I turned it into a more generic module for this (works best with fixed width fonts): module circletext(mytext,textsize=20,myfont="Arial",radius=100,thickness=1,degrees=360,top=true){ chars=len(mytext)+1; for (i = [1:chars]) { rotate([0,0,(top?1:-1)*(degrees/2-i*(degrees/chars))]) translate([0,(top?1:-1)*radius-(top?

We probably can't rule out a die off and time will likely tell, but I have anecdotally noted lots and lots of birds in areas with abundant natural food sources and many seed crops do appear to be great this year.

. > >After all, what you are doing when you cut a line is dropping a perpetual >killing machine to the bottom--crabs die, attracts other crabs to the pot, >which die, which attracts other crabs. Same for lobsters.

. > > "As He died to make men holy, > Let us die to make men free; > While God is marching on." > >Whenever those words ring from our lips, they do not die away until nations >crumble, rulers are cast down, and kingdoms are swept into the sea. To our >enemies I can only say this: when Americans sing, be very afraid.

I am reminded of the story told by the Sioux of a maiden on the path to get water on the day of a surprise freeze - she comes accross a snake who begs her to take him into her lodge to warm and save his very life - without which he will surely die. .

That way, if the displays die, or are not visible under the prevailing conditions, I still have the basic information readily available, provided, of course, that the whole instrument (GPS or depthsounder) did not die. I do not have a computer nav system, but the same would apply to it as to the chartplotter.

Unless you use a hydraulic press box crimping die set, there will be voids. I have the hand opeated dimple die crimper tool and have cut a section of a "good" crimp to see. Examination under a microscope reveals voids. For this reason I prefer the closed end bell style and use of an anti-oxidant paste.

My chartplotter also hated certain areas; it would always die off of Port Townsend and a certain area in the Broughtons, as well as once displaying all currents relative to today's date in 1990. Various patches over the years fixed all of that, but what else was introduced?

. -- Dave Emery N1PRE, die@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass 02493 "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either." _______________________________________________

. >> >> >> -- >> Dave Emery N1PRE/AE, die@dieconsulting.com DIE Consulting, Weston, Mass >> 02493 >> "An empty zombie mind with a forlorn barely readable weatherbeaten >> 'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - >> in >> celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now >> either." >> >> > > > > __