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July 2015 - Starting work on another full-dome film Arctic Skies and another Human Body "9D" show for Tiens. Plus some exciting plans being made for next year's release of VR headsets by Samsung and others.
Dec 2014 - Back in LA for a bit - and another 9D show for Tiens Industrial Tourist Park, China - this one is about the bones in the human body.
Apr 2014 - Composing for a special film that will play at the new 360/full dome 3D theatre in Groningen, Netherlands - From the Sun to the Sun. At the same time working on another ride show for a new 9D tourist attraction on the island of Rhodes, Greece.
Mar 2014 - Taking a slight break from the book to work on another 9D show for the Tiens Industrial Tourist Park in China
Jan 2014 - Nice video clips from the D@D recording sessions in Prague last May Airbus 360
Dec 2013 - Back in London, and starting work on a children's book! The Nursery in the Sky. The Nursery in the Sky
Sept 2013 - In Tokyo, Japan
June 2013 - In Germany where Dinosaurs at Dusk wins at Jena Fulldome Film Festival. Attend London's Animation Film Festival for screening of Broken Wing. Another 9D show for China Tiens completed.
May 2013 - Recording with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra for Dinosaurs at Dusk
April 2013 - Premiere of Swan Cake at the Swiss Embassy in Los Angeles. From the team that created Broken Wing.
November 2012 - Broken Wing adds to its list of honors with Best Animated Film at the Lucerne International Film Festival
October 2012 - Guest in Japan. Visited Tamarokuto Science Center fulldome theater, one of the largest in the world and recent World Record recipient, one of the many theaters across the world where Natural Selection is being shown.
July 2012 - Panel speaker at IPS Conference - July 25th Baton Rouge Louisiana
April 2012 - Planet Earth: Green full dome film recognized at Jena Fulldome Festival
February 2012 - At the Imersa Summit in Denver, Colorado. Lots of snow! Discussed fulldome, giant screen and themed entertainment projects.
Dec 2011 - scored animated short, Broken Wing, in Burbank, California.
Nov 2011 - attended premiere of Solar System Odyssey in NC.
September 2011 - Themed Entertainment for China. Working on six 9D films to launch a new theatre installation.
July 2011 - completion of Solar System Odyssey for Morehead Science Center.
February 2011 - European 3D premiere of Natural Selection at the Hamburg Planetarium.
November 2010 premiere of Expedition Green. Mark's first score in a series of three new films about climate and the environment commissioned by Hamburg Planetarium.
Natural Selection wins Best Audio at the Imiloa Full Dome Film Festival (October 2010).
PBS documentary "400 Years of the Telescope" wins 4 Telly Awards.
Mark's composing career includes feature films, animation, TV documentaries, fulldome and immersive films, online, shorts and commercials. His scores have been recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Philharmonic and Budapest Film Orchestras.
A concert composer and performer, Mark has written numerous works for orchestra, choir, organ and chamber ensembles as well as performed as pianist, cellist and conductor. As an ex-chorister of the world renowned Christ Church Cathedral choir, Oxford, he also has many years of choral experience, touring and recording, and giving performances for radio and TV.
Mark holds a degree in Law, studied Acoustical Engineering and has professional Management experience and training. He also acts, produces and directs. In addition, Mark especially enjoys working camera and handling production sound and has a natural gift for sound and picture editing.
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Snow or no snow? That is the question
There have been several occasions where Rutherford County residents have been "teased" with the prospect of snowfall this winter.
Today could be another in a line of those "teasers."
Doug Outlaw, meteorologist with the National Weather Service, based at the Greenville/Spartanburg (S.C.) International Airport, said that today's forecast does possess one of the best opportunities for Rutherford County to see snow.
He said a low pressure that will form close to the coast will start to push to the east and, with it a band of snow potentially for the area.
"As it intensifies and moves to the east, there is a band of snow that will form over the Piedmont and into the foothills," Outlaw said. "It won't be here for very long before it moves out."
Officially, the National Weather Service is forecasting between 1⁄2" and 1" of snowfall for Rutherford County. Outlaw said, as you move east towards Shelby, Gastonia and Charlotte, the snow accumulation is expected to be greater.
In addition to the potential for snow, the temperatures in the county this weekend are expected to be cold.
"The high temperature for the day will hit before daybreak," Outlaw said. "It will drop into the 30s and stay there all day."
The low temperature tonight is forecast to be in the lower 20s with the highs on Sunday only slightly warmer than today.
"It is going to be a very chilly weekend before it starts to warm up at the beginning of the week," Outlaw said.
But, today could be just another day where snow is expected and nothing materializes.
The last winter weather event took place Jan. 18 when the forecast was for up to 3" of snow in Rutherford County. Yet, all the county received was sleet and rain.
The strange weather patterns continued at the end of January when the county was hit with strong thunderstorms and heavy rain.
Still ... no snow.
So, the question still remains: Will we get snow today?
"I remember the event when we were expecting snow and it didn't snow in this area but did in the northern mountains," Outlaw said. "There is no guarantee that it will happen this time.
"But, it does look very favorable."
He said that, besides today, there is no forecast for snowfall in the county "in the near future.

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Open Enrollment, the time when University of Colorado faculty and staff may make changes to benefits plans, begins at 8 a.m. May 6 and ends at 5 p.m. May 24.
The 2013-14 OE is an active enrollment for all medical, dental and vision benefits-eligible employees. If you take no action, you will be automatically enrolled into your current plan elections, except for Flexible Spending, which you must choose each year.
While the overall 2013-14 plan rates are 3.8 percent higher than current rates, the amount paid by university faculty and staff will not increase – and in some cases, it may decrease. This represents the lowest overall rate increase since the University of Colorado Health and Welfare Trust was established.
This year, Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield will replace Cigna as the university's Administrative Services Organization. Due to this change, all CU Health Plan members in the Exclusive or Access Network plan must select a primary care physician; otherwise, one will be automatically assigned based on ZIP code.
The Anthem network of providers for the CU Health Plan – Access Network and High Deductible includes more than 98 percent of the providers who were available through Cigna.
Last fall, Employee Services asked for suggestions to improve the university's health plans. Several requests have been incorporated into this year's plans: hearing aid coverage, diabetes disease management programs and voluntary vision coverage.
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The application and final rates will be available on May 6, the first day of Open Enrollment. Learn more about rates, on-campus open enrollment sessions, how to enroll and what happens if you take no action at www.cu.edu/openenrollment/.
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EPS, School Specialty's Literacy and Intervention division, announced that its Academy of MATH online intervention program is now endorsed by the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) as a comprehensive intervention software tool designed to supplement existing math curriculum.
Beginning this week, nine states that were the runner-up finalists from last year's Race to the Top competition can apply for a portion of the $200 million Race to the Top round three fund.
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and National Center of Education and the Economy President Marc Tucker painted a bleak picture of America's future at a promotional event in Washington, D.C., yesterday.
More students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools scored in the proficient or advanced ranges for reading and math in the 2010-2011 school year than did four years ago. That's according to the seventh annual Report to the Community on Public School Progress in Pittsburgh, released by A+ Schools, an education advocacy group.
Twenty years of reform efforts and programs targeting low-income families in Chicago Public Schools has only widened the performance gap between white and African-American students, a troubling trend at odds with what has occurred nationally.
New test scores show the nation's fourth- and eighth-graders are doing the best ever in math, but schools still have a long way to go to get everyone on grade level. In reading, eighth-graders showed some progress.
A study released this week shows that Common Core State Standards in English and mathematics for K-12 education, adopted by Florida last year, align with five comparison standards considered "good indicators of college and career readiness."
California's elementary school teachers find little time to teach science, and when they do, they feel ill-prepared and ill-equipped, according to a new study.
As Congress continues its rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, there is one proposed change that should draw overwhelming approval. That's the mandate — added to the bill last week by a Senate committee — to require U.S. public schools to teach environmental literacy.
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Twenty-five years ago, a radio contest got Toledoan Judy Gyde's attention.
The WYSZ-FM (89.3 YES FM) disc jockey asked listeners to call in and have their dogs bark on the line for one minute, prizes going to whichever dog barked the most times. Gyde was interested but one thing held her back: she wasn't a dog owner.
"This contest was hilarious and I decided I wanted to become a part of it," Gyde said in an email. "Plus, I was a little envious of the prizes. I hadn't won anything since eighth grade."
Gyde entered the contest by with her neighbor's dog, Belle, a dog who barked a lot. Gyde and Belle won the radio contest that day.
Gyde's story, "The Barking Dog Contest," is published in the new book "Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Dog Did What?" available from Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing LLC. The book is a collection of 101 stories involving man's best friend (or the neighbor's).
"I have to admit that I wasn't always thrilled with Belle's yipping especially when the family next door let her outside early in the morning," Gyde said. "She would wake me up before the alarm clock. But she was awfully cute."
After winning, she split her winnings with her neighbors. Gyde said she doesn't remember what all the prizes were, but one was a 50-pound bag of dog food.
"Lugging [it] wasn't easy," she said. "After I picked up the prizes, I told my neighbors the good news. I put a big red bow on the bag of dog food. … It was a joy to bless my neighbors with Belle's treat."
Gyde, a freelance writer for 15 years, has published works in more than 40 publications. Another story she wrote was published in "Chicken Soup for the Soul: Angels Among Us."
She wrote "The Barking Dog Contest" years ago.
"I thought it was funny and I didn't want to forget the details," she said. "When I heard that 'Chicken Soup' was looking for stories about dogs, I thought it could work well there."
"The Dog Did What?" is one of the newest collections in the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series and features a foreword by country singer Miranda Lambert.
"I hope you read something that reminds you of your favorite dog and suddenly realize that the relationship with him or her helped to create the thread of the person you became," Lambert writes in the book's first pages.
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The Concordia University Texas volleyball team is hosting the Dig Pink® Tournament, a fundraiser for breast cancer research benefiting the Side-Out Foundation, on Friday, September 21 and Saturday, September 22 at Concordia's main campus in Northwest Austin.
The Lady Tornados hope to raise $5,000, double what was raised in 2010. You can help by attending the games, purchasing pink ribbons, becoming a sponsor and participating in special events throughout the weekend including a silent auction. Tickets to the tournament each day are $5. Children under 12 are admitted free.
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Everyone loves Google. Google is great. And everybody remembers the first time they made a "what happens if you Google "Google?" joke and thought they were the first one to come up with it. That was an important moment in all of our lives. But, before Google became "the" search engine, there were all those other search engines. We don't use them anymore, but they're still there — just hanging around. Let's see what they're up to. Whuddup, Yahoo?
Yahoo's still sort of a thing. They've got a solid weird news section (otherwise known as "oddly enough") that I still look at sometimes. Sadly though, I usually do a search for "yahoo weird news" on Google to get to that page. But, I'm sure a lot of great aunts out there still Yahoo, and good for them.
AltaVista though? Oh, man.
Oh heyyyyy, AltaVista. I haven't seen you in so long. What's it been? 13 years? Wow, you look….terrible.
What is AltaVista doing? It looks like a fake search engine that a character would use in an action movie. AltaVista should change it's name to "Internet Search." Oh, excuse me. Hold on. I'm getting a call from Lycos.
Hello, Lycos. Yeah. I'm actually kind of busy talking about search engines that were actual used by at least one person at least one time in the history of the world. So, I'm going to go ahead and hang up? Yeah, cool. Wait, real quick… you were supposed to be a dog? Named Lycos? You know that's not like…a dog's name… Whatever. Never mind. I'm going to let you get back to doing your apparently way popular searches for "blindfolds," you big creep.
Now onto Ask Jeeves. Ask Jeeves claimed to be awesome because you could actually ask questions! Like instead of entering in "HPV" you could type in "Jeeves, what is wrong with my genitals?" (You use search engines to look up STD symptoms every time you sleep with a new person and you know it.) Ask Jeeves tried to play into our dreams of being rich and our fantasy that one day we would have a butler with all the answers. And, you know what? It kind of worked. I used to ask Jeeves stuff every once in a while. And in England you can still ask Jeeves some stuff on www.askjeeves.co.uk.
Snazzy suit, Jeeves. Lookin' good. But, in America, they dropped Jeeves some years back. America just gets Ask.com now. No mention of a Jeeves. And that is ridiculous because of this:
They don't let us know that guy is Jeeves. So now you're trying to do an internet search and there's just this nameless asshole standing over you while you ask what's wrong with your genitals. Gross.
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So far, only a corner of the conservative blogosphere has paid much attention to last week's testimony by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee.
But Sebelius's comments on the virtues of birth control are set to pour fresh fuel on the fire of the 'death panels' charge. Her flat-footed, programmatic response to Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy's straightforward queries reinforce the claims of Republicans like Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will usher in an era of rationing, with the government making decisions about care based on who bureaucrats decide is most valuable to society.
It all could have been just another run through the controversy surrounding the provision of contraception, religious liberty, and freedom of conscience. But Rep. Murphy took a different tack. He wanted to know, under future rules, "who pays for" contraception provided by insurance companies to employees of religious organizations. "There's no such thing as a free service," he intoned.
Now, Sebelius could have answered in a variety of ways. What she said, however, was:
The reduction in the number of pregnancies compensates for cost of contraception.
Incredulous, Murphy asked: "So you are saying, by not having babies born, we are going to save money on health care?" Again, Sebelius could have responded in any number of ways, such as directly confronting Murphy's point. Instead, she said:
Providing contraception is a critical preventive health benefit for women and for their children.
Predictably, the line has set off alarm bells for Catholics and others already embroiled in a nasty dispute — let's not say 'war' — over the scope of contraception mandates and subsidies. And Sebelius has handed a knobby stick to conservatives, regardless of denomination, who have long been seeking to prove that Obamacare can only limit costs by limiting the number of human lives needing care.
From a White House perspective, those things ought to be bad enough. Strangely, the administration is still unable or unwilling to present the ACA in terms that a broad, legitimate majority of Americans can accept. Among registered voters, 50 percent nationally and 53 percent in swing states think the legislation is — actual quote — a "bad thing." At least 75 percent believe the individual mandate is unconstitutional.
On constitutionality, the White House is captive to the Supreme Court. But on the basic question of whether the legislation is any good, the administration is playing defense, and playing it poorly.
The problem isn't just that usually placid Catholics might activate themselves politically in a way we're used to seeing only from evangelicals. Nor is it simply a matter of stirring up the conservative base at a moment when, with Romney as their nominee, they might otherwise depress Republican turnout. It isn't even that some Democrats themselves have doubts about the legality of the president's marquee law. No, the real difficulty is that the 'death panels' charge that Sebelius is helping return to center stage is just the tip of the iceberg.
Conceptually, rhetorically, Sebelius's position — which is, as yet, the administration's position — can be readily cast as an outmoded form of '70s-era pessimism about human growth and flourishing. For the administration, it appears, real healthcare reform means realizing that we're better off with fewer of us — a lot fewer. Research from the Brookings Institution that backs up Sebelius's claims shows that so-called "evidence-based pregnancy prevention interventions" save taxpayer money and reduce abortion rates. That sounds great, until you observe that the Brookings study pegs the number of "unwanted pregnancies" in America as about one in two. The administration is heading toward an unenviable moment: choose either to explain which unwanted fetuses are worse for America than others, or concede that we'd all be better off, fiscally as well as socially, if we cut the current birth rate in half.
"We who?" comes the response. If there's one thing — one thing at all — that unites the center-right today, it's the enterprising worldview that says growth is good, flourishing is not finite, and abundance is something a free people create through their own individual and collaborative faculties. From this ecumenically 'pro-life' position, Obamacare doesn't accomplish much more than a cheap trick: changing the definition of 'all Americans' to include only whomever the government decides deserves inclusion. Bizarrely, the administration is failing to rebut the basic charge that the ACA hypocritically invokes fairness as a core principle of policymaking, yet demands capriciously unfair decisionmaking. Until and unless that happens, the 'death panels' debate won't stay dead. Instead, it's likely to play out as part of a broader attack on Democrats as the party in favor of shrinking the pie of life.


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RSU Theatre to Present Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Rogers State University Theatre will present William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream" on March 31 through April 3.
The productions will be held at 2:07 p.m. Wednesday, March 31, and 7:07 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, April 1-3, in the Will Rogers Auditorium on the RSU campus in Claremore.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is a light-hearted comedy that follows two couples as they race as cross purposes through the enchanted Forest of Arden in search of love.
Members of "Ye Olde Renaissance Club," a new student organization at RSU, will present a Renaissance Fair outside of the auditorium prior to the performances from 2-6:30 p.m. on April 2-3.
The play has been altered to a shorter running time of 90 minutes, according to Greg Thompson, head of the RSU Department of English and Humanities and director of the play. The editing was conducted by RSU students enrolled in Thompson's "Speaking Shakespeare" class at RSU last fall.
RSU Theatre is taking the play "on the road" to area high schools, including Claremore High School and Oologah High School, Thompson said. RSU Theatre will present one act of the play in an abbreviated 45-minute format for the high schools, followed by discussion sessions with RSU theatre faculty and students, he said.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" is believed to have been written between 1594 and 1596. The play portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and a group of amateur actors, their interactions with the Duke of Athens, Theseus, Queen of the Amazons, Hippolyta, and with the fairies who inhabit a moonlit forest. The play is one of Shakespeare's most popular works for the stage and is widely performed across the world. The play is filled with slapstick, suspense, music, dancing and Shakespeare's lyric poetry, Thompson said.
The RSU Theatre production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" includes a "play within a play" in which a group of craftsmen presents their own play at the wedding of the Duke of Athens. "In this 'play within a play,' Shakespeare is presenting the idea of multiple levels of reality. The craftsmen are concerned that their audience will believe that the content of their play may be real," Thompson said.
The costumes for the play will be updated versions of the Renaissance period costumes, Thompson said. Renee Cox, RSU English instructor, is creating the costumes, and David Blakely, RSU theatre coordinator, is developing the sets.
Cast members include Kaitie Bryan and Hannah Westlund of Owasso, Katie Hendrickson and Traci Rainwater of Pryor, Ashlee Overton of Oologah, David Prock and Colter Sharon of Collinsville, Nikki Forehand, Joshua Thompson, Megan Thompson and Daron Wright of Claremore, Hannah Harris of Blanchard, Okla., Rebeccah Jordan of Hawkins, Texas, and Ray Gooldy of Tulsa.
Tickets will be $5 for adults, $3 for senior citizens, free to all students with student ID, and free to RSU faculty and staff members, and will be available at the Will Rogers Auditorium box office.
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The Blue Bulls have been dealt another blow ahead of the Currie Cup season with the news that flank Deon Stegmann needs surgery.
Medical tests on Wednesday confrimed that the 27-year-old will have to go under the knife to repair a shoulder injury, ruling him out of action for the rest of the year.
Stegmann joins Springbok scrum-half Francois Hougaard, who has an ankle injury, on the sidelines for the rest of the season.
This follows on from Wednesday's news that scrumhalf Francois Hougaard will also miss the rest of the season due to an ankle injury.
The Bulls also confirmed on Tuesday the depatures of eight Springboks with immediate effect:
Juandre Kruger (to Racing Metro, France);
Jacques Potgieter ( to Fukuoka Sanix Blues, Japan);
Dewald Potgieter (to Yamaha RFC, Japan);
Chiliboy Ralepelle (to Toulouse, France);
Jano Vermaak (to Toulouse, France);
Morne Steyn (Stade Francais, France);
Zane Kirchner (to Leinster, Ireland);
Wynand Olivier ( to Montpellier, France).


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Bipods bipods and mounting devices for attaching to and supporting firearms, more specifically, bipods which allow independent tension-adjustable movement around two axes. For example, the bipod assembly can be tension-adjusted with a first cam lock for cant movement and can be tension-adjusted with a second cam lock for pivotal movement. Accordingly, independently tension-adjustable and lockable pivot and cam adjustments are provided by this bipod assembly.
1. A bipod assembly for use with a firearm, the bipod assembly comprising:
an attachment assembly releasably engageable with the swivel stud of a firearm;
an adjustment assembly coupled to the attachment assembly, the adjustment assembly including a cant bushing extending at least partially through a pivot bushing, wherein the cant bushing allows movement of the bipod assembly about a first axis and the pivot bushing allows movement of the bipod assembly about a second axis;
a pair of legs coupled to the adjustment assembly; and
a pair of feet coupled to distal ends of the leg extensions, wherein the feet are removeably coupled to the leg extensions.
2. The bipod assembly of
3. The bipod assembly of
4. A bipod assembly for use with a firearm, the bipod assembly comprising:
an attachment assembly releasably engageable with the swivel stud of a firearm;
an adjustment assembly coupled to the attachment assembly, the adjustment assembly including a cant bushing and a pivot bushing, wherein the cant bushing allows movement of the bipod assembly about a first axis and the pivot bushing allows movement of the bipod assembly about a second axis, and wherein the adjustment assembly further includes a first locking cam that rotates about the first axis to stop movement about the first axis;
a pair of legs coupled to the adjustment assembly; and
a pair of feet coupled to distal ends of the leg extensions, wherein the feet are removeably coupled to the leg extensions.
5. The bipod assembly of
6. The bipod assembly of
7. The bipod assembly of
8. The bipod assembly of
9. The bipod assembly of
10. The bipod assembly of
11. A bipod assembly for supporting a firearm having a firearm longitudinal axis, a stock portion, and a connector, the bipod assembly comprising:
a stock mount bracket configured to contact the stock portion;
an attachment portion carried by the stock mount bracket, wherein the attachment portion is configured to releasably engage the connector of the firearm; and
an adjustment portion carried by the stock mount bracket, the adjustment portion comprising
a cant bushing rotatably coupled to the stock mount bracket, the cant bushing having a first portion with a first longitudinal axis configured to be generally parallel to the firearm longitudinal axis, and a second portion extending away from the first portion in a direction generally perpendicular to the first longitudinal axis, and wherein the cant bushing is configured to rotate the firearm about the first longitudinal axis; and
a pivot bushing rotatably coupled to the cant bushing, wherein the pivot bushing includes an opening that rotatably receives the second portion of the cant bushing.
12. The bipod assembly of
13. The bipod assembly of
14. The bipod assembly of
15. The bipod assembly of
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/798,700, filed May 8, 2006, and U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/798,873, filed May 9, 2006, both of which are incorporated by reference herein.
The present disclosure is directed to bipods and mounting devices for attaching to and supporting firearms, more specifically, the disclosure is directed to bipods which allow independent tension-adjustable movement around two axes.
Modern firearms, such as rifles in particular, may be more accurately and conveniently fired by the shooter if the firearm is equipped with a bipod device for supporting and steadying the barrel. Bipods may be fixedly or removeably mounted onto firearms and have been found to be most convenient if they can further be retracted in a storage position when not in use. Exemplary bipods and mounting devices are taught in prior U.S. Pat. No. 3,327,422 issued Jun. 27, 1967; U.S. Pat. No. 4,470,216 issued Sep. 11, 1984; U.S. Pat. No. 4,625,620 issued Dec. 2, 1986; and U.S. Pat. No. 4,641,451 issued Feb. 10, 1987; U.S. Pat. No. 4,903,425 issued Feb. 27, 1990; and U.S. Pat. No. 5,711,103 issued Jan. 27, 1998 the disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety. However, there remain various desirable improvements which have not yet been recognized in the prior art, but are addressed in the present invention.
For example, in various prior art disclosures, the attachment means that connect the bipod to the mounting block fail to achieve a solid physical connection between the two; the result is a significant amount of wobble, which is undesirable when shooting a firearm. Other exemplary patents relevant to bipods include: U.S. Pat. No. 5,711,103 disclosing a mounting block to which a pair of legs is mounted, wherein the mounting block depends on a square "pulldown" and a U-shaped yoke system; U.S. Pat. No. 5,815,974 disclosing a bipod with legs that can be quickly detached from a mounting block; US. Publication No. 2005/0188597 A1 disclosing a mechanism for attaching an accessory to a Picatinny rail; and US Publication 2005/0242250 A1 disclosing a bipod that attaches to an existing mounting block and protruding stud, the disclosures of which are incorporated herein in their entirety. While the bipods disclosed in the prior art are functional, there exists a need to improve the stability, efficiency and design of bipods and bipod attachments for supporting firearms.
In the drawings, identical reference numbers identify similar elements or acts. The sizes and relative positions of elements in the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. For example, the shapes of various elements and angles are not drawn to scale, and some of these elements are arbitrarily enlarged and positioned to improve drawing legibility. Further, the particular shapes of the elements as drawn, are not intended to convey any information regarding the actual shape of the particular elements, and have been solely selected for ease of recognition in the drawings.
A. Overview
The following disclosure describes several embodiments of bipods for supporting a firearm. One aspect of the invention is directed to a bipod that allows tension-adjustable movement around two axes. Another aspect of the invention is directed to a bipod assembly that is tension-adjustable to allow cant movement of the bipod assembly relative to the firearm; tension-adjustable to allow pivot movement of the bipod assembly relative to the firearm; and/or tension-adjustable to independently allow pivot and cant movement of the bipod assembly relative to the firearm. In one embodiment, a bipod includes a stock mount bracket, a movement mechanism, a pair of legs, and a pair of corresponding feet. The stock mount bracket is removeably coupled to the stock of a firearm by a stock mount assembly. According to embodiments, the stock mount assembly attaches the bipod to the stock of a firearm without the use of specialized tools or by hand.
In yet another embodiment, an adjustment assembly is provided which allows the legs of the bipod to rotate or cant in a single plane which is generally perpendicular to the gun barrel direction. This allows the shooter to place the bipod and gun on an uneven surface quickly and without unnecessary canting of the rifle. In the adjustment assembly of the present invention the adjustment assembly is configured such that undesirable rattling type noises from the bipod assembly are diminished substantially. According to another embodiment, an attachment assembly may be attached to a sling swivel of a firearm. The attachment assembly includes a quick release feature whereby the bipod and moving parts thereto may be easily detached from the firearm without the use of a tool.
Another aspect is directed toward an attachment assembly for attaching an adjustment assembly contained in a bipod assembly to the stock of a firearm. The attachment assembly is configured to attach directly to the sling swivel provided on the firearm. The adjustment assembly is configured to provide pivotal movement about an axis to allow the shooter to rotate the firearm in a plane generally parallel to the firearm. The adjustment assembly may further be configured to provide rotational movement about a second axis generally transverse to the first axis to allow the shooter to cant the firearm to compensate for uneven ground and thus allow the shooter to maintain the firearm in an upright position. According to yet further embodiments, the adjustment assembly is configured to provide both pivotal movement about a first axis and rotational movement about a second perpendicular axis. According to this embodiment, the pivotal movement and rotational movement may be independently locked to prevent movement in one or both directions with a cam lock or other mechanical device.
In another embodiment, the bipod assembly includes a pair of legs having removable feet. The feet may be interchangeable and may be configured according to the condition the bipod assembly is expected to be used in, for example, a foot having a large contact surface area for marshy ground, and foot having a smaller contact surface area for paved or hard ground surfaces. In another embodiment, the feet may be attached or detached without the use of a tool. In another embodiment, the feet may be press fit onto a lower portion of the leg. In another embodiment, the feet include a quick connect mechanism such as a removable pin that is held in a detent notch in the foot and in a detent notch in the leg by spring pressure.
Another aspect of the invention is directed to methods of attaching bipods onto a firearm. In one embodiment, a method includes removably attaching an attachment assembly to a sling swivel of a firearm stock, coupling the attachment assembly to an adjustment assembly wherein the adjustment assembly allows movement of the firearm relative to the bipod assembly in pivotally in a first axis and rotationally in a second axis, removably attaching a pair of leg extensions to the adjustment assembly, and removably attaching feet to the pair of leg extensions.
Specific details of several embodiments of the invention are described below with reference to containers for carrying firearm accessories and/or supporting firearms. Several details describing well-known structures or processes often associated with bipods, bipod attachment mechanisms, and bipods for use supporting firearms are not set forth in the following description for purposes of brevity and clarity. Also, several other embodiments of the invention can have different configurations, components, or procedures than those described in this section. A person of ordinary skill in the art, therefore, will accordingly understand that the invention may have other embodiments with additional elements, or the invention may have other embodiments without several of the elements shown and described below with reference to
Where the context permits, singular or plural terms may also include the plural or singular terms, respectively. Moreover, unless the word "or" is expressly limited to mean only a single item exclusive from other items in reference to a list of at least two items, then the use of "or" in such a list is to be interpreted as including (a) any single item in the list, (b) all of the items in the list, or (c) any combination of the items in the list. Additionally, the term "comprising" is used throughout to mean including at least the recited feature(s) such that any greater number of the same features and/or other types of features and components are not precluded.
B. Bipod Embodiments
C. Further BiPod Features
In one embodiment, a bipod includes one or more of the following features:
A stock mount,
The bipod assembly disclosed herein provides adjustment mechanisms that could be used on a bipod that is attached directly to member on the firearm stock and does not require a mounting block. The bipod assembly further provides a bipod that allows tension-adjustable movement around two axes. For example, the bipod assembly can be tension-adjusted with a first cam lock for cant movement and can be tension adjusted with a second cam lock for pivotal movement.
The bipod assembly disclosed herein further provides removable, interchangeable feet which provide many advantages over bipods with fixed foot configurations. Hunters and tactical rifle users face much different usage situations and require different foot configurations. A hunter could want a light, small foot for hunting in rugged terrain. A tactical rifle operator might prefer a large, hard foot that slides easily along windowsills or ledges, or a snowshoe-shaped foot for use in sand or other soft surfaces—such a foot might be indicated for location on the lower leg for consistency of shot placement and use. The base mission of the bipod remains the same in all three cases, but the ability to interchange feet makes mission-specificity possible. Previously existing inventions have used feet that are manufactured integral to another part during the manufacturing process, feet permanently attached (e.g. welded) to a lower leg during manufacturing, or feet that are releasably mounted to the lower leg of the bipod
Further advantages of independently tension-adjustable and lockable pivot and cam adjustments are provided by the bipod assembly disclosed herein. Rotation around two axes is critical for a bipod. The ability of the legs to rotate around the y axis gives the bipod the ability to accommodate uneven terrain under the bipod. A user can use adjustment around the y axis so that a plane bisecting the horizontal axis of the rifle bore is parallel to the horizon. Once that plane is level to the horizon, the bipod can be made to rotate around the z axis, allowing a user to "sweep" an area under watch. If the mechanisms that allow rotation around each axis are made tension-adjustable and lockable, users can select the amount of tension that must be overcome to change position around a single axis. In this use mode, a user could, for example, lightly tension both rotational axes in order to provide significant freedom of movement but some tension-assisted stability during the firing process. Previous inventions have allowed for controlled adjustment in a single dimension (Harris U.S. Pat. No. 4,903,525) or uncontrolled adjustment in multiple dimensions (Current model Caldwell bipods, Kramer U.S. Pat. No. 5,194,678) but no previously described bipod allows individual, controlled adjustment in each of single dimension independent of other dimensions.
According to alternative embodiments, the bipod disclosed herein does not include a vertical adjustment mechanism. This provides a simpler device having fewer moving parts. Further, small changes in vertical position are easy to get from the shooter's position and can be difficult to get mechanically, especially in combination with other mechanical mechanisms. Vertical position changes are also the least important adjustment to be able to make on a fast basis, as gravity insures that targets move left to right far more frequently than they do up and down. Shooters can relatively easily move up or down a small distance at their shoulder, which translates to a large amount of certical impact change at a downrange impact point.
The various embodiments described above can be combined to provide further embodiments. All of the U.S. patents, U.S. patent application publications, U.S. patent applications, foreign patents, foreign patent applications and non-patent publications referred to in this specification and/or listed in the Application Data Sheet, are incorporated herein by reference, in their entirety. Aspects of the invention can be modified, if necessary, to employ systems, circuits and concepts of the various patents, applications and publications to provide yet further embodiments of the invention.
One skilled in the art will appreciate that different manufacturing processes may provide variations of aspects of the embodiments described above. For example, the bipod may be manufactured from different materials and in different processes.
From the foregoing, it will be appreciated that specific embodiments of the invention have been described herein for purposes of illustration, but that various modifications may be made without deviating from the invention. Furthermore, aspects of the invention described in the context of particular embodiments may be combined or eliminated in other embodiments. Further, while advantages associated with certain embodiments of the invention have been described in the context of those embodiments, other embodiments may also exhibit such advantages, and not all embodiments need necessarily exhibit such advantages to fall within the scope of the invention. Accordingly, the invention is not limited, except as by the appended claims.
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I wish Paul Volcker had a late-night show like Stephen Colbert so this speech could get the same kind of attention:
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker scrapped a prepared speech he had planned to deliver at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago on Thursday, and instead delivered a blistering, off-the-cuff critique leveled at nearly every corner of the financial system.
Standing at a lectern with his hands in his pockets, Volcker moved unsparingly from banks to regulators to business schools to the Fed to money-market funds during his luncheon speech.
He praised the new financial overhaul law, but said the system remained at risk because it is subject to future "judgments" of individual regulators, who he said would be relentlessly lobbied by banks and politicians to soften the rules.
"This is a plea for structural changes in markets and market regulation," he said at one point.
I was talking to someone recently who worked for Volcker at the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board during the financial reform bill debate, and he told me that basically, despite the meager stature of that office, there were several times during the negotiations when Volcker would slip into Washington unannounced and go from office to office in Congress to present the facts and protect his priorities in the bill. And then, bankster lobbyists would go into those same offices and the representatives, armed with actual information, would tell them, "Yeah, but Volcker said…"
The man has gravitas. And in his advanced age, he's using it to rip the banksters a new one. Now you will never hear from these whiners that Paul Volcker is anti-business; they would rather deflect that over to Obama. But it's Volcker, and certainly not Obama, making the most direct critiques of the crime spree they call their business practices. Here are just a couple of his observations:
Banking — Investment banks became "trading machines instead of investment banks [leading to] encroachment on the territory of commercial banks, and commercial banks encroached on the territory of others in a way that couldn't easily be managed by the old supervisory system."
Financial system — "The financial system is broken. We can use that term in late 2008, and I think it's fair to still use the term unfortunately. We know that parts of it are absolutely broken, like the mortgage market which only happens to be the most important part of our capital markets [and has] become a subsidiary of the U.S. government."
As Marcy hit today, a new report shows that housing lock is keeping unemployment unnecessarily high, because people are tethered to their underwater mortgages. To the extent that there's a structural problem in unemployment, it has to do with the fucked-up housing market. And that can be attributed to a systemic failure of the financial markets. Just take a look at the notes of this field hearing in Sacramento by the Financial Crisis Inquiry Comission:
Fueled by shoddy lending practices and nonexistent regulation, the Sacramento area's out-of-control housing market contributed greatly to the financial crisis of 2008, witnesses told an investigative panel Thursday.
"The whole system became prone to widespread corruption," said commission Chairman Phil Angelides, the former California state treasurer.
He said mortgages made in Sacramento and other communities "became the beating heart of a financial monster." Investment banks used "some of Sacramento's mortgages as poker chips" in a scheme to gamble on the housing market, he said […]
The market crash has devastated the Sacramento economy. Some 43 percent of homes in the area are "underwater," meaning they're worth less than their loans, said economist Mark Fleming of market researcher CoreLogic. That's about twice as bad as the U.S. average, he said […]
Karen Mann, a real estate appraiser from Discovery Bay, said lenders pressured her peers to approve shaky home appraisals in order to keep loans flowing. Just about everyone involved thought they wouldn't get caught by regulators.
The risky lending basically drove out the prudent lending, one witness said, because they'd lose market share playing by the rules.
What you're left with is fraud. And Volcker told the truth about it, in ways that others would rarely dare.


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Posters from World-famous Dutch Design Festival Hanging in Foundations Gallery
Works from Graphic Design Festival Breda, one of the world's most prestigious design events, are hanging in the Foundations Gallery on Rogers State University's Claremore campus through Oct. 25.
GDFB, a biannual event held in the Dutch city of Breda, asked some of the world's best designers to create posters that play on the theme, "Greed is out. Empathy is in."
The results were nothing short of astonishing, as artists created works ranging from brain-twisting absurdities to cheeky, visual puns. Included in the exhibit are works by James Victore, Freshco and Alfons Hooikas.
Visitors with smart phones can take in the artwork while browsing a special ebook that explains many of the pieces and includes biographies on the artists.
"We want our students to do more than just learn the mechanics of graphic design, we want them to be inspired to create great art," said Associate Professor Denny Schmickle, head of the Fine Arts Department.
"These posters show what's possible, what happens when the best designers in the world are given an open invitation to really stretch themselves visually and creatively. Many of pieces they produced are really challenging for the viewer, as well."
The Foundations Gallery is open 8 a.m.. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
For more information about art and graphic design at RSU, visit http://www.rsu.edu/academics/fine-arts/index.asp.


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Baiting means placing or utilizing a processed bait or an unprocessed bait as a lure or attractant for the purpose of taking black bear.
Cub means any black bear less than one (1) year old.
Immediately means following the observation of a grizzly bear using a bait, the person registering the bait, the person placing the bait or the person hunting over the bait shall report, without delay, said use to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. Immediately also means any person taking a grizzly bear shall report, without delay, to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department in accordance with Section 12 of the black bear regulation.
Mortality means any legal or illegal human caused female black bear death, excluding female black bears taken by the Department, female black bears taken under the authority of W.S. §23-3-115(a) and known natural and accidental female black bear deaths.
Process bait means a nontoxic biodegradable substance. A chemical used as an attractant or mask rather than for consumption shall not be considered a processed bait.
Prohibited bait means big game animals, small game animals, game birds, game fish, protected animals, protected birds, or parts thereof placed for the purpose of attracting a bear.
Unprocessed bait means livestock or livestock parts that have not been processed for human consumption, or wildlife or wildlife parts that are not otherwise prohibited as processed bait. A chemical used as an attractant or mask rather than for consumption shall not be considered an unprocessed bait.
Water means permanent rivers, streams, lakes or ponds.
Female Black Bears
• Cubs may be with her or nearby
• Appears pear shaped from the side with large rump
• Rump is higher than front shoulders
• Legs appear longer
• Neck is thinner and more distinct
• Face is slender and tapered
• Head and shoulder are about the same width
• Young bears of both sexes often look like females
Male Black Bears
• Cubs are never with him
• Generally larger than the female
• Adult will be more than 30 inches tall at the shoulder
• Appears square from the side
• Rump and shoulders are similar in height
• Legs appear short
• Ears appears small compared to the size of its head
A hunter taking a black bear shall retain the pelt and skull from each black bear taken for registration purposes. Even if the skull is damaged, it shall accompany the pelt. Visible external evidence of sex shall remain naturally attached to the pelt.
Within three (3) days, (seventy-two (72) hours), after taking a black bear, the licensee shall present the pelt and skull to a district game warden, district wildlife biologist, or Department personnel at a Game and Fish Department Regional Office during business hours for registration.
The pelt and skull shall be presented in an unfrozen condition in order to allow collection of two (2) premolar teeth to be utilized to determine the age of the black bear and to allow examination of the pelt to determine the sex of the black bear. A hunter taking a black bear in designated wilderness areas in hunt areas 13, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 or 28 shall report their harvest by telephone or in person within three (3) days, (seventy-two (72) hours) and shall present the pelt and skull to a district game warden, district wildlife biologist or Department personnel at a Game and Fish Regional Office during business hours for registration within ten (10) days from the date of harvest.
The hunter making the telephone report shall contact a district game warden, district wildlife biologist, or Department personnel at a Game and Fish Department Regional Office with their name, license number, date of harvest, sex of bear and the general location of the kill site (drainage). At the time of registration, the licensee shall furnish the Department the date of kill, the location of the site of kill to include section, township and range, or UTM coordinates.
(i) Any person who makes a false statement on the registration form regarding the date the black bear was taken or the hunt area in which it was taken shall be in violation of this regulation and such violation shall be punishable as provided by Title 23, Wyoming statutes for violation of Commission regulations.
The black bear hunting season shall close in each black bear hunt area or group of hunt areas when the female mortality quota specified for the respective hunt area or group of hunt areas has been reached.
If the female mortality quota is not reached, the season shall close upon the date specified on the black bear hunting seasons. If the female mortality quotas for the spring hunting season are exceeded, the additional mortalities shall be subtracted from the fall mortality quotas. Conversely, if female mortality quotas in the spring have not been reached, the portion of the quota remaining shall be added to the fall mortality quota.
It is the hunter's responsibility to confirm that the hunt area the person intends to hunt is open. The status of hunt area closures shall be available twenty-four (24) hours a day by calling toll free 1-800-264-1280.


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Gary and Linda Byers of Chicago, Illinois, named the Walsh University School of Nursing, which was officially dedicated on September 16, 2013. This is the latest donation by the Byers' family stemming from a previously established scholarship dedicated to the memory of Linda's mother, Helen Irene Peer, a nurse at Timken Mercy Hospital. This latest gift includes funds to purchase equipment and further advance Walsh University's rapidly growing nursing program, as well as establish a second scholarship for students who wish to pursue a career in the field of nursing.
"It's true, before 2000 we had no connection to Walsh University. But what Walsh stands for is what drew us to the university. We love the mission of service," Linda Byers said. The Byers' desire was to help nursing students, and they chose Walsh University because of their belief in the mission of the University. They wanted to support an institution that was of modest size, lived its Catholic values and had a nursing program.
"We are really impressed in Walsh bringing the nursing program to where it is today, providing competent and caring nurses to major hospitals and medical centers in the region," said Gary Byers. The nursing program is Walsh University's largest program, with 339 students enrolled, and program graduates regularly surpass a 96 percent pass rate on the state licensure examination.
Fifteen nursing students have received Byers-funded scholarships that enabled them to complete their degrees and become nurses. According to Dr. Linda Linc, Dean of the Gary and Linda Byers School of Nursing, "the generosity of the Byers will allow us to further brand and promote our excellent nursing program throughout the region. We are thrilled to have such generous benefactors for the Walsh nursing program and will ensure that we are good stewards of their generosity."
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While the worker stressed that Victoria's Secret was often a "fun and glamorous place" full of fun people, she told us that the job also had its pitfalls.
She said these were the worst things about working there.
The job can get tedious. "Think of the panty bar (that huge table covered in panties, with drawer upon drawer of, yes, you guessed it, more panties below). Think of how messed up it looks during sales, towards the end of a busy day, etc. Think of how quick and easy it is to mess it up when hunting for a certain size and color. Now think of how much work it is to recover it every day and night," she wrote.
Some customers are entitled. "You'll meet some good customers, who make you smile in return for your efforts. And then you'll meet the other ones, who will treat you like you're stupid, you're worthless, like you're trying to make life more difficult for them (why, oh WHY would I ever do that?), like they're entitled to special treatment, special discounts, or free things," the former employee wrote.
It's everything a retail job entails. "It means some very early morning shifts (think of Black Friday!), a lot of late evening shifts (no one goes home until the store is recovered), and many six-day work weeks. It means never being off when other people are—their times off are your busiest days! It means always being go-go-go. It means a low pay-to-work-done ratio," she wrote.
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54 range was increased to 256. This increase brought the interval � Adequate, accessible, and safe side spot or shoulder loca- of frequency analysis down to 11.7 Hz, ensuring the existence tion for placing the microphone array at a distance of 20 ft of an adequate number of frequency samples in each one- (6 m) from the edge of the nearest driving lane, as well as third octave band used for array beamforming. A-weighting for parking a minivan with the data acquisition system. factors were then applied to each band sound level. To com- � The setup should be located on a flat surface at the road ele- pensate for the increased sample time of the FFT processing, vation, with no buildings or other reflective surfaces behind. the number of ensembles for analysis was also reduced from that used earlier. Based upon the site review and evaluation, the site on The additional code development in this second phase also US 301 at MD 405 Price Station Road was selected for the provided the vertical distribution of the sound received at the roadside testing as meeting all of the criteria. At this location, array, to infer the vertical distribution of apparent sources the opposite directions of travel on the four-lane highway split above and below the road surface. The processing that was forming a wide median with trees, while the northbound lanes developed consisted of applying the array's beamformer algo- remain straight, generally flat, and provide a wide, paved turn- rithm to each truck passby, but with steering limited only to ing lane with a shoulder convenient for the measurement points directly in front of the array and steered to points along array installation. The road pavement in the vicinity of the site a vertical line extending both above and below the surface of was dense-graded asphaltic concrete (DGAC). The posted the road. These vertical distributions are consistent with the speed limit at the site was 55 mph. two-dimensional beamformed images, as confirmed by eval- uations of distributions with the loudspeaker source. A network of codes provided a sequence of steps used in 3.6.4 Roadside Measurement Setup resolving the acoustic images of the passby: display the time The microphone array sections with pre-assembled micro- records of the passby; truncate the record to roughly 2 s; phones, the data acquisition system, and other equipment were develop the image functions at 11.7 Hz intervals; and calcu- transported in a minivan to the US 301 site selected for the test- late A-weighted one-third octave band levels of image values, ing on April 9, 2008. The array was assembled in the field and reference microphone levels, and vertical distributions of placed on a shoulder at a distance of 20 ft (6 m) from the edge source levels. of the nearest northbound driving lane. The data acquisition system was located in the minivan. The overall measurement 3.6.3 Test Site Selection setup is shown in Figure 67. Each measurement channel of the system was calibrated Five candidate sites, all on Maryland highways, were consid- using a Br�el and Kj�r Type 4231 acoustic calibrator. To track ered for the roadside truck noise measurements: a vehicle and determine its speed at the test site, the same two � I-70 rest stop north of Frederick photocells that were used for the proof-of-concept testing � US 15 near the Pennsylvania border, at a southbound rest were again installed on tripods near the microphone array, stop (Mason-Dixon Discovery Center) near Emmitsburg with their signals fed into the data acquisition system. Still � US 301 near the Delaware border, at a side spot just south photographs of vehicles passing the array were taken in order of Wilson Street/Strawberry Lane to later relate the vehicle geometry to the sound distribution � US 301 at MD 405 Price Station Road images. The measurement session was recorded with a video � I-895 Harbor Tunnel Throughway in the vicinity of camera for later references as necessary. The results of these Halethorpe measurements are presented and discussed in the next section. All of the sites were visited prior to the testing, and their suitability for the measurements was evaluated. The follow- ing conditions were considered in this evaluation: � Sufficient number of random traveling trucks in the range of 15 to 20 vehicles per hour, on average, to provide ade- quate time separation and discrimination among passbys. � Sufficient space separation between the opposite directions of travel to minimize overlapping passbys and noise inter- ference from the opposite traffic lanes. � No road curvatures and no grades in the direction of travel that would cause vehicles to decelerate or accelerate. Figure 67. Roadside measurement setup.


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