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If you have been tempted to go on a safari, but you don't want to leave America, here's the solution! Leave your passport at home and take a wildlife adventure tour at a bed and breakfast in this country.
Vision Quest Ranch and Safari Bed and Breakfast is a sanctuary for both man and beast. Built on 51 acres of land in Salinas, California, guests stay in African tent-style bungalows. The rooms contain creature comforts of bathrooms and kitchens, but be prepared to greet a pachyderm patrol of elephant waiters bearing breakfast. It is also home to Wild Things, A.R. Inc., a training facility for exotic and domestic birds and animal actors including safely contained elephants, bears, and even lions. Join the animal trainers for classes or nature walks. Enjoy these alternative accommodations in the Monterey area and enhance your visit with adventure tours.
Exotic Resort Zoo is a unique preserve in Johnson City, Texas with more than 80 different types of animals and several endangered species being given the chance to multiply on the 137-acre property. Take time for a guided tour and enjoy the hands-on petting zoo, or sit on the porch and watch kangaroo and wallabies amid 500 animals who roam freely. Frolic in one of the swimming pools with a waterfall or fountain and relax in the hot tub. Stay in an aromatic, cedar safari cabin overlooking the lake. Cook on the grill, then sit and roast marshmallows by the bonfire. Active kids love the playscape.
Blonde Bear Bed and Breakfast is close to the Arctic Circle on 21 acres of Alaska's southern Kenai Peninsula. It offers easy access to salmon and halibut fishing charters, wonderful rugged scenery, and fly-out bear-viewing adventures. It is common to see wildlife including moose range, caribou herd and beluga whales. Proudly offering Alaskan Sourdough hospitality, enjoy cozy accommodations in a rustic setting with use of a canoe and barbecue grill. In the morning, linger over a hearty breakfast. At night, gather around the outdoor bonfire with a glass of homemade wine and local delicacies.
Menemsha Inn spans 14 acres with green fields, flowering gardens and moss-covered stone walls in Menemsha, Massachusetts. Visit the alpacas and ponies in the pastures throughout the property. Alpacas, similar to llamas, are gentle animals with a soft fleece that is shorn each spring and available as fiber arts yarn for purchase. The sweeping vista includes grazing sheep on green pastures rolling toward the sea, and the waters of Menemsha Bight and the Elizabeth Islands, accented with gliding osprey. Early risers catch a glimpse of wild turkeys, deer and rabbits who freely wander this side of the Island. Visitors return year after year, to get reacquainted with the locals and to enjoy this oasis of indulgent relaxation. A croquet, tennis and basketball court, fitness center, ping pong table, yoga and horseshoes are among the onsite activities. Gather in the lobby for cookies and lemonade each afternoon and munch on popcorn from the concession-style popper. Beach passes, towels, chairs and umbrellas are provided. A variety of accommodations include rustic country sea cottages, luxury ocean-view Carriage House and Tea House rooms and spacious vacation homes with abundant amenities and resort-like services.
The Social Goat Bed and Breakfast, in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, was once a working farm and homestead. Now this little farm in the big city sits on almost an acre with dwarf goats, cats, turkeys, chickens, roosters, goldfish and a koi pond. It graces the community surrounding Grant Park, home to Zoo Atlanta with giraffe feedings, wildlife encounters with elephants, komodo dragons, pandas, gorillas, orangutans, lions, zebras, meerkats, warthogs and many more. Enjoy southern hospitality and feel at home in an inviting setting. Stay in the Master Suite with Brazilian cherry floors, a sitting area, soaking tub and double-headed shower. The main house boasts a third-floor suite and second-floor guest room with a door to the balcony. A one-bedroom apartment in the Carriage House offers more room and privacy. Savor a continental-
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24th ITU EMOS Awards 2017 took place at Akatlar Mustafa Kemal Culture Center. Several Turkish stars such as Serenay Sarikaya, Ilker Kaleli, and Burcin Terzioglu were in attendance. Find out who won below! Best Drama Actor: ilker Kaleli Best Drama Actress: Burcin Terzioglu Jury's Special Prize: Yetkin Dikinciler Life-Long Success Prize: Demet Akbag ve Rasim Oztekin Best Movie Actress: Serenay …Read More »
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A New Turkish Movie: On Behalf of You and Me (Ikimizin Yerine)
Turkish Movie "On Behalf of You and Me (Ikimizin Yerine)" draws attention with its cast. Nejat Isler who has suffered from a serious sickness will meet with the audience. The other protagonist is Serenay Sarikaya who is a very popular actress in recent years. Nejat and Serenay was together also in the movie of Behzat C is Burning (Behzat C …Read More »
Kerem Bursin Dates With Serenay Sarikaya
Kerem Bursin and Serenay Sarikaya have started to date after the commercial that they both starred. Their relationship was revealed by their fans. Now, the couple have a good time in front of cameras. The new couple have caught again in the weekday while going to the cinema together.Read More »

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Get an overview of this hotel4-star St Austell bed & breakfast in South Cornish Coast with free parking
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Located in South Cornish Coast, this bed & breakfast is within 2 mi (3 km) of Charlestown Shipwreck and Heritage Centre, Charlestown Harbour, and Pinetum Park and Pine Lodge Gardens. Cornwall Football Golf and Porthpean Beach are also within 3 mi (5 km).
Property Features
A garden, a lobby fireplace, and free self parking are available at this smoke-free bed & breakfast. WiFi in public areas is free.
All 3 rooms provide free WiFi, coffee makers, and TVs. Hair dryers and showers are also available to guests.
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Gwyndra House B&B
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Gwyndra House B&B features a garden and a fireplace in the lobby. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
Gwyndra House B&B is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 3
- Number of floors - 2
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free WiFi
- Free self parking
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Fireplace in lobby
- Garden
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Shower only
- Private bathroom
- Hair dryer
- Television
- Coffee/tea maker
- Free WiFi
Where to Eat
Full breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning.
Bed & Breakfast Policies
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is 10 AM
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Pets not allowed (service animals welcome)
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Debit cards not accepted
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This establishment has received its official star rating from VisitEngland, the National Tourist Board for England.


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Arctic Trail Trading Co. Black Tiger Faux Fur Full/Queen Comforter
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Set the stylish scene in your bedroom with this reversible comforter. Soft and luxurious, this comforter will enhance your bed and give you extra comfort and warmth. You'll look forward to sleeping in on the cushioned feel of this cozy comforter.
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This readalike is in response to a customer's book-match request. If you would like personalized reading recommendations, fill out the book-match form and a librarian will email suggested titles to you. Available for adults, teens, and kids. You can browse the book matches here.
Drop City by T.C. Boyle
It is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune has decided to relocate to the last frontier--the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska--in the ultimate expression of going back to the land. The novel opposes two groups of characters: Sess Harder, his wife Pamela, and other young Alaskans who are already homesteading in the wilderness and the brothers and sisters of Drop City, who, despite their devotion to peace, free love, and the simple life, find their commune riven by tensions. As these two communities collide, their alliances shift and unexpected friendships and dangerous enmities are born as everyone struggles with the bare essentials of life: love, nourishment, and a roof over one's head. (catalog summary)
If you like Drop City, you may also find these stories of folks living outside of society are appealing:
Arcadia by Lauren Groff
Follows the fortunes of Bit and the commune his parents helped to create. A group of like-minded folks comes together to create a utopia in Arcadia. Despite everyone's best intentions, the commune falls apart under the strain of privation and a self-serving leader who can't live up to his own ideals. Bit is ill-prepared for the real world, but manages to make his way until a flu pandemic threatens the human race. (catalog summary)
Boonville by Robert Mailer Anderson
Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson--the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother--and Sarah McKay--a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"--search for self and community in the hole-of-a-town Boonville. As they try to assemble from the late-twentieth-century jumble of life the facts of sexuality, love, and death, and face the possibility of an existence without God, John and Sarah learn what happens when they dare to try to make art from their lives. (catalog summary)
For more than two hundred years, this Spotsylvania farm has stood as a witness to Virginia history. Originally carved from land given to colonial Governor Alexander Spotswood, Ellwood willingly hosted two armies-that of the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War and General Robert E. Lee during the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. However, in 1864, during the Battle of the Wilderness, Ellwood became the headquarters for Generals Gouverneur K. Warren and Ambrose E. Burnside. General Grant took his position a few hundred yards away from the house, at a spot still called Grant's Knoll.
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No sodium. No cholesterol. Extremely low in fat. High in fiber, vitamin A, vitamin C, and niacin as well being sweet and juicy—what's not to love about a peach? Unless sugar is a concern, they are certainly a most delightful guilt-free treat. Whether they are in season locally or still available in the freezer section, peaches have many uses and are an excellent addition to your dinner table.
This year's Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair runs from July 31 to August 9, 2015. There will be many things to see and do, but the farm animals, homebaked goodies, and homegrown vegetables are always popular.
Can't make it to the fairgrounds this year? Some other places to go visit the animals are George Washington's Birthplace, Westmoreland Berry Farm, Maymont, and the Claude Moore Colonial Farm. Take along some farm animals coloring pages to pass the time on your trip.
Wherever you go to see these cute critters, grab some books and videos from the library to get in the moo-d for animal fun:
"A volksmarch is a non-competitive 6 mile (10 kilometer) walk. It's not a pledge walk, it's not a race, it is a fun activity you do with a club, with your family, with your pet, or all by yourself. "
--American Volkssport Association
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From Honku : The Zen Antidote to Road Rage by Aaron Naparstek.
Well before dawn breaks over the I-95, the race begins. A quick shower, a quicker breakfast, warming the engine, and settling into the chilly seat-- our commuters know the routine... the engine turns over, the heat comes on, and the open road awaits, at least until that bottleneck at Potomac Mills.
Getting lost in a cornfield maze is an October tradition for many families. Aside from tall fields of corn, mazes can be made with stone walls, hedges, mirrors, and more. Finding your way out of the puzzle can be a heck of a good time, and mazes have a lot of history behind them, too.
Sometimes, it seems like everybody goes hiking and camping in the great outdoors in the sticky, sweltering summertime. Those are the days when the bugs are at their worst, and the heat alone can leave you panting on the side of the trail before an hour is done. For an easier time of it, grab your gear in the spring or fall. Cooler days and mostly bug-free trails make for great hiking adventures, whether by the ocean or in the mountains. November 17 is Take a Hike Day, but any day is a good day to hike.
May is the perfect time to visit a zoo. It's not too hot or crowded, and the animals are at their springtime best. If your kids are begging for pandas, then the National Zoo in Washington is the place to go, but there are some places about an hour's drive from our area where kids can get a different kind of beastly experience.
Great stars above!
From our place beneath the heavens, the stars seem to be tiny pinpoints of light. People have seen patterns in the stars for thousands of years. In the storytellers' imaginations, warriors and princesses, flying horses and laughing coyotes all found their way to the stars. Some soothsayers still tell fortunes based on the mysteries of astrology, or the alignment of the planets.
Astronomers know that the real mysteries of space are much greater than the accidental alignments of the stars. Stars, in all their blazing glories of red, blue, green, yellow, and more, are pulsing and moving, swirling around in their galaxies which, in turn, move around the Universe. The stars themselves may be ages old, but we continue to learn more about them all the time. Recently, scientists discovered ten new planets--one of which is orbiting a very young star.


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'Lookout' jailed over break-in
A 21-year-old man has been sent to jail for his role in the burglary of a house belonging to a Northern Territory Aboriginal community police officer.
Stanley Nilco has pleaded guilty in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to unlawful entry.
The court heard that in January this year he and two others were responsible for ransacking the home of an Aboriginal community police officer in Port Keats.
Nilco was the designated lookout while his accomplices stole $910 worth of goods and alcohol.
A juvenile has been sentenced at Wadeye and the other alleged offender is still at large.
It was the second break-in at the Aboriginal community police officer's home that night and the officer lost $3,500 worth of property.
Justice Trevor Riley sentenced Nilco to 18 months in jail, suspended after eight months.
The sentence has been back dated to the time of his arrest in January.
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Nantes man given five-month suspended sentence after what he described as attempt to uphold law
Nemo Wednesday, 7 August 2013 10:51 AM - Mars
I love reading these recurring comments saying "when in Rome, do as Romans do" or "French are French" etc. whenever there are similar news..
Thank god that you guys were not around when people were fighting against the apartheid regime in South Africa or the nazi regime in Germany, because hey, you know, "When in Rome do as Romans do", "South Africans do not allow the black people to ride in the same bus as whites, we should respect that"!
In case you haven't heard, basic human rights cannot be approached in this manner. This is not about driving on a certain side of the road or the fine amount for littering...
abusidra Tuesday, 26 March 2013 10:38 AM - UAE
The combined rate of crimes in Saudia in a year perhaps equals a week of crime in just NY. You can check the statistics. The respect women enjoys in our culture is their right and not a favor. Muslims believe mother is 3 times more important than father and heaven lies beneath her feet. Prophet Muhamad (pbuh) instructed, the women to be treated kindly and also said the best amongst us is the ones who are best to their wives. The one who brings up daughters in a nice way and get them married, screens himself from hellfire. So dear, we don't dictate or persuade them to wear revealing dress even in offices, whereas the gentlemen comes fully dressed, the barbies are blonde and busty, whereas the spiderman and batman are covered? Who dictates this to small children to dress like they dress when they growup, to satisfy whom and quench the thirst of whose eyes in the name of freedom, they made women an object free from everything. shame shame. Be sincere to yourself, don't be blind with bias.john Tuesday, 26 March 2013 4:01 PM - UAE
@abusidra you are living in the stone ages. In a few generations, even KSA will allow women to dress as they please. It's called progress. Better get used to it...mumeen Tuesday, 26 March 2013 2:42 PM - kuwait
Very well said Abusidra. Making their daughters, wives, sisters and mothers naked in front of the whole world is called the 'freedom', 'women's emancipation', etc., by the atheist world's men. Having women behind veil and behind doors is the best dignity a man can have of his manhood, and fatherhood, whether they accept it or not.
NKYC Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:27 PM - India
I do not approve of what happened and personally I believe people should not take the law into their hands.
BUT like most people, the French have their own ways and culture which make them "French". If its not acceptable for the French that people in France do not cover their faces(a very reasonable thing)-that should be respected and followed by everyone there-else get out of there . If she doesnt like the French ways WHY is she hanging around there? Dont try to "correct" them into being a "Saudi Arabia" or "Afghanistan"-the perfect countries on earth. The majority of people in this world wishes to see them as French and their great country as France. If they think if something is wrong with them they know to correct it and they will. Dont teach them your ways---which you think are the only correct and perfect ways.
Suresh Tuesday, 26 March 2013 5:50 PM - India
Hisham, I think you exaggerate when you say "gang raping is normal " in India. Please do not tar the whole country with this brush. Yes there are many cases of rape and they are horrible, but talk to any one who has been to India and they will tell you that on the whole Indians are friendly, hospitable and take care of visitors and tourists.
India has a population of 1.2 Billion people. That is 400 times the population of Dubai. So each rape in Dubai makes it the equivalent of 400 rapes in India. And to think that India has a free press where everything is reported for the world t see.
Tens of thousands of expat expat workers in UAE often do not get their salaries on time, and hundreds of them have commit suicide as a result. Their employers often do not even get a fine , let alone going to jail. And yet there are thousand in jail for a bounced cheque, which may or may not have been their fault. Taxi drivers in UAE don't get a single day off in the month. Is this nice ?Hisham Friday, 22 March 2013 7:56 PM - UAE
What I think is before anyone from a country where gang raping women is normal -and which also happens to regularly win the great prize for "worst country in the world for women" (yes, even above Afghanistan and Somalia)- makes a remark about women's rights, there should be quite a list of other things to address first... I also think the main issue here should be a woman's right to choose her wardrobe in a "free country" and a woman's right not to be attacked by a man! The latter will happen sometimes, but if 5 months suspended jail time is the only answer to that then we might as well move France up a few places on that aforementioned list.
Anders Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:54 AM - UAE
I don't approve the French man's action to take the law in his own hands. However, when in Rome do as the Romans do. If you want to travel to the Middle East, there are certain guidelines to be respected - and this should be the case in Europe.procan Thursday, 21 March 2013 5:24 PM - canada
Citizens arrest are legal,as the police cannot be every all the time .In power the people.
nimby Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:45 AM - uae
and manners and etiquette show themselves in actions, deeds and responses Abu sidra.
Look forward to seeing that one day from you.
SAM Wednesday, 20 March 2013 12:44 PM - UAE
I'm rich! I have 18 of my children to sell, tell me who to see and how to do it? That will give me enough cash to take the first boat to New York!
abusidra Tuesday, 19 March 2013 10:22 AM - UAE
If every Tom, dick and Harry is so passsionate about holding the (bigoted) law, then he should join the Forces and not act independently. Will it be okay if I break your bones just because I didn't like the way you speak or dressed? In UAE, even though it is painful and soreful for the eyes to encounter scantily dressed westeners, we take pride and observe patience to serve them. This is not called culture or Law, this is called MANNERS & etiquettes.Heather Wednesday, 20 March 2013 6:02 PM - USA
Dear Doug,
If you would like to observe how abusidra practices "MANNERS and ettiquettes," please note abusidra's response to my post in this thread. My name is Heather, and manners and ettiquette are not what you will see. Abusidra did me the "favor," ironically, of proving my point: that the kindness women merit and how they are treated varies from culture to culture. I will spend my time on websites where men and women can be treated with civility and mutual respect. The Muslims who live here in our hometown in North Carolina are very warm and welcoming, and I usually learn something new when we talk (there is a lot of interfaith outreach where I live.) If I get flamed in this forum, that's OK; I won't be reading this website anymore. Many of the posts are hateful and sophomoric (as you probably have discovered already. I thought your post was well-reasoned and humorous!) Blessings to you and all who were kind enough to read this.
Heather Monday, 18 March 2013 11:21 AM - USA
In America, National Public Radio ran a story this week about a Middle Eastern doctor who borrowed money but the economy in his country (possibly Syria? Sorry, can't remember) was so distressed he could not earn the $2,500 back in time, no matter how hard he worked, to cover the debt when the note was due. His creditors took him to local court. The elders told him he could not "plead poverty" because he owned something of monetary value: his 6-year-0ld daughter. They ruled she was worth that much and he could repay the debt with his child. He gave them his little girl. The reason I mention this in reference to the news story: yes, French police, not civilians, should enforce the law. But given the vast chasm between the values and culture of these two societies, it's amazing they co-exist as peacefully as they do.
Someone Monday, 18 March 2013 9:56 AM - India
You are what you wear, a person is judged by what he wears and what he doesnt. Those who say respect is in the hearts should ask themselves what they wear to office. Will any person turn up wearing a baseball cap and shorts or a bikini for an interview. Never!!! Well, unless the job being interviewed demands so!! Every culture has its norms of what is acceptable or not! In islam, this appropriateness/inappropriateness is clearly codified leaving no rooms for doubt! Thats because we muslims dont make our own rules! We are govenrned by the rule of God.Oldtimer Thursday, 21 March 2013 11:46 AM - UAE
Why this great confusion? To me it is very simple. First you have to decide if you should open up your country and integrate more with other countries in order to become a global partner in trade, tourism, culture, education etc. or if you want to remain insular and hold on to your traditions without any exposure to alien culture. You cannot expect to have foreign movies, clothes, education & tourists in your country and be surprised when there is some integration of the western life style! You cannot send your children to study in western countries and expect them not to imbibe a bit of that culture. Most of us call it globalization and welcome this understanding of other cultures. No one expects Saudi to change, so why should France? You cannot have double standards; don't expect to have your cake & eat it too!
Hisham Sunday, 17 March 2013 9:02 AM - UAE
On one hand, the country should not limit people in what they do or don't wear. What's next? Ban on baseball caps? Shoes with no shoe strings? Hair shorter than X-centimeter? On the other hand, muslim women who wear the veil so that they don't attract attention from men, should understand that in Western countries you're achieving the opposite and attracting attention from EVERYONE. However, it's nothing new that France has different standards for minorities and that it's an extremely racist country. (North) Africans have known this for decades. Maybe that should be a key focus point. In the end, the best way to radicalize a minority group is to point them out, persecute them and cast them out.2fillsworth Thursday, 21 March 2013 5:28 PM - UAE
Qatari, I forgot your are an expert in Western Cultures and Norms.
In most western countries and cultures, someone completly covering their face in public is not normal make people uncomfortable and is not inline with our social practices, so your arguement is flawed.
You ask anyone in a western country, Europe, Americas, even Asian countries if they accept it, most will tell you they dont.
So therefore if the vast majority of people do not like it and a law prevents it based on various reasons, then why the issue.
Do you hear western women complaining about having to wear an abaya in Public in Saudi? No, because the accept the rules and laws and follow it.
One final point, as you regularly say, if they dont like it, then they can leave, right!Qatari Wednesday, 20 March 2013 7:05 PM - Qatar
@Doug, Face covering in the west is not offensive, stop making up and believing it.Hisham Wednesday, 20 March 2013 6:56 PM - UAE
I've never said it is required, in fact, what you may not have understood is that I would not recommend women in Europe to cover their face in public. I think that's clear if you read my first post above. Since there is a lot of interpretation and ancient (pre-Islamic) culture tangled in there, nobody can really be sure whether there is a religious basis for it. Personally I have never had any woman in my family who covered her face. However, what I AM saying is that -should a woman choose to cover her face (for whatever reason)- then let her! What if it's her choice? Her way of feeling comfortable. Then why limit a woman in that freedom of choice. BTW, there is clearly a trend in the radicalisation of anti-islamism in Europe. Today it's this, but I can almost guarantee you the next thing they'll want to ban is the entire hijab. Try to ban the yarmulke (something I would definitely not agree on either) and see what happens...
I think you need to check your numbers. Whilst school fees in Dubai are expensive, I don't think they have reached the numbers quoted in your report. moreSunday, 28 May 2017 12:58 PM - James
very true!... oil will be in $40-$50 range for the next decade...
This is great, however, have the authorities analysed how many residents go overseas for their healthcare? Last time I travelled overseas for my healthcare... moreSunday, 28 May 2017 9:04 AM - Mary
Comparing Driving to Smoking is the most shameless ploy to convince people that we should not persecute smokers.
If your vehicle hits someone... more
Not quite.
Emiratis 11% of population 11% of accidents. Pakistanis 12.5% of population; 15% of accidents. Indians 27% of the population - 39... more
I think you need to check your numbers. Whilst school fees in Dubai are expensive, I don't think they have reached the numbers quoted in your report. moreSunday, 28 May 2017 12:58 PM - James
Other than the high fees..hidden profits being made in the form of huge mark ups on text books, uniforms, shoes even...then there is fees for participation... moreSunday, 14 May 2017 11:17 AM - Joseph
Comparing Driving to Smoking is the most shameless ploy to convince people that we should not persecute smokers.
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Am quiet angry that Mr Al Abbar talks about high school fees and conveniently forgets about high mall rates, high community fees in his master communities... moreFriday, 19 May 2017 12:22 PM - Vito rammuzzi


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On Sunday, my colleague Warner Todd Huston apprised readers of a truly disgraceful Newsweek article which continued to demonstrate just how in the tank media are for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama.
On Monday, the good folks at National Review Online were similarly outraged, and expressed concern about Newsweek's obvious lack of impartiality.
First up was Jim Geraghty who took issue with Newsweek's reference to the McCain campaign's "letter suggesting Obama was the candidate of Hamas" without explaining what precipitated it:
Really, if Newsweek is going to write [about this McCain campaign letter], you would think their readers might deserve to know what prompted McCain's campaign to suggest that Obama is the candidate of Hamas, i.e., top Hamas political adviser Ahmed Yousef saying the terrorist group supports Obama's foreign-policy vision and hopes he wins:
"We don't mind–actually we like Mr. Obama. We hope he will (win) the election and I do believe he is like John Kennedy, great man with great principle, and he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community but not with domination and arrogance," Yousef said in response to a question about the group's willingness to meet with either of the Democratic presidential candidates.
I mean, seriously, one of his advisers, Rob Malley, was holding meetings with Hamas, and Obama's promised to hold unconditional face-to-face presidential summits with the guy who's funding and encouraging Hamas.
Great point. A few hours later, editor Rich Lowry wrote the following:
I was just asking [McCain campaign advisor] Steve Schmidt about it and he unloaded: "It's one of the top five most biased pieces of journalism ever written. It's a broad attack on the Republican party."..."For everyone who works in the profession of journalism, it should make them cringe—it's an embarrassment."
We're cringing, Steve, as this indeed is a precursor to what we can expect once the Democrat nomination is finalized.
If Americans thought media were in the tank for Obama before, they ain't seen nothin' yet!


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Agilent Technologies acquired the assets of Aurora SFC Systems, which provides supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) products for lab research and analysis. The acquisition includes the Aurora SFC Systems product line as well as intellectual property.
Aurora SFC Systems has been working with Agilent for the past two years. Aurora's Fusion A5 platform is embedded into Agilent's SFC and Hybrid SFC/UHPLC systems, and is also sold as part of an upgrade option to Agilent's 1100, 1200, and 1260 Series LC systems. Acquiring the Aurora SFC assets now enables Agilent to offer these products as fully integrated, single-vendor SFC solutions, according to Patrick Kaltenbach, vp and general manager of Agilent's liquid phase separations business.
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Families, volunteers labor to keep the ice at town rinks open
By NANCY BEAN FOSTER
Union Leader Correspondent | January 01. 2014 8:20PM
Gary Terrell helps his daughter, Phoebe, put on her ice skates at the rink at Shepard Park in Milford on Sunday. (NANCY BEAN FOSTER/Union Leader Correspondent)
Armed with snow shovels, the Danielsons, along with their daughters Greta, 15, and Bridget, 12, broke a trail through the underbrush from their back yard to the flooded culverts on the side of the road and began clearing the ice.
"I grew up in Minnesota and if we wanted to skate, we'd just shovel off a pond or a ditch filled with water and we'd skate," said Rodney Danielson.
In Amherst, a flooded patch of conservation land in Amherst village has evolved into a temporary rink maintained each year by a group of volunteers. On Sunday morning, Albie Sampson was out on the rink, installed by the recreation department using lumber and a plastic liner, making sure the low spots were filled in. Using a pair of watering cans and a wide shovel, he added water to low areas and smoothed the ice with a shovel.
When the snow is falling gently in the village, there's nothing more beautiful than "going out and feeling the experience of winter while skating," he said.
Though Liz Terrell hasn't put on a pair of skates in decades, she has tried to continue the tradition of skating for her own children. She took them to the temporary rink at Shepard Park in Milford while in the area visiting her family for the holidays.
Terrell said she tries to buy skates at consignment shops or other places that sell used sports equipment.
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The skinny on RIM's tablet The tech world is abuzz today on reports that Research In Motion Ltd. could take the wraps off a new tablet computer as early as next week, The Wall Street Journal reports. The tablet, which would rival the popular iPad from Apple Inc. and has been a subject of much speculation recently, could be introduced at a developers' conference in San Francisco, the news organization said. Some at RIM have dubbed the device the BlackPad, and, the Journal reports, it is scheduled to be released in the fourth quarter. With a seven-inch touch screen, it will have one or two built-in cameras, Bluetooth and broadband connections.
But, the report said, it will only be able to connect to wireless networks through a BlackBerry. And, in what the Journal called a significant development, the BlackPad would have a new operating system built by QNX Software Systems, which was acquired by RIM this year.
Streetwise columnist Boyd Erman adds that RIM could introduce two sizes of the new tablet.
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This is a key time for RIM as it battles Apple's iPhone and the Android operating system from Google Inc. Analysts had been down on the company's stock, though its earnings last week buoyed investors. The Journal noted that a new RIM tablet will face what's shaping up to be a crowded field. Samsung Electronics Co., Acer Inc. and others are also rushing for a tablet.
Potash fight heats up The takeover battle for Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan is escalating, moving into the courts as the company tries to fend off BHP Billiton Ltd.'s $38.6-billion (U.S.) hostile bid. Potash has now launched a lawsuit against BHP, alleging it made "false and misleading statements and omissions" in its offer and regarding its plans to acquire the business. The lawsuit, filed in a U.S. District Court in Illinois, doesn't seek monetary damages, but asks for complete and accurate disclosure. No allegations have been proven in court, and BHP officials did not immediately comment.
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U.S. dollar takes it on chin The outlook for the U.S. dollar appears grim today in the wake of yesterday's policy decision by the Federal Reserve. The Federal Open Market Committee painted a grim picture of the U.S. recovery as it held rates steady yesterday, and signalled it is troubled by low inflation readings. It also said it stood ready to take new measures, should developments warrant that. Markets had speculated over whether the U.S. central bank could unveil some new measures - dubbed QE II by economists, meaning another round of quantitative easing - but it came up short.
"The Fed did push the door further ajar to the prospect of further stimulus for the economy by drawing attention to concerns about the benign level of inflation, and indicated that they stood ready to act as necessary, in the event that inflation continued to remain benign and economic conditions failed to improve," said CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson. "It would appear that it is now the dollar's turn to become the whipping boy of the currency markets again."
Here's what Scotia Capital currency strategist Sacha Tihanyi had to say today:
"The FOMC decision to bring inflation into the discussion as justifying the potential for further policy action weighs heavily in the [foreign exchange]market today. Now that policymakers consider underlying inflation (core trends) to be currently at levels 'somewhat below' those judged most consistent with their dual mandate of price stability and maximum employment, a new dynamic for the [U.S. dollar]has entered the picture. This reflects the general concern that disinflationary pressures may gain traction, risking the chance that a very undesirable deflation dynamic takes hold. Indeed, the statement emphasized that the Fed is prepared to provide additional accommodation if needed to support the economic recovery and to return inflation to levels consistent with its mandate.
"This certainly provides justification for [U.S. dollar]weakness as a further dovish tilt in rhetoric has absolutely crushed the 2-year U.S. government bond yield, sending it to a new record low near 0.4075 per cent in trading today ... Where recently it was a loss in growth momentum, it now becomes the fear that policy will ease further and not be normalized for some time, along with the recognition that the FOMC is certainly worried about the prospects for deflation."Report Typo/Error
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- 6 x SFF-8087 SAS 600 - Mini-SAS Internal Connectors
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SAS Expansion with 24 Gbits/s per mini sas port! I have this unit working with my LSI Megaraid 9260-8i Raid controller. Attached I have 14 1.5TB Seagate hard drives running 3 raid 5 array. I am able to SUSTAIN transfer rates from one array to the other at over 500MB/ps not megabits !MEGABYTES!
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This piece was written last year when I was going through a hard time. hope you enjoy:)
To confident too out there is what I seem to be, but when I'm quiet and not talking then there's something wrong with me. being labelled by your loved ones just isn't right, thinking that I've "been there" and "done that" its all in their state of mind. Being put down by your parents and compared to other girls, is it wrong for me just to be another different girl in the world? It seems like everything I do tends to be wrong, bringing up the things in the past - can we all just move on? "Behind every smile there is pain" when I hear this quote all that comes to my mind is my name. Maybe I am being fake if I'm hiding the pain, but if I let all out will the people that I love all react the same? People always tell me, 'don't let words get to you' but what if they're hurtful and you're fragile, what are you meant to do? I mean I know I'm not perfect and I have my moments, but it doesn't mean I'm seeking attention or wanting to be noticed. Bringing up the traditions and how we're meant to dress, thinking I'm only being different cause I want to impress. See I don't know why there's something wrong with having different style? when the Lord doesn't care about what we wear, cause there's no law in the bible. It says we should respect our mum and dad, but if we decide to speak our mind does that make us bad? the worldly temptations causes us to trip up and fall, distracting us from the main reason why we're here - TO DO THE WORKS OF THE LORD. I admit I even struggle to ignore the temptations, but what I've learnt is that every trap we fall into is a life long lesson.


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Located in South Pattaya within a short walk of Walking Street, Miracle Suite is within a mile (2 km) of Pattaya Pier. This 89-room, 4-star resort welcomes guests with 2 outdoor pools, a restaurant, and free in-room WiFi. Also nearby are Pattaya View Point and Royal Garden Plaza.
Buffet breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 11 AM. The onsite restaurant is perfect for a quick bite to eat.
All 89 air-conditioned rooms feature lanais, full-sized refrigerators/freezers, and minibars. LCD TVs come with satellite channels and DVD players, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Along with relaxing touches like rainfall showers and deep soaking tubs, bathrooms offer hair dryers and free toiletries. Coffee makers, free bottled water, and safes are also available. Bathrooms are shared.
Property features
Guests staying at Miracle Suite enjoy access to 2 outdoor pools, a fitness center, and a rooftop terrace. You can take advantage of free parking, along with an airport shuttle. Front-desk staff are standing by 24/7 to assist with any requests. Additional amenities include free WiFi in public areas, a business center, and coffee/tea in a common area.
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
- Free parking
- Onsite dining
- 2 outdoor pools
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Hotel Amenities
Miracle Suite features 2 outdoor swimming pools and a fitness center. The resort offers a restaurant. This 4-star property offers access to a business center and limo/town car service.
Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. This Pattaya resort also offers a rooftop terrace, coffee/tea in a common area, and an elevator (lift). Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 89
- 24-hour front desk
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Fitness facilities
- Free WiFi
- Number of outdoor pools - 2
- Rooftop terrace
- Airport transportation
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Area shuttle (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Elevator/lift
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Number of floors - 7
- Free self parking
- Year Built 2010
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
- DVD player
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Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
Miracle Suite offers 89 air-conditioned accommodations with DVD players and minibars. Rooms open to lanais. LCD televisions come with satellite channels. Guests can make use of the in-room full-sized refrigerators/freezers and coffee/tea makers. Guests have access to shared bathrooms. Bathrooms include separate bathtubs and showers with deep soaking bathtubs and rainfall showerheads. Bathrooms are also outfitted with bathrobes, slippers, and bidets.
This Pattaya resort provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include safes and phones. Additionally, rooms include complimentary bottled water and hair dryers. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Phone
- Minibar
- Coffee/tea maker
- DVD player
- Hair dryer
- In-room safe
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- Air conditioning
- Free bottled water
- Satellite TV service
- Daily housekeeping
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Bidet
- Slippers
- Separate bathtub and shower
- Deep soaking bathtub
- Rainfall showerhead
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free WiFi
- Shared bathroom with sink in room
- Full-sized refrigerator/freezer
Where to Eat
Miracle Suite has a restaurant on site.
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 11 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
2 outdoor swimming pools are on site along with a fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Scuba diving nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Minimum check-in age is 16
Check-out time is noon
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- No pets or service animals allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No pets or service animals allowed
- Resort fee
- Deposit: THB 1000 per stay
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: THB 200 for adults and THB 100 for children (approximately)
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for an additional fee
- Rollaway beds are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Miracle Suite Hotel
- Miracle Suite Hotel Pattaya
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A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property.


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Story Behind this Recipe
Fresh corn is making its appearance at the markets now. It's delicious simply boiled, but it does get stuck between your teeth . I wondered if it would be easier to eat mixed in with rice, while capturing the umami of the corn - so I made a takikomi gohan (rice cooked with other ingredients) using corn. I added edamame too for color.


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BeschreibungHere's a thorough introduction to the latest developments in database systems design presented from an applications point of view. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in the field, this book pays special attention to issues raised by new trends in database design, and how these developments affect the programmer and database administrator.
InhaltsverzeichnisEvolution of database technology; conceptual modelling of information systems; active databases; deductive databases; temporal database systems; object-relational databases; object-oriented databases; multimedia databases; distributed databases; mobile computing - data management issues; databases; secure databases; component database systems; case tools - computer support for conceptual modelling, database quality.
PortraitMario Piattini, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the University of Castilla - La Mancha, Spain. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in computer science from the Polytechnical University of Madrid. Oscar Diaz, Ph.D. is a professor of computer science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. He received his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Aberdeen (UK).
Untertitel: Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: ARTECH HOUSE INC
Erscheinungsdatum: August 2000
Seitenanzahl: 558 Seiten
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Ridden by Timothy Doocy, the Oaklawn-loving Semaphore Man got no breaks from his pace rivals in the six-furlong test. Breaking from the three hole, Semaphore Man had Saalb and Piratesonthelake to his inside and Vicarino on his outside coming out of the gate. The quartet flew early as Saalb gained a slender advantage through an opening quarter mile of :21.69 before Semaphore Man was able to squeeze out a narrow lead after a half-mile in :44.82.
Junior College, with Eusebio Razo Jr. aboard, was the major beneficiary of the speed duel. Slightly off the heat early on, he ranged up five wide on the outside rounding the turn to get a head in front in upper stretch. After putting away the tiring Vicarino mid-stretch, Junior College appeared to be ready to sweep past Semaphore Man as well, but the 6-year-old Formal Gold gelding wasn't done yet. In a spirited fight to the wire, Semaphore Man dug in valiantly along the inside and was edging away at the end to win in a time of 1:09.78. Junior College held on to nip Lovango and Luis Quinonez by a neck for second.
Vicarino, who finished fifth, and Semaphore Man were both sent off at 9-5 with the California invader a slight favorite.
Trained by Kelly R. Von Hemel for Darrell Rahe's Double Bogey Stable, Semaphore Man earned his first graded stakes win. An Oaklawn specialist, the dark bay ran second to Bordonaro in last year's Count Fleet. All seven of Semaphore Man's victories have come at the Arkansas track, where he has started 11 times and has never been out of the money.
Semaphore Man ran his career mark to 7-5-5 in 21 starts with earnings of $397,110 after collecting the $90,000 winner's share. He was coming off a runner-up finish in the Duncan F. Kenner Stakes at Fair Grounds March 8.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Murphy bred the winner, who is out of the Lost Code mare Semaphore Ms., in Kentucky.
It was not a great day at Oaklawn as its Racing Festival of the South continued. There was a torrential downpour and a tornado watch earlier. The track was sealed for racing.
Semaphore Man carried co-high weight of 118 pounds to victory and paid $5.60, $2.80, and $2.40. Junior College, who won the Hot Springs Stakes at Oaklawn by 2 1/4 lengths for trainer Tony Reinstedler March 22, returned $3.60 and $2.60 as the third choice. Lovango was $2.80 to show for conditioner McLean Robertson. Evening Reward, Vicarino, Piratesonthelake, and Saalb followed.
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First NightmareMature
Junie Ferguson has a bit of a sleeping problem. Normally this would not be such a major issue, but in her case it puts the lives of everyone in Stark Pines at stake, as a wave of darkness sweeps over the once peaceful town.
DJunie Ferguson enters Classroom 2-E, and boy would she be a sight for sore eyes if she were there under pleasanter circumstances.
The young, pretty brunette substitute teacher glides between the rows of desks, thin hips swaying, her short, barely combed mess of curls bobbing up and down with each step, until she takes a seat atop the desk at the front of the room.
"I'm sure you've already heard what happened, but," she says, removing her pair of fake diamond studded black sunglasses, "it looks like I'll be taking over for Mr. Hall today."
A chorus of confused and murmurs breaks out among the students. Among them are some tears. Arguing. Panic. Pure chaos.
"I know it's asking a lot, but try to chill out, guys." Junie walks over to the board. Marker in hand, she fistbumps the air, smiling cheerily. "Because we've got work to do! So, if you would please open your textbooks to where you left off on Friday..."
But classwork was the last thing on their minds, and she knew it. Her smile droops into a frown as a snooty looking boy with an over-jelled blonde pompadour, and a bright pink wool scarf 'thing' in the process of constricting his neck, leans forward in his chair; wide-eyed.
"Is it true that Mr. Hall was killed?" He dares to ask, and his classmates - who were all wondering the exact same thing - look to Junie expectantly.
"Well, I'm afraid it is true," she shrugs and answers, after giving it some thought. She figured there was no use in hiding the death of the well-respected English Literature teacher, and besides, it is practically impossible to keep a leash on recent newsworthy events in Stark Pines, a town far too small to harbor any secrets. That is, except for one enduring mystery.
"It was another Reaper killing...wasn't it?" The inquisitve student bites his lips. "The Reaper: Still at Large" is plastered across his face in big bold letters.
But to this question Junie would spare no answer, although the mere thought of the serial killer's gruesome handiwork sent shivers up her spine. For now let's just say he was known as the 'Red Reaper Killer' because his crimes always involved .
Junie groaned and rolled her eyes.
Of course, she thought to herself, Rockwell had to be the one to so indelicately drop the R-word, and thus stir the whole class into an even tizzier tizzy.
"What are we gonna do, Miss Ferguson? How are we supposed to concentrate on our work when there's a killer on the loose?"
"Sit down and shaddup Rockwell Harris, you're not making my life any easier," Junie snaps at the fashion unconscious Ken doll, but could not stop thinking about it even as her hand started scrawling the day's lesson on the foggy, ink-smeared whiteboard.
"He's got a point, Junie." A gurgly voice calls out to her.
She turns and looks, but could see that none of the students were pining for her attention; too enraptured in their conversations about the murders as they were, so that could mean only one thing.
"Yo, June! I'm talkin' to you." In an instant the voice went from sounding demonic and distant, to 'there's a Brooklyner hiding somewhere in the room'.
Damn. Not now. For the love of God, not now, Junie wanted to say, but God damn it saying the Lord's name in vain like that could get you fired at Silver Glade High. So instead she shakes her head, and focuses on reading aloud the scene from Hamlet she was writing to try and block out the persistent presence, "What a piece of work is a man."
"Juuuuunie! Babe, why are you ignorin' me?"
The face of the clock above the whiteboard melts away, and is replaced by a black pupil that looks directly at her.
Rather than react to this she just increases the volume of her voice, and jabs at the board more furiously with the marker. "How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty!" As most sane people would do when pestered by somebody with a Brooklyn accent she chose to ignore it, and hope that it would eventually go away.
Suddenly a blue jay flitters out of a gossiping female student's mouth, and perches on Junie's shoulder. "This is important stuff, Junie!" The bird says into her ear, "please, Ferguson, lend me your ear!" It coughs up a human ear, that falls to the marble tiled floor with a dull thud.
"Buzz off, birdbrain," Junie whispers, then glares at the annoying avian variety as she continues, "in form and moving, how express and admirable!"
"In dancing how like an Angel, yeah, yeah, I know," the bigmouthed blue bird mocks interrupts her, "but a little birdy told me that somethin' bad's gonna surface at this school in like, a microsecond."
It flaps its wings excitedly. "We've gotta do somethin', kid!"
"Why don't you just leave me alone?" Junie flails her arms like a raving lunatic, in her mind attempting to swat the blue jay away, but...
"Stayed up too late last night, Miss Ferguson?"
She had fallen asleep with her head on the desk, judging by the puddle of sweat now pooled on its surface. However, this was definitely not the worn out, coffee-stained throwaway in Classroom 2-E -- it was the Principal's polished oak desk, in his cozy office that always stunk of Febreeze and old people.
Principal Frond, himself an aged, portly balding man with the rude habit of leering at people over the rim of his wide-rimmed glasses, leers at her from the other side of his gleaming silver nameplate. A fan creaks rhythmically as it spins overhead, and the room is cast in the glow of the countless bars of fresh morning sunlight that sneak in through the drawn blinds.
After a prolonged period of awkward silence Junie perks up, recalling that the man who signs her paycheck had asked her a question almost a minute ago.
"Oh, did I go to sleep late last night? Yeah...I was so shaken up when I heard about the murder that I couldn't sleep a wink."
At least half of her excuse was truthful -- the sixth murder in Stark Pines this year within a week of the last one was part of the reason for her lack of sleep, with the other part being small enough to fit in one palm, and in all probability the root of her throbbing headache.
Principal Frond sighs.
"Yeah. That's not the kind of shit you want to see in the Saturday paper. Hall put in a good thirty years for us, and it's not a stretch to say everyone loved him," He leans back in his chair, rubbing his eyes. "No word of this to the kids, alright?"
Junie walks over to the window, leaning against the waist-high bookcase next to the window as she pulled the blinds away to watch the first wave of children be dropped off by the bus.
"It's not like they don't know already. Anyone with an internet connection would be aware of it by now."
The man twiddles his Chaplin 'stache, nodding stiffly. "Yeah. Just don't even bring it up. But hey, if you're tired, I could get somebody else to cover--"
"Nah, I'm good," she reassures him, then awkwardly tags "sir" on at the end.
Junie is then about to leave, but stays when she spots something outside. Perched on a branch of the old Oak tree growing in the small lawn that seperates the main building from the driveway roundabout, is a Blue Jay. Then, she feels an arm wrap around her shoulders. It was Mr. Frond, who must have suddenly decided to forego all notions about personal space, or so she told herself.
"Say, Miss. Ferguson, you only have two classes today, don't you?"
"Yeah. What about it...sir?"
Her eyes remain fixed on the Blue Jay, who was either showing off his Shakespearean acting, or in the throes of a heart attack, swivelling and lolling about on the branch frenetically.
"Well, I just had the finest idea."
Principal Frond's arm slinks uncomfortably close to the suspicious sub's booty region; gracefully settling at her waist.
"Why don't we go out for a couple burgers later? Just the two of us?" He licks his lips as if he were sitting in front of a Triple Cheese Pine Stacker at the local Meating House right then and there. "I know just what it takes to show a lady a good time, if you know what I mean."
"I don't know if that's such a good idea, with everything that's happened..."
Junie can barely contain her laughter as Prinicpal Frond lays across his desk on his side, with his bulbous beer gut oozing over the edge of it, and one bone-thin, vomit green colored khaki pantsed leg propped up in the air suggestively.
"Mr. Frond, you're trying to seduce me."
He laughs sheepishly, catching his glasses before they could slide off his nose. "Huh?"
Just then, a powerful gust of wind blows past Junie's face as the blue jay she had been watching crashes in through the window, landing on the burgundy shag carpet amidst scattered bloody feathers, and shards of broken glass.
"He's one o' them, Junes," it shrieks, flopping around like a fish out of water, "he's the wise guy I was tellin' ya about."
Faster than you can say the word 'inception', the flirty fatso falls off the desk and lunges at the whistleblowing blue jay, squeezing it with both hands while laying flat on his stomach.
"Oh, Mr. Frond! Leave that poor bird alone," she pleads sarcastically, then snickers.
"This isn't funny, kid!"
Struggle as it may, the poor critter could not free itself from the principal's clutches. "Oh God, babe, I can't...feel...my cohones," he cries, and after picking the dirt out of her nails for a bit, Junie reluctantly comes to his aid.
"Alright, enough tomming around."
She first tries kicking the principal, but when her foot makes contact with his back, it becomes stuck.
"What the...?"
It was as though his entire body had transformed into one big, sticky, gelatinous gray blob, and it was wrapped tightly around her ankles.
As if that were not troubling enough, the blob seemed to be growing across the floor like an expanding layer of what looks like Play-Doh after you would mix all of the colors together, because you were a stupid kid and didn't know any better.
At the same time as this is happening, a nauseating odor worse than that of both Febreeze and old people gives Junie a good kick in the nostrils.
"It's sulphur," she says of the wholly unmistakable scent -- one she was getting far too familiar with, lately.
Principal Frond's face appears amidst the tarry, oozing substance that was now beginning to rise higher than the desk and Junie's knees as it flooded the entire room.
"So you've got the hots for me? I'd like to say I'm flattered, but I'm mostly just creeped out."
"We could have had a good time, Junie," the slime Frond says, his 'face' protruding from the main body and gently brushing against her thigh, "I know this place downtown where they kill the cows right out back, throw its ass on a bun, serve it up with chips and there you go. Mmm!"
Junie makes up a disgusted face. "Sorry, I prefer my meat well done."
She looks down at her feathered friend, who was splashing with all the power he could muster; desperately resisting being smothered by the rising goo.
"C'mon and do it!" He begs of her with pleading eyes. "Punch me! Bite my head off...do something! Just...kill me already, or else we'll both be dead, babe!"
"Alright, alright, don't get your tail feathers in a knot."
Junie stoops and reaches out to grab him, but is startled when Frond's freaky face gets in the way.
"Just give me a kiss, Junie! Then I might let you have him."
"Last I checked, that's not how it works. You're not living in the 1960s anymore, so..." she starts to say as the face, extending from the body, draws closer to her's, forcing her to rear back further and further to avoid smacking lips with literal slime.
Desperately feeling along the bookcase beside the broken window in search of something to use as a weapon, her hand grabs ahold of a lamp.
"You'll have to try a lot harder than that!" She yells, and after rearing her arm back all the way slams the ceramic light fixture against the side of her kissy-faced assailant's head so hard that its base shatters.
He - rather, it - cries out in pain, and grants Junie the opening she needed, to thrust her hand forth into its dark, slimey depths to snatch the bird.
"Alright, give it to me." It shuts his eyes to brace for what was to follow.
"No, Junie! Please, have burgers with me!"
As the amorphous mass of Principal Frond threatens to consume Junie entirely, she grasps the tiny cranium of the blue jay between her fingers and gives it a sharp twist.
"Sorry, Rocket," she says under her breath, as a blinding white light envelops them.
It is a light so pure that it seared the skin of all malevolent entitites within range. Frond is rendered powerless in an instant, as the light only grows stronger until it explodes in a massive, brilliant supernova that shook the world of Junie's dream to its very core.
Its power tore through the walls of the Principal's office and scorched the grassy lawn and oak tree outside. The fabricated images of the children coming off the bus dissipated, as streaks of pitch black nothingness were etched into the sky.
Indeed, 'Killing' Rocket was tantamount to setting off a nuclear explosion in the dream world, but that was only the beginning.
"You're in for it now," Junie says with a clumsy smile, as the wet grasp around her feet recedes.
As the enshrouding dust cloud clears, the sillhouette of a hero, standing tall as a man, only with the head of a Blue Jay and talons for hands and feet, emerges.
He speaks with a thick Brooklyn accent.
"Alright, big guy, I hate that I had ta get my neck snapped just so I could deal with a joker like you."
Rocket holds up a golden long sword, grinning with confidence as he takes a step toward the severely reduced mass of Frond, shivering with fright in the far corner of the room.
Junie Ferguson awakens to the sound of her alarm clock at five'o'clock in the morning, on a crisp and clear Saturday.
To her it was just another night, another nightmare, and with it came another demon to face.
She lived by herself in a small apartment overlooking the pine forest on one side, and a downhill street on the other. Substitute teacher by day, demon hunter by night had pretty much become her lot in life. The space between the two worlds was occupied by trivial things, like walking over to the fridge while half-asleep, to fill up a cup of orange juice. After performing a quick eyeball check on the clock in the living room, of course.
"I need to go shopping soon," she grumbles to herself as she draws the last drop out of the carton, but the sound of something knocking against the window above the sink gives her pause.
A Blue Jay is perched on a bristly branch, tapping its beak against the glass.
"Rocket? Oh, Jesus no..."
Goosebumps sprouted along Junie's arms and neck, as she approached the creature, worrying over whether she was still inside of a dream.
To her relief, when she pressed her palm across the cold panel...the bird flittered away without a sound.


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Billionaire Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, 80, said he was still having to work to fund his two daughters, prompting vitriolic internet responses.
Miss Ecclestone, 26, who is to star in a new reality TV show, told Hello! magazine: "I was so hated. People were saying mean things, like we should go and live in a one-bedroom flat because we're worthless, and that our parents should cut us off."
Miss Ecclestone, who lives in Chelsea with her stockbroker boyfriend Omar Khyami, denied that she was "a spoilt, ungrateful brat who doesn't know the value of money, doesn't feel lucky for what she has and who takes everything for granted".
She said: "I think that anyone who knows me knows that I'm not that girl.
"For me, 'spoilt' means ruined, and I don't feel ruined. I'm so grateful for everything I have. My dad worked so hard for it, why should I feel ashamed?"
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Well, since we're still here... {lopsided g} I suppose we should get back to the work of, as I put it Friday, "helping people believe God lives and cares about such things".
The following argument (unlike the galumphing 600+ page monster I finally finished posting up sometime before Easter this year) does not arrive deductively at trinitarian theism, despite its deductive form. Rather, it illustrates that ortho-trin theology (if true) offers the most assurance of a person being ultimately 'saved' compared to other philosophies and theologies (broadly categorized).
Usually I would qualify 'saved' as meaning something like 'saved from sin', but for purposes of this argument I have allowed a broader and more general notion of salvation: as will be seen below, I mean something more like assurance that a person shall be saved from injustices or suffering sooner or later. This would, however, also include being saved from sin (whether from other persons' sins, or from one's own sins.)
(P)remises and (O)bservations are roughly approximate, the main difference being that I expect Observations to be readily agreeable either as topics of common experience or as reasonably obvious summary conclusions from tacit subarguments. A premise may only be an assertion, although ideally it is either a necessary assertion or else is a conclusion imported in from some other not-especially-obvious argument. But either premises or observations may be challenged for purposes of analysis.
(H)ypotheses are the worldview propositions to be compared to one another in conjunction with the various premises and observations (and relevant conclusions).
P(remise) 1.) Salvation (per se) of a person requires that the person to be saved must be saved by at least one person.
O(bservation) 1.) P1 requires some kind of interpersonal union between the saving person and the person to be saved (even if the union is minimal to the extent of there being only one person saving himself).
O2.) The intentions of derivative persons may fail insofar as they may be trumped by the behavior of the ground upon which the derivative persons depend for existence.
C(onclusion) 1.) Other things being equal, a person to be saved has better assurance of finally being saved by some person (whatever 'salvation' is supposed to mean) in proportion to the characteristics of the ultimate ground of reality. (from P1, O1, O2.)
P2.) 'Salvation' involves doing some kind of good to the person being saved.
C2.) Other things being equal, a person to be saved has better assurance of finally being saved in proportion to the likelihood that the characteristics of the ultimate ground of reality involve doing good to persons. (from C1, P2.)
Subsequent hypotheses shall thus address the result of C2 by considering various ideas about the ground of all reality.
H(ypothesis) 1.) The ground of reality is not personal at all. (i.e. naturalistic or supernaturalistic atheism is true.)
C3.) If H1 is true, the ground of reality offers no assurance at all that a person may be saved. (from H1, C1.)
H2.) The ground of reality is such that a derivative person's "personhood" is some kind of declension or fall, that ideally ought to be reversed. (For example, most or all types of negative pantheism.)
O3.) If H2 is true, the personhood of the derivative person should cease to exist eventually.
C4.) If H2 is true, the ground of reality is such that the person to be 'saved' should cease to exist. (from H2, O3.)
O4.) If a person ceases to exist, that person no longer can be the receiver of good done to that person.
C5.) If H2 is true, the ground of reality offers (less than!) no assurance at all that a person (as such) may be saved. (from C2, C4, O4.)
H3.) The independent ground of some reality is personal, but it has nothing to do with the system of reality in which the person to be saved exists. (i.e. cosmological dualism is true or some other philosophy proposing a limited number of Independent Facts, with God being one of the IFs.)
C6.) If H3 is true, the existence of an ultimate God is completely irrelevant to whether a derivative person in that other system of reality (not dependent on God for its existence) may be saved. (from H3, C1)
H4.) The ground of all reality is (somehow) both personal and non-personal.
O5.) Any expectation of behavior of the H4 ground of reality is perfectly balanced by its equal and opposite characteristics.
C7.) If H4 is true, the ground of reality offers no particular assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H4, O5.)
H5.) The ground of all reality is personal (i.e. God exists), but God refuses to have anything to do with this system of reality other than being (in some way) its originator. (i.e. minimal deism is true.)
C8.) If H5 is true, the ground of reality (God) offers (less than?) no assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H5.)
H6.) The ground of reality is personal, but although God is interested in subordinate realities, God refuses to act in regard to the operations of those subordinate realities. (i.e. nominal deism is true.)
O6.) A derivative person, as a derivative person, must exist in a subordinate system of reality, one way or another.
C9.) If H6 is true, the ground of reality offers (less than?) no assurance that a person may be saved. (from C1, H6, O6.)
H7.) Entities more powerful than human persons exist, but the ground of reality is still essentially as stated in one of the previous hypotheses.
C10.) If H7 is true, the ground of reality is at best irrelevant to the salvation of a person; and might offer less than no assurance of the salvation of a person. (from H7, C{3:9})
H8.) Some theism more immanent than nominal deism is true; but God is primarily concerned with the mere exercise of effective power.
O7.) Someone needing 'salvation' is at least being threatened by an effective exercise of power (one way or another).
C11.) If H8 is true, the ground of reality offers no assurance that a person may be saved; and maybe less than no assurance! (from H8, O7, C11.)
H9.) God exists, but is not in Himself a unity of Persons.
O8.) If H9 is true, then God has nothing intrinsically to do with unity between persons.
C12.) If H9 is true, the ground of reality offers (at best) less assurance that a person may be saved, than if God had intrinsically to do with unity between persons. (from H9, O8, C1, maybe also C2.)
H10.) God exists, and is in Himself a unity of Persons; but this unity has nothing to do with His own self-existence.
O9.) If H10 is true, then God could act finally against unity among persons, without acting against the ground of His own self-existence.
C13.) If H10 is true, the ground of reality offers (at best) less assurance that a person may be saved, than if God's own self-existence had intrinsically to do with unity between persons. (from H10, O9, C1, maybe also C2.)
H11.) God exists, and is in Himself a unity of Persons, and this unity has something to do with His own self-existence (i.e. positive aseity is true, and God exists at least as the person of God self-begetting and the person of God self-begotten).
C14.) If H11 is true, the ground of reality offers more assurance that a person (even an enemy of God) may sooner or later finally be saved, than all previous hypotheses. (from C1, maybe also C2, H11, C{3:13})
H12.) God exists, and is in Himself a self-begetting and self-begotten unity of Persons; and the next ontologically prior action of this Unity (beyond the positive upkeep of self-existence of the Persons in Unity of fair-togetherness with one another) is the generating and giving of that-which-is-God between the Persons. (i.e., trinitarian theism is true, with the 3rd Person of God proceeding eternally from the begetting and begotten Persons as a gracious gift from person to person.)
P3.) Doing good between persons ideally involves giving that which is the greatest good from one person to another.
C15.) If H12 is true, the ground of reality offers even more assurance that a person (even an enemy of God) may sooner or later be saved, than all previous hypotheses. (from C1, definitely also C2, H12, C{3:14})
(Note: the argument as formulated does not of itself consider the question of distinction between naturalistic theism or supernaturalistic theism. H12, for example, might involve some kind of trinitarian pantheism, so far as this argument goes.)
The final conclusion above, is (as I said) not an argument that orthodox trinitarian theism is true; but it helps show something important at stake, in trying to discover which of the hypotheses (and their subgroups) is true compared to the others.
If ortho-trin is not true, it is quite literally too good to be true. We shall have to be satisfied (so far as we can be) with something less good being true.
Any news less than this, is less of a gospel: less-good news.
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The argument presented above can be extended farther in an important but controversial way; so, since this is an ecumenical apologetics journal, I have not done so above.
Comments, however, are fair range. {g} So, for anyone who is curious:
O11.) If H12 (or even H11) is true, then any action by such a God that resulted in the final severing and/or non-restoration of unity between persons (whether between Himself and derivative persons or between derivative persons and each other), would involve God acting against His own ground of self-existence.
O12.) An entity that acts against the ground of its own existence, will cease to exist, unless the ground of its existence behaves in such a way as to prevent the cessation of its existence.
O13.) A self-existent entity has nothing to save it from the cessation of its existence if It acts against the ground of its own existence.
O14.) If H12 (or even H11) is true, then all reality, including the past and present existence of derivative entities, depends on God's continuing existence for existence.
P4.) I am a derivative entity. (ideally should be established by another analysis; one which, in my experience, leads to the missing distinction between naturalism and supernaturalism mentioned in my main post, btw.)
P5.) I exist. (a self-reflexive claim tacitly necessary for any personally responsible argumentation.)
C16.) If H12 (or even H11) is true, God shall certainly continue persistently acting toward restoration of interpersonal unity, where some derivative entity is acting toward breaking this unity. (from O11, O12, O13, O14, P4, P5.)
P6.) Hypotheses presented in this argument concerning the existence and characteristics of God, are sufficiently exhaustive as relevant options.
C17.) H12, if true, offers exclusively certain assurance that God shall persistently act toward the restoration of interpersonal unity, where some derivative entity is acting toward breaking this unity. (from C16, P6.)
That final two conclusions are a fancy way of saying that if orthodox trinitarian theism is true, then some kind of universal reconciliation is true (i.e. universalism); and moreover that universal salvation (of one or another kind) can only be certainly true if ortho-trin is true.
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The national paralympic training center will be opened in Astana in 2014, Kazinform cites Deputy Chairman of the Agency for Sport and Physical Culture Tastanbek Yessentayev.
"Our country takes all necessary measures to support sports and paralympians in particular. The success reached by our athletes at international tournaments proves it. Thus, a national paralympic training center will be opened in Astana in 2014. The center will provide all necessary conditions for training of our paralympians," T.Yessentayev said at a press conference dedicated to the upcoming Sport Day.
According to him, KZT 129 mln was allocated from the national budget for the construction of the center, ortcom.kz reports.
2012 Olympic champion in boxing, honorary master of sports of Kazakhstan Serik Sapiyev and silver medal winner of the Summer Olympic Games in Munich (1972) in swimming, honorary master of sports of the USSR Viktor Aboimov took part in the press conference as well.


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STEVEN Trigg's equity when he was appointed Adelaide Crows chief executive officer 13 years ago was respectable.
A former pupil and teacher at St Peter's College, he had held sports media roles within ABC television and The Advertiser newspaper, played and coached in the SANFL and spent four years as Crows membership and communications manager before securing arguably the most coveted role in South Australian sport.
The tainting of the 2012 Kurt Tippett draft scandal aside, his tenure at the Crows was largely unremarkable and uncontroversial.
No flags were won on his watch and his legacy will be the relocation to the Oval, a fine achievement.
When Trigg announced his move to Carlton six days ago, he told the club's 400 corporate partners that he leaves it in great shape.
And largely, it is. The shift to Adelaide Oval has seen Adelaide attract record crowds, re-energised football in the city and breathed new life into the enduring rivalry with the Port Adelaide Power.
But where to now? What qualities are required to drive arguably the most powerful brand in South Australia into a new era?
If Trigg was applying for the CEO job today, his place would be far from guaranteed.
The Sunday Mail has spoken to some of the big hitters of Australian recruitment and branding to discover just what the new appointee should bring to the table.
Headhunter Jeremy Wurm, from Brooker Consulting in Melbourne, has appointed more than 200 CEOS over the past three decades.
"Do not appoint a figurehead, he will have the passion but might not have the business acumen," he said.
"The primary skill is stakeholder management — from players to fans to board to AusKick — but the difficulty is the armchair experts who all have a view. There are 10,000 experts at every club.
"It's about commercial acumen, not about how strong their football is. A public recognition doesn't matter because sure as hell, you will be known after one month."
A new CEO will need to understand the power of the brand says Adelaide advertising and marketing consultant, and unashamed Crows fan, Peter Withy.
"The Crows has massive brand recognition in South Australia. It belongs up there with Coopers'," the founder and director of KWP! said.
"Brands reside in the heart as well as well as the mind. It occupies a special place and is a very powerful tool to have. It gives people something to cling to, something to have beyond their own lives."
It's all about hope he said adding "the optimism that we can win the flag, that this group will never let us down. Even when we lose, we're back to hope again by Tuesday."
Collingwood is a brand to aspire to, he said.
"You get that Manchester United feel over it. It is almost borderless which very few of the football brands are."
Casting an eye at English soccer's gilded Premier League is instructive. Heavyweight clubs such as Liverpool lack the training facilities and infrastructure of the Crows and are light years behind an Oval style redevelopment yet win hands down where it matters most, money.
Manchester United has just signed a $100 million a year kit deal with sportswear giant Adidas, Arsenal sell $3600 season tickets, because they can, while Chelsea boast the patronage of a Russian Croesus cashed up in the dubious public resources sell off of the early 1990s.
And the money isn't stopping anytime soon, branding has taken care of that.
Today United has a net worth of $3 billion and is a global brand through a shrewd and aggressive pushing of its values and wares via former JP Morgan banker Ed Woodward in his role as United chief exec.
The Crows will never compare to Manchester United as a global sports force but the lesson of the man at the helm is instructive and there will be internal recognition it is not punching near its weight, not with 60,000 members now.
The right, or wrong, appointment now will shape and energise the coming years. Trigg grew steadily, by accumulation and not quantum leap but to be at the table in 2014, the Crows need a big time player off the field of play.
The energy and vibrancy around the Oval and its teams is here right now and the opportunity must not be waylaid by a conservative or overly familiar appointment.
Recruitment commentators say the announcement of an internal three man recruiting panel and the absence of a headhunting firm to search for global candidates signifies the Crows may go for a familiar appointment and won't look beyond sporting boundaries.
Phil Morton, from Morton Philips search consultants in Adelaide, suspects some groundwork has already been done.
"I would expect the identification of talent will be from within football and sporting related fraternities," Mr Morton, whose company specialises in recruiting chief executives and heads of Government departments.
"Any search outside SA will be via connections in AFL circles as opposed to a corporate CEO search across broader industry."
Parochialism is alive and kicking in SA he says, even more so in the AFL.
"If a pure headhunt exercise was undertaken, you would not have seen the open communication about potential candidates and their suitability in the media," he said in reference recent media speculation as to who might replace Trigg.
Mr Wurm said the Board faces a "difficult decision".
"An outside SA appointment will create some controversy ... parochialism is alive in Victoria and NSW too," he said.
Appointing a woman to a CE's role is not unheard of.
Twenty years ago in England, 23-year-old advertising exec Karren Brady landed the managing director gig at Birmingham City FC, a club broken to the point the unofficial fans' magazine was named "Tired and weary".
Players lined up weekly to be paid in cash but Brady turned it around and made the historic club, and herself, millions and picked up a "Commander of the Order of the British Empire" (CBE) earlier this year for services to entrepreneurship and women.
Mr Morton feels a female CEO to be highly unlikely.
"The job itself will be a challenge without having the added pressure, and spotlight on, a female performing in a blokes' world," he said.
"The pool of female talent to choose from is much smaller than the bloke pool, so it ends up being a function of the numbers, as opposed to quality and capability."
Daniel Healy, who heads up the Adelaide office of leadership and cultural change company, Leading Teams, said any club appointing a new leader would be looking for someone who can create a "clarity of purpose".
Leading Teams has worked alongside AFL powerhouses such as the Sydney Swans, Geelong and Hawthorn to create a new culture of leadership, accountability and teamwork.
Healy, who was Port Adelaide Power football development manager until last year, said the CEO was critical in establishing the culture of the club.
"If you want people to feel like they are a part of what you are doing and they are actually responsible for something at an organisation rather than just 'I work there' then it's about engaging them and bringing them along for the ride," he said.
"Absolutely they should have some firm ideas about what they want to do but the greatest way to put people on the wrong foot is to come in and tell people how it's going to be done without engaging them and trying to get them to buy into the process."
— with MICHAEL McGUIRE
Originally published as Who will be King Crow when search is over?