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12 May 2010
Can you imagine what a Gold Coast 16 metre berth will cost in 2030?
PAY ATTENTION NOW!! You are absolutely crazy if you don't enter the 'Win a Lifetime of Free Berthing competition on Sail-World today. The Prize is valued at over AUD$300,000 and it only runs to the end of Sanctuary Cove Boat Show in 10 days time!!.
The prize is, at maximum, a 16m berth at any of Meridien Marinas locations including Abel Point Marina at Airlie Beach, Port Douglas and the Gold Coast, for a term of up to 25 years.
A berth at Meridien Marinas Airlie Beach wont be much cheaper than the Gold Coast either in 2030
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Can you imagine what a Gold Coast 16 metre berth will cost in 2030 and don't imagine Airlie Beach or Port Douglas will be much cheaper
With airfares ever reducing, you don't have to live in Queensland or even own or part-own a boat yet, but certainly one big step towards the cost of a boat will disappear if you are the winner!! You can imagine if you do win it, you are going to be popular with mates, who will no doubt want you to join their syndicate.
Think about it!!! But of course you have to enter to win!!
Ian Thomson's Save Our Seas yacht is on record pace in his attempt on the WSSRC solo Australian circumnavigation record.
It's now eight days since Ian left Airlie Beach. If he is able to maintain his current speed he will break the record easily. With seven days down and 1,455nm into the record, Ian is already over 700nm in front of the record pace for the 6,545nm course.
Ian keen for sailors everywhere to go to his site
and vote on what you think should be done about plastic bags.
Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show starts tomorrow week. Last year an East Coast low pounded the Gold Coast and the start of the show was put back a day. Seems like the weather will be better this year.
Jessica Watson will sail into Sydney Harbour this Saturday, definitely a major event on the yacht calendar. Hope the weather continues to be fine for her as she approached the finish line. There will no doubt be a record crowd to greet the sixteen year old when she sails down the harbour.
The Sail-World Team
SOS Ocean Racing Circumnavigation - Day 8 and back up to speed
Ian Thomson,
It is day eight into Ian Thomson's solo sailing SSSRC Round Australia record attempt. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 10:30:20 in an effort to break the record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia. Ian's mission is about raising awareness of what the damage plastic bags do to our environment.... [
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Heath Walters - Matilda - wins Australian Melges 24 Championships
Tracey Walters,
Heath Walters Matilda wins Melges 24 2010 Australian Championships at Royal Queensland Yachts Squadron. The level of racing is quickly rising in the Melges 24 class. Over the ten race series the lead changed daily, going into the last days racing Walters and Miles had secured the two top places and four boats were fighting for third.... [
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2010 Audi MedCup: TP52 Cristabella wins Portugal Trophy practice race
Sabina Mollart-Rogerson,
The Audi MedCup 2010 practice race for the Portugal Trophy Cascais enjoyed excellent conditions. Cristabella is one of the oldest boats in the 11 strong TP52 Series fleet but they were able to slip past 2009's defending champions Emirates Team New Zealand on the final run, to take first gun.... [
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2010 Finn Open Junior and Senior Europeans day 1 - All on shore
Robert Deaves,
It was situation normal at the Finn European Championship in Split, Croatia. Once again the sailors whiled away the day sat on shore watching the weather. The 2010 Finn Europeans had attracted the largest ever entry. After measurement and registration was completed, 97 entries were recorded from 26 nations including 25 juniors, accounting for roughly a quarter of the fleet.... [
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A3 Women's America's Cup Team 15th Anniversary Celebration
Diane Swintal,
Before women's Olympic match racing, before Ellen MacArthur, before the Yngling Girls – there was the Women's Team. The brainchild of 1992 America's Cup winner and business maverick Bill Koch, the 1995 America3 women's team brought together top female athletes from across the country, with an unprecedented goal; to race at the same level as the top male sailors in the most prestigious yacht rac... [
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Extreme Sailing Series-Red Bull joins forces with Olympic Medallists
Extreme Sailing Series,
The European circuit isn't the first foray into Extreme 40 racing for the Red Bull team. They joined the inaugural Extreme Sailing Series Asia over the winter of 2009/2010 visiting Hong Kong, Singapore and Muscat, Oman, racing five other established Extreme 40 teams.... [
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Match Race Germany - Mathieu Richard aims for top points scorer
WMRT Media,
Richard is sitting comfortably on top of the leadership ladder with 25 overall points and a five point lead over close rival Ainslie. Skipper of the French Match Racing Team and previous tactician for the French America's Cup Team, Aleph in Auckland, he has not won Match Race Germany to date. 2010 could be Mathieu's year... [
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SOS Ocean Racing Circumnavigation - Day 7 A very interesting morning
Ian Thomson,
It is day seven into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt. 'In a time period of three hours all before 6am this morning, I had to deal with a spinnaker wrapped around the forestay, a jammed tiller and a broken drive unit. Lets just say this morning has been interesting.' It is day seven into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt.... [
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Cameron Miles takes Top Job as Australian Melges 24 Class President
Tracey Walters,
Cameron Miles takes to top job in the Australian Melges 24 Association as the class Drives forward to their 2013 Worlds in Australia.... [
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Raymarine's new products make Australian debut at SCIBS
Liza Sticpewich,
Also making its Australian debut at Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show will be the Raymarine HD Digital Radome. Radar target detection has undergone massive changes in the last year, thanks to the introduction of High Definition Digital technology. Now the superior benefits of these new systems are available to even more boaters, with the launch of Raymarine's new HD Digital Radomes.... [
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Finn Open Junior and Senior European Championships - Opening ceremony
Robert Deaves,
The largest ever Finn Europeans was officially opened Monday evening at the YC Labud in Split, Croatia on the shores of the Adriatic. The opening ceremony was held on Monday evening in front of the club.... [
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Europeans challenge awaits GBR Finn sailors
Lindsey Bell,
After a strong start to the year on the ISAF Sailing World Cup circuit, Britain's Finn sailors will be looking to the podium spots when racing at the Finn European Championship kicks off in Split, Croatia, on Tuesday (11 May).... [
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TP52 Audi MedCup Portugal Trophy - Counting down to race one 2010
Audi MedCup Circuit,
As the welcome spring sunshine warmed the docksides around Portugal's Marina de Cascais, pushing the mercury back up to more seasonable daytime values, so the tension is also rising as the start of the 2010 Audi MedCup Circuit is just two days away.... [
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SOS Ocean Racing day six - Northern Territory
Ian Thomson,
'I've passed the Gulf of Carpentaria and I'm now well into the Northern Territory.' It is day six into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 1030 in an effort to break the world record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia.... [
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Clipper 09-10 Race 8 - All yachts finished and due into Panama
Clipper Ventures,
Clipper 09-10 Race 8, Day 19- San Francisco to Panama. Victorious Spirit of Australia is due in Panama on Monday as Edinburgh Inspiring Capital and California win their battles with Hull & Humber and Qingdao.... [
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Time to move on...
The Sail-World Team,
The magic dust is settling and the 5 Ocean PR claims have it seems disappeared or never were. here is a summary for those who have asked. No, Sail-World is not responsible for the WSSRC Rules, we are Southern hemisphere based, we run an online sailing publication and subscriptions are free. We made a host of attempts, by phone and email querying the route and the record claims with her PR team... [
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Was it Spin? Reader feed back - You Decide
Its been a tough week and we've received lots of emails and now our advertisers are being bombarded with hate mail. Was it Spin or did he never say that? Fascinating feedback - definitely worth a read. Some of the public seemed to have not noticed that the claims from the spinners have disappeared under the overall weight of some hard questioning from the mainstream media.... [
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2010 Melges 24 Australian Championships
Tracey Walters,
The final day of racing was down to the wire, two races to go and Miles leading the regatta by one point ahead of Walters. The battle for third place was between Warren Sare Arriba Arriba Ian Barr Dirty Girl , Geoff Masters Jolt and Nick Moriarty Business Time.... [
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50th entry for Audi Hamilton Island Race Week
Rob Mundle,
Ross Wilson's consistent Beneteau 47.7, Eagle Rock, is the 50th yacht to register on the expanding list of entries for what promises to be a spectacular Audi Hamilton Island Race Week 2010.... [
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Win Lifetime of Free Berthing- Prize value over AUD$300,000 -ENTER NOW
Win a Lifetime of Free Berthing – Prize value over AUD$300,000. Enter now, closing next week!! The prize is, at maximum, a 16m berth at any of Meridien Marinas locations including Abel Point Marina at Airlie Beach, Port Douglas and the Gold Coast, for a term of up to 25 years.... [
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SOS Ocean Racing Gulf of Carpentaria
Ian Thomson,
'I'm into Arafura, at 2130 last night I cleared the final marker and now I am out into the deep blue again. Although it isn't that deep up here.' It is day five into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 1030 in an effort to break the world record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia.... [
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|Application of transanal irrigation for patients with spinal cord injury in South Korea: a 6-month follow-up study.
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|Study design:A 6-month follow-up study.Objectives:To investigate the outcome of transanal irrigation (TAI) in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and to identify factors significantly related to clinical success.Setting:Survey for community-dwelling patients with SCI in South Korea.Methods:Between December 2010 and March 2012, TAI was initiated with 52 patients (41 men; age: 44.5±11.0 years) with neurogenic bowel dysfunction (NBD). At 1, 3 and 6 months after initiation, a telephone interview was conducted. Data were collected on patient-specific bowel management and TAI performance as a new procedure.Results:Only 18 patients (34%) used TAI for at least 6 months, which was a lower compliance rate than similar studies in some European countries. Relative to the compliant group, the noncompliant group contained a higher proportion of tetraplegia than paraplegia (P=0.031), and a higher proportion dependent on physical help (P=0.034). In all, 33 of the 52 patients (63.5%) complained of practical problems with the TAI procedure such as expulsion of the rectal catheter. Fifteen patients (28.8%) presented with adverse effects. The incidence of practical problems or adverse effects did not alter the frequency of patient-reported successful outcome.Conclusion:Korean participants showed a relatively lower compliance rate with TAI. We conclude that TAI, combined with adequate patient instruction and physical assistance, has potential as a management tool for NBD in Korea.Spinal Cord advance online publication, 15 January 2013; doi:10.1038/sc.2012.171.
|H R Kim; B S Lee; J E Lee; H I Shin
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Imagine... One million children across America waking up on Christmas morning (or another winter holiday) to find a gift-wrapped book on their bed!
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|Posted: Wed Oct 24th, 2007 06:13 pm
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|Rita's evacuation topped Katrina's, BTW.
The fact that so many didn't evacuate or evacuated after the fact was the problem in NO. BTW, the after the fact evacuations were N.P. Banks' fault, when he went up the Red River and brought back the human "contraband," they were forced to settle in what became the Fith Ward all under sea level and not prime land.


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This Honda dealership is the third in a series of four Larry H. Miller Dealerships to be placed in brand-new facilities spanning from 5500 to 5800 South State Street. Total project completion, which is estimated at $100 million, is scheduled for early 2013.
"We are pleased to expand our offerings along State Street in Murray. And look forward to continuing to earn business and provide our customers with a good value and a trusted place to do business," said Fitzpatrick.
Both the company and American Honda Motor Co. worked together to design the store, which opened to the public in March 2012. This location was the first Honda Image 3 design to be constructed from the ground up in the country. Design features include a customer friendly layout making various departments easy to access, comfortable waiting areas with free wireless service, a children's play area, and educational kiosks where customers can learn more about car accessories and model features.
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|Posted: Wed Aug 15th, 2007 01:46 am
|This is for KO
I think the Union command structure is sorely lacking at Antietam. At the corps level were Joe Hooker (1st Corps),
Edwin Sumner (2nd Corps)
Fitz John Porter (5th Corps)
Wm. Franklin (6th Corps)
Ambrose Burnside (9th Corps)
Alpheus Williams (12th Corps, after Mansfield is killed)
Most of those guys are gone before the year is out and it's already September. Burnside and Hooker each eventually took a turn as AofP commander — so judge them for yourself.
I will say leadership at division level is decent, at best, but if Special Order 191 falls into my lap and the best I can do with that knowledge is earn a draw with twice as many man as Lee, the first place I look for performance issues is my commanders.


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Kevin Walter was a fixture on the Houston Texans offense the past several seasons.
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As the veteran receiver prepares for his 11th NFL season - and his first with the Titans - Walter wants to make an impact on his new team. And he said he's mentally and physically prepared to do so, thanks in part to a strict training regimen.
"I feel better today than I did five years ago," Walter said Wednesday. "I can still run well, and I think I can get by defenses. I take pride in my blocking. I feel great, really, and I'm ready to get going." ...


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Well it's almost too late in that regard - Parise is having the best playoffs of his career. He's really tearing it up, but unfortunately Parise and Suter alone can't make an average team elite.
Maybe personal numbers and such, but for team accomplishments and such I hope he never gets another trip to the finals and gets knocked out ASAP.


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Summary: Large sets of nearly orthogonal vectors
Noga Alon
Mario Szegedy
It is shown that there is an absolute positive constant > 0, so that for all positive integers k
and d, there are sets of at least d log2(k+2)/ log2 log2(k+2)
nonzero vectors in Rd
, in which any k + 1
members contain an orthogonal pair. This settles a problem of F¨uredi and Stanley.
1 Introduction
For two positive integers d and k, let (d, k) denote the maximum possible cardinality of a set of
nonzero vectors in Rd such that among any k + 1 members of the set there is an orthogonal pair.
More generally, for three positive integers d and k l 1, let (d, k, l) denote the maximum possible
cardinality of a set P of nonzero vectors in Rd such that any subset of k + 1 members of P contains
some l+1 pairwise orthogonal vectors. Thus (d, k) = (d, k, 1). Trivially, (d, 1) = d and Rosenfeld
[5] proved, using an interesting algebraic argument, that (d, 2) = 2d for every d. F¨uredi and Stanley
[4] observed that (2, k) = 2k, and proved that (4, 5) 24, that for every fixed d and l the limit
limk(d, k, l)/k is equal to its supremum, and that for every fixed l there exists some l > 0 and
d0 such that this supremum is at least (1 + l)d for all d > d0 and at most
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Cool video Cara. I actually have always been confused about why the Chemex is so special- and your method of pouring water over the coffee sorta cleared things up for me.
Glad you liked it! It's in the pouring, but it's also in the filter.
From of chemexcoffeemaker.com "Chemex® filters are 20-30% heavier than competitive brands and remove even the finest sediment particles as well as the undesirable oils and fats. The formulation of the filter permits the proper infusion time by regulating the filtration rate - not too slow, not too fast. Good infusion of the coffee grounds (as in brewing and steeping tea) gives coffee a richer flavor while at the same time making possible precise fractional extraction filtering out the undesirable components which make coffee bitter by allowing only the desirable flavor elements of the coffee bean to pass through."
When brewed properly I find it leads to a super clean, fragrant and flavorful cup. It also looks damn good on a kitchen counter!
How do you grind correctly? I find that even if I use drip it tastes bitter!
I noticed you're in CA. Have you been to Intelligentsia Coffee? You should check it out if you haven't. They are the Stumptown of the midwest.
As to correctly grinding, Stumptown explains it better than I can, "It is important that the coffee be ground medium-course with a quality burr (rather than blade) grinder. By grinding the coffee this way, you are allowing for a more even extraction resulting in a fuller bodied and more nuanced cup. Blade grinders chop the coffee rather than grinding it, resulting in uneven and unpredictable particle size. This results in uneven extraction, leading to coffee with increased bitterness which is less true to the flavor profile of the coffee. In addition, the lack of uniformity in particle size results in inconsistent results from cup to cup." -from the Stumptown Chemex Brewing Guide
Whenever I train new baristas I always suggest they think about how water flows through sand. You want the water to flow through the coffee as evenly as possible because you are extracting the oils on the grounds.
Freshly grinding is also important, because those oils you are trying to extract will begin to dissipate as soon as they come into contact with heat, oxygen and light. If you are using pre-ground coffee there is very little flavor left to extract.
Improving grind quality can be as simple as a hand grinder (Hario makes a pretty cool one, the Skerton) or there is also the more expensive Baratza brand grinders, which I use at home.
All grinders are not the same in terms of setting and grind size, so finding the spot on your grinder can take a minute. This is a helpful tool to find your Chemex setting and drip setting. http://www.ineedcoffee.com/03/coffeegrind/
If you are still finding bitterness in your cup, tap water, the coffee itself, and water to coffee ratio could be the culprit.
This is AMAZING. What incredible tips. I will be sure to do medium grinds on my coffee! Great analogy about the sand being like coffee.


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The sweet smell of basil hovered over York Fair's Culinary Corner as former contest winners awaited the outcome of the Challenge of Champions: Entrees competition.
Dorothy Furst of Red Lion tended to her Shrimp Basil Pasta by carefully arranging the aromatic herb in a floral-like display on top of her entry. Toby Marshall, the only male in the contest, sat back and reminisced about the 11 years that he and his wife have been involved in the cooking events.
Marshall said cooking and entering the contests are ways he and his wife share common interests and keep their relationship solid.
But, when it comes down to it, they are competitors.
"I want my name on that plaque," he said.
Judges Sue Kennedy and Sera Kefauver had the good fortune to taste-test two pasta dishes, one meat dish, and one chili entrée.
The decision seemed to be made quick and easy, which was fitting since the winner was Quick, Easy and Sunday Best Stuffed Roast Pork from West York's Sandy Mundis.
Mundis believes her stuffing sealed the deal.
"Cranberries and apples taste good with pork, so why not put it in the stuffing?" she said. "People have always eaten roast pork with stuffing--it's just one of those old Dutch things--but this is a change because I use pork tenderloin, which is quicker, and there's less fat, it's leaner.
"The old-fashioned part is the stuffing, but I tweaked it with cranberries and apples. It's old and new!"
The entrée submissions were judged on taste, presentation, creativity/originality, and ease of preparation.
The first place prize for Mundis was a $75 Shurfine gift certificate and blue ribbon. Belinda Myers of Dallastown placed second with her Ham Chili and received a $50 gift certificate and ribbon. The Shrimp Basil Pasta of Dorothy Furst was the third place winner, earning her a $25 gift certificate and a ribbon.
Marshall didn't win this time, but he assured those around him persistence pays off, and he will be back.
Quick and Easy Sunday Best Stuffed Pork Roast
1 medium pork tenderloin
1 medium onion, chopped
2 stalks of celery, chopped
1 apple, chopped
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/2 stick butter
2 beaten eggs
Milk, as needed
7 cups of bread cubes
4 tablespoons oil
Salt and pepper
1-1/2 cups of beef broth
4 tablespoons cornstarch with 4 tablespoons water (make paste)
Make filling: Sauté onion, celery and apple in Dutch oven (one that can be transferred from stove top to oven) until translucent in butter. Stir in cranberries.
Place bread cubes in bowl. Add sautéed mixture. Add beaten egg, salt, pepper and parsley. Mix well. Add just enough milk to make filling consistency.
Prepare pork: Open up tenderloin, butterfly if necessary. Pound until it is thin. Lightly oil and season pork with salt and pepper on both sides. Spread the filling on the pork, leaving at least one inch all the way around the edge. Roll up tightly, but not so tight that a lot of the filling falls out. Use cord and tie roast at several different sections.
Put oil in Dutch oven and put on stove top. Add roast and brown all sides of the roast. After browned, transfer to a preheated oven of 375 degrees. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the size of the roast.
When the roast is done, place it on a platter and cover with aluminum foil lightly. Add 1 to 1-1/2 cups of beef broth or water to loosen the drippings from the bottom of the Dutch oven. Make a paste of 4 tablespoons cornstarch and 2 tablespoons water. Gradually add to the brown broth and cook until thickened. Salt and pepper to taste.
Cut the cording from the roast and cut the roast into servings. Spoon some of the gravy on top of the sliced roast. Put the rest of the gravy in a bowl to serve with the roast. Serves 4 to 6.


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LAS VEGAS — Clark County School District had to cut more than $5 million from its transportation budget, but the operation has employed a few strategies to maintain the same level of service.
Frank Giordano, director of transportation, said that consolidating routes and a midday park-out program have been effective techniques in compensating for some of the lost budget dollars.
"We leave the majority of our buses at select schools to eliminate 'dead head' miles during our midday break," Giordano said. "This program alone has the potential of saving us almost half a million dollars."
With a total of more than 1,500 school buses, Clark County has one of the biggest school district fleets in the nation.
Giordano was recently promoted to the director position of the transportation department, where he has worked for more than 27 years. He shared several other noteworthy developments from his operation:
• For the second year in a row, Clark County School District won the state school bus driver roadeo.
• The operation recently received its ISO 9001:2000 recertification.
• Over the past year, the district outfitted almost 1,000 of its diesel buses with exhaust aftertreatment equipment.
• The district has on order one of Thomas Built Buses' new Saf-T-Liner C2e hybrid school buses. "We're hoping to have it in late October," Giordano said.
• All of the operation's buses currently run on B5 biodiesel. "We were running B20, but due to the budget crisis, we are at the B5 blend now," Giordano said.
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Was just curious as to if anyone had opinions on steel vs. aluminum shoes. I just had my horse done in aluminum, but since this is the first time that I, personally, have shod him, I have no other frame of reference.
They are lighter, but that's all I have to go on at the moment.


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La Società Italiana will be having their annual fundraiser, Carnevale (Mardi Gras) at the Marietta Country Club in Kennesaw on Saturday.
The fundraiser will benefit Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home. Attendees can enjoy an evening of dining and dancing to live music. There will be a raffle and silent auction at this charity event to assist the home.
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No tax hike in Upper Tyrone
Residents in Upper Tyrone Township will not see a property tax increase in 2013.
Supervisors Tuesday passed a tentative 2013 spending plan.
The proposed budget sets revenues and expenditures at $281,612.
The tax rate would remain at .642 mills. Supervisors plan to adopt the final budget at the meeting on Dec. 11.
In other business, supervisors passed a motion to direct the township secretary to advertise an intent to appoint a certified or competent public accountant to conduct the audit for all of the accounts of the township for 2012.
They plan to make the appointment at the December meeting. Supervisor Sam Killinger abstained from the vote since his wife is a township auditor.
Supervisors agreed to hire Debbie Rulli to assist with filing on a part-time basis at the rate of $10 an hour.
Supervisor Bill Edwards said the reason for the hire is because the township has a lot of old records that have to be destroyed and Rulli will be helping the secretary go through all of them. Killinger voted no to this motion.
Resident Scott Keller questioned why, in both instances, the supervisors are looking at hiring or are hiring individuals to do the work of people that are already appointed or hired by the township.
"Why would you hire someone when we have people to do these things," he said. "You're just spending money that doesn't need to be spent."
Keller questioned why supervisors were paving alleys now. Edwards said that while it's not a common practice, it has been done in the past.
Rachel Basinger is a freelance writer.
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This scheme is administered by the NSF
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The Write Way
Friday 4 March 2011
It's Not What You Say But ...
A trip to the library a couple of weeks ago saw me returning with a stack of books by authors I haven't read before (always a bit of an adventure!) and I finally found time to start reading the last one over the weekend ... It's a jolly good yarn, filled with action, murder and mayhem. There's a square-jawed hero, a feisty heroine and villains aplenty, but I haven't been able to lose myself in the story this time, and if I give you just a tiny taste of the book, I'm sure you'll see why.
Here we are a little over mid-way through the action ... the body count is rising exponentially with every chapter and our hero has been knocked out cold and left for dead as the bad guys made off with the feisty heroine. We pick up the story as he regains consciousness:
"Climbing back to full consciousness, he noticed the discomfort of the cold, hard limestone floor beneath his body ...
"Taking a deep breath, he pressed with his arms, raising his torso while pulling up his legs, until he reached a sitting position. An explosion of stars swirled before his eyes, and he nearly passed out again, staving off slumber by breathing deeply. Resting a few minutes until the dizziness and nausea passed, he noticed a cool dampness on his back. Rubbing a hand across the back of his head, he felt a stinging knot that was caked with dried blood.
"Sitting alone in the empty cavern, he called out in a weakened voice. Only silence countered his ringing ears. Grabbing the lantern, he painfully rose to his feet, the pounding in his skull ..."
But that's enough for illustrative purposes.
Now, what struck you about this extract?
Yep ... We have a writer with a penchant for present participles!
There's nothing wrong with starting the occasional sentence with a participle, in fact, you should aim for variety in sentence beginnings to keep your readers interested, and that, dear reader, is the key point here. This particular writer has fallen into the trap of using far too many present participles in his sentences and an absurd number to start his sentences.
If you go back and count, you'll find 14 examples of the present participle in that short extract ... 14!
Present participles (and past participles) are often combined with
complements and modifiers to become participial phrases, and they always act as
Climbing back to full consciousness, he noticed the discomfort ... (modifies the pronoun "he")
Taking a deep breath, he pressed with his arms ... (modifies "he")
Resting a few minutes until the dizziness and nausea passed, he noticed ... (modifies "he")
Rubbing a hand across the back of his head, he felt ... (modifies "he")
It's all very repetitive, isn't it?
By limiting himself to the same opening part of speech for his sentences, he sentences all of us to an identical structure for every sentence -- it becomes like a formula:
X-ing, he Y-ed.
And the entire book is the same!
The result has been that instead of worrying about what's happening to the characters, I've been counting the present participles and cringing every time another sentence begins with one -- and I know it's probably a bit of an occupational hazard for me, but I'm sure once you've spotted some little habit like this, you, too will be counting as you go, entirely oblivious to the plight of the plot.
Words are merely the tools of writers, they should never dominate to the extent that you focus on them instead of the message.
One last thing -- may I draw your attention to the following?
"An explosion of stars swirled before his eyes, and he nearly passed out again, staving off slumber by breathing deeply."
...staving off slumber ...
"Slumber," where I come from, is "a period of sleep, especially light sleep." It's not something that follows a blow to the head.
Another distraction!
And before we leave participles, we must also make mention of another problem associated with them, and this is that participles (and participial phrases) must be placed as close to the nouns or pronouns they modify as possible, and those nouns or pronouns must be clearly stated. Otherwise you run the risk of such absurdities as these:
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address while travelling from Washington to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope?
We know that this isn't right, but what exactly is wrong with it?
Basically, if you start a sentence with an action, you must place the actor immediately after it AND you must place modifiers near the words they modify. So, much as I hate to destroy that delightful image you have of Lincoln wending his merry way to Gettysburg on the back of an envelope, I feel it my duty to restructure that sentence:
Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope while he was travelling from Washington to Gettysburg.
While he was travelling from Washington to Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope.
Here's another one to show just how easy it is to get it so wrong:
Hovering above the bay, the ornithologist observed a hawk.
Maybe it would be closer to the truth this way:
The ornithologist observed a hawk hovering above the bay.
(The hawk is doing the hovering, not the ornithologist, so that word has to be as close to the participle 'hovering' as possible.)
So the message is clear -- don't over-use one structure for your sentences and keep the participles (and participial phrases) as close to the nouns or pronouns they modify as possible.
See this very early newsletter for different ways to start your sentences.
This week's Little Something Extra has lots more tips about using participles.
And no, I'm not going to tell you the name of the book or the author, except to say he's a prolific writer with a number of books on the best-seller list. Just goes to show, it's not as easy as we think to write well!
This week's quiz:
Since we've been doing a bit of grammar this week, here's an easy one -- form nouns from the following (to check if a word is a noun, pretend that the word "the" comes in front of it):
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3. confer -
4. achieve -
5. relieve -
6. proceed -
7. impede -
8. acquaint -
9. utter -
10.fortify -
A little tale that has nothing to do with grammar ...
A customer was in a French restaurant and the waiter had just brought him his soup. The customer called to the waiter, "Garçon! Could you taste my soup for me?"
The waiter replied, "Why, m'sieur. Is there something the matter with it?"
Says the customer, "Please taste my soup."
"Is it too hot, m'sieur?"
"No, just taste my soup."
"Is it too cold, m'sieur?"
"No, please taste my soup."
"Very well" says the waiter, "where is your spoon?"
"Aha!" says the customer, "Where IS my spoon?"
Such subtlety ... and do we not all wish for such restraint?
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LYNCHBURG, Va. — It's the kind of play you won't find on many stages in our part of the world.
Students at Randolph College are putting on an authentic Greek Play this week.
The performance is a school tradition that dates back more than a century.
This year, students are acting out a version of Euripides' "Hecuba."
It's the story of a fallen queen who overcomes tragedy and slavery in a time of war.
The play was originally written in Greek. Two Randolph professors, Jay Kardan and Laura-Gray Street, have personally translated the script for an English audience.
When plays were performed in antient greece, actors wore large masks with fixed facial expressions. Randolph has created its own masks to maintain this custom. They're designed to project the voices of each actor in the outdoor venue where the play is put on.
The show is free and open to the public. Performances are at 4:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday October 8, 9, and 10 in the Mabel K. Whiteside Greek Theatre at Randolph College.


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If you install the Intel® PRO/100 VE desktop adapter into a CNR (Communications and Network Riser) slot while the power cord is still attached to the computer, you may create a condition in which the adapter cannot communicate with the network. The link light will light if a network connection is active and the adapter will appear to be fully functional to the system, but you will not be able to send or receive packets. In Windows* 2000, if you position the mouse over the network icon in the tray, it will indicate that no cable is attached.
Anytime a power cord is plugged into the computer, standby power is available and the CNR slot is powered on even when the computer is powered off. Inserting the PRO/100 VE adapter into the CNR slot while the slot is powered on is what causes this symptom. You must always remove the power cord before installing the PRO/100 VE into the CNR slot.
For safety reasons, and to avoid damaging the computer, you should never install any expansion adapter while a live power cord is plugged in. However, if you have inadvertently installed your PRO/100 VE while the power cord was attached and created this symptom, you can resolve it by following this procedure.
Shut down the computer and remove the power cord, then remove the PRO/100 VE from the CNR slot. Then plug the power cord back into the computer for several seconds. Remove the cord again, wait several seconds, then reinstall the PRO/100 VE. Re-insert the power cord and power the machine back on.
This problem description only applies to the removable Intel PRO/100 VE desktop adapter that plugs into a CNR slot on the motherboard and is sold separately. For Intel adapters that are built into the computer, please contact the computer or motherboard manufacturer for adapter related networking issues.
This applies to:
Intel will not provide future software updates to support new operating systems or improve compatibility with third-party devices and software products.


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Because we all know YouTube and use it every now and then, here's a list of the pros and cons it brings.
The advent of YouTube has allowed millions of internet users to view a vast number of both public and private videos online. YouTube has created a following through its very lenient policies on membership and viewing. You don't even have to be a member to be able to view one of their video uploads! Although for videos that contain pornography and sensitive issues, you need to sign up first and verify that you're of legal age. But still, verifying is equal to stating that you were born more than eighteen years ago. Not quite hard, eh?!
Let's Start with the Pros
- Ease of use. Even someone who has zero knowledge on computers can work his way around YouTube. Creating, uploading, viewing and downloading of videos are as easy as 1-2-3.
- It is a good and inexpensive tool for advertising. If you're in business, YouTube has the facilities you need to gain more views for your ads. Whether you're into printing personalized shirts, laundry business or into web designing, YouTube is the right place for you. Just make sure that you do not just upload a video that shows a link to your site. You can experiment with taking shots of your work or maybe a video of you-in-action. This way, viewers will have an idea of what exactly you do and how you do it.
- It promotes awareness. I will not be specific on the type of awareness it encourages. I just know that whenever there is anything that is the talk-of-the-town, one cannot be left unaware because he can access it anytime in YouTube where surely, someone has uploaded it or created a video blog of it.
- YouTube can be useful and informative in a good way. Really. You know how my kid sister was so engrossed with solving a Rubix cube and she wanted to perfect it without having to read the complex step-by-step instructions provided by some other sites? She "YouTubed" it and voila! She"s now a walking instructress of Rubix 101. And she's eleven years old, by the way.
Now the Cons
- Whenever you upload a video in YouTube, you are giving the whole world access to it. So if it's a personal video you choose to upload, you have just given Planet Earth access to your personal life. I suggest that you try to divulge as little information about you, i.e. your real name, your exact address. This will protect you from any unwanted crazy stalkers who may end up giving you something to worry about.
- YouTube is very lenient. Kids these days have unlimited access to computers at the convenience of their own homes or at a nearby internet shop. Parents should be on the look-out for the possible negative effects some sensitive videos may bring. I know a pair of parents who refuse to let their kid watch any TV until age two. They learned from somewhere that kids who are not exposed to televisions in the first few years of their life tend to be more attentive and have a longer span of memory (due to non-exposure to 30-seconder commercials/advertisements). It makes me wonder now how YouTube's sex scandals and violence in various forms affect kids below ten years old.
- Copyright infringements issues are common. You have to be careful in reposting videos in your own sites as these may be protected with a copyright, thus, reposting without the permission of the owner is prohibited and can result to unwanted involvement in legal issues.
Generally, the advantages of having YouTube around outweigh the disadvantages it brings. This is most especially true when parents and kids remain responsible and alert; leaving no room for exposure to violence, sex and other unhealthy dynamics that can do nothing but harm teens and kids who happen to be the active market of YouTube.


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In Hollywood boxing movies have been far more successful than any other type of sports related film. As a matter of fact, the only sports related films to win Acadamey Awards for Best Picture are the boxing movies Rocky and Million Dollar Baby.
Some of the better directors of boxing films, such as Clint Eastwood and John G. Avildsen have what it takes to create characters that have much in common with the movie audience. Many of boxer's come from underprivileged backgrounds and are used to scrapping for food and money just to support their families and loved ones. So, when they have to fight for survival in a boxing ring they already have everything it takes to win.
Boxer's, like the rest of us have need for guidance or confidence to realize their full potential. In boxing movies, directors like to create a kind, lovable, knowledgeable character who acts as a trusting mentor and father figure to the fighter. The movie audience is then taken along with these two characters as they quest for glory which often times involves heartbreak, sacrifice, struggle and belief.
No matter what the sport, but more so in boxing, people tend to be naturally drawn to the underdog. People don't usually like favorites winning unless of course, gambling is involved! This is where movie directors will create an anti-hero, a character that the audience dislikes. A character who is rude, cocky, arrogant, etc.. and he is usually at the top of his sport.
This pair of pugilistic rivals are finally pitted against one another in a winner take all confrontation. In the near corner you have a fighter that everyone loves to hate and in the far corner is a fighter whom everyone has come to admire and love.
Everyone likes happy endings and audiences at boxing movies are no different. They were brought up with the stories of Cinderella, Snow white, etc.. and they hope to leave the movie theater happier than they entered. They pray the underdog wins because they remember how it feels to be an underdog. Do you remember how you felt when you were leaving the movie theater after seeing Rocky for the first time? That's the feeling every movie director wants you to experience.
We all admire a character who has great pride, courage and strength. The great film directors are well aware of this and strives to give it to them.
Boxing movies work because everyone loves a good underdog story!
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Ladies and Gentlemen and boxing movie lovers of all ages. The winner and still undefeated and unanimous champion of the heavyweight boxing films division is Rocky, starring everybody's pugilistic punch drunk actor, Sylvester (Sly, The Italian Stallion) Stallone. As a matter of fact, I have looked at just about every movie review site on the Internet and found Rocky listed as the "Best Boxing Movie Ever Made" wherever I looked! Directed by John G. Avildsen and starred the amazing cast of Sylvester Stallone (Rocky), Burgess Meredith (Mickey), Talia Shire (Adrian), Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed) and Burt Young (Paulie).
Next to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Rocky is probably the greatest underdog movie ever made. In this first Rocky film, the life of a down-on-his-luck Philadelphia boxer named Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is about to change. In a publicity stunt, the flamboyant boxing heavyweight champion of the world, Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), is going to give a virtual nobody a one-in-a-million chance to win the heavyweight crown by fighting Apollo in front of the world on our country's bicentennial celebration.
Apollo Creed's criteria for his opponent is: He must be white, he be an unknown, he must have a losing record and he must not have a Chinaman's chance in Hell at winning this title shot. As Creed and his manager go through the almanac of heavyweight boxers, one name grabs hold of his attention, "The Italian Stallion" who is none other than Rocky Balboa!
Sylvester Stallone's superb acting performance takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride as he prepares for the title shot with Apollo Creed and tries to win the heart of his best friend Paulie's (Burt Young) super shy sister Adrian (Talia Shire). The acting of Burgess Meredith who portrayed Rocky's tough trainer (Mickey) was awesome.
Rocky is not only first in our top 5 boxing movies of all time but I consider it one of the best movies ever made!
Cinderella Man
The Cinderella Man stars Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, Paul Giamatti, Craig Bierko and is directed by Ron Howard in this excellent heart wrenching underdog boxing movie that was set in 1930 U.S. during The Great Depression.
It was during the worst years of The Great Depression, when James Braddock (Russell Crowe), a onetime successful boxer loses all his lifetime savings and possessions with the crash of the stock market. Braddock was forced into early retirement from boxing after a string of loses. Now with the depression on in full force, Jim must work several worthless low paying jobs to try and keep his lovely wife Mae Braddock (Renée Zellweger) and their three children from starving and freezing due to lack of heating. In 1934, Braddock's manager and coach Joe Gould gives him a chance to resume his once promising and successful boxing career. Due to a late cancellation, Jim gets an opportunity to fight the number two ranked contender in the world. Not only does he accept the challenge, but he wins the fight. He soon becomes the symbol for hope for a nation full of hopeless people in a ruined nation. The great storyline and wonderful acting puts the Cinderella Man at second on our list of the Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time.
The Hurricane
The boxing movie "The Hurricane" is a true story starring Denzel Washington, Dan Hedaya, Vicellous Shannon, Rod Steiger, Liev Schreiber and directed by Norman Jewison. This true story follows Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Denzel Washington) an African-American man who went from being a troubled youth to become a strong contender for the middle-weight boxing title. In June 1966 that would all come crashing down when Carter is charged with a triple homicide when three people are murdered in a New Jersey bar. Carter is found guilty and sentenced to three natural-life terms in prison. While in prison he writes his memoir entitled "The 16th Round" in hope of proving his innocence. Seven years later a Brooklyn and his three Canadian mentors read Carter's now published memoir and are convinced of his innocence. Together, they work for Carter's exoneration, although proving his innocence is going to be more difficult than winning a title fight. This emotional true story and Denzel Washington's acting puts The Hurricane at third on our list of the Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time.
Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood returns to directing and fighting with this Oscar Winning boxing movie, Million Dollar Baby. Starring heavyweight actors Morgan Freeman (Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris), Hillary Swank (Maggie Fitzgerald) and Clint Eastwood (Frankie Dunn). Maggie Fitzgerald (Swank), is a struggling thirty-one year old waitress from the wrong side of the tracks that the only way she can turn her life around is through boxing. She has one small problem though. She has to convince the hard nosed, experienced boxing trainer, Frankie Dunn to manage and coach her. Morgan Freeman plays the role of ex-prize fighter, Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris, who was once fought for Frankie Dunn until he lost the vision of one of his eyes during a very brutal fight that Frankie should have stopped. Maggie enlists the aid of Eddie who sees huge potential in Maggie's fighting. With both Maggie and Eddie working on him, Frankie finally relents and agrees to train and manage Maggie. With Frankie's expert tutelage and Maggie's tenacity and desire, she quickly rises in the ranks and is ready for a title shot. Frankie's worst nightmare is about to become reality! Million Dollar Baby's strong cast and excellent characterization puts Million Dollar Baby at fourth on our list of the Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time.
Rocky Balboa
Sylvester Stallone returns to the big screen one more time to star and direct in "Rocky Balboa" the latest in the Rocky series of boxing movies. This hard-hitting, action-packed boxing film sees Rocky Balboa once again finding life hard. Adrian (Talia Shire) has passed away and Rocky's relationship with his son (Milo Ventimiglia) has been strained. But things soon change after Rocky witnesses a computer simulation which pits Rocky (in-his-prime) vs. Mason Dixon (boxing's current undefeated heavyweight champion). Like a page out of the George Foreman handbook of fight returns, Rocky gets the "Eye of the Tiger" back and focuses on a return to the ring to let the "Beast Loose" one last time. Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Burt Young (Paulie), Antonio Tarver, Mike Tyson (himself) and Milo Ventimiglia. This sixth and final Rocky movie had me feeling what it would be like for a sports hero to come to grips with a declining career. I place Rocky Balboa at fifth on our list of the Top Five Boxing Movies of All Time.
Each of these boxing movies helps brings back memories of the past, be it good or bad. The best part of watching a good boxing movie is the good guy usually wins! I hope you have enjoyed reading my list of the T
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