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Rafsanjani is a former president of Iran and a seasoned political leader since the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
"Today is a bitter day," said Rafsanjani Friday. "People have lost their faith in the regime and their trust is damaged. It's necessary that we regain people's consent and their trust in the regime."
The British Guardian newspaper reported that Rafsanjani criticized the arrest and detention of protesters, attacked the lack of freedom of expression, and expressed sympathy for the families of dead protesters. His concluding remarks were: "I hope this sermon will pave a way out of this current situation. A situation that can be considered a crisis."
A report in the Los Angeles Times quoted from Rafsanjani's sermon: "We could have taken our best step in the history of the Islamic revolution had the election not faced problems. We are in doubt today. Today, we are living bitter conditions due to what happened after the announcement of the election result. All of us have suffered. We need unity more than anytime else."
Among those seated before Rafsanjani during his address was opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, who lost the election to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a landslide. Mousavi's supporters have disputed the accuracy of the vote count.
Rafsanjani was a fierce critic of Ahmadinejad during the election, but did not publicly back Mousavi. However, in the days of protest after the election, Faezeh Hashemi, Rafsanjani's daughter, addressed hundreds of Mousavi supporters gathered together in Teheran to protest the election and was briefly detained by police.
Continuing his sermon/address, Rafsanjani said: "All of us — the establishment, the security forces, police, parliament and even protestors — should move within the framework of law. We should open the doors to debates. We should not keep so many people in prison. We should free them to take care of their families."
While the service was going on inside the hall, pro-government Basiji militiamen outside — as if to challenge the cleric's words — fired teargas at Mousavi supporters who were demanding the release of prisoners detained for holding protest demonstrations. It was the largest anti-government protest since the demonstrations immediately following the election in June.
Rafsahjani's influence within Iran would be hard to overestimate. Following the revolution of 1979 that deposed the Shah, he was considered for a time, while serving as the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, to be the nation's second-most-powerful figure, after Ayatollah Khomeini. However, his status declined when his rival, Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri (an anti-American hardliner) exposed his dealings with President Reagan's National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane, the architect of what came to be called "the Iran-Contra" scandal. (That plan involved the covert sale of weapons to Iran in exchange for cash, which was used to help fund the operations of the anti-communist Contra military forces in Nicaragua.)
Rafsanjani has always been considered a pragmatist open to discussion with the West. He currently holds the position of Chairman of the Assembly of Experts, an influential body in Iran that is charged with electing, monitoring, and even dismissing the Supreme Leader of Iran, a position much more powerful than the presidency — the object of dispute in the recent election. Rafsanjani is a tremendously wealthy man, some believe the richest man in Iran. In 2003, in an article entitled "Millionaire Mullahs" in Forbes magazine, the late journalist Paul Klebnikov (whose murder in Moscow in 2004 was described by the publisher of Forbes' Russian edition as "definitely linked to his professional activity") described Rafsanjani as follows:
Ironically, the man most adept at manipulating this hidden power structure is one of Iran's best-known characters — Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who has been named an ayatollah, or religious leader. He was the speaker of parliament and Khomeini's right-hand man in the 1980s, president of Iran from 1989 to 1997 and is now chairman of the powerful Expediency Council, which resolves disputes between the clerical establishment and parliament. Rafsanjani has more or less run the Islamic Republic for the past 24 years.
One thing is certain: Rafsanjani's role in the protests against the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad indicates that the protests are not amateur events organized by mere students or disaffected workers. There is definitely heavyweight opposition within Iran to Ahmadinejad's presidency. And given Rafsanjani's past association with U.S. intelligence operatives, some of that opposition may come from outside Iran, as well.
Photo of Hashemi Rafsanjani: AP Images


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With the growth and change that many farms have seen, especially in the past decade, farm families are needing to think differently about how the farm will transition to the next generation. Continue reading.
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California Citrus Exports May Return to China
Todd Fitchette, Western Farm Press Daily - Last year the Chinese government shut the door to California fresh citrus after some export samples were discovered with brown rot, a move that likely cost the state's fresh citrus industry tens of millions of dollars. That door may be opening once again. Read more.
Soybeans Planted Early Equal Higher Yields in Deep South
Brad Haire, Southeast Farm Press Daily - Interest in soybeans in the Southeast is growing due to relatively good prices. But to really compete for acres against cotton and peanuts, soybeans need to average higher yields. Can Deep South growers get a higher yield? Sure, if they want it. Read more.
USDA See Lower Prices for 2014 Most Major Crops
The trend to lower corn, soybean and cotton prices is expected to continue for 2014 crops,according to USDA. Read the entire issue of LandOwner.
From Rodeo and Hoe to Helicopter and GPS, brothers farm 21st Century
Ron Smith, Southwest Farm Press Daily - Back when they were youngsters, Roby and Billy Watson worked all week on their father's farm then took off on Saturday afternoon to compete in rodeos within driving distance of Leonard, Texas. They always made it home in time for church on Sunday mornings. Read more.
Drones: The Newest Water-Saving Tool for Parched Farms
Sasha Khokha, KQED Science | WUD Headline News - Farmers represent a growing share of the market for drones. The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International, a trade group that represents drone producers, predicts farms will eventually account for 80 percent of the commercial drone market. Read more.
Another U.S. and World Record for Corn Production?
Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press Daily - USDA is projecting records for U.S. corn and soybean production in 2014-15, as well as record production for global corn and Brazilian soybeans. Read more.
Farmland Prices Flatten in Mid-South and Southeast
AgProfessional Weekly - The pace of farmland price appreciation across the Mid-South and Southeast U.S. continued to flatten in the first quarter, according to the latest Farmland Market Survey released by Farmland Investor Letter. Read more.
Iowa's Nutrient Reduction Strategy Gaining Farmer Awareness, Participation
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Pistachio Production Prospects Show Signs of Improvement
Greg Northcutt, Tree Nut Farm Press - By the third week of May California pistachio growers were breathing a little easier than in early April. That's when the bloom ended, a period when, this year, the female trees flowered before the males. Growers were concerned that this poor synchrony, possibly the result of insufficient chilling hours to release the trees properly from dormancy, reduced pollination success. Read more.
Northeast Texas Wheat Poised for Good Crop
Ron Smith, Delta Farm Press Daily - Jim Swart, Texas AgriLife integrated pest management specialist at Commerce, Texas, pulled a handful of wheat stalks together, examined the heads, looked at the disease-free leaves, the near perfect stand and declared this could be one of the best test plot crops in some 30 years. Read more.
Texas Drought – How Many Cotton Acres Will Be Harvested
Elton Robinson, Delta Farm Press Daily - For the next few months, U.S. cotton prices are likely to rise and fall on the ongoing Texas drought, which for the last three years has cost the state nearly half of its planted acres. Will Mother Nature relent this summer, or will misery and misfortune continue? Read more.
NRCS Provides Assistance for Agricultural Producers to Improve Water Quality
USDA Natural Resources - NRCS will provide $33 million in assistance to farmers and ranchers in 174 priority watersheds who voluntarily make improvements to their land to improve water quality. Read more.
Farm Credit System Faults Farmer Mac Over Director Powers
Agri-Pulse.Com - Farmer Mac, the $14 billion Federal Agricultural Mortgage Corporation created by the Agricultural Credit Act of 1987 to provide a secondary market for farm real estate loads, is in the midst of a family feud with on of its major stockholder groups – The Farm Credit System (FCS). Read more.
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Co-Star Suing Appraisers for Mis-Use of The Licensing
Peter Christensen, Appraiser Law Blog - In the last week, CoStar Realty Information has filed several lawsuits against commercial appraisers and real estate brokers for intentional copyright violations and fraud relating to the alleged use of CoStar property data and photos without proper registration/payment. Read more.
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Not all who travel solo are single. But, truly, I wish all who are single would try solo travel.
Single people are frequently the butt of jokes and jibes about "getting lucky". But this term takes on a whole new meaning through solo travel. As it does in this poem. Here, one gets lucky when he or she returns from travel "trailing snake scales, wing fragments and the musk of Earth and moon".
I love it!
Not everyone understands the need to travel and fewer still understand the need of the single person to head out on their own solo. It is the first three stanzas that really speak to me on this issue. By traveling solo I can connect more deeply with a place and its people than when I am distracted by a companion. I get close to the ground, to the "musk of the earth". I am more affected by travel. Its remnants linger with me.
Our poet, Geneen Marie Haugen is a writer, wilderness wanderer and scholar. She contributed to Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild. She is also a guide at the Animas Valley Institute where she will lead three more trips this year.
The Return
Some day, if you are lucky,
you'll return from a thunderous journey
trailing snake scales, wing fragments
and the musk of Earth and moon.
Eyes will examine you for signs
of damage, or change
and you, too, will wonder
if your skin shows traces
of fur, or leaves,
if thrushes have built a nest
of your hair, if Andromeda
burns from your eyes.
Do not be surprised by prickly questions
from those who barely inhabit
their own fleeting lives, who barely taste
their own possibility, who barely dream.
If your hands are empty, treasureless,
if your toes have not grown claws,
if your obedient voice has not
become a wild cry, a howl,
you will reassure them. We warned you,
they might declare, there is nothing else,
no point, no meaning, no mystery at all,
just this frantic waiting to die.
And yet, they tremble, mute,
afraid you've returned without sweet
elixir for unspeakable thirst, without
a fluent dance or holy language
to teach them, without a compass
bearing to a forgotten border where
no one crosses without weeping
for the terrible beauty of galaxies
and granite and bone. They tremble,
hoping your lips hold a secret,
that the song your body now sings
will redeem them, yet they fear
your secret is dangerous, shattering,
and once it flies from your astonished
mouth, they — like you — must disintegrate
before unfolding tremulous wings.
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The Little Carolers in our newest card sing a delightful version of "We Wish you a Merry Christmas" for their forest friends. The animation in this card has been some of the most challenging to date, but I wanted to give you another happy and upbeat Christmas card like lasts year's very popular Christmas Vibe.
The second card, Cheerful Greetings, was not part of the plan this year, but the evening the idea for the card was conceived, I decided I simply had to start right away. When the vision for a card is entirely clear, it would be a shame not to seize the moment. And so without further fanfare, I present to you, a short card suitable for just about anyone this time of year and captures the spirit of the season. <
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Neovacs SA
2013 Half-Year Financial Results
Paris, September 13 2013 – Neovacs (Alternext Paris: ALNEV), a leader in therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of autoimmune diseases, today announced its financial results for the first half of 2013, as approved by the board of directors on September 12, 2013.
Financial highlights
- Rigorous control of expenses
Operating costs in the first half of 2013 were 3.7 M€, compared to 4.7 in the first half of 2012. This 22% decrease was expected and is linked to the completion of the clinical studies initiated in 2011-2012. R&D expenses were 74% of total operating costs for the period – a total of 2.7 M€ compared to 3.7 M€ during the same period in 2012. The Company has carefully controlled administrative expenses to focus its resources on the clinical development of its drug candidates.
The operating income reflects this control of expenses with a loss of 3.6 M€, a 20.5% decrease from 4.6 M€ for the prior period. After taking into account the 409 K€ R&D tax credit (crédit d'impôt recherche), the net loss for the period decreased significantly to reach 3.3 M€ - a 723 K€ improvement.
- Cash on hand at the end of June 2013: 8.3 M€
The cash position improved with a capital increase completed in March 2013. After taking into account a 1.2 M€ tax credit for the R&D expenses incurred over 2012 and a 415 K€ repayable advance from OSEO, cash and cash equivalents at period end were at 8.3 M€ compared to 6.6 M€ in June 2011. Financing of the Company, and notably of the TNF-Kinoid phase IIb clinical study, is assured for the next 12 months.
Clinical highlights for the first half of 2013 and perspectives
- Scientific publications
Publications in Arthritis & Rheumatism and Science over the first half of 2013 attest of a growing scientific and medical community interest in the role played by type I interferon in the immune response. This lends further validation to interferon blockade as a valid therapeutic pathway to treat lupus.
- Initiation of the TNF-K-006 study in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)
The Company completed the protocol for the phase IIb study of its anti-TNF therapeutic vaccine (TNF-Kinoid) in RA. The primary endpoint is clinical efficacy of TNF-Kinoid. The double blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study will be conducted in 140 RA patients (active disease) with inadequate response to methotrexate but have never been treated with TNF antagonists.
Applications have been filed with health autorities in 10 countries of Eastern and Central Europe and the Middle East. Consistent with its clinical development plan, the Company expects the study to begin in the second half of 2013 with the inclusion of the first patients.
- Ongoing works with IFNa-Kinoid
Experimental lab testing on samples collected during the Phase I/II study of IFNa-Kinoid in lupus is being conducted by Neovacs research team in order to prepare for the next phases of clinical development.
Guy-Charles Fanneau de la Horie, CEO of Neovacs, concludes: "The positive outcome of our capital increase last March, oversubscribed by 135%, is a strong vote of confidence by investors and our shareholders. It improved our cash position and allows us to advance the development of our therapeutic vaccines. A phase IIb clinical study of TNF-Kinoid in RA will begin in the second half of 2013. Anti-TNF biologics, the current standard of care for RA, are among the top selling drugs of the pharmaceutical industry, with billion-dollar revenues. The commercial potential of a differentiated treatment, with sustained efficacy, a low cost structure, and requiring only 3-to-4 shots per year is immense."
About Neovacs
Neovacs is a biotechnology company focused on an active immunotherapy technology platform (Kinoids) with applications in autoimmune and/or inflammatory diseases. On the basis of the company's proprietary technology for inducing a polyclonal immune response (covered by five patent families that run until at least 2023) Neovacs is focusing its development efforts on two therapeutic vaccines: TNF-Kinoid is being developed for the treatment of TNF-mediated autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease, whereas IFNa-Kinoid is being developed for the indication of lupus. The goal of the Kinoid approach is to enable patients to have access to safe treatments with efficacy that is sustained in these life-long diseases.
For more information on Neovacs, visit www.neovacs.fr
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Cosplayer Mirai Noah > Costume of Asami Sato (Legend of Korra, The)
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- 11-15-2012
- Series
- Legend of Korra, The
- Character
- Asami Sato
- Special Variation:
- Modern Casual
- Year Completed:
- 2012
- Construction Difficulty:
- Very Easy
About this Costume
- Construction Details:
Stuff from my closet. The shorts used to be pants that I cut and blind hemmed for Zatanna Zatara from Young Justice (which I haven't finished making yet...) I tried to keep the color blocking the same as her actual casual outfit from the show.
- Personal Thoughts:
- I love Asami. BAMF
I was invited to a casual cosplay meetup being hosted at the State Fair back in July. So I gathered things from my closet to be "modern casual" Asami. Not only was I on a LoK kick, but also because I thought her hairdo and make-up would be somewhat recognizable without the proper outfit. And it looked kinda normal to the... normal people.
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- Epic Cosplay
- Wig Name
- 20" Curly
- Original Color:
- Color 01 - Black
- Styling Time
- 10 mins
- Styling Notes
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THEY'RE as American as Thanksgiving turkey and cheeseburgers - but the Osmonds know where in the world to find the best fish and chips.
The Wetherby Whaler in Guiseley gave the American superstars, who were in the area for a charity event, a taste of the traditional British cuisine.
World singing superstar Merrill, of the legendary Osmonds, his brother Tom and two second generation Osmonds, Nathan and Justin, visited the Wetherby Whaler for fish and chips in advance of their performance at the Hearing Fund UK Gala.
The Osmonds, well known for hits such as Crazy Horses and Love Me for a Reason, are regular supporters of the Hearing Fund UK. The Group has produced 47 gold and platinum records with sales topping 100million worldwide.
Merrill along with Tom, who was born deaf but plays a number of musical instruments, and Nathan and Justin are due to perform at the Hearing Fund UK's third annual Gala at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds on Sunday..
The Osmond family established the charity to raise money for children living with hearing loss, and their families, throughout the UK.
Merrill said: "People don't always appreciate that it was because two of my brothers, Virl and Tom, who are deaf, that the family's musical career started. My mother and father formed the group so they could afford to buy hearing aids for them.
"My own son, Justin, is 90 percent deaf as well, and that's why the Hearing Fund UK is so important to us as we want to help others who have a family member with hearing loss.
"When we visit places we like to experience some of the area's culture, which is why we decided to come along to the Wetherby Whaler to sample a truly traditional English meal. We all thoroughly enjoyed our fish and chips."
Phillip Murphy, co-owner of the Wetherby Whaler, said: "It was a great honour to have the Osmonds visit us and to help raise awareness of their UK charity. We would be delighted to welcome them back for fish and chips the next time they are in the area."


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All hail the cross country dynasty at Wyoming Indian HighNov 6, 2013 By Bruce Tippets, Sports Editor
Chico Her Many Horses has a dynasty going with the Wyoming Indian High School Chiefs cross country program.
The WIHS cross country coach knows how to get the Chiefs fired up when it counts at the most at the CLass 2-A state meet.
Her Many Horses has been a part of seven consecutive Class 2-A boys team titles for WIHS.
The Chiefs always turn it on at the end of the season. This year wasn't any different.
The coach doesn't push the panic button in September when the season is in the early stages.
He doesn't burn out his runners at all during the season.
Her Many Horses paces his team for the three-month schedule. And in the summertime, Her Many Horses lets his runners forget about running.
He has the strategy down.
He makes sure the Chiefs are rested and prepared to run at the conference and state meets.
This year, the state cross country meet was moved to Sheridan after several years of being in Douglas.
Her Many Horses took the Chiefs early in the schedule to a regular season meet in Sheridan to get his team prepared for the state meet.
After the race in Sheridan, Her Many Horses shaped the training by the Chiefs to the layout of the state course.
WIHS probably had every step of the 3.1-mile race memorized.
The planning paid off for WIHS.
The Chiefs had no problem winning the Class 2-A boys team title for yet another year.
WIHS scored 20 points at the state meet. Saratoga finished second with 58 points.
Wyoming Indian senior Wilson Clifford showed he was the best runner on the Class 2-A division for the second straight year.
Team depth was the reason WIHS came up on top on the boys team standings.
WIHS placed four runners in the top 10 for all-state honors.
Tyler Penatac was sixth in the race, Keegan Her Many Horses placed seventh, and Cory LameBear came in ninth.
Those three are all expecting to be back next year to continue the great run for the Chiefs.
Clifford will be graduating in May, but not before we was a part of four team titles and two individual titles.
Not a bad showing for anybody.
Her Many Horses has put the WIHS girls back in the title conversation in the Class 2-A team standings.
The Lady Chiefs were beaten out of the state title spot by just four points. Pine Bluffs won the title with 27 points and WIHS had 31.
During an interview after the race, Her Many Horses said his girls team had Pine Bluffs for most of the way.
Pine Bluffs has now won four straight team titles, but, behind the freshmen tandem of Charlene Brown and Auburn Bell, the Lady Chiefs could be in the No. 1 spot in 2014.
Brown won the individual title as a freshman. If everything goes right, Brown has the opportunity to be a four-time state champion.
My advice to her: Listen to Her Many Horses. He has a dynasty in full gear.


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Aitzaz Hasan: Pakistan 'hero' recommended for award
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has recommended a bravery award for a teenager killed when tackling a suicide bomber who targeted his school.
Aitzaz Hasan, 15, is being hailed as a hero for confronting the attacker, who then detonated his vest.
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The clause that refreshes: Regarding Kenny Be's "Jesus Clause," on the cover of the December 1 issue:
It was wonderful to see Kenny Be's Worst-Case scenario back in Westword. I applaud his poking fun at the Parade of Lights organizers. The Downtown Denver Partnership caved in on its principles. The Parade of Lights was never about Jesus or Christianity; it always had a primary purpose of attracting metro residents to downtown Denver so they could be encouraged to go shopping. The DDP never hid that fact.
Those Christian organizations that clamored in 2004 for a more religiously themed parade -- with a huge assist from an editorial-page editor who sees conspiracies everywhere against poor, defenseless, powerless, marginalized American Christians -- always had an option: They could have started their own parade rather than hijacking someone else's. But that would have required hard work.
It is sanctimonious hypocrisy for certain Christian groups to argue that they have a First Amendment right to exclude anyone they please who does not fit the theme of their parades (such as the Boston and New York St. Patrick's Day parades) while denying organizers of other parades the same First Amendment right by threatening lawsuits and bullying their way into parades whose organizers don't want them.
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Something funny's going on here: Say it ain't so. Damn you, Patricia Calhoun, and your Western urban smugness. What have you done with What's So Funny? Please tell me that Dirt isn't the only rag in town interested in the twenty- and thirty-something demographic.
Richard Saulker
Editor's note: Don't get your Pull-Ups in a twist, Master Saulker. After a one-week break, What's So Funny? is back.
Ch-ch-changes: Regarding Adam Cayton-Holland's "Mom's Away," in the November 17 issue:
Why did no one think this woman might be starting the "change of life"? Ask people who've started the change: They feel they are no longer women (able to reproduce). Surely someone in your organization would/could choose to verify rather than judge.
J.F. Tucker
That's entertainment: After reading Dave Herrera's reviews of DJs' performances and their parties so many times, it was pleasing to follow his experiences as he crossed over to the role of "entertainer" (Beatdown, December 1). Although I would tend to agree with him that the "masses" seem to want familiarity when they hit the dance floor, I still believe it has a lot more to do with programming and mixing.
During my fourteen years of deejaying in Denver, I certainly have never played it safe when it comes to track selection. In fact, I think how you play and what you play is very much a signature. I've been told numerous times over the years that people can always tell when I'm deejaying versus my colleagues, because the music is always so different. That said, I rarely have a hard time rocking the dance floor. And I play many tracks by local bands that Herrera mentioned in his column, including the Swayback and the Photo Atlas, and regularly receive kudos as well as enthusiasm from hipsters who recognize our homegrown talent.
I applaud Herrera's adventurous spirit in wanting to push what he recognizes as good music in his DJ set. I also feel that pandering to a crowd instead of leading it can only go so far if we hope to keep bringing Denver fresh experiences and also lead the way for upcoming DJs. It is indeed a great role to be a "rock star" DJ, but it's an even greater role to inform and stimulate.
Peter Black
Hip tip: Has Dave Herrera considered the distinct possibility that the bottom's falling out of wack-ass hipsterism? "Are You With Me" is straight-up sexy, and anyone's refusal to get into it says a lot more about them than it does about Herrera or Vaux. I'd think the fact that he felt he had to bail with "Cherry Pie" and that "Melt With You" moved a crowd says volumes: The haircuts like to big-up sincerity but trade in irony.
The next time the hipsters don't move, just throw on a stoner-metal megamix, crank the volume to something ear-splitting and let them deal with it.
John Zwick
Lip service: I did not attend Lipgloss last week, but I heard that local bands were played. I was disappointed I missed it, and now I'm even more disappointed that there was little crowd reaction to Dave Herrera's set. Up until a month ago, I was a regular at Lipgloss and also attended shows (especially local ones) at least twice a week. While Lipgloss can be a lot of fun at times, it does tend to get stuck in a routine that can be recognized every week. Denver has some great local bands and too many DJs overlook the talent our city has to offer.
I just wanted to let Dave know that had I been there, I would have been on the floor dancing, and overjoyed to hear some of my favorite music -- especially the Photo Atlas, the Swayback and Hot IQs. I must say, though, had Dave deejayed at the hi-dive, Sputnik or even Bender's, I think the crowd reception would have been quite different. But then again, that's where all the locals hang out on a regular basis.
Critic as vidiot: Reading Michael Paglia's critical assessment of Truss Thrust at the Museum of Contemporary Art ("What's On?" in the December 1 issue), you quickly learn two things: One, Denver is, in fact, just beginning to escape a vacuum of artistic regression, and two, Mr. Paglia has a very limited scope of what contemporary art is. As our critic begins addressing the show while comparing the medium to I Love Lucy, you really begin to grasp how limited his vocabulary is.
First of all, the medium itself really isn't even that contemporary. Artists such as Nam June Paik and Bill Viola have been experimenting with video for more than thirty years. It takes certain research and an ear very close to the pavement to embrace any type of art that is considered avant-garde, and for many art critics, reviewing video art is just as common as reviewing figurative abstract expressionism. This is not to say that Truss Thrust should be free of negative critical assessment, just that there is a way to approach the medium where you will sound intellectually justified in your criticism. Using words like "obscurantist" just makes you sound, well, like the revisionist critics who struggled to interpret Jackson Pollock's work in the '50s.
Artists have always embraced available technologies, and of course they should. Art is very much about reflecting our current time. Should we continue to react against the influx of potentially harmful technologies and our intrusive media with oil paints and stone carvings? I don't think so. We as artists use the tools that reflect our time, so history is preserved in our work. Walking in the footsteps of the past abstract expressionists leaves an indiscernible print on the ground.
Thank you, MCA, for finally giving us a wonderful show of trans-global video-installation artists, and please, Westword, either send Mr. Paglia a subscription to Artforum for Christmas, or hire someone with some qualification to appropriately criticize "emerging" art forms such as video and photography.
Vincent Comparetto
Roman holiday: Regarding Jean Oppenheimer's "Simply Galling," her review of The Dying Gaul in the December 1 issue:
I could be wrong on this, but I was taught that "The Dying Gaul" was sculpted by Praxiteles, who was a Greek, not a Roman. The Romans certainly copied the Grecian style in sculpture, but this work was definitely Greek. The Greeks (and Macedonians) used Gauls as mercenaries long before the Romans fought and then co-opted the Gauls. The reason most frequently cited for the use of Gauls as hired warriors was that they supposedly had no fear of death. I'd take that with a large grain of salt, but the sculpture certainly portrays stoicism in the face of certain, impending death, and portrays it so effectively that the statue to this day evokes a deep and universal human emotion.
Praxiteles may be long gone, but his work is as fresh as today. He deserves his props.
Chris Murphy
via the Internet
The price you pay: Regarding Michael Roberts's Now Hear This on the Rolling Stones, in the November 24 issue:
I concur: Roberts was direct and to the point. I, as well as the majority of the general populace, have enjoyed the Stones for decades. However, what was this $400 asking price for the sixteenth row? How were the poor scalpers to make any money? I'll say that the Rolling Stones are good. But in the immortal words of Karen from Will & Grace, "You're not that good, honey!"
That grab-all-you-can attitude of theirs has made me lose interest in ever going to one of their concerts again. It was good while it lasted.
Tish Zadar
Phishing for compliments: First, I don't know Phish; I don't know Trey Anastasio, nor do I want to. But after reading Nick Hutchinson's Now Hear This in the November 24 issue, I just thought, "Wow, that man is a good writer!" I thoroughly enjoyed his images and words. He painted a picture, and after reading so many illiterate reviews, his was a breath of fresh air.
Renee Kovach
Grover Beach, California
We'll drink to that: I loved Patricia Calhoun's "Going to Pot," in the November 24 issue. Frank Rich is not just one of Denver's "liquid" assets, he's a national treasure.
I'll take drunkards over potheads any day.
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A smokin' deal: To Bruce Mirken's thoughtful letter in the December 1 issue, I'd like to add that no matter what you think about marijuana, why should it remain completely unregulated, untaxed and controlled by criminals? Only legal products of any kind can be regulated, taxed and controlled by any government.
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Because of this latest flare up of diverticulitis – a disease reportedly brought on during the summer of 2009 by his low-fiber diet — Lesnar is again on the shelf indefinitely, he admitted during a short-notice media conference call with UFC President Dana White. He's been replaced in his upcoming fight against Junior dos Santos by heavyweight standout Shane Carwin, but said he doesn't consider this latest setback to be career threatening.
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This latest setback couldn't come at a worse time for the UFC. The promotion is currently in the midst of a season of "The Ultimate Fighter" reality show where both Lesnar and dos Santos appear as coaches to promote their scrap at UFC 131. The company has also recently suffered from the high profile cancelation of its UFC 130 main event, when both Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard dropped out due to injury. A few weeks prior to that, an injury to light heavyweight champion Jon Jones knocked him out of the main event of UFC 133.
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Optimistic Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak not deterred by latest Vikings stadium setback
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Despite this week's initial setback for the Vikings stadium bill, Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak remains optimistic — and persistent — about the eventual success of the plan he's pushing.
The stadium bill was supposed to get its first committee vote on Wednesday, but instead committee members raised last-minute concerns about funding proposals involving charitable gambling. As a result, the Senate Local Government and Elections Committee delayed action indefinitely on the bill.
The day after the vote, we asked Rybak to assess the stadium situation.
MinnPost: So what happened on Wednesday?
R.T. Rybak: The committee wasn't ready to pass the bill. I think it's just one in a series of predictable speed bumps that are going to take place. I think people should get used to them. We're headed in a single direction, but it certainly will not take place in a straight line.
MP: The bill's author, Sen.Julie Rosen, says DFL committee members who were expected to vote for the bill changed their minds at the last minute, which is why the vote was canceled.
RTR: I've heard both sides of that story. I have no idea what is true. We have a reality to deal with. This is one of the most controversial issues with a very complex funding strategy. It is going through one of the most divided Legislatures.
This won't always be pretty. People just have to get used to that and get comfortable that these next few weeks will have ups and downs. In the end, I believe it will get done.
MP: Have you thought about waiting for the next legislative session and perhaps a different group of lawmakers?
RTR: People have for a decade been saying it's better to wait for the next Legislature. Gov. Pawlenty took an eight-year pass on this. Gov. Dayton has been pushing hard on this for a couple of years.
We may get another Legislature that may or may not be more open to it [the stadium]. And in their first year, [the new lawmakers} will say, 'Gee, let us get our feet wet.' And in the second year, they'll say, 'We're up for election.' The same cycle will go on and on.
I'm not giving up on this issue until we get it solved. I'm as interested in doing this for another Legislature as I am having my toenails removed one by one.
Does anybody want to go through this again? Can't we get this done and get on to things like school funding, transportation and health care? Let's just get this thing done.
MP: The current funding source for the state's portion of the stadium tab is electronic bingo and pull-tabs. Should there be a different funding source?
RTR: I've been focused very much on the part that is in my lap, the share that would come from the city. Thankfully, there haven't been a lot of questions about that. That's good news. I'll let those over at the Capitol deal with the state funding. I'm going to focus on my end of it. I've got enough on my plate.
MP: One of the things on your plate is dealing with a City Council that doesn't have the needed seven votes to approve the stadium plan. How are you dealing with that?
RTR: I believe that's an over-statement. I've believed from the beginning that until we have a specific bill and we know what's in it, that there are definitely seven people who could vote for this. [pause] Whether we can get them or not is still debatable.
MP: When I talk to City Council members, they say one of the big stumbling blocks is the charter amendment requiring a public vote on the city spending more than $10 million on sports facilities. How do you get around that?
RTR: The way this is structured now the state will take the first part of the money they collect by imposing a tax on us. That doesn't impact our charter. That's my understanding.
In return, for the first time, we'd actually have some control over those dollars, and we could use them for Target Center.
So one of the biggest issues — and I understand it's a big issue — for people has been the charter. They didn't want to override the charter, and now they don't have to. So I think that changes the calculations."
[City Attorney Susan Segal has issued this statement on the charter matter: "Based on my reading of the current proposal the legislature would direct the Commissioner of Revenue to retain a part of the Convention Center Taxes for the purposed of paying off certain capital and operating expenses required for the proposed Vikings Stadium. If that is the case, the taxes would be outside the control of the City and our Charter provisions."]
MP: So this is a state tax controlled by the state?
RTR: That's pretty clear to me. I've been here 10 years trying in every way humanly possible to figure out some way to get at those dollars. I would have spent them years ago for property tax relief and to hire more cops. But we can't. We don't have control. They're not our dollars. They're imposed on the city.
We're basically saying to the state, "Take part of that and put it into the Vikings stadium and, in return, give us, for the first time, some control over the rest of it, which we could turn around and invest in the Target Center and the Convention Center.
I also believe that people, as they understand this complicated proposal more, that they'll realize some of the upside. Nothing about this, whether it passes or fails, will impact how much we have for debt service on the Convention Center for the next few years.
What it will impact is what we have long term. This very complicated scenario is actually very simple.
It's all about the sales tax [the hospitality tax that was imposed to pay for the Convention Center]. We're asking to extend the sales tax to 2045, and the state can take their share of the money for the Vikings and, in return, give us some control that will allow us to address the Target Center and the Convention Center.
It's not taking money from the Convention Center because there's no guarantee that the state is going to let us keep those dollars. In fact, they're probably going to take them if we don't do this. The more people who understand this, the better.
It's taken awhile for people to understand how spending money on a stadium could lower property taxes, but once they realize the plan takes the Target Center off the property tax roll, they get the property tax relief.
When they understand the proposal will generate $1.5 million more from Vikings season-ticket holders to the city, then they realize that indirectly Vikings season-ticket holders are subsidizing property tax relief in the City of Minneapolis.
This is a good thing. I've always said this will be the hardest earliest, when people react just generally against this idea of public funding for a stadium for the Vikings.
When they realize this is a combination of the Convention Center, Target Center, the stadium and property tax relief, it's different.
We were asking our folks for support before we really knew what impact this would have on the charter. The answer is none. We finally know these answers.
MP: There are no City Council meetings this week. Have you started leaning on folks?
RTR: "Oh, yeah. [He laughs.] Yes, we've been having many fruitful discussions. I think part of it is there are a few folks who want to support it but are really worried about the politics. I get that.
I'm out in the community as much as anybody, and the calls to my office are more against than for. But the contacts I have out in the community are more for than against.
I don't know what that's all about, but it's interesting. I believe, also, there have been many folks who have changed from knee-jerk opposition when they understand the details.
MP: Have any stadium opponents on the council switched sides?
RTR: I think we're getting there. We're not there yet. We're working very hard at this.
MP: Looking back, would you have done anything differently?
RTR: I would love to have had less speculation about an ever-evolving plan. We were asking people about something that theoretically may or may not happen. That's tough.
The way this thing worked was I said to [Hennepin County Commissioner Mike Opat early on, "If you guys lead, we'll follow. If not, get out of the way and we'll lead."
When the county pulled out, Council President [Barb} Johnson and I had to react quickly. We had some plans, and in a couple of days we were on radar.
Those were a tough few months because the momentum was with Ramsey County. I'm happy we jumped in at that time because had we not, this thing probably would have been in Ramsey County.
I've got nothing against Ramsey County, but I'm not going to sit by easily while a business gets moved out of my city with public money. Once it turned more toward us, there was rampant speculation back and forth, and we were not always in control. I regret that. It made it more difficult for City Council members who sometimes felt they were being kept in the dark.
I had to tell them, "Join the club. I'm in there, too."
"It's easier now. As this thing goes on, I've become more and more convinced this is the right financial deal for us. One of the things the council members will have to take credit for, or answer to, in the next election is whether they stood by or tried to help when we were attempting to lower property taxes.
People are worried about what the stadium will be in the next election. They should also be worried about the fact that property taxes will be an even larger issue. I'm going to make real clear who helped and who didn't.
I talked to the governor this morning. We are definitely in this for the long haul. We believe deeply in what we are doing, and we're willing to keep fighting real hard.
Note: The mayor's staff is working to organize a series of town-hall-like meetings to discuss the stadium plans with the public. No dates have been set yet.
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No more taxing the common folks, and that's that!
Every time I turn around I'm getting taxed for something that benefits someone else. In the last decade it reached epic proportions, and nearly everything for which I am taxed is something like a bomb that explodes in a distant land in order to "democratize" tribal communities, or my tax money is spent to paying bonuses to Wall Street crooks because they had "pre-existing contracts", or for bailing out banksters because they didn't or wouldn't or couldn't do diligence when making loans.
Enough already.
Let the great risk-takers and all those so-called job creators, and all The Investors we hear so much about every day fund this stadium. They are the only ones who can afford the best seats. I can't afford the parking lot let alone a seat.
So let me get this straight, Mr. Mayor...
Naaaahhh, never mind. This kind of convoluted, duplicitous double-talk isn't worth parsing to see if there is a thimbleful of common sense in it.
Why is he so determined the people will not make their own decision by referendum? Take a wild guess.
The bottom line is local politics have been corrupted and co-opted to benefit a single rich man and a small number of corporate interests at the expense of the public.
Mumbo jumbo mumbo jumbo
It's not complex, it BS. Rybak is trading a $55 million debt for a $300 million dollar, and he thinks he's gonna MAKE money on the deal? The fact is he's going to have to come with $16 million a year, and he's never explained, nor does he here explain, where exactly that money is going to come from. One thing is for sure, Rybak's optimism isn't going to pay the bills.
Furthermore, his statements here conflict with some of the statements that Rosen made at the hearing. When asked if there was any relief for MPLS and Target arena she flatly said "no", because that would create fairness issues with St. Paul.
Near as I can figure, this takes money that's currently dedicated to the arena and convention center, and let's MPLS spend what left... on the arena and the convention center. This is Rybak's idea of freedom?
Turning over every rock...
It's amazing the lengths that Mayor Rybak, Gov. Dayton, and every legislative leaders who supports this will go to give the Vikings a blank check for their stadium. Only two thousand seats more than the Metrodome, yet double the size, and not one question about what's inside the structure that is making it so expensive. The Vikings say "we need this to compete," and that's the end of the political debate. I used to think that our elected officials would be up in arms over spending a couple hundred million on a stadium, but with the price tag now approaching $1 billion, it's just a ho-hummer, like building a highway or funding a new convention center.
The reality is that those who operate in the rarified circles honestly believe that there is no price too large to pay to have a professional sports team--so long as the cost is spread among everyone other than the main beneficiaries, the corporate interests that buy the ads, rent the suites, and deduct the costs, providing yet another public subsidy. For all the derision directed at Sid the Shill, there's a reason why he always has a platform to publish his daily drivel about stadiums: this is exactly what the Minneapolis elite want. God forbid that Minnesota take a path different from other communities and actually demand an outcome where it is the NFL, the Vikings, and the business community that deal with this incredibly pressing issue rather than the rest of us.
I sure hope the City Council is more concerned about the stadium than just whether it should be put to a referendum. If not, I've got a new $700 million span bridge I can sell ya. And, oh yeah, it's about time we had a new basketball arena as well. That's how you provide property tax relief and improve the city's industrial base at the same time. Thank goodness that we've got the proper vision spelled out, because it's obviously the Twins, Vikings, and T-Wolves that are the economic drivers in the region, and without Major League Baseball and the NFL coming to Minnesota in the 1960s, this area would be as barren as the Arctic Circle. So we must not subject the teams and their demands to public scrutiny, for it is the owners of these teams that are the great civic heroes in our midst.
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|May 31, 2012, 12:54 PM
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reality of full metal jacket in a tube mag
is it a real issue to use a fmj in a lever action tube fed gun.
marlin 336 style or henry tube style
i use the semi jktd but my buddy got into a great big discussion about not using a fmj in a tube mag..point to primer being his biggest point...
is it a real issue? or a myth?
i can see his point but really??? i would probably use the fmj if i had it..i just dont have it...but if i got a pile of it for free...wouldnt ya shoot it??
|May 31, 2012, 01:15 PM
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Your 3rd sentence voiceing your buddys concerns is the full and complete answer as to why you do not use pointed bullets of any kind in a tube magazine.
|May 31, 2012, 01:32 PM
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FMJ round nose or flat is not a problem. You don't want a hard pointed bullet resting against the primer of another round in your gun. Hornady makes some with soft plastic tips that are safe.
|May 31, 2012, 01:36 PM
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Pointed bullets + tube mag = bad mojo
The recoil of the gun shooting can easily provide enough forceful contact between the point of one bullet and the primer of the next, which can cause the bullet to fire in the tube... I have never witnessed it happening, and I hope I never do.
If you want to use pointed bullets, get some Lever Revolution from Hornady. I am not aware of any other pointed bullet that is safe for a tube mag rifle.
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|May 31, 2012, 02:29 PM
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The fact of the matter is, I'm not sure you could find a cartridge with a pointed or spitzer bullet in a chambering found in a tube-fed lever action. There were a few bolt actions made for the .30-30 that used box magazines and there was also the Savage Model 99, which had a rotary magazine, but I've never seen a .30-30 cartridge with a pointed bullet.
It is an odd fact, however, that the first smokeless high velocity military cartridge used both pointed bullets (not technically spitzers, though) and a tube magazine. That was the 8mm Lebel. It overcame the problem of point-to-primer by a combination of the case being very tapered (and flanged) together with a groove in the base where the point of the following cartridge was supposed to rest. The cartridge also had an unusual bullet that was stepped, like heel-based bullets such as the .41 Colt had. That was probably to help prevent bullet setback or maybe it was what they thought of first. The cartridge was still going strong in 1940.
The biggest disadvantage of tube magazines for military purposes was that you had to load them one by one. By 1900 anything but clip or charger loading was hopelessly old-fashioned. They finally got around to adopting a rifle that used clips--of three rounds! Later they used five round Manlicher type clips.
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|May 31, 2012, 05:53 PM
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Lots of folks reload, and that is the way I read the OP. I know some guys hot load 30-30 with sharp pointed bullets, but only load 1 round in the chamber and 1 in the magazine. Perfectly safe that loaded that way, but there is always the danger someone else could load more in the magazine causing a problem
|June 1, 2012, 06:06 AM
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10-4..i was wondering if it was honest to goodness or hooey...i see the isues but i wondered if it really was a poos of it going off in the tube..could the folowing one hit it hard enough.
nuff said..
|June 1, 2012, 07:01 AM
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I seem to recall a Remington, tube fed, pump action rifle that had a "spiral" to the magazine that effectively kept the bullet tips off the primer of the case on top of it. I don't recall the caliber.....but it must be an issue or this rifle would have never existed.....
|June 1, 2012, 07:41 AM
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While I certainly don't recommend the practice, there have been times when I've loaded pointy bullets in the .30-30, but I've used those as single shots, nothing in the magazine tube. I don't think it's a good idea to tempt fate, because Murphy seems to appear at totally inconvenient times.
However, there have been guys who tested the idea, with some interesting results. Once such thread, with pics, can be found over at the Leverguns forums. LINKY! Interesting stuff there, although again, I don't recommend the practice.
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|June 1, 2012, 01:15 PM
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Some years ago I was hunting with a couple buddies, one of whom had a Marlin 336 in .35 Remington. Can't recall why, but he was showing us what he was carrying in it. The jacketed factory loads had tips small enough to detonate a primer, which I warned him about. He dropped them from carry after that trip. Dunno what brand or where he got them. At least back then, 30 or so years ago, such things WERE out there.
During my wife's CAS days we arrived at a match in Wyoming the day after a shooter had exploded the tube magazine on his levergun, which sent him to the hospital to have his arm treated.
Unknown reloads involved, lead bullets, mild recoil & velocity levels, experienced shooter.
Magazine detonation is no myth, and you do have to watch your bullet tips.
If the tip is small enough to allow it to push against a primer & not be prevented from contacting it by the case material around the primer pocket, the potential IS there.
|June 1, 2012, 01:58 PM
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ill be doing some rethinking then fer sure..like i said i dont have any pointed bullets but hadnt reall given it a seriuos consideration til now...
|June 1, 2012, 02:22 PM
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YES it's a real danger!!!!!
I am a gunsmith. I have seen the results 2 times. Both were 30-30s.
One in Nevada and one in Idaho.
I was able to repair both guns, but the shooters were both injured to a degree when the rifles ruptured.
No, they didn't loose fingers, but there had bandages, and were not happy campers for a few weeks each time.
|June 1, 2012, 07:03 PM
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Your buddy seems confused on terminology. There is nothing inherently dangerous nor bad about using FMJ ammo in a tubular magazine firearm. There is a sound reason to not use pointed-tip rounds in one - whether FMJ or not.
FMJ flat nose rounds would be as safe as any lead or semi-jacketed flat point round.
|June 1, 2012, 11:39 PM
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Has anyone ever witnessed, heard first hand information on, or read an article about an actual tube magazine vilation by using certain ammunition ?
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|June 2, 2012, 06:06 AM
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Read post #12 above.
|June 2, 2012, 12:12 PM
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24 hours removed from being there when it happened, but we did talk to people who were.
It was mentioned several times during the three or four days we were at the match.
Certainly was no rumor or Internet tale.
|June 2, 2012, 12:47 PM
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For my 94 Winchester Classic I single loaded 173 grain match bullets with great results. However, when I tried to load just one in the tube it wouldn't go in. Winchester used a rounded magazine plunger and the pointed bullet was pushed off center. I don't know if all 94's are this way or not.
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|June 3, 2012, 10:00 PM
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The rifles with the spiral in the magazine tubes are the Remington 14 and 141 pumps. One of my Dad's hunting buddies had one, in .30 Remington. They can be found in .25, .30. 32 Rem, and maybe .35 Rem.
They did use pointed bullets, but there were "grooves" (looking at the outside) pressed into the magazine tube, so that the rounds didn't line up bullet to primer in the tube. And just for the reason stated, safety.
Most don't realize it, but the rounds in a tube magazine actually bounce back and forth during firing. Recoil, and inertia move the rounds forward (actually the rifle recoils, the rounds try to stay in place) and then the spring slams the column of ammo back against the cartridge stops. That's why a good crimp is needed.
Pointed bullets (even lead) can fire the round ahead of them. The heavier the recoil of the rifle, the greater the odds.
heard of a fellow, back in the 50s or 60s who had a chain detonation of the mag in his .348 Win. He lost a couple fingers. We all hear all kinds of stories, but rounds going off in the tube due to pointed bullets is a real risk. It has happened, and likely will again, if someone uses the wrong kind of bullet.
There are NO factory rounds in common levergun calibers that have pointed bullets. The new Hornadys have a pointed soft plastic tip, but the bullet itself (the hard part) isn't pointed.
You can load pointed military FMJ bullets in .30-30 cases. Single load them directly into the chamber, and they will work fine (or at least safely). Don't ever put them in the tube, or you are asking for trouble. Even one in the mag might be some trouble, if the overall length is too long, it won't feed, and you will have a jam you will need to disassemble the rifle to clear.
All else being equal (and it almost never is) bigger bullets tend to work better.
|June 4, 2012, 05:45 AM
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points well taken...ill def be watching the config of the bullet when i get ammo...
havent tried the hornady since the winchester 175 has been such a good shooter but i probly will.
i only shoot factory loads since im an amatuer really...mostly walmart or gunshow ammo. factory stuff tho.
preciate the input tho guys..we all discussed it and figured the same..rumor r not it could happen...
reason enought to be wary of it i spose
|June 4, 2012, 07:51 AM
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Certainly not saying it is a good idea to put them in a tubular mag, but I see no disclaimers or warnings on these...
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|June 4, 2012, 09:22 AM
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"It is an odd fact, however, that the first smokeless high velocity military cartridge used both pointed bullets (not technically spitzers, though) and a tube magazine."
The original bullet for the 8mm Lebel, the Balle M, was a 232-gr. flat nose, flat base designed specifically for use in the Lebel's tubular magazine.
This is a Balle M-loaded round:
In 1898 the famous, solid-bronze Balle D was adopted. It was a boat-tail spitzer.
I don't think this is an actual Balle D, but the profile matches the ones I have in my personal collection.
That is when the case head was changed to include both an annular ring (to catch the point of the bullet behind) and an "armored" primer cup, essentially a primer with two cups.
"The cartridge also had an unusual bullet that was stepped, like heel-based bullets such as the .41 Colt had."
Not exactly sure what you mean by this, but if I fully understand that statement, that's not the case. Both the Balle D and the Balle M were conventionally shaped, as was the later Balle N.
Both Balle M and Balle N were jacketed core type bullets, which would have made it VERY difficult to include any kind of step.
Oddly enough, during World War I, French troops actually did what they could to get hold of a Lebel instead of using the Betherier rifles, which they considered to be of inferior accuracy. Plus, they also liked the extra magazine capacity of the Lebel.
By that time most of the Lebels had been issued to conscripts and Colonial troops, so French front-line troops made a major push to get those rifles.
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|June 4, 2012, 11:06 AM
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looking at the winchester 175 gr i bought at walmart..i see the lead tip is smaller than the primer..easily could go totally against it. end to end...soooooo...just thinkin out loud here but it is a flat tip but is it the lead or the metal that sets it off...or the pointed tip?? since it is flat tipped but not metal...lead....
|June 4, 2012, 11:35 AM
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The instance I mentioned, as stated, of the mag tube detonation at a CAS match in Wyoming was using LEAD bullets, since jacketed are not allowed.
Even with round-nosed lead, IF the nose is rounded enough & small enough & pointed enough to allow sufficient contact with enough of the primer, it CAN set it off under recoil.
Lead is metal, by the way.
|June 4, 2012, 11:40 AM
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Be interesting to know what kind of primers were being used, too.
Winchester, in the early days, loaded round nose FMJ bullets in the .30-30.
Their rounds used, as I described above, a dual primer cup, only the outer one had a hole in the center to allow the firing pin to hit the live primer and miss the protective cup.
I think I have one of those in my collection somewhere. I'll have to see if I can dig it out and take some pictures.
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|June 4, 2012, 12:59 PM
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Re: Post #8 My Remington mod. 141 35 rem caliber has a spiral mag.
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Estate of Hurford
True or False: A terminally ill widow with a $14 million estate can leave everything to her children free of all federal gift and estate tax simply by signing a few documents.
Answer: False.
Multiple Choice Question: If you claimed the correct answer was True, you might be: (A) Texas attorney Joe Garza; (B) his client who paid him over $300,000 to prepare the documents; or (C) his malpractice defense counsel.
Answer: All of the above.
In Estate of Hurford,[1] Tax Court Judge Mark V. Holmes[2] used some of the most colorful and pointed language imaginable from a federal bench in describing and excoriating Mr. Garza's overly aggressive estate planning, beginning with his opening paragraph:
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a recently widowed woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of an estate planner.[3] Thelma Hurford had devoted her life to family and friends, leaving the management of the finances to her husband Gary. When he died suddenly, she had to learn what they owned and decide what to do with it. While she struggled with this burden, she was herself stricken with cancer and so had to arrange the accelerated planning of her own estate. Two attorneys vied for her attention and she chose Joe B. Garza.[4] She lost her life to the cancer. We must now decide how much of her estate will be lost to taxes.
Judge Holmes decided that most, perhaps all, of the estate, would be lost to taxes. The court upheld the Commissioner's gift tax assessment of more than $8 million and estate tax assessment of more than $9 million.[5]
The Garza Plan. Mr. Garza's plan was a combination of two familiar and well-established estate planning techniques, a family limited partnership and a private annuity.
A family limited partnership (FLP) can be useful for many non-tax purposes, but one of its most useful benefits is that it can also depress the value of the estate of anyone contributing assets to the partnership capital in exchange for a partnership interest. This is because state law restricts the ability of a limited partner to withdraw from the partnership, creating a valuation "discount" in the value of the partnership interest for lack of marketability. In addition, the FLP is usually designed so that the wealthy parent is not in control of the general partner, creating an additional "discount" for lack of control. This combination of "discounts" in value reflects economic realities based on state law, so that the fair market value of the partnership interest is legitimately less than the value of the underlying assets, thus potentially reducing gift and estate taxes.
A private annuity, like a sale for an installment note, is a sale of an asset in exchange for a promise to pay future fixed payments. The difference is that private annuity payments last for the life of the seller, and cease upon the seller's death. When the seller dies, the seller's estate includes any payments actually received (and not consumed) during life, but the value to the estate of the remaining annuity payments is zero, since payments stop. Typically, the amount of the monthly payment is calculated under IRS mortality tables in such a way that the present value of the payments for life exactly equals the value of the asset sold, so that there is no gift component. To reflect the mortality risk, the payments are usually greater than under a typical installment sale. However, families typically use a private annuity only when they know that the seller's true life expectancy is probably shorter than the IRS tables assume, in an attempt to "beat the tables."
Under Mr. Garza's plan (somewhat oversimplified), Mrs. Hurford contributed almost everything she owned to a family limited partnership, in exchange for a 96-percent limited partnership interest and a 25-percent interest in the 1-percent general partner, an LLC created for that purpose. Each of her three children also received a 1-percent limited partnership interest and a 25-percent interest in the general partner. Mr. Garza then valued Mrs. Hurford's limited partnership interest at a significant discount. Finally, Mrs. Hurford sold her entire limited partnership interest to her children at the discounted value, in exchange for a private annuity calculated using the IRS mortality table, which amounted to $80,000 per month for life. Since she lived only 10 months after the transaction, her entire estate was only about $800,000.
How Could the Plan Go Wrong? Let me count the ways.
(1) Courts have consistently held that to be recognized as valid, an FLP must have some legitimate and significant nontax purpose. The court could find no purpose at all, other than to save taxes. It was "nothing more than a transparently thin substitute for a will." None of the children participated in any part of the management or decision-making of the FLP. Nobody's position really changed in any material way as a result of the alleged transactions.
(2) In order to avoid inclusion of the assets contributed to the FLP in the taxable estate, the decedent must not have retained an interest or control over the contributed assets, as distinguished from control only to the extent of the general partnership interest. "A planner using a FLP has to make sure that it is not the assets in the partnership that are being transferred among family members, but only interests in the partnership itself." The court found Mrs. Hurford had expressly or impliedly retained several interests, primarily because she had contributed to the partnership virtually all of her assets, retaining nothing else upon which to live. Also, she retained signatory authority on some partnership assets, writing personal checks on allegedly partnership accounts to pay her personal income taxes. She also commingled her personal funds with the partnership funds, disregarding partnership formalities.
(3) The children never contributed any assets or services to the partnership, despite being shown as 1-percent limited partners (and having 25 percent of the 1-percent general partnership interest) from the outset. Nor was any gift of a partnership interest from Mrs. Hurford to her children reported. The entire partnership was funded only by Mrs. Hurford, negating the existence of any real partnership. "We have found no legal authority for Garza's position that partners can have a partnership interest with nothing more than a shuffle of paper."
(4) Mr. Garza's documents were "sloppy," says the court: "These agreements show an unsteady drafting ability to even an untrained eye." Many key documents were never even signed.
(5) Mr. Garza did not hire an expert appraiser for the FLP interests, but instead, says the court, "Garza conjured the partnership discounts out of the air." Moreover, he did not update values of underlying assets of the partnership before claiming a discounted value.
(6) On Mr. Garza's advice, Mrs. Hurford terminated, paid to herself, and contributed to the partnership the assets in the "credit shelter trust" created under her husband's will, which would normally have passed to her children tax-free at her death. "Garza mangled [her husband's] estate plan6 by terminating the Family Trust, leading to the inclusion of that Trust's assets in Thelma's own taxable estate."
(7) Everything was done in a rush and incompletely. The partnership interests were sold in exchange for the private annuity just weeks after the partnership was created, and before the partnership had been fully funded with Mrs. Hurford's assets.
(8) Since Mrs. Hurford was terminally ill, it was improper to use the IRS mortality tables to determine the payments in a private annuity. Her shortened life expectancy, well known to Mr. Garza and the whole family, would have required enormous monthly annuity payments in order to eliminate any gift component to the transfer.7
(9) The terms of the private annuity were ignored by the parties during Mrs. Hurford's life. The court found there was an implicit agreement among the children to share in the benefit in a manner other than as explicitly set forth, so the court felt similarly free to ignore the private annuity as well.
(10) The private annuity lacked economic substance, since the children did not have the wherewithal to make the annuity payments themselves and did not even treat the assets as their own but kept them in their original form. "What Thelma's children did ... was to hold the assets in the exact same form that they were in before the private annuity and then slowly transfer bits and pieces of them back to her, planning to divide what was left over ... after she died."
In a sort of summary, Judge Holmes stated: "Garza's particular method of estate planning was ... far off the mark. Garza's schemes were not within the realm of legitimate estate planning practices ... [and he] lacked sufficient competence in estate tax law." Indeed, the Hurford family ended up worse off than if they had never consulted a lawyer at all. This case is a classic illustration of how normal tax planning tools can fail when they are improperly planned and executed. It also illustrates the old adage that pigs get fat, but hogs get slaughtered.
Perhaps it mostly illustrates that a recently widowed woman in possession of a good fortune must first be in want of a competent estate planner.
1. Estate of Thelma G. Hurford v. Commissioner, T.C. Memo 2008-278, Filed Dec. 11, 2008.
2. Judge Holmes is renowned as a colorful character. For example, he won $22,000 on the TV show "Jeopardy." His literary opinion in N. Joseph Calarco v. Commissioner, T.C. Summary Opinion 2004-94, is a classic, and can be found at http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/InOpHistoric/Calarco.SUM.WPD.pdf.
3. Readers may recognize this as a paraphrase of the opening line of Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife."
4. One might wonder how Mrs. Hurford chose Mr. Garza over her husband's prior lawyer, Sandy Bisignano, who was well known as highly competent. The answer is bedside manner. According to the opinion, Mr. Bisignano "did not relate well to the family and would often speak over their heads." The judge, having taken Mr. Bisignano's testimony, found him to have "a manner that on first appearance is perhaps not the most inviting." By contrast, Mr. Garza "is a model of the amiable and pleasing man" and Mrs. Hurford "thought him one of the most agreeable men (or, at least, lawyers) that she had ever met." Style over substance.
5. The opinion does not indicate how the total of gift and estate taxes could exceed the entire estate.
6. In addition to causing gift and estate tax problems, Mr. Garza also "mangled" the income tax situation. On his advice, Mrs. Hurford liquidated her IRA and took a lump-sum distribution so that she could add its assets to the partnership, generating sizeable immediate income tax and terminating any possible further income tax deferral.
7. Treasury Regulation sections 1.7520-3(b)(3), 20.7520-3(b)(3)(i), and 25.7520-3(b)(3) prohibit the use of IRS mortality tables for an individual who is "terminally ill," which means having at least a 50-percent probability of dying within one year. A person who survives by at least 18 months is presumed not to be "terminally ill," rebuttable only by clear and convincing evidence. The opinion does not indicate whether Mrs. Hurford had, or could have obtained, a physician's affidavit that she had a greater than 50-percent probability of surviving at least one year. Interestingly, the court did not ground its decision on the regulation's definition of "terminally ill," but rather on its finding that Mrs. Hurford had a retained interest in the transferred property under Code section 2036. This is why item (10) above was so important, i.e., that the private annuity lacked economic substance.
DAN W. HOLBROOK practices estate law with Holbrook Peterson Smith PLLC in Knoxville. He is certified as an estate planning specialist by the Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization and is a Fellow and past state chair of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. His column, "Where There's A Will" appears regularly in the Journal. He can be reached at email@example.com.| TBA Law Blog