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Katy-Brand set to enter wedlock in India!
Katy's pal Rihanna has suggested they could get hitched in India where Brand proposed on New Year's Eve and it looks like the location could be Goa. The couple has sent out save-the-date cards to friends and family for their wedding. The henna-inspired hand-shaped invites, complete with diamond engagement ring, and hints at an exotic location.
Guests have only been told to keep the week of October 18 free for their nuptials - and they'd better bring their passport. The text reads: "Save the Week, For the Wedding of Katy & Russell. You will be contacted soon with more information."
"The wedding will be small. I always have a ton of people around me and I think the people that are going to share this moment with us are the people we want to integrate into each others' lives," News of the World quoted Katy, 25, as saying. We don't want it to be a drunk fest of people, just one night and then forgetting about it. We want it to be about the love," she added.


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James Bond film producer Barbara Broccoli is recalling the moment the Queen made her Bond debut during the Olympics opening ceremony. "The taxi pulled up in front of Buckingham Palace and as soon as the audience saw the outline of that leg, they knew it was Daniel. We saw the back of the Queen and everyone I'm sure thought, 'It's Helen Mirren.' And when she turned around it was like a volcanic eruption. How wonderful of her to have done it."
The daughter of veteran Bond producer Albert R "Cubby" Broccoli and actress Dana Wilson, Broccoli, 52, grew up in a household where James Bond was talked about so much she thought he was a real person until she was seven.
Her first memory was watching the filming of the Japanese tea ceremony in You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery. When her father died in 1996, Broccoli and her half-brother Michael G Wilson took over the 007 franchise.
This year they celebrate the 50th anniversary of Bond. The new movie, Skyfall, released in October, is directed by Sam Mendes.
Earlier this month the trailer was released. We now know that Bond's loyalty to Judi Dench's M is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. And Bond fakes his own death.
London is a central character in the movie. Filming has taken place in Whitehall, Vauxhall Cross's MI6 headquarters, Pinewood Studios and the Underground.
As with The Dark Knight Rises, with its scenes of bloated bankers and a nascent Occupy movement, she believes Skyfall has a lot to say about contemporary evil.
"It's extraordinary Ian Fleming wrote the books 60 years ago. It feels like we're in the right groove now for what he had to say about how real villainy is coming from individuals — not just political states, but individuals who are wielding all sorts of treacherous plans on the earth."
In fact Skyfall is not based on any Fleming story — there aren't any left — but they have tried to bring some of the feelings of older Bond movies into the film. "What distinguishes Bond from other action heroes is the tongue-in-cheek Britishness."
Q is back — played as a super-nerdy master of spy technology by Ben Whishaw (The Hour, The Hollow Crown). Good news for fans who felt Bond had become a Jason Bourne-style automaton in the last film, Quantum of Solace. We need more wit and panache — and Mendes sounds the man to deliver it.
"When Daniel suggested him, we were unbelievably thrilled that he would be interested because he is such a fine director."
Of course Broccoli was instrumental in casting Craig in the first place. "One of the things about Daniel is he's let us into Bond's inner life, we see and feel him from a much more intimate place. In the books you get a look into his inner conflicts and fears and anxieties, but it's very hard to put that on the screen without making him look neurotic as a leading man. A lot of the books focus on accidie — this revulsion he had for his profession; it's not easy killing people. He fell completely in love with Vesper and she betrayed him, so he realises, from that point, he can never be susceptible to a relationship again."
That loneliness fuels Bond's hedonism. "He has this voracious appetite for life; he's going to drink and eat and have sex because he doesn't know in the next moment if he's going to be killed. The black humour is his way of dealing with death, he laughs in its face."
Every Bond film has a great villain. This time it's Oscar-winning Spanish actor Javier Bardem playing Raoul Silva.
"Javier is really extraordinary in this film and the blonde wig he wears is part of his story. He spends a lot of time creating a character, and it's something he devised with Sam. It's very much his mystique — it gives an unnatural element. Javier is a true chameleon. You imagine an actor like that would be very intense all the time, but off duty he's a delight. Getting up in the morning to go to work to spend the day with Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem is pretty fun," she teases.
Broccoli's other masterstroke was to make M, the head of the British secret service, a woman — two years after Stella Rimington became DG of MI5 in 1993.
So it's fascinating we finally get M's back story in Skyfall. In the trailer we see Silva — who may or may not have worked for MI6 — taunting Bond about M's betrayal: "Mommy has been very bad."
"M has always been the one authority figure in Bond's life. She is the only person he can really trust. I think this story, which I'm not going to tell you very much about," she says with a glint, "is the heart of the movie. She represents many things to him and it's wonderful territory to explore. And obviously Sam had directed Judi and Daniel before, so he was excited about working it through emotionally."
We can also credit Broccoli with tackling the sexism of 007. "Fortunately, the days of Bond girls standing around with a clipboard are over," she says drily.
But she knows Bond isn't Bond without glamour and gorgeous women. In Skyfall, Naomie Harris plays field agent Eve, while French actress Bérénice Marlohe is the enigmatic Sévérine.
"Actually, when you read the early books, and watch the early films, the women were very interesting, exotic, complicated people. I always get into such an issue when I talk about these things," she adds, knowing any quote will make headlines around the world. "But they were pretty strong in their own right. Yes, okay, Pussy Galore was a pilot and gay, but that was pretty extraordinary for the time, the fact that she fell into bed with Bond.
"And look at Ursula Andress [emerging from the sea in Dr No]. Yes, she's the most stunningly beautiful person in the whole world but her look was very different to what had come before. First of all, she had a very athletic body, and she was also incredibly natural — no make-up, no false eyelashes. I think that image of natural beauty is one we appreciate."
One senses that Broccoli, elegant, charming, has a core of steel. In the early days, she watched Craig's back, accompanying him to press conferences, batting off the ferocious criticism that first greeted his casting for Casino Royale.
"It's absurd," she shudders slightly. "I think that's the trouble with the internet now. Everyone has an equal voice so people read something — supposedly written with great authority — and it's by a 12-year-old in a little town some place in the United States who's never seen Daniel Craig, doesn't know what he's capable of, and starts this fire. And then it's given prominence, which is bizarre. Of course we were making the film and we knew what we had, so we just ignored it."
Divorced, with a grown-up daughter, Broccoli works long days. As well as overseeing the end of shooting on Skyfall, she is co-producing the stage version of Chariots of Fire.
Our interview takes place at the Gielgud Theatre, which has been turned into a race track for the 1924 Paris Olympics. There's something thrilling about watching the young actors playing runners Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell as they thunder around the track.
The play brings back memories for Broccoli, who co-produced the original 1981 film with her friend Dodi Fayed, who died in the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales.
"Dodi really identified with the character of Harold Abrahams, a Lithuanian Jew struggling for acceptance in Britain. Dodi had a similar understanding of knowing what it was like to struggle to be accepted. And he really appreciated Eric Liddell's strong belief in not wanting to run on a Sunday. He was touched by the story."
She and the film's director Hugh Hudson felt they could give people an immersive theatrical experience as thrilling as the Games themselves. "The audience can feel the actors' heat, sweat, exertion."
And of course life imitates art. Vangelis's music featured at the opening ceremony and she admits her heart misses a beat every time it's played during medal presentations. "Vangelis just hits that God spot. It's the anthem of excellence."
The play's message of self-sacrifice and sportsmanship resonates at today's Games she believes. "So many athletes are coming from war-torn countries. What it must take for them to get here."
Born in LA, Broccoli grew up in London. Aged 17 she studied motion picture and television communications at Loyola Marymount University in the US, then joined Eon Productions at Pinewood, responsible for Bond films since 1962, first working in publicity, before she began producing.
She was made an OBE in 2008 and has been mentoring young directors. "I despair because women certainly have their voice in so many other areas. I don't know why it's been so difficult to get women into the industry in terms of directing film."
If Kathryn Bigelow can direct the all-male Hurt Locker, how about a female director for Bond? "I'd be thrilled."
But she is equally passionate about theatre: she recently watched Mark Rylance as Richard III at the Globe. "That's what so brilliant about Britain. Theatre is the backbone of the industry."
The joke is that Skyfall has so many great British stage actors — Dench, Whishaw, Ralph Fiennes, Helen McCrory, Albert Finney ("be still my beating heart," jokes Broccoli) — it's nicknamed the National Theatre of Bond.
"We sat down and said, 'In a perfect world, who would we want for all these roles?' and drew up a list. And we got everybody. You know, it's unheard of."
Such is the passion Bond arouses. I tell her every time I go to the Barbican there's another middle-aged man having his photograph taken next to the Aston Martin from Goldfinger, the star exhibit in the Bond exhibition.
"It's so funny, the Bond movies reduce everybody to their 12-year-old self," she laughs. "Sam Mendes is like a 12-year-old boy making a Bond film!"
Chariots of Fire is at the Gielgud Theatre, W1 (0844 4825130; chariotsoffireonstage.com)
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By Steve Irvine, UABSports.com
Business is part of the agenda but the week-long trip to Spain is about much more than basketball for Jerod Haase and his UAB men's basketball team.
"In terms of the trip itself, it is about the games but it's also real important that we spend time getting to know each other and learn to trust each other," Haase said. "I think that's something that sets good teams apart from great teams."
It doesn't take anything more than a glance at the 2014-15 roster to understand why this edition of Blazers' basketball needs time to get to know each other. Nine of the 13 players on the roster are entering their first season of basketball at UAB. C.J. Washington is the lone senior on the team and the other returnees from last season are sophomores Denzell Watts, Tosin Mehinti and Tyler Madison. Robert Brown, a former starter at Virginia Tech, practiced with the team last year but was unable to play after sitting out the season because of transfer rules.
Name tags might be a good option.
"A lot of the freshmen, and there so many of them, didn't come in until the second semester of summer school so we didn't have too much time to jell," Brown said. "And with volleyball camp, not being able to be on the court as much, going to Spain is just an opportunity for us as a team to get closer."
Haase said 10 players will make the trip to Spain. That group includes three of the four returnees, Brown, freshmen Nick Norton, Chris Cokley, Jarvis Calhoun, William Lee, Lewis Sullivan and Lionel Love. Watts, who had recent shoulder surgery, is not making the trip and incoming transfers Hakeem Baxter (Maryland Eastern Shore) and Denzel Collins (USC Salkehatchie) are not eligible to travel with the team the team because they were not enrolled in summer classes.
The trip to Spain is believed to be only the second preseason exhibition tour for the UAB mens' basketball program. Mike Davis took his first UAB team to the Bahamas before the 2006-07 season.
"I'm hoping it speaks volumes to recruits and UAB fans that the commitment from the university and the administration is fantastic," Haase said. "For us to be able to go on this trip is important for this program, like the locker room and the court, that we're doing things to make this program better and at another level."
Haase said he's been part of several foreign tours as a player or assistant coach but most have been for a shorter amount of time. Brown was part of Virginia Tech team that traveled to Canada before his freshman season.
The Blazers will play three games on the tour - two in Madrid and the other in Barcelona.
"Experience on the court will be real good because we're playing against professionals," said Madison, who played in 19 games as a true freshman. "From the team standpoint, it gets everybody comfortable on and off the court so I think it's good."
Haase said the schedule will be full on game days and off days.
"We're not going to go over there and sit on our rear ends, I can promise you," Haase said. "We'll get out there and whether it's going to the town centers or going to the historical monuments, seeing whatever sights there are to see. I want to explore and see what their culture has to offer and make sure our guys do that as well, even on game day. When it's game time we'll do that but during day we'll get out and explore."
One of the toughest parts of preparing for the trip - at least logistically - was making sure that everyone in the traveling party had updated passports. Haase said travel is also something new for some of the newcomers. One player, Haase said, indicated he had only been on one prior airplane flight and some may not have ever been on an airplane before.
"I think the excitement level is very, very high and I've told them that it better be high because if I hear any complaints about food or lack of sleep or anything else, they get to walk home and that means swim home," Haase said. "They're not excited about that so I think they'll have a great attitude."
The coaching staff has already reaped one of the benefits of the trip with the extra practice time leading up to the trip.
"From the practices I've learned, especially, how the freshman are going to be able to adjust and the sophomores are going to adjust to their new roles," Haase said. "I have a better feel going into the fall of exactly what we have. I think that's an important thing."
Now it's time for some fun and some games.


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Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? HTML version
Science gives us reason to think we can vanquish famine, disease, and poverty. Religion heralds "peace
on Earth, goodwill toward men." Neither of these venerable institutions can deliver on its promise without
help from the other, but together there is reason to hope that they can.
The book concludes with a model of morality that emerges, unexpectedly, as a peace dividend. As
partners, science and religion can make the golden rule largely self-enforcing, and hasten our arrival into
a world wherein everyone's dignity is secure.
I know this sounds utopian, but wait and see. Developments in both science and religion have made a
partnership possible. Ending centuries of fruitless squabbling and initiating a beautiful friendship is no
longer an impossible dream.
I begin with what hooked me on these issues in the first place: the incompatible notions of truth advocated
by my two schools: Sunday School and Public School.
My parents were not church-goers, but they thought their children should be exposed to the religious
perspective. So, until we graduated from eighth grade, they made my brothers and me attend a
Presbyterian Sunday School.
When I asked my Sunday School teacher how Jesus could turn a few fish and a little bread into enough
food to feed a crowd, she expla ined it as a miracle. She gave the same answer about walking on water,
raising Lazarus, and coming back from the dead. When I pressed her on the biblical account of creation—
"He did all that in six days?"—she reread Genesis to the class.
My other school, a public school in Chatham, New Jersey, was located in the shadow of Bell
Laboratories, where my father worked. Bell Labs was then one of the top scientific research labs in the
In third grade we studied the solar system. Our textbook had a diagram of Copernicus's heliocentric
mode l showing the planets revolving around the sun in circ les. A table gave the distance of each planet
from the sun in miles and its period of revolution in days: 365 for the earth, 225 for Venus, just 88 for
Mercury, and so on, all the way out to Pluto. Printed alongside each planet's orbit was its average speed in
miles per hour as it circled the sun.
It was just then that we were studying circ les in arithmetic. The lesson for the week was that the
circumference of a circle C = 2πR, where R is the circle's radius and π is a universal constant
approximately equal to 3.14. A closeted nerd in the days before we had our own identity group, I decided
to verify the speed shown for the orbiting earth using this formula. The computation was simple
enough—just form the product 2πR and divide by the time—one year—that it took the Earth to complete
one revolution.
But something was wrong. My result did not agree with the Earth's speed in the book. It was not even
close. So I tried the same calculation for Venus and Mercury. No agreement with those either. I did the
other six planets. Not one of my calculations agreed with the numbers in the book. Frustrated, I asked my
father for help. He checked my figures, examined the textbook, and announced the unthinkable: the book
was wrong. I had thought books couldn't be wrong. We all had.
The next day I showed the error to my teacher, Mrs. Bahoosian. It made her nervous. She drew me aside
and spoke in a hushed voice. I think she worried that if word got out it might cast doubt on the entire


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As much as I dislike to add yet *another* rule to our list, I just gotta' do it.
From now on all banners that are "for profit" endeavors are disallowed *unless* you are the owner of the endeavor and specifically PM me for permission.
Unobtrusive text links are still fine as are banners for "Non Profit" organizations (such as NJAGC for example).
Before the uproar let me explain my reasoning. I am doing (just like I always do) what I believe is best for the overall forum. The sponsors payments pay a hefty chunk of the costs that are involved with running such a large forum. I would be "peeved" if I paid to be a sponsor only to see someone else's banner plastered throughout the forum on other people's signatures. It simply isn't fair to them.
The rule is in place now but obviously we can't expect everyone to comply immediately. People don't sign on every night rabidly checking the announcement. There will be a "break in" period after which I will start asking people nicely to remove them.
Thank you for understanding.
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I had wondered about this for a while. I think that your actions are 100% justified ;)
that does sound very fair
I concur. As I am starting up a business of my own here shortly and would like to contribute as a sponsor, I would feel slightly cheated knowing I could have just pursuaded 10 members to put my banner up for free!
I have a banner below mine and quite honestly am pondering removing it, despite my loyalty to that site. I think that reducing the size even further may be necessary, but that is just my opinion.
So Orlando's banner has to be deleted too, even though he is a sponsor?
^ No he said if you are the owner and have his permission it's cool, but no one else can have his banner.
TBH, I was waiting for this to happen. I love Orlando but it's actually confusing to me sometimes when I see all these green leaf tags everywhere, and I sometimes think it's HIM making posts but it's not.
Is this ok?:)
Makes sense to me!
I was wondering why people were being asked to remove my banner from their signature when nothing was being said about Rex Grigg or Orlando, or others. Equal discrimination is fine by me.
any size information on banners?
Same as they have always been...
Please see Sig Rules
I think mine is ok. :)
This is a big problem with the forums that they delete signature. but we want to share helpful links or related to topic which can make topic easy.
Hi @arpitkakkar,
The signature guidelines are very clear:
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I had rhinoplasty 15 days ago and when i had the cast off i was extremely happy with the results and my nose was straight. But 2 days later i noticed the swelling have increased slightly and the lower 1/3 of my nose is getting crooked. Is this possible uneven swelling suddenly appearing? And could I have hit it accidently in my sleep noting that i never woke up with bleeding?
Crooked Nose 2 Days After Cast Removal (Suddenly)?
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Crooked nose following removal of cast
Uneven swelling can create the appearance of a crooked nose. It can take up to a year before you see the final result of your surgery. The amount of time the swelling lingers may be influenced by the following things:
1) Whether or not tip work was performed
2) The thickness of the patient's skin
3) If the procedure was open or closed
Even if you did bump your nose at some point, it is unlikely that it would cause asymmetry, especially since you do not recall a specific incident. I would give it some time, as you are still very early in the healing process. I would recommend speaking with your surgeon regarding any concerns you have at this time. Thanks and I hope this helps!
Web reference: http://www.carolinafacialplasticsurgery.com/surgical-procedures/rhinoplasty/
Crooked Nose After Cast Removal
Dear Yha666,
It would have been better if photographs are included so more precise answers can be given.
Nonetheless, at 2 days after cast removal the swelling is significant and asymmetrical. So possible imbalance could be perceived.
I encourage you to have a little more patience as the progress can only be seen couple of months down the recovery road.
Be sure to follow your surgeon's instructions and to keep away from any possible exercise that could put you at risk of a nasal trauma.
Thank you for your inquiry and best of luck to you.
Dr. Sajjadian
Web reference: http://www.DrSajjadian.com
Crooked nose after cast removal
Every time I remove a patients splint there is great excitement when the patient first sees their new nose. I then give them some instructions and information about what to expect but often it is forgotten in the moment. I tell patients that their nose may swell in the next day or two without the splint and that the swelling may go down unevenly over the first two weeks. This will result in one side looking different then the other each day. This usually is gone by the first month and then the swelling continues to resolve more subtly.
Keep this in mind and be patient and keep in touch with your doctor for advice.
Web reference: http://www.palmbeachface.com/rhinoplasty.html
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Crooked nose 2 days after cast removal
At two days after cast removal swelling usually gets a bit worse. The splint kept the swelling down. Be patient.
Crooked nose 2 days after rhinoplasty
From your description it sounds like this may be related to swelling. The swelling will vary between the two sides of the nose, and thus make it appear as if the nose is crooked. As you probably already know, it will be many months until the swelling has stabilized.
Crooked nose early after Rhinoplasty
Don't worry just yet. Your nose is still very swollen at this point and the changes made to the nasal structures below the skin have not settled. You might be re-assured by discussing it with your surgeon.
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The Summer 2009 edition of Voices in Urban Education (VUE), published by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, contains an article by Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP), "The Federal Role in Out-of-School Learning: After-School, Summer Learning, and Family Involvement as Critical Learning Supports." Published quarterly, VUE airs diverse viewpoints and shares new knowledge on vital issues in urban education.
Four decades of consistent research evidence demonstrate that out-of-school learning—family involvement in children's education, after-school programs, and summer learning opportunities—all contribute to in-school success for children and youth. HFRP's article makes a research-based case for federal provision of these out-of-school complementary learning supports from birth through high school, particularly for poor children, so that all students gain the skills that economists, educators, and employers agree are necessary for success in the 21st century.
The article provides a set of six policy recommendations, which include expanding current federal investments in family involvement, after-school, and summer learning programs, and launching new efforts to ensure that these out-of-school supports work with each other and with schools to promote shared learning and development goals.
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Hell freezes over: "I think the surge is working," says Murtha
posted at 6:27 pm on November 29, 2007 by Allahpundit
Via Bill Amos. I'm not giving you the direct link yet; I want you to watch this clip from July first so you can appreciate his ignorance, hypocrisy, and defeatism. CNN had him on for reaction after lefty war supporters Michael O'Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack returned from a week in Iraq and declared that conditions were improving, drawing furious attacks from the nutroots and the fawning cretins in Congress who represent them. A trip to Iraq, sneers Murtha; who could learn anything meaningful from that?
"It's an illusion."
Now here's the link. Jack Murtha — just back from a trip to Iraq.
"I think the 'surge' is working," the Democrat said in a videoconference from his Johnstown office, describing the president's decision to commit more than 20,000 additional combat troops this year. But the Iraqis "have got to take care of themselves."
Violence has dropped significantly in recent months, but Mr. Murtha said he was most encouraged by changes in the once-volatile Anbar province, where locals have started working closely with U.S. forces to isolate insurgents linked to Al Qaeda…
Mr. Murtha's four day-trip took him to a Thanksgiving dinner with troops in Kuwait last Thursday, and he then made stops in Iraq, Turkey and Belgium.
He qualifies it by insisting the Iraqis need to do better on political reconciliation, a conclusion also reached by, um, everyone.
Oh, and he's suddenly in the mood for a compromise on that timetable he's been insisting on.
Normally this would call for the humpbot video, but his mood while admitting this couldn't have been too hump-ish. A more appropriate greeting, then, upon his new membership in a different kind of reality-based community:
Update: See-Dub suggests this Hot Air favorite as a better expression of the scalding blast of reality now hitting Murtha in the face.
Update: Is this the first stirring of the "declare victory and go home" withdrawal strategy?
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Anyone have a Bestop Sailcloth top for a yj (1991) know if the back and rear side windows can be completley removed for summer? I ordered one for my first Jeep (just got it last week) and I don't want the rain to pour in so I'd like to leave the top on and take off the windows and doors off an open feel. Or will this cause a stability issue with the top section should I be able to do this. Thanks for any advice.
Yup but you need to roll up the corners or the wind will grab them and stretch
them out. Or even tear seams. Personally I like to just put the top down and if it gets crappy out then just pop it back up takes all of 2-3 minutes.
That quick? Wow, I thought it was going to be an ordeal to put it up and down. That's great. thanks
Ive taken mine out and drove a good 35 miles and put my windows back in when I hit bad weather and they seemed fine I was doing 75
I ordered the top today, it sounds like a couple hours to install, but I read someplace that it needs to be pretty warm to get the top to stretch to fit.. It don't take long to sink some cash into your Jeep, next I need rocker bars, there goes 300.00 or more. I think I'm going with Jeeperman Skidz, no drilling required. Then I need a winch, will it ever end:)
It came today. Looks to be very nice, now to wait for it to warm up to install it, they said it needs to be at least 72 degrees to do this, in Ohio that might be awhile:)
With the weather we have been getting might not have to wait to long
It was 50 yesturday in minnesota
Woulda had a pain gettin it back on... it was 35 last night lol 44 today after class at 11
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Botanical Gardens and Breathtaking Volcano Views
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Cast between the warm Caribbean Sea and the cool Pacific Ocean, Costa Rica is a place of balance. Long considered an adventurer's paradise, this Central American country boasts expansive jungles where adrenaline runs high: Hike through a nature preserve to see exotic animals, zip on a line high above the canopy, or race down rapids crashing at every turn. And, when your nerves could use some rest, the other end of the spectrum—relaxation—awaits on white-sand beaches beneath the palms.
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Enveloped by botanical gardens, Vista del Valle Plantation Inn is an eco-friendly property located on an abundance of fragrant acres. A short walk from the resort's swimming pool, cliff-side restaurant, and equestrian center, Exotic Wood Suites feature queen-size beds with balcony views of the the Rio Grande Canyon. In the morning, lounge on the twin-size futon and listen to the birds before stepping into the shared kitchen to pour a cup of coffee. Later, dive into the property's private waterfall or take to the hiking trails to observe curious animals.
The Diversions
• Overlook the Arenal Volcano inside its namesake National Park
• Fly above the jungle canopy on an Arenal Canopy Tour with Tour Costa Rica
• Repel down a waterfall in Manuel Antonio National Park
• Learn to surf at Vista Guapa Surf Camp
• Spread your toes on the sands of Playa Nacascolo
"Honeymooners (and many posters to Fodors.com) frequent these handsome cottages on an orange and coffee plantation outside Grecia overlooking the canyon of the Rio Grande."-- Read Fodor's Review of Vista del Valle Plantation
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I live in Los Angeles where there are numerous Targets and Walmarts. There are only a few Kmarts and Sears within Los Angeles city limits. About a month ago, I was looking for the XBOX 360 Kinect. This product was sold out everywhere, and through a kinect tracker, I got lucky and saw that Kmart.com was selling it for $149.99. I ordered it online, chose "pick up at store", and chose one of the locations in Los Angeles. After I clicked "Submit order", the receipt told me to pick up my product at a Kmart in Phoenix, AZ!
This was obviously an error due to their computer system, so I I immediately called the customer service hotline, and have called about 15 times in a 1 1/2 week period sometimes twice a day. I kept getting the same excuses from the customer service representatives that they were unable to cancel my order because "our system is down", and "we cannot cancel an online order at this stage that is processing" (I got this response about 15 minutes after placing the order!). I also got a few "we put a request with the offline team to cancel this order". I'd say out of the 15 times I called, I only got 2 American people and the rest were all overseas (Philippines or Mexico) people who were obviously reading from a prompter. I even had one who tried to tell me that the error was on my part during ordering. One of the American customer service reps told me to call the actual store where the item was supposed to be picked up. I tried the phone number on the receipt a few times, and the phone number was disconnected!
Using Google, I searched for the store address and found a current phone number. When I called and spoke to a sales representative there, they told me: 1) It is not a Kmart store, it is a Sears Outlet store and 2) They don't sell any sort of electronics there, especially the XBOX 360 Kinect. I called the customer service reps again after finding out this information and told them what the sales representative had told me, and they still couldn't cancel my order. I told them even if I was willing to drive to Arizona which is 6 hours away, the store isn't even a Kmart that sells the item! After this last piece of information, I filed a complaint with the FTC regarding Kmart's deceptive practices.
During the 2 weeks time all this was happening, the charge was still "pending" on my credit card, and thankfully my credit card company told me that within 10 business days the charge would either have to clear or the credit card company would force it to drop off. Thankfully my credit card company forced it to drop off as of last week. What's funny is after they forced it to drop off, I got an email from Kmart telling me that I have not picked up my order and need to pick it up.
After this incident, now I know why Sears and Kmart are losing money--they're customer service and return policies stink! A lot of stores have excellent return and refund policies, especially when it's an obvious error like my situation, but Kmart's business practices are completely draconian and they do not care about the consumer. Go online and you will see numerous consumer complaints like mine. I even tried to write to the Vice-President of Online Marketing (based on the name, it sounded like someone from overseas) regarding my situation and all I got was a form letter telling me they couldn't cancel my order at the processing stage.
KMart and Sears, I give you about 3 years max before all your stores close down from your crappy service!
(And as for the XBOX 360 Kinect, after the initial order, I found it a few days later on Amazon.com!)
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Malcolm Gladwell Punctures the Risk-Taker Mythby
Malcolm Gladwell's piece in this week's New Yorker (subscription required) deflates the conception of entrepreneurs as risk-takers. The entrepreneurs who succeed, he says, get ulcers worrying about potential losses and do everything they can to minimize their risk.
Gladwell writes that successful entrepreneurs are
businessmen whose insights and decisions have transformed the economy, but their entrepreneurial spirit could not have less in common with that of the daring risk-taker of popular imagination. Would we so revere risk-taking if we realized that the people who are supposedly taking bold risks in the cause of entrepreneurship are doing no such thing?
He focuses on two dealmakers — Ted Turner's acquisitions and hedge fund manager John Paulson's now famous bet against the housing market that earned his fund $15 billion in 2007. Both recognized profitable opportunities with minimal risk. Paulson paid pennies on the dollar to buy credit default swaps — essentially insurance policies that would pay off if mortgage-backed bonds soured — only when he was certain that housing prices were inflated. Instead of being gamblers, entrepreneurs are "predators" who recognize opportunity and act on it, Gladwell writes, citing research by Michel Villette and Catherine Vuillermot.
We explored entrepreneurs' attitudes toward risk in two posts over the summer. From the comments and my discussions with business owners, I don't think Gladwell's conclusion will surprise people who actually run their own businesses. When people have their own livelihood on the line, they're obviously going to be concerned about managing the downside.
One interesting nugget from the piece: While entrepreneurs want to minimize their financial risk, they're often more willing to take social risks. During the housing bubble, people thought Paulson was crazy — including the people on the other side of his trades. Sam Walton, another of Gladwell's examples, borrowed money from his in-laws rather than go to a bank. The willingness to risk reputation and social standing is "just another manifestation of their relentlessly rational pursuit of the sure thing," he writes.


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So here the deal. I wrote this in iBooks Author, tried to upload it to the iTunes shit store, they sent me an email blah blah blah table of contents blah blah blah we can't release it suck my dick fuck off. Table of contents? The fuck is that shit?
I went back and forth with myself about what to charge for this pile of cock heads. I decided fuck it….FREE.
Yeah I would love to be able to make a couple extra bucks doing this shit. I would love to be able to make a career out of this, but I'm not here to make money. I'm here to entertain you sick fucks. I started this shit as a joke in 2013 in my parents living room one drunk morning. I had no big plan of taking it anywhere. All of you have turned this shit show into one of the most amazing things I have ever done. Everything I do with The Vulgar Chef, I do for all of you. You are all fucking great and I love you all.
Anyways here's how to hook yourself up with this shit.
1. If you have an iPhone, make sure you have iBooks.
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Consumers 'being shammed by rogue motor traders'
Rogue traders who scam sellers of second-hand motor vehicles are being targeted by the government.
Mike Haley, director of consumer protection at the Office of Fair Trading, said some car sellers have fallen victim to cold calling from rogue traders, who promise that they can find them guaranteed buyers in exchange for a fee.
Some 1,600 private sellers of second-hand cars have lost between £80 and £99 each through such scams, according to Consumer Direct, the government advice service.
Mr Haley said: "We are working with the industry and enforcement partners across the UK to crack down on scammers who are preying on consumers during the economic downturn."
Peter Stratton, lead officer of motor trade at the Trading Standards Institute, warned: "High-pressure selling alongside cold calling makes this a very successful scam, often leaving the consumer with very little chance of obtaining redress."
Legal protection from misleading commercial practices is available under the Consumer Protection from Unfair Regulations 2008.
The government's car scrappage scheme, launched last month, allows owners of vehicles which are more than ten years old to scrap them in exchange for a £2,000 discount off a new vehicle.


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Sad that some of you wont make it to the upcoming meet ups but there will be more meetups in the future! To those who can make it, I'll see you there!In regards to those requesting meetup locations, we hear you! We promise we'll give you loads of notice when we organise some more.
hi Carmen, After I did register a few days ago, I have not received any further information about this COMING SOON MEET IN LA!!! Can you or anyone please tell me is the meeting still going on?, where? when?... thank you very much. Tiger


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You Have A Mobile Banking Strategy: Now What? (Discussion Of The Obstacles To Mobile Banking Execution Success)
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For digital teams at banks and credit unions, building a mobile strategy to win, serve, and retain customers is a major undertaking. But even after executive leaders approve a mobile strategy — after the congratulations, confetti, and champagne fade away — digital teams at banks face the challenge of executing on that strategy. The latest chapter in Forrester's Mobile Banking Strategy Playbook outlines how digital business leaders at banks can meet customer needs and business objectives with a mobile banking road map.
Our report lays out many commonly-encountered obstacles to mobile banking execution success and how digital teams can overcome these obstacles. Here are a few of the areas the report looks at:
- Overly ambiguous — or nonexistent — business goals. Clearly articulated business goals should be part of a bank's mobile strategy. But a successful road map also lays out the business objectives and records specific goals for each initiative. As one eBusiness executive at a bank told us, "We literally have a section we call 'What's in it for us?' and we use sticky notes to write out what we think we can gain from each action."
- Legacy systems and back-end integration. Technology may well be the largest obstacle to executing a mobile banking strategy — especially for larger, traditional banks. As such, successful mobile road maps need to outline how initiatives will plug into existing or soon-to-come platforms and systems.
- Teams that don't apply Agile principles or don't work in sprints. Our research shows that a digital team that cannot implement Agile practices as part of its mobile development efforts will have difficulty maintaining high-quality mobile offerings. In addition, we believe digital teams should think about release scheduling as a series of sprints: an approach that will mean far more than one or two releases per year.
- Distractions that are "bright and shiny" (or what we call "BS"). This might be the most understandable, but it can also be a major barrier to success. Tantalizing and well-hyped features can be compelling to a digital banking team — and other departments within the bank often push hard for "bright and shiny" ideas they hear about. Although wanting to innovate is a good impulse, prioritizing "BS" features without outlining the business objectives or needed resources can been dreadfully problematic for banks.
Mobile road maps fail when digital teams fail to tackle these and other issues up front – or at least to account for these obstacles and make a plan to deal with them. We recommend starting by mapping out multiple mobile "routes" that account for different options: For example, a digital team at one bank has developed a road map that separates initiatives into those focused on affluent clients and those focused on "mainstream" deposit account customers, while another bank maps every mobile initiative in relation to the bank's wider multichannel efforts.
What obstacles or issues have you encountered when executing a mobile strategy? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Swedish engineering industry will be more competitive by using new technologies such as laser welding, new IT solutions and new ways of working. Various successful opportunities to strengthen the manufacturing industry has been developed and tested by 20 Swedish and Finnish engineering company in collaboration with researchers from the LTU and University of Oulu.
The engineering industry accounts for a large share of Swedish exports. In order to stand strong in competition and cooperation with countries like China a sustainable development of industry is necessary.
The 20 small-and medium-sized manufacturing companies had the opportunety to identify development needs and how production can be optimized, eg by means of laser welding, distance communication, or new ways of working. New ideas were tested.
Welding is a complex process where the requirements for product safety are high. Laser welding may be used for new materials with higher strength, at high welding speed and precision. The LTU has a unique collective expertise in the field of welding / laser welding. The research covers everything from the strength of welded products for precision in the welding process and how the introduction of new welding equipment is dependent upon work methods and skills. New research about how carbon nanotubes-wire can be laser welded into metal to improve its mechanical properties, is an example of innovative approaches.
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U.S. says Java still risky, even after security update
By Jim Finkle
(Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned that a security update of Oracle Corp's Java software for Web browsers does not do enough to protect computers from attack, sticking to its previous advice that the program be disabled.
"Unless it is absolutely necessary to run Java in web browsers, disable it," the Department of Homeland Security's Computer Emergency Readiness Team said on Monday in a posting on its website.
The software maker released an update to Java on Sunday, just days after the government issued its initial warning on the software, saying that bugs in the program were being exploited to commit identity theft and other crimes.
Security experts have warned that PCs running Java in their browsers could be attacked by criminals seeking to steal credit-card numbers, banking credentials, passwords and commit other types of computer crimes.
The Java software platform, created in the mid-1990s, enables developers to write one set of code that will run on PCs running on Microsoft Corp's Windows, Apple Inc Macs and servers running on the Linux operating system.
Security experts say the bugs only affect one part of the platform - software that plugs into Internet browsers.
While some researchers have long complained the software was buggy, it started generating more public scrutiny last year after a security scare in August.
"It's not like Java got insecure all of a sudden. It's been insecure for years," said Charlie Miller, a computer engineer with Twitter who has previously worked as a security consultant to Fortune 500 firms and as an analyst with the National Security Agency. Continued...


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Paige Cunningham, JD
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Paige Comstock Cunningham, JD, is the executive director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity. She is a Fellow at the Institute for Biotechnology and the Human Future, and a Trustee of Taylor University. Cunningham is an adjunct professor of law at Trinity Law School and Trinity Graduate School. She was an adjunct instructor at Wheaton College for eight years.
Cunningham lectures regularly and has published numerous articles, editorials, and book chapters in the areas of law, bioethics, and public policy, and has testified before congressional committees at the state and national level, and has appeared frequently on radio and television, and has a regular commentary on Moody Radio, Everyday Bioethics.
She is married to Jay Cunningham. They have three children and three grandchildren.
Awards, Affiliations, and Achievements
Alumna of the Year for Professional Achievement (1992), Taylor University
"One of 20 Young Lawyers Making a Difference" in American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division (1990), Barrister Magazine
Selected Publications
Book Chapters
"Learning from Our Mistakes: The Pro-life Cause and the New Bioethics," in Human Dignity in the Biotech Century, Charles W. Colson and Nigel M. de S. Cameron, eds. (InterVarsity Press, 2004).
"The Supreme Court and the Creation of the Two-Dimensional Woman," in The Cost of "Choice": Women Evaluate the Impact of Abortion (Erika Bachiochi, ed.)(Encounter Books, 2004)
"Is Abortion the "First Right" for Women?: Some Consequences of Legal Abortion," (with Clarke D. Forsythe) in J. Butler and D. Walberts, eds., Abortion, Medicine, and the Law (4th ed.) (Facts on File, 1992).
Edited works:
The Reproduction Revolution: A Christian Appraisal of Sexuality, Reproductive Technologies, and the Family (with John F. Kilner, W. David Hager, eds.)(Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000)
Abortion and the Constitution: Reversing Roe v. Wade Through the Courts (with Dennis J. Horan, and Edward R. Grant, eds.) (Georgetown University Press, 1987).
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
"Is It Right or Is It Useful? Patenting of the Human Gene, Lockean Property Rights, and the Erosion of the Imago Dei," 19 Ethics & Medicine 85 (Summer 2003).
"Zoning Ordinances, Private Religious Conduct, and the Free Exercise of Religion." Northwestern University Law Review 76 (1981): 807.


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1. Syracuse (51)
Do they really feel like the best team in the country to you? I would take a handful of teams against them on a neutral court.
This No. 1 ranking is more a product of the schedule and other team's losses than anything. The Orange are a Top 10 team, not a No. 1 team. Expect them to fall into the pack before too long.
2. Ohio State (7)
Kansas beat Ohio State in what was last week's biggest Top 25 matchup, and there was almost no effect on the polls. The Buckeyes remained No. 2, while the Jayhawks only moved up one spot to No. 12.
Are voters already that sure of where those two teams deserve to be ranked? I can understand Ohio State not losing too much ground, because they lost to a good team. It's strange they didn't lose any, but that has something to do with Kentucky losing as well.
It makes considerably less sense that Kansas gained so little. Surely it is a bigger win than anything Missouri or Marquette has done this season.
3. Kentucky (4)
There's no shame in the loss to Indiana. They will have plenty of chances to rebound (a basketball pun! I'm so clever!), especially with a massive game against interstate rival Louisville rapidly approaching.
4. Louisville (2)
They beat IUPUI and Fairleigh Dickinson (who's only been a little Dickinson this year) last week, while UNC beat Evansville and Long Beach State. Inexplicably, they swapped spots in the rankings. Why? No idea.
5. North Carolina (1)
More strangely, this came a week after UNC lost to Kentucky and moved from No. 5 to No. 4. Voters, what are your intentions with the Tar Heels? Why must you keep toying with them? Their fans will worry about these things.
6. Baylor
7. Duke
8. Xavier
9. Connecticut
10. Missouri
Connecticut played a nationally televised game last week in which people tuned in to see Harvard. How many times will I ever get to write that? (As many as I want, there's no writing police)
11. Marquette
12. Kansas
13. Florida
14. Wisconsin
15. Pittsburgh
The Gators went to Syracuse and came away with a close loss. The Carrier Dome is a tough place to play (sightlines, etc…), but I have to think it's a more difficult trip for the Gators than it is for most. You can't have two areas of the country that are much more diametrically opposed than upstate New York and Gainesville.
16. Georgetown
17. Mississippi State
18. Indiana
19. Illinois
20. Michigan
When I saw last week that Indiana was undefeated and unranked, I was shocked. Regardless of whom they've played, a program with that kind of pedigree is almost always going to be ranked if they are undefeated in the middle of December.
There is a tendency to overvalue programs that have been historically good (see: Notre Dame football for my entire lifetime), and I would expect that to happen for the Hoosiers.
That does not matter though, they earned their way into the rankings with a path that can get just about any decent team into the Top 25 – beating the No. 1 team in the land.
21. Michigan State
22. Texas A&M
23. Alabama
24. Murray State
25. Creighton/Vanderbilt
A tie! Looks like it's the Top 26 this week. How often does that happen? Also, everyone say hi to Murray State. The Racers haven't been ranked since the '90s, but expect to see them here for a while. They're undefeated and the OVC is abysmal this year.
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Date of Stay: July, 2012
The park is nice but we asked for a hookup with a dump and those are reserved for the summer-long stays apparently (but they didn't tell me when I called). The bathrooms are clean but a bit creepy given the constant need to have a code and not share it. There isn't much for kids to do here but lots of retired train fans are here for the summer to volunteer for the nearby Cumbres and Toltec railroad. Lots of mosquitoes so bring your bug spray and mosquito netting. The transient sites are muddy when it rains while the permanent ones have nice gravel.
Date of Stay: July, 2012
I found this campground through fabulous online reviews and I want to echo them. This was the best campground we've ever stayed at. The bathrooms are individual with a shower, a toilet, and a sink. They were always clean and working. The sites are gravel and well drained from the constant summer afternoon rains. There is a lot to do around the campground and the cabins looked nice too. They are pet friendly and have a fenced in pet walk area plus a nice playground for kids.
Date of Stay: July, 2012
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I'm afraid that theme will most certainly get rejected.
All the best anyways!
any ideas or suggestions on what needs to be changed?
Sorry to say, but there are many things to change so I'd suggest to learn more.
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this past saturday we waited in line to see yayoi kusama's i who have arrived in heaven (see the videos below). and now my mind is seeing the world through technicolor lenses–talk about a mind explosion. i was so refreshed by her work that i felt a jolt of energy to get back to my blog.
it's been 8 months since my last post, but these past 8 months have been full of big life changes for me. so here's the cliff note version:
- in june we moved from manhattan to brooklyn, and let me tell ya–brooklyn is definitely where it's at
- in august the startup i was working for merged , and i got my first real big-girl job as a digital strategist/designer in september
- traveled back and forth for work/wedding planning every month in between
- i married the love of my life in september–and married life is sweet
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for those that think this means a slam-dunk for obama - by no means is it.
it re-energized conservatives that were not crazy about Romney, it re-energized the tea-party by publicly affirming that the "largest tax in crease in history" was pushed by the LiberalCrats in 2010.
and as if that wasn't enough for incumbents this fall how about this gem:
the deal that Congress made with itself when it
failed to agree on spending cuts earlier this year
. Rather than make targeted incisions in the national budget with a scalpel, Congress opted to swing a meat cleaver, and cut both defense and entitlement spending across the board.
Needless to say, America's defense contracting firms were not thrilled with the news. And now, they've decided to do something about it.
Fix the Budget ... or Else
Earlier this month, news began filtering out of the Beltway about a doomsday plan that the contractors were mulling. Unless Congress sat down and agreed on a rational budget plan for 2013, the contractors would proceed under the assumption that sequestration would happen, and defense spending would be cut by some $500 billion over the next decade.
"Fine," said the contractors. (Paraphrasing, of course.) "You don't have to buy our tanks, battleships and warplanes if you don't want to. But if you're not buying them, and we're not building them, then this means we've got a whole lot more workers on the payroll here than we need. And so we're going to start laying them off... in September."
As in, just a few weeks before voters head to the polls in November to re-elect their members of Congress -- or not.
30 Threats Hath September
There's no great mystery behind the timing. As Lockheed Martin (
) Chairman Robert Stevens bluntly explained: "It is quite possible that we will need to notify employees in the September and October time frame that they may or may not have a job in January, depending upon whether sequestration does or doesn't take effect." So the threat here is clear: Either Congress must find something else to cut, or right before Election Day, newspaper headlines are going to be filled with news of massive layoff announcements out of Lockheed, General Dynamics (
), Boeing (
), Raytheon (
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It's hard to overstate how big an effect this could have on employment numbers -- and the election. Combined, these five big defense contractors employ some 527,000 people. With control over so many jobs, it wouldn't take much -- just a layoff of about 14% of the workforce -- to completely obliterate all 69,000 of the jobs America gained in May 2012. Indeed, the situation's even worse than that. As
The Wall Street Journal
recently pointed out, the five big defense companies are just the tip of the defense industry iceberg. Widen the lens to include the smaller defense shops and suppliers who feed into the industry, and "defense manufacturers and their suppliers employ around 1 million workers combined."
If September's or October's job figures look as bad as what we saw in May, then the defense contractors have the power to single-handedly transform
anemic employment
growthin America into full-fledged employment decline... at the precise moment when Americans are deciding whom they'll pick for president.
What? Obama? How'd He Get Into This Story?
Not by accident, rest assured. You see, here's the real point of the story: Lockheed, et al may be training their guns at Congress with this threat. Their sole intention in making it may be -- as they claim -- to push Congress to "do something" to fix the budget mess. But members of Congress aren't the only folks going up for re-election in November.
This may come as a surprise to you -- we certainly haven't heard much about it so far this year -- but President Barack Obama is going to be on the ballot, too. So there's a distinct possibility that in the process of trying to
embarrass Congress into doing its job
, the defense companies may accidentally swing the tide of the election against the incumbent president, and in favor of his rival.
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The weather is not as sunny as yesterday, but one can not be lucky each time ;-) It is a bit late in the season for whale watching, but we try our luck anyway. After the safety explanations, the boat proceeds to the bay. It is a traditional wooden boat, and despite the cold, everybody stays on the deck !
After a while, someone spotted several bottlenose whales ; it looks like big dolphins (8 to 9 meters long), and several of them are jumping and clapping on the surface of the water with their tail. A typical reaction when they do not not want to see us around !!
We are lucky to meet a graduate student on the deck who studies the whale population in the bay and thus takes the hale watching trip everty day ! She tells us that bottlenose whales are usually scarcely seen in the area.
The boat passes close to puffin island, hardly visible through the mist. A short while after, several dolphins come and ride on the bow wave of the boat, jumping clear of the sea's surface. Those are white-beaked dolphins (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) which are characterized by their short thick creamy-white beak and very curved dorsal fin.
We did not get the chance to see bigger whales during the tour, but it was definitely worth it anyway. On the way back to the harbor, we are offered cinnamon rolls and hot chocolate. Yummy !
We are back at Husavik at 11:50 am. After a short shopping break, we have lunch near the quay and then go back to the cars. We stop at a fish farm and Alex buys fresh wild trouts for the dinner.
On the way to Akureyri, we stop at Godafoss. Despite the grey and foggy weather, the scenery looks great ! The water of the river Skjalfandafljot falls from a height of 12 meters over a width of 30 meters.
We finally arrive at Akureyri at 3:45 pm. While Alex and Pierre go to the supermarket, we can enjoy the city until 5 pm.
Akureyri is Iceland's second largest urban area after the greater Reykjavik area, and fourth largest municipality. Nicknamed the Capital of North Iceland, Akureyri is an important port and fishing centre, with a population of 17,754. The area where Akureyri is located was settled in the 9th century but did not receive a municipal charter until 1786. The town was the site of Allied units during WWII. The area has a relatively warm climate due to geographical factors, and the town's ice-free harbour has played a significant role in its history.
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The National Archives in New York City is shifting its office and bringing a new exhibition space to Lower Manhattan this month.
The keeper of the Constitution and other vital U.S. documents will move into the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House at 1 Bowling Green, a building it will share with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
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