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Rising sophomore Jonna Frantz and the Green Wave swimming and diving team will host three home meets in the Reily Student Recreation Center Natatorium during the 2014-15 season.
Tulane 2014-15 Swimming & Diving ScheduleNEW ORLEANS - Home meets against LSU, West Florida and North Texas in the Reily Student Recreation Center Natatorium as well a trip to Coral Gables, Fla., highlight the 2014-15 Tulane University swimming and diving, Green Wave head coach Katie Robinson announced Wednesday.
The upcoming season marks a new era in Tulane Athletics as the Wave will begin their first year as members of the American Athletic Conference. In the final year in Conference USA during the 2013-14 academic calendar, Tulane posted pair of dual-meet victories and finished sixth in the C-USA Championship meet with 463 points.
The team's point total at the C-USA meet was 90 more than the previous year, the third-highest total by the program in a conference championship and the most since the Tulane scored 729 en route to winning the 2005 C-USA crown. During the meet, the Green Wave posted 35 season-best times, 22 career-best marks and four school records.
"I believe this schedule fulfills our needs as we continue to grow and develop as a team," Robinson said. "We will be seeing a few familiar foes in Houston, North Texas, Rice, LSU, Vanderbilt and West Florida. These teams bring tough competition to the table and we look to gauge our improvement from last year to this year. New teams on our schedule include TCU, Western Kentucky, Miami and Rutgers. I am excited to have our women step up to these new teams and take advantage of great racing opportunities."
The Green Wave open the season on Sept. 26 with the North Texas Relays in Southlake, Texas, where Tulane will square off against Houston, SMU and host North Texas in a series. From there, the Wave will remain in the Lone Star State for a Sept. 27 showdown at TCU before opening the home portion of the schedule against LSU on Oct. 3.
Tulane's next meet will be a home contest against West Florida on Nov. 1 and the Green Wave will travel to Nashville, Tenn., for a double-dual meet against Western Kentucky and host Vanderbilt on Nov. 8 before closing out the fall slate with a multiple-team tournament in Pearland, Texas, from Nov. 21-23.
Following a one-month break, Tulane will open spring-semester action on Jan. 10 when they travel to the Sunshine State for a twin-bill against Rutgers and host Miami before hosting North Texas on Jan. 24and closing out the regular season with a quad meet against Houston, Rice and host LSU on Jan. 30-31 in Baton Rouge, La.
The 2014 American Athletic Conference Championship is slated to run from Feb. 18-21 in Greensboro, N.C., and the NCAA Championship will be held at the University of Minnesota from March 19-21.
"We are absolutely looking forward to joining the American Athletic Conference this year," Robinson added. "This is an outstanding challenge for our team and one in which Tulane will thrive. I believe these challenges will mature, encourage and stretch our student-athletes to new heights and standards of achievement in the athletic realm making achievement that much sweeter."
Last year saw then-freshman Ellie Sills claim C-USA Freshman of the Year honors, rising junior Mia Schachter posted three NCAA B-Cut standard marks and was invited to participate in the 2014 Phillips 66 National Championships, rising junior Lauren Arnold earned a spot in the NCAA Zone Diving Meet, and the Green Wave were claimed Scholar All-America status from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America after posting a cumulative 3.53 GPA during the spring semester.
The Green Wave are scheduled to return 17-of-21 letterwinners from the 2013-14 squad. In addition to Arnold, Schachter and Sills, Tulane welcomes back the talents of rising seniors Molly Jubas, Morgan Evans, Vanessa Loewen, Amy Needham, Claire Schelske and Laura Turpen, rising juniors Elizabeth Cook, Holly Grender, Maren Kjell, Roni Meyer and Rachel Schneider and rising sophomores Jonna Frantz, Joy Jason and Ali Talwar. Joining the team as true freshman this season are Alex Brindisi, Alex Lakota, Emma Lincoln, Tirol Palmer and Kaitlin Simpson.


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You Don't Bring Me Flowers
"Well, this week I've been feeling like the nerdy misfit in highschool who asks the cheerleader to the prom. In short, a dork. I'm here because I know you'll be able to at least make me look a little less like one."
"Oh no!" Daniel exclaimed, "What happened that made you feel like a dork?"
So I told him, in broad strokes, about The Viking. There's nothing like the sincere yet transitory heartfelt sympathy you get from your hairdresser. They make you feel better by making you look better.
Shopping works, too.
You're not likely to see my version of the Mastercard commercial on TV any time soon, though:
"Brittania compote from Tiffany's, $195 U.S.What is a compote, anyway? I mean, I know what it is, in the sense that this is what it looks like. But what is it for? Candlesticks I can comprehend, but at $425 U.S. for one — a single candlestick, not a pair, mind — it better have been made by Paul Revere.
Sterling silver candlestick from Tiffany's, $425 U.S.
Giving either of them to your friend for her wedding: insanity!"
It's not just the fact that to pay such a sum for such an item would, in my family, at least, be grounds for immediate commission to the loony bin; it's that... well, ok, actually, that's exactly what it is.
I've been examining Sara's bridal registries on the Tiffany's and Bloomingdale's Web sites, and while I do believe that the Web is a most wonderous thing, and that the functionality associated with the registering of, and purchasing from, gift registries online is exactly what the Internet was designed for (apologies to Al Gore), I decided that I would buy her a present the good old analog way, so that I could see and touch the item of beauty for which I'll exchange my hard-earned cash. After studying her registry and making a short list, I headed uptown to William Ashley this morning.
Sara has indicated her interest in some very lovely items. In addition to the compote and the candlestick, there's this crystal bowl from Tiffany's. It's $395. Can you imagine putting potato chips in it? Too pedestrian?
How about salad? Bean salad. Yeah, right. Speaking of salad, Sara has also chosen this sterling silver salad spoon and fork.
They cost $150. Each. I'm having difficulty conceptualizing this concept. In my wildest imagination I have never imagined such a thing existed in the wild. Nor have I ever conceived of (a) owning such a thing nor (2) wanting such a thing.
I'm disappointed that there is no photo available for an item called the "Elsa Peretti thumbprint dish." I am dying to see what a thumbprint dish is.
Sara is registered at Bloomingdale's for china and stemware. Now there's a word you never hear enough in conversation: "Could you set the table, please? The stemware is in the cupboard above the sink."
Her china pattern is called Murray Hill. Apparently this is the name of a neighbourhood in Manhattan. Where I come from, however, it's the name of a bus company.
I don't want to buy my friend Sara dishes for her wedding. I simply refuse. Every item on her registry is... dull. Dishes, dull as dishwater.
Oh, but wait: she's chosen a vase. Two, in fact. One on the Tiffany's registry, and one on the Bloomingdale's.
That's what I'm going to buy her.
This is not the first time I have chosen a vase as a wedding gift. I get very emotional about vases. My mother had quite a collection of them — some ugly, some beautiful, all interesting — and when she died, I gave one to each of her friends. I kept two for myself: the ones my father had bought her as Christmas presents when I was just a little girl. They had always been in our house, and almost thirty years later, they were there in my mother's. Now they're in mine.
A vase is the perfect wedding gift. A gift, as I wrote a few weeks ago, is a reflection of the gift-giver. When a friend like Sara gets married, I truly share her hopes for a long and happy life with her husband, and I hope that they'll never say, one to the other, you don't bring me flowers anymore.
This is the present I chose for my friend. It's Nachtmann crystal, the style is called Nova, and this is a vase that's big enough to hold a dozen red roses on Valentine's Day.
When Daniel was done blowing steam off my head with his 100,000 watt blow dryer, he handed me a hand mirror and said, "Voila!"
I looked into the mirror and saw a reasonably attractive woman, no longer 29, with shoulder length red hair, and bangs.
Good lord, I look just like Lana!
I wonder if anyone will ask us if we're sisters when we go to the Air Canada Centre on April 5. That's right, since The Viking turned me down, and Dave lives in Chicago, I invited Lana to the Duran Duran concert.
In the next story, Postmodern Sass sings a chorus of Working For The Weekend. Later, Sass and Lana groove to Duran Duran together, then go to the Banknote.


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This is exercise 1.3.10 in Hatcher's book "Algebraic Topology".
Find all the connected 2-sheeted and 3-sheeted covering spaces of $X=S^1 \lor S^1$, up to isomorphism of covering spaces without basepoints.
I need some start-help with this. I know there is a bijection between the subgroups of index $n$ of $\pi_1(X) \approx \mathbb{Z} *\mathbb{Z}$ and the n-sheeted covering spaces, but I don't see how this can help me find the covering spaces (preferably draw them). From the pictures earlier in the book, it seems like all the solutions are wedge products of circles (perhaps with some orientations?).
So the question is: How should I think when I approach this problem? Should I think geometrically, group-theoretically, a combination of both? Small hints are appreciated.
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ITC Again Rules for Domestic Industry in Steel Dumping Dispute
Commission finds corrosion-resistant steel from China, Korea and elsewhere sold here unfairly.
Commission finds corrosion-resistant steel from China, Korea and elsewhere sold here unfairly.
About 40 percent of the Oscar winner's Draper James line is made in the United States.
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Study stands in contrast to a falling unemployment rate.
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By C Project Lead on May 01, 2006
There were three major items to come out of the Berlin ISO C standard committee meeting which will move forward in the process of becoming Technical Reports.
- Decimal Floating Point DTR
- Extensions to the C Library Part I: Bounds-checking interfaces DTR
- Special Math Functions DTR
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- confluent hypergeometric functions
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- Riemann zeta function
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"Hello Marco
I have been reading your site for the past 3 weeks and already made shitloads of gold using your tactics etc.
I also watched ur insciption market crush by adding glyhs from %50 price to let other sellers buy.
I have a similar approach on gem selling and would want to share it with others.
It's mostly common sense with a bit of foxy twist.
You know cutting by 1s or even 1g will get u cut in a minute or 2 by same amount.
If theres a cutting war, I just made a tactic which generally works...
For this towork, you need to be online and watch your auction.
Lets say i'm selling insightful earthsiege diamond for 50g and someone cut me for 49.99, then i cut for 49.98, etc, etc.
I also added most of my competitors on my friends list so i can c where they r and at AH or not.
Lets say 50g is the %100 pct of this gem. If theres a cut war going on, i decrease the cut range to 30g from 50g. This is uqual to %55 - %60 pct. i stop and wait him to list his gems from %55 pct and i buy them all out. which means i will be able to sell them for %100 later on when hes not on, later on sometime, PROFIT. Of course he might not list any at all due to you cutting him so high... but we will get to that later.
When i do this, if person is clever, he stops posting(if hes not just keep buying his %55 pct gems for profit while his stocks get dry LOL) and logs off or just stop posting and wait my gems to sell out so he can list his for higher prices. But this also enables him not checking the insightful eartsiege market as often as if we had a cutting war going. After 5 to 10 mins, i put in a few more insightful gems from 48g and generally he doesnt check that market for 30 mins orso and i delete the gem that i put in for 30g,making me sell my gems from 48g for no competition. I play in a horde populated realm and in peak times like nights, you can really sell shitloads of gems in 30 minutes.
Of course this will not work if the other seller checks the market every 5 mins meaning he's stubborn but generally it works.
It's just common sensewith a twist.
It would be awesome if you can post this strategy:)
Nice detailed way to deal with undercutters Sahjhan! If the player being undercut was smart he/she would ignore your 50% undercut and just let demand take care of getting rid of it. However, this person is most likely running with an addon like quick auctions 3 and therefore will undercut your 50% auctions. Keep owning the undercutters Sahjhan!
"Hello Marco
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NakedJay said... June 22, 2010 at 12:06 PM
I've had this happen to me. I almost always let demand take care of it and post at my normal price. Unless I know it's going to be an easy flip. But I'd rather not transfer my wealth, but if you are able to camp the auction house you can always win undercutting wars if you have the supply to battle with.
I get into an issue where you spend too much time camping the auction house monitoring all your auctions and getting your self into several undercutting wars. Don't get me wrong they can be fun but I also want to do other things in WoW, like arena, for fun.
So at what point do you say, "heck with it, I still have gold coming in, I'm gonna go have fun" ?
Anonymous said... June 22, 2010 at 2:16 PM
I have to ask what the popular addon is these days which makes your friends/competitors locations visible?
I am preparing for war with some p.i.t.a undercutters and I like the thought of knowing their where-abouts when I choose to engage them in some first class AH PVP.
Cathy said... June 22, 2010 at 2:29 PM
Lately I've been using just a handful of cuts for my gems. There are a couple of hard core JC people on the AH and I don't have the time or energy to compete, so I don't. If I get 100g for any of the particular gem cuts I have, I'm happy. I get my gems mainly from honor with premades and randoms so I get a ton.
So if a Luminous Ametrine is up for 125g, I'll go in at 100g or just over. One particular AH player buys me out immediately. I easily get rid of those 5gems per night, without having to re-list and undercut constantly.
I know it isn't the usually way of gold makers but works for me.
Anonymous said... June 22, 2010 at 2:37 PM
It seems to me that undercutting happens a LOT when dealing with gems... to the point that the deposits add up and start cutting into your profit. I wonder how people track this and what do they do when they are undercut so much that gems are no longer profitable?
Anonymous said... June 22, 2010 at 3:56 PM
That doesn't work on my server. We have a bot camping the auction 24/7 for over 4 months now. Yes he bots but he's also sitting there most of the time monitoring it.
The only thing that works with him his driving the price low enough there isn't enough profit for him to bother with anymore. His breaking point seems to be at about 10g over raw gem cost. At that point he stops posting.
The bot also spams all day long buying gems (as well as just about everything else under the sun worth buying) for 10g+ less than anyone else. The bot used to get plenty of cheap gems from other farmers and account hackers and never ran out of gems.
However after a long protracted 4 month war between him and I over the gem market most players won't sell gems in trade anymore and auction gem prices are generally 90-100g for primary colors and 60-80g or less for mixed colors. I generally buy at 90 primary 70 mixed though I'll go 5-10g higher for a gem I'm getting low on to keep prices from breaking through again. I'll get gems for even less sometimes (I've seen as low as 80g primary and 50g mixed on the auction) but very few are sold that cheaply.
After 4 months gem prices are low and stable enough that I've finally been able to source enough gems I can mark them up 10-20g and not run out for a whole week. And the bot has hardly posted gems the whole week. He probably figures I can't keep it up and will run out of gems eventually but it looks like I might be able to do it. :)
Anonymous said... June 22, 2010 at 4:00 PM
Dammit this post thing times out too quickly. I wrote a long story about my 4 month war against a botter who camps the auction 24/7.
To make a long story short (not going to have it time out again) after 4 months raw gem prices are 90-100g for primary colors, 60-80g for mixed colors. I buy at 90/70 and sometimes go a bit higher for a gem I'm low on. I post my gems mostly at a 10-20g profit, any higher and the bot jumps right back in all over it.
It works, profits aren't very much but at least he isn't snagging all the big profits and stopping everyone else from selling gems 24 hours a day 7 days a week any more.
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Lardinois, D; Weder, W; Hany, T F; Kamel, E M; Korom, S; Seifert, Burkhardt; von Schulthess, G K; Steinert, H C (2003). Staging of non-small-cell lung cancer with integrated positron-emission tomography and computed tomography. New England Journal of Medicine, 348(25):2500-2507.
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BACKGROUND: We compared the diagnostic accuracy of integrated positron-emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) with that of CT alone, that of PET alone, and that of conventional visual correlation of PET and CT in determining the stage of disease in non-small-cell lung cancer. METHODS: In a prospective study, integrated PET-CT was performed in 50 patients with proven or suspected non-small-cell lung cancer. CT and PET alone, visually correlated PET and CT, and integrated PET-CT were evaluated separately, and a tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) stage was assigned on the basis of image analysis. Nodal stations were identified according to the mapping system of the American Thoracic Society. The standard of reference was histopathological assessment of tumor stage and node stage. Extrathoracic metastases were confirmed histopathologically or by at least one other imaging method. A paired sign test was used to compare integrated PET-CT with the other imaging methods. RESULTS: Integrated PET-CT provided additional information in 20 of 49 patients (41 percent), beyond that provided by conventional visual correlation of PET and CT. Integrated PET-CT had better diagnostic accuracy than the other imaging methods. Tumor staging was significantly more accurate with integrated PET-CT than with CT alone (P=0.001), PET alone (P<0.001), or visual correlation of PET and CT (P=0.013); node staging was also significantly more accurate with integrated PET-CT than with PET alone (P=0.013). In metastasis staging, integrated PET-CT increased the diagnostic certainty in two of eight patients. CONCLUSIONS: Integrated PET-CT improves the diagnostic accuracy of the staging of non-small-cell lung cancer.
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The Vergara Decision, AB 215
At the Schools with Audrey Linden
The Vergara Decision by L A County Superior Court Judge Treu could have a nation-wide impact that will not bode well for teachers. Judge Treu deemed the laws which have protected teachers hiring and firing unconstitutional. Seniority and due process rights, which are now part of the teachers' contract have been ruled out of order and struck down. But, Judge Treu ordered a stay and UTLA President, Warren Fletcher already filed an appeal. It could take up to two years for the appeal to be heard. Thus no actions can be taken by LAUSD School District.
This suit was brought by nine students in a group called "Students Matter"spearheaded and financially backed by tech entrepreneur, Dave Welsh, who filed the first lawsuit two years ago. Since the ruling, Welch has taken the suit to New York and has plans to take the suit to other states.
The ruling strikes down the job protections teachers have had for years. Seniority will be a thing of the past and new younger and less experienced teachers will be able to take the place of older teachers with more seniority and standing. Also, if the teachers lose due process rights, they can be fired as "at will employees".
The argument was that the less than effective teachers are the cause of poor education standards in the classroom. Judge Treu accepted the figures of 1 to 3 percent of California teachers are "grossly ineffective". That figure is now being questioned and the claim is that these numbers were pulled out of nowhere and have not been proven as fact. This data will have to be substantiated in the appeal.
The big question is whether removing seniority and due process rights will change the real problems that affect the quality of education. UTLA says the Vergara Decision will not solve the problems in the classrooms. It does not address the real problems which are the over-crowded classrooms, discipline issues with suspensions out of the picture, students in need of extra help or special programs as Special Ed, Resource, or the socio-economic issues as poverty and crime that can and do affect learning in the classroom.
There is no one "cookie cutter classroom" which is duplicated from class to class let alone school to school. There are the EOs, English Only students, the ELL, English Language Learners, the ESL, English as A Second Language. There are Resource students, Special Ed students, and students with emotional needs who need counselling. There are socio-economic factors. There are children from homeless families, students in foster homes, students with single parent families in which the one parent cannot provide help with homework. So many factors go into the problems of educating our students that go way beyond seniority or due process and removing these protections does not insure better learning in the classroom. These factors need to be addressed. The answer is not just to have a fast track to firing.
There needs to be smaller classroom sizes, counselling, tutoring, re-staffing, increasing the number of classroom aides, etc. The socio-economic issues need to be addressed as how poverty and crime impact the learning environment.
L. A. Times columnist, Michael Hiltzik wrote an excellent column on the Vergara decision, and he had a very good understanding of the real issues that affect education. The Vergara Decision will have no effect on those issues which he outlined as over-crowded classrooms, over testing, socio-economic issues. He predicted that there would be a shortage of good teachers in the future. Who would want to go into education when there have been no raises in eight years, no seniority, no job protections? Where would one get excellent teachers to sign on?
Jack Schneider, assistant professor of education at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts and author of "From the Ivory Tower to the Schoolhouse" also wrote an excellent article in the L. A. Times, entitled, "Firing Teachers Won't Fix Education". He argues that teachers do not slough off as the years pass and stop caring and stop improving themselves. They cannot because they do attend "staff development". There is new curriculum to learn and master as Common core, there are constant training's, and of course evaluations. Many teachers lack "guidance and support." "Even gifted teachers need relevant, robust, and continuous professional development opportunities." "Very few get it, particularly in schools serving high needs students." "Making it easier to fire teachers…..will do little to insure an effective teacher in every classroom." Schneider feels it will erode trust that is already strained between teachers and administrators. "Schools and districts should expand coaching and mentoring programs and develop partnerships with scholars at local colleges and universities." He concludes that "instead of imagining a word in which teachers are easier to fire, we should work to imagine one in which firing is rarely necessary." He believes an effective teacher is not accomplished by "holding a sword over their heads by by putting tools in their hands." In essence, schools and administrators should support their teachers rather than punish them. Isn't this the same model the school districts are saying students with discipline issues need? Use that model with teachers.
Sandy Banks, another L. A. Times columnist, devoted a column, "Tenure Case Sends A Message" to the Vergara Decision. Banks outlined the real issues, one by one and the issues, as such, really were not about ineffective teachers. Banks seemed to understand the educational issues teachers face in the classrooms. "Bigger threats to teachers today are stagnant pay, crowded classrooms, little professional support, and a relentless focus on test scores that stifles creativity, increases workload, and makes teaching feel like a chore." She got these points in and seemed to understand the issues. She quotes the statistics that 20 percent of teachers leave their jobs each year, and half of the new teachers quit in five years. "public education has become a political football loaded with symbols and agendas captive to private money and hijacked by high-tech trends." Then her logic fails as she states her opinion in that she thinks the judge's ruling "a wise and necessary decision." She states that "job protections won't matter if teachers get what they really deserve: smaller classes, more administrative support, higher pay, better student services, etc". Banks fails to state exactly how teachers will get the basic needs which are necessary for them to be rated effective teachers. Taking away job protections will not get teachers the support they need.
Add to the quotient that Governor Brown recently passed a law, A B 215 to fast track the firing of teachers accused of gross misconduct. Appeals of firings can now take over a year will be expedited. Teachers accused of crimes will be given thirty days after being fired to get an independent hearing which would have to start within sixty days. An administrative law judge would oversee and his decision would be binding. This would replace the three person panel. This measure was supported by the California Teachers Association. In claims of sexual misconduct, evidence over four years old could be introduced.
Steps have been taken to make sure in serious allegations against teachers, there would be a fast track to review and fire. This measure also will probably be taken into account in the appeal of the Vergara Decision. In the event the Decision is turned into a legislative act, it may not serve teachers. The L. A. Times did a public opinion poll and the majority of the public who participated would vote to enforce the Vergara Decision and strip teachers of job protections and seniority. The public may need to be further educated on exactly how the Vergara Decision would impact the classroom and be made aware of what teachers' needs are to become and remain highly effective teachers.
Audrey Linden
Educational Reporter


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I was given this gun (with 2 extra magazines) and it is my first experience with Airsoft. It's been very nice to use - the metal components add weight so it feels really nice in your hand, despite the very loose CO2 cover. Accuracy is OK, though that could be me expecting too much from a pistol/Airsoft due to my experience with air rifles and pellets. Took it out and tried to hit some soda cans from 25 ft or so, was able to get some good hits but also missed a fair amount - probably 50/50 after I got a feel for where it was shooting. I've really enjoyed the gun so far and recommend it as a first gun or for plinking around. Definitely a solid buy, especially at this price. The only reasons I didn't give it 5 stars are the CO2 cover and the accuracy.
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I bought this for shooting soda cans while camping. This gun is very accurate, the CO2 lasts forever and you can buy accessories locally at big box stores. It shoots best with .20 plastic bb's. Expect the gun to last about 2,000 rounds. After that it starts leaking. I contacted crosman about an expected life span and they wouldn't give me a number, only its basic (i think 30 day) warranty. Since its been around forever i have about 6 clips since they outlast the gun itself. Store the clips empty to keep the spring from wearing out
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June 18, 2010
This is good when i first got it.I bought it from walmart at sport section.At first it worked well now the clip wont load right!I have a friend and another who have m and p 40s and im a good match againist 1 and the other is ok.Its not good at to close quarters so get a good 40 between you and target(s).Well over all its a pretty good gun.
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I recently bought this from a big box store and have been nothing short of satisfied. I am new to airsoft so I got some cheap .12g ammo to get my feet wet. This packs some serious punch even with .12 but accuracy is not too good with the light bb's. I have heard it improves with heavier bb's. One thing I dislike about the gun is the part of the grip that slides out to put Co2 in moves very easily, If you didn't have a good grip on the gun it might cause you to drop it. Overall the gun has a great weighty and balanced feel to it. Great power and accuracy especially for a pistol. Good first gun for a beginner.


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