John

12393.....and going, and going...... Keep up the great work guys and gals...

Stihl all the way. Wouldn't go any smaller than 18".

Son shot his Dad with a crossbow....

Isn't that the new 1/2 a star rating all inclusive?

Will this do.... The word itself is from the Greek metron (μετρον), "a measure" via the French mètre. Its first recorded usage in English is from 1797. In the eighteenth century, there were two favoured approaches to the definition of the standard unit of length. One suggested defining the metre as the length of a pendulum with a half-period of one second. The other suggested defining the metre as one ten-millionth of the length of the earth's meridian along a quadrant (one-fourth the polar circumference of the earth). In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences selected the meridional definition, using the meridian of Paris, over the pendular definition because of the slight variation of the force of gravity over the surface of the earth, which affects the period of a pendulum. In August1793, the Republican Government in France decreed that the standard unit of length would be 10exp-7 of the earth's quadrant passing through Paris and that the unit be called the metre. Five years later the survey of the arc was completed and three platinum standards and several iron copies were made. Subsequent analysis showed that the length of the earth's quadrant had been incorrectly surveyed resulting in the first prototype metre bar being short by a fifth of a millimetre (due to miscalculation of the flattening of the earth), instead of altering the length of the metre to maintain the 10exp-7 ratio, the metre was redefined as the distance between two marks on a bar. So, the circumference of the Earth through the poles is only approximately forty million metres. In the 1870s and in light of modern precision, a series of international conferences were held to devise new metric standards. The Treaty of the Metre (1875) mandated the establishment of a permanent International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM: Bureau International des Poids et Mesures) to be located in Sèvres, France. This new organization would preserve the new prototype metre and kilogram when constructed, and would maintain comparisons between them and the basic units of other, nonmetric, weights and measures. This organisation created a new prototype bar in 1889, establishing the International Prototype Metre as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of ninety percent platinum and ten percent iridium. In 1893, the standard metre was first measured with an interferometer by Albert A. Michelson, the inventor of the device and an advocate of using some particular wavelength of light as a standard of distance. By 1925, interferometry was in regular use at the BIPM. However, the International Prototype Metre remained the standard until 1960, when the eleventh General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM: Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures) defined the metre in the new SI system as equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum. To further reduce uncertainty, the seventeenth CGPM of 1983 replaced the definition of the metre with its current definition, thus fixing the length of the metre in terms of time and the speed of light:

A meter is an instrument of measurement, ie., electricity meter, a metre is a unit of measurement, approximately 39 inches.. dang Americans....

452 votes already, let's blow this one out of the water...

Benson was a typical lab, missing a gene that told him when he was full! He lived to eat but for most of his life we managed to keep his weight under control. Well, probably the funniest two, both involved food of course....one when he met the pizza delivery boy at the front door, pizza boy dropped the pizza, Ben grabbed the pizza and it was gone in 30 seconds.................and yes, I paid for it, including tip. The other was when we left a dozen large kaiser rolls on the kitchen counter and went out for a while. When we returned the empty plastic bag was on the kitchen floor, with a less than 2" diameter hole in one corner. He had pulled them out one by one out of that hole! He was OK until he decided he was thirsty and drank his full bowl of water, you could see his abdomen expand by the minute. Took him two days recover from that one... Still think about him every day...

A little olive oil on the outside a few pieces of lemon on the inside and a few minutes each side on the BBQ..................mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!

I blame Ballard myself..........oh and the teachers.

As Stonefish says they have lifetime motor warranty because they are usually bulletproof and rarely have an issue. I am guessing that you are not getting power (sufficient power) to the motor and need to bypass the switch and circuitary to test each motor. Try taking getting power to the motor directly and if the rpm increases you have a switch or circuitary problem. If this doesn't work, I have a very good contact at Cannon who is very helpful. Before you spend money on motors that may be OK try the direct power and see what happens first. If not let me know and I will hook you up.

Hopefully the GF will make the right decision....

Very cute pup, congrat's

Not a big TV guy, but Cronzy had one of the few shows that I could watch start to finish without all the hootin' and hollerin' that drives me crazy. Good luck and best wishes Darryl!

Thanks for the clarification Tony

Cliff, I assume you are talking about cents per litre? When I came to Canada in 1974 we were paying in the mid 40 cents per GALLON......

Shark!

I have the Mustang 2 piece and like it BUT there are two issues, at least that bother me a little that may be bigger issues for you: 1. The jacket is quite bulky and stiff. 2. There is no hood. The advantage of the two piece for me made me overlook these.......

Congrat's guys, yup, for sure you were with the master! Dang Jose, I'm sure if you looked harder you could have chosen a brighter fleece!

Speedy recovery Mike. You will be fine.

Awesome fish Dax....thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing Marc. Lots of very familiar faces. The time spent with you last year was truly memorable, we are aiming to come back next fall for a couple of more days on the water with you.

Pretty lucky too, I am blessed in as much as I have all and more than I could ever possible use. No question that high on my wish list is for those of us who are facing challenges either themselves or their loved ones to have a wonderful holiday season filled with good health, joy and happiness. Can't think of anything else that would give me as big a buzz as that.....

Absolutely....