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CityBeat has held off on posting the names of some people we've heard have been laid off from The Cincinnati Enquirer pending better verification, but we can now confirm two more departures.
Assistant Business Editor Randy Tucker and Obituaries Writer Rebecca Goodman have left the newspaper's staff. Tucker was a victim of the layoffs; it's unclear whether Goodman was laid off or chose to leave since she recently graduated from law school.
"Black Wednesday" has become "Black Thursday."
Layoffs continued for a second day at The Gannett Co.'s newspaper holdings, including The Cincinnati Enquirer. Because The Enquirer is so notoriously tight-lipped about the names or job titles of staffers who are let go, CityBeat is slowly confirming names from various sources and cobbling together a more complete list.
It's true: Arch-conservative Cincinnati Enquirer columnist Peter Bronson has been laid off.
Earlier today, Bronson posted a message on his blog, Bronson Is Always Right, bidding farewell to his readers. It was posted under the headline, "Unemployment Statistics Increase -- Including Me." The item was posted at 4:54 p.m. but appears to have been later scrubbed from the Web site by newspaper management.
UPDATE: Although CityBeat got this list from sources within The Enquirer's Elm Street offices, some bloggers now say James Jackson hasn't been laid off. With no official word forthcoming from The Enquirer or Mr. Jackson, we'll change his status to "unclear."
UPDATE II: Jackson just tweeted the following, circa 10:30 p.m. "In this economy, these are tough times for all, and I'm so sad about friends losing their jobs, equally grateful also still to have mine."
People in the media industry have been dreading it for a while, and now it's finally here: "Black Wednesday."
Mass layoffs began today at newspapers owned by The Gannett Co., which includes The Cincinnati Enquirer. As with past layoffs at the paper, details of which staffers were affected are leaking in spurts and fits, but here's what we know so far.
In a memo distributed to employees Thursday, Cincinnati Enquirer Publisher Margaret Buchanan wrote that the newspaper will lay off up to 100 people in the next few days. The Gannett Co., The Enquirer's parent firm, is bracing for about 1,400 layoffs in its newspaper division before July 9. Buchanan's memo is the first indication about how the cutbacks will affect Cincinnati's only remaining daily newspaper.
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Speaker Paula Gonzalez, a Dominican nun and futurist, cast the challenges ahead in stark terms: "We must realize the scale of our times, which is on the scale of transitions like going from hunter-gathering to agriculture, or industrialization. You must take the messages of this conference home in your heart, in your soul, in your gut, and get off your butt and act."
As the newspaper industry continues to suffer from declining ad revenues and a migration of readers to the Internet, The Cincinnati Enquirer is being hit particularly hard.
Dozens of newspapers nationwide reported drops in circulation, according to the latest figures released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. But the figures reported for Cincinnati's only daily metropolitan newspaper were in the double-digits, well above the national average decline of 7 percent.


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A starburst anemone (Anthopleura sola) with fully inflated acrorhagi (the tentacles with the rounded white ends).
When tidepooling in the Low Tide Zone (see "More About this Series" below, to learn more about the zones), it is the starburst anemone that may often be discovered in the middle of a fight, with its white, blunt acrorhagi inflated. As they fight, touching each other with their acrorhagi, the white areas of the acrorhagi become tattered. The white is a concentration of stinging cells and when touched by an enemy, it will slough off and continue stinging the enemy again and again. Eventually, one anemone moves away from the tentacle-reach of its neighbor to stop the fight. [Image 34 in a series. See Image 35.]
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This series of images examines the various marine life that can be found in the different sea levels, or zones, of the rocky shores of the California coast. The images were photographed by Genevieve (Genny) Anderson of the biological sciences department, Santa Barbara City College, as part of her ongoing research on the subject.
Rocky shores provide a stable substrate for plant and animal life or organisms, as opposed to sandy beaches where the substrate (sand) is constantly moving. When the tide goes out then the influences of the air and weather (sun, rain, snow) begin to play important roles--more with the higher zones.
At any tide level on a rocky shore, a pool of water--called tidepools--can be left with the receding tide. These pools provide welcome ocean water for marine life left high and dry with a receding tide. The pools highest in the intertidal may become very hot due to the sun which may not be comfortable for some species. The pools closest to the low tide have the least influence from the air and weather and thus the greatest variety of marine life. These tidepools often mirror what is actually subtidal (below the lowest low tide, as opposed to intertidal which is between the tides). As the water goes down, most of the ocean creatures go out with it, but some can't move and are left on rocks. These creatures must be adapted to withstand not only the dryness of their area, but waves, storms, wind and rain. It is their ability to withstand dryness, and their interactions with each other (eating, being eaten, competing for space and reproducing) that determine who dominates within the rocky intertidal areas.
In examining the marine life of the exposed rocky surfaces of California's shores, it is easiest to look at these rocky surfaces where they live in "zones." Above five feet, the surface is covered only by the highest high tide and thus dry three-quarters of the day. This is called the "Splash" Zone. Then, between five feet and two and a half feet, the surface is covered alternately by both high tides so it is dry between the high tides--about half a day. This band is called the "High Tide" Zone. Between sea level and two and a half feet the rocks are only left dry at the low, low tide. This area is thus dry only a quarter of each average day and called the "Mid Tide" Zone. Then there is what we call the "Low Tide" Zone, the area below sea level that is exposed for only a few hours every few weeks at special "minus" tides (remember, zero sea level is the average of the low, low tides).
To learn more about Genevieve (Genny) Anderson's research on marine life along California's rocky shores, visit her Web page, "California Tidepools (Rocky Shores)." Anderson, who has been a teacher of marine biology and biological oceanography at Santa Barbara City College for over 30 years, has other interesting lesson plans and lecture material available on her website, Here.


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Asheville, NC - A city police officer now faces three charges in connection with the abuse of a 3-year-old on Halloween.
The 27-year-old officer was originally charged with one count of misdemeanor child abuse on Nov. 9.
He is accused of causing physical injury by striking the child buttocks hard enough to cause "significant bruising" on Oct. 31, according to an arrest warrant.
The second child abuse charge came for failing to report the incident, police said.
Green has been on paid administrative leave since Nov. 9. He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 4. All three charges are misdemeanors.
The Police Department has not released an incident report in the case because an internal investigation is under way.
Incident reports are generally made available in criminal cases.
The child's mother is also facing a misdemeanor child abuse charge. Maggie Nicole Jones, 22, was charged because she allowed Green to inflict the injury, according to an arrest warrant. Green is not the child's father.
He joined the department in December 2007 and works as a patrol officer assigned to West Asheville.
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San Martin, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Brooks Koepka carded a 7-under 64 on
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Dallas's parents went out to breakfast and to buy even MORE baby formula. Makai stayed home with us and got another sink bath. Dallas had this leftover "local" sushi for breakfast. It's made with egg and canned tuna.
After breakfast, me and Makai and Kathy went on a walk around Waikiki. SO many people stopped us to say how cute Makai is or to talk about his big cheeks! We took a photo by the Duke Kahanamoku, the famous swimmer and surfer, and by Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who set up Kamehameha Schools. Her husband also set up the Bishop Museum in her memory. (We visited in 2005.
After our walk we went back to the condo to get ready. Dallas's parents left quite a while before us to go to Kamehameha Schools because Dallas's dad had to get his class photo earlier. Each class has a time they have to be there to get the class photo taken. It was Dallas's dad's 50 year reunion and Dallas's 20th.
Since we had extra time, we went to visit Aunty Mary. She is actually Dallas's great aunt, his grandma's sister. Dallas's grandma passed away a couple years ago and Aunty Mary is the only sibling left. I was impressed with her independence, health and sharp wit! I hope we can all stay this healthy as we get older! Makai was sleeping when we arrived at her house and stayed sleeping after we were there a while. When he woke up he snuggled up to Aunty in her lap for quite a while. So cute!
The view from Aunty Mary's house in Manoa Valley. Aunty Mary lives on her own mostly. He husband passed away recently and her granddaughter lives in an apartment downstairs, but she is very self sufficient.
Next we headed to Kamehameha Schools for the alumni luau. We heard there were 1500 people there and that for every one person in attendance there were three more people who couldn't get tickets! The youngest alumni there graduated five years ago. The oldest was a 98-year-old woman who was from the class of 30-something.
Dallas dropped us off and went to park the car and then get his class photo taken. Makai and I browsed around this area where they had some people selling things. I bought a really nice necklace and earrings made from sea glass and sea shells. I tried to rock Makai to sleep during the opening band's performance but people kept coming up to us to see Makai and talk to him!
There were so many pupus like pickled Maui onion, limu salad, boiled peanuts, poke, edamame, and my favorite, smoked meat. I really like the onions too and ended up buying some at the supermarket later on! For our actual meal, we had kalua pig, chicken long rice, squid luau, lomi salmon, poke, poi, and rice. I didn't want my poi, so Makai ate it all. And a few other people saved theirs so that he could eat it for the next few days!
For entertainment there were a lot of bands and comedians. Each class was called out and they had to do a dance at their tables. Class of '94 won, I think! (I'm not allowed to post any photos or video of that, but just know they do exist!). Ekolu is a pretty famous Hawaiian band that played. And Touch of Gold played a lot of crowd favorites and oldies. Dallas's mom took Makai to the dance floor to dance with him, but the swaying made him want to fall asleep. Even though there was a live band a few feet away!
At around 8 p.m., Dallas's parents took Makai back to the condo to eat and go to bed. We stuck around and the party continued until 9:30, way past when it was supposed to. No one could remember an alumni luau where so many people were dancing! And they wouldn't stop! Dallas's classmate was doing the sound and lighting and kept playing all the Class of '94 favorite songs. While others were trying to break down tables and clean up, Class of '94 just kept dancing!
Oh, and before I forget, we also got these photos taken in the "photo booth."
After the party we went back to the dorms again. Someone had a couple of ukuleles and a guitar and there was a lot of playing and singing. So many of Dallas's classmates are in Hawaiian bands that have been nominated for Na Hoku awards like Kekoa in Holunape and Kalehua in Hi'ikua. We stayed out late, dropped Hoku off in Diamond Head, made a late-night run to Jack in the Box, and got home around 2:30 a.m. What a fun day/night!


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May 31, 2016
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he struggled himself in making a decision on the Personhood Initiative. He said he voted for the amendment, ultimately, because he is pro-life. But Barbour said he was not surprised it was defeated.
"There are just tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of pro-life people in Mississippi that were totally uncomfortable with it," said Barbour. "Wasn't done the right way. This was some people from Colorado, who couldn't pass it in Colorado and they brought it to Mississippi because we're such a pro-life state."
Barbour said supporters should have brought the issue to the state legislature, where flaws in the wording could have been corrected.
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Sounds like a little more range time is needed. Completely miss two bulls?
D.i.y. Colorado bull elk 2010 public land and dads co. Bulls
I shot at this bull in 2004. I missed and he just looked at me and was like is that all you got. I reloaded and he still was there. During the reload of my 54 cal. Thompson Center inline. I realized I forgot my 209 caps! I was hitting myself and then he was just there and walked away! When he turned 180 and put his chin up his 6th points would hit his rump! My heart sank! It took 4 hours of calling to bring him in, he had a high bugle, and he came in like Mike Tyson! I was in between two bulls and sitting in wait/ sweet/. This bull haunted me and in 2008 he didn't appear! The full moon kicked our *** but I got a small but even 5x5! I also shot and missed the nice 6x6,2004(the one mentioned above). A nice 5x5 2004, an even 6x6 2008 and then I finally got this 5x5! I reajusted my shot to the upper front of the body that way if I miss a dead on shot I would still connect. This 5x5 was far 80 yrds and I also learned to absorb both recoils (CAP/LOAD)to line up the shot! I use 540 grain http://www.muzzleloading-bullets.com/ these are the only grain bullets above 500 grain thomphson center stopped making the 530 grain bullets! This was in Colorado non guided, public land, and not in a wilderness area but a 1.5 mile hike into the forrest from a road one thousand feet down into a canyon. My father has been hunting there since 1979 and has taken several bulls with a nice 5x5 and a nice 6x6 to his credit. This bull has 55 main beams huge mass 16 inch fronts and a 12 in 6th point! This is my bull and in 2010 I knew he would show up it took 5 hours to call him in this time it was me on the end of the call! The whole herd came in a lead cow, cows, and a calf, and a spike 15 elk total in was a stampeade! The cows told him to hang up and he was hung up in the smallest brush. He again had the high bugle of a rag horn and came in after a long time like Mike Tyson pissed off but this time wiser because of his cows! He had much more mass and a long dark cape! He only presented a front shot so I figured this is it take him! KaBoom I took the shot shot with my 54cal, it was a deadly front shot he dropped and did not take a step! He rolled over his huge rack and his whole body flipped over legs and all! He went upside down to the creek bed and crashed! I can't believe he didn't break off any points! Now the work begins! This elk looked like a horse with a round rump! It took my dad and I 2.5 days to pack him and our camp out! Eight heavy loads 1.5 miles up 1000 ft. We had 3 big coolers with 28 gals. of milk jugs of ice. We brought from Illinois! We dropped the head to Shane Tucker STAND ALONE TAXIDERMY HE KICKED *** ON MY MOUNT AND SHANE CAN BE SEEN ON FACEBOOK AND BACKWOODS LIFE IN THE CREDITS SECTION SEE THE VERY END UNDER TAXIDERMISTS. I HAD HIM PEDISTAL MOUNTED AND MY WIFE EVEN LET ME GIVE HIM HIS OWN BEDROOM! DAD ADDED AN ADDITION OF HIS MOUNTS! MY ELK (WHO I NAMED REDEMPTION SINCE I BAGGED HIM SIX YEARS LATER) IS BEING STORED IN THE TROPHY ROOM BUT WILL GET HIS OWN ROOM WE FINALLY FINNISHED CONSTRUCTION! TRUELY THE BEST HUNT I WILL EVER GO ON BUT WITH ELK HUNTING MAYBE I COULD BE WRONG I AM HOPING FOR A DOUBLE BETWEEN MY DAD AND I! P.S. I USED AN ALIBI SERVICE WITH A DOCTOR'S NOTE WITH A WORKING NUMBER! 450.00 WELL WORTH IT SEE ALIBI SERVICE UNDER SEARCH ENGINES! GOOD LUCK BOYS THE THESE ELK DIE OF OLD AGE! BACK IN 2004 WE HEARD A HUGE BULL AND HE IS STILL THERE MY DAD HEARD HIM LAST SEASON DURING HIS BOW HUNT!
Me with redemption 6x6 2010 and my 5x5 2008, Dads trophy room dads nice 5x5 upper left and nice 6x6 upper right. Redemption centered -he looked more intimidating in real life but the mount is great! Thanks to Shane Tucker Stand Alone Taxidermy Fort Morgan Colorado! Thanks to my Father for teaching me to elk hunt and showing me the land. Love always your son Christopher. All of these bulls are diy colorado public land. WE DREW FOR COLORADO PUBLIC LAND 2012 IS THIS OUR DOUBLE YEAR?? "I BELIEVED I WOULD GET REDEMPTION AND IT HAPPENED" "LIVING LIFE WITH A DREAM IS MORE THAN ENOUGH" ALL OF MY DREAMS SO FAR HAVE COME TRUE A LITTLE BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS NEVER HURT THE PROCESS-MY TEACHER/MENTOR PLAYED WITH BLOOD SWEAT AND TEARS! I ALSO RECOMMEND EASTMANS HUNTING THE WEST THE EASTMAN WAY--THE BLUE HARDCOVER BOOK IT HELPS! GOOD LUCK TO
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Sounds like a little more range time is needed. Completely miss two bulls?
Great job and story, sounds like you have a great area to hunt..
It was my first hunt and I wasn't suRe if we would draw so I didn't even begin buying gear till the second week in june.
I also was told I was fine but I knew more range time was in order. I actually missed three bulls before my 5x5. The hardest shot and I adjusted my shot to the center of the body instead of the exact heart shot. You can go front or bottom too easy with an exact heart shot so I opted for upper middle. I'm two for two with the adjusted placement.
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Yes, a double lung shot is always better than going for the heart. I didn't mean to rag on you, but I really hate to see a wounded animal. Better that you missed completely than wound it.
Great pics and nice Elk. Good job
no problem we checked very carefully for and blood none- and combed the area for a good hour on the two of them the first I call redemption just walked away. One 6x6 in 2008 feel backward up on two legs like a grizzley bear. he fell with his back on an aspen then wennt down the creek bed. I was pumped I got him then he started to go up the ridge on an angle? he kept goin and going my heart sank another miss we looked and looked nada no blood at all and he even shit his self right at the spot of the shot 54 cal 95 grain triple 777 kaboom! center a little front no problem
I'm two for two 2012? My dad and I maybe could get the double I'm hoping for. He's 67 and still packing meat out.
Nice bull ELKS!


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This is a global map of the annually-averaged near-surface air temperature from 1961-1990. Such maps, also known as "climatologies", provide information on climate variation as a function of location.
The tropics, between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn, have the most direct sunlight and highest temperatures. Due to the tilt of the Earth axis, there is relatively little variation in the annual average sunlight received throughout this entire tropics, and hence the entire band has similar temperatures. Above the tropics, temperatures fall off more rapidly as one travels towards the Earth's Poles, at a rate of approximately 1 °C for every 145 km (1 °F per 50 miles). Permafrost will form at positions where the annual average temperature is below 0 °C.
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I've been doing it all wrong.
This whole parenting gig.
After I read the cover story of the July/August issue of The Atlantic, which told parents that if you're focusing on trying to make your kids happy you're likely gearing them up for future therapy sessions to undo all the super-positive, encouraging blather you've been feeding them, I was initially ticked off. I felt duped because when my almost 13-year-olds were just babies, I voraciously devoured everything I could get my hands on to educate myself about parenting. I wanted to do the "right" thing for my kids - as though there is a "right" way to do things - and there were oodles of so-called parenting "experts" out there who were more than happy to provide me with their blueprint of how to do this child-rearing thing "correctly."
Only now, another group of experts is telling us that the stuff we parents were spoon-fed a decade-plus ago is resulting in unhappy young adults who can't seem to handle the real, harsh world in which not everyone gets a trophy for showing up to work and not everyone is nice nor do they dole out compliments, stickers and candy for simply responding to a question. I took this article personally as I'm constantly struggling to be what the popular culture has described as a "good mother."
Lori Gottlieb, a therapist, wrote in The Atlantic that she has had a steady stream of twentysomething and young thirtysomething patients tell her that while their childhoods were wonderful and their parents devoted to them, they now feel depressed, anxious, unable to commit to relationships or careers and experience "a sense of emptiness or lack of purpose."
"[These patients] did seem to have caring and loving parents, parents who gave them the freedom to 'find themselves' and the encouragement to do anything they wanted in life," she wrote. "Parents who had driven carpools, and helped with homework each night, and intervened when there was a bully at school or a birthday invitation was not received, and had gotten them tutors when they struggled in math and music lessons when they expressed an interest in guitar (but let them quit when they lost interest), and talked through their feelings when they broke the rules, instead of punishing them ('logical consequences' always stood in for punishment)."
She then brought the hammer down on parents like me who, when we attempt to "fix" things for our kids (instead of having the kids fix things for themselves), when we run around and try to make them happy (instead of having the children find and create their own happiness), when we make them the center of a sheltered world (instead of letting them make themselves feel safe), we don't end up with fully fledged young adults who are ready and confident to take on the world.


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02/04/2008, Porlamar
My parents flew in from San Francisco today. We picked them up with Tulio from the Margarita air port and returned to Juan's dock. It took us two trips to get the folks and their luggage back to Swingin' on a Star.
One of the bigger bags was a Christmas present that Hideko and I bought ourselves. We often watch movies in the salon. This is great and the home theater installed on the SF50 is very nice. That said it is an AC system and requires the inverter and a fair amount of power. We have been looking for a system that we could install in our cabin. Our requirements were: 19" wide screen LCD, built in DVD player, rugged, VESA bracket mountable, and DC powered (the trickiest part). We finally settled on a Skyworth unit we found on Amazon. It is made in China and was fairly inexpensive. We installed it easily the day my folks arrived and it has worked flawlessly and at a much lower amp hour level than its big brother upstairs.
It was Monday and the Margarita Carnival was in full affect until Tuesday. Thus we couldn't clear out and leave Margarita until Thursday because it would take all day Wednesday to clear out.
After Mom and Dad got settled we took them out to a nice dinner in Porlomar. It was good to see the folks again and we had a wonderful time talking about our plans for visiting the islands ahead.
02/03/2008, Margarita
After a few weeks of hustling to get from one place to another and get things done on the boat we decided to take a down day. My parents were flying out to meet us for a couple weeks of cruising tomorrow and we always like to make sure guests see a lot and have fun. It might be our last down day for a bit.
We had originally planned to meet the folks in a marina near Caracas where they were flying in. After examining the options near by Caracas and considering the customs issues, we decided to being them into Margarita from Caracas and then just clear the whole crew out from Margarita. This would make out trip to Los Roques a little longer but it would give us a chance to see Tortuga and get more sailing in which my folks seem to enjoy.
02/02/2008, Canaima
Angel Falls is the tallest waterfall in the world and has long been on our list of places to visit. There is no real way to get there quickly. You can take a tour by plane or travel up to Canaima National Park by plane and hike up that way over the course of several days.
We could only be away from Roq for a day so we found a trip that took us up to Canaima, the waterfall country high in the mountains, for a day and gave you a fly by view of Angel Falls. The trip exceeded our expectations in everyway. It would be wonderful to spend a week in the park hiking around.
The only way in or out of the park is by plane. As you fly out from Margarita you get a wonderful view of Isla Margarita and the Gulfo de Cariaco. As you progress back into the mainland of South America you first cross the coastal mountains, sharp, rugged and high. Then you move into the thicker greenery as the rivers and lakes begin to cover as much as 60% of the surface. Next mountainous plateaus begin to rise out of the jungle, so old that they have lost their pointy tops in lieu of vast flat lands coated with trees, scrub and lakes often only feet below the cloud cover. This is where you find Canaima.
Your twin prop (if you're lucky), top wing plane lands on the little air strip just outside the Canaima lagoon. All of the buildings are built in the traditional fashion of the local Amerindians (with some tin roofing hidden in there every once in a while). A guide takes you to an outdoor seating area and gives you some history in various languages. You then work your way down to the lagoon which has four or five awesome waterfalls gushing over the cliffs on the far side. An eco hotel blends into the end of the lagoon on a pretty white sand beach.
Some of the locals help you into a large dugout canoe with a 75hp Yamaha on the back for a tour of the lagoon. The waterfalls in this area are thunderous as you sputter by in your log.
On the far side of the lagoon we took a hike back to a local village and got a tour of the pueblo. It was interesting to see the communal area where families prepared food and worked together to meet the needs of the community. No power, no running water, no toilets. Amidst this the kids play with their cel phones and ipods. They do have to go to town from time to time to charge them.
The hotel and the main village near the airport are powered by a hydroelectric plant that taps off of one of the smaller waterfalls. It is a wonderfully green solution. Now if they could just replace the sputtering two strokes with electric outboards you'd have a perfectly closed ecosystem.
We hiked along the cliff and crossed behind a large wide waterfall. It was a fantastic day in the picturesque mountains of Amazonia. To wrap things up we flew through the flat topped mountains watching countless waterfalls drizzle down the steep cliffs, Angle Falls one of the many.
The plane ride is not pressurized and the ride home was pretty cold. Fortunately Hideko and I had brought our sweatshirts.
We arrived two hours late at the airport. It was great to have the extra time in Canaima and fortunately we had hired Tulio to drop us off and pick us up. Tulio's English is much better than my Spanish but that's not saying much. Regardless he happily taught me some useful Spanish and worked hard to communicate accurately with us. I was almost surprised to see him waiting for us when we landed. It was a welcome sight because we were beat from an amazing day in Venezuela.
02/01/2008, Porlamar
We asked Juan where we could get diesel around here and he gave us the low down. There is a fuel dock but it is in very shallow water so you need to go at high tide to be safe. It also doesn't always have fuel and sometimes when it does it wont sell to foreign yachts and if it does you will pay much more than the locals (they hit you up for the 2:1 exchange rate). Fuel dock out.
Then there's Diesel Man. Diesel Man doesn't come around anymore but his son does. They have a standard Venezuelan issue open boat with huge tanks on board and a hand pump. The trick to getting them to come by is to find someone else who is on their list and have them send Diesel Man you way when they are done.
Son of Diesel Man starts his day early and we heard them yelling as they came along side at about 7AM. I quickly jumped up and threw on a tee shirt and tried to act like I had been awake and waiting.
The Son of Diesel Man and his crew of two were cheerful fellows. We discussed price up front. It worked out to a whopping $0.39 per gallon at the 4.5:1 exchange rate I was getting. Delivered to the boat! We filled up everything we had. SDM filled our tanks and happily used our Baja Filter without getting crabby (which is usually the response). I inspected the fuel before we started pumping into the tanks and it looked great. (P.S. we had no problem with this fuel anywhere down the line.)
01/31/2008, Porlamar
We were informed that we needed to get out paperwork to Juan by 9AM in order to get cleared in. Hideko and I made a trip ashore at what we though was 9 but it turned out to be 9:30. The Caracas area uses a half hour time zone in between the East coast time and the Atlantic time. Fortunately Juan called the car back for us so that we could make the cut.
Juan is a charming fellow who runs the cruisers outpost for all of Margarita. If you are a cruiser and need something in Margarita, you should ask Juan. Juan can change currency for you, get you cleared in or out and explain the extrme idiosyncrasies of said process to you, set up an island tour for you, advise you on tours to the mainland and orient you in any number of other ways. Juan also is one of the rare locals who speaks perfect English, not to mention French, Italian, German and lord knows what else.
His marina is a little pier in one to three feet of water, depending on the tides and where you tie up (I'd recommend the end near the steps). The swell can break all in front of the pier so while there's usually enough water for a dinghy you're better of swinging out way west of the pier on your approach.
Pedro is a large guy who watches over everything on the pier. Juan suggests a $1 US or so a day tip for Pedro when using the pier as this is his only income. Whether you pay him or not Pedro will always help you carry things out to your dinghy and make sure that nothing is ever stolen while he's on watch. Pedro is a fine gentleman and I can't imagine anyone not contributing to keep him on duty.
Veronica runs a small store in the building with Juan's office. You can get drinks and beer here as well as ice cream on occasion. Tulio works with Juan handling all of the clearance chores and also acts as a local tour guide and taxi. Trying to clear in yourself does not seem to be a fruitful use of time in this particular country, especially if you don't speak fluent Spanish. If you let Juan handle it, Tulio takes your stuff over in the morning while you do whatever you like, and by 4PM your docks are back, you sign things and your paperwork is ready by 5PM.
After dropping off all of our paperwork, Hideko and I dodged the mud puddles in the dirt road on the way out to the large shade tree in front of Juan's where the Taxi's wait. The local taxis can be anything from a beat 1984 Toyota to a fairly late model four door economy car or micro van. We rode in the Toyota into town. This cost us 8 Boulivares Fuertes. The new Boulivares are worth 1,000 of the old Boulivares. The old ones will be out of circulation by June and it is just as well. It is complicated paying for things in millions of Boulivares when you can barely count to ten in the language.
The official exchange rate is a little over 2 BF to the dollar. The actual international exchange rate is about 6BF to the dollar. Thus while Chaves wants everyone to buy Bolivares at 2:1 no one in their right mind would actually pay this rate unless forced to by circumstance. Most places will exchange cash at 4.5:1, giving you considerably more buying power and making the changer a nice profit in the process. At 4.5:1 Margarita is pretty inexpensive, at 6:1 it is very reasonable. Several of the cruisers in the harbor were basically retired here.
After a nice walk around town and a bite at one of the many Chinese restaurants (weird trying to communicate with the Chinese folks in Spanish) we returned to the harbor. The first cab we hailed wanted 25BF for the ride so we passed. The second guy had a little more beat up car but only charged us 10BF. Cab drivers seem to be the same the world over, except London of course.
We picked up our docs and joined Denali Rose and Wind Quest for dinner and Rancho de Pablo. We had a very nice Chateau Briand for two with wine, a shrimp appetizer and what have you for about $40US. It was an interesting first day exploring Porlomar.
01/30/2008, Isla Margarita
When I'm in a new anchorage I get a certain "out of place" feeling for the first day or two. It is a combination of not knowing the country, the people, the culture, the prevailing conditions, the holding or the boats around me. It is part of the exhilaration of traveling to far away and remote places. It also guarantees that every unknown noise gets me up to do a lap on deck at night.
This may seem like an unpleasant disturbance. In reality it is part of fully enjoying a new place that you will only be able to witness for a short time. Seeing the stars, the accelerated winds or overnight calm, as the case may be, watching the nocturnal activities of the creatures of the sea and enjoying the solitude are all part of the fulfilling whole.
After a couple of late night, early morning tours on deck, I got up to listen to Chris Parker on the SSB. Venezuela has some funky timezones so I wasn't exactly sure what official local time was but our Oregon Scientific weather station had somehow got a hold of the Colorado atomic clock signal again and was displaying East coast time. I tuned into 8.104 Megahertz at 8AM AST to get the low down. Just as Chris started his broadcast a vessel broke in with a distress call.
The captain was having heart trouble, their engine was down and the only crew (wife I think) didn't know how to sail. The vessel was well off of Martinique and in the end it seemed that getting assistance from the officials (undecided whether that would be US, French or Venezuelan) was going to take some time. The US CG did say that if the vessel set off the EPIRB to indicate need for immediate assistance that they would air evacuate them. Didn't sound like the crew was quite ready to abandon the vessel though. This ended up eliminating the weather and propagation died before we could listen in on another frequency (Chris does several broadcasts each morning). Some vessels more in the area were in contact with the boat in distress when we shut the radio down.
Our next task was to decide whether to stay in Los Testigos for a day to fully enjoy the beach and the stark isolation of the place. SCUBA was supposedly illegal here, per the cruising guide. I was really bummed out by this. Places as out of the way as Los Testigos make for great diving. You really get to explore new territory as few people ever see 100 feet in an area this remote.
We went ashore to explore a little with Roq. The beach right in front of the anchorage was beautiful, with lovely sand and a very short walk to the windward side with its crashing surf. We hiked up to the top of the hill between the anchorage beach and the cove where the fishing huts are. You have to be careful here because the area is rife with prickly balls, really sharp ones. Roq and I were hobbled in short order as we were both bare footed. Hideko with her flip flops attended to us and we walked carefully when away from the beach thereafter.
We met a French family on the beach and shared some information about ports and anchorages. As we continued down the beach an Italian single hander came ashore. We had a nice chat with him as well. He was concerned about security in Margarita and had decided to stay in the out islands during his travels.
Security is a concerning issue in Venezuela. The country has a large population of folks that more or less just get by. Many of them are happy to fish and live in the small villages as they have for several generations. Others choose to take from those that have things they want. This of course happens in New York, London and Tokyo as well. I could see how it could be a little more dangerous for a single hander, especially if folks discover that you are alone. Having a big dog is a very real benefit which I would heartily recommend.
Hideko had an idea in her head about Margarita. She envisioned Miami Beach. My Los Testigos stay was thus vetoed. I didn't have the heart to tell Hideko what I expected at Margarita. Unfortunately I was a little more on target.
We left Los Testigos around noon. We needed to make decent speed to get into Porlomar by nightfall. The cruising guide and charts make the approach look pretty straight forward but I always like to make new landfall during daylight. Unfortunately it was light and variable. We were getting low on diesel but we motor sailed anyway, hoping the fables of diesel flowing for pennies a gallon were true.
You hear lots of stories of folks sailing these waters only after dark and with all of their lights out and their radar turned off. While I think it is fine to be cautious and there are certainly reasons to be extra careful in Venezuela I'm not quite that concerned. In fact the only vessel we saw on the way to Margarita was a Venezuelan Navy cutter.
They came at us pretty fast so we took note early on and checked them out in the binoculars. I heard some Spanish on 16 with the word "velero" in it a few times. I had just read a section in the Spanish for Cruisers book which informed me that velero was sailboat in Spanish and that if you hear it on the radio, perhaps someone was hailing you. Sure enough.
As I was trying to get together enough of a sentence in Spanish to respond they made their third hail. This time in English. Whew. I responded and they asked us some routine questions taking down our vessel information and making sure that we had checked in at Los Testigos. They were very professional and I was not only impressed but reassured that they were out there patrolling. We saw some fishing boats on the distant horizon and some shipping on the AIS from time to time but otherwise had a quiet passage.
When Margarita came into view I had to recheck out position a few times with the paper charts. Our Navionics charts have been very good in the developed islands and those that serve as a playground for the western world. They go south fast in third world countries however. You find yourself anchored on shore in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. So far they have been fine for getting you to the anchorage in these places but you can't use the plotter or the charts to get around inshore. I was concerned here because is looked like we were coming in way south of the island. Our Imray-Iolaire charts have been good in these places however and showed us on course.
After inspecting the above water contours the situation became clear. Margarita has some fairly high peaks but they are fairly far north of the very flat, swampy tongue that forms the southern area of the island where the primary yacht anchorage is.
As the sun sunk lower on the horizon the wind came up. Before long we had the engine off and were making a good 9 knots under sail. It was only for the last our of our six hour trip but is was great to sail around the point into the anchorage.
We tried to hail Juan Barow the cruising guide recommended customs agent to determine if we should try to clear in right away or wait until morning. Juan listens to 72, the local cruisers channel. There were 50 or 60 cruising boats in the anchorage as we arrived. After a few hails Fred from Denali Rose came on. Fred is one of those people who just makes everyone around her feel welcome. We had met her in Chagaramas and she gave us the full low down on Margarita and told us to check in with Juan in the morning. People like Fred making cruising that much more fun.
We played the catamaran card in the anchorage and eked our way into the 5 foot something water as close to Juan's dock as we could get. The rag tag marina to starboard had a few boats sunk in the shallows and you could see the swell breaking in the one foot low tide mud near Juan's dock. The high rise apartments of Margarita dotted the shore line to port with the lone Concorde Hotel under reconstruction at the base of the point of the starboard bow. It wasn't Miami but it was Margarita, with the excitement of a new place to explore and a chance to experience a very different culture and lifestyle.
01/29/2008, Los Testigos
We waited up for Johnny Sails until about 11PM last night but he did not come out to the boat. I called him at the end of the day and told him to drop off what he had because we were leaving at 5AM for Venezuela.
At 4AM we heard a knock on the hull. We could hardly believe our ears. Yet, sure enough, there was Johnny and his crew on the dock. It is not that I don't appreciate the valiant effort to complete the work before we left. Not at all. It is just that you don't take measurements for this type of work, show up and install it and walk away. You have to do things incrementally if you want to get it right and make everyone happy. Johnny knows this of course.
We allowed them to work on the boat and delay us an hour in our departure. In the end we had to cut them off. The work was perhaps half complete but to start up a new shop on the project would require a lot of effort due to the fact that the tricky bits were still remaining. I think Johnny is a capable canvas worker but I would recommend that you pay as you go to ensure the proper incentive.
We were looking forward to a long downwind sail to Los Testigos. We motored out of the Saint Georges lagoon and were surprised to see fog as we looked back! I had never seen fog in the Lesser Antilles before. The wind was light and sailing downwind made it lighter still.
Once we were clear of the port we raised the main sail, from the cockpit, on the power winch. It was so hassle free we both were thrilled with our new rig setup. We motor sailed along with one engine running at between 9 and 10 knots making up for our late departure. We wanted to be sure to arrive in Los Testigos before sunset.
On our way out a large pod of high jumping dolphins kept us company for several minutes. We saw a couple of sailboats far off to port about mid passage, going to Trinidad as best we could tell but otherwise had no contacts.
We sighted Los Testigos off in the distance a little before 14:00. They are a rocky group of islands with sandy beaches and coral crusted coves. Many birds ply the air in the vicinity. By 16:00 we were coming around the northern point of Testigo Pequeno.
Testigo Pequeno and Testigo Grande are almost connected by a sandy spit that turns into a sand bar in the middle of a shallow pass. The best anchorage we saw in the area is right between the two islands. The seas are completely broken down by the bar between the Pequeno and Grande but a little chop comes through if the waves are large. There is a fishing village on cove over to the north and we found several fishing boats anchored in the area and three or four cruisers as well.
Once settled into the anchorage I dingied over to the main pueblo on Isla Iguana Grande. You have to be careful in failing light here because the docks at Isla Iguana all have boats with lines ashore and nets and whatnot running to the dock and through the water. I ended up tying Little Star up on the windward side of the southern most dock and wading ashore.
The Guard Costa office was manned by a young man who spoke no English. I had my trusty Spanish for Cruisers book with me (which has been a life saver) but made a fairly poor showing. I did manage to get us checked in though. We were given three days before we would need to proceed to Margarita or a port of entry on the mainland for proper clearance. All they do here is write you into a big book.
The young guard of the coast wrapped matters up with a request for booze. Not what you like to see in the officials of a foreign country but not surprising given the remoteness of the location. I said "no comprendo" a lot, which seemed to get me out of most difficulties.
I dashed back across the sound as the sun set. Hideko, Roq and I enjoyed a quiet dinner and a beautiful sunset as we marveled at the picturesque islands of our anchorage. It was nice to be back out there.


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MORGANTOWN There's a ''big'' problem with the WVU men's basketball team.
Coach Bob Huggins listed a myriad of issues with his club after last Saturday's loss to Oklahoma in the program's first Big 12 game, but the one he kept coming back to was toughness.
Since guards generally don't do much pushing and shoving, he was generally talking about a collective group of big men - Deniz Kilicli, Dom Rutledge, Kevin Noreen, and Aaric Murray - who aren't performing well enough to help his team win games.
It's making him question his entire philosophy as the Mountaineers head into tonight's game against Texas.
''You sit here and you think, 'maybe we play smaller,' ''he said. "Maybe those guys can make a shot and we can spread people out a little bit and we can drive it and get to the foul line a little more. But then we're not going to rebound it. It's going to be really hard to stop the people in this league that have the good quality ''bigs'' to play that small.
''I would guess when you're not rebounding with your bigs, what's the difference? If you're not going to rebound it, you're not going to rebound it.''
Huggins said Noreen's not going to score the ball down low because he doesn't have the lift to get over people. You never know what Rutledge is going to do with the ball, he said. Kilicli hasn't scored and ''Aaric Murray, if he can't reach over you, he's not going to score,'' according to Huggins.
None of these guys, with the exception of Murray during a recent three-game stretch, has devoured missed shots like Huggins wants them to.
''We got out-toughed,'' Huggins said of the game against the Sooners. ''The amazing thing to me is they act like that's not the case. I don't know how a guy a can just continue to rebound the ball and rebound the ball and rebound the ball and you think maybe he's not tougher than you. Because that's what rebounding comes down to.''
The coach said he really didn't want to go small. They do have a host of talented, yet not terribly consistent guards. Maybe they tinker around until they find out who has the hot hand and work off that.
But ...
''I have a hard time with that, honestly, because my teams have always outrebounded people,'' Huggins said. ''We've always out-toughed people.''
Lack of Focus
''I think it's our concentration,'' point guard Juwan Staten said. ''We just have a problem concentrating over 40 minutes. We kind of play in spurts. Then we go droughts where we can't score or droughts where we can't get a stop.''
It's basketball ADHD.
''We don't have the greatest listeners in the world,'' Huggins said. ''We got a five-second count on an inbounds. I tell the guy, they're going to try to string it out, all you have to do is step to the ball and he ran to half court. It's hard to confuse 'step to the ball' with 'run to half court,' I think.''
Not all Gloom and Doom
For all of the problems, there are still some reasons to watch these Mountaineers.
One of them is freshman Terry Henderson, who has shown flashes of being the program's next star player.
He was 6 of 11 from beyond the 3-point line against the Sooners, putting his season numbers 36 percent from the 3 and 40 percent overall. He's averaging 12.7 points per game
Sure, he still makes freshman mistakes. But he looks like someone WVU fans can rally around, should the days get any darker.
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Adventures in Babysitting
Release Date: July 01, 1987
Running Time: 102 mins.(MFB)
MPAA Rating: PG 13
Box Office: $34,296,671.00
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Chris Parker agrees to babysit after her "dream" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city. What then transpires is an evening of one hair-raising adventure after another.


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Greensboro, NC -- Police say no one was injured after someone fired gunshots into two Greensboro apartments Sunday morning.
Officers were dispatched to the apartments at 2315 Floyd Street just after 2 a.m.
Detectives learned from witnesses that shots had been fired into apartment units A and B, as well as a nearby vehicle.
There were people in the apartment units at the time, but police say no one was injured.
Officers made it to the scene of the crime in less than a minute, but they were unable to find any suspects or a suspect vehicle.
Police are still investigating the incident. If you have any information, call Crime Stoppers at 336-373-1000.


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