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Recipe for Health: Garlicky Spinach & Watercress
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Professional chef, cookbook author and nutrition instructor at New York University Lourdes Castro, MS, RD, brings dark-leafy greens to life in this delicious and easy dish.
In addition to providing intense aromatic flavor, garlic is rich in antioxidants. Here, Castro pairs it with watercress and sautés them both with spinach to tame the intense flavors. The chef suggests that this type of preparation will help you increase your consumption of leafy greens "since you can consume five times the amount when they are cooked!"
Try this simple method with any of your favorite greens for a vegetarian, gluten-free side dish that is low in saturated fat. "This is a great way of using leftover leafy greens," Castro says. "Mix and match spinach with other lettuces and any other green you may have on hand."
Note: This recipe can sit at room temperature for an hour or two with very little effect on its quality. However, be careful with acids like lemon juice or vinegar coming into contact with cooked greens; the acid will cause their green color to turn dark-brown.
3 cloves garlic, peeled
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon olive oil
5 ounces spinach
1 bunch watercress
Create garlic paste: Place garlic cloves and 1/4 teaspoon salt in mortar and crush into paste with pestle. Alternatively, use cup and back of wooden spoon or simply chop garlic and salt with knife.
Place garlic paste and olive oil in nonstick pan and set it over medium high heat. When garlic begins to sizzle, add spinach and watercress—in batches if necessary—and remaining salt. Cook until all greens are wilted. Serves 4.
Per serving: 44 calories; 3.6 grams (g) total fat (0 g saturated fat, 0 grams trans fat); 0 milligrams (mg) cholesterol; 330 mg sodium; 2.4 g total carbohydrates (1 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar); 1.7 g protein; 6% iron; 36% vitamin C.
Source: Original recipe by Lourdes Castro, MS, RD.
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Nature Makes a Comeback
See progress at Helen Wood Park, one year after an artificial oyster reef was built.
Restoring the Heart of Coastal Alabama
The Conservancy's Alabama program received funding from NOAA through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to construct living shorelines along the state's coast.
The 100-1000: Restore Coastal Alabama coalition includes:
• Alabama Coastal Foundation
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• Mobile Baykeeper
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Ocean Foundation
• University of South Alabama
• Other local, state and federal agency partners
The 100-1000: Restore Coastal Alabama Project
In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, four leading conservation organizations — Alabama Coastal Foundation, Mobile Baykeeper, The Nature Conservancy and The Ocean Foundation — formed a partnership to address impacts from the oil spill and reverse years of environmental degradation along the Alabama coast.
"The 100-1000: Restore Coastal Alabama project is an impressive model for partnership building that has great potential to be replicated and used to advance large-scale restoration efforts across the Gulf of Mexico," said Judy Haner, marine and freshwater programs director for The Nature Conservancy in Alabama.
While each of the partners has a primary role, the Conservancy is leading the project's science and restoration effort. With a growing roster of more than 30 public and private partners, ranging from federal and state agencies to academic institutions, the coalition is working to build 100 miles of oyster reefs and plant and promote the growth of 1,000 acres of marsh and seagrass.
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The project kicked off in early 2011 with an impressive volunteer event attended by more than 500 people from around the country helping to build a ¼-mile oyster reef at Helen Wood Park along Mobile Bay. Once installed, the reefs were breaking waves before they reached the shoreline. Within months of construction, Conservancy scientists began seeing increased bird and fish activity around the reefs and expansion of the nearby marsh.
Watch a video of the progress at Helen Wood Park
In spring 2012, the Conservancy is heading up construction on the next half-mile of oyster reef. Haner and her team have already mapped out the next several miles of reef restoration and are working tirelessly to secure funding to put the projects on the ground.
Designed to have a lasting impact on the ecology, culture and economy of the Alabama coast — and the greater Gulf of Mexico region — this large-scale restoration effort will:
- provide habitat for oyster larvae to settle and colonize,
- create nursery habitat for commercially and recreationally important fish and shellfish (shrimp, blue crab, speckled trout, red drum, southern flounder, ladyfish and gray snapper),
- dampen wave energy and decrease erosion, and
- stabilize sediments and decreasing turbidity.
Learn how an oyster reef works!
In addition to involving volunteers and community members, the restoration work is also providing jobs for struggling locals whose businesses have been affected by the depressed economy and oil spill. There is a need for people to help build the reef structures and skilled boat crews to deploy them.
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Although it happened less than four months ago, the millennium seems a thousand years away. But now that the hype is gone, the arrival from London of Martin Sherman's "Rose" seems oddly timely.
This quietly harrowing one-actor play offers what was missing from all the celebrations - a somber reflection on the 20th century.
Through the life of one Jewish woman, "Rose" tells the story of a century in which everything changed except the violence of the strong against the weak.
This is one of those rare plays in which there is no gap between what it says and how it works.
On the one hand, "Rose" is about as undramatic as a piece of theater can be. An 80-year-old woman, played by Olympia Dukakis, sits on a wooden bench in her apartment in Miami Beach and talks to us.
On the other, it describes a tumultuous journey through anarchic times.
Rose grows up in a shtetl in the Ukraine. She moves to Warsaw, where her husband and child are murdered in the Nazi assault on the Jewish ghetto.
She survives and sails to Israel on the Exodus refugee ship. Forced to return again to Europe, she marries an American and moves to Atlantic City.
But even though she ends up as a prosperous hotelier in Miami Beach, her children and grandchildren are in Israel.
The emotional climax of the play is on the West Bank, where the murder of a Palestinian child triggers a bleak elegy for her own lost daughter.
The play centers on this contrast between the stillness of what we see and the chaos of what we hear. And Sherman's point turns on a similar contrast: In all the extraordinary changes of the century, the things we did to each other did not change at all.
Indeed, "Rose" marks a real maturing in Sherman's output. While works like "Bent" and "A Madhouse in Goa" have long marked him as a formidable talent, "Rose" adds a missing ingredient: restraint.
Where a less-accomplished writer might have piled on the horror, Sherman here grasps the power of understatement.
Because it emerges bit by bit from behind a protective screen of Yiddishe-mama mannerisms, Rose's pain is far more real than any wild outpouring of emotion.
This does, nevertheless, place a huge burden on Dukakis. While the one-actor show is usually seen as an opportunity to show off, "Rose" demands fierce self-control.
She is not helped, moreover, by the venue. For a show that demands intimacy and intensity, a midsize Broadway theater like the Lyceum is far from ideal.
But Dukakis rises - magnificently - to these challenges. Her performance, under Nancy Meckler's pitch-perfect direction, is a small miracle of emotional awareness.
Alert to the truth of every moment, she steers the story with an uncannily sensitive touch through all the lurking reefs of sentimentality and mawkishness.
There is nothing heroic or spectacular about her acting. But this elegy for a century's dead is no place for spectacle.
Dukakis shows that sometimes, a single "Rose" can be a more moving tribute than a big bouquet.
Olympia Dukakis sits for the entire evening center stage - it looks like she's sitting on a table in the midst of a strange room - and tells us, in the first person, the story of Rose's life in "Rose," the new play by Martin Sherman at the Lyceum.
"Rose" started with Dukakis, last June at London's Cottesloe Theatre - a small, dark space where this recitation would seem at home. In the Lyceum, it seems lost and odd.
Dukakis is a likable and savvy performer who uses a full bag of tricks to interest us in Rose.
She affects a strong - but never for a second unintelligible - Yiddish accent as she rehearses a life that, miraculously, touches on so many moral problems.
Rose, Dukakis tells us, was a young Jewish girl in the Poland of the pogroms. Her mother was a sort of pagan saint, her father a selfish invalid killed during a pogrom by a falling medicine chest.
Rose took off for Warsaw, where she married a crazy modern painter who liked to take her to see cowboy and musical pictures.
This habit reinforces one of Rose's peculiarities: She cannot distinguish between her own memories and the movies' version of them.
It's an unlikely malady for a woman of Rose's time; in fact, it's more typical of the 1990s.
The Nazis come, and a handsome young German soldier shoots Rose's daughter Esther in the face. After the war, she is, natch, on the boat Exodus heading for Palestine. She cannot tell the difference between her experience and the 1960 Paul Newman movie.
Is this likely? A sailor named Sonny Rose falls for her, though, and takes her off to Atlantic City, where she becomes Rose Rose.
It is McCarthy's time; Rose is against McCarthy.
She has a son, Abner. After the death of her husband, she's off to Miami Beach, where she comes to own a hotel, the Double Rose.
Her third husband is a hippie, and her fourth is a businessman.
Abner goes off to Israel, where he weds Kim, a Yankee convert to Judaism. Rose visits and is made uneasy by Abner's contempt for the Yiddish culture of her youth and by Kim's new Jewish fanaticism.
Her grandsons include a gay film editor in Los Angeles and an Israeli soldier.
The soldier shoots an adorable little Palestinian girl.
In Rose's world, Israel becomes the latest version of Nazi Germany. Is all this plausible? Is it not rather a hip, '90s gay-leftist take on modern history, using as its mouthpiece a Jewish woman of '30s Poland?
The play, an insufferable lecture, is Martin Sherman's coy imagining of the past, not surprising from one who imagined himself a gay victim of the Nazis in the 1997 film "Bent."
Rose is finally less a person than a handy device for Sherman to hand us his vision of the 20th century.
Watching Olympia Dukakis perform ''Rose,'' a play-length monologue by Martin Sherman, will provoke an unpleasant queasiness in anyone who has ever felt guilty about dismissing a rambling grandparent.
An 80-year-old Jew who grew up in the Ukraine, survived the Warsaw Ghetto and the postwar attempt by the British to stem the flood of refugees to Palestine, pursued the American capitalist ideal and ended up running a hotel in Miami Beach, Rose has lessons about the century to impart. But for all its picaresque detail, her story resonates on the tired frequency of a lecture about the wages of forgetting the past. If you are not of a certain age, you may react to her as a child to a relative who has overtaken one too many family gatherings: Yes, Grandma. Now can we go out and play?
The play, presented by Lincoln Center Theater, opened last night at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway. It had a critically praised run last year at the Royal National Theater in London, where perhaps the message about the post-World War II American experience as a soothing but pallid echo of life in prewar Europe can be received more cheerily. But directed here, as in London, by Nancy Meckler, the production has a finger-wagging quality. It comes through in the writing of Mr. Sherman, an American who lives in England, and in the performance of Ms. Dukakis, who doesn't seem to have inhabited the character of Rose so much as seized on her to make a point: Listen! This is good for you.
Actually, it's hard to fault the actress. Rose is, after all, less of a real character than a construct, the symbol of a century in which victims of atrocities in Russia and Germany are now witnesses to, if not compliant with, their re-enactment in the Middle East. This, anyway, is the sincere if not terribly original perspective of Mr. Sherman, who offers it here with grave and intrusive sentimentality.
Mr. Sherman, best known as the author of the concentration camp drama ''Bent,'' has put together his script so that from the moment it begins, with Rose in ominous mourning for a murdered 9-year-old girl, the signposts of a narrative meant to reflect back on itself are marked in neon. And even if you miss one, the playwright makes sure it redounds brightly. When Rose, the Holocaust survivor, in her frivolous 40's, goes to live in a commune in Connecticut, she describes the experience this way: ''We smoked a lot of dope and talked about peace and love and noble things, and I did not mention the last time I lived 12 to a room lest I blacken their innocence.''
Rose has had some colorful time of it! Cossacks and Nazis, sex and marijuana, two dead husbands (each of whom she meets cute), a shiksa daughter-in-law who becomes a militant Israeli, a gay grandson, Atlantic City, Hollywood. God and godlessness, too; at some point along a complicated and tragicomic life arc, she becomes an agnostic. How could she not? She also becomes a comedian.
She learned in childhood, she says, ''that Judaism's greatest contribution to mankind was asking questions that can't be answered and that the glory of the race has less to do with giving the world Moses and Marx and Jesus and everything to do with the invention of the phrase 'on the other hand.' ''
This remark, offered early on, is with its presumed cleverness telltale. Throughout the play, Rose's penchant for weary wisecracking, or maybe just her mode of expression, rings false. Either Mr. Sherman is talking through her, or else in the year it took Rose to become fluent in English, she assimilated a lifetime of Borscht Belt humor.
''I suppose if you have your first period and your first pogrom within the same month,'' she says, ''you can safely assume childhood is over.'' Ba-dum-bum. You'd hate to tell such a worthy old woman that she's really not all that clever.
This is one of many rugged obstacles for Ms. Dukakis. A play that calls for its one performer not to stir from a bench at center stage is, after all, one that commandeers an actor's tools. Ms. Dukakis, sitting at the forward point of a down-raked floor and working mostly with her eyes -- which can go from a tired glaze to a pale burn in an instant -- makes a genuine connection with the audience. And even if her accent isn't quite identifiable or her body language doesn't describe a woman as feeble as Rose claims to be, it's hard work she's engaged in: two hours of fierce remembrance in physical repose.
Indeed, the tremulous quietude of Rose's life in her old age is one thing the production makes absolutely vivid. Behind Ms. Dukakis, the set depicts the spacious living room of the apartment Rose occupies in the hotel she once owned. Sparely furnished, with an open door barely visible in the dim background, it has a chair and a tall cactus plant off to one side, against window blinds shut against the shifting light of late afternoon passing to early evening. It's all quite beautiful and lonely, an impression made more potent by the muffled sounds of life periodically rising from the street: a boombox, a siren, cars passing.
The designers, at least -- Stephen Brimson Lewis (set), Johanna Town (lighting) and Peter Salem (sound) -- have done wonderfully subtle work.
It's that merry old English time of year again --- the spring theater season. Last week brought back-to-back Broadway openings of plays that originated at London's Royal National Theater: "Copenhagen" and "Rose." "Rose," however, is an atypical English import. It stars American actress Olympia Dukakis and was written by Martin Sherman, an American playwright who lives in London, and it tells the story of a Jewish American octogenarian whose life has been shaped by various turning points --- mostly harrowing --- of 20th century history.
It's too bad, then, that this binational artistic alliance, which is being presented at the handsome Lyceum by Lincoln Center Theater, isn't a more exciting play. It provides Dukakis, who is the sole performer, with a role that's both technically taxing and theatrically comfortable, and she performs it with admirable humor, intelligence and ease. It will probably play to good crowds during its limited run, thanks to subject matter of particular appeal to Broadway theatergoers.
But there's something pat and even rote about this cozy tour through the highs and lows of a woman's life. It's a familiar-feeling saga of survival that doesn't linger very probingly or rewardingly on any of the episodes in Rose's calamity-packed journey. The dark background of the Holocaust and its aftermath give the play a kind of superficial gravitas that the writing itself doesn't often earn.
Dukakis performs the play sitting on a bench --- Rose is sitting shiva for a young girl, and, as she proceeds to relate her life story over the next two hours or so, we learn that periods of mourning have been a recurring event for Rose. Born in a shtetl in the Ukraine, the intellectually curious girl followed her brother to Warsaw to escape the stultifying --- and dangerous --- nature of village life. "I suppose if you have your first period and your first pogrom within the same month, you can safely assume childhood is over," Rose dryly recalls.
In Warsaw she falls in love with a painter. "Yussel wasn't a bad artist. He wasn't exactly a Chagall, but then who is? Jews aren't visual --- look at what they wear," she cracks, in one of the many shticky moments that alternate with the play's sticky ones. Those come soon enough, as Rose gives birth to a daughter, Esther, shortly before the arrival of the Nazis in Poland.
Rose survives the ghetto alone and soon finds herself on a boat to Israel, the promised land, where a political contretemps surrounding the Exodus brings her back to life after a period of numbness. Helping out in this respect is Sonny Rose, the Jewish American sailor she meets aboard the ship and eventually marries. They move to Atlantic City, where Rose Rose, as she is now called, starts a new family. Later Rose's adventurous life takes some more surprising turns, particularly when she takes off with a younger lover to live in a commune (after Sonny's death, mind you).
Rose's tough, unsentimental voice is convincingly rendered by Sherman's colloquial, often piquantly funny writing, and Dukakis impeccably inhabits the heart and mind of this feisty survivor, who still speaks her W's as V's ("I vondered vat vould happen..."). The play moves smoothly along under Nancy Meckler's unfussy direction, with emotional climaxes subtly cued by Joanna Town's affectionate lighting.
But in the end, Rose's recounting of the emotional vicissitudes of her saga does not make for a lively evening of theater. A life, however filled with incident it may be, is not inherently dramatic, and most of the drama in "Rose" feels lifted, chapter by chapter, from the history books. This material has simply been mined too often to maintain its fascination in this sober but skin-deep rendering.
Nor does "Rose" dig deeply into any of the larger issues it raises, such as the existence (or not) of God in the hearts of Holocaust survivors, the death of European Jewish culture, and the moral ambiguities of the new Zionist culture that rose from its ashes.
As Rose confidentially recounts the joys and trials of her life, the lovemaking and the heartbreak, the clashes with history and the dramatic surprises, Sherman's play eventually begins to resemble a solo stage version of one of those panoramic romance novels that plop an indomitable heroine down in a tumultuous historical period and let her run a gauntlet of heart-tugging obstacles on her way to wisdom and contentment. "Danielle Steel's Diaspora," heaven help us!


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AV systems that are technically elegant, adroitly installed, and masterfully commissioned often evoke a single word of appreciation and awe: sweet. Less magical, though no less essential, are the business underpinnings of sales and marketing.
AV SYSTEMS THAT ARE TECHNICALLY elegant, adroitly installed, and masterfully commissioned often evoke a single word of appreciation and awe: sweet. There's little doubt cool technology drives and inspires the commercial AV systems integration industry. Less magical, though no less essential, are the business underpinnings of sales and marketing. Without sales and marketing, integrators would have a hard time monetizing their and their clients' visions.
Just as technology advances, so too does the business acumen among successful AV integration firms. Yet in many cases, business capabilities trail technical. And if not planned for correctly, sales and marketing can be among the missing pieces of an otherwise successful business.
Few firms would deny that sales and marketing are important to growing their companies. But the gap between what they know and what they do can be telling. So far this year, the NSCA has conducted two Market Intelligence Briefing studies to gauge sales and marketing best practices in the commercial AV industry. In January, it released "Marketing and Promotion in the Commercial Electronic Systems Industry; in April, "Sales Management Trends in the Commercial Electronic Systems Industry." Both are available in their entirety through the NSCA Web site (www.nsca.org), and both are useful reminders to systems integration firms to benchmark their own companies in these two vital business functions.
We've boiled down some of the findings into five key pieces that AV integrators will want to plan for, hone, or augment as they grow and improve their companies. The fact is AV systems integration is still a growing, increasingly competitive marketplace. To move ahead without these pieces puts you at a disadvantage. While the majority of what's discussed here applies to integrators, the NSCA research also includes results for independent technical/design consultants. Download the original reports for more information.
PIECE #1: The Marketing PlanSystems design and installation doesn't happen on-the-fly or by improvisation, yet often that's the approach integration firms take to marketing and promotion. Findings from the NSCA Market Intelligence Briefings reveal that less than 21 percent of integrators say they have an up-to-date, written marketing plan or a brand positioning statement. Another 20 percent indicate they have nothing more than a budget for promotional activities.
Why would a company not have a marketing plan in an industry built on design and planning? The reasons integrators give for not having a marketing plan range from time constraints to not seeing the value of a plan. Some also offer the "moving target" rationale, arguing that situations change too quickly and thereby limit the value of a written plan.
That said, about half the integrators (48.4 percent) in the NSCA study on marketing and promotion said they have in informal marketing plan (see "Marketing Plans," below). An informal plan could be anything from ideas sketched out on the back of an envelope to an on-the-fly decision based on someone's idea.
That's not good enough, and many integrators know it: About one-fifth of the informal planners said they see the value of developing marketing plans in the future. And they can learn from the companies that already do so. Of those systems integration firms that do have marketing plans, signs are they consider it a team effort, with the majority indicating the plans are created with input from the sales staff. Why sales? About a third of the integrators indicate that the objectives of the marketing plan are tracked against sales successes.
Of course, a marketing plan isn't worth a whole lot unless a company can put some resources behind it. And that doesn't seem to be happening. A stunning finding of the NSCA studies is that integrators allocate relatively meager budgets to marketing and promotion. As a group, systems integrators said they budgeted an average of just 2.9 percent of their gross revenue for marketing and promotional activities in 2007 (for more, see "Marketing Budget Trends," page 62).
NSCA's 2007 Financial Analysis of the Industry offers the bigger picture of other expenditures competing with marketing for dollar, not the least of which is training. The good news is, integrators know they need to spend more on marketing, especially in such a competitive industry. Those in the NSCA survey anticipate devoting 3.4 percent of their gross revenues for promotional activities in 2008. While still small, this represents a 31 percent increase year to year.


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When you sell your duplex, you'll have one closing for the sale of one piece of real estate.�However, for tax purposes, the sale is looked upon as two transactions: the sale of your home and the sale of your rental property. Assuming you live in half the duplex and rent the other half, 50 percent of your gain on the sale of this duplex will be taxed as the sale of rental property.
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You can exclude up to $250,000 in capital gains on the sale of your principal residence if you are single; $500,000 if you are married filing jointly -- if you have lived in it for at least two of the five years preceding the sale.
Hardly anyone pays capital gains on the sale of his residence if he's lived in it for more than two years, so you probably won't have to pay capital gains on that half of the sale.�
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You have to pay tax on the sale of rental real estate, and you may need a tax professional to help you figure out how much. Generally, if you've used the straight-line method of depreciation, capital gains are figured by subtracting the cost of the property and the cost of selling it from it's sales price, and adding back the depreciation you took. However, if you've used an accelerated method of depreciation, the depreciation that exceeds the amount of depreciation you would have taken under the straight-line method is taxed at a higher rate.
Form 4797, Sale of Business Property, is used to report the transaction, and the gain gets carried over to Schedule D, Capital Gains and Losses.
Part III of Form 4797 is where you figure out the capital gains. The form can be confusing. You'll need to know the following information:
If you are in the 15 percent tax bracket, the capital gains will be 10 percent.� If you are in a higher tax bracket, it will be 20 percent.
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Although cameras will attempt to capture every move by New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and other key players like Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, running back Ray Rice and inside linebacker Ray Lewis, the grunt work on the offensive and defensive lines figures to be pivotal in Sunday's AFC championship game.
"Pretty much every game is decided in the trenches, and then by guys making plays," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "Whoever wins the trenches has a great chance to win the game."
Despite rising scores and a quicker pace, football always comes back to the primordial, hard-nosed roots of blocking and tackling.
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In the AFC divisional round, the Ravens were much more physical than the Denver Broncos.
They sacked Peyton Manning three times as Ravens outside linebacker Terrell Suggs shoved Broncos offensive tackle Ryan Clady into the backfield for a pair of sacks.
Offensively, the Ravens outrushed Denver with old-fashioned double-team blocks, punctuated by a timely pull-and-lead block by Pro Bowl offensive guard Marshal Yanda to clear out Broncos linebacker Wesley Woodyard on a 32-yard run by Rice.
"I think it's huge on both sides, our offensive line and defensive line against theirs," Ravens defensive tackle Haloti Ngata said. "If we can create some pressure on Brady, then it's definitely going to put pressure on their offense. Hopefully, we can do that and do that as much as we can, and same thing with our offensive line. If they can protect Joe, then definitely we'll have a good game."
Finding a way to block Ngata is high on the Patriots' list of priorities.
Powerful and fast for his size at 6 feet 4, 340 pounds, Ngata has five sacks and is regarded as one of the most dominant interior linemen in the game.
"Ngata is everything that is advertised," Patriots center Ryan Wendell said. "He is a big, powerful guy, skillful, quick feet, good hands, knows how to get to the ball, understands football, knows how to beat offensive linemen's blocks. He is a great defensive tackle and he is going to be a huge test for us."
In Week 3, when the Ravens came away with a 31-30 win at M&T Bank Stadium, the Patriots failed to contain Ngata.
He recorded a season-high nine tackles, including seven solos, and split a sack.
"Haloti, he's a very good player," Patriots left guard Logan Mankins said. "I think everyone knows that. He does a lot of different things for them, he lines up everywhere. I think that's one of the things that makes him very good. He's very versatile for someone his size. He's always a handful for whatever team's playing them and we'll have to do a good job against him."
That's easier said than done, though.
Ngata isn't the only massive player on the Ravens' defensive line.
Between Ngata, nose guards Terrence Cody and Ma'ake Kemoeatu and defensive end Arthur Jones, the Ravens average 335.25 pounds across the defensive front.
"Their defense in anchored by those big guys up front," Wendell said. "They have Ngata and Cody and then behind them you have Jones coming in. I mean, they are solid all the way across the board. They are big human beings."
Jones, whose younger brother, Chandler Jones, is a starting rookie defensive end for the Patriots, had a career-high 4 1/2 sacks in the regular season.
"We respect them and they respect us," Arthur Jones said. "We know what we're going to get, and it is going to be a battle, man on man and mano-a-mano."
Mankins has faced Ngata many times with mixed results. In his eighth NFL season, Mankins is a formidable enough blocker that Ngata singled him out for praise.


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Not only is it in real time 3D, but you actually takeoff. Forget about car races. Now, encouraged by a cheering crowd and the wild commentaries of Lance Boyle, you will be piloting vessels specially conceived for speed and combat, in environments that change with each race. You can choose between a dozen different vessels, each with their own strengths and characteristics. They all have 3 active modes: Speed – Attack – Defence.
All the ships are modular and according to your results, you will be able to personalise them. Different modules are available to improve the engine characteristics, including the battle armour and the weapons.
Several game modes are available including – simple solo race, race with customisable ships, capture the flag, duel mode and, all of which can be played in network mode.
In a totally wild virtual universe, the hallucinogenic projection of what TV will be showing in the future, MEGARACE 3 is a unique game that re-creates both a spectacular race, and a great 3D first person shooting game. Instead of a being given a low-powered shotgun, the player is provided with a lean machine built for speed and war at their fingertips…
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The department has taken a broad-based approach to handling requests for information, and, where appropriate, provided information outside the formal processes of the Freedom of Information Act. We have focused on improving our Freedom of Information processes and supporting decision-makers in their making of decisions.
Our historical research and publications program completed preparation of several new publications covering seminal events and topics in Australian foreign and trade policy, and helping to improve public understanding of the department's work and history.
We implemented strategic improvements in our records management systems and practices and launched the pilot of a new Electronic Document and Records Management System to move the department from paper-based to electronic filing.
Freedom of information
The Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI Act) extends the right to obtain access to information in the Government's possession. Access is limited only by exemptions that protect essential public interests and the private and business affairs of people about whom departments and statutory authorities collect and hold information (see Appendix 5).
We finalised 90 applications, 12 more than last financial year. Requests often involved a substantial volume of information and/or covered complex and sensitive topics. When access decisions were made outside the statutory deadline, it was often due to the volume or the sensitive nature of the documents. We actively managed the FOI caseload, liaising closely with applicants on the content and processing of the requests, especially when there were delays in decision-making.
We received five requests for internal review of access decisions and decisions were made on all those requests in 2008–09. Two appeals to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) against access decisions and one appeal to the AAT against our decision to not remit the application fee for a request were lodged in 2008–09. The three appeals to the AAT were lodged by the same applicant.
One appeal to the AAT lodged in 2007–08 was withdrawn by the applicant. One appeal to the AAT lodged in 2007–08 is ongoing.
We provided training on our FOI obligations at induction programs and executive-level courses. We provided assistance on FOI processing, reporting and practice to portfolio bodies.
There were no applications received under section 48 of the FOI Act for amendment of records.
We met our obligations under sections 8 and 9 of the FOI Act, including the provision of statistical reports to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (see Appendix 5).
We also—when documents relevant to the request are in the possession of the department—process requests received in the offices of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister for Trade, the Parliamentary Secretary for International Development Assistance, the Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs and the Parliamentary Secretary for Trade.
2008–09 | 2007–08 | 2006–07 | |
Requests for information | |||
Access granted in full | 7 | 14 | 23 |
Access granted in part | 39 | 39 | 40 |
Access refused | 12 | 6 | 21 |
Requests transferred or withdrawn | 32 | 19 | 13 |
Total | 90 | 78 | 97 |
Requests subject to review or legal appeal | |||
Requests for internal review (s.54) | 5 | 4 | 7 |
Appeals lodged with the AAT (s.55) | 3 | 2 | 0 |
Ombudsman | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Historical publications and information
The department continued to research and publish in the field of Australian foreign policy. Our publications are an important resource for scholars and the general public and a valuable means of explaining the nature of the department's work. This year we supplemented our longstanding Documents in Australian foreign policy series with publication of several narrative commemorative histories.
To coincide with the centenary celebrations for the visit of the United States' 'Great White Fleet' to Australia in 1908, the Minister for Foreign Affairs launched the history, Great White Fleet to Coral Sea: Naval strategy and the development of Australia–United States relations, 1900–1945 at the University of Sydney in August 2008. Also in August, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Trade launched Emissaries of trade: A history of the Australian Trade Commissioner Service. Written by Emeritus Professor Boris Schedvin, this work was commissioned by Austrade and published by the department.
In November, the Minister for Foreign Affairs launched Every Assistance and Protection: A History of the Australian Passport, written and researched by the department's Historical Publications and Information Section. The launch was held in conjunction with an exhibition in the R G Casey Building on the history of the passport (see output 2.1.2).
In October 2008, the department and the National Archives of Australia (NAA) jointly hosted the third annual R G Neale lecture at the NAA. This public lecture series focuses on foreign policy issues and utilises 30-year-old Commonwealth records released each year by the NAA. Professor Richard Cashman of the University of Technology, Sydney delivered the lecture on the subject 'Australia's role in the apartheid sports boycott in 1977'.
The department also organised a historical photographic exhibition in the R G Casey Building to commemorate the life of former Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Dr Alan Renouf OBE. The then Secretary, Mr Michael L'Estrange AO, opened the exhibition in October 2008.
We responded to 149 requests for historical information from public and official inquirers.
Archival examination
Our archival records more than 30 years old are available to public researchers on application to the National Archives of Australia (NAA) under Section 40 of the Archives Act 1983. Prior to release to the public, the NAA refers classified records to the department for expert assessment regarding possible exemption in light of sensitivities relating to intelligence, security or international relations of the Commonwealth of Australia. We are also responsible for approving applications for Special or Official access to Commonwealth records under Section 56(2) of the Archives Act 1983.
Table 7 outlines requests received by the department under the Archives Act. We received 913 requests from the NAA, foreign governments and other agencies for archival records to be assessed for public release. These included files or documents requested by public researchers relating to:
- British and United States policy on Antarctica—1949 to 1977
- Negotiations with Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and East Timor on seabed boundaries—1972
- Nuclear non-proliferation—1973
- Entry of terrorists into Australia—1975
- Australia–US relations—1973
- Australia's relations with Asia
- The internal security situation in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia—1966 to 1978
- The political situation in Bougainville
- Australia's relations with East Timor—1976–1977
- USSR foreign policy—1977–1978
- Australian defence aid to the South-West Pacific.
We cleared records relating to specific projects such as research material in support of the Australian War Memorial's Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, the 2008 R G Neale Lecture on 'Australia's role in the apartheid sports boycott in 1977', documents requested under Special Access provisions, 1979 Cabinet Records due for public release in January 2010 under the 30-year rule and final clearance of records from the 1977 Hope Royal Commission on Intelligence and Security.
Of the 913 requests received, 175 files or documents were the subject of a recommendation for at least one exemption on national security or international relations grounds, and 287 were released in full. We referred for clearance 112 files or documents to other agencies (Australian Secret Intelligence Service, Australian Security Intelligence Organisation and the Department of Defence) and 50 requests to foreign governments (United Kingdom, United States, Canada and New Zealand). We processed ten requests from foreign governments (United States and United Kingdom) and 22 requests from other agencies (the Department of Defence, Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Office of National Assessments).
2008–09 | 2007–08 | 2006–07 | |
Number of requests received | 913 | 499 | 635 |
Total requests assessed | 462 | 445 | 636 |
Total completed | 462 | 441 | 629 |
Number of folios assessed | 69 118 | 84 080 | 113 913 |
Open access | 287 | 132 | 318 |
Wholly or partly exempt | 175 | 309 | 298 |
Subject to review | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Subject to appeal | 0 | 2 | 0 |
We began implementation of a new Strategic plan for DFAT records management 2008–11 which builds on enhancements to our recordkeeping capability completed under the previous strategic plan and the Record-keeping initiative 2006. The plan draws closely on recommendations of the 2007 Management Advisory Committee Report number 8, Note for file—A report on recordkeeping in the Australian Public Service.
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Seventy per cent of the 66 specific actions under the new strategic plan have been taken forward. There have been significant improvements in records management support, training, systems, compliance and self-assessment measures. Implementation of the plan is an important part of the department's preparations to introduce electronic recordkeeping.
On 22 July 2008, the then Secretary officially launched the project to develop and implement a new Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) for the department. After a successful proof of concept involving 70 users in Canberra, we commenced the pilot phase in two divisions, the Sydney State Office, the Australian Embassy in Manila and the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby. The EDRMS can significantly increase our ability to manage our electronic records in compliance with legislative recordkeeping obligations.
We completed 20 records management projects. We conducted 12 sentencing and disposal projects: nine in Canberra, two at overseas posts and one in a state office. Other projects focused on enhancing records management systems in line with action items in the strategic plan. We also provided specialist recordkeeping registry services when requested by divisions. Following the creation of additional storage space for such records, we transferred over 300 linear metres of 'Retain as National Archives' files to the National Archives of Australia.
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In November 2008, the department's H V Evatt Library was relocated to new premises in the R G Casey Building and our library holdings were returned from off-site storage. In recognition of the expanded role of the Library in the digital age, library services were re-launched under a new logo Smarter, faster information to you.
The relocation and rebranding of library services stemmed from an internal strategic review of the Library and its role during 2008. The review confirmed that there was an ongoing need for our library to provide authoritative, relevant and timely information to staff.
Library staff continued to develop and improve the range of library services. Personalised email alerts were sent to officers in Canberra and at posts on work topics. A new intranet site was launched to provide a comprehensive guide to library holdings, alert staff to new books and highlight journal articles of interest. New efficiencies such as the self-service check-out freed up library staff to spend more time responding to staff requests.
In 2009–10, we will continue to review our Freedom of Information (FOI) processes to ensure best practice in fulfilling our obligations under the FOI Act, including any new requirements flowing from the proposed reforms to the FOI and Archives Acts.
We will research and publish histories of significant events in foreign and trade policy. These publications make a valuable contribution to scholarship, with topics chosen to showcase the broad range of our work.
Implementation of the Strategic plan for DFAT records management 2008–11, which will lay the basis for effective operation of the EDRMS, will be a priority. The department will consider the lessons learnt from the EDRMS pilots before committing to the full rollout in 2010. We will give priority to comprehensive communications and training, crucial to the success of the system.


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I used to not be a fan of chicken and tomatoes together. There was something about it that just seemed off to me. Give me cream with my chicken and tomatoes with my beef! That's what I used to think. I'm not sure what changed my mind. I guess a part of growing up is that your palate begins to change and things you didn't like before suddenly become appealing.
I've been making this dish for quite a few months now. It's one of my absolute favourite things to eat. Every time I eat it, it tastes even better than I remember and I wonder why I don't make it more often (because I'm too busy trying new recipes, that's why!).
This Chicken Parmigiana is not authentic and to be honest I haven't found an authentic recipe that I've liked… yet. But the pictures always look so tasty that I had to give it a go on my own. This version is faster, through the use of homemade shake'n bake, and healthier, since we're baking it in the oven rather than shallow-frying it in oil.
Basil is my must-have fresh herb. If you're going to find one potted herb hanging in my kitchen, it will be basil. The flavour is so completely different then the dried variety and you can use it in so many different dishes, that it won't have to go to waste. We use it most often in this dish, BLT Chicken Burgers, Spaghetti Bolognese, Sun-dried Tomato, Feta and Basil Bruschetta and Basil and Prosciutto Chicken Cordon Bleu. Definitely a worthy purchase.
This meal comes together in under 30 minutes. It may be a step away from the original but what it lacks in fat it more then makes up for in flavour. It has become one of our favourite weeknight meals and I'm hoping it's a hit with your family as well.
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- ¼ cup homemade shake'n bake*
- 2 tablespoons grated parmesan
- 1 (500g) jar pasta sauce (or 1⅔ cups)
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil
- 250g spaghetti
- sliced cheese, extra parmesan and basil
- Cut chicken breasts in half widthwise to create 4 thin chicken breasts. Flatten with the heel of your hand until approximately even thickness. Mix together shake'n bake and parmesan. Coat chicken in shake'n bake mixture. Place on an ungreased baking sheet and bake at 400ºF for 10 minutes, or until cooked through.
- Meanwhile, combine pasta sauce, garlic and basil in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and keep warm. Cook spaghetti according to package directions.
- Once chicken is cooked through, remove and set the oven to broil. Top each chicken breast with a large spoonful of pasta sauce, a slice of cheese, some grated parmesan and a sprinkling of basil. Place under broiler until cheese is bubbly.
- Serve spaghetti topped with pasta sauce and a chicken breast.
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The Vidalia, Ga.-based committee's 2008 Grower of the Year is Bo Herndon, owner of Lyons-based Herndon Farms. Herndon was chair of the Vidalia Onion Committee for four years.
Mose Coleman Sr. and Earlie Jordan were inducted into the Hall of Fame for being pioneers of onion growing in Georgia. Coleman is one of — if not the — first onion growers in the region. He started in the 1930s, when growers in the Vidalia region were looking for new sources of income during and after the Great Depression. Jordan came in later, in the 1940s, and brought plants from Texas to grow and sell. He also was one of the first to form marketing partnerships to promote onions, according to the release.
Doyle Smittle, a retired horticulture professor from the University of Georgia, was also inducted. Smittle studied atmospheric levels required to preserve Vidalia onions, and perfected those levels in 1990. Smittle's controlled atmosphere storage is still used today, according to the release stated.
The awards were announced during the committee's annual banquet on Feb. 7.


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VIDEO: St.Elizabeth nearly pulls an upset over St.Marks St. Elizabeth (5-4) almost pulls away with an upset over highly ranked St. Marks (8-1) Saturday night. With a little more than six minutes remaining, Vikings' Andre Patton tied the game up at 28 a piece with one of his three touchdowns for the night. Spartans TJ Brown scored the winning touchdown with 59 seconds left in the game to lift St. Marks 35-28 to seal the victory. St. E and St. Marks went back-and-forth the entire game. Patton opened scoring grabbing an interception from Spartans' quarterback Zachary Whitehead. Spartans' sophomore Markquise Normand knotted the game at 7 with one of his two touchdowns. The Spartans' took a 21-14 lead to the half, after Brown scored with seconds on the clock. The momentum would stay on St. Marks' side when Jake Schneider connected with Whitehead on a touchdown reception to extend the lead 28-14. The Vikings would rally with two touchdowns from Patton in the final minutes, but the Vikings could not stop the Spartans in the red zone. St. Marks goes on to play Salesianum in a final game of the regular season next week. |
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Topic » 7 Billion
In late 2011, the world's population is estimated to reach 7 billion. Demographers project a range of possibilities for future population growth, with the most commonly cited figure being a world population of 9 billion by 2043.
The 9 billion number assumes a dramatic decline in fertility rates across the world, converging to 2.1 children per woman. This is unlikely unless we respond to the 222 million women around the world who want to prevent pregnancy but need contraception. In nations such as Yemen, Afghanistan, and much of sub-Saharan Africa, women continue to have an average of more than 5 children.
Nearly half the world'ss population—some 3 billion people—is under the age of 25 and entering their childbearing years. Their childbearing choices, and the information and services available to them, will determine whether human numbers climb to anywhere from 8 billion to 11 billion by mid-century.
A common argument is that the earth cannot sustain 7 billion people. PAI believes the issue is not the total number, but how much they consume and where they are concentrated. The average person in the United States, for example consumes almost fifty times more energy than a person in Ghana. And the vast majority of greenhouse gasses have come from the developed world. If the problem is overconsumption, the international policy focus should be on developed nations's consumption, not African fertility rates.
Why Population Matters
What's Your Number?
Weathering Change
7 Billion and Counting
Numbers Matter, But People Count
If you haven't heard by now, the world is adding its seven billionth person on Oct. 31, 2011.
Press Release
World Population Hits 7 Billion
POPULATION ACTION INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ADVISORY For October 31, 2011 World Population Hits 7 Billion Population Action International announces the interactive application What's Your Numberand Oct. 31 release of Why Population Matters (Washington, D.C.) On Monday, October 31st, the world will add its 7 … Continue reading
The Faces of Seven Billion
I just had my annual exam. Yes, that annual exam, ladies. Aside from the normal things you would discuss with your midwife — how's the IUD treating you? how's your 15-month-old? — we also talked shop.
Sarada's Story – Weathering Change
Consequences of climate change—floods, droughts, extreme weather, declining agricultural production—affect everyone. But in many developing countries, shifting temperature and precipitation patterns are making life especially hard for women and families. A new documentary, Weathering Change, tells the stories of women around the … Continue reading
Weathering Change Trailer
Weathering Change follows women in Ethiopia, Nepal and Peru as they struggle to care for their families while enduring crop failure and water scarcity. The film explores how family planning can help women adapt to environmental challenges to their health and livelihood. Continue reading
Population: 7 Billion
Population: 7 Billion from Population Action International on Vimeo. As the world population hits the 7 Billion mark in October, there are a lot of questions that have arisen about the subject. Are we ready? What will happen next? Is … Continue reading
Policy Brief
7 Billion and Counting
The world's population will reach 7 billion people on Oct. 31, 2011, and according to United Nations projections, we are on pace to add 3 billion or more by the end of this century. Already, millions of women in developing … Continue reading
Press Release
Statement on the new U.N. population projections from Suzanne Ehlers, President, Population Action International
Suzanne Ehlers For Immediate Release "The United Nations announced today that the world's population will reach 7 billion people on Oct. 31, 2011, and will likely hit 9 billion by 2050. The new projections are a wake-up call for governments to fulfill … Continue reading


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S&S Diner Housed in a 1938 Art Deco building, the S&S has seasoned waitresses, a stream of eccentric regulars, and classic breakfasts, including French toast and buttery grits. 1757 N.E. Second Ave.; 305/373-4291; breakfast for two $14
The Lido Restaurant at the Standard Begin the day with Eggs Lido—salmon, asparagus, and poached organic farm eggs (you're at a spa hotel, after all)—on a wooden deck overlooking Biscayne Bay. 40 Island Ave., Miami Beach; 305/673-1717; breakfast for two $35
Donut Gallery Restaurant A local favorite since 1972, this cute-as-a-button diner is known for the Ted's Special, an open-faced English muffin with eggs, bacon, ham, cheese and tomatoes. 83 Harbor Dr., Key Biscayne; 305/361-9985; breakfast for two $16


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Make: Yellowfin
Model: 36 Center Console
Length: 36 ft
Price: USD 149,500
Year: 2004
Condition: Used
Location: Charleston, SC, USA
Hull Material: Fiberglass
Number of Engines: 3
Fuel Type: Gas/Petrol
Total Power: 750 hp
Yellowfin 36 Center Console
New on the market. Powered by triple F250 Yamaha's with four blade props. Great electronics and rigged to fish any tournament. SIMRAD 12NS, Garmn 740S (touch screen). Premium stereo - Rockford Fosgate Amp. Huge fishing platform, 38 Rod Holders, Outriggers, Downriggers and many more great features that Yellowfin represents. Heavy duty AmeriTrail triple axle trailer with surge brakes.
Number of Engines: 3
Primary Engines: Outboard-4S
Engine Make: Yamaha
Engine Model: F250
Engine Year: 2004
Engine Hours: 400
Total Power: 750 hp
Boat Name
Like 2 Fish
LOA: 36 ft 8 in
Beam: 10 ft 0 in
Maximum Draft: 1 ft 8 in
Displacement: 12000 lbs
Deadrise: 24 ° at Transom
Engine Brand: Yamaha
Engine(s) Total Power: 750 HP
Engine Model: F250
Engine Type: Outboard 4S
Year Built: 2004
Fuel Tanks: 1 (510 Gallons)
Cored reinforced hull bottom with molded in stringers, stiffeners, and partial transverse
bulkheading.Topsides are cored fiberglass. Deck is cored molded fiberglass, joined to hull, and
chemically and mechanically bonded (through bolted).
12vDC and 120vAC with four group Optima 34M AGM batteries. Engine start/ ships service
batteries are located in leaning post rigging compartment in heavy duty battery trays, secured
with brackets. Stranded thermoplastic shielded wiring to selector/parallel switches located same
compartment. Stranded thermoplastic shielded wiring to circuit breaker panel and Moritz Digital
Control Processor located inside center console, starboard side,and to micro switch control
panel at helm. All DC equipment is adequately circuited and breakered. Battery charger for
battery maintenance- Promariner 15 amp 120vAC with a battery charger inlet on leaning post,
port side. Tinned multistrand wire to battery charger twenty four inches away.
Electronics & Navigation
Garmin 740S
Raymarine 215 DSC VHF (2)
Dytek ST500 Temp
Ritchie Compass
Audiovox Sirrius Satellite Radio & Remote
Sony Xpod
Rockford Fosgate Amp P80004
Kicker ZX750.1
Raymarine DSM300
Raymarine Seatalk
Simrad Autopilot AP26
JL Audio Speakers
38 Rodholders
Telescopic Outriggers
Additional Equipment
AmeriTrail aluminum triple axle float on type trailer, with surge
disk brakes on front two axles, and spare tire/ hub assembly.
Kiekhaefer Trim tabs
Marine toilet under console
12Vdc outlets port and starboard at transom
Fresh water wash down
Salt water wash down
Port and starboard under gunwale lighting
Gunwale, t top and transom mount flush rodholders (38)
Sunbrella weather cover
Coffin box with matching seat cushion and electric hatch lift
For and aft spreader lights at T top
Fish box pump out
Grand Slam outrigger bases at T top
Center console open fisherman type with chain locker in forepeak, accessible from ring deck
hatch (gunwale). Single level weather deck with storage under. Center console with port side
door opening, and portable toilet inside. Aft of center console is leaning post/ bait well with aft
seating, above with is a T top with upper steering station with engine controls and leaning post/
seat. Transom is closed with transom door, starboard side out to built in swim platform.
Safety/Regulatory Equipment:
Navigation lights
(8) Adult type II life preservers located under forward under gunwale port and starboard storage
shelves behind snap on retailing nets
B1 fire extinguisher loose inside console
Pull out boarding ladder at transom, stbd side
Manual signal horn
Orion Alert/ Locate visual distress signal kit- expired
First Aid kit
Oil Discharge placard mounted inside console
Trash Disposal placard mounted inside console
Rulemate 1500 duel mode bilge pump at aft bilge
Rulemate 2000 duel mode bilge pump at aft bilge
Type IV throwable buoyant cushion under center console
Ground Tackle
At bow chain locker – Galvanized 15 lb. lightweight type anchor with an adequate length of
3/8" galvanized chain, and an adequate length of ½" twisted three stranded nylon rode.
Underwater Sections & Running Gear
Hull has raked stem, hard chine "V" bottom, with lift strakes forward of a ventilation step,
transom stern with a built in outboard bracket and swim platforms. Hydraulic trim tabs were in
place. Running gear consists of triple counter rotating gasoline outboards with four blad props.
Triple F250 Yamaha Engines. 4 Blade props
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the
accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his
agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is
offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.


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This program provides free training to college and university mental health counseling centers throughout the country on how to better address issues such as post-traumatic stress and suicide prevention in their work treating students.
The 2010 Veteran Success Jam was a three-day online virtual collaboration that brought together thousands of veterans and their families, service members, campus leaders, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies from around the country.
These instructions are designed to assist military training schoolhouses in planning for and hosting successful American Council on Education reviews.
ACE and the Walmart Foundation awarded 20 $100,000 grants to colleges and universities operating model programs that advance the veteran community's access to and success in higher education. The 20 participating campuses used their grants to expand their veteran programs and services and share their promising practices and successes with other institutions.


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10 Years On
Ten Years Ago This Week. . .
Nine Inch Nails lynchpin Trent Reznor is an unlikely inclusion in Time magazine's annual list of the 25 most influential Americans. "Reznor's music is filthy, brutish stuff, oozing with aberrant sex, suicidal melancholy and violent misanthropy," claims the accompanying article, "but to the depressed, his songs proffer pop's perpetual message of hope." Other entertainment figures in the list are producer Kenneth 'Babyface' Edmonds, X-Files creator Chris Carter, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, actress and talk show host Rosie O'Donnell, and comic strip hero Dilbert.
Ice Cube is facing legal action from US radio personality Carolyn Bennett-Speed, who claims the rapper sampled part of her speech at a broadcast industry convention, and used it without permission in his "objectionable" song, "Fuck 'Em".
Jacques Agnant, once part of Tupac Shakur's entourage, is suing the late rapper's estate, claiming his was libelled in the song "Against All Odds". Agnant says the track accused him of being a police informant, and thereby put his life in danger.
The Beastie Boys are in early talks to make their feature film debut in the comedy We Can Do This, directed by Spike Jonze, the man behind their "Sabotage" video. A source close to the group describes the project as "a lot like Woody Allen's Zelig crossed with a parody of a 70s cop show".
Grunge pioneers Soundgarden announce they are splitting up, amid press speculation of physical fights between members on tour.
Depeche Mode's first release in four years, Ultra, debuts in the UK albums chart at Number One, their tenth successive Top Ten entry. The record bows in at Number Five in the US.
Dustin Hoffman files a $5 million lawsuit against the publishers of Los Angeles magazine, whom he claims altered a publicity still from the film Tootsie to show him wearing a series of different dresses. Court papers alleged that the Oscar-winner was "converted into an involuntary clothing model without pay."
Film industry unions lobby for a change in work practices, after an assistant cameraman on the set of the time travel comedy Pleasantville is killed driving home. Brent Hershman, aged 35, had worked 19 hours straight on the movie when he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into a telephone pole. Another member of the movie crew said: "After working that many hours, you're clearly going to be impaired. You might as well be drunk."
Pressure group the Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids lambasts Hollywood stars who regularly smoke on the big screen. Winona Ryder is singled out, for lighting up in four movies in the last three years. "The characters I play are not always perfect heroes," she responds.
French painter, writer and filmmaker Roland Topor dies, aged 59. His 1964 novel The Tenant was made into a film in 1976 by Roman Polanski, and his own big screen work included Fantastic Planet, Dead Time and The Snails. As an actor, he appeared as vampire's henchman Renfield in Werner Herzog's 1979 film, Nosferatu.
The remains of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and LSD guru Dr Timothy Leary are among 22 sets of human ashes blasted into orbit as part of the first "space funerals". The airtight cylinders left earth on the Pegasus rocket at 6,200 miles per hour, and are expected to circle the globe for about ten years before falling back to earth.


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3+ bedroom, 2.5 bath, open kitchen, dining room. Finished walkout lower level with fireplace to in-ground pool. 2 car garage, Washington, $192,500. 636-239-6090
4 bedroom, 2.5 bath, 1.5 story brick home. Den, heated porch, large yard. All new windows. 718 W. 5th St. Washington. $125,000 636-262-5734
FSBO 1 bedroom, 2 baths. 100 Wall St., New Haven. Steel siding, all new windows, new deck, hardwood and vinyl floors, $42,000. To view, call 314-393-7983
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Phocuswright Research
Japan Online Travel Overview Report
Japan ceded its leadership of the Asia Pacific travel market to China in 2012, and it will remain the regional runner-up for the foreseeable future. But as the country makes slow, steady progress toward recovery from its losses during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the unique characteristics of its travel market - partly mature, partly developing - will continue to attract attention from global online travel agencies and hoteliers.
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Mobile Hits the Mainstream: Technology and Industry Trends
Mobile Hits the Mainstream: Technology and Industry Trends studies the trends shaping mobile travel worldwide, tracking mobile device adoption in key global markets. The report highlights emerging mobile technologies, identifying strategic opportunities for suppliers, intermediaries and corporate travel organizations. In addition, the research provides a closer view of the U.S. mobile travel market, sizing the U.S. mobile leisure/unmanaged business travel market through 2013.
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Online Travel in Canada: Market Size, Consumer Trends & Traffic
Travel companies operating in Canada can no longer rely on their 'online strategy' or their 'Canada strategy;' they must have a Canadian online travel strategy. This Online Event delivers market intelligence, consumer insights and key trends that companies need to get ahead in Canada.
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Scout bus funding boost for Kincardine and West Fife
22 February, 2012A new minibus is to be made available to Kincardine and other West Fife communities, after the 83rd Fife Scout Group received funding of £15,375 for a new 17-seater coach.
The minibus is now available to groups in the 15 West Fife Villages and has been used by youth clubs, playgroups and elderly clubs, among others. As minibuses are exempt from requiring 'car' seats, transportation of young children is easier, while passengers can be kept safe with adjustable seatbelts.
Over 50 young volunteers have also received driver training in the minibus, which is doubling up as an information service, complete with DVD player and roof-mounted monitor.
Dunfermline MSP Bill Walker, also local councillor for West Fife and Coastal Villages, said: "I was delighted to hear of this award. Lack of public transport between the villages can be an issue in West Fife, so this is excellent news for the many local groups who will also be using the minibus. It will enable people to participate in a wide range of community activities."
Mr Walker added: "LEADER is one of a number of funding initiatives, such as the Big Lottery Fund, that I encourage community groups in West Fife to consider.
"Specifically, it is part of the Scotland Rural Development Programme and supports innovative projects created by and run by rural communities. Local people know best what their communities need, and LEADER helps them bring their ideas to fruition."


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beautiful sunny and 46 degrees:thumbs:
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65 and sunny today, may rain overight.
30 & light snow/sometime sleet!
67 and mostly cloudy right now.
Was 73 and sunny today.
Wore a t-shirt, shorts and flip flops!
27 & cloudy
62 and as sticky as Pooh's honey-covered face...! :D
I could tell y'all, but then everyone "up north" would want to kill me...! :grin:
Think I already let the sunshine outta' the bag on another thread.
I'm a dead man... :faint:
Have mercy... PLEASE... :inquis: :-D :cool:
It was sunny & warm.
It is really yucky out, very windy and rainy but warm.http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/28/28_2_9.gif
Frost on the windshield this morning. Fairly chilly but should warm up to almost 60 today. Rain and snow in the forecast for this week though. Should be interesting.
I could tell y'all, but I really don't want to receive the plethora of cyber-slaps sure to follow...! :grin:
Plethora... I like that word!
"Would you say I have a plethora of pinatas, jefe?" :D
It is 37, rainy & windy. Not liking it!
62° Sunny.
Good ole Florida.
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Tue, Jan 22, 13 at 22:17
So, DH installed our reproduction high tank, pull-chain toilet purchased at Renovators Supply. After much finagle-ing and cussing and cobbling up the parts that weren't sent, he's got it up and flushing. IT IS SO LOUD THAT ALL CAPS DOESN'T DO THE NOISE JUSTICE. Wow. So loud that he's seriously thinking about taking it down, even though we ordered it so long ago that we couldn't return it anymore. Is there any way to quiet such a beast? Better flushing mechanism or is this just the way it is with these? Any advice/ideas would be appreciated! Thanks. (cross posting to plumbing forum) |
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- Posted by palimpsest (My Page) on Wed, Jan 23, 13 at 10:53
I think that is the way that they are. The original high tanks or uncoupled toilets that I've seen/heard seem to be really loud. |
- Posted by hosenemesis (My Page) on Thu, Jan 24, 13 at 1:47
That would scare me. I'm afraid of being sucked down the toilet as is. |
yeeks. You aren't kidding. It looks great, though. We pity the person trying to sleep in the bedroom on the other side of the wall, lol. |
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