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I have a gopro 3 camera and I am going scuba diving in 3 weeks in Mexico. I am hearing from people that you do need the dive housing for scuba. 1. Is that correct? 2. I have been reading that once you go lower than 20/30 feet you need a red tinted lense to offset the water color to make colors more vibrant - Red Cube Acrylic Filter-Tropical Water Color Correction-Scuba Diving-Hero3 Black, Silver, and White Accessory (example - http://www.amazon.com/Acrylic-Filter-Tropical-Correction-Scuba-Diving-Hero3-Accessory/dp/B00B2PHSIY/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1381939820&sr=8-7&keywords=gopro+dive+housing ) Is this correct or a bunch of garage and not really needed?
The Dive Housing was MOST useful for the Hero and Hero 2 cameras as it used a flat lens that would offer better images and video underwater. The Hero 3 and 3+ cameras already use the flat lens and all Gopro housings are already rated to deeper than the limits of the recreation dive planner. For the Hero 3 the Dive Housing is simply a replacement housing. The red lens is true to all underwater photography and helps to replace color lost due to the lack of light. With most digital photography it's a bit of a non-issue as photoshop or other photo retouching software can do the same thing. For video it is a very nice feature to use, although not completely necessary.
For those who are experienced underwater photographers, and use a Gopro 3 or 3+, what have you found to be the best overall underwater lighting and rig that will give good overall video! and stills and the best "bang for my buck" Ive never done any underwater photography and my husband and I are diving the Great Barrier Reef in less than a month and since we arent likely to pass that way again, Id like to get it right my one and only chance.
Hello Stephanie, there are two lighting mount options for this camera. A. http://www.scuba.com/shop/productdetail.asp?SKUCode=126004&category=#126004. Then you would need to go into the options of the camera and invert the video beacuse the light mounts on the bottom of the camera. B.http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-540/168361/Sealife-Sea-Dragon-1200-L.E.D.-Photo---Video-Light.html.
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2012 Trafficking in Persons Report - Zimbabwe
|United States Department of State
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|19 June 2012
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Zimbabwe is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking. Women and girls from Zimbabwean towns bordering South Africa and Zambia are subjected to prostitution in brothels that cater to long-distance truck drivers. Some victims of forced prostitution are subsequently transported across the border to South Africa where they suffer continued exploitation. Zimbabwean men, women, and children are subjected to forced labor in agriculture and domestic service in rural areas, as well as domestic servitude and sex trafficking in cities and towns. Family members often recruit children and other relatives to travel from rural areas to cities, where they are subjected to domestic servitude or other forms of forced labor after arrival; some children, particularly orphans, are lured with promises of education or adoption. Additionally, the practice of ngozi, or giving of a family member to another family to avenge the spirits of a murdered relative, creates a vulnerability to trafficking. The individuals given to the wronged family, often girls, are sometimes forced to labor or to marry a member of the new family. Children are forced to carry out illegal activities, including drug smuggling. Although security forces still control access to the diamond-producing Marange district, NGO sources indicate that forced labor abuses have ended, including previously reported allegations of Zimbabwean security services forcing young men and boys to mine for diamonds.
Zimbabwean men, women, and boys migrate illegally to South Africa, where some are forced to labor for months on farms, in mines, or in construction without pay before their employers report them to authorities for deportation; reports indicate employers use the pretense of regularization to withhold passports. Many Zimbabwean women and some children willingly migrate to South Africa, often with the assistance of taxi drivers who transport them to the border at Beitbridge or nearby; some of the migrants are transferred to criminal gangs that subject them to violent attacks, rape, deception, and, in some cases, sex trafficking in Musina, Pretoria, Johannesburg, or Durban. Zimbabwean women and men are lured into exploitative labor situations in Angola, Mozambique, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Nigeria, and South Africa with false offers of employment in agriculture, construction, information technology, and hospitality; some subsequently become victims of forced labor or forced prostitution. Women and girls are also lured to China, Egypt, the United Kingdom, and Canada under false pretenses, where they are subjected to prostitution. Men, women, and children from Bangladesh, Somalia, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, and Zambia are trafficked through Zimbabwe en route to South Africa. Chinese nationals reportedly are forced to labor in restaurants and mines in Zimbabwe. Women and children from border communities in neighboring countries are trafficked to Zimbabwe for forced labor, including domestic servitude, and prostitution. Also, one Chadian child in domestic servitude was identified in Zimbabwe.
The Government of Zimbabwe does not fully comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking and is not making significant efforts to do so. While high-level officials, including the president, showed increased interest in trafficking issues during the year, tangible efforts to combat trafficking in persons remained minimal. The government failed to finalize or submit its draft anti-trafficking legislation to the cabinet, which is the first step in introducing it for parliamentary consideration. As trafficking is not defined by Zimbabwean law, the government lacks a legal framework to anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts. The government did not provide evidence that it investigated or prosecuted trafficking offenses in 2011. It continued to rely on IOM to provide law enforcement training, identify and protect victims, and lead prevention efforts.
Recommendations for Zimbabwe: Finalize and pass draft anti-trafficking legislation in line with the 2000 UN TIP Protocol; prosecute, convict, and punish trafficking offenders under existing legislation; formalize procedures for identifying victims and transferring them to the care of appropriate governmental or non-governmental service providers; incorporate trafficking crimes into police procedures for recording and reporting crime data; and launch a broad awareness-raising campaign on the nature of trafficking and the availability of assistance for victims.
The Government of Zimbabwe undertook no discernible anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts during the year. It did not investigate or prosecute trafficking offenders, and neither finalized nor introduced a comprehensive anti-trafficking bill to the Cabinet. Zimbabwean law does not prohibit all forms of trafficking in persons. The Labor Relations Amendment Act prohibits forced labor and prescribes punishments of up to two years' imprisonment; these penalties are not sufficiently stringent. The Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act also prohibits procuring a person for unlawful sexual conduct, inside or outside of Zimbabwe, but prescribes less than stringent penalties of up to two years imprisonment. If the victim is under 16, the sentence can be up to 10 years imprisonment. The Act also prohibits coercing or inducing anyone to engage in unlawful sexual conduct with another person by threat or intimidation, prescribing sufficiently stringent penalties of one to five years imprisonment. Pledging a female for forced marriage or to compensate for the death of a relative or any debt or obligation, is punishable under the Act, with penalties of up to two years imprisonment. None of these penalties are commensurate with penalties prescribed for other serious crimes, such as rape. The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Justice failed to finalize or submit the draft anti-trafficking bill to the Cabinet, which is the first step in introducing it for parliamentary consideration.
The government did not investigate or prosecute forced labor or forced prostitution offenses during the reporting period. The Zimbabwe Republic Police's (ZRP) Victim Friendly Unit (VFU) has responsibility for investigating cases involving women and children, which may include trafficking victims, and the referral of victims to support services. Although NGOs and IOM referred the cases of eight trafficking victims to authorities, the VFU did not report investigating these cases. The January 2011 appeal to the high court by a Chinese construction company which allegedly exploited seven Zimbabweans in forced labor in Angola was not finalized during the reporting period. In December 2011, IOM held a three-day anti-trafficking workshop for 10 legislators from the Portfolio Committee on defense and home affairs. Following the workshop, the legislators conducted a fact finding mission at the Beitbridge and Plumtree border posts. The government did not provide funding or in-kind support for anti-trafficking trainings held by international donors and did not make efforts to independently train its staff. IOM and the MHA began drafting a memorandum of understanding to establish cooperation on training and capacity building on a variety of issues, including trafficking. Overall corruption in law enforcement and the judiciary remained serious and unaddressed problems. Victims refused to report or pursue cases of trafficking because they fear that their traffickers could bribe police or judges. There was anecdotal evidence of limited government involvement in or tolerance of trafficking on a local level and at border crossing points. There were no reports of trafficking offenses committed by Zimbabwean peacekeepers deployed abroad.
The Zimbabwean government made negligible efforts to protect trafficking victims during the year, continuing to rely on NGOs and IOM to identify victims and provide care. During the reporting period, IOM and NGOs identified and assisted at least eight trafficking victims, providing them with safe shelter, psycho-social support, family tracing, and reunification. Despite the existence of a government process for referring trafficking victims, the Zimbabwean police and department of social services again failed to refer any victims to IOM or NGOs for care in 2011. Government-run shelters and programs were in place to assist and provide counseling and long-term shelter to vulnerable and orphaned children, including trafficking victims; it is not known whether they provided any services to trafficking victims during the year. At its centers at Beitbridge and Plumtree border crossings, trained Department of Social Welfare staff worked closely with IOM and NGOs to ensure the protection of vulnerable children. The department of immigration continued to require all deportees from South Africa and Botswana to attend an IOM briefing on safe migration, which includes a discussion of trafficking. With the exception of deportees from South Africa and Botswana, the government's law enforcement, immigration, and social services authorities did not have formal procedures with which to proactively identify victims of trafficking among vulnerable populations, such as women in prostitution and irregular migrants. The lack of systematic victim identification procedures impaired the government's ability to ensure that trafficking victims were not inappropriately incarcerated or otherwise penalized for unlawful acts committed as a direct result of being trafficked. For example, the Department of Immigration reported the arrest and deportation of 100 Nigerian and Chinese nationals, some of whom may have been trafficking victims. However, in 2011, the department of immigration offered temporary residency to one victim and assisted in their repatriation during the year.
The government demonstrated minimal efforts to prevent trafficking during the reporting period. The inter-ministerial task force on trafficking, made up of senior government officials, did not meet during the reporting period, did not execute any anti-trafficking programming, and continued to lack a national plan of action. The government did not launch any anti-trafficking awareness campaigns during the reporting period. The government did not provide information on any efforts it may have made to ensure that its military personnel deployed abroad on international peacekeeping missions did not facilitate or engage in human trafficking. The government did not make efforts to reduce the demand for commercial sex acts. In his September 2011 speech at the opening of Parliament, President Mugabe emphasized the need for Parliament to become a party to and domesticate the 2000 UN TIP Protocol. The cabinet sent a motion to accede to the protocol to Parliament in December 2011, where it was reviewed and later returned to the MHA for revision; however, the cabinet has not submitted a revised motion to Parliament.


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The world the Muppets inhabit is simply too rich for agreement. There are too many well-developed characters and too many great moments to conclude anything absolutely. Its all a wonderful gray area, an amusement park of colors, shapes, sizes, personalities and tones. Now and again, its a bit of a zany madhouse, but thats part of its charm. Halfway down the stairs, Hensons characters meet, interact and grow in one anothers presence. Muppet strength lies in diversity. We wouldnt change the extensive cast for anything, but since were pretty sure the gangs not breaking up, there doesnt seem to be any harm in arguing out our preferences.
As voted on by the Cinema Blend writers, here are our 25 favorite Muppets* of all-time
#1 Kermit The FrogMore than just a frog with a talent for banjo and an oddly pleasant singing voice, Kermits real strength is as the perfect leader; which is to say he doesnt really want the job. People who crave power often dont deserve it, while those most reluctant to take it are usually the ones you want in charge. Leading the Muppets makes Kermit crazy, and hed probably rather hang out somewhere in the background with Scooter, but he cant sit idly by when he knows someone needs him. Kermits unending belief in his friends and in the genuine goodness of the world around them is what makes the Muppets great.
Hes not the smartest Muppet or the most talented. Hes not the best public speaker and almost everything makes him nervous. Hes not the best looking or the strongest, and hes definitely not much of a fighter. But hes loyal, and hes brave, and he believes in you. Yes, you there, reading this paragraph. He believes in you. Kermit is and always will be the greatest Muppet because he is the Muppets. Everything that makes Jim Hensons enduring characters wonderful is, in some small way, embodied in this one green little frog. Its not easy being green, but its worth it.
#2 Statler And WaldorfThe sugary sweet, hugely energetic Muppets who dare to put on a show every week would be nothing without their polar opposites. Perched high in the balcony like lazy vultures, tossing out barbs that are as clever as they are harmless, Statler and Waldorf give the Muppets the bite that Kermit and Fozzie aren't capable of. And even as much as they claim to hate everything the Muppets stand for, they're back week after week, launching their bombs from their pricey seats but also dying to see what the show will bring them next.
They're like the original Internet commenters, providing the vitriol that allows the performers to thrive, all the while secretly loving the entertainment they're given. You wouldn't be able to enjoy the Muppets nearly as much without Statler and Waldorf to make fun of you for it.
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The Confederate forces stepped out of the woods at about 2 p.m., marching through open fields for almost a mile under fearsome enfilading fire. They took enormous casualties, about half of them were killed or wounded.
A handful made it over a low stone wall into the Union lines, but they were soon repulsed. It was the high water mark for the Confederacy.
If not for his defeat here, Lee might have marched on to Philadelphia, or Washington. He might have broken the North -- and we might be a very different nation today.
Today, instead of fighting, re-en-actors shook hands at the wall, all Americans now, in Lincoln's words, united in the proposition that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.


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American Apparel Fine Jersey V-Necks are made with 100% fine jersey cotton combed for softness and comfort.
The first in the series of an ongoing collaboration with the very talented and gracious Garima Dhawan.
Wow, Jacqueline! Totally love this one! What a great idea with the pattern over the watercolors!
Thank you Bianca and Judith! Garima's textiles lend themselves so beautifully with my watercolors. It seems like a natural fusion.
This collaboration is pretty exciting! I can't wait to see more. Nice work!
So happy to see this come together....the watercolor is beautiful with the pattern..thank you Jacqueline!
awesome work Ladies... Love it
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Thank you so much Sarah, Rachel, Ally, Michael, TaLins & Sharon!!! It is so great to be working with you Garima!
This is really beautiful. :)
Excellent collab!! The beautiful floral shapes work so perfect with the striking watercolor! This will be a big hit for sure! :D
Thank you Susie & Anna! Anna - I truly hope so :)
This is so beautiful, I love all the colors and textures. Great job!
Absolutely gorgeous Jacqueline!!
Great work!
Thank you Libertad, Sharon & Biff! We appreciate all of the positive feedback!!
Thank you Alice!
awesome collab!
I agree with O. Joy... your two styles work extremely well together!
Thank you Joy & Wayne! Yes, I think we are a perfect fit!
looks great on all the products!
Awesome, what a fantastic combo!!!
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very nice!
Gorgeous work, the Iphonecase is wonderful!
Thank you so much Agnes, Catherine, Beth, Sylvia & Monika! I appreciate the comments and support so much!
Brilliant!! Amazing collaboration!!
Thank you so much Anna!
a beautiful collab my sweet ladies :D!!!
Had to come back & soak up the brilliance again! :)
Thank you so much Aleksandra! Thanks for coming back Joy!
love this Jacqueline! so beautiful....the colours are amazing. Fabulous collaboration xx
Thank you so much for your kind words, ingz!
Also, thanks to everyone who took the time to comment twice!!! We really appreciate it!
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really lovely to see the perfect blend of talents! xo
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You are both so talented!! Beautiful creation, Jacqueline & Garima!! :))
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wonderful Jacquie!!!!
Thank you Carina! We are really excited about this!
This is awesome!
Thanks, Biff! More collabs from us to come!
Wonderful collaboration, well done girls!
Thank you soi much Angelo!
great collab jacqueline!
Awesome weaving of colors and shapes in this!
Thank you so much, nbc, Patricia & Sweet Moments! It is a true collaboration - Garima's beautiful textile with my watercolors.
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OLNEY, Md. (WUSA)-- Loved ones of Olijawon Griffin can't make sense of the brutal stabbing attack that killed him.
The 18-year old was a Sherwood High graduate. His friends say he was a popular student, and a football team stand out. According to authorities, Griffin was robbed in Adams Morgan early Saturday before following the suspects to the Woodley Park metro station, where a fight ensued. Sources tell 9news, a robbery that turned deadly was over a phone and a jacket.
Police arrested nine people in connection to the incident, including another teenager charged with murder.
Handfuls of family friends and friends of Griffin gathered outside his Olney home Saturday night to share their memories of him.
His neighbor and mentor Jacob Kapepula was distraught to hear of the news.
Kapepula said, "I'm at a loss for words."
Griffin had recently started a new job at the National Institutes of Health working in the recycling department, according to a friend who worked with him. He was described as a hard worker with a motivating spirit. As Kapepula put it, " A good kid."
Funeral plans have not yet been announced, but his friends say a vigil in his memory is pending.


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1949 GMC Truck - Better Late Than NeverWritten by on January 24, 2012 Contributors: Mike Chase It Took A While, But Jack Tomczak Got The Truck Of His Dreams
Although Jack Tomczak says he can't claim to be an old-time hot rodder, things with wheels have been a part of his life since going to work in 1946. He was a Pontiac field rep and crewed for a NASCAR Winston West team, but after dealing with customer complaints all day, satisfying commitments to a race team and raising six kids there wasn't much time or enthusiasm for anything else. But deep down there was an unfulfilled desire, and by the time he was well into his Seventies, Jack decided he had waited long enough to scratch than nagging itch and commissioned John Nissen, of Nissen's Hot Rod Garage in Williams, California, to build the truck seen here.
This '49 GMC started life as a series FC-102 long wheelbase (125.25 inches) ½-ton pickup. But, like most trucks its age, when John found the five-window it was well used—the running gear had been stripped, the cab corners were rusted, the tops of the fenders were caved in, and what seems to be mandatory for trucks found in rural areas, there were a few bullet holes to repair.
In May 2006, John and his crew started to bring the Jimmy back to life, the original framerails were fitted with a Mustang II IFS from Total Cost Involved while in back the original torque tube-equipped rearend was replaced with a 9-inch Ford. Underhood a GM Performance Ram Jet 350 V-8 backed by a 4L60E automatic transmission, replaced the original 228-inch inline six-cylinder and manual gearbox.
One of Jack's goals for the truck was that it would be comfortable, so Sanford's Custom Auto Upholstery installed a Chevy Tahoe split bench seat after covering it, the door panels and the headliner in tan cloth. A Vintage Air heat and cool unit keeps the cab's confines cozy and the windows are now power operated.
Once the truck's sheetmetal was perfectly straight, it was time to pick a color and with everyone involved the choice was unanimous, it was then simply a matter of having paint mixed to match the cap on Budweiser beer.
Some might think that a truck this nice sees little use and is under a cover more often than not, but Jack wanted a truck to drive and that's what he does. Not long after completion in May 2007, Jack pointed the pickup east for a trip to Grand Rapids, Michigan. On that inaugural trip in the middle of Nevada the pressure began to fluctuate about the same time the driver of another truck flagged him down. Thinking the new engine was blowing out oil Jack pulled over only to find out the other driver wanted to buy his truck.
Ultimately, the erratic oil pressure was traced to a loose wire on the back of the gauge and Jack reports for the next 24,000-plus miles the truck hasn't missed a beat. He's already making plans for events to attend next year and told us, "At 78 years old I'm going to drive Ol' Red '49 until I can't anymore."
It just goes to prove when it comes to fulfilling a dream, it really is better late than never. CCT
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The bed has been refurbished with new oak planks and stainless rub strips. The Budweiser crown on the toolbox hints at the origin of the truck's color.Power comes from a straight-from-the-crate Ram Jet 350. Headers are Sanderson block huggers that connect to MagnaFlow mufflers with mandrel bent 2 1/2-inch pipes.Dropped Mustang II spindles up front and custom leaf springs in the rear get the truck closer to the ground. Note the single exhaust pipe peeking out below the bumper—it fools a few.Inside, a leather-wrapped wheel tops a Flaming River steering column. Gauges are from Classic Instruments, pedals from Lokar.A custom underdash pod houses additional gauges along with the stereo and navigational systems. All the control knobs wear Budweiser bottle caps that were left over from the completion party.


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1987 Dodge Ram D150 Slant Six Buildup - Slant Six Power PackageWritten by on April 1, 1999 A Step-By-Step Buildup That Generates V8-Like Performance
Power Puzzle
To most Mopar aficionados, performance starts with a V8. You know-one horsepower per cubic inch, a lopey idle, and a mechanical staccato of 16 valves heard through a pair of full-length headers. If these are primary factors in your engine buildups, our venerable 225ci Slant Six may not be your cup of joe. At first, it wasn't ours either.
In fact, one of our toughest decisions was whether we should keep the Slant Six that came in our Project D150, or replace it with a Mopar Performance crate engine. Part of our decision involved the abundance of Slant Sixes in existence. Yes, these Leaning Towers of Power are as common as the vehicles they came in. As a result of typical hot rod ingenuity, many Slant Sixes have been replaced by Mopar V8s. Somewhere-perhaps in your garage-sits a Slant Six just begging for attention.
By no means were we going to build a multipurpose, fire-breathing, Hemi-eating six-banger. No, we simply wanted to up the performance for great street cruising and an occasional bark of the tires. This led us to our final concern-show appeal.
The engine, destined for our Project D150, needed "wow appeal." We could easily double the horsepower, but could we build a clean, sharp-looking engine?
By using a variety of parts from several suppliers, such as Mopar Performance, Crane Cams, JE Pistons, Holley, MSD, and others, you will see how our DeskTop Dyno-projected, 237hp Slant Six was built. Once the combination is installed completely, we'll stop by our favorite chassis dyno, and give it a chance to perform.
Follow along with us as master mechanic Dave LaForce takes us through the steps to build a potent Slant Six that has major appeal for show duty.
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The block and crank were sent to Owenby, a local machine shop, where the block was bored .040 oversize and the crankshaft was polished. LaForce began assembling the engine by installing the brass freeze plugs.A fresh set of Federal-Mogul cam bearings were installed with a cam bearing installation tool. LaForce was extremely cautious that all oil holes lined up, to prevent any lube problems. Due to the extent of this rebuild-in which we replaced many of the components in the rotating assembly-we took the engine to have it balanced. A "poor man's" rebuild probably would have skipped this step.Here you can see the Slant Six-specific offset in the rear-main cap seal. After a dab of silicone on each of the mating ends, they're ready to go together.LaForce installed the Hastings Rings, and then, using a standard ring compression tool, prepared the combination of JE Pistons and the stock, reconditioned connecting rods for installation.Using a dead-blow hammer, the JE Pistons (PN 157775) were put into place. We arranged for JE Pistons to custom-make those forged, lightweight, .040 oversize pistons, with a 10:1 compression and zero deck height. This changed the displacement of our Slant Six to 231ci.LaForce installed new Federal-Mogul bearings, then installed the caps, ensuring that the cap locks lined up.Applying the pre-lube that is included with the cam is recommended on non-pressure feed areas. Oil was applied to all cam bearings.Crane Cams custom-ground a cam to meet our specifications. With 10:1 compression, this cam is designed to prevent pre-ignition, and still maintain good street performance. Our new PowerMax(tm) Series cam gained a part number in the process (PN 72H000002) and has a duration of 216 degrees at .050-inch valve lift for the intake, and 220 degrees at .050-inch valve lift for the exhaust. Total lift is .454 inches for the intake and .467-inch lift for the exhaust.
Crane Cams supplied lifters with the PowerMax(tm) cam. Prior to installation, each lifter was lubricated on the sides, but only with oil. The bottom will come in contact with the pre-lube on the cam.We installed a new Mopar Performance oil pump (PN P4286740) and a Milodon remote oil filter adapter (PN 21560 and 21566) to help keep our engine clean. The original filter would have been upside-down.After installing a new Mopar Performance timing set (PN P5249636), Dave put the timing chain cover in place. The cover, as well as most of the other smaller parts around the engine, was powdercoated with Eastwood's Hot Coat Powder Coating System.We replaced the old head with a ported head from Mopar Performance. This head comes fully prepped with 1.70-inch-diameter intake and 1.44-inch-diameter exhaust valves (PN P4529821). Before installation, and because of our higher cam lift, we had the top of the valve guides milled to prevent any damage. Here, Dave lowers the head into place.As the head was lowered into place, the bypass hose was also installed. It is far easier to deal with this hose when setting up either the head or the water pump.Dave torqued the head to 70 lb-ft by starting from the middle, and working his way to the outer ends, in three to four rotations.We thought the installation of our Hooker Header (PN 5834-1) would be a breeze, but it became a bit complicated. We put the header on the engine and the EGR heat transfer adapter on the intake, then tried to mount them onto the engine separately. We ended up removing the header and intake, assembling them off the engine, and installing the two parts as a single unit.
To prevent damage, LaForce installed the harmonic balancer with the proper installation tool. Using a hammer isn't recommended-it could ruin the balancer and thrust bearing, as well as gall the snout of the crank.After installing our Holley 350cfm two-barrel carburetor (PN 0-7448) on the Mopar Performance aluminum intake (PN P4529115), the manual choke is removed and replaced with an electric version.LaForce tested for possible clearance problems between the K&N air filter (PN 60-1260) and carburetor linkage. Without difficulty, the filter was removed to prevent damage during installation.MSD 8.5mm wires with wire organizers were connected to our new Mopar Performance distributor (PN P3690788).We were uncomfortable with the clearance from the header and the oil pan. Although it would have been easy to make an adjustment, we removed the oil pan-as shown here-and made a small indentation. This gave us about 2 inches of clearance between the header and the oil pan.


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08/08/2008, Bora Bora
Hideko and I decided to circumnavigate Bora Bora in our dinghy today. It was a little choppy and overcast in the morning but not too bad. We loaded up the dinghy with the portable VHF and the cell phone (standard equipment), as well as lots of sun screen and some snacks. We brought our garbage and empty gas cans as well.
Shooting Star was almost broken in. We were looking forward to completing the break in so that we could go down to a 100:1 oil mix. The break in mix has much more oil and produces dirty exhaust while reducing performance. It does of course allow the engine to smooth out with appropriate lubrication.
We took a route south through the five markers that outline the pass from the motu side of the reef to the island side near Point Puhia. This is a tricky bit that must be followed carefully in a big boat as there are bits of reef everywhere outside of the natural channel.
Once in the Bay of Haamaire we headed south around point Tuiahora. This point has a lone monolith of volcanic rock rising 10 meters above the promontory. Patrick took us here to look out over the east side of the island. Upon reflection this was a valuable exercise. Coming in and anchoring in the safe well charted west side of the island and then doing an island tour with lots of vista stops, chart in hand, would be an excellent precursor to an exploration of the poorly charted east side.
We motored back into the shoal area of Yairou Bay, carefully dodging the coral heads. This rocky area is so easy to see from the point but sort of jumps out at you when you are down on the water.
From there we headed south to Aponapu Bay. Along the coast we noticed many docks and support stations for the large ritzy hotels cropping up all along the eastern motus. For environmental reasons almost everything is built and assembled on the main island prior to being delivered by barge to the motus, where posts and entire over water bungalos are simply craned into position. Anau is the only sizable town on the east side of Bora Bora but we did not see a dock or the rumored gas station there (though we did not look hard).
The fuel ran out somewhere in Aponapu Bay. Hideko and I quickly mixed in 5 gallons of gas on top of the 100:1 two stroke oil measurement. As we worked we drifted toward the shore where a bunch of silly kids were playing in the shallows. They did their best to entertain us, quite successfully, as we worked. They beckoned us to join them but the water there was a bit too skinny and our trash a bit too stinky to detour.
We headed southeast from Aponapu to Taurere, the southern bit of Motu Piti Aau. There is a beautiful anchorage here well protected from just about every direction sea wise. Most anchorages on the east side have little wind protection due to the low motus and shallow banks or hotels that keep you from snugging up too close to the palm trees.
We saw O'Vive here and stopped to say hi to Dave, Nathalie and crew. They were really enjoying the spot they were in. After collecting all of their snorkeling recommendations, and their trash, we headed back to sea, er to lagoon.
Heading west we passed below Point Paoaoa where the Club Med is located. This is an all you can eat resort as best I can determine so while they have a nice dock there's no real reason to stop there as you can not get food or beverage as an outsider.
Next along the coast is the Sofitel Bora Bora Beach resort. They have a sister resort across the lagoon on the second of two small motus along the south side of the reef. There is a Teppan (Japanese barbeque) restaurant here and a nice dock. Next is the Mai Tai resort which has a nice moderate restaurant. Also in this area you will find the Avis car rental and a good basic market across the road.
From the Mai Tai we headed south toward Matira Point where the Intercontinental Resort is located. The water here is skinny (the chart says 0.5 meters) but there is a staked channel you can follow with good results in good light. You basically travel a B line from stake to stake leaving the stakes on the island side but carefully steering around big black spots that crop up in the track line from time to time. Around the west side of Matira you have Matira beach where the cruise ships dump their burden. It is a nice spot with several Snacks (European for small casual lunch spot).
At the north end approaching Point Raititi there is a lovely bay. While you can not take a big boat around Matira point you can sneak around Raititi from the west side if you are careful (or follow a crewed charter boat). The old Hotel Bora Bora, oldest of the great hotels on the island, sits on Raititi point. It is old but timeless in a way and certainly a classic place to visit.
After rounding Raititi Point we headed north across the well trod Bay of Povai. It was a choppy if short ride to the passenger harbor of Viatape. We tied up in the northeast corner (our favorite spot), locking the stern and motor to a cleat and tying the bow up to a bollard. I don't think the lock is necessary here but better safe than sorry.
Walking along the quay we ran across the crew from Free Spirit, a Catana we had met in Moorea. They were getting ready to head off to Tonga. We wished them fair winds and made the short walk to the gas station to fill up the gas jugs. I got the gas at the Chin Lee station and Hideko picked up some groceries and the Chin Lee grocery. After taking the trash to the dumpster we were ready to head out.
Once back on the water we headed around the point to look for the fuel dock. Paul and Michelle from Free Spirit clued us in as they had just been there to fill up. The little bay just north of Viatape and directly across from the pass has a fuel dock, the Top Dive resort (which I understand is just a dive outfit now), and the Saint James, an acclaimed restaurant with a nice dinghy dock.
The next bay north is the home of the Bora Bora yacht club. The yacht club has a bar, a restaurant (that should be open again), moorings, wifi, laundry and other yacht services. The moorings are reasonably priced and it is popular with many yachts, although we have found plenty of nice spots to anchor at no charge.
Passing point Farepiti we headed into the large and deep bay of Faanui. This bay shoals around the edges but the large central area is at least 60 feet deep. The back end of the bay houses an abandoned marina project. You can explore the neatly carved out basins but each has a rock reef with less than three feet of water (down to even one in places) guarding its entrance. Perhaps the logistics of clearing these barriers contributed to the shut down. The north side of the bay has various little harbors and docks nestled into it. In particular you can still see the old US submarine base.
Heading around the northwest point of Tereia we reentered the large deep water channel that we used with the big boat. Still in exploration mode we decided to visit the airport on the northern most motu, Motu Mute. The approach is not really marked but the bottom is nothing but glorious white sand for almost the entire way in. You can basically follow the deep water channel until you are due south of the airport dock and then just head north (clear the shoal at the green marker before you turn). Once you close on the airport it gets very skinny, not sure but could have been two feet in some spots. There's a reason all of the hotels with large boats use shoal draft power cats. We hadn't been to the airport for three years so it was fun to look around again, though I wouldn't rate it as a top tourist attraction.
From the airport we inched our way through very skinny water down toward, but well off of, motu Ome. Once past the rocks and shoals between Mute and Ome the bottom drops to 6 to 10 feet of beautiful sand, allowed us to get back up to speed in the failing light.
We tied back up where we started after a wonderful day looking around this spectacular island.
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08/07/2008, Bora Bora
Hideko and I had a relaxing day today. We filled up the dive tanks enjoyed the beautiful view from the cockpit and worked on projects around the boat.
Our washer dryer went on the fritz about a week ago and I finally decided to check into it. After crawling into the access area in the skinny part of the bow I discovered that the power cord connector just inside the case was burned up. Best I can tell the plug was not making good contact and started heating up. Seems to be going around. I disassembled it and contacted Splendide by email. Their US support is pretty impressive and very responsive. Spare parts pricing, on the other hand, is not so impressive. I think I will rewire it myself, make it marine grade and add a breaker!
This anchorage turns out to be in the lane of traffic between the hotels to the south and the airport to the north. Also many circle island tour boats run through the area. Some leave quite a wake. It also seems that the jet ski tours are instructed to pass by as close as possible to any yacht they see (or is it my imagination?).
As we relaxed on the foredeck in the afternoon we saw Patrick go by! It was so cool to see him again. He was in an outrigger with a boat full of guests, steering with his feet while playing a uke and singing Polynesian tunes. It reminded me of our wedding. He stopped on the way to a nice picnic spot on the motu he takes guests to and said hi. All of his guests were having a great time. It made me want to take a tour with him just to hear the songs.
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08/06/2008, Bora Bora
Hideko and I have been having a true Bora Bora vacation. Thus when the alarm went off at 6:30 AM it took me a while to shake off the haze. Our friends from Rahula were still aboard and needed to get back to their boat in order to make good their offing to the Cook Islands. After checking the dinghy over everything looked set. James had already loaded Shooting Star up so we were off in short order.
The lagoon was a bit calmer this morning and we had drained the hull of the dinghy after our scuba dive outing yesterday. Shooting Star planed up with no problem and we shot off across the lagoon toward the yacht club.
After a fun trip around the north side of the island we cross loaded all of the dive gear and crew onto Rahula who had waited patiently on her mooring for our return. After a goodbye with hopes for a reunion down island I headed back out across the lagoon. Rahula was getting underway as I rounded the corner.
Back at Swingin' on a Star Hideko had made a nice breakfast after which we decided to take Roq on his first tour of Bora Bora. Roq had a nice trip around Fatu Hiva and a little jaunt around the harbor in Tahiti and Moorea but had yet to see Bora Bora up close.
He is getting to be an old boy and Hideko and I had to help him into the dink. Once aboard we motored around the motus in the area and explored the interesting cuts that separate the otherwise unified islets. The cuts go back part way or, in some cases, all the way to the barrier reef. We found some with still lagoons in deep water, others with super shoal sandy bottoms and still others with moderate depth and soaring coral heads. One had trickles of water from the breakers on the reef creeping in and the next had waterfalls of water rushing over the two foot drop between the barrier reef's shelf and the lagoon below. It was eerie and wonderful to see the ocean and the lagoon in one frame and with a couple feet of height difference. It is miraculous to think how independent the lagoon is from the massiveness of the Pacific Ocean all around it.
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08/05/2008, Bora Bora
Hideko and I met James and Amelia in Shelter Bay marina waiting to go through the Panama Canal. I crewed for them on Rahula, their Woods catamaran, on the way through the canal a few weeks before we made it through. They are wonderful folks and both have great British navy backgrounds. James has captained war ships and is a very competent skipper, one I would have no second thoughts about sailing with.
We had all decided to head over to the east side of the island for a dive at a site the Lonely Planet guide calls Manta Reef. I'm not sure that we found the actual dive site but we had a great day.
Rahula was on a mooring at the Bora Bora Yacht club. These moorings can go fast and many of the protected anchoring spots in that area and in the Povai Bay are in 70 or more feet. In order to be sure that they would not lose their spot we motored over with Swingin' on a Star and everyone jumped aboard. James, Amelia and Mark, a friend visiting from the UK, zipped over in their dingy so that we wouldn't have to raft up in the gusty winds. Once everything was aboard, James took their dink back to Rahula and swam over to Swingin' on a Star as we drifted by in neutral.
We motored around the north end of the island through well marked deep channels. I had been looking at our electronic charts and French Chart 6002. This chart is THE Bora Bora chart. Ours was updated through July of 2007. Reading the fine (French) print one discovers many interesting things about the best chart of Bora Bora money can buy. The chart is WGS 84. The good thing about this is that key land marks and Nav Aids will be located on the chart where your GPS shows them in person. That said, the less used areas of the chart are not all that accurate so while they are WGS84 they are just as wrong. The actual surveys were taken in 2001 for the heavily used West side, not bad. However most of the island is 1954 survey with some actually dating to the WWII American surveys of 1945 (US chart 5745).
The Guide to Navigation and Tourism in French Polynesia is helpful and provides good aerial photos of the island. My favorite guide for Bora Bora is, again, Charlie's Charts. There is only a single sketch chart but it shows the yacht anchorages along with enough detail to give you the basic routes that are viable, but little enough to ensure you keep your head out of the book and on the water. Once you know your way around all of these east side routes can be sailed in the dark. It could be a fatal mistake to attempt anything but a good light, +/- 2 hours from noon transit on your first go however. (In particular, the anchorage in the southeast end of Motu Piti Aau where there are many coral heads in the 7-8 foot sand.)
We had Amelia and Hideko on the bow, both heavily experienced in finding marks and reading the water. It is always fun to have extra crew to help out. Exploring uncharted, poorly charted or wrong charted places is part of what a trip like this is all about anyway. Amelia's vision was astounding and she continually picked out marks before anyone but the birds of prey flying overhead could see them.
The water is deep and wide as you head north toward the airport on Motu Mute. There is a squeeze between a Green (Ocean/Motu side) and Red (Island side) mark at Point Tahi, the northern most point of Bora Bora. From here you head East-Southeast for about 1,000 meters to the South Cardinal across Paorie Bay. This is the first interesting zig in shoal water. The bottom is 10 feet or more but you must make a tight turn to the north around the cardinal to head up to the near by Red mark and then a tight turn to the east. The bottom outside the described route is typically 10 feet or more with the exception of the coral heads that rise within a foot or two of the surface here and there.
You exit this little passage into a deep blue area of 15 to 30 feet just off of the Northeast chain of motus. The bottom in this area is perfect sand with very good holding. We picked a nice spot and set the anchor. It was a good compromise between the dive site to the south and the trip back to Rahula.
Hideko made us a great taco lunch as we all geared up for a dive. Amelia had recently been diagnosed with an ear problem that relegated her, unhappily, to snorkeling. After getting all of the gear together the five of us piled into Shooting Star and we set off for the dive site. I had never been unable to get up on a plane with our 25hp Yamaha before. Five folks and their dive gear in rough chop seemed to be the limit. As we plowed along in displacement mode several waves made it over the side. Everyone was happy to be wearing wet suits.
The dive site we were looking for was about half way down the length of Bora Bora in the Bay of Yairou. The reef that runs along the center of the lagoon on the east side leaves 10 feet of water on the Motu side but more like 80 feet of water in deep bays on the island side. We found a few buoys but none really seemed like a dive spot. We settled on a spot on the reef that looked like it had some interesting coral heads around for Amelia and was reasonably close to the drop off for the scuba contingent.
I could be described as anal when it comes to dive safety. I try to keep my opinions to myself unless asked for or in the presence of actions I consider dangerous. I was impressed at the professional way James handled the dive gear and preparations for himself and Mark. It is more fun to dive when you are with a group that takes safety and protection of the environment seriously. At least for me.
Our dive worked its way out to the wall over steep coral formations ranging from 30 feet to 0 feet. Right below the boat we discovered an interesting eel and many fish flitting about a large rock. The coral heads on the bank looked to be mostly fire coral and rose up in long walls that forced us to swim over them rather than around. This gave us a little more of a saw tooth pattern than I would otherwise like but not too bad. I had never seen such huge chunks of homogeneous fire coral before. We reached the drop off and descended to 70 feet and then worked out way back up the reef.
The visibility was not fantastic. The windy days have stirred up the sediment from the shoals which drifted out into the bay with the surface current and then rained down upon us. We saw some big puffer fish, lots of interesting coral formations, black pearl oysters, and lots of other interesting things though no large animals came around (was hoping for the mantas advertised).
We got back to the boat after a nice hour dive to find Amelia still looking about. She had stayed in the water to avoid being wet and cold in the windy dinghy. The ride back didn't make us much dryer with wet suits and BC flooding the bilge and chop splashing over the side. Hideko valiantly bailed as I motored us back to Swingin' on a Star.
Once on the big boat everyone took hot showers. Hideko and I had hoped to entice our friends into staying for dinner so that we could spend more time together. It was getting late in the day and after promising to zip them back to Rahula first thing in the morning our ploy worked.
We had a lovely dinner of steak frites with ice cream and home made butterscotch sauce for desert. It was a wonderful day and a great time spent with friends.
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08/04/2008, Bora Bora
It was another blustery day. This bay makes windy days gusty days. The wind will die, get caught up in the hills, and then come down in a torrent from various directions. It makes it hard for folks to reliably anchor here in the 75 foot bottom without a good 300 feet of rode, though the bottom does hold well.
Bora Bora has its fair share of gorgeous days in the Austral winter (June through August) but many days are mixed. It looks like it's going to rain often but rarely does outside of the high eastern slopes. You can pretty much ignore the weather unless you have a highly confident rain prediction. Even so it usually passes quickly.
The lagoon is rather large, much like some of the Tuamotus. This means that winds steady over 15 knots get the opportunity to build up quite a chop in the larger bays. Taking the dink upwind can be a rough, and sometimes wet, affair.
Shooting Star, our AB VS12, is dry in almost all conditions, though you may get some spray. Now that we are used to getting places fast the ride can be rough sometimes. The Saint Croix helm seat makes a big difference here. Sitting on the tubes can bounce you around, and sitting on the fiberglass locker lid can bruise your backside. The console seat is in the back of the boat, which moves the least and has the most inertia, and it is also padded nicely. We also have Adjust-Once Saint Croix trim tabs to help the boat get up on a plane quickly. I believe these make a material difference though I have yet to remove them to make a comparison. I plan to cut down the transom a few inches so that the prop is fully clear of the hull. Perhaps I'll do a test without the trim tabs then. The boat gets up on a plane without too much problem now but it always cavitates a bit initially as you work it over the hump.
We caught up with our friends on Rahula over the VHF today. They were preparing to leave for Tonga but we talked them into staying an extra day to go scuba diving with us. Should be fun.
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08/03/2008, Bora Bora
Dave from O'Vive came by today and we had a nice catch up. They have been having a great time on their South Pacific excursion. I hadn't realized it but Dave's plan was always to sail from his home in the Florida Keys to Australia or New Zealand and then sell the boat so that he could get his kids back in school after only one year off. Dave has done a lot of work on O'Vive to bring her up to globe trotting specifications. She has two water makers (come on Dave, water makers never break!, har), a complete cockpit enclosure, a sweet barbeque, great downwind rig setup, SSB, nice dinghy, and everything else you would expect.
You can find out more at the O'Vive web site: http://www.sailblogs.com/member/eauvivecrossing/
Made me think of the Maltese Falcon for sale, now anchored across from us in the bay. Dave's boat is easier to dock and can get into much better anchorages.
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08/02/2008, Bora Bora
It was another rather windy day. Our position in the northeastern area of the bay was keeping us from being able to connect reliably to Iorana Net, even with the antenna. There is a small caf� north of Bloody Mary's called Kaina Hut that we had walked by the other day which advertises free internet. We decided to take a lunch trip and get our very behind blog updated.
We took the dinghy over to shore directly across from Kaina Hut and tied to a palm tree at the water's edge. It was high tide and this made the approach fairly eventless. After navigating the shallow river in Huahine with our new dinghy I have come to have great confidence in its ability to handle shallow waters. Our old Walker Bay was great in skinny stuff too but I think the AB is even better. The Walker Bay had a keel and as you loaded it down it gained draft faster than the AB, which has 18" tubes. The AB also has a flat bottom from the mid point aft and the bow is Veed but curves up keeping the draft thin.
A big issue with squeaking through shallows is of course the prop location. The good and bad of this dinghy is that the prop does not completely extend below the hull. Yamaha suggests that the prop be completely below the lowest section of the hull to avoid cavitation. AB specifies a normal shaft outboard for this boat yet the normal shaft Yamaha leaves the prop about 15% shadowed by the hull. This does cause some cavitation when trying to get up onto a plane. On the other hand it makes the prop very hard to bottom out. If you tilt the engine up you can still trawl along with the entire prop protected by the hull. I would be surprised if the boat draws 6" with Hideko and I aboard and the engine tilted up.
Kaina Hut is a lovely little place. It is like a small Bloody Mary's from an ambiance stand point, though it is brighter and perhaps a little more refined. Unlike Bloody Mary's you order from a menu here and the menu is more balanced rather than fish weighted. It is equally as expensive however and lunch for two with a cocktail and desert can easily run well over $100 US with the current exchange rates.
We had a wonderful lunch and fantastic deserts at the Hut. One of the owners was there and the service was very good. We couldn't get on the net at first but after rebooting the hub we had no problem and the Internet access afterwards was the fastest I've had since the US. We spent so much time online that we had to race with the laptop battery to get the blog updated.
Like every place we've found on Bora Bora except for the large hotel bars (some of these serve a more or less room service menu between meals) Kaina Hut is only open for lunch and dinner in specific time windows. The bar is open in between but if you want to get food at odd hours the little Caf� at the north end of Viatape is the only spot I know of.
The tide was out when we returned to the dink and it was looking really thin on the way back. The location we had tied up is a little grassy park like spot used as a look out and complete with a picnic table. The key is to make it out to where the local boats are stowed up on their lifts, from there on you're in deep water. We motored most of the way out with the engine tilted up and then ground to a stop. The wind was so strong that with no keel and a tilted up motor we had to crab along and there wasn't always room to go through the rocks sideways. So we broke out the paddles.
Hideko and I have not developed a team operation when it comes to paddling just yet. It is actually more like the keystone cops. Fortunately we didn't have far to go before I could get the prop back in the water. We passed by a local guy on one of the boat platforms rigging hooks with bait. He seemed well entertained by our antics. As soon as we passed him we dropped the motor and acted as if everything had gone to plan as we made our way back to the big boat.
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Cyclones Fall To Longhorns
AUSTIN, TX- The Iowa State soccer team fell 3-1 to the Texas Longhorns at the Mike A. Myers Stadium and Soccer Field.
Turning point of the game
With the score 2-1 in favor of the Longhorns, Sharis Lachappelle put Texas up 3-1 and put the game out of reach for a Cyclone comeback. The goal scored by Lachappelle came one minute after Iowa State had scored and killed the Cyclones momentum.
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|Written by Darci Tomky
Following the recent purchase of the bowling alley property just to the east of the courthouse, Phillips County has now bought the Absmeier property to the north of the bowling alley, reported commissioners at their Nov. 30 meeting.
The $15,000 purchase now gives the County about one quarter of the block in the 200 block of South Campbell Avenue.
The board hired Jackie Reynolds as the new Phillips County Social Services director.
In November, a motion was made by Bud Biesemeier and seconded by Jerry Beavers to change what the county will offer for the health insurance benefit for 2013. The County will now pay up to the maximum deductible for each of the four available plans for 2013.
Commissioners have just returned from their annual Colorado Counties Inc. winter conference Nov. 26-28 in Colorado Springs. They noted part of the conference covered what happens now that Amendment 64 has passed, but unfortunately there were more questions than answers.
In November, commissioners approved a Ford Expedition vehicle order for Phillips County Sheriff's Department. After trading in a 2000 Jeep Cherokee, the cost of the vehicle was $32,198.
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Commissioners reported a zoning change from agriculture to commercial for a 10-acre parcel of land three miles east of Holyoke on Highway 6 for Aaron and Angie Powell. A hearing will take place Friday, Dec. 7.
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Cloud + Mobility + Security: The big focus at IBM Pulse
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ZCS 8.04 Trial Appliance.
I've downloaded the appliance and I'm trialling ZCS in our organization. We currently have Exchange 2003.
I've installed Zimbra. Configured a domain, "whatever.com.au"
Authentication to our AD, (different domain name), is working.
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The GALsync account in setup.
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I would like to thank the Commission for this opportunity. I would also like to thank the commission, the State Department, the USAID, and our courageous Russian NGOs who have been working with us on NGO law.
I understand that other panelists will provide with background on democratic developments in Russia. I have been asked to focus on NGO law.
We're currently in the process of finalizing the comprehensive analysis of the NGO law. But this afternoon, I would like to address only four key issues: its extensive reporting requirements for all NGOs; excessive governmental control over activities of NGOs; broad list of reasons for denial of registration of NGOs; and also, issues of monitoring and implementation.
Let me take next three minutes to explain.
The new law requires all NGOs to report on intended use of money, how you use the money, and also on beneficiaries. Then your reporting requirements are going to affect not only human rights groups but all NGOs, if you imagine abused women seeking assistance from NGOs knowing that these NGOs will have to provide their name to the government authorities.
And yet, if NGOs fail to provide the required information, they can be terminated.
To make matters worse, the government can prohibit funding of any activities for very broad reasons, for example, if they can see that activities are contradictory or a threat for Russia's cultural heritage or unique character.
Second, the government has overly broad authority to control NGOs. Using but one example, government officials can participate in any internal meeting or event conducted by an NGO.
BROWNBACK: They can participate in any meeting under this law?
BOURJAILY: They have authority. They can decide in which meeting to participate, and they have the right to participate in any internal meeting or event.
Suppose, for example, a Russian NGO wants to plan next advocacy campaign. The government can sit in the planning meeting. That's making it virtually impossible to carry over the activities. And this is the definite intrusion of the government into their private space.
The Council of Europe, in its opinion on the draft NGO law, has stated that government has only authority to review activities and to request documents when there's valid reason exist to believe that the NGO in question does not comply with existing legislation. And this recommendation clearly has not been met in the adopted law.
Third, denials of registration. There's a broad list of reasons which are not very well-defined. Some of these reasons are if the goals of established of the following NGO are contradictory to or create a threat to unique character, cultural heritage, and national interest of the Russian Federation.
That's the same argument I had presented earlier in regards to reporting requirements. And my colleagues and I are still in the process of trying to interpret, trying to define what these terms actually mean.
The fourth and the last issue is monitoring and implementation. Some have asked: Why are we concerned about the law, even though it's not yet been enforced? The first reason is that several provisions in this law are raising red flags.
ICNL has been assisting with the NGO legislation in over 90 countries, and several countries have used very similar provisions, misusing, abusing them to restrain civil society.
That said, this will be my last point. I agree that it is important to monitor the implementation of the law. Some have told us that the law will not have negative effect on Russian civil society.
Let's see. Indeed, we call upon Russian government to establish a joint nonpartisan body which would include all interested parties to monitor the implementation of the new law. And perhaps there will be no problems with it, and perhaps there will be problems. And then we will see how the Russian government is going to deal with this problem.
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SJ, Sweden's Largest Rail Operator, Turns to IBM to Improve Mobile, Online Customer Experience, Increase Sales
IBM recently announced that SJ®, Sweden's largest rail operator, is turning to customer experience management software from IBM to improve its mobile and online booking process and overall online customer experience to increase ticket sales.
IBM's customer experience management (CEM) solutions are helping SJ to understand, identify, and eliminate consumer pain points on online and mobile channels. Visualization and analytics tools designed to help businesses understand and keep pace with the rapidly shifting preferences of today's increasingly digital consumers are part of IBM's Smarter Commerce initiative to help maximize the value of every single customer visit (web and mobile) and ensuring that more transactions are completed successfully.
Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, SJ transports more than 100,000 passengers every day, with more than 50 percent of passenger bookings completed online. However, during an initial investigation, SJ discovered that more than 230,000 customers annually were experiencing difficulties when booking online travel with a credit card, which ultimately impacted ticket sales.
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text: Nothing like a cold winter to trigger that appetite to pack on some extra "insulation". I know that after working my tail off last summer and going from 245 down to 210, I'm now back to 232. Well, it's time to get going! We're starting our diets/workouts and want to take this opportunity to invite you to be a part of it. So here's the deal: 1) Post your current weight; 2) Post your goal weight; 3) Post any other fitness goals you have; 4) Post some of your strategies of how you are going to get there. Make sure and use the same scale and weigh yourself with the same approximate clothing. We'll be putting together some prize packages on September 1 for those who have accomplished the most. This is all on the honor system, so no cheating! :D