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|2009-09-12, 20:51
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Great job on the last two updates. In the farewell between Ohgi and Kallen, I particularly like how you handled all of Kallen's facial expressions. My favorite is the second panel of the second page. Her face really seemed to soften when she was watching the family.
For the very last panel on page 4, did you intend for her face to seem something of a mix between determined and insane, because that's how it came across to me.
|2009-09-12, 22:05
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I change anime endings.
|2009-09-15, 17:03
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I change anime endings.
So, ready?
Chapter 22 totally fixed, new art, a more complete storyboard and dialogues, thanks to Nobodyman9 and Mazryonh for to english text corrections.
|2009-09-16, 16:34
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Though there are still a few errors in the English in this version, I must say I like the result.
I'll admit that some of the suggestions I gave you were a bit wordy, but maybe in the future when you plan on making new drawings for your comics--whether you make new panels for your current comics or when making drawings for your OAV--you can try to scan in only the lineart instead of adding it in pencil.
That way, you could give one of us the raw files with the lineart only along with the edited English script, so we could then make new dialogue boxes through photoshop that aren't quite as cramped.
Good work as always!
|2009-09-20, 22:06
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I change anime endings.
Inside him, it's a hell instead.
|2009-09-21, 02:43
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|2009-09-21, 02:56
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I change anime endings.
How to explain...
Lelouch decided from the beginning to die, but at last he failed and everybody stopped him about that idea, to live for him was a torture, a too much heavy weight on his shoulders.
To live in exile physically ruined and mentally destroyed at last is the worst punishment for him.
In the trial he declared to cut EVERY contact with the people know he's alive (nunnally, suzaku, cornelia, etc...) he must stop to exist for everybody.
However, at last after years of effort, Kallen success to comfort him a little...Lelouch tried to hold on for Kallen, for a guilt feeling and the fact his death equal to kill Kallen's soul.
But just a REAL responsability could to fix something, then Kallen lied to Lelouch on purpose about after morning pill, etc..she was sure only a baby could to change something and she had the will to become mum from the beginning.
In fact with the babies something changed and Lelouch finded a little happyness, but his guilt feeling will never leave him in peace.
|2009-09-21, 12:09
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Issues with Kallen's and Lelouch's Adjustments to Parenthood
It may seem a bit harsh, but I like how you made Lelouch go through his own personal hell for a long time before he finally opened up to Kallen. It makes him seem a lot more human--only the most heinous of psychopaths or sociopaths would revel in all the wanton carnage and destruction Zero's revolution caused. Having him be haunted by the ghosts of the deeds he's done and suffer attacks of conscience constantly makes Lelouch a lot less of a monster. I've a few suggestions I'll send to you later as to how to help make such a process even better, though.
I think you're going to have to go into more detail as to how Kallen came to the decision to become a mother, though. For one thing, she doesn't have much in the way of good role models for motherhood. Her own biological mother and stepmother weren't very "motherly" most of the time. As for Lelouch's mother . . . I don't know what to say. Kallen's not the kind to go about making rash decisions on something as important as whether or not the child she'll conceive with Lelouch will have a good family and home to enter the world with, and I think revealing her thought processes from the moment she looks at her pregnancy test coming back positive to when she talks about it to a distraught Lelouch who's only just beginning to regain his will to live and certainly isn't going to take the news of becoming a father very well (after all, he doesn't have good role models for fatherhood either!). Could make for some very revealing drama.
Kallen wasn't very good at being "traditionally feminine" either. Her "Kallen Stadtfeld" persona, as you put it in a later side-story, was just a mask, a convenient lie presented to the unsuspecting world as a cover-up for her terrorist activities. Lelouch knows how to cook, but as a mental wreck he couldn't teach Kallen, not to mention his blindness. I'm not sure just how much caregiving experience Kallen got from taking care of her drug-addicted mother, but I bet she would feel very much out of her element trying to take care of one she loves (especially one who doesn't want to be saved), since she was pretty much out there to kick ass and take names, not preserve and sustain the lives of others.
Then there's this great passage from another user about how Lelouch becomes a house-husband.
|2009-09-21, 19:01
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I change anime endings.
Kallen always boast to be able to make everything if she want.
However if you look the fact with a realistic eye, you will understand well, example, my sister always refuse to learn about homejobs from my mother, etc...now she's married and she obliged to learn how to manage a house from zero.
About your theory Kallen isn't good for that kind of responsability maybe is the same thought Ougi and Kaguya had, they tried to persuade Kallen don't do it.
But this is just the standard idea we spoke about anime characters, then that's their character/behaviour, they can't change, etc...but I'm evolving the characters like a real human being can evolve.
Kallen sacrified her future for take care of a disabled Lelouch, nobody will help her, she must do it alone, then she must change, to learn, to evolve, to become a new woman with new responsabilities.
With the new part on chp 23 everything will be more clear, however about Kallen's wish to become a mum, it's a simple psycholigical evolution.
Kallen's life was good in the beginning, and in 2010 everything fall down, then a life dark, in the suffering, a fake life for to cover the truth, with just 2 goal:
1)to continue naoto's dream
2)to build a new happyness for her and her mother.
But the result of these goals is she lost EVERYTHING she wanted to protect, and thanks her mother farewell letter, she understood all the pain and the suffering she did like zero's henchman.
A person can learn a lot from her personal pain, and after a life with that kind of suffering, feelings like pity, love, kindness...will can become more strong.
Thanks C.C "suggestions" Kallen married the big responsability to take care and change lelouch, but the first step is to change herself.
She's alone, without a family, then to build a similar responsability is a goal and the bigger trial for her.
To create a new life is the only and best way to test her wish to become a new and better one for restart to live.
The people can change, the women above all.
The women can change the feelings in a single night.
The single fact they haven't good references to become good parents from their families (not true about kallen's mum, what that woman did for her daughter is very big and kallen understood it on S1ep.9) is good, they know the meaning of a bad parent, then they know how to become better.
In the beginning, every neo-dad/mum think "I'm not good to be a dad/mum", but that'a a responsability every human being must to learn from the beginning alone, the other people can give some suggestion, but at last is always a personal goal.
And both of them know very well the difference about what is good and what is bad.
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|2009-09-21, 21:07
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"Women can change their feelings in a single night"? I take it you're speaking from personal experience, but you shouldn't underestimate the ability of men to change when they understand the need to and the price of not changing.
|2009-09-21, 22:00
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I change anime endings.
It's true, but the women are more sensible and fickle in comparison with men.
A man need more pressure or facts for to understand a error.
All the events happened in a single year hit Kallen and Lelouch like a avalanche, with heavy damages for both.
The difference is Lelouch lost the life desire, instad Kallen has a motivation to restart with him and she's ready to everything for him, to change like woman too.
In the beginning she used the experience gained with both her masks, the normal/sensible girl like stadfteld and the energic and determined like kozuki.
But after the twins birth and her evolution like mother, she understood totally the message leaved by her mum, then, Kallen finally drop everything about her past, she cut her hairs for don't see exterial reference about her old masks then she returned to have the same spirit she had before the war, the "kind girl of her mum memories".
That day Kallen officially becomed "Karen Kouzuki" the name on her new identity is just a "deformation" of her real name, but sufficient for to be a new people in the eyes of the world.
|2009-09-24, 07:09
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As I already said in the CG images thread, I like your version of the story.
Did you update the 1st post of the topic to include the new version (afraid to look and spoil myself) ? or is it the old version and I will need to search for the new ones in the rest of the pages ?
|2009-10-07, 00:34
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Hi, Bonzo,
The three new panels look good, but I think blacking out Kallen's eyes was a bit much (in this series such a visual device is used only for those either making use of, or being controlled by, Geass powers).
It would have been enough in my opinion for her eyes to be obscured by shadow, so as to show her barely restrained anger, along with a dialogue bubble saying "Out. Of. My. Way." She's not one to hurt her trusted friends without good reason, and right now I think she's struggling between the need to make her friends understand the only way she knows how (through violence), and the desire to keep from hurting them. The method I described earlier could be one good way to show this internal struggle inside Kallen.
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|2009-10-07, 05:31
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I change anime endings.
Don't worry, Kallen in that event is totally out for the anger.
Gino isn't her friend (not again) he try to calm Kallen like the playboy he is, but he's using the wrong words:
Gino: "Come on, Kallen, I know, you're upset now, but Ougi used you for a useful reason. He isn't Lelouch..."
Kallen: "Get out of my face!"
Kallen hit Gino because he speak bad about Lelouch, without to know nothing about the dialogue Kallen had with him.
In that story phase, Kallen lost the trust about all her friends, now she trust of Lelouch only, but she can't return to him.
|2009-10-08, 12:21
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I'm also glad you seem to be taking my advice in that the new panels don't have dialogue boxes or bubbles in them, but will be added later through photoshop. This will allow us to make new dialogue bubbles that better fit the translated text, without squishing into the bubbles that may have sufficed for Italian.
Are you going to add any new art in this chapter or the next showing Kallen doing what she does best, namely kicking ass and taking names? She got shot down pretty early during this "battle to end all battles" as I recall.
No, it doesn't have to be the same orgy of violence another famous animated red-head did (Asuka Langley Soryu) in the old movie End of Evangelion, but it'd be nice nonetheless to see her fight to save the one she loves, rather than just to kill more of the enemy.
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-any clues as to what is causing my decoction efficiency issues?
-is a decoction even necessary to get the malty mouthfeel in a hefe?
The biggest problem that I saw with Denny's experiment was that it wasn't comparing the most appropriate use of decoction (undermodified malts) with an appropriate alternative to decoction (like adding some amount of melanoidin malt).
Here's another decoction experiment: http://www.wahomebrewers.org/clinics/242-decoction-clinic-notesA quote from hopfenunmaltz over at beeradvocate: "I tasted those beers at the 2009 NHC. There was no doubt in my mind that the tripple decocted beer was the one, and the best of the lot. It remeinded me of Andechs Doppelbock Dunkel. Michael Fergason said that all he had to do was to look at the clarity of the beer. The tripple decocted beer was brilliant, the others - not so much."
I'd have to conclude that Denny is right, don't bother using decoctions.
I don't want to go quite that far. Let's say "Don't be surprised if you don't get the effects you expect from a decoction".
Quote from: denny on April 06, 2012, 02:49:23 AMI don't want to go quite that far. Let's say "Don't be surprised if you don't get the effects you expect from a decoction".This discussion has got me really interested in decoction mashing. I went back and listened to Kai's interview on Basic Brewing. Kai said that decoction mashing can draw out tannins. In something like a Marzen the tannins might give the beer some nice structure. In a light lager like a pilsner, you wouldn't want excess tannin extraction. It seems to me that instead of triple decoction, pilsner-type beers would actually be better suited to no-sparge single infusion. Is that crazy? Does anyone brew their light beers like that?
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Thursday, a week and a day after the tornado killed 41 in Tuscaloosa County, the number of missing persons stands at 25. Some 1,084 people have been cleared from the list.
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1 In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
2 On the fifth of the month—it was the fifth year of the exile of King Jehoiachin— 3 the word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, by the Kebar River in the land of the Babylonians.[a] There the hand of the Lord was on him.
4 I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north—an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal, 5 and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was human, 6 but each of them had four faces and four wings. 7 Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze. 8 Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. All four of them had faces and wings, 9 and the wings of one touched the wings of another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.
10 Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. 11 Such were their faces. They each had two wings spreading out upward, each wing touching that of the creature on either side; and each had two other wings covering its body. 12 Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went. 13 The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it. 14 The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
15 As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces. 16 This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like topaz, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. 17 As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not change direction as the creatures went. 18 Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
19 When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. 20 Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 21 When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
22 Spread out above the heads of the living creatures was what looked something like a vault, sparkling like crystal, and awesome. 23 Under the vault their wings were stretched out one toward the other, and each had two wings covering its body. 24 When the creatures moved, I heard the sound of their wings, like the roar of rushing waters, like the voice of the Almighty,[b] like the tumult of an army. When they stood still, they lowered their wings.
25 Then there came a voice from above the vault over their heads as they stood with lowered wings. 26 Above the vault over their heads was what looked like a throne of lapis lazuli, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. 27 I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. 28 Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking.
2 He said to me, "Son of man,[c] stand up on your feet and I will speak to you." 2 As he spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.
3 He said: "Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me; they and their ancestors have been in revolt against me to this very day. 4 The people to whom I am sending you are obstinate and stubborn. Say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says.' 5 And whether they listen or fail to listen—for they are a rebellious people—they will know that a prophet has been among them. 6 And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns are all around you and you live among scorpions. Do not be afraid of what they say or be terrified by them, though they are a rebellious people. 7 You must speak my words to them, whether they listen or fail to listen, for they are rebellious. 8 But you, son of man, listen to what I say to you. Do not rebel like that rebellious people; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
9 Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, 10 which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe.
11 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.
3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God's command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.
4 By faith Abel brought God a better offering than Cain did. By faith he was commended as righteous, when God spoke well of his offerings. And by faith Abel still speaks, even though he is dead.
5 By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: "He could not be found, because God had taken him away."[a] For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God. 6 And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in holy fear built an ark to save his family. By his faith he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that is in keeping with faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. 9 By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country; he lived in tents, as did Isaac and Jacob, who were heirs with him of the same promise. 10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God. 11 And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she[b] considered him faithful who had made the promise. 12 And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.
13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
17 By faith Abraham, when God tested him, offered Isaac as a sacrifice. He who had embraced the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, 18 even though God had said to him, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."[c] 19 Abraham reasoned that God could even raise the dead, and so in a manner of speaking he did receive Isaac back from death.
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On September 17, 1996, the House passed by voice vote H.R . 4039, the Social Security Miscellaneous Amendments Act of 1996. The bill makes several clarifying and correcting amendments to thc Social Security Act. The legislation will be sent next to the Senate for action.
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Clarification of the Effective Date of the Denial of Disability Benefits to Drug Addicts and Alcoholics
- Clarifies that the technical term "final adjudication " used in section 105 of P.L. 104- 12 1, the Contract with America Advancement Act of 1996, includes court cases . Therefore, any individual whose claim was not finally adjudicated prior to enactment at an administrative or judicial level would be precluded from receiving disability benefits based on drug addiction andlor alcoholism (DAA). However, appeals pending at either the administrative or judicial level for beneficiaries who received partially favorable awards prior to the enactment date would be considered finally adjudicated . Therefore such beneficiaries would receive benefits based on DAA until 1/1/97.
- Effective as though it had been included in the enactment of section 105 of P.L. 104-121, which was signed into law on March 29, 1996.
- Expands the applicability of the provisions in P.L. 104-121 which require treatment referrals and authorization of a $50 fee for organizations serving as representative payee for beneficiaries who are incapable and have a DAA condition. Under current law. the provisions are limited to applications and reapplications filed after July I, 1996. This amendment extends these provisions to beneficiaries whose applications are adjudicated after enactment of P.L 104-121 (regardless of when filed) and to eurrent beneficiaries who request a new medical determination after enactment of P.L. 104-12 I and prior to July I, 1996.
- Effective as though it had been included in the enactment of section 105 of P.L. 104-121.
Correction of the Effective Date of the RepresentativePayce and Treatment Referrals for Beneficiaries with a DAA Condition
Repeal of Obsolete Reporting Requirements
- Repeals a provision of the Social Security Independence and Program Improvements Act of 1994 (P.L. 103-296), requiring that SSA report to the Committees on activities related to the monitoring and testing of DAA beneficiaries. Thi s is necessitated by a provision of P.L. 104-121 which subsequently eliminated the monitoring and testing requirements.
- Effective upon enactment.
Clarification Regarding Review of Determination s by State Disability Determinations Services
- Clarifies that a State disability determination may not be reviewed by any person, tribunal, or government agency othe r than the Commissioner of Social Security or the judicial court system.
Extension of Disability Insurance Program Demonstration Project Authority
- Extends SSA's demonstration authority, SSA's and HHS' authority to waive compliance with the Social Security disability insurance (OI) and Medicare programs when SSA conducts experiments and demonstrat ion projects to test ways in which to encourage DJ beneficiaries to work expired on June 9.1996.
- Authorizes SSA to permit disability applicants to participate in demonstration projects.
- Effective upon enactment, the provision:
- Reinstates the waiver authority for demonstration projects initiated by SSA before June 10, 1997;
- Requires a report by October 1, 1997.
- Provides for suspension of Social Security benefits of an individual confined throughout a calendar month pursuant to conviction of a criminal offense or a verdict or finding of not guilty by reason of insanity (NGRI) or a finding of incompetence to stand trial in connection with such an offense. Eliminates the OASDI requirement that confinement result from conviction of a crime punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year.
- Extends the prisoner reporting provisions of the welfare reform legislation (see Legislative Bulletin 104-30) to the OASDI program :
- Provides for incentive payments for reports of OASDI prisoner beneficiaries
- Prohibits duplicate SSI and OASDI incentive payments for the same beneficiary
- Provides for OASDI incentive payments to be made from trust funds
- Makes SSI studies relating to the incentive provision required by the welfare reform legislation also appli cable to the OASDI program
- Limits the exemption from the Computer Matching and Privacy Prote ction Act (CMPPA) of 1988 that was extended to SSI prisoner matching agreements in the welfare reform bill to the Data Integrity Board (DIB) review process of the CMPPA, but clarifies that the exemption applies to all automated prisoner matching agreements.
- Clarifies the institutions which are eligible for incentive payments by requiring that, for a penal institution to be eligible, a purpose must be to confine individuals following conviction of a criminal offense. For a mental institution to be eligible , a purpose must be to confine. pursuant to a court order, certain individuals found NGR! or incompetent to stand trial in connection with such an offense.
Suspension of Benefits to Prisoners
Income Tax Withholding from Social Security Benefits
- Would correct a technical defect in the provision in P.L. 103-465 that allows Social Secur ity beneficiaries to request that their Social Security benefits be subject to Federal income tax withholding beginning in 1997. The correction provides for a specific reference to section 207 of the Social Security Act (which limits assignment of Social Security benefits). as required by section 207. (Since voluntary withholding of funds from Social Security benefits for income tax purposes would constitute assignment of benefits, section 207 would continue to prohibit SSA from honoring income tax withholding requests unless this correction is made.)


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A1: General Rules of Racing
A1.1 Definitions
- Members of College Boat Clubs are classified either as:
- Student Members
- Bona fide students (in accordance with University Statute II) of their respective college(s), until such time as:
- they leave or suspend their course of study; or
- a pass list or class list marking the end of the course is published; or
- leave to supplicate for the degree is granted.
- Visiting Students holding a valid University Card, who are affiliated to that college.
- Bona fide students (in accordance with University Statute II) of their respective college(s), until such time as:
- Fellowship Members
- Senior 'Full' Fellows or Junior Research Fellows of the respective college, only for the time during which this status is enjoyed at the college. [Emeritus, honorary and visiting fellows are excluded.]
- Student and Staff Honorary Members
- At a Captain's Meeting, the captains may choose to grant a person the status of Staff or Student Honorary Member of a College Boat Club for a period of no more than three consecutive terms, subject to the following rules:
- All Honorary Memberships must be brought in accordance with the procedural rules associated with a constitutional alteration under 1.11, but an Honorary Membership is not a constitutional alteration.
- The proposal must include:
- Name of the person in question.
- Details of the type of University card they hold, and the number (if relevant).
- Their status within the University and the date of the termination of this status.
- Proof of this status. For Staff this requires a copy of their contract counter-signed by the relevant college authority, for Students this requires an enrolment certificate signed by the Senior Tutor or Bursar or an equivalent. For the purposes of the motion this must be received and verified by the OURCs Sabbatical Officer prior to the publishing of the agenda
- The date that they wish the Honorary Membership to expire, which shall be no further in the future than 3 consecutive terms (including the term in which the motion is proposed).
- At a Captain's Meeting, the captains may choose to grant a person the status of Staff or Student Honorary Member of a College Boat Club for a period of no more than three consecutive terms, subject to the following rules:
- Respective College
For the above points A1.1.1.a-c, respective colleges shall be defined as the College or Private Permanent Hall that Boat Club represents, with the exception of Osler House, which represents Clinical Medical Students. The following boat clubs represent more than one college:
- Wolfson College Boat Club also represents St. Cross College.
- St Benet's Hall Boat Club also represents Blackfriars.
- Green Templeton Boat Club also represents female members of Blackfriars.
- Linacre College Boat Club also represents Nuffield College.
- Queen's College Boat Club also represents Wycliffe Hall.
- Wadham College Boat Club also represents Harris Manchester College.
- Christ Church Boat Club also represents Kellogg College.
- Magdalen College Boat Club also represents All Souls College.
- Exclusivity
- You may only compete as a non-asssoicate member of one College Boat club in any academic year.
- In the ambiguous cases above, Clinical Medical students may choose to compete either for their College Boat Club, or for Osler House.
- Female members of Blackfriars may choose to compete for either St Benet's or Green Templeton.
- Participation in an event shall be regarded as having decided which College Boat Club to row under as a non-associate.
- Associate Members
- All other members.
- Student Members
A1.2 Transfers
- Where a bona fide student or visiting student of college A had been a member of College Boat Club B and wishes to have membership of College Boat Club B, the student may be transferred by the following procedure:
- The student must provide to the OURCs Sabbatical Officer:
- Their name;
- Details of the type of University card they hold, and the number;
- Written permission of the captains of both College Boat Club A and B. In the event of college A not having an affiliated Boat Club, permission is only required from the captains of College Boat Club B;
- Proof of academic status, including the finishing date for their course of study. An enrolment certificate signed by the Senior Tutor, or equivalent, will be acceptable.
- At the next Captain's Meeting, the OURCs Sabbatical Officer will include a list of transfers requested under this section on the agenda that have been received before the publishing of that agenda.
- At the next Captain's Meeting, the captains will be given the opportunity to register their objection to the transfer. Objections may only be based upon one of the following:
- The student is not a bona fide or visiting student of college A; or
- The student has not been a member of College Boat Club B.
- In the event of an objection, the OURCs Sabbatical Officer will resolve whether or not the transfer can be brought under this section. This must be resolved before the end of the meeting in which the motion was raised.
- Transfers have effect from the end of the Captain's Meeting at which they are announced by the OURCs Sabbatical Officer. The student will no longer be eligible to row with college A in OURCs events except as an associate member.
- The student must provide to the OURCs Sabbatical Officer:
A1.3 Race Secretary
The Race Secretary for each event shall be responsible for the overall organisation of the event. Their duties shall be to :
- Fix the dates, times, entry fees, entry deadlines and late entry fees for the event, subject to the approval of a Captains' Meeting;
- Send out entry forms to all College Boat Clubs detailing this information;
- Appoint a Race Committee and nominate the Senior Umpire(s) for the event. Those eligible to be nominated for Torpids and Eights shall have been ratified by a Captains' meeting within the past academic year, except during racing when a Senior Umpire may be appointed with the agreement of the ratified Senior Umpires and the Race Secretary;
- Make crew-lists available for inspection during the event;
- Make modifications to the format of the event either before or during the event to ensure that the maximal amount of racing may take place;
- Maintain a list of fines incurred during the event and notify the Boat Clubs concerned of the amount and reason for all fines incurred;
- With the advice of the Captain of Coxes or his/her nominated substitute senior cox, maintain a list of notable coxing actions during the competition, including both penalised errors and praiseworthy coxing.
A1.4 Race Committee
The Race Committee shall be responsible for the running of each OURCs event. In addition, this committee shall have the authority to:
- Decide, in conjunction with the Senior Umpires, Boatmen, Area Safety Officer (Sport), and on the advice of the EA, whether conditions are safe for the event to be held, and, if necessary, alter the race format to meet safety requirements;
- Alter the rules of the river for the duration of the event;
- Require participating Boat Clubs to supply umpires and marshals for specified periods;
- Require participating Boat Clubs to restrict the number of cyclists accompanying crews;
- Require participating coxes and at least one officer from each College Boat Club to attend preparatory meetings;
- Impose fines on Boat Clubs for not complying with the above rules, such fines to be confirmed by the Race Secretary, who shall notify the Colleges involved.
- Impose other penalties such as disqualification; time penalties, penalty bumps, demotion of coxes, or suspension of a cox (on the advice of the Captain of Coxes) or crew from racing, for dangerous conduct or violations of rules of racing.
- Any member of the Race Committee may make a decision under rules A1.7 (ordinary substitutions), A1.10.2 (registration of disputes), and A1.10.3 (action to be taken upon the registration of a dispute). Decisions made under rules A1.7 (extraordinary substitutions), A3.11 (technical bumps), A3.12 (penalty bumps), A3.13 (row-overs), A3.5.4 (time penalties in Rowing On), and A3.5.5 (time bonuses in Rowing On) shall be made by three neutral members of the Race Committee with an appeal lying only to the Senior Umpire in accordance with A1.10 (disputes procedure).
A1.5 Senior Umpire
The Race Secretary for each event shall appoint at least one Senior Umpire. For Torpids and Eights it is presumed that all ratified senior umpires will be appointed. Once ratified, a Senior Umpire shall only be removed by a vote of a Captains' meeting, except during racing when a Senior Umpire may be removed by the Race Secretary and a majority of the other ratified Senior Umpires acting together. In accordance with the event plan for Torpids and Eights, a person shall be eligible for ratification as a Senior Umpire following a suitable period of training by the existing ratified Senior Umpires.
At any one point during racing, one senior umpire will be known to be on duty and acting as the Senior Umpire with regard to A1.5.2 or A1.5.3. The ratified senior umpires will consult with each other and act wherever possible collectively and by agreement under G3.1. The ratified senior umpires will agree a coordinating senior umpire to act on their behalf as necessary under G3.4 before racing, though the duty Senior Umpire shall operate G3.4 during the hours of racing.
The Senior Umpire has the authority to:
- Interpret the OURCs rules in the event of any dispute, such a ruling to be binding;
- Make the operational decision as to when it is safe for each race to start;
- Exclude any crew deemed not ready to start at the designated time or with unpaid fines under G6.3;
- With the Secretary, make modifications to the format of racing, either before or during the event, in accordance with the approved event plan and risk assessment to ensure that the maximal amount of safe racing may take place.
A1.6 Entry Requirements
- All crews entered for OURCs events shall:
- Represent a single Member Club as recognised under C5.
- Consist entirely of members of that Member Boat Club as classified under A1.1.
- Accept:
- the rules of racing;
- the event plan;
- the risk assessment;
- the contingencies specified in the above three items;
- Enter entirely at their own risk, taking into account the nature of the event and the Event Plan published on the OURCs website by the relevant Race Committee.
- Boat as was named on the entry form, taking in to account any substitutions made in accord with A1.7
- Men may cox in "Women's" boats and women may cox in "Men's" boats
- Women may row in "Men's" boats.
A1.7 Substitutions
- All substitutions must be made and completed before a crew boats for its race.
- For events with 'Extra-ordinary' substitutions, a substitution is not considered complete until it has been checked and signed by a member of Race Committee.
A1.8 Starting Requirements
Starting requirements for OURCs races are as follows:
- The crew and boat must conform to the safety requirements as detailed in 2.3, 2.4.
- The crew must conform to the rules on entry requirements and substitutions.
- The Member Club must have paid all debts (including fines) incurred up to and including the previous day.
- before ANY boat of that college races in Autumn Fours or the Isis Winter League.
- before the TOP boat of that college races in Torpids or Eights proper, or the LAST racing crew of that college races in Rowing On.
- No boat shall be allowed to start in a race with more or less than its full crew and, having started, no crew member may voluntarily leave the boat.
- Crews must row with blades recognisable as belonging to their Member Club, unless they have the permission of the Race Secretary to do otherwise.
A1.9 Identification
To assist in resolving disputes over crew identification, the following rules will apply:
- Coxswains shall be required to be in possession of identification for all crewmembers while they are on the water. Such identification must contain a picture of the person being identified. A University card or coxing permit will be sufficient.
- Such identification may be used by the Race Committee for adjudication in the event of a dispute concerning crew composition.
- Lack of identification may result in automatic loss of a dispute over crew composition.
- Complaints about crew composition must be made while the allegedly offending crew is still on the water.
A1.10 Disputes Procedure
Registration of complaints or appeals can be made directly to the Race Committee at Race Desk, or via a marshal with a radio. The procedure for handling complaints or appeals is as follows:
- Complaints against other crews must be registered with the Race Committee within 10 minutes of the incident.
- Appeals against routine Race Committee decisions (i.e. excluding those treated as resolutions of disputes) must be registered with the Race Committee within 10 minutes of the announced decision. The Captain of the appealing boat club may withdraw the appeal up until the appeal is decided by the Race Comittee.
- Having been notified of a complaint or an appeal, the Race Committee shall inform all other interested parties, who then have 10 minutes in which to send a representative to put their case. In exceptional circumstance, people can contact Race Desk by phone. No evidence shall be accepted more than 20 miutes after the announcement of the appeal. Evidence shall be accepted by a member of Race Committee.
- All disputes shall be resolved by a minimum of 3 neutral members of the Race Committee. When ruling on an initial appeal, the Race Committee shall treat the sppeal as a challenge to the original decision at first instance. Evidence must be provided that supports the need to overturn or to re-consider it (including an error by the original decision-maker or new evidence). In the absence of such evidence, the original decision should stand.
- The only grounds for appeal against the Race Committee ruling on a complaint or initial appeal are if the OURCs rules have not been adhered to, in which case the appeal must be registered with the Senior Umpire, stating the rule(s) in question, within 10 minutes of the Race Committee ruling.
- In the event of the Senior Umpire not being neutral in an appeal against a Race Committee ruling (including the grounds of having been involved in the original ruling), another Senior Umpire or an agreed member of the Race Committee shall be appointed to act as Senior Umpire to rule on the appeal.
- The Senior Umpire shall have the authority to interpret the OURCs rules, and may make a ruling as to whether the race committee decision adheres to those rules. The SU may re-submit the appeal to the race committee to re-decide within the rules, or order it to be considered by an alternative race committee if appropriate. Nothing in G8 shall be read as permitting a Senior Umpire at appeal to decide the facts, nor validates a decision by any person or persons that is outside of the rules.
A2: Rules of Autumn Fours:
A2.1 Date
Unless resolved otherwise at a Captains' Meeting, Autumn Fours shall be held on the Saturday a week before the Fours Head.
A2.2 Categories
- Men's coxed fours.
- Women's coxed fours.
Competitions for other categories may also be offered, at the discretion of the Race Secretary, subject to a minimum of two entries. This may include men's and women's pairs races, with mixed college crews allowed, as well as single sculls races.
A2.3 Eligibility
A2.4 Procedure
- The event shall consist of a knock-out competition, raced side-by-side from Longbridges to the Bumps Stone. Every effort will be made, depending upon the number of entries and in consultation with the Senior Umpire, to operate a repechage to guarantee all crews at least two races.
- The Race Committee will seek to allow for equipment clashes in the draw if notified by the College in question when entries are made. A boat may be shared by a men's and a women's crew, but not between two crews of the same sex, or by more than two crews.
- Crews must remain in their racing lane at all times. Should a crew leave its racing lane, and in so doing in the view of the Race Committee gain an advantage that affected the outcome of the race, then it will be disqualified.
- In the event of a race being stopped on safety grounds, due to circumstances which are beyond the control of the racing crews, the Race Committee reserves the right to award the race to either crew if it is felt that they held an insurmountable lead.
- The finish shall be judged by the bows.
A3: Rules of Bumps Racing:
A3.1 Dates
Unless resolved otherwise by a Captains' Meeting,
- Torpids shall be held from Wednesday to Saturday of 7th week of Hilary Term, except for those years in which it clashes with the Women's Eights Head when it shall be held from Wednesday to Saturday of 6th week of Hilary Term.
- Eights shall be held from Wednesday to Saturday of 5th week of Trinity Term.
A3.2 Divisions
Unless resolved otherwise by a Captains' Meeting or the Race Committee:
- Torpids shall consist of 6 Men's divisions and 5 Women's divisions. The top 5 Men's divisions and the top 4 Women's divisions shall be designated "Fixed Divisions" and the remainder "Rowing On Divisions".
- Eights shall consist of 7 Men's divisions and 6 Women's divisions, with the top 5 Men's divisions and the top 4 Women's divisions designated "Fixed Divisions", and the remainder "Rowing On Divisions".
- Divisions shall consist of 13 boats, plus the "Sandwich Boat", except for the bottom divisions, which shall consist of 14 boats.
- Divisions to be raced in descending order numerically (division 1 being the top division, and last division to race).
- The boat that finishes first in each division may row as "Sandwich Boat" at the bottom of the next highest division in the same day's racing.
- The boat finishing at the bottom of each division shall row at the head of the next lowest division the next day.
- Men's divisions 1, 2 and 3, and Women's divisions 1 and 2 shall be designated "Senior Divisions".
- All boats competing shall be stern-coxed Eights.
A3.3 Eligibility
In addition to the general entry requirements for OURCs events listed in 1.6:
- University squad rowers and coxes are not allowed to compete in Torpids if they have been selected for a Boat Race crew (this does not include designated spares), or if, in the instance of their squad not having made its selection before Torpids, they are still in contention for a seat in a crew.
- No person may row in two crews or cox two crews, although it is permitted to row in one crew and cox another. This does not include crews which have failed to row on under rule A3.5.
- All crewmembers must be listed as having passed on the OURCs swim test database.
A3.4 Associate Members
'Associate Members' of College Boat Clubs may row in bumps races subject to the following restrictions:
- Each College is permitted a maximum of three Associate Members in its Men's crews and three in its Women's crews.
- Associate Members may only compete in Rowing On crews, unless a College has no Rowing On crews, in which case they may compete in the College's lowest boat, provided it is not in a Senior Division, including the Sandwich Boats, at the start of the competition.
- If a College's lowest crew is in a Senior Division, Associate Members may still be used if specific permission is given by a Captains' Meeting. All other Associate Member rules must still be followed.
- Anyone wishing to appear as an Associate Member for one College who is eligible to appear for another College must have the signed written permission of both College Captains concerned, specifically given for that event/regatta.
- Associate Members must be indicated as such on the Entry Form.
A3.5 Rowing On
In the event of there being more entries than places available, crews not assigned places in the Fixed Divisions will be required to qualify by 'Rowing On'
- Rowing On races shall be held as an OURCs event under the jurisdiction of the Race Committee with the powers defined in G2.
- Rowing On races shall normally take place on the Friday preceding the bumps races.
- Rowing On races shall be timed rows with a rolling start, measured from Longbridges raft to a semaphore placed approximately midway between Univ Boathouse and the Head, with the fastest crews to qualify.
- Crews being overtaken during Rowing On are required to give way. Failure to do so may result in a time penalty.
- Crews impeded by other craft during Rowing On may be awarded a time bonus.
- In the event of crews having an equal time and if this affects the starting order, the crews involved may organise a private rerow and notify the Race Committee of the result.
- Crews failing to Row On shall be refunded half their entry fee.
- All members of crews succeeding in Rowing On, irrespective of whether they were properly entered as part of that crew, shall be subject to the restrictions of rule A3.3.2 as if they were a bona fide part of that crew.
- Rowing On results shall become finalised on midnight of the following day, after which no further appeals will be considered and the Race Committee shall resolve any remaining ties by ballot.
A3.6 Withdrawals
- The Race Secretary should be notified, in writing, of any withdrawals.
- Any crew withdrawn prior to midnight before Rowing On, or, in the absence of Rowing On races, prior to the Friday before the bumps race starts, shall be refunded their full entry fee, and regarded as 'not entered'.
- Provided no lower crews of the same sex from the same College Boat Club are entered, Fixed Division crews that were 'not entered' shall be reinserted 6 places lower in the Starting Order for the following year in Torpids, 4 places lower in the Starting Order for Eights. If lower crews of the same sex from the same College Boat Club ARE entered, Fixed Division crews that were not entered will NOT BE REINSERTED.
- In the event of a crew withdrawn after the deadline in A3.6.1, but before the Starting Order is finalised, the crew shall be removed entirely from the Starting Order and NOT REINSERTED THE FOLLOWING YEAR, all other crews moved up one place and the fastest crew failing to Row On shall be invited to start at the bottom of the lowest division.
- In the event of the Senior Umpires permitting early or late withdrawals from bumps races on safety grounds, arising from a significant loss of river time to colleges, such crews will maintain their places in the following year's Starting Order without penalty. A request for such a withdrawal must be made in writing and signed by the club captain.
- Crews withdrawing after the Start Order is finalised, or failing to boat for their race are withdrawn from the competition and not reinserted the following year. Crews in the division are moved up one place and a bungline left empty at the bottom of the division for the day's racing. In the Start Order for the following day all other crews are moved up one place and the fastest crew failing to Row On shall be invited to start at the bottom of the lowest division.
- If a crew fails to boat for its race, it shall be regarded as having withdrawn from the competition.
- The Race Committee may decide to allow a crew to withdraw for one day of racing.
- In Eights, the withdrawn crew's bungline is left empty and the crew subject to a technical bump as in A3.11.
- In Torpids, the crew may be reinserted the following day a number of places lower by the discretion of the Race Committee based on the reasons for withdrawal. Other crews in the division are moved up one place and a bungline left empty at the bottom of the division for the day's racing.
A3.7 Starting Order
A Provisional Starting Order shall be prepared by the Race Committee as soon as possible after the Rowing On races and shall be circulated to all College Captains.
- Having moved up all crews to fill spaces caused by crews not entering or withdrawn under A3.6.1, the order shall be:
- The finishing order of the previous year's Fixed Divisions,
- The finishing order of the previous year's Rowing On Divisions for those boats succeeding in qualifying.
- New entries succeeding in qualifying, in random order, determined by drawing lots.
- Crews from each College Boat Club shall be numbered sequentially in the first day's starting order, regardless of their designations in the previous year's finishing order or their Rowing On finishing positions.
- Unless Captains request otherwise, their crews in the Rowing On divisions will be allocated places in order of qualifying speed.
- The starting order shall be finalised at midnight before each day's racing, until which time the provisional starting order may be amended in the event of further withdrawals.
A3.8 Starting Procedure
- Each boat shall be started from a rope 50 feet in length, held by the coxswain, the other end of the rope to be fastened to a post on the towpath.
- The distance between each starting post shall be 130 feet.
- Divisions in bumping races shall be raced at intervals of not less than 25 minutes and not more than 45 minutes (unless safety dictates otherwise).
- Not less than five minutes before the start of the division, the Senior Umpire shall order the firing of the 'Five Minute Gun'.
- Four minutes later, or later if safety dictates, the Senior Umpire shall order the firing of the 'One Minute Gun'.
- One minute later, another gun shall be fired to signal the start.
- If the Starting Gun has not fired within seventy seconds from the One Minute Gun the Senior Umpire will notify crews that the sequence of guns shall be repeated from the One Minute Gun.
- For a race to be deemed to have taken place, 10 of the 14 boats must be attached to their bunglines when the Starting Gun is fired.
A3.9 Delays
- Delays, subject to A3.8.3, may be granted by the Senior Umpire provided that the request is delivered before the One Minute Gun.
- Crews needlessly causing the start to be delayed are liable to be fined, at the discretion of the Senior Umpire.
A3.10 Bumps
- A bump shall be deemed to have taken place when the Race Committee is satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that one of the following has occurred:
- A boat touches any part of the boat in front of it, the term "boat" to include oars, rudder and crew; or
- When the coxswain of the leading boat acknowledges, by raising his arm, that a bump is inevitable; or
- When one boat rows clean by another.
- A boat shall be liable to be bumped until every part of it has crossed the finishing line.
- On achieving a bump, a boat ceases to be part of a race.
- In Eights Week, the boat bumped also ceases to be part of the race.
A3.11 Technical Bumps
The Race Committee may award technical bumps if a boat does not start in accordance with OURCs regulations.
- In the event of a technical bump, the division shall proceed as normal except that the offending crew shall lose one place.
- If the offending crew has attempted to start, any bumps gained by it shall be disallowed while any bumps gained on it shall stand.
- The Race Committee may choose not to award a technical bump in Torpids if they decide that a crew never intended to start, in which case the rest of the division shall proceed as normal save that the offending crew shall be placed at the bottom of the division.
- The crew benefiting from a technical bump may choose to decline it.
A3.12 Penalty Bumps
Penalty bumps may be awarded by the Race Committee in the event of dangerous conduct, illegal interference with other crews racing, or incompetence leading to a klaxon.
- The number of places lost through a penalty bump is at the discretion of the Race Committee
- Crews receiving penalty bumps shall automatically have any valid bump gained disallowed.
- Penalty bumps shall not be awarded until the crew involved has been invited to present their case, and shall follow the disputes procedure A1.10.
- Any crew that causes a race to be klaxoned due to reasons that do not relate to the actions of another crew should be given a penalty bump (for example due to rudder failure or a person entering the water).
- Penalty or racing bumps shall not be awarded against crews that, after gaining a bump, continue to race safely due to reasonable uncertainty over whether or not the bump had occurred
A3.13 Row-Overs
The Race Committee may disallow otherwise valid bumps and award row-overs to the crews involved in the following circumstances:
- Bumps on crews that were only caught due to unavoidable external influences shall be disallowed.
- Boats that have had bumps disallowed shall be awarded row-overs unless they have also accumulated penalty bumps.
- Boats easying under a reasonable misapprehension that they have gained a bump may be awarded a row-over. In Eights week, boats easying under a reasonable misapprehension that they have been bumped may be awarded a row-over, otherwise all boats are expected to complete the course where possible. The decision in such situations will be entirely at the discretion of the Race Committee.
- Over bumps shall stand despite crews in between subsequently being awarded row-overs.
A3.14 Finishing Order
The finishing order of a division shall be:
- In Torpids, the order in which the remaining boats cross the finishing line except that all boats achieving a bump shall be placed above the boat bumped.
- In Eights, the same as the starting order except that the two boats involved in each bump shall exchange places.
A3.15 Stopping Racing
In the event of a klaxon sounding during a race,
- All boats shall cease racing immediately.
- Bumps gained prior to the klaxon shall stand. Any bumps after the first klaxon sounding anywhere on the course are not counted irrespective of whether crews involved have heard it or not.
- Crews still racing when the klaxon sounded shall be awarded a row-over.
A3.16 Cyclists
- During every day of Torpids, and the first three days of Summer Eights, each crew may only have one bank rider cycling alongside them, unless with the permission of the Race Secretary and the Senior Umpire.
- On the Saturday of Summer Eights, cycling is banned on the towpath from bungline 14 to the Head.
A3.17 Equipment
- Oars with sharp protrusions on the spoons are not permitted.
A4: Other Regattas
A4.1 Event Planning
Permission must be sought for the event to happen from the Proctors at least four weeks before the events. Organisers must arrange to meet or liaise with the Environment agency regarding their event plan at least six weeks before the event. This will require the sending of an event plan and suitable risk assessment to both bodies. The Proctors will also require proof that the event is insured. Advice on event plans, risk assessment and insurance is available via the ASO (Sport) or Rowing Sabbatical.
If access to the boathouses through Christ Church meadow is required, permission should be sought from The Treasurer at Christ Church at least six weeks before the event.
Other local river users must also be notified of the event (a list of whom is available from the Rowing Sabbatical).
A4.2 Permission for River Closure
- The Organisers must ask permission for a river closure from a Captains' Meeting. During a river closure, no crew is allowed on the river except those permitted by competition rules.
- For regattas on a Saturday, the OURCs river closure for college and University crews must start from an hour before sunrise out of courtesy to other rivers users, to allow them the use of the river prior to the regatta start time.
A4.3 Cancellation
If the event does not live up to the safety plan, then the OURCs Secretary and Rowing Sabbatical have the right to cancel the event in the interests of safety.
A4.4 Organisers' Obligations
- Organisers are required to publish a full set of rules and the safety plan for their event online before the closing date for entries. They may include some or all of the OURCs Rules of Racing or Rules for Bumping Races, but must clearly identify which sections are to apply.
- Organisers are not permitted to start their regatta earlier than the original published start time, out of courtesy to other river users.


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Pennsylvania's hunters hit the fields and woods Monday for the opening of deer season.
HARRISBURG (AP) — Pennsylvania's hunters hit the fields and woods Monday for the opening of deer season.
The state's two-week firearm deer season included special restrictions on some central Pennsylvania hunters because of a deadly disease found in captive deer earlier this year.
Hunters who take deer in a 600-square-mile area covering parts of York and Adams counties must have them tested for chronic wasting disease. The neurological infection can't be transmitted to humans but is deadly to elk, moose and deer.
Joe Neville, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Game Commission, said in a telephone interview from a check-in station in Adams County that officials there expected to take samples from the lymph nodes and spines of 200 deer by the end of opening day.
"For most of our hunters it's been a very quick process, five or 10 minutes," Neville said.
Two deer on Adams County farms died of the disease earlier this year, making them the first cases reported in the state. No infections have been reported in the wild population.
About 750,000 hunters are expected to take part in deer season.


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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--What will it take for America's leadership to bridge the partisan political divide and devise short- and long-term energy policy and solutions? How can the U.S. reduce its dependence on imported oil, deal with climate change, and lead the world in nuclear, coal, gas and renewable energy technologies?
At the 5th Annual EnergyBiz Leadership Forum (www.EnergyBizForum.com) in Washington, March 18-19, 2013, Gen. Jim Jones—former National Security Advisor and former Commandant of the Marine Corps—will share his insights about how government and industry can devise and implement enduring energy policy.
Gen. Jones, a Senior Fellow for the Bipartisan Policy Center, will present the keynote address at the State of Energy dinner March 19. His remarks will include the first major presentation of the center's findings that will be released later this month, gathered during its two-year study on the future of national energy policy. The first part of the study—released in November 2012—recommended the creation of a National Energy Strategy, development of measurable objectives, and cross-agency coordination.
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Held at The National Press Club, the Leadership Forum brings together leading utility chief executive officers and national energy thought leaders to exchange perspectives on the global issues impacting the utility industry. The forum's theme is "Strategies for a Radically New Utility Universe," with a full agenda of speakers, presentations and discussions about key topics like emerging technologies, innovation, political forecasting, finance and security.
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ROCHESTER — Brent Phillips scored twice with a pair of assists to lead the Spaulding High School hockey team to a 5-1 win over Somersworth/Coe-Brown (1-6) in Division II action at Rochester Arena Wednesday night.
Kyle Carignan scored assisted by his brother Adam. Brian Chick and Drew Healey also scored for the Red Raiders (6-0-1). Derek Scott made 21 saves.
Austin Siering scored for Somersworth/Coe-Brown, which got 44 saves from goaltender Peter Robertson.
Both teams return to action on Saturday. Spaulding hosts Pelham/Windham and Somersworth/Coe-Brown goes to Keene.
Dover 10,
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EXETER — Eli Cobb scored four goals and Joe Johnston recorded a hat trick as the Dover boys hockey team romped 10-4 at Winnacunnet Wednesday night in Division II.
Mitchell Welch scored twice and Kieran Lombard also scored for the Green Wave (6-0-1). Ben Henderson recorded two assists and Luc Ravenelle had 25 saves.
Dover hosts Goffstown on Saturday afternoon.
Berwick 37,
Southfield 35
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The Berwick Academy girls basketball team rallied for a 37-35 win at Southfield (5-2) on Wednesday.
Torie St. Pierre led the way for Berwick (7-2) with 10 points and five assists. Rebecca Siegel scored nine points, including the game-winner in the final seconds of regulation. Caitlyn Winders scored seven points off the bench.
Berwick hosts LCA on Friday.
Pittsfield 43, Newmarket 26
PITTSFIELD — The Newmarket girls basketball team fell 43-26 at Pittsfield (6-2) in Division IV on Wednesday.
Taylor Linck led the Mules (4-3) with seven points. Newmarket hosts Sunapee on Friday.
Berwick 3, Hebron 2
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Berwick Academy girls hockey team was a 3-2 winner at Hebron on Wednesday.
Anna Wright scored twice for Berwick (7-2) and Caroline Hernon also scored a goal.
Berwick hosts Kents Hill on Friday at the Dover Arena.
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SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — The Berwick Academy boys basketball team opened 2013 in style with a 48-25 win over Landmark (1-4) on Wednesday.
Tom Nason scored 14 points to lead Berwick (2-10) while Stephen Sherbahn scored 13 and Josh DuPont added seven.
Berwick looks to make it two in a row at Kents Hill on Friday.
Spaulding 78, Pinkerton 48
ROCHESTER — The Spaulding boys basketball team improved to 5-0 in D-I with Tuesday's 78-48 win over Pinkerton.
Spaulding used a 23-8 surge in the second quarter to build a 38-18 lead at the half. Dominic Paradis led four players in double figures with 16 points, while Anthony Ciccotelli added 14, Nick MacGregor tossed in 13 and Darian Berry added 10.
Spaulding travels to Manchester Friday to meet Trinity (4-0) in a battle of undefeated teams. Pinkerton is 1-3.


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Whoa! Shortly after Bobbi Kristina public with her relationship with adopted brother Nicholas Gordon, rumors are abound that the pair are gearing up to tie the knot.
TMZ reports that Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown's daughter, 19, was spotted rocking a rock on her all-important finger as she walked hand-in-hand with Gordon, 22. Though grandmother Cissy Houston opposes the pairing, deeming it "incestuous" and expressing that she believes Gordon is exploiting Bobbi Kristina's issues, Bobbi Kristina doesn't care.
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Opinion: ObamaCare's New Low
Editorial board member Joe Rago on the continuing slide in ObamaCare's popularity. Photos: Getty Images
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Opinion > Politics
Politics and Words
Image Journal's website features a blog by Brian Volck on the slippery nature of words; more specifically, the language of this election season, and key words like "change." Both parties claim to be the agents of change. What does it mean? How does a word or expression change in a given context? In politics, are words used… READ MORE >
Opinion > Books
The Archbishop of Canterbury Reads Dostoevsky
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has recently written a book about Fyodor Dostoevsky, author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. The book—Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction—has drawn some controversy, not so much for its content, but for the question of whether it should have been written in the first place.… READ MORE >
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Waugh's Unlikely Champions
In the New York Review of Books, Daniel Mendelsohn demonstrates a supple understanding of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited—its themes and ambitions. Many have criticized the latest film version of the classic Catholic novel for playing fast-and-loose with the source material, but Mendelsohn is one of the few critics to analyze with… READ MORE >
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Tom Stoppard, Freedom Fighter
Tom Stoppard, the witty British playwright most famous for his mind-bending twist on Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, is the feature of an Observer article on human rights. Stoppard's plays are like Samuel Beckett by way of Oscar Wilde, with detours to Bardland—postmodern riffs on Big Themes like love and death and liberty,… READ MORE >
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Secrets of storytelling
Having just read a collection of masterful short-stories by Tobias Wolff, the issue of what makes storytelling such an intrinsic, necessary part of the human condition has been at the forefront of my mind. An article in the most recent issue of Scientific American approaches this age-old question from a left-brained perspective: "Popular… READ MORE >
Opinion > Culture
Vatican Searching for Next Raphael. Or Roy Lichtenstein?
The Catholic Church used to be Western Civ's pre-eminent patron of art and architecture. But the past few hundred years have seen the Vatican slowly transition from commissioner to collector, safeguarding the long and luminous tradition of Church art. Tantalizing signs of change are looming, however. Newsweek is reporting on the Vatican's… READ MORE >
Opinion > Culture
#110 Stuff White People Like
The Atlantic has an interesting commentary on the popular blog site, Stuff White People Like (also now a New York Times bestselling book). The website features mini-essays by Christian Lander, a PhD dropout now famous for skewering the tastes and mores of 'White People'—alternately called 'bourgeois bohemians' and… READ MORE >
Opinion > Culture
David Foster Wallace, postmodern moralist, dead at 46
The apparent suicide of David Foster Wallace, the prodigiously talented author of the novel Infinite Jest, is a sad, stunning end for a writer whose best work burst with unflagging energy and propulsive imagination. Though often lumped with postmodernists like Thomas Pynchon, Wallace's fiction had a deeply-felt humanity and breadth-of-scope… READ MORE >
Opinion > Movies
Alfred Hitchcock: Mistaken Identities
The Times Literary Supplement just ran two reviews of recent books about Alfred Hitchcock, the iconic filmmaker whose morbid Catholicism bled into the edges of such classics as Vertigo, I Confess, and Shadow of a Doubt. His movies—popular entertainments in their own time, snubbed by critics and award-givers—have since become the subject… READ MORE >
Opinion > Faith
Gazing Upwards: The Pope's Homily at St. Patrick's Cathedral
Although I'd followed Pope Benedict from event to event during his visit to the U.S., one of the most moving moments for me was watching him on TV as he delivered what I believe was his most personal statement, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. As pastor of the Universal Church, the Pope is most at home with the Eucharist and the… READ MORE >


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Epicurious recently listed the mojito as one of its favorite summertime beverages. Consider the ingredients of this Cuban cocktail through a powers-of-ten lens.
- Fresh lime juice
In early 19th century Britain, sailors were required to consume a daily ration of lime juice to prevent scurvy, which is why British Navy men were known as "limeys." While limes are high in vitamin C, they also have flavonoids that are thought to prevent cell division of cancer cells (which are roughly 10-06 meters long, according to phys.org). In the U.S., lime consumption has dramatically increased in recent years. The Agricultural Marketing Resource Center explains that "Per person consumption of fresh limes increased from nearly 1 pound per person in 1989 to 2.5 pounds in 2009. Because the Florida-based U.S. lime industry no longer exists, imports account for 100 percent of lime consumption."
- Superfine sugar
From 2009 to 2010, the average American consumed 45.3 pounds of sugar, as stated in The New York Times. That means that, as a country, we consumed 14,178,900,000 (or 10+10) pounds of sugar in just one year. Today those numbers are only rising. Whole Health Source paints this picture: "In 1822, we ate the amount of added sugar in one 12 ounce can of soda every five days, while today we eat that much sugar every seven hours."
- Crushed ice
The hydrogen atoms in ice have a radius of roughly 10-11 meters, while the radius of the oxygen atoms are approximately 10-12 meters. New Englanders Frederick Tudor and Nathaniel Wyeth revolutionized the ice producing industry in the early 1800s by experimenting with how to best insulate, cut, store and transport it. According to History Magazine, "By 1879 there were 35 commercial ice plants in America [10+01], more than 200 a decade later [10+02], and 2,000 by 1909 [10+03]. In 1907, 14-15 million tons of ice [10+07] were consumed, nearly triple the amount in 1880. No pond was safe from scraping for ice production, not even Thoreau's Walden Pond, where 1,000 tons [or 10+06 pounds] of ice were extracted each day in 1847."
- Fresh mint leaves, plus small sprigs for garnish
Mint is thousands of years old (10+03). In ancient times the herb was associated with hospitality. Epicentre.com explains that its name "comes from the Greek legend of the nymph Minthe, who attracted the attention of Hades. Hades' wife, the jealous Persephone, attacked Minthe and was in the process of trampling her to death when Hades turned her into the herb (and was ever sacred to him)."
- White rum
The fermentation process of rum occurs on a scale of 10-06 meters. Apparently limes and rum mixed well for sailors in the UK. In addition to a ration of lime juice to prevent scurvy, Rumhistory.com explains that "the British Navy created an elaborate ceremony for serving rum aboard ships, an occasion presided over by the Rum Bosun to the sound of music that was played at no other occasion. . .Special measuring cups were used so that sailors would know that they received the precise amount specified by law."
- Club soda
Joseph Priestley, the clergyman, philosopher and chemist who discovered "dephlogisticated air" (later renamed oxygen), was also the inventor of club soda. In 1767, he found that suspending water above fermenting beer led to carbonation. According to Q Club Soda, "At the time, the air blanketing the beer was known to kill mice. But Priestly figured out that this carbon dioxide [with each molecule approximately 10-10 meters in diameter] would also infuse into the water and turn it into something similar to the naturally carbonated "spa" waters that doctors of the day thought had curative properties." Five years after Priestley created soda water, he published a study on it titled, Directions for Impregnating Water with Fixed Air.
As always: Drink Responsibly.
This beverage (and all alcohol) is not for anyone below the legal drinking age in his or her current jurisdiction. The powers-of-ten exploration of this beverage is in no way intended as encouragement for its consumption.


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81-year-old saved after several days stuck in tub
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Police have rescued an 81-year-old Colorado woman who spent several days stranded in her bathtub, apparently after taking a tumble.
Worried neighbors called Colorado Springs police on Wednesday because they hadn't seen her recently. An officer found her later that day, dehydrated and disoriented and unable to get out of the tub.
She was taken to a hospital. Her name and condition haven't been released. Police say she lives alone.
Police said Friday it's not clear how long she was stuck but one neighbor hadn't seen her for 11 days. The officer found newspapers and mail piled up at her door.
Neighbor Tom Wolf tells KRDO-TV (http://tinyurl.com/qdpku5j ) he decided to call police after noticing the woman's flower garden was untended and her car hadn't moved lately.
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iWork gets a new collection of Elements for Desktop Publishing
Jumsoft creates some of the best graphic icons and spot illustrations in the industry - their designs for Mac OS X iWork are seriously unrivaled! Here are 385 new pieces, which can be used to illustrate slideshows, invitations, posters, newsletters, e-books, or just about any kind of content that lacks a creative touch. November 23, 2012