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J-Boat 41
Question to everyone:
I have been reading all the postings on this message board and they have been a great source of information.
I am looking for some information on a J-Boat 41. I checked with www.jboats.com, but because the J41 is an older model, they dont offer any type of information. I searched on www.Google.com, not much there either.
I was wondering if anyone here has ever owned, sailed / raced a J41 and if they can provide me with any type of information. How does the boat handle, goes to weather, is the J41 a boat you can day sail, or just for racing. How much crew do you need to handle the boat under sailing / racing conditions. Are there any specific problems with this type of boat to look for and avoid?
Any information opinions would be greatly appreciated.
J-Boat 41
(I am assuming that you are referring to the J-41 and not the 41 foot J-125)The J-41 was designed as a IOR one tonner. They were moderately successful winning the 1 Ton class at the SORC, back when the SORC was a world class event, and they won the One-Ton worlds held in Annapolis. This was an era when One-tonners had become strictly race boats and so there is almost no headroom or interior accomodations on these boats. IOR boats of that era required very big crews (8-10 people) to be raced successfully, or even keep the rig in the boat.
Boats like these took a lot of skill to sail, and more skill to sail well. They are tender and easily overpowered. Their rigs were fragile and needed careful playing of the checkstays to keep in column. I had looked at one that was very cheaply priced but ultimately ruled it out as being unsuitable for adaptation to a single-hander and concluded that the J-41 requiring too many people to even go out daysailing.
It hard to say what should be done with these old IOR era raceboats. They are a real bear to race under IMS where poor ratings and crew number restrictions really clobber them. They have often have great gear and sails but proportioned in a manner that makes them hard to handle and which requires a big strong crew to manhandle.
They do not do well under PHRF either. Compared to IMS designs these old IOR designs are comparatively very slow boats. This difference in speed is quite dramatic if you compare a J-41 which rates 72 to IMS boats of the same era such as the Farr 39ML which rates 18 or a Tripp 40 which rates 15.
Under PHRF, J-boats own J-35 is scratch with the J-41 (both at 72) and for a similar purchase price a J-35 can get by with smaller crew, cheaper sail inventories, has better accomodations and can sail more easily to their ratings in a wider range of windspeeds. If you have a smaller budget and want to short-hand at all, you might look at a J-36 as well.
So what do you do with a boat that can''t be raced competitively, or cruised, or even easily daysailed but which costs a whole lot to properly maintain no less compaign, (even when they are as beautiful to look at as a J-41)? I don''t have an answer although though I have wrestled with this on many an occasion. (If you feel compelled to go the old IOR One Tonner route you might look for an older Farr one tonner as they tend to be a little bit more rounded in their sailing abilities. http://www.yachtworld.com/core/listing/pl_boat_detail.jsp?currency=USD&units=Feet& ;checked_boats=1015473&slim=quick& )
J-Boat 41
Hi Jeff, thanks a lot for the wealth of information you have provided me with.
You are correct; I was referring to the J41, not the J125. When I checked the available information on the boat, I saw that there is almost no interior, except pipe berths. I was not aware of the strength of the rig, or the sailing capabilities. I will be sailing the boat on the Long Island Sound, day sailing most of the time, shorthanded, and maybe some racing at some point later on in time. I have sailed on a J24 and a J29 but thats as far as my experience with the J-Boats goes. I am not familiar with any of their other models.
I followed your advice and checked out the J-35s and J-36s on www.yachtworld.com. There were a lot more J-35s for sale than J-36s, does that mean that the 35s are structurally better or more desirable than the 36s? It seems that both boats are similar but their major difference is the price. A J-35 is almost twice as expensive as a J-36. Why is that? They both seem to be same size boats, with same capabilities. Do you happen to know their PHRF ratings? Have you ever sailed / raced on a J-35 or a J-36? How do they handle under sail? Do you know what their performances are?
Thanks again for any information you can provide.
J-Boat 41
The J-36 was the third design that J-boats produced after the J-24 and J-30. It was a fractionally rigged design that was not rule based but which was set up like the ocean racers of that day in terms of interior layout and deck plan. They are very good boats for that era but are a bit spartan down below.
J-boat eventially cut down the hull mold for the J-30 and used the weight savings to add a heavier, more efficient keel and an optional masthead rig to produce the J-29. That treatment was so successful that J-boats cut down the hull mold for the J-36 and went to a simplified deck plan, a deeper/ heavier keel, tiller steering and a masthead rig version that became the J-35. The J-35 is a very versitile design offer good performance in a wide range of conditions. Later J-35''s were offered with an optional pretty full interior but of course minimal headroom and cruising gear.
J-35''s are still competitive race boats typically rating somewhere around 72 and still with active one design fleets in much of the country. The J-35 is generally considered 9 to 12 seconds a mile slower, especially in a lighter air venue like Long Island Sound. The J-36 is actually an easier boat to handle and certainly the easier of the two to single-hand assuming that the deck layout has been modified.
Three reasonable alternatives to these boats would be the Express 37, Frers 36 (F3) and the Farr 11.6, each with their own advantages and disadvantages.
J-Boat 41
Thanks Jeff for all the great information you have provided me with!
J 41 continued
If gotten cheaply could this J 41 be turned into a comfortable live aboard? and single handed or double handed safely around the chesapeake and eventually the BVI's? Without breaking the bank to convert things?
I'm dreaming of being a liveaboard. It seems that if I am going to buy anything, I'm going to have to do it without much help from the banks. They need it to be a newer boat which means more expensive boat or smaller boat. I'd like something like a 36 or 38' Catalina, but to gather that much in cash would take me a while. So the idea is to get a deal on a boat that I could make into something just right for myself over time.
I think Jeff already answered this when he said:
I don't think the J-41 would be a good choice for what you plan to do with this boat. While you may be able to pick one up inexpensively, it would be a very poor choice for short-handed cruising and living aboard. So many modifications would need to be made that it would prove a false economy. And even then it would not be well suited compared to many other boats conceived for your purposes from the outset.
Based on the little info you've provided, it really sounds like price of admission is a driving factor. If so, you might be wise to modify your search and look at smaller boats. The refit and on-going maintenance of a 41 footer, will be something like twice the cost of a mid-30 footer.
So you might save a lot over time by scaling back your size requirement, and paying a bit more for a well-suited design in decent condition. Fortunately, you don't necessarily have to compromise on comfort. There are many mid-30 footers that will always be more comfortable and better suited to your purposes than even a heavily modified J-41.
I would add that you should get a clear picture in mind of what kind of sailing you really want to be doing. If you want to daysail, especially shorthanded, then you should look at a smaller boat. The bigger the boat the more it costs to operate, the more effort is required for even short daysails, with the result being that you will use it a lot less. If you are thinking about living aboard, that brings up a whole other set of issues, but chances are you would be doing little daysailing at that point too.
When you see a boat like a J41 advertised for what seems like peanuts, it can look like a winning lottery ticket someone dropped on the ground. I promise you that is only an illusion. There is a reason why the boat is that price, and it is because it has a very narrow range of uses, and costs a ton of money to run.
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What is the difference between gyokuro, sencha and matcha?
All green teas come from the same Camellia sinensis plant. The differences are in the way they are grown and harvested.
The most common green tea, about 75% of all teas harvested in Japan is sencha. Healthy, aromatic, and delicious. Despite its reputation as a "common" tea sencha is highly variable in quality and price.
Gyokuro is slightly sweeter than sencha and has is famous for its crisp, clean taste.
Matcha differs from gyokuro in that the leaves are not rolled at all. After steaming, the leaves are thoroughly dried. This is tencha. The tencha is then ground into a superfine powder, and that powder is what is known as matcha.
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Matcha is the tea of chanoyu (Japanese Tea Ceremony) and whips into a thick, invigorating brew. An excellent morning tea, or an energizing beverage before any form of aerobic exercise.
In Japanese "shin" means new and "cha means tea. Shincha is, literally, new tea. Shincha consists of tea leaves that have been harvested and very lightly steamed immediately after harvesting.
Shincha has the aroma of freshly picked leaves. Perishable and highly aromatic, shincha is only sold at Japanese Green Tea Online from May through July, or as long as supplies last.
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This is not the case with shincha. Because it is so lightly steamed immediately after the harvest true "shincha" is only available at tea shops in Japan from May through July or as long as supplies last.
If you see shincha at other shops during the winter it is not real shincha, it is sencha. Tea growers only process a small percentage of their harvest as shincha. They take the same leaves and process them as sencha

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FLORENCE – The Jones Thomas and Carolyn Stroman Hunter Chair in English Literature at Francis Marion University will present Percival Everett on Tuesday, April 4, as a guest lecturer.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to a new season of campus chronicles. This year, the chronicle will be a dual effort by myself, Braeden Rigney, and my partner Ben Parker. I am a sophomore from Singhampton, Ontario and Ben, a senior from Port Perry, Ontario and together we will keep everybody up to date with the on and off ice activities of the Canisius College hockey team.
A sincere congratulation goes out to former campus chronicle writer Scott Moser who received a graduate position with Canisius College athletics. Scott, as many people know, was a two-sport athlete and along with being the captain of last year's hockey team, he was also a member of the golf team.
Another congratulation goes out to hockey alum Dan "Mo Money" Morrison on his recent engagement to his long-time girlfriend Joanna Burt. Dan is continuing his education at Canisius and will complete a dual major in accounting and finance this year.
The Griffs hockey family welcomes five freshmen to the team this year. Three out of five freshmen are Canadian and the remaining two are both Americans. For a team that welcomed 12 freshmen last season, it has been a breath of fresh air to have very little turnover from last season.
Over the past two weeks, the team has been skating everyday along with our regular workouts and classes. In order to improve team camaraderie, we have been doing team activities every Saturday. First, the boys put their bowling skills to the test - only to be outdone by Coach Smith, who appears to spend his weeknights at the local bowling alley. The following Saturday saw a much different venue as this time we tried Go-Kart racing and mini-putt. The overall winner is still unknown as captain Preston Shupe finds a way to cheat in every game we play. New captain Torrey Lindsay has been known to keep watch over Preston's cheating ways.
Last week, the Griffs were once again put through their paces with the annual ROTC Army training. Waking up at 5:30 to push a cargo van through a course made in Woodlawn Cemetery proved to be pretty difficult. ROTC puts a capstone to fitness testing as the guys are now able to look forward to what will be a great season. ROTC and Griffs hockey share a very good relationship and it has been great to be able to see how they train every day.
All of the guys are very excited to get the season off and running, something everybody has been preparing for all summer. As was proven in the fitness testing results, everybody came back to school in great shape. Improvements were made by all of the returning players based on last year's fitness testing.
In closing, Ben and I look forward to bringing weekly updates on the activities of Griffs Hockey to the campus chronicle. As always, Griffs Hockey thanks all of the support we receive from fans and to those that follow our progress throughout the season. To our new readers, you can follow us on Twitter @GriffsHockey. We look forward to seeing everybody at the rink this season as once again, your support is greatly appreciated.
Until next week, keep it simple,
Braeden Rigney & Ben Parker
Chronicle #2
With another week in the books and still two more weeks remaining in the preseason, the Griffs Hockey team took the opportunity to not only come together as a team on the ice but also off the ice. The level of intensity on the ice once again increased this week as the thought of the season becomes a prominent thought in every player. Players not only worked hard on improving their individual skills but team systems became an important topic this week as the boys collectively showed great strides in the teams' offensive and defensive concepts.
This weekend featured another team competition as the players tested their skills on the volleyball court. Everyone was present for the event accept for our Swedish friend Carl Larson - Carl could not attend as he was busy honing his driving skills. Although Carl felt a little out of place as the average age at the driving course was approximately 16 (Carl recently turned 21), he none-the-less is now closer of reaching his goal of occupying a U.S. driver's license. None of us question the driving ability of our "Euro" friend but it will be good to know that he can hopefully drive fellow teammates to the rink without concerns for safety. Carl must now successfully pass the road test before any thoughts of entering the driver's seat in North America become prominent.
For the rest of the boys the volleyball game was very exciting and competitive as teams were broken into our respective houses, which always offers bragging rights to the winning team. Unfortunately for me, the village boys brought a sub-par performance and finished at the bottom of the field and ended with a perfect record that resembles that of the 2008 Detroit Lions. The team comprised of the Duggan/140 Loring boys came out on top with a convincing victory over the Hughes team in the final.
Later that afternoon the team attended the Canisius volleyball match where we realized how lackluster our actual skills were. With a game that featured a neon clothing theme, players changed the focus from their skills to their bright appearance and no one's outfit disappointed. We all cheered with great enthusiasm as the girls beat the visiting Loyola team in convincing fashion - not losing a single set. This alone made the unorthodox dress code worth the time as we were able to witness the girls improve to 3-0 in their conference play.
Not only is it great to see the success of the volleyball team, but many of the Ice Griffs went to support the men's soccer team, who is off to the best start in the program's history. The men won in convincing fashion with a 3-0 victory over visiting St. Francis. With a small-school population, support from other athletic teams becomes very important and all of the players on our team have taken that to heart as we make a diligent effort to attend any sporting event that we are able to make it out to.
As the boys ramp up for their exhibition game against Ottawa University on October 7, continuous improvement on a daily basis becomes a major theme as nothing less than a valiant effort will be expected by the Coaching staff as well as all of the players.
Once again thank you for all our your support and until next week Keep IT Simple,
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Thomas Bergin lives in a small mobile home in a small desert town. It smells moldy inside, like stagnant beer mixing with dried sweat.
He sleeps on a slightly stained, heavily concave couch, enjoys painting landscapes onto chunks of desert rock and overfeeds his only friend in the world – a dog named Bernard.
Like most people, Thomas' life was largely shaped by just a handful of events. Here are three of them:
- The time he pushed a high school senior down a flight of stairs
- The time his car broke down on the way to Woodstock in 1969
- The time he was convicted of having sex with his nine-year-old stepdaughter
Thomas on his couch
The small desert town where he lives is named Ocotillo. It's perched nine miles north of Mexico in a valley California forgot. To the west, mountains feed water to San Diego. To the east, irrigation feeds life to El Centro. But in Ocotillo, there is almost no water and almost no life. Instead, there is sun. Its gaze unrelenting, flogging the desert's bald back. And there is sand. It's presence ubiquitous, scratching against scratched paint.
And if society has a fringe, Ocotillo is on it.
There are three businesses in town with regular hours. One is a gas station. Two are bars. I first met Thomas in one of these bars at 9am. He was sucking down a couple drafts and buying a six-pack.
"What can I do for you?" asked Ed, bartender at Old Highway Café.
"Cup of coffee please."
I sat down next to Thomas. He was hunched over a pint, staring at the bottom of the glass and working quickly toward it.
"Big backpack," he said.
There was a pause. I sipped coffee. Wind pushed sand through the open door.
Patricia Dunklee, M.D., 9/4/86
"There is evidence of genital trauma from digital penetration and history of penile/vaginal contact"
"Traveling?" Thomas asked.
"Where to?"
I told him about my work, about interviewing parolees. There was another pause, another sip. Sun danced through gaps in the single planked walls.
Then the words poured out.
Court transcript, 9/11/86
The Court: "How long have you been married to the child's mother?"
The Defendant: "Seven years."
The Court: "Seven years, and what was it that you did to make you think you are guilty of the charge in count one?"
The Defendant: "Fondled her."
The Court: "Put your hand on her vagina?"
The Defendant: "Yes."
The fourth of six children, Thomas was born in 1945. He's 66 today – lines carving up his face like scars from memories past.
Dad drank a lot. Dad hit mom a lot.
"I think that's where most my anger came from," he said.
As far as memory serves, Thomas was no older than four, watching his parents fight, when something inside snapped.
"I grabbed a bamboo spear I had and I stuck (Dad) in the back with it. It didn't kill him, but only because I wasn't strong enough to push it all the way through."
The boy would never learn to read or write. A fact that the court-appointed psychiatrist later attributed to minor brain damage brought forth by "prenatal and perinatal malnutrition and protein deficiency."
"They put me in special education classes and said I'd never learn anything because I was illiterate," Thomas said. "That was wrong. They should never have said that to me."
"Being picked on all the time for being slow," Thomas said, "it made me want to hurt somebody."
And he did.
As far as memory serves, Thomas was a freshman in high school, being teased by an older student, when something again snapped.
That's how a senior ended up at the bottom of a flight of stairs.
Thomas on his couch
Forced from school, Thomas embraced a life on the road. He worked in restaurant kitchens, picked lettuce on farms and changed sheets in Midwestern motels.
"I love traveling," he said. "There are so many beautiful places in this country."
He met his first wife after his car broke down on the way to Woodstock. Nine years later, she left him for another man.
He met his second wife near San Diego in 1981. They had a little boy in 1984. She cheated on him in 1985. He took to booze soon after.
12 months, five DUIs and 60 days in jail later, it happened… well, something happened.
Paul U. Strauss, M.D., 10/15/86
"In my opinion, Thomas James Bergin is not a fixated pedophile. He has been married twice, has fathered at least one child, and does not appear to turn to minors as a preferred source of sexual gratification… I doubt very much that incarceration would be useful for Mr. Bergin."
In Ocotillo, Thomas and I left Old Highway Cafe.
We sat down on the couch in his trailer. Bernard joined us. A couple of Budweisers were opened. Rocky III played on TV.
Thomas with Bernard
"You know, you change your kids, you clean them, whatever," Thomas said. "And, uh, so you give them a little whack on the ass, but there's nothing wrong with it, it's just being parents."
"I was charged with fondling my stepdaughter," he told Dr. Strauss. "They said it was eight times. It didn't happen."
"A long while back my stepdaughter picked up some books on sex. (She) and her friend, Beth, found the books while hiking."
The books were pornography – graphic pornography.
"She would ask me a lot of things," Thomas said. "I told her to ask her mother, but she kept asking me. I told her it was no good. She got really worked up out of curiosity and began fooling around with herself. I caught here a couple of times. That's about all. She just got a little too curious and stuff like that.
"It's hard to talk about. It's not right."
It was the stepdaughter that called the police, "which I understood," Thomas said, "because I'd punished her that day and she didn't want to do what she was told to do."
"Has he ever hit you?" The police would ask.
Thomas on his trailer's porch
Thomas pled guilty because, in his words, "They said that if they got my (step)daughter on the stand it would upset her and my family. I decided I'd do anything to protect my daughter, wife and family."
Like most convicted sex offenders, he was placed in a prison special housing unit to keep the other inmates from killing him. Nonetheless, he's got scars.
"There's some really crazy people in those places," he said, "screaming all night long, it's like being in a goddamn insane asylum."
Thomas spent less than two years behind bars. Of course, in or out of prison, anyone marked as a sex offender is no longer a "real", free citizen. In most cases, they all but cease to exist.
In 1988, Thomas moved to Santa Ann to take care of his mother – Dad had suffocated to death after neglecting to care for a tracheotomy. He tried to find work but couldn't – most people don't hire 40-something convicted child molesters.
Mom passed away and Thomas moved to rural New Mexico, where he spent three years in prison for failing to register as a sex offender and possession of a rifle as a parolee.
He left custody and returned to California. Still unable to find work, he moved around, living out of a truck.
Cops would run his plates, push him around a little and then throw him in jail for the night out of disgust. Locals would talk and Thomas would move, like a subway rat scavenging to survive and hiding from our repulsion. Finally, he escaped to the only place left – the desert.
These days he wakes early and smokes a few cigarettes before heading to Ed's for a couple of beers. The rest of the day he spends on that concave couch.
He watches TV. He paints. He hides from society's revolted eyes.
Beer cases litter the floor. Beer cans fill up with cigarette butts. Dishes spill from the sink.
Thomas is alone. He is defeated.
"I'm just tired of it," he said. "I'm ready to fight. I don't care if I die doing it."
But there is nothing to fight.
Thomas' kitchen
I finished my second beer, got up and left. I walked straight out of town into the open desert and watched the waning sun bend shadows across the sand.
I was sad.
Did he do it? I don't know. But I do know that's not what this story is about.
This story is about what it means to be broken, to be truly alone in the way only a man like Thomas – only a convicted sex offender – can be. Waiting to die, dog by his side, beneath the beautiful desert night sky.


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LAKELAND, FL (July 15, 2013) - Mayor Gow Fields has named the 15 members of the Lakeland Police Advisory Commission that will be co-chaired by Joe P. Ruthven and Dr. Eileen Holden.
Joe Ruthven is a former Mayor of Lakeland and a successful community businessman for more than 50 years He is the founder and owner of "The Ruthvens" and Joe P. Ruthven Investments. Ruthven has also served as Chairman of the Lakeland Regional Medical Center board and Chairman for the Central Florida Economic Development Council.
Dr. Eileen Holden has been the president of Polk State College since 2006. Polk State serves 20,000 students each year and it is home to Kenneth C. Thompson Institute of Public Safety, one of the few college-affiliated police academies in the nation to earn CALEA accreditation, with excellence. In additional to a distinguished academic career, Dr. Holden has served in leadership and advisory roles on numerous civic, charitable and economic boards.
Members of the Lakeland Police Advisory Commission include:
Dr. Anne Kerr - President of Florida Southern College
Dr. Elaine Thompson - CEO Lakeland Regional Health Systems and Lakeland Regional Medical Center
Frank O'Reilly - Former Mayor of Lakeland and Former Polk School Board Member
Katrina Lunsford - Vice President, Fifth Third Bank
Ana Rivera - President & CEO, Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce of Polk County
Dr. Jim Sewell - Retired FDLE (Florida Department of Law Enforcement)
Tim Jackson - COO, NuJak Development & Chair-Elect, Lakeland Area Chamber of Commerce
Rick Garcia - Owner & President, Gulf Coast Avionics
Dr. Kent Ingle - President, Southeastern University
Myra Bryant - President of the Lakeshore Neighborhood Association and President of Lakeland's Neighborhood Association Council
Mary Smith - President of the Dixieland Neighborhood Association
Paul Roberts - AP History and AP Government Teacher at Lakeland Sr. High School and Adjunct Professor at Everest University
Bruce Abels - Logistics & Supply Chain Professional, Retired as President of Saddle Creek Corporation after 15 years
Mayor Gow Fields said, "We have assembled an advisory panel of leading Lakeland citizens to review the current situation with LPD and City Hall in light of the State's Attorney's report to develop recommendations and benchmarks for making improvements and for holding officials accountable for delivering those improvements." He added, "The Panel is a diverse group, spanning a range of age, experience, gender, race and political affiliation and I feel confident that they will bring a citizens' perspective to the issue."
The advisory panel will conduct their business independently from City Administration with full support to meet with any public officials including but not limited to Chief Womack or any other personnel.
The Lakeland Police Advisory Commission has been charged to define and answer questions concerning the recent controversies involving the Lakeland Police Department and suggest specific actions that can be taken to improve community trust. Specific questions to be addressed by the panel include:
· Does the City and LPD have the appropriate processes in place to address current challenges?
· What can be done to improve the culture within the LPD?
· What can be done to improve citizen trust?
The panel will report back to the Mayor of Lakeland's office and to the people of Lakeland on their progress no later than 30 days from now with the goal to provide the Mayor and the people of Lakeland with their full observations and recommendations no later than September 16, 2013.
LAKELAND, FL (July 2, 2013) -- Our Polk County Legislative Delegation delivered a letter to City Hall late this afternoon that outlines their review of the recent State Attorney's report regarding the sexual misconduct at the Lakeland Police Department. We too are just as shocked as our Polk County Delegation by the alleged misconduct and we have vowed to deliver deliberate action to those that have disgraced the LPD badge.
Within the letter presented by the Polk County Legislative Delegation, it was recommended to invite Sheriff Grady Judd to work with the City in making reforms at the Lakeland Police Department. The City of Lakeland has enjoyed our relationship with the Polk County Legislative Delegation as we have worked collaboratively for the betterment of our citizens.
The City of Lakeland has declared there will be action. Not only has Chief Womack addressed the public in Monday's City Commission meeting, she met with the public during her regularly scheduled Chief's Chat last night. During both of these public meetings, she made it very clear that the behavior outlined in the SAO report is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.
I want to assure our community, the City Commission and all of our City employees that the Lakeland Police Department and the City Administration takes these matters very seriously and will take appropriate action once all the facts are known. When it first became known to Police Chief Womack in early March she immediately opened an internal investigation to review the allegations and then she called Florida Department of Law Enforcement to assist in the investigation.
I just spoke to Sheriff Grady Judd and he is supportive of our Internal Affairs investigative process. He did agree to make his agency available if we find it appropriate and necessary. Two officers and one civilian employee have already resigned in the wake of the internal investigation being conducted by the Lakeland Police Department.
The City Commission is apprised of the process now taking place with the internal investigation and we have full confidence that Chief Womack will take deliberate action once the investigation has been concluded.
We cherish our law enforcement partnerships, especially the bond that we have with the Polk County Sheriff's Department. I know it is difficult, but we ask that our citizens be patient while the investigation continues. We promise to keep our citizens informed as the investigation unfolds and you have my word that those who are proven to have acted inappropriately will be disciplined to the fullest extent.
Mayor Gow Fields
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Forced by circumstance to submit to Lucas Kincaid's superior survival skills and leadership after a plane crash, hotel executive Jessica Travers is sure things will go back to normal after they're rescued. But when Kincaid tracks her down on her recuperative cruise, she finds that civilization has very little affect on the attraction she feels.
Typical of its time, this book has a pushy to the point of stalking hero and a career woman who gives it all up for her man. Well written, but the plot is pretty dated.
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Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male who dared to claim Jessica Travers with primal passion and power.
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Seven hundred years ago a Black Widow witch saw a prophecy in her tangled web of dreams. Now Witch, a new Queen who will wield more power than the High Lord of Hell himself, has come but she is still young, open to influence and corruption. Whoever can control Witch will rule the Darkness. And so begins a game of ruthless politics over the fate of one young girl and the Realms.
Daughter of the Blood is the first in Anne Bishop's Black Jewels trilogy. It is a dark fantasy series set in the Realms of the Blood. Blood society is matriarchal with castes ranked by the color of the jewel you wear. The darker the jewel, the more power you have. Bishop has reversed typical fantasy roles. Not only do the women rule but she highlights the physical and social differences between the sexes and shows the fallacies of the system that the people of her world have accepted. She challenges typical gender roles regarding relationships, sexuality and power between men and women. She also explores the idea of how empowered women can be when they believe in themselves and just how easy it could be to destroy that empowerment.
The setting is also different. There are three realms: Terreille, Kaeleer and Hell. It is not medieval nor is it particularly modern. The best description I can come up with is otherworldly. Magic is used instead of technology. People are split into two groups, landen and Blood. Landen are your normal, every day people while Blood is the ruling class that wears jewels, has magic and is fairly long lived. Among the Blood this is broken down further into the living, the living dead and the demon dead with a few races mentioned. Each Realm is divided into territories, with each territory ruled by a Queen and her court. There are various roles in the Queen's court though details are left somewhat vague at this point.
While there are many side characters, the story focuses on four characters in particular: Saetan, Daemon, Lucifer and Jeanelle. The first three are almost pretty much exactly what you think. Saetan is the High Lord of Hell and Daemon and Lucifer are his sons. Daemon and Lucifer were taken as children and raised as pleasure slaves in their aunt's court. Both men have been tortured and abused for their entire lives, their only hope laying in the prophecy of a future Queen who is destined the cleanse the blood of their aunt's taint. Jeanelle is the youngest granddaughter of Chaillot Territory's Queen. Her family sees her as a disturbed young girl who makes up fanciful stories and has been in and out of a mental institution since she was five. Not is all as it seems at the hospital as many of the girls admitted never return to their families. Each character is caught in their own prison, some mentally, some emotionally, some physically, with each person struggling to break free as the story progresses. Each character also must face what they are willing to sacrifice to ensure the prophecy comes true.
The story is a slow reveal with many threads that is spread across all three books. This is a reread for me and it's fun to see just how each book builds upon the one before it. The first book ends on quite a cliff hanger so make sure you have the second one ready to go if you end up enjoying the first/
This series is not for everyone. There are graphic sex scenes and plenty of violence, especially violence against women and children. The scenes are very intense and can be uncomfortable to read. Light moments are mixed in to break things up but it is a series not for the faint of heart.
I loved how this book dove right into the complex and beautiful world! The world and characters were fascinating!
So silly! These are a fun read, and the world is an interesting one, but the gender situation is even more troubling than the author seems to realize. I admit to having a tiny crush on Daemon in this book.
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Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0451456718, Mass Market Paperback)Anne Bishop's debut novel, Daughter of the Blood, is like black coffee--strong, dark, and hard on delicate stomachs. Within the Blood (a race of magic-users), women rule and men serve, but tradition has been corrupted so that women enslave men, who seek to destroy their oppressors. Female children are violated before they can reach maturity; men are tortured and forced to satisfy witches' sexual appetites.
Bishop's child heroine, Jaenelle, is destined to rule the Blood, if she can reach adulthood. Her power is hidden; her family believes her mad. Saetan, High Lord of Hell and most powerful of the Blood males, becomes Jaenelle's surrogate father and teacher. He cannot protect her outside Hell, where he rules. She refuses to leave Terreille, risking herself to protect or heal other victims of violence. Can Daemon, Saetan's estranged son, keep her safe from the machinations of the evil High Priestess? Or will he lose his battle to control his destructive urges and endanger her?
Readers may find some aspects of Bishop's world confusing; not least that most of the good guys live in Hell. But her protagonists are compelling, sympathetic characters who overcome terrible adversity. If you like Anne Rice or Laurell K. Hamilton, try this one. --Nona Vero
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Three men, sworn enemies, vie for sway over the girl witch--a blue-eyed innocent--who is to rule over the Dark Kingdom, commencing a ruthless game of politics, magic, and betrayal, in which the weapons are love and hate.
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The rut is fixing to start here in my parts. I was happily surprised when I found 22 scrapes down an old road made by the logging company a few years ago. I have never seen that many in a row or that close together. Hunted hard last week but didn't see any bucks. I know where the does are bedding and know the trails they travel. I think its only a matter of time now. My grandfather has seen two shooters recently but in his old age wasn't quick enough to get a good shot on them so he didn't fire. The weather just changed and got cold and I'm excited for the weekend. I ve killed four bucks the last four years on this property and the biggest scored 122. Excitement and anticipation from Mississippi. Ill let ya ll know how it goes.
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I'm like you the rut is the best time to run into mr.big. Having your granpa hunting has to be especially good, lock away the memories. Dood luck to you!
good luck to ya our second rut is getting ready to bust open
hey beaux what part of MS are you located in. i live in pike county, MS and they have started scraping hard here also
We own land on Enid lake and another small plot of land on the delta side of Batesville I work in a high school just South of Memphis now heading home tomorrow night
Well I cant seem to see a buck but I keep finding the sign. I talked my dad into hunting yesterday, told him it was middle of the rut and i got a good spot for him. He killed an 8 point about four thiry. Since I was about thirteen i ve cleaned every deer that has been killed between us. This one was not different. I cant set myself up, but maybe I should open up a guiding service.
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i have found several long scrape lines also i have seen several shooter bucks but i am a bow hunter just not close enough to shoot at yet i am hunting around sardis lake area have also found some really large trees that they are using to get ready for the rut which is not off to much longer good luck to all
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Places We Protect: Yunnan Forests
In China's northwest Yunnan Province, four of Asia's great rivers flow within a span of just 56 miles, winding their way through a series of high mountains and narrow canyons and valleys, creating unique microclimates and supporting an abundance of wildlife. The region's old-growth alpine forests shelter more than 30 endangered animal species, including the Yunnan golden monkey. More than three million people representing 15 ethnic minorities call this remote and timeless landscape home.
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Yunnan's rivers — the Yangtze, Irrawaddy, Salween and Mekong — supply approximately one in 10 people on Earth with food, water, transportation and trade. The forests that flank these rivers protect water quality by filtering out contaminants and erosion, and absorbing floodwater during rainy seasons. Up to forty percent of China's medicinal herbs and 75 percent of Tibet's grow in northwest Yunnan.
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Just saw an excerpt taped earlier from the show tonight airing at 8:00 ET.........don't miss this......Costas IMO is mentally ill and he'll prove it tonight.......what say you ?
Saying some pretty dumb things? Yes. Mentally ill? No.
Well wait till you hear his rational of today's gun culture vs Dirty Harry......then later tell me he's not a cliff hanger.....dumb things ? He should have brought a shovel to the show to get out of the hole that's getting deeper......
I have a final exam that starts at 7:30... :[
EDIT: 8:00 Eastern time, 5:00 Pacific time. I am golden!
We get to watch two fools argue? Awesome!
Two anti gun TV personalities, they really dont have much to argue about.
Hey, is the O'Reilly program on streaming internet, anywhere? Or is it a television-only deal? (Haven't done TV for years.)
Knowing that he will be on the show, at least this time he has plenty of time to think about what he's going to say and it's not an impromptu. I think he will try and make everyone happy. Personally I don't really care what anyone says as their opinions pale in comparison to the Constitution.
If O'Reilly was not on this show I might watch it...but with him there.....no chance.....and Costas has reached his level of incompetence.
A Dirty Harry Gun Culture................The mere presence of a fire arm is trouble.........he's entitled to his opinions as obscure as they are.....I just don't want to hear them......he wouldn't want a gun to protect himself but would rather hunker down and kiss the floor until the all clear is sounded......Cool.......IMO, he's off the ledge....and NBC should fire the bastage.
I read a response from Costas yesterday in USAToday that he was misunderstood, that he didn't have enough time to clearly express himslf, etc.but then went on to say people shouldn't have semi automatics! What?? It was in their app so I couldn't link it, but it sure didn't help my opinion of him..
No TV here so I'll have to look for it on YouTube in the morning....
I missed it, as I don't watch much of Fox, or MSNBC for that matter. I tend to discard those two extremes and find my news online, although even that is becoming hard to navigate without seeing reporters putting their own spin on things. What ever happened to hard news? I mean just plain, unbiased reporting of actual news events? Of course, I understand and appreciate the concept of the "opinion" piece but when we have networks dedicated almost exclusively to nothing but opinion, I tend to stay away. Let's just say that I like to see "just the facts, ma'am." I'm weird that way.
Anyway, I look forward to seeing the Costas interview on youtube. I'm sure it will, at the very least, give us a clearer understanding of the deeper meaning of his rant. Although I find myself somewhat resisting wanting to know his real meaning. I always liked Costas. This experience has already somewhat become the beginning of the end as far as me being a fan. I mean, I respect his right to hold whatever views he has, but the way in which he expressed those views, and the forum he took advantage of, just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Am I wrong here? Am I the only one who sees it that way?
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The Harvard Crimson finally pushed their record above .500 Tuesday night, riding performances from freshman Siyani Chambers and sophomore Wesley Saunders, who scored 21 and 16 points respectively.
Their win came with just 4 seconds remaining in the game against Boston University, when Chambers knocked down a huge jumper. Harvard had been trailing since halftime and for almost all of the second half but a late rally to give them a lead started to rattle the Terriers. Junior forward Dom Morris layed one in to take the lead back for BU, 63-62, with just over a minute remaining, part of a double-double performance.
Junior guard D.J. Irving, who gave the Terriers a lead with 9 seconds to go before Chambers took it back, had a chance to steal the game for BU, but his jump shot rang off the iron and he would settle for a game-high 24 points on the night.
BU had won three straight coming into the contest but this, their fourth straight loss to Harvard, snapped their run. They will take on Quinnipiac at home on Sunday, while Harvard welcomes Holy Cross on Saturday.
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update: I made a second post that answers some questions and has some more info.
The only individual prizes you can get at a team 24 hour race are the "Fastest Lap" and "Fastest Night Lap" prizes. If you're a serious racer (which most people at this race AREN'T), you pay attention to this stuff. Back when I used to do the race on the Back Bay Team, we'd fight over who got to ride 2nd because it was the "hot lap spot" -- the first rider on the course who didn't have to do the Le Mans start. This was better than going 3rd or 4th on your team because lapped traffic quickly started appearing -- your best bet at taking "fastest lap" bragging rights (and standing on the podium for it at the end of the race) was going out 2nd.
So this year, when I dropped at 40:36 on my first lap, and it turned out to be the fastest lap so far, I swaggered out of the tent proudly and started trash talking my teammates about it.
The time lasted less than an hour, though, because Sheldon Miller posted a 40:06 on his first lap, and then Don Seib (who had done the run leg on his first lap) put down a 39:50 on his second lap. And that was that. Going faster as the race wears on at Great Glen is basically impossible, as you know, this whole "fatigue" thing catches up with you. Everyone's best lap is either their first or their second.
So all of us were a little surprised when, at 9am on Sunday, 21 hours into the race, a new "fastest lap" was posted. Sam Anderson did a 36:54, shaving THREE MINUTES off the old best time. Sheldon especially was a little skeptical about the legitimacy of his time -- but I was more accepting of it. I remember 2010, when Justine Lindine beat my best lap by 3:30, just like Sam did this year. I chalked up Sheldon's skepticism to typical local-elite hubris ("no one could be THAT MUCH faster than me!") and went back to finishing the job of bike racing. The race ended, we did the awards ceremony, Sam stood on the podium and got cheers and prizes and pictures for putting down a blisteringly fast lap time. We drove home and went to bed exhausted and satisfied.
Monday morning the BikeReg.com team was rehashing our race in the office and we started talking about the mystery guy that did the crazy fast lap. I relayed my story of how I thought I was good, right up until Lindine put over 3 minutes into me there in 2010. Some dudes really are just that fast. But man, we race a lot of bikes, collectively, and none of us had ever heard of him, so he must not be a serious racer. If a guy can turn Lindine-quality laps while being a NON-SERIOUS RACER, holy shit, someone should sponsor that man! So we started doing some internet sleuthing to see what else he did.
His USA Cycling results were unimpressive, to say the least, but they ended in 2012. No reason he couldn't have been a super talented guy who barely trained back in the day, but now he's getting serious and he's flying. He also clocked a 1:14 on Mt Washington in 2012 -- not exactly amazing, but we've already established he was pretty mediocre back then anyway. Inconclusive.
We found his Strava, which also showed no signs of greatness, but also very few rides at all. So it was really just as inconclusive as his race results. He remained a mystery man
So there wasn't much out there on this guy, but he had ridden two 40-minute laps and a SUB THIRTY SEVEN minute lap at Great Glen. His first lap of the day was a 48 minute lap, but whatever. Maybe he flatted, maybe he just didn't care because he was racing cruiser class. Meanwhile, here I am, wasting my day, google searching for race results just because I can't handle that a guy can ride a mountain bike faster than me. GET OVER YOURSELF, COLIN.
Then we found his results from Great Glen in 2010.
2010 was the year my team had an epic battle with Adam St Germain's team and their ringer, pro cyclist Justin Lindine.
Sam was on a 5-person coed team that year. This is how his race went.
On his first lap, he did a 45:27, including the run.
On his second lap, he did a 42:52, shaving 2:30 off his lap one time, which is pretty much exactly how long it takes to run around the pond on lap one.
At 7:41, as the sun set, Sam Anderson went out to ride a double lap for his team. His first lap took 38:44, shaving FOUR minutes off his previous best lap time. As the first lap. Of a double. At night.
(if you've ever raced Great Glen, this should be a smoking gun to you)
His second lap of that double took 41:17... still faster than any of his day laps.
However, at 8:30 pm that night, pro cyclist Justin Lindine turned a 35:40 lap, directly followed by a 37:00 lap. So while the lap time progression he's exhibited makes no sense, he's still well within the realm of "conceivable." Lindine did two more single laps that night, a 37:39 and a 39:40. Meanwhile, Sam got a longer break after his double lap, since he was a on a five-person team and everyone did a double.
At 4am Sam went back out for another double and did a 38:56 + 39:48 combo. So, an even better pair than his first set of night laps.
The sun came up and my team continued to keep Adam and Justin's team honest. They stayed on single laps all morning, holding a ~20 minute lead over us. As fatigue set in, Justin was unable to return to his day one lap times, clocking a 36:47 and then a 37:40 on single laps in the morning. Meanwhile, my team, also turning single laps as fast as we could, was barely able to break 40. Because it's the morning of a 24 hour race, and you're TIRED.
Meanwhile, at 8am, Sam Anderson set a new personal lap record of 35:38. Over a minute faster than pro cyclist Justin Lindine's best lap from the morning. You might think that beating Justin by a minute would make you pretty tired, but you'd be wrong -- this was the first lap of a double lap from Sam. His second lap was a 38:38... still the fastest non-Lindine lap ridden in the morning, and still four minutes faster than his first and second laps of the day.
Of course, it's entirely possible that Sam is a really talented mountain biker, and on his first two laps (when cutting the course would have been hard due to the traffic density) he just happened to have mechanicals (like flats) that made his laps look really slow. Then once it was dark (so cheating is easy, because everyone has a light on) he stopped having mechanicals and started turning Lindine-quality laps. In the morning (when cheating is easy because everyone is spread out, and the 12 hour teams are off the course, and half the solos have quit), he even managed to beat Lindine while he was doing a double lap and Lindine was doing a single, because uh, Justin stopped to pee or something, and Sam really should have gone to mountain bike nationals that year.
So yeah, maybe, I dunno, there's like a tiny chance than Sam Anderson isn't just cutting off part of the course that's about 5-6 minutes long on his night laps and morning laps. Maybe he's just a super fast guy who had some bad luck on his first lap in 2014 and his first two laps in 2010.
|Sam Anderson's 2010 lap times
Which brings me to his 2011 results....
He raced on a 5-person team once again. He didn't have to do the run, so his first lap was a 37:51 -- one of the best laps of the day (I clocked a 37:40 on my first lap and almost threw up). His second lap was a much more pedestrian 41:32, but hey, stuff happens, especially if you went crazy hard on your first lap.
Then the sun went down. At 8pm, Sam did a 45:06 night lap, the worst night lap of his career. On a single lap, too, even though he was clocking sub-40 night doubles the year before. Clearly, he had a mechanical (broken chain? flat tire) ... or maybe when he got to the spot where he usually cuts the course, there was another rider behind him and he couldn't do it.
At 2am he went out for a double lap after a nice long break. Now all the 12 hour teams were off the course, and everyone has a nice 1000-lumen light on their head so you know where they are, and whether or not they can see you cutting the course.
His first lap? 36:52.
Second lap? 37:40.
So he broke his lap one record. Twice in a row. At night.
36:52 was the fourth fastest lap of the entire race. The only people to beat it were Kevin Sweeney's 1st lap, Kevin Sweeney's 2nd lap, and Max Judelson's first lap. But somehow, Sam's fastest lap came on his fourth lap of the whole race, at night, as the first lap of a double lap.
And then he only dropped 48 seconds on his next lap, once again beating his time from the first lap of the day. If we assume that he actually has the physical ability to ride laps this fast, this late in the race, then why did he ride 37,41, and 45 minute single laps earlier? Clearly he must have mechanical'ed on lap one.. and mechanical'ed again on lap two... and again on lap 3... all the while having his lap times decay at a totally normal rate as fatigue and darkness set in. Then, as soon cutting the course gets easy, he's the best rider out there, by leaps and bounds, and he barely slows down. Just like 2010. And 2014.
|Sam Anderson's 2011 lap times
I never wanted to believe that a guy was cheating at one of my favorite races, in one of my favorite sports. While the other fast guys were calling bullshit on his lap record this year, I was rolling my eyes at the arrogance of local elite riders. I absolutely believe a 36:54 lap time is doable -- by a few hundred guys in the country -- and this whole thing started with a "man, does that guy have a sponsor at least?" curiosity.
Sam's been cheating at Great Glen for three years, and this is the first year he got a tangible award from it -- the fastest lap prize. I wish I'd been more awake to hear what it was, but based on the $200+ value of the fastest night lap prize I got, it wasn't just a medal or t-shirt.
If he was an honorable man, he'd apologize and mail that prize to Don Seib, the rightful winner, but if he was an honorable man he wouldn't have a 3-year history of cutting the course in the dark at Great Glen, so that's out the window.
If this story annoys you as much as it annoys me, pass it around to your bike racer friends. People should know about this. This isn't a guy who cheated once, this is a guy with a pattern of cheating, a guy who needs to cheat so badly, that even when he's on a cruiser-class fun team in 2014, he did it on 3 out of 4 laps. Guys like this don't belong in mountain bike racing, or any sport where cheating is self-policed. This guy should be out there on a soccer field flopping and trying to get away with accidental handballs, not racing mountain bikes at night where cheating is literally as simple as "turn off your light and duck a rope."
Three years of cheating is three strikes. The penalty for cheating at your local, friendly, amateur mountain bike race three times should be a lifetime ban from your local, friendly, amateur mountain bike races. Sam, don't bother registering for any of the bike races I put on, and you can count on the race promoter seeing this blog post any time I see your name on the results.
I acknowledge there's an imperceptibly tiny chance I'm wrong here. Maybe Sam really is just an incredible talent with incredibly bad luck, who can never ride a lap at Great Glen that matches his talent level on the first afternoon of Great Glen because he just keeps getting flats. If so, it should be easy to create some evidence of this. The world is full of bike races, and you're almost 10% faster than everyone else at Great Glen, so clearing your name with an impressive result at anything where cutting the course is hard (road race, mtb race, hill climb, cyclocross, running race, triathlon) should be simple.
Update: Someone from the internet told me that Great Glen was aware of his cheating after 2010 and 2011, and he was warned (but not banned) because while his times were "suspicious" he was never visually confirmed doing it. This is probably why he didn't race in 2012 and 2013.
To me, lap times are the biological passport of the 24-hour racer. All kinds of crazy stuff can happen in a 24 hour race, but some numbers just aren't possible without cheating. When a guy has a hematocrit of 60, he's cheating, period. You don't have to see the needle. When a guy posts his fastest laps on doubles at night, two years in a row, going over a minute faster than a professional bike racer who was top-15 at nationals -- you don't need to see him cutting the course to know what he's doing. Dude is guilty and should be banned from the event, period.
Sorry bro.
References: 2007-14 24 Hours of Great Glen Results
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This elegant but incredibly simple cake is rich, dense and buttery, flavored with vanilla and sweet Deglet Noor dates and topped with a tangy-crunchy mix of pistachios and lebneh (a yogurt-like Lebanese fresh cheese). Medjool dates can be substituted for the Deglet Noors.
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- 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup lebneh or any Greek-style strained yogurt
- 1/2 cup unsalted roasted pistachios, coarsely chopped
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Preheat the oven to 350°. Butter a 10-inch round cake pan, line the bottom with parchment paper and butter the paper.
In a small saucepan, melt the butter with the vanilla bean and seeds. Cook over moderate heat until the milk solids begin to brown and the butter has a nutty aroma, about 8 minutes. Pour the butter into a heatproof bowl. Remove the vanilla bean, saving it for another use.
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The Swans are poised to return to the nest from which they flew in 1982, with the club negotiating to establish a Victorian base at Lake Oval.
While they will continue to operate and play in Sydney, the Swans want to take their Victorian fans back to the oval - now known as Bob Jane Stadium - that they called home for 78 of their 84 years in the VFL.
Sydney's Victorian manager, Tony Morwood, confirmed yesterday the club was close to an agreement with the ground's current tenants, the South Melbourne soccer club, that may see its return by April.
He said the Swans hoped to move their southern offices from St Kilda Road, create a permanent social club and open a merchandise and ticketing office at the ground.
"At the moment we're in discussions but things are looking good," Morwood said.
"We've never had in Melbourne a consistent home, a permanent place for our fans to socialise. The Swans' supporter base in Melbourne is significant and the club feels that it is important to offer them something and establish a focal point for the work we do in Victoria."
Morwood said the Swans boasted 4400 Victorian-based members last year but regularly drew 15,000 fans to games played in Melbourne.
He said that apart from the sense of homecoming, the plan would also amount to a cross-cultural alliance bringing football and soccer together to offer added benefits for the fans of both clubs.
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The Citrus County Commission will have a public information meeting regarding proposed improvements to the Withlacoochee State Trail from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 15, at the Citrus Springs Community Center, 1570 W. Citrus Springs Blvd.
The open-house-format meeting is regarding construction of a new trail connection from the Withlacoochee State Trail (Gulf Junction Trailhead) to the Dunnellon Trail (County Road 39 Trailhead).
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission will spray the herbicides Clipper, Reward and glyphosate on aquatic weeds through Sept. 19, in Lake Rousseau.
Avoid irrigating five days, or watering livestock one day, using water treated with Reward.
Clipper-treated areas have a five-day irrigation restriction on ornamentals grown in greenhouses or nurseries.
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