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The artistic talents of the students from the beautiful city of Volgodonsk, Russia are enthusiastically put to work to create their first ever art album featuring eleven themes. The themes include Outer Space, Military and Transportation, Scenic Nature, Birds and Animals, Russian Culture, Winter Sports, Folk Tales, Christmas Holidays, Russian Life, New Artists 2-4 Years Old, and featured Volgodonsk artists, sisters Yana and Zlata Dzhurich! In all there are 331 pieces of beautiful artwork and art projects, three bonus photo collage albums containing over 160 rare photos of the Volgodonsk students, and 18 incredible Google Earth satellite photographs of Volgodonsk, Russia. The students range in age from 2-4 years old up to 13 years old (Grade 7). The artwork is really wonderful! The proceeds from this incredible art album and the sale of the artwork will go towards funding new playgrounds and support equipment for these kids in Volgodonsk, Russia at their school and local area doms. The Volgodonsk students and their teachers are proudly participating in this business venture that uses their artistic talents to benefit their community by raising money for new playgrounds. Playgrounds they could otherwise not afford. By working together, they hope to create a very fun play environment for future Volgodonsk children. The inspiration for this art album goes to Elena Dzhurich who worked closely with art teacher friends and her own kindergarten class to secure 80% of the artwork. The other 20% comes from her two artistic daughters Yana and Zlata who worked tirelessly for an entire year drawing and coloring every weekend to create the rest of the artwork. I know that you will enjoy this wonderful art album filled with a rare treasure of Russian Children's Artwork. Artwork that has never before been seen outside of Russia.
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DURHAM, N.C. – Numerous Duke track and field team members took advantage of the final weekend of competition before the NCAA first round meet scheduled for May 29-31. A school record and myriad personal-best marks fell at both the NC State Wolfpack Last Chance Meet in Raleigh, N.C., and the Georgia Tech Invitational in Atlanta, Ga., Friday. The trio of redshirt sophomore Teddi Maslowski, senior Christian Britto and redshirt freshman Urina Harrell posted performances that will allow them to join numerous Duke competitors at the NCAA first round meet in two weeks.
The NCAA first round field is comprised of the top 48 student-athletes who declare for each event. A finalized list of competitors is scheduled for release later this week.
Maslowski reclaimed the Duke school record in the 100-meter hurdles after clocking a time of 13.73 in Raleigh. Maslowski bested her previous personal record by nearly two-tenths of a second. The Burgettstown, Pa., native returned to the track for the 400m hurdles later in the day, winning the event by over a second with a time of 59.39. Maslowski's 400m-hurdle time, which ranks second on Duke's all-time list, should qualify her for the NCAA first round competition.
Britto, with the help of teammate Shaun Thompson, ran a personal-best time of 9:03.39 in the men's 3,000m steeplechase to conclude his final competition of the season before the NCAA first round meet. Britto's growth throughout his career at Duke has been evident, improving on his sophomore year personal-best in the steeplechase of 9:58.17 by nearly 55 seconds.
In the shot put, Harrell posted the farthest distance of her collegiate career, sending the implement 48-2.75 (14.70). The Richmond, Calif., native improved on her own personal-best mark and remains second on Duke's all-time list.
In addition to Maslowski, Britto and Harrell, junior Nate McClafferty clocked a personal-best time of 1:51.48 to win the second heat of the men's 800 while senior Ashley Berry posted a personal-record performance in the 3,000m steeple at Georgia Tech, placing second with a time of 10:27.50.
Four Duke competitors, including Banks, Farley, Granger and Meier, are scheduled to compete in the women's 800 Saturday in Atlanta.

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The unfortunate inequitable review embargo for BioShock Infinite has expired, and viewpoints on Irrational Games' shooter prequel can now compete with each other for supremacy, just as Andrew Ryan would have wanted. Metacritic currently shows the game with 31 positive critic's reviews and a 95 metascore, which is in the rarified air of the best reviewed games of all time, including the original BioShock, which is one of seven PC games with a metascore of 96. As of now there are no user reviews, as the game is not due until tomorrow.
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Three Huskers Named to Academic All-Big Ten Team
Lincoln – University of Nebraska basketball players Brandon Ubel, Kye Kurkowski and Trevor Menke were recognized for their efforts in the classroom and on the court Wednesday, as they were named to the Academic All-Big Ten team.
This is the third straight year that Ubel has been chosen as an academic all-conference selection, as he was honored in 2011 by the Big 12 Conference before earning Big Ten honors each of the past two years. Ubel will graduate with a degree in broadcasting in May. Menke, who is a social science education major, and Kurkowski, who majors in agricultural engineering, are being honored for the second straight year as Academic All-Big Ten selections.
Ubel and Menke are among 39 men's basketball players being honored by the Big Ten Conference. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners who are in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of 3.0 or higher.


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Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez appear to be back on.
I need a vacation -- somewhere without Internet -- for about nine years.
Anyway, I'm pleased (honest) and oh so proud (really) to be the one to announce that the world's most important gangsta Canadian is back together with the famous girl who seems nice, but who clearly could use a protective and intrusive father in her life.
TMZ reports that the pair spent Monday out and about in Malibu, then partied that night at somewhere called Bootsy Bellows, at a birthday celebration for a friend. TMZ has video and says Gomez never left Bieber's side.
Sigh ... is a vacation too much to ask for? I'll take a dusty cave at this point, just as long as no one is asking me to monitor TMZ while I'm there.
So because you're still reading and I'm still writing, know that the happy new-old couple was spotted earlier that day riding down the beach on what TMZ says is Bieber's Can-Am Spyder 3-wheeler with a group of friends.
As you may or may not know, Bieber posted a photo last week of him and Gomez, captioned, "Our love is unconditional."
Lucky her.
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The Truman State Bulldogs women's basketball team launched another very impressive victory on Thursday as they totally dismantled Central Oklahoma 72 to 39. Coming into the game it was thought that Central Oklahoma and Truman would match up well and it would be a competitive game but the Bulldogs controlled the game from the opening tip to the final buzzer as they not only were able to score at will but also played an outstanding defensive game. This is an extrodinary group of student athletes and I hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to see this team in action. Your next chance to do that is on Saturday as Truman hosts Emporia State in what should be an excellent game as Emporia State always puts an excellent team on the floor and Truman has to payback from last year to take care of.
The Truman Bulldogs men's basketball team once again struggled and lost to a better than expected Central Oklahoma team. The Bulldogs just haven't been able to put together many solid games on both ends of the floor and I can't imagine the level of frustration they must be feeling right now because they are so close but just come up a little bit short. Truman hosts Emporia State on Saturday as well.
The 10th ranked Missouri Tigers men's basketball team is on the road for a game at Mississippi on Saturday. It would appear that the SEC schedule favors Missouri in the early part of conference play as they are getting a lot of their easy games out of the way early. Missouri continues to amaze me because I really didn't expect them to be nearly as good as they are this season. A couple of key transfers and an outstanding coaching staff have allowed the Tigers to be much better than I expected them to be.
The Kirksville High School boys and girls basketball teams are both at Highland High School in Ewing, MO for games with the Cougars on Friday night. The girls are for my money the best high school basketball teams certainly in this area and one of the top teams in the state while the boys have put together a string of impressive victories and have shown a lot of mental toughness and a never say die attitude that I really like.
The Kirksville High School wrestling team will be in Centerville on Saturday for the Big Red tournament. This tournament has been going on for as long as I can remember and is always an excellent tournament. The KHS wrestling team has looked extremely impressive so far this season and I fully expect several first place finishes in Centerville on Saturday.
The Truman State wrestling team is also in action this weekend as they face Lindenwood in a dual meet Friday night.
The NFL playoffs move into the second round this weekend with the conference semifinals. Both of the games on Saturday are excellent ones as the Baltimore Ravens travel to Denver to face the Broncos in a game that Denver should win and could win easily but the Ravens are playing inspired football right now so it could end up being a close game. I still think the Broncos come out victorious though.
Saturday's second game features two teams who have been up and down this year as the Grene Bay Packers travel to San Francisco to play the 49ers. The Packers certainly have the experience edge but the 49ers may have the talent edge to this game could go either way but should be a very good game.
Sunday finds the Seattle Seahawks in Atlanta to play the Falcons in what I think will be the weekend's upset. The Seahawks are playing football at a very high level right now and the Falcons kind of limped into the playoffs and seem to have reached their peak several weeks ago. I really don't see the Falcons winning this game.
The second game on Sunday finds the Houston Texans playing the New England Patriots. The Texans like the Falcons peaked several weeks ago in my opinion and are lucky to have escaped last week with a victory and most likely won't be nearly as lucky this weekend as they face a Patriots squad with loads of experience and a big home field advantage. I really don't see this game being very close or having much drama as the Patriots should easily beat the Texans on Sunday.
We'll be back on Monday to see how many of my predictions came true and we will also look back at this weekend's other sports action. Your support of this blog is very much appreciated and I hope you will do the same for the other blogs on this site as well.
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quote:Originally posted by slozoThe Leafs are running their own style of "promotion" . . .1) They suddenly (and inexplicably) fired the GM just before the start of a shortened season.2) They replaced him with a relatively quiet GM in Nonis.3) Not even one prediction or blustery comment has been made about the playoffs yet, and we're just a few days away from the first game of the season!THAT'S promotion Toronto style! "Take off, eh?" - Bob and Doug
quote:Originally posted by Guest9880What Ottawa did is nice but I'd never pay to watch a game at any arena, unless it was free.
quote:Originally posted by Guest5052I have to say that I disagree with the perception out there that the fans are entitled to any incentives or any promotions. It may well makes sense from a business perspective given the frustration of teh lock out; but it seems to have spun into something where fans feel owed something. I disgaree with that mentality. I think what the Oilers did and the Jets too with an open practice, was appropirate. But people looking for a free hotdog or discount on tickets or items seem to me to be exploiting a situation than anything else.
quote:Originally posted by Guest9880I only see Ottawa offering incentives on tickets, merchandise and concessions snacks but other cities were also mentioned.
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Pics: Shantel Jackson Tattoos Floyd Mayweather's Wins on Her Arm
I really hope that Mayweather actually marries Miss Jackson. If not this is going to be going to look a little silly. I will say this at least she didn't get Mayweather's name tattooed on her that is harder to erase. If Mayweather ever breaks up with her, she will just need to date another boxer with at least 42 wins.
As you can see she has boxing gloves with 42 hearts around it. Would a broken heart signify a loss? Things that make you go hmmmmmmm.
With Deion and Pilar getting a divorce could Shantel Jackson be the #1 Athlete Wife if they ever get married?
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Bill McCartney, Rick Neuheisel, Gary Barnett, Dan Hawkins and Jon Embree all have one thing in common other than having held the job of head football coach at Colorado.
They all had linebackers coach Brian Cabral as part of their coaching staffs.
Will new CU coach Mike MacIntyre become the sixth head coach to either hire or retain Cabral? Buffs fans could know the answer to that question as soon as Thursday.
MacIntyre is scheduled to return to Boulder on Thursday morning. He has decided not to coach San Jose State in the Military Bowl on Dec. 27 against Bowling Green. He will likely know at that time which members of his coaching staff at San Jose State will be joining him in Boulder.
San Jose State athletic director Gene Blaeymaier announced Tuesday that veteran defensive coordinator Kent Baer has been named interim head coach for the Spartans bowl game. That does not rule out the possibility of Baer joining MacIntyre in Boulder, but it also means Baer is likely to be considered as MacIntyre's replacement with the Spartans.
MacIntyre will meet with each of Jon Embree's assistant coaches to consider them for positions on his staff and will also likely interview a handful of outside candidates.
Cabral is the longest tenured coach in CU history and the sixth longest tenured coach in major college football trailing only Oregon running backs coach Gary Campbell, Brigham Young running backs coach Lance Reynolds, Kansas State defensive line coach Mo Latimore, Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer and Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster.
Cabral coached his 23rd consecutive season at CU this fall and has been involved in 345 games as a coach or CU player. He played in 46 games as an inside linebacker in the mid-1970s and left the school as its all-time leading tackler at the time. He also played nine seasons in the NFL.
As the 2012 season came to a close, there was speculation that Cabral might be ready to retire, but in an interview before the Buffs' season-ending loss to Utah, Cabral said he still had a passion for working with young men and being on the sidelines on Saturday afternoons.
"No question," Cabral said about his desire to coach. "You look at something like this and you're obviously paying a price. It's awful. It's ugly. It doesn't feel good, but you know the reward is on the back end. You look at how much better you're going to be next year and how much better you will be the following year."
Cabral also has served two stints as interim head coach in Boulder. He filled that role first in the spring of 2004 when Barnett was suspended and again in the final three games of the 2010 season after Hawkins had been fired.
"Just when you think you've seen it all, you see more," Cabral said of the Buffs' 2012 season. "That's what I've come to learn is the more you're around, the more you see."
Big loss
Kisima Jagne, a member of the 2012 Colorado recruiting class who grayshirted because he was not initially academically eligible in the summer, has decided to attend Arizona State, Rivals.com reported.
Embree said multiple times last spring and summer Jagne was the player he was most excited to get on the field because he believed he could make an immediate impact.
"Kisima might have the upside of all of these defensive linemen," Embree said on national signing day in February. "He has unbelievable length. He's all of six-foot-five and probably has the wingspan of a seven-footer. He does a good job at getting on the edge. He has great speed closing in on the quarterback."
Small world
If San Jose State offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Brian Lindgren ends up at CU, there will be at least one familiar face in the Dal Ward Center other than MacIntyre and any other San Jose State assistants who come along.
Lindgren was the starting quarterback at Idaho during the final portion of CU athletic director Mike Bohn's tenure at the school as athletic director. Lindgren coached six seasons at Northern Arizona before joining MacIntyre's staff this season.
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David Jaffe opened his GDC "Microtalk" by adding his voice to the growing crowd that feels the need to tell us they play games on the toilet. At this point I'm over all the sharing, but he followed up with a good point. He, and all the rest of us, play apps in the bathroom and other short time windows because we can tap the icon on the screen and almost instantly be playing.
Jaffe said that console games are pushing people to the mobile space because, "it takes too damn long to get a game started." To support his point, he timed a few games over the prior weekend to see how long it took from the time he turned on the power to actually getting in the game. The fastest of them took a couple minutes, and the worst rose closer to ten.
He suggested a couple of solutions. One was to have a system where with a game in the drive, the console would offer a quick startup to continue from your last save bypassing all the home screen and game menu screens. The other was to give home consoles a sleep function like portable platforms use so he could put a game to sleep and then pick right back up where he left off.
Jaffe said console games face other entry barriers as well. They are too long he says. He wants a game he take home over the weekend and have a great, complete experience beating it. Needing patches to fix or add content, sometimes right out of the box, is another. He thinks there should be a restriction against patching a game in its first two months, and patches to be limited to a max of four per title. And finally, he said that we've forgotten that multiplayer is best when it's one-on-one. One of 300 in massive online games doesn't feel epic; it's just chaos.


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BOULDER -- If Boulder County can slowly phase in the oil and gas development that's expected to occur in eastern Boulder County, county government will be in a better position to see whether its local regulations can adequately protect the public's health and safety and the environment.
That, at least, was one of the hopes that county commissioners expressed during a Tuesday meeting in which they decided against a multiple-year extension of the moratorium on applications for new oil and gas wells, a time-out that's set to expire June 10.
Commissioner Deb Gardner said she hopes that before any county development permits are issued, Boulder County will have been able to hire its own inspectors and technical experts -- and that those people can be "on the ground" and available to thoroughly monitor drilling before it begins.
That might even include a 24 hours a day, seven days a week presence by those county inspectors and technicians at some of those well locations, Gardner suggested.
Commissioner Cindy Domenico supported the idea of seeing whether Boulder County can slow the process of granting county development approval for a limited number of new wells over the coming year or two, making that drilling and the subsequent oil and gas production from those wells "very controlled" and closely monitored.
Gardner said that approach of phasing in oil and gas development also would allow officials to see whether the county's new Land Use Code rules about oil and gas exploration and production, adopted in December, are working as intended or need to be amended to provide better protections.
Domenico said the idea of a phasing-in of oil and gas drilling at a yet-to-be set limited number of locations would "give us time" to make rules changes before further permits are issued.
Gardner said the taking-it-slowly process of allowing drilling to resume -- to be detailed in a set of additional Land Use Code provisions the commissioners are expected to consider June 5 -- also could give the county the experience and time necessary to find answers to questions about the safe distances wells should be located away from homes, other buildings, and environmentally sensitive sites, "if there is a safe distance."
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I felt I would eventually have to tell you about the birds and the bees. Or, rather, I'd like to tell you about some of the people who tell us about the birds and the bees.
The sex guides we handle at the Book Fair can be divided into two basic categories: Real Ones and Fake Ones. The fake ones are easy to recognize if you look at the ratio of words to pictures. Real sex guides go in for instructions and warnings and insightful emotional sensitivity. (Hey, what better place to be all touchy-feely?) Fake sex guides, published by the people in the smutty magazine business, will have a sentence like "Now these are the parts of the body we're talking about" and then twenty pages of uncaptioned photos.
But let's talk about the real ones, or at least my two favorites. I won't mention titles, because finding your way there is half the fun, but I can guarantee one or both of these will be available in the 2010 Book Fair. They will be found in the Health & Medicine section. (The fake ones will be found wrapped in plastic in Collectibles, and you WILL remember that there's a security camera, won't you?)
One is still in print, and can be purchased as a book alone, or in a deluxe set with book, video, and tube of massage oil. I have read the book and I have watched the video. Yes, friends, you may never know the extent of the work I go to for you, but there it is. And I can tell you something about sex you may not have known. People who have sex have very large hands, and they always spread them out flat right HERE, at waist level, whether it's a still photo or a scene in the video. Oh, and people having sex always stand, sit, or loll at a side angle to a camera, so their hands can stay just HERE. Sex, apparently, is a matter of getting really close and then holding your hands out flat just HERE. Woe betide any adolescent seeking technical instruction from these photos. Can you hear the wailing? "No wonder I can't get a date! My hands are too small!"
Maybe they'd have better luck with my favorite sex guide. This was produced in Japan decades ago, and used those wooden block modeling statues to take up the hundreds of positions explained in the book. Of course, some of the finer details of these positions cannot be shown because these wooden blocks have neither navel, nose, nor any other physical features: just arms, legs, chest, hips, and head. Just so this wouldn't get too steamy, though, the "male" statue and the "female" statue are not depicted TOGETHER. No, the position taken up by the "female" is on the lefthand page, and the position taken up by the "male" on the facing page.
Fortunately, the baby boom was already well under way when this classic made it to the United States, or a lot of us might not be here at all.


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Alabama fired a 10-under 278 in the opening round to grab the tournament lead before carding a five-under 283 in the second round. The second-ranked Crimson Tide lead second place No. 21 Kent State by 12 shots heading into the final round of play. No. 4 Washington is third at one-over (577) with No. 23 Texas A&M (+3, 579) and No. 5 UCLA (+7, 583) rounding out the top five.
Corey Conners (Kent State) and Chris Williams (Washington) hold the individual lead at seven-under (137) with a pair of Alabama players, Scott Strohmeyer and Corey Whitsett, one shot back. Yeung enters tomorrow's final round tied for ninth at even-par.
Yeung got off to a terrific start in the opening round with birdies on No. 2, No. 5 and No. 6. He added a birdie on the par 4 13th hole before suffering a bogey on No. 16 and a double-bogey on No. 18 to finish with a one-under 71. Yeung carded two birdies, 13 pars and three bogeys en route to a one-over 73 in the afternoon round.
Senior Brinson Paolini and freshman Mads Soegaard are tied for 25th after posting four-over 148s at the Traditions Club. Paolini played his opening nine holes Saturday at two-under with seven pars and birdies on No. 5 and No. 8. He suffered four straight bogeys on the back nine to post a 74. Paolini's afternoon sessions included three birdies and five bogeys for a second straight round of 74.
Soegaard played solid throughout the day shooting 75 and 73. The Denmark native carded 26 pars, three birdies and seven bogeys over the first 36 hoels of play.
Junior Austin Cody is tied for 52nd at nine-over after registering rounds of 76 and 77. The North Charleston, S.C., native got off to a rocky start with three bogeys over his first four holes and also struggles to close the day with three more bogeys over the final four holes. Cody was just three-over from holes No. 5 through 32 Saturday.
Julian Suri, a senior from St. Augustine, Fla., got off to a terrible start to the tournament with a triple-bogey, bogey, double-bogey, double-bogey over the first four holes. He played the remainder of the first round at even-par. In the second round, Suri collected a pair of birdies on the front nine but finished with bogeys on No. 16 and No. 18 for a four-over 76. He is tied for 62nd at +12 after 36 holes of play.
Junior Yaroslav Merkulov, playing as an individual, shot 78-77 for a +11, 155. The Penfield, N.Y., native had his opening round derailed by a pair of double-bogeys and suffered four bogeys on the back nine of the second round.
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Actually, that's wrong lol Shes not completely done until i ANO the drop adapters i made from aluminum
Actually, that's wrong lol Shes not completely done until i ANO the drop adapters i made from aluminum
Can i still save this first reply post ?
now take notice to how cool the markers profile is like this ? ( the sighting / aiming ) profile that is
I think think it awesome
That has to be SOO much lighter like that
OMG yes ! I ran with the typical warp set up briefly ,and immediately switched back !
not so much cuz of weight ,but cuz of the bulkness of it ! ( lets face it ,E-mags are not known for lite-ness)
It felt like i was running with a three stump & a barrel coming out of it lol
So ive been tryig to do this ever since
Been doing this project on & off for like three years now
Sooo slow that a guy on here beet me to it
He did a wonderful job btw and his ideas fine tuned my ideas
God I want to do this...
Stay Classy, AO...
My Feedback: Here on Automags.org, On MCB, BigEvilOnline, and PaintBallNation
he does a great job giving the fundamental ideas of the mod
Here's my Reloader B that I converted last year - Emag in mech/mode only because battery was flat.
It's really comfortable to shoot resting the hopper on my left wrist and forearm
Last edited by GEE TEE; 04-24-2013 at 06:47 PM.
that is looking really great! nice build!
Real props go to my buddy Chris, Owner of Flurry Industries. He made it possible, but I'll take some credit for bringing the post over to AO.
Nice work! Glad to see more people doing this mod. I am still hopeful that someone will make a custom "blue" insert! Hope in one hand and shot in the other....
Yeah i like the way Chris did it all the way up to the Qlaoder 90 *(screech ,put brakes on )
Then my eye gets blocked by it and im like,.. hmmm needs to be more warp/body-like
Buts Thats just MHO
With me this is my order :
1st reliability
2nd Functionality
3rd how cool can i make it look doing all the above ,.........and in that order :^) lol
Oh an i like the way GEE TEE mod came out , sweet
In the first post, are those Kruger ebony Emag grips?
Very well done sir. I did the same thing on my halo too on my micro emag. First game test this Sunday
hmmm... I might have to try this with a 300 rnd Prophecy ..
I've been carrying a warp on my mag for ten years, this is something I need to try.
Flying the unfriendly skies.
NICE MINI ! must be" loud "with that little snub-freak tip
Im curious about one thing thou
Is anyone else with this set up having trouble with high rates of fire ? ( 17 an above ) with this set up ?
you know ,the once an awhile ball chop
I'm thinking it might be the microphone in these ( sound activated ) loaders needing to be closer to my bolt
Its not the level 10 , cuz if i switch back to typical/vertical feed,....its fine @ 30 bps
17bps and down ,...its fine
I dont play @ high rates of fire anyway, but just wondering if you guys have come across this ?
Yes, I have. High rates of fire, via RT, Xmod or otherwise, and there seems to be some hiccups. I think the loader isn't going to be able to feed at the same rate when pushing the stack up as it is when the stack is going down.
You could try upping the force feed but I've got a feeling it will always feed slower working against gravity. Check the spring tension in the drive cone's working ok as well
It's worth remembering you need to keep hopper from running empty, otherwise the last few balls get trapped in the feed. They need balls pushing in from below constantly to keep the feed rate going, and maintain drive cone tension between shot strings. This may also contribute to chops. Chris (from flurry) upgraded the hopper using a high output Tamiya motor, which has a better torque rating and could improve performance. The original motor can burn out when converted to warp style. I picked up a couple cheap as spares on ebay but not used them as yet. Most fields I play in UK limit you to 10bps now, so high ROF on this system is never an issue
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I never had a problem, but I still count my shots like nickels. 5, 10, 15... Seriously I have to budget my shots.
As for the high torque motor. In the original post on doing this didn't the guy say the factory motor burnt up so he had to go to the high toque motor?
Yes he did - hence my link to it above
Touchwood my own conversion has worked fine so far
An RF link from the gun to loader might help a lot. Simon has told me that a Halo would reliably feed at just about any angle, even through a hose from the back of a stock :o
Will the rf link work with a emag?
i wonder if this would work well with a SCION...
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Hey Larry, you going to Tunaball ?
You are in NY so you must be within driving distance.
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." Thomas Jefferson
Trying like hell Alan
timing has been uncanny
Got surgury around the same time (on or after May 8th )
, now the rear end granaded in my truck so , its pretty much a day by day thing
Because you have to register ahead of time ,i would image i wont get to play anyhow :/


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Dunkin' Donuts: A shot of politics with the coffee
Anyone who has lived around here for a while will remember when the original Bess Eaton doughnut chain, before it was purchased by Tim Hortons in a 2004 bankruptcy, started printing scripture phrases on its coffee cups.
This bold dollop of Christianity, mixed in with a daily coffee ritual, offended many customers and delighted others.
I couldn't help but think of the old Bess Eaton flap when someone told me recently that they noticed that the television sets in Dunkin' Donut shops around here are tuned to the right-leaning programming on Fox News.
Needless to say, this big dose of conservative news commentary, mixed in with the daily coffee ritual, could offend as many customers as it pleases.
Just imagine how conservative-thinking voters might react if the television in their coffee shop was tuned to liberal-leaning MSNBC.
Not long after I fielded the Fox-at-Dunkin' tip, I did a little road trip to hit some of the same shops I had been told about. Sure enough, the first three Dunkin' Donuts I stopped at, in Stonington and North Stonington, all had televisions tuned to Fox News, a number that put the practice well beyond the scope of coincidence.
I asked a young woman behind the counter in Mystic - why Fox? She said people like the news. She said she would turn to a weather station if someone asks.
My tipster told me he asked at the Dunkin' Donuts in North Stonington, and the person behind the counter told him that tuning to Fox was a standing order of the district manager.
I did some traveling over the holidays, and I soon deduced that Fox News is not a company policy. I stopped at a bunch of Dunkin' Donuts in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and none were playing Fox.
Elsewhere around eastern Connecticut, in New London, Waterford and East Lyme, I couldn't find any Dunkin' Donuts with TV sets at all.
I had a hard time reaching anyone in corporate public relations from Dunkin' Donuts to ask about the places that show Fox.
But a spokesman who finally returned my calls Tuesday assured me that playing Fox News is not a company policy.
The spokesman said it is possible the shops in Stonington and North Stonington that have been consistently streaming Fox news since the election are franchises. He said he would check and get back to me with an answer, but I never heard from him again except for an email repeating that there is no corporate Dunkin' TV policy.
My tipster told me he would stop going to Dunkin' Donuts if they don't stop broadcasting Fox News.
I don't blame him.
I suspect many gyms and other places that have televisions on all the time and a wide range of customers are careful about what kind of programming they choose.
A coffee stop especially ought to be considered a politics-free zone. You would think maybe a doughnut shop would consider something neutral and appropriate, like the Food Channel, maybe.
Whoever is choosing the channel at the Dunkins in Stonington and North Stonington ought to consider the Bess Eaton scripture cups and that company's eventual bankruptcy.
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ill take 2 sets.
but you already know that.
I want. Price?
Luke having a CnC mill is dangerous to my wallet.
Very nice!!!
Any chance of getting this done for 45 style inteliframes?
I'll be good for 2 sets & if you do decide to d o it to 45 panels I'd take 1 or 2 of em too
I am interested in a set
Cut SOME more. I will take a set. Might as well post in Dealer Forum so I can send payPal.Originally Posted by luke
Whats a wallet? If you want yours polished, I know a good polisher who will polish them for us. I got a handle on it.Originally Posted by BigEvil
how does your guy polishing things like this with engravings do, how do they keep the edge of the engraving and dont turn everything rounded off?Originally Posted by Beemer
dont know if that makes sense.
yeah we for sure need these made.
*** LUKE: can you do a dicounted pricing for 8 sets?
ill throw this order in with everthing else i need.
Originally Posted by knownothingmags
Did you see my user title? I could tell you......
Just kidding. Sometimes you cant always use the wheel and if you want the detail you have to do it the old fashion way by hand.
thats what i figured.Originally Posted by Beemer
i just didnt know maybe he had a new/oldschool way that was just easy.
but nothing is easy right lol.
unless you are like me and throw money at it.
Hi Luke,
I'm interesed in a set for my Xmag - price shipped to UK?
Well done sir...will you be making these for your custom trigger frames?
I have not made 45 panels in years because the market has been bad for them, but if we could put even a small order together for them we could certainly do it.Originally Posted by redlaser666
Yes of course.Originally Posted by knownothingmags
I know, I know!Originally Posted by TOTShadowCompany
The past month working on the save ao fund threw me way off course.
But to answer your question yes we can do the logo on pretty much anything.
Shipping to the UK is no problem, I will post up prices in the dealer thread.Originally Posted by GEE TEE
But... Lukes baby needs a new pair of shoes.Originally Posted by BigEvil
We can drop ship a package to you if anyone wants that service, no problem.Originally Posted by Beemer
There will not be any "pre order" stipulation on these, but more of a "pre order discount".Originally Posted by Beemer
The panels will be machined first, and then the engraving will be done in a second operation, that's where the pre order/ group discount will come in, I really only want to do the engraving on panels that are actually purchased and will offer the discount on this part, if that makes sense.
We can also do these in this run if anyone is interested:
Let me figure some kind of group discount on these and I'll post up.
I could be interested by one set of these panels, depending on price and shipping to France !
Luke, I hate you!
I need to get some....
Originally Posted by redlaser666
I designed the 45 panels today, they are modeled after the Emag panels, pretty much exact just a little shorter and narrower at the bottom. Still have to do the cam, design and machine fixtures but they are a go.Originally Posted by Imasho
are these ule in the back?Originally Posted by luke
if you could ULE them like you do the z-grip panels you make would be awsome.
Last edited by knownothingmags; 10-09-2012 at 12:18 AM.
All panels now com ULE milled, but not necessarily "ultra uled" like the Z grip panels. The Z grip panels use a different type of tool path to machine the cavity. The standard tool path is 2.5D (For the Emag style pocket milling) Z grip ule is 3D. Without explaining what this means in the actual machining operation, the difference in time to cut the two different style pockets translates to exactly 500% more time to do the 3D tool path. (Time=Money)Originally Posted by knownothingmags
so if someone was willing to pay the cash to get that ultra light milling done would you?Originally Posted by luke
These should finish up and ship over the next few days.
F yeah thats what im talking about.
i can get my markers done.
It looks like these should finish up tomorrow 10-25-12 and should ship by the 26th. (If all goes well)
I would take some!.... If I had an Emag


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September 1st is such an inauspicious day for Polish genealogists. Stanczyk recognizes the memory of WWII starting today in 1939. That being said, it is a good day when the Gen Dobry! newsletter (uh, e-zine) comes in the email box. I was perusing the e-zine and when I got to "More Useful Web Addresses", one of my favorite sections.
I noticed a link (URL) to the Internet Polish Genealogical Source, their 1907 atlas, also known as, "Atlas Geograficzny Illustrowany Królestwa Polskiego" [ Illustrated Geographic Index of the Polish Kingdom]. Now this is a gazetteer/atlas that I have long enjoyed for its beauty as well as its usefulness for locating the parishes.
It took this jester back about 5-6 years to when I volunteered for the PGSA and helped them partially index the very same gazetteer. The PGSA has built a searchable database on their project. So having worked on that effort, I thought I would compare the two web resources. For the record, this jester worked on the STOPNICA (Stopnicki) powiat of the PGSA project. I would recommend my readers volunteer for genealogy projects as they are a great way to meet other expert genealogists and to further become acquainted with some resource that may help you in your research. So it was for me — I was able to locate all of the parishes near my ancestral villages.
As I noted above this is a 1907 map, so it reflects the Kingdom of Poland as an occupied territory of the Russian Empire. So we see the provinces (województwo) are called "gubernia", the Russian term. My ancestors were predominantly from Kielce gubernia, Stopnica powiat. So I will use that to compare since that is my area of expertise. That would be map number 28 (from the main index map).
The iPGS has done a nice job on presentation and navigation. They provide 1907 names vs 2005 names of villages/towns. They have a nice index to each powiat map and show other info like today's powiat. Their project also looked to be complete. Now I did not work on the iPGS project, so I hate to be nitpicky, but they were not complete and accurate. On map #28, STOPNICA, I noticed that Piasek Wielki was not marked as having a parish, yet the map image clearly indicates a cross on the circle that represents Piasek Wielki. When I compared it to my work on PGSA, it did in fact list a parish. So now I had to know which was correct. So I went to FamilySearch.org and used their library catalog to do a place name search for Piasek (choose the one for Kielce) . Clicking on all links to expand upon results leads you to this page, which shows there are two microfilm for the parish spanning the years from 1875-1884 — so indeed it is/was a parish and therefore the PGSA was the correct project.
The PGSA project of which I was a member was a substantial effort. Yet, this project was not complete. The PGSA built a small database look-up web-app. That is nice if you want to see a list towns that begin with 'Bialy' so you can compare if you do not quite know which 'Bialy' town you need. The PGSA also has a powiat map list page listing the volunteers. The navigation probably should be more like iPGS, but the iPGS should probably implement a search form like PGSA.
I cannot offer a comparison of which web site has more accurate data / complete data; The effort would simply be too great for one person. I can only recommend that you look at the map and see if you see a cross on the circle of a town, then you should see a plus in the data results. Of course, the final resolution if you see difference is to look at FamilySearch.org and see if they have microfilm or not. You could look at a Polish web site for a listing of Polish Catholic parishes — but there again parishes may have closed or towns vanished, so there is not one complete index anywhere. Even the FamilySearch.org may not have a microfilm for a perfectly valid parish. PRADZIAD, the Polish National Archive web site for parish / civil records may not have data if data was lost (like in WWII), so it may not be possible to ever really have a complete list of parishes of all time nor know which data is missing/lost. Absence of data does not mean anything (or possibly could mean any of a few things). Never forget that there may be diocesan data in the church archives. Also please note that most sources are CHURCH oriented, so if you are looking for synagogues you are limited to PRADZIAD or to the use of an excellent gazetteer like Brian Lenius' Galicia Gazetteer.
But at least this new iPGS gazetteer is online and available for all of us to use. Keep in mind there may be limitations on the data you see, but you must not have limitations upon your reasoning ability. Do not assume because you do not see something that it does not exist. Keep looking. Also, verify what you think you know.


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The bond that ties them together is the fellowship of the bottle.
Mike, Anna and Margo are recovering alcoholics.
Last week, the three of them gathered on a warm December day on Anna's porch to talk about their lives and embody the 12th step of Alcoholics Anonymous–to share their message of recovery and offer hope to others who may seek it.
Mike's Story
A native Floridian, Mike makes no qualms about who he is.
"I used to be a drunk," he said.
The drinking started, as many do, in high school and by the time he had graduated and gone into the Army, had become a favorite pastime–especially after being stationed in Germany.
A beer diet boosted his weight up 30 pounds and then came Vietnam.
Afterward, often angry and anxious and suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, Mike self-medicated with alcohol–particularly beer and Jack Daniels.
But then something changed.
"I didn't drink that much after service," he said.
But after a divorce and three advanced degrees, Mike was working and thriving on the stress associated with life. And drinking. A lot.
It got to the point that he couldn't hold down a job, and then came the breaking point.
"I woke up in the middle of the kitchen floor," he said.
Mike sought help through the Veterans Administration, which works closely with AA.
"It's alcoholics dealing with other alcoholics," he said.
"Slowly the fog lifts and it's not as bad as you think," said the Army veteran, now 21 years sober.
Mike said people are not grown ups when alcoholic is involved, and once it's removed, "Life makes more sense."
Anna's Story
"I had a nice childhood," Anna, a lithe woman with an infectious smile said. " I didn't fit in. I was too smart. I was left handed. I just didn't fit in."
Reared in the mountains, she remembers borrowing an ID when she was 18 and traipsing off to a bar where she drank three pitchers of beer and considered it "normal."
Married multiple times with no children, she too, self assesses, perhaps even sometimes brutally.
"I was arrogant," she said. "I was superior to everyone, but I had an inferiority complex."
Anna, a self-described people pleaser became a master of deception.
"I could make it look good on the outside while everything was falling apart on the inside," she said.
Before long, she continued, "what was fun became a necessity" and soon she couldn't live without drinking.
She moved around a bit in those days, she said, trying to evade her problems, her disappointments, but everywhere she went, the problems were still there.
She survived by enlisting the assistance of her family.
Without knowing, thanks to her manipulations, her family became her strongest enablers.
All she had to do was say money was tight, and she needed a little extra to get through, and it came.
But rather than pay rent or buy food, Anna was using the money for her favorite pastime–alcohol.
By 1994, the turning point arrived.
Finally onto her cunning ways of deception, Anna's family stepped in and did a formal intervention and sent her to a 28-day rehabilitation facility.
There, almost miraculously, Anna had a spiritual awakening.
"I was powerless," she said, as she realized what had started as fun had become a mental obsession and a physical craving.
That was 17 years ago and today, Anna says, "I've never relapsed."
Margo's Story
Margo can trace alcoholism in her family back to the 1600s. It's not something she's proud of, but it nonetheless gives credence to the belief that people are predisposed genetically to alcoholism.
Her father was an Air Force officer, and she remembers being with her parents at the Officers' Club while they got drunk, and she had a Shirley Temple.
But the Shirley Temples didn't last.
"I had my first drink when I was 6 or 7," Margo said.
And it only progressed from there, she said.
"Alcohol was cheap," Margo said. "It made me feel like superwoman."
As an adult, Margo became a bar manager. It was like the cliche' of turning a child loose in a candy store.
Except this time the child was Margo and the candy store was a vast selection of alcoholic beverages,
"I liked good beer," she said last week. "And German wine. And straight Scotch.
"When I was drinking I would do things I would never consider while I was sober," she said, using traveling alone in bad sections of town where she made up stories about who she was and what she did for a living in order to get free drinks.
Margo's ah-ha moment came when she flipped her Cadillac end over end after leaving a bar.
Rescue workers using the Jaws of Life spent two hours extricating Margo from the carnage that was once her vehicle.
"I knew in my soul if I didn't quit drinking, I was going to die," Margo said.
After her second DUI and court-ordered AA meetings, Margo stopped drinking.
"It was a miracle," she said, "but I didn't do AA. I was sober for 11 years on my own. I was superior and my ego wouldn't let me admit I needed help."
But after her parents' deaths, bankruptcy and her own medical issues, Margo fell into the cycle again.
"I started self-medicating," she said. One mini bottle of wine to take the edge off her daily stresses progressed to more drinks, more binges.
In 2010, Margo had a heart attack–at home–alone. Before she would call 911, she bathed and brushed her teeth because she didn't want the paramedics to know she had been drinking–and in fact, was drunk.
Upon the ambulance's arrival and the questions that followed, Margo refused to admit she had been drinking–even when her life was on the line.
Now with a heart condition and her partner's threat to leave after many years together, Margo knew something had to be done.
"I finally accepted I am an alcoholic," she said. "I am powerless."
She has been sober about 15 months.
For Mike, Anna and Margo, the sustaining force in the midst of their recovery is AA.
Living by the organization's 12 Steps (below) the first key is "one day at a time," according to Anna.
But Mike may disagree a bit. "It's one hour at a time, one minute a time," he added.
"Alcohol is like a tornado raging through the lives of others," Margo said.
Part of AA is being in a fellowship of people just like you, the three agreed. There are no condescending looks, no judgments, because everyone has been down that rocky path and everyone has suffered along the way.
AA members come together to stay strong together and to remind one another where they have been, and where they are going.
"So many people think AA is about the people living under the bridge," Mike said. "It's not. It's about people from all walks of life. All classes. All educations. All races."
Mike, Anna and Margo are faithful to AA meetings. Mike attends four or five each week, and the women make at least three-maybe more.
None are troubled by being around alcohol in social settings, but if they are, they remove themselves from it.
Some days are worse than ever, but all agree that these worse days are minor compared to the dark days of their addiction.
"I'm not putting myself in jeopardy," Anna said.
"And if you do relapse," Mike warned, "then you start where you left off."
The 12 Steps, the trio said, is a good design for living that really works–no matter who you are or what your story is.
Mike, Anna and Margo are committed to sharing the message of hope they have received through AA. By sharing, Anna said, they are able to stay on the path themselves.
For more information, visit aa.org or call 372-8091.
"If you think you have a problem," Anna said, "you probably do."
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This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream speech'. It is one of the great speeches in American history.
This week is the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King's 'I have a dream speech'. It is one of the great speeches in American history.
I'm old enough to remember it and thought it was a big deal back then. It provided me an important piece of my growing up puzzle. Of course, growing up puzzles where you finally have it assembled and 'get it' usually take decades to put together.
King's speech provided me some of the context (too young to understand that word back then) for the civil rights movement and I needed that help.
I just couldn't understand the violence that was being perpetrated on civil rights works. The murders of three workers by the Klan. The firebombings of freedom bus rides. The murder of Medgar Evers, the dogs attacking children, church bombings, police beating peaceful marches and fire hosing people who were committing no crime greater than singing 'We Shall Over Come'.
As I grew older and put more of the pieces of my own puzzle together, I came to realize one of the reasons I didn't understand what was happening back then was because of baseball.
Does that seem strange? You have to view the world through the eyes of a little kid living in the 50s to understand that idea.
I've come to believe Jackie Robinson was one of the most important Americans of the 20th Century. His breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball was profound. He did it with courage, humility and Hall of Fame athletic ability.
Once he smashed through that barrier, it seemed to completely crumbled away in a few years time. My memories go back to the mid to late 50s. I grew up in Joliet, Il south of Chicago.
I lived with my family in one of those post war baby boom subdivisions. As a little kid, I did not know I lived in a segregated community, but I did. There were no blacks or hispanics in my subdivision. They were just not allowed, but it wasn't talked about and I didn't have a clue about this kind of segregation.
There were four to six kids in every house and every summer the little white boys would play baseball - a lot of baseball.
As new houses went up, we'd have to move from one lot to another and find another brick for home, rock for the bases and a board with a nail in it for the pitcher's mound.
Imagine a world with just a few channels of TV. That was the 50s, but growing up outside of Chicago we got WGN and that meant we got the Cubs. We got to watch the great Ernie Banks.
Erine was our hero. All of the little white boys wanted to be like Ernie or grow up to play with Mr. Cub. What a dream that was.
There was never a negative word said by any kid about the color of his skin. It was a complete non-issue for a bunch of eight and ten year old boys who were living in an all white suburb and playing baseball.
Ernie was one of the most charismatic, charming and decent people you could watch on TV. The way he treated people had a profound impact on us.
It was not just the kids I was playing with who experienced this, but millions of little white boys playing baseball experienced this all across America. If it wasn't wanting to be Ernie Banks; it was to be Hank Aaron in Milwaukee or Boston; or Jackie Robinson in New York or LA; or Willie Mays in San Francisco or New York.
An entire generation of white boys accepted these athletes as our heroes without question. This I think had a profound impact on the American culture.
Imagine if segregation of baseball had still existed when I was a little boy. An entire generation of baby boom white kids would have been fed that lie. That blacks were inferior and that they were not allowed to play in the Majors. We would have adopted that lie.
I think that would have made the progress toward civil rights much more difficult. In nuanced yet sublime way baseball taught my generation a lot about racial equality.
As I grew older Dr. King's message made all the more sense to me. I and my friends thought we had big dreams of being like or as good as Ernie Banks. On that day 50 years ago Martin Luther King was dreaming about much bigger things.
To this day Martin, Ernie, Willie, Hank and Jackie remain a credit to their race - the human race.


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LOWELL -- The All Star Lounge at 177 Merrimack St. in Lowell will host a fundraiser Saturday night to benefit local resident Ciara Rosario, who needs money for a new wheelchair-accessible van.
Rosario was born with spina bifida, a congenital backbone disorder which has left her paralyzed from the waist down.
The fundraiser will go toward the purchase of a new van, which costs $48,000.
Ciara's Handicap-Van Fundraiser is from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. and will include $1 raffles and music.
For raffle tickets and more information, contact Enid DeCastro at 978-596-7570.


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Everyone ready? Good.
Question: You're a nurse at a major hospital. Your patient's white cell count (WBC) jumped from a horribly abnormal 44 yesterday to a frighteningly abnormal 79 this morning.
Do you call:
A. The hematologist treating the patient's bone marrow disorder.
B. The cardiologist following the patient's pacemaker.
C. The neurologist evaluating the patient's imbalance.
If you answered C, thank you for waking me up this morning. I greatly enjoyed your reasoning of "I called you because your name was the first one listed alphabetically."


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"Over half a century ago, management guru Peter Drucker presented the concept of the knowledge worker. Compared to the manual laborer, ===> the knowledge worker focused on quality over quantity and worked more independently as problem solvers." <===
Over the many applications of Social Content Curation, Professional Development has been a strong trend. We keep observing it on Scoop.it but it's also been reported by Social Media influencers.
As more and more of us become Knowledge Worker, it should be no suprise that Content takes a growing importance on our Professional lives. So here's our take on it and why we announced this new integration with LinkedIn earlier today.
Via Guillaume Decugis, Kim Flintoff, Ken Morrison, Louise Robinson-Lay, Amanda McAndrew, Gust MEES, Jan Bergmans


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LONGMONT -- Don Marvel's just a little closer to getting off the road. And he can't wait.
"It's fantastic," Marvel said Monday after he and his wife, Barb Hau, looked over the map showing how the St. Vrain Greenway at Golden Ponds would tie into Boulder County's trail system at Pella Crossing near Hygiene, a 2 mile link.
"We live real close to where this extensions is and we currently use 17th Avenue going all the way to Hygiene. So this will be a plus."
"I like riding off the roads," Hau agreed. "I think the trails are more aesthetic and safer."
Residents got their first look at the trail's layout Monday night at a city-county open house.
It's not a perfectly bucolic route; after heading northwest from Golden Ponds up St. Vrain Creek, the route heads due north to parallel Airport Road before veering west into more open areas again.
But, several agreed, it's a safer way for cyclists and walkers to reach Hygiene -- and someday, when time and money permit, to reach Lyons.
"That's much safer than (Colorado Highway) 66," Hau said.
"For people who enjoy destination riding, who enjoy getting out of the urban landscape and into a rural setting, it'll be a welcome amenity," said Paula Fitzgerald, Longmont's parks and open space project manager.
Just getting as far as Pella Crossing is expected to run around $1.46 million: $775,000 from Longmont, $480,000 from Boulder County, and a hoped-for $200,000 state trails grant.
The project has been in the works since 2010. Construction could start by next fall, but that will depend on negotiations with nearby landowners and with the BNSF railroad. The trail extension crosses the railroad twice.
Tim Swope, the county's transportation capital projects coordinator, said the approach on this project had been "opportunistic," looking for when enough landowners and enough resources might be on board.
"One of the benefits of having a regional trail plan is you can identify opportunities when they come up," Swope said.
Overall, the Greenway has about 9 miles of trails; the project would connect that to not only the 2 miles between Golden Ponds and Hygiene, but also the 3.1 miles of county trail beyond.
"I like that it's happening," said Deanna Hebbert, a Longmont resident who regularly runs along the Greenway with her husband, Roger. "Once it starts, it won't take very long."
Scott Rochat can be reached at 303-684-5220 or email@example.com.


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The President of the United States denied Kim Kardashian.
I have a feeling it wasn't Bill Clinton.
On Wednesday, President Obama was in Los Angeles for the "Ambassador for Humanity" award at Steven Spielberg's USC Shoah Foundation gala.
"Kim's table wasn't close to President Obama's," a source reportedly told Radar Online, but she "enlisted one of her minions to scout out the opportunity to meet him."
Kim Kardashian has minions? This can't be good news.
"Obama's table and surrounding area was swarming with Secret Service, and security was very tight," the source said. "Kim's lackey was told to go pound sand, and it was conveyed to Kim that she wouldn't be able to meet him."
Of course, he mingled with other celebrity guests, as Spielberg reportedly brought several friends over to meet him "for about an hour," the source says -- just not Kardashian.
Can anyone explain why she was even in the room?
"Kim was let down and disappointed," the source said. "She didn't understand why she just couldn't say hello to him. Ever since landing the Vogue cover, her ego is even more out of control. In her mind, she and Kanye are more popular than President Obama and the first lady!"
As you may or may not know, President Obama doesn't seem like the biggest fan of Kardashian or her fiancee Kanye West, whom he has called a "jackass" in public. He also turned down Kardashian's offer to help out with his last campaign.
"Kim is political poison," the source said. "Having her involved in a political event or with a candidate is the last thing people who are serious about getting elected want."
That's discrimination against shallow, self-absorbed, sex-tape-making, money-grubbing, publicity whores. And that's not right.
Obama commented on the couple last year, saying, "We weren't exposed to things we didn't have in the same way kids these days are ... Kids weren't monitoring every day what Kim Kardashian was wearing, or where Kanye West was going on vacation, and thinking that somehow that was the mark of success."
West fired back, "I don't care if you're the president ... He shouldn't mention my baby mama's name, 'cause we both from Chicago."
Uh ... OK.
"Kim truly thinks she is American royalty, and she and Kanye are a global couple powerhouse," the insider said. "She doesn't understand why President Obama wouldn't want to meet her."
Of course she doesn't.
Contact Tony Hicks at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/insertfoot.


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MARVEL on RT mutations at position 98
HIVdb Algorithm: Comments & Scores
Footnote:Mutation scores on the left are derived from published literature linking mutations and ARVs (the complete details can be found in the HIVdb Release Notes).
Genotype-treatment correlation
Mutation frequency according to subtype and drug-class experience.The frequency of each mutation at position 98 according to subtype and drug-class experience. Data are shown for the 8 most common subtypes. The number of persons in each subtype/treatment category is shown beneath the subtype. Mutations occurring at a frequency >0.5% are shown. Each mutation is also a hyper-link to a separate web page with information on each isolate, including literature references with PubMed abstracts, the GenBank accession number, and complete sequence and treatment records.
Mutation frequency according to treatment with individual ARVs.The first row shows the frequency of the mutation in persons who are RTI-naive (indicated in green). The second row shows the frequency of the mutation in persons who have received one or more NRTIs (No NNRTIs). The third row shows the frequency of the mutation in persons who have received one or more NNRTIs (+/- NRTIs). The following rows show the frequency of the mutation in persons who have received only a single NNRTI. Mutation rates that differ significantly between treated and untreated isolates are indicated in yellow.
Footnote: About one-half of the untreated isolates belong to non-subtype B isolates; About 20% of the treated isolates belong to non-subtype B isolates; A page containing summaries for all of the mutations at this position can be found here.
Genotype-phenotype correlation
Phenotypes of top 10 common patterns of drug resistance mutations with mutations at position 98.Mutation pattern data is not available for A98.
A complete summary of additional in vitro susceptibility data for viruses with A98 obtained using other assays including the Antivirogram can be found here.
Phenotypic coefficients using machine learning
Genotype-clinical outcome correlation
Studies correlating baseline genotype and virological response to an ARV therapy with or without mutations at 98.


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James Harden Latest Urban Model Friend Claudia Nelson (Photos)
The Beard is still rumbling and blessing the Urban Model Community and the latest young lady is Claudia Nelson. Jocks and Stiletto Jill has all the particulars on how she met the Beard and hopes to be the next one who is blessed.
Ms. Nelson describes herself on her Twitter account as being 24 years old, a college graduate, very athletic in the and in process of Graduate School.
She was also on the cover of Urban Ink magazine. Seems like a nice young lady, I am not big on ladies with a lot of tattoos, but if that is what you like, I am not mad at you.


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The Sportsperson of the Year Awards began in 2000-01 to annually recognize student-athletes who displayed an extraordinary degree of sportsmanship and/or community service during the academic year. This year's winners were selected by a media panel. The Big 12's recipients are also nominated for the NCAA Sportsmanship Award.
Pyle has been an active participant and leader in student and team-led service initiatives throughout her four-year career at K-State. During the 2012-13 academic year, she served on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and was a member of the Adopt-A-Family subcommittee that was responsible for organizing and executing SAAC's promise to fulfill the Christmas wish list for 14 individuals.
The Blue Mound, Kan. - native also helped raise almost $11,000 in donations and 5,000 pounds of food for "Cats for Cans" that benefits the Flint Hills Breadbasket. Other philanthropic projects included "Tipoff for TP," an initiative that collected paper products and monetary donations for the Manhattan Emergency Shelter and a "Docs vs. Jocks" kickball game with proceeds benefitting the Flint Hills Community Clinic. Pyle has also been active at local elementary schools and with Special Olympics. She was a May graduate at K-State with a degree in accounting.
Her outstanding character was never more evident than on the evening of February 24, 2013. The women's golf team had just completed 36 holes of play at the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Ariz. While back in her hotel room checking scores on GolfStat.com, Pyle realized her second round score was incorrect by one stroke with the wrong score entered on hole 9. She sent a text message to head coach Kristi Knight informing her of the incorrect score online. The next morning, Coach Knight notified the host institution's coach and it was discovered a birdie had been written in on the physical score card instead of a par. Pyle had signed the incorrect score card, resulting in a violation that disqualified her for the round. Had she not taken action when noticing the error, the mistake would have gone unnoticed.
Boyer is a constant inspiration to his Texas teammates and others while sharing lessons he has learned as an active member of the military. He has exposed the squad to military personnel's experiences by bringing in numerous guest speakers to address the student-athletes on the importance of team work.
The Dublin, Calif.-native earned a Bronze Star for his service with the U.S. Army Special Forces Unit and has previously provided assistance to autistic children and Darfur refugees the Sudan. He was named the 2012 Disney Spirit Award winner at ESPN's Home Depot College Football Awards Show where he used his allotment of guest tickets to bring two Wounded Warriors to the event. Boyer was also selected as the Armed Forces Merit Award recipient presented by the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). He still makes himself available for active duty during the summers and began another tour of duty with his military teammates in May of 2013.
Boyer competed in basketball and baseball in high school as the school did not field a football team. Looking for a new challenge, he decided to try out for a college football program. While in the Middle East, he often watched the Longhorns and subsequently set his sights on playing for Texas.
Without ever playing football, the then 29-year-old walked on at UT. He began his football career as a defensive back, but saw his best path to the field as learning to fill a need at snapper. Boyer worked his way to the team's primary snapper for place kicks last season and was one of two walk-ons to earn a scholarship. He is affectionately referred to by teammates as "Army" and "America" and proudly carries the American flag onto the field before games.
In 2012, Boyer earned the Distinguished Young American Award from the National Football Foundation and was named a member of the DKR-Texas Memorial Stadium Veterans Committee. He was an Academic All-Big 12 first team selection and a member of the Athletics Director's Honor Roll with a 4.0 grade point average. Boyer earned a bachelor's degree in physical culture and sports in May, however missed commencement while on active duty.


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Big12Sports.com Correspondent
Accomplishments that have never happened before keep happening at Oklahoma State.
Two years ago, the Cowboys won their first Big 12 Conference championship. In July, the media tabbed Oklahoma State as the favorite to win this season's title. And when the Associated Press preseason poll was announced Saturday, the Cowboys were ranked No. 13 while Oklahoma checked in at No. 16.
That's the first time in the 63-year history of the AP preseason poll that the Cowboys have been ranked ahead of their Bedlam rivals.
"It's cool. It's an honor," said wide receiver David Glidden, who is from Mustang, Okla. "I've been an Oklahoma State fan for a long time, and I've never seen that. Now being here, it's really a credit to all of the guys that came before us. It's really cool, but we have the same mentality as we did when we were at the bottom."
A quarter of a century ago, Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders capped a remarkable season by winning the Heisman Trophy. Current coach Mike Gundy was the Cowboys' quarterback. Now, he has restored national respect and attention to Stillwater.
In nine seasons, Gundy has built a program. True enough, Oklahoma State failed to defend its 2011 Big 12 title last season … but the Cowboys overcame quarterback injuries that would have wrecked other teams. Three different QBs started, all threw for 1,000 yards and each won a Big 12 game as a starter.
"It certainly makes you think you're doing something right when people think highly of your program," Gundy said. "It means a lot to Oklahoma State that people feel comfortable in saying that we're good enough to have the opportunity to win a conference championship."
Gundy has yet to name a starting quarterback; senior Clint Chelf was the starter at the end of the season and sophomore J.W. Walsh also started games last season. The Cowboys have to replace leading rusher Joseph Randle and their defense needs to improve.
Oklahoma State enters the season with new coordinators. Mike Yurcich will run the offense and Glenn Spencer was promoted from linebackers coach to take over the defense. Two years ago when the Cowboys captured the Big 12 title, the defense led the nation in takeaways.
"It's difficult to coach defense in this league and at Oklahoma State," Gundy said. "We have been so good on offense that the defense has been the red-headed stepchild. I just want us to be a little more aggressive. I just want to have a little more zing to us, a little more swagger."
In previous seasons, Oklahoma State would break its team huddles by yelling "Big 12." Now the chant is "BCS." The goals are loftier, the bar has been raised.
"I don't think there's pressure," linebacker Ryan Simmons said of the preseason expetcations. "Guys are excited. We're excited that people are seeing us as that type of team. It's only pressure if you make it pressure. We'll do whatever it takes to finish at the top."
Coach: Mike Gundy, 67-35 in nine seasons.
2012: 8-5 overall, 5-4 in Big 12, tied for 3rd.
Bowl: Defeated Purdue, 58-14, in Heart of Dallas Bowl.
Returning starters: 8 on offense, 7 on defense.
Key players: Senior QB Clint Chelf, sophomore QB J.W. Walsh, junior WR Josh Stewart, senior RB Jeremy Smith, senior WR Tracy Moore, senior LB Shaun Lewis, senior CB Justin Gilbert, senior safety S Daytawion Lowe, senior OT Parker Graham.
Three Key Questions
1. How fast and effective can the offense be?
The starting quarterback will either be junior Clint Chelf or sophomore J.W. Walsh. If Chelf gets the job, expect to see Walsh, an effective runner, in short yardage packages. New offensive coordinator Mike Yurcich helped Division II Shippensburg (Pa.) University set school records on offense and he wants the Cowboys' offensive tempo to be even faster. Oklahoma State averaged 78 offensive plays per game last season.
2. Will the kicking game remain effective?
The Cowboys need to replace Quinn Sharp, which is like replacing three players. He finished as the most accurate place kicker in school history plus could boom punts and kickoffs. Freshman Ben Grogan will be Oklahoma State's place kicker in the season opener. The other kicking jobs could go to Michael Reichenstein (punts) and Kip Smith (kickoffs).
3. Can the running game remain effective?
While the passing game has provided the bulk of Oklahoma State's gaudy offensive numbers, the run game has been brutally effective. The Cowboys have had a 1,000-yard rusher each of the last six seasons. This season the offensive line must find three new starters. Senior Jeremy Smith has a career average of 6.2 yards per carry in a backup role; he must prove he can handle the wear and tear of being the main man.
Information, Please
Last season at Division II Shippensburg (Pa.) University, Mike Yurcich was the offensive coordinator. The team averaged 529.9 yards per game in total offense and 46.9 points per game. … Senior linebacker Shaun Lewis wears No. 11 but maybe that should be changed to No. 5. In his career, Lewis has accumulated five sacks, five forced fumbles, five fumble recoveries, five pass breakups and five interceptions. … Wide receiver Josh Stewart had 1,210 receiving yards last season. That's the third-most by a sophomore in school history, trailing only Justin Blackmon's school-record 1,782 yards in 2010 and Dez Bryant's 1,480 yards in 2008.
Numbers To Note
Oklahoma State intercepted just 11 of the 544 passes attempted by opponents last season. That's an interception rate of 2 percent; the Big 12 average was 3.1 percent. … The Cowboys allowed an average of 47.2 points in their five losses last season, including 59 points to Arizona and 51 to Oklahoma (a game decided in overtime. … Departed kicker Quinn Sharp was 28 of 34 on field goals last season and finished his career making 84.7 percent of his attempts, a school record.
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