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Dehler 25 Mast Compression
I have just discovered that my 1984 built Dehler 25 has mast compression :( . Symptoms being slightly loose shrouds, small crack forward of the mast tabernackle and a crack in the plastic keel casing together with a definite depresion of the tabernackle. I have no idea how the load is spread through the coachroof as there does not appear to be a support directly to the keel. This boat has a water ballast tank under the cockpit sole and forward of the forecabin bulkhead so I am sure that the load is spread over the arch of the coachroof. Has anyone any previous experience of this on this particular model of boat. I live in Spain where the vast majority of boats here belong to petrol heads and sailing is in the minority and I feel that there may be a lack of experience in the boat yards. I have emailed Dehler in Germany to see if they can assist with construction plans but not yet received a response. I have little experience in boat building but more then handy generally, not only that, a lack of cash means I have to get hands on. I am not too proud to accept any advice but do need it directly related to this boat please. Many thanks in anticipation. Ian
Hello Ian,
Could you sent some pics of the depression and crack.
Often, what appears to be too big a job, is best attacked one step at a time. Some one here on SN will have the experience and advice to help.
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Thanks very much for the pictures advice and I have taken some for information. They show the mast tabernackle and the gantry that leads off to either side, close ups of the tabernackle and the keel case inside the saloon. I would say that the compression is 3/4 mm maximum. Hope this helps, Ian
Dehler may be the best people to talk to as this may have happened to your model in the past.
Has the mast moved either forwards or backwards due to overzealous tensioning of the forestay or backstay? Is there any flexing of the bulkhead or a 'creaking' noise from the bulkhead on a windward beat?
Ok, from what I can see in the photos, you have to take the mast down, remove the tabernacle & headlining and find out what has moved. You will then need to reinforce the decking and possibly the footing or integrity of the bulkhead.
This would be done by a mixture of epoxy and something akin to a group of chainplates to the tabernacle.
I am glad you noticed this when you are tied up to a marina, not in the middle of the atlantic.
Step by step and good luck. Please post your progress (with pics)
I Would guess that what ever wood was used under the mast area in the core has gotten wet over time and turned soft
The cure will be to cut out and replace
I'm pretty sure that as there is an absence of a mast compression post that the load is taken up by a ring beam spread through the coach roof to the hull. The bulkhead between the saloon and the V berth for'd is certainly not load bearing and a bukhead only exists on the starboard side. The portside is open access to the V berth. The keel case is simarly not load bearing. I am hoping that Dehler will respond to my email request for construction details. I can find no previously reported problems of this nature with this model. The boat is a Van de Stadt design and this guy was no mug. I am beginning to think that it is water ingress into the wood immediately below the mast via the screw holes that hold the tabernackle to the coach roof, probably marine ply but I am unsure just how intricate the replacement will be if it is a ring beam and the integrity of the structure is to be preserved. From previous research I learned that these boats were built to sail in the Baltic and considered to be sturdily and well constructed, just got unlucky I guess.
The forestay is not adjustable but the backstay is. Thanks for your suggestions so far, Ian
That's not to say that the whole house hasn't sagged a little bit too. Boats are soft.
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Rose Cottage has two double bedrooms, one on the ground floor and one on the first floor. The first floor double leads directly into the children's room which as two single beds and a double sofa bed. There is an upstairs wash basin and toilet and the newly renovated main bathroom is on the ground floor off the bedroom.
The cottage has a lounge with wood burning stove and a fully equipped kitchen with fridge freezer and dishwasher along with a private garden with seating area. Cottage guests also have access to the communal garden, children's garden and the fenced 11m x 5m salt water swimming pool. All bedlinen, towels and pool towels will be provided. The recent addition of a washing machine also lightens the load for families. is ample room for a baby cot in any of the bedrooms, and one can be provided on request. The cottage also has television with UK channels and WiFi.
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All three properties offer ample sleeping arrangements including sofa-beds in certain rooms and cots for babies/toddlers if needed, this is an ideal location for a group holiday, be it a group of friends come to sample some of the local foods and wines, or extended families looking for somewhere to holiday or celebrate an occasion together. If you are travelling with toddlers and babies, we can supply high chair and cots, as well as other necessities. To lighten your load, all bed linens and towels (including pool towels) are provided in the price and each property is cleaned thoroughly prior to arrival and beds made up. The recent addition of a washing machine also lightens the load for families. swimming pool is salt water and not chlorine so kinder on eyes and skin. The pool is tiled around with loungers and parasols for use by guests. The pool is secured with a fence and child proof locking gate so parents can rest easy knowing children can play in the garden safely with no risk from the pool. We have a large selection of mountain bikes (with child seats) for guests to use free of charge to explore the surrounding countryside. There is kayaking and canoeing close by on the Dordogne river. The extensive secure lawned gardens are a paradise for children. Available to keep the children occupied we provide two table tennis tables, badminton, boules, two trampolines, swings (complete with baby seat) slides, wooden Wendy house, sand pit, see-saw and swing ball. The mature trees in the garden offer leafy shade for reading or siesta time for those quieter moments.
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Perfect relaxed family holiday
About the Owner
About Melanie
Jason & Melanie Hewlett
Melanie purchased this cottage in 2014
Why Melanie chose Perigord Pourpre
Having a place where we could enjoy spending time with family and friends in a relaxed atmosphere where everyone including children could enjoy themselves.
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My family and I had a wonderful relaxing holiday exploring the dordogne. It was made all the more memorable by our stay in Rose Cottage. A very generous sized holiday cottage, bright, airy, clean and obviously recently benefiting from a first class renovation....... we especially enjoyed the comfy beds. With a fully equipped kitchen, it was simple to create meals in minutes for our whole family with plenty of room for guests. We enjoyed the log fire in the evening with a local glass of vino. We had great fun using the selection of bikes to explore the immediate vicinity. We have already booked our return visit in the summer months to take advantage of the beautiful grounds and swimming pool.
From the Owner
"Having a place where we could enjoy spending time with family and friends in a relaxed atmosphere where everyone including children could enjoy themselves."
Activity and Interests
Bergerac Airport - 30 km
Nearest Railway - Libourne 25 km
Car essential
1km to nearest amenities which include boulagerie, restaurant and tabac(local convenience store) with an ample selection of supermarkets within 20 minutes drive.
St Emilion is a truly beautiful village set into a hillside on the north side of the river Dordogne and is approximately 25 minutes drive. Castillion la Bataille is approximately 10-15 minutes drive from the property and offers a fantastic re-enactment of the famous last battle of the 100 year war each year in late Jul - early Aug.
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On our doorstep, Montcaret, or 'Moncaret la Romaine' as some call it, boasts an 11th Century church. Also a Roman Villa, only partly excavated and said to be one of the best in all of France sits in the centre of the village. The mosaics are superb and these alone are well worth a visit. The cruciform gallery is said to have been the largest in the entire 5th century Roman Empire. Guided tours are available.
In 1453, Castillion la Bataille was where the last major battle of the Hundred Years war was fought. It is here also that every summer in late July and early August, a spectacular floodlit re-enactment of that battle takes place. Spread over 16 acres and involving some 800 participants, this is a magnificently organised and executed show. The highlight is an intense two hour battle incorporating amazing stunts and pyrotechnics.
Spend the day wandering through everyday life of the middle ages, between the farms and inns, see the puller of teeth and the hawkers before enjoying the battle. Finally, finish your day with dinner in the Medieval Inn. The festival runs for two weeks with the battles being re-enacted daily. Booking is essential for this exceptionally well organised event. After hostilities have ceased, Castillon la bataille returns to being a peaceful little town with an excellent market each Monday morning.
St Emilion is a twelfth century town consists predominantly of old stone houses with shuttered windows and cobbled streets. Hidden beneath the town is Europe's largest underground church, a magnificent place hewn out of the soft rock by Benedictine monks in the ninth century. Louis XIV described the wines of St Emilion as the 'nectar of the gods'. The first weekend in May sees about 20 of the local Chateaux open their doors and numerous concerts and wine tastings are held throughout the year - Fete de Printemps (Jun) and the Harvest (Sept). Recently added to UNESCO's World heritage list it would be a pity to come so near and not visit.
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- wheelchair inaccessible
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Leisure Activities
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- Toilet 1 - Toilet
- Bathroom 1 - Toilet, Shower Enclosure, Newly renovated June 2016
- 3 Bedrooms, Sleeps 7
- Bedroom 1 - 1 Double Bed
- Bedroom 2 - 1 Double Bed
- Bedroom 3 - 2 Single Bed, 1 Sofa bed/Futon
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House Rules
- Max. occupancy: 7
- pets not allowed
- children welcome
- Notes on accommodation: A large selection of bikes are available for use fee of charge as well as two table tennis tables and a dedicated Boules area. The almost 2 acre flat lawned garden provides ample space for children to run and have fun and plenty of space for adults to relax. Private secure parking is available onsite. Outside: 11m x 5m fenced child locked salt water swimming pool. Children's garden with activities such as trampolines, swings, slides, see saw, sand pit, Wendy house. Dedicated Boules area Mountain bikes available including child seats (STA) private seating areas for all properties BBQ areas

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Barbara Howes
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Born in 1914, Howes grew up in a suburb of Boston. Educated at Bennington College, Vermont, she moved to New York City after graduation. While submitting her poetry to magazines, Howes got a job editing Chimera: A Literary Magazine from 1944 to 1947. Although the job kept her from her own writing for several years, it would prove to be valuable, not only because it put her in contact with numerous other writers living in the city, but also because of the editorial skills Howes developed. These skills would be put to good use several years later when she edited several acclaimed short story anthologies: 1966's From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean; 1973's The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America; and The Sea-Green Horse, a young-adult short story anthology Howes compiled with her son, Gregory Jay Smith, in 1970.
Howes' first collection of verse, The Undersea Farmer, was published in 1948. While recognizing that hers was a young talent, reviewers were quick to see the book as the work of an accomplished poet. 1954's In the Cold Country further refined Howes' considerable abilities, drawing even more critical acclaim. Praising her as "the most accomplished women poet of the younger writing generation," Louise Bogan commented in New Yorker on Howes's "strong, positive emotions that continually resolve into a major key." "We sense the possibility of a new reconciliation in modern verse," concluded Bogan, "for so long filled with division and dissent."
Comparing Howes' verse to that of poet Wallace Stevens, Thom Gunn noted in Yale Review that "at her best . . . the very indirection of her style contributes to her meaning. Her most considerable power is in her control over language." This control was exhibited throughout Howes' work, in volumes that include Light and Dark, Looking Up at Leaves, and The Blue Garden, which Robert B. Shaw termed remarkable "for the clarity of its descriptive passages" in a review in Poetry. Her best work was anthologized in Collected Poems in 1990.
Although she was acknowledged for her skill as a stylist, Howes was always quick to explain that her abilities are not the obvious outlet of "God-given" talent. "One does not own one's talent . . . and should not identify with it," she explained in her essay for CAAS; "rather, one works at it, is responsible for tending this blithe or gloomy spirit which can flash in and fade out in its own inexplicable way. . . . [T]alent, and the artist who houses and labors over it, are not one." Although recognizing that the possession of talent is necessary to any poetic endeavor, Howes added that "the other base from which any art springs is simply real, steady work. If one sits around waiting for the lightning of inspiration to strike, it will surely descend over the way, where another poet is hard at it."
- The Undersea Farmer, Banyan Press (Pawlet, VT), 1948.
- In the Cold Country, Bonacio & Saul/Grove Press (New York City), 1954.
- Light and Dark, Wesleyan University Press (Middletown, CT), 1959.
- Looking Up at Leaves, Knopf (New York, NY), 1966.
- The Blue Garden, Wesleyan University Press, 1972.
- A Private Signal: Poems New and Selected, Wesleyan University Press, 1977.
- Moving, Elysian Press (New York, NY), 1983.
- The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990, University of Arkansas Press (Fayetteville), 1995.
- 23 Modern Stories, Vintage (New York, NY), 1963.
- From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1966.
- (With son, Gregory Jay Smith) The Sea-Green Horse (juvenile short stories), Macmillan, 1970.
- The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1973.
- Editor, Chimera: A Literary Magazine, 1943-47.
- The Road Commissioner and Other Stories, illustrated by Gregory Smith, Stinehour Press, 1983.
Further Readings
- Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 3, Gale, 1986.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 15, Gale, 1980.
- Contemporary Poets, 6th edition, St. James Press, 1996.
- Something about the Author, Volume 5, Gale, 1973.
- Choice, March, 1995, p. 1059.
- Kenyon Review, June, 1966.
- Nation, January 15, 1949.
- New Yorker, June 5, 1954, pp. 133-35.
- New York Times, April 4, 1954.
- New York Times Book Review, February 20, 1966, pp. 4, 33; April 1, 1967, p. 22; July 19, 1970, p. 22; June 9, 1985, p. 36; December 17, 1995, p. 16.
- Poetry, June, 1949; September, 1973, pp. 344-50; January, 1967.
- Saturday Review, March 19, 1949; October 9, 1954; December 31, 1956.
- Times Literary Supplement, June 29, 1967, p. 583.
- Virginia Quarterly Review, autumn, 1966.
- Washington Post Book World, July 17, 1985, p. 12.
- Yale Review, December, 1959, pp. 295-304.
- New York Times, February 25, 1996.
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- At the Blue Mill Tavern
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- The Crane ChubBarbados
- Death of a Vermont Farm Woman
- Delivery Room
- A Drachma for Myself
- Dream of a Good Day
- The Dressmaker's Dummy as Scarecrow
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- The Homecoming
- In the Cold Country
- Lament
- Light and Dark
- Lignum Vitae
- The Lonely Box
- The Lonely Pipefish
- A Lullaby
- North Oxford
- The Nuns Assist at Childbirth
- On Falling Asleep in a Mountain Cabin
- Ouroborus
- Portrait of an Artist
- Quilt of a Formal Pattern
- Radar and Unmarked Cars
- Relatives
- A Round
- A Stand of Birches
- A Thanksgiving Guernsey
- Thinking of K.H.S.
- To W. H. Auden on His Fiftieth Birthday
- Town Meeting Tuesday
- Tramontana
- The Triumph of Pride
- The Triumph of Time
- The Triumph of Truth
- Troy Weight Taken
- What Bird
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Despite being nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for her The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990, the work of poet Barbara Howes has received relatively little publicity; Robert Richman, writing in the New York Times, called Howes "as obscure a worthy poet as I can think of." Usually alternating her backdrop between the gentle climate of the West Indies and the harsher landscape of her native New England, Howes's verses paint a world of family, natural surroundings, and the wisdom inherent in natural inclinations. "I might say that my poems are about relationships," she wrote by way of explanation in an essay published in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series (CAAS)—"the relation of the poet's eye, mind, and heart to reality."
Born in 1914, Howes grew up in a suburb of Boston. Educated at Bennington College, Vermont, she moved to New York City after graduation. While submitting her poetry to...


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Just a brief overview of thoughts on the big jobs report from this morning:
- Non-farm payrolls came in at 169K vs expectations of 175K.
- June and July were revised lower by a total of 74K.
- The unemployment rate fell to 7.3%, but was largely due to reduced labor force participation.
- Government jobs were up 17K.
- Private payrolls rose 152K.
- Wage growth was up 0.2%.
- We've averaged 154K jobs since 2010. Today's report was slightly better than average.
Overall, I'd say this report was more of the same. You'll read the same headlines we've seen for years about how weak the report was when the reality is that we've averaged 95K monthly job gains since 1990 so 169K is really nothing to get too worked up over. We're not going backwards and that's good news even if the details of the forward progress don't look ideal.
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"I'm going through an awkward stage," Matt Berninger pleads on standout new track "Demons", in that battered, beautiful baritone voice of his.
The frontman doesn't look awkward. In fact, he, like his Brooklyn-based band, appear confidently on top of their game. After a decade of being the best-kept secret in music, the quintet, composed of Berninger and two sets of brothers, are garnering front covers, mainstream esteem and attracting the likes of Clive Owen in the audience.
It's about time and their latest masterpiece, Trouble Will Find Me, is given a generous airing tonight with nine tracks. It means no room for the gorgeous "Runaway" (which graced recent zombie movie Warm Bodies) from 2010's High Violet or the exquisitely twisted "Karen" from 2005's Alligator. They never seem to play it. Too raw?
The 42-year-old singer is a cerebral, literary lyricist (he has the sensibilities of a novelist) who grips the crowd (they barely move and hardly a soul makes a dart for the bar) with his deeply personal lyrics. The supremely anxious "Afraid of Everyone", a track for misfits and the damaged, leaves the crowd rapt, rooted to the spot.
It's music to squeeze your eyes shut, waft airily around like a Terrence Malick heroine and occasionally thrust out a wild salute to. Anthemic, deranged and, oddly uplifting. They start off with the accusational (there's a fair deal of teenage angst about The National) new track "I Should Live in Salt" ("Don't make me read your mind/ You should know me better than that") and the mordant "Don't Swallow the Cap" ("I have only two emotions/ Careful fear and dead devotion"). The sweeping, cinematic tracks are followed up by the perfectly lovely "Bloodbuzz Ohio" and "Secret Meeting".
Does Berninger leap into the audience tonight, clutching a bottle of red plonk. Of course he does. The serial stage diver flings himself into the faithful during the heady "Mr November", his favourite song for leaping.
They finish with a five-song encore that includes the distorted loveliness of "Terrible Love" with those agonised, spine-tingling yelps of "It takes an ocean not to break". It's a heartbreak song redolent of The Psychedelic Furs, plus a swathe of British indie-rock bands – The Blue Nile, Echo and the Bunnymen and, particularly, Tindersticks. They're Anglophiles, essentially.
Their final song, "Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks, is performed unamplified and while the crowd take over singing duties, Berninger accidentally stumbles as they chant "I'll explain everything to the geeks". Tonight's only awkward moment. Sensational.
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The Brennan JB7 is a great piece of kit. In fact I have two 500G models. Unfortunately the service offered is dire and seems over automated, it's either find out what to do yourself from their online database or send it back for repair. No human touch allowed. I have asked two questions, one wasn't responded to for 2 weeks and said to ask for help again, by which time I'd sorted it out the second was responded to inside a minute saying send it back for repair. This isn't good enough and will eventually be enough to cripple sales to the point where they couldn't afford to provide a genuinely helpful technical support service. I have been recommending the Brennan to friends etc. No more I'm afraid, I'd have to say I will do so no longer.
I've had mine for three years, I don't find it at all user friendly (particularly if you want to find a specific track) and have had to have it repaired twice, once for sound then a disc error. It's a great idea, but I just don't think the product is quite there yet, it feels like it needs fine tuning so to speak.
After I load the discs, it somehow inserts 'you' before the track name and after the disc name. For example the song South City Midnight Lady reads as (you - South City Midnight Lady). Any advice? Thanks
I agree. I would no longer recommend.
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In the early days Martin Brennan appeared to have a passion for the unit. Mine is 5 years old
I cannot get a response from their technical support to repair a fault. I note below another user is finding the same issue
I wouldn't recommend one of these units to anyone. I bought one just over three years ago and it has just broken down for the fourth time. Brennan are happy to repair them at a cost of about £50 a time which will make them a very expensive system over a few years. Thankfully, I kept my CD collection and have decided now that the Brennan unit is of such poor quality that it just isn't worth spending any more time or money on and I have gone back to a CD player. The sound quality is much better and I'm sure it will be a great deal more reliable. If you have, or are considering buying one of these units DO NOT GET RID OF YOUR CD COLLECTION. you WILL eventually want to go back to them.
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Ongoing drought news great for beetles, bad for us
It's now official: In some areas of Colorado, 2012 was the driest year since 2000. A late dump of snow in December has failed to take portions of the Western Slope and the southern part of the state out of the "extreme drought" category. And if the weather doesn't take a dramatic turn to the wet this spring, expect more crop failures, wild fires -- and pine-beetle devastation across the state's forests.
A roundup of recent drought stories from across the state can be found at Coyote Gulch, in contrast to the trickle of articles about our most precious resource found elsewhere. The state climatologist says it's too early to predict what sort of spring storms might be in the offing, but it's clear that the snowfall that granted much of Colorado a white Christmas, however welcome, didn't bring the snowpack up to anything close to the "average" in our increasingly arid state. In the Arkansas River Valley basin, it's now hovering at around 63 percent of average.
But one prediction seems safe. Drought contributes not only to wildfires but to the massive pine beetle epidemic that's raged through the West for more than a decade, as detailed in last June's feature "The Beetle and the Damage Done." It's hardly the only factor involved -- warmer temperatures, the beetles' accelerated reproduction cycle, decades of fire suppression policies, and other forces have contributed to the problem -- but drought weakens the trees' ability to fight off beetle invasions by oozing resin. And that means that, while the epidemic has slowed somewhat because it's already devoured many of the lodgepole pines the beetles prefer, it doesn't require that many beetles to take down a drought-weakened host.
A healthier snowpack can help limit the beetle invasion, as well as reduce the fires that are altering the forests around the state. Forest officials are learning how to think long-term about the epidemic and its aftermath, planning for new forests that won't have quite the vulnerability of our current trees, but that's a solution decades in the making. For 2013, the best hope for a saner summer is to let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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text: Technology The 5 W's That Are Instrumental To Your Site's Success Written by Simply Zesty on 11 February 2013 Measuring the success of your site or social media efforts normally boils down to one thing: How impressive the metrics are. That's one of the great parts of online content, the ability to measure your progress and development right down to the finest detail. With so many different analytics tools out there for both the Web and social media, you're pretty much spoilt for choice.However, when you're measuring progress, you should never rely on the one metric alone. While some metrics may hold greater importance than others (unique visitors would have more weight than say, bounce rate), all of them are relative to each other meaning that if one is down, it's related to another metric and vice versa.It's not a case of what metric you should pay attention to, but what collection of metrics. But instead of picking out which ones you should focus on, you should first look at the reasons why your site is working and the metrics that correlate to this.To do this, the questions you should be asking are relatively simple. Like any good story, you should be asking yourself the five W's. That is:- Who is visiting your site?- What brings them to it?- Where are they coming from?- When are they arriving?- Why are they visiting?Who's Visiting Your Site?Google Analytics mightn't be able to tell you who exactly visits your site, but there are other ways of seeing who links to you. For one, Twitter search is a brilliant place to start. Provided you have a blog and you're posting content on a regular basis, it's good to see the type of users who are sharing your content. Where are they from? What's their background? What are they saying about your content? These things can tell you a lot about how well your content is being received and who you're reaching out to.There's another handy way of checking who has tweeted your articles. Depending on what widgets you use, you may be able to click on the number beside the tweet button and see what conversations are taking place around your content. This will give you a search result for anyone who has linked to your post and what they've said.Ultimately, you need to ask whether this audience is the kind you want visiting your site in the first place. Every business has different aims so does this demographic tie into your overall aims. Is the site there to educate users, is it to attract new business, or just to promote yourself?What Brings Them To Your Site?Writing the content in the first place can take a lot of time, but what's good to identify is how exactly they find your site. Usually the most popular way would be through search engines like Google and Bing - in which case checking what keywords are used is of priority - but you shouldn't neglect the other ways in which people find your content.For one, social media is a great place to generate referral traffic, but also other ways like referral traffic from other sites, sharing bookmarks like Stumbleupon and forums can generate traffic too, depending on how you present your content.Where Are They Coming From?Your business or company might be based in one city or country, but the power of the Web means that your audience could be based anywhere in the world. If your content is primarily local and you're getting traffic from a different country, maybe it would be worth considering writing about more general topics so that geographical boundaries isn't as great an issue as before.That doesn't mean you should switch from local to general topics immediately - it's usually better striking a happy balance between the two - but broadening your content could open your site to a whole new audience so keep it in mind when you're planning your content schedule.When Are They Arriving?Again tying back into the last point, where they're based has a significant impact on what time they'll see your content. Most people will visit your content when it appears on their feeds so you want to check which times get the most traffic.If your audience is mostly from the one location (e.g. Europe or America), then you only need to worry about posting it at a time they will see it like the afternoon. 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Some 65 lots, on the shores of Lake Minouche, St.Ulrich de Matane. A true heaven, left virtually unspoiled, deserving to be exploited at its full potential. This is a unique occasion for any developer, aspiring to offer its customers, amazing lands to build their dream homes on the shores of an unpolluted lake - these lands become rarer by the day.
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For you, property developers -- here is your chance to develop residential areas along genuinely bucolic Lake Minouche. A group of 65 lots, expected to sell quickly. Desirably located, all lots have a direct access to the clear, unspoiled lake with its high water quality. A nice quiet spot in the heart of nature, where trees and vegetation proliferate. A true paradise for those who love frolicking in the water and for fishermen -- just let yourself drift away in a rowing boat. A place of interest for winter sport lovers -- cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, for instance -- and for trail-bikers who will easily access the well-kept trails. A turnkey project: scarce and greatly-prized lots, infrastructures, public utilities, snow removal ... Everything is already in place to launch a residential development project bound to succeed and become lucrative. Some 10 minutes from Matane, close to all services, shops and businesses, this very quiet spot in the heart of lush nature, will win you over.


text: Public Image Ltd - This Is PiL FLAC (2012) Size: 416 MB "You are now entering a PiL zone!" John Lydon bellows at the top of the first Public Image Ltd album in 20 years, and indeed you'll recognize the place straightaway: Backed by the same guys he recruited for PiL's 2009-'10 reunion tour (including Happy? alums Lu Edmonds and Bruce Smith), Lydon rants and chants in his long-established fashion over swirling, dub-steeped soundscapes that once in a while gather into actual songs. "One Drop" is an early highlight, with the frontman unloading some very Lydon-esque observations on English culture ("We come from chaos / We cannot change us"); later, in "Deeper Water," Edmonds unleashes the kind of spooky-romantic guitar riff that made PiL heroes to a generation of post-post-punks. Things get a little boggy in the wacky-voices menagerie "Lollipop Opera" and the misleadingly titled "Out of the Woods," which stretches its middling death-disco groove well beyond the nine-minute mark. But what's a Lydon album without a bit of bollocks? Track listing: 1. "This is PiL" - 3:39 2. "One Drop" - 4:51 3. "Deeper Water" - 6:07 4. "Terra Gate" - 3:47 5. "Human" - 6:02 6. "I Must be Dreaming" - 4:13 7. "It Said That" - 4:08 8. "The Room I Am in" - 3:07 9. "Lollipop Opera" - 6:54 10. "Fool" - 5:52 11. "Reggie Song" - 5:48 12. "Out of the Woods" - 9:41 Total Playtime: 64:09 Personnel: John Lydon - vocals Lu Edmonds - guitar Scott Firth - bass guitar Bruce Smith - drums Release date: 28/05/2012 Label: PiL official (Buy premium account for EXTABIT maximum speed and resumming ability) Download From Extabit Code: http://extabit.com/file/28dthbvy9799z/


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This list is a sampling of crime in Sedalia and the surrounding area. Information is taken from official police reports, which do not necessarily contain statements from all parties involved in each case.
Sedalia Police Department
Oct. 5
7:45 p.m.: Jon Joseph Burkey, 39, of the 1700 block of South Prospect Avenue, was issued a municipal court summons near the intersection of West 18th Street and South Prospect Avenue for assault. A male subject reported while riding his bike, the suspect tried to scare his girlfriend. The suspect parked the vehicle so the subject attempted to make contact. When the subject made contact, the suspect assaulted him.
Oct. 6
12:20 a.m.: Morgan R. Hawkins, 18, of the 900 block of West Fourth Street, was arrested near the intersection of West 10th Street and South Limit Avenue on a charge of possession of marijuana. A traffic stop was conducted for failure to display a front license plate. During the investigation, it was found the passenger was in possession of marijuana.
3:17 a.m.: Gary Douglas Horn, 31, of the 300 block of East Second Street, was arrested at his residence on a charge of second degree domestic assault. A female victim reported her husband was highly intoxicated and assaulted her. During the investigation it was determined an assault did take place.
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12:21 a.m.: Rachel L. Brown, 21, of Marshall, was arrested in Saline County on charges of driving while intoxicated and lane violation.
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The advanced technology of the war on terrorism, combined with deferential courts and legislators, have endangered both the right to privacy and the right of people to be free from government snooping and tracking.
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A FOIA request by the ACLUhas revealed a Department of Justice memo showing Verizon keeps tracking data for "a rolling year," T-Mobile officially for 4-6 months, but "really a year or more," AT&T/Cingular since July 2008, Sprint for 18-24 months. That's not all.
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This is a discussion on Wisconsin CCW Permit Time...Keep us posted! within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Sent 11/5, check cleared 11/21, 12/14 nothing. I think they may do in alphabetical order, my last name starts with a (s_____)?...
Sent 11/5, check cleared 11/21, 12/14 nothing. I think they may do in alphabetical order, my last name starts with a (s_____)?
Well here's an update
Mine sent 11/04
Wife's sent 11/04
Mine cashed 11/15
Wife's cashed 11/17
Mine cleared 11/16
Wife's cleared 11/18
My permit issued YEA RIGHT!
Wife's permit issued 12/10
Permit received WHAT YOU SMOKING!!!!!
Wife's permit received 11/14
Done in order received NOT THIS HOUSE!!!!!!
My number guess 265**
Wife's number 244**
Congrats too her now she can carry that Taurus 1911 45acp I got her for her birthday on 11/20/11.
The Cassull and the 357 magnum still waiting for their day!
Anyone seen a # higher than the 244** anywhere
Nope, they are really starting to get up there.
new here seams like a intresting sight
Kathie63 I do not want to turn this into political thread but cannot help but wonder how can you support the Dems Doyle vetoed the CCW law no less than 2 times maybe more.
Walker is a friend of the 2nd amendment. Everyone I ask for specific reasons why they do not like Walker just repeat political talking points. I hope you are not buying into this misinformation and really reconsider that vote against our 2nd amendment rights. The Dems have nobody to run and my bet seeing the power is in Madison you will end up with an anti-gun liberal. Like Barrett was.
Last post with political content.
I have not as of yet had any response from my legislative represetatives.
Really do not expect too but it would be nice to hear from them or just get my permit. Can't keep buying guns to make myself feel better that's getting expensive.
Not much going on here tonight, I'm disgruntled with the whole thing! It's sure nice to see people who mailed in nearly a month after us getting theres. Sure wish the DOJ would explain how they process app's in order in which they are received!! There is no back ground check which takes this amount of time... They were unprepared, under staffed, over whelmed. Critical mistakes made, applications buried. Instead of doing the right thing and get caught up they left us sit buried.
So I'll put a pot of coffee on in the morning and await yet another trip to the mail box
Well I posted back on a post in the 660s that the wife would get hers before mine and sure enough she did even though hers was cashed 2 days after mine. They gotta be working that pile lost backwards would be my guess


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BATON ROUGE - News 2 continued to investigate a Baton Rouge minister who said he's caring for dozens of mentally challenged people, even though the state says he's not licensed to do so.
Reginald Stewman is under investigation from state and federal agencies about his business, his taxes, and his actions caring for 36 people in exchange for a cut of their Social Security checks. Last week, Stewman moved all the residents from one Baton Rouge apartment complex to another following an ongoing rent dispute.
The state Department of Health and Hospitals said they have no licensing records for Stewman at either facility, which are necessary to provide regulated care to people with special needs. They did provide some licenses they had on file for Stewman's company, all of which had been revoked or expired.
One company owned by Stewman, called Indigent Partial Hospitalization and based in Gonzales, filed bankruptcy back in March with debts totaling around $134,000. That company was paid more than $300,000 through a federal grant program called "Access to Recovery", according to documents obtained by News 2. Payment stopped in 2010 after DHH said it failed to meet minimum federal requirements for data collection and reporting.
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Meanwhile, Stewman is awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to charges of IRS fraud in connection with a health care business he owned in Baton Rouge from 2000 to 2010. The government said he owes nearly $200,000 in federal taxes, and could receive up to three years in jail as well as a hefty fine.


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IRVING, Texas -- Turns out the Dallas Cowboys will have an outside linebacker at the Pro Bowl after all.
Anthony Spencer was named as an injury replacement for Green Bay's Clay Matthews on Friday. Dallas' DeMarcus Ware was voted to the Pro Bowl for the seventh straight year, but he had recent shoulder surgery and was replaced by Minnesota's Chad Greenway.
Spencer's first trip to the Pro Bowl comes on the heels of his first double-digit sack season. In 14 games, Spencer led the Cowboys with 106 tackles and a career-high 11 sacks.


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"The silent revolution:" How the staff exercise informal governance over IMF lending
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This paper examines how the staff exercise informal governance over lending decisions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF or Fund). The essential component of designing any IMF program, assessing the extent to which a borrowing country is likely to fulfill its policy commitments, is based partly on informal staff judgments subject to informal incentives and normative orientations not dictated by formal rules and procedures. Moreover, when country officials are unable to commit to policy goals of the IMF, the IMF staff may bypass the formal channel of policy dialogue through informal contacts and negotiations with more like-minded actors outside the policymaking process. Exercising informal governance in these ways, the staff are motived by informal career advancement incentives and normative orientations associated with the organization's culture to provide favorable treatment to borrowers composed of policy teams sympathetic toward their policy goals. The presence of these sympathetic interlocutors provides the staff both with greater confidence a lending program will achieve success and an opportunity to support officials who share their policy beliefs. I assess these arguments using a new dataset that proxies shared policy beliefs based on the professional characteristics of IMF staff and developing country officials. The evidence supports these arguments: larger loan commitments are extended to countries where government officials and the Fund staff share similar professional training. The analysis implies informal governance operates in IOs not just via state influence but also through the evolving makeup, incentive structure, and normative orientations of their staffs.


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Julia WhittyMar. 7, 2008 7:55 PM
It's still only an idea. But a fine one from MIT's The Media Lab's Smart Cities. A futuristic electric CityCar that can drive itself and, at the press of a button, look for a parking spot behind others like itself, then fold in half and stack like a shopping cart. Reuters reports that a miniature mock-up version has gone on display at a campus museum, and there are plans to build a full-scale model this spring. Wired's blog Autotopia explained the car's premise some time ago:
The GM-backed CityCar prototype is a lightweight electric vehicle that's cheap to make and could be folded and stacked at transit hubs for rental by commuters under a shared-use model. The trick is to rethink the wheel. In the CityCar, a robotic drive system controls electric motors, steering and braking mechanisms, suspension, and digital controls embedded in each wheel all integrated into plug-and-play sealed units that can be snapped on and off
Besides its stackability, its omnidirectional wheel configuration enables a turning radius of zero, turning U-turns into O-turns
Other features: push-button start, handlebars where the steering wheel would be, and a body made of Kevlar, carbon fiber, or some other lightweight composite.
Imagine if parking, drive time, congestion, navigation, and your fellow driver was no longer an issue. Imagine what that might do to emotional health, personal time & energy budgets, neighborly love, and the big CO2 footprint in the sky. Imagine if we didn't need to compete for space but could happily piggyback on each other. Okay, call me an idealist but there are days when the future looks good enough for hope... You'll have to navigate on your own through the Smart Cities pages to find the City Car. But it's a really fun ride.
Julia Whitty is Mother Jones' environmental correspondent, lecturer, and 2008 winner of the John Burroughs Medal Award. You can read from her new book, The Fragile Edge, and other writings, here.
Julia WhittyMar. 6, 2008 8:09 PM
Voluntary environmental programs among businesses don't work. This according to a new study from George Mason University of more than 30,000 firms. Some of those firms were participants in the Environmental Protection Agency's VEPs (Voluntary Environmental Programs), some weren't. Participants received $69 million from the EPA last year (1.6 percent of the agency's budget). Yet nonparticipating companies performed 7.7 percent better than participants in meeting environmental goals.
Why? Well, self-monitored companies performed worst of all (nonparticipators outperformed them by 24 percent). The absence of third-party oversight invites 'free ridership,' says Nicole Darnall, lead author. "Companies are taking part in these programs and receive credit for doing so, but some aren't really adhering to the goals. Nonparticipating companies may have stronger goals
[and] a higher performance." The study is published in Policy Studies Journal.
In other words, slacker companies with no genuinely good intentions get the money under Bush's castrated EPA
Sigh. Practice compassionate impeachment.
Josh HarkinsonMar. 5, 2008 3:40 PM
On Friday, 19 union local presidents representing more than 10,000 EPA employees submitted a letter to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson accusing him of "abuses of our good nature and trust." The complaint cited the California greenhouse gas waiver decision and several other issues, including the oversight of mercury emissions from power plants. It expanded upon a protest of the waiver decision submitted by a smaller group of EPA staffers in January.
That same Friday I happened to attend a forum at UC Davis on California's greenhouse gas regulation efforts. Ken Davis, the point man on global warming lawsuits for the AG's office, mentioned that the EPA had earlier that day submitted a 40-page declaration expanding upon its reasoning for denying the waiver. The EPA was calling the declaration its "final rule," which, he speculated, was an effort to reset the clock on the AG's appeal of the decision. He considered the move a shameless delaying tactic.
Clearly, we haven't heard the last of the global warming fight between California and the EPA. Johnson is increasingly isolated: public opinion, state legislatures, and, of course, the world at large are moving in the opposite direction. Expect an increasing amount of high profile dissent from within the EPA as the political season unfolds--especially if it looks more likely that a Democrat will retake the White House.
Julia WhittyMar. 5, 2008 12:01 AM
Cows crap a lot. As of today, BioEnergy Solutions of California's Central Valley is using a vat of liquid cow poo the size of five football fields and 33 feet deep to produce natural gas. Planet Ark reports that David Albers, lifelong dairyman, aims to provide natural gas to power 1,200 homes a day through his Vintage Dairy Biogas Project. Albers is a partner in the 5,000-head Vintage Dairy and president of BioEnergy Solutions, which funded and built the facility at a cost of millions of dollars. The natural gas he's collecting is now plugged into California's grid via the Pacific Gas & Electric Company, part of an agreement to deliver up to three billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas a year—enough to meet the electricity needs of approximately 50,000 PG&E residential customers.
Good job. Even better: human poo power. Shiteloads of that to go around.
Julia WhittyMar. 4, 2008 11:09 PM
At last, the tobacco company Philip Morris has ended its program supporting research at dozens of U.S. universities after the University of California decided to monitor such support in its 10-campus system. The Philip Morris External Research Program funded 470 research proposals at about 60 U.S. medical schools for the last 8 years, reports Science. Critics charged the program was no different from earlier, discredited Philip Morris programs, likewise designed to confuse the public about the dangers of smoking
. There might be a spark left in the ashtray though. Look for future tobacco- industry funded studies aimed at "reducing the harm of smoking." —Like quitting?
Julia WhittyMar. 3, 2008 10:13 PM
What happens to the Democratic primary when you plug it into the Prisoner's Dilemma? You know, that classic game theory tool (born from mathematics and economics and now used across many disciplines to analyze optimal behavior strategies when the outcome is uncertain and is dependent on the choices of others). Well, you might think superdelegates are good. You might think they're bad. But according to polysciblogger Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics the outcome is essentially anarchy:
The core problem is that the Democrats have empowered the super delegates to break a tie, but they have not empowered anybody to manage the super delegates. There are no rules that demand the super delegates convene and discuss with one another. There is nobody in charge of regulating the debate. There is nothing to punish the super delegates who are small-minded, nothing to reward the big-minded. There are no time restrictions that require them to make up their minds prior to the convention. They are wholly unfettered. Thus, the super delegates have a great deal in common with a mob. They're a mob of experienced, qualified politicos who care about the party. If the Democratic Party were to be put at the mercy of a mob—this is the mob you'd want. But it is a mob nonetheless. This is why large institutions—like the House and the Senate—have reams of rules governing member behavior. If the members of those institutions are to do their jobs ably, they need a framework for interaction. Otherwise, their talents may be squandered amidst the chaos.
Squandered talents. Amidst the chaos. Sounds like Normal to me
Thanks to Jake Young blogging at Pure Pedantry for pointing the way on this.
Julia WhittyMar. 3, 2008 8:41 PM
Maybe not who your conscious mind prefers. Want to find out? Take the 10-minute online Project Implicit test designed by psycholowonks at the U of Washington, the U of Virginia and Harvard. The test is fun, made me laugh, and will crack that oh-so-dark door to your secret feelings about the main candidates. Thanks to Peter Aldhous at Short Sharp Science for the heads-up on this, and for his results revealing a secret crush on Hillary. He's not alone, the test shows that many rate Clinton higher on the implicit test than their conscious attitudes speak—for both men and women.
As for my unconscious, it's, well, so unconscious and insists on paralleling my conscious, which rates Clinton high anyway... The really fun part, the one we'll surely never know, is: Who would the candidates themselves secretly prefer?
Julia WhittyMar. 2, 2008 6:48 PM
China is considering scrapping its one-child policy because of worries about an ageing population and how much of a social net the country can afford without the traditional reliance on large families to care for the aged. "We want incrementally to have this [one-child policy] change," said Vice Minister of the National Population and Family Planning Commission Zhao Baige. Planet Ark reports that teams studying the issue would have to consider the strain of China's huge population on its scarce resources.
Okay, it doesn't take a lot of number crunching to recognize that no amount of young workers "supporting" the elderly will make up for droughts, floods, deforestation, dustbowls-for-croplands, climate change, sea-level rise, extinctions, and economic meltdown that will follow in the wake of more people on our little world. This goes for all nations toying with or employing pronatalist policies: US, France, Russia, Australia, Canada, Japan, and growing
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It seems that Mazda is looking to revamp its BT-50 as the company announced that they have reached a basic agreement with Isuzu to develop a next-generation pickup truck.
Under the said agreement, Isuzu will produce next-generation pickup trucks for Mazda. It will be based on Isuzu's pickup truck model, the D-MAX.
With that in mind, the new pickup could replace the Mazda BT-50, a vehicle that was co-developed with Ford. For the uninitiated, the BT-50 is based on the Ford Ranger's platform and the current generation of this vehicle is in production in Thailand.
However, Mazda and Isuzu have yet to release more details about the pickup truck but the model will be sold globally except in North America.
Moreover, the two companies believe that the agreement will benefit both brands allowing Isuzu to "enhance its product competitiveness" and Mazda to "strengthen its product line-up and maintain own-brand market coverage."
As a review, this is not the first time that Mazda and Isuzu team up. The two companies have a collaborative relationship for more than a decade, with Isuzu producing Mazda trucks for the Japanese market.
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Japan's health survey on the effects of the March 2011 nuclear crisis should be expanded to areas outside Fukushima, a U.N. expert says.
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Today it's possible to make art, with the use of technology that was never envisioned 20 years ago which means that it was impossible to even conceive 2000 years ago. No worries though, My 2000 Year Old Double is bridging the gap between selfies and ancient art work.
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