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Thanks Marc!
Great description of the work involved. Clearly is a very big project. I'd imagine the feel of a tiller is exponentially different than that of a wheel. Has to be very responsive as well. Great mod u did!
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The boat was in the yard for a week to complete the conversion but other issues kept the boat in the yard.
Prior to the trip to yard I installed the new engine controls. I believe it took a couple of days but I am not the fastest worker.
Pacific Seacraft provided the major components including an extension to be welded onto the rudder post. Thumper at Pacific Seacraft was a big help in putting together the components and also spent some time on the phone talking with the guys at the yard so they knew what was needed without my translations. Rudder was dropped and spent a couple of days at the welder, before being installed. Once the rudder was ready, the new bearing was glassed in.
While at the yard I ended up pulling the pedestal off the boat and installed the actual tiller.
After the boat was back in the slip, I glassed in the end the holes cut into the cockpit support for the oringinal pedestal install. Its functional but ugly and I need to decide what I am going to do with it. Offshore racing rules seem to require 4 cockpit drains and Thumper suggested converting the back half of the cockpit sole into a second access hatch.
Also still need to connect the WH autopilot to rudder post. Prior to doing this I wanted to get some experience with the feel of the tiller without the WH attached.
Crazy Fish - Maintaining, Upgrading and Sailing a Crealock 37
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Thanks Marc,
Coincidentally I am looking at the Achilles Hypalon Roll up with the inflatable bottom.
I looked at your website and enjoyed seeing your improvements.
I too am looking into replacing my 1988 standing rigging. The Dyneema looks like an interesting product worth investigating. The change over to a tiller is also something I am hoping to accomplish. I am often out at Catalina and know the West end well. I feel your pain in losing your dink.
I was suprised to see the few parts that came from PSC to go to tiller mode. How long would you say it took to do the conversion start to finish ?
Thanks Keith
Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
My requirements for a dinghy was something that could plane with 2 scuba divers on board including tanks.
Started with a small Avon Rib 2.80 with 8 hp motor. The Rib was small enough to fit between the mast and the inner forestay (staysail) on a Crealock 37 but heavy so frequently got towed between the mainland and Catalina Island. It could not plane with 2 divers and tanks. Lost it when towing it around the West End of Catalina with large seas and around 20 knots of wind. The dinghy flipped and the bow was digging into the water. Before I could slow the boat down the painter broke. I tried to get a line around the dinghy without any luck and abandon it at the start of Thanksgiving weekend. Reported it to Coast Guard Long Beach a couple of hours after we lost it. Was found by the US Navy on the backside of San Clemente Island and I got it back - but the Coast Guard San Diego put quite a bit of effort in locating me over the weekend.
Next I purchased a 15 HP motor that was larger then rated for the Avon Rib. It did not meet my goal.
Then purchased an Avon 3.40 (3.4 meters long) roll-up dinghy. It did the job for a number of years. Used with the 15 HP 2 stroke Mercury. Got up on plane was lighter then the Rib and I could inflate it on deck with the boat balanced on the life-lines.
After about 15 years the Avon Roll-Up seem to generate holes on a regular basis and I was tired of repairing it.
After searching the market for a similiar boat I went with an Achilles Hypalon Roll up with a hypalon inflatable floor. Its a foot longer then the Avon Roll-Up but is a few pounds lighter so is even easier to deploy and to bring back on the boat. Deflated it is sometimes tied down forward of the cabin and behind the inner forestay. For longer trips offshore it will likely go below either in the quarterberth or under the table in the salon, folded small enough so that the settee could be converted to a double berth.
If you are planning on running the dinghy up on the beach, be sure to purchase the large inflatable wheels that are mounted to the stern and can be lowered when you choose to land the boat.
Marc Hall
Crazy Fish - Maintaining, Upgrading and Sailing a Crealock 37
Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
I had an 8 foot inflatable that I could partially deflate and lash to the foredeck of my cutter rig. Had it flip while towing when the winds piped up to 35 -40 kt. Not good for the outboard! I use an 11 1/2 foot hard dink now for coastal and will use a deflated inflatable when I go offshore. Tired of patching the inflatable.
Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
The Davron Dinhy Tow is a cool looking product.
Unfortunately they do not have brackets to attatch to the lower aft hull surface as it has a compound contour. Towing still is not my favorite idea. As I have a windvane I'd be interested in any "On Deck" stowage ideas. Ideally I'd like to lift and stow a 10-15 HP motor. Then lift and stow the dinghy. I may be forced into deflating and stowing as opposed to on deck stowage.
Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
You could try something like these for getting the engine on/off:
I've seen other solutions similar to the Davron ones mentioned above, and I think they let the dinghy sit sideways and then pivot up. Put another way, I thought I saw that the port/starboard side of the dinghy would be grabbed/attached to the "hinge" next to the boat's transom, then the opposite side of the dinghy is lifted (via a line and block) up and out of the water. This let it sit lower and have less windage than the Davron solution. Of course, off the top of my head now, I can't remember where I saw that.
Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
An 11 foot or more RIB is to large and heavy to carry on the foredeck of a 34 footer.
Unless you are going offshore, tow it. If oyu are going offshore, get davits or a different dingy. Coastal cruising for 10 years I towed my 11foot RIB without a problem. 9HP is plenty of power, always put the outboard on the stern rail when heading out.
Rig a three part towing bridle so the side towing rings dont take the jerking load in a seaway (or they'll separate off...).
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Re: Towing vs carrying a Rib on board
if you value your dinghy you will not tow it. place it onyour deck or on davits.
happy sails
people who can afford to throw money away usually tow their dinghies..
never gamble/risk more than you can afford to lose......
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text: The best way to figure out what you'll want and keep is to try a few. If you've got a few friends with pistols, spring for a box of ammo and get them to let you try it out. If you live close to a range that rents give that a whirl. Make sure they show you how the gun works and be safe. Same rules apply with a hand gun as with a rifle. Just remember how short that pistol barrel is! It's real easy to get it pointed in the wrong direction. There are a lot of great pistols out there. I started with a revolver and they are great to start on and easy to understand. If you take to them there will always be one more that you'll have your eye on. Happy Hunting and be safe


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Mr. Guest was born, Edgar Albert Guest, on August 20, 1881 in Birmingham England. In 1891, his family settled in Detroit Michigan. When Edgar's father lost his job in 1893, the young Edgar sought employment at the local drug store washing soda fountain glasses. One day, "Eddie" as he was fondly known to his friends, confided to one of the customers, who just happened to be a bookkeeper in the office of the Detroit Free Press, that he had the ambition to be a newspaper reporter one day. In the summer of 1895, the Detroit Free Press was in need of a assistance. The bookkeeper put in a few good words for the ever so dilligent Edgar and he landed a job. Eddie would remain at the Detroit Free Press for almost sixty-five years. To paraphrase the man himself, "I am a newspaperman who writes verse."
...Eddie Guest was 10 when his parents took him to Detroit from England. His first job was jerking sodas. One of his customers was a Free Press bookkeeper, who helped Eddie get a job marking scores on the Free Press's baseball bulletin board. He was soon copy boy in the editorial rooms, graduated to general reporting, to conducting a weekly column called "Blue Monday..."By most accounts, and believe me, there are many, Edgar Guest was a "people person." His philosophy of life gushed freely through his weekly column, which was to become his "key to the city" any city, as he was loved by all who read his prose on the trials and tribulations of every day life. "The People's Poet" they called him and his appeal was universal.
...After a while, the column became a daily Free Press feature, and Guest the wonder of the staff for the ease with which he metamorphosed everyday trifles into folksy copy. When the Guest family put their Oleander out in the spring, it was duly recorded. It made the column again when they brought it in in the autumn. The children (Eddie Jr. & Janet), Mrs. Guest's pickles, a friend's fancy vest, were all grist for the rhymester's mill...(Time Magazine Feb.24, 1936)
|Home Cooking. . . . I dine on rare and costly fare
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The Free Press was a morning paper in those days and Edgar's "poem-a-day column" was filled with motivational messages that greeted his readers with inspiring sentiments and optimistic prose. Edgar Albert Guest never pretended to be a poet. Said he: "I am a newspaperman who writes verse." He was first, last and always a newspaperman. He once said, "I just take simple every day things that happen to me and figure that they probably happen to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of 'em and people seem to like 'em."
The ever effervescent Edith Bunker, from the television sitcom All in the Family, is said to have only quoted one poet in all her years on television. Who was that "master of words" she committed to memory? Eddie Guest of course.
I don't mind saying, I had a difficult time compiling this post for "Eddie Guest Day" (celebrated in Michigan until the mid 50s.) There are nearly as many volumes written about the man as there are published in his name. It was most difficult selecting glimpses of his fertile life within fleeting browses of text and images. Therefore, I leave you with these words about him...
He is the nation's poet of every day life. He is the poet of the household and of the common people. His verses appeal to the best that is in mankind and his admirers are to be found among all kinds and conditions of people. But to no one perhaps does he have a stronger appeal than to the children of the land. His verse is read by lawyers and congressmen, by business men and clerks—and by a host of people who look for and read his poems every day. Recently one of the most cultured of our supreme court judges said that he not only read the poem in the Free Press every morning before he began the day's work, but that he always carried two or three of his favorites in his vest pocket in order that he might resort to them for comfort or for cheer during the day. Many business and professional men carry the soft leather editions in their traveling bags when taking journeys...(Michigan State Board of Library Commissioners-1920)And by him...
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I am 5'11 170 lbs and I have been riding cambered boards my whole life and I wanted to try something different. I picked up a new 2011 skate banana 156w for $300 and Im pretty happy with the quality of the board for the price I paid.
The biggest difference I noticed is that it is much harder to catch an edge with a reverse camber/rocker/banana board which makes it fun for jibbing. The magnetraction is very grippy and takes some getting used to and isnt for everyone but I liked it a lot. You can't exactly grip ice like snow like mervin manufacturing claims but it does help grip the snow especially because the edges aren't engaging as much with a reverse camber board as much as a tradional camber board would be.
Negatives with this board. At high speeds it is not as stable as a camber board it is a little chattery. I didn't expect it to have the stability of a cambered board when I bought it though because its well... not a cambered board. Don't get me wrong you can still fly down the hill without much of an issue with this board. This board is decent with medium size kickers and isnt a noodle (6/10 flex on 156) but I would def choose one of my cambered boards for the big kickers.
Overall I like this board but I personally would rather use a cambered snowboard for the park and all around riding. This board is really forgiving and great for jibs and medium size park features. At incredibly high speeds you can notice its not quite as stable as a cambered board. In conclusion this is a very fun forgiving board just make sure you know what you are buying when you pick up a skate banana. If you are used to a cambered board try before you buy.
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Green Bay Welcomes No. 20/19 Wisconsin on Saturday Night
By: Andrew Gavin (@GBGavin)
GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) – On Saturday night at 7:05 p.m., a long-awaited contest between Green Bay (1-0) and No. 20/19 Wisconsin (2-0) will tip off at a sold out Resch Center. The non-conference tilt will mark the first meeting between the programs since 2009 and the 20th game in series history.
The Phoenix and the Badgers have met in the past three seasons in Madison at the Kohl Center, and Saturday in front of a sellout crowd will mark the first time that head coach Brian Wardle or any current member of the Phoenix program have been able to face Bo Ryan and the Badgers on the Resch Center floor in Green Bay. The Phoenix is 35-9 all-time at home during Wardle's tenure as head coach.
No. 20/19 Wisconsin and Green Bay enter Saturday's game unbeaten on the young season, with Green Bay winning its season opener 71-49 against Northern Michigan and Wisconsin posting victories over St. John's (86-75) and No. 11 Florida (59-53). Green Bay aims to open 2-0 in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1990-91 and 1991-92.
G – #24 Keifer Sykes, G, Jr., 5-11, 175
G – #35 Vincent Garrett, G, Sr., 6-6, 220
F – #4 Jordan Fouse, F, So., 6-7, 225
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C – #21 Alec Brown, C, Sr., 7-1, 235
LIVE COVERAGE: For fans who did not secure tickets, the contest will be televised live by Time Warner Cable SportsChannel with Dennis Krause (play-by-play) and Jeff Nordgaard (color analyst) on the call. The broadcast will also be available live and for free on the internet on the Horizon League Network and ESPN3.
INSIDE THE SERIES: Wisconsin holds an 18-1 edge in the all-time series with Green Bay. The first meeting between the two programs was in 1980, and Saturday will mark the 15th consecutive season that Green Bay and Wisconsin have played in either November or December. The Phoenix is 1-2 all-time in Green Bay, including an 88-84 overtime win the last time the Badgers visited, on Dec. 9, 2009, when Wardle was a Green Bay assistant.
BROKEN RECORD: With a sellout announced on Nov. 6 and additional seats added to the Resch Center capacity since 9,759 fans watched when the Badgers visited in 2009, the program attendance record will likely be broken on Saturday night. The Phoenix will welcome a crowd of more than 9,000 spectators for the fourth time in program history.
RANKED AT THE RESCH: Saturday's contest is the first time Green Bay has hosted a ranked team at the Resch Center since Jan. 29, 2010 (No. 18 Butler). The last time they visited the Resch Center, the Badgers were ranked No. 23 in the AP poll and No. 20 in the coaches poll. Green Bay has hosted seven games previously against ranked foes, posting a 2-5 record. The first such game was on Nov. 30, 2002 when Green Bay hosted Wisconsin in the Resch Center opener.
SCOUTING THE BADGERS: Through two games, Wisconsin has excelled the most from beyond the arc, with six different players knocking down 20 three-pointers. The Badgers are shooting 46.5 percent from long range and 75 percent from the line. Five Wisconsin players are averaging nine or more points, led by sophomore Sam Dekker's 16.0. The Badgers hold a slight rebounding edge but uncharacteristically have one more turnover than their opponents.
SNOWY SHOOTOUT: When Wisconsin visited Green Bay on Dec. 9, 2009, the game was played on the heels of one of the six biggest snowstorms in Green Bay history. Officially, 14.7 inches of snow fell in Green Bay the morning of the game. Tip-off still went on as planned, and both squads were hot from the field. The Phoenix had five players reach double figures and shot 50 percent from long range in the 88-84 overtime victory.
UNDERDOG UPSETS: Green Bay has totaled four victories over ranked opponents in the Division I era, posting a 4-31 record (through 2009-10). The last ranked foe that the Phoenix faced was No. 11 Marquette on Dec. 10, 2011 (L, 61-79). Green Bay's last win over a top-25 opponent occurred when Wisconsin last visited the Resch.
DYNAMITE DEBUT: Green Bay sports the All-Horizon League inside-outside duo of Alec Brown and Keifer Sykes, but in Saturday's opener it was a senior newcomer that stole the headlines. Rutgers transfer Vince Garrett made 6-of-7 field goals and scored 11 of his team-high 15 points after halftime to lead the Phoenix to the win over Northern Michigan.
COMPETE, DEFEND, REBOUND: This signature Brian Wardle mantra was on full display in 2012-13 for the Phoenix. In Horizon League play, Green Bay led the conference in rebounding margin, field goal percentage defense and blocked shots. With Fouse grabbing 8.3 boards per game, Green Bay's plus-6.4 was more than four rebounds clear of second place. Aided by a league-best 5.6 blocked shots per game, the Phoenix was also the only conference team to hold opponents below 40 percent from the field.
IN A LEAGUE OF HIS OWN: Senior Alec Brown will be in select company heading into this season. In fact, Brown will be in a group by himself as the nation's only active player with 1,200-plus points, 600-plus rebounds and 200-plus blocks. The 7-foot-1 versatile post player is a two-time All-Horizon League player and was on the All-Defensive Team in 2012-13. Brown is only the second player in HL history to accumulate those career numbers and is on pace to be the first league player to finish his career with 1,500 points, 750 rebounds and 250 blocks.
All tickets for the 2013-14 men's basketball season are on sale now. For more information about season tickets, ticket packages and more, please visit the ticketing page at GreenBayPhoenix.com.For the latest and most up-to-date information on Green Bay Athletics, please visit GreenBayPhoenix.com.


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How do u think my armor is coming out i still need to add dents and paint it.
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How do u think my armor is coming out i still need to add dents and paint it.
I'm guessing there are supposed to be pics, but they aren't showing. Not even a broken link or a red "X".
how do u add pics
Go to Sergio's (Secol Fett's) great hosting service HERE and follow the instructions.
here fixed it go here to c me armor:
Ohhhhhhh, how I remember those days of laying out my sintra armor.
Looking good anyhow!
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looking good, cant wait to see it painted.
U should add the tear drop to ur cod piece, I think it would make it look really good.
How do i add a tear drop
im pretty sure u can just cut a piece out of syntra and glue it to the cod piece. Im pretty sure thats how its done, then u may wanna put a few coatings of triple thick crystal clear spray on, it make it looks like one solid vacuuformed piece.
Yo man can u give me the patten of the tear drop thanks if u can
this was the best i could come up with, its from the mandalorin blue prints. Follow the link and click "cod" there will be a blueprint of the entire cod piece, the tear drop will be showing, u can use that if u want.
Looks good so far. And you'll really see a change when you get the visor in that helmet.
Keep at it, it's coming along fine.
THanks i do have a t visor but dont know how to put it on
Well, in "helmet" forum, there are several ways posted. Many like to use an adhesive, while others (like me) like to use screws, bolts, or blocks. The choice is yours, really. It all depends on your skill level and how far you want to go.
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July 17, 2013
By Elizabeth Lower-Basch
In July 2013, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed its version of the bill to provide funding for the federal Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education for fiscal year 2014, which begins on October 1, 2013. These Departments are in charge of a huge range of programs and services, many of which serve low-income workers and families.
This bill would provide slightly higher overall funding levels than appropriated for FY 2013, allowing for targeted new investments. These include:
- Significant new investments in early learning and childcare, including $1.6 billion in additional funding for Head Start, primarily for Early Head Start-Child Care partnerships.
- $250 million for competitive grants under the Race to the Top—College Affordability and Completion fund. These grants would provide an incentive to States to adopt policy reforms designed to reduce costs for students and families and to improve postsecondary completion rates.
- An increase in the maximum Pell Grant to $5,785 for the FY14-15 academic year, supported by a surplus in funding for the program from previous years.
- Funding to support the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
- A modest investment of $5 million to support the start-up costs for states that wish to develop self-financing paid leave programs.
A summary of the bill is available from the Appropriations Committee.
However, the House Appropriations Committee is headed down a very different path. It has not yet released a bill to assign funding levels to specific programs, but its budget for these Departments is significantly less – by $44 billion – and would necessitate reductions to key programs that help low-income families gain and maintain economic security. These budget proposals are simply not enough to meet the needs of the American public. Even at the Senate funding level, appropriators were forced to make tough choices, voting, for example, to reduce funding to promote college completion in order to provide additional support for education for children with disabilities. At the House funding levels, which slash domestic programs even deeper than required by the Budget Control Act, all domestic programs would need to absorb deep cuts. Many of the same families would be affected by multiple cuts – a single mother might lose access to domestic violence services, to nutrition assistance under WIC, and her child care subsidy.
Some have suggested that the muted public response to the cuts forced over the last several months by this year's sequestration show that government spending could indeed be cut without great harm. This is a dangerous fallacy for multiple reasons:
- Sequestration is already causing real harm, especially to low-income individuals and families. People who have waited years for housing subsidies are having them pulled back, Head Start centers are cutting back, and domestic violence programs are reducing services. Nearly four million long-term unemployed workers are having their benefits cut by an average of 15 percent.
- For many education and job training programs, the full impact of last year's cuts will not hit until this fall. For the 2012-2013 school year, school districts were largely operating with FY 2012 funds. The FY 2013 cuts will only take effect with the start of the 2013-2014 school year.
- Some programs did have reserves of unspent funds that they were able to use to buffer the FY 2013 cuts. But these reserves are now gone, leaving programs and their beneficiaries fully exposed to additional cuts.
Even the Senate Appropriations levels are not truly enough to both meet today's needs and invest in the future. The overall spending targets for domestic discretionary spending adopted by the House would force cuts that will not only inflict hardship in the short term but also undermine our nation's health and potential for years to come.


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Joan Mitchell
American, 1926-1992
Mooring, 1971
Oil on canvas
241.3 x 180.3 cm (95 x 71 inches)
Gift of Bayard and Harriet K. Ewing 1992.124
Widely known as a pioneer of the second generation Abstract Expressionist movement and one of the few women from this period to receive public praise for her work, Joan Mitchell expanded on the emotional intensity and gestural brushwork of her predecessors. Soon after she settled along the river Seine in France, Mitchell painted Mooring. Known as one of her "territory" paintings, it is marked by a juxtaposition of textures, ranging from heavily to thinly painted areas. A few sections of vibrant green and orange are applied so thickly that they appear raised above the surface. Darker patches of color juxtaposed directly against white suggest the importance of light.


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PE 213 Physiology of Sport and Fitness
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Does anyone know of a good online place to buy targets in bulk?
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Does anyone know of a good online place to buy targets in bulk?
The 2nd cheapest targets you can buy are paper plates,the cheap one's that fold and spill your food.They're about the size of a bullseye and they happen to be the same size as the heart/lung area.A cheap sharpie makes a dot if you need an aiming point for sight in.The cheapest is a pack of 9x11 paper for the copy machine or writing,and are just like the plated in a different shape.
For handgun training, I use paper plates (6" and 9"), 3x5 and 4x6 index cards, and 8.5x11 printer paper with drawn on shapes which we number. I go every two weeks with a neighbor friend and we put each other through a series of scenarios with these targets using target holders that flip 90 degrees in a timed fashion and differing distances. We do this with draw and fire, reloading exercises, and warmup routines. We have never used a "standard" target in the year and a half we have been doing this.
here are some sites for free printing online...
FREE TARGETS from TARGETZ.com
MYTARGETS.COM Free Targets That Print In PDF Format
The Reload Bench Home Page
Our outdoor range only allows one piece of paper stapled or pasted to cardboard attached to a large wooden target frame.
The rationale is to provide plenty of margin for the wooden target frames. With 15 minutes of firing time before target changing.
Five dollar charge for "a kill shot on a frame". :mrgreen:
For bullseye competition practice we use photocopied "blacked in X/10/9 rings with circle "lines" for the 8 and 7 rings.
The circles are the same size as the NRA B-8C (P) "25 yd Repair Center" which is used in competition.
The result is a black center that is 5.54 inches in diameter with the 8 and 7 ring lines.
You can fit TWO of these stacked vertically on a 11" x 17" piece of photocopy paper.
Twenty copies for $3.60 at my local UPS copy center.
Bullseye comp. does 10 rounds for each "go-around" before scoring and then stapling the "new center".
So, we can do "two rounds" of ten on each target for each 15 minutes before target change.
So, you can do a simulated match in half the time compared to using "one real paper target you buy".
One drawback is it takes my spotting scope to see the .22LR hit placement at 25 yards.
I can see "some" 9mm centerfire/service pistol (M9) hits. But that also takes the scope to be sure.
If you're doing CCW/nightstand practice with .38/9mm/.45 etc. at 10 yards or less, seeing hits is not a problem.
Some people like my lady friend like to pay a LOT more for seeing the "magic" little green or orange circled holes appear. :mrgreen:
Damn. That is a COMPLICATED description. It's really simple "in person". :smt1099
Thanks for all of the replies. I found a place locally (Qualification Targets Inc. in Hammond, Wisconsin) and dropped in on them. John took me on a tour of the warehouse and was very helpful. They are a nice bunch of guys and their prices are good. I highly recommend them.


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Heritage Oaks Bank Will Host Its 15th Annual Family Fun Day and Fun Run - 8/6/13
10K, 5K, Half-Mile, 75-Yard Dash and Popular Diaper Dash Races
Will Take Place Sunday, September 29
(Paso Robles, CA) – Heritage Oaks Bank is celebrating 30 years of service to the Central Coast and, along with that celebration, the Bank is also celebrating its 15th Annual Family Fun Day and Fun Run on Sunday, September 29, 2013. This annual event reflects the Bank's strong commitment to the local community: supporting local non-profit organizations and providing athletic events along with a fun expo for the entire family offering food, games, and music in the Paso Robles City Park. All race entry fees for the 2013 event will be donated to the Paso Robles Public Library Foundation, Jack's Helping Hand and CASA of San Luis Obispo County.
This year's Fun Run will be highlighted by the 10K and 5K races. Prize money will be awarded to the top three male and female racers for the 10K race and the top male and female for the 5K race with a total prize purse of $1,700 for both races.
Other race events include the half-mile run for kids ages 5 to 12 years old, 75-yard kids dash for kids up to 5 years old (parents are welcome to run free with kids), and the Not-So-Dirty Diaper Dash where each crawler tries to go 5 yards.
Each participant will receive a collectible t-shirt and a pancake breakfast and will be eligible for great raffle prizes. Participants are encouraged to invite family and friends to join in the festivities. All interested participants can sign up online at www.hobfunrun.com.
The Heritage Oaks Bank Family Fun Day and Fun Run is supported by the City of Paso Robles and sponsored by the Paso Robles Inn, IQMS, Zurn Wilkins, Paso Robles REC Foundation, and Idlers. Other supporting sponsors are Pacifica Commercial Realty, Carmel & Naccasha, Glenn Burdette, Culligan, Paso Robles Waste & Recycle, Harvey's Honeyhuts, KSBY-TV, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Paso Robles Press, Atascadero News, KJUG 98.1, and the Beach 95.3.
To learn more about the Heritage Oaks Bank Fun Run, visit the Bank's event website www.hobfunrun.com. Participants, family and friends can also follow the Fun Run on Facebook. If your business is interested in participating as a sponsor, or to donate raffle prizes, please contact Heritage Oaks Bank's Marketing Department at 369-5225.
About Heritage Oaks Bank
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I work at a school and have just taken on a new student – beginner, one-on-one lessons twice a week, 7-8:30 a.m. I dread it.
Do you have any advice on how to pace a 7 a.m. 90-minute lesson so that neither the student nor I are completely wiped out by the end?
He's a bank manager, so I'm not sure if he'll be up for classroom antics like charades or TPR activities.
Oh, and we don't have a language in common, so verbal communication will be very, very limited – no chitchat, no jokes to loosen up the atmosphere.
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Mary writes:
What's the deal with the embargos anyway? I know it's called the NEJM rule, and I suspect it has to do with perhaps the press or big business somehow taking off with an idea before it's time, but I haven't seen that ended by this practice.
In my fields (history and economics) (Ph.D. JHU 1984), we freely discuss research in progress - in fact, that's when the most good work happens, when you have to answer questions, or deal with stuff you hadn't yet thought of, or somebody has a new idea or new evidence or knows about a pertinent study you missed.
It's very common to cite "published manuscript" or "work in progress," or if I get a good idea and some leads from someone else's work and they haven't published yet, we would make up a name of a working paper I could cite in case someone wanted to know more about that person's work - and since I've been very sick for two decades now, a lot of my work circulates in that form, with my permission.
Why is medical science so different from other fields?
I guess I've seen some of what can happen - a chance comment by Dr. Alter at a conference somewhere in central Europe ends up in a story in a Dutch newspaper and suddenly all hell's breaking loose in the United States. But I guess I'm not sure that it should have led to all hell breaking loose.
Maybe it's nothing more than that the press, and the insurance industry and Big Pharma, and policymakers, all care about your work and really don't give two hoots about economic history. So you have to be more careful.
But I still don't understand it.
Thank you.
Peter writes:
hendra - all the dummies come out of the woodwork
kill all the bats
cut down all the trees
Matt writes:
I have been following the latest outbreaks of hendra virus in Australia, it has killed several horses without any positive results in humans so far . It appears that the virus may be able to infect dogs, or at least can cause an immune response in this species. Not sure if this is a case of "if we look hard enough we will find it" or the detection of hendra moving into a new species for the first time.
Enjoy the show,
Ai-Lin writes:
It's fascinating that a virophage would so benefit algae populations in Antarctica, as discussed in TWIV 128. I wonder to what extent these virophages can be used in conjunction with current environmental science studies to mitigate global carbon dioxide levels. As you may know, carbon dioxide concentrations are fast approaching 400 ppm in our global atmosphere, as measured in labs in Mauna Loa, Hawaii. One of the mitigation options environmentalists have proposed to use involves the cultivation of algae blooms in suitable bodies of water to not only fix CO2 from the atmosphere, but also perhaps use the biomass as a form of fuel. Of course, the dilemma lies in algae proliferation in the absence of excess phosphate and nitrogen. What are the possibilities that a strain of this virophage can be created so that it can be used in temperate zones to help this CO2 mitigation option?
Environmental Biology
Barnard College 2011
Ann-Marie writes:
My question to you is related to the many posts you have had about poor coverage of scientific issues in journalism. Although David Tuller is beginning a new dual program at UC Berkley, do you think undergraduate courses could also give the needed scientific background instead of a masters in public health? Clearly every journalist writing about health related topics will not have a major in biology, but do you think that perhaps requiring science classes in a school's core as an undergraduate could also help minimize this problem? And if so, what specific science classes would be most useful (either as an undergrad or while pursuing a MPH)? I suppose my overall question is do you think that this dual program is really the best option, or is there a better way for journalists to acquire a scientific background?
[Here is Dave Tuller's reply]:
Vincent, that's interesting, thanks for sharing. my answer would be, any educational work in these areas would be helpful--adding on the MPH is just one way to do it. Certainly if a student was a public health major as an undergraduate or had a lot of biology/microbiology coursework, that would be a good basis for covering public health, infectious diseases, etc. as a journalist. The MPH I think does add a professional component--you start to think the way someone working in public health would, and that's a very helpful ability to have as a journalist.
Neva writes:
Yes! More tracking initiatives. I notice they do not mention tracking dengue in Central America though.
Blog: Official Google Blog
Post: Using search patterns to track dengue fever
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Media Cabinet Organization
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Looks so great...doesn't it feel good to know there's no longer a messy little secret hiding behind your doors? :) I am also questioning why I never thought to store diapers and wipes in the drawer of our coffee table!ReplyDelete
Jealous of that diaper drawer. I know, of all things. But it would be so handy - no more hauling everyone upstairs just for a clean. Genius! thanks for sharing, lizReplyDeleteReplies
The diaper drawer has been super convenient. When he's out of diapers we'll have another free drawer! :)Delete
I did the same with keeping diapers and wipes in our living room! It makes life so much easier! In fact, I had a basket of diapers & wipes in every room. My twins are almost four. Seems like yesterday I was changing twenty diapers/day! I do not miss those days :-)ReplyDelete
If you don't watch DVDs you could always sell them or donate them. Boxed sets can usually be sold easily through amazon. Amazon actually buys them from you! It was great for us and we made a little extra cash :)ReplyDelete
Like your battery solution!
I'm surprised you don't use rechargeable batteries.ReplyDelete
We match! I too use a utensil organizer for batteries! Great minds... Also, I am in the organizing mood, but after my 4:30 a.m. workout, I think I'm going to take it easy today. Loving all of your organization ideas (the diapers and wipes idea is awesome!)ReplyDeleteReplies
4:30 am?! Wow, that is some dedication! Good for you!Delete
Two things: 1)Take all those DVD's you don't watch to half price books! You won't get a ton for them, but you will get something. 2) Jimmy should sell back his games at game stop next time he goes to get one. Both of these were not easy things to convince Joe to do...but alas it cleared out space and gave us some extra coin. Hope you guys are well!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Kat- that's a great idea. I'm only holding onto the SATC DVD's!! :)Delete
I think it's funny that you store diapers and wipes in your media cabinet! I suppose with a big house it is handy to have everything right there.ReplyDelete
I moved all our DVD's into slim zip up cases - throw out those bulky plastic cases! I did have some anxiety about it and I even saved a couple special collections - but the rest went in black flip cases and I have never looked back. You could have an entire empty cabinet and you also can find everything you need quickly. I bought one case for my daughter's movies, one full of "boy" type movies and one for my husband and I. It has been a great space saver and I don't know why I didn't do it earlier.
I love your built-in media area but I would be constantly messing with those shelves. So many possibilities.
So organized!!!! You are on a roll. I love the labels for James' artwork caddy. I am inspired to get my hidden messes cleaned up!ReplyDelete
I did this last year & believe it or not it's STILL organized! It really is the perfect place for batteries & light bulbs. I'm ready to get on the organizing bandwagon. I've been sick & haven't felt like doing a thing.ReplyDelete
I've been tearing through places too, and I'm shocked at all the extra space it frees up!! and omgee...all that xbox stuff...between that and your j's car...my little j is worshiping him!! ;) (did you follow all those j's?)ReplyDelete
that battery storage is awesome! such a great idea to know exactly what you have and don't. ours are just all thrown in. gotta fix that w/ this!: )ReplyDelete
Looks amazing Megan!! I need to go through ours. We have so many CDs and no one listens to them. Especially now that there is Itunes.ReplyDelete
I don't mean this to sound mean in any way, but it was so refreshing to see the inside of your slightly untidy drawers. It gave me hope!!!! So thank you :)ReplyDelete
Now I can't wait to get going on mine xXx
Hi Megan! I don't know if you know, but batteries swallowed by little ones usually need to be surgically removed pretty quickly if swallowed. I am a peds nurse and have a 2 and a half year old myself and when I saw your post, the batteries jumped out at me. I know they are big, but if you have smaller ones you might want to stick them up higher. Otherwise great job on your media cabinet. It looks awesome! I did the same thing with a diaper drawer in our living room and it changed our life before our toddler was potty trained:) Maggie:)ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes! I realized that after I organized the batteries. I'm moving them to a high shelf that my son can't reach. Thank you for your comment. We have to be so careful with our little ones.Delete
Love your blog! I know your son is only a little man, so who the heck is the owner of the video games?! Your husband is so busted. I laughed because my husband also has video games, which were purchased looooong before our son was old enough to play. What is with men and their toys!ReplyDelete
looks great!!ReplyDelete
Love the battery idea!! Just stole it for my kitchen drawer!!!ReplyDelete
Is your media cabinet custom built or did you purchase it somewhere? It's exactly what I've been looking forReplyDelete


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Do development and scientific study conflict with conservation?
Pat Shipman
What do recently retired scientists do for six weeks on a tiny Caribbean island? My husband and I are fortunate enough to have a holiday home on Little Cayman, where we spend our time swimming, snorkeling, gardening and walking. We supplement our activities with that staff of life, reading. And we go hunting for the rarest snail in the world.
Even before retirement, we had started building a library of books about the Cayman Islands. Little Cayman is about 15 kilometers long by two kilometers wide and has about 170 permanent human residents, so facilities are limited. There is no bookstore and the only library is a book exchange—heavy on beach books and thrillers—at the National Trust House. One of the best books we own about the Cayman Islands is a large compendium called The Cayman Islands: Natural History and Biogeography, published in 1994. Among other topics, it covers geology, vegetation, birds, invertebrates, reptiles and fossils. We dip into various chapters to answer our questions or sometimes simply to increase our knowledge of Little Cayman's natural history.
That's how we learned about Cerion nanus, the rarest snail in the world. That's a big claim for a little snail only about a centimeter long. Cerion is a common genus of air-breathing land snails in the West Indies and the Florida Keys. Different species within the genus either have no common name or are lumped together as "peanut snails" for their general shape. The most common species on Little Cayman, Cerion pannosum, is everywhere: on grasses, bushes and trees, and lying dead on the beach. The second species on Little Cayman, C. nanus, is a most uncommon snail. When we read about C. nanus in Mike Hounsome's chapter on terrestrial invertebrates in The Cayman Islands, we were hooked. As a young man, Mike had participated in the joint Royal Society and Cayman Islands Government Expedition to Little Cayman in 1975, when the island was little known scientifically. The permanent population then consisted of 18 people, "all of whom," Mike later joked with us, "seemed to be named Bodden" (the name of one of the Cayman Islands' most prominent families). Mike is an ornithologist, but, because there was another ornithologist on the expedition, he became responsible for all animals that weren't birds—including snails.
One of the intriguing things about C. nanus is its colorful and enigmatic history in the scientific literature. The snail was first described in 1888 by Charles Johnson Maynard, an eccentric zoologist and professional specimen collector. Maynard somehow persuaded a schooner captain who was sailing several hundred kilometers from Kingston, Jamaica, to Grand Cayman to let him off on Cayman Brac, the middle-sized Cayman Island. How Maynard got to Little Cayman is unrecorded, but he probably got a fisherman or turtler to take him the remaining eight kilometers.
Maynard became a Cerion specialist, although he used an older generic name, Strophia. Maynard was not only eccentric, he was also an overly enthusiastic namer of new species. In his life, he named 248 species of Cerion, 10 of which came from Little Cayman. One of these was the dwarf Strophia, S. nana, which later became Cerion nanus. Only two of his Little Cayman species, Cerion pannosum and C. nanus, are accepted by modern scientists. Maynard published his snail work in 1889 in a journal of his own invention, Contributions to Science, which was printed in very small numbers. He explained in his inaugural issue:
I have long felt the need of some organ wherein I could publish papers upon various scientific subjects, where they would be accessible. To be sure, this could be done in the journals of various natural history societies, but this procedure would defeat one of the very objects that I have in view, that of placing my work of this description in a concentrated form, where it can be had by any one who chooses to procure it, without subscribing to the publications of half a dozen societies.
Reading this, my husband and I deduced that Maynard—self-educated in science with some decidedly peculiar ideas about taxonomy—had suffered from rejections by those journals of various natural-history societies. Nonetheless, what Maynard observed about C. nanus would be irresistible to any curious natural historian. He wrote:
The island of Little Cayman is only ten miles long with an average width of two miles [sic], and is thus a mere spot in the waters of the Caribbean Sea, and the Dwarf Strophias occur in a space which is only five or six yards wide by twenty long, on this little key…. I consider that this species has the most restricted range of any animal with which I am acquainted.
Not only did Maynard conclude that C. nanus existed in a single, small population, he also found it almost exclusively on one plant species now known as Evolvulus squamosus. Also called the rockyplains dwarf morning glory, the species is patchily distributed on Little Cayman but also lives on many other Caribbean islands and in Florida. Maynard pronounced C. nanus "dwarfed to an extreme degree, from feeding on the pungent leaves of the plant described." At only about half the length of C. pannosum, C. nanus seemed to compete with the larger, more ubiquitous snail.
These observations raised a surprisingly complex question: What exactly does rare mean? Is it small in numbers, small in territory, highly specific in habitat—or some combination of those characteristics? Several scientific groups have addressed these questions. NatureServe assesses the rarity of a species by a combination of six factors: the population size, the extent of the species' total range, the part of the range actually occupied by the species, the number of distinct populations, the percentage of the range with good viability or ecological integrity, and the variety of environments the species can inhabit. Because Maynard found only a single population of the species, with a very small range and high environmental specificity (it lives on one plant species), C. nanus is rare on several counts.
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature uses a different system to assess a species' vulnerability to extinction, a measure that is roughly equivalent to rarity. A species is considered critically endangered—the category for the rarest organisms—if it is distributed over a range of less than 100 square kilometers or if it actually occupies less than 10 square kilometers within its range. Since Little Cayman has a total area of only about 26 square kilometers, all species restricted to that island automatically meet the first criterion and most meet the second. Mike Hounsome wrote the report that declared C. nanus to be critically endangered, not only because of its highly restricted range but also because of the ongoing loss of its shrubland habitat to development.
When Mike located Maynard's study site on Little Cayman in 1975, he couldn't find any living dwarf Cerion, only dead ones. The larger C. pannosum, however, was abundant. To Mike, it looked like Maynard's hypothesis might be correct: Perhaps the large Cerion had outcompeted and replaced the smaller species. But at another location only about a kilometer away, Mike found that both species were alive after all—and their relationship was not so clear. C. nanus lived only on Evolvulus, sometimes alone and sometimes sharing a plant with C. pannosum. Occasionally the larger snail was the only species on an individual Evolvulus shrub, but it could also live on different plants altogether. Furthermore, 30 percent of the Evolvulus plants at Mike's new site had no snails at all. It seemed there was food to spare, but the two species still appeared together on the same plants more often than would be expected by chance. Certainly, the dwarf Cerion had not (yet?) been displaced and gone extinct at this location, as it had at Maynard's old site. Mike wondered "Why not?" but found no definitive answer.
A species that is confined to an island, as C. nanus is, can rapidly become much smaller in size when natural selection favors little individuals that thrive with limited resources. This biological phenomenon, known as island dwarfing, is fairly common among mammals and birds. But Mike's observations suggested that, on Little Cayman, the larger snail may have had the advantage. When he found Maynard's original site, it was crowded with snails—but rather than outcompete the larger snails, the dwarf species had disappeared entirely. And at the second site, why were one-third of the plants free of snails? If competition triggered dwarfing, why would the larger Cerion be more common than the smaller species, which could surely prosper on a smaller food supply?
With these tantalizing bits of information in hand, my husband and I decided to find the rarest snail in the world, if we could. Was it still living, or had it gone extinct since Mike last saw it in 1975? Was it really confined to the Evolvulus plant? Was the dwarf species actually more common than it seemed, rare only because of the difficulty of searching the uncut, dry scrubland? To find the snail and answer our questions, we would have to resolve a few problems. Maynard's description of his collecting site was vague: "on the west end of Little Cayman, on the eastern most of the two paths that cross the island." There were three modern candidates for these two paths, one of which is now paved, one of which is still a path and the third of which is enormously overgrown. We opted to search the easy places first. Mike had given a good description of the habitat in which he had found C. nanus and we knew a place that sounded ideal.
The second problem was that neither of us knew enough botany. Evolvulus is in the same family as morning glories but "looks nothing like one," Mike informed us helpfully. In our photocopy of one of Mike's publications, the picture of Evolvulus was not clear. Maynard had described the plant as "heathlike" and about "18 inches high." He mentioned that its small gray leaves were about the same color as the snail shells and gave off a strong odor when crushed. A botanical description of the plant mentioned its "scalelike leaves"—a phrase we did not know how to interpret. Google Images produced wildly varying depictions of plants said to be Evolvulus.
The third complication was that we didn't intend to take live specimens of such a rare species without a permit, so even if we found the snails, we wouldn't be able to answer all our questions. For example, if C. nanus and C. pannosum were closely related (which a careful DNA study would reveal—if only we had a DNA lab), perhaps the dwarf species had evolved from the larger one. With more samples of Cerion from other islands, genetic analyses could unravel the fascinating story of the spread and subsequent isolation and evolution of Cerion on different land masses.
There are three main ways a snail could travel from island to island: in the beak or talons of some bird, attached to a floating log or other flotsam during hurricanes, or in a boat, as an inadvertent stowaway. The stowaway concept is not as unlikely as it seems. A number of snails crawled into some of Maynard's collecting barrels full of corals, and he discovered them when he got home to Newton, Massachusetts. Charmingly, the snails woke up after six months' travel and crawled around his garden, apparently quite happy, until cold weather came. But such unreliable modes of long-distance transportation mean that snails from islands separated by long water crossings rarely meet. These islands tend to evolve their own endemic species of Cerion. A scientist with the right permits and tools might find a fascinating evolutionary history in the DNA of C. nanus and its relatives. After all, the renowned evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould started his career by studying the morphology of Cerion and its adaptability in the Bahamas. But first, we simply wanted to find out if the little snail was still alive.
We set out one morning, equipped with plastic bags, brushes, a sieve, sunscreen, a camera and a flask of water, to look for snails. We hiked to a habitat we thought sounded right: an area off one of the main roads where there had once been a historic house belonging to Captain Woody. The captain was a remarkable man who had cleared, by hand, the original airstrip on Little Cayman in the 1960s. The area where his house had stood was fairly open, with lots of exposed limestone bedrock and thickets of small trees and shrubs with sparse undergrowth.
After roughly 15 minutes of scouring the ground and picking up snails that were not C. nanus, my husband cried "Got it!" He'd found an empty C. nanus shell among many more C. pannosum shells. Whereas the C. pannosum shell is about the size of a large plump peanut and is white—sometimes with brown highlights on its rough surface—the C. nanus shells are only half as long and rather svelte, not as thick as a pencil. They are mostly grayish or white. Once we had finally seen a dwarf shell ourselves, we quickly found more. We went home that day with about a dozen dead specimens. We were very proud of our success in our first venture into malacology.
But where was the Evolvulus bush? Or rather, which was the bush? None of the plants near the dead shells fit the description. Many had grayish leaves and pungent odors when crushed, as do many plants in dry habitats. But most were taller than half a meter. None had any C. nanus shells clinging to them. Eventually we discovered that the heathlike bush with scalelike leaves looked like a tangle of dead twigs because we were searching during the dry season. Everything living in such a seasonal habitat must adapt to dramatic changes in moisture, and Evolvulus did so by dropping its leaves and dying back.
In the days that followed, we corresponded by e-mail with Mike, obtained more information online about our quarry, and spent a few more hours searching for snails. Checking former paths and likely habitats, we found dead dwarf Cerion intermingled with the larger live and dead Cerion and other snails. We hacked and squirmed our way through overgrown trails, so thick we could not see each other if we were more than 3 or 4 meters apart. But if we could see any Evolvulus plants, we checked the area out. We found those habitats to be scratchy, mosquito-ridden and mostly snail-free.
The rarest snail in the world is also rare in institutions: Only four museums in the world have specimens. One is the Smithsonian Institution, which sent out an expedition in 1930 that included ornithologist Paul Bartsch, who spent two days collecting snails at Maynard's original site. In an unpublished article, Bartsch wrote alarmingly that he and his team "found Maynard's C. nanus quite abundant, and gathered two eight-ounce bottles full of them." Two bottles full!? We were aghast. After days of fairly diligent searching, we had found about 75 dead snails. Mike had collected a total of 87. Bartsch had clearly taken thousands of snails from Maynard's original site, which might well have been almost the entire living population in 1930. No wonder Mike found no live snails there in 1975! Had the acquisitiveness of a scientific collector pushed C. nanus into extinction?
This horrifying thought made us stop and reconsider what we were doing. We were picking up shells, like any tourist on the beach, and we hadn't thought to inquire about a permit. (We did so the very next day.) Were we picking up the last shells ever of C. nanus?
Spurred on by our shared curiosity, Mike dug out and sent us his unpublished field map, which showed where he had found living and dead snails. This guide helped us relocate the old sites. Sadly, we found that a house had been built on Maynard's original collecting site, where we saw no sign of dwarf Cerion. Next, we searched for the only site where Mike had found living snails in 1975. Following his map, we drove slowly along the road, watching the odometer. Then we crested a slight rise and saw it: an area that had been completely bulldozed and covered in sand for parking heavy construction machinery. Diligent but downhearted searching around its edges yielded only one or two dead C. nanus shells.
Just when we began to fear the worst for C. nanus, we took a hard look at the 2009 Cayman Islands National Biodiversity Plan. We discovered that Mat Cottam, a terrestrial ecologist in the Cayman Islands' Department of the Environment, had been monitoring the C. nanus population for years, as has Fred Burton, a naturalist based on Grand Cayman. We felt rather foolish: We had been looking for a rare snail that we thought nobody knew about, but Caymanian ecologists had been on the job all along! We contacted Mat right away. At least he had good news. Mat happily told us that he had found live C. nanus in 2010 and expected to find them again in 2011. He also confirmed our hunch that we were hunting C. nanus at the wrong time of year. Mike's old notes showed that he found live dwarf snails only during the rainy season, but the rains hadn't yet begun by the time we had to leave the island. Mat verified that in the dry season, C. nanus estivates, going into a state similar to hibernation, and seeks hidden, protected areas. With our holiday snail hunt behind us, we waited for Mat to e-mail us with news that this little mollusk is still alive. We got it in August, with the rainy season in full swing!
What do retired scientists do on vacation? They search for the rarest snail in the world, even though hardly anyone knows it exists and fewer still know it is "missing." The continued existence of C. nanus will be a quiet sort of triumph. Tiny countries and tiny islands often have big problems with the survival of rare species. Despite the odds, one very small, very uncommon snail—one seemingly insignificant creature of unusual habits and great vulnerability—has survived competition, the paving of roads, bulldozers and development for another year.
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Or perhaps he will be out of the rotation....a changing of the guard, if you will....
He'll get lost on the Underground........The wrong queue.......without a clue.
Anyone any luck with getting tickets?
Its a good thing the game is in January at this rate. Team should be warmed up by then.
I did, but by the time I had conferred with friends I ended up with nosebleed seats. Bloody expensive too - decent bays were about $200 while I ended up with mine for $120.
At that price...with this team...I hope you also got dinner, and a good room for the night.
It's still probably 50/50 that you can get hit by a Pistons air ball in your seats.
I went through the O2 site to get my tickets. It took me three tries getting worst tickets every time :-(. I managed to get tickets for level 1 but after selecting the seats, i went to the pay out and the site threw me out. Once i was back in 10 sec later only the level 4 tickets were still there. So i managed to get different tickets but this time way up in level 4. It said anything better was sold out. When i had paid the tickets it suddenly showed they were for seperate seats (seat numbers got changed and were very far apart)). Since i am going with my 12 year old son seperate seats is not an option. So i went in again and finally managed to get 2 seats next to eachother. This means i still have 2 seperate (single) seats available if anyone wants to buy any. Price will be the original price for which i bought them, around 65 British pounds. If anyone is interested then just send me a msg through the site. @ Del; what section are you in?
I heard the Pistons are so bad you pay less the closer to the floor you sit.
I can't wait to hear game reports from those that attend this game!!
I'll be there, picked up some decent seats.
I was in a similar boat to you; was in training in London when the tickets were released and trying to confirm with my mate in London and girlfriend in Geneva how much they wanted to pay. By the time I decided I would just pay the difference of their tickets to sit closure, the section 1 were gone and the section 4 ones near the rail that I had settled on, had also gone. I ended up in middle of section 4 and not very happy about it considering the (final) price (GBP65). Also seeing how empty the Palace is and that I could get similar seats in a cereal packet at the moment. Add in the return flights from Geneva (CHF365) and a hotel (GBP100), and I'm looking at around CHF600 ~ USD600. There is a resale site below if you want to move closure (or sell your extra tickets) but you are looking at GBP170+ Detroit Pistons vs. New York Knicks The O2 arena London Tickets | Thursday, 17 January 2013 - viagogo
Watching Rod Stuckey and his .282 shooting percentage is worth every euro! The bright side of sitting in section 4 is that the farther away you get from the court, the better the Pistons look. The most entertaining part of this game is a chance to see and hear EuroSheed in action for the Knicks. ...I'm totally jealous. What's the over/under on how many times Sheed says "bloody ball don't lie!"?
Sitting in section 4 can't be worse than watching the Pistons play from the upper bowl in the Silverdome. We used to do that all of the time.
How big of a nightmare would it be for the franchise if it turned out that we were getting punk'd and our real opponent is going to be the harlem globetrotters?
Perhaps the winless Pistons could take over the role of the Washington Generals, who won only 6 games and lost over 13,000. It was the Generals, though, that broke the Globetrotters 2,499-game winning streak with a 100-99 victory in 1971.
In case anybody still want tickets, i have 2 spare ones: Seats: Block 413, Row C, Seat 745 Block 413, Row J, Seat 762 Total Cost: £ 134.80 (original price) Send me a msg on the website if you are interested.
I am almost certain I will be out of the country that week, so I know I can't make it
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So I've started painting my GMH, and I'm noticing now that the visor area is trimmed and sanded, the corners of the eye slits are showing stress cracks as the mandibles spread apart.
I'm hoping it's just the resin outer layer, and not the fiberglass (I doubt it...), but does anyone have any ideas to reinforce the cracks so they don't get worse?
I'm thinking of adding a layer of JB Weld on the inside, behind the cracks as insurance. But if it's not through the fiberglass, should I just let it be?