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When Joseph Wilson was in the market for a pre-fabricated shed, he knew where to look for a good deal.
While at work one afternoon, Wilson pulled up on his iPad some sheds available on the Home Depot website. The prices looked reasonable, but he still wanted to clear the purchase with his wife.
That night, at home, Wilson pulled up the same shed on Home Depot's website. This time, he used their PC desktop computer.
The price was $100 less.
Curious and a little confused Wilson mailed a letter to Home Depot's president looking for an answer to the price discrepancy.
After a couple of weeks, a representative from Home Depot's service department called Wilson. He was told the discrepancy in online shed prices was because of regional pricing.
"There are so many factors that go into regional pricing," said Jennifer King, a senior manager of external communications and social media at Home Depot.
Factors such as supply, demand and local taxes can affect why identical items might have different prices at different stores, she said.
If a consumer does not choose a particular store location on the website, they will be shown a national price, King said.
Wilson determined the price difference he saw was caused by not choosing a store location on his iPad, which then gave him a national price. When he looked up the shed at home, the site displayed the nearest store's price.
The site was trying to present a Home Depot experience based on the data from two different computers that both happened to be owned by Wilson.
And that's supposed to happen, King said. Home Depot collects data based on where consumers click and the site could look different depending on your search history.
It's not a secret that companies target customers in their advertising.
In this digital age of mobile phones, tablets and computers, people spend more time and buy more products online, said Gerald Patnode, a professor of marketing and chair of the Graham School of Business at York College.
Advertisers recognize the new media and embrace it to connect with consumers, he said. Orbitz, the online travel company, publicized their data mining strategy this summer after various wire reports claimed Apple users were seeing higher prices than people searching on a PC.
Barney Harford, Orbitz CEO, wrote an op-ed column in USA Today explaining how the company uses consumer information.
It's all about collecting information about where people click, Harford said, not what type of computer is being used. The company collects your data and then tailors your next visit to the website to reflect your previous choices.
For example, what type of hotel room you like to reserve or how much you're willing to pay.
Home Depot collects data based on where consumers click, and the site could look different depending on your search history.
This marketing strategy isn't new, Patnode said. Advertisers have been collecting information on what consumers buy for decades.
"The change is the accessibility of information," he said. "There [are] no more secrets."


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I placed menthol crystals in my hive two weeks ago............. a few crystals maybe 10-15 on the bottom screen from where I guess the bees had tried to physically remove the menthol them selves. Would this small amount prevent the queen from coming back inside?
..cluster is about the size of your fist. And there is a lot of activity at the front entrance. .
Also it is supposed to get down to around 40 degrees tonight..
Should I spray them with sugar water and scoop them into a box a put them back in the hive? I need advice on what to do.


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- CP CML within 6 months of diagnosis
- CP-CML will be defined by (i) <15% blasts in bone marrow; (ii) <30% blasts plus promyelocytes in bone marrow; (iii) <20% basophils in peripheral blood; (iv) ≥100 × 10^9/L platelets (≥100,000/mm^3); (v) No evidence of extramedullary disease except hepatosplenomegaly; AND (vi) No prior diagnosis of AP-CML or BP-CML
- Cytogenetic assessment must demonstrate the BCR-ABL fusion by presence of the t(9;22) Philadelphia chromosome
- (a)Variant translocations are only allowed provided they are assessable for cytogenetic response utilizing conventional cytogenetic techniques; (b) Conventional chromosome banding must be performed; AND (c) A minimum of 20 metaphases must be assessable at entry
- ECOG Performance Status of 0, 1, or 2
- Adequate hepatic function as defined by the following criteria:
(a) Total serum bilirubin ≤1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN), unless due to Gilbert's syndrome; (b) Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤2.5 × ULN; AND (c) Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤2.5 × ULN
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- Adequate pancreatic function as defined by serum lipase and amylase ≤1.5 × ULN
- Received prior imatinib therapy
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- Received prior nilotinib therapy
- Received, for CML, any other systemic anticancer therapy, experimental therapy, or radiation therapy with the exception of anagrelide or hydroxyurea
- Major surgery within 28 days prior to initiating therapy
- History of bleeding disorder unrelated to CML
- History of acute pancreatitis within 1 year of study or history of chronic pancreatitis
- History of alcohol abuse
- Have uncontrolled hypertriglyceridemia (triglycerides >450 mg/dL)
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(a) Myocardial infarction, unstable angina and/or congestive heart failure within 3 months prior to randomization; OR (b) History of clinically significant (as determined by the treating physician) atrial arrhythmia or any ventricular arrhythmia
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - NC State won a quartet of three-set singles matches Friday afternoon to prevail over North Carolina 6-1 in men's tennis action at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
After winning the doubles point, NC State led 2-1 after the squads split singles matches at #1 and #3. State had won the first set on the other four courts only to see Carolina sweep the second sets on all four courts. But the Wolfpack persevered, claiming three-set victories at #2, #4, #5 and #6.
The win was the first for the Wolfpack over the Tar Heels since a 5-2 win on March 4, 2009 in Raleigh.
Carolina sole singles win came at the top spot in the lineup where 35th-ranked Esben Hess-Olesen won a decisive 6-2, 6-3 decision over Robbie Mudge.
NCSU won the doubles point with an 8-6 win over the Tar Heels at the #3 spot after the two teams split at #1 and #2. Mudge and Thomas Weigel edged Brett Clark and Oystein Steiro at #3.
Carolina had its chances in the third sets of the close singles matches and actually led at the #2, #4 and #5 spots only to fall short as the Wolfpack came back to claim all three of those third sets.
The Tar Heels are back in action Sunday when they host #8 Duke at 1 p.m. at the Cone-Kenfield Tennis Center.
#44 NC State 6, #57 North Carolina 1
(Team Winning Majority Of Matches Earns One Team Point)
Order of match finish: (1,2,3)
1. #12 Dave Thomason/Sean Weber (NCSU) d. Esben Hess-Olesen/Maik Ulrich (UNC), 8-5
2. William Parker/Nelson Vick (UNC) d. Beck Bond/Austin Powell (NCSU), 8-5
3. Robbie Mudge/Thomas Weigel (NCSU) d. Brett Clark/Oystein Steiro (UNC), 8-6
Singles (One Team Point Per Singles Match)
Order of match finish: (1,3,6,4,5,2)
1. #35 Esben Hess-Olesen (UNC) d. Robbie Mudge (NCSU), 6-2, 6-3
2. Thomas Weigel (NCSU) d. #113 Nelson Vick (UNC), 7-5, 2-6, 6-4
3. Austin Powell (NCSU) d. #104 Brett Clark (UNC), 7-6 (7-4), 6-2
4. Dave Thomson (NCSU) d. William Parker (UNC), 6-4, 0-6, 7-6 (10-8)5. Sean Weber (UNC) d. #114 Oystein Steiro (UNC), 6-4, 6-7 (4-7), 6-4
6. Beck Bond (NCSU) d. Andrew Gores (UNC), 6-4, 4-6, 6-3
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The headwaters to the Florida Everglades start all the way up in Orlando, where Shingle Creek starts the flow of freshwater south to Florida Bay. Before the developers and the sugar plantations got to it, the massive flow moved unimpeded through a complex 8.9 million acre web of lakes, rivers, and marshes down into the mangrove estuaries of the southern coast.
The Everglades hasn't been what it is supposed to be in over a century, since the election of Napoleon Bonaparte Broward as the state's 19th governor, and along with that his mission to drain the Glades, starting with the New River Canal in 1906.
The National Park today consists of 1.5 million acres of protected wetlands. It's deathly hot, bug infested, wild, dangerous, and free of the doughy tentacles of suburbia. To me, that's beautiful.


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modifying a 74 Blazer's transmission and transfer case
I own a 1974 Chevy Blazer. I do not use it for heavy 4x4 action. The hardest I may ever use it is to go explore old logging roads etc in the mountains or pull a trailer.
I use it mostly as an every day highway driver. I want to go to a 700R4 transmission, but was told it would be in my best interest to also change out my transfer case and go with a 208.
I currently have the stock 203 transfer case. What kind of work would I need to have done to my vehicle to change over to a 700R4 transmission and a 208 transfer case?
I was told that in addition to the transfer case and transmission I would need to have my drive shafts adjusted, my carburetor adjusted, and get new lock out hubs for my front axle so it will operate as a 2 wheel drive vehicle.
Is there more I need to know or be on the look out for? What are the benefits of a 208 over a 203 other than the 2-wheel drive option?
Thank you for any help and insight you can provide.
With that many replacements it's going to be more of a transformation work than a modification one. Good luck let me see if I can help by asking some of my expert folks to chime in.
No one can hlep Im surrious as well.....
If you find a donor truck, its an easy switch. You can do it without a donor, but would have to get the right length driveshafts made up.
The NP203 transfer case gets a lot of bad press, but its really not a bad case. Its heavy, but durable, and the full-time 4WD is very convenient if you want 4WD but may be going on and off hard surfaces. If yours has been rebuilt already, that's even better.
For a swap you would need the 4wd version of the 700r4, and if you find one in a GM truck it will probably be mated to an NP208 already. Its probably just easier to buy the combo and install it together. Getting the right driveshafts is relatively easy, since that combo was used in early to mid eighties Blazers. Any decent driveshaft shop should be able to make them for you, or you may be able to buy them off the shelf.
You don't need the lockout hubs right away, but without them you will always be turning over the front axle, even in 2WD. You don't need a carb adjustment, but you need to add a TV cable for the 700R4, and some way to run the lockup torque converter. There are add-on kits from several sources.
Do you know what axle ratio your Blazer has? On pickups the 700r4 is nice because many have the 4.10 axle, but some Blazers have more in the range of 3.00-3.23 ratio.
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Basking in the fun Superbowl weekend atmosphere, Ashley Greene and Audrina Patridge joined Channing Tatum at his New Orleans bar, Saint & Sinners, in Louisiana on Saturday (February 2).
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Aside from the lively evening with friends, Channing also got to be a part of the sports world, as he took part in the second annual NFL honors gathering.
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The grip angle is different - that is why.
I have a Glock 34 - Its a longer slide with the Glock 17 frame. I like it - but I've owned Glocks for years. I can pick up 1 gun and then pick up the glock, and both aim fine for me. I guess I am just used to it.


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Building the mandibles.
You will need these temps here:
Just like before I glued the cheek templates on the styreene and cut them out with regular scissors.
The cheekbone and the cheekbone backplate was glued to each other with special styreen glue. Brought together, the material is 2mm thick. The extra border you will get is very helpful when bring all cheek parts together.
Good idea Alan !!
Because the 1mm styreen is not very bendable I cut the cheekbone parts in 4 pieces. SD68 did it in the same way, it really worked well, thanx SD !!
All cheekbone borders were directly sticked, only with super glue.
It almost unbelievable how strong super glue bonds styrene together! Absolut fantastic!!
I started with the bottom mandible parts first I glued them very roughly in position. After checking their position I assembled everything together.
After that, I reinforced all seems with styreen stripes.
The right side:
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I thought I was seeing things when the words on the helmet were in German, but then I noticed you were from Germany.
Wanderbar! Alles sieht sehr fantastich aus!
Attaching the dome
Attaching the dome was very simple. Because the dome should be a little smaller than the helmet main body ring, I wrapped 1mm extra layers of tape around the dome. I did overlaping the tape over the dome's rim so I could insert the dome a little to the body. Then I fixed the dome outside with a lot tape to the body.
With glass mats and resin I glued the dome to the body permanently.
After hardening I could remove the tape layers very easily...
This picture I took right after attaching the dome:
The visor is just drawn with a permanent marker. The cheeks here are sanded already a little:
The visor I cut out partial. To strengthen and to round off the contruction I glued a piece of WOF "Helmet Base" as bridge temporarily in.
Ihr Helm schaut sehr gut. Sie haben die Oberkiefer genau richtig gemacht
I don't think my german is that good
Wanderbar! Alles sieht sehr fantastich aus!Your German is so nice !! How you all know it so well? :thumbupIhr Helm schaut sehr gut. Sie haben die Oberkiefer genau richtig gemacht
Thank you very much
Excellent job!!! This is look better with every post. Thank you very much to taking on this task. It is such a big load off my back I can't even describe.
When it is complete maybe we could work together to create a PDF downloadable version to include with the helmet templates. Let me know what you think of the idea?
Keep up the great work.
Absolutely a great idea Alan !! I would like to that with you !When it is complete maybe we could work together to create a PDF downloadable version to include with the helmet templates. Let me know what you think of the idea?
But sometimes I may not have taken photos of every single step which might be necessary. I worked and worked and worked and later I thought, oh no I forgot to take photos in between...
Also my way to build the helmet might be a little unusual sometimes comparing to yours ??
Anyway, the helmet is almost done, I think it has a little similarity to the Boba bucket
I'm sure someone else here is going to attempt the WOF templates. Digifett, let us know what steps you did take pictures of. Whatever you didn't photograph, someone else can. That way, Alan can have a full set of pictures of all the steps.
Wow... very nice tutorial! Well done! And the Helmet looks great.
I'm going to build my own Mando-helmet, and this thread was and will be a great help! I'm from Germany, too, and because of my bad English-skills I've problems to understand some thing written in this Forum, but this tutorial is realy great and even I'm able to understand it (and i hope you English-speaking guys are able to understand me)
I'm actually looking for all the materials i will need and I'm going to start working on my helmet next weekend (if I find time to do this).
@digifett: So if you need some aditional photos, let me know!
Großartiges Tutorial. Vielen Dank auch für die vielen Bilder. Hoffe ja das ich auch irgendwann mal an meinem Versuch weiterbastele und der dann genauso gut aussieht, dir auf jeden Fall noch viel Erfolg und viel Spaß (hast ja hoffentlich heute genug Zeit ;-)) und weiter fleißig Bilder posten. Liebe Grüße. Und nicht wundern warum mein Deutsch so gut ist, liegt daran das ich auch aus Deutschland komme. Grüße aus Dresden.
Ok for the members who didn´t understand the first part, i will translate the main part:
Great tutorial, thank you verry much for the pictures, i hope that when i start reworking at my first attempt, it will look as great as your does. wish you all the best with working on your helmet and keep up posting pictures. greetz. and do not wonder why my german is so good and my english so bad, thats why i came from germany too. ;-)
Thank you so much for all the nice complements, ideas and the German greetings !! Today I found the time to make another chapter:
Applying the mask:
The helmet has some elevated parts, thats what I will call "The Mask"
It also includes the head band and the sideburns.
To spare some styrene material and to simplify the gluing of those big parts, I cut the mask in many simple parts. Here you can see my way I cut the WOF temps. Each blue color shading represents a single new part:
Starting with the right mask part -the biggest part- I began at the exact middle of the eye area using first super glue for about 1cm, before be very sure the mask is perfectly aligned !! The rest of the mask I glued with the polystyrene cement, being patient and glued and pressed each cm one by one... Be sure you use a lot of the polystyrene cement, when it comes out a little on each sides, then it is perfect. Keep the cement becoming hard and later on cut it off with the scalpel.
With all other mask parts use the same applying method.
See here, with the mask applied the Boba bucket slowly wins its characteristic charm ! The visors rim is now twice as thick.
I've been lurking these forums for the past month and a half to 2 months and I read this thread every day for inspiration. Your helmet is amazing. Hopefully I'll have mine starting to shape very soon. Thanks for helping me achieve one of my dreams in having my own armor and helmet.
man thats a great job and awesome step by step
Smoothing out the cheeks:
Hence of the polystyrene 1mm material is pretty stiff, the corners of the cheeks compared to the original helmet are very very sharp. To smooth out the corners I used a special shaped scraper, car body fine polyester filler and sandpaper grain 300.
The special shaped scraper I built from a left over of polystyrene. As guide for the scrapers curve I just used a bottom of a small can, marked it with a permanent marker and cut out the shape.
After mixing the filler you have only 2 min to get the correct shape. So before I practiced the movement of my hand a couple of times. The trick is to flatten the scrapers angle during the filling process, that varies the curvature to the outside and makes it a little wider. For me it looked like the original has that.
So after mixing the putty it is important that you fill the corner in one move, you start at the inner side and move pretty straight outwards. If the shape is not what you expected do the same movement again form the beginning to the end. When you stop in the middle of the filling process you will get waves or bumps, later on its much harder to sand them away.
This photo I took right after the filling procedure.
This was after sanding a little bit, it looks pretty close to the original, what do you think? (Unfortunately not the dome...I know)
Very nice!
**Bump** for progress.
Anything yet?
I am sorry it took so long but I am way too busy right now. Please forgive me.
But today I will start with my favorite part on this helmet:
The adventure of building the perfect key slots!
Needed WOF templates:
After reading SD68 did his way building them, I thought there must be an easier way! Why I should bend the material in a complicated way, when I just can buy a perfectly bended material?? As I went to a building center, I found these nice sink pipes in the perfect size. Unfortunately their are made of Polypropylene. Its a very strong and extremely ductile material. In the beginning I thought it doesn't matter, but it did. This material is terrible!! It's almost impossible to cut, you will never get sharp edges, so please forget this idea
I never found any other cheap and perfect sized pipe material, so I must say:
SD68 way is the best way!!
This is his idea:
Cut out the styrene using Alan's wonderful flat keyslot template.
Use the scalpel and your scissors for the outside shape. The keyslots are being cut out by the scalpel only.
Then push it a around a hard and heat resistant tube. Here I used a slim bottle.
But again here I did a small mistake. I cooked the material for about 10min. That was way too long!! The whole thing shrank and became way to small, also all the thin parts became wavy. All the work for nothing... again!
As I think the material was too thin for all the heat, I decided a saver way. Again I cut out the same shape like before using Alans keyslot temp. But this time I did not cut out the entire keyslots. Instead, I just cut 2/3 way through.
I bought a metal tube with 42mm diameter. Using the same fiberglass tape I fixed the keyslot on the tube. Over the keyslot part I put some styrene left over to have a consistent pressure. I wrapped the fiberglass tape around it to have even more consistent pressure.
The I cooked it for only 2 minutes !!!
See here the fixing tape.
The advantage is, you get a stronger and more heat resistant part. After when it's bend, you don't have to push or cut a lot on this very filigree part and may risk a crack or a deformation. With little pressure and a tiny cut from the other side I could push out slot after slot.
The result was perfect for me. Finally!!
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Haha! Very cool! This helmet is turning out fantastic!
Great work! I wish I'd thought of it
Hey digifett. I did something similar for my vent. I didn't cut the slots in the pipe though. All I did was cut the keyhole part out of card stock and glued it on the surface of the pipe. This meant there were no holes in my sculpture. The shape of the keyholes on the surface of the plastic pipe section was enough to use as a guide for cutting after casting.
But it just occured to me that I don't think you intend to cast your helmet... so maybe my method isn't very useful to you anyway. Besides, what you did worked great. So I'll just shaddap now.
No, that is a absolutely great idea! It's really a smart way to build a mold master.so maybe my method isn't very useful to you anyway. Besides, what you did worked great. So I'll just shaddap now.
I needed open keyholes because I want to put a MQ-1 circuit board behind it. I am note sure now, maybe later I will take a cast of my helmet to build a Jango version... Thank you a lot for your nice tip!
Nice work!
This is my first time modeling something at this size. So please forgive my questions.
Today I was working on a cardboard mocking up (before I start the polystyrene version).
Now I have some questions.
1. How wide did you make the dome base (after you removed the center material?
2. How did you fuse the helmet's back seam together? I noticed in a few of your photos you had some holes in the back. With my mock up the seam keeps splitting apart and the helmet has lost it's shape.
Keep up the awesome work.
The WOF blueprints have a pattern for the dome base. What I did was print the pattern, put it together, then cut it out of one piece of foam-core board.
Also, you can glue a wide piece of extra plastic sheeting in the back to fuse it together. The cardboard is very unforgiving when it comes to seems on a curve. Plastic holds together pretty well with tape.
Hey, Digifett, any new pics yet?


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General Electric: No Reason to Buy, JPMorgan Says
This year hasn't been kind to General Electric (GE), and JPMorgan doesn't see any reason for that to change soon.
Shares of General Electric have fallen 10% this year, easily outpacing 3M's (MMM) 7.4% loss and Danaher's (DHR) 3.7% drop.
JPmorgan's C. Stephen Tusa, Drew Pierson and Rajat Gupta explain why General Electric's drop isn't a buying opportunity:
We see little relative reason to buy [General Electric] as we think the stock enters 2014 with few upside catalysts, earnings risk, and an increasingly weak Bull case. The 4Q ultimately missed Industrial guidance that was never officially reduced, capping another year of mixed execution...With incremental details having emerged on '14, we are cutting our Industrial segment margins to reflect more challenging mix, and now expect just 25bps expansion (below the 40bps/yr target), a difference between us and Consensus that we think shows up in continued negative earnings revisions. While relevance of details in such a big and complex portfolio can be discussed, there should be no debate around this most important item – the direction of earnings, for which we just don't know how long Bulls can cut and paste the same "cutting numbers, reiterate buy" title that's been in place for the last 15 quarters (some for the last 10 years). With more conviction in our below-Consensus estimates, limited upside levers from cash deployment, and valuation still not supportive (Industrial P/E implied at parity with group), we remain on the sidelines.
Citigroup removed General Electric from its focus list last week.
Shares of General Electric have gained 0.8% today at 11:28 a.m., while 3M has dipped 0.2% to $130 and Danaher has gained 0.2% to $74.30.


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Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by DelmarRey View Post
The OP said nothing about cutting off any keel. He wants to add to the bottom.
It's funny how stuff Gets misread. It's just the link I provided gives that option, but not necessary.
As far as leaks, once it's bolted on, one can just fair-in and FG/epoxy over the new bulb just like it were part of the original keel. Simple as that!
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
I like my cutaway forefoot keel on my old '66 C-29 Columbia more every day...My girl's 2 to 1 disp.to ballast ratio makes up for alot of what she don't have in room (8' beam) and speed (6.36 kts) but at least I know if I get slapped down by an errant T-storm outflow with canvas up that I am probably going to bounce back into the game...and for the record..I would say add the lead...might be a bit more ungainly in performance possibly as it is not factored into the original architect's design but it probably gets her back on her feet more quickly in a knockdown at least..that's my take but differnt strokes for differnt folks...I'm a coastal cruiser..a racer may tell you something else..
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by SlowButSteady View Post
Since these guys are cutting off part of the keel, in preparation to adding a bulb, the resultant is likely to provide less lift. Remember, the keel of the boat provides both a righting moment and fluid dynamic lift, with the latter giving the boat its pointing ability. Reduce the foil by 15 or 20 percent, an you are likely to reduce the lift provided by the keel by 15 or 20 percent. Sure, the boat might have a similar, or even greater, righting moment as it did before the "surgery". however, it's also likely to loose some pointing ability unless the keel is somehow further modified (which is probably much more difficult).
Originally Posted by micheck
One additional question and then I will go in a corner and think!
I am 'considering' adding a lead 'boot' to the bottom of my fin keel; this would serve as a sacrificial element protecting my fiberglass keel with internal balast and would provide additional righting moment that would help 'stand up' the boat. I am looking at an additional 500# on a 12000# sailboat with a current ballast of 4000#.
I have, however, read that standing a boat up with additional balast is a good thing in strong winds, it is detrimental to the performance in light winds. I'm confused - I thought that standing up a sailboat was a good idea. Good/bad - Yes/No - Why?
As far as leaks, once it's bolted on, one can just fair-in and FG/epoxy over the new bulb just like it were part of the original keel. Simple as that!
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by DelmarRey View Post
I've always thought they were called bulbs >>> MarsKeel Technology Keel Draft Reductions
And you can get them custom made to fit your keel.
The next question is; can your mast and rigging take the extra stress (COE/COR). It's a good thing you don't have keel bolts.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
No matter what you decide, the execution is paramount.
I have sailed for 4 years on an '85 C & C 32, originally built with the standard fin keel. One of the two previous owners reduced the draft to the designed optional centerboard draft and installed a bulb. Not sure, but it may have been installed at the yard I worked at in the '80s. While the bulb dealt with the draft target there were two negative changes -
1) the boat exhibits considerable weatherhelm upwind with winds over about 12-15 knots resulting in difficult steering, regardless of any tuning changes, although reefing the main does help. We have shifted weight, filled tanks, emptied tanks, with little result. When we are heading upwind we try to cram as much crew weight as possible aft. The conclusion is that when the draft was reduced water flow to the rudder changed. When observing the same model with factory installed centerboard the keel profile runs further aft. The rudder is the same on each option. Of course, none of us are engineers or designers and the only advise we are getting is 'buy a new keel'. The Mars website has great and thorough installation instructions, that definitely should be followed. In the long run this installation is questionable and my feeling is (from working in a number of yards for 22 years) that the bulb installation was likely a yard manager stepping back and telling the staff "ok, put it there" (yes that does happen).
2) the owner now has an anomoly and will eventually be looking for a buyer that wants this arrangement or does not have a clue about it's uniqueness. Regardless, the resale value is likely tarnished compared to others that are as originally built.
So, my advise is think twice about what you are considering, get thorough professional advice, weigh the immediate and future costs. Your original question was about protecting your encapsulated ballast. The reality is everybody runs aground sooner or later, often because we are not always where we think we are. Hopefully your boat was built tough enough to withstand the occassional bump or grounding, depending on the bottom material of course, and the big risk is mostly cosmetic.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
I've always thought they were called bulbs >>> MarsKeel Technology Keel Draft Reductions
And you can get them custom made to fit your keel.
The next question is; can your mast and rigging take the extra stress (COE/COR). It's a good thing you don't have keel bolts.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by SloopJonB View Post
Hey... I am NOT a duffer, I am a curmudgeonly geezer.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by SlowButSteady View Post
Well, a bunch of duffers with nothing else to do have spoken. But, I think you made the right decision.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
Originally Posted by deniseO30 View Post
Ok who doesn't like the boat "tipping"? Hmmmm? It took 2 season for me to get used to it myself.
Re: Lead 'boot' - yes/no?
500 lbs at the bottom of the keel (vs. 500 lb wine cellar in the bilge) would help a fair amount with ultimate stability, no?
If it is also intended as a reef-feeler appendage, it would be more useful if it extended up the leading edge of the keel a bit. Maybe a bit of 5200 to keep from having to drill through an encapsulated keel? (kidding of course)
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Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
There are now alloy end caps to replace the plastic ones. Part # HC2276. In the attached link look about halfway down the page for the paragraph that begins "If you've ever busted the plastic ends on your pre-2004 traveler car, you know what walking on marbles is like." APS - Harken Micro and Small Boat Traveler Components
The other thing that was pointed out is that these are old cars. Mine was built in 1987 and has worked for 25 full seasons before this failure. I am not worried about failure again in my lifetime!
Note - in the link above the forum seems to have put my link under the word APS and Sailnet Store link under the word Harken. Click on the APS word.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Yes it happens, but the likely cause was age and weathering. Of course severe impacts don't help either!
If the end caps aren't expensive, just order spares, or at least keep an eye on the new ones and replace them if they look suspect.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Wow, I can't believe someone else had the same main sheet traveler car failure as we did on Saturday. I wonder if Harken knows their main sheet traveler cars have trouble with the full force of a strong gybe.
We did manage to sail home with a temporary fix. We just screwed the car back to the track without the ball bearings using the broken endcap. We were on a reach the whole way, so it took the loads just fine. We emailed Harken when we got home and they told us to just order new endcaps and ball bearings. Seems like an easy fix, but I am concerned that it can happen again.
Thanks again for all the great suggesstions and shared experiences!
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Has anyone ever seen this? YES! Last Saturday as a matter of fact we gybed and saw ball bearings draining out of traveller car and on next tack entire car a foot above the track. We grabbed some extra line and lashed the car on to the track centerline and then completed the race using just the mainsheet.
This was a Harken Small Boat Car. The car is metal and has two plastic endcaps to hold the bearings in place. One of these broke. I contacted our rigging shop "North Sails Atlantic / The Yacht Shop" and they have ordered these end caps before.
A note of caution. The new cars apparently do not fit on the old track. If purchasing a new car you may have to also replace the track and the track may not be cheap.
Have a friend with a J/29 who I ran into Sat evening and he said same thing happened with his boat - also in a race and they also lashed traveller car centerline and sailed the rest of the day.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Bike, I would suspect that your gybe slammed the car into one end of the track, broke off the stoppers, and then the car flew off and shed all the bearings. Seen any buckshot around the cockpit drains? That's them.
In which case this should all be easily repairable. Harken MIGHT be closed for Columbus Day tomorrow, might not. Odds are you can order a box of bearings and some new stopper hardware (replace both ends while you're at it) and if you ask real nicely...Harken might even agree that stoppers shouldn't disintegrate that way and comp you on the new parts, or at least cut you some slack.
If you really need to sail in the meantime, go to a craft store, buy some hardwood beads, rig 'em up as parrel beads on a loop to replace the car and just sail a little slower till the new parts come in.
Probably take you all of an hour to reinstall your traveller car, unless you've got to chew out the parts that held in the stoppers, or a piece of deck tore out.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Harken traveler systems are some of the best in the business, and having all the load on the bearings is pretty standard. The bearings were likely worn and damaged already, and all it took was that final shock load to finish them off. While you COULD get a whole new car to fit your track, you may only need to get a new set of bearings, depending on the model you have.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
Thanks for all the advice guys! Truth is I feel pretty stupid for the uncontrolled gybe that blew her out in the first place. I had just done a chicken gybe and thought I was pretty smart. But then, I sailed too close to dead down and snapped her over. The first 305 is very tender and the waves really don't allow any room for error as she dances up and down the troughs.
I am sure you are right that we can get Harken to replace the car this week and take care of the problem, although it worries me that it failed in the first place. We have been playing with it this morning and I have to say I am a little disappointed in the design. The only things holding this car on the track are the ballbearings and some small screwed on plastic endcaps. Geez. The track is also flat against the floor so you can't run a line around it to strap it down.
My husband has decided to screw the car back down to the track with the endcaps. I am not sure this will work for long.The winds have layed down to 5, so we will probably be ok. We are sailing downwind to get out of eastern bay, and then be up the whole way back. If it fails, I agree we could rig something to the headsail cleats in the cockpit or the wenchs on the deck ( the traveller on a First 305 is on a step in front of the companionway..not a great place). I am concerned about putting lateral loads on the headsail cleats. I think the wenchs could take the loads just fine.
Anyway, it has been a interesting experience and we will learn our back up plan for this failure underway! I will let you know how it plays out.
Busy morning here in St. Michaels, we are anchored by the Inn at Perry Cabin and the dinghy sailors are out practicing in front of the sailing museum. I remember those days!
Thanks again!
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
My Bristol hasn't had a traveller since it was built, 29 years ago. Surely you can manage without one for a day?
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
I have sailed by Bloody Point and to St. Mikes before so I know the area. The Bay can get a bit boisterous in the stronger winds of fall so I can understand your concern.
If you can live without a traveler for the way back you could lash the block down in the middle of the track. You would have to compensate for not being able to use the traveler by dumping a little more wind.
If you are not comfortable with improvising, I thought that there was some kind of chandelry (boat store) in St. Michaels? You might get lucky and they have a traveler car that will work with your track. Harken is a pretty common brand for that type of hardware. Another sail boater might have a spare or backup they could lend you, if they felt so inclined.
Enjoy the cooling weather. I'd almost kill to be on a sailboat at St. Michaels right about now. Hope you get home safe.
Always have a backup plan.
Re: Blown main sheet traveler car- need advice ASAP
How old is the system?
One of the reasons I like Harken is they have incredible customer service. I would give them a call Monday and describe what happened, and ask for their advice about fixing it. I have had them send me replacement parts and whole new blocks because something failed.
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Despite Green Bay struggling without a field goal for the first seven-plus minutes, six free throws helped the Phoenix stay close and trail 9-8 at the 12:45 mark. The hosts would rattle off a 13-2 run over the next five minutes, getting three-pointers to start and end the run to push the lead to 22-10. The lead reached 14 points before Greg Mays (Chicago, Ill.) made a three-pointer at the halftime buzzer to make it 33-24.
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Playing the Starter edition at the moment. Still not convinced that it is any better. Probably just exceptionally paranoid and wary that Blizzard is talking crap about content patches - again - and don't want to be suckered.
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I was very negative towards MoP when it was introduced at first, I thought it would be happy bunnies shitting rainbows and stuff, but I actually found the areas and the story pretty dark. Now I personally never enjoyed questing, but I found that part to be pretty good compared to my expectations. I generally find this expansion to be a lot more interesting than Cataclysm was, I think they spent too much time on revamping the world, which might have been great for new players, but atleast not for me.
I still have a few complaints though, the heroics are too easy, and there are too many dailies. The way to gain reputation with different factions is much better than WOTLK/Cata where you just threw on a tabard, which was pretty stupid imo.
I haven't had the chance to raid yet, but from what I've seen from streams it looks pretty interesting, new mechanics, new encounters and stuff... Pretty great.
PvP is pretty much the same, no real complaints bout that. I'm looking forward to when they release CRZ in the Panda areas, to get a lil world pvp going.
Same old Wow for the most part. Leveling was fun at times, but at other times it was the same old boring kill/collect quests but based on doing menial tasks for Pandaren farmers. I said in another thread that for the first 2 zones all I felt like I was doing was jerking off pandas for XP.
PvP is the same, nothing has changed really. If you liked it in WotLK/Cataclysm you'll like it now, if not, you won't.
Reputations are quite annoying in my opinion. I miss having heroics/tabard to progress after doing whatever dailies that faction had for the day.
Heroics are stupid easy.
Challenge modes are for strictly for vanity so I won't be doing them. You do get some valor for them, but you can do a stomp fest heroic and earn it faster.
I haven't raided yet, my guild will start that next week. But From what I hear it's pretty much the same, the top end guilds crushed everything in one or two days (regular raid) and the mid range guilds will have the regular stuff done in a few weeks. I suspect heroics will go down rather quickly as well (everything downed by top end guilds with in a week or two) everyone else a month or two.
Pretty much the same old wow with generally jovial panda people and pokemon.
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It is the best expansion released so far.
However I will say there are some balance issues that need to be sorted (tank DPS in particular), and Dread Wastes was probably the sinle worst zone I've ever experienced in WoW - it's either that or silithus i'm not sure which.
Despite that, it is an amazing expansion. I would think that anyone who has ever enjoyed WoW would enjoy it.
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I'm surprised by how much I like it. It returned a lot of my faith in Blizzard's understanding of "good" gaming. It's fun, it has a lot for max levels to do, and there's variable things to do. I haven't even gotten on any of my other characters yet!
edit: I do agree that Dread wastes is not my favorite zone, at all, period. reminds me of twilight highlands, only worse.
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I love it. So far, not counting the little bugs I find here and there, I haven't found anything wrong with it. I love ancient Chinese/Japanese culture so that's one of the big factors for me loving it so much. The quests are so story driven it's amazing. I love the cutscenes you get for some quests they're really awesome. The music is probably my favorite expansion music in WoW. The characters are really cool especially Chen Stormstout. The environment is just beautiful. I love being a Pandaren Monk they're really fun. I love the new talents and how the talent tree is setup. I was skeptical at first with the talent tree but I actually like it better than the older one, much simpler and there's no worrying about choosing the wrong one it's whatever you think sounds the most fun.
Everything is awesome in this expansion. I said before this was coming out that this might be my most favorite expansion out of all of them even more than BC and I was right, it is my most favorite.
Mists of Pandaria is 100% AWESOME! :-D
Ironic that the last few posts are disliking the Dread Wastes. I actually like it. The Klaxxi story is kind of interesting and I like how the zones ties in with it.
I was going to say i love it, but since you said " be 100% honest" fine i hate it, why would i like good story, a amazing landscape, interesting people, fun quest's and a really nice end game. Yes i like it, PvP is really fun right now, and the same with the Hc's i love it
(i am 20 and dyslexic so yes i suck at spelling)
PVE Balance: 6/10
PVE Difficulty compared to WOTLK Difficulty: 4/10 (actually easier)
Story Depth: 3/10 (other than Anduin and Wrathion its trash. Sha are not an original concept and Blizzards use of them is mediocre.)
Story (10/10) I love the new zones, and the story goes very smooth.
Sound (10/10) The sounds and music match very good
Instance (10/10) Having normal mode when leveling, and heroic when 90
be easy is great since these will most likly just be grind
for gear to enter Raids, not for the challage or to stroke
my ego that other should not be as powerful as me. The addition
of Challage mode make it better, becaue if I want a challage
I could anytime.
Graphics (9/10) Not the best but the new zones looks very nice.
Others (8/10) The dailys are annoying for people with alts, and the jp per
instance is insanely dumb. Takes way too long to get anything,
and yet by the time you make enough JP the gear isn't wroth getting.
Very impressed with the raiding so far (just cleared MV normal and have seen the other 2 raids on beta). My guild can't wait for next week.
Very much looking forward to challenge modes; can't even believe they introduced challenging 5 mans. I used to not give a crap about 5 mans after the first week or two in an expansion.
Scenarios are disappointing. I understand that the target audience is casual, not necessarily wanting to rely on healer/tank friends etc., but the niche seems too narrow and the rewards not really worth it (esp. with heroic dungeons now being 'normal' difficulty). Also, I thought they'd be integrated into the world for some reason but they're not.
I know a growing number of people who originally crapped all over pet battles but who are growing addicted. I guess Pokeman grew popular for a reason in the first place.
Can't comment on PvP. I'm sure things are imbalanced early on.
Overall, really enjoying it so far and particularly happy with the quantity and quality of raiding.
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Rep grind 10/10 - Not boring at all. I liked all of them, except some of the Klaxxi. Really fast and easy. I spend less than 1 hour to do all of them. You're not forced to do it, cause we're at the beginning and LFR and Heroic will give players an alternative from dailies.
Leveling Experience 9/10 - Since WotLK, I couldn't experience an awesome leveling. Even rushing to 90, I enjoyed every single quest, from gather 10 <objects> to epic events with cinematic. Only Valley of Four Winds I didn't get the relevance of this zone. Farmville isn't my thing.
- Experience 10/10: Just, awesome dungeons with awesome design and story. Nothing to say. I love each one of them (specially Gate of the Setting Sun. That wall exploding is epic)
- Dificulty (6/10): Normal modes I thought it would be that way, but heroics isn't heroic anymore. I mean, they have been done like normal dungeons, sometimes simply ignoring the addtional skills and mechanics. So, the sad point of dungeons is Heroics being easy as normal.
- Too soon to tell, but from a few tries and reading journal I can say raids seem to be well designed and fun.
- Lore 10/10: Impressive story with many little story that will merge into the big one.
- Don't know, I don't PvP.
Note: Im not a fan boy, I really hated cataclysm and MoP gave that excitement of playing the game (wich I was boring all the Cata exp duration) again.
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Starting to hate it.
Dailies of Panderia
Put it this way, it's the first time in a long time that i've been wanting to play WoW for fun, rather than to just grind achievements cause I have nothing else to do.
I give it an 8.5 or a 9.


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Just one week removed from breaking the school recordat the 800-meters, freshman Haley Keene put her name in the Canisius record books yet again on Saturday, racing to a new program best in the 1000-meter run with a time of 3:01.53.
Keene and the Griffs competed at the Golden Eagle Invitational on Saturday at SUNY Brockport.
"Haley is having an outstanding indoor season," said head coach Nate Huckle. "She has broken school records in the 800 and 1000-meter races in back-to-back weeks and her confidence in her abilities is growing in leaps and bounds. I have to keep reminding myself that she's just a freshman."
Keene led the way for Canisius with her second place finish in the 1000-meter run, but wasn't the only Griff to set a season-best time. Senior Catherine Phillips finished the mile in 5:13.74 – just over two seconds off school record pace – she'd finish second in the race.
"Catherine had to race very physically early on in the mile, which hampered her race a bit," Huckle said. "But she'll be back at it next weekend. That will be her final tune-up before returning to the 3000 for the MAAC Championships."
The Griffs also put two-runners in the top-four of the 800-meter run. Seniors Jamie Wallace and Brianna Smith finished third and fourth respectively, posting times of 2:27.25 and 2:32.01.
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Sophomore Michael Anvelt led the Griffs with a strong performance in the mile. Anvelt raced to a fourth place finish in a time of 4:24.60. Freshman A.J. Stuver also competed in the event, finishing in 4:42.17, which was good for 22nd place.
In the 800, junior Chad Maloy posted a time of 2:02.05 that was good for sixth place. He was followed closely by junior Andrew Coy, who finished in 2:04.90 for 12th overall.
Freshman Brennan Root had a top-three finish for the Griffs, placing third in the 1000-meter run. Root completed the event in a time of 2:37.29. Sophomore Gabe Bender finished in the 10th in the event (2:44.13).
"Overall, I think our athletes improved nicely on the mental side of competition today," Huckle said. "We have been working on employing better racing tactics and maintaining our mid-race focus, and it payed off for the majority of the team today."
The Griffs will return to action on Saturday, Feb. 8 again at SUNY Brockport. It'll be the Griffs final indoor competition prior to the MAAC Championships. The meet is scheduled to get underway at 10 a.m.


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Have anyone tried this therapy?
Hi Mark,
I went to the website and a box popped up where you can ask questions. I asked if Gendicine could be used on someone with CC. The person said yes. I also asked if it was used in the US and they said yes. They said it was 86% effective for CC. Then they started in on wanting to know who had CC, how long, etc. and they wanted me to send Lauren's info. I said I just wanted info on this therapy and that I was happy where she got her care. I asked where they used this in the US but they didn't give me an answer. I am always skeptical about things that sound too good to be true and I have never read anything about this. Maybe our researchers Eli, Percy, or Gavin can tell us more. It would be nice if their claims were true.
I took a quick look. My first impressions:
1. Cancer Therapy China is a medical tourism company. They offer a number of cancer treatments that are not available outside of China. They say it right here:
http://www.cancertherapychina.com/index … Itemid=120
Many of our treatments are not fully available in other developed countries, offering China a unique leading advantage. We work with hospitals that provide a systematic combination of the following treatments to combat cancer:
In other words, you have to travel to China as a tourist in order to receive some of these treatments.
2. Gendicine is a viral gene therapy developed by Chinese company Sibiono:
The company got approval to use this therapy in China in 2003, but only for one type of cancer: head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
An article in the Nature magazine (year 2004):
China approves first gene therapy
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v22/n … 104-3.html
An article in the Business Week magazine (year 2006):
A Cancer Treatment You Can't Get Here
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/200 … t-get-here
Sibiono looks like a serious company doing serious research. The question I have, is Gendicine approved anywhere in the world outside of China? I could not find any information. I will do more research later. My guess as of right now, Gendicine is only approved in China. Meaning that, you have to travel to China to receive this treatment.
More later...
Previous discussions about Gendicine:
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … php?id=360
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … php?id=304
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … php?id=303
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … php?id=302
I searched Gendicine therapy on PubMed. I found a few dozen studies published by Chinese doctors. They used Gendicine to treat many different types of cancer, including hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). I found no published studies about cholangiocarcinoma.
Eli...thank you for retrieving these links. They go way back to the beginning of this discussion board. It is bittersweet, but yet so comforting to read for me.
Marion, you are welcome (and sorry about the bittersweet part).
I'm going to put a few more links here, so they are easy to find in one place.
American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy - Educational Resources
http://www.asgct.org/general-public/edu … -resources
Gene Therapy Patient Information
Gene Therapy Developments in China
http://www.genetherapynet.com/gene-ther … china.html
Medical Tourism for Gene Therapy Treatments
Thanks so much, Eli. I knew you would come through. I just didn't have the patience to try to muddle through the article when I went to their website. I like that you can explain things in plain english!! Thank you so much for all you do.
Best wishes,
Thanks for all of the links Eli, very useful indeed.
Please be careful when you read articles published originated from Mainland China. I had a very embarrassed moment at 2012 ASCO when a U S A researcher on the podium publicly denounced the result of a Chinese research article. He tried to duplicate a study result from an article published by the Chinese researcher in mainland and found out the result is false and untrue. What I am trying to say is buyer be aware.
God bless.
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Different strokes for different folks Finsk (as old as you are you must have heard that one, heh?). We don't all live in Finland where bees and beekeepers have it sooooo hard.That said, ALL Beekeeping is Local don't you think? Kinda like politics ;) IMO; The teaching method of attacking or ridiculing those w/ differing opinions or viewpoints, besides just being rude, gives your own position little credibility or authority. That's too bad for someone with so much to offer :'(.All my bees get some dry sugar for winter, some take it, some don't. All dependant on the individual colony.thomas
Open feeding can also spread disease, and provoke fighting
Quote from: Shanevrr on October 18, 2011, 12:55:27 AMOpen feeding can also spread disease, and provoke fightingI'm not sure why you think open feeding spreads disease. You know, bees are drifting from hive to hive all the time. Bees are exposed to disease agents all the time. The thing that determines whether the hive gets sick is not exposure. It's the state of health of the hive to start with. If hives get too small, they get sick. If hives get too wet, they get sick. Healthy hives have no problem with open feeding. A nice field of flowers is a form of open feeding. :-DYou are right that open feeding close to the hives will provoke robbing and fighting. That's why I feed 100 yards from the hives. When there is some flow going on, it may be safe to feed in-hive. During a dearth, even top feeding of the strong hives can start robbing in all the hives. That's my experience.
a good example of how they can spread diese would be open feeding of wet suppers after extraction-and its the healthy hives(big hogs) that get the most exposure --RDY-B
I understand what you are saying --but you are missing the problem of it--I am not worried about my suppers --I am worried about the suppers the guy down the road is setting out---RDY-B
Ok, we can tell that it's getting cold and dark in Finland. The bees have gone to sleep for the winter. All the honey has been extracted. Very depressing. What to do, what to do? :-D
if you have ever witnessed a SERIOUS ROBING EVENT that goes out of control-open feeding would not be your first choice etherRDY-B
you know, we have some TV here and 35 channels. And beautyful gir...sceneries
The scent of sugar in the beeyard causes robbing in all the hives, not just the ones being fed.


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Re: Zombie Jealousy
I have no clue why it isn´t in the fog. thumps up! also for your other motives!
Re: Mutation
don't they sell this shirt at Hot Topic!?!? HaHa!
Re: Trapped
Why is this out of the fog?!?!! Very confused. Come on people!! VOTE!
Granted some of my nightmares start out looking like this shirt... *shudder*
Rudolpho wrote:why isn't there anything like this about the unicorn eating a rainbow...clearly rainbows are not alive...unicorns aren't real...if they were both alive they would be different spiecies...and yet ramy gets all the hate
Because it's not ramyb's entry. Simple as that.
alephnull2k1 wrote:I'm really not up on my phoenices (phoenixii?)...do they typically get reborn with their skulls missing flesh in a very characteristically zombie fashion? Because if that's a typical part of phoenix lore, then I'll concede the point (which, to clarify, is that I think jlegos is presenting a phoenix which has become a zombie, not *just* rebranding "phoenix" as "a kind of zombie already").
As for who's voting for what, well that's kinda why the Electoral College exists, innit?
well it looked like it was molting to me. Regardless of what jlegos is presenting or intending on presenting the point still stands that this design if it didn't have the brain balloon would not read as a zombie and would be off theme for this week. For me if the brain balloon is needed to make it on theme, well, that's weak. Its as arbitrary as having a mummy, ghost, banshee, any other supernatural creature, etc with a brain balloon to make it on theme.
radiomode wrote:so raw so cool
so true.
Re: Zombie Lord
This is really awesome, would love to have this shirt!! Nice work!
Can't beleive that a Cranberries refrence has not been made.
zOOooombies, ZooOoombies, ehe eeh eh...
Maybe the band on a stage is actual cans of cranberries and the crowd is zombies?
../Shrug If I only had the time.....
Re: Dos Sesos!
I don't always eat brains, but when I do, I prefer ¡Dos Sesos!
Just couldn't let the thought go; had to get it out of my system.
midgerock wrote:well it looked like it was molting to me. Regardless of what jlegos is presenting or intending on presenting the point still stands that this design if it didn't have the brain balloon would not read as a zombie and would be off theme for this week. For me if the brain balloon is needed to make it on theme, well, that's weak. Its as arbitrary as having a mummy, ghost, banshee, any other supernatural creature, etc with a brain balloon to make it on theme.
That's a good point. It probably would have narrowed the field some. "zombie" is obviously being stretched extremely thin on this derby. Some of that might be because there have been so many zombie submissions on past derbies. Lot of the good ideas have been used up.
I think, reading the derby text, they were hoping for "hard" zombie shirts. They really didn't get it though. There are only a few in the fog that are just zombies and not zombies as a gagline. That all said, this one is at least slightly clever. Far better than the humanic cookie monster, unicorn, and DNA shirts in the fog.
You guys are all foolish to believe something like this would stand a chance against cookies, cupcakes, stick men, and clipart in a ZOMBIE derby.
tgentry wrote:For clarification: is this Zombie Betty White?
haha. Zombie Betty White would be great.
It would have been funny to have a shirt too that had zombie chicks hitting on a nerdy guy. "zombie chicks like guys with braaaaaains"
captainbaldie wrote:You guys are all foolish to believe something like this would stand a chance against cookies, cupcakes, stick men, and clipart in a ZOMBIE derby.
Damn you captainbaldie and your unfortunately completely accurate cynicism! Damn youuuuuu! They should have made a rule this week "nothing cute. Not even a little"
kaseyfleming wrote:BAH!!!! i hate that feeling. Your on a high for 3 or 4 days thinking you got a good chance, then BAM!.. you just got ramyb'ed.
We feel your pain. I've never been as excited about a derby as i was when I heard about this one. A week later, here we are again with a nice 2 ramyb blank blanks broken off in our blank blank.
Nobody can keep that much soul in a grave!
Re: Soul Brain
Um, yeah. Thanks for the vote of confidence on my artistic rendering. :|
Yes, Betty White has staying power, man. A nosh of brains, some MAAYYYYY-kup! and she's good to go.
This is fantastic! I love it! I would definitely buy it
Re: Zombie Boy and His Balloon
Would've been clever if the ballon was a brain? yep, it would've been perfect.
kaseyfleming wrote:like it!! she just wants go give me a hug
me2. ♥*hugz*♥
Re: Zombie Mom
A Mombie?
or Z.I.L.F.?
Re: Sorry Death...
Sorry, Peanutbrain. Only good-tasting tshirts get 2B woot.shirts. Pass.
Re: Turtles Like Zombie Kids
This needs a web redemption... Oh my TOSH!!!
Re: Run.
Congrats on fogging! Personally, I'm having mixed feelings about the moon/sun thing in the background (mun?). It almost conveys a bit of cheerfulness in what is otherwise a piece about fleeing from your typical zombies. Not saying that the cheerful zombies can't be done, Walmazan has a nice piece doing just that. Just that here it feels like a little bit of meshing of "feels" Dunno if that makes sense.
paigeg wrote:I don't always eat brains, but when I do, I prefer ¡Dos Sesos!
Just couldn't let the thought go; had to get it out of my system.
The Most Interesting Zombie in the world?
Re: Z day
I hea♥tily protest! There is no text in this entry. Be fair, clever arrangements that create illusions are art, not text.
There is no spoon, Neo!!!
Sirius GPP rejection! I would buy/wear this, gr8 colors, gr8 design and imaginality (I own that, so don't use it). Sirius GPP rejection!
Attica, Attica...
Re: The Last Stand
Very Colorful & Creative. A Zombie-can Stand-off!
Better than the Serious GPPisser ninja/pirate/robot/zombie/I-can't-draw Mash-up Flub. Wow! was that a phflemjob.
hahahahaha! I love your sense of humor!!!
blinddog3d wrote:Sorry, Peanutbrain. Only good-tasting tshirts get 2B woot.shirts. Pass.
Well the zombies will be happy with me since my brain tastes like peanuts. Only good tasting comments my friend, good tasting. Delicious even.
Ramy gets the most attention because he's the most prolific rule bender (or breaker) and trash design producer. There are a lot of juicers in baseball, but we focus criticism on Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire because they're the most prominent.
In spite of what the artist claims, the crux of the joke is NOT that the cookies have returned from the dead (thus being zombies and on-theme). The crux of the joke is that the cookies are attacking their natural predator. Not to mention that the cookies don't appear to be zombies at all, save for the empty soulless eyes that ALL of Ramy's anthros have. Cookies crumble when they're "alive." Maybe it's just that he picked a poor confection to make the joke with, because I think it's extremely difficult to make a cookie appear zombie like. This is probably another reason people aren't leveling the same criticism against "The Last Cupcake," because that shirt does a good job of showing that the cupcakes are undead, as it were.
DoublEE wrote:Standards...personal agendas...blind hate...whatever.
You can't call it "blind hate" when people offer legitimate criticism, even if you disagree with it. And what "personal agenda" would any of his critics possibly have? Do you think he bullied us in grade school and we've been out to get him ever since?
DoublEE wrote:This could be the single most unfounded and paranoid post I've ever seen. Congratulations.
I hate getting into this topic of the Ramy debate, but if you knew anything about Ramy's history on other sites and artistic events, you would know that this isn't as paranoid and unfounded as it sounds. I'm not sayin' he does it here, I'm just sayin' it wouldn't be a shock if he did.
Re: The Truth About Celebrity Longevity
Lol! OK, so not so much with the 'enough parody'.
Re: Cookie Monsters
I feel like I've seen this before. Weird.
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Re: If I Only Had a Brain
hehe not something I'd wear, but this is pretty funny. Clever idea, and hilarious scarecrow face!
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Re: The Last Cupcake
This is awesome! It would be extra cool if those zombie cupcakes glow in the dark...
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Cape mayor plans to continue working after ex-husband's arrest
Cape Coral Mayor Marni Sawicki confirmed Monday that she was battered and bruised by her ex-husband Saturday in a Miami hotel and has no plans to not show up for work.
VIDEO: Sharks find Cape canals make great breeding ground
We spoke with a woman who came face-to-face with a bull shark on Sunday morning and captured the wild encounter on camera.
Deputies investigate death of woman found in driveway
An investigation is underway after a woman's body was mysteriously found on a Fort Myers Shores driveway.
Scott signs bill honoring Fort Myers teen
On Monday, he signed a bill honoring 16-year-old Cameron Mayhew who was fatally struck by a car that drove past a stop sign.
Fort Myers High coach reinstated after 'hard foul' on student
The Fort Myers High School basketball coach who was in hot water after injuring a student during a pickup basketball game now has his job back.
Fort Myers plane crash victim identified
A 37-year-old passenger was killed when a plane crashed into a building Saturday morning on the Chico's campus in Fort Myers.
Body found inside car at Cape Coral Home Depot
A death investigation is underway after a body was found inside a car at Home Depot in Cape Coral.


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