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A shrine built for a Feinwerkbau 124 – Part 14
by B.B. Pelletier
Part 13
Part 12
Part 11
Part 10
Part 9
Part 8
Part 7
Part 6
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
Part 1
Airgun Academy videos #19 and #20 are now available.
2011 airgun show calendar
Before I get to the report, here's a calendar of all the 2011 airgun shows I know of. If you want to go to an airgun show, here they are.
March 5 & 6
Pacific Airgun Expo
Placer County Fairgrounds
Roseville, CA
Contact Jon Brooks @ 707-498-8714
April 9
Flag City Toys That Shoot
Lighthouse Banquet Facility
10055 S.R. 224 West
Findlay, OH 45840
Duane Shaferly @ 419-435-7909
Dave Barchent @ 419-423-0070
Dan Lerma @ 419-422-9121
To register contact:
April 15 & 16
2nd Arkansas Airgun Extravaganza
Fairgrounds, Exit 98A on I-30
1605 Martin Luther King Blvd.
Malvern, AR 72104
Contact Seth Rowland
June 11 & 12
5th CT Airguns Airgun Show
Windsor Elk Lodge
Windsor, CT
Contact Kevin Hull @ 860-649-7599
July 15 & 16
Airgun Show and Shoot
American Legion Post 113
Baldwinsville, NY
Contact Larry Behling @ 315-695-7133
August 21
Daisy Get Together
Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds Expo Center
Kalamazoo, MI
Wes Powers @ 517-423-4148
Bill Duimstra @ 616-738-2425
September 17
St. Louis Airgun Show
Stratford Inn Garden Room
800 S. Hwy. Dr.
Fenton, MO 63026
Contact Gary Anthony @ 636-861-1103
This is the 14th report I have made on the FWB 124. In all that time, I was mostly tracking a single 124 — the one I obtained that had been packed for eternity in a wooden case like an Egyptian sarcophagus. We went through many tunes with that gun and saw what each one did. Then, I tuned a 124 for Mark Taylor, a shooter I met at Roanoke. That one wasn't planned, but it did give us a look at a later and different rifle.
Today, I'm reporting on the bluebird buy I happened upon while registering a firearm several weeks ago. The guy at the gun store owned this 124 that had suddenly stopped shooting, a fault that is common with this model because of a bad formula of synthetic used in the piston seal. You'll also see it in FWB 150 and 300 rifles, Walther LGV air rifles and probably a lot of other airguns made back in the 1970s. The fix is to install a new seal. You've already seen me do this several times in this series, but the one thing I haven't shown you is what the old seal looks like when it's broken up inside the gun, and that's something all airgunners should know.
I originally thought I was going to tune this for the guy at the store, but he wound up selling me the rifle, so I'll do both a velocity test after the tune and an accuracy test using the curious little Bushnell scope that came on it.
How the new gun differs from the old
Before I tear into the action, let me report on how this later 124 differs from the ones I have already shown you. The Deluxe models weren't made when this one was built. It's called a Sport, but it has a checkered grip and sling swivels, two features from the older Deluxe class. Gone, however, is the Wundhammer palm swell, and the cheekpiece that's on the left of the butt of this later rifle is so small and ill-formed as to make the rifle nearly ambidextrous. With the ambi-style safety and the ease of breakbarrel loading, it should have been an ambi from the start.
When I tore into the gun, I initially wondered if it had ever been apart. The serial number is 42,648, which places the gun very late in the production cycle. So, it could have been a virgin rifle, but it wasn't. The mainspring was coated with moly grease, a sure sign that someone has been inside, because the factory used only clear grease. From the look of the tune — moly on the mainspring, an FWB mainspring instead of an aftermarket spring, a replacement FWB piston seal (a Beeman trademark, even though they knew about the disintegration problem) and the trigger adjusted very nice — I believe this rifle was last tuned by Beeman. All those characteristics are the ones Beeman would do. As good as they were, even Beeman could not prevent that piston seal from decomposing. And, that's what I want to show you.
This is what a decomposing FWB seal looks like. The brown particles you see used to be hard, tough synthetic. Now, they're soft, waxy particles that break apart easily.
In this view, you see hundreds of smaller particles in the tube; and at the bottom (the end farthest from you in this picture), the top of the piston seal has broken off and wedged itself against the end of the compression chamber. The small hole at the lower right inside the compression chamber is the air transfer port. All of this mess must be removed before the rifle can be tuned.
There isn't much left of the piston seal after it disintegrates. Most has been left inside the compression chamber, but this root has to be cut out of the piston top. Like most of them, this one popped out easily.
I won't say anymore about disassembly and reassembly except for one thing. Installing the bolt that holds the trigger assembly in the gun is a tricky job. The trigger assembly has the spring guide and is what keeps the whole powerplant together. The bolt is hardened steel, but the trigger housing into which it threads is softer aluminum. You can easily cross-thread the bolt if you aren't careful. If you do, the trick is to remove the trigger housing from the gun and carefully thread the bolt into the hole, keeping the head aligned straight. It'll reset the threads in most cases and you're home free. You can then assemble the gun, and the bolt will not cross-thread anymore. This is the biggest reason you need a mainspring compressor to do this job.
This large bolt with the two flats for gripping is what holds the 124′s powerplant together. It threads into the soft aluminum trigger housing and can easily be cross-threaded. This photo shows an older 124 trigger assembly, not the one from the newer gun I'm testing in this report…which has an aluminum trigger blade.
Many tunes — final satisfaction
I tried several combinations of springs and piston seals until I settled on the Maccari Mongoose spring and seal. At first, the seal was way too tight, as it's supposed to be, so I sized it by hand-sanding until it had just a little resistance in the compression tube. The spring was lightly lubed with moly grease, and the seal also got a coat of moly before going back into the gun.
Crosman Premier 7.9 lites
The first pellet I tried with the new tune was the Crosman Premier 7.9-grain "lites." They'll be among the most accurate in this rifle; history has proven many times. They averaged 761 f.p.s., with a spread from 752 to 770 f.p.s. The average velocity produced a muzzle energy of 10.13 foot-pounds. All pellets were tight in the breech
RWS Hobbys
Next, I tried RWS Hobbys, a 7-grain pellet that's the speed-demon of the lead pellet world. They averaged 821 f.p.s., but a curious thing was happening as I shot them. The velocity kept increasing! Shot one went just 767 f.p.s., but the fastest shot among the 10 I fired went 832 f.p.s. With the average working out to 821, you can see that velocity was climbing all the time. I think this tune will wear in to the point that the Premiers will go about 800 f.p.s., and the Hobbys will get up to 860 or so. At the average velocity, the muzzle energy was 10.48 foot-pounds.
Beeman Silver Jets
The last pellet I tested was the vintage Beeman Silver Jets that are no longer available. They were the No. 1 go-to pellet when the 124 was in its heyday. Back in Part 10 of this report, I tested them against the best of today's pellets, with the result that they weren't far from the leaders.
The 8-grain Silver Jets averaged 732 f.p.s., with a range from 721 to 747 f.p.s. At the average velocity, they were generating 9.52 foot-pounds.
I mentioned that this rifle has a nice trigger. It's sort of a single-stage, by which I mean that pressure is there immediately when you begin the pull, and there's no obvious hesitation. It breaks with only 26 oz. of pressure, and it feels like less than a pound. I have to be very careful, because I'm used to three-to-five-pound triggers on the rifles I shoot the most. This one feels like nothing to me.
Most 124 triggers have more creep in them than this one. When I owned Mrs. Beeman's personal custom 124, the Queen Bee rifle, I found that the Beeman company could really adjust a 124 trigger very finely. Whenever I feel a good one, I always suspect someone from Beeman has been inside.
Well, that's it for this test. Next time, I'll see about sighting-in the rifle with that unusual scope.
A shrine built for a Feinwerkbau 124 – Part 13
by B.B. Pelletier
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Part 9
Part 8
Part 7
Part 6
Part 5
Part 4
Part 3
Part 2
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The November podcast has been posted.
Before we begin, my buddy, Randy Mitchell, who was also the outlaw, Dakota, from Frontier Village (an amusement park in San Jose, California, from 1961-1980) sent me a photo from over 40 years ago. I was Casey Jones, the engineer who ran the railroad at the Village, and Dakota had put an obstruction across the tracks out in the badlands. When I stopped the train, he jumped me at gunpoint and forced me to clear the rails. Then, he stole my boots and drove the train back to the station himself. How time flies!
Dakota forced me to clear the obstruction, then stole my boots and drove the train back to the station himself. I had to walk back!
Now, on to today's report. Well, well. How the tide turns when you go to an airgun show! I went to Roanoke hoping to score an FWB 124 to tune and instead I picked up one to tune for somebody else. That's usually a good thing, because when I tune for other folks I do a better job. I'm like the cobbler whose children are barefoot.
You'll remember from Friday that this rifle is Mark Taylor's, and I gave you an idea of how it performed. The cocking was too hard, plus there was a scraping or grinding feel to it. Well, once I got the guts out I found out what that was and why it happened. But, I'm getting ahead of myself.
The first comment I'll make is that Mark's rifle hasn't been apart many times. The mainspring I removed looked like a 124 mainspring, except that it had 39 coils — and a standard spring I have has only 35. So, the spring I removed was much longer than standard. At least I think it's longer. Heck, it's been so many years since I tuned a 124 that I doubt I know anything for sure anymore.
Looking through the cocking slot before disassembly, you can see that the mainspring has been coated with moly grease.
The second comment is that Mark's rifle had the strangest lubrication I've ever seen in any spring rifle, and I include my older San Anselmo rifle in that observation. My gun was tuned back in the day when it was standard practice to use an entire jar of Beeman's moly grease on the mainspring of a 124. When I took that gun apart the first time, I was scraping grease from everywhere! Had I known how full it was, I could have called Mike Rowe and gotten him to put it on his Dirty Jobs TV show.
In contrast, Mark's rifle was almost dry inside! Only the mainspring was coated with moly, and it looked like a smear of lithium grease might have been applied to one spot on the back of the piston. As a result, the piston was touching the top of the spring tube when the gun was cocked and had galled (made shiny by removing a small amount of metal) a large area that wasn't too deep. It wasn't serious, but it also was never going to get any better.
This is how the piston looked immediately after removing it from the gun. There's no lube on the seal!
This is the back end of the piston, called the skirt. As you can see, it has next to no lubrication.
The scraping, grinding feel came from this area. Those two bright lines are galled metal, where the piston skirt scraped against the inside of the spring tube. The damage is minor and correctible with the proper lubrication.
I discovered this lack of lube when I cleaned the inside of the spring tube. It was practically dry and grease-free in there. If I had tuned it, there would have been a lot of moly burnished into the metal and the cleaning patches would have come out black instead of white.
Using moly grease on the mainspring isn't the best thing when you want a smooth shot cycle. That's where Maccari's Black Tar comes into play. A dry piston isn't the right thing for this gun, as evidenced by the galled metal. I lubed the front and rear of the heavy 124 piston with moly grease. Gene Salvino, Pyramyd Air's tech manager, recommends using lithium grease on their piston seal, but I used moly on this one because of the galled metal.
The piston seal that was in the rifle looked to be in fine shape. Since this was supposed to be a test of the new Pyramyd Air seal, I removed it anyway. I've never seen another one like it and have no idea where it came from.
I also noted that the baseblock bearings weren't lubricated with much of anything, which might have added to the cocking effort. Also, the barrel pivot pin was dry. I spread moly grease on both the bearings and the pivot bolt before installing them in the rifle again.
I selected an old Maccari Deluxe tune kit for the rifle. This kit drops in, but is made so perfectly that the mainspring goes on the spring guide like it was nailed on. That's tuner's slang for a very tight fit. The spring diameter expands when it's compressed lengthwise, so the fit isn't as tight as it seems when you install it. There was also a Delrin spacer for the spring guide that put a little more tension on the spring.
This is how to lubricate a 124 piston correctly. Both the front and rear of the piston can contact the other metal surfaces inside the gun. The center of the piston is smaller and cannot touch anything. Besides this, I also burnished moly inside the spring tube before installing the piston.
All metal-to-metal contact surfaces except for the outside of the mainspring got a coat of moly grease before the gun was assembled. The outside of the mainspring was buttered with Black Tar. Then, the gun was assembled in reverse order from disassembly.
This is how I "buttered" the mainspring with Maccari's Black Tar mainspring dampening compound.
On to shooting
The proof is in the shooting, and the first time I cocked the assembled rifle it worked as it should, which doesn't always happen. I noted that the cocking effort didn't seem to have decreased much, but the cocking cycle was now as smooth as it should be. Then, I shot the rifle.
Wow! What a beautiful tune this is. Not only is all vibration gone, but the forward recoil I had noticed disappeared, as well. The gun just sort of pulses when it's shot.
I then measured the cocking effort and was stunned to find it had increased a pound to 28 lbs. of effort. Personally, I think it's too heavy for a 124, but the smooth shot cycle is too nice to ignore. Let's see what is does over the chronograph.
Crosman Premier lites
The 7.9-grain Crosman Premiers averaged 744 f.p.s. with this tune. The spread ranged from 736 to 750 f.p.s. That's a little tighter than the original tune, and much smoother. The average muzzle energy was 9.71 foot-pounds.
RWS Hobbys
RWS Hobby pellets averaged 784 f.p.s. The spread went from 776 to 793 f.p.s. Again, a slightly tighter spread than before. The average muzzle energy was 9.56 foot-pounds, and a super-smooth shot cycle.
JSB Exact 8.4 grains
JSB 8.4-grain Exact domed pellets averaged 723 f.p.s., a surprisingly low figure. They ranged from 713 to 730 f.p.s. and produced an average muzzle energy of 9.75 foot-pounds. They shot just as smooth as the other two pellets.
What to do next?
This is a toughie. The rifle is cocking and shooting extremely smooth right now, but the cocking effort is a bit high. Mark, the owner, says he doesn't mind that, as long as the gun shoots smooth, which it definitely does. I'm at the point of a decision that I'm going to let Mark make. I feel certain that the Black Tar on the mainspring is what's slowing down the gun just a bit. As tight as the mainspring fits, it probably isn't necessary. Still, the gun does shoot very smoothly, and almost all of the forward recoil seems to be gone, as well. From a shooting standpoint, this is a fine tune. I'll let Mark decide.
If he wants more power for the cocking effort, I would remove the Black Tar and lube the mainspring with moly grease. But, if he wants a super smooth shot cycle, we have that right now.
Mark, what would you like me to do?
A shrine built for a Feinwerkbau 124 – Part 12
by B.B. Pelletier
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Before I start today's report, Joe B. in Marin and Duskwight were really impressed by that air bazooka I showed on the blog for Day 2 of the Roanoke airgun show , so today I included a picture of the ammo. Duskwight — all U.S. bills are the same size, so those projectiles are very large.
Two of the air bazooka projectiles from the Roanoke airgun show dwarf a dollar bill.
Well, this report has taken on a life of its own! I never intended for it to grow this huge, but things just kept popping up and I had to address them. Today was supposed to be my report about tuning my San Anselmo gun once again with the new Pyramyd Air piston seal, but something strange happened at the Roanoke Airgun show to change that.
When Pyramyd Air assumed responsibility for the high-end Beeman airguns, they had this piston seal made for the FWB 124. It's a 70-durometer material with a good parachute channel. I'll install it in a 124 and report my findings.
This seal is also available from Pyramyd Air, although I don't think it's online yet. They're using them so fast that they'll soon make another run of seals.
Mark Taylor, a reporter for the Roanoke Times, wrote a nice piece on the show that Edith sent to me while I was on the road. Mark stopped by my table to introduce himself. As we chatted, he asked me if there were any airgun tuners who could tune his FWB 124 to shoot smooth. Of course, Paul Watts was at the show, but Mark knew that Paul has a long waiting period, and he wanted his gun back as soon as possible.
So, I thought, "Why don't I tune his rifle?" Then, I won't have to open up mine one more time. Mark's rifle has a 38,000 serial number, so the tight compression chamber shouldn't be quite the problem that it is on mine.
Mark went out to his car and got the rifle for Mac and me to examine. It's a deluxe model in excellent condition. When we cocked it, we both knew something dreadful was wrong. It cocks much harder than a 124 should, and there's a grinding feel to the mainspring as it's compressed. Today, I'll shoot the gun for a baseline, then in the next report I'll pull it apart for a look-see and a smooth tune.
From the feel of the cocking effort, I believe someone has tuned this rifle for power and left smoothness to suffer. The chronograph will tell the story, of course. If I'd experienced this 124 as the first 124 I'd ever seen, I would have thought all the wonderful reports about it were lies. The cocking effort is a whopping 27 lbs., which is about right for a Beeman R9 but quite a bit too heavy for a 124.
Mark stressed that all he wanted from his rifle was smooth shooting. Well, the 124 can certainly deliver that in spades, and it doesn't have to give up much in the way of power to do so! While Mark was at my table, Mac picked up a 124 from a table nearby and showed Mark what the gun should feel like. The difference was night and day.
The rifle test
This rifle cocks with a gritty, rubbing feel. Through the cocking slot, I can see what appears to be moly on the spring, so the gun has definitely been opened up at some time. I wonder what I'll find inside?
Crosman Premier 7.9-grain pellets
The standard test pellet is a Crosman Premier 7.9-grain domed pellet, because it's the one more shooters choose for their accurate airguns. Mark's 124 was shooting this pellet at an average of 761 f.p.s. as it was tuned. The spread went from a low of 752 f.p.s. to a high of 770. That's an 18 f.p.s. total spread, which isn't too bad. The average muzzle energy is 10.16 foot-pounds
RWS Hobbys
The next pellet I tried was the RWS Hobby. At 7 grains, it's among the lightest of the pure lead pellets. Hobbys averaged 808 f.p.s., with a spread from 798 to a high of 819 f.p.s. The average muzzle energy for this pellet is 10.15 foot-pounds
JSB Exact 8.4-grain pellets
For some reason, JSB Exact domes weighing 8.4 grains were the most powerful of all. They averaged 764 f.p.s. with a spread from 757 to 777 f.p.s. The average muzzle energy is 10.89 foot-pounds.
While I shot the rifle over the chronograph, I felt the harshness of the powerplant. The vibration was quick and powerful, and the forward lunge of the rifle that's a trademark of the 124 was quite noticeable. I won't be able to cancel that out, but I should be able to get rid of all the vibration and the scraping feeling when cocking.
Now that I have a baseline of performance, I can pull this rifle apart and see what's inside. It'll be a pleasure to tune this rifle sweet for Mark so he can feel how a 124 is supposed to behave. That'll be in the next report.
A shrine built for a Feinwerkbau 124 – Part 11
by B.B. Pelletier
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Well, here is our old friend, the San Anselmo Beeman 124, again. Today, I'll address the scope problems I was having the last time I tested the rifle for accuracy.
You may recall that I suggested that the front and rear rings be swapped to see if that would alter the amount of down angle the rifle appears to have. One reader was appalled that anything manufactured could be that far off from true, but believe me, it doesn't take much. I've seen this trick work many times in the past. However, I failed to mention that three inches is a bit excessive to try to correct this way. This trick is more for those who optically center their scope and have a half-inch problem at the first point of intersection.
However, I did remove the rings and swap the front for the rear. Because these are two-piece rings I could also turn one ring at a time, giving me six different permutations of the setup, I believe. But three inches of change is so major that if it doesn't come by swapping positions, you might as well look elsewhere.
Well, I was right. Swapping the rings did make a big difference. Only the difference went the wrong way. Now the pellet was striking the target four inches below the aim point, using the exact same scope with no adjustments. So, this set of rings was history. No amount of shimming would ever be able to make up an angular difference that large.
However, I had an ace up my sleeve. I'd visited the AirForce factory and asked to borrow a BKL drooper scope mount, and they happily complied. So, now I had the BKL 260 with .007 drop compensation to try out. This is a one-piece mount and it comes with simple instructions for which way to mount it. However, I did encounter a problem. This BKL mount is too low to allow the 50mm scope I had been using to clear the 124 spring tube. And you'll recall that I have to use a BKL mount because of the 124′s non-standard scope stop system. I have mounts that will work with it, but you can't buy them, so I'm not testing them here.
The solution was to use another scope, and all I was trying to do was ascertain that there was a scope mount and ring set in the world for this rifle — a vintage 124 with a large barrel droop. So, I picked a BSA 3-9×32 scope that didn't have parallax adjustment. As a result, I had to run it at five power or the target was too blurry to see well.
The BSA scope fits well in the BKL drooper mount. I could have gotten away with a 40mm objective, if I'd wanted.
Even with all that disadvantage against me, I proved the concept. The 124 and this new scope adjusted on target perfectly with no problem of adjusting the elevation knob too high.
So, I shot one group of 10 Crosman Premier 7.9-grain pellets and then another. Sure enough, the problem has been solved.
Good group, properly centered and 10 tight shots at 25 yards with Crosman Premier lites.
I'm removing the scope from the gun, because the only reason I scoped it in the first place was to conduct the Silver Jets accuracy test. That's over now, so the 124 can go back into its sarcophagus, except for one more tuneup that will employ the newest Pyramyd Air 124 piston seal.
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Well, I've finally healed enough to cock the FWB 124 breakbarrel, so today I'll test the rifle at 25 yards with the best modern pellets against the Beeman Silver Jets. If you recall, that premise is what started this entire report so very long ago.
Today is going to show some wonderful things, and we're going to prosper from this experience far beyond the 124 and into the world of modern pellet rifles and scopes. So, sit back and let it come to you!
I scoped the 124 with a Leapers 3-9×50 scope sitting in BKL two-piece mounts. In retrospect, boy am I glad I used the two-piece rings because of what ultimately happened.
As you recall, the last time I tested this rifle was with six modern pellets and Beeman Silver Jets left over from the 1990s. All the pellets did well, but I selected three to compete at 25 yards. So, let's test the gun.
Sight-in revealed a gun that both buzzed when shot and also one that shot very low. The buzzing will have to be corrected because I want a super-smooth rifle. The low grouping doesn't phase me one bit, except that I can use it to illustrate a concept that I get asked about several times a month. That concept is either scope shift or an inaccurate spring gun.
I also seasoned the bore with three shots before recording any groups. That may or may not be enough, but that's what I did. The theory on this is that each new pellet needs several shots before it begins to perform its best. I don't know whether I believe it or not, but it's all the rage right now, so I did it.
Beeman Kodiaks
The first pellets I tested were Beeman Kodiaks. Veteran airgunners will remember the Kodiak as a 10.6-grain pellet, but blog reader CJr discovered in May that they're not really that heavy. Edith has updated the description on the website to reflect the 10.2 grains they actually weigh. Apparently, this is going to be the weight of that pellet.
I was disappointed with the performance of Kodiaks at 25 yards out of the 124, because they gave me a group that was strung out vertically. I dialed the scope 10 clicks down and continued to shoot a different pellet. However, the vertical stringing was a clue about something that was happening…and happening real bad. The reason I dialed the elevation down 10 clicks was to tighten the spring of the erector tube inside the scope to keep it from floating. Vertical stringing is a sign that a scope has been adjusted too high. You'll remember how the erector tube is supported by a spring from the scope report I did last week.
This vertical string of 10 Kodiaks tells me the erector tube is floating.
Air Arms Falcon
The next pellet I tried was the one that had performed the best at 10 meters — the Air Arms Falcons. I grouped pretty good at 25 yards, but not as good as the R8 did last month. I'll never forget that rifle's performance, and I don't see why this 124 shouldn't be just as accurate. So, I cranked in 10 more clicks of down into the scope.
The first groups of Air Arms falcon pellets is still open. More verticality says we haven't solved the problem yet.
The next group was superb, but it had one teaser flyer that opened it to a half-inch. And that flyer was also vertical, so I cranked in another 10 clicks of down.
Things are getting much better with the second bunch of Falcon pellets after another 10 clicks down, but that flyer is still vertical above the main group.
As you can see, the pellets are still landing in a vertical string. Once more, I cranked in 10 down clicks. At this point, we are 40 clicks down from where we started.
Air Arms 8.4 domes
The next pellet I tried were the Air Arms domes that weigh 8.4 grains. Although there's a trace of verticality to the group they made, the group is starting to look much rounder, which is what I'm after.
The bunch of 10 Air Arms domes is a pretty round group. It's the second-best group of this test.
I actually shot several groups with the 8.4 domes, and they all turned out round like I wanted. Plus, they gave me the second-best group I got during this test.
With this success under my belt, I tried another 10 Kodiaks and got a rounder group than before, but also one that was too large for any further testing. Clearly, Kodiaks are not the pellet for this rifle.
Beeman Silver Jets
It was now time to try the Silver Jets, so I seasoned the bore and shot two groups of almost identical size. They were smaller than the Kodiaks but were not as small as the Air Arms domes or the Falcons. So, I reckoned there was but one more thing to try.
These ten Beeman Silver Jets went pretty tight but not as tight as several other pellets.
Crosman Premier lites
I had mentioned during the 10-meter test that I didn't select Crosman Premier 7.9-grain domes to test because I simply didn't. Several of you commented that the Premier lites were the most accurate in your 124 rifles, so I thought I'd include them in this test as a last-minute write in. I'm glad I did, because they turned in the best group of the day.
Ten Premier lites made the best target of this test. Whoda thunk it? I should have tested them at 10 meters.
This test was not complete because I did not return and retest all pellets after discovering that the scope had been a problem in the beginning. I didn't because I was bursting with something else to tell you — namely how a scope that's improperly adjusted can ruin your day. I hope you have seen that in the groups I've shown here today. But we're not done!
Fix it, please
I get requests all the time from readers who have similar problems after they've mounted a scope. They have huge vertical groups and don't understand why. I explained why last week in the scope report, so go back and reread that report to better understand.
The problem isn't the scope, but rather how it's being adjusted. And that was proven as I applied more and more clicks of down adjustment until the tension on the erector tube stopped the tube from floating. Only now, I gotta fix it. And that's why I'm so happy that I used two-piece scope mounts. You can always turn one-piece mounts around to try to fix a problem like this, and that will probably work, but with two-piece mounts you can also turn each piece separately from the other, which gives you two more adjustments you can make.
I'm going to remount this scope to see if I can get it to stop shooting three inches low at 25 yards without resorting to the vertical adjustment that we now know will not work. Then, I'll shoot some more at 25 yards to show the difference. And even that's not the end of it.
While talking with Gene Salvino, the technical manager at Pyramyd Air, I discovered that Pyramyd Air has had the FWB 124 piston seal reproduced. He said that when they took over the high-end Beeman guns for support, they had to start fixing everything that came in, and of course the 124 will be one of those. Gene sent me one of the seals. So, by golly, you know that I'm going to install it in the rifle for a test. And, I'll have a test for you to see how it performs.
Then, one of our readers told me about a place that machines the compression chamber to have parallel walls instead of the tapered walls it has in the earlier guns like mine. That will open up the power potential of the gun. Right now, I am debating whether or not to have this work done to this early San Anselmo gun. I certainly don't need the power, nor do I even care to have it, but it might be nice to see a before and after of a job like this. We're going to have fun with this 124 for some time to come.


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You know all of those people whove been accusing Gov. Pat McCrory of being insensitive and unconcerned with anything other than slashing corporate taxes, Medicaid and unemployment insurance?
They were forced to eat their words Tuesday when the governor magnanimously delivered unto a group of protesters a plateful of chocolate chip cookies.
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Accompanied by four bodyguards who stopped traffic, McCrory came as far as the middle of the street and motioned for one of the protesters to meet him halfway. The bodyguards were, of course, superfluous, since any motorist who saw the governor standing in the middle of the street holding a plateful of cookies at 2 p.m. would have slammed on brakes anyway and taken a vow of sobriety henceforth.
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After beckoning Jamie Sohn, presenting the plate to her and mouthing some platitudes, the governor, witness Paige Johnson said, turned back to the mansion with his bodyguards leaving Sohn in the middle of the street to fend against traffic alone.
She called out to them ,Help me. Help me, Johnson said.
Thats when the mother hen in me came out, said Johnson, vice president of external affairs for Planned Parenthood of Central N.C..
Johnson noted that Sohn had recently fallen and injured her knee. She called the bodyguards and they came back and stopped traffic for Sohn to limp back to the other side of the street, Johnson said.
If taking cookies to protesters isnt a populist, man-of-the-people move, Ill eat a dead possum fried in turpentine which is more than the protesters did with the cookies. They took them back to the mansion gate with a note that read Gov. McCrory, will take womens health over cookies.
How about respect?
The governor, before returning to the task of making life tougher for the poor and middle class, probably asked the question posed by Sigmund Freud and every other man: what do women want?
How about some face time? How about some respect?
They received neither, despite delivering to the governor a petition with more than 35,000 signatures last week asking him to keep his promise.
We were more hopeful than anyone on the planet when candidate McCrory said hed veto any bill restricting abortion rights, Johnson said. The governor signing the bill Monday, she said, was crushing, but expected. Hed already said Friday that he would sign it. We were prepared.
Johnson said the protesters were not prepared, though, for what happened moments after McCrory signed the bill.
He came out on the balcony and waved, she said.
No, he didnt, girlfriend.
Yes, he did, she said.
We werent prepared for the wave, and we certainly werent prepared for the cookies, she said. These women care passionately about womens health, and theyd been standing out there for two days and hed had no communications with us. We have volunteers whove traveled for hours to be here, who have taken off from work and gotten arrested yet had not seen the governor.
I cant even explain to you how I felt the condescension to bring women a plate of cookies. We were blown away, she said.
When she returned home, Johnson said, even her 15-year-old son knew that what the governor did was sexist. He said Mom, he would have never brought cookies to men, Johnson said.
If he had, wed have been equally outraged. Do you think you can mollify us with cookies? What, no milk? You take this plate and ...
We would have eaten the cookies and then thrown the empty plate at the mansion, by which time the state police would have descended upon us with billy clubs.
You dont reckon that the governor, looking out the window and seeing that some of the women were dressed in early 1960s-era styles, concluded that polemic political activists had reverted to compliant, cookie-baking June Cleavers, do you?
Supporters of the governor will likely view this rejection of the cookies as yet another example of liberals and progressives not being appreciative of his outreach efforts.
Speaking of Freud, in one of his dream interpretations, the famed psychoanalyst supposedly told a patient that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Likewise, McCrory and his supporters will say, sometimes a cookie is just a cookie.
Of course, at other times it can be a veiled suggestion to protesting women that, Now, this is how you bake a cookie, Cookie.
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Benton used four different pitchers as Lakeside nearly batted around twice in the inning. A three-run home run by Lakeside's lead off hitter was the big blow but Lakeside also managed a two-run single and a RBI double.
A bases loaded walk forced in a run as did a hit by pitch.
Everett GMC AA Legion baseball team lost 8-7 to Pine Bluff National Bank Tuesday night at home. Pine Bluff scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning to come back from a one-run deficit to win the game.
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Everettt had seven runs on eight hits and Pine Bluff had eight runs on 13 hits.
Benton head coach Chris Nail and senior Luke Vance will participate in the Arkansas Activities Association All-Star basketball game tonight in Fayetteville.
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Little Rock had 15 runs on 10 hits with three errors. Benton had three runs on five hits with one error.
Ethan Hendrix pitched 2 2/3 innings, allowing seven hits with a strikeout and three walks. Jay Davies pitched 1/3 of an inning, allowing three hits with three walks.
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A FAMILY-of-12 and their dog were dramatically rescued after being stranded in a Worcestershire holiday cottage for a week surrounded by rising flood water.
Three-generations of the Hughes family, had come from as far as Yorkshire and Gatwick to enjoy a family Christmas in a holiday cottage in Uckinghall, near Upton, last Sunday.
But when the cottage, in Ferry Lane, quickly became surrounded by up to eight feet of water following the heavy rain, the voluntary West Midlands Search and Rescue Service (WMSAR) were called.
The voluntary rescue service was called on Saturday and rescued the family and their luggage using two boats.
Crew member Anne Sturman said the family became stranded after the flood barriers went up.
"The cottage was on a little island along with all their vehicles which were stranded by the water," she said.
"We were asked by the fire brigade if we could attend the evacuation of 12 people and a dog on Saturday. The river had burst its banks and the cottage is near the river."
Paul Matthews, landlord of the Railway Inn in Ripple, chauffeured the family and their luggage to the pub in his car so they could call other family members to collect them and gave them hot drinks.
"The family was very relieved to be back on dry land," he said. "The kids were quite distressed but obviously very happy to be back. They just wanted to get home.
"After having a Christmas like that you can imagine wasn't the best especially having family from all over the country.
"I know the elderly family members found it hard. A couple were diabetic. It was quite a worry.
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"I think they were exceedingly relieved."
While the family were stranded, a neighbour kept the family from going hungry by bringing them food and water on his boat.
Simon Hughes, aged 44, who lives in Melksham, Wiltshire, was one of the family members who had to be rescued along with his two young sons.
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As computational power rises exponentially, not linearly, so does the rate of change -- and that means the next 10 years should pack in far more technological change than the last 10.
Disruptive technology is, by its very nature, unpredictable, but it is still possible to look at the work being done by R&D labs around the world and see clues as to what the future holds. That's the full-time job of Dave Evans, Cisco's chief futurist and chief technologist for the Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group (IBSG).
[ Also check out 12 tech revolutions that fizzled. | Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: Wrap Up newsletter. ]
At Cisco Live, Evans outlined what he believed to be the top 10 trends that will change the world in 10 years. Here is his list, with commentary augmented by yours truly based on interviews in the past year with numerous other industry analysts and visionaries.
No. 1: The Internet of things
We have passed the threshold where more things are connected to the Internet than people. The transition to IPv6 also supports seemingly limitless connectivity. Cisco IBSG predicts the number of Internet-connected things will reach 50 billion by 2020, which equates to more than six devices for every person on Earth. Many of us in the developed world already have three or more full-time devices connected to the Internet when factoring in PCs, smartphones, tablets, television devices and the like. Next up are sensor networks, using low-power sensors that "collect, transmit, analyze, and distribute data on a massive scale," says Evans.
Such sensors, based on standards like Zigbee, 6LoWPAN and Z-wave, are currently being used in both predictable and surprising ways. Zigbee is being embedded in smart appliances and smart meters. 6LoWPAN (over IPv6) is used by Vint Cerf for his wine cellar climate-monitoring system. Z-Wave is the basis for Verizon's smart home automation service. But more creative uses are emerging, too. Sparked, a Dutch startup, implants sensors in the ears of cattle to monitor cows' health and whereabouts. Sensors are being embedded in shoes, medicine like asthma inhalers, and medical exploratory surgery devices. There's even a tree in Sweden wired with sensors that tweets its mood and thoughts, with a bit of translation help from an interpretive engine developed by Ericsson (@connectedtree or #ectree).
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Health care reform legislation has added a number of new taxes and made various other changes which will help finance the reform. The legislation also made several health care related changes which benefit certain taxpayers:
- A credit to offset part of the costs of health insurance for low to middle income individuals and families.
- A credit to offset the costs to small businesses which provide health insurance for their employees.
Here is a list of some of the tax related items from the health care reform legislation that were upheld as a result of the Court's decision:
Provisions Already in Effect
- Small Business Tax Credit: Small businesses, defined as businesses with 25 or fewer employees and average annual wages of $50,000 or less, are eligible for a credit of up to 50% of nonelective contributions the business makes on behalf of their employees for insurance premiums.
- Tax on Health Savings Account (HSA) Distributions: Additional tax on distributions from an HSA or an Archer Medical Savings Account (MSA) that are not used for qualified medical expenses is increased to 20% of the disbursed amount.
- SIMPLE Cafeteria Plans for Small Business: An eligible small employer is provided with a safe harbor from the nondiscrimination requirements for cafeteria plans as well as from the nondiscrimination requirements for specified qualified benefits offered under a cafeteria plan.
- Adult Dependent Insurance Coverage: If dependent coverage is provided, plans must allow coverage for children up to age 26 regardless of student or marital status. Employers may exclude the cost of dependent coverage for children under age 27 from an employee's taxable income.
- Restrictions on Use of HSA and FSA Funds: Over the counter medications are no longer 213D qualified medical expenses. This change makes these medications ineligible for FSA, HRA and H.S.A. reimbursement. Prescribed drugs and insulin are still considered to be 213D qualified eligible expenses.
- Information Reporting: If your company filed 250 or more W-2s in 2011, then you must report the health insurance premium for each participating employee on 2012 W-2's. Companies with fewer than 250 employees will need to comply with this requirement beginning with 2013 W-2 reporting. Premiums for standalone vision and dental plans, Group Term Life, Group Short Term Disability and Group Long Term Disability are not included. Although the premium for health contributions is reported on the W-2 form, they are not taxable.
- Preexisting Conditions: Plans may not impose any preexisting condition exclusion for children under age 19.
- No Lifetime Limits on coverage of 'Essential Benefits': (as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services). May only impose restricted annual limits on the dollar value of 'Essential Benefits'.
- Preventive Health Services: (as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services) must be covered and no cost sharing requirements may be imposed for these services.
- Medical Loss Ratio – 80/20 Rule: requires health insurance companies (depending on their size) to spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on health insurance claims and clinical activities for improved healthcare quality. Insurance companies that do not meet the 80/20 Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) standard must provide their policyholders a rebate for the difference no later than August 1, 2012. (Additional clarification provided below.)
Effective in 2013
- Additional Hospital Insurance Tax on High-Income Taxpayers: Starting in 2013, high-income individuals will pay an additional 0.9 percentage points on earned income over $200,000 ($250,000 if married). Currently, the Medicare payroll tax is 2.9% on all wages — with the worker and employer each paying 1.45%.
- Medicare Tax on Investment Income: Imposes a tax on individuals equal to 3.8% of the lesser of the individual's net investment income for the year or the amount the individual's modified AGI exceeds a threshold amount.
- Medical Care Itemized Deduction Threshold: Threshold for the itemized deduction for unreimbursed medical expenses is increased from 7.5% of adjusted gross income (AGI) to 10% of AGI for regular income tax purposes. (Effective 2013 generally, 2017 for certain taxpayers).
- Health Flexible Spending Arrangements: Beginning with 2013 plan years, the maximum for Flex Spending Account (FSA) pretax salary deferral is $2500. Be sure to amend your FSA plan at renewal time accordingly.
Effective in 2014
- Premium-Assistance Credit: Refundable tax credits that eligible taxpayers can use to help cover the cost of health insurance premiums for individuals and families who purchase health insurance through a state health benefit exchange.
- Reporting Requirements: Requires insurers (including employers who self-insure) that provide minimum essential coverage to any individual during a calendar year to report certain health insurance coverage information to both the covered individual and to the IRS.
- Cafeteria Plans: A qualified health plan offered through a health insurance exchange is a qualified benefit under a cafeteria plan of a qualified employer.
- Employer Responsibility: An "applicable large employer" that does not offer coverage for all its full-time employees; offers minimum essential coverage that is unaffordable; or offers minimum essential coverage that consists of a plan under which the plan's share of the total allowed cost of benefits is less than 60%; is required to pay a penalty if any full-time employee is certified to the employer as having purchased health insurance through a state exchange with respect to which a tax credit or cost-sharing reduction is allowed or paid to the employee.If a large employer does not offer qualified affordable coverage then an employee can go to the exchange. If the employee gets a subsidy then the employer must pay a $250 a month tax penalty (not deductible) for each employee receiving coverage through the exchange that gets a subsidy not to exceed the aggregate penalty for not offering coverage.
Any large group employer not offering coverage and having at least 1 employee obtaining coverage through an exchange with a subsidy must pay a $166 per month tax penalty (not deductible) to the government (this equates to a $2,000 Annual penalty).
In 2014, small employers of fewer than 50 employees have no penalties. If they offer coverage that is affordable and qualified (no more than 9.5% of pay for employee coverage and at least a bronze level coverage) then the employee is not eligible to buy coverage through the exchange.
Additional Details You Should Know About:
Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) Rebate Distribution
If you receive a MLR distribution, you will be required to develop a plan to distribute the rebates that your insurance carrier declares. As of today, HealthPartners is the only local carrier to announce they will be issuing an MLR rebate and only to a very small subset of their clients. HealthPartners has already contacted those affected.
For future reference, if you receive an MLR rebate, the method of allocating the rebate has been provided in Health and Human Services interim regulations, and directs insurers to distribute the entire rebate to the group policyholder. The group policyholder is required to use the portion of the rebates attributable to the amount of premiums paid by the subscribers for the benefit of the subscribers, insuring that enrollees in such plans receive the benefit of the rebates.
Three methods of distribution are allowed:
- to reduce the subscribers portion of the annual premium for the subsequent policy year for all subscribers covered under the group health policy in the subsequent year; or
- to reduce subscribers portion of the annual premium for subsequent policy year for only those subscribers covered by the group health policy in the year for which the rebate was based; or
- to provide a cash refund only to subscribers that were covered by the group health policy on which the rebate is based.
All three options are acceptable. The most administratively simple process is to issue a premium reduction in the subsequent year for those participating in the plan in the subsequent year.
If you are currently covered by HealthPartners, an MLR rebate may be announced in the near future. Otherwise, it is unlikely this provision will apply to you this year.
Summary of Benefits (SBC's)/Uniform Glossary (UG)
Watch for the Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) and Uniform Glossary that your insurance carrier has developed, and include those new documents in Open Enrollment packets for 2013. These new documents must be provided to employees at least 30 days prior to renewal (or as early as reasonably possible) for plans renewing after 9/23/12. SBC's will also be required for HRA's and Flexible Spending Accounts.
Patient Centered Outcomes Research
Determine if your plan is subject to a "PCOR" fee (Patient Centered Outcomes Research) also known as "CER" (Comparative Effectiveness Research).
This fee applies to insured plans (fee paid by the insurer) and self-insured plans (fee paid by the plan sponsor). Self-insured plans include HRAs. For plan/policy years ending on or after October 1, 2012 and before October 1, 2013, the fee is $1, multiplied by the average number of covered lives (including dependents). The fee is increased to $2 for plan years ending on or after October 1, 2013 and may be further increased on or after October 1, 2014. Your TPA will have additional information.
Health Insurance Exchange
Prepare to notify employees of the availability of Health Insurance Exchanges by March of 2013. (While this notification will be required, at this time we are waiting for additional guidance regarding the availability of the health exchange in Minnesota, since Minnesota has not passed a specific Exchange bill yet.)
Links to More Information
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Hannah Höch
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A Chinese artist credited with inventing a method of bamboo painting.
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Miriam Schapiro was a pioneer of Feminist Art.
Elizabeth Vigee LeBrun's self-portraits and portraits of French notables especially Marie Antoinette brought her success in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, even though the French Revolution led to her exile for some years from her native land.
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Watercolor portrait by Martha Wheeler Baxter, early 20th century.
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Oil painting by Rosa Bonheur, 1853, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Paintings in several media by Russian artist Natalia Goncharova, all about 1909-1913. "Annunciation," "Haycutting," "Green Forest," "Portrait of Larionov," and "The Cyclist."
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A graphically beautiful site, befitting the subject. The biography is laid out with images from O'Keeffe's artwork along side. Don't miss the cute animated icon at the bottom of most pages!
Georgia O'Keeffe
Watercolors and oils from Georgia O'Keeffe, each with information about the work and magnified versions of the images.
Elisabetta Sirani
Seventeenth century Italian painter of "supreme quality."
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Two Op Art pieces by Bridget Riley, 1964 and 1978.
Soraida's Verdadism Gallery
Puerto Rican woman painter and activist presents her artwork and philosophy. Includes paintings like What Prejudice Looks Like and One Day I Found A Lump In My Breast.
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Henriette Wyeth
Bringing her out from under the shadow of her brother, Andrew, the Women's International Center awarded Wyeth their Living Legacy award. This page sketches her life and work.


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Joe Pichirallo, film producer and veteran studio executive, has been appointed as the chair of the Undergraduate Film & Television program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (TSOA) Kanbar Institute of Film and Television. He will be replacing Lamar Sanders this fall. TSOA Dean Mary Schmidt Campbell says Pichirallo's "extensive entertainment industry experience coupled with his many years of teaching young filmmakers is the perfect combination to lead the department into the future." Details on Pichirallo's varied career -- from HBO and Fox Searchlight to UCLA and The Washington Post -- are below.
Pichirallo is a veteran studio executive, film producer, and a former reporter for The Washington Post. He began his film career with HBO Pictures and was one of the original executives hired by Fox to set up Searchlight Pictures, where he worked for nearly eight years rising to senior vice president. Later, he was an executive vice president at Universal's Focus Features.
Most recently, Pichirallo worked as a producer, including serving as the head of feature film production for The Gold Company, a management/production firm led by Eric Gold. He also was head of the feature film unit at Overbrook Entertainment, Will Smith's company, where he produced The Secret Life of Bees with Queen Latifah, Alicia Keys, Dakota Fanning, and Jennifer Hudson, and directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood; as well as executive produced Lakeview Terrace, directed by Neil LaBute and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, and Patrick Wilson. While at Focus Features, he executive produced Hollywoodland, starring Adrien Brody, Ben Affleck, and Diane Lane, and directed by Allen Coulter; and Something New, with Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, and Alfre Woodard.
At Searchlight, Pichirallo's films included: Antwone Fisher, which was the directorial debut of Denzel Washington; One Hour Photo, starring Robin Williams, and directed by Mark Romanek; The Banger Sisters, with Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon; Quills, which was nominated for three Academy Awards and starred Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, and Michael Caine, and directed by Philip Kaufman; The Slums of Beverly Hills, with Alan Arkin and Marisa Tomei, and directed by Tamara Jenkins; Girl Six, directed by Spike Lee; and The Brothers McMullen, a grand jury prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival.
He has taught at the American Film Institute for the last 14 years and also at Chapman University's Dodge College of Film and Media Arts and UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. Prior to his career in the entertainment business, he was on the staff of The Washington Post, where he covered national security, the criminal justice system, and politics. He made the transition into the film business by spending a year as a screenwriting fellow in the AFI's graduate film program. He has an A.B. in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper, The Daily Californian.
Skye Dent | May 22, 2012 12:34 PM
Just seeing this, but yes, of course I'm all for this combo of Joe and NYU, especially since I too was a full time print journalist for places such as CBS News, AP, and even The Cape Cod Times before moving into TV/Film/Doc writing and producing. I feel bad because after working in journalism, film and TV, I recently went back to NYU to get my MFA. So, I only missed him by a few years. Of course, I worked with The Dude - Jeff (see comment from him above) for a hot second. So, good timing on that one.
Bruce Macintyre | January 4, 2012 3:33 AM
Hi Joe. Back near home. Regards, Bruce Macintyre
AlbortAzmi | September 23, 2011 10:47 AM
Hi, I agree with you. Really this blog is very informative.
Jeff Dowd | May 11, 2011 6:53 AM
Wow--What an inspired choice by NYU (not bad for a school without a football team). Joe it the best and a UC Berkeley grad as well where I was born when my father taught economic history at Cal before he went to Cornell.
Needless to say, like all of us Joe already knows many NYU grads and has experience working with them in the "real/surreal" world unlike many profs in other university departments.l
I look forward to the class of 2012 and beyond.
Jeff Dowd
The Dude Abides!
Tonino | May 11, 2011 1:50 AM
Awesome for Joe !!!! :-)


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