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Low compression one cylinder and rattle 2003 taurus 3.0 liter-not a valve spring-not a push rod-not a rocker arm. What would cause this?
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It could be many things. You would have to investigate more closely to determine where that noise is coming from. It sounds like something in the valve train has broken but closer examination is the only way you're going to find out what it is.
Remove valve covers/plugs and rotate engine by hand, watch the rockers closely for equal movement. Also consider a bad cam lobe especially if you hear a popping sound.
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If it isn't the upper end (head/valve train), then it's the lower end (sorry) & you might have a bad piston (broken ring or loose wrist pin). Start motor & with screwdriver in hand (put screwdriver up against head or motor block & listen for noise) start searching for approx. Location of rattle noise. This test should point you in the direction of which area the rattle is coming from.
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If you do both a wet compression test along with a dry test, you should be able to distinguish between upper and lower end.
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Yep,It's more of a Simi-Rigid Bimini......Migged up a bunch of Aluminum Conduit, Hospital Bed Parts,+ a couple pieces of a Railroad Crossing Barricade......... Covered it with NATO Tent Material,+ Had Plastic Windows built to close it in........
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Call me crazy but, I plan to "TRY" 1" emt aluminum pipe with 1/2" or 3/4" bracing and Alumaloy. The top itself will be 1/4" ply sandwhiched between to peices of plastic used for shower enclosures and rubber u channel capping. I've used the Alumaloy before with good results. I've been studying many tops in my area and have some design ideas. I figure I should be able to build it for under $500 or so. Will be nice to finally get the radar done!
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Brian, Yeah, sounds like you are confidant in your materials and skills. Good luck with it. I am going the encapsulated fiberglass route. My top is (hopefully) going to look like the MJM Yachts Z34 downeast sportfisher's hardtop. I am taking some of the style elements, and have adapted many of their structural elements too. their site is www.mjmyachts.com I especially like the size of the windows, and how they are using the vinyl sides and back enclosure...Thanks-
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My top will be free standing as my boat is a 23' walk around. I've always like the down east style boats. They have such nice lines. Not too many around here though. I'm keeping a picture log as the transformation goes on.
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Thought you guys might like to check out a manufacturer Sharpe Products that makes all kinds of aluminum and stainless elbows, fittings, etc for your hardtop projects. They can even do custom bending for you, so you can get pretty fancy with your designs if you like. The aluminum elbows are Sch. 40 6063 alloy, which has very high corrosion resistance properties.I thought about fabricating a hardtop for my boat as well, but I've run out of time. I may do it this Fall after fishing is over. Please post pictures of your completed projects for others to enjoy. Good luck!p.s. - To the moderators: I am in no way affiliated with Sharpe Products. I've just searched all over the web trying to find parts that would best fit my project and they came out on top.
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I was going to use the 1 1/4" pipe, but the bender is pretty expensive and would only be used for this job. The 1" and 1/2" benders are stock items for Home Depot. I will check a rental place and see if they have one I can rent that would be much cheaper.
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The general rule is that 1" EMT is max that you can bend with a hand bender.
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Got to tell you guys about the hardtop I saw many years ago on Hilton Head Island, SC. This old fisherman had an OLD 25' Bertram, yeh....it was a hardtop...seems he had cut the top, posts included from an old NASH automobile and attached it. Man, but it did look weird, but it kept him dry. The old salt fished weeky, received a pension from the navy and loved his boat. I think about him from time to time and realize that's what its about,...Fish'in and be damned what anybody thinks about my boat...cause it works for me!B O A T bring on another thousand
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what about rigid exterior foam insulation coveredwith glass or epoxy? would never rot and wouldn'trequire much support due to light weight?thinking out loud....M.Y.
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Foam sounds like a good idea. I plan to incorporate an e-box into the design. Nothing real fancy, just enough to hold 2 VHFs and 1 ot 2 other things. I may also do a smaller e-box on the other side of the helm for the sounder, not sure though.
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If you plan to encapsulate rigid foam insulation (like the kind you can buy at Home Depot) for your hardtop, make sure you use epoxy resin. Polyester resin will eat this type of foam up. Making a hardtop from rigid foam is a good idea because you can easily shape it with a sharp knife. One of the downsides is that it offers no support under the fiberglass skin so it could crush or crack easily. Note that surfboards are made from shaped, rigid foam, then covered with fiberglass mat and resin.
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Hi, Sorry for no update-Thing go slow. I have designed and cut both sides for the top and have sanded the edges. These other methods seem experimental to me. I bit the bullet and am going with 3/4 marine grade plywood. The weight will not be a factor as I'll use fiberglass to reinforce the joints and encapsulate the whole thing. I MAY use square aluminum tube for the arch under the top uin the back of the top, we'll see. I promise pics when there is something to show.
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In the category of necklaces on the red carpet at the 2014, 86th Annual Academy Awards, the nominees were Forevermark, Harry Winston, Fred Chimento, Tiffany & Co and Neil Lane.
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Harry Winston & Charlize Theron
Most fashion commentators including Vogue agree that Charlize Theron´s Flawless Harry Winston Cluster from his Incredible Collection was the standout of the night. The intricate and dazzling necklace consisted of a thick chain embedded with a 31-carat square-emerald-cut flawless diamonds that met on her upper chess plate and then dropped down to a single stunning diamond flower-like cluster. In total it consists of 155 total diamonds and is valued at $15 million making it by far the most expensive piece of jewelry of the night.
Theron knew how to show it off too in a slinky black Dior dress with a gently plunging v neckline and very simple earrings.
Bulgari & Naomi Watts
For a simple statement Naomi Watts white Calvin Klein dress with a high round neck and cap sleeves embellished in tiny crystal embellished was lovely. But it was that spider-web diamond necklace that made it completely different to what anyone else was wearing and one of the looks of the night.
The spider-web diamond necklace is Bulgari from their High Jewelry Collection set. Watts also wore a white gold and diamond bracelet, earrings and a Serpenti bracelet.
Idina Menzel & Chimento
For sheer bling value on the red carpet, Idina Menzel comes in next in a Chimento 77.12-carat diamond collar worth more than $300,000 paired with a Chimento 34.6-carat diamond bracelet worth over $100,000. She also wore Demarco diamond earrings, and a Suzanne Kalan diamond ring.
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He's Good At Hiding His Love For Cocaine And Strippers… But Not "$100,000" Good…October 1st, 2007 | by MG | (Visited 59,413 times)
Wow, talk about a whopper! Came up on this one today and was just completely blown away at how stupid people can be. Ok, so you like strippers and prostitutes. So you like cocaine. Do you honestly trade the wealth of folks out there on the stock market, but fail to give enough forethought to realize that this may indeed be a bad investment on your behalf?
Here's the breakdown:
A hard-partying Wall Street trader and his ex-girlfriend are in court over an allegedly broken $100,000 promise to keep on the straight and narrow.
Elisa Kwon accuses her former beau Greg Calvino, 45, of reneg ing on a pledge he had made to not "use drugs, stay out late, frequent strippers or prostitutes." The 30-something Kwon insists Calvino had vowed that if he ever did any of those things again, she could cash a $100,000 check he had made out to her.
After Calvino's allegedly debauched boys' night out at a strip club in March 2005, that's just what Kwon did.
But a fuming Calvino filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court in late July to get his money back – plus interest, legal fees and damages – claiming the whole thing is an extortion attempt.
Calvino claims Kwon had threatened to go to his bosses at RBC Capital Markets, where he was a stock trader at the time of the intemperate night out, and make up tales of drug use "with strippers and whores." He claims he wrote the $100,000 check to protect his career and reputation, and that she cashed it for no apparent reason.
She said she cashed the check in November 2005, after he went out with fellow RBC traders to ogle the girls at Flashdancers and do cocaine that March.
What's more, he failed a store-bought drug test of his urine, she claims.
In an affidavit, Kwon attached what she claims is the text of a long instant-message conversation she had with Calvino in which he appears to cop to doing drugs and visiting strip clubs and tells her to keep the cash.
After initially writing that he was "sorry I was irresponsible last night – but I didn't do the bad stuff," and that he was not "stupid enough to jeopardize our future," Calvino explains he was only "drunk/bombed [on] Jack [Daniels]," according to the text transcript.
Kwon reminds him of the "$25 Rite-Aid" test – "it's POSITIVE."
Calvino then appears to blame one of his trading buddies: "He put it in my face."
Later in the instant-message exchange, Calvino confesses to going to Flashdancers after a charity event with four colleagues, the text shows
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All cat owners think their cats are special, but Kathleen Paulson's cats really are! Leaving behind Boston and her broken heart, Kathleen is making a new life for herself, at work restoring a library in Minnesota. One day while exploring an abandoned house, she discovers that she has two ardent followers – a tabby cat and a tuxedo cat. Now named Owen and Hercules, she is amazed to discover each has a hidden talent. But what really shocks her is her discovery of a dead composer at the theatre. More distressing is that it seems someone is setting Kathleen up to be the fall guy in the murder. With a little help from her friends – the four-footed variety – Kathleen sets out to find the culprit. The first in a series, this cozy of magical cats will charm the socks off you.
Kathleen Paulson left her life in Boston behind to be head librarian in Mayville Heights, Minnesota. Shortly after moving she is adopted by two cats who literally follow her home. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a tuxedo cat that shares Kathleen's fondness of Barry Manilow. Small town life is nice and quiet until murder interrupts Mayville's Summer Music Festival and Kathleen suddenly finds herself as one of the main suspects.
This was a fun, cat-themed mystery. A light, easy read that was a nice change from what I had been reading lately. The mystery itself is fairly easy to guess after a few clues though Kelly did try to throw in a little twist that made me second guess myself for a chapter or two. The cats' magical abilities were down played. I hope they are developed more in future books.
A delightful mystery in which Kathleen, a librarian moves from Boston to a small town in Minnesota to oversee the restoration of the town library. Construction delays, minor accidents and two cats with unusual habits keep Kathleen busy while she tries to solve a murder. An array of interesting friends and neighbors and a persistent detective add to the story, making a fun and entertaining read with a satisfying ending.
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In Kelly's mystery novel, Kathleen Paulson has been transplanted from Boston to Mayville Heights, Minnesota and is now the head librarian of a small community library. Since her arrival, she has supervised the on-going renovations of the library, adopted two mysterious cats, and found herself a person of interest in a murder investigation.
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When librarian Kathleen Paulson moved to Mayville Heights, Minnesota, she had no idea that two strays would nuzzle their way into her life. Owen is a tabby with a catnip addiction and Hercules is a stocky tuxedo cat who shares Kathleen's fondness for Barry Manilow. But beyond all the fur and purrs, there's something more to these felines.
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Mountaineer workers fear smoking ban will harm 'livelihood'
Officials in Hancock County, W.Va., a one-hour drive south of Pittsburgh, expect a full house on Wednesday night at a public hearing on a proposal to ban smoking in bars, clubs, casinos, outdoor community festivals and other venues.
If the five-member county health board approves the proposal, it would become the 28th of West Virginia's 55 counties to adopt a total ban on smoking in public places.
Employees from Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort, along the Ohio River in Newell, are among those opposed.
Some worry the casino that employs nearly 1,300 people will lose business and might lay off staff if the ban passes. The facility had a payroll of $26 million and paid $100 million in state and local taxes last year, they note.
"I just don't know how five people can (ban smoking). It's our livelihood," said Lori Danver, who has worked at Mountaineer's slots parlor for 18 years.
Jackie Huff, health administrator for Hancock County, said the board has "50 years of surgeon general reports" documenting the dangers of smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.
"We have the Mountaineer Casino here, and their job is to promote and protect the casino, while we in public health feel our job is to protect the health of every citizen in Hancock County," Huff said.
The idea of a ban outrages Eddie Majoris, who operates a shopping plaza in Weirton and regularly visits Mountaineer.
"Isn't this communism? If they do that, this place will lose big time," Majoris said.
Although fewer than 20 gamblers were smoking cigarettes on a recent weekday evening, Mountaineer employees worry they'll lose loyal players.
There are eight casinos within 100 miles of Mountaineer. About 36 miles south, the Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack won an exemption from Ohio County's smoking ban. In Pennsylvania, smokers can light up while gambling at The Meadows Racetrack & Casino in Washington County and Rivers Casino on Pittsburgh's North Shore.
Juanita Advani, of Akron, Ohio, bypasses smoke-free casinos in Ohio to come to Mountaineer "at least once a month."
"It's my body. You take away the smoking, and I'm not coming back," Advani said. She said she would go to Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino in southern New York, which permits smoking.
Cynthia Hallet, executive director of Americans for Non-Smokers Rights, said studies show that going smoke-free enhances business at bars and casinos.
"This is an age-old argument. Business, at worst, remains the same — or better — after these places go smoke-free. Four out of five gamblers don't smoke," she said.
Steven Norton, a former casino executive and consultant to the gaming industry, said that wasn't the case when Illinois banned smoking on riverboats.
"An analysis I prepared covers the immediate 12-month period after the ban in January 2008. The result was a 21.8 percent casino revenue decline, 14.1 percent fewer patrons, a 9 percent decline in per-capita win and a 32.8 percent reduction in casino taxes," Norton said.
Mountaineer General Manager Chris Kern acknowledged that America seems to be going increasingly smoke-free but said that West Virginia may not be ready for that yet. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show 28 percent of adult West Virginians smoke — a ratio second only to Kentucky's 28.3 percent of adult smokers.
Mountaineer has smoke-free restaurants, a smoke-free slots parlor and just spent $900,000 on an air cleaning system, Kern said.
In nearby Chester, retiree John Hissam, commander of the local American Legion post and chief of the volunteer fire company, is against a ban, even though he doesn't smoke.
"If no-smoking goes through, we'll probably lose about 15 to 20 percent of our business (at the Legion). There is no if, and or but about it; that will happen," he said.
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LOS ANGELES -- They are among the tenets that defensive coaches hand down from generation to generation. Corners cover better than they tackle. Safeties tackle better than they cover. Those are the rules that secondary coaches use to find a lineup, and those are the rules that offensive coordinators live by to find mismatches.
And those are the rules that mean nothing to the Texas Longhorns. They have four positions in the secondary, and five players who can fill any of them. There's a reason that senior strong safety Michael Huff won the Jim Thorpe Award, given to the nation's best defensive back.
"I can play everywhere," Huff said. "I can line up deep. I can be up at corner, and [cover] the slot. I have been everywhere. I used to like coverage a lot better. This year, I got my first two blitzes. I wish I could blitz every game."
Huff is the leader. Junior free safety Michael Griffin, a former running back, combines the range to play center field with the biggest hammer on the defense. His teammates talk about his greatest hits as if they were on a CD.
Senior Cedric Griffin (no relation) mans one corner, but regularly fills in for Huff. Junior Tarell Brown, a physical corner and All-American trash talker, covers the other side. The fleet junior Aaron Ross is the nickel back.
Together, they are the biggest reason the Longhorns finished the regular season second in the nation in pass efficiency defense (91.34 rating) and fifth in pass defense
(155.9 yards per game). The former statistic is notable because Texas intercepted only 10 passes this season, a whopping 12 fewer than USC.
"Maybe they throw more when they're behind out there," Texas coach Mack Brown said. "When we're ahead 60-0, they don't throw much."
It doesn't seem to matter. This secondary has been effective at the task it will undertake in the Rose Bowl Game (Presented by Citi) Wednesday night (ABC, 8 p.m. ET) -- stopping the big plays that have led to so many USC blowouts.
"We match them up in man coverage," Brown said. "They're not out of position. Then you can match them up outside. You can put nine inside. That helps you stop the run."
Their interchangeability also blunts one of USC's sharpest weapons: The ability to take tailback Reggie Bush, line him up wide and take advantage of a bigger, slower defender. Instead, Trojan offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin said, "You've just got to win matchups. [Tight end] Dominique Byrd has got to beat his guy. Reggie has got to beat Huff, or whoever is on him. The game is going to come down to one-on-one matchups."
Huff has made it clear that he relishes the opportunity to take on the Heisman Trophy winner, should the Longhorn coaches give it to him.
"Oh, yeah, I'll be on him," Huff said. "If I'm the best, I want to play against their best player. If I play well against their best player, then the team will do well."
Huff has the physical tools -- at 6-1 and 205 pounds with 4.34 speed -- that a defensive back needs to deal with Bush. But the Texas coaches love Huff because his brain twitches faster than his muscles.
"What separates him from a lot of the good ones, and why he's a great one, is he's got the mental part of the game as well as anyone I've ever been around," defensive coordinator Gene Chizik said Sunday. "He does a great job of making sure everybody is in line."
Including, it turns out, Chizik himself. Against Texas A&M, Chizik sent in a nickel coverage.
"We lined up," Huff said. "I saw we didn't have the linebacker. I did what the linebacker did. I got a sack, and forced a fumble."
Chizik sent in the wrong formation? Huff nodded. "I just blitzed," he said. "I didn't think about it."
Why not call timeout and get it straight? Huff looked as if he had been asked to turn down a steak dinner.
"I would never call timeout," he said. "I wouldn't have been able to blitz."
Huff, like any confident defensive back, doesn't like to play zone. He said the Longhorns have played more man this season under Chizik, in his first season at Texas. Chizik preaches an aggressive play, yet he confirmed Huff's estimation that they play zone roughly 60 percent of the time. That's aggressive?
"Any time you play zone," Chizik said, "you have a lot more eyes on the ball. When the football breaks the line of scrimmage, you should have a lot of people coming to the ball. You have better angles."
Fortunately for the Longhorns, whether in zone or man, Mike Griffin defines aggressive defense. He is the enforcer. The Texas receivers know what Griffin can do.
"My freshman year," sophomore Limas Sweed said, "I ran across the middle on a slant route, and I didn't see him. He hit me dead center in my chest. I stayed on the ground for five minutes, just holding my chest. I haven't gotten hit that hard in a game yet."
Sophomore wideout Billy Pittman pointed to the left side of his torso.
"I was running over the middle," Pittman said. "He hit me in the ribs. That's the hardest I've been hit all season. He'll knock your head off."
Even Huff has learned the hard way what Griffin can do. "I definitely get out of his way," Huff said. "He used to be a little skinny guy who didn't want to hit anybody. Now he's hitting everybody."
Griffin started out as a running back but moved over to defense as a freshman. Asked what he recalled about his first hit as a corner, he said, "I don't know. I had my eyes closed."
Griffin warmed to it quickly, perhaps as a way to distinguish himself. "Huff is good at covering," Griffin said. "I may as well be good at something else."
With these five backs, the secondary is good at just about everything, save interceptions.
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Nearly 100 teams are competing in the New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex. Today was the second day of the event's split-format final four days of buoy racing. It was an unseasonably wet, dreary day in Newport, but at least somewhere, someone was having fun.
Class IRC 4 Start - New York Yacht Club Race Week 2012
And that someone was Dawn Riley (Oyster Bay, N.Y.), who along with eight Oakcliff Sailing Center trainees, helped guide Art Santry's (Oyster Bay) Ker 50 Temptation-Oakcliff to the top of the scoreboard in IRC Class 3 after two victories in two races today.
'We're sailors; we get wet all the time,' said Riley, a veteran of America's Cup and Whitbread Round the World Races who serves as executive director of Oakcliff in Oyster Bay. She explained that the Center's mission of raising the level of sailors and sailing in the U.S. was on artful display today, as the trainees worked side-by-side with Riley, on mid-bow, and six other seasoned sailors, including Santry, who skippers and sponsors the boat.
According to Santry, the team played the shifts extremely well on three of the four upwind legs. 'Our crew work was flawless, and the gybes and tacks were perfect,' he said, noting that yesterday Temptation-Oakcliff had been in third overall after finishing third in the opening race of the series. 'I'm exceedingly impressed with the Oakcliff program; these kids are great. They have been working together with us all season, and they are tough, enthusiastic and dedicated to the program. If the crew work maintains, we're going to be tough to beat.'
One race circle hosted four IRC classes, while another hosted one-design racing for J/109, J/111, Beneteau 36.7 and Swan 42 classes. Due to a light-wind forecast, the Swan 42s elected to resume buoy racing today rather than compete in their originally scheduled distance race, but in the end, they—like the other classes—were met with a hearty 12-15 knots by mid-morning, when the heaviest rain showers had moved on. Large swells also figured in as the winds tapered off to 8-10 during the course of the afternoon.
Another who had no problem making the most of the conditions was Craig Albrecht (Sea Cliff, N.Y.), skipper of the Farr 395 Avalanche in IRC Class 4. His team defended its first-place position from yesterday by finishing 3-4 today to stay two points ahead of Greg Manning's (Warwick, R.I.) X-41 Sarah.
'Staying in the pressure was key, and changing gears up and down was important,' said Albrecht, whose team won the American Yacht Club Spring Series Regatta earlier this year. 'The racing has been very close, and it has been exciting, especially at the mark roundings where many of the boats have overlapped.'
John Hele's (Toronto, CAN/Newport) Daring won both races today in the Swan 42 class, propelling him to first overall from third yesterday and giving him a better shot at taking the national crown that is being determined here. Following a general recall, an individual recall after the start of the first race brought Z-flag penalties against the teams of Arethusa, Barleycorn, Impetuous and Conspiracy. Having not gone back to exonerate themselves from jumping the start gun cost the teams three positions on their scoring for that race. Defending national champion Ken Colburn (Dover, Mass.), helming Apparition, finished 4-4 today to drop to second from first yesterday.
Swan 42 fleet - New York Yacht Club Race Week 2012
The J/109s, which are sailing their North Americans, also had individual recalls in their first race that saw yesterday's leader Storm, skippered by Rick Lyall (Wilton, Conn.), return to the start line to successfully clear. The team fought back to eighth and finished first in the second race, but the performance was only good enough for a third in overall scoring. It left the proverbial door open for Ted Herlihy's (S. Dartmouth, Mass.) Gut Feeling to take the top spot after that team finished 4-2 today. With nine points, Gut Feeling's overall score is shared with Skoot, skippered by Jim Vos (New Canaan, Conn.), which sits in second overall, so both teams are a slim one point ahead of Storm.
The J/111 Class's first day of competition went well for Henry Brauer's (Marblehead, Mass.) Fleetwing, which took bullets in each of two races. 'The first race was great, because it was good breeze; the second race was a bit more challenging because of the lighter wind and the lumpy seas,' said Brauer, who is new to the J/111 Class this year after having sold the J/105 Scimitar that he co-owned with Stewart Neff (serving as his tactician here) and with which he won the 2011 J/105 North American Championship. 'We got good starts, Stewart put us in the right place, and the team did a great job trimming the sails and keeping us going the whole time. The important thing to racing well is having a good team, so there are a lot of the same people onboard that I've sailed with in the past. Having that nucleus is very important.'
In the Beneteau 36.7 Class, William Purdy's (New York, N.Y) Whirlwind displaced John Hammel's (Arlington, Mass.) Elan at the top of the scoreboard after winning both races today. Elan finished 2-3 to take second overall, just one point behind Elan, and David Powers's (Boston, Mass.) Agora is only one more point behind in third, on the merit of a 3-2 today.
Yesterday, in the second of two races for IRC Class 1, Bob and Farley Towse's (Stamford, Conn.) Reichel Pugh 66 Blue Yankee could not finish within the time limit and posted five points to the two posted by George David's (Hartford, Conn.) Reichel Pugh 90 Rambler. Today the two teams split the victories in two races, so Rambler still holds a three-point lead in the two-boat series thus far.
In IRC 2, Jim Swartz's (Park City, Utah) IRC 52 Vesper still leads after finishing 1-5 today, while Austin and Gwen Fragomen's (Newport, R.I.) IRC 52 Interlodge has moved into second place overall.
Three more new classes will join the action tomorrow: Melges 32, J/105 and PHRF, the latter of which is sailing 'navigator courses' instead of around the buoys.
Henry Brauer's FLEETWING - New York Yacht Club Race Week 2012
Top five results:
New York Yacht Club Race Week at Newport presented by Rolex
Results, July 20, 2012
J/111 (One Design - 6 Boats)
1. Fleetwing, J/111, Henry Brauer, Marblehead, Mass., 1, 1 (2)
2. Wicked 2.0, J/111, Douglas Curtiss, South Dartmouth, Mass., 3,2 (5)
3. Jazz, J/111, Rodney Johnstone, Stonington, Conn., 2, 3 (5)
4. Andiamo, J/111, Paul Strauch, Manhasset, N.Y., 4, 4 (8)
5. Partnership, J/111, David and Mary Ellen Tortorello, Bridgeport, Conn., 5, 5 (10)
Beneteau 36.7 (One Design - 8 Boats)
1. Whirlwind, Beneteau 36.7, William Purdy, New York, N.Y., 3,1,1 (5)
2. Elan, Beneteau 36.7, John Hammel, Arlington, Mass., 1,2,3 (6)
3. Agora, Beneteau 36.7, David Powers, Boston, Mass., 2,3,2 (7)
4. Resolute, Beneteau 36.7, Junius Brown, Ridgefield, Conn., 4,7,4 (15)
5. Surface Tension, Beneteau 36.7, Lou Melillo, Middletown, N.J., 5,5,5 (15)
Swan 42 (One Design - 15 Boats)
1. Daring, Swan 42, John Hele, Newport, R.I., 3,1,1 (5)
2. Apparition, Swan 42, Ken Colburn, Dover, Mass., 1,4,4 (9)
3. Stark Raving Mad VI, Swan 42, James Madden, Newport Beach, Calif., 6, 3, 8 (17)
4. Vitesse, Swan 42, Jon Halbert, Dallas, Texas, 2,7,9 (18)
5. Arethusa, Swan 42, Philip Lotz, Newport, R.I., 5, 13/ZFP, 2 (20)
J/109 (One Design - 17 Boats)
1.Gut Feeling, J 109, Ted Herlihy, South Dartmouth, Mass., 3, 4, 2 (9)
2.Skoot, J 109, Jim Vos, New Canaan, Conn., 4,2,3 (9)
3.Storm, J 109, Rick Lyall, Wilton, Conn., 1,8,1 (10)
4.Rush, J 109, Bill Sweetser, Annapolis, Md., 5, 1, 4 (10)
5.Caminos, J 109, Donald Filippelli, Amagansett, N.Y., 6, 3, 6 (15)
IRC 1 (IRC - 2 Boats)
1. Rambler, RP 90, George David, Hartford, Conn., 1,1,1,2 (5)
2. Blue Yankee, Reichel Pugh 66, Bob and Farley Towse, Stamford, Conn., 2, 3/TLE, 2,1 (8)
IRC 2 (IRC - 5 Boats)
1.Vesper, IRC 52, Jim Swartz, Park City, Utah, 1,1,1,5 (2)
2.Interlodge, IRC 52, Austin and Gwen Fragomen, Newport, R.I., 2,5,2,2 (11)
3.Privateer, Cookson 50, Ron O'Hanley, Newport, R.I., 5,3,4,1 (13)
4.Flying Jenny 7, IRC 52, David & Sandra Askew, Annapolis, Md., 4,2,5,3 (14)
5.SLED, IRC 52, Takashi Okura, Tokyo, Japan, 3,4,3,4 (14)
IRC 3 (IRC - 8 Boats)
1.Temptation-Oakcliff, Ker 50, Art Santry, Oyster Bay, N.Y., 3,1,1 (5)
2.Decision, HPR Carkeek 40, Stephen Murray, New Orleans, La., 2,3,4 (9)
3.White Gold, J 44, James D. Bishop, Jamestown, R.I., 5.5,2,2 (9.5)
4.Cool Breeze, Mills 43 Custom 43, John Cooper, Cane Hill, Mo., 1,4,5 (10)
5.High Noon, CTM 41, Steve and Heidi Benjamin, Norwalk, Conn., 5.5,6,3 (14.5)
IRC 4 (IRC - 14 Boats)
1.Avalanche, Farr 395, Craig Albrecht, Sea Cliff, N.Y., 1,3,4 (8)
2.Sarah, X-41, Greg Manning , Warwick, R.I., 7,1,2 (10)
3.White Witch, King 40, Larry Landry, Newport, R.I., 3,10,1 (14)
4.DownTime, Summit 40, Ed and Molly Freitag, Annapolis, Md, USA - 6,7, 3 (16)
5.Settler, Peterson 42, Tom Rich , Middletown, R.I., 8, 2, 7 (17)
NYYC website for complete results and more information.
Rodney Johnstone's JAZZ - New York Yacht Club Race Week 2012
Roger Widmann's QUINTESSENCE in the Swan 42 Class - New York Yacht Club Race Week 2012


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Re: What's With All the Lobby Resets.sennalike Sep 3, 2013 3:28 AM (in response to Yppecaye_the_Dogged)
I agree with you, it is annoying and frustrating when you are in a lobby you want to stay in. Like you, I prefer sticking to the same lobby, unless it has cheats in it or I am going for a break. But I don't think it is anything to do with the recent change, it has happened to me since day one. I put it down as one of the many downsides of being a solo player.
Re: What's With All the Lobby Resets.Yppecaye_the_Dogged Sep 3, 2013 4:00 AM (in response to sennalike)
No doubt it occurred before. But it was extremely rare and appropriate with sufficient wait time and scarcity of players in the lobby.
It's ridiculous now.
Re: What's With All the Lobby Resets.MysteriousDeeds Sep 3, 2013 6:46 AM (in response to Yppecaye_the_Dogged)
I was in a lobby yesterday in KC. We were winning the match and and my score at the time was something like 15-5-9. There was a host migration, when the match resumed my score was reset to 0-0-0. I was the only person who's score got reset. Another weird episode on this game.


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MP3s To Audio CDs, opinion on getting best audible result
MP3s To Audio CDs, opinion on getting best audible result
May 11 2003, 04:19
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(Please excuse any ignorance as I'm not well versed with this and learning.)
I'd like to get started with converting my MP3s to audio CDs. The CDs I want to create will be used for CD-style DJing. I was given some advice on this conversion process to have my end result CDs sound really good.
The advice is below. If anyone wants to add any additional advice or feedback on this process, I would appreciate it! I have to know that there's no one way to doing this.
I'll also mention that some of my MP3 are albums, many are not and even some of my MP3s that are a part of an album have different bit rates. So, I want to take this all into consideration in doing this conversion.
Jun 16 2003, 23:55
Post #2
Hi d2e; I've read through this post twice, and I believe there might be an
important consideration thats being missed here. In your first post, you
mention doing DJ style mixing. Then, as the thread progresses, it appears as
though you may have been dissuaded from converting your mp3's to audio,
or .wav type discs.
I couldn't help but wonder if you plan on using a "pro-style" DJ mixing console
with "pro" CD players. I just did a quick perusal of MusiciansFriend and none of
their DJ style consoles play mp3's. (Or wave files, for that matter.)
If I've missed the boat here, I've only wasted a moment or two of your time.
On the other hand, I'ld hate to see you spend hours creating dozens
of discs that won't play on your intended equipment.
Edit: Ooops, left out an important point. Just, that depending on the
playback equipment you use, you may need to burn to .cda format.
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What do you buy more of when grocery shopping?
Ingredients for recipes.
I don't uy prepacked meals. Most of our snacks I make or they are fresh fruits and vegetables
Produce. At least 1/2 of what we buy is fruit and veg. It's what I'm heading out to buy later today...
a mix of both. dinner is typically mostly from scratch, for snacks we do a lot of fruit, but we do crackers and chips and stuff too
we almost never do frozen tv dinners or take out. at least i wont. DH likes them. blech.


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Señora Rosa says that it is the 1st time that she works with Pro Mujer and was invited to become a member. Currently she has a business selling ice creams and juice, something she learned from her mother, which she has been running for several years.
The loan she will currently take is to increase her working capital to buy sugar, milk and glasses which she get in La Paz and subsequently sell in the street markets. This kind of work allows her to generate an income to support her family as she lives with her partner.
When asked what she likes about Pro Mujer, she says that she likes the health clinics.
In the photograph Señora Sofia is missing as she went for a medical consultation.
La señora Rosa, indica que es la primera ves que trabaja en Pro Mujer y que integro la institución por invitación de la promoción. En la actualidad ella tiene un negocio de venta helados y jugos que viene trabajando hace años atrás, el mismo lo aprendió de su madre.
El crédito que ahora sacará es para aumentar su capital (compra de azúcar, leche y vasos) que adquirirá de La Paz y posteriormente lo venderá en las ferias. Esta forma de trabajo le permite generar recursos para apoyar a su familia, pues ella vive en concubinato.
Cuando se le consulta qué le gusta de Pro Mujer, ella responde que le gusta el área de salud.
En la fotografía hace falta la señora Sofia ya que sella se fue a consulta médica.
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'It's not a matter of how you feel. It's a matter of civil rights'
Max Singer said something was missing from the debate and city hearings over the bid to add sexual orientation to non-discrimination protections in Holland: young people.
So the 18-year-old Holland resident has planned a march Wednesday to Holland City Hall, when the city council's next meeting is scheduled. He, and those who march with him, will speak to the council and ask that it reconsider its June 15 split vote to not include sexual orientation and gender identity protections.
If you goWHAT March on city hallWHEN 5 p.m. WednesdayWHERE Smallenburg ParkONLINE find Marching to City Hall as the Voice of Holland's Future on Facebook
Singer had never attended a city council meeting before, but after attending the July 20 meeting, "I pretty much snapped," he said. "This is ridiculous, this is unacceptable.
"It's not a matter of how you feel. It's a matter of civil rights," he said. "This whole issue should be a complete non-issue."
Singer, a 2010 Black River High School graduate, is attending the Secchia Institute of Culinary Arts in Grand Rapids. He said he realized after that meeting that something was missing.
Though some of the people who have confirmed attendance at the march are adults from the city and elsewhere, Singer is focusing on getting as many Holland youth as possible involved. His main aim Wednesday is to have the youth of Holland heard and to make sure those voices are included in the minutes of the meeting.
Singer did his research: He will have forms to fill out and turn into council for those who are unsure of speaking in public. He will ask that everything turned in is included in the minutes.
He is even ready for an opposing demonstration. Singer knows that "it just takes one bad apple," to turn a good demonstration sour.
He plans to address the group before the march and ask them to display good etiquette while in the council chambers, and if opposition rallies against the march, the plan is to ignore it.
Singer spent a half semester in the 10th grade researching human rights documents. When he discovered what was happening in Holland, it got him pretty excited. He grew up in a diverse household. His stepfather is Indian. His parents foster two young black children and adopted a Hispanic boy.
"(The diversity) makes my family what it is," Singer said.
"I think, for Holland to be effectively progressive, they need to accept the homosexual community," he said.
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not really
outdoors, camping, love to ride my crotchrocket and will make a vid with it once the weather warms up, chill with friends, you know the usual stuff...
mainly country and classic rock.ï but i am pretty opened minded to most stuff just no hardcore rap or rock
no time for that
About myself
Tobacco Consumption
I'm a non-smoker
Alcohol Consumption
I'm a light social drinker
About my Partner
Looking for
Physical Profile
Body Type
Work & Living Environment
Full Time
Living Arrangement
Live alone
American, Fast food, Italian, Mexican, Pizza
Sexual Interests
Sexual Orientation
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Thanks for the request & for adding my vid to your faves!
thanks for the add dude!
Thanks for the add!
Your also in Michigan????? Where at bud?????? Looking good !!!!!!!
hey there hows it going ? will we see new videos from you ?
hey hows it going ?
H e y, g u y ! ❤ Thanks for adding me as an Xtube friend. ツ
hot videos thanks for friendship ;]
Thank you for adding me Sexy
Thanks for the request and faving our vid!
thanks for fr request!
hot videos ! ! ! you look so sexy in those leather pants
hope you make more videos soon x
thanks for the friend request sexy leather boy
I like your leather pics and vids!! Nice cock too. Hope you've been enjoying my stuff as well my fellow midwesterner.
Hey there stud, thanks for the add, fuck love the vids of yours. mmm i'd kill to get up on that nice thick cock of yours ;-)
thanks for the add hottie :-)
Thank you for friendship!!! Huge fan of younger guys in leather MMMM
Hey thanks for promoting my video in your favourites, I hope to post more soon!
Guy C. Peeters
me too!
Thanks for the add, my sexy friend
Nice profile and vids
hey cutie! love all your pics and vids!
thks for the add!
27, you?
Epointe here, you?
Thanks for the invite guy! Your sexy as hell! Love the pics and vids. And i love my Hollister jeans and hoodies the best!!!! lol. ; - ) jake.
Hey man you are HOT!
Columbus Ohio home of the Buckeyes
Hey thanks for the add Go Bucks sorry just joking
Hey man, thanks for the request. Where at in Michigan? Wayne/Westland area here
Thanks for the invite! nice pics n vids!
Hi, thanks für you friend-request. You are very welcome - so feel free to message me, sometimes.
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