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Crowdfunding a popular way to raise money
The vet bills were mounting for Roxanne Persowich, and so too was the stress.
The Winnipeg-based massage therapist had missed several days of work, travelled thousands of kilometres to see a specialist and spent thousands of dollars earlier this year to find out what was wrong with her dog, Roco.
Suffering from non-stop nosebleeds over a number of weeks, the eight-year-old border collie cross had undergone numerous tests with no results.
Persowich was increasingly frustrated, and fearful.
"I didn't see an end to it. That was what was scary," she says. "The bills were just getting higher and higher."
Already dipping into her line of credit, she worried about how much longer she could keep funding Roco's medical care.
Amid the turmoil, a friend set Persowich up an account on GoFundMe.com, a crowdfunding website where people who need money -- no matter the reason -- can seek funds from donors.
Soon friends, family, clients and even strangers were donating to help save her best friend.
"There was this big weight lifted off my shoulders," says Persowich, adding the site raised about half the $6,000 in vet costs.
"When the crowdfunding had started, it was amazing how much it relieved the panic."
Persowich's story with crowdfunding is literally one of millions around the globe. An offshoot of the social-media revolution, it's changing how we raise money for a variety of causes and has quickly grown into multi-billion-dollar industry.
And crowdfunding is not just people raising money for their pet causes.
It has become a vital source of cash for artists, inventors and entrepreneurs with good ideas only lacking the capital to get them off the ground.
"Crowdfunding allows anyone to raise money online from anyone -- for just about any idea, product, project or cause," says Brad Damphousse, CEO of the San Diego-based GoFundMe.
"It also enables people to vote with their dollar for the things that matter to them most."
GoFundMe is one of a number of popular crowdfunding sites that have sprung up in the last decade. Like most, it charges a fee -- five per cent of donations -- to users who are raising funds. Since its launch in 2008, GoFundMe has helped 325,000 campaigns raise more than $80 million from more than 1.2 million donors.
Yet this is relatively small change in the total crowdfunding universe, which in 2012 raised about $2.7 billion, up from about $1.5 billion the year before, states a report by industry consulting and research firm Massolution.
Dr. Kevin Berg Kartaszewicz-Grell, research director at Massolution, says artists and musicians were the first to take up crowdfunding, launching ArtistShare in the U.S. more than a decade ago.
Since then, it has expanded to just about every kind of fundraising imaginable. Kickstarter, for example, is one of the largest sites, providing a fundraising platform for artists, inventors, start-up companies and other organizations.
Among the fledgling companies currently raising money on Kickstarter is Food Huggers, a would-be manufacturer of silicone seals for cut fruits and vegetables. The San Francisco-based company is trying to raise $26,000 to manufacture its product for market and, in exchange, donors will receive the product once it's manufactured.
Kartaszewicz-Grell says a number of companies have been successful in raising funds this way, including Waka Waka -- a manufacturer of solar-powered LED lights and chargers for the developing world.
"At one time, if you went on Kickstarter, you could have bought the lamp or you could have bought it and donated as well."
He says Waka Waka was successful not only because its product was in demand, its business plan also resonated with Kickstarter's donor community. Waka Waka wasn't just selling its product and raising funds to expand its business, it was seeking funds to provide the lights and chargers for free to communities that didn't have reliable sources of electricity -- which is pitch-perfect for Kickstarter's donors whose main intent is funding idealistic projects.
Prior to its Kickstarter campaign, Waka Waka successfully pursued a different crowdfunding avenue, using a Netherlands-based site called Symbid, which launched in 2011, where startup companies raise capital by selling equity stakes in their business similar to an initial public offering on an exchange, he says.
The light manufacturer raised more than $100,000 from investors and was one of Symbid's first success stories.
Yet investor-focused crowdfunding is relatively small compared to crowdfunding's other permutations. Kartaszewicz-Grell says that may soon change once equity crowdfunding is officially legal in the U.S.
Although the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which contains provisions for startups to sell equity stakes through crowdfunding, was made law last year, the exact rules are still being worked out by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
In Manitoba, equity-based crowdfunding is already legal, says Chris Besko, deputy director of legal counsel at the Manitoba Securities Commission. Yet no Manitoba-based company has ever used it to raise capital.
"It is more of a buzzword right now than a fully realized concept," he says.
The fact is, Canada -- not just Manitoba -- is a small and sparse market for venture capital compared to the U.S, so it would be challenging to raise thousands of dollars, let alone millions.
Furthermore, Canadian investors already have a platform to put their money at risk -- the TSX Venture Exchange (TSV), he says.
Buying shares of a small mining firm with no revenues on the TSV is risky enough. Investing in a startup through crowdfunding would be even chancier, especially given that it would not be subject to the same rigorous financial reporting as a publicly traded company.
"These investments are going to be very risky simply because they're looking for start-up capital," Besko says. "Usually, the only way you're going to make any money is if they get big enough to have any kind of public offering that you can sell your shares into."
Canadian startups and investors also don't have a venue to engage equity crowdfunding at this time. A U.K.-based company -- Crowdcube -- announced in May it is launching a Canadian site, but it is still trying to generate interest.
Yet while equity crowdfunding is virtually non-existent in Canada, donation crowdfunding platforms -- like GoFundMe and even a Vancouver-based site called FundRazr -- are catching on with Canadians.
The successful crowdfunding campaign on the U.S. site Indiegogo, which raised more than $200,000 in a few days to buy the video of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford allegedly smoking crack cocaine, speaks to just how embedded it has already become in our culture.
And in Persowich's case, crowdfunding has undoubtedly proven helpful. Her dog is healthy again, in no small part to due financial help from strangers, friends and family.
"It was fantastic," she says about the crowdfunding support. "I don't have any kids -- he's my kid, and I didn't want to give up on him."
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition June 29, 2013 B13
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NEW YORK — Cox Communications, the country's third-largest cable company, is launching its long-planned cellular network in three scattered areas on Friday, taking on cell phone companies on its home turf.
It's a rare new entrant in the wireless market, but one that's available only in Orange County, Calif., Omaha, Neb., and Hampton Roads, Va. — all areas where Cox is the local cable company. They have about 1.5 million residents, Cox said.
Cox plans to expand the network, but hasn't said where or when. It has spent $550 million to buy rights to use wireless spectrum in and around Atlanta, New Orleans, San Diego, and Las Vegas as well as much of Kansas and southern New Mexico. Those areas have about 23 million people, said Stephen Bye, Cox's vice president of wireless.
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Cox is aiming the service at its cable customers, throwing in perks such as free premium cable channels to those who add wireless to their bundle of services.
Cox, a privately held company based in Atlanta, is taking advantage of its position as the local cable company in another way as well. It already owns cell towers that it's been renting out to phone companies, carrying the calls and data traffic from towers over the optical communications fiber it originally laid down to carry video signals to its cable systems. Even so, building out a wireless network is likely to cost several hundred million dollars.
Where Cox doesn't have its own network, subscribers will be "roaming" on the networks of Sprint Nextel Corp. and other carriers, incurring no additional fees.
Cable companies have a long history of dabbling in wireless. Cox built and operated a cellular network covering Southern California and Las Vegas in the 1990s, then sold it to Sprint in 1999. Comcast Corp., the country's largest cable company, also owned a wireless network in the '90s and had ties to Sprint.
The cable companies teamed up with Sprint again in 2005 to market wireless service to their video customers, but the project was abandoned in 2008.
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Over the years the term has become so generalized that it's used by fans to describe any character or character trait that they find endearing even when the usage makes little conventional sense. At the same time, it has spurred debate between those in support of Moe and those in opposition to it, which in turn [[{{Kawaisa}} mirrors the general split of opinion on Kawaisa in Japan]].
Creator/HayaoMiyazaki is an example of someone who, while initially sympathetic to Moe, changed his stance later on. He once stated that Moe is the natural result [[IronWoobie of attempts to simply create a female character whom you can sympathize with]] and nothing more. He has stated that making them [[BishoujoSeries "lovely"]] is merely the same as making a hero brave or strong. He has also stated that while not inherently controversial, the nature of what Moe has become and it's subsequent handling in the growing years has, according to him, reached the stage where there are too many people who shamelessly depict Moe characters as pets or objects of fetishism/misogyny/power fantasy rather than as wholesome characters, and things are escalating more and more (especially due to Japan's gender conflicts and men [[{{Hikikomori}} retreating in secluded lives]]).
It might be interesting for you to consider some quotes from anime producers and otaku researchers on the moe craze and what they think it means, such as this following [[http://www.gwern.net/docs/2004-okada academic roundtable from 2004]]. Most of them trace "moe" to an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]] scene with Rei in an alternate universe [[http://static.flickr.com/8/7974780_9bc3d163be_m.jpg running to school with a piece of bread in her mouth.]] Most interesting is how they identify the Aum Shinrikyo subway attacks as a major cause behind the rise of moe, as well as distinguish earlier types of otaku.
-->'''Takashi Murakami''': I have to confess, I don't fully understand the moe sensibility.
-->'''Toshio Okada''': The moe generation is mostly made up of otaku thirty-five or younger. I myself belong to the previous otaku generation, so frankly I don't understand moe.
-->'''Toshio Okada''': Otaku are bashful. They are intelligent but so bashful that they're more comfortable with children's anime than regular movies. They can shed their reserve if a serious idea is filtered through a "Made for Children" label ... At any rate, I have never seen an orientation towards the unacceptable among otaku. ... Well, then, do you mean from the mid- to late 1970s, things got progressively more unacceptable from ''[[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Yamato]]'' to ''{{Franchise/Gundam}}'', and then ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind''? I don't think so. An inclination for dame appears to exist because otaku have shifted to bishojo these past few years. Within this limited context, you may have a point, but veteran otaku have to disagree.
-->'''Kaichiro Morikawa''': Generally speaking, I see a downward spiral. Aum Shinrikyo was influenced by Genma Wars. In the 1980s, otaku dreamt of Armageddon; they fantasized about employing supernatural powers to [[EndOfTheWorldSpecial create a]] [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans new world]] after {{the end of the world|AsWeKnowIt}}. But [[DeConstruction Aum's subway attack in 1995 thoroughly shattered the post-apocalyptic otaku dream]] of creating a new world in which they would become heroes. [[DespairEventHorizon After their apocalyptic fantasies collapsed, they steadily shifted to moe.]] Before their Armageddon obsession, there was science fiction, which provided otaku with an alternative to the actual future. In the broadest terms, moe has replaced 'future.'
-->'''Kaichiro Morikawa''': As I said before, the 1980s-era fascination with the apocalyptic was shattered by Aum. I think moe emerged as an alternative, to fill the void.
-->'''Toshio Okada''': I see. To me, Eva was all about "[[UsefulNotes/{{Existentialism}} Since I can't do anything about changing the world, I will do something about myself.]]" Don't you think "robot anime" is all about "[[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans trying to change the world]]"? Morikawa-san, you talked about the apocalyptic. One step before that is "social reform" (yo-naoshi). One of the key concepts for understanding otaku is "[[WideEyedIdealist a child's sense of justice.]]" The reason grown-ups are enthusiastic about Kamen Rider and the "warrior team" genre (sentai mono) is because that basic sense of justice, which we abandoned in society a long time ago, is still meaningful in the world of these TV shows. Of course, there's also the terrific monster designs and pan-chira [the fleeting display of girls' panties], but that's not enough to keep the boys interested. That basic sense of justice worked until Eva. [[CosmicHorrorStory But with Eva, it became clear that no one could save the world.]] And Eva complicated the whole thing, raising issues such as "Maybe I should at least save myself" and "What's wrong with me, thinking only about saving myself?" Eva marked a turning point. Whatever we discuss today, we cannot avoid Eva.
-->'''Hiroki Azuma''': Not surprisingly, ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', which appeared in 1995, proves important. As with Aum Shinrikyō, this work also had dual implications, straddling the Era of Fiction and the Era of Animals. This anime is a work that initially aspired to grand narrative in a very straightforward way. As the title suggests, it is an evangelical narrative of human salvation. In any event, this grand narrative broke down spectacularly in the last episode of the TV series. Moreover, what appeared at the moment of its breakdown was the world of secondary or fan production. Specifically, what appeared in the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth episodes of the TV series Evangelion was the world of secondary production as already in circulation through the Comiket (comic market) and personal computer communications. In other words, its creators made a parody of the parody in advance. And, in their rather wonderful way, they pieced together an autocritique of their impasse.
-->In other words, in his effort to see this grand narrative through to the end, its director Anno Hideaki ultimately could not help but criticize the character industry, in order to preserve his status as author, as a matter of self-defense. Anno flirted with the impossible task of constructing a grand narrative in the 1990s, but in the end it proved impossible, and all that remained was Ayanami Rei as a moe kyara, that is, as an affective figure. In this respect, I think that the scene in the twenty-sixth episode of Evangelion in which Ayanami Rei appears running with bread in her mouth marks a turning point in otaku culture, the moment when the Era of Fictions became the Era of Animals, when the Era of Fictional Histories gave way to the Era of Affective Response to Characters (kyara moe). This is why Evangelion remains such an important work.
A comment by [[http://forum.evageeks.org/post/487674/Alternate-Reality-in-Episode-26/#487674 one]] of the foreign reviewers of the transcript:
-->I think it's more likely that Moe is the result of Eva traumatizing a generation of viewers who completely failed to understand the implications of the series' message and thus retreated even deeper into otakudom. The plot so completely broke their minds with a truth they weren't willing to accept that all they could say in response is "what the world really needs are endless derivative variations of Asuka and Rei doing cute things without all that emotional trauma making viewers uncomfortable."


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A new animal model for Machado Joseph disease involves yet another brain area in the disorder
Authors of the original paper: Sandro Alves e Luís Pereira de Almeida
Machado Joseph disease (MJD) is a neurodegenerative disorder associated with deposits of an aberrant form of the protein ataxin-3 in the brain. The disease is also fatal and the most common hereditary motor neurodegenerative disease in many countries. Despite this, not much is known about MJD including the neurological basis of some of its symptoms, which cannot be linked to the brain damage found in patients. But now, researchers in Portugal and France using a new animal model of the disease were able to show, for the first time, that MJD also affects the striatum, a brain area associated with movement and balance control.
*This article is the result of a project for the divulgation of portuguese science" http://www.cienciahoje.pt/1455"
MJD, also called spinocerebellar ataxia type 3, belongs to a group of disorders linked to an abnormal repetition of three nucleotides (nucleotides are the DNA building blocks) within a gene. The altered gene produces an abnormal protein, which, incapable of working properly, accumulates instead in insoluble deposits in the patients' brain and is linked to the neural death characteristic of these disorders.
In MJD the pathology results from a mutation in the MJD1 gene that encodes a protein called ataxin-3. The name Machado-Joseph comes from two families of Portuguese/Azorean descent who were the first patients identified and, today, disease prevalence is still highest among people with a link to Azores. In fact, disease incidence among immigrants of Portuguese ancestry in New England is 1 in 4,000 while in the Azores island, Flores is even higher - 1 in 140. Symptoms include increasing limb weakness (ataxia means lack of muscle control) and widespread clumsiness, difficulty with speech and a general loss of motor control that eventually confines the patient to a wheelchair and, in most severe cases, leads to premature death. Although the disease has been discovered in the 1970s much is still unknown including its cause and also the reason behind many of its symptoms as they do not seem to relate to the brain areas damaged by the disease.
In order to better understand this and because animal models that mimic closely the pathology are necessary Sandro Alves, Nicole Déglon, Luis Pereira de Almeida and colleagues working at the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, and the Institute of Biomedical Imaging (I2BM) and Molecular Imaging Research Center (MIRCen), Fontenay-aux-Roses, France together with others in Switzerland and the USA created a virus that contained in its genome the gene for the mutant form of ataxin-3 and injected it into rats .
The idea was that the virus injected into the rat brain, when inserted into the DNA of the infected cells, would also add the mutant ataxin-3 gene. As result, infected cells would produce mutant ataxin-3 and (hopefully) reproduce a MJD-like disease in these animals that could then be studied.
When injecting the altered virus Alves, Almeida and colleagues chose three different brain areas: the substantia nigra, which was known to be affected by MJD in humans so it could serve as positive control for neurodegeneration - but also the cortex and the striatum areas of the brain, which recent imaging techniques have suggested to be linked to MJD. Control rats were injected with a virus that contained DNA for a normal (no-mutated) version of ataxin-3.
Injection of mutated ataxin-3 into the rats' substantia nigra replicated some of the motor dysfunction of MJD as well as induced brain degeneration and deposits of mutant protein within the injected area. Mutant ataxin-3 deposits in MJD patients are characteristically insoluble fibrillar structures localised inside of the cell nucleus. In agreement with this the deposits found in the rats' substantia nigra were insoluble, also localised in the nucleus, and of high molecular weight. Supporting the specificity of this new MJD model animals injected with a virus containing the normal form of ataxin-3 showed even distribution of the protein throughout the cell and no neural death..
When it was established that Alves, Almeida and colleagues' protocol created a valid animal model for MJD the next step was to inject the virus with mutant or normal proteins into the cortex or the striatum of the rats. The idea was to look for MJD-like behavioural and neurologic symptoms in these animals suggesting an involvement of these areas in MJD. Interestingly, although animals injected in the cortex showed deposits of mutant ataxin3 there was almost no neurodegeration detected. Rats injected in the striatum, however, were very different as they had insoluble mutant ataxin-3 deposits and clear indication of neural changes around these deposits. Most interestingly, the amount of neural dysfunction observed was directly linked to the amount of mutant ataxin-3 gene injected (so dose-dependent) supporting the toxic role of this protein in the disease.
To further confirm that the striatum degeneration was characteristic of MJD the researchers decided to look into the striatum tissues of deceased MJD patient and of a mice model of MJD where animals are genetically modified to produce mutant ataxin-3 throughout the brain. In both cases it was found deposits of mutant ataxin-3 and signs of neuropathology within the striatal tissue.
Sandro Alves, Luis Pereira de Almeida and colleagues' results finally explain why MJD patients suffer so many times from tightening and twisting of the limb and, although less frequently, of abrupt irregular movements since both motor problems can now be explained by a disruption of the neurological paths in the striatum, a brain area connected to balance and movement. The work also provides a new genetic model to study the disease and possible therapeutic approaches to combat it.
Piece researched and written by: Catarina Amorim (catarina.amorim at linacre.ox.ac.uk)
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Budget 2014: Help for firms hit by high energy bills
Welsh businesses with very high energy bills are in line for compensation under a key announcement in the Budget.
It is understood 16 firms including Tata Steel in Port Talbot qualify in Wales, sharing some £240m compensation.
There were fears high energy bills could force industries to relocate.
In other Budget announcements, the Welsh government will receive an extra £36m to spend over the next two years, a little over 0.1% of its £15bn annual budget.
The increase comes as a result of extra spending in England.
But the Budget was dismissed by Welsh ministers as being "full of missed opportunities" to boost economic growth.
UK ministers also said raising the personal income tax allowance to £10,500 in 2015 meant another 14,000 people in Wales would no longer pay income tax.
With unemployment falling - and falling fast in Wales - Chancellor George Osborne could be forgiven for thinking that everything looks rosy.
But the coalition government's defining purpose is to bring down the annual deficit - the gap between what the government raises and what it spends - and that job is not yet done.
The chancellor was keen to remind MPs of that fact, and there is a clear political message too - now (or rather next year) is not the time to change the party in charge with work still to do.
Ministers in Cardiff Bay hoping for some sort of windfall will be disappointed. An extra £36m for the Welsh government to spend over the next two years represents a tiny proportion of the £15bn annual budget.
More significant will be the help for the so-called energy intensive industries - that is firms with a huge electricity bill.
The Wales Office and the Welsh government had raised concerns that big employers such as Tata Steel would eventually have to relocate if bills kept going up.
As a result of the income tax changes, some 1.16m taxpayers in Wales will be on average £61 a year better off.
Many of those no longer paying income tax will, however, continue to pay National Insurance after April 2015.
Beer duty is also being cut by 1p.
The help for industries using huge amounts of energy is also expected to benefit the UPM Shotton paper mill in Flintshire, the Spanish steel maker Celsa's plant in Cardiff and the Dow Corning chemical works in Barry.
It follows a call for action in January by the boss of Tata Steel's operations in Europe.
Karl Koehler argued that heavy industries in the UK were burdened with environmental obligations that pushed up their energy bills, sometimes to levels 50% higher than their European competitors.
Speaking at a conference in London, he had urged ministers to back businesses that were part of "foundation industries" - including chemicals and metal-based manufacturers.
Mr Koehler quoted a report by consultants that said these companies employed nearly half a million people in the UK and accounted for 30% of total exports and imports.
He said they formed a key part of any economic rebalancing strategy for the UK, which would encourage growth outside the south east of England.
Welsh Secretary David Jones said the announcement would come as a "welcome boost to the energy intensive industries that employ thousands of people across Wales".
"Today's Budget makes clear that the government's commitment to strong, sustainable and balanced growth is working and that businesses and families across Wales will continue to benefit from the economic recovery.
"Tomorrow I will introduce the Wales Bill which will give new tax and spending powers to Wales.
"However, it will be up the Welsh government to seize the opportunity and drive forward Wales's economic growth with the new powers that are being offered," he added.
'Investment boost'Welsh Finance Minister Jane Hutt said publication of the Wales Bill would be "an important step forward" that would "take us closer to gaining the vital borrowing powers we need to invest in Wales's infrastructure".
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End Quote Jane Hutt Welsh Finance MinisterWe needed this budget to deliver a significant capital investment boost. This has not happened"
But she added that the Labour administration in Cardiff Bay wanted to see more measures in the budget to boost capital investment.
She said: "The chancellor has given Wales an additional £36m over the next two years. But, at the same time, we are being forced to find at least £70m from our budget over the same period to cover public sector pension costs."
"The employment statistics published earlier today show that unemployment in Wales is now lower than in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, a clear example that the Welsh government's policies are working.
"For us to build on this further we needed this budget to deliver a significant capital investment boost. This has not happened.
"However we will continue to use the resources we have available to us to invest in our Wales Infrastructure Investment Plan priorities."
Plaid Cymru said it was disappointed there were no plans for an investment bank for Wales.
The party's Westminster leader Elfyn Llwyd said: "We have argued long and hard about a Welsh investment bank, in other words a bank which would be publicly backed up in order to provide money for small and medium sized businesses.
"At the end of the day, it's important everywhere, but it's crucial for Wales when you consider that in the urban setting, or a rural setting, 90% roughly of the employment in the whole of Wales comes from that sector, and we know that that sector is least able to draw down money from the banks currently.
"I am disappointed about that, because I think it would have been a great boost to the economy of Wales."
The Liberal Democrats said their policies were "at the heart of the long term economic plan that is delivering jobs and growth in Wales".
The party's Welsh Kirsty Williams said: "Today the Liberal Democrats have managed to raise the tax-threshold to £10,500.
"This means 1,160,000 people in Wales will have had their tax cut by £800 since the Liberal Democrats came into government.
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i am looking for a way to remove painted on pin stripe that is on top of the clear coat. will intensive polish by menzerna's work with a PC?
View Full Version : removing painted pin stripe cals400ex 05-04-2007, 11:06 AM i am looking for a way to remove painted on pin stripe that is on top of the clear coat. will intensive polish by menzerna's work with a PC? parbreak 05-04-2007, 11:33 AM If it works it will probably smear the paint due to some heat build up. If I were doing it I will get some mild wax/grease remover(good stuff from a paint shop) and slowly go over it, if and only if it's actually on top of the clearcoat. Bryan Pheonix 05-05-2007, 01:52 AM Easy off oven cleaner will take it off let it sit on the car for 15 min make sure you spray it heavy and close it will not mess with your clear or nothing. It will come right off with a cloth. Oh and do it in the shade or in the garage somewhere where its not hot. davidfre21 05-05-2007, 05:33 AM how long has it been on there? You may end up with "tan lines" :( To get it off, you can also try a reducer or thinner. cals400ex 05-05-2007, 11:46 PM its been on the car for a while. probably 5 years if i had to guess. i may try that oven cleaner and then use an intensive polish if i see a line from where it was. i am not sure what else to try... cals400ex 05-05-2007, 11:48 PM also, i am not familiar with reducers. what is the difference between that and a thinner? davidfre21 05-06-2007, 10:55 AM also, i am not familiar with reducers. what is the difference between that and a thinner? pretty much the same, reducers with what we mix with paint. Thinner is regular stuff. And if its been on there that long, u might run into some issues taking it off. Just keep in the back of ur mind, if u do take it off u may be into a repaint :bang: SamD_Ind 05-06-2007, 12:47 PM Guys use the oven cleaner on Goldwings all the time to remove unwanted graphics thats on top of clearcoat. I've seen it done. Yes it will leave "tan lines" if the paint has faided since the graphics were applied. It will NOT harm the clear coat davidfre21 05-06-2007, 01:42 PM only issue is this isnt a graphic being held on by an adhesive... the stripe is painted on and old, by now the solvents in the pin strip paint may have ate into his factory clear underneath. Only other thing i can think of is to try to "cut" it out with like some 1500-2000grit and polish the panel back out. Problem there is, u will have to be extremely carefull not to ass-hole the clear around the stripe while removing the pinstripe. Pheonix 05-06-2007, 01:44 PM I agree with samd_ind ive used oven cleaner too. It will leave tan lines no matter what, but they are just slightly hazy because that area has been protected by the pins stripe from uv light. If you use thinner or reducer you WILL MESS UP THE CLEAR.. DONT USE THAT. Just try the oven cleaner if and if you want you can even try wet sanding with like 1200grt and then buffing. Thats just way more laborous. cals400ex 05-06-2007, 03:17 PM well i will try to find some oven cleaner. i am not sure what kind i will use yet. after hopefully the faded lines will at least partially come out with some intensive polish. cals400ex 05-07-2007, 11:02 PM i am seeing two different kinds of easy off oven cleaner. one is a fume free max oven cleaner and th other is a heavy duty oven cleaner. i don't know how safe either one is but i think i am going to try the fume free first. i think it is a bit more mild. any suggestions? Pheonix 05-08-2007, 12:11 AM Man ill post the one i use i have it at the shop and ill check tomorrow its a yellow aerosol can that says easyoff in black with a white outline. But ill give you the exact details tomorrow. cals400ex 05-08-2007, 12:38 AM the yellow can is the heavy duty stuff i believe. i am thinking the fume free is in a blue can or something like that. cals400ex 05-15-2007, 01:07 AM i just want to let everyone know that this stuff works. i used the brand "easy off" heavy duty (in a yellow can) oven cleaner and it stripped my painted on pin stripes without a problem. It did not damage the clear and you can not even tell the pin stripes were on the car unless you are at a perfect angle under a florescent light. however, a PC with some polish should quickly take care of that. i was expecting the paint to be a different color but it turned out awesome. thanks again! 02trns_am 05-15-2007, 08:48 AM Glad to hear it came out good. Torque_Wrench 05-15-2007, 09:20 AM Try some Mineral Spirits fisrt. If that don't work well enough then Easy Off Oven Cleaner will do it. Although I don't like to use Easy Off unless it's a last resort. cals400ex 05-15-2007, 01:51 PM i couldn't even tell my clear coat faded at all. i removed the pin stripes and then washed the car. it turned out great. |


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This is my re-recreation of a dish I once sampled as part of a tasting panel. It is a hearty entree that is simple to prepare on a weeknight.
- 1Preheat a 4 qt Dutch oven or chef's pan on medium high.
- 2Add lamb, breaking up thoroughly with a wooden spoon. Sprinkle with garlic powder. When bottom is well-browned, stir to brown other side and keep stirring until meat is evenly brown.
- 1Add onion and mix. Lower heat to medium-low, cook 5 minutes until onion is soft, stirring occasionally. Add spinach, tomato paste, tomato soup, and ketchup, stirring to blend well. Cook 5 minutes.
- 1Cut cream cheese into cubes and stir into lamb mixture until thoroughly melted and blended. Taste for seasoning, adding as necessary, including optional vinegar and oil.
- 1Stir the cooked noodles into the mixture to coat evenly and thoroughly. Turn off the heat, cover, and let sit for 10 minutes to meld flavors.
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So with two weeks to go until my marathon I know how important it is to keep any extra pounds at bay. This is always tough when you start to taper--fewer calories burned can mean weight gain. My challenge is made tougher by the timing of my marathon.
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Stormrider wrote:What I don't get is the coloring of TW-01. There are pictures showing him as olive green and also as a metalic forest green. Which is it?
Banjo-Tron wrote:anyone know approximately what size these fellas are? I'm assuming deluxe?
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Rated X wrote:Im not thrilled about the updated alt modes. They should have went G1. Searchlight doesnt need to be a soccer mom SUV. But like everyone else on my classics shelf, I display them in robot modes to show G1 love rather than "neo" sillyness. But I do like the robot modes so far so Im still on board. Hope they dont combine. That would be stupid.
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Considering these are newer images, I would say this is indicative of what you're getting. Still looks like a metallic/sparkly olive to me.
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I attended this second annual event in the warm California sun. I was a little slow in getting out my cameras or I could have shot a video of a full scale Piper Cub that almost landed on the RC runway. The weatherman promised temperatures in the mid 90s with just a mild breeze. He lied! There was a strong cross breeze going across the runway all day long. The mid 90s turned out to be 107 in the shade. Despite that, it was a good day with mostly very good flying and nice people with a great raffle prize and barbecue. Hopefully, you will enjoy the videos of some very nice jets that I was able to videotape. Thanks to TamJets and RC Country for supporting this event. Some very nice jets were flown but my personal favorite was the TamJets Sabre. It really looked scale.
Marvin got to experience a runway thermal with a strong gust from the plane's left to right during the landing. Knowing Marvin, I am sure the plane is ready to fly again.
Tam donated one of these beauties for a special raffle.
I hoped you enjoyed a view of some of the planes that flew at this year's event. My arm died holding the camera for over an hour, and the pilots didn't make it easy flying fast jets very high into the sky! If youre in Northern California next July and you like EDFs, look out for it. The people were great!
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yeah something does appear to come off at about :49.
Runway thermal, looks like a good old fashion stall to me. nice videos. |
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It was a small piece of monocoat or other brand of covering that came off. There was also a very near mid-air with a bird in one of the videos. Mike Heer
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Marvin didn't make any excuses. He knew he stalled. But his stall might not have been a disaster without the thermal that had just gone over the runway and the strong gusty wind. I do think they contributed to the flip and the crash. Again Marvin made no excuses. Just thought I should clear that up. The Hero 100 looked pretty nice until it landed upside down. Mike H
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Jul 26, 2009, 12:34 PM | |
Marvin, don't worry about it. You saw my first three landings, right? The ones that made it on this review Dis -gus - TING! I'll be proud to make excuses Those were my first three landings in months!! But I still had a great time, and was especially relieved when I finally began to remember how to land shortly there after.
Thanks Mike for the review! Hey, by the way, I think after you left that morning, you must have gone back into the valley, right? 107??? It never seemed to get really, really hot at the field. The wind was right off the water and we were all remarking at how relatively comfortable it felt at the field (felt like 95 or just a bit more, until 4pm when it felt like the heat soaked in finally). Aside from that crosswind rotor that lived right at the landing zone on the runway, the flying was great. That rotor either made that last ten feet happen really, really quickly (pushed you down) or it tossed you up and into a near 90 degree bank depending on how you hit it. But by the afternoon, the wind shifted and it was right down the runway making our flights (and landings) much more enjoyable!!! Thanks again for the coverage Mike, let's fly again soon. |
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