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Restricted weapons, methamphetamine and cannabis-selling operations and stolen goods are among the items uncovered by Waikato's Operation Persil.
Police are reviewing the results of a three-year crackdown on crime in the district aimed at preventing and disrupting criminal activity.
The operation, largely focused on Hamilton, has so far resulted in more than 350 arrests.
This week police expanded Operation Persil to encompass the whole district and officers carried out warrants, searches and vehicle stops in Te Kuiti, Te Awamutu, Te Aroha, Huntly, Matamata and Morrinsville.
A lot of the warrants to arrest were for people breaching court imposed sanctions such as bail, and the message was to adhere to these conditions or expect police action, said Waikato Police District Commander, Superintendent Win van der Velde.
"At the same time we are concentrating on the correlation between the illegal drug trade and the trade in stolen goods, people stealing your goods to fund their drug habits," he said.
Among the arrests made as part of the operation were two men in Hamilton's Ulster St Motel - one arrested for an existing warrant and charged with possession of a Taser, possession of methamphetamine and cannabis and another charged with possession of a methamphetamine pipe.
A police search of a suspected 'tinnie house' in the area, recovered six ounce bags of cannabis leaf and 30 pre-packaged tinfoil cannabis cigarettes.
In Ngaruawahia, eight arrests were made including a 38-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man who arrived home to find police uncovering a functioning methamphetamine lab.
Both face charges for possession of equipment and materials for the manufacture of methamphetamine and further charges are likely.
Often police recovered electronics but had no way of proving they were stolen, Mr van der Velde said.
He recommended owners recorded serial numbers, used microdot markers or serial number recording programs to store identifying information.
The operation sent a clear message to those who made their income from crime.


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Director, Division of Endocrinology
Director, Endocrinology Clinical Laboratory
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Phone 513-636-4744
Pediatric endocrinology; diabetes mellitus
Epidemiology of obesity; insulin resistance; abnormal carbohydrate metabolism; diabetes and their relationships to the development and progression of cardiovascular disease
Lawrence M. Dolan, MD, is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology. He has been on the faculty of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center within the Department of Pediatrics for the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine since 1983.
Dr. Dolan is a professor of pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology within the UC College of Medicine. His research focuses on the epidemiology and genetics of obesity, insulin resistance, abnormal carbohydrate metabolism, diabetes and their relationships to the development and progression of cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Dolan received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of San Francisco. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Dr. Dolan completed his pediatric internship and residency at the University of Minnesota. He also served as chief resident. He obtained fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at the University of Virginia.
BS: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, 1971.
MD: University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1976.
Residency: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1976 to 1979.
Chief Resident: 1979.
Fellowship: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Certification: Pediatrics, 1982; Pediatric Endocrinology, 1983.
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Valenzuela JM, Smith LB, Stafford JM, D'Agostino RB Jr, Lawrence JM, Yi-Frazier JP, Seid M, Dolan LM. Shared decision-making among caregivers and health care providers of youth with type 1 diabetes. J Clin Psychol Med Settings. 2014 Sep;21(3):234-43.
Shah AS, Dabelea D, Talton JW, Urbina EM, D'Agostino RB, Wadwa RP, Marcovina S, Hamman RF, Daniels SR, Dolan LM. Smoking and Arterial Stiffness in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes: the SEARCH Cardiovascular Disease Study. J Pediatr. 2014 Jul;(1)165:110-6.
Lawrence JM, Imperatore G, Dabelea D, Mayer-Davis EJ, Linder B, Saydah S, Klingensmith GJ, Dolan L, Standiford DA, Pihoker C, Pettitt DJ, Talton JW, Thomas J, Bell Ra, D'Agostino RB Jr, SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Group. Trends in Incidence of Type 1 Diabetes Among non-Hispanic White Youth in the United States, 2002-2009. Diabetes. 2014 Nov;63(11):3938-45.
Rohan JM, Rausch JR, Shroff Pendley J, Delamater A, Dolan L, Reeves G, Drotar D. Identification and Prediction of Group-Based Glycemic Control Trajectories during the Transition to Adolescence. Health Psychol. 2014 Oct;33(10):1143-52.
Dabelea D, Mayer-Davis EJ, Saydah S, Imperatore G, Linder B, Divers J, Bell R, Badaru A, Talton JW, Cume T, Leise AD, Merchant AT, Lawrence JM, Reynolds K, Dolan L, Liu LL, Hamman RF, SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes among children and adolescents from 2001 to 2009. JAMA. 2014 May 7;311:1778-86.
Shah AS, Gao Z, Urbina EM, Kimball TR, Dolan LM. Prediabetes: The Effects on Arterial Thickness and Stiffness in Obese Youth. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2014 Mar;99(3):1037-43.
Dabelea D, Lawrence JM, Pihoker C, Dolan L, D'Agostino Jr RB, Marcovina S, Mayer-Davis EJ, SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study. Re: "Prevalence of Diagnosed and Undiagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Among US Adolescents: Results from the Continuous NHANES, 1999-2010". Am J Epidemiol. 2014 Feb 1;179:396-7.
Inge TH, Zeller MH, Jenkins TM, Helmrath M, Brandt ML, Michalsky MP, Harmon CM, Courcoulas A, Horlick M, Xanthacos SA, Dolan L, Mitsnefes M, Barnett SJ, Bunchar R, Teen-LABS Consortium. Perioperative Outcomes of Adolescents Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: The Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS) Study. JAMA Pediatr. 2014 Jan;168:47-53.
Corathers SD, Kichler J, Jones N, Houchen A, Jolly M, Morwessel N, Crawford P, Dolan LM, Hood KK. Improving Depression Screening for Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes. Pediatrics. 2013 Nov;132(5):e1395-402.
Gordon SM, Davidson WS, Urbina EM, Dolan LM, Lu JL, Heink A, Zang H, Shah AS. The effects of type 2 diabetes on lipoprotein composition and arterial stiffness in male youth. Diabetes. 2013 Aug;62(8):2958-67.
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Assessing Benefits and Risks. Co-investigator. National Institutes of Health. Apr 2012–Mar 2017. UO1DK072493.
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IT'S not as if no one saw the problem coming. In 1997, The Age reported that the West Gate Bridge had hit its traffic-carrying capacity at peak hours and a new link across the Yarra would be needed. In 1998 the Kennett government announced the bridge would be widened to eight lanes. Even then it was clear this would provide only temporary relief as the western suburbs grew. In early 2002, the Infrastructure Planning Council warned of traffic jams on the bridge when it reached capacity by 2007. Last year, VicRoads said the bridge had effectively reached capacity. Peak-hour travel times have more than doubled since 1994. Last month, Premier Steve Bracks said the West Gate problem was a priority once VicRoads finished a review of options another bridge is seen as the most likely plan.
Back in 2002, Transport Minister Peter Batchelor said West Gate was a "top priority", but added: "We have in place longer-term policies to bring about a shift in demand by getting commuters to use passenger trains." Except that public transport is not in place in the new suburbs. Transport infrastructure has completely failed to match the pace and pattern of suburban growth. So, while soaring petrol prices give commuters more reason to use public transport than ever before, West Gate is still hopelessly congested. The Age's Liveable Melbourne series highlighted commuters' reliance on cars for want of public transport in some areas only one in 50 commuters uses public transport. Yet public transport is the only long-term commuting solution for the city's west, where the population is set to almost double by 2030.
This does not mean road congestion can be ignored, not when the costs run into the billions. In June, a Committee for Melbourne report stated: "There is a crisis developing in Melbourne's transport system. Yet there is no sense of crisis in Government policies and current policy directions fall well short of what is needed." Referring to suburban growth, the Government's public transport director, Jim Betts, conceded recently that "we didn't plan effectively in advance for public transport and we didn't fund it properly. We've got to try and do it better." Yet public transport is still treated as an afterthought to the building of roads even though an overreliance on roads is the root cause of current crises. VicRoads chief executive David Anderson has indicated a big road project is likely to be announced before next year's state election. While this may be welcomed by some commuters at least those who can afford the petrol Melburnians need the Government to "do it better" in providing efficient mass transport systems.


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Pharrell: Cara Delevingne is bigger than expectations
Pharrell Williams has said Cara Delevingne "is much bigger than everyone's expectations."
He told Newsbeat: "There's a couple of whispers. They're asking about music, they're asking about films.
"I think at the end of the day what people should probably focus in on... what she's up to next. Trust me."
Pharrell added he's happy that Cara is part of his multimedia franchise i am other and that "there's going to be some really cool things" to come.
Speaking at the Elle Style Awards, the Get Lucky singer added: "The films only get better, the parts only get bigger, the music only gets better, the modelling only gets better but the spirit is becoming refined."
Cara, who presented Pharrell with his international recording artist award at the ceremony, said she was flattered by what he had said.
"I'm kind of speechless at this point, I don't really know what to say. He's kind of blown my head out of the water."
When asked whether she preferred singing, acting or modelling Cara said: "You can judge that for yourself when it happens."
The 21-year-old said balancing all her commitments is sometimes hard to keep up with.
"I think when I stop and think about it just confuses me more and more because I can't really process it all quickly. But it's good. It's the same as always - crazy, madness, chaos all organised somehow. Something like that."
Pharrell Williams will perform at The Brit Awards this evening.
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Wes Welker's agents: Robert Kraft's version of negotiations misleading
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Wes Welker's representatives released a statement to NFL.com early Tuesday responding to criticism from Patriots owner Robert Kraft and claimed the team showed no willingness to move from its one and only offer to Welker before the receiver accepted a deal from the Broncos.
"Both sides are clear that the Patriots made one offer to Wes Welker since the prior negotiations ended in July 2012," read the statement from Athletes First. "Both sides also agree that this two-year offer came just hours before the start of free agency despite discussions that began at the NFL combine. Moreover, this lone offer was presented as a 'take it or leave it offer.' When we asked if there was room for structural changes, we were told no. We made a counter offer for the same term and same maximum dollar amount as their offer and it was rejected. We inquired if any of the offer's components were negotiable and were told no. This refusal to actually negotiate made it easy to reject the Patriots offer. Nevertheless, when we received the Denver Broncos' offer, Wes personally talked to Mr. Kraft to give the Patriots the opportunity to match it. The Patriots rejected this opportunity and Wes signed with the Denver Broncos."
On Monday, Kraft spoke at the league meetings in Phoenix and insisted the Patriots wanted to keep Welker, despite the apparent lack of effort to do so.
"Wes Welker, just to be very clear, was our first choice to be with the team," Kraft said. "When free agency came, and his agents kept on insisting on a very high number that was beyond our number, we had to go work alternatives."
Added Kraft: "I really believe in this case, his agents misrepresented, in their mind, what his market value was. When you come right down to the bottom line, he accepted a deal in Denver that is less money than what we offered him."
Welker agreed to a two-year, $12 million deal with the Broncos, while the Patriots offered two years and $10 million, although incentives could have pushed the value to $16 million.
Kraft claimed Welker accepted less guaranteed money from the Broncos, and by the time the receiver presented the team with Denver's offer, the Patriots already had moved on to Danny Amendola. Otherwise, Kraft said the team would have been willing to meet that price.
"If he had called one day earlier, he would have been with us," Kraft said. "I'm very sad about it and I wish he would have been with our team."
Added Kraft: "We wanted him, and we were willing to pay him slightly above what we believed his market value to be, and in fact, what it is. We in fact did it. If you look at what he accepted, and what was out there. The unfortunate part, the agent is playing poker with us, we have to decide: Are we going to be left completely naked here? Or do we go out and do the best job we can do to fill that position with the information we have available to us? And that's what we did. Time will tell what was right."
Welker's representatives, while calling Kraft "an exceptional NFL owner," disputed his assertion that the team was willing to adjust its offer.
"Despite Mr. Kraft's impression to the contrary, the Patriots representatives who participated in these phone calls never indicated that the team 'would have even gone up' on their offer, or that these discussions occurred 'before we thought we were going into free agency,'" the Athletes First statement read. "Instead, the Patriots made it abundantly clear that their one offer was non-negotiable. Athletes First has no issue with this approach and casts no blame on either side for a deal not being consummated. However, we believe it is important that the negotiations are accurately portrayed in the media."
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WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — District Attorney Ben David says a meeting Friday with his office, Wilmington Police and probation has already led to progress.
The group met to talk about how they can more effectively work together. David said the agencies need to share information to make sure criminals they want behind bars do not wind up back on the streets.
"What we are having to do frankly is work a little bit differently and smarter with the information we have," David said.
David says his office, WPD and probation are working differently because of changes to the law.
"The Justice Reinvestment Act, for instance, says that we can't revoke people on probation like we used to," he said.
David says the law went into effect in January making communication between agencies vital.
To best protect the community day or night David says information sharing is key, so investigators and probation officers can know each other's priorities.
Police officers we've spoken with, though, believe prosecutors have a different priority than they do: clearing a crowded criminal docket. The county's top prosecutor says that's simply not the case.
"We will emphatically never sacrifice doing justice at the expense of efficiency," David said.
The meeting came after Police Chief Ralph Evangelous said a judge let one of the city's worst offenders out of jail, even though his investigators had a good case. Despite those frustrations, the District Attorney says all the departments involved have the same goal end.
"At times we can disagree, but the only thing we are certain on is that we all want the same thing, and that is for this place to be as safe as possible and to make sure career criminals are held fully accountable," David said.
A WPD spokeswoman said Chief Evangelous was the only person who could discuss the meeting for WPD, but the chief is on vacation.
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humanitarian aid
Judy Woodruff talks to Nancy Lindborg of the U.S. Agency for International Development and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post about the devastating conditions for Syrian civilians and refugees, the barriers preventing aid organizations from reaching people in need and ways that concerned citizens can help. Continue reading
The Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria, established in 1957, has sheltered thousands of displaced Palestinians. Since July, the camp has been under siege and more than 100 people have died from starvation or illnesses. Judy Woodruff reports on how aid workers were finally able to reach the camp, long cut off by the Syrian civil war. Continue reading
In a unanimous vote on Saturday, the U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution aimed at delivering humanitarian aid to Syria. The Security Council passed the resolution which demands country-wide access for providing assistance to the people of Syria. Continue reading
In light of a three-day ceasefire in the war-torn city of Homs, Hari Sreenivasan talks to David Miliband, the former British foreign secretary and current president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, about what needs to be done to better protect Syrian civilians as the civil war rips the country apart. Continue reading
Decades ago, thousands of Palestinian refugees fled to Damascus seeking safety, but today they confront starvation and death. Human rights activists attribute these casualties to the lack of food and medical supplies due to the Syrian war. Lindsey Hilsum of Independent Television News reports on thwarted efforts to deliver aid. Continue reading
Secretary of State John Kerry met with international humanitarian aid officials to discuss the difficulties of trying to protect and assist the millions of people displaced by the Syrian war. Margaret Warner talks to Assistant Secretary of State Anne Richard and Nancy Lindborg of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Continue reading
In other news Wednesday, John Kerry gave his farewell speech on the floor of the Senate before starting his new position as secretary of state. Also, donor countries pledged more than $1.5 billion in humanitarian aid for Syria. Continue reading
Jeffrey Brown talks to Washington Post reporter Pamela Constable about how the recent deaths of health workers and teachers in Pakistan have had a chilling effect on the international aid community and what's behind this uptick in violence. Continue reading
While aid groups operate with apolitical, humanitarian intentions, workers trying to bring relief in the middle of conflicts often find themselves in danger. Ray Suarez talks to Joel Charny of InterAction about the recent deaths of health workers trying to eradicate polio in Pakistan and the "erosion of safety" for aid groups. Continue reading
Earlier this week, representatives from more than 70 countries pledged $16 billion in aid to Afghanistan. In return, the Afghan government promised to crack down on corruption. Ray Suarez talks with Alexander Thier, USAID's top official for Afghanistan and Pakistan, about the effectiveness of U.S. economic aid to the country. Continue reading


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Situated in Pranburi, this aparthotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Hua Hin Seoul Country Club, Pranburi Forest Park, and The Banyan Golf Club. Wat Khao Takiab and Sea Pines Golf Course are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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The aparthotel offers a restaurant. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. Pineapple Hills Resort features 3 outdoor swimming pools and a children's pool. This Mediterranean aparthotel also offers tour/ticket assistance, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a grocery/convenience store.
- Total number of rooms - 40
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Displacement or planing? Single engine or twins? We help you sort through the many variables when choosing a trawler
He owned a big car dealership in the South, inherited from his dad. One day over bourbons, he imbibed the notion that he and his wife would sail off into the sunset on a big, fat trawler yacht, even though they had never owned a boat before.Once planted, that romantic kernel grew like a tree whose every branch represented a different decision - so many decisions, so many ideas he never had to consider at the dealership.
At some point, amid discussions about accommodations, choices of interior wood, electronics, hiding places for guns and all the rest, he and his boatbuilder talked engines. The builder explained the significance of a full-displacement hull. The boatbuilder may even have mentioned the mathematical formula that determined the boat's maximum practical speed (1.34 times the square root of the waterline length). And the builder surely would have noted the boat's top speed - a little more than 9 knots. "And she wouldn't go any faster if you strapped rockets on her."
Two years later, after using this coastal cruiser for a season, the man felt cheated, humiliated. His fat trawler couldn't keep up with the svelte boats operated by his friends, the bosses from other successful enterprises. Rather than admit he had been unable to grasp the meaning of "9 knots" when he stroked a check for three quarters of a million dollars, he lashed out at the laws of physics instead: He had the boat repowered to harness 100 additional horses.
When his rocket strategy failed to achieve liftoff, the buyer sought revenge - after all, he believed he'd been cheated. He would put the boatbuilder out of business by winning a judgment against the small company in binding arbitration. He would make the builder pay not just for those new engines, but other ill-advised owner modifications and perceived defects in the vessel. Fortunately for the boatbuilder, the buyer had a lawyer who knew nothing about boats and, even worse, actually believed his client did.
The arbitrator was a retired judge. He quickly grasped the concept of full displacement as explained to him by the boatbuilder's naval architect. When the owner of the repowering shop was called as the boat owner's star witness against the builder, the shop owner cheerfully testified that the original engines had been the right size for the vessel all along. If a customer wanted bigger engines, he wasn't about to talk him out of it, as long as the result wasn't dangerous.
So much for the dealership boss and his day in court, sunk by his own witness.
Another wealthy man purchased a vessel from a builder known for its oceangoing powerboats. Two years later, angry and remorseful, this buyer sued the company alleging several counts of fraud, including the remarkable allegation that the boat's keel was too deep for cruising the Bahamas.
While a vessel drawing 6-1/2 feet is not as optimal as, say, a catamaran drawing 3 feet, nearly every Bahamian marina welcomes vessels that draw 6-1/2 feet or more, and 6-1/2 feet is copacetic at hundreds of Bahamian anchorages. Through the years, dozens of the builder's other boats have cruised the Bahamas happily, and megayachts roam Bahamian waters year-round.
A third buyer was bewitched by the lines of a New England lobster yacht with a top end of 10 knots at wide-open throttle. Repropping the boat, he confidently predicted, would add 5 or 6 knots to its speed. No, it won't, the dealer warned; surely the boat's long-established builder knows how to prop its own products. Inconvincible, the man bought the boat anyway, then engaged in a fruitless process of propping and repropping before finally admitting defeat. Unlike our first two buyers, he blamed no one but himself, but because of his need for speed he could never really love that boat, despite her noble profile.
Definition a moving target
Seat a group of boatbuilders around a table and they will trade stories like these until the beer runs out. With the possible exception of motorcycles, no purchase engages ego and emotion more than boat buying.
"A lot of times people pick the wrong wife because they've gone for the 'look' and not the person," says Reuben Trane, president of Island Pilot Yachts and former builder of the Florida Bay Coaster. "Quite frankly, picking boats can go the same way. You fall in love with a boat, then you buy it, then you figure out you've got the wrong bloody boat. I think we all know that these are emotional decisions."
There are no statistics about how many people buy wrong each year, but you have to wonder whether the track record is worse for people buying "trawlers." Each example above describes a man buying the wrong trawler yacht, and each boat was very different from the others.
As the accompanying Decision Tree and Pro/Con graphics prove, trawlers are tricky. They can be fast or slow, powered by a single or twins, carry deep or shoal draft, built of fiberglass or steel, cold-molded or stitch-and-glue. To muddy the waters further, power catamarans are often included in this category as well, since they appeal to the same baby boomer demographic of retirees and former sailors.
So ask yourself: what is a trawler? Try to limit your answer to a single sentence, as you could with canoe, sloop or center console. Now hold that thought and read on.
Jim Leishman is vice president of Pacific Asian Enterprises, builder of Nordhavn yachts. Leishman says his boats should be the standard - a trawler is a powerboat with a full-displacement, ballasted hull that is economical enough and with enough range to make long ocean passages. His gospel is the book "Voyaging Under Power" by the late Robert Beebe, who crossed oceans in his motoryacht Passagemaker. By this definition, recreational trawlers would all be ruggedly built seagoing vessels, such as Nordhavns and other slow boats from such builders as Kadey-Krogen, Selene, Willard, Monk and Malahide.
The iconic brand
Unfortunately for Leishman, the "purity" of this vision was changed in the popular imagination years before he and his partners created the Nordhavn brand in the late 1980s. The boating public had already come to associate Grand Banks with the notion of trawler, thanks to the Singapore builder's effective marketing, adherence to a traditional look and, of course, tradition of producing quality boats.
Grand Banks is one of the most successful boatbuilders, having sold more than 1,500 GB 42s between 1965 and 2005. In the early days, buyers were trawler folk, content to steam along close to shore at 10 knots. But by the go-go '80s, Grand Banks was attracting buyers with a need for speed.
Boat speed is largely a function of hull design and horsepower, and Grand Banks focused on the latter as it began installing ever-more-powerful engines. The "sweet spot" for these big-power 42s was a 12-knot cruise, but because of their semidisplacement hull, performance at the higher end meant having to push a lot of water out of the way, an inefficient proposition.
Five years ago, Grand Banks started working the other half of the speed equation. The company engaged naval architects at Sparkman & Stephens to design the first Grand Banks with a modified-vee hull - the 44 Heritage Europa. Adopting a planing hull was a leap forward in performance without sacrificing the brand's traditional aesthetics above the waterline.
"A good part of our design process is driven by input from owners and other consumers," says David Hensel, director of brand and marketing for Grand Banks. "In developing a new concept for a faster trawler-style yacht, it was quite apparent that 'more speed' was a key demand among current GB buyers. We could have simply continued to put bigger engines into our existing models, but clearly that would have led to performance issues, which was unacceptable. So with the 44EU [now 47EU] we developed an entirely new vessel with a modified-vee design that lived up to our performance standards at higher speeds - and still handled very well and cruised efficiently at semidisplacement speeds."
Hensel continues: "That was very important because our consumer research showed a desire for higher-speed capability but not necessarily for continuous high-speed cruising. The same was true in the development of the Zeus-powered 41EU."
Would everyone consider these models to be trawlers? "Certainly there's a good deal of continuity with our older models and with the trawler category in general," says Hensel. "But at the end of the day, it's the combination of features and performance that matters, not the label."
Today, Grand Banks continues to refer to its 20-knot-plus Heritage series as trawlers. Slow, fast and faster - no matter how much the boats changed, GBs continue to be trawlers.
John Wooldridge, editor in chief of PassageMaker, agrees that the magazine helped define the ever-evolving notion of a trawler. Flip through PassageMaker, and you will find slow boats along with many fast boats, including perhaps the fastest trawler of them all. While it boasts economical cruising at 8 knots, the Island Pilot 435 has a top speed of 28 knots. You will also find coverage of power cats, such as the Leopards and Maine Cat P47.
Putting aside the syntax debate, most trawlers (with the exception of catamarans) share one common denominator in the imagination of the boating public. Regardless of their hull shape below the water, most trawlers have a whiff of workboat from the boot stripe up. Some evoke the look of early 20th century fishing boats, some look like shrimpers, some resemble tugboats, complete with faux smokestacks. Trane's Island Pilot looks like a pilot boat. The Nordhavn 62 and the new 63 look like miniature freighters.
Marine industry people interviewed for this article agree that nowadays "trawler" is a look. Otherwise, as Nordhavn's Leishman quips, what's to stop a zoomie Euro-styled Silverton from being another fast trawler? A trawler's styling is never Euro, at least in this writer's opinion, even if it's built in Europe by the likes of Beneteau.
Stick to the mission
Ben Wilde has been selling Nordic Tugs from his Wilde Yacht Sales dealership in Essex, Conn., since 2000. (His line has recently expanded to include the trailerable Ranger Tug.) Nordic Tugs are moderately fast coastal cruisers with semidisplacement hulls. No one likes to turn away a sale, but Wilde says he sometimes finds himself advising a prospective buyer to look elsewhere for a better fit.
He recalls asking a man at a boat show why he looked so happy. The conversation went something like this.
"I bought a boat," the man said.
"What did you get?" asked Wilde.
He gave the name of a trawler with limited bluewater credentials.
"What are you going to do with it?"
"I want to do every island in the Caribbean and then I'm going to go through the Panama Canal, and I'm going out to Hawaii."
"You're not going to like me for this, but you bought the wrong boat," said Wilde. "Did you really tell the salesman what you were going to do with this boat?"
Lou Codega is a naval architect with a wide range of powerboats in his portfolio, including the Great Harbour line of full-displacement coastal cruisers. Codega, Trane and others interviewed for this article suggested that every boat-buying project begin with a mission statement, like the one atop the Decision Tree accompanying this article.
"Make a list of how you're going to use the boat," Codega says. "List your typical trips. Here's what I want to do: I want to leave on a Friday, go out and come back on a Monday. That might be one scenario. The other is that I have a week off from work and I want to take off, travel so much distance and run six hours a day. ... Then you can prioritize that list. Here's what I am going to do a lot, so that's important to me. Crossing the Atlantic? I'd like to think about it, but it's probably not going to happen."
Codega continues: "Once you have what you want to do and how you want to do it, then you can say these are the boat characteristics I need to make that happen. How much speed and range, accommodations and all that. Think what you want to do first, then think about the boat to do it in. To some extent that takes the what-a-good-looking-boat thing out of the process. It gets rid of the knee-jerk buying."
John Love, a Soundings contributing writer from Norwalk, Conn., is a retired ship operator who likes to cruise coastal New England slowly, burning as little fuel as possible. Slow-speed economy was so important to Love that he ordered his Grand Banks 42 with a single 420-hp diesel, rather than the standard twin-screw configuration.
"People really questioned my sanity when I went for a single engine," he says.
What does Love say to the boat buyers who want to go a little faster, whether it be Nordic Tug fast, Grand Banks faster or Island Pilot very fast? "The key for the trawler person is to think of proper engine operation at the low end, not the high end," he says. "If you are truly interested in a trawler - or let's call it the trawler lifestyle - you're going to be operating much more in the low end than the high end."
And with that we have the contemporary definition of trawler: a recreational vessel reminiscent of a workboat above the waterline, which appeals to buyers wanting to cruise at slow speeds at least part of the time.
Know thyself
For a buyer starting out with a blank slate, like the car dealer at the beginning of this story, the logical way to decide on a boat is through a matrix or Decision Tree that begins with a mission statement. The Decision Tree here is a suggestion of how to proceed. However you organize the buying process, it should be assembled with basic reality checks or "points of personal insight."
Our car dealer bought the wrong boat, not just because he failed to fully grasp the science behind his vessel, but because he lacked personal insight. He should have known he wasn't a slow-boat guy, for one thing. For another, arriving last at the marina meant his friends in faster boats had arrived before him and would be waiting to enjoy the spectacle of boating newbie blundering around trying to dock such a big boat.
Nordic Tugs dealer Wilde says too many people buy boats that are too big, so they never leave the dock. "They're too intimidated to use them, so they never take them out," he says. "Eventually they sell the boat and get out of boating, and we all lose."
The late cruising guide author "Skipper Bob" Reib used to advise prospective trawler buyers to choose the smallest boat on which they can cruise comfortably, not the biggest boat they can afford. If you accept the adage that people have the most fun on the smallest boats they ever owned, you might also accept, conversely, that people have the least fun on their biggest boats.
Another point to consider was addressed superbly by George Sass Sr. in the December 2009 issue of Soundings. The advice in his "The Case for the Simple Life" is particularly poignant for anyone who plans to cruise away from home waters for long periods of time. Unless you are the type of person who enjoys fiddling with mechanical and electrical systems at the expense of seeing the world, insist that your boatbuilder keep it simple. In general, the more electricity needed for daily life on board and under way, the more complicated the systems need to be.
Finally, so much of what has been written about boat buying here and elsewhere assumes everyone has the money for a new purchase. One would hope that most of us would rather be on the water on a boat that is merely good, instead of confined to shore for want of cash with the formula for that perfect boat locked in our imaginations. Maybe the best advice of all is to buy the best trawler you can afford and learn to love her for what she is.
Peter Swanson, a regular contributor to Soundings, is former communications director for Mirage Manufacturing, builder of Great Harbour trawlers. He covered the Nordhavn Around the World voyage for PassageMaker magazine and the Nordhavn Atlantic Rally for Yachting.
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This article originally appeared in the June 2010 issue.


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Any Wichita, KS Scooby Owners???
I see a lot of Scoobies in my area, Maybe we should have our own Starbucks Meet...LOL, Holla Front
Not in KS but only 45mins away. Someome that is finally with in 300 miles of me...
I knew I wasn't alone. Maybe we can get something poppin off here in the Good Midwest
Go north towards Ft Riley and you can find me.......but its hard to find others out there, there mostly in KC, Missouri side....
[QUOTE=Jave;169441]Not in KS but only 45mins away. Someome that is finally with in 300 miles of me...[/QUOTE]
Damn, I forgot Oklahoma was even a state. How many WRX/Sti's do you even see out there anways?
all the ones that are around me are all military, but we come and go....like i will be going to CO, when i get back to the states, so that will be -2 WRX's in Manhatten, KS
[QUOTE=Imprt4life;179643]Damn, I forgot Oklahoma was even a state. How many WRX/Sti's do you even see out there anways?[/QUOTE]
where I live. 1 every once in a while and they are not from around here. :)
wanna see all kinds go to Oregon or Washington, they're all over the place b/c you have PDXTuning, and Perrin....i used to go there when it was known as Alta Sports, but you have to be in that area where they are big, i have found out that in the Midwest not really a lot people have them out here, and if there they are well hidden....
Heeeey guys! I'm in Wichita KS! I have a 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX and it's silver. I'm about to mod out my exhaust. My ru is just ripe out of warranty! I'm so excited!! I've seen about ten or so Subies in Wichita on a regular basis.
I justed moved here 11 months ago from Denver Colorado. Every other car there is a Subaru, it's crazy!
yah but theres more of us in Manhatten know its like the pop out the wood work when they return from a deployment
I recently bought a 2011 WRX Limited, im dwn 2 meet up w/ other owners.
Couple of my friends have WRXs & STIs, but i dnt think they do alot of stuff.
If sum1 starts up a meet, ill help spread the word 2 the WRX & STI owners on base.

[quote=HIS_AND_HER_;186092]yah but theres more of us in Manhatten know its like the pop out the wood work when they return from a deployment[/quote]
I go to K-State and I see quite a few subies around. There are actually some really really nice ones too! We need a Manhattan meet or something. I live in Shawnee, and there are some subies I see around there too
If ever theres a meet in Manhattan, I will be glad to show up, maybe even convince the wife to bring her subie also.
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I'm moving to Omaha and have a couple buddies in KC I'll be visiting every now and then... Pretty far away though. After spending some time in Omaha the last month, looks like I'll be one of very few WRX/STi's out there. Kind of the way I like it though. Utah you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an impreza.
I just joined the club and bought a White Satin Pearl Hacthback 11 WRX. I have Accessport and flashed to stage 1, I also have a Perrin Catback Exhaust waiting to be installed once my Perrin Downpipe comes in and then I will flash to stage 2. I've seen a ton of WRX/STi's around here. I would be interested in meeting other owners.
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HCC Professional Crafts students hold graduate show
The graduating class of Haywood Community College's Professional Crafts department will exhibit their best work at the 2013 Graduate Show held at the Southern Highland Craft Guild Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville April 27 to June 23. The Folk Art Center is open daily from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Admission and parking are both free.
This year's show has work in clay, jewelry, fiber, metal and wood. This exhibit marks the professional debut for many exhibiting craftspeople. The college makes involvement in the installation, organization, and publicity of this exhibit part of the coursework for HCC professional crafts students.
The HCC Professional Crafts Program is a two-year commitment, focusing on all aspects of becoming an independent craft professional. In addition to sharpening their technical and artistic skill in their chosen medium, students also create a marketable line of production work, plan a studio, and become familiar with the craft market. Mandatory coursework includes photography of finished pieces for gaining entrance into craft shows, creating a business plan, and designing and building a studio tailored to fit production needs.
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Violence: Frequent scenes of action violence include explosions, weapon use and combat between characters. Three men viciously attack and beat a man. A man intentionally incinerates his father. A woman is thrown against a glass pane. A plane crashes and explodes, killing the pilot. A helicopter nearly crashes into a crowd of partygoers. A character suffers pain and some injury during training. A man ejects from his plane just before it hits the ground and explodes. A character nearly causes an accident while driving irresponsibly.
Sexual Content: A man's propensity for sleeping with many women is discussed on several occasions. A couple kisses passionately. A man is seen in bed with a woman. A female character wears low cut clothing on several occasions. Some brief sexual innuendo is included in the dialogue.
Language: The script contains nearly two-dozen mild and moderate profanities, as well as one sexual hand gesture given in a comedic context.
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DeMarco Murray - RB - Cowboys
The Cowboys have confirmed DeMarco Murray's (foot) MRI revealed no broken bones, but "some" ligament damage that could knock him out for Week 7 and "possibly longer."
The Cowboys' official website expects Murray to be "questionable" for Week 7, but it sounds like he'll be a game-time decision at best. The good news is that it appears Murray will be back on the field before the end of the month, but owners should consider Felix Jones a must add for the time being. Murray's status will be updated no later than Wednesday, when the Cowboys return to practice.
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DeMarco Murray - RB - Cowboys
ESPN Dallas reports the Cowboys believe DeMarco Murray (foot) has suffered ligament damage, but avoided a Lisfranc injury.
Murray's X-rays came back negative, but he's undergoing an MRI on Monday. Ligament damage would likely mean a multi-week absence, but wouldn't be season-ending like Lisfranc issues almost always are. Nevertheless, it's not good news for a player who fractured his ankle last December and was extremely injury prone in college. Owners would do well to snatch up Felix Jones as they await final word on Murray's injury.
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More news to come. It's certainly not the best case for owners, but not the worst either.
Grab Felix Jones, upcoming schedule is nice.


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The Turkish government secured victory yesterday in a vote to amend the constitution drawn up by the country's military to protect their power after a coup in 1980.
Yesterday's vote, in which 58 percent of voters backed the changes – was held on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 coup, when as many as 600,000 Turks were arrested and at least 450 people died under torture; many others disappeared. The military of the day drew up a constitution that severely limited democracy and entrenched the power of the armed forces and a judiciary sympathetic to military control.
"Turkish democracy is at a turning point today, " said Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as he voted in Istanbul in a polling booth in the Uskudar district defended by police sharp-shooters lying on surrounding roof tops. "We are sitting an important test."
The changing of the constitution will make possible to try officers in civilian courts, stop the judiciary banning political parties (the ruling party was almost banned in 2008), and allowing the President and parliament to have a say in the composition of the powerful constitutional court.
It was also seen as a key indicator of who would win parliamentary elections due before July next year between the ruling and mildly Islamic AK party and the opposition Republican party (CHP) which claims to be the defender of Turkish secularism.
Since coming to power in 2002, the AK, led by Mr Erdogan, has been cutting back the power of the army and is being accused by the CHP of covertly undermining secularism.
The CHP is a revived political force under its new leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu and campaigned vigorously in defence of the Turkish version of secularism. The struggle between supporters of the old secular but authoritarian elite, who have held power since 1923, and the AK government is likely to continue despite the government's narrow victory.
The army's grip on power has been weakened by a series of confrontations with Mr Erdogan over the past eight years in which it has come off worst. The military has not intervened in the referendum.
Clashes during the poll have been mostly in Kurdish provinces where the Peace and Democracy party, the largest Kurdish group, has called for a boycott on the urgings of the rebel Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that commits guerrilla attacks, though it is observing a ceasefire at present.
The PKK wants the government to talk to its imprisoned leader, Abdullah Ocalan, and the lifting of a rule whereby a party has to get 10 per cent of the vote to sit in parliament. The AK has not delivered on promised reforms for the Kurds and is nervous that any concessions would be used against it by the CHP, anti-Kurdish nationalist parties and the army. Entry into the European Union remains an objective of AK policy which is unlikely to happen because of objections by France and other member states.
But preparing the ground for EU membership has helped Mr Erdogan clip the powers of the army and make it next to impossible for it to launch another military coup; there have been four since 1960.
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posted at 9:11 pm on April 26, 2010 by Allahpundit
Most of you know what I mean when I say "Geico firing"; those who don't can get caught up here. I'm weary of the "which side's cranks are nastier?" game, especially since it leads inexorably to non-cranks being tarred by association, but I'm even wearier of media shrieking about the looming wingnut apocalypse. So here's a reminder of what the fringier elements of Progress are capable of. Inevitably, some lefty who's unable to face hard realities will allege that these calls and e-mails were concocted by FreedomWorks, and just as inevitably, my old boss — who's been getting garbage like this for years — will have a grim laugh at his naivete. This is rough stuff, so please observe your official content warning. Exit question: Which mainstream leftist media voice will be blamed for creating this "climate of hate"? Cranks always operate at the behest of mainstream commentators, don't they? Or is that only a "right-wing thing"? Click the image to watch.
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The Purple Cloud Temple, standing on Zhanqifeng Peak, is a temple in Wudangshan. Built in 1413, it consists of several halls, including the Dragon and Tiger Hall, the Purple Sky Hall, the East Hall, the West Hall, the Parent Hall and the Prince Cliff.
The Purple Sky Hall is enshrined with statues of Zhen Wu at different stages of his life. Statues of Zhen Wu's parents rest in the Parent Hall. On the left side is the Buddhist deity Guan Yin, and on the right is the Shouzi Mother to whom couples traditionally pray for sons. The hall also houses cultural relics, including the Green Dragon Crescent Blade of Guan Yu some of which date back as far as the 7th century.


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"Texas can become the nation's center for regenerative medicine."
That's the message from the governor's office after inviting hundreds of biotechnology researchers to Houston. The Stem Cell Summit takes place annually in New York and is also here in Texas for the first time.
Adult stem cells have been used to treat cancer and leukemia for years. They're also more dramatically known for regenerating human tissues and organs, including last year the successful creation of a human heart muscle.
Governor Perry says adult stem cell research is the most promising development in health and science today.
"Regenerative medicine is an industry that Texas wants to be a major part of. Adult stem cells and regenerative medicine hold the promise of miracles."
Perry, who was the keynote speaker, focused on the economic and regulatory climate that he says makes Texas the national leader in biotech job creation.
Earlier this year, the Texas legislature and Texas Medical Board developed a regulatory framework for stem cell research in the state.
"An environment that makes our state, hopefully, be the first to come to mind when people are looking for the cures to diseases that are impacting their loved ones or themselves."
The governor is himself a beneficiary of stem cell research. In 2011, his own stem cells were injected into his back to treat an injury.
Celtex, the company that made the treatment possible, is accused by the FDA of using stem cells to make biological drugs. Celtex has stopped its clinical trials while it negotiates with the federal government.
Perry, an advocate of states' rights, says Texas should decide how much regulation to impose on biotech companies.
"I disagree with the FDA that the process of what's going on here in Texas in some of our companies is creating a drug. No more so than bone marrow transplants are not regulated by the FDA or in vitro fertilization is not regulated by them. So my hope here with this conference is that there's a very good intellectual, open conversation about the future of adult stem cells."
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Hip-Hop Is Dead
I'd give Nas' new Hip-Hop Is Dead the track by track treatment, but I figured I already more or less nailed it when I gave the ol' once over on my own site a few weeks ago. I'm just good like that.
Plus I'm mad lazy. This is my first day off from the BGM since last Thursday, and I'm getting pretty close to having the proverbial Nick Nolte moment.
At any rate, I'm running a poll on my site this week to determine which was the best rap album of 2006. Honestly, I'm not that jazzed about many of this year's options, but those are more or less the consensus 10 best rap albums of '06 per About.com's hip-hop bloggers poll, to which I contributed.
As of right now (i.e. a day or so in), Hip-Hop Is Dead is in the lead by a pretty wide margin, even ahead of the mighty Fishscale, hip-hop blogging's rap album of the year. I wonder though if this has to do more so with HHID's release date coinciding with the week of the poll more so than anything else.
My concern is not so much whether Hip-Hop Is Dead is a better album than Fishscale. After all, neither of them was my favorite rap album of the year. But I wonder where the Nas album really fits in his overall discography. How many people who voted for the Nas album this week will give a rat's ass about it, say, six months from now?
Having followed hip-hop on the Internets for a minute now, I've definitely noticed this tendency to declare any new Nas album the best rap album evar the week it's released. It was happening as far back as when the Internets version of I Am hit the streets (remember that shit) and a few of you d-bags even went so far as to say that about 2004's Street's Disciple.
More so than maybe anyone else in hip-hop, Nas is just one of those artists where anytime they put out an album it's a big deal, even if said albums never really end up being that good – the obvious reason being that he is, after all, the guy who made Illmatic (Premier, Q-Tip and Large Professor = neither here nor there); what if he could be that good again, even if only for a moment?
And, for what it's worth, that usually ends up being the case. Nas will never make an album as good as Illmatic again in his life (though he's certainly free to prove me wrong), but all of the albums he's put out since have had at least flashes of brilliance. Hip-Hop Is Dead may be far from a masterpiece, but it's certainly no exception in this regard.
My favorite moments: "Money over Bullshit" is probably the album's best beat, though I realize that's not saying a whole lot. Of course I couldn't help but be amused by hearing Jay and Nas together on "Black Republican," though again I'm surprised they didn't bring in Just Blaze or somebody for such a momentous occasion. Obviously there's some kind of thing between Jay and Primo.
Still, this wouldn't be a Nas album without a whole buncha bullshit to ruin it as an overall listening experience. I imagine heads will differ on whether or not "Who Killed It" was a good idea for a song, but personally I could've used it as a b-side or MySpace drop or some such. And "Not Going Back," "Hold Down the Block" and "Blunt Ashes" are just plain not that good, as far as I'm concerned.
So there you have it. Hip-Hop Is Dead is more or less the same album Nas has been putting out since Stillmatic, but with perhaps a bit less filler. There aren't any Bravehearts tracks (praise Allah), but are the high points better than, say, "Made You Look?" Not so much. As of right now, I like this more than Street's Disciple, but maybe not as much as Stillmatic and God's Son.
What do you 'bags think? (Except Rey, who's not allowed to reply to this post.)


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According to industry insiders on December 11, Samsung Electronics began production of Apple's A9 in the Austin plant in the US using the 14nm FinFET technology. Samsung has production lines capable of FinFET process production in Austin, US and Giheung, Korea, but began to produce A9 only in Austin as it is in the initial stage.
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The China Post news staff Monday, May 7, 2012, 12:15 am TWN
The China Post news staff--Hsu Hsin-liang (許信良) and Trong Chai (蔡同榮), two of the five candidates in the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) chairmanship election, yesterday questioned the leadership ability of fellow candidate Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) during the hopefuls' second televised debate in Taichung.
Compared to their first debate, the second was more fiery, with Hsu and Chai wasting no time blasting Su, ripping into their opponent in their opening statements.
Chai reprimanded Su for insisting on running for Taipei mayor during the 2010 special municipality elections, a move that forced then-DPP chairwoman Tsai Ing-wen to run in New Taipei City against the Kuomintang's Eric Chu. Both Su and Tsai eventually lost.
"Su's decision had a great impact on the outcomes of the municipality elections and even the presidential election this year," Chai said, referring to the Jan. 14 poll in which Tsai lost to incumbent President Ma Ying-jeou.
"It's clearly written in the DPP's party charter that anyone running for public office without being nominated by the party should be expelled," he said.
Hsu, meanwhile, said Su had never proposed a China policy that was meaty and meaningful.
"Su had said that the DPP would not rule out conducting exchanges with China if it did not set any preconditions. This is just empty talk," Hsu said.
He also accused Su of being unknowledgeable of the U.S.'s cross-strait positions.
"Su has said that the U.S.'s cross-strait policy had been changing constantly. This indicates his lack of knowledge in this area," Hsu said. "I've suggested that he go to the United States to study and visit U.S. experts on cross-strait relations, yet he had not done so."
"Maybe he refused to acknowledge the importance of China-Taiwan ties to formulate a viable cross-strait policy, or maybe he was too afraid that his policy would meet strong resistance in the party. Either way he hasn't shown he has the ability to lead the party," Hsu said.
He also criticized Su for not making an official stance on whether to pardon former President Chen Shui-bian. "Maybe he hasn't made his position clear because he doesn't understand the Constitution," Hsu charged.
Su did not make any direct rebuttals, only saying that the "DPP 3.0" should be more tolerant and more responsive to people's needs.
Also during the debate, Wu Jung-yi (吳榮義), a fourth candidate, threw his resounding support behind former party leader Tsai, saying that she would still be the most ideal presidential candidate in the 2016 election. Finally, Su Huan-chih (蘇煥智), the fifth candidate, said he supports taxing capital gains made on the stock market, but said the proceeds should be used to help the poor.
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ConocoPhillips and joint-venture partner Karoon Gas have submitted fresh environmental documents to the federal Department of Environment for their $700 million Browse Basin drilling program, with the government due to make a decision on July 4.
The companies' eagerly awaited Browse program was due to start in March but was delayed after Canberra insisted on a tougher review of the campaign in the wake of the 2009 Montara oil spill in the Timor Sea.
The government "stopped the clock" on the project in early June to seek further information before deciding whether it requires a full environmental assessment.
A department spokeswoman told ResourcesDaily on Thursday that the clock had now restarted after documents were re-submitted, with a decision due on July 4.
Karoon executive chairman Bob Hosking said he hopes drilling will start by September or October, although the timing of any exploration hinges on any conditions imposed by the government.
"There has been a lot of dialogue between the federal government and the operator and we think we are almost there but there is certainly an overall tightening of the process around getting permission to drill in a post-Montara world," said Mr Hosking.
Karoon and Conoco are thought to have modified their drilling program, possibly by omitting the well closest to the environmentally sensitive Seringapatam Reef.
The companies have generated excitement in the energy industry in the last few years after unearthing vast quantities of gas from their Poseidon exploration well in Western Australia's Browse Basin, which could possibly be commercialised through piping the gas to Conoco's Darwin liquefied natural gas plant.
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PRESIDENTIAL daughter Evangelina Lourdes "Luli" Arroyo yesterday lashed at businessman Jose "Joey" de Venecia III for linking her father First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo to the $329-million national broadband network deal between the government and Chinese firm ZTE Corp.
A visibly irked Luli, in an ambush interview in Malacañang, said her family does not meddle in government contracts.
"Ewan ko sa kanya. I mean, ako I don't use my parents' influence to get government contracts," she said.
"Just because you fail in your business practices, don't blame it on innocent people here.
Good for you. (while taking an indirect shot at Joey Mullet de Venecia)
But what about your pops, Luli? Or Mikey?
Luli was also the designated "hitwoman" to bring up Joey's druggie past:
"Just because you fail in your business practices, don't blame it on innocent people here. So parang, kakainis ka naman, no. But I mean, what can we do? Ganyan talaga yung…I don't know. I don't know if his old drug use affected his thinking but – whatever! I mean, tawa na lang kami, di ba? I mean kami na naman. What else is new?" she said.
Ms. Arroyo said allegations her father went to Italy to evade the controversy is like "grasping at straws as thin as his (De Venecia's) hairline."
LOL. Galing galing ni Ms. Luli. Even if what was said about Joey dV is all true, how could this be any worse than what was said about Chavit Singson when he did erap in?
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The Senate blue ribbon committee hearing on the ZTE national broadband network (NBN) project has exposed five important facts
1. That First Gentleman Mike Arroyo was in on the deal.
2. That Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. was the principal broker for the deal.
3. That Neda Secretary Romulo Neri, while initially against the deal, finally approved the project on the eve of the signing of the contract at Boao, China.
4. Most significant, that GMA, our hands-on President, knew of the deal from its conception to date. She was present at the signing of the contract on April 21, 2007 at Boao, China.
5. The ZTE contract covers only 35 percent of the country and if expanded to cover 100 percent could go up to $800 million cost.


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The United States Supreme Court affirms a decision by the California Supreme Court, 9 ELR 20260, that two municipal zoning ordinances aimed at preserving open space do not represent a facially unconstitutional taking of appellants' property without just compensawtion. The Court determines that the challenged ordinances substantially advance the legitimate governmental goal of providing for open space areas in plans for the development of residential property. Appellants, moreover, may be able to build between one and five houses on their five-acre tract and will in any case share both the benefits and the burdens of the ordinances with other landowners in the city. Having found the ordinances facially valid, the Court rules that there is as yet no concrete controversy regarding their constitutionality as applied because appellants have not submitted a proposed plan for the development of their property. The Court also rejects the claim that the city's preliminary planning activities and later abortive attempt to acquire the land through eminent domain proceedings constituted a taking of the property, noting that fluctuations in value during the process of governmental decision making are merely incidents of ownership. Because no taking has occurred, the Court states that it need not consider the state court's ruling that a person whose land has been taken may seek to invalidate the challenged action but may not recover damages in inverse condemnation.
Counsel for Appellants
Gideon Kanner
P.O. Box 5133, Sherman Oaks CA 91403
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John P. Pollock
Pollock, Williams, Berwanger & Harris
800 W. Sixth St., Suite 820, Los Angeles CA 90017
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Reginald G. Hearn
100 California St., Suite 926, San Francisco CA 94111
(415) 982-1914
Counsel for Appellee
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Counsel for Amici Curiae Conservation Foundation et al.
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My car is making a noise and I think it is the wheel bearing. I wanted to do it myself, so I wonder how much I need to pull off to get into it?
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It will take a little over an hour.
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