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Conference Information
|Full Title:
|Borders and Identities Conference 2013
|Short Title:
|Rijeka, Croatia
|Start Date:
|29-Mar-2013 - 30-Mar-2013
|Zvjezdana Vrzic
|Meeting Email:
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|Meeting Description:
|Borders and Identities Conference 2013 (BIC2013)
29-30 March 2013
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Rijeka, Croatia
Marija Brala (University of Rijeka)
Zvjezdana Vrzić (New York University)
Carmen Llamas (University of York)
Keynote Speakers:
Dominic Watt (University of York)
'Crossing lines and building bridges: What AISEB can tell us about accent and identity at international borders'
Nikola Petković (University of Rijeka)
'Borders of and within Identities'
Borders and Identities Conference 2013 (BIC2013) continues and further investigates the themes discussed at the Borders and Identities Conference 2010 (BIC2010) organized and hosted by the University of York in Newcastle upon Tyne. The aim of BIC2013 is to contribute to further understanding of the construction, expression, and change of identity and the role of language in these processes, but by focusing specifically on communities living in borderland areas of the world.
Communities living in border regions often experience more complex, multi-layered and/or fluid identities than those living in more central areas of states (cf. Donnan and Wilson (2012), A Companion to Border Studies, Blackwell). This is even more true of communities inhabiting territories where the border has shifted in recent history and places where, as is often the case, state borders do not coincide with ethno-linguistic ones.
We aim to reach a better understanding of the role of language in the processes of identity construction, negotiation, expression and change, as is done in sociolinguistic and linguistic anthropological investigations, but we also look for interdisciplinary perspectives and dialogue and invite other approaches to the conference theme of 'borders and identities' (e.g., sociology of language, cultural studies, political science, political anthropology, and other related social sciences). The language of the conference will be English.
A whole-day excursion will be organized in the area of Rijeka on the third day of the conference on March 31, 2013. Rijeka is the largest city and the University of Rijeka the largest university in the multicultural and multilingual area of Istria and Kvarner, one of the most interesting, as well as beautiful, coastal regions of Croatia. This is also a prototypical borderland, criss-crossed by borders - historical, linguistic, cultural, administrative, and political. The latter moved and/or changed hands four times in the course of just the twentieth century.
|Linguistic Subfield:
|Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics
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Topic: XSS and when h just ain't enough.
I'm just setting out developing with rails at the moment and one of the things I take a bit of an interest (as it's my day job) is website security.
Now I hope everyone will be familiar with the concepts of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and why it's a bad thing, but if not here's a brief overview.
Basically XSS attacks generally occur when a user of a site is able to pass code to a website which contains Javascript code, which is executed by the site when the page containing the users submission is rendered.
A classic example is a bulletin board site, if a user can enter a post which has
and not have any of those characters escaped or removed, then they'll likely be able to execute any javascript as though it came from the source website.
So onto Rails. One of the standard pieces of advice I've seen for dealing with this problem in rails apps is to use the h() function whereever your putting content supplied by the user up onto the screen, and that is good advice...
What about times where you can't do that. A good example is the in place editor field. If you try using h() there you will usually just end up breaking the javascript that runs the control.
My advice would be to look at santizing all your input data, at the point it gets submitted to your application, not just when it's replayed to the screen, that way you can avoid running the risk of missing an h() off somewhere or having the data output somewhere where you can't use it.
One method I've used to do this on a little app. I'm using to teach myself rails is this.
This is the controller method I use to create a new task in my todolist program
def create_task
params[:task].each do |key, value|
params[:task][key] = CGI::escapeHTML(value)
@task = Task.new(params[:task])
if @task.save
flash[:notice] = "New Task Saved OK"
redirect_to :action => :index
render :action => :new_task
The key lines are the first three which essentially iterate through the values for the task and escape any HTML characters in them (by the way you'll need require 'cgi' at the top of your controller for this to work)
Another option would be instead of escaping the characters in the form to simply strip any character classes you don't want from the data before saving it, using a similar mechanism...
hope this helps.

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The events recounted in the new movie The Monuments Men are unfolding every day around the world. It's a little less dramatic, but the work by the State Department to preserve, protect, and recover works of art is as vital today as it was in World War II.
Today's villains are more likely to be transnational organized crime syndicates that traffic in antiquities that fetch big dollars on the black market. But threats also come from conflicts and natural disasters.
So the Department has a team of experts whose sole job is to care for and protect the cultural heritage of countries around the world. The art historians, archaeologists, and architectural historians of the Cultural Heritage Center, part of the State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, don't carry guns, but these new soldiers of diplomacy work on the frontlines to restore a country's archaeological wealth. They provide expert guidance in protecting and restoring sites and work with international law enforcement to prevent looted items from entering the United States.
For instance, soon after the looting of the Iraq Museum in 2003, Cultural Heritage Center personnel were on the scene delivering equipment, furniture and administrative supplies. Eleven of the museum's public galleries, a three-story storage facility, and the conservation labs were renovated and a new roof and upgraded climate control systems were installed. At the site of ancient Babylon, the Center started major conservation work on an important temple and the world-famous Ishtar Gate. In Erbil, these professionals established a preservation education center, so future generations of Iraqi experts can care for these sites.
In other cases, monuments and archaeological sites damaged by conflict or natural disasters are preserved through the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation. Grants from the Ambassadors Fund have supported efforts in countries throughout the world, including Afghanistan, Haiti, Peru, Jordan, Mongolia, and Uganda. In Libya, efforts are underway to document and assess archaeological sites in the regions under conflict. In Thailand, a major, multi-year project is underway to document and conserve Wat Chaiwathanaram (Wat Chai), a 17th-century Buddhist monument in the former Kingdom of Siam. A cornerstone of Thai cultural identity and popular tourist destination, Wat Chai was seriously damaged during Thailand's disastrous monsoon floods in the fall of 2011.
A key part of the job is preventing looted archaeological treasures from coming into the United States. In response to well-documented widespread looting of archaeological sites and historic buildings in Syria, the Center worked with the International Council of Museums to develop the "Emergency Red List of Syrian Cultural Objects at Risk." The Red List, which illustrates representative types of Syrian artifacts, is a tool to assist customs, police, dealers, and collectors in identifying potentially looted Syrian objects. Artifacts recovered in the United States are returned to their country of origin. Just recently, Deputy Secretary Bill Burns returned a Khmer statue to Cambodia.
This week, the experts of the Cultural Heritage Center met with the actors and producers of The Monuments Men at a White House screening of the film. The actors noted how their modern day counterparts embody the spirit and the work exemplified by the soldiers of the film. They work together with other government agencies, museums, and organizations to preserve our shared world heritage. As a vital tool of foreign policy, their efforts strengthen the foundation of our bilateral relationships, protect a country's cultural identity, and support economic growth.
About the Author: Evan Ryan serves as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs.


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The average university student doesn't find Monday morning very stimulating, but the vibrant young Brazilians who came to the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia to get ready for a year of study in the United States aren't your average students. They are among the 650 students who will be the first to carry the Brazilian flag to the United States in the name of Science without Borders, a massive education and scholarship initiative President Dilma Rousseff launched in July.
Science without Borders, a top priority initiative for President Rousseff, will send 100,000 outstanding Brazilian students abroad to study science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the next four years; up to half of them will study in the United States. To accomplish this unprecedented goal, the U.S. Mission has shifted into high gear, working with the Brazilian federal government and partner institutions to place and prepare this first group for study at more than 100 U.S. higher education institutions in more than 40 American states starting in January 2012.
The students will complete what Brazilians call a "sandwich" year -- the equivalent of "junior year abroad" -- at an American university before returning to Brazil to finish their degrees. Although the Brazilian government will provide funding for most of the students, Boeing is the first private company to offer support, funding 18 full scholarships for this program.
First, the students had to find out where they were going. On Monday morning, they got the news, and by the time they arrived at the U.S. Embassy in Brasilia and Consulates in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, their excitement and curiosity were overflowing. Our Consulate in Recife will welcome its group on Friday, December 23. Hailing from the tropics zone, the students were eager to ask Embassy staff about the basics, like what to expect of a Minnesota winter, as well as visas and dorm food.
To meet the students, recognize their accomplishment, and answer their questions, the Embassy and Consulates in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Recife are inviting the students to attend briefings and visa assistance sessions throughout the week, and in Brasilia they got a taste of an all-American barbecue with Ambassador Thomas A. Shannon, who flipped burgers and chatted with students at the "Burgers without Borders" cookout.
Ambassador Shannon talked with the students about the importance of Science without Borders, telling them that their parents made Brazil great and that they will make the world great. He encouraged them to take full advantage of their opportunity to shape the future.
Sanderson Santos, 22, who hails from the northeastern city of Natal and studies engineering in Brasilia, says the knowledge he and his fellow students acquire in the United States can help his country when Brazil opens its doors as host of the World Cup in 2014.
In sunny Rio, Maite Harguindeguy, 21, was among the 92 young scholars invited for pizza and cake at the Consulate. Headed to Portland, Oregon, she says that improving her language skills in the United States will help her as an engineer, a profession she sees as requiring a high level of English. She also asserts that interacting with another culture will be an important part of her experience.
Secretary Clinton has said, "I've always believed that diplomacy does not just happen between government officials. It also happens between individuals through people to people connections. And student exchanges are some of the most important people to people connections we can have." Here's to 50,000 more, starting now.


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I wouldn't exactly say he abandoned the run after 8 plays
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Protect your hearing
Amid the gigantic machinery at the KMOT Ag Expo last week was a small booth that offered some advice worth listening to.
Nicole Myers, a hearing instrument specialist, was at the Professional Hearing Services booth to talk about hearing and the importance of protecting it.
"We're here to promote hearing protection. Most often after being exposed to a bunch of noise, the higher frequencies of your hearing are usually what are first damaged by high-frequency noise such as tractors and different types of power tools in the shop," Myers said. "It's very important to protect your hearing because usually the first thing that you'll notice when you do have some high-frequency hearing loss is that you can hear people, but you can't understand the words."
Along with tractors and combines, grain augers are a common tool used on farms that can cause hearing damage. In the shop, there are obviously plenty of power tools that can do the same, but Myers said even the common hammer is capable of harming a person's hearing if it is used repetitively without ear protection.
"Any of those things that are really loud and make you kind of want to flinch, that's when you should wear hearing protection," she said. "Another thing, if you have a large yard and you're on a riding mower or push mower for a long period of time, definitely use it then, as well."
Just as it's never too early for someone to start wearing hearing protection, Myers said it's also never too late. Even if there is some hearing loss, she said it's important to preserve the hearing that is left, because while it can get even worse, it will never get any better.
"You want to protect as much hearing as you can at whatever point there is," Myers said.
Myers said they used to attend the Ag Expo a number of years ago, took some time off, and have been attending again the past three or four years. She said they have had a pretty good response from the public since their return to the Ag Expo, even if some people are a little more unwilling than others to hear what Myers has to say.
"More wives are stopping and dragging their husbands over than anything, but they're at least trying to get the information," Myers said.
One of the most common questions Myers gets is what product offers the best hearing protection. The answer depends on the environment the plugs will be used in and what type of performance the wearer needs.
"There are many different types. There are the foam earplugs that you just kind of roll up and insert into your ears. There are earmuffs that go over your head, the big muffs. And those are good, but they just need to be inserted properly," Myers said. "Also custom earplugs are available. They are made from an impression that is casted of your ear. So we know that when those are put in, those are going to work the best because they are fit for your ear and they will block the sound out."
For more information about ear protection go online to (heardakota.com) or call Professional Hearing Services at 852-6565 or 1-800-735-5866. The Minot office is located at 1400-37th Ave. SW.
The solid ear plugs are obviously the best at blocking out all noise in the environment, but Myers said there are better options for people who still need to hear on occasion, like when they are speaking with a coworker.
"You can get them where they have a filter in them, so that you can hear speech. It will be a little softer than normal, but you can still hear it," she said. "And then when a loud sound such as a hammer or if you're working around the auger, when those loud sounds come into play, the loud sounds will be dampened so that they don't damage your hearing."
She said earplugs with filters are also good options for hunters or sports shooters who want to speak with each other without having to take the plugs out.
Myers noted the filters are built right into the earplug itself and do not require batteries, which makes them just as convenient to use as regular earplugs.
"In a custom earplug it's built into there, there's nothing you do with it," Myers said. "You just use the earplugs as you normally would – put them in, take them out, that sort of thing."
Myers said they weren't at Ag Expo to sell products, and only had some earplugs on hand for display purposes. She said their goal was to inform as many people as possible about the importance of protecting their hearing, no matter what age they were or how much hearing they had already lost.
"(We've) been answering some questions today and giving out some information, trying to be here to just inform people about the importance of protecting your hearing," Myers said.


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Do you know these laws exist?
After the Trayvon Martin case, the Florida version of this sort of thing became an issue, as it should have. Twenty-plus states have similar laws.
It's easy to decry their purpose and imply it's nothing but legalized murder inspired and supported by the NRA and every right wing gun nut in the country. But, is that true, any of it?
In New York State, if you awake in the night and find an intruder in your home and shoot them dead, are you legally within your rights? You'd assume yes, wouldn't you?
Actually, you're not. I'd have to advise if you're ever in that circumstance, get a lawyer and get a good one and get them fast!
Why? Because in New York if you have an opportunity to avoid the situation, to flee, so to speak, you can be charged. You'll be questioned as to whether you could have called 911, retreated to a bedroom until the police arrived, all sorts of things like that. You'll also be asked if you had reason to think the intruder was armed.
I guess in New York there's an assumption that all homeowners could win a physical altercation with any and all intruders in their home. Depending on the prosecutor, and possibly your skin color, you will be charged.
Now I don't know about the rest of you, but in my opinion, any intruder in anyone's home has a legal target on their person, period, no exceptions. By the way, if that intruder sees you and tries to run away and you shoot them anyway, you're probably going to jail. A piece of advice from several policemen I know is that if you ever shoot an intruder, make sure he's in your house, he's armed and he's dead when the police arrive. A stand your ground law would eliminate these issues, and well they should!
In Louisiana, a law was passed that any citizen could kill anyone attempting to carjack their vehicle. Does that sound extreme to you? Well, that law was passed because a man being carjacked reached across his seat, picked up a large hunting knife lying there, and stabbed the carjacker to death. A local prosecutor decided to charge him with murder because the carjacker was unarmed. The Louisiana legislature felt differently, and passed the law making sure it has retroactive coverage, case closed.
In New York state, once again, and locally, just up the road to the Southtowns, a young man was working in a convenient store and gas station when a man came in and attempted to rob him at gunpoint. Somehow this young man managed to disarm the thief, grabbed the gun and chased him from the store. He took aim and shot the fleeing suspect, wounding him and allowing the police to make an immediate arrest of a dangerous criminal. (I don't know about you, but ANY criminal using a loaded gun to commit a crime has bad intentions and should be considered dangerous. I guarantee you if the police hadn't caught him right away, he'd have been listed as "armed and dangerous" on their reports.)
In my opinion, and most others in the area, this young man was a hero and a brave upstanding citizen.
Not to local prosecutors though. They charged him with a felony because that thief was fleeing and that meant nobody was in danger. Really? If that thief got away, does anyone think his criminal career was over? Does anyone think he'd be less likely to shoot the next time? Then the prosecution released a story that the employee hero had a criminal record.
Yeah, he did, a minor offense from years ago when he was 17 years old. So what? Where's the relevance?
After public outcry got loud enough, the resolution of the case was no jail time but a conviction of a criminal offense. I'm betting if that young man had been black, he'd be in jail right now. I hate to break it to many, but your odds of going to jail for similar and even exact offenses go up 10-fold if you're a minority in America. That's fact, not conjecture.
Trayvon Martin's case is educational on several fronts. First it clearly shows the political involvement of who gets charged and what those charges might be. Until a large and vocal group of people led by Trayvon Martin's parents got involved and made it an issue, no charges were filed, nor would they have been due to Florida's extremely loosely defined "Stand Your Ground" law.
Then, when the publicity became national, the case was revisited, and suddenly, yes, charges would be filed. But what charges, I might ask? Was second-degree murder a sustainable charge? Even as a layman I thought from the get go that it was so obviously unsustainable that it was done on purpose by people who wanted George Zimmerman to get off. In retrospect I think it was due to the publicity and wanting to address the public anger.
As it turns out, at the end, after arguing for the entire trial for a murder conviction, the prosecution added a charge of manslaughter, as it should have from day one. This was clearly not a murder case and never was. I would have guessed a manslaughter charge from the beginning might have been upheld, but I would have tacked on the possibility for criminally negligent homicide and maybe reckless endangerment as well. The odds of some sort of jail time for a death clearly resulting from Zimmerman's actions would have been obtained. The funny thing is, Trayvon Martin's attack and beating of Zimmerman would have been perfectly legal under Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law, as he had perfectly good reason to "feel threatened".
The point is, though many feel otherwise, "Stand Your Ground" laws are mostly passed to allow citizens to reasonably protect themselves, not only from criminals but from those elected to prosecute them. In far too many states, a person's home is not his/her castle.
Unfortunately, as with most laws passed due to purely political reasons by political hacks, they often, like Florida's, go too far. That doesn't mean they shouldn't exist.
Paul Christopher is a Dunkirk resident. Send comments to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Born to Italian parents in Shanghai in 1933, Mark di Suvero was eight years old when political unrest in China forced his family to relocate to the United States. He received a degree in philosophy from the University of California in 1956, but decided to concentrate on art. By 1966 he had made a name for himself on the American sculpture scene. Di Suvero worked with Kenneth Tyler at Tyler Graphics in 1976, and in the same year represented the United States at the Sydney Biennale.
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Multi-skilling and apprenticeships counter staff 'churn'
With staff turnover in the leisure industry running at over 80% over four years, leisure operators are facing a huge challenge to address these high levels of staff turnover. However the reasons behind it are often more values-based than many employers might think, as opposed to purely monetary with employees seeking higher paid roles.
Colin Huffen of the Institute of Swimming discusses the case for apprenticeships and multi-skilling of staff as an effective method to counter staff 'churn' in a recently published article in The Leisure Review.
Click to view the full article.
You may also be interested to read previous articles published in The Leisure Review:
- David Sparkes, the chief executive of British Swimming and the ASA, the national governing body for aquatic sports, talks to The Leisure Review about the past, the future and life in the water.
- Spencer Moore of the ASA offers an insight into swimming from the perspective of the sport's governing body and considers the potential impact of a co-ordinated management approach for pool providers.


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Intended for the engineer or physicist interested in the design of space experiments and space systems. Fundamental technical background, current state of the art, and example applications are presented. Topics include systems engineering, space environment, astrodynamics, propulsion and launch vehicles, attitude determination and control, space power systems and space communications. Course credit requires completion of a culminating project, in which teams of 2 or more students research, analyze and develop a conceptual design of a key element of a space system specified by the course instructors.
The course includes "significant design credit" for the BE degree. Seniors may take this course for major credit in engineering sciences as ENGS 85 if ENGS 84 has not already been elected for major credit.
Prerequisites: Senior or graduate standing in engineering or physics with approval of the instructor. Seniors should have completed the required core courses for the physics major or for the engineering sciences major through the gateway courses. Team taught by Lotko (lead), Ouellette, Brambles and Zhang.
Teaching Assistant (STK Instruction)
Mondays 3:00-5:00 pm and Thursdays 2:00-3:50 pm; X-hour Wednesdays 4:15-5:05 pm. The x-hour may be used occasionally. STK tutorials will be scheduled on select Tuesdays in the window 2:00-3:50 pm.
Design Project and CAD Software
The course grade is based on performance on homework and the design project with the following weights:
Course Goal (VL Pisacane)
To expose each student to the fundamentals of key subsystems and their integration in a spacecraft mission so that s/he will have the perspective of a spacecraft systems engineer.
Course Objectives (VL Piscane)
Learn the fundamentals of space systems engineering to the extent that the student can carry out a conceptual design of key subsystems of a spacecraft.
Learn how to make design tradeoffs to develop a comprehensive space mission.
Learn and apply the principles of space systems engineering.
More information about this course, including lecture notes, handouts, and links to useful information, is available at the ENGG199/ENGS85 Blackboard site. You can login to Blackboard using your DND username and password. If you have registered for ENGG 199 or ENGS 85, you will see a link in your "My Courses" list.
Some additional references are listed below.
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Lower gears on a road bike
I am recovering from a recent heart attack and need to lower the gears on my Specialized Roubaix. Current drivetrain is Shimano 105 with compact double chainset. I've looked at the option of using a 10-speed 12–36 cassette with a 9-speed mountain bike mech. Would smaller rings be another possibility? Or a triple chainset?
From CTC supporter, John Plant
The first option (described in Cycle Magazine Aug/Sept 2011 Q&A) is the best one, as it'll take off the most gear inches per pound spent and give you gears that are more convenient to use. But do not delay in buying the necessary 'Shadow' design of rear mech. This year Shimano are deleting the 9-speed option from the better quality MTB groupsets, and 10-speed MTB mechs don't work with road shifters. There's are still few 9-speed Shadow-type mechs (which you need for more than 34 teeth in back) but I'd not be so sure that Deore is good enough quality to work with 10-speed precision. The importers say they're already out of M972 and M772 rear mechs – but some retailers still had stock at time of writing!
Smaller chainrings aren't really an option. You can't fit fewer than 34 teeth on those cranks. And apart from bolting an inner onto a Stronglight ST55 single chainwheel (contact Spa Cycles), nobody sells a more compact double – I'm thinking 46-26 would be nice – unless it's an even smaller MTB double that'll be too small to work with a road front mech. And an MTB front mech will neither fit your bike nor work with your shifters.
A triple is an expensive option. Apart from the chainset and bottom bracket, you'll need new STI levers and two new mechs. That's virtually a whole groupset, but it won't knock off as many inches unless you also swap the inner ring for something smaller than 30. This is possible (down to 24 teeth) with most road triples, but not on Shimano's latest models, where the inner is fixed directly to the middle.
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Multinationals Can Build a Lean, Mean Staff on China's Grad Glut
Those MNCs also need to hire good people in China. But according to state media reports and a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in December, just three-quarters of 2012 college and university graduates had found work at all. Those reports say too many new grads were out there hunting for the top jobs.
Grads have groused about gluts in their ranks for a decade. In 1999, universities that were once super-competitive relaxed admission rules to accommodate increasing numbers of applicants. Admissions rose 41.2% that year to 1.59 million students, who started to put on the caps and gowns around 2003.
During China's 2012 college entrance exam season, about 9.15 million high school students vied for 6.85 million higher education slots, the country's official Xinhua News Agency said. The number of job-seeking graduates would grow at an average of 3% annually through 2015 period, adding seven million to the talent market.
That means about 25 million city dwellers need jobs, while the market creates just 12 million new positions for them every year, the news agency adds.
If this pool of would-be workers is overflowing, I'd bet my resume that foreign firms get to be pickier, for now, about those they hire, and without major pay increases.
MNCs have offered the most plum jobs in China since the 1990s, with salaries well exceeding Chinese-run private firms. Government jobs remain popular as well, though more for their stability -- little risk of layoff -- than for the package.
Beleaguered job seekers will settle for anything over the national average determined mostly by Chinese firms, while MNC bosses can raise the performance bars at the same time with low risk that someone will walk off the job.
Incidentally, we're talking about salaries of 10,000 yuan ($1,603) per month at the very high end, still less than equivalent jobs in more developed countries. Typically employees, especially entry-level, earn not even half that amount.
To look at this dynamic in another way, consider the opposite trend in Vietnam. Talent is hard to find in much of the country, foreign companies complain. Those in jobs are pressing for higher pay, often by calling wildcat workplace strikes that shut down production until workers and managers work something out.
In China, a widely forecast economic slowdown last year from levels between 9% and 10% over the previous decade should give foreign employers another boost. Chinese officials warned in 2012 of "increasing employment pressure" for graduates because of that slowdown, from more than 9% to around 7.5%.


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COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho - A former payroll coordinator for the city of Coeur d'Alene has been sentenced to over three years in prison and ordered to repay $365,000 she took from the city over a period of several years.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Sheryl Lynn Carroll, 52, of Coeur d'Alene was sentenced Monday to three years and four months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
She earlier pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud for diverting payments intended for legitimate vendors to her personal bank account.
The Coeur d'Alene Press reports Carroll was fired last July after city staff noticed financial irregularities while she was on vacation.
Carroll also had been convicted in 1983 for stealing from the real estate company for which she worked in Oregon.


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Hey guys, im moving to Brisbane for a year, and want to bring my marker and some gear with me. Are there any laws or red tape i should be worried about when coming over?
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Posted 17 January 2013 - 10:09 PM
"There is no hunting like the hunting of a man. And those who've hunted armed men long enough, and like it, never really care for anything else thereafter." -Royce
Posted 29 January 2013 - 09:15 AM
Dude, don't even bother. You won't get your marker in the country. It will probably be destroyed if you try. Realistically, you're going to have to give up paintball for a year. Sorry bud.
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Posted 29 January 2013 - 07:43 PM
From what I know of Australian gun laws your NOT going to get a marker into the country
Stop worrying about how you look, and start worrying about how you play. Get out on the field and play paintball the best you can, not stand at home in front of a mirror trying to figure out if your jersey matches your eyes.
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"I feel like if we got waiver services today it would be like being let out of prison.
"I can't even remember how long we have been on the waiting list. During that time life has just been so hard. I worry all the time.
"My biggest complaint is that people like us need help. Whenever they [policymakers] go to cut that budget it's always the people with disabilities who get hurt by it. They're the ones that need it. They can't do for themselves. I don't think that's right."
"Tennessee, you see, is a Southern state governed by legislators who do have time to pass laws granting it legal to take home road kill but leave little for those of us struggling to provide for our children with disAbilities."
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Skip to comments.Reports make it official: Oil and gas are booming
Posted on 04/04/2013 8:46:36 AM PDT by thackney
In case you had any doubts, two reports released this week confirm that the oil and gas economy in Texas is still hot.
Drilling permits issued in January and February were up 10 percent over the same period in 2012, according to economist Karr Ingham, who created the Texas Petro Index.
The number of permits issued in February actually slipped by about 3 percent over 2012 numbers, Ingham noted.
But the Railroad Commission issued 3,722 permits during the first two months of the year, the strongest start to a year in the entire history of the TPI, he said.
Karr developed the index a decade ago to track trends for the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers. He reported in January that Texas oil production rose by almost 100 million barrels in 2012 over the previous year, to the highest level in two decades. It was the fifth consecutive year with an increase.
This week he reported a stunning increase in oil and gas industry employment in Texas indicated in an annual revision in state employment data, which was concluded in March.
After the revision, the Texas Workforce Commission estimated that 267,000 people worked in the upstream oil and gas industry at the end of the year, he said. That includes drilling and service companies.
The Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association released a similarly upbeat report looking at trends in employment, wages and other economic factors.
Its State of Energy Report counted total oil and gas industry employment in Texas at 379,800 during the first half of 2012. Nationally, the industry employed 971,200 people in the first half of 2012, the report said.
While the Texas Petro Index relies on the Texas Workforce Commission for its employment data, the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association report drew its employment data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, spokeswoman Kelli Way said.
The average national industry wage was $107,200 in 2012; that compares with an average private sector wage of $48,900, according to the report.
Texas continues to lead the country in oil and gas production, innovation and employment, due in part to our favorable business and regulatory climate, Ed Longanecker, president of the Texas Independent Producers & Royalty Owners Association, said in a statement.
Among other highlights that Ingham noted in the February installment of the Texas Petro Index:
Crude oil production totaled an estimated 50.6 million barrels, about 8.3 percent more than in February 2012. Crude oil wellhead prices averaged $91.90 a barrel, 7 percent less than February 2012. Natural gas production was about 528.7 billion cubic feet, a year-over-year monthly decline of 12.5 percent. Natural gas prices averaged $3.27 per thousand cubic feet, up about 26.3 percent. The Baker Hughes rig count averaged 833, down 8.9 percent.
Oil is booming in most areas from exploration / production / pipeline up to the refinery.
Natural Gas drilling is way down, but the pipeline and Natural Gas treatment plants are still trying to catch up and work is good in those areas.
Natural Gas production did not rise last year and the total production fell going into 2013.
****Natural Gas drilling is way down, ****
There is a glut of Nat gas on the market. The price is very low, so no need to drill till the price rises.
Great news, but I find it curious...
Why couldn't this have happened when GWB was in office? The Bush family is in oil and are from Texas if I remember correctly. And W spoke of energy independence at one time as well.
By contrast, Obama supposedly hates anything but green energy (and hates anything good for America for that matter), but oil is bigger than ever in places like Texas and North Dakota.
What am I missing?
Things are honestly starting to go crazy in west Texas. When I started getting offers in the mail almost daily to buy my mineral rights for massive amounts of money I KNEW something was up.
So I took a road trip out to west Texas 2 weeks ago... and MAN is something certainly up!!
North of Ozona .... Is like a bee hive of activity!! It looked to me like they were building the infrastructure necessary for massive amounts of oil and gas to be efficiently moved via pipelines out of the area. And just South East of Pecos new wells are being actively drilled left and right...
Something BIG is going down.
Here we have a regime bent on impoverishing the United States, and along comes an oil and gas boom that can keep our economy going and revitalize it.
God does indeed work in mysterious ways.
yep, the price of gas is so low right now that it's cheaper to just burn it off than to transport it.
The whole sky in parts of west Texas was lit up with the fires of rigs burning off gas two weeks ago when I went to check on my holdings out there.
You are missing the leap forward in Technology that occurred recently that has opened up field (or re-opened them up) that were previously not producing or were under producing.
Midland/Odessa has been humming for about 3 years now. No end in sight either.
It's BOOMING out there regardless of what Zer0 and his regime have tried to squelch it.
I suspect that rising demand, combined with the fast production decline curves, combined with fallen number of rigs after gas, and also combined with the need to first tie wells into pipelines to gas treatment plants prior to reaching the market is going to bring us back to significantly higher prices before we ride the roller coaster down again.
The political pressure to block export leaves too many unwilling to invest in more Natural Gas supply, fearing even greater overrunning of demand at profitable prices.
Muchof the new natural gas supply is from shale or other tight formations. These are far more expensive wells to complete than those common a decade or two in the past.
The technology advancement of horizontal steerable drill was just beginning to grow in commercial operation when combined with hydraulic fracturing during most of the Bush Administration years. It was really taking off as he left office.
Only for the new wells. Permitting has a limited time to tie those in until the penalties get large including loss of operating permits. It varies by state.
What you are missing is that innnovation and implementation of new production technology have nothing to do with the current (or past) occupant of the White House. As long as there is money to be made, creative and risk tolerant companies and individuals will find a way to make it. The occupant of the White House is unfortunately the baneficiary of these events. People who do not understand the industry (such as yourself) for some reason draw a causal connection between the current politicians in power and economic strides made by private industry in spite of their policies.
But just give the EPA a couple of more years and they will figure out a way to screw it up.
Politicians get paid off by the Saudis not to make the USA energy independent. That's why they all get so wealthy when they move to DC and nothing is ever really done to move us in that direction. BO lives like a Saudi prince. Payoffs must be huge. Course I have no proof of this, it's just my humble opinion.
My sisters and I got a notice that a geological survey for gas and oil will be done on our land in Lee county soon. Hoping for good news.
Yesterday, the Boston NPR station had an interview with some solar and wind people, and they were all bitching about how fracking and the new oil boom were cutting into their business opportunities. The hosts of the show did plenty of their own hand-wringing and made their disapproval very clear.
It was hilarious listening to them squirm.
The other factor that was left out by the other Freepers was the price of oil has been pretty steady in that $75-100/bbl range. The price was all over during the Bush administration.
I do not believe this technology is profitable under $50/bbl.
Thackney would know better than I.
One of the things I hear holding backing drilling up in ND is just the lack of storage/pipeline to put the oil. They can drill the wells faster than they get build the infastructure to move the product to market. There is only so much pipeline capacity available. Also, you can only load so many rail tank cars in a day on the BNSF or CPRS railroads.
I do not make a casual connection. Bush is/was an oil man, was he not? 9/11 happened on his watch and had the (albiet temporary) support of the people and Congress to get off our dependence of ME oil.
He knew the industry well and how critical energy independence was as a national goal. There were and are tons of money to be made in oil, on top of windfall tax revenues for the spendthrifts in gov't.
The only thing that could have stopped it was either technology was not advanced enough, which you allude to already, or the political will to overcome the environmentalists was not strong enough.
At any rate, gov't policies do matter and can make or break companies or stiffle, if not grind to a halt, business development. That is not to say gov't can repeal the laws of supply and demand. But they sure can throw a wrench in the works.
I see from a quick glance at some of the other posts that I had not read previously that technology has much improved in recent years.
That answers most of the questions for me.
BO lives like a Saudi prince. Payoffs must be huge. Course I have no proof of this, its just my humble opinion.
You don't need proof.if the accusation fits it must be true.At least that's the mentality of the leftwing nuts.
Do you have an lease agreement already, or is this being done in advance of a lease? No problem if you don't want to share that much of private business. We recently leased but have no activity on property south of the Haynesville shale.
Thack I've got buddie in Haynesville and he said it's really died down, gas from the Haynesville shale was to dry. Out here in the permian Basin we've got some really wet gas and they are going after it and oil, starting to see a couple of horizontals being drilled in our area.
More oil currently moves out of North Dakota production on rail than on pipeline.
Oil Train Revival: Booming North Dakota Relies on Rail to Deliver Its Crude
November 30, 2012
Crude oil take away capacity continues to be adequate with a majority of North Dakotas oil now shipped by rail to east coast, gulf coast, and west coast destinations.
Haynesville is quite dry and has had the deep drop in interest as you would expect.
Our lease is depth limited and specifically excludes the Haynesville formation, even though we are likely 5~10 miles too far away to be commercial at today's technology even if the prices doubled.
My understanding is they are after the James Lime, but it would be wildcatting in our area. There is production from that layer both east and west of us but quite a few miles away.
The family has had leases on the property going back ~80 years but never a commercial producers. A few dry holes were drilled shallow in the 60's.
sure, if you pay for the pipeline :)
and I am 100% sure they will gladly use it to ship the gas to where it is needed, for a reasonable charge.
the problem is the lack of infrastructure, and the high cost of alternative methods of shipment.
What else would you propose doing with it, if it isn't economical to bring to market and sell?
A separate pipeline system is necessary to collect and distribute natural gas production from an oil well. If the gas production is insufficient to warrant the construction of the infrastructure, it's going to get flared off at the wellhead.
Note that when the situation is reversed -- when a gas well is also producing some liquids -- the liquids are captured at the wellhead and stored in tanks at that location. Then trucks run regular routes to pick up the liquids. In this case, the required infrastructure is economical, so the by-product is collected and marketed.
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Foxconn, one of the largest makers of computer components, will cease making Nvidia GeForce-based graphics cards shortly, a source familiar with the plan confirmed on Thursday. The main intrigue is whether Foxconn intends to start producing ATI Radeon-powered graphics cards, or plans to increase its stake in graphics cards suppliers Leadtek Research and PowerColor/Tul so to get more influence on the graphics card market.
Rumours about Nvidia losing add-in-card partners have been around for a while, however, since business-related events are not usually discussed publicly, it was unclear who, among Nvidia-exclusive suppliers of graphics cards, plans to cease making GeForce boards at all and who just plans to add ATI Radeon into the lineup.
According to a market source, Foxconn has finally decided to stop making Nvidia GeForce-based graphics cards due to a plethora of reasons. The orders for ATI Radeon HD 4800-series graphics cards are rising rapidly at the moment, whereas the demand towards Nvidia's latest offerings is declining. To make the matters worse, Nvidia from time to time undersupplies its partners with certain graphics processing units (GPUs) that are required to successfully compete against rivals. As a result, graphics cards shipments of companies like Foxconn are falling.
Foxconn owns stakes in Leadtek Research, an Nvidia-exclusive graphics cards supplier, as well as PowerColor/Tul Corp., an ATI-exclusive vendor, but the company still has a lot of manufacturing capacities, engineers as well as customers to run its own-brand graphics adapter business. Apart from Nvidia there is only one leading supplier of discrete GPUs: ATI, graphics product group of Advanced Micro Devices. There is no information whether the deal between Foxconn and ATI has been signed, but it would be logical to expect the former to start making ATI-based graphics cards instead of Nvidia-powered.
Despite of the fact that Foxconn is a large company, its own market share on the market of graphics cards is not large, hence, its potential switch from Nvidia to ATI will hardly affect market shares of both GPU suppliers dramatically.
Foxconn, Nvidia and ATI did not comment on the news-story.


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At 4:22 a.m., Monday, July 8, Manistique Public Safety Officers were dispatched to the Ace Hardware Store, 145 River St., Manistique, for the report of a suspicious situation. 911 Dispatch advised the officers an anonymous caller had reported they were driving by the business when they observed a ladder upright against the side of the building.
Upon investigation, officers searched the area and located two juvenile males hiding nearby. Officers continued to investigate and found the greenhouse outside of the main building had been broken into and that there was fresh damage to the main roof of Ace Hardware which exceeded $1,000. The two juveniles were taken into custody and the investigation continued into the morning hours, whereby an additional juvenile and one adult male were also placed under arrest.
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Skip to comments.Republicans again seeking to split 9th Circuit (PLEASE DO!)
Posted on 06/19/2005 8:18:57 AM PDT by SandRat
LOS ANGELES - Congressional Republicans are hoping yet again to split the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers nine Western states and has issued some rulings to the dismay of conservatives.
The Republicans say a breakup is the best way to reduce the circuit's caseload.
Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., plans this week to introduce a bill to split the circuit into three parts. Rep. Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, has already introduced legislation this year that would create at least one, if not two, new appellate courts for the area, which includes Arizona.
"The situation is continuing to get worse for the 9th Circuit," Ensign said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "It has by far the most cases per jurist, and it's just too large and too unwieldy."
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who has opposed efforts to split the circuit, said the real issue is the number of judges handling cases. "If there is a way to reduce the caseload of the 9th Circuit's judges in a fair and honest manner," she said in a statement, "I am open to considerations."
The idea of splitting the 9th Circuit is hardly new; efforts date back decades. But it packs greater significance following recent criticism from some conservatives of decisions by federal judges.
Democrats who have opposed a split may be cautious about voicing strong opposition after the recent skirmish over judicial filibusters. And with Republican majorities in the Senate and House, which passed a version of the bill last year, supporters say they consider the split inevitable.
Disband the Ninth Circuit.
Seeing is believing. Get too it already, pubbies!
The 9th Circuit is just the right size for the states on the West coast. There is no reason that some idiots in San Francisco should be deciding cases for Montana and Alaska.
Your absolutely right -- Talk is cheap, put or we replace them with people who have a backbone, is their anyone in the party with a Backbone!!??
If they actually pull this off, it would be provide some redemption for the confirmation fiascos. What's really be fun is packing the new circuits with all ne conservative judges. Liberals will be screaming bloody murder.
few and far between.
Yes, there are a few.
Congress would be well within their powers to disband the 9th Circus.
I'm sure there are some, as there are more than 20 Judges on the 9th Circus.
We only have ourselves to blame for the radical Judiciary in this country...just look at all the duds appointed by GOP Presidents.
Nor should they be deciding for Arizona. Leave them with Hawaii and Sin FreakSicko and that's it.
Dividing the circuit won't magically change its political leanings, but it will increase the efficiency of the federal courts.
Guam needs its own exclusive circuit.
I suggest that the 9th be relieved
of superfluous cases, so that it can
direct its attention solely to Guam.
Hey the Guamanian people are friendly! What are you trying to do start a WAR!
.Example, the 5th Circuit court is equally as far to the far right among all of the states within its jurisdiction as the 9th is to the left in its. Some of the Fifth's decisions are astoundingly outcome oriented and the court, in all but a couple of 3-judge panels, will reach 'way out to reverse a case in which the lower court -with or without a jury, has found for an injuried plaintiff, a consumer class or a small business when the appellant is a large energy company, bank, financial/securities institution, or a politically powerful commercial interest. The skew of the 5th Circuit is so clear that lawyers over in that part of the country try to avoid bringiing a meritorious case in U.S. distruct court within that circuit because they know that, in the overwhelming majority of instances, the 5th Circuit will find some cockamamie rationale' to favor big business, industry, commercially powerful interests or, in criminal cases, the government.
It is noticeably strange that the same voices that attack the 9th Circuit for ignoring the role of an appellate court and the ends of justice are strikingly silent about the 5th.
By contrast, the 11th Circuit, my circuit, is a straight-down-the-middle court, as are the remaining circuits. We lawyers know from the outset in the 11th and the other circuits around the country that some 3-judge panels of the court are more oreiented to one side of the political spectrum than the other. But, that being recognized, we nonetheless believe, in fact we know, that we'll get a fair hearing, the three panel judges will have studied our briefs, the record from the district court, listened carefully at oral argument, and render a cognizably fair decision and opinion justifying the decision. Those who scream about the 9th should also be just as agitated about the 5th for those who live and litigate in Louisana and Texas.
Of course lawyers and litigants want to prevail in their cases, that's not the crucial issue. Every lawyer I know and most litigants, with proper counseling, simply expect, and have every right to, a fair hearing by judges not outcome oriented or driven by ideology in the decision making process. No one expects any individual judge to leave his own societal or political orientation in the parking garage, but we have a right to demand that such extraeous factors are not included in his decision calculus. Regretably, that is always the case and we have the results we see today in some specific areas.
We also need a plan if travel is limited and some form a regional juridical appeal is helpful during a time of crisis. We have no plans because we can't envision such troubles.
In general the Circuit Courts are very, very important -- and can become more important. But also in the event of a terrorist strike we could lose a Circuit Court and then what?
If Atlanta is taken out in a nuclear terrorist action, then what happens to the Circuit Court (not to mention the hub for air transportation, telecommunications, national morale etc.)?????????... Just what are our plans? Someone should have some for the area of the Judiciary with regard to terrorist actions and warfare on our own territory.
...So the point of this bright and cheerful meditation is that it is fine well and good to appoint federal judges or alter the number of Circuit Courts, but we also should be appointing federal alternates to take authority under certain limited conditions given the current disastrous situation with our borders et cetera et cetera et cetera...
And after you split the Ninth Circuit district, give jurisdiction over one square square mile of Death Valley to the old one. Population 0.
Problem solved.
The 9th Circuit is disproportionate in its size. All the other circuits have about 12 judges, whereas the 9th circuit has about twice that many. It should be split.
A Commission during the 1990s said that the 9th Circuit shuld be split into two divisions, but maintained as a Circuit, with some "floating" judges between the two divisions to assure uniformity. This is a wacky idea compared to simply splitting the 9th Circuit. The Commission's idea would have essentially created another, mezzanine level of appeals within one of the Circuits, and leading to confusion. There is simply no need to go there.
As it is, the 9th Circuit is also the nation's most liberal Circuit and is routinely overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. This difference will only widen as Bush's nominees for the more-or-less balanced Circuits, e.g., the 11th, are confirmed, making all the Circuits, except the for 9th, conservative Circuits.
The only problem I see with splitting the 9th Circuit is the "blue card" of the Democratic Senators from California. They, for example, blue carded Christopher Cox when he was nominated to the 9th Circuit (Bush subsequently nominated him for the SEC).
The extension of Republican hegemony to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals within which is California is going to require some imagination. Perhaps we can leave California to be a one state Circuit, and fill it with recess-appointed judges (until a Democrat is elected President and they elect at least 50 Senators).
Perhaps, I have no knowledge of Judge Jones. I'll have one of our clerks pull some of her opinions Monday.
The 9th's Judge STEPHEN REINHARDT =
-Leader of the Pack
-Friend of the CLINTONS
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The Enemy is now Within...
and always has been.
thanks for that pic. I've been curious about that for some time.
rational is a correct term that doe not apply to the 9th.
Oh, in addition, I haven't handled a personal injury case since I was an intern in a pro bono publico clinic as a third-year student. Your knee-jerk animosity is not worthy of a response.
Moreover, the 9th Circuit is the official Court of Enviro-wacko Causes. Splitting the circuit would mean that Californians will still get the rulings they want, while the other states in the Circuit can be returned to judicial sanity.
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MARSHALL – Services for Louise Neoma (Spitzer) Dirckx, 84, of Marshall will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 2, at Holy Redeemer Church in Marshall. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Monday, with a 4 p.m. CCW rosary and a 7 p.m. prayer service, at Rehkamp and Horvath Funeral Directors in Marshall. Visitation will continue from 9-10 a.m. Tuesday morning. Burial will follow the funeral service at Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
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Waldo Canyon was not the only spot in the American West affected by wildfires this summer. The High Park Fire claimed numerous homes and acres of forest near Fort Collins, Colorado, and fires spread throughout the state and into neighboring Utah.
"Safety always has to come first. It is sometimes possible to modify a course to avoid a fire or an unsafe previously burned area, but there is no way to change a course to avoid dangerous air," says Bruce Copeland, Director of the Logan Peak Trail Run in Logan, Utah. Logan Peak was run without incident on June 30, but Copeland says fires were visible from portions of the course the next day. "One fire was about two to three miles from the regular Logan Peak Trail Run course and about half a mile from one of our alternate snow and fire course routes. Fires not only affect our trails and the views from those trails—the smoke from the fires makes it dangerous to run and train."
Still, Shafai says such inconveniences as canceled races or limited training options are minor inconveniences in the scheme of things. At the Summer Round-Up Trail Run in Colorado Springs July 8, he saw a friend and learned he had lost his home in the fire.
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In 2012 Stockholm ports had their busiest season ever, hosting a record-breaking 467,000 passengers. A total of 274 ships visited the two main ports of Stockholm during the summer season.
Those numbers don't lie: Stockholm has become a very popular cruise destination. As Claudia Quas, Project Manager of the Stockholm Cruise Network, stated, "We're very pleased with the numbers this past season. They suggest that Sweden, and Stockholm in particular, is becoming a choice destination for a growing number of cruise passengers."
Quas said she expects numbers to be even higher in 2013, predicting 284 ships and half a million passengers will visit Stockholm. (The Stockholm Cruise Network is a partnership among the ports of Stockholm, Arlanda Airport, Stockholm hotels, and the Stockholm Visitors board, that promotes Stockholm as a cruise destination.)
Building on the momentum of this banner year, the Stockholm Cruise Network and VisitSweden are partnering with Travel Weekly on an ad campaign that will fuel next year's expected growth. The campaign, which will include both print and electronic elements, will also promote SAS Airlines as the preferred carrier for cruises originating or terminating in one of Stockholm's two main ports.
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FotografiskaFotografiska is a new museum showcasing the best work in international contemporary photography. The museum, located in a beautiful historic building on the docks of Stadsgården in Stockholm, is perfectly suited to cruise passengers, with a convenient waterfront location and extended operating hours (Sunday - Wednesday 9:00 am - 9:00 pm, Thursday - Saturday 9:00 am - 11: 00 pm).http://en.fotografiska.eu
Spritmuseum Sweden's history with alcoholic beverages comes to life at Spritmuseum, the museum of spirits, located on the popular island park of Djurgården in central Stockholm. In addition to immersive exhibitions, the museum features a tasting room, restaurant, and bar. Cruise passengers will also want to visit the Absolut Art Collection, showcasing works by modern greats, including Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst, all housed within Spritmuseum. www.spritmuseum.se
ABBA MuseumIn 2013 the official ABBA museum is set to open on Djurgården, within a larger museum devoted to important Swedish artists. The ABBA museum will likely be the main attraction, as the group is undeniably Sweden's biggest musical export (having sold nearly 400 million records worldwide). The museum will feature the band's often over-the-top stage costumes, as well as vintage instruments and other memorabilia. Interactive exhibits include life-size holograms of the group, with whom visitors can sing along to ABBA hits. This museum is sure to be high on the list of attractions for cruise passengers in 2013. www.abbathemuseum.com
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