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LOWELL -- A woman found dead after emergency crews investigating a report of smoke coming from her apartment Saturday morning has been identified as a 60-year-old Lowell woman who enjoyed doing volunteer work at her church.
Angela Aponte was found suffering from "obvious injuries" when firefighters were called to her apartment inside a Lowell Housing Authority building at 566 Market St. Saturday about 9:55 a.m., according to Assistant District Attorney Marybeth Long.
Firefighters also found smoke coming from the stove in Aponte's apartment, but did not have to extinguish a fire. Long, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Gerard Leone, said Aponte was pronounced dead shortly after being taken to Lowell General Hospital.
Police are investigating the death as a homicide. A cause of death has yet to be determined by the State Medical Examiner's Office, which will conduct an autopsy.
Long said authorities would not be releasing any other information on the investigation Sunday night.
Residents outside the large apartment building at 566 Market St. declined to comment when approached Saturday and Sunday.
One young man, who declined to give his name, said neighbors are upset about the killing and do not want to talk to the press. He said he knew Aponte and described her as "nice."
A second man, who exited the building with a woman he claimed to be Aponte's daughter, on Sunday afternoon said residents were asked not to talk about the incident.
Aponte's niece, Mercedes Tejada, told Fox25 News that Aponte has a daughter, and that her family is hoping to fly her body to the Dominican Republic so she can be buried beside a son who died several years ago.
Tejada told Fox25 her aunt was attacked inside her apartment. She described Aponte as a kind woman who was active in the community, enjoyed volunteering, cooking and helping out at her church. Tejada did not specify what church Aponte attended.
"She didn't deserve that," Tejada told Fox25. "It's painful because she's dead, but it's more painful because of how she died. It's the worst."
Tejada told Fox25 the family believes Aponte knew her attacker.
"We want him to pay for what he did," Tejada said.
Police reported no arrests as of Sunday night.
If the State Medical Examiner's Office confirms the death is a homicide, it will be the first in Lowell since the Feb. 7, 2012, slaying of Timothy Lewis, 34, of Chelmsford, who was stabbed to death at 105 Felker St.
Leone's office ruled that homicide was committed in self-defense, and has never identified the person who killed Lewis.


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At the freeholders' caucus on April 23, help for businesses suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy was an important order of business. These businesses may get new relief as the state authorizes as much as $30 million in grants.
Freeholder Bill O'Dea said the state is preparing to offer businesses help provided that they meet certain criteria, such as having suffered at least $5,000 in physical damage or suffered financial losses for at least one quarter of a year since Sandy hit. The business also must have between $25,000 and $8 million in annual sales.
"But the important requirement is that they must have applied for loans from the Small Business Administration," O'Dea said.
This could be substantial help, up to $50,000 from the state in grants and up to $100,000 in financing.
"If a business is denied a loan from the SBA, it could still be eligible for $50, 000," O'Dea said.
He said it was urgent for the county to reach out to local businesses, since the SBA had extended its stay in Hudson County and will continue to rent office space at 830 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, until the end of May.
"It's a concern to me because many of the businesses impacted found it too cumbersome to apply for SBA loans." – Bill O'Dea
"It's a concern to me because many of the businesses impacted found it too cumbersome to apply for SBA loans, or found the interest rate wasn't a bargain," O'Dea said. "But we have to get the message out."
O'Dea suggested putting together a taskforce to seek out businesses in those towns hardest hit such as Hoboken, Jersey City, Bayonne, and Kearny.
"Even if we have to go to the businesses and hold their hands through the process it will be worth it," O'Dea said, estimating that as many as 500 businesses in Hudson County might be eligible. "It doesn't have to be flooding. A tree falling on a business or other damage that caused damage and loss of business would qualify."
He suggested that the county reach out to local towns and get someone there to canvas businesses.
County preparing for federal cuts
On other business, it was reported that federal cuts due to the sequester will have an impact but maybe not this year, according to Susan Mearns, director of Hudson County Housing and Community Development.
She told the freeholders at the April 23 caucus that the department is operating with a 10-percent cutback, which is about five percent higher than expected but would create a reserve for next year if the issue continues.
The county is currently doing an inventory of grants and programs, seeking to get some of the nonprofit organizations to seek alternative funding through grant applications rather than relying on federal allocations.
O'Dea said cuts to state and federal aid to nonprofits will require these groups to seek funding, but that many funding sources require nonprofits to have websites which are up to date. Many of the small nonprofits either do not have websites or do not have the staff to maintain them, and he suggested that the county step in to help provide these groups with information on how to establish and maintain websites.
County approves $10 million contract with Hudson Regional
Another agenda item was the county's contract with Hudson Regional Health, which ran out on Dec. 31. Because the previous contract had not accounted for rises in costs, the new contract has a significant increase.
This seven-year contract helps adjust costs that the previous contract did not cover, and helps Hudson Regional because it has seen a significant cutback in grants and other revenues it had prior to this, said County Administrator Abe Antun.
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The tinplate segment of the U.S. steel market is comparatively small—shipments of just 3 million tons annually in an industry that generally manufactures more than 100 million tons of steel per year.
It's a difficult product to make, too, given strict customer requirements for flatness and finish, needs that essentially take mini-mills—some 70 percent of total U.S. production capacity—out of the game. Therein lie opportunities for the limited number of producers, according to steel industry analysts. Only three producers are significant manufacturers of tinplate in the United States, and while that small number would seem to open the door for others to get into the market, such moves are unlikely at best.
"It's very difficult to make tinplate," said Chuck Bradford, industry analyst at Affiliated Research Group, New York. "Flatness is very important to customers, and the uniformity of the coating is important, too. Not very many (steelmakers) can make it to the specifications the customers need. You have to have degassing capabilities to be able to get what (tinplate customers) want. That shuts out a lot of the mini-mills right there. The mini-mills can't make this stuff."
The market thus is limited to ArcelorMittal USA, Chicago, and U.S. Steel Corp., Pittsburgh, which manufacture tinplate and other tin mill products; and USS-Posco Industries Inc., Pittsburg, Calif., a joint venture of U.S. Steel and Posco Ltd., Seoul, South Korea, and Ohio Coatings Co., Yorkville, Ohio, a subsidiary of Severstal North America Inc., Dearborn, Mich., which apply tin coating to substrate provided by their parent companies.
Those companies, like others in the North American steel industry, were hit hard by price volatility for most products beginning in late 2008, when the global economic downturn began to develop. The price for hot-rolled sheet, for example, peaked at around $1,100 per ton in July 2008, only to plummet to $380 per ton by May 2009.
Tin products pricing, however, held its own. Producers generally need a margin of $300 to $400 per ton on tinplate vs. hot rolled to make tinplate profitable. They were able to get those margins despite hot-rolled price volatility thanks to contract pricing negotiated a year earlier, and on the fact that demand remained stable.
"In the first half of the year tin products were the most stable part of the steel business," John Tumazos, analyst at Very Independent Research LLC, Holmdel, N.J., said. "Food and aerosol products and lubricant products are the ones that were least tied to inventory fluctuations."
Luke Folta, analyst at Longbow Research, Independence, Ohio, offered a similar view, but noted that little information related to annual tin product sales is available from producers. "They generally make their sales available to us over a five-year period, so there is not a lot of visibility there," he said. "It's a market that has not received a lot of focus (in 2009), but it has been more stable than most of the other steel markets."
Statistics from the American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), Washington, indicate how stable the market has been: Total U.S. tin product shipments have been around 2.8 million tons annually since 2005, with tinplate accounting for about 2 million tons.
With few players in the market, pricing generally is not a big issue, Bradford said. "The big battle they face is in quality. Rejection rates from can makers, I am told, are usually pretty high. When you get into Europe and Japan, they have good enough quality that they are making (steel) beverage cans, which is something we do not do here. But there has not been a new hot-strip mill built in the U.S. in 35 years, and you can't make this stuff on a mini-mill. You get too much nitrogen in the electric furnace process and you don't have the flexibility in the steel that you do when it has been degassed. It's hard to make."
Tumazos said the ability to deliver quality and service is likely what separates the competitors. He used ArcelorMittal Weirton of Weirton, W.Va., as one example of the issues that U.S. competitors face. "When Weirton Steel was an independent company, they took great pride in their tin mill," he said. "I'm sure the people who work there still are proud of what they can do, but I wonder if it gets the same focus as part of a 150-million-ton company. U.S. Steel takes great pride in its tinplate, too. It's a solid market for them."
Thus, customers most likely make their decisions on where to source supply based more on quality and service than on price, Tumazos said. In commodity products like hot rolled, price most often is the driver. "I would think that, given the structure of the (tin products) market, customers are very concerned with quality. There is a great opportunity for (suppliers) to compete based on who provides the most consistent quality and service."
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I just made a deal to trade knitting for tattoos. Now I have to knit up 2 tattoo machines before Thursday. All other WIPs are on HOLD UNTIL I FINISH THESE!!! Well, I will finish the little knit shit I'm making for Anita, because I only have about 30 minutes left work on it. But after that…
Or maybe one of them could be felt?
I'll get this under control and keep updated.
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon visited Kirksville Thursday to discuss Medicaid expansion; local lawmakers weigh in on possible state action on Affordable Care Act component.
Citing both economic and human benefits for Missourians, Gov. Jay Nixon stated his case Thursday for an expanded Medicaid program that would provide insurance for 300,000 people and bring the state $8.5 billion in federal funds through 2019.
Nixon, a Democrat, spoke to a small group of local officials at the Economic Development Alliance building in Kirksville, urging citizens to contact their legislators and ask them to support Missouri opting in to the expanded Medicaid program.
"It is a smart thing to do and it is the right thing to do," Nixon said.
The expansion was originally a requirement of the Affordable Care Act, however the Supreme Court's decision last year opened the opportunity for states to make a choice to receive funds for the expansion, or not participate in the program. Either decision would have a significant impact on Missouri's hospitals, particularly rural locations like the Northeast Regional Medical Center and Scotland County Hospital.
Coverage would be available for an estimated 300,000 currently uninsured Missourians earning up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level (example, a family of four at 138 percent makes $31,809 a year). And while the ACA offers subsidies for individuals at 100-138 percent of the poverty level to purchase private insurance, no such breaks are included for citizens below 100 percent of that line.
The new program would have full federal funding for the first three years before moving toward and settling at a 90-10 federal-state match by 2019. At the same time, Disproportionate Share Hospital payments, monies delivered to hospitals who provide emergency care to uninsured patients, will be phased out, creating a potential budget hole of $256 million in Missouri hospitals that was intended to be filled by the expanded Medicaid program.
Given the politically polarizing nature of the ACA, Nixon's efforts seem focused on the economic development aspect of the expansion. A recent University of Missouri study projected 24,000 new jobs created in 2014 alone if the state expands the program.
Nixon is also making a case for keeping Missouri tax dollars at home, noting if the state opts out others will reap rewards of Missouri workers.
"This isn't the time to reopen the debate or reargue the merits of the president's health care plan," he said. "The question before us at this particular point is a narrow one. Will we bring the tax dollars Missourians send to Washington back home to strengthen our Medicaid system here in Missouri, or are we going to let the tax dollars Missourians send to Washington be spent in other states?
"The answer is clear. The people of Missouri deserve to see their tax dollars come back to their communities."
Nixon's plan has earned endorsements from a growing number of business and economic development leaders, including the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and the Kirksville-Regional Economic Development, Inc.
K-REDI Director of Economic Development Carolyn Chrisman, a Republican who once was the campaign treasurer for former Rep. Zach Wyatt, said the state's choice on Medicaid shouldn't be politically driven.
"In this position [with K-REDI] I'm not a Republican or a Democrat. I'm for whatever is best for the city of Kirksville and Adair County," Chrisman said. "So, when I have health care leaders telling me we're going to lose this much money, that affects the city of Kirksville and we need to address it. To me, there's no politics about it. We need to do what's best for Kirksville, Adair County and the state of Missouri."
Nixon also highlighted the "human element" to the decision, providing health insurance to those who cannot afford access to care.
"They're working Missourians, folks who work day and night who simply cannot afford health care. They are not people who aren't trying or hoping to game the system. They're folks we see everyday, some holding down two jobs just to make ends meet," Nixon said.
The non-partisan Missouri Foundation for Health has estimated Missouri would need to spend $480 million in new Medicaid money through 2019 - the same time period it is scheduled to receive $8.5 billion - and Nixon has proposed including flexibility for the state to roll back the program if federal dollars don't hold up or new state budget challenges arise.
Rep. Nate Walker (R-003) said in an interview Thursday afternoon he has "not made a definitive decision one way or another" on the proposal. Acknowledging the "great benefit" to the medical community, he said he was examining possible disadvantages and costs to the state.
"I'm open minded and I'm just going to take a look at it and see what happens when we see the numbers," Walker said.
Sen. Brian Munzlinger (R-18) wrote in his weekly column released Thursday that the proposal is "questionable."
"The assumption that the federal government will reform Medicaid and provide our state with millions of dollars to add more people to the Medicaid role seems like a pipe dream," Munzlinger wrote.
Thomas McAuliffe, a policy analyst with the Missouri Foundation for Health, disagreed.
"The pipe dream is that the American dream doesn't help people who are poor and have health problems," McAuliffe said. "The fact is the federal government has appropriated this money. It's set aside and will be spent.
"If Missouri doesn't opt in, it will not reduce the deficit. It just means those monies go someplace else, namely another state."
McAuliffe said before 2005 budget cuts to Medicaid and other social programs, Missouri received $1.12 in federal funding for every $1 it sent to Washington. Since then, the state's return has decreased to 93 cents.
"[Expanded Medicaid] is an opportunity to maybe not exceed that dollar, but at least equal it," McAuliffe said. "This is for the health of our most vulnerable Missourians, most of whom are full-time employees."
Nixon said the new Medicaid dollars would free up funds from Missouri's general revenue. In his proposed budget unveiled Monday, Nixon included the federal dollars he said helped allow for $150 million more dollars allocated for public education.
The governor said he believed discussions were going well with Republican leaders in the legislature, saying the discussion warrants more than a "binary" political choice of being for or against expansion.
"It doesn't do respect to the nature of the complexity of the challenge," he said, "but from a simplistic perspective…Missourians pay taxes, let's spend those dollars here in Missouri and if we can do those things and improve health care and preserve, especially in rural areas of the state, health care services and expand mental health care services, we're going to come out of this much better."


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Warning: This Blog Post Contains Gross Generalizations
I try to avoid generalizations, especially the gross kind, but sometimes you have to climb up on the mountain to get the big picture.
My wife and I were recently discussing an article by Joel Stein in the May 20, 2013 Time magazine called "Millennials' Moment". The subtitle is "They're narcissistic, lazy, entitled and coming to our rescue." We agreed with most of what Stein wrote, but we're part of the late Baby Boomer generation, and I wanted to hear from some Millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000, so I brought the topic up at the office, where the is some intergenerational mix. Here are my thoughts coming from that conversation.
The Baby Boomers like myself (born between 1946 and 1965) are between the Greatest Generation (lived through the Great Depression and World War II) and Generation X (born 1965—1979). In general, I think, the Boomers benefited from the relative stability and prosperity of the post-World War II years (although like in any historical era, it wasn't like that for everyone), and the revolutionary spirit of the 60s, when young people were hungry for change and—for a lot of really good reasons—began to mistrust the institutions that before then most of us took for granted—primarily government, church, and big business. Having come of age in the late sixties (I was 9 years old in 1968), I grew up with a brother in Vietnam, the smell of dope, and my Dad yelling down to the basement, in an attempt to overcome Jimi Hendrix's version of The Star Spangled Banner, "Turn down that g…. d…. noise!" But my father and the fathers in my neighborhood were mostly civil servants (I grew up in a suburb of Washington DC) who were home for dinner every day and didn't work on the weekends, and most moms, for better or worse, didn't work.
I don't want to leave out the Gen Xers in my gross generalizations, but I think the early Gen Xers are a lot like the Boomers, and the later Gen Xers are closer to the Millennials.
I don't have kids, but my friends who do seem to have raised their children, the Millennials, the way we wish we had been raised. You know, everybody gets to participate in every sport no matter what and everyone gets a trophy just for showing up. We raised kids with very high self-esteem.
Let me continue on this dangerous road of over simplification and say how I see this intergenerational drama being played out in the home performance community.
We have the Boomers. Some of us grew up seeing the limitations of the institutions we were born into, and decided to start our own. They founded new institutions like BPI, RESNET, ACI, BSC, SWA, DOE, Home Energy Magazine, and the Weatherization Assistance Program. Many of us work for corporations, or government or the military or educational institutions; we're doctors and lawyers or we've started our own small businesses. We had good jobs in factories and made a decent living as plumbers, electricians, and general contractors, at least for while. Among my relatives were executives and union people.
Which brings us to the Millennials and how I think they fit in. They don't care so much for institutions. Some would rather live at home with their parents, play video games, socially network, or work 80 hours a week for a start, than slave away in a corporation, hating their jobs but making a lot of money. They actually want to enjoy their work, and find meaning in it. I read somewhere that only 30% of adults actually care about the jobs they do. The rest just get by or hate their jobs so much they spend all their time trying to undermine the efforts of the people they work for. We need people in our community who like their jobs.
And we need people to join our community who know how to connect with others to get the job done—Millennials know how to start a flash mob, overturn a repressive government, or find the cheapest Tai restaurant in the neighborhood. We need them to help us figure out what hash tags are; and how to make energy efficient, healthy, and affordable housing for everyone look sexy. The Millenials with houses need to make room to take care of us when we're old, and the ones without houses (most of them) need us to finish our basements, where they can live until they get enough saved for a down payment on a house—in other words, forever.
Nowadays we all expect that to make a good living in life, you have to go to college and get a job where you don't sweat or get dirty. That has to change. There is plenty of work to do by people who are artists with hammers and concrete, and who blow insulation like the best jazz trumpeters blow their horns. We need to help others realize that a good roofer and plumber, good HVAC and Home Performance contractors, and a good remodeler are as important to our overall health and well being as a good family doctor—maybe more so. That's a task that the Boomers and the Millennials will have to do together.
I'm feeling pretty optimistic. I work with a Millennial and she is the best. She came to Home Energy with a strong work ethic, she is fun to work with, a team player sometimes, and an independent operator at others; she is smart as can be. She is helping Home Energy take advantage of all that social marketing, Twitter, and Facebook can offer. If she is the future of the home performance community, I think we're going to be just fine.
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Maybe it's because Beyonce will perform for the president and the nation at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony. Or maybe it's because she's working on a new album. Or maybe it's that she just confirmed that Destiny's Child will release a new track this month.
Maybe it's because the HBO's "Girls" is back this weekend and I'm unabashedly excited for the show and the soundtrack.
Maybe it's because I had a decidedly not-progressive dream about Lindsay Lohan last night and feel a little guilty about it.
Whatever the reason, I'm making a Grrl Power: Part 2 playlist. You might recall the first installment back in August, in which I got all fangirl about the wealth of killer females in music these days.
There's no need to repeat myself, since these things live on the internet forever, so I'll just supplement that playlist with a few more femme fatales.
Beyonce, "Run The World (Girls)"
The reasons for Beyonce topping this playlist are partially stated above and don't really need to be stated at all. All hail the Queen Bey.
Santigold, "Girls"
Santi recorded this track just for the TV show of the same title -- you know, that show -- and it captures some of the cocky attitude on the show, without Santigold losing her own style and swagger.
Portishead, "Glory Box"
Portishead has a lot of great material to its name, but this song might be the most heart-stopping. Beth Gibbons' aching, seductive vocals as she sings, "Give me a reason to love you / Give me a reason to be a woman" will hit you straight in the gut (or lower).
Sky Ferreira, "Everything Is Embarrassing"
Ferreira's Ghost EP was a mixed bag, stylistically, but this slow-dance jam put her on the map. "You know I'm trying," she sings, and you believe her. This girl is poised for big things in 2013.
Alabama Shakes, "Be Mine"
Brittany Howard isn't fond of thinking of this band as any kind of soul revival, but her voice can't help but attract those labels. It's powerful and raw, and when she breaks down into "woops" the repeated "be my baby" at the end of this song, you want to plead along with her (and feel terrible about your own singing).
Bleached, "Think of You"
Sisters Jennifer and Jessica Clavin are proof that chicks don't have to be beautiful vocalists. Bleached's lo-fi, sometimes surf-y rock is catchy -- and the singing doesn't strive for anything more than the Ramones ever achieved. That's not a bad thing.
Grouplove, "Naked Kids"
Hannah Hooper isn't the lead singer, but it wouldn't be Grouplove without her. When the band first started, she was an artist learning to be a musician from scratch. Now she's key to the indie rock group's sing-along melodies and infectious energy.
Delta Rae, "Bottom of the River"
The men of Delta Rae are no slouches themselves, but since this is playlist for the girls, let's just say that, damn these ladies can belt. And they'll never drop a note.


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It is 3 a.m., and I am listening to static on the radio.
To my 6-week-old baby, radio static is the sound of sleep. We try to sooth her to sleep with lullabies, ocean waves or the drizzle of the rainforest (the options on our baby sound machine), but she'd just as soon snore her sweet snores to the hum at the bottom of the FM dial.
So why am I awake while she dozes? It's because every few minutes, something breaks through the radio noise: a snippet of Top 40, the singsong voice of a DJ or a jingle for the local car dealership. My ears perk up, trying to pick out signal from noise.
Radio astronomers have a similar task, though they tune in with enormous dishes, not clock radios, and they use computers, not their ears, to sift real astrophysical signals from earthly interference and the background hum of the cosmos.
Now their search has turned up four examples of a new class of cosmic mysteries: radio bursts that last just milliseconds, but which, for that brief time, are brighter than any other such radio sources in the sky.
What are they? To answer that question, astronomers start with a somewhat more approachable mystery: Where are they?
The universe gives us a helping hand in figuring this out. As radio waves travel across the cosmos, they run into free electrons that slow them down. Low-frequency waves slow down more than high-frequency waves. By analyzing the delay across frequencies, astronomers can determine how many electrons the waves encountered as they made their way toward Earth.
From that, they can deduce the distance to the source of the radio waves.
These radio bursts seem to be coming from somewhere beyond our galaxy, based on the major delay between their low-frequency and high-frequency waves.
But this method of measuring distance leaves plenty of room for error. After all, free electrons aren't distributed evenly across the cosmos. They are sparse in the space between galaxies and dense within them, thronging in the dense galactic cores. So waves coming from the center of a nearby galaxy might be delayed even more than waves that originate at the outer edge of a far more distant galaxy.
Astronomers do have a few guesses as to the nature of these radio bursts. They could come from the collision of two outrageously dense dead stars, called neutrons stars. They could be screams from dying black holes or supernova explosions. They also could be nearby radio interference masquerading as cosmic events.
Or they could be something entirely new -- something we haven't even thought of yet.
Whatever they are, each seems to be a one-and-done event, suggesting that they are probably destructive: the sounds of guitars being smashed, not played.
And though it might seem odd, as we're only now discovering these blasts of radio waves, they are probably happening 10,000 times a day across the universe. That means that every 10 seconds or so, one of these tremendously powerful cosmic firecrackers goes off somewhere in the universe.
That's a lot of smashed guitars.
As astronomers build telescopes that can "listen" to broader swaths of the sky at once and dissect their data down to the millisecond, they likely will find more bursts like these, plus even stranger signals from still unimagined exotic objects.
It is a new picture of the cosmos: One we are just waking up to.
Kate Becker is a science writer living in Boston. Contact her at spacecrafty.com, or connect via Facebook (facebook.com/katembecker) or Twitter (@kmbecker).


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Yes, you get that part from AGD. Here is the web address of the part:Originally Posted by afcop12
Yes, you get that part from AGD. Here is the web address of the part:Originally Posted by afcop12
Except for the Automag in front, its usually the man behind the equipment that counts.
my rt is leaking down the barrel and stops leaking after a few seconds when you pull the trigger, i changed the carriers over, the one that was in had 3 dots on it, put two different sized ones in, one with 2 lines and 3 dots and one with 2 lines and 1 dot but both were worse than the first, the marker has no shims in it either.
iv checked the orings and all seem fine and also lubed it thru the ASA with hoppes oil, i got about 4000 balls thru it over 2 different days paintballing before it started leaking, it was fine before that the marker is set at 280FPS (ish) and also has an x valve
I think you are reading something incorrectly. The carriers are sized by lines and dots. The lines represent full sizes. The dots represent half sizes. The carrier sizing goes as follows:Originally Posted by luke@york
Size 0 = no lines, no dots
Size .5 = 1 dot
Size 1 = 1 line
Size 1.5 = 1 line, 1 dot
Size 2 = 2 lines
Size 2.5 = 2 lines, 1 dot
Size 3 = 3 lines
Some of the origninal kits also had larger sizes.
Try finding the sequential size of your carriers and try again. Move down in size until the leak stops. The carrier and oring should be snug on the bolt stem but still move freely. If it is tight and the gun still leaks, try changing the carrier oring and tune again. If it still leaks, check your sear for wear.
Only use good quality sythetic lubricant. Petrolium based products will destroy the orings in the gun.
okay, i tuned up my level 10 a week ago, aired it up no leaks using no shims and either 1.5 or 1.0 carier (cant remember). shot about 15-20 times no leaks. today i went to air it up, each shot progressively gets lower in velocity, if i dont shoot for a 10-12 seconds, ill hear air start to come out the back of the regulator, pulling trigger will stop leak but the first ball is coming out hot, and the next one lower and it will double feed consistently on the 3rd or 4th consecutive shot. its a minimag classic "center fire #0133" valve. serial# mm17482. mechanical trigger assembly, compressed air. a little help please
It sounds like your regulator seat oring is bad or the pin needs lubed.Originally Posted by JediMastR
ill check the regulator seat; but do you mean the on/off pin?
I checked the regulator seat that you said and replaced it with one from my repair kit, put a very small amount of oil on the pin, another small drop into the hole marked 'oil' on the bottom of the valve, but when I aired it up to test-fire, the marker wouldnt shoot at all. not even a sputter. there is air going into the fitting into the valve and my tank has 2000psi left. i turned up the velocity gradually pulling the trigger for a little more than a 1/4 turn but still nothing it was firing before, very strange. i checked the on/off assembly, everything was fine. any thoughts?
No, I mean the regulator pin. If it sticks, it can cause all sorts of recharge problems. Check that there isn't a piece of debris where the two orings reside at the front of the pin.Originally Posted by JediMastR
ya i checked it, its all clean appears to be totally normal/functional, but the valve refuses to take in air, the trigger and sear pin is totally limp. based on the past recharge problems and this maybe the entire regulator piston assembly is shot?
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I just got a new x-valve for my 68 automag. I installed it exactly like the directions said and turned up the velocity (using a high pressure tank) untill it cocked and then pulled the trigger once and it wouldn't fire anymore. It was like there wasnt enough pressure to cock it back or something. I tried using: 3 shims, 1 shim, no shims, using a smaller o-ring carrier, using the different size springs all with the same result.....no firing!!! Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Now, that problem sounds like bolt stick caused by a carrier that is too tight. Try pushing back on the front of the bolt. If the trigger rod snaps forward when you push the bolt back, you will know for sure.Originally Posted by JediMastR
Remove all the shims to start. Then put in a larger (not smaller) carrier with your oring. Use the largest carrier that does not leak. Start with the short bolt spring. Turn up the velocity until it fires reliably. Once you get it firing without leaks you can go to the middle red spring and further tweak your setup.Originally Posted by scrubbs03
i tried pushing the bolt back with a squeegee but to no avail, nothing happened. very strange. im going to send it in to agd i went through all the troubleshooting on their site as well. thanks anyway for your help, i appreciate it.
Take the valve apart and give it a good cleaning. Lub it well as you put it back together. Mag valves are very easy to maintain. Very seldom is there ever a problem that can't be solved by replacing a damaged oring or removing a piece of dirt.Originally Posted by JediMastR
Originally Posted by athomas
I put in a larger o-ring carrier (the second smallest) with the medium (red) spring and 2 shims and it seemed to fire. The only problem was if I tried to fire rapidly, it wouldn't fire everytime it would just make the sound of air coming out untill I would let go of the trigger. Any help is greatly appreciated!!
You are still getting a bit of bolt stick, plus the vent hole is too close to the carrier oring. Take a shim or two out of the powertube. Use the next larger carrier.Originally Posted by scrubbs03
Originally Posted by athomas
I tried the next o-ring carrier up but it was too large. I took out a shim and it seemed to shoot pretty good except occasionally it would sound like air down the barrel. I shot paint with it and sometimes it would shoot 2-balls and several times it just dropped the ball out th eend of the barrel. Thanks for all the helpful advice so far......I definately appreciate it. Any more help would be great.
I just bought a new tac one and when I gas it up it fires 1 shot most of the time. It had the lvl 10 installed from the factory. I am using a HPA 68-4500 tank. I can hold the trigger down when gassing up and it fires an automatic string. Is this a break in thing for the on/off pin.
check your detent, it may be loose, or are you using a force fed hopper?Originally Posted by scrubbs03
Try using the next shorter bolt spring. Make sure the velocity setting is high enough.Originally Posted by scrubbs03
It shouldn't do that. Does it have a ULT? Sounds like an on-off top oring problem. If you have a ULT, remove a shim or two. If you have a retro on-off, clean or change your small top oring. Make sure all the orings are in place.Originally Posted by mas4kcc
I appreciate everyones inputs and they are all valid to me. My detent is tight and I use a Empire Reloader B with rip drive. I don't have a ult trigger and no leaks. I have tried it today and it only fired once or twice on gassing up.
I have a reds on/off and it usually bleads the air off for me when I release the pressure. I may have one shot left in the marker, if I don't pull the trigger on that last shot it will not fire on gass up. If I pull the trigger for the last shot the trigger goes limp and it isn't much of a shot. When I gass up again it snaps the trigger and fires the shot.
My Tac One came with a print out on the speed tested and variances. It came ready from the factory ( set at 286). It shoots very accurately and consistant.
Take the valve apart and clean and lubricate the regulator pin assembly. It may be sticking.Originally Posted by mas4kcc
Thanx, I will do that. I appreciate everyones help.
I have a minimag that I love to shoot but it chops most paint like crazy no matter what I do. I also have 2 autocockers that i am growing quite fond of .My question is if I get the level 10 and xvalve along with ULE TRIGGER kit, will this eliminate the chopping and will it outperform the autocockers?
Originally Posted by AGD
This question should have been asked in a post of its own other than the level 10 issue thread.Originally Posted by huggabugga
The level 10 virtually eliminates chopping on mags when setup properly. The ULT reduces the trigger pull force down to that of an electronic marker. Combine that with an Xvalve and you have a very nice fast mechanical marker. Will it outperform an autococker? That is a question which is very subjective. It depends on what you like. Only you will really know which is better for you.
Okay guys I apologize because I am new to the Automag before I go any further but I am no noob. I just switched over from using a Tippy for the past 7 years. I have an RT automag with a Level 10 installed. I got the gun used a few months ago and it always shot fine. I took it down to the local shop and he tuned it up for me and it was a night and day difference. Shoots amazingly quick and I love it but it began to leak. It started to leak out the back and after some more adjustments and some new Orings that stopped. I took it home and it shot fine for a little while then started to leak down the barrel. He tried a different carrier and the leak settled down quite a bit however it is still noticeable. When shooting fast and the leak continues It will not allow me to shoot for a few seconds and then the trigger pops back out and I can shoot. I just ordered a shim kit from AGD and I hope it came in today. Am I on the correct Pathway here? It is a slight leak down the barrel and is is much better than before but is still there. Thanks for the help in advance!
[QUOTE=athomas]This question should have been asked in a post of its own other than the level 10 issue thread.
sorry athomas I didnt mean be out of line just wasnt sure where to post my ?.
Originally Posted by athomas
The trigger sticking is actually bolt stick and is due to the carrier being too tight. It sounds like the original carrier was the correct one. There may have been too many shims in the powertube which caused the leak down the barrel. Remove a shim or two from the powertube.Originally Posted by bad64chevelle
okay I see what you are saying but I dont have any more carriers I bought the gun and it only came the way it was and had no extra parts. I look on the AGD site and I can buy them one at a time, but I wish I could purchase a whole kit. I am not sure what size I have in there now, how do I check that and whatever it is how do I know whether to go bigger or smaller? ThanksOriginally Posted by athomas


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I forgot to mention, any marker pictured with a Redz marker case comes with it
Everything seen is for sale except for the X-mag valve. I will get around to better pics and descriptions as I can. These are some pretty nice ones yet again guys. Post or PM with questions if you have questions. I can/will provide better details and pics when I can. I know I need to give a price as per forum rules, but I haven't really nailed them down yet as to what I want, but I need to get the sales thread going or I never will.
Lets say every marker is between $500 and $1500 for the time being. That's insured/shipped/tracked.
---Purple Nights PTP Micromag.
$700.00 OBO. And I mean by "OBO" to just make me an offer. The Micro-EM is still available. It currently has a dead board and cut battery wire. E-mag valve. The marker looks near FLAWLESS. Like factory new condition. Worked last time used in mech-mode.
---I was hoping to get $750 OBO for the Factory Splash RT with Z-Grip. It is in great cosmetic condition. The splash job was a limited run and hard to come across. The Z-Grip is in fantastic condition. RT valve.
I believe this was a factory special order of some kind. Most RT fore-grip brackets were cut to accept Z-Grips. This Fore-grip bracket was milled THEN annoed the blue/silver sponge with purple splash. This marker has not been aired-up in at least a couple of years. A little oil and it might be ripping again. Or you may need to replace seals, bumper, etc. AS IS!
I can take more pics. It really is a beautiful RT and the Z-Grip is a great tight package in my opinion.
$SOLD shipped/insured/tracked OBO! SIC Impulse! Both detent/eyecover screws are scuffed. Small dent above barrel in body. GREAT FADE! As is, unused for quite a while. Board, trigger, solenoid, all appear and sound fine. Blue-light Cricket board. $SOLD
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Djokovic coasts into third round
Novak Djokovic dropped just four games against Paul-Henri Mathieu as he coasted into the third round of the US Open.
The world number one, bidding to reach the final for a fifth straight year, had the easiest of afternoons on Arthur Ashe, defeating the 81st-ranked Frenchman 6-1 6-3 6-0.
As good as Djokovic was from the start, Mathieu was his own worst enemy, serving seven double faults in the opening set as he struggled to adjust to the windy conditions.
Novak Djokovic had the easiest of matches as he eased into the third round of the US Open (AP)
The Frenchman settled down in the second set and had a chance to break for 3-2 but could only watch as his forehand clipped the top of the net and dropped just wide.
Djokovic made him pay straight away with a break of his own and went on to take the second set, and the third was completely one-sided as he wrapped up victory after just an hour and 28 minutes.
The Wimbledon champion said: "It's very windy but I managed to adjust to the conditions. I managed to play better in the important moments, to stay solid and use my serve with accuracy rather than speed. I'm very happy with my performance overall."
The top seed next plays American Sam Querrey, who upset 28th seed Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3 6-4 6-4.
Querrey's only win in eight previous meetings with Djokovic came at the Masters event in Paris two years ago.
He said: "I usually just worry about myself and try to focus on my game and not change up my strategy too much. I'll pretty much just try to serve big and be aggressive and take my chance was some big forehands."
Ninth seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga eased to a 6-3 6-4 6-4 win over Aleksandr Nedovyesov, celebrating his win with some shadow boxing rather than his customary dance.
Tenth seed Kei Nishikori was two sets up when Pablo Andujar retired while American number one John Isner was untroubled in a 7-6 (7/5) 6-4 6-2 win over Jan-Lennard Struff.
The 13th seed now meets German Philipp Kohlschreiber, who has beaten him at the same stage of the US Open for the past two years.
"I wouldn't really call it a problem," said Isner. "I have beaten him more times than he's beaten me overall. But he's beaten me here.
"I thought our matches the last two years have been pretty high quality. I remember last year I wasn't disappointed with how I played. He just played better than me. Simple as that.
"In a few days' time I'm just going to have to try to be better than him."
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Seems like the Mayas were right with the "End Of The World" in the end of this week. :rofl:
And it will be reborn better than ever before! :headbang:
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Originally Posted by AGD
Seems like the Mayas were right with the "End Of The World" in the end of this week. :rofl:
And it will be reborn better than ever before! :headbang:
now THATS funny :rofl:
Originally Posted by going_home
The apps like ForumRunner or Tapatalk are actual native applications. You see everything you're supposed to see on the handset - images, links, etc. But it does it in a fashion that make using a mobile device easier (pulls out the forum theme and what not).
I do have a lot of Android apps, but I have no use for forum apps.
I just go to the full web page.
LTE is as fast as my business class roadrunner, if not faster sometimes.
Well not everyone uses/is able to use LTE
In my area I'm lucky if I get a 3G signal, because most of the time it's 1x. And when I do get the little 3G emblem on my phone I think it's just a gimmick because it's never as fast here as when I visit some large metro area.
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Even MetroPCS has a bigger LTE footprint in this area than Sprint.Quote:
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T-Mobile has their 42mbps HSPA+ up around here.
Neither Tmo nor Metro work well in the metal building where I work so I switched to the death star AT&T and now no problems.
You really do get what you pay for when it comes to carriers.
Originally Posted by AGD
Here we go.
A holiday at home and bored with no AO.
no pics working?
Finally.... I was getting really bored at work.
If you need help with turning stuff like Forumrunner and what not on (as well as the hidden question on the reg page so you can start using free addresses like Gmail again) please let me know. I'm free to help.
Yay we back !
so animated smileyes not supported?
or is that something that still needs to be turned on?
Glad to see the new forum up and running. I will have to remember to log in whenever I stop by from now on to use some of the new features - thank you for allowing signatures to be turned off in my viewing profile!
Humbly, might I request that sometime once all the working bits are back running, if someone could help me figure out how to darken the whole forum up (as in get rid of all of the eye strain inducing glaring white background) I would really appreciate it!
Thanks again TK and in particular everyone who invested some hard-earned money to make this happen.
I added a AO.UK signature from the pictures uploaded today but don't think the feature is currently active?
Will the user profile picture function eventually allow us to add custom avatars?
how to i add photos to my photo tab on my profile?
or am i missing the idea.
the way i think it works is that i can have photos stored here on AO now. and dont have to have a URL link from a storage site?
let me know what you know thankyou guys,
In order to view your signatures after you log in, you'll have to go to Settings:>General Settings:>Visible Post Elements:>Show Signatures and check the box.
And, the background is going to remain white until someone decent with CSS creates and uploads a new skin.
Just an idea.... I would really like to see AO stay somewhat "normal" to me. It's pretty iconic now that I have stared at it for so long...
Small Changes:
- Added the AO header back in. My idea would be to incorporate the "Mag of the Month" winner into the top header. Either a person or automag.
- Added color into the different forum categories.
- Change the view on the main page so it shows "Last Post" before "Threads/Posts"
- Changed the location for the Log in menu bar. (might be a PITA depending how the template is written.)
- Make a few custom icons, this can be an easy drag and drop if needed.
- Custom "Dark" AO theme. (Download something close to the original, edit the pictures, and voila!!
comin along nicely
I like the new AO so far, but like the rest need to get adjusted to it.
its wierd having the "settings" be your "usercp"
I am still trying to figure out how to use some of these features. :(
. . . . .but so far I like it, this will just take a little getting used to, afterall the old AO was home for a very long time!
yes, its like a new house feel, your new home but not quite home yet
Added a question/answer to the new user sign up. It will be a stock gap.
I think I have deleted and banned 20-25 users in the last 2 hours weeeee
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Elusive: Peter's meeting with a reclusive screen legend has the office buzzing. When the actress disappears, Susie must find her.
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Perhaps the oddest revelation is an episode from 1992, when his father was still president and he was visiting the White House.
Bush found the White House a "creepy place," Draper writes. After exercising in a White House gym one evening, Bush has told a friend he froze in his steps while approaching the Lincoln Bedroom.
Bush insists "he saw ghosts -- coming out of the wall," according to a friend.
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LONGMONT -- A Longmont man pleaded guilty to one count of DUI-related vehicular homicide last month and avoided a trial that was scheduled to begin Monday.
Adolph Lopez, 23, faces up to 16 years in prison under a deal with prosecutors that he accepted on Nov. 26. He was scheduled to go to trial Monday on four felony vehicular homicide charges.
According to the Colorado State Patrol, Lopez was driving a white Honda Accord on Feb. 25 with Anthony Sandoval and Jerry Martinez, both 27, when the car rolled. The crash was reported at 5:20 a.m. when Lopez called for help.
Investigators said the car rolled over on St. Vrain Road near North 75th Street, ejecting Sandoval and Martinez. Both were declared dead at the scene.
A Longmont dispatcher spoke with Lopez, who said he was cold, could not see any cars and did not know what road he was on before crashing through a barbed-wire fence and landing in a ditch. He said he could get the engine started, but could not get the car out of the ditch. "I am stuck," he told the dispatcher. "I can get out, but I am freezing my a-- off."
The dispatcher asked if he had been drinking.
"I really didn't have that much," he said. "I was just taking my cousins out."
He told the dispatcher he was no longer with his cousins because they had taken off on their own.
Lopez is scheduled to return to court Jan. 14 for sentencing. He faces four to 12 years in prison. However, if the judge finds aggravating circumstances he could get up to 16 years.
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The Wellington Crusaders are where they want to be after one game of district play, with two games remaining.
"We control our own destiny," coach Tyler Ryan said Monday. "We are not having to depend on anyone else. We are 5-2 now but we are hungry for more."
By JAMES JORDAN
The Wellington Daily News
The Wellington Crusaders are where they want to be after one game of district play, with two games remaining.
"We control our own destiny," coach Tyler Ryan said Monday. "We are not having to depend on anyone else. We are 5-2 now but we are hungry for more."
Wellington got the plays it had to have when it needed them and held on to beat Clearwater 21-19 Friday in Clearwater. Winfield beat Mulvane, so at present Wellington and Winfield have the early lead. The Crusaders host Mulvane this week while Winfield will play Clearwater. The following week Wellington plays at Winfield in what could be a battle for the title.
But first there is Mulvane. Wellington will have to contain running back Michael Mason, who Ryan called one of the best running backs in the state.
"They have a good strong line and they are disruptive on defense. Mason has a good set of skills. He is around 200 pounds, and is fast. He can be a bruiser at times, but can run too. He is a big chunk of their offense.
Ryan said he is pleased with the way things have gone so far this season.
He credited the defense for making plays when it had to, but said it may not have been the unit's best game of the season.
"We did well on defense. We bent but didn't break. We made some plays there," he said.
He was also happy with the way they ran the ball more efficiently in the second half.
"When you look at the film there are always ways to improve," he said. He is still looking for a complete game where each unit performs at its best.
The Crusader offensive line has also developed and become a formidable unit.
Skylar Brand and Taylon Lamkin at guards, Ben DeJarnett at center, and Trey Coulter, Nick Hyde and Dalton Holt at the tackles, have become a consistent unit that makes the offense run.
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TAMPA, Florida (CNN) -- Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, who commanded coalition forces during the Gulf War, died Thursday, a U.S. official said. He was 78.
After Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, Schwarzkopf directed the buildup of 700,000 coalition troops. On January 17, 1991, they began a nearly six-week air assault of Iraqi forces that was followed by a swift ground campaign that pushed Saddam Hussein's forces out of Kuwait.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the general left an indelible imprint on the military.
"General Schwarzkopf's skilled leadership of that campaign liberated the Kuwaiti people and produced a decisive victory for the allied coalition," Panetta said in a written statement. "In the aftermath of that war, General Schwarzkopf was justly recognized as a brilliant strategist and inspiring leader. Today, we recall that enduring legacy and remember him as one of the great military giants of the 20th century."
Former President George H.W. Bush, who is hospitalized, said the general was a "true American patriot and one of the great military leaders of his generation."
In 1988, Schwarzkopf was appointed commander of U.S. Central Command.
A Time magazine correspondent described the general, as he prepared his troops along the Kuwaiti border in 1990, as a man "with a John Wayne swagger and a growl like a grizzly."
The general earned the sobriquet "Stormin' Norman."
Schwarzkopf made a reputation as a plain-spoken commander when he gave media briefings during Operation Desert Storm.
He told a room full of his reporters: "As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that."
Schwarzkopf retired in August 1991, hit the lecture circuit and briefly was a military analyst for NBC.
He wrote a book entitled "It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman H. Schwarzkopf."
In it, he outlined the reasons that coalition forces didn't press onto the Iraqi capital during the first Gulf War.
"Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq."
Schwarzkopf wrote that had "we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit -- we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation."
A U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003, leading to the eventual capture of Hussein.
Schwarzkopf graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1956, according to Britannica Online.
He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he received three Silver Stars.
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Paul Salopek is already a well-traveled journalist — a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who has spent most of the past two decades roaming across Africa, Asia, the Balkans and Latin America.
This, apparently, has not sated his wanderlust. So now he's in a dusty village in Ethiopia's Rift Valley, ready to launch a seven-year, 21,000-mile journey on foot that will take him from Africa, across the Middle East and through Asia, over to Alaska and down the Western edge of the Americas until he hits the southern tip of Chile.
"The short version is I'm interested in narrative, I'm interested in storytelling," Salopek, speaking by satellite phone, tells Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep. "After jetting around the world as a foreign correspondent, after flying into stories, after driving into them, helicoptering in, even, I thought about what it would be like to walk between stories. Not just to see the stories we were missing by flying over them, but to understand the connective tissue of all the major stories of our day."
Salopek said he chose his route based on the migration out of Africa by early humans. But, he said, it's more a journey about the future than the past.
"I don't want this to be misperceived as a journey about the past," he says. "I'm using the past as a road map. I'm using what scientists are telling us are the closest approximations of how we dispersed out of the mother continent, Africa, about 50,000 to 70,000 years ago."
But, he adds, "it's very much about the present day. It's about how we've changed the world, and how the world is being radically altered in our view by such things as the Internet. I'm starting out this walk with about 35 percent of the world wired. By the time I reach Patagonia in 2020, about 80 to 90 percent will be wired."
Salopek noted that he was among the rural Afar people in Ethiopia, and some of the men sport a dagger on their traditional belts — along with a cellphone.
Salopek is a National Geographic fellow who has written frequently for National Geographic magazine. He will be sending dispatches from his journey and you can follow him at www.OutOfEdenWalk.com.
Here are some of the interview highlights:
On obstacles he will face
"There will be challenges along the way. Often, they'll be challenges I'm not even thinking of. My personal experience in these regions is that, the first impulse, even in turbulent areas, is not one of hostility, it's one of generosity. That's not to say you can't get in a lot of trouble very fast; I have been in the past. But generally, the first reaction to people has been one of generosity."
On getting through turbulent parts of the Middle East
"It is a bottleneck ... I know northern Iraq pretty well. I've worked there a long time, I have friends there. That's not going to be the most serious concern. I think the most serious concern is what will Syria be like when I reach there 18 months from now, and what will our relations be with Iran six months later."
On taking occasional breaks
"The idea is not to turn it into a Herculean wilderness traverse. These areas are going to be challenging enough, so if I'm faced with the ... desert and an inhabited fringe to the right, my choice is going to be pretty obvious. I'll go where the people are, because I'll be living on local economies ... the idea is to be with people most of the time."
On what one packs for a seven-year trip
"The main thing that will not change though all the climates I will be walking through is basically how to get the story out. So I'll be taking an ultralight laptop, a satellite phone, a local cellphone and a camera and a digital recorder — so basically the kit any traveling writer or foreign correspondent would carry around the world. And I'm getting the lightest possible stuff I can buy. And the beauty is the technology is moving in my direction, getting smaller and smaller. And the cool part of the story is that it will be changing as I go. And the stuff I'm carrying now will seem ancient when I reach Tierra del Fuego in 2020."
Paul Salopek is a foreign correspondent who has traveled the world but has never traveled quite like this.
He's now a National Geographic fellow, beginning a journey that will cover some 21,000 miles and takes seven years. He's calling it "Out of Eden."
INSKEEP: He calls it that because he's going to be tracing what anthropologists believe to be the path of ancient human migration. He starts in Africa, he's moving across Asia and then down through North and South America.
MONTAGNE: And except for that short leap over water, at the Behring Strait, he's hoping to make the entire journey on foot.
INSKEEP: Right now, he's in Ethiopia near the starting point.
Mr. Salopek, welcome to the program.
PAUL SALOPEK: Thank you for having me on.
INSKEEP: And where exactly are you in Ethiopia?
SALOPEK: I'm at an early man site called Herto Bouri, where some of the earliest archaic humans have been found, about 160,000 years old. So I thought this would be a good place to begin walking.
INSKEEP: You're in or near the Rift Valley?
SALOPEK: Yeah, I'm on the western side of the Rift, in a very dusty, little village right now. And the goats are coming in. The nomads are bringing in their camels. It's quite noisy here.
INSKEEP: And when you say Rift Valley, I mean that's one of them more evocative places names on the map of Africa. But give me a picture of it. What's the landscape like?
SALOPEK: It's parched. There are grasslands that are (unintelligible) yellow, stretching over to a flat horizon - and big, dusty blue volcanoes jutting up into the sky. Quite a beautiful desert.
INSKEEP: And you intend to walk from there, across several continents, on your way to South America?
SALOPEK: That's the plan, taking it one step at a time, northward into the Middle East and then across Eurasia; planning it basically year-by-year. On a seven-year journey, it's very hard to plan for year six. You've got to plan for year one and year two.
INSKEEP: You know, there's so many questions raised by this. But the first is why? Why do this?
SALOPEK: Short version is, I'm interested in narrative. I'm interested in storytelling. After jetting around the world as a foreign correspondent, after flying into stories, after driving into them, I thought - what would it be like to walk between stories? Not just to see about the stories that we're missing by flying over them, but to understand the connective tissue between all the major stories of our day. And so, I got this notion of going to stories at about three miles an hour; learning about them more thoroughly, perhaps bringing a deeper meaning to them.
INSKEEP: So you are following this ancient, ancient path of migration. But you are thinking about the present day as you go. You want to meet people along the way now.
SALOPEK: Correct, I don't want this to be misperceived as a journey about the past. I'm using the past as a roadmap. It's about how we've changed the world, and how the world is being radically altered, in our view, by such things as the Internet.
I'm starting out this walk with about 35 percent of the world is wired. By the time I reach Patagonia in 2020, about 80 to 90 percent of the world will be wired. These are fundamental changes in the way we view life here on the planet. And I'm very interested in exploring them, slowly.
INSKEEP: You mentioned people being wired. Does everybody have a cell phone there?
SALOPEK: You know, you would be surprised. The nomads here, the pastoralists are the Afar. And they wear these webbing belts with a big Jile, a big dagger in it - a traditional dagger, and many of them, next to their dagger, do indeed carry a cell phone.
INSKEEP: So people have these cell phones and that is something that's transforms a lot of people's lives in ways that they may not even realize. Do you see signs that the revolution in communications is transforming the lives of the nomads you're meeting?
SALOPEK: It's extraordinary, actually, connections beyond the immediate horizon that was people's lives for many, many generations. Being able to plan ahead, being able to call colleagues over the horizon to see about rain patterns and pasturage - this is happening all up and down the Rift Valley, not just here in Ethiopia but down in Kenya, as well.
INSKEEP: Mr. Salopek, since you're a veteran foreign correspondent, I don't have to tell you that your walk would take you through quite a number of troubled countries.
SALOPEK: Yeah, there will be challenges along the way. And often, they'll be challenges that I'm not even thinking of. My personal experience in these regions is that, the first impulse, even in turbulent areas, is not one of hostility - it's one of generosity. That's not to say that you can't get in a lot of trouble very fast; I have been in the past. But generally, the first reaction to people has been one of generosity
INSKEEP: People are excited to be a foreigner. They welcome you, don't they?
SALOPEK: Yeah, I think there is a natural curiosity that goes on. There's also this notion of being sacred clown. I'm this very odd person who shows up, inching over the horizon and it raises a lot more questions - even more than I could possibly answer in moving slowly. But people are very forgiving. And there will be difficulties. I'll be stymied. I'll find obstacles. I'll run into borders that are closed. That's part of the journey, improvising my way across the world. After all, our ancestors did the same 50 to 70,000 years ago.
INSKEEP: Although, as I look at the map, pretty early on it looks like you can't go anywhere unless you are able to walk across either Iraq or Syria. And then you have to get through Iran. That sounds pretty tough.
SALOPEK: Yeah, that's a - it is a bottleneck. And I know northern Iraq pretty well. I've worked there a long time. I have friends there. That's not going to be the most serious concern. I think the serious concern is what will Syria be like when I reach there 18 months from now. And what will our relations be with Iran, you know, six months later? It's hard to say.
I will try and improvises as I go. I'll try to plan. I'll be stopping along the way for months, not just to rest and recuperate, but to actually plan the next leg of the journey.
INSKEEP: Aren't there also a lot of climate dangers? I mean there are deserts to walk across. There are really high mountains to climb or circumvent.
SALOPEK: Yeah, the idea is not to turn it into a Herculean wilderness traverse. The journey is going to be challenging enough, so I don't - you know, if I'm faced with the Taklamakan Desert ahead of me, and an inhabited fringe to the right, my choice is going to be pretty obvious. I'll go where the people are, because I'll be living on local economies.
INSKEEP: I don't want to get to personal here. But do you have a family at home? And if so, what do they think of you setting off on a seven-year trip?
SALOPEK: I'm trying to protect them and not get in too much detail. But, Steven, what I will say on record is that they've been supportive of the idea. And my wife knew who she was marrying.
INSKEEP: Is she going to come and walk along with you part of the time?
SALOPEK: Yeah, where it's doable. She's not a journalist. She's not a writer. She's a visual artist. And Linda will be joining me in places where she can do her work. So she will pick a spot where she can perhaps sketch or paint. And I will walk to her.
INSKEEP: You'll walk to her, that's kind of romantic.
SALOPEK: Well, yeah. It is, isn't it?
INSKEEP: It gives you a target in any event.
SALOPEK: That's right.
INSKEEP: Paul Salopek is a journalist who is beginning a walk along the path of human settlement, from Africa across Asia and down the Americas.
Thanks very much. Good luck. I hope to check in with you again, as you go.
SALOPEK: Thanks, Steven. I look forward to it.
INSKEEP: I'm looking at a map of his projected route. You can find it at NPR.org.
It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep.
MONTAGNE: And I'm Renee Montagne. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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SDSU presents 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities
South Dakota State University President David Chicoine this week presented the university's 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities to the South Dakota Board of Regents during the governing body's meeting in Rapid City.
The athletic facilities master plan provides direction and ideas, not details on individual projects. It also creates context for the location and purpose of new or upgraded athletic facilities in the northeast part of the SDSU campus, the functional area for intercollegiate athletics defined in the university's 2025 Facility Master Plan, updated October 2008.
"Master planning connects principles, processes and outcomes," Chicoine said. "This master plan for athletic facilities articulates the direction for a specific physical segment of the campus and how that direction and the suggested facilities comply with the principles and meet the programming goals for intercollegiate athletics."
A complete copy of the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities is available for viewing at the link above.
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- To provide student-athletes the best opportunity to become lifelong champions, to compete and succeed at the conference and NCAA championship level, and to achieve academic success;
- To optimize the quality of overall student-athlete experience, student-life experience, coaching and staff experience and fan experience;
- To assure financial integrity;
- To align with the university's strategic plan and the strategic goal to expand the reach of the university;
- To align with the university's 2025 Facility Master Plan; and
- To develop the intercollegiate athletics functional area in the northeast section of campus.
Crawford Architects of Kansas City, Mo., served as the consultant for the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities. Crawford staff studied current athletic facilities, identified gaps between the current facilities and the guiding principles, and provided considerations as to the types of facilities necessary for the university to comply with the plan's guiding principles.
Included in the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities is an expanded and modernized football stadium to provide students, fans and supporters a unique game-day experience. The plan also includes a multipurpose indoor practice and human performance facility with a track and state-of-the-art spaces for sports medicine, training and human performance, and rehabilitation.
Other potential new facilities include an indoor and outdoor golf practice facility for the men's and women's programs, a multifield competition and practice facility for women's soccer, a competition-caliber aquatics facility to be shared with students and the Brookings community, and a multicourt practice facility for basketball and volleyball that also will be used as a competition venue for volleyball and wrestling.
Facility upgrades identified in the plan include permanent seating and press boxes for softball and baseball stadiums, realignment of the current football practice area to include three fields, updates to modernize Frost Arena, expansion of the wrestling practice facility to also include team support areas, and updates to the current athletics offices and administration support space in the Stanley J. Marshall building.
The 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities also includes two projects outside the intercollegiate athletics functional area in the northeast section of campus. A tennis competition and practice facility would most likely be developed at an off-campus site in collaboration with the Brookings community, while future expansion of the Nathelle and Lawrence DeHaan Equestrian Center north of the Highway 14 bypass will include a stall barn, outdoor riding arena, viewing rooms and support facilities for both coaches and student-athletes.
Plans for new intramural fields will be developed as the 2025 Master Plan for Athletic Facilities is implemented.
About South Dakota State University
Founded in 1881, South Dakota State University is the state's Morrill Act land-grant institution as well as its largest, most comprehensive school of higher education. SDSU confers degrees from seven different colleges representing more than 200 majors, minors and options. The institution also offers 23 master's degree programs and 12 Ph.D. programs.
The work of the university is carried out on a residential campus in Brookings, at sites in Sioux Falls, Pierre and Rapid City, and through Cooperative Extension offices and Agricultural Experiment Station research sites across the state.


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Luther returned to action for the first time since Dec. 8, and posted an impressive 149-68 victory over Loras College. The victory increased Luther's dual meet record to 4-0. Loras fell to 2-1 in the Iowa Conference, 2-3 overall. This was Luther's first dual against a conference opponent.
The Norse won every event en route to the victory. The Norse also posted the top four times in both the 50 freestyle and 200 backstroke and the top three times in the 200 IM.
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SACRAMENTO — The question of whether the federal government should stop protecting gray wolves elicits strong emotions on both sides – even within the ranching industry.
Keli Hendricks, who co-owns a 500-acre cow-calf operation in Petaluma, Calif., fears that ranchers' well-known animosity toward wolves is hurting the cattle industry's image among consumers.
She said producers can take non-lethal measures to protect their animals, including the use of dogs, fencing and riding out with their herds.
"The livestock industry is creating more vegetarians than anyone," Hendricks said. "People are changing. If they have to choose between cattle and wolves, they might just choose wolves. We have to join the 21st century."
But rancher Scott Murphy, president of the Siskiyou County Resource Conservation District, said even the presence of wolves nearby can stress cattle to the point that it hinders reproduction.
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Jerrie Libby, who co-owns a small ranch in Live Oak, Calif., showed pictures of cows that had been eaten alive by wolves to show that wolves can be vicious predators.
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