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It started in a playful enough manner when a fan shouted "are you kidding me" at John McEnroe as he was set to hit the opening serve of his "Legends of Tennis" exhibition match against Jim Courier at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton on Saturday night.
That's one of the irascible McEnroe's signature lines and the early part of the match was marked by wise cracks and good-natured banter from a modest crowd of 2,000 or less.
There was an unfortunate early incident when, on one point, a fan twice shouted out as McEnroe was about to hit the ball on his serve. He protested to veteran umpire Dennis Huss of Waterloo, Ont., and wanted a 'let' but was denied. Huss made a request to the crowd to not shout out during serves and there were no further incidents.
In the sixth game of the opening set, with the tennis heating up and people enjoying the fine calibre of play and excitement of watching two former world No. 1s, McEnroe succeeded in sucking all the air out of the building with a single outburst featuring the F-word.
Complaining about a line call that went against him, he began to harangue Huss and it all seemed like him just doing his familiar argue-with-the-umpire schtick until he blurted out, within hearing range of a sizable portion of the crowd, "stop being a 'freaking' clown." He then proceeded to continue bullying Huss, suggesting, in so many words, that he didn't know his (inconsequential) role in an exhibition match and saying he could be replaced.
Huss, to his credit, was not completely cowed, and gave McEnroe a warning.
The use of the F-word was bad enough, but it was as more the context of the crowd settling in for a fun, light-hearted evening only to have McEnroe brutally transform the mood in the arena.
Ultimately, the exhibition featured an inspired display by McEnroe, still in possession of much of the shot-making genius that has made him a one-of-a-kind player in tennis history.
After his obscenity, McEnroe was notably more subdued, almost (though not likely) as if he felt guilty about what he had done. He wound up winning 6-3, 6-4 and made some spectacular volleys, drop shots and half-volley pick-ups against a man 12 years his junior.
At the end, he shook hands with Courier at the net and pointedly avoided shaking hands with the umpire by making a little turn at the net post and stepping out to accept the applause of the crowd.
John McEnroe has been getting away with outrageous behaviour his whole career, on the main tour and as a senior competitor. Several years ago, a contemporary of McEnroe's on the pro tour took his two young sons to a senior event but walked out midway through the first set because of McEnroe's obscene language and rude antics.
McEnroe is now 51 years old and is parenting six children but is still incapable of acting like an adult on the court.
There is a sense of entitlement that has been imbued in him, a coddling by officials of all kinds - at tournaments and in his work in broadcasting where he can be a prima donna - that has resulted in him knowing he can do whatever he likes with impunity.
After Saturday night, McEnroe probably returned home to New York and told friends he had played in Hamilton and beat Courier without ever mentioning the ill-timed obscenity that poisoned a good vibe in Copps Coliseum.
He should have to do what any of his children would likely have to do in the same circumstances - apologize to the spectators, to the organizers, the umpire and any other well-meaning people involved in the event.
But it will not happen - he has gotten away with similar conduct so many times and is all too aware he's bulletproof.
So it he will take the money - a rough estimate of about $75,000 (U.S.) for the match - and run, and one more time thumb his nose at civility and decorum.
Late in the match, a man in the crowd called out, "Johnny, smile," with absolutely no response from the dour individual who is, by turns, the epitome of brilliance and boorishness.
It's pathetic, it's sad. Tennis's spoiled child has never grown up.


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Dodge Repair Questions? Ask a Mechanic for Answers ASAP
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The Central Timer Module (CTM) monitors many hard wired switch and sensor inputs as well as those resources it shares with other modules in the vehicle through its communication over the Programmable Communications Interface (PCI) data bus network. The programming and all of the inputs allow the CTM to determine the tasks it needs to perform and their priorities, as well as both the standard and optional features that it should provide. The CTM then performs those tasks and provides those features through both PCI data bus communication with other modules and through hard wired outputs through a number of driver circuits, relays, and actuators. These outputs allow the CTM the ability to control numerous accessory systems.
The CTM operates on battery voltage received through two fuses in the Junction Block (JB) on two non-switched fused B(+) circuits, a fused ignition switch output (run-start) circuit, and a fused ignition switch output (run-acc) circuit. This arrangement allows the CTM to provide some features regardless of the ignition switch position. The CTM is grounded to the chassis. Two of these ground circuits are on the left inner cowl panel near the CTM, while the third is near the Airbag Control Module (ACM).
The CTM monitors its own internal circuitry as well as many of its input and output circuits, and will store Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) in memory for any failure it detects. These DTCs can be retrieved and diagnosed using a DRBIII® scan tool. Refer to the appropriate diagnostic information.
The hard wired inputs to the CTM include the following:
The hard wired outputs of the CTM include the following:
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Southampton Port Parking
Meet and Greet Southampton Port parking was invented to take all the hassle out of getting to and from a cruise, ferry or liner. Forget driving around looking for a parking space or chancing public transport. With a Meet & Greet, Southampton Port is simple to access. Just drive straight to the relevant departure terminal in your own car - and a waiting chauffeur will park it for you.
Stress Free Parking offers a selection of hassle free parking at Southampton Port. Make Southampton Port parking much easier and simpler with our Meet & greet parking service. All you need to do is hop out, grab your luggage and head straight for the check-in!
Getting to and from Southampton Port
Southampton Port is located 75 miles from London and has excellent travel links by road, rail,sea and air.
Take the exit at junction 3 of the M27 taking the M271 signposted to 'The Docks'. At the roundabout take the second exit onto the A35. Carry on along the A35, and take the A326 towards Fawley at the next roundabout. Turn left at the traffic lights onto Jacobs Gutter Lane. Turn left at the roundabout into Normandy Way and continue along into Marchwood Industrial Park. Continue over the mini roundabout and turn left into Cracknore Hard. Carry on past McMullen Barracks on your left and the Sea Mounting on your right and you will see a sign on your right for Cracknore Industrial Park. In 0.2 miles turn right into Harbour Close. Follow signposts to the Port.
The postcodes for sat nav are:
ABP Ocean Terminal
Atlantic Way,
Eastern Docks,
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We have two big family-friendly theater productions this weekend.
The first is "Dora the Explorer," part of the new Storybook Theater series. Read my earlier post for more about the series. The show, which opens Friday and continues through Sunday, features Dora, Boots and other friends as they go on an adventure to Treasure Island. There's lots of audience participation in this one.
Tickets start at $14 for the show at the Duke Energy Center for Performing Arts in Raleigh. Kids ages one year and up need a ticket. Click here for details and to get your tickets.
And the Raleigh Little Theatre, near Cameron Village in Raleigh, will present June B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. The show opens Friday and runs on select days through Nov. 17. The show is adapted from the popular early chapter book series. Tickets are $9 for kids 12 and under and $13 for adults.
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Here is some leftover footage which doubles as a promo for a new video from the We Ride Kid Bikes crew called Rascateld. Street, park, trails, theres a bit of everything in here…
"This video is Rascateld leftovers, which will be released before this summer 2014.
Rascateld bmx is a short film starring the boys of the island (WRKB), friends and people who travel from other places to Tenerife, to ride and enjoy the good weather (sometimes).
Chris Bouquet
Proty, Chris Rosillo, David Fernandez,
Riders: rubio,melo,toño,tasio,javi,pinky,mathieu,ville,jack,mike,robin,carlitos,dani,ale,mishhhaaa,bembi,samada,jose,josue,diego,jorge,jony,"


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It is said that when the goddess Aphrodite (Venus), and her son Eros (Cupid) were attacked by the monster, Typhon, they transformed themselves into fish, joined by a cord tied to their tails so they wouldn't become separated, and escaped into the river Euphrates, their daring adventure recorded forever in the stars.
As ancient as it is, Pisces is a faint constellation. The easiest way to find it is to look for the unmistakable Great Square Of Pegasus. The circlet of Pisces will be very nearby, and from there you should be able to trace the outline of the two fish and the cord that joins them.
The alpha star in the constellation is only third brightest, and perhaps allotted the prime designation because of its vital role in keeping the goddess and her son from becoming separated in the waters of the Euphrates. It is named Al Rischa, Arabic for the cord, and is a binary system, consisting of an A0V white main sequence star, and an almost identical A3V white main sequence star that orbit each other every 720 years. The combined magnitude of the two stars is 3.82, and they are 139 light years away.
The beta star is likewise not amongst the brightest of the constellation, and most likely also named for its import, Fum Al Samakah, Arabic for the mouth of the fish. It is a B8V blue/white main sequence star with a magnitude of 4.53, about 495 light years away.
Continuing the trend of naming the dimmer stars instead of the brighter ones, at magnitude 4.26, Omicron Piscium is named Torcularis Septentrionalis, which is Latin for the northern press. It has been suggested that it is a reference to a grape, or olive press, but the true origins of the name are no longer known. It is a G8III yellow giant, about 250 light years away.
Eta Piscium is not usually named on star charts, but R.H. Allen dug up the name Kullat Nunu which dates back to Babylonian times. Interpreted as the cord of the fish, the name would certainly attest to the constellation's antiquity. Since it is the constellation's brightest star at magnitude 3.62 it certainly deserves a name, and Kullat Nunu definitely has a nice ring to it. It is a G7III yellow giant, about 350 light years away, with a small, dim companion about which little is known.
Fourteen planetary systems have been discovered so far in Pisces. The stars are all beyond visual magnitude and the planets are all gas giants. For more information on these and other extrasolar planets, visit NASA's New Worlds Atlas, and The Open Exoplanets Catalogue.
M74 (NGC628) is a spiral galaxy about 32 million light years away, thought to contain about 100 billion stars. A magnitude of 9.4 stretches the limits of a small telescope, but the large mirrors of the Hubble Space Telescope show it in remarkable detail.
The galaxy NGC 524 is about 90 million miles away. It is known as a Lenticular Galaxy, thought to be the aging remnant of a spiral galaxy that has lost much of its gas and dust primarily to new star formation, causing its spiral structure to dissipate. A magnitude of 10.3 puts it out of reach of most small telescopes.
At a distance of about 100 million light years, two galaxies are about half way through the multi-million year process of merging into one, and forming a new galaxy named NGC 520 (Arp 157). A magnitude of 11.4 puts it in the realm of large telescopes only.
The spiral galaxy NGC 488 lies about 90 million light years away. Its magnitude of 10.3 makes it a challenge for a small scope.
Pisces is one of the thirteen constellations that occupy the ecliptic, the path the Sun, Moon and planets travel across the sky. Twelve of these constellations make up the Zodiac, of which astrologers place so much import. Pisces also has the distinction of containing the point of vernal equinox. Known to the ancients as the first point in Aries, it is the point in the sky where the Sun crosses the celestial equator at the moment of the vernal equinox. Due to the slight wobble of Earth's axis called precession, this point has moved from Aries into Pisces over the last 2,000 years.
|Winter: Orion Canis Major Canis Minor Monoceros Lepus Eridanus Taurus Auriga Camelopardalis Lynx Gemini Cancer
|Spring: Hydra Sextans Crater Corvus Leo Leo Minor Ursa Major Ursa Minor Canes Venatici Coma Berenices Virgo Bootes
|Summer: Draco Corona Borealis Hercules Ophiuchus Serpens Libra Scorpius Sagittarius Scutum Aquila Sagitta Vulpecula Lyra Cygnus
|Autumn: Andromeda Perseus Pegasus Cassiopeia Cepheus Cetus Lacerta Delphinus Equuleus Capricornus Aquarius Pisces Aries Triangulum
|Southern Skies: Centaurus Crux Lupus Corona Australis Piscis Australis Sculptor Tucana Fornax Dorado Columba Puppis Carina Vela


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It was a chat full of fun and laughter with Maris Racal! There's no denying that she and the rest of the #Mariestellers had an awesome time at the MYXph.com Live Chat! Maris was so excited to be able to chat with her fans and supporters and had her game face on the whole time!
We got Maris' thoughts on the experience right after the fun chat session! She also gave a special shoutout to all of the #Mariestellers all around the world who joined her during the MYX Live Chat! Check out what she had to say in the video below!
The MYXph.com team would like to thank everyone who participated in the MYX Live Chat and hope you join us again in our next session!
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KDE 3.5.8 in -current
Right now I am content to just stay with 12.0 and not play with current, however I wouldn't mind installing KDE 3.5.8. Can I just install the packages from current? I noticed they were compiled with a different glibc than 12.0 and was wondering if that would cause problems?
Also I tried compiling 3.5.8 myself using Pat's buildscripts but couldn't get kde-base to work. Anyone else have this problem?
if its built using different glibc i would advise against it, unless you install that version of glibc (which could lead to other issues)
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A cute bit which I would have posted even if HA didn't have a cameo. (Keep an eye out about a third of the way through.) His point about blogger sensationalism is fair — I nodded at it myself two days ago — but go figure that a medium driven by partisan warfare and fierce competition for traffic would favor eye-grabbing headlines rich with violent metaphors. The irony, of course, is that Stewart himself owes no small part of his popularity among the left to his status as some sort of partisan gladiator who can be counted on to make conservative guests squirm. The most famous example was that "Crossfire" segment when he got the better of Tucker Carlson (double irony: his point at the time was that cable news stupidly treats politics as bloodsport) but for a more recent instance look no further than his interview with John Yoo, which so disappointed progressives gathered in the arena to watch a rhetorical disemboweling that Stewart felt obliged to apologize the following night. Note to Yoo: Next time you're on, turn to the crowd and say, "Are you not entertained?"
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New Zealand's Tegel Foods Ltd has a 50-year history as a high quality producer of poultry. The company is involved in all components of the poultry supply chain, from feedmills to distribution, and is known for their chickens' low feed conversion ratio (FCR). During Alltech's recent Symposium, Tegel's Bill Williams explained how his company achieves its low FCR.
According to Williams, five major factors allow for Tegel's low FCR: disease control, genetic selection, animal nutrition and lowest cost modeling, strategic feed procurement and manufacture, and animal husbandry and planning.
Tegel's New Zealand location allows for especially effective disease control. In fact, Williams referred to New Zealand as "chicken heaven" because it is free of several poultry diseases affecting other parts of the world. Since they don't have to combat these diseases, Tegel chickens can use more of the energy from feed to grow. Using more energy from feed for growth means a better (lower) FCR. It is also easier to tell how other, non-disease factors influence Tegel's chickens' FCR. Poultry producers in other countries can use this information to determine the best way to manage non-disease factors affecting FCR.
Though New Zealand is free of several major poultry diseases, Tegel must still protect their poultry from other infections. Tegel's chicken sheds are designed for cleaning, and litter is completely replaced after every batch of chickens. As a result, salmonella is present in less than 2.5 percent of all flocks produced.
Genetic selection is another factor that influences Tegel's low FCR. Tegel uses Aviagen's Ross 308 chicken and achieves exceptional FCR for this breed. In fact, Aviagen uses Tegel's performance as an example when promoting the breed. The genetics of the Ross 308 have the potential to allow for improved FCR over the next five years. However, pad burn and meat quality, leg, and gut issues are hampering this potential.
Williams said Tegel utilizes knowledge of animal nutrition and lowest cost modeling to achieve the best FCR possible for specific feeds. The Emmans, Fisher, and Gous (EFG) Model, which calculates approximate broiler feed intake and growth for various situations, is used to determine the levels of energy, the levels of amino acids, and the amount of food that should be fed for the optimal profit margin.
Strategic feed procurement and manufacture also contributes to Tegel's low FCR. According to Williams, the texture of the feed produced in Tegel's three feed mills is designed for optimal intake by the chicken. After production, feed quality is tested NIR analysis before it leaves the mill.
The final factor Williams cites as contributing to Tegel's FCR is animal husbandry and planning. Tegel grows male and female chickens separately because the males generally have a lower FCR. The company also considers the setup of sheds at their grower farms, as well as the shed equipment, lighting, ventilation, temperature, and humidity for optimum FCR.
Tegel's current average FCR is 1.50, while their best shed has an FCR of 1.30. Despite these great FCRs, Williams says "chooks," Aussie slang for "chickens," are a constant challenge, and Tegel is constantly seeking to improve their FCR.


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You decide you know more, you have a new previously unknown truth…
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by Steve Ray on September 24, 2015
You decide you know more, you have a new previously unknown truth…
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by Steve Ray on February 28, 2015
From my friend David Palm who runs the website www.GeocentrismDebunked.com. It almost seems crazy to post blogs debating whether the sun rotates around the earth, or that the earth is the center of the universe with everything revolving around IT. But there are actually people out there with aluminum foil caps with antennas :-) who still believe this.
The last update of Geocentrism Debunked focused on the false scientific claims of the new geocentrists, specifically their extravagant claims about the cosmic microwave background (CMB). This update will focus more on the theology, specifically from a Catholic vantage (but those from a non-Catholic background, please read on to the end.)
A traditional Catholic supporter of the new geocentrists recently insisted in an on-line discussion that the whole matter is a "tempest in a teapot". To him "[Robert Sungenis] is clearly no threat to the integrity of faith and morals". He asks, "Is the geocentrist theory a threat to faith and morals? No on all counts" and insists that "At any rate, these people aren't bothering anybody."
These claims prompted me to finish an article that I've had in the works for a long time. Geocentrism as a scientific view is a massive exercise in special pleading gummed together with conspiracy theories. But taken by itself, it's not theologically erroneous. The problem is that that geocentrist hold it first and foremost as a matter of faith. And for the Catholic geocentrists, this runs them right onto the rocks of an actual heresy that has been formally defined by the Catholic Church.
This is documented in the new article "Geocentrism: Tempest in a Teapot or Theological Shipwreck?"
Presented in three parts, this piece answers directly the brush-off that the new geocentrism "is clearly no threat to the integrity of faith and morals" and that the new geocentrists, "aren't bothering anybody". Ironically, in their zeal to uphold what they think is the "True Faith", the Catholic geocentrists end up falling into a serious theological error that has been formally condemned by the Catholic Church.
We also have three other articles that support that thesis and highlight the defective scholarship of the new geocentrists:
"Geocentrism and the First Vatican Council", which highlights still further the serious theological challenges faced by the new geocentrists. It's not just the 1820-22 decrees that they have to face, declaring that there are "no obstacles" or "any difficulties" for Catholics to hold to non-geocentric views, but many other official acts since then.
"Sungenis and Pius VII: Turning the Evidence on Its Head", in which Robert Sungenis gets the import of an entry in the Acta of the Holy Office exactly backwards, and…..
"It's All in the Translation", in which Sungenis mistranslates a French word and distorts a scholar's meaning.
Now, for those who come at this issue more from the vantage of what sacred Scripture has to say on the matter, please consider these articles:
"Sungenis Looses What He Has Bound on Joshua 10", in which Sungenis himself admits that there are "inumerable" ways in which God could have accomplished the miracle recorded in Joshua 10 and,
"Geocentrism and the Pitfalls of Over-literal Interpretation", highlighting the sometimes humerous results when one applies a wooden literalism, even to the poetic parts of sacred Scripture.
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by Steve Ray on November 13, 2014
It's getting near Christmas, and you know what that means. That's right! It's time for another book to be released telling us the sensationalistic "truth" about Christianity.
This time we have The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene by Simcha Jacobovici and Barrie Wilson.
You may remember Jacobovici from his involvement in previous biblical-archeological shenanigans like the discredited "Jesus family tomb" claims of a few years ago—in which Jacobovici similarly claimed that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
So what do he and sensationalist co-author Barrie Wilson have in store for us this time?
Zecharias Who?
The key text used in their new book is preserved in a set of writings attributed to Zecharias Rhetor (i.e., Zecharias the Rhetoritician), also known as Zecharias Scholasticus (i.e., Zecharistias the Scholar), also known as Zecharias of Mytilene.
He was a native of Gaza who lived in the late A.D. 400s and early 500s and who became the bishop of Mytilene.
He wrote a number of works in Greek, including a work on Church history that was later translated into Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic), with various editorial changes.
It is this Syriac text, brought to the British Museum in 1847, that Jacobovici and Wilson are using in their new book.
What They're Claiming
Among other things, Jacobovici and Wilson claim that they have discovered a lost gospel that is written in code and, when properly decoded, states that Jesus was married, likely to Mary Magdalene, and that they had two sons.
None of this is true.
Not Lost.
First, the text in question is not "lost." It is not some newly discovered work that scholars were previously unaware of.
The particular manuscript that Jacobovici and Wilson rely on was brought to the British Museum for more than a century and a half ago, and the same text has been known through other sources for centuries.
The scholarly community has been well aware of it, and translations of it in English and other languages are common.
To give you an idea of how not-lost this work is, it's been in print for centuries,I have it in my own library, and here's a version you can read online from a book printed in 1918.
Not a Gospel.
The work is also not a Gospel. Although some scholars use the term "Gospel" in surprising and misleading ways, a Gospel (in the literary sense) is a book about the life and/or teachings of Jesus.
That is not what this text is. This text is not about Jesus. The story it tells is not even set in the first century, when Jesus lived.
It's set more than a thousand years before the time of Christ.
To read the whole article, click HERE.
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Make your WordPress blog really stand out from the crowd. Use some uplifting colour schemes and install some WordPress templates that will add extra design qualities to your blog. Using the WordPress themes manager you can try out many new themes and designs for your WordPress blog until you get the best fit for you. Many available WP themes have exciting graphics in the header and offer different configurations for the menus and categories. With some of the latest themes and templates you can really make your blog rock with additional features and little tweaks. Like showing your latest comments in the menu bar as well as displaying snippets of text from the beginning of your latest posts in the menu. All these little variations on the WordPress theme help make your blog unique and add extra functionality that may make readers prefer your blog to others in your niche. So experiment with different themes and layouts for your blog until you find the perfect design for your WordPress blog.


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DIY Chainplates – Cutting and Drilling
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In my last post I talked about the process of choosing the material for making your own chainplates. Today we'll cover the machining process and then I'll follow up with my polishing techniques. The material that I ended up using was 2″ wide, 1/4″ thick stainless steel barstock which I had cut into 18″ lengths. It looked like this when I picked it up:
Actually I've already done some polishing on the top one, the bottom one is as I received it.
This is hot-rolled 316 stainless steel barstock. Cold finished barstock would have been a better choice (explained in my last post). From this rough stock to a finished chainplate there are four steps: cutting, rounding the edges, drilling, and sanding/polishing. Each step has its own challenges and on each I made at least a couple errors before I nailed down my technique. I couldn't find any DIY bible along the lines of This Old Boat (Don Casey) or The Boatowner's Mechanical and Electrical Manual (Nigel Calder) which covers construction of your own chainplates so the internet was about all I had to turn to. There is a decent amount of information on chainplate construction out there but like any DIY source (including this one!) these are often techniques which worked for a certain person in a certain situation and are not always repeatable. There was also the question of which tools I had available and whether it made more sense to feel out my own technique with the tools I already had or expend more of my budget buying tools to do things the 'right' way.
Another option would have be having a machine shop do the work. A shop with a CNC water jet cutter can do all the cutting and 'drilling' in a matter of minutes and with the precision of a computer. This should actually be comparable to or less than the cost of doing the cutting and drilling oneself depending on the tools and skills at your disposal. If you have a similar project I would start by calling a few shops for a quote. No need to mention it's for a boat. Plus if you're having a shop cut your material even the sanding and polishing could be avoided if you can find an affordable source for polished stainless plate.
As for me, for better or worse I insisted on doing all the work myself. I'm happy that I did because I've learned a lot in the process but this is the first boat project where I would actually have saved money had I outsourced some of the work. As usual I did it all with tools that I already had or could buy cheaply, meaning I sometimes fudged things a bit. Here is my 'machine shop':
Not pictured: the most-used tool, a basic 4-1/2″ angle grinder
The 1950's Delta drill press was a Katrina flood rescue and the bandsaw is Harbor Freight's cheapest metal-cutting model which I bought used. I would say the drill press is a necessity and the bandsaw a huge convenience.
I started out by marking my barstock using a compass and measurements from the chainplate sizing table in Skene's Elements Of Yacht Design. Once this was traced out in marker I went over it with a scribe- a tool which scratches the metal. This ensures you can still see where you're cutting when the cutting oil wipes away your markings (Yep, figured that one out the hard way. There are few things more frustrating than having to call off a whole night's work because you're missing some little $5 tool…).
My new Dynex rig uses clevis pins so I needed to round the tops of my chainplates and for looks I decided to do the bottoms as well. For this I had to make a little cutting table to turn my horizontal chopping bandsaw into a vertical free-form one. This was an intended modification for the saw so it wasn't too difficult to do with a bit of aluminum plate from the scrapyard:
That yellow and black thing at the very bottom of the photo is my scribe
The radius of my rounded ends is a bit smaller than the saw is intended to cut so I had to make the cuts a section at a time. Some of them were rougher than others. To finish the really messy ones I marked the radius again and used a bench sander with 80 grit paper to round them off. Unfortunately I was on my own for most of this so I wasn't able to get a lot of photos but I've saved one chainplate for last. A friend and I will use it to making a video of the process from start to finish which should be up in a week or two. The advantage to using a bandsaw for this as opposed to a grinder, plasma cutter, or some other 'hot' tool is that the bandsaw is a cold-cut saw, meaning it produces little heat. If you heat stainless too much it weakens the stainless properties by pulling extra carbon to the surface of the metal so it pays to be careful about this.
With the bars rounded off I moved onto the drilling process. Each plate needed three 3/8″ holes for the bolts and one 1/2″ hole for the clevis pin. It proved to be a bear of a task. The trick to drilling stainless steel is to keep the material as cool as possible. It isn't much of a heat conductor so it will get hot very quickly and work hardens when it reaches a certain temperature. This means each time you don't do something quite right it work hardens and gets progressively harder to drill. To do it right you take a bit the full size of the hole you want (no step drilling – it work hardens your material) and drill through in one pass at a very slow speed and with a great deal of pressure.
On an antique drill press with a bit of wobble in the quill and only a few speeds this is easier said than done. After destroying more drillbits than I care to admit I gave up on using my (old)new tool and did the last of the holes on the nicer press at the bike shop where I work (Gerken's Bike Shop). Even with the better drill press I had trouble getting through my 1/2″ holes on a single pass but I found that with care I could drill a little at a time without hardening the material. It is important to use a lot of cutting fluid or coolant when drilling stainless with the ideal situation being a tool or second set of hands dribbling a constant flow onto your work. I also found it helpful to mark my holes with a center-punch, a tool which makes a small indent to help start the drillbit. Regardless, they were not all quite on center.
When stainless gets too hot it becomes an oily blue color and then a scorched brown.
The shaving on the left stayed cool while the one on the right overheated. This hardens
the steel and chews through drillbits.
Here we are with some chainplates cut and drilled, ready to be polished. Another technique is to do most of your polishing before making any holes but I wouldn't want to do this unless I knew I could rely on my drill press to give nice clean edges – mine did not.
Next time I'll talk about my polishing process and then some time soon we can wrap up this whole chainplate business with a short video and some pictures of them on the boat. Can't wait for that day!
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The Placentia Library will host a movie day on Saturday, Jan. 19 from noon to 2 p.m. Families are welcome to enjoy a movie and popcorn. The Placentia Library is at 411 E. Chapman Ave. in Placentia. Information: 714-528-1906 ext. 212 or placentialibrary.org.
The Placentia Chamber of Commerce invites the community to Marie Callender's on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 7:30 a.m. for an opportunity of networking over breakfast. This event will include a talk from guest speaker Deby Goodman of La Vida Massage. The cost is $8 for chamber members; $10 for non-members. Marie Callender's is at 125 E. Yorba Linda Blvd. in Placentia. Information: 714-528-1873 or placentiachamber.com.
The community is welcome to join the city's Economic Development Committee and the City Council on Tuesday, Jan. 22 at 6 p.m. to hear about economic development in Placentia. The committee will advise city council members on business issues and developments. The meeting will take place in the City Hall Meeting Room which is at 401 E. Chapman Ave. in Placentia. Information: placentia.org.
Youth ages 9 to 15 interested in learning how to rock out on the drums can get an introductory course on the instrument through the city of Placentia's Introduction to Drums program. The class, which begins on Monday, Jan. 21, will get participants started with rhythm reading and playing. Drum pads are available for in-class use, but drum sticks must be purchased. The six-week course, which takes place Mondays from 5:30 to 6:20 p.m., costs $87. Information: 714-993-8232 or placentia.org/parks.
Youth ages 9 to 15 can learn how to play the electric guitar from a professional studio musician through Patrick's Electric Guitar class. The class, which starts Monday, Jan. 21, will immerse participants in the basics of electric guitar. During the six-week course, attendees will learn basic techniques while playing rock and pop songs. A performance will be held on the sixth week of the program. If needed, electric guitars will be provided for classroom and home use. A book is required and can be purchased at Patrick's Music School. Classes will take place each Monday from 7 to 7:50 p.m. The cost per person is $87. Information: 714-993-8232 or placentia.org/parks.
Students of all ages who are in need of homework assistance are welcome to attend the Placentia Library's Homework Club. From Monday through Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m., during regular school sessions, students can receive attention in subjects they are struggling in. For enrollment into the club, applications can be found at the library's Children's Reference Desk. The Placentia Library is at 411 E. Chapman Ave. in Placentia. Information: 714-528-1906, ext. 212 or placentialibrary.org.


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Please take a few moments and visit our top 3 teams' websites and sign-up for their updates, then share the event and teams with your friends and community. Also, our 1st Place team Tapja is competing in Global Startup Battle against other 1st place teams from Startup Weekends around the world. Please Vote for Tapja and show the world that Houston is one of the top cities for technology, entrepreneurship, and innovation!
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 8:06 AM
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DA finds no criminal misconduct in SamTrans accounting probe
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 8:06 AM
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a resident of Menlo Park: other
on Aug 13, 2014 at 9:02 am
Accountant-ese. Doubletalk. Here is the unanswered question: Did employees at the transit district steal money by cooking the books or just through sky- high salaries, benefits, overtime and pension-spiking?
a resident of another community
on Aug 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm
STOP THE PRESSES, here's some astonishing news, Steve Wagstaff has concluded no wrongdoing by fellow San Mateo county connoisseurs of the pubic trough.
Who would have thought??
Wow, what's next, he clears a cop of wrongdoing?
a resident of another community
on Aug 13, 2014 at 8:25 pm
Michael G. Stogner is a registered user.
Here is Ling La federal case:Web Link
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on Aug 17, 2014 at 1:19 pm
Michael G. Stogner is a registered user.
3 Accountants came forward, Jayme A. Is County Manager John Maltbie's daughter she is confident.
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Michael G. Stogner is a registered user.
I asked Ling La for a statement regarding District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe's announcement. I didn't see where any reporter in San Mateo County even bothered to ask her for a statement, here it is.
My response to the DA announcement is that this is just a cover up of gross abuse similar to Watergate scandal of Richard Nixon. The audit was not done as a true forensic audit and the auditors do not have ability to see what happened behind the scenes where Karen Antion could have given money to Gigi Harrington via other means. This is the DA's job. If the DA knew that Samtrans has a shady accounting practices, its job is to investigate further. We need to see the true audit findings issued by MGO. As the auditor myself, I know it's difficult to detect the fraud based on documentation. Thus, to discover the embezzlement is to dig into these crooks' bank accounts and personal communication record such as wire tapping.
After all, what do you expect for an audit which was paid by the perpetrators?
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"The plan was to have tacos, and we had tacos, but perhaps with a certain aftertaste," Anders Lindström jokingly told the Expressen newspaper.
Lindström and his family were planning a pleasant Friday night taco dinner at their home in Sågmyra outside of Falun in central Sweden.
Friday night Tex-Mex, Swedish style, in an increasingly popular trend among households in Sweden, and last Friday, the Lindström family was no exception.
But when Lindström's girlfriend arrived home, she noticed one of the three newly purchased cans of corn was leaking.
The family was then shocked to discover most of the yellow kernels they expected to find had been replaced by a swarm of brown maggots.
"The reaction was something special, we were a little surprised," Lindström told the newspaper.
Closer inspection revealed that one can of Garant-brand corn had been slightly damaged, most likely prior to the pre-dinner purchase.
While the Lindströms were able to follow through with their taco dinner using corn from the other cans they had purchased, they nevertheless plan to contact Garant, a brand produced by Axfood and sold in Willys and Hemköp grocery stores.
Axfood spokesperson Ingmar Kroon expressed his dismay over the maggot-infested can of corn.
"That's a very serious error. I've actually never heard of it before," he told Expressen.
He theorized that something happened during the shipping of the can from the factory to the store.
"If a can isn't sealed, anything can happen to the contents," he said.
"If the can is damaged, just about anything can get in there and it can be as nasty as you can imagine."
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The dollar rose in Asian trading Tuesday on the back of rising concerns about eurozone stability and warnings from another European official that the surging unit may be overheating.
The euro slid to $1.3489 in Tokyo afternoon trade, against $1.3503 in New York on Monday, while the greenback was also up against the Japanese unit at 92.38 yen from 92.11 yen in US trading.
The single currency strengthened to 124.58 yen compared with 124.28 yen.
Concerns over political uncertainty in Italy and Spain pressured euro-dollar trade, with investors watching to see if it breaks below the $1.34 level, said Junichi Ishikawa, market analyst at IG Securities in Tokyo.
"If support is maintained, we could see risk appetite returning on confidence in the eurozone's economic recovery," Ishikawa told Dow Jones Newswires.
Investors were also keeping an eye on a European Central Bank meeting this week, although many analysts expect the central bank to hold off any new policy moves.
Markets were jolted after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy was pressured to resign amid a growing corruption scandal, while in Italy, the party of former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi showed solid gains in polls ahead of national elections later this month.
Selling pressure was also stoked after French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Sunday the euro was "perhaps too strong in some regards".
The minister later told AFP that he was not trying to drive down the euro, but added "it seems completely legitimate to me that there be a debate on the question of proper global exchange rates in international forums".
The resurgent currency on Friday soared above $1.36 and hit its highest level against the dollar since mid-November 2011, as a key US jobs report reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will maintain its ultra-loose monetary policy for the foreseeable future.
Last month, Jean-Claude Juncker, outgoing head of the eurozone finance ministers' group, warned that the euro's value was "dangerously high" as it threatens the competitiveness of European exports.
Tokyo has come in for criticism that it was orchestrating a devaluation of the yen -- which has been on a steep slide in recent months -- that risked setting off a global currency war. Japanese officials have repeatedly denied those claims.
The dollar was mixed against other Asia-Pacific currencies, falling to Sg$1.2379 from Sg$1.2387 on Monday, to Tw$29.52 from Tw$29.59 and to 1,086.63 South Korean won from 1,087.06 won.
The greenback strengthened to 40.64 Philippine pesos from 40.60 pesos, to 53.35 Indian rupees from 53.01 rupees, and to 9,698 Indonesian rupiah from 9,682 rupiah. It was nearly flat at 29.76 Thai baht.
The Australian dollar slipped to $1.0397 from $1.0422 as Australia's central bank left official rates on hold Tuesday. China's yuan fetched 14.83 yen against 14.85 yen.


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Alesis PercPad 4 Zone Electronic Percussion Pad
The Alesis PercPad enables you to add four drum pads and an optional kick trigger to your acoustic or electronic kit or percussion setup. It's compact, easy to fit into tight setups, easy to use, and it contains sounds that are perfect for accessorising standard drumsets.
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THE music train returns to mid Cheshire today, Wednesday, April 9.
Passengers on the mid Cheshire line will be able to enjoy free music by The Time Bandits, Full House and Roy Clinging.
They are promoting Chester Folk Festival, which will be held at Kelsall from Friday, May 23, to Monday, May 26.
The Mid Cheshire Music Train is the 7.04pm train from Chester to Plumley.
The music will then continue at the Golden Pheasant pub.
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I am a 60-year-old woman who is married to a man who acts like he hates me. In public, he pretends he loves me and talks about how wonderful I am.
But in private, he shakes his finger in my face and calls me the "B" word. He constantly tells me how ugly I am without make-up. I've tried everything, including a face-lift, botox treatments, and a chin tuck. I even went on a diet and lost 20 pounds.
He quit his job a few years ago after having an affair with a woman in his office. He hasn't even looked for another job. We haven't slept together since I confronted him about the affair. He denied it, of course, but everybody knew it. It was humiliating. I believe he is still messing around.
While we both want to sell this house, we argue constantly about when to put it on the market. The house we want will be available in a few months. My husband wants to put our house on the market now. I think we should wait a while. He has already started collecting boxes and packing up his stuff.
Do you think he is planning to leave me?
Worried in NY
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I doubt it.
He wants to move back into the White House as much as you do.
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Jiehui Li, M.B.B.S., from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and colleagues investigated the associations between new-onset GERS since 9/11 and its subsequent persistence five to six years later in 37,118 WTC Health Registry adult enrollees who reported no pre-9/11 GERS. The associations with asthma and PTSD were also studied.
The investigators found that the cumulative incidence of post-9/11 GERS and persistent GERS was 20 and 13 percent, respectively. Individuals with PTSD (24 percent), asthma (13 percent), or both (36 percent) had persistent GERS more often than those who had neither condition (8 percent). Among individuals with neither PTSD nor asthma, a higher risk for persistent GERS occurred in workers who arrived at the WTC site on 9/11 (adjusted risk ratio [aRR], 1.6) and who worked at the WTC site for more than 90 days (aRR, 1.6), residents who were exposed to dust on 9/11 (aRR, 1.5), those who did not evacuate their homes (aRR, 1.7), and area workers exposed to the intense dust cloud (aRR, 1.5).
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Boys Basketball: Bombers blast Cougars on Senior Night
Very little went wrong for Cannon Falls Tuesday night as the Bombers cruised to a 74-35 Hiawatha Valley League victory over Zumbrota-Mazeppa.
Brock Peterson led Cannon Falls with 15 points while Jordan Lundell chipped in with 11, and Alex Bultena added 11 points and three steals. Hunter Johnson also had double-digit points with 10 to go along with three steals and three assists.
The Bombers led 40-16 at half, and hit 71 percent of their shots from the field, including 8 of 11 on 3-pointers. Austin Noble led Cannon Falls with five rebounds.
"We played well defensively. It was Senior Night, and we're senior dominated, so things went well," said Cannon Falls head coach Josh Davisson.
The Bombers (17-8 overall, 14-3 HVL), who have clinched the Blue Division title, close out the regular season Monday at Kenyon-Wanamingo before playing in the HVL championship game Monday at the Gold Division winner at 7 p.m. The Cougars head to Dodge Center to play Triton on Thursday.


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Do you find your television tuned to The Weather Channel every time you turn it on? Do you sing along to the music played during "Local on the 8's?" If so, you may watch too much of The Weather Channel.
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A Jack Russell terrier is lucky to be alive after he was involved in car crash over the weekend in Murfreesboro.
The dog, named Jack, was projected into the front windshield when the car he was riding in hit a power pole on Franklin Road around 7:30 a.m. Sunday.
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China Unicom Ltd (NYSE: CHU, HKG: 0762, SHA: 600050) is ready to launch its first own brand handset, according to a document from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The Wo801, as the phone is known, runs the Android 4.1.1 system and features a 4.5-inch screen, a 1.2GHz single-core processor, a 512MB random access memory, a 2 megapixel rear-facing camera, and a 0.3 megapixel front-facing camera. It is expected to sell for just 399 yuan.
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Tektronix announced an expansion of its portfolio of instrumentation and software to support designers working on the electrical side of 100Gbps communication systems. The introductions include the LE320, a two differential channel, 9-tap Linear Equalizer supporting data rates up to 32Gbps as part of a BERTScope receiver test system; new options for the PPG/PED multi-channel BERTs that provide signal impairments and output adjustment at data rates up to 32Gbps, as well as, a new 40Gbps error detector model; and Option CEI-VSR that automates the DSA8300 Sampling Oscilloscope to perform required compliance tests for the CEI-28G-VSRstandard.
According to the company, the LE320 provides test engineers with output signal conditioning and tunable input equalization to create an optimal system for testing four electrical channels operating at 25-28 Gbps each. The Sampling Oscilloscope Option CEI-VSR will ensure efficient and consistent compliance testing support so that design teams can smooth the transition to manufacturing.
"As 100G moves into the mainstream, we are providing two critical additions to our portfolio that address challenges in 4x25G electrical PHY testing for chips, gearboxes, transceivers and systems," said Brian Reich, general manager, Performance Oscilloscopes, Tektronix. "For receiver testing we've enhanced our BERTScope with support for electronic channel modeling and equalization while adding 40 Gbps support to our multi-channel BERT. And for transmitter electrical testing we are providing designers with an automated solution for CEI-28G-VSR."
The LE320 will support signal conditioning on data rates from 8Gbps to 32Gbps in a 9-tap design used to deliver the high-precision error rate testing required by 100G communication standards like CEI-28G-VSR.The remote head design of the LE320 enables designers to minimize cable length in their test system and avoid signal degradation issues which are significant at 25-28Gb/sec.
The PPG/PED line of multi-lane BERTs has now been enhanced to provide expanded jitter impairment capability, new output adjustment flexibility and higher speed error detection capability to better meet the requirement of these standards, the company says.
The extended range of jitter insertion options includes option HFJIT, which now provides BUJ as well as RJ and SJ; and high amplitude/ low frequency PJ as part of new option LFJIT. Also introduced is option ADJ, which adds adjustable outputs with fast rise/fall time and low intrinsic jitter required for 32 Gbps multi-channel pattern generator applications. Data rate margin testing has been enhanced with the introduction of the new PED4000 series of error detector products capable of data rate of up to 40 Gbps, in one or two-channel configurations.
The Implementation Agreement for Optical Internetworking Forum Common Electrical Interface (OIF CEI) 3.0 specifies the tests and limits for devices based on OIF standards. CEI-28G-VSR is one of those standards and is intended for use in very short-reach electrical channels in pluggable optical transceivers.
By using Option CEI-VSR with a Tektronix DSA8300 Sampling oscilloscope, design engineers can perform compliance measurements in less than five minutes, the company says. In addition, Option CEI-VSR can be used to determine the optimal value for CTLE peaking as required by the CEI-28G-VSR Host-to-Module interface specification. The best CTLE filter is chosen from a given set of filters and used to perform the measurement.
For more information, visit Tektronix.
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This week I am at EMC World in Orlando picking up a sense that cloud is the message, private cloud, public cloud, storage cloud, compute cloud. It's a strong message that resonates with the CIO and the business as it holds the promise of computing on demand and maybe even the utility computing that we have been hearing about for decades.
This morning I heard Paul Maritz talk about VMWare and VSphere in particular, impressive, very impressive and a great vision of creating an Intel mainframe out of the huge compute, storage and network resources we have been investing in for years. A real hot topic for The Hot Aisle is energy efficiency and Paul spoke compellingly about the ability to migrate workload onto fewer or more compute cores as demand varies. He showed us a chart of the electrical demand moving with the demand curve so that we use most electricty at times of highly intense demand and start shutting down cores as the demand falls away.
I found myself wondering how the building management platforms we have today are going to manage this highly variable demand and how the tricky issue of balancing load across major M&E components is actually going to work in this brave new world. I think this is an area where we need a lot more systematic end-to-end thinking and perhaps a Data Center API that helps us poor oily rags in the bowels of the data center plant work with this new utility vision.
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Gaines oversaw the Tigers' 76-6 pounding of Edison at The Jungle in what was his final home dual. He plans to give officiating a try and will remain at the school as a physical education teacher.