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This is a guest post by Andrew K Kirk from Face The Buzz.
Social Media and Blogging have always played nicely together. Bloggers need platforms to distribute posts and Social Media thrives on material for users to consume – it's a great match. Put these 5 tips to use and your blog can become much more social, which means more readers and deeper interaction.
1. Embedded Tweets
Twitter's Embedded Tweet feature allows you to incorporate any tweet into your blog. Best of all, users can interact directly with a tweet inside your website. See this tweet from Francisco:
Marketing Principles Learned from Volkswagen – @socialmouths ow.ly/ccBii
— Francisco Rosales(@socialmouths) July 12, 2012
Of course you can see the tweet text, but you can do so much more. You can follow him, reply, retweet, favorite the tweet, and click on any links directly from the blog post. Basically anything you can do at Twitter.com, the same features can be executed inside your blog. See my full How-To Guide for complete instructions to do this on your blog.
2 . Social Sharing Buttons
You just wrote a killer blog post and your readers are now much wiser. Let him/her share your great knowledge and make it easy to do. Social sharing buttons are the answer. Use a pluggin or widget to add buttons for the most popular social networks. Here are two great options:
With over 1.6 million downloads, this social sharing tool is used on a lot of sites. And it's not just Twitter and Facebook. You can select from over 100 services to which you can add a sharing button. Shareaholic icons can be animated and you can also choose to display the number of shares on each social network.
Digg Digg
Face The Buzz Blog used Shareaholic – that was until I found Digg Digg. Francisco uses it on his site as well. It has several configurations, including vertical or horizontal, floating or static, and can show share totals for each social network. I prefer the floating, vertical implementation. It's simple, clean, and makes your sharing buttons immediate available at all times.
3. Tweet This
This is my favorite of the tips discussed because it really grabs your readers' attention and drives them to take action. Basically, you provide your reader a ready-to-tweet fact or statistic and a link to tweet it out, all directly from inside your blog post. With a single click, your readers tweet out a cool stat, plus a link to your blog post.
I really like this technique because it is beneficial for your reader and you. You make your reader look smart by sharing a fact on Twitter, while you get promotion for your post. It's especially useful for posts with infographics. Here's the end product (Go ahead – click it!).
67% of B2C companies and 41% of B2B Companies have acquired a customer through Facebook. < Tweet This
It takes a small amount of setup, but is totally worth the effort. Here are the steps:
- Choose your text. It should be informative and grab attention; statistics are great. Make sure it is less than 115 total characters (with spaces).
- Use Click to Tweet, a free service which will create the link.
- Paste your text from Step #1 into the Click to Tweet window.
- Get the URL for your blog post you are adding the link. Note: Your specific URL structure will vary and may include date, category, or other info. Make sure you plan accordingly to get the correct URL!
- Shorten the URL, using bit.ly, goo.gl, or your favorite URL shortening service.
- Add the shortened URL to the Click to Tweet window.
- Click the "Generate Link" button.
- Add the Click to Tweet link to "Tweet This".
I also made this quick video to walk you through the process step-by-step. Leave questions in the comments.
4. Social Media Stories
The line separating social media and blogging has become blurred and you can literally mashup the two. Interactions and content created out in the social web can become directly involved your blog posts and make it much more social.
Using a service such as Storify, you can curate content from social networks, including Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and Instagram to gather material to build social stories. The result of bringing together this media scattered across the Web, is dynamic, social content. Embed these directly into your blog posts and add your own narrative to create a social story.
5. Social Commenting
Comments are blog writers reward for a job well done. The result of your writing is the questions and praise you receive from your readers. Comments become a micro social network which lives within your blog. But, these comments don't have to be contained solely inside your blog. There are several options which make comments on your blog posts social.
Facebook Comments Box
Facebook has created Comments Box, a social plugin that enables user commenting on your site. Commenters use Facebook account to create comments. Comments are social relevant, meaning that comments are displayed to readers based each individual's social graph, with the most relevant comments from friends or friends of friends.
Additionally, each commenter has the option to "Post to Facebook", which will result in a story appearing on friends' News Feed, with a link back to your site. Then, friends and people who like your Page can then respond to the discussion by liking or replying to the comment directly in the News Feed on Facebook or in the Comments Box on your site. All these threads stay synced across Facebook and on the Comments Box on your site regardless of where the comment was made – talk about making your comments social!
Disqus is a commenting platform, which is used on this blog, that is all about encouraging quality discussions over one-dimensional comments. There are too many features to cover in this post, but here are the social sharing highlights:
- Social – Users can easily share any comment or discussion thread to their favorite social network. Sharing directs new referral traffic directly back to your site.
- Social Tagging – Just like with Facebook and Twitter, the @mentions, allows any commenter to easily bring in others people into a discussion thread. Comments can be tagged with a user's Disqus, Twitter, and Facebook username. Mentioned people are notified and encouraged to join your community.
- Voting System – A smart voting system surfaces the best content on the page. The community can vote up the best and down vote the bad—all while an even smarter system helps to prevent the silencing of different ideas.
- Reactions – Discussions around your content happens all over the web. Disqus finds these conversations from Twitter and displays these direclty on your website.
You've created great content and you want it to be shared. Making your blog posts more social with help. Which tip is your favorite? Did I miss any important ones? Leave your thoughts and questions in the comments below.


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Where is the Big O to yell and scream about invading Gisele's privacy? I can picture it now. "How dare this Instagram blogger hide in the bushes and snap a photo of Gisele breast feeding in public!!! He should go to prison or be fired at the very least!"
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BRISTOL, Tenn. - Kicking off Friday, the schedule of a two-day event showcasing the blue-ribbon fly waters as well as the growing presence of vineyards in our region is set.
The Thunder Valley Fly & Wine, raising money for the Bristol chapter of Speedway Children's Charities, has a little something for everyone.
Spend an evening dining with the greats of the fly fishing sport at the Bruton Smith Building at Bristol Motor Speedway. Jeffrey Cardenas, Bob Clouser, Blane Chocklett and Beau Beasley will be entertaining guests with fish tales of all sorts.
The evening will conclude with a live auction including items from the honored guests as well as other fly fishing goodies. Cost per person is $50.


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Navigating Alaska on Regent: Seven Seas Navigator Cruise Review by clo6216
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Navigating Alaska on Regent
Destination: Alaska
Embarkation: Vancouver
Prior to Embarkation - We traveled with another couple and stayed at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver for a couple of days prior to the cruise. The hotel was outstanding. The rooms were spacious, clean and luxurious. The concierge made wonderful dinner recommendations, and all the personnel - from the front desk people to the doormen - were terrific.
Embarkation: The four of us took a limousine to the pier as it was less expensive than taking two cabs to accommodate our luggage. Boarding was quick and easy. We were on the ship around 1:00pm and had lunch in the Compass Room. We had all our meals in either the Compass Room or, one night, in Prime 7. We approached La Veranda for breakfast one morning, but quickly decided we preferred to be served in a dining room.
Introduction to Navigator - We had been upgraded to a Penthouse A Suite, #1123. The only difference between this stateroom and More the other balcony categories is a butler. Ours certainly was very nice, but I don't believe he provided any services not offered by room stewards. He made sure our refrigerator had the beverages we like and that our fruit basket was replenished. Our room steward was extremely efficient. The stateroom itself had a WALK-IN CLOSET. The bathroom had a separate stall shower, granite counter tops and tile floors. Nice. There was plenty of storage space. Dining - The quality and variety of the food was excellent. However, the service in the Compass Room was not up to the standards we previously experienced on Regent. Several times we were brought the wrong entrEe, and sometimes we felt rushed. Though open dining is convenient, I prefer having the same service staff throughout a cruise so they get to know your preferences. Also, the tables are too close together, and the wait staff negotiating between them was disruptive. It was nothing like fine dining. Prime 7, on the other hand, was absolutely perfect. I regret we were able to eat there only once.
Excursions - We were supposed to take the Misty Fjords Seaplane Adventure, but it was cancelled because of weather. Our favorite was the Tracy Arm catamaran -an extraordinary experience. Another "can't miss" excursion was the White Pass Railroad in Skagway. I don't recommend the Mendenhall Glacier River Float. It was freezing, wet, uncomfortable and rather boring. I wore five layers of clothes plus the horrible rubber pants, boots, jacket and life jacket they make you wear. Others in our party felt much the same way. We didn't book excursions in Whitehall but had an enjoyable time exploring on our own.
Entertainment - We went to the first two shows and were a little disappointed. We skipped the third show. We did, however, go to the Krew Kapers and loved it! There was no comedian on board. The lectures were good. The trivia and other daytime activities were nice. We enjoyed the pianist, Constantine, very much, and the band was terrific. But we missed the variety of evening entertainment afforded on larger ships. We enjoyed cocktails in Galileos and the small bar outside the library. The casino was very nice for such a small ship. We probably spent too much time there!
Miscellaneous - Wireless worked well except in Skagway. We hooked up our Magic Jack and were able to make free calls most days. The computer manager printed out our airline boarding passes the day before we left. It's a small ship with only two stores. I actually had trouble spending our onboard credits. My husband says this is the first time I've had trouble spending money!
Disembarkment - Easy. Organized.
Overall, it was a wonderful trip. The staff on Navigator is terrific. Everyone goes to great lengths to make sure you have a good time. And we did! Is it worth the price compared to lines like Holland America and Celebrity? We're not so sure. Less
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I had breast implants before and had them removed almost a year ago one of the reasons because of chest muscle deformity when flexing the muscle, but the problem still there even without implants. I would like to know if botox can be injected into the chest muscles to minimize the deformity when contracting the muscle? how much botox would be needed? How long should the effects last? Any doctor in the Massachusetts area who would do this? thank you
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Be cautious with botox treatment of chest muscles
Botox treatment in the chest muscle may require hundreds of units and it may cause functional problems with opening doors, pushing off with your arm from a chair or bed to stand up. it may not correct the problem you have.
Can Botox be Used to Help with Chest Muscles Deformity?
There are reports of Botox being used to decreased hypertrophied muscles, so technically this could be attempted. You might want to see a thoracic surgeon to discuss this possibility.
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Backstage at a Raf Simons show is one of the few places you can find a decent meal here at Paris Fashion Week, and the models love him for it. It's a mutual admiration - he greets each one warmly by name as they enter the venue. With 30 minutes before the scheduled starting time, the scene in hair and makeup was one of stressful energy and frenzied pace. Boys who'd arrived late from the show before were sitting in the makeup chairs being worked on by multiple people. Two dry-shampooing their hair, one on makeup, another looking out for stray hairs to shave. Sure they're a naturally good canvas, but it takes a whole team to get these guys runway ready.
Fifteen minutes to go and the models were all lined up for their walk-through. A circular catwalk with stairs and an unusual photographer's pit location meant two trial-runs were needed to ensure a flawless real-deal performance. Of the 25-odd boys present, three were Antipodeans - Aucklander Michael Whittaker, expat Kiwi Aiden Andrews and androgynous rising star Australian Andrej Pejic. Australia's numbers were made up by the senior makeup artist (another expat) and the ubiquitous photographer Sonny Vandevelde. There are only two rules backstage - no photos allowed of the designer, and make sure you're out before the show begins. I heeded both and left just before the lights came up.
There was a definite male nurse/inpatient aspect to this, Raf Simons' 15th anniversary collection, with its white smocks and open-zipped backs, like one might see in a designer hospital sometime in the distant future. Or on a wetsuit - the designer claimed surfing as a reference. Gone were the skinny pants of the past few Raf collections, replaced with oxford bags in white and black. Those overskirts from Winter were back though, this time in a tight miniskirt variety, echoing the pockets of the trousers on which they sat, and accentuating the curves of the bottoms over which they stretched. Shorts came in two varieties - low crotched and square like culottes, or tight like a biker's lycra numbers.
This was a true summer collection, one of the first we've seen all season. The colours - white, avocado, fleshy pink, magenta (all found in a medical institution) - were light enough for the warmer months. The shapes, while challenging, were all appropriate for heat. How wearable the collection will be is debatable - it might be a hard sell to get your typical guy into a suit with a multicoloured zipper running down the back. But then again, the more outlandish pieces only served to make the traditional seem even more covetable in the end. The final couple of outfits were dark suits - Raf Simons narrow, with pulled in waists. But it's the tee shirts we'll be seeing on (or off if you don't do up the zipper) all backs come summertime. They were white with a graphic image of a menage-à-trois in full swing alongside the words, 'HOW WE WOULD MAKE LOVE'.
When it was all said and done the crowd applauded for twice as long as they usually would at a fashion show, but it was nothing like what was going on backstage. I sprinted down the stairs to find an American sporting kind of chant: "Raf! Raf! Raf! Raf!" accompanied by ecstatic cheers and clapping. If you're still provoking those kinds of reactions from the team and the fans after 15 years in business, you know you're onto a good thing.


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Found a full set of 06 SRT8 seats!! Need input ASAP!!
Will they fit perfectly into my 2005 WK LAREDO???? I only have driver side power seating, but knowing chrysler... the plugs are there somewhere for the passenger...
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drivers seat is plug and play, but you will have to run power to the passengers seat for it to work
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It tan an option for the srt8's? All srt8 seats i see are gray
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I saw what you saw on ebay, lol. I am waiting for them to sell black ones.I don't like those grey ones. Good luck on the buy. Can't wait to see it.
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slate grey and dark slate grey are the only interior options for the SRT
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How much do yall think that would run me in shipping cost?
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my seats were supposed to be $600 for freight when i bought them (the freight companies charge extra when you dont have a loading dock) but they ended up shipping them to me for free...........
I payed 250$ to have my seats shipped to me from Florida to Baltimore, MD. I used R&L Carriers.
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In December 2010, the National Center for Safe Routes to School held its 13th Safe Routes to School (SRTS) National Course Instructor Training in Birmingham, Alabama. Eighteen professionals from around the country participated in a week-long training to become SRTS National Course Instructors. To date, over 200 professionals have been trained to be SRTS National Course Instructors.
Many thanks to local hosts, the Alabama Department of Transportation, United Way of Central Alabama, and the Regional Planning Commission of Greater Birmingham, and congratulations to the newest Instructors:
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Friends of Moffat County Education hosts weekend 5K
August 6, 2012
Results …
Dew Buster 5K Walk/Run age group winners:
• Men 18 and older — Derek Duran
• Boys 13 to 18 — Matt Hamilton
• Boys 12 and younger — Wyatt Mortenson
• Women 18 and older — Elizabeth Tucker
• Girls 13 to 18 — Katelyn Peroulis
• Girls 12 and younger — Rosalie Mortenson
Dew Buster One-Mile Family Fun Run winners:
• 5 to 9 — Conner Chalmers and Emma Jones
• 9 to 12 — Leah Jackson and Dylan Chalmers
"We were very happy to see all the kids come out. We had a lot more kids running the 5K this time than in the last one, which is great. They had fun and that's what really matters."
—Chris Jones, Friends of Moffat County Education president, about participation in Saturday's Dew Buster 5K Walk/Run and One-Mile Family Fun Run
Before grabbing some grub at the Colorado State Barbecue Championships, some Moffat County residents got up early for a Saturday morning run.
More than 80 people participated in the Friends of Moffat County Education Dew Buster 5K Walk/Run and One-Mile Family Fun Run at Loudy-Simpson Park.
The race was 3.1 miles. Derek Duran, who crossed the finish line first in a time of 21:07, said it was an excellent day for a run.
"It's a perfect day out here," Duran said. "This was a good atmosphere, it was a good turnout, so it was fun." Wyatt Mortenson, 9, was the overall runner-up in the race, finishing in 23:15.
Mortenson reacted to his finish with nonchalance.
"I've done a lot of 5Ks," he said. "My first was when I was 3, so I like them."
For the women, Elizabeth Tucker and Katelyn Peroulis ran side-by-side throughout, finishing in 23:54 as the top female runners in their respective age divisions.
Saturday was the second 5K organized by FMCE, and while the event did not attract as many runners as the first, the Wake the Whittler 5K in late June, FMCE President Chris Jones was not discouraged by the turnout.
"We didn't know that (the barbecue and balloon festival) were going to be happening until just a couple weeks ago," he said. "Because of all the (fire) bans we had to wait because we wanted to have our race happening with other stuff in the community.
"So we didn't get to advertise this one as much as we would have liked, but I still think we had a good turnout."
Getting children out to run and be active is one of the primary goals of the races for FMCE, so Jones was encouraged by the number who participated Saturday.
"We were very happy to see all the kids come out," he said. "We had a lot more kids running the 5K this time than in the last one, which is great. They had fun and that's what really matters."
FMCE is planning another 5K, tentatively scheduled for the weekend of Moffat County High School's home cross-country meet, Sept. 22.
Jones said it will be tough to beat the atmosphere from the Dew Buster.
"I don't know if you could ask for better surroundings," he said. "We've got perfect running weather, the barbecues are going so you've got that smell, the balloons in the air. This was a fun one."
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The sights and the sounds of the cottage will enchant. Traffic sounds and sirens are the exception here-not the rule. Instead, bird songs and breezes through the surrounding evergreens will clear the cobwebs from your busy day and encourage you to slow down and yes, smell the roses.
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The reaction to this cascade of images — mutilated American bodies in Fallujah, abused prisoners at Abu Ghraib, Nicholas Berg beheaded on video — raises troubling questions about Americans' relationship with violence. (Related story: What to tell the kids when the good guys run amok)
After all, box office hits, Nielsen stars and best-selling video games spring from entertainment laden with gore, sadism and humiliation. "In today's media-saturated environment, where we are pelted with many compelling images, we need to be shocked before we perk up and pay attention," says Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. "Anything that violates your eyes — nudity, violence, crassness — cuts through the buzz."
Yet viewers say they're horrified.
"We say, 'How perverse! How awful can you get!' and 'Hey, look at this one!' " says author Maggie Scarf, who specializes in mental health problems.
But some experts fear that the immersion in violent imagery will ricochet in people's psyches.
"It desensitizes us to violence. It makes us scared. And decades of research show it can facilitate violence in the viewer," says Frank Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association.
The effect of this hits much closer to home than Iraq, says Lenore Walker, a psychologist with NOVA Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale.
Ordinary people may grow less tolerant during conflict "with anyone who bugs him, road rage, any little stressors," Walker says.
The repercussions of witnessing violence, even vicariously, can "go beyond the brain, into your body, your whole nervous circuitry," Scarf says. "It can make you feel helpless, that life is out of control and there is no possible response to what's going on."
So why don't people just turn off the news, choose different entertainment, shut out the images?
• The draw is biological, says Stuart Fischoff, professor of media psychology at California State University in Los Angeles.
From the time humans lived in caves until they moved into subdivisions, "we're innately attracted to things that have a threat potential. We track them, instinctively orienting toward the catastrophic or dangerous," he says.
• It's cultural habit.
Long after Romans cheered kill-or-be-killed gladiators, Gladiator became a global box office smash. People have been telling stories of murderous rage, genocide and war since Homer sang of Troy, says Yahoo "Movie Mom" critic Nell Minow of McLean, Va.
And people indulge in violent images for entertainment or political persuasion because fundamentally, they know that what they see is unreal, distant or indirect.
"Even someone who has seen Dawn of the Dead will still be moved and horrified by documentary footage from a war zone," Minow says. "It really is different if you know that it's real."
• It's effective.
Where a violent image is missing, it is supplied to prod voters to the polls, to pack crowds at rallies or rev up donations. Look at clashes over abortion rights in which each side holds placards — coat hangers recalling back-door abortion days on one side, mutilated fetuses on the other.
• It may be necessary, especially in a democracy, in which people need information to make choices.
"The fact is that war is a terrible, terrible thing, and everyone is on the front lines," Minow says. "Now that everyone is embedded through photography, we will have to be more honest with ourselves about the risks we are taking and the sacrifices we are making."
This echoes responses by many newspaper and Web site readers surveyed last month by the Associated Press Credibility Roundtables project.
More than 13,642 readers of 29 news outlets were asked whether media should have published the photo of Iraqis cheering as the burned bodies of two Americans hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
The majority, 58%, said yes.
The debate over the line between information and overkill raises another question. "Is it more healthy to have a less realistic vision of the world?" Felling asks.
"If the barometer for (using violent images) is whether Americans would be comfortable with them over their cereal in the morning, what happens when the world doesn't pass the cereal test?"
Contributing: Karen S. Peterson


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When Lola stirs the waters of her simple life by falling in love with her ex-doctor, her father reappears and the storms of transformation roll in. Louisiana's most violent storm, ever, mercilessly thrashes Lola, her lover, her parents, her loving landlords and their priest until Grover's mystical light illuminates the truth about their Angel Through the Storms.
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Derrick Rose's doctor has cleared the Chicago Bulls' star to play, a team source said, but his long-awaited return to the lineup won't occur until he can confidently dunk off his left foot, Rose has told the team. Rose, who had surgery to repair a tear to the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee on May 12, has been videotaped dunking off each foot, but more casually than he would during a game. A source said that although he has been practicing and scrimmaging hard, he told the Bulls that until he feels "in his mind" he can confidently dunk off his left foot in a game situation, he is not 100 percent mentally ready to return to competition.
The team is not pressuring Rose, the source said, but the Bulls are confident he will return this season and are still hoping for a mid-March return, which would mark 10 months after his surgery. The Bulls play at Golden State on March 15. The source said the team has been assured by Rose's doctor that there is no more chance of the former MVP getting injured upon his return than anyone else and that the doctor told the Bulls that physically "he can play now." Rose is now dealing with the psychological side of trusting his body.
Well this is something. Our star point guard has basically gone full on Ricky Bobby on us. Rolling around the court like he's on fire and his knee is still torn.
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E-Letters To The Editor
March 4, 1996
Well, that's it. Full time whistle. No extra time. Decision made. Here's the bed we've made - time to lie in it. Etc etc etc.
We're going to split the letters up into before and after today. Many of the following came in before 6.30pm on Saturday, when the situation became abundantly clear. Thanks for writing.
The Thing that grabs me by the balls
The thing that pisses me off with all your stupid POLLS and commentators that were WRONG WRONG WRONG last federal election is that you're all so UNACCOUNTABLE for your paltry predictions and I hope Geoff Kitney for one is eating grass on Sunday. I hope all your meaningless POLLS taken on 1000 people (wow, is 1000 people really that significant and representative?) are shown to be the CRAP they are and that all you dumbarsed liberal voters out there come off your high Sunday morning to see Keating and Labor reinstated. Howard's face at the moment makes me sick and if it can be wiped of that moronic grin, the sooner the better. May Howard be kicked out of Australian politics FOREVER!!!!!!!
Election - what they all missed?
No wonder people are cynical, our political leaders have missed the growing opinion of the Australian voters. That is, people want more consultation and a voice in the decisions that affect them on a continuing basis, not just every three years. Of course voters feel isolated. They only get to voice their opinion during elections. Between elections they are poorly treated, rarely listened to and generally forced to accept decisions and broken promises in relative silence. No wonder politicians and political parties are seen to be out of touch with the people. The political community only has to worry about the people every three years. They don't have to worry about our opinion every day !
I would look forward to hearing from anyone with a similar opinion. Perhaps enough of us can change this situation. Please reply by e-mail to email@example.com or write to tek, c/- P.O. box 125, Cambridge Park, NSW, 2747.
Voting tonight
I'm following your coverage in Ireland where there is almost zero mention of the election. I'll be casting my postal vote tonight and your site has been my only source of information on the campaign. Well done.
Re: Stop disowning First Peoples
Please do not forget that 1996 is the 50th anniversary of the Pilbarra strike of Aboriginal stockmen. When in a cardinal action, the blacks of the northwest refused to accept that they should be paid in kind and their white stockmen brothers be paid wages. The 1st of May, 1996, sees an anniversary event of national importance.
Mr Don McLeod lives, and the action of the Pilbarra stockmen is a reminder of our often difficult and troubled history. The black Eureka is a reminder of the need for our society to come to grips with the indigenous imperative held in our future. Are we just misplaced or displaced Eurasians or are we Australians? Please think. Our children will have to live in our dominant paradigm and society. What does it mean and what will it mean for tomorrow?
Keating victory
If the Australian electorate votes to remove the Keating government,then I will believe unreservedly that our country is largely made up of superficial, mind-undernourished, inward looking individuals - much like young children. But this is also it. I'm sure the majority of Australians will settle for nothing more than the pitch from commercial news and current affairs shows, which are generally understood to be levelled at an audience with an intellectual age of nine or ten. With only this to direct their thinking, then we can only assume that there is not much thinking at all. I hope Australians prove me wrong, because any informed person would have to see Paul Keating as a superior leader, director, visionary and entertainer when compared with the conservative, soporific figure of John Howard. Yes, entertaining is important. If you spend time pursuing an interest in politics, apart from sifting through the rhetoric which is inevitable, it's nice to be able to have a laugh at an amusing person. I hope Mr Keating wins the election. I want to be happy about my politics.
Malay Net
Friday night in Malaysia and believe me it's getting hot up here ... A crowd of almost half a dozen Fosters-clutching Aussie expats are going to be glued to this computer screen for as long as it takes - PLEASE don't mention the R-word!
Recently Departed Rearview Regards
I left Australia last August after two years of bliss, to return to Canada. This is like jumping from the frying pan into the freezer in electoral and climatic terms. Once again, Australians are going to the polls (about five hours or so from now), and the pollies have raised all of the "problems" and challenges you face. Get over it, mates.
Over the past two decades, Australia has transformed itself in ways few other nations can aspire to. You have become globalised, without becoming Americanised. You have become cosmopolitan, without losing your national identity. You have become self-reliant, without becoming a selfish country. Compared to these accomplishments, the minutiae of runway patterns and even balances of payments, are background noise.
So no matter who wins on Saturday, take a deep breath on Sunday, crack a few tinnies and get smug about your success as a people, and as a nation. You've earned it, and no election should be allowed to take it away!
Really appreciate your website. Great layout and content!
SMH Election Pages
Congratulations on your WWW Election Pages. And thanks. It's the only way to find out anything about Oz politics here in the heart of Texas.
Election web site
It's 6:30 am on election day. I've just cast an electronic vote and then looked at your election site, among others. Web designers, well done. Neat stuff.
Please leave it up for at least a few months. This is a great example of a web application that I'd like to refer to in my Internet training courses.
I think the idea is that we'll leave it up as a record for some time, maybe forever - Ed
More thanks
Thankyou very much for your excellent election coverage. I have been reading it since about week 2, and have found it fairly balanced and an enjoyable read. What are the chances of an equally good daily net-paper? The Age is a very Victorocentric paper and we (Aussies overseas) need a good read of what's happening at home. It looks a bit like the coalition may scrape through at this stage, but Labor may pull it off yet. Thanks again for your great coverage. I've especially enjoyed the Pollie Waffle and Diary Of A Voter pages and the bloke who did the diary must be commended on his Seinfeld episode, which I actually copied and sent on to a few of my Aussie mates (I hope you don't mind).
As long as you're not making money out of it, I'm sure Tony won't mind - Ed
Election coverage
I am an ex-pat currently living in the Yukon Territory in Canada (about as far from Australia as you can get - physically and figuratively) and since discovering the SMH election coverage Web site some days ago have found your coverage exciting to follow. I have called up the site every day since. Like one of your previous correspondents (Mat Peterson in Ireland), I'm sure I'm reading this news before almost anybody else in Australia. Keep up the good work, and consider special sites for future major events.
It is almost mid-day, March 2, 1996. The chores of the day are done, including a visit to the local polling booth. Why is it that I feel distant and remote from the drama that has been layed out over the past weeks? Why is that I feel a some discomfort in the choice that I have made?
My political philosophy was cut and shaped at Monash University, in the height of the student protests and in the dying agony of the Vietnam war. I had reached adulthood without ever experiencing a Labor government, either state or federal. My memory of the Labor party throughout the fifties and sixties is an indelible image of incompetence, and of small mindedness. But something happened during the Vietnam war. The horror that confronted us every day created a new and different intelligentsia. Our educational institutions became hot beds of debate and forged new and complex alliances. It was easy to be rebellious. Life was good and getting better, and I know that none of us then felt any concerns about the prospects of work and career. It was assumed that what was desired would occur.
The Labor party absorbed the new intellegentsia. It must have been a strange experience for the party faithful in the branches, the battlers who had been the footsoldiers for two decades before, to see their party infiltrated and occupied by this new educated elite. But it was indeed time, time for transformation, time for a new dream, yet an old dream to be fulfilled.
In the few short years that followed, something went horribly wrong. Yet the new believers stayed loyal and continued the good fight. The beginning of the eighties was the real turning point. Labor governments won sweeping victories, conquering political territory that had been previously unassailable. Surely the hope that had been created and nurtured would now be realised. But was it?
The answer must be yes and no. Perhaps we all expect too much of our political system. Perhaps our society is too complex for dramatic and permanent change to occur. Where once I believed that change through the creativity and drive of a few key people was possible, I am no longer so optimistic. And while I know that much has been achieved, that the Australian landscape today is transformed from the landscape that nurtured and formed me, I am still deeply disappointed at the opportunities that have been lost.
So why have I turned my back on my political heritage? Is the alternative more attractive - does it offer more? I think not. But a cancer has developed and grown within the Labor party. It is a cancer arising from intellectual arrogance, the arrogance of so few, but meekly accepted by so many. It is a corrupting cancer, because it has silenced the voices that dissented and challenged the status quo. I look at the Labor ranks and I can see the shining lights that emerged as I did from the tumult of the 1960's. I look at the conservative ranks and I see an intellectual desert - maybe I am wrong, and in time I may think differently. I want to see the cancer removed, but politics does not allow a neat incision. When the cancer is at the top, it can only be removed by rejecting the body. So I have made my choice - but I will not rest easy with it. I can only hope that in death, new life can grow.
No whingeing
Don't whinge, you just haven't got a clue how good you've got it! Who cares who gets in, nothing's really going to change that much. Just thank your lucky stars that you don't have one of these ridiculous Presidential races like they do here in the US. Politics in the US make me homesick more than anything.
New technology?
3am NY time, Saturday morning. Republican primaries in full force - flat tax versus anti-NAFTA but somehow it's just not the same as the Federal elections. How do I find out the latest results - phone home? Why not use that wonderful invention of late - the Internet! Yet I log in to find that the SMH site says try ABC and as always the ABC promises more than it delivers - "Site not answering , try later". . . . try later! It's 3 in the morning - not bloody likely! Good luck little Johnnie Howard - I'm going to bed!
My verdict
London 10:30am - Australia 9:30pm
Election Results
I want to congratulate you for putting such detailed and incisive election coverage on the Internet for non-Australians to access. It's great to see Australia's commitment to Internet use. I'd also like to congratulate the Australian electorate for having the wisdom to terminate the entrenched arrogance of the leftist Labor Government and choosing a future based on hope, opportunity, and realism instead of class envy. When America renders its verdict on the Clinton catastrophe this November I hope we will be inspired by Australia's example on March 2.
For the first time in my 30 years, I am embarrassed to be an Australian. A nation of people who feel that they can pretend that what's happening to the rest of the world can be avoided if we turn back the clock & put our heads in the sand...
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Australia has just lost an exceptional leader and a government which has made Australia the place it is today, a peaceful country with a big future. I believe in Keating's vision for Australia and would have liked the Labor government to lead us into the new millennium and make it a reality. Thank you Paul for doing such a great job! For making Australia such a great place to live in. A student worried about what the future now holds for us Australians.
King Keating is gone, isn't it wonderful? Now if everyone will just give the coalition a go... Labor had 13 years in office and look at the mess they have made. Everyone is talking about the good they have done ... baaah! Sure we have a high living standard, but maybe, just maybe, if the Libs had got in last time and implemented GST, we would have an even higher standard of living...


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I''ve been experimenting with the traveler adjustments in light winds trying to induce more twist and power-up the mainsail (traveler to windward, ease the mainsheet) - this did not gain me boatspeed. In heavier winds, I''ve had to depower the main by dropping the traveler to leeward - this does work well in gaining better boat control and limiting apparent wind speed.
I understand that I need more trimming practice and to develop a better feel for my specific boat. And I know that I''ll need to master the traveler as I contemplate racing one of these days. So, is it only the anal, sailing perfectionist (or club racer) that spends time on the traveler?
Traveler usage?
I adjust the traveler and backstay more than I adjust the mainsheet even when daysailing single-handed.
Traveler usage?
You didn''t mention whether you were using telltales on the main.
I have four tell tales on the leach of my main...getting them to fly properly gives me valuable feedback on whether the adjustment to the traveler or mainsheet was what I needed for better sail trim.
Traveler usage?
The mainsheet traveler is used to optimize the width of the slot between the mainsail and the jib. By precise adjustment of the traveler, you can ensure that the slot between the mainsail and jib is neither too wide nor too narrow to accept the volume of air that is being directed through it. The width of the slot must be correctly adjusted in order for the sails to generate their maximum amount of power. You should adjust the jib correctly for the course that you will be sailing, and then adjust the mainsail until the jib just begins to backwind and lift the luff of the mainsail. When that happens, you know that the width of the slot is just right.
When the windspeed increases, and the boat becomes overpowered, you can narrow the slot and reduce the amount of power that is generated by the sails by easing the traveler to leeward. You can also narrow the slot and reduce the amount of power by easing the mainsheet, but that changes the shape of the mainsail in ways that are not helpful. By correctly adjusting the relationship between the mainsail and the jib, you also maximize the boat''s ability to point.
Also, when you bear off the wind from a beat to a close reach and you ease the jibsheet, you are opening up the slot between the mainsail and the jib. By adjusting the traveler to leeward, you can optimize the width of the slot for that course. As you bear off even further (beyond the range of adjustment of the traveler), you need to ease the mainsheet to adjust the width of the slot, and you use the boom vang to control the shape of the mainsail.
If your sails are badly trimmed, and you suddenly correct that condition, then the difference will be enough to register on your knotmeter. But, if your sails are basically trimmed correctly, and you are making the kind of fine adjustments that a skilled racer would use, those fine adjustments can''t be measured by your knotmeter. Your knotmeter isn''t accurate enough to register differences in the range of an umpteenth of a knot. You have to read the authorities on sail trim, learn the basic principles, and take it on faith that, if you follow their advice, the boat will go minutely faster and point minutely higher. The only way that you can know for sure those techniques are working is by comparing your progress with the progress of other boats or racers, to see whether you are consistently gaining on them or falling behind.
Moving the traveler to windward and easing the mainsheet in light air is only helpful so long as the width of the slot is optimized. If it widens the slot, it could be detrimental. Your first concern should be to shape your sails as full as possible and to get the width of the slot right. Then you can make slight adjustments to the mainsail shape to power up the mainsail to the nth degree. But don''t expect to see or feel any resulting increase in speed.
In my opinion, there isn''t any difference between the basic techniques that a skilled racer and a skilled cruiser would use. The same sail trimming techniques that help a racer drive efficiently to the windward mark also help a cruiser claw off a lee shore. The same techniques that get a racer around the course ahead of the competition will get a passagemaker to the destination three days ahead of schedule. You don''t have to learn all the sophisticated sail trim techniques to enjoy sailing, but the more you learn, the more efficient and safer sailor you will be.
Traveler usage?
I don''t know how much in vogue the "slot effect" theory is these days with racers or theorists. Sailormon is probably correct in saying that making the "slot" too small will reduce lift of the headsail/mainsail combo. The interaction of headsail and main is one that has certainly generated a lot of "wind", but Sailormon is certainly correct in generally arguing that you have to consider the two sails as working together, and try to optimize the performance of both for best performance of the boat.
You don''t say whether your boat has a boom vang or not (a control line which allows downward force to be exerted on the boom, usually attached between a point near mid boom and a point near the base of the mast). The presence or absence of a vang will determine how much use you can get out of your traveler.
Without a vang, the traveler is your best way to control the angle of attack between the main and the wind, particularly when beating to windward. If the wind shifts and you compensate by easing the sheet, your sail shape will change. If it was well shaped before, it will no longer be so. A vang-less boat does best to play the wind shifts (or adjust course) using the traveler to keep the mainail''s angle of attack optimized.
A boat with a vang on it can "vang-sheet", usually in a stiff breeze: tighten the vang to flatten the sail, and use the sheet to control the sail''s angle of attack. If the vang is set rather loose for light winds, however, your sail shape may change if you sheet in too tight in an attempt to get the sail angle (boom angle) close to the centerline of the boat. In light air, a traveler is useful to allow a full shape in the main (having an eased sheet) while pulling the boom to windward until it is centered for good pointing ability.
To some extent downwind, the traveler will also replace the function of a vang, allowing you to shape the sail with the mainsheet while having the proper angle of attach relative to the wind. Alas, most travelers don''t have enough range of motion to allow a fairly broad reach with flattened sails; this is where having a vang is a real advantage.
Allen Flanigan
Alexandria, VA
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Sailormon 6:
With all due respect, reading you post it is clear that you are way too obsessed with the slot, don''t understand the concept of powering up or down a sail plan, and really don''t seem to understand the role of the traveler in powering up or down the sail plan.
While closing down the slot too far can in fact slow a boat down, the slot has nothing to do with depowering the rig, as least as the term ''depowering'' is used in sail trim terminology.
In a general sense, there are a lot of factors in powering up or down a sail but the two biggies are the depth of its camber and the angle of attack. The deeper the camber (curvature of the sail) the more drive the sail develops, but along with drive (which is the forward component of the force generated) with increased camber comes a higher side force as well. This sideforce causes heeling and leeway. In really light air, the air flow lacks sufficient energy to flow around a sail with too deep a camber. As the wind picks up, you can introduce deeper camber which is how you ''power up'' a sail. Powering up involves and easing of halyards, outhauls,and backstays.
As the wind builds, so does drive but at some point hydrodynamic drag becomes the limit on speed, and at this point additional drive is not necessary. As this point is approached heeling becomes excessive. As the boat approaches this point the sails need to be depowered. To depower halyards, outhauls, and backstays are tightened. This pulls fabric out of the body of the sail, flattening the sail. The sail produces less forward drive, but it also produces less side force.
The second aspect of this discussion is angle of attack. For any given wind and sailshape, at any point on the sail, there is a proper angle of attack. If the angle of attack is too flat, the sail luffs, and if the angle of attack is too steep, the sail generates less lift and more drag and greater sideforces causing more heeling and leeway.
Because of gradiant wind effect, (slower air near the water than higher in the air due to the friction between the water surface and the air above) in light air, the apparent wind angle felt by the sail will be different at the head of the sail than at the foot. The apparent wind at the foot of the sail, will appear to be more forward than the air at the masthead. To allow the sail to have a proper angle of attack twist is introduced into the sail so that the upper part of the sail has a different angle of attack than the bottom of the sail. Here is where the traveler, backstay, and the boom vang come into play.
By bringing the traveller to windward, the pull of the mainsheet becomes more horizontal than vertical. In doing so, the boom is held inward toward the centerline, but the boom is allowed to lift a little, and that lifting eases the tension on the leech of the sail allowing more twist to develop.
As the wind builds, gradient effect generally becomes insigificant, so the whole leading edge of the sail wants the same angle of attack and in general, that angle of attack needs to be much flatter than it would be in moderate winds. To unify the angle of attack, the traveller is lowered to leeward and the mainsheet tightened, which increases the downward force on the leech of the sail. This increased leech tension removes the twist from the sail. As the wind builds the angle of attack can further be lessened by lowering traveler further to leeward. As you bear off on a reach, the traveller can be further lowered to maintain the proper angle of attack without powering up the sail, but at some point the sail needs to be eased broader off than the length of the traveller can permit while still generating the proper downward force, at that point the Vang takes over the main role in controling twist and the sheet then simply controls the overall angle of attack of the sail.
Simply easing the mainsheet in a strong breeze does allow the head of the sail to twist off and reduce heel, but it comes at a price. In easing the sheet the boom rises and allows more fabric into the body of the sail increasing power just when you need to reduce power, and also in order to obtain enough drive, the lower portion of the sail is overtrimmed developing a lot more weather helm than would occur with proper sail bladed out sail trim.
The backstay tension (especially on a fractional rig) can be used to depower the rig further. On any rig, even one with a stiff mast, tensioning the backstay removes sag from the forestay and is doing so, draws fabric out of the sail in a horizontal direction, flattening the jib and depowering it. As the forestay is tightened the mast moves aft and that also changes the relationship between the jibsheet lead and the head of the sail, allowing the leech of the jib to open slightly, reducing the angle of attack of the upper portion of the sail. On a boat with a bendy rig, and more dramatically and controllably on a fractionally rigged boat, as backstay tension increases the mast bows forward, in doing so it also draws fabric out of the sail depowering the sail in the same manner that tightening the forestay flattens and depowers the jib. Also similar to the jib, the masthead moves aft as the backstay is tightened and that opens the leech slightly at the head of the sail, easing the angle of attack and further reducing heeling, weather helm and leeway.
There is a tendancy to dismiss this as ''racer stuff'' but these kinds of subtle sail trim adjustments can make for a much more comfortable and controlable passage as well as adding significantly to the speed of the boat.
Lastly, really disagree with the idea That "if your sails are basically trimmed correctly, and you are making the kind of fine adjustments that a skilled racer would use, those fine adjustments can''t be measured by your knotmeter". Small adjustments to backstay or traveller positions can tremendously reduce weather helm and heel angles. On my prior 28 footer, these fine tuning items were good for a half knot or more, and on bigger boats or in higher winds, these kinds of minor adjustments can yield ennormous gains in speed.
Traveler usage?
Hmmm. I suppose Jeff that you may be correct under really light conditions, a sail with deeper camber will stall because the air cannot "follow" the shape of the sail; i.e. the sail cannot "accelerate" the flow (get it to change direction, thus generating lift force). I''ll have to experiment with this next time I''m out on the Potomac on one of our notorious light air days. My acquired understanding from reading tuning guides is that in "light" air, as opposed to "heavy" air, powering up involves making the sail shape rounder. Steve Colby''s theory is that faster moving air has a harder time following a rounded sail shape and will be more likely to "separate" from the sail, stalling it. But your sentence regarding "powering up" seems absolutely correct: Ease halyards/downhauls, outhauls, backstays to power up in lighter air. This should give the sail a rounder shape for maximum lift. And, as Jeff points out, as the wind builds you reach a point where you have all the lift you can handle and need to depower the sail by flattening it.
Check out the following guides for mainsail trimming and shaping:
Here''s a good guide for those who lack a vang:
http://www.quantumsails.com/pdf/THE%20MAINSAIL%20TRIMMER%20AND%20THE%20TRAVELER.pd f
Here''s Dan Dickison''s two part article on controls for the mainsail other than the traveler and sheet:
Traveler usage?
Your discussion is, as usual, thorough and technically sound, but, if Humpwalker is really a beginner, it might have been more complex than he needs at this time.
Im not a naval architect, or sailmaker, or physics professor, and I dont think Humpwalker expected me to be otherwise. Im a retired lawyer and weekend sailor who has, for many years, had consistent racing success wherever I have raced, and who enjoys sharing what I know with new sailors. Like most people, I am impressed by the depth of your understanding of sailing technology, and grateful for the generous contribution of your time to the forum, but your comments on my post are grossly unfair, plainly wrong and mean-spirited, and I really dont understand what prompted them.
You begin with the assertion that you are way too obsessed with the slot. How do you know the amount of importance that I attribute to the slot? Are you saying that adjusting the slot is unimportant? The only clue that I gave to my assessment of the relative importance of the slot is when I said that, in light air it is more important to adjust the slot than it is to tweak the shape of the mainsail in the manner that Humpwalker suggested. I said, get the slot right first, then tweak the mainsail. Do you disagree? Should Humpwalker allow the mainsail to luff while he is fooling around trying to shape it?
Next, you claim that I don''t understand the concept of powering up or down a sail plan, and really don''t seem to understand the role of the traveler in powering up or down the sail plan. Later it becomes apparent that you are really quibbling with my use of the term depowering. If you will re-read my post you will see that I never used that term. What I said was When the windspeed increases, and the boat becomes overpowered, you can narrow the slot and reduce the amount of power that is generated by the sails by easing the traveler to leeward. Either your sails are harnessed to the wind and generating power, or they are disconnected from the wind, and flapping uselessly. Do you disagree with my conclusion that easing the traveler to leeward reduces the amount of power that is generated by the sails? Is it your opinion that the sails generate more power when you ease the traveler to leeward of the optimum position, in strong winds?
You close by saying that you really disagree with the idea that if your sails are basically trimmed correctly, and you are making the kind of fine adjustments that a skilled racer would use, those fine adjustments can''t be measured by your knotmeter." My opinion was expressed within the context of the situation presented by Humpwalker. He was trying to slightly tweak the shape of the mainsail in light air. You cannot expect such a minor tweak to register reliably on a knotmeter in light air conditions. I agree that tweaking the mainsail and jib in a variety of ways can, cumulatively, make a significant, observable difference in boat speed, especially in stronger winds, but that was not what Humpwalker was talking about. He was talking about making one little tweak, and then looking at the knotmeter to see if it registered a change in speed. The readings of a knotmeter can be helpful, but are also imprecise and ambiguous. Its often difficult to determine whether a change in boatspeed is due to a change in sail trim, or to a change in windspeed, or to wave action, or to some other factor. However, there is no ambiguity when the bearing to your opponent changes.
Traveler usage?
a very well presented explanation !!!
Traveler usage?
Hello Sailormon6,
I have gone back and reread Humpwalker,your original post and my response. To begin with I sincerely apologize to you if you read my response to your original post as "grossly unfair, plainly wrong and mean-spirited, and I really dont understand what prompted them." I really did not mean them that way. My comments were meant to answer the original question as it was asked dealing with use of the traveler in the wide range of conditions encountered by a weekend sailor. My critique of your post were not intended as a personal attack, but were intended, for your sake, to correct some errors in thinking that your posting appeared to making.
As I read your original post I felt and still feel that the question was about how to use the traveller under conditions that an average weekend sailors is compelled to adjust the traveler. In rereading your response I felt and feel that your post missed the key point in responding to the question at hand, namely that the traveler only does two things, control twist and control angle of attack. (I elaborated beyond those two items so as to put the concept of twist and angle of attack into perspective.)It is for that reason that I said, "You....really don''t seem to understand the role of the traveler in powering up or down the sail plan". That probably should have been phrased "Your post does not explain the role of the traveler in powering up or down the sail plan" which is at the heart of the question being asked.
I still think that your post places too much emphasis on the slot. You spend a lot of time talking about optomizing the width of the slot. Except in light air, the slot shape plays a pretty minor part role sail trim. If you reread your post, with nearly every suggestion of a change in sail trim you talk about the shape of the slot. At the same time your post never really talks about the sail trimming factors that predominantly control drive and side force, namely camber, and angle of attack. That was the point of my comment, "that you are way too obsessed with the slot". That comment probably should have read "Your post appears to be way too obsessed with the slot."
I do admit that perhaps I misunderstood what you were saying in your post when you were discussing what happens when a boat is overpowered. You discuss a couple of ways of dealing with being overpowered but again only as they affect the slot, without ever talking about how they affected whether the boat was too powered up or too bladed out which is far more significant to how the boat is performing.
Again I should probably have said "Your post does not appear to understand the concept of powering up or down a sail plan" rather than say that you didn''t seem to understand these concepts. My point here was that for all of the discussion within your post, there was never any reference to the concepts involved in powering up and down and that the basics of sail trim really deal with shifting gears between being appropriately powered for the conditions and point of sail.
Lastly, you and I appear to disagree on the accuracy of a knotmeter as a sail trim tool. This may result from how we each use a knotmeter and the equipment we are using in conjunction with the knotmeter. I use the knotmeter a lot. I use it in conjunction with a wind instrument set to reflect the true wind. I keep my eyes moving between the knotmeter, wind instrument, the sails (mostly the teletales), and the masthead fly. Each gives different information, but cumulatively it is pretty easy to correlate speed with windspeed and direction to develop a sense of the performance of the boat for that windspeed (which will sometimes be different from one tack to the other)and sea state. While it is true that in many, if not most, conditions these instruments will jump around a lot, it is not hard to develop a sense of the pattern of change and to tell if even small adjustments help or hurt that pattern. while individual minor changes may result on small performance gains, the combined impact of these changes can often result in big gains. This is especially true when pointing or when sailing at deep wind angles.
Again, I apologize if my comments came off as being a personal attack. They were in no way meant as such.
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Cove 101: A Primer on Taiji, Japan's Senseless Dolphin Slaughter
July 31, 2009.
This was the release date for The Cove, the gripping and gut-wrenching documentary that ripped the curtain back on one of the animal kingdom's deadliest, saddest secrets: Each year, beginning on September 1, a group of fishermen in the tiny coastal village of Taiji, Japan, round up and systematically slaughter thousands of dolphins.
For hundreds of thousands of devotees—today, The Cove's Facebook page has 611,000 ardent fans—the film rapidly evolved from a movie into a movement. Fans became activists. And in the weeks and months after the film's release, those newly christened objectors spoke loud and clear in one unifying voice: Have a heart Japan; end the killings.
Certainly the unwavering international exposure on the slaughter of a beloved sea creature would put the bloody practice out to pasture, right? Wrong. Three years later, here we are: staring down the harpoon blade of another drive hunting season.
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To be sure, definitive progress has been made. The kill-count has decreased every year since 2009. Just shy of 800 dolphins were bludgeoned to death during the 2012-2013 hunting season, roughly 400 fewer than during the previous year, when the death count was 1,190. In the 2009-2010 season, 1,336 dolphins died. In 2008-2009, 1,484 dolphins lost their lives.
Beyond the sounds-clever-when-you-say-it-aloud trite analysis of The Cove as 'half thriller, half expose' or 'The Bourne Identity underwater,' the true draw of the film is that the atrocity is happening now, and can therefore be stopped now.
No one person embodies this deep-seeded need to end the cetacean carnage more than 72-year old Ric O'Barry, the movie and movement's penitent driving engine.
The founding father of the dolphin abolitionist movement can't stop shepherding the movie's message. If the future AP wire headline "Taiji Ends Dolphin Slaughter" isn't enough motivation to keep the white-haired activist going into his seventies, the guilt surely is.
In the 1960s, O'Barry worked for the Miami Seaquarium, and part of his job involved capturing and training dolphins for the popular television show Flipper.
After Kathy, the dolphin that played Flipper the most, committed suicide in his arms, O'Barry had an epiphany: forcing one of the smartest mammals on the planet into indentured servitude in theme parks like the Miami Seaquarium and SeaWorld was wrong and needed to end.
Save Japan Dolphins picks up O'Barry's transformation from there:
From that moment on, O'Barry knew what he must do with his life. On the first Earth Day, 1970, he founded the Dolphin Project, dedicated to freeing captive dolphins who were viable candidates and educating people throughout the world to the plight of dolphins in captivity.
He launched a searing campaign against the multi-billion dollar dolphin captive industry, telling the public what was really going on at dolphin shows and urging people not to buy tickets to see any dolphins play the fool.
In the open waters of the ocean, a free, wild dolphin can live up to 50 years. A caged dolphin, on the other hand, circles its tiny concrete chlorinated box-like tank as a de facto circus clown without purpose—often to the point of depression and suicide. Cash-cow theme parks like SeaWorld sell this as a form of marine mammal education to the public.
O'Barry has personally rescued and released more than 25 captive dolphins, but that direct, hands-on tactic is not possible in Taiji.
If he or any of his lieutenants actually tried to physically interfere with the slaughter, Taiji police would arrest them within minutes. And that doesn't even take into account the near logistical impossibility it would be to impede the fishermen. During Taiji's "drive hunt," a process known in Japanese as "oikomi," around 50 fishermen operating from large boats herd dolphins into the shallows of the cove. The best specimens are captured and sold to aquariums around the world. The rest are harpooned and butchered, with their toxic meat being sold to supermarkets.
The dolphin-hunting season runs from September through roughly April—though in 2012 it ended in mid-March—with Taiji fishermen killing or capturing a fraction of the country's annual 20,000-dolphin quota. Since the film's release, residents and fishermen in the town of 3,500 have stood firm in the face of international pressure, arguing the hunt is a traditional rite that can be traced back 50 years in Taiji.
By now you must be asking yourself: "Isn't it illegal to kill dolphins?"
It is, but with any rule, there are fine print exceptions.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was established in 1946 to regulate great whale hunts, but no international body regulates small cetacean hunts. (Dolphins are categorized as small cetaceans). Amid concern certain species had been hunted to the precipice of extinction, the IWC banned commercial whaling in 1986. Japan soon resumed hunting under an IWC clause that allows for the killing of whales under the guise of scientific research.
Legally and logistically then, O'Barry and his team have no choice but to combat the dolphin slaughter with peaceful protests and well-timed media blitzes aimed at educating the 127 million Japanese citizens, the overwhelming majority of whom have not seen the film. "Getting them to see it is a challenge," O'Barry told me in January. "That's been the hard thing because the media is owned and run by the government."
And then there's O'Barry's plan to appeal to the survival instincts of the Japanese people. This year, he will double-down on the campaign to inform the Japanese people about the ills of eating dolphin meat—a delicacy in parts of Asia, including Japan—which contains toxic levels of mercury.
On September 1, O'Barry and his crew from Save Japan Dolphins will line the street in front of the cove with signs in Japanese warning the Japanse people that "Dolphin Meat is Poisoned by Mercury."
What will you be doing to stop the 2012-2013 Taiji dolphin slaughter?
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• 2012 Taiji Dolphin Slaughter: A Hunting Season in Review
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New Zealand's Fire Service Urban Search and Rescue team is returning from earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan tomorrow.
Fire Service national commander Mike Hall said the team has been working with international and Japanese searchers in the Minamisanriku area, about 200km north of Tokyo.
"Sadly, the situation is such that we consider there is little further practical assistance we are able to provide in terms of search and rescue," he said.
"We have discussed our decision with the Japanese officials.
"It is now a week since the tsunami, the weather is very cold, and our assessment is that there is little chance of finding people in this area alive. The Japanese will continue with the emergency effort. This is not an easy decision to make but the search and rescue skills of our team are no longer best suited to Japan's needs," Mr Hall said.
Team leader and Fire Service national manager special operations Jim Stuart-Black said Japan had the resources needed to carry out the work.
"We are leaving with some sadness because we understand the challenges that are ahead of the families and emergency services."
He said the team was in good spirits and looking forward to spending time with their families.
Search and rescue teams from several other countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Australia have also completed their rescue missions.
Today the number of people confirmed as dead or listed as missing by Japan's national police agency topped 18,000, eight days after the massive earthquake and tsunami struck.
There were fears of a far higher death toll from the disaster that wiped out vast residential areas along the Pacific coast of northern Honshu island.
The national police agency said 7197 people had been confirmed dead and 10,905 officially listed as missing - a total of 18,102 - as a result of the March 11 catastrophe.
Hopes of finding many more survivors amid the rubble have diminished amid a cold snap that has hit Japan's northeast, covering much of the disaster area in snow earlier this week.