Last year's fair included: • classic Cadillac LaSalle car show (300+ attended just the car show last year) • old fashioned kids races (3-legged, sack, egg/spoon, dig for coins in hay) • pet costume contest • baking contest with celebrity judges • cupcake walk for kids • bike safety rodeo and additional bicycle activities • wagon rides • face painting • food

Without your experience, I almost have to flip a coin. Best regards, Ralph Estes (estes@american.edu)

The Vacu-flush guys are always tossing coins, large clumps of paper, etc. into their heads at boat shows. Their equipment is truly wonderful and their customer support is top-knotch. BTW, notwithstanding all kinds of dire predictions from "those in the know" that rubber hose would definitely emit smells throughout the boat that has not been the case.

On the other side of the coin - read "The Secret Life of Lobsters" recently published and a good look at the travails of the lobstering life. Ron Barr Lady Brookhaven Hatteras LRC 42 Fall River MA KB1LFX

The other side of the coin is that the operator knows there is some increased danger to vehicle or train traffic with the bridge open, so they are quite right to use caution and require us to follow the rules as well. Rob Brueckner Hatteras YF

But the other side of the coin is that plain water is more efficient at transferring heat than a antifreeze/water combination. My experience is on a dealership level not an engineering level. I am sure that someone on the list can expound on the reasons for this.

Examples: small eggs, old coins, feathers, doll clothes, shells, bits of old metal crushed by cars, clay figures, keys, marbles, old letters, old photographs, dried flowers, maps, teeth, skulls, bones, string, bee hives, twigs, old toys, tiny dolls, hair, small bottles etc. Bring any of the above and more….

. >> >> Bill Hawkins >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Nic McLean >> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:12 PM >> >> Can I coin the phrase; A man that has one DC Voltage standard knows how >> accurate his meter is, whereas a man with two standards is not quite >> sure!

But it is > possible to toss a coin fifty times and have fifty "heads". The smart > bet is that it won't. Well, if the distribution of these is only random and of benign randomness like gaussian noise. If you have an aging mechanism for instance, over time this huge set would drift in that direction and that would produce a moving average value...

What I use is a 'manual' direct vision spectrophotometer which I bought from Surplus Shed: http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/i1479d.html for $49 you can't really go wrong...however, when I have a bit of spare coin I plan on buying a better one: http://www.surplusshed.com/pages/item/l3524.html You see, the $93 one actually has a scale in it, the cheap