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Arkansas Kids Will 'Kick Butts' on March 19
State Leaders Urged to Support Tobacco Prevention Initiatives
WASHINGTON, March 13, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Kids in Arkansas will stand up against tobacco on March 19 as they join thousands of young people nationwide for the 19(th) annual Kick Butts Day. More than 1,400 events are planned across the nation. (See below for a list of local events.)
Organized by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Kick Butts Day is an annual celebration of youth leadership and activism in the fight against tobacco. On Kick Butts Day, youth will encourage their peers to stay tobacco-free and educate their communities about the tobacco industry's harmful marketing practices.
This year, Kick Butts Day comes as new information reaffirms the urgent need for action. The United States is marking the 50(th) anniversary of the first Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, and a new Surgeon General's report released in January found that smoking is even more hazardous than previously thought. Key findings of the report include:
-- Each year, smoking kills 480,000 people in the U.S. and costs the nation at least $289 billion in health care bills and other economic losses. -- Without urgent action to reduce smoking, 5.6 million U.S. children alive today will die prematurely from smoking-caused disease. That includes 69,000 children in Arkansas alone. -- Tobacco marketing causes kids to start and continue using tobacco products.
Nationwide, tobacco companies spend $8.8 billion a year – one million dollars each hour – to market cigarettes and smokeless tobacco products. In particular, tobacco companies target youth with magazine ads, store ads and discounts, and fruit- and candy-flavored small cigars that look just like cigarettes.
"On Kick Butts Day, kids will stand up and reject Big Tobacco's manipulative marketing," said Matthew L. Myers, President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. "Elected officials must stand with them by supporting proven measures to protect kids from tobacco addiction, including tobacco taxes, smoke-free laws and prevention programs. On the 50(th) anniversary of the first Surgeon General's report, we need bold action to create a tobacco-free generation and end the tobacco epidemic for good."
In Arkansas alone, tobacco use claims 5,100 lives and costs $1.2 billion in health care bills each year. Currently, 18.2 percent of the state's high school students smoke.
On Kick Butts Day, kids turn the tables on Big Tobacco in creative ways, with events that range from small classroom activities about the harmful ingredients in cigarettes to large rallies at state capitols.
Activities in Arkansas include:
On March 15, the Youth Extinguishing Tobacco Items team will pick up cigarette butts in Minnie Harris Park and present the butts and a petition highlighting the new tobacco-free policy to the City Council. Time: 12 PM. Location: Intersection of Lakeshore Drive and S. Willow Street, Harrison. Contact: Tawana Manning (870) 688-4321.
On March 18, the Youth Extinguishing Smoking team, supported by students from across the state of Arkansas, will hold a "YES on the Hill" press conference and anti-tobacco rally at the State Capitol in Little Rock. Time: 11 AM. Location: 500 Woodlane Drive, Little Rock. Contact: Genine Perez (501) 310-0607.
On March 18, Nettleton and Valley View High School's boys and girls soccer teams will partner with the NEA Baptist Charitable Foundation's Center for Healthy Children to host a "Be Tobacco Free/Kick Butts Awareness Game." Time: 5 PM. Location: 4201 Chieftan Lane, Jonesboro. Contact: Ron Teat (870) 897-9057.
For a full list of Kick Butts Day events in Arkansas, visit http://www.kickbuttsday.org/map. Additional information about tobacco, including state-by-state statistics, can be found at www.tobaccofreekids.org.
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Purchase: I needed a relatively inexpensive saddle for a very wide, very green horse. The Caprilli was attractive to me because of the CAIR system. I purchased a 17" seat with an extra-wide gullet brand new in 2004 from a distributor in London, England, via Ebay. I paid $999.00 for saddle + shipping, and another $35.00 for customs.
Likes: I rode very comfortably and straight in this saddle. It also felt secure. It fit my mare very nicely.
Dislikes: My only complaint was the leather: I am used to Passier leather, and the quality of the Bates leather was very inferior. At first glance, it does not even appear to BE leather; it looks like a synthetic. Its durability was questionable, also. I only rode in the saddle one time for about 30 minutes, mostly at a walk. I was very careful with the leather, yet when I finished riding, there were scuffs on the leather that did not condition out.
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We're all aware that the Phoenix Force will be returning in Avengers vs. X-Men to seep its cosmic claws into a certain Mutant Messiah. However, the solicit for the upcoming event has coloured me confused and wary of yet another example of disregard for continuity.
It was established at the end of Phoenix: Endsong that Jean has been in The White Hot Room collecting fragments of the Phoenix Force to make her and it whole again (since they are now canonically one). We have seen this when the Cuckoos' Phoenix fragments were sapped from their bodies, as it happened with Rachel Grey and Korvus' Phoenix Blade.
This has been building up for years, and Jean herself has appeared to Emma in prophetic visions. So my question is, where is she? It has been revealed today that the Secret Avengers will go into space to fight the Phoenix Force itself head on, but how is it alone? What happened in The White Hot Room to separate the two and for the PF to return to Earth? Or is Jean still the White Crown Phoenix and it is her they'll be facing, and if she is, what need does the Phoenix need Hope Summers for?
I guess what my main concern is, will Jean Grey's recent history be eradicated in order to make way for a big whoopla with the Phoenix and Hope, or should we have more faith in the writers at Marvel to acknowledge stories setting these rules before them?
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EASLEY — The Easley High School Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Orienteering team travelled to Dupont State Park in Cedar Mountain, N.C., on May 17 to run the last orienteering course of the year.
This was the last one that Carolina Orienteering Klubb (COK) will set up this year. The courses were red (6.5 km), green (5 km), orange (4.5 km), yellow (3.5 km) and a white course (2 km) for beginners.
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In any case, I think perhaps it would be worthwhile for us all to at least pretend to be shocked by the percentage of political coverage that had, as goal, no other mission other than to mislead. No, not to argue policy prescriptions, or to legitimately poke holes in conventional or unconventional wisdom, or even to game out the horse races or game out the ways in which the other gamers were possibly wrong, or any of those other fine pundistic things, but flat-out bullshitting on behalf of Your Preferred Candidate, damn the facts, damn the polls, and damn everything else besides. The most obvious case was the late-season battle between Nate Silver, who was a proxy villain representing anyone who dared do math on these things, and the entire conservative wing of punditry. That one had all the fixings of a Salem witch trial, but lesser versions of it, the actual, palpable contempt for anything fact-based if there was some other fellow willing to go on television and say the precise opposite, was the modus operandi for most of the press coverage of the race.
It has often been noted that political punditry is one of those fields where you can be spectacularly wrong, all the time, in a wide array of subjects and this will apparently have absolutely no effect on whether people take you seriously, or whether people pay you to say things, or whether people will earnestly nod their heads and believe you the very next time you spout off on the same or other subjects. See the Iraq War for some particularly stinging examples: It was the war that would be a cakewalk, would cost next to nothing, would in fact pay for itself, would deal a death blow to various terrorist who had never entered the place, and would forever be over, or at least on the way to being over, or at least on the beginning edges of being on the way to being over, in a mere six months from whenever the speaker happens to speaking. Political punditry provides in such cases a nice, safe perch to advocate even for as much death and destruction as possible and have your fellow pundits nod their head approvingly at your candor and wisdom—you can say things on a Sunday talk show that in most other contexts would mostly result in people crossing the street to avoid you, but people on the street tend to have their wits about them in ways that people in the rolling office chairs of a television studio do not.
Given that all involved in that little fiasco are still safely ensconced as experts in their "field", you can see that we seem to be no closer to shunning the liars and the incompetents than we ever were. And why would we be? Election-times are the grandest holiday of all for political liars. It's their Halloween, and their Christmas. If your ideology leads you to be completely, utterly, spectacularly wrong about war, or basic economic theory, or essential facts of history, you can imagine that perhaps at least more knowledgable professionals in all those other fields will probably look down on you, but in politics you seem to be judged by how spectacularly and shamelessly you can accomplish the lie itself, regardless of context. If you are a politician, pundits will busy themselves wondering aloud whether your "gambit" of unabashedly bullshitting the entire American public will be "effective". If you are a pundit, your job is, apparently, to further the bullshitting in order to make it effective. Somewhere along the line, the word pundit became synonymous with professional liar. It might have been a cost-cutting move.
Against that backdrop—and with the explicit understanding that lying on behalf of your preferred interests is, apparently, now the definition of the profession—how would we even judge the winners and losers in that group? The politicians are either elected or not (depending on whether their gambits are effective); the pundits, however, sail merrily along, often apparently many, many sheets to the wind, and hypothesizing as to whether the worst punditry offenders are stupid or lying is left almost entirely as an exercise to be performed by bloggers and other undesirables. Pundits, journalists, newspapers, entire television networks—such things are not dwelt upon, in Washington circles, perhaps because if competence started being judged the better classes suspect there would be no end to it, and soon everybody would be being judged by whether or not the pronouncements they made to the wide, wide public made any sense at all, and nobody wants to live in a hellscape such as that.
Still, it seems that at some point we ought to do our not-polite-company duty and start pinning some blame on the worst of the dunderheads, whether they want it or not. It's fine to be wrong about things, mind you. It's fine to opine based on your own partisan preferences, too, so long as those suppositions do not blatantly contradict actual, right-in-front-of-everyone's-faces fact. But the people whose sole purpose is to mislead, the people whose dishonesty, whose raw hackishness, whose absolute scorn for the public, and for facts, and for their own supposed profession, whose raw hatred for anyone who dares even argue based on physical realities, as opposed to masturbatory fantasies, is most embarrassing to the whole nation—are they really necessary cogs, in the political process? The people in our discourse whose only contribution to the American political process is to injure it, on purpose?
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2006—San Francisco Values:
|Did you hear that O'Reilly invented the slur "San Francisco values"? Yeah, he also thinks he invented sliced bread and fire.
But let's talk about "San Francisco values", you know -- tolerance, entrepreneurship, and creativity.
Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area. So no iPods or anything Apple. No HP computers. No Google. No Yahoo. No eBay. Those conservative bloggers using Blogspot, MovableType, or TypePad? Sorry. Those products are Bay Area-based.
Also no Adobe or Macromedia products. No computers, either, since most run on AMD or Intel. No tax preparation using Intuit products. Cancel your Netflix subscription. Cancel your TiVo subscription. Remove your Network Associates or Symantec virus protection software from your computer. Unplug your Netgear wifi router.
Don't wear Levis (or any kind of jeans), Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, or buy your kids Gymboree. Avoid LeapFrog learning toys. Boycott Pixar movies. Boycott any movie using George Lucas' ILM special effects shop. Stay away from Treos and other Palm devices. Don't let Charles Schwab manage your portfolio. Don't bank at Wells Fargo.
Yeah, those "San Francisco values" sure are dragging the region down. Making it weak as it falls behind the rest of the country—the parts that don't share "San Francisco values"—economically and socially.
Or, maybe—just maybe—it's made the region a magnet for the world's smartest, most innovative, most entrepreneurial individuals and an incubator of the world's most dramatic technological advances.
— @LOLGOP via TweetDeck
On today's Kagro in the Morning show, Greg Dworkin abbreviated the APR, and we talked exit polling and the new political reality: you can't win with just the conservative base anymore. Another critique of Jonathan Bernstein's latest critique of filibuster reform. And Armando joined us for an extended interview with longtime Daily Kos and Netroots community member Debra Cooper, who's running for a newly open seat on the New York City Council. Believe it or not, it's a race that can have national implications. Find out why!


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Robotic Hubble Rescue Mission Uncertain
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Trying to save the famed Hubble Space Telescope with a robot would cost $2 billion with just a 50-50 chance of success, an aerospace research group is advising NASA in the coming days.
And that thumbs-down is likely to be preceded by another potentially negative finding from the National Academy of Sciences, due to report on Wednesday.
Both reports could spell doom for the popular, aging Hubble, whose fans have lobbied heavily to get it repaired to prolong its life and continue its stream of stunning and revealing pictures from space.
NASA requested the reviews of the National Academy and the Aerospace Corp., a California-based nonprofit research group, in hopes that a robotic repair could be made.
An Aerospace Corp. summary provided to the academy estimates a robotic Hubble mission would cost $2 billion and would take at least five years to be ready for launch. By then there would be a less than 40 percent chance that Hubble still would be functioning.
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In an interim report over the summer, a National Academy panel of scientists, aerospace experts and astronauts who have worked in orbit with Hubble urged NASA to keep its options open for one last service call by space shuttle astronauts. The panel did not rule out a robotic mission but noted its complexity and the technical challenges.
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On Wednesday, the National Academy of Sciences will issue its final report on the subject.
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Even in old age, Hubble has become the hottest of potatoes.
The space agency should be used to that by now, after years of suffering through the space telescope's blurry vision and then celebrating the greatest space repair job of all time and rejoicing in the most astounding pictures of the cosmos ever seen.
"NASA thinks of these things as their own and they forget not only who paid for it, but that NASA did such an incredibly good job of publicizing it and getting the information out, it's just been adopted as a telescope that an awful lot of people care about," said retired NASA scientist Stephen Maran, author of the book "Astronomy for Dummies."
"Many people feel that the most important thing that the manned program did since the moon exploration is the repair and the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope."
Hubble-huggers, as they're called, came out in droves after O'Keefe announced back in January that astronauts would no longer fly to Hubble – which will be 15 years old this spring. O'Keefe said he based his decision on safety standards since the Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts.
Saving Hubble Will Be Costly
OUTLOOK FOR HUBBLE: The newest report on a plan to save the popular, aging space telescope by repairing it with a robot says it would cost $2 billion and have just a 50-50 chance of working.
WHAT'S NEXT? NASA will take months reviewing that report and one due Wednesday from the National Academy of Sciences that also won't likely be rosy.
THEN WHAT? If NASA rules out robot repair, it likely will launch a craft to guide Hubble down over the ocean.
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NASA: http://hubble.gsfc.nasa.gov/
National Academy of Sciences: http://www.nas.edu/


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Japan set for polls; no clear winner likely
TOKYO Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda was poised to dissolve Japan's parliament Friday, setting the stage for elections next month that will likely result in a weak coalition government with differing policies on the country's economic woes, territorial disputes and other problems.
Polls show that nearly half of the electorate is undecided on which party to support but it's clear that the ruling Democrats - in power for the last three years - are very likely to lose. That sets the stage for Japan to get its seventh prime minister in seven years.
Media reports say the elections will be held Dec. 16.
Although the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which led Japan for most of the post-World War II era, would win the most seats in the 480-seat lower house, it would fall far short of a majority if elections were held now, according to the polls.
With no party a clear winner, Japan will end up with a coalition government made up of parties with differing policies and priorities. This could hinder decision-making as Japan wrestles with a two-decade economic slump, cleanup from last year's nuclear disaster, growing national debt and a rapidly aging population - not to mention a festering territorial dispute with China that is hurting business ties with its biggest trading partner.
"It's unlikely that the election will result in a clear mandate for anybody," said Koichi Nakano, a political science professor at Sophia University. "So in that sense, there's still going to be a lot of muddling through."
Japan must also decide whether it will follow through with plans to phase out nuclear power by 2040 - a move many in the LDP oppose.
In a sudden turn of events, Noda abruptly said Wednesday in a one-on-one debate with LDP chief Shinzo Abe that he would dissolve parliament Friday if the opposition would agree to key reforms, including shrinking the size of parliament.
Abe, who said his party would go along with the measures, could get a second stab at being prime minister after his one-year stint in 2006-2007 if the LDP wins the most seats in the election.
A staunch nationalist, Abe has taken a strong stance against China in the dispute over a cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea controlled by Japan but also claimed by China and Taiwan. Abe suddenly quit as prime minister in 2007, citing health problems that he says are no longer an issue.
"The day has finally come. Our battle starts today. Our mission to the people is to win this (election) battle," Abe told reporters earlier Friday.
Noda's Democratic Party of Japan won a landslide victory in 2009 elections amid high hopes for change, ousting the conservative, business-friendly LDP, which had ruled Japan nearly continuously since 1955.
But those hopes have been dashed amid widespread disgust with the DPJ's failure to keep campaign promises and the government's handling of the Fukushima nuclear crisis triggered by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami.


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Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks extended gains as President Barack Obama planned to make a statement on budget negotiations at 1:30 p.m. in Washington, fueling optimism that lawmakers are making progress on a compromise.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index added 0.8 percent to 1,413.08 at 12:44 p.m. in New York and the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 66 points.
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I -t SWEDE JOHNSON'S 1 , ,.t t HOWTO V OL U ME E ON INTRODUCTION Tothose usinvolved R/C of in sailing, "Swede" Lloyd Johnsonlegendary themany is for contributionshas he made theevolution remote to of control sailing. Recognized of the asone foremost innovaton hulldesign, andhowtheyarerigged, design literarily in sails rig and hundreds of littleodds ends contribute making boatsimple, and that to a efficient fast. Several the boats and of Swede designed many histheories "whatcanI doto make boatgofaster"have has and of of a played major in theevolution R/C a role of sailing thepast over thirtyyears. anyone hashad For who thepleasure meeting of Swede knows whatmakes truly remarkable that him a designer innovator and goes beyond boaB heput inthewater.His far the that willingness share vast to his wealth of knowledge other with designers, builden skippers whatmakes and is Swede Johnson anR/C truly sailing treasure. This collection Swede's To", edited Dennis "How of by Desprois, onlyintended the is not for serious designer/builders forthose butalso skippen simply to better who want understand how parts different of anR/C yacht made whythey what are and do they do. GOOD SAILING ! Dennis Desprois March 2000 LLOYD F.'SWEDE" JOHNSON "Swede" Lloyd Johnson, renown the sailmaker remote and control sailing innovator Costa from Mesa, Califomia born Pomona, was in Califomia 1919.In 1985, recognitionhisou6tanding in in of contdbution setting ocean to for racing local yacht for clubs, Swede awarded Edward was the F. Kennedy Memorial Newport HarborYach8man Year of the Trophy. Swede themarkforsuch set prestigious astheGovernor in 1979, and1984, Finn races Cup 81 the Nationals 1980 in and theSix Meter Nationals1981.In 1981, and83,Swede thecouses theU.S.Y.R.U. in 82 set for 0lympiE classes. 1985 setthecourses theEtchells Worlds, World In he for 22 5.5 Championship the and Scandinavian CUP. GOLD When )filll Olympic the Games in Los were Angeles .1984, in Swede not onlywasthesailmeasure the470Class, atso for he designed built inflatable and the markthatwere used thecourse. on Swede deservedly was elected theBalboa to Yacht Club's of Fame t gg8. Hall in The longlistof successful sailboats R/C designed Swede (for by include ORCo 0range the County), SKlNfrff the Marblehead theORCO and HOTDOG.the36/600 oneMeter In and Classes, Swede designed ORCO has the FIAIRBOW, SKINNY thetorpedo the and shaped ORCO all of which 90 have ACCR',s. won Swede's butcertainly hislast latest not 35/600 design theoRCo is MILLENNIUM. MODET DESIGN It seems trend model the of design to make is parB them look their size like full counter with fineends, overhangs even and wings thekeels. endresuh a model lacla stability on The is that the to stand to a tenknotwind. Many ourAMYA models, asthesoling, Coast up of class such East Twelve (not Meter, Santa Barbara and''6speciallyVitoria Fainrind yetanAMYA the and certified class) have theshape proportion NOT performance and but the parb. These of theirlarger counter designs make theaesthetics a priority performance. cou6e, isdesirable have onedesign that over Of it to a class notonlyloob appealing rules allow equal with that an chance winning at during competitioRtirr a Thelogistia, however, dictate thistypeof model that could have been made bea much to performer noaddition cost themanufacture higher with of to or builder simply considering by the scaling effecg incurred theproportions making smaller with when a boat. Myintent to advocate changes existing rules to criticize designers isn't and in class or the of theabove mentioned butto possibly boats influence penons those endeavoring to design model new boats explaining phenomenon: BOAT by the AS A DECREASES PROPORTIONS lNSIZE, DONOT DECREASE EQUALLY. For example, let's"take ffCHELL highly an a successful footracing sailboat 30.5 class and scale down onetenthor a thirty-six model. it to inch ETCHEI.I LENGTH ALL: OVER SAIL AREA FT.: SQ. WATERLINE LENGTH: BEAM: DRAFI : DISPLACEMENT CU/ff.: DISPIACEMENT LBS. 30'.5" 291 22'.0 7'.0 4'.5" 51 .17 3275.0 Page3 MODEL 3' .05 2.91(DOWN THE BY SQUARE) z'..2u .7u .45' (DOWN THE .05117 BY CUBE) (DOWN THE 3.194 BY CUBE) MAST HEfGHT: HEEL| ARM NG FT.: RIGHTING ff.: ARM 35'.0 15.6 2.55 3'.5r', 1.56 .255 Theheeling isdistance thecenter thesailarea thecenter underwater arm from of to of lateral plane. righting isthedistance theveftical The arm from center buoyancy theveftical o1 to center of gravlty. windpressure squar of sailarea 8 miles .25pounds Martin's The per foot at is from formula: P:.004X velocity squared. Tocalculate heeling the angle 8 miles windusing Dellenbaugh in of the formula: 57.3 sailarea heeling X windpressure square X X arm per foot Righting X displacementpound arm in ETCHELL 57.3 X 291X 15.6X .25 -7 .75 dggfges MODEL did.. . 57.3 Xz.glx 1.56 .25 X ------------------------------r-o-or 79.5 degfges 2.56X 3275 255X 3.194(down the4* power) by Asyouansee, displacement scaled the has down faster thesailarea thestability than and has scaled down faster thedisplacement. numben than The clearly illustrate whi6theFICHELL that is barely heeling, model flatonit,sear! the is The correction would to addweight be down andincrease hulldisplacement low the to compensate lower center thesail orto the of area both.Obviously, putting weight or by the deeper willgive righting more the arm leverage without adding thedisplacement (providing pond to the is deep enough). The reduction wefted of surface also will increase performance. tateral the The plane be can aslittleas1/25th thesailarea.These things notdistract theboat's of two will from aesthetics and will lookmuch better it sails as standing to thewindrather over it'sside rounding up than on and up. 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There several to research helpin adding the sailing will whichwill provide OF ELEMENTSYACHT DESIGN, design, such SKENE'S as boolaon full sizeyacht the on and formulas methods calculation. littletimespent research understanding overall of A and times yachts be rewarded many in model will concept whatyouaretryingto accomplish designing of over. T O F IN D T H E S T A B IL IT YOF A M ODEL YACHT THE RIGHTING F.o.RCE GRAVIW FI g- rcRCE T]EEUNG TT{E --> I I Y stN 20o + l z, O J ltJ UJ F (J -t1 3 o - lr c u- O F IF tit UJ o \ € \ \ € I l I I $ II,IE.Tfict f \ / o sf r-t-t U LJ' o c) cn N o ^- _,_ .-/ -* rs () \-/ ,Y u DISPI.-ACEMENT IN POUNDS O 7 Tqig-." \ {e6prc SAIL AREA IN SQUAREFEET "&w73;, Page 5 BAL ANCE POlNT FULCRU N CALCUTATING STABILIW A TVIODEL THE OF YACHT ln thetwo above drawings, thefourovals note which diagrammatically represent four "numbers". 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Because fin isthegreatest of the lateral or the part plane it will influence position thesailarea.lf youdesire sailarea the of the forward, thefin area have forward.lf youwantthesailarea thenhave fin area Personally, aft, the aft. I prefer fin vertical the andinthecenter thebulb. of placing rudder faraftastheclass allow getmore I suggest the as rules to turning leverage withless drag. With keelfin rudder the and position rudder installed, the amidship, theboat float in water deep enough accommodatelength thefin andgently to the of push boat the sideways with your finger.When have you found spot thehullwhere boatmoves the on the you straight have found center lateral the of resistance center thelateral orthe of plane.From point, this measure forward percent thewater ten of length tocate to where center thesailarea be. The the of will mast position thenbelocated thedistance thecenter themast can by from of from center thesail the of area. tenpercent thelead thesail The is of area forward thelateral of plane.lf thisdisance too is great will produce leehelm it (boat less turns away from wind) it istoosmall will produce the and it weather (boat helm turns thewind) into causing stalling. tenpercent The figure about is average and should used a starting be as point. I hope yournewboat that sails well. Page8 TIME SAVING ONDESIGNING TIP A HUIL The cubic displacement boatbelow waterline, theweight water inch of the the times per of cubic willequal all upweight theboa. Fresh inch te of water weighs per .03G1pounds cubic I inch andsea water weighs pounds cubic .37037 per inch.The upweight alltheparaof theboat all of must ascertainedactual be by weighing calculations. or The to save isthatinstead drawing of thestations thencalculating tip time of all and the displacement Simpson's isto use optimum using rule, prismatic the coefficient.52in drawing of station number of a tenstation five drawing. 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|May 7, 2012, 09:51 PM
28-135mm IS USM vs. the rest....
I've got a 5D Mark III I use primarily for videos (my hobby). My favorite focal lengths on full frame are 28mm to 135mm so I have 24, 28, 35, 50, 85, and 135mm Nikkor primes, which I'm outfitting with geared fitting focus rings and shimmed adapters. I love older lenses for video because of the bokeh, focus throw, hard stops, and speed for the price. I'm adding a 70-200mm f2.8L in case I need a long lens. I don't care about longer focal lengths usually so I can cover them with a slower zoom.
Which leads me to a problem...this camera is much better for stills than for video and my widest EF mount lens is a 50mm f1.8 that's broken. I want to use the 5D for snapshots (pictures of cats, vacation photos, etc.) and maybe the occasional photo that I delude myself into thinking is actually good. So I was thinking of getting the 24-70mm f2.8 since it would be nice for video, too, but the price is ridiculous! How is the 28-135mm as an alternative walkabout lens? Does it have a compatible profile to remove vignetting, distortion, and CA (I shoot JPEG)? It's like $250 used. Is it close enough to the 24-105mm or 24-70mm at normal stops that I can feel okay putting it on my vastly more expensive camera? I can't afford the 24-70mm and I wouldn't use the 24-105mm IS for video because it has too much distortion for my taste, though of course if it were affordable it would be a top choice.
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|May 8, 2012, 03:30 AM
I don't really see the point of coupling a $3k body to such a mediocre lens (note that the review I've linked to is for a rather low resolution crop body, the same lens will do much worse on a full frame body with a smaller pixel pitch).
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|May 8, 2012, 05:39 AM
Look into the Tamron 28-75mm f/2.8, it's great value and excellent performance.
They've also released a newer version - the 24-70mm f/2.8 with Vibration Control.
|May 8, 2012, 11:42 AM
How bad is the 28-135mm at normal stops? Does the 5D III have a profile to remove CA? If I ever wanted to make a print it would probably be at f8 or f11 anyway, deep focus stuff--and in that case IS is more beneficial than speed but CA can be a big problem. Other than that mostly cats. It's about $200 used next to the 24-70mm's $1200 used.
I loved the 18-55mm IS on APS-C, though I eventually upgraded to the 17-55mm IS and preferred it.
|May 8, 2012, 01:06 PM
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|May 8, 2012, 02:03 PM
It's six times the price is the issue and the overall aesthetic is just meh. Canon's lenses may measure poorly but I've had good luck in terms of look--the trade offs Canon makes are generally smart ones. Tamron does some amazing stuff (best image stabilization I've seen and good sharpness) but usually bokeh is rough in their wide zooms. And the 28-75mm f2.8 seems to have very blurry corners and of course no IS.
I guess all I'm asking is does the 5D III have a profile for the 28-135mm IS (again, I shoot JPEG almost exclusively) and how bad is this lens compared with the L lenses at deeper stops (f8, etc.)? It's a tenth the price ($200 used).
I use my 5D mostly for video (with manual focus lenses), but I'd like to start using it for snapshots, too. For serious stuff I can rent and I have the 50mm f1.8 already for low light. Am I making a mistake buying this thing or will it be just as mediocre as I hope and no worse?
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|May 8, 2012, 03:11 PM
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|May 8, 2012, 03:42 PM
I have one of those, and...
It's a horrible lens. I should have returned it the day after I bought it. I keep it as a reminder that large and fabled optical companies make utter junk at times.
The 24-105, despite its distortion, is miles better, or you can look for a third party lens that suits your needs.
|May 8, 2012, 04:09 PM
Thanks for the feedback... Fwiw, I'm very interested in outdoor snapshots (landscape, etc.) so corner sharpness at deep stops is really crucial and curvature of field bugs me...
I guess I'll save up for something else. Too bad, seemed like a nice lens in terms of focal length and IS.
In the mean time I'll use the 28-80mm I found on a Rebel 2000 kit and drive everyone around me nuts.
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Magic Johnson matched Gasol's donation, resulting in $52,000 raised by the pair by the night's end. Jackson said he understood Gasol's intention, but wish he would have attached his donation to a statistic other than points scored. "I don't think that's a good idea, I'm not particularly a fan of that but I am a fan of people giving money to charity," Jackson said. "But, I don't think point total should be the criteria ... Minutes could be [the measure] or perhaps even what's the differential is between the teams that you're playing ... It's not like a home run derby, basketball has to be played with a sense of right time, right thing." ESPN.com
Chuck Swirsky: Congrats to D Rose donating 24-thousand dollars ( 24pts vs Memphis) for the Japan relief effort -classy move Twitter
Although he's spent the past two seasons in the JBL, after a three-season run in the D-League trying to stay on the NBA's radar, Tabuse's agents Ian Rubel and Marc Cornstein managed to secure an NBA out clause in his Brex contract, just in case Tabuse is the one who's proven right. Just in case the New York Knicks, as Tabuse keeps believing, will keep him in their thinking somewhere as long as Mike D'Antoni is coaching them. "True point guards are one of the most valuable commodities in the sport," Mavericks president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson said. "And Yuta has NBA experience. Those kinds of players are always in the mix." ESPN.com
And now Tabuse is back to give the cause its Japanese voice. He took NBA interest in his homeland to unseen levels when he unexpectedly made the Phoenix Suns' roster as Japan's first-ever NBA player in the 2004-05 season and just returned to the States in hopes of using his NBA and Nike connections to raise awareness of Japan's plight. The 5-foot-9, 165-pound point guard, who turned 30 in October, arrived in Los Angeles on Thursday night and hopes to connect with former teammates such as Steve Nash, Amare Stoudemire and Shawn Marion. The plan? Arrange a charity game to raise emergency funds and/or bring NBA players to Japan as soon as possible for youth clinics. ESPN.com
Tabuse only appeared in four games with the Suns in '04-05, for a whopping total of 17 minutes, but he's been a known quantity to NBA personnel folks for years, even before he was out of high school. When Dallas Mavericks assistant coach Dwane Casey was coaching Japan's national team in the mid-1990s, Casey let Tabuse play in some of the exhibition games leading up to the 1998 FIBA World Championships, cementing Tabuse's rock-star status at home. The little speedster's celebrity is such that he appeared on the cover of the Japanese edition of EA Sports' "NBA Live" video game in 2006, despite the fact that he was waived in training camp by the Los Angeles Clippers in the fall of 2005 and didn't play at all in the NBA in the preceding season. "He's the Ichiro of Japanese basketball," Casey says. ESPN.com
From now on, Tabuse will be playing for his flag more than ever. Whether he's with Link Tochigi or the national team or on NBA summer-league duty somewhere trying to keep that lifelong dream alive, Tabuse will also be playing for the visibility he can bring to Japan's crisis, which has left more than 25,000 people either missing or dead … and has turned the Brex Arena Utsunomiya into a shelter for those displaced by the radiation scare. "The earthquakes are still coming, two times or three times a day," Tabuse said earlier this week. "So we're worried about the earthquakes and the radioactivity. But we [will] try to overcome this. We try to overcome the disaster. "If I keep challenging to make [the] NBA, it's [encouragement] for the Japanese people. Of course I want to play for myself, but I want [to] encourage the victims. I want to play for the Japanese people, especially for the kids." ESPN.com
Pau Gasol, brother Marc, LaMarcus Aldridge, Al Horford, JaVale McGee, Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook are donating $1,000 per point they score in upcoming games to Direct Relief International's Japan Relief and Recovery Fund. Pau said: "The world's got to team up. I knew I was going to do something; it was a matter of who and when." Orange County Register
Spurs Nation will have at least one reason to hope that LaMarcus Aldridge has a big game against the their team Friday night in Portland, while still rooting for a Spurs victory. Aldridge has joined NBA standouts Pau Gasol of the Los Angeles Lakers, Derrick Rose of Chicago and Al Horford of Atlanta in pledging $1,000 per point from their Friday games to Japanese relief efforts from the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan. San Antonio Express-News
If Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose scores at his season average of 24.9 points Friday vs. Memphis, the Japan earthquake and tsunami relief effort will be about $25,000 richer. Rose has joined other NBA notables Pau Gasol from the Los Angeles Lakers, LaMarcus Aldridge from the Portland Trail Blazers and Al Horford from the Atlanta Hawks in pledging to donate $1,000 for every point they score in designated games this weekend. Chicago Tribune
Rose has joined other NBA notables Pau Gasol from the Los Angeles Lakers, LaMarcus Aldridge from the Portland Trail Blazers and Al Horford from the Atlanta Hawks in pledging to donate $1,000 for every point they score in Friday's games. Direct Relief International announced the initiative, which will provide medical care for those affected by the disaster. Direct Relief created the Japan Relief and Recovery Fund in partnership with the Japanese American Citizens League. "When disaster strikes we are all on the same team," Rose said in a statement. "Right now we're all pulling for the people of Japan. Through the good work of Direct Relief International and other organizations in this country, we need to step up and help however we can." Chicago Tribune
How was the moment of the earthquake for you? Will Graves: At the moment of the earthquake I was asleep on the bus and woke up. I noticed the bus kept swaying side to side. Because there was a snow storm going on, I thought it was the effects from that. We swayed for a couple of minutes, so I just tried to go back to sleep. When we got back to Akita, there was no power in the city. It took us an hour to travel what usually takes 10 minutes by car. As for the rest of the day, night, and next day, there was no power and no way to eat – for me, because I didn't have the resources. HoopsHype
How much was your city (Akita) affected? It wasn't affected by the tsunami, right? Will Graves: Akita was affected because due to not having power, the grocery stores were flooded with people raking up the last of what they could. Restaurants were shut down for days and there was no food to buy from the grocery stores. Local convenient stores were the only places to eat. Well, at least for me. Power was turned back on within the next couple of days, but the food resources have not fully regained stock and service. HoopsHype
How hard did you consider leaving? Will Graves: I really never considered leaving because the health issues are not supposed to affect us here in Akita. This is my second chance around and if my health is not at risk, I am going to take full advantage of it. I also like being a part of the fund-raiser and being a supporter in giving help and aid for Sendai. What if the situation at the nuclear plan takes a turn for the worse? Will Graves: If the situation with the plant takes a turn for the worse, then I will maybe consider leaving, because like I said, my health is important to me. HoopsHype
Have you changed your day-to-day habits much? Will Graves: Yes, in some ways I've changed my day-to-day habits just in by where and what I eat. Nothing different as far as being outside, but there has been statements that the milk and vegetables have radiation in them. I asked the coach about where we get our crops from and he said our resources should not be affected, so I will probably resume to my normal habits again, once the grocery stores become fully stocked. HoopsHype
What is the plan for you career-wise once the season in Japan is over? Will Graves: Well, I am still draft eligible so hopefully there is some way I could get drafted. If not, then I will keep pursuing my dreams of the NBA in the summer circuit if possible. If that doesn't work for next year, then I will see what my options are overseas again. But my ultimate goal is to reach the NBA. HoopsHype
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The Tokyo Apache's season isn't officially over, but the team's American players and head coach, Bob Hill, were busy making plans to leave the country as soon as possible, The Japan Times has learned. With the uncertainty of widespread health risks due to the Fukushima nuclear plant's radiation leak problems in the aftermath of Friday's devastating 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami, the Apache's foreign personnel, including Hill, general manager Conor Neu and players Robert Swift (ex-NBA center), Mike Chappell, Justin Johnson, Jeremy Tyler (teenage NBA prospect and projected second-round draft pick), Byron Eaton and Darin Satoshi Maki were on the verge of leaving the country as of press time on Wednesday afternoon. Japan Times
Neu, however, said things are still up in the air. "I'm told the league will make a decision and announce an official statement soon and we're waiting for that," he said. "As with the rest of the country, plans change hourly. The team is still in Tokyo at the moment, although we canceled practice today as we make decisions on what to do." Japan Times
In a number of e-mails and interviews with league sources in recent days, it's become clear that numerous imports from other bj-league teams have discussed or are considered leaving Japan in fear of more natural disasters and health risks. For a league with nearly 35 percent of its players coming from overseas, a mass exodus of players — and possibly foreign head coaches L.J. Hepp (Oita HeatDevils), Zeljko Pavlicevic (Shimane Susanoo Magic), Bob Nash (Saitama Broncos) and Bob Pierce (Akita Northern Happinets) — would compound this unforeseen chain of events. Japan Times
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I would like to meet a sweetheart that doesn't want to just party all the time but enjoys it every once in a while. I would love it if she could cook and I could return the favor. Distance doesn't seem to be an issue for me but just realize you probably will not see me everyday but you will hear from me. (apparently this doesn't sit well with people I'm just being honest) I am originally from New Jersey and lived in PA for a bit in college. I have been in the DC area for about 5 years now and still having a good time. I am very easy to get along with and I am always trying to learn something new. I play the drums and am currently trying to teach myself the guitar, it might take a bit but I will master that as well. I love going to the driving range and I'm all about Green Bay Packers Football. I have a twin brother who is my complete opposite (blonde hair blue eyes), an amazing set of friends and a good job! The beach is the ultimate relaxing spot with a close second to the ski slopes. Otherwise I'm very easy to get along with and am looking forward to meeting someone Random Facts: 1. I go to about 15-20 Nats games a season 2. I love hot sauce on almost anything 3. My eyes change colors 4. I am a master at mini golf 5. I love roller coasters 6. I go to the gym 7. I have a good job 8. I don't live with my parents 9. I like whiskey, IPA's and Guinness 10. I can give sarcasm just as good as I can take it
Cooking , Fishing/Hunting , Movies/Videos , Music and concerts , Nightclubs/Dancing , Playing cards , Playing sports , Video games , Watching sports
Baseball, Billiards / Pool, Football, Golf, Hockey, Running, Skiing, Weights / Machines
I exercise 5 or more times per week.
I have Dogs
My dogs name is Jersey she was a rescue from South Carolina. She is such a sweetheart and very loyal.
Middle of the Road
Spider Kellys, The Reef, Tom Toms, Clarendon Grill, Penn Social, Dirty Bar
Sports, Weight Lifting, Skiing, The Water, Fishing, Building, Cornhole
I am active in social sports leagues, I go to the gym 5 or 6 days a week to stay active. I love going to the driving range and I want to give the shooting range a try as well.
I don't read to often
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|What he is looking for
|5'8" (172cms)
|5'3" (160cms) to 6'3" (190cms)
|Body type:
|Slender, About average, Athletic and toned
|Black, Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Hazel
|Dark brown
|Auburn / Red, Black, Light brown, Dark brown, Blonde, Dark blonde, Platinum
|No Way
|No Way
|Social Drinker
|Social Drinker, Regularly
|Architecture / Interior design
|Administrative / Secretarial, Artistic / Creative / Performance, Executive / Management, Financial / Accounting / Real Estate, Labor / Construction, Legal, Medical / Dental / Veterinary / Fitness, Sales / Marketing, Self-Employed / Entrepreneur, Education / Teacher / Professor, Technical / Science / Computers / Engineering, Travel / Hospitality / Transportation, Fashion / Model / Beauty, Architecture / Interior design
|$50,001 to $75,000
|$50,001 to $75,000, $75,001 to $100,000, $100,001 to $150,000, $150,001+
|Never Married
|Never Married
|Have kids:
|Wants kids:
|White / Caucasian
|Asian, Latino / Hispanic, Pacific Islander, White / Caucasian, Other
I am a mix or everything, Italian, Polish and Arabic are my main backgrounds and yes my last name is Smith.... who knows
|Christian / Catholic
|No preference
I don't follow much I did when I was a kid
|Bachelors degree
|Bachelors degree, Graduate degree, PhD / Post Doctoral


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An internationally renowned music event, The Great American Brass Band Festival aims to entertain and educate. Along with bands from New Orleans, New York, and Pittsburgh, the festival will include a Friday Brass Symposium featuring band personalities, scholars, and Dr. George Foreman, the Founder of The Great American Brass Band Festival. The Symposium will celebrate the festival's history and preview a book to be written on the tradition.
The Great American Picnic, a much-loved fundraiser that performers and patrons eagerly anticipate each year, will highlight the Brass Band Festival.
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Color Coded: Turquoise
July 9, 2012 | Category: Color Coded
After a great 12 weeks, it is now time for my last post as a Betsywhite intern. Thanks for tuning in every monday for my posts! I would love to share my absolute favorite color for this post, turquoise. Turquoise is bright and fun, a great color for the summer!
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Republican Sam Belsito has defeated Democrat Anthony J. Horn in a special election for a state House seat in the eastern part of the state.
The 53rd district covers Ashford, Tolland and Willington.
Belsito takes the seat of Democrat Bryan Hurlburt, who resigned in April to take a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Services Bureau.