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A reliable source and friend has told Queers United that Mike Rogers of Blog Active, in 30 minutes will present video of the Roy Cohn Award being delivered to Mark Buse, Senator John McCain's Chief of Staff and lobbyist on Capitol Hill who is a closeted gay person.
To hear the outing LIVE tune into The Michelangelo Signorile Show on Sirus Satellite Radio at 2:15 PM EST.
Video below of Mike Rogers delivering the award:
Home video footage of Mark Buse and his former partner:
Thanks to the hard work of Mike Rogers and Michelangelo Signorile for exposing this closeted gay man who is critical in helping anti-gay John McCain rise to power.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Breaking News: John McCain's Chief of Staff Being Outed Today!
A reliable source and friend has told Queers United that Mike Rogers of Blog Active, in 30 minutes will present video of the Roy Cohn Award being delivered to Mark Buse, Senator John McCain's Chief of Staff and lobbyist on Capitol Hill who is a closeted gay person.
36 comments:
Seriously? What the fuck. He might be gay, and he might be pro-McCain, but, WHAT THE FUCK. He's a human being who deserves some fucking dignity.
If you'd been outed like that, you'd be pissed as hell, or depressed beyond all reason. Don't be a jack ass to someone who's crime is being human and having opinions.
- September 22, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- Sabertooth Screaming Lemur said...
Yeah, I mean if he'd decided to out himself, that's one thing. It's not fair to out someone like that, even if he DOES work for Douchebag McCain.
Sorry, QU, I'm giving you a Fail on this one.
- September 22, 2008 at 2:59 PM
From what I can tell, outings like this are only sought after by gay groups when the person in question has been instrumental in creating, advocating, or implementing anti-gay policies. Normal people who are not actively trying to subvert gay rights are left closeted.
- September 22, 2008 at 3:00 PM
- Unknown said...
The question is whether or no this Buse person has *actually* done something to harm the gay community. Being a Republican isn't enough. Actively advocating against gay rights measures *is*. So, what, precisely has Buse done?
- September 22, 2008 at 3:18 PM
- Queers United said...
I think it is justified. Mark Buse was pro-gay rights till McCain basically made him shut up. He is McCain's chief of staff and a big time lobbyist. It is not enough to be the anti-gay politician to deserve being outed, but also to support them.
John McCain is against same-sex unions of any kind, pro don't ask don't tell, against gay adoption, against gay hate crimes legislation, etc. John McCain is anti-gay and those who support him who are gay are hypocrites.
- September 22, 2008 at 3:20 PM
I cannot believe Signorile is still outing people. It's so 80s, not to mention just plain juvenile. Grow up already!
- September 22, 2008 at 3:24 PM
I don't think it's justified. I think it's a tired ploy, and if this had happened to someone else, someone you didn't think deserved it, there would be outrage coming from everywhere. He may not be the best person in the world, but, he's still a person and he still deserves some basic dignity and respect for his humanity if not for his views.
- September 22, 2008 at 3:34 PM
While I think that it's despicable for him to remain closeted while helping McCain promote anti-queer activities, it's also despicable to publicly, intentionally, out someone without their consent.
- September 22, 2008 at 3:43 PM
- Steve Krotz said...
I've always been against forced "outings." However, in cases where the person being outed is a pubic figure (and politicians and their high level bureaucrats are public figures) or someone who is in a position of authority that can influence and adversely affect the rights of any GLBT person and who actively campaigns against us certainly becomes fair game in the battle against discrimination.
Arguments of hypocrisy aside, they know what they're getting into when they place themselves in those positions. It goes with the territory.
In this case, because of who he is and what he has done to subvert our efforts, I totally agree with his outing.
- September 22, 2008 at 4:09 PM
When someone in power, in a government that is supposed to be representative, deliberately participates in the politics of repression -- that hypocrisy should be a matter of public record so that people who vote are voting on the basis of facts.
I don't understand the logic of selling your identity as a human being for a paycheck. It must be a pretty big check... but how much is a soul worth?
- September 22, 2008 at 4:24 PM
I agree with his outting. What if he were Obama's Chief of Staff? His being gay wouldn't get a second look. Because of his position in a party that is hateful towards LGBT people, his sexual orientation IS an issue. He's a public figure - he needs to live with the consequences of his choices.
- September 22, 2008 at 4:29 PM
- Laurie said...
MAN! I don't have Sirus Satellite Radio
I hope that some one will let me know how
it all goes! Well, went..
- September 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM
He's not the only gay chief of staff for an outwardly-homophobic Republican Congressperson. Look at John Lopez, Chief of Staff for John Ensign, Senator, Nevada. What about the lead attorney for Mitch McConnell of Kentucky?
Head out to JR's in DC for an evening with a facebook of the Republican leadership. You'll find lots of apparently self-loathing men who are gay, who all work day in and day out to harm gays and lesbians.
- September 22, 2008 at 4:55 PM
I don't care what his politics are, outing ANYONE is WRONG WRONG WRONG. The fact that this is being supported it horrifying.
- September 22, 2008 at 5:38 PM
alas, you who think it is HORRIFYING to have people know we are gay are SELF=LOATHING yourselves. There is nothing wrong with being gay, it is THOSE who HATE US who are WRONG! Gays are just another part of the broad spectrum ("rainbow") of humanity.
- September 22, 2008 at 6:26 PM
Who are these lowlives here who defend these republican scumbags with no morals who help the gay haters and then cry "its unfair to out" go fk yourselves. Gay people who help the anti-gay agenda,the gop,should always be outed,period. This scum want to enjoy all the rights they have because of liberals and dems and then they want to live in secret helpint the gay haters,that doesnt sit well with decent human beings,out every single one of them,and for conservatives gays ,you disgust me.
- September 22, 2008 at 7:25 PM
Larry, I was the one who used the word "horrifying", but you obviously read it incorrectly. I said SUPPORTING the public outing of someone not ready to out themselves is horrifying. I am an openly bisexual woman who outed herself years ago and am happy to be who I am and have everyone know it--that does not mean it is OK to FORCE that outing onto anyone, and I really don't understand why you would think it OK to do so.
- September 22, 2008 at 8:10 PM
"Outing" proves how many assholes populate the so-called "LGBT/GLBT". From yet another common, garden-variety gay man: Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you very much!
- September 22, 2008 at 8:24 PM
- perivates said...
That's sickening. How can anyone, let alone LGBT individuals, condone forcible public outings? It's a heinous breach of privacy, not to mention psychologically destructive and probable to ruin the outed person's livelihood - if not resulting in a request for resignation, then resulting in a psychologically harmful work environment. Would anyone support the forced outing of themselves or a loved one? Even if you do see him as being in the "enemy camp" and deserving of such a thing due to political involvement, this cannot be justified as granting personal information to those with a "right to know." There is no "right to know" when it is about something so integral to a person's identity, so personal that they alone should have the right to share that part of themselves with anyone else.
- September 22, 2008 at 8:47 PM
Queer Unity my ass.
Outing people. Sick. You shouldn't proclaim to be a blogger for Queer Unity when you are outing people. I don't care who they are or if you disagree with their views. Sick.
- September 22, 2008 at 9:26 PM
- Queers United said...
First off I am not the one who did the outing, I am merely reporting on it.
Second, it isn't about views. I am a progressive but have many times posted on my blog and will continue to do so about republican efforts towards equality.
People like McCain are anti-gay and anyone working towards a McCain administration who is gay is hurting the gay community. They deserve to be outed. This is a non partisan issue, it is a civil rights issue, and its fair game for any democrat or republican who helps anti-gay people.
- September 22, 2008 at 9:29 PM
- Queers United said...
I apologize my setence cut off, it is fair game to OUT any democrat or republican who helps an anti-gay politician of either party.
- September 22, 2008 at 9:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Well Done! Mark ought to have been given this award and been given it publicly! You are absolutely correct to report it on your blog. I am going to report it on my blog.
Mark is working hard to bring this HARD right with DADT, a marriage amendment to the US Constitution, no federal benefits for civil unions for SSM, no ENDA ... Mark IS woorking his ass off to hurt the LGBT community. His outing is proper!
- September 22, 2008 at 9:48 PM
- Unknown said...
I wish I could copy and embed the video of the Roy Cohn award to post on my blog! I want the world to see it!
- September 22, 2008 at 9:49 PM
- Queers United said...
Thank you Richard, check your inbox.
- September 22, 2008 at 10:05 PM
- Rob said...
Personally I feel like ones sexuality is their business, I'm against outing someone, that is up to them. I don't find it a big deal either, being gay and Republican is not that uncommon.
- September 22, 2008 at 11:34 PM
- planet trans said...
Mark deserves his dignity. Please do not rejoice in outing people no matter what the moral duplicities their life lead us to beleive.
We have to walk on higher ground. You taught me that Q.U. Consider yourself hugged.
Love ya Q U!
- September 23, 2008 at 3:02 AM
It's sad that being gay still could count as damaging information. But he is part of the machine perpetuating that reality, so I guess he should expect to be outed for hypocrisy.
But it's an ugly sort of ironic: how much "high moral ground" do you get by outing somemone?
- September 23, 2008 at 3:25 AM
If a gay person wants to actively work for a group that would like nothing better than to maintain gays as second class citizens with limited rights and even less dignity, then that person deserves all that comes their way. There is something to be said about making one's own bed and being forced to sleep in it.
I hate how complacent the queer community can be. Like, why do we have to understand that peple have "views" even though those views are hurtful and directly lead to incidents like Matthew Sheperd. Religious nut jobs like Palin teach their cult followers to hate and bring violence to gays. Anyone supporting their cause is really no friend of mine.
- September 23, 2008 at 4:42 AM
Pathetic! EVERYONE should have rights to privacy. How dare you set yourself up as God and OUT someone? I guess now you can OUT all of the closeted Democrats who've done basically NOTHING to help insure the rights of gay Americans. You're the same as the haters! NO DIFFERENCE!!! This man does NOT deserve it. May ALL of YOUR personal identity and lifestyle be BROADCAST to the WORLD!!!
- September 23, 2008 at 11:09 AM
Well, QU... looks like you took a beatin' for this one! And I was just heading over to thank you for making sure this information was accessible! You weren't the one outing this man... it is already out there.
- September 23, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- Queers United said...
Bridge thanks for your support. I understand outing is controversial within the community and I respect all sides of the issue. I sincerely from the bottom of my heart supporting outing for hyporites, and never for someone who isn't actively working to hurt the community.
- September 23, 2008 at 12:51 PM
- libhom said...
Buse, regardless of his sexual orientation or gender identity, has deliberately promoted discrimination and violence against queers by being McCain's Chief of Staff. If Buse is indeed gay, he should be the subject of community wide sex/dating/socializing boycott. Why should we have anything to do with people who deliberately endanger us?
- September 23, 2008 at 6:55 PM
McCain is anti-gay and anyone working for him is promoting that agenda.
- September 24, 2008 at 7:45 AM
- Pomoprophet said...
Any GAY person who supports the outing of another is a traitor. Reguardless of political affiliation. We have all been on our own journies and have had much pain. To celebrate the public outing of someone else, knowing what pain they will go through is horrible.
The fact that this blog and commentors celebrate that disgusts me.
If this is how queer people are going to act towards those who dont agree with them, then they are no better than those they oppose. And I will not stoop to that level.
- September 25, 2008 at 12:33 AM
Pomoprophet : It's not about hating homophobes for those people, it's about hating Republicans. They made a fuss about this non-story (which only proves McCain is cool enough to hire a gay man) and ignored Ahmadinejad visiting NYC, even though Ahmadinejad regular hangs homosexuals. The ONLY gay group in NYC to protest Ahmadinejad was the Log Cabin Republicans (i'm not Republican, but fair is fair), who co-sponsored the protests along with Jewish groups and Holocaust survivors. Most other NYC gay activists have turned into strange illogical children.
- September 28, 2008 at 10:30 PM


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Flies Lures
Do-it-yourself Driftboat Building
Scaled drawings and step-by-step building instructions for
All Three Boats
How to
copy another driftboat
How to design and
build your own
hull from scratch
How build a
stitch and glue boat
from someone else's framed-boat blueprints
Stitch and glue wood fiberglass construction--and/or honeycomb core
These plans include drawings, tool and material lists and written instructions for stitch-and-glue plywood-fiberglass construction. Stitch-and-Glue construction is well suited to the beginning boat builder. At approximately 275lbs. for a finished 15' boat, plywood-fiberglass boats weigh less than most aluminum or molded fiberglass boats.
A fiberglass skin is an essential component of the ribless boat since the glass fabric and epoxy resin give the boat structural strength as well as a tough and durable finish. Epoxy resin is used for all the gluing in the boat as well as for fiberglassing. Polyester resin, which is used in the construction of "all-fiberglass" boats, is not suitable for wood- fiberglass construction because polyester resin does not adhere well to wood. These instructions were originally written assuming the use of Gougeon Brother's excellent
epoxy products. But many recent builders report equally excellent results (and attractive prices) using
products. Read through the entire text of these instructions before beginning any work.
How long will it take?
I once built five boats in 30 days flat (with one employee). But I can't build a single boat any faster due to gluing/fiberglass hardening times. A friend of mine--an MSU art teacher--built a boat from my plans that was perfect. It was prettier than any I ever built myself. It took him 6 months, working by himself, working intermittant evenings and weekends. Many builders finish faster than that. Few, if any, do a better job.
Montana Riverboats
Sandy Pittendrigh
118 Erik Bozeman, Mt. 59715
sandy at www.montana-riverboats.com
Specifications: Honky Dory
center line length--------------------15'
gunwale length-----------------------16"'
bottom width-------------------------56"
height at the oarlocks---------------24
finished weight----------------------275-300 lbs.
capacity-----------------------------four persons, 1100 lbs.
Specifications: Buffalo Boat
"center"line length--------------------10'
gunwale length-----------------------12'
bottom width-------------------------48"
height at the oarlocks---------------24"
finished weight----------------------210-230 lbs.
capacity-----------------------------3 persons, 825 lbs.
The curved line formed by the junction of the side and the bottom of the boat.
A thirty inch piece of hardwood, triangular in its cross-section, that joins the two side panels at the front of the boat.
The wedge-shaped piece of plywood that joins the two side panels at the stern end of the boat.
The temporary form on which the hull of the boat is built. The strongback consists of several trapezoid-shaped stations that conform to the shape of the boat. These trapezoidal stations are made from chipboard scraps or 1"x6" pine boards.
A length of 1"x6" pine board that forms one side of a trapezoidal strongback station. Each trapezoidal strongback station consists of four cords the "top" cord, the bottom cord, and two matching side cords.
The "top" edge of the side of the boat.
The distance across the gunwales at the widest part of the boat.
The hardening process of resin and hardener. As resin begins to harden, it is said to "kick."
Part One Tool and Material lists
Woodworking tools
You will need a hand saw, and either a portable power circular saw (skillsaw) or a power saber saw. A table saw is handy, but not absolutely necessary. You will also need a minimum of eight C-clamps for installing wooden gunwales. These c-clamps must have a minimum throat depth of two inches and a minimum opening of three inches. The more C-clamps you have, the better. Most rental shops rent C-clamps. I use up to 24 C-clamps per side. Other necessary tools include a power drill and assorted bits (including a phillips head screw driver bit), an orbital sander, flat wood rasp, paint scraper, bevel square, spirit level, hacksaw, a smooth faced hammer, and a sharp block plane. A sharp block plane is a key tool. Keeping it sharp is essential. Buy a carborundum water stone or a fine India oil stone and hone the blade frequently. A small abrasive wheel in an electric drill can be used to re-grind a plane blade if repeated honing has rounded off the cutting edge of the blade. You will also need several sheets of 50, 80 and 100 grit silicon carbide floor surfacing paper, and a few sheets of 180 grit aluminum oxide paper. Rental shops that rent floor surfacing equipment also sell silicon carbide floor surfacing paper.
Table Saws
If you want to build a boat it helps to have a table saw. The table saw isn't a requirement, but it does make it easier to do good work, especially when making gunwales and seat parts.
For those who don't have a table saw and who don't want to buy one, you can make one, with a piece of chipboard and an old skillsaw:
...bolt the skillsaw to one side of the chipboard. Hold the trigger down semi-permanently with a nylon strap-tie (you turn the saw on and off by plugging it in to a live receptacle). Then plunge the blade through the chipboard, turn the chipboard over, put it on saw horses and then use clamps and a straight edge to make an adjustable guide parallel to the blade.
It takes a little longer (than a real table saw) to set up each new cut, but it does cut with a staight even line--does just what you need for cutting gunwales out of 1x10 stock or for what ever else. Do be careful. Powertools are dangerous.
Honky Dory Materials
Plywood, Wood and Hardware materials (Plywood-Fiberglass Construction)
2 sheets 4'x8'x1/4" AA fir, marine plywood or 5mm marine mahogany
3 sheets 4'x8'x3/8" AA fir, ...
for the bottom and various seat parts. If you use 3/8" plywood you will need to add extra glass. Some builders prefer 1/2" plywood. Also (
this is important
) read the link at screen lower-left, labelled "Plascore Bottoms
4 1"x2"x16' oak, ash, or fir boards for gunwales
1"x6"x16' #2 pine boards for the strongback
2 sheets 3/8" CDX plywood for strongback corner gussets
1 lbs 5/8" drywall screws 1 lbs 1-1/4" drywall screws
1 box 3" flat head 1/4", course thread bolts
1 box 1/4" "nylock" nuts
1 box 1/4" flat washers
1 box 1-3/4" ring shanked panel nails
50' 1"x4" mahogany, oak, fir, or ash for seat frames and other interior parts
WEST SYSTEM Materials
Gougeon Brothers Inc. Box 908
100 Patterson Ave. Bay City, Michigan
(989) 684-7286
WEST SYSTEM Technical Manual
5 gallons #105 resin
1 gallon #205 hardener
1 pair mini pumps
1 gallon acetone
1 bag #403 microfibers
1 bag #406 colodial silica
1 bag #407 micro balloons
1 roll 6" fiberglass tape
13 YD. 50" ten ounce fabric
20 YD. 60" ten ounce fabric
Part Two Working with WEST SYSTEM Materials
Tools for applying WEST SYSTEM resin include a 1.5" or 2" bristle brush with a wooden handle, 1.5" to 6" putty or drywall knives, and foam paint rollers of various sizes. Clean your tools regularly with acetone. (Caution acetone is flammable). Keep the brush and the smaller putty knives in a can filled half-way with solvent, and keep a lid on the solvent can to keep the solvent from evaporating. Hardened epoxy can be burned off putty knives with a propane torch. Use a wide, flat container such as a roller pan with a plastic liner or a plastic dishpan for mixing epoxy. A wide container dissipates the heat created by the reaction of the #105 resin with the #205 hardener. Heat can build up in a small container creating a chain reaction that will harden the resin in a matter of seconds. Overheated resin that is setting up fast does not penetrate or adhere well to wood. Whenever a chain reaction does occur immediately discard the overheated resin and start again. Use rubber gloves at all times when handling epoxy resin. Epoxy resin is a skin irritant, and some people develop allergic skin reactions to it. You may also want to wear a good respirator with activated charcoal elements designed for organic vapors. Always wear a dust mask of some kind when grinding or sanding epoxy-fiberglass. Cheap, disposable vinyl or latex rubber gloves are handy, but I prefer heavier, chemical resistant gloves that can be washed in solvent after each use and reused indefinitely. Chemical resistant gloves can be purchased at most janitorial supply houses. Black rubber mason's gloves are almost as good.
Gluing, Filleting, and Fiberglassing Procedures
Follow the manufacturer's instructions for using WEST SYSTEM products, but also read the following supplementary information.
For every gluing, filleting, or fiberglassing process, you will use WEST SYSTEM #105 resin mixed with #205 fast hardener. The ratio is 5 parts resin to 1 part hardener. WEST SYSTEM mini pump dispensers automatically measure the resin and hardener in the right proportion. One squirt of resin mixes with one squirt of hardener. The mixture of resin and hardener will be referred to as "resin" for the duration of these instructions. #105 resin is never used without its corresponding component of hardener, so it is now understood that the term "resin" will mean the proper mixture of resin and hardener.
Priming the Pumps
Unscrew the caps from the #105 resin and the #205 hardener and replace them with the corresponding mini-pumps. Hold a Dixie- cup or other small container under the hardener pump and push down repeatedly on the pump. Let the plunger rise up slowly by its own spring-loaded power. Once the pump stops spitting air and is completely primed the hardener collected in the Dixie cup can be returned to the hardener can. Repeat this process for the resin pump, using a fresh Dixie cup.
Always wet out both sides of any joints to be glued with resin as a first step. Usually one wet coat is enough, but for porous woods and end-grain, you may need a second coat. The wet-out surfaces should look wet. After wetting out the surfaces, mix a second batch of resin and thicken it with #403 microfibers until it is the consistency of sour cream or yogurt. Apply the thickened mixture to one side of the joint to be glued. Clamp the joint until the glue is hard. Hardening times vary considerably with temperature and humidity changes. Immediately clean up any squeeze-outs.
Filleting and Puttying
Filleting is the rounding out of inside corners to reinforce the joint, and to produce a smoothly rounded corner prior to fiberglassing. Use a mixture of 60% #407 micro balloons, thirty percent #403 microfibers and ten percent #406 colodial silica for all puttying and filleting operations. (This mixture works well for me, but don't be afraid to do a little experimenting. Epoxy resin is strong, versatile stuff, and you can get satisfactory results from a variety of thickeners.) Wet out the area to be filled. Mix another batch of resin and thicken (with micro balloons, micro fibers and colodial silica) until the mixture is the consistency of thick peanut butter. Use a physician's tongue depressor (or cut a rounded tool from plywood) to apply and smooth the filleting. Apply the mix thickly in the area to be filled. Then smooth repeatedly with the depressor to form a smooth rounded shape. Press down hard on the filleting tool to squeeze out the excess putty as you form the fillet. Immediately clean up squeeze-outs with a putty knife. For puttying to fill up dings, use the same mix as for filleting.
Fiberglass is a generalized term that refers to a wide assortment of woven fabrics that are layered and bonded together with various plastic resins. The best resin, in fact the only resin suitable for wood- fiberglass construction is epoxy resin because epoxy is the only resin that adheres well to wood. Fiberglass fabric is a woven laminate material that is made from glass fibers. In its raw form, fiberglass fabric is very soft and flexible, and looks a little like white canvas. When fiberglass fabric comes in contact with resin, the fabric turns transparent and loses its white color. Fiberglass fabric is easy to work with, and can be used for every fiberglassing step in the construction of this boat. Other laminate materials that work well with epoxy include Kevlar, graphite fibers, and polypropylene fabric. If you are familiar with these other laminate materials, feel free to use them in place of the standard fiberglass fabric specified in these instructions.
Working with resin and fiberglass fabric
In order to cover any piece of wood with a layer of fiberglass, start by rough-cutting the fiberglass fabric to the size needed, one to one and a half inches large on all sides. Wet out the wood surface with resin. To apply, pour the resin directly onto the wood surface and spread it with a four or six inch drywall trowel, or pour the resin into a roller tray and spread the resin over the wood with a foam roller. Lower the fabric onto the wet-out wood surface, and pull on the edges to get any wrinkles out of the fabric. A helper is particularly handy when lowering dry fiberglass fabric down onto a wet surface. Two or more workers can lower the fabric into place with a minimum of wrinkles. Use a plastic squeegee or a 6" metal trowel to smooth the fabric. Use the trowel to stretch and tension the fabric, stroking the trowel from the "center" out toward the edges. Once the wrinkles are gone, apply more resin and smooth evenly until the fabric becomes transparent and disappears. But be careful! It is important not to use too much resin. Too much resin will float the fabric on thick puddles of resin. This weakens the finished fiberglass laminate. Use just enough resin to make the fabric transparent.
Trowel any excess resin off the fabric to leave the rough, pebbled texture of the fabric showing on the surface. Avoid slick, glassy puddles of resin on the surface of the fabric. Some glassy spots are inevitable, just try to keep them to a minimum. On the other hand, don't use so little resin that cloudy- white areas remain in the fabric. Use just enough resin turn the fabric transparent, but not enough to float the fabric over thick, glassy puddles. Once the first wet-out coat has saturated into the fabric, you can quit for the day and then proceed with subsequent finish coats at a later date. Or you can wait two or three hours for the resin to become tack free, but not necessarily fully cured, and proceed immediately with one or more finish coats of additional resin.
If you let the first wet-out coat harden completely, you must sand off any hard lumps of resin before finish coating. If you choose to go ahead and finish coat as soon as the first wet-out coat becomes tack free, sanding is not necessary. Use one to three finish coats as needed to obscure the texture of the fabric and to produce as glossy and as smooth a finish as you choose. Spread finish coats with a four or six inch drywall trowel, and then immediately brush out the lines left by the edges of the trowel with a bristle brush. To smooth out trowel marks that have already begun to set up, it may become necessary to dampen the brush with acetone or WEST SYSTEM solvent.
Paint Vs. Varnish
The last step in the boat building process is to cover the boat with an ultra-violet shield--in other words to paint the boat. Ordinary oil-based porch and deck paint is the cheapest alternative. Linear polyurethanes are the most durable and the most expensive. Any pigmented paint is a better ultra-violet shield than a clear finish. When a paint finish is planned, all layout lines, pencil marks, dings, and scratches can be left in place during the construction process with no effect on the finished appearance of the boat. If you want a clear, natural wood or stained finish, you will have to plan for it from the beginning. Your first choices will relate to the materials used in the gluing and filleting operations described below. Filleting is the filling of inside corners with a thickened resin mixture to reinforce, and to round out inside corners before fiberglassing. All gluing and filleting operations involve the use of various thickening agents in addition to the resin that holds everything together. Many of these thickening agents are white or red in color, and they don't look very good under a clear finish. If you are planning a clear finish, use a mixture of fine sawdust, # 406 colloidal silica, and #403 microfibers as thickening agents for all gluing and filleting operations. If you want to stain any parts of the boat, use an alcohol based stain, such as Watco Five Minute stain, rather than oil based stains. Epoxy will not adhere to wood that has been stained with an oil based stain! Do the staining right away, before any assembly process or contact with resin. If you are planning a stain finish, pre-stain the sawdust you plan to use for any filleting or puttying before you mix it with resin.
Part Three Building the Plywood-Fiberglass Boat
Overall sequence of events, plywood-fiberglass construction
1 ) Build the strongback
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By Janice Harayda
A while back, I wrote a novel about a bride-to-be who believed that Jane Austen could have solved all her romantic problems. One reason for her view, I hoped, was clear: Austen's novels are full of rules for social conduct.
The catch – for my heroine as for others – is that Austen's characters typically follow rules that are implicit, not explicit. And because Austen was a satirist, her precepts can't always be taken at face value even when they are spelled out. Perhaps the best case in point is the much-misunderstood first line of Pride and Prejudice, which is often taken literally though meant ironically: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
Josephine Ross has decoded some of the social conventions of the Regency era in Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners. And as befits an ironist like Austen, this book is less a "guide to good manners" than a literary companion disguised as Regency self-help manual.
Ross does not try to extrapolate from the behavior of Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse and others to modern life. Instead she describes the rules of the Regency era as she sees them and shows how Austen's characters observe or break them. The rule "Do not be presumptuous in offering introductions" leads to a brief discussion of the proper ways of introducing people in the early 1800s. Then Ross writes: "When Lady Catherine de Bourgh, in high dudgeon, calls on the Bennets in Pride and Prejudice to dissuade Elizabeth from marrying her nephew Darcy, she does not ask Lizzy to introduce her mother, and sits for some time in the presence of awed Mrs. Bennet, who has therefore not been granted permission to converse with her Ladyship in her own house. This, of course, is not 'good manners.'"
Some of the conventions that Ross describes went out with the chamber pot: "After dinner the ladies must withdraw." Others continue in a modified form: "When in doubt, talk of the weather." Either way, Ross writes so gracefully that her book is a delight, enhanced by charming watercolors by Henrietta Webb. How nice that she and her collaborator knew enough not to take literally the words of Northanger Abby: "A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
Best line: "Only by understanding Society's strict rules is anyone – man or woman – in a position to break them."
Worst line: Why doesn't the comma in "Compliments, Charades," which appears on the cover, show up also on the title page?
Published: October 2006
Janice Harayda wrote The Accidental Bride (St. Martin's, 1999), a comedy of a manners about a bride who tries to find solace in Jane Austen as her over-the-top wedding approaches.
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Enterprise email lowers costs thanks to DOD's massive buying power, consolidated hardware and more efficient maintenance and administration, DISA said in a press release. Enterprise email also gives users access to the DOD Global Access list, rather than merely a list of users within an individual service or agency.
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I have been absolutely amazed at the responses to my last two posts. My intention was to give people a glimpse "behind the curtain," to see the actual judging process for themselves, as well as raise awareness of some common mistakes. If you have not yet read them, you can read part one here and part two here.
I just want to also remind people that this was an unsuccessful application. My recent successful application is much different.
So, after reading these posts, do you feel ready for certification?
The Board for the Certification of Genealogists offers a short checklist on its website, entitled, "Are You Ready for Certification?" I would recommend that everyone interested in becoming certified go through this checklist to test your readiness. Be honest with yourself though. If you exaggerate your qualifications, you are only hurting yourself.
The BCG also offers other resources to help you in your goal. You should definitely take advantage of all of these as learning opportunities.
1. Read the Application Guide thorougly. Be sure that you understand all of the requirements. Practice them. For example, take a handful of records from your private collection and transcribe them, abstract them, and perform the other "Document Work" requirements. Use a wide variety of record types — deeds, wills, tax lists, census records, etc. If you are not currently conducting client research, take a few of you own research problems and write them up as if you were conducting the research for a client. The BCG also provides two practice records on their website, with the Document work completed. The full Application Guide is available online here.
2. Study the Judging Rubrics. If you have practiced parts of your application on your own, try honestly evaluating these parts according to the rubrics. The best part of the rubrics (in my opinion) is that they state plainly which of the BCG Standards are applicable to each evaluation. You can read the rubrics online here.
3. Read and understand the BCG Standards Manual. A very active and enlightening discussion took place on the Transitional Genealogists Forum mailing list beginning in January 2010. This discussion went through the BCG Standards one by one, with discussion from many Board-certified genealogists, professional genealogists, and "transitional" genealogists. You can see the start of this discussion here. A new thread was started for each individual standard following this one, so you may have to go back to the list archives index to find them all. However, I would credit this discussion with some of the understandings of the standards that I have come to. You can purchase The BCG Genealogical Standards Manual on Amazon.com, or purchase it directly from the BCG.
4. Read the books and articles suggested on the BCG's "Supplemental Study List." This list is available on the BCG's website here. Several of these books were also mentioned in my blog post "The top 5 books on my bookshelf." Of particular importance, in my opinion, are Elizabeth Shown Mills's Evidence!, Christine Rose's The Genealogical Proof Standard: Building a Solid Case, and Numbering Your Genealogy: Basic Systems, Complex Families, and International Kin, by Joan F. Curran, Madilyn Coen Crane, and John H. Wray. This last book, published by the National Genealogical Society, will help you tremendously when writing your Kinship Determination Project. If you are a member of the National Genealogical Society, you will also want to be sure to read the special issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly dealing with evidence. This issue was published in September 1999 (vol. 87, no. 3), and can be read online by NGS members.
5. Consider a formal education program. The BCG has compiled a list of educational programs, including university-sponsored programs, institutes, major conferences, and independent study courses. This list can be read here.
6. Read the "Skillbuilding" articles. These articles provide some great tips for using specific record groups in great depth, tips for methodology, and other articles that will help to prepare you for the depth of research expected of Board-certified genealogists. These articles, originally printed in OnBoard, can be found on the BCG website here. Of particular interest to the readers of this series of posts is "Skillbuilding: A Judge's Notes From an Application for CG," which provides similar information from the perspective of a BCG judge.
7. Read the "Ten Tips for Success" article. This article shares some common elements with this blog post. It can be read here.
8. Study the Work Samples. Several examples of case studies, proof arguments, compiled genealogies, narrative lineages, and research reports have been posted on the BCG website here. Read them and study them. Compare them to the rubrics and standards, to see how they meet each one. And then apply the lessons you have learned to your own work.
9. Watch the seminar video. Thomas Jones, CG, and Elissa Scalise Powell, CG, present a seminar on becoming certified at various national conferences and institutes. If you have not attended the seminar in person, you can still benefit by watching the video. This video can be viewed on the BCG website here.
10. Read the "Application Strategies." Five articles, originally published in the BCG's OnBoard journal, have been reprinted on the BCG website. These articles specifically deal with the application process, from details on putting together the physical portfolio to a survey of a group of successful applicants. You can read these articles here.
In addition to all of the above resources provided by the Board itself, I would also make the following recommendations:
11. Join the Transitional Genealogists Forum mailing list. This list often has some great discussions, as noted above on the BCG Standards, and as noted before when discussing citations in my post "Source Citations: Why Form Matters, part one." The list is extremely welcoming of genealogists of all levels, and is frequented by many professional and Board-certified genealogists, including Elizabeth Shown Mills, Elissa Scalise Powell, Thomas Jones, and others! The Archives of the mailing list comprise another great source for information, as we discuss issues relevant to conducting professional-level genealogical research. Details of this Rootsweb-hosted mailing list can be seen here.
12. Join a study group. The ProGen Study Group is great for those aspiring professional genealogists who are considering certification. This 18-month program take an in-depth look at the book Professional Genealogy: A Manual for Researchers, Writers, Editors, Lecturers, and Librarians, edited by Elizabeth Shown Mills. Each month studies an individual chapter with a practical assignment for each, including several that will help you with the basics of establishing a business. Other assignments help with evidence analysis and writing a proof argument. A second useful study group meets monthly to discuss a selected article from the National Genealogical Society Quarterly. This group picks apart the article and discusses what went right, what went wrong, what could have been explained better, etc. There is not currently a website, but you can obtain more information by sending an email to the coordinator, Sheri Fenley.
There is, of course, no amount of education and practice than can guarantee success. Some people may be able to succeed without all of the preparatory steps I note above. Others may be able to perform all of these tasks and not succeed the first time. But stick with it if you are interested. The judges comments are a great learning experience in and of themselves, as noted in the previous post.
If you think you are ready to begin certification, go ahead and submit your Preliminary Application. You have a full year to complete the portfolio, and during that time you will have access to the BCG-ACTION mailing list for help on preparing the application itself, as well as a complimentary subscription to OnBoard. If you are not ready after the first year, you can always request an extension, at the cost of $50 per year. It is better to pay $50 for the extension and succeed, than to pay $220 to fail.
So, are you ready for certification?
If you would like to cite this post: Michael Hait, "So, are you ready for certification?," Planting the Seeds: Genealogy as a Profession blog, posted 17 Jul 2011 (https://michaelhait.wordpress.com : accessed [access date]).


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When a controversial bill is being debated in the Illinois General Assembly, most lawmakers agree on what the bill says. The argument is usually over whether it's a good bill for them to pass.
But as one bill that narrowly passed the House moves into the Senate, there's a chasm between supporters and opponents over what it says and means.
Mayors and village presidents across Illinois charge that the bill, which the Associated Fire Fighters of Illinois union is trying to get passed, will snatch decision-making about fire department staffing levels from local governments and place them with arbitrators. The bill, they say, will increase city and village labor costs and lead to higher property taxes.
The bill, HB 5485, is nicknamed the "manning bill." Mayors say it would make firefighter and paramedic staffing a mandatory topic of collective bargaining between cities and fire union locals, instead of a permitted issue as they say it is now. The Illinois Municipal League, the lobby for cities and villages, will press for the bill's defeat when members go to the state Capitol this week to lobby.
"The question is, do we want arbitrators to tell cities what their manning requirements should be for fire trucks? It takes away the role of communities to make intelligent decisions," said municipal league President Darryl Lindberg, the mayor of Loves Park.
"The firefighters carry a big hammer, and they have put it into effect to pass this bill," Lindberg said. "On just one day they gave $200,000 to various senators and House members," he said. "It's pay-to-play politics."
Fire Fighters Association President Pat Devaney would not confirm Lindberg's number, but he strongly defended the union's participation in the political process.
"We contribute to candidates who we believe share our values and concerns. If there's an implication there's something improper with that, I would strongly disagree," Devaney said.
In the House, Representatives Brian Stewart, R-Freeport, Joe Sosnowski, R-Rockford, and Chuck Jefferson, D-Rockford, voted against the bill. John Cabello, R-Machesney Park, supported the measure, which passed by three votes.
Cabello, a Rockford police officer, said the bill just clarifies existing law "so everybody understands it. Manning is already in the collective bargaining law," Cabello said.
The law in question was passed in 1985 and took effect in 1986. It prohibited police officers and firefighters from striking and established the current system of collective bargaining. When management and labor reach impasses, arbitrators make binding decisions.
"In the law, manning is a management right in the case of police, but not for firefighters. Since 1986 we've been operating under the premise that manning is a collective bargaining issue," in fire negotiations, Devaney said.
"Recently, an employer said it wanted manning to not be subject to bargaining. We went to court and won."
Devaney said the fire union has won every time it contested a municipality over this issue, "but it's costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so."
Devaney said the bill would not allow arbitrators to set manning and salary issues. The issue only applies if it is brought to the table during contract negotiations.
The municipal league strongly disagrees and says the union is misinterpreting the 1986 law. The law covers only the number of firefighters and/or paramedics on a fire truck or ambulance, "and is a wholly separate issue from the number of fighters that must staff a shift," the league claims.
Rockford won an arbitrator's decision last year to reduce manning on fire trucks from four to three.
"We finally made a little progress in our last series of negotiations with the fire union, and we don't want to see that rolled back. The firefighters are making an all out blitz to use their war chest to invest in candidates who are going to support their cause," Rockford Mayor Larry Morrissey said.
Devaney, though, cites Rockford as proof that arbitration is fair and adds, "There's not a single example of an arbitrator ordering increased department staffing levels."
The bill now advances to the state Senate, where Sen. Steve Stadelman, D-Rockford, says, "I have not formulated an opinion on that bill. I want to talk to all parties involved."
Sen. Tim Bivins, R-Dixon, is against the bill, saying the manning issue "should be up to local communities. It's an unfunded mandate."
Sen. Dave Syverson, R-Rockford, leans toward supporting the bill.
For his part, Mayor Lindberg says he's just glad Loves Park has a volunteer fire department that doesn't make medical calls.
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Who will win the Bad Sex Award this year? Perhaps Jonathan Lethem for the following lines from Chronic City, a novel of New York during a financial – but not necessarily sexual — crisis. The excerpt below omits a half dozen lines, marked by ellipses, that might not cross the spam filters at libraries. You can find the missing lines by using the "Search Inside" tool on Amazon.com or another site to search for "Richard's crotch throbbed."
"At two that same morning he'd had Georgina swinging in a rope chair she'd had installed at his whimsical suggestion, hung from a bolted hook on her ceiling, her legs spilling over the sides of the mesh seat in which her splendid bottom lay helpless to his savage ministrations. The situation was wildly odd and erotic. …
"Remembering it, Richard's crotch throbbed, grew hotter, the itching more intense."
Are these lines purple enough to win a Bad Sex Award? If you can't decide, you may want to compare them with past winners or read some of my comments on the longlisting of Ian McEwan for the 2007 Bad Sex Award. My review of Chronic City appeared yesterday.


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Randy Seaver challenges people to post their most vivid childhood memories Genea-Musings: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun – A Childhood Memory.
I lived in Westville, near Durban, until I was nearly 7. Then my father got a new job in Germiston, and the house in Westville was sold. My father went to Johannesburg to find a place to live, while my mother and I stayed at a hotel at Ingogo for a couple of months in April and May 1948. Ingogo was a small village in northern Natal, about halfway between Durban and Johannesburg.
The hotel, Valley Inn, was a mile from the main road between Newcastle and Volksrust. and was owned by my father's cousins, Win and Sheila Bradbury, though my parents had not known that when they first arranged for our stay there. The Bradburys had two children, Michael, who was 12, and Gillian, who was about my age (there was a third child, Winona, the eldest, but I have no recollection of her at all).
The hotel itself was built of stone, and had only four guest rooms. My mother and I stayed in the biggest one, on the corner of the veranda. It had an old-fashioned washstand, with a stone top, and a large enamel jug and basin; there was no running water in the bedrooms.
There was a hill behind the hotel, up which wound a deep rutted track which had been the main road from Newcastle to the north. There was a wood and iron general store over the road where this track joined the road from the station. The road from the station turned to the left at the store, and passed in front of the hotel, and after passing through some wattle trees crossed the Hart and Ingogo rivers, which joined quite close to the hotel. There were lots of doves around, and every day the place was filled with the sound of their cooing. Since then, whenever I hear doves cooing, I am reminded of that autumn in Ingogo. Ingogo was overlooked by three hills, Majuba, Inkwelo and Mount Prospect, and amajuba means doves in Zulu, an appropriate name.
I used to play with Gillian a lot while we stayed there. We would sometimes walk to the railway station, a mile down the road, and look at the signal cabin, with its big red levers. Or we would walk the other way, down to the river, and play there. We once found an old corrugated iron canoe, which didn't float, however. We salvaged it from the bottom of the river with a great effort, but it was quite useless. We swam in the river, and went for rides on ox wagons that came past laden with fire wood. We went riding on donkeys a couple of times, but not very far. They were stubborn beasts, and had to be led and chased.
Once we went into Michael's room, and found a bottle of Vaseline hair oil which he used, and Gillian and I used about half of it in experiments. The hair oil was lovely and greasy, but Michael wasn't pleased when he found out that it was gone. The wrath of big brother was to be feared, but Michael was also admired for his knowledge and worldly wisdom and experience. He added several swear words to my vocabulary, whose meanings I only discovered later.
Michael also taught me to play marbles, though I was never very good at it. We dug a hole in the ground, and had to shoot each other's marbles out of it.
One day Michael trapped and killed a dove and Gillian and I watched fascinated while he took its guts out — looking like red and blue spaghetti, and then cooked it. We tasted that, but there was not much meat on a dove. He caught doves by setting a trap, using an old builders sieve which he propped up on a stick with a piece of string attached to it. He would sprinkle seeds on the ground under the sieve, and then hide away, and when doves came to eat the seeds he pulled the string, and the sieve fell, trapping one or more of the doves underneath it.
Most of the business of the hotel came from neighbouring farmers who dropped in for evening drinks. It was the social centre of the neighbourhood and they would sit in the bar, or on the verandah, talking about their farms, politics, the weather — anything. We children weren't allowed in the bar, or at least not when it was open to the public, but we went into it when it was empty and saw the high wooden stools and the counter that was as high as we were.
One of the farmers who came from far away said he had crossed baboons with dogs. One day we went to his farm to have a look at these creatures. He had an old coupe, and we went for miles and miles along the gravel road. Eventually we left the road altogether and drove across the veld, very close to the Free State border. There was a quarry next to his ramshackle old farmhouse, where these strange savage dogs were living. They had hump backs and deep chests, and did look a little bit like baboons.
We also went to see another farm, and had to cross a drift (ford) to get there. It was a weekend when my father had come down from Johannesburg to see us, and we went in our new Wolseley 8. The had a milk separator which rang a bell every time you turned the handle. It was the first time I had seen a milk separator, and it fascinated me. My father said that on his journey down the Wolseley had gone at 50 miles an hour for the first time. In those days new cars had to be run in for a long time, and for the first thousand miles one was not supposed to drive them at more than 30 miles an hour.
One day everyone went to the station to vote. It was the 1948 general election, when the Nats got in. The grown-ups said that one good thing about the election was that we would be able to get white bread again. We couldn't get white bread during the war, and the Nats had promised that they would bring back white bread if they were elected. During the war my mother used to buy brown flour and sifted it to make white bread.
There was a school for black children a little way beyond rivers, and Gillian and I went there a few times and sat in the lessons. The school was in a corrugated iron church building and the children played netball outside in the breaks. The teacher was very nice; she was the nicest teacher I knew. She treated us like people and not like children who must be seen and not heard. Perhaps that was because she was black and we were white, and maybe she didn't treat her regular pupils like that; but whatever the reason, we enjoyed going to the school. Thirty years later, when we lived in Utrecht, I was called upon to be manager of several farm schools like that one.
My paternal grandfather, Percy Hayes, died while we were there, and we drove to Paulpietersburg for his funeral. We drove through Utrecht and Vryheid, and the journey was hot and dusty. We stopped at Vryheid for tea or lunch at a hotel. I was not allowed to go to the funeral, but had to sit in the car. We collected some things from my grandfather's cottage, including a sailor hat that my father had worn when he was young. We drove back late in the afternoon, westwards into the setting sun over bumpy and dusty roads, and reached Ingogo after it had got dark. I had never seen my grandfather, Percy Wynn Hayes. He was manager of the Dumbe coal mine in Paulpietersburg, and before that he was a stockbroker in Johannesburg. When he died his Afrikaans friends all dug his grave because they liked him. My mother told me that my father didn't want to see him because he was afraid that he would cadge money off him. My father and his younger sister Doreen wanted nothing to do with him while he was alive, but the older sister Vera cared for him.
Once we had discovered that we were cousins, Gillian Bradbury and I tried to work out what our relationship was, but it never became clear to me until after i had grown up and brgan researching the family history. I had assumed that we were related on the Hayes side because Gillians father was Win Bradbury, and my father's middle name was Wynn, and so was mine. It tuned out, however, that her father's full name was Harry Winston Churchill Bradbury, and he was born in Ladysmith during the Anglo-Boer War, around the time of the siege. Winston Churchill was captured by the Boer forces nearby, and perhaps his name recalls that event.
It was actually through Gillian's mother that we were related. Sheila Bradbury was born Sheila Bagot Cottam, and though she was only a few months older than my father, they were actually a generation apart, as her father, Richard Herbart Cottam (who had died only a few months before we stayed there) was actually my father's great uncle.
After we had lived in the Transvaal for a couple of years my mother and I went to Durban on holiday, and spent a night at the Valley Inn on the way, and we once again saw the Bradburys.
On a later journey, however, we found they had moved away and we lost touch with them. It was many years before I saw them again, though I did write to Sheila Bradbury a few times about the family history. When I did finally meet Sheila and Gillian again, when they were living in Oribi, Pietermaritzburg, after nearly 35 years, Gillian did not remember me at all, though Sheila did, and said that I was the only one from the Cottam side of the family who had kept in touch. She died a couple of years later.
We were at Ingogo for less than two months, but I remember more about that time than I remember of most of the time before I was twelve years old, probably because I liked it and was happy there. I suppose that for Gillian we were just two of many visitors to the hotel who came and went over the years, whereas for me it was new and different, and so my memories are much more vivid.
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