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We climb to the pinnacle of Porsche's 911 range and test its new 2014 Carrera Cup racer.PT4M21S http://www.watoday.com.au/action/externalEmbeddedPlayer?id=d-30wfe 620 349 January 16, 2014
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Just like Richie Benaud's choice of jackets, there's a Porsche 911 to suit every occasion.
While you could hardly call any of them beige (or off-white or bone), the German sports car maker has developed a cupboard full of variants of its iconic coupe with, in the previous-generation Type 997, more than 20 different models, ranging from the standard Carrera through Turbo and Cabriolet versions, as well as the Targa, road racer GT3 and GT2 versions and countless limited edition spin-offs.
At last count, there are already 14 variations of the newest Type 991, and the latest to arrive in Australia is the 911 GT3 Cup, the pure-bred racer that will take to the track for the 2014 Australian Carrera Cup championship.
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Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.
It is the most focussed – and selfish – 911 variant of them all, as you can only purchase one if you commit to racing in the series, being left-hand drive it obviously can't be driven on the road and it only comes with one seat.
Despite that, it is already a sell-out success with Porsche Cars Australia filling the entire 25-car grid before the season commences at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide on February 27.
Its popularity is not surprising considering the Cup car is actually cheaper than the road-going GT3 on which it is based, costing around $260,000 including a package of spare parts. The Carrera Cup attracts big names such as V8 Supercar drivers Steven Richards, Warren Luff and five-time champion Craig Baird and is the most successful one-make series in the world with Porsche building more than 2300 Cup cars since it was introduced in 1993.
The latest version brings some of the most radical changes ever introduced to the competition, with a range of improvements designed to make the car easier and faster to drive and cheaper and quicker to repair.
Like all 911 variants, the GT3 Cup has an additional 100mm within its wheelbase that ensures it is more stable and is powered, for the first time, by the latest direct-injection 3.8-litre flat six that produces 338kW at a dizzying 8500rpm and drives the rear wheels through a mechanical limited slip diff. As it is with the road-going GT3, the Cup car has ditched its manual gearbox for a paddle-shifter transmission, but rather than being a seven-speed dual-clutcher it is a race-bred, pneumatically-activated six speed developed specifically for the track.
With more lightweight materials in its construction, and a stripped-out cabin complete with a full roll cage, racing seat and all the safety gear required for competition, the GT3 Cup tips the scales at just 1175kg – which is lighter than most city-sized hatchbacks.
That much is evident even before I even jump behind the wheel for an eight-lap stint around Sydney Motorsport Park, when I fling open the carbon fibre door that feels as light as a feather. Like most race cars, getting in to the cockpit is hardly an elegant process as I contort my body through the roll cage and drop bum first into the low-slung and tight-fitting race seat.
But, even though I'm on the wrong side of the car and the small suede steering wheel is littered with buttons, the 911's traditional five-gauge instrument binnacle is replaced with a space-age digital display and the carbon fibre centre console has as many toggle switches as a small aeroplane, there is a sense of familiarity about its cabin. Both the seat and steering wheel are adjustable so you can find the perfect driving position and, once tightly strapped into the six-point harness and ready to go, it feels like, well… a Porsche.
The starting process, however, is a little more complicated than a regular 911. Instead of twisting a key, you've got to flick a switch to activate the power, then another for the ignition system before pressing a starter button on the left side of the dash. And, even though it has a paddle shift gearbox, it still has a clutch pedal that's required to get off the line.
Like the previous road-going GT3, it's a heavy unit with instant bite and the engine's lightweight flywheel means it requires a delicate set of feet to get it moving. After a few embarrassingly failed attempts, I give it a few more revs and stumble out of pitlane for the first time and, after pressing the button to de-activate the pitlane speed limiter, hit the circuit.
Before its massive 10.5-inch front and 12-inch rear slicks heat-up, I use the first few corners to familiarise myself with the gearbox. The tiny carbon-fibre paddles are perfectly placed at your fingertips and require barely a flick to shift through the cogs, cracking a taller gear at lightning speed with barely any interruption in power and automatically blipping the throttle on the way down for maximum engine braking.
As the grip rises, so does my confidence and as I start to push harder, the GT3 Cup simply comes alive. The engine is deliciously smooth in the way it delivers its power, with instant throttle response to tap into its generous mid-range which rapidly rises to a wailing crescendo as it screams towards its 8500rpm rev limiter.
There's no tacho as such, but a series a lights that illuminate across the top of the digital dash indicates when it's time to pull the next gear. There's no speedo either, but data extracted from the car's computer back in the pits proved the GT3 Cup topped out at 254km/h down Sydney Motorsport Park's long front straight.
Or at least that's as fast I was willing to push it before a quick dab on the brakes was needed to wash off enough speed to slice through turn one at more than 180km/h.
As far as its power and speed is concerned, a road-going 911 Turbo S feels more savage and is probably just as quick in a straight line, but through the corners the GT3 Cup is something else altogether. It still has all the rear-engined handling traits of a typical 911, in that the front-end gets light under heavy acceleration and can pogo across the bumps and the rear-end can quickly snap sideways when it loses traction, but thanks to the combination of its lightweight body, mega downforce, pin-sharp steering and those super-sticky Michelin slick tyres its limit of grip is at a stratospheric level.
Porsche claims the improvements in the 991 GT3 Cup will offer a more level playing field between the professional front runners and the cashed-up gentleman racers that make up the rest of the Carrera Cup field, and after a couple of laps behind the wheel that's easy to see as, in race car terms, it is actually quite easy to drive – to a point.
For those 25 racers lucky enough to have one, I'm envious as it is, by far, the most exciting 911 in the cupboard - even if it does only come in white.
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Price: $260,000 (aprox)
Engine: 3.8-litre horizontally-opposed six cylinder
Power: 338kW
Transmission: six-speed semi automatic, RWD
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Shame it probably gets eaten alive by a stock GT-R. Fail.
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We'll never know will we.
Cause it's called the Australian Carrera Cup Championship.
Not the Australian Carrera Cup Championship and some Datsuns.
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- January 16, 2014, 12:08PM
Around a track, I doubt it.
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- January 16, 2014, 12:48PM
So perhaps they should rename it to the "Australian Carrera Has-Been Runners-Up Cup"?
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- January 16, 2014, 12:57PM
So they can enter the GT-R?
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- January 16, 2014, 1:19PM
This line from the story suggests probably not:
"... a road-going 911 Turbo S feels more savage and is probably just as quick in a straight line, but through the corners the GT3 Cup is something else altogether."
Since a road-going Turbo S is faster than a GT-R on a track, it's pretty safe to say this would be too.
Of course Nissan doesn't let real-world physics get in the way of their GT-R performance claims so why should you let real-world logic get in the way of yours?
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- January 16, 2014, 3:01PM
+100. The GT-R sends any Porsche back to Germany with its bonnet rear spoiler trapped between its two rear tyres (with the possible exception of the 918 which isn't a mass production sports car and costs 10 times the amount of the Nismo GT-R).
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- January 16, 2014, 4:47PM
Ha ha ha such a stupid comment its really funny.
Just be sure to keep the tranny fluid cool in your GT-ER...
Nice try champ, there's always one!
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- January 16, 2014, 6:54PM
I'm the GT-R's biggest fan, but I recently watched an Autocar comparison between the new GT3 and the McLaren MP4-12C. They took the 12C first on the race track and raved about it's incredible performance handling, straight line speed etc, and basically they were going to see how close the GT3 would get. To everyone surprise the GT3 actually BEAT the McLaren's time, albeit it by only a tenth of a second or two! A M A Z I N G car, and this is in stock form.
I think it would be a neck and neck thing between GT3 and GT-R and McLaren on most tracks, but there is no way a stock GT-R will beat a race prepped GT3, but a GT-R Nismo on the other hand may do the trick
Anyway Hatchet Harry, send my regards to Barry 'The Baptist' !!!! ;-)
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Yes, comparing a RWD, N/A race car to an AWD, twin-turbo road car seems totally legit. The thing is, grasshopper, the GT3 Cup can do the same times lap after lap, day after day. The GT-R wouldn't.
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Chris Turney of the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia and colleagues had charted climate changes in the North Atlantic region using Irish bog oaks (New Scientist, 11 October, p 11). This work revealed a clear wet/dry cycle with shifts about every 800 years.
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Season 4 of True Blood cannot come fast enough! Here are seven things we're looking forward to — other than tons of nudity, plenty of hot, messy sex, and Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) saying "dayum!" Warning: spoilers galore!
1. Finding out more about Sookie's fairy world! Sookie (Anna Paquin) only just learned about her alternate life as a tutu-wearing, wood-frolicking fairy, and we're dying to know more. So far, fairies have the best lives ever! They hang out by a pond all day telecommunicating with each other and drinking fancy water. Who needs talking when you can just awkwardly stare at someone?
2. The season of the witch. Rumor has it that Season 4 is all witches, all the time. We already know that Lafayette's new bf Jesus is a Brujo (Spanish term for witch), and we're worried that he's cast some sort of love spell on Lala! Remember those crazy demon horns Jesus sprouted? As Lafayette would say, "Satan in a Sunday hat, girl." First vampires, then werewolves, now witches –– what's up with all the super naturals moving to Bon Temps? We can't wait to find out more — like do witches fly around on broomsticks?
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4. Sookie + Alcide love connection. What's even better than Sookie hooking up with Eric? Sookie doing it with Alcide (Joe Manganiello) — literally! Forget love triangle, this is a legit love square. (Sookie's gettin' around lately, huh?) We love that Alcide's not attracted to Sook just because of her red-hot fairy blood — he's legit crushing on her!
5. Eric's amnesia. We've all seen the promo vids of Eric wandering around the woods all confused like a lost werewolf pup. Poor vamp doesn't know where he is, who he's eaten, or why he's shirtless. He's even lost count of all the girls (and guys) he's done it with! Hmmm, wonder who will help him through these rough times of self-doubt? Enter Sookie.
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(April 13, 2011)--The UTSA Office of Student Activities will host the third annual "Party on the Paseo: Roadrunners Fiesta Sober" from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m., Thursday, April 14 at the University Center paseo on the Main Campus.
Free and open to the UTSA and San Antonio communities, the alcohol-free, unofficial Fiesta San Antonio event will include food, prize drawings, Mr. and Ms. UTSA, and live music from Castle Lights and The Hooch. Chili's Too in the University Center will offer specials during the event. Visitor parking will be available at a reasonable rate in the nearby parking garage.
Participants can meet artist Cecilia Mujica, UTSA alumnae and designer of the official 2011 Fiesta San Antonio poster; she will be available to sign autographs and posters.
Presented the same night as the unofficial college night at Fiesta's "Night in Old San Antonio" (NIOSA), Party on the Paseo is credited with a dramatic decrease in alcohol violations on campus during Fiesta. In the first year of the program, violations decreased from 14 to seven -- and were reduced to one last year.
The activities will share the message of enforcing laws regarding alcohol use and avoiding drunk driving. Last November, the event was named Outstanding Creative Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program at the national conference of BACCHUS, an international association of university peer education groups that creates programming on health and safety issues.
"Party on the Paseo is an opportunity to celebrate Fiesta in a safe and sober environment," said Kelsey Bratcher, UTSA associate director of student activities for risk education, alcohol and drug programs. "We want students and the community to have a good time, but also be smart and responsible about how they celebrate. It's okay to choose not to drink, but if you do, have a sober designated driver."
Party on the Paseo is sponsored by the UTSA student organization Be A Responsible Roadrunner (BARR), Campus Activities Board, Office of Student Judicial Affairs, Office of Housing and Residence Life, Campus Living Villages, Counseling Services, UTSA Police Department, Video Productions and ARAMARK. The event also is supported by a grant from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission.
For more information, call the UTSA Office of Student Activities at 210-458-4160.


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Apple has just confirmed to The Verge that the YouTube app, which has been a staple of iOS since the original iPhone's introduction in 2007, will not be included in iOS 6.
The omission was first noticed when iOS 6 beta 4 was released earlier today. But it was unknown whether it was a deliberate omission until Apple confirmed the news:
Our license to include the YouTube app in iOS has ended, customers can use YouTube in the Safari browser and Google is working on a new YouTube app to be on the App Store.
YouTube's disappearance marks another change in Apple's relationship with Google. Apple introduced its own Maps App for iOS 6 at WWDC in June. In previous versions of iOS, Google provided the mapping data.
The YouTube app has been stale to say the least in the last few versions of iOS. Do you think Google can improve it with a standalone version?
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First, prepare the grits. Bring the water and salt to a boil in a heavy-bottomed pot. Whisking the whole time, add the grits in a steady stream. Reduce the heat to low or medium-low and cook, stirring frequently, for 10 minutes, or until the grits have bloomed and are creamy. Stir in the butter and taste for salt. Keep warm.
Fry the bacon in a large sauté pan over medium heat, until crispy. Remove the bacon to paper towels to drain. Add the onion to the pan and sauté in the bacon fat until soft. Keep warm.
Coat the fillets thoroughly with Cajun seasoning and sprinkle both sides with salt and pepper. Heat the butter in a large clean sauté pan or in the bacon pan over medium-high heat. Add the fish fillets and fry for 2 to 3 minutes per side, or until just cooked through. While the fish is cooking, crack the eggs into the pan and fry alongside the fish, or fry in a separate skillet if the pan is not large enough to accommodate both.
Spoon the grits into two large shallow serving bowls and sprinkle with the bacon and sautéed onion. Top each with 2 fish fillets and crown with an egg. Lay the sliced avocado and tomato on the side and season with salt and pepper.
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The high rates of the Morrill tariff inaugurated a period of relatively continuous trade protection in the United States that lasted until the Underwood Tariff of 1913. The schedule of the Morrill Tariff and its two successor bills were retained long after the end of the Civil War.
Efforts to revise the tariff schedule began in earnest in 1858 amidst a contentious battle for control of the House of Representatives. The Know Nothing movement and a split within the Democratic Party over the Lecompton Constitution resulted in no party having a clear majority in the House of Representatives for the 36th Congress, and thus no clear choice for Speaker of the House emerged for over three months. Amidst the turmoil, members of the House Ways and Means Committee submitted competing plans for a revision to the tariff schedule. The Democratic plan, authored by outgoing chairman John S. Phelps, retained most of the status quo from the 1857 Tariff plus minor revisions designed to stimulate revenue. The Republican plan, authored by Morrill and Maryland representative Henry Winter Davis, sought an upward revision of the tariff schedule.
The Republican proposal replaced the existing ad valorem tariff schedule with specific duties and drastically increased rates on popular "protected" industries such as iron, textiles, woolen goods, and manufactured items. Economic historian Frank Taussig indicated that in many cases, the substitution of specific duties were used to disguise the extent of the rate increases.
Morrill's break came in early 1859 when the Republicans succeeded in electing pro-tariff Rep. William Pennington of New Jersey as Speaker. Pennington appointed a Republican majority to the committee and a new chairman, Rep. John Sherman of Ohio. Sherman's appointment cleared the way for Morrill's proposal to come to the House floor during the Spring session of 1860.
The Morrill Tariff act passed the United States House of Representatives by a strictly sectional vote during the first session of the 36th Congress on May 10, 1860. Virtually all of the northern representatives supported it and southern representatives opposed it. In that vote, only 15 northern congressmen, mostly Democrats, voted against the Morrill Tariff. Similarly, only one deep south congressman voted in favor of the tariff, along with 6 southern border state congressmen. In total, 87% of the northern congressmen supported the bill and 87.5% of southern congressmen opposed it.
The tariff was submitted to the Senate for a vote on May 11, where it was referred to the Senate Finance Committee. Senator Robert M. T. Hunter of Virginia, a free trade advocate and author of the 1857 Tariff, served as chairman of this committee and successfully tabled the bill until Congress reconvened for the 1860 Winter session. Hunter's move had the effect of postponing the Senate's vote until after the 1860 election, effectively guaranteeing the tariff's prominence as a campaign issue.
Early on Republican party strategists recognized the need to carry the swing state of Pennsylvania, where protectionist sentiment was strong and the local congressional delegation favored the Morrill Tariff. The recently-formed Republican Party contained many ex-Whigs who adhered to the principles of Henry Clay and his American School of economics, including tariff protectionism.
Pennsylvania sent a strong pro-tariff delegation to the 1860 Republican National Convention under the guidance of Carey and other Republican leaders from the state. Working with prominent newspaperman Horace Greeley, Pennsylvania secured a pro-tariff plank in the Republican platform. The Pennsylvania delegation initially supported its home candidate Sen. Simon Cameron for President, but switched to Illinois' Abraham Lincoln when Cameron withdrew from the race. Lincoln was a former Whig and Clay disciple with a strong pro-tariff record from his days in Congress.
During the campaign of 1860 the Republican party stressed the tariff issue only in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, where the tariff issue played strong among voters. A targeted message was necessary because the tariff issue was unpopular in other states, especially the agricultural regions of the west. The Republican National Committee dispatched Morrill, Sherman, and several other tariff leaders to Pennsylvania and New Jersey to tout the Morrill Tariff and to speak as surrogates on the campaign trail for Lincoln. Meanwhile, the Lincoln campaign crafted a careful message specific to Pennsylvania under the slogan of "Protection to American Industry." In August Lincoln sent his manager David Davis to the state to organize the local Republican machines and coordinate with known tariff advocates including Cameron, Rep. Thaddeus Stevens, and GOP gubernatorial candidate Andrew Curtin.
Both Democratic tickets, John C. Breckenridge and Stephen Douglass, opposed the Morrill Tariff, protectionism in general, and the American System. Curtin's victory in the September state election was widely interpreted as a sign of the Republican tariff strategy's success. Lincoln carried Pennsylvania handedly in November, and split a portion of New Jersey's electoral votes.
The Senate again took up the Morrill bill in December after the election and intensely debated it for the next several months. At first it was widely believed that Hunter would be able to delay a Senate vote until the incoming 37th Congress. On February 14, 1861, president-elect Lincoln told an audience in Pittsburgh that he would make a new tariff his priority in the next session if the bill did not pass by inauguration day on March 4th:
According to my political education, I am inclined to believe that the people in the various sections of the country should have their own views carried out through their representatives in Congress, and if the consideration of the Tariff bill should be postponed until the next session of the National Legislature, no subject should engage your representatives more closely than that of a tariff.
Hunter lost his hold on the Senate Finance Committee in February, when the Senate restructured its committees after the resignation of several senators from the seceding states of the deep south. This allowed Morrill's co-sponsor in the Senate, James Fowler Simmons of Rhode Island, to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. The Morrill Tariff finally came up for full debate on February 27th and passed into law on March 2 on a strictly sectional vote. The bill enjoyed unanimous support from the northern states and unanimous opposition from the remaining southern states. Though a Democrat himself, outgoing president James Buchanan favored the tariff due to the interests of his home state Pennsylvania. He signed the bill into law as one of his last acts in office.
The Morrill Tariff took effect one month after it was signed into law. The tariff had been written for peacetime with the purpose of protecting of industrial manufacturing, located mostly in the northeast, from foreign competitor products. Other provisions of the bill altered and restricted the Warehousing Act of 1846. Due to the penalties it imposed on foreign traded goods the act formented hostility and condemnation of the United States from abroad, mainly in Free Trade supporting Britain. It was ill suited for the revenue needs of the Civil War though, and was prematurely supplanted by the Second Morrill Tariff, or Revenue Act of 1861, later that fall.
According to Taussig, "It is clear that the Morrill tariff was carried in the House before any serious expectation of war was entertained; and it was accepted by the Senate in the session of 1861 without material change. It therefore forms no part of the financial legislation of the war, which gave rise in time to a series of measures that entirely superseded the Morrill tariff.
The United States needed more revenue to support its troops in the field --$320 million for the next year, of which three-fourths had to come from tariff revenues. Therefore Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, a long-time free-trader, worked with Morrill to pass a second tariff bill in summer 1861, raising rates another 10 points in order to generate more revenues. These subsequent bills were primarily revenue driven to meet the war's needs, though Luthin notes they enjoyed the support of protectionists such as Carey, who again assisted Morrill in the bill's design (p. 627). It played a modest role in the financing of the war, funding about 11% of the war effort (in terms of its tariff revenues). It was less important than other measures, such as bond sales. Customs revenue was $345 million from 1861 through 1865, or 43% of all federal tax revenue, while spending on the War and Navy departments totalled $3,065 million.
The Morrill Tariff was met with intense hostility in Great Britain, where the free trade movement dominated public opinion. The new tariff schedule heavily penalized British iron, clothing, and manufactured exports with new taxes and sparked public outcry from many British politicians. The expectation of high rates probably caused British shippers to hasten their deliveries before the new rates took effect in the early summer of 1861. When complaints were heard from London, Congress counterattacked. The Senate Finance Committee chairman snapped, "What right has a foreign country to make any question about what we choose to do?
When the Civil War broke out in 1861, British public opinion was sympathetic to the Confederacy due to lingering agitation over the tariff. As one diplomatic historian has explained, the Morrill Tariff: [Johnson p 14]
"Not unnaturally gave great displeasure to England. It greatly lessened the profits of the American markets to English manufacturers and merchants, to a degree which caused serious mercantile distress in that country. Moreover, the British nation was then in the first flush of enthusiasm over free trade, and, under the lead of extremists like Cobden and Gladstone, was inclined to regard a protective tariff as essentially and intrinsically immoral, scarcely less so than larceny or murder. Indeed, the tariff was seriously regarded as comparable in offensiveness with slavery itself, and Englishmen were inclined to condemn the North for the one as much as the South for the other. "We do not like slavery," said Palmerston to Adams, "but we want cotton, and we dislike very much your Morrill tariff."
Many prominent British writers condemned the Morrill Tariff in the strongest terms. Economist William Stanley Jevons denounced it as a "retrograde" law. The well known novelist Charles Dickens used his magazine, All the Year Round, to attack the new tariff. On December 28, 1861 Dickens published a lengthy editorial, believed to be written by Henry Morley, in which he blamed the American Civil War on the Morrill Tariff:
If it be not slavery, where lies the partition of the interests that has led at last to actual separation of the Southern from the Northern States? …Every year, for some years back, this or that Southern state had declared that it would submit to this extortion only while it had not the strength for resistance. With the election of Lincoln and an exclusive Northern party taking over the federal government, the time for withdrawal had arrived … The conflict is between semi-independent communities [in which] every feeling and interest [in the South] calls for political partition, and every pocket interest [in the North] calls for union … So the case stands, and under all the passion of the parties and the cries of battle lie the two chief moving causes of the struggle. Union means so many millions a year lost to the South; secession means the loss of the same millions to the North. The love of money is the root of this, as of many other evils.… [T]he quarrel between the North and South is, as it stands, solely a fiscal quarrel.
Communist philosopher Karl Marx was among the few writers in Britain who took a favourable view of the Morrill Tariff. Marx wrote extensively in the British press and served as a London correspondent for several North American newspapers including Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Marx reacted to those who blamed the war on Morrill's bill, arguing instead that slavery had induced secession and that the tariff was just a pretext. Marx wrote, in October 1861:
Naturally, in America everyone knew that from 1846 to 1861 a free trade system prevailed, and that Representative Morrill carried his protectionist tariff through Congress only in 1861, after the rebellion had already broken out. Secession, therefore, did not take place because the Morrill tariff had gone through Congress, but, at most, the Morrill tariff went through Congress because secession had taken place.
Planning to distribute the benefits of a tariff to all sectors of the economy, and also hoping to broaden support for his party, Morrill rejected the traditional system of protection by proposing tariff duties on agricultural, mining, and fishing products, as well as on manufactures. Sugar, wool, flaxseed, hides, beef, pork, corn, grain, hemp, wool, and minerals would all be protected by the Morrill Tariff. The duty on sugar might well be expected to appease Southerners opposed to tariffs, and, notably, wool and flaxseed production were growing industries in the West. The new tariff bill also would protect coal, lead, copper, zinc, and other minerals, all of which the new northwestern states were beginning to produce. The Eastern fishing industry would receive a duty on dried, pickled, and salted fish. "In adjusting the details of a tariff," Morrill explained with a rhetorical flourish in his introduction of the bill, "I would treat agriculture, manufactures, mining, and commerce, as I would our whole people—as members of one family, all entitled to equal favor, and no one to be made the beast of burden to carry the packs of others.
According to Taussig, "Morrill and the other supporters of the act of 1861 declared that their intention was simply to restore the rates of 1846." However, he also gives reason to suspect that the bill's motives were intended to put high rates of protection on iron and wool to attract states in the West and in Pennsylvania:
"The important change which they (the sponsors) proposed to make from the provisions of the tariff of 1846 was to substitute specific for ad-valorem duties. Such a change from ad-valorem to specific duties is in itself by no means objectionable; but it has usually been made a pretext on the part of protectionists for a considerable increase in the actual duties paid. When protectionists make a change of this kind, they almost invariably make the specific duties higher than the ad-valorem duties for which they are supposed to be an equivalent...The Morrill tariff formed no exception to the usual course of things in this respect. The specific duties which it established were in many cases considerably above the ad-valorem duties of 1846. The most important direct changes made by the act of 1861 were in the increased duties on iron and on wool, by which it was hoped to attach to the Republican party Pennsylvania and some of the Western States
Henry Carey, who assisted Morrill while drafting the bill and was one of its most vocal supporters, strongly emphasized its importance to the Republican Party in his January 21861 letter to Lincoln. Carey told the President-Elect "the success of your administration is wholly dependent upon the passage of the Morrill bill at the present session." According to Carey:
"With it, the people will be relieved - your term will commence with a rising wave of prosperity - the Treasury will be filled and the party that elected you will be increased and strengthened. Without it, there will be much suffering among the people -- much dissatisfaction with their duties -- much borrowing on the part of the Government - & very much trouble among the Republican Party when the people shall come to vote two years hence. There is but one way to make the Party a permanent one, & that is, by the prompt repudiation to the free trade system."
Historian Reinhard H. Luthin documents the importance of the Morrill Tariff to the Republicans in the 1860 presidential election. Abraham Lincoln's record as a protectionist and support for the Morrill Tariff bill, he notes, helped him to secure support in the important electoral college states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Congressman John Sherman later wrote:
The Morrill tariff bill came nearer than any other to meeting the double requirement of providing ample revenue for the support of the government and of rendering the proper protection to home industries. No national taxes, except duties on imported goods, were imposed at the time of its passage. The Civil War changed all this, reducing importations and adding tenfold to the revenue required. The government was justified in increasing existing rates of duty, and in adding to the dutiable list all articles imported, thus including articles of prime necessity and of universal use. In addition to these duties, it was compelled to add taxes on all articles of home production, on incomes not required for the supply of actual wants, and, especially, on articles of doubtful necessity, such as spirits, tobacco and beer. These taxes were absolutely required to meet expenditures for the army and navy, for the interest on the war debts and just pensions to those who were disabled by the war, and to their widows and orphans.
Though slavery dominated the secession debate in most southern states, the Morrill Tariff received considerable attention in the conventions of Georgia and South Carolina. On November 191860 Senator Robert Toombs gave a speech to the Georgia convention in which he denounced the "infamous Morrill bill." The tariff legislation, he argued, was the product of a coalition between abolitionists and protectionists in which "the free-trade abolitionists became protectionists; the non-abolition protectionists became abolitionists." Toombs described this coalition as "the robber and the incendiary...united in joint raid against the South." Anti-tariff sentiments also appeared in Georgia's Secession Declaration of January 29, 1861, written in part by Toombs.
Robert Barnwell Rhett similarly railed against the then-pending Morrill Tariff before the South Carolina convention. Rhett included a lengthy attack on tariffs in the Address of South Carolina to Slaveholding States, which the convention adopted on December 25, 1860 to accompany its secession ordinance.
And so with the Southern States, towards the Northern States, in the vital matter of taxation. They are in a minority in Congress. Their representation in Congress, is useless to protect them against unjust taxation; and they are taxed by the people of the North for their benefit, exactly as the people of Great Britain taxed our ancestors in the British parliament for their benefit. For the last forty years, the taxes laid by the Congress of the United States have been laid with a view of subserving the interests of the North. The people of the South have been taxed by duties on imports, not for revenue, but for an object inconsistent with revenue— to promote, by prohibitions, Northern interests in the productions of their mines and manufactures.
The Morrill Tariff played less prominently elsewhere in the south. In some portions of Virginia, secessionists promised a new protective tariff to assist the state's fledgling industries.
The Beard thesis has enjoyed a recent revival among economists, pro-Confederate historians, and neo-Beardian scholars. A 2002 study by economists Robert McGuire and T. Norman Van Cott concluded:
A de facto constitutional mandate that tariffs lie on the lower end of the Laffer relationship means that the Confederacy went beyond simply observing that a given tax revenue is obtainable with a "high" and "low" tax rate, a la Alexander Hamilton and others. Indeed, the constitutional action suggests that the tariff issue may in fact have been even more important in the North-South tensions that led to the Civil War than many economists and historians currently believe."
According to economist and libertarian historian Thomas DiLorenzo, this tariff was the primary cause of the Civil War. Most Civil War historians disagree. Allan Nevins and James M. McPherson downplay the significance of the tariff dispute, arguing that it was peripheral to the issue of slavery. They note that slavery dominated the secessionist declarations, speeches, and pamphlets. Nevins also points to the argument of Alexander Stephens, who disputed Toombs' claims about the severity of the Morrill tariff. Though initially a unionist, Stephens would later cite slavery as the "cornerstone" reason behind his support of the secessionist cause.


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Member Showcase - Toot Your Horn!
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Our last meeting of 2012 is fast approaching. Join us for the inspiring demonstrations of three of our own members:
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November Meeting - Building a Book Using InDesign
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Graphic Designers, Photographers, Writers & Artists - You won't want to miss November's presentation!
Building a Book in Adobe InDesign
Many online book publishing websites provide convenient templates for book production. You have greater flexibility in layout and design, however, if you build the book yourself in Adobe InDesign, export the book to a pdf file, and then upload the pdf to the publishing website. This presentation will discuss the basics of book production in InDesign, and demonstrate the book creation process by assembling a small photo book about Paris on the spot. This promises to be an inspiring meeting to attend. We're looking forward to a full house for this meeting!
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Animal health and welfare
Please see the information listed below about the Animal Health and Welfare service provided by Cornwall Council's Animal Health Team from Trading Standards.
General advice
- Animal Health and Welfare Legislation - An introduction
- Importation of Animals
- Advice on pet animals entering and re-entering Cornwall - An Introduction to the Pet Travel Scheme (PETS) (a leaflet to download)
- Changes to the UK Pet Travel Scheme (PETS) - Changes effective from 1/1/2012
- Performing Animals (Regulation) Act 1925
- Pig Identification and Useful Information
- Sheep Identification - A Bitesized Guide (a leaflet to download)
Animal Movement Licences
- Animal movement Licences
- Electronic pig movement reporting service - changes to the reporting of pig movements (a leaflet to download).
Advice leaflets
Please visit our Advice on Animals page to view guidance notes that are designed to help you understand the legislation. We trust you will find them useful.
For information on non farm animal welfare please visit the Environmental Health animal welfare webpage.


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California Hotels Go Green With Low-Flow Toilets, Solar Lights
By Ari Levy and Carole Zimmer (Bloomberg) - April 27, 2007
Visitors to the Gaia Napa Valley Hotel and Spa won't find the Gideon Bible in the nightstand drawer. Instead, on the bureau will be a copy of "An Inconvenient Truth," former Vice President Al Gore's book about global warming.
They'll also find the Gaia equipped with waterless urinals, solar lighting and recycled paper as it marches toward becoming California's first hotel certified as "green," or benevolent to the environment. Similar features are found 35 miles south at San Francisco's Orchard Garden Hotel, which competes for customers with neighboring luxury hotels like the Ritz-Carlton and Fairmont.
"I'm not your traditional Birkenstocks and granola type of guy," said Stefan Muehle, general manager of the Orchard Garden, who said green measures are reducing energy costs as much as 25 percent a month. "We're trying to dispel the myth that being green and being luxurious are mutually exclusive."
The Gaia and Orchard are seeking to be the first hotels in California certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, which has authenticated 800 buildings across the U.S. and has about 6,000 in the process, including 30 hotels. San Francisco and other cities offer financial incentives to lessen water and energy use and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Seven years ago, the Green Building Council developed a rating system called the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED. Buildings are certified based on their use of environmentally friendly features such as recycled construction materials, solar lighting, and efficient energy and water systems. Older buildings may be retrofitted.
Sleeping Well
"If that choice is available, why not take advantage of it," said Josh Dorfman of New York, founder of furniture company Vivavi Inc. and a frequent traveler. "It's a way to be able to enjoy traveling and to still feel good that I'm doing it in a way that supports a cleaner planet. It's a win-win."
Building green isn't a priority for most publicly traded hotel chains, said Robert Lafleur, a hotels analyst at Susquehanna Financial Group in Stamford, Connecticut.
"The only green investors care about is the green that's on the money, not the green that's in the hotel rooms," Lafleur said. For visitors, "it's location, price, convenience and brand affiliation."
Some chains are participating on a limited basis. Marriott International Inc., the biggest U.S. hotel operator, has one LEED-certified hotel in Maryland and seven under construction. Hilton Hotels Corp., the second-largest, received its first certification in January for a hotel in Vancouver, Washington.
"We have a social responsibility," said Pat Maher, a senior vice president of Bethesda, Maryland-based Marriott. "It also makes good business sense."
A Sea Change
Swinerton Inc., a San Francisco-based construction company, has worked on more than 20 buildings seeking certification. The 86-room Orchard Garden, completed last year, was its first hotel, said Grant French, a Swinerton engineer.
"There's been a sea change," said French. Some companies "are considering rolling out entire product lines of green hotels."
Wen-I Chang opened the 132-room Gaia in the town of American Canyon last year. He's building other green hotels in Anderson and Merced and said he hopes to develop at least six more within three years.
Shorter Showers
Chang said he became an environmentalist in 1999, when he couldn't get a glass of water at a restaurant in Santa Cruz, California, because of a shortage in the area.
"I started thinking that there are many ways I can save water," said Chang, 62. "I changed my shower habit from eight minutes to two minutes."
Then he changed his building habits, after 10 years of developing Holiday Inn and Hilton franchises.
Chang said 43 cities have asked him to build green hotels. Some offer incentives to help cover construction costs, which were about 15 percent more for the Gaia. Chang said it's saving 25 percent on electricity and almost 50 percent on water, which may enable the hotel to turn profitable next month.
American Canyon slashed Gaia's transient occupancy tax by $1 million over three years. Anderson waived a $100,000 environmental impact fee, in part because a green hotel may encourage tourists to stay longer, said Scott Morgan, city manager.
San Francisco began giving priority to green projects last year. A developer may have to wait only four weeks to start construction instead of eight months, said Richard Chien, residential green building coordinator with the San Francisco Department of the Environment.
Getting Traction
"We need to get more traction," Chien said. "We're facing problems with global warming and climate change and we're taking a cue to develop programs to address that at a citywide level."
Any big new buildings California's government erects must be designed for LEED certification, by order of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The state is working to enact green construction standards for all buildings, said David Walls, executive director of the California Building Standards Commission.
Efforts by the state and cities have contributed to a surge in green development, said Bill Worthen, a senior associate at Simon & Associates Inc. in San Francisco. The consulting company is getting a call a day for projects, he said.
"It's a hip and trendy thing to do and one that's actually good for the planet," he said.


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Malia Obama takes in Lorde at Lollapalooza?Continue reading.
Malia Obama spotted at Chance the Rapper's Lolla closeout
First daughter Malia Obama was spotted walking south on Columbus Avenue just at Harrison at the close of the 2014 edition of Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Sunday night after setting off a Twitter-storm as concertgoers traded rumors and confirmation of seeing her.
The Obama's tall 16-year-old was with three friends and was happily chatting away as she left the muddy venue. Despite blending quietly into an oblivious crowd, she was flanked by two huge guards, apparently Secret Service agents in plainclothes, who made sure she and her friends – two girls and a boy – had plenty of space to make their exit.
Malia Obama takes in Lorde on Day 1
• Review: Chance the Rapper closes out Lollapalooza with hometown crowd
• Lollapalooza day 3: Fans get true festival experience with rain and mud among the music
• Day 3 in photos from Lollapalooza
• Watch: A muddy mess closes out Lollapalooza
• Bill Zwecker: Lotsa Lollapalooza partying — all over town
The crowd on Columbus was light as she walked well after the bulk of the crowd has gone at about 10:15 p.m.. Malia was wearing a yellow v-neck romper, but more importantly, she and her guards had managed to stage clean in Lolla's messy, muddy fields.
She turned right on Balbo into a thick crowd and melted right in – no one the wiser that the eldest Obama daughter was in their midst.
J chillin with Malia Obama✌ pic.twitter.com/IuM0A88g9B
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Neutering project curbed feral cat population
(HealthDay)—An intensive effort to sterilize feral cats reduced the number of felines taken to an animal shelter in Florida and euthanized, a new study reveals.
(HealthDay)—An intensive effort to sterilize feral cats reduced the number of felines taken to an animal shelter in Florida and euthanized, a new study reveals.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum says she's filed a lawsuit against Oracle Corp. and several of its executives over the technology company's role in the state's troubled health insurance exchange.
Tropical Storm Marie has formed in the eastern Pacific and is expected to become a hurricane this weekend that will stalk the Mexican coast, US forecasters warned Friday.
Google on Friday confirmed that it bought Gecko Design to bolster its lab devoted to technology-advancing projects such as self-driving cars and Internet-linked Glass eyewear.
There may be a growing number of applications for smartphones, but people in the US tend to cling to the few they like and shun the rest, an industry tracker says.
Model aircraft hobbyists, research universities and commercial drone interests filed lawsuits Friday challenging a government directive that they say imposes tough new limits on the use of model aircraft ...
A dry wash full of 112-million-year-old dinosaur tracks that include an ankylosaurus, dromaeosaurus and a menacing ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex, is set to open to the public this fall in Utah.
The maker of a popular line of wearable fitness-tracking devices says it has never sold personal data to advertisers, contrary to concerns raised by U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer.
(Phys.org) —Using the Canadian Light Source (CLS) synchrotron, scientists have developed a new, cutting-edge technique enabling them to visualize the inner-workings of electronics.
In an industrial area outside Kenya's capital city, workers in hard hats and white masks take shiny new power drills to computer parts. This assembly line is not assembling, though. It is dismantling some ...
Anyone who has suffered an injury can probably remember the after-effects, including pain, swelling or redness. These are signs that the body is fighting back against the injury. When tissue in the body is damaged, biological ...
Powerful thunderstorms in newborn Tropical Storm Marie were seen stretching toward the top of the troposphere in infrared imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite.
NASA's TRMM satellite saw Tropical Storm Karina get a boost on August 22 in the form of some moderate rainfall and towering thunderstorms in the center of the storm.
An international research effort organized by the University of Colorado Boulder conducted the first multiple, unmanned aircraft interception of a telltale rush of cold air preceding a thunderstorm known ...
Bridges become an infrastructure problem as they get older, as de-icing salt and carbon dioxide gradually destroy the reinforced concrete. A new robot can now check the condition of these structures, even ...


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Why 'Angry Birds Friends' is Trending on Facebook?
Angry Birds, you will definitely become addictive to this game. It is simple and has nice graphics. Due to its popularity, Angry Birds creator Rovio Mobile Ltd. has released different types of Angry Birds games into the market.
Angry Birds Friends is trending in Facebook Games, which can be played with our Facebook friends. It is being played by over 10 Million people and it is available for different platforms. Well, why it is trending and played by most of the people? As I have already said that it is very addictive.
Angry Birds Friends is played with the help of Facebook friends and by playing tournaments, we can unlock different levels every week. We can challenge Facebook friends for different trophies, we can invite friends and get daily rewards for playing.
So try Angry Birds Friends with your friends. Get this app from Google Play, iTunes and Facebook.


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Midwest Living Review
Burton, Ohio, practically oozes nostalgia, and with its creaky floors, ceiling fans, and narrow aisles packed with screws, nuts, bolts, shovels, ladders, and tools, Hill Hardware Company is exactly the kind of store you'd expect to find in such a slow-paced country village. Hill Hardware has been anchoring Burton's single block of retail since it opened back in 1950. The store looks small from the outside, but locals -- who simply call it Hill's -- know that a vast and varied inventory awaits shoppers behind its bright yellow front door. Hill's is the place Amish cabinetmakers come to buy hinges, where ladies buy their garden seeds and where on warm afternoons, thirsty handymen can get a 50-cent can of cold root beer from a vintage pop machine. Walking into Hill Hardware is sure to evoke memories of Saturday mornings when Dad took you to the corner hardware store to buy a quarter-pound of nails. At Hill's, in fact, you can still buy nails by the piece or the pound. Pick what you want from the multiple bins, and owner David Lamppert will weigh them on an antiquated scale. Nails not your bag? Lamppert also sells American-made Jensen miniature steam engines ($100 and up), and in the back of the store, his wife, Mary Anne, has hand-picked a good selection of local arts and craft items, ranging from homemade kitchen towels (about $6) to painted birdhouses (about $15).


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Men, what do you think of anal sex (with a woman)?
Is that something you would want your girlfriend? to do or do you see it as something you'd only do with someone your not serious about? Does it... Show More
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No not really, in my personal opinion its a huge turn off to me, id be more than happy to not ever try it, the idea and act itself is a huge turn off to me, id love to have only vaginal because that would turn me on while anal doesn't.
Honestly the only way I could see myself ever trying this was if my partner felt that she really wanted it, id try it for her but hopefully it wouldn't be somethign she always wanted to try because I wouldn't enjoy doing it to begin with, I also wouldn't like the damage that it can cause to that area I just don't see how it would be worth it when the vaginal seems so much hotter and likely feel better for both.
Its weird because I hear a lot about it and had a partner that wanted me to do it. I don't see anything wrong with it, but its not for me (looks to painful!). Thanks for that!
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Yeah you're right, sex in general doesn't look like it did in 70's-90's and I think its not just women feeling the pressure guys seem to be so much more paronoid about d*** size because p*rn makes it seem like its normal to have a +9" d***
Yeah it seems it, anal to me grosses me out and I wouldn't like to be the one responsible for causing rectal prolapse to her, the vagina is beatiful and has the added bonus of being wet and soft, its so much better I don't see the appeal of wanting to be elsewhere when you can have that
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NO that it feels better or not. It's just a different type of feeling that feels really good. I'd do it with a girl that I'm attracted to and that I feel comfortable with. Someone I have a good relationship with more I think. I love anal sex (only with a woman and me as the pitcher LOL). But you have to both have an understanding and a trust in oneanother I believe.
I've done it several times before in my life all with my last GF. We started doing this because she was on her period and we were extremely horny, and I don't get off on foreplay (head). It felt really good, but really weird at the same time. After a few times we decided to call it quits on the whole anal thing. Afterwards I would feel extremely disgusting and putrid, and would feel the need to take a shower, immediately...
Sorry, and no, for me it does not feel better than vaginal sex.
my ex-wife and I tried it once & it's just not the same as vaginal sex. she nor I cared for it much, I just barely got the head in and she was screaming to take it out! (I have a larger than average member so I am sure that did not help matters any) and I agree it was super tight. it's an outtie not an innie! I am not fond of it & maybe I am just not built for it.
Its good with a lad ^_-
Never tried it for a girl.
Dunno why you wouldn't do it with someone your serious about?
I don't know really, it just doesn't appeal to me because of the pain aspect I suppose.
Its not just me I'm asking for though as I have friends who won't do it, friends who love it..but I just wanted to hear from a guys point of view if it feels better and if they feel think that its slutty at all.
Have you had vaginal sex though? and if yes, which felt better anal with guy or vaginal with girl?
Ohh, right. well, I don't think its slutty at all. I mean, its the same as sex. As an act its nothing, but you have to put it in context.
And yeah, there's a crazy mixed aspect on it. I don't think its all that painful to be honest.
And nah, I haven't had vaginal sex, sorry. But I really expect they're wholly different experiences.
Slipped into it once by accident. A pvssy is ever so much nicer.
I find anal sex repugnant and I could not be paid to GIVE it.
Far better Paradise Valley than The Hershey Highway.
BOY am I glad I am not gay.
Wow, how did you slip in by accident? I hear its quite a tight fit..
But I'm pleased to hear that not ALL guys want it, so those of us girl who are'nt into it don't have to feel inadequate.
I don't see it as repugnant though, just horses for courses :)
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Congratulations to everyone who completed this years Cigna Round the Bays. Click here for your resultsClick here
Come join in the buzz of this iconic Wellington event on Sunday 22 February 2015. The Cigna Round the Bays takes advantage of the picturesque setting which winds its way around Wellington's stunning inner city harbour.
There are several event options available for participants in this event with the 6.5km Fun Run/Walk , the Snapper 10km and the Half Marathon all fantastic options for the casual or serious participant! All of these events start at Frank Kitts Park and hug the harbour shoreline for various distances before returning to the finish line festival at Kilbirnie Park.
Once participants cross the finish line they are treated to a feast of live music, food stalls, the Southern Cross Family Zone, corporate marquee area, spot prizes and massage tents which all adds to the fantastic atmosphere.
2014 saw the Cigna Round the Bays sell out for a third consecutive year, with a record field of over 14,000 runners. We have increased capacity in 2015 but expect it to sell out once again so make sure you get in and book your spot on the start line before someone else grabs your place!
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Buggy Walk
For the first time at Cigna Round the Bays 2015, a 6.5km Buggy Walk will be offered as an official event option!
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Cigna Round the Bays 2015 are very excited to announce Achilles International New Zealand as the new official charity partner!
Want to be part of one of the biggest events of its kind in New Zealand? You can – Cigna Round the Bays needs YOU!
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Lower Hutt & Porirua 6.5km Fun Run/Walk, Wellington City Snapper 10km and Porirua infant bib allocations have sold out! Limited bibs are still available for other race pack collection locations. Buggy Walk entries have sold out across all locations!


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