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If you've never had Bartons Almond Kisses, then you're missing out! Since 1938 New Yorkers have been enjoying the smoothest, creamiest caramel ever made. At some point along the way, someone at Bartons decided to add yummy toasted almonds to the mix and Bartons Almond Kisses were born! Now people from all over the country and world get to enjoy these amazing, delicious caramel covered almonds – a delicacy you.
One of my all-time favorite activities at Easter time is decorating eggs. I have so many fond memories from childhood with my sister and I sitting at the kitchen table dutifully dying our eggs in vinegar-smelling water and ohhhing and ahhhing over each other's masterful creations. I'm realizing now how uncrafty we were, especially since there are so many other fun (and less messy) ways to beautifully decorate Easter eggs..
Lil Sugar came out with an amazing slideshow of really awesome kid friendly crafts that you can make with Peeps this Easter. These are all adorable and super easy to make. Here are three favorite Peeps crafts from Lil Sugar's slide show and we think you'll enjoy them too! So grab your stash of Peeps (we know you have one!) and get crafty! Peeps Wreath How cute and welcoming is.
I think my sweet tooth just exploded in my mouth looking at these pictures of Cadbury Creme Egg Brownies (or wait, maybe I have a cavity from eating all this Easter candy too early …) Just look at them- sweet, gooey chocolately homemade brownies each with a half shell of Cadbury Creme Egg goodness tucked inside. I'm not sure plain brownies will ever look the same to me again after.
Check out this awesome Lego Party for a 5-year-old boy using sharp primary colors – red, yellow, green and blue – as the color scheme! This is so adorable (and eye-catching!), don't you just love how the colors pop in these photos? The mom/party planner who put this together did a superb job. She designed all the party printables herself and tied all the food/snacks into the same color scheme..
Are you aware that some of your favorite sour candy can now be sprayed directly onto your tongue? Sour enthusiasts should be rushing out to get these delicious new ways of enjoying the sweetest sour sensations around! Here are three different products we dare you to try! Pucker up! 1. Too Tarts Sour Blast Spray - These spray bottles are a unique and super sour candy experience. Fruit flavors include Cherry,.
Check out this adorable birthday party for a 3-year-old boy featuring Firemen and Fire trucks! How cute is this decor, these desserts and this whole theme all together? I know my little boy would be fired up to have a fireman themed birthday party when he turns three. One of the things I really love about this are how the candy and desserts tie into the theme: Twizzlers for "Fireman's.
Today is 3/14, which means it's National Pi Day (3.14 … get it?)! Delish.com put it best, let's celebrate the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter by indulging in its nearest edible equivalent – pie! Since it's not quite "berry" season, we're steering clear of berry-based pies and focusing on decadent, creamy, delicious chocolate-based pies! So, let's get to it – here are links to recipes.
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One reason we may not have discovered the definitive answer to the question of whether there is life on Mars is because we have not used the right TOOLS to detect it. But now NASA is getting ready to send a life-detection tool to Mars that is 1,000 times more sensitive than previous instruments. Astronomer Jeffrey Bada says, "The bottom line is that if life is out there, the high-tech tools of chemistry will find it sooner or later. It certainly is starting to look like there may be something alive out there somewhere, with Mars being the most accessible place to search."
One forthcoming unmanned mission is the new Mars Science Laboratory rover, called Curiosity, scheduled for launch in November. The $2.5 billion nuclear-powered machine will land on Mars' surface with a suite of 10 science instruments to try to determine if conditions are favorable for life. Another key Mars mission is scheduled for 2016. Called the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, it will carry five science instruments and will study gases in Mars' atmosphere, including methane, for evidence of biological or geological activity. It is a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA. According to Bada, "One reason that the questions linger is that they haven't had the right instruments. We have the instruments now or are in the process of developing and refining them. The challenge is getting them onboard future spacecraft, knowing what kinds of compounds to look for and knowing exactly where to look."
NASA sees movies and TV shows about space as a way to keep public interest in its programs, so the agency often consults on Hollywood projects. But it has pulled back from "Apollo 18," because its premise makes them nervous. It's this: "In 1972, the United States sent two astronauts on a secret mission to the moon. Despite decades of denial by NASA and the Department of Defense, classified footage of the mission was leaked to the media." The problem is, it's being filmed in documentary style.
In the September 1st edition of the Los Angeles Times, Rebecca Keegan quotes NASA's Bert Ulrich as saying, "Apollo 18 is not a documentary. The film is a work of fiction, and we always knew that. We were minimally involved with this picture. The idea of portraying the Apollo 18 mission as authentic is simply a marketing ploy." Perhaps if the government was a bit more honest with us about what's really going on (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), movie goers wouldn't feel the NEED to flock to these films.
The BEST tool to discover whether there is life on Mars would be human beings to stop making films about space and go there and see for themselves, but there's a REASON that hasn't happened yet: In 1998, a mysterious man that Whitley Strieber calls the Master of the Key burst into his hotel room in Toronto and told him all kinds of things he didn't know--but when he checked them out later, he found out they were TRUE, and the new edition of The Key has a foreword that talks about how many of his statements later turned out to be true, is in bookstores NOW.
One of the few things that Whitley could NOT check out was MOTKE's provocative statement that we are stuck on this planet because the parents of the child who would have given us the ability to travel into space was killed in the holocaust!
I think our attempts at going to other planets are ill-advised. We need to deal with problems at home (this planet) before we venture into further unknown territory. In other words, the purpose of life is development amidst challenge, lessening the challenge seems only to prolong the process. Yes it's true that there may be discoveries "out there" that will aid us here, however, the reverse may also be very true. And when you have cosmic intelligences who have seeded this planet with occurences and archeological items that aid our development as a species it may even be perpetuating the very cycle of violence and political chaos we seek to escape. You only "escape" political and spiritual tyranny to find it elsewhere in another form. If you cannot deal with the form you find yourself currently struggling against, how can you confront another more convoluted and defiant? Also, I seem to remember various disasters occuring during NASA launches and questions raised as to whether certain voyages even occurred, and certainly not for the reasons the media claimed. I think if we truly wished to voyage out beyond the stars, we would find ourselves doing it, so ask why our scientists "must" make rockets/spaceships that do what we'd naturally do anyway. I believe we are limiting ourselves to a physical reality of flesh, bone, and rock and don't want otherwise, even if it means our demise. Please tell me I'm wrong. We may also wish to recall that our current space technology came from Nazi engineer Werner von Braun- the Nazi influence being rather pervasive in our government as well. Possibly this is merely a system that seeks to place the human spirit in somewhat of a cage; a multi-faceted and well engineered one, but a cage none the less. Seems we do not like to venture too far from the nest, but we may have to venture very far to get enough breathing room for clear thinking, unencumbered by a sickening percentile of humanity who want the status quo to remain in place.


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Gov. Terry Branstad has signed an education reform bill into law Monday.
"Change is never easy. But it was particularly painful that we had to acknowledge that Iowa slipped over the past two decades from a national leader in education to the middle of the pack," said Branstad.
Branstad chose the stage at the Des Moines North High School auditorium as the location of the bill signing.
The education plan approved by the Legislature includes more basic school funding for the next two academic years, as well as increased money for districts that adopt a program to raise minimum teacher pay and offer leadership incentives.
A task force will review teacher evaluations and some restrictions on home-schooling will be lifted.
Branstad made education reforms a priority of the legislative session, arguing that Iowa's public school system has gradually fallen from among the best in the nation to middle of the pack due to years of complacency.
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Oh, awesome: a Pinboard Share extension for iOS 8.
New Danny Macaskill video: off-road (off ALL the roads) in Skye. Remarkable. Also: so much dronecam in biking videos now. (Nicely shot, thoguh).
Really, really useful: a tool from @mnot to test headers, caching, and responses to webpages. Will be using this a lot in future, am sure.
"The water that falls on you from nowhere when you lie is perfectly ordinary, but perfectly pure. True fact. I tested it myself when the water started falling a few weeks ago. Everyone on Earth did. Everyone with any sense of lab safety anyway. Never assume any liquid is just water. When you say "I always document my experiments as I go along," enough water falls to test, but not so much that you have to mop up the lab. Which lie doesn't matter. The liquid tests as distilled water every time." A truly lovely short story from John Chu.
The most useful tips in here: set the right headers; set the body of the response to an enumerator and it'll iterate over it, streaming it.
Some great Chess writing from Slate.
"'If all that survives of our fatally flawed civilization is the humble paper clip, archaeologists from some galaxy far, far away may give us more credit than we deserve,' the design critic Owen Edwards argues in his book Elegant Solutions." An excerpt from a Joe Moran essay on the paperclip.
"pup is a command line tool for processing HTML. It reads from stdin, prints to stdout, and allows the user to filter parts of the page using CSS selectors.
Inspired by jq, pup aims to be a fast and flexible way of exploring HTML from the terminal." That looks great.
"Something that journalists sometimes do is publish a disclosure statement. It's sort of like an About Me page except it's a listing of all their conflicts of interest—all the areas of coverage where you might have good reason to think they should not be trusted. It'll say things like I once worked at Google or I'm married to an employee of Microsoft. I have never written one of these but I have fantasies about doing a comprehensive one. It would be the length of a novel, I think. An endless and yet incomplete litany of all the blood, privilege, history, and compromise on my hands." I could have quoted lots of this, but I chose this. It's good. It encapsulates the beginnings but not ends of lots of thoughts, and reminds me why, right now, I'm afraid of assuming anything about anything, why stereotyping "big companies" as being identical isn't just inaccurate but also unhelpful, and why the point of boundaries is that they always exclude _somebody_.
"Hatoful Boyfriend is the Fifa of pigeon romance and you should buy it for that reason alone." I'm loving the attention Hatoful Boyfriend is getting in the media; this review by Grant Howitt is charming, informative, and on the Guardian website. Brilliant.
Cracking interview with George Saunders, from 2011 (so pre-Tenth of December). Lots about the craft of writing, and about what Just Turning Up looks like. Also, his imaginary writing class in which Hemingway punches everybody out made me laugh out loud.
"Of course this is pure anthropomorphization. Bits don't have wills. But they do have tendencies." This piece by Kevin Kelly is great – though this line neatly explains my suggestion that 'things' sometimes have 'desires' better than I ever have before.
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How Long Can I Expect My Virtual Assistant To Stay With Me?
That's the number one question I'm asked by clients, future clients, and interviewers. So how long can we expect virtual assistants to stick? My answer is always the same: "it depends". It depends on many things. But first we need to realign our thinking a little bit and better understand today's workforce.
As a small or home-based business owner, are you basing your perception of how long a worker stays in a position on your own work history? Yeah, me too. Big mistake. Personally, when I take on a position I intend to stay with it - I don't give up. I've enjoyed lengthy tenures at my places of employment throughout my career. All except one and that's a story for later.
What we need to remember though is that everyone is not like us. Especially the current workforce. I mentioned in a previous article (http://www.teamdoubleclick.com/news/free_articles/workingwithnewgeneration.html) that the days of staying in your job for the rest of your life are long gone. As business owners, we tend to forget that and we are frustrated by it.
Let me say it again in this article: A recent study said that the average tenure in a job for Generation Y is 18 months. That's realistically the max you can expect someone - anyone, bricks-and-mortar or virtual, to stick with a job. Let's leave that thought to stew for a while and talk about the "that depends" I mentioned earlier.
Depends on what?
Things change in people's lives - everyone's lives. Mine and yours and your virtual assistant's. Think back to the reasons you have changed jobs in the past. What things in your past have caused a need for job changes? Pregnancy, sudden depression, death in the family, shift in financial obligations, relocation, change of career goals, a decision to go back to college, ill parents, ill children, ill spouse? Of course, and there are many more. Your virtual assistant is a human being too and they're also subject to all of these normal human occurrences. Any one of these or many more reasons are cause for a virtual assistant to move on elsewhere or even stop working altogether.
Job likeability
. You've got to like your job. I hope we can all agree on that. If you don't like what you're doing you're not going to do your best and you're always going to be shopping for a better job or better opportunity. Virtual assistants, as with bricks-and-mortar assistants, are not immune. I'm not talking about being a virtual assistant in general - though that happens too - where a virtual assistant decides she can't handle the isolation and hangs up her computer. I'm talking about all of the tasks a virtual assistant does on a daily basis. For one client she may answer phones, for another she may do data entry, and for yet another she may be asked to cold call. If she doesn't like those duties she's not going to like the job and will ask for reassignment or quit entirely.
Boss likeability
. For me, the only one I didn't stick with for a good length of time was one where I was treated like a prisoner in a concentration camp, neck breathed down and so on. I left one day for lunch and never looked back. Have you ever had a boss you just couldn't stand? How about one with whom you just couldn't see eye-to-eye. Or maybe there was the one you always thought was creepy or shifty. Would you stick with a boss that gave you those feelings? Certainly not! Yet we expect our virtual assistants to do that and we can't. With 6.6 billion people in the world every one of them is not going to like each and every one of us. And you're not going to like every one of them either.
Then of course there's Big Bad Team Double-Click
. At Team Double-Click our job, as we see it is this: to help you determine your needs in a virtual assistant; to locate the best virtual assistant for you, our client, based on your personality needs as well as your skills needs; to locate problem virtual assistants and send them packing before they do damage to you; to nurture the relationship between you and your virtual assistant; alert you to potential problems with a virtual assistant; to stand by what we do and what we offer; and locate a new virtual assistant for you should things not work out. Now, sometimes the virtual assistants we contract don't like this. This is when we become "Big Bad Team Double-Click[reg]". You see, we're the good guys when we're offering work to virtual assistants. However, when we have to take that work away or ask a virtual assistant for reimbursement for a client due to negligence in their actions, we're no longer popular with that virtual assistant. This quite often causes a virtual assistant to quit. In order to protect you, our client, sometimes we have to tick people off to do it.
. Yes, theft. Team Double-Click[reg] is a virtual staffing agency - we're the middleman. We work hard to do the best by our clients and locate quality virtual assistants for them. And theft does happen - even from virtual assistants who've shown no signs of being anything but above board. If finances get tough, the first thing most people want to do is cut out the middleman. Why? Usually to make more money of course! While we do our best to prevent it from happening it does from time to time happen that a virtual assistant will attempt to steal a client - to make more money. I'm sure you can see how this opens a whole can of worms here and can easily mess things up for other clients. My question to you: would you want to directly hire a person with that kind of track record? Could you really trust they wouldn't try to steal something from you later on down the road? I wouldn't. In fact, this brings me to an interesting story. A virtual assistant (let's call her Jane) recently successfully stole a client (let's call him Dick) from Team Double-Click[reg]. In this instance, rather than enter into a lengthy legal battle with Dick and Jane, we let it go. We of course discussed with Dick the potential for Jane the Thief to repeat her history again in the future. Three months later Dick came back and said "Gayle, Jane just stole from me - she embezzled my funds in fact." While I felt badly for Dick we predicted that this could happen which is why we'd warned him. Dick chose not to listen to our years of experience and the information we had available.
. Team Double-Click's virtual assistants are contracted - not employed - by Team Double-Click[reg]. As with most contractors (think home builders, highway builders, and other competitive bidders) we too impose restrictions, benchmarks, and even penalties on our contractors for lack of performance. Again, this sometimes makes us unpopular and can cause a virtual assistant to quit. Would you want us to do anything less in the name of protecting our clients?
Knowing what causes people to leave should help you better understand how long a virtual assistant may stay in a position. About 25% of our virtual assistants have been with us and the same clients for well over a year and many more approaching the one year mark. In fact, earlier this year one of our virtual assistants retired from Team Double-Click[reg] and the client she was assigned, after being with him for more than three years.
So when asked "how long can I expect my virtual assistant to stay with me". I always say "It depends. As long as nothing goes wrong and there is no reason for the virtual assistant to leave, she will most likely stay." As one of my daughter's teachers used to say, "It's all about cause and effect."
This article's goal was to give you a better perspective of what to expect in this day and age of hiring and some insight into what can go wrong. I hope I've accomplished that. And with a better understanding maybe we'll all be less shocked and better prepared when one of our workers - bricks-and-mortar or virtual - departs.
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NEW YORK, April 29, 2004 -- Sinclair Broadcast Group on Thursday ordered its eight ABC affiliates to pre-empt Friday's "Nightline" broadcast of the reading of the names of US military personnel killed in Iraq, saying the program is "motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq."
The political leanings of Sinclair executives also may have played a part in the company's decision to block the popular ABC news program. In 2004, Sinclair executives gave 98 percent of their political contributions to GOP candidates.
In a fax to press Thursday, the Baltimore-based media company, whose holdings include 62 local TV stations, said that by airing Friday's Nightline program, "ABC is disguising political statements as news content."
During the ABC News broadcast, anchorman Ted Koppel will read aloud the names of more than 500 U.S. service men or women who have lost their lives in the war, as a corresponding photo appears on the screen along with that person's name, military branch, rank and age. In an emailed statement, ABC News "respectfully disagreed" with Sinclair's view of the program saying that Nightline "is dedicated to thoughtful and balanced coverage and reports on the events shaping our world with neither fear nor favor -- as our audience expects, deserves, and rightly demands."
If the Sinclair Broadcasting Group's track record of political contributions is any indication, executives at the company may have their own "political agenda." According to The Center for Responsive Politics, an organization devoted to tracking political contributions by individuals, PACs and corporations, Sinclair executives give overwhelmingly to Republican causes and candidates. Of the top twenty TV and Radio companies to make political contributions in 2004, Sinclair Broadcasting Group is among the most conservative, giving 98 percent of its $65,434 in political contributions to GOP candidates.
By comparison, Clear Channel Communications, the conservative radio colossus run by longtime Bush cronies Tom and Steve Hicks, has given only 75 percent of its 2004 contributions to Republicans; Democratic candidates have received the remaining 25 percent.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sinclair CEO and President David Smith personally gave $2,000, the maximum individual contribution, to President Bush's 2004 re-election campaign. Smith has yet to reply to MediaChannel's request for comment on his company's political leanings.
John Dunbar of the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity said, "I fell out of my chair when I read Sinclair's statement." Dunbar, whose organization monitors and reports upon the influence of money over politics, considers Koppel's reporting to be politically moderate. "Based on what Sinclair did, it's impossible not to see where their political interests lie," he said.
The broadcasting giant reported first quarter preliminary results for net broadcast revenues reached $158.3 million. The Q1 increase over last year -- about $4 million more than the company expected -- came in part from $1.3 million in additional political advertising revenues in key election states such as Ohio, Florida, West Virginia, Illinois and Maine, where Sinclair owns stations.
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"Regional" stamps for Scotland
The Scottish Committee under the Lord Lyon King of Arms suggested that heraldic symbols should be used in the designs.
These were:
- Crowned Thistle (Scottish Crown)
- Saltire (may be environed of an open crown)
- Lion Rampant (in a tressured shield)
- Sejeant lion (on or off a crown or part of him holding both sword & sceptre)
- Unicorn (Crowned, may be collared and chained)
- Any or all of the Honours of Scotland (Regalia with crown, sword, sceptre and cushion if desired)
Also suggested were Pictish or Celtic symbols and designs, and the national floral emblem of the thistle.
Proposed designers
A remarkable 12 artists were proposed by the Committee to work on the designs, all Scottish. They were:
- Roy Benzies
- John B Fleming
- Gordon F Huntly
- George Mackie
- Conrad T McKenna
- Mrs Elizabeth Odling
- G W Lennox Paterson
- Barrie Stuart
- Archie B Imrie
- John Pottinger
- William McLaren
- Len Fullerton
Care was taken that they were balanced between Glasgow and Edinburgh art schools and elsewhere in Scotland. Some 47 designs were submitted, the highest total of all the regions.
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The inclusion of the Scottish crown in designs was to cause problems. It conflicted with the fact The Queen was already wearing the diadem in the Wilding photograph. In Imrie's accepted design the Scottish Crown was replaced by the Royal Cypher E R.
Essays were produced from four designs by Fleming, Huntly, Imrie and McLaren and these were recommended, with that by McLaren as the reserve. The first choices were later approved by The Queen.
To prevent protests, the existing watermark including the English Royal Cypher "E 2 R" was replaced by a new stylised crown watermark with no cypher.
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Unadopted design by A.B. Imrie
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Iran's currency meltdown: How badly will it weaken the regime?Posted on October 3, 2012, at 4:49 PM
Clashes break out on the streets of Tehran over the country's economic tailspin, and some wonder whether Iran's leaders can maintain control
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Attacking Iran: Is Israel bluffing?Posted on September 25, 2012, at 11:15 AM
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Is Iran finally backing down?Posted on May 22, 2012, at 3:40 PM
The U.N. announces a deal to get foreign inspectors into a facility where Iran is suspected of conducting nuclear weapons research. Skeptics are less than enthused
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This weekend, Iranian leaders will try to hash out their differences with Western powers. Only the most persistent optimists expect a true breakthrough
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Absent total war, the day after an Israeli attack on Iran would see a flurry of conventional spycraft, cyber-snooping, and frantic diplomacy
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The Pilchuck Foundation announces the launch of the "We Pledge Our Support" community campaign to assist the Granite Falls Police Department, according to Board Chair Catherine Anderson.
The pledge drive goal is $450,000 over a three-year period.
"This campaign is a pioneering community solution to help augment the police department's budget, to pay for essential training, equipment, and technology," she explained. "This funding does not replace the City's budget, but it certainly will help."
The initial three-month pledge drive is beginning now, with residents and businesses being asked to consider donating a minimum of $10 a month for 36 months. The donations will go to the Pilchuck Foundation, a local non-profit organization whose stated mission is to provide funding and support to the Granite Falls Fire Department and Police Department.
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The campaign idea came about after Councilmember Matt Hartman challenged citizens at a public hearing to come up with concrete solutions to save the Granite Falls Police Department (GFPD).
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Despite several options being presented to the Council that would avert contracting, a motion passed on October 3 to continue negotiations with SCSO.
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Today in Yankees History: Aaron Boone's ALCS winning HR in 2003
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Classic Yankee: Billy Martin (player edition)
One day, someone may write the definitive biography on Billy Martin. Maybe it'll be someone like Jane Leavy, who has already written two books, one on Sandy Koufax, and another on Mickey Mantle, that are excellent. There is a catch, though. There are so many sides to Billy Martin. To capture them all in one ...
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Classic Yankees: Wally Pipp
He's best remembered for a "headache" and for the person who replaced him. Even today, his name is brought up anytime a regular has a day off and his replacement does well---the fear being that the regular won't get his job back. But what people seem to forget is that Wally Pipp was a good player ...
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I LOVE DCL BUT . . . (venting)
We loved every second of both of our DCL cruises. They were amazing in every moment. - BUT I don't know if we can do it again. DD#3 asked for a DCL Spring Break 2014. She has a fall Bday and is now 15. 2014 she'll be 16 and she wanted it to be while she was still a kid. ( It would be without the older 2 DDs.) We are on a limited schedule since DH and I teach school. Summer is too expensive. Both of our cruises were Spring Break when Easter was not attached. 2014 looked good - BUT DCL is just too expensive for us now. We've had pay cuts for five years in a row and 2 DDs in college. Next year 2013-2014 is announced to be even more (like thousands less than this year!). It really makes me sad. We are also looking at retirement in a few more years.
I know you are going to boo me, but DH and I did a Carnival for our 25th in 2011 and it was really a good trip. We can take the girls on a Carnival next SB for the same 7 nights - visiting 2 new ports for us -(DH and I have visited 9 ports in the Caribbean so that's cool) and is less than half price! DCL $5600+/- to Carnival $2600+/-. I am sad but if we "waited" it would be at least 2 more years. SB in 2015 is w/Easter again driving up rates and in April 2016 she will be 18.7 and no longer a "kid".
I KNOW we wouldn't have the Disney Magic (no pun intended). I know what drives the cost of DCL (and I know what drives the lower cost at Carnival).
Maybe there are some forum readers who can relate to my grief.
Honestly - I half expect the 2 DDs to say why bother go at all - but seriously- $2600 for a week is too cheap to pass up. (no pun on the "too cheap"either)
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Nobody should "boo" you because you want to take a Carnival cruise.
Opens up more staterooms for the Disney cruisers.
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It is not for me to have an opinion in where you spend your vacation! Book the cruise that makes the most sense (financially or emotionally) and enjoy yourselves! Disney has 4 ships... There are 100's of other ships in other lines and some one out there must love them enough to keep booking on them! When you come back, please share your experiences on the other cruise line, so that others faced with the same dilemma can make a decision that works for them
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The only way to know if the ocean is the same or better, is to try it out. Only you will know, accept and learn if disney is worth the price. And yes, please report back!!!!!!
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Last summer, I wanted to take my son on the Fantasy for his high school graduation present. He has ALWAYS loved cruising, and since he bought his own car (not that I would have bought him one!) I couldn't think of much else that he'd really enjoy.
He absolutely refused to go on Disney again, and he grew up on the Disney ships! He'd wanted to go on one of Royal Caribbean's new ships, but the cost of that was out of my range, so he searched and found the Carnival Magic cruise that we ended up going on. It went to Jamaica, Grand Cayman and Cozumel.
Honestly, we LOVED the ship. LOTS to do for everyone....hot tubs on the Promenade Deck, along with the ones by the pools, great food choices...etc.
We didn't regret a moment of it, and we were able to take along one of his buddies...the two guys had their own room and my husband and I had an aft wrap-around balcony.....all for less money than either the RCCL in one room, or the Fantasy in one room.
We never felt like we were compromising on anything.
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Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL
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Our last DCL cruises
We will be going on the Dream Oct 2013
Southrn Carribbean Oct 2014.
Then we are done as well
We are sort of in the same....BOAT....as OP. We gave our son a 18th bday on the Magic and DD wants the same. I want to see BIG ship before we are done, and we decded on the Southern Carribbean to be with friends.
We dont want to regret not taking her later.
So we know this i truly it for us.
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Kids understand more than we think!
OP, take the vacation that you can afford and will make you happy. Explain to DD that you can't afford DCL but you're happy to take them on a cruise you can afford and allow them to get involved in the process. My kids like CCL just as much as they like DCL, although they do like the movie theater on DCL.
As for DD being disappointed, well....that's life. It doesn't always work out the way we want it to and it's never too early to learn that. If they say they don't want to go, tell them you understand but that you and DH are going on a cruise and you'll be happy to find someone to stay with them at home. Chances are better than average they'll change their minds.
I don't mean to sound harsh, I ran into the same thing with my teen daughter last summer. Oldest DS was headed to FL to play a travel ball tournament so I was going to take youngest DS and DD on a cruise. When we were talking Bahamas or Caribbean, she was for it. When the vote went with a 5 day land vacation in Boston then a Canadian cruise, she griped and said she was staying home. We had a great time without her. I don't recall my parents ever asking for my input on family vacations since I wasn't paying for them.
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OP--I think you should take the cruise you can comfortably afford and let your DD decide if she wants to come. I'm guessing she will go along.
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I'm a DCL platinum member, but have done a number of Carnival cruises. When we go with extended family, we always go on Carnival because they are not interested in paying the DCL prices. We've always enjoyed ourselves. While we do prefer Disney, we would not hesitate to book with Carnival. Go and enjoy!
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i have us reserved on the the disney magic in 2014 for the 4 day med cruise (we live on the med side of the atlantic, so getting to barcelona is easier for us)...i took the 4 day cruise, because the longer cruises were just way way way too much....the 4 day is also way too much, but i can wait to make a final decision until 2014....maybe i'll win the lottery before then
in the meantime, i'll keep on the lookout for bargains on the other cruise lines...
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Never let anyone make you feel bad for spending your money the way you want to. If DCL isn't in the budget and NCL or CCL is... go for it. I tell ya having just come off my first DCL cruise, I will not be back unless it is with grandchildren later, once they are at the stage of not being afraid of the characters. Saw so many kids crying this week as the parents were pushing them to get that photo, kid wasn't interested. One parent was actually mad because the child said she didn't want her picture with the princess's. Said she was taking her to kids club and leaving her there until bed time... child said ok and skipped towards the elevator. Of course I have no problem NOT waiting in line for 30 minutes to have a photo taken with a character that can be done at one of the parks either.
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Our NYE 2013 Fantasy cruise may be the last DCL for awhile for us too. Cost is a huge factor, but the age thing for 18 year olds in high school is another. Our DD really wanted to go on the Fantasy and take her BFF for her graduation in 2015. But now that 18 year olds can't go to the Vibe, the timing won't work out at all. Her friend won't turn 18 until the end of August so they wouldn't be able to even enjoy the adult areas together. Spring break won't work either, since DD will turn 18 before it...and besides the costs are crazy.
We're going to go back to Aulani, instead.
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Just off the Carnival Dream 7-night western today. After 3 DCL cruises in quick succession, my DH wanted to try other options. We ended up on Carnival...for about $2000 less for the same type room. Can't beat that! Overall it was a great cruise, although the kids' club random closing hours were a pain. But if you don't have littles, that won't even be an issue! Yes, things were a little less, hm, what word should I use...classy? I don't mean that to be judgmental--we were on the cruise too, weren't we? Hairy chest contests, gambling, the cruise director was kind of silly. But honestly, I would do it again. We avoided the stuff we weren't interested in and can I just say, as much as I don't like pop music these days (sheesh, do I sound old!) it was kind of nice not to hear Disney music 24/7.
So, do the cruise you can afford and enjoy it! So many people raised an eyebrow when we said Carnival. But honestly, we saw one drunk guy (and he was just confused, not rowdy), no thongs at all (gasp!), and lots of nice, friendly people. Plus my husband won the ping ping tournament--twice! He's a happy camper, and that's important to me. That said, *I* do prefer DCL...
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I think RCCL Freedom class ships are our sweet spot. For us, with a little one, we want a tub and would need a suite to get one on any other line, so that's our price comp for now, and why we're trying DCL. But I don't think I could justify DCL prices with a teen.
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Join Date: Nov 2007
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It's great to hear others sharing the same feelings I have about DCL. In June/July, my family will be making our 5th cruise on DCL, on the Fantasy. Hands down, DCL has long been our favorite line for so many reasons. We have also cruised several times with RCCL, and I have to say, our family always has an excellent time on RCCL - their ships are equally beautiful and they have a very good kids program (not Disney, but very good). The biggest difference is the price. We generally we save thousands on comparable cabins on comparable cruises.
The reason we are cruising the Fantasy in June is because Hurricane Sandy forced us to cancel the same trip this past November just days before departure. June was the only date available for my family and travel party to reschedule this trip. The shocking part was that the same cruise in June is costing us nearly $3000 more than we would have paid in November! Despite numerous pleas with DCL, including emails to the president of DCL, begging for any kind of assistance for our party of eight to help us, they were unwilling to do anything at all. I understand what happened to us was not DCL's fault, nor their responsibility. However, I did expect a little compassion and sympathy towards our plight - but got none. Zip. Nada!
This experience taught me a little bit about DCL. Many of you may feel we had no right to expect anything from DCL, and may disagree with my feelings toward them right now. But I will tell you this, IMHO, DCL only cares about squeezing every last dime out of us. Our travel insurance claim was denied otherwise we would not be sailing with DCL in June. Because we took the (very expensive) travel insurance with DCL, we did not lose everything, but got a credit towards this next cruise in the amount we would have lost. Hence we are making this last trip with DCL in June. After that, we will definitely look to cruise more with RCCL, and perhaps try other lines. As others have noted in this thread, comparable cruises on other lines are much less expensive. RCCL has a similar cruise, leaving from Port Canaveral the day after our DCL cruise in June, and is going to the SAME islands, on a ship comparable to the Fantasy (not the Oasis or Allure, the next class down). A similar cabin for my family of four on this trip would cost us $2000 less than what we are paying to go one day earlier on the Fantasy.
DCL offers a great cruise experience. I wish their front office was equally outstanding. Frankly, I no longer feel they are thousands of dollars better...
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Using tax-loss harvesting to eliminate taxes from hedge funds
Advisor used Aperio's Active Tax Indexing strategy in combination with other asset classes. Aperio demonstrated that the Active Tax Indexing strategy completely eliminated the taxes due from the client's hedge fund exposure.
Advisor set up an allocation that included both Aperio's Active Tax Indexing strategy and hedge funds. After the first year, the client wanted to quantify the tax impact. Advisor set up a portfolio containing $8.0MM in hedge funds and $5.3MM in Aperio's Active Tax Indexing strategy.
Aperio solution
Aperio reviewed the recognized tax-losses for the year and with the advisor, compared them to the gains from the hedge funds. The Aperio portfolio recognized $225,000 in short-term tax-losses and $58,000 in long-term tax-losses for the year. The hedge funds resulted in $198,000 in short-term gains and $22,000 in long-term gains.
The client ended up paying no taxes on his entire hedge fund allocation. If the advisor had used an ETF instead of Aperio, the client would have achieved the same pre-tax return but would have paid another $100,000 in incremental taxes that year.*
* These taxes are effectively postponed until portfolio liquidation, or avoided entirely in case of a portfolio transfer into the estate.


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I'm trying to buy tickets to Defending the Caveman coming to Spokane March 20 and 21st. I've been on hold for almost 14 minutes. I'm sure they want me to buy tickets online, but I have questions and this is driving me crazy! Anyway, Geoff and I first saw this one-man play years ago in Chicago (before we had kids) and we LOVED it. We are going to try and get several couples together to go while it's in town. If you haven't seen it and it comes to your area, GO!
Thanks for all your creativity project ideas yesterday. The kids and I ate dinner in the Food Court of the mall and then visited the candy store. Everyone got to buy something (as long as they could spell their name in the letters on the packaging) This really isn't that hard, but it was FUN for my little boys and it did in fact feel playful.
I chose these.
I read something this morning about unlearning (yes, unlearning) and I really liked it. I have often thought that many of the obstacles and frustrations we face in creative pursuits and especially scrapbooking are the result of us attempting to be creative with new tools and possibilities inside an old paradigm. In other words, we need to UNLEARN before we can really be effective and satisfied.
I think those that have taken Library of Memories in the past would agree that while there is a LOT to learn and adapt, there is also a LOT to unlearn and let go of. Many of us jump into scrapbooking with the idea that we are going to do what our mothers and grandmothers did (document pictures) with 10,000 photos. The truth is we can do so much more than document pictures and scrapbooking to me is so much more than just putting pictures and names and dates and surface facts on a page (Hmmm, maybe I should write some books or start a company that would help people find the bigger picture in scrapbooking?)
In my grandmother's world, photographs were scarce and scarcity generates value. Every photograph grandmother, and in my case, I should really say grandfather took was a priceless visual record of his life and times. Still, if someone living in the early 20th century could afford to take pictures they didn't allow themselves to take very many (generally speaking) It simply would not have crossed their minds to capture the details of location or personality like we do. With the advent of digital photography we now have access to photography like never before and yet, what I find (every time I teach LOM) is that we have oddly become less connected to our surplus pictures. It's crazy! The reality is we have too many pictures and the very sad capital "R" reality behind this reality is this fact that we are less intimate with our pictures than ever before. One of the basic tenants of my system is getting your BEST pictures printed and into viewable storage, so you can LIVE with them and see them on an ongoing basis. When you do just this one thing you open yourself to personal inspiration. I know that we have tons of cool digital tools that allow us to see and share images, but I am absolutely convinced that a virtual connection (while cool) is not the same as having physical access to pictures (memories) and memories are hands-down the most magical form of inspiration I know. The trick and the tie back to unlearning is we have to unlearn the guilt we associate with printing pictures we might not use and, unlearn the notion that it's possible to do something with every photo we print. Pictures aren't scarce, they aren't expensive and they aren't that valuable in and of themselves. The value is in how we appreciate and use SOME of them to engage in the creative process and illustrate stories and gain appreciation for life and the people we love.
Please try and unlearn that scrapbooking is about the pictures.
Please try and unlearn that more pictures on a page is the goal.
Please try and unlearn that names and dates and documentation is required.
Learn that what is valuable is your ability to more fully immerse yourself in life today because you recognize through photography and scrapbooking the moments that matter as they unfold.
Learn to see yourself as a storyteller with thousands of potential illustrations and the potential to not only leave a unique mark for some future generation, but the absolute potential to make a difference right now in your attitude and outlook and energy and insight for today and for tomorrow–for NOW.
phew … I feel better.
btw: I gave up after 33 minutes on hold. so sad. Guess I won't be blogging about the customer service at Tickets West.


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Magellanic penguins are found across coastlines along South America on both the Atlantic and Pacific shores. They can sustain hot and cold temperatures. Like all penguins, tightly packed feathers and fat keep them insulated. To cool off during the heat of the South American summer, Magellanics spend more time in the water, and can also pant like a dog and stand with their flippers extended to catch a breeze.
These noisy sea birds sound a bit like donkeys. Males bray to advertise their nests and attract females. During breeding season, they gather in large colonies that can number as many as 400,000 birds. They are the only penguins to breed on the Patagonian mainland.
Magellanic penguins can swim up to 15 miles per hour when chasing after prey. They eat small fish, crustaceans, krill, and squid. During the breeding season, the parents go out to feed in the morning and return in the evening. The rest of the year, getting a good meal means following the currents stocked with fish for hundreds or even thousands of miles.
Breeding season lasts from September through February. The penguin couples dig burrows for their nests, or hide their nests under shrubs if they live on rocky shores. They pack vegetation into their nest, raised just a little above the burrow floor in case of flooding. A pair may use the same burrows for years. Females usually lay two eggs that hatch after five or six weeks. Both the male and female care for their young, taking turns baby-sitting and hunting for the chicks. After two months, the juveniles have their waterproof feathers and are ready to head out to the ocean. But it can take up to two years for them to get the full black and white plumage of the adults. Penguins live 15 to 20 years on average.
Austral and South American sea lions; king cormorant; king, gentoo, and rockhopper penguins; Patagonian foxes; giant petrel; leopard and southern elephant seals; southern right whale
The biggest threats to the Magellanic penguin are commercial fishing and the oil industry. It is estimated that more than 40,000 penguins die in Argentina and the Falkland Islands each year due to oil pollution. Commercial fishing depletes the schools of fish penguins and other seabirds feed on and the birds themselves can get entangled in nets. In Chile, the penguins are also threatened by hunting, where they are used as fishing bait.
WCS has been working with local partners in coastal Patagonia since the 1960s, helping to conserve southern right whales, Magellanic penguins, and southern elephant seals. Our Sea & Sky program is committed to supporting the health of the Patagonian Sea—one of the most productive regions in the southern hemisphere. In 2008, WCS helped achieve two victories for the Magellanic penguin in Argentina: a ban on commercial fishing at Burdwood Bank, and the creation of a marine park at Golfo San Jorge. Both are key habitats for the birds and their prey.
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