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Arabian days and nights in Oman
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As the second largest country on the Arabian Peninsula, Oman is a Muslim state, headed by an omnipotent Sultan but it's a moderate and tolerant regime and the people are charming, friendly, generous and welcoming.
Omanis are rightly proud of many things and especially of the just opened new blacktop motorway that snakes up from their capital city of Muscat and the coast to open up Oman's wild and mountainous interior – so much so that I came across a long line of cars parked on the hard shoulder so the occupants could decamp and take in the truly spectacular view,
The country is in many ways as stridently modern – if with far better taste – as the likes of Dubai, Qatar and Abu Dhabi but strike off into the interior and you discover an environment that is almost biblical, apart from the incongruous rash of satellite dishes that seem to multiply overnight.
Date palms and donkeys, white bearded old men and bright-eyed kids, donkeys and beekeepers and stunning views keep cameras clicking, with my companions calling on the unpaid modelling services of our ever-smiling driver Nassr at every opportunity and one snap happy chappie only taking time out from constantly consulting his faithful Blackberry to whack off yet another of more than 2,000 clicks he made on his massive-lensed Canon 50D.
It was he who kept prompting Abdullah, our ever-smiling guide, to open up and tell us all about the Omani version of Islam – neither Sunni nor Shiite – and his two wives, while the girls in our crew ribbed Abdullah over a culture of polygamy that, he assured us, is unlikely to survive beyond the next generation.
4x4s on the first day and a bus on the second whisked us along well engineered and smoothly surfaced highways before we plunged off down byways roughly paved with chunks of broken white rock, winding their way through deep wadis (dry river beds).
These narrow, sheer-sided gorges are subject to flash floods, making them totally impassable after big storms but the rains that had fallen in the days just before our arrival had served only to create a handful of green puddles, just deep enough to attract happy local 10-year olds for a splash.
Many more youngsters were on hand to enjoy swimming in the famed hot springs at Nakhl, with its ancient fort and four-kilometre stretch of date palm plantations.
There were many highlights to our all too short two-day out of town adventure. A group of Egyptian ladies and their menfolk smilingly shared their picnic with us, though we'd already demolished the formidable hotel-provided lunchboxes; we visited a fascinating, if smelly, seashore fish market at Seeb and wandered inside the vast 500-year old fortress at Rustaq, with its dozens of rooms and many different levels, and we stood on the rim of a dizzyingly deep crater that is – depending on who you are talking to – evidence of either a comet strike or a collapsed cavern. We passed by Jabel Al Akhdar, at 10,000 feet, Oman's highest mountain, rising straight from the sea.
Contrasts are many, ranging from vast desert expanses and awe-inspiring rugged mountain ranges to a lush green south and broad beaches of virginal golden sand.
We learned of bullfights that pit bull against bull and of professed Muslims who never attend the mosque because they like to drink and face a 40-day ban from prayer whenever they do so, and we gained an insight into the Sultanate's colourful history. It was a real insight into country life, Omani style.
Back in Oman we found a fast-growing city with dazzlingly white, mostly modern, buildings designed in a distinctly Arabian vernacular style.
Shopping figures big on the shopping agenda here, with gold, spices and silks among the sought after items in the bustling Muttrah Soug indoor marketplace.
Sightseeing musts include the magnificent Grand Mosque, with its towering minarets, the intriguing National Museum, the busy fish market down on the Corniche and the Royal Al Alam Palace, flanked by the 16th Century forts of Jalali and Mirana. There's also the opportunity to take a ride aboard the world's fastest ferry boat, run by National Ferries Company (+968 2447 2123, nfcoman.com), which reaches speeds of 104 kph and opens up superb views of the dramatic coastline.
Roger St. Pierre flew to Muscat from Heathrow with Oman Air (08444 822309; omanair.com) – the world's first airline to offer in-flight mobile phone and wi-fi connectivity, allowing passengers to make voice calls, send text messages, check e-mails, use instant messaging or access the internet. The airline flies a fleet of spacious Airbus A330 aircraft.
Accommodation was provided at the newly opened Millennium Resort (+968 268 71600, millenniumhotels.com), set on the Gulf of Oman at Mussanah. There are 234 spacious guestrooms and 74 fully furnished apartments, as well as a 54-berth marina.
For further information on Oman, go to omantourism.gov.oman.


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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C.---An historic inn in North Augusta is open again. The ribbon was cut at Rosemary Hall on West Avenue this afternoon.
Rosemary Hall is across the street from Lookaway Hall off Georgia Avenue. Now both turn of the century homes are open for guests and special events.
"I know in the past these properties have not had exactly a stellar reputation, and we really do want to change that," said co-owner Rhonda Conner. "And we want everyone to feel welcome to come through the front door and visit with us."
Both of the houses are on the historic register and played a big role in the development of North Augusta. Founding father James U. Jackson and his brother owned both properties.

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Murder suspect pleads guilty to unrelated crime
Another suspect in Pat O'Hagan's killing goes before judge for another crimeUPDATED 11:43 AM EDT Jun 13, 2013
Another suspect in the murder of Sheffield grandmother Mary "Pat" O'Hagan stood before a federal judge today for a crime unrelated to the killing.Video Transcript
MURDER OF SHEFFIELD GRANDMOTHER MARY PAT O- HAGAN STOOD BEFORE A FEDERAL JUDGE TODAY...THIS TIME FOR AN UNRELATED CRIME. NEWSCHANNEL FIVE'S VANESSA MISCIAGNA HAS THIS CRIME BEAT REPORT LIVE FROM THE NEWSROOM, VANESSA? ONE DAY AFTER EVIDENCE OF RICHARD FLETCHER'S ROLE IN O'HAGAN'S KILLING HAD AN IMPACT ON HIS CHILD PORN SENTENCE... A SECOND SUSPECT, MICHAEL NORRIE, APPEARED IN THE SAME COURT ROOM. NOT FOR MURDER CHARGES ... BUT FOR A PLEA CHANGE IN AN UNRELATED CRIME... 22 YEAR OLD MICHAEL NORRIE STOOD BEFORE THE SAME JUDGE THAT HIS COUSIN, RICHARD FLETCHER DID ON TUESDAY. BOTH MEN, ALONG WITH FLETCHER'S BROTHER KEITH BAIRD, ARE SUSPECTS IN THE 2010 MURDER OF MARY PAT O'HAGAN. JUST LIKE HIS COUSIN, NORRIE WAS IN FEDERAL COURT FOR CHARGES UNRELATED TO THE MURDER. ON TUESDAY FLETCHER WAS SENTENCED TO ALMOST 16 YEARS IN PRISON FOR CHILD PORN PRODUCTION. THE JUDGE TACKED EXTRA TIME BEYOND THE MANDATORY FIFTEEN YEAR MINIMUM BECAUSE SHE WAS CONVINCED HE PLAYED A PART IN O'HAGAN'S MURDER THOUGH HE HAS NOT BEEN CHRAGED FOR IT. mark he went thru a fair system, he was found to be responsible and there's no punishment for it ON WEDNESDAY, NORRIE CHANGED HIS PLEA TO GUILTY ON TWO 2009 FELONY FIRE ARMS CHARGES. LIKE FLETCHER, NORRIE WAS RECORDED BY STATE POLICE ADMITTING HIS INVOLVEMENT IN THE SHEFFIELD WOMAN'S MURDER. PROSECUTORS SAYS THEY WILL USE THOSE TAPES ALONG WITH WITNESS TESTIMONY IN NORRIE SENTENCING HEARING. BUT THE FACT THE STATE HASN'T CHARGED THE MEN WITH THE MURDER HAS O'HAGAN'S FAMILY FRUSTRATED MARK OHAGAN it's not the people, it's the system, that there is a disregard for life and there is a disregard for the people who are harmed PAT O'HAGAN'S BODY WAS FOUND IN WHEELOCK IN 2010, AFTER SHE DISAPPEARED FROM HER HOME. INVESTIGATORS AND O'HAGANS FAMILY HOPE THE MEN ARE CHARGED BEFORE TIME RUNS OUT. stand up vermont law says that a murder case only has three years to go to trial, and the dealine for ohagans case is up in september. Her family is hoping that any one with any information will come forward in the killing of their mother matt ohagan extend the statute of limitations beyond three years or these guys are going to walk theyre going to be among you and their going to do it again AS THE DEADLINEAPPROA CHES THE O'HAGAN FAMILY WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH POLICE AND FOLLOW THE SUSPECTS CASES ON THE UNRELATED CHARGES. matt ok what are the next steps, we can't talk about them, but theyre as axious as we are to see this through, we aren't giving up EACH OF NORRIE'S FIRE ARMS COUNT CARRY A MAXIMUM SENTENCE OF 10 YEARS AND A FINE UP TO TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. HIS SENTENCE HEARING WILL BE ON NOVEMBER 13TH OF THIS YEAR LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM, VANESSA MISCIAGNA, NEWS CHANNEL 5 SAME MURDER,
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Reconsidering Character
PRIMARY COLORS (A-3, R): This is the film version of Joe Klein's inside-but-fictionalized account of a presidential primary campaign very much like 1992. Recall that Bill Clinton emerged from a small state and overcame an accumulation of normally fatal publicity disasters (charges of infidelities, draft dodging) to win the Democratic nomination and wrest the White House from George Bush.
John Travolta is Clinton-like Jack Stanton, and Emma Thompson is his very tough and touching wife, Susan, who is, perhaps, based on Hillary. Dimly disguised takeoffs on real Clinton staff people are Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Paul Guilfoyle and Maura Tierney, with Larry Hagman as a competing candidate of integrity who has potentially deadly ghosts in his past.
The advantages of this not-entirely-fiction genre are numerous: You can portray events and people as you prefer, without the context or even the basic factual requirements of journalism. If you don't know who, what or why, you just make it up. But Klein's novel won praise, not just for entertaining but for coming closer to the complex human realities than you can in a family newspaper.
In the movie, created by the canny veteran director-writer team of Mike Nichols and Elaine May, we're invited to reconsider the meaning and relevance of "character" in political democracy. The film covers the early primary roller-coaster ride and suggests the areas of sleaze, plus some still-credible reasons for the Stanton success, despite his personal flaws. It sets up a familiar ethical question: Is it O.K. to fight dirty to get elected?
The structure is shrewd and effective. A smart young black political pro (Brit actor Adrian Lester) joins Stanton's campaign because he's tired of winning only moral victories.
The crunch dilemma is improbably presented by Libby (Kathy Bates), a blunt, profane and rousingly effective political investigator. Will Jack and Susan leak the past sins of Hagman's character to the press? Or will they stick to the ideals of their youth, when they were all trying to stop the war and get Nixon out of the White House? In short, do politicians have to compromisebecome the enemyto win?
Nearly every Hollywood movie has sided with the pure of heart. Ends do not justify means. Colors (and this really has nothing to do with Stanton/Clinton) comes down more on the pragmatic side, but it shows the argument is infinitely complicated.
The film has some terrific moments: the off-on, affection-anger relationship between Jack and Susan; the scene where the staff, trying to ask Susan about how to handle womanizing questions, gets lost in a bear-in-the-woods metaphor. Jack's positives and negatives are not so much balanced as presented as a puzzle with many solutions. It's hard to dislike this man, but those who want to will easily find a way. Adult language and situations; melodrama mixes with truth, comedy with insight; O.K. for mature viewers.
TWILIGHT (A-3, R): Times have changed radically in movies since Paul Newman began making them. In Twilight, for example, a running joke is whether Newman's Harry Ross is seriously damaged by a stray shot in his private parts.
But mostly, this movie has the polish and elegance of old-time Hollywood. It almost never crosses your mind that Newman, graceful as ever, is 73. His voice is lower and raspier, but the twinkle in the blue eyes is still Butch Cassidy. The roots of fellow cast members (Gene Hackman, Susan Sarandon, James Garner, Stockard Channing) are nearly as deep.
In this screenplay by reliable director Robert Benton (Nobody's Fool, Places in the Heart), Newman's Ross is a longtime friend of a glamorous movie-star couple (Hackman, Sarandon) who are blackmail targets in connection with an old unsolved movieland mystery. The haunting background music is by Elmer Bernstein.
Despite the cliches, these stylish vintage movie artists keep us beguiled. This film genre has persisted because it's a deeply Californian and American archetype: the vague sense of corruption and decay in Paradise. There's ultimate shabbiness beneath the effortlessness and the beautiful facade. We're encouraged to ponder the flawed humanity of the stars, who hypnotize us into loving them and envying how they live. Artful, wise genre movie; satisfactory for adults.
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (O, R) begins with characters who are morally absurd in almost all respects. Like many movies by Joel and Ethan Coen (Fargo, Raising Arizona), this comedy involves cartoonish losers in scary situations beyond their control. The heroes are Los Angeles bowling pals who are comic polar archetypes of the boomer generation.
The Dude (hairy, laidback Jeff Bridges) is an unemployed aging hippie with a limited vocabulary. He smokes pot and listens to whale music. He tends to have bad luck: His Venice pad is trashed by thugs who think he's some other Lebowski.
His friend Walter (John Goodman) is a slightly off-track Vietnam vet who aims a gun at a guy who won't admit he crossed the foul line while bowling a spare. Despite being lovable and loyal, he loses his temper easily.
These characterstheir wild mix of values, how they talk, even how they dreamare the film. They're the innocents enmeshed in the cliches of a plot. Their troubles escalate beyond reason, not to mention patience and good taste.
The Dude may work as satire but not as a hero, even in farce. The major flaw of the Coens is that their wit often undercuts both story and sense. It's not a family movie, but adult Coen fans will find the Dude and Walter belong in their gallery of wacko eccentrics. Problem language, drug content, violence, sex situations; not especially recommended.
THE WEDDING SINGER (A-3, PG-13) is a romantic comedy with likable heroes. It's also a reasonably witty send-up of the 1980's. You get nostalgia and culture critique along with a fun romance.
Robbie, the singer, is a gentle do-gooder of moderate talent who not only provides the songs at wedding receptions but also goes out of his way to make the rough paths smooth. The job is an elegant metaphor for benevolence. Robbie is played with some charm by Adam Sandler, the normally obnoxious, bathroom-obsessed Saturday Night Live comic.
Robbie tries to help out a waitress friend, Julia (Drew Barrymore), who's planning an unlikely wedding to a boorish and womanizing junk-bond broker. The obstacles arranged by writer Tim Herlihy and director Frank Coraci are fun as well as easy to jump.
Yet it's the values you most admire in this unusual Gen-X comedy. Robbie's best friend (Allen Covert) puts life's essence about as well as it's been done in any elite work of literature. Above average romantic nostalgia; some problem language and sexual innuendo.
JUST WHEN you were discouraged and depressed about TV on a recent Saturday because an old Eddie Murphy flick showed up on ABC instead of Nothing Sacred, you zapped around to C-SPAN and discovered former Beirut hostage Terry Anderson talking about forgiveness.
Then it's Sister Helen Prejean, on the same channel, discussing the advances toward the gospel spirit of forgiveness and Pope John Paul II's action to change the new Catechism of the Catholic Church so there is no shelter for death-penalty advocates in Catholic teaching.
Both speakers are easygoing, articulate, interesting: The Tube isn't always a wasteland, even on Saturday night.
REST IN PEACE: Fred Friendly died on March 3 at age 82. He became a legend producing documentaries (Harvest of Shame) in the 1950's Golden Age with Ed Murrow. Friendly remained a gadfly and conscience to the medium long into his retirement. Many principled and talented people follow his inspiration and prosper. TV needs them.
UGANDA: I was watching 60 Minutes and Christianne Amanpour's report on Uganda. For 10 years a mad rebel who wants to turn the country into a religious state based on the Ten Commandments has been kidnapping children and using them as soldiers in a campaign of terror and massacre against the peasants and people in his way.
Amanpour, bringing this news to the vast CBS audience, does God's work. (I'm haunted by the face of a young French nun whose schoolchildren were brutalized and violated.) In this drama of real life, we must provide the happy endings.
FAMILY WEEKEND MOVIES will be especially strong in May on the Odyssey cable channel on Friday evenings. Among the titles are: The Little Princess (May 1), based on the poignant orphan classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett; The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (May 8), based on C. S. Lewis's Narnia children's tale; My Bodyguard (May 22), the excellent 1980 movie (with Adam Baldwin and Matt Dillon) about a bullied Chicago schoolkid who hires a withdrawn youth to protect him; and George C. Scott's Oliver Twist (May 29). Recommended for preadolescents and parents.
LATELINE (NBC, Tuesdays) is the most recent variation on the TV-news sitcom hallowed by the Mary Tyler Moore gang. It's much less sex-obsessed than most new series (so far, I caution). This is comic/political commentator Al Franken's spoof of TV news, not really ABC's ponderous Nightline. It usually plugs in celebrity guests (James Lovell and Joan Lunden on recent episodes) and manipulates familiar stereotypes (egotistic male anchor, eager female producer) brightly.
Coproducer and writer Franken (another Saturday Night Live alum) plays the klutzy, Everyman correspondent sent out on all the dirty jobs. He's the unique element on the show and probably his own best weapon. The series works on inside jokes for the deeply backgrounded as well as broad humor for the uninitiated rest of us.


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It was something that newly elected prime minister of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, said about Turkey's application for membership in the European Union, which made me think about which countries are currently in or slated to be in the European Union, and which countries are in or slated to be in the eurozone and users of the euro as their countries' currencies. After a bit of research, I now know — and so will you after reading this article.
The European Union (EU), established by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993, had primary goals of achieving the "four freedoms" of movement: goods, services, capital and people (which included the abolition of passport controls). In order to help achieve those goals, it maintains for its members common policies on trade, agriculture, fisheries, and regional economic and social development. The EU currently has 27 member countries, which are located primarily in Europe:
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The population of the EU is just over 500 million. The combined members' GDP is the equivalent of US$ 16.5 trillion and represents an estimated 28 percent of world nominal GDP. GDP per capita in the EU is $33,052 compared with $46,400 in the United States.
There are currently four countries who are candidates to join the EU: Croatia, Iceland, Macedonia and Turkey. In addition, Albania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia are officially recognized as potential candidates. In order to join the EU, a country must meet three criteria: (1) a stable democracy that respects human rights and the rule of law, (2) a functioning market economy capable of competition within the EU, and (3) acceptance of the obligations of membership, including EU law.
The Lisbon Treaty, signed by EU members in 2007 and which went into effect in 2009, provides a process for an EU member country to voluntarily withdraw from the EU. To date, no member state has ever left the EU, although there are numerous political movements across the EU campaigning for withdrawal, and which are becoming more vocal over the last year as a result of the Greek debt crises.
The birth of the euro was January 1, 1999. Sixteen EU countries (in bold below) have chosen to adopt the common currency as their sole legal tender, forming the eurozone. Eleven EU countries have chosen not to adopt the euro (in grey):
The monetary policies of the eurozone countries are the responsibility of the European Central Bank. There is no common fiscal policy, which, as we know now, has led to some big problems not just for the EU but for the world.
The countries that joined the EU since 2004 — Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia — were required by EU mandate to eventually adopt the euro. To date only Slovakia and Slovenia have adopted it.
In order to join the eurozone a country must spend two years in the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), a system requiring a country's government/central bank to manage the value of the currency against the euro within a pre-determined band and with low volatility.
The Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania) looking to gain economic stability are eager to join the eurozone and are participating in the ERM. Only Latvia has so far gained approval to join, which will be on January 1, 2011.
Britain, Sweden and Denmark
Countries with larger economies and wider trading ties — Britain, Sweden and Denmark — see no clear advantage to joining the eurozone, and following the Greek debt crisis have backed well away from moving forward.
Britain's politicians and the general public regularly debate the advantages to joining the eurozone. The consensus view has been fairly consistent since the creation of the euro, the view that a country's exchange rate is a very powerful mechanism for making adjustments to one's economy, especially in the uncertain world with which we have been living over the last decade. A flexible exchange rate has proven to help a country better cope with big financial shocks than those countries that are tied to a common currency.
For similar reasons, Sweden and Denmark have decided not to join the eurozone. However, since their economies over the last few years have experienced tighter integration and convergence with the eurozone and their monetary policies, particularly Sweden's, have followed closely with that of the European Central Bank, it may actually make sense now to join.
Any eurozone country that defaults on its sovereign debt would be required by EU mandate to leave the eurozone. So far, Greece has been the only member for which the financial markets entertained such a possibility. Whatever the case, the huge bailout of Greece by the other eurozone members showed their strong interest in preventing any member from leaving. The risk to the rest following a member's departure would weaken the credibility of the euro, deepening the sense of crisis and possibly forcing other countries to drop out.
Back to Turkey
Certainly an emotionally charged issue is that of Turkey's application for EU membership. Since negotiations were opened in 2005, both sides of the table — EU leaders and Turkish leaders — have vacillated between wanting in and not wanting in to the club. It remains to be seen if and when Turkey, a country that is geographically, politically and officially part of two continents (a true bridge between Europe and Asia) will in fact become part of the EU. Mr. Cameron thinks they should be, saying that those who oppose Turkey's EU membership are either "protectionists", "polarized" or "prejudiced."
The Future of the EU
A final thought, which I believe is right on target, was made by Liz Alderman writing for the New York Times. She says that "how European Union leaders ultimately handle the Greek problem could either propel Europe to greater economic and political clout in the decades ahead, or downgrade it to a sideshow in a global economic theater directed by China and the United States."
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Scholarships to the Oslo International Summer School
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For women from Minnesota to study in Norway or Norwegian women to attend a college or university in Minnesota or the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. GPA of 3.0 or better, Norwegians the equivalent. Application form available at www.lakselaget.org under the 'Foundation' tab. March 15 deadline.
- The American-Scandinavian Foundation
Offers fellowships and grants for advanced study or research in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. Applicants must have completed their undergraduate education by the start of their project in Scandinavia, and must be United States citizens or permanent residents. Application Deadline November 1. Decisions announced March 15.
- Normanna Lodge #52 of the Sons of Norway
Two $1,000.00 scholarships. Requirements: 3.5 GPA, completed at least two years of college, and intends to enroll in a program that leads to a concentration in Norwegian Studies. Application blanks may be requested from Secretary, Normanna Lodge #52 Sons of Norway Box 875 Albert Lea, MN 56007. Deadline March 15.
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I just returned from a MySQL Federal Migration Boot Camp, jointly presented by Carahsoft and Sun/MySQL. It was a half-day seminar on the topic of migrating applications to MySQL, targeted to the US Government sector. Specifically, most of the audience seemed to be running Oracle, though there were some users of other systems (Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase, Informix, etc).
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Money Supply
By MortazaviBlog on Jun 13, 2007
Despite the recent correction to the falling prices and rising yields of U.S. treasuries, I've been wondering how the Federal Reserve might react in the coming months as the bond market remains jittery. The talk to beat inflation was tough when the new chair took his place. However, if money is tightened to reduce inflation, interest rates will have to rise even more, furthering the slump in the housing market already suffering from the recent subprime melt-down. This course of action will lead to serious unhappiness among those owning property. If the Fed decides on merely talking about beating the inflation while letting money loose, interest rates will remain less volatile and inflation will rise but perhaps at a slower rate than would cause a shock. If I were to bet, I would bet that the Fed will choose the latter coure of action. It is the politically "prudent" course although many who earn wages and have little property to own may suffer more than others.


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New Head of OPEC is Iranian Military Hardliner
If we had thought the world's economy wasn't in enough turmoil, how will Iran's top revolutionary guard commander with his hand on the tiller of world oil prices sound to the world oil market? That is now the reality after a vote taken Thursday in Iran's Parliament saw the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Rostam Ghasemi, beat of the challenge of three other candidates to become Iran's new Oil Minister – and, automatically, head of OPEC.
Of the 246 votes available in the 290-seat Teheran Parliament on August 3, Ghasemi took 216. The move is being seen touted by the Iranian media as a direct response to the West's imposition of international sanctions.
Iran's government-sponsored Fars news agency quotes Ramedan Sharif, head of the revolutionary guard's PR unit, as saying, "The clever and decisive vote of Iranian MPs for engineer Ghasemi to become oil minister is a meaningful and crucial response to attacks against the guards from the west's media empire."
Ali Motahari, a prominent conservative MP a man, who in the past has called for the impeachment of President Ahmadinejad, argued strongly against the move. Motahari, told Parliament, "The integration of the guard, as a military force, in political and economic power is not in the interests of the system." He added, "In neighbouring countries, military officials are distancing themselves from politics and power, while it's the opposite in Iran."
Last October, the Obama administration ratcheted up tensions over Iran's nuclear program by imposing fresh sanctions. But this time it got personal. The U.S. sanctions specifically froze the assets in U.S. jurisdictions of four affiliates of the IRGC, and one individual: Rostam Ghasemi.
In May this year, evidence of the heavy involvement of the IRGC in Iran's economic affairs was confirmed when Ghasemi, speaking on behalf of the IRGC command, made it clear that they would take over lucrative oil contracts left behind by French Total and Royal Dutch Shell, who pulled out after international pressure over the nuclear stand-off. Ghasemi also expressed the desire for the IRGC to expand its scope of economic and construction activities outside Iran. Taking the chair at OPEC is perhaps beyond even what Ghasemi and the IRGC had in mind when it came to expanding IRGC's 'activities'.
However, as I wrote just a few days prior to the appointment, Ghasemi's influence at OPEC will not necessarily extend to having a stranglehold on other members. For a start, the issue of the Shia (Iran) v Sunni (Saudi and most others) 'divide' is likely to play a significant 'behind the scenes' role if Ghasemi attempts to use OPEC for his, or the IRGC's, own ends, whatever OPEC's public rhetoric.
Saudi interests at OPEC are not necessarily Iran's. 40 percent of the world's oil is exported to the world through the Straits of Hormuz; most of it from Saudi Arabia. If the Iranian's moved to close the Straits off their coastline to cut off oil to the West in the nuclear stand-off, it clearly would not be in the economic interest of the Saudis.
Moreover, it is worth reminding ourselves of the 'behind the scenes' realities at OPEC as they were confirmed by last year's Wiki-leaks' U.S. security email expose. In them we learned:
Saudi King Abdullah repeatedly urged the United States to destroy the Iranian program. "He told you [Americans] to "cut off the head of the snake," the Saudi ambassador to Washington, Adel al-Jubeir said, according to a report on Abdullah"s meeting with the U.S. general David Petraeus in April 2008. Abdullah told a US diplomat: "The bottom line is that they (the Iranians) cannot be trusted."
Ghasemi's appointment as head of OPEC is just as likely to unsettle nerves in the royal palace in Riyadh and in the capitals of other OPEC members as it will in Western capitals and in the global oil markets. But for the reasons given, the actual extent of Ghasemi's influence is yet to be seen.
One thing's for sure, the road ahead for the global oil markets just got bumpier.


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An old friend Paul who I used to work with with back in my skateboarding days got in contact and asked if I could have a little photo shoot with their lovely baby daughter Darcy. It was a pleasure to be considered to do this. When I arrived Darcy was upstairs feeding (that's what baby's do) so it was great to have the time to reminisce and catch up with Paul. In all fairness we both chatted about being new parents as I have little baby Daisy who is now nearly 6 months. Darcy did eventually grace us with her presence for all of 10 minutes so we had a quick photo shoot. I guess babies do what they want to do and no one is going to change that. I am certainly looking forward to documenting Darcy growing up.
Paul and Darcy having some father and daughter bonding time. These are very special times so it was nice to capture them. The classic Lucero skateboard in the background is also very important.
Mother and daughter smiling. A backgdrop full of personality beats a white studio any day (in my opinion)


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Capitol Hill has long been called Seattle's core LGBT neighborhood, and there are various events remaining where you can celebrate. Here's a look at a few of them:
Women's Pride
On Friday, June 20th, from six until 11 p.m, T-Mobile is sponsoring the "Women's Pride" event at Lobby Bar, 916 E Pike St. Meant to honor the women's liberation movement, this party invites participants to "leave their bras at the door," both literally and figuratively.
In a separate statement, Washington Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu, who will be a special Guest at this year's Seattle Pride Parade on Sunday, June 29th, had this to say: "I am pleased to be a part of Seattle's Pride festivities and am honored to be first member of the LGBT community to serve on our state's Supreme Court. Seattle Women's Pride provides an excellent opportunity for us to celebrate our historical accomplishments and to celebrate an optimistic future."
Trans Pride
On Friday, June 27, 2014, beginning at 5 p.m., Trans* Pride Seattle 2014 will launch its second event ever on Capitol Hill. Two well-known LGBTQ social justice trailblazers will be appointed on-site to lead the parade before it begins.
According to Rachel Brister, deputy director at Greater Seattle Business Association, the GSBA is a sponsor of Trans Pride and will be participating in many Pride events throughout the weekend.
The Parade will launch at 6 p.m. from the corner of Howell and Broadway, on the north end of Seattle Central Community College, and will end at Cal Anderson Park, where a community festival and resource fair will ensue with live music and speakers, including transgender activist CeCe McDonald. More here: transprideseattle.org
Three Festival Nights for the LGBTQ Community
The three night party on Capitol Hill begins Thursday evening at Neighbours Nightclub, 1509 Broadway with "Gender Blender" night. The following night, The Eagle (314 E Pike St) is hosting "Dickslap Pride." Then, on Saturday, a "Daytime Boat Party" happens on The Islander Yacht, a 72 foot ship, run by Champaign Cruises down at the waterfront. The boat can accommodate 237 passengers so reservations need to be made in advance. A closing party happens in Belltown, at Kremwerk, 1809 Minor Ave #10. VIP weekend passes are sold for $112 and general admission weekend passes cost $75.
Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Gay City Health Project and The Gender Justice League. For more information about this three-night event, head to: narkmagazine.com/pride
PrideFest Capitol Hill at Cal Anderson
On Saturday, June 28, from noon to 9 p.m., there will be a family-friendly Pride entertainment event with games in Cal Anderson Park. This free event will have bubbles, a drag queen story time, children's music, and games including a balloon toss contest. Festivities will also feature a street fair and food trucks. Info at seattlepridefest.org/
Capitol Hill Pride Festival
Saturday the 28th will certainly be a busy day. Concurrently running will be the return of the Capitol Hill Pride Festival, which offers live music and over 100 booths featuring food, artists, businesses and non-profits. There will also be ponies. The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., and the pony rides will be on West Harrison from 1 to 4 p.m. Details at capitolhillpridefestival.info
Pride Parade
On Sunday the 29th, beginning at 11 a.m. at 4th Avenue downtown, the parade will feature All Pilgrims Church, Cafe Vita, Gay City, Gender Justice League, Three Dollar Bill Cinema, and many more Capitol Hill organizations. Three Dollar Bill Cinema is sponsoring a float that looks like a giant bag of popcorn.
Community grand marshals include Zachary Pullin, Social Media Coordinator at Gender Justice League; Aleksa Manila, stellar drag artist and entertainer; and Danielle Askini, activist and executive director for the Gender Justice League, among others. They will be led by celebrity grand marshal George Takei. More at seattlepride.org/pride-parade/


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The radishes in my garden are ready to pull and enjoy! We're having company next weekend, and I have this idea for a lunch. I want to make or buy baguettes, slice them in half, smear with a touch of butter and garlic, a layer of cheese, and then toast under the broiler to be served with freshly sliced radishes and an assortment of salts. The salts will be Sea Salt, Grey Salt and a Smoked Salt.
The radishes have a nice bite to them this year- they're really perfect. What cheese would you use to make this open faced sandwich? Or what cheeses? I wouldn't mind making a few different varieties.


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Congratulations to Pr. Jesse Abbott regarding his promotion in the Army Reserve
As of December 3, 2012, Pr. Jesse Abbott was promoted to Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. Pr. Abbott serves in the U.S. Army Reserve, as well as at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Cincinnati.
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Ryan v. Gonzales & Tibbals v. Carter v. Solis
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Case #: 10-930
Thomas, J., delivered the unanimous court's opinion.
Full Text Opinion: http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/10-930_7k47.pdf
Habeas Corpus: State prisoners have no right to a stay of their record-based habeas proceedings when they are adjudged incompetent.
Respondent Gonzales was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in Arizona. After Gonzales ceased communications with counsel, his attorneys filed a motion for a stay pending a competency determination. The district court concluded that respondent's claims were record-based and involved purely legal issues that would not be impacted by respondent's inability to communicate with counsel and denied his motion. The Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cited its decision in Rohan ex rel. Gates v. Woodford, 334 F. 3d 803 (2003), in which the Ninth Circuit held that what is now codified as 18 U.S.C. §3599 guaranteed state capital prisoners a right to counsel in federal habeas proceedings, and that the statute could not "be faithfully enforced unless courts ensure that a petitioner is competent," reversed the district court, and granted the stay of the lower court proceedings.
Likewise Respondent Carter, a death row inmate in Ohio, stopped communicating with counsel and his attorneys filed a habeas petition along with a motion for a competency hearing. The district court granted the motion and found that Carter was not sufficiently competent to assist his counsel. On appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that 18 U.S.C. §4241 granted a right to competence and stayed Carter's proceeding.
The Supreme Court reversed, holding that in record-based proceedings like those at issue here, it is unnecessary for the petitioner to be competent in order for counsel to be effective. The Court held that 18 U.S.C. § 4241 is limited to proceedings prior to sentencing and after probation, and because a habeas proceeding falls between those times, there is no right to suspend habeas proceedings when the petitioner is adjudged incompetent.


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ID Infiltr8 is my tagging program for mp3 & m4a files. I got tired of having to manually capitalize & tag my audio files. It was so incredibly repetetive - so I started out on a program that could do it for me (ala EasyTag for Linux). That program was called mp3Spec and was limited to setting a few tags & file renaming.
This is the program I've wanted to write for a long time now, & it's now fully functional. The last big part was writing to m4a files - that now happens perfectly with AtomicParsley. AtomicParsley is my own command line mpeg4 tagging tool that supports multiple pieces of artwork & lyrics - along with the image resizing/limiting features introduced into id3Gateway and is opensource & GPL'ed at sourceforge.
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Doesn't work for me on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 :/ I drag mp3's on the app, it imports them but I can't see them and so can't edit their tagges..
The very best app for tagging mp3's ever (and probably forever) is called "Tag&Rename". Its a PC program, but can be ported to Mac using Crossover/Wine flawlessly.
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Friday in The Zone we continue our tournament coverage thanks to First Security Bank. Justin is live in
We are also joined by Wally Hall today for a special Friday with Wally. He joins us thanks to our friends at Deltic Timber.
RJ is out in Hot Springs and calls in to tell us to give us all the latest from Summit Arena. He is out there with Trey from Overtime to cover the High School Basketball State Championships.
It's Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn tomorrow but until then we talk to our man Jeff "Money" Taylor. He gives us his picks today for a profitable and fun day at the track.
In this week's Matty T. minute I tell you what is new this week at the movies.
In our Zone Rewind we look back at the best show moments from the week. This week includes a hilarious, cringe inducing deposition video by the Biebs. In this .gif to the right, she is responding to the question "Were you born to be a complete burdon on society?". I beileb she took the easy way out of that question.
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Browse to see which search phrases people are using to find the offices on our site. This page is towns and cities starting with the letter G. Searches are grouped by area.
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Definition of confidence man in English:
confidence man
Old-fashioned term for con man.
Example sentences
- In the country that created the confidence man as a cultural hero and celebrated the slogan 'Winning is the only thing' as moral wisdom, fair play is a problematic ideal.
- The problems go deeper than that: not that I underestimate my abilities as a confidence man, but pulling the wool over her eyes is like dancing with a hungry jaguar.
- As a result she has lost her ability to tell a confidence man from an upstanding citizen, and with it, her ability to protect her daughter's high social status and the wealth that attends it.
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COLUMBIA - Ruth Ann Ashby Russell, 79, formerly of Charleston, died at 7 a.m. May 14, 2002, in Pleasant Hill.
Born Sept. 28, 1922, in Charleston, she was the daughter of the late Frank Kelly and Effie Mai Anderson Ashby. A 1944 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, known then as "Cape State," she spent 14 years as a naval wife. A faithful and supportive companion to her husband, she spent 14 years as the chancellor's wife of the University of Missouri at Kansas City and then five years as the president's wife of the University of Missouri at Columbia as he served in the University of Missouri system. A lifelong Methodist, she was a member of the Missouri United Methodist Church at Columbia and an active member of the King's Daughters. An avid bridge player, she loved duplicate bridge and had achieved the level of Life Master through competitive play.
On Nov. 11, 1944, she married George Albert Russell who survives of the home.
Also surviving are: three sons and daughters-in-law, George Albert and Patricia Russell III of Macomb, Ill., Frank Ashby and Linda Russell of Des Moines, Iowa, and Cramer Anderson and DeAun Russell of Lee's Summit; one daughter and son-in-law, Ruth Ann and Darrell Vaughn of Pleasant Hill; and 15 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
One brother, Roderic Ashby, preceded her in death.
Visitation is from 11 a.m. Friday until service time at 1 p.m. at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Richard Combs, a United Methodist minister of Jackson, will officiate.
Burial will follow in the IOOF Cemetery near Charleston.
Pallbearers will be: Jeff Vaughn, Alex Russell, Thomas Russell, Kelly Russell, Bert Russell and Corey Paul.
A memorial service and reception for her friends will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Missouri United Methodist Church in Columbia with the Rev. Jim Bryan, pastor, officiating.
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Harambee African Awareness ("Harambee")
Harambee Mission/Purpose
Harambee is established for the purpose of alleviating the suffering of African children whose lives have been oppressed by overwhelming poverty. This group will be inextricably linked with Dagorretti 4 Kids, an orphanage in Kenya. Harambee is Swahili for "pull together." This philosophy, integrated with the Jesuit adage of being men and women for others, highlights a second function of the group which is to promote awareness on issues and obstacles facing African children today. As a group, HARAMBEE works collectively to shatter complacent attitudes within and the community as a whole.


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Second Opportunity
NASA's Opportunity rover is about to embark on a second journey of exploration. Opportunity spent the past several days taking in the view from the rim of Endurance Crater. The first full-color panorama of the crater, released by NASA late last week, reveals large bedrock outcrops that mission scientists are anxious to study.
|Schematic of major mission events during entry, descent and landing followed by scientific surveys of interesting features.
Credit: NASA/JPL/ Cornell University/ Dan Maas
Initial Pancam images and spectral analysis performed by the rover's Mini-TES instrument indicate that the Endurance Crater outcrops are not composed of the same sulfate-rich material found in Eagle Crater. Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission, said the new outcrop material "really looks different," both to the rover's panoramic camera (Pancam) and to its thermal emission spectrometer (Mini-TES), which provides information about mineral composition.
Squyres said the outcrops in Endurance Crater formed under different environmental conditions than the rocks in Eagle Crater. The Eagle Crater rocks contained high concentrations of sulfates. This, along with other physical and chemical evidence, led the MER science team to conclude that they were deposited in water, when a shallow sea evaporated.
In its initial observations of the Endurance Crater outcrops, Opportunity has not seen evidence of sulfates. "This is fundamentally different than anything that we have seen before," Squyres said. He speculated that the outcrops are "probably a sedimentary rock made up of particles that have accumulated on a fairly flat surface. Did they accumulate in air? Did they accumulate in water? That's the kind of thing we're going to try to settle."
Squyres said that, from a distance, it looks like there are "massive crossbeds" in the outcrops. "That's the kind of stuff that forms when you have dunes, so we may be looking at a dune environment. We're going to be looking for evidence of a beach environment. Was there something like that going on? I don't know what it's going to be, but it ain't what we saw back at Eagle. It's something different."
|A feature called "Karatepe" within the impact crater known as "Endurance." Scientists believe this layered band of rock may be a good place to begin studying Endurance because it is less steep and more approachable than the rest of the crater's rocky outcrops, such as Burns Cliff shown in the banner image.
Credit: NASA/JPL
MER scientists believe the rocks exposed in Endurance Crater not only are different from those in Eagle Crater, but also are older. By examining this older material, they hope to learn about an earlier period in the history of the Meridiani Planum, a vast plain that encompasses both craters.
The rocks in Eagle Crater revealed a watery tale of one relatively brief period in the history of Meridiani. The rocks in Endurance Crater, "we believe, lie lower than the rocks that we saw at Eagle Crater. They preserve the record of what came before the events that took place at Eagle Crater," Squyres said.
One particularly impressive section of outcrop, dubbed Burns Cliff, is a rock face several meters tall [see banner image]. Opportunity Ledge, by comparison, was only about one-third of a meter (about 10 inches) tall. Mission scientists would like to send the rover to investigate Burns Cliff in detail. But Opportunity is unlikely to be able to access it safely. The "cliff" designation isn't frivolous: Its face is nearly vertical.
Fortunately, there is a second outcrop, Karatepe, not far from Burns Cliff, where the same rock layers are exposed. Karatepe lies at a modest 20-degree angle. In theory, Opportunity should be able to traverse an incline that steep. Mission planners have already begun studying images of the Karatepe region to determine whether there is a safe access path.
Opportunity won't be heading into Endurance Crater any time soon. The rover will spend the next few weeks traversing the rim of the crater, collecting extensive sets of Pancam images and Mini-TES spectra from at least two additional vantage points, and perhaps examining a few interesting rocks it encounters along the way. Only after this survey is complete will mission planners decide whether – and when – to send the rover into the crater.
That decision is a complex one, which must weigh the potential scientific gain of entering the crater against the potential risk of doing so. Even if the rover driving team decides that it is safe to send Opportunity in to Endurance Crater, they may not be equally confident that they can get it back out. By studying the interior of the crater from different angles and different vantage points around the rim, MER mission planners will be able to weight the options.
There are also several interesting science targets on the plains, which Opportunity noted but did not study thoroughly while on its way from Eagle to Endurance Crater. The science team would like to return to these targets before the rover's extended mission ends in September. If mission planners conclude that Opportunity can safely enter Endurance Crater, study the Karatepe outcrop and then safely exit, they may send the rover in as soon as its circuit around the rim is complete. If, on the other hand, they determine that Opportunity could probably make it in but not out, they will first send the rover to a series of science targets out on the plains, and then return to investigate the interior of the crater.
|Mars Global Surveyor image of landing site, showing Endurance Crater. Click image for larger view.
Credit: Malin Space Systems/NASA/JPL
One such target, which sits only about 150 to 200 meters away, is the spacecraft's heat shield. Opportunity hasn't yet visited the site where it slammed into the martian surface, but images taken by the Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) aboard Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) pinpoint its location.
"I think we could take some pictures of the heat shield," Squyres said, "that might help people design better heat shields for Mars at some point in the future." He added that when the heat shield hit the ground, it "probably dug the deepest fresh hole that we're going to find anywhere, certainly deeper than we can dig with our wheels."
Other targets on the plains include the Anatolia fractures, a trench dug by one of the rover's wheels and Fram Crater. The fractures are intriguing because it's unclear how they formed. They are also "the one place that we can go and look at exposed bedrock that was exposed by a process other than impact [and] that has really not been significantly damaged," said Squyres. The trench that Opportunity dug was in a region of sand ripples, but the rover didn't take the time to examine the ripples closely. Scientists would like to learana more about how they formed and what they are made of. Finalaly, at Fram Crater, Mini-TES detected a rock that appeared to have a different mineral composition than the sulfate-bearing rocks the rover studied in Eagle Crater.
All that lies off in the future, however. For the next few weeks, while mission planners plot a course of action, Opportunity will continue to send back stunning panoramic vistas of Endurance Crater.
MER flight planning chronicled in the diary of the principal investigator for the science packages, Dr. Steven Squyres: Parts 1 * 2 * 3 * 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 * 8 * 9 * 10 * 11 *12.
Related Web Pages
JPL Rovers
Spirit's images and slideshow
Opportunity image gallery and slideshow
Mars Berries Once Rich in Iron-Water
NASA's RATs Go Roving on Mars
Water Signs
Microscopic Imager
Gusev Crater
Pancam– Surveying the Martian Scene
Mössbauer spectrometer
Alpha Proton X-ray Spectrometer


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Grand Yazici Marmaris Palace - All Inclusive is an all-inclusive resort. Room rates include meals and beverages at onsite restaurants and bars. Other items and amenities, including taxes and gratuities, and access to recreational activities and entertainment may also be included. Additional charges may apply for meals at some restaurants, special dinners and dishes, certain beverages, and other amenities.
Simply walk outside to feel the sun on your face at the sand beach. Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like umbrellas and sun loungers. Pamper yourself with a treatment at the full-service spa and enjoy amenities at Grand Yazici Marmaris Palace - All Inclusive like a complimentary water park and an outdoor pool.
A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Dining is available at one of the resort's 4 restaurants. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a beach bar and a poolside bar. This all-inclusive resort also offers a children's pool, a health club, and a sauna. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- 24-hour front desk
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Arcade/game room
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Barbecue grill(s)
- Beach bar
- Beach sun loungers
- Beach towels
- Beach umbrellas
- Pool umbrellas
- Children's pool
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Conference space
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Fireplace in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Free self parking
- Full-service spa
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- Health club
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- Library
- Meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Nightclub
- Number of floors - 6
- Number of restaurants - 4
- On private beach
- Outdoor pool
- Pool sun loungers
- Poolside bar
- Porter/bellhop
- Sauna
- Shopping on site
- Spa services on site
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Television in common areas
- Tennis on site
- Total number of rooms - 459
- Turkish bath/Hammam
- Free water park access
- Year Built 1992
Family Friendly Amenities
- Arcade/game room
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Children's pool
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- Indoor pool
- Laundry facilities
- On private beach
- Outdoor pool
- Refrigerator
- Water park access (complimentary)
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Balcony
- Bathtub or shower
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Free bottled water
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Daily housekeeping
- Hair dryer
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Phone
- Private bathroom
- Refrigerator
- Satellite TV service
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10 AM.
MAIN RESTAURANT - Overlooking the pool and garden, this buffet restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can order drinks at the bar and enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available. Reservations are required.
TURK ALA CARTE - This beachfront theme restaurant specializes in Turkish cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required.
Italian Ala Carte - This beach theme restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required.
Fish Ala Carte - This beachfront seafood restaurant specializes in fish and chips and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). Reservations are required.
Nearby Things to Do
A private beach, a health club, and a complimentary water park are featured at the resort. An indoor pool, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a sauna.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Rafting nearby
- Personal motorized watercraft on site
- Fitness classes on site
- Basketball on site
- Bicycle rentals on site
- Miniature golf on site
- Ice skating on site
- Motor boating on site
- Mountain biking on site
- Parasailing on site
- Playground on site
- Rowing or canoeing on site
- Scooter/moped rentals on site
- Scuba diving on site
- Volleyball on site
- Water skiing on site
- Windsurfing on site
- Beach volleyball on site
Spa Services
The onsite spa has massage/treatment rooms. Services include massages and facials. The spa is equipped with a sauna and Turkish bath/hammam. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including hydrotherapy.
- Hydrotherapy treatments
- Sauna in spa
- Massages
- Facial treatments
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
Hotel Name
- Grand Yazici Marmaris Palace Hotel
- Yazici Palace
- Yazici Palace Hotel
- Grand Yazici Club Marmaris Palace Hotel Icmeler
- Grand Yazici Hotel Marmaris Palace
- Marmaris Palace
- Grand Yazici Marmaris Palace Resort
- Grand Yazici Palace Resort
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News 12 at 11 o'clock / Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2013
GROVETOWN, Ga. (WRDW) -- It's a trail Larry Mitchum has walked thousands of times.
"Get up in the morning, it's cool, my dog and I can walk, jog," he said.
In fact, he does this walk three times a day.
"It's a good place to exercise, good place to see nature, and there's a lot of it," said Mitchum. "The longer, the better, that's how I look at it."
And in just 10 months, he'll be getting in a lot more miles. The county will extend the greenway another two and a half miles.
Just a small piece of a bigger $20 million project, and Barry Smith is in charge of all of it.
"This greenway will be from Riverside Park all the way to the existing Grovetown Trail," said Smith.
He showed News 12 just where the trail would be, running along side of several neighborhoods.
"Statistically, greenways promote healthy activity, good people, and crime is very very low on a greenway," he said.
That's been a selling point for developers. They've even donated land to the county, and in return, they get a little piece of nature right in their backyard.
"It's a great thing to market in neighborhoods to give that touch with nature, good exercise, great recreation," Smith said.
It's everything Mitchum says he wants right in his backyard, and he says it's more than just for looks.
"When you're talking about being healthy, keeping safety going, how do you put a price tag on that, 20 million, 50 million, 100 million, you know, I don't think you can," said Mitchum.
Columbia County officials say the time frame for phase two should be around 10 months for construction.
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MARTINSBURG - How many of you love and dread this time of the year? You love the food, time with family, the events, the traditions. You dread the possible weight gain, the busy schedule. Commit to making this holiday season more healthy and enjoyable.
It was once thought that people gained five to 10 pounds over the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year's. But research shows that people may actually only gain one to two pounds. The problem is that most people don't lose that weight. The weight accumulates from year to year and may explain mid-life weight gain. People who are overweight tend to gain more than one to two pounds; they gain five or more pounds during the holidays.
Researchers found two things that influence weight gain over the holidays: level of hunger and level of activity. Those who said they were active and less hungry were the least likely to gain weight. Increasing physical activity and not letting yourself get too hungry may be effective in preventing weight gain over the holidays.
To help you maintain your weight and stay healthy over the holidays, WVU Extension-Berkeley County is teaming up with The Wellness Center at City Hospital, Berkeley Senior Services, Anytime Fitness, Gold's Gym, JayDee's Fitness Center, Weight Watchers, Berkeley County Health Department and the Martinsburg Mall to bring you the "Maintain Don't Gain Challenge." Weigh-ins will be held this week and weigh-outs will be the week of Jan. 7. A similar program is available in Jefferson County from WVU Extension-Jefferson County.
Studies have shown weighing in before the holidays and weighing out after is motivation enough to avoid the usual weight gain. "Maintain Don't Gain" offers several convenient locations to weigh in and weigh out to keep you on track for the holidays. When you weigh in, you will also receive a registration packet with helpful tips and passes to participating fitness centers and you will be emailed bi-weekly newsletters.
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Chillingworth and Hester do have some things in common, after all. Both hold a secret. Both are unhappy. Both have a very desirable skill (Chillingworth is a doctor and Hester is an amazing sewer). And both live on the outskirts of this Puritan society. You'd think they'd have a happier marriage.


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Kudos to Catherine Orloff for her Oct. 17 letter "Providence blockade"! She expresses perfectly the frustration I have felt many a Sunday morning trying to access Route 195 from Foxpoint as blockades for marathons cause me to ride in circles.
On a recent Sunday, I had to drive over the Henderson Bridge to East Providence to access 195 heading towards Warren! A few weeks ago I was unable to access Providence Place Mall at 12:15 on Sunday. And, most importantly, last Mother's Day was ruined as the blockades from a breast cancer awareness march caused us to miss our dinner reservation in Bristol.
How ridiculous to be held hostage in my own neighborhood on Sunday mornings by events more suitable to a park setting than downtown Providence. As a resident who pays high taxes I totally agree with Ms. Orloff: "Downtown streets should only be closed in the event of public emergencies -- and not privatized."
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|1,340 mm (52.8 inches)
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Kyle Turley, a former NFL Pro Bowl offensive lineman, is currently pounding the skins for the Phoenix, Arizona-based death/thrash metal quartet PERPETUAL DEATH MODE. The group, who have been ripping up the Phoenix area "with aggression" in the last few weeks, have just launched their official web site, www.perpetualdeathmode.com."Our music is super heavy, super hard and super fast," Turley recently told the Sports Illustrated web site SI.com. "It's bad-ass, man. And yeah, I've gotta take the shirt off, so I can show off my f---- abs." PERPETUAL DEATH MODE's web site currently includes audio and video of such songs as "Purgatory Falls", "Killswitch" and "Front Lines". After Kyle returns from filming the horror movie "Seventy Five" in mid-July, the band will begin the second leg of their inaugural tour.
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Oilers recall Dubnyk, reassign Pitton
Tuesday, 02.9.2010 / 3:30 PM MT / Transactions
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|Devan Dubnyk
Dubnyk, 23, has appeared in nine games with the Oilers this season, posting a 0-6-1 record with a 4.17 GAA and .861 SV%.
The Oilers have also reassigned goaltender Bryan Pitton to the Falcons.
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The Mexican forest seems to be swathed in fur, but in reality the trees are covered by a multitude of monarchs. The butterflies form colonies in groves of oyamel firs.
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In a Strange City (Mass Market Paperbound)
It is a Charm City tradition an annual visit to theBaltimore gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe on the renowned author's birthday by a mysterious cloaked figure bearing gifts of three roses and a half bottle of cognac. This year, private investigator Tess Monaghan is among the witnesses of the locally cherished rite. And on this frigid January night, she sees two caped visitors approaching Poe's resting place. One leaves his tribute and escapes. The other dies there, felled by an assassin's bullet. Curiosity brought Tess here to observe the desecration and common sense tells her to lay low in its wake. But someone wants Tess involved in the murder investigation in the worst way. An anonymous stranger who leaves roses and cognac and cryptic clues on her doorstep; someone who knows her habits, her haunts . . . and what she knows. And suddenly home is a safe haven no longer.


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Fed's Lockhart: Hard to See Hitting Conditions for October Taper
While the decision not to pull back on the Federal Reserve's easy-money policies last week was a "close call," a veteran central banker on Monday suggested it will be hard for the Fed to find cause to trim its bond buying program at its upcoming October meeting.
In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said the economy is currently beset with uncertainty resulting from economic data that's proved "ambiguous." At the same time, a showdown between the White House and the Congress over the budget and borrowing powers has the potential to cause economic trouble if it's resolved as poorly as past episodes, the official said.
"In the short time between now and the October meeting, I don't think there will be an accumulation of enough evidence to dramatically change the picture" about where the economy now stands, Mr. Lockhart said.
Mr. Lockhart was interviewed in New York in the wake of last week's Federal Open Market Committee meeting. Heading into that gathering, market participants had broadly expected the central bank to reduce the pace of what is now an $85 billion per month program of Treasury and mortgage bond buying. The central bank is buying the securities in a bid to drive up growth and push down unemployment.
In a press conference given in the wake of the Fed meeting, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed refrained from changing course because of ongoing concerns about the durability of the recovery. The central bank is also worried about what rising market rates mean for growth. In a speech earlier Monday, New York Fed chief William Dudley said it's important for the central bank to continue to act "forcefully" right now, and added "the economy still needs the support of a very accommodative monetary policy."
With the Fed having stayed the course this month, markets are now trying to figure out if the Fed will trim its bond buying at the October 29-30 FOMC meeting. Mr. Dudley's comments suggest that if the Fed is finding it hard to dial back on stimulus now, it won't be any easier at the end of next month. Mr. Lockhart appears to agree with this view, and that carries important weight, in that he's widely seen as a centrist that reflects the consensus view of the Fed.
That said, Mr. Lockhart said the October FOMC "is a live meeting" and if the Fed wants to act, it can and will. Still, he added, "I don't have expectations that the fog will clear dramatically between now and October."
In the interview, Mr. Lockhart acknowledged the actions taken by the Fed last week were clearly different than what markets had expected. But he doesn't think Fed officials in anyway mislead traders and investors about the policy outlook. The Fed relies on markets to transmit its policies to the broader economy, so what financial market participants think of central bank action is an important part of policy effectiveness.
"I'm supportive of the decision the committee made," Mr. Lockhart said. With that in mind, he said he believes officials should continue to share as much as they can.
"Should monetary policy revert to being secretive, where we are excessively risk-averse in terms of communicating with the public? Or should the policy of the Bernanke era, of greater transparency and attempts at being as communicative as possible, should that prevail?" Mr. Lockhart asked.
Despite the current disconnect, the official said, "I instinctively favor openness and transparency," and believe it's important for Fed officials to say as much as they can about what they believe is the right direction of monetary policy, the official said.


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