon lands surrender to agricultural fields. Nearly all the land in eastern Colorado is private and access is difficult to acquire. Through extensive research, phone calls, and personal visits, I eventually received permission to hunt from a few willing ranchers. Most of these land parcels were small but I knew whitetail deer lived in the area.
Although there were a few locations where treestands would have been strategic, I didn't care to use one. Heck, I didn't even own one. Even if I did possess a treestand I seriously lacked the patience to use it anyhow. Spot-and-stalk was the name of the game, and those whitetail bucks made a fool of me again and again over many days. It seemed that most times I ventured to the plains the wind was light or non-existent. Lack of wind made stalking to within bow range of a bedded whitetail buck nearly impossible. The endless cycle of finding a buck, making a stalk, and getting busted, was really fun. It did, however, begin to get frustrating.
One particular morning I spent a couple hours stalking a pair of bucks lazily basking on the sunny side of a shallow draw. The terrain and wind wouldn't allow any further movement for me and I chose to just wait and see what developed. I was on the tip of a small finger, shielded from view by the tall sandstone wall above me. I could move easily on the finger without detection. As I was periodically checking on the status of the two bucks, a new giant appeared down the draw. This amazing buck was walking directly toward me.
Within a minute he was standing directly beneath my little finger ledge less than 10 feet away and almost directly below me. Crouching, I drew my bow then rose to lean over the ledge. I had no idea how to aim at something this close and the size of this buck had me rattled. Although I aimed at the dirt under his chest, my arrow skipped harmlessly off his back. The buck ran 100 yards and stopped to lick the small trickle of blood from the new scratch on his back, not knowing what had just happened.
As the giant wandered away in the direction he came from, I moved up to check on my lounging bucks. They were now on the move and were walking down the coulee in my direction. I only had a moment to get prepared for a shot and delivered an excellent arrow to the lead buck. I watched him run across the drainage and into another pocket where I later found him piled-up under a ledge.
Pronghorn 2010
Spot-and-talk tactics for pronghorn across the high desert of eastern Colorado is tough, to put it mildly. I had been trying my best at this endeavor for a couple years with a bunch of laughable attempts and a few great opportunities. Heat, rattlesnakes, and cactus made the adventures even more dynamic.
As the 2011 Pronghorn season advanced, so did my desire to retreat into the high mountain meadows to chase my favorite species—elk. My patience ran dry (seeing a pattern here?) and I finally resorted to the purchase of a ground blind.
It was dark as I walked to a lonesome windmill pond in the vast pasture landscape. Luckily, I had familiarized myself with how to erect the new blind the evening before and it went up with ease next to a pile of rubble concrete to reduce its obviousness. The sun was just peeking above the horizon and the small herd of pronghorn behind me cast long shadows across the ground. The does came to the water first along with their playful fawns. I was in complete disbelief as these critters that often spotted me a mile away now stood at 20 feet, oblivious to my presence inside a fabric blind. The only buck in the herd was last to appear and uninterested in drinking any water. He walked past my blind at 20 yards and took my arrow in the center of his lungs.
The entire herd ran away in the direction they approached, shadows dancing across the prairie. My buck went a short distance and lay still in the cool morning air. I was beginning to think that my Big 8 dream might actually become a reality.
Mountain Goat 2010
Like others who have drawn once-in-a-lifetime type tags, the notification struck me as surreal and exciting. This was it! My last "difficult" species to draw and an undoubtedly tough hunt was in my future. I would be hunting near Mt. Antero, Colorado, a peak that reaches to the heavens above 14,000 feet. All my research, training, and preparation for the hunt were certainly worthwhile, but none of it prepared me for the mental challenge.
Mountain Goats are tough animals, and for good reason; they live in the most inhospitable places in North America. The places they call home are like a nightmare for us two-legged, non-wild creatures.
The day prior to opening day, I established a base camp at about 11,000 feet accessible via a nasty 4-wheel drive road. Numerous old trails still exist across the rugged mountains from earlier years of gold and silver mining. These old roads and trails were extremely valuable to cover ground in the valleys en route to the high peaks where goats roam. In the short remaining hour of daylight I wasn't able to glass any goats yet I crawled into my tent with confidence and high expectations.
At first light the next morning, I found a group of nine goats on a high grassy slope at around 12,300 feet. I knew that my best avenue of approach was to climb the opposite side of the mountain and descend along the spine of the ridge above the feeding animals. About an hour and a half later, I arrived at my predetermined point on the ridge. The wind was already quite strong and the temperature was only 20 degrees; my water bottles were frozen! As I peeked around the ragged boulder face of the ridge to look for the goats, I was disappointed to find that they were already on the move and side-hilling the loose shale slope below me. I watched them for several minutes as they disappeared in the adjacent drainage to the west. Without any other animals in view, and having already climbed a nasty hill to get there, I elected to pursue the herd; I would later severely regret the decision.
For over four hours I struggled side-hill across the wicked-steep face of loose boulders and shale. Two hours prior the goats had disappeared over the top of the mountain on a path that was impossible for me to follow. The hillside became a living nightmare that I would later refer to as "Hell Mountain."
At this point all I wanted to do was get off that mountain. I could either go back the way I came (which I knew was terrible) or continue side-hill all the way around to the other side where the journey began. Either choice was awful; I chose the latter hoping to find a different goat to stalk or possible better travelling conditions. Six hours later I was back at the morning's start point, completely exhausted and bloody from countless slides and falls. I knew one thing for certain. Mountain Goats were safe from my arrows on that particular mountain forever; I was never stepping foot up there again.
The next days of hunting were full of exhaustion, frustration, snow, and a few blown stalks. I spent over two hours one day in a stare-down with a big billy goat. He had me pegged at 40 yards. Never get into a staring completion with a goat; they will win. Several times I found myself virtually paralyzed against cliff walls, unable to climb or descend with crumbling granite under hand and foot and my bow strapped to my backpack. I began to question my own sanity and safety in those wild lofty peaks. Shooting arrows at these crazy steep angles and cross-hills was tough, producing a couple missed shots. I had practiced steep angle shots, but nothing like what I encountered up there.
Over the next two weeks I made several trips in and out of base camp to get a real night's sleep and recharge my internal battery at home. I could almost feel the weight loss my body was experiencing. At home, the practical side of my mind tried to convince me to not return and just give up. Determination won the mental battle and I returned for one more attempt.
In the same cliffs I had come to love for consistent goats and hate for their treachery, were once again my destination. From across the basin I glassed three goats about halfway down from the top. Around the bowl and into the cliffs I pursued. I arrived above the three goats, now bedded for their typical midday rest. I had no shot and again I waited like so many times before. The sun is brutal at 13,000 feet and it cooked me accordingly. I knew the exact distance to the bigger nanny in the group and just needed her to stand. What I didn't know was exactly how to aim it to compensate for the steep downhill slope; my shooting confidence had been rattled by earlier missed shots. Two hours into the waiting game the nanny stood and predictably stretched in place. This was the moment I had waited for and my arrow was on its way. The arrow exploded into the granite under the goat—another miss. The goats scrambled down and across the cliff walls.
Completely disgusted with myself, I moved as quickly as possible in their direction hoping for another opportunity. As I stood on a high perch unable to descend or traverse any farther, the larger nanny appeared below me at about 30 yards. This time my shot was without contemplation, an almost instinctive shot I've delivered so many times before. This arrow found the mark and the goat was mortally wounded. As I watched her expire from my small rock perch something whizzed past my left ear so close I felt the wind it generated. I lurched right, my immediate thought was that a bird had buzzed my head, but an impact below me answered the question; a softball-sized rock probably travelling at terminal velocity had scarcely missed my skull. Dislodged a thousand feet above me, the spinning projectile missed killing me by an inch.
When I reached the beautiful goat, the stillness of the mountain and the conclusion of the incredibly difficult hunt wet my eyes with emotion.
Mountain Lion 2011
My great friend, Bryan, put me in contact with a local rancher near Eagle, CO who sometimes chases lions for fun. Unfortunately, both of Jim's good hound dogs had recently died of different causes and all he had now were a couple pups who hadn't ever treed a lion. He said he was happy to let me tag along when he worked with his rookie tracking dogs. This situation was perfect as I didn't have the money or desire to use a professional guide on any hunt.
After a couple unsuccessful trips looking for fresh tracks, the early morning sky cleared from an overnight snowstorm. I was looking for tracks on one side of the valley while my dog-handling acquaintance scoured the other. After several hours without a track I drove down the road in my truck to another area. As I drove down the mountain, Jim's truck flew around the bend in front of me and we nearly collided. He jumped out of the truck and hollered a few excited words. His message was clear—follow me!
Jim had actually spotted a lion crossing the road in front of him, an incredibly rare and lucky occurrence. We drove to the place the cat crossed and ventured up the mountain with the dogs. As we meandered up and across the mountain it was obvious we had two different lion tracks, one older and one fresh set laid by our quarry. The young and inexperienced dogs were running confused and bawling non-stop with the fresh smell of lion in their nostrils. The dogs quickly ventured far ahead and we had to stop and listen carefully to hear their howling barks. Jim was certain by their sound that they had a cat in a tree. I must say, I had my doubts but followed obediently. Sure enough, half-mile up the mountain the dogs were going crazy at the base of a huge juniper tree.
It took a few moments to see it, but then I saw the face of a cat looking down at us. The lion was clearly a small one but Jim was really excited for his dogs. I wasn't certain that this small lion was worth shooting but Jim really wanted that cat on the ground for his dogs to solidify their mission. The shot, the recovery, and the pack out were all without incident. My lion was certainly small, but it was a lion nonetheless. I chalked it up to a success, especially knowing that I may never again have an opportunity like this without a professional guide.
Mule Deer 2011
The tale of my mule deer hunting is one of many disappointing seasons. Close calls, blown stalks, clean misses, and an unknown status of a shot taken, sum up my years pursuing mulies. Safe to say, mule deer had become my nemesis. In 2011, I was determined to take a mulie and complete the journey I had begun years earlier. Even with this resolve, my high alpine mule deer hunt was being influenced by a deep desire to chase elk. The Colorado seasons coincide and like many years prior, I simply needed to have the action of run-n-gun elk hunting.
I stuck it out in the high basins and hillsides in spite of this desire to be elsewhere. After several unsuccessful stalks and a bunch of hiking and glassing, a small buck presented himself in a perfect location for a stalk. It was late afternoon and I concluded that if he presented a shot I would take him. The position of this young buck in a ravine allowed me an easy and fast-moving stalk. As I approached the upper edge of the crest between us I nocked an arrow. Crouching for the final 15 yards, I kept the terrain between his eyes and me. If the buck was still in the same location as before I estimated my shot would be about 25 yards.
Near the top I drew my trusty Jennings, stood upright, and steadied the sight on the feeding buck's vitals. He never knew what hit him as my arrow passed trough. I watched him go down with the setting sun creating a postcard image behind him. My prayers went up at that moment, thanking God for all my amazing blessings, and for helping me achieve this personal goal – the Colorado Big 8.
"This time my shot was without contemplation, an almost instinctive shot I've delivered so many times before."
"Safe to say, mule deer had become my nemesis."
The author hunted more than two weeks before arrowing his great Colorado bighorn.
Elk are far and away Dorram's favorite big game to pursue in his home state.
Although mule deer are abundant in Colorado, the author has had some bad luck with them, and prefers to go after elk instead of deer.
This bear offered a memorable stalk and final shot for the author.
This mountain goat was found living high in the crags at 12,000-plus feet elevation. The experience was unforgettable.
Goat country was fiercely rugged and steep, but the price was more than worth the toil.
The author tried many times to stalk antelope in the state's eastern plains country but eventually opted for a blind over a waterhole, which worked very well.
This whitetail buck was taken during a spot-and-stalk hunt.
Text and Photos by Matt Dorram
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Marc Grossman held the talks with Taliban representatives late last month in Qatar, where a team of Taliban diplomats is based ahead of the opening of a political office there to host negotiations between America, the insurgents and the Afghan government.
"I can confirm that Mr Grossman met with the Taliban representatives in Qatar. When the president (Mr Karzai) was in Rome, Grossman came over to his residence and briefed him about his meetings with the Taliban," said the senior official, who asked to remain anonymous.
Representatives from the former Taliban regime assembled in Qatar last month, with the aim of opening the official office later this year "to come to an understanding with other nations".
The delegation includes Tayeb Agha, former secretary to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who has acted as go-between with American and German diplomats for more than a year.
Mr Grossman's meeting, if confirmed, would be the first known contact made between the Taliban and a senior, named member of the Obama administration since the start of the Afghanistan war over ten years ago.
Mr Karzai, rejected by the Taliban as a "puppet", has said publicly that he supports the plan, but was widely reported to be concerned that he would be sidelined in the Taliban's talks with the US.
Washington dispatched Mr Grossman to Kabul last month to assure the Afghan president of a leading role once the talks get under way.
"Our stance is unchanged: the president wants the talks to be Afghan-led and Afghan owned," the official in Kabul said.
Meanwhile, a leading US general said on Wednesday that Afghanistan's forces will be "good enough" to take over its security by the end of 2014, even though only a small number of them now operate independently from Nato-led troops.
"I can tell you personally from experience and from feedback from others, these soldiers will fight, particularly at the company level. There's no question about that," said Lieutenant General Curtis Scaparrotti, deputy commander of US forces and the head of the Nato-led force's joint command.
"And they're going to be good enough, as we build them, to secure their country and to counter the insurgency that they're dealing with now."

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you use when holding a rifle ready to shoot, such as demonstrated below?
Biceps? Triceps? Shoulders?
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you use when holding a rifle ready to shoot, such as demonstrated below?
Biceps? Triceps? Shoulders?
Well, technically, you are using just about every muscle in your body. You don't just use your arm muscles, but you will also use your leg muscles, back muscles, neck muscles, etc to stabilize the body.
Any other questions I can answer?
Dr. Steve
Your completely right, but in this case im talking about what gets noticeably more tired first which for me is my left arm. What muscles should I work on strengthening in order to be able to hold a 7-9lb rifle in the ready position for longer without becoming tired?
Off the cuff I'd suggest maybe starting with front dumbbell raises, pushups or bench presses, close grip pulldowns (Maybe rotate front and reverse grip), and some core exercises wouldn't hurt a bit either.
TO answer your question though, I'd say that most likely it is your biceps and anterior deltoid (front shoulder) that you feel most immediately. But just because you feel those most, don't mean that the others won't waver enough to throw off accuracy.
Go buy a Barrett .50 caliber lift and sholder it for 10 reps on the right side then lift and sholder it for 10 reps on the left side. Do this every other day alternating which side you start on. Who cares the name of the muscles. These exercises will strengthen all the muscles that are used. After these dont hurt, then start holding them longer.
Better yet, go to your local home and garden store. Buy a 50 lb. sandbag. Throw it inside two trash bags, put it in an old duffle bag and pick it up. Hug it, put it over your shoulder, do squats, shoulder presses, whatever. Grab the handles and swing the bag. Do curls with it. Hammer curls, static holds with your arms at 90 degrees. The options are limitless. You'll have a home gym for $5.00. Works for me.
The best rifle hold is the one where you utilize your body's support structure (bones) rather than muscles. It's all in the technique and position. Good body fuel is a must, but the mind works better than any of that physical stuff. Weightlifting may help stamina.....but you'll only need stamina when you're out of your structural position. The bigger the muscle, the more fuel required to sustain. When the fuel runs lean, you'll be shaking. In my opinion, your thinking about this in the wrong way. Get an expert's opinion....stick with the basics which include a firm foundation. My opinion is based on my silhouette shooting experiences.
I fired rifle competition from HS through 40 yrs old and then decided to learn how to shoot pistol (bullseye).
Had a friend who was an NRA lifetime master in pistol and he agreed to teach me how to shoot a pistol.
He said, "you are not ready to start shooting until you learn how to stand still." (Bullseye shooting is done with one hand)
He stood me in a doorway and handed me a broom. Had me slide the broom up so the handle hit the top of the doorway and my hand was holding it in firing position.
"Push up real hard and hold it until your arm starts to tremble (about 40 seconds) Do that three times a day for six weeks and then come back and we will talk about shooting."
Good grief! After the first day I was really sore. Arm, shoulder, down the back and even down the back of my leg.
After six weeks I went back to talk to him and he had me stand there and point my finger at him and finally said, "OK. You are not yet standing really still but that's a big improvement."
And that's how I started out handgun shooting. I guess the moral of this story is that if you want to do something really bad, you will be willing to put in the necessary time to learn how to do it right.
Well, most of the weight should be on the bones of the arms, not the muscles, get a good firm base to start with.
However, when I have to point my rifle at things for a long time from an offhand position, it is usually biceps and deltoids that feel it worst. The best solution may just be to practice holding the weapon steady.
Also a sling used correctly can help disburse the weight and add support.
This reminds me.
I don't exercise consistently. I do it in fits for up to a couple of months then stop. But when I do exercise:
I do a type of dumbbell extension that simulates extending a firearm. Essentially, I hold a dumbbell vertically with both hands, trying to approximate a proper pistol grip and isosceles stance as well as possible. In a shooting stance, I extend the dumbbell from my sternum out without locking my elbows. I hold for a second or two then back in for a few reps.
I do the same with (and only with) each hand to simulate one handed shooting.
I don't know if it is helpful but it should exercise many of the muscles involved in shooting from my back and shoulders down to my hand. It is also neat to actually try drawing and aiming a firearm right afterwards -- a gun feels light as a feather!
The biggest downside is that soreness might make it difficult to actually draw and extend your gun in competition or in a self defense situation.
Maybe something similar can be done with a barbel and some light weights.
go to the store and buy a pack of ankle weights, i think they are like 10 or 15lbs a piece. strap one on each forearm, and then grab your rifle and practice holding it. once you can hold it for awhile comfortably with the weights on, take them off and feel how light the rifle is now.


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Last night, I had a half hour tete-a-tete with the head of BP UK. He said some extraordinary things…
Our one-to-one came as a bit of a surprise. I'd gone along to their annual flagship graduate recruitment event, in Oxford's elite and somewhat snooty Randolph Hotel. Not because I want to work for them, I hasten to add. I went with a group of 20 local climate campaigners to make sure that their slick spiel spouting greenwash nonsense didn't go unchallenged, and to point out the utter insanity of their recent decision to get involved in the most destructive project in the world: Canada's Tar Sands.
We pretty much took over. To a slightly stunned audience of Oxford's finest young brains, we followed their presentation with one of our own, highlighting the fact that in recent months the oil giant has dropped the pretence of having moved 'Beyond Petroleum', slashing its renewables budget and closing down its alternative energy division. We pointed out that the company's decision to take a stake in Tar Sands oil extraction is outrageous on so many levels: fuelling climate change, trampling over indigenous rights, causing cancer and pollution, and holding up progress in the UN climate negotiations because as a result of these filthy fossil fuels Canada doesn't want to sign up to strong emissions reductions targets.
We suggested that a career in oil is a dead end (the industry with either be phased out, or they'll be playing a key role in triggering a global catastrophe) and encouraged graduates to look for green jobs instead. We unfurled banners, handed out briefings, and mingled afterwards, talking to attendees in more depth about the issues and, it seems, recruiting one or two to our Thames Valley Climate Action group!
A similar disruption had taken place last year, totally wrong-footing the poor guy who was running the event. So this year, in our honour, they brought in their biggest gun: Peter Mather, Head of BP UK. When doing his presentation he didn't announce who he was. I only discovered we were in the presence of a major corporate big-wig when, with another activist, I went up to him afterwards for a bit of a chat.
I've been involved in developing a UK campaign on Tar Sands for a while - in partnership with indigenous First Nation groups who are fighting the destruction of their homelands and devastating impact on their health over in Canada. We'd decided to target BP because although they've recently entered into their first Tar Sands extraction project, known (apparently without irony) as 'Sunrise', they're delaying the decision on the final go-ahead, so we still have a chance to stop the project in its tracks.
So the first thing I asked Peter was: 'when are you going to make a decision about Sunrise?' We've been expecting it in the next four months. 'Oooh, sometime in the next two years,' he said in an offhand manner, with no apparent wish to defend it. 'It depends on a lot of different factors.' Could this retreat from a few months to a couple of years be an indication that the pressure we're putting them under has already had an effect?
Then we got onto indigenous rights. I pointed out that there's huge opposition amongst local First Nation communities to Tar Sands extraction on their doorstep. I reminded him that the UN Declaration of Rights for Indigenous Peoples stipulates that communities have the right to 'free, prior and informed consent' over any proposed development on their lands. I argued that it's not good enough for BP to just 'consult' with 'stakeholders' about a potential project: if the community says 'no', will BP respect that?
After some earnest claims about how BP always respects the wishes of local people: 'wherever we go, we are a guest in their communities' (I suspect the people of Colombia, West Papua and the North Slope of Alaska may disagree), I pushed him on the Tar Sands and he said - and I quote - 'Well, if local indigenous communities tell us they don't want Sunrise, then of course we won't do it.'
These are words that may well come back to haunt him, as the campaign to stop Sunrise gathers momentum.
He also expressed some jaw-dropping opinions. Regrettably, I didn't have a recorder on me at the time, so am quoting him from memory, but here are a few highlights that are still burned into my brain:
According to Peter, they have a great releationship with the locals in West Papua (where their deeply unpopular presence is helping to legitimise the occupation and oppression of the Indonesian government over the territory). BP did lots of consultation with communities before beginning to extract natural gas there, he boasted. The example he gave to illustrate how well this partnership was working?: 'We even moved some of their villages to make way for the project!' 'Er… did they mind you doing that?' I asked, incredulously. 'No! They were really happy! We gave them much better facilities in their new village - gas stoves and so on.' Riiiiiight… This couldn't be much further from the truth.
He waxed lyrical about how amazingly sensitive about locals' rights BP are these days. '20 or 30 years ago, I admit, the industry was doing some pretty bad things. But those days are gone. You can't just go round the world raping and pillaging any more.' You can't? Well, I guess that's progress, of a sort…
We talked a lot about economics, and what the drivers of change for BP might be. I challenged him on why the company is still doggedly following the fossil fuel path to oblivion. 98% of the BP's turnover comes from oil and gas. Why aren't they looking to the future and investing more in renewables? 'Because it doesn't make a profit - and we have to be responsible to our shareholders' was the predictable answer. So we got on to the role of governments in setting the conditions for a rapid transition, and he enthused for some time about China. 'I'm feeling optimistic about China. Obviously they're a big emitter now, but they are doing some positive things. And it has to be said, with their political system, you can really get things done!'
It's not often that you get to have such a wide-ranging conversation with one of the most powerful corporate leaders in the country. Much of what he said made me choke on my canapes, but the thing that struck me most was that he genuinely believes it all. He wasn't defensive or, I felt, spinning me a line. He was simply sharing his worldview - the worldview of someone who spends his time cloistered in his corporate headquarters or jetting off to visit flagship projects full of carefully-handpicked grateful locals.
Most of the time, that worldview goes unchallenged. Perhaps that was the real power of our protest last night. Our presence at the event forced the Head of BP UK to stand up on stage in front of 100 people he really wanted to impress, and justify the unjustifiable - Tar Sands, the deaths of trade unionists in Colombia, the continued extraction of fossil fuels in the face of climate change. It can't have been a pleasant experience. But as our campaign gathers momentum, I suspect it will become an uncomfortably regular one.
Postscript: I had intended to write this blog in time for Blog Action Day yesterday, but sadly got too caught up in taking action so missed it! Sorry…


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(Russell Twp.) — Authorities in Geauga County say a man has been killed in a house fire.
The Geauga County coroner's office confirmed the death of the man in the blaze Wednesday in Russell Township. His name hasn't been released.
Geauga County sheriff's Lt. John Hiscox said several departments responded to fight the fire and contained it to two rooms. The dead man was found in a bedroom.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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FACTBOX: Las Vegas Strip under construction
(Reuters) - Developers are expected to add about 23,000 luxury hotel rooms to the Las Vegas Strip between now and 2010.
That number has fallen by about half from a year ago as the weak economy and credit constraints led several developers to reconsider their plans.
Following is a summary of casino-hotel projects currently under construction:
-- Encore at Wynn Las Vegas: 2,034 all-suite hotel tower, 72,000-square-foot casino, convention and meeting space, restaurants, nightclub, swimming pools, spa and salon, and retail outlets.
Located just north of, and adjacent to, Wynn Las Vegas.
Due to open in December.
Owner: Wynn Resorts Ltd
-- Caesars Palace: new 665-room hotel tower, including 75 luxury suites, additional meeting space, a remodeled and expanded pool area and other improvements.
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Cryptid: In cryptozoology and sometimes in cryptobotany, a cryptid (from the Greek "κρύπτω" (krypto) meaning "hide") is a creature or plant whose existence has been suggested but is unrecognized by scientific consensus and often regarded as highly unlikely.[1] Famous examples include the Yeti in the Himalayas and the Loch Ness Monster in Scotland - Taken from the Wiki Page on Cryptids
'Cryptid' has also been applied by cryptozoologists to animals whose existence is accepted by the scientific community, but which are considered of interest to cryptozoology, such as the coelacanth, once believed to be extinct, and the okapi, at one time thought to be entirely fictitious
Lets Try to name all the Cryptids in Arizona?
I'll go first and of course Steal the Best or most popular by far from it's Father of Discovery (Mitchel Waite);
The Mogollon Monster:
The Mogollon Monster ( /mʌɡɨˈjoʊn/ or /moʊɡəˈjoʊn/)[1] is a legendary creature that has been discussed in accounts from central and eastern Arizona along the Mogollon Rim. It is most often described as a Bigfoot or ape-like creature, but descriptions vary. No hard evidence has been found, and the existence of such a creature is doubted by biologists. Taken from the Wiki Page on The Mogollon Monster


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The Top 10 Biggest Disappointments in Gaming in 2012
2012 is in the books, and while it was an amazing year for gaming as a whole, there were a few situations that made me sad, angry and/or downright disappointed. We'll be spending way more time on the good things that happened in 2012 with my Top 20 Games of the Year, but for now, here are the Top 10 Biggest Disappointments of 2012:
Honorable Mention: RIP Prey 2? – Seriously, what is going on with this game? When Bethesda showed off at E3 2011, I thought it looked phenomenal! I was so excited for the game. Sure, maybe they could have called it something else, but word is they were going to have a moment or two that tied it in with the original game somehow. Human Head had some presentations ready for a few conventions this year but were told to sit on the sidelines, and Bethesda has pulled any mention of the game from its website. So what gives? I really hope this game comes out in 2013. I really loved what I saw.
10. Playstation Vita – Sales have been pretty disappointing thus-far, as it seems no matter how great the hardware is, there just aren't enough people willing to put down their tablets to give it a go. Games like Call Of Duty: Black Ops Declassified certainly aren't helping the matter, either. Sony probably should have focused on making a full blown tablet with Playstation integration instead of the Vita. I am sure there are those that have a Vita love it, but for better or worse, tablets are here to stay, and Sony's inability to adapt with the times is one of the biggest reasons they find themselves in their current financial predicament.
9. WWE 13 – What an absolute steaming pile of crap. Oh, it's nice and shiny and looks all pretty, but the game play is absolutely atrocious. It always blows me away how THQ thinks they need to reinvent the wheel every single year when it comes to the mechanics of this game. Within the first hour of putting the disc in the tray and playing the game, and in the first match of Attitude Era, I experienced my first glitch. With THQ in bankruptcy and WWE reportedly fuming over the financial situation they may be left with because of the studio, I really hope another company can step in and do something with this franchise. Not even CM Punk being on the cover could save this game for me.
8. Treyarch Pulls Nuketown 2025 from Call Of Duty: Black Ops 2 – Nuketown 2025 is always open… except for when we take it down from the regular rotation. What the hell? This was, literally, the most popular map in Black Ops 2, and now you're telling your fan base that you are going to just take it away and only bring it out on "special occasions?" No, what the actual fuck? This wasn't just a pre-order bonus, it was almost the focal point of the pre-order campaign. Every single ad you saw in print or even on TV had mention of "pre-order now to get the Nuketown 2025 map." Now you're going to just pull it from rotation? Idiotic, weak and a flat out slap in the face of the customers that have made you BILLIONS. But then again, why shouldn't they? Call Of Duty fans have proven time and time again that it doesn't matter what Activision, Treyarch or Infinity Ward do to them, they will always be there a year later picking up the next game. Lemming disorder aside, this was a super weak move that was flat out unacceptable.
7. Angry Birds Trilogy – Don't get me wrong: I love me some Angry Birds. It's a fun time waster game that I've played on my iPhone 4, iPad and Nexus 7 throughout the year. You know what the best part about the game is? The fact that I paid less than $10 to have Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio (all included in the Trilogy pack), Angry Birds Space and Angry Birds Star Wars. Five games, three devices, less than 10 bucks. So how in the world are you going to tell me that porting them to a disc and inserting it into an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 is somehow worth $40??? Get right on out of here. You might be able to convince me that all five of the Angry Birds on a disc for my Xbox or Playstation is worth 20 bucks, but you're downright crazy for 40 with only 3/5 of the franchise. Crazy.
6. Kinect Star Wars – When this was shown for the first time, I said to myself "this is the game that is going to make me buy a Kinect." And it was. I went all in, being the Star Wars fanboy that I am, and got myself the R2D2 Xbox 360 complete with white Kinect and Kinect Star Wars. Eight months later, ask me how much I actually use either of them. How about never. As it turns out, the room I have my Kinect in is too small, even with the zoom lens thing I had to buy and not use. I also could have lived the rest of my life without seeing Han Solo rip off Dance Central. Yikes.
5. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and the Playstation 3 – When it was announced that Skyrim DLC was going to be a timed exclusive for Xbox 360 owners, I really felt bad for non-Xbox 360 owners. It just doesn't seem right, but I'll get into that a bit more with #3 on this list. In an ironic turn of events, the exclusivity really didn't matter, because as we bring the year 2012 to a close, Playstation 3 owners still find themselves shut out from the Dawnguard, Hearthfire and Dragonborn DLC content, with limited hope that they may ever be able to see it because of console constraints. Not only that, but the game itself is a bit of a mess on the Playstation 3 altogether. Bethesda doesn't have the best of reputations when it comes to releasing games that work properly out of the box, and they certainly didn't do themselves any favors in the minds of Playstation 3 owners with Skyrim.
4. Resident Evil – There were two Resident Evil games released this year, Resident Evil: Operation Racoon City and Resident Evil 6, and chances are, you are going to find both of them on many "Worst Games of 2012" lists this season. My, how the mighty have fallen. Even Cliff Bleszinski has publicly gone out and said he'd love to get his hands on the franchise to bring it back to its' former glory.
3. Timed Exclusives – I get it. It's all about building value. But at what cost? With their partnership with Activision for a month-long exclusivity period on all downloadable content for the Call Of Duty series, Microsoft started a trend that, at the end of the day, has done nothing more than create confusion and animosity amongst the fans. Games like Battlefield 3, Resident Evil 6, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and others jumped on the bandwagon and started signing on to release DLC early on certain consoles. Making matters even more confusing for those who played Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 this year was the fact that Elite and Premium members got content before those who were not members, so suddenly each game had four release dates for one piece of DLC. Enough. I get the business reasons for doing it on both sides, but at the end of the day, how many more consoles did it sell? Forget the games, because they would have been purchased one way or another, how many people really ran out and bought an Xbox 360 so they could get Modern Warfare 3 maps a month early? I am sure there were a few, but I doubt it was a very worthwhile investment. It got worse in 2012, and I don't know if it is ever going to get better. (Picture Credit to Joystiq)
2. 38 Studios Debacle – For me, nothing is more disappointing than seeing 38 Studios go under. As you will read in my Top 25 games of 2012, Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning made it into my top 10 games of the year, and I was really, really looking forward to Project Copernicus. Companies come and go and there have been plenty of great games that got canceled, but I felt a really personal connection with 38 Studios. As a native New Englander and massive fan of the Boston Red Sox, Curt Schilling has been something of a hero to me ever since that fateful post-Thanksgiving 2003 day Theo Epstein convinced him to accept a trade to my beloved Red Sox. Two World Series later, he was a Boston legend. When he announced he was starting his own video game company, Green Monster Games, I was pretty excited to see what Curt would do. Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning was fantastic, and it was an honor and a privilege to meet Mr. Schilling, R.A. Salvatore and a whole cast of characters from 38 Studios at the release event for the game. I felt like I was a part of it. Then they were gone, victims of a political game played by an idiot Governor who essentially forced his state into a debt that could have been avoided. This is why I like to keep my politics out of my video games. All the dopes running Rhode Island saw was a legendary former Red Sox player and they wanted to say "hey, look at us." Well, we're looking at you now, and hopefully all involved lost their jobs, because that was the ultimate fate of the 38 Studios crew. It's too bad. Hopefully someone picks up the assets for the game in liquidation and can do something good with it. I guess we'll have to wait and see.
1. WarZ – Everything about this game is awash in controversy, and it is really unfortunate that a company has the power to milk a trend for all it is worth, essentially steal content from other creators, intentionally create confusion and then, the ultimate sin, try and bleed their customers dry. DayZ was one of the smash hits of 2012 and WarZ has basically ripped it off, and that is actually the least egregious thing they have done. I can deal with rip-offs. That's not even a big deal. When you take it to the level of WarZ, that's when the problems start to flow. Not only were they obviously trying to confuse people by calling their game WarZ (the perfect in between of DayZ and World War Z), but they also managed to essentially rip off The Walking Dead while they were at it by Photoshopping a bunch of zombies from the TV show and putting them in the picture you see above. Oh yeah, and the game is terrible. Good idea, but terrible. But of course it is a good idea. It was a good idea when DayZ did it before them.
I wish I could say it all ended there, but no… it gets worse. They went ahead and released the game on Steam and called it a "Foundation Release," when what they really should have called it was an Alpha build. You know what companies don't do with Alpha Builds of their games? Charge people money to play it. Again, I know that I have said this a few times now, but that isn't even the worst part! When buyers started to cry foul, shit hit the fan, and forum moderators started banning and removing any and all posts that were critical of the game from the WarZ forums. Why were people crying foul? Because they were being banned from the game and accused of cheating. Lots of people. The situation got so bad, that Steam ended up pulling the game and handing out refunds to anyone that asked.
Wow. The amount of negative press surrounding this game prompted me to waste $15 to see if it was as bad as people were saying it was, and I came to the conclusion that it actually was. I lasted all of 10 minutes in the game before randomly dying and realizing I just didn't give enough shits to play again after I waited the hour necessary for my character to revive. This story is still developing, and certainly was not the best way to end an otherwise awesome year, but make no mistake about it: Hammerpoint Interactive and WarZ are going down burning.
30 December 2012 admin Gaming Year In Review Year In Review 38 Studios, Angry Birds, Battlefield 3, Bethesda, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Hammerpoint Interactive, Kinect Star Wars, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Playstation 3, Playstation Vita, Prey 2, Resident Evil 6, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, Star Wars, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, WarZ, WWE 13, Xbox 360


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China Mobile Pays a Price for Being First
China Mobile is the largest cellular operator in the world, with 644 million subscribers and two-thirds of the Chinese mobile market. The state-owned giant's market capitalization of $196 billion makes it the most valuable telecom company globally.
But in the fastest-growing part of China's cellular industry, China Mobile is much less of a force. Competitors China Unicom and China Telecom each control about 30 percent of the market for fast 3G connections, which has more than doubled in size since the end of 2010, to about 118 million subscribers at the end of November. China Mobile has 40 percent of the market, but many of its 3G customers use fixed-line handsets instead of mobile phones to access the network, making them less valuable because they don't use data. When it comes to 3G, "only China Unicom and China Telecom are benefiting," says Andy Poon, an analyst with Kim Eng Securities in Hong Kong. China Mobile's stock price was down 1.7 percent in 2011, compared with a 47 percent jump for China Unicom and an 8.6 percent rise for China Telecom. All three declined to comment.
China Mobile's slide is in part the government's doing. When Beijing issued 3G licenses in 2009, it forced the national champion to use a locally developed technology called TD-SCDMA. Chinese regulators hoped the homegrown standard would give an advantage to domestic technologists while reducing royalty payments for foreign-owned patents. But in a nod to practicality, the same year they let China Unicom and China Telecom start building their 3G networks using the world's two most common standards.
Global chipmakers and phone manufacturers are reluctant to design components for a technology that looks to be a dead end. Qualcomm, for instance, makes chips for several 3G phones sold in China but won't offer one that works with China Mobile's network until later this year. As a result, China Mobile subscribers can't use the iPhone or many popular Android phones, and the carrier's own selection of handsets is "boring," says Mark Natkin, managing director of Marbridge Consulting in Beijing. There are fewer apps and glitchier service. "It's just a less mature standard," says Natkin.
Stripping some power from China Mobile may have been the intent of regulators. The government controls the three major cellular operators and wants them more evenly matched, says Paul Wuh, an analyst in Hong Kong with Samsung Securities. "China Mobile's mission in life now is to lose market share gracefully," he says.
China Mobile will have another chance to extend its lead, when the country begins its transition to the next generation of mobile network, dubbed 4G. China Mobile has gotten permission from regulators to use TD-LTE, a technology standard in use globally. It's still years away from being ready, though. For the time being, highflying China Mobile will continue to coast back to earth.
The bottom line: In 3G, China Unicom and China Telecom have gained ground against China Mobile, which has 40 percent of the market.


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A coin slides over a frictionless plane and across an xy coordinate system from the origin to a point with xy coordinates (3.0 m, 4.1 m) while a constant force acts on it. The force has magnitude 2.4 N and is directed at a counterclockwise angle of 100° from the positive direction of the x axis. How much work is done by the force on the coin during the displacement?
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(6 January 2010) bidorbuy buyers and sellers helped raise over R425,000 for South African charities and non-profit organizations in 2009.
Of that, as much as R300,100 was realized in one big swoop, when the last VW Citi ever made for the general public went under the hammer on bidorbuy in November 2009. The seller, Volkswagen South Africa, choose to donate all the proceeds of the auction to Ubuntu Education Fund, an organisation that provides life-saving health and educational resources and services to more than 40,000 people in the townships of Port Elizabeth.
During the celebrities for charities drive held on bidorbuy in June last year, thirty-nine public figures auctioned off their time and raised more than R56,000 for their favourite charities. It was one of the biggest line-ups of celebrities in the history of South African internet, with personalities such as the Nobel Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, singers Steve Hofmeyr and Zolani, TV presenter Elana Afrika, actor Pieter Dirk Uys and his alter ego Evita, artist Cornelius Bosch, entrepreneur Alan Knott-Craig Jnr, and many more. The charities that benefited from there auctions were IkamvaYouth, Matla a Bana, South African Anxiety and Depression Group, Endangered Wildlife Trust, and several charities associated with The Trust organisation: Childline Gauteng, Sunshine Association, Topsy Foundation, UNICEF South Africa and Delta Environmental Centre.
Following the success of the celebrities' auctions, several charities approached bidorbuy eager to explore this online fund raising channel. Bird Life auctioned off ten photographs to the tune of about R2,600, to be used to further the conservation of South African birds. Vista Nova School sold more than one hundred items, from fine wines to toys and furniture, and raised over R64,000 for learners with cerebral palsy and other disabilities in the Western Cape region.
Several charities and non-profit organisations made bidorbuy their regular source of funds. Books Etc has at any time about fifty items listed for sale on bidorbuy, mostly rare and collectible books. In the second half of 2009, Books Etc raised over R10,000 for the benefit of the Children's Feeding Trust, which finances the feeding of about four thousand children in the Port Elizabeth region. FORA joined bidorbuy in October last year and managed to raise about R2500 that will be used to ease the plight of rescued animals.
The perception of this new fund raising channel among the charities is overly positive. "The series of celebrities for charities online auctions not only helped raise much needed funds, but it also helped profile our organisation", says Ingrid Botha from Matla a Bana. According to Veronica Nance from Books Etc, the exposure on bidorbuy made a big difference: "We have recorded the best-ever funding amounts in September for our bookshop section thanks to bidorbuy", she says.
"Having never executed an online auction of one of our vehicles before, we were uncertain of the process and of what to expect", said Tarryn de Klerk, Volkswagen Brand Manager after the VW Citi auction. "What we found was that the auction process was simple and easy to manage thanks to bidorbuy's seamless online auction system. We hoped to at least reach the retail value of the car and hand over a good sum of money to the charity. In the end, the winning bid was higher than we could ever have hoped for - over R300,000."
The VW Citi auction confirms that buyers are actually willing to pay more when they know it is for a good cause. The highest bidder for the limited edition last VW Citi ever made, Dolf Jonker, owner of Auto Trust Body Repairers in Port Elizabeth, has no regrets for having paid nearly three times the retail price. On the contrary. "My main motive for the highest bid was to own a piece of history associated with the Volkswagen Citi as well as to support the local charity organisation, Ubuntu Education Fund. I am delighted with the outcome", he says.
The managing director of bidorbuy, Andy Higgins, says that the site will continue to support charities in future. "We know that buyers are more willing to buy from a charity seller, even if it means paying a bit more. From our side, we regularly waive our usual selling commission, which can be up to five percent of the selling price, in all instances when the proceeds are earmarked for a charity or a non-profit organisation."


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Ivan Lewis
Ivan Lewis, a one-time USC staffer, returned to Troy in December of 2013 as the head strength and conditioning coach
He spent the previous 5 years (2009-13) as the head strength and conditioning coach at Washington. He worked directly with the Huskies' football team. He was named the 2013 Samson Equipment/American Football Monthly FBS Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year.
He came to UW after 3 seasons (2006-08) as an assistant at USC under Chris Carlisle, working primarily with the Trojans' quarterbacks and linebackers. USC won 3 Pac-10 championships and Rose Bowls during his tenure.
Prior to that, the 35-year-old Lewis was on the strength staff with the San Diego Chargers in 2004 and 2005, working with Dave Redding and Matt Schiotz, after spending 2 years (2002-03) at the University of San Diego, where he worked with the football team and various other sports.
He was an assistant football coach and strength and conditioning coach at Mt. Si High School in Snoqualmie (Wash.) in 2000 and 2001.
Lewis graduated from Idaho in 2000 with a bachelor's degree in education. He earned a master's degree in leadership studies from San Diego in 2003.
He was born on Sept. 14, 1978. He is single.


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Ugh... mama came home with this stupid plastic collar for me to wear. Apparently because I've been scratching at the sutures from the removal of that 'wart' on my forhead. I can get it off, though, and mama laughs when she sees it lying on the floor and I'm in a different room. I don't really scratch at the stitches that much, so maybe I can stop altogether. That way she won't wrap it around my head and take more pictures of my humiliation.
Forgot to say that my mama has new tattoos!! She has cat footprints from her right wrist to her shoulder (14 in all)! They're 'modeled' by my feet. But she didn't study the true shape of my paws until after the tattoo was done - and found they were the wrong shape!! That was a few weeks ago. A few days ago (once they had healed enough) she went back to the tattoo shop to have them reshaped some. The artist MESSED UP!! Mama freaked out and the owner/award winning tattoo artist came over and made it right. Only now the paws are HUGE!! They're still the length of my paws, but they're much much wider!! Looks like a panther tripped up her arm rather than me. Oh well. She hated them at first, but is starting to like them now. At least they're more the right shape!!
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Anyone mount a scope mount on the rear sight and actually have it be solid and secure? I did one and it moves all over the place.
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If you remove the rear sight base you can attach 3/8 groove scope rings , like the one's that are used for 22's or air guns , to the metal base. I would suggest using the "high" scope rings so that your scope will clear the handguard.
I have a cheap one on a 91/30. It uses the pin through the sight base and then a screw down through the mount to 'firm' it up.
I have an inexpensive pistol scope on it.
The barrel has worn rifling and with surplus ammo I can hit gallon milk jugs on the 140 yard range, the longest distance at our club.
I have not had to rezero it in the 3 years it has been on with probably 200 rounds through it.
I'm doing research for my mounting options and from what the interwebs tells me the best two options are Darrell's Scout Mount and S&K Mosin mounts. Most of the sub $50 mounts only have one REAL point of contact and lose zero like its cool. Darrell's uses 4 brass setcrews that hold tension to the outside of the rear sight fixture and cause little to no scaring. I want to say that S&K uses the leaf sights front pin and has a tension screw in the middle that holds to the insides of the rear sight frame. I'll put the links below. There are also TONS of others that require drilling ant tapping but if your like me your not willing to ruin the historical value of these little beauties.
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I use a Leapers mount http://www.opticsplanet.com/s/LP-MT-RGPMOFS38-25H4/ got about 400 rounds through the gun and have no problem with it coming loose.
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A Finn is just a Mosin "bubba'd" by Magnus
Use a spare rear sight you do not might modifying, and mount it up side down. Remove metal until it sits level. Mount any flat based Weaver scope mount with screws, JB Weld, epoxy, or Accraglas. To anchor it, the easiest way is to leave a screw long enough to almost bottom out on the barrel and use JB weld or some epoxy inside the base to engage the screw. That should keep it honest.
Good find gremlin ! I'll be ordering one of the Leapers mounts !
This one looks good -semi-custom made for the 91/30 - no modifications to the rifle and two attachment points
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I stumbled across that one on Ebay last night and it looked like it would be pretty secure. Was pretty sure it was different than most of the ones I saw out there and I'm glad to know I didn't imagine that. Definitely report back when you get a chance to put it to the test!
ok kiddies..i have been there and done that..most of the products listed.....
go here
home of s&k scope mounts...
these are not cheap..but they are STEEL and they do not move...
amd they do not mark like the brass screw clamp design.
pay once and don't look back
mike in co
i have them on a swede, and a m39 and a 91/30..and
The rear sight scope mount was on a rifle someone brought over to my house to work on.
I took it off and tossed it on the bone pile.
It is anodized Aluminum with a Weaver rail top, that could be milled into a real scope mount for something else, maybe.
I would use the ATI or Rocksolid mount instead, but it requires drilling and tapping:
The most I ever paid for Mosin Nagant was $90 for a Sako M39.
I have an S&K on an Enfield and one on a Garand from 10 years ago when I was just learning gunsmithing.
They have got their last $80+ shipping out of me.
I just got an all matching 1942 Ishevek that looks unissued. If it was arsenal refinished they put a new stock and a new barrel on it.
I paid full asking price $70.
I cut right into pre 64 Win Model 70 rifles, and they drop $200 as soon as I do ANYTHING.
I am sure not going to be bashful about drill and tap a Mosin Nagant, there are millions more of them.
Definitely looking forward to the report on the brass tacker one. Not because I'm scared to drill a Mosin but because its easy to install and easily removed and moved to another gun, etc. Plus its made by a fairly local shop and I can visit them and pick it up.
Some of these sight mounts really suck as far as stability, in the end I found it was just as easy to get an ex-sniper and drill the plugs back out, winding up with something that looks like this.
i have several of the oem side sniper scope mounts, both with thte fixed rings and one with a weaver rail. lots of work but in the end look great. cannot find the mounts at a reasonable cost anymore.
i shoot all lapua brass in my mn's all hand loads..no milsurplus.....so i look at thing a little different than some of you.
i shoot in 100 and 200 yd competiton.....
we shoot iron sight most of the time but run two "sniper" matches where 4x scopes are allowed.
i won the last match with a 200-6x...alass with a fn israile 7.62x51 built in 57...not a conversion from 8mm , but built new in 7.62...
mike in co
your 90 dollar sako has no where near the value of a like new 39.....so yes there is a value issue.....
i do not shoot much cheap crap, i buy nice like new..and they cost money( with the exception of the russian 91/30's)
my new unfired finn 1895 9130 was over $300.........
not all "milsurplus" guns are cheap and have no value....
each to thier own....
mike in co
I found this mount a few weeks ago, I haven't tried it but looks interesting...
My brother has the scope mount with the hose clamp and it is not very solid. We have been working with a friend who has access to a CNC to try and build something better but progress is slow. I will keep you all posted if we develop something...
sorry but just another variation on a hose clamp.
bump the scope and the sheet metal will spring and you no longer have a zero....
still looking but so far the s&k mounts are the best....of the rear sight mounts....
still want to put a rear mount/conventional scope on my rifle...my no collector value sporter.....
mike in co
This guy puts 22 rim fire rings on the rear sight dovetail, and gets a scout type mount.
I would not do that.
I don't like 22 rings.
I don't like scout scope position.
But he got 40,000 hits.
I imagine I could get 1,000,000 hits if I recorded my daughter in a swim suit shooting an AK47.
But in reality all I get is a few hundred hits showing how to weld and mill on a Mosin Nagant to make a great mount.
i just looked at the rock solid and it looked good until i read the instructions...it was the pics in the instructions.
maybe its just me, but it looks like with the rear ring back as far as it is,,,the scope is back TOO FAR...with a std mosin stock that scope is in your eye??? yes no ??
someone else take a look.
is it just me ??
i was thinking of this one but not sure now...danggggggggggg
mike in co
i think i have a plan..thinking can be dangerous...
use a sk mount at the rear sight.
drill and tap the frt of the reciever for a simple weaver mount.
shim the weaver mount to match the sk mount.
and then add a rail to those mounts to push the actual rear scope mount back....
like a jp long range mount or a ggg rail....
only time will tell
mike in co
see what happens when you get old.....
in my stash i found an aftermarket mn sniper mount with a weaver rail and set for a round reciever.......
think this is the pu style with the mount and adjustable base
i'm in heaven......
mike in co
Cool it, ar10ar15.
McKenzie, I got a chance to test my brass stacker mount today, and it came through. I know for a fact that the rifle is poorly bedded, and I still squeezed some 1 1/2" groups out of it, and those groups were with surplus ammo. I also tested their front sight band (allows you to reinstall your front sight on a barrel that you've shortened.)
I might add that the brass stacker mount was installed on an 18" barreled Mosin, which gives up some pretty hellacious recoil. Took about 10 rounds to get things where I wanted them, and after that, the only point of impact shift I experienced was due to ammo change (went from Brown Bear 203 gr. SP to 147 gr. Russian surplus, so POI shifted up about 6"). Fired a total of 60 rounds.
for brass stacker!
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Awesome! Good to know there's actually a quality bolt on scope mount. My drill press usually is doing pen making duty so I'm always happy when I don't need to drill metal.
This is my video. Looks like I'm not too far from you either. The only reason you MUST use .22 style scope rings if you do this type of mount, is because the dovetail beneath the rear sight when removed, is only 3/8" wide. If it were wide enough to use standard sized bases and rings, then obviously it would be the most prudent course of action. I did not want to make a permanent modification, so this was the best way to do so without drilling and tapping and having to bend the bolt handle. Here is an updated video to this, I will be shooting the updated version tomorrow.
A full length base that would run the entire length of the dovetail may also work, and an area be filed or notched out to ensure the mount doesn't do any sliding on the dovetail as well as demonstrated in this latest video. I have been trying to find a post where a fella used some 3/8" bases that go to weaver adapters on them. Something like this for example:
But this is only a suggestion for those that want to mount a scout scope set up.
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It seems like you are a nice guy and resourceful.
I feel like a real a$$ now, for publicly envying your 40,000 hits.
I have 7,000 hits on a video of me and my brother killing a spider.
But not much attention to videos when I show how to make real improvements to Leupold Zero Point or a Sinclair concentricity gauge.
ok i have tried several searchess...
how does one get in touch with ati...advance technology
yes lots of people have them for sale, but i would like to talk to them
mike in co
i have had wonderful results with my brass stacker after shooting over thousand rds through mine and no probs or movement.
if you insist on trying to prove a point, get some proof.
buy the s&K mount and shoot it on the same gun...then you have side by side testing that it is as good, maybe better.
its kinda hard to use one product and claim nothing is better or that it is as good as product x, if you did not use product x.
i pointed out what i did not like about the other mount..my opinion.
my opinon of the s&k pounts is based on testing of other inferior products.
i'm glad you like your mount that is how life should be.....happy with what one has.
mike in co
I cast another vote for the Brass Stacker mount. They've had the ones for the 91/30 for a while. I've been bugging them about the M44 mount and ordered one the day they became available. I've tried all sorts of mounts and this is the best BY FAR that I've used. I find it especially important that I can still use my iron sights with the scope mounted. Just my opinion of course.
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I bought one of the A.I.M. Scope and mount kits from Big 5 for one of my Mosins and I have had ZERO problems after about 500 rds fired through it. It took about 15 rds to get it zeroed and since then I've had no problems with it at all. I used loktite on all the bolts and screws, and where it actually mounts to the rear sight base I decided to use the pin that held the rear sight in insead of the two bolts that came with it. Anyone else use this set-up?
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here is the problem, the roof and the ceiling have a 4 inch drop over our 2car garage. Stick built. I am thinking of building 2x12 beam to go under the ceiling joist and jacking it all back up or purchasing 4 or 6inch steel H-beams and doing the same jacking. what do you think? thanks
Secondly - To jack up the ceiling joists of the garage will not raise the roof's sagging ridge beam if it is a typical framed garage structure.
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Can you post photos of the exposed joists and rafters?
I don't see any structural damage, the rafters and joist are 2x6, stick built truss. I have placed a jack under one joist and pushed it 2 inchs of the 4 and could notice a difference on the roof line. but this only pushed one of the 24' span.
Again, you will be able to raise the ceiling, but the roof's ridge beam will unlikely raise with it.....
Just realize that a 4" drop is a considerable sag. There will be alot of stress placed on the already sagging joists....... jacking these up....You could split some of the joists in the process.....
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Mario Batali calls lamb braised in milk "absolute poetry," especially when it's flavored with a scattering of fennel seeds. "This," he adds, "is what the Roman Empire must have tasted like."
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- 2 teaspoons fennel seeds
- 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil
- 4 pounds boneless lamb shoulder, trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
- Salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 quart milk
- 1 1/4 cups heavy cream
- 2 rosemary sprigs
How to make this recipe
Using a chef's knife, chop the garlic with the flat-leaf parsley and fennel seeds to form a coarse paste. In a large enameled, cast-iron casserole, heat the olive oil. Add the garlic paste and cook over moderate heat until fragrant, about 1 minute. Raise the heat to moderately high and add half of the lamb pieces. Cook, turning, until lightly browned all over. Transfer the lamb to a bowl and season with salt and pepper. Repeat the process with the remaining lamb.
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