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Did you know that 95% of Ecommerce sales come from product page SEO?
Ok, that's probably not true….
But optimizing product pages for search traffic is still really important.
In fact, someone may be performing a Google search for the item you sell at this very moment.
And while you're off reading SEO articles, maybe they clicked on a site that's not yours!
Eh…. probably not. At least, hopefully, that's not the case. Regardless, follow the recommendations below and you're likely to be the one stealing search traffic from the competition. Better yet, these 17 Ecommerce SEO tips will improve conversions, as well as keyword rankings.
1. Keyword Research: Relevancy + Search Volume + Competition
Product page content needs to be supported by research on how consumers are searching for the product. Keyword research is critical for SEO. Before you optimize your product page, know the search term(s) that will yield the most search traffic.
Determine the strongest keywords and phrases for your product using a few main considerations:
Search Volume
Competition (Ranking Difficulty)
Some Quick Methods for Identifying Those Target Keywords
Google Search Console: Identify Top Search Queries
- Go to Search Traffic>Search Analytics
- Filter Pages to select the product page you are optimizing
- Select "Queries"
- Uncheck Clicks and Check Impressions
- Sort by impressions to see which queries are currently winning your page the most eyeballs
SEMrush: Competitor Analysis
- Search your product in Google
- Locate the current top ranking product page
- Plug that page's URL into SEMrush
- Use the Organic Research section
- View the top organic keywords that are sending traffic to the product page
Google Search: Auto Complete
This one is definitely the best "quick hack" for gathering user search behavior insight…
- Start typing your product name into the search bar
- Note top variations, phrases, and adjectives that pop up with your product
Take your auto complete research one step further and actually run those top search phrases you found with a handy extension like Keywordtool.io. This tool offers lots of "book-end" ideas to help with long-tail keyword ideas.
Google Keyword Planner
There are multiple methods of finding product page keyword targets using Google Keyword Planner. Here's the most basic if you've never used Keyword Planner before…
- Choose the option to "search for new keywords using a phrase, website, or keyword"
- Enter a slew of relevant search terms that you'd like to compare for your product/service
- Set your target parameters
- Compare volume and competition results for terms you put in as well as keyword planner's relevant suggestions
2. Product Name: Descriptive & Well Thought Out
The product name has a large impact on your search rankings. However, the impact will vary based on how your CMS displays and utilizes product names.
Now that you've identified your strongest key terms, integrate those into a descriptive product name. The name of your product needs to clearly state what customers can expect to find on your page. Product names should be to-the-point and include any necessary descriptors that you learned customers might be searching for.
3. Product Description: Unique & High-Quality (Think Value-Added)
Quality product descriptions can be very beneficial for SEO. But don't think SEO. Think value-added. Start by thinking what your customers would want in a product description.
When writing the actual description copy, you'll want to include:
- Key Features & Specs: Cover key features and specifications for your product, and what value these bring to consumers.
- Keywords: Continue to revisit your target keywords when you can. Using synonyms, model numbers, brands, and keyword variations helps.
- A Healthy Handful of Words: Informative, but not long winded–around 200 words will do in most cases (employ bullets and lists when appropriate).
- UNIQUE Text: Most importantly, your product description must be unique. Common (bad) practice is to copy/paste descriptions from the manufacturer. This creates duplicate content, which will hurt your chances or ranking in search engines. Write something of value from scratch every time.
4. Page Title: Boost Rankings w/ Unique, Keyword-Friendly Titles
Page Titles are still a huge ranking factor for SEO. And not only do they improve your rankings, they can also help boost click thru rates.
Product page titles are the big links displayed in search results…
Page Title Considerations:
- Keywords: Use keywords like your product name
- Unique: Each page needs a unique title
- Start w/ Primary Keywords: Main keywords towards the front of title
- Length: Stay under 65-70 characters in length
- Keyword Stuffing: Avoid repeating the same keyword (2x max if needed), aka "keyword stuffing"
- Use Brand: Brand names are usually a good thing
5. Meta Description: Unique Descriptions for All Products
Unlike with page titles, using keywords in your product's meta description won't directly impact rankings. However, it's still SEO best practices to write unique meta descriptions for product pages. Any unique offerings or selling points can entice more clicks. And naturally inserting keywords and formatting with numbers and symbols can help click thru rates here, too.
Meta Descriptions are the snippet of text displayed in search results…
Meta Description Considerations:
- Keywords: Use keywords like your product name, categories, etc
- Detail: Explain what's on the page so users know what it is they're clicking on
- Unique: Each page needs a unique meta description
- Length: Stay under 155-165 characters in length
- USP: Use your brands unique selling points to entice click throughs
- Formatting: Feel free to use things like Price, other numbers, and other characters that make you stand out
6. Product URLs: Short, Clean & Keyword-Friendly
Clean, keyword-friendly URLs are good and can effect search rankings. Different e-commerce platforms offer various means of controlling category and product page URLs. Some are better for this than others. Just make sure that if you're optimizing URLs, that the old URLs get redirected to the new URLs with a 301 permanent redirect.
Construct your product page URLs in a user-friendly manner. URLs appear right under your title in the search engine results, so it's important that they're clean and descriptive. Rules of URL writing:
- Keep Them Short: Less is more.
- Use Keywords: Should look quite similar to the product name you've decided on.
- Clean Unnecessary Elements: You probably don't need dates, "product," or "category" in the URL.
- Lower-Case: URLs are one of the few places you get to IGNORE the proper noun rule.
- Sub-Folder Usage: A subfolder, like site.com/category/product can be helpful. Just keep in mind the overall length. If multiple sub-folders are making your product URLs super long, then trim them down.
- Dynamic Parameters: Say NO to dynamic parameters in your product URLs (i.e. category=54)
Ex: Two product URLs for the same item: Saucony Grid 8000 CL, but Sneakerfreaker.com does a much better job employing a clean, description product URL.
7. Headings: Improve Formatting & Keyword Targeting
Consider breaking your content (product description, features, reviews, etc) with formatted headings and sub-headings. Headers are great for users and help with SEO. Be sure to include keywords, synonyms, and related terms in headings whenever it makes sense.
Heading Tags (h1, h2, etc…)
Though it's not a huge ranking signal any more, it's still SEO best practices to wrap your headers in Heading Tags. <h1> for your product name. <h2> for sub-headings, and so on…
Header Formatting and Readability
Avoid big blocks of text that no one wants to read. Formatted headings improve readability and can help shoppers find product information much quicker.
Ex: Verizon's well-formatted Fitbit product description with good use of spacing, headings & sub-headings
Ex: Dick's Sporting Goods' weaker product description lacking strong headings
Ex: Nordstrom's weak product description formatting…where are the breaks??
8. Consolidation: Combine Like Product Pages
If you have similar products across your ecommerce site, it's possible you're housing many weak or duplicate pages, all competing for the same search term. This type of product or keyword cannibalization will reduce overall search traffic potential.
A Single QUALITY Page > Multiple THIN/WEAK Pages
For instance, maybe you have 10 products, each with their own URL/page. And the only difference between them all is color.
The result?
10 weak product pages
The fix?
Turn into 1 strong product page – where all product info, description, images, user reviews, links, and social shares combine to make a single product page that has potential to rank #1 in Google.
What This Looks Like
In many situations, the best solution is to combine very similar items into one product page. And if needed, allow users to simply choose product options to select variations of that item. Lastly, set up redirects so all URLs point to just the one product page.
Example: Pier1.com has (4) "Round Rug Pad" pages. Instead of having 4 low-quality crawlable/indexable pages….
… consolidate into one decent-quality Round Rug Pad page, and let me choose the size in a dropdown.
9. Internal Links: Spread Link Flow (Especially To/From Product Pages)
Internal links (those that point to other pages on your site) are great for SEO. They help spread link flow or "link equity" in a relevant manner. This can help Google determine which pages are most important on your site, and help improve accessibility and indexation of your pages. Internal links can also help reinforce the context of a page.
If you get the opportunity to mention another similar or supplementary product that you offer, link to that product page with some relevant anchor text.
Many sites focus so much on external link building, they overlook the power of relevant internal links.
Ex: The Human Solution – Nice job of linking internally between product pages
Seek Out Internal Linking Opportunities
If this product is important, scan your own site for mentions of this item. You can then add hyperlinks to point to the item, which is both beneficial for SEO, as well as the user.
You can quickly scan your site for product mentions with a Google search: site:yoursite.com product name
Here's another example from pier1.com…
It's great that pier1.com has related items set up, like on this Capella Island Sofa Dining Collection.
Internal links via related items is great. But adding manual internal links can have a far greater SEO impact.
The description of the Sofa Dining set mentions pieces of the set, which pier1.com also carries. I'd recommend cross-linking within the product descriptions themselves. I'd do this sitewide, and whenever applicable.
Internal link opportunity – Dining Set, to individual pieces of the set
Surely there's a decent place in the Armchair description to mention (and link back to) the full dining set. Again, valuable for the user, as well as SEO.
Internal link opportunity – Armchair piece, to full Dining Set
Related Item Links
As mentioned above, having dedicated sections that link to related or corresponding items offer an effective way to spread your link equity. This can also increase avg. page visits, and improve on-page SEO. All e-commerce site should be incorporating this in some way.
10. Product Reviews: A Sure-Fire Way To Increase Search Traffic
User-submitted product reviews are a gold-mine for SEO. They add unique, relevant, and helpful content to a product page, which can considerably boost your search traffic. Better yet, consumer-generated content can also boost revenue and consumer trust!
Product reviews boost revenue per online visit 62% – Internet Retailer
Set up a Product Reviews section (where the text will be crawlable) and ask users to engage.
And don't worry if your customer reviews aren't all five stars, having a bit of variance in your feedback legitimizes your reviews sitewide.
How to Get Those Reviews
Incentivize user interaction by offering discounts and raffles for those who provide feedback. Reach previous users with an email follow-up after their purchase (just make sure you aren't spamming their inboxes).
Or you can use a platform just for this to help speed things along like Trust Pilot, or Yotpo.
Ex: Kohls – unique, user-generated content on product pages including reviews and product questions
11. Image & Video: Helps SEO AND Conversions
Compliment your unique text, keywords and subheadings with quality images of your product and how-to videos. Images and video can help boost your traffic and your sales.
Large, High Resolution Photos
It's already difficult to feel confident about an online purchase when you can't see the item in person. Multiple, high-resolution product photos can help make up for much of this.
67% of consumers consider image quality "very important" when making a purchase online – BigCommerce
Optimize Image File Name and Alt Tag
Like your content, you want these images to be unique to your page and you want to label them with a descriptive image file name and alt tag.
Use descriptive keywords in image file names, and separate with dashes. Image Alt Tag should be very similar to your product name.
File Name: honda-pcx-150-scooter.jpg
Alt Text: Honda PCX 150 Scooter
Use More Images, and Even Consider Videos
Zappos does a great job of showcasing their items online. They show off their footwear by providing shoppers with the shoe in different angles and in every color.
Whatever it is you're selling, providing multiple images will help the buyer know what is is their buying. Show different angles, colors, product assembled, un-assembled, product in use, product with white background, whatever else you can come up with.
Product videos can help in the same way. Videos can increase average order value (AOV) by 50%. And Zappos says they found sales increase from 6% – 30% when they began adding their product videos.
Ex: Zappos – showing product images of every color in every angle, plus a product video
Image & Video Sitemap
You can submit an image sitemap in Google Search Console to have product images crawled in a faster and more effective manner. Same with videos. This will increase the discoverability of your product images and videos, giving you a shot at increased traffic and potentially extra links from those using your media.
12. Markup: Structured Data for Improved Click Through Rates
We've seen massive CTR improvements using structured data markup. Employing markup can get you things like those shiny gold stars under your title in the SERPs, which can be very powerful.
If you aren't familiar with structured data, look into what types of content you can mark up. Just make sure you follow markup guidelines or Google may ping you for "spammy" behavior.
13. CTR (Click-Through-Rate): Improve Organic CTR & Rank Even Higher
So you have solid SEO and your products are rankings in Google…
Now what?
Whether you rank #1 or #10, there's an expected click through rate (CTR) for that ranking position. Once you improve the expected CTR, you will not only receive more clicks, but you're also likely to start ranking even higher.
Advanced Web Rankings expected click through rate graph
14. Breadcrumbs: Improve Navigation on Product Pages
Website breadcrumbs are the links you often see at the top of the page. Breadcrumbs are very effective for helping shoppers quickly browse and locate products. They're also helpful for eCommerce SEO.
Ex: BestBuy.com does a solid job offering navigation points with their massive catalog
15. Add-to-Cart: A Prominant Call-To-Action to Increase Conversions
Don't lose sight of the end goal: To have customers add your product to their digital shopping cart….. and proceed to give you money.
Invictus by Paco Rabanne – Not only do I personally own this… but it's become my favorite men's cologne. Just sayin.
Ulta does a nice job on their product pages, highlighting the Add To "Bag" button above all other elements on the page.
Ex: Ulta's hard-to-ignore bright pink "Add To Bag" button
16. Mobile: A User-Friendly Shopping Experience Across All Devices is a Must
The importance of having a mobile-friendly eCommerce site can not be underestimated. The mobile trend is no longer a trend, but rather a movement.
Mobile accounts for 70% of time consumers spent on a retailer's site, and for 20% of sales – Internet Retailer
Read more on the latest in mobile marketing (statistics, trends, and strategy)
In March 0f 2015, mobile internet users exceeded desktop users – Comscore
Google took notice of the mobile movement early on, and has been making changes ever since…
April, 2015: Google unleashed "Mobilegeddon", an update to their search algorithm to rank mobile-friendly websites higher.
May, 2016: A 2nd iteration of Google's first mobile-friendly update, in an effort to continue improving the mobile user-experience.
?, 2017: Google's Mobile First Index. Google announced late 2016 their plans to index and rank pages based on the mobile version of a web page, as opposed to the desktop version.
Responsive Web Design for Mobile-Friendly Shopping
A responsive design means that the elements on your web page will adjust and resize appropriately on all screen resolutions across all devices.
Ex: Overstock.com, shows navigation options, core information on the item, and price all above the fold
Don't Hide Content on Mobile
With Google's upcoming rollout of the Mobile First Index, you'll want to make sure you're not hiding content on mobile. Anything on your product pages showing on desktop, should be displayed on mobile as well.
17. PageLoad Speed: Reduce Product Page Load Time
A slow-loading product page will reduce your conversions and your keyword rankings.
Still, 73% of mobile internet users say that they've encountered a website that was too slow to load (Kissmetrics)
How long should your product page take to load?
4 seconds or less. Okay, to be honest, I wouldn't worry too much about 5 or 6 seconds even. But if it's taking 8, 9, 10 seconds or more for your product page to load, you'll want to make some improvements.
Tools to Test Your Pageload Speed
- Google's Pagespeed Insights
- Webpagetest.org (our favorite)
- Pingdom
- Gtmetrix
The Power of Your Optimized Product Pages
Product pages will often times have the most landing page potential for your eCommerce site. Especially with larger online catalogs.
Go see what these seemingly small changes can do for your site health. And, as with all things SEO, make sure you are tracking your target phrases, changes, and user performance metrics so you know what results your efforts bring you.


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Feminist ethics and menopause: autonomy and decision-making in primary medical care
The construction of menopause as a long-term risk to health and the adoption of discourses of prevention has made necessary a decision by women about medical treatment; specifically regarding the use of hormone replacement therapy. In a study of general practitioners' accounts of menopause and treatment in Australia, women's 'choice', 'informed decision-making' and 'empowerment' were key themes through which primary medical care for women at menopause was presented. These accounts create a position for women defined by the concept of individual choice and an ethic of autonomy. These data are a basis for theorising more generally in this paper. We critically examine the construct of 'informed decision-making' in relation to several approaches to ethics including bioethics and a range of feminist ethics. We identify the intensification of power relations produced by an ethic of autonomy and discuss the ways these considerations inform a feminist ethics of decision-making by women. We argue that an 'ethic of autonomy' and an 'offer of choice' in relation to health care for women at menopause, far from being emancipatory, serves to intensify power relations. The dichotomy of choice, to take or not to take hormone replacement therapy, is required to be a choice and is embedded in relations of power and bioethical discourse that construct meanings about what constitutes decision-making at menopause. The deployment of the principle of autonomy in medical practice limits decision-making by women precisely because it is detached from the construction of meaning and the self and makes invisible the relations of power of which it is a part.
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Zenyatta Foals Tapit Colt
Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year, produced her second foal April 1, Team Zenyatta confirmed via Twitter.
Zenyatta, the 2010 Horse of the Year, produced her second foal April 1, Team Zenyatta confirmed via Twitter.
Download this feature with enhanced media on foaling.
It Is foaling season at Edition Farm, and in the deeply straw-bedded stalls of a cozy barn, the miracle of new life occurs. As a mare stretches around to greet her newborn foal, 80-year-old Vivien Malloy is there.
Rachel Alexandra is in serious condition after undergoing surgery Feb. 13 at Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital to repair an area in her small colon that was injured during foaling, according to owner Barbara Banke.
First foals of graded stakes winners and a few extra treats sent to us by farms.
Blood-Horse editorial intern Kelsey Riley blogs about her experiences while delivering foals at a major Central Kentucky Thoroughbred farm.
With the breeding and foaling seasons nearing conclusion, The Jockey Club reminds owners and breeders to submit reports of mares bred and live foal reports.
Veterinarians with Rood and Riddle Equine Hospital in Lexington have put out a call for colostrum donations because its supply has dwindled in the midst of foaling season.
As a follow up to a rule revision last August that added provisions for field inspections, The Jockey Club sent two teams of representatives to farms in six states in December to examine broodmares with early 2005 breeding or 2006 foaling dates.
If your foal is orphaned at birth, or rejected by his dam, your first consideration is to get him to ingest some colostrum.


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Guild Name: Darkness Is Everywhere
Guild Tag: DiE
Website: http://www.darknessi...where.enjin.com
Focus: WvW / PvP / PvE
Timezone: International
Recruiting Professions: Elementalist | Engineer | Guardian | Mesmer | Necromancer | Ranger | Thief | Warrior
Overview[DiE] Darkness Is Everywhere boasts 14 years experience in competitive PvP. Our reach has extended over multiple games and styles including Ultima Online, DAoC, Age of Conan, Warcraft 3, WoW, Starcraft 2, WAR and now Guild Wars 2. Over the years versatility and core dedication has been attributed to our continued success on each venture we find ourselves pursuing. We structure our guild on a military type ranking system with focus on multiple fronts. Over the years Darkness Is Everywhere has forged their name into the ranks of greatness by always displaying courage and valor in the face of any enemy and fighting against any odds. Our never say "Die" attitude has always been key to success.
Join UsWe are always looking for like-minded gamers who want to participate and excel in a relaxed military styled atmosphere. We offer advanced opportunities and long term placement for veteran members & an excellent in house training and tutoring regime. We are a multi-lingual based guild, accepting recruits from any country. [DiE] would like to make our guild the base of operations for any person who is looking for concrete structure in a relaxed environment without the hassle of being forced to "achieve or be expelled" attitude. If stability, motivation and dedication are the foundations of a guild you are looking for then Darkness Is Everywhere is for you!
Go visit our Recruitment section and become a member today!
Our Future in TyriaWe aim to continue to dominate in WvW making it our main focus. However we continue to field organized PvP teams and have time off in between for those that love to dungeon crawl and chase the odd skritt. Darkness Is Everywhere strives to have around the clock coverage making the guild available to people from all walks of life. We hope to display a hardcore PvP orientated image whilst keeping a larrikin and silly-bugger persona behind closed doors - A high performance professional guild with a fun and exciting personality.
Bullet Points and Achievements:
- 14 years of gaming history, focusing on PvP and RvR campaigns.
- Very organised and strategic guild with a solid long term core and command structure.
- First Guild to solo Relic on Palomides DAoC.
- First Guild to reach Guild Rank Cap (GR40) on Darklands and 3rd World Wide (WAR)
- Major games include UO 99-02, DAoC 01-03, WoW 04-08 and WAR 09-11 GW2 12-??
- Core Member of Titan Alliance GW2 HoD - 30 Wins 0 Losses
Applications should be submited in detail at http://darknessiseve....enjin.com/home
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14 Years of Organised PvP
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There's an incredible story behind this photo of a Brazilian man and a penguin
This is a fascinating tale about a man and his friendship with a penguin.
In 2011, Joao Pereira de Souza saved an oil-covered, starving penguin off the beach. The Brazilian fisherman nursed the penguin back to health and tried to release him back into the wild. But the penguin, named Dindim, refused to leave him. The now-71-year-old told Brazilian network TV Globo:
"He stayed with me for 11 months and then, just after he changed his coat with new feathers, he disappeared."
But little did de Souza know, that was just the beginning of their now five-year relationship.
Every year for the past five years in a row, the penguin has travelled 8,000kms to return to his carer for about four months before leaving.
"He arrives in June and leaves to go home in February, and every year he becomes more affectionate, as he appears even happier to see me."
Can we have a penguin friend too? Watch the video below to see more of this amazingly adorable friendship.
Can you see what the problem is?!
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Gday and welcome to your belated April 2000 tour through Waynes Indoor World. I have to start with an apology this one has been a struggle to get to you due to a whole lot of non-modeling pressures. Anyway, we made it, and I thank you for your patience.
Thank you to all of you who have so willingly sent me details of your SlowFly and ParkFly experiences. This sharing enables all of us to benefit from the collective wisdom of this interactive medium. I salute your efforts - keep up the great work.
This month, Ive information on some new SlowFly / ParkFly products from several manufacturers and a response from the manufacturer to last months how to on replacing a servo lead on one of those Taiwanese 6g servos. There are also details on my latest SlowFlyer and the interesting sequence of events that led to its construction, news from fellow aviators, and a few other surprises. Read on and enjoy.
Servo Lead Replacement Manufacturers comments
Last month, I showed you how I replace the servo leads on the 6g and 9g servos manufactured in Taiwan by GWS (Grand Wing Servo Company). I also warned you not to undertake the process if you were not competent with a soldering iron. Remember this? - " .Needless to say though, if you are not competent with a small soldering iron (20 25watts) dont attempt this procedure youll ruin your servo (great for the manufacturers and distributors, but bad for you!!) ."
The leads and connectors I substituted in that "how to" were lightweight leads with JST connectors that I purchased off WES Technics. The JST connector appears to have become the defacto standard connector for micro R/C equipment, being offered as an option by all micro R/C equipment manufacturers that I can think of.
In response to my "how to", I received the following interesting email from Houng-Wen Lin, President of the Grand Wing Servo Tech Co., Ltd
Dear Wayne,
Reading your article on E-zone about how to change a GWS 6g & 9g servo to be with JST wire really make me surprised. We created JST mini connector as a new micro size standard with Volz.
GWS was Volz subcontractor for long years business. We did offer this choice for all distributors around the world. But, very few of them be ordered!
We also have great business relation with WES-tech too!
Please tell the flyers who need 6g & 9g servo with JST connector to order from their suppliers, STRONGLY request! Push them order from GWS those servo with JST. It is very risky to modify by user. Our solder team are very experience to be at this job. Too much heat will make the servo pot and motor loosen and cause damage or life duration shorter!
with regards,
Houng-Wen Lin / President
Grand Wing Servo Tech Co., Ltd
e-mail: gws(at)grandwing.com
Please support your LOCAL HOBBY SHOPS. If you can not find GWS products nearby, let us know.
I found this email particularly interesting, because it educated me as to the origins of the JST connector. Now you have it from the manufacturer replace leads at your own risk, or better still, get your hobby shop to supply the servos already fitted with the JST connector.
New Products
Recently, Ive had information on a number of new SlowFly / ParkFly products passed onto me from other modelers as well as some suppliers. Some of these products are not "hot off the press" but they may not have reached your local Hobby Shop yet. If you have seen it here in the Ezone, then make sure you tell others about it in other words, get with the program and make sure you spread the word!!
Don Costelloe sent me some pictures of the Hitec Feather and JR micro rxs. For me, the appealing thing about these rxs is that they both use standard connectors and standard size crystals, yet still come in at under 10g mass. Hitec quote a reduced range for their rx (exact details unknown) but Don tells me that he has been told by the distributor that the JR rx is "almost full spec". Empirical tests indicate a range sufficient for hand launch glider type applications.
You could use two 6g servos and one of these rxs and stay under 22g (3/4 ounce) which is less than the weight of either manufacturers "standard" servo!
These pictures show you the small receivers being offered by Hitec and JR. As you can see, the JR uses a traditional plastic case and xtal holder, while the Hitec uses a heat shrink case.
Walter Scholl (Walter.Scholl(at)idnet.de), Mr WES Technics, will soon be distributing a new rx, based on the JMP rx used in the "Twice Rein" featured in a previous WIW column. This 5ch Rx weighs 2.3gram including micro crystal, antenna and sockets!!!
Motors and other things that go round and round:
GWS have become known for their extensive range of servos and associated products, which sell under a number of brand names around the globe. However, they do not just manufacture servos. They are now making small receivers, gyros, and a range of slowfly/parkfly propulsion systems and accessories.
These wheels and propellers are now being offered by GWS. Check with your local hobby shop for pricing and availability.
The GWS wheels come in three different sizes and are very light (2.5g for a pair of 47mm dia.) and surprisingly robust. My only complaint so far is that you have to CA the tyres on, or they pop off!! The propellers are available here in Australia in 3 sizes (8", 9" & 10"), but according to this chart I received direct from GWS, there are actually six sizes available right up to 12"
I have only been able to get my hands on the one GWS propulsion system so far, the 12turn Standard B version. I have fitted it to my "Bobbie" parkflyer described last month, and it flies quite happily with it and the 8" propeller and 3 x 800mah Tadiran 3v cells. My initial brief tests indicate that the propellers and propulsion set are probably optimized for 6 7 cells and about 1 1.5 amps. I will run some more tests and review the remainder of the information GWS sent me and let you know more next month. The propellers are molded in an orange plastic, and so far have stood up to abuse very well they bend rather than break.
Details of the GWS propulsion system and matching propellers. The propeller fits neatly over flats on the propulsion system shaft and is retained by a nut on the threaded shaft. Be warned though, the nut should be checked regularly - You cant fly when you lose your nuts!?!
WES Technics has also added another prop to their range of carbon props this time its a 3 bladed prop. I dont have further details at this time, but it looks a treat.
Get a grip use the right Glue
Last month, I told you how I now use "Cover Grip" to glue the Mylar covering to the structure, rather than use UHU type glue sticks (which soften in humid conditions). "Cover Grip" is a water based contact type adhesive that is meant for priming timber or plastic structures before the application of iron on coverings
John Davidson <JDavidson(at)Fortune-Johnson.com> emailed me requesting " Where can Cover Grip glue be purchased?" Unfortunately, I cannot give you a simple answer John, because I do not know who the distributor is in your part of the world. To make life easier for you though, I took a couple of close ups of a new bottle of "Cover Grip" I recently purchased from my local hobby shop.
These pictures show you what the bottle looks like hassle your local hobby shop proprietor and "suggest" that they track it down for you and get some in stock. It is good stuff!!
I have also used the "Cover Grip" to construct small rubber powered indoor F/F models out of thin foam. It worked very well in this application as well.
I had the pleasure of being able to do some internet horse trading with Mark Denham mark(at)aeronutz.free-online.co.uk who swapped me some gear and information on designs for foam aeroplanes for some Nimh cells that I had. Never having used the thin foam sheet before, I thought I had better build something simple to get a feel for the material before I got too adventurous.
Two F200 models made out of 2mm styrene foam sheet the sheeting is sold in England as insulation to go behind wallpaper. It is not as difficult to work with as I had expected and these little models fly really well.
I built two little rubber powered F/F models the one assembled with "Cover Grip" weighed 1.9g and the other, assembled with a Sony manufactured glue out of a commercial foam electric F/F kit weighed in at 2.3g. I am impressed with the potential for the foam as a cheap building material. Mark and his fellow Aeronutz are using it extensively to build and fly some remarkable aeroplanes. I think we should get Mark to do a "how to for inclusion in a future column, dont you think? In the meantime, here is the motor, speed controller and wiring details that I obtained off Mark.
Now, where did I put that Zigras 2ch, IR set???
A different sort of Challenge
My local Club, the Wagga Model Aero Club (WMAC http://www.wagga.net.au/~wmac/ (out of date last time I checked after all, Ive been the President since last July!)) hosts a Military Scale weekend every year about the 25th April (ANZAC day). It is a large event that attracts over 50 airplanes every year. This year as part of the promotion leading up to the event, I flew my "Kolibri" (towing a banner) inside the local shopping plaza where we were holding a static display talk about a people magnet!?! Every time I put it in the air, people appeared from I dont know where. Add in the air conditioning, and it made for some interesting moments!! As a result of that display, a local radio station who runs a "60 minute challenge" every week, put it to me to come up with a suitable challenge. The publicity was too good to pass up, so we hurriedly agreed to their challenge to build a slowflyer and fly it 60m in 60minutes. We also offered to try and keep a slowflyer airborne for the whole 60 minutes.
Thats when things got interesting Since the challenge was early morning mid-week, I took a calculated risk in accepting the challenge by assuming two of the WMAC club members who also have Kolibris would be able to bail me out. As it turned out, they were both out of town!!! All of my models are set up on mode 2 while the rest of the Club members fly Mode 1, so I borrowed a set of gear off another member and put it in my dusty old "Big-e-rat", so that he could fly it only problem there was that he had never flown indoors before!!
Regardless, we all turned up next morning at 7.15am (for a 7.30 start) at the agreed location to find a locked up building and no one else in sight. The venue was a roller skating rink that none of us had been inside of before, but it looked big enough from the outside!! We finally got in at 7.30, raced around finding tables, lights etc, ready to get stuck into it. The radio station DJ did the intro in a live cross and we were off building and flying.
Ever tried to build an indoor model in poor light while standing up when somebody who has never flown indoor R/C before is flying your model and buzzing around just behind you, while another well meaning modeler is trying to help you build, in front of spectators who have no idea what it is you are trying to do while somebody else equally strange is broadcasting live to the un-seen masses? Well, we did and managed to get away with it. How did we go?
John, who was flying the "Big-e-rat" managed to bounce off the walls for about 25min before his concentration lapsed and he planted it firmly (right in the middle of another live cross as it turned out!). George, who was helping me build, did well under the circumstances. Its amazing how badly you can build when you are in a hurry and cannot properly see what it is you think you are doing. Still, we were working on an outcome the methods employed were inconsequential?!
"Three men and a model" George Car assists me with the building of the "Tiny" while John Tennant makes his first indoor R/C flights using a borrowed aeroplane in front of spectators!! Afterwards, we flew the "mini-kolibri" and "Bobbie", just to prove that it wasnt a fluke!?!
The model chosen as the victim of this publicity stunt was Todd Longs "Tiny", as kited by Bill Griggs. We managed to get the entire framework built and sanded, the wing covered, some of the gear installed and the undercarriage ready (using GWS wheels). At the end of the 60 minutes, the public adjudicated our efforts as successful and we were paid $60 for our efforts by the radio station sponsor - The Club got the money and we got the applause!!
Afterwards, I just had to finish the model off (lucky Id just started leave). It was then, in good light, that I discovered how well we hadnt built it. Regardless, I peeled off the covering, fixed the bad joints, recovered it and went on to finish it. I decided to go "full house" (now doesnt that give my modeling age away?!?) with separate aileron, rudder & elevator servos. Given that it was going to do more flying outside than inside, I opted for a heavier but more robust covering film.
"The finished "Tiny". The coloured film is Solarfilm and the transparent film is paper laminating film.
By the time I finished it that afternoon, it was pouring down with rain, so I couldnt fly it. That had to wait until the next day.
"Tiny" does fly nicely. Ive only had about 5 flights with it so far, but it does loop and roll and is very maneuverable.
So, if your Club is looking for ways to promote itself, think about doing something different and use some slowflyers.
What else is happening out there in Internet land??
Another good mix of emails this month for your information and education. Here is this months selection, with answers as appropriate.
Greg Needham <Greg.Needham(at)COMPAQ.com> sent me some pictures of his indoor model apologies Greg, but somehow I managed to lose one of them.
Attached are 2 views of my latest indoor. It weighs 145gms and flies too fast on 8 cells but have since removed 1 and await next months indoor meeting at Strathfield.
Greg Needham
President - MMSC
Pedro Guedes <pedro(at)esb.ucp.pt> is after information on ornithopters. If you can help him, please email Pedro directly. The smallest commercial servos are those from WES, but if you can accommodate the extra weight, use Taiwanese 6g servos.
I would like to know if there is something anywhere about R/C Birds. I've got some birds that fly by rubber. But I think is time to put them in R/C.
I've got a problem in my Park because they don't let flying R/C airplanes. So my objective is to put a R/C Bird flying in the Park.
I've got all ready mini-receiver 8gr and a DC5-2.4 motor from WES-Technik. I'd like to know where can a buy ultralight micro-servos because the ones from WES are too expensive!
Pedro Guedes - pedro(at)esb.ucp.pt
Jerry Cashman" <jc(at)farmwide.com.au> took the time to send in some information on his efforts with electric free flight thanks Jerry.
Hi Wayne,
Responding for your recent cry for more electric free-flight stuff, you might be interested in my little 'May-Bee'.
I built the May-Bee from a plan published in Aviation Modeller International some time in the last year or so, the author (sorry, can't remember name) had versions for KP-01 and small diesels. I built mine for the KP-01, a great little power plant which I am having a ball with.
The KP-01 has reduction gearing, 3 small cells, a charge jack and a really neat 'off' switch to save burning out the motor in the case of a sudden arrival which works by the prop shaft sliding backwards, springing open a set of contacts which break the motor circuit! Very clever and works really well.
The May-Bee is all sheet, Jedelsky wing, quite rugged and flies great. On a 20 second charge it's fun and safe at the local school oval and with a couple of minute charge, it really moves out and I've had over 2 minutes flights and lots of exercise from it. No DT is fitted as yet, so I'm a little hesitant to go more than 2 minutes charge.
It's great fun to fly while waiting for packs to charge!
If you're interested at all, let me know and I will dig up more info, dimensions, weights, etc.
All the best and keep up the great info! Much appreciated.
Cheers. Jerry.
Now for some questions and answers:
Firstly, Wayne Boots <N211WB(at)home.com> has a question about lightweight wire.
Hi Wayne,
I always enjoy reading your articles and they are the first I go to each month. I read with interest your latest how-to as it related to changing servo leads using the JST connectors. I have been looking for a source for the approx. 32awg wire that is typically used on small speed controls with the JST connectors. Do you happen to know of a source?
Thank you in advance for you time.
Wayne Boots N211WB(at)home.com
I generally use the 28 awg wire available from WES Technics for the price, it is excellent and available in a range of colours. Otherwise, you may try some of the larger electronic wholesale outlets (Farnell, RS Components, etc) however, you will probably have to buy it by the 50 - 100m roll.
Billy McCaskill <billmc(at)eatel.net> liked my "Bobbie" from last months column. I recently flew it at a public display in between the .90 powered pattern ship demonstrations, and the crowd were fascinated by it. There was a gentle breeze blowing, so I was able to make it virtually hover. Later, talking with some of the crowd, they said they were particularly intrigued by the lack of noise and the fact that you could see through the covering at "all the bits" !!
Hi Wayne,
this is my first time reading your column (but definitely not my last) and really enjoyed the article about the plane you called "Bobbie". I am new to electric flying and have never flown indoors, but this plane is very intriguing. Could you possibly list some of the basic dimensions (wingspan, length, chord, etc), or even better, come up with a set of plans for this plane? I like the fact that it still looks like a 'real' airplane and not a kite with a motor (like the IFO).
Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated. Keep 'em flying!
Billy McCaskill
Well Billy, the photos gave you basically all the details on the construction its all 1/8" sq., balsa with the ribs sliced out of 1/16" sheet. Here are the vital statistics:
- Wing chord 185mm + 40mm wide ailerons.
- Wing span 950mm
- Wing TE to tail LE - 280mm
- Wing LE to propeller 120mm
- Tail span - 340mm
- Tail chord - 100mm + 30mm wide elevator
- Fin 120mm high x 75mm wide + 35mm (average) wide rudder
- Wing is mounted 12mm above the line of the tailplane both are rigged 0/0
- The motor has about 2 degrees down thrust (because of the thick cambered section)
Chris Brown <thebrowns(at)uov.net> has some "newbie" questions that it won't hurt to go over again.
I am interested in getting a slow flyer and this will be my first one. And I am wondering, what kind should I get? And also, Where can I get one that will go for about 10-15 minutes, and that is under 150.00?
Chris Brown
Chris, I assume we are talking US dollars? Anyway, look for an aeroplane of about 35" 40" wingspan, that has enough wing area to give you a wing loading of 3.5-4.0 ounces/sq.foot ready to fly. EG 40" span, 9" chord gives 360sq. inches or 2.5 sq. feet. That means a maximum flying weight of 10ozs (4 x 2.5). That can be broken down into an airframe mass of (say) 3ozs, battery mass (7 x 120mah nicads) of 2ozs, motor and prop 2.0ozs, radio (rx + 2 x 1/2oz servos + speed controller/BEC) 2ozs. All that adds up to only 9ozs well under our target and very achievable with modern, reasonably priced gear and a scratch built model. A cheaper ferrite motor & gearbox will probably pull about 1.5 amps out of a 7 cell pack, so you will not get 15 minutes duration, but if you build it lighter, it will consume less power and fly longer. The rest is up to you let us know how you get on.
Not an email, but some pictures of a parkflyer recently built by one of our local flyers, Geoff White. The model is the "Femto 400" that was published as a free plan in "Aviation Modeller International" (I think). It uses a Speed 400 with 3:1(?) gearbox and 7 x 600 nicads. Controls are ailerons, elevator and motor. It is Geoffs first attempts at such a model, so it has had the inevitable few "arrivals", but both it and Geoff have kept on flying, and now they are a great match!
This sort of model is about as simple as they get, utilizes gear that you can cannibalize from a small electric glider, and flies comfortably in less than ½ a football field.
Dont forget to email me. whadkins(at)ezonemag.com with all the SlowFly or ParkFly or electric free flight happenings in your part of the world. Next month, Ill have coverage of the Australian Electric Flight Championships and maybe a little on the Australian Nats. Also, Ill follow up with my experiences with "The Tiny" and some more results with the GWS propellers and propulsion sets.
Thats your SlowFly lot for this month - Thank you for joining me for this months tour of Waynes Indoor World. Until next month, wherever you may be on this SlowFly planet of ours, enjoy your aviation, do it low and slow, and most of all, HAVE FUN!!
See you all again next month - Take care friends.
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Question: My boss often acts in a way and makes comments that hurt my feelings and those of others in my office. For example, today she said that I made too much money. I asked her "Don't I deserve it?" She didn't answer. That really bothered me and once again hurt my feelings.
Because all these situations are building up and are really starting to bother me, I decided to let her know how I felt. In a very professional way, I expressed to her that her comment really hurt me and told her why. To make a long story short, she was very defensive about it all and I'm sure she will go to the higher boss with the matter. I truly don't think anything is going to change.
Any suggestions on how to deal with this matter and others similar? -- Anonymous
You have taken the first step by bringing it to your supervisors attention. Make a record for your own personal records of dates, times and feedback you received. If it continues to happen, make record of each time..what was said, and how it made you feel. If it's happening to the entire staff..they should do the same. If they aren't ready to move forward with this problem as you are, keep your records and notes specific to how "you" feel, and how "you" were addressed. It will not help your case when you say "the entire office" feels this way, but are not doing anything for themselves.
As far as your supervisor "going to the higher boss", do not be concerned. If you were tactful, took good notes of the meeting, you will be able to answer to anything that higher up may bring to your attention. If your "higher up" is the same way, you may be fighting a lost cause. I've learned over the years, and from many seminars on "dealing with difficult people" that when you hold the mirror to the person, and they see how they act..and how that makes you feel, if it is completely out of line and they are true professionals, the behaviour should taper off. So long as you are not part of the problem as it doesn't seem you are in this situation. As a boss, they must be sensitive to other personalities..even if this is just a character trait they may have. They have to be able to adapt and supervise deal with their subordinates in a way sensitive to others.
There may come a point that you need to take the issue to the higher ups. This of course after you've done everything at the lowest level to resolve it with this person directly. By keeping records of your attempts, as well as the results..both good and bad, hopefully upper management will respect your attempts, and see through any of the bologna they may have already been fed by the "meanie" as far as "problems" they are having with you.
Good luck
I will never understand people who feel the need to demean others, then get upset when they are called for it! I admire your "chutzpa" for confronting her. My only suggestion is to drop the word "hurt" which to me sounds like a personal problem and find words and descriptions that are more "business related."
I second Andrew! After your discussion with her, she will probably
hope that YOU don't go to the higher ups! This is way too close to
I agree that "hurt" is a personal word and you should choose something with a more professional connotation. You may want to just say, as soon as she makes these comments (especially in front of others), "You know that's not true," in a kind of laughing way, then move away, or change the subject or start discussing a work problem. As for higherups, if there's someone available, you may want to discuss the situation with them, posing your discussion as a request for advice. Just explain the kind of comments you are getting, and ask, "How do you suggest I deal with this?" That puts it in the lap of the HR person and also makes you look like a problem-solver, not a whiner who can't handle office relations.
I certainly feel that you have done the correct thing by confronting the person who made the statement to you. But by all means, keep good notes on the conversation with date and time of meeting. Also, keep any follow up notes as necessary.
I find this so dishearting, that some people in high positions do not have the professionalism to conduct themselves appropriately. If you have a H.R. Director, I would certainly advise her/him of the current situation.
I had a similar situation, unfortunately, it was the owner of the business I work for. His comment was that "he is not responsible for how I feel. I am. No one can make me feel bad, but me". Whenever he or anyone else says or does something hurtful, I try to repeat those words to myself. I can't control their behavior, but I can control how I react to it.
I think you did the right thing in going to your boss with the problem. I also agree that you should document each situation. I think that whenever your boss says something unprofessional then you should speak to her about it. Its one thing to sit and complain but when you address the issue you are looking for solutions and that's a positive move. I think you should welcome a third opinion to this matter. If your boss does go to a superior then it may work to your advantage. In the meantime, keep doing what you are doing. Also, I agree with the anonymous comment that you can't control other people's behavior but you can control how you react to it. I know its easier said than done but you are already on the right track.
I agree with many of the above statements. It is always good to document encounters. It helps keep you organized, especially in discussions about the events. However, I disagree with the statement that you should make comments in a laughing way and try to change the subject. In my opinion, people should not be treated rudely in any workplace (or anywhere else). You should not have to change the subject, because your boss should not be speaking to you in that manner in the first place. I agree with the others that you should attempt to speak to your boss about it in a calm, firm way. If the response merits, I would move on to H.R. and others as necessary.
She's not going to go to anyone else. She doesn't want them to point out that they've seen or even been a victim of her behavior. I worked with a woman who is very similar in her attitude. She never acknowledges her behavior even when it is pointed out. She ignores the situation. I just chalk her lack of learning to be her defence mechanism. Who knows what makes her tick. Your comments are safe with her, she'll never tell a living soul.
I agree with most of the previous comments. Act professional at all times and document, document, document. (For future use, especially in dealing with HR or the "higher-ups" you should also document any instances where you see or hear the boss being rude to other people in the office). The higher-ups may already know about it and have chosen to do nothing because she may be more valuable to the business than you are. However, do not allow yourself to be treated rudely. When the boss makes an inappropriate remark, look at her and with a pleasant tone of voice say "Excuse me?" and then continue your conversation. You should also check with your state's labor department, your HR people and/or your employee handbook (if you have one) to see if there is anything that deals with harassment. What you consider to be just "rude" behavior may actually be "harassment" and may be illegal as well, expecially if there is a continuing pattern of rude behavior. If you do talk to HR and/or higher-ups, do not talk about "hurt" feelings. If you have documented instances of rudeness to others as well as yourself, then you can talk to them about how her actions have a negative effect on office morale and productivity and then maybe you can get somewhere.


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97 years old and still attracting droves...
ALREADY this year, we have read of the threat of Romanians and Bulgarians arriving in the UK in droves, and of droves of people buying new computer games, and droves of people leaving the Tory party, and droves of men bleaching their hair. Meanwhile droves of Dylan Thomas fans are expected in south Wales to celebrate his centenary.
This all raises the worrying question of whether we have enough droves to cope and how we are going to get them from one place to another. Will the Dylan Thomas fans have to travel to Heathrow to board the droves that have been vacated by the Romanians and Bulgarians? Are there enough Tory party members in Wales to leave on the same droves when these fans have disembarked? I put these questions to Sir Witless Satnav, President of the Worshipful Company of Drovers.
"Let me start," he began, "by assuring your readers that the British Drove industry is in excellent shape. A search through the newspaper archives for 2013 reveals 885 uses of the word 'droves', which though eight per cent down on last year's magnificent total of 962 droves, is still far higher than in other recent years. Yet we must not allow ourselves to become complacent, for droving has always operated at a significant disadvantage compared with similar industries. The trouble is that people leave in droves far more often than they arrive in droves.
"Indeed, if you analyse those 885 mentions last year, you will find that people leaving or departing in droves outnumber those who arrive in droves by a factor of about five to one. That, of course, is only to be expected. When an event is over, or in catastrophic decline, everyone who wants to leave is in the same place. They therefore order droves to take them away. They then expect to be taken to a whole host of different destinations, at each of which they arrive not in droves but one at a time or in small groups. Eventually the drove is left empty, until it is called upon to remove more people from somewhere else.
The other problem is that people tend to over-order droves. When did you last see an account of people arriving somewhere or leaving in a drove?
"The other problem is that people tend to over-order droves. When did you last see an account of people arriving somewhere or leaving in a drove? It is nearly always droves, hardly ever just one drove. If they order a plurality of droves and find they can all get into one, they expect the other to go away, but we have to charge for it as it could otherwise be doing useful work elsewhere.
"The 2013 figures also contain one more piece of alarming news: the reported incidents of people staying away in droves rose to its highest rate for 10 years. Quite why people should hire droves in order to stay away from anything is something I cannot fathom. A drove, after all, is not a drove unless it is driven, but why should anyone want to be driven in a drove if they are not going anywhere?
"Unless," he added thoughtfully, "these are the droves people formerly left somewhere else in and are now staying away in until they decide where they want to go next."
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Most evolutionary timelines place particular emphasis on the moment when our quadrupedal predecessors climbed down from trees, rose up on their hind legs to see over the tall grasses, and thereby made their hands available for more historic endeavors. Thanks to the timely (and likely accidental) ingenuity on the part of some of our hairy forefather, our species soon discovered that hurling a projectile at an unsuspecting critter was markedly easier than physically chasing it down.
Fast forward several million years and we now enjoy every ranged weapon from the simple bow and arrow to the .30-06 and beyond. And since we at Guns.com love all projectile-hurling devices equally, and aim to appreciate each and every one in their full splendor, we thought it prudent to make mention of a weapon that's an "oldie but a goodie", and one that has enjoyed a modest global renaissance in recent years. So without further adieu, we give you the speargun.
The spear, slightly more complex than a blunt rock, has been employed by humans since time immemorial. In more recent epochs, fisherman worldwide have expanded the principle of the basic spear, developing submarine (as in "under the sea") guns capable of projecting spears at speeds and distances sufficient to dispatch some of the ocean's largest gamefish. In addition, spearfishing has been hailed by many as the most environmentally friendly and ecologically sustainable method of harvesting fish; there's no by-catch, no bait needed, and no reef degradation. In addition, the hunter is able to exclusively target the desired size and species of fish.
Spearfishing can be undertaken in several ways: free-diving, snorkeling, or with the use of SCUBA equipment and, as with most things, each has its advantages and disadvantages. For example, free diving requires one to hold his or her breath for prolonged periods of time, but also allows the diver to operate free of cumbersome SCUBA equipment. Those utilizing SCUBA equipment are able to submerge for longer periods of time without the need to surface, and are also given longer periods of time to pursue their quarry. Spearfishing with the use of snorkel gear serves as a middle ground, as it does not require expensive SCUBA gear, but allows the hunter to swim with his or hear head submerged for long periods of time.
As SCUBA diving and snorkeling have become increasingly ubiquitous in recent years (partially in thanks to an ever-burgeoning number of dive shops and resorts offering instruction, equipment and the backdrop) so too has spearfishing grown in popularity. Although various regions permit and regulate spearfishing differently, there are an untold number of "fishing holes" worldwide for the would-be spear-fisherman to explore, all offering their own distinct array of aquatic species to hunt, environmental conditions to weather and otherworldy sights to encounter.
The "Gun"
Much like traditional firearms, spearguns come in all shapes and sizes, and employ various methods of propelling the spear. That said, there are two primary categories of spearguns: expanded-spring and compressed spring. Expanded-spring spearguns, often called sling or band guns, employ the use of stretched rubber bands that, upon being released, eject the spear. Because of their basic technical requirements, expanded spring spearguns can be constructed with a variety of materials including aluminum, carbon, wood, rubber, and polymers. Their simple design and low maintenance requirements have made expanded-spring spearguns a favorite worldwide.
True to their name, pneumatic spearguns employ energy from compressed air in much the same manner as air rifles that retain the turbulent remnants of the load inside the unit. For this reason, a well-maintained pneumatic speargun can be pressurized just once at the beginning of each season. Pneumatic spearguns tend to pack more punch than their rubber-banded cousins, and can also be more compact.
For many years, anglers complained of overall inaccuracy and inconsistency in pneumatic spearguns. Because they exert more force on the spear than typical band guns, anglers often encountered bent or damaged spears as a result of improperly balanced pressure. In recent years, pneumatic spears have made technical gains, and continue to become more popular. They have historically been a favorite among European anglers.
A third, less pervasive class of spearguns uses CO2 canisters to launch the projectile. In like guns, the CO2 is released with each shot, requiring canisters to be replaced often. Because of their higher maintenance, and their tendency to disperse bubbles when fired, they are generally less popular than band and pneumatic spearguns. However, like their pneumatic counterparts, CO2-powered have continued to make technological gains in recent years.
The Setup
As with hunting and angling of any kind, speargun fishing can employ a variety of methods. Popular setups include the speed rig, break-away rig, gun reel, and free shaft.
In a speed rig, the speargun is connected to a buoy with the use of a rope. The buoy floats at the surface, alerting passersby that an angler is stalking below. The spear is attached to the gun. When a fish is shot, the angler may release the gun from the buoy as it can make stealth difficult and aiming clumsy. Generally, when fish are caught, the angler will thread the rope through the fish's gills, allowing the fish to gradually float up the line and to the buoy as the diver swims on.
In a break-away rig, the buoy rope is fastened directly to the spear. This allows the angler to retain possession of the gun after a shot is fired (which can be especially crucial when hunting large fish, as it eliminates the possibility of losing the gun if a powerful fish breaks the float line). In addition, many divers prefer to keep their gun with them at all times in order to fend off sharks and other would-be attackers.
A third method utilizes a reel attached to the gun, much akin to the principal of reeling in a fish on a fishing pole. This paradigm eliminates the need to tow a cumbersome buoy, and also allows the angler to battle their catch toe-to-fin. Of course, the larger the fish, the more prolonged and rigorous the battle. For this reason, all but the most hardened thrill-seekers find the use of a reel gun less desirable when stalking larger, more powerful fish.
A fourth popular method, free shafting, eliminates ropes and line altogether, allowing the angler to fire a naked spear. This favorite of hunting purists represents the spearfishing equivalent of a "traditional hunts" on land (like using Recurve bows), requiring the angler to pursue his game in open water. However, errant spears must be reclaimed from the ocean floor, a time consuming punishment for the unsteady shot.
As SCUBA diving opportunities have grown worldwide, so too have spearfishing. For the hunter or angler looking for a fix while on vacation, spearfishing can be a cheap and adrenaline-roiling alternative to expensive destination hunts or pricey deep-sea fishing charters. Recreational spearfishing is popular from Australia to Europe to the Great Lakes. Although each territory regulates the sport differently, most islands and large lakes host some form of spearfishing. For example, America's Great Lakes allow most rough fish (carp, catfish, etc.) to be harvested with a speargun (rules vary depending upon the state). Australia regulates the sport diligently, requiring permits and imposing bag limits. However, this management has led to the maintenance of a enviable fish population along the Great Barrier Reef and a spearfisherman's Xanadu.
The world over, spearfishing is increasingly becoming a viable option for the sporting traveler. Ironically, as technology and accessibility improve, more and more anglers and hunters worldwide are returning to an age-old method first put forth tens of thousands of years ago. Perhaps our cave-dwelling forefathers would offer a gravelly chuckle if they could see how far we've come.
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SHERIDAN — The Big Horn Lady Rams (2-5) beat Wyoming Indian 56-54 at Wyoming Indian Friday night to start the Front Range Classic.
Head coach Mike Daley said that it was a good win in a tough place to play for a young team.
"We had our hands full," he said. "I was very proud of our kids, it's a tough place to take a young team.
"Especially when to take a team this far from home when everybody is hitting Christmas break, so for the mental part of our team I was very pleased.
Hanneah Puckett scored 22 points and Bailey Bard score 15.
He did add that they need to work on free throw shooting after they hit just 24-43 from the line in the win.
Big Horn plays Wind River and Big Piney to close out the calendar year today.
Wind River 53, Lady Eagles 43
SHERIDAN — The Tongue River Lady Eagles (4-2) lost their second game of the year Friday, falling 53-43 at Wind River. Falling behind early, head coach Dianne Moser said the girls played hard throughout but the one bad quarter was enough to keep Wind River out of reach.
"We got within seven but couldn't quite put them away," she said.
Tara Stimpson scored 16, Amanda Buller and Kylee Knobloch each scored seven points.
NOTE: Scores from Big Horn and Tongue River boys games were not available by press time
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The Associated Press
Burlington 80, Lovell 42
Powell 60, Rocky Mountain 44
Worland 52, Thermopolis 45
Campbell County 73, Riverton 67
Cheyenne East 38, Uintah, Utah 36
Mountain View 51, North Summit, Utah 48
Star Valley 55, Kemmerer 30
Dubois 61, Hanna-Elk Mountain 39
Shoshoni 51, Farson-Eden 35
Buffalo 50, Burlington 45
Powell 55, Thermopolis 35
Campbell County 78, Riverton 49
Cheyenne Central 58, Union, Utah 32
Evanston 38, Mountain View 32
Kemmerer 47, Star Valley 43
Pinedale 33, Manila, Utah 30
Hanna-Elk Mountain 44, Dubois 31
Shoshoni 63, Farson-Eden 38


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Veteran Services
Veterans Benefits: Specific Programs
- CHAPTER 30: MONTGOMERY G.I. BILL: A contributory program which covers up to 36 months of training. The duration and amount of benefits are based on the total contribution made while in service. Applications are submitted to the VA regional office in Atlanta, Georgia. A copy of your DD 214- Separation from Active Duty must accompany this application (available to those who served from 1985-present). To receive your monthly payment, you must call or go online and verify your monthly attendance. Monthly attendance must be verified the last day of the month. The toll-free number is: 1-877-823-2378 or the web site is: https://www.gibill.va.gov/wave/index.do.
- CHAPTER 31: VA VOC REHAB: This is a program for veterans having a 20 percent or higher disability. Duration of benefits is 36 months. The entire cost of education is paid by the Veterans Administration. Veterans must attend a counseling session in person at the Divisions of Vocational Rehabilitation in Winston-Salem prior to enrollment. If eligible, the division will send an authorization to the college for billing purposes. The CCC&TI VA office will notify the Business Office that you have authorization to charge tuition, fees, books and supplies. The veteran does not incur any out-of-pocket expenses. All charges will be billed to the Veterans Administration for payment. All correspondence and inquiries are submitted to the VA regional office in Winston-Salem.
- CHAPTER 35: SURVIVORS AND DEPENDENTS EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: This program provides educational benefits to surviving spouse and children of deceased veterans (service connected) or veterans currently having a 100 percent service-connected disability. Applications are submitted to CCC&TI and then submitted to Atlanta for processing. The application is form VA 5490 for children and VA-5490W for widows of veterans. The VA regional office in Atlanta processes applications and all support documentation.
- CHAPTER 1606: MONTGOMERY GI BILL FOR RESERVIST/NATIONAL GUARD MEMBERS: This program provides benefits to active members of the reserve forces to upgrade educational levels. To be eligible you must complete basic training and make at least a six-year commitment. Duration of benefits is 36 months, and you must attend mandatory drill functions and participate in annual training in order to maintain benefits. To apply you must submit a notice of eligibility form DD 2384 (NOBE) and/or a DD-214 along with an application. All correspondence and inquiries are sent to the VA regional office in Atlanta. To receive your monthly payment, you must call or go online and verify your monthly attendance. Attendance must be verified the last day of each month. The toll-free number is: 1-877-823-2378 or the website is: https://www.gibill.va.gov/wave/index.do
Procedures and Special Notes
- VA Form 22-1990: Enrollment Certification- is completed by the VA officer and forwarded to the appropriate VA regional office only after all appropriate documents have been submitted by the applicant.
- You must be enrolled in an approved program of study at CCC&TI before certification is possible. You must fulfill the following requirements (1) Complete CCC&TI application for admissions, (2) request an official high school or High School Equivalency transcript, (3) take placement test, and (4) have all official college transcripts submitted, if you have previously attended college.
- Transcripts from any college previously attended must be evaluated for transfer credit prior to certification of enrollment. This includes any change of program at CCC&TI.
- At CCC&TI enrollment is verified and courses are monitored during the semester. Excess courses outside the structured curriculum are not allowed for payment of VA benefits.
- All grades are monitored at the end of each academic term for accuracy of hours certified.
- Attendance will be verified each academic term after drop/adds have been processed.
- Changes of programs require documentation and submission of forms to VA. Come by the Financial Aid office to ensure that your record is up-to-date.
- Certification is for two academic semesters. Example: Certification for 2004-2005 started August 2004 and ends May 2005. You must be certified each academic year. If enrolling during the summer term, you must register for your summer classes during early registration so you will not experience a delay in payment.
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Bob Worsley Receives Endorsement of Mesa Chamber of Commerce
Yesterday, Mesa businessman and candidate for LD25 state senate Bob Worsley received the endorsement of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce over his opponent Russell Pearce.
The Mesa Chamber of Commerce is the leading advocate of the 15,000 businesses in Mesa, currently the 38th largest city in the United States.
In their endorsement, the Mesa Chamber of Commerce stated that Business Advisory Council and the Chamber Board members have a "passion for the political process and feel strongly about having pro-business candidates represent the interests of chamber members."
"To date, our campaign to Elevate Mesa and Put Mesa First has received the endorsements of business groups including the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce," said Worsley. "But I am most proud of the endorsement of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce. Nothing could make me happier than representing the 15,000 Mesa businesses along with all of the other small businesses and employers in our great state at the capitol. I promise I will do everything I can to help businesses owners and employers be successful and I won't waste resources of embarrass our community with pursuits of symbolic legislation."
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Need to stop using the word weapon. What's more appropriate?
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I haven't called for us all to masquerade as pheasant hunters cherishing blued steel and walnut stocks.
But this aggressive tacticool mentality has affected the language in our sub culture.
If you like black guns. Awesome. If you want to zip line down the range firing your twin glock 40s at zombie targets...terrific.
But when you're at the gun shop or sporting goods gun counter or here on these forums, YouTube or elsewhere on the ultranet...you're in public. While in public best not to offend/confuse/anger polite society. Not saying hide away your secret gun hobby. But why would you want to portray yourself as hostile? Weapon this. Tactical system that. I was in the military. Where we are trained to commit overwhelmingly aggressive violence. Now im a civilian. Do i retain my right to perform violence if needed? Of course. In a DEFENSIVE role. I had to leave my combat mentality or at least the aggressor part there...along with my weapons. Portray yourself as a pro-2nd amendment target shooter/hunter/right to carry person? Sure!
I suppose my point transcends just the weapon terminology to our overall public image.
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logitech marble mouse. please help....tried and tried
Hey Guys, Im a relative noob as far as configuring is concerned so please bear with me....I recently purchased a Logitech Marble Mouse (it is a trackball) for use with my laptop. I have not been able to get it working in the same ways it functions in
The normal behavior of the mouse is as follows:
Button 1: Large left-click button.
Button 2: Left-of-center smaller button for scrolling 3 lines DOWN
Button 3: Right-of center smaller button for scrolling 3 lines UP
Button 4: Large right-click button (on right)
Button 1 + Button 4: enable scrolling mode; scroll rate/direction depends on cursor's deviation from center
I've searched Google and messed with my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file countless times. I've not found one catch-all solution for getting this mouse/trackball working; each person who claims to have gotten it working has done it a different way.
Can someone, who has gotten this trackball to work, post their xorg.conf file? How do I assign each individual mouse button a separate function? How do I get Buttons 2 and 3 to enable "scrolling mode" (something to do with "ChordButton")?
here is the mouse part of my Xorg:
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
here is the link of what my mousey looky likey....
If someone is using the same...can you please post your Xorg-mouse please ...thanks guys.
I use a marble mouse all the time, they're great aren't they? I don't have it set it up quite like you want it, but i'll post my conf to give you some pointers.
Section "InputDevice"
Hope that helps
thank you for the reply. And yes...they are so good....im suprised...its not that popular...
Ok.I tried pasting your data in my Xorg and when it boots up it keeps going to the diagnostic screen and i have to copy by backup Xorg file to get it to boot properly again..am i doing something wrong?
once again thank you for your time.
Make sure that you change the 'device' and 'Indetifier' to the same as what it is in your original xorg.conf. Also make sure that you don't leave two configurations for the trackball in at once. So if your original device and identifier where '/dev/mouse0' and 'mouse0' repectively, the new config would be:
Section "InputDevice"
First of all thank you all guys, I use this post and could made work my marble very fine, in fact, reading some more,I found a use for the right little button that infinity42 didnt use, that seems to me very usefull... I assigned it to a "lock" function over the big left (selector) button so, If lock it I could move selection in a very confortable way without need to maintain pressed the big left button while I do the movement... for me is a good addition to the excelent setup that was suggested in the first posts...
Below is a copy of my xfree config section that is already working... check that paste it and change the device for your machine's mouse hardware settings...
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "USB Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Buttons" "5"
Option "Emulate3Buttons"
Option "Emulate3Timeout" "50"
Option "ChordMiddle" "True"
Option "EmulateWheel" "True"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "4"
Option "DragLockButtons" "5 1"
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WASHINGTON, June 27 (UPI) -- U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission officials are reviewing cases to find one in which to seek a guilty party, sources told The Wall Street Journal.
Last week, SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said the agency would not allow the SEC standard of "no admission or denial of wrongdoing," in every settlement.
The SEC has long used the policy of allowing companies to escape admitting guilt, as it is said to be a far quicker route to a settlement, which brings compensation faster to victims of corporate crimes. Critics have complained no admission of guilt lets criminals off the hook, and a federal judge has said he cannot sign off on a settlement, as required, if he has no idea who, if anyone, did anything wrong.
The current policy, White said, would allow "most" cases to be handled as they have always been handled, with a monetary settlement.
But that opens up the question of how the SEC will make the choice of who gets a "stay out of jail" card and who does not.
"The reality is that many companies likely would refuse to settle cases," given an admission of guilt could mean criminal charges filed or open the lawsuit floodgates, Robert Khuzami, a former SEC enforcement director, said last year.
An in-house memo at the SEC last week asked staff members to look at each case "with a view to whether the conduct and circumstances" warranted more stringent treatment.
"It's the mystery memo," said Stanford law professor Joseph Grundfest, a former SEC commissioner.
The implication is the precise criteria for figuring out what cases get the nod are still unknown, although White has said the most heinous crimes and the level of harm to victims would play into the decision.
Cases in which settlements are close will not be considered, but cases in which settlement talks are about to begin are ripe for the new policy, the Journal said.
The SEC expects to have its first settlement including an admission of guilt by Labor Day, the Journal said.


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NEW YORK -- What looked like a sure bet -- selling clothes to women who are over 35 and at the peak of their earnings and spending power -- has turned out to be much harder than many retailers anticipated.
Janeville, a new chain opened by Gymboree Corp., has delayed its expansion for now because sales have fallen short of expectations. And some of the new designer collections featured at department stores and aimed at 35-plus shoppers have gotten a lukewarm reaction and are being reworked.
Many retailers have been inspired by the success of Chico's FAS Inc., which has won a great following among middle-age shoppers with its stylish but comfortable clothes. But merchants are learning there is more to reaching this market than just creating new fashions or new stores.
"Right now, the only proven player is Chico's, but they are having such phenomenal performance that everyone is trying to get a piece of the market," said James Chung, president of Reach Advisors Inc., a Boston-based marketing strategy and research firm. "Everyone is trying to find that niche."
There are some successes -- discounter Target Corp. appears to be doing well with its own fashion label, Linden Hill, that appeals to this 35-plus customer. And industry observers are eagerly awaiting the opening of Gap Inc.'s new store concept, Forth & Towne, which aims to reach that age group. It will be launched with five stores this fall -- four in the Chicago area, and one in New York.
Women ages 35 to 54 spent $31.11 billion on apparel in the 12 months ended February, up 4.5 percent from a year earlier, according to the NPD Group Inc., a market research firm based in Port Washington, N.Y. That consumer group is the second-largest in terms of apparel spending, after the 18-to-34 age group, which spent $36.34 billion in the same period, a 6.4 percent gain.
Selling to the over-35 group is less tricky than marketing to teens, who keep wanting new styles and don't stick to any one store; once they find a store they like, older shoppers tend to keep going back to it.
But this market does have its pitfalls. The biggest issue that stores, particularly Gap, face is not turning off customers with a concept that makes them feel old, according to Wendy Liebmann, president of WSL Strategic Retail, a New York marketing and retail consulting firm.
"People want to be part of the whole, but they also want to be recognized for their point of difference," Liebmann said.
Alison Minton, 39, who shops for casual items at Gap, said she would be open to going to Forth & Towne or any other stores that target the over 35. She likes fashionable clothes that fit, but doesn't particularly like shopping side-by-side with 20-year-olds.
At the same time, she says, "I don't want stores with signs that say 'over 35.'"
Arnold Aronson, managing director of retail strategies at Kurt Salmon Associates, noted that middle-age women have a wide range of tastes and preferences -- unlike younger shoppers -- and so "you have to focus on what you stand for" to succeed with these consumers.
Some of the best-known names in the fashion industry have struggled to attract older customers over the past year, and their designs, featured in top-line department stores, didn't take off.
Part of the problem was just too many clothes in each store -- a number of these fashions from names like Calvin Klein and Michael Kors as well as new labels from Liz Claiborne Inc. all reached the selling floor at the same time. In addition, many of the fashions were just not special enough, according to Kathyrn Deane, CEO of the Tobe Report, a fashion consultancy.
The approach of Gap's Forth & Towne will include a broad array of merchandise, selling clothes in larger stores than the more boutique-style Janeville or Chico's. Its garments will be based on a size 10 fit model, instead of the size 8 typically used at most other retailers, a reflection of the fact that many older customers wear larger sizes.
Chung said that if Gap gets it right, "the Forth & Towne customer will not be caught dead in the Chico's store," implying that Gap will be going after a customer who is looking for trendier clothing.
Janeville offers more casual clothes than Chico's, and, despite a bumpy beginning, CEO Lisa Harper believes the new chain will do well because it already has a built-in base of female customers who shop at its Gymboree stores and its Janie and Jack stores, a more upscale children's clothing brand. The company does cross-marketing to bring in customers to Janeville, which has 15 stores but is projected to eventually have 400.
"We fixed a lot of things," Harper said. While the customer likes to buy complete outfits, the store had too many of them and not enough individual items like separates, she said. The company revamped its merchandise and sales are improving, she said.
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