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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered remarks at the Business Forum Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq, at the Department of State on June 3, 2011. Secretary Clinton highlighted the United States' civilian commitment to Iraq's future.
Secretary Clinton said, "President Obama and I and our government believe strongly that expanding economic opportunity is as essential as building democratic institutions. We think they go hand in hand. And in particular, it's very important for people going through the changes that are sweeping the region and that Iraq has, in many ways, been a leader in demonstrating, to believe and to see that democracy delivers: Is your life better or not? Do your children have a better opportunity or not?
"And this is clearly not a job for government alone. It is a very important partnership that has to be forged. Businesses like those represented here at this table create jobs, provide livelihoods, increase standards of living, give hope to individuals and their families. And what government should do, whether it's in the United States or in Iraq, is to be a good partner, to help create the conditions for investment and growth that will be broadly spread and create a ladder of economic opportunity for those willing to work hard, to acquire the education and skills required in the modern world.
"Now, we are entering a new phase in our relationship with Iraq, and we are very committed to making a major civilian commitment to Iraq's future. We'll be opening, as you know, and running consulates in Irbil and Basra, we'll have civilian experts available to work with not only Iraqi counterparts, but also Americans and to support American businesses in the years to come, as we do in our diplomatic -- especially our commercial diplomatic work all over the world. And so it's time for the United States to start thinking of Iraq as a business opportunity. And the sacrifice that the Iraqi people have made for your freedom is one that we highly respect.
"According to the IMF, Iraq is projected to grow faster than China in the next two years. Now, let me repeat that, because when I read it I said, okay, are you sure because we always think of China as being the juggernaut? But no, indeed, Iraq is projected to grow faster than China."
She continued, "...Today, Turkish, Chinese, French, Jordanian, Iranian companies are lining up to do business. But very honestly, we see too few American companies alongside our soldiers and our diplomats. Iraqis are looking to rebuild every sector of their economy, not only their oil sector but agribusiness, transportation, housing, banking, and many others. For example, Citibank is now engaging with Iraqi financial institutions and working with corporations who wish to invest in Iraq. Now, I do not want to sugarcoat the difficulties. I think, among friends, we need to have an honest conversation about what is it we all need to do to realize these very positive projections.
"Now, one reason there are so many opportunities is because Iraq remains a tough environment. There are still significant security challenges, bottlenecks in infrastructure, unclear regulations, and, unfortunately, corruption. But as our Iraqi colleagues will tell you, they are working hard to make it easier to do business in Iraq for Iraqis and foreign investors alike.
"Now, each company will make its own decisions about the costs and benefits, but we want to go on record unequivocally in encouraging American business to begin that process, and we will do everything we can to support you in it. Our embassies and consulates will be hubs that support commercial activity in every region of Iraq. The State Department will work hard to champion American companies, including through events like this one. USAID, Treasury, the Departments of Energy and Agriculture, OPIC, Ex-Im, and many other agencies have unique and proven experience that we can bring to the table to work with you.
"Ambassador Jeffrey is working hard to establish an American Chamber of Commerce in Iraq, which would be another powerful advocate. Where we have American Chambers, we find they are very value-added. So we think that's an incredibly important effort. And as President Obama has said, the greatest untapped resource in the Middle East and North Africa are its people. There's no doubt about that. And we want to see Iraq have a strong democracy and a growing economy that provides stability and prosperity for the Iraqi people, and we need to work to make sure that the investments are there that will help Iraq chart that kind of future.
"I also have to say a word about hiring women. I know that a lot of the best students in Iraqi universities happen to be women, and I hope that Iraq takes full advantage of half the population, ready to work, ready to roll up their sleeves to assist in the transformation of their country. And certainly my Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues, Melanne Verveer, is here to talk specifically about some of the ways we are ready to support the integration of women into the economy.
"Now, I'm very excited about what's possible and I'm very hopeful about the future, but I also know, from having worked in many different countries on many different issues over too many years to remember, that the United States stands ready to be a good partner, we stand ready to encourage in every way we can. But ultimately these decisions are up to the Iraqi people: the leaders of the government, the leaders of industry, and, of course, Iraqi men and women who want that better future."
You can read the Secretary's complete remarks here.
Related Content: Promoting Commercial Opportunities in Iraq -- Question and Answer Period
Rick G. in New York writes:
Does Iraq support the arab boycott of Israel of do they support American style free markets not based on racism?
Brad in Indonesia writes:
i think it's about commercial thing in the first place isn't it?
Palgye in South Korea writes:
Dear to, always thanks,
Always happens around me, but
Korea's LG Group in last Sunday "www.lg.co.kr" these funds talked about the possibility of worsening the situation, and other large companies in Korea, their protests, while I rode the old vans surrounded, their anger? To think that is displayed. Could be, but I'd love to have power.
Want to talk
Korea's big companies keep bothering
Hyundai Motor "www.hyundai.com / kr"
Hyundai Heavy Industries "www.hhi.co.kr"
Samsung "http://www.samsung.co.kr/"
Companies such as
Iraq has a lot of attention,
Are always grateful to you than me
Them, always want to get the attention of the United States think.
PS Based on oil would be expected to achieve rapid economic growth, the government's control over Iraq's problems is weak, the security situation is still chaotic state is thought to be a problem. U.S. troops still stationed in the middle class more than you think you need to think. In the course of the development process of growth is occurring. Iraq's rich private companies to take responsibility for their personal safety is also the anticipation of rapid growth. Over the course of the Cultural Revolution in China, had strengthened the internal control, and the unification of public opinion to think. This process is also needed in Iraq but the Iraqi men to love their football. As much as their own, talking about it, but by holding a national soccer tournament, to focus national attention as one Why do not you? I think the big story is likely.
Thank You.
Palgye in South Korea writes:
do or don`t?
i hesitate
i seed news of Syria
always thanks to Sec but
iran is have a President, willing to reform his country, if i were Sec, i give another chance to him. he ignore this opportunity, i obey all kind of attack and erase memory of him.
before, we but Sec sucess on Iran, i just involved. if can, i want give another.(i know israel and i agrees Israel`s worry but i wnat to try again to Iran)
bellow i said Mr President Barack Obama, oh no, The White House Blog.
-For Iran
Iran's president to try something, if he breaks the rules indicate a small castle there? President of the United States and Iran have in common is almost, but a common love their country and their society trying to fix the bad practices to attempt to reform efforts, but always happy with the existing practice for the forces To be disturbed, and shown a different face shape, will be expressed differently than I think is very distressed. The President of Iran for his plight, as appropriate, carefully expressed his intention to consider the situation.
Thank You.


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#781 2008-06-18 16:41:55
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Sounds like you forgot to overwrite Txp's txplib_db.php with the one from the MLP pack. The mlp version has the missing function that it's complaining about.
#782 2008-06-18 16:52:58
- lonelytraveller
- Member
- From: Firenze, Italy
- Registered: 2008-04-04
- Posts: 45
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
net-carver wrote:
Caterina Sounds like you forgot to overwrite Txp's txplib_db.php with the one from the MLP pack. The mlp version has the missing function that it's complaining about.
How can I do that? I supposed (but I'm probably wrong) that that operation was done by the wizard. But I cannot even access the wizard! Is there any other way?
#783 2008-06-18 17:15:58
- lonelytraveller
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- From: Firenze, Italy
- Registered: 2008-04-04
- Posts: 45
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Ops, sorry it was a silly question, I just took it from one of the other sites where I installed MLP successfully. Now I can access the content tabs, ran the wizard and everything works.
Thanks for replying so quickly and many many thanks for the wonderful work you've done, MLP is a great!!!
#784 2008-06-20 16:36:48
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
lonelytraveller wrote:
Ops, sorry it was a silly question, I just took it from one of the other sites where I installed MLP successfully. Now I can access the content tabs, ran the wizard and everything works.
No problem. Glad to hear that solved the issue for you.
#785 2008-06-20 17:07:06
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Anyone want to try out the latest?
As this has a new url re-write routine and feed handler, please consider this an unstable development version. It includes all the fixes for items marked 'Done' in the latest MLP Updates post.
If you want to try this on a clean install just follow the usual instructions contained in the download zip file.
How to upgrade…
If you intend trying out this version on an existing site please take note of the following points…
- Backup the contents of your textpattern/lib folder
- Backup your DB
- Switch the site to Debugging — this is important if you want all the new strings installed.
- Upload the files from the zip
- Upload Graeme's library plugin and activate it
- Upload the l10n plugin code and activate it
- Visit
Content > MLP > Preferencestab and make sure all preferences are listed correctly.
- Switch the site back to Live or Testing as needed
The plugin help text has been updated so you'll see new tag attributes and preferences explained there.
Let me know how it goes but remember — this is a test version!
#786 2008-06-21 18:28:08
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Hi Steve,
thanks for this new version.
I'm willing to try it on a site running TXP 4.0.6 and the latest MLP.
There is just one thing that makes me fear: on this site, I've installed MLP before you make it a requirement to have MySQL > 4.1.
In other words, this site is still running on MySQL 4.0.18-standard-log and I must say both TXP and MLP (both in latest stable versions) work flawlessly (at least, I haven't had any big issue that I could notice).
So, as I said, I'm willing to try this latest unstable version, but… will the MLP check if MySQL > 4.1 during an upgrade process?
Steve, I will report again an issue I've already posted, but this time I will try to explain it better, because I realized that this issue could lead to a big problem related to SEO .
First, let me state the big problem (if I'm not wrong) with this issue: URLs seen as duplicated content
On TXP + MLP (l10n-0.7.650) installation, two languages on public side (
/en/ —default— and
If I point the browser to:
http:///www.site.com/section/english-article-url-title <- although the lang chunk (
/en/) is missing, this URL works on a MLP site only for an article url-titled as
english-article-url-title and if it belongs to the default/main language.
In other words, both
http:///www.site.com/section/english-article-url-title and
http:///www.site.com/section/en/english-article-url-title are working and that could hurt SEO.
In fact, on a Google SERP for a site running MLP, there are some results that list some site URLs without the language chunk (
/es/). example.
First time I noticed that both URLs work I thought: "great, both urls work". Until now, that I realized this issue could be a problem for SEO.
If I point the browser to:
http:///www.site.com/section/spanish-article-url-title <- this one doesn't work (returns a 404). It's missing the (
/es/) part of the URL, and spanish isn't the main (default) language.
FYI: that URL will work only if the site visitor has already visited the site and have a cookie with the language set to spanish. But we can't expect that someone clicking on an e-mail link has already visited our site before and the cookie is still there.
In this case, the behavior seems to be correct: that URL doesn't exist and it returns a 404.
Now, let me think loud about that issue and how MLP should/could address it.
It would be great if MLP could rewrite URLs so if someone points a link (both an external link, being it from Google or any other website, or an internal link) to a valid, built-in and standard TXP URL (example: http://www.site.com/section/article-that-exists), MLP will take care and rewrite that URL to the one corresponding to the article language.
Some examples:
1. Someone links to an article using an standard built-in TXP URL:
Being that the article exists, MLP rewrites the URL to:
¡Perfect! Right?
2. Someone links to a section that exists:
Here, I don't know what could be better: to rewrite it to the browser default language or to the MLP default language.
In any case, what should be avoided is both URLs working:
http://www.site.com/section/ and
http://www.site.com/en/section/ (ideally, the former should be redirected to the later, or discarded/return a 404).
Steve, sorry for this long post, and I hope what I've written makes sense for you.
Maybe, you have already think about this, and even better, you have already addressed this in the latest unstable development version that I'm willing to test :D
Thanks for your hard work.
(and sorry for my english)
La música ideas portará y siempre continuará
#787 2008-06-22 07:48:16
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Hey, thanks for the post. I think I understand your SEO point and don't anticipate too much trouble getting around it.
Regarding your worry about the MySQL version — I think you should be fine as the code only does the check on running the Install wizard. As you won't be doing that, it should be ok. Just to be sure, please backup your DB and your files.
#788 2008-06-22 11:41:25
- lee
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- From: Normandy, France
- Registered: 2004-06-17
- Posts: 831
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
Hi Steve, I have a site whose initial content is in French and admin in English and I've just installed the stable version of MLP on top of it. Thing is Content/MLP is showing the French articles listed under English (GB) and the public site of the site is showing /en but showing the french articles.
What to do?
Best regards
#789 2008-06-22 13:40:18
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
ok, when you run the MLP install wizard for the first time it uses the language setup in your site preferences as the default language of the public site. In this case, your language was set to English even though your articles were in French. The result is that all the (Fr) articles were marked as English during the install and English was setup as the default site language.
For future reference, the way to do it is…
- Install the site default language from
Admin > Preferences > Languages
- Select the correct language that matches the site default.
- Install the MLP Pack
- Run the install/setup wizard
- Setup all the site languages in the
Content > MLP > Preferencestab.
- Now you can set the
Admin > Preferences > Languagesback to whatever default you prefer but it won't really matter as the MLP Pack gives every admin user the choice of which language to use admin side.
So in your case, you should have installed French and chosen that as the admin language before doing the MLP install.
How to fix your site…
- Backup your DB if you haven't done so already.
- Run the MLP cleanup wizard from
Content > MLP > Wizards.NB: Make sure you check the "Drop the `l10n_lang` and `l10n_group` fields" & "Remove localised content" options on that page before running the wizard.
- Install French from
Admin > Preferences > Languages.
- Switch the admin language to French.
- Run the MLP Install wizard again.
- Check all is ok.
- Switch the admin language back to English.
- Edited to add: Delete the site's PHPSESSION cookie (else your browser will tell the site you want to read in English!)
- Edited to add: Make sure the new default language is setup as a preferred language in the headers your browser sends to the site. (If you don't, your browser will still ask for the site in English — and get it — before it defaults to French)
Hope that helps.
Last edited by net-carver (2008-06-23 06:17:26)
#790 2008-06-22 14:54:15
Re: MLP - The Multi-Lingual Publishing Pack
net-carver wrote:
Hey, thanks for the post. I think I understand your SEO point and don't anticipate too much trouble getting around it.
Steve, thanks for your quick reply and thanks for take this point into consideration.
Yes, the SEO point is one of the points.
I'm particularly more concerned about other plugins/users/TXP-itself creating links to "a standard built-in URL for an existing articles which then, when clicked, won't work and return a 404.
If possible, redirecting (a 301 permanent redirect) would be the best way to go.
It would be beneficial even for sites that started as a single language site and then moved to a MLP setup. Any link "already out there" which points to an old URL (an URL without the language chunk) will work if properly redirected.
And my particular problem with the Postmaster plugin (which output article URLs "ignoring" that MLP is there) will be nothing.
I haven't tested yet if zem_redirect pro plays well with MLP and so, if it does a proper redirect of a wrong url to the correct one.
La música ideas portará y siempre continuará

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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stock futures were falling Tuesday as investors digested earnings reports from Pfizer(PFE) and Ford(F) , and awaited consumer confidence data for January.
Futures for the Dow Jones Industrial Average were falling 20 points, or 6.93 points below fair value, at 13,812. Futures for the S&P 500 were down 4.50 points, or 2.48 points below fair value, at 1492. Futures for the Nasdaq were falling 7 points, or 5.33 points below fair value, at 2730.
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At 9 a.m. EST, the S&P/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index is expected by economists to show a year-over-year gain of 5.5% in November after rising 4.3% the previous month.
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Hong Kong's Hang Seng closed down 0.07% on Tuesday while the Nikkei in Japan settled up 0.39%.


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A Taste of Peru
Lima, Sacred Valley, Machu Picchu, and Cusco plus Arequipa & Colca Valley optional extension
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A Taste of Peru
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Join us on a fascinating voyage of discovery as we visit some of the most splendid and awesome sites in the world. Peru, like the Parthenon in Greece or the Pyramids of Egypt, provides an unforgettable glimpse of the genius of a lost world. Highlights of this tour include visits to Lima, the City of Kings and the country's capital; Cusco, the 11,000 ft high Inca capital; Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas and one of the most impressive archeological discoveries of all time. Explore a less traveled but equally fascinating part of Peru on an optional extension that visits the colonial city of Arequipa and the Colca Canyon, the world's deepest at more than twice the depth of the Grand Canyon in the USA.
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Day 1: USA/Lima. Your exciting journey to Peru begins today as you depart Miami on your flight bound for Lima, Peru's diverse capital city, "City of the Kings." Upon arrival, after customs formalities, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Accommodations: Casa Andina Select Lima or similar.
Day 2: Cusco & Sacred Valley. After breakfast, transfer to the airport to board a short morning flight to Cusco, capital of the Inca Empire and located 11,000 feet above sea level. Upon arrival, travel to nearby Pisac, a picturesque Andean village with a wonderful market. Here you'll have a chance to buy locally made ponchos, sweaters and other handcrafted clothing, ceramics and hand-painted beads. Enjoy browsing the "locals" section of the market, where villagers come from miles around, dressed in their traditional clothing, to barter and sell their produce.
Continue to Ollantaytambo, located at the foot of spectacular Inca ruins which protected the strategic entrance to the lower Urubamba Valley, also known as the Sacred Valley. The temple area is at the top of a series of steep terraces which helped provide excellent defenses. Stone used for these buildings was brought from a quarry high up on the opposite side of the Urubamba River, an incredible feat involving the efforts of thousands of workers. The complex, still under construction at the time of the conquest by Spain, was never completed. Accommodations: Casa Andina Private Collection Sacred Valley or La Hacienda del Valle. Breakfast provided.
Day 3: Machu Picchu. It's a short drive from your hotel to the Ollanta railroad station where you'll board the Vistadome train that will take you through the lush Urubamba Valley, passing through stunning scenery en route to the Lost City of the Incas, Machu Picchu, one of the most spectacular and enigmatic archeological sites in the world.
Unknown to the outside world until archeologist Hiram Bingham rediscovered it in 1911, Machu Picchu is now the most recognizable symbol of the Incan Empire. Believed to have served as a country retreat town for Inca nobility, the complex consists of giant walls, terraces, and ramps constructed from precisely cut rock formations. This impressive architectural feat, in combination with its breathtaking natural setting amidst mist-covered green mountains above the rushing Urubamba River, makes for a visually stunning, and even mystical, experience. Enjoy the remainder of the day and evening in Aguas Calientes, at the foot of Machu Picchu. Accommodations: El MaPi Hotel or similar. Breakfast provided.
Day 4: Machu Picchu & Cusco. Early this morning, there will be an opportunity to independently visit Machu Picchu a second time ($74 per person. Please contact us to reserve this option in advance as availability may be limited.) Later in the morning, journey to Cusco by Vistadome train. Upon arrival in the afternoon, a panoramic tour takes you to the main sites of this impressive city. You'll see the Plaza de Armas, center of the Inca Empire, where Francisco Pizarro proclaimed the conquest of Cusco. Here, you'll visit Cusco's beautiful 16th century cathedral. Then, just a few blocks away, you will discover the ruins of the Koricancha, an important Inca temple to the Sun God. During Inca times this temple was literally covered with gold, but within months of the arrival of the first conquistadors, this incredible wealth had all been taken as treasure for Spain. Accommodations: Casa Andina Private Collection Cusco or Novotel Cusco. Breakfast & box lunch provided.
Day 5: Cusco. Enjoy the day at leisure in this beautiful town in the high Andes Mountains. You may stroll through the main square, or wander through the many charming side streets. Alternatively, take advantage of an optional morning excursion to Tipon & Oropesa and an optional afternoon excursion to explore Cusco's nearby ruins, such as the Sacsayhuaman fortress. Breakfast provided.
Optional Excursion: This morning's excursion begins with a scenic drive to Tipon, an impressive complex located 15 miles outside of Cusco. Tipon is an ancient marvel of engineering consisting of twelve agricultural terraces and an advanced irrigation system that is still used by the local population to this day. Continue to Oropesa and visit its colonial church, one of the most beautiful in the Cusco area. The tour concludes with a stop in Huaro, known for its Jesuit church, San Juan Bautista, which is decorated with a variety of colorful murals painted in the late 17th century. ($103 per person)
Optional Excursion: This afternoon's excursion begins at the Sacsayhuaman fortress, an emblematic Inca construction built in the 15th century. The size of the fortress and its massive stones are remarkable, and the manner in which they were transported, cut, and laid is still a mystery. Next, travel to Qenqo, a religious complex where it is believed that agricultural rituals were carried out. Continue to Puka Pukara, also known as the "red fortress", which is thought to have been a military stronghold. It has many rooms, courtyards, bathrooms, aqueducts, and towers to explore. Lastly, continue to the fountains of Tambomachay, also known as the "Inca Baths". Likely an exclusive retreat for the Inca nobility, it has highly skilled stonework and hydraulic engineering, and its aqueducts are fed by groundwater aquifers and neighboring hot springs. Return to Cusco early this evening. ($75 per person)
Day 6: Cusco & Lima. This morning will be at leisure, or enjoy an optional excursion to Chinchero. In the early afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima. Upon arrival in Lima, there will be a panoramic tour of the city, driving by the Monastery of San Francisco, the Cathedral of Lima and the ornate Archbishop's Palace and other buildings. The evening will be at leisure in Lima. Afterward bid adiós as you transfer to the airport for your overnight flight back to Miami, or extend your stay in Peru on our optional Arequipa & Colca Valley extension. Breakfast provided.
Optional Excursion: This morning, explore the site of Chinchero, one of the most important cultural and agricultural centers of the Inca Empire. The archaeological complex consists of various terraces that lead to a large Inca fortress built in the location where the Incans believed the rainbow originated. During colonial times, the Spaniards constructed a beautiful church over top of the Incan foundations at the foot of the Main Square. The church's main altar is carved in gold leaf with a baroque style, and its walls are decorated with paintings of Diego Quispe Tito, the most well-known graduate of the Cusco School of Art. ($89 per person)
Day 7: Lima/USA. Your flight departs shortly after midnight. Your amazing Peruvian adventure ends as you touch down in Miami later this morning.
Arequipa & Colca Valley Optional Post-Tour Extension
Why not take advantage of your included international airfare, and extend your stay in Peru with a visit to Arequipa and the Colca Valley. You will return to the U.S. 3 days later than the dates listed. This extension requires a minimum of 4 passengers to operate.
Day 6: Cusco & Lima. This morning will be at leisure. In the early afternoon, transfer to the airport for your flight to Lima. Upon arrival in Lima, there will be a panoramic tour of the city, driving by the Monastery of San Francisco, the Cathedral of Lima and the ornate Archbishop's Palace and other buildings. The evening will be at leisure in Lima. Afterward, transfer to your Lima airport hotel for overnight. Accommodations: Hotel Costa Del Sol-Ramada. Breakfast provided.
Day 7: Lima & Arequipa. After breakfast, fly to Arequipa, the third largest city of Peru and recognized UNESCO World Heritage Site. Known locally as the "Cuidad Blanca" (White City), Arequipa conserves one of the best examples of Peru's colonial architecture with its magnificent white stone buildings and monuments. From atop the Carmen Alto, enjoy a breathtaking panoramic view of Arequipa, the Chili River and the surrounding volcanoes. Then, embark on a fascinating city tour including the traditional Yanahuara quarter, Main Square, Church of the Society of Jesus, the Cathedral, and the Monastery of Saint Catherine. Accommodations: Casa Andina Classic Arequipa. Breakfast provided.
Day 8: Arequipa & Colca Valley. This morning, head north through the Pampa Cañahuas Reserve on your journey to the Colca Valley. Continue by Vizcachani, the Toccra Pampas, and then pass the crater of Chucura Volcano to reach the scenic viewpoint of Patapampa for a truly marvelous vista of the Andes and volcanos that surround the Arequipa region. Enjoy lunch in the town of Chivay and continue to your hotel for check-in. The balance of the day is at leisure and we recommend visiting the local hot springs. Accommodations: Hotel Pozo del Cielo. Breakfast & lunch provided.
Day 9: Colca Valley & Lima. Today, start off with a visit to Condor Pass where you can appreciate the grandeur of the Colca Canyon. At a depth of over 13,650 feet, the Colca Canyon is over twice the depth of the Grand Canyon and is the world's deepest. Watch as Andean condors soar through the air gliding on updrafts along the canyon walls. Next, travel through the small towns of Pinchollo, Maca, Achoma and Yanque, also stopping at the Antahuilque and Choquetico scenic viewpoints as you travel along the canyon. Later today, return to the Arequipa airport and return to Lima. Bid adiós to Peru as to board your overnight flight to Miami. Breakfast provided.
Day 10: Lima/USA. Your flight departs shortly after midnight. Your amazing Peruvian adventure ends as you touch down in Miami later this morning.
Optional Excursions
Optional Excursions Package
To take full advantage of your visit to Peru, we offer a special discount package of optional excursions to other "must-see" sites. These are not "seat in coach" excursions that pick up passengers in various hotels—all our optional excursions are operated for Friendly Planet groups only.
Optional Excursions Package Includes:
- Tipon & Oropesa (Day 5)
- Cusco's Nearby Ruins (Day 5)
- Chinchero (Day 6)
Package Price: $190 per person if booked and prepaid before final payment. Save $77 per person compared to buying them separately!
If you prefer not to book in advance, the individual optional excursions will be available from your guide once you arrive in Peru, based on availability, at individual prices listed ($267 per person for all three). Other optional excursions, mentioned in our detailed itinerary, will also be available to you locally, based on availability.
We regret that we cannot accept bookings for the pre-paid optional excursions package within 75 days from departure or after final payment has been received. Optional Excursions require a minimum of 4 passengers to operate.
Want more? Extend your stay with our Arequipa & the Colca Valley Optional Extension.
One of the best trips we have taken. Everything was first rate! If you are new to Friendly Planet, you will be telling all your friends about them. Peru is a wonderful destination.
Byron Collins, Long Valley, NJ
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" While it may be tempting to use broad generalizations about the way business aircraft are most often used in America today, let's not neglect the importance of business aviation as a crucial competitive asset to companies, an economic driver and lifeline to communities large and small. "
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The next generation of widebody business jets is coming, and not a moment too soon. The cabins in the current fleet-once outfitted with the latest technology and considered luxurious-are really starting to show their age.
The new kids on the block are the Airbus A350 and A380 and Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and 747-8. The A380, which can fly at 547 knots, has two decks and some 6,000 square feet of floor space, roughly the size of a five-bedroom house. At $300 million, it's a bit pricier, but a house can't fly you from New York to Moscow. If your budget is a bit smaller, consider Airbus' A350, an all-composite-fuselage airplane, which is priced at $208 million, can fly 495 nautical miles per hour and offers 2,585 square feet of floor space. Airbus hasn't yet said when the A380 and A350 will be available in executive/VIP configuration.
The 747-8 is the fastest and largest upgrade of Boeing's venerable 747 jumbo jet line. It can fly 495 nautical miles per hour and has 4,800 square feet of cabin space and a price tag of around $285 million. Boeing expects to deliver the first 747-8s for executive/VIP configuration in 2012. (They will be delivered "green," meaning that a completion center will subsequently have to install cabin furnishings and amenities.)
The smallest of the next generation of widebodies is Boeing's 787 Dreamliner, from which the executive/VIP version will be configured. It has the same amount of floor space as the A350, a cruise speed of 487 knots and a price of $163 million. Boeing expects to deliver this model "green" (that is, with no interior installed) for executive/VIP use starting in 2019.
Designers are already creating proposals for cabin completions for these new widebodies. "It is that expanse of square footage that gives the designer a lot of latitude," said Paris-based Alberto Pinto. "On a widebody aircraft, everything is ripe for invention."
In addition to Pinto, designers and companies working in this area include Andrew Winch, Edése Doret, Greenpoint Technologies, Jet Aviation, L-3 Integrated Systems, Lufthansa Technik and M&R Associates. Two design departments (at Greenpoint and L-3) have even come up with elevators to carry passengers between the ground and airplane at airports where there are no jetways or adequate air stairs. L-3 is also working on a 747-8 proposal that would provide storage in the forward cargo bay as an alternative to space-hogging overhead bins in the aft section. The elevator would provide in-flight access to the forward storage hold.
Among the creations by Doret is a majlis-the word is Arabic for a meeting or gathering place. The majlis designed for an A380 has artfully draped fabrics in the form of a desert tent, low tables and an abundance of comfortable cushions on which to sit or recline.
Greenpoint Technologies' designers, meanwhile, came up with a dining area with a polished wood table that wouldn't be out of place in a palace. But the centerpiece is a chandelier of cut acrylic that incorporates fiber-optic lighting. Exposed faux-wood beams in an arched ceiling provide a feeling of warmth.
Alberto Pinto has designed a sumptuous stateroom meant for the nose of a 747-8. "Upholstery, bed linens, fabrics, carpets-not to mention soundproofing, lighting systems, telephony and in-flight satellite television-are all taken together to change a cabin into a full-fledged living space," said Pinto.
If you're planning to buy a new widebody jet, it's not too soon to start thinking about cabin design. The sooner you can decide on a layout, fabrics, seats, veneers and such, the sooner the completion center will be able to line up vendors and begin stocking materials so it can start work when the airplane arrives. Preliminary estimates suggest that it will take at least 18 months to outfit the cabin of one of the new widebodies, depending on the complexity of the plans.
The cost can vary considerably. For a corporate or government version of the 747-8 with a VIP section forward and first-class seating aft, the price might range from $50 million to $70 million. For a full executive/VIP interior with a lot of one-of-a-kind items, $120 million to $150 million wouldn't be out of the ballpark. As for the A380, a completion executive who asked not to be identified said, "Nobody's gonna know until the first one is delivered, but the far side of $200 million is perfectly possible."
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ANAHEIM, Calif. (March 17, 2009) – The Russian Super League completed the regular season on Sunday and all four teams with U.S. players have advanced to the playoffs.
Fakel Novy Urengoi, including U.S. setter Kevin Hansen (Newport Beach, Calif.) and outside hitter Sean Rooney (Wheaton, Ill.), won the regular season Super League title with an 18-4 record.
The team finished the regular season with a 3-1 (20-25, 25-21, 25-22, 25-22) victory over Lokomotiv Belogorie, which features U.S. libero Rich Lambourne (Tustin, Calif.). Rooney had six points on six kills in the match and Hansen had five points on two kills and three blocks.
View photos from the match at www.fakelvolley.ru/photo3_20082009/13_ph.htm.
Fakel goes into the playoffs as the top seed and will begin a best-of-three series against eighth-seeded Gazprom-Uga Surgut on March 25.
Belogorie, which finished the regular season in fifth place with a 14-8 record, will play Zenit Kazan, featuring U.S. setter Lloy Ball (Fort Wayne, Ind.) and opposite Clay Stanley (Honolulu), in the playoffs.
Kazan finished the regular season in fourth place with a 13-9 record. In its final regular-season match it defeated Yaroslavich Yaroslavl, 3-0 (25-14, 25-20, 25-18). Stanley scored 11 points on six kills and five aces. Ball scored three points on three kills.
View photos of the match at www.zenit-kazan.com/rus/media/photo/?year=2009&rzd=80.
In the CEV Indesit Champions League, Kazan, the defending champion, defeated Italy's Lube Banca Marche Macerata, 3-2 (20-25, 25-23, 23-25, 25-20, 15-11) on March 11, but it was not enough to reach the final four of the tournament.
View photos of the match at www.zenit-kazan.com/rus/media/photo/?year=2009&rzd=79&id=1281.
Ufa Ural, which includes U.S. opposite Gabe Gardner (San Clemente, Calif.), finished the season in sixth place with a 13-9 record. Ufa finished the regular season with a 3-0 (25-23, 25-20, 25-23) victory over Metalloinvest Stary Oskol. Gardner scored 10 points on 10 kills. Ufa will play third-seeded Dynamo Moscow in the playoffs.
Finally, Reid Priddy and Lokomotiv Novosibirsk will go into the playoffs as the seventh-ranked team with an 11-11 record. The team finished the season with a 3-0 victory over Gazprom-Uga Surgut. Priddy scored 15 points on 14 kills and one block in the match. Novosibirsk will play second-seeded Iskra Odintsovo in the first round of the playoffs.
View photos of the match at www.lokovolley.ru/photo/Foto28/.
You can watch Reid's video of the match against Surgut at http://reidpriddy.com/traffic/.
With one more match in the regular season, the Turkish team Istanbul Buyuksehir Belediye, which features U.S. outside hitter Scott Touzinsky (St. Louis, Mo.) and middle blocker Ryan Millar (Palmdale, Calif.), is in third place in the Turkish league with a 15-5 record.
On March 14, I.B. Belediye took a 3-2 (25-22, 25-11, 26-28, 23-25, 15-10) victory over Polis Akademisi. Touzinsky led his team in scoring with 20 points on 18 kills, one block and one ace. Millar had 19 points on 11 kills, seven blocks and one ace.
U.S. outside hitter Lance Walker scored 12 points on 12 kills for Polis.
You can read about the match on Millar's web site at http://ryanmillar.terramarmarketing.com/_blog/Volley_Blog.
U.S. opposite Brook Billings (Santa Barbara, Calif.) led his Turkish team Fenerbahce with 20 points in its 3-2 (25-20, 25-22, 16-25, 20-25, 15-13) victory over Galatasaray on March 12. Billlings scored on 14 kills, five blocks and one ace.
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Slovakia's ACH Volley, which includes U.S. middle blockers Delano Thomas (Sacramento, Calif.) and Phil Eatherton (Glencoe, Mo.), finished the regular season in first place with a 16-0 record and won its first playoff match over Austria's aon hotVolleys, 3-1 (17-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-23).
However it fell to Austria's Hypo Tirol Volleyball Team in the final, 0-3 (14-25, 19-25, 19-25). Thomas scored four points on four kills in the match. Eatherton played but did not score. Russell Holmes (Fountain Valley, Calif.), who played for Hypo Tirol, scored six points on four kills, one block and one ace.
U.S. middle blocker David Lee (Alpine, Calif.) and his Italian Serie A1 team Trenkwalder Modena defeated Yoga Forli on March 15, 3-0 (25-17, 30-28, 25-23). Lee started all three sets and scored seven points on six kills and one block.
The final regular season match will be March 22. Modena will face Rpa-Luigibacchi.It Perugia. Modena is in 10th place in the league with a 10-15 record. The top eight teams will advance to the playoffs.
U.S. outside hitter Riley Salmon (League City, Texas) and his Italian Serie A1 team Sisley Treviso will play a key match on Wednesday (March 18), which will determine if they advance to the playoffs.
Treviso is in eighth place in the league (11-14) after losing on March 15 to Itas Diatec Trentino, 1-3 (20-25, 20-25, 25-21, 18-25). Salmon played as a substitute in the fourth set but did not score.
On Wednesday, Treviso will play a make-up match against Bre Banca Lannutti Cuneo, which will determine whether or not Treviso misses the playoffs for the first time in its history.
Without an injured Tom Hoff (Park Ridge, Ill.) and two other players, Olympiacos suffered its first road loss on March 16, falling to Iraklis, 0-3 (21-25, 23-25, 23-25).
With one match left in the regular season, Olympiacos (17-4) sits in second place behind Panathinaikos (18-3), which fell to AO Finikas Sirou on March 16, 2-3 (16-25, 25-18, 25-15, 25-27, 12-15). The United States' Matt Denmark scored 10.33 points on seven kills and 3.33 blocks for AO Finikas Sirou, which is in seventh place with an 11-10 record.
PAOK, which includes U.S. players Evan Patak (Pleasanton, Calif.), Theo Brunner (Ridgefield, Conn.) and Paul Lotman (Lakewood, Calif.), is in eighth place in the league with a 10-11 record following a victory on March 16 over GS Lamia.
Patak led PAOK with 26.33 points on 23 kills, 0.33 blocks and three aces. Lotman scored 14.5 points on 12 kills, 1.5 blocks and one ace. Brunner scored 11.5 points on 10 kills and 1.5 blocks.
U.S. outside hitter Nils Nielsen (Fallbrook, Calif.) scored 7.5 points on seven kills and 0.5 aces as his Greek team, MGS Apollon Kalamarias fell to AO Kifisias, 1-3 (25-21, 15-25, 23-25, 20-25). Kalamarias is in 10th place in the league (6-15).


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There is one complex term to describe our future: limited biocapacity. The earth's limited biocapacity is the greatest challenge we face as investors and as humans. We are already facing it, but the severity of its effects depends on where you live and how much money you have.
The planet provides some amazing ecosystem services for our economy. It recycles our polluted air and dirty water; it provides timber, cropland, and many other raw materials and support services. When I was born in 1960, the ecological footprint of the world economy consumed about half of the earth's resource capacity. In other words, our 1960 world economy consumed less than what the earth was able to renew, recycle, or produce as ecosystem services. Twenty five years later the ecological footprint of the world economy doubled. In 1985, we hit the threshold of using everything the planet could renew, recycle, or produce each year. If the ecological footprint of our world economy had stayed at this level, society's demand on nature would be in balance with nature's capacity to meet that demand-assuming we had transitioned from oil to renewable energy. But that's not what happened.
Fast forward to 2007-we have super sized everything and we keep on multiplying and consuming like never before. We now use the planet's resources faster than they can regenerate. We are able to keep growing and consuming because we are liquidating ecological capital rather than living off annual yields. Today our ecological footprint is over 20 percent larger than the planet can regenerate. From a money management perspective, what if year after year your expenses were more than your income and you had to dip into savings to make ends meet? It is simply not sustainable or possible. Investors will need to readjust their return expectations because the earth does not have the biocapacity to sustain this growth. It is not physically possible. Past performance is no guarantee and is actually a false indicator of future return.
During my 47 years on the planet, the world's population has doubled to six billion people and is expected to reach nine billion in roughly another 45 years. The majority of our new global citizens are born into poverty. As demand for precious resources such as oil and water increases, so does the disparity between rich and poor. Increasingly, it is only the rich who can afford what were once readily available natural resources-including clean air and drinking water. We are entering eco-apartheid; the economic and ecological advantages are going to the rich while the poor suffer.
We have learned that when the global community fails to meet the very basic needs of all people, there is conflict, terrorism, and war. Although it is sometimes easier to live in the denial and relative luxury of our comfortable homes, this is the world in which we live. The chance of turning this crisis around is small but possible. Because it is such a challenge, we must minimize the denial and start helping with the solution to increase our probability. At times we all feel like throwing up our hands in despair and deciding there is nothing we can personally do, but this reaction is not part of the solution.
Education and communication about the ecological crisis are essential. Increasingly, with the help of the internet and other independent media channels, the voice of public opinion is now beginning to shift the global community. The bandwidth of this voice is competing with corporate-owned media as we approach a tipping point. From the supermarket to the stock market and on to the voting booth, global public opinion is the next superpower positioning to change the direction of corporations and governments. Our voices can only be heard, and our votes can only be counted, when we speak out.
Many would say we have some serious environmental and investment challenges ahead. Some would say we are facing an ecological, and potentially financial, crisis. Regardless of your opinion of the severity of the situation, simply stated, our waste and pollution cannot systematically increase and our natural resources cannot systematically decrease.
Those of us reading this article will be insulated from the severity of the consequences for a while. We know that the people who have the least resources will suffer more and earlier. We know that so many are already suffering today. According to the United Nations, "a child dies every three seconds from extreme poverty." In some parts of the world, people are fighting over food and water while others are experiencing abundance and economic wealth never before realized. This widening wealth disparity is survival of the financial fittest. We have allowed it to get this bad and unfortunately we will allow it to get much worse in order to protect ourselves from discomfort as long as possible.
SRI (socially responsible investing) has been largely about "doing well by doing good" for the people with the most money. We are entering a period in time when our choices are a matter of survival. As social investors, we need to pay attention to the fact that the earth can no longer provide the ecosystem services necessary to support our current consumption levels now or into the future. Not paying attention is reckless and certainly does not meet the definition of a prudent investor.
Most likely, the world's stock markets will experience greater volatility, destabilization, and risk through the uncertainty of biocapacity and climate change. Investors may want to manage ecological portfolio risk by considering the issue of business models rather than short-term operating efficiencies. For example, companies that rely heavily on cheap oil for transportation of their raw materials, products, and labor need to rethink their approach. Their business model is effective only when there is unobstructed mobility, but the minute they run into limitations on movement of people and/or goods, the profit margin begins to deteriorate quickly.
With media and public opinion shifting toward an understanding of climate change impacts, it shouldn't be a surprise to see multinational businesses attempting to paint a greener picture of a positive future in which they figure prominently. Wal-Mart and others have been in the news recently for their sustainability initiatives. Wal-Mart executives and consultants would like us to believe (and maybe they believe it themselves) that the company's business model will be sustainable if they improve their fuel efficiency, sell more organic products, and make various other adjustments. Wal-Mart's business model is unsustainable as long as it relies on cheap oil for transporting its goods, cheap labor for making and selling them and cheap land on which to build its huge stores, and even huger parking lots. Perhaps, in a world of unlimited biocapacity, Wal-Mart could continue to grow until it had populated every corner of the world, but that's not reality. To pretend otherwise is to be in denial at best and deceitful at worst.
Wal-Mart is not alone. Unfortunately, for many corporations, the sustainability commitment is nothing more than "greenwashing." Corporate responsibility departments and sustainability reporting are sprouting up everywhere. Investors need to look beyond the PR and investor relations press releases and dig deep to uncover the companies that are putting their investment money-not just their advertising budgets-into intelligent environmental business strategies. And, even more important, investors need to support companies that are imagining and building business models with a greater chance of surviving in an unstable economic climate.
There are substantive changes companies can make that should help to insulate them from disruption. These fall under the general category of decentralizing. For example, a large multinational corporation should weigh the benefits achieved through current economies of scale against the expected value of locating supplies, production, and customers as close together as possible and practical. The same is true of companies that depend on outsourced production facilities in distant places. While these manufacturing and distribution strategies are currently cheap, this may not prove true as climate change disruptions cause delays, unintended consequences, or inability to complete a contract. Companies positioned for the best chance for adaptation must understand the realities, risks, and potential opportunities facing their business models and, heaven forbid, envision a future beyond next quarter's earnings.
As investors, we can support this kind of thinking by disciplining ourselves to take a long-term perspective with our investments. This is not to say that investors should be passive. On the contrary, a long-term perspective means that as investors we are doing enough research and self-education to be comfortable with the investment process, so that it isn't necessary to evaluate the worth of the investment using quarterly returns as the only measure of success.
Today half of the 100 largest economies in the world are not countries. They are corporations with a mandate to maximize wealth for shareholders, at the expense of the environment, employees, and the community. Investors are a critical catalyst for transitioning the investment process to support investments that build-rather than erode-the natural, social and economic capital in communities worldwide.
This article was written by Carsten Henningson of Portfolio 21 and was originally produced in the 15th Anniversary Summer 2007 issue of the GreenMoney Journal.
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Henningson states: " In 1985, we hit the threshold of using everything the planet could renew, recycle, or produce each year. If the ecological footprint of our world economy had stayed at this level, society's demand on nature would be in balance with nature's capacity to meet that demand-assuming we had transitioned from oil to renewable energy. But that's not what happened."
—- While I agree that transitioning to renewable energy in 1985 would have been a good idea, "balance with nature's capacity" was exceeded not in 1985 but 10,000 years ago when humans began to leave hunter gathering behind.
When hunter gatherer numbers rose to overshoot the carrying capacity of the solar energy driven, virgin, ecologically complex, species diverse, self-managing, NUTRIENT CONSERVATIVE forest and grassland ecosystems that they relied on for their sustinence——starvation was the punishment / there were obvious limits.
As hunter gatherers, whose numbers had overshot the carrying capacity of these NUTRIENT CONSERVATIVE forests and grasslands, began to practice agriculture which fosters simple (often monocultural) plant associations and tillage practices that regularly leave soil bare and without any roots to hold back the leaching of plant nutrients down through the soil profile and on to the ocean—————- then the process of unsustainable mining of soil plant nutrients began. Humanity has been able for the last 10,000 years to avoid the consequences of this unsustainable soil nutrient depletion by opening up new forests and grasslands to access their nutrient stores until nutrient depletion forced migration onto new virgin soils. Moving to new continents with vast areas of of intact virgin forests and grasslands allowed the unsustainable depletion to continue.
The shift from total solar dependence toward increasing use of temporary supplies of exhaustible fossil energy allowed the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer by the Haber Process in 1913 and the mining and long distance transport of Potassium, Phosphorus, Calcium and Magnesium etc fertilizer materials to replace those leached from the soil as a result of NUTRIENT LEAKY agriculture.
As we enter the post 'Petroleum Interval' era, this geological energy dependent fertilization will slowly become impossible. The total human eneterprise will only reachieve the "balance with nature's capacity" that existed during the time of hunter gathering when the ANNUAL loss of plant nutrients from the soil is reduced to the levels that are produced by biological nitrogen fixation and weathering of inorganic soil minerals ANNUALLY.


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Interruptions and distractions in healthcare: review and reappraisal
- Correspondence to Ben-Tzion Karsh, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1513 University Avenue, Room 3218, Madison, WI 53706, USA; bkarsh{at}engr.wisc.edu
- Accepted 6 August 2009
- Published Online First 8 April 2010
Objectives To systematically review the peer-reviewed literature on interruptions in healthcare settings to determine the state of the science and to identify the gaps in research.
Methods Inclusion criteria were determined, and the online databases PubMed and Web of Knowledge-CrossSearch were searched.
Results Thirty-three papers were reviewed. Several important findings were identified: (1) interruptions occur frequently in all healthcare settings, (2) an important gap exists: only seven studies examined outcomes related to interruptions, (3) interruptions in healthcare have only been studied from the viewpoint of the person being interrupted and (4) few studies explicitly or implicitly examined the cognitive implications of interruptions.
Conclusions The high frequency of interruptions coupled with information content may simply be indicative of the high need for constant communication and coordination in healthcare. Many interruptions may be necessary for safe, high-quality care; thus, trying to eliminate all interruptions is unwise. That said, there may be situations, such as during high-risk procedures, when limiting interruptions may be warranted. Taking a complex sociotechnical systems approach will help researchers view interruptions more holistically and will result in more comprehensive studies that take into account the complexity of interruptions and the many variables in healthcare settings.
Funding Research grants NLM 1R01LM008923, AHRQ 1R01HS013610 and Robert Woods Johnson Foundation grant 61148.
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In short: Excellent city half marathonIn full: Really enjoyed my second half-marathon. It probably helped a lot that the weather was superb, but about as good a course that Cardiff can muster. Good support and a fast course - I took 50 mins off my PB!Didn't have any problems with congestion as I was doing a sub-1.30. One improvement I'd suggest is having a gun clock half way round so you have a good idea of timing. Also the bag at the end could really do with some sort of energy bar. And a Cardiff marathon would be good too!Date of review: October 16, 2012
In short: Excellent race - earlier start needed!In full: Probably just reiterating what others have said but really enjoyed Edinburgh as my first marathon with only one or two complaints.The major problem is that the later start for the full marathon meant that we were running in pretty much midday heat. This would explain why over 35% of starters did not finsh - a very high dropout rate. Considering the hours and massive effort people put in for training for a marathon this is very disappointing. Obviously the organisers can't do anything about the weather but they can mitigate it by having a sensible start time and running the half marathon second or on the Saturday.The other smaller problem was the distance from the finish to the buses - I really struggled to walk the mile or so uphill and if you've injured yourself a bit then it's even worse.Overall had a great time - lovely views, lots of great support, friendly atmosphere and a super city!Date of review: May 30, 2012
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Jaime Hernandez: Four of Americas forefathers are predominantly featured on the obverse of the 1991-D Mount Rushmore Silver Half Dollar.
Obverse: From left to right, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln's portraits are intricately carved on Mount Rushmore, which also happens to be the world's largest stone sculpture. Below Mount Rushmore are the words In God We Trust and the year 1991, the date in which the coins were issued. Arched below are the words Mount Rushmore.
Reverse: The words United States of America elegantly surround an American bison. Above the bison are the words Golden Anniversary. Behind the bison is the D mint mark indicating that the coins were struck at the Denver Mint. Arched below the bison is the motto E Pluribus Unum and the words Half Dollar. The design is adorned and encircled by 50 stars representing the 50 States of America.
Overview: Mint pre- issue price for the Mint State 1991-D Mount Rushmore Half Dollar was $6 each. Mint regular issue price for the Mint State 1991-D Mount Rushmore Half Dollar was $7 each. Maximum authorized mintage was 2,500,000 coins.
The U.S Mint also produced a 1991-D Mount Rushmore Silver Half Dollar in a proof format. Additionally, $1 Silver and $5 Gold 1991-D Mount Rushmore mint state and proof coins were also produced. There were no 1991 $10 gold coins produced with the Mount Rushmore design.


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Western Digital has maintained its lead on the market of hard disk drives (HDDs) in the most recent quarter and outsold its arch-rival Seagate by 2.9 million HDDs. Nonetheless, revenues of Seagate are still substantially higher compared to WD thanks to better sales of enterprise-oriented hard drives.
Gap Widens: 49.7 Million Vs. 46.8 Million
For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010 ended July 2, 2010, WD's revenue totaled $2.4 billion, hard drive unit shipments were 49.7 million and net income was $265 million, or $1.13 per share. The quarterly results included $27 million of expense related to litigation settlements. In the year-ago quarter, the company posted revenue of $1.9 billion, shipped 40.0 million hard drives, and reported net income and earnings per share of $196 million and $0.86, respectively. This included $5 million of income from the resolution of restructuring accruals and an $18 million gain on the sale of the company's substrate manufacturing facility in Sarawak, Malaysia.
"Despite softer than anticipated June quarter demand, fiscal year 2010 was another year of significant growth and profitability for Western Digital. The long-term demand for low-cost, high-volume storage driven by the proliferation of data and content-hungry consumer and commercial devices remains strong," said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer.
Seagate Technology said that in its fourth quarter FY2010 ended July 2, 2010 it sold 46.8 million disk drive units, thus, widening the gap with WD to 2.9 million units per quarter. The company reported revenue of $2.66 billion, gross margin of 27.4%, net income of $379 million and diluted earnings per share of $0.76. The financial results for the quarter include $6 million of purchased intangibles amortization expense, $16 million of restructuring charges, $3 million expense (Other income/expense) for the May 2010 termination of Seagate's revolving credit facility offset by a $6 million recovery of previously impaired long-lived assets and a $50 million income tax benefit due principally to valuation allowance adjustments related to deferred tax assets. The aggregate impact of these items was a $31 million increase to net income or approximately $0.06 per diluted share.
"Specific to our fiscal fourth quarter, two of our key assumptions entering the quarter did not materialize as expected and impacted our financial results – macro-economic stability and pricing reflective of balanced supply and demand. Industry demand in the fiscal fourth quarter was at the low end of our expectations due primarily to issues emanating from the debt crisis in Europe and slowing consumer spending especially in the U.S. and Europe. The lower unit shipments and unfavorable pricing at some key capacity points impacted Seagate's ability to deliver revenue and earnings for the quarter within our target range. Despite these factors, Seagate reported the highest operating results for a June quarter in the company's history," said Steve Luczo, said Seagate's chief exec, president and chairman.
Seagate Still Leads on Yearly Basis
On the yearly basis Seagate still has the unit shipments lead over Western Digital. Besides, Seagate's revenue and income are considerably higher compared to WD's.
For the fiscal year ended July 2, 2010 Seagate reported 193.2 million disk drive unit shipments, revenue of $11.4 billion, gross margin of 28.1%, net income of $1.61 billion and diluted earnings per share of $3.14. The financial results for the fiscal year ended July 2, 2010 include $35 million of purchased intangibles amortization expense, $66 million of restructuring costs, $3 million expense (Other income/expense) related to the May 2010 termination of the revolving credit line, a net write down of long-lived assets of $57 million offset by a $50 million income tax benefit due principally to valuation allowance adjustments related to deferred tax assets. The aggregate impact of these items was a $111 million reduction of net income or approximately $0.22 per diluted share.
For fiscal year 2010, the WD posted revenue of $9.8 billion and net income of $1.4 billion, or $5.93 per share, compared to revenue of $7.5 billion and net income of $470 million, or $2.08 per share, for the prior year. The 2010 net income included the $27 million of expense in the fiscal fourth quarter related to litigation settlements. The 2009 net income included a $14 million in-process research and development charge related to the acquisition of SiliconSystems, $112 million of restructuring charges with related tax benefits of $4 million, and an $18 million gain on the sale of the company's substrate manufacturing facility.


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BEIJING (AP) Markis Kido and Hendra Setiawan gave Indonesia its first gold medal of the Olympics on Saturday after defeating China's Cai Yun and Fu Haifeng in the badminton men's doubles final.
The top-seeded Kido and Setiawan recovered from a shaky start to win 12-21, 21-11, 21-16 over the second-seeded pair at Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium.
It was Indonesia's second badminton medal on Saturday. Maria Kristin Yulianti won bronze in women's singles earlier.
"We're thrilled to get the first gold medal for Indonesia," said Kido. "We're also happy to continue the tradition of Indonesia winning the gold medal in men's doubles."
Indonesia also won the gold medal in men's doubles in Sydney in 2000 and Atlanta in 1996.
After losing the first game, the Indonesians took control in the second game, racing out to a 9-3 lead.
They had four match points in the final game before Setiawan sealed the match with a cross-court backhand winner, prompting the Indonesians to embraced each other before being tackled by their coach.
In mixed doubles, top-seeded Liliyana Natsir and Nova Widianto of Indonesia defeated fourth-seeded He Hanbin and Yu Yang 15-21, 21-11, 23-21 in the semifinals to end China's hopes of sweeping the gold medals.
Natsir and Widianto will face Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Yong-dae in Sunday's final. The South Koreans defeated third-seeded Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa 21-9, 12-21, 21-17.
The most badminton gold medals China can win now is three, the same number they won four years ago in Athens.
Earlier Saturday, defending champion Zhang Ning of China won the women's singles final, defeating teammate Xie Xingfang in three sets, to claim China's second gold medal for badminton.
The second-seeded Zhang defeated the No. 1-ranked Xie 21-12, 10-21, 21-18 to defend the title she won four years ago in Athens.
Zhang dropped to her knees and thrust both arms in the air when she won the match with a drop shot that Xie returned into the net.
The 33-year-old Zhang is playing in her last Olympics. She has been nursing an injured right knee and said winning the second gold took a lot more effort than the first.
"I thought I was too old in Athens," said Zhang. "I haven't felt good physically but I persevered and did a lot of training to win this gold. Tenacity was the key."
Indonesia's Yulianti defeated Lu Lan of China 11-21, 21-13, 21-15 for the single's bronze medal.
China's first gold medal in badminton came Friday, when Du Jing and Yu Yang won gold in women's doubles.
China's Lin Dan will go for gold in the men's singles on Sunday when he takes on Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (June 9, 2011) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team edged Germany 25-19, 22-25, 25-23, 15-25, 16-14 Thursday evening as six Americans scored double-figure points during the Montreux Volley Masters being held June 7-12 in Montreux, Switzerland.
The U.S. (2-0), ranked second in the world by the FIVB, concludes Pool A play versus China (2-0) in a battle of unbeaten teams on Friday at noon PT. Earlier today China defeated Peru 25-17, 23-25, 25-16, 25-15 in Pool A to improve to 2-0. Crossover semifinals take place on June 11, followed by the final classification matches on June 12.
The opening set witnessed six lead changes and 11 ties before the U.S. scored five unanswered points to take a 19-15 lead in the opening set en route to the 25-19 victory. Germany led the entire second set and pushed ahead from an 11-10 advantage with a 7-1 scoring run, but needed six set point chances to put the set away 25-22. Team USA recovered from a 21-19 deficit in the third set to claim a 25-23 victory. Germany took an 8-2 lead in the fourth set, then weathered a Team USA run that closed it to 11-9 before winning 25-15 with seven of the final eight points. The Americans battled back from an 11-8 deficit in the deciding set to win 16-14 on its second match-point opportunity.
Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.) scored a match-high 21 points with 17 kills, two blocks and two aces in leading the Americans. Nicole Fawcett (Zanesfield, Ohio), who started the final three sets, scored 11 kills, two blocks and an ace for 14 points, seven of which came in the deciding fifth set. Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) contributed 14 points via eight kills, a team-high five blocks and an ace for 14 points. Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) provided 10 kills and two blocks for 12 points, despite not starting the final three sets. Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.) added 10 points all on kills, while Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) tacked on eight kills and two blocks for 10 points. Angie Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.) just missed double-figure scoring with eight kills and a block for nine points. Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.) rounded out the scoring with an ace.
Davis posted a team-high 25 digs and provided a 67 positive reception percent on 24 attempts. Kim Glass chipped in with 14 digs while providing a team-leading 40 reception attempts with a 65 positive percent. Larson held a 63 excellent reception percent (70 positive) on 27 attempts.
The U.S. held a slim 14-12 advantage in blocks and both teams served five aces. The Americans held a substantial 72-55 advantage in kills to help offset their 34 errors in the match. Meanwhile, Germany limited its miscues to a total of 12 for the match. The setting of combination of Spicer and Alisha Glass helped the Americans to a 46 kill percent and .296 hitting efficiency with 27 attack errors. The U.S. held Germany to a 38 kill percent and .244 hitting efficiency.
Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.), who is serving as head coach the U.S. squad during the current trip to Switzerland, started Tamas and Harmotto at middle blocker, Forsett and Kim Glass at outside hitter, Alisha Glass at setter and Haneef-Park at opposite. Davis was the team's libero. Larson and Fawcett started the final three sets in place of Forsett and Haneef-Park, respectively. Spicer started the final three sets in place of Alisha Glass. Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah) and Haneef-Park were both subs in the final three sets, while Alisha Glass subbed in the third and fourth sets.
Germany had four different players score 16 points in the loss. Christiane Furst total eight kills and a match-high eight blocks to match Regina Burchardt, Margareta Kozuch and Maren Brinker's 16 points.
Japan will face the Netherlands at 9 p.m. Switzerland Time Thursday night to close out the day of Montreux Volley Masters matches.
The first set lead changed for a fourth time at 6-5 as Kim Glass serve an ace after a Forsett kill. The U.S. increased its lead to 7-5 with a Haneef-Park kill, but Germany scored the next three points to reverse the advantage to its favor at 8-7. Germany extended its cushion to two at 10-8 following a block. The U.S. tied the set at 12-all with a Tamas kill and Germany bad set. Team USA regained the lead 16-15 at the second technical timeout with consecutive kills from Haneef-Park and Kim Glass. The Americans increased their lead to 18-15 out of the break with consecutive kills from Kim Glass and Haneef-Park as the U.S. string of points ran to four on the service of Larson. Out of a Germany timeout, Harmotto scored a fifth straight point with a block at 19-15. Germany cut the deficit in half with consecutive points at 19-17. The U.S. got the two points back with a Harmotto quick attack and block by Haneef-Park at 21-17 leading to Germany's second timeout. The U.S. reached set point 24-19 with consecutive kills from Kim Glass and Forsett, which was followed up by an ace from Kim Glass at 25-19. Kim Glass scored a team-high seven points in the opening set, while Haneef-Park added six points. Team USA held a 19-9 advantage in kills to offset eight errors in the set to Germany's one.
Germany opened the second set with the first two points, then jumped the advantage to 4-1 with an ace. Germany extended its lead to 7-3 with back-to-back points. Team USA cut the deficit to 7-5 with a Harmotto kill following a Haneef-Park block. The U.S. closed to one with a Haneef-Park kill and Harmotto ace at 8-7. However, Germany sided out and served an ace to return to a three-point cushion at 10-7. Tamas and Forsett answered with kills to move the U.S. back to within one at 10-9. Germany built a four-point cushion at 14-10 with three unanswered points. Out of a USA timeout, Germany added a fourth and fifth consecutive points going into the second technical timeout up 16-10 following an ace and American attack error. Germany inched its lead to 18-11 with consecutive points leading to the Americans' second timeout of the set. The U.S. chipped two points off the deficit with a German error and Harmotto block at 19-14. Germany reached a seven-point edge at 23-16. The U.S. held off four set points with a Fawcett kill, Germany error, Larson block, Harmotto kill and Larson kill to close to 24-22. However, Germany closed the set on its sixth opportunity at 25-22. Tamas, Forsett and Harmotto all produced four points in the second set, but the U.S. committed seven errors and Germany scored three aces.
The U.S. jumped to a 3-0 lead in the third set with a Fawcett block, Germany error and Kim Glass kill, but Germany answered with two kills and an ace to tie the score at 3-all. Larson and Harmotto provided consecutive kills and Germany hit wide to yield an 8-5 U.S. lead at the first technical timeout. Germany tied the set at 10-all after an ace that caught the net and fell untouched and a block. Germany scored a fourth straight point to go into the lead at 11-10. Germany increased its lead to 13-11 after a U.S. attack error. The U.S. tied the set at 13-all with a Tamas kill and Spicer block. Consecutive points by Larson on a kill and block put the U.S. in front 15-14. However, Germany scored three consecutive points after the second technical timeout to take an 18-16 lead. The Americans tied the set at 19-all with consecutive kills from Kim Glass. Germany reclaimed a two-point edge at 21-19 leading to USA's second timeout. Kim Glass picked up a kill after a Haneef-Park block to tie the set at 22-all, then Kim Glass served an ace to give the U.S. a 23-22 advantage. After a Germany timeout, the U.S. reached set point at 24-22 with a German attack error. Tamas ended the set with a kill at 25-23. Kim Glass scored eight points to lead the U.S., while Larson chipped in four points. Team USA scored four points off the block.
Germany gathered three straight points to take an early 3-1 advantage in the fourth set, then pushed the lead to 8-2 at the first technical timeout with five unanswered points. Tamas and Kim Glass broke the streak with consecutive kills to whittle the gap to four at 8-4. Harmotto put up a kill and block on consecutive plays to slice the deficit to 9-6. The U.S. closed to two at 11-9 with kills from Kim Glass and Fawcett. Consecutive USA errors built the Germany lead to 14-10. Germany picked up points on each side of the second technical timeout to go in front 17-12, then increased the margin to eight at 22-14 with four straight points. Germany scored the final three points of the fourth set to win 25-15 and forcing a fifth set. The U.S. committed eight errors in the set.
The U.S. scored the first two points of the fifth set with kills from Harmotto and Fawcett. Fawcett rolled an attack that found the back right corner for a kill and followed with an ace to lift the Americans into a 6-3 advantage. Germany responded with consecutive points to close to 6-5. Germany took the lead at 9-8 with three straight points after the switch leading to an American timeout. Germany extended the lead to 11-8 with two kills off the block after the timeout. Harmotto scored consecutive kills to close the U.S. back to within one at 11-10 forcing a Germany timeout. Larson tied the set at 11-all with a roll shot for a kill. Fawcett put the U.S. back in front with a block. Fawcett and Haneef-Park collected consecutive kills to close out the set 16-14 and the match. Fawcett scored seven points in the deciding set to help offset six U.S. errors.
U.S. Women's National Team Roster for Montreux Volley Masters
# - Name (Position, Ht, Hometown, College)
1 - Alexis Crimes (MB, 6-3, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Long Beach State)
3 - Tayyiba Haneef-Park (OPP, 6-7, Laguna Hills, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 - Angie Forsett (OH, 5-8, Lake Mary, Fla., California)
5 – Tamari Miyashiro (L, 5-7, Kaneohe, Hawaii, Washington)
6 - Nicole Davis (L, 5-4, Stockton, Calif., Southern California)
8 - Alisha Glass (S, 6-0, Leland, Mich., Penn State)
9 - Jennifer Tamas (MB, 6-4, Milpitas, Calif., Pacific)
10 - Kim Glass (OH, 6-2, Lancaster, Pa., Arizona)
11 - Jordan Larson (OH, 6-2, Hooper, Neb., Nebraska)
13 - Christa Harmotto (MB, 6-2, Hopewell, Pa., Penn State)
14 - Nicole Fawcett (OPP, 6-4, Zanesfield, Ohio, Penn State)
16 - Foluke Akinradewo (MB, 6-3, Plantation, Fla., Stanford)
17 - Nellie Spicer (S, 5-9, Barrington, Ill., UCLA)
18 - Kristin Richards (OH, 6-1, Orem, Utah, Stanford)
Head Coach: Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand)
Montreux Head Coach: Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.)
Assistant Coaches: Paula Weishoff (Irvine, Calif.), Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.)
Technical Coordinator: Jennifer Hirneisen
Athletic Trainer/Medical Support: Jill Wosmek (Silver Lake, Minn.)
Team Leader: Russ Rose (State College, Pa.)
Montreux Volley Masters Schedule (listed times are local Switzerland Time)
Pool A
China 2-0
Germany 1-2
Peru 0-3
Pool B
Cuba 2-0
Japan 1-0
Italy 0-2
Netherlands 0-1
Pool Play
June 7: USA def. Peru 25-7, 24-26, 25-11, 25-19
June 7: China def. Germany 25-23, 25-27, 26-24, 22-25, 15-11
June 7: Cuba def. Italy 25-20, 29-27, 23-25, 25-22
June 8: Cuba def. Netherlands 25-23, 25-16, 26-24
June 8: Japan def. Italy 25-17, 25-19, 25-20
June 8: Germany def. Peru 25-20, 25-10, 25-20
June 9: China def. Peru 25-17, 23-25, 25-16, 25-15
June 9: USA def. Germany 25-19, 22-25, 25-23, 15-25, 16-14
June 9: Japan vs. Netherlands, 9 p.m.
June 10: Italy vs. Netherlands, 4:30 p.m.
June 10: Cuba vs. Japan, 6:30 p.m.
June 10: USA vs. China, 9 p.m. (noon PT)
Half Finals
June 11: Pool A 3rd Place vs. Pool B 4th Place, 2 p.m.
June 11: Pool B 3rd Place vs. Pool A 4th Place, 4 p.m.
June 11: Pool A 1st Place vs. Pool B 2nd Place, 6:30 p.m.
June 11: Pool B 1st Place vs. Pool A 2nd Place, 8:30 p.m.
June 12: 5th Place Match, 11 a.m.
June 12: Bronze-Medal Match, 1:30 p.m.
June 12: Gold-Medal Match, 4 p.m.