Typically, you can get 20 to 25 years out of a mechanical operation system like a pump station. So obviously, this station was due for an upgrade.

I was nurtured in things mechanical.

An analogy would be when you're scanning the radio dial and you get the same station separated by a small blank space. The size of the blank space is directly proportional to the strength of the magnetic field at the location in space where the station is being broadcast.

We are also going to re-build the greens and put a mechanical irrigation system underneath, the goal is to make it firm, fast and fair.

They don't see any setbacks at all. They still say eight to 10 weeks from the operation. It looks like he'll be all right.

Our morality system has become a mechanical device for protecting us against ourselves; it is the handiwork of terror.