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"Jaxon said his favorite part was shooting basketball on the real court. They lowered the goal to about four feet or lower so it was easy for him to shoot and dunk. His second favorite part was wearing the big orange shoes that were used by Jarnell Stokes last season."
- Cameron Lale
Five-year-old Jaxon Lale may not yet fully understand the game of basketball, but one thing is certain: When he and his father watch Tennessee games on television, he knows to hoot, holler and cheer for the guys wearing orange.
On Monday, June 2, Jaxon had a chance to meet Vols head coach Donnie Tyndall as well as several of the players he and his father so often cheered for during the season. And from that day forward, the guys wearing orange will most certainly be cheering for Jaxon.
Having already gone through rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, Jaxon is battling T-cell leukemia. He began receiving treatment within a week of his March 24 diagnosis.
"He's his normal self, just like any other 5-year-old, except he's bald-headed," Jaxon's father, Cameron Lale, said.
Back in May, an organization called Knoxville Pays It Forward was organizing a carnival to benefit a few local families with children battling cancer, and the organization was searching for items to auction off as fundraisers.
"I was cutting my grass one day, and I thought, `Hey, I wonder if I could get something from one of the (UT) coaches, because everybody in Knoxville loves Tennessee stuff,'" Cameron Lale said. "So I got online and emailed all the coaches, and I got an email back from (director of basketball operations Justin Phelps). He said coach Tyndall would love to donate a ball, but the only condition was that he wanted Jaxon to come down there and pick it up."
So the Lales, who live in Knoxville, waited for a day on which Jaxon felt well enough to make the trip to campus following his treatment at East Tennessee Children's Hospital, where his mother, Tiffany, is a nurse.
Just a few days after his initial conversation with Phelps, Cameron--who is an active Air Force service member stationed at McGhee Tyson Airport--called the basketball office after Jaxon's daily treatment, and said Jaxon was ready to stop by.
"I never thought we'd be able to just walk right into the coach's office and talk to him. We're just regular civilian people. Then when we got there the whole staff was just like, `Hey, how are you doing?' They were just normal guys. Coach Tyndall sat down and hugged my son; he is just a normal guy."
Likewise, Jaxon approaches each day like a normal kid. The recent kindergarten graduate loves Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and building with Legos.
"He gets done with his chemo or radiation or whatever treatment he has for the day, and he gets home and he wants to go outside," Cameron Lale said. "So we've been really lucky that he hasn't been really sick; he's felt sick a few times but nothing major."
Jaxon received a VIP tour of Tennessee's basketball facilities and took pictures with Tyndall and some of the players, such as rising sophomore guard Robert Hubbs III.
In addition to the ball he picked up for the carnival auction, Jaxon also got to take home a ball that he keeps in his room. He also enjoyed taking pictures on the giant orange "T" in the middle of the Vols' locker room floor.
The carnival and auction were both very successful and helped to raise cost-of-care funds for the Lales and two other families facing similar cancer-related battles.
"Getting that ball helped out our family and two other families as well," Cameron Lale said.
Anyone interested in following Jaxon's progress or sharing well wishes with Jaxon and his family are encouraged to like the "Prayers for Jaxon" page on Facebook.
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OK, I just got my BooBoo Fett jetpack harness yesterday, and I installed got the bottom hooks installed on the jetpack and went to get everything together last night. I have WickedBeard armor, including backplate.
When I put the armor over the harness, my backplate sits too far out on my back. It bows out over the curved tube at the top of the harness, and bends just above, where the shoulders attach to the collar armor. It leaves a big bulging bow at the back of the arms that you can see into and see the harness - even with the jetpack attached.
Anyone else run into this issue? It is almost as if I need to beef up the backplate where it is bending, so that it pulls flush with my back all the way up and hold tight against the harness. Anyone have any bright ideas?
I can take pics of what is happening, if it helps. But basically it is just that the armor is pulling the harness up snug to my back, but is rather sitting against the harness and folding in toward my shoulders at the top, just above the top of the harness.

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Misinformed is something that fits you better than me in this case, though if you are simple enough to judge someone as dead from the moment they first watched a TV show, as far as I'm concerned, your opinion is no more valid than Michelle Bachman's.
How does a TV show reflect on any aspect of a person, other than their opinion of aforementioned TV show?
Someone smokes weed ocasionally and they should be considered dead?
Weed is just like alcohol and cigarrettes, the only thing that changes is the effects upon its use, and for that reason, it might be a bit more addicting than the other two. THC per se isn't as addicting as other heavy drugs.
That's the reason that I am almost okay with occasional weed users.
Shit gets fucked up when you go above that, tho. Shit like crack and heroin - the two I had most direct contact with - really make you chemically dependent, and I'm completely against their use, and I'm sure that if you saw what I saw you'd agree.
And please, guys, let's not let the quality fall so quickly that we'll have to judge him based on him liking a TV show. That's just stupid.
I like how you think that someone who uses marijuana advocates the use of drugs that are actually addictive though. It's cute.
And no, no one is dead from the first use of drugs. If that were true, everyone who ever attended a university would be dead. Stop making yourself look ignorant.
But they all had it coming too, according to half the people in this thread.
Y'all win.
Though I still don't consider this case to be sad.
Bummer, I guess there's a new member to the 27 club
Two hours and six pages, you lot sure do like talking about topics as meaningless as celebrity death.
Wow.... poor family this is so horrible
I really recommend you read up on that. After some years of working with terminal drug addicts, I can safely say that my vision of life as a whole has changed a lot, for the better. I hope something like that, at least on a small scale, happens to you.
unfortunately this seems to have turned into a debate, although i think we should return to the tragic event this thread is based on, please. :sad:
Honestly, she lasted longer than I tought
Poor woman. I feel geniunly sorry for her. She was incredibly talented.
Still a dumb bitch.
Wow, I almost feel bad, when I saw her drunk performance a week ago I literally said "This bitch ain't makin it to the end of the month."
Real shame, she was great when her talent outweighed her problems.
She did know. But she was addicted. That is the point of addiction.
You know what, never mind. I'm tired of repeating myself.
Read this: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/
It clearly explains the process of addiction, some underlying factors, and the brain chemistry involved in addictive behavior.
Once again: educate yourself before you make posts about things you don't understand.
Read my link. Stop making yourself look stupid and uninformed.
oh crap... This came out of absolutely nowhere for me.
You ignore my entire post and start talking about heroin? Who the fuck even mentioned heroin? It was only one of many drugs she used. Stop being so tunnel-visioned. And the process of addiction to heroin and alcohol are exactly the same.
And you didn't even try to learn about addiction. I even gave you a source.
Read the link, or stop posting your pathetically naive opinions.
I never even heard of her until the news.
And yes, I can compare alcohol to most drugs, because it is the same process. And since you said "snorting crack," I'm just going to leave it at that.
You're a fucking idiot and understand nothing about drugs or addiction, nor are you willing to learn. So stay in your cave and I'll stay away.
Oh god I only just found out now. Surprised I never came across this earlier as I was a fan of amy..
I did see it coming though, especially after her stage performance a while ago.
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The figure to the right gives two examples of this. Here each PC is plotted against the amount of fractional variance it explains. The blue line is the result from the random data, while the blue dots are the PC results for the real data. It is clear that at least the first two are significantly separated from the random noise line. In the other case, there are 5 (maybe 6) red crosses that appear to be distinguishable from the red line random noise. Note also that the first ('most important') PC does not always explain the same amount of the original data.
4) What do different conventions for PC analysis represent?
Some different conventions exist regarding how the original data should be normalized. For instance, the data can be normalized to have an average of zero over the whole record, or over a selected sub-interval. The variance of the data is associated with departures from the whatever mean was selected. So the pattern of data that shows the biggest departure from the mean will dominate the calculated PCs. If there is an a priori reason to be interested in departures from a particular mean, then this is a way to make sure that those patterns move up in the PC ordering. Changing conventions means that the explained variance of each PC can be different, the ordering can be different, and the number of significant PCs can be different.
5) How can you tell whether you have included enough PCs?
This is rather easy to tell. If your answer depends on the number of PCs included, then you haven't included enough. Put another way, if the answer you get is the same as if you had used all the data without doing any PC analysis at all, then you are probably ok. However, the reason why the PC summaries are used in the first place in paleo-reconstructions is that using the full proxy set often runs into the danger of 'overfitting' during the calibration period (the time period when the proxy data are trained to match the instrumental record). This can lead to a decrease in predictive skill outside of that window, which is the actual target of the reconstruction. So in summary, PC selection is a trade off: on one hand, the goal is to capture as much variability of the data as represented by the different PCs as possible (particularly if the explained variance is small), while on the other hand, you don't want to include PCs that are not really contributing any more significant information.
Part II: Application to the MBH98 'Hockey Stick'
1) Where is PCA used in the MBH methodology?
When incorporating many tree ring networks into the multi-proxy framework, it is easier to use a few leading PCs rather than 70 or so individual tree ring chronologies from a particular region. The trees are often very closely located and so it makes sense to summarize the general information they all contain in relation to the large-scale patterns of variability. The relevant signal for the climate reconstruction is the signal that the trees have in common, not each individual series. In MBH98, the North American tree ring series were treated like this. There are a number of other places in the overall methodology where some form of PCA was used, but they are not relevant to this particular controversy.
2) What is the point of contention in MM05?
MM05 contend that the particular PC convention used in MBH98 in dealing with the N. American tree rings selects for the 'hockey stick' shape and that the final reconstruction result is simply an artifact of this convention.
3) What convention was used in MBH98?
MBH98 were particularly interested in whether the tree ring data showed significant differences from the 20th century calibration period, and therefore normalized the data so that the mean over this period was zero. As discussed above, this will emphasize records that have the biggest differences from that period (either positive of negative). Since the underlying data have a 'hockey stick'-like shape, it is therefore not surprising that the most important PC found using this convention resembles the 'hockey stick'. There are actual two significant PCs found using this convention, and both were incorporated into the full reconstruction.
4) Does using a different convention change the answer?
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The former Gunner has impressed since his summer move to the Stadium of Light where his prowess from set-pieces has caught the eye.
Van Persie got a sneak preview of what to expect from Larsson when Holland and Sweden met during the international break and he was struck by his old team-mate's work ethic.
"He's become a really good player, I like him," the captain told the Official Matchday Programme.
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The Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration claims some of the greatest adventures in human history. The crystal continent boasts the coldest air temperature ever recorded—that would be -128.6 °F, at Vostok, Antarctica, on July 21, 1983—but the record low is just a part of what makes the Age of Antarctic Exploration so Heroic. The fact that the Soviets planted a research station at the southern Pole of Cold in the first place means that humans can face down that baddest kind of freeze if they must. What's so great about this era, which is marked by expeditions from the late 18th century through the early 20th century, is that it happened years before the Soviet Union had found its sea legs—and decades before the Soviets launched the first satellite into orbit. Which was still decades before the dream of GPS.
We carry a torch, as it were, for the larger-than-life figures who dog-sledded across the Great White Desert without the benefit of communications technology—so it's Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott we praise as heroes, and not the men and women based at the U.S. McMurdo Station. But they are heroes, too. Not merely because life is very hard for these men and womendiscovered life in deep Antarctic waters. And not merely because it is so desperately cold down there. Antarctic adventurers from 1897 to today deserve the benefit of the penumbra of the Heroic Age because they survived Antarctica without the design technology represented by the Halley VI.
The Halley VI Antarctic Research Station, designed by Hugh Broughton Architects with AECOM and built by Galliford Try, marks a technological shift in the approach to Antarctic exploration. The Halley VI, commissioned for the British Antarctic Survey and stationed on the Brunt Ice Shelf, is able to relocate rapidly through the use of hydraulically elevated ski-based modules in response to the movement of the ice shelf. The relocatable station is designed to be moved so that it never finds itself on an iceberg that threatens to break off the ice shelf—a growing concern, given the rate that Antarctic ice is receding.
The scientists who will man the Halley VI (up to 52 during the summer and 16 during the total darkness of winter) are no less heroic then their forebears. (They may even face frigid-er freezes, which is troubling.) But design is poised to transform the nature of adventuring in earth's life-hostile corners, even as anthropogenic climate change changes the nature of what it means for parts of the planet to be hostile to life.
The U.K. Minister for Universities and Science David Willetts praised the station as inheriting the legacy of Robert Falcon Scott. "The new Halley Research Station is a triumph of British design, innovation and engineering," he said, in a release. "The U.K.'s world-class polar science community now has a unique, cutting edge suite of laboratories on the ice. The legacy of Captain Scott, together with our strong track record of scientific discovery in Antarctica, is set to continue in this excellent new facility."


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Discussion in 'The Trash Can' started by love_skate2011, Mar 17, 2013.
Only 2 Spots !!
Tuktamysheva and Lipnitskaya are my picks. The RSF will choose one of Tuktamysheva or Sotnikova (or who knows, maybe even both) to punish for not keeping 3 spots, and we wont know who that is for awhile yet. Either way if Lipnitskaya gets over her current injuries and skates to her potential she isnt going to miss it.
more likely its Leonova who will be punished imo
Tuk, Lip and Adelina have equal chances of making the Team but one of them will be left out
If Julia recovers fully next Season, I agree she might make the Team
Julia has never been to Worlds, so I don't think they'll risk it (they would if they had 3, but not if there's only 2). A lot will depend on how they skate on the GP.
Liza really did nothing wrong at Worlds. SP was excellent until she had a freak fall on a spin, something that even happened to Amodio who's a great spinner. I think that spooked her and caused the single axel. LP was pretty flawless except she didn't do 3-3. It's unfortunate she ended up behind Adelina yet again. She has the better nerves. She just didn't get the marks she would've gotten had she skated in a later group.
Adelina will probably make it if she skates at all decently because she has TAT on her side.
I agree with all of your thoughts, but especially this.
Well I didnt even mention her since I think she is right out of it. After a year of totally bombing out everywhere, and all the young Russians coming up, she is toast. She could have regained some credence for herself with a good Worlds (and had she been the one to finish really high and regain the Russians 3 spots almost by herself, she would have been a hero and had a huge shot at the team next year) but instead she had a miserable one and was the lowest placing of 3 dissapointing Russians. She ended her own amateur career for all intents and purposes this season. Every other skater on the list is more likely to make the team than her, minus Makarova of course.
yeah but I didn't really made a difference going to Worlds ? their results are very much equal
the important decider will be the coming GP Season and wasn't Julia injured ?, the three have equal chance imo
It's between Adelina, Liza, and Julia. I suspect their respective GP performances will have something to do with who ultimately gets to go. Julia is maybe at the biggest disadvantage where she hasn't competed at Worlds yet and didn't have the best of results this season, and may still be affected by injuries and growing pains in the coming season. I would have liked to see Pogorilaya get to go but that won't happen with just 2 spots, but she's young anyways, and maybe they will send her out on senior GP next season for the experience anyhow.
Julia is going through a growth spurt and those tiny jumps might disappear.
but she still won a junior silver medal going through her puberty and she didn't get underrotations on her jumps, so there is still promise for Julia
Lets not act like Adelina is being held up by TAT. She has now beaten Liza in two back to back international events. They are both very close, beyond which Mishin is hardly a pauper in the politiks department.
A LOT can happen in 12 months but judging on where their skating is right now, they would be NUTS to take anyone but Sotnikova & Tuktamysheva. These two are the ones hyped for years, the ones the judges will be most familiar with and the ones who are starting to produce more mature skating that the judges could be inclined to run with in a situation where one of them skates lights out if the faves faulter. Lipnitskaya has a year to sort it out but she has a HELL of a lot of work to do if she wants to be in with a chance of making the team. Her jumps are crumbling as she grows and the technique and skating quality is nowhere near the other two girls. Gumbiness and seeming deafness to music can only get you so far.
Tuk or Sot could be replaced with Lip, but I'm guessing those are the only 3 in consideration. I love Korobeynikova but she may need a new coach that can get her to stop being such a headcase (and boring) and I like Pogo too but I highly doubt the Fed would give one of it's highly coveted home Olympic spots to a 15 year old with minimal experience, even if she does next season.
I wish the Rus Fed would implement a point system and announce it in advance: GP medals, making GPF, GPF medals, Nationals medals, Euro medals, etc will get points and whichever two had the best season after Euros will go to Sochi.
The more important pick I think is who is the leader of the 2 Russian girls heading into Sochi because she gets to compete at the team event and fight for a team medal. Keep in mind they are all pretty even at this point, with Sot and Tuk slightly ahead on senior experience. This can easiy change next season if Lip wins Euros (for example).
I hadnt thought about that but for all these skaters from top countries it is hugely important not only to make the Oly team but be the #1, so you have a shot at a team medal. The Russian ladies are a good example of this as for any of Sotnikova, Tuktamysheva, or Lipnitskaya winning an individual medal in Sochi is a huge long shot, but a team medal could be won by whichever gets to compete in it, if they can contribute a strong performance.
Both girls can skate in the team, hopefully. As of right now, I would say Sot for SP, Tuk for LP.
They can only switch skaters out in two disciplines.
They definitely can't for men, as they only have one entry. We'll see what happens with dance, but as of right now, I would not rely on I&K in the team event (shame, because it would be good for them to get a taste of the Olympics before the dance event). V&T are the best shot if they want a gold in team, but they might not want to do a full competition prior to the pairs event... Max is super patriotic though and they're pretty consistent, so they might.
Actually what I said of I&K is true for the girls as well. Neither has skated at an Olympics. The Russian crowds are really noisy. I&K couldn't hear their FD music in Moscow. So if possible, it would be best to let both girls skate in the team event, so they can experience that pressure before their solo turns.
Unless one (or both) of them has an injury, I think Liza and Adelina have the inside track on this. Julia has never competed at senior worlds, and for Leonova to make the team of two, 5-6 Russian ladies will have to be injured. Sorry, I actually like Alena but I was not at all impressed with her this year. I think she may be on the way out at this point, like Makarova.
V&T would want to win 2 medals so I am sure they will do the team event. If they can switch skaters out in 2 disciplines than I agree with will give both ladies a program, and if I&K have a good year maybe give both them and B&S a program too to give B&S some rest for the individual event but still keeping them eligible for a medal.
Not to sound pro Canadian but I am honestly pretty sure Canada is winning the team event. Even if we win no individual golds in Sochi, we still will win the team event. No country can match our depth across the various events right now. Our weak link is Omsond and she is capable of a top 5 or 6 finish in the individual event on a good day, and she is young and will only get better.
I thought the team event at the Olympics is going to have 1 woman, 1 man, 1 pair and 1 dance couple?
If Lipnitskaya doesn't really make any waves during the GP and Sotnikova and Tuktamysheva have decent showings, then I'd say those 2 will go to Sochi and Worlds.
I was gutted for Alena. I thought she should have stayed with this season's free programe rather than go back to last years. It's almost like telling the judges you have no form.
I thought Elizaveta was so undermarked in her free skate. I would have had her & the chinese girl way above Gracie who now seems to be the-can-do-no-wrong girl for the judges.
It's so sad that Makarova has very little hope of making Sochi. Of all the Russian girls I enjoy watching her the most.
Gold and to some degree Osmond were both overmarked at Worlds. Tuktamysheva and Li both skated so much better than them on the night and it wasnt reflected in the scores. Well Li did atleast pass Fall-mond but not by enough given their skates. Sotnikova was somewhere between them as far as fair skating given how they skated. Those 5 and possibly others will battle it out for many years post Sochi but it is becoming clear who has the judging favor of the bunch, and it is Gold and Kaetlyn Fall-mond. Atleast the other girls can count on Kaetlyn Fall-mond to fall atleast 3 times each competition so if they skate clean they have to beat her, regardless what the judges want, but Gold as starting to fight more and stand up her programs so judging favortism for her could be a bigger problem for those others in the future.
That's correct. However, they can switch skaters between the SP and LP, in up to two disciplines. I am thinking they might do it for ladies and pairs.
judgejudy - I'm sure V&T will participate in the team event, but pairs is the first individual competition, so skating four times in such a short period is a lot. They might opt to do only the SP, for example, so that they won't be more tired than S&S.
Liza has done poorly in SP's for a majority of this season and was so bad in worlds she was beaten by Leonova. The SP problem for her is real and a major reason why she may not qualify for the Olympics. She can qualify for Euros and then beat someone there to place for the Olympics. Julia, Adelina, Liza are most likely to go to Euros. But if Liza has a bad SP at Euros and is beaten by Julia it will probably be Adelina and Julia. ANd maybe Liza doesn't even qualify for Euros. The SP problem for her is real and must be improved. GPF's saw bombing in Worlds saw bomb in SP. That's not something she can afford and is totally at risk of losing to Julia. Sotnikova also needs to sort out her bad flip problems. Maybe stop doing them. She cost herself a three jump combo at worlds because she didn't do a flip well and missed the rest of the combo. There are big problems. Why they were 9th and 10th at worlds.
The quality of Liza's jumps is much better than Julia's. I think that will give her the edge.
They're so good. And few have shown they can come back from a bad SP more than Liza but what if the hole is so bad she can't dig herself out of it!
Korobeynikova and Pogorilaya
Or maybe Shelepen
Shelepen didn't she retire ???
thats why I lump all the Polinas in 1 poll
depends with Julia, she can still pull a Lipinski next season maybe not gold of course
but if she will be the most successful of the three in GP's and win Euros , then I don't see why she will be left out for Olympics
the three are pretty even imo
Shelepen is only 17 y/o she did not retire she had an injury (foot or ankle? something like that) since early this season, that's why she had a meltdown at Skate Canada, made things worse, so then she did not compete for the rest of the season (she was qualified for Nats but withdrew). I do not know if she is recovered again now but I would think/hope so. Anyways, I was just joking about Korobeynikova and Pogorilaya, I maybe like those 2 the most of the Russian ladies but it's not like they honestly have a realistic chance at this point.
Tuk landed all her jumps, but she was slow, her jumps were small, and she had poor ice coverage. She may be having difficulty dealing with a significant weight gain since the GPF---even her face was rounder than I can remember and she has a hint of a double chin. She had the lowest PCS scores of the ladies in the top 10.


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'Chalk this game up as another one of those classic Buffalo-Toronto games, with the Sabres continuing its home dominance of their rivals to the north, picking up a 5-3 win on Thursday Night.'
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Leaf 'Big Guns' Firing Blanks
'I also found it interesting to watch this Sabres team and the transformation from the team that ousted the Leafs a few seasons ago in the semis. They have a solid core of youth and skill and look as though they may be ready to make some noise in the Northeast Division.'
Post-game Comments: Pat Quinn
'Sometimes I'm not sure it's luck. Tonight we let the second period get away from us after a good first period. Then in the third period with a one-goal game, we found a way not to win the hockey game [sic]. We couldn't close it off, they played defense real well and we didn't get real dangerous in the third.'
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'"I thought that Mika played a pretty good game. I don't think he had to make nearly the saves Belfour had to make. I like how he handled the puck in our zone. He made some really nice plays for us. He made enough saves but there was one goal that I really didn't like on him. There may have been a little rust from the length he has been out, but regardless it was great to get him a win."'
Pruning the Leafs
'19,000+ fans, Buffalo's second sellout of the season, were in attendance for the division rivalry game. The intensity and excitement for this game could be felt throughout the entire stadium.'
Hostile 'road' crowd quieted by Sabres victory in Buffalo
'"I thought the building was electric. That might be as good a game as you're going to see. On a skating standpoint, a hitting standpoint, a transition (standpoint), you wish hockey games could be like that every night."'
No offense earns Delmore a seat
'"I think he has a lack of confidence right now, that he is really pressing, where sometimes he could be shooting and isn't shooting," Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said.'
Buffalo still gives Toronto the blues
'"We seem to bring out the best of these guys at home, that's for sure," understated Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin, who had a quiet night with the puck. "I don't know if it's because of all the Toronto fans in the building, but they certainly always play well against us here."'
A horror show
'Exactly why Leafs fans torture themselves by making the trip over the border is not clear. Many of the 18,690 in attendance were Leafs supporters, and even chanted Ed Belfour's name on a couple of occasions. Yet the Leafs dropped to 2-13-3 at HSBC Arena since it opened in 1996.'
Traffic jams irking Eagle
'Satan, meanwhile, had his own issues with referees Don Koharski and Craig Spada. The Sabres captain was livid at being tagged with a holding-the-stick penalty with 3:11 remaining, and his subsequent protests resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.'
Mats' stats are dim
'"Patience is key," coach Pat Quinn said when asked if a roster upheaval was needed. "Panickers both on and off the ice never seem to come out on top."'
Maple Leafs Watch
'The joint always is lively whenever the Leafs come to town, but there seemed to be a slight increase in Toronto supporters in the building last night. Part of that can be attributed to the Sabres' recent marketing scheme aimed at attracting Canadian fans from the Niagara Peninsula.'
Buffalo horror
'"We're late to the puck, we don't keep it in (their zone), our forecheck is not strong and we don't cover well in our zone," coach Pat Quinn said in a blanket condemnation of what he had just witnessed. "These are miscues you don't expect from veterans. We have to get better. We're playing soft."'
Belfour demonizes ref over Satan's game-winner
'"It's inside my pads and the referee has no vision of it," Belfour said. "He's supposed to blow the whistle. That's the rule. It was a screw-up call by the referee and very disappointing."'
Toronto shuffled off by Buffalo
'The Leafs stopped hitting in the second period and instead reverted to their old habit of taking unnecessary penalties, giving the Sabres three power-play opportunities.'


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Samir Nasri believes that the French community at Arsenal has made the Club his home from home.
Nasri, who scored his first professional brace against Manchester United on Saturday, was one of six French starters in the Arsenal line up – the most in Arsenal history.
The midfielder revealed that the Gallic contingent that has been a mainstay of Arsène Wenger's reign in North London has affected the way that the Club is viewed across the channel.
"In France we consider Arsenal as the 21st team in our league," said Nasri.
"I used to watch Arsenal on TV when Robert Pires, Patrick Vieira and Thierry Henry were there. I was a bit too young when Eric Cantona was at Manchester United. But that Arsenal team was definitely the one I was watching.
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you don't have to explain yourself, lots of shops do cheap work now cause that's what pays the bills. I've done it and there's no shame in it.
With experience comes knowing what to expect or to foresee possible hangups and to then verbalize this with the customer so he knows and you have given him the option to pay for it to be done in a way with less risk and to cover your end on liability and full disclosure. This is what makes experiences like this more valuable to you in the long run cause you have gained knowledge from it.
Yes, that does make good sense and I am well aware of that from the mechanical side. This is an issue no matter where you are on the quality scale. There are people that will try to get free labor from every small detail, whether or not it is actually an issue. Dealing with this isn't so much about how much work you put into their project, but falls into your business skills and covering your ***. I have a few things in place trying to prevent this from happening...nothing I have ever ran by a lawyer, but I haven't had any arguments yet. My paperwork spells out not just the job I am to do (such as paint a fender), but also to what quality level with samples.
Having thoughts of finish painting that kia to give it a dead match had nothing to do with the customer demanding it and giving in to the demands, but my own personal desires for the quality that I put out. I did not guarantee a perfect paint match (and never have), although that does not mean that I won't try my best to make it so. The paint job on that kia is not top notch, not by a long shot, but I feel is should have matched better than it did. If I had any enough extra paint left, I would have blended it (or attempted to). I have now learned from this to get a bit extra if this happens again, which sounds likely.
I don't do all cheap work, although that is about 60% of my business. The all over scheduled for this weekend will be the best I can do, and it is getting charged appropriately. I am not trying to argue business practices by any means and I know I could have more money in my pocket (at least in the short term) by caring less on the cheap jobs, but I don't morally feel I should operate that way. One may get a lot less man-hours into it, but all jobs will still get the same effort.
|I am not a painter or body man, but I am a service man. I want to echo what others have said. This is the result of a cheap job and you did the best you could.
|the cheapest guy in town is always the busiest . and also broke .
I do want to comment on DBM's first post as IMO it is way off base. I understand the "get what you pay for" philosophy extends to body work as with everything else in life, but you cannot expect everyone to need a "good" paint job, or even what would be considered decent.[/QUOTE]
Being your new to this game I feel its best to warn you that most people that have you do this kind of work are out to get you...You do one fender and the next thing you know,your painting their whole car to make them happy...THEY are the pros (at getting something for nothing)...You need a policy for dealing with them or you'll never make any money....
Your problem is you like this kind of work and want to keep doing it to get better ...People pick up on this and will take advantage of you at every step...What ends up happening every time is You work your butt off ,You never have any money....you end up getting burnt out and find something else to do....These kinds of people just find the next guy in line and use him up...Or worse You'll be the guy up the road that does the real cheap work and Tthats all you'll ever get because you've wasted all your time doing half as'sed work and never had time to learn how to do a quality job....
All we can do is advise you based on what we know the rest is up to you...
What year is this car? Back in the day when I did some bodywork (20 years or so ago) if a car came in needing a panel repair, I always advised them on the older cars that it most likely wouldn't match perfectly with out a full paint. Cal. has a lot of paint fade from the heat, the KIA also looks to be a bit oxidized. Now, is a painter expected to match to the fade or just do the best he can with what he has to work with?
You fixed what was required of you, bottom line, from what I understand. It will likely happen again, you need a policy for these things or you will lose a lot of money over the years.
Edit: I didn't realize there was one more page to this discussion.
|white just has a lot of variances and has to be mixed perfectly and that's because white is the color so the toners that have the least amount of weight in them will show if it's off. If it were a different color the dominant color would hide it a little better. Blending is pretty easy but I've never blended a single stage and wouldn't recommend it.
It seems like the one thing I am easily in control over would be to blend the paint into all adjacent panels every single time. Tinting myself is also an option, although most likely out of my skill level at the moment. Until I get a real good hang of blending, this is going to add another layer of complexity I wasn't ready for. I expected paint matched paint to be dead on, and up until this time I haven't had an issue. I know this could happen with any color, but is white especially prone to be slightly off?
In any case, it sounds like my best plan is to grab a couple hoods from a junkyard, a few different shades of a color and start practicing.
your bumper trim won't show a mismatch cause it's most likely not butted up against old trim color.
It didn't match cause it's white and slight variances show greatly in it cause the dominant color isn't dominant and shows everything else to a great degree. As I said...either too much yellow or blue.Your supplier didn't mix the formula too well and as I said, white will show it. With solid ss you should have a closer match than that w/ metallic not always the case. There's also multiple contributors here...you're also butt matching. So add white, butt match, and a mix that's slightly off you get what you have now.
Thanks for the replies everyone, I really appreciate all of the insight. Sorry for the slow reply back, I have been out of power/internet from bad storms coming though. I hadn't ever heard of metamerism, but that makes perfect sense. I have shot SS on a few cars now that were originally BC/CC with this same brand I used here and it turned out pretty well. Not going to win any shows, but good enough for what it was. I wonder why this particular color showed this (this is the first white that I have done). I did take the gas door for a color match and I assumed they used the color analyzer thing...they took the door into the back room. The color is solid color, not metallic. I also painted the bumpers/trim in SS metallic and that turned out very well being SS metallic.
About 2am the night I posted this I woke up with the thought of what would happen if buffed the original paint (hadn't yet read any replies here). I never thought that it was fading due to it appearing to be a different shade, but I figured it couldn't hurt. I started with my fine cut cleaner (Meguiar's #2) on an 8000 pad. It may be just my wishful thinking, but it seems to be a whole lot better. It is still noticable to me, but the customer was quite happy with it, and in the end that is all that matters I suppose. An all-white car is a lot better than white, green, black, and primer.
This is a very interesting discussion to me, and I can see that I am going to have to rethink how I do some cars. It seems that on these cars where I am painting over 50% of the car already, I need to consider painting the entire thing. For example, tomorrow I am starting on a truck that needs the bed and cab painted, but the doghouse is fine. I priced "paint matched" paint for this vehicle that was double the cost of an off the shelf color, which is about typical for what I am getting. I have got a gallon of paint with reducer/activator for the price of just two quarts. Without having to worry about color match, I feel I am ahead for just a bit more labor.
When I do try to color match, I suppose that can't be guaranteed using SS. That would change my entire pricing structure, since I depend on the cheaper cost of SS vs BC/CC to meet margins. My philosophy on a cheap paint job is that there may be small defects and the paint may not have good durability/longevity, but the colors will match and there is no definite signs of a repair in the short term.
I do want to comment on DBM's first post as IMO it is way off base. I understand the "get what you pay for" philosophy extends to body work as with everything else in life, but you cannot expect everyone to need a "good" paint job, or even what would be considered decent. This kia was literally on its way to the junkyard over a deer hit when I told the owner I could fix it. Bags didn't deploy, although it did puncture the radiator, but the body shop estimates equalled the blue book value. I repainted the front end, both bumpers and all trim, and installed the junkyard parts for just under a grand. It isn't the best job in the world and that was never expected, but no one ever expects the colors not to match. I don't see a single issue with cheap body work when it saves a perfectly good vehicle otherwise. A 1999 kia isn't worth much, but that is no reason to instantly junk it in my book. It is still newer than anything I own. I don't make much money off of these jobs, but there is still a huge demand from those that want a bit more than macco, but can't afford or justify a "real" paint job. I also understand that my opinion above can cause a **** fest on this forum, but that is not what I am after...and yes, I do make a living repairing cars (although I am just getting back into painting). I realize I have a lot more learning to go, especially when it comes to blending and tinting. I have practiced blending on a few panels, but I have got a lot of work to do there and I have never tried tinting my own paint. That sounds like an art to master.
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