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With all the change in the GU basketball program this season, there is more pressure on the shoulders of one Zag than any other.
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The sophomore forward is expected to assume the mantle of offensive leadership held the past couple of years by Adam Morrison – though nowhere near to the same degree.
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Oct. 31: The New Knoxville Community Library will hold storytime from 1 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. today.
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Nov. 1: The F.J. Stallo Memorial Library of Minster will hold storytime from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. today for 3 to 5-year-olds.
The Minster Wildcats will return to the site of their first-round playoff upset from a season ago, Wapakoneta hits the road in its first playoff appearance since 2006, and nine Western Buckeye League and Midwest Athletic Conference teams (along with Fort Loramie) received first-round playoff assignments on Sunday afternoon.
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Bertke, a lifelong resident of New Bremen, said he is interested in joining the school board because he would like to serve the community.
NEW BREMEN — The products of hours of hard work and an abundance of creativity were on display Sunday afternoon at Crown Pavilion as area children and adults participated in the annual Cider Time Parade and costume contest.
The annual event, organized by the American Legion Post 241, Sons of the American Legion Squadron 241 and the New Bremen EMS, began with a parade through New Bremen, starting at La Piazza and ending at Crown Pavilion, where participants were met with donuts and cider.
Dick West left his St. Marys Memorial assistant defensive coaching job in the 1970s knowing full well the head coaching spot of the Roughriders wouldn't be available any time soon — not with Skip Baughman entrenched in his third decade at the position.
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Paul A. Offit, MD, Director, Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
On Nov. 17, 2014, the C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, the University of Michigan Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, and the University of Michigan Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit published the results of a study of parents of 614 children between 0 and 5 years of age (C. S. Mott Children's Hospital, National Poll on Children's Health, volume 22, issue 4, Nov. 17, 2014). Investigators wanted to determine how parents felt about their children attending daycare centers where other children might not be immunized. The survey was administered in June 2014 to a randomly selected group of parents at least 18 years that represented the United States population. The authors of the study found the following:
As more parents are choosing to delay or withhold vaccines for their children, parental attitudes about this choice will be become increasingly more important as society determines what to do about it.
Two vaccines are currently recommended for pregnant women: influenza vaccine and the combined tetanus-diphtheria-acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap). The influenza vaccine is recommended in large part because pregnant women are seven times more likely to develop severe influenza pneumonia than woman of similar age who aren't pregnant. Pertussis-containing vaccine, on the other hand, is recommended primarily to protect infants in the first few months of life following passive transfer of maternal antibodies through the placenta.
Recently, one group of researchers studied the effect of influenza vaccine given during pregnancy to protect infants as well as their mothers (Mahdi SA, et al. Influenza Vaccination of Pregnant Women and Protection of Their Infants. N Engl J Med. 2014 Sep 4;371(10):918-31). Investigators studied 2,116 women who either were or were not given the trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV3) during pregnancy. They found that infants born to IIV3-vaccinated mothers had significantly higher titers of influenza-virus specific antibodies, as measured by hemagglutination-inhibition assays, than placebo-inoculated mothers. More importantly, while the attack rate for PCR-confirmed influenza in infants whose mothers were inoculated with placebo was 3.6 percent, the attack rate in infants of IIV3-immunized mothers was 1.9 percent. Therefore, the efficacy of influenza vaccination of mothers in protecting their infants from influenza was about 49 percent. Immunized pregnant women were also less likely to develop influenza, with a vaccine efficacy of about 50 percent.
These studies clearly show the importance of influenza vaccination in protecting both pregnant women and their infants.
Every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) collect data on vaccination rates among kindergartners in the United States. These data are collected by federally funded state, local and territorial immunization programs.
On October 17, 2014, the CDC published their findings (R. Seither, et al. Vaccination Coverage Among Children in Kindergarten—United States, 2013-14 School Year. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Oct 17;63(41):913-20.). Vaccination coverage data were provided for 4.25 million kindergartners from 49 states; vaccination exemption data were provided for 3.9 million kindergartners from 46 states.
First: the good news. Median vaccination coverage was 94.7 percent for two doses of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine; 95 percent for diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine; and 93.3 percent for two doses of varicella vaccine. These immunization rates are very close to targets set by the Healthy People 2020 initiative.
Unfortunately, not all the news was good. Several states have non-medical vaccine exemption rates (i.e., religious or philosophical or both) of greater than 4 percent. Specifically, Alaska (4.1 percent), Arizona (4.7 percent), Colorado (4.6 percent), Idaho (6.1 percent), Maine (5.2 percent), Michigan (5.4 percent), Oregon (7.0 percent), Utah (4.2 percent), Vermont (6.1 percent), and Wisconsin (4.8 percent) all have high numbers of children at risk. Previous studies have shown that vaccination exemptions cluster geographically and that these same regions are most likely to suffer outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases.
Paul A. Offit, MD, Director, Vaccine Education Center at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Between 2011 and 2012, the United States experienced one of the largest pertussis epidemics in more than 50 years. Virtually every state was affected and 20 deaths from pertussis were reported. The state of Washington, which has one of the highest non-medical vaccine exemption rates in the country, was particularly hard hit, with 71.3 cases of pertussis per 100,000 person-years reported.
The best way to prevent pertussis in infants is by receiving the full series of pertussis-containing vaccine. Specifically, whereas protection against pertussis following one dose of DTaP (diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis) is about 46 percent effective at preventing pertussis, receipt of three doses in the first six months of life is about 91 percent effective.
To determine whether the pertussis epidemic in the state of Washington had any impact on vaccination rates, researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital and the University of Washington measured immunization rates for DTaP in infants before, during and after the epidemic (Wolf ER, et al."Impact of a Pertussis Epidemic on Infant Vaccination in Washington State ," Pediatrics 2014. Sep;134(3):456-64). They wanted to determine whether the pertussis epidemic compelled more parents to vaccinate their children against pertussis. The authors found "no significant difference in statewide up-to-date status with a pertussis-containing vaccine between pre-epidemic and either epidemic or post-epidemic time points."
One could reasonably argue that people are compelled by fear more than reason. And that one of the main reasons that some people don't vaccinate their children, or don't vaccinate them on time, is that they simply don't fear vaccine-preventable diseases. In other words, vaccines have become a victim of their own success. If this is true, then one might predict that recent outbreaks of diseases such as measles, mumps and pertussis would compel more parents to vaccinate their children. The study done in Washington State suggests that, if that reasoning is correct, current outbreaks either haven't been large enough or frightening enough to change behavior.
On August 30, 2013, the Florida Department of Health was notified of a case of laboratory-confirmed pertussis in a child attending a charter school in a faith healing community in Columbia County (Mattias J, Dusek C, Pritchard PS, et al. Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Pertussis in a School and Religious Community Averse to Health Care Vaccinations—Columbia County, Florida, 2013. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Aug 1;63(30):655.). The school contained 316 students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Immunization rates were woeful. Only 15 percent of kindergarten students were immunized against pertussis; 5 percent of 7th graders were immunized.
A few days after the first child was sickened by pertussis, his sibling became ill. Then, on Sept. 3, two additional children from the school were confirmed to have pertussis by polymerase-chain reaction. On Sept. 12, the health department declared a communicable disease emergency. Thirty-eight children were subsequently excluded from school. Eventually, 94 children and 16 teachers were infected with pertussis. Fourteen cases, including three in infants, occurred in household contacts.
The outbreak extended into the community; 109 cases were identified. Although the health department offered pertussis vaccine to members of the community at no charge, only five people chose to be vaccinated. Despite the presence of a massive pertussis outbreak, community members continued to eschew medical care in favor of their beliefs.
In a more rational world, this would not be permitted. The United States Supreme Court has made it very clear that while people can martyr themselves to their religion, they should not be allowed to martyr their children to their religion (Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 321 U.S. 158.) Also, again in a more rational world, the state would not consider it the inalienable right of any United States citizen to catch and transmit a potentially fatal infection. Someday we may evolve to disallowing people to put their children in harm's way in the name of their faith. Sadly, we're not there yet.
Two post-licensure studies have reported the possible association between the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and venous thromboembolism (VTE). VTE is a risk factor for strokes and heart attacks. The first report, from the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System or VAERS, suffered from the lack of an appropriate control group. The second report, from the Vaccine Safety DataLink, suffered from small numbers. In addition, it is hard to come up with a biological explanation for why a vaccine that consists of the L1 surface protein from four different strains of HPV (types 6, 11, 16, and 18) would cause something that is not a consequence of natural infection.
To get around the problem of small numbers and inadequate control groups, Nikolai Scheller and coworkers in Denmark looked at the incidence of VTE in HPV recipients (Scheller NM, Pasternak B, Svanström H, Hviid A. Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine and the Risk of Venous Thromboembolism. JAMA. 2014 July;312(2):187-8). Controlling for age, use of anticoagulants, pregnancy, and most importantly, use of contraceptives (which are known risk factor for VTE), these researchers studied 500,345 women who received the HPV vaccine, finding no association between the vaccine and VTE during the 42-days following vaccination.
Clinicians should be reassured that HPV vaccine is not a cause of VTE.
One of the more common questions that we're asked at the Vaccine Education Center regards the use of rotavirus vaccines in the hospital setting. The problem is this. Currently, rotavirus vaccination is recommended to begin no later than 104 days of age. Because some children will remain in the hospital beyond that age, they may never receive rotavirus vaccine. However, both the bovine-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq®) and the attenuated human rotavirus strain (RotaRix®) are live viruses raising the possibility of spread from a vaccinated to an unvaccinated child, which could be a particularly severe problem in a vulnerable population of hospitalized infants, some of whom are severely premature.
Heather Monk and colleagues at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia evaluated their hospital's experience with rotavirus vaccine in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) (Monk HM, Motsney AJ, Wade KC. Safety of Rotavirus Vaccine in the NICU. Pediatrics. 2014 Jun; 133(6):e1555-60.) The authors performed a retrospective review of 96 children vaccinated with RotaTeq® and found that none developed symptoms attributable to vaccination within 15 days. Further, 801 infants who were not vaccinated with rotavirus vaccine, but were located near those who had been vaccinated, were also evaluated; again, none developed symptoms consistent with acquisition of vaccine virus. The authors concluded that, "Inpatient administration ensures that age-eligible infants are vaccinated regardless of hospital duration."
This paper advances our understanding of the potential risks of live, attenuated rotavirus vaccines in a NICU setting, but will be further supported by vaccine-shedding studies in those who did or did not receive vaccine in that setting.
Ten studies have now evaluated whether influenza vaccine administered during pregnancy increases the risk of adverse birth outcomes. (See references 1-10 in the journal article cited.) All have found that the influenza vaccine is safe for the unborn child. One weakness of these studies is the lack of a large cohort of women who were vaccinated during the first trimester.
To address this lack of evidence, James D. Nordin and coworkers evaluated 57,554 matched vaccinated and unvaccinated pregnant women, including 16,240 women who were vaccinated in the first trimester (Nordin JD, Kharbanda EO, Benitez GV, et al. Maternal Influenza Vaccine and Risks for Preterm or Small for Gestational Age Birth. J Pediatr. 2014 May;164(5):1051-7.) Data were collected from seven Vaccine Safety DataLink study sites.
The authors found that influenza vaccine given during any trimester did not increase the risk for either premature or small for gestational age births. Similarly, they did not find that influenza vaccination protected against these adverse outcomes.
Influenza vaccine is recommended for pregnant women because they are at increased risk of severe and occasionally fatal influenza infection when compared with women of the same age who are not pregnant. Still, however, only about one-third of women receive this vaccine. Maternal reluctance might in part be related to fear of an adverse outcome in their unborn child. The study by Nordin and colleagues, in concert with the many other studies that have examined this issue, should help to further allay those fears.
Pre-school children are at risk for severe influenza infections; especially those in child care, where the risk of acquisition is greater. To protect against influenza in this setting, the state of Connecticut passed a law in September 2010 requiring all children between 6 months and 5 years of age who attend licensed preschool or child care facility in the state to receive at least one dose of influenza vaccine each year. Connecticut became the second state – after New Jersey – to implement this policy.
After the regulation was put in place, immunization rates among Connecticut children between 6 months and 5 years of age increased from 67.8 percent during the 2009-2010 season to 84.1 percent during the 2012-2013 season. Among 11 Emerging Infections Program (EIP) sites surveyed, Connecticut had the greatest percentage increase among children ≤ 4 years of age (Hadler JL, Yousey-Hindez K, Kudish K, et al. Impact of requiring influenza vaccination for children in licensed child care or preschool programs—Connecticut, 2012-2013 influenza season. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2014 Mar 7;63(9):181-5.).
Connecticut's action lessened the incidence of influenza disease among young children in their state. During the 2007-2008 influenza season, Connecticut was third highest in its incidence of influenza-associated hospitalizations in children ≤ 4 years of age (58.6 per 100,000). During the 2012-2013 season, Connecticut dropped to seventh among states (51.5 per 100,000) and was one of only two states to record a decrease in incidence (12 percent) among children in that age group. Maryland was the other, with a 6 percent decrease.
Not surprisingly, greater immunization rates led to less hospitalization and suffering.
In the 1960s, parents in the United States had only one way to legally withhold vaccines for their children: medical exemptions. Beginning in the 1970s, however, parents pushed for other legislation to exempt their children from vaccines, even if there wasn't a medical contraindication to receiving them. As a consequence, 41 states have religious exemptions to vaccines and 20 states have philosophical exemptions. The results have been predictable. As has been shown in several studies, states or regions with high numbers of vaccine exemptors are more likely to suffer outbreaks of pertussis and measles. Those with lower rates of exemptors suffer lower rates of disease.
To examine recent legislative efforts to expand or restrict exemptions to vaccination, Saad Omer and colleagues examined bills introduced to state legislations between 2009 and 2012 (Omer SB, Peterson D, Curran EA, Hinman A, Orenstein WA. Legislative Challenges to School Immunization Mandates, 2009-2012. JAMA 2014 Feb 12;311(6):620-1). Thirty bills were introduced into the 30 states that didn't have a personal belief exemption; all were defeated. Five bills were introduced restricting personal belief exemptions in states that already had them; three passed (Washington, California, and Vermont).
The trend is apparent. One can only assume that state legislators — realizing that personal belief exemptions have only increased the risk of disease, suffering, and hospitalizations in their states — have started to push back on legislation aimed at expanding exemptions and adopt legislation intended to restrict them. Children in these states will clearly benefit from this trend.
In 1999, the simian-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RotaShield®) was taken off of the market because it was found to be a rare cause of intussusception, an intestinal blockage. The attributable risk was 10 per 100,000 vaccinees. At the time, it was hard to understand why RotaShield had caused this problem. All existing evidence didn't support the notion that natural rotavirus infection caused intussusception. So why should a vaccine, which replicates at the intestinal mucosal surface much less efficiently than natural virus, cause a problem that isn't caused by natural virus?
In 2006, the pentavalent bovine-human reassortant rotavirus vaccine (RotaTeq®) was licensed and recommended for all infants. Since then, about 50 million doses have been administered in the United States. Similarly, in 2008, the monovalent attenuated human rotavirus vaccine (RotaRix®) was also licensed and recommended for universal use; about 10 million doses have now been administered. With millions of children now vaccinated with these two newer rotavirus vaccines, two recent papers have now addressed the question of whether RotaTeq and RotaRix are also rare causes of intussusception.
Yih and coworkers evaluated data from a program called PRISM (Post-Licensure Rapid Immunization Safety Monitoring), which is directed by the Centers for Biologics and Research of the FDA (Yih WK, et al. Intussusception risk after rotavirus vaccination in U. S. infants. New Engl J of Med. 2014 Feb 6;370:503-12). These researchers found that the attributable risk for intussusception following RotaTeq was 1.5 per 100,000 vaccinees (about seven-fold less than that found after RotaShield). The number of children inoculated with RotaRix was too small for adequate evaluation using PRISM.
A second article in the same journal evaluated the risk of intussusception following both RotaTeq and RotaRix using a different data set: the Vaccine Safety DataLink (Weintraub ES, et al. Risk of intussusception after monovalent rotavirus vaccination. New Engl J of Med. 2014 Feb 6;370:513-9). These investigators found that RotaRix was also a rare cause of intussusception with an attributable risk of 5.3 per 100,000 (about half that of RotaShield); RotaTeq was not associated with intussusception in this study.
What do these data teach us? The findings with RotaRix are particularly instructive. RotaRix is a live weakened virus originally obtained from a young boy with rotavirus diarrhea in Cincinnati in 1989. If RotaRix is a rare cause of intussusception, it raises the question of whether natural rotavirus infection is also a rare cause of intussusception. This question can be answered by evaluating the incidence of intussusception in the United States since the introduction of RotaTeq and RotaRix. Because the incidence of natural rotavirus infections has decreased dramatically, we have essentially replaced natural rotavirus with vaccine viruses. The CDC recently presented data showing that the incidence of intussusception has stayed about the same. This means that, in all likelihood, the attributable risk of intussusception following vaccination is about the same as that following natural infection.
If parents are concerned about whether rotavirus vaccination causes intussusception, they should be reassured that it does not appear that rotavirus vaccines have altered the incidence of intussusception in the United States.
In 2009, an unusual side effect was observed in a group of European and Scandinavian people who received a swine flu vaccine that contained the adjuvant, squalene. About 1 of every 55,000 people who received the vaccine developed narcolepsy: a disorder characterized by excessive sleepiness during the day, a sudden loss of muscle tone and strength, and rapid eye movement abnormalities.
Several important facts are known about narcolepsy. It's caused by a loss of the 70,000 neurons in the hypothalamus that make a peptide called hypocretin, which is responsible for wakefulness. Also, the disease is far more common in people who have a particular genetic background (HLA-DQA1).
Alberto De la Herrán-Arita and colleagues at Stanford University School of Medicine appear to have figured out what happened (De la Herrán-Arita AK, Kornum BR, Mahlios J, et al., CD4+ cell autoimmunity to hypocretin/orexin and cross-reactivity to a 2009 H1N1 influenza A epitope in narcolepsy. Sci Transl Med.2013 Dec 18;5(216):216ra176). The Stanford researchers found a peptide on the influenza hemagglutinin that mimics hypocretin. So when people were immunized with the swine flu vaccine, those with HLA-DQA1 were more likely to develop an immune response (T cells) against their own hypocretin than those who didn't get the vaccine or those who didn't have that genetic susceptibility.
More research is required. People in the United States, for example, received an unadjuvanted vaccine and didn't develop narcolepsy. It would be interesting to know whether the same side effect would have occurred in Europe and Scandinavia if their vaccine had not contained squalene as an adjuvant.
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the color was great but wore off so fast and smudged so much .i was kind of disappointed with this product
This is possibly the worst eyeliner ever invented by anyone... ever. I remember trying this years ago in middle school and having it run like crazy in the middle of my Latin class. People asked me why I'd been crying and I was mortified when I went to the bathroom to see that it looked like either I'd been weeping and my mascara had run or I'd been punched in both eyes. Recently, I bought this product again, thinking that now that I'm in college with years having gone by, they MUST have corrected this problem as I'm sure I'm not the only one with such complaints. I WAS VERY WRONG. Went out to party with a bunch of cute guys and came back to see the double black eyes again. TERRIBLE PRODUCT. Do not buy!!!!!!!!
I actually called Maybelline and complained over the phone. I've uploaded my pictures.
I have used this eyeliner since 2010 - and loved it until now.
Something has changed because I've used this eyeliner 3 times on my waterline specifically and woken up with my eyes stuck together. YES I removed the eyeliner w/a gentle make up remover. Yellow goo & crust was streaming down my face when I awoke. SEVERELY blood shot eyes. I didn't want to believe it but I saw other reviews with the same reaction. My skin might be rejecting it - but just a heads up to other sensitive types.
NO I haven't changed my normal routine.
I do NOT wear contacts or use eye drops regularly.
YES I have only experienced symptoms using the product on my waterline. (Not as regular eyeliner on lids). I have thrown it out for safety's sake.
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This eyeliner runs like crazy! I just applied this eyeliner 2 hours ago, and it is already running down under my eyes. Like I've bin punched in the eyes!
I should have checked here before I bought this eyeliner. It transfers to the upper part of my eyelid. I'm not sure if I wrote that out in the best way, but I can't think of another way to describe it.
It is very thick and does smudge. I use an eyelid primer before I put this on, and that doesn't stop it from transferring. It is very thick (as the other reviewers have noted).
There are better drugstore eyeliners out there! I will not buy this again.
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This is the worst eyeliner I've ever made the mistake of buying. For daily wear, it's terrible, especially if you have contacts and/or your eyes water a lot. It smudges like mad, goes on way too thick, and it doesn't set at all. It's like the oil paint of eyeliner. I can put it on it the morning and at night, it takes me almost half an hour with 2 wet cotton swabs, a Stridex pad, and a paper towel and there will still be some left. But no matter what, yes, you're just going to end up looking like a racoon unless you get used to it and have the hang of wearing it, I guess. The only thing I've managed to do successfully with this eyeliner is a smoky eye look and it's very dramatic because of its hellish smudging. The only person I'd recommend this to is Marilyn Manson.
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This was one of the worst purchases of my life, and I have made some unwise purchases in my time. I bought it for the first time around 2 years ago when I was just learning how to properly apply make up and, as it was relatively cheap and easy to use, I grew fond of it and it became a staple of my daily make up routine. I did notice (along with some unsightly smudging) that my eyelids were often irritated by the product, even after washing it off, but as a novice I assumed this was standard for eye make up. It wasn't until last winter that the problem became unavoidable. Prolonged exposure to this eyeliner caused dermatitis on my eyelids, i.e. it made my skin flake and peel off. It was painful and unsightly. But as this had never happened with this product before, I put it down to a bad pencil and switched to felt/liquid eyeliners as a temporary measure. I came back to this brand this week, thinking maybe it wouldn't be so bad this time. I was wrong, clearly, as my eyelids have puffed up painfully after just one day.
Even for those lucky enough not to experience these symptoms, it smudges like hell. I would not recommend it to anyone.
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I've used many eyeliners, but this one so far is my favorite. I use it every day and it looks good no matter how I use it - thin line, thick, winged etc... and it's easy to use, unlike liquid or creme eyeliner. It's also nice that it hasn't smudged, even when I cry or work out! I even used this at my wedding when I cried like a baby because I was so confident in it...and sure enough, no smudges!! Great eyeliner!
When I first bought this I loved it because it is EXTREMELY BLACK. However when I got home from school and looked at myself I looked like a raccoon. This eyeliner smudges LIKE CRAZY!!!!! It comes with a smudges on the end but there's no need for that, it does a fine job on its own.
When I first got this product, I absolutely hated it for the exact reasons that everyone else on here did: it smudged so easily within minutes of wear. However it goes on so smoothly and it is extremely pigmented and I found a way to use it and now i absolutely LOVE it. Because it is so easy to blend out, I first apply it and blend out the line with the smudge brush and it gives me such a smokey look and look amazing! It wears all day on me after I smudge it out. But if you aren't planning on wearing eyeliner like this, I wouldn't recommend this product at all.


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I will be reviewing the Advanced Tactical Systems AT-4, aka ATS Tactical 4. This review can also be loosely applied to their AT-10, AT-16, and AT-85 markers as all utilize the same body and mechanics, generally only the cosmetics and accessories differ between the models. I have used this marker since March of 2008, playing woodsball, recball, and even speedball with it. I've dropped it, hit it, fell on it, and the like with very few problems so far. The only issues I've had at all that weren't related to my own lack of reading the instructions was the hopper adapter broke (maybe all that dropping, hitting, and falling?) and the bolt seal randomly came off. Northern Command Paintball (www.northerncommandpaintball.com), where I bought the marker, sent me out a new one for free, along with instructions for attaching it. I have found this company to be very easy to work with, and their customer service thus far has been outstanding. I highly recommend them to anyone looking to purchase an ATS product. (Hint: I've had the best luck working with them over the phone versus using their website, though email usually works well, too.)
My current marker setup:
ATS AT-4 marker (comes with M4 carry handle, hand guard, and front sight)
CAR adjustable stock with ASA adapter for remote line
Carry handle sight rail
BSA Red Dot sight
Crossfire 88ci/4500psi high-output (850psi) HPA tank
Coiled remote line
2 magazines
1 hopper adapter magazine
Ricochet AK motorized hopper
Future additions:
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M203 grenade launcher w/ grenades
More magazines
This is what comes in the "Tactical 4" kit, plus a magazine. Note that it does not come with a stock. A manual and parts/tool kit is also included, as well as a velocity adjuster rod.
The Tactical 4 (AT-4) is part of a small line of markers manufactured by Advanced Tactical Systems (ATS, www.getrealpaintball.com). Other markers in the line include the AT-85, and the discontinued AT-16 and AT-10. ATS (formerly Tagline Inc.) works to create some of the most realistic paintball markers for use in military and law enforcement force-on-force training, as well as providing an awesome product for the regular paintball player. Their main claim-to-fame is that their markers are magazine fed from below, not gravity fed from above like almost every other paintball marker out there. It is also the standard .68 caliber, so any paint your local store or field sells will work! All this allows for one of the most realistic and fun (and expensive! ) mil-sim/woodsball/scenario marker being manufactured today.
Notable Points:
-Magazine fed, 20-25 rounds per magazine. (hopper adapter available)
-Realistic styling/cosmetics/accessories, looks as near to the real M4 as any marker I've seen.
-Utilizes real M4 hardware where possible (carry handle, sights, hand guard, etc.)
-HPA only (though it's possible to use CO2 with no problem, manufacturer and dealers do not recommend it due to issues caused by CO2's temperature/pressure fluctuations)
-All mechanical (no batteries), with semi and full-auto capabilities (selector switch above trigger, switch between modes with a flick of your thumb! Or pointer finger if your a lefty shooter like me...)
-Unisizer allows for any size .68 caliber paint to be used without worrying about paint to barrel match, and provides increased accuracy with mixed-size paint. In fact it would probably fire rocks if you wanted it to. (Highly unrecomended, possibly illegal )
-Size and weight kept as close to real M4 as possible
-Expensive, you will pay for all of these features! Well worth the money however.
-Few "upgrades" available, it's a unique marker and it really doesn't need any upgrades.
-Can use many real M4 or equivalent accessories (rail hardware, sights, even has a bayonet mount, though actually mounting a bayonet is probably illegal. And barrel tags would suck.)
-Uses an indexed "cog and pull" system to prevent chops. Factory tests had a 0/6000 chop rate on every marker.
Opening the box (look and feel)
When first beholding the awesomeness that is the AT-4, many people have to ask "Is that thing real?" It was made to look like the M4 and it does. The body is made from a ceramic-polymer and the interior is stainless steel. It will take a beating. The AT-4 comes with a simulated cocking handle/tactical rail, mounted on top of the standard ATS marker body, on which you can mount the carry handle (if going for the M4 look) or just about any sight, flashlight, laser, etc. There is a tube protruding from the front that may be mistaken for the barrel, it's not. It's a sleeve for the barrel to go into, and is what the hand guard assembly mounts to, so you won't see it on the assembled marker. The front sight is mounted in front of the hang guard at the very end of this barrel sleeve. The barrel itself has the unisizer threaded onto it and is then threaded into the marker.
This is the unisizer. It threads onto the back of the barrel before the barrel is threaded into the marker. Might want to remember to take this off before using a squeegy.
The marker has a standard ASA on the back end, and you can purchase the marker with the ASA either straight (horizontal, best for using CAR stock) or angled (ASA pointed slightly downward, good for on-marker air). I have mine straight, as I bought a CAR stock. The stock (if bought from ATS or their dealers) comes with an adapter that threads between the ASA and stock, allowing the use of a remote air line and pressure gauge. It also comes with a plug to thread into the gauge hole if you choose not to use it (like me). The CAR stock is adjustable, so shorties' and giants like me can both use it comfortably.
This is the ASA adapter that is threaded into the marker ASA, and then the stock is threaded into the adapter. It has a remote nipple and a hole on top (not shown) for a pressure gauge if you so wish to use one.
The carry handle is real M4 hardware, and as such includes adjustable iron rear sights. I bought a carry handle sight rail from my local gun shop that mounts on top so that I could have the carry handle and a place to mount my newly-purchased BSA red dot sight. The front sight is just that, again real M4 hardware and adjustable. You can use either iron sights or any sight you mount on the carry handle without changing a thing.
My setup.
From a distance, it's virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. This is both awesome and problematic. While fearsome on the field, it can get you in trouble off the field. I recommend buying a case for it first thing, and not carrying it out in the open when transporting it. Someone could easily mistake it for a real gun and might be so inclined as to notify law enforcement .
When you pick the beast up, you will note that it is heavier than most paintball markers you have held. It's bigger, too. It feels right at home against your shoulder (if you have remembered to purchase your CAR stock) just like a real rifle, and aiming comes just as naturally. Again, it was built to emulate the real thing and it does that well. It weighs in at 5.2 pounds, without stock, magazine, or extra accessories (other than what came with the marker). It is 24 inches long (again, without stock) and 2.2 inches wide (can't be the same size as the M4 everywhere, it is firing .68 caliber paintballs, not 5.56 millimeter NATO ammunition). The barrel is 16.2 inches long and made of aluminum. All put together, it's big, heavy, and awesome. With a "combat load" of a stock, magazine with hopper adapter, hopper full of paint, and a sight, your looking at a marker that is almost 3 feet long (with stock extended) and heading towards 10 pounds. Hence the sling.
One negative point to mention, there is no instructions included on assembling extra accessories such as the CAR stock. Although it wasn't terribly difficult to figure out, it did take a few minutes to work out how the stock, ASA adapter, and ASA all fit together properly. Instructions would have been a definite plus.
On the firing range ..(performance)
The loading, gassing, firing, and shut-down of this marker is more complex than most paintball markers. Though it takes some reading of the instructions and practice, it will soon be down to a habit and isn't a problem. Most people say this marker was made for the advanced user, and they are correct for the most part. That being said, I believe even a young gun could easily learn how to use and care for this marker. All you have to do is read the manual, and actually do what it says! I think many small parts simply intimidates some people. It's not so bad. Honest.
This diagram is from the ATS website (www.getrealpaintball.com) and gives you an idea on how the magazine system works and prevents chops.
To start, let's load a magazine. Simply pop paintballs through the tab at the front of the mag. The tab prevents paintballs from falling out once loaded. No springs or anything to shoot all your paintballs all over the place if your finger slips like on so many pistol mags. Once you have about 10 balls loaded, turn the indexer to start to move paintballs up the chain and to the top of the magazine. Then load about 10 more. The mag has a line marked on the clear half (if you bought clear halved mags, they sell all black "tactical" mags too) that you should fill to. This usually takes about 20 balls. I have had no problems loading 25 balls, just don't force them! There needs to be some room for the balls to move inside so they don't jam up the mechanics of the mag. Index the mag, and now we need to air up the marker. I use a remote line, but you can screw in any standard HPA tank right into the ASA. Don't air up the marker with a mag inserted as when first aired up the marker self-indexes the cog pull (that's what drives the magazine system) and if a mag is in the way it causes problems. Once aired up, push the little button on the right side above the trigger to cycle the action and make sure it's ready to receive a mag. Then simply slide a mag into the well. Fire the marker once to cycle a ball into the chamber, and you're ready to rock. When switching mags, just push the mag release, slide the empty mag out and slide a full one in. To shut down, empty your mag or put in an empty mag and then turn off your air and fire the marker until the air in the marker is gone. There is no way to cycle the action without the marker gassed up.
This is a mag that has been taken apart. The black side houses the chain conveyor system that moves paintballs up and into the marker. The clear side is interchangeable, you can have this clear side (so you can see how much ammo is left), a black side ("tactical"), or a hopper adapter side.
Some people think this process is long and a pain in the behind. Maybe, but it's not bad once you do it a few times, and it's also much more realistic. And let's face it, if you're spending this kind of money on this marker, realism is what you're going for.
As for firing, the first thing you (and everyone else on the entire field, staging area, and beyond) will notice is this marker is ever so slightly louder than many others. And by that I mean don't be surprised if the opposition and any team mates in front of you hit the dirt fast. It's loud, and in this case I say that's a good thing. It's not a cheap loud like a Stingray or older Spyder, this thing is loud like an assault rifle. People notice. I've had refs at woodsball tourneys tell me they never have any problem knowing right where I am, even if they are on the other side of the field. It doesn't sound like anything else out there. Next, you will notice that if you are sighted in correctly, you actually hit what you were aiming at! This marker has above average accuracy, even in full auto mode. Once I had my red dot sighted in, a friend of mine asked to try the marker. He had never fired it before, put the red dot on the small warning label of an inflatable bunker some 50 feet away, and proceeded to put ball after ball right on that little sticker. Couple that with the sound and looks, you will soon be well known (for better or worse) at your field.
Chronographing this marker can be a bit of a hassle. It is adjusted with an included tool that goes down the barrel, and you use it to screw the bolt in or out to adjust the velocity, similar to a Phantom pump. This means there can be no paint in the marker to do it. So, you have to load a mag with 2 or 3 balls, index it, put it in the marker, fire the 2 or 3 balls over the chrony, pull the mag out, adjust the bolt, and repeat until you're at the correct FPS. Their website says the velocity range is 260-350 fps. Obviously we don't want to go above 300 fps, but the 260 low limit could be a problem indoors. Not to worry, I have been able to chrono mine down below 250 for indoor play. Score.
You will notice that you run out of ammo fast. When you're used to playing with a 200 round hopper with 4 pods on your back, 25 rounds disappear in a hurry. You have to change your playing style with this marker, or get the hopper adapter. This adapter, tactfully called the "SAW Adapter" by ATS, is simply the left side of a magazine with a small neck protruding that you can attach an elbow, and then a hopper onto. The balls drop from the hopper into the mag, and the usual cog pull and chain mechanism takes over from there. You can use any hopper you want, I chose a Ricochet AK motorized hopper. Not the fastest, but fast enough to keep up with the AT-4 on full auto, plus it just looks cool. The hopper sits on the left side of the marker, and it sits nice and low on the side. Even lower than Tippmans' Cyclone hopper. It won't get in the way of your sights, even without the carry handle. It can make it a little lopsided weight-wise, but I haven't found it to be much of an issue. I did run into a problem though, after a while with a nice heavy hopper sitting on top and running around in the woods for hours, the feed tube on the hopper adapter eventually separated from the mag. I tried 2 ton epoxy, and even that couldn't hold. Apparently a full hopper is very, very heavy.
A side note on the hopper adapter: though I haven't heard either way, it seems to me that using a force loader such as an Empire Magna or a Q-Loader might cause issues as the paintballs going into the magazine need to be free to move around a bit. The pressure on the paintballs from the force feed systems might jam up the magazine and damage the marker. I don't know this for sure, and I encourage anyone looking to try it to contact ATS and see what they say. Let me know if you do!
Chops. A problem that has plagued the world of paintball since the semi-auto marker. You wont have to worry about it anymore. With the mechanically linked chain conveyor in the mag and the cog pull in the marker, the "cog and pull" system as it's called keeps the mag indexed and the balls aligned properly. The faster the mag fires, the faster the mechanism moves, and everything stays aligned. No chops.
As far as air goes, HPA is your very best bet. CO2 will work, but temperature/pressure fluctuations will lessen your accuracy and consistency. Also, the air system in this marker actually has two parts. A low pressure side fires the paintball, and a high pressure side is used to cycle the magazine. Due to this, pressure fluctuations could be a problem. If the air pressure falls below a certain pressure ( I believe it's less than 750psi, I could be wrong) the loading mechanisms will not work correctly and possibly damage the marker. Do yourself a favor and get HPA. This marker is an air hog do to the reasons just stated. The website says you will get about 150 shots (not even a hopper full!) from a 13ci tank (though they don't state what pressure, I'm assuming 3k). I have a Crossfire 88/45 and still find myself filling up several times a day. Keep in mind CO2 tank pressure is about 1200psi, though it's kinda comparing apples to oranges since CO2 is stored as a liquid and HPA as a gas, I still think a good size HPA tank will get you more shots. As long as we are on the subject of air, don't mess around with the markers regulator. It is factory set, and there are only a few situations where you may want to mess around with it. Usually, it's a bad idea. If your screw up the pressure, and hence the timing on the mag system, you could damage the marker.
Here's the regulator, factory set and no-touchy. For the most part anyway.
In the shop .(maintenance and repair)
This is a complex piece of art, and reading the manual several times will serve you well. When you disassemble the marker you may be surprised at the inner workings. They are tiny and fairly complex. Be careful not to lose parts (especially that darn washer holding that darn spring on that darn long thin part like I did) or you may find yourself on your hands and knees searching through the carpet without success. I speak from experience. Lots of small parts. There is good news however; you will very rarely ever have to mess around with the small parts! The bolt and hammer are about the only things that need regular inspection and lubing on the interior, and they're nice a big. You should periodically check the guide plate on the side of the marker as well, making sure it's greased and still in one piece. Overall the maintenance isn't very demanding, maybe working out to about 10 minutes per day of play.
The air system is compact, but certainly not simple. Watch the small parts!
The magazine rarely needs maintenance, but it's a good idea to periodically check (by periodically I mean before each day of play) that the lugs are straight and the chain is in good order. That's about it here. You don't even have to take it apart to do so. I did just to show you what the inside looks like.
Inside the mag, we can see the chain link system that moves the paintballs up into the marker.
Overall, simply remembering to follow the maintenance schedule will keep you shooting well. There are a few other minor things, but like I said, read the manual.
Here's the "pull," part of the mechanism that advances the chain in the magazine, loading paintballs into the breech.
Here's a view into the magazine well, you can see the bolt and cog pull (advances the magazine chain system to bring a paintball into the action.)
The bank (knew it was too good to be true, there must have been a catch)
I'll come right out and say it. Prepare to drop some cash . This marker and its respective accessories aren't cheap. That being said, I believe it's been worth the money I paid for it. I paid $625 for the Tactical 4 kit, $95 for the CAR stock and ASA adapter, $10 for the hopper adapter plate, and $65 per magazine. Plus my $200+ for my HPA tank and remote line. Add another $20-30 for the red dot sight, $20 for the carry handle sight rail, and you get the picture. I've easily got over $1200 sunk into this marker, but I'm happy with it. You pay for quality in build, looks, and performance. What more can I say?
I have seen an occasional ATS marker on sites such as Ebay, and if you can find a good deal here, way to go! Play it on the safe side however, there's a lot that can go wrong with these markers if they're not well taken care of, and who knows what your really getting....
In conclusion (the end, almost)
Overall this marker is one of the coolest pieces of paintball armament I have ever seen. It's in a league of its own really, and there isn't much out there to compare it too. Having used it in many games, even speedball, and a couple tournaments with both magazines and the hopper adapter, I have to say that it is a lot of fun. That's what we are all going for in the end, is fun, and I found it. The looks on people's faces when you bring it out will put a smile on your face. (Actually, I've had a couple people refuse to play against my team after I pulled it out. Sigh.) Those people ducking for cover when you put the first burst of full auto downrange might even get an evil maniac laugh out of you. Then you can be Mr. Important when they all come up after the game wanting to know what "that thing" is, can I fire it? How much did it cost? Where'd you get it? Holy crap! OMG! I want one! Is it a Tippman (NO!!!)? The questions will get old after a while, but at the same time knowing you have something truly different and awesome will keep you from minding too much. You might only have 25 rounds a pop, but with practice you could probably take out 25 people. Besides, if you can't wrap your style around the magazines grab the hopper adapter, flick the switch to auto, and have some fun. Nothing beats this thing, and if I lost this one I'd by another one no question (though it'd take me a while to save up for another one ). What more can I say? Try one and see for yourselves!
Any questions?
When playing at our winter haunt, Jello Factory Paintball in LeRoy, NY, I measured the BPS on full auto. The chrony said I was shooting 9 balls per second on full auto. While this may seem slow to most of you speedballers, and maybe a lot of you woodsballers with electros and R-triggers, it's fast enough to sound incredibly cool. And fast enough to keep heads down . When it gets warmer out I will get some video made and post it.
I have purchased my bi-pod and will be installing it tonight. Will post a photo or two. I have also ordered the Noxx Boxx, should be delivered in 4-6 weeks.
Last night at the Jello Factory I was cleaned out my regulator as I was having some leak issues and I guess either the cleaning effected the marker or I mis-adjusted the reg, but either way it now fires full auto at 13 bps.
Note: I re-read this after I posted and found many typos. I fixed them, then re-read it and found more. I fixed them, and re-read, and you get the picture. I will be constantly updating and editing this review to make it as readable and relavent as possible. I plan to eventually add more photos (actions shots!) and maybe some video so you can see it in action. Check back occasionally since just editing wont put this on the "New Topics" page.
If you have questions or comments you don't want to leave in a post, feel free to PM me.
I should give credit to the ATS website, www.getrealpaintball.com, for some of the technical info and the animated internal diagram.
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