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Question: Is Torres good enough to be Mets starting CF?
Matthew Cerrone: Every time I ask a Giants fan or expert about Torres, they to speak most passionately about his personality. They don't say much about his on-field ability, and that concerns me. He sounds like a wonderful and fascinating human being, and that's great, and needed, but the Mets also need better talent than they've had. I know he'll be fast, I know he can hit from both sides of the plate and I know he can play all three outfield positions. But, just based on my experience keeping tabs on him in fantasy baseball, I know he is also VERY streaky. I'm OK with him starting in center on Opening Day, so to give him a chance to return to being the player he was in 2010, but I have a feeling he might eventually end up a fourth outfielder as the team makes additional moves throughout the summer.
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Oct. 27, 2013
Cathy Horyn reflects upon news that fashion designer Jil Sander is leaving the Jil Sander company, now owned by Prada, for unspecified personal reasons, for a third time. MORE
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Cathy Horyn reviews Milan Fashion Week collections by Bottega Veneta, Emilio Pucci, Giorgio Armani, Jil Sander, Marni, Missoni and Salvatore Ferragamo. MORE
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Cathy Horyn reviews collections from Jil Sander and other designers at Milan Fashion Week. MORE
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In Jil Sander's Exit, Echoes of the Past
Ms. Sander announced that she is leaving the Jil Sander company for unspecified personal reasons, for a third time.
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Even with the men's fashion shows, Milan feels eerily, blissful empty as the Milanese escape for a summer weekend.
June 22, 2013, Saturday
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The big names in Milan fashion present their fall 2013 collections.
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Boiled and double-faced wool is big this season with designers, as seen in Bottega Veneta's latest collection at Milan Fashion Week, while Jil Sander's fall collection was all about control.
February 24, 2013, Sunday
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September 27, 2012, Thursday
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September 25, 2012, Tuesday
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March is Women's History Month. It is Greek-American Month, Irish-American Month, Native American Heritage Month, Caffeine Awareness Month, Music In Our Schools Month, Mental Retardation Month and Foot Health Month. It is a month in favor of noodles and of sauce, a booster for peanuts and frozen foods. These things, we are told, might otherwise be forgotten.
Among these commemorations of the maybe-overlooked, March is also Small Press Month, as celebrated by Powell's this Thursday, March 20, with Smallpressapalooza, a marathon reading featuring 15 independently published authors including the avant-lit legend Steve Katz and local bizarro-lit luminary Carlton Mellick III.
Small book presses are essentially indie labels for books: avenues for outsider voices, international fiction, experimental fiction and poetry of all stripes, for debut authors and even for more established literary treasures like William T. Vollman and Lydia Davis. Essentially, they print the stuff that the large corporate publishers—stung by years of low profits—are too gun-shy to print and promote.
As with albums on small music labels, books on small presses may be unlikely to be carried in suburban chain stores, and they are less likely to be reviewed. But small presses often also carry some of the more interesting stuff around, books that take risks and seem new rather than rehash last year's chick- or dick-lit phenom. According to Lidia Yuknavitch, founder of Chiasmus Press and one of the readers at Smallpressapalooza, "there is a vital need for small presses because literature has become the product of high capitalism.... Small presses retain a kind of revolutionary interruptive energy."
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Clear Cut Press
Co-founded in 2001 by Richard Jensen (co-founder also of music label Up Records) and by local author Matthew Stadler, the literary imprint produces handsome, Japanese-printed softcovers of art, fiction or poetry. Small in both size and number (there are only nine so far), the books are not only good-looking but also meticulously curated in terms of content, to the extent they could sensibly be collected as a set.
Book to look out for: Orphans (2006), by Charles D'Ambrosio. These essays of moment and place have been compared to Joan Didion's 1960s evocations of California, but don't be fooled: D'Ambrosio is no prose minimalist, and he's got none of Didion's patrician reservations. The insight and close observation is there—those strange turns of mind and phrase that smack you upside the sinuses—but so too is a 24-page ode to pissing in the ocean and maybe eating part of a whale. You got me? Visit clearcutpress.com for more info.
Chiasmus Press
Chiasmus is maybe the avant-punks in this crew—that is to say, punks with doctorates. Under Yuknavitch's editorial mantle, the books are headlong and kinetic and often sexually ballsy (so to speak), yet also informed by critical reading and the breakdown of the normal kind of storytelling. You get the idea they've all read '80s prose experimentalist Kathy Acker and want to mess you up from somewhere inside Michel Foucault's big bald noggin.
Book to look out for: Frank, by R.M. Berry (2005) Berry's Frank is demanding and ambitious and still somehow nuttily hilarious. The author calls this an "unwriting" of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, except that this time around the monster unleashed is language itself. Visit chiasmusmedia.net for more info.
Hawthorne Books
Hawthorne is perhaps the best organized of the Portland presses, and one of the few to devote itself to not only discovering new talent but also to bringing back from out-of-print titles by worthy authors such as Tom Spanbauer (Chuck Palahniuk's mentor) and the unjustly disappeared Richard Wiley.
Book to look out for: Clown Girl, by Portlander Monica Drake (2006). What could have become a collection of quirks became here a Sherwood Anderson grotesquerie, some big allegory of the sorry show everybody puts on anyway. There are reasons Chuck Palahniuk is still jealous of her. Visit hawthornebooks.com for more info.
Future Tense Books
As befits a press founded by someone who works at a bookstore (Powell's Kevin Sampsell), the books on Future Tense are highly diverse, running the gamut from books on golf to Jemiah Jefferson's celebrity fictions (St*rf*cker) to the blockbuster-ish teen memoirs of Ms. Zoe Trope (since picked up by Harper).
Book to look out for: Partial List of People to Bleach, by Gary Lutz (1997). Lutz is possibly the premier maker of the great American sentence, that twisty post-Gertrude-Stein thing that comes only from the turned stomach. Here's the first one that ever got my attention: "From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know that they are not in the room alone." He's our own little Beckett, and he knows how to make grammar an enemy. Visit futuretensebooks.com for more info.
Marriage Records
Marriage doesn't want to publish you. They put out music, but don't want to record you. Marriage is sort of a limited-entry club, a means for a group of friends to put out the art they like by the people they like. Their series of unthemed book/journal editions, Veneer, is accordingly filled with seemingly everybody they know writing about anything.
Book to look out for: The Sky Position, by Tom Blood (2006) This one just got done winning an Oregon Book Award. Blood's poems are a sort of grammatically indeterminate metaphysical play, punctuated often by a sudden burst of the immediate, as when "someone, a cool someone/ brought five pounds of roses in the trunk of a pinto hatchback/and then this was buried in your lawn, the car and everything." Visit marriagerecs.com for more info.
The Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia
The editors of UDLE—Garett Strickland, Ashley Edwards and Ashley Toliver—describe their enterprise as a "literary convergence." As this has played out so far, it means they bring together both performance and publication, printing small numbered editions to coincide with quarterly readings held at the Mizpah Church, rather than hold poetry/prose readings as an after-the-fact promotion of something already published.
Book to look out for: Unwin Dunraven Quarterly, No. 1. The edition for UDLE's inaugural reading series (March 2008) includes work by poets Joshua Marie Wilkinson and Noah Eli Gordon, a new favorite of mine. In Gordon's poem "Ten Ways to Take Apart an Airplane," Gordon asks, "Is this how you underline your way into the pantheon? Pegasus was a horse. The airplane, an automobile." Visit unwin-dunraven.org for more info.
ATTEND:Smallpressapalooza at Powell's City of Books, 1005 W Burnside St., 228-4651. 5 pm Thursday, March 20. Free.


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I may have missed the bus on this one (by about 600 years) but I wondered if anyone else had noticed his Noodleyness in this painting?
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Everyone is claiming it as a UFO, but seriously, who ever heard of such a thing!
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Element imbalances
Lack of fire
How would we describe someone who has a dominant fire element, with several planets in fire signs?
Audience: They will be optimistic, dramatic, radiant, forward-looking, and they will believe in themselves.
Clare: Yes. For people with several planets in fire, these qualities
will be an intrinsic feature of their conscious psyches. They have 'fire
within', or true fire, which means that they will usually have plenty of
faith in themselves, and an instinctively optimistic approach to life which
feels natural, comfortable and relaxed. They have nothing to prove. People
with a lot of fire don't have to make an effort to be optimistic; they
are just naturally optimistic, because that is how they are wired. And
they don't need to preach optimism and faith, because neither of these
things are a problem for them.
With a lack or absence of fire, however, then the quality of the fire expression will be significantly different. Someone with a lack of fire within will need to find their faith and meaning out there in the world, and this may well drive them in a fanatical, compulsive and extreme way which can actually be quite exhausting for that person, and even burn them out. This is an example of false fire, which can never be easy or comfortable, and which cannot be taken lightly or joked about. There is an important and very noticeable difference in the quality of these two types of expression. A lack is harsh, exhausting, and obsessive, which immediately gives us the clue that this person may not have that element.
Audience: This sounds like the difference between trines and squares.
Clare: Yes. A strong element is like a trine, relaxed and comfortable. An element lack or imbalance is like a square; there is a confrontation, a striving to resolve and manifest something in the world, and it is out of this struggle and tension that the most amazing achievements come. A shorthand way of thinking about the issues that might arise with a lack of fire in the chart is to think about the themes that belong to the signs of Aries, Leo and Sagittarius. Some fire words would therefore be: passion, competition, fame, recognition, self-belief, self-expression, risk-taking, the excitement of the chase, enthusiasm, optimism, and adventurousness. Without these qualities as conscious components of our own psyches, we will be driven to demonstrate them in the outside world. It is no accident that many famous people and film stars, such as Elvis Presley and Sean Connery, are lacking in fire, because there can be a tremendous drive for recognition by the outside world. Or that successful entrepreneurs and risk-takers, such as Aristotle Onassis, lack fire. Or that cult figures, visionaries or religious leaders, those who fire our imaginations and give us faith - anyone who is consumed by a cause - may lack fire. Inner faith does not have to be preached, it just is. Nostradamus, who had a lack of fire in his chart, was overwhelmed by powerful visions of the future.
Audience: Does this kind of overcompensation sometimes take a long time to show up? I know several people who are lacking in fire, but they are very passive and earthy. They are procrastinating all the time, and dreaming about doing things but never actually doing them. They don't seem to have any driving energy. I keep wondering if this will come later on.
Clare: It may be that they are already living the fire in their imaginations and dreams, and perhaps it is these dreams and fantasies that are more important to them than reality itself. Their driving energy may well be going into the imagination. Alternatively, they may have fiery partners who are living this out for them.
Audience: Let's say you are doing a chart for someone who has no fire. Do you assume that they will be lacking in basic energy and faith and self-belief, or do you assume they are going to be all fired up with some kind of goal? How do you approach this?
Clare: I think both are true. Most of what I am talking about tonight has been drawn from my own experience of working with clients. When I first started seeing clients and, for example, had a chart with a lack of fire, I might suggest that they had a lack of basic optimism, faith or energy. And I learned very quickly that this was not the right approach, because there was almost bound to be a kind of rigid defensiveness, a flat denial or over-compensation going on, and the client would often feel offended and start saying things like: 'No, I haven't', and then go on to give many instances to prove that what I had said was not true.
Audience: I was doing the chart of a friend of mine the other day, and I explained that she had no fire. She said that everyone was always telling her how fiery she was.
Clare: Yes, that tends to be the response you will get - something along the lines of, 'What do you mean?', or 'How can you possibly say that?', because it is a sensitive issue.
Audience: It is interesting that you say that Elvis Presley had no fire, because to me he is the archetypal fiery character. And yet he was a Capricorn Sun, wasn't he?
Clare: Yes, and yet he is one of the most famous cult figures of all time. He has become mythic, almost godlike, which is also a common theme with people who have a lack of fire.
Audience: And he was, in fact, very interested in religion, because a lot of his music was based on gospel music.
Clare: For some reason it seems that exceptionally talented people with a lack of fire can also die young, but at the same time become immortal, because they take on a mythic quality. This was true of both Kurt Cobain and Mozart, to take two extremely different examples. One of my favourite examples is that of Johannes Kepler, the sixteenth century astrologer and astronomer. Kepler had no fire in his chart except for the north Node in Leo. In spite of having double vision, he worked obsessively on the planetary orbits, producing 900 pages of tiny writing on the orbit of Mars. This is a good example of unbalanced behaviour, but his work led him to the discovery of the three great laws of planetary motion, which made him famous. What drove him was his desire to prove mathematically that the cosmos was an expression of divine perfection and harmony. We can achieve tremendous things where there is a lack in the chart, but they are never achieved easily, or without stress or tension.
Audience: Bruce Willis is another one without fire, isn't he? And yet he is out there being heroic and saving the world all the time in his films.
Audience: And I think there is a film where he actually goes out into space to blow up an asteroid that is heading for the earth. That is a combination of the extreme adventurer and risk-taker acting as the saviour of the world.
Clare: Quite. And we could certainly see this as a good example of over-compensation. But films - particularly science fiction - are flights of the imagination, so they can be a fiery medium, and it is through film that he achieves the fame and recognition he is seeking.
Lack of earth
With a lack of planets in earth signs, we can start to think about the kind of issues associated with the earth signs of Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. These will include money, security, the body, sexuality, food, health, work, practical skills, professional status, and responsibility. But I have learned never to say to someone with no earth that they may have issues about money, or about their bodies or their careers, because they are most likely to deny it, and say things like: 'I am very embodied - I go to the gym eight times a week'. The point about this is that it does not prove they have a good relationship to their bodies - it just proves that they have an obsessive relationship with their bodies, because it is not normal to go to the gym eight times as week. This will be a sensitive issue, but the point is that it is this kind of obsession which makes exceptional gymnasts or dancers or athletes, so it can be very creative.
Audience: I have a friend who is a great nutritionist, and she only has one planet in earth.
Clare: That is a good example of two earthy themes, work and food, coming together. And I would imagine that she is quite obsessive in her own life about food and diet, so working as a nutritionist is a very good way to earn money and to be of practical service, while at the same time, it gives her a reason to focus on the thing which obsesses her.
Audience: Yes, that's right.
Clare: I have often noticed that people with a lack of earth can have real issues about authority figures or professionals or people who represent structure and organisation. There can be a rather fanatical mistrust or despising of people in authority, and yet at the same time, the individual often longs for a position of authority and professional recognition themselves. Having a lack of an element often means that we will simultaneously despise and crave those things that are associated with that element. It sounds irrational and it is irrational, but it is very useful to understand that this is an important component of human nature.
Audience: That sounds fairly similar to the way oppositions work.
Clare: Yes, that's right. Bill Gates is an example of someone with no earth, who is one of the wealthiest men on earth and who has built a huge empire. And now that he has become a philanthropist, a great deal of his money is being spent on medical research, which is an interesting manifestation of a lack of earth and a corresponding interest in health issues.
Audience: It's as if he is not actually interested in the money itself.
Clare: That's right. He may well despise wealth and status on some level, and yet, on the other hand, work fanatically hard to achieve it. This can be a very useful way of helping us to see and accept our inner contradictions. This is not easy to do, but very helpful in understanding ourselves more fully. Bill Gates has now made himself whole by 'finding his earth' out there in the world. But that still doesn't give him any earth within. So, if he was your client and you mentioned 'money issues' during the consultation, he would probably agree with you - unless, of course, he had an unconscious complex about money, in which case he would feel offended and defend himself rigorously.
Audience: I only have Mercury and Chiron in earth, so I suppose that means I have a problem with the earth function.
Clare: It means that the earth function will be extremely important. You will find yourself driven to achieve something concrete and useful and practical, and that is where your particular gifts and talents may lie.
Audience: What I really hate is when people are tight and mean.
Clare: It sounds as if you judge people who hold on to their money, and yet, no doubt, you also work hard to build up enough of your own and to hold on to it, because this represents personal security for you. This could be an example of the kinds of contradictions that are inherent when we have a lack or absence of an element. Does this make any sense to you?
Audience: Yes, you are right.
Clare: I will just mention a few more examples of people with a lack of earth in their charts, before we move on. As I mentioned before, this can be a feature in the charts of people with highly developed and controlled bodies, such as athletes and ballet dancers. Or we might see this in people's life work - for example, Charles Darwin, whose life was devoted to studying nature, and Thomas Hardy the writer, whose novels strongly evoke the seasons and the English countryside, and Rodin, the sculptor. Or even the model Elle Macpherson, who has no earth in her chart, but who is known as 'the body'. An extremely unpleasant example is that of Dennis Nilson, the serial murderer who was obsessed with bodies, chopping his victims into pieces.
Lack of air
How are we going to approach a chart with a lack of air?
Audience: Will they have difficulty with detachment and with thinking logically?
Clare: That's right, and they are likely to have difficulty with intellectuals, or with the education system, or with people who are experts in their field, while seeking to be respected for their intelligence and ideas themselves. An air complex is likely to be fanatical, opinionated and rigid. Or they may well try to do their thinking by using one of the other elements, which is not the same thing as true air. For example, there may be a passionate drive or desire to communicate (fire acting as air), particularly strong feelings about relationships or social issues (water acting as air), or an obsession to objectively prove one's intellectual ability to the world by learning several languages or gaining several degrees or doctorates (earth functioning as air), none of which are ultimately the same thing as the thinking function itself, which is cool and logical and rational. All of these functions masquerade as the air function, but none of them is capable of genuinely replacing or truly compensating for the lack of air in the chart. But if we are comfortable with our intellects, we don't need to prove our intelligence to the outside world.
Audience: My boyfriend only has his Ascendant in an air sign, and he is obsessed with studying.
Clare: And no doubt he has made great achievements intellectually?
Audience: Yes, he has.
Clare: I think it is important not to see this as some kind of handicap, but as the source of our unique talents and achievements. The issues are likely to be those which are associated with the air signs of Gemini, Libra and Aquarius. This is not just about learning and studying, but it also includes the principles of equality, justice and harmony, relationships and involvement with social or political issues. And it is certainly true that there is a long list of famous scientists, writers, thinkers, politicians and philosophers who have a lack of air in their charts. When the air function erupts from the unconscious, it can bring real genius and brilliance, although the lack of an integrated air function can also mean difficulty functioning on the ordinary levels of thought and communication. The philosophers Bertrand Russell and Descartes lacked air, as did the writers Tolstoy, Goethe and Walter Scott, to name just a few examples. This can also be the case with brilliant scientists, such as Albert Einstein, whose only planet in air was Jupiter. I believe that he was literally unable to work out how to tie his shoelaces.
Lack of water
A person with several planets in water is likely to be in constant touch
with the natural ebb and flow of their emotions. They are sensitive to
changing rhythms in themselves and in others, and normally able to ride
the emotional waves as they rise and fall. A lack of water, on the other
hand, can describe someone whose emotional responses can be rather inappropriate,
absent, or overwhelming. Emotions can erupt from the unconscious in such
a way that the individual can feel as if they are being dissolved or drowned
by their feelings. The issues are likely to revolve around the themes of
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces - feelings about belonging and nurturing, emotional
dependence on others, empathy and compassion, and emotional pain.
With a lack of water, we may well try to feel by using one of the other elements with which we are more comfortable. We might try to feel with our fire function, dramatising or acting out our feelings without actually processing them on an emotional level. Or we might use our air function to learn a range of theories about feelings, and talk about their feelings all the time, whereas the water function itself is mute. Or we might use our earth function and work with feelings, by becoming a therapist, for example. A more self-destructive way of trying to access our feelings with the earth function might be to cut our bodies. These are all examples of compensating for a difficulty in feeling and processing emotions on an inner level. A lack of water is often found in the charts of exceptionally talented musicians, such as John Lennon, or Claude Debussy, who wrote the Sea Symphony. The same thing is true of many outstanding psychoanalysts, such as Jung, Freud, and Rollo May. It is well recognised that psychotherapists and counsellors often seek to heal themselves by working with their clients' emotional problems.
There can also be a very concrete obsession with water or liquid, as in the case of alcoholics, or people who use drugs to block out their feelings, or swimmers such as Mark Spitz, who won five Olympic gold medals, or even those, like Virginia Woolf or Percy Shelley, who drowned. In one way or another, the missing water function seems to demand outward expression in the lives of those who have a lack of this element in their charts.
Audience: I have certainly heard that people who are afraid of their emotions also have a fear of water.
Audience: Just before we end, can you say something about unaspected planets?
Clare: Yes, although the themes are identical to the ones we have been looking at tonight. A planet is considered to be unaspected if it makes no major aspects - conjunctions, oppositions, trines, squares or sextiles - or perhaps just one aspect. An unaspected planet, by definition, lacks integration with the other planets in a chart, and therefore it is not modified by other chart factors. It is therefore likely to function in a pure, archetypal and autonomous way, unmodified by the influence of other planets in the chart. Unaspected planets are always important, and deserve special consideration in a chart analysis.


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ARLINGTON, Va. (WUSA) - Virginia Delegate Patrick Hope recently posted undercover video of himself buying a handgun without a background check at last month's gun show at the Dulles Expo Center.
Over the past few years, Virginia Tech shooting survivor Colin Goddard has gone undercover at guns shows across the country to show how easy it is to buy high powered firearms without a background check.
And in December, Omar Samaha, whose sister Reema was killed at Tech, did the same thing at a Dale City gun show. He bought a revolver for $450 with no background check.
"Two people can meet on line, go into a parking lot, and just exchange case for the gun. And there's no record the transaction and you're selling to whoever you want," said Samaha.
Background checks use the FBI's data base, to prevent felons, domestic abusers, serious drug abusers, or those deemed dangerous mentally ill. Since Seung Hui Cho (the Virginia Tech shooter) slipped through the cracks, Virginia has beefed up it's policies.
"If somebody fails a background check, the state police and the local police to investigate why there was a failed sale. And last year in Virginia alone, it actually led to 850 arrests," said Samaha.
But still, Virginia, and 32 other states do not require background checks on private sales. A gun owner can have a background check provided anyway. Some licensed gun dealers such as Sharp Shooters in Lorton, Virginia will provide background check for private sales. They do charge $50, and the seller has to transfer the gun to the store before the background check can go through. Background checks usually take five to ten minutes, but can also take a few days.
While some gun sellers might be afraid to support universal background checks, Mike Collins of Sharp Shooters isn't.
"I don't think there's anything wrong with background checks. I don't think most people have a problem with them doing background checks," said Collins, who added that since most gun owners are law abiding citizens, they don't have a problem with background checks. He opposed to all of the other gun control measures proposed by the President.


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What is the music style played at the end, i love the guitars! Awesome!
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Technically and aesthetically, National Geographic Orion is arguably the most sophisticated vessel in its class. The Berlitz Ocean Cruising and Cruise Ships guide describes her as "the latest in the quest to build the ideal expedition cruise ship." Constructed by the world-leading Cassens Shipyard in Emden, and launched in November 2003, she boasts a host of advanced design features including technology that sets new standards in sustainable marine environmental practices.
Although custom-made for expedition cruising, National Geographic Orion is the epitome of elegance. No expense has been spared when it comes to the quality of fittings and furnishings, and the range and caliber of onboard recreational facilities are nothing short of five-star. National Geographic Orion's luxurious appointments means she is more mega-yacht than cruise ship and her passengers are few; 53, all cared for in 5-star comfort by an expert staff of 12 expedition team members plus 65 officers and crew.
Open daily when the ship is at sea, the Boutique offers a wide range of gifts ranging from signature clothing to the most beautiful pearls in the world from Paspaley. A limited supply of sundry items is available.
Orion has a glass elevator, centrally located in the atrium for ease of access. It services all stateroom decks and Deck 6, where you will find the Galaxy Observation Lounge and Cosmos Lecture Theatre.
Located on Deck 6 with sweeping ocean views, the gymnasium is equipped with the following LifeFitness equipment: a step machine, a treadmill, a cross trainer, 2 bicycles, free weights and exercise mats.
Hair and Beauty Salon
Our hair stylist is available by appointment, offering a range of services from a simple shampoo and blow dry to a complete make-over including manicure and pedicure.
Hospital & Infirmary
Orion has a doctor on board at all times and consultations should be arranged through the Reception Desk. A very limited range of pharmaceuticals is maintained on board so please be sure to pack sufficient quantities of medicines for your journey. Please note the Australian Medicare system does not extend to Orion and consultation fees will be charged to your stateroom account.
A laptop is available in the Library with internet connection. Internet access is also available in your stateroom using your own laptop. If your laptop is wireless enabled you may use it anywhere in the Galaxy Observation Lounge or the Leda Lounge. Two laptops are available for loan from the Reception Desk. Passengers can purchase the following internet cards: Internet Gold Card, 250 minutes, $100.00; Internet Silver Card, 100 minutes, $55.00; Internet White Card, 50 minutes, $22.50
A Jacuzzi spa is located on the Sun Deck, Deck 6. In warmer climes you'll find the spa affords a cool dip, doubling as a plunge pool.
Lecture Theatre
Our state-of-the-art lecture theatre with surround-sound is the scene for themed presentations by our Expedition team and Guest Speakers. All passengers are comfortably accommodated in arm-chair style seating.
Leda Lounge and Cocktail Bar
Centrally located on Deck 4, the Leda Lounge and Cocktail Bar is the hub of social life aboard Orion, comfortably seating all passengers at once. Tour briefings are held here before dinner and a duo plays for your entertainment later in the evening.
Our library is well-stocked with a wide variety of informative books and journals on our destinations, and both novels and games are also available. You'll also find a laptop here for internet access.
Marina Platforms
You'll embark the Zodiacs from either the Stern Marina Platform (accessed by the rear stairs from the Outdoor Café) or the Portside Embarkation Platform (accessed via the Mud Room on Deck 2). Cruise staff will direct you to the platform in use each day.
Mud Room
Located on Deck 2, this is a "wet area" allowing you to wash down boots after returning to the ship, thereby minimizing the risk of cross-contamination between pristine locations ashore, such as those found in Antarctica. You may also use this room to store your snorkel and flippers in designated lockers.
Observation Lounge
Located high atop Orion on Deck 6, the intimate Galaxy Observation Lounge affords stunning 270º views. Early Riser breakfast and Afternoon Tea are both served here.
Outdoor Café
The Delphinus Outdoor Café, located aft on Deck 4, offers al fresco dining for buffet breakfast and lunch. On balmy evenings you may book a table outdoors for dinner enjoying the same menu and service as presented in the restaurant.
Outdoor Bar
Located high on the ship adjacent to the Sun Deck Jacuzzi spa on Deck 6.
Reception Desk
Manned 24 hours a day, the Reception Desk is your 'first port of call' for all administrative matters.
The Constellation Restaurant offers passengers a relaxed yet sophisticated environment for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Dining aboard Orion is a leisurely experience with a single, open sitting allowing you to choose when and with whom you dine. Special signature menus designed for us by Sydney's Serge Danserau of 'The Bathers' Pavilion' fame complement our other alternatives.
Expedition Equipment
Zodiac landing craft, a hydrophone, an underwater video camera, a video microscope, and a crow's nest camera on Kimberley voyages. Plus kayaks, snorkeling gear for all guests, scuba gear for 24 guests, a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) capable of 1,000-foot-depth, and a glass-bottom boat on all South Pacific and the Kimberley with Spice voyages.
Sun Deck
You'll find padded teak steamer chairs on Deck 6 beside the Jacuzzi spa affording you a relaxing spot to read a book or simply doze in the sun. You'll find an ample supply of large blue beach towels close by.
Vega Health Spa
The Vega Spa offers a uni-sex dry sauna, the gymnasium is equipped with cardio vascular exercise machines and a range of massage/spa treatments are available.
Technical Information
Length: 103 metres
Beam: 14.25 metres
Draft: 3.82 metres
Hull: Ice-reinforced for voyages in the Arctic and Antarctic
Ice Class: E3 (Germanischer Lloyd)
Gross Tonnage: 4,000
Engines: Mak; 8M25; 3,265HP
Speed: 12.5 knots
Stabilisers: Blohm & Voss, retractable fin stabilisers
Manoeuvrability: Bow and stern thrusters
Built: 2003
Delivery Date: November 2003
Builder: Cassens Shipyard-Emden, Germany
Staterooms and Suites: 53
Passenger Capacity: 102 (twin occupancy).
Elevator: Yes
Classification: Germanischer Lloyd
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Regulations: Orion is built according to the latest international safety regulations, including those of the U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Public Health, Canadian Arctic Shipping, and St. Lawrence Seaway.
Additional Craft: 14 Zodiacs and 24 double kayaks.
Communications: Direct-dial satellite telephones; fax; e-mail; Internet access; internal telephone system
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Five families were at least temporarily displaced Saturday night by a fire at Emerson Place apartments that apparently started in a basement dryer.
Gary C. Beasley, executive director of Neighbors of Watertown, said improvements made after his nonprofit agency bought and refurbished the building in 2003 helped keep the blaze from spreading throughout the 11-apartment complex.
It could have been a heck of a lot worse, Mr. Beasley said. No one was injured.
Watertown firefighters were called to 23 Emerson Place about 7:15 p.m., and emergency officials were able to clear all of the apartments without incident and contain fire damage to a single apartment.
Luckily, everything worked in our favor, city Fire Chief Dale C. Herman said.
The Fire Department responded very quickly, Mr. Beasley said.
The blaze apparently started in the dryer in a basement in Apt. 23 and spread into the first-floor kitchen area and then the attic before being contained by firefighters, he said.
The apartment was occupied at the time of the fire, Chief Herman said. We dont believe there was anything suspicious.
Fire and police investigators will comb through the debris and photograph evidence before officially determining the cause, he said.
A couple of hours after the initial call, firefighters were still going through the row building to put out any hot spots and ensure that the fire was contained, Chief Herman said.
However, a main electric line that went through Apt. 23 was damaged; as a result, five of the 11 apartments were to be without power at least for the night, he said.
The fire-damaged apartment will have to be rebuilt, while the two adjacent apartments also received smoke and water damage and will have to be cleaned up before tenants can move back in, hopefully very soon, Mr. Beasley said.
We know the tenants are upset with any disruption, which is understandable, he said.
Those displaced, estimated at eight to 10 people in just the three damaged apartments, probably will be put up in motels if they dont have family or friends who can take them in, Mr. Beasley said.
There didnt appear to be structural damage to the building, he said.
The row apartment house and nearly a dozen nearby homes were renovated as part of the $4.1 million Emerson Place project a decade ago. The century-old row house, which has 10 three-bedroom apartments and one four-bedroom apartment, was completely redone, from the facade on the outside to new carpets, kitchen appliances and fresh coats of paint on the inside.
While attics throughout the row building used to be connected, fire walls separating the apartments all the way to the roof were included in the project and probably helped to contain Saturdays blaze, Mr. Beasley said.
The renovation project was completed in November 2003.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Societyby Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
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Perfect for book groups, a charming series of letters make up this short novel set in post-WWII Europe. The correspondents, drawn together by their love of books and affection for each other, collectively tell a moving tale of endurance and friendship in the shadow of war.
Written in letter form, this enchanting novel will completely win you over. Set in 1946, Guernsey's characters are utterly charming as they try to navigate the occupation of their island by the Germans. So vivid, so sweet, so irresistible; you will want to move to Guernsey like I did! You will love this book!
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"I wonder how the book got to Guernsey? Perhaps there is some sort of secret homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers."
January 1946: London is emerging from the shadow of the Second World War, and writer Juliet Ashton is looking for her next book subject. Who could imagine that she would find it in a letter from a man she's never met, a native of the island of Guernsey, who has come across her name written inside a book by Charles Lamb...
As Juliet and her new correspondent exchange letters, Juliet is drawn into the world of this man and his friends — and what a wonderfully eccentric world it is. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society — born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi when its members were discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island — boasts a charming, funny, deeply human cast of characters, from pig farmers to phrenologists, literature lovers all.
Juliet begins a remarkable correspondence with the society's members, learning about their island, their taste in books, and the impact the recent German occupation has had on their lives. Captivated by their stories, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds will change her forever.
Written with warmth and humor as a series of letters, this novel is a celebration of the written word in all its guises, and of finding connection in the most surprising ways.
Though it deals with a dark period in history, this first novel is an essentially sunny work. It affirms the power of books to nourish people enduring hard times — not so surprising, since Mary Ann Shaffer, who died earlier this year, had a long career as a librarian, bookseller and editor. Her niece Annie Barrows, a children's author, finished the manuscript after Shaffer fell ill; between them,... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) they crafted a vivid epistolary novel whose characters spring to life in letters and telegrams exchanged over the course of nine months shortly after the end of World War II. The story begins on January 8, 1946, with a note from Juliet Ashton to her publisher that capably sets the scene. Juliet's witty weekly columns about wartime life were recently collected in a best-selling book, but she's tired of being "a light-hearted journalist," she writes. "I do acknowledge that making readers laugh — or at least chuckle — during the war was no mean feat, but I don't want to do it anymore." Fortunately for Juliet, her popularity garners her an assignment from the Times Literary Supplement for a serious article about the "philosophical value of reading," and a letter from a farmer on Guernsey, an island in the English Channel, gives her the hook for it. Dawsey Adams found Juliet's name and address on the flyleaf of a copy of Lamb's "Selected Essays of Elia," he explains. "Charles Lamb made me laugh during the German Occupation, especially when he wrote about the roast pig. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society came into being because of a roast pig we had to keep secret from the German soldiers." Dawsey would like to purchase more books by Lamb, but the island's only bookshop is closed. Could she give him the address of a London bookshop? Understandably intrigued, Juliet sends him a copy of Lamb's "Selected Letters" and a series of questions. The pig was contraband, Dawsey tells her, served for dinner instead of being turned over to the Germans, and several participants lingered so long over this illicit feast that they were caught out after curfew. Quick-witted Elizabeth McKenna hastily invented a heated meeting of the Guernsey Literary Society as the reason for their tardiness, and she was so charming that the German patrol officer bought it. But since his commandant wanted to attend meetings, they had to actually establish the society. Its name was amended after one member declared he wasn't going to any meetings unless there was food; under the occupation's straitened circumstances, Potato Peel Pie was the best they could come up with. Yes, the premise is contrived: The authors don't even bother to suggest how Juliet's discarded book turned up in Guernsey, and the neat way its literary society fits into her Times assignment is highly convenient. Most readers won't mind because her request for more information unleashes a flood of correspondence from a delightful gallery of eccentrics: valet John Booker, whose discovery of Seneca "kept me from the direful life of a drunk"; Isola Pribby, who immerses herself in the Brontes when she isn't whipping up elixirs "to restore manly ardor"; fisherman Eben Ramsey, who loves Shakespeare; farmer Clovis Fossey, who dotes on the poetry of Wilfred Owen but detests Yeats ("What does he know about verse?"). Juliet is so enchanted by these simple folk who share her passion for books that she can spare little time for Mark Reynolds, the dashing American publisher who courts her in London. Off she goes to Guernsey, where she falls in love with 4-year-old Kit, the illegitimate daughter of Elizabeth and a German soldier who was killed after leaving the island. Elizabeth, arrested and sent to prison in Europe, has not yet returned, so her friends are collectively raising Kit. It's soon clear that Juliet wants to take responsibility for the little girl — and that Kit isn't the only local the writer has fallen for. Despite a few nasty characters, some grim descriptions of life under German occupation and the brutal death of a central figure, this is at heart a love story. It's not so much the predictable blossoming of Juliet's romance that moves us, however. It's Clovis getting a kiss from the widow he's courting by quoting Wordsworth: "Lookie there, Nancy. The gentleness of Heaven broods o'er the sea." It's Isola waxing indignant about Charlotte, Emily and Anne forever having to clean up after dissolute brother Branwell. It's Juliet finding her book topic among these people who have suffered but discovered the sustaining qualities of literature. You could be skeptical about the novel's improbabilities and its sanitized portrait of book clubs (doesn't anyone read trashy thrillers?), but you'd be missing the point. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a sweet, sentimental paean to books and those who love them. Wendy Smith writes about literature, music and the performing arts for the American Scholar. Reviewed by Wendy Smith, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"I can't remember the last time I discovered a novel as smart and delightful as this one, a world so vivid that I kept forgetting this was a work of fiction populated with characters so utterly wonderful that I kept forgetting they weren't my actual friends and neighbors. Treat yourself to this book, please — I can't recommend it highly enough." Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
"Elizabeth and Juliet are appealingly reminiscent of game but gutsy '40s movie heroines. The engrossing subject matter and lively writing make this a sure winner, perhaps fodder for a TV series." Kirkus Reviews
"Reminiscent of Helene Hanff's 84 Charing Cross Road, this is a warm, funny, tender, and thoroughly entertaining celebration of the power of the written word. This marvelous debut novel, sure to have book club appeal, is highly recommended." Library Journal (Starred Review)
"Written in the form of letters (a lost art), this novel by an aunt-and-niece team has loads of charm, especially as long as Juliet is still in London corresponding with the society members." Booklist
"A book-lover's delight, an implicit and sometimes explicit paean to all things literary." Chicago Sun-Times
"I've never wanted to join a club so desperately as I did while reading The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. [The novel] is a labor of love and it shows on almost every page." Christian Science Monitor
As London is emerging from the shadow of World War II, writer Juliet Ashton discovers her next subject in a book club on Guernsey — a club born as a spur-of-the-moment alibi after its members are discovered breaking curfew by the Germans occupying their island.
January 1946: writer Juliet Ashton receives a letter from a stranger, a founding member of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. And so begins a remarkable tale of the island of Guernsey during the German occupation, and of a society as extraordinary as its name.
About the Author
Mary Ann Shaffer worked as an editor, a librarian, and in bookshops. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society was her first novel.
Her niece, Annie Barrows, is the author of the children's series Ivy and Bean, as well as The Magic Half.
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MASSENA While the recently announced $4.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation will cover the cost of repaving one of the airports runways, Town Supervisor Joseph D. Gray said the grant is not enough to pay for a runway expansion project.
Mr. Gray said the grant provided Massena with exactly what it was looking for, noting that while airport expansion has been discussed for years, it has never actually been studied formally.
There are a lot of challenges when you start talking about runway expansions, he said. First of all you have to find $10 million to $15 million to pay for it. The town could bond for it and extend the runway tomorrow, but then how do you pay for it other than through raising taxes?
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If you could show a corresponding increase in revenue that would cover the costs, that would be one way to do it, he said.
While Mr. Gray said that most people would like to see an expanded airport with bigger planes in Massena, its not quite as simple as expanding the runway.
When you go above planes with 20 passengers you become a different kind of airport, he said. With the change in classification you have an increased responsibility in fire protection and an increase in operating expenses.
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There needs to be a business plan put together that would show what a longer runway would cost and things that could happen that would help to offset the costs, he said. You could potentially increase the $200,000 debt were currently running at the airport if there is no corresponding revenue.
Should the airport eclipse the 10,000-passenger mark, Mr. Gray said, the town would earn an additional $1 million subsidy.
That would really help, he said, adding that while use is up at Massena, the 10,000-passenger mark isnt likely to be hit this year.
Usage is up at the airport, but were still running about 50 percent capacity, he said, adding that hes hopeful that over the next several months Massena will see a boost in Canadian ridership, similar to what has been seen in Ogdensburg.
Cape Air has been marketing in Ottawa longer than they have anywhere else, Mr. Gray said, adding it just recently has begun marketing itself in Cornwall and other Canadian communities in the area.
Canadians like to cross on the ground and fly to U.S. destinations from the U.S. because its a lot cheaper, he said, adding that customs on the ground is easier to deal with than customs at the airport.
In the period from September 2012 through April, Ogdensburg has seen 683 Canadian passengers compared with only 201 for Massena.
Overall ridership at the airport is up this year, with first-quarter ridership increasing from 1,070 to 1,161, an increase of 91 passengers or 8.5 percent. Second-quarter ridership did drop a bit, from 1,242 to 1,187, a decrease of 55 riders or 4.43 percent, but overall through the first half of the year, ridership is up 36 passengers.
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