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- Twenty-one intrepid big-wave surfers from around the world have been chosen to take on the menacing Hawaiian reef break known as Jaws for the inaugural Red Bell Jaws, Paddle at Pe'ahi.
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The new Latvian tourism image is based on changes in the scale of values of population of Latvia and other countries, when searching for new content of life prevails over the traditional consumption. The fast run for welfare, the willingness to be on time and the best in all fields had an exhausting effect on people and made their life more turbulent as ever. Some facts describing these tendencies:
- ecotourism market, depending on the destination, climbs by 20 – 34% a year since 1990;
- nature tourism increases in the international tourism market by 10 -12% a year;
- in 2009 more than one third of travellers planned staying in environmentally friendly places, i.e., climb by 30% within a year;
- in Europe 20 - 30% of travellers recognise and choose sustainable way of travelling; 10 – 20% prefer "green" choices;
- in Germany 65% (39 million) of travellers expect "environment quality"; 42% (25 million) thinks that staying in an environmentally friendly place is particularly important;
- in Great Britain 87% of travellers think that their vacations must not harm the environment, 39% would be ready to pay extra 5% for "environmental ethics guarantee", and environmental policy of their tour operators is important for 70% of travellers;
- 95% of Swiss tourists consider that respecting the local culture is very important;
- e.g., tourism agencies Thomas Cook and TUI PLC have special managers of sustainable tourism;
- market analysts forecast increase in eco resorts and hotel sector and boom of nature tourism; the sector already experiences 20% increase per year.
The new Latvian tourism image will help popularizing Latvia as a place, where by arrival the tourist has the opportunity to change his pace of life and enjoy calm and nuanced rest, where gaining new experience, finding harmony and revealing the true values are also allowed.
In developing the concept of Latvian tourism image the considered fact was that Latvia was and never will be a mass tourism product, and development of Latvian tourism product should be based on five basic values, i.e., quality, sustainability, individualization, high added value, attraction of tourists and gaining experience, which are the foundation for the vision of Latvian tourism development.
Therefore, the basic idea of the new Latvian tourism image "Best enjoyed slowly" invites tourists to slow down their pace of life, to stop and enjoy slow and detail-oriented recreation and think about the important issues of life. The core values of Latvian tourism image are described with truthfulness, profoundness, lightness and self-respect lying in the nature, culture and people of Latvia.
Development of communication platform for Latvian tourism communication is accompanied with developing the tourism image suitable for the archetype groups of "changes" and "restoration of stability" and defined as a combination of two archetypes "The seeker" and "The wise". Both archetypes describe the current willingness of people resulting from economic changes to change themselves in order to find stability, i.e., to be themselves and to get to know the world.
"Best enjoyed slowly" encourages to stay longer and enjoy things, whose realization requires time and peace, i.e., tea can be enjoyed slowly only and bird songs can be heard only in silence. The slow tourism is an alternative for persons tired from traditional tourism, which is usually limited to recreation in a resort or visiting maximum number of tourism objects in a short period of time. A slow tourist is an environmentally friendly and responsible traveller, who stays in one place for a longer period of time, gets to know the culture of the country and style of life of its population, acquires authentic experience, treats the environment and its diversity with responsibility and discovers objects unfamiliar for other travellers. Such tourist is usually motivated to recommend also others to visit the respective country, thus ensuring efficient and modern marketing.
The main objective of implementing the new concept of Latvian tourism image is to extend the duration of stay for tourists in Latvia, advance the increase of tourism sector share in gross domestic product, and promote the development of local tourism and growth of regional tourism product export.
In the future the Latvian tourism image will serve as a uniting idea and common element for public and private sector marketing and product development activities for advancement of unified sector communication in Latvian tourism target markets.
The new Latvian tourism image will be most actively popularized in high priority tourism target markets, i.e., Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Finland, which are determined in the Latvian tourism marketing strategy. "Best enjoyed slowly" describes the idea and platform of the Latvian tourism image, however, the communication in the target markets will use only the versions of Latvian tourism logotype and slogans in the following foreign languages: English, Russian and German.
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I had a sample of this today while visiting the sloane pop up shop for their RIDICULOUS SALE. As far as the guy i talked to remember, this happens maybe once every couple of years. sooooo self imposed may ban is out the window so i'm going to try and aim for mid june, and if i can make it through mid june, i'll kick it all the way to my birthday in mid july….or 10 days before that so that Us orders have time to arrive before my bday lol
This one wasn't too bad, though it wasn't as exciting as i hope it would be. there was some astringency that i didn't like to it but mostly there wasn't much happening with flavour. Compared to some of the other sloane blends, this is much inferior. The cardamon was nicely done..but it wasn't too exciting.


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That Vancouver city manager Penny Ballem refused to give details to certain councillors on how city hall is spending public money, stating we must "trust staff" is almost unbelievable. Since then it ...
A girl who fought off an attempted abductor in Aldergrove early Thursday sat down with investigators to help create a sketch of her assailant.
The 16-year-old Aldergrove Community Secondary student was walking home along 32nd Avenue, between 260 and 270th Streets, when she was accosted, said Langley RCMP Cpl. Patrick Davies.
Mounties are pleading for the public to help identify the assailant.
The incident occurred at about 12:45 p.m. Thursday, when the driver in a bright red Dodge Dakota pickup stopped and asked if she wanted a ride.
When she declined, he asked for directions to the Abbotsford airport. She provided the information, and he drove off.
But moments later, she spotted the same vehicle. It had been turned around, and was coming back towards her, Davies explained.
The driver pulled up in front of her, stopped the pickup, jumped out and "tried to grab her," he said.
"She did the right thing, and she hauled off and punched him right in the face," said Davies.
She then ran home and immediately called police.
"She did the right thing and fought him off and ran," he elaborated.
A subsequent search of the area turned up no leads, and Davies said there have been no similar reports in the area.
The suspect is described as a clean-shaven Caucasian male in his early 30s, about five-foot-eight, with a very skinny build, sunken cheeks, short brown hair and brown eyes.
Davies, impressed by the incredible detail offered by the young victim, said she noted his strongly distinctive "cracking" voice, and told police he was wearing a white T-shirt with a steering wheel emblazoned on the front, with a bird inside the wheel.
While she didn't note a licence plate number, she noted the vehicle was likely a 1998 to 2000 red Dodge Dakota with a matching canopy. The headlight on the driver's side was burned out, and there was rust on the front quarter panel.
Police are reviewing traffic camera footage.
"I hope someone else saw something and can come in," said Davies. "We want to put a name and a face to this suspect, and get to the bottom of it."
Anyone with information about the attempted abduction is asked to call Langley RCMP at 604-532-3200, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or leave a TIP online at www.bccrimestoppers.com.
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Offering books published by Eiderdown Press & hand-decanted perfumes from the personal collection of Suzanne Keller
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Amouage Epic Woman
Amouage Gold (ladies)
Amouage Jubilation 25
Amouage Lyric Woman
Amouage Opus I
Amouage Ubar
Byredo Green
Caron Parfum Sacre
Caron Tabac Blond
Caron Yatagan
Cartier IV: L'Heure Fougueuse
Chanel Chance
Chanel Coromandel
Chanel Egoiste
Chanel No. 22
Coty Chypre
(Vintage 1970s)
Creed Fleurs De Bulgarie
Donna Karan Black Cashmere
Estee Lauder Private Collection
Frederic Malle Bigarade Concentree
Frederic Malle Carnal Flower
Frederic Malle Geranium Pour Monsieur
Geoffrey Beene Grey Flannel
Gucci L'Arte di Gucci
Hermes 24, Faubourg
Hermes Eau Des Merveilles
Hermes Hiris
Honoré des Prés Vamp à NY
Jean Desprez Bal A Versailles
Jean Patou 1000
Jil Sander No. 4
L'Artisan Parfumeur Nuit de Tubereuse
L'Artisan Parfumeur Tea for Two
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Absolue Pour le Soir
Molinard Habanita
Mona Di Orio Les Nombres d'Or Vanille
Montale Black Aoud
Montale Boise Vanille
Odin 04 Petrana
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Parfums de Nicolai Sacrebleu
Parfums Delrae Amoureuse
Pascal Morabito Or Black
Profumum Roma Acqua Viva
Profumum Roma D'Ambrosia
Robert Piguet Fracas
Robert Piguet Visa
Serge Lutens Arabie
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Serge Lutens Chene
Serge Lutens Chergui
Serge Lutens Muscs Koublai Khan
Serge Lutens Un Lys
Serge Lutens Vetiver Oriental
Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb
What Is A Decant?
Decanting is a method of transferring the contents of a larger container into a smaller one. A fragrance is decanted from its original manufacturer's bottle into either a small glass sample vial or atomizer bottles of various sizes by one of several methods: either by transferring with a sterile pipette, or by pouring the perfume through a small metal funnel, or often by directly spraying the contents into the smaller container. Each fragrance is freshly decanted just prior to shipping or delivery.
Why Decant?
The reasons are many: it allows perfume aficionados to sample scents that aren't available in their area, or to "test drive" a fragrance and prolong the purchase of a full bottle until they know whether it clicks with them. Decanting allows a person to buy a small quantity of a pricey perfume that is otherwise unaffordable – and it's great for the person who only wants, say, a quarter-ounce of a fragrance rather than a huge amount. For the truly scent-obsessed, decants make it affordable to have an entire perfume wardrobe and to enjoy sniffing a little bit of everything!
Image: 5-ml glass spray decant bottle (left side of photo) along with 1.5 ml spray sample vials (foreground and left) and packaging materials, including gift bag. Original manufacturer's bottles are in the background (these are the bottles I decant from). Photo by Suzanne Keller.
Read the latest in Suzanne's Perfume Journal
April Aromatics Bohemian Spice: A Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Spice was my parfum de jour yesterday, and it was the perfect spice scent to wear on a day when summer arrived early. There is a lot of patchouli in Bohemian Spice—and given the name and the fact that this is an all-natural perfume, one might assume it to have a hippie bent (by which I mean a crunchy, head-shop smell) when nothing could be further from the truth. There is no funkiness whatsoever to fear from Bohemian Spice, not even while wearing it in a swelter. This is a most elegant perfume—a perfume that is quietly complex and textural, featuring a lean and lightly camphorous patchouli accord that makes up its core, as well as a dusting of gingery spices intermingled with orange; a weathered-smelling wood accord that draws heavily on cedar; a quiet spiral of frankincense; and a lightly vanillic and powdery amber base. It's a perfume that makes light work out of what I think of as traditionally heavy notes: Bohemian Spice floats on my skin, and though it has a gorgeous detectable sillage that leans slightly towards the masculine side, it smells carefree and easy-going in a way we don't always equate with masculine scents. To my mind, a bohemian is someone who has a bit of the drifter in them—someone who knows how to travel light and live life in an unencumbered manner—and that's how Bohemian Spice strikes me. It has enough heft to let me know I'm wearing a gorgeous scent, but there is a sheerness to its formulation that lends it a relaxed sensibility. A dreamy and effortless affair, it is—and yet this bohemian doesn't drift away altogether and evaporate into thin air. Like all of the perfumes I've tried from the April Aromatics line, Bohemian Spice has impressive longevity on the skin and provides many, many hours of scented pleasure.
Wearing it yesterday in the heat, it stirred a specific memory (a distant memory that remains fresh despite thirty years that have passed) of spending time with my college boyfriend at his family's vacation home in Cape Cod. My college years are what I consider the bohemian years of my life—not because I was the boho type, but because it was a period that afforded me much freedom—and there was a particular week I spent with my boyfriend and his family in Cape Cod, right before the start of our senior year, that I've catalogued in my mind as being symbolic of that time. It wasn't any "Born to Be Wild" kind of experience at all—just a moment when a curtain on the stage of Real Life parted long enough for me to step into a charmed world that was the epitome of bliss and freedom—a vacation in the truest sense of the word. »Click to read article in its entirety


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Being homeless and having brain degeneration what happens to a women 68 who has this as well as cancer? what do u do when your family causes u to be homeless with all this and being directed by one of ...
Contact DSHS in your area. They have programs that will get her medical care and shelter. It will not be the best but it will at least be livable until she gets Social Security benefits and Medicare going. Go from there.
Rocmike you are lucky you are in a mental home or you would be homeless.
I think we all owe Tadpole a great deal of thanks (sic). One day we all pass away and we all have those who mourn us. Some of us will create more sadness at their passing than others.
Here we see the very likely reception of Tadpole when the grim reaper pays her that one final visit. Truly, we all owe Tadpole this great measure of thanks.
Thank you very much!
Rocmike you have been using The Unknown Philosopher, Bill, Mike Dudley, Dave Palmer, Southern and Harley Spirit for a few days now. We are hoping you will bring out a few different aliases you haven't used in a while so they can post non stop and repeat the same crap over and over. I sse you brought out Anselmogx.


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In the unit on slope in the previous tutorial, we made some generalizations concerning the slopes of straight lines. The pattern for slope was:
If the line is sloping up to the right, the slope is positive (+). | If the line is sloping down to the right, the slope is negative (-). | Horizontal lines have a slope of zero (0). |
Now, how do these generalizations work with curves.
Both graphs at the right show curves sloping upward from left to right. As with upward sloping straight lines, we can say that generally the slope of the curve is positive. While the slope will differ at each point on the curve, it will always be positive |
To check this, take any point on either curve and draw the tangent to the curve at that point.
What is the slope of the tangent? Positive. For example, A, B, and C are three points on the curve. The tangent line at each of these points is different. Each tangent has a positive slope; therefore, the curve has a positive slope at points A, B, and C. In fact, any tangent drawn to the curve will have a positive slope. |
In the graphs at the right, both of the curves are downward sloping. Straight lines that are downward sloping have negative slopes; curves that are downward sloping also have negative slopes. We know, of course, that the slope changes from point to point on a curve, but all of the slopes along these two curves will be negative. |
In general, to determine if the slope of the curve at any point is positive, negative, or zero you draw in the line of tangency at that point.
A, B, and C are three points on the curve. The tangent line at each of these points is different. Each tangent has a negative slope since it's downward sloping; therefore, the curve has a negative slope at points A, B, and C. All tangents to this curve have negative slopes. |
In this example, our curve has a:
Make sure you understand the logic here before you move along. |
In economics, we can draw interesting conclusions from points on graphs where the highest or lowest values are observed. We refer to these points as maximum and minimum points.
Maximum Point Point A is at the maximum point for this curve. Point A is at the highest point on this curve. It has a greater y-coordinate value than any other point on the curve and has a slope of zero. |
Minimum Point Point A is at the minimum point for this curve. Point A is at the lowest point on this curve. It has a lower y-coordinate value than any other point on the curve and has a slope of zero. |
Identify any maximum and minimum points on the curve.
As you may have already guessed, by using this definition of maximum and minimum we can have curves that have no maximum and minimum points.
On this curve, there is no point where the slope is equal to zero. This means, using the definition given above, the curve has no maximum or minimum points on it. |
You are now ready to try a practice problem. If you have already completed the first practice problem for this unit you may wish to try the additional practice.
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How to Hijack an EU Open Source Strategy Paper
Open source is an outsider, not part of the establishment. One price it pays for this is not being privy to all the decisions that are made in the field of governmental policy. Too often, established players are involved without any counterbalancing input from the free software side. Generally, we don't see all the machinations and deals that go on here behind closed doors. But thanks to the increasingly-indispensable Wikileaks, we have the opportunity to observe how an organisation close to Microsoft is attempting to re-write – and hijack – an important European Union open source strategy paper.
Here's Wikileak's explanation of why this is an important document:
This file is an edited version of the EU OSS Strategy draft with the input of Jonathan Zuck, President of the Association for Competitive Technology, an organisation that has strong ties with Microsoft
The file is a draft for an expert panel formed by the European Commission. This panel is divided into workgroup (IPR, Open Source, digital life, etc.) ACT and Comptia have been infiltrating every workgroup, even the one on Open Source (WG 7). They are doing the best they can to drown any initiative that would not only promote OSS in Europe but also that could help Europe create a sucessful European software sector.
The audience for this document could be journalists who would be interested in getting to know more how lobbies of all kind influence the European institutions. Here it is perhaps even more stringent as ACT is clearly an US organization with ties to Microsoft. Verifications might not be easy as this is an internal draft. The best contact might be commission personnel: firstname.lastname@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com
It has been leaked as it is important to have the public know how actual policy making is being influenced by lobbies that are precisely under the legal scrutiny of the European Commission. The urgency of the publication of this document is real in the sense that outside pressure would foce the Commission to "clean the committees" or at least give a lesser credit to the work of this workgroup.
What makes this document fascinating is that it contains both the original and modified text (in glorious colour, so it's really worth downloading it and taking a look), which means that we can see what exactly an organisation sympathetic to Microsoft – and partly funded by them – is worried about, and how it is trying to head off the threat.
The dominant theme of the changes is foregrounding what the paper calls "mixed mode" or "mixed source": using open source with proprietary code in hybrid solutions. For example, early on, the Context is originally described as:
To be provided as part of the OSS work group work and V2 of the EC document
But the ACT wants to change that is to this:
To be provided as part of the OSS work group work and V2 of the EC document, while noting that the increasing use of OSS within mainstream commercial offerings and mixed-source software and solutions makes a distinct treatment of or preferences for OSS more difficult to define.
Similarly, the Scope goes from
In this document OSS covers :
Open Source providers (OSS communities),
Service providers for OSS integration and support,
In this document OSS covers :
Open Source providers (OSS communities),
Service providers for OSS integration and support,
OSS as part of mixed solutions blending open and proprietary code.
It's easy to see the hand of Microsoft in this, albeit indirectly, since this is precisely the current line it is pushing: that, yes, open source has its place, but that place is in a world where open source and proprietary are treated as if they were the same thing, and ignoring the special characteristics of the former so as to negate them.
Here's another telling change, later on, when this:
At the current point in time it is impossible to predict when and if that trend will come to an end the future of mixed mode. New companies enter the market with models spanning the entire range of proprietary models over mixed models to OSS models. Only time will show which models will be most successful in Europe.
becomes this:
At the current point in time it is impossible to predict the future of mixed mode. New companies enter the market with models spanning the entire range of proprietary models over mixed models to OSS models. The economic success of firms based on mixed model, however, suggests it is a promising model for the future.
As you might expect, the issue of intellectual monopolies is another area where the ACT is keen to re-write the facts. Indeed, this document's changes show that it wants the *whole* of the following to be deleted, since it was clearly far too near the knuckle for lovers of intellectual monopolies:
There were heated debates about patent licensing schemes. We provide the following point as an input to Workgroup n°3
Exclusion from standards implementation (amoung the workgroup SAP and CompTIA did not agree to the following) : The procurement issue is aggravated by discrimination against OSS in the licensing conditions for some IT standards.
Over the past years it has become clear that specific patent licensing schemes, most importantly the so-called "RAND" 7 terms, discriminate against OSS implementation. This issue complicated the recent antitrust cases in Europe and was subject of a specific workshop on "IPR in ICT standardisation" 8 organised by DG Enterprise.
The workshop revealed a fundamental incompatibility of RAND models with OSS implementations, as well as a very controversial debate around this issue. From the perspective of OSS adoption,9 it could be said that RAND conditions fall short of the Common Patent Policy of ITU-T, ITU-R, ISO and IEC, which states that "a patent embodied fully or partly in a Recommendation | Deliverable must be accessible to everybody without undue constraints."
This calls forth the following howl from the ACT:
The deleted passage continues:
Examples of such exclusions can be found in various areas. One of these areas are the MPEG standards in multimedia, where innovation has been dramatically reduced before the recent development of the Dirac codec by the BBC as OSS provided a high-quality modern alternative that is not patent encumbered.10 /
Unsubstantiated use of IPR threats . It is important that effective measures are implemented to protect the interests of both open source and proprietary software both as a software development and as a business model. Governments should ensure a level playing field for both software development models.
While we recognises the legitimate rights of intellectual property rights owners, we regret recent incidents of patent holders abuse and unsubstantiated use of their rights against open source/free software developers.
A recent development, which deserves the careful attention from the Commission, is the use of unsubstantiated threats of intellectual property rights infringements against those who attempt to develop interoperable software products. As an example, a major software company has publicly stated that it believes Linux and other open source software infringes 235 of its patents, but has never identified any of these patents.
Vague claims by patent holders that open source software may infringe their patent rights should be obliged to identify supposedly infringed patents or cease to make unsubstantiated allegations. This would prevent patents from being invoked to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt ("FUD") against open source software products in the minds of both developers and users. The behaviour of creating FUD against open source software solutions should not be tolerated, as it amounts to an anticompetitive strategy aimed at distorting conditions in the marketplace to the detriment of OSS products.
Which provokes an even louder howl:
As you might expect, 180 degree U-turns are also requested in the Actions section. So what starts out as:
In addition, it is fundamental to ensure that open source/free software developers and distributors enjoy adequate protection that allows them to implement standardised technologies protected by patents in a way compatible with open source/free software licenses.
According to some, in addition, it is fundamental to ensure that open source/free software developers and distributors enjoy adequate protection that allows them to implement standardised technologies protected by patents in a way compatible with open source/free software licenses.
plus its exact opposite:
Others believe the current standardisation environment is already technology neutral, and that standardisation should continue to be voluntary and market-led.
Others as in Microsoft and mates.
All-in-all, the modifications to the document provide a fascinating insight into how lobbyists operate in their attempt to neuter threats to their constituencies through the shameless evisceration and outright inversion of content. Fortunately, when the final strategy document comes out, we will be able to pinpoint exactly where ACT's agenda has been inserted. Of course, before then we need to make the above document as widely known as possible, so that the relevant people at the European Union are aware of what's going on, and maybe even take action to prevent this gross distortion of the paper's purpose.
In addition, we must ensure that Wikileaks can continue to provide its invaluable service. The world of openness – including open source - would be the poorer without it. To that end, we need to support its current call for funds to help it carry on its work, and I urge you to make a donation, however modest.
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Microsoft was seeking an 'Open Source Consultant'
I saw an article on Slashdot about Microsoft seeking an Open Source consultant. Maybe this is why... I also saw the video of the Microsoft Open Source consultant at OSCON try to play off the "See, I'm cool like you guys" approach. Right after the Pirate Party guy finished speaking (hilarious).
They've finally figured out that Open Source is a potentially serious threat.
Maybe this is a backlash to the issues that ISO gave them over ODF. My take on that particular incident was, MS wanted to comply with ODF but 'make theirs just a little bit better.' It makes me sick to think how much time I (and many many others) have wasted to patch incompatibilities in web browsers to make my sites work with IE.
They know that, as long as the control the content format they'll continue to control the market. Hopefully the officials in the EU know better (or aren't susceptible to corruption).
Another Take
For those who may be interested, I did some further analysis (independently) of this document, including some background material on ACT and other lobbying arms that are paid by Microsoft to participate.
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Institute for Creation Research, Santee, California, M.S. Science Education, 2007 University of Colorado, Boulder, B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1990 Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, underaduate two years in Math & Engineering Highland High School, Pocatello, Idaho. graduated with class of 1985
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May 7, 2013 9:17 am | by Chris Needham-Bennett, owner & managing director of London-based Needhams 1834 Ltd. | CommentsA lot has been written about the differences and similarities between the Brits and the Americans, but while visiting San Diego for the 2013 Continuity Insights Management Conference, one or two more things struck me. Despite fighting the same wars and mostly being on the same side, we still have a lot that divides us, and in the context of business continuity, such differences can be important.
Organized Chaos Across The Pond
April 9, 2013 10:10 am | by Jonna Mayberry, Editor | CommentsI definitely benefitted from "organized chaos" while I was abroad, and it seems that this same approach is equally beneficial for business continuity. Continuity professionals continually strive to innovate and add nuances to exercises to ensure full engagement by the participants.
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February 26, 2013 1:36 pm | by Luke Simpson, Editor | CommentsAfter a short but sweet two years in the role of editor at Continuity Insights I've decided to resign from my position in order to pursue new challenges. Working in this role has been incredibly rewarding, but when life presents opportunities we are forced to make these tough decisions.
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January 2, 2013 4:54 pm | by John Jackson, Executive VP, Fusion Risk Management | CommentsIn 2013 we will continue to see a shift in the way business continuity and disaster recovery professionals view and approach their roles. As our industry moves forward we will eventually see two types of practitioners emerge: risk managers and outage planners.
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A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger
tells how he went agnostic at Oxford even with (later Cardinal) Newman there, turned Catholic in New Zealand, where he had flopped as a farmer and had the devil's own time feeding his eight kids; re-turned Anglican at Oxford, where he had caught a good teaching job on return from New Z.; re-turned Catholic (losing the good job), which tore it for his wife, who left him; died Catholic in Dublin married to a second wife whom he had married when the first one died.
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Prizes usually prejudice discerning readers against the works which win them: they confer the stamp of conformity to committee-taste, said Felipe Fernandez-Armesto,
Times Literary Supplement
Chicago fiction writer Stuart Dybek and other writers at a symposium of sorts say Studs Lonigans creator James T. Farrell gave them "permission" to write about working-class Chicago neighborhoods.
Yes, you hear that sort of thing at authors panels. But who gave them permission to talk that way? Its him I have a bone to pick with. Down with authors' panels, which are full of mutual admiration and heads nodding agreement with each other. You can take so much mutual admiration without throwing up.
Lectures on the English Poets
, William Hazlitt speaks of the Romantic, revolutionary school of "poetry and philanthropy," using the latter word much as J. Barzun uses it in
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Christopher Columbus possessed "ardent temper and inventive genius . . . thorough knowledge of mankind, an insinuating [pleasing, persuasive] address [manner of speaking]," and other marks of a great man, without which the project would not have been completed, says William Robertson in his 1771
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, excerpted in W. Peacock, ed.,
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, (Oxford, 1921).
He regularly "reckoned short" the distance they had gone, for instance, lest the crew panic at realizing how far they were from home. When the crew threatened mutiny, he persuaded them to wait three days, knowing from his own calculations that they were less than three days from sighting land.
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I am worried about the new
Times Literary Supplement
), whose covers now feature writers not subjects, as in "Barry Humphries, [writing about] A Conder Fan," and spot-quote overly allusive lines from a review or essay, as in "[Pauline Kael] actually had a heart attack while watching a movie -- think how the director must have felt," in an essay by "John Boorman on the critics." (2/21/03 issue)
This is Sunday-supplement puffery, actually (!) appalling in a publication that has remained above the easily and cheaply smooth. We are supposed to dig immediately for the rest of what John Boorman said? Why?
Trite inside headlines do not help either, as "Back to da Vinci's drawing board." This is meant to make this review more accessible, as they say? Make us more comfortable?
Or the head for a review of a life of St. Augustine, whose birthplace Tagaste in North Africa is now Souk Ahras, in Algeria, this head: "Sage of Souk Ahras." Augustine's see city or town, Hippo, as in Augustine of Hippo, where he won his spurs as a wise man, is now Annaba, also in Algeria. But "sage of Annaba"? Not as catchy.
I will be keeping an eye out for reviewing to match those headlines. One by the editor a few issues back made me wonder: a bit slick for my
taste. If I find more of that, the children can pool their gift money next Xmas and buy me a new overcoat instead.
. . .
Meanwhile, all is not lost by any means. J.C., author of the N.B. column (yes), continues to discover creative versifying and comes up with Michael Farrell's upper-case-challenged new volume
ode ode
[sic sic] and its poem "extension 34" [also sic], with these lines (and let Wordsworth weep):
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living at the z extension 34
tho_ning to race [reduced]
or to worry
cone i saw in loviewth d_blin [reduced]
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.C. tells us Farrell won the 1999 Harri Jones Memorial Prize (to an Australian poet 35 and younger), "from which we deduce that a readership exists for whom his is the acme of clarity." J.C. adds his (plaintive) plea for "one of their number [to] step forward to share their understanding with us." As they say in Parliament, hear, hear.
. . .
"Freelance" column by the poet and essayist Hugo Williams deals neatly with takers of potshots at the poet (the late) Philip Larkin. The poet Seamus Heaney has picked on him for being negative, exhibiting his own "kind of saintly humourlessness [that] will always be at odds with Larkin's brand of cool." Some find Larkin's "gloom wit more sustaining" than Heaney's "relentlessly positive and affirming attitude," said Williams, quoting a Peter McDonald in the latter half of that sentence.
He got going on Larkin having seen actor Tom Courtenay's rendition of Larkin in a West End (London) theatre. Courtenay, who among many film roles played opposite Albert Finney at least twice, more recently in "An English Kind of Marriage" and is in a league with the marvelous Finney, portrayed Larkin "as a lovable old fart for New Age taste. But for Williams, the beauty of Larkin's work is "in the bleakness." He combines "humour and melancholy" so well as to make them "almost the same thing."
With Larkin "the effect is all his own," said Williams, which makes me want to read him. Which I will do. Which will give me great pleasure.
. . . . One of my literary groups had a poetry reading last night. One of the poets, a philosophy teacher at Lewis U., Joliet, delivered quite a diatribe against child rape. Not that anyone was defending it. He was rather plumbing the depths of a victim's feelings.
In his poem the victim was an 11-year-old girl whom someone, maybe her father (it wasn't clear), tied with "bungee cords" to facilitate the foul deed. Our poet kept repeating her age and the part about the bungee cords, using a small voice that raised the bathos level to near-excruciating heights (even as he plumbed depths -- see above).
I looked behind me at some of the 15 or so Joliet West High School honor students who comprised 3/4 of the audience (our regular members, sunshine poetry lovers, mostly stayed away) and saw girls sitting as if in shock, which they might have been in.
This philosophy teacher, recipient a few years back of a statewide award for his teaching, was laying it on very thick and very histrionically, raising and lowering his voice for effect. It was a true classroom performance indeed.
Before this rape poem, he read, or performed, his prayer for pain, in which he professed his desire to feel the world's pain. "Your pain . . . his pain," everybody's pain, without specifying anything.
He delivered these two poems before I got up, deposited my (empty) wine glass on the sideboard, and slunk away. One was about pain, the other about rape. It was therefore an inductive performance, moving from general to particular, which is just like a philosopher.
My question is, did the pain he want to feel include the Joliet West students' and mine, experienced during his performance? Forget it. Unfair question. Art, my dear, has bigger fish to fry.
Times Literary Supplement
, 8/9/02, these wise words about 19th-century English life: "[T]he fact that a dynamic industrial and commercial society simultaneously took an interest in propagating civic values that emphasized religion, public service and a respect for learning is testimony more to its ambition than its hypocrisy.
"Victorian political language was moralistic, and concepts of gentlemanliness and of idealized, deferential womanhood -the Angel in the House -were widespread, because they were intended to be exemplary.
"It was important both for respectable individuals and for political leaders to uphold these ideals, because the reality of much Victorian life fell short of them. Like all improving projects, the Victorian mission failed in some of its objectives and is open to satire. Yet it left behind it institutions of government and public finance, and a civil, military and police service, that engendered as much social trust as any in the world. "
That's U. of Cambridge historian Jonathan Parry reviewing
The Victorians: An age in retrospect
(Hambledon & London), by John Gardiner.
Anyhow, as La Rochefoucauld said in 1678 (thanks to Bartleby.com), "Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue." [1/17/03]
Does impoliteness not go with the role of critic? Where would Mencken be as a giant of politesse? And so what if Byron apologized much for cheap shots in his "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers," do we not still read it and the apologizing footnotes that go with it? Will there be no more Dunciads once politeness rules?
Probably, which means it won't happen. Still, we can't all be Byrons or Drydens, and most of us are probably well advised to slow down and make our points as reasonably as possible. "Be kind, be kind, be kind," admonished my long-ago religion teacher when I sat with him a few years before he died a year or so ago. Great advice, which he lived up to, but it's asking a lot sometimes. Like when discussing that s.o.b. I met yesterday at the Wal-Mart. Let me tell you about that guy . . .
The world apparently needs yet another defence of poesie a la Phil Sidney and P.B. Shelley et al., if one is to judge by the letter from a Northbrook couple protesting the recent big, big money gift to
"What about research money for illnesses threatening humankind?" asked Beth and Howard Preis (
Chi Trib
, 11/29/02). "What about money to help save the environment for future generations? What about money for the FBI and CIA to help rid the world of terrorism? What about funding for floundering schools?"
To this plea for suffering humanity, my friend Jake (not his real name) responds with as much sensitivity as he can dredge up for the occasion: "The Preis family can sell their Northbook house or condo if they own one, take out enough to pay rent for a modest place in Highwood or Forest Park, and endow a soup kitchen with the rest. That way they can light a candle instead of cursing the darkness."
Having said that, Jake found himself inordinately pleased with himself and resolved to put a lid on it for a while.
. . . . Scottish novelist and playwright Alan Spence offers this shot of Glasgow Zen in his recently published collection of haiku and other short poems, reports columnist J.C. in the 8/23/02
Times Literary Supplement
"Why did the chicken cross the road?/
To glorify God and enjoy Him forever
./ What is man's chief end?/
To get to the other side
There's more, but Spence and J.C. lost me with it. I'm just an intellectually deprived Irish kid from the West Side, so I don't always get everything.
. "Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print;/ A Book's a Book, altho there's nothing in't."
-- Byron, "English Bards & Scotch Reviewers"
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Three "dogmas" not questioned by anthropologists during Roger Sandall's career have been (1) that "each culture is a semi-sacred creation, (2) all cultures are equally valuable and must never be compared, and (3) the assimilation of cultures (especially . . . of primitive culture by a secular civilisation coldly indifferent to spiritual things) is supremely wicked," says Ramond Tallis in 8/16/02
Times Literary Supplement
. He was reviewing Sandall's
The Culture Cult
(Westview), in which S. pecks away at "designer tribalism" and other appurtenances of this fashion.
"The palm for lunacy" in the pursuit of tribal wisdom goes to "the highly respected economic historian," Karl Polanyi, who was so impressed by 18th century Dahomey's "control and command economy" that he recommended it for the 20th century. This even though the king of Dahomey had 2,000 wives and had assigned "large numbers" of other women to service men in general. This Dahomey boy also had "an elaborate system of state spies" and took no prisoners he did not systematically slaughter.
Don't say it's disgusting and utterly reprehensible, however; in the Dahomey culture it was how things were done, and we dasn't criticize.
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On the contrary, say imperialism did it. At its (our) doorstep lie African "mass enslavement and genocide." This was true of the Belgians in Congo, but then only with "extensive native collaboration" based on tribalism and family ties as operating against "any sense of abstract justice or universal rights." Indeed, most slaves were captured and sold because of Africans' greed and rapacity. Few opposed Europeans in this execrable commerce.
On the other hand, sometimes the Euros stepped in to stop slavery, as in India, where the English identified 10 million (!) slaves in an 1841 census and in 1862 outlawed slave-owning. "Romantic primitivists" tend to forget this, says Tallis. Not to mention reparations-seekers in the U.S., we might add.
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"Tribal collectivism" as tried in the U.S. -- in the utopian experiments, New Harmony, Oneida, and Cold Mountain Farm, with common ownership of property, women and children -- led to "recrimination and destitution."
In the excellent
Catholic Converts: British and American Intellectuals Turn to Rome
(Cornell, 1997), by Emory U's Patrick Allitt, we read that artist Eric Gill and friends kept their communes going in Wales in the 1930s on the strength of their own considerable earning power based on corporate commissions of paintings and sculpture. Gill et al. were distributists in the G.K. Chesterton vein. Gill was quite a
Magazine contributor in its early days.
Far worse than failed utopias was the approval by British leftist Raymond Williams of Pol Pot's extermination of fellow Cambodians for the sake of his revolution, as told by Tallis. Anything but capitalism, was Williams's position; hence the need to impose "the harshest discipline." Or, recalled by me, as the
NY Times
man in Moscow said in the 30s, without breaking eggs you get no omelet.
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Sculptor Gill's monkey (Thomas More's pet), by the way, was excised from his Westminster Cathedral statue of More after his death in 1940. Quietly, without a word to heirs and afficionados.
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Also by the way, Chesterton inveighed against what he saw as the "mechanized" German view of life and saw WW1 as important in putting a stop to the Germanizing of Europe.
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"There are no Spartans any more," poet Andrew McNeillie's Greek barber told him. The man had said he's from "Spar-ta." This in the poem "In Defence of Poetry" (
Times Literary Supplement
It needs no defending, he writes, "not even in our empty times. Neglected, it will/ go underground, or into interstellar space.
"Until out of the blue someone calls it up,/ like the Greek who cut my hair last week."
This poet keeps his ears open. His latest book,
Now Then
, was due out last month but can't be found on Amazon.com.
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"I was twenty years old. I sought out writers who would tell me that repression was bad for you, sex was redemptive, a revolution in consciousness was possible. We were looking for daring iconoclastic role models, outlaw intellectuals," critic Morris Dickstein told
the minnesota review
So he and his fellow Columbia U. students doted on "the more apocalyptic figures who came on the scene in the mid-50s." He much liked Norman Mailer's essay, "The White Negro," and his
Advertisements for Myself
. Norman O. Brown's
Life Against Death
was "practically a sacred text" when it was published in 1960.
All this went on while they were "getting a mainstream education in the Western tradition" from Columbia's Great Books curriculum (taught, I trust, by Jacques Barzun, Lionel Trilling, which gave them a feel for "the history of social thought, philosophy, economics, politics," with a "very strong historical dimension."
. . . Death is "an ugly customer, who will not be invited to supper, or to sit for his picture," reports Wm. Hazlitt (1778-1830). So Chaucer suggests death, rather than trying to depict him in detail. "He is with us and about us, but we do not see him," continues Hazlitt. "He stalks on before us, and we do not mind him: he follows us close behind, and we do not turn to look back at him. We do not see him making faces at us in our lifetime, nor perceive him afterwards sitting in mock majesty, a twin-skeleton, beside us, tickling our bare ribs, and staring into our hollow eye balls!"
He goes on to show how Chaucer, knowing this, depicts death. Chaucer dispatches three roisterers to find and kill Death. They meet an old guy who sends them off on an errand on which they all die. The old guy turns out to be Death. It's in the essay "On Chaucer and Spenser," in Hazlitt's
Lectures on the English Poets
If Chaucer dealt in concretes and showed rather than tell the nature of Death and other subjects, Spenser had a different approach, adding "voluptuousness of sentiment," says Hazlitt, while sending us among "ideal beings" of his rich imagination.
. . . "You're acting just like a Negro. Raging and waiting and crying won't help you. Negroes do that when they are persecuted because of the accident of colour. The accident of sex [gender] is just as bad. And crying is senseless."
That was Richard Wright talking to an American woman with "wavy locks . . . white skin [and] brown eyes" who was getting hysterical at being bullied by her Spanish landlord. He shocked her by talking that way.
It's in his
Pagan Spain
, published in 1957, well after his
Native Son
in 1940 and
Black Boy
in 1945 and just reissued by the University Press of Mississippi. The book is "didactic, like much of his work," says reviewer James Campbell in
Times Literary Supplement
, 9/6/02. But Wright's Spain is unique, says the reviewer, as is his account of growing up in Mississippi.
Wright had gone travelling in Spain on advice from Gertrude Stein on her death bed. "You'll see the past there," she told him. "You'll see what the Western world is made of."
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deserves to be put up, on a bulletin board or a web site, wherever there's space. This, from
Times Literary Supplement
column of 9/13/02, is one of those:
, a "newsletter for the visual arts" published in London, takes a jaundiced view of pretentious and fallacious art-gallery nonsense. Of a display of dinner gongs at a new Baltic "arts factory" in Gateshead [sic],
quotes the promotional copy:
"The gongs, which can be played by the visitor, evoke the fundamental oppositions and conjunctions of the physical world, with their poetic titles such as Night-Day, Peace-War, Air-Earth and Silence-Heart."
comments: "No they don't, they're gongs dangling from the fucking ceiling."
. . . In Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" (1596), the "Sarazin" (Saracen, Muslim) slain by the Red Cross Knight was Sans Foi (Faithless). He had two bothers, Sans Joi (joyless) and Sans Loi (lawless). Their mother must have been proud.
Finding a man turned into a tree by a sorcerer, the Red Cross Knight urges him to tell how he got that way, arguing in these words:
"He oft finds med'cine who his grief imparts;
But double griefs afflict concealing harts [hearts]."
He had it right: it helps to talk about it.
. . . Auberon Waugh, son of Evelyn, had to live "two lives" while his famous, imperious father was alive. It was a strain, which he says was "greatly relieved" by the father's sudden death. Yet even now Auberon misses him when he has a funny story to tell. "Perhaps nobody is completely grown up," he said, "until both his parents are dead."
I spoke up last night for privacy. The speaker and her instant adherents in a middle-aged educated audience of 35 or so men and women were lauding Frost's "Mending Wall" -- "Something there is that doesn't love a," etc. -- with insufficient thought (thought I), buying Frost's show of contempt for his benighted neighbor, the believer in walls.
What about privacy? I asked, becoming adversarial. Nothing hostile, mind; the whole was very urbane. There was neither point nor profit in getting mad. But the desire for privacy, dissed by Frost, was the perhaps not entirely welcome opposite opinion of the moment.
I further contemned the poem as trite and "gooey," which got an immediate turnaround from the man in front of me, grinning with delight. Ah-hah, I was not the only one.
The well-versed and very pleasant young woman leading the discussion was there to lead us to the waters of poetic utterance. She couldn't make all of us drink, you have guessed by now. But she got a half dozen others to write and read what they wrote. She produced a veritable parade of instant versifiers, and my hat was off to them. It was quite a show of literacy -- with no diminution of privacy, I should add.
But the young woman, who knew enough to correct herself when she something had happened "literally" (no, metaphorically, she said), nonetheless had espoused what in some circles is known as letting it all hang out. She does in depressed-area elementary schools what she did for us last night, in an exalted area atop a mid-sized Michigan Avenue building -- that is, get the presumably blocked among us to unblock and let the waters flow, telling our inner (not outer) thoughts and giving expression to our (not yet revealed) emotions.
Privacy begone, of course. Her inner-city students have lots to tell, she said. And they feel better if they tell it. She's probably right. And maybe poetry-writing as therapy is a good idea sometimes. But what else happens when teacher says there are no wrong answers, as she tells them and told us, encouraging us to unblock ourselves. That's Rohrshach-testing without a license, I say.
Or for that matter, what of dismissing privacy considerations or making light of the need to mark off boundaries? Joe Blow's right to swing his arm stops at my jaw, unless I came at him and he had to stop me. It gets complicated, and we yearn for simplicity, which is what makes the trite and gooey Robert Frost so attractive. Primitivism, anyone?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, of "Kublai Khan" and "Ancient Mariner" fame, was so little satisfied with his work that when he gave a book of his to a friend, it was with his own changes penciled or inked in. This from Nigel Leask's long, interesting review in TLS 7/5/02 of Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, JCC Mays ed., Princeton U Press.
When best-selling novelist Dean Koontz made his first big sale, writers he knew called to rejoice with him now that he could stop writing. This threw him. His friends in the trades, "as creative as most writers . . . work hard [and] know what life is about," namely, loving what you do, Koontz told
Mag (April, 2000). They are happier than the writers who called, because it's creating they thrive on, rather than its "aftermath . . . celebrity."
Edna O'Brien's new novel
In the Forest
is based on the 1994 murder of a mother and child and priest. She takes the horrible event as symptomatic of Ireland and blames the community for spawning the killer, a much abused young man who had a hard life. It fits with an ongoing theme for O'Brien dating from her first novel, in 1960.
Her point is plausible on its face. The murderer did not come from Mars, he got dealt a bad hand, all things seemed in his case to work together unto bad. But in a novel?
Are works of art to be so explicit in the points they want to make? Are they to be such arguments? Why not simply state and argue your thesis and leave novel-writing to people for whom human events transcend their situation? How about a little more straightforwardness and a little less head-tripping?
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When a eugenicist suggested George Bernard Shaw and dancer Isidora Duncan have a baby, Shaw reportedly said wait a minute, "it might have my body and her brains." (Jacques Barzun in
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Local Travel Business Offers Personal Service
Patterson Travel said the secret to being in business for 21 years is the service they provide their customers.
When you get up on Wednesday morning to the possibility of more snow and a long, dreary commute, the folks at Patterson Travel want to remind you that the time to start thinking about your summer vacation is now. And, if you use a travel agent, you can pay for your trip in installments.
"They make a deposit and then it's usually 40 days before the trip that they have to make the final payment," Linda Hawkinson, co-owner of Patterson Travel said.
That's just one of the perks to using a travel agent instead of booking a trip yourself. Hawkinson, who owns Patterson Travel with Eileen Sellers, said the reason Patterson Travel can stay in business, even with Internet sites that allow travelers to do-it-themselves for less, is because of the customer service they provide.
"They want to talk to a person," she said. "They want to talk to someone who knows where they want to go.
"They don't have time to sit in front of the computer for two hours looking for something."
Hawkinson said all of the people who work at Patterson Travel are well experienced at what they do. The person in the office with the least experience has still been in the industry for 12 years. That means they have taken multiple trips, can get the best price for their customer and know what to advise the people to see while on the trip. Being a travel agent is not a position that requires a degree, necessarily, although Hawkinson said there is a program at Joliet Junior College for that field.
"Joliet Junior College has a travel course, a short one," Hawkinson said. "They offer that. A lot of it is experience while you're working. If you're really interested in the field of travel, there is a lot to learn."
In addition to knowing the destinations and being able to get the traveler the best deal, those in the travel industry have to keep up with the latest regulations. If someone is interested in the industry, has a bubbly personality and is meticulous, Hawkinson said they may have what it takes to be a travel agent.
"We would do one-on-one training until they are comfortable," she said. "We don't require a degree or even a certificate.
As far as trends in the travel industry, Hawkinson said that river cruises in Europe are very popular.
"It's very luxurious and very fun," Hawkinson said.
The agency has also added a feature to its Web site where brides can register for their honeymoon trip and share the information with guests, who can then pitch in for the honeymoon or buy parts of it, like a romantic dinner or a day at the spa.
And people still come to Patterson Travel to book a vacation domestically.
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We have booked more than a dozen trips through Tami at Patterson Travel. Tami is professional, knowledgeable, and personable. She even makes a follow-up call after each trip to get feedback!
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Hiking the Fuji-san
Hiking the Fuji-san from the 5th station is easy…but tired. You only have to put one foot after the other one about 500000 times and you are done. In the poster you can see the path to climb it and the way down.
This is something that you should do if you are in Japan in summer. A lot of Japanese people haven't done it yet though. There are several ways of going to the 5th station. There are direct buses that leave from Shinjuku, or you can also go by train. If you go by train, use your favourite train route finder and use Kawaguchiko as you final station. From there you must take a bus to the 5th station itself.
5th Station
From here you can start hiking following the people. I think it is really really difficult to get lost (I would rather say impossible). About food and water…yes, take some, but you will find lot of spots where you can also buy it. And there is also a "nice" restaurant on the top of the mountain. It will look "nice" once you get there dying of tiredness (and you will)!
Next to the top of the Fuji-san
About the timing…the climbing from 5th station to the top CAN be done in 4 hours by a young man. Of course it can be done faster or slower. For the same person in the way down count 2-3 hours. Normally, people want to see the sun rise from the top of the volcano but you risk of do not see anything after a night of hiking if there are clouds. However, if you are lucky you will enjoy of very nice views of Japan!
Panorama from the Fuji-san
Another panorama from the Fuji-san
Do not forget that the Fuji-san is surrounded by five lakes, and you can take a nice picture of one of them from the 5th station before going back home!
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Scot Gardiner, the chief executive of Dundee, has confirmed his club will not be allowed to cast a vote on where to install Rangers newco next season as it constitutes a conflict of interest.
The Dens Park club are in line to replace Rangers in the Clydesdale Bank Premier League for the new season.
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One reporter asked if the fashion icon was on 'Sex and the City.' Close!
Also, Alexander McQueen's sales remain strong a year after his death.
Also, Miu Miu debuted a video of their spring collection, directed by Zoe Cassavetes.
Things you need: cashmere Marc Jacobs socks, LL Bean boots, and long silk underwear.
The company's new CEO, Susan Falk, thinks that the skirts are currently "a little too short."
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This year's event had a cycling theme, "Tour de Betsey," beginning with the song "Bicycle Race" by Queen.
These garment-district workers make a big behind-the-scenes impact on NYFW.
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Trulia Files For $75 Million IPO With 22 Million Monthly Users
The rumors have been officially confirmed—Trulia is going public. From as far back as July there was speculation that the online real estate listings giant was keen on making an IPO, but those rumors were fiercely quashed.
Now thanks to an official S-1 filing with the SEC, speculators can take pride in the fact that they were right. The company's updated S-1 filing gives some clarity and insight into the state of things at Trulia.
As at June 30, 2012, Trulia is getting 22 million monthly unique visitors—more than four times the number of monthly uniques received 3 years ago. Revenues are also looking solid with six-monthly revenues topping $29 million. That's the good news; the bad news is that net losses aren't going down. According to the filing, net loss for 2012 was $7.6 million—a $1.4 million increase from a year ago.
It will be interesting to see how investors look at Trulia stock come purchase day. Real estate is of coursed tied to the economy and with some forecasts suggesting things may not pick up for another 2 years, investors may be a lot more cautious about forking out.
Trulia's IPO will be handled by Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan so that might add the comfort blanking the IPO needs in these testy economic times. Perhaps not surprisingly, Trulia's $32.8 million in VC funding was spearheaded by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners.
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