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What Passion! (What Pillows!)
By MONIQUE P. YAZIGI
Published: December 9, 1999
EVER been at a party at someone's house when the drinks were passed around and conversation stopped cold because the white cocktail napkins just didn't match the room?
In the world of ordinary mortals, probably not. But in more stratospheric circles, it's a fearsome possibility. Just last week, a group of six women were discussing matters of such importance at a Park Avenue linen party.
Stephanie Stokes, the host, stood in the wood-paneled library of her classic-six apartment holding a 4-by-7-inch yellow cocktail napkin up to a chair covered in rust-and-gold Turkish printed cotton. ''See?'' Ms. Stokes, a decorator, said to her assembled friends. ''White would stand out like a sore thumb. It would jump right out at you.''
Kathie Simmons, a former partner at a Wall Street investment firm, tsked. ''It wouldn't be right,'' she said. The others nodded knowingly.
For three hours, over coffee and croissants, they discussed the finer points of ecru, ivory and embroidered boudoir pillows with the passion of schoolgirls talking about the Backstreet Boys. Think of it as a high-toned version of a suburban Tupperware party. For the burping pastel plastic, substitute expensive (but discounted) sheets and towels.
From limestone apartment palaces on Sutton Place to stockbroker-Georgian manses in Greenwich, Conn., linen parties are spreading like kudzu as status-conscious chatelaines fork over anywhere from $100 for a baby pillowcase to the $60,000 that a woman from River House spent on bedding in a single sitting, witnesses said. A party was held for Annette Bening and Warren Beatty, and others have taken place at Gracie Mansion and even at Blair House, the presidential guest house in Washington.
''I would guarantee this is not about lovemaking,'' said Letitia Baldrige, the etiquette expert. ''It's snobbery. It's for women who ask the ladies to lunch to see how their beds are made.''
John Stoddart, a former linen manager, would like to take credit for the current vogue in sheet parties. After 10 years at Leron, a linen store on Madison Avenue that has supplied sheets to four generations of Rockefellers (and has sold in upper-class homes worldwide for over 75 years), Mr. Stoddart took his knowledge of fine cotton and went out on his own to start Madison Linens.
A door-to-door operation with almost no overhead (just a 600-square-foot office on Broadway), Madison Linens has three employees, one of them Mr. Stoddart's wife, Laurie Dusek, a lawyer who handles the business end. Mr. Stoddart says he discounts linens similar or identical to those at Leron by 25 to 50 percent.
For example, a white pillow sham, embroidered and hemstitched by hand in two tones of pink on the island of Madeira, which is known for its fine handwork, is $175 from Madison Linens, with monogram. At Leron, a saleswoman who was given a description by telephone of the sham said it would cost about $350. At the high-end linen store of E. Braun & Company, a similar sham would be about $250. A queen top sheet in the same style that is $410 at Madison Linens would run about $950 at Leron, the saleswoman there said.
Shopping for linens at home might seem odd in the online age, but it is a comforting reminder of things past.
''This is just like how my grandmother did it,'' said Brian Draper, who had traveled from Chadds Ford, Pa., for Ms. Stokes's party and was stroking a white pillowcase with green ''eyelash'' embroidery. ''A nice man used to come around with his case, and they would buy linens. He would come only to the fine homes.'' Moments earlier, a friend of Ms. Draper from Wilmington, Del., had spent several thousand dollars on linens to fill her new four-bedroom home on Bermuda.
The retail market for sheets, comforters, pillows and blankets was $8.2 billion in 1998, 11 percent more than in 1997. While the blue-ribbon market represents less than 1 percent of all linens sold in America, it is growing rapidly. At E. Braun, the owner, Ric Barbatelli, said sales had increased by 20 percent in each of the last three years. Ms. Baldrige said that in certain circles, having fine linens is ''one of the marks of a real lady.''
Ms. Simmons, ogling a very plain off-white linen place mat with a Guilloche hemstitch, called it ''the Armani of linens.''
''You walk into someone's dining room who has this,'' she said, ''and you just know they know.''
Park Avenue-perfect linens typically are traditional: whites and off-whites with two-color monograms and embroidery. And just like matrons at the turn of the century, women pick out their colors (say, pink and green, from 200 possibilities) and patterns (say, eyelash) that will be embroidered by hand in Madeira and delivered in two weeks to six months. They commission one-of-a-kind sheets to match their decor.
MOST women who buy at Leron and Madison Linens say that, except for fitted sheets, they would never consider putting mass-produced sheets from Fieldcrest Cannon or even Ralph Lauren on their beds. ''Certainly no Ralph Lauren sheet can approximate the beauty and the craftsmanship of an embroidery based on an 18th-century model,'' said Jackie Weld Drake, a novelist who has white linen sheets embroidered with pink butterflies. ''You certainly can't find that on a Bloomingdale's shelf.''


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Chlamydia Tests
Chlamydia tests use a sample of body fluid or urine to see whether chlamydia bacteria (Chlamydia trachomatis) are present and causing an infection. Chlamydia is the most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the United States.
Tests used to find a chlamydia infection include:
- Nucleic acid amplification tests (NAAT). These tests find the genetic material (DNA) of chlamydia bacteria. These tests are very good at identifying chlamydia. A test that is positive almost always means the problem is there and is unlikely to be a false-positive test result. A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test is an example of a nucleic acid amplification test. This test can also be done on a urine sample.
- Chlamydia culture. A culture is a special cup that allows the chlamydia bacteria to grow. Results take longer (5 to 7 days) than the other tests. The culture must be done in a lab.
Why It Is Done
A test for chlamydia is done to:
- See whether symptoms of a sexually transmitted infection (STI) are caused by a chlamydia infection.
- Check people who are at high risk for being infected with chlamydia. A chlamydia infection does not always cause symptoms. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommends checking for chlamydia for:
- All sexually active women age 24 or younger.
- Women older than age 24 with high-risk sexual behaviors.
- All pregnant women in the first trimester and again in the third trimester if high-risk sexual behaviors are reported. Treating a pregnant woman who has a chlamydia infection can prevent an infection in her newborn.
- All women with pelvic inflammatory disease (PID).
- All women with symptoms of a cervical infection (cervicitis) found on a pelvic exam.
- Check for infection in a newborn whose mother had a chlamydia infection at the time of delivery.
How To Prepare
A chlamydia test is done on either a urine sample or fluid (direct sample) collected from the area of the body that is most likely to be infected. If your chlamydia test is being done on a:
- Urine sample: Do not urinate for 2 hours before a urine sample is collected.
- Direct sample (usually from the cervix): A woman should not douche or use vaginal creams or medicines for 24 hours before having a chlamydia test.
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TALLAHASSEE -- State and county officials are spending the holiday weekend conducting the final test on a new system to check lists of registered voters against those of felons and dead people.
The new database matching system was required by the Legislature in the wake of the 2000 election, when several voters complained they were improperly prevented from voting because they were wrongly identified as felons.
State officials say the new system, which Florida paid the consulting firm Accenture $1.6 million to design, will be better than previous efforts to check for illegal voters because it will be updated daily by computer.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement will provide felon records for the system and other agencies will provide death records and names of people found mentally incompetent by the courts.
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Riviera 85 Motor Yacht
91 ft
Boat Details
Hull Material
Hull Shape
Deep Vee
21 ft
Dry Weight
152240 lb
Fuel Capacity
2500 gal
Length Overall
91 ft 2 in
Holding Tank Size
200 gal
Water Capacity
475 gal
Number of Berths
Australias largest luxury boat builder, Riviera, has announced a completely new range Riviera Motor Yachts ranging in size from 73 to 85 feet. These new models, bearing Rivieras hallmark styling and impeccable build quality, will be the epitome of luxury for a few discerning owners.
Additional Description
Inside a stainless steel bulkhead and sliding glass door, the main saloon has two sofas and two arm chairs aft of a wet bar with three stools and, on the port side, a dining area with a table that will comfortably seat 10 people.
There is also a small day bathroom on this level.
The accommodation suite includes four cabins, each with en-suite bathroom.
The master stateroom amidships is dominated by a king-size bed.
The en-suite is aft, with entryways on either side. On the starboard side is a bath and on the port side a large shower stall.
His-and-hers toilets are on either side of the vanity with his-and-hers basins.
The forward corners of the stateroom house walk-in wardrobes and a 40-inch LCD television is built into the cabinetry on the forward wall with a Bose sound system.
Forward accommodation includes a queen double on the port side, a twin to starboard.
The inner bed can slide to make a double.
The forward VIP stateroom includes a queen double bed and walk-in wardrobe as well as pigeon lockers on either side.
Additional Description
Two steps up is the U-shape galley, equipped with four-burner stove, oven and a separate convection microwave.
The galley includes full-height two-door refrigerator, full-size dishwasher and a trash compactor.
Forward of the galley is an informal dinette that seats eight around an oval table.
Additional Description
Standard engines on the Riviera 85 Motor Yacht are Caterpillar C18 turbo diesels rated at 1,015 horsepower with options of MTU 8V rated at 1,200hp or Caterpillar C32 engines rated at 1,550hp.
Additional Description
The main deck of the 85 Motor Yacht is a similar design to its two smaller siblings, with the addition of a walk-in wet bar and two stools on the port side.
The Sky Lounge features three lounges in two separate areas plus a walk-in wet bar that opens out through an awning window to the aft deck.
A 40-inch LCD TV is located in the cabinetry on the port side.
The deck itself includes an optional round six-person spa with lounge seating forward and a large sun pad on the port side.
And there is still room for a 4.45-metre tender as well.
A single helm seat is immediately forward of the spiral staircase linking the Sky Lounge with the saloon on the starboard side.
A large sun pad adorns the foredeck in front of a three-seat lounge.
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I'm playing around with using a Rackspace Cloud Server (running CentosOS 5.5) as a server for the Beanstalk Message Queue system. I'm starting Beanstalk with the command line of "Beanstalkd -d -l ip address -p 11300.
All appears to start ok and no errors occur. Now I'm told I can telnet to the 11300 port on that IP address and check that all is running ok. But when I do telnet ip address 11300, I get a 'Connection refused' error, suggesting that the port is blocked or at the very least, not open.
Does anyone know if I have to open the port on a Rackspace Cloud server and if so, how I do that? Or is there something I'm missing? I'm far more into software programming than servers, so any help or suggestions would be appreciated!


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Welcome to Blue Planet Surf.
As stand up paddle boarders and surfers, the ocean is our playground and we need to act as its shepherds. We do our best to use environmentally responsible materials, conserve energy, recycle and try to minimize our impact on the environment and the oceans. We encourage our customers to do the same.
We pride ourselves on offering the best SUP boards and accessories for sale and offer great value and expert advice. We want to help you have more fun on the water! Our current product line offers the best Stand Up Paddleboards from beginner all the way to expert level. The best SUP surfboards, the fastest SUP race boards, and the easiest to use All round entry level SUP's. We make it easy for you to find the right board for you, whether stable, fast, inexpensive (but not cheap), or high performance, we can help and you can try before you buy at our shop! Enjoy browsing and shopping on our website, and let us know if there's any way we can help you find the perfect SUP gear for you. To see web customer reviews for our products, please click on the blue review tab on the left. Mahalo to our customers for voting Blue Planet as Hawaii's Best Stand Up Paddle Shop. Aloha!
Blue Planet Surf Shop started stocking the ENO hammocks (Eagle's Nest Outfitters) last year and they have been a hit. We are the premier ENO dealer in Honolulu and have a great selection of ENO hammocks and accessories in stock.
Check out our website to see some of the items we stock (we may have more items in the shop that are not shown on the website). You can also check out the Eagle's Nest Outfitters page for more details and available colors.
The Double Nest Hammock shown in this video comes in many different cool color combinations. It is rated for up to 400 lbs weight and can hold two people. It's very light and packs in it's integrated bag down to a very small package, so it's perfect to take anywhere you go. Although the fabric is very thin and light, these hammocks are surprisingly strong and resilient due to the quality materials and heavy duty triple stitched seams. The suspension strap system makes it easy to set up by looping the two straps around two trees or attachment points and has multiple loops so you can easily adjust the height of the hammock which clips into the loops with the carabiner.
So please check out the demonstration in the video above and come to our shop to check out the selection of hammocks. We think you will be impressed. So when it's time to recover, kick back and relax, enjoy life a little more with an ENO hammock. Aloha!
ENO DoubleNest Features:
Many color combinations to choose from:
Enjoy lounging with your friends:
Enjoy the view from a ENO hammock
If you are new to downwind stand up paddle boarding, and want to get ready to do some open ocean downwinders, these are some tips and drills you can practice in flat water to help you get ready for riding bumps on a SUP. Check the bottom of this page for information on coached downwinders.
This post is focused on downwinders and catching/ gliding on bumps, but this drill is also helpful for catching breaking waves if you want to learn to stand up paddle surf.
In this first video I'm showing how to take a few quick accelerating strokes and then pause, glide and skim/ brace the paddle to keep you stable and balanced while gliding. If you are doing a downwinder in light winds, this is what you will end up doing: a few quick accelerating strokes, then pause and glide while you are getting pulled along by the bump in front of you. In light wind you usually won't have to move the feet back, you can keep the parallel stance close to the center of the board. It's good to practice this drill in flat water to break the habit of paddling with long, powerful strokes at a steady pace. Downwinders are about quick sprints and glides, so you have to learn to break up your pace. The first step is to practice taking 3,4, or 5 quick strokes and then let the board glide for about the same amount of time, so you are only paddling for about half the time. Don't worry about moving your feet at first and just get into a good rhythm of accelerating and then gliding and skimming your paddle for balance. Try to skim it as far out to the side as possible with the paddle at a low angle to the water for side to side stability and behind you for front to back stability. Just skim the paddle lightly over the surface, you don't want to break, just keep the paddle very close to the water or skim very lightly over the surface. While skimming the paddle acts as a third leg which will give you more control and will allow you to feel more comfortable in rougher conditions. If you do loose your balance you can lean on the paddle and push your center of gravity back over the center of the board.
This next video shows how to start in "first gear" by taking quick, short strokes for powerful acceleration. You want to focus on keeping your stroke in front of your feet and using quick bursts of power to accelerate. Practice this in flat water as well as you will not have time to focus on this when conditions get rough.
When the wind is stronger and the bumps get steeper, you will also have to move your weight back on the board to keep the nose from piercing and to allow your board to release and accelerate by planing on top of the water surface and to reduce the amount of wetted surface. So, once you are good at stroking quickly to accelerate and then gliding while skimming the paddle, the next step is to also practice moving your feet back as you stop paddling and glide. As the board slows down and the tail starts to sink, you then have to move your weight back forward close to center quickly and take some more quick acceleration strokes. The video below has some helpful tips for moving your feet around on the board without rocking the board and loosing your balance:
If you do this for a while, you will notice that these quick sprints followed by pauses of gliding will actually be very hard work and your heart rate will go up to a higher rate than when paddling at a steady pace. I find that my heart rate goes up significantly higher in downwinders than when flatwater paddling which is why it is so important to relax and rest while you get a free ride when gliding on and connecting bumps. If you don't rest it is hard to catch the next bump. There is a misconception that when the wind blows hard you hardly have to paddle anymore. The reality is that you have to accelerate more quickly and paddle even harder to catch the faster moving bumps on the really windy days if you want to keep up with the really fast guys. The goal is to move as close to the speed of the bumps as possible and the stronger the wind is and the longer the fetch (the distance the wind has to create bumps), the faster you have to move to catch them.
The next video covers the five most common mistakes made by first timers on downwind runs and will be helpful to watch as well if you want to improve your downwind stand up paddle technique.
In this Board Meeting Episode #13 Evan and Robert talk in depth about the drills shown in the first video:
Thank you for watching!
Robert Stehlik
Copyright Blue Planet Surf 2016, you are welcome to re-post or share this content but please credit Blue Planet Surf and put a link to www.blueplanetsurf.com
Resources mentioned in the videos:
For more information on our weekly SUP training group, please visit:
For information on SUP lessons and downwind coaching by Robert Stehlik, please visit: http://blueplanetsurf.com/collections/lessons
For information on downwind coaching with Jeff Chang/ Wet Feet, please visit: http://www.wetfeethawaii.com/pages/lessons-tours.html
For information on coached downwinders with Jeremy Riggs on Maui: http://paddlewithriggs.com
Safety first: Downwinders can be dangerous. Always go with a partner or group and if you are going for the first time, go with an experienced paddler or coach. Have a plan and set up meeting places if you loose sight of each other, with can happen quickly in open ocean conditions. Take a cellphone in a waterproof case and/ or a EPIRB. Always wear a leash and make sure all your equipment is in good condition.
Equipment used in the videos:
Rasta downwind board: 14' x 28" 2016 Bump Rider: http://blueplanetsurf.com/products/140-x-28-bump-rider-2016
Blue downwind board: 12'6 x 28" 2016 Bump Surfer: http://blueplanetsurf.com/collections/2016-blue-planet-sups-2/products/126-x-28-bump-surfer-2016
Paddle: Kai Zen with 88 blade: http://blueplanetsurf.com/collections/paddles/products/blue-planet-2016-kai-zen-cf-paddle-early-bird-pre-orders-until-12-31-15
Direct link to the Downwind Drill SUP tip video on youtube
This first video is a fast paced look at our 2016 Stand Up Paddleboard lineup in action in less than 2 minutes, featuring our team riders Fabrice Beaux and Robert Stehlik in the surf on Oahu's South Shore and Jenn Lee, Jeff Chang, Sam Pa'e, Tyler Jaggers and Jimmy Martindale on the raceboards by Portlock Point. Also a quick rundown of the 2016 SUP model shapes and colors.
For more information on the 2016 Blue Planet SUP shapes, please go to:
This second video features our lineup of 2016 Race SUP's- the 12'6 and 14' Bump Rider downwind models and the 12'6 and 14' Dark Horse models.
Please check out our shop on Ward Avenue for a consultation. We want to help you find the best Stand Up Paddleboard for your needs and always encourage you to try a few boards from our demo fleet before making a buying decision. Besides the Blue Planet models, we also carry Stand Up boards from Starboards, SIC Maui, Kazuma Maui, Riviera, and several other brands. We have the biggest selection of both new and demo boards in the Islands and offer great deals. We are offering great specials and are currently having a closeout sale on 2015 models while supplies last: Get a $100 Gift card or store credit with and 2015 model SUP purchase. Find out why our customers voted us as Hawaii's Best SUP Shop in the Honolulu Star Advertiser reader poll awards.
Available now at:
Blue Planet Surf Shop
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540 Ward Ave.
Tel 808 596 7755
We are open daily from 10 am to 6 pm and now have plenty of free parking in the new lot behind our shop.
Aloha, Robert Stehlik
What is the best fin setup for your Stand Up Paddleboard? Well, there is no short answer, there are many things to consider and we encourage you to experiment with different fin setups and sizes. Many people install the fins on their SUP once and then never touch them again. Those that have tried different setups know that the right fins can make all the difference and can make a board really come alive.
These are some videos that will help you choose the perfect fin setup:
Re-posted from our Zen Waterman blog:
If the fin don't fit:
The US center fin boxes that are installed on most longboards and SUP's are supposed to be a universal fit. In real life, however, there a small variance in the width and depth of different boxes and fin sizes, so sometimes the fin won't go into the box or fit too loose. We are often asked about this and here is what you can do if the fin does not fit well:
If the fin fits too loose, the fix is to use a shim. This is an easy fix. At our shop we use some packing tape and fold it on itself so no sticky tape is exposed. You can adjust the thickness of the shim by using more folds if the fit is very loose or less if you just need a little shimming.
Put the shim under the base of the fin and push it into the finbox as you push down the fin, like in the pictures below, you should have a tight fit with the shim, no wiggling. If you still have some wiggle with the shim, pull it back out and add a couple more folds of tape to the shim, if it's too tight, make a thinner shim with less tape.
For more information on fitting a fin, also check this post:
If the fin is too tight and won't go into the box, you can carefully sand the sides of the fin base to make it fit, this takes a little bit more time and patience. Carefully check where the fit is tight and slowly sand the area down until it fits tightly. Often it is the bottom of the fin that is hitting the bottom of the box. In that case, you have to sand the bottom of the base to make it fit, not the sides. The other option is to find a fin that fits the box without sanding.
Another tip: You can use the fin key used for the side fins to put the fin plate into the box and to line it up with the screw hole so the screw goes into the plate easily. That's it, enjoy!
This is a playlist, so keep watching for more videos about our Blue Planet products:
Inserting the fin plate into a US center box
If the fin is loose, you can make a shim like this one using packing tape folded in on itself
Robert Stehlik
The only way you will really know if a board is going to work well for you is by trying it. At Blue Planet it is our goal to help you have more fun on the water and we hate to see customers that wasted their hard earned money by buying a board that is just not right for them. Buyers often spend a lot of time researching and reading about different models and looking for the "best deal" and think they found the perfect boards for their needs. Everyone is different, and after spending big bucks to buy a board, they often find out that the board they thought would be the perfect fit is not really right for them. No matter how cheap the price is or what a great deal you got, it's only a good value if it works well for you and helps you have more fun on the water, right?
Our shop manager, Kevin Fung, made this great video and guide with pointers and tips that can help you choose the right board, but remember that no matter how much research you do, until you try a few boards, it will be hard for us to recommend the perfect board for you.
Tip: Try before you buy!
1) Rent boards:
At the Blue Planet flagship store at 540 Ward Ave. in Honolulu, we have a great rental program with over 50 rental/ demo boards available for rent, with everything from high performance surfing models, to all-round beginner boards, to high performance racing boards and everything in between from many of the top brands in the market. For our most current list of rental boards (with prices- all our demo boards are available for sale) please check out our: Rental SUP spreadsheet
We always encourage people that are new to the sport to rent a few boards and try them before making a buying decision. We offer a full credit of rental fees up to $250 towards a new SUP purchase, so this is a great investment and could keep you from making an expensive mistake. If you are visiting Oahu we have great deals on longer term rentals and offer delivery and pickup service on Oahu. If your hotel does not have SUP storage available, we partner with Nalu Storage in Waikiki, where you can rent a storage rack by the beach for your stay. For more information on our rental program and to reserve a rental board, please visit:
2) Demo boards at our SUP Clinics:
At Blue Planet we also regularly put on SUP demos/ clinics for our customers so they can try as many boards as possible before making a buying decision. We currently hold these clinics every 6 weeks or so. Required to participate: A SUP Clinic pass (pick up at our shop, no purchase necessary), A valid ID, you must also be on time to attend the safety brief, we close the sign up afterwards.
For dates of upcoming clinics and detailed information, please visit:
Below is a video form our most recent clinic at Ala Moana beach on January 17th, 2016.
So, on your quest to find the best Stand Up Paddleboard, don't just choose on price or what you think you need without trying it first, or at least try a board that is similar to the board you intend to buy in terms of length, width, shape and volume.
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We sincerely hope you are successful in finding the perfect board (and paddle!) for your needs and hope to see you at our shop soon!
Robert Stehlik
When I first started Stand Up Paddling, I was struggling to catch waves. I was pulling on the paddle as hard as I could and figured the harder I pulled on the paddle and the more the shaft was bending, the more power I was applying and the faster the board would go. Despite pulling as hard as I could I was missing a lot of waves, I also kept breaking paddles.
A big breakthrough for me came when Brian Keaulana gave me this tip after watching me try to catch a wave: "You are starting in third gear!" He explained that first gear is short, quick strokes, way up in front, just tapping the water, not long, hard pulls. That was a turning point for me, I learned how to use these quick accelerating strokes and it worked like a charm. Not only was I no longer breaking paddles but my board would accelerate with just a few quick strokes and I started catching more waves. This technique also works well in downwinders, whenever you need to accelerate to catch a bump. Even in flatwater races you can use them at the start, after turns, or to catch up to a draft. So I encourage you to watch the video, try this first gear acceleration stroke, and you will be a more well rounded paddler. Not all strokes are the same, learn to use different gears when paddling and switch them up as needed.
Continue watching after the video ends to see more SUP Tip videos in the playlist.
This video demonstrates how to accelerate quickly on a Stand Up Paddleboard by "starting in first gear". Quick, short, strokes create lift and smooth acceleration that will help you get the board on a plane to surf a wave or catch a bump in downwinders.
We hope you enjoy our videos, please give us a thumbs up, check out the other SUP tip videos on our channel and subscribe for our latest videos posted weekly. For more information on our weekly training group mentioned in the video, please click on this link: http://zenwaterman.blogspot.com/…/weekly-time-trials-in-haw…
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Quick, short bursts of power will help you get up to speed to catch a wave or bump
On downwinders the goal is to get the board to plane over the surface of the water and surf the open ocean wind swells.
Gear used in this video: Kai Zen paddle with 88 blade, the blue board is the 2016 12'6 x 28 Blue Planet Bump Surfer, the rasta board is the 14' x 28" Bump Rider. Drone video shot with the Hexo+ drone, land video by Evan Leong of standuppaddlesurf.net
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Last week, interim Superintendent of Washington County Schools Sonny Fentress said four interviews were scheduled, with those dates being July 29, 30, and Aug. 3 and 5.
By Jimmie Earls
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It's always a good thing to see how one sport can benefit another. Case in point, the annual Washington County football boosters golf scramble. Supporters of Commander football came out to Lincoln Homestead Golf Course this past Saturday with club in hand to raise money for the high school football program.
There's an old line that says practice makes perfect. As the 2009 Washington County Commander football team prepares for the start of the season on Aug. 21, WC head football coach Mark Perry doesn't look for perfection, but he is looking for some big improvements.
The intrasquad game is designed to bring up real game situations before the team plays against other schools.
Friday was a night of celebrating firsts as the sixth annual African-American Heritage Festival kicked off in downtown Springfield.
The parade, which was the first event of the evening, featured many African-Americans from the community who were the first to reach milestones and accomplishments in their fields. Among them was Margaret Newby, Washington County's first African-American school board member; Rosetta Smalley, Springfield's first African-American female city council member, and many others
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Last week, all of us here in the office sat down for new photos. That's my latest mugshot above. Once again, I forgot all about it being picture day and didn't shave that morning or wear the right clothes. Some things never change.
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The 19th annual St. Catharine College Celebrity Golf Classic is scheduled for Aug. 8 at Lincoln Homestead State Park. But even before the first tee shot is hit, the weekend will begin with a celebrity reception and auction Friday night on the St. Catharine campus.
The Washington County 4-H Sharpshooters have had a busy summer attending several competitions and winning top awards wherever they go. The first competition was the District 4-sponsored event for rifle and pistol on June 27 at the Mercer County Gun Club. In the 22-Sport Rifle, 12-14-year-old division, Chris Warner won third place. In the 22-Target Rifle, 9-11 year old division, winning second was Jesse Smith and in the 15-19-year-old division, Will Carrico won second place. The group won several team awards, but the results were not made available.&
If you were like me, you planted a spring garden complete with broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, beets, etc. and you liked it. Guess what, it's time to plant a fall garden with most of the same vegetables again. We can do this in Kentucky thanks to our relatively long growing season and mild spring and fall seasons. Most of the fall garden has to be planted in early August.
As football season approaches and teams hit the practice fields in the middle of summer, the one subject on everyone's mind this summer is that of safety. The death of PRP football player Max Gilpin last August has brought about new guidelines to ensure the well-being of high school athletes across Kentucky.
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Aquinas presents his most complete exposition of the transcendentals inDe veritate 1, 1, that deals with the question "What is truth?". The thesis of this paper is that the question of truth is essential for the understanding of his doctrine of the transcendentals.
The first part of the paper (sections 1–4) analyzes Thomas's conception of truth. Two approaches to truth can be found in his work. The first approach, based on Aristotle's claim that "truth is not in things but in the mind", leads to the idea that the proper place of truth is in the intellect. The second approach is ontological: Thomas also acknowledges that there is truth in every being. The famous definition of truth as "adequation of thing and intellect" enables him to integrate the two approaches. Truth is a relation between two terms, both of which can be called "true" because both are essential for the conformity between thing and intellect.
The second part of the paper (sections 5–7) deals with the manner in which Thomas gives truth a place in the doctrine of the transcendentals, and shows that his conception of truth leads to important innovations in this doctrine: the introduction of relational transcendentals and the correlation between spirit and being. If "truth" is transcendental, it must be convertible with "being". Sect. 6 discusses objections that Thomas advances himself to this convertibility. Sect. 7 deals with a difficulty in his account of truth as a relational transcendental. Ontological truth expresses a relation to an intellect but the relation to the human intellect is accidental for the truth of things. Essential for their truth can only be a practical intellect that causes things. In this way, Thomas argues, the divine intellect relates to all things.
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on March 3, 2014 - 12:41 AM
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Now we know what's been wrong with the Oscars for years. All it needed was to become the Darlene Love Show. The great singer blew the doors off the Dolby Theatre on Sunday with an impromptu "His Eye Is on the Sparrow." In tribute, Bono turned the last line of U2's song "Ordinary Love" into her name.
With Ellen DeGeneres as the delightful emcee (and pizza waitress), it was not only the Oscars that made up for Seth MacFarlane's juvenile befoulments; it was a lesson to all future awards shows how to handle music, i.e., maximize the music, minimize the production hoo-ha. They even found a decent place for Bette Midler to sing "The Wind Beneath My Wings."
The show was so good in its insistence about being about movies (and movie music) that it almost overcame the very basic Motion Picture Academy problems with numbers and identity.
What are those, you ask? Here are the numbers, as reported recently: Forty million people were expected to watch the bloody thing. Five billion movie tickets were sold worldwide, they told us on the show.
There were a potential 6,000-plus voters in the Motion Picture Academy. But of those, 94 percent are white, 77 percent are male, 54 percent are older than 60. The median age is, in fact, 63.
So let me tally that up. The average Oscar voter is: a white male California resident in showbiz whose median age is 63. In other words, he's Jay Leno.
Let's by all means give the great collective Leno credit for not fouling up the actual awards as badly as they did the nominations. But that's a little like saying at the moment that the Sabres front office could be in worse shape.
But the success of the show indicates the time has come to say some things and say them hard. Like:
1. I know that the advertising revenue dictates them, but there are too many award shows. Every single network executive and even investor in a company that owns a network needs to start thinking seriously about the moment when the very idea of an award show is so trashed no one will want to watch, let alone have parties to watch.
2. The Oscar bestowals are now a fraction of the Oscarthon orgy. Subtract the fashion show and red carpet strut and the music and you could fit the rest into a time slot for "The Mentalist."
3. Demographic pandering has to stop. A society whose first cultural question is always, "Yes, yes, but will the 18-45 demo like it?" is a society that is mired in fear and subject to the ruling ignorance of those who haven't lived long enough to know much except how to deal with changing technology.
There is something ridiculous about TV awards where the awards themselves are the bastions of an aging white male elite in a demographic panic every year because its younger "demos" keep slipping.
We knew they were jettisoning that idea in one of DeGeneres' first jokes, a snide reference to those who think "the most important thing in life is youth."
What someone somewhere obviously faced is that the Oscars aren't an intrinsically youth-friendly event. They're mostly for people with memories and active ideas about what's Shinola and what's something else. Grown-ups, you know?
What's fun are the accidents, the things that no one can predict – the crazy ways some choose to dress for the world, the beautiful ways others do, the idiotic ways some think the world needs to be thanked – and the eloquent ones. (Thank you, Darlene and Jared Leto, too.)
It seems to me the time has long since come for the Jay Leno Motion Picture Academy to do the obvious things: 1. take permanent primary possession of the Oscars away from money hungry TV, music and fashion businesses as they seemed to do on Sunday and 2., loosen up their own organization so that its membership is vaguely reminiscent of the world we live in rather than the congregation at the next funeral they'll attend.
In "Hollywood Ending," a bad film by Woody Allen, the dedicated 78-year-old filmmaker whose personal history befouled the run-up to the event in a historic way, Woody played a blind filmmaker. He's told that in his film, he has to pay attention to "demographics."
"You mean why this country got so stupid, suddenly?" he asks.
Nobody ever said you'd want your life to be anything like his. But then everybody knows that when he says things, even people like Jay Leno listen.


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Vanderbilt's MBA is based on a modular system of intensive courses, each seven weeks in length. Two "mods" equal one semester. Mods give students a fast start by allowing MBA candidates to take courses in a chosen specialty as early as Mod 2 of the first year, giving Owen MBAs a leg up on some rival schools for summer internships.
During the first year, Owen requires 11 core courses of its MBA students, the majority of which are taken during the first two mods. As in most MBA programs, there's plenty of opportunity to customize the degree to one's career goals. Each student has to complete at least one concentration, which consists of 12 hours in a single discipline beyond the core. Students interested in a "deeper dive" into a discipline may choose to pursue a career-focused specialization of 20 credit hours.
As part of the required core, faculty place ethics in a larger framework, teaching critical strategies to protect and practice integrity in the workplace. In addition, Vanderbilt students are bound by the Honor System, which was inaugurated when the university opened its doors in 1875. All students are required to read and sign the Honor Constitution of the Owen Graduate School of Management. All students take Business Ethics in either Mod 1 or Mod 2 of second year in program.
Full-time Vanderbilt MBA students may take courses for credit at other Vanderbilt graduate schools with approval. Many students choose to take interdisciplinary classes at the Law School, Divinity School, Peabody School of Education, Medical School and the Nursing School. Students generally choose to take these classes during their second year. Popular options are language courses.
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One thing that stands out about Owen's MBA rankings in recent years is that the school has consistently angled its way into the Top 25 list of U.S. business schools. Sure, there are some ups and downs in the data, something that you'll find for just about every ranked school. But Vandy has placed 25th in three of the past five years of Poets&Quants' annual rankings, with a best showing in 2012 at 23rd and its weakest showing in 2010 at 28. The P&Q ranking is the best bellwether of a school's rankings performance because it is a composite list based on the five most influential business school rankings in the world.
Out of those rankings, Vandy has done exceptionally well with U.S. News, Businessweek, and The Economist. In U.S. News, arguably the most watched ranking in the U.S. marketplace, Vandy has risen to a rank of 27 in 2015 from 36 in 2010–a rise of nine places. In Businessweek, the school has risen to 30th in 2014 from 37 in 2010–a solid seven-place gain. And in The Economist's global MBA ranking, where Vandy competes with schools from all over the world, Owen has risen to a rank of 29 in 2014 from 46 in 2010–a 17-spot increase.
The school has done less well in Forbes' biennial return-on-investment ranking, slipping to a rank of 39 in 2014 from 30 in 2010, and in the often unpredictable ranking published by The Financial Times. In the 2015 FT ranking, Owen fell to place 61st, from 57th in 2010. The school's best rank in the FT survey occurred in 2011 when Owen placed 51st in the world. Its current rank of 61 matches Owen's showing in the FT's 2012 ranking.
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Joe Drape: Our Boys, A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen
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Joe Drape: Our Boys, A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen
Kansas City native Joe Drape presents his book, Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen, on Monday, August 24, at 6:30 p.m. at the Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
Drape, a reporter for The New York Times, moved his family to Smith Center, Kansas, to follow the Redmen, a high school football powerhouse that had won the last four state titles and owned a 67-game winning streak with revered coach Roger Barta at the helm.
In his book, Drape captures the essence of a football team whose desire for perfection sustains its hometown in the heartland while embracing Barta's philosophy to "respect each other, then learn to love each other and together we are champions." But as the team embarked on a quest for a fifth consecutive title in the fall of 2008, it faced a potentially destabilizing transition: the greatest senior class in school history had graduated, and Barta was contemplating retirement after three decades as a coach. In Smith Center – population 1,931 – Drape found the town revolves around "our boys" in a way that goes to the heart of the values in America's heartland today.
Admission to the event is free. Call 816.701.3407 to indicate your interest in attending or you may RSVP online.
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