The News Review:
- Bowser hoping to 2 months spent racing in Tasmania pays dividends
- Swift faces battle on two fronts over abattoir actions
- Surfing wipeouts take center stage in big-wave awards program
Bowser hoping to 2 months spent racing in Tasmania pays dividends
Tarentum Valley News Dispatch
He just didn’t know it would involve 17 hours in an airplane. That’s just what happened as he spent two months racing in Tasmania; so perhaps his nickname needs to be changed from the Boggsville Bullet to the Tasmanian Devil trademark infringement pending. “I never thought that I would do something like that” Bowser said of racing on an island off the southwest coast of Australia. “The ultimate thing was always to be able to race through the winter but that opportunity never came about. It was one of the neatest things to ever happen. The flight wasn’t that bad it was quicker on the way home.
Swift faces battle on two fronts over abattoir actions
The Age
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Swift faces battle on two fronts over abattoir actions. –> Philip Hopkins April 3 2009 GLBAL meat processing company Swift has a fight on its hands on King Island and Tasmania. Swift Australia the Australian arm of JBS Swift & Co will reopen its loss-making King Island abattoir today but faces allegations it is trying to control a key part of the Tasmanian agribusiness market. A 150-year-old Tasmanian company Cuthbertson Brothers which supplies skins and hides to footwear makers — Ugg boots are made from Cuthbertson’s skins and hides — has accused Swift of trying to force it out of business. Since February it has been locked out of Tasmania’s largest abattoir owned by Swift. "This lockout is threatening financial returns to drought-affected farmers and exports of Ugg boots to lucrative US markets" Cuthbertson director Doug Dickinson said.
Surfing wipeouts take center stage in big-wave awards program
Los Angeles Times
All finalists will be announced April 17 at the Grove Theater in Anaheim. As for the wipeouts I personally witnessed Long's 40-second flogging by a 40-foot wave at Maverick's near Half Moon Bay. But based on video footage I'm equally impressed by the drubbing Clarke-Jones survived at Pedra Branca in Tasmania; Navarro's over-the-falls nightmare at Santos del Mar Chile; Washburn's perilous face dance at Maverick's; and Bowen's head-first dive and subsequent live burial at-sea at Shipstern Bluff in Tasmania. Click on the video below to see for yourself and click on the blue links for information on how to vote. It's good stuff.
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