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Round The Island Powerboat Race Participants

By bernews.com
Published On :: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 17:56:56 +0000

The Bermuda Powerboat Association [BPBA] will be hosting the annual Round the Island race tomorrow [Aug 18] starting at 2.00pm from Ferry Reach. Eighteen boats are confirmed as registered with more unconfirmed at the time of the list release. Participant list released by BPBA follows below: A – Class: A29 – David Selley & Scott […]

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Videos: Around The Island Powerboat Race Start

By bernews.com
Published On :: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 17:20:24 +0000

[Updated] The 2019 Rubis Around the Island Powerboat Race is getting underway this afternoon [Aug 18] with racing scheduled to begin at 2.00pm from Ferry Reach. You can watch a live stream below, and we will have additional coverage later on after the event concludes. Update: The live replay is below Update: A second live replay […]

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Photos: Around The Island Powerboat Race

By bernews.com
Published On :: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 00:15:30 +0000

The 2019 Rubis Around the Island Powerboat Race took place this afternoon [Aug 18], with two new records set, and David Selley and Scott Barnes taking line honours. With a time of 50.19, David Selley and Scott Barnes in addition to Breaking the A Class Record also took the line honours as the first boat to cross […]

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Bermuda Power Boat Association Race Schedule

By bernews.com
Published On :: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 10:47:11 +0000

The Bermuda Power Boat Association [BPBA] has released their race schedule for 2020, with the first event to take place on April 5. Race and Event Schedule: 5th April – Ferry Reach [Points Races] 26th April – St Georges – Marine Expo [Nationals Races] 17th May – Ferry Reach [Points Races] 31st May – Ferry […]

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Sandys Boat Club Win Island Construction Cup

By bernews.com
Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 19:00:08 +0000

Warwick Workman’s Club Two team took on defending champions Sandys Boat Club One team in the final of the Island Construction Cup held at Warwick Workman’s Club. Richie Beale opened the scoring for Sandys when he defeated Warwick’s Mike Zimmerman, closing him out on the colors to pick up the win 62-44. Sandys Martin Siese […]

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Snooker: Sandys Boat Club Win Keen Cup

By bernews.com
Published On :: Sun, 08 Mar 2020 13:00:12 +0000

Sandys Boat Club came from behind to defeat Warwick Workman’s Club in the final of the Keen Cup at the Royal Artillery Association Club in St. George’s 3 – 2. Mike Zimmerman got Warwick off to a flying start when he defeated Sandys Peter Bromby 72-35. Ray DeSilva then doubled Warwick’s lead when he edged […]

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Court: Woman To Pay $7,500 For Boat Damage

By bernews.com
Published On :: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 16:34:42 +0000

[Written by Don Burgess] A Hinson’s Island woman has been ordered to pay $7,500 for damage she did to a boat belonging to a neighbor. Earlier this week, Mary-Beth Sherwin, 53, pleaded guilty to taking a vehicle without authority in March 2018. The court heard that the owner had secured his 16′ skiff as there […]

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Court: Boater Denies Manslaughter Charge

By bernews.com
Published On :: Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:10:03 +0000

[Written by Don Burgess] A boater pleaded not guilty to a manslaughter charge. Mikado Burchall, from Smith’s, denied causing the death of Adrian Hassell, 24, on New Year’s Day in Sandys near Lefroy House. He also pleaded not guilty to piloting the boat while his ability to do so was impaired. His next court date […]

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Photos & Video: Boat Fire In Dockyard

By bernews.com
Published On :: Sun, 12 Jan 2020 23:34:52 +0000

[Updated] Firefighters are on scene in the west end this evening [Jan 12] battling a blaze. Further details are limited at this time, however we will update as able. Update 8.06pm: The BFRS said, “At 6:27pm the BFRS received a call reporting a house boat on fire at the Dockyard in Sandys. “The BFRS responded […]

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Photos: Aftermath Of Boat Fire In Dockyard

By bernews.com
Published On :: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 13:42:50 +0000

Fourteen firefighters from the Bermuda Fire and Rescue Service [BFRS] battled a blaze at Dockyard last night [Jan 12], with two vessels completely engulfed in flames. Following the response, a BFRS spokesperson said, “At 6:27pm the BFRS received a call reporting a house boat on fire at the Dockyard in Sandys.” “The BFRS responded with […]

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Three Videos: Two Boats On Fire In Dockyard

By bernews.com
Published On :: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:45:29 +0000

[Updated] Fourteen firefighters from the Bermuda Fire & Rescue Service [BFRS] – along with six appliances - battled a blaze at Dockyard on Sunday evening [Jan 12], and three videos showing the fire are below. Following the response, a BFRS spokesperson said, “At 6:27pm the BFRS received a call reporting a house boat on fire […]

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First Americans arrived at least 16,000 years ago, and probably by boat

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Artifacts unearthed in Idaho challenge the idea that the first people to populate the Americas made the journey on foot around the end of the Ice Age.


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Shel Silverstein's whimsical houseboat floats onto the market in Sausalito

By www.latimes.com
Published On :: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:36:30 -0400

In Sausalito, a World War II-era balloon barge fashioned into a houseboat once owned by poet Shel Silverstein is asking $783,000.


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News24.com | Pirates kidnap 6 crewmen from 2 fishing boats off Gabon: source

By www.news24.com
Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 11:20:38 +0200

Pirates have attacked two fishing vessels near the Gabonese capital Libreville, abducting six crewmen, a source close to the Gabonese government told AFP.


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He’s on a boat: Obama hangs out with George Clooney in Italy

By www.washingtonpost.com
Published On :: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:01:57 +0000

The former president is living his best life on Lake Como.


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AT#21 - Cruising - Alaska by Small Boat

By traffic.libsyn.com
Published On :: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:47:27 +0000

The Amateur Traveler talks to Deanna about cruising to Alaska aboard a small boat from Cruise West In a nights ashore / days at sea program.


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Picking a Theory is Like Building a Boat at Sea

By decisions-and-info-gaps.blogspot.com
Published On :: Sun, 11 Dec 2011 12:14:00 +0000


"We are like sailors who on the open sea must reconstruct their ship
 but are never able to start afresh from the bottom." 
Otto Neurath's analogy in the words of Willard V. Quine

Engineers, economists, social planners, security strategists, and others base their plans and decisions on theories. They often argue long and hard over which theory to use. Is it ever right to use a theory that we know is empirically wrong, especially if a true (or truer) theory is available? Why is it so difficult to pick a theory?

Let's consider two introductory examples.

You are an engineer designing a robot. You must calculate the forces needed to achieve specified motions of the robotic arms. You can base these calculations on either of two theories. One theory assumes that an object comes to rest unless a force acts upon it. Let's call this axiom A. The other theory assumes that an object moves at constant speed unless a force acts upon it. Let's call this axiom G. Axiom A agrees with observation: Nothing moves continuously without the exertion of force; an object will come to rest unless you keep pushing it. Axiom G contradicts all observation; no experiment illustrates the perpetual motion postulated by the axiom. If all else is the same, which theory should you choose?

Axiom A is Aristotle's law of inertia, which contributed little to the development of mechanical dynamics. Axiom G is Galileo's law of inertia: one of the most fruitful scientific ideas of all time. Why is an undemonstrable assertion - axiom G - a good starting point for a theory?

Consider another example.

You are an economist designing a market-based policy to induce firms to reduce pollution. You will use an economic theory to choose between policies. One theory assumes that firms face pure competition, meaning that no single firm can influence market prices. Another theory provides agent-based game-theoretic characterization of how firms interact (without colluding) by observing and responding to price behavior of other firms and of consumers.

Pure competition is a stylized idealization (like axiom G). Game theory is much more realistic (like axiom A), but may obscure essential patterns in its massive detail. Which theory should you use?

We will not address the question of how to choose a theory upon which to base a decision. We will focus on the question: why is theory selection so difficult? We will discuss four trade offs.

"Thanks to the negation sign, there are as many truths as falsehoods;
we just can't always be sure which are which." Willard V. Quine

The tension between right and right. The number of possible theories is infinite, and sometimes it's hard to separate the wheat from the chaff, as suggested by the quote from Quine. As an example, I have a book called A Modern Guide to Macroeconomics: An Introduction to Competing Schools of Thought by Snowdon, Vane and Wynarczyk. It's a wonderful overview of about a dozen theories developed by leading economic scholars, many of them Nobel Prize Laureates. The theories are all fundamentally different. They use different axioms and concepts and they compete for adoption by economists. These theories have been studied and tested upside down and backwards. However, economic processes are very complex and variable, and the various theories succeed in different ways or in different situations, so the jury is still out. The choice of a theory is no simple matter because many different theories can all seem right in one way or another.

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." Archilochus

The fox-hedgehog tension. This aphorism by Archilochus metaphorically describes two types of theories (and two types of people). Fox-like theories are comprehensive and include all relevant aspects of the problem. Hedgehog-like theories, in contrast, skip the details and focus on essentials. Axiom A is fox-like because the complications of friction are acknowledged from the start. Axiom G is hedgehog-like because inertial resistance to change is acknowledged but the complications of friction are left for later. It is difficult to choose between these types of theories because it is difficult to balance comprehensiveness against essentialism. On the one hand, all relevant aspects of the problem should be considered. On the other hand, don't get bogged down in endless details. This fox-hedgehog tension can be managed by weighing the context, goals and implications of the decision. We won't expand on this idea since we're not considering how to choose a theory; we're only examining why it's a difficult choice. However, the idea of resolving this tension by goal-directed choice motivates the third tension.

"Beyond this island of meanings which in their own nature are true or false
lies the ocean of meanings to which truth and falsity are irrelevant." John Dewey

The truth-meaning tension. Theories are collections of statements like axioms A and G in our first example. Statements carry meaning, and statements can be either true or false. Truth and meaning are different. For instance, "Archilochus was a Japanese belly dancer" has meaning, but is not true. The quote from Dewey expresses the idea that "meaning" is a broader description of statements than "truth". All true statements mean something, but not all meaningful statements are true. That does not imply, however, that all untrue meaningful statements are false, as we will see.

We know the meanings of words and sentences from experience with language and life. A child learns the meanings of words - chair, mom, love, good, bad - by experience. Meanings are learned by pointing - this is a chair - and also by experiencing what it means to love or to be good or bad.

Truth is a different concept. John Dewey wrote that

"truths are but one class of meanings, namely, those in which a claim to verifiability by their consequences is an intrinsic part of their meaning. Beyond this island of meanings which in their own nature are true or false lies the ocean of meanings to which truth and falsity are irrelevant. We do not inquire whether Greek civilization was true or false, but we are immensely concerned to penetrate its meaning."

A true statement, in Dewey's sense, is one that can be confirmed by experience. Many statements are meaningful, even important and useful, but neither true nor false in this experimental sense. Axiom G is an example.

Our quest is to understand why the selection of a theory is difficult. Part of the challenge derives from the tension between meaning and truth. We select a theory for use in formulating and evaluating a plan or decision. The decision has implications: what would it mean to do this rather than that? Hence it is important that the meaning of the theory fit the context of the decision. Indeed, hedgehogs would say that getting the meaning and implication right is the essence of good decision making.

But what if a relevantly meaningful theory is unprovable or even false? Should we use a theory that is meaningful but not verifiable by experience? Should we use a meaningful theory that is even wrong? This quandary is related to the fox-hedgehog tension because the fox's theory is so full of true statements that its meaning may be obscured, while the hedgehog's bare-bones theory has clear relevance to the decision to be made, but may be either false or too idealized to be tested.

Galileo's axiom of inertia is an idealization that is unsupported by experience because friction can never be avoided. Axiom G assumes conditions that cannot be realized so the axiom can never be tested. Likewise, pure competition is an idealization that is rarely if ever encountered in practice. But these theories capture the essence of many situations. In practical terms, what it means to get the robotic arm from here to there is to apply net forces that overcome Galilean inertia. But actually designing a robot requires considering details of dissipative forces like friction. What it means to be a small business is that the market price of your product is beyond your control. But actually running a business requires following and reacting to prices in the store next door.

It is difficult to choose between a relevantly meaningful but unverifiable theory, and a true theory that is perhaps not quite what we mean.

The knowledge-ignorance tension. Recall that we are discussing theories in the service of decision-making by engineers, social scientists and others. A theory should facilitate the use of our knowledge and understanding. However, in some situations our ignorance is vast and our knowledge will grow. Hence a theory should also account for ignorance and be able to accommodate new knowledge.

Let's take an example from theories of decision. The independence axiom is fundamental in various decision theories, for instance in von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory. It says that one's choices should be independent of irrelevant alternatives. Suppose you are offered the dinner choice between chicken and fish, and you choose chicken. The server returns a few minutes later saying that beef is also available. If you switch your choice from chicken to fish you are violating the independence axiom. You prefer beef less than both chicken and fish, so the beef option shouldn't alter the fish-chicken preference.

But let's suppose that when the server returned and mentioned beef, your physician advised you to reduce your cholesterol intake (so your preference for beef is lowest) which prompted your wife to say that you should eat fish at least twice a week because of vitamins in the oil. So you switch from chicken to fish. Beef is not chosen, but new information that resulted from introducing the irrelevant alternative has altered the chicken-fish preference.

One could argue for the independence axiom by saying that it applies only when all relevant information (like considerations of cholesterol and fish oil) are taken into account. On the other hand, one can argue against the independence axiom by saying that new relevant information quite often surfaces unexpectedly. The difficulty is to judge the extent to which ignorance and the emergence of new knowledge should be central in a decision theory.

Wrapping up. Theories express our knowledge and understanding about the unknown and confusing world. Knowledge begets knowledge. We use knowledge and understanding - that is, theory - in choosing a theory. The process is difficult because it's like building a boat on the open sea as Otto Neurath once said. 


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All the boats on the ocean : how government subsidies led to global overfishing / Carmel Finley.

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Paraos (praus, boats) off the coast of the Philippines. Engraving by J. Heath, 1798.

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No boats needed for a Guatemalan fishing community

By www.fao.org
Published On :: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMT

Imagine living in one of the driest areas on the planet. What little rain there is falls over the space of a few months, yielding around 700 mm in total each year. A population of 1.2 million has to survive on 65 percent less water than the rest of their compatriots, on a traditional staple diet of corn and beans. [...]


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This Secret Boat Was Built for a WWII Invasion That Never Happened

By www.smithsonianmag.com
Published On :: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:00:00 +0000

In 2011, declassified CIA documents shed light on a covert government program dating back to WWII


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willy wonka original psychedelic boat trip       [2m39s]

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Shel Silverstein's Historic Sausalito Houseboat Is Now on Sale

By www.smithsonianmag.com
Published On :: Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:56:16 +0000

The children's book author and illustrator purchased the repurposed World War II vessel in 1967


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Edmonton Riverboat springs a leak, charts course to summer repairs

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Fri, 8 May 2020 12:30:00 EDT

The vessel, formerly known as the Edmonton Queen, got skewered by its own moorings last month as the icy North Saskatchewan River began to thaw.


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By bus, bicycle or boat: OMers make Bengali New Testament #1 bestseller

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Published On :: Mon, 01 May 2017 12:16:46 +0000

Massive distribution efforts by OM teams in Bangladesh over more than 10 years sowed gospel seeds and made the Bengali New Testament a #1 best seller.


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Becoming certified agents on OM Riverboat

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Published On :: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 13:18:20 +0000

Disguised in different roles–from rebellious teenagers to homeless people to prostitutes and pimps–community members responsible for the onshore segment of The Agency experience act out the types of least reached people in society.


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Offshore wind will need bigger boats. Much bigger boats

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Published On :: 2019-05-14T14:01:26Z

How do you install a wind turbine almost the size of the Chrysler building in the open ocean? Just get a boat with deck space larger than a football field and a crane that can lift the weight of 1,100 Chevy Suburban SUVs.


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Indonesia Summons Ambassador over Deaths on Chinese Fishing Boats

By www.rfa.org
Published On :: 2020-05-07T23:17:35Z

The foreign minister asks why the bodies of three Indonesians were thrown overboard.


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Chinese ships chase Japanese fishing boat near Senkaku Islands

By www.japantimes.co.jp
Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:33:00 +0900

While it is unclear what kind of chase it was, the Japan Coast Guard ordered the vessels to leave and deployed a ship to guard ...


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Japan wards off Chinese coastguard vessels caught chasing fishing boat in East China Sea

By www.scmp.com
Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:02:38 +0800

Japan said it deployed patrols and issued warnings to a group of Chinese coastguard vessels spotted pursuing a Japanese fishing boat in the hotly contested waters of the East China Sea on Friday.The Japan Coast Guard said on Saturday that four Chinese coastguard vessels entered waters close to the Diaoyu Islands – a group of uninhabited islands controlled by Tokyo and known locally as known as Senkaku – at about 4pm.The face-off took place about 50 minutes later, when two of the Chinese vessels…


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Two dozen Rohingya die of starvation on drifting boat; 382 rescued

By www.smh.com.au
Published On :: Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:33:40 GMT

Bangladesh coastguard officials say the ship was drifting for weeks after failing to reach Malaysia, and it is believe more boats may remain adrift.


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Albatrosses strapped with sensors help spy on illegal fishing boats

By www.newscientist.com
Published On :: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 20:00:44 +0000

Attach a radar sensor to an albatross and you have a bird spy. Researchers deployed 169 of them in the Indian Ocean and found that a quarter of fishing vessels may be operating illegally


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With Boats Stuck in Harbor Because of COVID-19, Will Fish Bounce Back?

By www.smithsonianmag.com
Published On :: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:00:00 +0000

The pandemic has left many unable to leave harbor, creating a window for fishing grounds to recover from years of overfishing


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Police issue lockdown fines to nighttime boat trippers after helicopter scrambled to search for them

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-20T12:17:41Z

Pair in Leicestershire reprimanded for illicit weekend venture which prompted police helicopter search


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Donald Trump instructs US Navy to shoot and destroy Iranian gunboats 'if they harass our ships'

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-22T12:19:00Z

Donald Trump has instructed the US Navy to shoot down and destroy Iranian gunboats "if they harass our ships at sea".


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Four people fined for driving 200 miles to look at boat

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-05-08T17:40:00Z

Four people have been fined after attempting to drive from Dorset to Milford Haven to look at a boat.


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Love Island's Mike Boateng admits he lied to take day off from police force

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2020-04-16T11:56:09Z

The incident took place in December 2018


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Designer Destinations: Auree designer on her favourite Greek beach only accessible by boat

By www.standard.co.uk
Published On :: 2019-09-27T07:15:00Z

Auree designer Amelia Bainbridge tells Laura Hampson about childhood holidays to Italy, her favourite restaurant in Bangkok and her suitcase mantra


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‘Hang on, aren’t we all boat people?’

By www.news.com.au
Published On :: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 23:13:00 GMT

THE annual Australia Day lamb ad has become an Aussie tradition. But the latest one has been dubbed the most political one to date.


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Virginia Charter Fishing Boat Captains Indicted for Lacey Act Violations and Other Crimes

By www.justice.gov
Published On :: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 17:47:34 EST

Five charter fishing boat captains operating out of Rudee Inlet in Virginia Beach, Va. were indicted today for violating the Lacey Act by selling illegally harvested Striped Bass


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Virginia Charter Fishing Boat Captain Pleads Guilty to Felony Lacey Act Violation

By www.justice.gov
Published On :: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:33:07 EST

Jeffery S. Adams, 41, of Hudgins, Va., and his corporation Adams Fishing Adventures Inc. pleaded guilty today to trafficking in illegally-harvested striped bass, in violation of the Lacey Act.


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Virginia Charter Fishing Boat Captain Pleads Guilty to Lacey Act Violation

By www.justice.gov
Published On :: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 16:56:12 EST

William W. Lowery IV, 44, of Tappahannock, Va., pleaded guilty today to trafficking in illegally-harvested striped bass, in violation of the Lacey Act.


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Five Virginia Charter Fishing Boat Captains Sentenced for Lacey Act Violations

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Published On :: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 15:11:05 EDT

Nolan L. Agner, the last of five Virginia Beach charter fishing boat captains convicted of poaching Atlantic striped bass was sentenced today in federal court in Norfolk, Va. All five captains – including Agner, Jeffery S. Adams, Raymond Carroll Webb, David Dwayne Scott, and William W. “Duby” Lowery IV – were sentenced for violating the Lacey Act by selling illegally-harvested striped bass, the Justice Department announced.


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“We’re going to need a bigger boat”

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Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 21:18:16 +0000


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Asymmetrical shingle-clad laneway house is inspired by houseboat design

By www.treehugger.com
Published On :: Wed, 30 May 2018 15:11:41 -0400

This modern laneway house is now home to a client who wants to look after her aging parents.


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Michael Green Architects do Small Wood in Vancouver boat house

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Published On :: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 09:22:50 -0400

The Vancouver architect is famous for "tall wood" but still has a knack for little good wood buildings too.


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