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Bel Ombrage Bed & Breakfast Le Dorat
Official Contact Details - Bel OmbragePhone: +33 (0)555 68 15 33 Fax: +33 (0)555 68 15 33
A recently opened bed and breakfast establishment in the medieval town of Le Dorat. Situated in the beautiful Limousin region, 'Bel Ombrage' offers the finest in accomodation in rural France.
- Price from 50 EUR / Day
- 4 bedrooms
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Last updated: 12/21/2008
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'Bel Ombrage' is located on the outskirts of the charming medi'val town of Le Dorat, and is arranged on two floors surrounded by an attractively landscaped garden.
Guests bedrooms and breakfast/dining room are located on the first floor, which has its own entrance, reached via a stairway leading from the gardens to the sunny terrace, while our own accomodation is on the ground floor.
The house is of comparatively recent construction, and thus boasts no particular points of historical interest - however, it is a charming, comfortable and convenient spot from which to base your explorations of this lovely region of France.
The accommodation at 'Bel Ombrage' is all newly renovated and furnished to a high standard. Room rates include a substantial continental breakfast.
The Bantock and Holbrooke rooms are double-bedded rooms, each with its own newly installed en-suite shower and toilet facilities.'60 per night.
The self-contained Elgar suite has two bedrooms, one a double and the other a spacious twin. There is a large shower room with twin hand-basins and walk-in shower, and a separate toilet. Ideal for families, but also available for single or double occupancy (1 bedroom) if our other rooms are unavailable.'100 per night (3 or 4 persons) or '60 per night (1 or 2 persons)
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Le Dorat is officially a 'cit' de caract're' - a 'city of special character or interest'. While it has all the facilities you would expect to find in any moderately sized town, it retains the character of a typical French village of the Limousin region. There is a wide range of shops, hairdressers, a bank and a post office. We have several restaurants of different types, but bear in mind that we also offer you the facility to dine here in the evening if you prefer.
There are many points of historical interest in the town, principally the remarkable 12th century church, the Coll'giale de St Pierre. If you wish to venture further afield, the city of Poitiers and the regional capital, Limoges, are easily reached, either by train from the station here in Le Dorat, or by car. Both have international airports, and journey time is under an hour either way.
- Address:
- 39 Avenue de Verdun, 87210, Le Dorat, France
- Accommodation located in:
- countryside, near cultural interest, near fishing area, near golf course, near historical interest, near horse riding, near restaurants & bars, near shopping area, near tennis courts, rural, town!
Amenities & services
All our rooms are en-suite and have as standard a hair-dryer, iron and ironing board, tea/coffee making facilities, UK adaptor leads and a mini fridge with complimentary soft drinks, milk and beer. Our dining/breakfast room leads out onto a sunny and spacious terrace, furnished with tables , chairs and parasols. This is available for guests' use at all times.
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Lil Scrappy and Diamond Throw Scrappy's Daughter Emani a Princess Themed Birthday Party at KidSpa in Atlanta
Rapper Lil Scrappy, with the help of his girlfriend rapper Diamond, threw his 5-year-old daughter Emani a big princess-themed/spa day birthday party at KidSpa in Atlanta recently. And in an effort to show his softer, "daddy side," Scrappy joined in on the fun and painted his face just like the kids!
Some of Scrappy and Diamond's celebrity friends, including Toya (from BET's Tiny & Toya), also came through to have fun at "Princess Emani's" 5th birthday party. Peep the pics below…
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"Today's music is over-ego or over-sex. There isn't a conversation of what went wrong, why people do what they do in relationships. Where are the songs saying we're all still learning?" – Bradd Marquis
They say there are no more good guys; that nice guys finish last. Soul singer/songwriter and actor/producer Bradd Marquis lays these myths to rest with the release of his third independent album release, Thank You. Enchanting audiences with his 2007 album debut, the critically acclaimed Finding My Way and its 2011 follow-up, Authentic, Marquis projects the kind of clean-cut, old school charm unseen since the days of Sam Cooke. The spiritual troubadour with the pulse of the common man, Marquis strums the pains, feelings, and thoughts of that brother who struggles to find the words to say.
Towering, boyishly handsome, and boasting a baritone dipped in the gravel and gravy of Southern soul, Marquis is one of the streets and the steeple. A committed man of dedicated faith and community service, Marquis is the anti-thesis of today's R&B bad boys. Like his inspirations, Marquis started his stage life in front of the pews. Deriving from a rich family legacy of performers that includes blood ties to Phyllis Hyman, Debbie Allen, and Phylicia Rashad, Marquis traveled as a child performer in the "Family & Friends" gospel troupe. He rocked the church with preternaturally grown vocals until high school. A star-turning performance at a college show returned Marquis to music and later membership with the R&B quartet, Mass Appeal. Soon joining up with Babyface's production team, Marquis further refined his music and engineering skills, working with future Finding My Way producer, Jeremy "Cochise" Ball, Thank You producer, Angelo Ray, as well as the legendary Gerald Levert and the Rude Boys.
Soon after, Marquis' indie mixtape, All Love, All the Time, dropped in 2006, opening more doors. Signed to a production company, it wasn't long before Marquis was releasing his 2007 debut LP, Finding My Way (Quiet As Kept). Breaking through NYC airwaves with the regional R&B hit, "Radio," Marquis booked Apollo Live and multiple guest spots on both BET's 106 & Park and Showtime at the Apollo. Named Soul Singer of the Year by 106 & Park, Marquis landed the Soul Summer Tour and Budweiser Superfest tour where he traveled as the stable opening act for Jaheim, Tamia, India.Arie, Blue Magic, Frankie Beverly & Maze, Gordon Chambers, and Hal Linton. Marquis also toured as "Adam" in Oscar Brown Jr's musical fable, In De Beginnin'. Additionally, Marquis starred in videos and wrote music for artists in New Zealand where Finding My Way hit. Marquis lyrical prowess soon scored song placement on projects by Styles P, Ethical, Young Sid, and Sly and Robbie.
In 2009, Marquis independently released the FMW2.5 mixtape. While Marquis debut and mixtape told of his broken engagement, 2011's Authentic was more introspective. Moody blues and torch ballad rich, Authentic was a raw, transparent portrait of a man struggling with hard decisions at life's crossroads. Singing about broken families, lost love, and the roughness of the industry climb prompted Marquis to take a hiatus to make peace with family, study, and re-discover his spirituality and church.
With upbeat, melodic, and undeniably soulful party music, Marquis returns with his most assured set to-date. Largely written and recorded in five days with sole producer Angelo Ray, the more up-tempo Thank You is a love letter to everyone who stuck by and loved Marquis through his turmoil and evolution into manhood. Straddling the line between the secular and spiritual, Marquis writes honest material of life and love lessons. With unvarnished musical illustrations of an artist stripped of both ego and mask to reveal the interiors of his heart, connecting with a testimonial soul that both teaches and reminds listeners they are not alone all makes Bradd Marquis this generation's everyman's soul man.
For tour and updates follow Bradd Marquis on Facebook, Twitter, Reverb Nation or on his website: http://soulmanmusicgroup.com. For bookings and inquiries contact: Jonathan D. Bates at SOULMAN Music Group, LLC. Email email@example.com.


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On last night's "Dance to the Music of the Movies" episode, Rob turned into a superhero, Chynna had a breakdown, Carson channeled a creepy pirate, and Ricki wowed the judges. But will America vote for those with the highest scores, or will this turn into a high school popularity contest? Let's find out!
To recap, here are last night's scores:
Ricki and Derek — 29J.R. & Karina — 26Rob & Cheryl — 24Hope & Maks — 24David & Kim — 23Chynna & Tony — 21Nancy & Tristan — 21Chaz & Lacey — 21Carson & Anna — 20
We usher in the results show with a performance by Britain's Got Talent runner-up Susan Boyle. She's here to promote her new album, Someone to Watch Over Me, and gives a sleepy, yet passionate rendition of Unchained Melody. It likely won't help record sales because people don't pay for music anymore, but it was nice to see Susan back in the spotlight.
Why those two-hour reality shows are here to stay
But let's get to the results. The judges were not alone in awarding Ricki and Derek a near-perfect score. America gave them enough votes so that they're the first couple safe from elimination. J.R. and Karina's Pink Panther performance saves them, but Rob and Cheryl are in jeopardy, despite ranking in the top three. The audience howls and boos upon hearing this news.
Next, we have a backstage chat with Chynna Phillips, who we recently (and incorrectly) deemed the front-runner. "I was born a fighter, and I'm gonna keep on fighting. Nothing's gonna stop me." But will she hold on for one more day? We'll soon find out.
Dancing's Maks: Hope is sex on a stick in a different way
We cut to a performance by former Dancing with the Stars winner Julianne Hough. It's her first time back in the ballroom in two and a half years and she's really excited to be here. Her first dance is a beautiful performance — she looks smoking hot and angelic at the same time. Which is usually not even possible.
But wait! Let's pause for a moment and kick off our Sunday shoes — it's Footloose! Blake Shelton provides the background jams, and upbeat line-dancing ensues. Hough and Footloose co-star Kenny Wormald have a country-meets-Grease's Danny Zuko/Sandy Olsen moment. After, Tom Bergeron thinks Hough is out of breath, but actually she's crying because it's emotional for her to be back!
More results: Chaz and Lacey once again defy the odds — they're safe. Joining them is Carson and Anna, leaving Chynna and Tony in the bottom.
The Hough siblings give a cutesy performance, but we haven't forgotten the task at hand here. Nancy and Tristan sink to the bottom with Chynna, Tony, Cheryl, and Rob. Ultimately Chynna and Tony are sent home. It seems America has not forgiven Chynna for her slip-up last night, even though she has been a consistently strong performer throughout the competition. Did you think it was Chynna's time to go?
Next week, we'll be breaking out our blue eyeshadow, side ponytails, and acid-washed Jordache jeans because IT'S '80S WEEK! Will you join us?
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The White House Bed & Breakfast Russell
Official Contact Details - The White HousePhone: 094037676 Fax: 094037676
Have a truly unique stay with us in one of Russell's oldest houses! A beautifully restored villa with spacious rooms & fresh new ensuites. Absolute luxury and ideally situated right in the heart of Russell.
- Price from 195 NZD / Day
- 3 bedrooms
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Last updated: 12/10/2005
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It features three en-suite bedrooms, open plan guest lounge and kitchen opening onto a shaded sundeck and peaceful tropical gardens and spa pool.
We have three Spacious guest rooms with Super King Size Beds and fresh new ensuites, complimentary Port & Sherry, mini bar and tea & coffee making facilities. With cotton bath robes and slippers so you can get nice and cosy. You also have full access to the lounge and kitchen.
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Ideally situated right in the heart of Russell, not even a minutes walk to the waterfront, restaurants, bars and shops.
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- 7 Church Street, 0255, Russell, New Zealand
- Accommodation located in:
- coastal, countryside, near biking trails, near cultural interest, near diving spot, near fishing area, near golf course, near restaurants & bars, near shopping area, near tennis courts, near the beach, near walking trails, near water sports, old town, village, waterfront!
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Late Check Out - 12 midday. Relax!
Relaxing Spa Pool & BBQ facilities nestled in wonderful established tropical gardens. (Gardeners welcome!)
Unlimited Broadband Internet access or laptop hotpoint
Free Tour Bookings
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- Bethlehem Steel Company, Staten Island, New York
- McWilliams, Burlee & Co. (1888-1895)
- Burlee Dry Dock (1895-1907)
- Staten Island Shipbuilding (1907-1929)
- United Dry Docks (1929-1936)
- United Shipyards (1936-1938)
- Bethlehem Steel (1938-1959)
- May Ship Repair (current)
Source: http://www.shipbuildinghistory.com/history/shipyards/2large/inactive/bethstatenisland.htm
Along the North Shore of Staten Island Bethlehem Steel's World War II-era shipyard in New York was located at Mariners Harbor, near the northernmost tip of Staten Island, at the south end of Newark Bay and within sight to the west of the Bayonne Bridge, from which many destroyer completion photos were taken. Founded in 1889 as the merger of Burlee Drydock company and Port Richmond Iron Works, it was renamed Staten Island Ship-building in 1907 and moved from Port Richmond to its World War II location in 1925. As United Shipyards Inc., it launched the first two Mahan-class ships, Mahan and Cummings in 1935 and two modified Mahans, Dunlap and Fanning, in 1936. No further destroyer construction commenced until December 1940 when, as Bethlehem Steel, the yard began continuous production of an eventual 44 more ships, 39 of which were completed during the war. Concurrently, the yard also produced landing craft, cargo vessels and three ocean-going tugs.
Fastest from keel laying to launching was destroyer-minelayer Shea at 144 days. Three destroyers shared the yard's record for keel laying to commissioning: 261 days.
Source: http://statenislandsnorthshore.wordpress.com/bethlehem-steel%E2%80%99s-world-war-ii-era-shipyard-in-new-york
Source: http://destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/bethsi
- Brooklyn Navy Yard
The United States Navy Yard, New York, also known as the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the New York Naval Shipyard (NYNSY), is a shipyard located in Brooklyn, New York, 1.7 miles (2.7 km) northeast of the Battery on the East River in Wallabout Basin, a semicircular bend of the river across from Corlear's Hook in Manhattan. It was bounded by Navy Street, Flushing and Kent Avenues, and at the height of its production of warships for the United States Navy, it covered over 200 acres (0.81 km2).
Following the American Revolution, the waterfront site was used to build merchant vessels. Federal authorities purchased the old docks and 40 acres (160,000 m2) of land for forty thousand dollars in 1801, and the property became an active U.S. Navy shipyard five years later, in 1806. The offices, store-houses and barracks were constructed of handmade bricks, and the yard's oldest structure (located in Vinegar Hill), the 1807 federal style commandant's house, was designed by Charles Bulfinch, architect of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. Many officers were housed in Admiral's Row.
Military chain of command was strictly observed. During the yard's construction of Robert Fulton's steam frigate, Fulton, launched in 1815, the year of Fulton's death, the Navy Yard's chief officers were listed as follows: Captain Commandant, Master Commandant, Lieutenant of the Yard, Master of the Yard, Surgeon of the Yard & Marine Barracks, Purser of the Navy Yard, Naval Storekeeper, Naval Constructor, and a major commanding the Marine Corps detachment. The Naval Hospital, constructed 1830-1838 and rebuilt 1841-1843, was decommissioned in the mid-1970s.The nation's first ironclad ship, Monitor, was fitted with its revolutionary iron cladding at the Continental Iron Works in nearby Greenpoint. By the American Civil War, the yard had expanded to employ about 6000 men. In 1890, the ill-fated Maine was launched from the Yard's ways.
On the eve of World War II, the yard contained more than five miles (8 km) of paved streets, four drydocks[4] ranging in length from 326 to 700 feet (99 to 213 meters), two steel shipways, and six pontoons and cylindrical floats for salvage work, barracks for marines, a power plant, a large radio station, and a railroad spur, as well as the expected foundries, machine shops, and warehouses. In 1937 the battleship North Carolina was laid down. In 1938, the yard employed about ten thousand men, of whom one-third were Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers. The battleship Iowa was completed in 1942 followed by the Missouri which became the site of the Surrender of Japan 2 September 1945. On 12 January 1953, test operations began on Antietam, which emerged in December 1952 from the yard as America's first angled-deck aircraft carrier.
When the US Navy took possession of the motor torpedo boat PT 109 from the vessel's manufacturer Elco on 10 July 1942, the boat was delivered to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for fitting. This boat was sunk in the Pacific in August 1943 and became famous years later when its young commanding officer, LTJG John F. Kennedy, entered politics.
At its peak, during World War II, the yard employed 70,000 people, 24 hours a day.
During World War II, the pedestrian walkways on the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges spanning the East River offered a good overhead view of the navy yard, and were therefore encased in order to prevent espionage.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Navy_Yard
During World War II, New York harbor was divided into six hundred individual ship archorages able to accommodate ocean-going vessels awaiting berthing or already loaded and awaiting convoy assignment and sortie. On the peak day in March 1943, there were a total of 543 merchant ships at anchor in New York harbor, a figure very close to maximum capacity.The Port of New York was really eleven ports in one. It boasted a developed shoreline of over 650 miles comprising the waterfronts of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island as well as the New Jersey shoreline from Perth Amboy to Elizabeth, Bayonne, Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken.The Port of New York included some 1,800 docks, piers, and wharves of every conceivable size, condition, and state of repair. Some 750 were classified as "active" and 200 were able to berth 425 ocean-going vessels simultaneously in addition to the 600 able to anchor in the harbor. These docks and piers gave access to 1,100 warehouses containing some 41 million square feet of inclosed storage space.In addition, the Port of New York had thirty-nine active shipyards, not including the huge New York Naval Shipyard on the Brooklyn side of the East River. These facilities included nine big ship repair yards, thirty-six large dry-docks, twenty-five small shipyards, thirty-three locomotive and gantry cranes of fifty ton lift capacity or greater, five floating derricks, and more than one hundred tractor cranes. Over 575 tugboats worked the Port of New York.
Between Pearl Harbor and VJ-Day, more than three million troops and their equipment and over 63 million tons of additional supplies and materials were shipped overseas through the Port of New York.
Source: http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/research_collections/research/history/hisportofnewyork.html
- Hoboken Shipyard
- Knowing that the key to cultivating a successful getaway destination was to make Hoboken accessible, Colonel John Stevens expended a great deal of effort investigating and developing transportation methods. In 1811, he launched the nation's first regular steam ferry service, between Manhattan and Hoboken. In 1825, he created America's first working locomotive, which ran around in circles on a small, round track. The engine had to be imported from England, but the event was nonetheless indicative of the direction Hoboken was headed.By the late 1800s, the great Delaware, Lacckawanna & Western Railroad converged with the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd shipping lines on the Hoboken shoreline, where ferries shuttled passengers back and forth across the Hudson. Since 1908, the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) subway train has provided continuous service between New Jersey and Manhattan.
Colonel Stevens seems to have endowed his progeny with a similar bend for progressive engineering. Robert Livingston Stevens, a gifted engineer and railroad pioneer, created the country's first yacht club in 1844. A spare-time sailing enthusiast, he designed a racing yacht for his brother, John Cox Stevens, called the America. In 1851, John Cox took the ship to victory in a series of races off the coast of the Isle of Wight in England, thus spawning the America's Cup sailing series. In 1870, Edwin Stevens founded Stevens Institute of Technology, the oldest college of mechanical engineering in the country.
At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Hoboken was the seat of a vast shipping and industrial complex, in no small part thanks to the planning of the Stevens family. After Colonel Stevens' death in 1838, Hoboken property was owned by the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company, which was controlled by the Stevens family and ended up constructing many of the houses and buildings that remain in Hoboken today. As the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company began to sell off its land to industries, the character of Hoboken changed from a weekend resort to bustling business center. Between 1900 and World War I, more than 250 manufacturing plants took up residence in Hoboken. In 1889, there were just over three thousand manufacturing employees in Hoboken; by 1909, that number had increased threefold.
The primary industry during Hoboken's days as an industrial capital was shipbuilding, but at various times the city was home to industries that created a litany of products that have since become household names: Lipton Tea; Maxwell House Coffee; Hostess. The Tootsie Roll, slide rule, zipper, and ice cream cone all were born in Hoboken.
Hoboken's harbor was an important dock for German shipping vessels, and, thus, the boats arriving from Germany with immigrants. In 1890, around 40 percent of the city's population was composed of immigrants, over half of them from Germany. Yet when the United States entered World War I on the side of Britain and France, this all changed. The U.S. government seized control of Hoboken's piers and the German ships docked there. Martial law was declared in sections of the city, and many Germans were sent to Ellis Island. Thousands of Germans left Hoboken, and soon the city became known for its large Italian population. Meanwhile, the government made use of the docks, sending some two million U.S. soldiers through Hoboken's piers, to and from the war in Europe, where they were told to hope for "Hell, heaven, or Hoboken" by Christmas.
The city's economy was devastated by the commercial freeze of its piers during World War I. Yet shipbuilding and the waterfront remained important, although increasingly Hoboken's shipyards developed a reputation for corruption. In 1948, Malcolm Johnson, a reporter for the NEW YORK SUN, wrote a series of stories about corruption, crime, and murder along the waterfront. Johnson won a Pulitzer Prize for the articles and six years later they were made into a Hollywood movie. Filmed almost entirely on location in Hoboken, Elia Kazan's ON THE WATERFRONT used actual longshoremen as extras. Hoboken native Frank Sinatra was nearly used for the starring role until Marlon Brando, Kazan's first choice, accepted the part at the last minute. It is said that Kazan hired a bodyguard for the filming and that thousands of dollars were siphoned away to pay off landlords and suspicious dockworkers.
In the 1950s and 60s, the new importance of air travel and the development of containerized cargo, necessitating deep water ports, increasingly undermined the Hoboken waterfront, which fell into a state of disrepair. Many of Hoboken's industries moved away or closed up shop during this time, and the city was considered something of a post-industrial wasteland until the 1970s, when suddenly Manhattan-bound commuters began to take interest in Hoboken's generous stock of affordable brownstones and townhouses. In the 1990s, a major waterfront renovation project turned Pier A into a park, and Manhattan-based companies began to see the city as a viable alternate office location. Today, Hoboken's plethora of bars, restaurants, public transportation, and reasonably priced housing — not to mention, as always, it's proximity to America's largest city — render it a charming tassel upon the metropolitan bonnet of greater New York.
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- Knowing that the key to cultivating a successful getaway destination was to make Hoboken accessible, Colonel John Stevens expended a great deal of effort investigating and developing transportation methods. In 1811, he launched the nation's first regular steam ferry service, between Manhattan and Hoboken. In 1825, he created America's first working locomotive, which ran around in circles on a small, round track. The engine had to be imported from England, but the event was nonetheless indicative of the direction Hoboken was headed.By the late 1800s, the great Delaware, Lacckawanna & Western Railroad converged with the Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd shipping lines on the Hoboken shoreline, where ferries shuttled passengers back and forth across the Hudson. Since 1908, the PATH (Port Authority Trans-Hudson) subway train has provided continuous service between New Jersey and Manhattan.
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- Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne ("MOTBY")was a U.S. military ocean terminal located in the Port of New York and New Jersey which operated from 1942 to 1999. The site is on Upper New York Bay south of Port Jersey on the eastern side of Bayonne, New Jersey. Since its closure it has undergone maritime, residential, commercial, and recreational mixed-use development. Part of the Hudson River Waterfront Walkway runs along its perimeter.In 1932, a basic plan was initiated to build a port terminal off the east coast of Bayonne into the bay to create additional industrial, maritime, and distribution space. After the plan was completed in 1939, dredging and filling began. At the outbreak of World War II, the United States Navy was looking for a location for a port on the East Coast and became interested in the site for a large dry-dock and supply center. The Bayonne military base was opened by the Navy in 1942 as a logistics and repair base, well connected to the transportation network of the Northeast Corridor. After the war MOTBY became port for part of the Atlantic Reserve Fleet or the Mothball Fleet.In 1967, the peninsula became a US Army base. It was a large shipping terminal by the standards of the day, and had the largest dry-dock on the eastern seaboard. Once cargo arrived at MOTBY, it could be placed directly into covered warehouses, or onto uncovered, but fully secure staging areas. All types of cargo, from heavy, outsized weapons such as the M1A2 tank and the Patriot missile, to the full range of munitions available to fighting forces could be loaded by Bayonne's specially trained unionized work force using state of the art, dedicated rail lines. Every type of roll-on/roll-off vessel in the Military Sealift Command (MSC) inventory could be accommodated. This capability was used during the Persian Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991) and during operations in Somalia and Haiti. Dozens of military units (men and equipment) were shipped through MOTBY, as did as outsized cargo such as M1A2 tanks from as far as Fort Hood, Texas. The facility closed in 1999 under a US Base Realignment and Closure 1995 directive.
- Naval Station, New York
- Naval Station New York, is a former United States Navy Naval Station on Staten Island in New York City.Opened in the 1980s, it was to be part of the Reagan administration's Strategic Homeport program. The station had two sections: a Strategic Homeport in Stapleton and a larger section near Fort Wadsworth, where the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge enters the island. Comprising about 266 acres with some 280,000 square feet of office space, the naval station was home to NAVRESSO, the Navy Resale and Services Support Office, commanded by Admiral Squibb. NAVRESSO later moved to Norfolk, Virginia.A pier was built to accommodate the warships of a surface action group. The pier was named for the Sullivan brothers but came to be known more colloquially as The Homeport. Ships that called the pier home included the frigates USS Donald B. Beary FF 1085 and USS Ainsworth FF 1090 and at least one cruiser, the USS Normandy (CG-60). The base was to be the homeport of the battleship USS Iowa until an explosion in one of the ship's turrets led to the ship's decommissioning.Naval Station New York was recommended for closure under the 1988 Base Realignment and Closure Commission, as it was deemed too small, too expensive to house personnel, and made unnecessary with cuts to the Navy. It was closed in 1994. The historic section of the base was turned over to the Department of the Interior and administered as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area.The property is being converted into a mixed-use waterfront neighborhood called Stapelton Homeport.Ground was broken for the long-delayed project on June 20, 2013.[2] New barracks for the fire boat Fire Fighter II opened on the pier in 2012.


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Tommy Brewer believes Hampton & Richmond Borough are finally getting their act together – and just in time with a £4,500 FA Cup bounty up for grabs this weekend, writes Sam Elliott.
Brewer knows all about the famous competition after reaching the fifth round with Conference club Crawley in 2011, landing a dream tie with Manchester United at Old Trafford, which the Sussex version of the Red Devils cruelly lost 1-0.
Beavers chairman Steve McPherson has described the visit of Southern Premier Bedford on Saturday as "financially massive" with the club still recovering from a poor few years on the pitch.
Brewer said there were big signs of improvement following their fourth win in six games on Tuesday night, a brave 2-1 success at Wingate & Finchley.
Charlie Moone was at the double to continue his excellent scoring form and Brewer said the three points were just the tonic going into their biggest match of the season and after last Saturday's 4-0 defeat at Bognor Regis Town.
He said: "Things are getting better all the time. The defeat at Bognor was a blip, but Tuesday was a great recovery – just what the doctor ordered after Saturday. We showed real character.
"Everyone knows the importance of the FA Cup to non-League clubs, we're no different.
"We beat Ashford Town after coming back from 2-0 down to win, but we can't afford to let Bedford have that kind of advantage – we've got to be on it from the very first whistle."
Brewer is ready to create more FA Cup headlines, adding: "Being a part of that Old Trafford experience was unreal – something I'll never forget.
"It's given me a taste for it and to have another go at going on a great run.
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Farid, Mahboubeh (2009) Globalization of Barzilai and Borwein Method for Unconstrained Optimization. PhD thesis, Universiti Putra Malaysia.
The focus of this thesis is on finding the unconstrained minimizer of a function. Specifically, we will focus on the Barzilai and Borwein (BB) method that is a famous two-point stepsize gradient method. First we briefly give some mathematical background. Then we discuss the (BB) method that is important in the area of optimization. A review of the minimization methods currently available that can be used to solve unconstrained optimization is also given. Due to BB method's simplicity, low storage and numerical efficiency, the Barzilai and Borwein method has received a good deal of attention in the optimization community but despite all these advances, stepsize of BB method is computed by means of simple approximation of Hessian in the form of scalar multiple of identity and especially the BB method is not monotone, and it is not easy to generalize the method to general nonlinear functions. Due to the presence of these deficiencies, we introduce new gradient-type methods in the frame of BB method including a new gradient method via weak secant equation (quasi-Cauchy relation), improved Hessian approximation and scaling the diagonal updating. The proposed methods are a kind of fixed step gradient method like that of Barzilai and Borwein method. In contrast with the Barzilai and Borwein approach's in which stepsize is computed by means of simple approximation of the Hessian in the form of scalar multiple of identity, the proposed methods consider approximation of Hessian in diagonal matrix. Incorporate with monotone strategies, the resulting algorithms belong to the class of monotone gradient methods with globally convergence. Numerical results suggest that for non-quadratic minimization problem, the new methods clearly outperform the Barzilai- Borwein method. Finally we comment on some achievement in our researches. Possible extensions are also given to conclude this thesis.
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This is a Hate Crime and not a word coming from this White House or Department of Justice
What is going on with this Administration, the Congressional Black Caucus and the New Black Panthers?
Capitol Hill lawmakers are doing more than donning hoodies on the House floor to respond to the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Members of Congress are crafting new legislation, using the outcry over the shooting to push an agenda calling for everything from gun control to restrictions on neighborhood watch groups.
The legislative steps in the wake of the fatal shooting face an uncertain fate. So far, they come exclusively from Democrats in the Congressional Black Caucus — not power-wielding Republicans who would no doubt be leery of a hasty legislative response, particularly with an investigation still underway.
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Black-on-black crime is a sensitive subject in this increasingly polarized nation. While covered in academia and occasionally addressed by talking heads on television, some believe it rarely, if ever, receives the type and depth of attention it deserves. Instead, critics argue that this national tragedy is usually swept under the rug by powerful interest groups and individuals more concerned with elevating their own racially-driven agendas than addressing the real issues at hand. The Trayvon Martin case is only the most recent example of this grim hypocrisy.
Indeed, statistics support a very different narrative than the one usually offered by "race hustlers," as Pastor C.L. Bryant calls them, who routinely portray an America where members of the black community are selectively targeted and brutalized by white racists.
A 2007 special report released by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reveals that approximately 8,000 — and, in certain years, as many as 9,000 African Americans are murdered annually in the United States. This chilling figure is accompanied by another equally sobering fact, that 93% of these murders are in fact perpetrated by other blacks. The analysis, supported by FBI records, finds that in 2005 alone, for example, African Americans accounted for 49% of all homicide victims in the US — again, almost exclusively at the hands of other African Americans.
To put these number in perspective, recall that over 6,400 U.S. service men and women have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined over the course of a decade-long war fought in those nations. During the Vietnam War, which lasted nearly 13 years, some 58,000 Americans were killed — nearly 13 percent of whom were African American.
Extrapolating black-on-black crime data reveals that, by comparison, approximately 100,000 African Americans have been killed on our own streets at the hands of other African Americans in roughly the same stretches of time. It is difficult to find anyone who would white-wash these mind-numbing statistics.
Equally as startling, the same study reveals African Americans were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes in just one year alone.
While fatalities persist in every major metropolitan area across the nation, there are of course certain cities most impacted by violent crime. Take Cincinnati, for example, where, after the fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police officer in 2001, a wave of riots ensued. Since that time, Cincinnati has set the record for the number of murders carried out each year, with a persistent violent crime rate at a staggering 88 percent.
The now all-too-familiar statistics reveal that black males are killed far more often than any other demographic: "The vast majority of people being murdered are African American in the City of Cincinnati," said Hamilton County Prosecutor, Joe Deters in an interview.
"The vast majority. Well outside the 40 percent of the population it should be. In 2009, the City of Cincinnati did not have a single white victim of a homicide. (That) tells me that we have a subset in the underclass of Cincinnati which is committing a lot of violent crime and they tend to be black. And the reality is, you almost always commit murder within your racial classifications. So when we've got a young black man up in the coroners office, it's almost always a result of another young black man shooting him."
That same year, 2009, no white men were killed in Cincinnati, but 44 black males and 11 females were the victims of homicide in the city.
One city that has perennially come under fire for racially charged violence is Chicago. In just the span of three days alone — March 16th-19th of this year — 41 people, mostly African-American, were shot and killed in Chicago. Ten were killed in President Obama's former neighborhood. Incredibly, these atrocities on our very own streets barely received a turn of the head by activists, nor did they receive any media coverage.
In response to President Obama's decision to raise the profile of the Trayvon Martin case, T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, recently told The Daily Caller that the "the outrage should be about us killing each other, about black-on-black crime."
He asked rhetorically, "Wouldn't you think to have 41 people shot [in Chicago] between Friday morning and Monday morning would be much more newsworthy and deserve much more outrage?"
More than 500 people under the age of 21 were killed in Chicago in 2008. This figure fell only slightly in 2009 and 2010 and, of course, does not represent the many others who have been shot or injured as a result of these attacks. Records reveal that nearly 80 percent of youth homicides occurred in 22 black or Latino communities on Chicago's South and West sides.
In just the first three months of 2012, 109 people have already been murdered in the city of Chicago. So rampant are the killings in fact, that crime in the President's adopted hometown was even the focus of an April 5th report featured on The O'Reilly Factor:
(Video can be seen at The Blaze)
In the poignant words of one man interviewed for the segment, "We've got to stop referring to people as African-American, Hispanic-American."
"These are American kids and they are being slaughtered by other American kids."
An epidemic
According to recent studies, Illinois isn't the only state in the Midwest to see a marked rise in the number of African-American homicide victims over the course of just the past few years. A study conducted by the Washington D.C. based Violence Policy Center revealed that for the third time in the past five years, Missouri is vying for Cincinnati's role, leading the nation in black on black violent crime.
Perhaps surprisingly, Wisconsin, too, is ranked as one of the top ten states with the highest percentage of black murder victims. Spanning the rest of the country, the other nine states found to have the highest murder rates among African-Americans include Michigan, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, California and Nevada.
Where is the outrage?
Recently, The Blaze featured a report on Rep. Corrine Brown, who, after professing in an interview to care about "all the children" who fall victim to murder, could not remember the name of a little girl from her district who was murdered and then dumped into a Georgia landfill. While Brown fumbled to find the words, she ultimately could not recall Somer Thompson's name. She did, however, have much to say about racial profiling and how Trayvon Martin was selectively targeted for his race. For some reason, Brown and others who have followed suit in this case have failed to address or acknowledge the epidemic of murders occurring within their very own communities.
But Brown is not alone. Not by any stretch. Which begs the questions: where is the outrage from prominent members of the African-American community? Where are the words of condemnation and sorrow from Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, or Rev. Al Sharpton, over the fact that members of their own communities are summarily executing each other? Critics believe that acknowledging the unfortunate, irrefutable statistical truth negates the left's narrative about a black community selectively exploited and targeted by white racists. Some might also argue that fanning the flames of racial discontent, especially in an election year, serves a useful and powerful campaign purpose.
Thus far, hundreds of thousands of African Americans have been slaughtered at the hands of each other since the dawn of the Civil Rights movement. Is this the realization of Dr. King's Community of Man?
[Editor's note]: This Monday evening at 5:00 p.m. ET, Glenn Beck discussed the race-war being perpetrated by those who do not appear to have the best interest of the community at heart. The Blaze will also offer a deeper look into the ongoing race-war in Part II of this report. Tune into GBTV and The Blaze as the coverage on this hot-button issue continues.
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Capitol Hill lawmakers are doing more than donning hoodies on the House floor to respond to the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin. Members of Congress are crafting new legislation, using the outcry over the shooting to push an agenda calling for everything from gun control to restrictions on neighborhood watch groups.
The legislative steps in the wake of the fatal shooting face an uncertain fate. So far, they come exclusively from Democrats in the Congressional Black Caucus — not power-wielding Republicans who would no doubt be leery of a hasty legislative response, particularly with an investigation still underway.
But the sponsors are working on the measures over spring break and plan to push them when lawmakers return later this month. They claim they're trying to prevent another killing like the one that has touched off a raging national debate about race and the justice system.
"I am tired of burying young black boys," Rep. Frederica Wilson, D-Fla., said on the House floor. Martin lived in Wilson's district.
Wilson, who organized a rally in Miami Sunday calling for an arrest in the case, is taking a well-traveled path in response to a high-profile case — she's forming a commission.
A spokesman confirmed that Wilson plans to call for the creation of a commission to study racial disparities among black men and boys in America.
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, is meanwhile working on a bill that would require neighborhood watch groups — like the one for which shooter George Zimmerman was a volunteer — to register.
"No one's registered," Jackson Lee spokesman Michael McQuerry told FoxNews.com.
He said staff members were meeting Monday to try to work out some of the details, such as what entities neighborhood watch groups should register with, and whether that should happen at the federal, state or local level.
Asked whether the proposal would call for neighborhood watch outfits to meet specific standards, McQuerry said it's still "being worked out."
CBC members last week introduced a separate resolution calling on states to repeal so-called "Stand Your Ground" laws. The law, a version of which was enacted in Florida in 2005, allows for individuals to use deadly force — even outside their home — if they feel threatened.
The proposed resolution on Capitol Hill, in addition to calling for repeal, "condemns" anybody who played a role in proposing the Stand Your Ground laws. The language in the measure makes blunt assertions about shooter Zimmerman, including a statement that says his "unfounded assumptions and racial bias led to the use of deadly force."
The case, though, is still being investigated at the local level and by federal Justice officials.
Tim Lynch, director of the Cato Institute's Project on Criminal Justice, questioned whether it was prudent to push for any concrete legislative changes without knowing all the facts.
"Holding a hearing would be fine," he noted. But he called the proposals on the Hill "premature."
"My impression is that they're rushing into something," Lynch said.
The Media Frenzy surrounding the shooting has turned up several conflicting accounts. Zimmerman, who has gone into hiding and has not been charged, reportedly has claimed he shot in self-defense. Others claim Zimmerman followed the unarmed teen and should be charged.
As for the renewed debate over Stand Your Ground legislation, backers of the laws have said the legislation doesn't apply in the case of Zimmerman and Martin.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said last month that "stand your ground means stand your ground — it doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back."
Even Zimmerman's attorney has said the issue at play is self-defense, not Stand Your Ground.
Vice President Biden, in an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," backed efforts to reconsider the laws.
"But that's a decision for the state to make," he added.
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Fresh off his South Carolina primary victory, Newt Gingrich sought to paint himself as the only Republican capable of successfully taking on President Barack Obama in November.
"I think you can draw a very strong case that in the end the dynamics of a Gingrich-Obama fight are much better for Republicans than the dynamics of a Romney-Obama fight," Gingrich said on CNN's "State of the Union." The former House Speaker has repeatedly cast Mitt Romney as a "Massachusetts moderate" incapable of defeating Obama.
Gingrich beat the former Massachusetts governor by double-digits in the Palmetto State. Heading into Florida's Jan. 31 primary, Gingrich said he thinks South Carolina voters picked him out of "a belief that I could debate Obama head to head, that I could convey conservative values."
"My job in Florida is to convince people that I am the one candidate who can clearly defeat Obama in a series of debates and the one candidate who has big enough solutions that they would really get America back on track," Gingrich said.
"I think we had better be prepared for a tough campaign, whoever we nominate," he said. "I can go toe to toe with President Obama on big things."
Gingrich offered a small amount of praise for Romney over the announcement that he would be releasing his tax returns Tuesday. Romney has faced mounting pressure to do so, particularly from Gingrich.
"I commend him for it," Gingrich said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "As far as I'm concerned that particular issue is now set to side."
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Newt Gingrich resurrected his campaign Saturday with a convincing victory in the South Carolina Republican presidential primary, leveraging strong debate performances and a handful of wrong turns by Mitt Romney to surge past the former frontrunner and reset the race now headed to Florida.
After claiming his first primary win, the former House speaker rallied supporters on the road to the next contest on Jan. 31. Gingrich, looking to convey the image of a general election candidate, focused his victory speech almost entirely on President Obama, unloading some of his toughest criticism to date on the White House incumbent.
"He makes Jimmy Carter look strong," Gingrich quipped at the close of his speech.
Gingrich faces organizational challenges, but said he would rely on message to propel him forward. "We don't have the kind of money at least one of the candidates has, but we do have ideas and we do have people."
Gingrich locked up a decisive victory in the state. With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Gingrich pulled in 41 percent of the vote, to Romney's 27 percent. Rick Santorum finished in third with 17 percent, followed by Ron Paul with 13 percent. Herman Cain, who dropped out before the first contest, garnered 1 percent.
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Saying what needs to be said about Bonnier and EDF!
DEAR MR. FANTASEA, PLAY US A TUNE - Sheriff Rides High On a Horse With No Name
I recently stumbled upon an interesting discussion thread at the Salt Water Sportsman website between the magazines managing editor John Brownlee, commercial fish distributor Jim Chambers (retired biologist), and a Recreational Fishing Alliance (RFA) Texas member named Capt. Tom Hilton.
At one point in this ongoing thread, Mr. Brownlee infers that catch shares would be fine for the charter fleet who he claims to have never considered as purely recreational anyway. But I think it should be left up to the charter fleets in question to decide for themselves. If they want it, fine, if not, equally fine." Not entirely sure where Mr. Brownlee thinks this IFQ will come from, perhaps offered up free of charge by some charitable member of the commercial sector (certainly not splitting the pro and am recs in half, right?)
Later, Mr. Brownlee flip-flops and says I do not favor catch shares for recreational fishermen, or for charter boats, but adds it is up to fishermen themselves should decide. Well, the majority of recreational fishermen, which includes the party and charter boat captains, tackle shops, marinas, boat dealers and the individual anglers they serve have said NO to catch shares; perhaps if the mainstream sporting media would help put that bold, unified message forward on behalf of the entire recreational fishing community, we wouldnt be having this convoluted debate.
As hes apt to do in many emails and message board threads, Mr. Brownlee lectures Hilton as he would anyone else who dares question him, stammering I've been doing this a lot longer than you, reminding me of those times of our youth when parents said children should be seen and not heard, or the old do as I say, not as I do. Then, strangely, Mr. Brownlee launches into his blind attack on the Recreational Fishing Alliance with regard to the Magnuson Stevens Act stating no one saw it coming, including the RFA, and we are trying to do something about it. Get off your high horse.
Apparently, Mr. Brownlee never read Hijacking Fisheries Management in 2007 perhaps he also missed RFAs official presentation at the NOAA Fisheries Marine Recreational Fishing Summit in Alexandria, VA from April 16-17, 2010. Most assuredly Mr. Brownlee has ignored RFAs frequent and incessant attacks on annual catch limits and accountability measures based on random angler data collection during the past 7 years.
The only high horse that I see is the one on which Sheriff Brownlee sits perched as judge and jury, particularly as he claims, the problem isn't catch shares, it's the Accountability Measures put in the MSA in the 2006 reauthorization and then the strict interpretation of them by NMFS. No one saw that coming. Certainly no one who read a Bonnier Publication since 2007 saw this coming, because Mr. Brownlee and his posse have refused to publish any of the RFA perspectives since the reauthorization of Magnuson-Stevens in 2006!
Another humorous if not distressing point of view comes with Brownlees red snapper predicament on which he claims I'm well aware of what a mess that is, but we support the Fisheries Science Improvement Act which can fix many of the problems we're going through with snapper and other species.
The rub here of course is that the Fisheries Science Improvement Act doesnt actually impact red snapper it only deals with fisheries which have not had a recent assessment (mahi and cobia for example). Red snapper are currently going through a major benchmark assessment with full report to be released this year; red snapper in fact are regularly assessed and would not qualify for relief under this particular legislation promoted by Mr. Brownlee and the folks at Bonnier Publications, which shows that perhaps hes been doing this a lot longer than the rest of us, its not to say hes been doing it well.
Take for example how Sheriff John Brownlee and his posse supported a Billfish Conservation Act that has been billed as turning Pacific billfish into gamefish only species. What neither the Sheriff nor his aforementioned we ever explained to anyone in the mainstream media is that fact that Hawaii and the Pacific Insular Areas were still allowed to ship blue, black and striped marlin to the continental United States for sale, and that local demand in Hawaii and the Pacific Insular Areas could by law now be met by foreign caught billfish sold directly to the Hawaiian markets.
As for the term overfishing, another opinion Mr. Brownlee mightve enjoyed was this Overfishing: A Term of Art written in 2010, or even Fatally Flawed Science Killing Americas Number One Outdoor Pastime in 2009. Reading Mr. Brownlees comments here back and forth with Capt. Hilton, Im reminded of the old adage, if a tree falls in the woods but theres no one there to hear it, does it really make a sound.
In Mr. Brownlees personalized editorial world, if hes never published it on the pages of a Bonnier Publication, I guess it has simply never been said.
One final observation in terms of the Bonnier point of view. Mr. Brownlee and his own conservation editor, Rip Cunningham, have been quick to label anyone who questions Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as nothing more than a conspiracy theorist cowering from the imaginary Black Hawk helicopters above. In this particular thread, Mr. Brownlee says No one denies that EDF and others are spending a lot of money to push catch shares, adding later they simply have more money than we do and are better organized.
While he agrees that disagreeing with their goals is a legitimate concern, he seems quick to dismiss overall criticism of EDFs questionable efforts to influence public policy.
Take for example these important facts which none of the Bonnier Publications (Salt Water Sportsman, Sport Fishing, etc.) have been willing to recognize. During the past 3 years alone, EDF and the EDF Action Fund have invested more than $750,000 in establishing their own fishing organizations, including the Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance, Gulf Fishermens Association and South Atlantic Fishermens Association.
According to IRS tax records, the EDF-created Gulf of Mexico Reef Fish Shareholders Alliance actually doled out $48,000 in 2011 in order to create a new organization called the Charter Fishermens Association; the fact that EDF would fund a fishing organization based on ownership of commercial fish shares, which in turn would create its own recreational fishing organization, has sent up red flags throughout the state of Florida with commercial fishermen, recreational anglers and legislators alike.
At election time 2012, RFA revealed that the Director of the Charter Fishermens Association was a failed tech stock investor Michael Miglini, who takes a $40,000 salary from the Charter Fishermens Association; hes also become one of the biggest owners and resellers of red snapper stock in the Gulf of Mexico. According to one commercial fisherman, Miglini and his companies are essentially the people with red snapper allocation. If you would like to go catch and sell red snapper from the Gulf you call them, everyone does.
According to emails associated with a potential inspector generals review of the Gulf fisheries issues surrounding sector separation plans and EDFs financing of various pseudo fishing organizations, one commercial fisherman described Miglinis business entity, Great Sage, Inc, as a private company whose primary function is leasing red snapper to the Gulf's fishermen. I have heard they own hundreds of thousands of shares.
Mr. Brownlee and his conservation editor dismiss the conspiracy theorists and radicals, but the IRS tax records show that guys like Mr. Miglini are actually commercial fish brokers masquerading as recreational charter boat captains through a non-profit association that was actually founded by a commercial fishing group with start-up funds from a radical environmental organization. These are the facts, despite Mr. Brownlees dismissiveness.
Mr. Brownlee asks what is illegal about a group trying to influence public policy? Back in October of 2011, Mr. Miglini gave comments before the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council in which he described his Charter Fishermens Association as an organization formed by a group of captains who each wrote a check out of their own personal or charter business accounts and pooled our resources to get organized and engage more effectively in this council process.
Considering the IRS records showing the true source of the income, one has to wonder if Mr. Miglini actually broke any federal laws in terms of full disclosure and honesty in public testimony. So yes Mr. Brownlee, the answer to your final question above, I would say its is both illegal and immoral to stand before a legislative or regulatory body and tell blatant lies to further a cause, especially one which places a public resource into complete control of one or more private entities.
RFA saw this train wreck coming all along Sheriff, you apparently just ignored every one of the 911 calls since riding into town on that big white horse of yours.
He's a pompous ass, acts like he's a King down here in south Florida! A complete disgrace to call himself a recreational fishermen! He's an elitist PEW Lackey. The whole Bonnier corp is a joke, sold us all down the river!
Or should I just cancel my subscriptions?
Always swimming against the tide
If you really do read SWS you should know my position on catch shares, as I've stated them many times. I am personally opposed to them but feel commercial fishermen should have the right to vote whether they want them or not. They have no business in recreational fishing.
I think EDF and PEW have vastly different goals than we do, and I oppose most of them. But I don't see them as evil, although I agree they are a threat. But as I have also said repeatedly, they have the right to lobby just like we do. It's the American way like it or not. It doesn't always go your way and when it doesn't you can't whine and cry foul, accusing everyone of being a crook. You need to work harder.
As for alleged corruption and misuse of power, I don't know if that's true or not, but I suspect it's just more name calling.
Last edited by John Brownlee; 02-25-2013 at 08:22 PM.
Corruption? Well please explain your take on the current state of affairs at NOAA? I doubt you could have missed the recent audit findings of complete disaster for lack of a better word. Jane Lubejob has testified to the fact that science and sustainability have zero impact in current policy and rule making. Then there's the audits showing that the enforcement has been both lackluster and at the same time harassing and improper. Seems to be a little bit more than name calling particularly considering her motivations have been clearly exposed to match her history with EDF.
Please note that you use the words your and you. We are talking about issues that have direct impact on all recreational fishermen call it reading too deep but I think it says something that it wasn't us, we, our....It's the American way like it or not. It doesn't always go your way and when it doesn't you can't whine and cry foul, accusing everyone of being a crook. You need to work harder.
Always swimming against the tide
You're right, I should have said WE shouldn't whine and WE should work harder, and no, it's not all right that we're behind eight ball. But we better come up with a better strategy than calling Dr. Lubchenco "Dr.Lubejob"if we expect real results. More childish name calling.
As for animosity, who is trashing who in print? The animosity lies with Mr. Hutchinson. I have never printed a single bad word about him or the organization.
As for opinion, there is no pressure fom anyone within Bonnier as to what we write. Once again, if you actually read it, I'll bet you'd agree with virtually all of it. This is manufactured controversy where none really exists.
Hey look the sheriffs in town, Whats the matter sheriff no bullets in the gun so ya throwing up a smoke screen. Instead of disputing the article and the issue of Bonnier, PEW and the EDF you blow smoke. There really is no dispute since your company has accepted PEW funds correct?
You should really be honest to the consumers and just print on your Magazine your agenda is for Catch and Release Only of all Species!
Catch and Release may well be the end game for them with those having funds able to buy all the catch shares available and control who gets what, kinda like what Hutch JR writes is already going on with Red Snapper.
People need to realize there is agenda's going on, I'll take the side that has not accepted funds from those that are trying to control and manipulate our fisheries!
I do not believe that the issues with the RFA are one-sided in the least. I know that Hutch is a very reasonable person, I find it hard to believe that the issue is solely with him and the RFA. He may be the one calling you out now, but am sure that it did not reach this point without quite a bit of conflict of opinions.
I recently subscribed to SWS for the first time in a while. I will be interested to see the coverage on the current audits and misuse of resources at NOAA. Will it be covered?
Also, what is the standpoint on the Sharksmart marina initiative? Do you support the wholesale, arbitrary elimination of people taking sharks or do you admit and support that there is room for sustainable harvest?
Always swimming against the tide
Here are a few points from recent media on how badly NOAA and Lubchenko have been railroading the American fisherman for years. Is Dr. Lubejob all that inaccurate considering...?A post-2008 election policy paper by Environmental Defense and signed off by Lubchenco financed primarily by the Walton Family Foundation, rooted in Wal-Mart, promised that converting the wild resources to trade-able catching rights would ensure sustainability and restore profitability to the nations fisheries. And EDF vice president David Festa had also predicted that profits of 400 percent were to be had from timely investment in catch shares.
The rigid rebuilding language written into the Magnuson Stevens Act that has crushed the size of the total catch to be distributed to fishermen has no scientific basis, Lubchenco conceded in testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee in October 2011. But she also said she would not support changes in the law that would eliminate the language requiring 10 year rebuilding regimens for distressed stocks.
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Want to increase your magic level fast? Well then, pack your runes, and let's get going.
Magic is one of the most powerful combat types in Runescape, with attacks that deal high damage, as well as the ability to cast secondary non-combat spells that aid profitability, such as High Alchemy. However, Magic is quite expensive, as higher level spells go for about 500 gp a pop. With this in mind, I recommend that you have at least an air staff, and a fire staff as well if you plan to cast high alchemy en masse. For combat spells, the most cost effective is to use the air staff, however. Air runes are required for every combat spell, and cost about 15 gp each, so using an air staff with Fire Blast saves you 60 rs gold each cast.
Using a water staff with the debuff (curse, confuse, weaken) spells will also save you quite a bit of money as well, and if you are p2p, a very cost effective way of training is to simply use a mud staff, which supplies both water and earth runes for spells, and to buy only body runes and cast curse. At 8 gp a pop, you get 29 experience, making for quick and cheap training.
The only spellbook available to f2p players is the Modern Magic spellbook. Modern magic has many subsets: enchantment, teleportation, offensive spells, defensive spells, alchemy, binding, and transformation. Transformation and defensive spells are irrelevant for f2p players.
Alright, as we've already explained, magic is quite expensive to train, and in the process of training to about 60 Magic, you will use up about 300k of runes. We will be using a method found by me to be efficient, and quite cost effective when getting to the higher levels.
Levels 1-3: Wind Strike
Base xp per cast: 5.5
Wind Strike is the only spell you can cast at Magic Level 1, so that's what we have to start with. Basically all we want to do with this is get to level 3 so we can use confuse.
Levels 3-11: Confuse
Base xp per cast: 13
While slightly more expensive than simply continuing along the chain of strike spells, Confuse gives you quite a bit more xp, making it worth it. Once we get to level 11, we can simply go along to the next debuff spell, which is weaken.
Levels 11-19: Weaken
Base xp per cast: 20.5
Here we go, just another debuff spell. Costs the same to use as confuse, but yields more experience. Just keep casting along here, until we get to yet another debuff spell, curse.
Levels 19-35: Curse
Base xp per cast: 29
Yes, another debuff spell. But they are quite good experience up to a certain point. At which point, we will finally stop using debuff spells, and start using fire bolt.
Levels 35-39: Fire Bolt - Max hit 12
Base xp per cast: 22.5 + 0-48
Fire bolt is the very minimal spell that you should attain before even considering pking, and only if you are a very low level. This is sufficient for people around level 20-30. It shouldn't take too long to get to level 39, provided that you already have the runes required.
Levels 39-55: Crumble Undead- Max hit 15
Base xp per cast: 24.5 + 0-60
Crumble undead, is undoubtedly the fastest way to train until level 55. It hits undead creatures hard, and hits high often, meaning that you can sometimes pull off even better experience than blast spells. One of the best places to train with crumble undead is in the varrock sewers. Once you get here, the road to level 55 is quite fast.
Levels 55+: High Alchemy
Base xp per cast: 65
High alchemy is the only real cost effective method to training magic past this point. Simply withdraw a large amount of a single item as a note, and place that in your 17th inventory slot. Then click on your spell list and select High Alchemy spell, once you click on it, it will automatically bring you to your inventory. Having put your notes in the 17th slot already, you do not need to move your mouse anymore. runescape money Happy training!


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Welcome to the official blog of Maumee Valley Romance Writers of America! We're a local writers' group in the Toledo, Ohio area. Most of us write romance, but we also have members who write other genres too. New members are always welcome to visit or join the group. See the meetings page for details. We post every Monday and Friday about all things book-related. Whether you're a writer, reader, or both, we hope you'll stop by often and get to know our dozen contributors.
Friday, August 26, 2011
The Joys of E-Publishing!
It used to be in the past people considered e-publishers to be the red headed step-child of the industry. Before you post that I am picking on red-heads, I'm allowed to say that since I am a light ginger myself, LOL
Even I used to think that digital publishing was a last resort when all the 'real' publishers rejected me. But that is a very inaccurate perception.
Thankfully, just as times have changed, so have the misconceptions.
While I would still love to see my work in print...I do have a Christmas anthology coming in print this year which I am excited about...there are some wonderful benefits to digital publishing I would like to discuss today.
1. Underrepresented genres
* Vampire, witches, Regency and Scottish Highland hunks not your thing?
In digital publishing your 'unwanted' genre of romance can find a home. Whether you write erotica and male/male romance (commonly known as m/m) like I do, post WW2, 1960's New York City, Civil War zombies....whatever!
If your book is well written a digital publisher will not turn away your manuscript because regency is 'selling' and Civil War is not. Also larger books can find a home in digital publishing as do short stories under 10k
2. You get paid a lot sooner
* Hey, who doesn't love that? While a few e-publishers do pay advances, for the most part they all pay a commission based on a predetermined percentage. You can be paid within 90 days at some houses, even receiving monthly royalty checks. Believe me, that is a real nice treat once a month!
3. Personal service
* at some of the smaller houses, they are so welcoming and can be very understanding to new authors. You will never feel stupid because you are a publishing virgin. That is a blessing for sure!
4. Input in your book cover
* Of course, this is not a guarantee. Nothing in this industry is. But in my experience, input on my book covers was well received. The result has been even a few award winning covers *grins*
Take a look at this -------------->
This is my latest book cover for an erotic m/m novella...talk about an underrepresented genre in NYC.... called BEAR IT ALL available now from Decadent Publishing!
Gorgeous, right?
5. Professional editing
* if you do your homework, and submit to reputable well reviewed digital publishers ...even in print publishers you can find some shoddy work so homework is ALWAYS important.... your mss will be refined and treated to the best polish you ever imagined!
6. Independence
* promotions are up to you, which can be scary. However, the flip side is your book sales will reflect the work you put into it.
7. Affordable e-readers
* With easy to use reading devices, e-books are getting more and more attention. They are even available on your cell phone!!
As a bibliophile, I hate to admit it, print books may be a luxury one day, meant only for the famous authors, not the rest of us peons.
A lot of digital publishers do offer print options, so do not despair that you will never see your precious book in print!
But e-books are the wave of the future. Heck, even THE NEW YORK TIMES has e-book listings.
I hope these few things have given you a new perspective as to why digital publishing may be right for you.
With social media, blogs, and e-readers maybe you should consider taking the plunge and being a part of the digital revolution!
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8 comments:
- Elysa said...
Excellent advice and information. Also, an author might want to consider self-epublishing. Places like Smashwords make the process "almost" foolproof. And there are many groups and authors out there willing to help guide you through the process.
My first book Rawhide Surrender was epublished back in 1999 when ebooks were just starting out. I've recently regained my rights to this book and will soon be epublishing it myself. I've also taken a couple of my unsold manuscripts and put them out on Kindle. So far my sales aren't stellar, but I've sold more copies than if I'd left the manuscript sitting on my computer.
- August 26, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Patrice Kavanaugh said...
Some great insights, Deanna. I completely agree that epublishing is no longer the "ugly stepsister" of the "real" publishing industry. That point was driven home at this year's RWA National conference. Thanks for sharing your experience. Sounds like a winning one.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:42 AM
- Em-Musing said...
Yup, my manuscript may go way of "e" or "self" but you made some valid points and I don't feel so hesitant any longer.
- August 26, 2011 at 10:43 AM
- Ayda Recknagel said...
It seems to me the list of reasons to not e- or self-publish are getting shorter all the time, and your list helps solidify that fact for me. Authors struggling to find the right 'home' for their books can just make one of their own now. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and blogging, self-promotion is easier than ever, and FREE! How does that old shampoo commercial go? "You tell your friend, and she'll tell her friend, and she'll tell her friend..."
- August 26, 2011 at 12:38 PM
- Constance Phillips said...
Thanks for your post, Deanna. I've been thinking about submitting some of my manuscripts to e-pubs for awhile now, and you make a convincing argument.
BTW, Love your knew cover and looking forward to reading the story.
- August 26, 2011 at 5:06 PM
- Kristina Knight said...
Wonderful insights, Deanna. Epubs are on my list of research once the kiddo is in school and I can concentrate for longer than 5 minutes at a time.
- August 26, 2011 at 6:57 PM
- Deanna said...
Thanks for the thoughts, gals! I'm glad to have given you guys some new things to think about! :)
I still would like to have a mainstream print book in Walmart one day, LOL, but until then I'll just celebrate selling my seventh e-book contract!
- August 26, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Deanna: the epubs were courting hard at RWA National and they made a lot of sense. The self-pubbing talk made sense too. Thanks for your post.
- August 29, 2011 at 8:39 PM


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