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Newspaper article The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Australia)
Capra Coaches Hard at It in Coaxing Best from Juniors
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Byline: Alan Kennedy firstname.lastname@example.com
RUGBY LEAGUE: For coaches Aaron Earnshaw and Steve Parle the 2012 season is not something to look forward to as it is already underway.
The pair is in charge of the Capras younger teams, the under 16s and 18s, and due to an early start to their programs have been training for about a month.
Earnshaw, who is in charge of the older group, knows this could be a testing time for the players as they held their last sessions this week before the Christmas break.
C[pounds sterling]We start back on January 25,C[yen] he said.
A month away from a supervised training program could test some of the young footballers but Earnshaw said they had been given their personal programs and therefore it was up to them to return to the coach in good condition and ready to continue.
Earnshaw is confident it won't become an issue.
C[pounds sterling]The attitude of the squad is very good,C[yen] he said.
C[pounds sterling]I am very happy with them, there will be a lot of talent in this side, and they pick things up very well.C[yen]
The coach said the development of the players to the present point was a sign the program worked as the youngsters had received good coaching at both club level and in their representative teams.
Despite having a quality squad Earnshaw knows the Capras under-18s will be in for a very tough program of matches.
C[pounds sterling]There are no easy games,C[yen] he said, C[pounds sterling]we start with Townsville and then play Souths Logan Manly.C[yen]
Teams like Townsville get the opportunity to drill their squad far more than a couple of times a week as the majority of the players are a part of the Cowboys set up. …


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12/07/2008, The Western Province
I love the vibe of Viru Harbor. There are two villages here, on on each side of the harbor mouth. Many dwellings are built right on the water. It reminds me of a Louisiana backwater.
I was so pleased that the villagers here seemed less interested in the new (only) yacht in the harbor than at Penjuku. This illusion ended with a knock on the hull at 6AM. Somehow I lost the battle of wills with Hideko and ended up going outside to see what was happening.
It was two little girls in a canoe. What are you going to do? Tell them to scram it is too early. No chance. As it turned out they had some lovely spring onions they wanted to trade. I asked them what they wanted to trade for. They said books (meaning blank paper school books). I gave them each a set of school books, some pencils and a bag of candy. It was a good trade.
But the trades didn't stop. Our last visitors came at 6PM and we didn't have more than 15 or 20 minutes without someone paddling about the transom. Mostly kids with vegetables, which we made deals with, one and all. We now have a fantastic selection of fresh fruit and veggies. We acquired some surprising things too, like a wonderful ruby red grapefruit and some other things we can't identify.
We did get hit up buy the carvers here. We had to firmly inform them that we were no longer in the market for carvings. I did give them some school pads for their kids. Some guys offered fish but we were full up there too. For the most part everyone was respectful and I only had to shoo two kids and one over grown kid (20 maybe?) off of the transom. I find that making a clear line as to what is ok and what is not (namely getting on our boat) is important and well received if handled properly.
One thing I found surprising was that some of the adults seemed to have a beef with Australians. I don't know what kind of ridiculous propaganda the imbezeling leadership here is sending around (two of the last four prime ministers are in jail for fraud) but the Australians are the only thing keeping this place from melting down. The tribal leaders seem to have more ego than compassion for their subjects. The elected officials (at least last several go rounds) seek to line their pockets as quickly as they can prior to getting kicked out of office.
Let it be known that the Australians have come here at the invitation of the government to get things under control, at substantial risk to their own health and safety. They have done so, and in short order. Australia also provides more aid to the Solomons than any other country.
At the other end of the spectrum the locals love the USA. We came in and fought in WWII and left a lot of packs of cigarette and bottles of Coke a Cola in our wake. One guy told me that the USA has lots of money and always wins the war. I asked if that was why he though we were great. Of course, he said. Hmmm.
|The Solomon Islands
I spent 4 years of my childhood growing up in Viru Harbour, as my father was general manager of the logging company Kalena Timber Company .
We left a life in Tasmania for a stay in the Solomons we all shall NEVER forget.
12/06/2008, The Western Province
We got up fairly early today. Well early for us now that we are back on a more "out of the danger zone" cruising schedule. It was time to head west, on to Gizo, where our genset spare parts will arrive.
As predicted, again there was no wind. This was one of the most no wind predictions I had ever seen. The entire day had nothing over 3 knots in the spot forecast. If that's not "no wind" I don't know what is. I'm ashamed to say it, but for the first time since we've owned the boat we didn't put up the main for a cruise over a couple miles. In retrospect there was no reason to. We might have gotten a couple of tenths of lift from a few distant squalls but we also may have achieved the same in drag here and there. There was no wind. It was flat calm. There was a swell running but we were in protected water most of the time so I didn't even have the rig stability excuse to raise the main. Oh well, it was a short 30 some mile trip to Viru Harbor.
We raised the anchor easily, with a little work on the break out. Once free of the bottom we motored slowly to the pass. I decided to try the left side of our track to test the local knowledge but as we got close, Hideko vetoed my exploration instincts and asked that we follow the track on the way out, to avoid drama. We compromised and stayed close but left of track.
It was still 11 feet deep for a long time. There may be deeper water here, but it is not in the center or north side of the pass. Still, eleven feet is plenty of water for most yachts, you just have to hope there are no isolated dangers when it starts to get that shallow with poor water visibility and two keels 7 meters apart.
Our next death defying feat was to transit Nono lagoon to the north. Even the name is ominous. Nono lagoon is more like a box canyon. The farther north you go the shallower and more coraly it gets, with fewer outlets to deep water. Makes you feel like a cow or a bad guy in one of those old John Wayne films. We had plotted a course into the lagoon in deep water and then across Hele Pass which had a sounding of 17 feet. Hele Bar, farther up was shallower still and all of the other cuts just had the ominous blue color with no soundings (which worked out to 11 feet near Penjuku).
Why not go around, you ask? Well if you want to go outside, you have to go way outside, or be willing to sail over an underwater volcano. There are a few volcanic islands, new within the last 50 years, and two recently active volcanoes here. The folks in Penjuku told us that they often see smoke billowing from the sea over here.
So Nono lagoon it was. It was a pretty nice day, though there were lots of rain clouds dumping over the islands. The visibility in the lagoon was not fabulous but we could still make out the shoals. The bottom goes from hundreds of feet in the channels to 10 or 20 on the shoals. I think you could pretty much sail where ever you wanted to in the south part of the lagoon as long as you stayed away from the really shallow bits attached to the little islands on the rim of the lagoon.
Hele passage goes through a large cut between two little groups of beautiful islands. The pass was easily navigated and we never saw less than 19 feet on the sounder (so really 20 or 21). Once outside we ran along the islands of the lagoon on our way past Vangunu island (extinct volcano and looking every inch of it) and up to New Georgia. The islands lining Nono have sandy beaches and coconut palms just like the brochure. There was even a nice little pure sand island in the chain.
New Georgia is the largest island of the Western Province of the Solomon Islands. It has several nice lagoons and bays along with Viru harbor. Viru is a harbor in every sense of the word. The Japanese used this as one of their last strongholds in the Solomons during WWII. You can see why. It is very deep, large inside with a narrow entrance, and has perfect depth for anchoring, 40-80 feet in great holding mud. You can see through to the entrance from much of the harbor but Tetepare island is the only thing the view unveils, as Tetepare sits right across the Blanche Channel from the entrance. If you wanted to wire into the mangroves this would be a great place to do it. We have not even scratched the surface of the Solomons from a cruising perspective, but I can easily say that this is the best harbor we have been in for quite some time.
The entrance is plenty wide but reef is charted fringing both sides. A large WWII Japanese gun sits upon the western cliff controlling the approach, though I couldn't spot it from the sea. There is a range (I believe unlit) that we used to enter the harbor and it was perfect. Our Navionics charts were also still matching the radar exactly as well so we had many concurring means of verifying our entrance. There is a large scale chart of the harbor available, so the paper and electronic charts inside seem to be very good by comparison to other areas nearby.
Once inside we motored back to the largest area of the deeper harbor and anchored smack in the middle. We try to stay as far from land as possible to avoid bugs. The hook dropped in 60 feet and we set it to the current 5 knot breeze, which was artificially generated by a squall passing to the east. Though we know we'll be spinning around with sea breeze, land breeze and squall affects throughout the day we still set the anchor. It is likely the anchor will never feel a tug (we have 250 feet of chain out) but if a surprise comes we're better off pivoting a set anchor than dragging on to a hopeful set.
The harbor is a lovely place. The villages are Seventh Day Adventists and it being Saturday, only a couple canoes stopped to say high on their way to take care of other matters. It was a wonderful and peaceful night in a beautiful and very secure anchorage.
|The Solomon Islands
12/05/2008, The Western Province
As I walked along the deck last night, just looking about, I saw a log drifting in the water off to port. Hmmm. It was a big log. It was also moving against the current. After grabbing the binoculars I zoomed in to the distinctive profile of a crocodile. He was a big fella. Just silently moseying from one little island to the other across open water.
We have learned that there are 1,000 people in Penjuku, and another unknown several hundred small children. It is amazing that the little ones don't run afoul of the Salties more often. The kids play in the river and paddle about in their canoes unrestrained though. I suppose jungle savvy just comes with the territory.
We had some big thunderstorms and a lot of rain last night. It is nice being adjacent to a tall mountain when the lightning is going off. It is hard to imagine anything more disabling than a lightning strike on a yacht. I know of several yachts that were hit in Panama and very little in the electronics category survived. The rain is always nice though. Our decks are now squeaky clean.
We were set to visit the village at 9AM but some clatter at the back of the boat woke us up around 6AM. It was some fishermen. They were out at 3AM and apparently assumed we would be up and at 'em at 6. They did have an impressive catch displayed though. They had every kind of reef fish you can think of, some huge squid, and of course a selection of lobster. We told them we already had lobster coming and they offered to sell us more lobster but at a better price. We ended up buying four lobster for $1 US each. I didn't want to take advantage but they really wanted us to buy something. Cash in hand, they happily went on about their way. For reference, the going rate for lobster (crayfish as they call 'em here) is 30 Solomon a kilo but no one has a scale...
It is unfortunate that many of the locales who come out to visit you see yachts as a general store, or all purpose consumer. You are a bad guy to some of these people if you don't buy something. They often believe that because you have a yacht, which is a fabulous contraption to them, you must be rich. I know that many cruisers are budgeting their wits out to ensure that they have enough money to finish their life's dream. I wish that you could explain this to these folks, but I'm not sure it is possible.
We have been leaving the dinghy up so that we can take off quickly when it is time to go. To make getting around possible we have left the kayak inflated. We got the kayak into the water at around 9 am to head to the village and several canoes had already come out to make sure that we were coming. We dutifully paddled to the village and up the little river to an area where the carvers had set up shop. We didn't really know what to expect.
The village is lovely. It is primitive, mostly leaf huts on stilts with no running water or power but picturesque in its own way. There's not too much trash on the ground, which was nice to see, and the little paths have flowers and vegetable gardens along side. You can find orchids growing in coconut husks affixed to things everywhere.
People live on both sides of the river and there are two tree trunk bridges you can use to cross. The kids laugh and play on the bridges, splashing into the water below (crocks be damned). In fact you have to be careful crossing, especially when the kids are running around, or you might end up swimming as well.
The main buildings in the village are the school (first through sixth grade), the church (they are all Seventh Day Adventists here) and the infirmary. Most everything else is leaf huts and copper roofed huts, almost all on stilts. Most families have a sleeping house and a cooking house separate. Even though the village is large, everyone seems related.
The carvers were all close kin. I was surprised that there were only three guys with things to show. Kamatoka was the best English speaker and the lead business man. He had some impressive big stuff. Frank, Kama's brother, had many beautiful bowls with incredible inlay. Ricky Jim (Frank and Kama's brother in law) had many decorative bowls carved to look like fish and other things.
I had not expected the caliber of craft work that appeared here in the middle of no where. I don't think you could find anything so fine in a normal store in the USA. A specialty import shop maybe. The Marovo Lagoon is the place most famous for carvings in the Solomon's, and perhaps in a much larger area.
We were not prepared for the prices. These are some savvy carvers. They were charging market rates. You could haggle (and they expected it) but they haggled right back. In the end we bought a lot of amazingly beautiful stuff for a fair (not cheap) price. We are glad we bought it direct though. Shops are great and serve an important purpose but they, of course, buy things from these guys at half what we paid and then charge more.
Our buying spree apparently warranted a call to all carvers on the radio. Kama notified his uncle, Mike Charlie, from the other side of the island via SSB. No doubt the message was that some good marks were in the lagoon. Soon Mike Charlie was motoring our way. We told him we were full up, but one thing lead to another and we bought a couple of small things. Then Calabus came by, first cousin of Billy Vena, Frank and Kama's father. At thins point we were trading ball caps and fishing gear but still picked up a couple little things. I need to go check our waterline...
Later in the day another crew came by and we had a nice chat with them for a few hours but avoided buying stuff. I tell you, you will not be lonely in the Marovo lagoon.
It is Friday night. Thank goodness for the 7th Day Adventist missionaries. We will now have 24 hours of peace. It was wonderful visiting the village and with 1,000 plus people, the vast majority are happy just to see strangers and maybe visit a little. You just need to get through the carving posse to get things to settle a bit.
If you are good at managing local visitors, particularly the soliciting kind, I would recommend this anchorage. If not, you would not be happy here. We have thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. We only bought things we liked and wanted for ourselves or for Christmas gifts, but we did buy a fair amount of stuff. I hate to say it, but I think this was a big part of our acceptance here. Our boat is the biggest many of them have seen, which didn't help much. I could imagine the high pressure sales might be easier to deal with if you came in company of other yachts.
We are now having a lovely salad that Hideko traded a hat, soap and towel for, served in our spectacular pearl and rosewood inlaid Karosin bowl (hard cash for that one I'm afraid), with a side of lobster ($1 each thank you very much). Life is good.
|The Solomon Islands
12/04/2008, The Western Province
The one direction we didn't want to swing last night was north. Of course we woke up this morning facing due south. The depth alarm hadn't gone off so that was good but I could see the bottom a little too clearly for comfort at 5AM, just before sun rise. After a quick boat check we started up the auxiliaries and spun the boat back around the right way (keel over deep water). There was almost no wind but I think a small amount of land breeze was coming from the big islands in the center of the Russels.
After raising the anchor we followed our track line out the pass to the west and exited the big bay. The islands on the north side of the Russels reminded us of Tonga a little bit. They come straight up out of the sea, covered in greenery, with the exception of the concave bit in the tidal zone which has been eaten away over the years. It was very quiet at this hour and we did not see any canoes about.
On the way out of the bay we put the main up, protocol only. There was no wind. In fact my 7 day spot forecasts have not turned up one 3 hour period with two digit wind speeds since we arrived in the Solomons. This time of year you simply have to motor if you are not in the middle of a squall. There are a fair amount of squalls about but it is hard to catch them, and even so you need to be on the right side to avoid opposing wind. We had the jib up most of the way and it added a half knot or so when the wind got up to 6 knots apparent on the beam.
From our staging grounds in the Russels it was a good 70 miles to our selected anchorage on Nggatokae. Hank from Aurora suggested a spot right off the large village of Penjuku. The other option was to enter the Marovo Lagoon at the Mbili pass entrance and anchor inside. The Marovo anchorage is reported to produce heavy carving soliciting, we like to help out the communities by purchasing crafts but we don't like to be mobbed after a long day at sea. The lagoon, while the subject of top quality marketing, is also in a bit of a decline. Logging has put a lot of silt in the lagoon and it is not clear water these days. This has chocked out a lot of the coral, degrading the snorkeling. The edges are also mangrove swamps which harbor crocodiles rather than white sand beaches. I shouldn't paint too bleak a picture, many love their exploration of the Marovo Lagoon (and we may return to visit the Uepi Resort in the north of the lagoon to go diving), but the general situation caused us to select the more direct route to Gizo.
It was a long but nice motor sail to the Western Province. Nggatokae is the first big island you reach. It looks like an old volcano, which it is, now covered in greenery. As we ran along the south side of the island we saw many lovely palm lined beaches with interesting rock and coral formations. This stretch of coast only revealed one house and one boat at mooring. This can be deceiving though, as huge villages can blend in just behind the coastal foliage.
Around the north side of the eastern point is a place called the Wilderness Lodge, with two beach bungalows. It was a Lonely Planet pick and I can imagine it must be lovely given the setting.
Some squalls were coming off the mountain as we came up the leeward side of the island. While there is almost no wind, it seems that the northeasterly trades from the northern hemisphere do guide the weather. The wind came up and around and finally settled on the nose, so we took the opportunity to lower the main. As you head north along the back side of Nggatokae the islets that fringe the larger Vangunu island to the west form a big bay. From this bay you enter a narrow pass between to islets to enter a leg of the Marovo lagoon that lies in front of the village of Penjuku.
The charts in the area are vague at best. Around the pass and beyond into the lagoon there are no soundings. Zip. So you might run aground, you might not. But it does show water, that's always good. Hank had recommended this spot so we figured it had to be tenable.
As we approached the pass between the steep little islets we lined up well outside on our track to see if we were being set one way or another. It was a neap tide but we were probably close to max flood if the tide tables are right. Nothing like being ushered onto the reef by a good current.
As we approached there was no discernible current though. The water was a bit murky and hard to read and it was late in the day. The sun was behind us though and we moved into the pass with some way on as the sounder read 80 feet. Then it quickly came up to 20. We were favoring the north side of the east/west pass, where the chart showed decent water color (no soundings though). The south side showed a reef that dries at low water on the chart. The bottom kept coming up and I stopped the boat at 10 feet. Hideko could see the bottom now and prodded me to continue on track. After a scary few minutes of creeping and crawling we made it in. Shortly there after we were back in 80 foot water.
The chart shows a big reef in the center of the large lagoon area to our port so we just took a line straight in to the village and parked in the absolute middle of the lagoon with the hook in 60 feet of water. This kept us as far from the mosquitoes and flys as possible. We didn't have the anchor set before canoes began to congregate to say hello.
We were of course the only yacht in the anchorage, and thus the center of attention out on the water. Perhaps ten canoes came to visit, which is not too many considering the village has a population of about 1,000. Some wanted to sell carvings but we told everyone we would come to the village at 9-10 the next morning to buy/trade carvings. Some of our visitors spoke English and we had an interesting chat about the village and where we came from. I did glean that the deep part of the pass was the opposite of what the chart showed. No one tried to come aboard thankfully but one adult did inform us that some bad seed kids from the village have stolen small things from yachts in the past (masks and fins and the like). We made it clear that we had a dog who didn't like unannounced visitors and that if we had a problem we would leave immediately, and also radio the three boats behind us regarding the situation. This seemed to be well taken.
After a nice time with the locals we told them we were tired and needed to shut down for the night. The oldest lady of the group said ok see you tomorrow and told the others to let us rest. This caused about half of the visitors to depart but several didn't budge. It must be such a big event for them to get visitors from the outside. Many have never left the village and those that have have maybe been as far as Gizo, the province capital.
A couple of motor boats came by later offering vegetables and carvings. We gave them all a consistent message which was well received. Everyone was very nice and it is always intriguing to see and talk with folks who are totally self sufficient.
It had been a long day but as we settled in, the night shift stopped by to say hello. I went to the transom to see who was flashing a light about and it was a canoe with four guys in it going out hunting on the reef at night. They were selling lobster on spec. I should have told them to come by in the morning so we could take a look, but they wanted an order. Two lobster please. Off they went into the night with a flash light and a spear gun.
Our day had gone from boring to, perhaps, a little too busy. The opportunity to interact with these people is now though, I say to myself, don't let it go by. When you're home in the western world someday, sitting in your study, it would be a shame to wish you had done things on your round the world adventure that you could have but didn't.
|The Solomon Islands
12/03/2008, The Russel Islands
It would be a long day sail from our first Russel anchorage to the Western Province. A little over 70 miles. When we woke up it was raining. So that settled it, we were going to spend another day in the Russels (what torture :-). The Russels are lovely and quiet.
These islands were once a large copra production facility for Lever Brothers, the Australian soap dynamo. It seems some of this still goes on but it is not as colonial as it was. Folks here still paddle around and fish from dugout canoes but I think the era of western influence has changed the place some. No one comes to visit you, which can be a nice break if you just want to relax in peace and quiet. Everyone is still friendly though and they always wave back if you wave at them.
Once the sun cleared the sky up we dropped the mooring and plotted a tour through the lagoons of the northern Russel group to an hopeful anchorage in Pirisala Bay. The Russels are very deep and finding an anchorage is tricky. This is increased by the light and variable nature of the wind this time of year. You can try dropping your anchor on a small shelf in 20 feet of water, hanging back into deep water, but there are some problems with this. If you drag, which is more likely when you anchor on a steep decline, you will simply float off into the deep water, which hopefully is big enough to give you time to wake up before bumping into the opposite shore. Second, squalls are a nightly occurrence here. You can count on at least one a night influencing you, if not hitting you, this time of year. That means wind strength and direction change. Usually only +/- 50 degrees or so, but could be more. The gradient winds are also so weak that land breezes at night can take control of things. I have seen no 20 foot platforms in the Russels that would allow a yacht to swing on shore without going aground.
If you had a Gemini or something with an 18 inch draft you could get onto some of the banks and anchor safely, which would be nice. We draw 4.5 feet and need 10 feet to be comfortable in an anchorage (unless it is all sand, then we'll go down to 6 at low springs). Our plan was to check out the area between the two charted WWII wrecks in Pirisala Bay, one of the northwestern most bays in the Russels. This would give us a 9 nm head start for our run to the Western Province and it also looked very protected on the chart. Our mooring stay was nice but a chop did come around the island over night with a little sidewise roll. We were going for totally flat tonight.
The motor through the islands with 0-5 knots of wind was very pretty. The northern islands have lots of little deep water tracks leading through an array of islets, mangroves, sandy beaches and reefy banks. We were making way at noon so the different water colors really came out. It had turned into a lovely blue sky day, as it usually does here.
We saw a number of wonderful little spots where you could anchor but most were good for only trade wind conditions with 180 degrees of safe swinging. There is one island we passed that is shaped like a crescent and there is a reef across the entire front of the crescent. Inside is a shallow lagoon. If there were only a break in that reef!
We saw many western style buildings as we trolled through the islands. One little settlement at the end of a coconut tree filled island had a substantial set of jetties, making it look a good place to load copra. Leaving this peninsula to port we made our way through a narrows and then turned down toward Pirisala Bay. Hideko spotted the first wreck on the chart but the second appeared to have been replaced by a small clump of mangroves. We came in the clear channel which bends into the bay from the east. The north part of the bay has a reef and bank across it with a channel through to another exit. An island surrounds the bay to the south, east and west.
We tracked along the bank looking for good spots to hook up. Every thing looked to be problematic if the wind came south. We did find an area where the bank juts out a bit, creating a 30-50 area where you could anchor with a good 270 degrees safe swinging angle. If you could hold with short scope maybe even 360.
We kept moving around the bank and then ran through the channel leading to the big exit bay to the north. We looked in the big bay for spots as well but it is totally open to the north and any swell from that direction would come right in. Our primary purpose for running the channel was to lay down a safe track line so that we can leave with poor light early in the morning. As we crossed back in we found the deepest water closer to the western shore and got through with nothing less than 35 feet of water.
The best spot we had found turned out to be the little finger jutting out from the coral and sand bank. We took a couple trys to get set properly but ended up with a solid hold in about 30 feet with 150 of scope out. This is just over 4:1 for us (we have 5 feet of freeboard) and seemed a good compromise between: holding, a chance to catch if we drag deeper, and the short scope desired if the wind goes wrong.
Once settled Hideko made her wonderful Churasco Steak sandwiches and we enjoyed the views of the lovely little bay. After lunch we inflated the Clear Blue Hawaii Kayak and went to explore the wrecks. The mangrove bush was actually growing around one of the wrecks and had almost completely hidden it. In close, you could still see the remains of whatever it was, rusting slowly in the bright sun. Wrecks are always so intriguing to me. What was it's story, how did it come to this end? The other wreck is on a sandy point at the other end of the bank. On the way there we heard crazy noises coming from the deserted island that hosts the point. Our best guess is that the noises were birds. There was a wide array of very curious calls going on from the darkness of the trees.
After a nice bit of exploration we retired to the big boat and set about cleaning things up and getting ready for our sixty some mile crossing in the morning.
|The Solomon Islands
12/02/2008, The Russel Islands
We were up fairly early this morning. After running around to give away our internet cards that still had a day or two on them, we brought the dink up and dropped the mooring. We had never expected to be in Honiara a week and a day. We were hoping to leave with parts for our genset and PNG visas but we were leaving with neither. Last week was Thanksgiving in the US so we lost contact with our parts people on Tuesday and haven't heard from them since. The PNG visa saga is too sad to recount (see yesterdays blog).
None the less we were happy to be off to the islands again, where peace and tranquility rule. It was so peaceful we had to motor the entire way.
We have the weather in Honiara down to a science, at least for this time of year. In the morning it is a bright blue sky day. Cumulus clouds grow atop the high islands and by the afternoon there are thunder heads over the Floridas and the interior of Gudalcanal. Then as the sun sets the thunderstorms head southwest across the channel from the Floridas. These inevitably make landfall north of Honiara and south of Honiara, leaving the anchorage with a dead calm in the hot sultry early evening (and sometimes a nasty chop from the distant squall, perhaps a little rain) and then a cool starry breeze through the middle of the night and into the next morning. If you are not riding a squall you have no wind in this neck of the woods. Maybe a little land breeze at night, but not much.
We motor sailed most of the way along Guadalcanal. As we reached the northwest point we got the jib out and the few knots of real wind combined with the motorized wind got us up to 8 plus knots for a bit. We could see the black clouds building over the north end of the big island as we left it behind.
You can easily make out the Russels from the west end of Guadalcanal. Our destination was a mooring on the south side of Karumolun Island. The mooring is owned by a nice guy named Mike and came recommended by Hank, the only sailing charter skipper in the country. Who are we to turn down advice like that? Hank arranged for us to use the mooring and caught us on the cell phone as we made our way to let us know it would be alright.
This will be our first time in the Russels but from looking over the charts and cruising notes of others, the area seems fairly deep all around. There are lots of lovely places to tuck in here but, it seems, few with less than 100 feet of water. We came in on the mooring at about 3PM and tied up. The tie up was a bit of a charade because the mooring has very small loops on it and we have 5 feet of freeboard. We could hook it but it was a real trick getting a line through the loop and back up to the bow. I almost took a swim a couple times.
Swimming here would be great but you have to keep an eye peeled for the salt water crocodiles. This is the first time we have had such a concern since Panama. We settled on just relaxing aboard for the rest of the afternoon.
The little island is very lovely and the mooring is in 100 feet of water just off a little sandy beach lined with trees. You can see straight into the water where all of the reefy rocks climb up the steep slope to the shore. Melanisians paddle around the area in their dugout canoes here and there and there is a small town on a larger island south of here.
On the way in, Angelica II hailed us. They were on the hook off of Telin island, which was our original plan. They said it was a nice and very protected spot.
As night fell we had a fair battle with flies in the still air on the bow. Hideko's new full screen system on the boat, combined with her bug electrocution racket that Cindy from Kelp Fiction II gave us, quickly dispatched all of the varmints inside.
Over night we had several thunderstorms pass to the northeast of us. Electrical storms are my least favorite weather feature. We were close enough to one for the wind to get up to 17 knots. This is not that much but I feel that we may have been taxing this mooring a bit with our size under the conditions. Tomorrow we will move up closer to the western province in the Russels and then make the jump the next day to spare the mooring two nights of our girth.
Hideko made some great enchiladas and we are now settling in for an Enterprise double feature...
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12/01/2008, Honiara
Monday and our last day in Honiara. It has been an interesting experience being here, but we are very ready to leave. Our final high priority task to handle in the city was to pick up our Papau New Guinea visas from the PNG High Commission. It couldn't be that easy could it? We did have a little positive karma built up from our visit Friday when they said the visas would be ready, but then weren't. Not enough karma though, apparently.
When we arrived at the PNG HC, Hideko was presented her passport with the visa stamp in it (which must have taken 5 minutes to do when they finally decided to stamp it). I was out of luck. You see the only fully blank page in my passport was the back page. The PNG officials would not stamp the back page. No way, no how. Totally unacceptable to stamp the back page. This combined with the fact that so many countries flip all the way to a blank page to put their 1/4 page stamp on your passport (outside the lines), and the fact that US passports have ridiculously few pages to start with (compared to British, Australian, NZ, Japanese, ...), meant no blank pages except the back one.
The Solomons guy stamped his visa right on top of some other stamp. I liked his style. The PNG people had spoken though. The chip was firmly on the should and no solution other than a fresh page to stamp in the middle of the book would do. So we were off to the consulate to get some consoling.
The US consulate here is great. It is small but right on the way to the customs office in the middle of town. It is the cleanest, tidiest place in all of Honiara, that I have seen anyway. Anne, a wonderful woman from Malaita, is the Consular's Assistant and the only person I've ever seen in the place. Anne made a plea for us with the PNG folks but we all new it was a very outside shot. Nothing doing. So the only thing left to do was to pack my passport up and send it to Port Moresby where the actual US embassy is.
The plan is that the passport will go to the US embassy in PNG, get new pages, then come all the way back here to the Solomons to get the PNG stamp (go figure), then Anne will send it to the forestry representative in Gizo so that I can pick it up. This is a fairly complicated plan. Complicated and developing island nations in political turmoil often don't mix well. Particularly concerning given I have no passport until the plan completes successfully. I went for it though, which tells you how much we trust Anne.
The bright side of this escapade is that the Lime Lounge is between the US Consulate and the main road. We had not stopped in there yet and it was perhaps the last of the eateries in Honiara that we had wanted to try. We were glad we did. They had great thick milk shakes (if there's British influence make sure to order a "Thick" milkshake or you'll get a nasty watery chocolate milk when you order a milk shake) good sandwiches, lots of fresh cookies and cakes, good coffee and espresso and WIFI access all in an air conditioned room. Don't plug your laptop into the power outlets though, this is Tabu, they don't want you camping out on a single latte for 5 hours. After our visit I would rate this place as #1 in Honiara for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. If you need to spend all day on the laptop you'll have to go back to the Kitano Mendana hotel where the NGOs seem to be holding court.
Three cruising yachts came in over the last 24 hours. Polaris arrived yesterday, while Kleiner Bar and Whistle arrived today. It was nice to see our friends on Polaris and Kleiner Bar again and good to meet Whistler.
We took an afternoon trip to the Panatia Center (sp?) about 5 minutes east of town on the way to the airport. The grocery store here is the best in the area we have found, but also the most expensive. We stocked up nicely and caught a cab back to the Yacht Club.
I have been filling our 5 gal diesel jug and dumping it in the tanks every now and again to keep up with the battery charging. We are waiting to do a big fill up until we get to Gizo, where I hear they have a proper yacht friendly fuel dock. Hopefully it survived the tsunami last year. So after a final diesel jug run, Hideko and I retired to Swingin' on a Star and got the boat ready to go.
The Lonely Planet guide has an interesting way of describing Honiara. It doesn't make it sound like a wonderful place and takes an even handed view of the shortfalls the town has to overcome. They do, however, say the place can grow on you. While I'm not sure Honiara has grown on us, many of the wonderful people we have met have.
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Efforts have been underway for decades to conserve both energy and water, but never in concert. This is unfortunate because energy uses a lot of water and water uses a lot of energy.
Now two leading conservation organizations have set out to bring the efforts together. The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance for Water Efficiency published a white paper, this week, that describes the co-dependence of water and energy resources and outlines strategies to use both more efficiently.
The paper brings to light some interesting – and rarely discussed – ways, wherein each resource heightens use of the other.
- According to a 2005 California Energy Commission report, sourcing, moving, treating, heating, collecting, re-treating, and disposing of water consumes 19% of California's electricity, 30% of its natural gas and 88 billion gallons of diesel fuel annually.
- In 2009, the River Network found that energy use for water services accounts for 13% of US electricity consumption; at least 520 million megawatt-hours annually.
- In 2005, thermoelectric power accounted for an estimated 49% of US water withdrawals and 53% of fresh surface-water withdrawals.
ACEEE and AWE hope to work together on local, state and federal policy to bring more energy efficiency to water use and water efficiency to energy use. They have some hurdles to overcome. For example, "the water and energy efficiency communities do not share a common language or appreciation of existing efficiency efforts," the white paper said. "In addition, the two communities frequently operate under different regulatory business models and existing structures that do not recognize the benefits of both energy and water savings."
The organizations intend to develop approaches that encourage communication and guide the industries and their regulators. They hope to share best practices and integrate water efficiency into existing energy efficiency programs and vice versa.
The project focusses not only on the big water and energy users like power plants and waste water treatment facilities, but also households. This could prove interesting, as we move increasingly toward whole house automation as a way to increase efficiency and comfort in the home. Home automation has tended, so far, to focus on energy and telecommunications, with a host of up-and-coming high tech gadgets that make the home a more interesting and more resource-efficient place to live, work and play. If water and energy efficiency merge in the direction described by ACEEE and AWE, will we see a new suite of 'smart water' technologies in the smart home? Stay tuned. This could be interesting.
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Number 2 sounds right to me.
There's no need for you, me or others to try to learn everything. Besides being quite a lot wasted time it is impossible. I encourage to do much by yourself. I encourage you to learn programming, marketing, culture, sales, business, design, modding, graphics, team management, product planning, productivity to some extent, but I don't think it's best use of your time to try to be the best Java programmer and the best 3D modeler in the world. I believe it's much more efficient to concentrate on getting professionals near you. Get the best Java programmer and the best 3D modeler to work with you. Concentrate on being the best game producer and focusing the areas which you can handle.
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Spend a leisurely day exploring the historic areas of Federal Hill, Fell's Point and Mount Vernon, all easily accessible from our downtown Baltimore hotel. Federal Hill, located near the Baltimore Convention Center, bubbles over with antiques shops, specialty boutiques, pubs and restaurants. In its vicinity is a must-stop for art lovers: the American Visionary Museum, renowned for its collection of "outsider" art.
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It was "Girl's Night Out" with Gloria and I going to see Leon Russell at the Mt. Tabor Theater on Hawthorne last night. We missed the opening band, and just as we walked in, Leon ripped into "Jumpin' Jack Flash" into "Papa Was a Rolling Stone." Different than the way we are used to hearing it from the
Concert for Bangladesh (August 1st, 1971)
and a great way to begin the night. This was a different band than I've seen him with before. The last couple of times he's been to Portland with Commander Cody, I missed those shows. Heard they were great though.
The last time I saw him, was at the Roseland Grill. It was packed, and we had to stand through the show, and he had his son, Teddy Jack and daughter, Sugaree Noel with him. He also didn't say much to the audience at that show.
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opened with an acoustic set, and he's a very good writer and singer. I bought his CD and he signed it for me that night.
But last night, Leon chatted with the audience after about 20 minutes of one song right into another. He also told the story about meeting Gram Parsons in L.A. Gram was wearing his beloved Nudie Suit, and told Leon that he should do a version of The Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses" which he also did last night. I could just sit and listen to the man dole out the memories of his life. He also talked about touring with Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen, and Gloria told me how she saw that show in Boston. Delaney & Bonnie, Rita Coolidge and many other amazing musicians. I'm still jealous about that. What a show that must have been. Leon started his career working as a musician at the ripe old age of 14 in the bars of Tulsa, Oklahoma. He's played with just about everyone you could imagine George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, JJ Cale, The Band, Ringo Starr, Frank Sinatra, Glenn Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, and many MANY more.
Click here to link to Leon's website.
One of my favorite lines of his, is "I love you in a place where there's no space and time." Thanks for the music, Leon. Thanks for still touring like you were just starting out 14 years old, and playing with kids who weren't even born when the "Mad Dogs" tour or "Bangladesh" concert took place. Next time you come to Portland, if you can, please bring Teddy Jack with you. Oh, and just so I can RANT one more time about the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
, Leon Russell is not in there. Abba is, and Leon is not. Run D.M.C. is in there and Leon is not. Someone explain this to me, in a manner I can understand. It makes no sense, is wrong and bad and I'm sure there's artists who have been inducted who wonder the same thing.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0807079561, Hardcover)With bathhouses, "cruising" in urban areas, and private clubs built specifically for anonymous erotic encounters, the radical sexuality of gay American men in the 1970s is often seen as a shameful period of excess that led to the AIDS crisis.
In Beyond Same, activist Patrick Moore claims that when the gay community divorced itself from this allegedly tainted legacy, the result was an intergenerational disconnect between younger and older gay men. The original participants in the 1970s' sexual culture were unable to impart a sense of pride and identity to younger generations. Indeed, one reason for the current rise in HIV, Moore argues, is precisely due to this destructive disconnect.
Moore encourages gay men to reclaim the entirety of their heritage-including AIDS-so that the gay community's prevailing sense of shame and isolation will change. Lifting the veil of AIDS, Moore recasts the gay male sexual culture of the 1970s as both groundbreaking and creative, provocatively comparing extreme sex to art. In the process, he presents a powerful yet nuanced snapshot of a maligned, forgotten era, with its heady mix of sexual liberation, artistic celebrations of homosexuality, and political anger fueled by the prevalent homophobia.
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PIERRE, S.D. – South Dakota Department of Transportation officials announce Interstate 90 between Rapid City and Wall is now open. Interstate 90 between Wall and Mitchell remains closed, with no estimated time for it to be reopened. Crews are working to clear a number of stuck vehicles east of Wall.
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Ahmed Haroun, the incumbent governor of northern Sudan's only oil-producing state, wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in the western region of Darfur, was declared the winner of Southern Kordofan state's delayed elections.
"Ahmed Haroun was the winner in the election," Abdallah Ahmed Abdallah, deputy head of Sudan's National Elections Commission, told reporters today in the Sudanese capital Khartoum.
Southern Kordofan, which includes the Nuba Mountains, was the scene of heavy fighting during the two-decade civil war between the northern and southern regions that ended with a peace agreement in 2005. The state is located on the border between the two regions.
A local branch of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Southern Sudan's ruling party which led the rebellion against the Sudanese government in Khartoum, said yesterday it will not recognize the results of the elections because of alleged vote rigging.
The National Elections Commission added a polling center in the state without alerting the SPLM, whose monitoring agents were not present as a result, Yasser Arman, the secretary-general of the SPLM's northern sector told reporters yesterday in Khartoum.
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The cemetery is situated in the grounds of Easthampstead Park, to the right of the entrance. It provides a peaceful and tranquil haven for the departed.
The first three sections of the cemetery are laid out in a lawn style with flat memorial tablets and paved walkways, thus giving access at all times throughout the year, so that family and friends are able to visit during winter months.
Dividing the other sections of the cemetery is an earthen border, planted with shrubs and fragrant roses. This area supports a wooden pergola and in this section graves are marked with back-to-back headstones, leaving room for mechanical mowing of the grass between memorials.
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Video streaming website Hulu has announced that they will launch their Japanese service later this year.
The announcement was made by Johannes Larcher, Hulu's senior vice president of international, on the US website's blog.
According to the blog post, Japanese consumers will now have access to a large selections of popular TV programmes and feature films for a monthly fee, and the service is also set to be available in platforms like PCs, television, mobile phones, and tablets.
But the blog did not specify what articles will be available for Japanese consumers, but it will be release at the time of launch.
People who are interested in the Japanese Hulu service can access their website at http://www.hulu.jp
Hulu is an on-demand streaming service, which is a joint venture of NBCUniversal (Comcast / General Electric), Fox Entertainment Group (News Corporation), and Disney-ABC Television Group (The Walt Disney Company), and was launched in March 2007.
In September 2008, Hulu has started offering Japanese anime programming to US consumers and first offered Naruto, Mushi-shi and Death Note. Now, Hulu has a vast collection of anime programming from American anime license holders Funimation and Viz Media.
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For herbs and spices like Cayenne, Tumeric, fish oil or the like, you will be hard pressed to find a REAL clinical study that shows results in a dosage that a person could actually consume. However, when it comes to HA, Glucosamine and Chondroitin, Collagen, and Willow Bark, when properly combined, there are AMAZING FINDINGS:
Medical practitioners have been using hyaluronic acid as a remedy for joint pain for years. Due to Hyaluronic Acid's chemical properties, studies have proven that supplementing aching and degenerative joints with HA will provide the joint cushioning and needed lubrication. In addition, HA reduces inflammation and blocks tissue damaging enzymes from further damage to the knee. It is the perfect ingredient to stop joint pain and prevent further degeneration of the joints.
Those properties are at the center of a recent clinical study that suggests that the combination of Hyaluronic Acid (HA) in high enough concentration along with Chondroitin Sulfate and Glucosamine Sulfate may be the breakthrough experts have been hoping for. By increasing the concentration of HA above the normal levels of other joint relief supplements, scientists were able to achieve precise and effective treatment of joints with osteoarthritis and other bone degenerative disease. Furthermore, these studies show users reported they experienced reduced joint pain in as little as 7 days, while test results suggested there was less deterioration of tissue and cartilage in both the short and long term. The combination of Chondroitin and Glucosamine Sulfate stimulated new cartilage growth and improved the overall health of the joint.
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Hi all, been off the bike for 12+ years and after hip replacement I was able to start riding again. I've been feeling like I was getting my legs back and really enjoying riding again so I decided to treat myself to a new bike some 4lbs lighter than my old one.
My old Waterford Paramount 21.4lbs
My new Wilier Izorad 17lbs
What a fun bike to ride and I'm actually 15 seconds faster per loop on a 4 mile loop that I do after work 5 times (so I don't have to go out and fight traffic, seems we have a lot of people around here that only care about getting home as fast as they can).


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Best light show ever. Pictured above: auroras, plus a fireball from space. The mysterious streak of lights was identified by the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA as a Chinese rocket body [NORAD ID 40363]. Photo by Rocky Raybell/Flickr.
"Let's light this fire one more time": The Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off
The Space Shuttle Atlantis takes off for its final flight, in spite of predictions that weather might have delayed this final shuttle mission. Click this image to make giant, or right-click and select "open link in new tab."
Rare Images From Inside a Soyuz During Flight
Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev recently arrived at the International Space Station, along with astronauts Cady Colemand from the US and Paolo Nespoli from the European Space Agency. And he posted some rare images from inside the Soyuz capsule on his blog.
This is now America's only way of getting into space
The haunting beauty of abandoned playground rockets
Once, these rocket ships helped countless schoolchildren to conquer the vast reaches of space. Now, they look like a good way to get tetanus, with their rusty distressed metal. Photographer Lauren Orchowski's new book Rocket Science documents their beautiful decrepitude.
South Korea loses contact with rocket immediately after launch
That's not a happy rocket-launch picture. South Korea lost contact with its Naro-1 rocket right after launch, and the Koreans believe it exploded at 43 miles. The Koreans were attempting to launch a scientific satellite to cope with climate change.
Could this rocket be the replacement for the space shuttles?
The co-founder of PayPal just launched a rocket, the Falcon 9, which hopes to put a space capsule, the Dragon, into orbit. We're all hoping Elon Musk's rocket works better than PayPal, because NASA wants to use it for missions.
Launch! The Space Shuttle Atlantis On The Edge Of The Final Frontier
The Space Shuttle Atlantis has its final launch, in this breathtaking picture from Cape Canaveral. Atlantis will spend 12 days at the International Space Station, including three spacewalks. Photo by Matt Stroshane/Getty Images.
Brand-New Ares Rocket Blasts Off Into A Cone of Mist
Early this morning, NASA launched the Ares I-X rocket on a sub-orbital test flight - this is the first new rocket tested in 30 years. A cone of cloud formed around the nose as it blasted upward. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
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It looks like Ben's season may be over.
After worse pain from his shoulder, MRI scans showed up torn shoulder ligaments and a broken rib. He's headed back to the US for an operation and is definitely out for Phillip island and maybe Valencia too, depending on how the shoulder rehab goes.
It's just a bad end to a bad year really. After so many crashes and bike failures he's perhaps fortunate to have suffered nothing worse than the injuries he has.
Get well soon Mr Spies.


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The Invention of Wings is a book of fiction based on historical fact. It is a work of imagination in which the author enriches what we know about real people and events with the addition of fictional characters, details, and events. Historical novels are much like fantasy stories in that the author must create a world for the characters to live in and for the reader to believe in.
This particular novel tells the story of the Grimke Sisters of Charleston, two young women who made brave and unpopular choices and took serious risks as they spoke out against slavery and the treatment of women in the 19th century. It is told through two points of view: Sarah Grimke, daughter of a prominent judge, and Hetty (also known as Handful), a slave girl who is given to Sarah as a gift on Sarah's 11th birthday. By piecing together the experiences and perspectives of these two characters, we learn quite a bit about life in the days of slavery, women's lives, and the abolitionist movement as it was developing in the 1830s. Remember that the abolitionist effort was only completed with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution in 1865, and so the Grimkes were quite early in speaking out about this social system on which their family's wealth and position were built.
Listed inside are some topics and questions to think about as you read. You may want to take some notes for use when you discuss the book with your advising group and a faculty/staff member.
Fact vs. Fiction
As you read, you may wonder which characters and events are based on factual knowledge and which are made up. If so, look at the "Author's Note" at the end of the book. Sue Monk Kidd explains how she went about recording the truth while creating a complete and engaging story. If you have a Meredith Camcard, you can also access an encyclopedia entry about the Grimke sisters by searching "Grimke Sisters" in the Credo Reference field on the Carlyle Campbell Library website.
The "fiction" side of the story provides interesting details and creates character relationships that hold the story together and make us want to keep reading. Which of those details help you understand the world in which the novel is set? Which details surprise you the most about the life of the people at that time?
Families and Communities
The characters in the story all belong to some combination of family and community. The Grimke family, for instance, belongs to a certain social and economic class, the planter class. As a result, they live in an exclusive part of Charleston, they worship at a particular church, and they interact with a tight community of similar families. How would you describe the families and communities of the slaves, both inside and outside of the Grimke household? How are their families defined, and how do they function as a community of people in similar circumstances? Do they cooperate or compete, for instance? Are there indications of status and position within the slave community? Likewise, the Quakers whom Sarah and Angelina encounter in Philadelphia and New England have their own typical family units and communities. How are these families and their shared community similar to or different from those of the Grimke family and the South Carolina slaves?
Social and Political Activism
The novel shows us that from a very young age Sarah Grimke sensed the injustice of slavery and spoke out against it. What are some of the things she did as a girl and teenager that reflect her attitudes and beliefs? What difficult choices does she make as she pursues her passion for the abolitionist movement and women's rights? What mistakes does she make? What kind of person does she become? What social/political issues of a similar magnitude affect the world today? What kinds of involvement and activism are needed to address these issues?
The characters in the novel develop relationships inside and outside of their families and communities. An important relationship develops between Sarah and Hetty/Handful, for instance. How would you describe this relationship? What other special or notable relationships develop? How do they contribute to conflicts? How do they enrich the story and our understanding of the issues?
Literary Motifs
In addition to character, plot, setting, and theme, literary works often include repeating ideas in the form of images, symbols, and language. The idea of wings and flying is a motif in this novel, and so is the presence of water. It is also possible that Sarah's speech impediment contributes to the story, as it determines when she speaks and when she is silent. What other motifs can you locate? How do these motifs add dimension to the story and its characters?
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Kuna women continue to dominate the Caldwell Night Rodeo pageant with this year's winner and runner up both from the city. Chelsi Horton, 22, and resident of Kuna was named Miss Caldwell Night Rodeo last Saturday night, August 17. She is a 2009 graduate of Kuna High School taking over for Dusti Olson, also a resident of Kuna. Chelsi, the Boise State Bronco Girl has been leading the Broncos football team onto the blue field for the past three years with her horse Willy. Her favorite experience as the BSU Bronco girls was taking part in the 2011 Special Olympic Winter Games in Cascade.
"It's a dream come true to represent the sport of rodeo that I love as Miss Caldwell Night rodeo for 2014. "Thanks" doesn't even begin to cover the amount of gratitude I have towards the support I've been shown by my family, friends, and sponsors these past few weeks. I'm looking forward to representing at future events in Idaho as well as Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado. I'm proud to wear the crown of "Where the Cowboys are the Stars" and look forward to the wonderful road ahead of me." Said Horton.
Dusti Olson former Miss Caldwell Night Rodeo is settling back into a not so chaotic life. She is heading back to school to finish her degree in elementary teaching while interning at a church.
"Being Miss Caldwell Night Rodeo was the best thing that ever happened to me," said Olson. "It has been a year of a lifetime"
Runner up was Kuna's Lauren Johnson, 19, who took top honors in the speech category. She may have her sights set on future rodeo queen pageants.
"Overall, it's a good experience and it sets you up for better things," said Johnson. "It's a lot of work but whether you win or lose, it gives you an advantage for competing for Miss Rodeo Idaho."
Disclosure: Lauren Johnson has written about rodeo pagaents for Kuna Melba News and this week has joined the KMN staff as Assistant Sales Representative.