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Utah lawmakers wrestled Thursday with their angst over a proposed resolution that would amend the state constitution to restrict spending based on overall economic health and a need of a three-fifths vote in both chambers to exceed those limitations.
The resolution, SJR22, sponsored by Sen. Stuart Reid, R-Ogden, and Rep. Ken Sumsion, R-American Fork, mirrors Colorado's Taxpayer's Bill of Rights, which tightly controls legislators' ability to adjust spending based on economic need because it uses the previous year's measures to balance the current year's budget.
Some Utah senators argued there was little need for a constitutional measure because they believed they have been strong stewards of the budget and didn't need something so dramatic.
The resolution passed 16-13, but will need to clear one more vote to get through the Senate.
Senate budget chairman Lyle Hillyard, R-Logan, said states such as California already have balanced-budget amendments and still run deficits regularly. He said the only way to show disciplined spending is to make the cuts or increases as money allows and that any politician who doesn't follow that can be booted from office.
"This flies in the face of what we've shown historically," Hillyard said.
Sen. Daniel Thatcher, R-West Valley City, was more blunt in his criticism.
"This is absolutely about perception and not reality," he said. "The reality is this is completely unnecessary. The reality is this sets a precedent it's a very concerning precedent. I think this is a terrible bill."
The resolution would require surplus state revenues go toward debt service, budget reserves and disaster relief with any excess refunded to taxpayers.
Because of the high hurdle required to adjust the budget, lawmakers feared it would tie their hands much like Colorado lawmakers have struggled when revenues were down in a bad economy and the state had to cut, amid great outcries, education funding.
Sen. Pat Jones, D-Holladay, said a recent trip by Colorado lawmakers to Utah served as an eye-opener.
She said the visitors urged Utah not to adopt a constitutional amendment like the Taxpayer's Bill of Rights because it's debilitating and has a ratchet-down effect in which cuts can never be restored due to the need of voter approval and the three-fifths requirement to replenish coffers in a good economy. Colorado has had its measure in place since the early 1990s.
"They couldn't stress more the dangers of passing a bill like this," Jones said. "It has very much harmed their economy."
But lawmakers also worried about the public perception of voting against the resolution.
Sen. Allen Christensen, R-North Ogden, spoke against the resolution, but ended up voting for it.
"It's like voting against guns and the NRA. Anyone listening to this can hear my explanation as to why I might vote against it," Christensen said. "But the majority of the people out there are going to interpret it [a 'no' vote] as Senator Christensen is for increased spending."
He ended up voting for the resolution. As did Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, who struggled with the proposal.
"I would like to rise and speak for and against this bill," he said with a laugh.
Senators will get one more crack at voting on the proposal, probably on Friday.
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SYLVIA MARIE DIRECTOR (nee SCHULMAN), age 95, died on June 7, 2013.
SYLVIA MARIE DIRECTOR (nee SCHULMAN), age 95, died on June 7, 2013. She was a retired legal secretary who resided in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania.
Wife of the late ISADORE; mother of DEBBIE (SAMUEL) LIEBMAN, DAVID M. (BETTY ANN) DIRECTOR, ALAN L. (JOANNE) DIRECTOR, and BETSY K. (TOM BYRD) DIRECTOR; and grandmother of ELLEN M. LIEBMAN, MARK A. (CAROLYN) DIRECTOR, RACHEL A. DIRECTOR, and SARA M. DIRECTOR.
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|Consumer-Directed Promotion of Regulated Medical Products; Part 15 Public Hearing
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| I have found that the advertising to general public on drug ads is wrong headed.
An ignorant person is "sold" on the medication and wants it or demands it from his doctor. It is obvious to me that this is a money driven action that profits many involved and hurts the consumer most. I think it is the FDA responisbility to stop this consumer promotion of meds. It is the FDA's responisbility to protect the public from those who are not interested in the true welfare of the indvidual, but are interested in selling and profit making.
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This solo exhibition of 23 mixed media works encompasses two series, �Soft City� and �Complexity�. both of which resonate with the words of T.S. Eliot in this excerpt from �Four Quartets�.
Home is where one starts from/ As we grow older/ The world becomes stranger/ the pattern more complicated/ Of dead and living./ Not the intense moment Isolated,/ with no before and after,/ But a lifetime burning in every moment/ And not the lifetime of one man only/ But of old stones that cannot be deciphered.
The images in �Soft City� are derived from Henrion�s neighborhood. Once the city�s hard unyielding surfaces are peeled back, the beautiful and complex patina of each facade is illuminated, hinting at the mysteries of past lives contained therein.
In the �Complexity� works, the focus is on the natural world, where the same mysterious beauty of the aging process is extended through eons of time.


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Many gyms are in conspicuous downtown locations and sheathed in clear glass so passersby can watch people working out.
But their failure to mention the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the ongoing negotiations to resolve it was conspicuous.
But this is what Geoff Dyer does: remarks on conspicuous truths that are anything but until he points them out.
One conspicuous example is how neuroscience is already creeping into courtrooms.
The system is truck-mounted and road-mobile, as are the big and conspicuous radars that stood next to it on display.
This is easily distinguished from the foregoing species by its conspicuous white eyebrow.
They evidently formed a separate and conspicuous class in the community.
The most conspicuous single thing was a huge bulletin board occupying one whole end.
conspicuous among them was the sorrowful countenance of Lieut.-Col.
Wrinkled clothes and dusty black derby hat, he was conspicuous in the peacockean scene.
1540s, from Latin conspicuus "visible, open to view, striking," from conspicere "to look at, observe, see, notice," from com-, intensive prefix (see com-), + specere (see scope (n.1)). Phrase conspicuous by its absence (1859) is said to be from Tacitus ("Annals" iii.76), in a passage about certain images: "sed præfulgebant ... eo ipso quod effigies eorum non visebantur."


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TV Critic: If Gore Had Won, Perhaps No War or Katrina Deaths
In a Sunday review of the HBO film "Recount," Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales raves over the film, and over how much greater America would have been with President Gore:
If the mess in Florida had been resolved with as much skill and savvy as went into the making of the movie, the world might be a different place today -- presumably a better one, although no one can say for sure.
Little or nothing is ever accomplished by games of what-if, but it's hard to resist speculating how history, and not just political history, might have been different since the year 2000 with regard to such monumental events as the reaction to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11; response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina; and the war in Iraq, including whether there would have been one and whether a single American life would have been lost.
Unlike Kurtz, Shales has no problem with inventions in the "docudrama" script, dismissing the subject late in his review with the notion that while "the authenticity of the film may not be beyond reproach...its version of events certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt," considering the "impeccability" of script consultants like CNN's Jeffrey Toobin. For Shales, this movie teaches a vitally important lesson about Republican malfeasance:
Placed under a figurative high-def microscope and examined studiously but at a riveting pace, "Recount" recounts in brisk and crisp docudrama style how Gore was pushed aside even after winning the national popular vote -- a defeat marked by bungling, bumbling and seemingly malicious mischief in the state of Florida. The film is a clarifying cautionary tale that concedes both that full clarification is probably impossible and that cautionary warnings could well go unheeded as early as November.
There are so many lessons to be learned, but there is so little precedent for the proverbial powers that be actually learning them.
Then comes the Shales whopper about the 9/11-free Gore presidency, followed by Shales entertaining the notion that this film could have been more helpful if it were made earlier:
Writer Danny Strong tells the story with enviable skill and artful urgency. He makes such a good case for the seriousness of the situation -- even though it is laced with self-satirizing farce -- that some viewers might want to ask him, "Where were you eight years ago?" The film would have had a perhaps more practical, tangible effect if done closer to the time of the imbroglio depicted.
I'm guessing that Shales means if it had come out before the Bush re-election effort in 2004, perhaps Kerry could have been elected to undo the alleged injustice committed by Bush villains in Florida. But like a TV critic, he then notes it's not up to filmmakers to right wrongs and reform elections:
The filmmakers put the story up there on the screen, with its alternately hideous and hilarious details skillfully articulated, and they certainly cast megawatts of illuminating light, but it's up to the audience what to do with it.
Shales ends his review by suggesting it's "history with a vengeance," painful to watch, especially considering the "dreadful, bloody crashes" that Bush committed, and Gore presumably would have adroitly avoided:
Although "Recount" is a smashing success on almost every level, it's also a brutally disheartening experience for the story it tells. It's history with a vengeance, tumbling out at you in a way that demands attention, no matter how badly you may want to withhold it -- a trip down a Memory Lane full of potholes, roadblocks, fender benders and dreadful, bloody crashes.


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Sorry for my lack of use of this site, new baby and all has made us very busy. Now on to the topic that I hate to touch base with, but am forced to do, and speak my opinion again. Now I live in BC which is in Canada for some of you people on here who have no idea about the outside world. Since Washington has legalized pot for recreational use. BC has started to look even deeper into the idea of legalizing/decriminalizing. Now I haven't been following Washington much, and am unaware to how this whole legal for recreational use is going. So if anyone is aware of how it's working please respond. Now here in Kamloops there was a guy that sat in front of the Lemonade Stand, which is one of the establishments in our town that sells pipes papers and your every day needs for smoking. He was getting signatures for a petition. Today I'm on Facebook and I come across this https://www.facebook.com/SensibleBC Now this person on the page has told me that there will be no taxing, which we all no is not going to happen. As soon as it's let loose the government will step up and control it. It will be treated like like booze, there will be an age limit put on it. Booze is very highly taxed in BC we pay around 25 dollars canadian for a 12 pack of coronas. What do you think there going to do to pot? Sure they might promise us no taxes now, but that will be short lived once , the low grade product is pumped into the public. Now I attacked this subject on my blog in the past, and forced again. I am a smoker, hell I'm one of the biggest smokers I know. This is why I'm fighting this, I don't see why we should let the government have any part of this, keep it how it is. It's pretty much how it should be now I happily stand on my back porch and smoke with out of fear of cop or anything. We are already one of the highest taxed provinces in the country, why vote so they can tax us some more. Everyone is blinded by false promises from the government, and the hopes that they will be able to just light up in the park. Which I'm here to tell you will be looked at like drinking in the park and probably with similar charges.
Now lets approach the other disaster that awaits this whole subject. What do you think is going to happen when it gets decriminalized? BC has a major employment issue, we have problems keeping the people we have in the province employed. Don't try to tell me that it will provide jobs either, because every scrub from Alberta to Newfoundland is going to pack there bags and head for the legal province of BC. Then what happens we are flooded with more dead beat people who don't want to work, and are just here to suck of the system so they can smoke with out fear. More jobs will be swallowed up and our province will start to spiral into an unemployment crisis like we have never seen. Once again I am a smoker, and will be till I die. I am also British Columbian, and don't wish to change anything I am only one voice whispering in the wind but if one person can make sense of this like I do than I might have a chance to prevent a horrible disaster. Everyone is so blinded by the idea that they don't see the big picture, and are shown a false hope that has been sweetened so much that everyone even the none smokers are getting on the train. I will also post a link to my prior blog on this subject. Don't tax the plant please leave the province how it is. http://www.ign.com/blogs/bos_death6996/2011/10/28/decriminalize-dont-legalize-dont-tax-the-plant/ Thank you for taking the time to read this.


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Martinsburg Community Remembers Councilman Roger Lewis
MARTINSBURG, Wv.— The Martinsburg community is mourning the loss of City Councilman Roger Lewis after he died at
Lewis succumbed to complications from pneumonia. He was 77 years old.
Lewis was born in Martinsburg and while he eventually moved away, he returned to his hometown decades later to give back to the city he loved.
"He was very passionate,"Martinsburg Councilman Kevin Knowles said. "I don't know if there's anyone that can show as much passion as he has shown in the past."
Lewis served the 4th ward since 1990 with a dedication his colleagues said was hard to miss. Even though he had been feeling sick for the past few months, his death still shocked many.
"I knew his health had started deteriorating, but it was definitely a shock that, wow, he passed away," said Martinsburg Councilman Jason Baker.
"The loss of Roger for the city and myself is huge," said Knowles. "They're losing a huge advocate for the downtown corridor and his ward."
Lewis was a driving force in the effort to revitalize and develop downtown Martinsburg, the area he represented.
As part of his initiatives to improve downtown Lewis purchased several buildings, allowing businesses to move in. Council members said he was well-known to the business community downtown and the people he represented. Community members said they remember his generous spirit and happy demeanor.
"His nickname was 'Smiley,' he was the kind of guy that you could go up to and have a conversation with and he was very open," Knowles said.
While Lewis may be gone, those who worked with him say they will strive to honor his memory with the passion and dedication he showed first-hand.
"I think that would be the biggest honor for Councilman Lewis would be to work hard to bring our downtown back to its promise where it was at one point in time," Baker said.
Council members say they will choose someone to temporarily fill Lewis' vacant seat until his term ends in 2016.
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Zurich to correct $61m reinsurance 'error'
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General insurer and financial services group Zurich Financial Services Australia Ltd has admitted overstating its 2000 profits by $61 million so its insurance subsidiary could meet solvency requirements.
It has given the corporate watchdog and the industry regulator enforceable undertakings that it will correct the misstatement in its 2004 accounts.
Zurich Financial Services Australia and its general insurance subsidiary, Zurich Australian Insurance, have acknowledged that a series of transactions in 2000 should have been characterised as financial reinsurance and not a true risk transfer.
The companies yesterday admitted the accounts between 2000 and 2003 "contained a fundamental error". They added that a note to this effect would be inserted into the 2004 accounts and that they regretted making the misstatements.
That "error" has already claimed the scalp of Zurich's local chief executive, John Butler, who resigned last July after the Australian Securities and Investments Commission launched an investigation into the company's reinsurance contracts.
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority launched the initial investigation last year. It then alerted ASIC to the implications of the transactions, triggering a second investigation. APRA's investigation revealed that without the $61 million profit overstatement in 2000, Zurich Australian Insurance would not have met the regulator's solvency requirements that year.
APRA deputy chairman Ross Jones said the regulator required full, frank and timely disclosure.
"Deliberate and co-ordinated misrepresentation is unacceptable as it [affects] our ability to best protect the interests of Australian policy holders," Mr Jones said.
He warned APRA would rigorously pursue breaches of prudential requirements and secure remedial action.
ASIC's executive director enforcement, Jan Redfern, said: "ASIC has accepted this enforceable undertaking to ensure that users of the financial accounts of ZFSA and ZAIL are provided with an accurate representation of the companies' historical and current financial position, while our investigations into various reinsurance arrangements, entered into in 2000, are continuing."
The two companies have undertaken to improve their corporate governance in the wake of the misstatement and will ensure that the insurance group's capital is maintained at its present healthy level.
Zurich spokesman Rob White said: "There is no impact on ZFSA and ZAIL's day-to-day businesses, subsidiaries, intermediaries or customers. APRA has advised that nothing has come to its attention to indicate that any policyholder has suffered any loss as a result of the reinsurance transaction."
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Gerard Depardieu collects Russian passport from President Putin
The Green Card star became headline news in his native France last month (Dec12) when he moved across the border to the Belgian village of Nechin in an apparent attempt to avoid a steep tax hike aimed at the country's wealthiest residents.
He applied for Russian citizenship, and his request was granted on Thursday (03Jan13), allowing Depardieu to sacrifice his French passport and escape to Eastern Europe to start a new life.
Depardieu was invited to toast his new citizenship with Putin at his holiday resort in Sochi and the pair was photographed shaking hands and hugging as the actor was welcomed to Russia.
On Sunday (06Jan13), the star flew to the city of Saransk in the region of Mordovia, where he was greeted by the local governor and a group of folk-singing women dressed in traditional costume in a bid to convince the star to settle in the area.
Flashing his new passport, Depardieu told reporters, "I am very happy, it's very beautiful here. Beautiful and soulful people live here."


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Trimpin, a sound sculptor, composer,
inventor, is one of the most stimulating one-man forces in music today.
A specialist in interfacing computers with traditional acoustic instruments,
he has developed a myriad of methods for playing, trombones, cymbals,
pianos, and so forth with Macintosh computers. He has collaborated frequently
with Conlon Nancarrow, realizing the composer's piano roll compositions
through various media. At the 1989 Composer-to-Composer conference in
Telluride, Colorado, Trimpin created a Macintosh-controlled device that
allowed one of Nancarrow's short studies for player piano to be performed
by mallets striking 100 Dutch wooden shoes arranged in a horseshoe from
the edge of the balcony at the Sheridan Opera House. He also prepared
a performance of Nancarrow's studies at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
for New Music America in 1989.
Eventually he became interested in acoustical sets while working in theater productions with Samuel Beckett and Rick Cluchey, director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. From 1985-87 he co-chaired the Electronic Music Department of the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam.
Trimpin now resides in Seattle where numerous instruments that defy description adorn his amazing studio. In describing his work, Trimpin sums it up as "extending the traditional boundaries of instruments and the sounds they're capable of producing by mechanically operating them. Although they're computer-driven, they're still real instruments making real sounds, but with another dimension added, that of spatial distribution. What I'm trying to do is go beyond human physical limitations to play instruments in such a way that no matter how complex the composition of the timing, it can be pushed over the limits."


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Jeremy Johnson: Collected Plays Volume 2 is for carnivores who have eluded capture by the contemporary mores of political correctness. In these works, there is virtually no sex, violence, nudity or profane language. Yet they wage war against the conceits of the enlightened intelligentsia. Whether as dramas or comedies the plays of Jeremy Johnson celebrate the paradoxical nature of humanity; what it was to be living in last decades of the 20th century and how in the early part of the 21st century western society is engulfed by ever spiraling decadence and diminishing awareness of human purpose. The gap between the sacred and profane, the material and spiritual becomes ever wider as the powers that be profiteer from the attempts to eradicate these universal truths and morals which have served mankind since his appearance on earth. Instead, humanity is perversely programmed to abide by a transient code of ethics, governed by the tyranny of relative values. These principals provide the battle ground for ideas in the Johnson dramatic canon. It is these very ideas and values which have always justified the Arts being an essential component of human evolution.
Direct From Broadway (2 males/1 female) Black Comedy: A lifelong friendship is torn apart when a conservative strait-laced Christian finances his anarchic friend's theatre project which bombs. The anarchist then turns to bite the hand that has been feeding him.
Palace of Mention: (2 males/3 females) Surrealist play: A banker named Neil Armstrong who is an avid golfer finds himself dead and on a never ending golf course from which he cannot escape. He encounters his own father and pet golden retriever from his childhood, only now they exist in the form of the iconic feminists, Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem.
The Sheltered Workshop: (6 males/2 females) farce: A Government Arts funding body accidently wires 600 grand to the wrong performance company and has less than 24 hours to retrieve the money before Prince Charles and a retinue of dignitaries show up for an awards ceremony to inaugurate a new cultural partnership.
Better Than death: (3 males/4 females) Drama: A Master of the Universe from the corporate world resisting the changing societal values as expressed by his sisters, wife and children is forced to confront his own mortality in facing the death of his mother and then taking charge in the care of his nephew, a fey, spoilt teenager who has been bullied by his uncle his entire life.
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About the Author
Jeremy Johnson is an Australian playwright, director and actor whose plays include: Helen Keller –The Musical, Blotto, Crystal Night, Bohemian Grove, The Virtuoso Parts I&II, Shavasana, Exiting the World of Alarm, Enemy of the People. He is a co-director of Songe Arts, a performing arts and film production company and lives in Sydney.
Jeremy Johnson: The Collected Plays Vol 2 * by Jeremy Johnson
Volume 2
Publication Date: June 8, 2013
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- Description
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- Year:
- 1943
- Length:
- 110'
- Engine/Fuel Type:
- Twin / diesel
- Located In:
- WA, United States
- Hull Material:
- Wood
- 983-2980706
- Last Listed Price:
- Sold
Here's a proud and capable Carvel planked Classic Pilothouse built in 1943 by the Fellows and Steward Shipyard at Terminal Island, California as a SUB CHASER. Subsequent owners have restored, upgraded and modified her to be a Pilothouse Motoryacht for work and pleasure charters, including a new aluminum superstructure in the late 1970's and mechanical repower in the 1980's. Today her interior has been completely cleared, with wiring and insulation replaced, awaiting appropriate finish work inside. A great 'clean slate' for your custom nautical work and play, she's a well-loved piece of US classic maritime history! CALL for details, a copy of her 2015 survey, and an appointment to view in person...
See her full specifications and recent color photos online here at our homepage. ***THIS VESSEL KEPT OFF SITE IN SECURED MOORAGE - PLEASE CALL AHEAD TO VIEW***
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Please contact Steve Hansen at 206-298-9990
Additional Specs, Equipment and Information:
LOA: 110 ft 0 in
Beam: 18 ft 0 in
LWL: 105 ft 0 in
Minimum Draft: 6 ft 0 in
Total Power: 736 HP
Engine 1:
Engine Brand: MWM
Engine Model: 12-cylinder TD232
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Location: Starboard
Engine Power: 368 HP
Engine 2:
Engine Brand: MWM
Engine Model: 12-cylinder TD232
Engine Type: Inboard
Engine/Fuel Type: Diesel
Location: Port
Engine Power: 368 HP
Accommodations & Layout
The house and hull have been gutted, the major electrical runs installed, and the house insulated. LAYOUT ABOVEDECKS: FORWARD beings with the PILOTHOUSE, entered from steps aft to port from the main deck or doors outboard on both sides to the upper deck. The HELM is forward on the centerline with raised console, wheel steering and engine controls. Aft to starboard is an opening to the CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS in the rear of the pilothouse.
The LOWER HOUSE from forward has a cabin with doors aft and outboard to the SIDE DECKS and two doors aft to a SECOND CABIN. Aft to port is a doorway with landing and steps up to the pilothouse and outboard a door to the side deck. Aft to starboard is an opening to a landing, steps down to the FORWARD ACCOMMODATIONS and aft an opening to the GALLEY. Forward to port in the galley is the back of the deck accessible landing and engine room entrance. The galley opens aft to starboard of the centerline with serving counter, and outboard an opening to the DINING SALON. A large doorway aft on the centerline of dinning room opens to the MAIN SALON. The main salon has a watertight door to the back deck aft on the centerline and an opening and ladder to the aft accommodations aft to starboard.
BELOWDECKS FORWARD is the forepeak chain locker, sealed with scantling 2 x 6 and divided down the centerline for port and starboard chains. The hull interior from forward has an ENCLOSED HEAD with shower, then a large open FORWARD CABIN. Two steel tanks are in the bilge under the cabin sole. The forward cabin opens aft to starboard to another large cabin, divided athwartships in the middle with 2 x 4 studs. Five steel tanks and various plumbing are in the bilge.
The ENGINE ROOM is next reached from the port side deck. The engine room is open, well lit and spacious. Engines are in the middle with a passageway between them and room on all sides for inspection and maintenance. Fuel tanks are reported aft of the engine room.
AFT ACCOMMODATIONS are reached from a hatch and ladder aft to starboard in the main cabin. The AFT CABIN is gutted and open to the hull, with steel bulkheads fore and aft. LAZARETTE is reached thru a hatch in the back deck and has double hydraulic ram steering aft.
Vessel 120V AC comes thru a Marinco 30-arnp shore power inlet aft to port on the house, a 4000-watt Magna Sine model MS54024 inverter charger or the auxiliary generators. The auxiliary generators can also produce 220V AC. The main 120V AC breaker for shore power is right next to the shore power inlet fitting. Electrical distribution panels are aft in the entrance to the engine room on the main deck level. Mounted to cabinet fronts are four 120V AC sub-panels-one with a main breaker with power available and reverse polarity lights; a second panel has four dual pole breakers for 220V service to the windlass and a 220V outlet. The third panel is marked "Inverter Panel". A Blue Sea Systems multimeter is mounted between two of the panels. The Magnum Energy inverter control panel is between the other two panels. In the locker behind the panels are-Guest 30-amp galvanic isolator and a power source selector switch.
Inboard of the AC panels is a 24V DC distribution panel with DC main breaker and vapor tight battery switch. A DC multimeter is above the panel. To port below the pilothouse console are two 6V batteries wired in series for 12V dedicated to navigation lights and electronics. Batteries are charged with a NewMar ABC12-50 battery charger. On the aft face of the console are 12V and 24V distribution panels.
BATTERIES in the engine room are boxed, covered and arranged in banks-two 24V banks with two 12V SD batteries each house/ inverter bank, two similar main engine starting banks, two 12V Group 24 starting batteries for the port auxiliary generator and one 12V Group 24 starting battery for the starboard auxiliary generator. Charging these batteries are alternators on engines, the inverter for the house banks, a Pro Mariner Pro Tech 2420i+ 24V charger for the 24V starting banks and a Pro Mariner Pro Sport 6 for the Fischer Panda auxiliary generator start battery.
AUXILIARY units include PORT diesel auxiliary generator is a Detroit Diesel model 10235101 running a Kato model 505X9E generator. The engine is 24V start, fresh water cooled with heat exchanger and has dry stack exhaust. The STARBOARD diesel auxiliary generator is a sound shielded 16 kW Fischer Panda model PMS-16, serial number D02-011-051 with a three-cylinder Kubota diesel model D1005, serial number YN8483. The engine is 12V start, fresh water cooled with heat exchanger and has wet exhaust.
Deck & Hull
The main deck is on one level and surrounds the lower house. The upper deck above the house extends to the sheer and over the aft deck almost to the transom. 36" high aluminum bulwarks surround the foredeck.
Forward on the foredeck is a 19" diameter steel hatch to the forepeak chain locker. 22" cast iron cleats are outboard of the hatch. Anchor hawsepipes go thru the deck aft of the hatch. The double-barreled anchor windlass is next then a plywood scuttle to the focsle with heavy watertight aluminum door on the aft face. 18" cast iron cleats are outboard of the scuttle.
Aft the foredeck surrounds the forward end of the house with bulwark high doors outboard to side decks, large open freeing ports in the bulwarks forward of the doors. Forward on the side decks are doors port and starboard into the house. Outboard on the side decks are 44" high aluminum bulwarks extending half way down the house.
Around the end of the house and aft deck are 37" high, vanished mahogany cap rails on stanchions with double lifelines below the cap rail. Two more doors are forward on the port side of the house- forward to a passageway with ladder up into the pilothouse and next double doors to a landing with electrical panels aft and ladder down to the engine room inboard.
An athwartships I-beam strongback is overhead in the landing. Outboard of the double doors is a large bolt on hatch in the bulwarks. Midway along the starboard side of the house is a door into the galley. At the back of the house is a door to the main cabin. To starboard of the door is a ladder up and a hatch thru to the upper deck. In the middle of the aft deck is a dogged hatch and below a ladder down into the lazaret. 18" cast iron cleats are mounted outboard on the aft deck between the house and transom.
The upper deck is on one level with 1-1 / 2" aluminum pipe railings around back and sides then bulwarks and Portuguese bridge across the front of the raised pilothouse. The pilothouse has doors on both sides. A stack for engine dry exhaust is aft of the pilothouse with a curve at the top transitioning into the mast for lights and antennas.
GROUND TACKLE includes Two similar sized galvanized cast iron fluke anchors ride in port and starboard hawsepipes in the bow. The starboard anchor is marked 485, its approximate weight in pounds. Both anchors are disconnected from their chains and held in place with steel plate stoppers. Anchor chains are flaked down in the forepeak chain locker The port chain is 1 / 2" galvanized steel approximately 400' long. The starboard chain is four or five shots of 3 / 4". Working the anchors is an unmarked double barrel windlass with gypsies and wildcats outboard on both sides. The windlass is powered with a Weg 230V AC three-phase motor.
Engines & Mechanical
Pat Dickson is reported to have repowered the vessel early in the 1980s at Cap Sante Marine in Anacortes, Washington with a pair of MWM 12-cylnder naturally aspirated diesels. MWM stands for Mechanical Workshop Mannheim. The engine model is TD232 rated at 368 hp at 2300 RPM. The port engine serial number is 232.6.07095 and reported built in 1968. Engines are 24V start, fresh water cooled with heat exchangers and have dry stack exhaust. Engine hours are unknown.
ENGINE ROOM - engine gauges include- water temperature, oil pressure, gear oil pressure, and ammeters. The engines bolt to Capitol GEARS. Gears couple to 3-1 / 2" steel intermediate SHAFTS each with two greased intermediate bearings per shaft. The tail shafts are 3-1 / 2" stainless steel with bronze flax packed stuffing boxes. Shafts are supported outboard with I and V-section welded steel struts with rubber cutlass bearings.
The PROPELLERS are three-bladed bladed bronze, marked Osborne, 50" diameter, right/left hand, 40" pitch. Engine throttle and gear shift are Morse Marine sheathed cable. STEERING is hydraulic with one station in the pilothouse and double hydraulic rams in the lazarette. Twin RUDDERS are 1" x 24" x 45" welded steel.
Additional Equipment
- 4-inch Ritchie compass
- Navigation lights per USCG Navigation Rules
- 30-inch life ring
- (4) BII portable fire extinguishers mounted throughout
- Sacrificial anodes include (2) 12-lb plates each rudder, button each strut, (4) shaft collars each shaft, and (2) 6-lb on the stem iron
Hull & Construction Notes
The hull is long and narrow with a 6 to 1 beam length ratio. The bow is sharp with slightly raked stem, deep rounded forefoot, long straight keel and curved slightly raked transom stem. Hull sections are deep-V at the bow and transition to moderate deadrise with round bilges by midships. The bilges firm up starting 30' forward of the stem and become hard chines 10' forward of the transom. Heavy timber guards are on the hull 2" above the waterline until the bow becomes too flared for them to do any good, and, continuously at the sheer. In the upper topsides between the guards are nine 12" diameter opening ports on each side.
BACKBONE is 8" wide 13" deep full length keel, 7" sided stem, fastenings- galvanized steel. FRAMES are 2-1 / 4" x 3-1 / 2" steam bent oak on 12" centers, doubled thru the engine room. FLOOR TIMBERS are 2-1 / 4" thick across every frame pair. PLANKING is 2-1/4" thick garboards, 1-7 /8" 1st broads, 1-5/8" planking. FASTENINGS reported refastened in 2004-5 with 12,000 #18 x 3" galvanized steel screws. LONGITUDINALS - 2-1/4" x 7-1/2" and two 2-1/4" x 5-3/8" bilge stringers each side, 2- 1 / 4" x 4" double clamp and 2-1 / 4" x 4" shelf. DECK BEAMS - 2-3 / 4" and 4" x 4" sawn to the crown on 12" centers. DECK - 1-3 / 4" x 2-3 / 4" caulked and payed, with rubber or plywood overlay. GUARDS - 2" x 8" worm shoe, stem iron, stainless steel anchor guards around both anchors and down the topsides, 4-1 / 2" x 4-1 / 2" tapered sponsons with 1-1 / 2" hardwood guards 2' above the waterline from the transom forward 80' a side and continuously at the sheer. SUPERSTRUCTURE - bulwarks and superstructure of house and pilothouse are a more recent welded aluminum addition added in Western Samoa in 1977.
The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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A friend of mine claimed to have invented the word "scrunting", which he defined as "flirting with intent". I've been spreading it around, in the hope that it will make it into the next edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary.
Then there are those who blithely fabricate new definitions for already existing words. I always thought "ineffable" meant unutterable, but I've also heard it used to describe the reluctant female targets of scrunting males. "Yeah, mate, I know she's a spunk, but don't even bother - she's totally in-f-able."
Learning a new language can sometimes induce logophilia. Another friend of mine, whose native tongue is Russian, has recently fallen in love with the word "puckish" (mischievous sprite or child) and it keeps popping up in conversations. She's a little bit puckish herself, come to think of it, with her aspectabund (having an expressive face) demeanour and her expertise in codology (the science of leg-pulling).
Given that many of you will be attending office Christmas parties over the next week, let me offer you (with the help of my new book) some tips for coping with the scrunting high season. If a work mate describes you as callipyian (having shapely buttocks), you will probably respond by becoming either erubescent (reddening or blushing) or erinaceous (like a hedgehog). Don't worry, your fellow worker is probably just suffering from champagne-induced erethism (painful, unhealthy excitement). If their attentions are welcome, I suggest you both strive for eutrapely (pleasantness in conversation).
If, on the other hand, their scrunting has made you atrabilious (melancholy or bad-tempered) or caused you some calamistration (hair curling), you can spend your Christmas holidays planning a concerted campaign to exauctorate them.
And you can look that one up yourself.
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It's baby number three for Chrissie Swan!
Congratulations to Chrissie Swan who just announced this morning she is expecting her third baby!
Chrissie shared the news with listeners on her breakfast show, Melbourne's Mix 101.1.
The columnist, television and radio personality is mum to two boys, Leo, 3, and Kit, 15 months.
The baby is due in March and will be the third for Chrissie and her partner, Chris Saville.
When Chrissie Swan attended a morning tea at Kirribilli House with Prime Minister Julia Gillard last April, she said: "I am so clucky, I hope to have more [children]".
"The idea of having nine children does not fill me with horror," said the broody Can of Worms host, who first rose to fame on Big Brother in 2003.
"I think a 10-month old should be standard issue for every household," she has joked.
So will this third baby be a girl? Well, maybe, but Chrissie doesn't seemed fazed if not. "For me, a girl would be a mystery. My family has three sisters and between us we have seven boys."
Oh, I love a pregnancy announcement, don't you? And is it just me or does it seem that three kids is the new trendy number? It used to be two, but many celebs seem to be going back for a third and indeed even amongst my circle of friends, when we talk about the 'ideal' number of kids we would like to have, three seems to be the new 'magic number'.
Here's some famous mums and dads with BIG families!
Celebs with large families
Large celeb families
Kris Jenner
Wow, when you see them all lined up, the Kardashian family is big. Kris has given birth to six kids: Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Rob, Kendall and Kylie.
Eddie Murphy
The comedian has eight children. Five of which he had with ex-wife Nicole Mitchell. He also has two sons, from previous relationships and of course little Angel Iris his child with former Spice Girl Melanie Brown.
Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott
Tori fell pregnant just weeks after giving birth to her third child, Hatti. Fourth baby, son, Finn Davey, was born on August 30th this year.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt
It's hard not to be captivated by the Brangelina brood as they travel the world with their rainbow family of six kids.
Heidi Klum
The model has four children, three of whom she had with soon-to-be ex-husband Seal and a daughter, Leni, from a previous relationship.
Mel Gibson
The troubled star has seven children with ex-wife Robyn Moore – six boys and one girl. Gibson had daughter Lucia, in 2009 with then girlfriend, Oksana Grigorieva.
Mark Walhberg
Walhberg and wife, Rhea Durham, have four children together: Ella Rae, 7, Michael, 4, Brendan Joseph, 2, and Grace, 1.
Antonia Kidman
Antonia is mum to six. She has four children with ex hubby, Angus Hawley and two sons with second husband, Craig Marran.
David and Victoria Beckham
After three handsom sons, Victoria and David added to their brood with a too-cute daughter, Harper (not pictured), last year.
Nicole Kidman
Nic is proud mum to two teenagers, Bella and Connor, whom she adopted with ex husband, Tom Cruise. She has two daughters with her now hubby, Keith Urban.
Jack Nicholson
Hollywood's veteran bad boy is dad to five kids: Jennifer, 37, who he had with actress Sandra Knight, Honey Hollman, 29 – mum is Winnie Hollman, Caleb Goddard, 30, who he had with Susan Anspach, Lorraine, 20, and Raymond, 18, who he had with actress Rebecca Broussard.
Vanessa Williams
The Desperate Housewives star has four kids. Melanie, 23, Jillian, 21, Devin, 17, who she had with ex Ramon Hervey and Sasha, 10, who was born when Williams was married to NBA basketball player Rick Fox. Williams is now happily single.
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When happily ever after isn't what he expected, the Frog Prince
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Hansel and Gretel, and Cinderella's Fairy Godmother. Performances
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This third installment continues the marriage of classic
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Teenage DeShawn goes from making exceptional to poor grades in a
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Her feet are either abnormally large or she had Swim Fin implants.
Dear god, those feet make Paris Hilton's feet look absolutely miniscule. Do NOT use the zoom feature.
WHY?! Why does my brain hate me? "Psst. Hey, Iveski. Use the zoom. How bad could it be?"
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Jean Louis Kerouac was born to a Franco-American family in Lowell, Mass.
When he discovered that it was not "a feint," the Franco-American army was beyond reach.
This overhauling brought the end of the Franco-American honeymoon.
Intense artillery fire, lasting four hours, leveled the German positions before the Franco-American troops advanced.
The Franco-American forces continued to make gains with an advance in the Chezy sector northwest of the line.
There follows a description of sixteen medals commemorative of Franco-American history, placed in the same case.
In Franco-American hands the hill swung the line more to the east in the track of the general advance.
Scarcely a week went by without bringing one or two additional recruits to the Franco-American Corps.
The terrain was mostly woody in the area above the Marne where the Franco-American line had reached.
Decidedly he was not in the same class with this heroic Franco-American.


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Al Wilson Biography
Allen LaMar Wilson, 19 June 1939, Meridian, Mississippi, USA, d. 21 April 2008, Fontana, California, USA. Wilson was a former member of the Jewels, and also the Rollers, a San Bernardino, California-based quartet who scored a hit in 1961 with The Continental Walk. He was later signed as a solo act to Soul City, a short-lived label owned by singer Johnny Rivers. Do What You Gotta Do and The Snake reached the R&B chart in 1968, but it was not until the mid-70s that Al achieved a more consistent success. Show And Tell was a US mainstream number 1 single in 1974 while Ive Got A Feeling (Well Be Seeing Each Other Again) reached number 3 in the R&B lists two years later. Wilsons subsequent releases were less fortunate and his last chart appearance was in 1979 with Count The Days. He remained a popular performer on the club circuit up until his death from kidney failure in April 2008.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.


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New James Bond film 'Skyfall' unveiled
The new James Bond film "Skyfall" was unveiled on Thursday, with Daniel Craig returning as 007, half a century after the superspy's first appearance on the silver screen.
Oscar winner Sam Mendes is directing the film, due for release in late 2012, five decades after Sean Connery first played the debonair secret agent in "Dr No", launching one of the world's most popular film franchises.
Spanish actor Javier Bardem will play the villain and Judi Dench again takes on the role of Bond's tough boss "M" and head of spy agency MI6, the film's producers told a London press conference attended by some of the stars.
British actors Ralph Fiennes and Albert Finney were also in the cast, and the "Bond girls" would be played by French actress Berenice Marlohe and British actress Naomie Harris.
Mendes reassured fans that the latest movie in the series, legendary for its fast-paced action scenes and daredevil stunts, would contain "all the elements of a classic Bond movie, including a lot of action."
In keeping with its classic formula, the movie, which is due to begin filming soon, will see the tuxedo-wearing, martini-quaffing spy getting into scrapes across the world, in London, Scotland, Shanghai and Istanbul.
The film, which will have its first release in Britain and Ireland on October 26 next year and its US release on November 9, sees the world's most famous secret agent on a mission to track down and destroy a threat to MI6.
It is Craig's third time playing Bond after the films "Casino Royale" in 2006 and "Quantum of Solace" in 2008.
Despite the huge popularity of the Bond franchise, the latest film nearly did not make it off the drawing board after studio giant MGM got into severe financial difficulties.
The project was put on ice in April last year after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was offered for sale to resolve its debt problems and stave off bankruptcy.
But the legendary studio, with a catalogue that includes the Bond franchise as well as the "Pink Panther" and "Rocky" series, announced a debt-restructuring rescue deal late last year, paving the way for Bond's return.
MGM -- famous for its trademark roaring lion logo -- announced in October last year that its creditors had approved a reorganisation plan with US firm Spyglass Entertainment.
"It was frustrating because there was really nothing I could do about it," Craig told Thursday's press conference. "It was a financial issue and I just had to let them get on with it."


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(CNSNews.com) - Cuba's Castro government has dismissed a report by the Council on Foreign Relations calling for a significant relaxing of American sanctions against the Caribbean nation, which were imposed after Castro took over in 1959. Cuba believes the report doesn't contain anything new.
The CFR report also recommended increasing contacts between the United States and Cuba, as part of efforts to encourage a transition to democracy.
One recommendation is "family reunification and migration", especially in the wake of the lengthy legal battle over Elian Gonzalez.
"We believe that for both humanitarian reasons and the national interest and security of the United States, U.S. policymakers should take all possible steps to remove the obstacles that divide Cuban Americans from their family members in Cuba and promote lawful family reunification," the CFR report said.
However, the CFR believes that as "long as a closed, repressive system persists in Cuba, the United States has a moral obligation to accept anyone attempting to flee, whatever his or her motive or circumstance."
Other CFR recommendations included an end to restrictions on family visits to Cuba.
"At present, the United States permits Cuban Americans to travel only once per year to Cuba without first asking permission and then only for a humanitarian emergency. We recommend an end to all restrictions on visits by Cuban Americans to Cuba. The federal government should not be the judge of how often Cuban Americans or any other Americans need to visit relatives living abroad," the report said.
The CFR also believes Cuban Americans should be allowed to retire to Cuba and collect United States benefits if they so desire.
"We recommend that retired and/or disabled Cuban Americans be allowed to return to Cuba if they choose, collecting Social Security, Medicare and other pension benefits to which they are entitled in the United States," the report said.
The think tank also called on the United States to revise criteria for temporary travel visas from Cuba so Cuban citizens can visit their American relatives.
"Current policy on temporary visas treats Cuban applicants like it treats those from other foreign countries, applying a selection of high criteria such as salary, types of bank accounts, age, or property ownership to estimate their likelihood of returning home voluntarily. The nature of the Cuban government and economy makes these standards prohibitive but inappropriate for Cuban applicants."
The Council on Foreign Relations is not affiliated with the United States government.
Alarcon said at a Havana news conference, he does not expect any change in American policy towards Cuba by President-elect George W. Bush, but was optimistic that the American policy would be abandoned sometime in the future.


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Birmingham-Southern alumnus and Mountain Brook native to deliver keynote address at college's Honors Day
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—Birmingham-Southern College alumnus Craig Langford, current senior project manager at the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) Social Impact Group in Washington, D.C., will deliver the keynote address at the college's annual Honors Day Convocation Thursday, April 24. Honors Day is a celebration of the year's academic accomplishments at Birmingham-Southern.
A native of Mountain Brook and a 2000 BSC graduate with a degree in international business and finance, Langford will deliver the annual Honors Convocation address at 10 a.m. in Munger Hall Auditorium.
Langford came to AARP from The Home Depot Corporation, the largest home improvement retailer in the country, where he was responsible for creating diverse pipelines of candidates for the company's 1,800 stores through nonprofit and government partnerships. Prior to joining The Home Depot, he worked at the Welfare to Work Partnership, a national nonprofit dedicated to connecting former welfare recipients with meaningful employment. Langford worked with a small team at the organization to create a social enterprise consulting firm that helped employers develop effective recruitment and retention strategies for nontraditional populations.
After graduating from BSC, Langford began his career in a fellowship with the Mickey Leland-Bill Emerson Congressional Hunger Center, where he currently serves on the board for MetroTeen Aids, the only nonprofit organization in Washington, D.C. dedicated to HIV outreach and prevention for youth.
In addition to the Honors Day Convocation which will include a processional of graduating seniors and faculty in cap and gown, the day will feature academic awards presented to outstanding students in each of the academic areas and a demonstration of scholarship and creative works by students and faculty.
A complete schedule of events for Honors Day is available here.
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Chapter 18
|1For the conductor; of the servant of the Lord, of David, who spoke to the Lord the words of this song on the day that the Lord saved him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.
|אלַמְנַצֵּחַ | לְעֶבֶד יְהֹוָה לְדָוִד אֲשֶׁר דִּבֶּר | לַיהֹוָה אֶת דִּבְרֵי הַשִּׁירָה הַזֹּאת בְּיוֹם | הִצִּיל יְהֹוָה אוֹתוֹ מִכַּף כָּל אֹיְבָיו וּמִיַּד שָׁאוּל:
|on the day the Lord saved him etc.: When he became old and all his troubles had already passed over him and he was saved from them.
|and from the hand of Saul: Was not Saul included? But [he is mentioned specifically] because he was the harshest to him and pursued him more than all of them. Similarly, you say (in Josh. 2: 1): "see the land and Jericho."
|2And he said, "I love You, O Lord, my strength.
|בוַיֹּאמַר אֶרְחָמְךָ יְהֹוָה חִזְקִי:
|I love You: Heb. ארחמך, I love You, as the Targum renders (Lev. 19:18): "and you shall love your neighbor," ותרחם.
|3O Lord, my rock and my fortress and my rescuer; my God, my rock, I will take refuge in Him; my shield and the horn of my salvation, my refuge.
|גיְהֹוָה סַלְעִי וּמְצוּדָתִי וּמְפַלְטִי אֵלִי צוּרִי אֶחֱסֶה בּוֹ מָגִנִּי וְקֶרֶן יִשְׁעִי מִשְׂגַּבִּי:
|my rock: For You saved me at the Rock of the Divisions (I Sam. 23:28), when I was trapped between Saul and his men, to be caught, as it is stated (in I Sam. 23:26): "but Saul and his men were encircling to David and his men etc."
|and my fortress: Heb. ומצודתי, an expression of a fortress.
|my rock: Heb. צורי, an expression of a rock.
|I will take refuge: Abrier in French (to protect, cover; cf. Rashi to Isa. 30:2, Joel 4:16).
|I will take refuge in Him: I will take shelter in His shade, as the matter is stated (in Job 24:8): "and without shelter (מחסה) they embrace the rocks," because the rocks are a shelter and a shield for the travelers from the winds and from the downpour of rains.
|4With praise I call to the Lord, and from my enemies I will be saved.
|דמְהֻלָּל אֶקְרָא יְהֹוָה וּמִן אֹיְבַי אִוָּשֵׁעַ:
|With praise I call to the lord: With praises I call Him and pray before Him constantly, i.e., even before the salvation I praise Him, because I am confident that I will be saved from my enemies.
|5Bands of death have encompassed me, and streams of scoundrels would affright me.
|האֲפָפוּנִי חֶבְלֵי מָוֶת וְנַחֲלֵי בְלִיַּעַל יְבַעֲתוּנִי:
|Bands of death have encompassed me: On many occasions wicked men have surrounded me. אפפוני is like סבבוני. Similarly (below 40: 13), "For countless evils… have encompassed (אפפו) me."
|Bands of death: Heb. חבלי, camps of enemies, as (in I Sam. 10:5): "a band (חבל) of prophets." But Jonathan renders: as a woman who sits on a birthstool, an expression of the pangs (חבלי) of a woman in confinement.
|and streams of scoundrels: That too is an expression of troops that flood like a stream.
|6Bands of the nether world have surrounded me; the snares of death confronted me.
|וחֶבְלֵי שְׁאוֹל סְבָבוּנִי קִדְּמוּנִי מוֹקְשֵׁי מָוֶת:
|Bands of the nether world: Like "bands of death," camps of wicked men, and I - what did I do?
|7When I am in distress, I call upon the Lord; yes, I cry out to my God; out of His temple He hears my voice, and my cry comes before Him in His ears.
|זבַּצַּר לִי | אֶקְרָא יְהֹוָה וְאֶל אֱלֹהַי אֲשַׁוֵּעַ יִשְׁמַע מֵהֵיכָלוֹ קוֹלִי וְשַׁוְעָתִי לְפָנָיו | תָּבוֹא בְאָזְנָיו:
|When I am in distress, I call: I would always call upon the Lord.
|8The earth shook and quaked, the foundations of the mountains did tremble; and they were shaken when He was angered.
|חוַתִּגְעַשׁ וַתִּרְעַשׁ | הָאָרֶץ וּמוֹסְדֵי הָרִים יִרְגָּזוּ וַיִּתְגָּעֲשׁוּ כִּי חָרָה לוֹ:
|The earth shook and quaked: This is not connected to the preceding verse, but its beginning is connected to its end; i.e., when He was angered, the earth shook and quaked. [The word] כי is used as an expression of "when." When He was angered and came to wreak the vengeance of His people, His servants, on Pharaoh and his people, the earth shook and quaked.
|9Smoke went up in His nostrils, and fire out of His mouth did devour; coals flamed forth from Him.
|טעָלָה עָשָׁן | בְּאַפּוֹ וְאֵשׁ מִפִּיו תֹּאכֵל גֶּחָלִים בָּעֲרוּ מִמֶּנּוּ:
|Smoke went up in His nostrils: (En ses nariles in Old French, in his nostrils.) So is the custom of every anger, to cause smoke to ascend from his nostrils.
|10And He bent the heavens, and He came down, and thick darkness was under His feet.
|יוַיֵּט שָׁמַיִם וַיֵּרַד וַעֲרָפֶל תַּחַת רַגְלָיו:
|And He bent the heavens, and He came down: to pass through the land of Egypt. "He came down" is to be understood in its simple meaning. Another explanation is "i atonvit" in Old French, to flatten, as (in Exod. 39:3), and the radical is רדד.
|11And He rode on a cherub and did fly; He swooped on the wings of the wind.
|יאוַיִּרְכַּב עַל כְּרוּב וַיָּעֹף וַיֵּדֶא עַל כַּנְפֵי רוּחַ:
|He swooped: Heb. וידא, He flew, as (in Deut. 28:49), "as the eagle swoops (ידאה)."
|12He made darkness His hiding-place about Him as His booth; the darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
|יביָשֶׁת חֹשֶׁךְ | סִתְרוֹ סְבִיבוֹתָיו סֻכָּתוֹ חֶשְׁכַת מַיִם עָבֵי שְׁחָקִים:
|the darkness of waters: that are in the thick clouds of the skies are the darkness that is about Him. Lest you say that within the darkness there is no light, Scripture tells us: From the brightness before Him, and from within His partition, His thick clouds that are about Him are split, and hail and coals of fire pass through them.
|13From the brightness before Him, His thick cloud passed, hail and coals of fire.
|יגמִנֹּגַהּ נֶגְדּוֹ עָבָיו עָבְרוּ בָּרָד וְגַחֲלֵי אֵשׁ:
|passed: Heb. עברו, trepasant in Old French, passed. The hail split and passes through onto the Egyptians at the Sea of Reeds.
|14The Lord thundered from Heaven; and the Most High gave forth His voice with hail and coals of fire.
|ידוַיַּרְעֵם בַּשָּׁמַיִם | יְהֹוָה וְעֶלְיוֹן יִתֵּן קֹלוֹ בָּרָד וְגַחֲלֵי אֵשׁ:
|15And He sent out arrows and He scattered them; He shot lightning and He discomfited them.
|טווַיִּשְׁלַח חִצָּיו וַיְפִיצֵם וּבְרָקִים רָב וַיְהֻמֵּם:
|16And the depths of the water appeared; the foundations of the world were laid bare by Your rebuke, O Lord, by the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
|טזוַיֵּרָאוּ | אֲפִיקֵי מַיִם וַיִּגָּלוּ מוֹסְדוֹת תֵּבֵל מִגַּעֲרָתְךָ יְהֹוָה מִנִּשְׁמַת רוּחַ אַפֶּךָ:
|And the depths of the water appeared: when the sea split.
|the foundations of the world were laid bare: for all the waters in the world split.
|by the blast: from the blowing.
|17He sent forth from on high [and] He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
|יזיִשְׁלַח מִמָּרוֹם יִקָּחֵנִי יַמְשֵׁנִי מִמַּיִם רַבִּים:
|He sent forth from on high: His angels to save Israel from the sea and from the Egyptians.
|He drew me out: Heb. ימשני, an expression of drawing out, as (in Exod. 2:10), "I drew him out (משיתהו) of the water."
|18He delivered me from my mighty enemy, and from those that hated me, for they were too powerful for me.
|יחיַצִּילֵנִי מֵאֹיְבִי עָז וּמִשּׂנְאַי כִּי אָמְצוּ מִמֶּנִּי:
|19They confronted me on the day of my calamity, but the Lord was a support to me.
|יטיְקַדְּמוּנִי בְּיוֹם אֵידִי וַיְהִי יְהֹוָה לְמִשְׁעָן לִי:
|They confronted me: My enemies would hasten and attack me early on the day of my calamity, but the Lord was, etc.
|20And He brought me forth into a wide space; He delivered me because He took delight in me.
|כוַיּוֹצִיאֵנִי לַמֶּרְחָב יְחַלְּצֵנִי כִּי חָפֵץ בִּי:
|21The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands He recompensed me.
|כאיִגְמְלֵנִי יְהֹוָה כְּצִדְקִי כְּבֹר יָדַי יָשִׁיב לִי:
|according to my righteousness: According to the righteousness of my following Him in the desert.
|according to the cleanness: Heb. כבד, an expression of cleanness, as (below 24:4), "and pure of heart." Another explanation: He sent forth from on high [and] He took me. [David] said this about himself, concerning the angel who came to the Rock of the Divisions (I Sam. 23:27) to turn Saul away from him, as it is stated: "And an angel came to Saul, etc."
|according to my righteousness: that I did not slay him when I sliced off the skirt of his coat. [Obviously, Rashi explains verses 8- 17 as referring to Israel's departure from Egypt. Only in verse 17 does he suggest the explanation that David refers to his own experiences.]
|22For I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not wickedly departed from [the commandments of] my God.
|כבכִּי שָׁמַרְתִּי דַּרְכֵי יְהֹוָה וְלֹא רָשַׁעְתִּי מֵאֱלֹהָי:
|23For all His ordinances were before me; and His statutes I will not remove from myself.
|כגכִּי כָל מִשְׁפָּטָיו לְנֶגְדִּי וְחֻקֹּתָיו לֹא אָסִיר מֶנִּי:
|For all His ordinances were before me: I always placed them before my eyes.
|24And I was single-hearted with Him, and I kept myself from my iniquity.
|כדוָאֱהִי תָמִים עִמּוֹ וָאֶשְׁתַּמֵּר מֵעֲוֹנִי:
|25And the Lord has recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands before His eyes.
|כהוַיָּשֶׁב יְהֹוָה לִי כְצִדְקִי כְּבֹר יָדַי לְנֶגֶד עֵינָיו:
|26With a kind one, You show Yourself kind, with a sincere man, You show Yourself sincere.
|כועִם חָסִיד תִּתְחַסָּד עִם גְּבַר תָּמִים תִּתַּמָּם:
|With a kind one, You show Yourself kind: Because so are His ways, to pay a measure for a measure. Kind… sincere… pure, corresponding to the three patriarchs.
|27With a pure one, You show Yourself pure, but with a crooked one, You deal crookedly.
|כזעִם נָבָר תִּתְבָּרָר וְעִם עִקֵּשׁ תִּתְפַּתָּל:
|With a pure one: a faithful one.
|but with a crooked one: alluding to Pharaoh.
|28For You deliver a humble people, and You humble haughty eyes.
|כחכִּי אַתָּה עַם עָנִי תוֹשִׁיעַ וְעֵינַיִם רָמוֹת תַּשְׁפִּיל:
|29For You light my lamp; the Lord, my God, does light my darkness.
|כטכִּי אַתָּה תָּאִיר נֵרִי יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהַי יַגִּיהַּ חָשְׁכִּי:
|For You light my lamp: when he fought at night with the Amalekite troop that attacked Ziklag, as it is stated (in I Sam. 30:17): "And David smote them from evening until evening to their morrow."
|30For by You I run upon a troop, and by my God I scale a wall.
|לכִּי בְךָ אָרֻץ גְּדוּד וּבֵאלֹהַי אֲדַלֶּג שׁוּר:
|For by You: By Your assurance.
|and by my God I scale a wall: When he came to wage war against Jebus, and he said (in I Chron. 11:6): "Whoever smites the Jebusites, etc. shall be a leader and a prince." Joab brought a green juniper tree, bent it over, suspended himself on it, and scaled the wall. Said David (in Ps. 141:5): "May a righteous man smite me with loving-kindness," and the Holy one, blessed be He, lowered the wall, and he scaled it (Mid. Ps. 18:24).
|31[He is] the God Whose way is perfect; the word of the Lord is refined; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
|לאהָאֵל תָּמִים דַּרְכּוֹ אִמְרַת יְהֹוָה צְרוּפָה מָגֵן הוּא לְכֹל | הַחוֹסִים בּוֹ:
|refined: Pure. He promises and He does.
|32For who is God save the Lord? And who is a Rock, save our God?
|לבכִּי מִי אֱלוֹהַּ מִבַּלְעֲדֵי יְהֹוָה וּמִי צוּר זוּלָתִי אֱלֹהֵינוּ:
|33The God is He Who girds me with strength; and He makes my way perfect.
|לגהָאֵל הַמְאַזְּרֵנִי חָיִל וַיִּתֵּן תָּמִים דַּרְכִּי:
|and He makes my way perfect: He removed all obstacles from my way until it became perfect and paved.
|34He makes my feet like hinds, and sets me upon my high places.
|לדמְשַׁוֶּה רַגְלַי כָּאַיָּלוֹת וְעַל בָּמֹתַי יַעֲמִידֵנִי:
|He makes my feet like hinds: The feet of the females stand straighter than those of the males.
|35He trains my hands for war so that a copper bow is bent by my arms.
|להמְלַמֵּד יָדַי לַמִּלְחָמָה וְנִחֲתָה קֶשֶׁת נְחוּשָׁה זְרוֹעֹתָי:
|so that a copper bow is bent by my arms: Heb. ונחתה, an expression of treading the bow, as (below 38:3): "Your arrows were driven (נחתו) into me." Its radical [or its active voice] is נחת. When it is used in the passive voice, a dagesh comes and causes the "nun" to drop out. Hence נחתה is derived from ננחתה as (below 69:4): "My throat is dried (נחר)," derived from ננחר as (in Jer. 6:29): "The bellows is heated (נחר) "; נדף, rattling (in Lev. 26:36) is derived from ננדף;"My eyes stream (נגרה)" (in Lam. 3:49), is like ננגרה;"was given (נתנה)" (Gen. 38:14) is like ננתנה;"they were smitten (נגף)" (II Sam. 10: 15) is derived from ננגף. We cannot interpret it as being of the radical חתת, for then it would say נחתתה, as [it says] נעשתה, was done, from עשה; נענתה, was answered, from ענה. Another explanation: and a copper bow is bent by my arms: חית is an expression of treading a bow, as (below 38:3): "Your arrows were driven (נחתו)." The "nun" is not of the radical but it is like נחלו"gave for inheritance" (in Jos. 14:1), and the copper bow was bent by my arms. Copper bows were hanging in David's house. The kings of the nations would see them and say to each other, "Do you think that David has the strength to bend them? This is only to frighten us." But he would hear [them] and bend the bows before them.
|36You have given me the shield of Your salvation; Your right hand has supported me, and You have treated me with great humility.
|לווַתִּתֶּן לִי מָגֵן יִשְׁעֶךָ וִימִינְךָ תִסְעָדֵנִי וְעַנְוָתְךָ תַרְבֵּנִי:
|and You have treated me with great humility: You have dealt with me with great humility.
|37You have enlarged my step[s] beneath me, and my ankles have not slipped.
|לזתַּרְחִיב צַעֲדִי תַחְתָּי וְלֹא מָעֲדוּ קַרְסֻלָּי:
|You have enlarged my step[s] beneath me: One who widens his steps does not fall easily. Similarly, Scripture states (in Prov. 4:12): "When you walk, your steps will not be hampered (יצר)."
|slipped: Heb. מעדו aluverjert in Old French, to slip.
|my ankles: Heb. קרסלי. They are the feet from the ankle which is called keville (cheville) in Old Frenchand below [to the heel].
|38I have pursued my enemies and overtaken them, never turning back until they were consumed.
|לחאֶרְדּוֹף אוֹיְבַי וְאַשִּׂיגֵם וְלֹא אָשׁוּב עַד כַּלּוֹתָם:
|39I have crushed them so that they cannot rise; yea, they are fallen under my feet.
|לטאֶמְחָצֵם וְלֹא יֻכְלוּ קוּם יִפְּלוּ תַּחַת רַגְלָי:
|40For You have girded me with strength for the battle; You have subdued under me those that rose up against me.
|מוַתְּאַזְּרֵנִי חַיִל לַמִּלְחָמָה תַּכְרִיעַ קָמַי תַּחְתָּי:
|41And of my enemies, You have given me the back of their necks; those that hate me, that I may cut them off.
|מאוְאֹיְבַי נָתַתָּה לִּי עֹרֶף וּמְשַׂנְאַי אַצְמִיתֵם:
|You have given me the back of their necks: They would turn the back of their necks to me and flee.
|42They pray but no one saves them; [even] to the Lord, but He answered them not.
|מביְשַׁוְּעוּ וְאֵין מוֹשִׁיעַ עַל יְהֹוָה וְלֹא עָנָם:
|They pray: to their idols.
|but no one saves them: Because it [their prayer] has no power, and they return and call upon the Lord, but He does not answer them.
|43Then I ground them as dust before the wind; as the mud in the streets I did pour them.
|מגוְאֶשְׁחָקֵם כְּעָפָר עַל פְּנֵי רוּחַ כְּטִיט חוּצוֹת אֲרִיקֵם:
|Then I ground them: Heb. ואשחקם, an expression of crushing.
|I did pour them: like loose mud, which is not thick, as (in Gen. 42:35): "when they emptied (מריקים) their sacks" ; (in Jer. 48:11), "has not been poured (הורק) from one vessel to another vessel."
|44You allowed me to escape from the contenders of the people; You shall make me the head over nations; may a people that I do not know serve me.
|מדתְּפַלְּטֵנִי מֵרִיבֵי עָם תְּשִׂימֵנִי לְרֹאשׁ גּוֹיִם עַם לֹא יָדַעְתִּי יַעַבְדוּנִי:
|You allowed me to escape from the contenders of the people: so that I should not be punished according to Jewish law, for perverting justice or for subjugating an Israelite more than is permitted.
|You shall make me the head over nations: for whom there is no punishment.
|45As soon as they hear they shall obey me; foreigners shall lie to me.
|מהלְשֵׁמַע אֹזֶן יִשָּׁמְעוּ לִי בְּנֵי נֵכָר יְכַחֲשׁוּ לִי:
|As soon as they hear: Even in my absence, as long as they hear my message.
|they shall obey me: They shall give heed to my bidding and obey my orders.
|shall lie to me: out of fright.
|46Foreigners shall wither, and they shall fear their imprisonments.
|מובְּנֵי נֵכָר יִבֹּלוּ וְיַחְרְגוּ מִמִּסְגְּרוֹתֵיהֶם:
|shall wither: Heb. יבלו. They shall become weary, as (in Exod. 18:18): "you shall surely wither (נבל תבל) ," which the Targum renders: you shall surely weary. Menachem (Machbereth p. 45) explains it as (in Gen. 18: 12): "after I have become old (בלתי)," and he explained נבל תבל in the same manner.
|and they shall fear: Heb. ויחרגו, an expression of fear; (in Deut. 32:25) "and terror from within," the Targum renders: חרגת, fear of death.
|their imprisonments: Because of the tortures of the imprisonments in the dungeon where I imprison them and where they torture them. Menachem (p. 94) interprets it as an expression of loosening the girdle, and so he explains it: and they will be loosened of their girdles [meaning they will be frightened or weakened]. Dunash interprets ויחגרו ממסגרותיהם, and they will be lamed from their shackles, which are placed on their feet. The meaning of ויחגרו is: they will become lame, as the Aramaic for a lame person is חגר.
|47The Lord lives, and blessed be my Rock, and exalted be the God of my salvation.
|מזחַי יְהֹוָה וּבָרוּךְ צוּרִי וְיָרוּם אֱלוֹהֵי יִשְׁעִי:
|The Lord lives: He Who does all this for me.
|48The God Who grants me vengeance and destroys peoples instead of me.
|מחהָאֵל הַנּוֹתֵן נְקָמוֹת לִי וַיַּדְבֵּר עַמִּים תַּחְתָּי:
|Who grants me vengeance: Who gives me strength to avenge myself upon my enemies.
|and destroys: Heb. וידבר, and He slew, an expression of דבר, pestilence. Another explanation: as (in Exod. 3:1): "and he led (וינהג)," which is translated into Aramaic as וּדְבַר. Menachem (p. 61) too associated it in this manner. Likewise, he associated (below 47:4), "He leads (יַדְבֵּר) peoples under us."
|instead of me: Heb. תחתי, in my place and in my stead, as the matter is stated (in Isa. 43:4): "and I give men in your stead (תחתיך) , (verse 3)," I have given Egypt as your ransom. [Cush and Seba in your stead (תחתיך)]."
|49Who delivers me from my enemies; even above those that rise against me You have lifted me; from the violent man You deliver me.
|מטמְפַלְּטִי מֵאֹיְבָי אַף מִן קָמַי תְּרוֹמְמֵנִי מֵאִישׁ חָמָס תַּצִּילֵנִי:
|50Therefore, I will give thanks to You, O Lord, among the nations, and to Your name I will sing praises.
|נעַל כֵּן | אוֹדְךָ בַגּוֹיִם | יְהֹוָה וּלְשִׁמְךָ אֲזַמֵּרָה:
|51He gives great salvations to His king, and He performs kindness to His anointed; to David and to his seed forever.
|נאמַגְדִּל יְשׁוּעוֹת מַלְכּוֹ וְעֹשֶׂה חֶסֶד | לִמְשִׁיחוֹ לְדָוִד וּלְזַרְעוֹ עַד עוֹלָם:


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Buckram Oak Farm's Silver Train held off a fast-closing Sun King to post a narrow victory in Monday's Metropolitan Mile (gr. I), the Memorial Day feature at Belmont Park.With jockey Edgar Prado back in the saddle for trainer Dick Dutrow, the son of Old Trieste stalked the early pace set by Mass Media as the pair went in fractions of :22 3/5, :44 4/5, and 1:08 4/5 for the first three-quarters of a mile. Silver Train overtook Mass Media coming out of the turn in the one-turn mile race, as Bandini made an abbreviated move that he could not sustain. Silver Train roared down the stretch as Sun King took aim on the leader. At the finish, only a head bob separated the two, with Silver Train coming out the winner of the photo.Completing the distance in final time of 1:34 1/5, favored Silver Train paid $6.60, $3.50, and $2.90. Sun King paid $6.30 and $4.80, with Mass Media holding on for third and returning $5.00. Bandini finished fourth as the second choice.The victory was the first in three starts for Silver Train since his impressive performance in the 2005 TVG Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I) last Oct. 29. In his seasonal debut, Silver Train finished seventh as the even-money favorite in the Richter Scale Breeders' Cup (gr. II) March 4. With Mike Smith aboard, the 4-year-old colt finished second as the 1-2 favorite in a three-horse field in an allowance test at Aqueduct April 20.The Met Mile pushed Silver Train over the seven-figure earnings threshold as he has now earned $1,127,345, with five wins and six placings from 14 starts. The colt was bred in Kentucky by Joe Mulholland, Sr., Joe Mulholland Jr., and partners. "He just loves this track, and that's great for us," Dutrow said. "He can do anything, and Edgar (Prado) has such a knack for knowing what to do and when to do it. There were a lot of question marks about this horse out there, but he just loves this track. That's why we got the job done today. If this race were run at Aqueduct or anywhere else in the world, I'm sure he would have gotten beat. I was sweating, but he dug down and got it done. It was beautiful. I have to look at the Suburban (grade I, $400,000 10 furlongs, Saturday, July 1 – I have to look for as many good races for him here as possible. He's not going to go up to Saratoga. I don't know why he wouldn't get a mile and a quarter. I guess I'll find out at the eighth pole. "
"He tries so hard," Prado said. "I was still running at the end. I knew it was going to be close, but my horse was still running."
"It's a little frustrating. In the Donn, we finished second. In the Pimlico Special, we finished second. In the Met Mile we finished second – and we beat (trainer Todd) Pletcher all three times," said trainer Nick Zito of Sun King's effort. "It's like the freakiest thing ever. The horse ran great. He ran his guts out. This was a tough beat. We lost to the horse that won the Breeders' Cup Sprint over this track. We're there all year in these Grade 1s, we need to win one. I'm grateful to these horses for trying so hard. This race just adds to Sun King's legacy. I guess if we had to lose, we lost to the right horse. I love Sun King. We'll talk with (owner) Mr. (Tracy) Farmer and see what he wants to do."
"He's probably just a little better at two turns or a mile and an eighth," jockey Garrett Gomez said of Bandini. "The other horses are more sprinters. When we left there, he kind of got shuffled back. From then on, I was in everyone else's pocket. He had every chance to get it done, but they just kicked on."(Chart, Equibase)
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