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Ive really enjoyed two end-of-season events, both of which have been organised by the same families for a long time.

The Nolan family has run South of England for 40 years, doing great service to the sport. They continue to make improvements, and have good arenas for dressage and jumping, and an excellent cross-country course.

The Sturgis familys Dauntsey Park is another to have been going for a long time. I remember falling off Charisma at the final fence in the early 1980s when about to win the advanced!

When I walked the Dauntsey course I thought, great, its nice to have a track with lots of natural features hedges, ditches, banks, water crossings and a lovely, old-fashioned feel.

So I was somewhat surprised to hear a number of people grumbling.

I guess you always look at a course through the eyes of the horse you are sitting on, and I did have two very experienced rides this time, but last year I took a first-time intermediate there and thought it was fair.

The difficult fences did offer options to get horses round. Not all intermediate tracks can or should be easy ones, and I thought it encouraged horses to be bold and forward. The 1,000 first prize in the open intermediate was a great initiative and drew people to the competition. If you wanted to win it, you had to take the direct routes, which is right.

Im not sure why the bank didnt ride very well. Perhaps a ditch in front would help horses get up in the air?

But it does beg the question of course-design. Have we got so far away from natural obstacles that riders have forgotten how to ride them and horses arent trained to jump them? I understand that it is often more financially economical to use portable fences, particularly on a track which lacks natural undulations and features. However, boxes in the middle of fields arent cross-country as I think of it. Using the features the land offers helps slow people down without resorting to unnecessary twists and turns.

Courses ask the same old questions over and over again now the skinny fence in or out of water, the corner with a turn to a skinny, the use of brush on absolutely everything. And skinnies themselves: we are all used to them, so whats next? Do designers make them ever narrower and to be jumped on even more of an angle?

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A Revelstoke man who crashed his car through several fences while driving drunk pleaded guilty in court last week.

Curtis E. McPherson was given a $1,500 fine, a one year driving prohibition and one year probation for the incident that took place Friday, Aug. 15, at around 10 p.m.

Crown prosecutor Angela Ross told the court that McPherson was found passed out at the wheel of his truck after he drove it through two yards on Humbert Street, damaging fences in the process.

Neighbours woke him up and RCMP and BC ambulance were called. When RCMP attended to McPherson, he was visibly drunk. He was arrested and taken to the detachment, where he gave two breath samples of more than 0.19 almost 2.5 times the legal limit.

McPherson told the court he drank six strong beers at a friend's house when he decided to head home earlier than planned.

"It was a screwed up decision I made because of the booze," he said. "The drinking, it doesn't help the decision making at all."

Judge Mayland McKimm said the Crown was being "more than generous" with their sentence offer of only a fine and driving prohibition.

"If there had been someone on the sidewalk when you went careening across it, you'd be going to a federal penitentiary," he told McPherson. "This is not rolling through a stop sign. This is a very serious incident."

Still, he agreed with the Crown's recommended sentence, but added a period of probation that includes mandatory counselling. "The purpose of the probation is entirely to help you," McKimm said.

A Kelowna man was given an absolute discharge when he was able to produce a doctor's note saying he was eligible for medical marijuana.

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Asphalt paving is still the most economical hard surface ground covering you can buy. The cost of an asphalt driveway in Bergen County N.J. is between $2.50 and $5.00 per sq, ft. for the paving. The swing in the price has to do with the size of the driveway and the work to done there. Kind of like buying a quart of milk or a gallon. Of course you will pay less for the gallon.The setup fee to do the job is about the same for a 500 sq.ft. driveway or a 2000 sq. ft. one and is reflected in the cost of the driveway.

Some of the other price variables of the driveway are new construction, removal andreplacement,or simply needs to be repaved . New construction will be at the higher end, removal and replacement of the driveway to be in the middle and of course repaving at the low end.

Other things that can lead to higher costs are driveway borders such as Belgium Block or Paveraprons in the driveway. Drains and drainpipes also add to the cost

An apron is a small area of pavers, belgium block or other materials that span thedrivewayin areas.

Most aprons will go at the bottom of the driveway next to the road. Aprons will also be found in front of the garage or in the middle of a circular driveway in front of the main entrance to the house. Depending on the material and the way it is layed you can expect to pay between $12.00 to 25.00 per sq. ft.

Pavers being the least expensive in this case and with stonebeingat the top.

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Timelapse compilation: Trucks w/ dump trailers being loaded by demolition excavators (Wk30-32 set 1)
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62 Spanish Street Demolition
Video shot on location by Scott Manny of the St. Augustine Entertainer https://twitter.com/SAEntertainer on September 25, 2014. Watch the taking down of one of the oldest buildings in historic...

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