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Designed with ultramarathon racing in mind, the New Balance 1210 is a trail shoe featuring maximum cushioning and a soft ride.

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When you need a shoe to carry you through the long miles, the New Balance 1210 will be up for the task. Inspired by the legendary Leadville Trail 100, this shoe features everything you need for a long trail run: plenty of underfoot cushioning, a roomy and comfortable upper, and a small touch of pronation support to combat those collapsing arches. Lace up the New Balance 1210 for your next ultramarathon.

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The WT1210 is a moderate feature, mild support trail shoe designed for racing and daily training.

  • N2 Cushioning system consists of responsive, durable cushioning that sits lower to the ground than traditional cushioning systems.

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  • Medial Post consists of higher density foam in the midfoot that works to correct over pronation.
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  • Sticky Rubber on the outsole gives optimal grip in wet conditions.
  • Lugged Vibram Outsole is made from a tough, durable compound that gives exceptional grip on trails.
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  • UL-1 is an ultra running specific last with a narrow heel, standard forefoot, and standard toe-box height.

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Comments: Bought these shoes a month ago and used them to run in my first trail ultra marathon. Shoes were great, did notice some pain in my heel later in the race and thought my foot had blistered, however it was just from the pounding. The cushioning was good, however a GREAT pair of socks makes a difference (i switched socks 3 times during the race).
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The Department of Homeland Security... Hold on. Let me correct that. The Barack Obama/Democrat Party Department of Homeland Securityhas issued a warning to law enforcement agencies to be on the lookout for "right-wing extremists."

The intelligence assessment, prepared by the Obama DHS, warns law enforcement agencies, and I quote: "Right-wing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first African-American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new members, mobilize existing supporters and broaden their scope and appeal through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning." (There's nota scintilla of proof for any of this in the report.)

The assessment goes on to say that the current economic and political climate is similar to the 1990s;you rememberthat --when Bill Clinton tried to blame certain people for the Oklahoma City bombing.

So, who should Americans fear, according to the Democrat Homeland Security Department? For one, veterans returning home from the war on terror. The report also says that right-wing extremists "may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration." That's besides groups who favor state or local authority over the federal government. To combat the new threats, the government will work with local law enforcement to gather information about those right-wingers.

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RUSH: Let's go now to full-fledged sound bites of our buddy Jose Rodriguez being interviewed by Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes. Jose Rodriguez, CIA interrogator who was head of the clandestine services for George W. Bush. They don't get any better at what they do than Jose Rodriguez. He sat for an interview with Lesley Stahl for 60 Minutes. And here's the first bite. She said, "So, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was subjected to waterboarding, specifically 183 pourings of water in about half a dozen separate sessions. Jose Rodriguez said the average pour lasted ten seconds."

RODRIGUEZ: Can I say something about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? He's the one that was responsible for the death of Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter. He slit his throat in front of the camera. I don't know what type of man it takes to cut the throat of someone in front of you like that, but I can tell you that this is an individual who probably didn't give a rat's ass about having water poured on his face.

STAHL: He never believed for one second you were gonna kill him?

RODRIGUEZ: No. And let me just tell you, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would use his fingers to count the number of seconds because he knew that in all likelihood we would stop at ten. So this doesn't sound like a person who is afraid of dying.

RUSH: He wanted to be executed at first until he heard that Holder wanted to put him on trial in New York City, and then he said, (imitation) "Wait, I'll go for that. You give me two years on CBS and ABC in an American courtroom in New York? Okay, I'll delay any martyrdom and the 73 virgins until I finish with that." He wanted to be executed. Now, this next one, this is one of my all-time favorite sound bites. This is Lesley Stahl of CBS News. You will hear what to me is an amazingly hilarious distance from reality. I do not know what world news people live in. She says, "So what happens? Did the sheik break down? Does he cry? Does he fall apart after your waterboarding?"

RODRIGUEZ: No. He gets a good night's sleep. He gets his Ensure. By the way, he was very heavy when he came to us and he lost 50 pounds.

STAHL: What, his Ensure? You mean like people in the hospital who will drink that stuff?

RODRIGUEZ: Yes. Dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques.

STAHL: So sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation, I mean, this is Orwellian stuff. The United States doesn't do that.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, we do.

RUSH: I just love that sound bite. That is one of my all-time favorites. This guy knows exactly who he's talking to. She can't believe that we would torture somebody with bottles of Ensure. I myself have been tortured with Ensure. Many Americans are given Ensure in hospitals. It's packed with vitamins and nutrients and calories. Cancer patients and others who cannot eat solid food, it's a way to keep 'em alive. It's not torture! Granted it's a liquid diet, that may be torturous to some people, but Lesley Stahl thinks that's just... (imitating Stahl) "Ensure! The stuff they give people in hospitals? Did you recycle?"

And our buddy here Jose Rodriguez, "Yes, yes, dietary manipulation was part of those dire techniques." He's just toying with her. "Yes, yes, dietary manipulation was part of these dire techniques." (laughing) Dire techniques. Torture. Ensure. (laughing) And then she says, "Why, sleep deprivation, dietary manipulation, I mean, this is Orwellian stuff, The United States doesn't do that." "Well, we do." (laughing) See, folks, as the mayor of Realville, I love running into other fellow citizens of the place, and Jose Rodriguez obviously lives in Realville. "Yes, we do. Well, we do. We give people Ensure. We engage in dire techniques. Dietary manipulation."

You know what else they did? They played that Barney song. (singing) "I love you, you love me." What's the rest of the song? "We're as happy as can be," or whatever it is. But what kind of thinking is it that leads you to believe that drinking Ensure is Orwellian, that making people drink Ensure is Orwellian? Obama is Orwellian. If you Google "dietary manipulation," it's what Moochelle Obama does. Moochelle Obama is totally devoted to dietary manipulation. And they don't call that torture. Moochelle Obama is trying to tell us what we can and can't eat. So we have one more sound bite here.

Lesley Stahl says, "You retired from the CIA in January 2008, spent the last year writing this book published by the CBS company, Simon & Schuster. And in the book you say that by canceling the interrogation program, President Obama has tied the government's hands in the war on terror."

RODRIGUEZ: We don't capture anybody anymore, Lesley. You know, the default option of this administration has been to kill all prisoners. Take no prisoners.

STAHL: The drones!

RODRIGUEZ: The drones. How can it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them? I've never understood that one.

STAHL: President Obama has said that what we did was torture.

RODRIGUEZ: Well, President Obama is entitled to his opinion. When President Obama condemns the covert action activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that exists between intelligence officers who are at the pointy end of the spear hanging way out there, and the government that authorized them and directed them to go there.

RUSH: Hear, hear! That is exactly right. These guys were given orders to produce information. They did it, and now Obama and Eric Holder want to bring them up on charges. He is exactly right. This is obviously a great man here, Jose Rodriguez. Now, Lesley Stahl, I have a question for you: "What would you prefer, to be blown up by a drone or have to drink Ensure?" I ask the question 'cause she said, "Well, Obama said what you did was torture." Of course that makes it "torture," if Obama said it was torture. But I'll ask you, not just Lesley Stahl: "Would you rather be blown up by a drone or volunteer drink Ensure and listen to Barney?" (singing) "I love you, you love me, we're a happy family. The great big hug and kiss from me to you. Won't you say you love me, too?" And they play is that over and over and over, and it drove 'em nuts. They played that song over and over. It drove those guys absolutely batty. Verse two: "I love you; you love me. We're best friends like friends should be, with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you! Won't you say you love me, too?" And just loop it. And during refrains, bring in a bottle of Ensure, and they were driven nuts.

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Psalms Chapter 28

Psalm 28. The godly Jew pleads, in the time of trouble come on the nation, that he may not be confounded with the wicked. If Jehovah did not appear in his behalf, so much was he in the same distress with them, death would drag him into its jaws. He looks for judgment on the wicked. They slight Jehovah. Jehovah should reward their doings. The psalm furnishes to the remnant not only the cry, but the prophetic witness that Jehovah has heard it. The heart trusts in Jehovah, had found help, and thus joy and praise. Then Messiah is fully joined with the righteous. Jehovah is their strength, He is Messiah's. This once settled, the prophetic desire of the godly, according to the Spirit of Christ, expresses itself that Jehovah should have His people and bless His inheritance (for the faith of covenant blessing and relationship runs through all this part of the Psalms), that He should also feed them and lift them up for ever. Deliverance, blessing, feeding, and unaltered exaltation, such are the fruits looked for of Jehovah's coming in power.

In Psalms 25, 26 we have seen the great moral principles of trust in Jehovah (even when confessing sins) and integrity In these last we have more the personal sense of condition, and way or ground of relationship with God, beautifully shown in the first part of Psalm 27 in the one desire of the heart; and in the second part, in the touching plea, You taught me to seek Thy face; my heart, in those times of divine instructions, said, I will seek it: Lord, will you turn it away now that I am in trouble, when You taught me to seek and trust it? The truth is the same, but in the first part it is the one moral desire of the heart; in the last, the exhortation of God to do it becomes a resource to the soul. Jehovah Himself is their refuge, and has taught them to look for it.

In Psalm 28 the pressure of evil is more felt, and coming judgment and the separation of the remnant looked for. This separation characterizes the whole testimony of God connected with the coming of Messiah, a circumstance which will aid us in seeing the unity of the remnant in the mind of God. Not only was it prophetically announced, as in Isaiah 65, but John the Baptist characterizes the coming of Messiah by it, their being children of Abraham being of no avail (Mat 3:9); as indeed it spiritually took place: only that He being rejected and not yet coming in power, they were then added as "the saved," Act 2:47, to the assembly. For that, however, Peter takes it up (Act 2:40). The Lord Himself receives them as His sheep (John 10). Paul rests his argument in Romans 11 upon it too.

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Law A rule of action. (1.) The Law of Nature is the will of God as to human conduct, founded on the moral difference of things, and discoverable by natural light (Rom 1:20; Rom 2:14, Rom 2:15). This law binds all men at all times. It is generally designated by the term conscience, or the capacity of being influenced by the moral relations of things. (2.) The Ceremonial Law prescribes under the Old Testament the rites and ceremonies of worship. This law was obligatory only till Christ, of whom these rites were typical, had finished his work (Heb 7:9, Heb 7:11; Heb 10:1; Eph 2:16). It was fulfilled rather than abrogated by the gospel. (3.) The Judicial Law, the law which directed the civil policy of the Hebrew nation. (4.) The Moral Law is the revealed will of God as to human conduct, binding on all men to the end of time. It was promulgated at Sinai. It is perfect (Psa 19:7), perpetual (Mat 5:17, Mat 5:18), holy (Rom 7:12), good, spiritual (Rom 7:14), and exceeding broad (Psa 119:96). Although binding on all, we are not under it as a covenant of works (Gal 3:17). (See COMMANDMENTS.) (5.) Positive Laws are precepts founded only on the will of God. They are right because God commands them. (6.) Moral positive laws are commanded by God because they are right.

Law of Moses Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (Kg1 2:3; Kg2 23:25; Ezr 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply "the Law" (Heb. Torah , Deu 1:5; Deu 4:8, Deu 4:44; Deu 17:18, Deu 17:19; Deu 27:3, Deu 27:8). As a written code it is called the "book of the law of Moses" (Kg2 14:6; Isa 8:20), the "book of the law of God" (Jos 24:26). The great leading principle of the Mosaic law is that it is essentially theocratic; i.e., it refers at once to the commandment of God as the foundation of all human duty.

Lawyer Among the Jews, was one versed in the laws of Moses, which he expounded in the schools and synagogues (Mat 22:35; Luk 10:25). The functions of the "lawyer" and "scribe" were identical. (See DOCTOR.)

Lazarus An abbreviation of Eleazar, whom God helps. (1.) The brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany. He was raised from the dead after he had lain four days in the tomb (John 11:1-44). This miracle so excited the wrath of the Jews that they sought to put both Jesus and Lazarus to death. (2.) A beggar named in the parable recorded Luk 16:19.

Leaf Of a tree. The olive-leaf mentioned Gen 8:11. The barren fig-tree had nothing but leaves (Mat 21:19; Mar 11:13). The oak-leaf is mentioned Isa 1:30; Isa 6:13. There are numerous allusions to leaves, their flourishing, their decay, and their restoration (Lev 26:36; Isa 34:4; Jer 8:13; Dan 4:12, Dan 4:14, Dan 4:21; Mar 11:13; Mar 13:28). The fresh leaf is a symbol of prosperity (Psa 1:3; Jer 17:8; Eze 47:12); the faded, of decay (Job 13:25; Isa 1:30; Isa 64:6; Jer 8:13). Leaf of a door (Kg1 6:34), the valve of a folding door. Leaf of a book (Jer 36:23), perhaps a fold of a roll.

League A treaty or confederacy. The Jews were forbidden to enter into an alliance of any kind (1.) with the Canaanites (Exo 23:32, Exo 23:33; Exo 34:12); (2.) with the Amalekites (Exo 17:8, Exo 17:14; Deu 25:17); (3.) with the Moabites and Ammonites (Deu 2:9, Deu 2:19). Treaties were permitted to be entered into with all other nations. Thus David maintained friendly intercourse with the kings of Tyre and Hamath, and Solomon with the kings of Tyre and Egypt.

Leah Weary, the eldest daughter of Laban, and sister of Rachel (Gen 29:16). Jacob took her to wife through a deceit of her father (Gen 29:23). She was "tender-eyed" (Gen 29:17). She bore to Jacob six sons (Gen 29:32), also one daughter, Dinah (Gen 30:21). She accompanied Jacob into Canaan, and died there before the time of the going down into Egypt (Gen. 31), and was buried in the cave of Machpelah (Gen 49:31).

Leannoth For answering; i.e., in singing, occurs in the title to Ps. 88. The title "Mahalath (q.v.) Leannoth" may be rendered "concerning sickness, to be sung" i.e., perhaps, to be sung in sickness.

Leasing (Psa 4:2; Psa 5:6) an Old English word meaning lies, or lying, as the Hebrew word kazabh is generally rendered.

Leather A girdle of, worn by Elijah (Kg2 1:8) and John the Baptist (Mat 3:4). Leather was employed both for clothing (Num 31:20; Heb 11:37) and for writing upon. The trade of a tanner is mentioned (Act 9:43; Act 10:6, Act 10:32). It was probably learned in Egypt.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD - Senior Annie Archer (Littleton, CO) had nine kills without committing an attack error to help the Sacred Heart women's volleyball team sweep Norfolk State 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-20) Saturday morning at the University of Maryland-Eastern Shore.

Archer, a senior tri-captain, made her first start of the season and hit an impressive .643 to help the Pioneers increase their season mark to 8-6.

Sophomore Jessica Colberg (Long Beach, CA) led the SHU defense with 31 digs. Junior Courtney Kidd-Kadlubek (Santa Barbara, CA) extended her team lead with 29 assists.

The Pioneers will face host Maryland-Eastern Shore at 2 p.m. this afternoon.


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The Big Guns of August

By: Adrian Ash | Wed, Jun 30, 2010
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US Treasury holders have nothing to fear today. Just look how low yields are!

"BOY, the bond vigilantes are really on the warpath," jokes Paul Krugman, noting in his blog at the NY Times that 10-year Treasury yields ended Tuesday below 3.0%.

Never mind that the S&P slumped to 1040 meantime, dropping to a level first crossed (on the way up) in spring 1998 and leaving institutional funds with few places to hide. Never mind that 10-year Treasury yields only fell through 3.0% once before...amid the cataclysm that followed Lehman Bros.' collapse and thus hardly cause for good cheer. And never mind either that gold prices reversed a 0.9% drop on Tuesday, extending their run of higher highs and higher lows to seven consecutive quarters, also starting with the collapse of Lehmans.

"Clearly, we must slash spending immediately to satisfy the market's demands," mocks the Princeton professor. Which looks a fair satire at first. Because yields only fall when bond buyers bid up prices. And US debt has rarely been more highly priced than today.

But to think that means the market is crying out for more debt - and imagining that it would only be right to meet that cry, as well - is one hell of a leap. Because whatever power Robert Rubin spied in the bond market, it really isn't that bright.

Despite averaging just 0.40% real interest, for instance, through the 1970s, buyers of 10-year US Treasuries took until Dec. 1980 to see their yield move decisively above the pace of inflation. By then, of course, short-term rates had shot up to 19%, first destroying the capital value of those 10-year bonds as prices fell and yields rose towards that strongly positive post-inflation return, but also destroying the easy returns to be made by borrowing short-term money and lending it long.

Even below 3.0% today, ten-year US Treasuries still offer an easy profit - quite literally money for nothing - in maturity transformation. Those big institutions able to borrow Fed Funds at the current near-zero rate can park those funds in government debt, picking up 2.75% returns from the annualized gap between overnight and 10-year interest. This no-brainer gets brained, of course, when short rates rise above longer-term yields. But what fear of that with Krugman's one-time colleague, fellow bearded wonk Ben Bernanke, running the Fed?

Still, if there were a genuine problem with Uncle Sam's outstanding debt today - a debt currently pegged at $13.1 trillion, and equivalent to borrowing $2.82 each and every day since the Big Bang - then the bond market would be first to know and show it. Right? Because as Krugman's joking implies, the market-price of government debt must be correct in one sense or another. He's clearly a big fan of the efficient market hypothesis, no?

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"There is nothing like deflation to bring on hyperinflation," as our friend, Merryn Somerset Webb, recently reminded readers of the Financial Times and MoneyWeek.

"Governments desperate to prop up prices and economies, despite being broke, print reams of money - money that eventually enters the market in a rush, flipping deflation to inflation. If you can get a copy of Adam Ferguson's 1975 book When Money Dies (soon to be republished), you will find an excellent account of how this happened in the Weimar Republic. It might not happen again but, at this point, it would surely be foolhardy to discount it entirely."

Zimbabwe's more recent collapse into hyperinflation might not strike the rich West either, but it also bears notice. It began gently enough, with a mere collapse of economic production and wages. Between 2001 and 2002, as "reflation" began, the exchange rate of Zimbabwe Dollars to US$1 then held static around 55 (according to the CIA Factbook at least). Domestic Zimbabwean inflation, in contrast, was galloping ahead at 134% per year, on course for doubling shop prices every 24 hours by mid-2007, as the money-printing shown above only accelerated the pace of catastrophe.

Put another way, "Most financial market indicators in the years leading up to July 1914 implied a decline in the risks to investors," as Niall Ferguson wrote in his 2006 tome, The War of the World. No, mounting political concerns, saber-rattling and national armament didn't specifically forecast the Archduke Francis Ferdinand's assassination on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo, and "bond prices did fall sharply once investors realized that a great-power war was a real possibility. "But the striking thing is that this did not happen until the last week of July 1914 - to be precise, in the week after the publication of the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia, which demanded cooperation with an Austrian enquiry."

One month after Austria lost its heir presumptive to an anarchist's bullet, its bonds finally got round to dumping almost 10% of their value, says Ferguson's data. The guns of August were already being loaded, in other words, by the time the sovereign bond market took fright. Austrian debt would stand more than 23% lower by Christmas, and the Hapsburg Empire wouldn't exist five years from there.

Still, US Treasury buyers have nothing to fear today, of course. Just look how low yields are.

Adrian Ash

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What is Real Time Information?

Real Time Information doesn't change the way you calculate PAYE; it just means you'll need to make more regular submissions. Each time you pay your employees you'll need to submit PAYE information to HMRC, rather than just once a year at Payroll Year End.

Following concerns over the impact of RTI on small businesses, rules of reporting were temporarily relaxed but from October 2014 those relaxed rules will be lifted and small businesses will need to start reporting each time they pay their employees - not just on a monthly basis.

It’s important that small business act now to make sure they’re ready for reporting RTI fully and accurately to avoid the risk of a fine and any penalties.

You’ll still need to process PAYE in the same way but you’ll need to submit the payroll information to HMRC on or before the day you pay each of your employees.

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Can Glen Bourke win his first SB20 World title?

Glenn Bourke & Club Marine crew - SB20 World Championships 2012
The UON SB20 World Championships fifth day of racing was held at Hamilton Island yesterday and Australia’s Glenn Bourke and his strong Club Marine crew of Andrew York and Greg McAllanSmith caught up to the Pointscore leaders, Oleg Zherebtsov and Rodion Luka’s Team Russia, which has occupied the top spot since day two.

Bourke’s second, fourth and bullet in the last race on day five has put them on equal 33 points with Team Russia and second on a count back. Bourke was one of the SB20 (SB3) pioneers winning the Europeans three times, during the period he was UK based as the CEO of the Volvo Round the World Race. In those days the Europeans was the peak event, no worlds had been sanctioned so a World title for the class veteran would be a just reward. An interesting day ahead!!

In a mind boggling announcement UK Sport says GBR Sailing will receive £24,515,072, ($40 shy of AUD $38 million dollars) for the 2013-2017 Olympic cycle after British sailorS delivered five medals at the London Olympic Games.

How much money might they have received if they had they been in Australia’s position where the sport won 43% of all its countries Gold Medals.

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Vendée Globe skipper Armel Le Cléac’h (Banque Populaire) has taken the lead from Francois Gabart (Macif) as the two leaders sailed under Tasmania. Jean-Pierre Dick (Virbac-Paprec 3), on his own in third, is losing ground to the leaders. We smiled at the latest Vendee Globe release title which informed with the unfortunate words Dick Slipping.

Today John Curnow details the rise and rise of the RS200, with a fleet establishing quickly in Melbourne, with fifteen boats soon to be on the water at just one club.

The first buyers of the Melbourne based RS200s could not be happier. - RS200

It’s the two-person RS200, now with numbers well past 1500; it has a huge following in UK and Europe. It’s a lightweight open-cockpitted, bowsprit enhanced, 8.29m2 asymmetric ‘chute flying, non-trapeze fun machine. Read all about it.

As you’d expect there is a steady flow of news from the Rolex Sydney to Hobart, much of it focussing as usual on the big boats. Our first Rolex Sydney Hobart newsletter will hit cyberspace tomorrow. Technology has moved on in the last year, so we will reveal some more Sail-World innovations in race coverage as a Christmas present for you.

The winning yacht in the 2012 Launceston to Hobart Yacht Race will receive full recognition for its performances under all handicap categories, while yacht owner/skippers will select the winner of a new award for an outstanding skipper.

Melbourne to Hobart (west coast) and east coast, Melbourne to Launceston and Launceston to Hobart.

SL-33’s emerge from the Viaduct Harbour

And in an interesting back story, we bring you an interview with Dean Barker on the Emirates Team NZ's America's Cup development program. It’s about the two SL33's run by the design and sailing teams, as test boats. They are being fitted with all kinds of modified hulls and appendages as the Kiwis gear up for a very strong challenge to the US Oracle camp next September in San Francisco.

We trust you are having a great week in the run up to Christmas and Boxing Day.

Our Sail-World staff party will be in cyber space this weekend with our team scattered across North America, UK-Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. So we can invoke the sun is over the yard arm excuse 24x7

Trust we all enjoy a few quiet little drinks in the weeks ahead and of course in Hobart, they will get progressively nosy as always.


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Cruising sailors and iPads - One tech-savvy cruising sailor tells

Crystal Blues anchored in Buffalo Bay in Ko Phayam, Thailand
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Long time Australian cruising sailors Ley and Neil Langford are sailing their yacht Crystal Blues on the coast of Thailand. Here Neil talks of the difference that iPad has made to their lives, both navigational and family, and how this tech-savvy cruising couple manage their communications systems:

Many cruising sailors have PC's installed onboard, running navigation applications such as Fugawi, C.Map, MaxSea, OpenCPN or other programs. Then along came the iPad and muddied the waters somewhat.... well quite a lot actually !

The iPad is great for reading e-books, handling email, web viewing, skype calling, music listening, video replay and a million other tasks. It connects simply to our PC and has changed the way we communicate with others.

Like many other sailors, we use the excellent Navionics HD charting application on our iPad - it's a great tool. Intuitive and simple to use, it keeps getting better with every upgrade. I understand that Navionics sales via the Apple iTunes store are enormous. Of course with the Navionics app the iPad is not linked to the boat's instrument systems, so it won't display ARPA or AIS targets, wind, depth or any of the other NMEA data relating to the boat or its environment. But the mobility of the device is attractive - we can use it anywhere on board, subject to prevailing weather.

However there is a simple way to have the best of both worlds - the mobility and convenience of the iPad and the complete suite of information that is already displayed on your PC screen. You have two options ........

1. Upgrade to the very capable iNavX iPad application, adding appropriate hardware and NMEA converters. Its a great application, but the overall cost is not insignificant, and of course you have to buy new charts again.

2. Use a simple 'remote desktop' application to connect the iPad to your existing PC chart plotting system.

We've been using the Splashtop remote app on the iPad and can now view our PC screen from anywhere aboard Crystal Blues. The iPad app costs only $4.99, though you do also need a wifi router onboard. We have a small one made by D-Link, that runs directly off our vessel 12vdc power supply. To use the system you download and install the Splashtop app on your iPad (or iPhone!) and also download and install a small software module to your PC. Both processes are simple, and the applications well mannered. Then the fun begins - with the iPad connected to the boat wifi network, simply tap on the Splashtop app, select your computer and your PC desktop will appear on the iPad screen. Its very simple.

A range of controls are also available, so you can manipulate the PC software from the iPad screen, though this does take some getting used to. The image above shows our Transas Navigator PC screen, viewed on the iPad. You can see the AIS target displayed.

Splashtop automatically controls your PC screen resolution to exactly match the iPad screen, so on the iPad the image is perfect.

This app also works over the cloud - if your boat PC is connected to the internet, Splashtop can display it from anywhere you have a network connection on the iPad. Of course it works with all of your PC applications - not just the navigation suite.

We now routinely use the iPad as our cockpit information tool, and can swap back and forth easily from our master Transas charts and information screen, to the Navionics screen. We can also simply swap to other apps - last week our grandson Harrison called in on Skype video - we were able to walk the deck and show him the boat under sail, moving north up the Thai coast. Quite a thrill for him and us.

To learn more about Crystal Blues and her crew, go to their!website.

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Fire and Ash create new opportunities at Bobbin Head

Darren and Jason Empire Boat Sales
Leading Sydney Boat broker Jason Ash has joined forces with Darren Vaux of Empire Marinas in an exciting new business venture Empire Boat Sales. A recent fire at the facility has done little to dampen the enthusiasm of the pair, with reparations almost complete restoring the historic marina to its award winning best.

Empire Boat Sales brings together two highly regarded individuals in the marine industry. Prior to running his own successful boat brokerage Jason Ash spent 20 years with Avante Marine, one of Australia’s largest retail boating groups. Darren Vaux is the owner of Australia’s most highly awarded marina, Empire Marina Bobbin Head. Together they make a great team, committed to offering an exceptional level of sales and after sales service for their clients.

Jason's career began establishing small boat brokerages on the eastern seaboard to managing a multitude of marine dealerships right along the east coast of Australia. Passion, drive and customer service have been the cornerstones of his success, 'I love what I do,' he said. 'I have grown up in this industry and I am very pleased to be working with Darren on our new venture at Bobbin Head.'

Darren Vaux is the principal of Empire Marina at Bobbin Head, voted Australian Marina of the Year since 2009, holding 5 Gold Anchors - the highest rating in the international ranking for marinas.

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'We are always looking for opportunities to improve and expand on our service to our clients and the boating public,' he said. 'Empire Boat Sales is a logical step in the progression of our business model.'

Vendors and purchasers can be assured of quality service and great results that the two men behind Empire Boat Sales have to offer.

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Pacer Nationals 2013 - Female teenage sailors tussle for positions

All smiles, Casey Imeneo & Evie Knorr, Pacer 2808 Flower Power - Ronstan Pacer Nationals 2012/13
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The Australian Pacer National Championship has not only showcased the sailing brilliance of current leaders Alan and Nathan Riley but a four-way tussle for position between boats manned by all female crews, six of them are teenagers..

While Alan and Nathan Riley pulled ahead with a bullet and a third in the two races today one of the best battles is happening mid fleet between four all female crews, of which three boats are all teenagers.

Leading the four crews are McCrae members Casey Imeneo and Evie Knorr, 2808 Flower Power, competing in their second Nationals. Both aged 15 the girls had no specific plans for the regatta other than to 'do well and have fun', their main goal to 'keep on improving'. After today’s two races in 15 knots they are 16 overall on 87 points, also on 87 points and in 17 on count back are Matilda Hiscock and Ellie Riley, 2695 DragonFly. Hiscock is one of the younger skippers in the fleet at just 13, she recently moved out of her Optimist and started sailing with Riley in October this year.

Lisa Barrand & Louise Manson in Pacer McCYC 17. - Ronstan Pacer Nationals 2012/13
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Sailing one of McCrae Yacht Club’s training boats, the clubs Training School Principal and Matilda’s mother Lisa Barrand with crew Louise Mason are in 18th place with 89 points. Safety Beach Sailing Club’s Emma Martin and Georgia Strong, 2822 Little Lizard, are also on 89 points and in 19th place on count back. Martin and Strong aged 16 and 17 respectively have been sailing together for a couple of years and this is their second Nationals. As with the other crews their main aim is to get out on the water and have fun. With two points between the four crews the mid section of the fleet could not get much closer.

Matilda Hiscock & Ellie Riley in Dragon Fly Pacer 2695 - Ronstan Pacer Nationals 2012/13
Rhenny Fermor

As Training School Principal Lisa Barrand is all too aware of the juggling act involved to keep teenagers and girls in particular in the sport. Her instant comment on the placings of the crews 'Go Girls'. However her overriding thought 'anything that keeps teenage girls out on the water and having fun has got to be a good thing'. For these girls it is not important to be at the top of the fleet or win a race, for them the fun on the water and friendship onshore is the key, anything clubs and classes can do to promote this will ensure the successful growth and development of our sport.

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At each regatta, only the 20 boats ranked highest in the overall ranking of the regatta will be scored. The boat finishing in first place will be scored 20 points, second place will be scored 19 points, third place 18 points and so on through to 1 point for a twentieth place finish. A boat finishing in twenty-first place or worse is scored 0 points. A boat which does not compete in a regatta is not awarded a score.

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Boy Brent, you sure do make some broad generalizations. They are not all accurate. My ICON with a big wide stern and a very fine entry tracks like it is on rails and is a very benign boat to drive. By the way ICON was designed as a racer/cruiser and had succesfully cruised all over the Pacific from New Zealand to Seattle. It has a very deep, 13'8" draft lifting keel. It is not your Grandpa's cruising boat but it is a boat that has done a lot of cruising.

Any race boat with "knee high lifelines" would nort qualify for any of the races around here or pretty much abywhere in the world for that matter. There are very strict International regulations for lifelines and pulpits.
Many years ago you told a friend of mine that asymetrical waterlines give better directional stability. The boat you designed for him ,based on that assumption, had none. He was very disappointed with it. He went back to building Spencers, which he had much experience with, boats with much finer sterns, and resulting good directional stability.

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You may have found your boat by now, but if not, I can tell you that in my research, while the mariners look good, watch out for the wood cockpits. Many of the forums for mariner chronicle owners rebuilding all of that. They have a good reputation inspite of that though.

I bought a Bristol 32 last year that was in decent shape for my needs for about 22K. Puget sound sailing. She didn't have much for electronics and the head is a portapotty, but essentially sound. They are rare on the west coast for sure. Mine was ordered new in '75 by a Seattle owner who had her 25 years. The second owners had her 11. I'm just the third owner. They aren't the fastest, but I did hit 7.5 briefly on the speedo last year. The accomodations are a bit tight for a 32. We haven't gone with another couple overnight yet, but it is doable. Tons of storage for stuff and tankage for water. I can carry 100 gallons. 70 in the keel and 30 in a bow tank. Although with 100' of anchor chain too, that 30 gallons puts her out of trim badly.

Good luck if you are still shopping.

That's interesting as I have a trim problem on my Bristol 31.1, due to the fact that the 100ft of anchor chain was replaced with rope. Now, even with the bow tank full, the bow rides high.

Part of the problem is that the PO added two extra batteries in the stern. Actually now I think about it, batteries are quite an economical form of ballast. Have you thought of increasing the battery capacity?

The problem is that 100ft of chain costs about $1000.

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motion300 02-12-2009 02:32 PM

generator install exhaust
I am getting to do an install of a gen set The question is.. can I dump the 1.5'' gen set exhaust into the main exhaust tru hull so I don't heve to install another tru hull for the exhaust The main exhaust is 3'' Has anybody done this and where can I buy the fitting?

amarinesurveyor 02-12-2009 03:11 PM

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No. Every engine and generator exhaust should have its' own dedicated discharge port. Potential problems: when runnning both engines you might be causing too much backpressure on the exhausts; when running just the engine or generator, you could potentially be forcing water up the one that isn't running and get water into the cylinders. Plus if you have a survey done for insurance purposes or when selling, the surveyor will call it out and it will have to be fixed. Best to do it right the first time.

celenoglu 02-12-2009 03:14 PM

In my opinion you better have different hole for the gen set. The diameters of exhaust pipes are generally only sufficient for which engine they are designed for. You cannot use two systems at the same time.

Another drawback might be mixture of exhaust gases and water from one system to the other. Although the exhaust sysystems are non return pressure of the gases might force them to return to the other system. When you are running the gen the gases and water might be forced to the engine and vice versa.

faisond 02-12-2009 03:15 PM

Recommend separate exhausts

I would advise against tying the two together. You may introduce the possibility of forcing water from the main engine exhaust into the genset engine (if it were not running) or vice versa. I just finished a self-install of a genset. I used a 1.5" bronze mushroom through-hull for the exhaust. Cost about $50 at WM. No big deal to install so long as you're out of the water.

motion300 02-12-2009 03:58 PM

Well I am in the water but I believe I can drill the hole Better safe then stupid
Does antbody make a 1.5 tru hull with a flapper?

faisond 02-13-2009 07:50 AM

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Centek industries makes a through-hull with a flapper made of fiberglass - which is fine for the wet exhaust from your genset. Give them a google. If you install one of their water lift mufflers in the exhaust circuit (about $125 off the internet for a 1.5" inlet/outlet) I think you wouldn't need a flapper. Depending on the vertical distance between the genset's exhaust and your water line, you should consider including a vertical loop when routing your exhaust from the engine (or muffler) to the through-hull to prevent siphoning of water when heeling. The instructions accompanying the muffler I bought recommended an 18" loop above the waterline.

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Tried to post a link to a muffler that is suitable for your application but the forum rules deem me not worthy. If you go to and click on their vernalift line of mufflers, you will find mufflers suited for your application that should obviate the need for a flapper on your exhaust through-hull.

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05-27-2008 10:30 PM
soulesailor sounds like you do mostly daysailing? how about a flat-bottomed centerboarder. they are fun to sail and go quite fast under power since they are nearly planing hulls with the centerboard raised.
05-27-2008 10:21 PM
sailingdog Most of the trailerable multihulls will fold down to 8'6" or so. However, if you're looking at a trailerable multihull... and need to keep it in a single width slip, then you probably should look at the Telstar 28 rather than the Corsair 28/31/36. The Corsairs can't be stored with the amas folded, since the folding system leaves the ama hull-deck join in the water.
05-27-2008 10:12 PM
Its a sailboat, you want to sail more and motor less, MOVE!
Can't you keep your boat down the river or on the gulf?
One small problem with that solution... I would have to SELL the boat to afford a home (or slip) on the Gulf

I thought about a decent trailerable boat but the ramps here are rather short (& shallow) and it's doubtful I could get anything of a reasonable size floated off the trailer. Plus, on the weekends the ramps are a rats nest of PBs fighting, drinking, smashing into one another, etc. It is total anarchy. I originally trailered my Mac but gave that up REAL fast.

Out of curiosity... Any multihulls with a reasonable narrow(relatively speaking) beam. That may be the solution I need.
05-27-2008 08:58 PM
CBinRI It sounds like you need either a much longer water line or to be closer to the gulf.
05-27-2008 08:45 PM
Originally Posted by eMKay View Post
Can't you keep your boat down the river or on the gulf?
That was my thought. A two-hour trip in a boat with 6 kts hull speed would probably be a 15-20 minute trip by car.

05-27-2008 08:22 PM
sailingdog The sport trimarans I mentioned are usually trailerable too.
05-27-2008 08:07 PM
mazzy Or move to a decent sailing trailerable. Seaward, Com-Pac, etc. and tow it to the Gulf.
05-27-2008 08:00 PM
eMKay Can't you keep your boat down the river or on the gulf?
05-27-2008 07:58 PM
sailingdog Yeah, that heeling thing...
05-27-2008 07:34 PM
tommyt Its a sailboat, you want to sail more and motor less, MOVE!
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08-11-2010 08:40 AM
zz4gta What kinda boat is this?
08-11-2010 08:26 AM
WanderingStar Good luck with it. Please keep us up on your progress.
08-10-2010 04:14 PM
TimofBlindSquirrel I am willing to go through the hassel and expense of getting this boat to Chicago because it is rare to find one on the market. Current shipping estimates show that I should be able to purchase it and transport it to Chicago for a lot less than the least expensive one that is currently on the market. This is one of three that are currently on the market.

I also have a facility near the Illinois - Wisconsin border that provides everything I need to do the refit. It is less than a 90 minute drive, has heat and A/C, and a mobile gantry crane will easily fit over the boat when on jack stands. I will probably need to yank the motor and give it a re-build(oh joy!).

I am also extremely handy and have an extensive construction background. Doing the re-fit myself will not only be more satisfying, but it will allow me to make changes and modifications that I really want. I did a complete refit on my last boat and was extremely pleased with the results. I ended selling that boat for what I had into it, minus labor, so it worked out for me. Hopefully I will have the same results with this boat.

Thanks for all the advice.
08-10-2010 03:25 PM
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Thanks for the info. I will am going to have to get a quote from them if I can make the deal for the boat.
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sailingfool You want these guys

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08-10-2010 10:25 AM
Ulladh If this is truely an exceptional boat and there is not a comparable boat closer, then I would suggest; get the boat made seaworthy in BVI and move it to Puerto Rico for a more complete fit-out.
Costs are lower in Puerto Rico than BVI and may also be lower than in Chicago.
Research directly with the various government agencies in BVI, Puerto Rico, Illinois and the USCG on what you need to do to make this legal, and check with your insurance carrier.
08-10-2010 09:03 AM
speciald Shipping may cost more than the boat is worth. For example, a 42 foot boat from St Thomas to Fort Lauderdale would set you back more than 7k at the discounted rate.
08-10-2010 08:51 AM
sailingdog Just curious, why are you buying a boat that is need of a major refit that is so far away? I am guessing that you could buy the same or similar model boat in better shape for what buying that one and shipping it will cost you. Also, as a general rule, you will never get back what you put into a boat in terms of refitting.... and buying the same make and model boat is sailable shape is usually less expensive than refitting it will cost—in both terms of money and time.
08-10-2010 08:43 AM
Boat Delivery

I am livinig in Chicago and found a boat that I am very interested in Virgin Gorda. Not very convenient, I know. The boat needs a major refit and I would not dare sail it back to the States without a major systems overhaul.

Does anyone have any experience in moving a boat by barge or freighter to the east coast? I can truck the boat to Chicago from there to begin the work. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Dr. Delissio received her B.S. in Biology from Tufts University where she was first introduced to tropical ecology.  She then worked as a laboratory technician at M.I.T. where the C. elegans DNA she sequenced contributed to Nobel Prize-winning work on programmed cell death. She went on to complete her Ph.D. in Biology at Boston University where she studied tropical forest ecology in Malaysian Borneo with Richard Primack, one of the world's leading Conservation Biologists.  Her current research interests include climate change, tropical forests, small island ecology, and science education. She is the author of a blog on the use of the arts to teach STEM disciplnes:

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Scientific research interests:

The impacts of climate change and development on the wild plants and tropical dry forest in Culebra, Puerto Rico. Current project: creation of an herbarium reference collection of the plants of Culebra, and an associated field guide.

* Global climate change

* Tropical forest ecology

* Tree demography

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* Principal Investigator for National Science Foundation Math and Science Partnership START Grant: Atlantic Partnership for the Biological Sciences: a Partnership for Effective Lab- and Field-based Science:

* Teaching scientific writing to Biology majors

* Providing tropical field experiences for undergraduates

My research students and protege(e)s. Where are they now?

Kathryn Arey - M.S. in Environmental Education, University of New Hampshire

Steven Bentley - Science Teacher in Hanoi, Viet Nam. Master's in Teaching Biology, UMass Boston; previously Forest and Park Supervisor - MA Department of Conservation and Recreation

Cheryl Bondi - Adjunct Faculty at SUNY Cortland. MS in Biology, Humboldt State University; Ph.D. from SUNY- ESF, worked on red-backed salamanders in VT/NH and examining the effects of soil calcium on their diet

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____and Primack, R. 2003. The impact of drought on the population dynamics of canopy tree seedlings in an aseasonal Malaysian rain forest. Journal of Tropical Ecology 19: 489-500.

Drobot, S., Porinchu, D.F., Arzayus, K.M., Barber, V.A., ____, Smith, l.M., and Warren ,J. M. 2004. The ‘ideal’ climate change Ph.D.Program in Report from the October 2003 DISCCRS workshop: 15-20.

____ 2008. Analysis of rainfall data from the island of Culebra, Puerto Rico over a period spanning 1907-2007 in light of climate change predictions. A report for U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Boqueron, P.R. October.

Knowlton, C., ____ 2011 (Lead Author); Encyclopedia of Life (ContributingAuthor); Hogan, C. M. (Topic Editor) Cuvier’s Beaked Whales (Ziphius cavirostris): Ecology and Anthropogenic Impacts. Retrieved from <>

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____2003. The population dynamics of tropical rain forest seedlings as indicators of climate change. Dissertation Initiatives for the Advancement of Climate Change Research (DISCCRS). Guanica, Puerto Rico.

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____2008. Confronting climate change in the U.S. Northeast. Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine of Tufts University, Grafton.

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There’s a crisis at ABC News. The sanctity of journalism is at stake. The ghost of Edward R. Murrow, even though the news pioneer worked for another network, is being summoned. Why? Barbara Walters is losing her Friday prime-time slot!

Could anything be more pathetic?

Last week, when ABC unveiled its new fall lineup as part of the annual “upfront” presentation for advertisers, gasps were practically audible when the ABC brass announced that its newsmagazine “20/20,” hosted by Walters and a fixture on Friday nights for 14 years, was moving to Wednesday nights. Kind of. Actually, it’s going to air on Wednesday only for approximately two months, and will return to its usual Friday night slot from December through September.

Pretty minor stuff, considering the networks do an extraordinary amount of juggling to create their all-important schedules. Plus, when one considers the thousands of journalists in both TV and print who are being laid off this year because of corporate cost-cutting, the fact that Walters, who makes $12 million a year to read “20/20″ introductions, among other duties, was moved from Friday to Wednesday seems almost comically trivial, no?

No. Much ink has been spilled chronicling Walters’ discontent, detailing the somber phone call she received from ABC News president David Westin breaking the news, hand-holding meetings at Walters’ home as she processed the shock of the scheduling change, the brave face she put up initially (when not bursting into tears among colleagues), followed by her bitter break with ABC and the possibility that she might just walk out on “20/20,” courtesy of a contract loophole.

It’s all very dramatic. And it’s all flat-out ridiculous. Because somehow in this mini-diva drama Walters has been transformed into a martyr for network news. Well, not somehow. Walters herself was pitching that line when she appeared on her daytime coffee klatch show, “The View,” and unburdened herself about the “20/20″ drama: “So many of us felt that news is a public trust and should be respected as such, and the perception was that ABC doesn’t care about news, and because I was in the center of it there was a great deal … I was almost becoming a heroine.”

Forget the niggling embarrassment last year when Walters OK’d a deal with Campbell’s Soup in which her “View” hosts innocuously talked up the product (“My daughter won’t eat anything, but she eats Campbell’s Mega Noodle”) in exchange for Campbell’s picking up the program’s expenses during a West Coast trip. And never mind that Walters herself has long pioneered the transformation of television news into, literally, parlor gossip. Who, after all, better represents the watering down of television news than Barbara Walters?

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How is it, exactly, that we’re supposed to see Walters as a shining example of what happens when greedy entertainment execs run roughshod over a network and cast aside the aspirations of the honorable news division? The story we are being told is that Walters was dissed because ABC cares only about entertainment and has turned its back on hard-hitting, public-interest news programming.

Have any of these commentators, including Dan Rather and Katie Couric, who have rushed to Walters’ defense, watched “20/20″ lately? Has television news as a profession sunk so low that a show, when not investigating the poor sanitation conditions at discount nail salons, or airing interviews with Macaulay Culkin (Walters: “Tell me about your father”), can suddenly be regarded as a paragon of hard-news reporting? And can it really be possible that a host such as Walters, who’s best known for making celebrities cry, is being regarded as a patron saint? Did we mention “20/20″ wasn’t canceled, but merely moved to a prime-time slot on a different night?

It’s reminiscent of the laughable stink that surrounded ABC’s 2000 Earth Day special in which teen heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio interviewed President Clinton. ABC’s Sam Donaldson, who plays a journalist on TV, was among those inside the network’s news division who were appalled that an actor would get face time with the president.

By now you’d think it was long past the point that somebody would have let the newsies in on what everyone else already knows: News and entertainment are pretty much interchangeable. NBC’s Tom Brokaw gets chummy with Jay Leno on late-night TV; CBS’s Rather sings train songs on David Letterman’s show. Candice Bergen of “Murphy Brown” is considered as a potential “60 Minutes” correspondent, CNN actually hires an actor, Andrea Thompson of “NYPD Blues,” to read the news and a political sex scandal is essentially turned into prime-time programming for more than a year.

The two worlds of news and entertainment have fallen lovingly into each other’s arms. In the process, the on-air players have become obscenely wealthy — by being paid as entertainers, not as journalists. And now they’re outraged that Walters’ “20/20″ has been treated as just another piece of network programming, like a sitcom or a TV drama?

It’s a little late for that.

Eric Boehlert, a former senior writer for Salon, is the author of "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush."

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